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THE RICHMOND PLANET COLORED FOLKS WANTED NOW. Stirring Appeal to go West—Fertile Soil—Great Opportunities—Equal Rights for All—A Stirring Appeal by One Who is There. Pearce, Arizona Territory, December 13, 1907. Dear Editor, Richmond PLANET: Allow me to inform you of certain facts. I have written to some leading men of our race in regards to millions of acres of government lands in this territory New Mexico and Southern Cala, and some of them answered very unfavorably and as to Dr. Washington, I got no reply whatever, and I would like to get a reply from you in this matter. There are two of us who have taken up claims of a 160 acres each and there is enough land in our vicinity for about 2000 families and do hope between you, God and man that you can make up a colony of colored people and send them this way as the whites are talking of settling around us on this land. This is my last letter on this subject and am sorry to say so. I have written to Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama and not a person even came out and looked at the land. I ask you in the name of the Father and the Son to send one or two men as inspectors to look at this and make a report to you of the facts. We planted a little of everything so we could write the truth. We planted corn potatoes, onions and all classes of garden stuff and the crop did well. We had to irrigate some and we have to dig wells and water our stuff like the white people do. We did not plant any wheat or tobacco because we started too late as we had to do fencing to keep off cattle and we had gotten here too late in the spring to do else but fence. I will tell you as I did Dr. Washington. Garden stuff comes up in two and a half to eight days; corn grows as tall as 15 feet. We ate watermelons in fifty-two days after planting and we have proof for what we say. We planted three crops of radishes, two of lettuces and pumpkins grow as large as a half bushel measure. We gather three hundred pounds of tomatoes from eighteen vines and you can raise all the chickens, turkeys, hogs, sheep, etc. you want. Now, Mr. Editor, the colored people must scatter out and do for them selves as white people do and help to improve the country. Colored la bor is wanted here and very good pay. I could write you a much longer letter, but I have gotten discouraged to see in every colored paper where there are so many colored people packed and jammed in those eastern cities and the bad wont let the good ones prosper and they do not seem to want to come west. We want good people, men of families, etc. Bad men have no places here. Sir, I wait for an early answer because as things are drifting here we must not let the grass grow under our feet or many good colored families will be out of what they should have by putting off to-day for tomorrow. Yours truly. HATHOWAY PLEASANT. P. S.—I will further say that I am from Richmond and am under no obligation to mislead any one from that State or any other State. I have relatives in Richmond, the Jaspers and would like to see them be first on these lands if possible. I am sure the entire race would be better off in this territory and New Mexico than they would be in any part of the Southern States. There are not so many whites in this territory and if we could get the larger portion colored, we could run things nicely and be free to vote with out going through the red tape like they have in the South and I ask you again to teach the colored people to come west and take up land and do for themselves, and if they .et this chance slip they will not be able to get a foot of land around here within twelve months for less than a hundred dollars an acre and if the grass grows under their feet they will always regret it. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 18, '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P., N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of William Armistead who was a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 3 of Norfolk, Va. George W. Davenport. R. E. Kindred. D. J. Roberts. CALLS HIS FLOCK STINGY. Pastor Aked of Rockefeller's Church Jebukes His Coworker. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. — The Rev. C. F. Aked, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, at the morning service yesterday demanded $7,000 from the congregation to pay off a deficit in the expenses and got it. This was, however, only after he had condemned his flock as close fisted. Many of the very wealthy members of the church, including John D. Rockefeller and his wife and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., sat in their pews and heard the demand—it was not an appeal—of their pastor. He said: "While I am grateful to the large givers who have done so much for the church, I will not be the least shy of larger sums yet to come. We labor under the disadvantages of our advantages. We have the advantage of having persons associated with this church who have large amounts of money, and others say, 'Go to them for money, as it is too much of an effort for us who haven't so much.' "It is not fair. It is a mean spirit. It has raised up a crowd of stingy souls who won't support the church. "It isn't fair to me. You have no right to put a man in charge of the church when you won't support him. It isn't fair to the church. "I am tired of hearing this church called Mr. Smith's, Mr. Brown's or Mr. Robinson's church." This was a pointed allusion to the name of "Rockefeller's church," which the edifice commonly bears. "While I acknowledge your kindness to Mrs. Aked and myself, I ask you to complete it by retiring me from a position I find distasteful. You know that every year there has been a deftle in the current accounts of this church. "I want $7,000 from you before you leave this church. "This is an inheritance from the past, I have had nothing to do with this debt, and I want to get rid of it." KAISER'S CHRISTMAS. Unhucky Number of Trees Stand in Palace at Potsdam. BERLIN, Dec. 21. Thirteen Christmas trees stand in the new palace at Potsdam for the members of the imperial family. There are two large trees in the center, with five smaller ones on the one side and six on the other, diminishing in size according to the age of those for whom they are intended. The two large trees are for the emperor and empress and the others for their six sons and daughter, the wives of Crown Prince Frederick William and Prince Eltel and the two children of the crown prince. Peace at Tcheran. TEHERAN, Dec. 24.—The shah sent to parliament a signed declaration that he will act in accordance with the constitution. The president of the chamber informed the house that the shah had accepted the stipulations made by parliament and would send away Said el Dowleh, the former minister of foreign affairs, and the intriguing priests and would punish the persons responsible for the recent disorders. Mrs. Longworth Almont Well. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Mrs. Longworth has so far recovered from the effects of the operation for appendicitis which she underwent on Dec. 11 that she will leave the White House Thursday for her own residence. For several days Mrs. Longworth has been able to go about her room, but as yet she has not been outdoors. Memphis Savings Bank Fols MEMPHIS, Teun., Dec. 24. — The Memphis Savings bank failed to open its doors. A notice posted on the door said that the bank had been placed in the hands of a receiver and E. B. McHenry had been appointed receiver. No statement has been issued. Miss Maloney Not In Italy. LAKEWOOD, N. J., Dec. 24. —Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin Maloney, whose family declares her to be in a convent retreat near Rome, is instead in Lakewood at the home of her sister, Mrs. Carberry Ritchie, if persons here who know her well are to be believed. Tom Lawson's New Party. BOSTON, Dec. 23. —Thomas W. Lawson, of "frenzled finance" fame, who visited the White House last Tuesday, announces that he is forming a new political party to force a third term on President Roosevelt, with Governor Johnson of Minnesota as his running mate. Once Worth $75,000. Dies a Pauper. PITTSBURG. Dec. 23. —Mrs. M. A. Austin came from Chicago four years ago with $75,000, which she lost in attempting to establish employment agencies. Five days ago she took carbolic acid and died. Her body was interred in the potter's field. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1907. 1907 1908 AFTER C. DUBTON A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. The Last Siege of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. [By Lucian B. Watkins.] We were afraid that you would soon be borne away Upon the sweet, endearing breathings of your heart! We were afraid that you would soon forget to stay And give to life your lofty, soulful missioned part! Too true! but—ah! the jeweled breaths with which you sang— That blew in their soft whispers o'er the tender strings Of human hearts, the sweet aeolian sounds that rang An echo as if blown from heaven's angels' wings— Still linger in the ethics of our souls! Then, must. We say you're dead? and can we ever for you weep? Ah, no! amid the sacred halo o'er your dust, We listen to your echoed-breathing while you sleep. —From "Volces of Solitude." $500 DEATH CLAIM PAID Dr. W. F. Graham Preaches in Norfolk Wednesday December 19th, Dr. W. F. Graham preached a special sermon for Dr. L. W. C. Metz and his congregation in Norfolk. A large gathering was present and all seemed to have enjoyed the sermon. He preached from the sublect "A Regenerate Church Membership the Need of the Hour." Revs. S. B. Saunders, D. D. D. Wilson and Pastor L. W. C. Metz, D. D. joined in hearty co-operation in making the meeting a success. After the sermon a good collection was taken for the Church and then Mr. Walter D. Steptoe called to the front a lady who was beneficiary of a $500 policy. Dr. Graham paid the money in cash and everybody left in highest praise of the American Beneficial Insurance Company. This Company is making a most enviable history and is regarded by the public as one of the best on the market. Notwithstanding the Company is little above five years old their annual collections aggregate more that $100,000. Such men as President Graham, Secretary B. H. Peyton, Supt. John W. Howard, Inspectors R. W. Anderson and R. H. Fauntleroy know how to push a Company to the front. NORFOLK REPORTER ALEXANDER—CHRISTIAN. The marriage of Miss Victoria A. Christian to Mr. W. M. Alexander, took place at the home of Mr. W. J. Lewis, 420 Shafer Street. Mr. W. M. Mossy acted as best man, Miss Cora B. Nicholas maid of honor. Rev. Dean performed the marriage ceremony after which a reception was tendered the bridal party and guests. LOST—Yesterday, a French Poo- dle, answers to the name of Bounce. Return to 408 W. Grace St. and get liberal reward. General Prediction, 1908. Butler, Pa., Dec. 20, 1967. There is going to be a big scrap and Uncle is going to be in it. This year, 1908 is ruled by the moon. This indicates a cold, damp wet season. Spring, cold and frosty Summer, showery and late and cold. Fall, damp and chilly, but January, 1909 will be very dry and very windy Grain crops, small and scarce; hay moderate; potatoes, small and watery; very few toads, snakes, grasshoppers and worms, but caterpillars, mice and rats in abundance. Diseases most prevalent will be fevers Stomach, bowels and liver troubles and great trouble with the eyes. The year 1908 is the beginning of the three years of trouble. There will be great fires, floods, earthquakes, famines and plagues. In the year 1911 is the great war year, the greatest that will ever have been recorded upon history's pages. I fear Germany and England will be matched against this country of ours (V. S. H.) They have done and will do anything and everything to snub and crush us if they can. All professed friendship to the contrary notwithstanding England and Germany are the two bitterest enemies this country has and Japan comes next and are waiting for something to turn up so she can strike. (Japan) Beware they are all false-hearted. Between 1908 and 1911 there will be a general uprising of the Mohammedans against the Christians. A universal epidemic of fever and eruption diseases. A general uprising of labor against capital and unrest among the people. Planetary position indicates jealousy and double dealing everywhere and a tendency to run and destroy. Much bitterness will be displayed against the money powers and all spiritualistic and occult matters will be under a cloud. Railroad accidents, mine explosions, suicides and death by drowning will be frequent. Crimes and cruelties against women and children. Scandals and excitement in religious matters. All government and ruling powers will have their hands full from 1908 to 1911. Although there are many good things to happen this year which I shall be pleased to tell in the monthly readings. Sincerely yours. Sincerely, J. LEO PERKINSON, Box 373, Butler, Pa. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 21, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Octavia Randall, who was a member of Lily of the Valley Court, No 247 of Norfolk, Va. Martha Matin. Emma V. Kelley BRAINS BLOWN OUT. Horrible Tragedies in Georgia. Waycross, Ga., Dec. 25—Will Wadell, colored was shot and killed today while in the custody of Deputy Sheriff C. E. Cason, who was bringing him to this city upon a charge of having fired the shot that killed Wallace Dyall yesterday. Dyall, after falling, had drawn his revolver and fired into the colored people from among whom the shot that felled him had been fired. Two were killed by his shots. Waddell was riding in a buggy with the officer. Day had scarcely broken when Cason saw some one in the act of firing from behind the buggy just as he had stopped at Millwood. The next moment the brains of the colored man were splashed upon the officer by the shot. He could not tell who fired it, the slayer vanishing in the darkness. A LYNCHING IN THE NEW STATE Colored Man the Victim. MUSKOGEE, OKLA., Dec. 25.—Riddled with bullets, the body of James Garden, colored, is dangling from a telegraph pole at Henrietta, Okla., a coal mining town thirty miles southwest of here, as a result of a lynching in the new State. Garden shot and killed A. Bales, a white man, because Bales, who is a well-known liveryman refused to rent a rig to him. Garden said. Bales was discriminating against him because of his color, and Garden, going across for a pistol, returned and killed Bales. Garden was lodged in jail, and to-night a mob of 100 men battered down the doors of the jail and secured the Negro and hung him to a nearby pole. They then riddled the body with bullets. All the colored people in Henrietta are terrorized. There is a colored man in the Henrietta jail, who it is feared will be lynched before morning. —Dr. Q. W. Moon who has been quiet ill recently has recovered and resumes his practice at 102 Holly Street, Manchester. His 'phone is 6251. The body of a colored man was found in the canal at the foot of Ninth Street. He was heard to be running when he arrived he had disappeared, from view. Grand Entertainment. There will be a grand musical entertainment given at hte Empire on North Second Street, between Duval and Baker Streets for the benefit of Maceo Court. Commencing Monday night, December 30, ending Friday night, January 3, 1908. All friends are invited to attend. —Subscribe to The PLANET. MARRIED ON DEATHBED. Millionaire Brower Explores Twelve Hours After Wedding. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.—Christian W. Stengel, president of the Felgenspan brewery interests in Newark, N. J., died in the German hospital here, less than twelve hours after he had been married to Mrs Marie Louise Felgenspan, the widow of the man who once employed him. Mr. Stengel was the confidential assistant of Christian Felgenspan, and shortly before the latter died, it is said, he expressed a wish that his wife marry Mr. Stengel in case he did not live. Last Thursday Mr. Stengel was operated upon for appendicitis. Compplications set in, and another operation was made necessary. Having been informed that Mr. Stengel probably would not survive his illness, the couple decided to carry out the dying wish of the late Mr. Felgenspan. A license was granted, but when the time came for the ceremony to be performed Mr. Stengel was very weak. He grew stronger in a few hours, and in the evening they were married. A few hours later Mr. Stengel lapsed into unconsciousness, from which he never rallied. Relatives of both Mr. Stengel and Mrs. Felgenspan were present. Five Killed In Seine Subway PARIS, Dec. 24—Five persons were killed last night by an explosion of compressed air in the uncompleted Metropolitan subway tunnel under the river Seine, near Notre Dame. The accident was caused by a sudden sinking of a caisson fifty feet below the surface of the water, which forced out of position one of the great head shields. The resulting rush of air, suddenly released, hurried five of the workmen against the concrete wall, killing them outright. The men in other sections of the workings became panic stricken, and a mad right for the ladder to the exit ensured in the darkness, but all got out in safety. Mauretania Sunshes a Burge Mauretania Sunshes a Barge. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. — The huge turbiner Mauretania was torn from her moorings at her pier, foot of West Thirteenth street, during the storm and swung over to the north side of the slip, where she smashed the coal barge Alice P. Koezies like an eggshell. An hour later the big craft was secured and again died to her dock without any damage to herself, but everybody in that vicinity was badly scared. That the steamship did not back out into the river was due to the fact that her stern lines held fast, thus enabling her crew to get her under control. Mann Radius to Rutgers Many Bodies in Boston Catacombs. BOSTON, Dec. 23. It has just been discovered that the skeletons of a thousand bodies lie hidden in the tombs and catacombs or subbasement of the historic old North church. These bones include those of Major Piteaun of the British army, who was killed during the Revolution, the first captain of the Constitution, Nicholson, and other heroes of the Revolution. Would Oust King Charles LISBON, Dec. 23 — Portuguese Republicans mean to demand in the new cortes that Preacher Franco be impeached and King Charles abdicate. Two Surprises at Trenton. TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 24.—The Republican assemblymen held a caucus here which resulted in two surprises. The first was the election of Assemblyman William P. Martin of Essex, a Colbyite, or new idea Republican, as chairman of the caucus without opposition. The other was the choosing of Frank B. Jess of Camden as speaker over Professor John E. Prince of Passaic by a vote of 25 to 15. Aeclident or Suicide? NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—John H. Paley, editor of the Jewish Daily News, was found dead in his home in Brooklyn, asphyxied by gas which was escaping from an open burner in the parlor. The coroner is trying to determine whether a raid's death was accidental or not. No motive for suicide has been established. Georgia Bank Goes Under. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 23.—The state banking department will take charge of the Neal Banking company, a state institution, today, according to an announcement. The bank has deposits of over $2,000,000. Caught Fire as She Prayed. WASHINGTON, Pa., Dec. 24.—While Miss Elizabeth Hattfield, seventeen years old, knelt at her bedside in prayer her nightdress ignited at a gas stove, and she sastained burns from which she died. Sparks Wants Troops Retained. GOLDFIELD, Nev., Dec. 23.—Governor Sparks of Nevada has asked the president to let the troops stay at Goldfield until the labor troubles are settled. PRICE. FIVE CENTS $150.00 Endowment Paid Portsmouth, Va., Dec. 18, '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr, Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P., N. N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Alexander Elliott, who was a member of Pride of the East Lodge, No. 33 of Portsmouth, Va. Signed—Ellen Elliott Beneficiary. Witnesses: John T. Fisher, W. E. Reid, Samuel Hodges $150.00 Endow nt Paid Norfolk, Va., Dec. 18, '07 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P., N. N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Isaac Fitchett, who was a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 3 of Norfolk, Va. Signed—Martha Fitchett, Beneficiary Witnesses: George W. Davenport. R. E. Kindred. $150.00 Endowment Paid Norfolk, Va., Dec. 18, '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P., N. A. S., A. E., A. A, and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Walter Tate, who was a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 3 of Norfolk, George W. Davenport D. J. Roberts, R. E. Kindred. $150.00 Endowment Paid Norfolk, Va., Dec. 18. '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P., N. A. S., A. E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of A. B. McCullough, who was a member of Tidewater Lodge, No. 47 of Norfolk, Va. Signed—Nancy McCullough, Beneficiary. Witnesses: George W. Davenport. John Alexander. D. J. Roberts. $100.00 Endowment Paid Danville, Va. Dec. 21, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Silvia Oliver, who was a member of Queen Esther Court, No. 50 of Danville, Va. Signed—Henrietta Glenn. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Fannie L. Rison. Amanda H. Lee. S. J. Holbrook, Deputy. Saloons to Close The number of saloons in this city will be reduced to 150 after February 1st, 1908, although even those who must go out of business will be given until May 1st to wind up their affairs. The city license has been increased to $500 per year. George Pierce was shot in the foot Tuesday night by Willie Blend. Mary Coke who was shot Christmas Eve naked died Christmas mornig. Dr. Charles E. Wilder, a well-known and popular physician of this city died at his residence, 1107 N. 29th Street, Wednesday at 4 P. M. He had been ill for many weeks. His funeral took place yesterday (Friday) at 2 P. M. at the First Baptist Church. BOB HAMPTON of PLACER By RANDALL PARRISH AUTHOR OF "WHEN WILDERNESS WASKING" "MY LADY OF THE NORTH "HISTORIC ILLINOIS" ETC. TWO They were seated rather close together upon the steep hillside, gazing silently down upon squall Glencald. At such considerable distance all the dull shabness of the mining town had disappeared, and it seemed almost ideal, viewed against the natural background of brown rocks and green trees. Everywhere was loneliness, no sound telling of the labor of man reached them, and the few scattered buildings far below resembling mere dollhouses. They had conversed only upon the constantly changing beauty of the scene, or of incidents connected with their upward climb, while moving slowly along the trail through the fresh morning sunshine. Now they sat in silence, the young girl, with cheeks flushed and dreamy eyes aglow, gazed far off along the valley, the man watching her curiously, and wondering how best to approach his task. Observing her now, sitting thus in total unconsciousness of his scrutiny, Hampton made no attempt to analyze the depth of his interest for this walt who had come drifting into his life. Even to his somewhat prejudiced eyes she was not an attractive creature, for she possessed no clear conception of how to render apparent those few feminine charms she possessed. Negligence and total unconsciousness of self, coupled with lack of womanly companionship and guidance, had left her altogether in the rough. He marked now the coarse ragged shoes, the cheap patched skirt, the touched auburn hair, the sunburnt cheeks with a suggestion of freckles plainly visible beneath the eyes, and some of the fastidiousness of early days caused him to shrug his shoulders. Yet underneath the tan there was the glow of perfect young health; the eyes were frank, brave, unflinching; while the rounded chin held a world of character in its firm contour. Somehow the sight of this brought back to him, that abiding faith in her "dead gameness" which had first awakened his admiration. "Kid," he ventured at last, "you were talking while we came up the trail about how we'd do this and that after awhile. You don't suppose I'm going to have any useless girl like you hanging around on to me, do you?" She glanced quickly about at him, as though such unexpected expressions started her from a pleasant reverie. "Why, I—I thought that was the way you planned it yesterday," she exclaimed, doubtfully. "Oh, yesterday! Well, you see, yearday I was sort of dreaming; to-day I am wide awake, and I've about decided, Kid, that for your own good, and my comfort, I've got to shake you." A sudden gleam of fierce resentment leaped into the dark eyes, the unrestrained glow of a passion which had never known control. "Oh, you have, have you, Mr. Bob Hampton? You have about decided! Well, why don't you altogether decide? I don't think I'm down on my knees begging you for mercy. Good Lord! I reckon I can get along all right without you—I did before. Just what happened to give you such a change of heart?" "I made the sudden discovery," he said, affecting a laziness he was far from feeling, "that you were too near being a young woman to go traipsing around the country with me, living at shacks, and having no company but gambling sharks, and that class of cattle." "Oh, did you? What else?" "Only that our tempers don't exactly seem to jibe, and the two of I Think You Are a Damned Fool." we can't be bosses in the same ranch." She looked at him contemptuously, swinging her body farther around on the rock, and sitting stiffly, the color on her cheeks deepening through the sunburn. "Now see here, Mister Bob Hampton, you're a fraud, and you know it! Didn't I understand exactly who you was, and what was your business? Didn't I know you was a gambler, and a 'bad man?' Didn't I tell you plain enough out yonder"—and her voice faltered slightly—"just what I thought about you? Good Lord! I haven't been begging to stick with you, have I? I just didn't know which way to turn to, after dad was killed, and you sorter hung on to me, and I let it go the way I supposed you wanted it. But I'm not particularly stuck on your style, let me tell you, and I reckon there's plenty of ways for me to get along. Only first, I pro- pose to understand what your little game is. You don't throw down your hand like that without some reason." Hampton sat up, spurred into instant admiration by such independence of spirit. "You grow rather good-looking, Kid, when you get hot, but you go at things half-cocked, and you've got to get over it. That's the whole trouble--you've never been trained, and I wouldn't make much of a trainer for a high-strung filly like you. Ever, remember your mother?" "Mighty little; reckon she must have died when I was about five years old. That's her picture." Hampton took in his hand the old-fashioned locket she held out toward him, the long chain still clasped about her throat, and pried open the stiff catch with his knife blade. She bent down to fasten her loosened shoe, and when her eyes were uplifted his gaze was riveted upon the face in the picture. "Mighty pretty, wasn't she?" she asked, with a sudden girlish interest, bending forward to look, regardless of his strained attitude. "And she was prettier than that, even, the way I remember her best, with her hair all hanging down, coming to tuck me into bed at night. Someway that's how I always seem to see her." The man drew a deep breath, and snapped shut the locket, yet still retained it in his hand. "Is--is she dead?" he questioned, and his voice trembled in spite of his steel nerves. "Yes, In St. Louis; dad took me there with him two years ago, and I saw her grave." "Dad? Do you mean old Gillis?" She nodded, beginning dimly to wonder why he should speak so fiercely and stare at her in that odd way. He seemed to choke twice before he could ask the next question. "Did he—old Gillis, I mean—claim to be your father, or her husband?" "No, I don't reckon he ever did, but he gave me that picture, and told me she was my mother. I always lived with him, and called him dad. I reckon on he liked it, and he was mighty good to me. We were at Randolph a long time, and since then he's been post-trader at Bethune. That's all I know about it, for dad never talked very much, and he used to get mad when I asked him questions." Hampton dropped the locket from his grasp and arose to his feet. For several minutes he stood with his back toward her, apparently gazing down the valley, his jaw set, his dimmed eyes seeing nothing. Slowly the color came creeping into his face, and his hands unclinched. Then he wheeled about, and looked down upon her, completely restored to his old nature. "Then it seems that it is just you and I, Kid, who have got to settle this little affair," he announced, firmly. "Till have my say about it, and then you can uncork your feelings. I rather imagine I haven't very much legal right in the premises, but I've got a sort of moral grip on you by reason of having pulled you out alive from that canyon yonder, and I propose to play this game to the limit. You say your mother is dead, and the man who raised you is dead, and, so far as either of us know, there isn't a soul anywhere on earth who possesses any claim over you, or any desire to have. Naturally, the whole jack-pot is up to me, provided I've got the cards. Now, Kid, waving your prejudice aside, I ain't just exactly the best man in this world to bring up a girl like you and make a lady out of her. I thought yesterday that maybe we might manage to hitch along together for awhile, but I've got a different think coming to-day. There's no use disfiguring the truth. I'm a gambler, something of a fighter on the side, and folks don't say anything too pleasing about my peaceful disposition around these settlements; I haven't any home, and mighty few friends, and the few I have got are nothing to boast about. I reckon there's a cause for it all. So, considering everything, I'm about the poorest proposition ever was heard of to start a young ladies' seminary. The Lord knows, old Gillis was bad enough, but I'm a damned sight worse. Now, some woman has got to take you in hand, and I reckon I've found the right one." "Goin' to get married, Bob?" "Not this year; it's hardly become so serious as that; but I'm going to find you a good home here, and I'm going to put up plenty of stuff, so that they'll take care of you all right and proper." The dark eyes never wavered as they looked steadily into the gray ones, but the chin quivered slightly. "I reckon I'd rather try it alone," she announced stubbornly. "Maybe I might have stood it with you, Bob Hampton, but a woman is the limit." "I expect it will go rather hard at first, Kid," he admitted craftily. "but I think you might try it a while just to sort of please me." "Who—who is she?" doubtfully. "Mrs. Herndon, wife of the super-intendent of the 'Golden Rule' mine;" and he waved his hand toward the distant houses. "They tell me she's a mighty fine woman." "Oh, they do? Then somebody's been stirring you up about me, have they? I thought that was about the way of it. Somebody wants to reform me, I reckon. Well, maybe I won't be reformed. Who was it, Bob? "The Presbyterian missionary," he confessed reluctantly, "a nervy little chap named Wynkop; he came in to see me last night while you were THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA asleep.” He faced her open scorn unshrinkingly, his mind fully decided, and clinging to one thought with all the tenacity of his nature. “A preacher! her voice vibrant with derision. “2 preacher! Well, of all things, Bob Hampton! You led around by the nose in that way! Did he want you to bring me to Sunday school? A preacher! And I suppose the fellow expects to turn me over to one of his stock for religious instruction. He'll have you studying theology inside of a year. A preacher! Oh, Lord, and you agreed! Well, I won't go, so there!” “As I understand the affair,” Hampton continued, as she paused for breath, “it was Lieut. Brant who suggested the idea of his coming to me. Brant knew Gillis, and remembered you, and realizing your unpleasant situation, thought such an arrangement would be for your benefit.” “Brant!” she burst forth in renewed anger; “he did, did he! The putty-faced dandy! I used to see him at Bethune, and you can but he never bothered his head about me then. No, and he didn't even know me out yonder, until after the sergeant spoke up. What business has that fellow got planning what I shall do?” Hampton made no attempt to answer. It was better to let her indigna- "Good Lord! I Haven't Been Begging to Stick with You, Have it!" tion die out naturally, and so he asked a question. "What is this Brant doing at Bethune? There is no cavalry stationed there." She glanced up quickly, interested by the sudden change in his voice. "T heard dad say he was kept there on some special detail. His regiment is stationed at Fort Lincoln, somewhere farther north. He used to come down and talk with dad evenings, because daddy saw service in the Seventh when it was first organized after the war." "Did you—did you ever hear either of them say anything about Maj. Alfred Brant? He must have been this lad's father." "No. I never heard much they said. Did you know him?" "The father, yes, but that was years ago. Come, Kid, all this is only ancient history, and just as well forgotten. Now, you are a sensible girl, when your temper don't get away with you, and I am simply going to leave this matter to your better judgment. Will you go to Mrs. Herndon's, and find out how you like it? You needn't stop there an hour if she isn't good to you, but you ought not to want to remain with me, and grow up like a rough boy." "You—you really want me to go, don't you?" "Yes, I want you to go. It's a chance for you, Kid, and there isn't a bit of a show in the kind of a life I lead. I never have been in love with myself, and only took to it in the first place because the devil happened to drive me that way. The Lord knows I don't want to lead any one else through such a muck. So it is a try." The look of defiance faded slowly out of her face as she stood gravely regarding him. The man was in deadly earnest, and she felt the quiet insistence of his manner. "You bet, if you put it that way," she consented, simply, "but I reckon that Mrs. Herndon is likely to wish I hadn't." Together, yet scarcely exchanging another word, the two retraced their steps slowly down the steep trail leading toward the little town in the valley. CHAPTER VII Widely as these two companions differed in temperament and experience, it would be impossible to decide which felt the greater uneasiness at the prospect immediately before them. The girl openly rebellious, the man extremely doubtful, with reluctant steps they approached that tall, homely, yellow house—outwardly the most pretentious in Glencaird. They were so completely opposite, these two, that more than one chance passer-by glanced curiously toward them as they picked their way onward through the redjudit. Hampton, slender yet firmly kalt, his body held erect as though trained to the profession of arms, his features finely chiselled, with threads of gray hair beginning to show conspicuously about the temples. His attire of fashionable cut black cloth, and his immaculate linen, while neat and unobtrusive, yet appeared extremely unusual in that careless land of clay-baked overalls and dingy woolens. Beside him, in vivid contrast, the girl trudged in her heavy shoes and bedraggled skirts, her suilen eyes fastened doggedly on the road, her hair showing ragged and disreputable in the brilliant sunshine. Hampton himself could not remain altogether indifferent to the contrast. "You look a little rough, Kid, for a society call," he said. "If there was any shebang in this mud-hole of a town that kept any women's things on sale fit to look at, I'd be tempted to fix you up a bit." "Well, I'm glad of it," she responded, grimly. "I hope I look so blame tough that woman won't say a civil word to us. You can bet I ain't going to strain myself to please the likes of her." "You certainly exhibit no symptoms of doing so," he admitted, frankly. "But you might, at least, have washed your face and fixed your hair." She fushed one angry glance at him, stopping in the middle of the road, her head fung back as though ready for battle. Then, as if by some swift magic of emotion, her expression changed. "And so you're ashamed of me, are you?" she assed, her voice sharp but unsteady. "Ashamed to be seen walking with me? I know you are! But I tell you, Mr. Bob Hampton, you won't be the next time. And what's more, you just don't need to traipse along another step with me now. I don't want you. I reckon I ain't very much afraid of tackling this Presbyterian woman all alone." She swung off fiercely, and the man chuckled softly as he followed, watchfully, through the circling, red dust cloud created by her hasty feet. The truth is, Mr. Hampton possessed troubles and scrubles of his own in connection with this contemplated call. He had never met the lady, but he retained some memory of the husband as having been associated with a strenuous poker game at Placer, in which he also held a prominent place, and it would seem scarcely possible that the wife did not know whose bullet had turned her for some weeks into a sick nurse. A coronal reception could hardly be anticipated; n.1 Hampton mentally braced himself for the worst. It was a cheerless looking house, painted a marsh yellow, having staring windows, and develd of a front porch, or slightest attempt at shade to render its uncomely front less unattractive. Had the matter been left at that moment to his own decision, this glimpse of the house would have turned them both back, but the girl unhesitatingly pressed forward and turned defiantly in through the gateless opening. He followed in silence along the narrow foot-path bordered by weeds, and stood back while she stepped boldly up on the rude stone slab and rapped sharply against the warped and sizzling door. A moment they stood thus waiting with no response from within. Once she glanced suspiciously around at him, only to wheel back instantly and once more apply her knuckles to the wood. Before he had conjured up something worth saying the door was partially opened, and a rounded dumpling of a woman, having roe cheeks, her hair iron-gray, her blue eyes half smiling in uncertain welcome, looked out upon them questioningly. "I've come to live here," announced the girl, softly. "That is, if I like it." The woman continued to gaze at her as if tempted to laugh outright, then the pleasant blue eyes hardened as their vision swept beyond toward Hampton. "It is extremely kind of you, I'm sure," she said at last. "Why is it I am to be thus honored?" The girl backed partially off the doorstep, her hair flapping in the wind, her cheeks flushed. "Oh, you needn't put on so much style about it," she blurted out. "You're Mrs. Hernndon ain't you? Well, then, this is the place where I was sent; but I reckon you ain't no more particular about it than I am. There's others." "Who sent you to me?" and Mrs. Hernndon came forth into the sunshine. "The preacher." "Oh Mr. Wynkoop; then you must be the homeless girl whom Lieut. Brant brought in the other day. Why did you not say so at first? You may come in, my child." There was a sympathetic tenderness apparent now in the tones of her voice, which the girl was swift to perceive and respond to, yet she held back, her independence unshaken. With the quick intuition of a woman, Mrs. Hernndon bent down, placing one hand on the defiant shoulder. "I did not understand, at first, my dear," she said, soothingly, "or I should never have spoken as I did. Some very strange callers come here. But you are truly welcome. I had a daughter once; she must have been nearly your age when God took her. Won't you come in?" While thus speaking she never once glanced toward the man standing in silence beyond, yet as the two passed through the doorway together he followed, unasked. Once within the plainly furnished room, and with her arm about the girl's waist, the lines about her mouth hardened. "I do not recall extending my invitation to you," she said, coldly. He remained standing, hat in hand, his face shadowed, his eyes picturing deep perplexity. "For the intrusion I offer my apology," he replied, humbly; "but you see I—I feel responsible for this young woman. She—sort of fell to my care when none of her own people were left to look after her. I only came to show her the way, and to say that I stand ready to pay you well to see to her a bit, and show her how to get hold of the right things." "Indeed!" and Mrs. Herndon's voice was not altogether pleasant. "I understood she was entirely alone and friendless. Are you that man who brought her out of the canyon?" Hampton bowed as though half ashamed of acknowledging the act. "Oh! then I know who you are," she continued, unhesitatingly. "You are a gambler and a bar-room rough. I won't touch a penny of your money. I told Mr. Wynkoop that I shouldn't, but that I would endeavor to do my Christian duty by this poor girl. He was to bring her here himself, and keep you away." The man smiled slightly, not in the least disconcerted by her plain speech. "Probably we departed from the hotel somewhat earlier than the minister anticipated," he explained, quietly, his old ease of manner returning in face of such open opposition. "I greatly regret your evident prejudice, madam, and can only say that I have more confidence in you than you appear to have in me. I shall certainly discover some means by which I may do my part in shaping this girl's future, but in the meanwhile will relieve you of my undeared presence." He stepped without into the glare of the sunlight, feeling utterly careless as to the woman who had affronted him, yet somewhat hurt on seeing that the girl had not once lifted her downcast eyes to his face. Yet he had scarcely taken three steps toward the road before she was beside him, her hand upon his sleeve. "I won't stay!" she exclaimed, fiercely, "I won't, Bob Hampton. I'd rather go with you than be good." His sensitive face flushed with delight, but he looked gravelly down into her indignant eyes. "Oh, yes, you will, Kid," and his hand touched her roughened hair caressingly. "She's a good, kind woman, all right, and I don't blame her for not liking my style." "Do—you really want me to stick it out here, Bob?" It was no small struggle for him to say so, for he was beginning to comprehend just what this separation meant. She was more to him than he had ever supposed, more to him than she had even been an hour before, and now he understood clearly that from this moment they must ever run farther apart—her life tending upward, his down. Yet there was but one decision possible. Then he answered, "This is your best chance, little girl, and I want you to stay and fight it out." Their eyes met, each dimly realizing, although in a totally different way, that here was a moment of important decision. Mrs. Herndon darkened the doorway and stood looking out. "Well, Mr. Bob Hampton," she questioned, plainly, "what is this going to be?" He glanced toward her, slightly lifting his hat, and promptly releasing the girl's clinging hand. "Miss Gillis consents to remain," he announced shortly, and, denying himself so much as another glance at his companion, strode down the narrow path to the road. A moment the girl's eyes followed him through the dust cloud, a single tear stealing down her cheek. Only a short week ago she had utterly despised this man, now he had become truly more to her than any one else in the wide, wide world. Then Mrs. Herndon came forth quietly and bed the girl, now sobbing bitterly, within the cool shadows of the house. It proved a restless day, and a sufficiently unpleasant one, for Mr. Hampton. For a number of years he had been diligently training himself in the school of cynicism, endeavoring to persuade himself that he did not in the least care what others thought, nor how his own career ended; impelling himself to constant recklessness in life and thought. He had thus successfully built up a wall between the present and that past which long haunted his lonely moments, and had finally decided that it was hermetically sealed. Yet now, this edd chit of a girl, this waif whom he had plucked from the jaws of death, had overtured this carefully constructed barrier as if it had been originally built of mere cardboard, and he was compelled again to see himself, loathe himself, just as he had in those past years. One thing he grasped clearly—the girl should be given her chance nothing in his life must ever again sell her or lower her ideals. Mrs. Herndon was right, and he realized it; neither his presence nor his money were fit to influence her future. He swore between his clinched teeth, his face grown haggard. The sun's rays bridged the slowly darkening valley with cords of red gold, and the man pulled himself to his feet by gripping the root of a tree. He realized that he had been sitting there for hours, and that he was hungry. Down beneath, amid the fast awakening noise and bustle of early evening, the long discipline of the gambler reasserted itself—he got back his nerve. It was Bob Hampton, cool, resourceful, sarcastic of speech, quick of temper, who greeted the loungers about the hotel, and who sat, with his back to the wall, in the little dining-room, watchful of all others present. And it was Bob Hampton who strolled carelessly out upon the darkened porch an hour later, leaving a roar of laughter behind him, and an enemy as well. Little he cared for that, however, in his present mood, and he stood there, amid the black shadows, looking contemptuously down upon the stream of coatless humanity trooping past on pleasure bent, the blue smoke circling his head, his gray eyes glowing half angrily. Suddenly he leaned forward, clutching the rail in quick surprise. "Kid," he exclaimed, harshly, "what does this mean? What are you doing alone here?" She stopped instantly and glanced up, her face flushing in the light streaming forth from the open door of the Occidental. "I reckon I'm alone here because I want to be," she returned, defiantly. "I ain't no slave. How do you get up there?" He extended his hand, and drew her up beside him into the shaded corner. "Well," he said, "tell me the truth." "I've quit, that's all, Bob. I just couldn't stand reform any longer, and so I've come back here to you." The man drew a deep breath. "Didn't you like Mrs. Herndon?" "Oh, she's all right enough, so far as that goes. 'T ain't that; only I just didn't like some things she said and did." "Kid," and Hampton straightened up, his voice growing stern. "I've got to know the straight of this. You say you like Mrs. Herndon well enough, but not some other things. What were they?" The girl healtated, drawing back a little from him until the light from the saloon fell directly across her face. "Well," she declared, slowly, "you see it had to be either her or—or you, Bob, and I'd rather it would be you." "You mean she said you would have to cut me out entirely if you stayed there with her?" She nodded, her eyes filled with entreaty. "Yes, that was about it. I wasn't ever to have anything more to do with you, not even to speak to you if we met—and after you'd saved my life, too." "Never mind about that little affair, Kid," and Hampton rested his hand gently on her shoulder. "That was all in the day's work, and hardly counts for much anyhow. Was that all she said?" "She called you a low-down gambler, a gun-fighter, a—a miserable Barroom thug, a—a murderer. She—she said that if I ever dared to speak to you again, Bob Hampton, that I could leave her house. I just couldn't stand for that, so I came away." Hampton never stirred, his teeth set deep into his cigar, his hands clinched about the railing. "The fool!" he muttered half aloud, then caught his breath quickly. "Now see here, Kid," and he turned her about so that he might look down into her eyes, "I'm mighty glad you like me well enough to put up a kick, but if all this "Kid, What Does This Mean and What Are You Doing Here Alone?" is true about me, why shouldn't she say it? Do you believe that sort of a fellow would prove a very good kind to look after a young lady?" "I ain't a young lady!" "No; well, you're going to be if I have my way, and I don't believe the sort of a gent described would be very apt to help you much in getting there." "You ain't all that." "Well, perhaps not. Like an amateur artist, madam may have laid the colors on a little thick. But I am no winged angel, Kid, nor exactly a model for you to copy after. I reckon you better stick to the woman and cut me." She did not answer, yet he read an unchanged purpose in her eyes, and his own decision strengthened. Some instinct led him to do the right thing; he drew forth the locket from beneath the folds of her dress, holding it open to the light. He noticed now a name engraven on the gold case, and bolt lower to decipher the delicate lettering. "Was her name Naida?" he questioned, sharply. "It is an uncommon word." "Yes." Their eyes met, and those of both had perceptibly softened. "Naida," his lips dwelt upon the peculiar name as though he loved the sound. "I want you to listen to me, child. I sincerely wish I might keep you here with me, but I can't. You are more to me than you dream, but it would not be right for me thus deliberately to sacrifice your whole future to my pleasure. I possess nothing to offer you,—no home, no friends, no reputation. Practically I am an outlaw, existing by my wits, disreputable in the eyes of those who are worthy to live in the world. She, who was your mother, would never wish you to remain with me. She would say I did right in giving you up into the care of a good woman. Naida, look on that face in the locket, your mother's face. It is sweet, pure, beautiful, the face of a good, true woman. Living or dead, it must be the prayer of those lips that you become a good woman also. She should lead you, not I, for I am unworthy. For her sake, and in her name, I ask you to go back to Mrs. Herndon." He could perceive the gathering tears in her eyes, and his hand closed tightly about her own. It was not one soul alone that struggled. "You will go?" "O Bob, I wish you wasn't a gambler!" A moment he be remained silent. "But unfortunately I am," he admitted, soberly, "and it is best for you to go back. Won't you?" Her gaze was fastened upon the open pocket, the fair face pictured there smiling up at her as though in pleading also. "You truly think she would wish it?" "I know she would." The girl gave utterance to a quick, startled breath, as if the vision frightened her. "Then I will go," she said, her voice a mere whisper, "I will go." He led her down the steps, out into the jostling crowd below, as if she had been some fairy princess. Her locket hung dangling, and he slipped it back into its place and drew her slender form yet closer against his own, as they stepped forth into the black, deserted road. Halfway up the gloomy ravine they met a man and woman coming along the narrow path. Hampton drew her aside out of their way, then spoke colly. "Mrs. Herndon, were you seeking your lost charge? I have her here." The two passing figures halted, peering through the darkness. "I was not seeking her," she returned, icily. "I have no desire to cultivate the particular friends of Mr. Hampton." "So I have understood, and consequently relinquish here and now all claims upon Miss Gillis. She has informed me of your flattering opinion regarding me, and I have indorsed it as being mainly true to life. Do I state this fairly, Naida?" "I have come back," she faltered, fingering the chain at her throat, "I have come back." "Without Bob Hampton?" The girl glanced uneasily toward him, but he stood motionless in the gloom. "Yes—I—I suppose I must." Hampton rested his hand softly upon her shoulder, his fingers trembling, although his voice remained coldly deliberate. "I trust this is entirely satisfactory, Mrs. Herndon," he said. "I can assure you I know absolutely nothing regarding her purpose of coming to me tonight. I realize quite clearly my own deficiencies, and pledge myself hereafter not to interfere with you in any way. You accept the trust, I believe." She gave utterance to a deep sigh of resignation. "It comes to me clearly as a Christian duty," she acknowledged, doubtfully, "and I suppose I must take up my cross; but—" "But you have doubts," he interrupted. "Well, I have none, for I have greater faith in the girl, and—perhaps in God. Good night, Nalda." He bowed above the hand the girl gave him in the darkness, and ever after she beloved he bent lower, and pressed his lips upon it. The next moment the black night had closed him out, and she stood there, half frightened at she knew not what, on the threshold of her new life. Hampton slowly picked his way back through the darkness down the silent road, his only guide those dim yellow lights flickering in the distance. It was Saturday night, and the mining town was already alive. The one long, irregular street was jammed with constantly moving figures, the numerous saloons ablaze, the planes sounding notisly, the shuffling of feet in the crowded dance-halls incessant. Riot reigned unchecked, while the quiet, sleepy town of the afternoon blossomed under the flickering lights into a saturnalia of unlicensed pleasure, wherein the wages of sin were death. Hampton pushed his way through the noisy throng with eyes ever watchful for the faces. His every motion was that of a man who had fully decided upon his course. He swung up the broad wooden steps of the Occidental and entered the barroom, which was crowded by jostling figures, the ever-moving mass as yet good-natured, for the night was young. At the lower end of the long, sloppy bar he stopped for a moment to nod to the fellow behind. "Anything going on to-night worth while, Jim?" he questioned, quietly. "Rather stiff game, they tell me, just started in the back room," was the genial reply. "Two eastern suckers, with Red Slavin sitting in." The gambler passed on, pushing rather unceremoniously through the throng of perspiring humanity. The large front room upstairs was ablaze with lights, every game in full operation and surrounded by crowds of devotees. He walked directly toward the rear of the room. A thick, dingy red curtain hung there; he held back its heavy folds and stepped within the smaller apartment beyond. Three men sat at the single table, cards in hand, and Hampton involuntarily whistled softly behind his teeth at the gillipse of the money openly dressed before them. This was no problem, not so bad for a starter, and interesting interest revived. A red bed, sitting so as to face the entrance,anced up quickly at his entrance, coarse mouth instantly takin' on the remembrance of a smile. "Ah, noh, he exclaimed, with an evident effort at cordiality; "been wondering if you wouldn't show up before the night was over. You're the very fellow to make this a four-handed affair, provided you carry sufficient stuff." Hampton came easily forward into the full glow of the swinging oil lamp, his manner coolly deliberate, his face expressionless. "I feel no desire to intrude," he explained, quietly, watching the uplifted faces. "I believe I have never before met these gentlemen." Slavin laughed, his great white fingers drumming the table. "It is an acquaintance easily made," he said, "provided one can afford to trot in their class, for it is money that talks at this table to-night. Mr. Hampton, permit me to present Judge Hawes, of Denver, and Mr. Edgar Willis, president of the T. P. & R. I have no idea what they are doing in this hole-hole of a town, but they are deadgame sports, and I have been trying my best to amuse them while they're here." Hampton bowed, instantly recognizing the names. "Glad to assist, he murmured, sinking into a vacant chair. "What limit?" "We have had no occasion to discuss that matter as yet," volunteered Hawes, sneeringly. "However, if you have scruples we might settle upon something within reason." Hampton ran the undealt pack carelessly through his fingers, his lips smiling pleasantly. "Oh, never mind, if it chances to go above my pile I'll drop out. Meanwhile, I hardly believe there is any cause for you to be modest on my account." The play opened quietly and with some restraint, the faces of the men remaining impassive, their watchful glances evidencing nothing either of success or failure. Hampton played with extreme caution for some time, his eyes studying keenly the others about the table, seeking some deeper understanding of the nature of his opponents, their strong and weak points, and whether or not there existed any prior arrangement between them. He was there for a purpose, a clearly defined purpose, and he felt no inclination to accept unnecessary chances with the fickle Goddess of Fortune. To one trained in the calm observation of small things, and long accustomed to weigh his adversaries with care, it was not extremely difficult to class the two strangers, and Hampton smiled softly on observing the size of the rolls rather ostensively exhibited by them. His satisfaction was in noways lessened by the sound of their voices, when incautiously raised in anger over some unfortunate play. He immediately recognized them as the identical individuals who had loudly and vainly protested over his occupancy of the best rooms at the hotel. He chuckled grimly. But what bothered him particularly was Slavin. The cool, gray eyes, glancing with such apparent negligence across the cards in his hands, noted every slight movement of the red-boarded gambler, in expectation of detecting some sign of trickery, or some evidence that he had been selected by this precious trio for the purpose of easy plucking. Knavery was Slavin's style, but apparently he was now playing a straight game, no doubt realizing clearly, behind his impassive mask of a face, the utter futility of seeking to outwit one of Hampton's THE PANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 28, '07 envitable reputation. It was, unquestionably, a fairly fought four-handed battle, and at last, thoroughly convinced of this, Hampton settled quietly down, prepared to play out his game. The stakes grew steadily larger. Several times drinks were served, but Hampton contented himself with a gulp of water, always gripping an unlighted cigar between his teeth. He was playing now with apparent recklessness, never hesitating over a card, his eye as watchful as that of a hawk, his betting quick, confident, audacious. The contagion of his spirit seemed to affect the others, to force them into desperate wagers. The perspiration was beading Shavin's forehead, and now and then an oath burst unrestrained from his hairy lips. Hawes and Willis sat white-faced, bent forward anxiously over the table, their fingers shaking as they handled the fateful cards, but Hampton played without perceptible tremor, his utterances few and monosyllabic, his calm face betraying not the faintest emotion. And he was steadily winning. Occasionally some other hand drew in the growing stock of gold and bank notes, but not often enough to offset those continued gains that began to heap up in such an alluring pile upon his portion of the table. The lookers-on who had come in began to observe this, and gathered more closely about his chair, fascinated by the luck with which the cards came floating into his hands, the cool judgment of his critical plays, the reckless abandon with which he forced success. Suddenly he forced the fight to a finish. The opportunity came in a jack-pot which Hawes had opened. The betting began with a cool thousand. Then Hampton's turn came. Without drawing, his cards yet lying downward before him on the board, his calm features as immovable as the Sphinx, he quietly pushed his whole accumulated pile to the center, named the sum, and leaned back in his chair, his eyes cold, impassive. Hawes threw down his hand, wiping his streaming face with his handkerchief; Willis counted his remaining roll, hesitated, looked again at the faces of his cards, flung aside two, drawing to fill, and called loudly for a show-down, his eyes protruding. Slavin, cursing fiercely under his red beard, having drawn one card, his perplexed face instantly brightening as he glanced at it, went back into his hip pocket for every cent he had, and added his profane demand for a chance at the money. A fortune rested on the table, a fortune the ownership of which was to be decided in a single moment, and by the movement of a hand. Willis was gasping, his whole body quivering; Slavin was watching Hampton's hands as a cat does a mouse, his thick lips parted, his fingers twitching nervously. The latter smiled grimly, his motion deliberate, his eyes never wavering. Slowly, one by one, he turned up his cards, never even deigning to glance downward, his entire manner that of unstudied indifference. One—two—three. Willis uttered a snarl like a stricken wild beast, and sank back in his chair, his eyes closed, his cheeks ghastly. Four. Slavin brought down his great clenched first with a crash on the table, a string of oaths bursting unrestrained from his lips. Five. Hampton, never stirring a muscle, sat there like a statue, watching. His right hand kept hidden beneath the table, with his left he quietly drew in the stack of bills and coins, pushing the stuff heedlessly into the side pocket of his coat, his gaze never once wandering from those stricken faces fronting him. Then he softly pushed back his chair and stood erect. Willis never moved, but Slavin rose unsteadily to his feet, gripping the table fiercely with both hands. "Gentlemen," said Hampton, gravely, his clear voice sounding like the sudden peal of a bell, "I can only thank you for your courtesy in this matter, and bid you all good-night. However, before I go it may be of some interest for me to say that I have played my last game." Somebody laughed sarcastically, a harsh, hateful laugh. The speaker whirled, took one step forward; there was the flash of an extended arm, a dull crunch, and Red Slavin went crashing backward against the wall. As he gazed up, dazed and bewildered, from the floor, the lights glimmered along a blue-stel barrel. "Not a move, you red brute," and Hampton spurned him contemptuously with his heel. "This is no variety show, and your laughter was in poor taste. However, if you feel particularly hilarious to night I'll give you another chance. I said this was my last game; I'll repeat it—this was my last game! Now, damn you! if you feel like it, laugh!" He swept the circle of excited faces, his eyes glowing like two diamonds, his thin lips compressed into a single straight line. "Mr. Slavin appears to have lost his previous sense of humor," he remarked, calmly. "I will now make my statement for the third time—this was my last game. Perhaps some of you gentlemen also may discover this to be amusing." The heavy, strained breathing of the motionless crowd was his only answer, and a half smile of bitter contempt curled Hampton's lips, as he swept over them a last defiant glance. "Not quite so humorous as it seemed to be at first, I reckon," he commented, dryly. "Slavin," and he prodded the red giant once more with his foot, "I'm going out; if you make any at- tempt to leave this room within the next five minutes I'll kill you in your tracks, as I would a mad dog. You stacked cards twice to night, but the last time I beat you fairly at your own game." He held aside the heavy curtains with his left hand and backed slowly out facing them, the deadly revolver shining ominously in the other. Not a man moved Slavin glowered at him from the floor, an impotent curse upon his lips. Then the red drapery fell. While the shadows of the long night still hung over the valley, Naida, tossing restlessly upon her strange bed within the humble yellow house at the fork of the trails, was aroused to wakefulness by the pounding of a horse's hoofs on the plank bridge spanning the creek. She drew aside the curtain and looked out, shading her eyes to see clearer through the poor glass. All she perceived was a somewhat deeper snudge when the rider swept rapidly past, horse and man a shapeless shadow. Three hours later she awoke again, this time to the full glare of day, and to the remembrance that she was now facing a new life. As she lay there thinking, her eyes troubled but tearless, far away on the sun-kissed uplands Hampton was spurring forward his horse, already beginning to exhibit signs of weariness. TO BE CONTINUED. CONDENSED DISPATCHES Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. Ex-President Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland, it is said, both lost money in the Knickerbocker Trust company of New York, which may have led them to sell their real estate located in Omaha. Captain Augustus Kuhne, chief of the Brooklyn detective bureau, was fined $250 and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Judge Burr in New York, who adjudged the policeman guilty of contempt of court in disregarding a writ of habeas corpus issued by him on application of counsel for Frank Jenkins, former president of the Williamsburg Trust company. Tuesday, Dec. 17. The dramatic disappearance from London of Robert C. Caldwell, the American witness in the Druce case, has served to revive interest in the proceedings. Admiral Rojestvensky, who during the Russo-Japanese war led the ill starred Russian fleet around Africa to ultimate defeat at the hands of the Japanese in the sea of Japan, is keenly interested in the cruise of the American battleship squadron. At a Chinese mass meeting held at Canton the "high handed overhauling" of suspected pirate launches and junks on the West river by British warships was denounced. Great Britain is patrolling the West river with a fleet of gunboats in an effort to put a stop to piracy. While walking on the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad near Flatland, Pa., Ida Bell, aged seventeen years, of Port Kennedy and Fannie Brunner, eighteen years of age, of Betzwood were struck and killed by a passenger locomotive. The crew of the train found the hat of one of the victims on the pilot. Monday, Dec. 18. Though born without ears, ten-year-old John Hetzel of Jersey hears with his mouth. The lad now is at the state school for deaf mutes, where he is a scientific mystery to the staff of physicians. "Tell Governor Hughes that he is to be congratulated upon the exceptionally efficient administration of his office, and give him my kindest regards." This is the message sent by President Roosevelt to New York's governor. The body of a man of distinguished appearance, about forty years old, was found in the street at San Francisco. Cards in his pockets bore the name and title "Lieutenant Baron von Habenlicht, military attack of the consolidated powers of Europe." The body was attired in stylish garments. Saturday, Dec. 14. Mrs. Alice Longworth, wife of Representative Nicholas Longworth and daughter of President Roosevelt, was operated upon for appendicitis successfully at the White House. After deciding to hold the next Democratic national convention at Denver and fixing the date of the meeting for July 7, 1908, the Democratic national committee accepted after a spirited debate $100,000 offered by Denver for the convention. Friday. Dec. 13. At Sofia, Bulgaria, Boris Sarafoff, the most famous of all the leaders of the Bulgarian bands in Macedonia, was shot dead at the threshold of his house by a Macedonian assassin. The first formal outcome of the Central American peace conference, now in progress at Washington, and probably the most important result is an agreement for the establishment of a permanent court to settle all disputes that may arise between the countries of Central America in the future. Thursday, Dec. 12. President Roosevelt's definite reannouncement of his determination not to accept a third term is generally accepted as leaving no element of doubt in the presidential situation so far as relates to the third term talk and as definitely eliminating Mr. Roosevelt from the contest. Major General Alexander Hamilton, who died at Tarrytown, N. Y., aged ninety-two, was the oldest grandson of Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury and aid of George Washington. General Hamilton had a notable record as a churchman, author, philanthropist and soldier. Tom Johnson Wins Three Cent Fares. CLEVELAND, Dec. 18.—Passengers riding for 3 cents apiece on all the street railway lines of this city is the sight next month is likely to offer. After fighting for many years the Cleveland Electric Railway company and Mayor Tom L. Johnson are about ready to come to terms by which passengers will ride for 3 cents. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Little Jeffrey's New Year Luck LITTLE Jeffrey was an orphan lad whose father was killed in a railroad accident when Jeffrey was a tiny baby in his mother's arms. And the mother had been made so ill by the sudden death of little Jeffrey's father that she was no longer able to care for her baby and a few months later she went to join the father and baby Jeffrey was left all alone in the world. Then friendly neighbors who had too many babies of their own to find room for this little fatherless and motherless boy had him taken to an orphan asylum and he grew up with 50 other boys and girls who had no mother or father. When Alice Lane came to the home she was eight years old. Her mother and father had died within a few weeks of one another and it was a sad-eyed little girl who crept about the big rooms of the home. Little Jeffrey had a big heart and he felt very sorry for Alice. On the third day after her arrival he walked up to her and planting himself in front of her he said: "Alice Lane, why do you cry so much? Why don't you play." He was such a funny, freckle-faced little fellow that Alice smiled a faint little smile. It was the first one since her mother's death. Then the tears came again and she sobbed: "I want mamma, Jeffrey, I want papa, too, and my own home. This is big and lonesome and they don't love you like mamma and papa." From that time on Alice and Jeffrey were the best of friends. He was such a cheerful little fellow and often so droll that many times Alice laughed in spite of herself. But when Alice began to talk much of her home and her mamma and papa he began to wish for one, too. The wish grew and grew until at last he felt that there was nothing in the world that he wanted except a mother and a father and a home. When Christmas time came and the children wrote their wishes on a piece of paper one of the house mothers read in Jeffrey's: "Fies, I don't want nothing but a father and a mother and a home with flowers in the window." From time to time children were taken from the orphans' home by people who had no children of their own. The house mother hoped so much that little Jeffery would be chosen and his wish granted. But the people who came passed by the eager little fellow who eyed each newcomer hopefully. Sc Christmas day passed and Jeffrey received sweetmeats and warm clothing and an iron engine, but not the father and mother and home. He cried himself to sleep that night and Alice had to turn comforter for the next few days. "Mamma always said New Year's was the lucky day and maybe you'll get them then. And if you don't, then you will some other time, 'cause Mother Burns said she'd try." On New Year's morning Jeffrey was awake early, and his first thought was: "Maybe the mother'll come to day." A few hours later a very pretty woman dressed in velvet and furs followed by a tall man came to the home. Little Jeffrey looked up hopefully. But the woman seemed not to see the boys for her eyes were scanning the faces of the little girls. When she same to Alice she started: "That's the one, Jerome," she said eagerly. "The same gentle face and blue eyes and golden hair. We must have her. It will seem like having our little Alice back again!" When she learned the name of the little girl she had chosen she was still more interested. "You would like to go home with me, dear, wouldn't you?" she asked Alice. "Yes, ma'am," answered Alice, "but I couldn't go without Jeffrey, 'cause he's been my friend and he wants a father and a mother so bad." "Oh, but I don't want a little boy, dear. I just want one little girl to make it seem as though my own Alice were living," answered the lady. "Then I can't come," said Alice, "unless they make me go." For a few moments the man and woman talked together and the man seemed to see in little Jeffrey all the things that other people had missed. He saw the honest blue eyes, the firm mouth and the manly walk, and he saw years ahead when the same little boy might be his partner in business. Then he said to Jeffrey: "We want a son, as well as a daughter. So we will take you home and give you a happy New Year." "New Year's is the lucky day, isn't it?" answered Jeffrey, beaming into the faces of his new parents. And the smile won the lady's heart and she took him as gladly as she did Alice. So Jeffrey found his father and mother and home and a sister all on a happy New Year's day.—Farmers' Review. A Man of Mark. "Prisoner," said the judge, taking a part in the examination himself, "the imprint left by the thief on the stolen jewel case corresponds exactly with the markings of your thumb. Now, as a matter of fact, isn't it yours? Didn't you make that imprint?" "Why, your honor," stammered the prisoner, "I—I think—that is, I believe—well—er—that's my impression."—Chicago Tribune. QUARTERLY REVIEW Sunday School Lesson for Dec. 29, 1907 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—Psalm 88. GOLDEN TEXT.—"Thou crownest the year with thy goodness."—Psalm 6:31. Scope of the Year's Lessons. The Period.—From the creation of man to the close of the era of the judges. Divisions.—1. Creation to the Deluge. 2. Deluge to the Exodus. Beginning of selected race for re- ligious training. The Patriarchs. Joseph. The Egyptian Bondage. The Exodus. 3. The Training in the Wilderness. The making of a nation. God's wonderful deliverance of his people. The methods of training: By great men, by miraculous food, by divine guidance, by a code of laws, by a religious home and services, by rewards and punishments. 4. The Republic of God. Joshua and the Judges. The conquest. The settlement. The judges. Note what was done by Shamger, Barak, Deborah, Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, Ell, Samuel. The discipline of prosperity and adversity according as the people obey or disobeyed God's law. The gradual development of the nation. 5. The Kingdom. Geography.—Draw a map of the countries known in early times, or note the places referred to in the early history on your map. Name each country. Give its modern name and condition. Name the principal nations. And the chief cities. State which of these nations and cities were the greatest and most influential, and what their influence has been upon the world. The Great Men.—Name the 12 men whom you regard as the most noted and influential of all those who have been brought before us during the year. State one or more things which are especially notable in the life of each one. The Great Women.—Name the principal women whom we have met during our year's studies, with something characteristic of each one. The Great Events.—Make a list of 12 greatest events belonging to the period we have been studying. An Anthology.—A collection of the flowers and gems of the Biblical literature we have been studying. Tell where each of the following may be found and the circumstances in which they were spoken: "Let there be light, and there was light." "Am I my brother's keeper?" "For dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return." "There were giants in those days." "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel." "A land flowing with milk and honey." "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." "Man doth not live by bread only." "Showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments." "Love thy neighbor as thyself." "What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul." "He kept him as the apple of his eye." "As thy days, so shalt thy strength be." "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera." "Quit yourselves like men." Moral and Religious Teachings.—What are the greatest and most important truths you can learn from the events of this period? What from the teachings? What from the examples? Hugh Black's Brother. Rev. James Black, who has begun a pastorate with the Broughton Place United Free church in Edinburgh, already rivals in popularity his brother, Hugh Black, and he is yet under 30 years of age. The church building is crowded to its capacity at the Sunday services. Doing a Big Work. St. Giles' Christian mission in London every year gives about 20,000 free breakfasts to discouraged prisoners, finds work for 6,000, secures homes for 500 shelterless or destitute women, and takes care of 500 juvenile offenders. Will Not Consolidate The German Presbyterians have decided, after a long controversy, to continue the publication of both their denominational papers instead of consolidating them. Call for Workers The Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church is appealing for one hundred new missionaries. Giving and Getting. A good teacher always gets more out of a lesson than he gives. Mob Hanga Negro Ministrel SHREVEPORT, La., Dec. 18.—A negro member of a traveling minstrel troupe who gave his name as Homer Rogers was hanged by a mob in Morehouse parish and his body riddled with bullets. As far as can be ascertained, the lynching resulted when Rogers resented a remark made by a white man, declaring that he was "a Yankee nigger and did not take any impudence." TITTLE Jeffrey was an orphan lad whose father was killed in a railroad accident when Jeffrey was a tiny baby in his mother's arms. And the mother had been made so ill by the sudden death of little Jeffrey's father that she was no longer able to care for her baby and a few A Man of Mark. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET STATION, EASTBOUND. For Exposition, Monday, No. 7:00 A. M. vember 18th, to Saturday, No. vember 23d, inclusive. WEST BOUND—MAIN LINE. P. M. Dailyq. Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Pullman P. M. sleeper. 10:00 A. M.-Week Days-Cincinnati. Daily- Charlotteville. 1:55 P. M.-Week Days-Local to Gordonsville. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:00 A. M.-Daily-Lynchburg. Lexington, Va. and Clifton Forge. 1:55 P. M.-Week Days-To Lynchburg. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the East-9:40 A. M. 11:45 A. 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Senator Foraker's canvass in Ohio is causing Secretary Taft's managers no end of trouble. They have but little time to do missionary work in other states. White men are reported to be dynamiting Negro lodge halls in Alabama. We received a letter stating that many colored men have been killed as a result of it and some of their bodies roasted. This outrage takes place in a locality where the political rights are denied the Negroes. Disguise it as we may, the ballot is the most potent weapon in the hands of an electorate and a people without it are practically helpless in more ways than one. Rev. L. G. Jordan, D. D., Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention has permitted himself to be drawn in a discussion with the veteran editor and publisher Rev. W. J. White, D. D. of the Augusta, Ga. Baptist. He publishes his "defense" in a recent issue of the National Baptist Union. In our opinion, he needed no defense. All he should have said was that neither he nor the board had any money to pay for the publications in question and that would or should have ended the matter. Rev Dr. Jordan knows of the troubles of the average newspaper man. He can suspect Dr. White's trouble, for Dr. Jordan is a newspaper man himself. When it comes to hustling Rev. Dr. Jordan is a wonder and when it comes to getting something for not nothing he is past master at the business. Let us have peace. THE GUILTY AND THE INNOCENT The Washington, D. C. Post in its issue of the 25th inst. comments upon the recent speeches of Senator Foraker and Attorney General Bonparte. It says: On Saturday Senator Foraker and Attorney General Bonparte discussed the great political questions now agitating the public mind from widely separated standpoints, and came to widely different conclusions, as was natural and inevitable. The Senator saw only the wreck that had overtaken men engaged in legitimate business, conducted on honest principles. The Attorney General saw only the malefactor engaged in fren- zled finance, conducted by knavish speak ill of the black man into three tricks. classes as follows: It remarks: 1. ere is the whole difficulty on this octopus chase—the punishment of the innocent with the guilty. There are billions of honest earnings in this country invested in stocks that have shrunk enormously in value since the rate bill became a law. Rarer than the phoenix is the octopus chaser, who would have put a dollar in railroad stocks any month of the year now drawing to a close. If this country were finished like England is, we might get a deal of amusement out of the octopus chase; but, unfortunately, we are in sore need of 100,000 miles additional railroad track, and that means at least $5,000,000,000 hard cash. Who is going to put any money in railroads for politicians to trounce? This is the whole situation in a nut-shell. It is the weakness of the Roosevelt administration to punish the innocent iwth the guilty. It was this very attitude that caused the unfortunate agitation over the Brownsville affair. Mr. Roosevelt gets a notion in his head and proceeds to act in haste without properly investigating surrounding conditions. He is very much like the "red-headed boy" in school,—always springing surprises. If his horse is suffering from the fleas, he proceeds to apply a remedy that will not only kill the fleas but will blis. ter tae horse as well and when he notes the suffering of the animal, simply remarks, "Well, I killed the fleas and the horse will get well on the blisters. He forgets by the time the blisters are cured there will be more fleas. NAMING HIS SUCCESSOR When President Roosevelt announced his intention not to be a candidate to succeed himself and emphasized it by declaring that he would not accept a nomination if it were tendered him, he not only awakened the admiration of the people of this country, but he attracted the attention of the civilized world. The effect of this far-seeing attitude was immediately neutralized by his openly admitted attempt to name his own successor, instead of permitting the people of this country to do it. If his policies have been or are to be endangered by the candidates now aspiring to the office, it would have been far better to have pursued a policy of elimination rather than by adhering to a rule of designation. The able Secretary, of War, Judge William H. Taft is now finding the support of the administration more of a handicap than a benefit. He has the field against him and he is pointed out in tones of derision as the man who wears the Roosevelt collar. He might well ascertain the effect of such a campaign by conferring with Congressman Burton of Ohio, who as yet bears upon his political person, the scars of the recent political conflict. President Roosevelt is now in the embarrassing predicament of espousing the cause of a candidate from Ohio while antagonizing the candidacy of a man from his own State. Gov. Hughes following seems determined to force matters and every man of prominence, whether he be with the administration or anti-administration will be forced to declare himself upon this all-important question. It may be well to state that as the last recourse the Taft people in New York can be the Cortelyou people until the Republican National Convention is reached and then they will show their true colors. We have always been of the opinion that President Roosevelt understood Secretary Cortelyou and Secretary Cortelyou understood the President. If we were mistaken a very few months will demonstrate the error in this position. Secretary Taft is the moon of the Roosevelt sun. His light is borrowed and his success can only be assured by the ability of the distinguished occupant of the White House to check the tide of popular disapproval that has set in against both of them. THE ORIGIN OF THE BLACK MAN. Rev. Joseph E. Hayne, M. D., D. D. of Brooklyn, N. Y. created a most favorable impression recently while lecturing in this city. He presented us with a copy of his book entitled "The Amonian or Hamitic Origin of the Ancient Greeks, Cretans and all Celtic races." Rev. Dr. Hayne does not admire or advocate any other name for the citizen of color than that of Hamite. Sailing under this flag and encompassed by this emblem he is able to trace the citizens of color's origin to the Greeks and Celts. He declares: "Within the proper historical and ethnic information, no individual can afford to write a single line or sentence that will in the least reflect discredit on the ancient glory of the 'Black Man, unless he cares nothing for his reputation as an ethnologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, and a historian." He divides the white people who THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA "First. Those who are prejudiced against him because of their profound ignorance of the race and its wonderful achievements in ancient times. Second. Those who are prejudiced against him because they know of his great mental capacity, and for which they envy him because of their own arrant, selfish bigotry. In emphasizing the necessity of agitation he says: "We need as a race the freedom of thought and the manly courage of a man to express it. Brasidas, the famous Loccedemonian general, caught a mouse; it bit him, and by that means made its escape. 'O, Jupiter,' said he, 'what creature so contemptible but may have its liberty if it would contend for it?' " Rev. Dr. Hayne discusses racial characteristics practically dissecting the human anatomy so to speak, in making clear his position upon this all-important question. He even risks a comparison with the feet oblivious of the fact that if the Black Man can pass muster in that neighborhood he will never be weighed in the balances of racial comparison and found wanting. "The black complexion of the Shemites and Japhites is considered very comely" regardless of the causes and features," says he. He even risks a discussion of the "crisp hair" question, called derisively by some, wool, and he comes out ahead in the analysis of it. The citations from history, both biblical and profane, together with the facts cited from every day life make this pamphlet valuable to the student and to the orator as a store house of information along this line. Rev Dr. Hayne in his researches went after information and he secured it. The pamphlet retails at $1.00 and may be obtained by addressing the author at 6 Downing Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ON CONCLUSIONS. It doesn't pay to jump at conclusions. Once we had a dog that had a bad habit of jumping at conclusions. When he had no other animal's conclusion to jump at he would go round and round in a circle for half an hour at a time, trying to reach his own conclusion. That puppy would wait until a cow had gone past and then jump wildly at her conclusion. As is the custom of people similarly affected, once he reached a conclusion he hung to it till he was silenced loose. As is usual also with people of similar proclivities he was a dash-cummed nuisance. But one day that hasty pun jumped at a big thoughtful bay mule's conclusion, and the next day we had to get a brand-new dog. The old one wasn't even worth repairing. No, it doesn't pay to jump at conclusions.-Judge POTTERAL Across the sylvian road is the cow Doth stroll and make us wonder how A thing so mild and inoffensive As beef should be so blamed expensive FORGIVENESS Wife—The new cook spoiled the bacon—she is so young and inexperienced. Won't you be satisfied with a kiss instead? Husband—All right—call her in. Predestination Very few of the millions who cumber this earth Are left without guidance, were all the truth known. For "the good Lord takes care of children and good fools." Frown and frogs. And "the devil takes care of his own." —Life. First Flatter—What on earth was that awful shaking in this building last night? Second Flatter—De Jagges, who lives on the twenty-ninth floor, came home with the hiccoughs. First Flatter—Well, but there were only two or three shocks. Second Flatter—Sure. You see, when things began to shake, de Jagges thought it was an earthquake, and it scared his hiccoughs out of him. —Judge. Keen Ears. "Hist!" exclaimed the startled Romee. "I hear your father's boots approaching." "Oh, it is all imagination," assured Juliet. "Remember 'love is blind.'" "Yes, blind, but not deaf." And then Romeo slid down the grapevine and vanished in the gloom. —Chicago Daily News. Matter of Happiness "It's better in the end to be honest," remarked the moralizer. "Did you ever know a rogue that was happy?" "Of course not," rejoined the demoralizer. "One would hardly expect a rogue to be happy when he is known. It's the rogue who is not known that is happy."—Chicago Daily News WAS DORSEY GUILTY? Gibson at Death's Door De clares Him Innocent. TWO NEGROES DIE IN ELECTRICCHAIR One Prisoner Confessed, but Absolved Comrade From Charge of Murder- ing Farmer Horner's Wife and Servant Maid. TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 18—One of two men put to death in the electric chair here was innocent, according to his own solemn statement and that of his comrade, who fully confessed his own guilt. The men electrocuted were Charles Gibson and Stephen Dorsey, negroes, whom a jury convicted of having mur- dered Farmer Edward Horner's wife and maidservant on a farm in Camden county. At the hour of execution Dorsey strongly protested his innocence. He died with a hymn on his lips after prayer with the Rev. Jacob C. Dunn. Gibson admitted guilt, but said with his dying breath that Dorsey was in- nocent. After the double execution letters were found in which both men declared that Gibson was guilty and Dorsey innocent. In a note to Mr. Horner Gibson said: "I am very sorry for what I did—am sorry for yourself and for myself. I killed the two women, and Dorsey did not have anything to do with it except to accompany me. Tell Wash Paine that I set his barn on fire last summer. Tell him I won't see him any more. "I am guilty, but thought to keep it quiet. I cannot die with this on me. I received my just reward for what I did, and I want to meet you in heaven. I think I will go there." In Dorsey's cell was found this note, in which he declared his innocence: "My last word to you and before God and man is that I am innocent of these murders. Gibson is the man who killed them. "Gibson robbed the house and set fire to the barn. I was with Gibson, but left and went back to Camden before the crimes were committed, and I did not see Gibson until the next morning, when I met him in the street in Camden. And we went to Philadelphia and pawned the two watches. "I got $2.25, which he gave me. Then we went back to Camden and were arrested. He did not know the women were dead at the time. "This is my last truthful statement of the case by one who is going to die." The Jail officials say they fully believe Dorsey was innocent. WHITTIER CELEBRATION New England Honors Memory of Poet of Freedom. BOSTON, DEC. 18.—The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet laureate of freedom, one of the most beloved and representative of the New England poets, was celebrated in New England by many hundreds of people, notable gatherings being held at those places the poet had called his home. As the birthplace of the poet, the city of Haverhill made an especial observance of the day. Hundreds visited the old homestead, where luncheon, cooked in the old fireplace of the home, was served. In the public library were on exhibition many manuscripts and first editions of the poet's writings, with pictures and heirlooms. The schools held exercises, and the pupils, townpeople and many visitors gathered in the First Universalist church for the centenary exercises under the direction of the city government and Whittier association. Double Tragedy In Cnb NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Actuated by a mysterious motive which the police are endeavoring to solve, Bernard Wallace, twenty-four years old, of 769 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, last evening shot and killed Miss Elisie Kerles, twenty years old, a telephone operator, whose home was in 1477 Bushwick avenue. Then Wallace put the muzzle of the pistol in his own mouth and sent a bullet into his brain. The double crime was committed in a taximeter cab at Fulton street and Eastern parkway, Brooklyn. Banker Found Dead In Pat NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass., Dec. 18.—Frederick E. Sargeant, cashier and vice president of the Jewelers' National bank of this town and prominently identified with Providence (R. I.) and North Attleboro business firms, was found dead in the bathtub of his home in the bank building last night. The medical examiner has not yet reported the cause of death. The president of the Jewelers' National bank is Albert H. Wiggin of the Chase National bank, New York. CORTELYOU'S VIEWS. Secretary of Treasury Not a Presidential Candidate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Secretary Cortelyou in a signed statement given out last night pronounces unqualifiedly false the current rumors of undue political activity of his friends in forwarding a movement in his interest. The secretary declares that neither he nor his friends have used their influence in behalf of any candidate for the presidency and that he has not been a candidate for anything but the confidence of the people. He adds that if he should hereafter decide to be a candidate for any office he will say so frankly. The statement follows: "I do not know that I am called upon to make a statement at this time, but in view of the various rumors in circulation as to the alleged political activity of friends of mine in my interest I will say that I have not been a candidate for anything but the confidence of the people in the discharge of my duties as secretary of the treasury. "In common with many other citizens I have decided views as to policies and as to candidates, but I shall refrain from expressing them until I believe it is proper for me to do so." Upon this situation I am entirely content to leave the people to draw their own conclusions regarding such rumors as those to which I have referred. If in the future I shall decide to be a candidate for any office I shall be prepared to say so frankly and state the grounds upon which I ask for support. In the meantime I shall try, as I have tried in the past, to conduct the treasury department for the benefit of the people of the whole country and absolutely without regard to whether any action I may take in the line of my duty may adversely affect my personal or political welfare. LORD KELVIN DEAD Celebrated Scientist and Inventor of Instruments For Navigation, GLASGOW, Dec. 18.—Lord Kelvin, the noted scientist, is dead here. William Thomson, first Lord Kelvin, was born at Belfast, Ireland, June 26, 1824. He was a celebrated mathematician and physicist and occupied the chair of natural philosophy in Glasgow university from 1846 to 1869. He was knighted in 1866 and was created Baron Kelvin in 1892. In the domains of heat, electricity and magnetism he was one of the great investigators of the century. He invented a number of instruments used in navigation and deep sea exploration and took a prominent part in the laying of the first submarine cables in the Atlantic. For his efforts in behalf of science Lord Kelvin had been decorated many times, having been a grand officer of the Legion of Honor of France, a member of the Prussian order Pour le Merite and commander of the order of King Leopold of Belgium. He received honors also from the Japanese and other governments. REVOKE "BLUE SUNDAY" LAW. Greater New York May Have Conne concerts but Not Plays on Subbath. NEW YORK, Dec. 18—The board of aldermen of Greater New York, by a vote of 47 to 18, adopted the minority report of the committee on legislation, thereby enacting the Doull ordinance regarding the opening of the theaters and other places of amusement on Sunday. Tammany Hall voted for the Doull ordinance, while the Republicans supported the substitute ordinance reported by a majority of the laws and legislation committee. The ordinance will be sent at once to the mayor and it is believed will receive his approval. If Mr. McClellan signs the measure there will be a great change from the manner of Sunday observance of the last two Sundays. Teheran In State of Revolt TEHERAN, Dec. 18. The outbreak against the shah here grows. The reactionaries have taken possession of and are now holding the gun square and open places in the vicinity of the palace, while the constitutionalists to the number of about 10,000 have erected barricades extending for miles around the parliament buildings. The latter are acting solely on the defensive and in an orderly manner. The rough elements are aiding the reactionaries, and several murders and some looting have occurred. Hearty Welcome Awful Float PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 18 The officers and crews of the American torpedo flotilla, which arrived here Saturday, are finding many ways of enjoying themselves ashore. The officers are being extensively entertained, and many made the trip to Asphalta lake. An enthusiastic reception awaits the fleet. There will be three days devoted to racing, polo, baseball and other sports. Sir Henry Moore Jackson, the governor of Trinidad, paid an official visit of welcome to the flotilla. Wireless From Fleet at Son NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 18- The Norfolk wireless station was in communication with the battleship Georgia and received the following message: "On board battleship Georgia at sea 110 miles south of Beaufort, N. C. speed and squadron formation unchanged; choppy sea; all well." The message is the first communication established with the fleet since early morning. T. J. Reilly Elected at M T. L. Reilly Elected at Meriden. MERIDEN, Conn., Dec. 18.—Mayor Thomas L. Reilly, Democrat, was re-elected in the biennial city election by 417 majority. His opponent was Ben- jamin C. Kennard, Republican. The Age of Happiness What is the age of happiness? A great man of science declared his belief that pessimism, like measles, is a complaint of youth, and a calm joy the characteristic of age. The Women Workers have just been told by Mrs. Crelghton that middle age is happier than the springtime of life—London Telegraph. The Sole Desideratum "Huh!" pestlessly ejaculated the Hon. Thomas Roist. "I don't take no stock in these 'are colleges! What good is a college education to a statesman, any how? Just so's a member of the legislature knows enough Latin to translate the words 'per dlem,' what more does he need or have any shadder of use for?"—Puck. Would Send Out for It. One evening the head of the house hold came home earlier than usual, and was very hungry. He said to the mald, "Please tell the cook to accelerate the dinner." The mald brought back word to this effect. "If you please, sir, the cook says she hasn't any in the house, but if you can wait a little while she will send for some." Talking Woman Is Robust A man who figures has sent to the national bureau of statistics some facts of speech. He estimates that a woman talks eight times as much as a man; this also informs on an average of 2,500 conversations a day, who sees only 200 come from him. He assures that the woman who is a great talker averages 10 and 100 listened. OUR ARMADA SAILS Roosevelt Reviews Battleships In Hampton Roads. EVANS' FAREWELL ADDRESS. Sixteen Great Fighting Machines to Encircle the Globe. MAY ALSO VISIT THE PHILIPPINES Admiral Commanding Most Powerful Squadron That Ever Sailed From an American Port Hints That Our Island Colonies May Be Given a Sight of Uncle Sam's Warships Before Their Return From Peaceful Mission to Other Hemisphere, Navy Department Has Furnished Vessels With World's Charts Showing Runs to San Francisco, Manila and Gibbaitar. OLD POINT COMFORT, Va., Dec. 18.—Under command of Rear Admiral Evans, with flags flying, with the men at quarters and amid the booming of saluting guns, the Pacific battleship fleet, after being reviewed by President Roosevelt in the roadstead here, steamed away south for Trinidad, British West Indies, on a voyage that in all probability will end in their encircling the globe. Being in cruising trim, with every thing above deck snug and tight, the fleet did not feel the stiff southeaster which swept the coast and turned the usually placid anchorage ground into a choppy sea. President Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt and a distinguished company of guests. Bachlan REAR ADMIRAL EVANS, came from Washington on the May- flower so that the president in his capacity as commander in chief of the United States navy could review the fleet and give the word of command which has sent out the American ar- mada on its cruise to the Pacific. As the ships passed out to sea their last farewells were given them by the pres- ident. On the deck of the Mayflower he led the ships through the Virginia capes. Then giving way to the flagship Connecticut as the double line of sixteen ironclads set their course to sea, he viewed their departure. Thus be- gan what the president planned as the supreme test of the American navy. The announced destination of the fleet is San Francisco, but when and where the cruise will ultimately end seems as yet an unmatured plan for the future. When the yacht Mayflower steamed into the midst of the anchored fleet early this morning she was saluted from every side and found every ship dressed in its gayest array of bunting. As soon as the presidential yacht dropped anchor Admiral Evans repaired on board her, followed immediately by all flag and commanding officers, in full dress uniform, to pay their farewell respects to the president. At the reception on the quarterdeck of the Mayflower President Roosevelt warmly greeted the four rear admirals and the sixteen commanding officers of the fleet as they climbed from dancing launches up the starboard gangway of the yacht. He had a word of confidence and well wishing for all, but made no formal address. The president felt the occasion did not call for any such remarks, as the cruise just undertaken is officially regarded as but a detail of naval training. To the secretary of the navy the president in rare good spirits, exclaiming upon the beauty and grandeur of the surrounding scene, said: "Did you ever see such a fleet and such a day? Isn't it magnificent! Oughtn't we all to feel proud?" And then the president had things to say of the enlisted men. "I tell you our enlisted men are everything. They are perfectly bully, and they are up to everything required of them. This is indeed a great fleet and a great day." After the officers left the Mayflower and returned to their ships the fleet immediately got under way in single column, preceded by the Mayflower to the horseshoe of Chesapeake bay, mid-way between the canes and Fort Monroe, where the review took place. Rear Admiral Evans, who, next to Admiral Dewey, is the senior officer of the navy, is commander in chief of the fleet and also is nominally in command of the first squadron and first division. The four ships of this division are the Connecticut (flagship), the Kansas, the Vermont and the Louisiana. The second division of the first squadron consists of four vessels. The commander, Rear Admiral William H. Emory, files his flag from the Georgia The New Jersey, the Rhode Island and the Virginia are his other ships. The second squadron is under command of Rear Admiral C. M. Thomas, whose authority in the fleet is second only to that of the commander in chief. Admiral Thomas also has command of the third division, made up of the Minnesota (flagship), the Ohio, the Missouri and the Maine. Rear Admiral Evans consented to speak briefly before the fleet sailed. The most significant thing that he said was an allusion to the possibility of having the fleet sent on a mission of peace to another hemisphere. This was construed as indicating that the fleet will go from San Francisco to the Philippines, where some of the battleships may remain, while others will continue on their journey to the Atlantic. "The rear admiral said: "You ask me on the eve of departure of the fleet to give you some words to say to the people of the United States. I therefore ask you to convey to the people the sincere thanks and hearty appreciation of the officers and men of the fleet for the great interest which the country at large is taking in our movements. We feel the responsibility which the people have laid upon us by their interest in past years in creating and maintaining this splendid fleet and in the continuation of that interest which now fits us out complete in every particular and sends us out on this great practice cruise to visit our friends and supporters on the Pacific coast. "I am sure that every officer and man in the fleet will feel it not only a duty, but a pleasure, to repay the people for their interest by absolute fidelity to the trust imposed upon him, in small things as well as in large. I hope that when we arrive home at our destination the people will have for us upon our arrival a welcome as warm as is the goodspeed which they give us on our departure and that, should our commander in chief then decide to send us on a mission of peace and good will to the nations of the other hemisphere, the same warm interest will follow in the future as it always has in the past." It has been repeatedly stated that the fleet might eventually circle the globe, some color being given to the report by the fact that the navy department furnished the navigator of each ship with corrected charts showing the way to San Francisco, to Manila and to Gibraltar. Although bound for an extended tour of duty in the Pacific ocean, the fleet still retains its title of the United States Atlantic fleet. The fleet will arrive at Trinidad on Dec. 24 and remain until Dec. 29. It will get a great welcome to that British island from its people. The distance from Hampton Roads to Trinidad is 1,850 miles and with the exception of the run from Magdalena bay to San Francisco, about 1,500 miles, will be the shortest reach on the voyage. Christmas will be celebrated at Trinidad. Then it will be a hustle to get coal in the bunkers and start for Rio. This will be the longest run of the voyage, a distance of 3,100 miles. The fleet will arrive there on Jan. 41, and the stay will be ten days. Shore leave will be granted to the men, probably about 3,000 at a time. From Rio the ships will sail on Jan. 21 for Punta Arenas, a distance of 2,228 miles, arriving there on Jan. 31. Punta Arenas is a desolate port of about 1,200 people, well inside the strait of Magellan. Patagonia is on one side and Tierra del Fuego on the other of the strait. Leaving there on Feb. 5, the really dangerous part of the journey will begin. For nearly 400 miles the ships must steer through crooked straits without chance of harbor or of anchorage. It is necessary to start at midnight so as to reach the most dangerous part of the trip by daylight. All that day and that night will be occupied in getting into the Pacific, when there will be comparative safety. From Punta Arenas to Callao the run is 2,666 miles. Callao will be reached on Feb. 18 for a stay of ten days to coal ship and grant shore leaves. Lima, the capital of Peru, is less than ten miles away, and it is probable that official receptions similar to those in Rio will be given. The same watch over the men ashore will have to be kept. Then comes a reach of about 3,050 miles to Magdalena bay, arriving there on March 14 for a month's target practice. The fleet will be hidden most of the time. There is no town near by, and such news as reaches the public of the doings of the fleet there will have to come by wireless telegraph from the ships to San Diego, a distance of about 600 miles. Walsh Made Paper Money CHICAGO, Dec. 18—In the trial of Banker John R. Walsh here for alleged misapplication of funds Bank Examiner Moxey traced through the various banks of the Walsh corporations transactions which, the government claims, show that Walsh whenever he was in need of money issued bonds Walsh, it is alleged, then sold the bonds to his banks at his own price. Two Millions In Coke WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—A rough count of the census of Cuba was cabled to the war department by Governor Magoon showing the total population of the island to be 2,028,282. The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions he had contracted in the former.—Dean Swift. Not All Are Self-Sacrificing Some men would sacrifice their own comfort for that of a friend. This is more true of some men, however, than of others. Election Item The less a man understands what he's voting for the madder he gets with anybody for voting the other way—N. Y. Press. The average temperature of the entire globe 15 g, degres. Fahrenheit. --- IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. ```markdown ``` THE PLANET FLEET AT TRINIDAD Admiral Evans' Battleships Welcomed to Island. DESTROYER FLOTILLA WAS DELAYED Thousands on Board Warships of American Armada Will Celebrate Christmas at British Port. Emborate Programme. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 24. The battleship fleet under command of Rear Admiral Evans sailed into this harbor today and was greeted by the British governor of the island and the people with a hearty welcome and a tender of a great programme of entertainment during the five days that the American fleet will remain here. The fleet came through the Dragon's Mouth and anchored in four columns in the gulf of Paria, off Port of Spain. Governor Sir Henry Jackson has exchanged visits with Rear Admiral Evans and will give a dinner for the rear admiral, and a reception will be given for the officers of the fleet at the barracks. The passage was so smooth, even off Hatteras, that not even new recruits were seasick. The only mishaps were the temporary disarrangement of the steering gear of the Kentucky on Dec. 20, causing her temporarily to drop out of position; a similar occurrence on the Illinois on the same day and another on the Georgia on Saturday. The flagship ordered that range finding and gun drills be carried out. The athletic spirit of the high officers of the fleet has led to arrangements for a boat race over a half mile course on Christmas morning. Other athletic events are to follow. The entire fleet stopped yesterday afternoon and half masted their ensigns for nine minutes while Ordinary Seaman G. E. Flipes was buried at sea from the Alabama. He was a vletim of meningitis. Port of Spain, with its houses of buff, salmon and white, and its red, orange and snowy roofs, lies at the base of the hills in an irregular arc, plumed with palms and festooned with greenery. A splendid view of the harbor is afforded. Port of Spain is the most wide awake and up to date city of the West Indies. It has stores that would do credit to any of the big American cities, first class trolley service, which puts the New York surface lines to shame; clean streets, beautiful private residences bowered amid a profusion of roses and palms, two good hotels and a population which is warm hearted in its treatment of a stranger within its gates. The distance from Hampton Roads to Trinidad is 1,850 miles, which the fleet made in nine days, and with the exception of the run from Magdalena bay to San Francisco, about 1,500 miles, is the shortest reach on the voyage. Christmas will be celebrated at Trinidad in royal style. On Saturday the fleet will start for Rio. This will be the longest run of the voyage, a distance of 3,100 miles. The fleet will arrive there on Jan. 11, and the stay will be ten days. The American torpedo boat flotilla, which left Sunday morning at 8 o'clock for Rio Janeiro, on its way to the Pacific, has returned here because of an accident to the machinery of the Lawrence. The efforts of Rear Admiral Evans to save the life of Benjamin Northway, a first class fireman on the Missouri, whose home is at Worcester, Mass., and who was taken ill with peritonitis on the voyage from Hampton Roads, was ineffective, as the man died almost immediately after the arrival of the Missouri at San Juan, Porto Rico, on Saturday. This is the second death in the fleet since it sailed. Northway was buried in the San WITH THE SAGES The whole of virtue consists in its practice.—Cicero. Every misfortune can be subdued by patience.—Socrates. The best remedy for wrongs done to us is to forget them.—Syrus. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.—Marcus Aurelius. Thy sum of duty let two words contain—Be humble and be just.—Horace. Get leave to work in this world. 'Tis the best that life may offer. —Browning. No man is born without faults, but be lives best who has the fewest.—Horace. Love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.—George Macdonald. 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FIVE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` ASANO LATE Me AT RATERS SL Fe W009 00° Gea COSCO ‘SUSSS OhS Sh : z ge sj Q0 g° THE NEW-BORN YEAR & 8, ora 33 ae YESTERNIGHT the year Iay dying? we gis By his tow!y couch we met Sip WS Bringyng twy-leaves. and trying ae on Some with smiles ano some with sighing aoe BS To remember—or forget So RS Now the nursling year 1 waking, <i 8, And we gaze into his eyes 32 id Heediess cf nis sures forsaking, gS 3 In his eraaie he 1s taking SS aS Gifts from earth and sea and skies, * y, Dawn of gold and sunset gleaming, oo Apeil eve and Junetice morn ge Things of truth and not of seeming. Se These have giomfied his creaming, Ss Pe He the heir, the newly born 2 ea Ss In his tiny grasp he treasures SS. S @iches that may soon be ours— So S Sunhigne gold in brimming measures, 3B ae Meadow Fragrances and plessures. ge 33 Honeyeo wine aistiied of flowers. se Ss cone a Soon the child will frolic lightly SB Se, Over his father's grass-green grave, Se Se Day shail be his playmate brightly, ge 33 Ang his steep be sweetened nightly se > By the songs of wind and wave. Se S $s ee ee | BIS CSLEE COGS aI RON ES RO | New Year Irresolutions of The Widow Discusses Them By HELEN ROWLAND With the Bachelor. SIX widow, glancing ruefully clock on the mantel-piece, Baw | RRO where to. besa ; Great heavens!” ex- chimed the bachelor, Bev Nor cy cst eae SB anything itke tat, are REMI EB sour” sae The widow pointed sol- Ginly to the hands of the clock, hich indicated 11:30, and then to the calendar, on which hung one flut- fering leaf marked December 31 “It ts time,” she sighed, "to begin mental housecleaning; to sweep out Pr collection of last years folies and ust of our peity sins and fling away dar old vices and—" “That's the trouble!” broke in the Bachelor. “It's so hard to kaow just Pat 12 Brow away and what to koop Making New Year's resolutions is like ding the spring housecleaning or Searing out a drawer full of old tet- Spee and sentimental rubbish. | You w that there are lots of things Joa cue to got rid of and that are tin the way, and that you would Be better off without, but the minute fou make up your mind to part with Serrning. evens. tay, neteaiscant it suddenly becomes so dear and tive that you repent and begin take a new interest in It. The ouly Lever had to be taken home in cab was the day after I promised to the pledge.” and the bachelor 4 reminiscently. ‘And the only time I ever overdrew bank account,” declared the wid- =. “was the day after I had resolved economize. | suppose,” she added sively, “that the best way to begin Ses be’ to plek out the worst vice 4 discard that.” “And that will leave heaps of room the others and for a lot of new lit- ains, beside, won't it?” agreed the lor cheerfully. “Weil,” be added losophically, “I'll give up murder hat!” the widow started. “Don't you want me to?” asked the bachelor plaintively, rubbing his bald apot. “Or perhays I might resolve not ‘© commit hichway robbery any more @& to stop forsing or—" “AN of which is so easy!" broke in the widow sarcastically. “There'd be some glory and geome weason in giving up a big vice,” sigh- the bachelor, “if a fellow had one. Sec the troutie is that most of us men haven't any big criminal tendencies, merely a heap of little follies and weaknesses that there isn't any par- feular virtue in sacrificing or any Particular harm in keeping.” “And which you always do keep, in spite of all your New Year's vows,” remarked the widow ironically. “Hub!” The bachelor laughed eyni- ally. “It's our New Year's vows that Belp us to keep ‘em. The very fact that a fellow has sworn to forego any- thing, whether {t's « habit or « girl, makes it more attractive. I've thrown away a whole box of cigars with the finest Intentions:n the world and then gotten up in the middie of the night {fish the pieces out of the waste bas- ket. And that midotght smoke was the sweetest I ever had. It was oe than the apples I stole when was a kid and the kisses I stole when—" “If you came here to dilate on the = sin, Mr. Travers,” began the coldly. “and,” proceeded the bachelor. “ve made up my Mind to stop firt 2 & girl, because 1 found out she was berinuing to—to—" __*T understand.” interrupted the ‘Widow sympathetically. _ : “And, by Jove!” Suished the bache- lor, "I had to restrain myself to keep from going back aud proposing to ber! How lucky you did!" commented the widow witheriasly But tw have,” explained the bachelor F it the gorl had restrained he “Nevertheless.” repeated the widow. st was Iucky—tor the gir” “Which 4 the bachelor. “The girl t broke off with or the girl 1 su e weldow te. that is iMicult for & ‘Ob, 1 don't The bachelor that are so ditiicult to keep, It's the riage and the fool promises he makes afterward that he stumbles over and falls down on. ‘The marriage vows are so big and yacue that you can got af around them without actually breaking them, but If they shonld In- terpolate concrete questions into the service such as, ‘Do yon, William, promise not to growl al the coffee— “Or, ‘Do you, Mary, promise never to put a daub of powder on your nose again?” broke in the widow “Nor to look twice at your pretty stenographer,” continued the bache- Jor. “Nor to le about your age, or your foot or your waist measure.” “Nor to juggle with the truth when ever you stay out after half-past ten.” “Nor to Iisten to things that—that anybody—except your husband may say to you in the conservatory—ob, I see how it feels!” finished the wid- ow with sympathetic Ilttle shudder. “And yet,” reflected the bachelor, “a woman Is always exacting vows and promises from the man she loves, always patting up bars—for him to jump over; when if she would only leave him alone he would be perfectly contented to stay within bounds and graze in his own posture. A man hates being pinned down: but a wom an doesn't want anything around that she can't pip down, from her belt and her theories to her hat and her hus- band.” “Well,” protested the widow study: ing the toe of her slipper, “it Is a sat- Isfaction to know you've got your hus. band fastened on straight by his promises and hel@ in place by bis own vows and that he loves you enough to—* “Usually,” interrupted the bachelor, ‘a man loves you in Inverse ratio to hs protestations. Tne lover who promises all things without reserve 1s too often like the fellow who doesn’t question the hotel bili nor ask the price of the wine, because he doesn’t intend to pay it anyway. The fellow who is prodigal with his vows and promises and poetry is generally the one to whom such things mean nothing and, belng of no value, can be Mung aboat generously to every girl be meets. ‘The firm with the big gost front office is likely to be the one with the smallest deposit in the safe. The man who swears off loud: est on New Year's 1s usually the one they have to carry home the morning after. And the chap who promises 2 Sirl a life of roses is the one who will Jet her pick all the thorns off for her welt.” “Perhaps,” sighed the widow, chew Ing the stom of a violet thonghtfuly, “the best way to cure a man of a taste for anything, after all, is to let im have too much of it instead of Bite. } ‘i THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. aig: Blak swear eT. 32 you. hha to bate the sniti of a pipe on bis smoking ail the me. waat him to sign the te: : pledge, serve him wine wil course. If you want bim to woman, invite her to meet him tame he calis, and tell him how ble’ she would be.” ? “And if you want him to love you,” finished the bachelor, “dou't ask him to swear it, but tell him that he really ought not to. The best way’ to man- age a donkey—buman or otherwise— 1s to turn his head in the wrong di rection and he'll back in the right one.” “Then,” sala the widow decisively, ‘We ought to begin the New Year by making some jrresolutions.” “Some—what?” “Vows that we won't stop doing the things we ought not to do,” explained the widow. “All right" agreed the bachelor thoughtfully, “Til make ar frresola- tion to go on making love to you as much as I like.” . “You mean, as much as I ike, Mr, “Travers,” corrected the widow se verely. “How much do you lke?” asked the haghelor, leaning over to look into thd widow's eyes. ‘The widow kicked the corner of the rug tentatively. “I Uke—all but the proposing.” she sald slowly. “You really ought to stop that—" “F'm going to stop t—tonight” The widow looked up in alarm. “Ob, you don't have to commence keeping your resolutions untfl to morrow morning,” she sald quickly. “And are you going to stop refusing me—to-night,” continued the bachelor firmly The widow studied the corner of the rug with great concern. “And,” went on the bachelor, tak- ing something from his pocket and toying with it thoughtfully, “you are golng to put on this ring”—he leaned ‘over, caught the widow's hand and slipped the glittering thing on her third finger. “Now,” he began, “you are going to say that you will—" ‘The widuw sprang up suddenly. “Ob, don’t, don't, don't!” she cried. “In a moment we'll me making prom- ioust™ “We don't need to,” sald the bache- Jor, leaning back nonchalantly, “we can begin by making—arrangementa. Would you prefer to live in town or at Tuxedo? And do you think Europe or Bermuda the best place for the—” “Bermuda, by all means,” broke in the widow, “and I wish you'd have that hideous portico taken off your town house, Hilly, and—" But the rest of her words were smothered in the bachelor’s cont lapel—and some thing else. “Then you do mean to marry me, after all!" cried the bachelor tri- umphantly. ‘The widow gasped for breath and patted her hair anxiously. “II meant to marry you all the me!” she cried, “but I never thought you were really in earnest and—" “Methinks,” quoted the bachelor happily, “that neither of us did pro- test too much.’ We haven't made any promises, you know.” “Not one," rejolued the widow promptly, “as to my flirting.” “Nor as to my clubs.” “Nor as to wy relatives.” “Nor my cigars.” “And we won't make any vows,” ened the widow, “except marriage vows.” “And New Year's trresolutions,” added the bachelor. “Listen!” cried the widow softly, with her fingers on her Mps. ‘i A peal of a thousand silver bells rang out on the midnight afr. “The chimes!" exclaimed the wid- ow. “They're full of promises.” “I thought it sounded like a wed- ding bell,” sald the bachelor, disap- pointedly. “Maybe,” said the widow, “It was only Love—ringing off."—Los Angeles ‘Times. New Year's Calls. ‘The custom of visiting and sending presents and cards on New Year's day 1s recorded almost as far back as his- tory goes. The practice of using visit- ing cards can be traced back for thow sands of years by the Chinese. Tneir New Year's visiting cards are curiost- ties. Each one sets forth not only the name, but all the titles of its owner, and, as all Chinamen who have any social position at all have about a dozen, {t makes the list quite appall- ing. These cards are made of silk or else of fine paper backed with silk and are so large that they have to be roll- ed up to be carried conveniently. They are, indeed, so valuable that they are returned to their ownere FOLLOWING PRESCRIPTION. 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Gan ch is the ee ition of lodges Courts of Cal: anthe =: Is the Female Department of the Order. Tt requires a membership of ™ thirty pers ms 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 $3 00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, so cents and arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. ‘ THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expeuse 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 $30.9 to $40.00. Tf you have noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrai:. ome. For all information concerning the Children's Depariusnt address, Mrs. Anna Taytor, W. M., c20 W, Hill St, Richmond, Va. For all information concerning special raies of | JOHN MITCHELL, JR., membership in the lodges and courts, address 31x N. 4th St., Richmond, Va ee ee ie ee eee ~ ° © : “fae A Beautiful Hair Dressing and oN 7 ° ° & Tonic for the Hair ! Fe Read what Madam Robinson, the Famous Black Patti, ee aie Queen of the Opera, says of Kink-ine MY PROF, ROBERTS, New York City, Dear Sir I eon L have used your Kink-me for the past year and my hair is growing very fast. eee: 3 find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic I have ever used, altogether different fro . A the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market. It makes my Mair so beautiful, sof ee silky, and has entirely removed all dandruff and stopped it from falling out and breakin | Peesteseme| off. And enables me to do it up in any of the many styles that 1 use on the. stage. WW gine abe does ail you claim for it, and 1 would not be without it, Yours sincerely, Mug. ROMINSO: pine. Clie Kink-ine Hair Dressing is a delightful perfumed tonic prepared largely for the use « “3 ~ colored people; is guaranteed to be absolutely Safe and harmless. It makes harsh, stubbor —————_ kinky, curly hair soft, silky and glossy, enables you to comb it with ease and to dress MADAM ROBINSON jin any style that you may wish, KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by supplying the needed oils directly to the roots of the hair tones up and nourish the scalp, increasing the growth and giving new life and vigor to the hair, KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is for sale at all druggists for 35¢ per bottle. If yourdruggist does not keep it hay him order it for you; he can get it. If not, send me soc, and I will send same to you, prepaid. * SPRCIAL OFFER.—Te prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one fall-st bottle of Kink-tne, price 9 cents, one cake of Kink-ine Sonp, the best shampoo and Tollet Soap in the world, price | cents, both for only 60 centm, oF six bottien and six cakes of soap for $100. Special offer good only at the follow!s stores: OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt.—Distributors, 1007 E. Main St. “gy oa ee A I | P Ser f pao 25 ee ere R ap ied MEE: 554 2 ieee: See PROF. R I gage? ib We aoe find it the sh the many \ act silly, and ego) off. And 4 eres Pam] docs all y ‘ eo Be: Kis eS colored p. inky, cu MADAM ROBINSON in any st KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by the scalp, increasing the growth and , KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is | him order it for you; he can get it. I * SPECIAL OFFER —To prove the 4 Bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, ome cents, both for only 50 cents, oF alx b stores: OWENS & MINOI] —Nelson,s Hair Dressing can be honght at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. Established 1899. "Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, Cl- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 8. «TH ST. RICHMOND, VA. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable, All the Comforts ° ofttome « @ Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEETWICH. PROPRIETRESS ‘B16 N.2nd St, Richmond, Vs Severe on William, Patience—-Will has got into the habit, lately, of talking to himself. Patrice—Well, nearly all men have to put up with that sort of thing at some time, “What sort of thing?” “Ob, being talked to by a bore.”— Youkers Statesman. Kinder “Sestien, “Is that New York man getting along better with his wife?” “Much better.” “Then thoy are reunited?” “No; but cach side has consented to call off {ts private detectives."— Washington Star, Warn Him, Somebody. Suoges—My daughter ts going to marry young Scroggs. Boggs—-Why, I thought you hated ‘him. -- Snoggs—I do. This is a scheme of mine to have my wife become his mother-in-law. Evolution. F Buteher—Like some nice savage? ‘Mr. Isaac (indignantly)—Vat you say? 7 % ‘ is horse—-N, Y. se ee yr. eae 4 eines 1e fies Scie Hat R iri at Repairing. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked 2scts. and 5octs. Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. AMERICAN HATTERS, 404 E. Marshall St. Furnished Rooms, 5Oc. up. Meals, 50c. up. THE MT. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE ce am Pt iy AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Phone, 245. Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE that may come to Mt, Clem ens in the futuye for their Health and Treatment on Rheumatism. It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House own- ed and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the Un- ited States. (OD Weite for Special Rates. WR GRO. I, HUTCHINSON, Pror. 48 Wells St. - Mt. Clemens, Mich. ag Oe ai [soar eS saa oe, oe tig ine 2 f 2 FREE! — An Astrological Reading sent free to anyone enclosing two cent stamp for mailing charges, ete, Send date and = month of birth. Write to day and address PROF. J. H. HOLMES, 15 N. Kentucky Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. SCHOOL SHOES, ——S=—=—=—= Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,’ Misses,’ Men's, Ladies,’ & Children’s Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES, $$$ Noticet For old papers, call on us. We aro selling them at fifteen cents per hundred. po MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM! ae : ae Vi ia’s Most Success- ful air Culturist. 108 E. Leigh St, + Richmond, ‘Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter: vrews and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hatr Dressing Pariors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face aod skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mall, 36cte Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo * for developing and beauti fying the skin, 25cts * Jar. By mail Bets, Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beau- tiful fair color, 25 cents bottle By mail 35cts Graham's Vegetable Hatr Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25, Mrs. Graham makes a Spectalty of massaging apt beautifying ladies’ faces for parues and public gather- ings, 35 cents Mrs. Graham scampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manteured and matte beautiful, 25 cents Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies lving In other ot ties and towns can make good mone ey by selling these preparations, Write for terms to Mra. J. A. Gra- ham, No. 108 EB. Leigh St, Rica- mond, Va. Phone 2048 a W. Leigh Ss REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, ‘Loans negotiated on Real Extate, taterest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent oullected and pr ompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal ieee ire ee eee H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE, ee BES as 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WIL. RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance "Phone, 752. STRAUS’ SPECIAL ———— ee Old Yacht Club, Will Satisfy the lover of the right Kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigurs and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia, Pai sa ee S. W. ROBINSON, NO. 23 NORTH 18TH Sf. DEALER IX FINE WINES, LIQUORS. CIGARS, &c. BAN Stock Sold as Guaranteed.-we “PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respecttully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN, __ PHOTOGRAPHER, 605 N, 2nd St, Kichmond, Va. Pipe Phoogratin, ‘Trae to Life, Hichstee SOstasle vere eee soem Ol Scania Pioetgegas PEE THE ECONOMY, 303—5 North Third St SEIN EY TAILORING. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WAKE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street. + RESIDENCE, 725 N. and St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All eoun- try orders are given special atten- tion. Your special attention te call ed to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and ae ae = shall be ‘waited oa individually. "Phone, 2778.) + THE PLANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 28, '07. 1907 INDICTED Hit Him Again. He's Got No Friends GOOD-BY. OLD YEAR. Good-by, Old Year, our mourn vows With midnight chimes and the is done; The records writ with joy or less, The deeds fulfilled and guards won Are hung as trophies round thy rime, And thou are named with olden time. Forevermore:oh, fateful past, That saw so much no law can change; Beginning and the end of things That were to be, the new and strange, The old and worn and bloom and blight, Passed to the dark or born to light. And, oh, for some happy year: Sweet wedding bells rang joyously; Old friends clasped hands and strangers met, And sunshine fell so glad and free On buoyant youth and smiles were fair, And laughter bantered pain and care. Some tears must fall in every year; Your portion came when grief had set A badge of mourning on the hearts Of some those have could not forget, And buoyant youth had away They covered friends of yesterday. Thy favors won o'er which was lost. Good-by! A hand at parting; then a benediction and amen. C. Cholmett. Encouraged. The Old Friend and the Nour By Kate Masterson NOTHER year has found us just as we were getting comfortably used to the idea that summer had really gone. A Busy people never have time to dwell very much on the passing of the seasons. The days are so full of tasks and Father Time is always catching up and getting ahead of us in spite of his ad vanced age. It is always the same old story! Spring surprises us with its blossoms and its bursting brooks and then summer has come and gone before we know it. Very few of us stop to think that this swiftness of time in its passing indicates that we are really living rather than lolling through life. It is only when the days hang upon our hands that we know how blessed are those other times when we have to make lists of the many things we have to do and get up early mornings to begin them. Of course we are likely to complain that we get so little done, especially at this time, when the calendars tell us that another'365 days have become a part of yesterday's 7,000 years. We look back regretfully and repine that we have so little to record in the way of achievement, beyond the mere act of living from day to day and from week to week. But living in the right spirit, striving, if not always accomplishing and completing the tasks we set ourselves, is nothing to regret. It comes near to that simple life that sounds so grand and inspiring when it is lived in the woods, but which is quite as fine when lived in a big city. There is no doubt that when we try to set up standards of happiness and contentment and peace at the close of a year that has had its rifts of sunshine and its stretches of shade, that it is impossible to put wealth, or fame, or success, personal popularity, beauty or even health itself forward as the great, good thing that makes life worth living. The thing that counts is the ability and the desire to feel an interest in things, in events and persons—in the game of life itself. All the other blessings pall unless that interest remains. It is very closely alik to health for it is a part of youth, of vitality, of life. It has become the general practice to speed the departure of the old year with every indication of rejoicing, welcoming in the new with acclaim and expressions of satisfaction. It is natural and wholesome to look forward, but those of us who wish to include the brick of gratitude in the building of our characters should learn to omit our complaints of the luck the old year has brought us. In truth, the new year will be to a great extent like the old—what we make it and how we take it. Things will happen in accordance with the same laws that guide this big earth of which we are a small part. So we can greet 1908 in a calm and happy manner, rather than with any manifestations of frenzled joy at its coming, and let us have the good manners to speed our parting guest, 1907, politely. With all his faults we know him for what he was and the new year is as yet a stranger to us. We can hope and believe that all good things will come with him, but let us avoid the hackneyed congratulation on the passing of a twelve-month that probably treated us better than we deserved. The dawning of another January is invariably the time for what are called "good resolutions," which translate themselves into rash promises, usually broken before the new year is well under way. That was the old-fashioned way of expressing an inclination to reform one's bad habits and people kept on from youth to old age making these good resolutions every 31st of December, finding themselves each year further from perfection than ever. Good resolutions are not so prevalent, or at least not so noisy as they used to be at this time. They have become popular material for the comic papers and everybody knows what a joke they are. Nevertheless, the close of a year is a capital time for a look back, a retrospect in which we can see the faults that are on the mend with us, or the ones that have persevered and grown stronger. Maybe some new tendency has sprung up which does not promise well. At all events if we are able to get a new view of our characters as though a searchlight had been thrown in on our souls, we are in a fair way to improve. It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong. It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong. So if your look back shows you mistakes and errors and misbeliefs, be glad that the New Year gives you a clean slate to try for the right road and the true goal. Be thankful for the mental perspective when you see it with clear sight—with new true eyes. There is no need of making resolutions, for right seeing means right thinking and right thinking is the path to right living. Perhaps, our faults are those mean little ones when you would like to exchange in a b lunch for one noble snin, but there are no exchanges of that sort or we should all be noble sinners. The petty faults are the thorns that cluster round some of the finest roses in life's big garden, crowding, jarring, overtopping one another in their eagerness to get to the light. Maybe the old year has been a good friend in some special instances that you can recall. Perhaps it brought you back with a short, sharp shock from a too arrogant happiness or an overconfident success. Be glad of that jar, even though it kept you stirred up for awhile. Perhaps the past 12 months have healed some breach or brought some ship home, the white sail of which you have been watching wistfully for months or years far out at sea. Be glad of that. Perhaps some millstone has fallen from you and you stand free at last on the great highway with long, manaced arms reached out to the sky. Be glad! Or peace has settled on a troubled ocean and you can greet the sunrise with a smile and a prayer of thankfulness for another day. Maybe there is a cradle in one corner of your home this New Year's eve with a most important guest cuddled in down blankets and rose-leaf palms upturned for your kisses. Or success has come to crown some effort at which you have toiled rather wearily, hardly daring to hope. Or if it has been withheld, be glad that you have nevertheless tried. It will all come to you some day. The old year has taught us lessons. Let us profit by them and enter into the new armed with experience rather than plunge into it as though it were a rose garden. It is quite as full of danger and conflict and clouds as the old friend that is going. Let us wish it will have even as much sunshine and gladness and joy. We can meet it with splendid hope and lively faith—for those two qualities are what make our dreams come true. Let us cherish a few good hopes that it may bring us the things we stand in need of—health, happiness, good friends success, joy and the clear vision that will teach us to discern the false from the true. May it leave us our beliefs and our ideals. Teach us to love more and to hate not at all. To be content with the blessings that we have. To cultivate sweetness and good nature rather than exclusiveness. To meet the world with a smile. To stifle criticism of things and people. Never to make little of our own. Helping Some. Yeast—Are you doing your share to make the world brighter? Crimsonbeak—Sure thing, I'm paying for about 8,000 feet of gas a month!—Yorkers Statesman THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WILL NOT SEEK IT. WILL NOT SEEK IT. MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Governor Hughes Would Not Decline Nomination. HIS STATEMENT TO SENATOR SAXE New York State's Executive In A Letter Declares That He Is Practically "In the Hands of His Friends." ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 18.—Governor Hughes made public his correspondence with Senator Martin Saxe regarding possible action by the New York county Republican committee in indorsing the governor for the presidential nomination. Mr. Saxe's letter reads: "It is my purpose at the next meeting of the Republican county committee to offer a resolution to the effect that it is the belief of the committee that the Republican voters generally throughout the county of New York desire your name presented for president at the national convention. In doing so I am only attempting to give formal expression to the sentiment that exists here, so that the Republican party throughout the state may have official notice of it. However, as I do not wish to pursue any course which may be distasteful to you personally or embarrassing to the plans of those who are in your confidence I will appreciate some expression from you which will guide me in the circumstances." And reap its benefits which are as sure as death. The Parents Benevolent Association is not a secret order, nor a life insurance, in which a member has to die to win, but it is a purely mutual association in which all of its members are assessed to raise $500.00 for a sister member who has given birth to a living child. Every person becoming a member of this Association agrees to promptly pay her dues to the Association and also her assessments to other sister members giving birth to a living child. Any marrige woman of good moral character can become a member of the Association by paying a membership fee of $5.00. Governor Hughes' reply follows: "Your letter of the 15th has been received. I do not think it proper for me to make any suggestion as to what the county committee should do or should not do. I stated my attitude in my speech before the republican club, and by that I stand. It is of the highest importance that the work of the administration shall be disinterested, and I shall do nothing to influence the selection or vote of delegates. I assume that the party representatives will take such action, whatever it may be, as they believe to be best. They have their duty, and I have mine. I think my position is clearly understood." Thousands of white mothers all over the United States are making applications for membership every week and now that the doors of the Association have been thrown open to colored families of good character, it is to be hoped that they will take advantage of such a great opportunity. Send for Catalogue giving further and full information regarding the Association. R. SHELDON MOORE, Southern Agent, 229 East 75th Street, New York City. DETOXYL! DETOXYL! I will liberally reward anyone who will put me in touch with a remedy equal, or superior to DETOXYL (natural fruit salt). I'm searching for the best. I can't afford to let ignorance or prejudice enslave me. In my 12 years searching I've discovered many precious truths, but there are still more. For these unfound, I'm seeking. I've learned long since that whate'er is worth having is worth searching for. While I've thoroughly mastered the art of Preventing and Curing Disease; the one who will point me out a brighter path is my life-long friend. DETOXYL (nature's cure for all diseases) is the limit of my knowledge. I'd like to send you a trial package. Enclose ten cents. You'll receive answer by return mail. DECISION AGAINST AHEARN Hughes' Dismissal of New York President Sands. NEW YORK, Dec. 18—Justice Greenbaum, in the supreme court, dismissed the two injunctions obtained by Borough President Ahearn from Justice Truax after Governor Hughes ordered his removal. The injunctions were directed against the mayor and county clerk and stayed action by the mayor pending a hearing on them. Mayor McCellan declared that as soon as he received official notice of Justice Greenbaum's decision dissolving the injunction in the Ahearn case he would call a special meeting of the Manhattan aldermen to elect a new borough president. Mayor McCellan, it is said, favors for president of Manhattan borough Henry S. Thomson, the succeeded William Daion in the bureau of public works. THE MISER is home again. POTSDAM, Dec. 16—Emperor William arrived at the New palace, returning from his visits to the king of England and the queen of the Netherlands. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations Money on call firm at 10 to 12 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 8 per cent; ex- changes, $248,387,988; balances, $8,333,496. Closing prices: Amal. Copper... 43% N. Y. Central... 58% Atchison... 70 Nor. & West... 64% B. & O. ... 80 Penn. R. R. ... 110% B. R. R. T. 77% Penn. R. R. ... 189% C. R. C. & St. L. 55% Rockland... 14% Ches. & Ohio... 29 St. Paul... 101% Chl. & North. 133% Southern Pao... 71% D. & H. ... 138% Southern Ry... 12% Erie... 15% South Ry. pf... 36% Gen. Electric... 112 Sugar... 56% Ill. Central... 112 Texas Pacino... 19% Lackawanna... 40 Union Pacino... 118% Mhattan... 110 U. S. Steel pf... 36% Int.-Met... 6% West. Union... 55% Missouri Pac... 47% New York Markets LIVE POULTRY - Steady; fowls, 10¹⁴c; old roosters, 7⁶¹c; spring chickens, 10¹⁴c; turkeys, 10¹⁴c; geese, 11¹⁴c; turkeys, 10¹⁴c; DRESSED POULTRY - Dull and unchanged; fresh killed chickens, choice, 13¹c; roosters, choice, 13¹c; roosting chickens, nearby, 14¹⁴c; do, do, western, 10¹⁴c; broilers, nearby, 16¹⁴c; dc, western, 10¹⁴c; turkeys, fair to good, 15¹⁴c; do, western, choice to fancy, 18¹⁴c; do, fair to good, 15¹⁴c; Live Stock Markets. CATTLE-Receipts light; market slow; choice, $3.30/$5.00; prime, $10.95/$15.35; slow HOGS-Receipts fair and active; market higher; prime heavy, medium and heavy Yorkers, $4.85/$5.50; light Yorkers, $4.75/$5.50; medium and heavy SheEP AND LAMBS-Receipts light; market steady; prime wethers, $4.80/$5.00; sulls and common, $1.50/$2.50; lambs, $0.97. Unexplainable. We never have been able to understand why a woman says "Oh, you caught me without anything on," when visitors suddenly drop in on her.—Milwaukee Sentinel. An Observation When a man has no one to blame but himself, he doesn't do much kicking—Detroit Free Press. Headquarters for Xmas Goods YOUR ATTENTION IS ESPECIALLY CALLED TO OUR SELECTED STOCK OF CHRISTMAS GOODS AND DELICACIES. ORDER YOUR CAKES FROM US. ANY STYLE AND ANY SIZE. ICE-CREAM IN ANY SHAPE DE- SIRED. All fruits of the season. Cigars for Xmas gifts. Xmas tree goods furnished to order Special Attention to Suppers and Bazaars A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night. The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER (TRADE MARK REGISTERED) The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER (TRADE MARK REGISTERED) Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to the merits and the results of the J. V. Haw will from time to time produce in print permission to do sc, who have use among the many bearing witness of its g correspondence of those expecting a mirac- ration is a natural and pure compound, the hesitate to put in print. We will just he States Government has placed national which it is protected and we are in turn est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Hair on Olean Temples or Bald Heads, PRICES—35 cts. per box; eight t Beautifier makes the use of powder entil- less Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. M Order or Express Money Order A all out of city orders. unity. In order to convince the man of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Group to produce in print the photograph who have used our propanilizing witness of its genuine qualities, we expecting a miracle or anything unpure compound, the ingredients of it. We will just here remind the press placed national patent rights on us and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of fries or Bald Heads, where the roots are per box; eight boxes, $2.80 a square use of powder entirely unnecessary Dots and $1.00. Money can be sent by Order. A charge of 10c this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do sc, who have used our preparation and are to-day among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is proud and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES:—35 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Fuse Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices: 25.50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts, exura is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST., Telephone Correspondence St. W. I. 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MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 8th St. Philadelphia, Pa. SEVEN ```markdown ``` Richmond. Va A. B. EIGHT THE PLANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 28, '07 NOT A HAPPY LOT. Rich Man, Says Stuyvesant Fish, Not to Be Envied. WAGE EARNER SHOULD BE SATISFIED Extravagance, Says Raffirroad Magmate, is Curse of the Age to Rich and Poor Alike—Price of Living Less. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—"The rich man is getting h-1 these days. He's getting it coming and going. The poor man does not need to have any very keen jealousies of the rich man for this Christmas at any rate." Stuyvesant Fish in an interview gave that note of encouragement to his less wealthy American brethren. "Yes, the so called poor man is pretty well off, taking it altogether," went on the New Yorker, who is fighting for control of the Illinois Central railroad. "The wage earner is getting good and steady pay, the commodities of life necessary to his existence are decreasing in price, and generally he should be pretty well satisfied with himself this Christmas." "But what about the financial situation?" "Oh, the rich man gets the worst of it!" said Mr. Fish. "The amount of money come of the big fellows have lost might be called appalling if one were easily appalled. They have been experiencing the most shrinkages of values in securities. This dwindling process has been spared the wage earner. "There has been a bowl of late years that commodities were increasing in price—true enough, too—but for the last three months or so the prices of commodities have generally been going down, and the less the wage earner has to pay out for living the better, of course, he is off. "Extravagance is chiefly responsible for the various periods of hard times through which this country passes. Extravagance on the part of everybody—rich and poor and moderately well off—is the great curse of the age." Athletics Turn Life Saves SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 24—St. Louis university football athletes turned rescuers at a wreck before daylight near Brocket station on the Canadian Pacific railroad. The students on the way to the coast to play football reached Brocket twenty minutes after a head-on collision between freight trains. The engine crews and trainmen were under the debris, some of them scaled frightfully by escaping steam. Medical students of the team dressed wounds as the injured were rescued by the other athletes. Record Day For Divorces NEW YORK, Dec. 24. It was a curious crowd of people that thronged, choked and fought for entrance to Justice Newburger's part of the supreme court yesterday morning. There were 180 divorce cases on for hearing. Sixty-one of the causes were ready, and Justice Newburger said he was prepared to sit until Christmas day dawned to dispose of them. He got rid of twenty-four. A New Lawwritten Law DANVILLE, Van, Dec. 24—Haywood Garland, a man of forty-two, was shot and instantly killed by Richard Ferrell, eighteen years old, in the room of the boy's mother here. Young Ferrell invokes a new "unwritten law," justifying the murder solely on the ground that Garland was despoiling his home. "My mother was infatuated with that man," said the lad. Find Ancient Nonstory Buried Find Ancient Monastery Buried. ALGIERS, Dec. 24.—Albert Ballu, under whose supervision the historical researchers at the ruined city of Tim- gad are being conducted announces the discovery of a large monastery cover- ing 11,000 square yards surrounding a Christian basilica. The monastery in- closes four chapels, a cloister with well preserved cells and a Christian bury- ground. Governor Hugues Letter. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 24. - Governor Hughes, who has been suffering from an attack of grip, is reported improved. It is likely that he will remain in the executive mansion all of this week. While indoors he will work on his annual message to be submitted to the legislature Jan. 1. INDIAN MUTINY JUBILEE Lord Roberts Lends Veterans at Celebration in London. LONDON, Dec. 24.—"The remnant of that desperate host," as Kipling described the veterans of the Indian mutiny, gathered in Albert hall to the number of more than 700 to commemorate the golden justice of the struggle which ended in the Indian empire being saved to Great Britain. On the pension roll in the war office are the names of 1,200 survivors of the mutiny, to each of whom an invitation was sent for the reunion, but old age prevented many from attending. Those who could travel, including officers and men, came from every corner of the United Kingdom and with breasts covered with medals made a brave showing as they drew up outside the hall to be reviewed by Lord Roberts. The youngest among the veterans was sixty-five years of age, he having been a drummer during the fighting, and even today belonged to a young- ster as compared with his companions bowed with the weight of years. The review was brief, as the infirmities of the veterans prevented them from standing long in line so, headed by the field marshal, they marched to Albert hall, the galleries of which were filled with cheering crowds, and sat down to a banquet. Lord Roberts, who presided, read a telegram from the king, who expressed the appreciation of the whole empire of the services rendered by the army of which the veterans were members. Lord Curzon, chancellor of Oxford university, gave the toast, "The Survivors of the Indian Mutiny," and Lewis Waller, the actor, recited verses especially written by Rudyard Kipling. TOM LAWSON'S NEW PARTY. Says Roosevelt's Re-election Is Necessary to Save Us From Diaster. BOSTON, Dec. 24.—Thomas W. Lawson in a statement has confirmed a New York interview Sunday in which he announced that he has decided to launch a movement which has for its object the re-election of President Roosevelt and the elevation of Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota, Democrat, to the vice president's chair, Mr. Lawson claims that President Roosevelt's re-election is necessary to save the country from disaster and that any other Republican or even William J. Bryan would be so satisfactory to New York financial interests that they "will willingly finance either or both parties through the campaign to any extent necessary." Mr. Lawson adds that Mr. Bryan is "clean, honest and unpurchasable." but the money power believes it can "discredit him at the very beginning by showing the world his heiplessness in handling and controlling a situation which has almost stumped President Roosevelt to handle and control." Lightning Struck as They Sang REIDS STATION, Ga., Dec. 24.—Sedora Bryant, the ten-year-old daughter of J. D. Bryant, was instantly killed Sunday evening by a stroke of lightning that wrecked the house and injured fifteen other persons, but none seriously. There was a gathering of neighbors at the Bryant home, twelve miles south of Macon, on the Southern railway, and the Sunday evening was being spent in a song service when the house's struck by the lightning, W. M. Phillips, Frank and Ava Phillips and James Warfield sustained the most serious injuries. Hero Fund Aids Monongah Victims. PITTSBURG, Dec. 24.—The executive committee of the Carnegie hero fund commission met here and awarded $35,000 to the sufferers of the Monongah (W. Va.) mine disaster. The money will be turned over to the Monongah relief committee and used as this committee sees fit. The award is made under the Carnegie deed of trust, which designates that any surplus in the hero fund can be applied to relief work occasioned by great disasters. Courtesy May Bring Him Fortune. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 24.—About $100,000 may come to Walter W. Sutthin, assistant cashier of Haddon Hail, as a result of his courtesy to James H. Lovell, a western mining man, who spent last summer at the hotel. In appreciation of kindness Lovell presented Sutthin with mining shares which were then selling at a low figure. Word was received here a few days ago that a gold strike had been made on the property. A Christian Science Poorhouse. BOSTON, Dec. 24.—A million dollar institution for the poor is the latest project of the Christian Science movement. The news came through the Christian Science Sentinel, the weekly organ of the denomination, which gives part of the correspondence between Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy and Archibald McLeian, editor of the denominational publications. Walking Trip as Gold Core. PITTSBURG, Dec. 24—Assistant Superintendent of the Police John Glenn entertained "Anthony Brady" of New York, who is walking the 1,000 miles from New York to Chicago and further if necessary in the belief that the long walk will cure him of the liquor habit. He is trying to escape the nemesis of drink that has pursued him for fifteen years. Kelvin In Westminster Abbey LONDON, Dec. 24.—Lord Kelvin, a scientist, best known to fame as Sir William Thomson, was laid at rest in Westminster abbey close to the choir and in the shadow of Sir Isaac Newton's monument. Deserts Army For the Sea PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24. — Mrs. Jeane Powers of Beechyn was granted a divorce from her husband, Captain Thomas Powers of the Thirteenth infantry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. In a few weeks she will wed John Draytew Walnwright, a naval officer now stationed at Weskgten. To Reorganize Lisbon House of Peers LISBON, Dec. 24. — Premier Franco purposes before Jan. 1 to issue a decree reorganizing the Portuguese house of peers. The premier believes that as the house is at present constituted it is a stumbling block to the political regeneration of the country. New Minister From Norway CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 24.-M. Gude, formerly minister of Norway and Sweden to Denmark, has been appointed to succeed the late H. C. Hauge as minister of Norway to the United States. Socialism In German City There is carried on by the German municipality of Freiburg a pawnshop, an insurance business, a theater, several restaurants and a newspaper, as well as the schools. A scat can be procured at the opera in that city for nine cents and supper afterward for six cents. The authorities also own a cemetery, in which the citizens can be intered cheaply. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicle'd The signal corps of the United States army advertised for bids for the construction of a military airship. President Roosevelt announced that medals will be given to all citizens of the United States who have served the government satisfactorily on the isthmus of Panama for two years. Captain Henry Scribner of the barge New Haven and his wife were drowned in Long Island sound off Woodmont, Conn. The Republican club of New York city by an almost unanimous vote indorsed Charles E. Hughes for the presidential nomination. Tuesday, Dec. 24. United States Senator Stephen Russell Mallory of Florida died at Pensacola, aged fifty-nine. The body of Lord Kelvin, the great British scientist, was buried in Westminster abbey with solemn and impressive ceremonies. One hundred men narrowly escaped cremation in the Schoenberger coal mine at Baidl Station, thirty miles from Pittsburgh, when fire broke out in the mine. At the annual dinner of the New England society in New York city the customary toast to the president of the United States was significantly omitted, while J. P. Morgan was eulogized. Sylvester Soles, a recluse, sixty-five years old, was shot five times, with probable fatal effect, at his home south of Delta, O., by J. E. Roach, thirty-four years old. The latter was arrested and taken to Wauseon jail. Monday, Dec. 23. Executing the instructions of the emperor of Japan, Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador, conveyed to Robert S. McCormick of Chicago the decoration of the order of the first class of the Rising Sun. The killing of a herd of seventy-two cattle on a farm at New Hampton, N. Y., owned by Muthorough Churchill of New York, has been ordered by Dr. A. B. Kelley of the state health commission. He found that thirty-three of the cattle were infected with tuberculosis. Edward Smith thanked the jury in the district court at Omaha, Neb., for finding him guilty of the murder of Charles Singleton and recommending that he be sentenced to imprisonment for life. "Your verdict is a very suitable Christmas gift," he said, "and I accept it as such." On the ground that he was a dying man and so weak physically that he could not possibly take the advantage of freedom to attempt to escape. Robert C. Caldwell, the discredited witness in the Druce case, who is wanted for perjury in England, was released on $5,000 bail at New York. Saturday, Dec. 21. James A. Moran of Chelsea defeated Darringon of France, the world's champion pace rider, in the professional fifteen mile motor paced bicycle race at the Park Square coliseum, Boston. The British home office has consented to the opening of the grave of T. C. Druce in Highgate cemetery, London. Consequently shortly after Christmas the question whether the coffin contains a body or a roll of lead will be definitely answered. The Central American peace conference at Washington in terminating its labors has agreed to acclimation to recommend to the governments of Central America that they grant full amnesty for political crimes and those connected there with. James Nicholas Vann, a negro 100 years old, buried his fourteenth wife by the side of her thirteenth predecessor. All of Vann's wives were white. He doesn't like colored women, he says. Vann has been a preacher, doctor and law student in Mount Hope N. Y. Friday, Dec. 20. Wu Ting Fang, who has been appointed to the post of Chinese minister to the United States in succession to Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, left Peking on his way to Washington. Ambassador Tower has arranged for a deputation from the Arion society of Brooklyn to sing before Emperor William when the members of the society visit Germany and Austria next spring. The Hamburg-American liner President Grant, with Secretary of War Taft and party on board, arrived at New York, and her distinguished passengers again set foot on American soil after a tour that had taken them around the world. Thursday, Dec. 19 William F. Walker, formerly cashier of the Savings Bank of New Britain, Coun., who is wanted to answer a charge of embezzlement in that city of $500,000, was captured near Ensenada, Mexico. Eminent men in New York and London began a movement to urge the release of Nicholas Techaykovsky and Catherine Breshkovsky, the Russian revolutionists now imprisoned in the castle of St. Peter and St. Paul at St. Petersburg for political reasons. At a very brief days of comparative rule the miners' strike at Goldfield, few, has taken on a more serious aspect. The city is in darkness at night, due to the cutting of the electric cables. With darkness prevailing in the town the danger of rioting is redoubled, and armed guards patrol the city and velinity all night long. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Dec. 23.—The condition of John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America remains about the same as when he became ill. He is confined to his room in the Claypool hotel. Dr. E. S. Hodges, who is attending him, says Mr. Mitchell's condition is serious, but predicts that he will recover. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations. Money on cell strong at 18 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 2½ to 8 per cent; exchange, $11,060,071, balances, $79,840,001. Amal. Copper 46% N. Y. Central 31% Atchison 70% Nort. & West. 64% B. O. & O. 82 Pena. R. R. 111% B. Brooklyn R. T 88 Reading 93% C. L. Clark. L. Clark Island 15% Chesz & Ohio 30% S. C. Pacific 12% Chl. & Northwest 119% Southern Pac. 22% Southern Ry. 157 South. Ry. pf. 38% Sugar 99% Texas Pacific. 19% Union Pacific. 171% U. S. Steel. 15% U. S. Steel pf. 37% West. Union. 55% New York Markets. FLOUR-Dull but firm; Minnesota pat- ents, $1.50.10; winter patents, $4.85 @ 0.25; winter straights, $4.50 @ 4.70; winter extras, $1.75 @ 4.80. RYE FLOUR-Firm; fair to good, $4.55 @5.15; choice to faury, $5.25@5.40. WHEA: Because of clearing and more a centrifuge, the market rallied with a centrifuge, the market rallied with BUTTER - Strawberry, creamy specials, 3bc. extras, 15bc. c; thirds to first, 21bc. held, second to specials, 22bc. c; state specialty, 22bc. infusion creamy, first, 24bc. c; process, common to special, 15bc. c FIRM - Firm state, tall, small, colored, fine, fine, large, colored, fine, 15bc. c; white, 15bc. c; good to prime, 15bc. c; made mado, common to fair, 24bc. c; skims, 14bc EGGS - easy; state, Pennsylvania and nearby, fancy, selected, white, 45bc. c; fancy, 45bc. c; average best, 34bc. c; first to extra firsts, 36bc. c BERRY - Bermuda, second crop, per barrel, 35bc; Maine, per suck, 1.75bc. 2.25bc. Long Island, per barrel, 2.25bc. 2.50; state and western, per sack, 1.50; sweetes, per barrel, 2.00. 2.50; south, 35bc CABBAGE - Steady; Danish seed, per ton, 160bc. domestic, 8010bc LOW-Down; city, a 5-15c.; country, 545454c Live Stock Markets. CATTLE- Supply light; market higher; choice, $9.90; light; prime, $5.20; 65.3; veal cattle; prime, $9.90; HOGS- Supply fair; market active and prime; prime heavies, mediums, heavy and light; yorkers, $5.60; plgs, $4.75 and light; yorkers, $5.60; SHEEP- AND LAMBS- Supply light; market glov; pellet weathers, $4.80; 65. culls and common, $1.00; 22; lambs, $2.6; 15. Irish Number Arrested DUBLIN, Dec. 23. The police have arrested Laurence Ginnell, Nationalist member of parliament for the north division of Westmeath, at Killbridge. He was placed in jail at Killinbainh. Ginnell was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court in ingaging cattle raids. A Novel Slot Machine CHICAGO, Dec. 24. While Frank Koefoed, a cripple, was sewing a thirty day sentence for disorderly conduct he converted his wooden leg into a slot machine wide upon the deposit of a nickel yielded forth three collar buttons. It is bringing him in a fortune. Durdano Dying of Wounds. OLEAN, N. Y, Dec. 24. Joseph Dardano, one of the two exsele inspectors shot at Belfast on Saturday by an Italian known as "Little Pete," is dying in the hospital here and is not expected to live throughout the day. Montgomery Destroyed Bank Records NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—President W. R. Montgomery of the Hamilton bank admitted to the grand jury that after the institution failed he took from it all papers relating to his transactions with it and destroyed them. SAYS THE OWL. A friend in need is a surprise indeed. It's almost as easy to lie as it is to lose money. It's easy for the average woman to keep a secret—going. You are not the only one; there are others who talk too much. When a girl in love becomes thinner it's a case of "loved and lost." Many a man who thinks he is brilliant isn't even ordinarily bright. Popular music is probably so called because it soon becomes unpopular. Give a man a good dinner and he will remain in a good humor for at least an hour. He is indeed a rare youth who never sent his best girl something soft—fruit, candy or letters. "Blessed be the tie that binds not" would be an appropriate motto for the womma: who has been divorced seven times. THOUGHTS BY THE WAY. It is a fine thing to make yourself needed. Often of interest we find men makes has destiny. He who makes constant complaints gets little compassion. The desire to please is born in wom- en before the desire to love. Time is the capital of men who have but their intellect for fortune. One may study and gain knowledge; one must live to gain wisdom. Humility is the foundation of all traces; pride the summit of all sin. In a Bad Way. Wealth without religion, says Cardinal Gibbons, is an unsatisfactory condition. But what is the condition of the man who has neither? Plain Goodness Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass when He made one tree.—Henry Ward Beecher. IF A MAN WOULD SUCCEED. He must balance failure with hope. He must recognize the importance of enthusiasm. He must be honest in dealing with every customer. He must see that business methods change continually. He must use every honest means to make his goods known. He must consider advertising as an asset, not an expenditure. He must recognize that unwise economy is often false expedition. He must keep abreast of the times and be familiar with current events. He must be loyal to his fellow workmen and never indulge in mud slinging. He must know the difference between wise expenditure and extravagance. He must remember that many of the greatest masterpieces have been left unfinished. He must be willing to share his good fortune with others. Kindnesses are not wasted. He must be honest with his employer. Unkind thoughts are as unjust as unkind acts. He must see success ever ahead. There can be no absolute failure as long as one loves one's work. He must see the difference between unfair representation and a desire to market goods to the best of his advantage. ALL TRUE. Few welcomes are warranted not to wear out. Many a war cloud has proved to be only a pipe dream. Lots of us won't listen to advice unless we are giving it. True dignity doesn't stop at a frock coat and a high hat. It's a good plan to tell the truth, when it doesn't hurt. The good die young, or if they don't they grow up to be mighty homely. Enthusiasm doesn't accomplish much without a certain amount of hustle. The man who wants the earth must expect to have a little mud thrown at him. There is a difference between painting word pictures and telling the unvarnished truth. Giving advice to some people is like presenting a bald-headed man with a brush and comb. The average man wants to buy his experience in retail quantities but at wholesale rates. After all the man who tells his troubles may be preferable to the one who tells his jokes. There's a lot of romance about the good old times, but we would kick like steers if we had to have them back. GROWLS OF A GROUCHY GENT. Some girls are ox-eyed; some peroxide. A woman loves but once—that is the same man. Some women would rather be loved than respected. People who live in glass houses should close the shutters. Sometimes the wife takes her husband simply as a meal ticket—and then gets her mother to punch it. You can't interest a woman in the trust problem when the winter styles are just coming in and the baby's cutting a tooth. There's nothing a girl enjoys more than to sit in her torn and faded calico dress and read Susan de Style's article on opera wraps of the smart set. Tears for logic, a pout for an argument, a smile for strength, a kiss for heart are the angel attributes given to women a sort of adjective for a gossipy tongue that hints of hades. Vaudeville acrobats—tush! In the half-second it takes to open the parlor door, Cholly and Ethel can carom noiselessly fifteen feet in opposite directions and strike innocent attitudes. — Judge. STAGE REFLECTIONS. An elaborate setting will not im prove a foul play. The advice of critics is like medicine after death. A poor play is like a cigar—it requires judicious puffing. Actors are naturally sensitive. So is the hide raw after a beating. In vaudeville when an actor is bad they close in on him; in the legitimate they close down. A loud laugh may denote the vacant mind, but the play which provides it rarely has vacant seats. The actor who depends upon the barroom mirror for reflection will fall as surely as that ice freezes with the slippery side up. The actor who keeps his eye steadily fixed on the three stars on a brandy bottle is finally convinced that he is one of them. Why is that our dramatists do not employ our critics to point out their errors in advance of productions, and thus avoid failures? If an actress allows her hair to turn gray you may put it down that she either has not the price or is a hundred miles from the colorine establishment. The number of times an actress has figured in a divorce court is no more an indication of her cleaverness than that the size of a gravestone tells how big a man was. CHURCH AND CLERGY. The largest bible class in Great Britain is at All Saints' church, Sheffield. The average attendance is 1,600. Out of 3,348 Wesleyan Methodist ministers in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, 325 hold degrees from various colleges and universities. The great cathedral at Cologne, although completed but a few years ago, has so deteriorated from factory smoke that the body of the church will have to be renovated throughout. The Methodists of Seattle have erected a large tabernacle for revival services, and will present the structure to the city for a market house when no longer needed by the church. The Methodists of Manayunk, Philadelphia, have a "girls ushers" association," which is a great attraction. Pretty girls dressed in white guide strangers to comfortable sittings, and the preacher finds the experiment most satisfactory. Bishop Moule of mid-China, brother of the bishop of Durham, has been in charge of this diocese of 100,000,000 souls for over twenty-five years. No fewer than fourteen of his family are active workers in the mission field abroad. The first European missionary to settle in an interior Chinese city away from a treaty port, Bishop Moule made Hangchow his headquarters. Key's Fitting Memorial Every day in the year an American flag floats over a grave in a cemetery at Frederick, Md. The flag is renewed every Memorial day. In that grave rests the body of Francis Scott Key. Although his memory has been honored in monument of granite and statues of bronze, what more fitting memorial than Old Glory forever waving over the last resting place of him who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner?" SENTENCE SERMONS He cannot do who does not dare. Opposition often is the best aid. It takes an uplifted eye to keep a clean heart. No man can be great until he can see greatness. It takes some frost to ripen the best fruits of the heart. He denies himself the best who cannot deny himself. He cannot pray for himself who prays only for himself. The weeds of prejudice grow best in an intellectual desert. A heavy heart does not prove that you have a burdened brain. Many a preacher would be seldom at church but for the sermon. The best way to maintain good cheer is to comfort the cheerless. Corns on your hands will do more for the good of the world than crowns on your head. There are too many trying to whiten the world by blackening others. You can as soon cross the ocean on christ as save the world by a creed. Chers go Tribene. It is a fine thing to make yourself needed. The way to be always respected is to be always in earnest. One may study and gain knowledge; one must live to gain wisdom. Time is the capital of women who have but their intellect for fortune. If you begin by thinking that nothing can be done without difficulty, you will end by doing everything with facility. He who lives for others will have friends, but he who lives for himself must not complain when he finds the world foraking him. There are two kinds of love—the beautiful worship that finds its reward in constant service, and the little selfish affection that rewards itself by demanding servitude. If you expect a disagreeable thing, meet it and get rid of it as soon as you can; if you expect anything agreeable, you need not be in such a hurry, for the anticipation of pain is pain—the anticipation of pleasure, pleasure. There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart—never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary. PROVERBS Years know more than books Water run by will not turn the mill. Where the will is ready the feet are light. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. True valor knows as well how to suffer as to act. Wisdom doesn't always speak in Greek or Latin. Words spoken in an evening the winds carry away. We ought to weigh well what we can only once decide. The best woman is the woman who is the least talked about. You will never have a friend if you must have one without a fault. 'it is love that makes time pass, and it is time that makes love pass. MERE OPINION. All the world's a stage, but the spotlight seldom shows where we are acting. This would be a terrible world if all women were as wicked as other women think they are. When a man dies and leaves less than $1,000,000 now it is always proper to use the word "only" in referring to the amount. It is customary for men to regard her with suspicion when a pretty woman begins to talk good common sense. Some men never grow up, and we praise the. for their ability to remain youthful in spirit. But we want every woman to grow old, some time. "Yiddish." "Yiddish" is derived from the Ger man word "Jidish" , meaning Jewish. It means a dialect spoken by the Jews in various localities. !! $150.00 Endowment Paid. Bristol, Va., Dec. 20, 1991. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Arthur Bentley, who was a member of Zenith Lodge, No. 111 of Bristol, Va. Signed—Loula Bentley, H. A. Henderson, Guardian. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Eugene Brown. William Henderson. MYSTERIOUS SKULL Shines in the Dark. This mysterious skull shines in the dark with a wierd, blue light Scaring! Funny Ghost! Sent postpaid for 25 cents Important Notice! Madame E. L. Monszaro, the wonderful medicine manufacturer and Tooth Extractor has on sale at her office: Monzaro's Blood Purifier and Stomach Bitters. Monszaro's Triple Extract of White Rose. A **Word to the Mothers**—The Madame makes a specialty of beautifying the children's teeth; Regulating them and taking out tushes. WANTED-To buy groceries, live chickens, turkeys and one good size pig for the winter. Would also like to get an old man to live with the family. A good home for some person who has no people and wants a home. Address MRS. M. J. POWELL, Box 504, Pleasantville, N. J. Do You Know Them? John Henry Langster, 150 Walnut St., Springfield, Mass, was born in Gloucester Co., Va. near James River in 1865. His mother's name was Jennie Langster, father's name Peter Langster. He had a brother named Peter Langster, a twin sister named Maria Langster and four other sisters, Jane, Sallie, Easter, and Keziah Langster. The family was owned by Thomas Banks. If any one knows of the whereabouts of the above named parties or can give any information concerning them address WM. T. AMIGER. WM. T. AMIGER, 150 Walnut Street, Springfield, Mass.