Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET President Taylor Stands Firm. HE HAS SAID THE LAST WORD. WILL NOT PAY TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS—WILL OBEY THE RUL ING OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMIS SIONERS—MRS. MOLLIE BROWNE SMITH'S COUNSEL SILENT. HAVE NOT DECIDED UPON A COURSE OF ACTION VOL. XXIII NO 2. President HE HAS S WILL NOT PAY TWENTY ING OF THE UNITED SIONERS—MRS. MO HAVE NOT I President William L. Taylor, Grand Worthy Master of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers has been in the city for about two weeks and no definite conclusion has been reached in the threatened suit of Mrs. Mollie Browne-Smith against the Order on account of the alleged failure of the institution to pay her the ($20,500.00) twenty thousand, five hundred dollars due her on the fifty thousand dollars voted to her late husband by the Grand Fountain. REFUSES TO BUDGE. The peculiar feature of the case is the attitude of President Taylor who stands firm on his last proposition and who refuses to budge even so much as an inch with reference to its terms. He has in effect given counsel for Mrs. Mollie Browne-Smith to understand that he does not see his way clear to take any other action than that stated and that he will rest his case with the United States Insurance Commissioners of the District of Columbia who notified him that the organization has no right to make the payments out of the fraternal funds There are no other funds in the treasury of the organization and it is a case of, "There you are." NO DECISION REACHED. Messrs. Christian and Christian, attorneyrs for Mrs. Mollie Browne-Smith were communicated with this week and they stated that they had reached no conclusion in the matter and the public is left to surmise the result. Rev. W. L. Taylor's proposition is that if Mrs. Smith will agree to accept ten thousand dollars in settlement in full of her claim, he will endeavor to raise the amount in four years time by special levy on the Order. Of course there is no penalty should he fail to raise it and all he would be required to do would be to deliver to her all that was raised be it little or much. TOO WIDE OPEN This proposition is too wide open for comfort and this is why Mrs. Smith and her counsel hesitate about accepting the proposition. The air has been cleared and the field is now open for President Taylor and the True Reformers have stated their ultimatum. It is Mrs. Smith's move and she is taking time to consider all of the phases of a law-suit that will be long and exhaustive. We are justified in saying that the True Reformers have said the last word before the contest formally opens. A WORD ABOUT THE CONTRACT. There who are in a position to know and those who have seen the contract signed by the True Reformers' officials and held by Mrs. Mollie Browne-Smith state that she can unquestionably get judgement against the order, but the collecting of such a judgement is the question. They allege that she cannot attach the property or money of the Order if the fact can be established that fraternal funds cannot be utilized for this purpose. Of course, Mrs. Mollie Browne-Smith and her attorneys do not take this view of the situation. TIME LIMIT EXPIRED. The time limit set by the firm of Messrs. Christian and Christian has expired and we learn that they are only awaiting the word from Mrs. Smith to begin proceedings in a case that will be celebrated in many respects. It is but fair to state that there are many who do not believe that there will be any suit and who are of the opinion that better terms of compromise is all that is wanted by the contending party. —Read Mrs. M. Crighton's announcement and be convinced. She is offering bargains in millinery and you will find it to your interest to examine her stock. Courteous treatment and the goods will be found satisfactory. Prominent Visitor Here. Rev. Geo. West, President of the Universal Home and School for Orphans and Dositinte Colored Children of Baltimore, Md., and Mr. Jacob Banks, who runs one of the largest employment bureaus in Philia, Pa. were the guests of Mr. Joshua Banks of 1312-26th St. this week. Rev. Mr. West is also pastor of the First Bapt. Church of Mt. Washington, Md. and is accomplishing much for the race in that state. Banks of the twin, brother of Mr. Joshua Banks, the spokesmen caterer of this city, and this speaks much for his energy, push and progressiveness. Christmas Appeal. The season of greatest cheer during the year is Christmas. That the children of the Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans may share in the good cheer of the season we appeal to the friends of the needy for donations to our institution located at 112 W. Charity St., corner of St. Paul St., Richmond, Va. We will be grateful for supplies, of all kinds, food, clothing, fuel dafties, toys, etc. We wish for the public that it may enjoy the fats and sweets, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared. The management of our Orphan Home finds itself less able to provide for the institution than is usually the case, because of shortage in appropriations or donations; and more especially since the city of Richmond makes no appropriation to assist in the care of the orphans left to our care. Suitable acknowledgement will be made of all donations. We are humbly yours. Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. Pres. Mrs. Bettie Graves, Matron. Dr. W. F. Graham Preaches. Notwithstanding the inclementy of the weather Dr. Graham went to Big Bethel Baptist Church last Sunday in the country twenty-five miles beyond Petersburg and preached to a large crowd and raised forty dollars in cash. He will preach for them again the 2nd Sunday in January, 1906. He will preach to-morrow 3:30 P. M. at the Mt. Carmel Bapt. Church, Rev. W. H. White, pastor. A great many of his friends are glad of this opportunity to hear him. Dr. Graham has just been re-appointed by the Baptist Publication Board, Nashville. Tenn. as a regular contributor to the Sunday School literature for 1906. He is kept busily engaged looking after his religious and business interests. Mr. Fortune's Biting Sarcasm and Irony. [New York Age.] Thanks to a faculty for reading as tough as that of Teufelsdroeck himself we have despatched the President's message. It is the most universal document we have ever coped withal. No topic, save one, seems to have been too petty to serve as a subject for his sonorous and exemplary platitudes. The mal treatment of dumb animals, the excessive hours of labor imposed on railroad employees, truancy in Washington public schools, the number of acres which will support a Nebraska family, the exclusion of idiotic immigrants, the abatement of the smoke nuisance in Washington, the preservation of the blossom—all these vital questions commanded the President's energetic attention. The only subject under the sun with which his pen did not bug itself was the plight of decitizenized Afro-Americans in the South. Perhaps he esteemed this matter, compared with the momentous questions which did engage his rhetoric, to be unworthy of notice. Yet, he found time to advocate the conferment of American citizenship upon the Porto Ricans and the Indians of Alaska. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY DECEMBER 16, 1905. FROM ATLANTIC CITY. Grand Entertainment—Many Per- There was quite a large gathering at the Fitzgerald Auditorium Friday night, Dec. 8th, 1905. The occasion was a game dinner given by the Big Four Gunning Club of Atlantic City, N. J. of which Mr. Budd Benn is President; Louis Cook, 1st Vice President; Robert Fitzgerald, 2nd Vice President; Elmer Harr, 3rd Vice President; Edward Elam, Treas Mr. Budd Benn was toast-master responded to by Mr. Nathan White and others. Among those present were Dr. W. B. Fayerman, Dr. S. Leroy Morris, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Elam, Mr. David Elam with Mrs. W. A. Elam, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Nottingham, Mr. Joseph McIntosh, Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Fitzgerald, Mrs. John Mickens, Mr. C. C. Johnson, Mr. Charles W. Hamilton, Miss Blanche L. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Robbert Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Banks, Mr. J. H. Tucker, Mr. J. H. De Shields, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Brown, Mrs. Tibbs, Mr. Lewis A. Tyler, Mrs. Carrie Jacobs, Mr. Harry Scott and many others. Covers were laid for the one hundred and fifty invited guest. The Cafe was very elaborately decorated and at each plate was a card with the name of the invited guest and a Rabbit's foot neatly tied with a silk bow of ribbon. Game was served in abundance with cold ham, salads, etc. The Silver Leaf Mandolin and Guitar Club of which Mr. J. W. Poiter is leader gave excellent music to the pleasure of all. At Fifth Street Baptist Church Sunday evening, Dec. 17th, 1905. 3:30 P. M. will be an evening of recitations, Praise and Song: under the auspices of B. Y. P. U. of said church. The S. Coleridge Tayor Choral Society (Inc.) of Richmond, Prof. A. O. Carter, Director with a chorus of fifty-two voices will render the musical and recital programme Programme: Opening: All Hall the Power of Jesus Name, by B. Y. P. U. Chorus. Responsive reading, Ps. XCII: 1-4; XCVI: 1-13 by B. Y. P. U. Invocation. 1. Inflammatus from Stabat Mater by Choral Society (Inc.) 2. Alma Redentoris by Choral Society, (Inc.) 3. Qul Tollis—Farmers mass fn Bb by Choral Society (Inc.) 4. Misler—from Il Trovatore by Choral Society (Inc.) 5. Solos, Duetts, Quartettes and Recitations by Choral Society (Inc.) 6. Pipe Organ numbers by Prof. A. O. Carter. 7. Usual custom. This entertainment is given for the benefit of the Library Fund of the B. Y. P. U. of the said church. Public cordially invited. Free. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, Pres. MISS MARY L. BOOKER, Sec. :o: Invocation. A Card of Thanks. On Friday afternoon, Dec. 1, '05 the Rev. D. A. E. Edwards, pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church, two of his deacons and a committee of ladies visited the Old Folks' Home of Richmond Charitable Union, 115 W. Jackson St. and carried a Thanks giving offering sent by above named church. The offering consisted of a nice sum of money and provisions. These friends also conducted prayer service for the Old Folks much to the delight of every one present. Neither did Mrs. Ella Ilia Waller fail to remember the Home at Thanksgiving; for on the day before she sent many provisions to cheer the hearts of the inmates. The Richmond Charitable Union hereby expresses its sincere gratitude to all friends who in any way assist in the support of the poor and aged folks. N. J. WALLACE, Pres. C. L. Bright, Sec'y. THE LATE REV. DR. WILLIAM TRON An Epic. Prone on the fleet of battle lies The warrior who in honor dies, He shirked no task; he feared no pain. Was at his post of duty slain. A prince in Israel fell to day. Whose noble heart neer felt dismay! God's nobleman this warrior was. Who lived and died to advance His cause. wash his hands. He drew on sword, he shed no blood. Yet fought he nobly as he stood Ready to lead a helping hand, To all who sought fair freedom's Yet as a preacher taught God's word And led the worship of his Lord. There are some dead, some living yet Who stemmed for them the slavers rod. The old inslayer with his clan, Were well acquainted with this man, Had felt the strength of his right arm, Who stopped them oft when bent on harm face. He fought for us when we were tled. To us was loyal when he died. Those cruel days in which white men Those cruel days in which white men Were meant to inslave the black and Declare that God Himself decreed That those men never should be freed! Twas in such days that William Troy Bore pain to bring his fellows joy. If Lincoln, Seward, Garrison, Douglas, Garnett and Emmerson And many others deserve high praise Troy must be named along with those. Canada held no braver heart. Nor famed Columbia on her part. E'er nobler spirit sent to fight For freedom, which is man's birthright! With men of might and great renown He is entitled to his crown And at the hands of Christ the Lord He will receive his just reward. -O. M. STEWARD. Col. E. A. Washington Caused to Feel Better. Col. E. A. Washington, Cashier of the Nickel Savings Bank, was caused to forget his illness entirely for some three or four hours on last Tuesday night, Dec. 12th. The Officers and members of Plan et Co., whose names appear below, boarded a wagon which had been provided for the purpose and filled the balance of the four horse team's capacity with provisions and delicacies and repaired to the residence of the Colonel at No. 1320 26th St. The scene here was one to cause all hearts to feel glad they had come. The accomplished Madame expressed her gracious emotion in happy terms, while the Colonel was so moved that he made a speech of thanks from its sick bed. Mr. Elam L. Banks of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, who was principally responsible for this surprise helped the Madame to receive the Pythian guests and proved himself a true knight. These are the gentlemen who assisted him. Capt. John G. Smith, Capt. Adolphus Jackson, Mahl. William Robinson, Col. W. H. Stokes, Capt. W. Henry Jones, Capt. Thomas H. Wyatt, Sir Richard Thompkins, Sgt. Sillas Fields, Sir Alonzo Jones, Col. John R. Chiles, Sir Matthew Henderson, Capt. Willis Wyatt, Sir Charles McAlborne, Sir Horace Slayer, Lleut. Robert Kinney, Sgt. Napoleon Jones, Sir Eddie Clay, Sir Alex Jackson, Sir Peyton Johnson, Lleut. C. Ballard, Sir Isaac Jones, Col. D. A. Ferguson, Lleut. Leroy Brown, Capt. R. G. Richardson, Col. E. R. Jefferson, Sir J. H. Bowles, Sgt. William Jones, Sir Henderson Johnson, Gen. W. R. Green, Sir Alex. Tyler, Sir Joseph Eggleston, Sir Harry Butler, Capt. David Allen, Sir Gilbert Matthew. Do You Know Her? I desire to know the whereabouts of Moselle Warner, a little girl about eight years of age. When last heard of, she was living in Richmond. Her mother's name is Mrs. Mattie Lee Warner, Address, Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Students Lead a Forcible Revolt. STORMY SCENES AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY—SAID HE WOULDN'T, BUT AFTERWARDS DECIDES TO RESIGN—A SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTY. Students of Howard University seem to have taken a hint from far-off Russia, and to have proclaimed a strike against what they conceive to be the tyranny of those in authority over them. Developments at the institution yesterday indicate that the entire student body is in rebellion against the head of the university, and that they will be appeased only by the withdrawal or the removal of Dr. John Gordon as president. The trouble started yesterday at the chapel exercises at noon, in the main hall of the university. As Dr. Gordon came in to open the exercises he was greeted by hisses, catcalls, howls, and groans, such as only negro students 700 strong could give vent to. SCHOOL BOOKS HURLED Dr. Gordon exhibited a determination to hold his ground, and a scene of wild excitement followed, in which it is said school books were hurled promiscuously, some of them going close to the president's head. There was excitement for several minutes, when the students, moved by a common impulse, marched out of the chapel, hooting and singing songs. The din in the chapel continued in the open, the noise being heard several blocks away. Dr. Gordon was denounced vociferously, and invited in loud cries to come out and deliver a speech. The college exercises were abandoned for the day, and the students, hoarse and exhausted, finally went to teir rooms. The strike against Dr. Gordon is said to be due to his alleged prejudicial conduct toward negroes in the appointment of teachers and the granting of honors. It is further stated that the students are backed in their rebellion by influential negroes in different parts of the country, all of whom are opposed to Dr. Gordon remaining at the head of the university. REQUESTED HIS REMOVAL The trouble at Howard University dates back several months. A committee of graduates representing the various departments with members representing the patrons and friends of the university, were appointed at an open conference held in Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church last May, which presented a petition to the board of trustees at its annual meeting, May 31, praying for the removal of Dr. Gordon as president. The committee suggest4 that the board of trustees appoint a committee to consider the petition and such other matters as might be presented bearing on the conditions existing. In a statement issued last night by members of this committee, it is stated that the five months intervening since the petition was presented have given opportunity for negroes throughout the country to consider the matter and give expression to their views. The fact has been clearly demonstrated, they say, that the opposition to Dr. Gordon is not confined to a narrow circle in the city of Washington, but that practically the whole negro race is opposed to him bitterly, and that the farther one gets from Washington the more pronounced and hostile is this feeling. It has grown among all classes and has become a conviction that Dr. Gordon is not a 6t man for the presidency of Howard University. DOESN'T GET RESPECT The statement presents the following propositions as indicative of the attitude of the committee: "It is a fact that Dr. Gordon does not possess the confidence nor even the respect of the student body. "The graduates of all departments are practically united against him. "The professors and teachers are far from being united in the opinion that he is the right man or an acceptable man for Pres. of Howard University. A poll of the professors and teachers on University Hill who are associated closely with Dr. Gordon and come in contact with him daily probably would disclose that none of them would commend him as the right man for the place. We respectfully suggest that such a poll be made. "The negro people at large, whose interests are paramount and who regard Howard University as peculiarly their own institution, are united in the demand for his immediate removal. They desire, however, that its doors shall continue to remain open on equal terms to all races and that officers and instructors shall be chosen on merit and without regard to race." SAY HE LACKS TACT Criticising Dr. Gordon personally and as the executive head of the institution, the statement says: "It is the general opinion that he has not the gifts and qualifications to represent the university before the public on the platform or in the pulpit, lacking in magnetism and power of speech. "He does not possess tact and has, therefore, antagonized his officers, teachers, and students, instead of drawing them to him. "It is a serious misfortune that, by reason of lapse of memory or lack of continuity of purpose, his word, given to either professors or students, has not always been faithfully observed. We do not attribute moral blame. "It is not probable that anyone would claim that he has brought financial, executive, or disciplinary ability, or scholarship, or influence, or dignity to the office of president of the university. As a matter of fact, there has been a serious deterioration in these respects from the standards of former presidents. "The feeling is all-pervasive that he possesses and has displayed race prejudice in a marked manner. "Under these circumstances there is no possible career of usefulness for him at this university." CALLED HIM "LILY WHITE." The statement of the committee presents petitions, letters, clippings, and opinions, which, it is asserted, represent the sentiment of negroes of intelligence and standing outside of the institution. Among the petitioners are bishops, clergymen of every denomination, school-teachers, representatives in public life, lawyers, doctors, dentists, business men, editors of religious and secular papers, and representatives in other callings. The statement closes with part of an editorial from the Christian Recorder, the official organ of the A. M. E. Church which says in part: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly here that there is no objection to Dr. Gordon because he is a white man. We heartily welcome all our white brethren among us as workers, who come in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ; we honor and reverence them, but there is no room in our schools and colleges for the "Lily White" educator of the Gordon type who insults the manhood of the race. Dr. Gordon should be removed at once." [Washington Post, Dec. 10, 1905.] The revolt of students and teachers' college at Howard University against the president, Rev. John Gordon, D. D., Friday, will not result in the resignation of the president, according to a declaration made by him yesterday. Although apparent order was restored at the university yesterday, following the stormy scenes of the previous day, the friction still was manifest, the students declaring that he president will have to go, and the latter defiantly answering that he will not be ousted as a result of the disturbance. Yesterday morning there was a movement among the students to post placards about the building and campus, denouncing the head of the faculty, but they were dissuaded by persons of cooler heads. The committee appointed to investigate the charges against the preacher-educator was busy during the day, and Dr. Gallaudet, the chairman, declined to give out any statement until it is fully conversant with the conditions leading up to the trouble. GORDON WILL MAKE STATE- Dr. Gordon declined to discuss the conditions at length. "When the proper time comes," he said, "I shall give to the press a complete statement of the affairs of the university, which inasmuch as it is sun- ible Revolt. e to Control. ID HE WOULDN'T, BUT ON OF THE DIFFICULTY. ported by government money, the public is entitled to have." He said it was manifestly improper for him to make any statement of matters which are in the hands of a committee of the board of trustees. "The only thing I wish to say is, it is known that about 100 students left the chapel yesterday," he said. "Of these, forty-one were members of the college department, twenty-nine of the preparatory department, one of the theological department, and not to exceed thirty members of the teachers' college and the commercial department." Dr. Gordon stated that the subject of the insubordination of the students was in the hands of the faculty, and the question of his differences with the teachers was in the hands of the trustees. DISPLEASED WITH HIS METH- ODS. An opponent of Dr. Gordon declared that the president had endeavored to introduce the "illy white" methods of some of the Southern States into the management of the institution, and that the revolt was the result. A member of the faculty, while discounting the reports of the extent of the disturbance, said it was true that the students are not in harmony with the president's administration of the affairs of the university. "The general opinion is that the president is a man worthy of respect," he said, "but for various reasons he cannot be of further service to this institution." PRESIDENT GORDON RESIGNS. [Washington Post., Dec. 13, 1905.] In view of serious differences of opinion between President Gordon and certain members of the faculty at Howard University; and which culminated in the method of treating the disorders in the chapel on Friday last., President Gordon has placed his resignation in the hands of the president of the board of trustees, and a meeting of the board will be convened at an early date to take action upon the resignation. At noon yesterday each of the four deans administered a public reprimand to the students engaged in the disorder on Friday last, these students having expressed their sense of the offense committed and expressed a desire to make amends in any manner possible. The Ladies of Manchester, Va. were aroused by Deputy Anna E. Taylor. She made an excellent speech at the 2nd Bapt. Church in said city. A large number of ladies met that afternoon to be organized into a club which was organized by her. This was done by the aid of Mrs. Mary Gashe. This club will be met every meeting afternoon by said Deputy and the laws explained to them. There is another club being organized by Deputy G. W. C. Anna E. Taylor, assisted by Mrs. Rebecca Gee, P. W. C. of Kings Daughters Court. Ladies, work in harmony and love as I endeavor to do my best to bring these clubs to success with God's help. I remain yours, ANNA E. TAYLOR, D. G. W. C. :0: —Mrs. Lucy Jones of Phila., Pa. is in the city visiting relatives and friends. —Mr. David Elam with his aunt, Mrs. Maria Robinson of Church Hill, arrived in the city this week from Atlantic City, and will spend the Holidays here. Wants To Find Them. I am anxious to locate my two uncles, Peter and Thomas Jackson, sons of Daniel Jackson. They were born in Maryland, and during slavery were sold into Richmond, Va. They have a sister now living at Pittsburg, Pa. Any information will be gladly received by addressing DANIEL JACKSON, 5624 End St., E. E. Pittsburgh, Pa. WRITTEN IN RED BY CHAS. HOWARD MONTAGUE AND C. W. DYAR (Copyright, by The Cassell Publishing Co.) IN RED. CHAPTER 1—Story in offices of North & Stackhouse, a Boston broker and banker’s concern. Directors of Nicaragua Midland and Stackhouse await North, who some days before had received letter threats his dead body at his unoccupied two home. Beside body, in scrawl of red, is written "Stackhouse." CHAPTER 2—Officers, reporters and bankers engage and perfume woman’s handkerchiefs on staircase. Kingman F Thomas, of Boston Globe, introduced. CHAPTER 3—Petridge, friend of the Lammides, engage Detective Lamm to probe murder and declare the ether the criminal. Lamm leaves to Swampacott, North’s summer home. CHAPTER 4—Lamm hides in North Stackhouse also lives, and hears Mrs Stackhouse with daughter, accuse husband of murder. Stackhouse leaves home; wife faints. CHAPTER 5—Petridge arrives at North Stackhouse interviews Mrs Stackhouse, Petridge and Norelle. Marie Moisot, known to both Petridge and Stackhouse, connected with case. CHAPTER 6—Medical Examiner Jarrett reports view of case. Thomas interrogates in autopsy; then confers with Lamm, who tells Petridge connection with case. CHAPTER 7—Busy days at police office. Disclosed that Mrs. Stackhouse was North's child inspector. Appleyb visits Stackhouse and the child inspector to lead to Marston, mentioning blackmailer. CHAPTER 8—Thomas visits North Willa. Thomas and Appleyb present at murdered man's funeral. Oder on handkerchief found in North's town home detected by Appleyb and North's youngest daughter. CHAPTER 9—Confession with Lamm. Goes to North Willa visits observes velled figure descend treills; follows the woman to beach, where she reshows revolver into water. He recovers it. CHAPTER 10—Takes up pursuit again, following woman at night and part of next day. On finding her, Thomas discovers she is Stella North. CHAPTER 11—Stella reveals fact that Marion is implicated in murder. Thomas fails to love with Stella. CHAPTER 12—Mount of North & Stack- house collapses. Decries out on Stella North's trail. Thomas reveals finding of revolver, nothing else. CHAPTER 13—Advertisement for information about Marie Moloss answer by Marie Moloss to female detective on trail. Stackhouse calls to Marissa; tries to see Marille, but is outwitted. CHAPTER XIII STILL THE MOISOT WOMAN. Early in the morning of the Monday, when Thomas was on his way to Hartford, Detective Lamm unlocked his office door. Almost the first object to catch his eye as he entered the room was a folded note lying upon the floor. "An called out of town on an important else" ran the brief, lead-pencil message. "Will see you as soon as it get back. Meanwhile, look out for developments at Swainscott." TH John Lamm was puzzled and curious, but as he had already taken the additional precaution to put both Moffett and an intimate friend of the butler, the parlor maid at the North villa, upon his salary list, and was reasonably confident that they meant to serve him faithfully, he was not particularly anxious. He opened his desk, ran through the letters that had come, and then sat back in his chair to hastily peruse the morning papers. "Not a thing new in the case," he mentally commented. "What a lot of words that man Thomas can string together about nothing, and yet leave the impression on our minds that we have really been reading something important! Evidently he didn't think his clue ripe enough to give it to the public." He turned the paper over carelessly, Suddenly he started and clutched the newspaper with a nervous grasp. "Hullo! Hullo!" he exclaimed aloud. "What the deuce does this mean?" For there, staring him in the face, was this: "Wanted—Information concerning the whereabouts of Marie Moisset, formerly of New Orleans, recently of New York; creole extraction; 27 years of age. Large reward will be paid for reliable information if sent "Well, this is a coincidence," Mr. Lamm reflected. "The same day that my advertisement to the same effect appears in New York, the advertisement of some other party appears in Boston. Now, who is it?" A prolonged reflection, leaning back in his chair under the stimulation of a fresh cigar, was unproductive of a satisfactory answer to the detective's query. But the reverie ended in active measures. He suddenly arose, closed his desk, locked the office and went out. Bending his steps in the direction of the Globe office, he was soon conversing with one of the clerks, but the result was not propitious. "Oh, we don't pretend to know who puts in any of these 'wants'," the clerk said. "There are too many of them. We know these advertisers only by the tickets. When a man puts in a want, we give him a ticket, dated and numbered with a stamp. That ticket is good for mail for ten days from the date of it." "Did you take this 'ad,' yourself?" "Haven't a doubt of it; but I took no note of the person who presented it. Couldn't even say whether it was a man or a woman." The detective returned to his office and began a search for suitable writing material. He was not long in finding what he wanted, for his desk was amply provided with stationery adapted for all possible contingencies. Selecting a modest envelope, notepaper of a poor quality, a fine pen, and a bottle of pale ink, he took infinite palms to produce the following: "D. 196, Globe Office: "In answer to advertisement of this a. m. would say I have information that may be useful. If you care to see me, will be at corner of Shawmut avenue and Dwight street at seven p. m. Look for lady with red cherries on her bed." CONFIDENTIAL Examining with a critical eye this effusion, John Lamm became convinced that he could not better it, sealed it and hastened to the post office with it. On his return he found one of his assistants in the office. "You know where this lady lives in Shawmut avenue?" he said, presenting a name on a bit of paper. "Well, get down there before she gets away, and tell her that I must see her at once on important business." The man departed, leaving John Lamm in sole possession of the office. Eleven o'clock brought him news of the failure of North & Stackhouse, news which he received with admirable imperturbability. "And how much do they fall for?" he asked his informant. "Everything, I hear. Even North's personal property is likely to go. His town house and his house at Swampscott." "And in that case, how much of an inheritance does he leave his daughters?" "Ah, poor things! Nothing!" "So, so," said John Lamm to himself, after his informant had de_arted, "That's how the wind blows, does it! Well, it remains for me to find out who profits by North's death, and who by the failure. Certainly it is neither Marion Stackhouse nor Stella North." The detective was not aware of Paul North's little transaction in life insurance, and it is not probable that it would have made much difference in his opinion if he had been. But John Lamm's attention was now taken by the arrival of his assistant in company with a keen-eyed woman about five-and-thirty, modestly dressed. "Ah, Miss Dallison! Good morning!" said the detective, cordially. "Are you engaged to-day?" "Some things on hand," she said, in a brisk, business-like way, "but if it's important—" Lamm waved his hand toward the door of his inner office, and the lady preceded him into the small retiring room which the detective preserved for his most important conferences. "And now Bill," said Lamm, turning to his assistant, and speaking in a low tone. "I want you to go to Swampscott. You know where the North villa is. You will easily find it without any obstructive inquiries, you understand. At the upper right-hand corner, at the part of the house away from the water, is a square tower with green blinds. If a small white handkerchief is placed over the sill, go to the servants' door and deliver an express package to Mollie White. Take that receipt along with you and have her sign for it. She will leave what she has for me in the book. See? If there is no signal by four o'clock, you may come back." When Detective Lamm had dispatched his assistant, he locked the door and saluted his female caller over again. "Allow me to pay my respects to the only female detective in America who is worth her bread and butter," he said. "How are you?" "Is it because I'm so good or the rest are so poor, Mr. Lamm?" she returned. "Or because there isn't much money in your case, and you want me to work cheap? Or what?" "No, Miss Dallison, I don't want you to work cheap," replied Lamm, becoming serious and drawing up a chair near to her. "If you can do what I want I shall willingly let you put your own price on it." "Well, what is it?" "I can't say yet just what it will be. I have taken the liberty to make an appointment at your house with a party unknown at seven this evening. If the party puts in an appearance, you will have the simple task of finding out all he or she knows, while pretending to give him or her some information which you do not possess." "Really," said Miss Dallison, sarcastically. "It is very simple indeed." critically. It is very simple indeed. "Unfortunately," said Lamm, "there is no other way that I can see to get the information necessary. I will tell you how the case stands." And producing the copy of the Globe, the detective proceeded to explain his plans. "You see," he said, in conclusion, "I merely desire to have you personate the writer of the letter I wrote this morning, and to draw out as much as possible about the purpose of publishing that advertisement from the person who turns up in answer to my note. There are two things I wish to find out—the first is, who inserted the 'ad,' and the second is, what is wanted of Marie Moissot. And, incidentally, if I can find out who this Marie Moissot is, why so much the better." Miss Dallison was exceedingly dubious about the result, but as she was willing to try, after arranging the matter more in detail, Lamm made an appointment at her house for seven o'clock and bade her "good morning." "Good heavens!" muttered Lamm to himself, when he was alone, "this is the first time I ever was employed in a case where I was obliged to go to such trouble to find out a few facts which the man who employed me could give me in five minutes, if he only would. Is it because he doesn't care to, or because he doesn't dare to? I'll find out, or my name isn't Lamm. I always like to know what sort of a man I'm working for. It's convenient sometimes." With these reflections, Mr. Lamm be took himself to other matters connected with his puzzling and thus far unsatisfactory quest, for he really hadn't got far enough along to be able to form a theory that positively seemed reasonable to him. His assistant returned during the afternoon. "The white rag was out when I got there," he said. "So I went to the house at once and returned by the next train." He handed Mr. Lamm a message sealed in an envelope, which (releived of the peculiarities of its orthography) contained information as follows: "Ah! that woman is a rough diamond," murmured Mr. Lamm, as he conveyed the letter to his capacious pocketbook. "A professional couldn't have done much better!" "But in the name of wonders," his thought continued, "what does it all mean? If it had been Marion I might have understood it—but this 17-year-old baby! There is some salient feature in this case that I haven't yet come across. Now, what is it? Where shall I look for the missing link?" Profoundly abstracted and reserved John Lamm continued to be throughout the remainder of the day. All the way to the house on Shawmut avenue, whither he betook himself rather in advance of the appointed time, he was not in a condition to recognize acquaintances or know of what sort the weather was. His mind was wholly absorbed with the knotty problem that the North case now presented. The latest development in it had aroused a new train of suspicions. Once inside the modest rooms of the woman detective, however, Lamm threw off the burden of speculation and devoted all his energies to his immediate purpose. The windows of Miss Dallison's front chamber (her suite was on the second floor) overlooked the corner to which Lamm's letter of the morning was designed to lure the author of the mysterious want "ad." The detective reasoned that if the advertiser was as importunate as he appeared to be, he would surely call for answers before night, and unless there was some more tangible reply from another quarter, the decoy was sure to bring him. And he was quite right. Miss Dallison was already arrayed in the bonnet with the red cherries, and stood at his side looking with him between the half-closed blinds toward the opposite corner when the clocks struck seven. "Thornton Stackhouse, as I live!" exclaimed Lamm a moment later, "and prompt to the minute! There is your man," he said, calmly, pointing him out. "Bring him here. I will be in the next room as arranged. If he asks you any questions, wait a bit before answering. If the feather sways twice, it means say 'yes,' if once, it means 'no.' If not at all, you are left to your own discretion. You generally will be." John Lamm referred to a large peacock's feather ornamentally arranged over a bookcase. He had connected it with the adjoining room by a bit of silk thread. A very few minutes thereafter Miss Dallison and Thornton Stackhouse entered the front chamber. The man took the seat offered to him, back to the bookcase. If Miss Dallison had been familiar with his personal appearance, she could not have helped observing that the lines of cars in his face had deepened heavily since the day of his partner's death. He had the sleepless, worn expression of an anxious watcher by the bedside of a serious illness. "Well, well, woman," he said, abruptly, in no very conciliatory tones, "I trust after bringing me here you don't disappoint me. What do you know of this Marie Molissot? Speak quickly, for my engagements are pressing." "Well, now, my dear sir," began Miss Dallison, in a nervous, high-keyed manner, very unlike her natural self, "you'd better understand me, to begin with. I'm not going to betray any confidences that I may have made with any of them as I may be pardoned for calling friends without I know the why and the wherefores of it." "What do you mean?" asked Stackhouse, darkly. "Do you expect me to tell you my business with her before I know anything about you? You must think me a fool. I offered a reward for information, and came here to get it; not to give it." "Very well, indeed, sir, so you did," returned Miss Dallison, with a very shrewd air of suspicion. "But you have to satisfy me that you don't mean no harm to a body, for I'll not speak a word to injure any friend of mine. So that's just what you and I have got to settle before we go ahead." "Well, in the first place," said Stackhouse, changing his tactics, "suppose we settle whether you have any information about the person that I want. Describe the woman you refer to?" "Oh, sir! I'm no good that way. She was about 27, dark, quite dark—well, medium height, I should say—and what I call reasonably good-looking." "Ah! and what is she doing for a living?" "Oh, there's where I can't answer, you see, until I find out why you want to know." Stackhouse made an impatient gesture. "Has this woman you speak of been in Boston lately?" The feather swayed twice. "I see no harm in saying 'yes' to that, sir. No harm. But more I won't say. You see, sir, circumstances are peculiar. She confided me that circumstances are peculiar." "You mean to say, don't you, that she was here for private purposes, and that she wanted her presence here kept a secret?" "I shouldn't wonder." "Have you known this woman long?" The feather swayed twice. "A good many years, sir." "And under that name all the time?" "I decline to state what names she has gone under, said the woman, with A "DON'T YOU DARE, SIR," THE CRIED, STANDING WITH HER BACK AGAINST THE DOOR. considerable asperity. "You may be one of one of them detective fellers. How do I know? Coming up here to pump evi- dences out of a poor woman as has herself to look after. I know fast enough—I know the woman you want. I knew it the minute I read that in the paper. But I ain't going to be caught in no trap, nor I ain't going to get into no trouble. So there's how the land lays, and you may as well know it first as last." Stackhouse seemed to be sitting on pins and needles. "Hang it!" he cried. "Don't be a fool! I have no wish to harm her, nor you, either. I only wish to see her; that's all—to talk with her." "Well?" "Is she in Boston?" "That I decline to say, sir." "Ah!" said Stackhouse, coming to his feet. "I see she is, or you wouldn't be so cunning about it. Now, where is she? In this house? Tell the truth. Didn't she herself send you to answer that advertisement? As a matter of fact, isn't she listening to this very conversation?" He made a sudden movement toward the half-open door behind which Lamm stood. But the woman was quicker than he was, and she intercepted him. "Don't you dare, sir!" she cried, standing with her back against the door. "She may be and she may not be; but if you attempt to go into that room, I'll scream for help." "Ah!" said Stackhouse, significantly, "as I thought. You are too smart, woman. You have betrayed yourself." "Well, then," said the woman, doggedly, "you can't see her; that's all." "Oh; that's what she told you to say, is it?" "Never mind. You can't see her, if you've got any message for her, write it, and I'll see that she gets it, and she will reply by mail. You can't see her. You ought to be ashamed to try to, after treating her as you have." This soile real bit of information which Miss Dallion possessed outside of the patent facts of the advertisement, delivered at this opportune time, must have dissipated any doubts still lingering in Stackhouse's mind. "Very well," he said, in an altered tone, "I will write to her." He turned toward the outer door, and Miss Dallion followed him. He had actually opened the door to pass into the entry, and she was quite off her guard, when, with a quick spring, he leaped back into the room, thrusting her aside, and before she could prevent him, had flung wide open the door to the adjoining chamber. But John Lamm was too old a bird to be caught in any such trap. At the first intimation of Stackhouse's suspicion he had taken his departure. The room was empty! CHAPTER XIV "Slipped through your fingers again, didn't she?" If the mocking face of Miss Dallison could be depended upon, that business-like woman seemed to enjoy the discomfiture and anger of her victim very keenly. She took up her hat, shook the dust from the deceiving cherries poised it a moment in her hand, and then said: "Well?" Mr. Stackhouse acknowledged his defeat with a very grim sort of smile. "You're a clever pair, you two," he said, shortly. "Where's paper and ink? Have you got such things in this pantome-trap of a house?" looking with a scowl around the room he had found empty. "Ah! I thought you'd turn sensible after awhile." rejoined Miss Dallison, briskly producing writing materials from the caverns of what a casual visitor would have pronounced a wardrobe, but which was much more—avery arsenal of belongings, some curious for their oddity, some commonplace enough, but all designed for instant use when wanted by this extremely wide-awake woman. Mr. Stackhouse did not find the flow of ideas quite to his liking. He began and tore up two letters, carefully bestowing the fragments in his watch pocket. Finally he seemed to find an inspiration, and his pen went rapidly over the paper, while Miss Dallison perused the pages of the morning's Globe with every appearance of lively interest. "There!!" the visitor said, at last, tossing his pen aside and sealing up the letter. "Give that to Marie Moissot, and mind you tell her before she opens it that she will do well to keep it entirely to herself." "The lady knows what she is about," was Miss Dallison's response. "I hope she does," was Mr. Stackhouse's rejoinder, as he took his hat, and, without any ceremonious words of adieu, proceeded downstreet. But shortly after his departure, that busy gentleman had the satisfaction of rejoining the triumphant Miss Dallison and of reading the following eng-matical epistle: "Marie: Your part in the conspiracy to bring about my ruin, which was carried out on the 18th of this present June, is perfectly well known to me. I make no foolish complaints. You have accomplished your revenge. My name is clouded with suspicion. My hopes of fortune are destroyed, such as a victor can well afford to give, va-quished man; and whatever I can save from the wreck of North & Stackhouse shall be yours. I have not Torgotten the old days at Lake Pontchartrain. I am not entitled to ask for mercy. But by being smart I have done the mischief you can undo it. Will you not? The reward will be enough to satisfy your conscience. I cannot speak more definitely upon paper. I must see you in person, and have a talk with you in person. Even if you refute me face to face. You do not know how much I may say to you. "T. S." Detective Lamm was still puzzling in a highly-excited frame of mind over this letter, when Tuesday afternoon came. "I wish I had Thomas here to talk it over," was his unspoken thought as he gave his office chair a twirl. "Where is the man all this while?" he said aloud. Hardly were the words out of his mouth when a well-known knock was heard. Lamm's face brightened, and brightened still more when he admitted to his little room of counsel a moment later Mr. Kingman F. Thomas. "Why, Kingman, where have you kept yourself all this while? Sit down, sit down, and give ar account of yourself." Mr. Thomas parried this impetuous salutation and query with a question of his own. "An account of myself?" he said, laughing. "Perhaps you think my time's my own. Did you never hear of such a thing as a journalist being sent out of town to do a given bit of work for his paper, John Lamm?" The detective nodded his head and looked at Thomas in a quizzical sort of a way. "Oh, yes, Kingman. But they don't generally take a man off a murder mystery case like this and send him out of town on some chance affair; at least they didn't do that when I knew the office routine. Got a new editor down at your place?" "Nonsense, Lamm," answered Thomas. "Emergencies may arise at any moment in a newspaper office. You know that well enough. I was pulled off the North case for a little while; but they put me back again with lightning-like celerity, as you see, for here I am. Now, what have you got to tell me?" "First of all. Kingman," the detective said, tipped comfortably back in his chair, "I want to tell you that I'm a little surprised, to put it mildly, that you should have let that young North girl give you the slip that night. How did it happen?" "The fortune of war," rejoined Thomas, for the moment quite interested in the row of law books on the shelf above Mr. Lamm's desk. "The best of us get beaten sometimes—even you. Of course, you have forgotten—" "I've forgotten nothing, Kingman," said Mr. Lamm. "Let it pass. The matter can't be helped. Of course I knew it wasn't your fault. And now to another subject." The detective consulted his little memorandum book and took from its leaves Stackhouse's letter. "Never mind to whom it is written," he said. "What do you think of it, taken in connection with what we know of this man Stackhouse?" Thomas read the letter twice before answering. "Looks as though there might be some conspiracy. I should like to know who this Marie really is." Mr. Lamm silently acquiesced in this wish, but he said nothing on that point. "We have talked over our friend Stackhouse considerably, Kingman, first and last," he observed, "and I fancied we agreed pretty well for awhile." "For awhile?" queried Kingman. "What do you mean?" "People change their minds sometimes, and I have modified my first opinions regarding the man," continued Mr. Lamm, following the pattern of the wall paper opposite his desk with his eye. "A decidedly abler man is this Stackhouse than a good many people give him the credit of being abler than I thought at first. He is a smart man—a 'slick' man," as they say up in New Hampshire. The way in which he has managed to keep North & Stackhouse out of bankruptcy all this whilie shows that he has plenty of nerve and a good deal of skill." "Not much use without money," was Mr. Thomas' sententious comment. "You know what people say about it. Firm would have gone to smash long ago if it hadn't been bolstered up. And all the financial fellows that I have talked with give the credit for keeping the firm out of deep water for three months past to one man—Richard Petridge." "He's a curious sort of character, that Fetridge," said the detective, contemplatively. "My opinion is that without his money he would amount to but precious little." "You wouldn't put him down as the Napoleon of State street, then?" hinted Thomas. "No," replied Mr. Lamm. "Why, the man hasn't half the ability of Thornton Stackhouse. There is a queer streak in the fellow, and it shows itself at every turn. Pig-headed enough, but lacks balance. Really weak-minded, for all his obstinacy in small things. That's my judgment of the man. What do you say about him?" Mr. Thomas thought a moment. "Don't know him as you do, Lamm, but it seems to me he must have some good qualities, some little ability, to have got on such a friendly footing with the Norths." "Do you mean the old man, or the woman?" "Well, the family generally." "Oh, pahaw! Paul North only wanted to 'work' him for his money, and I rather think you know that the girls may have been in with the gentleman in his laudable endeavor. "Perhaps you've seen and heard more about the Norths than I," he said, a little uncomfortably. "But it didn't seem to me—" "Oh, the girls? Well, they may not have had much to do but to smile sweetly on Fetridge and keep him in the firm's traces," continued the detective, with a covert glance at his ally's face: "and, of course, this Petridge was no fool to be caught by the hare hook. He isn't possessed of any great amount of brains, but his experience in the business world makes up for some of his natural shortcomings. However, perhaps this failure will bring out the facts about Stackhouse. I hope so. It's a bad break, and a great many people have gone down with North & Stackhouse. But I think Thornton Stackhouse himself has saved nothing out of the crash." "The Norths have gone under, of course?" "Yes. Not a dollar, so far as I can see, will be left to them. There's no telling, though, what those girls may have managed to pick up and hide all this whille. That young creature, now, who went off—" "You mean -Miss Stella?" There was a dangerous look in Thomas' eyes. "Certainly. She's a hardened little baggage, I'll be bound. Why, man, she was shrewd enough to throw you off the scent, and a girl of 18 who can trick Kingman F. Thomas when he's on the watch is an abnormally clever sort of creature." Mr. Thomas abruptly arose and looked out of the little window. "How do you imagine she got away from you, Kingman?" pursued Mr. Lamm. "A piece of bad luck," the reporter returned, curtly. "We all have that sort of happenings sometimes. I suppose the girl watched her chance and stole away. Nothing very calculating about that, it seems to me. It was her good fortune." "Just so, just so," assented Mr. Lamm. "It's a sore spot with you, old fellow, eh? Well, never mind. We know, of course, who the guilty party is in this affair. Never mind Fetridge now. Flight is confession, and you can take ample revenge by helping to bring that large-eyed maiden who gave you the slip to justice. You see the point, Kingman?" "No, I don't," said Mr. Thomas, turning upon the ingenious Mr. Lamm in great heat. "What morbid state of mind has come over you? What's the matter with you that you go on maundering like this?" "Maundering?" Mr. Lamm's face wore a look of cleverly assumed astonishment. "Yes. Maudering is what I said, and I meant it too. Come! You don't mean to look me in the face and tell me that you think that a timid, shrinking girl like Stella North would ever have the courage to murder her father, even if she had the heart to do it?" "But she ran away—" There was a tell-tale twitching at the corners of the detective's mouth despite his efforts to the contrary, observing which Thomas gave a little start, pulled up his shirt collar, relaxed his features, laughed, though rather constrained, and clapped Mr. Lamm on the shoulder. "Have done with your 'kldding,' old man," he said. "I'm not one of the Central Office crowd." Mr. Lamm coughed behind his hand. "You can't make me believe any of your foolishness," continued the reporter. "Now talk straight for a moment. Stackhouse or Fetridge—whom shall I watch, now?" "No use to try to cheat you, Kingman," retorted Mr. Lamm, with an expansive smile. "Well, in the present uncertain state of affairs, both must be watched. We ought to be here, both of us, to look after matters; but I am suddenly called away and this is why I am so glad you came in." "Called away?" "Yes; old Jobson, the clerk at North & Stackhouse, has just told me in his innocent way all about a certain suspicious character that occasionally came to see North, and lives in New York. I am going to look the man up there, and for a day or two you must watch the Boston end for both of us." Mr. Lamm, after advising Thomas to still watch Swampscott, and promising to bring in a man or two to help cover the city points, bade the reporter a friendly "good by" and went from his office directly toward the Albany station. But the protuberance on his valise, which marked the sojourning place of the very rigid hair brush which was Mr. Lamm's constant travel companion, soon pointed north instead of south. It was Mr. Thomas whom the detective followed. Seeing him enter the office of his newspaper, Mr. Lamm turned back, deposited his valise in his office, and betook himself to Court square. "Nowak, how are you?" "Hello, Lamm, how goes everything?" the reporter said. "Quietly, quietly. How are the boys in the Globe office? I hardly ever see them nowadays, not even Kingman, whom I used to run across so often." "Kingman?" said Mr. Nowak. "Oh, he's busy on the North mystery. Doesn't do anything else. Has his own Mr. Lamm nodded his head emphatically. "You're right, Nowak. The word shirk is not in Kingman F. Thomas' vocabulary. You are quite positive that he has not had any other work but the North case?" "Oh, sure. They wouldn't take him off of it under any circumstances, now, when the facts are liable to come out any hour." "I hope he isn't wasting his time and energy. It's a queer case, isn't it?" "Deuced queer." With a friendly hand-grasp the two parted. Mr. Lamm proceeding to a drug store close at hand, consulted the chained directory, and found in a minute a certain address desired. Boarding a car, he journeyed southward. Where the streets began to show bits of garden in front of the houses, and every brick wall was not a party wall, Mr. Lamm alighted, and walked up a pleasant-looking avenue. A new apartment house, not far from the corner, appeared to have particular interest for John Lamm. In its neighborhood, indeed, he passed the better part of an hour. Without apparent A man kneeling in front of a brick wall. MR. LAMM PLACED HIMSELF BEHIND A SHELTERING CHIMNEY, CAUTIOUSLY PEERED INTO THE WINDOWS OF THE NEIGHBORING BUILDING. effort, Mr. Lamm entered into an easy conversation with several people there and thereabouts, and, as a result thereof, there was a sudden transfer of especial interest from the family hotel to the building next door. Mr. Molon's modest dwelling was by no means equal in height to its neighbor. But its graveled roof, nevertheless, offered certain facilities that the detective greatly desired. A brief colloquy was all that proved necessary to gain the desired permission. Once upon the roof, Mr. Lamm placed himself behind a sheltering chimney, and cautiously peered into the windows of the neighboring building that overlooked the place. All the curtains were up, and the light, streaming cheerfully into what was evidently a sitting-room, brought into relief the face of a motherly-looking old lady, busted with her knitting. Presently she looked up; and soon the sight of another face rewarded John Lamm's watch. It was the face of a short, rather thick-set young man, whose dark-brown, kindly eyes had looked into his own not many hours before. The detective noted them carefully as they stood talking together earnestly. He saw them turn quickly, and as the rays of the setting sun shone through the glass, another form came into full view. It was a woman's figure. John Lamm looked with all his eyes. There was no mistake; no room for error. It was as he thought and hoped, and a smile of absolute satisfaction played about his lips unconsciously. Suddenly he drew back. The thick-set young man in the room opposite was just turning around. Before he could peer out of the window, in his turn, the form was out of view. When the sidelong glance was next directed outwards the blinds were drawn over the tell-tale window. But the precaution came too late. The next moment Lamm found his way down the stairs, thanked Mr. Molon behind the counter kindly for his courtesy, walked up the street and took a car citywards. "Ah, my black-haired friend," he thought, exultingly, "a very clever scheme of yours. But walls have eyes for John Lamm once in awhile, Kingman, and though you've kept your secret well from the crowd, you couldn't conceal it from your partner. What would Applebee say, what would Stackhouse say, for that matter, if they knew that Kingman F. Thomas had a pretty guest, none other than the strangely missing Stella North?" TO BE CONTINUED. AD PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM He—But I thought you'd forgiven me for that and promised to forget it? She—Yes. But I didn't promise to let you forget I'd forgiven it! A Cinch. "You ought to marry some nice girl," sald the minister. "I would if I had your snap," was the reply. "I don't understand." "Why, you get a fee every time you marry one."—Houston Post. The Voice of Experience. Newlywed—My wife only allows me three hooks in the closet to hang my clothes on. Oletimer—Don't worry. Before you've been married long one hook will be enough for all your wardrobe—Judge. Tricks in All Trades. Amicus—So you really do read the books that are sent to you? books that are sent to you? Reviewer (busy with paper knife)— Oh, no. I am just cutting the leaves so that the editor will think I have read it.—Town Topics. Fatal. "Poor Perkins has gone broke." "Why, what, did it?" "He took money matters out of his wife's hands and ran the house on business principles for two weeks."— Judge. + © a eens ee (e Gace AN . \Y #6 We - PS, SATURDAY.....DEC. 16TH, 1905. Amsurance Magnate’s Anthem, My comp'ny, ‘tis of thee, Sweet mine of graft for me, ‘Of thee T sing. { ‘Graft for my sons and heirs, Graft for my friends and theirs, ‘All that the plum tree bears ‘To me you bring. Let critica how! away, But here Pil calmly stay ‘The winter through. Inmorance laws are mace But to be dinobeyed. Come on, sons! Who's afraid? Pa stands by you. : ‘Let premium payers fret: , We've got “em in the net; ‘They can't get loom. The golden ceea we'll store t In our neste as before, | And when they come no more We'll kill the goose, My comp'ny, “tis for me | Ana for my family ‘That you are rum. ‘Wa Crenign? ‘Well, way, WN cows quit eating hay? ’ ‘They can't pry me away. . It's too much fon. Chicago Recerd-Herald. Deaths In Games of 1905 Ex. | ceed All Other Years. ‘WINETEEN KILLED AND MANY HURT foums Girl Siain Im Contest With | Other Players of Her Own Sex—Unt- | Yerstey of Penneyivanta Takes Lead In Seeking to Eliminate Brutality. | Views of Cotlese Prestaents, | A records for football brutality were smashed during the season re- fently closed, says the New York orld. Nineteen lives were sacrificed, ex- jeeeding by six the black record of 1903, Jwhile the number of casualties greatly purpassed that of any previons year. | Here are the football fatalities tn the fast thirteen years: Of the great number of injured this fean the following were the most se- ously burt: Brown, Henry, 80 East One Hundred fd Sixteenth sireet, Manhattan; broken lar bone. Henderman. Moly Cross, at Worcester, bass: Kicked ia boas. Flood, Matthew, Paterson, N. J.; right fee broken. Harmon, George, Erasmus H. §.; trac- tured right shoulder. | Ross, “Coltzabia Medical school; right Peg badly gasiied. fpateimens Cass, Pittsburg; internal tn- ries. Lane, Joseph. Belleville, N. J.; eye frovred out. Schwinn, Harry, North End A. C. of bNewark; three ribs fractured. Vanderboom, ‘Captain, Wisconsin. unt- fwersity: arm broken Denderos, Ira, Willimantic, Conn.; eye laestroyea. Howard, Paul, fullback; collar bone broken. Cellimore. Archie, Trenton, N. J.; col- har ‘bone broken. Dennen, John, Trenton, N. J.; broken nose. Murray, Roy, Sterling, Ii; leg broken An two places. Gerber, Charles, Tamaqua, Pa; con- ‘eussion of brain, Anderson, E. J., Colgate university; col- lar bone broken. Whitman, Henry, Knickerbocker team; fkneecap broken. Hollenback, W., U. of P.; leg broken. Posey, Sinclair, 18 Garfield place, rooklyn; concussion of brain, Crocker, George C, Exeter academy; heternal injuries | West, Ohio Northera university; head leut open. Lyon, Swarthmore; nose broken. | Woman, Rutgers; right leg broken. Perkins, St. John's college, Annapolis; arm broken. | Flerce, Harvard; broken. nos. Hall, Howard, end; broken collar bone. [Hlarrineton. Harvard "senior; fractured cull [ Dion. Princeton: nose broken. Brown, Princeton; broken collar bone, Mason, Trinity college, halftack; collar pone broken. | Of the nineteen youths slaughtered feleven were high school players. ‘Ten ‘were boys of seventeen and under, and three were seasoned college men, pre- sumably fit for the vigors of the game. (The list of severely injured will reach ever 150, which exceeds all previous ‘records by a score or more. | The first death on record of a feml. ‘mine football player occurred during ithe season, the victim being Miss Ber- jpadelte Decker, eighteen years old, | pamper of a lending politician of berland, Md. In a rough serim- age among girls of her school she re- ved injuries that developed into te peritonitis, Aroused by the appalling record of year, a movement has been inaugu- ited by the faculty of the University Pennsylvania to inject a tame spirit to the sport. The U. of P, came out other day in favor of a strict revi- of rules and will seek the co-oper- tion of all the colleges throughout the antry. Telegrams recently received from residents of many of the colleges in- licate hearty support of the movement. Ja a letter sent out by the U. of P. jeulty to every college in the country rule Is recommended preventing the nt of god players from oth- colleges “by social or money induce- ;" also the players must in fu- be genuine students of the colleges represent. No student who has athletic sports for pecuniary shall be allowed to play on a team. Rules are recommended penalties for “unnecessary up, the use of the ‘ and jwnak Se dismissed from college. The ales, tf indorsed by alt the colleges, g9 into effect next season. ‘The death of Harold P. Moore of Og- feoeburg, N.Y, the other day in New fork will have the effect, according to bword that has been received, of abolish- fas the game at Union college, where was a student. President Ray- of that college has long been an it supporter of reform in football tics, This year be has expressed ‘himself vigorously against the brutality manifested In all the college games. After the killing of Moore, Chancellor MacCracken of the New York univer- aity, Impressed that some stringent ac- ‘ton should be taken against football brutality in future, sent a telegram fo President Eliot of Harvard asking him to take the Initiative. His telegram stirred the president up, but not in the ‘direction the chancellor had expected. _ “Why should he ask me to call a ameeting of college and university presf- dente?” demanded Professor Eliot. “I'm not the one to do this thing. It should come from a body of men rep- ‘resenting the university. No, I'll not call any such meeting. I'm In favor of anything that will take the dangerous features out of the game, but I'm not golng to start it. There will be objec tonable features in the game until the playing rules are revised.” In President Etiot'’s university nine- teen men, including Theodore Roose- Veit, Jr., received tnjuries, running the gamut from battered ears and fiatten- ed noses to fractured arms and legs. President Wilson of Princeton ex- Pressed himself in sympathy with any revision of rules that will make foot- ball less dangerous. Princeton's rec- ord of caguaities for the season com- prised six men, the most serious injury being to ©. Brown, 1908, whose collar bone was broken in practice. Although Wisconsin university’s team escaped with one serious injury, the captain, Vanderboern, having his cheek bone fractured and elbow dislocated, Its president, C. H. Van Hise, declares in & telegrain as being willing to as- sist in reforming football, but he does not want the game abolished. President Schurman of Cornell said that he bad told President Roosevelt at the recent conference in Washing- ton that he favored eliminating brutal- ity from the game of football. He will aid in the University of Pennsylvania movement. Five of Cornell's men were hurt during the season, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California declared ‘that the game has outgrown Its inten- tions. “It is too highly developed,” he said. “Mr. Camp and others among the self appointed committee on rules have promised reforms, Lut they have never come. Now we shall have to re- vine the rules ourselves.” Hamilton college, at Utica, N. ¥., which has had no serious accident on the gridiron this season, ts in favor of strict enforcement of the rules of the game, #0 as to do away with brutality. President Stryke said: “I am willing my men shall take chances on the grid frou if the game is kept clean. 1 am in sympathy with the U. of P. effort.” At Brown university, Providence, R. L, {t was stated that the season was remarkably free from accidents, only one man, Reynolds, being burt. His ankle was broken early in the season. After the death of Vernon Wise of the Oak Park High school, Chicago, the facuity fortiade further games during the season. Wise's death was caused, It is stated, by brutality of the most vicious sort, be being pounded and kicked as he lay prostrate. ‘The death of John Summergilt of Franklin college, Chester, Pa., was the result of bis being deliberately kicked im the stomach. He started to walk home from the game and dropped dead. The Columbia college faculty are much exercised over the harsh treat- ment accorded their men by the Pewn- sylvania players the other day. They are talking of abolishing the game at Columbia. Douglas Carter, Columbia's fullback, Is in a private sanitarium in New York as a result of @ scrimmage. He ts suffering from the rare injury of 8 sprain of the spinal column. Philip ‘Von Saltza of the same team ts nursing & fracture of the foot. The Chicago Tribune recently re aide ian “iii cat tc (Ghia erin iba | The Chicago Tribune recently re. ceived the following telegrams from ‘presidents of universities and colleges fn all parts of the country in reply to requests for comments on the large football mortality and accident list this year: President Harper of Chicago untvers!- ty was too ill to express his views on the question. In his place a statement was obtained from Professor Shailer Matthews, dean of the divinity school, who said: “Football today is a social obsession— @ boy killing, education prostituting, gladiatorial sport. It teaches virility and courage, but so does war. I do not know what should take its place, but ‘the new gime should not require the services of a physician, te mainte ‘nance of a hospital and the celebration of funerals.” President Cavanaugh of Notre Dame ‘thinks football too good a sport to be Abolished entirely, but advises that since most accidents occur ~mong un seasoned players it should be done ‘away with in the high schools. President Hopkins of Willlams col- lege says the game has cost more than it is worth and is doomed unless {t can be changed radically, but “to take all the struggle and peril out of it would Just about spoil it.” President MacLean of Iowa State ‘University advises a conference in which representatives of secondary schools should be included. New Torpedo a Wonder. ‘The torpedo board of officers at New port have passed favorably upon thirty of the new Bliss-Leavitt turbine tor: Pedoes for the new battleships, says a Newport (R. 1.) dispatch to the Boston Globe. This torpedo, for which the United States navy has the exclusive use, developed a speed of thirty-five knots an hour at a range of 1,200 yards against the Whitehead torpedo with twenty-five knots an hour at 1,000 Yards. It ts deseribed by the officers at ‘the torpedo station as a wonder and ‘most destructive as well as accurate in ‘range frinc THE RICHMOND PLANK:, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. “MAKING A CAMPFIRE, Mow One Can Be Ballt Under Ad- ee ee te Nobody should boast of being able to bulld a campiire unless he can do it in a rain when ail the forest Is wet ‘and succeed in lighting the fire with ‘the first mateh. Even In @ driving rain thet has last- ed for days the clever woodsman can find bits of twig and other inflamma. ble material that may be damp, but not sodden. He can always find per. fectly dry stuff in hollow trees and under roots. He will spend perhaps half an hour, perhaps even an hour, looking for the stuff of this kind and ‘will not dream of starting his fire un. til he has collected at least a hatful of tindery stuff and an armful of small twigs and branches as dry as any that ‘can be found. Having deposited all this stuff under the best sheiler possible, he drags a log to the ptace where the fire Is to be and turns It over, when of course It ‘exposes a dry side, in which the tinder may be placed without getting wet. ‘Then other logs are piled to form a wall against the wind, Now the tinder ts piled up and then with a sharp knife the driest sticks fre whittled so thut a pile of thin shay- Ings is rccumulated. The more shay. ings there are the better. ‘Then the driest sticks are lald over these and the shavings set aftre. Care. fully add wood as the fire burns up, Dut never put enough on to smother the flame. One wet twig will blaze when two may choke the fire. How Vinegar Can De Made Usefal. | Some new uses for vinegar are thus described in the Housekeeper: If a ta- Diespoonful of vinegar Is put into the lard in which doughnuts are fried it will prevent them from absorbing too much of the fat. One or two ter- spoonfuls of vinegar put into a kettle containing boiling beef or chicken will hasten it in becoming tender. A little vinegar put into stove blacking will make it stick better and prevent dust from flying while polishing. A little vinegar put into the water when rins: ing the hands does much toward cur. ing and preventing chapped hands. ‘Vinegar put into a bottle of old ot dried glue will moisten and make {t ike new again. Vinegar boiled on the stove while cooking oufons or cabbage will prevent the odor from filling the house. Vinegar and salt mixed will ‘Drighten and clean brass or copper Kettles, ornaments, gas fixtures and the Uke, After its application the articles should be riused and polished with 1 -elean, dry cloth. A good furniture pol ish 1s a mixture of one part of vinegar to two parts of sweet oll, used spar ingly. The furniture should be pol {shed after its use by a clean cloth Vinegar and water is good for bruises ay sprains, ee ea RE Every woman should have among her toilet table fittings a good glove stretcher and a little rice powder to use when putting on gloves In case the glove has not been fitted at the store After dusting the Inside of the glove carefully with rice powder the tidy girl draws on the fingers, leaving the thumb until they are all firmly in place making sure that each finger is put on absolutely straight, says the Chicage Journal, If the glove is a trife smal and works on very hard it Is well t remove it after it is half way on and start afresh. If it fits tightly about the wrist she fastens the Just button and trusts to the gradual stretching of the kid over the wrist. The tidy girl re moves her gloves with infinite care ‘She starts by loosening the fingers Jus @ trifle at the tips, then she turns th wrist down and draws the glove wrong side out carefully, not Jerkily. If the finger tips have been properly loosened the glove will not turn all the way ‘wrong side out. re ni ee ee ee A strip of flanncl or a soft cloth folded lengthwise dipped in hot water and wrung out, then wrapped around the neck of a child that bas croup, will bring almost instant relief. A towel folded several times and dipped in hot water and applied over the site of toothache or neuralgia is splendid. ‘This treatment for colic has been found to work lke magic. Nothing 40 Promptly cuts short congestion of the Jungs, sore throat or rheumatism as hot water when applied early in the ease and thoroughly. Ordinary head- aches almost always yield to the simul- taneous application of hot water to the feet and the back of the neck. | Mow to Tell Good Pratt. Some of the signs by which to tell good fruit anu vegetables are here in- Ateated, says the Wushington Star. Oranges are sound and juicy when heavy, buf not too hard. Radishes and turnips when spongy are not fit to eat. Pineapples are best when the edges of the top are smooth; In inferior qualities the tops are of the saw edged variety. Celery 1s good when It breaks without much bending. Asparagus should be quite stiff. Nuts cannot be Indged very correctly until they are ‘opened, but they should be of good Weight and not too hand to crack. Mow te Find Health In Veagctabtes, Se Se ee be of colds and sore throat, Olive oll is much more healthful than meat fats for cooklug, is easier on digestive or- gans, if you get it pure. To take a spoonful after a meal is recommended. In California invalids drink olive oli @ cupful at a time. ee To clean oily cruet bottles put a few strips of blotting paper into the bottle with a little warm water and an equal quantity of vinegar and add a piece of Washing soda. Shake a few times and then rinse to warm water, Not Im Her Experience, “This proverb,” sald M::. Hiram Of fen over her evening paper, “always makes me tired.” “What proverh’s that, dear?” asked her husband. “Too many cooks spoll the broth! I don’t believe there ever was such « thing as too many cooks."—Philadel phia Press. __ All things come to him who doesn't ‘wait, but husties, Too many clerks and not enough salesmen—that !s the ery. ‘The sheriff ts always making g00g00 eyes at the store that doesn’t advertise. Resolve not to worry so much about your competitor. Take the lead for 4 change. Many succeed because they advertise correctly and ever 80 many fall because they don't. If you never do more than you are Paid for, you will never get pald for more than you do. If you have no confidence in your em- ‘ployer, for heaven's sake be honest and go In and tell him so. Draw your pay and quit.—Brains. In the garden adjoining his house at Youghal, Raleigh planted the first po- tatoes e-em srown In Irelend. ‘The vee- etable was brought to him from the Uttle colony which he endeavored to establish in Virginia. The colonists started 1m April, 1585, and Thomas Harriot, one of their number, wrote a description of the country in 1587. He describes a root which must have deen the potato “Openank are a kind of roots of round form, some of the bignesse walnuts, some farre greater, which are found in moist & marish grounds grow- ing many Wwgetber one by another in ropes, as though they were fastened With a string. Being bolled they are very good meat.” ‘The Spaniards first brought potators to Europe, but Raleigh was undoubted ly the first to introduce the plant inte Treiand. Rossini, walking one day on the bov- levard with the musician Braga, was greeted by Meyerbeer, who anxious.y inquired after the health of his de ~ Rossint. “Bad, very bad,” answered the latter. “A headache, a side ache and a leg I can scarcely move." After @ few moments’ conversation Meyer- Deer :assed on, and Braga asked the great composer how It was he bad sud- denly become so unwell. Smiling!y Kossint reassured bis friend: “Ob, I couldn't be better. I only wanted to plese Meyerbeer. He would be ae Blad to see me smash up.” ‘The Moba tn Servia. -_ Bervian peasants help each other by “means of an Institution known as the -moba. A man who has mt hands srf. ficient to plow or reap his farm calls fm the oha—that Is to Kay, Invites all Bis neighbors to come and help bim. He pays nothing for this service, pro- viding only xenerous supplies of food and drink: but when suy ef them ap ply for the mob If is understood that he will take his turn ‘The small force of Afty Gurkhas left behind at Gyangtse, in Tibet, with Mr, O'Conor when Sir Francis Younghus. band marched out of Tibet has put down Inwlessness and established such amicable relations with the Tibetans that the postotfice of India Is able to send regular dispatches backward and forward, says the London Mail. Money orders are now payable alike In Gyang- tse, Chumb! and Pharijong. Special Auto Tire For Deserts, In order to render motoring tn the desert possible two American motorisis have invented a apecial tire, which eon- alsts of santhage strapped on each side of the ordinary pneumatic tire. RICHMOND MEDICAL COLLEGE, 406 E. Baker Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. |\— 2a a —SC(When borrowing money, Chartered June 14, 1905. Co-ea- i ae Sener ucational. Tne only Colored a. | a Le > When oo lege fn Virginia for a thorough ——— an re ; When you want an estate managed, course in Medicine, Dentistry and oe his F bem you have : Pharmacy. Session: 1906-1306) gal POMAZALEANYG, When you havo Teal Fstate for sale, begins Oct. 2, 1905. sot ane a st ci Phone Ni 5 For further informatton, write. <a Fest call Phone Ho. 4064, J. ALEX. LEWIS, M. D, J. J. CARTER, President. aaa Becretary. W. F. DENNY, feretary. No. 717 N. 2nd St. Rnights of Pythi N.A.,S.A,E. A., A. AND A. oF This organization is oue of the most powerful in the country and” its NON, Brogress has been phenominal. ‘Ihe Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris: ra diction over all of the cities and ccunties in this state. 1 hirty males <) \ are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one ae eZ BG of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything Cae Cy else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be. Rsk. nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order Seay worthy of their heartiest support. oe It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It Pays $4.00 per week sick dues, ‘Ihe badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary zz*!a. For information concerning the organzaition of lodges, apply at the main office_ \ _ The Courts of Calanthe 3 Is the Femal: Department of the Order. It requires a memt ership of | thirty pers ss to organize a court. lis members are pledged to exhibit | Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays . |an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3 00 per week sick t ‘dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, so cents and i 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 mystie circle, The expense is nominal and the benefits all that sould be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 te $40.00. If you have nePythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning the Children’s Department address, Mrs. ANNA Taytor, W. M., ea i < 100 Oe Hill St., Be ‘or all information concerning special rates jOHN MITCHELL, membership in the lodges and courts, address 311 N. 4th St, Richmond,'Va, _ HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Mew te save by Judiclous and ies. ee ee a Careful purchasing of household ne- ceasities Is one half the secret of econ- omy, while careful use of the article bought is the other half. Economy in buying consists in the perfect adapte- tion of the purchase to the purse and needs of the family. First. —The article should be worth the amount asked for it—that is, its Intrin- sie value should be such that, as prices Average, you are getting the full worth of your money. If it is an article for the table it should be in good condition to use and of good weight and mens- ure, Nothing is worth buying at all that Is half spoiled or that will not wear well in proportion to its cost. If for personal or housekeeping purposes, its quality should be the best to be ob- tained for the price. Second.—The article should supply a genuine need. The need may not be immediate, but it should be both pos- sible and probable. Many things can be purchased by watcbing the sales between seasons, when rather than keep them over the shopkeepers are willing to sell even below cost. But ‘only standard goods should be bought In this way. Many persons have a mania for buying everything they see that Is cheap, and then perhaps they never use it. Food, clothing and house- hold articles are often accumulated without regard to quantity, and then changing fashion makes them worth. less, this being especially so with or- namental things. Buy of such only ‘what you actualiy need. In purchasing for the table a list should be made out the’day before and looked over the next morning. In buying groceries a list is indispensable {f one would buy cheaply—have just enough and do not forget at the critical moment Just how much ts really re- quired. ‘And when one does not go to market every day, and few do, a few minutes spent in seeing how much is on hand that can be used and a short menu ‘of the meals othe next two or three days made ts time well spent, for in this way a lot of perishable stuff would not be ordered, but, say, # rosst, with possibilities of cold meat and rissoles ‘of stew, or some other piece of meat that can be utilized im several ways, and vegetables which will keep at least three days. One can easily learn to market for three and four days at a time, and thus one saves time and money. In buying a roast of beef in- sist that the bones cut off from your meat be given you, and get a couple of Knee joints of beef and oue of veal at the same time. These make the finest stock, ana from that hundreds of different things, all good and whole some, can be made, and If you go te buy them aione you have to pay much more than if you purchase! a large Joint besides. Often a butcher will throw in one or two knuckles where a leg of lamb or some other rather ex. pensive piece has been taken. It ts in quality, good Judgment and tn buying only what 14 needed, and that after reflection at home, that the Good housekeeper is kaown and in ‘which true economy consists. How to Pry Bacon Property. ‘There Is no more universally popu- lar breakfast dish than fried bacon, and many people can eat bacon that is properly cooked and daintily served ‘when nothing else will tempt them. ‘The great secret in cooking bacon is to have a clean frying pan, says the. New York Journal. No pan should be used longer than six months. At the end of that time it should be discard- ed and a new one bought. As pans are very cheap, this will not be hard to do. Before putting the pan on the ange see that the fire is clear and steady. Then put on the pan, and be- fore putting the bacon in let the pan get quite hot. Cut the bacon in thin Silces and turn it as soon as the euges begin to curl. If there is much liquid grease in the pan, pour it off, as the bacon will grow sodden if allowed to remain in it. Have the dish on which the bacon is to be served piping hot and garnished with a little parsley. ‘This will make a very tempting break fast dish. Sine tis Menke @iedinn Ghia teusatn. A preparation that will remove grease and stains from the hands is this, which should not be used if there are cuts, as it will burn intensely: Cut into’ small bits an ounce of any nice laundry soap and dissolve it in an ounce of fresh lemon juice. It may be necessary to warm the Juice to do this, in which case put the liquids in a small Dow! and set into a saucepan of boiling water until the soap is dissolved. Re- move from the heat and add one-half ounce of oll of bitter almonds, one-half ounce of glycerin and a quarter ounce of carbonate of potassium. Use aa you would soap, rubbing it first well into the hands before applying water. How to Preserve Green or Wax Beans, A good way for preserving green or ‘wax beans {s to soak the beans for a few hours in cold water or parboil them slightly, says Good Housskeep- ing. Cut them tn long, thin slices and Pack tn large jars with generous layers ‘of salt between the layers. When the Jar is full cover with a cloth and put ‘on a weighted plate to keep the beans in the brine. They should keep per- fectly until spring. ae ieee es eC eae ee | People who are ill or out of sorts or Fun down ought to have jams, honey, good candy and appetizing sweets of every description. Sugar ts @ nerve builder and .. muscle builder. Nervous people are never great eaters of sugar, and they would be stronger If they took more sweets, Those who take suffi- elent sweets into their composition are always hardy of nerve and strong of ‘muscle. How It Happened. “I suppose he clasped you in his arms ‘when the canoe upset?’ “No; quite the opposite.” “Quite the opposite ?* “Yes; the canoe upset when he clasp ed me in bis arms.” ‘Nothing multiplies so much as kind ‘ness.—Wray. BUSINESS SENSE. Reesini and Meverbeer. a a a WPeetal Money Orders Im Tithe. Special Aute Tire For Deserta. VIRGINIA. oe it a N. 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You ean send money in thie ees We cannot be responsible for money sunt lo a Saori eee ioe nen EG gey earner sod eee Wa som a Taemaah roto noone "n ae ee foes See Foetal Cardto discontinue it. The carte have Seep eee eee ree a ae eee eee ee Hott ire tmewann eee Se eee Cousens Whee ting a eee eee Be eee teeta eran eg eee ee imeem eee Fates est omen Daan Jesnbnsbate SATURDAY.....DEC. 16TH, 1906. Presitent Gordon well-nigh wreck ea Howard University before he would resign, but is a consoling fact that he decided to give the institu- tion a rest by seeking more congen- fal quarters The Board of Trustees whould stop experimenting and give the Institution a first-class presitent. ‘The colored citizens of Pensacola, Fla. are fighting the “Jim Crow” Btreet-car ordinance recently passed by the City Council in defiance of the recent decision of the Supreme Court vf Florida, Mr. L. B. Croom, colored, who violated the street-car ordinance for the purpose of testing the law Is represented by Attorneys 1. L. Purcell and George Parker. The case was argued before the Commissioner. ‘The Knights of Gideon have o- pened a bank in Norfolk, Va. and it will be known as the Gideon Sav- ings Bank. The Directors aro Messrs. J. J. Matnor, F. A. Nelson, J. 8. Wallace, E. J. Puryear, J. H. Cromwell, D. 8. Alston, F. BE. Pur- year, J. W. McKinnie, Charles 8. Carter, Benjamin R. Boulding and James Morris, We wish the new enterprise a Prosperous voyage and abundant access, Prestient Roosevelt has reduced the number of Justices of Peace of th District of Columbia from ten to six and Judge E. M. Hewlett ts e- among the four dropped. He ts one of the most aggressive colored law- yers in the city of Washiegton. Judge R. H. Terrell was among the lucky six and the astonishing part of the matter is that the United Btates Senate confirmed the five white men promptly and failed to confirmed the one colored one. ‘The colored citizens of Washing- toa have appoirted a committee to wait on the Senate committee and the indications are that strong pres- eure will be brought to bear in or- der to secure the confirmation of one of the most ppuinr colored men in this country. Wanted In Pottstown For Emperzting. New York, Deo, 12.—Max Schwartz, §2 years old who describes himself as a broker, of 242 Bast 50th street, ‘was arrested at Broadway and Spring street by detectives. The police say that Schwarts ts wanted in Potts. town, Pa, on a charge of embezzie ment. Sthwartz will be held to await the arrival of the Pennsylvania police. HARRIMAN THREAT TO RYAN GOMES OUT Declared He Would Use Political New York, Dec, 12. — Thomas F. Ryan appeared before the ineurance tavestigating committee and told what XH. Harriman did and threatened to 40 whee he demanded that Mr. Ryan concede to him a share in the control of the Rauitable Life Assurance Bo ciety last June. Mr. Ryan assured the commitice that he had meant no Gisrespect by his former refueal to Gieciose their convernations, and sald that he had determined to answer the question: to which he had refused re- piles om Friday last, because Distriet Attorney Jerome said he ought to fo v0. Mr. Ryan's version of what Mr. Har- Fiman demanded and what he threat ened to do upon the refusal of hie de mands, was {n substance as follows: ‘That Harriman demanded onehalt of the 602 shares of the stock of the Equitable Life Aasurance Society which Mr. Roan bad purchased from James H. Hy ie, amd which gave Mr. Ryan contro! of the property | ‘That Harriman threatened, untess Re was conceded thia share in the jeontrol of the nociety, to exert hia po- Ytleal and all other influences against Mr. Ryan and his project. That Harriman declared there prob: ably would be legislative action, and that in that event his influence would be tmportant. That Harriman demand. ed the right to name (wo of five tras. tees to vote the controlling stock tm the election of directors of the s0- ciety In reply to repeated questions by Charles E. Hughen. counsel for the committee, Mr. Ryan stated that Mr. Harriman did not threaten that there should be legislative action unless he was given a chore In the Rquitable control, but sald there probably would be such action. Neither did Mr. Har rimaff threaten eny action by an off cer of the government It was a strenuone Interview, Mr. Ryan said, and was held in the pree- ence of Eithu Root, then Mr. Ryan's counsel, now accretary of state, and Paul D. Cravath, also Mr. Ryan's counsel. Mr, Ryan told the committee that he drew the inference from it that Mr. Harriman did not want any: body to control the Equltable So- clety unless he bad a share in it. Mr. Ryan also stated that he paid no at tention to Mr. Harriman's statement that bis Infuence would be {mportant in the erent of Iegislative action and informed him that he wanted no part- ners in the enterprise. Afr. Harriman 414 not get the coveted share In the stock Mr. Ryan declares that this Inter Flew took place within a few days after he got control of the Hyde stock. United States Senator John F. Drv- den, of New Jersey, prealdent of tho Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, was om the witness stand wl the remainder of the day. He tes tiffed that bis company pald $26,000 to the Reprblican national campaten fund tm 1896, 1990 and 1904. It also patd $5000 to Andrew Hamilton, for merly the New York Life Inaurance company's legislative agent at Al- Dany. The senator wiso wald that he got ‘8 28 per cont. commission on some of the insurance in te Prudential ow his own life and 45 and $0 per cent. on first premiums and 7% per cent. on re- newals om other policios held by bim im the same company. Ho also re- ceived a commission on a policy he holds ta the Provident Life and Say- ings company. IMPORTANT MINE DECISION Part of Certificate Act Declared Un: constitutional. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 12—The ects fon in the Sualen case, handed down by the superior court, while It rus taing the mine certificate act, declares *noonstitutional that portion of {t which requires that am applicant for & certificate must have had two years experience im the anthracite mines of Penasyivania. The attorneys here for the operators claim that this is all that they really eontended for, and that the decision ta a eomplete vic- tory for them. Practically it means tha? a eoal miner from any state who can pass the examination {s entitled to a cer tifleate, New Trial For Twining. Philadelphia, Dec. 12.—The U. 8. Cireult Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Albert C. Twining, convicted of making false entries {n the reports and In the books of the Pirst National bank of Asbury Park, of which he was 8 director. Twining te now under sen- tence of six years in New Jersey. ‘When tried tm the U. 8. district court at Trenton Twining was charged with having, as a director, over-stated the amovat that was due the bank from loans and discounts, tncluding tn his achedule a promissory note said to have been worthless, Man Must Vote Where He Sleeps. Des Moines, Ia, Dec. 18.—The Iowa Supreme court decided that a man eannot vote where he eats, but must ote in the precinct where he sleeps. ‘The ruling was made in the case of Dr. L. Savre, of Osage, who was ac- quitted om a charge of illegal voting in the precinct where be took two meals a dey. The court reversed the acquittal, and Savre must stand trial for illegal voting. ‘Twe Boys Drowned While Skatinc. Wilkes-Rarre, Pa, Dec. 18. — Twe boys named James Biel, aged 10, and ‘William O'Netll, aged 14 years, of this city, were drowned tn Plerce's pond, om the west side of the Susquehanna river. O'Neill had been skating, and when the thin ice broke from under him his companion went to his rescue ‘and both lost their Mees. MISS ROOSEVELT ENGAGED President's Daughter Will Wed Con gressnian Longworth In the Spring. Washington, Dec. 18.—The engage ment of the president's eldest daugh- fer, Mies Alice Roosevelt, and Repre y AS Ue sentative Nicholas Longworth, of Cia- cinnati, hax been frequently reported, ‘en the strength merely of rumors In society circles at the national capital, and it bas been as frequently denied authoritatively. Now, however, matters stand some- what differently between the conple and society, for they have become en- aged. and the formal announcement will be made by Mra. Roosevelt within & few days at the White House, ‘The wedding day has not as yet deen actually set, but it has been de. termined wpom so far as that Miss Roosevelt's wedding bells shall be eet ringing very early in the spring— possibly before the winter is really ‘over. Mr. Longworth ts a representative in congress from the first Oto dis- trict and is m lawyer, = graduate of Harvard and a member of many elubs. Mr. Longworth is very wealthy. He {nkerited a fortane and {s closely Iden- tifled im business interests with Messsrs, Julins and Max Fleischmann, of Cincinnati. His family te socially prominent in Cincinwatl RUSSIAN STRIXE COLLAPSING But Revolutionists in Provinces Are Becoming Belder. St. Petersburg, Dec. 12—The tele Kraph lines with Moscow, Reval, teff, Kasan, Novgorod, Archangel and Narva are working. Many of the em: plovyes have resumed work, and It is belleved sat the atrike fe collapsing. ‘The malis have not arrived from the south owing to the railway strike. ‘The government apparently has re solved to resort to general coercion. ‘The scanty news reaching St. Pe tereburg is all to one effect. The bast Advices recetred from the Raltle prov: Inces reported the desecration of the churches, the murder of land owners and the pillaging of property. The revolutionaries are growing tm audacity. Im ene case they attacked Aetachment of troops and seized wagons, which they used In the fm: vasion of estates in the vicinity. They escaped on a narrow gauge railway after capturing @ train. It tx learned on high authority that the gorernment has finally decided against universal suffrage and practi: cally in favor of the old projeet of 21 workmen representatives and the ex- tension of the ballot to the amal! rent payers, merchaate and the educated cinases. However, the law must still pase the council of the empire and re ceive imperial approval. If the deciston fs upheld {t ts apt to end all question of the support of the semstvoiste, RUSSIAN REFUGEES ARRIVE Five Hundred Reach New York Or ‘Sienna New York, Dec. 18.—Five hundred Russian refugees, many of them eye witnesses of the massacre in Odessa and other Russian cities, disembarked here from the steamers Patricia and Chemnitz. Some of them told graphic and pitiful stories of their expert- ences. Jews who had themselves lain hidden tm Odessa houses while mobs searched for them, Russian workmen of the Christian faith, strikers from the railroads, a newspaper reporter, and Germans who had long lived in Russia, joined at Ellis Island !mmi- station station in declaring that they had been attacked irrespective of re- Ugion, that their assailants were led by police disguised in citizens cloth- ing, and that the massacres were not Tace persecution, but revolution. | While telling their stories the men sometimes burst into tears, for perhaps half of the entire number had left be hind them wives and children who were elther dead or defenseless in Russian cities. SRRah ia ies Lull eee A gine Lala an New York, Dec. 13.—George W. Per. king hanced In his resignation, both as vice president of the New York Life Insurance company and ga chairman of the finance committee of that corpor- ation. The report so long current in financial circles that Mr, Perkins would sever bis official eomasetion with the New York Life was con- firmed last night in oficial quarters. It ts not Mkely that Mr. Porkins will resign as & director of the company at this time. Turkey Has Yielded. Loudon, Dee. 12.—The correspondent of the Daily News at Constantinople says: “The sultan has yielded. He has accepted the scheme for the finan- etal control of Macedonia as ombodied in the last collective mote of the powers.” New Jersey Woman Must Hang. Hackensack, N. J., Dec. 13.—Antotn- ette Tolla, (he Italian woman who shot the man who tried to win her from her husband last March, was sentenced to be hanged on January 12 next. Mrs. Tolla, who has no chil- Gren, was in her home at Kingsland, when Joseph Sonta came there making Jove to her, and she shot him five ‘times with a revolver. eon ELANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA foceraae eaters ta> assume eae zD Murfreeebore, Tenn., rem MRS. ROGERS [SSP se oa cothe, ©, three rail xi = PUT 10 DEATH tm — | seunttomae, Win, we Vermont Murdercss Hanged For !nvene son, who beat Murder of Husband. | Waite despondent as Picea doaiocser ¢ . SHE MET HER FATE BRAVELY | ™'"t°¢, suicide by Windsor, Vt, Dec. %. — Without a tremor and without a word Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers marched to her death om the gallows at the state prison here and paid the penalty of murdering her husband, Mare 9 Rogers, at Benning- ton en August i4, 1902. To all appear- ances Mrs. Rogers was the calmest per son in the chamber of death. She faced her end with the same stoleal Indiffer- ence that had marked her demeanor ‘ever since her arrest, more than three years ago, Governor Bell firmly refused te interfere with the sentence. ‘There were no sensational incidents im eonnection with the banging. Although the woman was net off- elally pronounced dead until 14 minutes and 3@ seconds after the trap wes sprung, she evidently suffered mo pala. Her neck was broken at the second cervical vertebrae and she lost con- sciousness instantly the drop fell. A few feeble convulsive movements of her pinioned hands were the only evt- dence that vitallty bad survived the first shock Since the death watch was estab Mebed Mrs, Rogers bad eaten heartily, and she has slept soundly. Mr. and Mrs, M. H. Loukeg of the prison staff, com- prised the death watch, eating and Sleeping in the same room with the condemned woman. Margaret, the lit tle child of the Lonkes, was a frequent visttor tn the cell, and her childish talk evidently eased many weary houre Gur. ing Mrs. Rogers’ last days and helped her to keep her mind off her own fate During the last few days Mrs, Rogers spent a great deal of time in crocheting tokens for relatives and friends. When the guards went t Mra, Ror- ers’ cell to escort her to the death chamber they found her receiving spir. itual consolation from Father Delaney her confessor, who the day before had administered the sacrament of Holy Communion to her. Down three fights of stairs from Mrs. Rogers’ cell the procession wended its way. Holding her head high. Mrs. Rogers never fal- tered for an Instant as her eyes reated ‘on the scaffold. Unaided she mounted [the steps, walked onto the trap and then neated herself im a chair, A mo- ment inter she arose, baving declined an offer by the authorities to make s ‘geek CREW OF LIGHTSHIP SAVED Left Vessel In Lifebeat Shortly Before It Went te the Bottem. | New Bedford, Mase, Lee. 18—Per. sistent baling by hand for 34 boars and wireless telegraphy that broug*t help at last, saved the lives of the 12 men on board the Nantueket South Shoal relief lightehiy, No, 60, but the vessel went dows a few minutes after the crew Lad tumbied over the aide into thelr feboat. For six hours Monday the lght house tender Azalea, which had an- Swored the call for help, lay along side the waterlogged lightehip, un. [able to render assistance, owing to the fearful wea. At length the woather moderated, and then an effort was made to tow the lightahip to New Bed. ford. But after 18 miles hed been eov. ered, the water, which had been eom- ing im steadily through a leak tm the fireroom compartment alxce early on Sunday morning, begam to gain on the already exhausted crew, and the dis tress signal was hoisted. Without stopping for any of their belongings, the crew launched thelr boat and jumped into it They bad rowed only a short distance when the Ughtahip plunged beneath the waves ‘The men wore taken om board the Azalea, which had eteamed back to Fescue them, and every one w. Drought here safe and sound. Farm Hand Heir to $14,000,000, Chicaxo, ec. 12.—George Becher, a young Bavarian living on a farm south of Hammon, Ind., has been notified by the American consul at Munich that he is ove of four heirs to an estate in Bavaria wail to amount to $14,000,000. ‘The estate was lett by the brother of Ae grandmsther and there are 0 heire in Burepe. Recher is a farm hand and bas been in America thr 3 years He said be had papers proviag hia relationship & WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Tiesiin Maseabies % William HM. Thompson, president of the National Bank of Commerce, died $m St. Louis of pneumonia. He was bora in Huntington, Pa, im 1838. He was treasurer of the Louisiana Purchase ‘Exposition. By the explosion of a cartridge ma- chine in the Austin Cartridge com- paoy’s mill at Chagrin Falls, 0., two boys were severely injured. The build- ing was wrocked. King Edward has appointed Sir Ar thur Nicholson, the retiring ambasse- dor at Madrid, as the British represen- tative to the international conference on Moroccan reforms, which is to be held at Algeciras, Spain, Friday, December 8. ‘The “sound” record of a phonograph wes used tn evidence tn a “noise” dam- ge wult against the Boston Elevated railroad. ‘William McSwatm and Wilbur Cole pleaded guilty in Chicago of conspiracy to extort money from Armour & Co. and were sent to jail for $0 days. Harry Reynoids, 18 years old, made & new record of 11 minutes 31 1-5 see onda for adding 600 checks on the ma ehine before the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks. Mra. Floreace L Stillwell, wite of the presideat of the Riverside Mill & Coa! company, of Bogota, N. J.. com- mitted suicide by swallowing earbolie acié in a private sanitarium at Stroudsburg, Pa, Saturday, December 9. Captain Carter B. Harrison, brother of the late President Harrison, died at “Murfreesbore. Tian. aged 65 years. Ima rearend freight collision on the B. & ©. Southwestern, near Chillt- cotbe, ©, three raiiroad mem were killed. ‘Mra. Mary Kunz, aged 70 years. of Manitowoc, Wis., was murdered by her tnrane son, who beat her to death with 8 fintiron, While despondent. Efward L. Kra. mer, a jeweler, of Cortis!», Pa. com- mitted suicide by shooting himself through the head, Monday, December 11. Yale University has received $75,000 from two anonymous donors who have at no time been connected with the in- stitution. ‘Two offcers were shot In Brooklyn in arunning street fight with a robber, James Murpiy, who was caught hoid- ing up a 17-year-old boy. Stabbed by her lover, William Wil- ams, whom she had brought to court for cruelty, Elsie Parker, colored, fell dead inside the court room im New York. ‘The Baroness yon Zedwitz denice that she has eny intention of re-onter- ing the Cathoile feith, her visit to Rt Rev. John L. Spaiding at Peoria, Ht.. being purely a social one. Tuesday, December 12. Jim Green, a negro, was lynched at Beryl. Mies. by members of bis own race for essauiting a negro girl. Captain Samuel 8. Brown, multt- millionaire coal operator. died at bis home in Pittsburg of stomach troubles. Henry R. Sloat, assistant secretary and treasurer of the Tennessee Coal & Iron company, was found dead in bed at his home at Sloatsburg, N. Y. John and James Fisher, aged 9 and 14 years, were arrested at Wilkes Rarre, Pa, for making several at. tempts to wreck Lehigh Valley rail road trains Henry €. Huntington, a prominen‘ business man and capitalist of San. dusky, O.. dropped dead at the ticket window of the Lake Shore depot ef heart disense, Wetncsday, December 13. | Henry Holmes, formerly musical te structor to Queen Alexandra, of Eng- land. died In San Francisco. Louis Popkin, a Kansas City, Mo. Jewelry salesman, was robbed of $110¢ im carh in a New York lodging house while asleep. | Rev Patrick Cronin .managing edi- tor of the Catholic Union and Times. of Buffalo, was found dead in bed from heart disease The Weetern Federation of Miners is considering raising a fund of $1, 000,000 to undertake mining busineas or a cooperative basis, ©. S. Jones, a megro railway, mail qlevk pleaded gullty at Harrjburg Pa. of robbing the mails and Was sen- enced to one year’s imprisonment. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices in the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm: winter ‘extras, $5@ 3.26; Pennsylvania roller, clear. #80u@3.t0) “ity” mulls, fancy, $4.9066. RYE FLOUR ateauy: per barrel, $3.80. WHBAT steady; No. 2 Peausylvania red, new, 850 85ige. CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local, 50ipe. OATS steady; No. 2 white, clipped, 38%; lower grates, ae. HAS. Brin: No. 1” umothy, $15.60. PORK steady: family, $17. BEEF firm; beet hams, $23@24. POULTRY: Live firm; hens, 12 @ (l2ge.; Old roosters, bie. g #6 Dressed firi; choice fowls, 13igc.; old roosters, ‘diye. BUTTER steady: greamery, ic “EGGS steady; New York aid Pennsylvania. s1@42¢ Fer dozen. POTATOES steady; 10@ bc. per bushel. BALTIMORE—WHEAT firm; No. 2 spot, S4icc.: steamer No. 2 spot, T9%4c : southern, 73c. CORN firm; mixed spe, S0%e.; steamer mixed, 47c. OATS steady; white, No. 2, a6@30igc.; No. BOR e NS en oH mixed, No 2, 34@34%c.;'No. 3. 334 gine: No 4. pine ate buriee rm; creatwery’ separator, extras, 25 G2sipc.: held. 236. prints, 2544G dee; faryfand and Ponnsylvania, dairy nis, 20G7ic, EGGS arm: fancy jaryiand and Pennsylvania, 29c.; Vir. ginla. 20e;, West Virginia, 2a@.2¥e.; southern, 26@a7c.; Onlo, rhe. i teas eae PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow: choice. $5.25¢° 6.50; prime. So@ea0. HOGS lower: ‘prima getoo ugh "Yorkers" and” pigs See Et?‘ roughe, $egae). SHRED gent ine wethers, $560@6.75; common, Beis lambs, $5457.85; veal calves, 8.60 per 106 pounds. Big Pension Her Christmas Gift. Marshallton, Del, Dec. 11. — Mrs -Aramtnia Vaughan, an aged colored “woman, is overjoyed at receiving word from Washington that she ts to re ceive Christinas present im the shape of $1000 back pay and $8 @ month pen- “sion because of the services of her hus- band a « Civil War veteran. , PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS Part of List Sent to the Senate Fe: Confirmation. ‘Washington, Dec. 12—The president sent the following nominations to the senate: Deputy auditor for the treasury de partment—8. John Abbott, Delaware. United States attorney—Samuel J M. McCarroll, middle district of Pean aylvania, Commissioners of Immigration — Louis T. Wels, port of Baltimore, M4.; Jobn J. 8. Rogers, port of Philadelphia POSTMASTERS. Pennsylvania — Perry A. Sanbora, Northeast; W. 8. Schlichter, Sellers ville; Henry L. Johnston, Laceyvilie; C. W. Betts, New Hope; William & ‘Wate, Saegerstown; H. 8S. Murphy Crafton. New Jerssy—Wilson D. Gill, Panis boro; William M. Bergen, Belmar; Nathan W. C. Hays, Burlington. Virginia—Lula C. Hoge, Blacksburg; E. W. Brittle, Wakefield. Poker Players Fined $1400, Greeasboro, N. C., Dec. 13.— Fines agcregating $1400 were tmposed on four prominent young men here by Judge Ward in the superior court for ‘violating the gambling laws. Julius W. Cone, secretary and treasurer of the White Oak and Proximity Mille, and Bis brother, Solomon Cone, president of the American Cotton company here, Were fined $500 each, and Sydney J. Kaufman and W. L. Diftey $200 each ‘The young men were recently arrested for playing poker, and the policeman who mad> the arrests climbed @ tele. phone pole to gain an unobstructed view of their room. LIGHT PUNISHMENT FOR ia: REWETHER | Washington, bee. 13,—Comfinement Lie bowls ci \ © wavai academy for the period or che year cud a public Jtoprincnd by t.c sccretary of the havy, Is the senience of the court ie the case of Midshipman Minor Mert wether, Jr. teied by court martial at Annapolis on the charges of mam slaugater, violation of the third clause of the eighth article for the govern ment of the navy, and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, all three charges arising from a fist fight between the accused and Mid sbipman James R. Branch, Jr., on No Yember 5 inst. Two days later Mid shipman Branch died. The accused man was acquitted of the first charge and found guilty of the second and third. Secretary Bonaparte approved the findings and ordered that the sen tence be approved, but that “so much of the penalty as might debar the ac cused {rem service on any practice ship attached to the academy be re mitted.” Secretary Bonaparte says there fs perhaps rogm for some doubt whether the punishment imposed might no! have been made more justly severe. In his review of the case the sec retary says; “Under the first charge there was but one specification, of which the material portion alleged that the accused at a time and place spect. fied, ‘dif then and there with bis fists, upen the body and head of the aforesaid James R. Branch, Jr.. un lawfully and willfully strike a number of blows, from the effects of which blows the said James R. Branch, Jr. éied, and the said Minor Meriwether Jr, in the manner and by the means aforesaid. did kill and slay the sald James R. Branch, Jr." The court found this specification ‘not proved’ and the accused ‘not guilty’ of the first charge and acquitted him thereof. “The department approves the find ing and this acquittal. The autopsy @isclosed certain facts which might justify a reasonable doubt whether the death was In fact due to blows in filcted by the accused, there being a least « possibility that it resulted from a fall of which several occurred during the fist Might in which these blows were dealt.” Of the second an third charges, of both of which the accused was found guilty, the secretary says there was Practically ne dispute of the facts and that the department has no hesitancy jt approving the several findings Sek qunet Aaslhe abadia waetiemal Verdict Pleases Meriwether, Annapolis, Md., Dee. 13.—Mtdehtp man Minor Meriwether Jr, apeaking of the verdict, salt: “Iam more than happy that the court martis! has de clarod I am not guilty of causing the death of Midshipman Branch. I do not feel that my sentence fe unjust. and I intend to spend my time In hard work. so that | may make a record tn the navy which wil! canse people to forget my part in this sad affair.” LIQUOR LICENSE FEE RAISED Hotel Men in Cape May County, N. J. Must Now Pay $200. Cape May, N. J., Dec. 12.—Justice Swayre in court raised the liquor It cense fee from $100 to $200, and an: nounced that all those persons who were convicted of Sunday liquor sell: ing at the September court would be refused @ license if applying within a year. This will affect about 50 hotel men among the Cape May county coast resorts, excepting Cape May proper, Justice Swayze granted a rule re turnable January 9 for Atlantic City officials to show cause why there should not be an investigation into their action tn municipal affairs. Schooner Wrecked; 28 Lost. Victoria, B. C., Dec. 18.—The bow of @ schooner with the letter “F" eut in the wood and other wreckage, be Meved to be from the sealing schooner Fawn, has been washed ashore on the west const of Vancouver Island, The Fawn was last reported on October 4, and wes given up as lost some time ago. She carried besides Captain Oblson and his crew of six white men, 21 Indian seal hunters. All on board were lost. Captain Ohlson’s flance was in Roston awaiting the return of the Fawn to Victoria, when they were to have been married. Spier ates Reveiek: Faston, Pa. Dec. 12—Albert 8. Rute, who has been a letter carrier tn Baston for more than 25 years, has been arrested on a warrant Issued by U. 8 Commisstoner W. W. Craig, of Philadelphia, on complatut of Moses ©. Duryes. x postofice inspector, who Accuses Rute of having stolen @ ebeck for $9.71 sent by mall to a local busi- nees house. Rute has given bail for & hearing. Gev. Warfleld’s Wife In Runewev. Annapolis, Md., Dec. 12.—The wives of Governor Warfield and Secretary of State Tilghman, of Maryland, had a Rarrow escape from death in a run- away agident. The horses could not be stopped, and the negro coachmen took the chance of driving them into & telegraph pole. All escaped without Sorfous Injury, though the carriage was broken to plecen Hew to Get Rid of Fttes, To kill fies bent the yolk of an egg with a tablespoonful of molasses and black pepper finely ground. Set it about in shallow places where the files will be attracted, says the New York World. ‘They can walk on, but not off. A sweetened infusion of one dram of quassia in « gill of water, with one- half gill of molasses, put in a glass and a pasteboard with a hole in it over the glass (care being taken to put a rim of molasses on the under side of the pasteboard) will also prove a catch all for fies. STRIKES AT REBATE EVItC U. 8. Attorney In Philadelphia to in diet Raliread Omiciais. Philadelphia, Dec. 12.—A bomb was Inunched fm railroad circles whee United States District Attorney Thompson was granted permission by Judge Helland to presont billa of ia- dictment im discrimination eases Seainat railroads with headquarters tm his jurisdiction. The charge Is giving rebates In his petition the district attorney etated that he had summoned 12 witnesses [who are prepared to teatify that they have recetved such favore from the railroads | It Is understood to be Mr. Thomp- son's intention te indict the agents of ‘all ratiroads and that the federal grand fury will conduet @ sweeping investl- gation | The minimum penalty ts $1,000 for each offence and the maximum §$20,- 000 | ‘The taking of testimony will begin tomorrow at the secret seesion of the grand jury. The district attorney re fuses to give out the names of wit- nesses and defendants uotll the mat- ter has been placed before the fury, but it t= sald the bills include the names of agents of certain railroads ‘outside of Pensylvania. Those whe testify before the grand jury will be immune from imprisonment. BIX CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH Perished In Fire Which Destroyed Their Home. Dubois, Pa, Dec. 13.—Stx children were burned to death at Lindsey, near Punreutawney, and William Morgan and wife, the parents, with thelr two remaining children, barely escaped with their lives, ‘The names of those burned to death are: Thomas, aged 11; Pearl, aged 6; Grace and Ethel, aged 3; Rachel, aged 18 months, and an infant, $ months old. Both the father and mother were badly burned tm attempts to save thelr Uttle ones from their burning home. ‘The mother threw two of the ehil- dren from an upstairs window, there- by saving their lives, and jumped her- self as the roof fell in. She was badly burned and will probably lose one foot as a result of her injuries. The father is also badly burned about the hands and face, but not seriously. The fire was discovered by a neighbor, who hastened to the burning house and aroused the sleeping inmates. At that time the whole roof and rear of the house were burning. The fre origt- nated from a stove im « small out- building adjoining the home of the family. GAVE HER LIFE FOR CHILDREN Mother and Five Little Ones Burned f to Death in New Yor, | New York, Dec. 12—A mother and her five children were burned to death in a fire in a fivestory apartment house at Columbus avenue and 100th street. Two others were injured and & score oF more tenants were thrown tnto a panic, some of them eut of from escape and several reseued by polfee and firemen. The doad include Mrs. John Thoma- som, the mother; her J-yearold twins and her three other children ranging from 7 months to ® years of age. Mrs. Thomason lost her Mfe im an endeavor to save her children. «ter body was found in her rooms wit! her little ones, their bodies badly burned, lying about her. Mother and children were cut off from escape by the latch of the door leading inte the hall being caught eile ‘aes: Since “Wliienind Seeks | When you feel fagged, try the harm- Jess stimulant of hot milk, anys Mc- Call's Magazine. Heat the milk till a akin begins to wrinkle on the top of Mt and then Grink {t in alps. You'll find it wonderfully refreshing when You are feeling “fagged out,” and it will do you more good than the best beet tea, for hot milk is most nourish- ing and stimulating, whereas beef tea is only the former. mew aa igane eee Emergenctes. _A little court plaster, both black and white, may be fouad most useful, not only in case of a bad scratch or cut, but the black will mend a rent im gown or sult so that It 1s almost un- noticeable, = . Queen Lil Wants $10,000,000, Washingtou, Dee. 18. — A petition from ex-Queen Lillonkalan!, asking for the payment of $10,000,000 to her, was Presented to the sonate by Vico Presi- dent Fairbanks. The petition was ac- companied by an autograph letter re questing early and favorable consid- ‘eration. Sitar 65 Siaiee Geek Mites te *0 make a ginger mousse, half a cupful of sugar is first boiled with a fourth of a cupful of water until it Teaches the thread stage. Whip the whites of two eggs very stiff and pour the sirup on them, whipping until the two are thoroughly mixed. 4 cupful of whipped cream {s folded {nto this mixture and a cupfal of preserved winger chopped very fine is mixed in at the last moment. Place in a mold, seal carefully and pack in ce and salt for several hours. The sirup in which the ginger was preserved makes &n excellent sauce for this mousse, Slow te Impreve Shabby Leather. | For improving shabby leather chairs take @ pint of Iinseed oil, boll it and Jet It stand till nearly cold. ‘Then stir in aif a pint of vinegar, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Stir till thorough- ly mixed, then bottle for use. When Fequired shake the bottle woll, pour a Yery little on a soft flannel cloth, rub thoroughly Into the leather, turning the flannel es it gets dirty. Then rub with a soft duster till the polish of the leather is restored. Now to Save Carpets. A balf worn carpet may be made to last longer by ripping it apart and transposing the widths so that the most worn parts will come under a plece of furniture and therefore be saved the wear and tear which they bave borne hitherto. xe he an PN ne SUR Le AD Yass NY’ * Ne SATURDAY, - DEC, 16TH 1905 ‘CARE OF THE HAIR. ‘Wilt Save It. Hair generally begins to turn gray first on the temples. In most people gray hairs show themselves at about forty years of age, but there are wide Yeriations in time. The immediate cause of gry hairs is in the fatlure of the cells at the growing point to manufacture the pigment necessary to give the color to the hair, says the Queen. When this change takes place at midlife it marks a gradual lowering ‘of the vitality of the skin and, to some extent, of course, a decadence of gen- eral vitality. In estimating, however, the Immediate cause of baldness and of gray hair a very important factor must always be taken into account— Bamely, heredity. The first rule for the cars of the hatr fs to wash it. This should be done about once a week with lukewarm wa- ter and castile soap. Another Important rule Is to comb and brush the hair three or four times @ day, thus bringing more blood to the roots of the hair, more nutritive ma- terial, and carrying away the dead waste. Brushing brings more blood to the scalp, and to this extent tends to Promote the growth and vigor of the hair. Massage of the scalp has the same effect, and this must be prac- tleed also if one would care properly for the hair. ; Curling of hair ts exceedingly doubt- ful. The heat kills the hair and dead hair tends to fall out. If you must curl the hair use soft siik rage with which to do It, Sheet lead and hard Paper are almost as bad as the curling tongs. A word of advice to men: Don't wear tight fitting heary hais or caps. ‘These Impede the free circulation of blood to the scalp and, an a result, the hair Is not properly nourished, nor Is the dead waste curried away. The growing root is suffocated through the lack of oxygen and in the end the hair ies and falls out. Biew te Make Scans. ‘Toflet soaps are, at least ought to be, Prepared from a superior quality of fat or oil. ‘They are usually made en @ large scale by the cooked process, which may be imitated on a small scale ‘as follows: Boll together ina large Yessel one pound caustic ppl ors monly called potash) with twenty times its weight of clean fat (beef or lamb belog excellent for this purpose) for some hours until a thick mass Is formed which will draw out in threads. By adding one-half cup common aalt the soap separates, rising to the top. Let tt remain yntil cold, when the soap fs easily removed. It ts atill further improved and purified by remelting ‘with a little water, an attractive white @oap resulting. Pertuming may be ac- complished at the melting stage by the ‘addition of a few drops of essential oll. OU of mirbane (which is artifctal almond ofl) 1s the cheapest, but the Perfumes of real almond oll, cltronella, ‘cloves or lavender are more agreeable. If color is desired a small bit of potas. sium bichromate dissolved In the lye Will provide a green color. Brown may be obtalued by dissolving a little burnt sugar and adding it to the fat before mixing. Riera tis Wack Ailiemaeaies: @iiniians: A bit of olf crape is the very best thing for dusting one's gowns, says the St. Louls Post-Dispatch. ‘The or- inary brush used for the purpose ts death and destruction to silk passe- menterie or any of the soft materials in use nowadays. Flick every par- ticle of dust off with the crape, the corrugated surface of which will make the task an easy one, and then, if there 4s @ good deal of beading used In the trimming, lay between sheets of tissuc Paper, where nothing will rub against it, for passementerie with some of the bonds missing or with the gloss gone ia the most distressing spectacle {mag- fnable. If a brush must be used get a soft camel's hair one and use {t with & light, quick motion as sparingly as Possible, Stans: nici wee? “Some old fellow over at Fort Bill who has been tn this section of the country for a good many years ouce dreamed that there was an Indien massacre on the summit of Signal mountain, He afterward began te tell that dream, and at length told the sto ry for the truth. That dream has gone down ta history as an actual fact. ‘There never was a massacre on this mountain, nor even a battle of any sort. In early days, after the estabinch. ment of Fort Sill, the soldiers had a signa! station there, built the house that ls now crumbling in ruins and Possibly observed the maneuvers of many Comanches.”—Lawton News. Republican, A Natural Inference. Str-year-old Fanny, just returned from Sunday school, seemed to have something on ber mind. “Mother,” she said after awhile, “they must have bad very large beds in Bible times.” “Why? asked her mother. “Weil, our teacher told us today that Abraham slept with his four fathers.” Harper's Weekly. ‘iat Wieten. Nothing is better to take on risirg than a cupful of hot water. One bot @riak on an empty stomach clears the system for the day, and for many per- sons a tablespoonful of lemon juice tn- ereases the efficacy. Taken on going to bed without lemon, it will help to induee sleep. Both night and morning At has the effect of helping to clear the ‘complexion, BLUFFED BY BEN BUTLER. Made General Bingham Believe ie Thee General Jobn A. Bingham was a member of the military tribunal that tried Mrs. Surratt and the Lincola as- Saesination conspirators. After the trial in the subsequent de- bates in the house General B. F. But- ‘ler frequently charged that the cem- mission had arrived at an unjust ver- @et and bad convicted am innocent woman. In a memorable debate he boldly proclaimed that {f the contents of a diary-which had been found om ‘the dead body of J. Wilkes Booth were “ever made pubile tt would disclose the ‘fact that tt contained the proof of Mrs, Surratt’s Innocence, which preof had been infamously suppressed by the commission. When General Bingham made a movement as though be would repel such an accusation, Butler dre- matically drew a memorandum book from his breast pocket and held it aloft, but did not utter a word. Bing- ham naturally supposed that Butler had a copy of a @iary such as he had spoken of. As a matter of fact the book contained nothing but blank leaves. General Butler was just bluff ing. ‘The diary was in possession of Sec- retary Stanton, but President Johnson finally demanded it. It was an inter- esting book, but tt threw no light upon the great conspiracy. Jobnson’s pri- vate secretary was W. W. Warden, who was the correspondent of the Bal- timore Bun, and beskies wes in the em- ploy of the New York Tribune bureau to supply it with all the infermation he consistently could. To him Andrew Johnson intimated that he would not be averse to the publication of Booth's diary and permitted him to make a copy of it Warden took It after midnight te James Rankin Young, the Washington correspondent of the Tribune, and the next morning the Tribune and the Bal- timore Sun had a big beat. Sam Bowles of the Springfield Republican reproached his correspondent for fail Ing to get a copy “Ygell.” said the correspondent, “Iam not Wie sim Young. Thave « home to £0 to; and don't have to prow! around till daylight." Nobody enjoyed this re- tort as much as James Raukin Young. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. No one likes a man who is everiast. ingly saying “Beg pardon.” ‘The man who talks too much, as a rule, does not talk epough at the right time. ‘Two heads are better than one, but one of thew nearly always does the business. Most men have the same expert ences. The only difference is that some men talk and some don't. When you are working very hard take some comfort in this: Those whe are idle don't seem to be having « very weed time. We suppose newspapers do annoy their readers a good deal. Still news- paper men, as a rule, do the best they ean, It te an annoying business. ‘The word “homemaker” is working overtime when applied to any rich woman who keeps several servants. ‘The real “homemakers” work overtime by not keeping any.—Atchison Globe. Sic Dacdiemectns Sedo.” || The elephant’s howdah Is that bed of Procrustes in which one can nelther -sit nor stand with any approach to Feasonable ease, and in which a re- cumbent attitude Is imponsible. Its ad- vantages are, first, that, standing In it, & mau can shoot on every side of him; second, that it Is convenient for the carriage of the occupant’s parapher- halla, ble guns on racks on elther side, his ammunition in a trough In front, Lis other requisites in leather pockets here and there on the sides of the ma- chine or, as to that, bee blanket on his seat, and, third, that in the binder com- partment an attendant can sit or stand to hold that monstrous umbrella over his head or, when quick loading !s re- quired, take from his hand the gun Just fired and recharge It. Those are advantages; otherwise the howdah is an abomination. —Blackwood's Mag- azine, Fawin Booth as a Smoker, Without @ cigar Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was scarcely ever seen. Even while engaged ou bis professional Guties Lis beloved weed was present in the wings, ready to be snatched from his dresser’s hand for enjoyment dur. ing the sometimes exceedingly brief in- tervals between the exits and en- trances, ‘Twenty-five cigars 2 day were at one time his usual allowance, an al- lowanee, however, not infrequently ex- ceeded. ‘The Nations Simchkesses. Americans get their correct time from 4 little room in the naval observatory, located on Georgetown heights, in the ‘suburbs of Washington. The obserra- tory was originally intended to detect errors in ship chronometers and to ‘Feguiate them properly. This work coustitutes one department at the in- stitution, but perhaps its most tm- Portaut function is that of being the nation’s timekeeper. ‘The Captain's Place. “What do you mean by writing ‘Among the prettiest girls at the dance was Captain Andrews? ‘The captain {sa man.” “Yes, but he spent most of his time among the prettiest girls there.”— Philadelphia Telegraph. Broken Vows. “You promised, madam, to obey me when we married, and you've never done tt.” “Hub! You endowed me, sir, with all your worldly goods, and you never had any.”"—Baltimore American. Subendiir Gite Fry half « dozen slices ent from a Pound piece of salt pork, and when crisp take them up, Add to the kettle four medium sized parsnips and eight common sized potatoes sliced. Put the Vegetables in alternate layers, dusting each with salt and pepper. Pour in boiling water to cover and when the Vegetables re done serve. If pre ferred, add the pork cut in dice just ‘badens the ctow te Aces. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICKMOND, VIRGINIA. Se geeecccccsscccosccccces e es = PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAP, © 2 @ SYDMOR & HUNDLEY, 09-1113 E. Broad Street gy * Richmond, Va., have the larg- $ > & est and choicest selection of FURNITURE & e & in the South. Prices are moderate. ° e 2S ss « Druggets, Curtains, &c., in . : . Abundant Variety. * e @ BRIDAL OUTFITS A SPECIALTY. © . e 2 8 ® @ WSFor HOLIDAY and NEW YEARS GIFTS & Pod @ many very attractive FURNITURE specialties have g & @ been provided for you to select from. e e SSS SHS see eegessees ses o * Great Xmas Sale! At Crigh t Crighton. A CARNIVAL OF BARGAINS Commencing Monday at 8:30 A. M. Don’t miss this oppor tunity of buying MILLINERY at half and less than half price. Read carefully every item and come to this great brrgain Sal. Infants’ Silk Caps that sold for] French Fur Beavers, black and 38c & 45¢ will make a nico Xmas}colors. Sold for $1.98. Sale price sift. Go in sale for 28¢ etch. Be each. A great bargain. Childrens Cloth Tams, Gc ones in} Ready to wear ‘hats that have this lot, all colors. Go at 25e each| been selling for $1.75, $1.98 and Come see these. $2.48 for 98c. All of our fe grade Infants Silk] Why not a plece of Fur for a Caps, @ few Bonnets in this lot, sold]Xmas gift? A sample lot in this up to 98c. In this sale 48. sale. A great bargain price. Hundreds of untrimmei shapes,! ‘Trimmed Hats; somo trimmed all colore and black, sold for $1.25]with plumes and’ tips other se 32.48 aml $1.76 for SOc. Too many| wings and breasts, ‘Bold up to $a that’s why so cheap. Don't miss) For $2.60. Come get first pick. this great bargain. Breasts, wings, birds etc. Sold Another lot of untrimmed hats. : | You will find 98c hats In this assort-[ UP tO 98c. All colors and black 7 ee ee Black Ostrich Tips and Short Childrens Felt Satiors and Conti-]/!umes in this eame lot 25e. | nentals with silk streamers or pom- Pons, These sold for $1.¢2 and $e] Fine Black Ostrich Plumes. Some white and colors. Go at O8c...A{in the lot wold for $2.25. Go in useful gift. sale at $1.00. Silk and Silk Velvet Turbaas; ati] Don’t forget wale starts Monday, olor. Former price, $1.98, $2.48 & 8:30 A. M. Every one knows our $2.98. As long as this seison lasts record, “Giving just what we adver- fn sale at $1.50 Feise.”” 50 The People’s Store for | 0 5 MILLINERY. 113 E. BROAD STREET. - - RICHMOND, VA. SNAKE DIVINITIES. GVantastic Ferme eof ‘Wemhip on Southwent Count of India. of snake divinities, which ouce spread al over Asia, stil! maintaly a tena- clous hold on the little native states of Cochin aud ‘Travancore, ov the south- West toast of India. Here Hindoes ‘bigh and low revere the cobra as they did a thousand years ago, and tt is eon- sidered a helnous crime to injure the reptlle or neglect itn interests In the district of Travancore alone there are between 15,000 aad 20,000 shrines dedicated exclusively to the worship of snakes which pissess ex- tensive and valuable properties for thelr maintenance and for the cost of the ceremonies which the keepers have to perform from time to time. In these shrines the Hindoos set down fantastic idols of serpents on a stone base, and the shrine Is proteted by a mud wall. Householders to assure their welfare should make offerings of dough, milk and cooked rice to the ser- Pertiue habitues of the slrine and plece lights and chant hymns in order to be assured of thelr favor. Every morning the king and queen of the serpents are bathed, and frait and milk are offered to them, to be followed at noon by cooked rice and fred grain. On certain days the idols In grove and household temple are carrie! in. pro- cession to the house, where propttia tary offerings are made. ‘The presiding functionary must be the eldest female member of the family, who has to prac- tice celibacy froin the day she attains the position. Al famous snake festivals at Travan- core pious folk gather from all parts to Join in che worship, bringing offer- ings of gold, silver, grain, pepper, spices, oil, sandalwood, silk and other things, ‘The cost of the festivals Is de- frayed by the revenues of the paddy fields and gardens attached to. the shrines. It is believed that unless the ceremonies ure conducted with rever ence the largest cobras of the grove will come out and show themselves to the members of the house. The na- tives also believe that saake bites in the neighborhood of these shrines nev- er prove fatal. Be that as it may, deaths from snake bites are very rare. though many groves contain as many as thirty cobras and the shrines in Tra- vancore number between fifteen and twenty thousand. ‘The snakes of India are rarely ag- Bressive, but generally keep to them- selves, and, being so kindly treated and benevolently attended, it is not aston- ishing that they become docile and darmless. All over Travancore the peo- ple when they see a snake approaching say, “The god ts coming.” and make ‘way for the divinity. Children play fearlessly about the groves while their serpentine friends are gliding about or basking in the sun and bave never been known to be harmed. When the groves become overrun with serpents the sur- plus popalation is removed and sent to other shrines, certain plous Brahman being especially applied to for this pur | pose—New York Herald. VIRGINIA: In the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond Dec. 6th, 1905. Robert Segar, Plaintift vs Cynthia Segar, Defendant. IN CHANCERY. | ‘The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vincull Matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. Cynthia Segar, and an amMdavit hav- jing been made and Sled that the de- fendant isa non-resident of the State of Virginia, {t is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what Is necessary to protect her interest herein. A Copy Teste: P. P. Winston, Clerk. J. Henry Crutchfield, pq. ‘To Cynthia Segar: You will take notice that I shall on the 18th day of January 1906, at the office of Phil. B. Shields, room No. 60, Chamber of Commerce Bulld ing situated on Southwest corner /9th and Main streets, in the City of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o° clock P . M. of that day proceed to take the depositions of Witnesses to be read asvevidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending ‘in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, wherein | You are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if from any cause the taking of jthe said depositions be sot com- menced on that day, or, if com- menced be not concluded on that day ‘the taking of the same will be ad- journed and continued from day to ‘a or from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until same shall have been completed. Respectfully, Robert Segar, By Counsel. J. Henry Crutchfield, pq. Office 1211% EE. Broad 8t., Rich- mond, Va. SEL 5. Seek Old Yacht Clsb, Wilt Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. Silly Questions. “Is false eyes always made av glass, I dunno?” “Ay course they are, ye fool. How else cud a man see through (nem?*— Cleveiand Lead r. Sedge tansannes ame THE ° 2 ‘zs GREAT CUT PRICE SALE! « : ae 2 3 = NEW ENTERPRISE STORE, =: 3 2 @ e 5 i. 528 EAST BROAD STREET. . @ —Theonly Store of its kind in the city of Richmond, owned e and managed entirely by Colored People. S & e SUITS. rico Men eGint ge te asco : e 100 Men's Suits, Eien as se alsa Si - $7. to $10.00 2 * 100 Men’s Suits, Much Better Grade, all wool, $8. to $12.50 = @ 00 Faey Worsteds, Cheviots, etc,, . . . $10.00 to $15.00 a FOO WORGNS SORE nh ces ise cg ot OR eReO Esso Chilared'a Gui, @ lc ) eS geo ce . 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MILLER, Prop. s oR ® B,werccecccevceseccoccsecosees $ 335993535952995595555355955953a0279 A Hint e US HELP YOU You will 4 find each And Every Suggestion not only appropriate, but helpful. We are Headquarters for: CARVING SETS. ROGER'S SILVER KNIVES, FORKS & SPOONS. SILVER-PLATED NUT PICKS & CRACKS. ELEGANT LINE RAZORS AND STROPS. PEARL HANDLE POCKET KNIVES. COAL VASES. BOYS’ WAGONS, WHEELBAR- ROWS & SLEDS. Tors. - ICE AND ROLLER SKATES. ROYS' TOOL CHESTS. FOOT BALLS. TARGET RIFLES. AIR RIFLES. LAMPS. Our line is complete. Our service prompt. Deliveries sure and free. Prices just right. Come in and see us. We have time to show you. HOWELL BROS 602 E. BROAD ST., Richmond, Va. G5; Successors to "EY C. W. VAUGHAN. GEORGE O. BROWN, = PHOTOGRAPHER, 608 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. 608 N. 2nd St, Richmond, Va. Fine Photograph. ‘Trae te Life, High-clam EGawne Wor ersonted Heeoan wonatte: bs eiieene tiliamediviess Uhaiaamain’ See: Oe ee aaa km . THE 20TH CENTURY! —————_— The above named book proves that Jesus Christ had Negro blood in his veins, that David and Solomon both married black women, that Solomon’s Temple Was Built by a Negro, that Free Masonry was found- ed by a Negro, that the first righteous priest recorded under Heaven was a black man, and that the black man married as high up in society as was possible for man to go, and many other such wonderful things are to be found in this wonderfu! book. Price, prepaid, 50 cents. Casi with order. Good agents wanted, For terms, etc., send three r-cent stamps. Write to-day and be first to sell this book in your town. | Send all orders to | W.G. OVERTON, Wilturton, I. T. The J. V. Hawkin’s HAIR GRower « ——— _ —___RESTORER «4 —— | TRADE MARK REGISTERED.) —— Has proved to be a fortane to many of the an- Sa fortunates, who wre to-day delighted with ie ee] sronertal’ ryectee” Toe mace, ith ite se Fo hair preparation natarally places tt in a ashore 4 2 all of ittown, and the glowing terms in which cs a2 Br patrons speak of it reaswares us of its watie- 3 factory results. We can woll toast of 2 Intin MEME] §«— prirasage Vursogiens tricia coast Of 8 1 eat i? ee also enjovs the commendation of the very best : = a white and colored pyoole in this immediate come er munity. In order to convince the most skepti. > cal readers of the merits and results of the J. ¥, | <a Dy Hawkin’s Hair Grower and Reatorer. we wit i from time to time produce in print the photo- eee aE graphs of those giving us permissic: to do so, Who have used our preparation aud are to-day Among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the Correspondence of thos exproting a mirarie or auvening darcasonable, Our-prepa, ration i# a natural aud pare compoand, the ingredients of which we woall not hesitate to pat in print, We will just here remind the pablic that the Uaired States Governmont has placed national patent rights on our hair propatation by Wwhish it is protected and wo are in tarn responsible to the goveramont. for hoc, est methods and square dealings. It wlll positively remove Dandraff, Care Scalp git Wil positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp jamong the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the ‘correspondence of thos expecting a miracle or aavtning anroasonahla, Our pope, ration is natural aud pare compoand, the ingredients of which we wool oot hesitate to put in print, We will just hore remind the pablic that the U sited States Governmont has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by Wwhish it is protected and wo are in tarn responsible to the goveramont. for hoc, ent methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandraff, Care Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Glean Temples ‘or Bald tteads, where the roots are not dead PRICKS;—25 ‘ote. per box (local orders) 35 ots. out city; eight boxes, $2.80 express prepaid. The Face Boautificr makes the ase of powder en- tirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale Prices; 25, 50cts aud $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Ordert gO" A charge of Mets. exira Is imposed on all out of elty orders, Address ull communications to | MME J. V. HAWKINS, GIZN. First Street, - Richmond, Va. . “PRONE, 4601. OMT Correspondence sinctiy confidential. “Wy ’Phone, 577. Richmond, Va A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embaimer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at shortnotice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Pleaty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large pisaic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, ete. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. 212 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Doty All Niza gee eae. oe Cr ES ao eer Wace > is 5 ae ta ‘ " Ce jp THE YELLOW SATURDAY.....DEC. 16TH, 1905 A BOSTON LANDMARK HISTORY OF A FAMOUS OLD ELM DESTROYED BY THE WIND. This Celebrated Tree, Believed to Have Existed Before the Settlement of the City, Was Blown Down In the Great Storm of 1876. Feb. 15, 1876, was a sad day for local historians in Boston, for the newspapers announced the next day that at about 7 o'clock the previous evening the old elm on Boston Common had been destroyed by a great storm which swept over the city at that time. So many enologies, both oral and written, were delivered on this most ancient of Boston's landmarks, and it was realized that a connecting link with the remote past was gone forever. It is not known when the tree began to grow, but an old Boston tradition was that the wife of Thomas Hancock, the eminent merchant, who was Lydia Henchman before her marriage, claimed that her grandfather, Hezekiah Henchman, planted the tree when he was a boy. This would have made the tree just 200 years old at the time of its destruction. It is probable that some of the many persons on record as being publicly executed on Boston Common looked on the fair world for the last time when standing beneath its branches, for it was one of the largest trees, if not the largest, in the town, and it stood on its outskirts, and also in 1722 it must have been a prominent object in Boston, for Bonner's map of the town, published in that year, shows it as a feature. In 1825 the first recorded measurement of the old elm showed its dimensions to be as follows: Height, 65 feet; circumference, 21 feet 8 inches at 2 feet 6 inches from the ground, and the extreme diameter of the branches was 86 feet. At this time it was said of the tree that "this pride of our Common is pronounced by judges to be as handsome in form as it is large in size and venerable in age, and it may be worth the remark, notwithstanding all the buffeting it has received from storms and hurricanes for more than a century, its original beauty and symmetry have not been impaired, although it has at times lost many of its branches." The tree was accurately measured by the city engineer of Boston in 1855, and it was found that it was considerably larger than in 1825, its height being figured at seventy-five feet. This showed that it was still growing in its extreme old age. The first serious damage the tree received was in 1832, when the largest of its limbs was so rent a sunder that three branches rested on the ground, but at much cost and labor they were replaced in their former positions and held together by iron rods and bolts. The great gale in June, 1860, injured the tree to such an extent that its former symmetry was destroyed, and at this time the cavity in the trunk was filled with several loads of material. On one of the branches which were torn off at the time 190 rings were counted, which indicated the great age of the tree. The opening of the centennial year of the republic, 1876, found the tree alive, but decrepit, and it would probably have been decorated on Evacuation day and the Fourth of July, but, as stated at the beginning of this article, Feb. 15 saw its destruction. The old elm fell at 7:17 o'clock in the evening, its trunk pointing toward the Park Street church, and the force of the fall shattered the trunk, while the branches were scattered in every direction. The melancholy news spread like wildfire through the city, and soon, despite the storm, the fallen monarch was surrounded by relic hunters. Armed with saws, hatchets and knives, they quickly detached pieces of the branches to preserve as souvenirs. Persons were seen in the theaters laden with boughs, and it was a common sight that evening to see men in the streets carrying limbs several feet in length and as large around as a stovepipe. Much of the tree was made into veneer, and one book at least of local history has on its back cover a large veneer from the tree, bearing on its face a lifelike engraving of the same. So passed the old elm, and Boston mourned for its passing. Dr. Jerome V. C. Smith, mayor of the city in 1854, showed his interest in the old elm by having the tree carefully pruned and cleaned, and he caused to be placed around it an ornamental iron fence, octagonal in shape. On the entrance gate was attached an oval tablet bearing the following inscription: THE OLD ELM This tree has been standing here for an unknown period. It is believed to have existed before the settlement of Boston, being full grown in 1722; exhibited marks from 1732 and was nearly destroyed by a storm in 1844. Protected by an iron enclosure in 1844. J. V. C. SMITH. Mayor. Soon after the falling of the old elm a young tree of the same species was planted in the center of the inclosure, and today it has attained a large and sturdy growth. Coming generations of Bostonians may be familiar with a second old elm on Boston Common, but it will always be the first old elm which witnessed, very possibly, the first settlement of Puritan Boston in 1630.—Boston Budget. As Good as His Word. Green—I thought you said that fellow Skimne was as good as his word! Brown—That's what I said. Green—Well, he led to me about a business transaction. Brown—But I didn't say his word was any good.—Chicago News. A man is always nearest to his good when he is at home and furthest from it when away.—Holland. Memory is the primary and fundamental power without which there could be no other intellectual operation.—Johnson. HANDLING THE SICK. How the Skillful Nurse Makes Her Patient Comfortable. To make the patient comfortable is the first duty of the nurse of modern times. There are, however, some ever important things to be remembered, the first of which is that all the surroundings of a patient shall be as cheery and natural as possible. The chamber should be an attractive one, if it can be so arranged, with plenty of windows through which the purifying sunshine enters during some part of the day, says the Chicago Tribune. If the patient can bear it the shutters of these should be kept open. Of course a careful nurse will never allow her patient to face a light directly or even the dancing flecks of sunshine which come through the shutter chinks. The air with which an invalid is to fill his lungs hour after hour must be pure and sweet, since it is to become a powerful ally in the battle with disease. It is not enough to ventilate the room thoroughly once a day, though that is important, but there should be a steady current of air passing through, created perhaps by an open fireplace, and window lowered slightly at top or opened a little both above and below when there is no chimney. The nurse is a paragon in her quiet movements and tactful notice of her patient's needs without asking questions. She sees for herself that the pillows need shaking. She knows when the hot water bag should be applied to cold feet without troubling their tired owner about the matter, and she must be able, moreover, to administer medicines and nourishment at appointed times and comfortably to him. She sees that whispering is not carried on to the annoyance of her patient. She seldom asks him how he is feeling, trying to keep his thoughts from himself. The skillful nurse selects the most nourishing food, with as little waste about it as possible—eggs, milk, gruels of cereals, meat broths or purée of beans or peas, for instance. The preparation of the food and the mode of serving must be faultless. A flower or two as decoration to the tray add a charm to the repast. How to Revive Fading Roses. Bouquets of wilted roses, seemingly fit only for the rubbish heap, may be completely revived and freshened by a method which, in its results, is identical to that of a heavy dew. The life of a rose bouquet can be increased or lengthened to twice what it would ordinarily be by this simple method, says the Housekeeper. Put the stems of the roses in a tumbler of water and then place the tumbler and roses in a vessel of sufficient size to allow the entire bouquet to be covered. A large pail or boiler is very good for the purpose, or, if a large number of roses are to be revived, a bath or wash-tub will fulfill all requirements. Cover the vessel tightly and leave undisturbed for twenty-four hours. By that time the roses will be found as beautifully fresh and invigorated if just plucked from the bushes and with every petal covered with the artificial dew. Wilted lettuce may also be freshened and kept in crisp and excellent condition for weeks if treated in the same way. How to Make Baked B Use one pound of flour, one egg, half an ounce of compressed yeast, a little salt, milk, probably about half a pint, in making raised buns. Sift together the flour and salt. Mix together the yeast and a teaspoonful of castor sugar till they are liquid, beat up the egg and add it to the yeast. Strain these into the middle of the flour, add the milk gradually, mixing all well together until it is a soft dough. Divide it into six pieces. Roll out each thinly, prick them all over with a fork, put them on a greased baking tin, place the tin by the fire for one hour for the cakes to rise well. Then put them into the oven to bake. They will take from five to ten minutes. Split and butter them and serve them hot, or they are very good cold. How to Make Crab Apple Jelly. To each pound of crab apples add half a pint of water and one lemon, cut very thin, for every six pounds of fruit when making crab apple jelly. Set all in a big pan, cover with a flour and water crust, or a big plate will answer, and stew in a moderate oven until the fruit is quite soft and all juice extracted. Place in a flannel straining bag, suspend it and allow to drip for thirty-four hours. Then to each pint of juice add one pound of granulated sugar and boll one hour. More juice may be obtained by pressing the bag, but it will be cloudy, and for this reason should be kept separate from the first product. How to Fill Crevices In Woodwork. Far cheaper than putty and equally efficacious as a filler of crevices in woodwork is a mixture made by soaking newspapers thoroughly in a paste made of one pound of flour, three quarts of water and a tablespoonful of alum. The mixture, which should be about the consistency of putty, should be forced into the cracks with a knife, and it will harden like papier mache and may be stained or painted to match the floor or skirting board which it is used to repair. How to Make Peach Ice How to Make Peach Ice Cream. Peach ice cream is one of the most delicious of fruit creams and is not at all hard to make. The peaches must be quite ripe and of some rather soft variety. Peel and mash the fruit and sweeten it well. Whip a quart of cream and partially freeze it before adding the peaches. When the cream is frozen to a soft mush, stir in the fruit, mix thoroughly and finish the freezing. This makes a very rich cream. 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I can remember when the old fashioned doctor entered a sickroom you felt that the jig was up, even if you were suffering from nothing more serious than a scratched ear, and you were sorry you hadn't led a better life. He'd tiptoe in with a face that reached from his forehead to his knees, clear his throat, whisper to mother, take out his watch, feel for your pulse and gaze gloomily into space—the spacest, farstest away space ever. Then he'd whisper to mother again, write a prescription and steal out. "Is there no hope? I used to ask mother. "However, as I said, that's all gone by. They're cheerful and breezy when they appear, an odor of fresh air and maybe the smell of a cigar are clinging to them, and they laugh at your fears and talk out loud. That's a sight better than medicine in most cases. The trouble is I don't often have the luck to be ill lately."—Providence Journal. TROT OR GALLOP? A Problem For People With Even Very Sharp Eyes. 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The feed is in such a condition that he can gulp it down without chewing. Most hogs have plenty of time. They don't need to eat as fast as a man at a railway lunch counter. I've often watched hogs eat. They run from ear to ear, or carry one along, spending more time trying to get the whole feed than in eating. When it comes to drink they rush to the trough with you, upsetting your dignity if you're not careful, then pile up in the trough when you pour in the water. After a sip they are off again to the corn. You could carry a dozen pails of water to them and they would repeat the performance. It 'twas rich swill or milk they would gorge themselves and not leave a drop. It shows that they know enough to quit when its only water offered. This has led me to think that a better way could be found. Joseph E. Wing told at the Ames short course how he feeds his hogs with a self-feeder. Puts the grain in there and the water in another place. The hogs eat when they please and as much as they please. They are compelled to eat slowly and they chew the dry feed, for they can't hog it down. He said they didn't waste a bit. What got rooted or pushed out fell on the feeding platform and was picked up. I don't believe your swill is any better for hogs than sour soup is for man. One day sweet and one day sour is not right. The sour swill barrel is a good breeding place for disease germs. It is a little wonder the country suffers such hog losses each year when we consider what the hog has to eat. Out in the alfalfa country where grass and water are the hog feed, there is very little loss of hogs. The dairyman who has skim milk to feed his hogs should know that his herd of cows is free from tuberculosis. If he gets his milk from the creamery he should know it has been pasteurized. The hog is an over-fat animal predisposed to disease. We need to give more attention to his feed and shelter. He is naturally a clean animal if he can be. He will root in anything if compelled to get his meals that way. A COMBINATION RACK. Upper Part Is for the Hay, and the Trough Below Can Be Uced for the Grain. For feeding sheep out of doors a combination rack made in the following manner will be found not only a great convenience, but will save feed, says a writer in the Farm Stock Journal. The rack proper may be made any height desired, but it should be only about six inches wide at the bottom and 18 inches or more wide at the top, with the slats just far enough COMBINATION SHEEP BACK apart so that the sheep may readily get at the hay. This rack is arranged so that the lower part may be constructed into a trough by building the trough out in front making it with a slanting front board and also extending it behind so that the grain may be poured into the trough from behind. An inch board is arranged so as to slide over the trough and under the lower part of the rack while the sheep are eating the hay. When they are to use the trough this board is removed. The illustration plainly shows the plan of this combination rack and with the description anyone handy with tools can readily make this convenience. Cleansing Dairy Utensils All dairy utenails, such as cans, pails and separator parts, after being used should be scoured with hot water, brush and washing powder. After this they should be scalded and rinsed, then placed so as to thoroughly drain and dry. SOWS AND YOUNG PIGS. Successful Stockman Declares That They Must Be Given Plenty of Room. My experience has been that hogs should not be crowded into small quarters. I build my hog house 7x9 feet, roof only one way, front 5 feet high, back 3 feet. I floor these little houses on two scantling 2½x6 inches, with the ends beveled so as to make sled runners of them. These houses can thus be drawn with a horse about the place wherever most convenient. Put one door, 20 inches wide, on the high side of the house, and set the house with door facing southeast to direct driving rains. I keep the sows thus separated, says a correspondent of the Farm and MOVABLE HOG HOUSE Home, until the pigs are six weeks old. Then they are allowed to come together in an open lot or leaid, the more range the better. When the pigs are two weeks old arrange a feed trough so as to let them get to it, keeping the sow out. Place slops at their disposal, made of ground oats and wheat and corn, equal proportions. This is a splendid ration for the little porkers. Should any incline to scour feed the sow charcoal, salt and ashes. Put some salt in the slop. When the pigs first come shut the sow away from the pen and examine their teeth and remove the black teeth, if any, with a small pair of pilers. Thus you avoid the annoyance to the sow of the pigs biting and making the teats sore. Keep salt and ashes always before the pig until he is ready for the butcher. Wean the pigs at ten weeks old, at which time some ear corn can be fed them. Keep them on good clover or rye pasture, give them pure water to drink and provide shade in the pasture. HOME-RAISED COWS. The Advice to the Farmer to Be His Own Breeder Thought to Be Good Much stress is being placed by certain farm and dairy speakers this year on the importance of a home supply of cows; farm-raised milkers, whose history and bringing up the farmer knows all about and which, one by one, take their place in the milking line without the requirement of a large sum of spot cash on the part of the farmer. The advice is good. On many farms the cost and care of the young stock is scarcely noted, and the cows so raised may be better than can be bought at any price within reach of the owner. Then, too, there is small chance of building up a choice, handsome, heavy milking herd unless the members are carefully bred and selected on the farm year by year. The plan is, however, not suited to all dairymen; those, for instance, who have a small retail milk route, with limited patronage and barn farm. The milk of a good dairy cow at retail prices is worth more in a month than the growth of a calf for the whole year. Hence the room of the calf is better given to the cow. The needs of a retail route and likewise of wholesale milk shipping often require a constant and uniform supply. The cow must be bought, sold and traded to suit condition. This frequent shifting of the herd is one of the drawbacks of the business. A bad trade made in a hurry because of the needs of the situation may offset a month's profit, but it can't be helped. The farmer sets it down to account of experience and keeps on as well as he can. It is surely wise to raise one's own cow, says the American Cultivator. Perhaps it may be less so in some far off millennium of milk farming when everybody shall be strictly honest, frank and truthful in a cow trade. Meanwhile, those who cannot raise cows must buy them, courageously bearing in mind that the choicest cows, provided one really gets them, are the best bargains at any reasonable price. ANIMAL NEEDS Pick up the sweet apples; all stock love them and they will do the animals good. Short feed and poor fences make breachy cattle. Short feed and good fences make poor cattle. If the best profit is realized, not only the wool, but the mutton and the lamb must contribute their part. Rub a rag dipped in kerosene over the bot fly eggs on your horse two or three times a week. It will destroy them. Pumpkins for cattle feed in some tests on unmanured plots yielded five tons per acre; on manured sections 36 tons. A tablespoonful of carbolic acid in a pail of water, sprinkled over the floor of the pig pen, is a very effective deodorizer—Farm Journal. Look out in good season for the breeding ram this fall; be sure that he possesses individual merit, so that he will improve your flock.—Western Farmer. The Southdowns The Southdowns make very good mothers. These small, hardy sheep will subsist, and even fatten, upon the scant herbage where larger breeds would be unable to exist. They are supposed to be the oldest breed of sheep in England, some writers having found evidence of their existence in Sussex since the time of William the Conqueror. Mean Trick "Gracious, Jeanette! Why are all those women so excited?" "Haven't you heard? Why, they are swered an advertisement that stated for one dollar they would receive the greatest wrinkle remover on earth." "And what did they get?" "Why, a flatiron."—Chicago Daily News. other experienced agriculturists. The trend of what appears in the agricultural papers from month to month upon the subject of plant food in soils is perhaps the conclusion arrived at by the writer referred to, and it may be well for farmers to fear that soil will inevitably "play out" in time, but when all is considered it becomes an HOME-MADE LIME SPREADER How the Handy Farmer Can Simplify the Method of Distributing This Fertilizer. Make a hopper of plank or of boards similar to that of an ordinary fertilizer drill, except that it should be eight feet or more long, with sides and top 18 to 24 inches wide. For the bottom get two pieces of heavy galvanized sheet iron as long as the hopper. Cut a lot of holes in the middle of each piece, each one inch wide, two inches long and eight inches apart. Cut the holes in the two pieces of iron so they will register. Fasten one strip to the hopper as a bottom and let the other slide on the hopper on strips of iron, which should be carried around the hopper every two feet to strengthen it. To the under plate of iron rivet a V-shaped arm extending in front of the hopper, to which attach a strong lever which extends six or eight inches above the top of the hopper, so that by working this lever and sliding the lower sheet of iron back and forth the size of the openings can be regulated. Make a wood frame from the hopper with a tongue to it similar to the frame of an ordinary grain drill. Then get a pair of old mowing machine wheels with ratchets in the hubs and axles sufficiently long to fasten to a bar of iron which will extend through the hopper from one end to the other. To this axle, which will turn as the spreader moves forward, attach several short arms above each hole in the bottom of the hopper, which will act as a reel to keep the lime loose and the feed constant. When this hopper is filled with lime and the spreader pulling forward, says the Farm and Home, the reel will turn, breaking all lumps and causing the lime to feed out evenly. If two pieces of oil cloth are attached to the hopper, one in front and the other behind, of sufficient width to reach the ground, they will reduce the annoyance to the man and team of the flying lime dust. - STORING ONIONS. Should Not Be Pulled Until the Tops Are Dead and Must Be Thoroughly Cured Before Storing. Onions should not be pulled until the tops are entirely dead to insure a thoroughly ripened crop. They should be pulled immediately at this stage, however, to prevent the starting cf a second growth, which has proved disastrous to many fields. In wet weather there is much danger from second growth, and every means should be taken to make a quick harvest under these conditions. Pulling by hand may be somewhat facilitated by taking a double wheel hoe, arranging the two hoes with point of blades to come together in center. By adjusting elevation of wheel this may be pushed along the rows and the onions lifted, so that they will pass over the holes without cutting or bruising, and laid with roots exposed to the sun for curing. A bar of iron, bent by the blacksmith, with threaded ends to fasten to frame, slightly curved at rear in center, will answer the purpose as well or better in pulling the row. Thoroughly curing before storing is one of the essentials in onion harvesting, says the Farm and Home. After the onions have cured they are gathered, from three to five rows into one, and topped in the field. Often, however, our work time is such that we find it more convenient to put them under cover before topping. We have slat bushel crates in which onions are placed in the field and moved to cover. We used these crates also for storage, piling them one above another to ceiling of building, leaving one foot or more between tiers for circulation of air and every third row a space for passage with access provided at center tier for inspection during storing season. The ideal temperature is just above 32 degrees. A dry air is necessary for satisfactory onion storage. If placed in a cellar it must be ventilated as occasion permits to keep the air dry. Asparagus for Home Use A few dozen asparagus plants, with some care, will supply the needs of an ordinary family. The plant may be used in some instances along fences for the combined purpose of ornament and utility. In this case salt will be found helpful for keeping down grass and weeds. With manuring and salting I have grown a fair article in this way for home use, and been more than pleased with the results. The Practical Side Some of the scientific men seem to grieve because farmers do not take their say-so without a grain of salt. The fact is that farmers are sizing up the situation accurately. They like suggestions, but will depend upon practical experiment for final answer. SOIL DEPLETION. It Is Unnecessary If There Is Rotation of Crops, and Fertilizers Are Used. A noted writer in a contemporary recently stated that "all soils will be depleted in time," a view of the matter which is so erroneous that already the author is being taken to task by other experienced agriculturalists. The trend of what appears in the agricultural papers from month to month upon the subject of plant food in soils is perhaps the conclusion arrived at by the writer referred to, and it may be well for farmers to fear that soil will inevitably "play out" in time, but when all is considered it becomes apparent at least that there is no real need of such depleting taking place. It is a fact that soil cropped year after year for a long time with the same crop will gradually lose one or more of the foods or soil ingredients needed to the welfare of that particular crop, and for this reason that special crop will there fall to thrive, while other crops not dependent upon the presence of the special ingredient lacking may thrive fairly well for a time. A soil then becomes depleted for one crop, but may do well enough for some other crop, as has been seen in the history of the wheat fields of the country. Change of crop, explains a writer in the Farmer's Review, tends to renovate land, in that it gives the soil a chance to recuperate from its past trial and store up fresh hoards of that ingredient which was sappled in its assimilable form but not exhausted in its dormant form. By proper rotation of crops, by raising and feeding of live stock, by growing clover and legumes such as peas, beans, etc., no soil need become too depleted to raise profitable crops, and by additional use of artificial fertilizers any soil may become richer than it was originally although long used for the production of farm crops. Such is the history of wide areas of poor land in Europe and even in some of our eastern states. They ran down for a time by successive cropping without proper rotation, but after intelligent methods of cropping, stock feeding and soil fertilization were introduced they were renovated and now bear crops abundantly. Under the circumstances it is well to understand that soils may become depleted, but no one should conclude that depletion is inevitable in the future. THREE-HORSE EVENER A Novel Device of Very Simple Design Which Is Said to Work Finely. For perfect adjustment of draft, light weight and simplicity, the accompanying device deserves attention. Any blacksmith can make the evener from some bar of iron that you may find in your scrap pile. For light horses, the ring should not be less than five-eighths inch iron and bar not companying device deserves attention. Any blacksmith can make the evener from some bar of iron that you may find in your scrap pile. For light horses, the ring should not be less than five-eighths inch iron and bar not less than two inches wide and one-half inch thick. Where you use 24-inch whiffletrees, a doubletree four feet long will do, as the third horse works in the middle and his singletree in the hook at top of evener is clear of those below. The doubletree is attached to the lower ring, and the devise, says the Farm and Home, which is about one foot long, stands upright, as shown in the BRIEFS. This is a good time to paint. Frost will not hurt the late cabbage. It takes a big man to see all sides of a thing. Who makes everything right must rise early. Drunkenness is an egg from which all vices are hatched. When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. Some people's talk is like the conversation of ducks—nothing but wahwah.—Farm Journal. A good time to spray for the San Jose scale louse, now. Get ready and do it before winter sets in. The plan of sowing cowpeas to occupy the soil after harvesting fall wheat or oats is as good now as ever. Every farmer should raise his own grain and eatables as far as lies in his power. Many farmers fall because their outgo is more than their income. Alfalfa Growing Many sections of the United States are now growing alfalfa in immense quantities, and the farmers do not have to think twice as to how they will succeed with alfalfa. But this has not always been the case. Alfalfa growing in any new locality has always been accompanied by serious problems that had to be solved. 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WHITE'S COLLEGE OF SCIENCE 1917 E. Pratt S. Baltimore, Md. Bed. B. SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST LEAVE RICHMOND—EASTBOUND. 7:35 a. m. — Week days—Local to Newport News and war news 8:00 a. m. — Daily—Limited—Arrives Williams burg 8:35 a. m., Newport News 10:30 a. m. Old Point 11:00 a. m., Norfolk 11:25 a. m. Old Point 11:00 a. m., Special—Arrives Williams burg 11:00 a. m., Norfolk 11:25 a. m. Old Point 6:00 p. m., Norfolk 6:25 p. m. 5:00 p. m. — Week days—Local to Old Point MAIN LINK—WESTBOUND. 7:30 a. m. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STREET 6:00 A. m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:20 A. M. Shops only as Peersburg, Waverly and Suffolk. 9.0 A.M. M. CHICAGO EXPRESE Buffet Par- lor to Lynchburg to Lynchburg and Roadside Pullman Sleepers to Columbus and Bluedfield to Cincinnati also Roadside ville and Knoxville to Chattanooga and Mem- hall. 12:20 P. M. Roanoke Express for Lynch- burg and Roanoke 350 O M Ocean Shore Limited Arrives Maryland & Maryland stops only at Petersburg Waverley and Suffolk. Connects with Steamer to Boston,rovidence, New York,Baltimore and Washington. 636 P. M., for Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg. 9:28 P. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pullman Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg, Poters Memphis arrive from Lynchburg to Chattanooga. Memphis arrives from Cafe Dining Car Trains arrives from the west. m, f, p, m and 8:38 p, m, from Norfolk 11:40 a, m, 12:32 a - m, a, and 6:36 p, m. W. B. REVILLE 8:38 East Main Street. W. B. REVILLE Gen.Pass. Arg O. Doyle Street. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective Oct. 15th, 1905. 12 30 p.m.—Daily. Limited. Bufet. Pullman 1 to Atlanta and Fi miamgh. New Orleans Memphis. Chattanooga and all the south. 11 30 p.m.—Daily. cunday. Keysville. 11 30 p.m.—Daily. Pullman ready 2 30 p.m. for all the south. YORK RIVER LINE The favorite route to Baltimore and eastern states is Leave Richmond 420 p. m. Daily except Sunday. 4:35 a. m. - Except Sunday. Local mixed for east point. 2:35 a. m. - Daily except Sunday. Local for west point. 4:20 p. m. - Except Sunday. For West Point, connect with steamers for Baltimore and river landings for Portwark and Clay Bank Mondays. Wednesdays, Fridays and at Gloucester Point and All monorail and Saturday and Saturday, TRAINS ABBEY 420 p. m. m. and 6: 42 m. — From the all of the South. 8: 39 m. — From Charlotte and Durham and Raleigh. 4: a m. — From Kwiville. 8: 39 m. — From West Point. 10: 45 m. — From West Point. 10: 45 m. — From West Point. 5;10 p. m.—From West Point. B.H. HARDWARD, POST OFFICE, MIDDLE TOWN R. F. & P. Richmond, Frederick'sburg and Potomac Railroad. Trains Leave Richmond — Northward. 4:25 a. m., daily. Byrd st. Through. 6:45 a. m., daily Main st. Through. 7:45 a. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 8:40 a. m., daily. Byrd st. Through Local stops. 12:00 noon, week days. Byrd st. Through 14:00 noon, week days. Byrd st. Frederick'sburg accommodation. 5:05 p. m., daily. Main st. Through. 6:30 p. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 8:30 p. m., daily. Byrd st. Through 8:30 p. m., daily. Byrd St. Through. Trains Arrive Ricmond — Southward. 6:40 a. m., week days. Elba Abland accommodation. 8:20 a. m., week days. Byrd St. Frederickburg accommodation. m., daily, Byrd St. Through 11:50, weekdays, Byrd St. Through Local stops. 9:00 p.m. d. daily, Byrd St. Through. Local estuary p. m. d. daily, Main St. Through. NOTE -Pullman Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all above trains except train arriving Richmond 5:00 a. m. weekdays and local acco- mium 5:00 a. m. time of arrivals and departures and con- nections ma guaranteed. WEAKE, CULP, W.P. TAYLOR, Gen'l Man'r. Ags' Gen'l Man'. Trm. Man. TRAINS LEAVE JICHMOND DAILY BYRH STREET STATION. EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, APRIL 10TH 9:05 a.m. a. M. C. L. Express to all points 9:30 a.m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 12:10 a.m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 12:30 a.m. Petersburg and N. Norfolk. 14:10 a.m. Goldsboro local. 6:45 a.m. Petersburg local. 7:25 a.m. "Florida and West Indian Limited 9:20 a.m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 11:30 a.m. Petersburg local. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND—Daily 4:07 a.m. 7:12 a.m. 8:33 a.m. except Sunday 10:45 a.m. Sunday only, 11:40 a.m. 1 p.m. 2:05 p.m. 8:50 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 9:18 p.m. W. J. CRAIG. Gen. Park. Dv. Pass. Agt. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Short Line to the principal Cities of the State of Florida, Cuba and Mexico. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN ST. STATION DAILY—Schedule in effect April 16th, 1906. 9:10 a. m.—Local for Nortline, Raleigh, Hamlet 2:20 p. m.—SEABOARD Mail, composed of Pallman sleeping cars to Atlanta, Savannah and Jacksonville; SEABOARD Cafe cars are also operated this train and are maintained at the highest degree of excellence so large comfortable day coaches, running without change to Florida. 10:00 p. m.—SEABOARD Mail, composed of Pallman sleeping cars to Atlanta, Savannah, Jacksonville and Tampa. SEABOARD Cafe cars, and day coaches, running to Florida without change. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND, DAILY. 6:26 a. m.—From Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest. 4:55 p. m.—From Florida, Atlanta and the 5:00 p. m.—From local points. For all information as to rates, schedule and connections apply to any SEABOAR Agent, or to H. S. LEARD W. M. TAYLOB, District Passenger Agt City Ticket Agt 803 East Main St, Richmond, Va. THE DOLCE COLORED PRESS ON THE PRESS DENT'S MESSAGE. Editor Trotter Dissatisfied. [Boston, Mass. Guardian.] The President's first message to the congress elected upon the platform upon which he was elected by an unprecedented majority has been sent to congress. It is a document thoroughly unsatisfactory to Colored Americans. The unjust and injurious treatment which they so notoriously receive in the southern part of this country and the abridgement and denial of their rights under the federal constitution are utterly ignored by the President. The message is one of extraordinary length. It touches upon a great number of questions. In fact there is hardly any question of national polity that is not noticed except the question of the violation of the 14th and 15th articles of the federal constitution. Many questions which must be admitted to be minor questions are dealt with. If the evils of over capitalization is not surely the matter of information on the condition of working women is, if it is not patronizing. Then consider such weighty issues as abelisting unnecessary offices, antiquated department methods, penalties for dischosing official secrets by department employees, the Jamestown exposition, smoke nuisance in Washington, enlarging the Yellowstone Park! What are these issues as against the denial of a fair trial in court or the denial of any trial at all; the deprivation of the right to vote on the ground of race and color in a democratic republic? In reading the message one of the features that impresses us is the distance the President goes from home. He refers to Russia, in rather complimentary vein. He not only deals with Panama, Porto Rico, San Domingo and the Philippines, but also with Hawaii. Yet the President is silent as to peonage, civil discriminations, lynchings and color disfranchisement at home. If these first three practices are inhuman and if the last violates the constitution, they certainly constitute a scandal and disgrace upon our country. He is very solicitous that the South should have more foreign immigrant laborers and recommends that "special efforts" be made by the government to divert foreign immigration to the South. Not one word of advice or admonition is given the South to mend its ways so as to be more attractive to foreign labor, no advice is given to give up its lynchings and restore order and a civilized form of government. Then, too, this foreign white labor would naturally tend to displace or at least to reduce the wages of the colored wage earners there. But the President is also very solicitous as to the graves of Confederate soldiers! Not on word to show any solicitude about the murder of the living men and women of Color, who, by the way have been ever loyal to the Union, but very great concern about the graves of those white men who fought to destroy the Union. There are many passages of fine moralizing in the message, but it is perfectly clear from the context that the sufferings of Colored Americans were entirely out of the President's mind. In fact the message was one of the "whitest" documents a President ever issued. The fine passages make the omission of the Colored man's case all the more glaring and all the more painful. Editor Sweeney Enthusiastic [Chicago, Ill. Leader.] Up one side and down the other the message "was to the good," a plain, straight, matter-of-fact talk without hyperbole or wordy ornamentation on all matters and questions unsettled and otherwise having to do with the present and future welfare of all the peoples that make up the heterogeneous millions of America's population. There was neither straining for effect nor playing at the gallery. It was a message befitting a GREAT President of a GREAT and splendid people. Doesn't Like the Message. [Atlanta, Ga. 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It will result in depriving the people who elected him governor of New York of bread. The Negro wants no special dispensation of favors from the federal head, but he feels that he is an American citizen, and when the president is laying his --- CHRISTMAS GREETINGS! To the Readers of the Planet: WE WISH TO ADVISE THAT OUR BIG CHRISTMAS SALE OF FINE PIANOS AND ORGANS Is now on. PRICES have been reduced and TERMS on every instrument made reasonable and within the reach of every customer. It is hardly necessary for us to say there is nothing that will add so largely to the enjoyment and pleasure of Home Life during the Holidays than a beautiful, sweet toned PIANO. We have THEM HERE at every price and have them placed on our floor for your selection, and will deem it a special favor to have you call and examine our stock, which is by far the Largest and Best Assorted we have ever exhibited during our large annual sales. UP-RIGHT PIANO from $150.00 up. Terms from $1.00 per week up. Square Pianos from $25.00 up, sold on terms from $3.00 cash and $3.00 per month. Mason & Hamlin and Chicago Cottage Organs ranging in price from $40.00 up. Terms, $1.00 per week. HONOGRAPH DEPARTMENT:—Here is an instrument that will afford all the amusement you can desire, ranging in price from $10.00 up on terms of $1.00 per week. We have in stock all the latest and up-to-date Records. SMALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DEPARTMENT:—This Department is fairly loaded with beautiful Guitars, Mandolins, Violins, Banjos and other musical instruments manufactured; the very things for an inexpensive Christmas present, and alike our other instruments are sold on easy payments. GIVE US A CALL; IT WILL NOT REQUIRE MUCH OF YOUR TIME, AND YOU WILL BE WELL REPAID FOR YOUR TIME BY A VISIT TO OUR LARGE MUSIC EMPORIUM. THE CABLE COMPANY. J. G. CORLEY, MANAGER. Nofheimer's Economy Shoes, &c. 811 East Broad 1549 East Main 75c $1.00 39c 49c 69c $1.00 $1.25 $1.50 17c $2.00 25c 49c 50c $1.00 $1.50 A beautiful Story Book FREE with every cash purchase. A sale of Xmas Shoes and Slip- pers economically priced. "square deal stick" to every other interest in the nation, and specifying interest in the nation, and specifying and singling out the things that affect every other class of citizens, that he ought to have the moral courage to say one word about the black man's interest. Ominously Silent. Upon every pressing question save one the President speaks wisely and fearlessly. The one exception is that of disfranchisement in the Southern States. Upon this most important question from every point of view we regret to say that this message is ominously silent. It may be that the Chief Executive does not think that the time is ripe to deal with this question. We are willing to wait and trust him but until this issue is fairly met by the President and Congress of the United States there will be discontent upon the part of millions of loyal and devoted Americans because the issues involved are not racial or sectional but national. We regret the silence of the message on this important issue. HONOR PUPILS--BAKER SCHOOL 7B GRADE—Gussie Forrester, Ethel Jackson, Florence Storrs, Myrtle Monroe, Annit Thomas, Rosa Tinsley. 7A GRADE—Junius Smith, Cassie Nelson, Mabel West, Bruce Fountain, Lillie Weaver, Lily Wright, Evaline Lewis, Virginia Tomlin, Bertha Lee, Hermione Jackson, Marian Ellington, Bernetta Young. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 6B GRADE—Spottswood Robinson (2), Katie Gilpin (2), Arneta Stokes (2), Bennie Bass (2), Carlotta Kersey. 6A GRADE—Maggie Farrar (2), Sarah Sydney (2), Rosa Rowe, Maria Burke (2), Mercer Burrell, Annie Carter. 5B GRADE—Irma Holmes, Jack Wyeche, Hortense Groy, Prezella Madison. 4B GRADE—Fannie Henderson, Percy Vaughan, Samuel Woolfoll. 4A GRADE—Robert Johnson, Edward Price, Ethel Branch, Hannah Giles, Sadie Nelson, Susie Robinson, Cornelius Price, Joseph Brown, Camille Mayo, Ethel Rowe. 2B GRADE—Daniel Davis, Robert Lewis, Jesse Thompson, Hugh Fontain, Leonard Cephas, Ira Williams, Julia Bolling, Ardella Johnson, James Boone Charlie Ros 3A GRADE—Gertrude Chambers, Bessie Smith, Martha Chiles, Ethel Robinson, Vliyan Lemus, Rosa Robinson, Anne Haskins, Jessie Coleman, Charles Brown, Edward Lee, Royal Hamilton, Lizzie Gaines. 2B GRADE—Lucile Payne, Helena Tomlin, Ethel Lemus, Rosa Meade, John Simms, Horace Scott, Marion Parham, Leroy Wyche, Walter Robinson, Willie Johnson, Elsworth Storrs, Etta Payne, Bernard Mitchell, Willie Mitchell, Thomas Webb, Lizzie King, Ruth Thompson, Ruth Holman. 2A GRADE—Louise Adams, Ruth Catlett, Zenobia Glipin, Ottie Graham, Beatrice Harris, Daisy Hill, Sadie Johnson, Henrietta Mason, Ella Morris, Marie Trent, India Woodson, Clinton Brown, James Chiles, Robert Jones Robert Lee Jones, John Price, James Pearson. Boiled Cider. For the boiled cider of grandmother's day, without which no pie ple or fruit cake was complete and which kept perfectly for a year or more, boils slowly five quarts of sweet cider in a porcelain kettle, watching that it does not burn until reduced to three pints, turn into glass jars or bottles and seal tightly like canned fruit. Grease Stains. Grease stains may be removed from silk by laying a piece of woolen cloth on a table and spreading smoothly over it the part stained with the right side downward. On the silk lay a piece of brown paper and apply a hot iron for eight or ten seconds. Then rub the stained part with a small piece of clean paper. Renovating Silke Faded silks should be sponged with warm water and soap, taking care not to apply the water too hot. Then rub with a dry cloth. Iron on a flat board on the inside, thin paper being spread over to prevent glazing. To wash cream cashmere make a warm lather and wash gently. Make a little boiled starch and add to some rinsing water so as to make a very thin starch. Rinse, and before quite dry roll up in a cloth for a time and then iron. GOODS TO BE SOLD AT COST STYLISH MILLINERY. Ladies. call at $16 and $18 E. Broad and see the beautiful line of stylish millinery, all to be sold at cost to make room for Xmas goods. Come and see, is all I ask. You will not leave without a hat of some kind. MRS. M. D. CHAMLEE, 316-318 E. Broad St. $100 worth of information for 25c. By the Rev. C. F. Checkizzli, B. Sc A. M. a graduate of Oxford, London, England. Send 2c stamps. The only true and authentic historical facts of the Negro race yet published told by the native born African, and reads like a romance. TO READ THIS BOOK is to acquaint yourself with the nobles of bygone ages—to clothe yourself in intellectual garb, surmount the charlot of antiquarian fame; drawn by fiery Antediluvian steed—held in check—by philosophical reins—seated with Homer, Hannibal and Copernicus—View the world of antiquity in its once splendour and extensive Geographical domain—taking an astronomical vision of the Planetary system of inhabited beings—return again to the banqueting house of Ethnological research and scientific lore and learn once for all the true authentic history of the highly dignified ETHIOPIAN RACE. Agents Wanted. W. R. PAYNE, Publisher, 5628 Penn. Ave., E. B. Pittsburgh, Pa. Hurry=upShoppingReasons Only a Few More Days to Christmas. There has to be a whole lot of shopping boiled down to the compass of a few days. We want to do all in our power to aid you. The 30,000 square feet of extra floor space is to help you at just such a season as this. See Cohen's Wonderful Book Store. We have just gotten in two lots of Books, which come as a surprise even to us. These two items will give you some idea of the immense reserve force behind this enormous business: Five Volume Sets. 59c. Hundreds of neat cloth-bound Books, in sets of 5 a very neat present and being in uniform binding full series for a little. Such authors as Hawtho Henty, Optic, Lyall, Clay, Holmes, Longfellow 59c. a set. Hundreds of neat cloth-bound Books, in sets of five in a box; a very neat present and being in uniform binding can get a full series for a little. Such authors as Hawthorne, Hardy, Henty, Optic, Lyall, Clay, Holmes, Longfellow and others, 59c. a set. Gift Suggestions in the Basement It is difficult to decide as to which is best, so we will make suggestions every day of the many attractions. Japanese Cups and Saucers, the always 25c articles, for 10c or $2.25 a dozen. Nut crackers of Nickel, 10c each. Handsome Glit Frames for Cabinet Pictures, 48c. Water Set of Pitcher, 6 Tumblers and Walter, 98c. The Dell Store. Do not fail to take the children down in the Basement to see the Dolls. It is useless to try to describe a Doll. We can only say in giving the prices that Cohen's big values are behind these as much as any other one thing in the store. No two or three profits. Dolls at 10c. Dolls at 25c. Dolls at $10 and alll prices between. Children's Chairs in the Basement We went into them as though we were a furniture store. Here are some price hints: Stool, Chair, 25c. A SPECIAL—50 Shoe Fly Rockers for 50 each. Hundreds of Boys' Suits We represent the best makers. We can fit your boy out in the newest styles, whether it's Suits or Overcoats. New style Caps or Shirts, and all at Cohen prices. Special attention is called to the All-Wool Suit that is usually sold for $3.50, now marked $1.98. Overcoats from $1.98 to $5 for the new mannish mixture. Golf Suiting Overcoats, $3.98. Handsome Velour and Velvet Suits for $3.98 and $5.98. 25c Caps for 10c. 50c and $1 Caps, 25c and 50c. Second Floor. Sample Sale of Gold Rings These rings are a manufacturer's samples. There are and will be no duplicates. They were made to sell from 50c to $12.50. They are plain gold, stone setting and signet Rings. Our prices, 25c to $7.50; nearly 50 per cent reduction. Opera Bags. Made of handsome Ottoman Silks, with Silk Cord, all colors, 50c. Other Opera Bags from $1 to $3.75 —Mr. Douglass Johnson of Petersburg, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. DOLLAR PACKAGE FREE Man Medicine Free. You can now obtain a large dollar size free package of Man Medicine—free on request. Man Medicine curen man-weakness. Man Medicine gives you once more the gusto, the joyful satisfaction, the pulse and throb of physical pleasure, the keen sense of mansensation, the luxury of life, body power and body comfort—free. Man Medicine does it. Man Medicine curen man-weakness, nervous debility, early decay, discouraged manhood, functional failure, vital weakness, brain fag, backache, prostatitis, kidney trouble and nervousness. You can cure yourself at home by Man Medicine, and the full size dollar package will be delivered to you free, plain wrapper, sealed, with full directions how to use it. The full size dollar package free, no payments of any kind, no receipts, no promises, no papers to sign. It is free. All we want to know is that you are not sending for it out of idle curiosity, but that you want to be well and become your strong natural self once more. Man Medicine will do what you want it to do; make you a real man, man-like, man-powerful. Your name and address will bring it; all you have to do is send and get it. We send it free to every discouraged one of the man sex. Interstate Remedy Company, 262 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich. A counter full of hundreds of neatly bound Books, which are necessary to complete the library of any school, are bound in linen cloth in a neat manner. Such authors are usually assigned by sub. Keb Irving, Hawthorne and many other authors for use. THE PLACE TO BUY YOUR USEFUL PRESENTS. Library and Table Lamps, Gas Drop- Lights Enamelled Cooking Utensils, Coal Vases, Oil, COAL & WOOD Heaters. Stoves and Ranges. N. Klein & Son, 620 E. Broad St. This is an Infant's Store. Here are a few suggestions which may come handy and they are all useful things Table full of Infants' Channel Sacques, hand-embroidered, in various new designs, all dainty colors, 65c to $2.50. Fancy Bibs, silk or muslin, lace and appliqué trimmed; some are embroidered, 35c to $1.98. Carriage Robes, embroidered Elder down or Fur, various new styles 50c to $2.50. Tiny Moccasins or Soft Sole Kid Shoes—for the little tots—black, white or colors, 25c and 50c. Infants' Baskets, various shapes and sizes, trimmed or untrimmed, 50c to $3.98. Knitted Toques, Leggins, Sweaters and Mittens to match, the entire outfit for one-half its real value. Astracchan, Jersey and Leather Leggins, sizes to 10 years, for 75c to $1.50. White Cashmere Cloaks, long or short, $1.68 to $5. Dainty White Silk Caps, same that are sold for $1.00, silt lined for 50c. $8 and $10 Colored Bear Skin. Plush and Cloth Cloaks, each, $5. Wonder Sale of 10c Articles We have filled two counters with a lot of the wanted things for little gifts that usually sell from 19c. to 39c; the price will be 10c. each. Here are a few: 39c Bronze Statue, 25c Burnt Leather Novelties, Manicure Pieces; 19c Pin Cushions, Smokers' Sets, Ink Stands, Blotters, Picture Frames, Brass Candiosticks, Children's Jap Purses, etc., any for 10c. New Neckwear Venice Lace Collar and Cuff Sets, new shape Cuffs, 25c a set. Hundreds of Fancy Lace and other Holiday Neckwear that are the best 25c values, choose any at 15c each. Ruching in boxes of 6 yards, for 12c a box. New Crepe de Chine Ties, one of the latest fads, in the solid colors, with fancy ends, in pompadour printing, hemstitched, 81 each. New Neckwear at 50c; a handsome line of all the usual 75c to 98c articles. Gift Umbrellas. Sale of Sterling Silver and Gold Handle Umbrellas, for women and men. These are Taffeta Silk, guar- anteed for one year. You can select some of the hand- somest handles that retailied to $4.50 for 2.50. Another Umbrella at $2.98 is the regular $5 value. Buster Brown Umbrellas for the little ones, with novelty handles, are only 79c; finished with cases and tassels. Classics, 8c, and 9c. r full of hundreds of neatly bound Books, necessary to complete the library of any they are bound in linen cloth or man- uals as Rusk n. Teen n. s.n. l.n.b. Ktb whorne and many others, any for Be and OUR SANTA CLAUS. Children, our Santa Claus is doing a lot of walking these days. So he says he is going to put a pedometer in his pocket to-day to tell how far he walks. He is going to tell us every day how many miles. NOW LISTEN—Every child 12 years old and under is invited to guess how many miles he will walk up to Xmas eve. If a girl guesses nearest she will be given a full dress full size $10 Doll. If a boy guesses he will get a large $9 Hobby Horse or its equivalent in any other thing in the toy store. Every child will be entitled to only one guess, and a box will be put near the front floor to deposit the guesses in.. Opera Glasses time for time Tinted Mother-of-Pearl Opera Glasses, GENUINE FRENCH MAKE, fine, chromatic lenses, in leather Moroccan case, special only for tomorrow, in 2 sizes. $4.98 and $5.98. A suggestion—Harry Ward Gold Spectacles as a Christmas Present. $ to $10 a pair, according to weight. Extra Values in Handkerchiefs 1,700 Women's Fine Embroidered Handkerchiefs, in some of the daintiest and most exquisite styles, that can be produced in Ireland or Switzerland. You may choose from this lot Handkerchiefs that are worth regularly 35c to 50c, for 25c each. Thousands of fancy Handkerchiefs at 12¾ c each; every imaginable kind in lace and embroidery; values are to 25c. Women's Hand-Embroidered Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, put up in pretty fancy boxes of three, for 75c a very dainty present. New Tape Border Hemstitched Handkerchiefs of Pure Linen are 10c each. 70 DOZEN MEN'S FINE PURE LINEN HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, in ¼, ½ and 1-inch hems; just received from New York for a quick sale; regularly they are $3.50 a dozen; these are 19c each. Another lot of Men's Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, worth $2.40 a dozen, are 12¾ c each. Thousands of Fancy Handkerchiefs, for Women and Children, in initials, plain, hemstitched and printed borders, 3c each. 116 dozen Men's regular 10c and 12½c Handkerchiefs, will be 7c each. $3.50 Silk Stockings $1.50 Women's $3.50 Silk Stockings for $1.50 a pair is one of the wonders of the Hoslery store. Some are in lace boots, others are plain—they are of pure silk in every shade; also white and black. A purchase of an immense lot by our New York syndicate from a maker who needed the ready money gives you the big saving. TO BUY YOUR PRESENTS. and Table