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THE RICHMOND PLANET SEN. FORAKER AND THE "CONFESSIONS." He Uncovers Forgery and Denounces Perjury. STARTLING SCENE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE—THE ADMINISTRATION EMBARRASSED—PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S PREDICAMENT—THE GREAT OHIOAN ELECTRIFIES THE COUNTRY AND JUSTIFIES HIS POSITION. "There will be a time when men will not lightly deal with such charges and insinuations. There will be a time when they will be where they can be called to account as other men can be called to account." [Extract from Senator Foraker's Great Speech.] VOLUME XXVI. NO. 8 SEN. H "CON He Unco Deno STARTLING SCENE IN THE EMBARRASSED—PRESI OHIOAN ELECTRIFIES "There will lightly deal w tions. There w where they can men can be call WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Before galleries filled with hundreds of spectators and in the presence of nearly all his Senatorial colleagues, Senator Foraker delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate to-day concerning the Brownsville episode, which was devoted almost entirely to the presentation of evidence to show that the private detectives employed by the Administration to get confessions from some of the Negro soldiers discharged without honor from the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry had been guilty of wilful perjury and subordination of perjury. At the outset there were indications that Mr. Foraker's colleagues took little interest in the proceedings but as the Ohio Senator went on and produced affidavit after affidavit declaring that the detectives had sworn falsely, the Senators began to sit up and take notice. Before he had concluded Mr. Foraker had the close attention of the entire Senate and it was evident from what was said by Senators afterward that many of his colleagues believed he had made out an exceedingly strong case and had discredited the reports of the sleuths employed by the Administration. THE LAWYERS ATTRACTED Part of Mr. Foraker's remarks attracted the attention of lawyers in the Senate. This portion was devoted to a legal argument to show that the funds used to pay the Government's private detectives for endeavoring to run down those guilty of the Brownsville shooting had been taken illegally from an appropriation placed at the disposal of the Secretary of War in 1899, just after the outbreak of the Philippines insurrection. Mr. Foraker contended that under a specific law on the subject, which he read, the use of this money by the War Department had been revoked automatically two years after the money became available. He read also a statute enacted in 1893 and still in force that prohibited the employment of private detectives "in any government service or by any officer of the District of Columbia," and contended that in view of this statute there had been a clear violation of the law and a misuse of public funds. LEANED FORWARD TO HEAR. Senators and gallery spectators leaned forward to hear when Mr. Foraker read affidavits to show that the detectives employed by the Government had given false accounts of the information furnished to them by former members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. One affidavit read was particularly striking. It was made by G. C. Arnold, a Georgia Sheriff, who was present when Boyd Conyers, a former soldier of the Twenty-fifth, was examined by Herbert J. Browne, who with William G. Baldwin of Roanoke, Va., made contracts with the Government to run down the men responsible for the Brownsville affair. Sheriff Arnold, to whose high standing Senator Clay of Georgia testified to-day on the floor of the Senate, expressed himself as "horrified" over Browne's report as to Conyers' alleged disclosures and asserted that Conyers had made no corfession or given any war want for the report submitted by Browne. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Foraker asserted that "fraudulent personalization, misrepresentation, lying deceit, treachery, liquor and intoxication, coupled with promises of immunity, and excitement of hope and fear and the offer of employment and remunerative wages" had been resorted to by the Administration's detective, to obtain the information they sought. He charged that the operations of the detectives were "atrocious, revolting shocking to every sense of fairness, justice and even common decency." "THERE WILL BE A TIME" "There will be a time," he said, "when men will not lightly deal with such charges and insinuations. There will be a time when they will be where they can be called to account as other men can be called to account." This was an obvious reference to President Roosevelt's attitude in the Brownsville matter and the general course he has pursued in dealing with persons obnoxious to him. Mr. Foraker contended that it did not lessen the gravity of the President's offense that it appeared to be imperceptible to him, and held that if it was perceptible Mr. Roosevelt had become utterly oblivious to all the restraints of law, decency and propriety "in his mad pursuit of those helpless victims of his ill consider'd action." Mr. Foraker said that upon the evidence presented by him the detectives employed by the Government should be prosecuted for perjury. THE SECRET SERVICE At one point in his speech Senator Foraker digressed and made an attack upon the President's use of the secret service which made a profound impression on the Senators. He had just read from the correspondence of one of the discharged soldiers the story of the efforts of a Government detective to secure possession of one of the Senator's letters. "Mr. President," said Mr. Foraker laying aside his manuscript and speaking with deliberation, "I never wrote a letter since I left my mother's knee that the world may not read or to which any person may not give the widest publicity. I say this without qualification. "I may have written letters, as other men have done, in which I used language that in view of subsequent developments might require correction. But none of them has been of a character—not one that required any lying, dodging or misrepresentation on my part." The Senator commented upon the use of secret Government agents to spy upon Senators and private citizens. He declared that every honest man ought to resent such atrocious conduct. HOUNDED BY DETECTIVES "Shame upon it!" shouted the Senator. He declared that men in the public service were being "hounded" by detectives at the President's orders, which he characterized as "unprecedented." At the conclusion of his remarks Senator Lodge rose to defend President Roosevelt and the War Department. He read certain documents which indicated that he was aware in advance of the line of argument which Mr. Foraker would take and had prepared himself to meet it. Mr. Lodge pointed out that the employment of Browne and Baldwin as de- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY JANUARY 23, 1909. tectives had been done originally by William H. Taft when he was Secretary of War and that they had continued their investigations under the direction of Gen. Wright, Mr. Taft's successor in the War Department. He said that the fund provided in 1899, from which the detectives were paid, had been used by Mr. Root as Secretary of War, and he contended that such good lawyers as Mr. Root, Mr. Taft and Mr. Wright would not have utilized this fund for any other purpose than that for which it was intended if any legal obstacles existed to such use. It was shown in the course of Mr. Foraker's speech that Browne and Baldwin had received $15,000 from the Government for the work they did in connection with the Brownsville case. After Senator Lodge had finished Mr. Foraker endeavored to get Senator Warren, Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs to set a date next week for taking a vote on Mr. Foraker's bill for the restoration of the Negro soldiers to the army, but Mr. Warren would not consent. MR. FORAKER'S SPEECH Senator Foraker began his speech twenty minutes after the Senate met. It contained over 20,000 words, including many of the documents submitted by the President on the Brownsville case and affidavits procured by Senator Foraker setting forth the opposite side of the dispute. His speech showed, said the Senator, in summarizing at its conclusion: If the testimony taken by Browne and Baldwin and their detectives and submitted to the Senate by the President as exhibits of his message of December 14, 1908, were all truthful it would be incompetent as proof of guilt, for the reason that upon the facts shown it was not free and voluntary. 2. The testimony I have submitted in answer to these statements shows that they are wholly false in every essential particular, being not ing more than malicious fabrications of the most villainous character. 3. These contracts of employment and all payments under them are utterly invalid. NO LEGITIMATE SERVICE 4. In view of the fact that Browne and Baldwin have apparently induced the President to continue them in service and to pay them money out of the public treasury upon the theory that they were rendering legitimate service when they were not, each and every such payment to them seemingly constitutes a clear case of obtaining money under false pretences, and I call the attention of the law officers of the Government to the fact, as well as to the perjury that has been committed, in order that they may institute appropriate prosecutions. Finally, in consideration of the general character of this whole miserable business I feel more keenly than ever that it is the duty of the Congress to put an end at once and for all time to the possibility of continuing such outrageous and illegal proceedings by so amending my bill and then passing it as to provide a tribunal before which these men can appear and be heard in their own (Continued on Eighth Page.) SEVEN HUNDRED INSTALLED. Grand Time at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.—Pythian Officers Much in Evidence.—Tre. Grand Seven Hundred Officers of the Lodges of the Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe crowded the Ebenezer Baptist Church last Monday night to be installed by Sir John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor and Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Order. Familiar sons were sung by the audience. Prayer was offered by Rev. J. J. Carter and District Deputy Grand Chancellor S. S. Baker, assisted the G. and Chancellor while District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor Anna Taylor aided in installing the Court officers. WELL DRAPED The rostrum was magnificently decorated with palms and flowers, while to the left was a life-sized portrait of Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. It was draped with Python colors. Grand Master at Arms J. Alexander Lewis, M. D. served with absolute satisfaction to the brotherhood. Mrs R. Elinora Wesley served as Grand Worthy Escort. At the conclusion of the installation, Grand Chancellor John Mitchell Jr. delivered an extended address up on the Order. He gave practical lessons in finance. He stated that the Pythian Calanthe Industrial Association which owned the balls in this city and other property valued at $18,000.00 had received since its organization on stock. $13,199.15, rent, $102,93.73, other sources. $3,697.01 making the total amount received, $27,299.89 and had expended, $24,876.92, leaving a balance of $2,412.97. ADVANTAGES OF ORGANIZATION He gave a detailed explanation of organization and was listened to attentively by the large crowd, who remained to hear him. He also told of his trip in the Far West and explained the qualities of the gold quartz that he exhibited to the audience. At the conclusion of his remarks there was prolonged applause. One of the features of the meeting was the excellent renditions of Mr. Anselson Epps and his quartette. The audience was charmed. A vote of thanks was tendered the church, the quartette, the Committee of Arrangements and the Grand Chancellor. The committee consisted of Miss M. L. Chiles, Chairman, Mrs. Anna Taylor, Sir O. M. Steward, Capt. Jno. G. Smith, Sir E. W. R. Glenn, Capt. Willis Wyatt, Mrs. Lucy Cross, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, District Deputy S. S. Baker. Addresses were delivered by Major D. B. Cornish of Petersburg and Sir O. M. Steward. The order was superb and nothing marred the pleasure of the evening. A. Pastor Gone. Richmond, Va., Jan. 10, 1909. To the Editor of The Richmond PLANET: Please give space in the columns of your journal to make mention of a few things respecting the death of Rev. Archer Ferguson, the oldest colored Baptist pastor in the city of Richmond, Va. Rev. Ferguson died early Wednesday morning, December 29, 1908. His death was indeed a sudden shock to the entire community, for it was just the day before that he was out visiting his friends in Fulton. Rev. Ferguson was an active, earnest and faithful pastor during his life time, serving churches near Lynchburg, Va., Midlothian, Va, and two churches in Fulton, Richmond, Va. He was also President of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Richmond, Manchester and Vicinities until the time of his death. His funeral took place from the Fourth Baptist Church, January 1st, 1909. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis, who was assisted in the exercises by Rev. Dr. E. Payne, Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, Rev. W. H. White, Rev. A. Hobbs, Rev. Dr. W. H. Stokes, Rev. Dr. A. E. Edwards and Rev. Dr. R. V. Peyton, who was Master of Ceremonies. Dr. Lewis preached a great sermon and the brettren who followed with remarks performed their duties well. Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson, Secretary of the Conference, read a splendid paper eulogizing the deceased, this paper came as a tribute from the Conference for their worthy dead President. Eight of the pastors of the city served as active pill-bearers and the Conference as a body accompanied the remains to the cemetery. The floral design given by the conference was indeed beautiful. The entire funeral exercise reflected great credit upon all who took a part. AN OPERATION AN OBSERVER VIRGINIA SEMINARY. A Fine Report Richmond, Va., January 16, '09. Editor Richmond PLANET: Knowing your deep interest in the work of the Negro Baptists in this state and country and in your race generally, I herewish submit to you the first quarterly report of Dr. J. R. L. Diggs of Virginia Seminary. We think it is very encouraging and should bestir our brethren throughout the state to greater and more vigorous efforts in making the work a grand success. We found the school to be in first class order and the very best class room work is being done. Normal, Academic, Collegiate, special and a thorough course in Theology. For the first time in the history of the school Hebrew is now being taught in the Theological Department. The course of study is equal to that of our very best northern colleges and theological seminaries. Forty-nine young preachers are there studying for the ministry. The members of the faculty come from the best institutions of learning in the land. Knowing that you would be interested in our work, we submit this report to you for publication. Respectfully, W. F. GRAHAM, Chairman. R. H. BOWLING, Secretary. Board of Trustees. To the Executive Committee of the Trustee Board of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College—Gentlemen: We beg leave to submit the following report for the Fall Term, closing December 23, 1908. The term began October 1st with all the teachers save one on hand. Two hundred and thirty-two (232) students were enrolled. As this report is made to-day we may say that the number has increased to 259. This is all we could well expect. Our accommodations are limited and since November the first, we have been obliged to put an extra girl in all the rooms, except two. The boys occupy about all available space on their corridors also. NEEDS. We need a heating plant and a water supply. Our danger from fire is multiplied by every stove in the buildings. Economy, safety and health urge a change in our plans for water and heat. We need a Girl's Dormitory at once. The President asks formal permission to begin plans for laying the foundation within the shortest possible period. $30,000 will give us the immediate necessary accommodations. This amount will secure for the Seminary: A Chapel and Library, a Girl's Dormitory, a Laundry Plant, Old Chapel altered for Science Class-rooms. These improvements will be worth $75,000 to the Institution, but can be secured for $30,000, an amount we can easily raise. I assure you that we can run the Institution and save at least half of any reasonable amount raised by the State Convention, say anything above $5,000, though we ought to raise $10,000. TEACHING FORCE We shall need a professor of science for next year. He must be able also to supply the Department of English. Such a man can be secured at a nominal salary. The teachers are doing good work and students are making normal progress DISCIPLINE The government of the Institution is not difficult. Some minor changes for the good of the school have been made but no radical departure from the general plans of Academic, College and Theological work. We have twenty-four in the senior classes for the year, eleven in the Academic class; six of whom are also in the B. Th. course, and one in the B. D. degree course; thirteen in the Normal Class. FINANCES The financial report for the term from October 1st to December 23rd, is as follows: Received from tuition.....$ 659.47 Received from board.....2344.25 Received from churches and associations.....82.40 Received from old accounts.....448.75 Received from Trustees.....367.00 Total.....$3901.87 Expended for school supplies$ 114.25 Expended for boarding dept. 1511.44 Expended for repairs.....264.86 Expended for addition to property.....285.90 Expended for student labor. 101.40 Expended for salaries.....1342.75 Expended for gratuities.....32.12 Expended for sundries.....104.74 Total.....$3757.46 Receipts from October 1, '08 SALLY M. subscribe to The PLANET at 310 W. 22d Street and in your subscription for Manchester, va. this year. to December 23, 1908...$3901.87 Expenditures from October 1, 1908 to Dec. 23, '08... 3757.46 Cash Balance.....$ 144.41 The above is an abstract of the Treasurer's account. All of which is respectfully submitted. JAMES R. L. DIGGS, President January 12, 1909. Bachelors and Benedicts to Meet. The Bachelors and Benedicts will hold a meeting Monday night, January 25, 1909, at Johnson's Hall at 8:30 o'clock. All members are earnestly requested to be present as business of importance is to be transacted. By order of the President, WM. ISAAC JOHNSON, GEO. ST. JULIEN STEPHENS, Sec. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES. Mr. I. J. Miller has purchased the three brick houses at 508, 510 and 512 N. Third Street for $8,000. Mrs. Vera A. Bolling is erecting a frame dwelling on North Fifth Street, between Jackson and Duval Street at a cost of about $3900. Mr. D. J. Farrar, the well-known contractor has the job and he is pushing the work rapidly. The foundation is now being dug. Mrs. Rosa K. Jones has added much to the attractiveness of her residence at 520 St. James Street by the placing of a granolithic base for an iron fence. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, has erected one of the handsomest brick stables owned by any private family of color in Richmond and her side walk and front yard have been ornamented with granolithic pavement and an iron fence. Mr. W. Isaac Johnson has remodelled his building and he has a fine hall now. In addition to this he is building a large stable and ware-room out on Brook Avenue between Duval and Baker Streets. The lot is over 200 feet in length. He explains that his business has outgrown his present quarters. Mr. Richard L. Harris has discontinued business on Second Street. Mr. Emmett C. Burke who purchased a handsome brick house on Sixth Street near Duval Street has fixed it up in nice style and he is residing there. Mrs. N. Beransenia Trueheart of Atlantic City is in the city for several months. Mr. E. F. Johnson, president of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company has the finest new building owned by any colored person in the West-end. It was built by Mr. Geo. N. Evans, the well-known contractor. On last Sunday afternoon an excellent programme was rendered at the Second Baptist Church of which Rev. D. W. Davis is pastor. The occasion was the unveiling of a new pipe organ. The Third Street A. M. E. Church has purchased a new organ and the recitals there have been a success. The choir has been greatly improved and the congregation is rallying in its efforts to raise money. Rev. W. H. Stokes, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church has one of the handsomest residences in his section of the city. The congregation of the Sixth Mt. Zlon Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. R. V. Peyton raises more money, it is said, than any other congregation in the city among the colored people. Major J. J. Booker of Newport News, Va. has been ill in New York for seven months. He improves slowly. INFORMATION WANTED—Of Eliza Pryor. She will hear something to her advantage by addressing H. 1730 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. DO YOU KNOW HIM? Manchester, Va.. Jan. 20. '09. We would like to know the where- abouts of our son, Jesse Bebbs. When last heard from he was in Hudson, N. Y. He is in his 33rd year of age, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, of dark brown complexion. He has been from home about nine months and nothing has been heard from him. Any information will be gladly received by his parents, JOSEPH F. BEBBS. SALLIE BEBBS. 310 W. 22d Street. Manchester, va. PRICE, FIVE CENTS Rev. Lucas' Tribute. Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va., Jan. 18, '09. Dear Editor: If you will be so kind as to grant me space, I should be glad to say a few words concerning one of my fellow students—Rev. W. B. Carrington. I think when a man has run the gauntlet of opprobrium, whether just or unjust, and if he has succeeded, or is succeeding in being restored to the confidence of the people, it is as little as one could do to drop for him a word of commendation. As is generally known, Rev. Carrington is a graduate of Union University, class '07. He also remained one year after graduation, doing special work in history and philosophy. Again, it may be said to his credit, that he is pastor of Union Branch Baptist Church of Chesterfield, where he has done good work for several years, and, as an indication of the fact that his services are still in demand, I have only to remark that he has now one or more calls under consideration, one being that from the First Baptist Church of Harmony Village, Middlesex Co., Va. Brother Carrington is a worthy man, and will doubtless be a valuable asset to the forces of religious workers in the new field to which he is called; therefore, I wish for him much success and large usefulness in the cause. Now thanking you for space, I am Very respectfully yours, W. J. LUCAS. Pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Chesterfield Co. Va. Mr. I. J. Miller in New Quarters Mr. I. J. Miller, the well-known dealer in clothing and gent's furnishings has sold out all of his old stock at 528 E. Broad Street, finishing up the work under an auctioneer's hammer and has opened up with a new line at the cosy 314 E. Broad Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, where he will be pleased to have his many friends and patrons call and see him and examine his new line. He is selling at his most satisfactory prices and can furnish the most fastidious with the latest styles and fabrics made to order. His store line will also serve to please those who are in search of a good line at reasonable prices --- BAKEB SCHOOL—HONOR ROLL 7B GRADE—Percy Vaughan, Samuel Woolfolk (2), Mildred Anderson (2), Theressa Hayes, Louise Johnson, Maria Lewis (2), Alberta Smith (3). 7A GRADE—Annie Bowles, Rebecca Wilson, Joseph Brown, Ruth Cary, Ida Harris. 6B GRADE—Robert Lewis, William Jackson, George Hayden, Henry Yancey, Maria Jones, Leonard Cephas, Alice Edwards. 6A GRADE—Gertrude Chambers (3), Vivian Lemas (3), Marie Williams (2), Rosa Miles. 5B GRADE—Ethel Lemas, Lena Mays, Rosa Meade, Gladys Golden, Nannie / Goodman, Horace Scott, Blackwell 10hnson, Richard Johnson Amanda Barcroft. 5A GRADE—Leonard Barcroft, Zenobia Gilpin, Henrietta Mason, Ella Sydney, Lucy Smith, Mabel Washington. 4B GRADE—James Smith, Maria Ellis. 4A GRADE—Marian Thompson, Clarissa Kyles, Gertrude Jones, Lille Peters, Belle Boyd, Arthur Ferguson, Emmett Scott. 3B GRADE—Lottie B, Cary (3), Carrie Fuller, Essie Mosby. 3A GRADE—Emma Daggett (3), Fannie Hooper (2), Martha Smith (3). 2B GRADE—Isabelle Booker, Bessie Goode, Estelle Goodman, Carlie Pierson, Laura Smith, Sarah Walker, Flosios Winn. 2A GRADE—Lewis Anderson, Rosa Bass, Robert Greene, Bertha Jackson, Jennie Maden, Romney Mooney In Memorium SMITH—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear father, Abram Smith, who departed this life three years ago January 9, 1909. "In the distant grave yard yonder, Where the trees their branches wave, Lies our dear beloved father, In the cold and silent grave. Three years have passed and still we miss him; Friends may think the wound is healed. But they little know the sorrow, That's within our heart concealed. DAUGHTER FF OMMVOANDERSOY- go Satan « ae | Sanderson (2222! Two “Who's Who” In the Story. “BATAN” SANDERSON, the hero, daredevil, quixotic friend and tlntster of the Goupel HUGH STIRES, prodigal and axtoitaal JESSICA HOLME, the beautiful heroine. helpless in the rush of rene Gal he Setachcal waar © cass of oe Meaty MRS. HALLORAN, the camp oracle. DAVID STIRES, stern, yet for- Giring. and at the inst made happy by another's unbappiness, THE BISHOP, the victim of a ‘@isunderstanding. HALLELUJAH JONES, the re- Higious fanatic on whose shoulders tests the whole weight of the etory EMMET PRENDERGAST, the false friend, perjurer and thief. WHE SHERIFF, who is very much divided between duty and {0- elination. “BIG” DEVLIN, who turn champion instead of prosecutor aft- er the bero’s race with death tt =r % —————————_, GY chapter 14.6: meee ta get] Chapter 14 (7+ HE scone In the hotel of- Soa fice had left Jessiea in a state of mental dis- traction in which rea 4 von was In abeyance In the confuiion she had stipped into the little sitting room unnoticed, feeling a scnse almost of physical sickness, to sit In the balf Hight, listening to teen diminishing Rolses of the spilling crowd. She was ‘wind swept. storm tossed, fa the grip of primal emotions, The surprise bed shocked her. and the strange appeal the violin had disturbed her aqutpoise The signiticant words of awakening spoken In the ofire had eto het G@€stinctly. In their Uizht sk- und read the plteous puzzle of that suze that had held her motiontess on the balcony Hagh bad forgotten the past-—all of it Mt crime. tis penalty. in forgetting the past he had forgotten even ber his wife. Yet in some mysterious way her face had been familiar to him. It had touched for ‘an Instant the spring Of the befogged memory As she spurred through the transient twilight, past the selvage of the town. and into the somber mountain stope. Ghe struck the horse sharply with her crop. He who bad entrapped her, who had married ber under the shadow of a erimina! act. who had broken her fu. ture with bis, when bis whole bright Mfe had crashed down fa black ruin— could such @ one look as he had looked at her? Could he make such music that had wrung her heart? All at once the horse shied violentty, almost unseating her. A man was ly- ing by the side of the road, tossing and muttering to himself. She forced the unwilling ania! closer and, lean- ing from the saddle. saw who it was Ym 2 moment she was off and beside ‘the prostrate form, a spasm of dread ‘latching at her throat at sight of the merveless limbs, the chalky pallor of the brow, the fever spots in the cheeks, A wave of pity swept over her. He ‘Was ill and alone. He could not be left ‘Shere. He must have shelter. She Jooked fearfully about her. What could abe do? In that town, whose intoler- ance and dislike she had seen so ac- tively demonstrated, was there no one who would care for him? She turned her head, listening to a nearing sound— footsteps were plodding up the road. Sbe called, and presently a pe- destrian emerg- ed from the half dark and came toward her. He bent over the form she showed hin. “It's Stires,” he said with a chuckle, “I heard he'd come back.” Thechue- kle turned to a cough, and he shook bis head. “This is sad! ‘You could never believe how 1 bave labored —e comes, ene 2 presently @. pe- NG destrian emerg- UPA, ed trom the halt dark and came Pe toward her. To, He bent over the form she 4 showed hira. “It’s Stires,” Ey a < | he said with a chuckle, “I heard he'é come RS) dock" thectue ae kle turned to a ZOO, cough, and he =: ve shook bis head. “This is sadi You could never s » _ delleve how 1 See bave labored swith the boy, but”—he turned out his hands—“sou see, there is the tempta- Gon. It is bis unhappy weakness.” (ee ee ee ee en ne ee ee jon the day Tom Felder had walked ‘with her from the Mountain Valley House, and the lawyer had told her he lived in the cabin Just below the Knob, ‘where she so offen sat. She felt a quiver of repulsion, | “He 13 not Intoxicated," she said coldly, “He ts fll You know him, then?” “Know him!" he echoed and laugh: ed—a dry, cackling nugh. “I ought to. And I guess he knows me." He shook the Inert arm. “Get up, Hugh!” he said. “It's Prendergast!” There flashed threngh ber mind the phrase of the surly hotel keeper, “His side partner, Prendergast!” Could tt be? Had Hugh roatly Mved tn the cab. In on which she had so often peered down during those past weeks? And with this chosen cronyt | She touched Prendergast's arm. “He ts tIl, 1 say,” she repeated. “Fe must be eared for at once. Your cabin ts on the hiliside, isn’t It?” | “His cabin,” he corrected. “A roug place, but it bas sheltered us both. I am but guide, philosopher and friend.” She bit ber lips. “Lift him on my horse,” she sald. She stooped and put her hands ander the twitching shou! ders, “T will help you. T am quite strong.” | With her aid he Ufted the swasins form on to the saddle and supported it, while Jessica led the way “flere is the cutoff.” he sald pres ently. “Ab, you know it!” for she bad turned into the side path that led along the hill, under the gras, suake- Uke fume—the shortest route to the grassy shelf on which the cabln stood The byway was steep and rugged Jand thotodendron clumps caught at her ankles, and once she heard a snake slip over the dry rustle of leaves, but she went on rapidly, dragging at the bridie, turning back now and then | anxiously to urge the horse to greater |speed. She scarcely heard the offen: sively honeyed compliments which Preadergust offered to her courage: | It seemed an eternity they climbed In reality it was scarcely twenty min [utes Lefore they reached the grass Knol! and the cabin, whose crazy (swinging door stood wide to the nlght ‘air. She tled the horse, went tn and ‘at Prendergast’s direction found matches and lt a candle. ‘The bare. two room Interior It revented was un. Kempt and disordered. Rough bunks. a table and a couple of bewn chairs were almost its ouly furniture. ‘The window was Lroken and the roof ad mitted sun and rain. Prendergast laid the man they had brought on one of the bunks and threw over him a sbab- by blanket “My dear young Indy,” be sald, “you are a good Samaritan, How shall we thank Sou, my poor friend bere and a Jessica hnd taken money from ber pocket, and now she held it out to hin. “He must have a doctor,” she said. “You must fetch one.” ee aati a a even while his gesture protested. “You ‘shame me!” he exclaiined. “And yet you are right. It is for him." He folded it and put It into bis pocket. “As soon as I have built « fire 1 will g0 for our local medico. He will not always come at the call of the luck- Jess miner. All are not so charitable ‘as you.” | He untied her horse and extended a hand. but she mounted without his help. “He will thank you one day, ‘this friend of mine.” he said, “far bet- ‘ter than I can do.” | “It 1s not at all necessary to tell him.” she replied frigidiy. “Tne slek are always to be helped in every elr- ‘cumstance.” | She gave her horse the rein as she spoke aud turned him up the stecp path that climbed back of the cabin, Dest the Knob, and so by ® narrow trail to the mountain road. | August Prendergast stood listening to the dulling hoof beats a moment, then re-entered the cabin. The man on the bunk bad lifted to a sitting post- tion. His eyes were open, dazed and etaring. | cThat’s right,” the older man sald. ‘You're coming round. Flow does it feol to be back in the old shebang? Can't guess how you got here, can you? You were towed on horseback by & beauty, Hughey, my boy~a rip stay- ing beauty! 1'li tell you about It in the morulng if you're good.” _ ‘The men he addressed made no an- swer. His eyes were on the other, in- “I heard about the. row,” went on Prendergast. “They didn't think it was in you, and neither did L” He fores eh? You're a ee a eet cee ie vo ee ja angthing J iu piece, ‘1 doe ar ee eee ee Bb teered, the aibiie mois oe Hie able. “There's a queer look in THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. aflempt at kindness. “That rock thes threw must hava burt you. Fee! sort of dizzy, eh? Never miud, 1 show you a sight for sore eyes. You went oif ‘without your share of the last swag. but I've saved it for you. Prendergast ‘Wouldn't cheat a pal!” | From a cranny in the clay chinked [wall he took a chamols akin tag. Tt contained a quantiy of gold dust aud ‘small nuggets, which he potred iuto & miner's seales on the table and pro- [ceeded to divide in two portions. This ‘accomplished, he emptied one of the ‘portions on to @ paper and pushed it out. “That's yours,” he said. Harry's eyes were on his with a piercing Intensity now, as though ther looked through him to a vast distasce beyond. He was staring through « gray midst at something far off, but ‘significant, that elfded bis direct vision. The board table, the yellow gold, the Mickering candlelight, Fecall- ed something horrifying, in some other world, tn some other life, millions .f ages fo. | He lurched to his fect, overturning the table, ‘The gold dust rattled to the floor. | “Your deal!” he said. ‘Then, with a vague laugh, he fell sidewise upon the bunk. August Prendergast stared at hitn with a look of amnzement on his yel- Jow face. “He's crazy as a chicken!” ‘be said. He sat watching him awhile, then roxe and kindled a fire on the unswept hearth. From a litter of cans and dented utensils in a corner he pro- ceeded to cook himself supper, after which he carefujly brushed ap the scattered gold dust and returned it al! to tts hiding place. Lastly he ram maged on a shelf and found a. viat This proved to be empty, however. tnd he set It on the table. “L guess you'll do well euough with out any pain killer,” be sald to hin: self. “Doctors are expensive. Any: was, T'll be back by midnight” He threw more wood on the fire, blew out the candle and, closing the door behind him, set off down the trail to the town, where a faro bank soon acquired the bill Jessica had giv: en him. ak Ok iF Chapter 15 Chapter 15 i Pe Ne eee a 4 Jessica reached the san: ry Bf itartum, though she went like a whirlwind, the chil damp smell of the dewy balsams in her nos. trils, the dust rising ghosttike behind [the ‘rapid hoofs. ‘She found David |Stires anxious and peevish over her late coming. | She felt 1 relief when the old man grew tired and was wheeled to his bedroom. Left alone, her reflections returned. She began to be tortured. She tried to read. ‘The printed characters swam beyond her comprehension. At length she drew a hood over her head and | stole out on to the wide porch, It was only 9 o'clock, and along the gravel paths that wound among the shrubbery a few dim forms were stroll- tng. She caught the scent of a clgar and the sound of a woman's laugh The air was crisp and bracing, with & promise of frost and painted leaves. Sie gazed down across the dark gulches toward the town, a straggling design pricked in blinding yellow points. Hiifway between, folded In the darkness, lay the green shelf and the cabio to which her thought re- curred with a kind of compulsion. ‘There was no moon, but the stare were glowing like tiny green gilt coals, and the yeilow road iuy plain and clear. With a sudden determination she drew her light cloak closely about her, stepped down, sped across the grass to a footpath and so to the road. As she ran on down the curving stretch under the trees the crackling slip of | bank paper that Iny in ber bosom ‘seemed to burn her flesh. She was ‘stealing away to gaze upon the ont- cast who had shamed and humbled ‘her—going, she knew not why, with burning cheek and hammering heart. She sifpped through the side trail to the cabin with a choking sensation. She stole to the window and peered in, In the firelight she could see the form on the bunk, tossing and mutter ing. Otherwise the place was empty. She lifted the latch softly and ev- tered. ‘The strained anxiety of Jessica's look relaxed as she gazed cate ia ae vial on the table.» penis sarees ena eeccnae ‘by what miracte had he been so altered. ‘8 to look upon himself with loath- Ee ied Bneut eprlest. Sroppioe his feet to the floor. At the movement the man or the doorstep rose quickly aud came forward. “You're better. Hugh,” he ald. “Take It easy though. Don't got up Just yet— T'm going to cook you some breakfast.” He turned to the hearth. kicked the smoldering log en/is together and set saucepan on them. “You'll be stron~ fer when you've got something be- tween your ribs.” he added. “now long bave 1 been lying here?” lasked Harry. | “Only since last night. You've had a fever.” “Where Is my dog?” “Dog?" said the other. “I never knew you had one.” | Harry's lips set bitterly. rt had fared |more hardiy, then, than be. It had Deen a ready object for the crowd to [wreak their hatred upon, because it [belonged to him—because it was Hugh Stires’ dog! “Is this your cabin, my friend?” The fzure bending over the bearth straightened Itself with a jerk, and the biluking yellow eyes looked bard at him. Prendergast came close to the bunk. a “That's the game you played In the town.” he said, with a surly sneer. “It’s all right for those that take it fn, but you needn't try to bamboozle me, pretending you don't know your own claim and enbint I'm no such fool!” A dull fush came to Harry’s brow. Here was a page from that iniquitous past that faced him. His own cabin! And hiy own clalia? Well, why not? “You are mistaken,” he suid calmly. “I am not pretending. 1 cannot re- member you.” Prendergest laughed in an ugly, de- risive way, "d suppose you're for- gotten the half year we've lived bere together and the gold dust we've gath- ered in now and again—slipped tt all, have you?" Harry stood up. ‘The motion brought @ temporary dizziness, but It passed. He walked to the door and gazed out on the ploasant green of the hillside. On a tree near by was nailed a rough, “weather beaten board on which was jserawled, “The Little Paymaster Ciaim.” "He saw the grass grown | gravel trenches, erilence of alsndon- “i work. He had bees a miner. That in Itself was honest toll. “The claim is good, then,” he sald over bis shoulder. “We feund tho pay?” Prendergast contemplated bim a mo- ment in grim silence, with a scowl, “You're either really faddied, Hugh,” he said then, “or else you're a star Play actor and up to something deep. Weil, have it your own way—It's all the same to me. But you can't pull the wool over my eyes long!” There were mockery and threat tn his tone; but, more than both, the evil intimacy in his words gave Harry a Qualm of disgust. ‘This man had been his associate. That one hour tn the town had shown him wbst his own Ute there had been. What should he do? Forsake for- ever the neighborhood where be had made his blistering mark? Fling all aside and start again somewhere and leave behind this disgraceful present, with that face that bad looked into his from above the dusty street? If fate tntended that, why had It turned him back? If such was the bed he had made, tie would He in It. He would driax the gall and vinegar without whimpering. Whatever lay behind he would live It down. This man at least had befriended him. He turned Into the room. “Perhaps 1 shall remember after awhile.” He took the saucepan from Prendergast’s hand. “Til cook the breakfast,” he sald. | Prendergast filed his pipe and wateh- ed him. “I guess there are bats In your belfry, sure enough, Hugh,” he said at length. “You never offered to do your stint before” significance of which she did not com- prehend. That kiss, she told herself thet night, had been given to her dead {deal that bad tain there in ite purity- ing grave clothes of forgetfulness. Yet it burned on her lips, as that other Kiss in a darkened room had burned after ward, but with a sense.of pleasure, not of hurt. It took her back into erimson meadows with her lost girthood and its opaled outlook—and Hough. But largest of all in her mind next day was anxiety. She must know how he fared. In the open daylight she could not approach the cabin, but she reflected that the doctor had been there and no doubt had carried some Teport of him to the town. So as the morning grew she rode down the ——— Your subscription 29 The Richmond PLANET ie due Have you bald ft IE'you ave Job Work to be done, send as. % i~4 Would be with him. She threw back ber hood, drew one of the chsirs to the side of the tunk and sat down, her ‘eyes fixed on his face. The weakuess and helplessness of his posture struck of ber were struggling in s chaotic combat for mastery. “I hate yout 1 hate you!" she sald Under ber breath, clinching her cold band. “I must hate you! You stole my love and put it under your feet! You bave disgraced my present and ruined my future! What if you have forgovic= the past—your crime? Does that make you the less guilty or mo the less wretched?” But withal @ silent voice within her gave the ile to ber vebemence. Some element of her character that had been rigid and intact was crumbling down. An old sweet something that a dread- ful mill had ground and crushed and annihilated was rising whole and un- defiled, superior to any petty distinc- tion, regardless of ali that lifted com- bative in ber inheritance, not to be ‘gainsald or denied. | She leaned closer, listening to the In- coherent words and broken phrases borne on the turbid channels of fever. ‘But she could not link them together Into meaning. Only one name he spoke clearly over and over again—the name Hugh Stirew—repeated with the dreary monotony of a child conning a lesson, ‘She noted the mark across his brow. Before ber umrriage, in ber blindness, she bad used to wonder what it was Uke. It was not in the least disfigur- ing. It gave a touch of the extraor- inary, Tt was eo sinall she did not wonder that {n that ecstatic moment of her bride's kiss she bad not seen it. | Stowly, half fearfully, she stretched out ber hand and tald it on his, As if ‘at the touch the mutterings ceased. al mi Se {5 {ger (f f | ys pe head. ‘The eyes opened, and a confused, trou- bled look crept to them. Then chey closed again, and the look faded out nto a peace that remained. A thrill ran through ber, the sense of moral power of the weak over the strong, of the feminine over the mas- culine, A rising flush stained her cheeks. With a sudden impulse and with « gullty backward glance she bent and touched her lipw to bis forehead. She drew back quickly, her face flooded with color, caught her breath, thea, drawing her hood over her head, went swiftly to the door and was lost tn the darkness, When toward midnight the fever ebbed, Sanderson had fallen Into a deep sleep of exhaustion, from which he opened bis eyes next morning upon the figure of Prendergast sitting. pipe in mouth, In the sunny doorway. He lifted bimseif on his elbow. That crafty face nd been inexplicably wov- en with the delirious fantasies of his fever. Where and when had he known It? Then in a great tide welled over him the memory of bis last conscious hours—the scene in the saloon, the fight, the music, the sudden appalling Miscovery of his name and repute. He remembered the sickening wave of self disgust, the feree agony of resentment that had beat in his every vein as be Walked up the darkealng street. He Temembered the thrown quartz. No oubt unother missile had strack home or he bad been set upon, kicked and Pommeled into insensibliity. ‘This old man—a miner probably, for there were picks and shovels tu the corner—had succored him. He had been ill, there ‘was lassitude in every limb, and shad- owy recollections tantalized him. He retained a dim consciousness of a wo- man's face—the face he bad seen on the balcony leaning near him, bring- tng into 2 painful disorder a sense of grateful coolness, of fragrance and of ‘rest. }_ As he stared again at the seated fig- ure, the grim fact reared like a grisly ‘epecter, deriding, thrusting its haggard presence Epon him. In this little communt- ty, which appar- ently he bad for- saken and to which he bad by chance returned, he stood a rogue and a scoundrel, a thing to point the finger at and to avold. The question that had burned his brain to fire flamed up again, ‘The town despised him. What had been useereteys Haw he become a pariah? Aod tw e 2, ( eS. = oa 2 =| Iga ly Chapter 16) ROM the moment her kiss fell upon the fore- head of the delirious man fn the cabin Jes- F siea began to be a prey AY aang nites el oth ty es an -- a ee ee tov" aalt 2 chuckled. i eS grew to # guffaw, and be sat to the wall, took tae chai ba from its hiding i some: of its yellow contents, bis palm. “Thats why. Do: goa remember that, ‘Harry looked at ft. “Gold dust,” be said “I seem to recall that I am going to begin work tn the trench to- morrow. There should be more where that came from.” Prenderg:st poured the gold back Minto the bag with a cunning look. The other had asked for no share of it. At that moment he decided to say nothing of the evening before, of the girl or the horseback journey, lest Hugh, cudgeling his brains, might re- member he bad been offered a half. “There's -plenty more where that came from, all right.” he said, “and Tf teach you again bow to get It one of these days.” Prendergast said little during the meal. When the table was cleared be Ut his pipe and took from a shelf « Ddoard covered with penciled figures ‘and scrutinized {t “Hope you remember how to. play old sledge?" he said Harry did not move. As they ate he had been wondering how long he ‘could abide that sinister presence As he was about to speak a knock came at the cabin door, and Prendergast opened it. The visitor Harry recognized in- stantly. It was the man who had called for fatr play at the Hight before the saloon, who hed drawn him into the hotel Felder carried a bundle under his arm. He nodded curtly to Prender- mast and addressed himself to Harry. “I am the bearer of a gift from some one In the town,” he said. “‘T have been asked to deliver this to you.” He put the bundle into the other's hands. Harry drew up one of the chairs hastily. “Please sit down.” be said courteously, He looked at the bundle curiously. “Et eos dona ferentes.” he said slowly. “A gift from some one in the town!” A keen surprise flashed into the law yera glance. “The quotation is clas- G's } 4 5 }/ et) =) “It was his expreas wish that I give the violin to you.” wie.” he said, “but it need not apply here.” He took the bundle, unwrapped It and disclosed a battered violin. “Let me explain,” be continued. “For the owner of this you fought a battle yee terday. You tested its tone a little later. It seems chat you are a master of the most difficult of instruments, ‘There was a time, I believe, when the old man was its master also, He was once, they say, the conductor of am orchestra In San Francisco. Drink and the devil finally brought him down. For three years past be bas lived ip Smoky Mountain. Nobody knows bis ame. The town has always called him ‘Old Despair’ You did him what Is perhaps the first real kindness be has ever known at its hands, He has done the only thing he could to requite it” Harry had colored painfully as Fel- der began to speak. His voice was un- steady us he answered: “I appreciate it, | am deeply grateful, but ft 1s quite Impossible that I accept it from him.” “You need not hesitate," said te lawyer. “Old Despair Leeds It no long- er. He died last night in Devlin's dance hall, where he played when be was sover enough for his lodging. 5 happened to be near by, and I assure you It was his express wish that I give the violin to you." Rising, he held out his hand. “Good night,” he sald. “I hope your memory will soon return. The town is much {n- terested in your case.” ‘The fiush grew deeper in Harry's cheek, though be saw there was noth- {ng ironical fo the remark. “I scarcely hope so much.” be replied. “I am Jearning that forgetfulness bas its ad- vantages.” } Chapter J Tee = BE little town had peew a unconsciously grateful for its new sensation. ry ‘The return of Hugh —/) Stires and his apparent curious transformation was the prime subject of conversation. For a half year the place had knows but one other event as startling, ‘That was the Gnding some months before of a dead body—that of a comparative stranger io the place—thrust beueath & thicket op Smoky mountain, on the very claim which now held Preuder- gast and bis partner, ‘The “amen corner” of the Mountain Valley House had discusseu the pros and cous exhaustively. There were many who sneered at the loss of mem- ory and took their cue trom Deylla, who, smarting from his humiliation. and nursing vénom, revamped suspi- cions wherever he showed bis battored face In his opinion Hugh Stires was “playing a stick game.” 5 “war view ts colored by os mountain ostensibly co get the cherry cordial she had left bebind her the day before, really to satisfy her hunger for news. As It happened Mrs. Halloran’s first greeting set her anxiety at rest. Pren- dergast bad bought some tobacco at the general store an hozr before while the had been making ber daily order. and the storekeeper had questioned him. To an interested audience he had told of the finding of Hugh on the mountain road in a sort of crazy fever and enlarged upon the part the girl on horseback had played. Hugh was all right now, he said, except that he didn’t remember him or the cabin or Smoky Mountain. What Prendergast bad sald Mrs Halloran told Jessica in a breath. Be- fore she finished she found that Jes. mica had not heard of the Incident in the saloon which had precipitated the fight with Devlin, and with sympa thetic rhetoric Mrs, Halloran told this too. “Why does Smoky Mountain hate him so? What has he done?" asked Tessica. Site liven ahs her head. “t never knew anything myself,” she sald judiciously. “I reckon the town allus counted him just a general low down. The rest is only suspicion an’ give the dog @ bad name.” | There had been comfort for Jessica to this interview. Mrs, Halloran’s story had materially increased the poignant force of her pity. What had Seemed to her a vulgar brawl had ‘been In reality a courageous and un- ‘seltish championship of a defenseless euteast. Thinking of this, the self blame and contrition which she had felt when she listened to the violin jassatled her anew, till she seemed a very part of the guilt, an equal sinner by omission. Yet she rode homeward that day with almost a light heart. a) 20S eager ob la ee As Harry stood in the cabin door way looking after Prendergast toward the town, glistening far below In the morning sunlight, he theught bitterly of his reception there. “They all knew me,” he thought. “Every one knew me—on the street, in the hotel. They know me for what 1 have been to them. Yet to me it is all a blank. What shamefal deeds have 1 done?" He shrank from memory now, “What was I doing so far away, where was I going, on the night when I was picked up beside the rallroad track? 1 may be a drunkerd,” he said to him- self. “No, in the pest month I have drunk hard, but not for the taste of the Hquor. I may be a gambler, I may be a cheat, a thief. Yet how Is It possible for bad deeds to be blotted out and leave no trace? Actions breed habit if ‘they do not spring from it, and habit automatically repeated becomes char- ‘acter. I feel no inherent propensity to rob or defraud. Shall 1? Will these things come back to me if my memory does?” Ia the battle that he fought now he tarned, even in his weakness, to man- tal labor, striving to dull bis thought with mechanical movement. He clean- ed and put to rights both rooms and sorted thelr litter of odds and ends. But at times the Inclination to escape became well nigh Insupportable. When the conflict was flercest, he would think of a girl's face once seen, and the thought would restrain him. Who was she? Why had her look pierced through him? In that hateful career that seemed so curiously allen could the have bad a part? He did not know that she of whom be wondered tn the bitterest of those hours had been very near im; that on her way up the mountain she bad stolen down to the Knob to look through the parted bushes to the cabin with the blue spiral rising from its chimney. ‘Though the homely task to which he turned failed to allay his struggle by 4 ra ES a Say “The reat ts Only suspicion.” nightfall, Harry had put the warring elements under. When Prendergast re- turned at.supper time, the candle was lighted in its wall box, the dinted tes kettle was singing over a crackling fire and Harry was perspiring over the scouring of the last utensil | Prendergast looked the orderly inte- ror over on the thresholé with « contemptuous amusement. “Almost thought I was in chureh,” he said. He took off his coat and lazily watched ‘the other cook the frugal evening meal. “Excuse my not volunteering,” be ob- sorved. “You do it so nicely I'm al- most afraid you'll have another attack of that forgettery of yours and go back to the old line.” Presently be looked at the bunk, clean and springy with fresh out spruce shoots. He went into it, knelt down and thrust an arm into the empty space beneath It. He got up hastily. “What have you done with that?” he demanded, with an angry snarl. “With what?" Har.y turned his bead as he set two tin plates on the tare table. “With what was under here.” “There was nothing there but an old horse skin,” said Harry. “It is hanging ‘on the side of the cabin.” ‘With an oath Prendergast flung open the door and went outside. He re-en- fered quickly with the white hide in his arms, wrappod it in a blanket and thrust it back under the bunk. _ “Has any one been bere since 08 Dat It oat there?” he ‘quiex- leads aula ek Reon is, hat ras —— Mm OK HE little town bad been unconsciously grateful for its new sensation. ‘The return of Hugh Stires and his apparent curiens trémefermeation NESS Uie Se et = - ‘ aie sree a, AEDS Peay i in og Ok ek ake a {fra At Tae ae aetna k oko aw g Drs 5 aN’ R AY macouily =: Savane os. lees: eT cre tai nree, neiae erate a tare! dence against him than there is ‘against you or met” “They didn't find the body on my ground,” had been the other's surly retort. “and I didn't clear out the day ‘before either.” ‘The phenomenon, however, whether ‘¢redited or poohpoobed, was a draw- ing card. More than a few found oc- casion to climb the mountain by the Ahiliside trai: that skirted the lonely cabin. These as likely as not saw Prendergast lounging in the doorway emoking, while the younger man worked, leading a trench slong the brow of the hill to bring the water from its intake, which Harry’s quick ‘exe had seen was practicable. ‘The spectacie of Hugh Stires. who had been used to pass bis days In the saloons and his nights In even less be- coming resorts, turned practical wtner "dded a touch of opera bouffe to the situation that to a degree modulated ‘the rigor of dispraize. It was the con- ‘ensus of opinion that the new Hugh ‘Stires seemed vastly different from the old; that if he were “playing :@:ame” it Was a curious one. On the one side was a black record, exemplified in Prendergast—clouded in- famy, a shuddering abborrence of bis past self as be saw It through the pit!- Jess Jens of public opinion; on the othier was a grim constancy of purpose, a pas- sionate wish to recoustract the warped structure of Ife of which be found himself the tenant, days of healthful, Peace inspiring toll, a woman's face that threaded his every thought. As he fielded his pick In che trench or Into- tlously washed out the few glistening €rains that now were to mean his dal. ly sustenance he turned often to. gnze up the slope where, sét in its follage, the gins roof of the sanitarhn spar. led softly through the Indian haze. ‘Strange that the sight should mysteri- ously suggest the face that haunted tim! Prendergast saw the abstracted re- gard as be came up the trail from the town, He was {n an ugly humor. The bag of gold dust which bo had shown to Harry be had not returned to the hiding place in the wall, and with this in his pocket the faro table had that day tempted him. The pouch was e.apty now Harry's inck was towant bim, and ‘the gold pan in which he had been washing the gravel lay at his fect. With a noiseless, mirthless laugh Pren- Gergast stole into the cabin and reach. ed down from the shelf the bottle into which each day Harry had poured his scanty findings. He weighed it tn his fand—almost two ounces, a ttle leas than $20. He hastily took the empty bag from bis pocket But Just then a shadow darkened the doorway, and Harry entered He saw the action and, striding forward, took the bottle from the other's hand. Prendergast turned on him, a sinis- ‘ter snarl under his affectation of sur. prise. “Can't you attend to sour own vat killing?" he growled. “I guess I've gota right to what I need." . “Not to that” sald Harry quietly. “We shall touch the bottom of the our sack tomorrow. You expect to get your meals bere, I presume.” “I still jook forward to that pleas ure," answered Prendergast, with an evil sneer. “Three meals a day and a rotten roof over my head. When I think of the litte I have done to de aerve it, the hospitality overcomes me. ANI bave done is to keep you from starving to death and out of quod at the same time. I only taught you a. safe way to beat the game, an easter one than you seem to know, and to Mve on Easy street.” / “lam looking for no easy Way,” re- wponded Harry, “whatever you mean by that. I expect to earn my living as Tm earning it now. It's an honest method, at all events.” “You've grown al! fired particular since you lost your memory,” retorted Prondergast, his eyes narrowing “You'll be turning dominte one of these days. Perhaps you expect to get the town to take up with you and to make fove to the beauty in the green riding habit that brought you here on her horse the night you were ovt of your head.” Harry started. “What do you mean?” be asked thickly. Prendergast’s ofly manner was gone aow. His savage temper came upper- most. “I forgot you didn’t know about that,” he scoffed. “I made a neat story of It in the town. They've been gab- Diing about it ever since.” Harry caught bis breath. As through & mist he saw again that green habit on the hotel balcony—that face that ‘hed hauated his waking consciousness. It had sot been Prendergast alone, then, who had brought him bere. And her act of charity had been made, no doubt, a thing for tue tittering of the town, cheapened by chatter, coarsened ‘by joke! “E wonder if she'd done tt sf she'd &nown all | know,” contioued the oth- er malevolentiy. “You'd better go up to the sanitarlum, Hugh, and give her @ nice sweet kiss for it!” A lust of rage rose in Harry's throst, ut he choked it down, His hand feii GEORGE O. BROWN, | eee ees 608 N, Mad8t., Richmond, Vs, Sears —~@ubscrite to The PLANET. > a aR 2 y iN like Tron on Pren- dergast's shoul- Ger and turned him forcibly to ward the open door. His other hand pointed. aud bis suppressed voice said: “This cabin bas grown too small for us both. The town will sult you bet ter.” Prendergast surank before the wrath whitened face, the danger ous sparkle in tho sotatoternas tae “The town wilt euts ‘wou batter.” through with me,” he glowered. “and you think you can go it alone.” The old suspicion leaped to the malicious countenance. “Well, it won't pay you to try It yet. I know too much! Do you understand? 1 know too much!” Harry went out of the cabin, At the door he turned. “If there is anything Fou own here,” he sald, “take It with you. You needn't te here when I come back.” Fis fingers shaking with the black rage in his heart, Prendergast gath- ered his few belongings, rolled them !n the white horse skin which he drew from beneath bis bunk and wrapped the whole in blanket He fastened the bundle in a pack strap, slung It over his shoulder and left the cabin. He settled his burden and went rapid- ly down the trail, turning over in his mind his future schemes. "AS it chanced, there was one whe saw his vindictive face. Jessten, crouched on the Knob, had seen him come and now depart, pack on buck, and guessed that the pair had parted company. Her whole being famed with ssmpathy. She could see his malignant scow! plainly from where she leaned, screened by the bushes, It terrified hez. What bad passed be- tween them in the cabin? She left the Knob wondering. All that evening she was Il) at ease. At midnight, sleepless, she was look- ing out from her bedroom window ‘across the phantom peepled shadows, ‘where on the fice of the pale sky the stare wrembled like slow tears. Anx- fety and dread were in her heart; « pale phantom of tear seemed lurking in the shadows; the night was full of ian ei Op G4 = Chapter I8 c> N the day following the explusion of Prender- gast, Harry woke rest- a less’ and unrefreshed. initiator eee, Gy —— Fleeting sensations mocked bim—a disturbing conviction that the struggling memory in some measure bad succeeded in reasserting itself in the shadowy kingdom of sleep. Waking, the apparitions were fed again nto thelr obscurity, leaving only the wraiths of recollection to startle And disquiet, A girl's face hovered always before him—raling his con- selousuess as It had ruled his sleeping thought He took down from its shelf the bottle he had rescued from Prender- gast's Intention and emptied It of its glistening grains—enough to replenish his depleted stock of provisions. He paused @ moment as he put on his bak, ‘smiling whimsicaily, a little sadly. He dreaded entering the town. But there could be no remedy in conceal- ment. If he was to live and work there, appear he must on the streets wooner or later. Saroky Mountain must continue to think of bim as it might What he was from that time ‘on was all that could count to him. If be had but known it there was ‘good reason for hesitation today. Ear- ly that morning an angry rumor bad disturbed the town. The sluice of the The jeweler wetghed Ue dust with a dis- trustful frown, Inydraviie compeny tad been robbed nesta (Grese two knetee prise jenele’ bad occtrred: 6 auseh ot iegee Jaations by which the company had fonibered. “he: benes were oot ewer of their golden harvest each day, and tn oplte: of al procantees Goste gona beds aleeppeuced” wapeeronaly~ som the rifles, this, although armed men had watched all night. ‘There had feeiht mepehs wuede wert see carts oe {the hiltside was the asarest habitation |—the company's flume disgorged its flood tn the gulch beneath it—and sus- pictoo hed eventnally potated tts way. The sudden ‘ceasing the robberies sits ta Csgwanves of Ties nice Tad given foros fo this, suapicion mans aipnet Saeiiteae ais tis te turn, the thievery had recommenced. It had been a red letter day for Dev- Ho and his ilk, who caviled at the more charitable. Of al! this, however, the object of their “I told you so” was serenely ignorant. Entering the town, there were few stirring on the euuny streetn, Dot he Count Sot but, be wate thar thowe te ‘met stopped to gaze after him. Some indeed followed. His first objective point was a jeweler’s, where he could tarn bis gold dust into readier cols for needful purchases, He saw « sign next the Mountain Valley House ee Jeweler weighed the dust, with & distrostfol frown, but Harry's head was turned away. He was reading a wail, an offer of rewani for the detec tion of the sluice thief. He read it through mechanically, for as be read there came from the street outside « ‘sound that touched a muffied chord in ‘his brain. It was the exhaust of a go the goldsmith ‘money re ee ee ae ee THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ‘Two men whom it carried were Just ‘men whom it carried were entering tho hotel, Something tn th ‘Bamyot whet? ile eye tuced fh what? His eye traced it Polished lines, noting its cunning mech. ‘anism, Its alld for silent speed, with the eager lighting of a connoisseur. He took a step toward it, obliviour to al about him. ‘He did not note that men were gath ering, that the nearest saloon was emptying of {ts occupants. Nor did he See ® girl on horseback, with a tins child before ber on the saddle, whi Feined up sharply opposite. ‘ The rider was Jessica. the child a1 ‘eestatic five-year-old she bad picked up on the fringe of the town to canter tr with her hands gripping the pommel of the saddle. She saw Harry's position instantly and guessed It perilous, What @id the men mean to do? She leaned forward, a swift apprehension {n her face. Harry came back suddenly to a real. lzation of bis surroundings. He looked about him, startied. his cheek darken- ing {ts red. every muscle instinctively tightening. He saw danger In the low. ering faces, and the old lust of daring leaped up instantly to grapr‘e with the rejuvenated character. Deviin's rolce came over the heads of the crowd as, burly and shirt sleeved, he strode across the street: “Hand over the dost you've stolen before you are tarred and feathered, ‘Hugh Stires!”" Barry looked at him, surprised, bis mind instantly recurring to the placard he had seen. Here was a tangible ac- casation. “I have stolen nothing,” he respond- ed quietly. “Where did he get what he just sold me?" The Jeweier’s sour query rose behind him from the doorway, “We'll find that out!” was the rough rejoinder, In face of his threatening peril Jes- sica forgot all else—the restive horse, the child. She sprang to the ground, her face pained and indignant, and Started to run across the street. But with a cry of dismay, she turned back. The horse had caught sight of the red avtomobile and, snorting and wild eyed, bad swung into the roadway. “It's Devlin's kid!" some one cried cat, and Devlin, turning, went sudden- ly ashen. The baby was the one soft spot in his ruffanly heart. He sprang toward the animal, but the morement and the hands clutching at the bridle sont It to a leaping terror. In another instant it had broken through the ring of bystanders and, frenzied at its free- @om, dashed down the long, level street with the child clingag to the saddle pommel. Tt was all the work of a moment, one of panic and coufusion, through which rang Jessica's scream of re- ‘crowd—all save one, whose action fol- lowed the scream as leap follows the spur. In a single step Harry gained the automobile. With an instantane- ous movement be pushed the lever down and jerked the throttle wide. ‘The machine bounded Into its pace, ‘the people rolling back before it, and, gathering headway, darted after the runaway The spectators stood staring. “He'll never catch him,” said Michael Hal- Joran, who had joined the crowd. “Fu- neral’ Hollow's only a mile away.” With others he hurried to the hotel balcony, where he could wateh the ex- citing race. Jessica stood stock still, as blanched as Devlin, wringing her bands. With the first bound of the car under him, ay the crowd was suatebed behind, & weird, exultant thrill shot through Harry's every nerve. Each bolt and bar he knew as one would tell his fn- gers, Somewhere, at some time, he bad known such flight—through mel- low sunlight, with the air singing past. Where? When? Not for the fraction of a second, however, did his gaze waver. He knew that the flat on which the town was bullt fell away tn a hollow ravine to the southward—he could see It from the eabin doorway—a stretch of break- neck road only a mile ahead. Could the child hold on? Could he distance those frenzied boots fn time? The ar- row of the indicator stole forward on the dist Far behind as the crowd watched a ery rose from the hotel balcony. It was Bamey McGinn, the freighter, with m glass at his eye. “He's gain- ing!” he shouted. “He has almost overtaken the horse!" ‘The horse's first fury of speed was tring The steel steed was creeping closer. A thunder of hoofs in pursuit would have maddened the flying ani- mal, but the gilding thing that was how 80 close to him eame on with noiseless swiftness. Harry had re- served with the nicety of a practiced hand a last increment of speed. With the front wheels at the horse's fank. he drew suddenly on this. AS the car Jom Pet BG ion & EB (a a. ’ be fs é Re A 7 <i es Za A i meh 4) ‘Be Ufted the child from the saddle responded he swerved it sharply in and, holding with one hand, leaned far out frow the step and lifted the child from the saddle. ‘The automobile ha'ted amin before the hotel amid « bush. The men who © little while before had bees ripe for ‘Bow stood in shamefaced si- ‘It was Jessicn who ran fer Wai eaten wee @ Mttle, from Hatry’s hands. Oné Jong look passed between them—a look on ber part brimming with a great gratitude for his lifting of her weight of dread and compunction and with fomething besides that mantied her cheeks with rich color She kissed the ; child and placed her in ber father’s arms. Deviin’s countenance broke up. He struggled to speak, but could not. and, burying his face In the chilc’s dress and crying lke a baby. he crossed the street hastily to bis own door. Harry stepped to the pavement with @ dull kind of embarrassment at the manifold ecruting. He had miscon- strued Jessica's Sushing silence, and | the inference stung. The fierce rest was gone, and the rankling barb o accusation smarted. He should apolo- gize to the owner, he reflected satirical- ly, for helping himself to the automo- bile—he who stole gold dust, be at mone door the town laid its unferret- ed thieveries, he who was the scape- koat for the town’s offenses. | ‘That owner, in very fact, stood just then In tho hotel doorway regarding him with interest. He was the sheriff of the county. He Was about to step forward when an interruption occur- red. A scuffle and a weak bark sound- ed, and a lean brown streak shot across fhe pavernent. “Rummy!” cried Harry. “Rummy!” Through some chink of the dead wall tn his brain the name slipped out, a tiny atom of flotsam retrieved from the | wreck of memory. That was all, but to the animal which bad just found ite lont master the word meant a sublima. | tion of delight, the clearing of the puz tle of namelessness that had perplexed its canine brain. The dog's heaven was reached. | Down on bis knees on the pavement went Harry, with bis arms about the | starved, palpitating little creature and his cheek agninst its shaggy coat. In another moment he had picked it up in ‘his arms and was walking up the street. He went back to his cabin with 8 strange feeling of exaltation and dis- appointment—eraltation at the recur. Fence of something of his old adven- tures, disappointment at the flushed silence with which Jessica bad re- celved the child ia as THE MAN WHO WINS, ‘The man whe wins Is the man who works, ‘The man, unwatched, Who never shirks: Not he who loats When left alone And has no interest But his own. The man who wine Is he today Who honestly Would earn his pay. He seeks no snap And, undismayed, Does ‘more than that For which he's paid Ah. yes, the man Who wins te he Who does no @uty Grumblingly.-~ Bat glad there's Something he can éo, Takes off hia coat ‘And bucklen to. “Detroit Pree Press. A QUEER GAME. Ad |e! |I Oe J | 4 £ ae SEEN fs Mi a a <Neas Mg): ARES Sa ree Vik rs eee SD Cay 3) ie i a ae = “Ab, the old days. ilere’s that old poem ‘about busking bees. I always @id ke that.” “Husking bees? What do you mean?” “Weren't you ever in the country during the season of husking bees?” “No. I never heard of anybody husk- ing @ bee!" pe oy aa Hubby was evident!) worried and wifey was trying to cheer him up. “Cheer up, John, and don't worry,” she sald. “It doesn't do any good to bor row trouble, “Borrow touble,” echoed her husband, “Great Caesar's ghostt I ain't borrowing troutle; I've got It to lend.” ‘The Gilt Off the Motor Car. Everybody in the eitire motoring scheme to-day, whose presence in {t goes back to more than @ year ago, is more sober and less extravagant, and certainly spends less oo his motoring, mile for mile, than be did before the keen edge of bis enthusiasm was dulled.—Motoring Mustrated. Small Boy's idea. Lite Charley Malonéy, a six-year. old boy, heard a man practicing on the calliope preparatory to playing it ia the circus parade. Rushing to bis fa- ther, he sald: “Listen, papa.” “What is it?" asked his father. “It's de ele- phant singing,” said Charley, Bimplified Secitine. “Write me an example of simplified ‘Spelling, children,” said the teacher, and Tommie wrote: “The man who carves monuments urns bis living.” ‘The One Certain Happy Action. Doing good is the only certainly happy action of @ man's lite—Sir Phillip Sidney. Whe Worde. Colton: Next to acquiring good frionda, the bust acquisition ts that of Santee eae THE LAME MAN HEALED ma + oa ° LS ee verses, 9, 10, GOLDEN TEXT.—"His name, through faith In his name, hath made this man Strong, whom ye see and kiow.—Acts TIME.—The time ia unknown within $Euke Rat ttc ay ny ae aes in the summer of A. Desa. But nee con Dorsecutions, e’may. have been a eur or two later, PLACE.—Jerusatem, in the outer court of the temple near the beautiful gate Which led from the outer court, the Court of the Gentiles, to the Court of the Wom- en. 1 e.. the court im which women were allowed’ but beyond which they could not Ko. Peter's “sermon was preached in Solomon's porch om the east side of the Court ef the Gentiles. PLACE IN HISTORY.—An example of the work of Christianity, and the bogtn- Ring of persecution. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The Old and New Forms of Worship. ‘It was the custom of the early Chris- tians to worship in their old accus- tomed way as well as in the new ways taught them by the Spirit. If they broke “the old bottles” before “the new bottles” were prepared, they Would lose the very spirit and power of worship. As it was, they filled the old forms full of the spirit of worship, and thus were prepared to use the new alone. V. 2. “And a certain man lame.” All we know of him ts (1) that he was born lame; (2) his lameness was caused by weakness of his feet and ankles (v. 7); @) he was unable to walk; (4) be was poor; (5) he had been lame 40 years (Acts 4:22.) “Was car- ried.” “Was being carried,” possibly at the same time that Peter and John Were entering. “Whom they laid.” “Were accustomed to lay,” ag the terse shows. “At the gate” (one of the several gates) “of the temple.” The woid includes not only the house but the courts and their buildings. “Which is called Beautiful.” Prob- ably the gateway between the Court of the Gentiles and the Court of the Women, where the Jews went for worship. This gateway had mag: nificent doors of Corlnthian brass 75 feet high, and adorned with plates of silver and gold. The Gate Beautiful—There are many beautiful gates in Iife to higher and better things. The Gate of Hope, the Gate of Love, the Gate of Char acter, the Gate of Faithfulness, the Gate of Prayer. Jesus Christ ts the Beautiful Gate to eternal life, Such Ax I Have Give 1 Thee—Only such as & person has can he give to others, and only in so far as he really possesses it, Pictures of fire will not warm, nor will semblances of virtues impart virtues. If a man bas money he can give money. If he has truth he can impart truth. If one has cour. age, hope, love, goodness, he can in- fuse them into other souls. If he bim- self {s full of doubts, hate, ill-temper, bad passions, it fe these he will tm part to those around him, and by no means can such a one impart to oth ers the good he has not himself. Hence it is that the most important element in teaching and in preaching is the man behind them. A cold chureh cannot warm the Impenttent to life. We cannot kindle others*unless We ourselves are on fire. The test of true religion ts Its power to help men, to relieve suffering, to transform the lives of men, ‘The gos pel of Christ “is the power of God un- fo salvation to everyone that be- Meves;” that Is, to everyone who is willing to receive the salvation, “Christianity 1s nothing, according to the writers of the New Testament, anless It moves in the realm of pow. er"—C. E. Jefferson Does the church exert {ts whole power of healing disease and allevigt ing sufferthg? There has been a sad neglect of the power of prayer and faith, and of personal uplift for the sick and suffering. Christian Sclence fs a reaction against this neglect Professors of psychology are begin ning to advocate the power of mind over body. Doctors are using this power more than hitherto. “Many dis eases can be shaken off by simply lift- ing up the tone of the Interior life Elizabeth Barrett was a sick woman, confined to her bed, and Hobert Browning called upon her. She fell in love with him, and her love for him lifted her out of bed and gave her health again. Anything that quick ens the emotions, and fills the heart with thoughts of God, must have its influence on every organ of the body, and make it more dificult for disease to work its ravages there.”"—C. E. Jef. ferson, Experience of the Emmanuel Epis copal Church in Boston.—Under Dr. Worcester, the rector, and his assist- ant, Rev. Samuel McComb, D. D., a remarkable work was done in 1906-7, for the cure of the {1 in body and soul, especially for the victims of new rasthenia, or, as it i» popularly called, “nervous prostration.” Many have been greatly benefited. One of the needs of the church to- day is more emphasis on the power of God, on the uplifting, encouraging power of the gospel to triumph over the fils of man, However, this Is only a lesser one of the ways in which the gospel is re- Ueving the sick and suffering. ‘Madieins tne ait of.Got.en renite: Women’s Varying Tastes. “What sort of a heroine does a wom. an like best tn her books?” is a com wndrum propounded by the Londos Book Monthly. Im answer it has been said that a woman in a theater is always more izterested in the hero of ® play than in the heroine, while her chief aympathy when she Is reading & hook goes out to the heroin rather than to the hero. 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Sunlay—To West Fotnt—Gen (2 Geclng fot Baltinore seit, Weaeee soa Bidar tas Ua Miter, Wotentay ant Feldap Local to. West’ Poise. 4:00 AM “Ex Btadiye Local to Wert Pata, TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 7:90 AM, 9:90 P. M.— From all the Sout, a FM ES ee $390 4. M—Prom_ West Point ee toe pig Waterson, Pray aoa wanda oe Se BUnGeaee Th, Poe Coe © 620 Maia Breet, "Phome 45, eee h Are Lins Rauwsy SOUTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LAIR RIOHMOND DAILY. #28 A, M—Local to Merlina, Raleigh, Gham lotte, “Wilmington. 4:25 P. M—heepere sand — Bat ee sourunorrya Ecaaone Dae" EA ey Sh Pete mts, om eee call and settle at once. THE PLUNGER SATURDAY...JANUARY 23, 1909 NEEDS MUCH CARE SEWING MACHINE MUST BE KEPT IN ORDER Careful Dusting and Oiling Imperative —Small Bellows Will Be Found Useful to Remove Dirt from Crevices. Women who do not thoroughly understand the sewing machine often blame the manufacturer when the fault of stiff running can be traced to not keeping the machine clean. blame the manufacturer when the fault of stiff running can be traced to not keeping the machine clean. Most persons think that liberal doses of oil are all that is necessary. Too much oilling is injurious and oil where there has not been careful dusting is worse than none at all. It is not enough to give a surface dusting; the cracks and crevices must be kept clean. This cannot be done with a cloth. Instead use a coarse silk thread, to draw back and forth through cracks to get out fine dirt that cannot otherwise be removed. The work of cleaning a machine is lessened if a small bellows is kept in one of the drawers and the fine lint, threads and ravelings are blown out of the crevices. This should be done every day that the machine is in use. Care should also be taken that pins and needles do not slip into the shuttle part of the machine, as often they clog it and the cause cannot be discovered for some time. It is a mistake to use a cheap oil as it cakes and makes the parts sticky. Never let the machine stand uncovered when not in use; and guard carefully from dampness. Rubbing the running strap occasionally with a little vaseline or oil will make the leather wear longer. Norcross Buns. Sift into a large bowl one quart of flour, one-half cup of sugar, one-half teaspoon salt. Melt one-quarter cup butter in one-half pint warm milk and add to dry ingredients, with the beaten yolks of two eggs. Add one-half yeast cake dissolved in a little warm water, one-half nutmeg, grated, and the whites of the arms beaten stuff. Cover bowl with clean cloth and put in a warm place to rise over night. In the morning take pieces of the size of an egg and mold into round cakes. Place in buttered tin, leaving a little space between them. Cover and put in warm place to rise. They should be about double original size. With a sharp knife cut a cross on top of each bun. Bake them in a moderate oven about one-half hour. When done brush the tops with a syrup of sugar and water. A cup of dried currants may be added at pleasure. Marrow on Toast. Split a large marrowbone, remove and blanch the marrow and pound it with four hard-boiled yorks of eggs, add a tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley, a pinch of chopped bayleaf and thyme, a little paprika and salt, and when well mixed and quite smooth spread it on some small rounds or squares of toast about an inch thick, or on fried coutona, in the center of which little wells about a quarter of an inch deep have been made, sprinkle a few brown breadcrumbs on the top, place them in a piece of paper on a baking tin, cover them with a similar piece of paper and put them in a quick oven for ten to twelve minutes; dish them up, sprinkle them with a little chopped parsley, and serve very hot. The marrow will be sufficient for about eight crotches. Mashed Potatoes Baked. Boll some potatoes, with a little salt in the water, till they are tender; then drain them, and when quilty dry pass through a wire sleeve or mash them in the saucepan; season with a little warm butter and a little milk, to make them moist, when they are well mixed roll into a ball, place it on a buttered tin, and draw it up into a loaf or beehive shape with a knife or a fork; sprinkle it over with browned breadcrumbs, made from crusts of bread baked, crushed up, and rubbed through a sieve. Cook the potatoes in the oven for about 20 minutes with a few little pieces of butter placed here and there on them. When a pretty color dish up, lightly sprinkle a little parsley over, and serve while hot. Novel Chicken Salad. Genuine chicken salad takes time and skill to make. It is not a pick-up dish. Here is a new kind of chicken salad that can be done in a few moments if one has had a chicken left over from another meal. The legs have the bones removed from them, are neatly laid on leaves of lettuce and covered with mayonnaise dressing. If one has a jar of paragus in the house a few tips laid across the lettuce 'eaf would add flavor to the salad. Scrambled Eggs with Peas Take six eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, three tablespoonfuls of milk, salt and pepper, and one-half pint of cooked peas. Heat butter and milk in pan. Break eggs in pan and stir until mixture thickens. Drain off liquid from hot peas, which are in another pan, and stir them in eggs. Serve hot. Roast Duck with Apples. Cleanse and truss the duck for roasting, rub it well with dripping or butter and roast before a clear fire for 25 or 30 minutes, keeping it well basted, dish up and garnish round with a compote of apples. This should be served very hot, and a good brown sauce handed. NEW WAY TO COOK OYSTERS. Make a Most Paiatable Luncheon Dish When "Deviled." Take some little cups, lime them with puff paste cut out in rounds about one-eighth of an inch thick, but a piece of buttered paper inside and fill up with rice and bake for about 15 minutes, then remove the paper and rice, take the cases from the molds, and place a little piece of fresh butter in each and a raw oyster that is thickly masked over with the mixture as below on the butter, sprinkle over the top a few browned breadcrumbs, and then put into the oven on a baking tin for about eight to ten minutes; dish up on a dish-paper while hot. Serve for a savory or for a second course dish. For seasoning a dozen oysters chop up four washed and boned anchovies, mix them with a tiny dust of paprika, a saltspoonful of French mustard and the same of English mustard, a dessertspoonful of chopped chutney, two hard-bolled yolks of eggs that have been rubbed through the sieve, mix up with the liquor from the oysters that has been reduced to about a tablespoonful, and use. The Home. Roasted chestnuts are said to be very delicious when salted the same as peanuts. Never add salt to cooked pork until it is almost done, since it tends to extract the juice. An old turkey has rough and reddish legs, a young one smooth and black legs. Fresh killed, the eyes are full and clear, and the feet moist. A fish sauce can be served in the half of a hard-boiled egg. Remove the yolk, pour in the sauce and place the little egg ramekin in the heart of a lettuce head. Run peanuts through the chopping machine and cream them with melted butter. Some like a pinch of mustard in peanut butter, especially when used for dark bread sandwiches. Clear soup or consomme should be strained through a folded towel laid on a colander. It must not be squeezed, or some of the small particles of egg used in clearing will be forced through and spoil the soup. Clean iron holders are the exception rather than the rule. They need not be, for little washable cases, open at one end like a pillow slip, are easily made, and can be renewed as often as desirable with little trouble. Tie cases on with tapes. Sardines a la Cambrione. Take some sardines, say 12, for six to eight persons, remove all the outside skin, take the fillets from the bones and rub the meat through a fine hair sleeve and mix it with six minced raw oysters, two hard-boiled yolks of eggs, a thy dust of paprika, three ounces of freshly made white bread crumbs, $1\frac{1}{2}$ ounces of warm butter and the liquor from the oysters and two raw yolks of eggs. Divide the mixtures into portions about the size of a walnut, roll each up in flour and dip into whole beaten-up egg, then into freshly made white bread crumbs, and put into a frying basket and fry for three or four minutes in clean boiling fat; then dish up in a pile on a hot dish on a dish paper and serve. Garnish with a little fresh green parsley round the dish here and there. Cream Cheese and Parsley. Wash the parsley, shake and dry in a cloth, then remove the stems, and chop the leaves very fine. Add a tablespoonful of the chopped parsley to half a cup of cream cheese. Add also a generous quantity of paprika, and mix the whole thoroughly. Spread upon slices of bread prepared for sandwiches, or upon butter thins or other wafers. Press together, and serve as son as possible. Decorate the serving plate with parsley. The cheese mixture may be shaped into balls, and served with the crackers or plain bread and butter sandwiches. Quickly Made Luncheon To make a delicious luncheon dish on short notice mix a baking powder biscuit dough, using a little more shortening than usual and cut medium thick with a cooky cutter. In the center of each place about a spoonful of pork sausage and a thin slice of bacon, both raw. Fold the biscuit like a parker house roll, and bake in a moderate oven about 25 minutes. Serve with a thickened cream gravy. These can be warmed over for breakfast. Potato Croquettes. Cook one pound of potatoes, and, when they are quite dry, pass them through a fine wire sleeve, then, while they are hot, mix them with one ounce of butter, a pinch of salt, a dust of paprika, and two raw yolks of eggs. Mix into a paste and let it remain till cold, then roll out with a little flour, and make into cylinder shapes, two inches long by one inch in diameter; egg and breadcrumb, and fry in clean boiling mutton fat till a nice golden color. Potato Apples. Two cups of hot rice potatoes, one third cup of grated cheese, one tablespoonful of butter, one-half tablespoonful of salt, few grains red pepper, slight grating nutmeg, two pounds of thick cream, yolks of two eggs. Mix ingredients in order given and beat thoroughly. Shape in form of small apples, roll in flour, egg and crumbs; fry in deep fat and drain on brown paper; insert a clove in the stem and blossom end of each. Could Come Back, Then. De Style—What is the best way to go to Calvary cemetery? Gumbusta—Alive.—New York Herald THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ```markdown ``` IF YOU WILL T 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 FURDER TO FURTHER INCREASE. WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOUL GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE REPUBLICAN JOURNALS, STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR. WE WILL SEND YOU THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE 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 SUPPERS. 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Wring well and dry slightly before ironing. Be careful to choose a very clean place for drying; and dry with the wrong side out. To iron the trousers, turn them on the right side, smooth them on the table, with the waist at your left-hand side and the front uppermost. Iron the front of the two legs first, but not too dry, turn over and iron back, then iron over the fronts again. Iron hands and hems on the wrong side, and press hard with the iron to get a good glaze. In ironing the jacket, commence with the collar, and if this is of navy blue or scarlet, iron it on the wrong side only, or on the right side with a handkerchief over it; it should not be glossed. Next iron the sleeves on the right side, first the upper and then the under half. In doing the jacket itself keep the neck at your left-hand side, commence with the piece nearest to you and then iron from one end to the other, smoothing out each piece as you go along; then finish off to the shoulders; round armholes, and the inside of the jacket. Blue linens suits must not be polished with the iron, but either ironed entirely on the wrong side or ironed with a piece of mualn over the material. Broiled Quail with Bacon Wipe six quail carefully with a damp cloth, but do not wash; split them, break the long bones, and season with a mixture of salt, pepper and best salad oil, the oil being an absolute necessity on account of the absence of fat in the muscular tissues of game. Have a hot broiling oven or a clear fire, and broil for six minutes on each side. Arrange six slices of nicely-browned toast on a hot platter, place the birds on them, and baste with a mixture made by creaming one ounce of butter, flavored with a half teaspoonful of finely-chopped parsley, the juice of a half lemon, and, if desired, a few grains of nutmeg. Garnish with delicately broiled thin slices of bacon and watercress. Angel's Hash One quart hot water, one box gelatine, juice of two lemans, one and a half cups granulated sugar, one cup sherry wine, one stick cinnamon. Soak the box of gelatine in one cup of cold water for an hour. Put the hot water on the stove, add lemon juice, sugar, wine, cinnamon and lastly the dissolved gelatine. Let this come to a boil and remove from fire. When cold pour into dish, and when it begins to congeal—about four hours later—stir through it one small bottle of Maraschino cherries—minus the juice—one cup chopped walnuts and three bananas sliced round. Set this on the ice and serve with whipped cream. It is better if made the day before it is to be eaten. Dumplings That Always Are Light. When making chicken and dumplings instead of boiling the dumplings take a part of the gravy, put in a bake pan, then put in the dumplings, cover and bake in the oven until done. To make the dumplings for a small family take two teacups of flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful soda, and three-fourths cup of buttermilk; dissolve soda in buttermilk. Or sweet milk and one teaspoonful of baking powder can be used instead. These dumplings are also nice with any kind of roast. Chopped Beef Bake Take two pounds of chopped beef and three tomatoes, add pepper and salt to taste, add three onions chopped fine, then put meat in pot, sprinkle flour over meat, and set in oven to bake three-fourths of an hour, and serve. This is a cheap and wholesome dish. Stuffed Tenderloin Procure a pork loin roast. Do not remove the tenderloin, but slit it, and stuff with dry dressing made of stale crumbs highly seasoned with salt, pepper and sage. Roast in usual manner, and serve with potatoes roasted in pan with meat, brown gravy, and apple sauce. Put Sugar In Teapot When putting away a teapot which will not be used for some time wash and dry thoroughly, then drop it into a lump of sugar. This will absorb any dampness and prevent the musty taste which is often noticed in tea made in a pot which has not been in use. Let Children Help. A child's carpet sweeper will be found useful in taking up crumbs and threads and saves a person from stooping. A little child can be taught to use it, thus helping a busy mother. IMPARTS A DELICIOUS FLAVOR. Old Virginia, Recipe for Sugar Cured Hams and Shoulders. This recipe is one that has been handed from mother to daughter for years and long before the war, and any one using it will have reason to be proud of the truly delicious flavor which will be imparted to the meat. The sugar cured hams and shoulders after laying in salt six weeks hang them up and smoke well, throwing a very little sulphur on the fire the last two or three days. Then take down. Have a strong decoction of red pepper boiling hot—that is, a pot of boiling water into which has been put a liberal supply of red pepper, add an ounce of saltpeter, wash hams and shoulders thoroughly and place in the sun to dry. When perfectly dry coat the meat side with a paste made of molasses and black and white pepper made by warming the molasses and making it thick with the peppers. Wrap each piece nicely and closely in brown paper, put each in a cotton sack, sew the sack up closely and hang it up. Then whitewash each sack. Will keep for years. Breakfast bacon can also be prepared the same way. COOKING LEG OF MUTTON. Also the Proper Method of Serving It When Cooked. Take a leg of mutton about eight pounds, trim it, wrap it in a greased paper if the fire is fierce, and roast it or bake it for two and a half or three hours, keeping it well basted; when ready to serve, dish up and garnish it round with tomatoes and mushrooms, prepared as below. Dish the tomatoe alternately with mushrooms round the mutton; pour the gravy from the tomatoes and mushrooms in a saucerboat or serve round the joint. Peel and cut the tomatoes in halves; season them with a little paprika and salt, and cook them in a tin in the oven for about 12 minutes with a little butter or dripping; put a little greased paper over them, and occasionally baste them. Well wash the mushrooms, peel and dry, then put them in a sancpean with a little batter or dripping mixed with a teapotful of flour, a little paprika and salt, and about a quarter of a plum of stock or gravy; let them boll for about 15 minutes; then take up and sprinkle over them a little chopped parsley. Breaded Chicken with Tomatoes. Cut two small chickens in nice sized pieces, roll them in bread crumbs, then dip them in beaten eggs, and again roll in crumbs. The crumbs should be seasoned with salt and pepper. Fry the chicken until tender in plenty of butter. When done piece the pieces on a heated dish, add a tablespoonful of minced parsley to the butter in the pan and a cupful of milk in which has been dissolved a teaspoon of corn starch. Sir it over the fire until slightly thickened and the cornstarch is cooked, add seasoning if necessary then pour it over the chicken, garnish with fried tomatoes and serve at once.—Mary Foster Suider. Egg Sauce for Fish Boil four eggs for seven minutes, then remove the shells and the whites, and rub the yolks through a wire sleeve; put two ounces of butter into a stewpan with one and a half ounces of fine flour, mix together on the side of the stove till the butter is quite melted, then add by degrees half a pint of hot water, keeping it stirred over the fire all the time; when it bolls, add the juice of half a lemon, half a gill of cream, a dust of red pepper, and a pinch of salt; wring through the strainer and then mix in the prepared yolks of eggs. Serve in a sauceboat. This quantity will do for eight persons. Hogshead Cheese Take one medium-sized hog's head. Wash and scrape clean; put into pot, add one tablespoonful of salt and cover with boiling water. Bowl until meat falls off the bones. Put into chopping bowl the meat, brains and rinds. Chop very fine; squeeze out all the grease. Add to the chopped meat one salt-spoonful black pepper, one teaspoonful ground mustard and two tablespoonful vinegar. Take piece of white cheese cloth or muslin; put into bowl or deep iron pot chopped meat; cover top with muslin; lay plate on top and put flatiron on plate to press down. Let stand over night, when it is ready for table use. Scotch Broth. Boll four quarts of lean mutton in four quarts of water, stir into it half a pound of Scotch barley. Keep it well mixed until the water bolls and skim the surface carefully while simmering as fast as the scum rises. Cut up a couple of carrots, a turnip, and an onion, add these with a quart of green penn, a few sprigs of parsley and a dessertspoonful of pepper and salt mixed. The vegetables should not be allowed to boil a longer time than is required to cook them. Scotch broth may be made of beef or veal. Don't Cry Over Onions. Every housekeeper knows the great discomfort occasioned from chopping onions for chili sauce. If they will add the red peppers to the onion and chop together they will find the annoyance from smarting eyes entirely done away with. Hold the onions under the water while peeling. The Price of It. "Politeness costs nothing," said the man of ready-made wisdom. "Then I reckon," answered Mr. Cumrox, "that you never had any experience with those cafe waiters who regulate their politeness by the size of the tip." THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA DESIGNS IN LINENS DESIGNS IN LINENS CONSIDER UTILITY AS WELL AS DAINTINESS. Very Fine Bureau and Sideboard Covers Entail Heavy Laundry Bills —Good Ones That Can Be Made at Home. Every housekeeper appreciates the difficulty of keeping the covers of bureaus and sideboards spotless. The woman who has enough fresh covers to do away with hasty laundering is yet to be found. As frequent changes are necessary, the average housewife should sacrifice the average of daintiness to utility. Sheer linen scarfs inset with lace and hand embroidery are lovely, but distinct luxuries in this day of soot and big laundry bills. Have them by all means if you can afford extra s仕s for special occasions; if not, choose covers that are service-able as well as good looking. Among the best for general utility are the plain scarfs of heavy linen or fine pique that can be made at home for nothing but the cost of the materials. White linen is probably the most used, the pique is preferable, as it wrinkles less quickly. The simplest, most effective, and, at present, the smartest of those heavy covers are those in pique, embroidered on the edges with a heavy, graceful scallop and with no other trimming but a large monogram directly in the center of the front, about two inches in from the scallop. Pad the scallop heavily with darning cotton, using a chain stitch, and buttonhole closely to form a strong edge. The monogram, if one cannot draw it in for herself, can usually be designed for about fifty cents. The size for the bureau scarf is useful for towels, pillow cases and can even be used on the largest napkins; as the one monogram can easily be transferred with impression paper, the initial cost is worth while. At the same time, it is well to have two smaller monograms made to match, one for the placushion top and smaller napkins and the smallest to be used on handkerchiefs and lingerie. It is quite the thing just now to have a distinctive marking and use it on all one's belongings. How the monogram is worked depends upon the style chosen. Some are done entirely in solid embroidery, others are combined with seeding. Care should be taken to do the padding smoothly and heavily. In working the satin stitch do not use too heavy a cotton and be careful about the slant of the stitches and to keep the edges even. The woman who has leisure will find it convenient to cut her covers to fit a special bureau or sideboard and make at least two for each one; three is better yet. The scallop can be run on the four sides or on the ends and front, as preferred. The pincushion tops are also scalloped and have a monogram in the center. The square or round ones are better liked at present than the oblong. Sometimes these tops are made with a bottom that laces to the top through eyelets; more often the top is cut to fit and is held to the satin-covered cushion by tiny white pins. A specially good-looking one and easily laundered was for a round cushion. The top was a circle big enough to fit over the cushion and come half way down. The edge had a small scallop with a monogram in satin stitch in the center. Underneath was a small ruffle of pique scalloped on the edge. This was sewed in a circle, finished with a narrow band that just fitted on the sides of the pincushion when slipped over the top. The effect is elaborate, yet both pieces could be washed with only the trouble of pulling out a few pins. The Toilet Table To get the full value of cold cream, it must be let dry on the face. It takes time for the skin to absorb it. In massaging wrinkles, use the tips of the fingers and thumb, always working across the line. Never follow the lines of the creases. For the baggy appearance under the eyes rub gently with the tips of the fingers dipped in alcohol. Afterward massage in the same way with cold cream. A pallid skin indicates an anaemic condition of the blood, the lack of the red corpuscles; a good iron tonic is a necessity to improve such a complexion. When shampooing, never rub the soap directly on the hair, as it gums and is almost impossible to rub or rinse off. Always have the soap in some liquid form. For falling hair, try massaging the scalp nightly with a lotion made of three drams of pure glycerin, four ounces of lime water and half an ounce of tincture of cantharides. Bushy, irregular eyebrows should be brushed lightly with a camel's hair brush dipped in olive oil. The same treatment is good for stiff and harsh eyebrows and is said to make them grow. Tribute to American Skill Observe the London Chronicle: "In London the man who demands respect has his clothes made for him. But no New York man who is not a millionaire, or near it buys anything but store clothes. And the ready made clothes are so standardized that you have but to confess your inches and you are clothed in America." N. WINSTON CONFECTIONER. HEADQUARTERS FOR PURE ICE-CREAM. WATER-ICES, ETC. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO FAMILY TRADE. Oysters RECEIVED DAILY AND SERVED TO ORDER. Opened to 12 o'clock every night. Special Attention to Dealers and the Wholesale Trade. WINSTON'S 537 Brook Ave. 'Phone, 2253. EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls Suppers, Installations and Smokers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Solicited. Refresherment Cars and Boat Privileges as Handled in Season. Address all communications to KLAM L. BANKS, 511 N. 2d St. Residence: 1312 N. 26th St. Let the PLANET do your Job-work JOHN M. Higgins, Dealer in CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street. [Near Old Market.] Richmond, Virginia. BOARD AND LODGING. Meals Furnished At All Hours. Prompt Service. Transient and Permanent Boarders and Lodgers Will Find it to Their Interest to Patronize Me. Meals Without Lodging or Lodging Without Meals. Phone 5570 MRS. K. DREW, 322 N. 18th Street. Richmond, Virginia. N. WINSTON HEADQUARTERS FOR WATER- SPECIAL ATTENTION Oysters REC Opened to 12 o'c Special Attent and the Whole WIN 537 Brook Ave. WALL POCKET FOR TRINKETS Useful Device for Hair Pins and Other Small Articles. The accompanying illustration shows a very useful device in the way of a wall pocket, combining in one and the same article three distinctly different things. The roll-shaped cushion at the top has a deep pocket suspended from its lower edge, and in this pocket a continual supply of hair pins can be kept always at hand. Along the upper part of this pocket, three large dress KIRR PINS hooks are sewn, and covered with silk to make them more decorative, and from these a watch and other trinkets may be safely suspended. The whole thing should be mounted at the back on cardboard, and it may be covered with silk or art linen as preferred, and edged with strong silk cord, one loop of which is used to hang the pocket either against the wall or across the corner of a toilet glass. On front of the pocket the words "Hair Pins" are embroidered in some contrasting color, surmounted by a spray of flowers. SHADOW PARTY GOOD FUN. One of the Best of Impromptu Evening Entertainments. For an impromptu evening's entertainment during the holidays nothing can excel shadow pictures. These are simply shadows made by hanging up a large sheet, setting a lamp behind it and permitting the actors to walk between the lamp and the sheet, making gestures in illustration of a story or a poem, which is read aloud by some one behind the scenes. In this way the audience hears the reading, but sees only the shadow. The "Tale of Old Bachelors," found in Max Reid's "Mohawk Valley," also "Maud Muller" and "Barbara Fretchle" and other exciting verses which everyone Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS F.C.B. only absolutely necessary rega- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for re- a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA- stitutes a feature and persons on circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and de- Lodge or Court or Band in your For all information concerni- For all information concern membership in the lodges and CONFECTIONER. FOR PURE ICE-CREAM. SICES, ETC. IN TO FAMILY TRADE. REIVED DAILY AND SERVED TO ORDER. clock every night. ention to Dealers sale Trade. STON'S 'Phone, 2253. knows, managed with sufficient action behind the sheet, are very funny indeed. Mother Goose verses like "Simple Simon" and such old ballads as "The Girl I Left Behind Me" are very popular for such an entertainment. The only art required in this acting is to make motions in profile, thus showing a sharp shadow upon the sheet.-Good Housekeeping. Piping Modish: The woman who likes to pipe every edge of her costume can go in for a merry round of pleasure this season. Pipings are exceedingly popular. They are put on the edges of sleeves, of revers, cuffs, coat fronts, as well as all folds and plaits on the skirt. The front and lower edges of coats are also piped. Lace used as yoke or bertha or shoulder drapery is finished off with some kind of colored edge. Satin is more used than anything else. Black is the preferred color. All the other popular colors are used, but the choice must harmonize with the rest of the gown. The passion for piping extends even to elaborate ball gowns. On tulle, chiffon, net and satin are pipings of some other material. The size of them ranges from the width of a thread to three inches. Bird's-Eye Maple. Lucky is the woman nowadays who numbers among her assets some pieces of bird's-eye maple. During the last few years this wood, which was formerly overlooked in the universal passion for mahogany, has taken a wonderful grip on popular fancy, and the dealers in antiques say that prices for it have gone up two-fold in the past two years. Of course, too, bird's-eye maple owes its present popularity to more than a caprice. A fine piece possesses all the luster of satin and it has the added advantage of improving with years of service. Of course, the maple is used more especially for bedroom duty, and the old four-posters in this wood, when finished with a canopy of blue or some other delicate hue of chintz, are truly beautiful. In Mending Gloves. A mistake that is often made is mending gloves with silk. At any notion counter you can get for 15 cents a plait of cotton threads of various colors, especially intended for this purpose. With it should be kept a small piece of wax, a thimble, a glove mender and a paper of regular glove needles, which have the points slightly flattened. Egyptian Pillows Handsome pillow covers in Egyptian designs are shown in the fancy goods departments. She Was Next Him-I was reading in the paper today where one of these food cranks says that a couple can live comfortably on three dollars a week. Do you think that possible? Her-No, Archibald, I do not. But I will be a sister to you.-Cleveland Leader. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties is ined to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles lended on Friendship, based on Charl the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge, regalia. For information concerning hurts of Calanty at the Order. It requires a memb court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $4 our neighborhood, orgniz. one. using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. 120 W. Hill St., Richmond mering special rates of d courts, address 311 N. 4th St., 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. Established 1890. Phone 4166. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBAOO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROPRIETRESS, 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Palaters, Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTEED ..... Cards, Letters or Orders. .Give us a trial, you will never regret it.... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND. VA. Phone 5088. Nelson.s Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. DR. P. B. RAMSEY, DENTIST, 115 East Leigh St. 'PHONE, 816. Footman—'Ow does the master get along with 'is bride?' Valet—I think the 'oneymoon is over now; 'e noticed for the first time today that I'd been using 'is cigars. Redd—I understand that new motor of yours goes like 'he wind?' Greene—That's right. Nobody can tell just when the wind is going to start, or when it is going to stop. Mrs. Gotham—Do you think the moths do much damage? Mrs. Flatbush—Why, no; they e't all my husband's whiskers.—Yonkers Statesman. "If Bangs had only a sense of humor, how he would enjoy himself!" "Why would he?" "Because he is such a joke."—Baltimore American. Tommie (with a yawn)—Well, pop, I don't feel like singing, this morning. —Yonkers Statesman. The Football Collegian. "How long before you expect your son to be out of college?" "He's out now, for awhile. He is in the hospital!"—Yonkers Statesman. THE ECONOMY A Sure Sign. Just Like It. ment also con- the little ones into this mystic ld be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have noPythian address. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the righa kin of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone, 752. SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, Phone, 1034. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples 25cts. per jar. By mail. 35cts. Graham's Superior Grange Flower Skin Fo' for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parties and public gatherings. 35 cents. Mrs. Graham schampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns make good money by selling their preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. V. A. Graham, No. 108 R. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. —We are selling old papers at fifteen cents per hundred. M MICKEY LARRET SATURDAY...JANUARY 23.1909 USE TUCKER EFFECT RELIEVES MONOTONY OF PLAIN LACE GUIMPE. Combined with Collar of a Different Kind of Lace Garniture May Be Made Strikingly Effective. To relieve the monotony of the plain lace guipme, without which no gown is really fashionable at present, a quaint tucker effect is being introduced on dresses of rather simple design. The tucker is combined with a ```markdown ``` Qualtin Tucker of Sprigged Net. collar of a different kind of lace, and its upper edge is rounded and held by a shirring string, while the lower edge is gathered rather scent and finished under the top of the bodice. A piping of velvet or silk or a fancy cord makes a serviceable and effective edge trimming. Sprigged or doted net combines as well as any other kind with the heavier variety of lace used for the collar. A lining may be added under the shirred gulpie and the upper part left transparent. This is a better arrangement and allows one to have quite a deep and graceful curve to the tucker without making it look too thin. The sash shown in the gulpie illustration is novel and pleasing in the way it laces under the front panel of the dress and fastens at the left side with a large rosette. RED:NGOTE OF BLACK SILK Garment Especially Adapted for the Quiet, Conservative Woman. For quiet, conservative women is a redingote of heavy black corded silk hanging straight—there are no seams save those under the arms—and the fronds lap easily, buttoning twice below the bust; from here the fronds slope back to show much of the skirt of the dress beneath. At the front corners and in the middle corners of the back, where it is slashed waist high to allow walking room, are decorative bits of colored embroidery mingled faintly with gold and silver threads. Above the front closing, the material is cut away and the space is filled with lovely brocaded silk in faint dull shades of colors. This is adjusted in crossing folds that rise to shape a high directoire collar at the back; filling the space at the throat is a cravat of the new canvas that has wholly replaced the net and mull of the summer time. This new canvas is oddly woven in rather large meshes with line threads.—Vogue. With Party Attire. All the little novelties which go to finish the dainty toilet of a little maid are interesting to loving mothers and friends. The very newest idea is to embroider a hair ribbon. The ordinary five-inch ribbon is used in taffeta or satin, as the case may be, and a design is made at the mitered end, while the buttonhole stitch keeps the edge from ravelling. The idea is pretty, particularly when a sash is also made to match the hair ribbon. Of course, one would not embroider an ordinary hair ribbon intended for school wear, but for party attire it is just a little touch, for little maledicts may not wear the ornaments and trimming appropriate for older sisters. The embroidery is done in filo and Persian floss—the former used to carry out the design, the latter to work the buttonhole stitch. Persian Effects Popular. Persian effects are still good and are conspicuous among the best members of trimming collections. One of the most charming class of trimming is the one in which line beadwork plays a large part. In these trimming fine silk braids of exquisite weave furnish outlines and the beads, a solid filling for the centers of motives and for borders. The loveliest greens, blues, rose colors, etc., are worked out in these braids and beads. The solid beadwork of to-day is not embroidered on a background like Indian work, but is made in woven and strung patterns, the result of lighter effects. Bedroom Mats Most people find it rather difficult to prevent the mats at sitting or bedroom doors getting kicked out of place. Try this plan: Sew a small brass ring firmly to each corner of the mats, and screw tiny rounded cup hooks into the corners of the doorway, close to the floor. If the rings are hung over the hooks they will heat the mats firmly in place, and as there are rings at all four corners each mat can be turned frequently, so that it may wear evenly. The hooks must be very small and rounded, or dresses will catch in them. FOR COLLARS AND CUFFS. Best Method of Starching, and Recipe for its Preparation. Have your collars and cuffs washed, but not blued, and keep them in the rinsing water till you are ready for them. Any good starch will do, but it must be white, that sold in boxes is, for many reasons, preferable. To make the starch—Put a handful of the dry lumps into a clean basin with a little cold water, and mix (with your hand) till the lumps are smooth, adding more clear water, by degrees, till the mixture is of the consistency of thin cream. Now, take half a teaspoonful of borax, and after dissolving it in a cupful of boiling water add that to your starch. Take a piece of white curd soap and rub it between your hands amongst the starch till the mixture becomes quite frothy. Last of all, add a few drops of blue to give the starch a good color. Take the collars and cuffs now and wring them out of the water. And if the starch has settled, mix it up again thoroughly with your hands. Lay the collars neatly together by the bands, four or six at a time, and wash them in the starch, first on one side, then on the other; rub them well, so that if any dirt remains in them, in consequence of imperfect washing previously, that will now disappear. That is one use of the soap. Wring the collars out of the starch and dry rub them between your knuckles, just as if you were washing in air. It takes away the flour part of the starch. Lay the collars and cuffs, one by one, separately on a dry cloth, roll it up over them, wring again to take away extra dampness. Slap the rolled bundle against the table two or three times and the collars are ready to iron. POPULAR NECKWEAR. ```markdown ``` A collar with jabot made of net is one of the most popular pieces of neckwear. This design is a favorite. The net is slightly full around the neck, held in place with feather-bones. The jabot is like a full double boxplait. The velvet ribbons are black, or any color one chooses. Washing a Plume The thing is, in fact, almost as simple as laudering a muslin dress. The advice given by one woman is as follows: Lay the plume in a suds made of good white soap and cold water and let it stand for two or three hours. Then put into hot water, where it should remain about twenty minutes. Then, with a piece of soft cloth or silk dipped in soap suds, remove any dirt which may remain. Lay it on a clean towel and touch with a piece of cloth rolled up to restore the curl. When almost dry shake until fuzzy, place in tissue paper and put it in the warming oven of the stove to dry thoroughly. If necessary use the dull side of an ivory paper cutter in restoring the curl. Irish Linen the Best In buying table linen remember that Irish linen is considered the best. The French loses its gloss, which is its chief beauty, and the Scotch is partially bleached with chlorine, which weakens the fiber. The Irish is grass bleached and improves with time. Many housekeepers claim that the stores of household linen should be kept in piles on shelves rather than in drawers, where they are likely to become tumbled. If kept on shelves they should be protected from dust by thin curtains. Silk Skirt: Cloth Coat Among the best of the new costumes is seen the combination of Ottoman silk and liberty brocade cloth. The skirt is of silk, long, flowing and untrimmed. The coat is also long, is of the cloth, and usually has revers of silk. To Protect Baby's Stockings. Baste a piece of muslin or cambril the color of the stockings in the top where the safety pin is used, and they will not be torn by the pins. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA DRESS FOR WINTER PLAN WARDROBE TO FIT THE SEASON. Sewing Room Responsible for Duty of Keeping the Body Warm So That Bedroom May Be Properly Ventilated. This is what may be termed the age of defensive therapeutics. The up-to-date physicians, as well as students of hygiene and sanitation, are concentrating their efforts on the prevention, not the cure, of illness. We are so accustomed to connecting the word fashion with mere raiment that it comes with something of a shock to learn that there are also fashions in health and sanitation. There was a time when the semi-invalid was distinctly in fashion, a most interesting figure upon whom were showered social attentions, flowers, gifts, etc. To-day the semin-valid, the possessor of indefinable, but chronic aches and pains, is completely out of the T Washable Design for Winter Night Robe. running. She cuts so sorry a figure that she insists upon getting well. Many of us can look back to the day when illness in the family meant the turning on of extra heat and the shutting out of all air, dubbed dangerous drafts. To-day pure air in unlimited quantities and exercises of all sorts are prescribed. Hence in planning the family wardrobe, whether for the sick or the well, the new methods of preventing or attacking disease must be considered. How to keep the body warm and the bodroom filled with pure air is one household problem which can be solved largely in the sewing room. It is generally agreed that with warm sleeping attire and warm feet, all under ample covering, the cold room will work good instead of harm to the sleeper. This means a winter farewell to muslin, nailsock and dimity nightgowns, with low necks and elbow sleeves. A famous specialist in bronchial and lung troubles says that the low-necked short-sleeved nightdress worn in cold weather is a common cause of colds which if not fatal are deep-seated and difficult to cure. The proper nightdress for cold weather is the simplest model made in wash flannel, a pretty model for which is shown. Barring a few tucks on the shoulder for the full figure, this gown is plain back and front, a factor in laundering all flannels. It also fits snugly around the throat and has long sleeves fitted into a narrow cuff. In the model, silk-and-wool cloth was used with german valce lace for trimming, but equally satisfactory results can be secured by employing a good grade of wash flannel at about 12 cents a yard, with trimming of torchon lace. Do not use hamburg embroidery on wash flannel. It does not wash as well as the heavy torchon laces. If you do your own laundry work, and are sure that your night dresses will not be frozen in the process of drying, use fine striped designs in blue and white, and pink and white. But if your clothing is at the more or less tender mercy of an outside laudreas, pin your faith on gray and white, which will not fade under freezing. There are also some pretty designs in tan color and white. Another fashion in hygienic living is exercise outdoors, no matter what the weather, and this means warmer outdoor oatment than the smart tailored suit and in fabrics which will withstand rain and snow. For this use, a skirt clearing the ground by at least four inches and a stout storm coat are essential. Cravenetted or rain-proof cloths can be bought from two dollars a yard upward, in 52-inch width, and a variety of subdued colorings, like oxford gray and tan. Soap for Teeth Many wisely prefer the best white castle soap for cleansing the teeth at least twice a week, if not every day. One ordinary cake will make three good-sized strips. Gradually, with a heated hatpin, work a hole through the solid cube of soap and push through a piece of white siring. Hang in a convenient place and use often instead or even with any preferred powder. Costs Little, and Makes a Dainty and Effective Gift. One of the most attractive of the new lamp shades is one that can easily be copied by the girl who can embroider. It is done in Madeira embroidery on the sheerest handkerchief linen or Persian lawn, and is made up over an empire frame covered with shirred silk. A particularly attractive shade was made for a small lamp. The frame was circular, about ten inches in diameter at the bottom and six inches at the top. This was covered with emerald green silk, gathered to the frame at top and bottom. The outer cover was of white batiste, finished on the upper and lower edge with a tiny scallop such as is used on a fine corset cover. The design was an open one of dragons and twining foliage interspersed with eyelets. The work was done in a fine white mercerized cotton, in the over and over stitch wherever the work was raised, but most often in the eyelet stitch. There was just enough of the satin stitch to relieve the flatness of the Madeira embroidery. Such a shade coats little for materials, yet is dainty and effective as a gift. UTILITY BOX FOR BATHROOM. New Fad That Provides a Receptacle of Real Value. Welcome addition to bathroom fittings is the utility box of white enamel about the size of a shirt-walst receptacle. It is intended to hold towels and half the surface at the top of the box is divided into compartments much like the tray of an ordinary trunk, except that it is stationary. These spaces are for holding clean wash rags and different kinds of soap. In addition to its legitimate use it is a convenient seat to use when putting on or taking off shoes and stockings. The price is eight dollars. Stockings in bright tartan effects, such as the Stewart, seem to be loud, but really they are charming when worn with shoes that harmonize or contrast. A less striking but equally effective combination is the piald of the black watch in hose, worn with dark-green suede shoes closing with smoke pearl buttons. The vamps of the shoes are in narrow raised stripes, like corduroy, the uppers of plain smooth suede. Plains in wood brown and cream are lovely when the shoes are of tan suede. "A STUDY IN MAUVE." Mauve chip hat with soft draperies of mauve tulle caught down by sprays of wisteria. Fur Trimmed. Handsome cloth suits will be trimmed with fur. Bands of it will be put on the skirt and collars, cuffs and waistcoats made of it to go with the coat. This is good news to the woman who has odd pieces of fur or garments that are out of fashion. She can use them upon a cloth gown. One directore suit of dull cern broadcloth has a four-inch band of brown fur around the skirt, and the coat has a narrow, long waistcoat of it. The wide reverses are of brown satin, and the triple cuffs are of the satin, edged with a two-inch band of fur. The hat that goes with this is an immense flat sailor of cern satin with an Alsatian bow of brown fur across the sides. For Boy or Girl A charming little costume for the small boy or girl going to kindergarten could be made from golden brown broadcloth, trimmed with black astrakhan. The box coat could cover the dress or knickers as the case may be, and close double-breasted with black frogs. The coat sleeves should be deep shawl and the collar and cuffs of the black astrakhan. The hat of hussar shape will have a draped crown of the brown cloth and brim of astrakhan. A white brush on the left side will be held in place with a black cord ornament. Supposing a boy is the wearer, a black patent leather belt may be added. Silk Umbrella Covers This usually discarded article has many uses for the thrifty housewife. Cut the full length next to the seam. Dampen and press. Then roll up ready to be used to line a standing collar, replace a worn collar band, convert by folding and stitching into a tape to hang up coats and dresses, facing for sleeves, instead of a thickness of dress material, or binding for sleeves, as it is much softer than binding ribbon. Make Your Tapers If you run out of wax tapers make one by twisting a string and dipping it in melted paraffin wax and holding it up by one end to driin. It hardens instantly and you can place it in the lighter and use immediately. "One-half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives," observed the moralizer. "How provoking!" exclaimed Mrs. Gossyn. Being an Optimist Being an optimist is hoping you are going to make a fortune when you know you will lose your last cent. Left-Handed People. The proportion of left-handed people is one in six. Adage Put in New Way. Shakespeare: 'Tis an ill cook cannot lick his own fingers. Bacon—I see when a dentist in China is extracting a tooth for a man, another man pounds on a gong, to drown the cries of the patient. Egbert—Why don't they give gas? "Which man do you think they ought to give the gas to?"—Yonkers Statesman. All Conventions Observed. Wife (suspiciously)—Who is this Kitty you and your friends talk about at your club? Is it proper for a young woman to call there? Husband (innocently)—Perfectly proper, my dear. There is an "ante" there to chaperon this Kitty.—Baltimore American. Ancient Mrs. Snobbington (anxiously)—But, my dear son, is Miss Smith, to whom you are so strangely attracted, of an old family? Headstrong Son—Yes, mother; she told me she had every reason to believe that some of her ancestors were really prehistoric. A. Miss-Understanding American Tourist—I understand, marquis, that you fell in love with a distinguished American lady on account of her pretty foot. Marquis—Dat is it. Dat is it. De pretty vay she foots de bills.—N. Y. Weekly. Redd—Have you any Esperanto club in your town? Greene—No; I think all those the police carry are of locust.—Yonkers Statesman. Theatrical Manager—What leads you to believe you are fitted for the stage? Applicant—Why, there ain't no doubt about it. Me and my husband are on the point of separatin' all the time.—Puck. Hints to Fishermen Always take a good supply of pepper with you. When sport is bad scatter the pepper over the water and get ready to lasso the fish whenever they come up to sneeze. 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Fire damaged the Blissard Dancing academy's building, in North Warren street, Trenton, N. J., to the extent of $10,000. Charles Stanberger, once a rich and prosperous merchant, was found living in a stable at Altoona, Pa., and sent to the almshouse. Miss Jane Beatrice Mills, daughter of Ogden Mills, was married to the Earl of Granard, a British nobleman, at the home of her parents in New York. Porter Folson, twenty years old, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. Julia Brown, his mother-in-law, at Albany, Clinton county, Ky. Saturday, January 16. The Bank of Coal Center, Pa., was closed by State Bank Examiner James Cover because of bad loans. Mrs. Nathan Sherrard and four children, aged from one to six years, were burned to death when fire destroyed their cabin at Echlin's lumber camp; twenty miles north of Ashland, Wis. Nicholson Mathewson, brother of Christy Mathewson, the pitcher of the New York baseball club of the National league, died from a bullet wound self-inflicted at his home in Factory-ville, Pa., near Scranton. Andrew Carnegie has subscribed $750 towards a fund for a new pipe organ for Old Swedes Protestant Episcopal church, at Wilmington, Del., provided the remainder of the $3000 required is made up. Monday, January 18. Joseph E. Merril, who recently died at Newton, Mass., left $200,000 to Bowdolin college. E. A. Laurent, of Nashville, Tenn., was shot and killed by Charles Smith, a planter, at Artesia, Miss. Professor B. H. Gilban of the Louisiana State university, committed suicide by shooting at Baton Rouge. William Meighan, a carpenter, fell from a coal breaker in course of construction at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and was instantly killed. A shortage of $15.536 has been found in the treasury of Stark county, O., and Treasurer Knoblock, of Canton, has been asked to resign. 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"I was on my way uptown," he said, "and I thought I would drop in and make arrangements for my own cremation, as I have thought the matter over carefully and am convinced that cremation is better than burial. In fact, I don't like the thought of going underground," he added, with a hearty laugh. The two men chatted for some time, and then Mr. Radcliffe showed Hutchings urns for cremation purposes. "Well, this one will do," said Hutchings, choosing an urn. "Now, after I am dead, I want you to wait until the grass turns green and summer comes, when I want my ashes taken to the country, some pretty place, and scattered on the cool green grass." "Well, you are not going to die to day," said Mr. Radcliffe. "Oh, no," replied Hutchings, laughing. "I'm in no hurry; tomorrow will do." He paid $10 on the urn, and he asked if he might write a letter, as it would save him a trip uptown. He wrote a letter, and was whistling while he wrote. As he left the undertaker's he asked for the nearest police station. At the station house Hutchings asked Leutenant Tighe, who was on the desk, if he was a Mason. The lieutenant said he was not, but that John Anthony, the doorman, was. "Well, I'm a Mason and I'm in trouble and I want to talk over my troubles. They are partially family troubles." said Hutchings, Anthony advises him to go to the Masonic Temple, and he left the room. Hutchings went out on the front steps of the station house, and Daniel Forbes, a fifteen-year-old boy, says he saw Hutchings take a revolver from a pocket in his trousers and shoot himself in the head. The body was removed from the station house to the burial company, where Mr. Radcliffe took charge of it. TRUST PROBERS AFTER TERRA COTTA CO. Federal Authorities to Investigate $3,000,000 Concern. New York, Jan. 20.—Announcement was made that another alleged trust is to be investigated by the federal authorities here. 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Higler, assistant postmaster, aged forty years, stood over the corpse of his wife Alice, who had died an hour before, and shot himself through the right temple. He died instantly. Shortly afterwards was found this note: "Forgive me. I could not live without Alice." John D. Gives Another Million Chicago, Jan. 20.—John D. Rockefeller has given another $1,000,000 to the University of Chicago. The endowment fund of the university is now $15,000,000 from all sources. Mr. Rockefeller's total contributions to the university aggregate $24,800,000. 40 Below Zero In New York State, Utica, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Extreme low temperature was experienced in the lower Mohawk valley and south of here. Near Jordanville the mercury was 40 degrees below zero. PLANET. $1.50 per year. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Sen. Foraker AND THE 'Confessions.' (Continued From First Page.) defence, if there be any person any-where to prefer any charge against any one of them, and where they can be fairly judged by men old enough in service and in years and high enough in rank to be independent of every improper influence. Referring to the testimony presented by the President as to the guilt of the dismissed soldiers, Senator Foraker says: UNRELIABLE AND INSUFFICIENT As though conscious that notwithstanding all his assertions and declarations as to the sufficiency of the testimony it was in fact unreliable and insufficient to justify his order of discharge we were favored with the further message of December 14, 1908, in which we were informed that detectives have been employed by the War Department and that they have been at work for months—ever since April 16, 1908—travelling about over the country, visiting these discharged soldiers trying to secure from them incriminating statements and confessions of guilt and that as a result we now have another batch of "conclusive" testimony. This message of the President, with its exhibits and the report of the Secretary of War, present a new and most serious feature of this unhappy business. They not only disclose determined effort on the part of the President to again bolster up the case against these men which he has heretofore on numerous occasions, both officially and unofficially, characterized as "conclusive" and "overwhelming," but that he has resorted to a method in his effort to secure such testimony that cannot be fittingly characterized without the use of language which if employed might appear to be disrespectful to the Chief Executive. THE PRESIDENT'S INDISCRETION And worst of all in this endeavor to secure such testimony the President has himself committed the serious offense—condemned by every court that administers the common law that has ever had occasion to speak on the subject—of holding out to these men an inducement or a reward for giving such testimony in the form of reenlistment, with full pay and reinstatement to all their rights as soldiers. It does not lessen the gravity of his offence that it appears to be imperceptible to him; or if not so that he has become utterly oblivious to all the restraints of law, decency and propriety in his mad pursuit of these helpless victims of his ill considered action. Moreover, I shall be able to show, I think, that all this has been done without authority of law and with public money that has been filched from the public Treasury in flat defiance of the Constitution and a statute in full force and effect. I do not hesitate to say that in my opinion, aside from the question whether there has been a misappropriation of public funds, no precedent for anything so shocking can be found in all the history of American criminal jurisprudence. A SCANDALOUS CONDITION It will appear from the President's message and the exhibits thereto attached showing the mode in which the detectives are operating and the testimony in answer thereto that fraudulent impersonation, misrepresentation, lying, deceit, treachery, liquor and intoxication, coupled with promises of immunity and the excitement of hope and fear and the offer of employment and remunerative wages, have been resorted to to secure the testimony sought for, and that the so-called "confessions" are not confined to such as affect the parties making them or to those affected by them, who may be present when such confessions are made, but extend also to those not present when they are made, but who are absent and without knowledge of what is transpiring and without any opportunity whatever to be heard in their own defense—even to make an objection that such statements and such confessions are untruthful. These facts make all such testimony utterly incompetent and worthless. Mr. Foraker's arraignment of the method by which the detectives were employed and paid was particularly severe. He said: We are informed that this money has been paid out of an appropriation of $3,000,000, made by the deficiency act of March 3, 1899, the language of which appropriation is in follows: "For emergency fund meet unforeseen contingencies constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, $3,000,000." A WORD ABOUT THAT APPRO PRIATION. This appropriation is found under the general subhead "War Department" and under the special subhead of "Military Establishment—Contingencies of the Army." There fore it was clearly an appropriation made by Congress under its constitutional power to "support" the army and not under or by virtue of any other power whatever. It will probably be surprising information to the Appropriations Committee, as it will be to most Senators that this appropriation, made ten years ago at the close of the Spanish-American War to enable the President to meet emergency army contingencies such as were then arising in connection with our military establishment, should have been construed to be a permanent appropriation, and that there is still a large unexpended balance out of which payments of the character now under consideration are being made. Especially so in view of the fact that the Constitution of the United States provides in the enumeration of the powers of Congress that it shall have power "to raise and support armies, but 10 appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years." Under this provision of the Constitution, as well as under the general statutory provision on the subject, the appropriation lapsed at the end of the fiscal year of 1901, and no exception of the statute in favor of "permanent" or "specific" appropriations could keep it in force beyond that date. THAT UNEXPENDED BALANCE. At that time it became the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the unexpended balance to the general fund or apply to Congress for a reappropriation. It was doubtless in view of this fact that the War Department at that time estimated for the further appropriation of $1,000,000, as the report shows of the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, which estimate was, however, disallowed. It would be interesting to know how and why and by whose authority the unexpended balance of this fund has been kept available, and for what variety of purposes and upon what kind of vouchers it has been illegally drawn upon through all these years. I also call attention to the fact that it is provided by section 103 of the Revised Statutes "that the head of each Department shall make an annual report to Congress, giving a detailed statement of the manner in which the contingent fund for his Department has been expended." A REPORT NEEDED. Whether the $3,500,000 fund drawn upon in this case is under the control of the Chief Executive or the Secretary of War, it would seem to be the duty or somebody to make a report with respect to it. This appropriation being for the War Department, the report should have been made by the Secretary of War, and he is not relieved of that duty by the fact that the money can be expended only with the approval of the President. So far as I can ascertain no detailed or itemized reports to Congress of expenditures from this fund have been made. It would be instructive and maybe interesting to have such statements for each of the years. But I pass that for the present because another very interesting question arises, passed upon by the Judge Advocate-General. we are told, in favor of the availability of this money, as to whether or not, within the true construction of this appropriation of 1899, the securing of testimony by the methods resorted to was to meet an emergency contingency such as the statute contemplated. A PECULIAR SITUATION What is the ground upon which it is held to be such a contingency? The contingency was the exceedingly remote one that a pending bill, providing that men should be required to prove their innocence of a crime before a judge who had already pronounced them guilty, should be favorably acted upon by the Congress of the United States. And all this in the presence or the fact that there was the most bitter and determined opposition to the measure and that there was another measure pending which provided that all might be reenlisted who cared to reenlist, but that the right to further prosecute before civil or military tribunals should be reserved as to all against whom any evidence might be secured in any manner at any time after such enactment. But waiving all technical or doubtful objections and assuming for the sake of argument that the constitutional provision quoted does not apply and that the ruling of the Treasury Department that the appropriation is permanent is correct, and that it continues to stand, and will stand as an available appropriation for such purposes as those for which it was intended until entirely exhausted, the question remains whether such payments as are now under consideration are legitimate and proper to be made from it. CLEARLY ILLEGAL. It would seem that, granting all have indicated, they are yet, nevertheless, clearly illegal and in flat violation of the following statutory provisions, found at page 308, volume 27, United States Statutes at Large, namely; "That no employee of the Pinkerton Detective Agency or similar agency shall be employed in any Government service or by any officer of the District of Columbia." In view of these statutes, all these payments are clearly illegal, not only without warrant or authority of law, but in plain violation thereof. After reviewing in detail the methods employed by the President's detectives in their endeavor to obtain evidence from several of the soldiers Senator Foraker continued: They wrote letters to Boyd Convers and then sought to mislead and entrap him with slanderous lies that his comrades were "peaching," and that if he would escape arrest and extradition to Texas, from where he would probably never return to his young wife and family, he too must make a statement falsely accusing his absent comrades, and then, when he refused to comply, asserting his innocence; they fabricated a story of confession and attempted suicide, which was a base falsehood from beginning to end, as has now been completely and fully shown. NOTHING MORE ATROCIOUS In all the history of crime and its detection nothing more atrocious, disreputable and disgraceful has ever been recorded. It seems a waste of time to cite cases in support of propositions so elementary as that confessions involving criminal guilt are never permitted in any court, unless it can be shown that they were given voluntarily, without inducement or hope of reward or promise of immunity, or without any duress, or without any suggestion or benefit of any kind or nature whatsoever to the party making the confession. This elementary provision of the law was well known to the detective, Herbert J. Browne, who made the report transmitted to the Senate by the President, for in it he takes care to say that "no promises of immunity were made." This statement falls to the ground, however, with all the rest of his wicked fabrications in the presence of the established facts. My firm now wants me to further introduce the "K. & W." Brand of goods into every section of the United States. We instructations to go ahead and make whatever offer is necessary in order to do this. 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Cream sauce may be poured over the peas if desired. To keep eggs, cover the bottom of a box with a layer of fine salt two inches deep. In this place the eggs, small end down, and far enough apart not to touch each other or the sides of the receptacle. Put on another layer of salt, then the eggs, and continue till the box is full. South Chatham Lady Fingers Beat the yolks of three eggs until thick. Gradually beat in one-third a cup of sugar and a grating lemon rind. Then cut and fold in a scant three-fourths cup of flour and the white of one egg, beaten dry. Shape with a pastry bag and plain tube on waxed paper. Bake about ten minutes. This is the best and simplest method of keeping eggs for those who have only a small number to keep. If you find at the end of the day that you have some milk in the house still, do not let it go sour, but scald it, and it can be used in the morning for breakfast. If there is more than sufficient for that purpose mix it with a little cornstarch and grated chocolate and make it into a pudding which the children will enjoy. To Strain Pumpkin Quickly To save time in straining pumpkin use a perforated vegetable press in stead of rubbing it through a colander. Hot Apple Croutons. Cut out rounds or squares from slices of stale sponge or hasty cake. Butter a baking pan, and on it dispose the pieces of cake. Sift the pulp of two baked or stewed apples. Add two or three tablespoonfuls of sugar and the beaten yolk of an egg. Then fold the mixture into the white of an egg, beaten dry. Dispose this on the pieces of cake (bread may be used). Set half a blanched almond on the top of each. Sprinkle with granulated sugar, and set into a hot oven for a moment or two to brown the tops. Serve for a sweet course at luncheon or dinner. If the weather is thundery and the milk turns sour unexpectedly remember that sour milk makes beautiful cookies, and use it up in that way. If more tea or coffee has been made than was required it should be at once poured off the leaves or grounds into a china vessel. When wanted for use stand the vessel in a pot of boiling water, and let the contents slowly heat. Pour into the teapot or coffee pot and the beverage will taste as delicate as freshly made tea or coffee. Cold coffee can be used with chocolate and cornstarch and makes a nice mold. It can also be used instead of milk in a gingerbread and different kinds of brown puddings. Flank Steak Stew Take a flank steak, about one and one-half or two pounds; cut up in pieces same as ordinary stew. Put into kettle, and cover with boiling water. Let it cook slowly for one hour, then add salt, pepper and large onion, and one cupful tomatoes. Let cook 1½ hours, slowly. Thicken a little with flour and water. To keep butter firm, if ice is scarce, procure an earthenware flower pot and a tray full of cold water. Set the butter on the tray and invert a flower pot over it. Close the hole in the bottom of the flower pot with a cork. Dash cold water over the pot, repeating the process several times a day, and the butter will be as firm and cool as from an icehouse. Potatoes Grumbed Peel and boil the potatoes carefully; when they are cooked, but not broken, split them in halves; season with a little paprika and salt; pour over them a little warm butter, and then dip them in browned breadcrumbs, place them on a buttered tin and cook in a quick oven for about 15 minutes. Apple Butter To a peck of tart apples allow five gallons sweet cider, boiled to about half the original quantity; pare, core and quarter the apples and cut again crosswise; add two pounds brown sugar and stir and mash as they cook to prevent scorching, which the butter does very easily, as it sticks to the sides of the kettle. A sort of paddle made of hardwood is the best thing for the purpose; cook until thick as marmalade, or until the cider and apples will not separate, but stick together in a mass. If you wish the "butter" to have a spicy flavor, add a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and grated nutmeg for each gallon of the sauce, put in when the butter is nearly done. Freshen Nuts When nuts have become too dry to be good remove the shells, let stand over night in equal parts milk and water, then dry them in the oven and they will be fresh and good; this is a nice little economy that may be used to good advantage in making Christmas dainties. To Shell Pecans. Throw nuts into boiling water, which softens shells, and kernels can be extracted whole. ```markdown ``` dads into every section of the United order to do this. 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