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THE RICHMOND PLANET A WHITE MAN THE VICTIM. U. S. Supreme Court and the Caleb Powers Case. Remands the Prisoner to the Custody of Kentucky Authorities. AN ECHO FROM THE JAMISON CASE-MR. JUSTICE,HARLAN TELLS POWERS' COUNSEL WHAT TO DO-MAY COME BACK TO WASHINGTON. THE CONDEMNED MAN MAY NOT DIE ON THE GALLOWS. "Those cases, as did the prior to the State authorities." VOL. XXIII NO 15. A WHILE U. S. Su the Cal Remands th tody of K AN ECHO FROM THE JAM ERS' COUNSEL WHAT THE CONDEMNE The United States Supreme Court March 12th, 1906, decided against Caleb Powers, who has been under sentence of death three times on the charge of complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel, of Kentucky. Justice Harlan held that the case was not removable to the Federal Court, and must be remanded to the Kentucky State courts. The opinion was based on the ground that the equal rights statute, section 641, Revised Statutes, does not apply unless recognized by State laws or State constitution. Justice Harlan said that the Supreme Court of the United States could take cognizance of the case on a writ of error. The opinion was unanimous. There were two cases: The Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Caleb Powers, an original action, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Caleb Powers, on an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Kentucky. These are the cases in which the State of Kentucky has sought to secure the conviction of Caleb Powers on the charge of complicity in the murder of William Goebel, while Powers was occupying the office of secretary of state. WAS TRIED THREE TIMES He has been tried three times by the Circuit Court of Scott County, and each time found guilty, once receiving a sentence of death, and twice to life imprisonment, but the Kentucky Court of Appeals interfered in each instance to prevent the execution of the verdict. Last May the case was presented to Judge Cochran, sitting in the United States Circuit Court for the eastern district of Kentucky, and he granted a writ of habeas corpus, ordering removal from the State courts to his court. The proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States, which terminated to-day were instituted by the State of Kentucky for the purpose of securing the restoration of the case to the State Courts. Hence practically the only question involved was that of jurisdiction. Two modes of procedure were resorted to. One of these was an appeal from the order of Judge Cochran granting removal to his court, and the other a petition for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Cochran to remand the case to the State courts and restore Powers to the custody of the sheriff of Scott County. The removal of the case from the State to the Federal Court was secured on the ground that Powers had been so discriminated against in the State courts as to deny him the equal protection of the law as defined by section 641 of the Revised Statutes. In support of this contention it was represented that in summoning the juries in the trial court, preference was given to Goebel Democrats over Republicans and Independent Democrats. JUSTICE HARLAN SUMS UP After quoting a number of decisions, Justice Harlan summed up the result as follows: "In each of these cases it was distinctly adjudged, in harmony with previous cases, that the words in section 641 did not give the right of removal, unless the Constitution or the laws of the State in which the criminal prosecution was pending, denied or prevented the enforcement in the judicial tribunals of such State of the equal rights of the accused as secured by any law of the United States. ones, expressly held that there was no right of removal under section 641, where the alleged discrimination against the accused, in respect to his equal rights, was due to the illegal or corrupt acts of administrative officers unauthorized by the Constitution or laws of the State, as interpreted by its highest court. For wrongs of that character the remedy, it was held, is in the State court, and ultimately in the power of this court, upon writ of error." Justice Harlan in discussing the contention that there has been a conspiracy to take Power's life, and that he could not secure a fair trial said: "It is true, that looking alone at the case, as made by the petition for removal, the trials of the accused make an exhibition of misconduct on the part of administrative officers connected with those trials which may well shock all who love justice and recognize the right of every human being, accused of crime, to be tried according to law. Further, the case as made by the record, it must be conceded tends to show, if it does not justify the he lief, that administrative officers, having connection with the trial of the accused had in mind, at each trial, to exclude from the jury, so far as it was possible to do so, every person, however competent, who belonged to the same political party as the accused." NOT DEPRIVED OF RIGHTS Pointing out a means for bringing the case to the Supreme Court, the Justice said: "Under this holding, the accused is not deprived of the opportunity to have his rights of whatever nature, which are secured or guaranteed to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, fully protected by a Federal court. But, it is said that the action of the trial court in refusing to quash the indictment or the panel of petit jurors, although the motion to quash was based on Federal grounds, cannot, under the laws of Kentucky, be reviewed by the Court of Appeals, the highest court of that Commonwealth. "If such be the law of Kentucky, as declared by the statutes and by the Court of Appeals of that Commonwealth, then, after the case is disposed of in that court by final judgment, in respect of the matters of which, under the local law, it may take cognizance, a writ of error can run from this court to the trial court as the highest court of Kentucky in which a decision of the Federal question could be had; and this court in that event, upon writ of error, reviewing the final judgment of the trial court, can exercise such jurisdiction in the case as may be necessary to vindicate any right, privilege, or immunity specially set up or claimed under the Constitution and laws of the United States, and in respect of which the decision of the trial court is made final by the local law—that is, it may re-examine the judgment of the trial court so far as it involved the Federal right, privilege, or immunity asserted and denied." Disposing finally, of the two cases before the court, he remarked: "We are all of opinion that the order awarding th writ of habeas corpus cumcaus must be reversed, with directions to set aside that order as well as the order docketing the case in the Circuit Court of the United States; also, that the rule in relation to mandamus must be made absolute, the prosecution remanded to the State court, and the custody of the accused surrendered to the State authorities." FROM HOT SPRINGS The Literary Work There- Hot Springs, Va. Mch. 3, 1906. To the Editor of the Ricamon M PLANET. Dear Sir: Please allow me a small space in your very valuable paper to state the doings of the Excelsior Literary Society of this place. This Society is one of the most interesting organizations of the Negro Race. It is composed of intelligent and refined young people from various parts of the world and governed by the waiters of the Homestead Hotel, of which Mr. R. N. Smith is Headwaiter, Mr. S. D. Pannell, second and Mr. S. H. Rosq, secretary. On last Wednesday evening the society was reorganized for the spring and the following officers were installed: Mr. F. Robinson, President; Mr. George Kidd, Vice President; Mr. J. Scott, Secretary; Mrs. B. J. Wood, Corresponding Secretary; Mr. Jones, Editor of Hot Springs' Siftings; Mr. R. Richardson, Treasurer, Mr. G. R. Wood, Sergt-at-Arms, Mr. W. P. Daven port, Chaplain. Mr. S. D. Pannell gave the installation address. His talk on "The Progress of the Negro Race" was very creditable. The President, Mr Robinson, gave the responsive address after which the Orchestra gave some very fine music. Mr. R. N. Smith highly complimented Mr. Pannell and Mr. Robinson on their addresses and promised to do more for the society than he was able to express. Five minutes were given to each speaker to give their opinion on Literary work. Mr. N. A. Berry, a lover of literary work, made it plain that a great responsibility rested on the President and his co-officers to make the society a success. His remarks were received with applause. Mr. Jones, the Editor assured the society that he would make every effort to bring up the humorous side of the programme. Prof. Watkins, one of the pillars of the literary work here, spoke of the efforts each individual should exercise to uplift the society. The Vice President Mr. Kidd and Mr. Davenport said all that was left to them was to corroborate what had been said. Mr. Davenport complimented in the highest terms the orchestra for their splendid music. Others spoke of their feelings toward the work. On a whole all seemed enthusiastic to do what they could to make it a success. The following programme committee was appointed: Mr. George Kidd Chairman; Mr. Pogue, Secretary, Miss McFadden, Miss L. Johnson, Mrs. Cohen, Mr. W. B. Davenport, The Society closed with benediction to meet Wednesday evening, March 7th. Signed—B. J. Hollowman, P. O. Box 118. Hot Springs, Va. $100.00 Endowment Paid New York, Feb. 25th, 1906. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-calm of Sister Nancy Harris, who was a member of Martha's Court, No. 137 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Beverly Johnson, Administrator. From Plainfield, N. J. To the Editor of the PLANET, Richmond, Va. Plainfield is now enjoying one of the greatest revivals in her history. Rev. Alexander, the wide-awake and untiring minister of High Point, N. C., is the chieftain. Mt. Olive Baptist Church, where the revival is going on, was never more jubilant. Sunday was Baptising day and Rev. Alexander baptised about thirty newly converted ones, and there are more to be baptised next Sunday. Immediately after Rev. Alexander was through baptising, the pool was turned over to Rev. H. C. Ashley of the A. M. E. Church, who was there with a good many of his members, and ten or twelve candidates waiting to be baptised. It was a bit surprising to note that each of the Methodist candidates were baptised by immersion. Just before baptising Rev. Alexander preached a wonderful sermon on baptism. His text was found in Col. 2-12; Theme: "Buried and Risen with Christ in Baptism." There was barely standing room in any part of the church. The new part and the gallery were crowded beyond comfort. In the evening he preached to a still larger audience, at which service the Lord's Supper was administered and some seventy-five or eighty united with the church. It was thought at one time that the revival would close last Sunday night, but it will continue on until next Sunday night. There will be another baptising next Sunday. The factional row at the Calvary Baptist Church is still apparent. It was hoped that all would be well after the ministers of the State met at the Church last week to assist in bringing about peace. Mr. and Mrs. William Burton of 615 S. Second Street, entertained a small party of friends at dinner Sunday evening a week ago. It was a brilliant affair. Mrs. Lula Dempsey of West Third Street has been ill since Sunday. THOMAS BRIDGES Much Pleased With It. Cary, Miss, Feb. 24, 1806. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Dear Sir: Last March, nearly a year ago, I wrote you to send me your noted pa- per, "The PLANET". In reply to my request you sent a copy of the PLANET and a letter in which you stated that you judged from the tone of my card that I wanted The PLANET sent me continually and if you were under the wrong impres- sion notify you and The PLANET would be discontinued. I remained silent and The PLAN- ET has continued to be (without missing an issue) a weekly visitor to my house and I am indeed pleased with the style, tone and whole make up of The PLANET. It is a creditable publication and worty to be in any home. Every issue is encouraging, inspiring and gives promise of better things. Enclosed find Post Office Money Order for $1.50 to pay my subscription to date. You will favor me greatly to continue sending me my favorite weekly visitor, The PLANET. Respectfully From Ponds. Ala. To the PLANET. Please permit me to say that the death angel left Heaven on the 28th with a warrant to arrest the son of Mrs. Alice Jackson. He was burned a few months ago. With strict attention he lived a long while, but he is gone now. Be it resolved to the bereaved family: That you be more careful in the future than you have been in the past. Still our people are in much need of a leader, as ministers. Ignorance and idleness are sweeping the land like a cyclone. Yours as a friend, A. A. FENNELL An Enthusiastic Reader Doylestown, Pa., Jan. 6, 1906 Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., 311 North Fourth St. I will inclose Post-office money order for the sum of three dollars, ($3.00) for which I owe you for two years subscription for the PLANET, which I have received every week. Now I will ask you to continue the PLANET please for another year, for I will be lost without it in my home and shall have it sent to me as long as I am able to pay the price each year. I am as ever, yours truly, and a well-wisher of the Richmond PLANET, LAURA HICKMAN. NOTICE! Sermon to Grand Army Republic On Sunday, March 18th, 3 P. M. Rev. Dr. R. V. Peyton will preach one of his patriotic sermons to G. A. Custer Post, No. 11, G. A. R. Department of Virginia and North Carolina. The Woman's Relief Corps and the National Cemetary Association will be present. Capt. A. C. Brown is President, Rev. R. Beecher Taylor and Rev. W. H. Stokes, Chaplain will be present and take part in services. The great need of the hour is to show our admiration for the heroes of the war. Dr. Peyton will preach on the duties of all lovers of liberty. Public is invited. COL. COSBY WASHINGTON; Commanding G. A. Custer Post, No. 11, G. A. R. $100,00 Endowment Paid Suffolk, Va., March 4, 1906. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Jennie Holloman, who was a member of Bethel Court, No. 99 of Suffolk, Va. Signed—I. I. Holloman, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Julia A. Powell, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor. Cannot Do Without It. Harveysburg, O., Feb. 15, 196. Mr. Mitchell, Dear sir: Enclosed find money order worth $3.00, which is my account due you. It seems out of the question to do without the PLANET. Yours sincerely, W. W. CURTIS. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES —Sir W. W. Gailes of South Boston, Va., called on us. —The many friends of Mr. David Hayes of 121 E. 20th St., Manchester, Va., are very glad to know that he is improving. —At Fifth Street Baptist Church under the auspices of B. Y. P. U. Tuesday night, 8:30 o'clock, March 20th, 1906 Mrs. L. S. Edwards will deliver a special address. Subject: An Hour of Action. Public invited. Free. At a meeting of the Petersburg Hospital Association held last week it was decided to name the hospital now in course of erection the "Dunbar Memorial Hospital," in memory of lamented poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar. —Atlanta University again defeats Fisk in their second annual debate in Nashville on last Friday night. It was Fisk's time to choose both the side of the subject it would defend and the judges. The decision was, unanimous in favor of Atlanta. —The Fifth Baptist Church is still rejoicing over the great sermon preached by Rev. Dr. R. V. Peyton on the 9th at 3:00 P. M. The itself Mt. Zion Choir covered its in glory with charming music. The collection was $20.00. The Christian Aid Club, Mrs. W. F. Graham, President is happy. Great is Dr. Peyton. Notice! There will be a grand Mass Meeting at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Tuesday Eve, March 20, 1906, at 8 P. M. for the benefit of Juvenile Department, Bands of Calanthe, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Court of Virginia. A grand programme has been arranged for the occasion. All Court members and Pythians are invited, also the public. We hope this meeting will be of benefit to all. Much Money Paid. The Fifth Baptist Church on the first Monday night had a large and very interesting church meeting. The very best of spirit exists among them. Dr. Graham presided and the Church voted unanimously to fix the fifth Sunday in April as a rally day for the Baptist State Convention. It is expected that this Church will make the greatest showing it has ever made in May when the Convention meets at Norfolk. The Church voted to give the afternoon services on Sunday (except third Sundays) to the young people's union. It also voted that hereafter there will be one prayer meeting a week and that on each Wednesday night. During his six week's pastorate two hundred and fourteen dollars ($214.00) have been paid on debt and all current expenses met. ____:o:____ WANTED-By Chicago wholesale and mail order house, assistant manager (man or woman) for this county and adjoining territory. Salary $20 and expenses paid weekly; expense money advanced. Works pleasant; position permanent. No investment or experience required. Spare time valuable. Write at once for full particulars and enclose self-addressed envelope. SUPERINTENDENT, 122 Lake St., Chicago, IL. CONTRACTS AWARDED Main Buildings of Jamestown Exposition to Be Completed This Summer. Norfolk, Va., March 14.—The Jamestown Exposition company has awarded contracts for erecting its two main exhibit buildings. Each of these buildings will be over 600 feet in length and 250 feet in width, and will have approximately 160,000 feet of floor space, exclusive of galleries. There is a penalty clause in the contract for any delay in delivery of the buildings from the 1st of September, 1906. It is estimated by the chief engineer of the company that all the exposition preparatory work will be ready six months before the date set for the opening of the celebration, April 26, 1907. Many of the streets are planted with double rows of shade trees and all of the main boulevards have planting places in center already filled and shaded paths on either side. Plans for all the main exhibition halls will be finished within the current month. VICTIM OF PLOTTERS Cattle On Mrs. Strawbridge's Farm Mysteriously Poisoned. Mount Holly, N. J., March 12.—A number of valuable thoroughbred cattle belonging to Mrs. Esther R. Strawbridge, of Moorestown, were the victims of arsenical poisoning. One of the animals was a handsome bull that had been sold the day previous for $500, and was to have been shipped Saturday. The police think the poison was administered by some person, or persons, who had become embittered against Mrs. Strawbridge because she offered a large reward for the capture of the slayers of Miss Florence Allinson, for whose murder Rufus Johnson and George Small are to be banged on March 24. It was on Mrs. Strawbridge's farm that the murder was committed. $60,000 For University of Virginia. Richmond, Va., March 13.—Announcement was made at the University of Virginia of two gifts to the institution aggregating $50,000, one of $50,000 from Charles Steele of the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Company, New York, a master of arts of the university and an enthusiastic alumnus of the institution, and the other $10,000 from Miss Helen Gould, of New York. Both sums will be expended in the completion of the university hospital, which, when finished, will constitute a chain of five buildings. Miss Gould's gift is to provide a ward for colored patients at the hospital. Want a "Closed" Cemetery Want a "Closed" Cemetery. Chicago, March 13.—A movement took shape looking to the establishment of a "union" cemetery, and within a month or two a plot of ground large enough for 5000 graves will be reserved strictly for unionists. The joint Cigar Makers' Unions have appropriated $15,000 to carry out the scheme. They do not intend to keep the cemetery for the benefit of members of their own trade only, but will throw open the gates to other unions of Chicago. It is expected that the rest of the 750 labor organizations here will join in the plan. Killed Father Playing "Hold-Up." Tampa, Florida, March 13.—Playing "Hold-up," Charles Ryals, 10 years old, pointed a shotgun at his father, J. O. Ryals, a well-known farmer, at Branchton, and crying "hands up," pulled the trigger. The gun was loaded, and the charge entered the father's breast, causing death in a few minutes. The boy believed the gun was not loaded. Wilmington Banker Dead. Wilmington, Del., March 13.—Henry G. Bennion, who since 1872 until recently has been president of the Bank of Delaware, died here. Mr. Bennion was 90 years of age and was well known in financial circles throughout the east. PRICE FIVE CENTS A Farmers' Conference will be held at the John A. Dix Industrial School, Friday, March 30th, at 10: 30 A. M. The Conference will be addressed by Mr. W. J. Spillman, of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Mr. McKay Mc Neil, Instructor in Agriculture, St. Paul Normal and Industrial Institute, and Mr. F. D. Bushee, of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Subjects relating to local crops and the improvement of the soil will be given special consideration. The Conference will mean much to the farmers of this section of Virginia. You and your brother farmers are cordially invited to attend. Kindly indicate by the 26th, whether or not you plan to be present. Respectfully yours. JAS. M. COLSON, Supt. Emancipation Notes. The Afro-American Emancipation Association will hold special services at River View Baptist Church on Sunday, March 18th, at 3:30 P.M. and at 8 P.M. The pastor of the Church, Rev. West, will preach at 3:30 and Rev. Thomas A. Green, pastor of Third Street A. M. E. Church will preach at 8 P.M. The Association desires all colored people to come to this meeting to hear the reasons for our celebration on April 3rd. J. C. RANDOLPH, President Afro-American Emancipation Association. FOR RENT—By the first of April, four room house with a cellar. It is situated in a beautiful location, in front of the Shmitz Park Rents for $20.00 a month. Apply JOSEPH EVANS, care Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh, Pa. PICTURES! We sell all kinds, from Five Cents up. Send for our List. Agents Wanted. KNOX HOWARD, Box 509, Atlantic City, N. J. 4t WANTED—A woman to take charge of a kitchen and cook only. Apply. Emancipation Notes. The Afro-American Emancipation Association desires to announce to the public that there will be no two parades on April 3rd as some have made the impression. All organizations marching in the street on that day will be under the banner of the Afro-American Emancipation Association. A special feature of the parade this year will be a large number of our business men in line with their floats. We want the business of the race represented this year. At the grounds there will be a choir of 500 voices to sing patriotic airs. There will be visitors from far and near and addresses will be made by many distinguished speakers. The School Board has granted holiday to all schools in the city on that day. All organizations desiring to take part will communicate with the Sec retary, J. Thomas Hewin, 603 N. Second Street. J. C. RANDOLPH, President Afro-American Emancipation Association. Pythian Anniversary. The anniversary exercises of the lodges of this city will be held Sunday, March 25th, 1906 at the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church at 3 P.M. The anniversary of the Courts of Calanthe will be held at the Fifth Street Baptist Church March 25th, 1906 at night at 8:30 o'clock Do You Know Them? I desire to know the whereabouts of some of my people. My uncle was named Henry Payne and for a number of years was a hackman. He lived at Richmond, Va. I had two sisters, Caroline and Pattle Payne. I had two brothers, William and Champ. Payne. My mother's name was Chanie Payne. I had cousins by the name of George and Carter Johnson. Any information will be gladly received by MRS. CORAH PAYNE REED, 8 Main Street, Everett, Mass. THE MAN ON THE BOX By HAROLD MacGRATH Author of "The Grey Cloak," "The Puppet Crown." Copyright, 1904. The Bobba-Merrill Company. CHAPTER I.—Introduces the heroe, Robert Warburton, a well to do West Point graduate on duty in Arizona. Afternoon wounded by an Indian resigns his commission to the army and leaves for European tour. CHAPTER II.—Introduces the heroe, Miss Betty Annesley, daughter of a retired army officer living near Washing-ton, American girl, whom Warburton has seen in Paris, is smitten, and follows to New York. Seeks introduction on board gamer but fails. Warburton is reaching New York Warburton locates in which the Annesleys are guests and dines there in order to see Miss Annesley once more. Charged to see young Russian count Annesley, the Annesleys in to dinner. Next morning the Count and the Annesleys had disappeared. CHAPTER IV.—Warburton goes to Washington to vist his relatives—a man south to South Africa, a moment position, and a sister engaged to an old school chum of his. Invited to accompany family to ball at British embassy, but declines. Concocts a scheme to play a joke on his sister and sister-in-law. CHAPTER V.—Warburton meets his sister's fiance whom he had not seen for eight years. Sees the folks off for a ride, all will be in jail. puts his joke into execution, which is to disguise himself as a coachman and drive his sister and sister-in-law, who must return alone, from the embassy to CHAPTER VI.—Warburton in his disguise goes to British embassy and takes the place of his brother's coachman, who mistakes him for a carriage number when called the wrong passengers without knowing it. Drives frantically about the streets pursued by mounted policemen. When pursued by a police officer and throws his arms about the first of his passengers to alight, who proves to be Miss Anneesley instead of his sister. CHAPTER VII.—Warburton is arrested on a charge of drunkenness and absurdity and locked up over night. In police court, where he has given the name of James Osborne, the charge of abduction is withdrawn, as is the fine $5 for drunkenness, note to be knock, "his old chum, telling of his trouble." CHAPTER VIII. "Chuck" takes suit of clothes and money to pay the fine to him, and jacket and fine one has been paid. Warburton, in name of Miss Annesley, receives note from Miss Annesley offering him position of coachman, and Warburton, in spite of protections of his friend, accuses him to explain his disappearance to his relatives, by stating that he had gone north suddenly on a hunting trip. Warburton, in name of Miss Annesley, after closely questioning Warburton (known to her as James Osborne) at her home, hires him on probation. While being sive to ride the stables pressed sive to ride the optionally vicious thoroughbred called Pirate. With Miss Annesley's permission she saddles and mounts the horse which immediately chained CHAPTER X. After a fierce struggle Warburton succeeds in mastering Pirate in the presence of Miss Annesley but receives no word of praise interrupted by an insult. Annesley and whichever he tells her that he has invited the young Russian Count Karloff to dine with them on the river. Warburton assumes his duties as groom to Miss Annesley and meets the other servants, a French chef, a maid of the same nationality and a stable boy. Takes his first ride and is further questioned about his past. CHAPTER XII-The French chef gives Warburton lesson in serving at table as he is to act as butler at a dinner table. He is to serve a groom a shock when she orders him to drive her for a call on his sister. Fortunately he is not recognized by any of his relatives. CHAPTER XIII-Four days pass and Warburton becomes an accomplished butler; has met Count Karloff twice and has not been recognized. Miss Annelesy takes a notion to ride Pirate who runs the ship with the great difficulty as a resident with great difficulty by Warburton. CHAPTER XIV-While driving Miss Annelesy in the city Warburton meets his friend "Chuck", who guys him unmercifully. He is the count of his old regiment who recognizes him but keeps his own council. CHAPTER XV-An account of the downfall of Col. Annelesy, who previously to the opening of this story lost his own and his daughter's money at Monte Carlo, where he met a Russian diplomat Count Karloff, who loans him $30,000 and tempts him by showing how he can make $200,000 by betraying his country, by furnishing him with a new coat. CHAPTER XVI.-Count Karloff and Mrs. Chadwick while preparing to go to Miss Anneley's dinner talk over a previous love affair between them, and of course she has once refused his offer of marriage. Mrs. Chadwick, who still loves the count, notified him that she has the power to destroy his future prospects and to prevent her from being married. CHAPTER XVII.-After some final instructions Warburton discharges the duties of butler so well that at Miss Anneley's dinner he attracts the attention of his former commanding officer, Mr. Warburton, who is invited to host regarding him and tells Miss Anneley stories of his doings as a soldier. CHAPTER XVIII.-After his duties as butler were over Warburton goes outside and stands under the bow window listening to the music. Miss Anneley appears to be in a state of exhaustion after refusing another proposal from Count Karloff, she throws away a rose which she has been fondling. After she had returned to the house Warburton searches for and finds the flower, she is in a state of joy. Religion, who demands an explanation of his conduct CHAPTER XIX.-Col. Raleigh accompanies Warburton to his room in the stable and listens to an account of his illness and to the neesley. The colonel decides not to expose the masquerader but gives him some fatherly advice. CHAPTER XX.-A stevepeple's timely fall and the consequent soot and dirt from his clothing when his sister, Nancy, calls on Miss Annesley. While on a chance visit to the library Warburton discovers the fortification on a shopping expedition to the city and for a call on Mrs. Chadwick, who warns her girl friend against Karloff. Miss Annesley compels Warburton to give up the rose she had thrown away in the night before. CHAPTER XII-Dramatic scene in the Annesley home when Karloff calls to pay the $200,000 to the colonel for the betrayal of her husband by carrying off the fortifications. Karloff demands the colonel's daughter on pain of exposure. Miss Annesley overhears the words and pleads on her knees for mercy. Warburton appears at an opportunity and throws packets of plans in tree. THE DRAMA UNBOLLS It is half after eight; the curtains rises; the music of a violin is heard coming from the music-room. Col. Anderson is discovered sitting in front of TWO CHAPTER XXII. the wood fire, his chin sunk on his breast, his hands hanging listlessly on each side of the chair, his face deeply lined. From time to time he looks at the clock. I can imagine no sorrier picture than that of this loving, tender-hearted, wretched old man as he sits there, waiting for Karloff and the ignominious end. Fortune gone with the winds, poverty leering into his face, shame drawing her red fingers across his brow, honor in sackcloth and ashes! And but two short years ago there had not been in all the wide land a more contented man than himself, a man with a conscience freer. God! Even yet he could hear the rolling, whirring ivory ball as it spun the circle of that night at Monte Carlo. Man does not recall the Intermediate steps of his fall, only the first step and the last. In his waking hours the colonel always heard the sound of it and it rattled through his troubled dreams. He could not understand how everything had gone as it had. It seemed impossible that in two years he had dissipated a fortune, sullen his honor, beggared his child. It was all so like a horrible dream. If only he might wake: if only God would be so merciful as to permit him to wake! He hid his face. There is no hell save conscience makes it. The music launched and sighed and laughed. It was the music of love and youth: joyous, rollicking, pulsing music. The colonel sprang to his feet suddenly, his hands at his throat. He was suffocating. The velns gnarled on his neck and brow. There was in his heart a pain as of many knives. His arms fell: of what use was it to struggle? He was caught, trapped in a net of his own contriving. Softly he crossed the room and stood by the portiere beyond which was the music-room. She was happy, happy in her youth and ignorance! she could play all those sprightly measures, her spirit as light and conscience-free; she could sing, she could laugh, she could dance. And all the while his heart was breaking, breaking! "How shall I face her mother?" he groaned. The longing which always seizes the guilty to confess and relieve the mind came over him. If only he dared rush in there, throw himself at her feet, and stammer forth his wretched tale! She was of his flesh, of his blood; when she knew she would not wholly condemn him . . . No, no! He could not. She honored and trusted him now; she had placed him on so high a pedestal that it was utterly impossible for him to distillion her young mind, to see for ever and ever the mute reproach in her honest eyes, to feel that though his arm encircled her she was beyond his reach . . . God knew that he could not tell this child of the black gulf he had digged for himself and her. The bell sang its buzzing note; there was the sound of crunching wheels on the driveway; the music ceased abruptly. Silence. A door opened and closed. A moment or so later Karloff, preceded by the girl, came into the study. She was grave because she remembered Mrs Chadwick. He was grave also; he had various reasons for being so. "Father, the count tells me that he has an engagement with you," she said. She wondered if this appointment in any way concerned her. "It is true, my child. Leave us and give orders that we are not to be disturbed." She scrutinized him sharply. How strangely hollow his voice sounded! Was he ill? "Father, you are not well. Count, you must promise me not to keep him long, however important this interview may be. He is ill and needs rest," and her loving eyes caressed each line of care in her parent's furrowed cheeks. Annesley smiled reassuringly. It took all the strength of his will, all that remained of a high order of courage, to create this smile. He wanted to cry out to her that it was a lie, a mockery. Behind that smile his teeth grated. "I shall not keep him long, Mademoiselle," said the count. He spoke gently, but he studiously avoided her eyes. She hesitated for a moment on the threshold; she knew not why. Her lips even formed words, but she did not speak. What was it? Something oppressed her. Her gaze wandered indecisively from her father to the count, from the count to her father. "When you are through," she finally sald, "bring your cigars into the musicroom." "With the greatest pleasure, Mademoiselle," replied the count. "And play, if you so desire; our business is such that your music will be as a pleasure added." Her father nodded; but he could not force another smile to his lips. The brass rings of the portiere rattled, and she was gone. But she left behind a peculiar tableau, a tableau such as is formed by those who stand upon ice which is about to sink and engulf them. The two men stood perfectly still. I doubt not that each experienced the same sensation, that the same thought occurred to each mind, though it came from different avenues: love and shame. The heart of the little clock on the mantel beat tick-tock, tick-tock; a log crackled and fell between the froms sending up a shower of evanescent sparks; one of the long windows giving out upon the veranda creaked mysteriously. Karloff was first to break the snell. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA He made a gesture which was eloquent of his distaste of the situation. "Let us terminate this as quickly as possible," he said. "Yes, let us have done with it before I lose my courage," replied the colonel, his voice thin and quavering. He wiped his forehead with his hand-kerchief. His hand shone white and his nails darkly blue. The count stepped over to the table, reached into the inner pocket of his coat, and extracted a packet. In this packet was the enormous sum of $180,000 in notes of $1,000 denomination: that is to say, 180 slips of paper redeemable in gold by the government which had issued them. On top of this packet lay the colonel's note for $20,000. (It is true that Karloff never accepted money from his government in payment for his services; but it is equally true that for every penny he laid out he was reimbursed by Russia.) Karloff placed the packet on the table, first taking off the note, which he carelessly tossed beside the banknotes. "You will observe that I have not bothered with having your note discounted. I have fulfilled my part of the bargain; fulfill yours." The count thrust his trembling hands into his trousers pockets. He desired to hide this embarrassing sign from his accomplice. Annesley went to a small safe which stood at the left of the fireplace and returned with a packet somewhat bulkier than the count's. He dropped it beside the money, shudderingly, as though he had touched a poisonous viper. "My honor," he said simply. "I had never expected to sell it so cheap." There was a pause, during which neither man's gaze swerved from the other's. There was not the slightest, not even the remotest, fear of treachery; each man knew with whom he was dealing; yet there they stood, as if fascinated. One would have thought that the colonel would have counted his money, or Karloff his plans; they did neither. Perhaps the colonel wanted Karloff to touch the plans first, before he touched the money; perhaps Karloff had the same desire, only the other way around. The colonel spoke. "I believe that is all," he said quietly. The knowledge that the deed was done and that there was no retreat gave back to him a particle of his former coolness and strength of mind. It had been the thought of committing the crime that had unnerved him. Now that his bridges were burned, a strange, unnatural calm settled over him. The count evidently was not done. He moistened his lips. There was a dryness in his throat. "It is not too late," he said; "I have not yet touched them." "We shall not indulge in moralizing, if you please," interrupted the colonel, with savage irony. "The moment for that has gone by." "Very well." Karloff's shoulders settled; his jaws became aggressively angular; some spirit of his predatory forbears touched his face here and there, hardening it. "I wish to speak in regard to your daughter." "Enough! Take my honor and be gone!" The colonel's voice was loud and rasping. Karloff rested his hands on the table and inclined his body toward the colonel. "Listen to me," he began. "There is in every man the making and the capacity of a great rascal. Time and opportunity alone are needed—and a motive. The other night I told you that I could not give up your daughter. Well, I have not given her up. She must be my wife." "Must?" The colonel clenched his hands. "Must. To-night I am going to prove myself a great rascal—with a great motive. What is Russia to me? Nothing. What is your dishonor or my own? Less than nothing. There is only one thing, and that is my love for your daughter." He struck the table and the flame of the student-lamp rose violently. "She must be mine, mine! I have tried to win her as an honorable man tries to win the woman he loves; now she must be won by an act of rascality. Heaven nor hell shall force me to give her up. Yes, I love her; and I lower myself to your level to gain her." "To my level! Take care, I am still a man with a man's strength," cried the colonel. Karloff swept his hands across his forehead. "I have lied to myself long enough, and to you. I can see now that I have been working solely toward one end. My country is not to be considered, neither is yours. Do you realize that you stand wholly and completely in my power?" He ran his tongue across his lips, which burned with fever. "What do you mean?"—hoarsely. "I mean that your daughter must become my wife, or I shall notify your government that you have attempted to betray it." "You dishonorable wretch!" The colonel balled his fists and protruded his nether lip. Only the table stood between them. "That term or another, it does not matter. The fact remains that you have sold to me the fortification plans of your country; and though it be in times of peace, you are none the less guilty and culpable. Your daughter shall be my wife." "I had rather strangle her with these hands!" - passionately. "Well, why should I not have her for my wife? Who loves her more than I? I am rich; from hour to hour, from day to day, what shall I not plan to make her happy? I love her with all the fire and violence of my race and blood. I can not help it. I will not, can not live without her! Good God, yes! I recognize the villainy of my action. But I am mad to night." "So I perceive." The colonel gazed wildly about the walls for a weapon. There was not even the usual ornamental dagger. A window again stirred mysteriously. A few drops of rain splashed on the glass and zigzagged down to the seash. "Snowy or later your daughter must know. Request her presence, it rests with her, not with you, as to what course I must follow." Karloff was extraordinarily pale, and his dark eyes reflecting the dancing flames, sparkled like rubies. He saw the birth of horror in the elder's eyes, saw it grow and grow. He saw the colonel's lips move spasmodically, but utter no sound. What was it he saw over his (the count's) shoulders and beyond? Instinctively he turned, and what he saw chilled the heat of his blood. There stood the girl, her white dress marble-white against the dark wine of the portiere, an edge of which one hand clutched convulsively. Was it Medusa's beauty or her magic that turned men into stone? My recollection is at fault. At any rate, so long as she remained motionless, neither man had the power to stir. She held herself perfectly erect; every fiber in her young body was tense. Her beauty became weirdly powerful, masked as it was with horror, doubt, shame, and reproach. She had heard; little or much was of no consequence. In the heat of their variant passions, the men's volces had risen to a pitch that penetrated beyond the room. Karloff was the first to recover, and he took an involuntary step toward her; but she waved him back disdainfully. "Do not come near me. I loathe you!" The voice was low, but every note was strained and unmusical. He winced. His face could not have stung or burned more hotly had she struck him with her hand. "Mademoiselle!" She ignored him. "Father, what does this mean?" "Agony!" The colonel fell back into his chair, pressing his hands over his eyes. "I will tell you what it means!" cried Karloff, a rage possessing him. He had made a mistake. He had misjudged both the father and the child. He could force her into his arms, but he would always carry a burden of hate. "It means that this night you stand in the presence of a dishonored parent, a man who has squandered your inheritance over gambling tables, and who, to recover these misused sums, has sold to me the principal fortificator plans of his country. That is what it means, Mademoiselle." She grasped the portiere for support. "Father, is this thing true?" Her voice fell to a terror-striken whisper. "Oh, it is true though," said Karloff. "God knows that it is true enough. But it rests with you to save him. Become my wife, and yonder fire shall swallow his dishonor—and mine. Refuse, and I shall expose him. After all, love is a primitive state, and with it we go back to the beginning; before it honor or dishonor is nothing. Tonight there is nothing, nothing in the world save my love for you, and the chance that has given me the power to force you to be mine. What a fury and a tempest love produces! It makes an honorable man of the knave, a rascal of the man of honor; it has topled thrones, destroyed nations, obliterated races . . . Well, I have become a rascal. Mademoiselle, you must become my wife." He lifted his handsome head resolutely. Without giving him so much as a glance, she swept past him and sank on her knees at her father's side, taking his hands by the wrists and pressing them down from his face. "Father, tell him he lies. Tell him he lies!" Ah, the entreaty, the love, the anxiety, the terror that blended her tones! He strove to look away. "Father, you are all I have," she cried brokenly. "Look at me! Look at me and tell him that he heles! You will not look at me? God have mercy on me, it is true then!" She rose and spread her arms toward heaven to entreat God to witness her despair. "I did not think or know that such base things were done . . . That these loving hands should have helped to encompass my father's dishonor, his degradation! . . . For money! What is money? You knew, father, that what was mine was likewise yours. Why did you not tell me? I should have laughed; we should have begun all over again; I could have earned a living with my music; we should have been honest and happy. And now! . . . And I drew those plans with a heart full of love and happiness. Oh, it is not that you gambled, that you have foolishly wasted a fortune; it f. . . not these that hurt here,"—pressing her heart. "It is the knowledge that you, my father, should let me draw those horrible things. It hurts! Ah, how it hurts!" A sob choked her. She knelt again at her parent's side and flung her arms around the unhappy, wretched man. "Father, you have committed a crime to shield a foolish act. I know, I know! What you have done you did for my sake, to give me back what you thought was my own. Oh, how well I know that you had no thought of yourself; it was all for me, and I thank God for that. But something has died here, something here in my heart. I have been so happy! . . . too happy! My poor father!" She laid her head against his breast. "My heart is broken! Would to God that I might die!" Annesley threw one arm across the back of the chair and turned his face to his sleeve. Karloff, a thousand arrows of regret and shame and pity quivering in his heart, viewed the scene moodily, doggedly. No, he could not go back; there was indeed a wall behind him: pride. "Well. Mademoiselle?" She turned, still on her knees. "You say that if I do not marry you, you will ruin my father, expose him?" "Yes,"—thinly. "Listen. I am a proud woman, yet will I beg you not to do this horrible thing—force me into your arms. Take everything, take all that is left; you can not be so utterly base as to threaten such a wrong. See!"—extending her lovely arms, "I am on my knees to you!" "My daughter!" cried the father. "Do not interrupt me, father; he will retent; he is not wholly without joy." "No, no! No, no!" Karloff exclaimed, turning his head aside and repelling with his hands, as if he would stamp out the fires of pity which, at the sound of her voice, had burst anew in his heart. "I will not give you up!" She drew her sleeves across her eyes and stood up. All at once she wheeled upon him like a lioness protecting its young. In her wrath she was as magnificent as the wife of Aneacas at the funeral pyre of that great captain. "She knew! That was why she asked me all these questions; that is why she exacted those promises! Mrs. Chadwick knew and dared not tell me! And I trusted you as a friend, as a gentleman, as a man of honor!" Her laughter rang out wildly. "And for these favors you bring dishonor! Shame! Shame! Your wife? Have you thought well of what you are about to do?" "So well," he declared, "that I shall proceed to the end, to the very end." How beautiful she was! And a mad desire urged him to spring to her, crush her in his arms, and force upon her lips a thousand mad kisses! "Have you weighed well the consequences?" "Upon love's most delicate scales." "Have you calculated what manner of woman I am?"—with subdued fierceness. "To me you are the woman of all women." "Do you think that I am a faint-hearted girl? You are making a mistake. I am a woman with a woman's mind, and a thousand years would not alter my utter contempt of you. Force me to marry you, and as there is a God above us to witness, every A man in a long coat is stepping on a fireplace. DROPPED IT INTO THE FIRE. moment of suffering you now inflict upon me and me, I shall give back a day, a long, bitter, galling day. Do you think that it will be wise to call me countess?" Her scorn was superb. "I am waiting for your answer. Will you be my wife, or shall I be forced to make my villainy definitive? "Permit me to take upon these shoulders the burden of answering that question," said a voice from the window. Warburton, dressed in his stable clothes and leggings, hatless and drenched with rain, stepped into the room from the veranda and quickly crossed the intervening space. Before any one of the tragic group could recover from the surprise caused by his unexpected appearance, he had picked up the packet of plans and had droop: it into the fire. Then he leaned with his back against the mantel and faced them, or rather Kroff, of whom he was not quite sure. CHAPTER XXIII SOMETHING ABOUT HEROES. From Warburton's dramatic entrance upon the scene to Karloff's first movement, scarce a minute has passed, though to the girl and her father an eternity seemed to come and go. Karloff was a brave man. Upon the instant of his recovery he sprang toward Warburton, silently and with premeditation: he must regain some fragment of those plans. He would not, could not, suffer total defeat before this girl's eyes; his blood rebelled against the thought. He expected the groom to strike him, but James simply caught him by the arms and thurst him back. "No, Count; no, no; they shall burn to the veriest crisp!" "Stand aside, lackey!" cried Karloff, a sob of rage strangling him. Again he rushed upon Warburton, his clenched hand uplifted. Warburton did not even raise his hands this time. So they stood, their faces within a hand's span of each other, the one smiling coldly, the other in the attitude of striking a blow. Karloff's hand fell unexpectedly, but not on the man in front of him. "Good God, no! a gentleman does not strike a lackey! Stand aside, stand aside!" "They shall burn, Count,"—quietly; "they shall burn, because I am physically the stronger." Warburton turned quickly and with the toe of his boot shifted the glowing packet and renewed the flames. "I never realized till tonight that I loved my country half so well. Lackey? Yes, for the present." He had not looked at the girl. "Ah!" Karloff cried, intelligence lighting his face. "You are no lackey!"—subduing his voice. James smiled. "You are quite remarkable." "Who are you? I demand to know!" "First and foremost. I am a citizen of the United States; I have been a soldier besides. It was my common right to destroy these plans, which indirectly menaced my country's safety. These."—pointing to the banknotes, "are yours, I believe. Nothing further requires your presence here." "Yes, yes; I remember now! Fool that I have been!" Karloff struck his forehead in helpless rage. "I never observed you closely till now. I recall. The secret service: Europe, New York, Washington; you have known it all along. Spy!" "That is an epithet which easily rebounds. Spy? Why yes; I do for my country what you do for yours." "The name, the name! I can not recollect the name! The beard is gone, but that does not matter."—excitedly. Warburton breathed easier. While he did not want the girl to know who he was just then, he was glad that Karloff's memory had taken his thought away from the grate and its valuable but rapidly disappearing fuel. "Father! Father, what is it?" cried the girl, her voice keyed to agony. "Father!" The two men turned about. Annesley had fainted in his chair. Both Warburton and Karloff mechanically started forward to offer aid, but she repelled their approach. "Do not come near me; you have done enough. Father, dear!" She slapped the colonel's wrists and unloosed his collar. The antagonists, forgetting their own battle, stood silently watching hers. Warburton's mind was first to clear and without a moment's hesitation he darted from the room and immediately returned with a glass of water. He held it out to the girl. Their glances clashed; a thousand mute, angry questions in her eyes, a thousand mute, humble answers in his. She accepted the glass, and her hand trembled as she dipped her fingers into the cool depths and flecked the drops into the unconscious man's face. Meanwhile Karloff stood with folded arms, staring melancholically into the grate, where his dreams had disappeared in smoke. By and by the colonel sighed and opened his eyes. For a time he did not know where he was, and his gaze wandered mistily from face to face. Then recollection came back to him. recollection bristling with thorns. He struggled to his feet and faced Warburton. The girl put her arms around him to steady him, but he gently disengaged himself. "Are you from the secret service, sir? If so, I am ready to accompany you who you say, I, who have left my blood on many a battle-ground, was about to commit a treasonable act. Allow me first to straighten up my affairs, then you may do with me as you please. I am guilty of a crime; I have the courage to pay the penalty." His calm was extraordinary, and even Karloff looked at him with a sparkle of admiration. As a plummet plunges into the sea, so the girl's look plunged into Warburton's soul; and had he been an officer of the law, he knew that he would have utterly disregarded his duty. "I am not a secret service man, sir," he replied unevenly. "If I were"—pointing to the grate, "your plans would not have fed the fire." "Who are you, then, and what do you in my house in this guise?"—proudly. "I am your: head stable-man—for the present. It was all by chance. I came into this room yesterday to get a book on veterinary surgery. I accidently saw a plan. I have been a soldier. I knew that such a thing had no rightful place in this house. . . . I was coming across the lawn, when I looked into the window. . . . It is not for me to judge you, sir. My duty lay in destroying those plans before they harmed any one." "No, it is not for you to judge me," said the colonel. "I have gambled away my daughter's fortune. To keep her in ignorance of the fact and to return to her the amount I had wrongfully used, I consented to sell to Russia the coast fortification plans of my country, such as I could draw from memory. No, it is not for you to judge me; only God has the right to do that." "I am only a groom," said Warburton, simply. "What I have heard I shall forget." Ah, had he but looked at the girl's face then! A change came over Karloff's countenance; his shoulders drooped; the melancholy fire died out of his face and eyes. With an air of resignation and a clear sense of the proportion of things, he reached out and took up the note upon which Annesley had scrawled his signature. Warburton, always alert, seized the count's wrist. He saw the name of a bank and the sum of five figures. "What is this?" he demanded. "It is mine," replied the count, haughtily. Warburton released him. "He speaks truly," said the colonel. "It is his." "The hour of madness is past," the Russian began, slowly and musically. The tone was musing. He seemed oblivious of his surroundings and that three pairs of curious eyes were leveled in his direction. He studied the note, creased it, drew it through his fingers, smoothed it and caressed it. "And I should have done exactly as I threatened. There is, then, a Providence which watches jealously over the innocent? And I was a skeptic! . . . Two hundred thousand dollars."—picking up the packet of bank-notes and balancing it on his hand. "Well it is a sum large enough to tempt any man. How the plans and schemes of men crumble to the touch! Ambition is but the pursuit of mirages. . . . Mademoiselle, you will never know what the ignominy of this moment has cost me—nor how well I love you. I come of a race of men who pursue their heart's desire through fire and water. Obstacles are nothing; the end is everything. In Europe I should have won, in honor or in dishonor. But this American people, I do not quite understand them; and that is why I have played the villain to no purpose." He paused, and a sad, bitter smile played over his face. "Mademoiselle," he continued, "henceforth, wherever I may go, your face and the sound of your voice shall abide with me. I do not ask you to forget, but I ask you to forgive." Again he paused. She uttered no sound. "Well, one does not forget nor forgive these things in so short a time. And, after all, it was your father's folly. Fate threw him across my path at a critical moment—but I had re-joined without you. Your father is a brave man, for he has the courage to offer himself to the law; I have the courage to give you up. I, too, nm a soldier; I recognize the value of retreat." To Warburton he said: "A groom, a hostler, to upset such plans as these! I do not know who you are, sir, nor how to account for your timely and peculiar appearance. But I fully recognize the falseness of your presence here. Eh, well, this is what comes of race prejudice, the senseless battle which has always been and always will be waged between the noble and the peasant. Had I observed you at the proper time, our positions might relatively have been changed. Useless retrospection:" To Annesley; "Slr, we are equally culpable. Here is this note of yours. I might, as a small contribution toward righting the comparative wrong which I have done you, I might cast it into the fire. But between gentlemen, situated as we are, the act would be as useless as it would be impossible. I might destroy the note, but you would refuse to accept such generosity at my hands,—which is well." "What you say is perfectly true." The colonel drew his daughter closer to him. "So," went on the count, putting the note in his pocket, "tomorrow I shall have my ducats." "My bank will discount the note," said the colonel, with a proud look; "my indebtedness shall be paid in full." "As I have not the slightest doubt. Mademoiselle, fortune ignores you but temporarily; misfortune has brushed only the hem of your garment, as it were. Do not let the fear of poverty alarm you."-lightly. "I prophesy a great public future for you. And when you play that Largo of Handel's, to a breathless audience, who knows that I may not be hidden behind the curtain of some stall, drinking in the heavenly sound made by that loving bow? . . . Romance enters every human being's life; like love, and hate, it is primitive. But to every book fate writes finis." He thrust the bank notes carelessly into his coat pocket, and walked slowly toward the hallway. At the threshold he stopped and looked back. The girl could not resist the magnetism of his dark eyes. She was momentarily fascinated, and her heart beat painfully. "If only I might go with the memory of your forgiveness," he said. "I forgive you." "Thank you." Then Karloff resolutely proceeded; the portiere fell behind him. Shortly after she heard the sound of closing doors, the rattle of a carriage and then all became still. Thus the handsome barbarian passed from the scene. The colonel resumed his chair, his arm propped on a knee and his head bowed in his hand. Quickly the girl fell to her knees, hid her face on his breast, and regardless of the groom's presence, silently wept. "My poor child!" faltered the colonel. "God could not have intended to give you so wretched a father. Poverty and dishonor, poverty and dishonor; I who love you so well have brought you these!" Warburton, biting his trembling lips, tiptoed cautiously to the window, opened it and stepped outside. He raised his fevered face gratefully to the icy rain. A great and noble plan had come to him. As Mrs. Chadwick said, love is magnificent only when it gives all without question. TO BE CONTINUED. Modern Food "I have decided that the man who develops the country's resources and helps to provide food for the masses, is doing a most useful work," said the earnest citizen. "So you have decided to be one of the food producers?" "Yes." "Which are you going to do, run a farm or set up a chemical laboratory?" —Washington Star. Too Much. "Is it true," asked the caller, "that your husband ordered Dr. Johnson out of the house?" "Yes. My poor husband had been carrying baby every night for a week, and was run down to a shadow. I called in the doctor, and he told him to take more exercise."—Cassell's Journal. One Reason for Debt. "How is it that you are always in debt? You should be ashamed of yourself." "Come, now, don't be too hard on a fellow. You would perhaps be in debt, too, if you were in my place." "What place?" "Able to get credit."—Tit-Bits. How She Caught Him Mr. Nicefellow—Do you play or sing, Miss De Sweet? Miss De Sweet—No, Mr. Nicefellow; I have been kept so busy helping mother that I have never had time for music. "Miss De Sweet! Mabel, I love you. Be mine!"—N. Y. Weekly. Tennyson. "Oh, yes, Tennyson," said Mrs. Biggwadd, "I remember now. He was that stutterin' poet, wasn't he?" "I never heard anything about his having stutters." "Why, wasn't it him that wrote that 'Break, break, break' poem?"—Chicago Record-Herald. The Real Complaint Customer (trying to get waited on at night lunch counter)—Hero, boy! the best thing you can do is to go to bed. Inefficient Walter—Oh, it don't hurt me to lose sleep. Customer—No; I supposed not. But the thing I object to is that you don't seem to be losing any—Judge. No Comparison "I think," began the new clerk, "that I ought to get a raise. I'm certainly twice as good as my predecessor." "The fellow I 'discharged?' replied his employee. "Oh, yes, you may even say you're ten times as good as him." "Well." "Well, ten times naught is naught." Philadelphia Press. THE YOUNG SATURDAY....MARCH 17, 1906. POULTRY AND BEES How an Oil Stove Was Utilized Successfully by One California Aplarist. I have read with Interest Mr. Greiner's method of warming honey, given in a recent issue of Gleanings in Bee Culture, writes A. J. Burns, of Susdari, Cal., and quite agree with him on the desirableness of warming honey before being drawn from the tank. We used to have a saying back in Ohio, "Slow as molasses in winter." I found that honey, thick as mine is, is so slow, even in this warm country, that my patience ran out long before the honey would; and while my honey goes through a screen with meshes six to the inch in the bottom of the extractor, to keep chunks of comb out of the pipe that conducts the honey into the tank in the basement. As it leaves the pipe it passes through a fine wire ARRANGEMENT OF TANK AND OIL STOVE. screen, thence through a pretty heavy cheese-cloth before it drops into the tank; and even then enough particles of comb go through to cloud the h nay very much, and it takes a number of days standing to bring all this to the top. Three or four years ago I finally hit upon a plan that I like better than Mr. Greiner's, which is shown In the accompanying drawing. Mr. Greiner's tank, when full, weighs 400 pounds; mine, when full, weighs 4,000, which weight must have a solid, smooth bottom to rest on. I heat with hot water, which almost entirely obviates the danger of burning or over-heating. In brief, my tank has a double bottom In which are arranged a series of partitions, which, in connection with a coil of pipe outside the tank, I keep a current of hot water passing continually between the bottoms, much upon the plan of a water-back and pressure boiler used in furnishing hot water in houses, but I don't need the pressure boiler. In commenting on this plan the editor of Gleannings in Bee Culture, says: The plan for your honey-tank to be heated with hot water is excellent, although I must say that I am surprised that so small a stove would be capable of heating or warming up 4,000 pounds. But if you have tried it, and it works (and I have no reason to doubt your word), then any one else can safely make one like it. A honey-heater like yours, or the one illustrated above, would be a very valuable adjunct to an apiary, especially where large crops of honey are produced. Generally speaking, an oblong or square tank is much more expensive to make than a round one of the same capacity. The same method of heating could be applied to a round tank as well as to one oblong like the one here shown. THE POULTRY YARD. Don't give the hens mash that is hot enough to burn their crops. Wait till it cools a little. Keep something in the hen house for the hens to pick—some kind of meat, offal or cabbages. It will keep them from learning the disagreeable habit of feather-eating.—W. W. M. Wise men are discussing the difference between a fowl and a bird. One definition is that a bird carries food to its young, while a fowl leads its young to the food. Hens need sharp grit and the fact that they have a ground floor or scratching shed is no proof that they get it. The gravel may be too large, too small or too smooth. Broken crockery is the best of anything I can find. Sifted barley milk mixed up with skim milk makes a very fattening food and produces a nice white flesh. Corn meal and oatmeal mixed up with milk will give a yellow flesh and make nearly equal grains. We had 20 bushels of sweet corn, much of it was too soft and sour to feed to stock. It is the night's ration for the hens and at once it increased the egg production fivefold. The morning mash is cooked vegetables, cob meal and shorts. Fattening Fowls Before Marketing. Fattening Fowls Before Marketing. Do not send fowls to market without fattening. It is a great waste. Scrawny chickens not only bring a low price, but are unprofitable to the consumer. Pen the fowls up and feed a mask made of corn meal, wheat middlings and ground oats moistened with skim milk, for three weeks. They will not only increase in weight, but the price per pound will be enhanced. Plymouth Reck cocherele weighing two and one-half to three pounds, placed in crates, can in three weeks be made to almost double in weight declares the Farmers' Voice. Place some dry earth under shelter for use in dust bath, and on dropping boards during the winter. SEES DEATH THEN RETURNS TO LIFE WEIRD EXPERIENCE OF A NEW YORK WOMAN. Welcome Release from Earthly Existence, But Obeys Doctor's Summons to Return—Tells of Strange Sights. New York.—Pronounced dead by five eminent physicians and then brought back to life through hypnotic power exerted by Dr. John D. Quackenbos, a specialist in therapeutic suggestion—this is the curious and unrivaled experience related by a young choir singer of this city. At a recent meeting of the Entertainment club at the Waldorf, Dr. Quackenbos told of the startling outcome of his experiments, but his narrative, as astounding as it is, fades before this young woman's graphic description of her own translation to another world and the feelings of which she was conscious while her soul traversed regions entirely foreign to any known on earth. The young woman is known only as Adele. Speaking of her illness of pneumonia, she said she was given up for dead. It was then that Dr. Quackenbos was sent for. "I had lost all desire to live," she continued, "but when he called me to come back to life I responded. "In those crucial moments when my spirit hovered on the borderland the path I trod was weird and wonderful. I seemed to be in the midst of utter desolation. There were immeasurable tracts of land spread out before me, more utterly desolate and barren than one could possibly imagine. There were trees, but brown and with no leaves. The air was filled with phantom spirits, clothed apparently, but indistinct and ethereal. "I wandered through this vast area of country filled with the spirits of the departed, and always I seemed to be searching for one face—that of Dr. Quackenbos. I didn't know it was his "I SEEMED TO BE ON TRIAL FOR ALL MY MISDEEDS." until I woke to consciousness when he called me back to life. "But I suppose the picture was impressed upon my subliminal consciousness, and all the time I looked for it, but it was ever out of my reach. I just evaded me. Some one ever stepped out of the blackness to prevent my reaching it. "Then I seemed to reach a vast building with long, winding corridors and spacious rooms, in one of which sat an august court of six judges on a bench, presided over by one superior to all present, who looked upon me in compassion. I seemed to be on trial, for all my misdeeds, and every act of my life was imprinted on a massive scroll that was unrolled before my eyes. Every unkind word I had ever said, all the sins of omission as well as those of commission, stood out before me, and it seemed to me I never could forget. In fact, that seemed to be a part of the punishment that you never were to forget. "One of the strangest feelings that I experienced was the sensation of being close, as it were, 'twixi heaven and earth. The earth was far below, as I could see quite plainly, and there was that tremendous feeling of distance which was quite overpowering in its effect. "As I looked into the heavens I seemed to be among the stars. Each one looked like a huge ball of fire, but there was one directly overhead that seemed bigger and brighter than all the rest. As I looked it came to me that this particular star in some way governed my destiny, and, as I watched, it shot from the heavens as a falling star, and struck me directly on the forehead. "I can feel now the shock I had when the contact came. It was a sensation such as I never experienced before and hope never to again. I have never been able to state whether that was the exact psychological moment when Dr. Quackenbos called to me or not, but I believe it was." Same Old Sleeve Fair Traveler—I've only just returned from Central Africa, you know. Now, tell me about everything. What's the favorite sort of sleeve now, and how's it worn? Fair Stay-at-Home—Oh, just the same as usual. Fair Traveler—What's that? Fair Stay-at-Home — Man's coat sleeve, reound the waist, of course! Would Be in the Bill First Lawyer—Don't you think we are giving our client unnecessary trouble? Second Lawyer—Yes, but we'll charge him for it—Tit-Bits. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Animal Follows Flagman Into Coach and Passengers Are Paralyzed with Fright. Richmond, Va.—James J. Murphy, flagman on the Southern railroad, had a thrilling experience with a wildcat on the west side of the Blue Ridge mountains shortly after dark one day recently. The engine drawing Murphy's train broke down at Linden, near the top of the mountain, and the flagman went back to protect the rear end of the train. He carried the regulation light and this attracted the attention of the animal. While walking down the track Murphy heard a rustling in the bushes, and, turning quickly, saw the animal THE WILDCAT CREATED CONSTER- NATION AMONG THE PASSENGERS. about to spring on him. He jumped aside, drew his revolver and fired as the animal leaped. Murphy then started on around his train, followed by the cat, which had evidently been wounded. The animal did not attempt to spring again, but followed closely behind. The animal sprang on the steps of the rear coach as Murphy appeared and actually entered the car through the door which Murphy in his haste had failed to close. Immediately there was consternation among the passengers, several women fainted and the men were too paralyzed with fright to do anything to save the situation. The cat crouched on the floor of the car, lashing its tail and evidently making up its mind what passenger to select for attack. In the meantime Murphy had gone through the car and, descending to the ground, hurried around to the other end, thus coming in behind the cat, which was watching the movement of the people in the coach. Standing in the doorway, Murphy fired two shots at the beast, the second of which penetrated the animal's brain, killing him instantly. It is a magnificent specimen, and Murphy will have it mounted by a taxidermist. A collection was taken up for his benefit by the passengers on the train. GHOST BELL HAUNTS THIEF Continual Changing of Stolen Church Property Forces Robber to Confess Crime. Omaha, Neb.—Haunted for nine months by the ghost of a 700-pound church bell, which he stole, broke up into pieces with a sledge hammer and sold to a junk dealer for $1.50, and awakened from his sleep every night throughout that long time by the tolling of the bell, John McCormick, reduced to a mere skeleton, is now in fall here charged with the theft of the bell. With two accomplices McCormick stole the bell from the South Tenth street Methodist church last May. He sold the pieces and left town. Since then he has wandered through 20 states, trying, as he says, to forget his crime. But the ghost of the bell would not down. McCormick says: "That bell has been in my mind day and night ever since I stole it. Every night since the theft I have been awakened from sleep by its dismal tolling. At times I have feared I was losing my reason. "I went all over the country, from San Francisco to New York, and tried to forget my crime, but I could not do it. I am so nervous now I cannot eat or sleep. I am glad I am under arrest and am to pay the penalty for my crime, for until I do pay it that bell will continue to wake me up every night." "Jollies!" Girl Clerk; Is Beaten. Boonville, Ind.—I want a piece of tobacco of the kind you chew," said Thomas Condit, a farmer, to Miss Grace Lacy, a clerk in a store at Folsomville. Miss Lacy was prompt to avenge what she considered an insult. Seizing a shovel, she felled Condit to the floor and then beat him vigorously. When Condit escaped he came here and swore out a warrant for the athletic young woman. She was arraigned charged with assault and battery. Condit's appearance and his story caused the court to smile, but as the facts were admitted, all he could do was to fine the fair defendant ten dollars. As she paid the money Miss Lacy remarked: "It's worth the money. But if I had known I would be fined I believe I would have finished him while I was at it." One Too Many. Vicar's Daughter—Well, Mrs. Murray, did you go to church on Monday to see my sister married? Mrs. Murray—No, miss; I don't take no interest in weddin's—I've been to one!—Cassell's. To Reduce a Double Chin Proper massage will reduce the chin, but the work must be done by a skillful operator, for much harm may otherwise result. White Kid Belt. A belt of white kid was beautiful with a large gold buckle at the back. YOUNG MISS WHIPS HER MALE TEACHER FIGHT CREATES PANDEMONIUM IN A SCHOOL-HOUSE. GIRL "SASSES" PEDAGOGUE Latter Soon Learns His Mistake When He Attempts to Punish Her— Help Finally Comes to His Parents Maryland, N. Y. - Last Friday was a day of unusual activity in the schoolhouse in the Gurney district on Crumhorn. On the previous Wednesday, so the story goes, the teacher, Charles Tubbs, had an altercation with two of his scholars, Ols Blencoe and Frank Hitchman, about eating candy in school. Both were told by Tubbs to go home. Hitchman obeyed, but the Blencoe lad refused to budge. When leaving the schoolhouse at afternoon he was told not to return until the following noon. He replied that if he could not return in the morning he would not come at all. He did not present himself at school the following day. On Friday a bout of words took place between the teacher and Miss May Blencoe, the 15-year-old and buxom sister of Otis. It is alleged that the young miss "sassed" the teacher, who seemed to think the dignity of his position had been assailed, and he ordered her to take her belongings and go home. This she peremptorily refused to do. At this point war was declared, and the teacher cleared the deck for action. Selzing a heavy stick, he demanded the young lady's hand—not in marriage—but for the purpose of playing a tattoo on her palm. She refused to present her hand, and the blows from the stick descended thick and fast on her shoulders. This was more than her American girlhood could endure, and she made a catch-as-catch canrush on the rural pedagogue, with the result that he found his pedal extremities flying in the air and his back resting on the uncushioned seat which had been occupied by his strenuous pupil. This was only the opening of hostilities. The girl had scored in the first SHE THRASHED THE TEACHER SOUNDLY. round, but the schoolmaster was determined not to be "done" by a schoolgirl. Pandemonium reigned supreme. The small children ran from the building crying from fright. The teacher called upon one of the pupils for assistance, but this was refused. Finally his hands found the white throat of his adversary; but this did not work, for a longer arm than his own fetched down on his larynx and a muscular hand made his breathing heavy and difficult. The young girl's hair was disheveled and hanging down her shoulders. Seeing this, Tubbs grabbed the golden locks, and it is said he gave them a severe pull. This doubled the anger of Miss Benceo, and she raised her assailant up and threw him on the floor with a dull thud. With a firm band she gently pressed the teacher's windpipe, while her knee made his vest grate on his spinal column. In this manner she held him until assistance came, when she released him, and, taking a younger member of the family with her, she quickly left the schoolhouse. It is said that her waist was nearly torn from her body and that her back and shoulders were literally covered with bruises. She has demonstrated what has often been proven before, that the American girl is abundantly able to take care of herself. Forced to Read Bible Five Years. St. Paul, Minn.—Pearl Hall, aged 11 who was adopted when a baby by her grandfather here, Anton Myers, has spent the last five years of her life mainly in studying the Bible. The girl did so on bread and water diet, with an occasional bit of boiled rice. Since she was six years old her grandfather compelled her to read the Bible at all hours of the day. The girl would not even be allowed to go out and play. Her health has been seriously injured. The Humane society has finally interfered in her behalf and the court placed her in another family. Her grandfather, who is a most devout religiousist, is heartbroken over the turn of affairs relative to his granddaughter's custody. Selfish. Joey Esquimaux—Give me a bite of your seal blubber. Madge Esquimaux—No, I won't! Joey Esquimaux—All right, you! Didn't I let you drink half when I hooked the lamp out of the mission Sunday school?—Puck. The Way of It. Mrs. Ascum-This is Mrs. Borem's at-home day. Are you going to call on her? Mrs. Fox-Gracious! No. I only called on her when I'm sure it's not her at-home day.-Philadelphia Press. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address EXPERIENCE WITH A SNAKE Boy Opens Drawer in Incubator and Serpent Springs Out and Coils Around Him. Lawrenceburg, Ind. — Teddy R. Bodle, the ten-year-old son of John W. Bodle, residing on a farm in Millet township, had a very exciting experience with a large black snake. The boy went into the chicken house to examine the eggs in an incubator. When he removed the drawer he discovered a large black snake among the eggs, part of which had been devoured. The reptile sprang at him and wrapped its body about his legs. It did not attempt to bite him, but coiled around him until he fell to the floor in a faint after calling several times for help. His father and Bent Cottingham went to his rescue. The snake did not release its hold until it had been lit eral cut to pieces. The boy received three slight cuts on the limbs during the excitement. The snake was seven feet long. Dr. Alex. A. Gaines Nature's Greatest Herbist. The World's Wonder and Greatest. Acknowledged by Hundreds and Thousands of Cures; and for the Benefit of Suffering Humanity Treat all Cases with Natures Remedies. I use nothing but Natures Remedies; Roots, Herbs, Gums, Barks, Vines and Flowers. Thirty years experience. Dr. Gaines Wonderful Powders. This is one of the best and safest purgatives known. 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To be plain the law requires the gas companies to sell gas at eighty cents per 1000 cubic feet and the gas companies have meters that faithfully register more gas than the consumer uses, thus "evening up" on the law. TILLMAN AND SPOONER That the congress of the United States perpetrated a huge joke on "Pitchfork" Tillman, when it passed his investigating resolution is manifest, but this colloquy between the South Carolina Senator and Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, is to say the least both amusing and interesting. It may be well to remark that the latter is one of the shrewdest and ablest Constitutional lawyers in the Chamber and stands at the head of his profession. He is a Republican of the deepest dye. Here it is: Mr. Spooner thought the resolution defective in that it did not give the commission authority to send for witnesses and administer oaths in connection with the new investigation "I has been requested to make, and which is one in addition to the duties imposed by the inter state commerce act. "Would it not be a redundancy and idiocy to give authority to send for persons and papers when it already has that authority?" asked Mr. Tillman. "If the Senator had studied law as he should have done, he would not ask that question," retorted Mr. Spooner. Mr. Tillman said that there were witnesses, "a thousand or more of them in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, who were begging and clamoring for a chance to tell the way they are being robbed by the railroads." "Obviously that has nothing to do with the case," said Mr. Spooner. After passages between the two Senators, who occupy seats directly opposite on the center aisle, Mr. Spooner said laughingly: "The Senator from South Carolina need not try to intimidate me." "Oh, you are only trying to get off an old joke," said Mr. Tillman. There was confusion in the galleries, and with difficulty the Vice President suppressed it, calling attention to the rule prohibiting applause. "The people in the galleries did not applaud, Mr. President, they only laughed," said Mr. Spooner. This last remark of Senator Spooner was stinging. The people did not applaud Senator Tillman as a statesman: they only laughed at him as a clown. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ALLY Our prediction that Senator Ben-Jamin R. Tillman would prove a veritable blunderbuss in handling the Hepburn Rate Bill has been more than verified. He has delighted Senator Aldrich and his colleagues, who oppose the measure. Those gentlemen "builted better than they knew" and it is now being demonstrated that they were "past-masters" at the business when they entrusted President Roosevelt's pet measure to the keeping of that remarkable production from South Carolina. His first blunder was when he was interviewed shortly after the happening. Although he must necessarily keep in touch with the President and his advisers in order to secure the passage of the measure, this is the way he spoke, the quotation being from the columns of the Washington, D. C. Post. "Have you had any communication whatever with the President on the subject?" he was asked. "None whatever," replied Senator Tillman, adding "and I don't see why I should. I am thoroughly tired of this talk about what the President wants done. And I do not mean this in an ugly sense, either. The Senate now has the bill, and the country is looking to us to perfect it and enact a law that will afford the relief demanded. I hope the President will continue to use his influence with his friends among the Republicans for the right sort of bill. To this nobody who wants a good law enacted can object." This was unquestionably an implied insult to the Chief Executive of the nation. But this is the way President Roosevelt handled Senator Tillman's pet bill which passed both houses. In his message to the United States Senate, he said: "I have signed the joint resolution instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make examinations into the subject of railroad disestimations and monopolies in coal and oil, and report on the same from time to time. I have signed it with hesitation, because in the form in which it was passed it achieves very little, and may achieve nothing; and it is highly undesirable that a resolution of this kind shall become law in such a form as to give the impression of insincerity; that is, of pretending to do something which really is not done. But, after much hesitation, I concluded to sign the resolution because defects can be remedied by legislation, which I hereby ask for, and it must be understood that unless this subsequent legislation is granted, the present resolution must be mainly, and may be entirely, inoperative. This message was sent and read March 7th, 1906. It is officially announced that it is a dead letter and that it was evidently passed as a joke, so far as some of the leading Senators are concerned, who represent the very interests that Senator Tillman was after. It is not at all surprising that most of the Senators are said to have smiled broadly and that Senator Spooner laughed outright. To emphasize Senator Tillman's discomfiture, President "Roosevelt said: "I accordingly recommend to Congress the serious consideration of just what they wish the commission to do and how far they wish it to go." This is inleed rich reading, supplemented as it is by the additional statement by the President that such an investigation would cost $50,000 as a starter, with no telling where the cost would end. This was a good joke on the "Pitchfork" Senator from South Carolina, who is now the recognized ally of the President of the United States. That the ludicrous feature of this most remarkable legislative and executive muddle is appreciated is evidenced by the happening in the Senate Chamber Monday, March 12th, 1906. The Washington, D.C. Post reports the affair as follows: Senator Tillman, the floor leader of the President's railroad reform fight, was compelled yesterday to take issue with his new chief for having criticised the Senate for the form in which it had sent to the White House for Executive approval the Tillman-Gillespie resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the reported coal trust and the oil trust. The South Carolinian was careful to explain how he regretted the necessity which caused him thus easily to disagree with the President, "for," he said, "fate has enlisted me as an ally of the President in getting an adequate railroad-rate bill, and I regret very much to have anything come up which would occasion any disruption of the amicable relations that now exist, or appear to exist, between us." This statement provoked smiles and able chuckles from both sides of the chamber. This was enough to make them chuckle. We have no doubt that Senator Aldrich was jolly shaking hands with himself. The senatorial blunderbuss was at work in "great style" and no one could stop him. Certainly, none of the railroad Senators desired to stop him. While professing to be friendly to the anti-railroad legislation, he was really crushing the life out of the measure he professed to be supporting. He continued: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "But there are some things that is a Senator I cannot put up with patiently," he declared, and they said that the Executive contempt and ridicule of the resolution seemed to charge that he had been ignorant of what he was doing in offering the resolution, and by the same token that the Committee on Interstate Commerce, which had adopted the resolution unanimously, as had also the Senate, was likewise ignorant and slipshod. There you have it. How far do you presume such a team could pull together? The driver might as well, get down and unniten them or give up all hope of reaching town "in the morning." After having the clerk read the President's message criticising the resolution and suggesting amendments which, in the judgment of the Executive, would make it more efficacious, Mr. Tillman said: "Now that is going a great way in a very little while. That is a pretty big contract the President has taken on himself to justify such a sweeping charge." Taking up the resolution, Mr. Tillman said it was a joint measure and was now a law. He called attention to the fact that both Houses of Congress had given the subject consideration. Mr. Hansbrough called attention to the fact that what the President complained of especially was the failure of Congress to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of the resolution. "Oh, I saw that point last week," replied Mr. Tillman, "but taint is not all. He complains that there is no power to administer oaths." Mr. Tillman then read the resolution, and also from the act to regulate commerce and amendments thereto, to prove his contention that the commission has the means and authority to carry on the investigation proposed. "The commission has as much authority to carry out the instructions of this resolution" he said, "as we could give it if we pressed a resolution every day for the next twelve months." Then he added: "There can be no good reason for the President to scold us in a manner that is almost insulting by charging us with insincerity, pretense, and ignorance. The only reason I can see is that he must have been miserably advised. I am not a lawyer—only a farmer—but I have better common sense than that." Mr. Tillman went extensively into the subject of appropriating money for the purpose of the resolution, declaring that it could be taken care of in the sunday civil bill. He closed with a protest against the President "lightly and flippantly" insulting the Senate. He said he could pardon many things on account of the great burdens of the President, and because of his impetuosity. This then is the "parting of the ways" between President Roosevelt and Senator B. R. Tillman. If the rate bill can survive the treatment by these two doctors, it is entitled to eternal bliss and life everlasting. This is the Senator that President Roosevelt is alleged to have declared to be an honest man. What does the distinguished occupant of the White House think of him now? Would he withdraw his endorsement if he could.? We shall see. Death alone will change Senator Tillman and he will keep still then only because he can't move. CALEB POWERS AND THE SU PREME COURT. . The United States Supreme Court on Monday, March 12th, 1906 handed down a decision against Caleb Powers, ex-Secretary of State, remanding him to the custody of the Sheriff of Scott county, Kentucky. He is a Republican charged with complicity in the murder of State Senator William Goebel. He has been convicted three times by Kentucky Juries and twice was sentenced to life imprisonment and once to the gallows. He is now making one of the greatest efforts ever known in criminal annals to escape the gallows and to come forth a free man. That he is not guilty is the prevailing opinion of those people outside of the zone of Kentucky influence. Powers is a white man and he is having as much trouble, if not more to secure justice than would an Afro-American in a similar predicament. Justice Harlan rendered the decision and it does not appear so bad as it did at first blush. Powers was placed in the hands of the Federal officials on a writ of habeas corpus. It was the dissolving of this writ and the issuance of a writ of mandamus that has summarily placed him where he was before and caused this unfortunate to stand within the shadow of the gibbet again. Still there is hope in the decision, for the same principles involved in the Henry Jamison case in Georgia are commented upon at length here. In the former case an abrupt dismissal was all that that was vouchsafed. Jamison was a Negro. In this case, Mr. Justice Harlan points out the way and plainly states that the case is subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States and that it will take jurisdiction in the case. What is to be done? Powers must make his appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Kentucky. If this tribunal refuses to grant him a new trial, he must apply to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of error. Mr. Justice Harlan lays down a new method of procedure, that is far-reaching for he says that the writ of error will run from the Supreme Court of the United States to the trial Court, that is the Court in which Powers has been tried and convicted and the action of the Supreme Court of the United States will necessarily affect the trial court directly without reference to the Supreme Court of Kentucky. It will be well for all constitutional lawyers to take note. It is that all legal means must have been exhausted in a state court before the Supreme Court of the United States will take cognizance of the case and then not through the District or Apellate Courts, but direct to the highest tribunal. This ruling seems to eliminate the highest court in a state and the lower federal courts in Kentucky. It is plainly stated that the Supreme Court of Kentucky is thus ignored because the laws of Kentucky forbid that tribunal to pass upon or review motions based upon the federal constitution. We are getting some light on an all important subject. We should like to know if the right of appeal cannot be bad from the State Supreme Court to a District or an Apellate Circuit Federal Court? If not, why not? OPERATORS REFUSE MINERS' DEMANDS OPERATORS REFUSE MINERS' DEMANDS Suggest Award of Anthracite Commission to Be Continued. NOTHING TO WARRANT CHANG. New York, March 12.—The propositions of the United Mine Workers of America for a reassignment of wage and conditions in the anthracite fields, as a whole, have been denied by the committee representing the anthracite operators. As a counter proposition, the operators suggest that the awards made by the anthracite constrike commission, on the principles upon which they were established by the commission and the methods established for carrying out their findings and awards, shall be continue for a further term of three years from April 11, 1906. The present agreement terminates March 31 of this year. Announcement of the antracite operators' decision and their counterproposition was made in a long, formal statement, which was given out for publication. This statement, which includes the correspondence on the subjects at issue between President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, acting for the miners, and George F. User, president of the Philadelphia & Rending Coal and Iron company, for the operators, discusses the miners' proposition in detail. In every instance the contention is made by the operators either that conditions in the coal fields do not warrant the changes proposed by the miners or that the questions at issue already have been passed upon by the strike commission. The demand of the miners that the operators enter into an agreement with the union is declined on the ground that the anthracite operators "stand unattractively for the open shop, and again decline to make an agreement with the United Mine Workers of America, an organization controlled by a rival industry." Of the demand for an eight-hour day, the statement says the operators know of no change in conditions that can be used to sustain the renewed demand for a reduction in hours. It declares that the expectation of the strike commission that the reduction from ten to nine hours "should not result in any decrease in the output of the mines" has not been realized, and adds: "We might justly say that with the experience of the past three years, the 16-hour day should be restored; but we are willing to abide by the decision of the commission." The proposition that a uniform scale of wages be established in the anthracite fields is met by the operators with the reply that-this would be impracticable by reason of the varying capacities of the workmen and the varying conditions existing in the region and at the collieries. No Change in Conciliation Board. "We cannot increase wages without advancing the price of coal; and we are not willing to advance the price of coal." is the reply to the demand for a general increase in wages. The request that the operators shall collect from each employee certain stated sums for the support of the Mine Workers' Union is denied on the ground that, "as a matter of policy, we would not make such an agreement as you request, and as a matter of law, we are not permitted to make it." The operators decline to agree to any change in the board of conciliation as established by the anthracite coal strike commission, taking the ground that the system proposed would simply involve the creation of a series of minor boards whose decisions might be conflicting and from which appeals would have to be taken to an arbitrator, thereby cresting more delays than now exist. The complaint of the miners that the board of conciliation does not act promptly the operators declare to be not war ranted by the facts. The demand for a new sliding wage scale is denied on the ground that the sliding scale fixed by the anthracite coal strike commission covers practically all the propositions in the proposed new scale. The Demands of the Minera. The demands of the mine workers sought to provide for an agreement between the representatives of the United Mine Workers of America and the various anthracite operating companies that certain wages, rates, hours of labor and conditions of employment should be come effective April 1, 1906, and continue in effect until April 1, 1907. The proposals included the establishment of an eight-hour day for all persons covered by the agreement; a readjusted scale of wages with an increase of 10 per cent. above the award made by the strike commission for contract miners; a new sliding scale providing for an increase of 1 per cent. in wages for all mine workers affected by the agreement for each increase of five cents in the average price of coal in the sizes known as grate, egg, stove and chestnut coal at or near New York above $4.50 per ton, the rate of compensation in no case to be less than that fixed in the agreement; the recognition of a mine committee from the union with full authority to take up with the officials of a company any dispute or grievance which may arise at a colliery. The demands also provided that each employee be given an itemized pay statement at least one day before payday; that a discharged employee have the right to present his grievance in the same manner as provided for in the case of other grievances; that no person be refused employment or in any other way be discriminated against on account of membership in any labor organization; that the companies collect from each employee such amounts as might be levied by their organization monthly, the amount thus collected to be turned over to an authorized committee at the colliery; that all employees who are required to work a safety lamp should receive 10 per cent, extra, in addition to the regular wages or prices, and that the violation of any provisions of the agreement, either by the employers or the employees, should not invalidate any of its provisions. ROOSEVELT NOT TO ACT Is Taking No Part in Negotiations Between Miners and Operators Washington, March 13. — President Roosevelt is taking no part in the pending negotiations between the miners and operators to prevent a coal strike. The statement was made at the White House that Professor Charles P. Nelll, commissioner of labor, did not confer with John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, by authority of the pre-ident. In this connection it was said, also, that the president would deplore greatly another strike of the coal miners, and would do all in his power which he properly might do to avert a strike, but that he was doing nothing at this time. FRANCHISE DECISION Supreme Court Defines Rights of Chicago Railway Companies. Chicago, March 13.—By the decision of the United States supreme court the city of Chicago obtains almost complete control of the local traction situation. The decision sustains the acts of the state legislature extending the life of the charters of the street railway companies to 99 years, but does not sustain the contention of the companies that contract rights which are limited to few years than remain to the charter life of the companies are also extended. The original ordinances granted to the street car companies were for 99 years inside the city limits as they existed in 1865. The companies have extended their tracks as the boundaries of the city have been enlarged, and have claimed that the extended lines which were built under franchises from the city were also operative under the 99-year act. The court has held, however, that the 99-year act extended only the charter life of the street car companies without extending their ordinances. MYSTERY IN BRAKEMAN'S DEATH Disappeared From Train and His Body Found In River. Easton, Pa., March 14.—Jeremiah Mahoney, a brakeman on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, disappeared from his train. There is much mystery about the case, and it is intimated that the brakeman met with foul play. He went to work after, it is said, he had received a letter from a woman friend. It is said the woman is married. Mahoney's body was found in the Lehigh river 200 feet below the railroad bridge. There was a gash in the back of his head, caused either by a blow from a blunt instrument or by the body striking the bridge in falling. BURY MINE DISASTER VICTIMS Latest Figures Show That 1212 Pen ished in Explosion. Paris, March 14.—Hundreds of funerals are being held at the towns surrounding Courriers, where the mine disaster on Saturday resulted in the loss of over a thousand lives. Snow has fallen, but lines of mourners fill every road, many of them carrying caskets, as the number of hearses obtainable is insufficient. The company's latest figures show that there were 1212 victims of the explosion. Mining Director Meyer, of Herne, Prussia, with his rescue corps of Westphailans, recovered 26 more bodies this morning. The heroic efforts of the German sare exciting admiration and praise. Professor Otto Fuchs Dead. Baltimore, Md, March 14—Professor Otto Fuchs, for the past 23 years director of the Maryland Institute School of Art and Design, died after a brief illness of pneumonia. He was 67 years old. It was largely through the efforts of Professor Fuchs that Andrew Carnegie gave the Maryland Institute funds to the amount of more than a quarter of a million dollars for the erection of a new home to replace that destroyed in the fire of February, 1904. Quay Monument Contract Awarded. Quay Monument Contract Awarded. Philadelphia, March 12.—The contract for the Quay monument, to be erected in the capitol grounds in Harrisburg, was awarded by the commission to Carl Bitter for $17,700. The statue of the late senator is to be full size, in white marble, and is to be completed within 15 months. Furness, Evans & Co., architects, are to have supervision of the work, and are to see that the specifications are compiled with. OPPOSE EXPULSION CF NAVAL HAZERS House Committee Waits Graduated Form of Punishment. Washington, March 14.—The subcommittee named by the house committee on naval affairs to investigate hauling at Annapolis, made its report to the whole committee through representative Vireck, of New York, chairman of the investigating committee. Rear Admiral Brownson is censured in the report for exacting a pledge from midshipmen not to engage in hazing and for allowing the boys to think the pledge was personal to him and did not hold after Rear Admiral Sandes became superintendent at Annapolis. Lieutenant C. P. Snyder is also censured mildly for having countenanced hazing. Graduated punishment for hazing is recommended by the sub-committee, which is firmly of the opinion that the present system of expelling all midshipmen found guilty of hazing is vicious. Dear Admiral Sands and other officers now at the academy are praised for the discipline they are maintaining, and the report shows that cadet officers have been chiefly responsible for hazing. As a result of its examination of witnesses and records the sub-committee found that 281 members of the three upper classes at the academy, including the class which was recently graduated have been guilty of hazing, and on trial could be expelled from the academy. The result would be a great and unnecessary loss to the government, in the opinion of the members of the committee, who found that many of the offences were trivial. The investigation of the committee showed there are three forms of hazing at Annapolis—physical hazing, running and farging. They are defined at length in the report. The physical hazing consists of fighting, compelling mishapmen to stand on their hands, and other much discussed means of punishment. Farging is the forcing of under classmen to do menial service for upper classmen such as blacking shoes and serving meets. Running in the forcing of under classmen to do ridiculous feats. One of the most popular performances under this classification was giving an exact imitation of sunrise on the farm, which consisted of imitating roosters and other domestic fowl. Under the forms of physical hazing, sitting on infinity was one of the most commonly practiced. It was generally practiced at meal time, and was the forcing of a midshipman to maintain a sitting posture after his chair was withdrawn from under him. Cadet officers tolerated all such practices, and, in fact, encouraged them, according to the report of the subcommittee. Fencing youngsters to do such things was one of the most cherished rights of members of the first class, enriched with maintaining discipline. According to surgeons' records in sick quarters, only seven fights have been recorded there since October 1, 1904, and the report says it is impossible to find that the number of fights was larger. It is suggested that surgeons should resort more fully on injuries, even though slight, which seem to be caused by fighting. With the exception of Leutenant Snyder, disciplinary officers are exonerated from convivence at hazing. He is charged with having indicated to upper classmen that fourth classmen might be disciplined by upper classmen for laughing at an order. MANN INDICTED FOR PERJURY Grand Jury Returns True Bill Against Editor of Town Tonics Editor of Town Topics. New York, March 13.—Colonel William D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, was indicted for perjury by the grand jury. The indictment was based on his testimony in the recent trial of Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, on a charge of criminal libel. Colonel Mann denied that he wrote the characters "O. K., W. D. M.," on a letter of Count Reginald Ward. Hurled Over 50-Foot Embankment. Pittsburg, Pa., March 14. — William Kuhn, driver of a lumber wagon, is dying at his home in Homestead from injuries received by being hurled over a 50-foot bluff by a trolley car. Kuhn, with a companion, James O'Donnell, was driving on the tracks near McKeesport, when the street car came up behind and struck and wrecked the wagon. Kuhn was thrown from his seat over the side of the bluff. O'Donnell was thrown through the air in the same direction, but caught hold of a telegraph pole on the edge of the bluff and saved himself from serious injury. Valentina Sentence Affirmed Washington, March 13.—The supreme court of the United States refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Anna Valentina, the Italian woman who is under sentence of death at Hackensack, N. J., on the charge of murder in that city in 1904 thus affirming the decision of the circuit court. Charged With Robbing Dead Man. Harrisburg, Pa., March 13.—Charged with riding the pockets of the corpse of Milo Vanslime, a Hungarian, killed along the Pennsylvania Railroad at Lochiel, Saturday, March 3, Percy Miller was arrested and locked up in the Dauphin county prison by the Harrisburg police. Ridicule Spelling Reform Movement. London, March 14.—Andrew Carnegie's spelling reform movement finds little favor with British authors. Many opinions on the subject are published, mostly opposed to the innovation, and others admitting that the idea is worthy of consideration. Charles Algernon Swinburne describes the movement as a "monstrous, barbarous absurdity." SUSAN B. ANTHONY PASSES AWAY Aged Woman Suffragist Dies at Rochester, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y., March 13.—The long and eventful life of Susan B. Anthony is closed. The end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically for 24 hours, and her death had been momentarily expected since Sunday night. Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive. She was 86 years of age. Dr. M. S. Ricker, her attending physician, said Miss Anthony died of heart failure induced by double pneumonia. She had had serious valvular heart trouble for the last six or seven years. Her lungs were practically clear and the pneumonia had yielded to treatment, but the weakness of her heart prevented her recovery. Her Busy Life. Susan R. Anthony was born at North Adams, Mae., February 15, 1820. She came of rugged stock. Her youth was passed in Rochester, a city which for many years was noted for the number of isms that were born and flourished there. There she became acquainted with Thurlow Weed and Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone and Frederick Douglass, and there she attended the Jerry Rescue trial. She was engaged in teaching school for 15 years, beginning at the age of 15, and retiring from the schoolroom only when she began her life work. The first results of the labors of Miss Anthony and her coworkers was the passing of laws giving women various property and other rights. When they began there was not a state in the Union in which the mother could be the guardian of her own children. Now there are six states where the mother owns her children. In 1851 there was not a state in which a woman had a right to her own wages. Now there is hardly a state in which the law has not been changed in this regard. In 1856 there were but two institutions called colleges in America that admitted women. Now the number of women colleges is legion, and co-education is advancing every year in the ranks of the most conservative colleges. When Miss Anthony began, woman had no part whatever in the suffrage in America. Wyoming has had complete suffrage for women now for years, and in more than 20 states woman may vote for school officers. Municipal suffrage, too, has made considerable strides, and as a result of the agitation women have entered many branches of industrial and professional life that were before closed to them. Since she retired from the presidency of the Suffrage party, about three years ago, Miss Anthony has travelled widely and lectured more than was wise for one of her age. In 1894 she went to Germany to attend the International Congress of Women, the result of a plan which she devised in 1898 at the 40th anniversary of the first women's rights meeting. Miss Anthony was received at court by Emperor William and his wife, who were charmed by her simple manners and dignity. their beloved Elizabeth's Letter and Casts Her List With Reformers. Chicago, March 14.—John Alexander Dowle, head of the Zion church, and his wife have putted, according to a story printed in the Daily News, it is declared that the last message of Dowle to his home was ignored, and that Mrs. Dowle has thrown in her lot with the ordinary folks of Zion. It is asserted that Mrs. Dowle has said to her friends that she has been deceived as to the real conditions in the church, and believed that millions of money were available when there was no such condition existing. Mrs. Dowle called in brokers who made an inventory of the furnishings of the Dowle home in Zion City, which is decorated in a most expensive manner. She said she desired to sell everything for the good of the church. Drank Poison Before Sweetheart. Washington, March 14. — William Thomas, of Saginaw, Mich., a member of the chorus of the "Wonderland" company, performing at the Columbia theatre here, committed suicide by drinking carbolite acid while the play was in progress. Thomas was an admirer of Idra Gordon, a 16-year-old girl, also a member of the company. The suicide was caused by disappointment because she would not reciprocate his attentions. The couple were in the property room of the theatre. Thomas sat on the side of a table with a goblet in one hand and a bottle in the other. Pouring out the poison, he accused her of playing with his affections and saying: "Good-bye, old girl." drank the poison before she could stop him. The play continued uninterruptedly, the audience not being aware of what had transpired. Twin Dies at 4; Weighed 196 Pounds. Springfield, Mass., March 12.—Mini ple Eggert, one of the mammoth Eggert twins, of Newark. N J., died here of diphtheria. She was only 4 years old, but weighed 196 pounds. The other twin is a boy, who weighs 198 pounds. Altered. Mayor Dunne of Chicago is not without witty moments between worries over traction matters and an incompetent police force. 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WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FIVE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THE PLANET SCIENCE AND INVENTION. NEW WINDOW SASH. Glass Framing Attachment Which Gives One the Advantage of the Old-Style Casement Windows. Windows as ordinarily constructed are difficult to clean without exposing the operator to danger. Furthermore, the usual sliding sash construction does not permit of opening more than one-half of the window at a time, so that it is impossible to get the complete ventilation afforded by the old casement windows. A recent invention is herewith illustrated, which in a very simple manner overcomes the above-mentioned defects. The glass is mounted in a frame, which is hinged to the window sash in such a manner that it can be swung into the room, while the sash remains in position in GLASS FRAMING ATTACHMENT FOR WINDOW SASH. the window frame. This enables both sides of the glass to be cleaned without the slightest danger to the operator, and when the glass is swung open for ventilation purposes, it will be evident that the entire window frame is uncovered. The glass-carrying frame is perfectly made of light steel strips, as indicated in the section view. In this manner a very strong construction is provided, which is at the same time very light, and does not obstruct an appreciable amount of light. The metal frame is covered by a molding, which harmonizes with the window sash. The window sash is provided with a lining plate formed at the outer edge with a flange against which the glass frame lies when in closed position. The frame is provided with a spring catch at one side, to keep the glass frame closed. It will be obvious, says the Scientific American, that the sash may be mounted to slide in the window frame as usual. The window may thus be lowered or raised to any extent desired. In this way the advantages of the sliding sash and casement windows are combined. DISCOVERS NEW COMET. Dr. William R. Brooks Wins the Honors of Finding First One This Year. The honor of discovering the first comet in the year 1906 has fallen to the lot of Dr. William R. Brooks, director of Smith observatory at Geneva. DR. WILLIAM R. BROOKS. N. Y., and professor of astronomy at Hobart college. This is the twenty-fifth comet discovered by Dr. Brooks. Its position is right ascension 16 hours 19 minutes and 30 seconds, declination north 47 degrees 10 minutes. It has a moderate motion in a northwesterly direction. What the Hair Tells One's hair, if never cut, would furnish a record of his health during life. This is the interesting discovery of Matsura, a Japanese physiologist, who shows that the hair—like the fingernails—grows smaller in disease and that the duration of the malady may be estimated from the length of the thinner sections of the hairs. The variations are most striking in the coarse-haired races of people. Highest Kite Ascension. The highest kite ascent was lately made at Lindenberg, Prussia, 21,100 feet being reached, with six attached kites and 16,000 yards of wire. The temperature fall from 41 degrees at the surface to 13 degrees below zero; the wind—18 miles at the surface—was 56 miles an hour at highest point. OF AID TO HOSTESS SUGGESTIONS FOR NOVEL AND PLEASING ENTERTAINMENTS. Various Amusing Ways in Which Partners May Be Arranged—"The Bells" a Pleasing Public Entertainment. Finding Partners. So many requests have come in for ways to find partners that I shall give every method that comes to mind, hoping that some of them will prove new and novel. Prepare balls of cotton, with silips inside, bearing words intimately associated, such as "Barby" and "Joan," "Anthony" and "Cleopatra," "Paul" and "Virginia," "Desdemona," "The Moor," "Bread" and "Butter," "Ice Cream" and "Cake," etc. The these balls with ribbon or wrap them in crepe paper to look like oranges. Then divide the company in two lines, and at a given signal throw the balls. In the scramble each will retain one, tear it open, and "Barby" will hunt for "Joan," "Bread" for "Butter," etc. Hide duplicate, animal crackers throughout the rooms. When mates are found, it will have developed into a very merry party, with every suspicion of ice broken When the guests are not numerous matching flowers is a pretty way of finding partners. Have two carnations of each color, roses ditto, and two of every flower obtainable. Matching rosettes of ribbon is done in the same way. Make of baby ribbon rosettes about as big as a quarter, fastening a pin in each. Obtain baby pictures of the boys and girls, and let them find the originals. This will take up considerable time, and may be a feature of the evening's entertainment. This is most practical when the company is a small one. For a musical entertainment, write a few bars of a well-known musical composition, then cut the paper in two. When the melody is completed partners will be found. Quotations that are well known may be arranged in the same way, and the parts hidden in the rooms. Put a mask on the girls one at a time, and in a room alone. Let the men guess who belongs to the eyes, and the successful guesser wins his partner. Another way is to auction off the men by description. This is very amusing, if the auctioneer is well acquainted and has a ready flow of language. Still another way is to give the girls the names of capital cities, and the men of states, and let the latter find their "capitals." This same scheme may be carried out with book titles and their authors. Cutting hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs is a "puzzle" way of distributing partners at a card party. A. Church or Club Entertainment A Church or Club Entertainment. This evening of living pictures was called "The Bells," and was worked up in a most effective manner. A large frame was prepared for the picture, and the lights were thrown on from the side in colors most befitting the subject. There was a slightly raised platform, and the preparations are so simple, the entertainment could be an invitation affair, and given at a private house, taking up a silver offering; but more money would be made by charging a regular admission. First there was a ten-minute paper on "Bells." Much of interest is obtainable on this subject at the library; How they are made chimes, great and historic bells, etc. The first picture shown was "Those Evening Belles." There were two or three girls in up-to-date evening gowns, while that old-time piece, "Those Evening Bells" was played on the piano. Picture number two, "Those Morning Belles," showed the same girls in negligee costumes, while the music was "Oh. What a Difference in the Morning." "The Modern Belle" showed a girl in outing costume with a golf bag. "An Old-Time Belle" was a dear grandmother in "kerchief and cap, knitting a stocking. "Long, Long Ago," was the melody played. "A Scotch Belle" was a girl in Highland costume, and the music was "Blue Bells of Scotland." "The Convent Belle" was a sweet-faced nun, and "The Monastery Bells" was played softly. The last picture was called "The Belle of the Future," and revealed a year baby. Many more pictures may be added, but the secret of a successful programme is in having it short, with the audience wishing for more. It is usually best not to respond to encores. Progressive Conversation There is nothing better to promote sociability than progressive conversation. Prepare cards with five or six good topics, such as "Should Women Vote?" "What Would You Do with a Million?" "What Trip Would You Take if You Could Choose?" "What Is Your Hobby?" "What Is Your Beta Noir?" "Can You Keep a Resolution?" Pass these cards and allow ten minutes for a topic. Then ring a bell and change partners. After all have progressed, take a vote on the most popular topic—Madame Merri. SENDS PAPER "SCOOP" ON HIS OWN DEATH. Reporter Attempts Suicide Over Love Affair, Turns on Gas, But Un- fortunately Recovers. Cincinnati, O. — His news instinct alive until the last—or what he thought was the last—D. C. Bigger- staff, of Charleston, Il., after being rejected by his sweeheart one night recently, wrote a detailed story of his death, mailed it to a paper of his home town, on which he was once a reporter, retired to his room in a hotel, twisted a handkerchief about his neck, and then turned on the gas. He was found the next morning un- conscious, but was revived quickly. Then he bethought himself of his THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT EXCURSION We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placard notes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stations WE HAVE Our St OF THE LATE WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL A Three-Sheet AS LARGE AS A FRO Our street-entrance is retired and fastidious lady being able to enter w VISION WORK Charter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Min- ing Stationery. WE AN ELSE WHICH WE WILL Stock Roof LATEST STYLE BOND, FI AS SMALL AS A DODGER. Sheet Poster A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF tired and has no objectionable f enter without embarrassment o , 2213. ETIQUETTE AND BUSINESS. EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. A Three-Sheet Poster AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OF WOOD- Of Any Job Printing Establishme Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady bein, able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 2213. The rigidity governing the code of manners for the polite world has had to be considerably altered since the advent of the business woman, for, despite her long hours of work, she often holds a certain position in society, but she is exempt from certain formalities. The business woman is not entirely freed from social duties as is the American business man, and some few observances of the ceremonies of convention still are expected of her, but she is not tied down to severe rules as is the case with her idle sister, says Margaret Hubbard Ayres, in the New York World. The business woman who is at work all day long must of necessity be exempt from formal social calls, such as should be paid between the hours of 3 and 5:30 in the afternoon, for it is always assumed that she is busy during these hours excepting on Sunday. It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial "scoop," sent a telegram to the man- aging editor that the story was a HE LAY ON THE BED UNCONSCIOUS. "fake," and asked him not to use it. But the telegram was too late. Before the message reached Charleston the paper had been scattered broadcast bearing to all of Biggerstaff's acquaintances the story of his death. The young man, who seemed very glad to be alive after he had been resuscitated, again began to wonder if life were worth living when he heard this. He thought about all the people laughing at his love affair and its serio-comic ending. He went out on the street to think about it some more, but the more he thought about it the worse it seemed, and that evening when he returned to the hotel he looked so dejected that the management refused to let him have his room again for fear he might make another attempt to end his life. Biggerstaff, when first found in the hotel, told a story of assault and robbery, and the police were summoned. A detective, however, found in his trunk letters from Miss May Lowe, of Covington, Ky., and went to see her. She said Biggerstaff had called on her and asked her to marry him. She refused, and then he begged for just one farewell kiss. When she would not give him this, she said, he threatened to kill himself. The detective went back to Biggerstaff and told him what he had learned. Biggerstaff then admitted that he had tried to end his life. Then he thought of his "scoop" and tried to stop it. Had he not tried to make the detective think he was a victim of robbers he would have had time to prevent the story being printed. Cures Leprosy. Dr. Isadore Dyer, of New Orleans, who has made a life-long study of leprosy, has announced that the second leper whom he has completely cured has been discharged from the Lepers' home. The patient discharged last was a woman, whose name is withheld. The other patient was a boy, in whom the disease had just developed. Other patients undergoing Dr. Dyer's treatment are said to be improving. Salt in the Ocean The ocean contains about 2,139 grains of salt and other solids per gallon, and the Dead sea about 19,700 grains per gallon. Cards, Policies, both straight life and benevolent, Physician's Certificates, Sick Cards, Application blanks, Agents Report Sheets, Rate Cards, etc. WHICH WE WILL SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING TO SEE THEM. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. While Business Woman Is Exempt from Certain Formalities, She Is Expected to Observe Some. She reserves Sunday for calls of pleasure, rather than ceremony. The business woman invited to dinner cannot always pay her dinner call on her hostess within the prescribed time. She therefore sends a note of thanks within a couple of days after the dinner. Notes are frequently substituted by the woman for personal calls and it is necessary for her to have her dainty stationery free from the slightest trace or suggestion of her profession. Great punctuality in the matter of her notes of appreciation excuses the business woman from calls and visits that she has not the time to attend to. She can keep in touch with her world through these graceful missives and at the same time courteously furnish excuses for any seeming delinquency. There are many occasions when the business woman can only send cards instead of leaving them in person. The business woman also sends cards to her intimate friends and to those to whom she is under obligations, announcing the change in her home address. The business woman observes the same rule as a man in never confounding her business with her personal card, which should only bear her home address. The business woman also sends her card with a few words of inquiry or good feeling in the case of some illness or misfortune which may have befallen an acquaintance. The business woman observes a certain amount of formality in her business relations; thus, she does not send in a card with her personal address when making a business call on a man; nor does she shake hands with a business acquaintance unless he is also a personal friend. FOR A JAPANESE DINNER. One Can Imitate Many of the Queen Dishes—The Matter of Decorat ation Is Easy. Numerous requests have come from readers for a strictly up-to-date Jap- anese dinner. In a large city one can purchase at a large importing house nearly all the requisites for such WORK OF ALL OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. LEGANT DAY SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING From Embrace ONE WRITING—FLAT AND EYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUI THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN F features, the most or annoyance. FOR FUR Jol a dinner, such as the salted plums, pickled fish and chop suey, soy to mix with rice and salads, and the dalmy rice cakes, or, at least, the rice flour, and all sorts of delicious preserved fruits, which are served with forks for that purpose, or if these be lacking toothpicks may be used. With materials the average housekeeper has at hand she could serve a boneless meat of some kind, as the Japs never serve meat with a bone in it at the table, and olives. Rice is cooked with tea, but this would not be relished by the average guest. Salads are always made of salted or pickled fish; herring could be used. Sweet cakes are served with tea in cups without handles. The room should be decorated with Japanese lanterns, umbrellas and fans, with lanterns used as candle and globe shades. Tiny fans come expressly for hair ornaments, six being too many for the decoration of one's coiffure. Napkins come folded most intricately into shapes of frogs and other animals, and it is quite a trick to see if they can be refolded in the original shape. The repast in Japan would end with salted plums, so pass the olives again.—Madame Merri. SCALLOPS ARE IN VOGUE. Fashions in Fancy-Work Change and To-Day the Scallop Is a Favor- ite in Embroidery. I have been asked to give some patt- terns of scallops to be used on pillow cases, sheets, towels, buffet and bureau scarfs. The large scallop is in vogue at pres- ent and the patterns I have drawn can be made less elaborate, writes Sarah Hale Hunter, an expert in needlework, if desired, by leaving out the eyelids and in case of the double scallop by stamping only one. Pad the scallops well with white darning cotton before buttonholing them with mercerized cotton, number 25 or 20, or with bear luster, E extra fine. Run the eyelids around with the cotton, then piece and embroider over and over. It is pretty to work all the articles of a bedroom set in the same scallop. Deepest Gold Mine. The greatest depth at which gold has as yet been excavated from the earth is 4,200 feet (about three-fourths of a mile), at the New Chums mine, Australia. Signe of Greatness. Mrs. Hopeful—Is my boy improving any? Professor of Penmanship—He is getting worse. His writing is now so bad no living soul can read it. "How lovely! The darling! He'll be a great author some day."—N. Y. Weekly. We print Wedding Invitations, and High Class Stationery for Balls, Parties, Picnics and all entertainments of a social nature. ALL DESCRIBE us and to service at consistent We furnish "cuts" when de- complete special work in our L in our line, call and see us an T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. races a full ART AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE N OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing E T AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, AP John Mitch 311 N. 4th St. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO heper has boneless caps never it at the looked with finished by are always fish; her cakes are A Heavy Coat. "Why do you say that I am thick-skinned?" "Because beauty, you know, is skin deep." "You flatterer!"—Houston Post. OGUE. range and favor- some pat- on pillow New 'Phone, 473. ROBT. S. FORRESTER, FLORIST 212 E. Leigh Street, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Leonard's Reliable Prescription Drug Store 724 North Second Street. BEFORE MAKING Refrigerators, Mattings, Oil-Cloths And in fact everything that is need ed in house furnishings. BUGS AND CARPETS. Of every description; also the last designs in ROCKERS and speci al CHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. Jurgen's Son IN EAST BROAD ST., between 5th and 6th Street. Deepest Gold Mine. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OF WOOD-TYPE Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. Evidence Lacking. Mrs. X. How are you getting on with your servants now? Mrs. Z. Splendidly We have made them a present of the house, and now we board with them—Cassell's Journal. Frank Waller, Jr PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER, Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mail lers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Kinds of Painting Done Cheap. Give me a call before going else- here. Plant Decorations, Choice Rosebuds, Cut Flowers, Funeral Designs, House Decorations for Wedding Parties, &c. a specialty. Give me a call. *ure and Fresh Medisines only will encore you then purchase your Drugs and Medisina from.* Your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of opes, Note and Letter Paper Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS sired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC. LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., Richmond, Va. 'Phone, 1589. Residence. No. 911-32d 84. ROBT. W. WILLIAMS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER. NO. 6019 P. STREET, BETWEEN 30TH AND 31ST STREETS. RICHMOND, --- VA. Special attention given to all business entrusted to me. Carriages for funerals, receptions and marriages at all hours. Satisfaction guaranteed to all. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not r suitable place. All country orders give special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets Call and see me and you shall be watted on kindly. 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Take my sordid ore, $ Which lackers else might hope to win. ¢ It buys what courts have not in store 7 : It buys me freedom at an inn t $ Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, x Where’er his stages may have been, > The warmest welcome at an inn, + 7 t welcome at an int i ICIKISITISIIGIIIISIICI OCIS OI I tet teteteteteteteteten ‘The Awakening of Peter Halsey By Pearl Howard Campbell September lay over Rock val. VL ley. In the orchards ‘the ap. ples were ripening and drop Ping one by one to heaps beneath the troes. The stubble lands, the low ly. Ing hills, dotted with clumps of trees, and the pastures had yet the rich green ness of the summer, But the subtle change that marks the coming of au tumn was already beginning to mant. fest itself in the cornfields. ‘The sum. mer had been backward and cold; erops that should have been abundant were almost a failure. Peter Hulsey, sitting on the top rail Of the dilapidated fence between the pasture and the cornfield, viewed the straggling stalks and the poor, unde Yeloped ears with a dissust which he made no effort to conceal. ‘The crop, as usual, was a failure, but seattered thiekly through the field were mam. moth gokton pumpkins that seemed to hold all the garnered rays of many a sunny day For Peter, « nd bellever In eclentific £ thous he was, had followed the fo of bis shiftless ancestors and ted his corn and puny t Ils more prac. tical neistsbors had long ceased to do this, ¢ g. what was quite true, that the pumpkins Interfered with the thoroush cultivation of the corn and that neither did as well. However, all theories fail In a bad season, and this year Peter's crop was abundant, while his neighbors had neither corn nor pumpkins. Peter looked at them with a satisfied smile on his face. “My, but there's a pile of punkins out there!” be mused, “Ain't they. whoppers? Bet they ain't a punkin in the whole state of Wisconsin that can beat that biggest one of mine. And the ples—won't they be great, though?’ He smacked his lips In anticipation of the coming treat. Just then the Wescott children on thelr way to sclioo! began to sing as they passed the house “Peter, Peter, punkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her!” “Drat them young uns!" Peter mut- tered savagely. “If I could catch ‘em T'd give ‘em a trouncing they'd remem: ber for one while!” ‘The sight of Peter sitting on the fence of the pumpkin field suggested the last couplet, and they called mockingly: “Bettér put ber in a punkin shell, Then you'll keep her very well.” Touched to the quick, he climbed weartly down from the fence and went to his work. The smile that softened his rugged features and made them al- most beautiful was gone, and in its Place was a look of heartrending woe, of a bitter grief that knew no resigna- tion. In bis momentary pride in his Pumpkins he had forgotten the shadow that lay over his household. ‘The nonsensical nursery thyme was true. Martha Halsey, who married bim aguinst the will of her parents, who prophesied that no good would ever come to a Halsey, and who had loved and believed in him for seven years, had suddenly decided to leave him and go back to her father’s. “It ain't any use, Peter,” she had said. “I'm tired of working in doors and out trying to make a living. while ‘ you fool away your time on expert- | ments. Tn ail the seven years I've been | married I alu’: never had nothing new Dut the calico dresses I bought with the egg money. And I'm sick of it! | “I want a decent house, and I want to live like other folks, go to meeting and have the sewing society to tea. | Gidn’t believe pa when he said you was shiftiess. I thought it was because you didw’t have nobody to spruce you up| and belp yeu save. And I kept on hop- ing that things would be different atter awhile, but they ain't. Not but what Fee Sat ws, Bee 700 bees.” away a went wn. “Youve heipcd Im the house acd ‘back until you de something to Wiesner fe Thtened silently. Tt was all true he could say uothing in rep Martha hoped te would. If be had swered ber sharply aud made ber gty It woul! not be half so hard leave Lim, Le watehed her with a look of hopeless misery on his face as he tried to grasp the fact that she really Meant to co away and not come back Tn all the seven years of their married Ne sbe had never been away from home longer than two weeks, and he Still looked back to It as the longest Joneliest fortnizht he ever spent. How he could ever manage to drag out the dreary, hopeless years that lay before him he did uot know. He was so stuuned by the blow that he made no effort to dissuade her from her purpose tn the days that followed. He only said: “You will wait unt! after the pun- kins are sold, won't you, Marty?* And she answered with a flash of the old spirit that made her again the Mar. tha of his courting days: “No, Peter Halsey; T sban't. I'm go ing as soon as I get the house cleaned - nA £2 7 Le is i Vet See Yar oF Ara = “At the close of a long hard day's work he came home to a silent house. ‘There was no fire in the kitchen stove, but a tempting supper was arranged on the table. He tried to cheat himself into thinking that she was tired and had Iain down to rest, so he went through the deserted rooms, calling softly “Oh, Marthy, you ain't really gone, are you?” She had taken nothing save the rem- nants of her wedding finery and the Poor clothes she had bought with her own hard carned money. A Iittle work- basket he had given her on thetr first anniversary lay on the table and be- side tt a curl of golden hair clipped from the head of thelr only child and a Worn little shoe, showing yet the creases made by the baby feet that long ago found out the pathway to the homeland. Martha had kept these treasures with @acred care; but, knowing that she could give Peter no better proof of her lasting love, she had divided with him. He took them in bis big rough hands and touched them with tender fingers. ‘Then he sat down in her empty chair and sobbed aloud. “O Lord,” he whispered brokenly, “I thought it was hard enough when baby died, but now Marthy’s gone it seems like I jest can't live without her.” ‘That night and the day that followed were like a wretched nightmare to him. On the next his mind, made clear by suffering and loss of sleep, aroused from the torpor of grief and began to reassert itself. He surveyed the farm with the critical eyes of a stranger, Feallzing for the first time how badly sreraiee about the place needed re- pairing. He noted the rickety fences, ‘the tumbling outbuildings and the Fulnous condition of the house and ad- mitted the truth of Martha's accusa- ‘tous, “I have been shiftiess,” he said to’ bimself. “Days when } ought to have | been at work In the flelds I've fooled away my time reading or trying to| hatch up some scheme to make money out o” nothing.” “It's good land, too,” be went on, after a pause. “It ought to make a de cent living for us two and give Marthy All the fixings she wants, but this year tt ain't raised nothing but punkins and experiments.” His eyes twinkled, aud in spite of id gravity of the situation he laughed he counted up all tho will-0’-the- wisps he had followed for seven years. ed the appis trees by grafting them with varloties which were uot adapted | to the and the row of hardy Geach trees that never even leqved ent: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Beyond them was the garden plo where he had tried to grow ever bear ing strawberries, with a tangled thick ‘et of wineberries flourishing in one cor ner. “Darn things!" Peter muttered. “I paid $10 for them bushes, and I hain't suever et a berry from ‘em yet. And | there's them white blackberries of mine and the orange favored rhubarb I wish I could get shet of the pesky stuff.” Last of all were the pumpkins. Ail the other experiments were wretched failures, but these had amply reward. ed him for the time he had spent in ‘cultivating them. He well remem: | bered the sultry afternoon in July that ‘he devoted to cross fertilizing the blos- |soms of the two varieties. The result | Was the new strain, lirger, sweeter and firmer of flesh than either of its par ents. | “I ought to make something out of those punkins,” he said thoughtfully. “And if I don’t I'll quit fooling with experiments and tend to farming. { will anyway and show Marthy T mean business.” He watched the pumpkins with Jeal- ‘ous care, turning them to get all the ‘sun and snarding them so vigilantly that the neighbors began to think bis ‘trouble bad turned his bead. He found time to do u great deal of cleaning up About the farm. He mended the fences | | burned up the unsightly piles of obish until the place began to look idy and well kept. It is true that there were days when he relapsed into his old bad habits, but for the most part he worked with tireless energy, longing eagerly for the time when he should bring Martha home again, | One day in the early fail be gathered his pumpkins, selecting tie most per- fect ones for exhibition at the county fair. Tue largest one of all was a rich golden yellow and so immense that It might easily have served for Cinder- ella’s carrtage. “Bet this Jumbo of mine will weigh close to 200 ponnds,” he said as he ‘Ufted it carefully on to the scales. “Must be 1 don't see straight,” ho add- ed, “or, creat Caesir, he weighs 250!" A week later he loaded Jumbo, who Proudly bore the inscription suamo KING OF PUMPKINS WEIGHT 30 CIRCUMPERENCE 6 FEET GROWN BY PETER HALSEY tmto the wagon with several others nearly as large and drove to the fair grounds. All day throngs of admiring Spectators crowded {nto the agricul- tural building to see it. Beside the mammoth pumpkin the wouders of the bairless calf and the winged horse of the side shows faded Into tnsignif- tance, Housewives tapped tts yellow rind as they speculated on its favor and Wondered how many ples it would make. At night it proudly wore two ribbons, the blue of the first premium and a yellow one denoting that it had been awarded the special prize of $10 Offered for the largest vegetable on ex- hibition, Yet Peter was not satisfied, although he bad been offered $50 for It by the envious side show man. Just before a = . _ TYE COME TO TAKE YOU HOME aGatn.” the close of the fair a stranger enternd the building and, passing by the dis plays of fruit and vegables, paused be fore Jumbo. He drew a tapeline from his pocket and curefully verified the measurements. Then he Inspected the jothers of the group and tested the fa. Yor and grain of the samples. And at last, well satisfied, he turned away. Snide rea. oe Irene oes ome ei pumpkin?” he asked Peter some hours later. “I reckon I am,” Peter answered proudly “That punkin was grown right there In the cornfield.” “I understand, of course,” said the stranger slowly, “that the pumpkins on exhibition are the largest you have. | Would you mind showing me the small- est you raised?” Peter lit the lantern and led the way to the burn where they were stored. “May I ask how you obtained the variety ?” “By cross fertilizing the blossoms,” Peter replied. “It's the only one of my experiments that's been anything of a success.” “Yes,” said the stranger, “It ts a suc- cess, a very decided success. Indeed, I am authorized by the Imperial Beed company to offer you $5,000 for the seeds.” ‘The lantern swayed tn Peter's trem- bling bands, and a mist gathered in bis eyes. Evew in bis wildest dreams he had never hoped for any such sum as this, Five thousand dollars—why, that. was more than the farm was worth He could fix up the house and have Martha home for Thanksgiving. He turned away his face that the stranger might not see his joy as he answered: “You may have the punkins on them terms.” pumpkins for $5,000 spread fire over the country. These whe had seen Jumbo bousted of ite size and beauty aad began w refer to Peter, whom they had always called Shiftiess The Scughbers Watched te inprote The netghbors the ments he mado with eavious eyes whispered that sooner or later the money work! Lad squandered on foolish experi But it wasn't. and one glad October day Peter drove through the russet Gelds to Martha’s old home. She was sittin: oa the 2 of her father's home easeriy watebinz the passersby. When she saw.Peter she Sprang to her feet with a little low ery of joy and tan to meet him. He took her In his strong arms and crushed her to him, For awhile neither cared for other speech than that of clasped hands and long. long kisses, but at last Peter said tenderly: “I've come to take you home again, Martby. I can’t Hive without you no- how, but I've turned over 2 new leaf, and I'm going to do different than I have. Will you come and give your Shiftiess Peter another chance?* “Yes.” she answered, and her face Was as radiant with happiness as that of the girl he had wedded seven years: before. “But. oh, I thought you would never come!” Gems In Verse Reading the Milesto:::. 1 stopped to read the milesione here, A laggard schoolboy, long ago. Tcame not far; my home was near, But, ah, how far I longed to got Behold a number and a name, ‘A finger, westward, cut In stone; ‘The vision of a city came, Across the dust and distance shown. Around me lay the farms asleep In hazes of autumnal air. And sounds that quiet loves to keep ‘Were heard, and heurd not, every where. ‘Tread the milestone day by day: I yearned to cross the barren bound, ‘To know the golden Faraway, ‘To walk the new Enchanted Ground: John James Piatt. ‘Castle Westerday. In the Valley of Contentment, just be- yond the Hills of Old, ‘Where the streams are always sliver and the sunshine always gold. Where the hour is ever morning and the skies are never gray, In the yellow haze of springtime stands the Castle Yesterday. Oh, the seasons that we spent there when the whole wide world was young. The friends we've had as maid and lad, the songs that we have sung! ‘The echoes of their music cannot quite have died away, But still must thrill the rooftree of the Castle Yesterday. And the loving hearts we knew there in the time of trust and truth, Surely still they wait behind us tn the Pantheon of youth! But the angel of the valley at the portal bars our way, And a flaming sword forbids us from the Castle Yesterday. When the pilgrimage ts ended, may we turn then, may we change Te the vanished and familiar from the Present and the strango? Whoso chooses to his heaven, I shall be content to stay. Where tho ghosts of dead years wander through the halls of Yesterday. Reginald Wright Kauffman, ‘The Call of the City. ‘Do you hear the call of the city? Do you mark how the men reply? ‘Thousands and hundreds of thousands ‘Tho crowds are hurrying by. And those who have fuiled are many, And many are those who have won, But the most of all the thousands Are the men who have just begun, For “youth” ts the call of the city, And the strong young men come forth From the cheer of the southern planta tons, From the desolate farms of the north, From tho old New England homestead, From the lonely ranch tn ths west: ‘They bring their strength to the strug: le, ‘They offer the city their best. They Kive their youth and vigor In eager sacrifice, And out of the stress of thelr tolling Shall the City of Beauty arise. They are worn ard spent with labor, They aro tossed aside again, And the city is calling, calling, For the lives of other men. ~Anna Louise Strong. ‘0 tps Now my time has come to die, Good my masters, hear; This a sinner's itany Daring to your ear: Life hath played for me to dance ‘Up and down the line. Gh, 1 paid the adater, sirs, But the cance was fine!) Love came swinging to my eall— Black eyed love and bold; Give me scarlet lips to kiss, Both her hands to hold. Fast and fasier fell our feet ‘To the music's Beat. @h, I paia the NAdler, sire, BUt the cance was sweet’) T have danced it through the worlé= Ab, the merry tune! Danced the red sun down the wast, Danced away the moon. Could 1 cavil at the price? ‘Out on souls so meant Bh, 1 paid the Aadiec, stra, But the cance was keen) Bergared now, my masters all, ‘Cry your cold dispraise: Raise your eyes and count your golds ‘Trudge your dreary ways, 1, the pauper. richer far, Envy not nor pine. Bb, 1 paid the Adler, ates, ‘But the dance—was mine!) —Theedosis Garrisen, yitipl natant alent. pase What buitds the nation’s pillars high ‘And its foundations strong? What makes it mighty to dety ‘The foes that round it throne? It fe not gold. Its kingdoms grand Go down in battle's shock: Ita shafts are laid on sinking eand, Not on abiding rock Is ft the sword? Ask the red dust Of empires passed away: ‘The diood has turned thelr stones to rust, ‘Their giory to decay, And is it pride? An, that brighterowa, Has seomed to nations sweet, But God has struck ite luster dew In ashes at bin feet! Not gold, but only man, can make A poopie great and strong: Men whe, for truth and honer’s sake, Stand fast and autfer tong” ‘Brave men who work while ethers sloop, ‘Who dare while others fy ‘They build a nation’s pillars deep And lift them to the sky, —Bmersen. 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NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK Hens Richmond every "eveulng (foot AND Breet) att BM. skapping at Kaw aot News on route. ‘Parcs $4) ane ware fio Found trip, in lading stateroom hecth? neti, Wo. eaclt: "Street Care en Sica rs Wert FOR NEW YoRK Via Night Line doamers (except Ratusday) making Counection ia Novak wih Manet Shin, Kllowing day at 7PM alae Nhat aed Wentern iy at A.M and dP Mand Chee Peakee Ohin Bye ats a Mt Mant he Se Waking conneetita daily lexechee mantey Ne ortoik with Main time abips sang at's Be 0 a A SOUTHERN RAILW Y Effective Eeb. 11th, 1906, TRAINS LRAVE RICHMOND J, ™—Dally. Local for Chariot 12.05 m—Dally. imitans Beker Betimas Ute Atlanta Soil ¥¥ cringbam, New Ooumas Memohi. “Chnttancorn and ‘alt tne eee Tbrouwh conch for Chene City, Oxford wee. iin and Halelgh, £90 8 an Daly Cigieed Tan rendy 11°90 p. mn —Daliy, ase? an 0300p. ma for Sissamenny: YORK S1VEU LINE The tnvortte to route Baltiivore and carters saints Leave Richmond 4-21 p" ar speareer™ cept Sunday, connecting with boat fe alk: mipre Mondays, Wednasinys and Triteh #5, m—Rrcept Sanday.” Local eee tor 2:18 prim Mondays, Wetneadaye and Pridase Loval for Weat Pott 8 > (22) pm Mxerpt ouncer. For Waal Point, gio inadanes Gengnee’ tr lito ad ver Eridnys” Stonmers call ne Gioneeay rae Almonds and Ving Bank pr TAAL QURIVE RICHMOND, #8. m.and 7 Spm roe pith: Prom Chartoite and “Durhacs tna te FEET TS wn sa an. From nt with Baltimore Gennections Sundays, Wedneaday aad ie ie ¢. m-—From Weet Point Wednendays and oo 5:18 pm —From West Potnt. "eH Hanowree, faa rae wee. (, BUSrENcen, GM WH Tavtaw. Pa 0 W. Wasrucny. D. Peas Hichmen Ve! ey Arr Line Rarmway Short Line to the principal Cities Tor the Seath an Southwest, Plorida, Cuba and Mexico. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN ST, STATION DAILY.~Schedalein effect 9:10. m.—Local for Norlina, Raleigh, “Hemle 2:20 p. m.—BEABOARD Mall, composed of Pal tee man sleeping care te Atlants, Sota etree aataatad om shis train, they are mainteined. e'nighent depres ef exealicace’ or | See Fanning without chat 9:80 p. m.— SEABOARD EXPRESS. Com ef. Pullman” sleepers soo Savannah, Jecksreville sea Teen SEABOARD Cafe wn Spechen, running to mS gang akin RICHMOND, Daly. oe “ee Atlanta amt we Freer atlanta amd the a See ow soa” soumestions apply “te any SuABOLES Stearn Fat TATION Diseriet Passenger Agt City Ticket 00 Mast Main 6+, Richmond, Va EIGHT THE PLANET SATURDAY.....MARCH 17. 1906. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, March 8. The Neenah Paper Mills Company's plant at Neenah, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $300,000. Midshipmen B. McDaniel and William W. Sercy, both of Texas, resigned from the Annapolis naval academy. The 16th annual convention of the public school superintendents of Pennsylvania was held at Harrisburg. A bill has been introduced in congress to increase the pensions of survivors of the Mexican war from $12 to $20 per month. Mrs. Sarah Rumbly 98 years old, mother of the late Walter Q. Gresham, former secretary of state, died at her home, near Lanesville, Ind. Major General Corbin, accompanied by his wife and personal staff, arrived in San Francisco from Manila. Stanley W. Little, a prominent attorney, committed suicide at Towanda, Pa., by shooting while suffering from melancholia. An appropriation bill carrying $191. 85$8,848 for postal service has been agreed upon by the house committee on post offices. A Philadelphia jury awarded William Jones, a blacksmith, $5500 damages for the loss of an eye at the Baldwin locomotive works. Saturday, March 10. The house of representatives on Friday passed 408 private pension bills. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte addressed the Swedish-American Central Republican Club of Chicago. Over 250 slot machines, captured in raids, were burned by the Law and Order Society in Philadelphia by order of the court. Despondent over domestic troubles, Abraham Welnstein, of Camden, N. J., committed suicide by kneeling a towel around his neck, causing strangulation. Gavin Harris, who is worth $50,000 and who enlisted in the army at Columbus O., said he did so to get away from undesirable companions and to lead a quiet life. Monday, March 12. Convicted on the charge of perjury Attorney George Collins has been sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment at San Francisco. Present prospects are that 20,000,000 bushels of grain will be waiting transportation at the head of the lakes when navigation opens. Rev. G. Wells Ely, a Presbyterian clergyman, has been drawn for jury duty in Lancaster, Pa., the first preacher to serve as a juror in that county. John Mincer was instantly killed and Robert Basinger and Burton Shadle each had a leg broken by a fall of rock at Josseh Haberstroh's quarries, near Lock Haven Pa. Tuesday. March 13. Dr. Manuel Quintana, president of the Argentine Republic, died at Buenos Ayres. The piano and organ factory of H. Lehr & Co., at Easton, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. During a fit of jealousy, Corinne Miller, aged 19, of Wichita, Kan., shot and killed her sweetheart, William Morrow. To punish his wife for leaving him, Emil Fuhl, killed himself and 5-year-old daughter by turning on the gas in a New York tenement house. Detected in the act of robbing a store at Monongahela, Pa., Joseph Kolasak, a young Slav, was shot and killed by Joseph Freeman, the watchman. Wednesday. March 14. A. K. Read, of Louisiana, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, died in London of meningitis. The camp of United Veterans of Poplar Bluff, Mo., elected President Roosevelt an honorary member. A slight fire caused a panic among the 150 guests of the Irondale hotel, Donora, Pa., but no one was hurt. Loss, $3000. The house committee on military affairs reported favorably the bill to appropriate $300,000 for a government powder factory. Citizens of Toledo, O., will make an organized effort to induce President Roosevelt to pardon George E. Lorenz, who is now in prison for conspiracy to defraud the government in the postal cases. WAS DESIRED BY SERENADERS House Riddled With Slit and Other Damage Done With Dynamite. Perrycopolis, Pa., March 14.—Because he was besieged in his home all night, and because of damage to his property by strenuous serenaders upon the occasion of the wedding of his son, H. J. Mossbury, of this place, has sworn out warrants for the arrest of 40 of the town's prominent young men. Mr. Mossbury says the serenaders made him a target for sticks and stones, riddled his house with shot and caused other damage with dynamite. In addition to the criminal prosecution, Mr. Mossbury announces he will bring civil suits against the offenders. The serenaders, 50 in number, appeared at the Mossbury home, and when Mossbury with his son and daughter-in-law appeared on the porch the crowd threw a volley of stones, one of these hitting the elder man in the leg, causing a painful wound. Incensed with rage, he drew a revolver, and firing into the air, ordered the crowd to leave. His act only served to enrage them, and after sending a part of their number after shotguns, members of the mob began a fusilade, which did not diminish until nearly four hours later. Over 250 shots were fired during this time, and when the crowd ceased firing at 2 o'clock in the morning, the shade trees in the front yard were shot to pieces, the roof of the porch and parts of the house were riddled with shot and the fences in the immediate vicinity were laid flat on the ground. Later the besieging force secured five sticks of denimane and exploded all of them simultaneously. Nearly every window in the house was shattered and its occupants badly frightened. When the crowd dispersed, nearly two bushels of empty shotgun shells were picked up in the front yard. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices in the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR steady; winter extrax. $103.22; Pennsylvania roller. clair. $84.00; 260; city mills fancy. $475.40 & 80. RYE FLOUR firm; fancy. $475.40 & 80. RYE FLOUR firm; 2. Pennsylvania red. $815.@; CORN firm: No. 2 yellow, local, 48k; OATS steady: No. 2 white, clipped 36c; lower grades. 24kc. HAY firm: No. treadmill. $15.50 for large bales treadmill. $15.50 for large bales steady; beef hams. $32 @ 24. POUL- TRY: Live steady. hams. $125.@;13c; old roosters. 94k. Dressed firm; choice fowls. 1lc; old roosters. 10c. BUTTER steady; cremery. 22c per lb. EGGS steady; cremery. 22c per lb. EGGS western. 14@ 15c; southern. 134c; FOATOES steady; per bushel, 63c. BALTIMORE - WHEAT quiet and smooth. 2 spat. steamer No. 1 spat. 75% CORK, corn mixed. spot. 46c; steamer mixed, 44c; southern. 433c; OATS easy; white. No. 2. 35%@35%c; No. 3. 34%@35% No. 4. 32%@35%c; mixed. No. 2. 34%@35% TERR steady; creamery separator, ex- st. 28%@29%; heid. 25%@29%; prints. 28%@39%; Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy prints. 16@17%; EGGS steady; fancy Maryland and Pennsylvania, 14c; southern. 12c; West Virginia, 14c; southern. 12c Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)-CATTLE steady; choice, $5.50@5.75 prime, $5.25 @ 5.50. HOGS active prime heavy, mediums and heavy Yorkers, $6.50; light Yorkers, $6.50 Yorkers, $6.50; light Yorkers, $6.50 Yorkers, $6.50; light Yorkers, $6.50 SHEEP, light Yorkers, wethers, $5.80@6; common, $2.50@5.90, lambs $5.72@6; veal calves, $8.50 CARE OF FURS How to Clean and Pack Them Safely For Summer. Now is the time when furs are to be cleaned and put away where neither moth nor rust shall corrupt them, and this is how the furriers do it and charge you from $5 to $20 for it: When it is decided to put away the fur garment or piece it should be hung out on a line in the sun two days, taking it in at night. Then the garment, of whatever kind, or muff should be laid flat on a clean place and well beaten with two light but strong rattan sticks. This is done to smash any moth eggs that may have found lodgment. Every part of the fur should be beaten thus to make sure the eggs are destroyed. All dark furs, including skunk, mink, seal and astrakhan, and, in fact, all the furs except ermine and chinchilla, should be well rubbed with a mixture of hot sand and sawdust in equal parts, but not hot enough to burn the fur. This is to be shaken all over the garments and rubbed in well, and then they should be hang up and beaten with the rattans. This shakes the sand and sawdust out and leaves the fur clean and glossy. If the long hairs in bearskins or any of the long haired furs do not look fluffy when the beating is done, comb that part out with a clean comb. Bear particularly is apt to tangle. Skeinskin may be wet and brushed up with the grain, which is made to run upward. Leave it until dry and then brush it, and if that does not free it all use a fine tooth comb. Ermeine and white fox should be aired on a dry, windy day and then thoroughly beaten with the rattans and left in the sun. If any moth should be in the fur, this will kill it, and the beating also destroys eggs. Ermeine and chinchilla to be cleaned of grease and all other soils must be laid flat and plaster of paris and corn-starch used. The plaster of paris is applied dry first and rubbed well into the very roots of the hairs with the bare hand. Lots of it should be put on and rubbed in until the fur will look clean when shaken out. The powde absorbs the dirt and grease, and then it is to be beaten out with the rattans, and if this can be done in the open air it is better. When this is done and the plaster is all out, the cornstarch is to be applied with a liberal hand and rubbed into the roots of the fur and finally shaken and beaten out. After this is done the fur should be white as snow and fluffy as feathers. When the fur is thus fully cleaned and beaten, it should be again hung in the sun all day, after which it can be put into a cotton bag and this sewed tightly, so that nothing can enter it. Then liberally sprinkle the bag with camphor gum in powder, or, if preferred, camphor balls, and then put it into a tarred paper bag. Such bags are to be purchased everywhere, and they afford an excellent protection. The coolest place in a house is the one for hanging the paper bags with the furs in them. In the large fur houses they have a cold storage place, and fine furs are kept in there. In the fall, when it is time for furs again, a day's airing is all that is required, and they are clean and ready to wear. This is the method of cleaning furs as used by the best houses. The silk or satin linings can be cleaned with gasoline. How to Beautify the Skin. How to beautify the skin. To obtain a beautiful skin one must diet properly, says Tit-Bits. Butter, fat meat and greasy food of every kind must be avoided. Coffee and tea must be given up; so must claret and all kinds of wine, and milk or lemonade substituted. Fruit and vegetables should be eaten in abundance, rich sweets and cake avoided. Pastry never should be touched, and plickles and acid food generally dispensed with. A woman who follows the above rules will find that her skin will become smooth and clear after several months have passed. Of course the dieting must be thorough and careful. No improvement can be made unless it is. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ELECTRICITY AND ODORS. Found That the Latter Act to Prevent the Passage of Former Through Atmosphere. That strong perfumes may act to prevent the discharge of an electrified body through the atmosphere has been recently proved by a French experimenter, Mr. A. Balditt. He suggests that if this research be properly followed up it may throw light on the character of the odorous particles thrown off by substances that give out perfume. Says the writer in an account of his experiments contributed to Cosmos (Paris) and translated for the Literary Digest; "Modern theories . . . have made us familiar with various kinds of corpuscles; but there is one kind that has been known since the world began, and yet its physical study is very backward—I mean the corpuscles that emanate from odorous substances. The study of these bodies by means of the balance is very difficult, as may be seen when we realize that such a substance as ideform gives off in a hundred years a weight of odorous matter equal to about one-thousandth part of its total. But electric methods which are so sensitive that they enable us to weigh bodies whose mass is a thousand times smaller than that of the atom of hydrogen, furnish us data of great interest regarding the nature of these corpuscles. "It is well known that the theories of 'ionization' explain how an insulated electrified body may lose its charge by the impact of electrified particles (ions) which are always present throughout the atmosphere in greater or less numbers. "If we cause an almost imperceptible cloud of smoke to pass near such a body, the discharge decreases very sensibly and almost instantaneously, resuming its former value when the smoke has disappeared. This is explained by the diffusion of the atmospheric ions toward the particles of smoke. These ions, which are free to move in any direction, are now surrounded with an escort of relatively huge particles, which retard their motion. "It may be understood that this method may give valuable indications regarding the nature of the particles comprising the smoke-cloud as well PLAN OF THE EXPERIMENT. as regarding their size and number. It may also be applied to the emanations from odoriferous bodies; thus, the following experiments have been performed: "A is an electroscope surmounted by a cylinder of blackened brass (B). C is a glass jar covering the whole apparatus. The cylinder B is charged with a rod of resin and the time is measured during which the leaves of the electroscope A approach by a certain number of divisions. Then the odorous substance is placed under the jar and the experiment is repeated. "Although these measurements were made in unfavorable weather and only on a single substance, vanilla, we have found a sensible diminution of the loss of electricity. We finally sought to find whether a perfumed substance charged with electricity diffuses more odor than in the neutral state, but the impression of odor is too subjective to enable us to give an affirmative answer without a very great number of measurements." "We think that it would be interesting to resume these measurements under better conditions. 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