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THE RICHMOND PLANET Littleton Makos Elocquent Straightforward Argument. Defense Not Trying to Prove Accused Millionaire Same Now, but Rely on "Manic Depressive" Insanity to Save Him. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—With all of the evidence of the prosecution and the defense presented, the second trial of Harry K. Thaw virtually has now ended. The defendant's fate will be placed in the hands of the jury probably on Friday. Mr. Littleton in opening his plea for the young millionaire prisoner made an eloquent but straightforward presentation of the facts in his argument and contended that the prosecution has failed to shake the case of insanity built up by the defense. He again and again called attention to the law and the burden of proof it has placed upon the state in a case where insanity is pleaded as a bar to responsibility for a criminal act. He contended and asked Justice Dowling to carefully instruct the jury on the point that once the defense has produced evidence of insanity it becomes the duty of the prosecution to remove every reasonable doubt of insanity. In other words, Mr. Littleton asked for an acquittal unless the jurors are thoroughly convinced that every reasonable doubt as to Thaw being insane at the time of committing the homicide has been removed by the witnesses in the state's case. Mr. Littleton made no claim of present sanity for Thaw. In fact, he could not, as the experts for the defense having testified that in "manic depressive" insanity, the diagnosis now applied to Thaw's condition of mind, the patient is very apt to have attacks of increasing frequency and violence. Thaw was placed on trial a second time on Jan. 6 last. By the trial proper only eleven court days have been consumed. The first trial lasted three months and took up fifty-eight court days. Mr. Jerome during the day caused a surprise when it became known that he would not call any alienists for the state. It was said the district attorney was content to dispense with expert testimony and expedite the case, because he would contend in his address to the jury that the defense has failed to make out a case of insanity, hereditary or otherwise. Mr. Jerome's elimination of expert testimony from the rebuffal case occasioned much talk among counsel. Based upon his assertions of last year that Thaw was an incurable paranolac, rumor had it that the prosecutor might not be displeased with a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity with an ensuing committal of Harry Thaw to the Asylum For the Criminal Insane at Matteawan. The district attorney's move not only gave him an opportunity to attack the defendant's case, but also prevented the defense from calling the state's experts of last year in surrebuttal to question them as to their declarations before the lunacy commission that Thaw was an incurable paranoid. On compromise between counsel for the people and the defense the district attorney succeeded in introducing in evidence the testimony given by Abraham Hummel at the first trial. This procedure oblived the necessity of a trip to Blackwell's island by Judge Dowling, the prisoner and the lawyers to obtain a deposition from Hummel. To have the testimony admitted Mr. Jerome consented to let the will made by Thaw on the day of his wedding be offered in evidence. Judge Dowling told the jury that as counsel for both sides would need time to prepare for summing up, it had been arranged that the defense should have all day today, or any part of the day, and that Mr. Jerome should begin his closing address tomorrow morning. "I will charge the jury on Friday," Judge Dowling said, "and give you the case the same day." Frothingham a Candidate BOSTON, Jan. 29.—Louis A. Frothingham of Boston, former speaker of the house of representatives, last night announced that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor this year to succeed Eben S. Draper. Mr. Frothingham was speaker of the house in 1905 and was Republican candidate for mayor of Boston in the fall of the same year. War on Youthful Smokers NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A campaign that has for its aim the prohibition by law in New York of the use of tobacco in any form by a minor was opened in the board of alderman. Alderman Veldon introduced a resolution prohibiting any dealer from selling, giving away or disposing of cigarettes or tobacco in any form to persons under eighteen years old. Hoke Smith Declines ATLANTA. Ga., Jan. 29—Governor Hoke Smith issued a formal statement announcing that he would not be a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator Clay. His statement also declared that he would run for a second term for governor in order to finish the work pledged in his platform. Minister Soraby Paralyzed LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 27. - The American minister to Bolivia, William B. Sorsby, who recently suffered an apoplectic stroke, resulting in paralysis, is in a dangerous condition. UNDER OUR OWN FLAG. Secretary Taft Quizzed as to Filipino Slaves. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. — To congress and through it to the world at large President Roosevelt announces that it will probably be a generation, it may even be longer, before the Filipinos will be fit for complete self government and ready to decide whether they shall be independent of American rule. In an indirect way Secretary Taft touched upon the relations between Japan and the United States. The exposition at Seattle, he thought, would have a great effect all over the Pacific. In his judgment, the next fifty years will see the greatest development in the world on the Pacific, and he said, "It seems to me we ought to be in it." Greatly to the surprise of every one the subject of slavery was introduced in the senate. Secretary Taft was directly charged with having a knowledge of slavery in the islands. The debate was made pertinent by the sections of the bill revising the criminal code of the United States, which provide penalties for dealing in slaves. Mr. Hale asserted that such provisions should be stricken out, as he regarded slavery as obsolete in the United States, and he could see no reason for referring to it. Senator Heyburn, in charge of the bill, declared that not only is there immoral traffic in white slaves, but that cooly labor in the form of practical slavery does exist and added that actual human slavery is still maintained in the Philippine islands. Mr. Hale declared, however, that he had never supposed slavery existed in the island after the American occupation. "I am surprised," asserted Mr. Tillman, who was quickly on his feet, "to hear any senator on the Republican side disclaim knowledge of what has been notorious since we took possession in the Philippines and known to exist there." Mr. Tillman said he was still more surprised that "the party which had gathered so much glory from the destruction of slavery in this country" and which has absolute control of our foreign affairs had done nothing to put an end to the slave trade in the Philippines. "Why don't the men," he asked, "who are responsible for the Philippine government enforce the law?" Mr. Tillman suggested that the Philippine Islands are governed by Secretary Taft under the president of the United States. MOVE MRS. M. B. EDDY. Head of Seventists' Church Now at Brookline, Mass. CONCORD, N. H., Jan. 29.—Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, counsel and head of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, left her home, Pleasantview, here and by a circuitous route in a special train went to Chestnut Hill, Brookline, to take up a permanent home in a house recently purchased by the Christian Scientists. Mrs. Eddy was accompanied by her secretary, Calvin A. Frye; Archibald Mennan, one of the trustees for Mrs. Eddy's property; Rev. Irving C. Tomillinson, a Christian Science "reader," and a dozen other men and women of the Christian Science belief. Mrs. Eddy was guarded with the utmost secrecy, and every detail of the journey was shrouded in the deepest mystery. Arriving in Brookline, the party was taken to the late residence of Amory A. Lawrence, one of the most beautiful in all the Boston suburb. Because He Missed His Steamer. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Ivan Ostman, on his way from Minnesota to his old home in Sweden, killed himself in New Jersey because he had missed the Mauretania, on which he had hoped to sail. Makes Violin For King Edward. BROCKTON, Mass., Jan. 28.—Archibald McIntosh has just finished a violin for King Edward made from a curly maple table once owned by the Duke of Kent. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1908 HORRIBLE LYNCHING. No Criminal Assault Charged. In Self-Defense. DOTHAN, ALA., January 20.—Cleveland Franklin, the colored man who was taken from the sheriff here yesterday by a masked mob of two hundred men, and supposedly hanged and riddled by two hundred shots in an attempt at lynching, was found today by the sheriff alive, with only a slight wound. He was not even hurt seriously. STRUNG TO LIMB Franklin was an employee of the Southern Cotton Oil Company here and shot and seriously wounded A.C. Faukli, secretary and treasurer of the cotton oil company. The colored man was found on the premises of the company, and in order to escape shot Faukli. The sheriff was notified immediately and formed a posse. The colored man was captured and just as a start was made for the jail the mob of two hundred men came up, forcibly took the Negro prison, carrying him to a mill, where he was strung to a limb and something like two hundred shotguns, pistols and all sort of firearms discharged at his body. LEFT FOR DEAD The Negro apparently fainted away, and was left for dead. Yesterday morning the sheriff thought it would be well to examine the victim of Judge Lynch. Upon going up to the limb where the body was hanging, was surprised to see Franklin winking for him to come a.d take him down from his uncomfortable position. Just as soon as the colored man was freed from his honds an examination was made, whereupon it was found that the two hundred of shot had all but one gone wide of the mark, splitting rails and boards near by, completely riddling the mill. NOOSE NOT WELL TIED The fact that the rope did not do the necessary work caused some suspicion on the part of the sheriff. He at once began to find out the cause. He ascertained that the noose was not made by experienced hands but by pure novices, the "woofful knot" that usually does the work not being placed right, hence it did not give the deathkjern on the Negro's neck. Franklin's clothing looked as if it had been in a battle for the pants he wore and his shirt were completely torn into shreds. He was hardly in a presentable condition to be taken back to Dothan. HE PLAYED 'POSSUM In talking about his remarkable escape from death the colored man explained that after he had been hit once he thought it was all up, and at once keeled over. When he a-woke from his dream a few men were watching him, so he played the possum, for he heard some of them say: "H's sure dead now. Guess we had better leave." He closed his eyes and remained as much like a dead man as any man ever did. The 'possum act he states, did very well, but it was awfully uncomfortable to hang all night long on the limb—with a stout rope straining his neck every moment. SAVED BY MUSCLES If it had not been for the colored man's well developed muscles, especially in the neck, he would have suffered considerable injury from the drop, and due to the twelve hour hanging to the limb would have probably been dead when found. The sheriff took Franklin to the county jail where he will be held for trial. A. C. Faulk, who was assaulted by the colored man Saturday night is resting easily and his wounds are not regarded as serious. Fifteen deputies are patrolling the jail yard tonight to avert any trouble at the hands of a second mob. Everything is quiet to night. Mob's Victim Dies of Wounds. Dothan, Ala., Jan. 22 —Grover Franklin, the colored man who was the victim of a mob here Sunday night but rescued alive and taken back to jail, died this morning as a result of the wounds inflicted by the members of the lynching party. After the colored man was taken back to jail, fatal punctures in the kidneys were found. A riot was almost brought about last night by the impudence of a colored man to some white men. They shot at him several times, but he escaped and the sheriff has not been able to find out the names of the parties. 'He feeling against the colored people is high, as a result of the shooting of A. C. Faulk, for which Franklin was mobbed. SPURLOCK—FERGUSON. Last Monday evening, January 27, Miss Maria L. Ferguson was wedded to Mr. James Cary Spurlock of Fincastle, Va. at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Sarah E. Ross, No. 1208 N. 2nd Street. Mr. Howard Johnson of Fincastle accompanied the groom and Mr. William J. Ferguson, the bride's uncle was best man. The ceremony was impressively performed by Dr. Z. D. Lewis surrounded by a host of adm'r friends. Mr. and Mrs. Spurlock boarded the 10 A. M. train Tuesday, 28th via C. and O, for Fincastle, Va. their future home and will ever hold in memory their many friends for the useful tokens of regards upon this occasion. THINKS PRAYER WILL SOLVE IT A Leader Wanted. I read an article in your paper, written by Mr. R. H. Ball of Lawrence, Mass, entitled "Race Cause is Suffering" in which he asked the views of the readers of the PLANET. I commend Mr. Ball in his effort in trying to get the race to unite their thoughts on this one grave question the race problem. Who shall be our leader? Every Ethiopian north, south, east or west should join us easily upon the subject, not boastingly but using their best judgment without offense. We are sure to come to some conclusion that will be profitable to the race. Mr. Ball is of the opinion that we all should see the necessity of a leader, but one important question is, How shall we train our people to follow? Let us all become reconciled with God and He will be sure to send us a leader. Though it be a little child he will lead us on to victory. There has never been a race of people as large in number as we are, as strong physically as we are, as great in power as we are and yet reduced to such weakness as to have to be submissive to the persecution of all men without being able to resist. If there had not been some cause for it, and that cause was sin committed by our forefathers. The iniquity of our forefathers has followed upon the children down to this generation. We have prayed for many things, but have we prayed as one man to God to free us from that indebtedness of sin that our forefathers contracted. The time is precious. This is where I appeal to the Editors of our journals to help us to get every place in the United States where our people worship to specify one Sunday in each month, but let it be the same date for all to pray for the forgiveness of this indebtedness of sin. Let us name the same hour all over the country to bow on our knees and ask God to forgive us. When we become sincere about it see if the nation will rise and have true leaders indeed. Come, let us get together, brethren, call meetings and arrange that we have the same Sunday in every month that every Ethiopian pray as one man and when we have stretched out our hands to God in this manner and asked him to redeem us from this curse, God will catch us while in this falling state. But until we do this our condition will continue to get worse because it is up to us to pay this debt and we can only do it by offering ourselves up to God in prayer. "Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God." J. E. BROWN. 715 N. Shamokin St., Shamokin, Pa. —Miss L. Irene Brown is indisposed at her home in Baker Street. —Mr. W. H. Hayes, Manager of the Capitol! Shoe and Supply Company has gone to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to purchase the Spring stock. —Mr. William Lawrence returned to the city last week after having spent a very pleasant stay of three weeks in New York City. While there, Mr. Lawrence was the guest of Mr. William Nelson, one of New York's popular musicians. Mr. Nelson highly honored Mr. Lawrence by tendering him a fine reception. Also Mrs. Rose Cosby had many friends to meet Mr. Lawrence at her home 238 W. 62nd Street. —Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson left Wednesday for Washington D. C. to visit her brother; Mr. J. W. Dabney while Mr. Thompson will go to Newark, N. J., New York City, Philadelphia, Pa. and Atlantic City, N. J. on business for The National Grand Lodge, L. O. of G. S. A China Wedding. Danville, Va., Nov. 30, 1908. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. West was the scene of a very beautiful China Wedding the evening of November 29th. The elaborate and tasteful scheme of decoration and floral display made quite an artistic and effective picture. The drawing room where in the ceremonies were performed was a veritable wilderness of evergreen ferns and palms splendidly set off with marshal-niel roses and large chrysanthe mums. After the guest had been cared for for a prearranged programme spicy with varieties and replete with mirth-making was begun. At 9:15 Miss Lillian West played the wedding march and to the music of Mendelsohn the bridal party filed into the drawing room forming a semi-circle half-way across the room from the center of which Rev. W. E. Carr delivered his well chosen remarks wishing the couple another like period of years and family happiness. The bride wore a beautiful china silk trimmed with Irish point lace. Mrs. Grace West, her maid of honor wore white muii with Valclennes laces. The bridal party further consisted of Mesdames Mary Willams, Fannie Doswell, Mollie Alkens, Annie Bell Clayborn, Messrs. P. H. Doswell, Major West, S. R. Burford, William Mc Coy and E. X. Bolsseau. After the wedding ceremonies the guest were delightfully entertained by the following well rendered programme: Solo, vocal, Miss Clara Coleman; Solo, instrumental, Mrs. W. H. Harrison, Jr., Recitation, Mrs. Sarah H. Williams; Solo, vocal, Mr. C. E. X. Bolsseau; Solo, instrumental, Pro. T. A. Long. Then all were treated to menu prepared and served by Mr. Alfred Jackson assisted by Mesdames Agnes Adam, Kate Lyers, Pattie Farmer, Malinda Holbrook, and C. P. Pannell. To do the honors at the punch bowl were Madame Sarah France and Miss Fannie Rison. The young people found great amusement at cake cutting and passed much wit and humor around the table. Miss O. V. Clark had fortune's favor and carried away the gold ring. Mr. Banks obtained the significant thimble. Mr. F. L. Gunn, Jr., the luck piece of coin. The antique arrangement of the dining room was attractive and unique, a vivid reminder of twenty years back Viands of the season and mounds of flowers gave the table a very novel appearance and looked well under the mellow light of twenty candles of ancient sources, a present given by the bride's mother, Mrs. Lizzie Tunstall of Atlantic City, N. J. Much of the evening merriment was due to the artful and becoming ease of Mrs. Grace West at receiving, assisted by Mesdames W T. Hall, Mollie L. Adams, Ruth Carr, Galvin, Johnson and R. A. Reynolds, Messrs. P. A. Doswell and E. G. Adams. Some more than two hundred pres ents were received which show what a host of admiring friends the thrifty and congenial couple have now to them both at home and away. Not a few of the gifts came from the whites of this city and vicinity. MR. & MRS. CHARLES W. WEST [The above was inadvertently omitted from our columns many weeks ago.—Ed.] Dr. Jefferson's Mother Gone Mrs. Susie Ann Jefferson, mother of Dr. E. R. Jefferson died last Monday night, 27th ult. at 808 St. Paul St. The funeral took place Thursday, at the Second Baptist Church at 11:30 A. M. The family has our sympathy. Do You Know Them? I would like to locate Misses Roberta and Latifia Gaskins and their brother John Gaskins. He worked in a butcher shop. In 1892 they lived at 934-25th St. Washington, D.C., near Georgetown bridge. I have forgotten their mother's and father's names. Their father kept a restaurant in 1890 on 4½ St. between E and F. South Washington. In 1892 the father, mother and the larger portion of the family left Washington to go to Virginia in the country to live where I know not. Any information will be gladly received. Address ARTHUR J. LEWIS, 1811 Arctic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. JOB WANTED—Mr. Robert Evans 84 Montgomery St., Newark, N. J. desires employment as a composer and pressman. He comes well recommended. - Subscribe to The PLANET. Only $1.50 per year. ```markdown ``` Deacon A. Jonathan Gone. All that remained of Deacon Alexander Jonathan, who for so many years has been one of the pillars of the Fifth Street Baptist Church has been lald away forever. His funeral took place last Monday afternoon at 2:30 within the sacred confines of the edifice he loved so well. A large crowd was present. The choir, under the leadership of Mr. Alexander Coy rendered both solos and other selections. His former pastor, Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. had been selected to say the last words over his remains and right well did he perform the task assigned to his hands. From one section of the church to the other there were sighs of sympathy as the able divine spoke of the deceased in tones of commendation, dwelling upon his faithfulness and commending his love of the church work. His sympathetic appeals stirred the family and as a result the widow with upturned face had to be carried in a fainting condition from the scene of the last sermon. Mr. H. F. Jonathan son of the fallen deacon, was also the object of sympathy. He had faithfully ministered to the wants of his father, doing all that he could to alleviate his suffering and leaving him only at the brink of the grave. The deacons of the Fifth Street Baptist Church were the pall-bearers. Rev. S. C. Burrell assisted Rev. Dr. Graham as did the other ministers. Rev. A. Binga, D. D. was also present being pastor of the grieving window. Funeral Director A. D. Price had charge of the remains, Mr. Isham Mann acting proxy during Mr. Price's indisposition. The family returned thanks for floral offerings to Mr. R. C. Jones, Mrs. A. D. Atkinson, Mrs. Bright, Mr. Wash Jeter, Dr. Rev. D. W. F. Graham and wife, Messrs. Montgomery & Co., Mr. William Robinson and others. A design was sent by the deacon of the St. Mary's Church and also on from Charity Lodge, No. 26, cf A. F. M. Mr. E. W. R. Glenn, master. Rey. Berkley Remembered. Saluda, Va., Jan. 20, 1908. Last Thursday evening Brother John W. Lightfoot and James Sutherlin brought to my home many presents such as sugar, flour, coffee, meat, fruit, lard, tomatoes and cab. bage sent by the members of Calvary Baptist Church. Brother Lightfoot was taken very sick on his way home. He is much better to-day. I have been laboring in this county for the Master for thirty years and every year my heart is made glad by such gifts from my church and friends. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, this 29th day of January, 1908. IN CHANCERY The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonium by the plaintiff against the defendant And an affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant, Laura Ann Cheek is without effect and that he, the said Plaintiff does not know her whereabouts: it is ordered that the said defendant appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect her interest here. A Copy—Teste: P. P. WINSTON, in. Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pg. To Laura Ann Cheek: You'll take notice that I shall on the 19th day of March, 1908 at the office of Phil B. Shield, room numbered 60. Chamber of Commerce Building situated S. W. corner of 9 and Main Streets in the city of Richmond, Va. between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. of that day proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery, depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff; and if from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day or if commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. I. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq Office: 1211% E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. A Card of Thanks. Unto Our Many Friends: We hereby acknowledge our deep appreciation and many thanks for your kind tokens and friendly gifts presented to us upon our twentieth wedding anniversary. MR. & MRS. CHARLES W. WEST —Mr. A. S. West of Nandun, Va. was in the city and called on us. —Sir C. H. Lewis of Planet Lodge, No. 25 has been extremely ill. He is still confined to his residence, $111_{2}$ N. 7th St. —Miss Carsie D. Isham who has been indisposed was able to return to her school at Fine Creek Mills, Va last Wednesday. —Mr. Douglass Johnson of Pet- ersburg, Va. called on us this week. PRAISE FOR BRYAN. Wallace Says He Is Worthy the Honor and Suggrence of All Fate. WALLACE SAYS He is Worthy the Honor and Suffrage of All States. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — International marriages of American heliresses to titled foreigners was denounced on the floor of the house of representatives by Mr. McGavin of Illinois, who spoke on the bill of his colleague, Mr. Sabath, to tax all dowries and titled husbands. Mr. McGavin's remarks were made under the license of general debate. At times they provoked laughter and applause on both sides of the chamber. The presence of William J. Bryan in the lobby of the house furnished inspiration to Mr. Wallace (Ark.) for a vigorous speech in which while admitting that Mr. Bryan had made mistakes, he said, "The Nebraskan is worthy the honor and suffrage of all the states." "They say he has made mistakes," said Mr. Wallace. "They say he is radical. What reformer is not?" he inquired. "They say he is dogmatic, independent. Who would have him obedient, subservient?" He thanked God there was no earthly prince who at noonday can proclaim "It is night" and have William J. Bryan forthwith declare that he sees the moon and the stars. It had been said, Mr. Wallace declared, that Mr. Bryan "cannot carry this or that state. He may not be elected or may not carry a state here and there," he remarked, "but I say he will do better. He will convince the world of his own manhood." This utterance aroused the Democrats to loud applause. "I will say," he repeated, "he will carry conviction to all the states and that he bears within himself the elements that make the world proclaim him a man worthy the honor and suffrage of all the states." At the end of a busy day Mr. Bryan authorized the statement that he would have no dealings with any committee of so called Democrats, self appointed or otherwise, unless the men represented a considerable body of persons who supported the Democratic platform in 1896 and in 1900. He also announced through his political secretary, Willis J. Abbott, that he would be glad to accept the Democratic nomination from the national convention and that he believed he would be elected. "OUIDA" DIES IN POVERTY. Famous Writer, Louisa de la Ramea, Passes Away Near Florence. FLOREENCE, Italy, Jan. 29. — "Ouida," the novelist, whose name was Louisa de la Ramee, is dead at Viarreggio, a seacoast village near here, after an illness of several months. She expired in the arms of an old serving woman, her only attendant. The immediate cause of death was asthma complicated by heart disease. Besides senile ills, she had suffered the privations of poverty in recent years. "Ouida" had a passionate fondness for dogs and up to the very last was surrounded by many of them, depriving herself even of the necessaries of life to feed them. Louisa de la Ramee in her baby days tried to pronounce her first name and lisped "Ouida." It became her pet name. In 1863 she began to write. Her first book was "Held in Bondage." In 1907 she found herself in the bondage of poverty. She wrote more than forty novels. The best perhaps are "Under Two Flags," "Chandos," "Strathmore," "Tricatrin" and "In Maremma." Besides, she wrote many dramatic sketches, critical studies and magazine articles. General Charles H. Howard Dead. CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—General Charles H. Howard, a brother of General O. O. Howard, U. S. A., died at his home here. He was born in Leeds, Me., in 1838. BOB HAMPTON of PLACER By RANDALL PARRISH AUTHOR OF "WHEN WILDERNESS WAS KING" "MY LADY OF THE NORTH "HISTORIC ILLINOIS" ETC. COPYRIGHT 1906 BY R.G. NESCLURO & CO. TWO SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.—A detachment of the Eighteenth infantry from Fort Boston among them, in a narrow gorge, duces himself by the name of Hampton, also Gillis, the post trader, and his daughter. Gillis and a majority of the soldiers are killed during a three days' siege. CHAPTER II.—Hampton offers assistance to the girl, and is at first sourced because he is known as a gambler. CHAPTER III.—Hampton and the girl only escape from the Indians. They fail exhausted on the plains. CHAPTER IV.—A company of the Seventh infantry, Lieut. Brant in command, finds Hampton the girl on the plains, and restores them to consciousness. Hampton announces that he proposes to care for the girl. CHAPTER V.—Hampton and the girl stop at the Miners' Home in Glencairn, fires, Duffy, proprietors. Rev. Howard, who proposes that Hampton place Miss Gillis on the girls, Herdon. He consents to think it over. CHAPTER VI.-Hampton talks the future over with Miss Gillis—the Kid. She shows him her mother's picture and tells her that the rest of her parentage and life. They decide she shall live with Mrs. Herndon. CHAPTER VII.-The Kid takes up her residence with Mrs. Herndon. CHAPTER VIII.-Nalda—the Kid runs away from Mrs. Herndon's and joins Hampton. He induces her to go back, and to have nothing more to do with him. CHAPTER IX.-Hampton announces his last game of cards. He announces to Red Shivin that he has quit, and then leaves Glencaid. CHAPTER X.-Miss Phoebe Spencer arrives in Glencaid to teach its first school. CHAPTER XI.-Miss Spencer meets Naida. Rev. Wynkoop, etc. she boards at Mrs. Herndon's. CHAPTER XII.-Nalda and Lieut. Brant again meet without his knowing who she is. She informs him of the coming Ballet club ball in honor of Miss Spencer. CHAPTER XII-Lieut. Brant meets Silent Murphy. Custaser scouts. He ports trouble brewing among the Sioux. CHAPTER XIV.-Social difficulties arise at the Bachelor club's ball among the students of Miss Spencer. Leiton-Brant meets Miss Spencer but she also his acquaintance of the day before. She tells him of Naida, and he accidentally informs him as he is returning to the ballroom with a ram for Miss Spencer. CHAPTER XV.-He fails to discover her identity. CHAPTER XVI.-Brant accompanies Naida home from the dance. On the way informs him as to who she is and that she is the student of Miss Spencer. Brant meets Hampton with her, and the men make an appointment to meet the following morning. CHAPTER XVII.-Brant and Hampton meet. Hampton informs the lieutenant that his attentions to Naida must be taken away. Brant justifies her that justifies the statement. Brant Hampton of the presence of Silent Murphy the student of Miss Spencer receives government messages for him. CHAPTER XVIII.-Miss Spencer called on Bob Hampton, tells him of a red-faced student of Miss Spencer. CHAPTER XIX—Hampton interviews Red Slavin. Finds that he is an extropreter in the Seventh cavalry. It was more than ten years before had convicted Robert Nolan, then a captain in the seventh, of the murder of Maj. Jair, Sr. Hampton attempts to faction from Slavin. Slavin insists it is Murphy he wants, and Murphy has left. In a scuffle Slavin is killed by a knife thrust. CHAPTER XX—Hampton surrenders to Buck Mason, marshal. Mob attempts to capture him. Mason and his prisoner escape to a hill and defend themselves. Mob lights fire to burn them out. CHAPTER XXI—Brant tells Nalda that he loves her. She tells him there is an insurmountable barrier between them, but that she does not fully understand it. CHAPTER XXII—Brant and his troop rescues Hampton and Mason from the fires set by the mob. Brant carries the unconscious gambler through the lines of fire. CHAPTER XXIII—Brant is taken to the hotel and Nalda comes to nurse him. CHAPTER XXIV.—Miss Spencer has a humorous adventure with her admirers and then accepts the heart and hand of Rev. Wynkoop. CHAPTER XXV.—Brant is ordered to take the field. Before he goes Nala tells him she loves him, but an explanation will win him off an explanation. He insists that he will return to her. CHAPTER XXVI.—Hampton goes on the road. She meets with sight of Murphy, as the one man who can clear Capt. Nolan of the charge of murder of Maj. Brant 15 years before. CHAPTER XXVII.—Hampton arrives at Cheyenne after Murphy had with dispatches for Custer. He follows the scout, determined to wring from him a musky on the edge of the Indian country. CHAPTER XXVIII Murphy rested on his back in the midst of a thicket of willows, wide awake, yet not quite ready to ford the Fourche and plunge into the dense shadows shrouding the northern shore. Crouched behind a log, he had so far yielded unto temptation as to light his pipe. Murphy had been amid just such unpleasant environments many times before, and the experience had grown somewhat prosac. Even Indian-scouting degenerates into a commonplace at last. So Murphy puffed contentedly at his old pipe. But suddenly there was the faint crackle of a branch to his left, and one hand instantly closed over his pipe bowl, the other grasping the heavy revolver at his hip. There came a plain, undisguised rustling in the grass, some prowling coyote, probably; then his tense muscles immediately relaxed, and he cursed himself for being so startled, yet he continued to grasp the "45" in his right hand, his eyes alert. "Murphy!" That single word, hurled thus unex- "Hampton Glued His Anxious Eyes to the Glass." pectedly out of the black night, startled him more than would a volley of rifles. He sprang half erect, then as swiftly crouched behind a willow, utterly unable to articulate. For the instant his very blood ran cold; he appeared to shrivel up. "Oh, come, Murphy; speak up, man; I know you're in here." That terror of the unknown instantly vanished. This was the familiar language of the world, and, however the fellow came to be there, it was assuredly a man who spoke. "Who—the hell—are ye?" he blurted out. The visitor laughed, the bushes rustling as he pushed toward the sound of the voice. "It's all right, old boy. Gave ye quite a scare, I reckon." Murphy could now dimly perceive the other advancing through the intervening willows, and his Colt shot up to the level. "Stop! ye take another—step an' I'll—let drive. Ye tell me—first—who ye be." The invader paused, but he realized the nervous finger pressing the trigger and made haste to answer. "It's all right, I tell ye. I'm one o' Terry's scouts." "Ye are? Jist the same—I've heard—yer voice—afore." "Likely nough. I saw service in the Seventh." Murphy was still a trifle suspicious. "How'd ye git yere? How'd ye come ter know—what I was?" The man laughed again. "Sorter hurts yer perferical feelings, don't it, old feller, to be dropped in on in this unceremonious way! But it was dead easy, old man. Ye see I happened thro' Chro'eyenne only a couple o' hours behind ye, with a bunch o' papers fer the Yellowstone. The traill's plain enough out this far, and I loped 'long at a pretty flair hickory, so that I was up on the bluff yonder, and saw ye go into camp yere just afore dark. You wus a—keepin' yer eyes skinned across the Fourche, and naturally didn't expect no callers from them hills behind. The rest wus nuthin', an' here I am. It's a darn sight pleasanter ter hew company travellin', ter my notion. Now kin I cum on?" Murphy reluctantly lowered his Colt, every movement betraying annoyance. "I reckon. But Id—a damn sight—rather risk it—alone." The stranger came forward without further hesitation. The night was far too dark to reveal features, but to Murphy's strained vision the newcomer appeared somewhat slender in build, and of good height. "Whar'd—ye say ye—wus bound?" "Mouth o' the Powder. We kin ride together fer a night or two." "Ye knn—do as ye—please, but—I can't a hunin't—no company, an' I'm a'-goin' cross now." He advanced a few strides toward his horses. Then suddenly he gave vent to a smothered cry, so startling as to cause the stranger to spring hastily after him. "Oh! My God! Oh! Look there!" "What is it, man?" "What is it, man?" "There! there! The picture! Don't you see?" "Naw; I don't see nuthin! Ye ain't gone cracked, hev ye? Whose picture?" "It's there!—O Lord!—it's there! My God! can't ye see?—An' it's his face—all a gleamin' with green flames—Holy Mary—an' I ain't seen it—afore in—15 year!" He seemed suddenly to collapse, and the stranger permitted him to drop limp to the earth. "Darn if I kin see anythin', old man, but I'll scout 'round that a bilt, jest ter ease yer mind, an' see what I kin skeler up." He had hardly taken a half dozen steps before Murphy called after him: "Don't—don't go an' leave me—it's not there now—thet's queer!" The other returned and stood gazing down upon his huddled figure. "You're a fine scout! afeard o' spooks. Do ye take these yere turns often? Fer if ye do, I reckon as how I'd sooner be ridin' alone." Murphy struggled to his feet and gripped the other's arm. "Never hed nuthin' like it—afore. But it was thar—all creepy—an'green—ain't seen thet face—in 15 year." "What face?" "A—a fellow I knew—once. He—he's dead." The other grunted disdainfully. "Bad luck ter see them sort," he volumeteered, solemnly. "Blame glad it warn't me as see it, it. 'An' I don't know as I keer much right now 'bout keepin' company with ye far very long. However, I reckon if either of us calculates on doin' much ridin' ternight, we better stop foolin' with ghosts, an' go ter saddlin' up." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. They made rapid work of it, the newcomer proving somewhat loquacious, yet holding his voice to a judicious whisper. It was he who led the way down the bank, the four horses slowly splashing through the shallow water to the northern shore. Before them stretched a broad plain, the surface rocky and uneven, the northern stars obscured by ridges of higher land. Murphy promptly gave his horse the spur, never once glancing behind, while the other imitated his example, holding his animal well in check, being apparently the better mounted. They rode silently. The way became more broken and rough as they advanced, canning them to exercise greater caution. Flying clouds obscured the stars, yet through the rifts they caught nectaring glimpses sufficient to hold them to their course. And the encroaching hills swept in closer upon either hand, leaving them groping their way between as in a pocket, yet ever *evidenced* north. Finally they attained to the steep bank of a considerable stream, found the water of sufficient depth to compel swimming, and crept up the opposite shore dripping and miserable, yet with ammunition dry. Murphy stood swearing disjointedly, wiping the blood from a wound in his forehead where the jagged edge of a rock had broken the skin, but suddenly stopped with a quick intake of breath that left him panting. The other man crept toward him, leading his horse. "What is it now?" he asked, gruffly. "Hev' ye got 'em azin?" The dazed old scout stared, pointing directly across the other's shoulder, his arm shaking desperately. "It's thar!' an' its face! Oh, God!—I know it—15 year." The man glanced backward into the pitch darkness, but without moving his body. "There's nuthin' out there, 'less it's a firefly,' he insisted, in a tone of contempt. "You're plum crazy, Murphy; the night's got on yer nerves. What is it ye think ye see?" "His face, I tell ye! Don't I know? It's all green and ghastly, with snaky flames playin' about it! But I know; 15 years, an' I can't forgot." He sank down feebly—sank until he was on his knees, his head cradled forward. The man watching touched the miserable, hunched-up figure compassionately, and it shook beneath his hand, endevouring to shrink away. "My God! was that you? I thought it was him! a-reachin' for me. Here, let me take yer hand. Oh, Lord! An' can't ye see? It's just there beyond the horses—all green, crawlin', devilish—but it's him." "Who?" "Brant! Brant—15 year!" "Brant! Fifteen years? Do you mean MaJ. Brant, the one Nolan killed over at Bethune?" "He—he didn't—" The old man heaved forward, his head rocking from side to side; then suddenly he toppled over on his face, gasping for breath. His companion caught him and ripped open the heavy flannel shirt. Then he strode savagely across in front of his shrinking horse, tore down the flaring picture, and hastily thrust it into his pocket, the light of the phosphorous with which it had been rubbed being reflected for a moment on its features. "A dirty, miserable, low-down trick," he muttered. "Foor old devil! Yet I've got to do it for the little girl." He stumbled back through the darkness, his hat filled with water, and dashed it into Murphy's face. "Come on, Murphy! There's one good thing 'bout spooks; they don't hang 'round fer long at a time. Likely not this 'un is gone by now. Brace up, man, for you an' I have got ter get out o' here afore mornin'." Then Murphy grasped his arm and drew himself slowly to his foot. "Don't see nuthin' now, do ye?" "No. Where's my—horse?" The other silently reached him the loose rein, marking as he did so the quick, nervous peering this way and that, the starring at the slightest sound. "Did ye say, Murphy, as how it wasn't Nolan after all who plugged the major?" "Tm damned—if I did. Who—else was it?" "Why, I dunno. Sorter blamed old though, thet ghost should be a haunt-in' ye. Darn if it ain't creepy 'nough ter make a feller believe most anythin'" Murphy drew himself up heavily into his saddle. Then all at once he shoved the muzzle of a "45" into the other's face. "Ye say nuther word—'bout that, an' I'll make a ghost outer ye—blame lively. Now, ye shet up—if ye ride with me." They moved forward at a walk and reached a higher level, across which the night whist swaled, bearing a touch of cold in its breath as though coming from the snow-capped mountains to the west. There was renewed life in this invigorating air and Murphy spurred forward, his companion pressing steadily after. When the first signs of returning day appeared in the east, the two left their horses in a narrow canyon and crept to the summit of a ridge. Below lay the broad valley of the Powder. Then Murhyn turned his head and looked back into the other's face. CHAPTER XXIX. Murphy uttered one sputtering cry of surprise, flinging his hand instinctively to his hip, but attempted no more. Hampton's ready weapon was thrusting its muzzle into the astounded face, and the gray eyes gleaming along the polished barrel hold the fellow motionless. "Hands up! Not a move, Murphy! I have the drop!" The voice was low, but stern, and the old frontiersman obeyed mechanically, although his seamed face was fairly distorted with rage. "You! Damn you!—I thought I knew—the voice." "Yes, I am here all right. Rather odd place for us to meet, isn't it? But, you see, you've had the advantage all these years; you knew whom you were running away from, while I was compelled to plod along in the dark. But I've caught up just the same, if it has been a long race." "What do ye - want me for?" The look in the face was cunning. "Hold your hands quiet—higher, you fool! That's it. Now, don't play with me. I honestly didn't know for certain I did want you, Murphy, when I first started out on this trip. I merely suspected that I might, from some things I had been told. When somebody took the liberty of slashing at my back in a poker-room at Glenauld, and drove the knife into Slavin by mistake. I chanced to catch a glimpse of the hand on the hilt, and there was a scar on it. About 15 years before I was acting as officer of the guard one night at Bethune. It was a bright starlit night, you remember, and just as I turned the corner of the old powder house there came a sudden flash, a report, a sharp cry. I sprang forward only to fall headlong over a dead body; but in that flash I had seen the body grasping the revolver, and there was a scar on the back of it, a very peculiar scar. It chanced I had the evening previous slightly quarreled with the officer who was killed; I was the only person known to be near at the time he was shot; certain other circumstantial evidence was dug up, while Slavin and one other—no, it was not you—gave some damaging, manufactured testimony against me. As a result I was held guilty of murder in the second degree, dismissed from the army in disgrace, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. So, you see, it was not exactly you I have been hunting, Murphy—it was a scar." Murphy's face was distorted into a hideous grin. "I notice you bear exactly that kind of a scar, 'ny man, and you smoke last night as if you had some recollection of the case." The mocking grin expanded; into the husky voice crept a snarl of defiance, for now Murphy's courage had come back—he was fronting flesh and blood. "Oh, stop preachin—an' shoot—an' be damned ter ye!" "You do me a grave injustice, Murphy. Your slashing at me down in Glencairn hasn't left so much as a sting behind. It's completely blotted out, forgotten. I haven't the slightest desire to kill you, man; but I do want to clear my name of the stain of that crime. I want you to tell the whole truth about that night's work at Bethune, and when you have done so, you can go. I'll never lay a finger on you; you can go where you please." "Bah! -yeen isn't got no proof—again me—sides, the case is closed—it can't be opened again—by law." "You devil! I'd be perfectly justified in killing you." exclaimed Hampton, savagely. Murphy stared at him stupidly, the cunning of incipient insanity in his eyes. "En' whar-do ye expect—meter say—all this, pervidin', of course—I was fule 'nough—ter do it?" "Hands Up! Not a Move, Muhpry! I Have the Drop!" "Up yonder before Custer and the officers of the Seventh, when we get in." "They'd nab me—likely." "Now, see here, you say it is impossible for them to touch you, because the case is closed legally. But I've had to suffer for your crime, Murphy, suffer for 15 years, ten of them behind stone walls; and there are others who have suffered with me. It has cost me love, home, all that a man holds dear. The very least you can do in ordinary decency is to speak the truth now. It will not hurt you, but it will lift me out of hell." "Well—maybe I might. Anyhow, I'll go on—with ye. Kin I sit up! I'm dog tired—lyn' yere." "Unbuckle your belt, and throw that over first." "I'm damned—if I will. Not—in no injun—country." "I know it's tough," retorted Hampton, with exasperating coolness, his revolver's muzzle held steady; "but, just the same, it's got to be done. I know you far too well to take chances on your gun. So unlumber." "Oh, I—guess not," and Murphy spat contemptuously. "Do ye think—I'm afeard o' yer—shootin'? Ye don't dare—fer I'm no good ter ye—dead." "You are perfectly right. You are quite a philosopher in your way. You would be no good to me dead, Murphy, but you might prove fully as valuable malmed. Now I'm playing this game to the limit, and that limit is just about reached. You unlimber before I count ten, you murderer, or I'll spoil both your hands!" The mocking, sargonic grin deserted Murphy's features. "Unlumber! It's the last call." With a snail the scout unclasped his army belt, dropped it to the ground and sullenly kicked it over toward Hampton. "Now—now—you, you grayeyed—devil, kni—sit up?" The other nodded. He had drawn the fangs of the wolf, and now that he no longer feared, a sudden, unexplainable feeling of sympathy took possession of him. Murphy sputtered and swore, but his victorious companion neither spoke nor moved. There were several distant smokes out to the northward now, evidently the answering signals of different bands of savages, while far away, beneath the shadow of the low bluffs bordering the stream, numerous black, moving dots began to show against the light brown background. Hampton, noticing that Murphy had stopped swearing to gaze, swung forward his field glasses for a better view. "They are Indians, right enough," he said, at last. "Here, take a look, Murphy. I could count about 20 in that bunch and they are traveling north." The older man adjusted the tubes to his eyes and looked long and steadily at the party. "They seem—to be a aclosin' in," he declared, finally, staring around into the other's face, all bravado gone. "There's another lot—bucks, all o' em—out west yonder—an" over east a smudge is—just startin'. Looks like—we wus in a pocket—an' thar' might be some—har'rais' for long." "Well, Murphy, you are the older hand at this business. What do you advise doing?" "Me? Why, push right 'long—while we kin keep under cover. Then—after dark—trust ter bull luck an' make 'nuther dash. It's mostly luck, anyhow." "You mean we should start now?" "Better—let the cattle rest—first. An'-if ye ever feed prisoners—I'd like ter eat a bite—mesilf." They rested there for over two hours, the tired horses contentedly munching the succulent grass of the coulee, their two masters scarcely exchanging a word. Murphy, after satisfying his appetite, rested flat upon his back, one arm flung over his eyes to protect them from the sun. At last they saddled up and passed down the coulee into the more precipitous depths of the narrow canyon. Their early advance was slow and cautious, as they never felt certain what hidden enemies might lurk behind the sharp corners of the winding defile, and they kept vigilant eyes upon the serrated skyline. The savages were moving north and so were they. It was fully three o'clock when they attained to the bank of the Powder, and crouched among the rocks to wait for the shades of night to shroud their further advance. Murphy climbed the bluff for a wider view, bearing Hampton's field-glasses slung across his shoulder, for the latter would not leave him alone with the horses. He returned finally to grunt out that there was nothing special in sight, except a shifting of those smoke signals to points farther north. Then they lay down again, Hampton smoking, Murphy either sleeping or pretending to sleep. And slowly the shadows of another black night swept down and shut them in. It must have been two hours later when they ventured forth. Silence and loneliness brooded everywhere, not so much as a breath of air stiring the leaves. Murphy continued to lead, the light tread of his horse barely audible, Hampton pressing closely behind, revolver in hand, the two pack-horses trailing in the rear. Midnight, and they pulled up amid the deeper gloom of a great, overhanging bluff, having numerous trees near its summit. There was the glow of a distant fire upon their left, which redened the sky, and reflected oddly on the edges of a vast cloud-mass rolling up threateningly from the west. Their horses stood with heads hang, ing wearily down, their sides rising and falling, and Hampton, rolling stiffly from the saddle, hastily loosened his girth. "They'll drop under us if we don't give them an hour or two," he said, quietly. "They're both dead beat." Murphy muttered something, incoherent and garnished with oaths, and the moment he succeeded in releasing the buckle, sank down limp at the very feet of his horse, rolling up into a queer ball. The other stared and took a step nearer. "What's the matter? Are you sick, Murphy?" "No—lired—don't want ter see—thet thing again." "What thing?" "Thet green, devilish,—crawlin' face—if ye must know." And he twisted his long, apelike arms across his eyes, lying curled up as a dog might. For a moment Hampton stood gazing down upon him, listening to his incoherent mutterings, his own race grave and sympathetic. Then he moved back and sat down. Suddenly the full conception of what this meant came to his mind—the man had gone mad. The strained cords of that deased brain had snapped in the presence of imagined terrors, and now was chaos. The hover of it whelmed Hampton; not only did this unexpected denouement leave him utterly hopeless, but what was he to do with the fellow? They were in the very heart of the Indian country, the country of the savage Sloux. He stared at the curied-up man, now silent and breathing heavily as if asleep, if he only might light a pipe, or boll himself a cup of black coffee! Murphy never stirred; the horses were seemingly too weary to browse. Then Hampton nodded and sank into an uneasy doze. CHAPTER XXX Beneath the shade of uplifted arms Murphy's eyes remained unclosed. Whatever terrors may have dominated that diseased brain, the one purpose of revenge and escape never deserted it. With patient cunning he could plan and wait, scheme and execute. He was all animal now, dreaming only of how to tear and kill. He was many minutes thoroughly satisfying himself that Hampton actually slept. His every movement was slow, crafty, cowardly, the savage in his perverted nature becoming more and more manifest. It was more beast than man that finally crept forward on all-fours, the eyes gleaming cruel as a cat's in the night. Within a yard of the peacefully slumbering man he rose up, crouching on his toes and bending stealthily forward, possibly feeling the close proximity of that horrible presence. Then the manisc took one more stealthy, slouching step nenrer, and fung himself at the exposed throat, uttering a fierce snarl as his fingers clutched the soft flesh. Hampton awoke, gasping and choking, to find those mad eyes glaring into his own, those murderous hands throttling him with the strength of madness. At first the stupefied, half awakened man struggled as if in delirium, scarcely realizing the danger. He was aware of suffering, of horror, of suffocation. Then the brain flashed into A There Was a Sudden Glint In the Faint Starlight as He Struck the Maniac. life, and he grappled fiercely with his dread antagonist. Murphy snapped like a mad dog, his lips snarling curses; but Hampton fought silently, desperately, his brain clearing as he succeeded in wrenching those claws from his lacerated throat, and forced his way up on to one knee. He worked his way, inch by inch, to his feet, his slender figure rigid as steel and closed in upon the other, but Murphy writhed out of his grasp, as a snake might. The younger man realized now to the full his peril, and his hand slipped down to the gun upon his hip. There was a sudden glint in the faint starlight as he struck, and the stunned maniac went down quivering, and lay motionless on the hard ground. With the quick decision of one long accustomed to meet emergencies, Hampton unbuckled the lariat from one of the led animals and bound Murphy's hands and limbs securely. As he worked he thought rapidly. He comprehended the extreme desperation of their present situation. While the revolver blow might possibly restore Murphy to a degree of sanity, it was far more probable that he would awaken violent. Yet he could not deliberately leave this man to meet a fate of horror in the wilderness. That which would have been quickly decided had he been alone become I use a most serious problem when I isidered in connection with the insane, helpless scout. Then, there were the dispatches! They must be of vital importance to have required the sending of Murphy forth on sc dangerous a ride; other lives, ay, the result of the entire campaign might depend upon their early delivery. Hampton had been a soldier, the spirit of the service was still with him, and that thought brought him to final decision. Unless they were halted by Sloux bullets, they would push on toward the Big Horn and Custer should have the papers. He knelt down beside Murphy, unbuckled the leather dispatch bag, and rebuckled it across his own shoulder. Then he set to work to revive the prostrate man. The eyes, when opened, stared up at him, wild and glaring; the ugly face bore the expression of abject fear. The man was no longer violent; he had become a child, frightened at the dark. Securely strapping Murphy to his saddle and packing all their remaining store of provisions upon one horse, leaving the other to follow or remain behind as it pleased, he advanced directly into the hills, steering by aid of the stars, his left hand ever on Murphy's bridle rein, his low voice of expostulation seeking to calm the other's wild fancies and to curb his violent speech. At dawn they were in a narrow gore among the hills, a dark and narrow hole, yet a peculiarly safe spot ledges on either side, with sufficient grass for the horses. Leaving Murphy bound, Hampton clambered up the front of the rock to where he was able to look out. All was silent and his heart sank as he surveyed the brown sterile hills stretching to the horizon, having merely narrow gulches of rock and sand between, the sheer nakedness of the picture unrelieved by green shrub or any living thing. Then, almost despairing, he slid back, stretched himself out amid the soft grass, and sank into the slumber of exhaustion, his conscious memory the incoherent babbling of his insane companion. He awoke shortly after noon, feeling refreshed and renewed in both body and mind. Murphy was sieeping when he first turned to look at him, but he awoke in season to be fed, and accepted the proffered food with all the apparent delight of a child. While he rested, their remaining pack-animal had strayed, and Hampton was compelled to go on with only the two horses, strapping the depleted store of provisions behind his own saddle. Then he carefully hoisted Murphy into place and bound his feet beneath the animal's belly. Then he resumed the journey down one of those sand-strewn depressions pointing toward the Rosebud, pressing the refreshed ponies into a canter, confident now that their greatest measure of safety lay in audacity. It was already becoming dusk when they swept down into a little nest of green trees and grass. It appeared so suddenly and was such an unexpected oasis amid that surrounding wilderness, that Hampton gave vent to a sudden exclamation of delight. But that was all. Instantly he perceived numerous dark forms leaping from out the shrubbery, and he wheeled his horses to the left, lashing them into a rapid run. It was all over in a moment—a sputtering of rides, a wild medley of cries, a glimpse of savage figures, and the two were tearing down the rocks, the din of pursuit away behind them. The band were evidently all on foot, yet Hampton continued to press his mount at a swift pace, taking turn after turn about the sharp hills, confident that the hard earth would leave no trace of their passage. Then suddenly the horse he rode sank like a log, but his tight grip upon the rein of the other landed him on his feet. A stray Sloux bullet had found its mark, but the gallant animal had struggled on unifl it dropped lless; and the brave man it had borne so long and so well bent down and stroked tenderly the unconscious head. Then he shifted the provisions to the back of the other horse, grasped the loose rein once more in his left hand, and started forward on foot. N troop, guarding, much to their emphatically expressed disgust, the more slowly moving pack-train, were following Custer's advancing column of horsemen down the right bank of the Little Big Horn. The troopers, carbines at knee, sitting erect in their saddles, their faces browned by the hot winds of the plains, were riding steadily northward. Beside them, mounted upon a rangy chestnut, Brant kept his watchful eyes on those scattered flankers dotting the summit of the near-by bluff. Suddenly one of these waved his hand eagerly, and the lieutenant went dashing up the sharp ascent. "What is it, now, Lane?" "Somethin' movin' out yonder, str," and the trooper pointed into the southeast. "They're down in a coulee now, I reckon; but will be up on a ridge agin in a minute. I got sight of 'em twice store I waved." The officer gazed earnestly in the direction indicated, and was almost immediately rewarded by the glimpse of some indistinct, dark figures dimly showing against the lighter background of sky. "White men," he announced, shortly. "Come with me." At a brisk trot they rode out, the trooper lagging a pace to the rear, the watchful eyes of both men sweeping suspiciously across the prairie. The two parties met suddenly upon the summit of a sharp ridge and Brant drew in his horse with an exclamation of astonishment. It was a pathetic spectacle he stared at—a horse scarcely able to stagger forward; on his back, with feet strapped securely beneath and hands bound to the high pommel, the lips grinning ferociously, perched a misshapen creature clothed as a man. Beside these, hatless, his shoes barely holding together, a man of slender figure and sunburn face held the briarle-rein. An instant they gazed at each other, the young officer's eyes filled with sympathetic horror, the other staring apathetically at his rescuer. "My God! Can this be you, Hampton? What does it mean? Why are you here?" Hampton, leaning against the trembling horse to keep erect, slowly lifted his hand in a semblance of military salute. "Dispatches from Cheyenne. This is Murphy—went crazy out yonder. For God's sake—water, food!" "Your canteen, Lane!" exclaimed Brant. "Now hold this cup," and he dashed into it a liberal supply of brandy from a pocket-dask. "Drink that all down, Hampton." The man did mechanically as he was ordered, his hand never relaxing its grasp of the rein. Then a gleam of reawakened intelligence appeared in his eyes; he glanced up into the leering countenance of Murphy, and then back at those others. "Give me another for him." Brant handed to him the filled cup, noting as he did so the strange steadiness of the hand which accepted it. Hampton lifted the tin to the figure in the saddle. "Drink it," he commanded, curtly, "every drop!" For an instant the maniac glared back at him sullenly; then he appeared to shrink in terror, and drank swiftly. "We can make the rest of the way now," Hampton announced, quietly. "Lord, but this has been a trip!" Lane dismounted at Brant's order and assisted Hampton to climb into the vacated saddle. Then the trooper grasped the rein of Murphy's horse, and the little party started toward where the pack-train was hidden in the valley. "Is Custer here?" said Hampton. "No; that is, not with my party. We are guarding the pack-train. The others are ahead, and Custer, with five troops, has moved to the right. He is somewhere among those ridges back of the bluff." The man turned and looked where the officer pointed, shading his eyes with his hand. "Can you give me a fresh horse, a "That Man Could Tell, But He Has Gone Mad." bite to eat, and a cup of coffee, down there?" he asked, anxiously. "You see I've got to go on." "Go on? Good God! man, do you realize what you are saying? Why, you can hardly sit the saddle! You carry dispatches, you say? Well, there are plenty of good mea in my troop who will volunteer to take them on. You need rest." "Not much," said Hampton. "I'm fit enough, or shall be as soon as I get food. Good Lord, boy. I am not done up yet, by a long way! It's the cursed loneliness out yonder." he swept his hand toward the horizon, "and the having to care for him that has broken my heart. He wont that way clear back on the Powder, and it's been a fight between us ever since. I'll be all right now if you lada will only look after him. This is going to reach Custer, and I'll take it!" He flung back his ragged coat, his hand on the dispatch bag. "I've earned the right." Brant reached forth his hand. LEFT PLAET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 1, 1908 dially. "That's true; you have. What's more, if you're able to make the trip, there is no one here who will attempt to stop you. But now tell me how this thing happened. I want to know the story before we get in." For a moment Hampton remained silent, his thoughtful gaze on the nearby videttes, his hands leaning heavily upon the saddle pommel. Perhaps he did not remember clearly; possibly he could not instantly decide just how much of that story to tell. Brant suspected this last to be his difficulty, and he spoke impulsively. "Hampton, there has been trouble and misunderstanding between us, but that's all past and gone now. I sincerely believe in your purpose of right, and I ask you to trust me. Either of us would give his life if need were, to be of real service to a little girl back yonder in the hills. I don't know what you are to her; I don't ask. I know she has every confidence in you, and that is enough. Now, I want to do what is right with both of you, and if you have a word to say to me regarding this matter, I'll treat it confidentially. This trip with Murphy has some bearing upon Nalda Gillis, has it not?" "Yes." "Will you tell me the story?" The thoughtful gray eyes looked at him long and searchingly. "Brant, do you love that girl?" Just as unwaveringly the blue eyes returned the look. "I do. I have asked her to become my wife." "She said no; that a dead man was between us." "Is that all you know?" The younger man bent his head, his face grave and perplexed. "Practically all." Hampton wet his dry lips with his tongue, his breath quickening. "And in that she was right," he said at last, his eyes lowered to the ground. "I will tell you why. It was the father of Naida Gillis who was convicted of the murder of Maj. Brant." "Oh, my father? Is she Capt. Nolan's daughter? But you say 'convicted.' Was there ever any doubt? Do you question his being guilty?" Hampton pointed in silence to the hideous creature behind them. "That man could tell, but he has gone mad." Brant endeavored to speak, but the words would not come; his brain seemed paralyzed. Hampton held himself under better control. "I have confidence, Lieut. Brant, in your honesty," he began, gravely, "and I believe you will strive to do whatever is best for her, if anything should happen to me out yonder. But for the possibility of my being knocked out, I wouldn't talk about this, not even to you. The affair is a long way from being straightened out so as to make a pleasant story, but I'll give you all you actually require to know in order to make it clear to her, provided I shouldn't come back. You see, she doesn't know very much more than you do—only what I was obliged to tell to keep her from getting too closely entangled with you. Maybe I ought to have given her the full story before I started on this trip. I've since wished I had, but you see, I never dreamed it was going to end here, on the Big Horn; besides, I didn't have the nerve. "You see, Brant, I feel that I simply have to carry these dispatches through. I have a pride in giving them to Custer myself, because of the trouble I've had in getting them here. But perhaps I may not come back, and in that case there wouldn't be anyone living to tell her the truth. It seems to me that there is going to be a big fight somewhere in these hills before long. So I want to leave these private papers with you until I come back. It will relieve my mind to know they are safe; if I don't come, then I want you to open them and do whatever you decide is best for the little girl. You will do that, won't you?" He handed over a long manila envelope securely sealed, and the younger man accepted it, noticing that it was unaddressed before depositing it safely in an inner pocket of his fatigue jacket. "Certainly, Hampton," he said. "Is that all?" "All except what I am going to tell you now regarding Murphy. There is no use my attempting to explain exactly how I chanced to find out all these things, for they came to me little by little during several years. I knew Nolan, and I knew your father, and I had reason to doubt the guilt of the captain, in spite of the verdict of the jury that condemned him. In fact, I knew at the time, although it was not in my power to prove it, that the two principal witnesses against Nolan lied. I thought I could guess why, but we drifted apart, and finally I lost all track of every one connected with the affair. Then I happened to pick up that girl down in the canyon beyond the Bear Water, and pulled her out alive just because she chanced to be of that sex, and I couldn't stand to see her fall into Indian clutches. I didn't feel any special interest in her at the time, supposing she belonged to Old Gillis, but she somehow grew on me—she's that kind, you know; and when I discovered, purely by accident, that she was Capt. Nolan's girl, but that it all had been kept from her, I just naturally made up my mind I'd dig out the truth if I possibly could, for her sake. The fact is, I began to think a lot about her—not the way you do, you understand; I'm getting too old for that, and have known too mitch about women—but maybe some What as a father might feel. Anyhow, I wanted to give her a chance, a square deal, so that she wouldn't be ashamed of her own name if ever she found out what it was. "About that time I fell foul of Murphy and Slavin there in Glencaid. I never get my eyes on Murphy, you know, and Slavin was so changed by that big red beard that I failed to recognize him. But their actions aroused my suspicions, and I went after them good and hard. I wanted to find out what they knew, and why those lies were told on Nolan at the trial. I had an idea they could tell me. So, for a starter I tackled Slavin, supposing we were alone, and I was pumping the facts out of him successfully by holding a gun under his nose, and occasionally jogging his memory, when this fellow Murphy got excited, and chaseseed into the game, but happened to nip his partner instead of me. In the course of our little scuffle I chanced to catch a glimpse of the fellow's right hand, and it had a scar on the back of it that looked mighty familiar. I had seen it before, and I wanted to see it again. So, when I got out of that scrape, and the doctor had dog a stray bullet out of my anatomy, there didn't seem to be any one for me to chase excepting Murphy, for Slavin was dead. I wasn't exactly sure he was the owner of that scar, but I had my suspicions and wanted to verify them. Having struck his trail, I reached Cheyenne just about four hours after he left with these dispatches for the Big Horn. I caught up with the fellow on the south bank of the Belle Fourche, and being well aware that no threat or gun play would ever force him to confess the truth. I undertook to frighten him by trickery. I brought along some drawing-paper and drew your father's picture in phosphorus and gave him the benefit in the dark. That caught Murphy all right, and everything was coming my way. He threw up his hands and even agreed to come in here with me and tell the whole story, but the poor fellow's brain couldn't stand the strain of the scare I had given him. He went raving mad on the Powder; he jumped on me while I was asleep, and since then every mile has been a little hell. That's the whole of it to date." They were up with the pack-train by now, and the cavalrymen gazed with interest at the new arrivals. Several among them seemed to recognize Murphy, and crowded about his horse with rough expressions of sympathy. Brant scarcely glanced at them, his grave eyes on Hampton's stern face. "And what is it you wish me to do?" "Take care of Murphy. Don't let him remain alone for a minute. If he has any return of reason, compel him to talk. He knows you, and will be as greatly frightened at your presence and knowledge as at mine. Besides, you have truly as much at stake as anyone, for in no other way can the existing barrier between Naida and yourself be broken down." Insisting that now he felt perfectly fit for any service, the impatient Hampton was quickly supplied with the necessary food and clothing, while Murphy, grown violently abusive, was strapped on a litter between two mules, a guard on either side. Brant rode with the civilian on a sharp trot as far as the head of the pack-train, endeavoring to the very last to persuade the wearied man to relinquish this work to another. "Foster," he said to the sergeant in command of the advance. "did you chance to notice just what coulee Custer turned into when his column swung to the right?" "I think it must have been the second yonder, sir; where you see that bunch of trees. We was a long ways back, but I could see the boys plain enough as they come out on the bluff up there. Some of 'em waved their hats back at us. Is this man goin' after them, sir?" "Yes, he has dispatches from Cheyenne." "Well he ought ter have no trouble findin' the trail. It ought ter be 'bout plain as a road back in God's country, sir, fir there were more than 200 horses, and they'd leave a good mark even on hard ground." Brant held out his hand. "I'll certainly do all in my power, Hampton, to bring this out right. You can rely on that, and I will be truthful to the little girl." The two men clasped hands, their eyes filled with mutual confidence. Then Hampton topched spurs to his horse and tailored swiftly forward. Distribution. "Why don't you make some arrangements for the distribution of your great wealth?" said the socialist. "I see no necessity for that," answered the magnate. "It is already distributed in such a manner as to yield me the largest possible dividends."—Washington Star. Where They Drink. Bacon-They say the city air contains 14 times as many microbes as that of the country. Egbert-And yet about the cafes of Paris you will notice lots of people who seem to prefer to drink in the air of the city.-Yonkers Statesman. On Second Thought "Are you afraid of the 'yellow peril?' asked the statesman. "No," answered Mr. Timmins, "unless that's a fancy name somebody has given his new automobile."—Detroit Free Press. All Bluff. "Yes," boasted the fortune hunting count, "all of our family castles were on high mountains. My ancestors all lived on big bluffs." "Indeed!" replied the wise heiress, "and I see that you take after them." —Chicago Daily News. A. Fellow: Feeling Professor—This milk contains L. 234,567 bacillus to the cubic inch. Layman—Poor things! They must feel like they were in street car. Judge. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA FOR INDOOR WEAR WRAPPERS AND NEGLIGEES ARE IN GREAT VARIETY. New Pattern for Each Garment Is Not Necessary — One Piece Cown Easy to Copy—Experiment on Old Cloth. The variety of materials and designs for wrappers, negligues, house dresses, sacques, and little combing jackets is well nigh endless. Houses and apartments are so well heated now that the actual warmth of a garment for wear indoors is not so often considered as it was once on a time. Whether a wrapper is to be lined or not is usually a matter of personal preference and probably for this time of the year a yoke lining, also lining for the sleeves, will be sensible. A fine quality of siliesia costing 35 cents a yard is most satisfactory, although percale will probably answer the purpose quite as well and will be less expensive. It would be a good plan, if a pattern has to be bought, to buy one of a plain wrapper and with the aid of this pattern it should be possible to copy almost any kind of a one piece gown. It is much better to learn to do this than to feel obliged to buy a new pattern for every garment made. And if one feels timid about trying an experiment on new cloth, it will be time well spent to use some old cloth or tissue paper and get the idea right with that. It gives one a feeling of satisfaction to be able to copy the pretty clothes so often seen, either on people, in the stores, or in magazine or papers. In using a plain or any other kind of a pattern one most important point must be borne in mind. When a section of the wrapper is laid on the material (if the pattern has been well cut) the lower edge of the armhole and the bottom and front edge of the skirt part will both touch the selvage edge. If the skirt part at the bottom extends beyond the straight edge 1 of the goods do not let it, but draw a new line from the hip to the bottom, making the bottom touch the selvage. This applies to the front at the underarm, the underarm piece, and the side pieces on their front edges. The reason is gores will hang towards the front instead of towards the back, as they should. If this is not done. If the gores are not wide enough across the bottom add the necessary width to the back edges. One pretty wrapper is shown which could answer the purpose of a tea gown. It would be lovely made of a Japanese crepe in warm, rich reds, with the front of plain red mousse line or soft silk. A sort of double ruffle finishes the neck, put on in such a manner as to form a little bolero. This wrapper could be entirely made of the crepe, excepting the ruffles. Dainty Shirt Waist Frill In these days, when the coats to out winter suits muss and wrinkle our waists till one day's wear makes them ready for the laundry, a fresh, prim little bow or a frill for the front of the waist will freshen it wonderfully and make the jaded look disappear. A little frill and a dainty bow combined may be made with little expense of white lawn. It is made of a strip of white lawn two inches wide and two and a quarter yards long. Hem one edge of the strip and then plait it closely. Join one end of the unhemmed edge to a little strip of embroidery three-quarters of an inch wide and ten inches long. Round the plaited frill to the end of the embroidery strip, and then join it to the other side of the embroidery strip. This finishes the frill. Make a butterfly bow of the lawn and fasten it to the top of the frill. Cogue's Plumes In millinery the alpha and omega is undoubtedly feathers and every description of birds' wings and breast plumage—no matter how humble its origin—is pressed into service. From economical reasons, women in general have to congratulate themselves that the coque's plum may fairly be said to be at the zenith of its popularity, and even in the dark, iridescent tones which one has scarcely seen for some years it will be amazingly popular, while panches of flecked brown and white, gray and white, or blue and white coque's plumage take all manner of different forms in the hands of the milliner. The Worst Load The worst load a man can carry is that of habits begotten of evil passions—that growing pile of sensuous deeds, which, is their accumulation, sohere finally into a mass, devil possessed, which sits between his shoulders, overwhelming all else in kind, and driving him ruthlessly, fatefully on the road downward—Christian World. COAT FOR THE EVENING. Three-Quarter White Cloth Garment in Ermine and Braid. This gorgeous affair in the shape of a three-quarter white cloth evening coat is elaborately trimmed with white silk braid down fronts, around bottom and slashed side seams, as well as ```markdown ``` on three-quarter sleeves. In addition to this decoration there are two bands of ermine down front and the same fur finishes the sleeves. Fullness on sides is gathered into a narrow braded belt, held in place with a rhinestone button. HOW TO GET PINK CHEEKS. Staying Much in the Open Air Is the Best Recipe. Red cheeks are at the command of every woman, but few understand this. Few women are naturally pale. We sometimes redden the cheeks by quick methods which bring results that are most satisfactory. We slap the cheeks vigorously, three or four spats with the palm of the hand, and the cheeks will glow for a long time. We advise early rising whenever possible because there is a nipping eagerness about the early morning air which acts like a brisk rubbing upon the face. It bites and makes the cheeks glow pink. A good walk in a sharp air will polish the cheeks into redness as though one had rubbed them with a rough cloth and pinched them with the fingers. Food has a great deal to do with red cheeks. Foods that are highly spiced and stimulating will make a woman pale. Foods that manufacture blood will make a woman red in the face, but she must be careful not to partake too freely of them. Staying out in the open air, if one is in good health, will give a woman red cheeks. It reddens the cheeks of a child and it will reden the cheeks of a woman. Outdoor air, open-air sleeping and walking in the wind will make the cheeks red. Handsome Reception Gown of Cheviot with Fine Trimmings. A very handsome reception gown was developed in a princess model from cerise French cheviot. This material being rather heavy, the elaborate touches were shown in fine trimmings. A deep yoke of white lace was broad over the shoulders and the front piece extended several inches below the waist line, where it was finished with a broad tab effect. The narrow belt closed at each side of the lace piece. An odd feature of the trimming was shown in innumerable little pendants of cerise enamel which studded the lace, not heavily, but noticeably. The skirt was made decidedly full around the lower portion by the introduction of set-in folds which were simply outlined with a narrow finishing braid of the same color. The sleeves were alternate rows of cerise satin and the belt was of satin. The Season's Shoulders Drooping shoulders are not likely to obtain much success in the garments intended for street wear. The Paris models so far shown in this cut give too contracted an appearance in the back to appeal to the American taste. They are likely to obtain in evening wraps, because a looser and broader effect can be secured in such a garment, which this season must be of a nature to slip on and off easily, as well as not to crush the large sleeves worn beneath. Broad shoulders are the proper thing, for the tailored garment, in both suits and separate coats intended for day wear. It is in these styles of garments that the restrictions of the American taste are likely to prevail over the French fashion indications. Veils Used Over Costumes The fashion for velling is a most pronounced fad. An exquisite evening coat of dull green satin had a hand-painted border 12 inches deep around the bottom. The whole was completely veiled by an overdrapery of black chiffon set on in full folds, edged down the fronts with a three-inch band of black baby lamb. The sleeves seemed to be a series of loops of green chiffon and the baby lamb, arranged in an indescribable manner, but suggesting the acme of artistic taste. Most Brutal Regret We note the accident which happened to Maj. Young last Tuesday. He was trying to glom a handful of peanuts from Jenkina' peanut roaster when he accidentally caught his little finger in the machinery and the tip of the finger is there yet. The injury is painful, though not necessarily fatal, which is to be regretted.—Riverton (Cal.) Republican. Leaves Foretell Weather. Variations produced by weather on the abrus plant have been codified by Prof. Nowack, the originator of the observatory at Denmark hill, England. From his codes he can construct charts four days in advance of the weather bureau, predicting storms, winds, changes and the like. The forecasts are made through the different positions of the leaves, which are turned in every direction and brought to different angles by the atmospheric changes. Puzzle for Children A. man has two hobbies. On one he spends $2,000 annually and the other costs him $600 each year. One is air cooled and the other is naturally cool. He takes one out nights and the other goes out alone. One has but one sparker and the other has several. He cranks ande and the other in self-cranky. Both are inconsistent and exceedingly unreliable. Which of the two hobbies is the man's wife and which is his automobile?—Puck. Splendors of the Past Where is the real, magnificent luxury of the past? Where are the gardens of Semiramis or the banquets of Lucullus? Tea parties have replaced the splendid feasts, motor cars the costly coaches, cottages the palaces and tailor-made gowns the costumes of brocade and gold. Nothing to-day recalls the magnificence of the Italian renaissance or of France under the three Louis. Effects of Lightning Of the visible effects of lightning stroke upon the human body little more can be said than that sometimes burns, usually superficial, have been noticed, frequently red lines or markings, which are localized congestions of the small blood vessels of the skin. These, from their irregularities and branchings, have led to the fanciful idea of photographs of trees, etc. Korean English. Our translator has handed in the following conundrum: The magistrate of Palk Chyon, Mr. Palk Iwki, asked the dismission for own position and said that he is impossible to suppress the insurgents as he is quite ignorance of any Education, otherwise there are nothing to help the people but trouble. —Korean Daily News. Coal Dust Problem a Hard One. The most difficult part of the coal dust problem is to discover what elements must necessarily be present in a coal to make the dust dangerous. Some experiments have been carried on with this end in view, but the results obtained have not been enlightening. Causes Suspended Animation There is reason for believing that lightning often brings about suspended animation rather than somatic death. It frequently causes a temporary paralysis of the respiration and heart beat, which, if left alone, will deepen into death, but intelligently treated will generally result in recovery. Value of Men of Character: Character is power, it needs no recommendation, it is its own credit. The men of character are the safety valves of business life and the conscience of society; they, and not the courts, guarantee the execution of the laws. Early Scottish Posts Earliest on record of the Scotch poets is the name of Michael Scott. But the oldest fragments of Scottish poetry now known to exist consist of a few lines of lamentation on the death of Alexander III. of Scotland, which occurred in 1286. 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We received a most attractive calendar from the Traffic Department of the Richmond Washington Line, R. F. and P. R. R. Mr. S. C. Leake, Travelling Freight Agent; Mr. W. M. Taylor, Travelling Passenger Agent; and Mr. W. P. Taylor, Traffic Manager. 'this line is the gateway to the South and the present management is congratulated upon its success. DR. WASHINGTON'S POSITION. Our observations relative to Dr. Booker T. Washington in our last issue have enabled us to clear up some of the notions relative to important public questions. It is now stated that he has never advised the Negro to keep wholly out of politics. He has advised him and now advises him not to devote himself wholly or largely to political agitation, to securing office and the rest of it to the exclusion of getting education and economic and religious development. He did claim that for nearly twenty years after the Negro became free that he gave too much attention to politics and neglected the more fundamental considerations of life. It is claimed for him that' he now believes that the Negro would gain more in all directions by laying the foundation in the direction indicated first than by building a house in political directions without a foundation. It is further claimed that Dr. Washington does believe that every one, black or white, has a right to vote and to take a reasonable interest in the selection of the best men to fill office, but when one makes a profession of politics, especially when he is poor, it becomes bad business It is further alleged that Dr. Washington had advocated and does now advocate, that it is a mistake for any race of people to put themselves in opposition to the masses of the people by whom they are surrounded very much as the Negro did immediately after he became free. Wherever it is possible and whenever he can do so in a straight-forward honorable manner, that the Negro should identify his political interests with the people by whose side he lives. It is admitted that in many cases, it may not be possible or practical to do this, but this should be the end to be kept in view. In some particulars, this is new light on the Dr. Booker T. Washington position. It possesses many elements of "horse-sense" and practical politics as viewed from a white man's standpoint and from a black man's view-point as well. It may be that we shall have something more to say upon this all important subject. Dr. Washington is a marvel of shrewdness and sound judgment. He is a born diplomat, and would take high rank among the remarkable characters of any country. When we agree with his assertions we shall say so and when he sounds a discordant note, viewed from a racial stand-point, we shall be equally forward in expressing an opinion upon the all-important standpoint. It may be well to state too, that it is claimed that the Washington Post was in error in many of its statements concerning this distinguished educator AGAIN AT THE HELM Despite the fact that the journals of the country have announced the editorial death of Mr. T. Thomas Fortune and the obituary notices of him published throughout the Republic would make a good sized book and are entitled to first place in the library of the family, and in the face of the fact that we delivered a funeral oration over these same Fortune remains, shedding tears of regret at his summary taking off, we have received the following, which indicates that if Mr. Fortune was dead, he had not been buried and if he had been buried, he has had a most glorious resurrection and has landed at his desk at his old headquarters: New York, Jan. 18, '08 I have pleasure in announcing that I will publish The Freeman, a magazine of oblipon, beginning Saturday February 1, 1908 and I will thank you for any announcement of the fact you may make. The magazine will be published at 4 Cedar tS., New York. Very respectfully, T. THOMAS FORTUNE For our part, we are glad to welcome him again into this journalistic world. That he comes with all of his old time fire must be admitted and that the public will be glad to read of his recent experiences and his future prophecies is a foregone conclusions. Those who labored under the impression that they had gotten rid of him will be sorely disappointed. We welcome the new venture and only regret that modesty forbade his naming it Fortune's Magazine. That's the name with which to conjure, for he has shown an ability to hold his friends as "with hooks of steel." Here are our best wishes to "The Freeman" and Mr. T. Thomas Fortune. HON. HENRY WATTERSON AND THE NEGRO. The speech of Hon. Henry Watterson, the great Kentucky journalist and Democrat will be the source of much information and comment for a long time to come. It was delivered in the city of New York, January 17th, 1908 at Carnegie Hall and while he sat upon the same platform with Dr. Booker T. Washington, Gov. Hughes and many other distinguished citizens of this country. He paid high tribute to the Negroes of this country and coming from a Southerner, who means all that he says, it is of particular interest to every citizen of color in these United States. Mr. Watterson is one of the most outspoken white men in this country. He is admired by all who care for a plain, straight forward man, without the talent of hypocrisy or the suspicion of duplicity. He was quoted as follows: "Mr. Henry Watterson said that though the white man seemed to have gotten along faster than his colored neighbor, all were creatures of evolution and education, and added: "We have had no race war or serious race conflict in Kentucky. The feudists of the mountains, the night riders of the tobacco belt are all whites, not blacks. Reasonable white people and reasonable black people find it easy to get along much as if there existed no color line. Each is inspired by a sense of duty to the other, under which the benign influence of religion and humanity may yet blossom into the old domestic relations of confidence and affection, the man-ownership clause succeeded by a manhood clause, at once self-respecting and reciprocally respected." The above is the statement of a fact which we had before noted. And again: "The most serious problem for the former slave-holding States to solve—by reflection one of the most serious problems for the States of the North to consider and help to solve—is known as the Negro Question. As it stands, it is the embodiment of a century of misleading and error. Each side to the controversy has had its share in both the misleading and error. Not until Heaven raised up in the proscribed race a Man—a Leader of Men though a Negro—who has been light—did a single ray of truth penetrate the darkness. Almost despairing, I had ceased to theorize, throwing myself back simple, child-like faith in God, when Booker T. Washington appeared upon the scene to lighten the gloom and point the way. It rejoices me to stand by his side, to hold up his hands. Nobody can THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA go to Tuskegee, and see what I saw there, and come away without being impressed. Ever since I went there, now many years ago, I have been filled with hope; for though the institution of African slavery be dead, and thank the Lord of Hosts for that, the Negro is here: he is here in ever-increasin numbers, and he is here to stay. All schemes for getting rid of him' are fantastic, and, if attempted, would prove abortive. He developed on new lines devoted to an anomalous situation, and resolved into the body of society, not as an irritant, but as a natural, indispensable component part. That's the problem." That is a remarkable tribute that he paid to Dr. Booker T. Washington. It is one that should cause any man, white or black to feel light-hearted and gay, and yet to the thoughtful citizen, a person with far seeing judgment, it would tend to bring a feeling of added responsibility and nerve him to greater efforts and even more noticeable achievements. Booker T. Washington is a remarkable character. He possesses magnetic power over individuals and audiences. It is noticeable from one end of the country to the other, North and South, East and West. White and colored people are alike affected. This power has not failed to have its reactionary effects however and the antagonism of those who oppose his theories and methods is increased a hundred fold. We have endeavored to be fair with this truly remarkable man, and we believe that we have been just in our discussion of his methods and characteristics. But to the subject we have before us. We are now con sidering Hon. Henry Watterson, the "blue-blooded" Kentucky aristocrat, who paused long enough to pay tribute to the Negroes of the Southland. He is quoted further: "The two sections of the American Union were in the beginning, as you know, jointly re-ponsible for African Slavery. Origin sly the slave trade existed both North and South. The African was brought here in Northern ships. When the North found slave labor unprofitable it sold its slaves to the South, which mistakenly thought it profitable. I have never heard that the North failed to put the money it got for its slaves in its pocket. It is to the glory of our common manhood tat, when Virginia ceded an Empire tat, the Federal Government, it was stipulated that human bondage should never cross its border. At last the institution of African Slavery precipitated the South into a ruinous war, and, after this war, it was discovered that s save labor had been no more profitable in the South than in the North." This is a fair and diplomatic statement and covers the whole ground in a very few words. The saving part of it all is that it contains the kernal of truth. Here he comes again and this citation will be the cause of much amusement as well as much satisfaction on the part of the colored brother whom he eulogizes. "During a Century of angry contention among the whites about the blacks, starting with the suppression of the African Slave trade to culminate with the Proclamation of Emancipation, it was the black people, not the white people who conducted themselves like Christian men and women, and if Gabriel should suddenly blow his horn and the world should come to an end this blessed instant, many a white man might be found holding up a black man betwixt himself and the fire to plead his case before the Recording Angel. The black people ought to be very proud of this. It should constitute their point of departure in that soul-journey from grace to grace toward perfection, which is the goal of those that accept for their rule of life and death, the Religion of Christ and Him Crucified!" But we must conclude our analysis for this week. We shall continue our observations in our next issue. UNDESIRABLE JAPS. Tokyo Announces an Agreement With Canada. TOKYO, Jan. 29. — Addressing the diet on the subject of the government's foreign policy, Viscount Hayashi, minister of foreign affairs, announced that the Canadian emigration question had been definitely settled; that Japan had agreed to the restriction of emigrants to Canada within reasonable limits, which would be defined in a memorandum. Japan, he conceded, had conceded no treaty, and its prestige had not suffered. The negotiations with the United States, the minister said, were going on, and a satisfactory settlement was in sight. It was the duty of the government, he continued, to safeguard the Japanese abroad by preventing a further exodus from Japan. The restrictions on emigration would be extremely rigorous. The opposition raised no serious objection to Hayashi's policy. The statements of foreign Minister Hayashi concerning Canada are in effect the result of the recent visit of Rodolphe Lemieux, Canada's commissioner of labor, who asked prior to his leaving for an official assurance from Japan, Canada's quid pro to be the prevention of anti-Japanese outbreaks in British Columbia. Franco Fears Bomb Throwers. LISBON, Jan. 27.—Although the government apparently is master of the situation, much nervousness is manifested in official circles following the plot to overthrow the monarchy and establish Portugal as a republic. Premier France, upon the advice of the police, sleeps each night in a different house, surrounded by cavalry, to avoid the bomb throwers. CHORUS LADY IN SAD PLIGHT DURING FIRE CHORUS LADY IN SAD PLIGHT DURING FIRE UNCLOTHED, HER HEAD ONLY PROTRUDING, SHE WAS HELD FAST IN A CABINET. New York—There was a fire of real flames on the top floor of the rooming house on East Twenty-eighth street the other night, and at the same time there was a fire from indignation on the bottom floor. On the top floor young Charles L. Brodnn had fallen asleep smoking a cigarette, and he was rescued just as the ravenous flames were—but listen to what happened on the first floor: On the first floor is Dr. Arthur C. Schmokle, osteopath, blue-ray expert and chromatotherapic. Miss Mamie Svelte, a chorus lady, disrobed, and inclosed in a cabinet, the inside of which spotted vari-colored lights, was 楔 "Fire's Out." They Said. being lulled to sleep by the therapeutic effects of the chromatotheroptic rays, when the cry of fire roused the house. Miss Svelte screamed. Dr. Schmoke rushed to the door and was gone on a second. Firemen arrived, dragged lines of hose up the stairway outside, an ambulance clanged in the street and a throng of curious folks gathered. Miss Svelte kicked a hole in the red lights, the green lights and the yellow lights, and tried to stove a hole in the bottom of the cabinet so she could use it for a barrel and escape. The cabinet of the rapatic effects held fast. Firemen attracted by screams burst into the osteopath's office and found the handsome Miss Svelte, head only visible, crying "Help!" The firemen began to unfasten the cabinet, and to their amazement her screams redoubled. She nodded with her head to her clothes that lay on chairs, and the firemen vanished like shadows. "Fire's out," they said. Soon Dr. Schmokle came back. He was very sorry that Miss Sveyte had kicked holes in his chromatotherapics, and was quite sure all the good effects of the red and green lights had been lost in her fright. "I was outside guarding you all the time," he said. Brown, rescued from the top floor, had a narrow escape. He awoke to find the room in flames, and tried to run out with the mattress as a shield, but fell fainting. John H Wilson, a fellow boarder, found him and rescued him. BURIED ALIVE FOR SIX DAYS. Wife Finally, Rescued from Living Tomb and Lives Short Time. London.—An extraordinary case of intentional live burial is reported in a medical publication. It occurred in the Betul district, C. P. A man named Dama was tried for the murder of Indro, his wife. She had been suffering from chronic dysentery, and the husband took her and the family to another village. Here he appeared to have abandoned his wife and returned with the children to his own village. He said that he had left the woman with an exorcist for treatment. The village authorities sent for the man, however, and the wife was made over to him. But he came back the same day, saying that the woman had died on the way and that he has buried her. Six days later a villager saw something move in the jungle, and his cattle shied when they went near the place. A search was made by the authorities, and they found a grave with the leg of a woman clearly visible. They heard her say: "I am not dead," and she also said that her husband had buried her. After being lifted out of the grave and given food, the woman was sent to the Badgur hospital and lived 12 days longer. The accused man was sentenced to transportation for life. The extraordinary part of the story, apart from the callousness of the husband, adds the medical paper, is the fact that the woman must have lain in the shallow grave, covered with leaves and branches, for six or seven days without food or water, and then survived 12 days longer. Poor Learners. "Experience," said Uncle EbEN, "is a good teacher. But some of us don' learn nuffin' fum her 'eceptin' how to recite hard-luck stories."—Washington Star. USEFUL LITTLE WATCH STAND. Convenient for Hanging on Wall by the Side of Bed. The accompanying sketch illustrates a useful little 'watch stand.' It is intended for hanging on the wall by the side of a bed at some suitable spot where it may be easily seen. Its construction is very simple, and for it we shall require a piece of wood about one-half inch in thickness, and about 6½ inches long by 4½ inches wide. The front of the wood should be covered over evenly with velvet, which can be turned over the edges and glued to the back. In front, where indicated in the sketch, are screwed two little brass hooks, on the one the watch is hung, and over the other the chain rests. Two rings—similar to those used for hanging up small pictures—are screwed into the upper edge, by which the "stand" may be suspended from the wall. If it is desired to use the stand on a table, then it is an easy matter to fix a support at the back similar to the support of an ordinary photograph frame. BRIDAL TRAINS AND VEILS Princess and Empire Models Most In Favor This Year. Very long and full and extremely graceful is the wedding train of the present year. The princess and empire models are about equally in favor just now, while court trains, separate from the dress itself and falling gracefully from the shoulder, are seen once more on many of the handsomest bridal gowns. Rich ivory satin is always preferred by the conventional bride, but white embroidered panne or chiffon velvet with a court train of satin is beautiful, trimmed with lace and worn with a long lace veil. A soft satin silk may be more becoming than heavy satin, in which case the train may be of heavy satin or brocade. A hat bordered with a deep band of lace gives much the same effect as a lace veil and is preferred by many as being more possible to arrange becomingly. If the flat arrangement of the veil on the hair that is so much in vogue at present is not becoming, a wreath or cluster of orange blossoms will give the necessary height if placed like a coronet or tiara in the hair. The average bride would as soon dispense with the Lohengrin or Mendelssohn marches as she would be married without a spray of orange blossoms on her gown or in her bouquet. Unfortunately, the natural orange flower is too perishable to even form a bouquet, but real flowers can be combined with the artificial variety for trimming on the gown or veil and can help to make up an attractive bouquet with lilies of the valley, gardenias, orchids or whatever white flower is carried. Care must be taken that orange blossoms are purchased, not lemon flowers, which look so nearly the same and which grow so much more luxuriantly and are, consequently, far less expensive. About Collar Amid all the lovely collars of lace, ribbon and tinsel there looms up a new style which is most attractive. The collars are linen affairs worked with groups of miniature dots, placed in squares of four dots, 16, or in triangle or cross effects. With the collars will be found the linen tie to match. It is either a single or double bow, the edges buttonhole stitched with the same material as the dots, and also finished with small dots. These collars are dotted with red, brown, white, yellow; in fact, every color imaginable. Many of the little bows are shaped like pretty leaves, while others are prim with only the bow ends notched and whipped with thread, but always the collar and bow will be seen to match. Skirt of Volle. The volle skirt has a way of appearing with every new arrival, always something new and unusual, just a trifle prettier than all the rest. Too serviceable is this garment for general wear for it to be cast aside, for when all other skirts are hopeless for a ceremonious occasion, the white volle skirt and simple white lace waist bobs up serenely to best advantage. The new skirt is not wholly plain, for it is made with many double box-plaits over the hips, divided in places by miniature tucks. The three folds on the lower part of the skirt are piped with just a noticeable outline of black. A cream skirt, identical with this one, was piped with the narrowest brown velvet. A Dream of Gray. One of the smartest gowns that has been displayed this season, or any other, is designed principally to carry out the beauty of a slender, graceful figure. It is carried out in a tender shade of rose messaline, with Dolly Varden flonces on the sleeves and skirt. The topmost flounce on the skirt is mounted with a heading of fine hand-made lace, run through with silver gauze ribbon. The top of the skirt is severely plain, falling in graceful folds from the hips. The overbodice is of the rose messaline, with an embroidered outline, and this is worn over an exquisite gulpe, Braid Much Used This See Braid Much Used This Season. Braid as a trimming braid and an important position this season, says the December Delineator. Both wide and narrow braids, some heavy, some light, are used for trimming the coats of tailored costumes, and the flat, plain braid is used for binding coats of such costumes. This binding, by the way, is often the only decoration used on the tailored coat, although at other times it may be elaborately trimmed. Braiding is seldom seen on the skirts, which are plainer than they have been recently, as the winter season calls forth the long coats, and these are always smarter over the plain-fitting skirt. In this way the circular skirt is particularly adaptable as it is graceful in effect and is much easier for trimming when this is deired. POEMS WORTH READING In a place where the glare of the mad- ding sun tore Through the air till it writhed with the travail it bore. Where the red. blistered earth cried aloud the pain And with the crackling lips called to heaven in vain. Where the womb of creation was sterile and dread As a she-mummy lying a thousand years dead. Where the wind never crooned through, the branches of trees Nor the flowers flushed red to the kiss of the breeze. Where the blind spawn of serpents are gat but to die And no winged thing on carrion search fouls the sky. A glittering husk twenty million years old. Shattered and tattered and battered and torn. His eyes blind of sight and his reason spark gone. As naked and helpless as when he was born— Tumble and stumbled and fumbled and fell On a rock, where the sun, with the humor of hell. Smote the raw, bleeding edge of a fab- ulous ledge My Love. No jeweled beauty is my love; Yet in her earnest face That’s such a world of tenderness She needs other grace. Her smiles and around my life In light and music twine. And dear, O very dear, to me Is this sweet love of mine! O joy! to know there’s one fond heart Beats ever true to me; It sets mine leapings like a lyre, in sweetest melody. My soul uprings a dely, To hear her voice divine; And dear, O very dear to me Is this sweet love of mine! If ever I have sighed for wealth, ‘Twas all for her, I trow; And if I win fame’s victor wreath, I’ll twine it on her brow. There may be forms more beautiful, And souls of sunnier shine. But none, Dame, so dear to me As this sweet love of mine! -Gerald Massey, in Philadelphia Bulletin. The Saints That Have No Day. With golden letters set in brave array Throughout the Church's record of the pear. The great names of historic Saints appear. Those ringing names that, as a trumpet, play. Uplifting music o'er a sordid way, And sound high courage to our earth dusty. But, underneath those strains, I seem to hear. The silence of the Saints that have no day. Martyrus, blood red, and trodden souls, care-gray. In hierarchal pride no place they boast; No candles burn for them where pilgrims pray. No haloes crown their dim and count- less host; And yet the leaven of their humble sway. Unrecognized, unguessed, avails the most. —Katharine Perry, in The Reader. Her Playing. With love and grace her fingers kiss the keys. Wherefrom melodious sound responsive springs. Paint as the flutter of a seraph's wings Close followed by a swarm of murmuring bees; Then comes the soughing of the summer breeze. As muttering heaven a sterner message brings; Throughout the skies the voice of thunder rings, While echoes speak as from the wakened But list the downpour of the rushing rain! The chattering brook becomes a growling stream. And down the precipice leaps in wild cascades. Then lags through levels to the listening Soft as a star bright-falling in a dream The waters lapse and die. The vision fades. —Clarence H. Urner, in the Outer's Book. Let Him Know it. When a fellow pleases you Let him know it. It's a simple thing to do— Let him know it. Can't you give the scheme a trial? It is sure to bring a smile And that makes it worth the while— Let him know it. You are pleased when any one Lets you know it. When the man who thinks "Well done" Lets you know it. For it gives you added zest To bring out your very best— Just because some mortal blest Lets you know it. When a fellow pleases you Let him know it; Why, it isn't much to do— Let him know it. It will help him in the fray, And he'll think his efforts pay; If you like his work or way Let him know it. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Sure Way. He pleaded for a kiss for hours, But although he had pleading powers Poor was the stinging of its E'en when he stepped upon his knees She heeded not, and all his pleas Were unavailing. Next night he took another tack And gave the girl a hearty smack. It was surreal the reading. But it was over as she knew. And he put in an hour or two Apologizing. There is a moral to our rhyme, And if you have a second's time 'Tis worth the reading. The moral to the tale is this: First go to work and get your kiss, Then do your pleading. —Pittsburg Post. The Song in the Air. Ah, the song that is in the air and the voice that is in the singing clear— Bend down to the flood of joy, O hearts that ache, and hear. The song that is in the air and the spirit that moves amain When spring comes clad in her rosy robe with bloom-o-the-apple again. Ah, the song that is in the air and the cry that is over the see. The thrill in the throbbing throats of birds that live in the alder tree! Was ever a song so fair as the song the peach blooms sing As over the meadows the soft veil falls of the beauty that men call spring? —Baltimore American. Prolific Orange Tree Do not overestimate your capacity. 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C Always send Money order. Send for free interesting booklet right away. Temporary Office; 335 West 53rd Street. MECCOOROO BAIR TICM MFG. CO. N.Y.C. RAILROADS. SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST 9:00 A. M. and Norfolk. 4:00 P. M. Fast daily trains to Old Point 7:40 A. M.-Daily. Local to Newport News. 8:00 P. M.-Daily. Local to Old Point 11:00 P. M.-Daily. Louisville, Cincinnati 11:00 P. M. Chicago and St. Louis Pullman 2:00 P. M. deeper. 10:00 A. M.-Charlotteville, except Sunday to Hinton, except Saturday; and Hinton, Charlotte. 8:15 P. M.-Week Days-Local to Gordonville. 10:00 A. M.-Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Va. and Clifton Forge. 8:15 P. M.-Week Days-Local to Gordonville. James River Line -78:35 A.M. M, 6:45 P. M. Main Line West -7:30 A.M. M, 8:30 P. M. 3:45 P. M, 7:45 P. M. M, 7:45 P. M. M, 7:45 P. M. M, 6:45 P. M. Daily except Sunday. R. F. & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. NOTE—Fullman, Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all above trains, except local accommodations. All trains to and from Byrd Street Stations stop at Elba. Time of arrival and departures and connections not guaranteed. C. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Mgr. Gen'l. Supt. N. & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL-RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street, Station, Richmond. In课 Broad Street December 1, 1907. For Norfolk: - 0:00 A. M. 3:00 P. M. and 7:00 P. M.午 - 0:00 A. M. 3:00 P. M. and 7:00 P. M.午 For Lynchburg, the West and Southwest— 9:00 A.M. 12:10 P.M. M., and 9:40 P.M. daily. ARRIVE RICHMOND—From Norfolk-11:30 A.M. M. M. Daily. From the West— 7:40 A.M. 2:05 P.M. M. and 8:50 P.M. Pullman, Partor and Sleeping Care. Cafe Dining Care. Southern Ry. N. B.-Following schedule figures published only as information, and are not guaranteed: 11:15 A. M.-M. Daily-Limited-Buffet Pullman to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis Chattanooga, and all the South. Tampa coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham. YORK RIVER LINE 4:30 P. M.—Bx. Sunday—To West Point—Cos- titute Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 2:15 P. M.—Monday, Wednesday and Friday— Local to West Point. 4:30 A. M.—Ex. Sundays—Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 6:55 A. M. 8:40 P. M.—From all the South. 4:10 P. M.—From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham Chase City and local stations. 8:40 P. M.—From Keysville.- 9:20 A. M.—From Keysville.—From Baltimore more Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. 10:45 A. M., 5:45 P. M.—Local from West Point. ATLANTIC COASTLINE For Florida and South--8-15 A. M. and 7:25 P. M. "11:40 P. M. For Norfolk--9-00 A. M. 8:00 P. M and 7:25 P. M. For N. and W. Ry. West--9-00 A. M. 12:18 and 9:40 P. M. For Peterburg: 9:00 A. M. 12:10, 8:00 *3:28 P. M. 6:00, 9:40 P. M. 7:25 and 11:30 P. M. For Goldboro and Fayetteville: *3:30 P. M. For Jackson and Monmouth daily--6-10, *4:50 7:40 A. M. *3:28, 8:00 and 11:30 A. M. *3:28, 2:05, 6:50, 8:00 and 5:00 *Except Sunday. **Sunday only. ***Except Monday. Time of arrivals and departures and concessions not guaranteed. C. B. CAMPBELL D. P. A. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY SOUTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 9:15 A. M.-Local to Norlina, Raleigh, Char- lotte, Wilmington. 2:25 P. M.-Sleepers and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Savannah, Jackskoville and Florida points. 10:45 P. M.-Florida Limited. 12:55 A. M.-Sleepers and coaches, Savannah, Jackskoville and Southwest. NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO ARB- RIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 6:55 A. M., 9:15 A. M., Florida Limited, 6:55 P. M.; 6:55 P. M. SATURDAY. ..FEBRUARY 1, 1908. WORTH A PARAGRAPH. | Justus 15, was re contly ‘ciseseed Haj pulbncins tor ‘wife desertion. ‘The great Gaudalupe artesian well at Gaudalupe, Mexico, which used to aquirt 100 feet high, ia tired and only goes half that now. New specimens of grass and white ‘orchids never before known to exist in ‘this country have been discovered in (Cape May county, New Jersey. Mrs. U. &. Kistler of Salina, Kan., is _a@ sort of syndicate woman. Over 1,700 pieces of flesh were grafted on her body when she was burned Ia un explosion. According to the Seattle Post-Intel- Ugencer the Bellingham (Wash.) mills have “cut lumber enough to make a 124nch board walk around the world.” ‘That beats Weston. Flint island, from which the recent eclipse of the sun was observed, is a mere dot on the Pacific 400 miles north ef Tahiti, The government party is ‘expected in San Francisco January 25. Marriage at an early age is frequent fm Mexico. Recently a boy of 16 and a Girl of 14 were married in the capital. Im the last two months there were 33 persons from 12 to 20 years married tm that city, Mrs. Susan Merrill of East Edding- ton, Me., has supported herself for ten years and sent her two boys through college by making feather beds of real goose down and selling them througbout New England. Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel prize award, never but twice Visited the high explosive factory he established in Scotland. He was broken hearted because he was not elected a member of the Royal Society ef England. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The dyspeptic whines after he dines. Learn to say “no,” but never say it wnless you mean it A derrick will not help a man out when be falls in love. Query—Does a man suffer more by (gnorance or by knowledge? The more favors a man asks the fewer he is willing to grant. It's too bad that some people can't buy sense with their dollars. What society needs Is shorter en- Gagements and longer marriages. A wise man is satisfied to appear Great in the eyes of his wife and chil- aren. __In these days of incubators it's a wiso chick that knows its own mother. : People who claim to know every- thing are seldom able to accomplish anything. After a man gets to be about so old be begins to talk about what a fool be used to be. ‘There would be a lot more silence tn this world if we talked only about the things we know. If a woman is unable to keep a se- ret she can always find some other woman who will gladly help her not to keep it. Honestly, don't you feel sorry for a fan who looks at you with an air of vacant inquiry when you are trying to tell him a funny story?—Chicago News. FOOLOSOPHY. A watched pot sometimes boils over. A woman {s always a woman, but a tigar is often rope. Some of us would be glad to be walled tn on Wall street. The only men who lore their cred- tt are those who never had any. Most of our smiles are empty be- cause the world is full of trouble. ‘When money comes in at the door fove goes over to see the neighbors. If angels have wings some of us ‘will need cur airships buried with us. ‘The man who bates his paymaster worst is the man who works for him- welt. Didst ever see a man who could fook {intelligent whtist shaving his ‘upper Up? ‘Did you ever notice how few men there are who will sneak up quietly behind your back and put money in Your pocket?—Judge. PROVERSS AND PHRASES. ‘AG4 not fire to fire—Greek. AB things are full of God. —Cicero,— pC a eee ee eet Advise your friends in private; praise them opealy—Syrus, i ~ SENTENCE SERMONS. The mind will not have a tore nea. Arguing with a fool ts only aug menting folly. Every Sunday prayer waits for a | Monday amen. Religion should be a good sword, Dut it makes a poor shield. ‘The fruits of truth are not gathered by beating about the bush. ‘There ts in this world for any of us what we see in it and no more. Some think they are firm in the faith who are only frozen in heart. An annual sprint in religion will not o much good in the heavenly race. If you are a true friend you never ‘need to put on an air of friendliness. It fs as much our duty to brighten another's way as to lighten his load. ‘The world might soon be made good if only religious people would make good. Many a church is substituting work- ing the world for working for the ‘world. A living exponent of the Bible ts worth any number of the best ex- positors. Idle admiration of the Master's teaching is no better than utter re fection of it. The strength of a man's will is like Iy to be tn opposite proportion to that of bis breath. Many a man is a bero {a battle be cause he has not shirked the dull Grill in days of peace. It's no use praying for a clean city unless you are willing to do part of the housekeeping —Chicago Tribune | CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Presbyterians of Seattle have Just dedicated a new $500,000 church building. | ‘The Cathottc diocese of Helena, Mont, is to have a magnificent new cathedral to cost $500,000, . pay The well-known Father Ducey of St, Leo's, New York city, has just marked his fortieth year in the priesthood. | Funds are being collected in Amert- ‘ea to erect a church at Stralde, Ire Jand, as « memorial to the late Michael Davitt. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, | A man’s wife is very tactful to pre- tend she is glad of it. | A girl that has never been kissed has a very poor memory. | Any stout woman can get thinner Rica’ the right kind of dressmaker. A man calls it being reasonable when he wants dinner to be on time though he never is. Sight ovelty enett fo make her father take her side dy having her mother take the other. ig _ If they had a law for divorce from your relatives, lawyers could make ‘@ lot of money out of it. __ There's hardly anything so monoton- ous te a man as staying home with his family except traveling with it. | a useful thing about a gic's going to Doarding school is the way she learns there to like the things to eat at home. ae York Press. MEDITATIONS OF A SPINSTER, | A breach of promise sult may be bad, but the same girl as a wife would be worse. | ‘When people are happily married it means that they both have the same ideas about how to spend Sundays on- joyably. | It takes a real Lomely old girl to be- Neve that the reason hy more men do not propose to her is because she won't allow them to get to that point. Most marvelous of all his accom. plishments is the way that the deepest- dyed man never looks guilty, but as Senocent as a lamb.—Philadelphia | Telegraph. ——_ ETc Unjust Blame, Tituck gets the biame for s lot of ‘poor judgment. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA PIVE IF YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR NEIGH- RE ETA EE A AF VAI SEITE RS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET. ; CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF ; pee nN WE WIE ORR oe FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUN- TAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZ.- EN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. : FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE. PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKES. PEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE. PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. 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Pittsburg, Pa.—A school where assassination was taught by experts in the use of the stiletto, provided with secret underground passages and equipped with an arsenal containing 500 weapons besides many explosives—all arranged by the "Black Hand" organization of extortioners and cut-throats—has been discovered and broken up in this city. The place was the national headquarters of the "Black Hand" society. When it was raided 19 armed men were arrested. As the raiders entered the den 17 new members of the society were lined up, all of them naked to the waist, and each armed with a stiletto. Vincenzo Toya, said to be wanted in New York, and Antonia Nicola, were pointing out to the class, on the back on one naked man, the exact spot to drive a stiletto to insure death. In the room was a dummy on which the class took turns at practice, and everywhere about the wall were weird drawings of assassinations, bleeding hearts with daggers thrust through them, and everywhere the Italian words: "Camorlisti Mano Nera" (Black Hand.) The house where these strange scenes were unearthed is a tenement in Clay alley, an obscure alley in the Italian quarter. The raid was made by two platoons of police assisted by Italian detectives from ten cities, the visiting police having been working here for some time on requisitions to their chiefs from Chief of Police McQualle, who found himself confronted with a novel problem in crime. The discovery that the band existed was made two weeks ago, in investigating the shooting to death of A. CAMORISTI MANO NERA F. B. A Class in Stilletto Work. Sunserli, a reputable Italian merchant of Filipo Rel, a "Black Hand" desperado, who demanded $10,000 of Sunserli on pain of death. At the moment of the raid a coroner's jury was acquitting Sunserli of the murder of the blackmailer. Several of the out-of-town detectives had become members of the band, and reported that there was a regular school in which the younger members were taught to use the stilletto. A plan was then laid to raid the place during the instruction hour. In front, on the ground floor of the tenement, was apparently a restaurant, a large room with tables and chairs, back of which was a supposed kitchen. The harmless-looking range, however, proved to be a forge, the supposed meat block an anvil, and the white-aproned chef the cleverest stiletto to maker in the country. Under a table in the kitchen was a trap door, with steps to a cavern extending under several buildings. Leading from this was a long passage, with an exit in a small alley off Clay alley. Edward McGough, captain of detectives, personally conducted the raid. Men were stationed at every exit, including the secret passage, and then a dozen detectives entered the front of the building, overpowered the man in the kitchen, and forced their way down into the underground cavern. When the detectives swarmed into the place every one of the 19 occupants had a stiletto. No word was spoken, but at a sign the "pupils in crime" made a concerted move to charge the police. This was checked as the Italian detectives demanded a surrender. Then the Black Handites made a rush for the underground passage, through which they expected to reach the street in safety. The officers allowed them to file into the passageway, for a dozen detectives were stationed on the other end, with drawn revolvers. As the fugitives appeared at the end of the passage each one was overpowered and thrown into a patrol wagon. All were landed in Central station. FIVE GIRL WAIFS ARE FOUND ON TEXAS PLAINS FAMILY OF ORPHANS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE ON WAY BACK FROM NEW MEXICO. Weatherford, Tex.—Exhausted in resources, with a broken-down team, and miserable beyond expression over their destitute condition, five girls were found in a wagon several miles out from Midland, on the plains of west Texas, a few days ago and brought to town by Mrs. H. N. Garrett, wife of a leading ranchman of that section. The girls ranged in age from 17 down to three or four, and gave the name of Rogers. It is a pitiful story they recited. Several months ago the Rogers family left Texas and went to New Mexico, where they settled on a govern- A boy is being led by a horse to a wagon. There are three children standing in front of the wagon, and a cow is lying on the ground below them. The Girls Found by Mrs. Garrett. ment land claim. The mother soon sickened and died amid those inhospitable surroundings, and the disgusted and discouraged father gathered up his orphan girls and started back to Texas over the long plains road which appeared to have no ending. Reaching Shafer Lake, just over in Texas from the New Mexico line, the father became desperately sick and could go no farther. The family was absolutely penniless, and at Shafer Lake the children were told if they could reach Midland they could doubtless find assistance. With brave spirits those five girls hitched up their tired horses and started on the long drive to Midland. Day after day the exhausted horses tolled along the high highway across the plains, until their strength gave out entirely, and they stopped to die a few miles from the desired goal. The girls were unable to go farther, and there they stayed in their miserable camp until found by Mrs. Garrett and brought into Midland, where a considerable sum of money was raised for them. Not knowing they were in the vicinity of Midland, the girls were preparing to start back on foot in search of Shafer Lake when they were discovered, and must have inevitably perished but for the providential appearance of the wife of the rancher upon the scene. THOUGHT MULE WAS BEAR Negro Runs Three Miles in Terror to Escape Animal. Port Jervis, N. Y.-Erastus Warfield, residing on the Plank road, eight miles north of this city, was the most frightened negro in that section the other night. He was on his way to a neighbor's to ascertain whether he had any cure for a sick mule and had proceeded only a mile when he discovered that he was being followed by something. A bear had been killed in the neighborhood a month ago and visions of another bear rose up before the excited darky. Although he is 75 years old and afflicted with rheumatism, he started on a keen run. The patter of feet behind him made Erastus wild with terror, and he fairly flew over the ground, reaching the neighbor's house in remarkably quick time. Without asking permission he pushed open the door and, rushing in upon the startled household, yelled: "Bear!" Going to the door the neighbor found Warfield's mule there. The animal had followed its master out of the barn when he started for medicine and had run behind him all the way. Erastus does not like to hear any one ask him why he ran three miles to escape his own mule instead of a bear. It makes him wrathful. Hen's Leg Convicts Thief. Watertown, S. D.—Through the medium of a hen with a broken leg, the state's attorney of Codington county has run down a chicken thief who has given his neighbors considerable trouble for some time past. The outcome was the conviction in police court of Peter Schaak, a young married farmer, who paid $60 for his petty depredations. During the trial the state produced an old hen that wore a big bandage on one of its legs. This hen, one of the witnesses swore, had been her property. The deputy sheriff found the hen in the defendant's possession a day after a big bunch of poultry disappeared from a farm home near the Schaak place. The hen with the broken leg was the sole means of identifying the stolen property. Poor Gun. "Get many ducks!" "Naw—this gun's no good. Whenever I'd shoot at a bird the report was so loud that it scared him away."—Cleveland Leader. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Law of Life. What is the true law of our moral life? That is the question which every are sets itself to solve, and to the solution of which every contributor is welcome. And the answer that George Pilot gives is that there is a reign of law in the moral as well as in the physical world, and that this law cannot be broken with impunity. "As a man soweth so shall he also reap." The Instinct to Obey Man's first instinct is to obey. On a crowded car an altercation arose between a passenger and the conductor. Both were very much excited, and as they continued to argue their voices grew louder and louder. Finally a man in the rear of the car shouted: "Shut up!"; and, much to the satisfaction and amusement of the other occupants, they immediately subsided. Strange Tattooing A London tattooer says that dragons and serpents are now popular with women. One of the strangest tasks he has been engaged on lately was to tattoo a will on a woman's back. It was a copy of a document drawn up in the usual way of a solicitor. It contained nearly 500 words, and he had to reproduce carefully all the signatures. Surely King of Burglar. The most enterprising burglar as yet recorded is the Long Island chap who not only escaped from a brand-new county jail the other night but took with him all the locks and doorknobs in the place. If they catch him they ought to promote him to the best penitentiary in the land as a tribute to his genius. Intelligence of Flowers Maurice Maeterlinck has discoursed at length on the intelligence of the flowers and arges for but one all-pervading mind, one intelligence and reservoir of consciousness in nature whereunto the individual plant and man have access according to his capacity. Creation and Art. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was poetry; He formed it, and that was sculpture; He varied and colored it, and that was painting; and then, crowning all, He people it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal drama. —Charlotte Cushman. How to Treat an Enemy. If you don't like a man, eat oatmeal and bide your time; there will soon be something the matter with his kidneys, and his funeral procession will go by. It doesn't take long to get rid of the best of us—Atchison Globe. Kill Him. Anyhow. It is doubtless perfectly correct, as the international sanitary congress has resolved to call malaria the "mosquito fever," but yellow fever is also a mosquito fever, and what else the mosquito is to blame for perhaps no one can tell. An Uncomfortable Moment Perhaps the most uncomfortable moment in a man's life is that one in which he takes a seat in a box at a play and sees his employer sitting in an orchestra chair among the ordinary people. Learning by Imitation It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.—Burke. Man's Influence. The amount of value of a man's influence for good or evil upon the world will generally depend upon the character of his indirect and unconscious influence.—T. Starr King. Yield of Fifty-Nine Pear Trees. Fifty-nine pear trees in Washington on less than an acre produced nearly 1,000,000 boxes of fruit and netted over $2,600. The trees were the Anjou variety. Equality of the Sexes. New Jersey, which recently sent a woman highwayman to jail, has now indicted a man as a "common scold." The Best Buyers While not among the "six best sellers" pocketbook and checkbook are the two best buyers. Woman Runs Mouse Farm. Tradition gets an awful jolt in the fact that Miss Abbie Lathrop, of Granby, Mass., runs a mouse farm. Ben Jonson's Favorite Dish. Rare Ben Jonson asked no better treat than a pork pie with an abundance of Canary wine. Millionaires and Aristocrats. The millionaire becomes an aristocrat when he forgets there's comfort in the kitchen.—Manchester Union. Truth Always Best Truth Always Best. Horace: A good and faithful judge prefers the honest to the expedient. Roving Means Disaster. There is nothing worse for mortals than a vagabond life.—Homer. Wise Advice. Speaking of Divorce Yeast—Owing to the unusual activity in railroad building, it is estimated in Ontario alone 4,000,000 ties will be cut this year. Crimsonbeak—Wonder if Dakota will be able to beat that?—Yonkers Statesman. A Fellow Feeling. "Still rooting for the Carlisle Indi- Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful progress has been phenomenal. The Grand station over all of the cities and counties in required to organize a new lodge. The its strongest features, but the principles are. Founded on Friendship, based on Charlence, the respectable, upright people of they of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge ofary regalla. For information concerning it. Courts of Calant ment of the Order. It requires a memorialize a court. Its members are pledged humony and prove Love one for the other.arial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per use for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents for funeral occasions. CALANTHE or Children's Department persons cannot do better than to enter the nominal and the benefits all that could be and death benefits of from $30.00 to $4.00 in your neighborhood, orgriz one, concerning the Children's Department ad This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. 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In Boastful Mood. "You Americans want to own the earth," said the apprehensive European. "Not at all," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "It is true that America has the price, and most of the world is willing to sell out, but the deal has not been concluded."—Detroit Free Press. His Little Knock Mrs. Stubb (reading)—John. I see they have discovered a woman in the moon. Mr. Stubb—I knew it would come sooner or later. The man had been enjoying undisturbed peace up there, but some woman was bound to butt in like they do down here on earth.—Chicago Daily News. O. Caller—Peets, I suppose, have their off days, the same as other people. Wrymer (with visible irritation)—They do, sir. This is one of mine. I am trying to do a poem in Russian dialect—Chicago Tribune. Repartee "What made Brown hot?" "His best girl turned him down cold."—Detroit Free Press. The Drawback. "It's having all your disreputable relatives come to the surface and tell everybody who they are."—Cleveland Leader N. A., S. A', E. A., A. AND A. is the most powerful in the county. The Grand Lodge of Virginia and counties in this state. New lodge. The benefits paid to the principles are greater than, based on Charity and establishment people of the state will report. Burial benefit of of $200.00 for its. The badge costing 75 centsation concerning the organization requires a membership of are pledged to exhibit for the other. It pays pays $3.00 per week sick of the badge, 50 cents and men's Department also conan to enter the little ones ints all that could be expected. on $30.00 to $40.00. If you borgniz one. Department address. Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. 120 W. Hill St., Richmond JOHN MITCHELL 311 N. 4th St. Hair Dressing for the Hair Robinson, the Famous B the Opera, says of Kink-i for the past year and my hair is greasing and tonic I have ever used, although on the market. It makes my hair all dandruff and stopped it from falling in any of the many styles that I would not be without it. Yours sincerely, a delightful perfumed tonic prepared lace absolutely safe and harmless. It may glossy, enables you to comb it with or curls directly to the roots of the hair toner or to the hair. For $35 per bottle. If your druggist does will send same to you, prepaid. Of our goods over all others, we will the best shampoo and Toilet Soap in soap for $3.00. Special offer good on. —Distributors, 1007 E. Ma THE MT. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE 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 future for their Health and Treatment It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, PROF. 48 Welts St., - Mt. Clemens, Mich. Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CLGARS, TOBACO, ICE, --- JOHN FOXEL ment also con- t he little ones into this mystic d be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have no Pythian address. Dressing and the Hair! The Famous Black Patti, Days of Kink-ine or and my hair is growing very fast. I have ever used, altogether different from soft. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft. It makes it from falling out and breaking many styles that I use on the stage. In it. Yours sincerely, MMR. ROBINSON. used tonic prepared largely for the use of and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn, you to comb it with ease and to dress it. roots of the hair tones up and nourishes. If your druggist does not keep it have you, prepaid. For all others, we will sell one full-size and Toilet Soap in the world, price 22 Special offer good only at the following Mors, 1007 E. Main St. FREE! An Astrological Reading sent free to anyone enclosing two cent stamp for mailing charges, etc. 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. 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. For old papers, call on us. We are selling them at fifteen cents per hundred. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROFRIETRESS. 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Vs MINT Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. .....PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter- views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo. for developing and beauti- fying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a bea- tiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mafl. $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies faces for parties and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham shampoos 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 manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. 'Phone 2048 112 W. Leigh S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone', 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respectfully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN 603 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photographs to Out-door Work excused. Reasonable Estimates and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. 5-ms. THE ECONOMY, 303—5 North Third St FINE TAILORING. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. 'Phone, 2775. THE PLANET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 1. 1908 IRELAND HAS A REAL WILD MAN LUNATIC WHO LIVES LIKE A PRE HISTORIC SAVAGE ROAMS DESOLATE DISTRICTS. FLEES FROM HIS FELLOWMEN Although Said to Be Three Score and Ten Years Old He Is an Adopt at Catching Fish and Game. Dublin.—Certain villages in Ireland are ringing with the story of a wild man who lives in the woods and eats berries, roots, fish and small quadrupeds, just like a prehistoric savage. He has silvery locks, a long, white beard. He dresses in garments old, scanty, tattered and torn. It is said he has never had a home—that the whole of his wretched three score and ten years, or thereabouts, have been spent in the open air—and that as far as is known he has no name. The story told of him by the peasantry is that he was dumped on a desolate Irish moor when a little child by a loathsome, vagabond mother of, terrible to say, gentle birth and education, and that alone he has wandered ever since, fleeing from his fellowmen as though some wild, timid creature of the night, and making his home in the densest woods and on the most lonesome commons and wastes. It is said, though doubtless no one knows for certain, that the man cannot talk plainly and that his vocabulary is limited to but a score of words or so. In the more poverty-striken and desolate districts in the Emerald Isle the man is familiar to most of the peasantry, who give him clothes from time to time. The clothes are dropped to the ground, and when the givers have gone to a distance, then and only then will he come and pick them up. As a rule no sooner has he got them in his hands than he runs off as fast as his legs can carry him. Food he will accept from no one. An adept in the art of catching things, he prefers to cater to himself. Far and wide might you search before coming across one more skillful in poaching fish and game than this old white-haired man. He will spear salmon with a spiked pole, catch peasants 42. He Will Spear Salmon with a Spiked Pole. and partridges when the birds are asleep in the night, and even grab fish from streams with his hands. There is a story that several years ago he fell in love with a beautiful peasant lass, whose home he haunted every night, howling hideously. Yet he did not see the object of his affections on more than a few occasions, and never nearer than 100 yards or so. The girl's parents, intensely superstitious like most Irish people, were afraid to adopt any means to put a stop to the annoyance. Another of the colleen's admirers, however, was bolder, and one pitch black night, concealing himself in some brushwood, fired off a gun within a yard or so of the man as he was emitting one of his loudest howls. The old lunatic fled, and from that time his visits ceased, and he has not been seen in the vicinity since. Bread Is Bewitched Norfolk, Va.—Annie Diggs, Helen Ford, and their friends are consumed with fear, believing that some calamity is impending. They declare that a miracle took place at their home a few days ago. The women say they were gathered about the dinner table and talking of their dead mother, Mary E. Ford, when suddenly a loaf of bread on the table began to rise from the plate and ascend fully two feet before dropping back to the plate with a distinct noise. They did not eat any more dinner. In fact, they have not slept since. They declare it was no optical delusion, and that they were not tricked by any one. They are willing to give the loaf of bread away, but their neighbors decline to have anything to do with it. GIRL STENOGRAPHER USES GLOVE ON MASHER GIRL STENOGRAPHER USES GLOVE ON MASHER FAIR STRANGER DEFENDS HER SELF FROM MEN WHO ANNOY HER ON BROADWAY. New York.—A dapper young man on upper Broadway was following a girl, whose hands were in a huge muff. Suddenly at Forty-fifth street one of her hands, clad in a two-ounce box glove, dashed out and sent the masher rolling into the gutter. He lay there a few seconds, while some humorist in the little crowd that witnessed the feat slowly toiled off the "one, two, three, four," etc., of the regulation referee. The "masher" picked himself up with difficulty, and scurried away just as Detective Leigh came along. Leigh said, authoritatively: "Young lady, you mustn't come around here knocking people down." In an instant the girl had swung around again, and Leigh saw the two J Sent the Masher Into the Gutter. ounce glove coming his way, and, being a boxer himself, just managed to dodge enough to receive a glancing blow. Leigh threw his coat open and displayed his shield, and the mysterious woman dropped her guard. "I beg your pardon," she said, sweetly. "I am a stranger here. I came here from Alabama, and am a stenographer, alone in town. But I'll tell you, officer, there's no man in this city can insult me with impunity. I taught women boxing in the south—and I'll teach New York 'masher' boxing in the north." Leigh stood petrified for an instant, and then made a movement as if to shake hands with the girl. "I admire you," he said, spectators had declared the girl had acted in self-defense. "Won't you tell me your name?" "No, sir," she said. "But I'll tell you other things. I put this boxing glove on and hid it in my muff, because every time I walk down Broadway to get the fresh air some hoodlum accosts me, and as the police can't be everywhere at once, I decided to take care of myself. I've knocked about four of them this evening—and there'll be more." Whereupon the dainty athlete thrust her padded hand into the muff and strolled away, while the "masher" hurried to some place of safety. GOOSE GUARDS A HOUSE Drives Away Robber Tramp, Who Loses Portion of Trousers. Burlington, N. J. —Since two of their fraternity have been driven off and badly beaten by the farm's strange protector tramps are giving the home of James M. Sholl, a Burlington farmer, a wide berth. This guardian of the Sholl home is Patsy, the king of a flock of goose. Terrified human cries mingled with the fierce honking of the old gander and the savage flapping of his wings awakened the family to Mr. Sholl a night or two ago in time to see in the moonlight a badly frightened tramp legging it down the lane toward the public road. The marauder's intention of raiding the poultry house had evidently been interfered with before he got the door open, and his battle with the big gander had been short but furious. The tramp left misa a portion of his trousers. Also he learned that the bite of a goose is like the pinch of a vise, and a blow from its wings like the blow of a pugilist. The gander on another occasion drove off a tramp who was begging. At another time the bird lost half its beak in a fight with a dog that tried to kill some goilings, and it has beaten off hawks, pigs and even a cow that had traversed beyond their proper domain. Woman Eaten by Panther. Columbia, La.—While on her way to visit a neighbor in a wild region ten miles west of here, Mrs. Annie Valentine, wife of a farmer, was killed and devoured by a panther. Her husband, alarmed at his wife's prolonged absence, instituted a search and found his wife's head and her skeleton, picked bare of flesh, in a clump of bushes. Bits of the woman's clothing were scattered over a distance of two miles, showing that the panther had dragged its victim to a convenient spot-to make a feast. A posse of men, with a pack of hounds, are pursuing the beast. Average English Family Average English Family. Four and a half is the average size of the English family. "The country is very prosperous nowadays." "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, "so many people are getting money that there isn't a great deal of satisfaction in being rich."—Washington Star. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE ONLY WAY. My butcher sells me doctored real, My coal-man sells me clinkered coal, My grocer sells me mouldered meal, My baker stints the breakfast roll. My vintner sells me weakened hock With other tinctured chemie wines; My broker sells me watered stock And boosted shares in salted mines. How can I make both ends to meet When thus these rogues my wealth purloin, Unless I practice like deceit And pay their claims with tainted coin? —Arthur Guiterman, in Judge. Quick Action. "Gentlemen," said the auctioneer, "I call your attention now to this elegant watch, stem winder and stem setter, solid gold-filled case, extension balance, full duelo, patent pinion pending, a timepiece, gentlemen, worth a clean fifty of any man's money, an ornament to any pocket, and left in my hands with positive orders to sell it because the owner can't afford to carry it any longer. It's a shame to put it up at auction, but it must be sold How much am I offered for this elephant stem winding and stem setting solid gold-filled—" "One dollar!" interrupted the eager voice of Uncle Hank Hardscrable, who had just dropped in. Home Life. Mr. Widdle—Well, my dear, you've made so much fuss because I don't spend my evenings at home, like a good husband and father, that I have resigned from the club. Does that suit you? Mrs. Widdle—It's just splendid! Now, hurry through dinner and get dressed, so we can go to Mrs. Highup's ball; and to-morrow night we'll go to Mrs. Tiptop's party; and the next night, you know, Mrs. Wayup has a musical, and we mustn't forget the Globetrotter's reception the night after—New York Weekly. Troubles of a Historian. Prolissart was arranging for the publication of his "Chronicles." "I've got to have them printed in book form," he said. "The newspapers don't seem to know whether to put them in the sporting column or to run them as society news." By such narrow margins as this do men sometimes get into the ranks of the immortals.—Chicago Tribune. MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE ELSE. "O, Fraulein, I see you always in my dreams!" "Impossible! I never go out without mamma!"—Das Kleine Witzblatt. The gifted young author, who was making an evening call, appeared pre-occupied. "Why so thoughtful, Mr. Percolum?" asked the young woman. "Why, the fact is," he answered, "I have been trying to evolve a love story, and I am—cr—lost for want of a word." "Yes?" "That's it, Gloriana!" he exclaimed, raptuously. "I have been waiting six months to hear you say it!"—Chicago Tribune. FLAT DWELLER'S SONG. When the steam pipes start to rattle "Sunday mornin', Oh! Hey, the steam pipes to move and Oh, it's then that I begin to rave and swear; For on week days with the sun, I am up and on the run. But on Sunday I could linger longer there. When the steam pipes start to rattle Sunday mornin' Every tenant in the flat must quickly rise; For it's useless to remain Underneath the counterpane. The pounding drives the sleep from weary eyes. When the steam pipes start to rattle Sunday mornin' It's no use to linger longer in the bed; And the ceaseless grind and clatter Make me madder than a hatter For the noise I'm sure would almost wake the dead. When the steam pipes start to rattle Sunday mornin' There's no comfort for the weary and oppressed; It is useless to remain Underneath the counterpane. For the Sabbath is no more a day of Changeable Weather Maine Man (finishing a story)—Yes, sir. I killed that bear with nothin' but this little jack-knife. Guess you never had a tussle with a bear, did ye? New York Liar—Oh, yes. I was out fishing one day on Staten Island when a big bear made a rush for me and knocked the pole from my hand, leaving me without even that means of defense. Well, sir, I grabbed that bear, threw him down, and held him there until he froze to death. Maine Man (gasping)—I might 'a done that many a time myself, but the weather up our way don't change so quick as it does here—New York Weekly. Give Sheep Fresh Air Some people make the mistake of keeping their sheep too closely housed in winter. A good dry shed protected from draughts is desirable, but the fresh air supply should not be entirely cut off. 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. --- Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. DRESSY STYLES IN BLOUSES. One of Pale Pink Zephyr Particularly Suitable for Morning Wear. The first blouse is a style suitable for morning wear; it is in pale pink zephyr, with American yoke of white cambric embroidery. The lawn is gauged below the yoke and a strip of embroidery is carried up the center box-plait and round the throat. The tight-fitting under-sleeve is made from two rows of embroidery connected by EAST straps of zephyr. Materials required: Three yards 28 inches wide, three-eighths yard piece embroidery, two yards insertion. The second sketch shows a dressy blouse in taffetas and lace. The deep yoke is of the lace; to this the taffetas is gathered, revers of lace forming a trimming. The puffed sleeves are gathered into bands of insertion. Two straps of ribbon velvet are carried up front, and terminate in bows. Materials required: Three and one-half yards 22 inches wire, one-half yard piece lace, one-half yard insertion, lace revers, one-half yard velvet. KEY BRACELET MUCH LIKED. Is One of the Most Pronounced Fads of the Season. One of the small fads of the season is the key bracelet, which is both useful and ornamental and whose originality promises to make it a universal success among women. The bracelet is made to resemble a three strand bracelet. The two outer strands are close and heavy. The inner, or middle, strand is a chain. This chain, which fits as neatly into the two outer strands as if it were woven solidly with them, has attached to one end a small golden key. The golden key fits neatly into a frame on the back of the bracelet, and since it fastens down with a spring seems to be merely a part of the ornamentation of the bracelet. But by pressing a spring the key is released and the chain also freed at one end, so that the key may be used. The idea of the bracelet is that a woman may have all her belongings under lock, lock to be opened only by the master key, which is the little golden ornament. Of course the invention has the disadvantage of necessitating the placing of new locks upon all the treasure places of the persons who own such master keys. But then the expense of this would be worthy of consideration to a woman who would buy such a bracelet. A more important consideration, of course, might be the fact that, after all, one key may be duplicated more readily than 20, and the owner therefore runs perhaps a greater chance of being robbed of all her treasures if a robber once gets started, but the fad is such a pretty one that it is hardly probable women will be deterred from pursuing it even by this consideration. RESTAURANT AFFILIATIONS. The waiter in the light-lunch cafe looked expectantly at the first of five men who had just entered. "Bring me a coffee cake and a cup of coffee," ordered the first man. "I'll take some milk biscuit and a glass of milk,' said the second. "Tea buns and a cup of tea, please," remarked the third. "A piece of coconut pie and a cup of cocoa," said the fourth. The waiter passed on to the fifth man. "Don't say it, don't say it," he pleaded. "I know what you want. You want a slice of chocolate cake and a cup of chocolate." "No, I do not," protested the fifth man. "I want a plate of ice cream and a glass of ice water."—Judge. Never Recovered. "No, I don't like her, she made a fool of me five years ago." "Have you only been that way for five years?"—Washington Star. TWO WOMEN IN DRESSS Babel-I would I were a soldier boy. Clara—That you might—what? Mabel—That I might nothing. Havn't you noticed how often they become engaged in battle? Someday, when all life's lessons have been learned, And guys with autos know a thing or two, When their machines have twisted been and turned Into a pile of junk; when black and blue Their bodies, then, perhaps, they'll regulate their speed, And care about the way they risk their necks; And maybe then we'll never have to read About so many careless auto wrecks. -Milwaukee Sentimental. New Toque Is Trim: The prettiest toque, under its newest and most becoming aspect, has been seen poised upon the prettily-dressed hair, just at the right angle, and draped with folds of dark emerald green velvet, held in place in the center of the front by an oblong buckle in a mixture of dull gold and bright steel. On either side, arranged so that they spring naturally and smartly out of the folds of velvet, there are large Mercury wings in shades of brown, green and cream color. These tints are carefully chosen, so that they repeat the colors seen in the brown and cream check cloth of which the gown is composed, while the green of the velvet finds an echo in the velvet facings upon the coat. Under this, by the way, is a frilled jabot of real lace, in that delightfully dainty fashion which is so characteristic of the season's mode. A toque of this kind would be very useful. The People's Restaurant, 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION.... GIVE ME A CALL Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. 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. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) 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 assures 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 the immediate community. In order to the merits and results of the J. V. H. will from time to time produce in print permission to do so, we have un among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a miracation is a natural and pure compound, hesitate to put in print. We will just States Government has placed national which it is protected and we are in turn est methods and square dealings. will positively remove Dandruff Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads of Franks—35 cts. per box; eight Beautifier makes the use of powder entiers. Sale prices, 25, 50cts and $1.00. Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. Address all co Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST. Telephone Correspondence S W. I. JO Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS F Orders by Telephone or Tele Suppers and Entertainment Telephone, 686 In order to convince the mer- ger of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grow- er produce in print the photograph who have used our preparation ing witness of its genuine qualities, expecting a miracle or anything un- pure compound, the ingredients of it. We will just remind the pru- ces placed national rights on the and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. Dandruff, Oure Scalp of less or Bald Hands, where the roots are per box; eight boxes, $2.80express of powder entirely unnecessary, roots and $1.00. Money can be sent by Order a charge of 10ct Address all communications to J. V. HAWK FIRST ST., — RI Telephone, 4601. respondence Strictly Confid I. JOHNS Director and E werrooms, 207 N. Foushee S. CKS FOR HA Telephone or Telegraph filled and Entertainments promptly 186. Residence the 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 from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-day among us providing 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 punitive compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on cur hair preparation by which it is protected 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 propail. The Face Beauty Outlet of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices: 25,500 and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing more power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scaffers and jeers; bring all your skepticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with low spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love; putting the separated and bring A. B. F to convince the most skeptical readers of Hawkins's Hair Grower and Restorer, we want the photographs of those giving us used our preparation and are to-day genuine qualities. We do not desire theacle or anything unreasonable. 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Union of American Heress and Nobleman Called Romantic Love Match-Young Couple Off For Newport Villa. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—In the famous Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street, in this city, Miss Gladys, youngest daughter of Mrs. Cornellus Vanderbilt, cousin of the Duchess of Mariborough and one of the richest of American heresses, became the bride of Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Henrik Simon Szechenyi, a young Hungarian noble of ancient lineage and comfortable fortune. The bride's dress was of white satin, and a fortune in precious old lace was spent in its trimming. The bridal vell M. COUNT SZECHENYI. is the one worn by Mrs. Cornellius Vanderbilt long years ago when she herself was a bride. The floral decorations alone cost a substantial fortune, as it was an orchid wedding, each blossom in the wealth of bloom representing $1. Standing under a bridal arbor of orchids, Count Szechenyi and Gladys Vanderbilt made their vows. Streamers of orchids trailed from the bridal bower to the lofty ceilings of the drawing room. The marriage ceremony was performed by Mgr. Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick's cathedral, the bride's attendants being Miss Ruth Vanderbilt Twembley and Miss Dorothy Whitney. Count Anton Sigray, who recently arrived here with Count Dionys and his wife and Count Paul Esterhazy, was the best man. The bride's brother, Cornelius, gave his sister in marriage to the count. After the ceremony a breakfast was served, to which some 250 invitations had been issued. The Vanderbilt home was superbly arranged and decorated, and one of the features of the ceremony was the superb music of a large orchestra. The wedding gifts exceed $1,000,000 in value and are guarded day and night by detectives and special police. The young couple left in the afternoon for Newport, where Mrs. Vanderbilt's home, The Breakers, has been prepared for them. There they will remain until Feb. 4, when they will sail for Europe. Both the prominence of the bride's family in the social and financial life of this country and the romantic circumstances of her choice of a husband lend the ceremony an unusual degree of public interest. Last summer Miss Vanderbilt became of age and under the provision of her father's will entered into possession of her share of his great fortune, estimated at from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000. Count Laszlo is a handsome man of twenty-eight, slender and straight, his bearing betraying his military frauing and devotion to out of door sports. Count Laszlo is said to have an income of some $60,000 a year and owns both town and country estates. Prince Regent of Linne Road HEIDELBERG, Jan. 29.—Count Leopold, the reigning Prince of Lippe, is dead here. He was born on May 30, 1871, and was the son of the late Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Count Leopold assumed the regency in succession to his father on Sept. 27, 1904. Queen Recovers Stolen Miniatures. LONDON, Jan. 28.—The three miniatures of the Duchess of Fife, the queen of Norway and Princess Victoria, belonging to Queen Alexandra, which were stolen recently from the studio of her engraver in London, have been returned through the post. Taft Yields to Knox. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Secretary Taft, having decided to stay out of New York and not try to obtain its delegates to the Republican national convention, it is said, has gracefully yielded the Pennsylvania delegation to Senator Knox. Fortune For Girl Secretary WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Miss Annie Lynam, private secretary of Representative Gaines of Tennessee, received a joyful surprise in a legacy of $50,000 under the will of her uncle, Michael O'Hara, who died in Ireland. Says She Rejected Abraham Lincoln SIOUX CITY, Ia., Jan. 27. — Mrs. Mary Frances Relley, eighty-five years old, who in 1839 rejected Abraham Lincoln's proposal of marriage, died here last night. CONDENSED DISPATCHES Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. No clew to the identity of the well dressed, handsome woman whose body was found on the beach at Port Rich mond, N. Y., has been discovered by the police. The theory of suicide advanced by Coroner Cahill is not yet accepted as final. At Pontiac, Ill., members of the board of managers of the Illinois State reformatory heard stories from the lips of officers of the institution themselves of brutality and torture inflicted upon William Hamlin, an inmate, whose death and the conflicting explanations thereof have raised a storm of criticism. Tuesday, Jan. 28. The receivers of the New York City railway have sued Thomas F. Ryan and other directors of the Metropolitan Securities company to recover $2,797,200. Niagara falls has an ice jam of large proportions. Its size and firmness are such that several parties ventured across it. The bridge extends from the American falls across the river. At Chicago one fireman was killed and thirty injured while fighting a spectacular blaze in a six story building at 163-167 Adams street which caused an estimated loss of $500,000. About a ton of dynamite stored in a small building near Washingtonville, N. Y., exploded, shaking the earth for miles. The shock was plainly felt at Newburg, N. Y., which is twelve miles away. The building was blown to atoms. Monday, Jan. 27. "Put up or shut up" in the matter of calling lawyers crooked was the challenge publicly issued to President Roosevelt by ex-Ambassador Chote in behalf of the New York State Bar association at a banquet there. The Thaw family at Pittsburg has been notified by attorneys for the Earl of Yarmouth that the fortune of the Countess of Yarmouth will not be given up by the family of Hertford without a bitter fight and a court decision. The Dominion government has decided to lend to the farmers of the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, whose crops were a failure, funds sufficient to purchase seed grain. The scheme in all will involve about $4,000,000. Saturday, Jan. 25. At Portland, Me., a fire caused a property damage of $1,000,000, destroyed the city hall and police buildings and endangered the lives of more than 700 persons. William F. Walker, fugitive bank cashier of New Britain, Conn., will fight extradition proceedings and will not return to the United States from Mexico until every means of defense has been exhausted. Attorney General Bonaparte has directed that a bill in equity be filed to set aside the control by the Union Pacific Railroad company and its subsidiary corporations of the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road. "My name is William Travers Jerome! I persecured Harry Thaw, and I must die!" 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Mulai Rachid, one of the leaders of Mualai Haif, the usurping suitan of Morocco, lost 600 men in an engagement with the French at Settat. Rachid has sent an urgent appeal to Haif saying his presence at Casablanca is imperative. Like having their own private yacht was the trip made by Josef Page and his bride, who arrived on the Hamburg-American liner Sarnia from Costa Rica. Page is a wealthy sugar planter, and the pair were the only passengers. They had the vessel to themselves, with twenty-five stewards at their beck and call. Police In Argentina Assembly BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 28—Following the promulgation of an executive decree closing the congress large forces of police occupied the congressional building to prevent the senators and deputies from attempting to take possession. The troops are still confined to barracks. At present there are no indications of disturbances anywhere. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations location. Money on call easy at 2 per cent prime mercantile paper, 5% to 6% per cent; exchanges, $42,586,806; balances $11,679,354. New York Markets FLOUR-Quiet and about steady; Minnesota patents, $.30.60; winter patents, $.48.60; 11: winter straights, $.45.00; 14: winter straights, $.36.00; 12: Steady; domestic fleece, 25@c6. HOPS- Steady; common to choice, 1907, 157; Steady, 1900, 46. POTATOES—Easler; but quiet; Pennay- wish; choice; do, fair to good, to good, @76:toc. New York; western, choice, @76:toc. do, fair to good, @76:toc. LIVE POULTRY—Steady and in fair demand; fowls, @12:31c. old roosters, @c.; grass, @12:31c. old roosters, @14:51c. geese, @12:31c; turkeys, @14:51c. DRESSED POULTRY-Quiet, but very dressed. do, fair to good. 12$14\%$c; choice. 13$c; do, fair to good. 12$14\%$c; choice. 13$c; do, roasting chickens, nearby. 15$16\%$c; do, western. 11$14\%$c; turkeys, nearby. 15$16\%$c; do, western, choice. 15$16\%$c; do, western, choice to fancy. 15$16\%$c; do, fair to good. 13$15\%$c; ducks. do, choice. 13$15\%$c; do, fair to good. 11$14\%$c; do, choice. 12$c; do, fair to good. 9$10\%$c Live Stock Markets CATTLE-Supply light; light; steady; CATTLE-Supply; prime; $3.90.$6.50; veal; CATTLE, $7.00 * 7.0088$. * HOGS heptapeiis fair; market slows heavy weights, light Yorkers and pigs * $4.60; mediums and heavy Yorkers, $4.60 * $4.60; roughs, $3.50@24. * MBS, supply high. SHEEP AND_LAMBS - Supply light; culls and common, $38; lambs; $7.50; culls and common, $38; lambs; $7.50; All Well With Evans' Fleet All Well With Evans' Fleet. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 29. -Rear Admiral Betbeder, the minister of marine, has received the following radiogram from Admiral Hipolita Oliva, who is in command of the Argentine squadron ordered to meet the American battleships and escort them down the coast: "We joined the fleet under Rear Admiral Evans at 9:30 o'clock at night. The Argentine vessels escorted the American squadron for a day, when flag salutes were exchanged, and, having made two runs around the American squadron at a speed of 14 knots, we left the fleet about 125 miles south of Mar del Plata. Rear Admiral Evans asked me to give his best thanks and to transmit to Washington word of the welfare and safety of all his command." Steamer Pawnee Sinks a Tug. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—The tug Edgar F. Luckenback, bound from Jersey City for Brooklyn, was run down and sunk off the Battery last night by the Clyde line steamer Pawnee, outward bound for Philadelphia. One of the crew of the tug is reported to have been drowned. 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