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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXVI. NO. 10 LINCOLN'S HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. Time's rounded years centesimal, today, The glory of fair woman's mission grand Rose to a height e'er memorable, led, yea, By angels' whispers and love's guiding hand. From the great mystery of life there came A Lincoln for a Lincoln's work-to-be; Led by an honest heart this noble namp Followed untarnished in his life's decree. His soul beheld a man held by a man, Inthralled, the weak submission'd by the strong; He saw his work and there his work began "If slavery isn't wrong there's nothing wrong." His plans were ever fostered by his years, He rose and gathered in his rise the might To wield the pen that dried the bleeding tears That Ethiopia wept in sad afright. Success can have no grander meaning than Was reached in this great life of willed intent: One noble purpose for one heart, one man, One grand completion for one mission sent. One martyr by a trembling coward's alm, One resignation to the great beyond. One loved memorial o'er one Lincoln's name. One day of days, one noble union bond. Amid the many tributes of the strong As Ethiopia's offering for the dead. LUCIAN B. WATKINS, Author of "Voices of Solitude." TILLMAN STARTS RACE TALK. Nomination of Dr. Crum Precipitates Lively Discussion in Senate. [Washington, D. C. Post, Feb. 3.'09] The executive session yesterday called particularly to consider the nomination of Dr. W. D. Crum, to be collector of customs, at Charleston, S. C., developed into a general discussion of the race question with incidental reference to the Chinese and Japanese questions that are bothering the Pacific Coast States. More than four hours were spent behind closed doors and when the Senate adjourned the Crum case was no nearer a settlement than'when the matter first came up. Soon after Senator Tillman took the floor he called for a quorum and announced his purpose of maintaining a quorum throughout the day. This threat, which promised to compel the attendance of Senators whether they wished to listen to Mr. Tillman's argument or not, led to a discussion of the rules of the Senate. The Vice-President reminded the Senator from South Carolina and others, that during the closing hours of the last session, the Senate had ruled that business must intervene between calls for a quorum, and that under that ruling a speech could not be construed as "business." Although there were Senators present who dissented from that ruling and the construction placed upon it by the Vice President there was no occasion during the afternoon to call forth any further ruling on the question. Mr. Tillman made an extended speech against the confirmation of Dr. Crum, although no charges of any sort had been preferred against him or the administration of the affairs of his office during his incumbency of the term that has expired. Mr. Tillman submitted to the Senate a number of communications he had received from various commercial bodies of Charleston opposing confirmation, and used them in the course of his remarks to show the overwhelming sentiment against the further continuance of a colored official in one of the most important of the Southern offices. Taking the position that where there is any considerable population of a race that cannot be assimilated by the white people of this country, there is bound to be race antagonism Mr. Bacon sustained Mr. Tillman in his opposition to the selection of a Negro for this office. The Crum case will come up again to-day, it being the policy of the Republicans to keep it before the Senate as much as possible, with a view to its disposition before the session ends. SEN.J.B.FORAKER WILL WIN. FEB. 23rd IS THE DATE SET FOR VOTE. REPUBLICANS UNITED—WILL RESTORE THE COLORED MEN TO THE ARMY WITH FULL PAY—CURTAIN WILL BE RUNG DOWN IN THE Washington, D. C., Feb. 3.—The end of the protracted discussion in the Senate over the affair at Brownville, that has been heard intermittently since the President's message of December 19, 1906, is in sight. After pressing the matter in season and out of season Senator Foraker yesterday obtained an agreement for a vote. The Brownville case will be called up for the last time in the Senate at 1 o'clock Tuesday, February 23, and the voting on the pending compromise bill and all amendments will begin at 4 o'clock on the same afternoon. This agreement followed a somewhat extended discussion of the subject in the course of which Senator Tallafroro, of Florida, said, he had heard that the War Department had gathered additional information bearing upon the guilt of the accused soldiers, and in view of this he suggested that any arrangement looking to an agreement should be postponed one day. Mr. Foraker's Contention. If the information possessed by the senator from Florida were correct, Mr. Foraker urged, it was only another cogent reason for the creation of the court of inquiry provided by the bill, so that court could obtain the evidence. "I don't know what has been done by the detectives since they last favored us with their report," said Senator Foraker, "but to speak plainly, I think it would be an insult to send us anything from that source again." Senator McLaurin preferred March 1, as a suitable date for the vote, and Senator Foraker suggested February 15. The 23d was fixed upon as a compromise between these two dates, and on that date the Senate will act and send the compromise bill to the House for its action. It is understood that as the compromise bill is a party measure, the means will be found to put it through the House, regardless of the lateness of the session. Mr. Clay Unsuccessful Senator Clay again was unsuccessful in obtaining favorable action on his resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to the forming of national currency associations under the provisions of the emergency currency act of May 3, 1908. Replying to Mr. Clay's request for action on the resolution, Mr. Aldrich said all the information sought was in possession of the Senate, and moved to refer the resolution to the committee on finance. At Mr. Clay's suggestion, the resolution was permitted to lie on the table in order that he may speak upon it today. DO YOU KNOW HIM? Manchester, Va., Jan. 20, '09. We would like to know the where- abouts of cur 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. SALLY BEBBS. Wants to Find Her I would like to locate my sister, Harriet Ann Carter. Her husband's name is Jesse Carter. When I lask heard of her she was living in Richmond. Va. I will be very glad to receive any information of her. The weather has been very cold this but now summer-time is here again RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1909 FINAL CHAPTER. THE MONEY FOR THE SCHOOLS. Nearly Half Million Dollars Needed The Finance Committee of the city of Richmond, will be asked to recommend the issuance of $425,000 worth of city bonds for the purpose of completing the white High School building and to renovate the old structures and to erect other buildings for the use of the white and colored children of the city. Chairman H. R. Pollard, Jr., the chairman offered the resolution in the Common Council and there is a general understanding that it will be favorably acted upon by the Finance Committee. Two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars or this amount will be used for the completion of the white High School building on Marshall St. It has already cost one hundred and fifty-one thousand, on hundred and one dollars and sixty cents, which means that sentiment more than financial ability has been governing somebody in the city council. A FINE BUILDING A seventy five thousand dollar building will be erected for the white children on Hanover Avenue. A new building and site is to be provided for Leigh St. School. The present out of date Leigh St. School building is to be utilized for the Colored High and Normal School, although it is said to have been partly condemned by the building inspector. Fifteen thousand dollars will be expended for the enlargement and improvement of Monroe School. Thirty thousand dollars are to be expended upon the other school buildings. TO USE ALMSHOUSE SITE Councilman Umlauf introduced a resolution for the erection of a school building on the site of the old almshouse property. Except for its close proximity to Navy Hill School, the proposition is all right. Our Richmond school system has been the best in the country and the tendency of the patriotic white gentlemen in charge of our public school affairs has been to give the colored people of the city a "square deal", but it does seem that this policy is to undergo a change if we are to judge by the present arrangement. It seems to us that if the white High School building and its equipments are to cost a half million dollars, it is but fair that a structure for the colored pupils should be provided to cost at least one hundred thousand dollars. But then it may be well to wait and see what we shall see. Under the leadership of Chairman Marx Gunst, we are in possession of a commodious new building for our poor and the place is now known as the City Hospital. It may be that some other open-hearted and patriotic citizen may champion our cause in this matter of public school buildings. We had some good friends on the City School Board and in the Council of this city and many of them are there yet. CRUM FILIBUSTER BLOCKED Aldrich Scares the Democrats With a Hint of Unheeded War Claims. Washington, Feb. 2. —Threatened Democratic filibustering in the Senate against the confirmation of W. D. Crum, a Negro, as Collector o, the Port at Charleston, S. C., and also to prevent the passage of the bill to reinstate the discharged Brownsville soldiers, was averted to-day by the advice of some of the conservative Democratic leaders reinforced by clever manoeuvring by Senator Aldrich. A canvass was under way among the Democratic Senators on both propositions. Senator Overman of North Carolina, a leading member of the steering committee, pointed out that the filibuster was never to be employed except in great emergencies He reminded Democratic Senators that they had refused to follow Sen- ator LaFollette last year in his fill-bustering expedition to kill the Aldrich-Vreeland financial bill. While Mr. Overman was pleading with his colleagues in this strain Senator Aldrich practiced a more effective measures of persuasion. He pointed out that the omnibus bill, carrying many Southern war claims, which had passed both houses was still in conference. Any attempt at delay by the Democrats would only impair the chances of getting this bill through. The threat of a fill-buster thereupon subsided. Democratic leaders were saying tonight that the Brownsville bill would be permitted to come to a vote in accordance with the agreement and the nomination of W. D. Crum probably would be confirmed after several Southern Senators had submitted their views on the Negro in politics. Resolutions. Richmond, Va., Jan. 12, '09. At a special meeting of Richmond Council, No. 247, I. O. St. Luke held in their Council Chamber, St. Luke Hall, St. James and Baker Streets, on the above date to take appropriate action relative to the death of P. W. C. Allen J. Harris, who died January 11, 1909 at 7:30 o'clock A. M. at his late residence, 1406 West Cary Street. Brother Harris was a charter member of Constantine Council, No. 226, and served as its Worthy Chief for several years. This Council was afterwards merged into Richmond Council, No. 247. The Worthy Chief in choice words laid the sad news before the Council. On motion a committee of three will appointed to draft suitable resolutions in respect to the death of our esteemed and much beloved brother. This committee retired and soon after reported the following resolutions, which after highly eulogistic and sympathetic remarks by several members of the Council were unanimously adopted, namely: WHEREAS, God in the wise dispensation of His divine mercy, has seen it to remove by death from our Council, Brother Allen J. Harris, and WHEREAS, Brother Harris was Vice Chief of Richmond Council for one term and was Worthy Chief, Vice Chief and Degree Chief of both Constantine and Richmond Council for quite a period of time, in all of which offices he proved himself to be a presiding officer of rare ability and faithful in the discharge of every duty incumbent upon him both as an officer and a floor member; and WHEREAS, Brother Harris was a loyal St. Luke, ever ready to live up to all the requirements of the law; was a wise counselor and one ever ready to administer to the wants of those sick or in distress; one whose ever-cheerful look and pleasant disposition bespoke the fact that behind the silver-lined cloud lived a true soul, a tender and loved-hearted brother, a warm friend and Christian gentleman. As some of us sat beside his bed in his sick chamber and kept vigil over him, we saw as it were the angel of death in dove-like form rest upon its pinnions over our brother and whisper, "Harris, God calls thee home." And as we saw his loving wife and children stand around weeping, we could but steal out and cast our eyes up to the beautiful clear, starry Heavens and drop a tear. We believe our brother now lives where love rules as Lord and Master. Now, therefore, be it resolved. 1. That in the death or Brother A. J. Harris, our Council has lost one of her brightest jewels; our city and state one of their leading, most popular and good citizens and his family a loving husband and father, who ever labored for their bodily comforts and their religious and educational training as well. 2. That these resolutions be spread upon the records of our Council, a copy sent to the bereaved family and published in the Richmond (Va.) PLANET and St. Luke Horald. Done by order of Richmond Council, No. 247, I. O. of St. Luke. JOHN T. BROWN, W. C. TOMAS S. STAPLES, R. S. GEO. B. HEWLETT P. W. C. JAS. A. DIXON, P. W. C., WILLIAM H. CARTER, P. W. C., Chairman. FEAR RACE RIOT. Wholesale Arrests in Pittsburg Cause Feeling to Run High. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 3. — In spite of many threats of armed resistance upon the part of colored people if the police continue their wholesale arrests of members of their race without employment in the Herron Hill district of the city, no outbreak of any kind has occurred up to late to night. Following the arrest last night of 126 colored men and the release to-day all but forty-one, the police force in the district has been doubled to night and every patrolman has orders to arrest every suspicious colored man. During this afternoon three were taken to police stations, and it is anticipated that to-night many others will be arrested. No further attack upon women or girls has been reported since last night, and should one occur the temper of the citizens is such that violence very probably would be meted out to the assailant if caught. Men and women throughout the section involved are carrying revolvers, and the Negroes are said to be well armed also. Should a clash come, as is considered not at all improbable if more arrests are made, the result would be serious. Local orators are inflaming the colored people to resistance, and the feeling is high. The police, however, seem to have the situation well in hand, and probably will not make further indiscriminate arrests Of the colored men arrested last night, thirty-nine were fined, most of them going to the workhouse, and two, MackMcGee and Edward Armsteed, were held over for further evidence, having been partly identified as perpetrators of one of the attacks on girls. Owing to the excited condition of the colored people the authorities feared the effect of a political meeting held in the Herron Hall district to-night in connection with the pending municipal election, and sent a cordon of fifty policemen to enforce order. Two arrests were made, both parties being colored. Otherwise there are no new developments to night in the situation. PEKSONALS AND BRIEFS —Capt. W. Henry Jones is still ill at his residence. —Mr. Miles C. Debbress is now located at the Lexington Hotel, 12th and Main Street. His daughter, Miss Edna is much improved. —Mr. Arthur D. Wright, principal of Baker School is much improved since his trip to England. He brought much valuable and interesting information for both pupils and teachers. —Sir T. J. Blackwell, who has been indisposed is able to be out again. —Mrs. Carrie Bland Sheler of Boston, Mass. is spending some time at Mrs. H. E. Thompson. Work Halted. Mr. W. Isaac Johnson's new hall and stable is at a standstill owing to the failure of the lumber contractors to supply the quantity needed. The New Bank Building Work on the plans for the new Mechanics Savings Bank building is under way. The vault will be of the most improved type and pattern. The plans and specifications for this part of the work will soon be ready for presentation to the Board of Directors. Will Drop Teachers Quite a number of teachers in our public schools are slated for decapitation and will lose their positions due it is said to incompetency and the lack of executive ability. Dr. Graham to Begin Work. Rev, Dr. W. F. Graham announced last Sunday that he would begin revival work at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Candidates for baptism are thronging the streets and clapping glad hands. Great Improvement There. The Pythian Castle at 727 N. Third Street has been repainted and penned. It presents a most handsome appearance and it looks like a new building. The rooms have also been renovated and papere!. —Richmond city has two colored hospitals and there is now some talk of a third one. TWELVE MONTHS IN JAIL. Rev. Eli Tartte Loses on An Appeal. A JURY GIVES HIM SIX MONTHS MORE THAN THE POLICE JUSTICE—WILL ARGUE TO SET ASIDE THE VERDICT TO-DAY—A LONG FIGHT AHEAD—LOOKS LIKE THE ELDER WILL BE MADE TO LEAVE PETERSBURG. Petersburg, Va., Feb. 2, 1909. The Hustings Court has been engaged all day in the trial of Rev. Eli Tartte, the pastor or the Harrison Street (colored) Baptist Church, and Joseph White, colored, of his faction, on the charge of inciting riot at the church in June last. The two men were put on their defense jointly, both having been tried and convicted in the Police Court and each sentenced to six months' imprisonment in jail. From this sentence they appealed to the Hustings Court, and on this appeal the trial has been in progress all day before a jury, with Messrs. Laster & Drewry and Paul Pettit representing Tartte, Samuel W. Zimmer, appearing for White, and Commonwealth's Attorney R. H. Mann for the State. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Another New Lodge in Halifax County. Meadville, Halifax Co., Va., Feb 2. — Meadville was visited yesterday by Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Medical Director, E. R. Jefferson, Grand Master at Arms, J. Alexander Lewis, M. D., Capt, John G. Smith, of Richmond, District Deputy Grand Chancellor, H. C. White, Special Deputy M. D. Logan, of South Boston and Sinai respectively. They drove by wagon road eighteen miles through the country and arrived here at about 8:30 yrs. EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES The examination of witnesses proved quite lively at times and the court was called upon for numerous rulings. The morning session until 2 o'clock was devoted to the testimony for the prosecution, and the defense occupied the afternoon and evening sessions. The jury in the case of Rev. Eli Tarte, the pastor of Harrison Street Baptist (colored) Church, charged with misdemeanor, rendered a verdict late tonight of guilty, and fixed his term at twelve months in the City Jail. WHITE CONVICTED TOO Joseph White, colored, who was tried at the same time, and on the same charge, was given a like sentence Rev. Tartte and White both appealed from the Police Justice's sentence of six months in jail, and the verdicts tonight were upon this appeal. Counsel for Rev. Tartte and White made a motion for a new trial, which was set for hearing by Judge Mullen on Saturday, February 6. McCLURE'S MAGAZINE Contents For February 1909 Volume xxxii Number 4. Cover Design: Grover Cleveland. From the painting by William M. Paxton. Reproduced by courtesy of E. C. Benedict. Grover Cleveland. Frontispiece. From the painting by Eastman Johnson. Cleveland the Man. George F. Parker. Illustrated with photographs. Camilla's Marriage. A Story, Mary S. Watts. Illustrations by A, I. Keller. Fides, Spes. A Poem. Willa Silbert Cather. The Right to Live. A Story Joseph Kochel. Premonition. A Poem, Wanda Petrunkevitch. Work at the Rockefeller Institute: The Transplanting of Animal Organs, Burton J. Hendrick Illustrated with photographs. The Boy. A Story, Robert Sloss. Gift of the Gods—The Air. A Poem. Mildred McNeal Sweeney. Jim's Dude. A Story, Caroline Lockhardt. Illustrations by Maynard Dixon. Our Navy on the Land. George Kibbe Turner. Illustrated with photographs. Jack Did It. A Story. Hugh Wakefield. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. The Scientific Solution of the Liquor Problem. Henry Smith Williams, M. D. LL.D. A Little Speculation of the U. P. A. A Story. Adole Marie Shaw. Illustrations by M. Leone Bracker. "Marriage a la Mode." A Novel Mrs. Humphry Ward. Illustrations by F. Walter Taylor. Ideals. A Poem. Winifred Webb. An Audience with Abraham Lincoln. T. B. Bancroft. The Origin of Life on this Planet, Waldemar Kaempffert. Editorial: "Naval Incredibilities" PRICE, FIVE CENTS. E THS IN JAIL. Lette Loses on Appeal. MONTHS MORE THAN THE L ARGUE TO SET ASIDE DAY—A LONG FIGHT LIKE THE ELDER DE TO LEAVE RSBURG. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Another New Lodge in Halifax County. Meadville, Halifax Co., Va., Feb 2.—Meadville was visited yesterday by Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Medical Director, E. R. J. Jefferson, Grand Master at Arms, J. Alexander Lewis, M. D. Capt, John G. Smith, of Richmond, District Deputy Grand Chancellor, H. C. White, Special Deputy M. D. Logan, of South Boston and Sinai respectively. They drove by wagon road eighteen miles through the country and arrived here at about 3:30 yesterday afternoon in good condition. A club for a lodge of Knights of Pythias had been organized here by Sir M. D. Logan and it was to set up the lodge that they came. MANY THERE Members of the order from Vernon Hill Houston Sinai and South Boston came here in large numbers and many were ready to join. Grand Chancellor Mitchell delivered an eloquent and instructive address here at McKinley Industrial Institute and he praised the work highly. Mr. Richard Stovall, who is known as the largest plantation owner in this section and who is the financial backer of the Institute joined the lodge and he is smiling this morning. The lodge was made in the McKinley Institute building and the following officers were installed: Chancellor Commander, W. C. Terry; Vice Chancellor, James Hendrick; Samuel Plenty; Master of Work, Rev. P. L. Barksdale, Keeper of Records and Seal, D. C. Canada; Master of Exchequer, M. E. MdJmdu, Master at Arms, Glenn Simus; Master of Finance, W. H. Hism; Inner Guard, Winston Reed; Outer Guard, James Trainum; Trustees, Richard Stovall, John Owen, Wesley Hendrick. The Grand Chancellor complimented Sir M. D. Logan highly for his work in this section. He left with his party last night at 10:45 for South Boston. Afro-American Hair Goods Direct From Manufacturer, GREENBERG'S 589 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Mail Orders Sollicited. Write for Price List To-day. RAID ON NEGROES Hundreds of Blacks Arrested in Effort to Break Up Attacks. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 2.—More than 200 colored people have been arrested to-night in an effort by the police department to render the Herron Hill residence section of the city safe. In the last few weeks numerous attacks have been made by men upon young women and girls, each of which has been repulsed, but the offenders have invariably escaped. The police force was increased, but the attacks continued, and to-night a raid was made through the Negro quarter, and every colored man who could not show that he was employed was arrested as a vagrant. An effort will be made to send all of them to the work-house to-morrow. INFORMATION WANTED—Of Eliza Pryor. She will hear something to her advantage by addressing H. 1730 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. For fine printing call at the PLANET Office. SATAN SANDERSON Satan Sanderson "Who's Who" In the Story "SATAN" SANDERSON, the hero, dare devil, quixote friend and minister of the Gospel. HUGH STIRES, prodigal and criminal. JESSICA HOLME, the beautiful heroine, helpless in the rush of events and the principal sufferer in a case of mixed identity. MRS. HALLORAN, the camp oracle. DAVID STIRES; stern, yet forgiving, and at the last made happy by another's unhappiness. THE BISHOP, the victim of a misunderstanding. HALLELUJAH JONES, the religious fanatic on whose shoulders rests the whole weight of the story. KMET PRENDERGAST, the false friend, perjurer and thief. THE SHERIFF, who is very much divided between duty and inelination. "BIG" DEVLIN, who turns champion instead of prosecutor after the hero's race with death. Chapter 23 HE bell was tapping in the steeple of the little Catholic church on the edge of the town, and the mellow tone came clearly no the slope of HE bell was tapping in the steeple of the little Catholic church on the edge of the town, and the mellow tone came clearly up the slope of the mountain where once more the one time partner of Prendergast stood on the threshold of the lonely cabin, sentel over the mounds of yellow gravel that marked his toll. The returned wanderer had met with a distinct surprise in the town. As he passed through the streets more than one had noed or had spoken his name, and the recognition had sent a glow to his cheek and a lightness to his step. Since the daring feat in the automobile the tone of the gossip had changed. His name was no longer connected with the sluice robberies. The lucky find, too, constituted a material boom for Smoky Mountain and bettered the stock in its hydraulic enterprises, and this had been written on the credit side of the ledger. Opinion, so all powerful in a new community, had altered. All this he who had been the outcast could not guess, but he felt the change with satisfaction. Till the sun was low he sat in the cabin thinking. At length he called the dog and fastened it in its accustomed place and began slowly to climb the steep ascent toward the Knob. When he came to a certain vine grown trail that met the main path he turned aside. Here lay the spot where he had first spoken with her, face to face. Here she had told him there was nothing in his past which could not be buried and forgotten. As he parted the bushes and stepped into the narrow space beside the jutting ledge he stopped short with an exclamation. The place was no longer a tangle of vines. A grave had been lately made there, and behind it, fresh chiseled in the rock, was a statue—a figure seated, chin on hand, as if regarding the nearby mound. As in a dream he realized that its features were his own. Awestruck, the living man drew near. It was Jessica's conception of the prodigal son as she had modeled it in Aniston in her blindness, after Hugh's early return to the house in the aspens. David Stires had pointed out the distant Knob as a spot in which he would choose to be buried, and the wish had been observed. Her sorrow for his death had been deepened by the thought that the end had come too suddenly for David Stires to have reinstated his son. This sorrow had early return to the house in the aspens. David Stires had pointed out the distant Knob as a spot in which he would choose to be buried, and the wish had been observed. Her sorrow for his death had been deepened by the thought that the end had come too suddenly for David Stires to have reinstated his son. This sorrow had possessed one comfort—that he The living man drew near had known at the last and had forgiven Hugh. Of this she could assure him when he returned, for she could not really believe—so deep is the heart of a woman—that he would not return In the days of vigil she had found relief in the rough, hard work of the mallet. None had intruded in that out of the way spot, save that one day Mrs. Halloran, led by curiosity to see the grave of the rich man whose whim it had been to be buried on the mountain side, had found her at her work, and her Jessica had pledged to silence. She was no fool, was Mrs. Halloran, and to learn the name of the dead man was to put two and two together. Her motherly heart overflowed to the girl who worked each day at that self appointed task. Only the afternoon before Jessica had finished carving the words on the base of the statue on which the look of the startled man was now resting: "I will arise and go unto my father." The gazer turned from the words, with quick question, to the mound. He came close and in the fading light looked at the name on the low headstone. So he had come too late! If he could only have learned the truth earlier! If he might only put back the hands of the clock! Hours went by. At length he rose to his feet, his limbs cramped and stiffened, and made his way back to the lonely cabin on the hillside. There he found fuel, kindled a blaze in the fireplace and cooked his frugal supper. He thought of the losing battle he had fought there once before, when tempest shrrieked without—the battle which had ended in defeat. He thought of the will he had seen, now sealed with the great seal of death. He was the shorn beggar, she the beneficary. What duty she had owed his father was ended now. Desolate she might be—in need of a hand to guide and guard—but she was beyond the reach of penury. This gave him a sense of satisfaction. Was she there on the mountain at that moment? At last he took Old Despair's battered violin from the wall and, seating himself in the open doorway, looking across the mysterious purple of the gulches to the skyline sown with pale stars, drew the bow softly across the strings. Through manifold variations the music wandered till at length there came from the hollowed wood an air that was an unconscious echo of a forgotten wedding day-"O perfect love, all human thought transcending." The light breeze that shook the pine needles bore the sound far to an ear that had grown tense with listening—to one on the ridge above to whom it had sounded the supreme call of youth and life. He did not feel her nearer presence as she stole breathless across the dark path and stood behold him. The music died, the violin slipped from beneath his chin, the bow dropped and his head fell on his arms. Then he felt a touch on his shoulder and heard the whisper: "Hugh! Hugh!" "Jessica!" he cried and sprang to his feet. "I have watched every day and listened every night," she said. "I knew that you would come—that you must come back!" "If I had never gone, Jessica!" he exclaimed. "Then I might have seen my father. But I didn't know—" She clasped her hands together. "You know now? You remember it all!" He shook his head. "I have been there—" he pointed to the hillside. "and WILLIE JONES "The prodigal is yourself." I have guessed who it is that lies there. I know I sinned against him and against myself and left him to die unforgiving. That is what the statue said to me, as he must have said, "I am no more worthy to be called thy son." "Ah," she cried, "he knew and he forgave you, Hugh! His last thought was of your coming. That is why I carved the figure there." "You carved it?" he exclaimed. She THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Author of "Hearts Courageous," Etc. COPYRIGHT. 1968. THE BOBBS- MERRILL COMPANY bent her forehead to his hands as they clasped her own. "The prodigal is yourself," she said. "I modeled it once before when you came back to him, in the time you have forgotten. But I destroyed it"—the words were very low now—"on my wedding day." His hands released hers, and, looking up, she saw, even in the moonlight, that with the last word his face had gone glacially white. At the sight timidity, maidenly reserve, fell, and all the woman in her rushed uppermost. She lifted her arms and clasped his face. "Hug," she cried, "can't you remember? Don't you understand? Think! I was blind, dear, blind. A white bandage was across my eyes, and you came to me in a shaded room. Why did you come to me?" A spark seemed to dart through his brain like the prickling discharge from a Leyden jar. He saw himself standing, facing a figure with bandaged eyes. He saw the bandage torn off, felt that yielding body in his arms, heard a voice—her voice—crying: "Hugh, Hugh! My husband!" and felt those lips pressed to his own in the tense air of a darkened room. A cry broke from his lips: "Yes, yes, I remember! Jessica, my wife!" His arms went round her, and, with a little sob, she needed close to him on the doorsten. That hour on the mountain side under the stars had left iarry possessed of a nielee of perplexing emotions* Dreaming and waking Jessica's face hung before his eyes, her voice sounded in his ear. The future held no longer any doubt; it held only her. Where was that future to be? Back in the city to which his painful curiosity had so lately driven him? This lay no longer in his own choice. It was for her to decide now-Jessica, his wife. He looked up transfixed, for she stood there before him ankle deep in a brown whirlwind of leaves from a frost stung oak, her hand to her cheek in an adorable gesture that he knew, her lips paried and eager. "I wanted so to find you," she said. "I have so many, many things to say." "It is all wonderfully strange and new," he said. "It is as though I had rubbed Aladdin's lamp and suddenly had my heart's desire. How could I have thrown my pearl away?" "We are not to think of that," she protested, "never, never any more." "You are right," he rejoined cheerfully. "It is what I is to come that we must think of." He paused an instant; then he said: "Last night when you told me of the white house in the aspen I did not tell you that I had just come from there—from Aniston." She made an exclamation of wonder. "Tell me," she said. Sitting with her hand in his, he told of that night's experiences, the fear that had held him as he gazed at her portrait in the library, the secret of the Korean desk that had solaced his misery and sent him back to the father he was not to see. At mention of the will she threw out her hand with a passionate gesture. "The money is not mine!" she cried. "It is yours! He intended to change it! He told me so the day he died! Oh, if you think I"— "No, no," he said gently. "There is no resentment, no false pride, in my love, Jessica. I am thinking of you and of Aniston. You would have me go back, would you not?" She looked up, smiling, and slowly shook her head. "You are a blind guesser," she said. "Don't you think I know what is in your mind? Not Aniston, Hugh. Some time, but not now—not yet. It is nearer than that." His eyes flowed into hers. "You understand. Yes, it is here. This is where I must finish my fight first. Yesterday I would have left Smoky mountain forever because you were here. Now"— "I will help you," she said. "All the world besides counts nothing if only we are together. I could live in a cabin here on the mountain always, in a forest of Arden, till I grow old and want nothing but that—and you." As he did not answer, she faced him with crimson cheeks; then, reading his look, she suddenly threw her arms about his neck. "Hugh," she cried, "we belong to each other now! There is no one else to consider, is there? I want to be to you what I haven't been—to bear things with you and help you!" He kissed her eyes and hair. "You have helped, you do help me, Jessica!" he urged. "But I am jealous for your love. It must not be offended. The town of Smoky Mountain must not sneer—and it would sneer now." "Let it!" he exclaimed resentfully. "As if I would care!" "But I would care," he said softly. "I want to climb a little higher first." She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting the fallen leaves. "You don't want them to know that I am your wife?" "Not pet-till I can see my way." She nodded and smiled, and the cloud lifted from her face. "You must know best," she said. "This is what I shall do, then. I shall leave the sanitarium tomorrow. The people there are nothing to me, but the town of Smoky Mountain is yours, and I must be a part of it too. I am going to the Mountain Valley House. Mrs. Halloran will take care of me." She sprang to her feet as she added, "I shall go to see her about it now." He rose and walked with her through the bracken to the road. They came out to the driveway just below the tail that led to the Knob. The bank was high, and, leaping first, he held up his arms to her and lifted her lightly down. In the instant as she lay in his arms he bent and kissed her on the lips. Neither noted two figures walking together that at that moment rounded the bend of the road a little way above. They were Tom Felder and Dr. Brent. Both men saw the kiss and instinctively drew back. The doctor noted now the telltale flush on his companion's face. "We have surprised a romance," he said as the two unconscious figures disappeared down the curving stretch. "Who is the man?" "He is the one we have been talking about." Felder nodded. "His cabin is just below here on the hillside." "Good Lord!" elucidated the doctor. "What an infernal pity! What's his name?" "Hugh Stires." "Stires?" the other repeated. "Stires? How odd!" He stood a moment, tapping his suit case with his sick. Suddenly he took the lawyer's arm and led him into the sidepath. "Come," he said, "I want to show you something." He led the way quickly to the Knob, where he stopped, as much astonished as his companion, for he had known nothing of the statue. They read the words chiseled on its base. "The prodigal son," said Felder. "Now look at the name on the headstone," said the physician. Felder's glance lifted from the stone to peer through the screeching bushes to the cabin on the shell: below and returned to the other's face with quick comprehension. "You think"— "Who could doubt it? 'I will arise and go unto my father.' The old man's whim to be buried here had a meaning, after all. The statue is Miss Holme's work—nobody in Smoky Mountain could do it—and I've seen her modeling in clay at the sanitarium. What we saw just now is the key to what might have been a pretty riddle if we had ever looked farther than our noses. It's a case of a clever rascal and damnable propinquity. The ward has fallen in love with the black sheep." Chapter 24 H HALLELUJAH JONES was in his element. With his wheezy melodeon, his gasoline flare and his wild earnestness, he crowded the main street of the little mining town. He had not lacked for listeners here, for he was a new sensation. When he lit his flare in the courthouse square at dusk on the second evening the office of the Mountain Valley House was emptied and the barrooms and gaming tables well nigh deserted of their patrons. Jessica had seen the mustering crowd from the hotel entrance. Mrs. Halloran had welcomed her errand that day and given her her best room, a chamber overlooking the street. She had persuaded her visitor to spend the afternoon and insisted that she stay to supper, "just to see how she would like it for a steady diet." Now, as Jessica passed along toward the mountain road the spectacle chained her feet on the outskirts of the gathering. She watched and listened with a pre- HALELUJAH JONES Hallelujah Jones was in his element, occupied mind. She was thinking that on her way to the sanitarium she would cross to the cabin for a good night word with the man upon whom her every thought centered. As it happened, however, Harry was at that moment very near her. Alone on the mountain, the perplexing conflict of feeling had again descended upon him. He had fought it, but it had prevailed and at nightfall had driven him down to the town, where the street prescriber now held forth. He stood alone, unnoted, a little distance away near the courthouse steps, where by reason of the crowd Jessice could see neither him nor the dog, which sniffed at the heels of the circle of bystanders as if he to inquire casually of salvation. Numbers were swelling now, and the street preacher, shaking back his long hair, drew a premonitory, wavering chord from his melodeon and struck up a gospel song. The song ended, he mounted his camp stool to propound his usual fiery text. The watcher by the steps was gazing with a strange, alert intentness. Something in the scene held him enthralled. Hallelujah Joues knew the melodramatic value of contrast. As his mood called he passed abruptly from exhortation to song, from prayer to fulmination, and he embellished his harangue with anecdotes drawn from his lifelong campaign against the arch enemy of souls. Of what he had said the solitary observer had been quite unconscious. It was the ensemble—the repetition of something experienced somewhere before—that appealed to him. Suddenly, however, a chance phrase pierced to his understanding. Another moment and he was leaning forward, his eyes fixed, his breath straining at his breast. For each word of the speaker now was knocking a sledge hammer blow upon the blank wall in his brain. Halleujah Jones had launched into the recital of a story which, though the stern charge of a bishop had kept him silent as to name and locality, yet, possessing the vividness of an actual experience, had lost little in the telling. It was the tale of an evening when he had peered through the tilted window of a chapel and seen its dissolute rector gambling on the table of the Lord. The words shrieked themselves through Harry's brain. Harry Sander. Harry Anderson, not Hugh Stires! Not an outcast! Not criminal, thief and forger! The curtain was rent. The dead wall in his brain was down, and the real past swept over him in an unverable flood. Hailujiel Jones had furnished the clew to the maze. His history was the last great wave, which had crumbled all at once the cliff of oblivion that the nor- son, not Hugh Stires! Not an outcast! Not criminal, thief and forger! The curtain was rent! The dead wall in his brain was down, and the real past sweep over him in an ungovernable food. Halleujah Jones had furnished the clew to the maze. His story was the last great wave which had crumbled all at once the cliff of oblivion that the normal process of the recovered mind had been stealthily undermining. Harry Sanderson at last knew his past and all of puzzlement and distress that it had held Shaking in every limb and feeling all along the courthouse wall like a drunken man, he made his way to the further deserted street. A passerby would have shrunk at sight of his face and his burning eyes. For these months he, the Rev. Henry Sanderson, disgraced, had suffered eclipse, had been sunk out of sight and touch and hearing like a stone in a pool. For these months—through an accidental facial resemblance and a fortuitous concurrence of circumstances—he had owned the name and ignominy of Hugh Stires. And Jessica? Deceived no less than he, dating her piteous error from that mistaken moment when she had torn the bandage from her eyes on her wedding day, she had never seen the real Hugh in Smoky Mountain. She must learn the truth. Yet how to tell her? How could he tell her all? At any hour yesterday, hard as the telling must have been, he could have told her. Last night the hour passed. How could he tell her now? Yet she was the real Hugh's wife by law and right. He himself could not marry her. If God would but turn back the universe and give him yesterday! His feet dragging as though from cold, he climbed the mountain road. As he walked he took from his pocket the little gold cross, and his fingers, numb with misery, tied it to his thong watch guard. It had been only a baule, a pocket piece acquired he knew not when or how. Now he knew it for the badge of his calling. He remembered now that, pressed a certain way, it would open, and engraved inside were his name and the date of his ordination. He might shut the cabin door, but he could not forbid the torturer that came with him across the threshold. He might throw himself upon his knees and bury his face in the rough skin of the couch, but he could not shut out words that blent in golden lettered flashes across his throbbing eyeballs. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." So he crouched, a man under whose feet life had crashed, leaving him pinned beneath the wreck to watch the fire that must creep nearer and nearer. Curiosity held Jessica until the evangelist closed his melodone preparatory to a descent up on the dance hall. Then, thinking of the growing dark with some trepidation, she started toward the mountain. Ahead of her a muffled puff-puff sounded, and the dark bulk of an automobile was moving slowly in the same direction, and she quickened her pace, glad of this quasi company. A little way up the ascent a cumbrous shadow startled her. She saw in a moment that it was the automobile, halted at the side of the road. Her footsteps made no sound, and she was close upon it when she saw the three men it had carried standing near by. She made to pass them and had cross- ```markdown ``` ed half the intervening space, when some instinct sent her to the shade of the trees. They had stopped opposite the hydraulic concession, where a side path left the main road. It was the same path by which she and August Prendergast had taken their unconscious burden on a night long ago, leading along the billside, overlooking the snakelike flume and forming a steeper short cut to the cabin above. They were conversing in low tones, and as they talked they pointed, she thought, toward it. Jessica had never in her life been an eavesdropper, but her excited senses FUILLE JONES "It was Stirres killed him." made her anxious. Moreover, she was in a way committed, for she could not now emerge without being seen. As she waited a man came from the path and joined the others. The sky had been overcast and gloomy, but the moon drew out just then, and she saw that the newcomer, evidently a patrol, carried a rife in the hollow of his arm. She also saw that one of the first three was the automobile's owner. For some minutes they conversed in undertones, whose very secrecy inflamed her imagination. It seemed to her that they made some reference to the flume. Had there been another robbery of the sluice boxes and could they still suspect Hugh? Dread and indignation made her bold. When they turned into the path she followed, treading noiselessly, till she was close behind them. They had stopped again and were looking intently at a shadowy gray something that moved in the bottom below. She heard the man who carried the rifle say, with a smothered laugh: "It's only Barney McGinn's old white horse taking a drink out of the sluice box. He often does that." Then the sheriff's voice said: "McGinn's horse is in town tonight, with Barney on her back. Horse or no horse, I'm going to"— The rest was lost in the swift action with which he snatched the firearm from the first speaker, sighted and fired. In the still night the concussion seemed to rock the ground and roused a hundred echoes. It startled and shocked the listening girl, but not so much as the sound that followed it—a cry that had nothing animal-like and that sent the men running down the slope toward an object that lay huddled by the sluice box. In horrified curiosity Jessica followed, slipping from shadow to shadow. She saw the sheriff kneel down and draw a collapsed and empty horse-skin from a figure whose thieving cunning it would never cloak again. "So it was you, after all, Prendergast!" the sheriff said contemptuously. "The white face stared up at them, venomous and writhing, turning about the circle as though searching for some one who was not there. "How did--you guess?" The sheriff, who had been making a swift examination, answered the panted question. "You have no time to think of that now," he said. A sinister look darted into the filming yellow eyes, and hatred and certainty rekindled them. Prendergast struggled to a sitting posture, then fell back, convulsed. "Hugh Stires! He was the only—one who knew—how it was done. He's clever, but he can't get the best of Prendergast!" A spasm distorted his features. "Wait—walt!" He fumbled in his breast, and his fingers brought forth a crumpled piece of paper. He thrust it into the sheriff's hands. "Look! Look!" he gasped. "The man they found murdered on the claim there"—he pointed wildly up the hillside—"Dr. Moreau. I found him dying! Stires"—Strength was fast falling him. He tried again to speak, but only in articulate sounds came from his throat. A blind terror had clutched the heart of the girl leaning from the shadow. "Dr. Moreau"—"murdered." Why, he had been one of Hugh's friends! Why did this man couple Hugh's name with that worst of crimes? What dreadful thing was he trying to tell? She hardly repressed a desire to scream aloud. "Be careful what you say, Prender-gast," said the sheriff sternly. The wretched man gathered force for a last effort. His voice came in a croaking whisper: "It was Stires killed him. Moreau wrote it down—and I—kept the paper. Tell Hugh—we break—even!" WHILE the man whom the town knew as Hugh Stires listened to the tale of the street preacher, another, unlike yet curiously like him in feature, had slowly climbed the lilly slope from the north by the sanitarium road. He walked with a jaunty swagger bred of too frequent applications to a flask in his pocket. As he walked unsteadily along Hugh drank more than once from the flask to deaden the superstitious dread of the place which was stealing over him. On the crest of the ridge he skirted the sanitarium grounds and at length gained the road that twisted down toward the lights of the town. In the dubious moonlight he mistook the narrow trail to the Knob for the lower path to the cabin. As he turned into it the report of a rifle came faintly from the gulch below. He quickened his steps and stumbled all at once into the little clearing that held the new made grave and Jessica's statue. The sight terrified his intoxicated imagination. His hair rose. The name on the headstone was Stires, and there was himself—no, a ghost of himself—sitting near! He turned and broke into a run down the steep slope. In his fear—for he imagined the white figure was pursuing him—he tripped and fell, regained his feet, rushed across the level space, threw his weight against the cabin door and burst into the room. A dog sprang up with a growl, and in the light of the fire that burned on the hearth a man sitting at the rough hewn table lifted a haggard face from his arms, and each recognized the other. The ghost was gone now before firelight and human presence, and Hugh, with a loud laugh of tips incredulity, stood staring at the man before him. "Harry Sanderson" he cried. His shifty eyes surveyed the other's figure—the corduroys, the high laced boots, the soft blue flannel shirt. "Not exactly in purple and fine linen," he said. The impudent swagger of intoxication had slipped over him again, and his boisterous laugh broke with a bie-cough. "I thought the gospel game was about played out that night in "You were something of a howling swell as a parson." the chapel. And now you are willing to take a hint from the prodigal. How did you find my nest? And perhaps you can tell me who has been ing himself so at home here lately. "I have," said Harry evenly. Hugh's glance, that had been wavering about the neat interior, returned to Harry, and knowledge and anger leaped into it. "So it was you, was it? You are the one who has been trying his hand as a claim jumper!" He lurched toward the table and leaned upon it. "I've always neared that the devil took care of his own. The runaway rector stumbles on my manor, and, with his usual luck—Satan's luck we called it at college—steps in just in time to strike it rich." He stretched his hand suddenly and caught a tiny object that glittered against Harry's coat—the little gold cross which the other had tied to his watch guard. The thong snapped, and Hugh sent the pendant rattling across the doorway. "You were something of a howling swell as a parson," he said insolently, "but you don't need the jewelry now." Harry Sanderson's eyes had not left Hugh's face. He was thinking swiftly. The bolt from the blue had been so recent that this sudden apparition seemed a natural concomitant of the situation. Only the problem was no longer imminent. It was upon him. Jessica was not for him—he had accepted that. Though the clock might not turn backward, this man must stand between them. Yet his presence now in the predicament was intolerable. "Well," said Hugh, with a sneer, "what have you got to say?" "How much will you take for the property?" "That's your game, is it? But I'm not such a numskull! Whatever you could offer, it's worth more to me. I know you, Satan Sanderson," he sneered. "You were always the same precious hypocrite in the old days, pretending to be so almighty virtuous, while you looked out for No. 1. I saw through you then, too, when you were posing as my friend, and trying your best all along to queer me with the old man! I knew it well enough. I knew v what the reason was too. You wanted Jessica! You"— Self control left Harry suddenly, as a ship's sail is whipped from its gaskets in a white squail. Before the words could be uttered his fingers were at Hugh's throat. At that instant there was the sound of running feet outside, a hurried knock at the door and an agitated voice that chilled Harry's blood to ice. His hands relaxed their hold. He dragged Hugh to the door of the inner room, thrust him inside, shut and bolted it upon him. Then he went and opened the outer door. The accusation of Prendergast had stunned Jessica's facilities. As in an evil dream she had seen the sheriff rise to his feet and methodically put the fragment of paper into his pockethook. A moment later she was running up the dark path, her thoughts a confu- THE PLANET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 6. '09 sion in which only one coherent purpose stood distinct—to varn him. They would know no need to hasten. The man she loved had reached the cabin, she would be before them. She stood before the door, her hands clasped tightly, her eyes on Harry's face. "What has happened?" he asked. "Men will be here soon—men from the town. I overheard them. I wanted to let you know!" she hesitated. It had grown all at once difficult to put into words. "Coming here? Why?" "To arrest a man who is accused of murder." If her eyes could have pierced the bolted door a few feet away! If she could have seen that listening face behind it, as her clear tones fell, grow instinct with recognition, amazement and evil suspicion—a look that her last word swept into a sickly gray terror! If she could have heard the groan from the wretched man beyond! "Dr. Moreau's." Jessica waited with caught breath, searching his countenance. It was told now, but he must know that she had not credited it, that "for better, for worse," she must believe in him now. "I knew, oh, I knew!" she cried. "You need not tell me!" "No," he said gravely. "I am not the man they want. It has all come back to me—the past that I had lost. Such a crime has no part in it. Jessica," he said, "you have tried to save me from danger tonight. I need a greater service of you now. It is to ask no question, but to go at once. I cannot explain why, but you must not stay here a moment." "Oh," she cried bitterly, "you don't intend to leave! You choose to face it, and you want to spare me. If you really want to spare me, you will go! Why, you would have no chance where they have hated you so. Prendergast was killed robbing the sluice tonight, and he lied—lied—lied! He swore you did it, and they will believe it!" He put back her beseechings. How could he explain? Only to get her away to gain time to think! "Listen!" she went on wildly. "They will wait to carry him to the town. I can go and bring my horse here for you. There is time! You have only to send me word and I will follow you to the end of the world! Only say you will go!" He caught at the straw. The expedition might serve. "Very well," he said; "bring him to the upper trail and wait there for me." She gave a sob of relief at his acquiescence. "I will hurry, hurry!" she cried and was gone, swift as a swallow flight, into the darkness. As he re-entered the cabin the calmness fell from Harry Sanderson as a mask drops, and the latent passion sprang in its place. He crossed the room and drew the bolt for the wretched man who, after one swift glance at his face, grooved on his knees before him, sobered and shivering. "For God's sake, Harry, you won't give me up!" Hugh cried. "You can't mean to do that! Why, we were in college together! I'd been drinking tonight or I wouldn't have talked to you as I did." Harry drew his feet from the frantic hands that clasped them. "Did you kill Moraau?" he asked shortly. "It was an accident," moaned Hugh. "I never intended to. I swear to heaven I didn't. He hounded me, and he tried to bleed me. I only meant to frighten him off. Then—then—I was afraid, and I ran for it. That was when I came to you at Aniston and we played." Hugh's breath came in gasps, and drops of sweat stood on his forehead. "When we played?" he echoed. "How have you settled your debt, the 'debt of honor' you once counted so highly? How have you lived since then? Have you paid me those days of decent living you staked, and lost?" "But I will!" he exclaimed desperately. "If you'll only help me out of this I'll live straight to my dying day! You don't know how I've suffered, Harry, or you'd have some mercy on me now! Let me go, Harry, for my father's sake!" "Your father is dead," said Harry. "Then for old time's sake!" He tried to chap Harry's knees. "They may be here at any minute! I must have been seen as I crossed the mountain! I thought it would never come out or I wouldn't have come! I'll go far enough away. I'll go to South America, and you will never see me alive again, neither you nor Jessica! For God's sake, Harry, listen! Jessica wouldn't want to see me fung! For her sake!" It was the Harry Sanderson of St. James' parish, of the scrupulous conscience—whose college career as Satan Sanderson had come to be a fiery sore in his breast—who now spoke. "Get up!" he said. "Have you any money?" Hugh rose, trembling and ashen. "Hardly $10," he answered. Harry considered hastily. He was almost penniless. Nearly all his share of the strike had gone to repay the forged draft. "I have no ready cash," he said, "but the night we played in the chapel I left a thousand dollars in my study safe. I have not been there since." He took pencil and paper from his pocket and wrote down some figures hastily. "Here is the combination. You must try to get that money." "Walt," he added as Hugh's hand was on the latch. He must risk nothing. He could make assurance doubly sure. "A half mile from the foot of the mountain, where the road comes in from Funeral Hollow, wait for me. 1 will bring a horse there for you." Hugh crushed the paper into his pocket and opened the door. "I'll wait," he said. He darted out, slipped around the corner of the cabin and stealthily disappeared. Harry sat down upon the doorstep. The strain had been greent. In the re- WILLIE JONES He wring Harry's hand. action he was faint, and a mist was before his eyes. The die was cast. Hugh could easily escape. Until he himself spoke he would not even be hunted. He, Harry Sanderson, was the scapegoat, left to play his part. How long he sat there he did not know. He sprang up at a muffled sound. He had still a work to do before they came—for Hugh! He saw in an instant, however, that it was Jessica, leading her horse by the bridle. "I could not wait," she breathed. "You did not come, and I was afraid!" Mounting, he leaned from the saddle and took both her hands in his. Still he did not kiss her. "Jessica, you believe I am innocent?" he asked anxiously. "Yes—yes!" "Will you believe what I am doing is for the best?" "Always, always!" she whispered, her voice vibrating. "Only go!" He released her hands and rode quickly up the grassy path. As she stood looking after him a dog's whine came from the cabin. She ran and released the spantei and took him up in her arms. As she did so a sparkle caught her eye. It came from the tiny gold cross lying where Hugh had fung it near the lighted doorway. She picked it up, looked at it a moment abstractedly and thrust it into her pocket scarce consciously, for her heart was keeping time to the silenced booth beat that was bearing the man she loved from danger. Where the way opened into the groove cut of Funeral Hollow, Harry dismounted and went forward slowly afoot, heading the horse, till a figure stepped from a clump of bushes to meet him with an exclamation of relief. Hugh had waited at the rendezvous in shivering apprehension and dismal suspicion of Harry's intentions and had not approached till he had convinced himself that the other came alone. He wrung Harry's hand as he said: "If I get out of this, I'll do better the rest of my life, I will, upon my soul, Harry!" "You may not be able to get into the chapel," said Harry; "my rooms"—he felt his cheek burn as he spoke—"may be occupied. On the chance that you fall, take this." He took off the ruby ring, whose interlaced initials had once fortified him in his error of identity. "The stone is worth a good deal. It should be enough to take you anywhere." Hugh nodded, slipped the ring on his finger and rode quickly off. Then Harry turned and walked rapidly back toward the town. (To Be Continued.) Unaccountable Mistake. All was quiet in the sleeping car. Suddenly the passenger in lower No. 7 parted the curtains, thrust out a weather beaten face, and halted the table functionary who was tiptoosing past. "Say," he grumbled, "where's the pillars for this bank?" "There are your pillows, suh," said the porter. "Them things!" exclaimed the pass- enger. "Smash my toplight! I thought them was the life preservers!" —Chicago Tribune. The Unhappy Medium "Bronson is one of the most humble men I ever law." "Yes. Arrogance seems to be wholly foreign to his make-up." "I wonder why it is that he always has such a servile manner?" "I think it is because he is neither rich enough to get into a trust nor poor enough to belong to a union."—Judge. Valuable Trait of Character No trait of character is racer, none more adimarble, than thoughtful independence of the opinions of others, combined with a sensitive regard to the feelings of others—A. J. Froude. Make Allowance Helvettius: in order to love mankind we must not expect too much of them. A hole has been bored in Silesta to a depth of 7,000 feet. Oh Ye Tears! The Town Grumbler—"I dunno' what things is coming' to. Poor old Henry gone; Aunt Jane's busted her leg; the old woman's ill abed; an' now, doggone me, if I 'avent lost my knife.'—Hawkeye Weekly. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IN THE GAY MASQUE IN THE GAY MASQUE SIMPLY-MADE COSTUME FOR A YOUNG GIRL. Green Roman Satin the Material, Ornamented with Emblems of Common Superstitions Generally Believed In. This simply-made dress is of green Roman satin, ornamented with emblems of the more common superstitions, in whose making or marring of our daily weal we have a reluctant belief. The skirt, bordered with white may, is trimmed with peacecok's feathers, four-leaved shamrocks of velvet and playing cards. The "V" bodice has a border of white heather; the vest of tening children, bordered with a little appliqué trimming, has at either corner A ner of the square neck a "nine peacapod" and a Philippine almond, made of colored plasticine. A new moon in the hair, a spider on the shoulder, an owl perched on the wrist, a necklace of pierced coins, and an oval bracelet, dispose of several more traditions. "Friday" in silver braid decorates the waistband, and a horsehoe and ladder cut in silver card may be sewn on either sleeve. The fauses seven and 13 form shoe-buckles. A black cat should be led on a green ribbon, and the final touch of a broken mirror, should anyone dare tempt fate and break one, may be suspended from the waist. The trimmings could easily be added to should other ideas occur to one. Material required for the dress itself: Five yards 42 inches wide, five yards sateen lining. NOT ALL FOR THE YOUNG. This Season Fashion Designers Have Had Thought for the Elderly. All the fashions are not for the young this winter. There never were prettier costumes for elderly ladies. The lines are just suited for figures that have lost something of their definiteness. All the shades of gray as well as all black build these costumes. The woman who wants a good-looking suit for dressy afternoon affairs chooses a long, straight, high-waisted black liberty skirt with a Napoleon coal of Ottoman silk, which has three small shaped capes on the shoulders. There is a high turn-over collar faced with velvet, embroidered with gold threads. The wide cuffs match the collar. There is a tiny waistcoat of gold embroidered black satin and a full jabot of fine old lace. With this suit is worn a wide turban of black satin laid in folds with a white oscrey at the side. Pansled Sleeves Down the outer edges of every smart dress sleeve now runs a "panel," or strapping of contrasting fabric. If the sleeve is of tucked or shirred net, the panel will be of satin; or, in case the net sleeve ornaments a cloth frock, the panel will be of the cloth. Cloth sleeves, on the other hand, have panels of embroidered net or lace insertion matching the material in color, and through these transparent panels the flesh is allowed to show. Along most of the panels goes a row of buttons, or there are at least several groups of small buttons to accentuate the outline trimming of the sleeve. Satin Gowns with Plain Skirts. The satin gown often has an absolutely plain satin skirt—devoid of trimming, that is—though there may be some ripe drapery to break the severity. The old rose liberty of a gown I saw in Bond street recently illustrated a successful version of the diagonal trimming lines which are popular with Parisian designers, and the simple bias bands of satin laid on net of the same color are a good detail, as are the finishing motifs made of heavy satin cord.—American Register, London. Ermine Very Adaptable Ermine is proving itself peculiarly adaptable to fanciful effects and is particularly alluring in the form of a fichu stole, the fichu effect finishing short of the waist at the back and being drawn to the figure by various decorative devices. ADDS STYLE TO COSTUME Handsome Collar Gives Blouse an Air of Distinction. Hard embroidery and good laces are always expensive and these are the first principles of fine lingerie and linen novelties, but many a woman considers the money well spent when a handsome collar gives her blouse or whole costume an air of style. Irish lace plays a considerable part in many of the more expensive collars and bows or robats, and there is a decided liking for collars whose turnover part is composed wholly of real Irish lace or baby Irish net—with small motifs of heavier design. With these collars is worn soft colored silk or a small bow of lace corresponding with the lace of the collar. Some women draw a sheer silk scarf or tie around the neck so that the delicate color shows through the lace, and tie this scarf in a little knot at the front; but while many sorts of silk cravats and bows are shown in the shops and adapted for practical reasons, there is a decided preference for the bow of lingerie or lace. Some new models of embroidered linen set with tiny medallions of Irish lace fasten in the back instead of the front, but a little rebat matching the collar and made in one finishes the front. ODD CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. Mint Perfume Declared to Be Good Ally of Morpheus. The girl held up a bag of thin green china skin emboid red on one side with the words "Sweet Dreams" in white mercerized lettering. Long ribs that formed the draw strings had a bow at one end, with a picture hook attached underneath it. "Guess what it is," she said. "It is an offering to my friends with in- sonnila. "When I was abroad last summer a trained nurse told me that the smell of mint often cured sleepsessness. She had tried it successfully with many of her patients. She saturated a small sponge with mint perfume, put it in a linen bag and hung it above the head of the sleepsess one, or some- times tucked it under her pillow. "This year when racking my brain what to give, I decided to send several women and men who are ever groaning about no sleeping this simple prescription for insomnia. "The silk is as near the color of young mint as I could get it, and I have a new sponge and a bottle of mint perfume on the inside. To the neck of the bottle I tie a card, with a note telling the use to which the contents are to be put." EMPIRE DINNER GOWN. ROSE The cut to-day shows an excellent model for a charming empire dinner gown. The material is dove gray satin and the embroidery as indicated by sketch is done in silver threads. The little ornaments on embroidered tabs on each side of bodice are silver tassels. Tiny ruffles of gray chiffon edge shoulder pieces and serve as a finish to elbow sleeves. Flower Sachets. Flower sachets are extremely dainty. To make a rose sachet a little ball of perfumed cotton must be covered with crinkly pink or white silk. Petals are formed around this center with satin ribbon, and green ribbon wound around wire suggests a stem. A tiny bit of rose follage (bought at the hat-trimming counter) is added, and the result is a pretty rose spray. A lovely velvet pansy will entirely conceal a little flat perfumed cushion and a yellow and white ribbon daisy does the same service. Tales of Tailored Girl The tailored girl will tell you of many new things this winter. She wears a flannel blouse with detachable collar and cuffs, and she has a wonderful front panel which turns the front of her waist. It matches the collar. She also has pockets which finish her rather mannish blouse. Her winter blouse materials are flannel, silk, satin, glass linen and the heaviest of white crash. These materials are made up in tailored fashion and are worn all winter under the handsome tailored coat and skirt suits. Turban with Tails The newest fur turban is made very broad across the head, is without trimming, and has a bunch of graded tails hanging down to the shoulder, on the right side. It is a question whether this is a becoming fashion to anyone, but the fact remains that it is the fashion THOUGHTS ON PROFUNDITY. What is profound thought? What is the main difference between deep and shallow thinking? Oliver Wendell Holmes was said not to be a deep thinker. He wrote pretty good stuff. Prof. Josiah Royce of Harvard college is generally acknowledged by those who are more or less familiar with his writings, to be a profound thinker. But has this quality of profundity given him as much real insight as if his excellent literary talents had been concerned with lighter material? Appearances are often deceitful. Shakespeare, who made a business of being interesting, put some monumental truths into the mouths of his clowns, not one of whom is considered to be profound. If Profoundity were called up to the bar of Truth and tried by its peers, would it not, upon the evidence, be adjudged a bryoprite? When a person doesn't really understand what he is talking about, and he has literary talent enough to arrange his words so that they appear to mean something which the unenlightened have, not the wit to perceive, then he is profound. Great artists are never profound. It is almost ridiculous to think how ap parent is everything they do. Their simplicity is the cause of perpetual astonishment.—Life. JOSIAH'S HORSE TRADE. "Josiah," said Aunt Suzan after she had heard the particulars of the horse trade in which her husband had apparently finished a poor second, "you're the worst fool I ever seen. Laws am-mercy, ain't you old enough to know yet that when a person wants to git up a trade with you for something you ain't anxious to git rid of it's because they want to cheat you? I declare to goodness I think sometimes you git so you know less and less the older you grow. You won't never too smart, as far as that's concerned, and I often wonder how I've managed to put up with you as long as I have: but this caps the climax. The idea of tradin' off a horse with nothin' worse than the heaves and mebby a spavin or two for that critter you've brought home. It's that humillatin' I don't know what I'll ever be able to say when the neighbors git to askin' about it." "I'll tell you what to do," replied her husband, as he laid his knife aside and began scooping up the pork gravy with a spoon, "if the neighbors git to askin' questions that's embarrassin' you just turn the subject off by tellin' 'em about sendin' on 50 cents for 20 useful articles and gittin' that number of plus." Then Aunt Suzan wiped her eyes with her checked apron, and said between her sobs: "You always was such a hand to harp, Joslash! And, anyway, I want you to understand it was money I got for eggs my own hens laid. I hope this horse you 'go' die. Then, maybe, you'll have a little sympathy in your heart once and awhile"—S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald Horrible. Society Leader (with a steely glitter in her eye)—Are you the editor of this paper? The Mere Man—Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you? Society Leader—In response to a question by your society editor yesterday I said that at the hard times party we are going to have I would appear in negligence costume. In your paper this morning, sir, it was printed 'negligible costume!'" — Chicago Tribune Intensely. "Your mistress told me she would be in at this hour," said the caller, "Is she engaged?" The maid listened a moment to the whack-whacking sounds that came from the nursery on the floor above, interspersed with loud yells that seemed to come from the vocal organs of a small boy. "Very much, ma'am," she said.—Chicago Tribune. Laughter. A little laughter Smooths away The rough spots of A busy day. —Detroit Free Press. A GOOD DRAWING CARD. The Musical Critic—Your leading soprano's voice sounds metallic to me. Operatic Manager—I know; there's money in it.—Syracuse Herald. Too Much for Her A woman can easily make up her face, Likewise her figure, you'll find; But ten to one she'll not make good When she tries to make up her mind An Unset Jinks—I took my first sleigh ride yesterday. Blinks—I didn't know you had a rig. "I hired one at a livery stable." "Were you upset?" "Indeed I was—when I learned the price."—New York Weekly. Nothing to Be Shocked About. Winks—I hear society is shocked because one of the four hundred wants to marry a ballet girl. Minks—'H'm! Society girls marry old men; why shouldn't society youths marry old women if they want to?—New York Weekly. Right. Eh? Niece—Uncle, they say that there are more marriages of blondes than of brunettes. Why is it, I wonder? Uncle Singleton (a confirmed bachelor)—'H'm! Naturally, the light-headed once go first. Changed. "Old Carser has been away for a number of years, hasn't he? I met him on the street this morning." "Has he changed much?" "Oh, immensely. He has two new jokes."—Cleveland Leader. MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR--SOFT AND LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE OR SHORT AND KINKY A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THAT KINKY, CURLY HAIR, PUTTING IT IN THE MOST PERFECT CONDITION TO BE COMBED INTO ANY SHAPE JUST TRAVEL A BOTTLE OF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. There is no other preparation on earth to equal Lincoln Hair Pomade in producing soft, beautiful hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is a natural hair cleanser—a natural promoter of growth and naturally reduces the hair's light and combable condition; but also supplies the air with a silk and cotton. No matter how rough or heavy your hair is now, no matter how much it may be, the use of Lincoln Hair Pomade will give you hair that can well be the envy of others. Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior substitutes. Do not take anything that is claimed to be just as good, but insist on getting the genuine. PRICE, 15 CENTS. MANUFACTURED BY The Lincoln Pomade Co. NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep it, send 20 cents in stamps or silver to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO., Department B, Norfolk, Va. and we will send you a bottle by return mail. The Hawkins-Price Co. Hair Growers and Restorers. The Lincoln Pomade Co NORFOLK, VA, U. S. A. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep it, send 20 cents in stamps or silver to THE LIN-COLN POMADE CO., Department B, Norfolk, Va, and we will send you a bottle by return mail. The Hawkins-Price Co. Hair Growers and Restorers. (TRADE MARK REGISTERED) Carries a full line of natural human hair- braids, bangs, pompadaurs and the latest styles in front pieces— all colors—black, brown gray and mixed gray. Those desiring pieces to match the hair must be very sure in stating ex- plicitly the colors desir- ed. It is always safe to send a small sample of hair if possible, so that we may be in a position to match it correctly. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary and is perfectly harmless. Sale Price, 25 and 50 cents and $1 per bottle. A charge of ten cents extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order, or Express Money order. Address all communications to HAWKINS-PRICE COMPANY, 'Phone 4601, 616 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. Correspondence Strictly Confidential. N. B.-Following schedule figures published only as information, and are not guarantees 11:00 A. M.-Daily-Limited-Buffalo Pullman to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga, and all the South. Tampa coach for Chase City, Orlando, Durham. 6:00 P. M.-Ex. Sunday-Kyville Local 12:00 A. M.-Daily-Limited Pullman read 9:30 4:30 P. M.-Ex. Sunday-To West Point-Gus M. M.-Ex. Baltimore Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 2:15 P. M.-Monday, Wednesday and Friday- 4:24 A. M.-Ex. Sunday-Local to West Point. 7:00 A. M. - 9:30 P. M. - From all the South. 4:10 A. M. - From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham C. M. - From Charlotte 8:40 A. M. - From Keysville - Local. 9:28 A. M. - From West Point and from more morning. F. M. - Friday and Sunday. 10:45 A. M. - 5:40 P. M. - West Point. S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A. SEABOARD SOUTHOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 818 A. M.-Local to Norfolk. Raleigh. Charlotte. Wilmington. 12:36 A. M.-Sleepsers, coaches, Savannah, Jacksonville and Southwest. NORTHBOUND TRAIN SCHEDULD TO AD- RIVE ERIKHOND DAILY. 8:00 A. M. 8:25 A. M. Florida Limited, 8:30 P. M. 8:25 P. M. —Mr. Joseph Evans, cur agent at Pittsburg, Pa. desires all his custom-subscriptions for the Richmond PLAN, the past due to call and settle at once. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` 4 RAILROADS. TO AND FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND Leave Richmond *5.20 M. Byr. St. Sta. *5.40 M. Byr. St. Sta. *6.58 M. Byr. St. Sta. *6.88 M. Byr. St. Sta. *8.40 M. Byr. St. Sta. *12.01 P. Byr. St. Sta. *14.15 P. Byr. St. Sta. *15.15 P. Byr. St. Sta. *8.20 P. Byr. St. Arrive Richmond *7.50 M. Byr. St. Sta. *8.25 M. Byr. St. Sta. *11.03 M. Byr. St. Sta. *12.45 P. Byr. St. *7.10 P. Byr. St. *9.00 P. Byr. St. *10.45 P. Byr. St. *11.23 P. Byr. St. ASHLAND ACCOMMODATIONS—WEEKDAYS, Leave Elba Station—7.45 M. Byr. 1.45 P. Byr. 6.30 P. Byr. Arrive Elba Station—6.40 M. Byr. 10.40 P. Byr. 5.40 P. *Daily, †Weekdays, §Sundays only, †Daily except Monday. All trains to or from Elba Street Station stop at Elba. Read the signa. All Pullman cars, no stop! ONLY ALL-RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Hickman. In the Dec. 1, 1997. For Norfolk: 0 A. M. 8:00 P. M. and 7:00 P. M. daily. For Lynchburg, the West and Southwest— 2:00 A.M. 12:00 P.M. M., and 9:40 P.M. m.daily ARRIVE RICHMOND—From Norfolk—11:38 A.M. and 6:50 P.M. m.daily. From the West— 7:40 A.M. 8:50 P.M. m.daily. Pellman, Parlor and sleeping Carve. Curl Dining Cars. ATLANTIC COAST LINE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South-8:14 A. M. and 7:28 P. M. *11:40 P. M. For Norfolk-0:50 A. M. ; 8:00 P. M and 7:28 P. M. For N. and W. Ry. Week-9:30 A. M. ; 12:12 and 9:40 P. M. For Goldboro-9:30 A. M. ; 12:10 and 9:08 P. M. ; 6:00 ; 9:40 P. M. ; 7:25 and 10:20 P. M. For Goldboro and Fayetteville: *8:10 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily-6:10; *8:18 P. M. ; 7:25 and 8:10 A. M. ; 7:28 ; 8:05 P. M. ; 8:00 and 2:00 P. M. *Except Sunday. **Sunday only.** *Hazari Monday. Time of arrivals and departures and seasions not guaranteed. C. S. CAMPBELD, D. A. KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS MARY C. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. YORK RIVER LINE TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. $20 E. Main Street, 'Phone 442 aT Re er i a Oi i ET Se aN re Oe een Se is F z ce eee is COO Ean FOUR ae erieeniatn tee ds odes cae i a ee : es pr ANS | ri ANGARSARN GT. pa >. eee SS 0 ae ecbiusbed ecery Maturlay by JOUN MITOHELL JOHN MITCHELL, JR., « EDITOR . 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FEBRUARY 6, "09. ———————— It pays to be honest and it helps us much to be polite. Colored people have much religion We need much money to go along with plenty of religion, — President Roosevelt has won out In California, but he is still in dis- favor with the Congress. Humility fs all right, so long as ‘@ sacrifice of manhood is not re- quired to go along with it. eee ees White folks are giving us some mighty good advice, but some mighty bad examples. Let us continue our efforts to ele- vate the children of the race to the plane of racial «respectability and legal responsibility. Colored folks should continue to make friends with the white folks. They can help us mucu now down here in this low ground of sorrow. —— No, we do not get a square deal in all of the court houses of the Southland. We are the victims of caste prejudice. Still, we sometimes get justice and a plenty of it and of a kind that fs not always acceptable to anverring one. Let us look on the bright side for 2 while. tae SENATOR FORAKER WILL WIN. The announcement that a vote will be taken in the Unites States Senate on the compromise bill Tuesday, Feb- Truary 23, 1909 will be gratifying in- formation to every cclored person in the United States, who has followed closely the speeches and measures for the restoration to the army with fall pay of the members of Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fitth U- nited States Infantry. It is an open admission that all efforts to secure evidence against them has failed and it is notice to the world that Presi- dent Roosevelt, despite all of his pre- Judice in this case has come at last to se6 that he has been deceived in ‘this matter and his confidence gross- ly abused by men in whom he had confided. We confess that we cannot see how the resuit can be other than a signa triumph for these colored de- fenders of the nation, They have deen under continuous fire for sev- eral years and the words of the poet were never more emphatically dem- onstrated and emphasized than in the following: “Rroth crushed to earth shall rise again. The eternal years of God are hers: But Error wounded, writhes in pain And dies among her worshippers.” Senator B. R, Tillman is row cx- deavoring to defeat the coufirmation of Dr. W. D. Crum of Charleston, §. C. aa Collector of that Port upon’ no othersrounds than that he is a cltt- zen of color, He has discharged the duties of the office In a manner high- ly creditable to himself and the pow- er that appointed him. The patrons of the office have na complaint to Make and the evidence is all in hls favor. That the speeches that will de made will be for home consumption is evident. ‘There will be a ttmd when these questions of race preja- dice will be discussed and decided upon thelr merits and men, who vi- olate solemn oaths and great princi- ples will receive the kind of condem- hation that their conduct deserves, ogee CONSUL PAYNE'S POSITION. It was “charged that Hon, C. H, Payne, U. S. Consul to the Danish Weat Indies favored “a Jim Crow” Car law for West Virginia. Any one who has known him would not need any statement from him upon the ‘question. We would have taken the ‘responsibility to deny the report with out having seen him or having re- celved a Une from him upon the sub- ject. He explains his position as fol- lows: I am quite sure that the wisdem, patriotism and statomanship — 86 Abundant in the Republican leader- ship act of West Virginia can and will see to it that there is a law enacted by the coming legistature that will tend to remove, in a large measure, the excuse for this clamor for “Jim Crow” cars. This relief will come In ty opinion not through the channel of a separate car law but by a law forcing the railroads to provide suf- ficient decent cars to accomodate the travel along their lines and aiso a provision, if necessary, separating the people on class Hnes instead of on race lines, such a law wer! tz my opinion remove the trouble. The great Republican party can pase a law compelling a dirty drunken, til- mannerly person, white or black, to remain In any compartment of a car designated, by the management of a railroad, fr occupancy by passengers of that class and be in perfect harmony with its time honored prin- ciples but (he moment it commits It- self to the policy that places peopie in certain compartments simply be- cause they are of different races then it will have left its moorings and will not longer be the party of Love- Joy, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Lin- coln, Phillips and Grant. The party has retained the confidence and sup- port of West Virginians and the American yeople, generally, by Its adherence to the great doctrine of freedom, equal rights, equa! justice, and falr play and so’ long as strict regard is had for those cardinal principles the party, in my opinion, 4s safe. ‘This Is in keeping with our pos!- tion all along. Any diserimination not based upon race or color, but up- on condition would have the cordial support of both races. Any agitation that has a tendency to stir up i!l- feeling between the white and colored people of this country Is to the in- jury of both. Let us have peace. THE TROUBLE IN PITTSBURGH. | The action of the Pittsburgh, Penn ‘sylvania Police Department in arrest- ing indiscriminately all the colored ‘people in the city, that appeared to [be without employment, simply be- cause alleged assaults or attempted jagsaults had been made upon white sirls In that city, to our minds was a confession of a lack of ability in the fetective and police departments That such action was resented by the ‘law-abiding element of the Negro pop — was to be expected, just as it ‘would have been resented by the law-abiding population of this city. | There was a similar disposition to do this kind of thing in Richmond « few years ago, but the idea was re- Jected and the sleuth hereabouts got down to work and it is a noticeabie fact that a colored inap, who beat a white girl on a Sundey worning, while robbing her was arrested with the girl's property upon his person within ten hours from the time that the crime was committed. That was 8 practical demonstration of the skill [and ability of the Poltce Department of Richmond. White and colored people breathed freer, when the criminal was in the hands of the law, for people of this ilk, be they White or colored are no Tespector of persons and they ‘vill commit a crime upon a colored per- son just as quickly as they will com- mit a felony upon a white person. Tnnocent people are not in the ‘mood or in the humor of being hauled Up to station houses by officers, who could hardly track a bear in a snow THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. rm. They decline to be made | Vetiig of ofiat anders aad I be expected that a clash will f aie ether ua of each ma ods, The wae rouble In these Northern cities is that these labor a- the seum of Southern to 0 North. : ‘They tend to disc-edit the repu- table servant class that occupy po- sitions of responsibility and profit in many Northern fartilies. Some of these people will not work whell here pesamresiypao Savsitiesta 50 of rullroad fare go to these cities and breed a burden upon the commun- lity, ‘They frequent crap joints, patron- ize the lowest dives, live by gambling stealing and other questionable meth- ‘ods and put on more airs about thelr rights than “a ring-tailed monkey ‘in a country clreus.” The better [class of colored servants in the North ‘and the working elements of respec- tabity there are seriously handicapp ed and embarrassed by this kind of undesirable immigration. These dis- romlable people are often found sit- io in the play-honses of the North and they do more to afford support to Senator Titman and Mr. Thomas ‘Dixon, in thelr trades against the Negro than a year’s argument could accomplish. When they travel, they make themselves generally disagree- able and insulting and many a respec table man or woman has had cause to send up a silent prayer of uni- versal regret that they cannot be sent to the corn-flelds of the Southland. But wholesale arrests and indis- eriminate abouse are not tite ways to check the evil. The Southern way is to employ the Negre to catch the Negro and success usually attends this mode of procedure. We might have changed the remark so as to read that they employ criminal Ne- groes to catch criminal Negroes. This “factory” some tlnes works over-time with disastrous results as it did in the caze of President Roosevelt's pri- vate detectives, who were so crushing ly discredited by Senator Foraker in his great speech on the Brownsville aftatr. We aro highly gratified in some re- spects over the exodus of some of the crimina} classes of our people in the Southland. If Pittsburgh will estab lish a workhouse and make the erim- {nai elements work instead of loaf, it will please every. honest, indus- trious colered person in that city. ‘There are large numbers of colored men in some communities, who rely upon some female servant to support. thenu. ‘These people ehentd he made to work themselves. It may be but. fair and just to say that the white people have white hoodlums anJ dis- reputable characters, who are just as reprehensible in thelr conduct, but they belong to a race of people, who can probably better afford it. Colored folks must be industrious, law-abiding, God-fearing and they must practice those rules of polite society that will tend not only to raise them In the respect of their own people but in the esteem of the large humber of white people of this coun- try as well. If an organization of colored people in Pittsburgh will at- tempt to counteract the effect of these damaging seports that are veing sent broadcast over the country to our detriment, then the writing of this editorial upon this subject will not have been in vain, New Explosive snatters armor, | Rome, Feb. 3—A new and powerful explosive, called gerite, was tested at Genoa with extraordinary results. It shattered steel armor plate an inch thick, which az equal quantity of dy- zamiie had been unable to bend. Fatal Accident tm Cemetery. Akron, ©,, Feb. $—One man was killed and four others nearly smother. ef by a cave-in at Clendale cemetery, Where an excavation was being mate for n vault. Setting Woree. “There's even more dishonesty in politics than there used to be,” sald the pessimist. “Nowadays I figure that We don't get more than 70 per cont. of the votes we pay for."—Cleveland Leader. Nearly ae Bad. “No, I'm not married,” says the Philosopher cf Folly, “but I'm next thing to it. I'm in debt."—Cloveland Leader Unmannerly Haste. Selfishness is ever on the increase. We elbow our way through the crowd, tread on each other's heels, aud sel- dom or never apologize. We have no time to be polite —Matin, Paris, sp i a “It has always been 4 mystery to me,” observed the observer of events and things, “why {t never tires a man to- play the fiddle, but wears him out #0 quict ly to saw 2 litt!e wood.” A Queer Origin. Tt ts interesting, and sometimes Amusing, to trace the origin of words. ‘There is the word “pecuniary,” for example, which, you know, means re- lating to money. Strange to say, its original meaning was “cattle.” It seems that oxen were the medium of exchange between the ancient Ro- mana, one ox being the unit of value. ‘The first Roman cotns bore tne image of an ox, aad the word “pecus” meant am ox Gr a coin, according t how you weed it. DENIES GRAFT IN PANAMA President Obaldia Defends Wil- liam Cromwell. TIMBER CONTRACT REJECTED Sixteen Members of National Assem- bly Also Deny Participation of Any American in Alleged Timber Deal. Raiiroad to Be Built With National Funds and to Be National Property. ‘rho allegations of Representative Rainey, of illinois, against Don Jose Domingo de Obaldis, president of thc Republic of Panama, and others, have Drought out denials from the prot dent and sixteen members of the n: tional assembly of Panama. A sit 6 ment which states thet they wer: Present at a meeting in Obaldia’s of fice where the contract for the ex ploitation of the timber induatry-alo>s the Atlantic coast of Penama was ti» cussed and that during the meetin: neither Obaldia nor anyone else sai! or implied that Charles Taft, Williaa Cromwell or Richard L. Farnham ho? any direct or indirect participation in the business, was signed by the as semblymen. President Obaliia has given out this statement: “At the meeting In my. office the railway proposal was presented by a Mr. Ward and rejected. The assem bly then enacted a law authorizing the construction of a railway with nr. onal funds. to become national pro: erty. Mr. Hhrman's thmber contract also was rejected by the assembly.” Lincoln Highway to Gettysburg Sure ‘Without any amendment the Unite States senate passed the house bi making Feb. 12,1909, the 100th anni versary of the birth of Abriham Lin colu, a legal holiday and recommen.’ ing {ts celebration throughout the United States, for which purpose ‘h: president ts authorized to issue a spo ¢fal_prociamation. The bill also declares that ax part of a national memorial to Linco’t there may be built a highway from Washington city to the battlefield o: Gettysburg, to be known as the “Lin coin Way.” Am appropriation of $50. 000 is made for @ survey of plans aad estimates for such a highway. Representative Lafean fathered the Dill in the house and Senator Kr x in the senate. ae 218:Vear Old Man Kile By Fan. Henderson Cremeans. known to b the oldest man fn the state of We. Virginia, and probably the oldest p r son in the United States, died at the home of his crandgon, Clark Cremeans hear Point Pleasant, Mason county ‘W. Va. aged 116 years. He was strong and hearty ‘to the time of his death, failing om the roadside on his Way home from the grocery store. He was removed to his home and died a few minutes later, His mother die’ at 120; his wife at 101. He was one o! the first settlers in the Ohio valley, coming here from Virginia at the ax of eighteen. He has seventy gan‘) children, 131 great-grandchildren an‘ nineteen great-great-grandchildren. He Rever tasted liquor or tobacco in his life, Chased by Baying Rip Van Winkt>. ‘The sight and sound of what he de- scribed as a baying Rip Van Winkle, caused John Nee, of Rowleysville, N. J, to 0 racing into Dover, spreading an alarm that a wild man is living in the woods near Mount Hope. Nee told Marshal Bryan that while hunting with his dog, Bis attention was attracted by what sounded like the baying of another hound, but proved to come from a weird human-like crea ture, who was scudding through the woods on all fours, his long grayish beard trailing under his body. Nee’s dog started for the peculiar being, but was frightened and chased by the al- leged wild man, who, according to Nes, nally galloped away into the woods. Mother Saw Lion Eating Her Baby. A mountain lion crunching the life less and mangled body of her two yearold boy was the sight thet greeted Mrs. Chris: Brown when she entered the family tent, four mile: from the Hotel Delmar, at Balboa Cal. after a short walk, The mother fm despair, rushed screaming at the beastly slayer of her child. The lio Growled savagely and backed slowly out of the rear of the ten*, its mout Gripping with the baby's blood, an: @isappeared. The lion had partly dts membered the child after slaying 4 ‘The Brown family arrived from Dal ware two weeks ago. A Trust Cannot Collect Debts. ‘The case of the Continental Wall Pa per Co. vs. Lewis Vought & Sons, o° Cincinnati, was decided by the supreme court of the United States in favor 0” the Voights. The suit was brought by the company on & debt of $.« 00, the Dayment of which was resisted on the ground that the sper company Is a trust, In effect the decision holds that a trust, organtzed contrary to the Sher man anti-trust law, cannot use the court to collect debts. Editor Hurt By Train. ‘Wiliam L. Woodson, the editor o! the American Press, while trying (- board @ train at tho Glenwood sts tion of the New York Central railroad at Yonkers, N. Y., fell and was in Jured by the moving wheels. His right foot was amputated at the railroad station, and at St. John’s Riverside hospital, to which he was taken, tt was found that amputation of the leg below the knee was necessary. ‘Mr. Wootson was badly hurt about ‘the head and sustained other injuries Re displayed wonderful fort't»4e RECEIPT THAT CURES WEAK MEN--PREE. Gea ‘Mince’ Soa hasases ‘To-day— You Can Have It Free and Be @treng ané Vigorous. T have in my possession a prescrip- tion for nervous debility, lack of vi- gor, weakened manhood, failing mem ory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains or the fol- Meg of youth, that has cured so many ‘worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his manly power and viriiits, quickly and qutet- ly, should have @ copy. So, 1 have determined to send a copy of the prescription, free of charge, in a piain, ordinary sealed envelope, to any man who will write me for it. 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John Walk, a young farmer living at Hobbie, near Hazleton, Pa. is be- leved to be suffering from the hoof and mouth disease which recently was epidemic among the cattle of this and other states, How or where the young man con- tracted the direase Im not known. The roof ** his mouth is badly eaten, just the same as in the case of cattle, while the jaw is also badly broken out, resembling that of an ugly rash. His feet have alzo become affected by the disease. The physicians tn attendance have an yet declined to make any definite statement as to whether the ailment fe that which caused such havoc among live stock. Human beings are susceptible to the disease, but the eases are rare. ‘Tried to Sell Stolen Bonds. A clew to the numerous postoffice robberies that have occurred in tls state during the past eighteen months may result from the arrest in Phila- delhpia of Oliver FP. Hazard. a bond broker im that city. The warrant for bis arrest was sworn out in Allen- town, after be had attempted to dix- Pose of four bonds which had beon stolen from the postofice building East Texas on Dec. 21. He claims t 1 he secured the bonds from brokers 1 New York inthe usual course of his business. Guests Assembled: Weddina Stenced. ‘The wedding of John Slaughter and Miss Lucinda Oliver at Mount Ver non, Ill, was Interrupted by the dra matic appeararce of a former sweet heart of Flaughter. After she had told her story the bride-to-be ordere Slaughter out of the house, and ai though the guests had assembled for the ceremony the wedding was de. clared off. Bon of Revolutionary Here Dead. James M. Edwards, who had en Joyed the distinction of being th fon of a soldier in the Revolutionary War, ts dead at bis home in Toledo, 0. He was ninetyfour years of az His father, Ebenezer Edwards, was fone of the Acton minute men in the Dattle of Concord bridge, and fougat throughout the war with England Baby Born With a Tooth. Although weighing only two poun’s at its birth, the young child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Krause, of Hunting ton, Ind., 1s healthy and has four devo oped teeth. It possessed one toot! when it was born. and In spite of b= ing only two weeks old and not show. ing any signs of growing, it Is cutting its teeth with remarkable rapidity. Oldest Postmistress Resigns. Mrs. Mary McCoy, aged eighty-etx, sald to bo the oldest woman postmaster in the United States, has resigned her position at Sheakleyville, Pa, which she filled for forty years. Mrs, McCoy! was appoluted by President Johnson, and it the early years of her service carried mail from Meadville in aici tion to performing her other duties, Hunter Found Dead. Howard Summerell, aged sixteen, the son of Rev. J. M. H. Summerel!, of Newburne, N. C., who went out hunting alone, was discovered nesr the county home with the top of his head shot off. When he did not return home, a large searching party scoured the country looking for him. Pennsy"s Big Car Order. The Pennsylvania Railroad com. pany has announced one of the larg est buying orders which the com pany has made for some time. To re- place worn out and destroyed freight cars on lines west of Pittsburg, 2200 new steel cars have been ordered. The total cost wili approximate $1,500,000. Scared to Death by Dog. Albert G. Winner, a three-year-old child, died im Philaelphia from fright caused by seeing a dos which had bitten him severai weeks ago. When he saw the animai in the street near his home the child fell unconscious. London Arrests Carrie For Smashing. Carrie Nation was arrested and will have to appear in the police court it London, Eng., for breaking the lass over an advertisement of cigarettes in 2 station of the Waterloo Baker stree ‘underground railway. ‘Train Robber Gets Life Sentence, . Judge Hunt, tm the federal court at Helena, Mont, sentenced Georze Frankhauser, convicted of a sensa- tional trip robbery on the Great Northern, to a life term in the military Prison at Fort Leavenworth. Fitipine Women Kidnapped. A party of armed ladrones looted three warehouses at Laguna, P. I, ki. mapped 130 persons, including several ‘wolnen, and escaped. The const@iulacy are pursuing them. Gets $8300 For Lost Hand. __ A jury awarded Wilson EH. Jones, of ‘York, Pa., $8300 damages against the American Caramel company for the Joss of his left hand. ‘Two Indiana Counties Vote “Dry.” Randolph and Noble counties went “dry” in local option elections, and twenty-two #stoona were voted out. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. ikciiee ames) en SRO SORE See Gn Sree treaty with Brazil, Wilson Heckdom, a miner, was struck and killed by a train at @ cross- ing fifteen miles north of Lebanon, Pa. ‘William Spooner, a farmer, and his ten-year-old son, Wilfrid, were killed instantly at the Montreal street grade crossing, Kingston, Ont. Curtis N. Buzbey is under arrest in Philndelphfa, charged with embezaling ; $4000 from ‘his employers, Vance & Peters, a bariware firm. | Frank Clarke, a chemist, was shot and mortally wounded ina quarrel “with Clyde Butterfield, a mail carrier, in a hotel at Fort Henry, N.Y. Friday, January 29, William Robinson, of Philadelphia, was struck and killed by a train at Elkton, Md. Melancholy over domestic troubles, William Gaffney, an fron ore miner at Belvidere, N. J., shot and killed him. self. 5 Lumber prices in ancouver, B. C. have advanced $2 per 100) fect on common grates, and within a shor: time there will be an advance affectins ail outside points. Since the “devil tracks” were frst reported in South Jersey {t has bees noticed that not a chicken roost rob bery has been reported, although pre vious to that time hardly a night pass ed but that a number of chicken mb beries were not reported. » Saturday, January 30. The treasury has purchased 100,000 ounces of silver for delivery at New York, at 51.920 per fine ounce, One man was killed and four others seriously injured in a collision between 8 freight and construction trafn on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad at Beaver Falla, Pa, near Pittsburg. Theodore Adams, of Poughkeepsie, N. ¥., was arrested and charged wit? the murder of his brotherindaw, John Kim, of that place, after Mra. Kitt had accused Adams of robbing her. Frances Foisom Cleveland, widow of the Inte President Cleveland. a) 1 Mary Lord Marrisoi, widuw of the late, President Harrison, wero granted the franking privilege during their life time by congress, Munday, February 1, ‘The Kansas house passed a bill pr Bibiting the making or selling of cis arette papers. Caesar Mattucct, of Slateford, Pa has started sult for $2000 against the Lackawanna railroad for the loss of an ee. Fire starting tn the White Front Ary goods store at Freeport, IL, de stroynd three business houses, ios $400,000, ‘A fire which destroyed thetr home near London, Ont., cost the liver o Philtp Vansickle, bis son, daughter and ton-in law. Charged with embezzling $4000 ro- cetved as Mcense money, former Coun- ty Clerk William W. Wallace, of Mc Minnville, Tenn., was arrested {n Cal!- fornia. Tuesday, February 2. Tyo children of Nathaniel Work man were burned to death in a fire that destroyed thelr home in Bath county, Ky. Charles H. Brent, Protestant Epis copal bishop of the Philippines, wan elected chairman of the internation: opium commission at Shanghal, China. President Roosevelt has accepted ar fnvitation to attend a farewell meet ing of the congregation of Grace Re formed church in Washington on tie evening of Feb. 18. Panic stricken because of the pro ence of scarlet fever in the institution thirty students of the Mercersbur~ (Pa.) academy broke the quarantine and fled in a body. | With the gas raointor turned on full, Frederick Vahey, forty years old and his wif; Marie, were found dead from asphyxiation tn thelr apartmon in Jersey City, N. J. Wednesday, February 3. ‘The United States senate agreed to vote on the Brownsville bill Feb. 23. Ben 1. Jones, one of the wealthiest men in Georgia, while in a depressed condition, shot’ himself through the head at Macon, death resulting tn atantly. Jobn Gilmer Speed, the author an? Journalist, committed sutcide by shoot ing himself in the head while in his bedroom at the Phoentx house at Mendham, N. J. Rev. John Foster Dodd, until Inst July general secretary of the Newark conference, and secretary of the Inte national Missionary society, of the Methodist church, died at Philiipsburg. N. J., aged seventy-two years. 1 PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. The Latest Closing Prices For Produc aoe eee PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm Bitter qriras, now, $876@4; winte gear, §428@4.50;" city mitts, Tancy SAVE RLOUR steady, at $4.10@41: per barrel. ANGEAT, frm; No, 2 red, western vcOnN stemdy; No, 2 yellow, local re. GATS stondy:, No. 2 white, clipped Sige. lower grades, 64c. ue AY Steady; Umothy, large bales + ton POULTRY: Live steady; hens, i3@ Uiee town, 14igc.2 ola roosters, 4on ice fow! ‘ 3 BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 3c EGGS steady;' selected, 40 @ 420. POTATOES Neady, at 18@80e. pe bushel. Sweet Potatoes steady, ats ‘per basket. WILL BE WORLD'S BIGGEST BANK Standard Oil and Morgan Insti- tutions to Merge, CAPITAL WILL BE $100,000,000 Deposits Will Be About $500,000,000 When the Nationa! City and Com. merce doin Forces In New York. Frank A. Vanderlip to Be President of New Concern. Now York, Feb. 3—It was learned that plans are approaching completion for a consolidation of the National City bank, the Standart OM instite- tion, and the National Bank of Com- merce, known as the- Morgan bank. with a combined capital and surplus ‘of $100,000,000 and deposits of about $500,000,000, making {t by far the big- gest bank in the world, ‘The consolidation, it 1s sald, will be Yery easily carried out. The National City bank has nearly $10,000,900 more surplus than the Bank of Commerce, #0 that all that will be necessary to do will be for the City bank to de- clare an extra dividend for the amount and then the stock in the new bank would be exchangeable for the stock of the two consolidating banks. It is std that Frank A. Vanderlip. Row president of the National City dank, will become president of the merged institution. Valentine P. Sny- der Is president of the Bank of Com- merce, and {t is presumed he will have @ high position in the new bank. ‘The National City bank has a capl- tal of $25,000,000 and a surplus of $21,676,000. Its deposits are in excess of $200,900.00, The Bank of Commerce has a capi- tal of $25,000,000, a surplus of $15,250,~ 000 and deposits of about $200,000,000. “MASON AT SIGHT” Ceremony Will Be Performed on on His Arrival Home, Feb. 18. Cincinnat!, Feb. $.—Willlam H. Taft, prealdent elect, will be mate “a Mason Sirbs Howed boas, The ceremony will be periormed by Charles 8. Hoskinson, of Zanesville, O., the grand master of Ohio Masons, and will take place in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The act of making a man a “Mason at sight” may be used only by the nd has been weed but once before fa the Alstory of Obie Masonry, Judge Taft, after he has been made an initiate by the state grand master will be made a master Mason by the members of Kilvinaing wlee 7 Cie cinnati. KISSES COST $10 EACH ‘That Is, When Stolen From Your Land- lady, Who Happens to Be Married, Chicago, Feb. 3.—Kisses are worth $10 each, provided they are stolen from one's landlady, who happens to be married. Such was the value placed ‘on oscutations by Judge Nowcomer at ‘the municipal court, who fined John Fallon, who claimed to be the son of & millionaire real estate dealer of New York, $30 and costs for stealing three kisses: from his landlady, Mrs. Edna Caramelli. | SRENTON TO BE GOOD ‘Ministers Employ Censor to Watch Plays Produced. | Trenton, N. J., Feb. 3.—There are to be mo more racy plays presented in the Trenton playhouses if the clergy. men of the city can have their way about it. The Ministerial union has employed a censor and served notice that they will keep track of all the theatrical productions in this town in the future. If anything objectionable 4s discovered in the lines or situations the proprietors of the offending thea- ters will be promptly prosecuted. Balloon Hits Rock; Two Men Killed. Saint Pons,.France, Feb. 3.—A bal- Joon which was drifting over the mountains at night was overcome by @ gale. The occupants of the car, two Bordeaux aeronants, were dashed vpon &® boulder and killed. | Se hak Cinte hee Shanes wae” |, Salem, Ore. Feb. $—A bill requir ian unanimously passed the senate, | 909 FEBRUARY isos SUN/MONTUE/WED THU|FRI SAT] |_11/213/4/5/6| 7/8 ‘500 12 [ky iaigiety B1920 leteai2324252607 [2 a Live Stock Markets. eFETTEP ES, Set Fatt Pele, $6106 638, a : ss wethorg aba0 6107 Dufbting "Ene mon, ease. lambs, $6@7.85; veal ee epiat, a Eas! NbG 7.38, one a ee IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. ```markdown ``` JAG PLANET THREE ARRESTED FOR MURDER Nelghors of Slain Farmer Charged With Crime. TWO HAVE CONFESSED One Stood Guard With Shotgun While Two Others Entered the House to Rob Hallman, and Shot Him Down at Bedside of Sick Wife—Suspected of Other Crimes. Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 8.—Walter Aston, Paul Fornwalt and Benjamin Aston, all residing in the neighborhood where the crime was committed, were arrested for the murder of aged Alfred Hallman, who on Sunday night was shot down by masked robbers while at the bedside of his sick wife at his home in Pequen township. Fornwalt was caught in this city, where he had come, it is believed, to escape the Astons, as they had threatened to shoot him if he told. Before he had been taken to the police station Walter Aston turned up at that place to inquire if Fornwalt had been arrested and was held there. Benjamin Aston was arrested at his home in Pequen township and brought to tail here. Fornwalt told all about the murder after his arrest. He said the two Astons had persuaded him to go along to do the job, but he had no idea there was to be any shooting. They were to rob Hallman. Walter Aston entered the house first, and while he (Fornwalt) was in the door Walter began shooting. They then ran away. Ben Aston, he said, had stood guard outside with a shotgun. Walter Aston, when confronted with the confession of Fornwalt, denied being there, but was very nervous and mixed in his story. Told of Other Crimes. Ben Aston at first denied all connection with the crime, but said he knew Walter and Fornwalt had gone from his house to do it. Later he broke down under severe questioning, admitted he had been with the other two and had stood outside while the others went in, and corroborated Fornwalt's story in every important feature. He also told of other crimes that had been committed in the neighborhood, and connected his cousin, Walter, with the murder, as well as another man, whose arrest will likely follow. The two Astons have bad reputations in the neighborhood and the law abiding citizens feared them. Walter is a young man, while Ben, his cousin, is married and has two half-grown children. Young Fornwalt says his home is at Middletown, Pa. Fornwalt told the officers that after the shooting Walter Aston had given him the pistol he had used, and he had taken it home and put it on the wall in the barn. It was recovered there by the officers. In his confession Fornwalt told of a number of persons who had met them as they were running away from the place of the crime, and evidence will be worked up to corroborate Fornwalt's story. PENN GETS $100.000 To Establish Fellowships In Law In Memory of F. B. Gowen. Philadelphia, Feb. 3.—At a meeting of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania here Mrs. Esther Gowen Hood gave the university $100,000 to establish graduate fellowships in the law department of the university as a memorial to her father, the late Franklin B. Gowen, formerly president of the Reading Railway company. CUBANS IN SQUABBLE Conservatives Are Disatisfied With Their Share of Patronage. Havana, Feb. 3.—The displacement of employees of the previous government continues, with the result, it is alleged, that the customs service has been crippled. Previous to his inauguration President Gomez promised the Conservatives that they would retain one-third of the government employees, but this promise, they charge, has been violated. TRAPPED IN DOOR Bank Employee Robbed of $1403 by Pickpockets. Minneapolis, Feb. 3.—William Johnson, an employee of a local bank, was caught in a compartment of a revolving door and was robbed of $1403 by pickpockets. Teddy, Jr. at the Loom. Winsted, Conn., Feb. 3.—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who started at the foot of the ladder in Thompsonville a few months ago to learn carpet making, has been advanced to the loom, where, under the instruction of Ted Connors, he is "making good." Suffer From Cold In Quake Region. Rome, Feb. 3.—This winter in Italy is exceptionally cold. In Calabria and Sicily oranges and lemons are dropping from the trees. There has been a hard frost throughout the earthquake area, and the almost shelterless people are suffering from bronchitis and pneumonia. 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The exact date of the Ananias incident is unknown. Before the event, PLACE.—Jerusalem. Probably at the usual meeting place of the disciples. Comment and Suggestive Thought. V. 36. "Jones." One form of "Joseph." "Surnamed Barnabas." A Hebrew name, derived from bar, son, and Nabuchah "prophesying," pouring out words as from a fountain, the impelling force being the divine inspiration. "The name seems to have been conferred upon him by the general consent of his friends, as a kind of degree or pet name."—Biblical World. Being interpreted from Hebrew into Greek. The son of consolation, "comforting," "exhortation," as in the R. V. Neither definition alone is complete; it takes both to give the meaning of the original Greek word, which is the same word as that given to the Holy Spirit by Jesus (John 14:16), "the Comforter," "Paraclete," from para, to the side of, and kaleo, to call or summon, for comfort or help as an advocate, counselor, comforter. What Barnabas, filled with the Holy Spirit, did for others was similar, at least in most respects, to that which the Holy Spirit does for us. His work was far greater than that implied by the familiar definition of comforting—to soothe, to bring tranquil enjoyment. He was like the advocate in Greek and Latin courts, a powerful friend in whose wisdom, knowledge, influence and affection the client had confidence, and who advised, aided, strengthened and comforted him. Barnabas had a great gift by his words, character and personality of comforting others by invigorating them, inspiring them with a new life, strengthening their faith and hope, giving them fresh courage. He was like a fountain of the water of life. “Comforting,” from two Latin words, means making strong together. Nothing is worthy of the name of comfort that is not invigorating, inspiring, filling the soul full of courage and strength. The Holy Spirit comforted the disciples after the death of Jesus, just as Jesus promised. How? By making the frightened men bold as lions; by changing them into heroes; by giving joy unspeakable when persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, scattered. There are two sources of danger to the church of Christ. Dangers from without. Dangers from within. The fires of persecution were kindled to consume it. But the church was like the three heroes in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace; the flames did not harm them, and one like the Son of God was with them in the flames. And the light from them caused men to see in clearer light the true God and the Gospel. It advertised the good news; it scattered the seeds of truth broadcast; it led to more prayer, a stronger faith, a firmer corpure, more generous giving, more fervent preaching; it proved that the pliey of the church was no temporary excitement, but a steady burning and shining light. We now come to a more dangerous attack, from evil within her ranks. Fire cannot consume, nor waters drown the church. There is no way to destroy it but by enemies within. The engine is powerless if the fires fail. The light goes out when the electric current ceases to flow. We are to study this attack, learn its lessons for to-day, and see how God overruled even this, by victory over evil, for the advancement of the gospel. V. 5. "Ananias . . . fell down, and gave up the ghost." Laterally, "breathed out his life, his soul." In whatever way it came, by the shock of the discovery of his sin, or by a direct stroke from God, it was God's act, and in no sense the act of Peter and the apostles. Very probably they were as much astonished as anyone. Had Peter done this act he would have been a murderer, subject to the law of the land. But he had no band in it whatever. Why such severity of punishment? 1. It was deserved, it was justice. "Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity." 2. It was necessary in order to save the church from destruction from within. 3. It was necessary to counteract the effect of his conduct upon the world. It would tend to make men believe that there was nothing in religion, that there was no such thing as conversion and true pity. Therefore, it was needful that the deed and its spirit should be publicly repudiated in the most rearkable manner, as contrary to the whole teaching and spirit of religion. 4. Thus it was an act of mercy, not of hatred or revenge. A few counterfeit Christians do not prove that the gospel is a failure, or the church unworthy. A few dead trees in the forest, or dried stalks in the fields, do not prove that spring is a failure or that the sun does not largest real life We must be careful not to measure a man or a society by its imperfections alone. The punishment of sin is an absolute necessity. Those sins always nourish which can be practiced with impunity, and are lightly recorded. TO HER. Her eyes are wails of soul and truth, Her eyebrows ponied gently. She walks with all the grace of youth And walks most divinely. With soul so pure, serene and high, With mind so calm and rare and wise With spirit so strong, sky so No equal has she 'neath the sky; She's good an she is fair. Her sweet is good an she and sweet, I'm sure I'll never forget. What joy 'twill be when I shall greet That Girl I've Never Met! Ah, rare maid! mishee She!— Could I know where you shide, How blessed above mundan'd I be If you could be my bride! She'll know that I was born for her And she for me, Sweet pet, You'd die for me! Suppose you were That Girl I've Never Met! Some day, somewhere, when skies descend To touch the solid ground, When the snow bow end A pot of gold is found, When blackbirds are as white as snow, Or pearls resemble jet, That maden my magical well know— That Girl I've Never Met! -Bobbin Webster, in New York Herald PLEASANT PROSPECT. A woman and a man in a room. The woman is standing and holding a book, while the man is sitting on a chair and looking at her. The room has a fireplace and a wall with framed pictures. "I have insured myself against accident today. If I were to fall and break my arm I should have 5,000 marks on the spot." "How levity, dear! Then I could take that trip to the Riviera which I have wanted so long"—Meggendorfer Blatter. Prediction Simplified. The weather prophet now may view His task with feelings holder; About all he is required to do The Four Seasons "Say what you will, the ideal managers strive after the artist." "Fudge! How can you prove it?" "They are consistently trying to produce Shakespeare productions." "You poor innocent! They do that because they don't have to pay Shakespeare any royalties."—Cleveland Leader. Sounded Like Opera Bacon—I called with my wife on the lady next door, last night, and she started her phonograph playing "If Trovatore." Egbert—Suppose you imagined yourself at the opera? "Why, yes; the two women were talking to beat the band!"—Yonkers Statesman. Too Technical The music teacher had tested the little girl's voice. "Her range is good, ma'am," he said to the mother, "but she is deficient, of course, in her upper register." "Saints preserve us!" exclaimed Mrs. O Flaherty, "d'ye think she's a furnace heated flat, wid a basement kitchen!"—Chicago Tribune. A Captive. "You are one of four brothers, I believe, professor?" "That is perfectly right." "And you are the only one who is married, I am told." "Quite correct, madam; I am the only one in captivity!"—Yonkers Statesman. Strange as it May Seem. "Senator," asked his constituent, "how does it happen that you have never been mixed up in any of these squabbles or scandals?" "O, that's because I'm a good mixer," said Senator Lotsmun—Chicago Tribune. "The Early Bird—" Manager—I suppose you noticed that my advertisement read "None but a sober man need apply for this position?" Applicant—Yes, I noticed that, and that's why I applied very early in the morning.—Judge. Easily Obliged. Tramp—Say, boss, can yer tell a felter where he kin get 15 cents for a bed? Old Gentleman (dealer in secondhand furniture)—Certainly, my good man. Bring the bed to me, and if it is worth 15 cents, I'll buy it.—Judge. Move Lively Bill—Do the police keep the people moving lively in your town? Jill—No, but the automobiles do,— Yonkers Stateman. Transparent. Gentleman—It's no use your whining to me; I can see through you. Beggar—So yer ought, guv'nor; I've 'ad authin' to eat for a week. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR The virtues we are proudest of we practise because we have to. A compensation to a sinner is to feel how those who condemn him envy him. Some of the fixings a woman wears where people can't see them are in case they should. A man feels more self-respect for being able to discount a note than he would for not having to do it. The reason there will be no purgatory for a woman in the next world is she gets it here in suffering man. A girl who sets out to marry a millionaire is lucky if she doesn't wind up by getting only her board out of it. Husbands are almost indispensable for lifting things to the top shelf of closets, carving and threatening to whip the children. When a man happens to guess what the weather turns out to be he wants you to think he could have become a famous scientist if he had made that his profession. After a girl accepts a man who unexpectedly proposes to her a great disappointment to her is she was so excited for fear he would get scared off that she forgot to recite a beautiful piece of sentiment that she had got ready for him when it happened.—New York Press. WHAT WOMEN FORGET Women sometimes forget- That there are two sides to every question. That nerves are not conducive to a Vere de Vere manner. That children are just as susceptible to "mothering" as dogs. That there are two essentials to her success—tact and charm of manner. That the "School for Scandal" is not a recognized educational institution which fits her for the "School of Life." That the hope of every woman lies in one of two directions—to make or take a name for herself. That the reason they are less contented than men is that women magnify their troubles and men pass over the small things—they are content to "let the little world pass by." That her personality, her little ales and graces, her faults and foibles are all instrumental in shaping the manners of men, and that she has only herself to blame or praise for their attitude toward her. That it is good for her to close eyes to all externals at least once every day and soar quite away into oblivion—then to come back and be happy for the rest of the hours.—New York Evening Post. A BACHELOR'S REFLECTIONS. The poor girl with the matchmaking mother always seems to have an imp of a little brother to break the engagement. You can never tell what a woman is going to do, which accounts for the fact that the unexpected happens so often. While it is all right for a woman to help her husband, many a girl starts in early by helping her sweetheart to propose. Never blame a woman for not taking her husband to church with her; perhaps he has the habit of talking in his sleep. A woman's idea of the value of money is usually limited to the knowledge that it will buy whatever she sets her heart on. When a man is young he always wants to have his own way; afterwards he gets married and then he never has it. A man who objected to his wife joining an Audubon club figured out that it was just an excuse to get a new bonnet, as her old one had birds on it. Wanted to Know. "We had a fortune teller at our evening party." "What kind of questions did the guests ask her?" "Most of them asked what we were going to have for supper."—Cleveland Leader. Taking It in Sections "Forgive and forget," said the generous man. 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ROME AND ROAM. "Do all roads lead to Rome, Weary?" "Well, I never see one that led me to do anything else."—New York Herald. Pound Kettle of Gold and Silver. Edward Woods and Thomas Dickenson, lumbermen, took a day off the other day to hunt rabbits. They found an iron kettle in the woods containing $3,600 in gold and $22 in silver—Oil City Correspondence, Pittsburg Dispatch. The Spitz Dog: Spitz dogs are so named owing to their sharp noses. This is also a German name, spitz meaning sharp-polled. Another name for this breed is Dalmatian dog, because his native home was in Dalmatia. Good Suggestion. A Japanese saying runs: "Woman is an unmanageable creature; flatter her, she is elated; thrash her, she weepeth; kill her, her spirit haunts you." We would suggest that the best remedy is to love her:—Exchange. JOHN M. Blu is not assurance Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on 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 each is the pays $400 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- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz 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. Brown—Have you a recommendation from your last employer? Chauffeur—No, sir, but I can get ene in the course of a month or two. Chauffeur—He's in the hospital.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Muoh Better. Yes, he's in the has-been class, Yet he is proud because He thinks 'its better thus by far Than to be a never-was. —Chicago Dally News. A Messenger's Message. "Sam," ask the first messenger boy, "got any novels to swap?" "I got 'Big Foot Bill's Revenge', "replied the other. 'Is it a long story?" "No. You can finish it easy in two messages." Aladdin had just secured the wonderful lamp. After a careful inspection he began to rub it. "Here," said he, "is where I give a magic-lantern exhibition." — Chicago Daily News. Green—That fellow who plays the cornet is ill. Jones—Do you think he will recover? Green—I'm afraid not. The doctor who is attending him lives next door. His Favorite Style The Pest—I'd like to write some verses for your paper. What kind of poetry do you like best? The Editor—Typewritten, darned short and paid for at advertising rates. —Cleveland Leader. Strenuous. "The social struggle," says the Philosopher of Folly, "consists of two violent activities—getting in yourself and keeping other people out."—Cleveland Leader. He Was's Widower Her—The man I marry must have a family back of his: Him—Be mine! I have a mother, three girls and a little boy.—Cleveland Leader. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Diver all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles based on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $50 per week sick dues. The badge, galla. For information concerning burials of Calanthe of the Order. It requires a memorial court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per memorial 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 $40 our neighborhood, orgrniz. one.ining the Children's Department at Mrs. ANNA T. 120 W. H. morning special rates of JOHN and courts, address 3 THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 8 4TH ST.. RICHMOND. VA 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. Practical House and Sign Painters 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 5688. 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By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies faces for parses and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham skampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling their preparations. Write for terms by Mrs. J. A. Graham. No. 108 M. Leigh St., Riceam. Va. We are selling old papers at fifteen cents per hundred. METAL LANEET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 6, '09 FROCK FOR EVENING DAINTY MODEL IN FROSTY-GREEN Includes All the Latest Capsizes of the Season's Fashion - Novelty, In The girl who cannot boast of a new frock for the dance or house party or afternoon tea feels that there is a shortage in holiday cheer. Indeed new things are essential for the holiday weeks, for then hostesses vie with each other for "days," dinners and dances. Some lovely new fabrics have come in with the late season, not the least important of which is the satin finished cashmere which at a distance cannot be told from directore satin and which is much more supple and warm. It costs, generally speaking, two dollars to $2.50 a yard, is about A Empire Dancing Frock in Pale Green Mescaline. Empire Dancing Frock in Pale Green Messaline. 43 or 45 inches wide, has a wondrous sheen and is no heavier than the old fashioned light weight cashmere. But how it does drape and cling. And for house dresses it is laftinitely superior to even the lightest weights of the new directoire broadcloths. It comes in all the new colors, catawba, London smoke, wistaria and the latest shades of blue. For trimming, either the new passementeries with the color of the cashmere predominating and touches of more delicate coloring and gold or copper tints, or laces overlaid with colored embroidery are prefereed. These cashmeres can be used to great advantage for evening coats, in grayish-blues, coral-pink flame color, catawba and delicate gray or mode. They should be trimmed with lace, or embroidered bandings or bridal. Incidentally, beaded nets are the fad of the moment. Tucked net of the plainest sort, lightly strauled with tiny gold, silver or steel heads costs $4.50 a yard, but any nimble fingered woman can do this spangling herself on net that will cost no more than 90 cents a yard. The evening trock shown is a dainty model. It is frosty-green messageline trimmed round the skirt with bias folds and tiny tucks. The shirred bodice is outlined by a lace insertion embroidered with seed pearls which appears also as a finish for the very soft sleeves. The shirred and draped upper-sleeve is finished with small pearl ornaments and the tucker of the bodice is of chiffon cloth, which should also be used for the sash. A novelty in very smart and dressy evening gowns is the difference between the two sleeves. One may be of the fabric used in the dress and another of chiffon cloth or lace or net One stunning model showed the right sleeve of the chiffon cloth in mousquetaire style to the elbow, where it ended in a light band from which depended a narrow directoire scarf of the chiffon cloth. The other sleeve was of the satin messaline draped and finished with a cap of pearls, woven in squares or diamonds like a Juliet cap. The Half-Adjusted Coat As the season advances there are fewer high waist, even in outside garments. The half adjusted coat is the favorite model in Paris to day, and, although this may suggest a waistline a little higher than the normal, it is far from the emperor effect. Of course, gowns are wonderfully and beautifully straight; that is, there is no waistline at all. The Width of Skirt. The dressmakers have decided that the best width for the modern clinging skirt is two yards or a few inches over. Street skirts cut above the ankles, made of rough fabrics, are not always this wide, but the two yards in unstiffened satin or tulle give enough fullness at footline. Made with Woven Ribbon They Are Both Novel and Pretty. There is nothing that gives such a cozy air to a room as plenty of sofa cushions. They are decorative, and may be made of colors that harmonize or contrast well with the coloring of the room. A sofa pillow is always an acceptable gift, and a new idea in pillows will be welcome to many who are making them. The woven ribbon pillow is novel and pretty, and anyone can make it, as it requires no embroidery. To make the pillow two pieces of inch-wide ribbon are required, each of a different color, or two shades of one color. This ribbon is 75 cents a piece. The ruffle takes five yards of five-inch ribbon, from 19 to 35 cents a yard, and three-quarters of a yard of silk for the back of the pillow. The narrow ribbon is woven to form the top of the pillow. Two colors are used, either two contrasting colors, such as black and yellow, holly ribbon and white, pink and green, or dark green and pale yellow. Two shades of the same color are very effective, with a ruff. to match the darker shade. A shaded ribbon ruffle has much charm. To weave the ribbons, start them at opposite corners. Have five light, three dark and the rest light, or three light, six dark and the rest light. Any combination may be used and each one makes a different pattern. The ribbon is woven in and out, as it is in the covered baskets that have two handles over the top. Lay the right side of the silk and woven top together and stitch around. Turn and slip in the pillow. Overhand the open side together neatly. Gather the ribbon for a scarf and If desired a double ruffle may be used—a wide one of the lighter color and a narrow one inside of the darker shade. A silk cord may be used as a finish, but the ruffle is the prettier.—Boston Globe. FILET PUT TO GOOD USE Odd Squares Easily Made Into Charming Centerpieces. Odd squares of Blet picked up quite reasonably during bargain times are being made into charming centerpieces by inserting them in white linen, edging with a narrow border of lace and connecting the squares by a running design in eyelet embroidery. Wallachian and Bledermaier embroidery, while still done both in colors and in white, are not so much in favor as a few seasons ago. The former when used on a graceful design and worked in white is a good choice for the girl who has not much time or skill. Drawn work centerpieces are always in favor, but they take too long and can be bought too cheaply to be popular with the average maker of gifts. An effective piece can be made with an inch-wide, drawn work border, heading a two-inch hem. A monogram in satin stitch, inside an openwork medallion, is put in the middle of one side. HAT OF MOLE-COLORED TAFFETA. With taffeta chou and silver galon and tassels. A Paris blouse of hand-embroidered Japanese crepe is the newest and smartest shirt-waist notion. There has been such a craze for these crepe blouses of late that the genuine Japanese crepe is hard to get and is rather high in price. American cotton crepe is a good substitute for ordinary blouses and this crepe is being brought out in very dainty colorings as well as the creamy white which is the favored Paris shade. A trimming of coarse-meshed cluny lace will make the blouse correctly French in style and the dainty hand-embroidered dots and feathersstitchings may be easily done at home. Gold Bowknots for Hair: Among the novelties in hair ornaments is a crinkled bowknot of gold ribbon attached to a hairpin. This is worn at the side of the Psyche or above the ear in the new collure that is flat in front and wide at the side. These are also made of silver ribbon, and again of gold lace studded with rhinestones or with silver sequins. They are rather expensive in the shops, but can be made at home at small cost. One of them would make an excellent Christmas gift for a young girl who goes out in the evening. Hair ornaments this winter are as important as pocket books, evening bags, directoire scarfs and necklaces. A. New Muff. A large flat muff of ermine has a band of embroidered silver running around each side of it, about two inches from the edge. The band is about two inches wide. Over the silver background are embroidered beautiful flowers in the delicate pastel shades. The longer a man studies, the curves of a decanter the closer he is apt to imitate them on his horseward jour- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE LITTLE GREEN HAT. A lot of the folks from my home town live here; I meet one or two every day; And many them seem to be coming each year. They like it so well that they stay. I met Ezra Briggs close by Madison square. He likes to be growing quite fat. And he, with a jaunty, collegiate air. Was wearing a little green hat. Ed. Saunders walked by—he's a lawyer, you know. He's only been here a short time; But business, he says, is beginning to grow. And he is a chap who will climb. And he is a saw him swing up the street. Was wearing a little green hat. We walked a few blocks, then we met Johnny Brown. And-yes he was wearing one, too. He's lived for a year in this big, noisy town. And does as the other folks do. I left Eara Briggs, and I started in quest. Of needs that had come with our chat. And very soon I, just like all of the rest. Was wearing a little green hat. —Charles R. Barnes, in Puck. HER POINT OF VIEW. 2 Arthur—Why do you consider Regionald so very effeminate? Gertrude—Why, he can kiss a girl without even mussing her hair.—Chicago Daily News. True. That others know more than we do, Is true. At last I've hit it. We kow it's so, but still it's true, We all hate to admit it. Nerve Carsone — Talking of nerve, my neighbor, Smith, is about the limit. Gebhart—What has he done? Carsone—He called over yesterday morning to borrow my gun, saying he wanted to kill a dog that kept him awake nights. Gebhart—Well? Carsone—He killed my dog—Judge. All He Asked "And what," asked one of the once-famous actor's friends, as he bent beside the bed, "would you like to have carved on your tombstone? Is there not some sentiment which you wish to have used as your epitaph?" "Yes," the dying man replied. "Let it be this: 'It never was necessary to give him a benefit.'"—Judge. Well Placed Foote Lighte—The program of this "thrilling drama," says: "The rest of the members of the cast were well placed." What do you suppose that means? Miss Sue Brette—They were "out of sight," I guess that means.—Yonkers Statesman. The One in a Million Mr. Flatbush—Out of every million letters that pass through the postoffice it is calculated that only one goes astray. Mrs. Flatbush—Seems strange, John, that the one I give you to mail should always be that one.—Yonkers Statesman. Auto-Phraseology Agnes I asked grandma to join us at bridge, but she says she's been playing all the afternoon, and is exhausted. Glady*n—Yes; she's rubber-tired. Judge. Sot. "I should say he is. That man wouldn't move aside if he met a piano falling down stairs."—Cleveland Leader. Special Days. First Boarder—Not hungry, or is it a fast day? Second Boarder—Yes; this is hash Wednesday,—Judge. Two Dangers Removed. Bacon—I see the atmosphere is free of microbes at an elevation of 2,000 feet. Egbert—Free of automobiles, too.—Yonkers Statesman. Doubtful Testimonial, Fladger—How do you like your new preacher? Digsy—First rate. He's so agreeable; never talks religion to you at all, you know.—Chicago Tribune. The New Literature "Then you don't care for the new motor novel!" "Can't say I do. To me it reads like a repair catalogus with a slight plot to it." Of One Purpose. The stranger advanced towards the door. Mrs. O'Toole stood in the doorway with a rough stick in her left hand and a frown on her brow. "Good-morning," said the stranger politely. "I'm looking for Mr. O'Toole." "So'm I," said Mrs. O'Toole, shifting her club over to the other hand. CURRENT VESEE. The Land of Vanished Hours. Where is the summer, the gay, glad summer. Radiant with light and bright with flowers? It has given place to this sad newcomer, Wren, who slipped the tree and scorched the bower. And where are the summers beloved and departed Which long, long ago gave Joy to the earth? Where then is the one when the lie- hearted King Richard reigned and the Crusades had birth? And where is the one which saw Kenil- worth's glory. Which the stately Elizabeth deigned to review? And when Shakespeare lived, and his pen told each story. Where is the summer when life spread before us Sweet to the heart and fair to the view, When we saw no cloud in the azure sky When earth was all glory and each friend was true? Oh, the late and the long age summers are dwelling In places with sunshine and lovely with flowers; There each to the other its story is telling In the beautiful land of the vanished hours! Ninette M. Lowater, in New York Sun. The Helots You on the hearth, your head against my knee; I do a wicker chair, your hand in mine; A great firelight, daring frostly; Sets the brown redness of your hair ashine. Your lips creep up to meet my lips crept down. While all the azure velvet of your eyes At once explores and conquer; and I crown Your lips with kisses, till our madness dies. Almost it seems that Jove, the jealous, nods, Anah leaves his poor, unheeded Helcor frow. Surely the high gods slumber or forget The gall the wormwood and the bitter leaves? Ah, sweet, your lips again. A moment you. To fetch a fleeting happiness from heaven! —Westminster Gazette. When Pa Shingied Pa he had shinked of his house, with some to spare, he thought. But when he come to finish on he found that he was short. My pa, enraged, demanded why I hid them from his sight. "Demand me sigh and sigh and trembling from afright. "I didn't want none left around for fear—for fear, you see. They'd come in play 'most an day for use in spankin' me." My pa he didn't say a word, but cut a paddle out An' fret he won't say where—a hundred times about. dred times about. I well recall the day and all, though distant it may be. Cuz when pa shingled of his house he also shingled me. -Joe Cone, in New York Sun. The Ideal As doth the vagrant wind desire the lambs. And search the gusty alleys of the dark, Tenacious, urgent, instant in its claim. Upon the housestead and unguarded sparks. So thou thy soul sought thine through devious ways. Through proud resistances and scorn expressed, Under light laughter, sober-minded dispraise. Ever some brightness in the night and day; Ever did have some voice that well I wist Write me above the jargon of the way. And now, that I stand before thy face, I know that I have run and won the race. -Humphreys Park, in Appleton's Magazine. Tyranny. A' n-a-markin' off de time; De hands a-silidin' down awhile; An citin' in a-count; An' bringin' roun' de settin' sun Befo' my work is through; I wish she'd take it easy An' lay off an hour or two. She plays a march time foh de hours; Dat's why dey pass so soon; We skane got over sunrise till We dreant to eat; She's got me steppin' lively to Dat clickin', clackin' song; I wish she'd mind her business an' Stop shovin' me along. —Washington Star. When Forth You Fare. When forth you fare to pick a flow'r, Spurn not the timid violet; hough roses fair have odors rare. Spurn not the third violet; though roses fair have odors rare, They have thorns, too, oh, don't forget! When forth you fare to quench your thirst, Spurn not the waters from the spring; Though ruddy wine may seek divine, It ever leaves behind a sting! When forth you fare in search of love, Spurn not the modest little miss; The siren's lure can neer endure, And nery replaces bliss! A Pilgrim. As onward o'er life's tortuous road I plod my way and bear my load Let me attempt, let me aspire To gain some goal of high desire! By no false glamour on me shed Let my adventurous feet be led. But guided, though at times they tire To gain some goal of high desire! Until for me the final sun Cutsines my pilgrim path upon. Still be my aim, till light expire. To gain some goal of high desire! Clinton Scollard. The Comfortable Home The Comfortable Home. A comfortable home is like a well-managed campaign on the battlefield. One does what he wants, but what he ought. Drink Only Native Wine. In Persia there are no distilleries, breweries or saloons, and native wine is in the only intoxicating beverage used. CONSCIENTIOUS BILL. "Bill had charge of the animal tent," said the old circus man. "and among his pets was a beopard, the only one we had with the show, and quite enough, too. This leopard gave Bill more trouble than all the rest of the mengie rat put together. It was certainly an ugly brute. "Well, one day when we were showing in Dayton, O., I had gone on to Columbus to arrange some advance business. I was eating my dinner in the hotel when a telegram was handed to me. It was L. A. Bill, and read: 'The leopard has escaped. Prowling about town. What shall I do?' "That was just like Bill. He had to have explicit directions, even in an emergency like this. He didn't want to make a mistake. "I immediately wired back to Bill: 'Shoot him on the spot.' I didn't think any more about it until a couple of hours later, when I received another telegram from conscientious, careful Bill, asking: 'Which spot?'"—New York Herald. Her Groundless Fears Clara (with emotion)—George, are you sure you will always love me? George (fervently)—While life lasts, my own. Clara (suppressing a tear)—George, if trials and tribulations should come—George (amazed)—My heart is yours alone, my love, and always will be. Clara (sobbing)—George, are you sure, perfectly sure, that nothing—nothing at all—could cool your affection? George (thoroughly alarmed)—My gracious! What's happened? Has your father failed? Clara (hysterically)—Worse! Far worse! George (much relieved)—Tell me all, my angel; I can bear it. Clara (with a heroic effort)—George, I've-I've got a—a boil coming—coming on my nose—New York Weekly. Opportunity "T'e automobilist had run over a call and was settling with the farmer, who happened to have a shotgun. 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Five of the dead are white and twelve are negroes. ‘The explosion is thought to have Deen caused by a windy shot. The mine itself is practically uninjured Ambulances were sent from Ensley to the scene and coffins will be rushed te the filfated mine, which was run ‘ming om short fores. WARSHIP CAPTAIN ARRESTED . T. Qualtrough, of the Georgia, Charg- ‘ed With Being Drunk at Reception. Gibraltar, Feb. 3.—Captain Edward ¥. Qualtrough, of the battleship Geor- gia, of the fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry, 1s under arrest on board his own vessel, and will be tried by court martial on a charge that he was under the Influence of intoxicants at a recep- tion given on shore a few days ago Captain Qualtrough denies the ac cusation. 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Pepe eee FIRE AID BY RAIL Carry Apparatus. Trenton, N. J.. Fed. 3—The recent fire that resulted in a heavy loss (or Princeton has led to a movement for equipping the suburban trolley lines with trucks capable of carrying the equipment of at least one fire engine company, to be used in case of stm!: lar need. Chief Allen, of the fire department, has conferred with the superintend: ents of the trolley lines and has found them willing to co-operate in the mat: ter, provided the cost of such trucks is defrayed by the towns which wit bs ihus benefited. Such service would also be of benefit to the farmers. U. 8. Probes Death of Soldier Abroad. Washington, Feb. 3—The state de- partment has called on the American consul at Riga to investigate the a! Jeged summary killing in Russia of Fritz Strombach, a United States sol ier, who formerly resided in Philatel phia. According to statements of the man’s friends, Strombach was execut ea in October, 1907, while on a fur Jough from the United States army to visit his mother. MALONEY-OSBORNE Heiress Becomes Gride of Man Once Forced to Give Her Up. Philadelphia, Feb, 3.— Miss Helen Maloney, of this city, and Arthur Her bert Osborne, of New York, were mar. tied by Rev. Stephen M. Lyons at St Catherine's Rin Catholic church, Spring Lake. J., where Martin Ma loney, father of the bride, has a sum mer home. The social world was startled in 1907 by the announcement that Helen Maloney had eloped from her fathe-'s summer home at Spring Lake with Samuel R. Clarkson, of London, who had been a guest of Mr. Maloney. Mr. Maloney finally found his daugh- ter in London and brought her home. It was learned that she and Clarkson had applied for & license to wed in London, but it had been refused be. aude their application stated that they Aad been previously married in Mon treat. In the meantime it was discovered that Miss Maloney had gone throuxh ‘& marriage ceremony with Arthur H. Osborne, then @ student at Princeton. Miss Maloney took the name of Helen Bugenie, Pittsburg, and Mr. Osborne ‘used the name of Herbert Ogden, Pitts. burg. Finally the matter was taken to the New York courts, where action was started for the annulment of Miss Ma- Joney's marriage to Osborne. This an- pulment was granted on the ground that they had never lived together. Your subscription to The Richmond PLANET is due. Have you paid it? HERE ARE OUR REASONS FOR THE ROUND-UP Frank Munsey says: I know only two things that command sponstaneous:circu- lation. First, fiction; second, human blood. You can always depend on those two features. If you run a placid magazine that omits them the source of great success is gone. If all the magazines combined their circulation into one and eliminated fiction 85 per cent of the total circulation would disappear. Itt is always the cry for blood, either the blood of fictitious creations or real people. “This kind of “fiction” and this kind of “crucifiction” do not command all the people, but an overwhelming proportion, perhaps 90 or 95 per cent. There is no better authority on circulation then Mr. Mun- sey. In the school of experience he learned the secret so well that he reaches about 15,000,000 readers, making him a multi- millionaire in the prime of life. The Round-Up meets every specification Mr. Munsey makes for a serial story. In the first chapter the desperate fight of Dick Lane with the Apaches rivets the reader’s interest. When Dick reveals that he is a successful prospector returning after years of absence with vast riches to claim the girl he left behind him the reader's tenderest sympathy is added to his in- terest. 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