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A SOUTHERN NEGRO IS HEAVY= WEIGHT CHAMPION OF WORLD. JEFFRIES SAYS HE WOULD NOT FIGHT HIM FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS. RICHM VOLUME XXVI. NO. 5. A SOU Jack Joh Graphic No JE Sydney, N. S. W., Dec. 26.—Jack Johnson, the American Negro, won the heavyweight championship of the world here this morning in the fourteenth round. He had Torumy Burns, of Canada, the title holder in such a condition that the police ordered the fight stopped, whereupon Referee Hugh D. McIntosh awarded his decision to Johnson amid a wild scene. Johnson outclassed Burns in practically every respect. He was faster in attack and defense, delivered the more accurate and powerful blows, and gradually wore the white man down. Burns was the aggressor at the outset and indulged in hard rushing, the idea being to land a knockout blow in a rough mix-up. The Negro was so shifty on his feet that it was a difficult matter for Burns to reach a vital spot, so that he soon discovered that he was up against a most puzzling proposition. JOHNSON'S AIM GOOD When Johnson cut loose he generally landed. His left hand was used with telling effect, as Burns was repeatedly jolted and jarred with it. Johnson worked the left on the white man's head and stomach, and saved the right for a critical moment. In generalship Johnson was the master. He was cool headed and never lost a trick. He followed Sam Fitzpatrick's instructions to the letter, and as the battle progressed in his favor the Negro's confidence increased until it was a foregone conclusion that he would win. At times the slugging by both men was terrific. Blood was drawn by each fighter and as the battle raged 25,000 spectators went mad. When the end came Burns looked as if he might be stopped at any moment. Johnson was panching him all over the ring when the police broke up the mill. The referee had no alternative but to declare Johnson the winner, and the verdict appeared to meet with general approval. GREETED WITH CHEERS At 10:42 o'clock Johnson entered the arena, accompanied by his seconds, Sam Fitzpatrick, Mullins, Unholz, Lang and Bryant. Wild cheers greeted him and the big black man turned and bowed to all four sides of the ring. Just as Johnson took his seat Burns appeared. He was smiling and the plaudits of the spectators were even more enthusiastic than those accorded Johnson. Burns took up his position in the western corner of the ring, surrounded by his seconds, Keating, O'Keefe, O'Donnell, Burke, and Russel. When the cheering had died down somewhat Johnson crossed over and shook Burns by the hand. The Canadian glanced at the big maulers of the Texan and noticed that both were covered with bandages. Fearing that perhaps they might not be of the soft, surgical kind, he scrutinized them closely, but finding them to his satisfaction, he made no objection. The announcement was made that if during the contest the police should interfere and stop it, the referee would immediately give a decision based on points scored. When Burns stripped it was noticed that he wore elastic bandages about his elbows. Johnson shouted across the ring, half angrily, "You must take those off." Then the men met in the center of the ring, and for a few minutes argued the question. Then they retired again to their corners, but Burns did not remove the bandages. TOOK OFF TAPE From Johnson's seconds came the announcement that their man refused to fight unless Burns took off the wraps around his elbows, and it lookek as though there was a possibility of the fight not taking place, for Burns was stubborn and Johnson in- slisted on his point. The referee, however, here took a hand in the controversy and said that the wearing of bandages was not against the rules. Johnson still demurred, nevertheless, and Burns, with a show of impatience, bad his seconds unwind the tape. His action brought forth from the spectators a tremendous round of applause. At 11:15 o'clock Johnson and Burns posed for a moving picture machine, and, having received final instructions from Referee McIntosh, retired to their corners. Then the battle began. After a few minutes of preliminary sparring in the first round Johnson reached Burns with a sharp uppercut and the Canadian went to the floor, remaining there for the count of eight. He signalled to his seconds that he was all right, however, and when he arose he sailed in for Johnson's body. Johnson swung a hard right to the head and Burns staggered backward nearly across the ring from the impact of the blow. Then Burns, rushing in, planted a right of great force on Johnson's chin, and by an excellent display of boxing warded off a return. Johnson, nevertheless, managed to put through a stinging left to the head at the sound of the gong. BURNS DOWN AGAIN. When the gong changed for the second round Johnson yelled across to the approaching Burns, "Come right on," and he swung his right and land ed on Burns' chin. The champion's ankle gave way under him and he went down. He was up immediately, however, and Johnson got to close quarters with him and placed his right and left to face and body. Burns' left eye here commenced to swell. Johnson thus far had the bet- (Continued on Eighth Page.) Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School Rendered the Beautiful Cantata "Santa Claus Headquarters." A large gathering turned out on last Tuesday night to witness the cantata, "Santa Claus Headquarters." The church was packed from pulpit to door. Admission fee was either an Irish or sweet potato. More than one barrel and a half were collected for the poor of the church. Presents were numerous. The children well performed their parts and much credit is due the committee consisting of Mrs. Josie A. Graham, Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy, Misses Jennie Wood, Annie Morris, Virginia Taylor, Messrs. N. G. Booker and B. H. Peyton. The pastor and all the people present expressed them selves that this was one of the best Cantatas in the history of the school. A Brilliant Morning Marriage On last Tuesday morning, December 29, 1908 the home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jones, 200 W. 21st St. Manchester, Va. was the scene of a beautiful wedding. Promptly at 11 o'clock the strains of Mendlessohn Wedding March, played by the accomplished Miss Alberta Jenkins, rent the air, which announced the coming of the contracting parties, Miss Maud E. Hickmon and Mr. David Lee. The groom entered with Mr. Ernest Eggleston and then the bride, leaning on the arm of Mr. Hezekiah Jones. The scene was a brilliant affair. Dr. A. Binga performed the ceremony in his usual solemn manner. Refreshments were served and the happy couple left for Lancaster Co. Va., their future home amid congratulations of the many visitors. The presents were numerous and costly. May they live a long and happy life. COG SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1909. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. JACK JOHNSON, THE HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. No fighting like Johnson's was ever seen here since Australia was shoved up above the waters. Australians understand now why Fitsimmons could not stand up for TWO ROUNDS before the black man. Johnson grinned and yelled to Burns across the ring, "Come right on!" Burns did not repeat his headlong rush. As they came slowly together Johnson made a quick feint, and his right flicked out to Burn's chin again. A wild yell went up as the champion went down. This time he did not wait for the count, but was up again and into it. Johnson leaped at him, and in a second had driven half a dozen blows to body and face. Burns staggered back and doubled up as he got a fearful left hook in the stomach. Burns was forced backward all through the round, and as he walked to his corner blood trickled from his mouth, and there was a swelling over one eye.—[NEW YORK AMERICAN, Dec. 27, 1908.] Fifth St. Church and Its Pastor. It seems that the Fifth Street Baptist Church is sparing no pains to assure Dr. W. F. Graham of their determination to encourage and support him in his pastoral labors. Last Sunda, was the closing communion day of the year and great crowds thronged from every direction to enjoy the happy occasion. The pastor preached of a large congregation at the morning service from the subject: "The world's Christmas Gift." The choir under the masterly leadership of Prof. McCoy rendered choice selections of music to the satisfaction of all present. On last Monday night at about 9:30 a large number of members representing the various clubs of the church called at the home of the pastor and presented him with a very valuable purse of money. Prof. B. H. Peyton was president of the gathering and made a very fine address in honor of the pastor's services. He was followed by Mrs. Martha Ann Seay, Miss Alice Robinson, Rev. Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Madolin Moss Deacon Edward Coleman and Deacon James Page, all of whom made happy speeches. The following are the names of those who helped to make up the purse: Ladies: Elizabeth Jackson, Alice Robinson, Mary Richardson, Nellie King, Mary Anderson, Caroline Roane, Sarah Peterson, Callie Brown, Ella Hill, Georgie Williams, Rachel Williams, Jane James, Mary Mayo, Elmora Thomas, Mary Traylor, Sister Frend, Josephine Baker, Mary Hamm Sallie Lewis, Ann Jones, Caroline Clements, Jennie Cheatham, Blanche Bullock, Jane Jones, Sophia Nicholas, Martha Cooper, Sarah Powell, Emma Christian, Emma Spurlock, Henrietta Brown, Mary Scott, Jeanette Mitchell, Julia Alston Mary Brown, Mary Page, Ella Johnson, Martha Scruggs, Florence Scruggs, Bell Gray, Martha Seay, Bettie Tribute, Virginia Anderson, Nellie Hern, Mollie Lowis, Martha Nubell, Martha Redd, Madolin Moss, Annie M. Coleman, Mildred Matthews, Emma Jones, Jennie Wood, Rebecca Brasenton, Mary Wood, Cora Sheppard, Bertha Lee, Goldie Lee, Mrs. Turner, Lillie Hardy, Annie Ware, Addie Lemas, Jemina Moss, Jane Reed, Alice Pearson Gentlemen: B. H. Peyton, James Page, John Mitchell, Jr., E. T. Coleman Samuel Brown, Nat Pearson, Powhatan Baker, George Lee, J. A. Moss, Robert W. Moss, A. Randolph, John W. Howard, Obediah Ware, Edward Brown, James West, John Beard, Maurice Epps Robert Winston, John R Holmes, C. K Royster, Roscoe C. Mitchell, W. W. Page, James E. Sheppard John Dance, A. J. Taylor, C. E. W. Simms, James E Shells, Jackson Nicholas, John H. Smith, Frank Redd, Henry White, Robert Cox, Walker Gray, Levi Scott, D Wade Johnson. Thus did the members of the great Fifth Street Baptist Church for their pastor on last Monday night. Mrs. W. F. Graham and the children are happy. The pastor is holding his head high and declares that he feels stronger for preaching the gospel. Tomorrow Dr. Graham will preach from the subject, "What are you going to do this year?" He is an anxious that all business men, professional men, men of trades and all pursuits of life be present, as he thinks he has a message for them. The choir will render special music. The Deacons desire all the members to re-register, so that the church may know its proper membership. Rev. Archer Ferguson Dead Rev. Archer Ferguson, former pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church died suddenly last Wednesday morning at his home in Fulton. He had been complaining for some time. Rev. Ferguson was one of the best PRICE, FIVE CENTS. ORLD. y Burns Comers. m ARS. known ministers in this city, being presiding officer of the Minister's Conference. His wife died only a few months ago. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS —Miss Elizabeth C. Dixon, who is a student at the Hampton N. and A. Institute called on us in company with Miss Cora L. Bright. —Mrs. W. C. Scott who is attending Ingleside Academy at Burkeville is in the city for the holidays. —Mrs. Thomas L. Anderson of Shelton, Conn, and Mrs. C. J. Coleman of Ansonia, Conn, called on us. —Miss Carsie D. Isham spent the holidays in this city. She called on us in company with Mr. W. C. Hemmings of Dillwyn, Va. —Rev. Oscar H. Massey, of Monrovia, Liberia, West Coast of Africa called on us. He gave an extended account of conditions in Liberia and seemed somewhat fearful less the Republic lose its independence. —Miss Mattle L. Maultisby of Winston, N. C. called on us. —Mrs. Ida B. Anderson, Shelton, Conn, and Mrs. C. J. Coleman, Ansonia, Conn, called on us. —Rev. H. Paul Leak is in the city in the interest of the Royal Order of Joseph. —Rev. Thomas Knight of Richmond has been called to the pastorate of St. John Baptist Church at Grove, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cogbill of Charlottesville, Va. were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Cogbill of Manchester, Va. this week. Mrs. Fannie J. Chiles, wife of Lawyer J. Alex. Chiles of Lexington, Ky. is spending some time with his sister, Miss M. L. Chiles helping to care for her sick uncle, Mr. John Morton at 114 W. Leigh St. Mrs. J. A. Moss of 419 W. Duval Street, who has been very sick for five weeks is much better and hopes to be out soon. She thanks her many friends for their kindness and presents sent during the holidays KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS A New Lodge in Halifax County. Vernon-hill, Va., Dec. 23, 1908. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Grand Medical Register E. R. Jefferson, Grand Master at Arms J. Alexander Lewis, District Deputy Grand Chancellor S. S. Baker arrived here yesterday in a driving rain and snow-storm and instituted Vernon-hill Lodge, No. 153 with the following officers: Chancellor Commander, Sydnor Hankins; Vice Chancellor, Embra Clark; Prelate, Ed Hankins; Master of Work, Jesse Vaden; Keeper of Records and Seal Letcher Davis; Master of Finance, Elisha Williams; Master of Exchequer, Nat Williams; Master at Arms, Mitchell Hankins; Inner Guard, Anthony Vaden; Outer Guard, C. S. Powell; Trustees, Armistead Williams, Littleton Stith. Howd Mills. The initiation was a success despite the severe weather. Grand Chancellor Mitchell and Dr. Jefferson walked about a mile through the snow to their stopping place and Dr. J. Alexander Lewis and Sir S. S. Baker walked about three miles. They were no worse for wear the next morning however, although Dr. Jefferson complained of feeling a little stiff. They left this morning for Richmond. Grand Chancellor Mitchell spent the day however at Elmo. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Sir M. D. Logan of Sinal, Va., assisted by Sir A. B. Betts, District Deputy Grand Chancellor , oe 1 (Cae | < Satan * Se | Sanderson (==! . “Who's Who” In the Story. “BATAN” SANDERSON, the bero, dere-deril. gulzotic friend apd parte gpg aan HUGH STIRES, prodigal and crimisal JESSICA HOLME, the beautiful ies uipiees tas teen ot ieteuts aad ton pelle cational Sane eines Gooey MRS. HALLORAN, the camp ote DAVID STIKES, stern, yet for- firing: and at the tant made baogy by another's unhappiness THE BISHOP, the victim of a misunderstaoding HALLELUJAH JONES, the re Mgtous favatic on whose shoulders Pesta nar SNE ala te of Cn SOR EMMET PRENDERGAST, the false friend. perjurer and thief. THE SHERIFF, who is very Sch airticd tatwone auc andts Stones, “BIG” DEVLIN, who turns hampton Instead of prosecutor aft er the hero’s race with death. Chapter | B }O my eon Hugh. tn re turn for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his lie, for bis dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of $1,000 and the memory of ‘his misspent youth.” It was very quiet In the wide, richly furnished Mbrary. The May night was stil, but x falnt suspiration heavy with the fragrance of Jasmine flowers stirred the Venetian blind before the open window and rustied the moon Bilvered leaves of the aspens out-Nie As the Incisive professional pronounce ment of the judge cut through the st lence the grin face on the pillow of the wheel chalr set more grimly. a girl seated in the sliadow of the fre wcreen cangbt her breath, and tro across the table the Rev. Henry Sar @erson turned bis handsome, lv @haven face and looked at the wid ma ‘A peevish misogynist the netghbo: hoot Inbeled the latter, with the par chapel for hobby aud for thorn-tn-th: Mesh this only son Hugh, a black shee ‘whose open breaches of decorum t town bad borne as best It micht t the trad'tlon of ls forbears took bir off to an eastern university A re: less life there and three wastrel years abroad had sent him back to resume Bis peccadiioes on a iarger scale. quarrel bitterly with his father and t aeave his home tn anger “Wait.” came the querulous votce from the chair “Write In ‘graceless Before the won! ‘desertion. * “For his dissolute career and his faceless desertion,” repeated the law rik Wis Zz Ae eS JZ ee The parchment crackling under his pon Jer, the parchment crackling ander his pen Judge Conwell glanced curiously at Harry Sanderson as be blotted the emendation He knew the liking of the cross grained and taciturn old in valid, St. James’ fichest parishioner for this young man of twenty-five who had come to the parish only two months before, fresh from his theo logical studies, to fill a place tempo rarily vacant and had stayed by sheer force of personality. He wondered if aside from natural magnetic qualities this Itking had not been due first of all to the curious resemblance between the young minister and the absent son whom David Stires was disinheriting for as far as mold of feature went the young minister and the ne'er-do-well might have been twin brothers. No one perhaps had ever interested the community more than had Harry anderson. He had entered apon ht: Guties with the marks of youth, good looks, self possession and an ample in. ‘come thick upon him and had brought ‘with bim « peculiar charm of manner and an apparent ineapacity for doing ‘things in a hackneyed way. Conveo- tion sat lghtly upon Harry Sanderson He recognized few precedents either in the new methods and millinery with which be had invested the service or Dis personal habits. Instend of at. tending the meeting of St. Andrew's guild, after the constant custom of Bais predecessor he was apt to be found laying bis violin (a passion with him) in the smart stody that adjotnes te gothic chapel where he shepherded his fashionable flock or tramping across the country with a brier pipe tn his month and his brown spaniel. Ramm Rosing at his heels His athletic frame nnd clean chiseled features made him & rare figure for the reading desk. ar his violin practice. the cut of his gol flannels the immaculate elegance of bis motor car, even the white carna Uon be affected in his buttonhole, made him for the younger men a good. ly pattern of the cloth and it had speedily grown to be the fashion to hear the brilliant young minister, Something of all this was tn the Inw. Jer’s mind as he paused—a perfunctory pause—before he continned “I do give and bequeath the sum of $1,000 and the memory of his misspent yeath” Harry Sanderson's eyes bad wan dered from the chair to the slim fig ure of the girl who sat by the screen This was Jessica Holme, the orphaned daughter of a friend of the old man's early Fears, who hed recently come to the house tn the agpens to All the void left by Hugh's departure. Harry coulit see the contour of throat and wrists, the wild rose mesh of the skin agains! the Romney blue gown, the plenteous red bronze hair uncolled and falling tn 8 single braid and the shadowy pathos of her eyes. Clear hazel eyes they were, wide and full. but there was in them no depth of expression, for Jes sica Holme was blind. As the crisp, dellberate accent pointed the judicial period as with a subterranean echo of irrefutable condemnation Harry saw ber under itp tndrawn, her hands clasp ghtly, then anciasp to ber lap Plant. graceful bands, he thought, which even blindness could not make maladroit ) “Go on.” rasped the okt man “The residue of my estate, real and personal. I do give and bequeath to my ward. Jessica Hoime”— He broke off suddenly, for the iri was kneeling by the chalr groping for the restless hand that wandered on the afghan and crying in a strained, agi tated voice: “No—no—rou must not He is your son!” “In the eyes of the law, yes. But not otherwise!” His voice rose. “What has he done to deserve anything from me? What has he bad all bie life tut Kindness? And how has he repald it? Ry being a waster and a prodigal. By setting me tn contempt and finally by forsaking me in my old age for bis own paths of rtbaldry.” The girl shook her head. “You don’t know where he Is now ot what be Is doing. Ob, he was wild and reckless, t have no doubt, but when he quarreled and left you wasn’t it perhaps because he wes too quick tempered? And f he hasn't come back Isn't {t perhaps be cause he ls too proud? “Jessica, I've not forgiven bim seven times. I've forgiven him seventy. times seven, But he doesn't want forgive ness. To him Iam only ‘the old man who refured to ‘put up’ longer for his fopperies and extravagances! When be left this house six months ago he de clared he would never enter it again Very well: let him stay away! He shan't come back when 1 am in my grave to pity ducks and drakes with the money he misuses! And I've fixed it so that you won't be able to give it away either, Jessica.” The girl, still kneeling, turned brif about with a hopeless gesture. “Oh. won't you help me?" ehe said She spoke more to herself, t seemed. than to either of the men who waited “Sanderson,” said the old man with bitter flerceness, Ufting his hand. “I dare say you think Tam hard, but tell you there has never been a day since Hugh was born when I wouldn't have Iaid down my life for him! You are so like! When | look at you I seem to see him as he might have been but for bis own wayward choice’ If he Were only as like you In other things as he is in feature! You are early the same age. You went to the same col lege, I believe You have had the same advantages and the same temptations. Yet you, an orphan, come ont a divini ty student, and Hugh—my son!—comes: out # rotsterer with gembling debts, a member of the ‘fast set.’ one of a disso lute fraternity known as “The Saints, whose very existence, no doubt. was a shame to the institution!” Harry Sanderson turned slowly to the light. A strange panorama in that moment had flashed through his brain ~kaleidoscopic pictures of an early reckless era when he had not been known as the “Rev. Henry Sanderson.” “I think 1 ought to say that I was the founder, and at the time you speak of, the abbot of The Saints. | was in the same year with Hugh. We sowed our Wild oats together, a thay crop, I fancy, for us both. That page of my life Is pasted down. I speak of It now be- cause It would be cowardly not to. I have not seen Hugh since college closed four sears ago. But then I was all you called bim—a waster and a prodigal. And 1 was more. for while ethers followed. | let At eallecs ft —— ee Fit ts the Heeb Of The present tic 1 am dealing with,” said th ol man For David Stiree wan Just and he was feeling a grim respect for Harry's honesty. ‘larry acknowledged the brusque kindliness of the tone with a little mo ‘ion of the band. As he spoke be bac } a feeling bis way through s maze of contradictory impulses. For a moment be bad been back in that oid trrespon- sible time; the Hugh be had known then had sprung to his mind's eye, ao imitative idler, with a certain grace and brilliancy of manner that made him hall-fellow-well-met, but withal shallow, foppisb and tncorrigible. 1 cheap and shabby tmitator of the out ward manner, not the inner graces, of good fellowship. Yet Hugh had been one of his own “fast set” They had called him “Satan's sbadow.” » tribute to the actual resemblance as well as to the palpable imitation he affected Harry shivered « little The situation Seemed, In antic Irony. to be revers- ing itself. It was as If aot alone Hngh, but ne. Harry Sanderson, in the person of that past of bis, was cow Drought to bar for Judgment tn that room. For the Instant he forgot bow utterly characteriess Hugh had shown Mimeel? of old, how devold of all de sire for rehabilitation bis present rep- utation In the town argued him. At that moment ft seemed as if in saving Hugh from this condemnation, be was Pleading for bimeelf as he bad been, for the further chance which he, but for circumstances, perhaps, bad needed too. “You.” be said, “have tived a life of Just and dalaaced action It ts bred im the bone Youd bate ali loose cov- duct, and rightly. You bate it most in Hugh for the simple reason that he ts your son, The very relation makes it more impossible to countenance. He should be like you—of temperate and Prudent habit’ But did you and he start on equal terms? Your grand father was a Standisb: your ancestry was vrdiluted Puritan. Did Hugh have ali your fund of resistance? With me It was the turning of a long lane. Hugh perhaps has not turned—yet.” A breath of that past life had swept anew over Harry, the old shuddering recofl again had rushed upon him. It gave his voice a curious energy as he ended: “And I have seen how far a man may go and yet—come back!" There was a pause. The Judge had an Inspiretion. He folded the parch ment “Lerbaps it would be as well," he said In a matter of fact way, “if the signing be left open for the present.” He rose as he spoke and laid the, gor ument on the table & For a moment David Stires sat in silence. Then he said, with a glint of the old fronte fire: “You should have been a special pleader, Sanderson There's no client too bad for them to make out a case for! Well—well, we won't sign tonight. 1 will rad It over again when I am more equal to te” For long the old man sat alone, mus ing in his chair. At length he sighed @nd took up a magazine. He was thinking of Harry Sanderson. “How lke!" he said alond. “So San derson sowed his wild oats too! * * * ‘When he stood there, with the lightjon his face—when he talked—I—I could almost have thought ft was Hugh!” a ee fi i —— ae we oe 24 chapter 272} jee ee ee [eBay ARRY SANDERSON ana \. gate, and Harry walked tH Slowly home tn ts PEM moonlight, (a B24 ARRY SANDERSON ava "the judge Garted wt ts . gate, and Harry walked WBANTIE Siowiy nome” in the WME cioonlight 4 “The ‘youthful toittes that he had resurrected when he bad called bimself hia old wickname of “gatan Sanderson" be had left so fat bebind him. ad buried eo deep, thet the ironic turn of circumstance thet had Gesgged them into view seemed Intrasive aod malicious He bad exved ap old college cate from possible disinberitance and the oontstaiscihindeilihsnitetticiaitcsibl GEORGE O. BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHER, 608 N, 2nd St., Richmond. Ya (GOS N, 2nd St., Richmond, Vs | ine Ph: ‘rus to Lite, High-cley goss oe erect ievpnotterag Gitrom Tid neantives or Photoprapas eet -— —Subserfbe to The Richriond PLANET. $1.50 per year. > 8 a | We “a #9 We vere = (y fereieee Tae a eel te) ica ce a Sanderson” that curred to him was, getting hs Did any man desert. reap what he sowed. after all? Was he. the “Satan Sanderson” that was, getting bis de sorts? o,) Te) Sabie ie ae ee ‘The inter night was very still, and the moon, lifting lke a paper iantern over the aspen tops, ellvered all the landscape. In its piacid radiance the white bouse loomed tn a ghostly pallor. The windows of one side were blank. but behind the lbrary shade the bulbous lamp still drowsed like « mon- ster glowworm From the shadowy ride of the bullding stretched a narrow L, it front covered by a rose trellis whore pale Nossoms in the soft night air mingled thetr delicate fragrance with that of the jasmine. Save for the one bright pane there seemed now no life or movement in the house, Bot outside tn the moon- Ught a larebing. sbabblly clothed fg: ure moved. making bis uncertain way with the deliberation of composed to: ebriety The sash of the window was raised a few toches, and he nodded sagely at the yellow shade. “Gay old silver top.” he bicconghed. “see sou in the morning!” He capsized agninst an althes bush and shook bis head with owlish gravi ty as he disevtangted himself. Then he staggered serenely to the rose trellis and, choosing ttagngle with an assur ance that betrayed ancient practice. climbed to the apper window, shot tts bolt with a knife and let himself tn. He painstakingly closed both windows and inner blinds before he turned oa an clectric Nght. In the room in which be now stood he had stored his boyish treasures and shirked bis maturer tasks !t should have had deeper human associations, too, for once, before the house had been enlarged to its present propor tons, that chamber had been bis moth ers, The Marechal Niel rose that clam bered to the window sill had been planted by her hand. In that room he had been born And tn ft bad occurred that sharp, corrosive quarre! witb bis father on the night be had Sung htm self from the house vowing never to return. As Huch Stfres stood looking about tim it seemed for en tastant te bie clouded senses that the past six months of wan- dering and un savory adven: ture were a dream. There was his bed. with its clean linen sheets and soft pillows How he would like to le down Just ashe was and sieep a full round of the clock! Lastnight he had slept— where bad he slept?) He had forgotten for the moment. He Hii Ae i) AN ye |at the spotless coyerlid. No; some one be seen in bis present condition. It was scarcely 10. ‘Time enough for that | afterward | He drew out the drawer of a chiffo | nier, opened a closet and gloated over the order and plenty of their contents. He made diiicuit selection from these and, steadying bis progress by wall and chair, opened the door of an ad Joining bathroom. It contained a cir cular bath with a needle shower. With out removing ais clothing he climbed into this, balancing himself with an effort, found and turned the cold fav cet and let the fey water, chilled from artesian depths, trickle over him in a hundred stinging needle points. It was a very different figure that re-entered the larger room a balf hour later from (ne slinking madlark thrt bad climbed the rose trefiis, The olu Hugh lay, a beap of soiled and sodden garments; the new stood forth shav en, fragrant with fresh linen and clean and fit appare! The maudlin had van- ished, the gaze was unvered and bright. the whole man seemed to have Settled into himself, co have grown trim, nonchalant, debonair. He held ap his hand. palm outward, between the electric globe and his eye. There Was not @ tremor of nerve or muscle He smiled No headache, no fever, no Uncertain feet or trembling hands or swollen tongue after more than a Week of deep potations, He could still “sober up” as be used to do (with Blake, the butler, to help him) when | t bad been a mere matter of an even- tng’s tipsiness. And how fine it felt to be decently clad again! - | a they were, subtle lines of self in- dulgence had already set themselves, and beneath their expression. cavalier and caressing. lay the unmistakable stigmata of inherited weakness But these the gnzer did not see. [He re garied himself with egotistic compla- cency. Here be was just as sound as ever, He had had bis fing and taught “the governor” :"at he could get along well evough without any paternal help If be chose. He attentively surveyed the room. It was clean and dusted—evidently tt had been carefully tended. He might have stepped out of It yesterday. Not a thing had beem disturbed —ses, one thing. His portrait that had hung over Bis bed was uot tp its place A mo- mentary sense of trepidation rushed {throug him Could bis father really bave meant all he had said in his rage? Did he really mean to disown him? | For an instant he faced the hall door ‘with clinched hands Somewhere tn the house, unconscious of bis presence, was that ward of whose coming be bad learned. Moreau was a good friend to have warned him. Was she part of a plan of reprisal—her presence there a tentative threat to him? Could bis ta- ther mean to adopt ber? Might that great house. those grounds, the bulk of his wealth, go to her, aud he, the son, be left In the cold? He shivered. Per baps be had stayed away too long! As he turned again, he heard a sound tm the hall. He listened. A light step was approaching—the swish of a gown. With a sudden impulse he stepped into the embrasure of the window, as the | figure of a girl paused at the door. He felt bis face tush. She had thrown a crimson kimono over her white night- gown. and the apparition seemed to part the dusk of the doorway like the red breast of a robin. She held in ber hands a bunch of the pale Marechal Niel roses, and bis eye caught the long Febellious sweep of her bronze hair and the rosy tint of bare feet through the worsted meshes of her night alip- pers To his wonder the sight of te light @1 room seemed to enuse her no sur prise. For an instant she stood still as though Ustening. then entered and Placed the roses In a vase op a reading stand by the bedside Hugh gasped. To reach the stand the girl had passed the spot where he Stood. but she bad taken no note of him. Fler gaze had gone by him as if he had been empty air. Then he real- fred the trath; Jessica Holme was bind! Moreau's letter bad given him ho Inkling of that So this was the girl with whom his father now tureat- ened him! Was she counting on his not coming hack, waiting for the wind. fall? She was blind—but she was beautiful! Suppose he were to turn the tables on the old man, not only climb back Into his good graces through her, but even. The thin line on his brow s)rnng suddenly scariet. What a supple graceful arm she had! How adroit her |anscee as they arranged the rose stems! Was he already wholly black ened in her opinion? What did she think of him? Why did she bring those flowers to that empty room? Could tt have been she who bad kept itclean and fresh and unaltered agatnst his return? A confident, daring look grew iu bis eyes.- He wished she could see him tn tuat purple tle and velvet smoking Jacket. What angspportunity for a romantic self justification’ Should he speak? Suppose it should frighten bert Chance answered him. His respira- tion had conveyed to her the knowl. edge of @ presence In the room. He heard her draw a quick breath. “Some one ts here!" she whispered. He started forward “Wait, wait! he said in a loud whisper as she sprang back. But the voice seersed to startle her the more, and before be could reach her side she was gone. He heard her flying steps descend the stair and the opening and closing of a door. ‘The sudden flight jarred Flugh’s pleasurable sense of novelty, He thrust his hands deep into his pockets. Now he was in for it! She would alarm the house, rouse the servants. He should have a staring domestic audience for the imminent reconciliation his sobered sense told him was so necessary. Shrugging his shoulders, he went quickly down the stair to the Mbrary | He bad known exactly what he Should see there—the vivid girl with the bue of fright in her cheeks, the shaded amp, the wheel chair and the feeble old man with his furrowed face and gray mustaches. What he himself should say be had not had time to re | fleet. 5 | The figure tn’ the chair looked up as | the door opened. “Hught” be cried and half lifted himself from his seat. ‘Then he sectied back, and the sunken, indomitable eyes fasteued themselves | 00 his son's face. | Hugh was melodramatic—cheaply 80. | He saw the girl start at the name, saw her bands catch at the kimono to draw Ite folds over the bare white throat, aw the rich color that flooded ber brow He saw himself waddenly the moving hero the stagery, the tractive force of the situation. Real ? ae Bey i r MS 7 a | y \ ‘| VAR A of = outward coisequences he had so dras- Ucally banished, and partly to sheer nervous excitation. “Father!” be said, and came and caught the gaunt hand that shook ‘against the chalr. ‘Then the deeps of tie old man's heart were suddenly t-oken up “My son!" he cried and threw his arms about him. “Hugh. my boy, my boy!" Jessica waited to hear no more Thrilling with gindness and Sushing with the sudden recollection of her | bare throat and feet. she slipped away |to her room to creep Into bed and lie wide eyed and thinking. What did he look like? Of his face she had never seen even # counterfelt Presentment Through what adven- tures had he passed? Now that he had come home, forgiving and forgiven, would he stay? He bad been in his room when she entered tt with the Toses—must have guessed, if he had not already known, that she was blind. Would be guess that she bad cared for that room, had placed fresh fowers there often and often? Since she had come to the house in | the aspens Jessica had found the imagined figure of Hugh a dominant Presence tn a horizon lightened with & throng of new tmpressions, The Girerul catastrophe of her blindness— ft had been the sudden result of an Accident—had fellen like a thunderbolt upon a nature elastic and Joyous. It had brought her face to face with a Tevelation of mental agony, made ber feel herself the hapless martyr of that curt thing called chance. She bad always lived largely in books and Short and ber world was still full of idest> and of brave adventures. Gratitucs had made her love the mo- Tose old Invalid with his crabbed tem- Pers, und the wandering son, choosing for pride'’s sake a resourcelss battle with the world—the very mystery of his whereabouts—bad taken strong hold of her imagination. Of the quar rel which had preceded Hugh's depar- ture she had made her own version ‘That he should have come back on this very night, when the disinheritance she had dreaded bad been so nearly consummated, seemed now’ to have an especial and an appealing significance. Presently she rose, slipped on the red kimono, and, taking a key from the pocket of her gown, stole from the Foom. She ascended a stairway and Unlocked the door of a wide, bare at- tic where the moonlight poured through a skylight In the roof upon an Unfinished statue. In this statue she had begun to fashion, in the imagined figure of Hugh, her conception of the Prodigai son—not the battered and husk filled wayfarer of the parable, but a Sgure of character and pathos, erring through youthful pride and spirit The unfinished clay no eyes had seen, for those walls bounded her especial domain, When Hugh went shamefacedly up the stair from the Ubrary the artificial glow that had tingled to his Singer tips had inded. The poise of mind, the certitude of all the faculties of eye nd hand that his fey bath bad given him, were yielding ‘The penalties be ‘had dislodged were returning re-en- forced. He was rapidly becoming @run He groped his way to bis room, turn. 4 out the light, threw himself fully ‘dressed upon the bed,and slept the | deep sleep of deferred intoxication. eo i ( ae OMe os Chapter 3°¢ 5 7, % Na June day a month jater Harry Sanderson sat in bis stody, took: <a ing out of the window \ act ss the dim summer - haze of heat, negligent- ! Z, Noa June day a month later Harry Sanderson sat in his study, look- ing out of the window A, chs the dim summer haze of heat, negligent ly smoking. He couli see the long White mari road beading in a broad curve between clover stippled mead. ows. to skirt the willow green bluff Above the river. There, miles away, on the high bank he could distinguish the rafiroad bridge, a long black skel- eton spanning “the hole,” a deep, fish haunted pool, the deepest spot in the river for fifty miles. Since that moonlighted evening of the wil) making Harry bad learned that the long lane had bad no true turning for Hugb. He had sifted him through and throug. At college be had pat him down for a weakling— ‘unballasted, misdemeanant. Now he knew him for what be really was—a moral mollusk, @ scamp in embryo. @ decadent. realizing an ogiy propensity to a deplorable nale A consistent career of loose living bad earried Hugh far since those college days when he bad been dobbed “Satan's shadow.” While to Harry Sandermon the eccentric and ngnostical bed then been. as It were, the mask throug which his temperament looked at life. to Hugh it had spelled shipwreck. Harry Sanderson bad done broadly as. he pleased. He had entertained whom he listed, had gone “slumming.” had once boxed ft a finish for # wager @ local pugilist whose acquaintance he affected, known as “Gentleman Jim.” He had been both the hardest biter and the hardest drinker tp bis class, ‘yet withal its most brilliant student. | Native character had enabled bir to Persist, as the exasperating function of success which dissipation declined to eliminate. But the same natural gravitation which In spite of at! aber- ration had given Harry Sanderson classical honors had brought Hugh Stires to the tmminent brink of expul- sion And since that time. without the character which belonged to Har- Ty as a possession, Hugh hed contin- ued to drift aimlessly on down the broad tax way of proSigacy ‘The conditions he found upon bis re turn, however, had opened Hugh's eyes to the perilous strait in which he stood. He was a materialist. and the taste he had had of deprivation bad sickened him. Io the first revulsion. when the contrast between recent famine and present plenty was strong upon him, be bad been at anxious pains to make himself secure with his father—and with Jessica Holme Har ry's mental sight—keen as the hunter's sight on the rifle barrel—was sharpen. 2d by his knowledge of the old Hugh. an intuitive knowledge gained tn a significant formative period He saw more clearly than the townfolk who in a general way bad known Hugh Sures all their lives. Week by week Harry had seen bim regain lost ground tp bis father’s esteem Day by day he had seen bim making studi- ous appeal to all that was romantic {o Jessica, climbing to the favor of each op the ladder of the other's regard. Hugh was naturally a poseur, with o keen sense of effect. He could be brilliant at will, could play a little on plano, banjo and violin, could sing a ttle and bad himself well tp hand. And, feeling the unconscious chord of romance vibrate to his touch, be had played upon it with no unskiliful fin- gers Jessica was comparatively free from that coquetry by means of which a wo- man's instinct experiments in emotion. Although she bad been artist enough before the cloistered years of her blind- hess to know that she was comely, she had never employed that beauty in the ordinary biandishments of girlish fas. cipation. But steadily and anconscious- ly she bad turned tn her darkness more and more to the bright and ten der alr with which Hugh clothed all their intercourse. Her blindness bad been of too short duration to have de Feloped that tine sense-perception with which nature seeks to supplement the darkened vison. The tneradicable marks which Il! governed itving had set in Hugh's face, the self indulgence and egotism, she could nofsee She mistook impulse for instinct. She read him by the untrustworthy lgbt of a ‘colorful fmagination She deemed him => (2) Sry : high spirited and debonatr, a Prince ‘Charming, whose prideful rebeliion had | been atoned for by a touebing and manly surrender TAIL his lary, bad watched with a Painful sense of Impotence. and this feeling was upon him today as he Stared out from the study toward the white poreh glistening in the sun At length, with a little gesture ex- pressive at once of helplessness and puzzle, be turned from the window took his violin and began to plas fe began a barcarole, but the music wan. dered away through Insensible varia tions Into a moving minor, a compost tion of hts own | It broke off suddenty at # dog's terce snarl from the yard and the rattle of @ ‘thrown pebble. Immediately a knock came at the door, and a man entered. | “Don't stop,” sald the new comer. “I've dropped in for only a minute. ‘That's an ill tempered little brute of youre If I were you I'd get rid of him.” Harry Sanderson laid the violln care- fully in Its case and shut the lid before he answered “Rummy ts impulsive,” he saidjdryly. “How is your futher to- day, Hingh?” | ‘The other tapped the toe of his shin ing patent leather with his cane as he sald with @ look of fl humor: | “About as well as usual He's plan- ing now to put me in business and ex. pects me to become a staid pillar of society—like Sanderson, as he says forty times a week. How do you do it, Harry? ‘There isn't an old indy in town who thinks ber parlor carpet half good enough for you to walk on. You're only # month older than I am, yet you can wind the whole vestry and the bishop te boot around your finger.” “I wasn't aware of the idolatry.” Harry iaughed a little—a distant laugh “You are observant, Hugh.” “Oh, anybody can see it’ I'd like to know bow you do it. It was always 80. with you, even at college. You could do pretty much as you liked and Yet be popular too. Why, there was hever a Jamboree complete without you and your violin at the head of the ta- bie.” “That Is a long time ago,” said ‘Harry. “More than four years. Four years and a month a ae that cag evening of coltege, 1 imagine il bp espe haters rar ” 2 : ook An O68. S05 Sh soe ee ee: BEATLES SATURDAY... JANUARY 2. 1909 SATURDAY the corner, in which he kept his ites and his charities. When Hugh, shrug- ging his shoulders as if he to dismiss the unwelcome picture he had painted, turned again. Harry was putting into it some papers from his pocket. Hugh saw the action. His eyes fastened on the safe avidly. "I say," he said after a moment's pause as Harry made to shut its door, "can you loan me another fifty?" I flat on my uppers again, and the old man has been tight as nails with me since I came back. I'm sure to be able to return it with the rest in a week or two." Harry stretched his hand again to toward the safe, then drew it back, with compressed lips. He had met Hugh with persistent courtesy, and the other had found him sufficiently obliquely with loans. Hugh's lowered gaze saw the arrested movement, and his cheek flushed. "Oh, if it's inconvenient I won't trou- ble you for the accommodation," he said. "I dare say I can raise it." The attempt at nonchalance cost him a palpable effort. Comparatively small as the amount was, he needed it. He was in sore straits. "It isn't that it is inconvenient, Hugh," said Harry. "It's that I can't approve your manner of living lately, and—I don't know where the fifty is going." The mark on Hugh's brow reddened "I wasn't aware that I was expected to render you an accounting," he said sulkly, "If I do borrow a dollar or two now and then. What if I play cards and drink a little when I'm dry? I've got to have a bit of amusement once in awhile between prayers. You liked it yourself well enough before you discovered a sudden talent for preaching!" "Some men hide their talents under a napkin," said Harry. "You drown yours—in a bottle. You have been steadily going downhill. You are deceiving your father—and others—with a pretended reform which isn't skin deep. You have made them believe you are living straight when you are carousing; that you keep respectable company when you have taken up with a besotted and discredited gambler." "I suppose you mean Dr. Moreau," returned Hugh. "There are plenty of people in town who are worse than he is." "He is a quack—dropped from the hospital staff for addiction to drugs and expelled from his club for cheating at cards." "He's down and out," said Hugh sullenly, "and any cur can bite him. He never cheated me, and I find him better company than your sanctimonious, psalm singing sort. I'm not going to give him the cold shoulder because everybody else does. I never went back on a friend yet. I'm not that sort." "You never had a friend, Hugh," said Harry steadily. "You never really loved anybody or anything but yourself. You are utterly selfish. You are deliberately lying every hour you live to those who love you. You are playing a part-for your own end! You were only a good imitation of a good fellow at college. You are a poor imitation of a man of honor now." Hugh rose to his feet as he answered hotly; "And what are you, I'd like to know? Just because I take my pleasure as I please, while you choose to make a stained glass cherub of yourself, is no reason why I'm not just as good as you! I knew you well enough before you set up for such a pattern. You didn't go in much then for a theological diet. Pshaw!" he went on, snapping his fingers toward the well stocked bookshelves. "I wonder how much of all that you really believe! I imagine your friends don't call you 'Satan' now?" "No," returned Harry quietly, "they don't call me 'Satan' now." He went back to the safe. The movement set Hugh instantly to regretting his hasty tongue. If he had only assumed penitence instead of flying into a passion he might have had the money he wanted just as well as not. "There's no sense in us two quarrelling." he said hastily. "We've been friends a long time. I'm sure I didn't intend to when I came in. I suppose you're right about some things, and probably dropping Moreau wouldn't hurt me any. I'm sorry I said all I did. Only—the money seemed such a little thing, and I—I needed it." Harry stood an instant with his hand on the knob; then instead of closing the door he drew out a little drawer. He lifted a packet of crisp yellow backs and slowly counted out $100. "I'm trying to believe you mean what you say, Hugh," he said. Hugh's fingers closed eagerly over the crackling notes. "Now, that's white of you after everything I said. You're a good fellow, Harry, after all, and I'll always say so." He pocketed the money with an air of relief and picked up his hat and cane. Just then from the dusty street came the sound of carriage wheels and the click of the gate latch. "It's Bishop Ludlow." he said, glancing through the window. "He's coming in. I think I'll slip out the side way. Thanks for the loan, and—I'll think over what you've said." Avoiding the bishop, Hugh stepped toward the gate. The money was in his pocket. Well, one of these days he would not have to grovel for a paltry $50. He would be his own master and could afford to let Harry Sanderson and everybody else think what they liked "So I'm playing a part, am I?" he said to himself. "Why should your holiness trouble your ever if it I am? Not because you're so careful of the governor's feelings, not by a long shot! It's because you choose to think Jessica Holne is too good for me. That's where the shoe pinches. Perhaps you'd like to play at that game yourself, eh?" He walked jauntily up the street—toward the door with the little barred window "The old man is fond of her. He thinks I mean to settle down and let the moss grow over my ears, and he'll do the proper thing. It'll be a good way to put my head above water and keep it there. It must be soon, though." (To Be Continued.) MUST BE PERFECT MUST BE PERFECT ONE-PIECE GUIMPE AND SLEEVE HARD TO FASHION. Delightfully Becoming When Well Made, But Easily Spoiled If Artistry Is Not Bestowed on It. Although there is nothing more difficult of attainment by an unskilled modiste than the arrangement of a one-piece guippe and sleeve, fashion continues to advocate this style of dress, probably for the very reason it has proved more or less impossible for the great majority. No fashion is more delightfully becoming when it is correctly carried out, and none more to be avoided when there is doubt of the perfection of the artistry to be expended upon it. As shown in our One-Piece Gulmpe and Sleeves. illustration the fabric to be used is also of paramount importance in determining whether the guimpe is to be made with seamless shoulders or not. A delicate lace, figured net chiffon and similar fabrics are suitable for the seamless fabrics and sleeve, but a stiff fabric, even a heavy lace which does not drape well, is disappointing for this purpose, no matter how beautiful in quality or design. A tight, hard effect over the shoulders is entirely out of place with this shape bodice. When properly carried out the high-waisted empire frock is more graceful in effect when completed with this sort of draped bodice than with any other. The drooping effect which it gives to the shoulders is particularly harmonious with the empire lines. THAT BROWN LINE AGAIN Try Powdered Pumice Stone to Rem move Marks of Sun. The girl who has been struggling vainly during the fall with the dingy brown line on the neck, the result of too much sun or too tight collars, should not despair until she has tried pumice stone. If rubbing the stone and soapy water on the neck each time it is washed is too hard for the skin, try mixing powdered pumice with grease. Put cold cream on a piece of fine chamois, cover it with powdered pumice and rub it lightly but firmly on the neck. Finish the process by washing with a lather of fine white soap. Should even the powdered pumice irritate the skin, rub the neck, after the washing, with a little cold cream. Emollient for the Hands One of the best embolients for the hands, which should be used during the cold days of winter, is that of honey and oatmeal. Curious as the combination appears, it is an old-fashioned remedy, which was once strongly believed in, the meal acting as an efficient cleanser in addition to its softening qualities. To make a ball of the two ingredients, which can be rubbed over the back of the hands, it is usually necessary to add a little olive oil, while a few drops of rosewater, or, if a still more distinct perfume is desired, oil of geranium or attar of roses, give it a delicate fragrance. Use for Old Gown Many an old-fashioned satin evening gown is lying by considered hopeless, yet such a frock has wondrous possibilities. It will probably have a perfectly plain skirt, with or without a train. Anyway, it will be only the right length in the front, so as to bring it up to date. Cut the skirt off a foot above the hem and insert a deep band of fillet lace. This will make it possible to bring the skirt above the waist line. The old-fashioned waist will provide sufficient material for draping a blouse or fillet net or lace. Trimmings for the Neck There are many good neck trim- mings, chief among which will be found the tiny thick ruches of tulle, followed by narrow plaited ones of THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA silk, heathing silk stocks worn under traghe ice collars, Smart dressers are wearing quilted ones like the Wate- teau ruche, and on evening dress will be found a cleverly arranged ruche of small flowers mounted on tulle. Revival of Spanish Elocunce A good many of the new models show the return of the simple and attractive Spanish flounce or skirts. This has come about from the demand for easy fullness. This flounce, from its depth and its close gathers, gives a great chance to put the material around the feet in swirling folds. The Law of Speculation Big men are given to taking profits, while smaller men are laying a basis for profits that may or may not be shown. The law of the fishes in the sea applies in speculation. The big and the little fish have their respective missions, and the small ones are safe when the large ones are not hungry. Clock Made of Straw. A shootmaker named Wegner, living in Strasburg, has a clock of the grandfather shape, nearly six feet high, made entirely of straw. The wheels, pointers, case and every detail are exclusively of straw. Wegner has taken 15 years to construct this strange piece of mechanism. It keeps perfect time. Instantaneous Relief for Group. Group can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is to take a knife or grater and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix with twice the amount of sugar to make it palatable, and administer it as soon as possible. Safeguard for Coal The best preventive for spontaneous ignition of coal, says Compressed Air, is a small cylinder containing compressed carbon dioxide, fitted with a fuse plug melting at 200 degrees Fahrenheit. A cylinder one foot long and three inches in diameter is sufficient to take care of eight tons of coal. Sound "Taps" on Mayer A "striking" ceremony marks the expiration of the Grantham (England) mayor's tenure of office. The robe is stripped from him, the chain is taken from about his neck, and with a small wooden hammer the town clerk taps the ex-mayor on the head in token of the demise of his authority. Essence of Culture The very essence of culture is shaking off the nightmare of self-consciousness and self-absorption and attaining a sort of Christian Nirvana—lost in the great whole of humanity, thinking of others, caring for others, admiring and loving others.—E. R. Sill. Women Then and Now. The "old-fashioned" women certainly knew how to rule, and "advanced" though we be, may do not manage to wield so much power, on the whole, as the clever women of past generations. It must be that our methods are at fault.—Lady's Pictorial. Unconscious Socialism. It is one of the most notorious tendencies of human nature to believe that when you have made use of other people's property for a sufficiently long period you are absolutely entitled to it to the exclusion of the real owner.—Estates Gazette Practical Labor "George," spoke his better half, "you are interested in the temperance movements, are you not?" "Why, certainly I am," he answered. "Well, suppose you go out and make a few of them with the pump handle. I am in need of a pail of water right away."—Bohemian. Some Heavy Swells "Society is like a wave," comments a contemporary. He then explains why, but misses the main point, which is that there are some heavy swells. —San Antonio Express. Many a man who has heard his glowing letters read in a breach of promise suit realizes that, after all, the telephone is cheaper in the end. Somerville Journal. True to Conscience I'd rather fail by being true to my conscience than make a popular success* by being false—From "Lynch's Daughter," by Leonard Merrick. The Misery of Vengeance To avenge misdeed on the misdoer is Misery to feed with her own broken heart—Percy Byshe Shelley. The Price. It takes some people a long time to find out that things are not always valuable because they cost dearly. The intellect is perfected not by knowledge but by activity.—Aristotle. French Proverb. An ounce of favor goes farther than an ounce of justice. The Politician's Ideal. In the opinion of the average politician the ideal form of government would be one under which everybody could have a public office. If One Is Cautious Home is a restful sort of place where we may all say just what we please if we are discreet about it.— Galveston News. The Pangs of Love "It's a dreadful thing to be in love," said Mr. Despairing Swain. "I have a heartache that would fill three hospitals and then some." BEST OF ALL SHADES OF BLUE. One of the new shades of blue which are calculated to carry all before them this season in the world of dress and which have no rival even among the softer and more effective tones, which, according to the standard of yesterday, should have come first in order of merit, is the clear, vivid tint known as "Eugene." This is the facsimile of the old-fashioned blue which in the days of the second empire was worn so frequently by the beautiful bride of Napoleon III, and which extended its popularity over a far longer period than is usually the case where fashion is concerned. The only difference which obtains nowadays is that, instead of being carried out in the crisp rustling silks which our grandmothers delighted in, and of which the quality of "standing alone" appeared to have been rated above all others, it is reproduced in the softest crepe meteor, satin charmeuse or cashmere de sole, which gives a very quaint effect to this vivid and somewhat crude tone. WEAR THE COAT SWEATER. Snugly Fitting Garment That Affords Much Comfort. The fashion for waltcoats has brought about a new sweater which is tight fitting and is made to show. It is knitted in most of the fashionable colors and is smart in leather brown, jade green with a black border, bright blue with a striped border, and gray with a black edge and smoked pearl buttons. These go by the name of coat sweaters. They are to be widely worn in the country life this season. Any girl who suffers with cold should get one to put under her coat on the street. They fit so snugly that they do not disturb the shape of anything they are worn under. Outside of the city they serve quite as well as a coat. They have long sleeves with turnover cuffs, flat revers and good-looking buttons. They reach below the hips and usually have one or two pockets in front. THE NEW COIFFURE The above cut shows the correct arrangement of the fashionable loose psyche. As will be noticed, the hair is almost flat on top, but stands out in large, loose waves on sides. A simple but pretty ornament is a bow of ribbon as indicated. Spangled Scarfs. The spangled or sequined scarfs are in great demand for neckwear, and the girl who is quick at spangling or beading can make one of these at little cost. Buy figured, dotted, or ringed with gold beads or white, in a supple quality. Outline each figure, dot or ring with gold beads or tiny sequins, and you will have the effect of the Syrian scarfs which cost from $15 to $20. These are heavy and suitable for theater-goers of rather mature years. The younger girl should content herself with a long, soft scarf of chiffon cloth or figured net, trimmed with lace, or, best of all, fine crepe de chine in delicate colorings. The latter may have deep hems with the owner's monogram embroidered in self-tone on one end. A Child's Bed. The mattress for a child's bed should be firm and not too soft. If any pillow at all is used—and it is best not to have one—it should be a small pillow stuffed with hair. Never load the bed with blankets. Let the cover be light and warm. Also remove the counterpane, or heavy Marsililes coverlid, at night. Never let a child sleep on a feather bed. Children should sleep alone. Each child should have his own bureau and closet, or at least space in the closet, so that method and neatness may be installed from the first. Care should be taken that the child use his own hairbrush and washcloth. Steel Ribs in Fur Neckwear The very latest notion is the "spring" collar, a smart strip of fur through which runs a thin, flexible rib of steel something like the steel bracelet which the bicycle enthusiast wears to keep his nether garments from flapping around his ankles. This new fur collar needs no snap or other fastening, for it springs into the right snugness around the throat. When the wearer is in a warm room the collar may be clasped around the arm, with less danger of losing it than when, as heretofore, it was held in the hand or on the lap. Serge Remains Popular Serge is to retain its restored popularity, and in plain, herringbone and chovron weaves will be much in evidence among the new tailored costumes, as will the wide-wale diagonals, which gained a firm hold upon feminine fancy in the late spring season Would Be Here A law is to be passed in France exempting wives from obeying their husbands. Isn't this a work of supererogation? May Be a Whited Senulcher It is a woman's way to think there is always some good in a man who wears a white vest. -Galveston News QUAKER MUSINGS. Even the rainbow follows its natural bent. Many a man is as dull as his point of view. Some people won't steal as long as they can borrow. Even the left-handed man may feel that he does everything right. It is sometimes hard for a man to be on the level and climb upward. We would all rather profit by the mistakes of others than by our own. Good habits require constant cultivation, but bad ones grow like weeds. The hen that has just laid an egg cackles almost as much as a woman who has just told a secret. Virtue is its own reward, as the fatted calf discovered when he got it in the neck for the prodigal son. "It's the little things that count," quoted the Wise Guy. "That's right," agreed the Simple Mug. "A microbe isn't as big as an elephant, but it does more damage." "Why don't you stop begging and look for work?" demanded the man who had been touched. "What's the use of giving up a sure thing for an uncertainty," replied the beggar.—Philadelphia Record. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman's idea of having great charm is for you to tell her so. About the meanest trick the average girl can play a man is to be his sister. A girl could feel romantic even over a love letter she had to write to herself. The kind of dinner a woman enjoys is when it's hers and you tell her how good it is. Men wouldn't even want to go fishing if that was a good way to earn their living. A great advantage in being a bachelor is all the relatives-in-law you don't have to stand. What a woman adores about a stage hero is she couldn't possibly live with him if they were married. The best man in the world would want to cuss once in a while just to make sure he is a human being. The thing that tickles a man to death is how people can't help admiring him in spite of his unpopularity. A woman can have a grand time writing a letter unless there is some news to put in and take up room she needs to tell about how the baby is just as cunning as ever.—New York Press. ORIENTAL WISDOM All this triple world were a thick darkness, had not the light of the word shone upon it from the beginning. Nobody belongeth to thee, and thou belongest to nobody; wife, relatives, friends, are but chance meetings upon the way. He hath read all, and heard all, and fulfilled all, he who hath turned his back upon hope and seeth herein his perfect welfare. To the wise, heaven is but a blade of grass; to heroes, life is but a blade of grass; to those who have overcome their senses, woman is but a blade of grass; to those who no longer desire, the world is but a blade of grass. "Stand up, O, friend, and for a moment bear the load of my poverty, while I, weary after long waiting, give myself to the joys you owe to death." So said the poor man, going hastily to the burial ground; but the dead friend made no motion, for he knew that death was better than poverty — The Sunday Magazine. STUBS. The generous turtle lays 200 eggs at a time. A pound of saccharine equals 500 pounds of sugar. Germany produces 1,394,000,000 picture postcards a year. The latest chain-making machine makes two miles of chain a minute. The Belgain bachelor has one vote, the married man two, and the priest three. Clothing dyed with coal-tar dyes has been known to cause skin diseases. Russian soldiers carry compasses with luminous needles—excellent things for a night attack. There are neither bachelors nor old maids in China, where cellibacy is deemed unnatural and vicious. The first Sherlock Holmes novel, "A Study in Scarlet," was sold cutright for $125. Sherlock Holmes stories now bring more than that per paragraph. Present Duty He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flame when he may have forgotten its cause—Henry Ward Beecher. Worry and the Liver Worry is a demon. Look to your liver. If it is out of action it can scare up more ghosts than a novelist could paint in the same time. LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT AND LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE OR SHORT AND KINKY A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THAT KINKY, CURLY HAIR, PUTTING IT IN THE MOST PERFECT CONDITION TO BE COMBED INTO ANY SHAPE JUST TRY A BOTTLE OF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. There is no other preparation on earth to equal Lincoln Hair Pomade in producing soft, beautiful hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is a natural hair cleanser—a natural promoter of growth and naturally reduces the air with straight and combable condition; but also supplies the air with moisture matter more rough or heavy your hair is now, no matter how hard it may be, the use of Lincoln Hair Pomade will give you hair that can well be the envy of others. Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior substitutes. Do not take anything that is claimed to be just as good, but insist on getting the genuine. The Lincoln Pomade Co NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep it, send 26 cents in stamps or silver to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO., Department B, Norfolk, Va. and we will send you a bottle by return mail. The Hawkins-Price Co. Thair Growers and Restorers. 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The courts have included the letter as proof that the order then paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are held liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the parer discontinue. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to review your subscription or to discontinue your order, you should give your name and address we have weise can find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the new address. SATURDAY....JANUARY 2, 1909. A GLOWING TRIBUTE. We have received a clipping from a Georgia paper, the same being sent to us by one of the most distinguished white gentlemen in this city. It reads as follows: "Every now and again we read in the newspapers of lynchings in the south, of race wars, of the negro problem, of race prejudice. If we knew nothing beyond this of the relations between whites and negroes we would assume that constant antagonism existed, frequently coming to a head in hangings or burnings. But we do know that it is only the tragic that finds its way over the telegraph wires and that pleasant, helpful relations between the two races, accompanied by mutual respect and sympathy, are the rule rather than the exception." This is unquestionably true. The relationship between the better class of white people at the Southland and the better class of colored people is steadily improving. It says further: "A few days ago there died in Augusta, Ga., an old Negro, named George Washington Walton. He was born in slavery but for many years an industrious barber and law-abiding citizen. His funeral was held from the First Presbyterian Church, white, one of the oldest, largest and most fashionable in the city, at which Walton had been an attendant for a great many years. Dr. J. T. Plunkett is the pastor. Read what he said over the old Negro's coffin, in the presence of hundreds of the best white people in Augusta and see if you find any trace of 'race prejudice.' "It is not my practice to preach a funeral sermon, and I shall not depart from my custom to deliver a funeral oration over the sleeping dust of our beloved brother and our friend. What could I add by word of lip to the honor of his long, modest, humble Christian life as he lived it throughout all his years in this city? That which I might say could not add to it, and God forbid that I should take from it in a single degree." The man for generations or citizens knew the matter through all the trying years of the "wife" and since his life has been as an open book, and read by all. And it was full of instructions for the young, for it was not in him, nor of him, to put a premium upon idleness in any class or any race. "In early life he began his labor, and though God blessed and gave to him a competence, he never ceased his work until the setting sun of his life and the shadow of death cut short his faithful laboring. He walked among us modest, humble, unobtrusive, arrogating to himself no place, no power, no influence that was not rightfully his—that of a man who respects himself and others. "Through all his intercourse with those of his own color and with those of the white race he bore him self without abuse, and was worthy of the grand old name of gentleman. He was a true citizen, and bore responsibility intelligently and faithfully. In every relation of life, as brother, husband, father and citizen, in spirit and in letter, he endeavored to be true and faithful. "Out of the fullness of the pastor's heart I speak. For years he identified himself with this church, even before I came to it as pastor, and since his public profession of faith he gave the adversary no opportunity to challenge his adherence to his faith. He walked in this world of shadow and sin, and as a light his life shown, his trust and belief in God an influence that may not be gain-said "And so it is meet that white and black should gather in the house of God, before whom there is no distinction, to pay tribute to the devoted father, the humble, true citizen, the faithful child of God. I lay my personal tribute on his dust. He never failed to express his love to me, and he knew that I loved him, and I will say that George Walton was worthy of the love of any man." This then was the tribute, given from the heart by a white Christian, who meant all that he said. We have more than once emphasized the fact that there can be no such thing as a general race war in the Southland, so long as this generation and the next generation and the one that follows lives in this land of the fathers. - All over the sunny land, black mammies are rearing with steadfast devotion the off-spring of the white race and they will stand up not only for their foster-mothers, but will defend the children of these same people, who in many cases are the only playmates that they have known in their early childhood. Colored men, who have white friends would warn them of any danger from the lawless elements of their own race and white men, who have friends amongst us would vouch-safe the same favor. Let us talk peace, let us advocate peace and let us pray for peace among the races. So far as we are individually concerned, we are looking for our rights and privileges from the white people of this state and we are confident with the light of past experiences before us that we can get more justice in Virginia than we can before the "powers that be" in the District or Columbia. His Retort. A meek-looking little man, with a large pasteboard box, climbed on the tram. As he did so he bumped slightly into a sleepy, corpulent passenger with a self-satisfied look and two little dabs of side-whiskers. As the car rounded a curve the box rubbed against him again, and he growled: "This is no luggage car, is it?" "No," returned the meek little chap with the box, and when you come right down to it, it ain't no cattle car, either, is it?" Historical Anydate Alexander was before Tyre. "To succeed," counselled his generals, "we must invest the city." Aleck frowned "To make our revenge keener, why not compel the citizens to do the investing, and let us be the promoters?" he answered. Whereupon the court jester withdrew to draw up the prospectus.—Puck. A. Memory Aid Goodfello—Here's your health, old fel. By the way, what is that knot in your handkerchief for? Jollifello—H'm! That is to remind me that I've sworn off. Goodfello—But you just this minute took a drink. Jollifello—Y-e-s. Fact is, I never see the knot till I take out my handkerchief to wipe my mouth—N. Y. Weekly. In a Good Cause Amazed Mother—What does this mean, miss? The idea of allowing a young man-to hug and kiss you that way? Sweet Girl—Oh, it's all right, ma. Mr. Nicefelo gives me a penny a hug, and it's all to be applied toward raising the mortgage on our church.—N. Y. Weekly. Always Comes High One trouble with experience is that we seldom get it at marked-down prices. Almost Honeless It is pretty hard for any man to be a hero to his sweetheart's brother. The work that a man likes to do is too often done by somebody else. Generally The man who thinks he is one of the chosen few generally turns out to be one of the disappointed many. Where Pride Is Ignorance. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. Man Always Omnivorous It used to be held that primitive man was a vegetarian; out the anthropologist Ortvay has made careful and extended investigations, which indicate that primitive man, like the modern savage, was omnivorous. Helps Some. "There's one good thing about a college yell," observed the man on his way to the football game, "and that is that while they're giving\it they can't sing a college song." The Bumping Place Many a man has gone to the wall because he was unable to see the partition between enterprise and chicanery. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA TRAPPED BY FLASHLIGHT Detective Posed as a "Promoter," and With Officers Within Hearing Discussed Bribe With Councilman, Who Wept When He Found He Was Trapped—It Is Said a National Bank Paid $17,500 to Become a City Depository. Pittsburg, Pa., Doc. 23.—A flashlight photograph of a member of councils in the act of accepting money from a decoy "promoter," it is said, will be one of the strongest features of the evidence to be presented when seven members of councils and two former bank officials are to be given a preliminary hearing on charges of bribery, corrupt solicitation and other illegal acts brought by the Voters' league. This picture, it is said, was taken in a private room in a downtown hotel immediately before the councilman was arrested. No additional arrests were made, and it is said that none are likely to be made until after the hearing. Besides the councilman, the flashlight photograph is said to show an agent of the Huffing detective agency, of Scranton, Pa., which worked up the cases. This man is reported to have posed as a member of a firm anxious to sell wooden paving blocks to the city and to have become very intimate with the councilman. With other detectives concealed within hearing distance the councilman is alleged to have been induced to tell of the negotiations to secure the passage of the legislation, to name the other members who were to share in the bribe and to say that the members were tired of promises and wanted to see some real money. The detective peeled off $100 and $500 bills from a large roll, and just as the councilman reached for his allotment the flash was ignited. The councilman, it is said, broke down and wept, and when he accused his companion of trapping him there was no denial. Then an officer appeared and made the arrest. Bank Examiner Harrison Nesbit is expected to testify to finding a suspicious entry in the books of the German National bank accounting for $17,500, and that President W. W. Ramsey and Cashier A. A. Vilsack, of the bank, upon being summoned before the directors, admitted that the sum had been expended to secure the selection of the bank as a city repository. The directors repudiated the action of the officers and immediately asked and received the resignations of the officers. It is reported that some of the bribe money was paid in checks and that the checks and stubs will be offered in evidence. It is practically admitted that a number of decoy contractors and promoters were introduced to trap councilmen and that many temptations have been offered members during the past six months. Friends of some of the accused men charge that the whole probe is a part of a scheme to elect an independent candidate for mayor, yet to be named. Arrested For Selling Colored Milk. W. A. Taylor, a dairyman at Le moyne, near Harrisburg, Pa., was placed under arrest by the order of Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust on the charge of selling milk artificially colored by the use of yellow anatto. This offense is the first of its kind to be noted in the state. RAN THROUGH BLAZING DOOR Forty-two School Children Had Narrow Escape From Cremation. Circleville, O., Dec. 23.—Forty-two school children had a narrow escape from cremation when fire broke out in district school No. 5. With the door in flames and all the windows securely barred, the situation was critical. A fire panic followed. Luther Compton, the teacher, induced the children one by one to run through the blazing doorway, the only means of escape, and all were saved. The teacher was the last to leave the building. The doorway became ignited from an overheated register. CIRCUS WOMAN DEAD Molly Hillman, Former Ring Star, Dies In Poorhouse. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Dec. 23—Molly Hillman, who for years appeared in this country and Europe as one of the foremost circus performers, died in the poorhouse at Greenfield, near here. She was ninety-two years old. In her day she was a star in both the Barnum and Forepapau circuses. She was marred four times, and each husband met a violent death. Carload of Christmas Presents Burned Chicago, Dec. 23. — A mail pouch loaded with Christmas presents was burned, five mail clerks barely escaped with their lives, while one was injured in jumping to safety, and an engine was derailed and overturned when a southbound Baltimore & Ohio railroad freight train crashed into a westbound Chicago & Alton passenger train in the west side of Chicago. As soon as the trains struck a gas tank in the mail coach exploded and set fire to it and the piles of Christmas mail. Fractured Father's Skull With Clock, Washington, Dec. 23. — Using the family alarm clock in defense of his mother, Everett Clark, aged fifteen, of this city, threw the timepiece at his father, Richard Clark, inflicting two fractures of the skull. The elder Clark is in a serious condition. Major Orlando J. Smith, Founder of American Press Association. President of Country's Largest Newspaper Syndicate-He Kept In Touch With Publishers All Over America Thinker, Philosopher and Writer, as Well as Executive Head of Extensive Enterprise. Many Well Known Men at Funeral of LateHeadAmericanPressAssociation. LateHeadAmericanCemeteryAssociation. Tarrytown, N. Y., Dec. 23.—With simple ceremonies the body of Major Orlando Jay Smith, late president of the American Press Association, whose death occurred Sunday evening, was laid to rest in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. Funeral services were held at the home of Major Smith in Dobbs Ferry. They were attended by many well known men, friends of the deceased. MAJOR ORLANDO J. SMYTH by a delegation of officials and employees of the American Press Association and by members of the Loyal Logion and other organizations of which Major Smith was a member. Banked around the casket in which the body lay were many beautiful floral pieces. Major Smith had been ill since September, at which time he was operated on for cancer of the stomach. Through his long illness he retained his interest in daily events. Major Smith was born June 14, 1842, on a farm near Terre Haute, Ind., of Vermont ancestry. His father, Hiram Smith, was one of Indiana's pioneers. He sent his son to the public schools and later to Asbury college, now Depauw university. In later years the university conferred on its distinguished alumnus the degree LL. D At the outbreak of the Civil War Major Smith enlisted. He served until the end of the war in the Armies of the Potomac, Ohio and Cumberland, rising to the rank of major in the Sixth Indiana cavalry. He was wounded near Atlanta, Ga., and was taken prisoner. After a confinement in a Confederate prison at Atlanta, Ga., Major Smith was exchanged and rejoined his regiment. Major Smith was a member of the Loyal Legion. After the war Major Smith engaged for three years in cotton planting at Enterprise, Miss. Major Smith began his journalistic career at Terre Haute, Ind., as editor of the Terre Haute Mall, Later he acquired the Terre Haute Express. In 1873 he removed the latter newspaper to Chicago, continuing its publication as the Chicago Express. In 1882 Major Smith founded in Chicago the American Press Association, the monument to his fame. Later the main offices of the American Press association were removed to New York, where they remain. In person Major Smith was distinguished among men, tall and well built. He bore himself with dignity and ease, and his clean shaven face bore the impress of his splendid mind. In his later years his abundant hair became silvery white, adding an indescribable charm to his appearance. His manner was kindly and genial, without effusion. He had a keen sense of justice, to which testimony is borne by a host of employees, in whose welfare he took an active interest. Major Smith is survived by a widow, two daughters and a son. The last named, Courtland Smith, is vice president and assistant general manager of the American Press Association. CANAL TO OPEN IN SIX YEARS Secretary of Panama Commission Says Jan. 1, 1915, Is Date. San Francisco, Dec. 23.—The Panama canal will be opened Jan. 1, 1915, according to an official communication received by the California promotion committee from Joseph Buckline Bishop, secretary of the canal commission. Mail Pouch Stolen Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 23—A mall pouch containing sixty pounds of registered Christmas packages, consigned to eastern points, was stolen from the baggage room of the Twenty-second street and Grand avenue depot of the Belt Line railroad. Although the postoffice authorities refuse to make any statement as to the contents of the pouch, it is believed to have contained much valuable merchandise. There was no money in it. Live Stock Marketa PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow; choice, $6.20@6.75; prime, $6.20@6.40; lambs strong; prime wethers, $4.30@4.30; culls and mon, $1.50@2.50; lambs, $4@7.25; veal calves, $4@8.75. HOGS active and higher; prime heavies, $5.75@6; mediums, $5.75@ kerries, $5.60@7.55; light Yorkshire, $5.25@6; pigs, $4.90@1.10; roughts, $4.50@6; pigs, $4.90@1.10; RECEIPT THAT CURES WEAK MEN--FREE. Send Name and Address To-day— You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his many power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So, I have determined to send a copy of the prescription, free of charge. In a plain ordinary sealed envelope, to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am convinced it is the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor-failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any man, anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what, I believe, is the quickest-acting, restorative, upbuilding, SPOTTOUCHING remedy ever devised, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: Mr. A. E. Robinson, 3895 Luck Bldg., Detroit, Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid receipt, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope, free of charge. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Thursday, December 17. After eight years of torture from a broken back, Frank Sandoval died at Monrovia, Cal. While playing with his father's revolver, Harold Brouse, six years old, shot and killed his two-year-old sister at Sellingsgrove, Pa. The Russian Grand Duke Alexis, whose sudden death occurred recently in Paris, died intestate, leaving a huge fortune of $30,000,060. Wesley M. Owen, of Leroy, Ill., has been appointed a justice of the supreme court on the isthmus of Panama, to fill a vacancy. President Roosevelt declined an invitation to attend a banquet to be given in New York by the Aero Club of America in honor of the Wright brothers. Friday, December 18. President Roosevelt has appointed George E. Work to be collector of internal revenue for the district of West Virginia. The most disastrous fire that Goldsboro, N. C., has suffered in many years raged for several hours and caused damage and loss of property estimated at $100,000. The treasury has purchased 100,000 ounces of silver for delivery at New York. 75,000 ounces for delivery at New Orleans and 50,000 ounces for delivery at Denver, at 48,692 per ounce. Rev. Berryman Green, for several years connected with the Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, was elected bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Virginia by the Episcopal convention at Alexandria, Va. Saturday, December 19. Rev. Thomas A. Wallace, former chancellor of the Roman Catholic diocese of Newark, N. J., died of paralysis. James Jenkins, John Portella and Lee Chung were hanged on the same scaffold in the provincial jail at New Westminster, B. C. James F. Tracey, of Albany, N. Y., an associate justice of the supreme court of the Philippines, has resigned and the resignation has been accepted by the president. Five highwaymen blew up the Holloway Exchange bank, of Gibson, Neb., held the inhabitants at bay while they secured $2500 from the vaults and escaped in an automobile, the citizens pursuing them. Monday, December 21. A national tariff conference will be A national tarm conference will be called for Feb. 9 to 11 at Indianapolis. Paul Rotkosky was run down and killed by a Pennsylvania railroad train near Shamokin, Pa. Mrs. Harriet Armstrong, who died at her home in Rosnoke, Va., aged 101 years, lived all her life at the spot where she died. The Good Government League of San Francisco has indorsed President Roosevelt's attitude toward the secret service and congress. When the police searched A. B. Smith at Ventura, Cal., held for forgery, the found a cavity in his wood, en leg holding alleged forged notes. Tuesday, December 22. The supreme court of the United States adjourned until Jan. 4. Two children of William Johnston of Plumbrook, N. Y., aged two and four years respectively, were burned to death in their beds when their home was destroyed by fire. Worried by continued illness of several months from rheumatism, August Winkler, a Wilmington, Del., cabinetmaker, went into an alley near his home and fired two bullets from a revolver into his right temple. In the presence of the young woman who had just refused to marry him, Rev. W. Woodfolk, aged twenty-two, of Dallas, Tex., shot himself through the heart and fell dead across the couch on which the terrified young woman had been reclining. Wednesday, December 23. Wilmer V. Shellender, a well known carpenter, fell from a scaffold at Kennett Square, Pa., and was killed. The Rt. Rev. John S. Michaud, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Burlington, Tt., died at St. Vincent's hospital, in New York. Mrs. Mary Green, an elderly woman, who lives alone at Columbus, near Mt. Holly, N. J., committed suicide by hanging herself in her bedroom with a rope fastened to a lamp bracket. Henry Neumeyer, a prominent citizen of Macungle, Pa., got up before daylight, and while walking about in the dark smashed a pane of glass with his face and nearly bled to death from his injuries. KNOX WILL HEAD TAFT'S CABINET He Has Accepted the Place as Secretary of State. PRESIDENT-ELECT PLEASED Feels That He Should Be Congratulated In Securing Senator Knox's Services and Says He Is Recognized as One of the Greatest Lawyers in the Senate. William H. Taft, president elect of the United States, announced the appointment of United States Senator Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, as secretary of state in his cabinet. The announcement followed the receipt by Mr. Taft of a telegram conveying the information from Mr. Knox that he would accept the premiership of the Taft cabinet. Mr. Taft without delay made the announcement that the matter was settled. "I feel that I am to be congratulated in securing the services of Senator Knox in my cabinet," said Judge Taft in making the announcement. "In selec g a secretary of state, I wanted, first, a great lawyer, and, second, a man who would fill the public eye, not only here, but abroad, as a man who stands out pre-eminently as a great American. Mr. Knox was a great attorney general; he was a prominent candidate for the presidency, and he is recognized in the senate and elsewhere as one of the great lawyers of that body." Judge Taft also feels that from a political viewpoint the selection of Mr. Knox is most happy. He explained that there was often a feeling that the state of Pennsylvania, with its assured Republican majorities, often was slighted in the matter of recognition in the high councils of the party. That this will not be the case in the next administration was indicated by the announcement by Mr. Taft that he would invite Senator Knox to come to Augusta that he might consult him freely with reference to filling other places in his cabinet. Carnegie Again Urges Free Steel. Andrew Carnegie, famous for the millions he made in the steel business and for his views on economic questions, made a most entertaining, if not instructive, witness before the house ways and means committee in Washington in connection with the proposed revision of the tariff. "Permanent protection is an injustice to the consumer," said Mr. Carnegie impressively. "When an industry reaches that state of development where it no longer needs protection it is a gross injustice to the consumer to continue it." Mr. Carnegie's principal contention was that the steel industry needs no more protection, that it has reached a point in its development where the American manufacturers can compete with the world under free trade conditions. While he claimed that the cost of labor and production of steel are less in this country than in the other countries producing steel, Mr. Carnegie gave no figures to support his contentions. He said that Judge Gary told the committee that the United States Steel corporation can get along without a tariff on its product and that should be sufficient evidence for the committee to take off the duty on steel and iron. Couple Slain In Bed. Wycomy Florezik, aged thirty-eight years, and Rozlye Florezik, twenty-four years old, his wife, were found murdered in their home, at 132 Bird street, Wilmington, Del. The grusome crime had been committed with a hatchet. Between the beds in which the bodies were found was the cradle containing the two-months-old child of the couple. Splashes of blood were found on the infant, but it was not hurt. In the adjoining room was the two-year-old daughter of the dead man and woman. She was badly frightened and had evidently been in her parents' room, because marks of blood were found on the floor of the room which she occupied. The bodies were found by Alexander Florezik, aged eighteen years, a boarder and half-brother of the murdered man, who did not spend the night at the house, but went there in the morning to learn why he could not get in when he went home. The police have taken the young man into custody. Penna. Capitol "Trimmers" Sentenced. John H. Sanderson, contractor for the furnishing of the new state capitol; ex-Auditor General William P. Snyder, ex-State Treasurer W. L. Mathues and ex-Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings James M. Shumaker, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the state of Pennsylvania in the first of the cases growing out of the capitol scandal to be tried, were sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, $500 fine and costs, the maximum punishment allowed by law, and after being in the custody of the sheriff for seven hours were released on $100,000 ball. Their attorneys appealed from the refusal of the judge to grant a new trial and his sentence to the superior court, and that tribunal, sitting in Philadelphia, allowed a supersedesess. When the terms of this order staying the execution of the sentence were received at Harrisburg ball was entered in the sum of $25,000 each for the defendants, this ball to hold good until the superior court decides their fate. John D., Jr., Sues Newspaper For Libel Upon a charge of criminal libel, which was made by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., S. S. Carvalho, president of the Star company, publishers of William H. Hearst's New York American Was arrested and arraigned in police court before Magistrate Finn. At the solicitation of Clarence J. Shearn, attorney for the Hearest publications, and without any objection being raised on the part of Assistant District Attorney Garvan, who had charge of the prosecution. Mr. Carvalho was paroled in the custody of his lawyer until Dec. 26 for examination. Mr. Rockeferell, accompanied by his counsel, Lawyer Murphy, appeared in District Attorney Jerome's office and made complaint that the article published in the New York American of Dec. 17, under a Chicago date of Dec. 16, with the head line "J. D. Rockeferell, Jr., Originated Peonage In Stockade, It Is Said," tended to injure his good name, reputation and credit and to make him appear malicious. Hanged to Tree By Hobbers. While enroute with his wife and twelve children from Esterhazy, Can., to Petersburg, Va., where they were to make their home, Charles Kreicar, an Italian, met a tragic death near Graham, Va. His body was found hanging to a tree, suspended by heavy twine around his neck. The police believe that Kreicar, who displayed a large roll of money on the train between Cincinnati and Bluefield, W. Va., according to the conductor, was robbed and murdered. When the train reached Bluefield Kreicar left it to get lunch for his wife and children. The train pulled out before Kreicar returned and he was left behind. Kreicar had the railroad tickets from Roanoke to Petersburg in his pockets, and when the train reached Roanoke after midnight Mrs. Kreicar and the twelve little ones entered a waitingroom and remained there all night. A message told of the finding of the body. A small cord was about the neck. Found Will Nailed to Washtub Enclosed in a red envelope, which was nailed securely to the bottom of a washub, the will of the late Patrick Monahan, of Charlestown, Mass., disposing of property valued at $250,000, was found and offered for probate. Monahan was a grocer and was not married. When he died last September no will could be found, and John Monahan, of Chicago, a brother, was made administrator. The will was found as described in a sub-cellar. Monument to Governor Stuart Linglestown, a small town about seven miles east of Harrisburg, Pa., will erect a handsome monument in honor of Governor Edwin Stuart. The inhabitants of the town fought the good roads movement for a long time, but recently gave the chief executive's policy a trial and were so pleased with its success that the residents have decided to honor "the Good Roads Governor" by placing a lasting tribute to his efforts. Body Found In the Delaware A burlap bag containing a leather coat and the body of a man or woman in such a state of decomposition that it was impossible to fully determine the sex of the corpse, was found in the Delaware river near Lambertville, N.J. The body had been wrapped in a clothes line and was weighted down in the water with about forty pounds of railroad spikes. Dying Man Electrocuted. While he was assisting in the making of tests at the power plant of the Allentown (Pa.) Electric Light and Power company, William Werley, an expert electrician, was suddenly stricken with heart failure and, grasping for support, received a shock that killed him. Werley, when he felt the attack coming on, called to the superintendent to throw the power off, and then sank, dying to the floor. Elbert Hubbard Injured Elbert Hubbard, the Roycrofter and author, was nearly killed by a tree in the woods near his East Aurora, N. Y., colony. Mr. Hubbard was assisting workmen, when he miscalculated the direction in which one of the trees which he was felling was going to fall, and he was crushed badly. Mr. Hubbard will be laid up for some time WOMAN THROWS ACID IN DOCTOR'S FACE Revolver. Washington, N. J., Dec. 23. — Dr. Charles B. Smith, mayor of this city, who has held office for nine years, and considered the most popular man in this place, was nearly blinded by a woman patient, who threw carbolic acid in the doctor's eyes after trying to kill him with a revolver. The woman was Mrs. Alice Castner, a wealthy widow, living in the country a mile from Washington, who, Dr. Smith says, is suffering from paranola. Dr. Smith has long been the physician for the family of John Bowers, a wealthy farmer living near Washington, who is Mrs. Castner's father. Mrs. Castner's husband died ten years ago and she has four children. SHOPPERS IN PANIC One Killed, Many Hurt, When Joker Yellied "Fire!" St. Joseph, Dec. 23. — Christmas shoppers in a downtown department store were thrown into a panic by a cry of fire, and in the wild scramble for the exits that followed one child was crushed to death and a half dozen women fainted and were trampled on. The fire cry was a hoax. Morgan Paid $120,000 For Caxtons. London, Dec. 23—J. P. Morgan, it was announced, paid $120,000 for the Caxtons which he bought recently at the sale of the library of Lord Amherst. Election Judge Sent to Prison. St. Louis, Dec. 23.—Four years in the penitentiary was the sentence pronounced upon Thomas McCrath, convicted of fraud as a judge of election at the last general primary. THE KENN SERVED IN NEW WAY SERVED IN NEW WAY DESSERT DISHES FOR THOSE WHO LIKE THE QUINCE. Sweet Apples Mixed with the Fruit Add Flavor—Chopped Preserved Quinces Served with Boiled Custard—Quince Tart. Quince chips are a thick preserve of tender quinces and sugar syrup. A little invention may vary this by adding fruit that does not disturb the flavor. When cooked all alone the quince flavor is quite strong, and sweet apples seem created to little invention may vary this by adding fruit that does not disturb the flavor. When cooked all alone the quince flavor is quite strong, and sweet apples seem created to borrow an equal flavor from the quince. A very few quince preserves with ice cream is a dainty dish, and a spoonful served with a mound of whipped cream and gelatin is delicious. The Housekeeper suggests new ways for the fruit, and one of these is a trifle made with chipped preserved quinces. Arrange them in a deep glass dish with alternate layers of macaroni or sponge cake crumbs, then pour over a rich boiled custard made with the yellows of six eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, three cupfuls of milk and half a teaspoonful of almond extract. Pour the custard over while it is still warm and set aside until very cold. Just before serving heap over the top the whites of two eggs whipped to a very stiff snow with two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls of chopped blanched almonds. Garnish with candied orange carpels or candied cherries. A quince tart is either a pie or pudding if one prefers it so called, but it is equally delicious under other name. Press one plum of quince pulp through a colander, add to it one cupful of granulated sugar, the beaten yolks of four eggs and one pint of milk. Line a shallow pudding dish with puff paste and pour in the quince mixture. Twist a strip of the pastry around the edge of the dish for a border and bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour or until done. Whip the whites of the eggs to a very stiff snow with four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, heap it over the top and let it brown very delicately in a slow oven. Serve cold with whipped cream. Tapioca cooked in water until perfectly clear and thick to jelly makes another pleasing foundation for a quince dish. Sweeten the tapioca to taste and flavor with a little nutmeg and lemon juice. Place it in layers in a buttered pudding dish with chopped preserved quinces, cover the top with the whites of two eggs whipped to a stiff snow with two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and let it brown delicately in a slow oven. The syrup should be drained from the fruit and used as a sauce. Whipped cream is also a delicious accompaniment. This pudding is excellent either hot or cold. Swiss Roast. Take a round steak—from two to two and a half inches in thickness—and pound into it as much flour as it will take, using the edge of a heavy plate for that purpose. When the flour has been pounded into both sides put the meat into an iron skilllet with some lard, and brown it on both sides. Then cover it with water, adding onions enough to flavor and a whole ripe tomato, or an equal quantity of canned tomatoes when fresh vegetables are not in season. Cover tightly and cook two hours, adding more water as necessary during the time. Just before the meat is done, salt and pepper to taste. Delicious as this dish is when served hot, it is also nice when cold. To Clean Algrettes Make a soap suds from any pure soap and warm water; after fastening the gidgette by the wired end to a clean, smooth table—an oilcloth covered table is good—take a fine fibered brush and clean by gently brushing with the soap suds. When thoroughly clean you will find that your feathers are limp. Let them dry and dip in a bit of cold starch, then hang up by the wired end to again dry. You will find them to be like new if treated gently and carefully as indicated. Concerning Fish When a fish is to be broiled, never bone it. If the bones are removed the tissues are broken and the juices escape. Before frying fish dust it off with salt and pepper. Never use filling or stuffing in a fat fish that is to be baked. Fish fat is very strong and, mingled with a stuffing, is most unpleasant. Savory Breakfast Dish A tasty breakfast or luncheon dish for two people: Large cup of calves' liver left from previous meal cut into small pieces, half green pepper cut in fine pieces, piece of butter in frying pan; stir liver and pepper together until hot. Break in two eggs. Stir all together. Serve before eggs get dry. Graham Pudding Two-thirds cup of molasses, one fourth cup of butter, one-half cup of sour milk, one egg, one-half teaspoon soda, $1\frac{1}{2}$ cups graham flour. Sauce: One cup of sugar, one tablespoonful corn starch, one egg, and boiling water; cook until as thick as cream; one teaspoonful of vanilla. Chestnut Pudding Sauce. Add four tablespoons of maple syru to one pint of whipped cream, remove froth and arrange about pudding when unmolded. Garnish with boiled chestnuts. THE COOKING TIME TABLE. Perioda That Should Be Allowed for the Various Dishes. Bacon, fried in its own fat, two to three minutes. Chops, breaded, five to eight minutes. Croquettes, one minute. Doughnuts, three to five minutes. Fish balls, one minute. Fish, breaded, five to eight minutes. Fish, small, two to five minutes. Fritters, three to five minutes. Potatoes, two to five minutes. Brown bread should be steamed for three hours. Puddings, from two to three hours, and rice, 45 to 60 minutes. time Table for Broiling Meats and Fowls.—Bacon, four to eight minutes. Birds, six to eight minutes. Chicken, 15 minutes per pound. Chops, six to eight minutes. Small, thin fish, five to eight minutes. Thick fish, 12 to 15 minutes. Liver, four to eight minutes. Squab, ten to 15 minutes. Steak, one inch thick, six to eight minutes. Steak, 1½ inches thick, eight to ten minutes. Tripe, four to eight minutes. Time Table for Roasting Meats.—Braised beef, three to four hours. Fillet of beef, 30 minutes. Roast beef rare, 12 to 14 minutes per pound. Chicken, one to one and one-half hours. Duck, 18 minutes. Take duck, one to one and one-half hours. Mutton one and a quarter to one and one-half hours. Pork, two to three hours. Turkey, two to three hours, or 15 minutes per pound. Veal, two to three hours. The Home. Put a few drops of oil of lavender in bookcases to prevent mildew on the books. Oatmeal put to soak in water the night before only requires about one-half the time to cook. It is best not to have carpets on the bedroom floors; use rugs instead. These can easily be cleaned. Celery should lie at least half an hour in cold water or upon ice before serving in order to be firm and crisp. Stuffed olives chopped fine, mixed with cream cheese and made into balls are delicious if served with a plain salad. Chicken salad is delicious if mixed with small pieces of green pepper and mayonnaise. Press the meat into pepper cases. When starching children's pinafores add a small piece of sugar to the boiled starch. This will make them iron more easily, and leave a beautiful gloss on them. Stockings should not be washed in the same water which has been used in washing white clothes, as they are apt in that case to become covered with lint. Delicious Potato Ring A potato ring promises to live long as a substantial resort in time of need. Harper's Bazar says: "This makes an exceedingly nice dish for either a family luncheon or dinner. It is attractive to the eye, besides affording a good opportunity for economy. The mashed potato should be reheated in a little milk or cream and placed in a pan set into hot water. While these are heating cut the left-over fowl or meat into small pieces and reheat in the gravy. When ready to dish, whip into the potato the stiffly whipped white of one egg, and then place tablespoonfuls around the meat. A garnish of parsley adds to the good effect, and tufts of this or of celery foliage may be placed around the base. Should there be any onions left over they can be reheated with the meat and gravy. Warmed-Over Dishes Peas and cabbage may be warmed over in the following way: Butter a small mold or basin, put in the article to be warmed and place some pieces of butter on the top, cover with a saucer and put into the oven until sufficiently hot. New potatoes are troublesome to reheat; the best way is to measure them out before scraping, so that none may be left. This is not always possible, however; if any are lift they may be put into the steamer and made hot, covering them with a cloth instead of the saucepan lid. Delicious Dessert One cup of white sugar, three tablespoons of grated chocolate, five tablespoons of grated bread crumbs, three eggs, one good pint of sweet milk; add a little salt and vanilla to taste. Mix the sugar and the yolks of the eggs thoroughly, then add the bread, then the chocolate, and lastly the milk. Bake about 20 minutes, then cover with the whites of the eggs well beaten, mixed with three tablespoons of sugar. Put back into oven until brown. Raisin Light Biscuits Take a lump of light dough ready to make down, shorten with a lump of butter, about a tablespoonful to a pint of dough and let it rise as for light biscuits. Flour the rolling board well and roll the dough about half an inch thick. Spread thickly with melted butter, sprinkle with sugar, raisins and cinnamon. Roll up, and with a sharp knife cut off pieces about an inch thick. Bake in a moderate oven. Pickled Grapes Pick fresh grapes from the stems without breaking, and put in a jar. For seven pounds grapes, allow a quart of vinegar, three pounds of sugar, a tablespoonful each of whole cloves and cinnamon sticks. Cook vinegar, sugar and spices together a few moments. Cool to a little hotter than lukewarm and pour over the grapes, which are not to be cooked. Cover and set in a cool place. Don't Parade Your Troubles. Shakespeare: He bears misery best who hides it most. Work as Opportunity Offers. He that waits to do a great deal at once will never do any—Johnson. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ```markdown ``` IF YOU WILL TA BORS AND INTERES WE WILL HELP YOU IN ORDER TO FU YOU WILL TALK WITH YOU AND INTEREST THEM IN THE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PRIOR ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE REPUBLICAN JOURNALS STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR. WE WILL SEND YOU THE COSMOPOLITAN MAP PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR BOTH. FOR TWO YEARLY OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, TURES, ONE ONLY, OF DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. INGTON, BATTLE OF SAN TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH ORED CAVALRY IN SUPPLIERS. SIZE 20X28 AND 20 BATTLE AND CHARGE ONLY. 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THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND NOT LESS THAN TEN NOR M HAN TWENTY AND NOT LESS THAN Y NOR MORE THAN FORTY, TO DET THE PRIZE TO WHICH THE WORKER TLED. IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT AND WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS. ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. A man in a chair LANET EEEKLY READING UNITED H. T AND R $2.25 T AND YEAR ND PIC THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24, H COL- GH RI- LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUISIT FOR WAR SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUNTAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. 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FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM: AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVB NOT= THE COLORED WE WILL WITH THE RED RATE ONE FOUNDED RING, HALF DOZZLE ALARM ONE HALF POT, ONE DOVES, ONE BERS SHIRTY-ONE IS, SHAKES-HELLA, ONE CURTAINS OF PAPER DILET SET. BERS GOLD RING ONE JEWELER SILVER; DY MADE FED. WAR-ROCKING GROSS OF FILET; ONE IR BLANK-AMSTRESS'TITS OR LA- BERS ONE SEWING, ONE GOLD EAR-NOGRAPH, SET OF GEN-HEADED HELLA, ONE PLATED BACK, ONE IN THE SEA-OTEL BILLER. IN ADVANT-WO SUBWE WILL ON AS THE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` = 7 7 i Diletta eselatvapsiieaatn omni saronar JANUARY &, im 2S — ae CELLAR FOR COLD STORAGE Type ef One Which Can Be Built at An inquiry regarding an outside Vegetable cellar reminds me of the trouble I had keeping my dahlia roots fm my home cellar, I have a hot-air furnace, and I lost so many roots by ‘drying that I was forced to get them outside. Perhaps a plan of my cellar would be of interest to your readers. I used & glass cover, as I had always wanted to do my coldframe work without breaking my back. and, if possible, 4 : ss ero otg-- 4 | L SECTION OF CELLAR. 1, Earth Floor; 2, Loose Floor; 3, Benches; 4, Eight-Inch Concrete Wall; 5, Double-Boarded Air-Space; 6, Ground Level; 7, Sodded Banked Earth. without freezing to death. As I had to cover tt anyway, I figured that the fmcreased cost of the cover as it ts Would not be much more than the shingled roof, and would give me « Place to work on sunny spring days, when the balmy breeze from old Lake Erie would tear the hair from an Es- imo dog, writes a Lake county (©.) farmer tn Country Gentleman. I had an ‘Yea that by putting the floor in loosely the warm afr from the cellar would help to keep {t from freez- ing, but I was mistaken; {t helped the cellar to freeze. I use an old stove ‘and leave the venti!-‘)rs open. Set the stove in a box connected with the Outside and don’t have any trouble getting afr enough. I planted lettuce, radishes and asters (early ones) last spring. on March 5. After the seed came up, temperature went to 12 degrees, but I got them through in good shape. Of course if 4 had stayed long I couldn't; tt was only two nights T may add as a caution that most Persons who build this house will have to supply opportunity for dra, sage, which I don’t need on my porous soll The total cost of the 12 by 14 foot cellar to me was $65. PREPARING THE GARDEN. Work Which Can Be Done Before Next Spring. To be successful in gardening re- quires a great deal of planning, and T always do all I can in the fall and winter, says a writer in Orange Judd Farmer. I always try to plow my gar- den ground as late as possible, as T am positive it destroys ‘a great num ber of insects, especially cutworms. T Always put a coat of manure on to plow under if I can get it, and have time to haul it. Then during the win- ter I haul manure and spread on this plowed ground. My land is quite level, Of course, I would not put it on steep hillsides. If the manu.e is coarse I shake tt out in the spring and haul off the coarse straw and hay, and pile It to Tot for next spring. I vse ‘he disk in the spring, and thoroughly disk, mix- ing the two coats of manure, one on top and the other plowed tn very thor- oughly, which places it where the Plants can get at ft, and ts not all in the oottom of the furrows, to dry out in « drought. If you use hotbeds in the spring, as you should to be successful in rais- ing good plants, see that the pits are dug this fall and frames set on them; thea cover with old pleces of board and some wild hay or straw, and you ‘will save a lot of time in the spring. Also get your soll that you are to use in the botbeds together this fall. The rich, light spots in the garden will make good soil, and the manure taken out of the old hotbeds will make g20d maaure. Break it up fine and mix thorourhly with the soil, and form in a heap having a fiat top. Put old pieces of board over this, ‘and about a foot of horse manure, then pile on wild hay or straw until you know it will not freeze. And ob, What a snap in the spring when snow ‘and {ce are plentiful, not to have to serape up any old thing for soll to False plants ta! ‘Then there are probably some taings that you wish to winter over in ‘the garden that will need protection. T have @ nice patch of Welsh and J onions, which I =z cover : two inches of then a good coat of wild hay. Clover in Orchard, Clover is one of the best orchard Grops. Seed is cheap this year. If your qrohard soil ix not adapted to red ee clover, try atstke. It will grow where red clover will not, The seed now te more expensive. but {t will go twice as far, making !be cost of seeding of a definite area e: cheap as with red clover, ‘ HEELING IN TREES. Method of Caring for Nursery Stock Until Planted in Spring. A word about heeling In trees at this time will doubtless be of benefit to some of our readers. Where fall delivery of nursery stock is received, it is probably best to heel the trees in rather than to set them out in their permanent location. The setting can usually be more satisfactorily done in the spring. John B. Katzner, a suc- eeasful fruit grower of Minnesota, of: fers the following advice on the sub- dect: I consider it very important that you buy and order ail fruit trees to be ‘delivered in the fall. There is more time all around for the nurseryman ‘a8 well as for the farmer at that time of the year, and you can tale care of the stock just as well, if not better, than the nurseryman can by heeling tm your stock over winter. For this work select a place where the water dose not accumulate. When you got notice that the stock has been skipped. dig a hole the length of the trees, few inches deep, for the tops of the trees, slanting down to the north to ‘about two feet for the roots, and wide enough so that all the trees can be placed tn the trench without crowding them too much. For a hundred trees a hole six feet wide is about right. When the trees arrive, unpack at once, prune the roots slantivg—so that the tree will stand on the cut part of the root when planted, to insure a downward growth of the new roots Cut off all broken parts of the roots Now place the trees in the hole— which onght to be a little deeper just where the roots come so that they will not be injured. When you have put in about five or stx trees, throw a Mttle dirt on between the roots. Above the first tier of trees you ean place one on two more. When all the trees are in the bole, shovel some more earth on the roots till all are well covered. Now place a board on the ground over the roots and stvollar boards across the stems and branches, so that the trees are entirely covered A few short stakes under the boards Will _keep too great pressure off from the trees. Fill up the hole with dirt, make a mound a little higher than the surface to let the water flow off and then put on a mulch about a foot deep when the ground freezes up. The trees are covered with boards so that they shall not be Injured by the shov- el when they are taken out In the spring, The stock fs now well heele. in and will come out of its winter quarters full of sap and vigor. ready to start Into active growth at once. It is my experience, running back over the last 15 years, that trees so handled will not fail to make a growth of from six inches to three feet the first season. If you compare the growth of these trees with spring delivered trees, if you think of the consequent success in the one case and the frequent failure of the other, the great advantage of ‘tall delivery stock will be evident to jyou. Another advantage of fall de livery which we must not lose sight of is that we have our trees on band in spring to plant whenever we ube seats. A HANDY SACK HOLDER. cee eal oo era sits ntact ar, a na sete cea Pearson ne te st tears ee Se i EN aba eit : - : ‘Sack Holder in Use. ters or one inch thick, as shown at A and the strip B. This strip should be about three inches wide, and of a length to suit the sacks used. A hole is bored in the center of B and three holes in block A as shown. These holes should be little larger than the rope used. ‘Thread the blocks as shown, by putting the two ends through the center holes in A. Bring the lower end down, and tie fast to strip B, the other end is: made fast to block A by tying in the top hole. Now drive two sharp-pointed wire nails through strip B as shown at C C for holding the sack. If desired a heavy wire or strap of fron may be made fast to B and the ends dent to fit inside to assist in holding sack open. The holder has advantage: over any other we have used. It fs easily moved, as the rope may be slipped over any nail or projecting timber. It fs instantly adjusted to any height by pulling the rope slightly out of the block A in the center; slip the block where wanted. up or down the rope; allow the rope to again be- come tight, and the block will hold it In place. In fertilizing the orchard, remember that the feeding roots extend far ow: from the trees. Lord Bacon’s Wise Advice ». Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, Wstrinute cheerfully and leave con. ‘tentedly—Lord Bacon. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMONE VIRGINTA. VERSE WORTH READING fhe ee ae Pleasant the ways wheroon our fect wer © Sweet the young hills, the valleys of content, But now the hours of dew and dream are fled. Lord. we are sper. We did not heed thy warning in the skies, We have not heard thy voice nor known thy fold, But now the world is darkening to our eyes, Lord, we grow old. Now the sweet stream turns bitter with our tease, Now dics the star we followed in the ‘went, Now we'are sad and {il at ease with years, Lord, we must rest. Lo, our proud lamps are emptied of thet ight, Weary our hands to toll, ov- fest te roam, Our day ‘ie past and swiftly falls thy night, Lord, lead us home. Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, in the Metre. polltan Magazine. ‘The @ea Hata Soft it sings in shining ripples, glad be- neath the golden day, With a laugh among the dune grass, as At flings tte jewel apray: But I hate its emilee and whispers, tor beneath the white curled crests Lies the great black heart of terror and the wrath that never rests, Hidden trom the blessed daylight, in tts ‘caves it heaves and throbs, With a dreadful choking gurgle and « sound of dying sobs: And the long, dark. trailing seaweed, lifted on its ebb and flow, Ie Uke hair of drowned women whelmed ‘within the undertow. Through the pale green dusks of twi- Ught from the rolling mystic Itne, Comes a chant of fear and beauty, calling weet to me and mine. But I flee the siren music of the cruel luring flood, For its doom ie in tts message and the answer in my blood. ‘Shi Ant aam tg Minden Sonaider the life of the sluggard, O ant! Why ruin your lungs with that torturing pant? Why climb with your burien those weart- some steps, While the sluggard at ease a0 reattully sleeps? He Gritta without care on « river of dreams, While the sweat from your forehead ts Tunning in atreama: An@ when lean from your labor your hoardings you crunch, He'll feed, fresh and fat, at the charity lunch, ‘Twixt cradle and grave but brief le your race If you gallop through life at the strenu- ‘oun pace: To your ruinous folly pray open your eyes: Consider ‘the sluggard, © ant, and be ‘wine! —Lippincott’s, ee eee, ‘Men mourn the lies that women tell— ‘The cunning, heartless lies Her Judas Nps that hide so well ‘The narrowing of her eyes, A heart Is hers; she seeks to slay It A soul Is here; she does not weigh It Toe kame is called; how well she'll play Her debt is there: she does not pay It... Men mourn the lies that women tell— ‘The cunning, heartless lea. Men @o not know the Hes they hear— ‘The brave, heartbroken Nea ‘Her smiling lps that hide, from fear, ‘The shadows In her eyes A heart is hers: for just a while— A soul iw hers; it bears defile— ‘The game is called; her wit on trial— Her debt is there; dear’ God! her smile! f ‘Men do not know the los they hear— ‘The brave, heartbroken leat —Helen Hamilton Dudiey in Smart Set. png oe to soft sleep we give ourselves wey, And ina dream as in 2 fairy bark Breton and om through the enchanted ark To purple gray daybreak-tittle thought we, pay To the aweot bitter world we know by ‘day. We are clean quit of it, as tn a lark So Righ in heaven no ‘human eye can ‘mark The thin swift pinion cleaving through 8 the ea TIM we awake, {11 fate can do no It The esting heart shail not take up mgain ‘Phe Reavy load that yet must ‘make I bleed For this brief space the loud world's voice ts still, No faintest echo of it brings ue patn, Flow will it be when we wall sleep, tue aved? =. B. Atarien. E The Little One. Because 1 toll for you, dear litle one, T do not grumble when my tasks are great Becatise of you, my work i gladly done, “There alwayw is your love to compen: ‘mate. Because you give me love, dear ttle ‘one, T have. the strength to scorn Tempta- ‘lon's call, To make brave resolutions and to shun ‘Php. slippery places where the foollah ‘ail. Because of your aweet faith in me, T ‘cling To ‘hopes that with your coming were begun How pitital were Ihow tase a thing Hf, having you, I fell, dear Wttle one ea | Before him weltered in a shoreless sea ‘The souls of them that had not sought to. be, ‘With ait their guitt upon them, and they cried ‘They that had sluned from hate and lust ‘and pride; “Dhow that did'st make us what we might Lecome, Judge us!" The judge of all the earth was dumb, But high avove them, tn his sovereign piace, He Ufted up the pity of his face. William Dean Howella, 1 Wonder. I wonder if ever a song was sung But the singer's heart sang sweeter; I wonder tf ever a rhyme was rune But the thought surpassed the sweter; wonder it ever a sculptor wrought TM the cold stone echoed ‘hia ardent thought: Or if "ever @ painter with lgnt and made, The dream of hie inmost heart por trayed’ FROM THE PENCIL’S POINT. Offensive wives make defensive hus- bands. It's the worst kind of luck when you ‘have that kind. But few men who say nothing have ‘the wood-sawing habit. COSCSEESGSETSELCesEREESEBE Wer The People’s Restaurant, a —— —— 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va-— — eee ke ae MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cole. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION... . GIVE MEA CALL Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. SPCSCTHFSEStevesseesaeeesees ! Everybedy knows thai a a The Wiil and Its Application. realize that she misses the “Mrs.” |] biggest muttonhead on earth can have REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. sia | Many a successiul poet got his start writing epithets for tombstuns. | Of Andy Carnezio really wants to die poor, he might (ry writing for inaguzines. A pelea dali and a demagogue fs that the states- ‘man has got the job, The funniest thing I ever seo was a feller with one tooth trying to eat sweet corn off the cob. There is several kinds of molly- coddies, but they all wear passionate socks and smoke cigarettes. ‘There ain't a campaign orator an the business that couldn't make more ‘Money selling patent medicine. ‘This is a great world. A feller prays for rain, and it rains, and then the ‘grass in his front yard grows about a font, and he has to pay $4 to have it ‘cut. ex I see by the papers that a feller down to York has-got a motor boat that kin make 70 knots an hour. Huh! that's nothing Hod Peters had a boat out on Duck lake last year that made 70 knots a minute. The heaving Mne got tangled up tn the propeller wheel —Judee. FLASHES OF FUN. Some mortals are overloaded with mottves. : Do not waste your time in trying to get even. Some homes are merely well-regu lated excuse factories, Nothing can convince a lazy man that he is not a victim of bad luck. Why was Eve Iike Sunday? Be cause she was the first of the weak. He—How can a man rest on pos terity? ‘She—On the lapse of time. Mamma—Marion, I am surprised that you should suffer a man to kiss you. Marfon—But, mamma, it wasn't suf- fering. MERE OPINION. Few things are more common than serfousness, Every cheerful thought points the way to another. Politeness is Ike medicine. ‘Too much of it is sickening. The child that is paid to be good forgets as soon ns the money ts gone. Declining to waste precious mo ments in nursing hatred for him Ye the sorest defeat you can Infilet upon your enemy. The man who goes to the bad be causo of unrequitel love would prot ably have gene for come other reason if bis love had been returned, A PHILOSOPH™R’S NOTEBOOK, A successful manicure never hits the nail on the head Forgetfulness of yesterday and an. etpation of to-raorrow make trouble sonie todays. ‘The man who borrows trouble has at leaet the solace of knowing that no one will ever dun him to pay it back Possibly the chap who growls about the washday dinner would have found it more pleasing to his taste if he bad done the washing.—Success Magasine. Simple Carole for Sore Throat. Tincture of uy) rh, two drachma, wa- ‘Mix by shaking up a a Dottie. The Will and Its Application. Am individual's wilt ts like a bi Piece of strong machinery; the inte! lect must direct tts workings. The biggest muttonhead on earth can have & strong will; the real strength ts in knowing how to use it. All of life's experience gors to teach us that very few arguments, quarreis or distressing situations are worth a fight. Instead of following an tmpulse to gain re. venge, it is always more satisfactory and decent to back up and forget. Controtied by Combine, | There is a trust in fuller’s earth with the Hnal process known only to ‘one or two persons, whose Ups are rigidly sealed. The deposits of fuller's earth exist chicily at Bath and Not Ungbams ire, England, and at Maxton, in Scotland, in addition to deposits im the London district. ‘The industry fe practicaily controlied by a combine which strictly preserves the methods Of preparation of the earth, Army Dogs. The German army dogs are so trained that when they find a dead ‘body they set up a prolonged howling If no one comes they taxe the dead man’s cap or some small article, and with this in thetr teeth go on a hunt for their trainer, whom they lead to the spot. If the man {s wounded he Bives his cap to the dog and the same object Is accomplished. — Animal Worlé, London. Introspection Not for All, Solitude can be delightfui only to the innocent —Leszerynsk, Portuguese Proverb. There ts never wanting a dog to bark at you Obedience the First Requisite. To learn obeying ts the fundamental art of governing —Carlyle. For an Appetizer. Stuffed ollves chopped fine, mixed with cream cheese, and made Into balls, are celfcious If served with a plain salad A. I layes OFFICE AND WARH-ROOMS, 727 North Second Stree: RESIDENCE, 725 N. and St. Firetcinss Hacks and Caskets ot 1) descriptions | hnve & spare room for bodies when the tamtly ave nots uttable place All coun iy orders are given apecta’ atcen lon Your special attention tt call ed to the n6W style One Cankute Call and see me and you weal ft waite’ on Individually ‘Ph.ne. 2775 S. W. ROBINSON, NO. 23 NORTH I8TH S FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. w@r-All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. 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MAIN OFFIOR: 510 & sta ot, Fteadetgere ta A Southern Negro is Heavy-weight Champion of World EIGE (Continued From First Page.) ter of the battle. The big b'ack man was coming all the time, and he swung a terrific left into Burn's stomach. Burns was doing but little. He was bleeding from the mouth and apparently was tired. The men were clinched as the bell rang. Burns swung his right to Johnson's head and then did some wonderful execution at in-fight, chopping his wrist from frequently the third round. Johnson during the round landed some terrific blows to the kidneys. When the men met in the center of the ring Johnson shot a heavy right into Burns' ribs in the fourth round. The men talked wildly to one another each seemingly intent upon getting the other excited and landing the money-winning punch. During the jeering they sparred fiercely, but few blows being struck. Then Johnson swung left to the body and Burns brought right to head. Johnson, closing in, threw a terrific right and left to the head or the Canadian. The belly of the head was held high. Apparently refreshed from his minute's rest Burns started the fifth round briskly, landing his right on Johnson's head and punching the body with both hands. Johnson managed to slip over a few rights to the head during the round. Johnson rushed and Burns clinched in the sixth round, breaking loose however, with one hand. Johnson swung his right a dozen times into the white man's ribs. Burns joined Johnson's body frequently and swung his right hand over the ribs and put stiff left to the stomach several times Johnson, however, treated these blows as a joke, laughing at the crowd and making sarcastic remarks to his opponent as he busted Burns into a corner and scored a couple of rights to the body. JOHNSON RUSHES BURNS. In the seventh round Johnson rushed Burns across the ring, dealing out rights in which there was no mercy. Burns got a left to Johnson's jaw, and Johnson raised a lump under Burns's right eye in return. Burns here seemed to be losing strength. Johnson was landing repeatedly on Burn's eye, meanwhile addressing the people about the ring side, and though Tommy was working dexteriously at in-fighting, he placed several terrific drives on Burn's ribs, dropping him to the floor for a few seconds. Burn's eyes were puffed up in the eighth round, and he was bleeding from the mouth when he emerged from his corner. The white man's blows apparently had little effect on the Texan, who went severely about belaboring the head of the champion. "Come on, Tommy, swing your right," yelled Johnson—as the gong rang for the ninth round. Burns responded by calling the Negro a "yellow dog." There was not much fighting—probably more talking—during this round. In the tenth round both men seemed to Johnson still used his fists effective, Johnson's head and stomach, and Burns was doing all he could in reply. His blows, however, lacked steam. BURNS BEGINS TO WEAKEN The perspiration pouring off the body or Johnson made it look not unlike highly polished walnut. Burns tried to cross his right over, but Johnson cleverly avoided him, meantime laughing at the champion. Burns was outclassed and Johnson apparently was invulnerable. When the bell rang Burns limped to his corner at the end of the eleventh round. Johnson sailed in and Burns took a tremendous lot of punishment gamely in the twelfth and thirteenth rounds. His jaw was greatly swollen. Johnson continued to play for the injured eye, and the bleeding mouth of Burns was swollen twice its normal size. Blow after blow colored man rained upon him, and the gong alone saved the white man from defeat, for he was reeling and groggy as it rang. During the intermission between the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds the police officials consulted together and it was probable that they would stop the fight in the next round. Referee McIntosh went to Burn's corner and had a talk with the champion, who declared that he was strong. McIntosh then asked the police not to interfere. Then came the final round. Johnson went right after Burns when time was called. The white man wary backed away, but Johnson, following him up, dropped Burns with a right to the head." One, two, three" slowly counted the referee, and Burns remained down until the eight seconds had been reeled off. When he arose Johnson few at him like a tiger, and, using both hands unmercifully, soon had the champion tootting. The police then jumped into the ring and stopped the fight. The referee immediately declared Johnson the winner. He added that he considered it the best fight he ever had witnessed in Australia, and that both men had fought most fairly CANADIAN FAVORITE Sydney was fighting mad when dawn broke this morning. All yesterday afternoon trains brought people from various points to this city to see the big mill, and before midnight the hotels and boarding houses were overcrowded. Early this morning more trains arrived and the streets were soon alive with an enormous crowd. Nothing was talked of but the championship battle. Burns was a 2 to 1 favorite, last night, simply because of the great amount of money bet on his chances, but which found few takers at 7 to 5. But when the odds lengthened there was a sudden play of the Johnson end that indicated a strong following for the Negro. Early this morning there were all sorts of rumors in circulation, but most of them were without founda- tion. One report had it that there was so much ill feeling between John son and Burns that their seconds were afraid of a street brawl. Another yarn was to the effect that the fight had been so fixed that it would result in a draw, but this was offset by the positive statement of Promoter Andre McIntosh that the mill would be decided strictly on the level. BOTH WERE CONFIDENT Both pugilists rested easily at their quarters during the night, and were ordered to remain their until 10 o'clock. As far as concerned, it was a toss between them. Burns was positive that he would win decisively by a knockout inside of 20 rounds, while Johnson said the same thing. That Burns had the greater following was manifest everywhere. The fact that he is a Canadian by birth made him extremely popular with the masses, especially among those who were opposed to Johnson because of his color. Burns had beaten Bill Squires, the Australian champion, three times and for that reason the people who gathered to see to-day's fight could not see how Burns could be defeated. They did not seem to be worried by that Burns was smaller and lighter than Johnson. They did not care for any arguments in favor of the big Negro, but went to the huge stadium at Rush Cutter's Bay feeling sure that Burns, the conqueror of Squires, would win. The crowd started for the ringgale early. In fact, it was not long after sunrise that the advance squad of the army of spectators reached the stadium. Some rode in cars, carriages, automobiles and wagons, while others walked. The stadium contained seats for 20,000 persons, and had standing room for perhaps 5,000 more, yet the indications pointed to an overcrowded house. LARGE SALE OF TICKETS The advance sale of tickets up to this morning was estimated at nearly $60,000, the prices ranging from $5 to $50, and in some cases $100 each. The ring was a 24-foot affair, pitched in the center of the amphitheater, which surrounded it on all sides and towered aloft in the most imposing manner. The city officials, fearing trouble had a large force of police on hand at 9 o'clock, and in that way perfect order was maintained while the great crowd poured through the entrances. Many Australian notables were in the throng. It was reported that Premier Wade would be at the ringside with several English noblemen who had box seats, and it was also said that there could not be no interference with the fight unless it turned into a rough and tumble affair or one of the men was in a helpless condition. Referee McIntosh was instructed by the police authorities to prevent brutality and to stop the mill the moment it ceased to be a scientific contest for points. The entire amount of the purse, $37,000, which included money for picture privileges and return tickets to London, was posted in a local bank some time ago, so that there was no doubt about its payment. By the terms of the articles of agreement, Burns received $20,000, win, lose or draw, while Johnson's share was $5,000, yet the Negro willingly accepted the short end for a chance to tackle the French-Canadian. When Johnson arose this morning, he said that he was never better. "I am stronger and faster than ever before," said he. "and I am going to show these people why I chased Burns half way around the world before I cornered him here. He is a counterfeit and I intend to show him up. He has never beaten a good man, and will be an easy mark. I will go to England after the fight, and will be in America some time next year, possibly in February. I will meet all comers, too, as I will defend the championship against anybody who wants to fight me for it." Johnson welged 200 pounds after his breakfast, and told his trainer, Sam Fitzpatrick, that he would stop Burns inside of fifteen rounds. This has been the Negro's prediction ever since his arrival here. SAID NEGRO WAS FOURFLUSHER Burns had a crowd of friends and admirers at his training quarters at breakfast time. He was in rare good humor and said that he fight would be merely a cakewalk for him, "Johnson is just another man," he said, and I will make him shoot his yellow streak in short order. He's never licked anybody and is a foulisher. A few stiff punches in the stomach will make him double up and quit. Of course, the fight will be on the level. Why shouldn't it be? I've got an easy mark here, and I will prove it. The mill will not last the limit, and I will win." The men were matched to box 20 rounds, Queensberry rules, with four ounce gloves, for the heavyweight championship of the world. They did not agree upon a referee until early yesterday morning, when McIntosh was selected. McIntosh is a reputable citizen and business man, who has long enjoyed the confidence of the sporting public, and when it became known that he would be the third man in the ring intense satisfaction prevailed. When the puglists started for the scene of the battle they had to literally fight their way to automobiles that were waiting for them. All the way to the Stadium they were cheered by the crowds in the highways, and when they reached the big structure the greatest excitement prevailed. Johnson was attended by Sam Fitzpatrick, Bill Lang, an Australian, and several others. He looked confident and fit. As he shouldered his way to his dressing room he was warmly applauded, but his reception was nothing compared to the ovation tendered to Burns. The latter had his seconds and trainers with him, and smiled in response to the roar of welcome that went up for him. 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The fight was scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock, and it was close so that hour when the men were ordered to come to the ring. Jack Johnson is the first Negro who ever won the world's heavyweight pugilistic championship—in fact, he is the only Negro who ever was permitted to battle for the honor. He was born in Chicago in 1885 and began his ring career in 1901. He is 6 feet 1 3-4 inches tall and weighed at the ringside close to 190 pounds. Burns was born in Hanover, Ontario, in 1881, and started fighting when he was 19 years old. He is 5 feet 7 1-4 inches tall and weighs when trained for battle, about 175 pounds. Burns during a fight is a rough-and-ready fighter, and delights to sail in and mix things with his adversary. Favored with great length of arm—his reach measuring 74 1-2 inches—Burns has proved himself a bad man at close range. Despite the fact that Johnson overtopped him in height by 6 1-2 inches, Burns had the better of the argument in reach by 1 3-4 inches. BURNS GOT BIG END. A purse of $25,000 was hung up for the battle, which was scheduled to go twenty rounds. Of this amount Burns demanded and received $30,000, this sum to be paid him despite the outcome of the fight. Johnson had to be satisfied with $5,000 and return tickets to London for himself and his manager, Sam Fitzpatrick. According to reports, both Johnson and Burns bet heavily on themselves at the prevailing odds, which slightly favored Burns at the ringside. The fighters were trained to the hour, and before what probably was the largest crowd that ever witnessed a pugilistic contest. Burns did his training at Darling Point, while Johnson got in condition at Manley, a seaside suburb Besides a retinue of skillful trainers who gave the men daily practice at the game of hit, stop, and get away, both Burns and Johnson followed American methods by doing hard road work. Each man picked up a lot of loose change by giving training exhibitions twice a week at the stadium. JOHNSON TRAILED BURNS Since James J. Jeffries retired and Tommy Burns claimed the championship, Johnson has been trying to get the Canadian boy to meet him and he has trailed him throughout the United States, and even to England in quest of a match. It was not until Mr. McIntosh, the promoter of this fight, and who also acted as referee, offered a purse of $35,000 for a battle at Rushcutters Bay, a suburb of Sydney, that Burns consented to meet Johnson. Then he stipulated how the money should be split up, the size of the ring, and all the conditions surrounding the fight. Johnson immediately accepted, and sailed from London for Australia to begin training. Johnson, during his ring career, has fought 64 bettles, and 22 of his opponents have gone down to defeat by the knockout route. Prominent among those who have been put to sleep by the big Negro are Jack Jeffries, a brother of the former heavy weight champion, who was knocked out by Johnson at Los Angeles in 1902 in five rounds, and Bob Fitzsimmons, who, in Philadelphia in 1907, was able to withstand Johnson's shifty work but two rounds. He has lost but two fights, a 20-round decision to Marvin Hart, and the other on a foul to Joe Jeanette. Not since the days of James J. Corbett has the prize ring seen so perfect a boxer as Johnson. Long and lithic, he is as graceful as a dancing master, and as true as an row in placing his blows. Especially deft is he with his left hand, and few boxes, unless they have great skill, are able to keep the big black man from beating their faces to tatter In courage Burns was a bulldog always: Johnson, it was said by some, had a "yellow streak." In none of his many battles however, has it been proven that Johnson would not take a good beating. Neither Burns nor Johnson, however, can be classed with Jeffries, Sullivan, or Corbett in the fighting game. [Jack London in the New York Herald.] Sydney, Australia, Saturday The fight! There was no fight. No Armenian massacre could compare with the hopeless slaughter that took place in the Sydney Stadium to-day. It was not a case of "Too Much Johnson," but or all Johnson. A golden smile tells the story, and a golden smile was Johnson. The fight, if fight it might be called, was like unto that between a Colossus and a toy automaton. It had all the seeming of a playful Ethiopian at loggerheads with a small and futile white man—of a grown man cuffing a naughty child; of a monologue by one Johnson, who made a noise with his fists like a lullaby, tucking one Burns into his little crib in Sleepy Hollow; of a funeral with Burns for the late deceased. Johnson Here's Wishing You Good-Bye, 1908. A liberal pass public during pass appreciated. 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He looked pale and sallow, as if he had not slept all night before. If he had just pulled through a bout with fever. He received a heartier greeting than Johnson and seemed a favorite with the crowd. It promised to be a bitter fight. There was no chivalry or good will in it, and Johnson, despite his carefree pose, had an eye to the instant need of things. He sent his seconds intently into Burns' corner to watch the putting on of the gloves for fear a casual horsehoe might stray in. He examined personally Burns' belt and announced flatty that he would not fight if Burns did not remove a tape from his skinned elbows. TAPE IS REMOVED "Nothin' doin' till he takes 'em off," quoth Johnson. The crowd hooted, but Johnson smiled his happy golden smile and dreamed with Ethiopian solidity in his corner. Burns took off the offending tapes and was applauded uproarously. Johnson stood up and was hooted. He merely smiled. That is the fight epitomized-Johnson's smile. The gong sounded and the fight and the monologue began all right. "Tahmy," said Johnson, with an exaggerated English accent, and thereafter he talked throughout "eight—when he was not smiling. Scarcely had they mixed when he caught his antagonist with a fierce uppercut, turning him completely over in the air and landing him on his back. There is no use giving details. There was no doubt from the moment of the opening of the first round. The affair was too one-sided. There was never so one sided a world's championship fight in the history of the ring. It was not a case of a man being put out by a clever or a lucky punch. In the first or second round it was a case of a plucky, determined fighter who had no chance for a look in at any single instant or the fight. BURNS NEVER A FACTOR There was no fraction of a second in all the fourteen rounds that could be called Burns'. So far as damage is concerned Burns never landed a blow. He never phased the black man. It was not Burns' fault, however. He tried every moment throughout the fight except when he was groggy. It was noopeless, preposterous, heroic. He was a glutton for punishment, and he bored in all the time, but a dewdrop in Sheoil had more chance than he with the giant Ethiopian. In all justice it must be urged that Burns had no opportunity to show what he had in him. Johnson was too big, too able, too clever, too superb. He was impregnable. His long arms, his height, his cool seeing eyes, his timing and distancing, his footwork and his splendid outparring and equally splendid infighting kept Burns in trouble all the time. NO EFFORT NEEDED At no stage of the fight was either man ever extended. Johnson was just as inaccessible as Mont Blanc, and against such a mountain what possible chance had Burns to extend himself? He was smothered all the time. As for Johnson, he did not have to extend. He cuffed and smiled and smiled and cuffed, and in the clinches whirled his opponent around so as to be able to assume beatific and angelic facial expressions for the benefit of the cinematograph machines. Not Burns, but Johnson, did the infighting. In fact, the major portion of the punishment he delivered THE CABLE COMPANY PIANOS tronage by a generous years is most sincerely you, and—in the name of which ceases to be nearly gone—we ask our favor to our new makes its bow on New le Company. KEY, General Manager. was in clinches. At times he would hold up his arms to show that he was no party to the clinch. Again, he would deliberately and by apparently no exertion or strength thrust Burns away and clear of him, and yet again he would thrust Burns partly clear with one hand and uppercut him to the face with the other, and when Burns instantly fell forward into another clinch would thrust him partly clear and repeat the uppercut. LIKE LIGHTNING Once he did this five times in succession as fast as a man could count, each uppercourt connecting and connecting savagely, but principally in the clinches Johnson rested and smiled and dreamed. This dreaming expression was facinating. It seemed almost a trance. It was certainly deceptive, for suddenly the lines of the face would harden, the eyes would glint viciously and Burns would be frightfully hooked, swung and uppercourt for a bad half minute. Then the smile and the dreamy trance would return as Burns effected another clinch. At times, too, when both men were set, Johnson would deliberately assume the fierce vicious, intent expression only apparently for the purpose or suddenly letting his teeth flash forth like the rise of a harvest moon, while his face beamed with all the happy carefree innocence of a little child. PLAYING ALL THE TIME Johnson play-acted all the time, and he played with Burns from the gong of the opening round to the finish of the fight. Burns was a toy in his hands. For Johnson it was a kindergarten romp. "Hit here, Tahmy," he would say, exposing the right side of his unprotected stomach, and when Burns struck, Johnson would neither wince nor cover up. Instead he would receive the blow with a happy, careless smile, directed at the spectators, turn the left side of his unprotected stomach and say, "Now here, Tahmy," and while Burns hit as directed Johnson would continue to grin and chuckle and smile his golden smile. One cridicism, and only one, can be passed upon Johnson. In the thirteenth round he made the mistake of his life. He should have put Burns out. He could have put blim out. It would have been child's play. Instead of which he smiled and deliberately let Burns live until the gong sounded, and in the opening of the fourteenth round the police stopped the fight and Johnson lost the credit or a knockout. 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Address The Reconized Ox Marrow Co., FORD MORRIS CO. in Oakland FORD MORRIS FOAM MODEL is made in Obl The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. 130 East Kintla St. Chicago, IL The MADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. —For fine printing call at the PLANET Office.