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THE RICHMOND PLANET THE TESTIMONY IN DETAIL No Conviction Would be Possible in a Court of Law. TO READ THE ADDRESS IS TO BELIEVE COLORED SOLDIERS INNOCENT. THE GREAT MYSTERY. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 25 THE T IN No Conv Possible in Remarkable TO READ THE ADDRESS (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.) But I was simple-minded enough when that came in to think I would like to know where those four rifles were that night, if I could find out. So I found out, from an examination of the property account of the company, that they were charged to four different soldiers, whose names were given. They were subpoenaed and brought before the committee, and they testified, and three of the rifles were accounted for as in the hands of men that night, not one of them showing any evidence of having been fired when examined the next morning. But it was sald by those who were disposed to criticise and not accept that as conclusive that these soldiers were interested and there might be unreliable testimony given. But it was not necessary to pursue that any further, for when we came to examine as to the fourth gun we found that gun was that night locked up in the arms chest of the storeroom of the company's quarters. I have told all this in the report, and I would rather read that. Mr. Scott. And that gun had never been used. Mr. Foraker. No. I want to read that, and I want the attention of every Senator who will so honor me. The thirty-three exploded shells were otherwise subjected to the most careful inspection by these experts. The result of this investigation was submitted to the committee in the form of an official report made by these officers to the Secretary of War. It is found at pages 1309-1325 of the record. Without being unduly tedious, the results were. 1. That there was such an exact identity between the indentations found on the heads of the thirty-three exploded shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville and the indentations found upon the exploded shells fired from 4 certain guns belonging to Company B of the Twenty-fifth Infantry that the officers reported that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville had been fired out of those four guns. 2. The experts further reported that they found that three of the shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville had a double indentation, as though the first attempt to fire them had failed and they had then been put a second time in the piece and struck a second time with the hammer or firing pin before they were exploded. 3. They further officially reported that certain shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville, nine in number, bore marks indicating that they had been twice or offender inserted in a rifle as though to be fired. DOUBLE INDENTATION The officers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry and all the men who were examined on the point testified that when they first received their rifles, about the last of April, 1906, at Fort Niobrara, they were found to be so heavily oiled with cosmoline that the spring which shot the bolt forward with the firing pin to strike the head of the cartridge and explode it was impeded to such an extent that it was a matter of frequent occurrence that cartridges failed to explode at the first stroke, but that after, by the use of coal oil and in other ways, this cosmoline had been entirely removed, so that the spring worked freely, such a thing as a failure to explode practically never happened; and all testified that long before these troops left Fort Niobrara, where they used their rifles in target practice, they ceased to have any such difficulty, and that during all the time they were in Brownsville no such difficulty could have been experienced if they had had the occasion to use their rifles. THE DOUBLE INSERTION As to the double insertion of car-tridges, the officers and men all ten- tified that while they were engaged in target practice at Fort Niobrara the call to cease firing very frequently was sounded after a cartridge had been inserted before it was fired, that this was a matter of practically daily occurrence. I should have said "hourly occurrence"— that always the soldier was required when the call to cease firing was sounded to at once remove from his gun any cartridge that might have been inserted but not yet fired, and that this cartridge so withdrawn was reinserted and fired when firing was resumed, and that in this way shells would show marks indicating that they had been inserted more than once in the firing piece. The officers and men all testified that except only on the target range at Fort Niobrara there was never in the history of these arms any such double insertion of cartridges or any occasion for such double insertion. It was the opinion of all the officers and men who testified on the subject that these double insertions never could have occurred except only on the target range at Fort Niobrara. What these officers say shows how improbable it is that such a double insertion could have occurred in connection with the shooting affray at Brownsville, when it is remembered that when an attempt is made to fire a cartridge and the attempt fails the bolt must be drawn backward, with the result that the ejector throws the cartridge out of the chamber and to the distance of anywhere from three to ten feet away from the gun. The idea that a raider would undertake in the darkness of such a night, and under such circumstances, to recover an ejected cartridge that had failed to explode in order that it might be reinserted in the piece is utter untenable. The same is equally true as to those cartridges showing double indentations. There could not be any double indentation without pulling back the bolt after the first indentation, with the consequent expulsion of the cartridge from the chamber out into the darkness and to the distance of three to ten feet away from the gun, then recovering and reinserting the cartridge. To suppose that on such an occasion, under such circumstances, any such thing would or could occur is an extreme improbability, if not an actual impossibility. THE FOUR GUNS The four guns out of which the experts found that the shells picked up in Brownsville must have been fired were identified by their numbers. The testimony shows that on the night of the shooting three of these guns were assigned, respectively, to Thomas Taylor, Joseph L. Wilson and Ernest English, privates of Company B. These men appeared and testified that they were in their quarters asleep when the firing commenced, that they heard the call to arms, rushed with their comrades to the gun racks, each getting some gun which he carried for that night and which he returned after the company was dismissed for the night to gun racks, where they were locked up and kept until morning; that the Following morning each one found his gun in the rack and that when submitted for inspection it was found to be perfectly clean and bright, showing no evidence of having been fired during the night. All testify that in the excitement and confusion each soldier grabbed the first gun he could get, but that all guns were found in the racks, where they were verified after the firing was over. These witnesses were clear, straightforward, and unqualified in all their statements, and their testimony should be sufficient, in the absence of specific contradiction, to establish the fact that no one of their guns was used in the shooting affray. They are confirmed by the testi- They are confirmed by the testimony of their company commander RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1908. Lieutenant Lawrason, who testified, at pages 1579 and 1580 as follows: "Q. Did you learn before your company was dismissed that night that it had been charged by Mayor Combe that the soldiers of the garrison had fired on the town?—A. Yes, sir. I was near the main gate into the town when Mayor Combe came up, and I heard part of the conversation with Major Penrose, in which Mayor Combe accused the soldiers of having done the shooting. "Q. Until that time had you any thought of that kind with respect to the men?—A. No, sir; I did not; I did not believe in an instant that the men had done it. "Q. That was the first intimation you had that anybody made any such claim?—Yes, sir; it was. "Q. And then it was after that Major Penrose dismissed you and told you to make these examinations, was it?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. You took your company back, as I understand you, to the barracks and dismissed the company. Then what did you do in execution of the Major's orders?—A. I saw the arms locked in the racks and later— "Q. I will ask you, before you left the racks, whether or not you counted the guns after they were put into the racks?—A. Yes, sir; I counted them. "Q. How many were there, or were they all there?—A. I don't remember the exact number, but I remember adding to the exact number of men on guard and the number of rifles that should be in the storehouse, and the first sergeant's rifle, and adding up seventy. "Q. That is to say you accounted for seventy rifles, did you?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. Was that the full number that had been issued to that company?—A. That was all that we had—all the Springfield rifles we had. "Q. And you remember, do you, positively that at that time you knew that you had in the gun racks the full number of rifles that should be there after deducting the other rifles that you accounted for as being elsewhere?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. If there had been three rifles missing from the racks, would you or not have detected it?—A. I have had been what? "Q. If there had been three rifles missing, would you have detected it?—A. I believe I would have detected one short. "Q. You would have detected one short. Now, do you remember Thos, Taylor of your company? A. Yes, sir. "Q. Do you remember seeing hm, that night?—A. I know that he was present that night, though I don't remember seeing his face in the ranks. "Q. How do you know that he was present—I mean present with your company, and I suppose you mean that?—A. Yes, sir; because I know that he was carried on the rolls of the company at this time, and I checked up the whereabouts of every man in the company that night. "Q. And you know that he answered to his name at the roll call, do you?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. Or if not that, you found him elsewhere?—A. Yes, sir; I know he was accounted for at that roll call. "Q. You have told us of all who were absent from the ranks when the roll was called, and he was not one of them; so therefore it follows that he was in ranks, does it not?—Yes, sir. "Q. Now, is that true also of Joseph L. Wilson?—A. Yes, sir; that is true of Joseph L. Wilson also. "Q. Do you remember seeing him in ranks that night?—A. No./sir; I do not. He is on one end of the company, and I believe in the rear rank, or at any rate not directly in front of me in the company. He is smaller than most of the men in the company. "Q. But if he had been absent when his name was called, you would have detected his absence, you would have observed it?—A. Yes, sir. You were paying particular attention, were you not, to the roll call?—A. Yes, sir; I was, because I believed that the barracks had been fired into, and I wanted to see if any man had possibly been wounded and left upstairs. “Q. And you also stated that you knew the voice of every man so you could distinguish it and recognize it when he answered to his name?—A. Yes, sir; I believe I am familiar with every voice in the company. “Q. Now, is what you have stated as to Thomas Taylor and Joseph E. Wilson also true as to Ernest English?—A. Yes, sir; I believe English was also present. “Q. Do you remember seeing him that night?—A. No, sir; I can not positively state that I saw the face of any man in the ranks that night. “Q. But you do remember distinctly that every man was in ranks answering to his name, except those whom you have given us the names of, who were away on the several duties you have mentioned?—A. Yes, sir.” THE FOURTH GUN But however it may be as to the testimony of these three men being sufficient to show that these three guns were not fired that night, the testimony is absolutely conclusive as to the fourth gun that it was not fired that night. This fourth gun, being 45836, was originally issued at Fort Niobrara to Sergeant Blaney. Shortly before the battalion left Fort Niobrara for Brownville his term of enlistment expired, and he re-enlisted and took the usual furlough of three months, to which he was entitled. Before starting on his furlough he turned in his gun to the quartermaster-sergeant, Walker Mc Curdy, who placed his gun on a piece of paper and put it in the bore of the gun next to the chiever, and then placed it in the arm tree and locked it up. Sergeant Blaney did not return to the company until after it left Fort Brown. On the night of the shooting his gun, with others, was still in this arm chest. They were all placed there when the battalion left Fort Niobrara. On arrival at Fort Brown this arm chest was put in the storeroom, and for want of room other baggage was pulled on top of the chest. On the night of the firing. [CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE.] THE PLATT SCANDAL U. S. Officials Alleged to Have Plotted to Get Love Letters. Sensational Statement Signed By J. Martin Miller, a Newspaper Man. Read In Court During Suit Against Aged Senator. New York, May 20.—High government officials at Washington are alleged to have conspired to obtain possession of love letters said to have been written by United States Senator Thomas C. Platt to Miss Mae C Wood, in a signed statement introduced as evidence during the hearing in Miss Wood's suit for divorce against the senator. The statement, which was introduced after the court had denied a motion by counsel for Senator Platt to dismiss the complaint, bears what purports to be the signature of J. Martin Miller, and Miss Wood said that while she did not see the signature affixed she was assured by Mr. Miller that it was genuine. The statement was prepared by Mr. Miller at her request, she testified. It declared that Miller was asked by "high government officials in Washington and New York to get possession of Senator Platt's love letters;" that the papers when obtained were not to be given to Senator Platt, but were to be turned over to "Mr. Loeb in Washington;" and that when the plan to get possession of the original papers failed, a scandal was begun in the newspapers to force Miss Wood to come to terms. "Wynne first assistant postmaster general started the ball rolling by getting a New York newspaper to print the article as it first appeared," says the statement, which concludes: "I was gotten into the conspiracy by powerful officials whom I dare not to displease from a newspaper or political standpoint. I consulted Mr Howe, Senator Platt's secretary, frequently, and acted at all times under the direction of Loeb and Platt." Former Postmaster General Robert Wynne is the present American consul general to London. J. Martin Miller a former newspaper man, recently was american consul at Rheims, France. "Did Miller ever say anything to you about the letters?" asked the examining attorney of Miss Wood. "Yes," she replied; "he said that if he got the letters the Platts would ```markdown ``` The Girl From Tim's Place By CHAS. CLARK MUNN, Author of "The Hermit." An absorbing romance out the depths of the story in which natu- ture and affection a together. A story o preciate every line. Do not miss the open our ne An absorbing romance and mystery from out the depths of the Maine forests. A story in which nature, mystery, adventure and affection are charmingly woven together. A story of which you will appreciate every line. Do not miss the opening chapters of this, our new serial. "There is no disputing the fact that among the writers of fiction to-day Charles Clark Munn is easily in the forefront. His stories are pictures of homelife, and he revels in Nature's beauties," - Baptist Union, Chicago, Ill. "What was he going to do with them?" "Hold them over Platt's head, I be lieve," she answered. In her testimony given earlier in the day, Miss Wood, then under cross examination, was led to tell of the circumstances under which she signed, in 1903, in this city, a release of Senator Platt from any claims she may have had against him. She testified that she received from A. H. Hummel the sum of $7500 upon signing the statement, but denied that she was aware of all its contents. Loeb Enters Denial Washington, May 20. — Secretary Loeh said that he knows nothing about the allegations contained in the statement signed "J. Martin Miller," and brought out in the Wood-Platt suit in New York, and that the statements made therein in so far as they concern him, are wholly untrue. "I never called on Senator Platt," he said, "and know nothing whatever about the matter." Choked Him In Bed, Took His Teeth, New York, May 20—Simon Simons, a storekeeper of Bath Beach, after going four days without a square meal because his wife was carrying his false teeth around in her pocket, summoned her to court to recover the molars. He said as they lay in bed she choke (him until he opened his mouth and she plucked out the teeth, saying she would return them when he gave her $15 she claimed he had of hers. The magistrate made her give back the teeth. Methodists to Flent Fight Methodists to Elect Eight Bishops. Baltimore, May 20. — There was a lively tilt among leaders of the general conference of the Methodists when thereport of the committee on episcopacy was introduced, recommending the election of ten new bishops. Finally, after excited debate, it was decided by an almost unanimous vote that eight bishops should be chosen, making the total four more than ever have served the Methodist Episcopal church. Bumped Head On Auto Seat; Killed. Greenwich, Conn., May 20.—When Blanche Olmstead, twelve years old, bumped her head against the front seat of an automobile in which she was riding near this place as it stopped suddenly, she did not seem to be hurt. She was playing with other girls as usual, several hours later, when a headache seized her, and she died before a doctor arrived. It developed that her skull had been fractured. Mrs. Guinness Was Burned to Death. La Porte, Ind., May 20.—The upper and lower plates of artificial teeth from the mouth of Mrs. Belle Guinness were found in the ashes of her home. "This proves beyond the shadow of a doubt," said Sheriff Smutzer, "that Mrs. Guinness was burned to death." Dr. I. P. Norton, who made the lower plate, positively identified it. He also identified the upper one, having frequently seen it. never get them." and mystery from the Maine forests. A ure, mystery, adven- ure charmingly woven of which you will ap- ning chapters of this, new serial. Mr. H. B. Phillips for many years connected with W. A. Sorg is now with the Capitol Shoe and Supply Co. Inc., and will be very glad to see his many friends. He comes to us well recommended as a first class shoe man. Sunday, May 24th, there will be a grand rally at Sharon Baptist Church. The following divines will preach: 11 A. M., Rev J. J. Woodson; 3 P. M., Rev Z. D. Lewis, D. D.; 5 P. M., Rev Evans Payne, D. D. Minister Slew will later revival. Temporarily insane, according to his own statement, Rev S. A. Coffman, aged fifty years, a prominent Methodist Episcopal clergyman, cut his wife's throat. A moment after the crime, he says, he regained his senses and realized what he had done. He surrendered himself. Mr. Coffman lived at Rosstown, about three miles from Fairmont, W. Va., and was in charge of two or three local churches. During the last week or two he has been conducting revival services and has been adding to the membership of his churches. Sunday he finished his revival and appeared to be well pleased with the result. After midnight he and his wife were discussing the services, when he suddenly seized a poker and began striking her on the head. Mrs. Coffman succeeded in escaping from the house to a garden, but was followed closely by her husband. When he caught up with her another fight for her life took place, in which she was overpowered. Coffman had a knife, and when he had his wife powerless in his grasp he cut her throat, causing her instant death. According to his statement, when he looked on her lifeless body his sanity was immediately restored and he realized what he had done. TWENTY-THIRD QUADRENIAL SESSION. Norfolk, May 15, 1908. Three bishops for America and two for Africa, the latter with a continuous period of residence fixed at twelve years on that continent, is the record-breaking achievement of the twenty-third quadrennial session of the African Methodist Episcopal General Conference at its session yesterday. The interest centered in the election of the five men to the highest office within the gift of the Church, and drew immense crowds to the St. John's A. M. E. Church, the seat of the Conference, and at 8 o'clock yesterday morning fully an hour before the for the opening of the session the galleries were packed with men and women, white and colored, who had gathered to witness the scenes to be enacted during the day. Dr. E. W. Lampton, of Mississippi; Dr. H. Blanton Parks, of Arkansas; and Dr. J. S. Flipper, of Georgia were elected bishops for work in America. Dr. J. Albert Johnson, of Philadelphia, and Dr. W. H. Heard, from Atlanta, Ga, were elected bishops for South Africa and West Africa, respectively. That a strenuous night had been Norfolk PRICE, FIVE CENTS passed by the friends of the various candidates was obvious, and on all sides were heard rumors of various combinations to place favorite candidates in the lead. It was apparent from the outset that Dr. E. W. Lampton, perhaps the foremost man in the Church, and financial secretary would lead in the fight, and the prediction that he would be elected on the first ballot was voiced by a hundred or more men. When the conference convened, the subdued excitement was only paralleled by the fervent religious exercises conducted by the leaders, apparently in the hope that a calm and sober frame of mind would come over the delegates. Various soul-stirring songs were sung as only colored people can sing, and a fervent prayer offered by Dr. J. M. Murchison, of Arkansas, in singing, the conference was opened by Bishop B. F. Lee of Ohio, who, after the religious exercises, recognized the chairman of the Episcopal Committee Rev. J. I. Lowe, who reported that the committee had examined the characters of all the bishops, including Bishop James A. Handy, who is sick at his home in Baltimore. The committee also recommended the following: First, that tellers be selected, one from each district; second, that the secretaries of the conference be the clerks of the election; third, that the three bishops for the home work be elected first and the two for Africa afterwards, and, fourth, that the ballots for the bishops for Africa should designate whether the candidate was voted for for the Southern or for the Western field. The committee further recommend ed that the bishops for Africa shall remain on the continent for a period of twelve years, not leaving their districts to return to America except once in four years, to meet the general conference, or such other time as shall be designated by the bishops' council. Bishop Lee lenced the chair to Bishop Levi J. Coppin, of Philadelphia, who presided over the seventh district during the last quadrennium. Bishop Coppin was greeted by one applause and was prefixed with a handsome floral anchor by the ministers and delegates from his diocese. A. L. Murray, D. G. Hill, S. J. West, R. E. Moore, R. L. Beale, W. A. Fountain, W. C. Blanton, J. J. Morant, A. A. Brooks, A. S. Jackson, S. M. Gibbs, T. J. Askew and F. M. Gow were elected tellers. While the tellers were taking their places, so great became the confusion that the singing of "Jesus Lover of My Soul" had but little effect on the delegates. After order was finally restored, Bishop H. M. Turner, the senior bishop of the Church, who has been recently elected historian, offered a fervent prayer for the blessings of divine guidance upon the day's work of the conference. After the election the conference took a recess for dinner, it then being 6:30 o'clock. Promptly at 8 o'clock Bishop Coppin called the general conference to order and after a song and prayer the general conference started in usual upon occasion. In the midst of confusion the nation wailed adjourning until this morning. The features of the session to-day will be election of general officers and there will be a Lively time. There were many meetings held during the night, and it is said that none of the delegates slept. Rev. Dr. Edward's Congregation Buys Church Site. The congregation of the New Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. A. E. Edward's pastor has purchased the two frame houses on the south-east corner of 4th and Jackson Streets for $4200. This does not include the two dwellings in the rear. It has not been decided when the work of erecting the new building will commence. KNIGHTS OF RYTHAS A New Lodge in Richmond Grand Chancellor John Mitchell Jr. instituted another new lodge of Knights of Pythias in this city at St Luke's Hall, 26th Streee, Thursday night, 14th inst. with the following officers: Chancellor Commander, John James Vice Chancellor, Fletcher Ransom; Prelate, Osborn White; Master of Work, O. M. Steward, Jr.; Keeper of Records and Seal, Rev. W. S. Jackson Master of Finance, Walter Atkinson; Master of Exchequer, John E. Bruce; Master at Arms, Willie Ross; Inner Guard, William Dabney; Outer Guard William Massey. Trustees, Nelson Eatman, Isalah Howard, Willie J. Atkinson. The Grand Chancellor was accompanied by Sir S. S. Baker, Dr. J. Alexander Lewis and Sir S. W. R. Glem and was assisted by Sir Charles E. Steward and members of North Star Lodge. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Sir O. M. Steward and he was highly commended for his work. re: oa a IMS PLACE “DY CHARLES CLARK MUKA COPYRIGHT, /906, BY LOTMROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. Twa CMAPTER ¢ toll, until now, wearled aad disconss Yate, abe had crept, barefoet, wp the baek stairs to her room, not one mo- ment's rest er one Kindly werd had beea hers. Belew. in the ene living room ef ‘Tim's Place, the men wore grouped wioytng cards, and the mediey of their veaths, their Imughter, the thump of Knuckles on the bare table, amd the yangent odor of pipen reached her ‘through the floor cracks Owtside the firefiies twinkied abeve the slow-run- ming river and slong the stamp-deteed Biliside. Close by, & few pigs dosed contentedly in their rudely soastruct- ea sty. . A Servant to those scarce @ for servants, a menial at the beck and call of all Tim's Place, and laboring with the men in the Selds, Chip, a gtr] of almost 16, felt her sowl revelt at the filth, the brutality, the cearse exist ‘ence ef those whose slave she was. Aad what a group they were! First, Tim Connor, the owner and master of thie oasis in the wilderness, €0 miles from the nearest settlement; his brother, Mike, as coarse; their ‘Wives and a half a dogen chiMren whe Played with the pigs, squealed as eften for food, and were left to grew up the same way; and Pierre Lubec, the hired man, completed the score. There was another transient rest- dent here, am old Indian samed To mab, who came with the enow, and deserted bis but below on the river Wank when spring unlocked that stream. Two occasional visitors aleo came here, both even more objectionable te Giip than Tim and his family. One was her father, known to her to be an outlaw and escaped murderer tn hid ing; the other « halfbreed named Bolduc, but known as OneEyed Pete, & trapper and kunter whose abode was @ log cabin on the Fox Hole, ten miles eway. His face was horribly searred by a wildeat’s claws; ene esesocket was empty; bit lips, ehin, and protrad- ing teeth were always tobseco stained. For three monthe now, be had made ‘weekly calls at Tim's Place, in pursuit of Obip. His wooing, as aright be ex- ected, had been « persistent leering at her with bie one sinister eve, oft- Tepeated innuendoee and tneinuations of lascivious nature, scaree unéerstood by her, with now and then attempted familiarity. These advances had met ‘with much the same reception ones accorded him by the wildcat. Both theee visitors were mow with the group below. ‘That tact was of mo interest to Chip, except in ecuneetion ‘with a more pertinent one—e long con- ference she had observed between them that day. Whet & wes about, she could not guess, and yet eome queer Intuition told ber that % con cerned her. Ordisarily, she would have sought seep in her bor-on-lees bed; now she crouched on the floor, Ustening. For an hour the game and tts med- ley of sounds continued; then cessa- on, the tramp of beavily shod feet, the light extinguished, and finalh— eilence. A few minutes of this, and ‘then the sound of whispered converse, low yet distinet, reached Chip from outside, Cautiously she crept to he window. “I gif you one hunerd dollars now, for ze gal.” Pete was saying, “an’ one Bunerd more when you foteh her.” “It's three hundred down, I've tok ye, or we don't do business,” was her father’s answer, tn almost a bisa. A pain like a knife piercing he heart came to Chip. “But s‘pose abe run away?” came fr Pete's voier. “What, 60 miles to a settlement: ‘You must be a damn fool!” “An’ if she no mind met “Wal, thrash her then; she's yours.’ “But I no gif so much,” parleyed Pete; “T gif you onefeefty now, an one bunerd when she come.” * “You'll give what I say, and be quick about it, or IM) take her ont to morrow, and you'll never see her “agadn: 80 fork over.” “and you fotch her tomorrewf “Yee, I tald you.” And so the bar gato was concluded. Only & moment more, while Chtp sa mumb and dazed, then came the soun¢ of footsteps, as the two men separated and then stlenee over Tim's Pines. And yet, whet a horror for Chip! Gold like a horse or @ pig to this worse than disgusting half-breed, and on th morrow to be taken—no, dragged—t the half-breed’s hut by her hated fa ther. Hardly consetous of the real inten and object of this purehase, she ye understood it dimly. Life bere wa bad enough—it was coarse, unloved even filthy, and yet, bard as tt was, wae a thousand times better tha: slavery with such an owner. And now, still weak and trembito from the shock, she raised her hea eautiousty and peeped out of he wir dow. A faint spectral light from th ‘rising moon outlined the jog vern, th ‘two log cabins, and pigsty, whieh, wit ‘the frame house she was In, comprise (Ram's Place. Above and beyond wher [the forest enclosed the biliside, | ‘tone brighter, and as Chip looked ov impos the ctheral siivered view, awa ‘to the right che sow the dark opents ‘tmto the aid tove road. Up this the Tongings—& pair oT Sid shoes, the mov sasine Old Tomah bad given her, a ekirt and jacket fackioned from Tim's santof garments, a fur cap, and soft felt hat—she thrust them Into a sotied villow-caze and crept down the stairs. Once ont, she leoked about, listened, then darted up the billside, straight for the tete road entrance. Here she -pamsed, put en her mecoasins, and Jooked back. The moon, new above the tree-tope, shone full upon Tim's Place, eoftentng and silvering all ite ugliness and all {ta squalor. Away to the left stood Temah’s het, across the river, a shin ing path bright and rippled. |_In spite of the awfel dread of her situation and the years ef her hard jwapaid. and ofttimes cursed toil, a pang of regret mow came to her. This was her heme, wretched as it was. Here she bad at least been fed and warmed im winters, and here Old To- wah had shown her kindness. Oh, if he were oaly im his hut now, that she “might go and wakem htm softly, and deg him to taxa her in his eance and _Bpeed down the rtrer! | But no! omly her own desperate courage would mow ava!l, and realising that this look upon Tim's Place was the last one, she turned and fled down the path. Sixty miles of stomy, bush. encumbered, briergrown, seidom-ray- led road lay ahead of her! Bizty miles through the somber allence and persisteat menace of « wilderness, peopled only by death-intending erew tures, yellow-eyed ead sharp-tanged! ‘With only & sickening. soulnause ating fate awaiting her at Tim's Place, and her sole escape this almost ineane fight, she sped om. The faint spectral rifts of moonlight through Interlaced fir and spruce as often Gecelved as aid. ed her; bending boughs whipped her, dushes and logs tripped her, sharp stones and pointed stieks bit her; she hurried over billocks, wallowed through sloughs and dashed into tan- sles of briers, beediess of all except her one mad tmpulee to escape Soon the ever present menace of « wilderness sssalled her,—the yowl of & wildeat close at hand; tn a swamp, the sharp bark of « wolf; ono hilleide above ber, the hoot of an owl; and when after two hours of this deeper ate fight bad exhausted ber and she was forced to bak, strange creeping. crawling things seemed all about And now the errutte, fantastic belies ot Olt Tomah returaed to her. With him the forest was people by « weird Uncanny race, sometimes vistbie and sometimes not—“epites,” he calle: them, and they were the poule of both | man and beast; rometimen good, some ‘Umes evil, acoording us they had beer in life, and all good of Hi luek wae due to thetr ghostly influeness. They fol lowed the hunter and trapper day enc night, luring him into aafety or danger As they chose. They were everywhere nd in countless numbers, ready and sure to avenge all wrongs and rewan all virtues. They had a Chieftain aleo ‘8 great white spectre who came forth Sg p= ot Se SY ee Boa Aen OT al aed (ae ay ZL a> : po nih ae ey ott popes! « eA Sd ere ee ee ‘The Ever Present Menace of a WH from the north in winter, and swept across the wilderness, spreading death and terror. To Chip, educated only in the fan- tastie lore of Old Tomah, these terrors mow became insantty breeding She could not turm back—better death among the spites than sleviag to the half-breed; and so, faint from awful fear, gasping from miles of running, ehe ‘stumbled on. And now a little hope came, for the road bent down be side the river, and its low voice seemed | & word of cheer. Inte tts cool depths she could at least plunge and die, as last resort Boon an opening showed ahead, and & bridge appeared. Here, for the first ‘fipe,en this vantses potut, she batted How thrice bieosed those knowed logs ow scomed! She hugged and pattes Yhem tm abject gratitude. She crawied ‘Wo the edge and looked over imto the ack, gummling water. Up above lay : faint ripple of silver. Here, also, she could see the moon almost at the eenith, and a few flickering stars. A trifle of courage and renewal o hope now came. Her face and hand Were soratched and bleeding, clothing torn, feet and legs black with mud But these things she neither notice: nor felt—only that blessed bridge o jogs that gave her safety, and th moon that bade her hope. ‘Then she began to count he chanees. This landmark told her tha ‘ive miles of her desperate journe! had been covered and she was sti aiive. She began te calculate. Hov ‘s00n would her escane be discovered THE RICHMOMD PLAMET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Gat WhO woud pursue BFP our Pote, her purchaser, she felt sure, and there was a possible chance that he might return to his cabin before deing g0. Or perhaps he might sleep late, and thus give her ene or two bours more of time And now cheered by this trifing hope and lessening senne of danger. har past life came back. Her obild- hood in a faroff settlement; the home always in a turmoil from the strange men and women over coming and go img; the Grinking, swearing, singing, at all hours of the night, her constant fear of them and wonder who they ‘were and why they came. There were other features of this disturbed life: frequent quarrels between ber father and mother, curses, tears, aad some times biows, anti] at jast after a night more hideous tham any other her mother had taken her and fied. Then came a long journey to another village and @ new life of peace and quietness. Here it was all so different—no red shirted men to be afraid of, ao lewd Yoleed women drinking with them Bhe became acquainted with other ohildren of her own age, was seat tc scheol and taken to church. Here also, her mother began to smile onos “more, and leek content. Fer twe years, ‘and the only ones Chip cared te reeall, “she had bosn & happy soheeigiri, an¢ then came a sudden, tragic ond to It ai. Of that she never wished to thimik | It was all #0 horrible, and yet se mers! fully brief. The one friend life held, her mother bad been brought home, wounded & Geath amid the whirring wheels ef the mill where she werked; there were 1 few hours of agonized dread as he Mfe ebbed away, a whisper or twe o' love aad longing, and then the sa farewell made doubly awful by he father’s frowning face and harah volos AC its ending, and in spite of her fear and toarg, she war now borse away bj bim. For days they journeyed deepei and deeper into n vost wilderness, t halt at last at Tim's Place. Like a dread @ream it all came baal ‘ROW, as abe ley there om this one ffa spet of seeurity—the bridge—and lis tened to the river's low murarer. All threugh her mad fight the wilder ees had besa ghostly and spectral fh the moonlight; now It had become low im toky Diaekness, yet alive with do montac volees. All the goblin form aad bideens shapes of Old Toman’ fancy were rushing an4 leaping about Now high up in the treetepa, sow dee; in the hollows, they screamed an shriexed and moaned. And now, just an this fierce battle 0 sound and spectral shape was at tt ‘worst, and Chip, a Bopeless, heipies: mite of bumantty, crouched low upes the bridge, sudéeoly a vicloos rrew reached ber, and raising her head sbi saw at the bridge's end two gleamia: eros! CHAPTER tl. Martin Frisbie and his nephew Rey- mond Steteon, or Ray, were euttiog doughs and carrying them to two tents standing in the mowth of «a dosh shoked opening Into the forest. In front of this Angie, Martin's wife, waa placing tin diehex knives and forks upon & low table of boards, Upem the dank of a broad, slow-rumaing stream, two canoes were drawn owt, and half way between these end the table «© camp-fire burnt Here Levi, Martin's gutde for many trips {nto this wilderness, was alse oc cupted, Inteatly watching two pala de pending from bending wambecks, coffee-pot hanging from anether, and Gro lfiskieebasa whows upettertair sone tents gave forth an enticing oder Twilight war fust falling, the river murmured In low melody, and @ few rods above a small rill entered tt, add ing a more musienl tinkle Boon Levi defty swung one of the ‘paila away from the flame with « hoot stick and apenred a potato with a fork ‘Supper rendy.” he called; and then as the rust sented themeetven at the table, be advanced, carrying the pail of steaming hot potatoes om the hooked stick and tie frying-pen in bie other hand ‘The meal had scarce begun when a crackling in the undergrowth back of the tent was heard, nnd on the tnatant there emerged a firl, Her clothing opi perehenlg Vein dl caer were black with mud, atreake of Blood showed across cheek and chin, und her eyes were flerce and sunken “For Got's sake give me suthta’ to eat,” she said, looking from one to an other of the astonished group. “I'm damn near starved—only « bite,” she added, sinking to ber knees and ox tending her hands. “I hatn’t eat noth- In’ but roots ‘n' borries for three days.” Angle was the first to. recover. “Here,” she said, hastily extending her plate, “take this.” ‘Without « word the starved creature grasped it and began eating ae only s desperate, hungry animal would, while the group watched her. “Don’t hurry so,” exclaimed Martin, whose wite had uow returned. “Here take this cup of coffee.” Boon the food vanished aed then the girl arose. “Sit down again, my peo child.” entreated Angie, who had ob Served the strange scene with mots eyes, “and tell us whe you are ani where you came from.” “My name's Chip,” answered th girl, bluntly, “an’ I'm runnin’ away from Tim's Place, ‘cause dad sold m te Pete Bolduc.” “Bold—you—to—Pete—Bolduc,”_@4 @laimed Angie, looking at her wide eyed. “What do you mean?” “He did, sartin,” answered the gir Jaconically. “I heerd ‘em makia’ th Dargain, ‘no’ I fetched three hundre dollars.” Martin and bis wife exchange glances. “Well, and then what?” continue Angie. “Wal, then I waited a spell, tf they'd turned in,” explained the gir “and thea I lit out. I knowed ‘twas ¢ miles to the settlement, but. ‘twa moonlight ‘n’ I chanced it. I've ha ‘an awful time, though, the spites he chased me all the way. I was Sia makin’ a nestle when I seed yer lighi ‘an’ I crept through the brush ‘t ‘peeked. I seen ye wa'n't nobody trot ‘Tim's Place, ‘n’ then I cum out. fucss you've saved my lite, 1 wa Sittin’ dinzy.” > Se ee slate of morality at this. that the little group of Usceners contd soarce Mnish wupper or cease watching this much- soled girl. “and so'Ybur name ts Chip,” queried Aagie at last. “Chip what?” “Chip McGuire,” answered the waif, quickly; “only my real rame ala't Chip, it’s Vera; but they've allus called me Chiprat Tim's Place.” “And your father sold you to thia man?” “He did, ‘n’ he's a deme bed man,” replied Chip. readily. “Ke killed some dody once, an’ be don't skew up often, T kate ktm?” “You mustn't ure swear werds” re- turned Ameie; “it's not aloe.” ‘The girl looked abashed. “T guees you'd ess jf you'd been seid to suck & nastyioaking man as Pete,” she re- sponded. “Pe chaws terbaecer 'n’ lets 48 drizaly or his chin, ‘n’ he hain’t but ue we.” Angie siniied, while Martin stared at the Eirl With imcreseed astonishment. Ne knew who this MeQuire was, and something of bis bistory, amd that Tim's Place was « hilleide clearing far we the river, inhabited by mn Irish family devoted to the raining of pote tees. Ho bad halted there ence, long ameugh to observe Hs somewhat siete ful condition, nnd to bey perk and pe tatoes: But this tele was « revelation, | and the girl herself a xrenter one. This oasis in the wilderness was “fully 40 miles nbere here. its only oem Asetion With olvilization wae & seldom used log road which only an expert @aced Woodsman cowN! follow, and how this mere child bad dared it, was 8 marvel. But there she was, squat en the gresnd and watehing them with bix Work, pleading eres. There was but ene thing to do, to oare for her new, as hemanity ineiated, and Angie made the first move. It was im the direation of cleanliness; for entering the tamt she soon appenred with some of her own extra clothine, soap, and towels, and bade the girl follow her up the Hver @ few rods ‘The moon was shinmng clearly above the treetops, the campfire burned weightly, and Martin, Ray and Levi were lounrics near M when the twe returned, “end in one an aetenishing transformation hud taken place. Angie had gone away with a girl of ten im rongeet to clothing, her skirt | evidently mate of xenay oloth and reaching bat Mttle below her kmena, and for @ waist, what was.onee « | men's red Macneil shirt and both fa rags. Botled with beck mad, and [Seating woe Tas an obec ide | beyond words: ehe returaed 4 young lady, almost. in etature, ber face shia tag And Tory, and ber eves so tender with gratitude that they were pathetia. Another chante bad also come with cleanHinews and clothing—a sudden Deshfeiness. It was some time ere ake could be made to talk again, but finally that wore away and then her ory came What a tole it was— nearce credibie It wae we fantastic, word, almost spookiak tale,—the spectres che had teen wore po real to her that the tall img made thom enem almost #0 to the rest, and beyond that, the gir! herself, se Nike & young witch, with her shad wy eyes and furdive glances, added to the {Musion. But now came s diversion, far Levi freshened the fire, and at & mod from Angie, Ray brewght forth his banjo. NR was bis one pot folble, and Ht went whh bin everywhere, and now, with time aod place #0 tm accord, be was glad to exhibtt Ais talent. He was not an expert—a few jigs and plantation melodies composed bis repertory —but with the moontight gliating through the spruce boughs, the river murmur. tng near, somehow one could not fail to cateb the quaint humor of “Old Uncle Ned.” “Jim Crack Corn.” and the lske, and see the two dusky lovers ts they floated down the “Tombighes River” and feel the pathos of “Nellis Grey” and “Old Kentusky Home.” Ray sang fairiy well and tn eympe thy with each thems, To Angle and the rest it was but ordinary; but t this wait, who never before had heard & Dapjo or @ darky song, it was man velous Her face Itt up with keen tp terest, her eyes grew misty at times and once two tears stole down hei cheeks, For so hour Ray was the center o: intereet, and then Angie arose. “Gome, Chip,” she said pleasantly “Ws time to go to bed, and you ar to share my tent” “Td rather not” the gtrt repited ‘Dinmtty. “Telet Ot 1 kin fist os wo swurl “lonestde of the fra” But Angto tnsisted and the girl fo Yowed her into the tent. Here ccourred another tncident ths must be related. Angie, always de vout, and somewhat puritanical, wa one who never forgot her night! prayer, and now, when ready for slum ber, she knelt on the bed of fir twin and by the light ef one smal! cand) )| offered her usual petition, while Cht | watehed her with wide and wonderin -| eves. As might be expected, that wa ,| was mentioned, and with deep feelin ET dete one eee an aa dive; pba SC ae ae oe soaree better was No men: tion, thus far, had been made of her: und 20 Angie reflected upon thts pitiful ebiid's ancestry and what manver of heritage she bed been blessed or cursed with. Some of her attributes awoke Angic’s admiration. She had shown utter abhorrence of this brutal sale of herself, a marvelous courage im endeavoring to escape it She seemed grateful for what bad bees done for her, and « pertial reallestion of her own unfitness for sesesiation with refined people. Her speeeh was no Worse than might be expected from her Mfe at Tim's Place. Doubtless, she was unable to read or write. And #0 Angie lay, considering all the pres and cons of the situation and of this etet's life. There was also another aide to ft all, the humane one. They were on thelr Way out of the wildernems, for a bust ness visit to the newest settlement, intending to return to the woeds tn 2 few daye—and what was to be éene with this child of misfortune? Most aseuredly they must protect her for the present. But wae there anyone to whom she could be turned ever and cared for? It seemed peest "ble this brotal buser of her weuld fel lew her out of the woods, to abduet her if found, and then the moral side of thie episode with all tts aborataable Pestbiiies cocurred to Anata, whe was, above all, unselfieh and neble hearted. Vice, erime, and immorality were horrible to her. Here was a welfevident duty thrust img {trelf upon her, and how to meet It with Justice to herself, her husband, J and her own consctence, was a prob lem. Thus dwelling upen thie gem. | plex sttuation, she fell asleen. ‘The frat faint Tight of merning was “stealing {nto the tent when Angie felt | er companton stir. She had, exhaust | ed an whe doubtlens was, fallen asleep | atmoot the moment she ley down; but now abe was evidently awake. | Gnrious to note what she would ée, Augie remained with closed eyes and | motionless, From the corner of the tent where she bad curled up the night | before, the girl now cautiously erep! | toward the elder woman. Inch ¥y j iach, upon the bed of howgtha, sb | moved nesrer, until Angie, watehing | with helfopened eyes, saw her head | lowered, and felt two soft, warm lips touch her hand eae naw acl | the met of a cat who rubs hersel against her mistress or a dog who lieke Ma master's hand, and yet tt settled ence for all that waifs fate and ‘Angie's tadeciaica. CHAPTER ttt Levi was starting a fire, Ray wash- ing potatoes, and Martin, in hte ehirt- aleeves, using a towel vigorously near the canoes, when Angie and Chip emerged that morning; and now while breekfast is under way, & moment may be seized to explain who the peo- We were and their mission in this wilderness. Many years before, in a distant vil Inge called Greenvale, two brothers, David and Amal Curtis, bad quarreled over an unfortunate division of is- Rerited land. The outcome was that ‘Amz, somewhat misanthrople over the death of his wife, and of pecullar makeup, deserted his home and Itttle daughter Angeline, and vanished. For many years no one knew of his where abouts, and he was given up as dead In the meantime bis child, eared for by a kindly women known as Aunt Comfort, had grown to womanhood. About this time a boyhood sweetheart of Angeline’'s, named Martin Friebie, who had been gathering wealth In a Gistant city, invited a former chook mate, now the village doctor tn Green- vale, to join him on an outing trip into the wildernces Here something of the history of a notorious outlaw named McGuire be came known to Martin, and more im- portant than that. a queer old hermit Was discovered, dwelling {m solitude on the shore of @ small lake, Who he was, and why this strange manner of Ute, Martin could not learn, and not ‘wntil later, when he returned to Green vale to woo his former sweetheart noe more, did he evan guess. Here, Dowever, from a description furnished by a village nonedscript—a sort of Natty Bumpo and philosopher com bined, known as Old Cy Walker, whe Dad been Murtin’s youthful compaatoa —he was led to believe that the ques hermit and the long-miseing Amal were one and the same. Another trip into this wilderness ‘with Old Cy, taken to identify the her mit, resulted fn proving the eorrest Ress of the surmise. Then Martin se about making this misanthropic re eluse more comfortable in all way possible; and then, leaving Old Cy t keep him company, be returned t Greenvale and Angie. A marriage was the outcome of hi return to his native village, and then with his nephew, Ray, and long-trie ena orcs Qamaaa | aye © 5 ee ee I Pepsi SSS el Ue § ‘ * Paes hoe ea iy bate Le i, a alg - a Og 2 \ bere BR A, re \ en Loe) ed “1 Never Had Nothin’ But Werk ‘rn Cussin’.” guide, Levi, as helpers on this anique Wedding trip, the harmit was visited. It was hoped that meeting his child OER: aan aiaseen Bie whtyeed Cay ence and to return to civilization; and i did—partially, He seemed happy to. meet his daughter again, cennented to retura with them when ready, aaé after a couple of weeks’ sojourn here, ‘the canoes were packed and al! eet out for civilization and Gresavale once mare. But “home, sweet home,” albeit it ‘was, as in this case, a lonely log eabia im & vast wilderness, proved stromger ‘than parental love or aught else; and sometime during first night's camp en the way out, this strange recluse stole away in bis canoe and returned. “T's natur,” Old Cy observed when morning came, “an’ home it ths hard- est spot in the world to fergit, Amat's Myed in that eld shack all ‘lone fer 30 years. He's got wonted to it like a dog te Bis kennel, an’ all the powers @' the unlvarse can't break up the foslin’” ‘Tt seemed an indisputable, if disap- pointing. fact, and Martin led his party back to the hermit's home once mere. Ansther plan was new coxsidered by Martin—to buy the township, er at tenet a large tract enclosing this lake, Dutid a more commodious jeg oebin for the use ef himself and his wife, aad spend a portion of each rummer there. ‘There were several reasons ether thas ‘those of affection for this decision This lake, perhaps half a mile ia Gameter, tesmed with treut The lew mountains enclosing it were thiekly (@overed with fine spruce and fr, groves ef pine with seme beech and bireh grew im the valleys; deer, moose and feathered game abounded hore, and beet of all, no vandal lumbermes ever encreached upon this region | It was, all censtdered, a varttable sportaman's paradise. Most Mkely a few thowsand dollars would purchase it, and n0, fer these collective Poasons, | Martin decided to buy It. Old Cy was left to keep the hermit company; Martin, hin wife, and Ray, with Levi, started fer civiMeation to obtain needed supplies, and had been four days upon the way whea this /much-abused waif appeared on the scene. The party were journeying tu | two canoes, ene manned by Ray, who had already learned to wield a paddle, which carried the tents and luggage; while the other was oceupled by Mar | tin, his wife, and Levi. The only avail- | able seat for the new arrival was in | Bay's cance, and when breskfast was | Gispored of and the voyagers ready to | start, she was given a place thereia. | The river at this point was broad aed of slow current, only two days’ Journey was needful to reach the set. Hement and no eause for worry ap peared—but Levi felt otherwise. . “You'd best hug the futher shore,” be observed to Ray quietly when the | boy pushed off, “an’ don't gt out 0° | aight o' us.” “I ain't eartin ‘bout the outcome o” this matter,” he said to Martin later. “I know that half-breed, Boldue, and he's @ bad ‘un. From the gal's story he paid big money fer her. He don't know the meant’ o' law, and if he follers down the tote road, as I the rst we'll know on't ‘ll be the crack o' a rifle. The wonder to me ic he didn’t ketch her ‘fore he got to us | He could track her faster'n she could run. I don't want 40 ‘larm you folks, , but I shan't feel easy till we're out o° | the woods.” It wasn't reassuring. But no thought of thie came to Ray, et least, and those two young people, yielding to the magic of the morning, the rippled river that bore them on ward, the birds singing along the fir. clad banks, and all the exhilaration of the wilderness, soon reached the care free converse of youthful friends. “T.never had nothin’ but work ‘a’ cussin’.” Chip responded, waea Ray asked if sbe never had any time abo could call her own. “Tim thinked I Couldn't get tired, 1 guess. He'd roust me up fust of all ‘mn’ larrup me if he caught me shirkin'. Once I had « lit Ue posey bed back o' the pigpem. I fred it after dark an’ mornin's whon 1 Ketehed the chance. He ketehed me thar one mornia’ a-weedin’ it ‘a’ knocked me sprawlin’ an’ then stomped ‘All over the posies. That night I went out into the woods 'n’ berged the epttes to git him killed somehow. ‘Nothe: time I forgot to put up the bars, an’ the cows got into the taters. ‘That night be tied me to a stump clus to the bars, an’ left me thar all night. 1 used ‘to be more skeered o' my dad 'n I was @ Tim, tho’. He'd look at me like he hated me, an’ say, ‘Shut up,’ if I said | © word, an’ I ‘most believed he'd kill me, just fer nothin’. Once he sald he'd take me out into the woods a! might ‘n’ bait a bear trap with me | he heerd I didn't mind Tim. I told Old Tomah that, an’ be std if he did, he'd shoot him; but Old Tomah wasn’ | Found only winters. I hated dad so I ‘w shot bim myself, I guess, tf I cuc | ‘Ss’ got hold o° a gun when be wa'n’ watchin’.” ' “It's awful to have to feel that wa; toward your own father,” taterrupte< Ray, “for he was your father.” |}: “Ts'pose “twas,” admitted Chip, oan Gidty, “but I never felt much different Tre seen him slap mother when sh ‘wes on her knees a-bawlim’, and’ th ‘way he would cuss her was awful” id ieee Ried a Oe a oo ee | eee ae more, an’ herd wildeats yowlin’, Pa eit on my kaees ‘a’ beg mother to keep * vem away. { think she did, an’ allus hall.” ‘A more serious subject was under Sine oe we. ethataee, ceppalion lf time, as to the disposition of Chip herself. “I feel it my duty to take care of her,” Angle said, after relatisg her eonversation with Chip and thet aorn- ing’s incident. “he is a hemeless, outcast waif, needing eduoation and everything else to Christianice her. ‘We must bring her ta,the setilement, but to turn ker adrift might meas lea- ing her to @ life of vice, even if she escapes her brutal father aad this worse halfbreed. Then, agaia, | am ‘mot sure that her parentage will bear inapection, She has told me some thing about her sarller life, and about her mether, who ovidently loved her. ‘One course only seems plain to mo— to take care of and educate thls .a- fortunate.” “We must take tho girl back with us and begs her reformation at the ‘samp. If she shews any aptitude and willingness to obey, we will take her We Greenvale. If ot, you must ar Tange get her into some taatiin- tien.” “And suppose the half-breed finds where she Ia, what thea” inquired Martin. “What do yeu say, Levit” ke added, turning to his gulde, “you Kaew this fellow; what will he be apt to do?” “La'peso yeu know what a paxther'll de, robbed of har oub,” Lavi anawered, wan’ Low @ bull moose acts Im runnin’ time, mebbe. Wal, this Pete te wore’ doth om “em biled inte one, I callate. If you're goin’ ter take the gal back, you've got to keep her sha€y, or some day youll find her missin’. Besides, Pete, ex I told ye, don't knew the meanin’ o' law and is handy with a un.” But Martin did mot quite share Levi's fears, and so Angie's decision was agreed to. Levi's advice to “keep shady” was accepted, however, and all through that summers somewhat thrilling experieacos it was the rule of eonduct. When supper was over came the lounging beside the cheerful fire, and an the thadows thickened, forth came Ray's banjo once more, and with it the Nght of admiration in Chip's eyes ‘AMI that day he had been her charm- tag companion; his open, manly face, his bright brown eyes, had bean ever before her. His well-bred ways, so un Uke all the men at Tim's Place, had impressed her as those of a youth of 18 will & maid of 16; and now, with bis voice appealing to the beat in her, he seemed like Pan of old, once more wooing 4 nymph with his pipes. No knowledge of this was hers, no conciousness of why she was happy came to her. She knew what apites were; but the god Pan and Apollo with his harp ware unknown forms. Nelther did she realize that bora in ber soul that day, on the broad shin- ing river, was a magic {mpulse woven out of her heart throbs, amd destined to mete out to her more sorrew than all elee in her lite combined. She bad eatered the wondrous vale of love whose paths are fowerstrewn, whose shores are rippled with laugh: ter, and whore borders, alas! are ever Bid in the midat of tears CHAPTER IV. A week was spent by Martin and his party at the settlement, during which he ucquired the title to township 44, renge 10, which included the little lake near the hermit’s hut, and made 4 four-equare-mille tract about it. Chip, thanks to Angie, secured a simple outtit of apparel aad—aurpris- ing fact—evinced excellent taste in Its Selection, thereby proving that olght years of {solation and a gunny-sack and redebirt garb had not obliterated the deepest instinct of womaa. ‘To Levi, Martin's woodwise helper, was left the selection of Mttings for the new camp, A couple of husky Canucks were engaged to briag them in tn a bateau, and thea the party started on its return. Only one Incident of Importance oc- curred during the wait at this village kuown as Grindstoue. Angie and Chip had just left the only store there, in front of which a group of log-drivers had congregated, when Augie, glanc- ing back, saw that one of the group Was following them. She quickened her pace, and so did he, unttl Just as they turned {nto a side street, he passed them, halted, and turned about. “Wal, I'm damued if tain't Chip, an’ dressed lke @ leddy,” he exclaimed, as they drew near. “Hullo, Chip,” be added, as they passed, “when did you strike luck?” Chip made mo response and he mut- tered again, “Wal, I'm dammed, jest Uke # leddy!™ It was annoying, ospecially to Angie, And neithér of the two realized how soon this bluat log-driver’s discovery ‘would reach Tim's Place, And now, leaving the bateau to fot- low, the party started once more on their Journey {nto the wilderness. No | sigbt or sign of pursuit trom the halt. | breed had been thus far observed. A few idle lumbermen in the village— THE PLANET SATURDAY.....MAY 23. 1908 dissented. "Tain't best,*" he said, "to let Tim know there's two canoes of us and one not stoppin. It'll make him 'splicious o' suthin', 'n' what he 'spects, Pete'll find out. I callate we'd best pass thar in the night, leave the winnem above, 'n' you 'n' I go back 'n' git what we want. "But what about the Canucks following us with the batsau?' returned Martin. "They'll tell who is with us, won't they?'" "They didn't see us start," answered Levi, "n' can't swarm winnem came. We'll say we're alone, 'n' bein' so'll make it plausible, 'n' you might say we've gotn' to build a camp 'n' 'mother season fetch our winnem in." "But how about our men, on the return trip, after finding we have women at the camp?" rejoined Martin. "They will be sure to tell all they know on the way back." "We've got to keep the wimmen shady, an' fool 'em," answered Levl. And so his plan was adopted. It was in the early hours of morning when the two canoes crept noiselessly past Tim's Place. The stars barely outlined the river's course, the frame dwellings, log cabin, and stump-dotted slope back of them. All the untidiness existent about this dwellings was hid in darkness, and only the faint sounds and odors betrayed these conditions. But every eye and ear is the two canoes was alert, paddles were dipped without sound, and Chip's heart was beating so loudly that it seemed to her Tim and all his family must be awakened. Her recent escape from this spot and all the reasons forcing it, the fear that both her father and the half-breed might even now be there, added dread; and not until a bend hid even the shadowy view of this plague spot did she breathe easier. "I was nigh skewed to death," she whispered to Ray when safety seemed assured, "an' if ever Pete funds I'm up whar the folle-is goin', I'm a goner." "Oh, we'll take care of you," returned that boy, with the boundless confidence of youth; "my uncle can shoot as well as anyone, and then Old Cy is up at the camp, and he's a wonder with a rifle. Why. I've seen him hit a crow a half-mile off!" Smoke was ascending from the chimney, and the rising sun was just viable when Martin and Leif returned to Tima's. Mike was out in an enclosure, milking; Tim was back of the house, preparing the pigs' breakfast. The pigs were squealing, and a group of unwashed children were watching operations, when Martin appeared. A pleasant "Good morning" from him and a griff one from Tim was the introduction, and then that stolid pioneer started for the stry. Not even the unusual event of a caller could hinder him from the one duty he most enjoyed—the care of his beloved swine. "You have some nice thrifty pigs," began Martin, when the pen was reached, desiring to placate Tim. "They are that," he returned. "My guide and I are on our way into the woods, to build a camp," continued Martin, anxious to have his errand over with, "and we halted to buy a few potatoes of you and some pork. I have a couple of men following with a bateau," he continued, after pausing for a reply which did not come; "they will be along in a day or two with PIG "They Are Thot," He Returned. most of our supplies; but I felt sure I could get some extra good pork of you and some choice potatoes." "You kin that same," replied Tim, his demeanor obviously softening under this flattery, and so business relations were established. Martin had intended asking some cautious question regarding Chip or her father; but Twin's surly face, his unresponsive manner, and a mistrust of its wisdom prevented. He was blunt of speech, almost to the verge of insolence, and the arrival of Merlin with all his polite words evoked not a vestige of welcome; and yet back of those keen gray eyes of his a deal of cunning might lurk thought Martin. Two slovenly women peered out of back door and window while the interview was in progress. Mike came and looked or in silence; two of the oldest children were down by the canoe where Levi waited; the rest, openeyed and astonished, seemed likely to be trodden on by some one each moment. When the stores were secured and paid for, and Martin had pushed off with Levi, he realized something of Chip must have left there. He had intended not only to obtain potatoes, but some information of value. He obtained the goods, paying a thirty price, also a good bit of cold shoulder, and that was all. But Levi, shrewd woodsman that he was, fared better. "I larned Chip's gone off with old McGuire," he asserted with a quiet smile when they were well away, "an that Pete's swainer' murder again him." "Aad how?" responded Martin, in astonishment. "I felt that silence was golden with that surly chap, and didn't ask a question." "I'm glad," rejoined Levi. "I wanted to tell you not to, and I've learned all we want. Children are easy to pump, an' I did it 'thout wakis' a hint o' splcicon. Tim's folks all believe Chip's gone with her dad. Pete thinks so, an' is watchin' for him with a gun, I 'spect, an' if so, the sooner they meet, the better." It was gratifying news to Martin, and when the other canoe was reached, the two again pushed on, with Martin, at least, feeling that the ways of Fate might prove acceptable. Three days more were consumed in reaching the lake now owned by him, for the river was low, carries had to be made around two rapids, and when at last the sequestered, forest-bordered sheet of water was being crossed, Martin wished some titanic hand might raise an impassable barrier about his possessions. Old Cy's joy at their return was almost hilarious. To a man long past the spasmodic exuberance of youth, loving mature and the wild as few do, the six months here with the misanthrope old hermit, then a month of more cheerful companionship, followed by the departure of Martin and Angle, made the forest home-coming doubly welcome. But Chip's appearance, and the somewhat thrilling episode of her escape from Tim's Place and her rescue, astonished him. Like all old men who are childless, a young girl and her troubles touched a responsive chord in his heart, and on the instant Chip's unfortunate condition found sympathy. Her bluntly told story, with all its details, held him spellbound. He laughed over her description of spites, and when she seemed hurt at this seeming levity, he assured her that spites were a reality in the woods—he had seen hundreds of them. It was not long ere he had won her confidence and good-will, as he had Ray's, and then he took Martin aside. "That gal's chaser's bin here 'bout a week ago," he said, "an 'the worst-lookin' cuss I ever seen. I know from his description 'twas he. He kept quizzin' me ez to how long we'd been here, if I knew McGuire, or had seen him lately, until I got sorter riled 'n began to string him. I told him finally that I'd been foolin' long; that McGuire was a friend o' mine; that he'd been here a day or two afore, borrowed some money 'n lit out for Canada, knowin' there was a bad man arter him. Then this one-eyed gazoo got mad, real mad, 'n said things, an' then he cleared out." When Martin explained the situation, as he now did, Old Cy chuckled. "Talin' often one shoots in the dark 'n makes a bull's-eye," he said. "I think you and I had better keep mum about this half-breed's call." Martin added quietly, "and if Angle mealtions it, you needn't say that you know whe he was. It will only make my wife and the girl nervous." The two tents were now pitched at the head of a cove, some rods away from the hermit's hut, and well out of sight from the landing, and to these both Angle and Chip were assured they must flee as soon as the expected bateau entered the lake, and remain secluded until it had departed. In a way, it was a ticklish situation. All knowledge that this walf was with Martin's party must be kept from Tim's Place and this half-breed, or she wouldn't be safe an hour; and until the Canucks had come and gone, she must be kept hidden. Another and quite a serious annoyance to Martin was the fact that he had counted on these two men as helpers in cutting and hauling logs for this new camp. Only man-power was available, and to move legs a foot in diameter and 20 feet long, in midsummer, was no easy task; but Levi, more experienced in camp-building, made light of it. "We'll cut the logs we need, clus to the lake," he said, "feat 'em round, 'n roll 'em up on skids. It's easy nough, 'n we don't need them Ca-nuckers round a minit." It was four days of keen suspense to Chip before they appeared. Neither she nor Angie left the closed tent while they remained over night, or until they had been gone many hours, and then every one felt easier. The ringing sound of ares now began to echo over the rippled lake, logs were towed across with canoes, a collar under the new cabin site was excavated, and home-building in the wilderness went merrily on. While the men worked, Angie and Chip were not idle. Not only did they have meals to prepare over a rude outdoor fireplace, but they gathered grass and moss for beds, wove a hammock and rustic chair seats out of sedge grass, and countless other useful aids. Chip was especially helpful and more grateful than a dog for any and all consideration. Not a step that she could take or a bit of work that she could do was left to Angie; her interest and do-all she could desire never flagged, and from early morn until the supper dishes were washed and wiped, Chip was busy. But Martin, and especially Lovil, had other causes for worry than those which camp-building entailed. The fact that this "Permicious Pete," as Angle had once called him, would soon learn of their presence here, and hating all law-abiding people, as such forest brigands always do, would naturally seek to injure them, was one cause. Then, there were so many ways by which he could do harm. A fire started at one corner of the hut at midnight, the same Indian-like malice applied to their two tests, the stealing of their canes or the gassing of them with a hunting-knife, and countless other methods of venting splits, presented themselves. In a way, they were helpless against such a right-prowling enemy. Oversee one hun THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA dred miles separated them from civilization and all assistance; an impassable wilderness lay between. The stream and their canoes were the only means of egress. These valuable craft were left out of sight and sound each night, on the lake shore, and so their vulnerability on all sides was manifest. Then, Chip's presence was an added danger. If once this brute found that she was here, there was no limit to what he would do to secure her and take revenge. They had smuggled her past Tim's Place, but concealment here was impossible; if ever this half-breed returned, she would be discovered, and then what? An so by day, Martin and Levi were busy with hut-building, or beside the evening camp-fire when Ray picked his banjo and Chip watched him with admiring glances, these two guardians had eyes and ears ever alert for this expected enemy. TO BE CONTINUED. The Testimony in Detail. and immediately after the company was dismissed for the night, Lieutenant Lawrason, the company commander, under orders from Major Penrose, proceeded to verify his rifles. He carefully counted the rifles in the gun racks and found there the exact number that belonged in the racks. He then went to the store-room, taking with him the quarter-master-sergeant, who unlocked the room, that he might enter. After entering the room he told the quarter master sergt, that he wanted to verify the guns in his custody—those in the arm chest. The quartermaster-sergeant thereupon removed the baggage that had been piled on top of the arm chests, unscrewed the lids, opened up the guns, and Lieutenant Lawrason counted them, finding that every gun was there—not one missing. In this way he establishes that Blaney's gun was at the time of the firing in the arm chest, with the lid screwed down and baggage on top of the chest, and the door of the storeroom fastened under lock and key. In other words, it is conclusively shown that as to this one gun at least it was utterly impossible for it to have been fired in Brownsville or that it ever had been fired, except only on the target range at Fort Niobrara before the battalion left there. Lieutenant Lawrason's testimony on this point is as follows: "Q. That night, when the guns were put back in the racks, did you count them?—A. Yes, sir; I counted them as they were placed in the racks. "Q. Were the rifles locked up?—A. They were, sir. "Q. By whom?—A. By the noncommissioned officer in charge of quarters. "Q. Who was that?—A. Sergu-George W. Jackson. "Q. Is he a reliable man or not? —A. I believe him to be a reliable man, sir. "Q. And a truthful man?—A. I think so, sir. "Q. He had been a sergeant in that company for a long time, who he not?—A. He had, for several years, I believe, sir. He was in the company when I joined it. "Q. And a man of good record in every sense?—A. I believe he was, sir. "Q. Now, you saw the gun racks locked by him; then what did you do next after you had put the rifles away and locked them up in that manner?—A. I then went down and inspected the rifles in the storehouse. "Q. Who was in charge of the storehouse, or storeroom, whichever you call it?—A. Quartermaster-Sergeant Walker McCurdy. "Q. Was he, also, an old sergeant?—A. Yes, sir; he was an old sergeant of Company B. Was he or not a reliable anu truthful to me? I always believed truthful to me, sir. "Q. He had been in the service many years, had he not?—A. Yes, sir; he had. "Q. And had everybody's confidence as a good soldier and a faithful noncommissioned officer?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. He was the quartermaster-sergeant. As quartermaster-sergeant what was his duty with respect to the surplus rifles and surplus ammunition? I mean surplus in the sense that it was not in the hands of the men?—A. He. He was accountable for it, and it was his business to keep it locked up. "Q. You went to the storeroom after you locked up the rifles; who went with you to the storeroom?—A. The quartermaster-sergeant. "Q. Sergeant McCurdy?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. What did you do, and what did you tell him, and in what condition did you find the room; was it locked or unlocked when you went to it?—A. It was locked and he opened it. He took out a bunch of keys, as I recollect it, and fumbled around and got the right key and unlocked the door. The storeroom was very small, and we could not put all of our quartermaster property in there, and there was some confusion in the way in which the stuff was pled. We had to remove a lot of company property. Q. I will come to that in a minute. What did you tell Sergeant Mc Curdy you wanted in the storeroom when you went there: did you tell him or not what you wanted to do until you got into the storeroom?—A. No, sir; when I got into the storeroom I told him that I wanted to see the rifles that he had in the storeroom. Q. That is, rifles that he had in his possession?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. Did you know how many rifles he had in his possession at the time?—A. I did, by referring to the company property book which was kept there. "Q. We will speak about that presently. Now, go on and state what you did and what he did when you told him.—A. He told me that the rifles were locked up in the arm chests. I told him to open them, and he opened one full arm chest that contained 10 rifles, and also opened another that. I believe, contained two or three rifles and several old company shotguns. old company shotguns. "Q. Now before you opened the arm chests, let me ask you whether or not they were easy to get at, or whether there was anything on top of them?—A. No, sir; they were not easy to get at. As I recollect, we removed considerable property before we got the arm chests out and got room to unscrew the lids. "Q. What kind of property was this?—A. Iron quartermaster bunks and, I believe, some iron uprights to hold mosquito bars—T-shaped things "Q. They had been piled on top of these arm chests, had they?—A. Yes, sir; and were standing against the wall, between us and the arm chests. "Q. When had you last before that seen these arm chests, and where?—A. I had seen at the Fort Nilobrara, Nebr., before shipment, and when they were unloaded from the wagons and placed in the storehouse at Fort Brown "Q. Where were these extra guns placed in these arm chests, whether at Fort Niobara or Fort Brown, or where?—A. They were placed in the arm chests at Fort Niobara. "Q. Do you remember seeing the guns—rifles—put in the arm chests and the arm chests closed up for shipment at Fort Niobara?—A. I do not believe I was present when the property was boxed up. It was boxed up some time before our departure, and Captain Shattuck was in command of the company at that time. "Q. You have told us in what condition you found the chests as to other property being piled on top; this property was removed, was it, from the tops of the chests?—Yes, sir. "Q. And then were the chests opened, or not?—A. They were opened under my supervision and the arms counted. "Q. State in what condition you found the inside of those chests, as to the arms.—A. The arms were SEVENTEEN—FORAK. placed in the proper grooves for them, and they were battened down, or held down by cleats that fit in the boxes to prevent their rattling around during shipment. "Q. Thy had been fixed that way before they had left Niobrara?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. And were they in that same condition when you opened them that night?—A. They were in the same condition, sir. "Q. Did you count the rifles when they were opened up?—A. Yes, sir; I counted them. "Q. I will ask you another question—whether or not, before these rifles were shipped from Fort Niobrara, they were coated with cosoline oil or any other kind of oil?—A. believe they were coated with cosoline oil at the time I looked at them at Fort Brown. "Q. When you looked at them, was there any indication that they had been disturbed in any way what ever since they had been boxed up at Fort Nlobraria?—No, slr; there was not; I did not take out all the boxes; I could count them without taking them into one of the boxes; I picked up one or two from the top." "Q. And you did count the riffles in both boxes?—A. Yes, slr "Q. And you remember that the requisite number of rifles were there, added to the other rifles that you found in the racks, and that you counted as away from there, to make up the number of seventy?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. There was not a rifle missing was there?—A. No, sir." On this point Quartermaster-Sergeant Walker McCurdy testified (p. 1658) as follows: "Q. What book is that in front of you there? See if you recognize it.—A. This is the company's property book, sir. "Q. The company property book of Company B?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. Will you turn to that and see what gun Sergeant Blaney had assigned to him, according to that book, when these New Springfield rifles were issued?—A. [Examining book] I think it was 15683. "Q. 45683." "Q. Now, it has been testified to, I believe, that Sergeant Blaney was absent on furlough. When did he go away on furlough?—A. It was about the same time I was made quarter-master-sergeant—about the 9th or 10th of June. "Q. That is, you succeeded him when he went away on furlough?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. Had he returned while you were yet at Brownsville? When did he return?—A. He returned at El Reno. "Q. He was not with you at Fort Brown at all?—A. No, sir. "Q. What was done with his gun when he left to go on furlough the 9th of June, or whatever date it was?—A. He took it up and packed it away. "Q. He turned it in?—A. No, sir; he turned in his own rifle. He will tell you himself that when he returned there was a slip of paper put in the chamber to show whose rifle it was, to keep me from issuing it to anyone else. "Q. Who put that in there?—A. I put it in there myself. "Q. What was on that slip of paper?—A. 'William Blaney.'. "Q. Now, when he returned, were you still with the company?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. At El Reno?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. And you were still quartermaster-sergeant?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. And did you continue as quartermaster-sergeant?—A. Until I was discharged, sir. "Q. Until you were discharged?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. Now, what was done in the matter of providing Sergeant Blaney with a gun?—A. I gave him his same rifle back. "Q. You gave him back that same rifle?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. What does the company book show there as to what ultimately became of it?—A. The company property book only shows here that it was checked off. "Q. Look at the number of the gun and see whether there are some initials placed over the number?—A. No, sir; only 'O. K.' here, when it was turned in. "Q. What is that written over the number [indicating on book]?—A. That is the captain's check mark. "Q. That is 'C. C. K.'—A. It is 'O. K.' "Q. No; 'C. C. K.'—A. That is the captain's check mark, of Captain Kinney. He could tell you. He did that himself. "Q. The gun was turned in. You LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM LINCOLN HAIR POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR BREAKING OFF WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATE LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT OR SHORTH A WOMAN'S JUST HAIR. TO STRAIGHTEN HAIR. PUTTING CONDITION SHAPE JUST TRY A BOTTLE E. There is no other preparation Pomade in producing soft, beautiful a natural hair cleanser—a natural reduces the hair to a straight s supplies the air with a silky s rough or heavy your hair is no it may be. the use of Lincoln Hair can well be the envy of others. highly recommended preparation. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade further substitutes. 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That is the number you gave? “Senator Foraker. Yes. "By Senator Foraker: 'Q. Well, it is the number that is there. State where that gun was on the night of the 13th of August, 1906.—A. It was in the arm chest, sir, in the company. 'Q. In the arm chest?—A. Yes, sir. 'Q. Was the arm chest open or closed?—A. It was closed, sir. 'Q. Where was the arm chest?—A. It was in the storeroom. 'Q. How long had it been in that arm chest, and who had placed it there?—A. I placed it there at Fort Niobara. 'Q. At Niobara?—A. Yes, sir. 'Q. It was one of the guns that were in your charge? It was one on a number in your charge at that time, was it?—A. Yes, sir. 'Q. You have already testified that you packed up in the arm chests all the guns you had charged up to you?—A. All the surplus guns that were not in the hands of the men, sir. "Q. You have a clear, positive distinct recollection of that fact, have you?—A. Yes, sir. "Q. You can not be mistaken about it?—A. No, sir. "Q. It was No. 45683? That was the number?—A. Yes, sir." If this gun was not fired that night in Brownsville, as the testimony conclusively shows it was not, then it follows that it the shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville were fired out of this gun must have been fired at Fort Niobrana. The testimony shows this was both possible and probable. Before this microscopic investigation was made or any such question was foreseen, it was established by uncontricted testimony that Company B took with it to Brownsville as a part of its baggage a box containing from 1,600 to 2,000 exploded shells, with a proportionate number of clips, and that after arrival at Brownsville this box, opened, stood on the back porch of B barracks, where anyone passing might have access to it and remove shells and clips from it. The microscopic reports say that the shells picked in the streets of Brownsville and put in evidence were, beyond a reasonable doubt, fired out of these four guns belonging to B Company. 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Still other facts were developed and established by the testimony that might be cited as confirmatory, the innocence of the soldiers, but it is necessary for present purposes to be the discussion of that character of evidence. I want to pass to a consideration of the legislation that has been proposed, but before taking that up I desire to call attention to the. PROBABILITIES of his case, or rather its improbabilities. To any mind at all familiar with human nature, and able to reason, as to the probabilities of human action, there is testimony of the strong factors in the soldiers in the striking improbability of the whole theory of their guilt. Is it probable that men of the character the testimony shows these men to be would deliberately plan such a conspiracy? And if they had ability enough to plan and execute such a conspiracy, would they be stupid enough to enter upon its execution by breaking open their gun racks, as they did in Company C, and by firing from their rear porches as it is charged they did in Company B, or that they would be firing from within the reservation grounds, on which they would remain until by such firing and such operations they had aroused the whole town, and directed attention to themselves, thereby fixing their identity as soldiers; and that when they had thus fixed attention upon themselves, and not before, they would, in the presence of the aroused citizens jump over the wall of the reservation and start on their errand of outrage and murder? Is it reasonable to suppose that if the ralders were soldiers they had commenced firing anywhere in the wintry of the reservation? It must be remembered that it is the theory of those who believe in their guilt that operations were commenced in this gangling manner and that yet their proceedings were so carefully planned that, although they had accessories before the fact to enable them to secure the guns and pass the guards and accessories after the fact to enable them to return, clean their guns, and otherwise deceive their officers, yet all concerned—the President thinks the great majority or the battalion—have so carefully guarded the secret that no one has allowed a single word or hint to cape that even tends to convict. Such secrecy would be utterly impossible; but it is, if it were possible, utterly inconsistent with the performances with which their proceedings were initiated. The two ideas are utterly at variance with each other—at war with each other—they destroy each other. And if the soldiers were so reckless as to disclose their identity as soldiers by breaking open their gun racks and opening fire in the way indicated and at the places indicated, why should there have been maintained such secrecy with respect to themselves and their operations in other respects? Is it reasonable to suppose—can any fair-minded man believe—that men capable of planning and executing such a conspiracy and willingly engaging in such a work would be so secretive on the one hand and so absolutely reckless on the other? And is it reasonable to suppose that if there were from five or six or eight to twenty soldiers engaged in the raid they could have gone through the town to the extent described by the testimony, and In the manner shown by the testimony, and then from a point distant 300 to 350 yards from the fort have returned to the barracks and rejoined their companies while in the process of formation, under the very eyes of their officers, without being detected? in order to have returned to their companies before their formation was EEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS THREE completed they would have had to run swiftly and would, therefore, have been likely to show excitement, quick breathing, and other effects of their exertion, which would be observed. The testimony of all the officers is unqualifiedly that not a man in any one of the companies showed any sign whatever of having participated in the affray. 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Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B. -Bollowing schedule figures published only as information, not written: 6:20 A. M. -Daily-Local for Charlotte. 11:15 A. M. -Daily-Limited-Ruffet Pullman to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans, Madison, Chattanooga, and all the South. Through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham. 6:00 P M.-Rr. Sunday -Kyville Local. 5:00 P M.-Far all the South 4:00 P M.-Far all the South YORK RIVER LINE 4:30 P. M.—Ex. Sunday—To West Point—Coe necting for Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 2:15 P. M.—Ex. Wednesday and Friday— Local to West Point. 4:80 A. M.—Ex. Sundays—Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 7:00 A. M. 8:49 P. M.—From all the South. 4:10 P. M.—From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham Chase City and local stations. 9:20 A. M.—From Keysville—Local to Baltimore Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. 10:45 A. M. 8:45 P. M.—Local from West Point C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. 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COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address in all instances we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. in good condition matter. SATURDAY . . . MAY 23, 1908. Colored folks should continue to buy land. Some of us are hard up most of the time and some of us are well off all the time. --- Governor James K. Vardaman is out of office and is forgotten. He abused the Negro until he got hoarse and went out of office. O Secretary Taft may be nominated at Chicago, but he will have a hard time running and the men will find him a heavy load to carry. Senator B. R. Tillman has left this country and gone to Europe Praise God from whom all blessings flow. --- The political situation in the country will not worry the Southern colored brother. He has a brigade or duty to look after anything that comes along and he is not even scratching his head over the prospect. --- The Republican Party has gone on record in the United States Senate or rather its representatives have done so that it is too much divided to accord the Negro soldiers simple justice. --- President Roosevelt seems to gloat over the fact that no matter how unjust and arbitrary his action may be there is no law to reach him. Other rulers in the world's history have felt the same way, but they reached the graveyard in due course of time and were buried and forgotten. No, the colored man need expect no sympathy and no help from the Democratic Party, but they can feel a grim satisfaction when they see some Anti-Negro member of the Republican Party whipped by some member of the former organization. --- Senator J. B. Foraker made the fight of his life in the Brownsville matter and he may succeed in getting his bill passed by Congress. Still, it may be that some way out may be found to reinstate the colored soldiers and thereby save the prestige of the distinguished occupant of the White House. Mr. Roosevelt's influence is on the wane and the election of his successor will emphasize the fact, that in this case, "the sceptre may depart from Judea before Shiloh comes." --- After looking at all of the facts in the case, we have reached the conclusion that Congressman Thomas J. Heilin and Louis Lundy are birds of the same feather. Louis Lundy is in jail for assaulting a colored woman and Heilin should be in the penitentiary for attempting to kill a citizen or this Republic. --- Colored people should not be in despair over the outlook. From our position, we can see a great future in store for our people. The agitation now going on is the work of demagogues, who envy our progress. The Negroes are the only ones who have been able to withstand the white man's progress and be adapted to his way of doing business. We understand him and he understands us, even when some one of them would have the world believe otherwise. --- Some of our people are very anxious for President Roosevelt to turn to that part of the Holy Bible that relates to Pharaoh, his hardness of heart and what befell him as a result of his obstinacy. Of course there are no Red Seas hereabouts for him to be swallowed up, but there are many other punishments just as bad. King Roosevelt, read the chapter on Pharaoh. THAT NEW YORK DECISION The colored soldier, who expected to get justice in the Brownsville Case by appealing to a United States District Judge in New York certainly had faith. He should have remembered that there are three co-ordinate branches of the government and that the President of the United States is one of them. By that, we mean that they are presumed to have equal powers in their respective spheres. For well nigh a century until Hon. Theodore Roosevelt reached the White House, one was careful not to encroach upon the limitations and powers of the other. President Roosevelt has thrown courtesy to the winds, for from censuring a judge in Chicago, he has lectured the Congress of the United States. By his action he has encroached upon the privileges and prerogatives of the judicial and legislative branches of the government, all of whose powers as we have stated are equal. Judge Hugh in ruling in the case of Oscar W. Reid, who was dismissed from the army of the United States without honor side-stepped in a manner that would have done credit to the Supreme Court of the United States. His decision though is somewhat interesting in view of the open declaration of President Roosevelt that he would not obey an act of Congress directing the reinstating of the colored soldiers to the service, for in his carefully guarded decision, he recognizes the right of the legislative branch of the government to limit, define and regulate the powers of the Commander-in-Chief of the army. Here is what he said: "But the 'authority' causing and directing his discharge was the President of the United States, who personally gave the order theorefer; so that the final question upon the assumptions, very favorable to the petitioner, is whether the President, as Commander-in-chief of the army, is 'proper authority' to terminate in invitum a soldier's enlistment. "This question must be answered affirmatively, if either there be inherent constitutional authority in the President, as Commander-in-chief, so to do, or there be such authority in the absence of Congressional statutory action limiting, defining, or regulating the Commander's powers; or if in this case the President's acts of Congress regulating the army and discharge therefrom." If President Roosevelt can extract satisfaction from this decision, then he is easy pleased and quickly made happy. VIRGINIA IN THE LIMELIGHT. The action of the colored voters and the "old line" white Republicans in holding a Republican Mass Convention in this city May 14, 1908 and electing delegates at large and alternates to the National Republican Convention was a timely method of registering their protest against the un-republican republican state convention held at Lynchburg recently, where colored men were not only denied voice and vote, but membership therein. It was controlled by Negro-haters and men who had upon their persons the political accoutrements and principles of the Democratic Party from which they came. It was proper therefore for these Republicans to emphasize their protests by the election of contesting delegates to Chicago, where the great Republican Party of the nation can decide the issues between them. The platform adopted is a wise exposition of Republican principles and states the position of the party in this state clearly. It does not THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA matter materially what the outcome of the protest will be. It will make the "lily white" contingent squirm in their seats, even at the prospect of having their actions reviewed by the party management at Cheago. Here is the platform as adopted: "The Republicans of Virginia, in mass convention assembled, this 14th day of May, 1908, in the city of Richmond, Va. do reaffirm their allegiance to the National Republican Party, that has made such enduring history, achieved so many victories in the commercial and industrial fields, and has gained such peace and prosperity for this, our native land, during the last forty years. "They believe in the principles of the National Republican Party—the party of the people—that recognizes the political equality or all Republican electors alike and does not authorize a privileged class, within the party, known as 'Lily Whites,' to rule and control the party, either in the North or South, by drawing the color line to please a few individuals. "They do not think it is a wise policy for the Federal office-holders in Democratic States to force the nomination of a candidate on the Republican States, that are expected to elect the next President. "They believe in a protective tariff—one that protects the American producer and manufacturer against all foreign competition, and our American labor against cheap foreign labor. The inequalities, however, in our present tariff laws should be modified, but the revision should be made by men who believe in the vital principle of protection against foreign labor. "They believe in the government exercising a general supervision over all interstate transportation corporations, and regulating in some way trusts of every kind, that do an interstate business, in competition to individual enterprises. "They believe in public education, the common school, that dots our land from sea to sea and the American flag that floats over every school house in our towns and cities. They believe in the honesty and patriotism of our President, Theodore Roosevelt, and they also honor the great Republican leaders—Vice President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon, Senators Foraker, Knox, La Follette, Governor Hughes and Secretary Taft—and they do hereby pledge their support to whoever may be the nominee of the Republican National Convention to assemble in the city of Chicago, June 16, 1908. "In the interest of fair play to all Republicans, we recommend the adoption of the primary plan in the selection of Republican party officers." There seems to be though in the latter part of the platform the fine, Italian hand of the Taft managers and it may account for the peaceful, concluding deliberations of their convention. It pledges every participant in the contesting organization to the support of Secretary William H. Taft, if he is nominated. It leaves the way open for the delegation to return to the fold of the regular "lily white" Republican Party in this State by way of the back gate and it puts thoughtful colored men to guessing as to the other vital interests affecting our welfare. Still, it is "better than nothing" and we shall await the result of the pilgrimage with a patience that will be in keeping with the past record of the citizens of color in this country. WANTED TO BE SURE. "What do you think, my dear?" exclaimed Mr. Brownjones, in tones of joyous excitement. "You know the Federation of Authors is meeting in our town—well, we are to have the honor of entertaining the celebrated novelist, Godolphin Whatnot, as our guest." "Um!" responded Mrs. Brownjones, enganitically. "Is Mr. Whatnot a realist or an idealist?" "Why do you want to know?" asked her husband. "Well, if he is an idealist, I can just leave things as they are; but if he is a realist I must give the house a thorough cleaning from top to bottom. I may not be literary, but I've dipped into realistic novels, and I know their styles: 'The right-hand curtain hung slightly askew, suggesting that one of the drapery pins had lost its grip. A pendulous cobweb waved mournfully from the cornice just above the door leading into the hall, and there was a fine bloom of dust, like that of the purple grape, on the plano lld. In the left-hand corner of the room, almost buried in the pile of a somewhat faded carpet, was an invisible halpin, clearly indicating the recent presence of a woman in the apartment.' Just find out at once, John, what Mr. Whatnot is, and then I shall know how I am to proceed. I have no desire to let my house afford material to a modern realistic writer. Just the Thing. Family Physician—Now there is nothing wrong organically with your father. He needs rest, that's all. As for occupation, let him do something which will neither tax his mind nor carry with it any responsibility. Son of the Patent—I understand, doc. I'll get him on the board of directors of some trust company.—Puck. Labor Gunner—I see that Paderewski charges a dollar for his autograph. Guyer—Well. It's worth a dollar to write off a long name like that.—Chicago Daily News. Innocent. Tramp—No, mum. I never took anything bigger than a silver teapot.—Royal Marazine. Not So Simple "What do you think of the simplified spelling?" "It would be all right, if it wasn't so hard to learn."-Detroit Free Press. THE CAPITOL TRIAL State's Expert Shows How Com monwealth Was Defrauded. BAD DAY FOR THE DEFENSE It Was Shown That Ornamenta on Metallic Furniture Were Paid For As "Extras," and Then Paid For a Second Time As Part of the Cases. Harrisburg, Pa., May 20.—The capitol trial was resumed, and the state presented testimony supporting its claim that the furniture supplied under the invoice upon which the suit is based was falsely billed, both as to dimensions and character of construction. There were two witnesses presented, both of which strongly testified in favor of the commonwealth, although one of them made mistakes in calculation under a sharp cross-examination by ex-Attorney General Hensel, counsel for Congressman Cassell. The witnesses heard were George H. Richter, of Boston, and H. R. Datz, of Jersey City, both practical metallic furniture men. Richter testified as to the exact dimensions of cases supplied, and two from the capitol were exhibited to the jury and measured in court to show the methods. The state established that the square feet in the ends and front did not equal the figures at which they were billed, but Mr. Hensel had the expert measure the top, contending that it was a finished surface and should be counted in. In making calculations based upon these measurements, Richter became confused several times and had to do his problems twice, Mr. Hensel insisting upon mathematical accuracy down to very small fractions. Mr. Datz testified that the cases contained 1565 cubic feet, or 1161.77 surface feet, although billed at 1560.56 square feet, and that the difference between the surface feet measured and the total in the invoice was 403.73 feet, which at $11.40 per foot, would make a total of $4604.80, which the state contends it was defrauded of. Mr. Datz also said that the upright ornaments affixed to the cases added 95.20 feet, or $1085.25 to the cost, the pilasters having extensions upon which to rest. It is also contended by the state that these pilasters and other ornaments were paid for as "extras," and then paid for a second time when measured in as part of the cases. According to the witness the cases were, worth $10,842.80, and the table, which cost $280, he put at $684, or a total of $11,526.80. The state had to pay $17,789.70. Drug Clerk's Error Kills Rich Refugees New York, May 20—Fleeing from a plague-stricken city, Eduardo de Frasco, a Venezuelan coffee king and multi-millionaire, came to his death in a fashionable New York hotel through taking what he believed to be a harmless medicine. His wife, who also took some of the medicine, is in a serious condition, and the remainder of the party of wealthy refugees is without a directing head. It is alleged that the drug clerk who prepared the medicine for Mr. de Eraso made an error in compounding the drugs. At the drug store where the prescription was compounded the bottles containing aspertea and atrophine are kept side by side. It is believed that the clerk got the wrong bottle and used atrophine. Twenty-Five Years a Showman Washington, May 20.—Colonel William F. Cody's (Buffalo Bill)'s twenty-fifth anniversary as an exhibitor of typical American wild life was celebrated in Washington. The anniversary performances of Buffalo Bill's show were attended by members of the president's family, General Eugene A. Carr, General Wesley Merritt, and twenty other general officers of the army with whom Colonel Cody served in the early days on the western plains. In addition, there were cabinet officers, senators and repre sentatives in congress and officials of all branches of the government. Hypnotism Stops Hiccough Attack. Bridgeport, Conn., May 20—As a last resort to save the life of Mrs. O. L. Massinger, who has hiccoughed for three weeks, hypnotism is being tried, and experiments thus far show that the hiccoughs cease as long as she is under the spell. As the influence wears off the hiccoughs return. Unless the attack is stopped within forty-eight hours it is expected she will die. $1,500,000 For Tokio Exposition Washington, May 20—By unanimous consent the house passed the bill appropriating $1,500,000 for participation by the United States in the International Exposition to be held in Tokyo, Japan, in 1912. The bill has passed the senate, and now lacks only the president's signature to make it a law. Chinamen Shinned In Barrels Chicago, May 20.—Because of a report from El Paso that to evade the immigration laws fifteen live Chinese laundrymen in barrels were shipped to New York city and ten to Chicago, government inspectors are on the lookout for suspicious barrels in both places. The Chicago consignment has not yet been traced. California For Bryan Fresno, Cal., May 20.—The Democratic state convention adopted a platform instructing the California delegates for W. J. Bryan for president and indorsing former Congressman Theodore A. Ball for temporary chairman of the national convention. Headache Tablets Kill Child Mildred, the three-year-old daughter of Lewis Wilson, of Upper Sandusky, O., found some headache tablets at her home and ate about half a dozen of them. Within a few minutes she was taken with convulsions and despite efforts of several doctors to save her life, died within an hour after her mother found her. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Thursday. May 14. Joseph Herzog, formerly a prominent business man of Lancaster, Pa., committed suicide by hanging in a stable. A bill was passed by the house of representatives providing for the protection of owners of United States patients appropriated by the government. Seventy-five ovens of the Pennsylvania, Beech Creek and Eastern Coal & Coke company, at Gallilzin, Pa., which had been idle, have resumed operations. Three foreigners, alleged members of a Black Hand organization, recently convicted in the circuit court of conspiring to take property not their own, were sentenced at Morgantown, W. Va., to ten years' imprisonment. Friday, May 15. The corner-stone of the new $300,000 naval Y. M. C. A. building at Norfolk. Va., given by John D. Rockefeller, was laid Thursday. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Washington Thursday evening from San Francisco. David Daniels, of Philadelphia, a freight conductor, was instantly killed by a draft of cars in the Harrisburg yards of the Pennsylvania railroad. Michael Mulcahy, sixty-eight years old, the last survivor of the three aides who accompanied General Phil Sheridan on his famous ride to Winchester, died at Cleveland, O., after a two-weeks' illness from apoplexy. Saturday. May. 16. Walter Augustus Wyckoff, A. M., assistant professor of political economy in Princeton university, died at Princeton, N. J., aged fifty years. Edward Boeck, who pleaded guilty in New York to the theft of more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, was sentenced to Sing Sing for not less than six years or more than seven years. Smith W. Ketchum, a prominent Detroit business man, died at a hospital in Buffalo, N. Y., from a stroke of apoplexy, superinduced by being struck by a cab as he was boarding a street car Monday. May 18. Fifty masked "night riders" invaded the Hinton section of Scott county, Ky., and destroyed many tobacco beds. Conrad Pfromm, a miner, was instantly killed in the Cranberry colliery, near Hazleton, Pa., by a fall of coal. Sailing from Boston for Europe for his health, accompanied by his wife, Senator Tillman prophesied a Democratic victory should the Republicans nominate Secretary Taft. In hiring crews at Superior, Wis., for the approaching ore shipping season, the United States Steel corporation is sticking to the open-shop plan, unions being disregarded. Tuesday, May 19. Edward B. Deacon, a well-to-do farmer, committed suicide by shooting at his home, near Mount Holly, N. J. John P. Palmer, a farmer, living near Dyersburg, Tenn., stabbed and fatally wounded his son during a family quarrel. Secretary Metcalf has detailed Rear Admiral D. Evans, late commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, to duty with the general board of the navy, which has to do with the preparation of plans for the naval campaigns, for use in time of war. Jennie Blunt, who shot and wounded Charles M. Sanford, a Brooklyn lawyer, in his office, last February, after he had refused to give her money, was sentenced to serve not less than three nor more than four years in the state prison at Anburn, N. Y. Wednesday, May 20. United States Senator Samuel Douglas McNeyry was elected by the Louisiana legislature to succeed himself. Frank E. Ferguson, of Hagerstown, Mo., was appointed assistant director of the bureau of engraving and printing by Secretary Cortelyou. Five persons were hurt in a wreck of a Lehigh Valley passenger train at the junction of the Lehigh Valley and Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railways, near Caledonia, N. Y. John E. McGaughey, a former member of the board of county commissioners, at Indianapolis, Ind., shot and killed himself because of the connection of his name with the scandal which has developed in the office of the commissioners. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices in the Principal Markets. BALTIMORE WHEAT lower; No. 2 spot, $1.01%@10.2%; steamer No. 2 spot, 66%@10.6%c; southern, 66%@99%c; steamer, mixed 66%@71%c; steamer, mixed 66%@67%c; firm, white, No. 2, 54%@69c; No. 3, 58%@59c; No. 4, 55%@55c; mixed, No. 2, 56%@57c; No. 3, 54%@55c BUTTER easy; creamy separator extras, 24c; held, 19%@20c; prints, 25%@26c; Mary, 19%@20c; prints, 25%@26c; Mary, 16%@16c; EGGS熟食; fancy Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, 16%c; southern, 15%c. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—CATTLE lower, choice, $6.75@7; prime, $6@6.75. SHEEP slow and lower, prime wethers, $6@5.30; culls and common, $2.55; lamb, $4@6.50; veal calves, $6@6.75. HOGS active, prime heavies and meeds, $5.75@6.80; heavy Yorkers, $5.75; light Yorkers, $5.40@5.15; pigs, $5@5.06; roughs, $4.50@4.80. John Mitchell For Vice President. Democratic leaders in Washington have been canvassing the situation in various state delegations with respect to the candidacy of John Mitchell, the labor leader, for a place on the Democratic presidential ticket this year. Mr. Bryan looks very kindly on the suggestion that Mitchell be nominated for vice president in the event that Bryan should head the ticket. Only Woman Member G. A. R. Dead. Mrs. Emily E. Woodley, who had the distinction of being the only woman ever regularly commissioned as an officer in the United States army, and the last of thirty-five young women who enlisted as nurses in the Civil War, died at her home in Philadelphia, aged seventy-tree years. Mrs. Woodley was the only woman member of the Grand Army of the Republic. She was a widow, Mrs. Wilson, twenty-six years of age, when she enlisted in 1861, having regularly taken the oath of allegiance as she passed in line with men at the enlistment headquarters in this city. She served with the army through the entire four years of her enlistment, being granted but one furlough of thirty days when her daughter was seriously ill. For her bravery and heroic service President Lincoln personally conferred upon her a commission of captain in the United States army. Married In a Tree Up in a tree, fifty feet high. Mrs. Mary E. Holman and Jacob McKee were married near Springfield, O. by Rev. A. W. Leonard, of the Central Methodist church. The ceremony in the tree was performed at the request of D. Orrin Steinberger, an artist, who was cured of consumption by living in his "camp loft." On the platform in the tree were only the bridal party and immediate relatives. Rev. Mr. Leonard was surprised to learn that the marriage was to be performed in the air, but finally consented. Midshipman Drowned Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas, of Cleveland, O., one of the graduating class of the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., was drowned, and Midshipman Carl Hibbard, of Northfield, Mn., who was with him at the time, nearly lost his own life in an effort to save that of his friend. The two started out in a sixteen-foot canvas canoe. They had proceeded from the boathouse around the Santee dock, when the canoe was capsized by the wash of a passing schooner. Lucas lost his grip upon the Postmaster Fined $400 Ogden H. Mattes, postmaster at Riverton, N. J., was fined $400 by Judge Lanning in the United States court at Trenton upon the technical charge of making false returns to the postoffice department. Mattes offense was that he included in his reports of his office sales of stamps quantities sold to the Dreer nurseries that were used on mail matter sent out from Philadelphia. This increased Mattes' compensation as postmaster. --- Kills and Steals Hog In Stockyard. One of the nerviest thefts in the police records at Lancaster, Pa., occurred at the Union stock yards. The thief entered a hog pen, butchered a good sized porch and then carried the meat away. Time to Call a Halt A cow got into the fire engine house. Sunday night and chewed up most of the hose and ate off the bell rope, while three hogs were found in the Baptist church Monday afternoon. If Hometown is ever to become a great city those things must be rendered impossible.—Hometown (Pa.) Banner. Montal and Physical Qualities It requires mind to accomplish great wealth and distribute it wisely, not physique. It requires mind to write such poetry, history, music and tragedy that it shall live in the hearts of men. Here physical bulk in the presence of mind dwindles to insignificance. For Tarnished Brass Pumice soap and ammonia a will cure the worst cases of tarnished brass. Just moisten a cloth with ammonia, rub it briskly over the pumice soap and then apply to the article to be cleaned. The operation is a simple and easy one, and the results are immediate and most satisfactory. The Perfect Feminine Face A perfect feminine face should measure exactly five times the width of an eye across the cheek bones. The eye should be exactly two-thirds the width of the mouth, and the length of the ear exactly twice that of the eye. The space between the eyes should be exactly the length of one eye. Provision for Fertility. All plants are so arranged that while the insects they attract are drinking their honey, the pollen powder is either being scattered over their bodies to be taken to another plant, or the pollen already scattered on the insect is being swept off by the stigmas of the seed boxes. Seek the Auspicious Time In northwest India the cultivator employs a pundit to select an auspicious time for the commencement of plowing. Great secrecy is observed. In some places the time selected is in the night, in others daybreak is the customary time. Dog with Artificial Ea A ahoemaker of Philadelphia has a dog which recently had one of its ears cut off by a tram-car. The dog is a pet, and therefore, it has been supplied with an artificial ear made of leather and covered with curly brown hair to give it a natural appearance. Six Sons in the Ministry An unusual family record is that of the six sons of the Rev. David Pugh, rector of Ysceiflog, Wales, who has just died. Four of his sons are clergymen in the Church of England, while two are at Oxford intending to take holy orders in due time. Complimentary A certain dramatic author was seen by a friend to have a manuscript almost falling from his pocket. "If you were not so well known, you would have had your pocket picked," said the friend. Setting the Time "Yes," said the Billville citizen, "I lowed I'd be married last fodder-pullin' time, but another feller got the gal. Then I set hog-killin' time for the ceremony, but the gal thought better of it; but now I've full made up my mind for the next cotton-ginnin' season, but I'm free to say that cotton's mighty low, an' the only change in the country is the change in the minds of the winmen folks!"—Atlanta Constitution. Popiniay. The popinjay was a figure of a bird shot at for practice. The jay was decked with parti-colored feathers so as to resemble a parrot, and, being suspended on a pole, served as a target. He whose ball or arrow brought down the bird by cutting the string by which it was hung received the proud title of "Capt. Popinjay" for the rest of the day, and was escorted home in triumph.—New York American Warship's Condenser Tubes. The greatest single consumption of brass is for condenser tubes, a battleship alone having from 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of condenser tubing in it; and owing to the corrosive effect of sea water this tubing must be continually replaced. The material used is usually either Munz tect—60 per cent, copper, 40 per cent, zinc—or else a mixture of copper, 70; zinc, 29, and tin, 1. Wisdom of Nature Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the building of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of give and take, the doctrine that everything has its price, is not less subline in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states. —Emerson Rate Grind Of Their Teeth A curiously marked stone has been found at Colebrooke, Devonshire, England, in the middle of a wheat rick, and geologists who have seen it express the opinion that the markings on the stone were caused by rats using it to grind their teeth, which otherwise grew to an inordinate length. Some rats have been known to starve owing to their teeth getting too long. Fool's Paradise The old schoolmen of the Middle Ages used to say that there were three places for persons not good enough for heaven—(1) for those good people who had died before the advent of the Redeemer; (2) for infants dying without baptism, and (3) for idiots and others who were not of sound mind.—N. Y. American. Foundation of Great Deeds All the great men who have soared above their fellows, whose names are carved on the adamantine rocks of time for the deeds they accomplished, were all, without exception, in love with their work, no matter what it was, and heroin lay their greatness. Unkind. Mrs. A.—"Mrs. Baker says she'd give a good deal to know where you get your clothes." Mrs. B. (smiling)—"She likes them, then, doesn't she?" Mrs. A.—"No. She thinks they wear wonderfully." The Bachelor Parson. If you hear or read of a clergyman getting a present of a service of plate, or even of a Bible or surplice, from the female members of his congregation, you may safely bet a million to one he is a bachelor. "There's a legion that never was listed" among books as well as among men; books that have been contemplated but never written—a literary regiment of wralths and ghosts—Book Monthly. Dog Not Popular as Food. As a popular article of diet the dog is confined to some oriental and aboriginal bills of fare, and the gastronomic appreciation of him is not likely to spread much further. Daily Thought: The great question in life is the suffering we cause; and the utmost ingenuity of metaphysics cannot justify the man who has pierced the heart that loved him—Benjamin Constant. New York's Big Export Trade Twice as much in value of exports goes from the port of New York each day as from all of the other American ports on the Atlantic seaboard. Important Detail The steel business is reported to be improving. Kindly pay particular attention to the spelling—Chicago Record-Herald. The trouble in too many homes is the incompatability of imported millinery and domestic allowances.—Galveston News. Physical culture is excellent, but don't neglect to exercise your discretion.—Pooh Richard, Jr. There Is Always a Right Side. The man who is anxious to praise finds little that deserves blame. Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed.→Young. Find Happiness in Hope. Those individuals are happy who look upon life as a story book; they always believe there is a pleasant surprise in the next chapter. Peace comeeth the way right as we see may call it wrong IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promoting the CIRCULATION of th RICHMOND PLANET. --- AC PLANET SATURDAY.....MAY 23, 1908. ROBBERY HIS MOTIVE ROBBERY HIS MOTIVE Slayer of Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard and Servant Confesses. Minister Killed Wife After Revival. Only Woman Member of G. A. R. Dead—Girl's Body Found In Canal. Postmaster Fined $400. After more than fifteen hours of questioning by the police, Frank Zastera, the young Bohemian farm hand employed on the poultry farm of William B. Sheppard, at Wickatung, near Matawan, N. J., confessed that he killed Sheppard, his wife and Jennie Bendy, the maid. Assistant Prosecutor Stokes made this announcement. Zastera described the shooting, and admitted he had committed the triple murder for the purpose of robbery. The farm hand has lied, however, in regard to what he did with the money he took from the house. He told the police two tales regarding its hiding place, but both proved to be false. This was Zastera's story of the killing: "I just felt like it all of a sudden. It just came to me to do it, and after killing one I couldn't stop. "Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard and Jennie and myself were up pretty late, playing the phonograph in the dining room. When I got to bed I couldn't sleep. About 4 o'clock I thought I heard a noise in the yard. I got up and put on my clothes. On my way to the yard I saw the repeating gun in the corner. "I picked it up and aimed it at different things. Then I heard a stop, and I hid in the parlor, near the door. Mrs. Sheppard had to pass it as she came down stairs. She was in her nightgown, getting milk for the baby. "I waited till she came back from the kitchen, then I spoke to her. When she screamed I fired, just as she got to the first step. She went down, but I sent two more shots into her. "Mr. Sheppard kind of leaned over the railings and looked down. I fired at him and hit him. He slid down the stairs. Before he reached the botton I gave him another shot, and he fell across his wife. "Then I saw Jennie, the servant, running away from me. I fired only once at her, but she fell through the door and didn't move." Zastera is far from the typical farm laborer. He is an artist, a violinist, a worker in pyrography on leather. His home is at 347 East Seventy-second street, New York city, where, in winter, he lived with his respectable, comfortably situated family. Airship Wrecked. Disaster overtook the daring aeronauts. Wilbur and Orville Wright, who have for two weeks made successful flights with their aeroplane at Kill Devil hill, North Carolina, when, after the greatest flight ever made with a similar machine, the aeroplane was wrecked. The aeroplane had flown eight miles in seven minutes and forty seconds under perfect control, and the disaster was due to an error on the part of the navigator, who directed the course of the flying machine downward too quickly. The plan of operation is to elevate the course, but instead of touching the right lever for this result the opposite lever was used, and the bird-like frame work darted downward, striking the ground with great force. Looted Bank Closed The Allegheny (Pa.) National bank, whose former cashier, William Montgomery, is in jail, specifically charged with the misappropriation of $594,000, ahs been closed by the comptroller and its affairs will be liquidated. This step followed a long conference Sunday of the officers of the bank, representatives of the United States government and a number of leading financiers of the city. It is said still larger discrepancies in the funds have been discovered. Baby Kills Mother Mrs. Albert Major, of Ellangowan, near the town of Shenandoah, Pa., was shot and killed instantly by her four-year-old son. The mother had just returned from a visit and the little fellow picked up a flobert rifle from a table and, playfully pointing it at his mother, pulled the trigger. The bullet penetrated her heart. Girl's Body Found In Canal The body of Miss Bertha Vanderbilt, assistant in the library of Princeton university, who disappeared last week, was found floating in the Raritan canal a short distance from Princeton. N. J. Miss Vanderbilt was last seen at the aqueduct, and it is supposed that she was drowned in an attempt to ford the stream, which flows under the canal. Killed Making Toy Caps. While making toy caps for his own use on the Fourth of July, Morris S. Drake, a salesman, twenty-four years old, was killed by an explosion of powder in his home in East Orange. N. J. The explosion wrecked the upper part of the house where he was working. BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. 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WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO DOOMED TO DIE OF RABIES Rich Man Says He's Ready, and Arranges His Business Affairs. New York, May 20—William H. Marsh, an old and wealthy man, when told that he would die within a week of hydrophobia, calmly turned away with the remark that he would be ready when the summons came. Without a tremor he walked down the steps of the Pasteur institute, stepped into his carriage and started for his splendid home in Brooklyn. "You waited too long," the surgeons at the institute told him after they had made their examination. "Our treatment cannot help you. You have hydrophobia." There was not a falter in his voice or a change in his face as he heard them. "How much time did you give me?" he asked. "Not long," said the physician, "probably not more than four or five days." "Well," he said, "If I have to go I can face it. My business is in shape, and a day or two more will see it all settled, I'd rather die some other way, but I'm not afraid." There was nothing about the man to lead anyone to suspect he was doomed to die. His mouth twitched a little and he was slightly nervous, but beyond that he seemed in good health. The strange thing about his case is that he was never bitten by a dog. He received the deadly poison into his system through the licking of his fingers by his daughter's pet spaniel. The animal had been bitten six weeks ago by ama mongrel. CLAIMS TO KNOW SEX SECRET Woman Promises Boy Babies to Four Rich New Yorkers. New York, May 20.—Mrs. C. E. Calhoun, the California woman who has studied out a sex control theory on a ranch, is so certain she has found the secret that she has entered into contracts with four wealthy families of New York and has undertaken that a male heir will be born to each as a result of her service. Mrs. Calhoun says she is making no charge for this and has promised that no names will be divulged unless her experiments are successful. Mrs. Calhoun started her studies on plant life and gradually worked up in the scale of life till she reached humanity. She experimented with horses, cattle and sheep on her ranch and finally on herself, and says that whereas her first three children were girls her next four were sons, the sex of the male offspring being, she believes, the result of the application of her theory. Her process, she says, is not based on surgery or medicine, but on a simple natural law which all the noted biologists and evolutionists of the world have hitherto overlooked. TRIED TO RAISE THE DEAD Christian Scientists Spent Five Days Trying to Rescure Dead Asheville, N. C. May 20. After a week's fight against the health authorities and the doctors and nurses who had watched her husband in his last hours, Mrs. Edward Carpenter, whose husband was a millionaire, has at last had the body placed in a coffin and shipped to Savannah, her former home. The couple were Christian Scientists, and when Mr. Carpenter, who was brought here for his health, died, his wife refused to believe he was dead or to allow the body to be buried. Day and night round the pall on which his body lay, Christian Science healers tried to resurrect the dead man. His widow became indignant when it was suggested that his body be encoffined, and it was only when the agent for one of the George Vanderbilt Biltmore villas, which the Carpenters had rented, ordered her to move that Mrs. Carpenter left with her husband's body. Night Rider Prays While Barn Burns Laenter, Ky. May 20.—Kneeling on the ground in the moonlight with their heads bowed, while their leader, his masked face turned toward heaven, offered prayer, a band of "night riders" destroyed the big tobacco barn of H. G. Maddox, not far from this place. The spectacle was witnessed by two young people returning from a party, who were captured by the raiders and forced to accompany them to the prayer meeting and barn burning. While the barn burned the band sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Sought Dog License, But Were Wed. South Norwalk, Conn., May 20. When William Kriskick and Miss Alexandra Kirszika applied for a dog license they were given a marriage license, neither being able to speak English except as to the dog's name, "Louise," which caused the mistake. Justice Curnow married them. The bride, who is a cousin of the groom, has sued for annulment and threats to sue the officials for damages. --- Dynamite Hidden In Stove Explodes. Shenandoah, Pa., May 20.—Frank Lakopsky put four sticks of dynamite into a new kitchen range for safekeeping. His wife got up and lit a fire in the range. The dynamite exploded, shattered the stove and kitchen, breaking nearly every window in the house and scaring the residents of the neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Lakopsky left the kitchen just before the explosion. Elected Head of Reformed Church. York, Pa., May 20.—Rev J. Spangler Kieffer, of Hagerstown, Md., was elected president of the general synod of the Reformed church in the United States. He defeated Rev. James Good, of Philadelphia, in a close contest. Bishop Horstmann Dead. Bishop Ignatius Horstmann, D. D. of Cleveland, O. died at the porriage of St. John's church, at Canton, O. His death was due to exhaustion caused by overwork and heart failure. The end came suddenly and unexpectedly and while the physicians who had been in attendance during the day were absent from the house. 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There is always a grave question as to which is the most important gown in the fashionable outfit, the one for the street or that for the house. It would be more correct to say, which are the most important, for certainly no well-dressed woman would think it possible to face life with only the one street gown, but whether the most money shall be spent on the street costumes or the gown intended THE LADY IN A COAT Chevlot Street Costume. for the house is a most serious problem and one not to be decided rashly. At the moment two styles of street costumes are required, the one severely plain, the other more or less—generally more elaborate. For the strictly tailor-made servicable, practical costume to wear in the morning, the plainest of models are chosen, and when becoming the majority of women prefer an almost exaggerated effect of simplicity, of severity, not to say masculinity. There are, however, many women who do not look their best in the too severe tailor gowns, and for their benefit there are many models that are a combination of tailor-made and the more fancyful style. The regulation tailor-made costumes do not vary materially from year to year, and the conservative tailors contend that, like men's business suits, the practical walking costume should never present any radical change from year to year. A short skirt is obligatory, but the exaggerated short skirt is not considered smart. The circular skirt and the plain gored skirt, preferably the former, will be smarter, too, this year than the plaited, although the latter is so universally becoming that it is a grave question whether it will be considered out of date. It will certainly not be given up entirely in preference to the other models. The lines of the new skirts are straighter than last season, and there is not the rather decided slanting line from the back to the front. This is rather a pity, for a skirt so hung had a much better and smarter appearance than the one with the too straight lines. Plain and fancy mixtures are alike fashionable. The too strongly accentuated stripes of contrasting color are not considered as smart as the more indistinct lines. Checkes and plaids are also to be found in the new chevets and tweeds, while the plain and fancy serges are most attractive in their variety of coloring and design. As these are all materials intended for the hardest kind of wear the fashion of making materials waterproof seems especially practical as applied to them. The same fashion that came into popular favor last year is again to be noted—the checked or striped skirt, with jacket of solid color, in cloth or silk. There is much about this style that is worthy of note, but be it remembered that it is more or less striking and consequently possesses the disadvantage that by the next year the fashion may be entirely "out." However, clothes are not supposed to be worn two seasons, and therefore it is not necessary to choose styles with any thought of their being in fashion beyond the present moment. New Scarf Old-Fashioned. The wide scarf over which everybody is roaring, is nothing new, according to a woman who has been looking over old prints. She says: A fashion plate as early as 1840 shows a scarf of deep purple gauze edged with what looks like chenille fringe and striped with bands of flowered material. The scarf vellied almost the entire breast. A plate bearing a date of 1830, shows a very much beffried and be-fluenced white frock veil with a big white scarf. Another big scarf was of pale French gray and was worn over a green gown. The scarf was patterned with bands of green vines and fringed with gray and green. WITH THE LINGERIE DRESS. Pretty Sashes of Ribbon Are the Popular Garniture. As fashion has decreed that every snurly dressed woman must have one lingerie dress for evening wear, one's thoughts turn to sashes to wear with them. One pretty sash is made of Dresden ribbon at least ten or twelve inches wide and is made with a girdle effect. Cut a length of ribbon a little longer than the size of the waist. Directly in the center of this place three rows of shirring and behind this sew a piece of featherbone the depth you desire the girdle to be in front. Put shirings in each side, with the feathery bone supports. Try on the girdle before making the back and fit it as tight as possible. Mark this line of fitting and then turn the ends under and put in the shirring. As a rule, the girdle is higher in back than in front, but that may be adjusted to suit one's taste. Put the feathery bone in each side of the back and sew on three or four hooks and eyes. Put a narrow strip of ribbon over these to serve as a facing and to hide the stitches. Cut the remaining ribbon into two equal pieces and at one end of each make a rosette and tack each firmly to the top of the girdle in the back. Put one on each side of the back. Draw the ribbons down snugly to the bottom and tie them each one in a hard knot, and then tack at the bottom of the girdle through the bone and allow the two long ends to hang below. WHEN THE DUST FLIES. Pretty Coat Designed for Either Alpaca or Tusseore. Alpaca or tusseore are the best materials for such a coat as this, as they are light in weight, and the dust can be easily shaken off. This pattern has the short-waisted effect produced 1 by the waistband that is put round a little higher than the actual waistline; it is fastened by a fancy metal clasp. The deep cuffs and turn-over collar are simply stitched at the edge, the cuffs being ornamented with buttons. Hat of fine Tuscan straw, with full lace crown surrounded by a band of velvet. Material required for the coat: five yards 46 inches wide. New Laces for Summer While fillet lace in its various charming designs and effects of light on close pattern is greatly in vogue, it does not hold the undisputed away that was prophesied for t, but instead formidable rivals have appeared in the embroidered laces on round mesh nets, in a perfectly lovely new lace called darnet, and in the silk rim malline laces. In the embroidered brussels net inserts heavy coin spots in silk, in size as large as a five-cent piece, are outlined by a raised line; these come in four widths, gauged by the number of dots, four in the widest and decreased to one in the narrowest. Another one done in small coin spots on fillet net is in the same number of widths, and this can be had in black and ecru besides the cream white.—Vogue. Lillies as Trimming A toque of plaited tulle is trimmed with large pond lilies, which twine around the brim, the stems entwined in graceful lines and the leaves half hidden in folds of tulle. It is a graceful and original idea, but as the lilies must, of necessity, be white, the hat itself must be of some color that is not too great a contrast in color. This last, by the way, is a rather important matter and one that needs consideration. Red, for instance, does not harmonize in any way with white, but used with ecu or natural straw it is good. Then, in using pond lilies, the green of the leaves must not be ignored, and it must not be placed against a shade that is too strong or too weak. "Is your family doctor of the new or old school?" "The newest, I believe." "What is his distinguishing peculiarity?" How Lucky for Them! Statistics—I see where there are 'steen million bushels of corn to be harvested this year. Miss Board—Won't the chiropodists make a fortune!—Judge. Prying Eyes. Aunt Jerusha (at a spiritualistic meeting)—Maria, come home with me. If that medium can see through a pine board, clothes ain't no protection—Judge. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IS AID TO FIGURE IS AID TO FIGURE DESERVED POPULARITY OF THE PRINCESS SLIP. Garment Does Away with Separate Petticoat and Corset Cover—Used with Narrow Lace and Embroidery Decoration. The princess slip has been growing in favor ever since it was introduced as a part of the princess gown outfit. It was found so unusually becoming that many persons have adopted it altogether for afternoon and evening wear instead of the separate petticoat and corset cover. It does away with all unnecessary fulness around T Narrow Laces and Embroideries Trim the Silk Slip. Narrow Laces and Embroideries Trim the Silk Slip. the waist and hips and also has the great advantage of always staying properly together and requiring comparatively little attention in the putting on. A perfectly fitting princess slip is a marvelous aid to the figure, and the costume also gains immensely in style and fit if the underslip fits perfectly. Almost all slips are now fastened in the back, although some persons prefer to have them fastened up the side, and for certain frocks it is even possible to have the slip fasten in front, which is convenient if one is obliged to dress without a maid. But, alas! it is very rarely practicable, for most frocks demand the slip fastened in the back. Narrow laces and small, dainty patterns in embroidery are now considered correct for the decoration of the princess slip. The same design is used on the bodice and the flounces of the skirt, except that the bodice trimming is usually made perfectly flat, so as not to interfere with the lines of the outer bodice. The skirt flounces, on the contrary, are always more attractive when there is something quite fluffy in their decoration. Many of the white slipps to be worn with gowns of pale colors—pink, blue, etc—are trimmed with narrow valenciennes and cluny and with delicate little embroideries in color. Vertical insertions of valenciennes are set in in a row across the lower part of the bodice, and above this are little vertical embroideries of sweet peas in delicate pink and green. The skirt flares very much at the bottom, and the lower part has two flouces set in, one above the other; the upper one being cut out in deep points around the bottom. Both of these flouces are trimmed with vertical insertions of valenciennes, those on the lower flounce being set on at regular intervals. The insertions on the upper flounce are set on in groups of three to trim each point. Above this trimming there are the delicate sweet pea vines, as on the bodice, all put on to run up and down. This some idea would be carried out in lavender, sweet peas on a gray or white silk slip or in mignonette on a green slip. The embroidery, of course, carries out the color suggestion of the overdress. It is not supposed to show through the overdress, being merely one of those little touches of perfection which distinguish the clothes of the very dainty dressed woman. Embroideries of the same color—white if the slip be white—are also used to supplement the lace decoration. These also are kept very slight and modest. The idea seems to be to secure perfection of workmanship rather than a mass of trimming. Lingerie Hats. Lingerie hats are again to the fore, each year bringing some new lovely combination of tulle or net and flowers, that would be utterly lost on a hard, unyielding background of straw, no matter how pretty the color of the latter might be. This year circular, lace-trimmed, embroidered plateaux of mull are to be mounted over a lightly-wired frame of point 'd'esprit, with brim edged of satin. The plateaux are puffed up in a high crown effect by ribbons, which are run through slits, and appear in a bow at the right. A pretty spray of flowers bedecks the other side. 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Chicago.—A Chicago version of the adventures of the famous Mile, de Maupin, with many remarkable re- semblances in the two stories, has ‘come to light In the admission of Mary Phelan that for one year abe posed as ‘a man, and only revealed her secret ‘when one of her own sex became Infat- uated with her. In Gautier's romance the heroine is actuated by a desire to learn the habits of men, not as they are pre- nented for the scrutiny of polite soci ety, but as they are when no restraint fs laid upon them. Accordingly, the young woman se’s out in male attire, and meets with many adventures, among them winning the love of a ‘woman of rank A little more than a year ago Mary Phelan burned her hair close to her head in an accident. She sought em- ployment as a girl, but was unable to secure it. She was unhappy at home, full of the exuberance of 20 years, and eager to get ou into the world So she purchased a suit of boy's clothing, and one day she left her petticoats behind her, cloxed the door of her father's home, and stepped on @ State street car. After that, Mary Phelan became Jess Fay, a handsome young chap with wavy black hair, brown eyes, full of life, and the bril- Mant complexion of a healthy girl. When young Fay reached town he went into Michael's haberdashery store on Eighteenth street to buy @ shirt. The owner was attracted by his bright, clear face, and offered him a place as a clerk. So, for one yenr, Fay successfully concealed “his” sex, and became a friend of the politicians, detectives and other characters of the neighborhood. “His” story of running ‘away from home in Cheyenne was uni- vVersally accepted. “Hie” lived at a down-town hotel, became a sort of 7 em, IL eee py amr 2 bia And Final: zie Beau Brummel in “his” attire, and finally won a sweetheart As long as his affair with the young woman went no farther than the com- radeship of going to places of amuse- ment together, everything was well, but the deeper note was struck in the growing attachment of the girl for young Fay. The time came when “he” felt that in fairness to the etrl “he” must tell her the truth. After this revelation they remained good griends until Fay left the store sev- eral days ago. Then Fay became Mary Phelan again, content for a ltue while, at Yeast, to lead the Iife of the average young girl in her father’s home. “I just can't help it,” Miss Phelan said. “Iam born a wanderer. I love fe, and I want to see all sides of life. 1 love to be free, and it's so hard for 4 woman to be that “Tt isn’t nearly so hard to pose as a man as one would think. The figure can be disguised, and tho little tricks of masculinity easily picked up. I ‘think I took to the life naturally, be- cause I have always been so athletic io my habits. “The average woman knows almost nothing of men or the world. 1 have found men very different from what I once thought them, both better and worse. And | have gotten an entire ly different view of women from what Tonce had. “At first it seemed funny to foot ‘all the bills. I had often wondered if @ man didn't grudge the car fare an¢ incidentals that custom was always foretag, him to stand, bot 1 found afte that I didn't thin« of ie any more than of lifting my hat. It wai merely one of the little drawback ‘about being a man. - "% don’t mind being a mere gid BEGINS TO-DAY The Girl From Tim’s Place A Story of the Wilderness. By CHAS. CLARK MUNN. ' You will appreciate old Cy Walker. sometimes, and I will confess that T am awfully fond of pretiy clothes. Will I go back to my masquerade again? Well, I don't know. It's a fascinating experience, and maybe the fever to go out in the world will come again ESCAPE FROM CAGE FOLLOWED BY LIVELY TIME—RELEASED BY PET BABOON. Philadelphia—Four bundred drunk en monkeys staggering about the decks of the British steamer Braun- fel, which arrived the other day from Calcutta, served to banish ennui from the lives of the officers and crew on & dull Sunday afternoon. The condition of the simians was the resuit of a prank three days ago by Lizzie, a pet baboon abroad the Braunfels two years. Evidently sympathizing with the lot of the several hundred members of her family, Lizaie, who had the free- dom of the vessel, made her way be- tween decks, where the monkeys were REN Va 79 N= Ono i SS re \ S ie * co oe i confined, and liberated 400 of the 600 confined in a Inrge cage. For two days there was no rest among the officers or crew. During the day parties of the monkeys, led chiefly by a crafty simian known as the pig tail monkey, frequently rushed down on the decks, picked up be laving pins and other handy objects, and quickly climbed back up the rig ging. As the ship was towed up tho river the captain, realizing the monkeys must be caught before dock was reached, decided on herole measures. He got a large quantity of molasses and mixed with it three quarts of brandy. Putting it in several pans, ‘he placed {t about the decks under the rigging tn the after part of the steamer, where the monkeys had con: gregated. ‘They lost no time in making for the pans filled with the brandy and molasses, and, chattering and screech: ing, they started to devour the con tents. Soon there were 400 monkeys staggering around the decks. This ended the trouble, for as soon 8 any showed signs of stupor Capt. Weitman summoned the crew and the animals were picked up and placed back in the cage, where they sobered up in a day. DOG CAUGHT IN FLYWHEEL. Animal Escapes Without Injury After Being Whirled for Over an Hour. Chicago, 11.—Caught in a revolving flywheel making $5 revolutions a min- utet, and whirled tnere for more than an hour, Tige, a watch dog at the plant of J. H. Bell & Co., No. 62 Mich- fgan avenue, escaped with his life, and is as alert as ever. Tige, in pursuit of a rat, jumped into a ten-foot fly wheel, and before his barks attracted attention he had made 5,525 revolutions. While the rat was hurled to death, Tige clung to one of the spokes of the wheel. Just a bit of him could be seen by the engineer, who, thinking his dog was dead, did not make any attempt at rescue by shutting off the power. For an hour and five minutes ‘Tige was in the wheel, Then the power was shut off. Tige was dragged out apparently dead and ‘was about to be thrown into the alley when he showed signs ot life. ‘A veterinarian was summoned, and the dog was soon restored to vigor. Polecat in City Hall. Ee ine te all the strange vi that have been received in the Philadelphia city hall the queerest and most unweleome was a skunk, or pole eat, which wandered Into the building, and, after a chase through the corri- dors, took refuge in the private office of Mayor Reyburn. There the animal took a position on top of a bookcase and defied every effort to dislodge him by cleaners, guards, detectives and ferrets. A Swedish animal expert, who has more than one suit of clothes, carried off the skunk this morning. Even ‘with all the windows open, the skunk will be remembered for some time to cme. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Receipt Free. Any mar who suffers with nervous debility, loss of natural power, weak back, failing memory or deficient manhood, brought on by excesses, dissipation, unnatural drains or the follies of youth, ma} eure himself home with a simple prescription that I will gladly send free, in a plain sealed envelope, to any man who will write for it. A. E. Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan. SMART COSTUMES FOR SPRING. Self-Trimming a Pronounced Feature ‘of Season's Modes. Spring costumes are essentially Smart and trig—in serges chiefly, ac- cording to a writer in Vogue Not a few are of those Scotch ani Irish weaves—in tweed and homespuns— that if loosely woven are so pleasant to wear. Self-trimmed are they—with stripe or plaid. for these both continue ia vogue. Either on the bias, or the stripe put contrariwise to the down- Ward striped direction of the skirt; that fs, If the ekirt stripes run vertica- ly, In that case the trimming cloth needs to run on horizontal lines. Braids and buttons for coat trim mMes comriete the demands with re. sults so simple, but very charming for forenoon wear. Then, too, the fresh spring colors are so attractive, especially those in byseinth blues, ochres, biscuit-tones and gray-greens intermingled with white by stripes, V tigzage, le, squares. cubes or water spots; some are woven in the solid colors, JACKETS IN BRIGHT COLORS. Combination with Plain Skirts ts a Fad of the Moment. The daytime coats of the moment fre distinctly soparate garments. Striped veivet and cloth are, perhaps, the most striking. I have seen several smart jackets tn very bright colors worn with plain skirts, which, at frat glitpse, dtd not seem to be at all re lated to them. For example, one was of cinnamon brown and Meht gray al ternating stripes, It was worn over & Lincotn-ereen cloth skirt. The coat Was a 26-inch cutaway, the cut begin: ning Just below the bust. Between the free edges of the coat could be seen a charming little walsteoat of green suece, fastened by halfinch enameled buttons. Leather trimming is much used in waisteoats, revers, collars or cuffs. It fe as often @ glace leather as it is suede. It 1 sometimes replaced by soft kid when combined with velvets.—Harper’s Pagar. BOOK-MARKER. SOREN, Le ON ; Day \" ea Ge Wes 7 J~a a \: “| pd a & s . f ue \ oor 3 By See fe-¥ LX SS IMS ee ee This pretty little book-marker should be made in quite a small size, in fact, not larger than our {lustra- tion. It consists of two pteces af white cardboard cut out in the shape shown. The heartshaped partis firmly glued together, and tt {s fitted on to the page we wish to mark in the same manner as a letter clip, the page being be tween the two pieces of cardboard. On the other sides of the marker somo pretty little floral design can be paint €d, or the monogram of the owner, | To Keep Roses. Roses may be kept fresh for a week by exercising a little judgment in the care of them. When they first come in from the florist arrange them in a good-sized, deep vase, to provide plenty of space and moisture. Freshen the stems every day by cut. ting off an inch or two with a knife Never use sctssors for this purpose, as they compress the wood cells and leave them so tightly pinched together ‘that they cannot absorb the water in the vase. If the room becomes overheated re ‘move the roses to a cooler place. At night fill a wash basin with cold water and throw the flowers into It, an ‘ial Her Husband (reading)—This paper says I have a ble head. His Wife—Oh, don't let that worry you. There's nothing in it. | Learned at the Old Swimmin’ Hole. ‘Two children stood in their kitchen watching a pot of chicken soup warm- ing on the stove, when suddenly {t be- Ban to bubble. “Freddie,” inquired the title girl, “what makes !t bubble up?” “There's a chicken in there,” ex- plained the little boy, “and {t's tryin’ to talk under water!”—Judge, HANDY AND LEGGY, Too. Ti — ‘a ve eS 1 Sa). far Jy igs q “af hs me. Ler ey ds Jack Sprat could eat no fat, Vite wite could nat_no lean, But when invited out to dine They gobbled all they seen. Judge, Better. The Bridexroom (on the return from the honeymoon)—Heilot What's this? All the bills for your trousseau! Why, I thought your father paid these, Bride—It ts customary, dear, But he thought you would rather do it than give him the humiliation of bor rowing the money from you—Life. A Fearful Suggestion. “I seo that cmfnent naturalist at- taches imporvance to the fact that he bad heard the ‘honk’ of the wild goote.” : “Yea,” ausweréd the skeptic. “He doesn't realize ttiat he may bave been deceived by soujy nature faking auto- mobile hora." Washington Star, ee Vocgtization. “A lecturer shuld always have an agreeatiie voice," sald the public speaker. “Ot course," answered Mise Cayenne, “Mutiy people attend lec- tures as they attend concerts, rot to be enlightened, but to have thelr nerves soo\tied "Washington Star, ‘Gtictn« sarees! “Lord Lackelay has killed himself by inhaling gas.” Good heavens! What could have been his reason, pray?” “The report is he left a note saying he couldn't possibly walt for his man to come and help him into his shoot- ing Jacket."—Puck, Not Half. Mrs.—I think {t strange that your friend Tobbs nzyer married. Mr.—Oh, you don't know Todds. He tsa't balf such a fool as he Woks! Natural. Tom—Did your wife ever take les sons ia eloeution? Jerry—No; sue tnbertted itt ‘The Useful Clove Handkerchief. An extremely useful article in these days when hardiy any woman owns a pocket is the glove handkerchief. The idea comes from abroad, but the glove handkerchief 's already on sale in the best linen stores’here, It is made of the finest linen, mot more than five inches square, finished with a tiny hemstitched border, with or without @ narrow finish af lace. Some of the finest have the narrow Armenian lace. As the name indicates, the hantker- chief when folded is small enough to ‘slip into the glove opening above the buttons. é _ S" geeemeni ieee eae, ‘Take four ounces of ivory black, same amount of treacle, sulphuric acid one ounce, best olive ofl two spoonfuls, best white wine vinegar, three half pints. Mix the fvory black and sub phurle acid, stirring constantly, pour in the oll, and, lastly, add the vinegar. Mix thoroughly Roll for Veils. A piece of mailing tube covered with ribbon or satin will make @ suitable rol! for the vell. The roll oan be padded and delicately scented with sachet. Veils having flounces or Tuffles should be laid in boxes with crepe paper between the folds, A Revelation. ON, WINSTON. coarecrioner. HEADQUARTERS FOR PURE ICE-CREAM. : Wk WATER-ICES, ETC. : SPECIAL ATTENTION TO FAMILY TRADE. $ Picnics, Lawn Parties, Excursions, etc Furnished on $ Short Notice. ; 3 Special Attention to Dealers ‘ : and the Wholesale Trade. : ; WoINSTOnN'sS ; 537 Brook Ave. *Phone, 2253. 3 ceeekcaebbebenesasseesssosncenseesdossnksaca ‘THE BOOK OF SEVEN SEALS BY LUCINDA YOUNG, Who in the year of 1890 laid on her bed twenty-four days and SAW DREAMS AND VISIONS, ‘was commanded by God to write the wonders she saw into a book. This book tells also about A SEVEN YEAR'S FAMINE. that is to come. It ts sold at $1.00. ‘Terms in advance. Address all communications to MRS LUCINDA YOUNG, Lambertville, N. J. SPECIAL RATES TO AGENTS. Peepers Men RD Ge ih ake sk . Y teen a Certain Defeat Awaits You TE If you enter life’s battles without first mastering YOURSELF. Self Knowledge, Self Esteem, Self Mas- tery, are stepping stones to Success. To be truly suc- , cessful, learn “AUTOLOGY” (Science of Self). It tells new, undeniable truths in language as clear as day: something rare in this age of money-madness. I advise every one who reads this ad. to get a copy and read it by all means. It will repay at least a hundredfold. Postpaid by return mail, $1.50. Never a better time than now. : L. C. FARRAR, : ; GENERAL MAIL ORDER MERCHANT, : f S01 Brooks St, - + Charleston, W. Va. $ Rcecedeecsnsabecasoonennessbbbbsidbhehesheiain 4 National Association of Teachers. The National Association of Teach ers in colored schools will meet in Louisville, Ky., June 24, 25, 26. ‘08. Mr. J. R. E. Lee, Director Academic Department, Tuskegee, Ala. is presi- dent. WANTED—A Graduate in Pharma- ey as Clerk. Good postion for the right person. For particulars write PANNELL BROS., Staunton, Virginia. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balla, ‘Suppers. Installations and Smok ers at the Shortest Notice. T@pPrYour Patronage Solicited. ey Refreshment Care and Boat Privtiep es Handled in Season. Address -1i communications to BLAM L. BANKS, 611 N. 84 8: Residence: 1312 N. 26th St. A PICTURE OF THE LATE SUPREME CHANCELLOR, S. W. Starks Artistic and beautifully executed lithographic portrait. Size 22x28 inches. To hang in Lodge halls and Pythian homes. Price 25cts. each. s@~Special rates for lots of one dezen or more. For sale by CENTRAL REGALIA CoO., N. E. Corner 8th and Plum Sts., Cincinnati, O. —Subsocibe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. “" yoR THE LADIES. Something Entirely New.—Snow Flake Complexion Cream. Non-greasy and disappearing. This Welightful cosmetic instantly whitens and improves the complexion without fnjury to the skin. size package, 25 cents postpaid. cal indy agente "wanted. Libedl terms. Use STRA-KO the wonderful liquid hair dressing. No hot rons requtr- ed. Trial bottle 20 cents postpatd. THE BURTON TOILET GOODs CO,, St. Joseph, Michigan. Practically FA EE, 9 a The LN 2 A Hs Philadelphia | Press The razor is made from £ : Ga the best Sheffield Steel, hardened and tempered thermometrically and guaranteed. $ 328 BUYS The Philadelphia Press WE VER GdS tetas eed 3.08 Fremont Razor... . . $2.00 Your Favorite Home Newspaper $1.50 Value... $6.50 ALL FOR | $3.50 Cash Mailed immediately upon receipt of your subscription, Order To-day—NOW! Important Notice! Madame EB. L. Monszaro, the won- derful medicine manufacturer and Tooth Extractor has on sale at her office: Monzaro’s Blood Purifier and Stomach Bitters. Monszaro’s Liniment. Monszaro’s Cough Syrup. Monszaro's Hair Tonic. Monszaro’s Skin Food. 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