Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET Addressed by President Wm. H. Tait. The Representative Colored Citizens who were addressed by President Taft, Wednesday morning, November 10, 1909 at Richmond, Va. This photograph was the first one taken. George St. Julien Stephens and Rev. D. Webster Davis, A. M., were in the capitol talking to reporters. This photograph was the second one taken. The persons thereon are as follows: 1. Wm. H. Hughes, M. D., 2. Col. Giles B. Jackson, 3. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., 4. J. Alexander Lewis, M. D., 5. Rev. T. H. Lee, 6. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., 7. A. D. Price, 8. R. T. Hill, 9. Emmett C. Burke, 10. J. E. Jones, D. D., 11. Rev. Evans Payne, D. D., 12. E. F. Johnson, 13. B. F. Turner, 14. E. A. Randolph, 15. E. W. Brown, 16. W. M. T. Forrester, 17. Jos. R. Pollard, Esq., 18. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., 19. O. B. H. Bowser, M. D., 20 W. Isaac Johnson, 21. John T. Taylor, 22. Henry Mallory, 23. Rev. W. L. Taylor, D. D., 24. George St. Julien Stephens, 25. John Mitchell, Jr., 26. Thomas M. Crump, 27. Thomas H. Wyatt, 28. W. P. Burrell HOWARD OUTPLAYS SHAW By C. Benj. Curley. Howard administered a crushing defeat to Shaw University last Saturday clearly demonstrating her superiority in nearly every part of the game. In the beginning of the game, however, the teams were more evenly matched. Howard soon settled down and kept Shaw at her mercy throughout the game. Saturday's contest however, barely averted, ending in a torfeiture of the game to Howard. During the first half the ball was punted down the field by Howard and a Shaw player caught the ball, but lost it when tackled by Tyson. Captain Lawrence, of Howard University carried the ball over for a touch down. The opponents kicked on the ground that their man signalled for a fair catch. The decision was given to Howard and the Shaw men quit the field. After considering the matter the Howard manager gave in and the game continued. This act aroused in the Howard men a greater desire to win and each man played his part. In line bucking, in running and skillful defense and all around foot-ball knowledge Howard excelled. Shaw fought hard from start to finish and did not give up until the game was ended. Every man on the Howard team seemed to understand every play that was contemplated and little strength was wasted on this account. The work of the backfield was superb and the making of holes by the line was spectacular while on the defensive nothing passed Howard unnoticed. The clever ends outgeneraled their opponents, followed punts and downed their men. Few Shaw formations were successful, because of the work of the line. The team showed occasional flashes. Their handling of punts was poor; team work was lacking and their formations were slow and far from perfect. Joyner of Shaw, did some splendid punting, but was soon outdistanced by "terrible" Terry, the halfback Brown of Howard, figured conspicuously in open field running while his men formed almost perfect interference for a distance of 15 or 20 yards. Tyson, on end, played his usual hard game and made many spectacular tackles. Durrah and Whiting in tackles kept with the ball and picked out their man every time. Smith and Bell in guard played hard, consistent foot-ball in stopping up holes and blocking plays. Although Thomas in center failed at times to pass the ball to an advantageous position for punting he was quick and active. The backfield was well nigh invincible. It was composed of men who know football and can play it. Allen, in full, hit the line repeatedly for 4 or 5 yards and also made 3 touchdowns, while Gray, a star, and 'terrible' Terry shot through holes like lightning. The work of "tab" Howard, Giles and Stratton on end was very effective while "big" Jack in guard and Beamon in tackle kept up the good work of their predecessors. Franklin and Bruce in the backfield tore off distance just as Allen and Terry. Coach Marshall had a good opportunity to try out many substitutes. Line up and summary: Howard Position Shaw Tyson, L. E. Cheek Giles, Stratton Thomas Durrah, L. T. Rogers Brown Smith, L. G. Atwaters Thomas Center Jones Bell, R. G. Strudwick Jackson Whiting R. T. Tonzi Lawrence (Capt) R. E. Gregg Poole Brown Q. B. Green Pogue Terry L. H. B. Eley Bruce Gray R. H. B. Joyner Allen F. B. J. Brown Franklin Wilkerson (Capt) Referee—Mr. Wilkinson Oberlin. Umpire, Mr. Coleman, Union. Field Judge, Mr. Henderson. Timors RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1909. Messrs. Brown and Bass, Head linesman, Mr. Kyle, Touchdowns, Allen $ Goals from touchdowns—Terry Bruce Time of halves, 25 minutes. Both Gone. Col. C, P. Rowlett, of Newport News, who stands high in Pythianism died last Saturday night at 11 o'clock after a long and painful illness. His funeral took place last Wednesday. Communications concerning his death were received from Sir T. J. Pree and Major B. J. Jackson. Major William H. Cunningham, of Danville, was also "called the way of all the earth" not long since the first information being received through Sir George W. Rison, of Danville. HATCHETT—HUGHES Dr. and Mrs. William H. Hughes, announce the marriage of their sister, Bortha Elinor, to Truly Hatchett, of Baltimore, Md., which will take place in the First Baptist Church, Richmond, corner College and Broad Streets, Thursday afternoon, November 25th, at 5:30 o'clock. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. Drs. W. Thos. Johnson and A. Binga, Jr. Afterwards there will be an informal reception at the home of the bride's brother, 516 North Second Street, from 6 to 9 o'clock. No cards, all friends invited: Immediately after the reception, Mr. Hatchett and his bride will leave for Baltimore, Md., where they will make their future home. 2-t BLAND—BOLLING Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kyles, announce the marriage of their sister Lillie O. Bolling to Mr. Robert O. Bland, which will take place, Wednesday evening November 24, at the bride's residence 807 N. Fifth Street, Richmond, Va., at 8 o'clock. No cards. Friends invited. MRS. MAGGIE L. WALKER FINED Charged With Receiving Children in the St. Luke Order. Quite a sensation was caused by the announcement that a warrant had been sworn out for Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, R. W. G. Secretary of the R. W. G. C. I. O. St. Luke, by an autuary of the bureau of insurance upon the charge of having violated the insurance laws in three cases by receiving children under sixteen years of age into the order of St. Luke. The case was called in the police Court last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Walker pleaded guilty and was fined twenty dollars in each case, making sixty dollars in all. There was no specific crime on the part of Mrs. Walker. She had been warned to observed the law in this particular. She overlooked it in these cases and as a result found herself in the toils of the law. No organization issuing policies of insurance is now permitted to receive children and this has embarrassed those, who have carried the little ones for so many years upon their books. No applications can now be received or money paid into the treasuries of an Order and all such children which are now carried in the Juvenile Department, when they become unbenefited will be barred from re-entering the department of which they were members. Rev. Dr. Brooks To Preach Here Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, of Washington, D.C., will preach at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Thanksgiving day, November 25th, 1909, at 12 o'clock noon at S P. M. A Card of Thanks. Mr. Henry Blair Burrell wishes to thank the friends and the public in general for their sympathies expressed, and the kind attention given his wife during her illness, also for the respect shown her at the funeral services which took place at the Second Baptist Church, of which she was a member on Saturday, November 13, 1908. Resolutions of Condolence. Richmond, Va., Nov. 15, 1909. It is the will of our Heavenly Father to take from labor to reward our friend and co-worker in the christian cause Rev. James H. Stephens, of Manchester. He was a loyal faithful and energetic worker for the cause enunciated by the Virginia Baptist State Convention, Sunday-school and B. Y. P. U. work. It is with a great degree of sadness that we, the officers of the National Baptist Sunday-school union bow to the will of our Heavenly Father, in that, He does everything right and just. We do not know that we have lost a valuable worker, one whose heart and mind was in the work, one who never knew a task so hard that he would not attempt it for the cause of right. His family, Sunday-school and friends have our deepest sympathy in their sad bereavement. We shall endeavor to so live that when our summons come we will meet him in heaven. Done by order of the National Done by order of the National Baptist Sunday-school Union. B. H. PEYTON, President, A. W. DANDRIDGE, Secretary Real Estate For Sale FOR SALE—60 foot building lot in city limits. Price $400. Small cash payment and balance on time. Address "C. F. R." care of PLANET. You Ought To See It The greatest magazine published in the whole world is published by a negro at No. 74 Highland Street, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. It costs $2.50 per annum; single copies are 25 cents each. Sold only by special agents, who make $3.00, $5.00 and $7.00 per day selling them. Agents fee is $1.00. No intelligent man or woman of negro blood need be idle or go hungry if they sell this book. Everybody wants it. It sells at slight. Address T. T. L. O. L., Magazine-Editor, 74 Highland Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A. See it now. It treats on hidden facts and lost things. It brings hidden things and lost people to light and reveals secrets that the world has never known. You ought to read it. $50.00 reward will be given to the one who can find a magazine that equals it, or as great a proposition offered as it sets before the negro race, as is offered the race now. Buy it. Be sure you read it now. E. O. ANDERSON. Special Agent. How Jeffries and Johnson will Compare HEIGHT 6 FT. 1½ IN. NECK 18 IN. AGE 34 REACH 75 3/4 IN. AGE 31. REACH 72 IN. HEIGHT 6 FT. 1/4 IN. NECK 17 1/4 IN. CHEST (EXPANDED) 50 IN (NORMAL) 46 IN. WAIST 37 IN. WRIST 8 1/2 IN. THIGH 26 1/2 IN. CALF 18 IN. ANKLE 10 1/4 IN. JEFFRIES CHEST (EXPANDED) 39 3/4 IN (NORMAL) 36 1/4 IN. WAIST 34 3/4 IN. WRIST 10 3/4 IN. THIGH 25 3/4 IN. CALF 15 3/4 IN. ANKLE 10 3/4 IN. JOHNSON Jeffries Johnson Odds Will Probably Be Even. New York, Nov. 12.—"Jeffries and Johnson will go into the ring with even money and take your pick posted about their chances," says Jim Coffroth, the San Francisco fight promoter. "Either man may be the post favorite by a slide. Just which one will be selected on the long end is a matter that late training will decide, but even money will rule during the greater portion of the betting." Coffroth is admitted by the best judge of prices on boxing matches in the country. The late Harry Corbett, who ran a room when fortunes were won and lost, always consulted the clever handler of the greatest boxing events in recent years before he opened the betting on any big event. Sometimes the two men differed as to the price. Coffroth was seldom wrong. The discussion came up in an up-town hotel, frequented by sporting men. An offer was made to wager on the big white undefeated champion at 2 to 1. Coffroth jumped at the chance, and offered to cover any reasonable amount at such a figure. "Not that I have formed any opinion about the match," he explained, "but I am sure the quotation is out of line. I could lay the bets off at a price that would me a nice sum without risk. 'FRISCO THE BEST PLACE "I am going on the presumption that the championship will be fought out in San Francisco. It is the only logical place for the men to box. That city is the home of fighting. It turns out the greatest crowds and the bouts are run without interference. Many fly-by-night offers are being received, from all over the country. Some of them may be on the square, but most are open to suspicion. Jeffries and Johnson know where the only safe spot is. I am satisfied that some San Francisco club will get the battle when the bids are opened. "San Franciscans are the wisest judges of fighters in the country today. They have seen practically all of the big battles of late years, and they seldom go wrong when it comes to picking a favorite. They saw Johnson toy with Ketchel. They will take into account Jeff's long retirement. They will watch every training move of the two men and size them up to the minute. When the whole situation simmers down I'm sure it will be an even money proposition with the fans. The odds may vary throughout the country, but San Francisco will stick by its own ideas." Ogden, Utah came to the bat with an offer of $80,000 for the big match yesterday. Jimmy Brown, of the Mormon city, being sponsor for the huge cash offer. In his excitement Brown neglected to prepay the message, and it cost Jeff $3.80 to take the missive out of soak. The Boschen Firm Extends Aid We have received a donation of ($5.00) five dollars from Messrs Boschen Brothers for the colored people who lost all of their belongings by the St. James Street fire. A Weeks' Entertainment at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Rally Club entertains Monday night, "The Old Fashion Country Mock Marriage." Tuesday night, the Free Will Club will have a sermon by Rev. W. T. Anthony. Wednesday night, preaching under the auspices of the Macedonia Club. Thursday night, Dr. W. T. Johnson will preach at 8 P. M. for the Usher's Club. Rev. W. H. White will preach Friday night for the Deacon's Club Excellent music will be rendered All are invited. White Residents Want an Injunction The new Baptist Church, now worshipping temporarily at St. Luke Hall has purchased the Quaker Church, known as "Friends Meeting House" on Clay Street, between First and St. James Street for ten thousand dollars. This has aroused the ire of some of the white residents and papers for an injunction has been filed in the Chancery Court of this city. Notice has been given that a motion for an injunction restraining the new Baptist Church from using the property as a place of worship for a Negro congregation. The persons named in the suit are the following church trustees: Daniel Henderson, J. R. Griffin, Edward S. Brown, W. H. Newton, Jesse Seruggs James E. Robinson, John H. Carter. The white people filing the complaint or notice are H. O. Tiller, C. A. Bryce, N. V. Coleman, J. H. Chappell, P. B. Hatcher, E. M. Redford, H. C. Garrett, J. J. Gary, John R. Hulecher, B. Cauthorn, A. W. Smith, H. W. Warded, W. O. Day, H. G. Heeke, R. Franclone, J. Weinstein, M. Goshen and J. L. Lindsay. The new Baptist Church intended getting possession of the church PRICE, FIVE CENTS. will Compare HEIGHT 6PT 1/4 IN. NECK 12/4 IN. CHEST (EXPANDED) 39 1/4 IN (NORMAL) 36 1/4 IN WAIST 34 1/4 IN WRIST 10 1/4 IN. THIGH 25 1/4 IN CALF 15 1/4 IN ANKLE 10 1/4 IN. JOHNSON building December 15. 1909, and will do so unless the application for an injunction is successful. Will Pay Four Per Cent Interest The Mechanies' Savings Bank will pay 4 per cent. interest on all time deposits. Arrangements are being made to accommodate the public in every way and plans for extra convenience are well under way. The corner of Third and Clay Streets will be the center of business activity. Office space will soon be for rent. Some of the space has already been engaged. A Fine Rendition. The religious play of "Joseph in Bondage", which was staged at the True Reformers' Hall last Monday night under the management of Prof. Thomas H. Wyatt, for the benefit of the First Baptist Church was highly creditable. It was liberally applauded by the large audience that greeted its first appearance. The costumes, were in keeping and the stage effects satisfactory. The singing was also a feature. Miss Elizabeth Taylor was easily the star performer. Her singing and acting were features of the performance. The play was reproduced last Wednesday night at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. If the present company can be kept together and the play repeated once or twice in this city, we have no doubt that much good would result from the rendition. Mrs. Jesse E. Brown of Loula ville, Ky., has been visiting relatives and friends in Virginia since August 5, 1909. She will leave for her home on the 29th of this month $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., Nov. 16, 1909. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Brother James H. Terrell, who was a member of Royal Lodge No. 26, of Richmond, Va. Signed: I. A. TERRELL, Beneficiary. Witnesses: J. J. Carter, S. S. Baker, D. D. G. G. ~ wre. 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All RightsReservea. ¢ | tWO men in the wireless room looked with my property.” = fever of excitement, Er | Bradter nodded, Se hs dade n ee wo a _ CHAPTER XIV. HE steamer Mongolian was pitching, tossing. pounding along sturdily as best she could through the night. For ten hours she had fought her way up the coast in the face of the worst storm of the season Now, off Hatteras, the danger spot 4m the route from Porto Rico to New York, the sturdy lttle liner scarcely feemed able to make any progress, She bad been forced miles off her course and closer in toward the dan- serous reefs than her captain Mked. Not that the liner herself was in any stave danger, for the old Mongolian and her experienced captain had faced too many Atlantic storms for even 2 Dig one to alnrty them. ‘The hatches had ail beqn battened down, the pas. sengers were below, and the stanch steamer, stripped ax much as poasibie, slowly rising to each attack of the waves, drove on with all the power of her engines under the storm. Up tn the little wireless room, the highest point on the ship, Harling, the Young operator, clung to his berth and wondered what was going to happen. It was his second trip to sea and bis first big storm, so no wonder the younz Operator felt the thrill of the strug- gle and just the faintest fear for the outcome. Every officer and man connected with the liner was on post. waiting anxiously for whatever might happen. ‘They had little fears for the stanch Mongolian, but there were many ships Jess sturdy in those waters, and on guch a night, with the vessel out of her course, there was no telling what might occur. The captain's last tn- struction had been to look out for Wrecks, Most of the vessels of any size tn these waters carried wireless outfits, and in case of trouble they would be ware at once to send ont broadcast thelr appeals for help. Little could be one in any case. but at least the Mon- gollan could stand by to belp as much as she could or, if absolutely neces- sary, take advantage of the warnings to keep clear of wrecks. ~ For hours the pitching of the ship. timed irregularity to the roaring drive of the storm, had held the wireless Man fast at bis post. It was now past midnight and with Mttle chance of any abatement before dawn. Harting’s nerves were on edge as he clung to his berth, wide eyed, alert, waiting. listening to the faintest click that might be the forerunner to tell of Gisaster and death. Half a dozen times Bis strained nerves had brought him struggling from his berth to receive such a message, only to find his imag. timation bad been playtng tricks with his fear. Suddenly there came from the in- strument clicks so sharp, so distinct ‘and yet so hurried that the young fel- Jow sprang from the berth and stum- | bled to the table, sure now that at last Something was coming, Again the instrament clicked wildly. To the ears of the straiued operator it Drought a chill, for be knew It was the sending of some one wild with fear. Anxiousiy, impatiently, be tis- tened. At first he could make out pothing. “They're crazy!" be exclaimed to What's the “matter with hem? They're crazy! ‘ ‘The wild rattle of the receiver stop- ped, and Harling seized his own key. “What's wrovg? Don't be a fool. Keep your nerves. Seud sense.” ‘The touch of the key had brought Bim thoroughly to himself. His nerve ‘tightened and his bead grew cool as be rove his message fiercely out into the storm. He paused, listeuing eagerly, and again the receiver began to click, al- Most as wildly, as insanely, as before. Only the skilled operator could make ‘out “C-Q--D.” “A distress signal!” he gasped. “It's come.” Again the Mongolian’s wireless oper- erator seized his key and drove out his answer into the night. As he waited he seized the tele phone connected direct with the cap- ‘tain's stateroom. “Captain. have just received a dis- | ‘tress signal!” he shouted. “Have sent them our position in course. but the fool seemed to have lost his nerve. Have vot been able to get anything from bim yet.” The answer of the captain came ‘back and sharp. “slab bi tell Where he ts and who he is at once. I'll be with you.” ‘The receiver had begun to click wildly, and Harling, gripping the to keep himself steady, listened ‘with disgust, for the sending now ws ‘that of a man absolutely insane from “Help! Help! Pb ane omg help ot m. | “Send name and position,” be pound | ed fiercely. “Send position. Kee} nerve. Send position.” He stopped, grasping the table an waiting anxiously. “M-o-n-g-o-LL-a-n!” the recelver click ed wildly. | The fool!" gasped Harling. “Thi dirty coward! Sending that way a | such a time!” | He seized the key and drove ov fercely bis command: « “Send position.” For reply the recelver clicked back in the same mittied way: “Yacht Irvessa breaking upon reef | For God's sake belp pe! vin pay an; reward if you will save us at once Help us quick, for God's sake?” ‘The rage of the operator bad risen “The thought of lives resting on the Work of the coward was awful. | “The fool!” be gasped. “It he’s breaking up. why is he wasting time that way?" And then bis own message volleyed out Into the night: | “What reef? Send position Quick!" Io panicky clicks the answer came back. It was the same idiotic raving (Of @ fear crazed man, “I'l reward you. 1am &. H. Pinck- Rey and rich. Have thirty on board. Will reward handsomely." Again Harting drove out the short demend for the position of the wreck- ed yacht. ‘Then, as he waited for re- ply. he seized the captain's telephone a second time. “It's the yacht Irvessa, captain, She Feports going to pleces. There's a frightened fool at the key—B. H. Pinckney. Can't even get bis position, I'm doing my best, sir, but Pinckney's Jost his nerve completely. If they bad & man at the key we might get some- thing.” He bung up the phone to listen in Gisgust and despair to Pinekney’s ravings driven out through the storm. ‘There was no chance for Harting to gend. The man et the Irvessa key kept ponnding, with no sense to bis messages. As the Mongolian operator Waited for a break to cut in the cap- tain. driven by the force of the wind. fairly burst into the Little wireless room. “Weil be snapped, “what is it now? Have you got the position of the Ir vessa?” Harling shook his head in disgust. “Lcan bardly make out what he says, captain. His sending is awful. He's a good operator, too, 1 belleve, only he's lost his nerve completely. But as nearly as I can make out"—he Ustened a moment anxiously—“It's a Uttle better now. He says Irvessa, bound for New York from Porto Rico, struck reef two hours ago. Don't know where.” “Yes, yes, I understand,” broke in the captain impatiently. “But can't be give us any idea of bis course? Can- | || SVN Loe ' apo jo eS ee Ne ea eee te et oF cheer. Gada reef is the ouly charted reef within 200 miles of our present posi. tion. Could you send 200 miles to- ight? Harling shook his head. “I don't think we cowN, sir. And 200 miles for a yacht would be impos. sible. Wait a minute.” He sprang to the key again and with firm, emphatic strokes drove an im- Perative message. “What's that?” asked the captain, “I asked for his radius of commun! cation—how far ‘be could send,” ex- plained Harling. He waited a moment, and then the receiver began again its Rervous, frightened clicking. ‘The face of the listening operator brightened. “Sixty miles,” he exclatmed, translat- ing the cl'ckm “Why, we must be within forcy miles to get him at all tonight. But we are going toward him. We might now be within thirty alles.” ‘The captain shook his bead. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. see a quarter mile with the search- Nght.” Again the recelver began a wil tattoo. The ight went out of Har Ung’s face as he lstened. ‘Then he turned almost piteously to the captain. | _“Hle says they're breaking up, sir Por God's sake"— ‘The clicking stopped suddenly. ‘The two men in the wireless room looked at each other. and slowly each saw the horror grow In the eyes of the other ‘They waited with blanched faces. The receiver stayed still, “They're gone,” said the captain foftly at Inst, and outside the wireless ‘room the wind roared triumphantly, while the big waves pitched the ship y about Jn the teeth of the gale. Harling dropped back into a chair, “Gone!” he muttered stupidly. “Gone!” And then, to his plain imag. tnation, there came the picture of the yacht breaking up and the thirty going down to death in the sea. Perhaps they might be closer; they might be almost on them. Perhgps there was still time. And then thedfnought, “Sup- Pose there are women, too, on board,” came to the young operator. Harting sprang to his feet. “No, no!" he yelled loud above the storm. “They shan't be gone! We will save them?" He sprang to the key and desperate. ly, rebelifously, volleyed out Into the night a message of cheer and hope. “We're coming. We'll save you yet. Where are you? Hang on!” ‘The captain Inid his band gently on the young (ellow's shoulder. “tt's no use, 1 fear, boy.” he ald ‘softly. “They are gone. That's the way it Is at sen, You've done all you could, boy. Make a full report and transcription for me. If you should get another call send for me at once.” Turning, the old seaman opened the oor of the wireless room to fight his way along the deck to the lookout's position. Inside the room young Hlar- Ung dropped into a chatr before his instrument and, bending over, buried his head In his hand. Suddenty he sat up straight, tense tn every nerve and muscle. What was, that? Was {t his Imagination playing tricks again? No. He could not be mistaken. There It was again. He looked. listened. then sprang to bis feet, with a shrick of Joy. for the Uttle recorder In front of him began again slowly, as though tired, to click. “A~A—A~A” He read it off aloud. with regret. “Just some battleship." he said bit- terly to himself, “That's the navy call.” Next his face lighted, and be laughed aloud hysterically, for it was the navy call, but it came from the Iressa. Im: Patiently the operator seized the tele- phone, “Captain, captain.” be shrieked, “I've got the Irvessa again, sir! Not Pinck- ney this time. ‘There's a man at the key. We can get something from this one. He can't send much, but be’s all there with bis nerve.” He dropped the telephone again as the receiver began to click: “Yacht Irvessa aground on reef. Po sition unknown, but within thirty miles of you getting this message. ‘To indi- cate relative position storm center now Passing directly northeast of us. Heay- Jest lightning northeast by east. Can you make out our position ?* ‘The captain bad re-entered the wire- less room by the time the message was delivered. “Tell him,” exclaimed the dificer, “we can make out bis probable post tlon. We are steering southwest by West to find him. Ask him how long he can Inst.” The answer to the message came back slowly. with every dot and dash absolutely distinct: “Haif an hour.” “Tell him," commanded the captain, “we are twenty miles away probably and can't make better than 12 knots an hour in this storm.” A terrific Sash of lightning for one blinding instant lit up the mountain. ous waste of waves outside. “Ask him where that lightoing was.” shouted the officer, “East by north,” thé receiver clicked back. In anothet thinute the course of the ship bad been changed one point to the southward, and all this while the receiver slowly bnt steadily ellcked out guiding news, “We have two boats. Both boats lett yacht ten minutes ago during break in communication with you. They seem understand direction you coming. First boat making for you. Look for its lights.” ‘An expression of admiration came on the face of the old seaman. | “Then that fellow must have stayed behind to guide us and save the people fn the boat.” he exclaimed. “Ask him how many are with him.” | Harling transinied the quick answer: “One. He ts below. Stayed with me to run dynamo. We can give direc. | tions as long as hold together. That last flash due north.” Swell bee fot bis nerve. afl right” exclaimed the officer, with wdmiration. |ment. “I used less current, and he gol Us all right. If he got that we can't be ten miles off.” ‘He selzed the key and cficked off the cheering news to the man on the Stranded Irvessa who used. the navy call. Very firmly, but slowly, the answer came: | “We shall not outlive this. Storm gathering, thicker. Both boats should live. If We are lost see that family of man who stayed with me ts rewarded with my property.” “t wander who that fellow ts.” ex claimed the Mongollan's chief officer “Did be tell vou?" | Harling shook bis bead. “Ne@ bot he's a naval man. He used the navy call, We're on him. Listen.” He translated quickly: “You are now between us and boats. See your Ught. Boats south of you. Do not expect farther directions. Gotng to pleces. Steer south.” The first officer burst into the wire Jess room, « “Here, sir.” he exclaimed. “I'll take your place. There is a searchlight on the starboard bow.” The cagtin struggled out to the deck as Harling pounded this cheering message of help and appeal to stick: “See your light. Coming. For God's sake don’t break yet." The answer wes sharp and stern: “Dov't try reach us. Boats have twenty-six. Only two here.” Even as the message came @ faint cheer rang out on the deck of the Mongolian, The first boat had been sighted. Carefully because of the tre mendous waves the lifeboat bore down on the bic ship, Slowly she edged around. then a rope as thrown and caught. A, rope ledder and other ropes went overtiw side, and then almost be- fore Harting could send another mes. Ye ot ts GY Tat 4 Pores / y/ G v7 et | sage the half drowned members of the Irvessa crew were being dragged to safety over the side of the ship. Mrs. Durant, the first one taken aboard, and Pinckney, the second. were helped into the wireless room. The woman was moaning bysterically. “Frances is lost, lost!" sbe sobbed. Next the clicking of the wireless tn. strument brought Pinckney partly to himself, “Whot’e that?" he asked. “Some one on the Irvessa. Who ts he?” demanded Harling. Pinckney did not answer, and Mrs Durant broke in: “It's Lieutenant Sommers. He stay ed behind to guide you. What's he saying?” “He wants to know {f all arm safe in the Grst boat.” “Yes, but Frances.” erled the moth er—"Frances, where Is she?" The clicking of the receiver cut off her speech “He says: ‘Don't give up second boat. Don't believe it lost.” ‘The captain of the Mongolian let ont an oath, “We can't stop for the second boat.” he exclaimed. *I'm going for that fel Jow. Tel! him we're coming for him* Harling sent the message, but @ tmo- ment Iater the word came from the lookout: “Irvessa light gone.” The light was gone, but the Trvessa stil held together, for the receiver in the wireless room of the Mongolian elicked out a sharp command: | “Look for second boat. We stayed tc Save others. Don't come for us till yon find second boat.” Almost at that moment the lookout sang a cheering word. “Another boat on the port bow, str.” | Again the thriliing work of lifting Gazed, half drowned people from th: | toxsing lifeboat to the firmer deck of ‘the steamer was successfully accom. plished. Rradies, the lender of the Second boat, staggered into the wire Jess room. “Frances: Was she with yoo?" screamed Mrs, Durant at sight of bim | The secret service man shook bis head. | “We thought she was in the first Dont with you,” be said. “How many aid you have?" “Fifteen.” replied Pinckney. “And we started with thirteen,” er- ‘claimed Pradiey. “and lost two. ‘That makes twenty-eight.” A scream from Mrs, Durant inter Fapted them, My child: Prancest act Bhe stayed behind with e ‘Save her! Save her! Ly | srsteade the key, and a ‘moment tat ae terrible message went to the hero In the wireless room on the Irveesa: = “Miss Durant Is with you. She stay- ed behind to run dynamo.” The answer came sharp, quick, and for the Grst time the sending was nervous: | “Then for God's sake come to me: Come quick!" CHAPTER xv 1 fever of excitement. Ever since a the forging of the Sommers ' €un events of Importance had s happened in such close succession that j about the works generally was the feeling of stunned amazement. The office force and even the hands when ther met would look at each other fearfully. What would happen next? No one covid telt. But alt were sure | something dreadful might be expected | First had come the fight In the fur: nace room, when Sommers was nearly | killed: then the discharge of Smith. but with the rumor that he bad gone to work tp another plant controtied by | Mr. Durant: next had followed a ter- rible explosion of the Sommers gun. and now was the shipwreck, the won |derful rescue through the bravery of Sommers and Frances Durant, Soally to culminate In a rigid investigation to be beld in the Durant works. So no wonder the thousands connected di. | rectly and indirectly with the Durant works were In a fever of excitement. | ‘The story of the herole rescue had been told over and over again. All knew how Frances voluntarily tad | Stayed behind on the wrecked yacht to share apparently certain death with the herole young naval officer. It wns plain that she loved bim and he loved | her, and all the gossips were straining their Imaginations to conjure just what would be the result when the girl's lover was tried at the court mar Ual for the loss of bie gun, forzed tr her father's works. As soon as the Mongolian rvache New York the survivors of the Irves«y had landed. Pinckney hurried to Pitts burg on the first train, but Sommer stayed over a few hours to make thy trip with Frances and her mother Mr. Durant had met them there, and all came on together. The steel mar Was not given to many werds. Son- mers was equally unde™ostrative. They bad wrung each other's hands with mutual respect and esteem. but | there had been no words of the rela- tion which all knew must exist be tween the young officer and Frances ‘The girl had said nothing. Even her mother was not in her confidence. On the trip from New York to Pitts burg Mra. Durant bad found time to take up the subject with ber husband “It's no use, George,” she sald, “Exl- ward hasn't a chance. That wreck killed any feeling she ever bad. We were all in the wireless room, and when he began to bungie and send foolish messages Mr. Sommers just caught him by the collar, pulled him away from the key and put bim out | ‘side. If you bad seen Frances’ face then you would know Edward was done. You must give Mr. Sommers ev ‘ery opportunity to clear himself of: blame," ' | George Durant nodded In agreement “I'l give him every chance, my dear.” he said. “Give bim a chance that’s all any man can ask.” | Now the day’ of Sommers” chance Was at hand, for Mr. Durant had put | his books and the entire force of the works in charge of Bradley to ferret out the truth. Pinckney, with a few hours’ start ‘hurried to the works as fast as. poss! ble. He wanted to meet Marsh before the investigation began. He mus! know what Marsh had told Bradley Their stories must agree, But the first blurted question brongbt another sur. prise to the chief conspirator. MT haven't seen any secret. service man. ‘There hasn't been any around here,” protested Marsh, | Pinckney shook his bead impatient. ly. “Don't be foolish, Marsh. You saw him atid talked to bim. He questioned you here nearly a month ago. His ‘hitme was Bradley.” . | Marsh, thoroughly frightened at the’ idea of secret service men working on ‘@ case, could only redouble bis pro- test. “I haven't seen him. T haven't talked to anybody I didn't know In a month.” Pinckney gave a relieved sigh. “Then be bluffed me.” he said. “But now listen. ‘This investigation is com- ing off today. We're all right. If you keep your head for baif an hour you | can’t 0 wrong. And we begin work on a government contract for the Rhlnestrom tomorrow.” eWhat must 1 say? inquired the tn Yentor of the Rhinestrom gun weakly. “Swear that Smith was drunk and say that I and Sontmers were in the farnace room when the gun went into the tempering bath. Then Bradley can't prove anything to save his life. Don't let him frighten yoo. He'll try to, but keep your nerve, If he asks you about the Rhinestrom gun don't know anything about It” Marsh. yaterally SeTees, es. Sow trembling with fear. "You know of those killed ‘and wounded, Mr. Pinckney. We both de- ferve state's prison for ft” Pinckney grabbed the little man by the shoulder to shake some courage toto bim. ef ‘ “Don't get chicken foeigicgtao fool.” he cried . “TE feel as bad about the a8 you do, but we can't think of that now. It's. sien or a fortune, for you, Marsh. Now poer. pexaing away tn one corner at) her machine. “I was looking for Mr Pinckney.” “He's in the Inner office with Mr. Marsh.” responded the girl. Bradley nodded, “Sure. He sent for Marsh as soon as he came, didn't he?” | | “Yes.” replied the <irt curiousty. “How did you know that?* Bradley smiled “Mind reader." be suggested, then added. with a serious explanation, “ have an engagement with him, so 1 thought they'd be walting for me.” | “Shall 1 tell him you are bere? asked the stenographer. | Bradiey mde a hasty objection. “Oh, no: don't bother. I'l walt tit they get through. I was Just gatng to see them on a little business about (fe Rbinestrous gun, And that reminds me. Give me Mr. Rhinestrom's address, won't you? I have to drop him a let. ter.” “Rhinestrom's address?" she asked curlousty, ‘The man nodded. | “Sure, Rbtoestrom, the inventor of the gun they're making here Can't you give me his address? If you don't Femember {t look at the last letter you sent him.” | “Why, I've never sent bim any tet- ters." “Mazie returned curiously. “It you want his eddress, why don't you get It from Mr, Pinckney?” | | Bradley smiled, | “That's a good Idea.” he sald. “1 Just do that. You take all Mr. Piock hey’s dictation, don’t you?" | tbe gict bad begun to wonder at the | questioning. Bradley looked well and was pleasant. But what did be want? | "Yes, 1 take Mr. Pinckney's dicta | tion,” she agreed cautiously. | / “And be's never wgitten to Rhine strom?” demanded BAMey, with sud den sternness. For a moment the girl fared up. “Say. who are you anyhow? What do you want? Are you trying to pump me? - Her questioner smiled blandly. “Oh, please don't suggest such thing.” he said. “I'm going in the works now to see a man Samed O'Len. ry. When Mr. Durant comes tell him that Mr. Bradley of the secret core fs In the works, then send for me. Goodby. Much obliged for what you had to tell me.” 1 Mazie O'Brien leaned back in her chair. looking after Rradiey with a curious expression op ber face. ' “Well. what do you think of that?” she sald to herself at last in astonish: ment. “Him a detective! Well, he’s a Pretty good looking fellow—for a de- fective. T wonder what's up. T remem der he was sround bere a mouth ago.” Ten minutes later the detective was back In the office in time to meet Frances entering with —Llentenant Sommers. ‘ “I'm glad you're here, Miss Durant.” he deciared earnestly. “Would son mind If I ask you some questions on Investigation?” ‘The girl smiled at the Iden, | “WHIT mind? she exclaimed. “You know I'll do anything In the world | can to clear Mr. Sommers of any blame. Have you found out anything 0 far?” Bradley shook bis head. I “I've got no positive proof, but 1 think I sbal! have before this Invest! gation Is over.” “And Mr. Sommers will be cleared when he goes before the court of in quiry at Washington?” pers...ed the gir. \ Bradley bowed. “L certainly hope so, Miss Durant. You know how mnch I owe to Mr Sommers and to you. T feel sure he is | innocent of any neglect or wrongdoins. and you can depend on me to work my head off to clear him. Everything will depend, however, on what I can get from Marsh.” 4, | Frances looked surprised. “I can’t think Marsh ts guilty,” she admitted anxiously, “He's been in thr works for years, and nothing’s ever een said against him.” | Bradley nodded. “I know all that, Miss Durant. Rut may I tell you a secret? I believe Marsh ts the inventor of the Rhine strom gun, and if I can prove that the Test is easy.” “And if you can't?” the girl asked fearfully. Bradley smiled with confidence. “I never let myself look on that side,” he said. “Now I must leave you. Til be back fn a few minutes.” { | When the door had closed on Brad- Jey the girl turned impulsively to Som- mers at her side. | What will you do tf yon. find they ‘are against you?" she asked bluntly. The man looked at ber seriously. “There is nothing that 1 can do then. _ Brunce@ Ill be dishonored, a disgraced man.” “You mean.” she persisted, “if this | investigation disctoses nothing and the court of Inquiry at Washington Onds: against you that you will not come, back to me?" + of goo ee of pain crossed Som-| face, but his answer came ) aiatars: en “You neqt not come back to me for I re ‘will come to you.” ly. but with determination that would not be denied. “If the Washington au- thorities piace the blame of the acci- dent upon vou, If you are dishonored and discrare’. you need not come back to me” She paused a moment, then added softly. raising her eyes to him, “You need not come back to me, for T will come to you.” [to 8m coxtinven.} How to: Bake Cookies. | If your family hankers after smal} cakes it will be found to be a paying Investment to have special baking sheets made. Have your tinner cut Sat pleces of sheet iron with edges turved up about a quarter of an inch or less. These should just ft the oven, but must not be so tight as to stick. Two or three of such sheets will suffice for a good sized baking, and there is no time lost scraping pans to regrease for a second lot. The fiat sides make it easier to slip a knife under and slip the cake from the pan. For chocolate drops or cookies battered papers can be used on the sheets. How to Pad an Ironing Board. | The next time the blanket on your ironing board wears out and you must bunt a new one to replace it try sub stituting newspapers. Choose thick Sunday editions, the uncolored sec- tions, and tack to the board so that the sheets te smoothly and of any desired thickness. Cover with muslin In the Usual way, Newspapers not only have ‘the merit of being more easily put on and causing your board to be more even, but they can be quickly and aie replaced at no cost, TIPS ON SANDWICHES. How to Make Them Appetizing With Little Trouble. The housewife who learns the art of making saudwiches is always well fortified against problems when serv- ing an informal luncheon to guests. Close grained bread should be used, for coarse bread will crumble. And bread baked in round tins is prefera- Die to that cut into slices and cut with & biscuit cutter, since the baked edges Preserve the shape. Moist fillings should be laid between lettuce leaves, ‘and by buttering the bread the mois ture cannot penetrate it, making it soggy. Melted butter can be used if it ts not soft enough to spread. A ‘Salmon sandwich ts a tempting article of food and should be balf mized with chepped boiled egg and very thin slices of olives and pickles. The wise hostess will make two different kinds of sandwiches, some with the mixture moistened with vinegar or lemon juice, others without, for many Persons cannot take acids, Practically all meat sandwiches are extremely rich, and strong condiments are no- tleeable in the filling, especially mus tard and catchup. While white meat makes a delicate sandwich, yet the darker meats, mixed with mayonnaise: and other relishes, are more appetis- tng in every way. ‘When hot sandwiches are served at &@ noonday luncheon at home the con- tents of the sandwiches are placed be- tween the layers of bread and fried, or the bread ts toasted and covered With a cooked meat filling, then coyv- ered with buttered toast and served hot. Peanuts mixed with mayonnaise and sliced egg make a good sandwich. They make a fruit sandwich which is’ well liked by those who are fond of fruit and bread. The Siling con- sists of chopped dates, figs, lemon Juice and ground outs, lightly mized with tart jelly. The bread ts but- jtered for this. Candied fruits are often used, but often the sandwich is a bread cake, more of the angel food cake variety, slled with fruits and moistened with cherry juice or the Hquor from preserved pipeapple: or peaches. The Maltese are mainly the last sur- viving remnant of the Carthaginian branch of the old Phoenician pe. le. Malta was the haifway station be- tween Carthage and Sicily, long held by the Carthaginians and of which Harvilear, the father of Hannibal, was at one time governor. How to Reseat Old Chairs. If you have old rush bottom or cane seated chairs and do not want to go to the expense of baving them recaned try making a seat for them at bome. Cat away carefully the can- ing 20d nail strips of girthing tightiy ‘Across the opening. Cover with a Plece of fine Sber matting. or burlap, Just the shape of the seat, but a halt inch larger. Turn in the edges all around apd nall to the chair with ‘brass headed tacks for studing. If ‘the woodwork has grown shabby buy ‘& preparation that quickly removes and softens the varnish and scrape ‘with pieces of glass. The chair ean ‘then be done up with any desired COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD THANKSGIVING IN THE SOUTHLAND. The gold is on the pumpkin, and the gay nasturtium vine Is aglow with yellow glory in the sunny southern clime. A SNOWED-IN THANKSGIVING By EFF HATCH Copyright, 1909, by American Press Association LAWRENCE GREER, looking from his bedroom window, could see nothing but snow as far as his eye traveled. It was snow on the window panes, snow on shrub and tree and hill, snow everywhere in all sorts of fantastic shapes and with yet more coning. The first big storm of the season was descending on the region whether he had come but two days before to spend his Thanksgiving vacation from city office duties in his uncle's home. Already roads and even fences were obliterated. "Hello, Lawrence!" came the voice of his uncle from below. "Guess well!" have to dig out our end of the gully road this morning. Breakfast ready in ten ten minutes. Get on your heaviest togs. It is a snifter this time." 1 This wasn't the first time that Lawrence had lent a hand in snow plowing and shovelling out the snowed-in of his uncle's district. Ever since he was a boy of fifteen, ten years before, he had been making annual winter visits to this best of all his uncles and aunts, and he GERTRUDE CAME FORWARD WITH A GREETING. GERTRUDE CAME FORWARD WITH A GREETING. winter visits to this best of all his uncles and aunts, and he would have returned home solely appointed had he not encountered at least one deep drift experience. At breakfast it was arranged that Lawrence, with old Jacob, should undertake the breaking through of the gully road as far as the Widow Bennett's. At that point they would undoubtedly meet the Pearson boys from a mile beyond. Now, Lawrence had pleasant recollections of Widow Bennett's hospitable home. As a boy it had opened its arms to him, and it was there he had spent many an hour with Mrs. Bennett and her granddaughter, the brightest, black eyed, alert little girl that ever wore short skirts, rode on snowplows, called him "Uncle Law" and insisted on his own grownupness and his fitness to advise her on her reading, her studies and even her ambitions. Gertrude, however, had been away at school these later winters and Lawrence had caught no glimpse of her, although his aunt and even his uncle had much to say of her attractiveness and loveliness as evidenced in the summer life of the place. "We ought to make Bennett's by noon and get back here by chore time," was the schedule announced by old Jacob. "If it gets any worse late in the day don't try to get back tonight. Just bed at the Bennett farm and dig toward us in the morning," was the uncle's parting advice. The storm did grow worse and grew worse so rapidly that by the time they had covered three-quarters of the distance to the Wildow Bennett's Lawrence and old Jacob considered it advisable to detach the horses from the snowplow and, mounted one on each horse, make their way to the Bennett farm. "Worst storm ever!" said the widow as she welcomed the two. "It doesn't look as if we should get out for days P GERTRUDE SO WRITE. I was telling Gertrude it was mighty lucky for her that she came yesterday, for she couldn't possibly have escaped a snow blockade had she taken a train later." Lawrence was all attention. "I say, little Gertrude isn't here, is she?" he asked. "Well, I don't know as she is," quizzically replied the grandmother. "Little Gertrude hasn't been in evidence for some years, but Miss Gertrude isn't far away." Soon there was a quick step and a laughing "Hello, Uncle Law!" as Gertrude came forward with a greeting that for its simplicity and heartiness and but for the ripened flower of womanhood before him might have carried him back a half dozen years. Lawrence Greer was not one easily to be carried off his feet, but he was too evidently in the air this time even to disguise the fact cleverly. "But I say, Gertrude, how on earth did it all happen?" looking her over from head to foot. "Years, Uncle Law, just years and the getting into touch with new kinds of life. You said it would be just as I've found it and also that I would some day forget my Uncle Law and that he told me so. But, you see, I haven't forgotten either." And she smiled as frankly as in the days when he told her, sitting on his knee, of the world that she would go into, through the gateways of school and experience and of the society, whose doors had not then opened to her. That she hadn't forgotten him and those talks to the child Gertrude gave Lawrence a thrill of real pleasure. That afternoon and evening was a rare day in Lawrence's experience of life. The storm raged furiously, and Lawrence, relieved of duty, gave himself up to the spell of a renewal of acquaintance that had all the novelty, piquancy and delight of a rare and agreeable discovery. What astonished Lawrence most were the frequently recurring and flatteringly delightful evidences that wherever she had been and however occupied during these intervening years Gertrude had kept close tab on his own career and, furthermore, had found a certain inspiration therein. To be sure, that career had not been hidden under a bushel, for he was already sufficiently in public life to make him a marked man among influential men. Gertrude's discriminating allusions to his work as commissioner, delegate or president of the board, to his work in correcting civic evils and in his other public activities betokened a peculiarly personal interest such as Law- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA To any one who gives correct answer : "How long did it take Noah to Build the Ark?" FOR ALL CREATION NOAHS LINIMENT Cuts. Bruises. Cramps. Rough muscles. In all Nerve Bone and Muscle Achess fails to relieve, your money refunded by dealer's Sold by Drug and Country Stores, 28 cents, or mailed on receipt of price NOAH REMEDY CO. RICHMOND, VA. rence had not before met and such as he least expected in any woman. His own mother and sisters had shown no such intelligent interest in his work, and even his brother, he was willing to wager, knew far less of his career than did this mere girl whom but yesterday, as it were, he had amused as a child, but a child that he loved. Was it possible that in shaping the ideals of life for a child he had unwittingly offered himself as an ideal to the heart of that child? If so would she find him worthy or not now that the years had proved him? Was her admiration only admiration? If more than that might it not yet be that some one already forestalled him in her affections? How was he to know? It was near the close of the second day and drifting winds had made necessary a still further delay in breaking out the roads that opportunity offered itself to Lawrence to gain some light on the ever more tantalizing question of possible rivals in Gertrude's affections. As for himself, Lawrence felt that his entire world was already revolving around this one young woman, Gertrude was showing him some photographs accumulated during the years of her girlhood. "But where is his picture?" asked Lawrence, interrupting her description of the photographs. "I have never asked him for one." "Why so?" "I preferred the picture in my heart to any other." "Does he know that?" "He must know it-by now," with a baffling smile. "Can't you give me any idea of what he looks like, some picture of him before you consigned him to your heart? Of course you must have had a tintype experience on some early excursion, been snapped on the lawn or kodaked somewhere." An amused smile and a mischievous look came to her face as Gertrude took from its separate envelope a carefully protected little kodak picture of a youth not yet out of his teens and a girl just entering hers. He was bending down the branch of a mountain ash that the girl might pick the red berries. She was trying by standing on her toes to reach yet a little higher. "Here is the gem of my collection, if you will see it. Perhaps you will recognize the subjects and recall the occasion. I have never become reconciled to the fact that you failed to bring those berries within my reach." With Lawrence's look of recognition and laugh at the all but forgotten circumstances of the time thus recalled came a puzzled expression, as if he were trying in some way to connect this picture with the question he had asked. At the same instant Gertrude's face assumed the expression of one who fears she has said a word too much, and she hastened to call Lawrence's attention to the writing on the back of the picture. "You wrote that line above, 'It's the reaching upward that counts.' You asked me to write my own interpretation on the picture at some later time. I have never done so. I suppose I might do so now. What do you suggest?" "Will you write what I suggest and as your own?" He was now watching her face with intensest look. "Try me." And she returned his gaze as directly. "Write, 'it takes two together to capture the higher prizes of life.'" And Gertrude so wrote and underscored it besides. Our Noblest Bird Other goods we may look at and long for. While our hearts are with thankfulness But the bird of our hearts is all ready And waited, poor dear, to get stuffed. How to Make a Yoke Fit Right. Often a dress is ruined by the fit of the yoke. It hitches or rides in a way that is as uncomfortable as it is unsightly. The easiest way to remedy this defect is to have the yoke made on a fitted lawn lining which buttons around the waist. This should have a horizontal seam run just about the bust line to take in an extra fullness. If the lining seems too warm or is too much trouble to make, the yoke can be attached to a sort of harness made with a belt of tape to which are joined vertical straps attached to the bottom of the yoke. Even easier is it to sew short tabs of tape or muslin to the bottom of the yoke. These can be securely pinned to the corset without tearing the yoke itself. It is a good idea to fasten the smallest sized safety plus to these tabs so that they are always in readiness. COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD WHEN IT'S EASY TO BE THANKFUL. Out in grandpa's cornfield, where the golden pumpkins lie, It's easy to be thankful and to think of grandma's pie. NIGHT BEFORE HANKSGIVING AMES A. EDGERTON. ht. 1909, by American Press Association LD dream tonight Gented success which attended the operations of the United States fleet in the bay of Manila on the 1st day of May last are added the tidings of the no less glorious achievements of the naval and military arms of our beloved country at Santiago de Cuba" and asked the people upon next assembling for divine worship "to offer thanksgiving to Almighty God, who has watched over our cause and brought nearer the success of the right and the attainment of just and honorable peace." To the cranberry. Let others praise in feen lays The plummum in bird, And let them sing of leg and wing, With old Pegasus spurred Until his speed is great indeed And all is blithe and merry, But let me sing that splendid thing, The succulent cranberry. O humble fruit, we've long been mute Upon thy many charms! With nipping zest you do your best To ward dyspepsia's harms. Both sour and sweet you sauce the meat Your navar does not vary. Retiring, cey, yet full of joy- O marvous cranberry! About you hangs a taste that tangs The food that would be harsh. Your plump skin's filled with dew, dis tilled Above the sun kissed marsh. No grape, Till say, of old Tokay On from the sun. Drips with a wine as rich as thine, O excellent cranberry! Of ruby hue, a jewel, too. To grace the festal board. To lavish heart you give your part— Give it to me. When eager lipped we've sat and sipped The juice that vies with sherry. Ah. of the feast you're not the least, Mellifluous cranberry! So let them praise in lifting lays The turkey and the pie. But let me sing that splendid thing That makes the heart beat high. I would not waste one shade of taste. I'd drain the dictionary To find more ways to sing the praise Of the feast to sing! FITS OF PURE ANGER. How to Know and Check This Dangerous Tendency. There is many a young mother who admires secretly the little outbursts of anger that baby gives vent to and thinks they are funny and cute until by the time the child is two or three years old she awakes to the sad realization that her baby has grown into a willful and spoiled child who is thought anything but lovable and cute by other people. She then begins to see what lack of discipline has done for the baby. Every mother, out of justice to the child as well as to herself, should check these outbursts of anger when the child first shows an inclination to indulge in them. But when the mother finds that the outbursts have taken a firm hold on the child and seem to occur periodically she should set about the tedious task of overcoming them. The little one should be punished, but her will must not be broken by repeated "spankings," for these seldom fail to give the child a moody, sulky disposition. It takes times and patience to effect a cure. The best cure for these fits of anger is to shut the child in a room by itself whenever they occur. A particularly successful method of making a naughty child good is to divert its attention from unpleasant things. Children often have as much to make them irritable and cross as a grown person, and when a mother notices that a child is fretful it takes but a minute to find an unused toy or a new book or to suggest a new and interesting occupation that will brighten the child's mood and prevent an outburst of anger before the child can be aware of its existence. What Rosie Thought. Little Rosie-Pa, what'll we do in heaven? Worried Papa—Oh, sing and play harps all day. Little Rosie—I see. An' the poor souls in the other place will have to listen to us.—Evening Lamp. THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING By JAMES A. EDGERTON. Copyright, 1909, by American Press Association. From whose wings rain over me peace and love. COASTAL HIGHWAY And my soul would sing an eternal psalm I COULD DREAM. In a happiness That is limitless And a glow of faith I cannot express. I could almost dream, Past the things that seem, I can see a country eternal gleam As I raptly stand On the borderland And feel about me an angel band. At a fount immortal; its bread would break This hallowed and happy Thanksgiving time. So wafted o'er To a shining shore, ABOUT ME AN ANGEL BAND. I greet the loved ones who've gone before And take my seat At a banquet sweet Where the fruits and viands of life we eat. 'Tis not afar, Like a distant star, The kingdom in which the eternals are. 'Tis here—its light To an inward sight Is gleaming—for heaven is mine tonight. An Extra Thanksgiving. A very notable proclamation independent of the regular autumnal Thanksgiving day, though in the official records it is designated not as a proclamation, but as "the president's address to the people for thanksgiving and prayer," was McKinley's proclamation of July 6, 1898. The president addressed his words "To the People of the United States of America." He referred to the fact that "to the yet fresh remembrance of the unprece- LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT AND LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE OR SHORT AND KINKY A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. 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ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE APRIL 11, 1999 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY For Florida and South: 815 A. M. and 7:25 P. M. For Petersburg: 9:00 A. M., 12:00, 18:00, *$*2:00 P. M., 6 P. M., 9:06 P. M., 7:25 and 11:15 P. M. For Goldbordo and Fayetteville: *$*2:00 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 5:10, 7:00 A. M. *$*11:45 A. M., 10:45 A. M., *$*12:29 P. M. *$*2:06 A. M., 7:06 P. M. *$*Except Sunday. **Sunday Only.** Time of arrival and departures and connections not guaranteed. C. S. CAMPBELL. D. P. A. SEABOARD SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY SOUTHEBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE WESTERN DAILY. 9:10 A. M.-Local to Nona, Raleigh, Charlote, Wilmington. 12:25 P. M.-Sleepers and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Savannah, Jacksouville and Florida points. 10:40 P. M.-Sleepers and coaches Savannah, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Birmingham and Memphis. NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 8:30 A. M., 8:45 P. M., 8:45 P. M. Subscribe to The PLANET. --- MARY C. RAILROADS. RAILROADS. TWREE A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B.-Following Lake figures published only as information and not built. 6:20 A. M.-Daily-Local for Charlotte. 10:45 A. M.-Daily-Limited-Buffet Broiler to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga, and all the South. Tampa coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham. 6:00 P. M.-Ex. Sunday-Keysville Local. 11:45 P. M.-Daily-Limited Pullman ready 9:00 P. M. for all the South. WORK RIVER LINE. 4:30 P. M.-Ex. Day-to-West Point—connecting for Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 2:15 P. M.-Monday, Wednesday and Friday—Local to West Point. 4:30 A. M.-Daily-Local to West Poish. TRANS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the South: 7:00 A. M., 9:30 P. M., daily (Express). 8:40 A. M., Ex. Sunday: 4:10 P. M., daily (Local). [Locals] West Point: 9:30 A. M., dally: 10:45 A. M., Wednesday and Friday; 5:45 P. M. except Sunday. S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A. 920 E. 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We have received a copy of the address of Hon. Thomas Mott Osborne, entitled "Democracy and Imperialism", delivered at the tenth annual meeting of the Anti-Imperialist League of Boston, November 30, 1908. It is a reply to the allegation that the defeat of Mr. Bryan constituted a defeat of the principles and policies of the Anti-Imperialists. Mr. Osborne claims that the subject was not an issue. We received an invitation to the marriage of Miss Juanita A. Norrell to Mr. George Peterson, Thursday, November 18, 1909, 8:30 P. M. at the residence of the bride, 1015 N. Seventh Street. Miss Norrell is one of Richmond's most popular young ladies. AN ALARM SOUNDED Mr. James Samuel Stemons, of Philadelphia, Pa., in a circular issued by him seems to be much wrought up over the decadence of the colored man as an industrial factor and in the skilled field of labor. He says: For example, during the past season the race has been forced to face the unprecedented and disquieting step of the leading Atlantic City hotels in dismissing their colored help, and coolly advertising in the public press that they now employ "white help only." Nor is this a situation at all peculiar to Atlantic City. Throughout the North the Negro is, in a less conspicuous and less spectacular manner than at Atlantic City, perhaps, being systematically displaced from practically all branches of domestic and personal service, the only fields of activity in which he has ever found any kind of recognition north of Mason and Dixon's line. He says: The industrial hordes of Europe are pouring into this country at the approximate rate of 1,000,000 a year; and they always and everywhere find ready access to employment in which colored citizens are under no situation permitted to engage. More than this; you are doubtless cognizant of the fact that a powerful movement is under way, aided and encouraged by the Federal Government, to divert this immigration to the South, for the undisguised purpose of supplanting Negro labor wherever and whenever it can be done. When these aliens begin to flood the South, and to shove the Negro aside in the industries of that section just as he is being shoved aside in the industries of the North (and the rapid growth of this movement against Negro labor North as well as South, presses such a culmination in less than ten years) the race, the rank and file of Negroes. --- will stand face to face with absolute extinction in this country. These are all plain, hard, cold facts, but what are we to do about it? It seems that Mr. Stemons is asking the same question and he is disposed to be not only critical, but insulting in his references to some of the leading colored men. He says: Since these are facts which no thoughtful man will hardly dispute, the one question which comes to us with peculiar force is, "What are we going to do to stem this on rushing tide of industrial submergence?" It must be remembered that this is a situation which has not sprung up in a day. It has been developing and spreading like a contagious disease, in a steady, but, to all save the blind, perceptible manner for more than fifteen years. Yet during the development of this entire situation most of our so-called leaders, those who have taken upon themselves the awful responsibility of directing thought and sentiment on matters affecting the race, have either regarded with equanimity or utterly ignored these appalling conditions, having in too many cases either chiefly concerned themselves with "feathering their own nests," or with fatuous and futile contensions over "civil and political equality," sublimely oblivious to the far deeper economic principles by which civil, political and all other essential human rights must inevitably be governed. Mr. Stemon's idea seems to be that the proper thing to do is to hear him speak upon the subject. Evidently; he has not received the encouragement desired for he is severe in his condemnation of certain colored leaders, whom he declares to be time serving. We have been or the opinion all along that the colored people are oblivious to the danger which is onfronting them. When we see promising young men, standing on the street corners after having served as waiters, bellmen or messengers in the hotels and restaurants and when we know that many of them are graduates from high schools and colleges, we are disposed to feel pessimistic concerning our future. The mechanics of the old school are dying out and the young men are disposed to be satisfied with the easy side of life and to disregard those avenues of business and the skilled trades which lead to continued racial integrity and individual prosperity. Talking will do but little good. The work must be done in the schoolroom and around the fireside, long before these youngsters are old enough to form bad habits by associating with the dissolute and gambling elements of the community. We are not uneasy about the bodes of Europe. It will be a question of the survival of the fittest. If we cannot stand alone and walk upright in competition with these lower stratas of humanity, then let us go down and from a racial stand point, we deserve to fall, to rise no more. SUICIDE FROM PARAPET Princeton Graduate Jumps Through Tree Tops. New York. Nov. 17.—Ralph A. Goodenough, a graduate of Princeton university and for several years a well-known society reporter on one of the New York papers, committed suicide by jumping from the parapet of the Washington bridge over the Harlem river. The body fell a distance of 125 feet, striking on the top of a tree and crashing through the limbs to the ground. Owner of Hope Diamond Drowns. London, Nov. 17. According to the Paris correspondent of the Daily Excress, it is reported that Habib, a wealthy Spanish, owner of the famous Hope diamond, was one of the passengers on the French steamer La Seye, which was sunk in collision with the steamer Onda in Rheo straits, and was drowned. It is said that he had the Hope diamond with him. The Hope diamond is said to have brought misfortune to all who owned it. Beat Crinplled Son to Death Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 17.—Free-land Meadens, a coal miner, is held for the murder of his ten-year-old son. According to the testimony, Meadens beat his crippled boy to death because the tiny lad could not keep pace with his father's steps. Dies From Flicking Pimple. Collegeville, Pa., Nov. 17.—Blood poisoning, resulting from pricking a pimple on her chin with a needle, has caused the death of Miss Myrtle Daub, of Trappe. Miss Daub was a popular school teacher. "Why did that picture cost so much?" "Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, "to tell you the honest truth, I have an idea it's because the dealer who sold it to me is a good business man."—Washington Star. Pessimist and Optimist Contrasted. The pessimist kills a wasp right off. The optimist waits until it stings blim. The pessimist raps the cow over the back with the milk stool the first time she kicks. The optimist waits until she spills the milk. The pessimist condemns the book agent the moment he enters his home. The optimist waits until he has sold him the book—Lippincott's. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA It Is Freely Predicted In Washington That More Than One Officer of the Sugar Trust Will Eventually Find Themselves Behind the Bars. Washington, Nov. 17. — President Taft and his cabinet are a unit in the policy of bringing to book those sugar trust officials who may be guilty of fraud. The situation was discussed informally at the cabinet meeting. It was the unanimous opinion of the cabinet, particularly the lawyer members, that the present investigation and proceedings against the trust are being admirably and effectively handled by the department of justice and the treasury department. President Taft has issued the edict, "Let no guilty man escape." He has not done so in any flagrant, sensational manner, but such are his instructions to Attorney General Wickersham. The latter official, for one who has been acclaimed a "corporation lawyer" by the administration's critics, is making a record of bringing one of the greatest corporations of the country to book, like that made by Mr Knox when as attorney general he won the Northern Securities case. Tremendous Surprise Coming. It is freely predicted here that more than one of the sugar trust officials will eventually find themselves behind the bars for practicing frauds in the payment of customs duties. "There is no intimation as to their personality, but there are hints in official circles that a tremendous surprise is awapling the public. If there is foundation for all the rumors affloat, and most of them can be traced to official sources, the prosecution of the sugar trust will be the great popular feature of the Taft administration and will settle beyond a doubt the president's adherence to the policy of his predecessor of forcing the great corporations of the country to obey the law. There were no developments regarding the allegation that the treasury department, under the former administration, was dominated by the sugar trust. So far no proof has been furnished by Special Agent Parr in sup port of his charge that such a condition did exist. The denials of former Assistant Secretary Reynolds stands, up to date, as the answer of the department to these charges. INDICTED MEN SEEK DELAY Trial of "Little Fellows" In Sugar Fraud Set For Nov. 30 New York, Nov. 17.—James F. Bendemagel, the former manager of the Williamsburg plant of the sugar trust, and five employees of the sugar company pleaded not guilty before Judge Hough in the criminal branch of the United States circuit court to indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government, aliding and abetting and effecting entries of false weights. The men arraigned with Bendemagel are Oliver Spitzer, Thomas Jehoe, John C. Covile, Edward A. Boyle and Patrick Heunessy, Jean M. Vcelker, a sixth defendant to the same charges, is ill and did not appear in court. The attorneys for the accused begged for a change of venue or a postponement of their trials until inflamed public opinion had subsided. Judge Hough refused to pass upon such a request, and besides giving the indicted men until Monday next to modify or withdraw their pleas of not guilty, set the cases for trial on Nov. 30 before Judge Martin. There was a report that Speaker Cannon, in revenge on Congressman Herbert Parsons, chairman of the Republican county committee, who recently charged that Cannon had killed his election bills at Albany as the result of a deal with Tammany Hall, would force an investigation of the sugar trust by congress. Congressman Parsons's father, John H. Parsons, is counsel for the American Sugar Refining company and one of its indicted directors. Steal Air Hose For Solea Coatesville, Pa., Nov. 17. — Caught stealing air hose from Pennsylvania railroad cars, William Maroni and Dominick Carlone were committed to fall in default of $300 ball each. Foreigners have been taking the hose, cutting it in pieces and tacking it on the soles of their mill shoes. Such soles are sold at $2 a pair, and are essential around the iron and steel mills, especially where there is much electricity. Heavy Fines For Selling Liquor. Belvidere, Ill., Nov. 17. — The largest amount of fines ever imposed in any city since the local option law went into effect was imposed when Judge De Wolf and Reckhow fined seventeen Keepers of soft drink places the sum of $11,125 and sentenced each of the offenders to jail for from thirty to ninety days. $1000 FOR KILLING BOY Chauffeur Who Pleads Guilty Will Pay Fine Imposed. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 17. — William Kruilwich, the chauffeur who ran down and killed little Albert D. Pries last July, appeared in the criminal term of the supreme court and changed his plea of not guilty to one of guilty to the indictment charging him with manslaughter in the second degree. Justice Marcus placed him on probation for ten days upon the understanding that he will within that time pay the boy's father $1000. Kruilwich who lives in Baltimore, promised to produce the money. George Gould's Holdings and Outside Interests Taken Over to Make Huge Merger Effective. New York, Nov. 17.—The control of the Western Union Telegraph company passed to the American Telephone and Telegraph company, and a long step was taken toward the merging of the telephone and telegraph companies into a corporation with a capitalization of nearly $1,000,000,000. The American Telephone and Telegraph company controls the Bell telephone systems throughout the country. Announcement of the acquirement of the Western Union—for years known as Gould property—by the American Telephone and Telegraph company came from Boston. From a trustworthy source it was learned that the Western Union stock acquired by the telephone company was held by George J. Gould and represents about 25 per cent of the total capital of the Western Union. Stock also acquired from other sources, it is said, brings the total amount of Western Union acquired by the telephone company up to about 28 per cent of the outstanding capital of the Western Union. While no official announcement is made as to the price paid for the Gould shares, it is learned that the figure was in the neighborhood of $85. Official denial was given of reports that R. C. Clowry, president, and J. C. Barclay, assistant general manager, would resign from the Western Union. It was reported that William H. Baker, formerly vice president and general manager of the Postal Telegraph company, would become general manager of the Western Union. The acquisition of the Western Union and the recent absorption of various district Bell Telephone companies in various parts of the country indicates a large increase in the present capitalization of the parent company, the American Telephone and Telegraph company. The present capital stock of the American Telephone and Telegraph company is $300,000,000 in stock and $228,000,000 in bonds. The Western Union has a capitalization of $125,000,000 in stock and $40,000,000 in bonds. Officials of the Postal Telegraph company state that their company will remain on an independent basis. WOULD REPAY MONEY WON AT GAMBLING Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 17.—One of the strangest wills ever made here came to light when the last testament of George Brown, Jr., noted as a gambler and race horse man, was filed in the probate court. "It is my desire, as far as possible," the will reads, "to repay every person, man, woman or child, any money that I may have won from them by gambling during my lifetime, and I direct my executors to make effort to learn their names and relinburse them to the full amount with interest from the day the money was won." Another strange provision of the will is for a tombstone to be erected above the testator and his wife, which will bear only their given names, omitting the name "Brown." Pennsy Orders 73 Locomotives. Altoona, Pa., Nov. 17. The Pennsylvania railroad has just placed an order for seventy-three locomotives with the Junita shopa here. Sixty of them will be for passenger service. In addition to this an order was placed for 4000 steel hopper bottom coal cars with the Pressed Steel Car company at McKees Rocks and 1000 similar cars with the Standard Car company at Butler. Child Has Caused Two Babies' Deaths Charlotte, Mich., Nov. 17. For the second time little Ruth Butler, aged four years, is responsible for the death of a little sister. Some time ago she pushed a baby sister off the bed and the infant strangled to death. Tuesday a fifteen-day-old babe died from the effects of chloroform playfully administered by Ruth, who had seen her mother use the drug to stop toothache. No Monuments at "Bloody Angle." Richmond, Va., Nov. 17.—Governor Swanson's request of the secretary of war for permission for the Virginia Gettysburg monument to be placed in the "Bloody Angle" was denied, no monuments of any kind being allowed at that point. Taft to Visit Cincinnati Cincinnati. Nov. 17—President Taft, it was announced, will in all probability be in Cincinnati next week in attendance at the Shirrina' festival Insane Woman Hange Heraelf Mrs. Susan P. Cooper, a wealthy patient at the Bloomingdale insane asylum at White Plains, N. Y., committed suicide by hanging herself in the bathroom. Mrs. Cooper had been ill and was in care of a nurse. While the nurse was away, Mrs. Cooper went in the bathroom, where she tied two towels together and hanged herself from an electric light bracket. Everything Will Go; Nothing Reserved !!! DUGGINS' REMOVAL SALE!! $25,000 Stock Sacrificed The Clothing Opportunity of the Season. Don't Wait. Come Now while the Stocks are Large. Cold Weather is Coming and you will Wish for this Clothing and Snug Underwear. Grasp the Opportunity Now. Remember, This is a Sale of Our Regular Fall Stock, not Odds and Ends or a Manufacturer's Samples. We are Going to Move, and We Desire to Enter the New Store With a Brand New Stock. Every Article is Marked in Plain Figures. The items listed on this page mean money saved. Don't be skeptical Don't doubt. Investigate and put money in your pocket and as fine clothes on your back as you ever wore. RAINCOATS. Men's $12.50 Raincoats, in dark and gray ef- fects, removal price. $8.75 SPECIALS. Sweet Orr Corduroy Suits. $8.75 Street Car Uniforms, $13.50. Suits, removal sale ... $9.85 EXTRA SPECIAL. Men's and Boys' Short Overcoats, sold up to $12.00; removal price. $3.98 MEN'S SHIRTS. $1.50 Plain and Fancy ... 98c $1.25 Plain and Fancy ... 89c Every 50c and 75c Shirt in the house, plain and fancy ... 39c No goods sent on approval. MEN'S HATS. Soft and Stiff. The Boner Hat. $4.00 Hats, removal ... $2.98 $3.00 Hats, removal ... $2.48 $2.50 Hats, removal ... $1.89 $1.50 Hats, removal ... 98c $1.25 Hats, removal ... 75c MEN'S ALL-WOOL UNDERWEAR. $2.00 garments ... $1.48 $1.50 garments ... 98c Wright's Health ... 75c $1.00 Red Flannel ... 59c 75c Fleece Lined ... 35c MEN'S GLOVES. 50c Gloves ... 25c $1.00 Gloves ... 89c $1.50 Gloves ... $1.19 BOY'S PANTS BLOOMERS. 75c Pants, removal ... 43c $1.00 Pants, removal ... 89c $1.50 Pants, removal ... 98c BOY'S SUITS. $6.00 Suits, removal ... $4.48 $5.00 Suits, removal ... $3.75 $4.50 Suits, removal ... $2.75 All the popular mixtures and neat effects. MEN'S SWEATERS. $3.50 Sweaters ... $2.48 $3.00 Sweaters ... $1.98 $2.50 Sweaters ... $1.69 $1.25 Sweaters ... $85c MEN'S HOSE. 25c Fancy Hose ... 17c 12 12c Fancy Hose ... 7c FANCY VESTS. $5.00 Vests, removal ... $3.48 $3.50 Vests, removal ... $2.48 $2.00 Vests, removal ... $1.48 $1.50 Vests, removal ... 89c Sam'l E. Duggins Don't Forget the Place--OO Broad St. WARRINER AND FORD WOMAN UNDER ARREST Alleged Embezzler and His Blackmailer Locked Up. Cincinnati, Nov. 17—Charles L. Warriner, the former treasurer of the Big Four railroad, unable to furnish $20, 000 ball, in a cell at the county jail. At the other end of the jail building is lodged Mrs. Jeanette Ford, the alleged blackmailer. The arrest of another man who is connected with the case in a similar manner is hourly expected. The arrest of the Ford woman followed disclosures made by Warriner in a secret conference with Prosecutor Hunt after the former treasurer had failed in an effort to get a bondsman, and when he knew the county jail was awaiting him. After the conference the prosecutor immediately went to the office of Magistrate Meyers, where he swore out a warrant charging that Mrs. Ford had "received the sum of $1000 on Oct. 1, 1909, which she knew to have been embezzled from the Big Four railroad." Mrs. Ford's arrest had a remarkable effect on the woman. Instead of appearing hysterical she was very cool and walked to the cell in the woman's department with a smile on her face. When asked for information to make up the prison record, she said that Take Notice Men! she was thirty-six years of age and a native of Ohio. Her four-year-old child was left in her apartments with a negro maid. FIGHTING FOR MILLIONS Pennsylvania Heirs Winning Contest In Wales For $41,000,000 Scranton, Pa. Nov. 17.—With her six brothers and sisters, Mrs. Evan Rees, of Blakeley, near this city, is at Cardiff, Wales, making a fight for a fortune comprising more than $4,000-000 in money and land worth $30,000-000. The estate is divided into seventy-five farms, and since the court of chancery took possession several years ago the rents have been collected and laid aside. When Mrs. Rees went to Cardiff to begin her fight her husband remained. He has received this cablegram: "Our fight is nearly won; come at once." KILLED IN MOUNTAIN DUEL Flighton Lonely Road Said to Be Result of Family Feud. Greensburg, Pa., Nov. 17—Gay Snyder, aged twenty years, is dead from gunshot wounds, and Lloyd Pile, aged seventeen years, is dying from stab wounds, the result of a meeting of the two on a lonely mountain road. Pile's brother, the only eyewitness to the tragedy, is in jail on a charge of murder, while the wounded man is under guard at a local hospital. According to the sheriff, the men are members of two families who have been long at war with each other. Abe Ruef Going Blind. Abe Ruef, the former boss of San Francisco, is threatened with total blindness and deafness. An operation on his eye will be performed, and on the success of this will depend an effort to save his hearing. Ruef has been in the county jail at San Francisco for a little more than a year, pending an appeal of his case to the higher court. He was sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment after having been convicted of the bribing of one of the "boodling" board of supervisors in the case of the overhead trolley franchise. Prison Term For Sheriff &hinn The supreme court of the United States imposed sentences of ninety days' imprisonment for contempt upon Sheriff Joseph E. Shipp, of Memphis, and Luther Williams and Nick Nolan, citizens of that town, who were members of the mob which lynched Ed Johnson, a negro, in 1906, and of sixty days upon Deputy Sheriff Jeremiah B. Gibson and Henry Padgea and William Mays, the latter also members of the mob. Girl, 11, Forges 50 Check; Jailed. Nora Giles, eleven years of age, is in custody in Scranton, Pa., as the result of forging a check for $50, and after getting the money from the family grocer taking her schoolmate, Levina Belle Coltife, aged thirteen, on a trip to New York. Justice White's Home Burned. The big sugar plant and plantation home of United States Court Justice White, in La Fouche parish, near New Orleans, La., was burned. The loss is $100,000. RECYLARNET SATURDAY.....NOV. 20, 1909 They Never Come Back Graphic Account of Conditions Confronting a Pugisist—Jeffries' Difficulties — Age and Lack of Training Against Him. By Bill Blunt. Even with the proposed Jeffries-Johnson bout approximately eight months distant, the question of betting on the result has already been taken up. The day the articles were signed, the Johnson side refused to make the large side bet on the ground that "Jeffries will probably be a two to one favorite, and we want ringside odds." Coming as it did from the Johnson side, that statement was undoubtedly inspired by two motives. One was, the Johnson side didn't care to wager $20,000, and the other was to lead the public to believe that Jeffries would be a pronounced favorite in the betting. It was a subterfuge of the most shallow kind, and anyone who falls for it deserves to be stung. To start off with, Jeffries should not be a two to one favorite under any possible conditions in the world. There is, never was, never can be, and never should be, one solitary reason why he should be such a favorite over Johnson, and here is to the hope that any person who is foolish enough to wager two to one that Jeffries wins, may lose his money. Every dollar he bets. He deserves it. Why should Jeff be such a ridiculous favorite? She years will have elapsed since he engaged in a ring battle. Such a period of good-natured idleness does not improve a man's wind vitality and general physical condition. Everybody knows that in his prime Jeff was unbeatable. Many believe he was the greatest fighter in ring history. He met and beat them all, some twice—Tom Sharkey, Boz Fitzsimmons, Jim Corbett, Joe Goddard, Peter Jackson Gus Ruhlin and Jack Munroe. But the question that troubles his friends is "How good is Jeff to-day?" TOO EARLY TO WAGER ON FIGHT NOW While the preliminary training he has indulged in the past few months may have encouraged him and his manager, Sam Berger, to believe he could "come back," it is entirely too early to tell much about it. Remember that, as a rule, they don't "come back" after a long period of idleness, and many a star has tried it. Get this advice. Don't bet a dollar on the bout either way at this early date. No matter what price is quoted the odds will be fictious. It will be impossible to quote a sane price either way until it is known how good Jeffries can get. This cannot be found out until he has been in training several weeks. Then it will be time enough to lay your wagers. The bout is a long way off. There is no question but that Johnson really believes he can defeat Jeffries. Perhaps his confidence was shaken considerably the day the articles were signed by Jeff's fine physical appearance, his demand for the enormous side bet, and his suggestion that "all go to the winner." The latter proposition was unlooked for, and couldn't possibly have given the Johnson side any additional confidence. It really was the big note of the meeting and was a source of much gratification to Jeffries' admirers. He wouldn't have asked for the "winner take all" clause unless he and Berger felt confident he could get into good enough shape to trim Johnson. Jeff's physical fitness is the principal condition on which the result of the battle will hinge. While he may have overrated himself the fate remains, that after trying himself out as far as circumstances would permit, Jeff was satisfied to wager a small fortune on the outcome of the bout and let the entire purge go to the victor. That was a world of encouragement to his friends. NEGRO'S CHANCES FOR VICTORY BRIGHT. As the cards lay today, Johnson's chances for victory seem the better. It is up \to Jeffries to change the aspect of things. Perhaps he will do this after he has been in training a while, but the fact remains that it is up to him to do it. The burden of proof lies on his shoulders. Again, he may have an ace in the hole as regards his condition. It may be that he has tried himself out more thoroughly than any one images and has successfully withstood to strenuous test. That would be in his favor. When he was fighting, he proved himself the wonder of the age. They all looked pretty much alike to him. No matter whether it was the ruggedness of Sharkey, the marvelous hitting power of Flitzimmons or the elusive, tantalizing cleverness of Corbett, the result was the same; a victory for Jeff. Having been a wonder in the fighting line, perhaps he can repeat and, by reversing every known theory or the prize-ring, return after a six-year lay off, take up his work where he left off and regain the championship mantle which he voluntarily cast aside. But there are many angles to the proposition and it may pay to make haste slow ly, before betting. JEFF SHOULD IMPROVE WITH TRAINING. When the suggestion is made that it would be better to hold off a while before laying any wagers, it is not meant to imply that Jeffries has a poor chance for victory. It may be that his chances will seem excellent after he has been in training several weeks. But wait and see. There is no urgent reason for being in such a hurry. A bet laid in four or six months from now will look as good as one laid today, perhaps better. So much depends upon Jeff's condition that it is like buying a cat in a bag to put up money now. There may be a few sentiment bets made, but the closer students of the game will prefer to hold off, and therein they will show their wisdom. Keep your money in your pocket for the time being. Later, if a bet on Jeff looks good to you, unbuckle and make your wager. But under no condition give two to one. They are false odds and the known form of Johnson and the unknown form of Jeffries do not warrant the price. Public sentiment is with Jeff but, odds based on sentiment don't look good to the wise better, and they shouldn't. By Igoe. "Golly, I hope Jeff can get into shape to whip Johnson." That's the way Jack McAuliffe, retired light weight champion, feels about the coming battle between the great heavyweights. And Jack said more, "People don't dream of the agony Jeff will have to undergo to prepare himself for this fight with Johnson. The battle itself is child's play. It's the training that proves whether a man has the heart or not. But Jeff should fight every man who is willing to meet him before taking on Johnson. I never saw the black fellow in an actual fight, but I did see the Ketchel-Johnson pictures, and let me tell you, that Johnson has everything. "Jeff is doing a far greater thing than people are giving him credit for when he signifies a willingness to tackle the black man after such a long layoff. He is a perfect fool if he attempts to fight Johnson without first meeting all the men he can before going into the ring with the negro. It would break his heart to lose to Johnson. It is terrible to lose when you are an undefeated champion. It broke John L. Sullivan's heart. It broke Jack Dempsey's heart, and it broke Charlie Mitchell's heart. LACKED OLD JUDGMENT "They all tried to come back after a layoff and failed. They lost because they didn't discover until they got into an actual fight that they hadn't the old judgment of distance and pace. It is terrible to get into the ring and suddenly come to realize that you're gone—that judgment of distance and pace are no longer any part of your art. Do you know that it was for this very reason I retired as undefeated light-weight champion or the world? It happened in a funny way. I was in Seattle boxing a fellow named Welsh. He was the boxing instructor of the Seattle Athletic Club. We fought six rounds. I had been having a good time for a couple of years and hadn't been working at my trade for many moons. I got into the ring with this fellow and we started out. "I was as fast as any of them in my day, and I went at him with all my old vim. I thought it was the old vim. I tried to set the old pace. Legs got bad. Felt like they were made of lead. Then I missed punch after punch. I knew what I should have done and where the blow should have landed, but I missed everything. I tell you it was a surprise party to find that I wasn't there, and wouldn't be again in a hurry. I walked about the ring and bluffed my way through. KNEW HE WAS THROUGH "I feinted the fellow and made no attempt to hit him, because I knew I'd miss him. I get down out of that ring determined never to fight again, and I didn't. That's why they can never point me out as the old lightweight champion who was whipped. Jeff will find himself at sea when he gets into the ring with Johnson, and he'll be diving over onto his head from misses. Jeff can't get back the distance or the pace unless he engages in actual conflict. "Boxing with a gym partner won't bring it back. He has to go into a real fight. Let him take Kaufman or O'Brien for six rounds. Suppose they did stay with him or even outpoint him. It isn't a finish and he will recover some of his distance and pace. If he gets into the ring without fighting some one else first, he will realize his mistake after it is too late. I'll never forget the look on poor John L.'s face after he had missed two or three punches aimed at Jim Corbett's jaw in the fatal fight at New Orleans. I didn't look at the fight much in the first three rounds. I had $18,000 bet on John, and it looked so soft that I felt for poor young Jim. "Sullivan missed and missed and rushed and rushed. He was setting his old pace without having the old speed to carry him through. I was fanning him in the corner at the end of the third round and the towel happened to flap against his legs. He drew his attention to them. 'Jack they're gone,' he whispered. I rubbed them, but it didn't do any good. He could hardly drag them after him, and between that and the misses. It was only a question of time before he would collapse. "In the fifteenth I said, "John don't walk across the ring after him, you're the champion. Let him come to you. He did and would have lasted much longer but the temptation to lunge and rush at Corbett was too great, and he beat him trying. That's just what will happen to Jeff unless he properly prepares himself by fighting a lob outsiders. His has been the longest retirement of them all. Why, if he's licked they will say. 'Why the big dub never was any good.' That's what they'll say. They won't follow him down the streets their THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA shouting good will. "Will I ever forget how they treated John L. After Corbett beat him? The day before the fight they had to call out the reserves to clear a way for John and myself. We were staying at an athletic club, and the streets were black with a solid mob of people all anxious to see the mighty John L. The next day when he walked into the same street with our heads down you could have shot a twelve-inch gun down the thoroughfare and not hit a single person. Oh, you have to be right to fight. "A man would be considered crazy who would take a blooded horse out of racing for a long period and then enter him with horses of equal class a few years later without first putting a race under his belt. That's what Jeff will have to have. Hell have to have a race under his belt. Look at Charlie Mitchell. He was one of the cleverest boxers in the world in his day, and he could shoot over a punch with the accuracy of a rifle bullet. He came back after a long vacation and tried to match skill with Jim Corbett. Why he simply missed Corbett a mile every time he tried to punch. He had lost distance and pace. "It's a horrible feeling to go in a champion and lead a good punch at the other fellow, and find him not there when the blow is spent. Jeff will be so anxious to get Johnson that he will make an awful mess of things unless he is primed, and he can't be unless he does as I have suggested. Jeff has youth. He's a young man. Jem Mace, the best boxer the world ever produced, wasn't a champion until he was forty. DESPAIR FOLLOWS DEFEAT It would be awful for Jeff to lose. No one can realize the agony John L. and Jack Dempsey suffered after defeat. Sullivan's was the most pityful of all. He didn't cry, but just sat and stared at the floor of his room for hours. The humiliation was awful. Sullivan seemed to think the whole world was pointing its finger at him. I didn't dare read him a telegram some railroad section boss sent him, and which arrived the next morning. It read: "Wanted, a big Irishman to walk the ties at a dollar a day. John Lawrence Sullivan please write." "I didn't dare show it to him, and he'll never know it came until he reads it in your paper. That's the way, though. They can't feel for love, and that's why Jeff shouldn't have it covered without he's recovered his distance and pace. He can't get them back and he goes out and fights a lot of fights." That Little Word "If" In The Way By W. R. Frisbie, M. D. If dropping a letter makes words so much better (As spelling reformers insist). Would they think it absurd to drop out a whole word. A word we would gladly see missed? I feel just like telling these meddlers in spelling. Drop one vicious word from the list. That little word If, that trouble some If. That word very much in our way: That vicious word If, that stubborn word If. Please take little If out the way! If debts were less pressing, If pain less distressing (That little word If in the way). If poor were all wealthy, if sick were all healthy (That little word If in the way), No need then to borrow, and less cause for sorrow, That little word If out the way, That little word If, that trouble some If, That word very much in our way; That vicious word If, that stubborn word If, Please take little If out the way! III. If men were all honest, if each got his due (That little word If in the way), If wives were less jealous, if friends were all true (That little word If in the way), If kind and forgiving, what comfort in living, That little word If out the way; That little word If, that trouble some If, That word very much in our way; That vicious word If, that stubborn word If, Please take little If out the way! IV. If work were less hurry, if life had less worry (That little word If in the way), If the bad were all good, if all did as they should (That little word If in the way). We'd all live in clover, and trouble be over. That word very much in our way! That 'vicious word If, that stubborn word If, I fear it is with us to stay! —Washington Post. $100.00 Endowment Paid Roanoke, Va., Nov. 9, 1909 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr, GraGnd Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Caroline Jamison, who was a member of Lexington Court, No 107, of Lexington, Va. Signed: L. L. DOWNING, Administrator. Witness: J. Sterlingcoop, M. D. The PLANET is only $1.50 per year in advance. BROKEN RULES CAUSED DISASTER Recklessness of Men Responsible For Mine Horror. FIRE BREAKS CUT AFRESH Smoke and Flames Drove Rescuers From Death Shaft at Cherry, Ill. Now Certain All Entombed Men Are Dead—1000 Orphane and 200 Widows to Mourn. The three hundred or more miners who were entombed in the St. Paul coal mine at Cherry, Ill., by last Saturday's fire and explosion, are dead, and it is now believed the disaster was entirely due to their reckless disregard of the mining laws and the mine's rules. Some of the bodies lie buried beneath thousands of tons of earth which caved in upon them. It is doubtful whether many of the bodies can ever be recovered. The inquest is expected to show evidence of disregard of orders by the miners. The state officers are taking a deep interest in the inquest, but their guarded statements make it apparent that they do not expect a decision that will blame any particular person for the fire. Fans employed in an effort to carry oxygen and life down to the imprisoned men served only to enliven some embers which sprang into flames. Soon the heat and smoke became so dense that it was necessary again to seal the mouth of the hoisting shaft, and the men down there, in whatever their condition, are locked in as effectively as in a dungeon. Attempts to take out the bodies depends on the condition of the internal fire. It is possible that carbonic acid gas will be forced to the bottom of the mine to choke off the flames. The catastrophe, one of the worst in the history of the coal industry in America, come with the suddenness and fury of a hurricane blast, and its fearful work was as quickly done. Shortly after the explosion occurred twelve bodies were taken out. Six of these were heroes not employed in the mine, who gave their lives in a futile effort to save the imprisoned mine workers. When these devoted men had given up their lives it was realized that there was no more hope of rescue, and though there waited many who were ready to make the hopeless attempt to save their imprisoned comrades, they were restrained and, four hours after the explosion occurred, the entrance of the mine was sealed in the hope of checking the flames. As a result of the disaster there are in this town of only a few thousand inhabitants at least 1000 orphans and 200 widows. These are the figures of Duncan McDonald, president of district No. 12, United Mine Workers of America, who instituted a roll call of the families of the entombed miners. The Knights of Pythias lodge, the most important organization in town, had a membership of seventy-six last week. Today there are only six members; the rest are in the ill-fated mine. Grange Raps Central Bank. The National Grange, now in session at Des Moines, In., representing a million farmers, went on record as being opposed to the Aldrich central bank scheme. The western representatives at the grange meeting were particularly vigorous in their denunciation of Aldrich and his plan. In his annual address at the opening of the forty-third session of the National Grange, National Master Bachelder denounced the Aldrich proposition. "The question of amending our national banking laws so as to provide a currency system that will prove more elastic in times of financial stringency, will come up in congress in the near future," said he. "Among other plans suggested as remedies for the present admittedly unsatisfactory conditions, is that of the creation of a great central bank, which will be urged by the financial and speculative interests located in New York city and known commonly as 'Wall street'. "So far as this plan has been outlined by its advocates, its inevitable tendency would be to create a gigantic banking monopoly and to place the thousands of small country banks at the mercy of the great financial interests. As the grange has always denounced monopolies in any form, it is advisable that appropriate action be taken to express our opposition to any changes in our currency or banking laws that would give one bank or combination of banks advantage over all the others of the country." These recommendations were embodied in a resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Bandit Slays Bank Cashier In an attempt at bank robbery, a young man, partially identified as Arthur Hall, of Louisville, a dealer in second-hand furniture, entered the Merchants' National bank at New Albany, Ind., and killed J. Hangary Fawcett, cashier of the bank, seriously wounded John K. Woodward, president of the bank, and wounded James R. Tucker, a colored chauffeur, probably fatally. The bandit ran to the river, selzed a skiff and started for the Louisville side. Capturing their man, they brought him to shore where by a ruse Police Captain Adams kept back the crowd of 200 persons which crowded around the dock as the police boat landed. Commanding the prisoner to lie down, Captain Adams announced to the crowd that the man had taken poison and was dead, meanwhile carrying him to the patrol wagon and giving one word to drive ahead. The bandit was taken to the New Albany jail. A few moments later he was removed in an automobile to the Southern Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville to escape the mob which, realizing that it had been tricked, had assembled around the jail. Boy Bandit Robs Same Bank Twice. Earl Bullock, the nineteen-year-old bandit, who robbed the State Bank of Eudora, Kan., on Oct. 11, returned with a companion, held up the cashier and robbed the bank again. While the robbers were at work Fred Starr, assistant cashier of the Kaw Valley State bank, of Eudora, entered the Eudora State bank with the day's clearing. The robbers shot him through the jaw. Grabbing all the money they could reach, the robbers ran out the back door. A posse was at once formed. The robbers fled to the hills west of the town. The posse surrounded them there. A fight took place in the hills between the posse and the robbers. After a few shots had been fired Bullock fell with a ball through his head. The bullet is supposed to have been fired by his own hand. His companion surrendered. The robbers got about $1000. It is believed that Starr, the wounded cashier, will recover. Kill and Burn Slayer of Girl. Will James, the negro suspected of being the murderer of Miss Annie Pelley, was killed at Cairo, Ill., by a mob. James was strung up to the public arch, the rope broke and at least 500 shots were poured into his body. He made a partial confession and implicated another negro, Arthur Alexander, for whom the mob is now searching. The negro was lynched in the most prominent square of the city. Women present were the first to pull the rope. When it broke the frenzy of the mob was uncontrollable, and they fired volley after volley into James' body, shooting him to pieces. The mob then dragged the dead negro to the scene of the crime, a mile distant from the arch at Twenty-sixth and Elk streets, made a huge bonfire and, throwing the bullet-riddled body on top, she torch was applied, and the crowd stood by and with cries and pistol shots added their chorus to the crackling of the flames. Another Football Victim. Archer Christian, eighteen years of age, left halfback of the University of Virginia football team, died in Washington following an operation for concussion of the brain. 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CLOTHING & CO., road Street. --- For 45-inch Braided Broadcloth and Manish Worsted Suits, in big variety; finest Suits made for $25.00 and $30; lined with finest satin. HELLO PLANET Paul's Story of His Life Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 21, 1909 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT—Cor. 11:28-28; 12:1-10 Memory verses. 24, 25. GOLDEN TEXT: "He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor. 12.9. TIME-Autumn of A. D. 51 to late in 62 or early in 63. PLACE-In Macedonia, where the Second Epistle to the Corinthians was written. Suggestion and Practical Thought. 1. The church in Corinth was very young, not seven years old, from the first coming of Paul, who remained with them only a year and a half. Since that time they had grown in numbers with but little outside help from Paul and those who represented him. 2. The young church was surrounded by intense worldiness, and heathen immoralities and principles, which were like an intense moral malaria, an unhealthy atmosphere. 3. There was in the city a considerable colony of Jews who were opposed to the whole Christian movement. 4. An anti-Pauline mission of Christian Jews from Palestine came to Corinth with views opposed to Paul's teachings concerning the Gentiles, and insisted that all Gentile Christians should conform to the Jewish ritual. 5. Cases of immorality had arisen in the church for which Paul had been compelled to reprove them. 6. There were divisions among them, one being for Peter, another for Paul, and another for Christ, as if all were not for Christ. 7. There were attacks upon Paul's character and authority. Speaking of those who claimed to be the real leaders and apostles, and who condemned him, Paul says: 22. "Are they Hebrews," of purest blood, one of the nation and language? "So am I." "Are they Israelites," of the true religion, worshiping the one God? "So am I." "Are they the seed of Abraham," inheritors of the promises, of the Messianic hopes, and the kingdom of God? "So am I." 24. "Five times received I forty stripes save one" from the Jews. None are mentioned in the Acts. The Jews were forbidden to inflict more than forty stripes (Deut. 25:3), and lest they should break the law by a mistake in counting they inflicted only thirty-nine. 25. "Thrice was I beaten with rods." Once mentioned in Acts 16:22. A similar instance is given by Cicero against Verres, V. 62. "Once was I stoned." At Lystra (Acts 14:19). Stoning was planned once before at iconium, but the plan was not carried out (Acts 14:5). Two.—The second test of aposthesis. 12:1-6. Vision. Insight. Communion with God. Realization of the spiritual. Paul's second answer to objectors is that he has a right to speak in the name of God; for though he had not seen Jesus in the flesh, he had seen eternal things, he had received revelations from God. 2. "I knew" (better "I know") "a man in Christ." That he is referring to himself is proved by v. 7; and the whole argument implies it. How it came, he could not tell, but he knew the fact. "Caught up to the third heaven," beyond the visible heaven, "to the highest heaven where the throne of God is," to Paradise the abode of the just, and of the angels. Whatever place it may have been, it was into the immost spiritual realities. Note the several visions which are recorded in the Acts from this vision of Jesus at his conversion, to his vision in the storm on the way to Rome. In his letter to the Galatians (1:11, 12) Paul declares: "I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me is not after man. "For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Something of this vision, of this communion of God with our spirits, of this realization of heaven and its life, of this insight into spiritual truths, is necessary to our best usefulness and our highest life. Three.—The third test of Paul's Apostleship was his saintly life.—12:7-10. Paul shows that the signs of an apostle were wrought among the Cornithians "in signs and wonders and mighty deeds," every one of them for the good of the people and the glory of God. "I seek not yours but you," "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved." The Thorn in the Flesh. One special form in which his saintliness was cultivated and manifested is described in v. 7-10. What Paul's (v. 7) "thorn in the flesh" was we cannot tell. But it appears to have been something which he feared would lessen his power among them and hinder his work. If a person bearing a burden that is too great for his strength, prays for relief, there are two ways of answering his prayer. (1) The burden may be lessened to his strength, or be taken away. In this case he is relieved of his burden, but is no better able to bear other burdens. Or (2) his strength may be so increased that what before was a burden becomes a mere joy of active life. For what would crush, a child is gentle exercise for an athlete. And this kind of answer is far better than the other, for gives him strength for all bur- CURRENT VERSE. It Reaches Cactus Center. Down here in Davis Center we was git- somewhat peeved. As to just the explorer was to have his yarn believed; We had took sides in the matter, and the poker game was shook. While some rooted hard for Peary and the others yelled for Cook. Pocos Johnson said, some sneerin', that the common daily feed Of that kind, the supporters was a mess of loco weed. Whereupon Bear Hawkins answered that whereupon Bear Hawkins answered that it bothered him a heap When he met the Piary's boosters was jetted for herdin sheep. It was then, or shortly after, that the waistkeep ducked his head, 'Cause the waistkeep was vibrant with the song of flyn' lead. There was sounds of busted glasses, and the door was clean unhinged When we drifted to the sidewalk, somewhat punctured, bruised and singed. Now we're strivin' here in Cactus, for to keep abreast of things, But we've drawn one line quite firmly counted up our stings; And if any more hurried comes to lecture, at high cost. The Curtain's Fall So, with God's help, I'm ready now to go. I've seen life's melodrama, paid the price, Have known its loves and losses, hopes and fears, The laughter and the tears. And now, God knows, I would not see it twice. I've crossed life's ocean, faced its blind- ing foam. But now, heaven whispers I am nearing home. And though a storm toasted hull I reach the shore. A thing of tattered sheets and broken spars, Naked against the stars, I soon shall be at peace forever more. For if again I pass these waters through, I know the kingdom I am sailing to, What boots it where I lie?—beneath the sod, Or down the dark impenetrable deep, Where wayworn seamen sleep? All gates are good through which we pass to Dahlia. —Blackwood's Magazine. A Woman's Way. They walked together, he and she, Along a brooklet side; The weather was the balmist Of balmy summerdite— A fitting time for him to ask If she would be his bride. And she was waiting hopefully, As she had waited long. To hear him tell her all about His love so deep and strong; But language failed for thoughts that in His brain would surge and throng. Silence 'tis said, surpasses speech, Love-meanings to convey— A truth, maybe, but who is he Can father man's way? The little lass she took offense, At what he didn't say. -Eugene C. Dolson, in Town and Country. The Soul's Expression. With stammering lips and insufficient song I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature day and night With dream and thought and feeling in- terwound And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual grip This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole. And utter all myself into the air. But if I did it—as the thunder roll breathe cloud—mily flesh would breathe there Before that dread apocalypses of soul. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The General Tendency De breeze dat floats de butterfly, De birds a-singin' strong. De clouds up yonder in de sky Is loiterin' along. De bee picks up a pinch o' sweet, Den say: "Dar's nuffin' wrong In callin' dis day's work' complete An' loiterin' along." De cricket trill his note so high, De bulfrog soun' de gong. Des' now an' then-dey don't half try- Dey's loiterin' along. Life and Death. Life and Death. Hope, the great explorer; Love, whom none can bind; Youth, that looks before her; As that looks behind; Joy, with brow like summer's; Care, with wintry pants; Masquers are and mummers At Life's gate. Power, with narrow forehead; Wealth, with niggard palm; Wisdom old, whose hoar head Vaunt's a barren calm. Haute courage; In their pomp and state; Masquers all and mummers At Death's gate. "Give me a kiss for a guerdon," Said the knight to his ladye fair, "Give me a kiss for a guerdon, And a tress of thy golden hair. "For I go to a far off countie At the head of my merrie men, And those that return to those that go forth Are only as one to ten." And she gave him a kiss for a guerdon And a tress of her golden hair, And sorrowed a while—then married a In the manner of ladies fair. —Walter E. Reid, in New York Sun. The Little Time. So little time to love you— So little time to see The eyes that have made Heaven On this poor earth for me! 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Copyright In Mexico Under Laws of the Republic of Mexico. All Rights Reserved KOOLOOTINGWAH and Inugito had been our bedfellows for the entire northward run, and they had gone through many dangerous and hard experiences together. We therefore felt more keenly their departure than the going of the first six. We were at first lonely, but the exigencies of our problem were soon sufficiently engaging to occupy every call and strain every fiber. Now our party was reduced to three and, though the isolation was more oppressive, there were the usual advantages for greater comfort and progress of a small family of workers. The increased number of a big expedition always enlarges the responsibility and difficulties. In the early part of a polar venture this disadvantage is eliminated by the survival of the fittest, but after the last supporting sleds return the men are married to each other and can no longer separate. A disabled or unfitted dog can be fed to his companions, but an injured or weak man cannot be put aside. An exploring venture is only as strong as its weakest member, and increase numbers, like increased links in a coil, reduce efficiency. The personal idiosyncrasies and inconveniences always shorten the day's march; but, above all, a numerous party quickly divides into cliques, which are always opposed to each other, to the leader and to the best interests of the problem in hand. With but two savage companions, to whom this arduous task was but a part of an accustomed life of frost. I hoped to over- M. B. DR. COOK AB HE APPAREED WHEN HE REACHED COPENHAGEN. DR. COOK AS HE APPEARED WHEN HE REACHED COPENHAGEN. come many of the natural personal barriers to the success of arctic expeditions. One Degree In Three Days. One Degree in Three Days. By dead reckoning our position was latitude 82 degrees 23 minutes, longitude 95 degrees 14 minutes. A study of the ice seemed to indicate that we had passed beyond the zone of ice crushed by the influence of land pressure. Behind were great hummocks and small ice; ahead was a cheerful expanse of larger floes. Using the accumulated vigor of man and beast, we had advanced a degree of latitude in three days. Our destination was about 400 miles beyond. But our life had assumed quite another aspect. Previously we permitted ourselves some luxuries. A pound of coal oil and a good deal of musk or tallow were burned each day to heat the igloo and to cook abundant food. Extra meals were served when an occasion called for it, and each man ate and drank all he desired. If the stockings or the mittens were wet there was fire enough to dry them out. But all of this must now be changed. There was a short daily allowance of food and fuel—one pound of pennil can per day for the dogs, about the same for the men, with just a taste of other things. Fortunately, we were well stuffed for the race with fresh meat in the lucky run through game lands. At first no great hardship followed the changed routine. We filled up sufficiently on two cold meals and used superfluous bodily tissue. It was no longer possible to jump on the sled for an occasional breathing spell, as we had done along the land. With overloaded sleds the drivers must push and pull at the sleds to ald the dogs, and I searched the troubled ice for an easy route, cutting here and there with the ice ax to permit the passing of the sleds. Stripped For the Race. We are finally stripped for the race. Man and dog must walk along together through storms and frost for that elusive pivot. Success or failure depended mostly upon our ability to transport nourishment and to keep up the muscular strength for a prolonged period. As we awoke on the following morning and peeped out of the eye port the sun was edging along the northeast, throwing a warm orange glow on us that gladdened our hearts. The temperature was 63 degrees below zero F.; the barometer was steady and high. There was almost no wind, and not a cloud lined the dome of pale purple blue. After two cups of tea, a watch sized biscuit, a chip of frozen milk and a Polar Party Reduced to Three and Northward March Continued—All Conditions Are Favorable (SIXTH ARTICLE) ESKIMO MOTHER AND BABE bowder of pemplecan we crept out of the bags. The shivering legs were pushed through bearskin cylinders, which served as trousers; the feet were worked into frozen boots, and then we climbed into fur coats, kicked the front out of the snow house and danced about to start the fires of the heart. Quickly the camp furnishings were tossed on the sleds and securely lashed down. The dog traces were gathered into the drag lines, and with a vigorous snap of the long whip the willing creatures bent to the shoulder straps. The sleds gronned, and the unyielding snows gave a metallic ring, but the train moved with a cheerful pace. "Unne noona terrona dosangwah" (good land out of sight today) we said to one another, but the words did not come with serious intent. In truth, each in his own way felt keenly that we were leaving a world of life and possible comfort for one of torment and suffering. Heilberg island was already only a dull blue haze, while Grant Land was making fantastic figures-of its peaks and ice walls. Wave of Mirages. The stamp of reality had given place to a wave of curious mirages. Some peaks seemed like active volcanoes; others rose to exaggerated heights and pierced the changing skies with multiple spires like church steeplees. Altogether this unexpected panorama of the upper surface of Grant Land under the influence of optical illusions gave us considerable entertainment. At every breathing spell the heads turned to the land, and every look gave a new prospect. From belching volcanoes to smoking cities of modern bustle the mirage gave suggestive bits of scenes, but a more desolate line of coast could not be imagined. Low wind swept and ice polished mountains were separated by valleys filled with great depths of snow and ice. This interior accumulation moved slowly to the sea, where it formed a low ice fall, a glacier of the malaspina type, but its appearance was more like that of heavy sea ice, hence the name of the fragments from this glacier, floe berg, which, seen in Lincoln sea and resembling old floes, were supposed to be the product of the upbuilding of the ice of the north polar sea. Late in the afternoon the land suddenly settled as if by an earthquake. The pearly glitter which raised it darkened, and a purple fabric was drawn DR. COOK HUNTING WALBUS. over the horizon, merging imperceptibly with the lighter purple blue of the upper skies. We saw the land, however, repeatedly for several days whenever the atmosphere was in the right condition to elevate the terrestrial contour lines. All Conditions Favorable. Everything was in our favor in this march. The wind was not strong and struck at an angle, making it possible to guard the nose by pushing a mitten under the hood or by raising the fur clad hand. The snow was hard, and the ice, in fairly large floes separated by pressure lines, offered little trouble. At the end of a forced effort of fourteen hours the register indicated twenty-nine miles. Too tired to begin the construction of a house at once, we threw ourselves down on the sledges for a short breathing spell and fell asleep. Awakened about an hour later by a strong wind, we hastened to seek shelter. 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By Harold MacGrath easiness. It was a narrow belt of water sky and indicated open water or very thin ice at no great distance. The upper surface of Grant Land was a mere line, but a play of land clouds over it fixed the eyes on the last known rocks of solid earth. In this march we felt keenly the piercing cold of the polar sea. The temperature gradually rose to 46 below in the afternoon, but the chill of the shadows increased with the swing of the sun's glitter. A Life Sapping Wind. It still blew that light. life sapping draft which sealed the eyes and bleached the nose. We had hoped that this would soften with the midday sun, but instead it came with a sharper edge. Our course was slightly west of north; the wind was slightly north of west. It struck us at a painful angle and brought tears. The moistened lashes quickly froze together in winkling, and we were forced to halt frequently to unseal the eyes with the warmth of the uncovered hand. In the meantime we found the nose tipped with a white skin, and it also required nursing. The entire face was surrounded with ice. This experience brought warm language, but there was no redress. If we aimed to succeed the face must be bared to the cut of the elements At about 6 o'clock, as the sun crossed the west, we had reached a line of high pressure ridges. Beyond the ice was cut into smaller floes and thrown together into ugly irregularities. An active pack and troubled seas could not be far away, according to our surmises. The water sky widened, but became less sharply defined. We managed to pick a way among hummocks and pressure lines which seemed impossible from a distance and in a hour we saw from an unusual uplift of ice blocks a broad, dark line separating the packs—a tremendous cut several miles wide, which seemed at the time to bar all farther progress. 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Petersburg, Va., Nov. 14.—In the Hustings Court yesterday morning the motion to set aside the verdict remanded in the case of the Commonwealth Joseph White (colored), at the September term of the court, was heard by Judge Mullen. It will be remembered that this prosecution grew out of the controversy at Harrison Street (colored) Baptist Church. The Judge took occasion to review the history and litigation incident $t_0$ that controversy. He also stated that the evidence of the most important witnesses for the Commonwealth in the case against Joseph White at the trial at the September term was in several material respects very different from that given by them when this case was first tried at the January term; and that, but for this variation, he would have instructed the jury very differently; and that he was inclined to the opinion that upon the evidence as given at the January term, the defendant was not guilty. He suggested in his judgment, the ends of justice would be more than met by a fine in this case. Upon the Commonwealth's attorney stalking that he would not agree to this, the verdict was set aside and the case continued to the January term. He also remarked that he would not permit a verdict to stand that imposed more than a fine. The above, at the request of the Indian Appeal, representative, was prepared. MANN'S STATEMENT In order to give both sides in this case Mr. R. H. Mann, the attorney for the Commonwealth, was asked by the Index Appeal representative for such a statement as he would make for publication in reference to the action of the court in the White case and furnished the following: In response to your request, without solicitation by me, to state the substance of what occurred in the Hustings Court this morning, in connection with the action of the court on the motion for a new trial of the case of the Commonwealth against Joseph White, which was pending in the said court, and which incidentally involves the prosecution of Ell Tartte for an assault upon Levi D. Myers, I desire to say that, after being notified by Judge Mulleh, through Mr. Robert G. Bass, of this office, I went down to the court room at ten o'clock; and after waiting for sometime, counsel for the defendant arrived, and Mr. C. T. Lassiter began to argue the motion for setting aside the verdict of the jury in the case of Joseph White in the last trial, imposing a jail sentence or six months and a fine of $100.00. Before Mr. Lassiter completed his argument; and before Judge Mullen's decision, and without any intimation that he then intended to pass on the motion, or any suggestion that I be heard as the representative of the Commonwealth in the argument of the case, Judge Mullen said that his recollection was positive that Levi D. Myers had made different statements in the first trial from those in the second trial; that he believed that he had made up his testimony after hearing the argument for setting aside the verdict on the first trial in order to fit the facts; and that such different statements should have been put in evidence by the defendant's counsel at the last trial of the case. He then stated that proceedings should be taken against Levi D. Myers for perjury, to which I replied that, if proceedings for perjury were to be taken, I was satisfied I could convict Tartte of perjury; but that I did not want to be put in the attitude of persecuting. Judge Mullen then reviewed the civil features of the trouble in Harrison Street Church, stating that the anti-Tartite faction—or as he termed them, the deacons had been in fault throughout the whole controversy, and endeavored to create a disturbance on more than one occasion; that he had been informed by John Johns that here would be trouble in case an attempt was made to expel the deacons from the membership of the church: that Dr. J. M. Pilcher and Mr. Robert Gilliam, who had previously presided over the meetings held at the church, stated to him that the disturbances in the meetings came from the anti-Tartite side; that he believed that, on the night the assault was alleged to have been committed, Joseph White had no intention of using his pistol, even if he pointed it at Levi D. Myers, and that the anti-Tartite faction, who he said had been holding business meetings in the yard of the church, for the purpose of making trouble, marched to the church in a body that night for the purpose of seeing that their wishes were carried out He then stated that he thought that, in these cases—meaning the Tarttie and White cases—the defendants should enter a plea of nolo contendere, which, he said, practically amounted to a plea of guiltity. Judge Mullen further stated that he thought the Commonwealth should be satisfied with a substantial fine in these cases; and asked me what I thought about the matter. I replied that I differed with him that my mind was made up, that I would not consent to it, and that I thought the defendants should go to jail. I then stated that, as far as the civil Come to the explanation on the Sunday-school lesson today 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Bring a friend. All women and men are invited to the great meeting for women and men Sunday 3:20 P. M. at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Rev. J. W. Barco A. B. or the Virginia Union University will preach a special sermon. Subject: "Play the Mt. Zion Church choir. Director W. L. Woodson. Be on time. Come and bring a man and woman. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. assisted by the social committee will give the men of the city a Thanksgiving Tea. Thursday from 7 to 10. Free for all men. Everything will be free. Come and spend a minute with the ladies. Every home is requested to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. cases were concerned. I had nothing to do with them, and cared nothing about which side should prevail, except that my sympathies were naturally on the side of the people who had been born and reared in Pembrokeshire, and whom I had known; and that I, like practically everybody else, regarded Tartte as a menace to the community, Judge Mullen then said that he notified me that he would set aside every verdict that would impose a jail sentence in these cases, to which I replied that, with all due respect to the court, since I had felt solved his notice, I desired to give notice that I would press for re-trial of the cases every time they were set aside; and requested to be informed whether he meant that verdict in the Joseph White case was set aside. He replied that it was. As I was about to get my books to leave the court room. I was again informed by the court that he wished to notify me that he would set aside every verdict in which a jail sentence was imposed, to which I replied: "I thank Your Honor for your frankness." Judge Mulien continued the cases to the January term. As I heard every statement made by Levi D. Myers in both trials, and am satisfied he is not guilty of perjury, as at present advised. I shall not prosecute him for the offense. — Petersburg, Index Appeal. Very truly yours, RICHARD H. MANN, Commonwealth's Attorney. ENGINEER KILLED BY BURSTING BOILER Accident on Seaboard Air Line Causes Death of Thomas Enniss. Richmond, Va. Nov. 15—Due to injuries received through the blowing out of the crown sheet of his engine, No. 777, and the shock of an operation that followed. Engineer Thomas C. Enniss, of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, died at the Memorial Hospital yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. Though terribly scalded and frightened by the enveloping steam, Jacob Saulter, the colored fireman, saved his life by jumping from the cab. He fell unconscious, and was still dazed when he arrived with Engineer Enniss at the Memorial. Even last night he was unable to give a account of the accident and could not remember where it happened. He said that it was like a dream to him. He is badly scalded about the body and his left shoulder is dislocated. His home is in East Raleigh, where the freight train started on its journey. Accompanied by his brother, P. C. Enniss, and six members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers from Raleigh, the body was taken at 11:50 A. M. to his home in that city. ENNIS BROUGHT HERE The accident occurred on a steep grade between this city and Petersburg. While the train freight Nov. 8, was going at a good rate of speed for some unaccountable reason the crown sheet blew out, enveloping the cab with steam and boiling water. Engineer Enniss quickly applied the brakes and jumped from the window, but in the fall caught it left foot beneath the wheels, giving it off at the ankle. As early as possible a special engine was hurried to the scene, and the suffering man was brought to this city, where he was taken to the Mentorial Hospital. The foot was amputated, but Mr. Enniss never recovered consciousness. DIES FROM SHOCK Though he was not badly scalded, and the injury to his leg at first was not considered dangerous, the ordeal was too much for his system, the physicians being of the opinion that his death was caused more from the combined shock of the wreck and the operation than from his wounds. Dispatches received from Raleigh last-night stated that the body arrived there on the 12:05 train and had been carried to the Enniss home on Salisbury Street, from which it is expected the funeral will take place to-morrow morning. The hour will depend on the time of arrival there of Mrs. Hudgins, a sister of Engineer Enniss, who lives near Danville. Mr. Enniss was unmarried, He leaves one brother, P. C. Enniss, of Raleigh, and two sisters—Mrs. Hudgins, of Danville, and Mrs. L. W. Bowden, of Raleigh. DENIES DEFECTIVE INJECTION It was said that the accident was due to a defective injector; that one of the two with which the engine was equipped was not working at all, having been clogged up for several days. Superintendent J. H. Witt, of the Seaboard, last night that while it had not been determined what directly caused the crown sheet to blow out, this was not the reason, as when the train pulled out it was in perfect order. He added that the injectors were always tested when a train went out and that no engine was sent on a run unless it is in working order. 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State Anti-Tuberculosis Society and National Red Cross Unite For Unique Charity. Richmond, Va., Nov. 15.—(Special.)—If the plans of the State Anti-Tuberculosis Association are carried out, Red Cross Christmas stamps will soon be for sale for Christmas use throughout the State. Under arrangements with the National Red Cross Society, the State Association will distribute the stamps throughout Virginia and will share the proceeds with the National Society. Perhaps no popular movement of recent years has had the unique success of this plan, devised to raise funds for the relief work of the Red Cross Society. The stamps are beautifully engraved, with the symbol of the Red Cross, and carry a brief Yuletide greeting. They are to be offered for sale throughout the State, at one cent each, and are to be attached to Christmas mall. Thanks to the Post Office Department the stamps can be sold in the corridors and halls of government buildings where they can easily be secured by those who desire to assist the two great charities. Dr. T. A. Parker, Executive Secretary of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, is in charge of the distribution of these stamps and is maturing plans whereby they can be had throughout the State. Y. M. C. A. Notes The Y. M. C. A. Conference is still humming. Be present men to the next meeting. The class for the explanation on the Sunday-school lesson was well attended last Saturday. Still new members join. Keep working. The reports from the city home and city jail show that the committeemen are working hard to find there brother. General Secretary S. C. Burrell, spoke to men in the penitentiary last Sunday. Several of the prisoners accepted Jesus Christ as their Personal Saviour. Prof. J. H. Rhorer spoke to the boys last Sunday and every boy was helped. 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If not, why not? --- --- HAT VIRGINIA: In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 16th day of November, 1909. Alfred McKinney, Plaintiff. Against In Chancery Alice McKinney Defendant. Alfred McKinney, Plaintiff. Against In Chancery Alice McKinney Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii, by the plaintiff against the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Alice McKinney, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order, and do whatever may be necessary to protect her interest herein. A copy - Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. To ALICE McKINNEY You'll take notice that I shall on the 6th day of January, 1910, at the office of Phil B. Shield, room numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce building, situated S. W. corner 9th and Main Streets, in the City of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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