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THE RICHMOND PLANET A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!! ```markdown ``` DR. WASHINGTON EXPLAINS Tells About The Semi-Centennia Exposition—Laying the Foundation For a Great Movement. Editor The PLANET:— I have received so many letters recently regarding the proposed celebration in the year 1913 of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the freedom of the American Negro, that I deem it wise to ask you to permit me to use your columns in making some reply to these letters rather than in trying to answer each one individually. Attention has already been called to the importance of some kind of a celebration to take the form of an exposition or something else. Of course, in order to have such an exposition, it is of the first importance that it have the recognition and support of the United States Government as well as that of as many states as possible, for without the influence and help of the central government it would hardly be possible to have an exposition that would reflect credit upon our race. THE PRESIDENT'S IDEAS. Having all this in mind, the whole matter of such an exposition was carefully put before the President of the United States, and after considering the whole subject with great care, manifesting the deepest interest, it was thought best by President Taft and others who consulted with him that in order to secure the confidence and support of the American people that the whole matter taught to be taken u in a dignified orderly way and that this could best be accomplished through the appointment of a preliminary and temporary commission by the President, authorized by Congress, such commission to be composed of men of such ripe and wide experience and reputation that their recommendations would carry weight. It would be the purpose of such a commission to study carefully the whole subject and if deemed wise to recommend the holding of such an exposition, to map out a general and comprehensive scheme for same. This would prove the basis for an appeal to Congress and to state legislatures and philanthropic individuals for such support as would create an exposition that would command the respect and confidence of the world. THE BILL OFFERED Accordingly, a bill has been prepared and introduced into both the House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate carrying out the suggestion of providing for the appointment of a commission. President Taft, further manifested his interest in the proposed exposition by referring to it in the most complimentary way in his recent message. It is believed that the bill introduced into Congress will pass early in the present session. It is necessary to insure the success of the exposition it is important that we proceed carefully and automatically. No hasty, ill-considered plan will command the respect and confidence of the American people. ADVISES PATIENCE I wish to say in this same connection that it is important that the race be patient while these plans are maturing. In the end it will be found that every element of the race will receive proper recognition and be given an opportunity to take part in the exposition. So far as the selection of individuals to take the leadership in the matter is concerned nothing definite has been done; only preliminary committees have been selected with a view of getting matters in shape to present to the President. After the passage of the bill now before Congress and the appointment of the commission by the President there will be plenty of time for all organizations denominations and institutions to receive proper recognition and I am sure that this will be done. NO SHORT CUTS ADVISABLE Nothing can be gained, but much lost, by any attempt to take short cuts and by doing those things that call attention to little side issues that have no possible chance to succeed. We need in this matter the united effort of all elements of the race, and the evidence, so far points to the fact that the race is more united on this project than it has ever been on any other of similar magnitude, and we hope that this union of the masses of the people will continue. I wish also to add that most careful consideration, before any decision is reached, will be given to the claims of every city or locality that is interested in having the proposed exposition located in its midst. Other information as progress is made from time to time will be given. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee institute, Ala. Dec. 21, '09. The name of Cornelius W. McDougal has been announced by Judge Whitman, recently elected District Attorney for the county of New York, as one of the assistants under the fusion administration for four years beginning January 1st. Mr. McDougal is a young colored lawyer who has very rapidly come to the front in New York during the last few years. His selection by Judge Whitman was secured through the influence of Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue, and other influences of that character. Compliments Editorial in The Planet The people of Richmond are always interested in the progress of our negro population. The more generous of the whites have shown their interest by aiding every effort to improve the general condition of the negroes; the city, as a whole, has dealt fairly with them and has encouraged them to drift and good order. If the results of this policy have been real and lasting the whites have themselves to thank as well as the negroes. The most recent proof of what Richmond negroes are doing is seen in the Auditor's report, where their property is listed. Perhaps few citizens will be prepared for this showcasing. In this city returned real estate in the value of $2,057,517, and personal property in the sum of $473,465. As an evidence of good business ability and frugal, careful saving, this record deserves the commendation of the entire city. In rejoicing over these figures, one of the colored papers of the city takes occasion to point out the moral to its readers. It says: "While the indusious, well-behaved, good-meaning colored people are improving their financial condition and indirectly adding to the material wealth of the communities in which they live, the lawless, disreputable colored people are building up brush fires in our rear by their outrageous conduct, and this will tend $t_0$ destroy much of the product of honest toil. For this reason, we should study out some method to curb and control the wild, dissolute colored elements, which cause us so much concern and no end of annoyance. We cannot rely entirely upon the police power of the respective communities in which we live to do it. We must do much of the work ourselves, and our organizations owe it to themselves and to the race and to the government to make an honest persistent effort to reform and reclaim the mass of poverty and crime which causes the Associated dispatches to teem with the disreputable actions of many of our people which might be restrained and taught better." This is good, sound sense that must appeal to every right-thinking man in the city. The negroes, as a whole, should not properly be judged by the conduct of the worst element; but, as a matter of fact, they are often so judged. If this condition of affairs is ever to be corrected, it must be through the action of the negroes themselves in frowning upon the criminal and unworthy elements in their midst. The city will be glad to see the better class of negroes moving in this direction, and will cheerfully bear witness to the progress they have already made. Ten years ago it was practically impossible to secure evidence against a negro from those of his own race. At that time a negro might be hidden with friends in Jackson Ward and could almost laugh at the police. Today there are many negroes who would unhesitatingly expose such a criminal and there are others—many of them—who would not be party to concealing them. This of itself shows an upward movement and indicates how the better men among the negroes are striving to gain the confidence many of them deserve. — Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch, Dec. 25, 1909. Mr. E. W. R. Glenn, now of Gordonsville, called on us this week. Everybody is already smiling at Acca Temple's venture and they say that they are going to see this two ring circus played to a finish. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1910. SAYS 1909 TO 1910 1909 1910 DAY BOOK CASH LEDGE NEW YEARS TOASTS & SENTIMENTS Here's to the year that's awa'; We'll drink it in strong and in sma', And to each bonnie lassie that we dearly lo'ed In the days o' the year that's awa'. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty night; The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go, Ring out the false, ring in the true. To the Old Year Laughter and kisses—here's the end. A wiser end could scarcely be. You were our lover and our friend, Old Year, And so the world and we, Throw smiles and kisses as you wend your way, And speed you merrily. —A. E. Gordon. To the Ladies Lift your goblets high in the air And drink to the health of the ladies fair, For this night won't come for another year, May we live until then without shedding a tear. —Original Toast by Mrs. Annie L. M. Breen, Granby, Mass. —National Food Magazine. The Old Person—I wish you all kinds of prosperity during your term of office, bub, but I want to warn you this year's job is a fast life. In just 12 months or in about 8,760 hours, you will be wearing a long gray beard, spectacles on your nose, a seven-dollar black suit badly wrinkled, weigh about sixty-five pounds, and carry around one of those glass thingum-bobs they have in the kitchen to time the egg boiling. And some will be sorry, others glad, that you are then ready to be succeeded by another fat little infant labeled "1911." HURLEY MURDERER IS LYNCHED BY MOB Henry Pennington Hanged and Body Riddled With Bullets. Hurley, Va., December 26.—Following the killing here on Christmas Eve of Samuel Baker and the serious wounding of his wife and two children by the former's enemy, Henry Pennington, a mob of one hundred citizens late last night took Pennington from an improvised jail, where he had been incarcerated under heavy guard, and hanged him to a steam pipe. Pennington who had been drinking, picked a quarrel with Baker and shot him while the latter was on his way to a Sunday-school Christmas tree with his wife his two children and a friend, Wyatt Meadows. Seeing that he had killed Baker, Pennington started to run away. Mrs. Baker called after Pennington and implored him to help her take the body home. He moved and then Pennington went back to where his victim lay dead. Bent upon avenging the dead Mrs. Baker grabbed Pennington's pistol from his pocket and shot twice at him. His aim was bad but she succeeded in wounding him in the hand and thigh. Pennington recovered possession of the platoi and then shot the woman and attempted to kill Meadows, who was running away, and the two children. CAPTURED BY POSSE. Pennington then fled, but was surrounded by a posse on the outskirts of the town later in the night. He was captured after an exchange of shots with the officers, who badly wounded him. Being too weak to stand the journey to the Grundy jail, fifteen miles distant over mountainous country. Pennington was locked up in the constable's house, but about 1 o'clock yesterday it was thought advisable to remove him to a boarding-house, where he was put under a strong guard. Feeling against Pennington ran high and many covert threats of lynching were heard during the day. Last midnight a band of about one hundred citizens was quietly organized. The guard was overpowered and Pennington was taken to the engine room of a lumber mill nearby and hanged to a steam pipe. The body was riddled with bullets, and was then left hanging until 9 o'clock this morning, when it was cut down. Baker's funeral was held to-day, but his wife was too badly wounded to attend. Baker was a son-in-law of "Aunt Betty" Justis and a brother-in-law of George Meadows, two of the victims of the famous sextuple murder here several months ago, for which Howard Little has been sentenced to die in the electric chair on January 6. FRIEND OF LITTLE. Pennington was known to be a friend of Howard Little, and it is thought that the talk of a new trial for Little had much to do with his seeking a quarrel with Baker, and as well for the sentiment which provoked the lynching which followed. Little has been granted a thirty-day respite by Governor Swanson, his attorneys claiming that his witnesses were intimidated by the friends of the Meadows family, and that he has been sentenced because of his previous bad reputation with no evidence other than circumstantial. FIRST IN FOUR YEARS The lynching in Buchanan county of Henry Pennington is the first affair of the kind during the administration of Governor Swanson. For more than four years the State has been free from any lawlessness of this sort. Buchanan county has no railroad, and mail and telephone service is exceedingly slow and unsatisfactory. Not even the news of Pennington's crime had reached Governor Swanson until he was apprised last night of the lynching. Even had the Buchanan sheriff anticipated trouble and had been able to communicate immediately after the crime with the executive, no militia could have reached the scene in time to prevent the trouble. There is now no militia company west of Lynchburg, and two or three days would elapse before any soldiers could reach the mountain fastnesses of the Kentucky border. Mr. George L. Coleman, of Randolph, and Alexander Miles and Andrew Logan, of Manchester, Va., called on us. ALL!! JOHNSON'S TITLE YEAR OLD Champion Pugilist Celebrates His Victory Over Burns. Chicago, Dec. 26.—Jack Johnson, heavyweight pugilistic champion of the world, today celebrated the first anniversary of his accession to the title by a house-warming in the home he has presented to his mother. One year ago today Johnson knocked out Tommy Burns in the fourteenth round of their championship fight at Rusheutter's Bay, near Sydney, N. S. W., and won the world's title. Talk of his coming fight with James J. Jeffries was postponed by the champion until he had carved a turkey and told about his failure to get turkey after his fight with Burns and how he made his championship dinner on a suckling pig. After the dinner Johnson said he was certain that the forthcoming fight with Jeffries would be staged at San Francisco instead of Salt Lake City, and announced that he would pitch his training camp at Ocean View, just outside of San Francisco. Johnson also announced that "Guitabo" Smith, a Pacific coast heavyweight, would be one of his training partners. Former Champion James J. Corbett, who is scheduled to be one of Jeffries' training partners, was in Chicago today. He predicted that Jeffries would have little trouble in gaining the heavyweight title. Tickets For The Winter Circus The management has given admirable location and fine seats to the colored people for the grand circus and hippodrome at the Horse Show building. Tickets are 50 cents and 75 cents, and they may be obtained at the Mechanics' Savings Bank, 511 N. Third Street, The True Reformers' Bank, 604 N. Second Street, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, 112 E. Broad Street, Thompson's Pharmacy, St. James and Duval Streets, Boxes and reserved seats for any night can be secured in advance by applying at any of these places. Southern Law and Collection Bureau, Sick, Accident, Life and Fire Insurance claims a specialty. It costs you nothing if we don't collect your money. We can obtain a loan on your property at very small cost. It will pay you to call and see us. 1112 E. Main Street, (Room 13), Richmond, Va. The Old Folk's Home Sold The Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch, is the authority for the statement that the Grand Fountain, U. O. True Reformers, through its officers, has sold the Old Folks' Home property at Westham, for $110,000 Mr. John Landstreet, representing a syndicate of white men is the purchaser. THE SOUTHERN SECRET SERVICE Company. All business strictly confidential. Representatives wanted in every city and country in the South. Liberal fees to good men. Office: 1112 E. Main Street, (Room 13), Richmond, Va. Mr. John Adams, of Danville, Va., was in the city this week. Mr. W. G. Fenderson, of Keokee, Va., was in the city this week, and called on us. Of course you will be happy and so will the girl that you take to the Horse Show building next week. Mr. Ervin Passes Away. Whereas it has pleased Almighty God in His wise providence to remove from our midst our brother Sir P. C. C. Paul Ervin, of America Lodge, No. 98, Knights of Pythias, we bow in humble submission to the will of God who doeth all things well. Resolved, that the lodge desires to place on record their high appreciation of the many obligations of mind and heart which endeared Brother Ervin to all with whom he came in contact. Second, that these resolutions be spread on our minutes. GRANVILLE WALLACE, ISHAM NORRELL, JOSEPH CHARITY, Chair. Committee. * The ```markdown ``` CHAPTER XI A BOSS OF CHAINS In the way up to Hope Hildred and his pup, had a second cross-gardement all to themselves. The train was a fast one of the day, the train has passed to it, and the city of speed is heard over the land. There are a lot of fears at Home and a war of two hours. After our job, Morrow was secretly bought two boxes of crayons to carry along. They were crayons and at him $15. It was a good time with newspapers and at the station succeeded by some big demand in slipping them into one of his cases. Hitchard would have assured him on his extrasaga and this was a good way to avoid it. But some business he was going to be a very busy that he had not made a decision of his grade. As they were to leave the station, it turned two get tangled up to the forward compartment of the carriage. Humph, our friend with the scar said Hitchard. We do not seem able to shake him. Idle, to shake him. He goes against the grain somehow. Merril howewing into the compartment I wonder why the Sandfields dropped him." For some good reason They are a liberal person and if your friend forward offended them it must have been some thing outside the role of forgiveness. But I should be to know where oil Glowworm is. I knew him. "Your devil" said Merrillow with careless pants. The train started. "Monte carlo, good good little round pieces of gold. Monte carlo bed hiding in the house." "Hard to get and heavy to hold!" quoted Hirard. I suppose that you have a basket already washed out "Of course. I shall whiff if I stick to it." "Or if the money lasts. Bury your system my way. It at the door you good. Trust to think of it. Must ar- lo is the gravedry of systems." "But maybe my system is the You cannt tell I have treasured it." Soon the train begin to lift but the mountains, the beautiful Apennines. By the time they arrived to Genoa at night both compared favorable with the coolers in the barber of Naples. Early the next morning the adventurers set out for M. Carlo to the tunnels a compartment filled with women and children. But the beauty of the Italian was compensation. Venturing in or Ventimiglia has a sister sound in the ears of the tractor if perchance he be a man food of the tobacco. The train drew in. A door steps more and one was swamped by France. But there is perhaps a slight hitch before one takes the aftersteps the French customs. A porter popped his head into the window. "Eight minutes for examination of luggage" he cried. Come M. Carlo! And we want good seats when we come out. We change trains." After a short skimming they locate their belongings. They would have to be patient. Among the inspectors at Venting is a small wizard. I remember with face and hand touching the shaven spit. He possesses a other occupants a more peculiar less for shape than for size. He can annotate belongings a doctor in Zomland gives out a job. Fate directed this individual to the Americans. Hilford knew how old and he never forgets a face the wizened little man. "Monieur has nothing to declare he asked. Hilford made a negative sign opened his cases. With worse glance at their contents and waking aside the coupons the inspector applied the chalk and turned to Merri how. Monieur has nothing to declare? he reported Merrillhew shook his head airlift "Niente niente" he said to his best Italian. He did not understand what the inspector said. He merely had an歇息. "Look" suddenly exclaimed Hillard. Passing out of the door which led to liberty and to France, their luggage guaranteed by caballistic chalk marks were two women. One of them was velled the other was not "Kilty Killgrew, as I live" shouted Merrillhew, making a dash for the door. But the inspector blocked the way beckoned to a gendarme who came over, and calmly pointed to Merrilhew's unopened case. "Open" said the inspector "But"—Merrillhew struggled to pass "For heaven's sake." cried Hillard "the patient and open the cases at once." Merritt handed his keys climbs It is ever thus when one is in a hurry Finally he throw back the lids, feeling that in another moment he must have spotted Italian or French out of pure magic simply to tell this fool inspector Lure of the Mask By HAROLD MAC GRATH Copyright, 1908, by the Bobbe- Merrill Co. "Oh no! in colour in a hurry!" mocked the inspector. "Nothing nothing!" He looked at two boxes of cigars. "Why the dick didn't you tell me you had then." He had demandt wrathfully. I find the wom by the stroke of hand and then to lose the again for two boxes of cigars! It was maddening. The inspector went out Moreh news possessed with promptness; assurance. Everything had to come out. He was told the shaving sets to start at the pincess and the toile. With two stets asked. Heard Wodden went to visit this town. Others fell in and said the inspector beware. Heard I stood a few steps past. The inspector. I stood a few steps past. He shook his head. He was happy to be in the city of the inspector. He is the law personified they raise. Hold stead of the desk, and tell me not hurt by the fire, and not aggrieved by them, they were ready to train. Hold Mr. Mowbray to a train, he will hold it hard, he will hold it hard, the best way he could, Mr. Mowbray was not in possession, I held the door the heart to desert the thing, I deserved to desert the desert of it. I shouted "wow the day." When where were you when? The train for Mr. Mowbray was drawing out, and they were taking left to land. Hilford swore and Mornah & went white with important matter. If only he could hit something. The inspector smiled and went on with his hands work. When he was certain that they could not possess it, the train he handed the cigars to the owner and painted to a stain the other side of the bare side. What shall I do, Jack? Merrl how asked. I refuse to help you, find out your self. So Merrithow bakes and subdued, went into the designated saw the cigar taken off and weighted took it. He presented it with a hundred lire note at the little window in the off room. Preparing his checks, he found Hill and setting dissects onto the bar road. I hope you are perfectly satisfied said Hill and with an assurance which would have passed muster any where. Oh I am sad, did I answered Merrith he. He strolled pockets with gifts and I the lege into the case and I kicked them up. I worried you did it better" "I know it" "I you should have told me" "I know that too but I didn't want you to be there." A little word would have been better than waiting here in a barn for three hours. I have been7 deservedly. "Oh this is a restaurant, but it is not not better than that. It has bad pies and gravy plates." At the time they found the Restaurant for the evening and noticing they were dining there I knew where they were going, was it Hill and a regent "They said Merrilow You. How well was it the women going to pick if I stay for her please?" At when I find I am going to carry her" Something said Merrilow pouring up a third glass of very indi fier wine. At the time they are going anywhere but to M. de Carlo Paris, Cherbourg Chains, in opinion Monte Carlo the two such women are like to go alone." So they set in the dingy restaurant sitting and laughing and grumbling to the train was announced. At 4:45 the train on them arrived without further inship at the most interesting station of its size in Europe Mon- Carlo. And then into the omnibus adjoin- ing came the train with the rear The Rixtera from San Remo on the Italian side to Tuscany on the French possesses a singular beauty Wilfram he stands above Nice, be- tween that white city and Monte Carlo It is quiet and lovely. For this reason the great army of tourists pass it. There is no casino on land, no streets full of tantalizing shops, on the very western limit of Wilframhe on the wedding white road which rises out of Nice is a modest little villa, most modest that a ballroom would goo- n it and a dungeon it. In the late last La Sainthina reposed in a skimmer, hair gazing seward. The awful cast a warm glow as of gold upon her face and hair a transparent shadow. She was at this moment the most precious thing upon which the eye may look a wholly beautiful woman. Kitty Killgrew standing in the casement window, stared at her silently not without some easy not without some awe. What was going on behind those dreamy eyes? "Hilda!" said Kitty THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "Who and what are you?" Kitty asked bravely. La Sigourina's eyes wandered till they met Kitty's. "And what good would it do you to know? Would it bring money from home any sooner? You already know that I am unhappy The adventures always is." "Adventures?" Kitty laughed scornfully "The proprietor pretends he A La Signee a turné depuis a plusieurs tapes et gudder In September I turned I begin in a passion care and muddle. doesn't know you but I am certain beds. He fights almost sometimes in the way he loves to you." Kerry joined them asked. What do you tell me what the secret is. How do you like that white sat on? What do you about me went on kilty stairs? "Because you did I never asked you a single question." Is it true? In September shrugged. For you, you are trying in vain to make a case out of my life. You should not read so much. I love them Katie. The letter is framed in gold by Naples, Mr Hilbert and Mr Matthew friends of yours and Patsy. Katie and surely believe hears. Where are they stopping? That I don't know. But here. They started out to do it. When I did it, that Mr Hilbert Not to them if we need the their help in allemy life. But that is not true. They are best given. Mr Merrilow, but I would like Mr Hirard to a gentle man. I am not only only a gentleman who has run away and asked Kitsy hither and thither about them every day. We are free to choose of the best way to get you. But you must choose he said he had been in the room that day and saw this woman there with her child by the woman there with her. "I have said she said at least I shall stay here." "That is it. And now the affairs of the room. We have played three games of the first game. I night woke up the last game. Win a lose a win. We have no room to be. I don't think of going to Mumbai. It is not exatty safe. But she becomes mustn't be here when we go. Again I warn you to speak to no one while I am still with under no stranger stance or your will. They have been gun to me but it will end to night. I was ready to think that I could win. And the way Kitty we shall not go back to the campo Formosa." Kitty accepted this news brightly. If there was one place she hated it was the campo. "Now run and dress," advised La Signerite. "Let me dream a little more while the sun sets." The knew men tolerably well. After thirty they cease to follow visions they took tangible things. No, they must never meet again. It would not be wise. Her heart galled by distillation might not withstand much storming. And she had no wish to add this frettable folly to the original blunder. She was afraid. No, they must go their separate ways till the end. With a sigh she rose and went into the room. Kitty was busy with the finishing touches of her toilef The older woman kissed her fondly "And do you realize that you are the most beautiful woman in the world?" asked Kitty "Little matter" "And if I were a man"—Kitty paused —"I'd fall in love with you and marry I live, says the mother of Satan. At Monte Carlo it is more than attractive; it is compelling. A subtle hypnotism prevails, the lure of gold Pool and tugue, saint and sinner, here they meet and mingle and change. To those who give Monte Carlo but a trifling glance, toss a coin or two on the tables and leave by the morrow's train it has no real significance. It is simply one of the lights of Europe. To this latter class belonged the two young men. They had no fortunes to retrieve, no dishonesty to hide, no restitutions to make, no dancers to cloth and house. It was but a mild distraction. They had served Nice and Monaco and Mentone, but the women they sought were not to be found. They decided therefore that the women had gone on to birth. "My sister needs a toilec," said Morrith. Well hold the funeral after to night's play. Of all the damn games it is a poutte. "And I can prove it." Morthew replied. I have just $50 left. He took out the gold and tossed with it "Can I you hear it?" he asked. "Hear what." "The swan song of these tender nape polesons." Morthew had played the numbers the dozens, the columns the colors old and ever. Sometimes he would hit the little moment later the reactions rake would drag it back to the bank. "Nature has done this very pretty. Quite curve with her colors, don't you be drawn plucking the down upper tip for he was trying to raise one musthe, convinced that two waved points of hair at each corner of the mouth would impress the hotel waiters and other faculties - basebarn was out of sorts. "You agreed with me that I was one. Why not let me make a finished product?" good he pretended. "Well, Matthew finally gald, 'you might as well let me have my letter of credit now'." "You will not set eyes upon it till you return it to him. That a final know you, my boy, and I know Monte Carlo. Even with your fifty a watch and a ring to afraid to trust you out of sight." "I can beg that you will never for give up for, those bad cigars. Come on. We'll take a look at our italian." C. A picture, beautiful but false friend. He's a bad loser. I have seen in his closet a temper too. It's my opinion that he's a desperate man. They're always are when they come to Mothoroo. So they walked round to the entrance to the gaming hall where the lights to the town, the jewels, the sparkling stone the natural beauty and the beauty of camel, the vapour perfumes the low warm of voices, the softness of ka, the music of ringing gold a" alone to produce a picture as beautiful as a mirage and as false. They left the never ending process which passes in and out of the swinging door day after day, year after year. This chap with the scar. He's a handsome beggar. Hillard admitted to. I wonder what sort of blink he is. It's no ordinary one. I am terrified. I want to recognize the face of the man with him. He's a distinguished man. The team played like an old hand a number of times in a while but making it a point to shake on the cubes. He began to repeat itself. He doubled had doubled. On the sixth consecutive turn he played the maximum of 12,000 francs and won. The diplomat toiled him on the arm significantly but the player shook his head. Ten minutes later he had won 40,000 francs. Again he refused to leave his chair. "If he stays now," said Hillard, "he will lose it all. His friend is right." "Forty thousand francs, $8,000," murmured Merrifield sadly. Why could he have luck like this? Hillard was a true prophet. There came a change in the smile of fortune. The game jumped from color to color, solidum repeating, with zero making itself complacious. The man with the car played on, but he began to lose small sums at first, then longer till finally he was down to his original stake. The car grew livid. He waited five turns of the wheel, then placed his stake on the second dozen. He lost. He rose from his chair srowling. His eyes changed to meet Hillard's, and their glances held for a moment. "Fool," said Merrieth in an understone as the man strolled laurelly past them "Eight thousand and not content to quit." Meanwhile the trolleys from Nice and Mentone had poured into Monte Carlo their usual burd. of pleasure seekers. On one of the cars from Nice there had arrived, lye women, both willed and simply gowned. They seldom addressed each other and never spoke to any one else. Doubtless, they were some sober married women out for a lark. Upon leaving the car they did not at once go into the casino, but directed their stems toward the terraces, for the band was playing. They sat in the shadow of the statue of Massenet, and near by the rasp of a cricket broke in upon the music. When the music stopped they linked arms and sauntered up and down the wide sweep of stone, mutually interested in the crowds. Once as they passed behind a bench the better to view the palaces of the prince they heard the voices of two men. As they went on the woven heard something about "those bad cigars." The men were Americans evidently. It was only an inconsequent incident, and a moment later both had forgotten it. "At which table shall I make the stake Kitty?" "The center. There is always a crush there and we shall not be noticed "I do not agree with you there. How ever it shall be the center table. What would you do, Kitty if I should break the bank?" "Die of excitement frustfully "You will live through this event then." With a light, careless laugh La Signorina pressed her way to the table She lost steadily from the start. She gave no sign however, that her forces were in full retreat from the enemy. She played no and the hand which placed the bots was steady. And when the gold was all gone she opened her empty hands (or resisted) on shrunken. She was beaten Behind the chair of the baker or site stood the Italian. The second married his forehead. When the man in the cell spread out for hand he started. There was something to muller in that gesture. And then the woman saw him. For the briefest moment her form stiffened. "Kitty" La Signorina whispered to us go out to the atrium. I am trolled. They left the hall himself and found a woman settle in the atrium. "How cold your hands are?" exclaimed Kitty. "Kitty I am a fool a fool! I have unwittingly put my head in the low mouth. If I had not reached this seat in time I should have fallen. I would willingly give all my rings if at this moment I could run across the hall and out into the open." "Merriful heaven! Why what is the matter? What has happened?" "I cannot explain to you." "Was it some one you saw in there? Shine and sit perfectly still!" "A man in evening dress came out into the atrium lighting a cigarette. At the sight of him both women were started." "It is Mr Hillard Mr Merrithwea friend." Kitty would have risen but the other's strong hand restrained her "Kitty remember your promise." "Is he the man?" "No not! Only I have said that we must not meet him. It might do be localizable harm. Harm!" La Si gorina repeated "Do you under stand." Hiland blew outward a few puffs of smoke and directed the struts with an indolent glance which stopped as it rested upon the two relied women. A certain unrestly impelled him toward them, "to sink on the settle with perhaps," dozen spangot the hand between. He observed the women frankly, not a single whip of hair escaped the vella not a line of any feature could be traced, and yet the tilt of flesh above dimly behind the silken hands of crape. He nodded. The vella did not move. "Fortune favors the brave but rarely the foolish." There was no response, but the small shoe of the woman nearest to gan to beat the floor ever so lightly. Hiland was chagrined. There upon he bowed and sought an other seat. The women hurried to the lobby. He would have given them no further thought had not the Italian with the scar appeared used the restraining figures doubtfully and then started after them. That he did not know them Hilard was reasonably certain. He assumed that the Italian saw a possible distraction. He quickly and followed. The four departed from the castle and crossed toward the Hotel de Parc the women in the lead. As yet they had not observed that they were being followed. The car stops at this turn. As the women came to a stand one of them saw the approaching men. He stands she dled up the street. The other hesitated then pursued her companion. Whatever doubts the Italian 19. "A lady! Orcas of Mary, that is droll!" might have entertained, this flight displeased then. He knew now—he knew! With a sharp cry of excultation he broke into a run. So did Hillard. Poor he turned and stared, but none sought to intercept any of the rumors. In Monte Carlo, there are many strange scenes, and the knight stared often finds that his bump of caution has suddenly developed. And there were no jokes about; they were on the casino terraces or strolling through the gardens. Past the park the quartet ran. Then came a stretch of darkness between one electric lamp and another. And then, as if whaked away by magic, the foremost woman disappeared. The other halted, breathless. She started again, but too late. The Italian caught her roughly and quickly tore aside the veil. "Kitty Killigrew" Hillard cried. He sprang forward and grasped the Italian by the shoulders. The Italian struck out savagely, but Hillard seized his arm. Each man could hear the breathing of the other, quick and deep. "Presently, Now, that way is yours," said Hillard, pointing "Are you certain?" the Italian blessed. "So certain that if you do not obey me I shall call the police." "I should like nothing better," replied the Italian, with a coolness which dumfounded Hillard. "Do you know these ladies?" "Do you? Insolendy" "My knowing them does not matter. But it is any gentleman's concern when a man gives pursuit to a lady who does not wish to meet him." "A lady? Grace of Mary, that is droll!" Hillard released the imprisoned arm. There was a patent railery, a quizzical insistence which convinced Hillard that the Italian had not given chase out of an idle purpose. "We shall meet again," the Italian said softly. "I hope not," replied Hillard frankly. "However you may find me at the Hotel de Lourdes." The Italian laughed again "You un denestrate the language well," debat- ly "And the people too." Hillard had no desire to pass the time of day with his opponent "Well I have said that we shall meet again and it must be so." And your hat, as well as mine, is still in the casino. The night is cold." The Italian permitted his glance to wander over Hillard critically. He swung round on his heel and walked rapidly down the street. Hillard turned, to reassure Kitty Kitty had ranished. MERCIBEW signed with per- perfect content. The pretty woman sitting opposite smiled at him tenderly, and he smiled back abstractly, as a man sometimes will when his mind tries to gather in comprehensively a thought and a picture which are totally differ- out. Before him in neat little lustrous stacks stood 7,000 france in gold, 350 elegies of "Napoleon the Little"-7,000 frames, $1,000, more than half the sum of his letter of credit: He counted off ten coins and placed them on the second dozen. The ball rolled into No. 23. He leaned back again with a second sigh, and the pretty woman smiled a second smile, and the wooden mike pushed the beautiful gold over to him. He was playing a system, one bet in every three turns of the wheel in stakes of $10 and $80. To be sure, he lost flow and then, but the next play he doubled and retrieved Oh, the American Comic Opera company should be well taken care of. Two more bets and then he would pocket his wins and go. He into 40 fences on No. 23 and 400 on black leashed upon his elbows and studied the pretty woman who smiled. If she spoke English—he scribbled the question on a strip of paper and pushed it across the table, blushing a little as he did so. She read it, or at least she tried to read it, and shook her head with the air of one deeply puzzled. He sighed again, reflecting that there might have been a pleasant adventure had he only understood French. Merrithaw alld back his chair and rose. He swept up the gold by the handful and poured it into his pockets, causally and unconcernedly as if this was an everyday affair and of minor importance. But as a matter of fact his heart was beating fast, and there was a wild desire in his throat to roll with delight. Eighteen hundred dollars 0,000 francs' A merry music they made in his pockets-jingle, jingle jingle. And then he saw Hillard coming across the hall lustantly he forced the joy from his face and eyes and dropped his chin in his collar. He became in that moment the picture of desolation. "Is it all over?" asked Hillard gravely. "All over" monotonously. "Come over to the cafe. then. I've something illimportant to tell you." "Found them?" with rousing interest. "I shall tell you only when we get out of this place. Come." Hillard put out a friendly hand. "I am sorry boy. I wanted you to win something. Cheer up! Well shake the dust of this place in the morning." "Oh. for a vacant lot and a good old whooper-up! Feel! cried Merrihew, touching his side pockets. "What is it?" asked Hillard. "What is it? It is 400 napoleon!" "What? sharply, even doubtfully. "That's what! Eighteen hundred dollarl! My system will have no funeral tonight." He caught Hillard by the sleeve and fairly ran him over to the cafe. "Nearly two thousand!" murmured Hillard. "Well, of all the luck!" "It does seem too good to be true. I say, what's the matter with your cravat?" Hillard looked down at the fluttering end and reckoned it carelessly. "I saw Kitty tonight," he said. To Merrhhew it seemed that all the clatter about him had died away suddenly. He breathed deeply. "Where is she? "I'll explain what has happened." Merrhhew listened eagerly. "And why did you bother about the Italian?" he interrupted. "Why didn't you hold on to Kitty." "I confess it was stupid of me, but the gentleman with the scar was an unknown quality. Besides, why should Kitty run away from me of all persons? And why, when I spoke to them in the casino, did they ignore me completely? "It's your confounded prima donna. Hie's at the bottom of all this, take my word for it. Something's desperately wrong. Persons do not wear masks and hide in this manner just for a lark. Why didn't you knock him down? "I wanted to, but it wasn't the psychological moment. You can't knock a man down when he practically surrender." "You're too particular. But what's the matter with Kitty? I don't understand. To see you was to know that I was round somewhere. She ran away from me as well as from you. What shall you do?" "Start the hunt again or give it up entirely. There are some villages between here and Nice. It must be in that direction. They were about to board the car for Nice. If you hadn't been gambling, if you had been sensible and stayed with me"— "Come now, that, what wash. You know very well that you urged me to play" "You would have played without any urging" "And who is this Italian anyhow? asked Merritt. 'And why did he run after your prism donut?' "That is precisely what I wish to end out." answered Hillard. "I'm afraid that Kitty has fallen among a bad lot. I'll wager it is A man is playing a game of chess. He escaped up the gold by the handful some anarchist business. They are always plotting the assassination of kings over here and this mysterious woman is just the sort to rope in a confiding girl like Kitty. One thing if I come across our friend with the scar"— "You will wisely cross to the opposite side of the street. To find out what this tangle is it is not necessary to jump head first into it." "A bad lot." "That may be, but no anarchists, my boy" Hillard was a bit sore at heart. That phrase recurred and recurred "A lady? Grance of Mary, that is droll." The shadow or disillusion crept into his bright dream and clouded it—to build so beautiful a castle and to see it tumble at a word. The Italian had spoken with a contempt based on more than suspicion "Kitty doesn't wish to meet us." Merrieh bitterly observed. So well light out for voice in the morning, I'm not going to be made a fool of for the best woman alive." In the meantime the lamps in the casino had been extinguished. In the harbor the yachts stood out white and spectral. The tram for Nice shrieked down the incline toward the promontory. At the foot of the road which winds up to the palaces the car was signaled and two women boarded. Both were velled. They maintained a singular silence. At Villefranche they got out. The women stopped before the gates of a villa and rang the porter's bell. Once in the room above the silence between the two women came to an end. --- "Safel I am so tired. What a night's the elder of the two women sighed. "What a night truly! I should like to know what it has all been about. To run through dark streets and alleys, to bide for hours, as if I were a thief or a fugitive from justice, is neither to my taste nor to my liking." "Kitty," she began sadly, "in this world no one trusts us wholly. We must know why Loyalty must have reasons, chivalry must have facts. You have vowed your love and loyalty a hundred times, and still when a great crisis confronts me you question, you grow angry, you complain, because my reasons are unknown to you. It was blind terror which made me run, I counted the consequences. I shall tell you why. I am lonely, why the world, bright to you. is dark. I am proud, but I shall bend my pride." With a quick movement she lifted her head high, and her eyes burned into Kitty's very heart. "I am"— --- "stop! No, no! I forbid you!" Kitty put her hands over her ears. She might gain the secret, but she knew that she would lose the heart of the woman it concerned. "I am wrong. wrong. I have promised to follow you loyalty, without question. I will keep that promise. I am only angry because you would not let me speak to Mr. Hillard. He is very handsome." Kitty added thoughtfully. "He is strong too." "Strong and cruel as a tiger. How I hate him! But thank you, Kitty. thank you. Spencer or later, if we stay together, I must tell you. The confidence will do me good!" Kitty approached, and La Sigortina draw her close. "I have wrought harm to no THE DENVER SATURDAY.....JAN. 1, 1010. one. But on my side they will tell you that I have been terribly wronged. And all I wish is to be left alone. alone. It was cruel of me to forbid you to speak to Mr. Hilliard. But I wish him to recollect me pleasantly, as a whimsical being who came into his life one night and vanished out of it in two hours." "But supposing the memory cuts deeply," ventured Kitty. "Men fall in love with less excuse than this." "Nonsense!" La Signorina opened the window to air the room. She lingered, musing "You are very good to me, Kitty" "I can't help being good to you, you strange, lovely woman, for your sake as well as for mine. Now I am going to write a letter." La Signorina still lingered by the window. Merthew was pocketing currency in exchange for his gold when Hilliard passed an open letter to him: My Dear Mr Hillard--Do not seek us. It will be upsetful if Mr Merrhaw is involved in the search. I will explain away the mystery. But this please make plain to him--if he insists upon searching for me he will only double my unhappiness. KITTY KILLIGREW Merrilwr soberly tucked the letter away "I knew it." he said simply. "Bhe is in some trouble or other, some tangle, and fears to drag us into it. Who left a letter here this morning?" he asked of the conqueror. "A small boy from Villefanche." "Just my luck." said Merrilwr "I said that it would be of no use to hunt in the smaller towns. Well, we had better take the luggage back to the rooms. I am going to Villefanche. --- "You will be wasting time. After what happened last night I am certain they will be gone. Let us respect their plans hard as it may seem to you." "But you?" "Oh don't bother about me. I have relegated my little romance to the garret of no account things, at least for the present," said Hillard, with an enigmatical smile. "Make up your mind—we have only twenty minutes." "Oh, dislike affairtus. And you just down the chase so readily as this. More now is so effortfully as that." "I would travel the breadth of the continent were I sure of meeting this woman. But she has become a willow and I am too old and like comfort too well to pursue impossible lies." "But who did she leave you the past?" answered Merriwow. "She just have meant something by that." "True but for the life of one I can't耐听它." But I didn't like the idea of hearing "little this was with at a final effort, tresse her for, the hiatus of this fascinating utterance." "I admit it, you say, she save that the keenness of the letter is gone. As for Kitty she has a weird little woman and can take a good care of herself Her letter should be sufficient." "But it isn't. A woman a 'don't often means do.' If Kitty really expects me to search for her and I do not she will never believe in me again." "Perhaps your knowledge of women is more extensive than mine" said Hillard. But this flattery did not appeal to Merrihew "Bosh!" There a something you haven't told me about that makes you so indifferent." This was a shrewd guess, but Hillard had his reasons for not letting his friend see how close he had shot "A lady! Grace of Mary, that is droll! He could not cast this out of his ? Hillard exploded a boogie leaning over the parapet thought. He floated between this phrase and Mrs. Sandford's frank defense of her girlfriend friend. "Time flies," he warned. "Which is it to be?" "We'll go on to Venice. It would be fully for me to continue the hunt alone." At 7 that evening they stepped out of the station in Venice—the blue twilight of Venice that curves down from the hollow heavens, softening a bit of inginess here, accentuating a bit of loveliness there. Here Merrieth found one of his dreams come true, and his first vision of the Grand canal, with its gondolas and barges and queer little bobbed skiff, was never to leave him. Hillard hunted for his old gondolies, but could not and him. So he chose one Achille, No. 154. With their trunks, which they had picked up at Genoa and small luggage in the hotel barge they had the gondola all to themselves. Instead of following the Grand canal Achille took the short cut through the Ruga di San Giovanni and the Rio di San Polo. Out into the Grand canal again. As they swept under the last bridge before coming out into the hotel district Hillard espied a baggar leaning over the rampet. The moonlight shone full in his face. "Stop!" cried Hillard to Achille. The baggar took to his heels, and when Hillard stepped out of the gondola the baggar had disappeared. "Who was it?" asked Merrithw in differently. ZELAYA'S ARMY PUT TO ROUT GOVERNMENT MEN RETREAT Estrada. After Desperate Fighting, Captures 150 Prisoners—A Great Many Were Killed and 100 Wounded—Fighting Continues. Washington, Dec. 22.—The following dispatch, dated Bluefields, Nicaragua, 12 o'clock noon Dec. 20, was received by the secretary of state from United States Connul Moffatt "Estrada forces at Tatumba and Recero near Rama, commanded by General Mua at the former place and Generals Chamberro Matuy and Forces Dlasz at the latter place, partially routed and defeated the forces of Zelaya after desperate fighting of several hours. The Zelaya forces were commanded by General Gonzales. A great man) were killed the number being unknown but were wounded and the prisoners were taken by the revolutionists. The Zelaya troops at Recero have occupied what has been considered a strong position Estrada is confident of defeating the enemy when he renews the attack and of forcing their surrender." Fighting Continue. Bluefields Inc. 22 via wireless to Colon. There has been fighting between the Zelayan troops and those of General Estrada near Rama General Imsa Mena engaged the Zelayans at Roerbo taking them in the rear. The Zelayan troops who were strong by optimum host in a large hill known as Tatumba were routed in confusion after three hours of fighting. General Mena captured a number of prisoners and a quantity of arms and ammunition. General Estrada is directing the operations from Rama General Formas Diaz Matute, Paracho Mena and Chamorro are in the field with a la force and the followers of Zelayan are bombed in all its places. The reconnaissance team is having three entiances and is attacking the Zelayan base at Roerbo. The fighting continues. A count of General Mena's victory published last year has created great enthusiasm. The battles of Bluefields are volunteering to act as a home guard so as to permit the soldiers who are guarding the bluffs of Bluefields to participate in the coming big engagement at Rama. Troops are being hurried forward to participate in the battle. General Estrada is certain of success. The residents of Bluefields remain calm, having perfect confidence in the military ability and direction of General Estrada. Madrid inaugurated President. Managua, Nicaragua Dec 22. Jose Madrid was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua. The ceremony was held at the palace instead of at the parliament building. Ex President Zolaya was kept waiting fifteen minutes by Dr Madrid who entered the hall accompanied by Jujutla Irias, minister general. A ONE-ARMED HERO Plunged Into Ice Water to Save Man From Drowning. Middletown, N Y. Dec 22 — Although he has only one arm, James McGill saved a young man from being drowned in the Walkill River in a heroic manner. William Hanlon twenty years old, was skating when the ice broke under him. He was sinking for the third time when McGill reached the river Pulling off his rubber boots and coat. McGill plunged into the ice water, and after a long struggle succeeded in getting the unconscious Hanlon to shore, whose physicians succeeded in rescuing him. Citizens will try to get McGill a Carnegie modal for bravery. Dice Playing Santa Claus. Pottaville, Pa. Dec. 22—After having returned from Christmas shopping laden with gifts for his twin daughters, Charles Weslermilch, aged thirty-seven years, kissed them and watched them fall asleep. He then prepared to arrange the presents for distribution, and while the loving task was in progress dropped forward to the floor upon his face. When his wife placed him up he was dead. Turkeya Too Dear. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 22.—Because of the high prices of poultry, particularly turkeys, the state authorities are experiencing, for the first time, considerable difficulty in apportioning the funds for the Christmas dinners of inmates of Insane and charitable institutions. "Chickens or geese will be given to the majority of the inmates." THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA BRAND COOK AS IMPOSTER DOES NOT PROVE HIS CLAIM University of Copenhagen Finds That He Did Not Reach the North Pole, Records Same as Published in Newspapers. Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec 22. — The University of Copenhagen, the first institution of learning to recognize Dr Frederik A Cook as the discoverer of the North Pole, solemnly declared and formally announced that the explorer had failed to establish the claim upon which his high honors had been based. The committee appointed by the university to examine Cook's records recently presented its report to the consistory of the University, which reviewed the deductions of the experts with the greatest care and discussed the findings from every standpoint. That both the committee and the consistory were disappointed was soon known. The consistory adopted a written report to the effect that the alleged records submitted for examination by Dr Cook failed to give his claim that he had reached the North Pole The report of the committee of which Professor Stromgren the noted astronomer was chairman as presented to the consistory, states that Cook's papers are without any value that his report to the university is practically the same as that published in the New York Herald upon his return from his Arctic expedition The copies of his notebooks submitted says the committee contain no original calculations of observations but only results thereof Accordingly the committee concludes that he affords no proof of having reached the North Pole Danes Furiously Angry With spread indignation over the reception which has placed practically the whole of Dunkirk in a somewhat hurdling position has taken the pace of the hero worship it followed accorded to Dr. Cook. While there have always been some who doubted that Cook would be able to prove satirical that he reached the North Pole where was not a sound test expected that he would at least supply some plausible data and supporting material, which while it might not suffice to establish his claim would furnish some consideration of his earlier statement. The public is unable to comprehend why Cook sent his papers, when he admits in a letter presented to Professor Torp by Lonsdale his secretary, that it "seems unwise and impossible to give final judgment because of the absence of the instruments and observations which led to at least The most basic of the accounting committees is the board over the doctor's office. It oversees the progress of the committee in its efforts and conducts theook a grantment of the university and "shameless" Papers Examined The documents handed the commission of the University of Copenhagen for examination are First a typewritten report prepared by Cook a secretary Walter Langsala and covering sixty-one pages of fools can be made a typewritten copy made by Langsala from Cook's notebooks. This occupies station pages of folklore and includes a description of the expedition during the period from March 18, 1908 to June 17, 1908 during which according to the statement, Cook journaled from Hartvig to the North Pole and returned to a point on the polar ice not specifically indicated but west of the Axel Hedberg Land The papers were not accompanied by a private letter from Dr Cook but Secretary Lonsdale said to the committee that the original notebooks of the explorer from which his copies were made had been sent to Europe by another route as a measure of safety and would be given to the university in the course of a few days. In presenting the records Lonsdale stated plainly and repeatedly that copy numbered two was a complete and truthful copy of the information contained in all of Dr Cook's notebooks that could be of any importance to the university for the purposes of this examination. In spite of the explorer's promise and his secretary's assurance that they would be here the commission has not yet got the original notebooks and diaries. Could Not Find Cook Up to this time it has been impossible for the university authorities to get into touch with Dr Cook. The explorer's address is not known here even to Secretary Lonsdale. After the members of the examining committee had each made himself acquainted with the material delivered, and when they so convinced themselves of its utter worthlessness as a means of proving whether Cook reached the pole, the president of the committee, Professor Strongren, called a general meeting of the committee for last Friday when the report to the university, and which is now made public, was drawn up. Sondale, who had been invited to this meeting to answer some questions, brought with him a letter which he had received from Cook, which bore neither the place nor date of its writing. The opened envelope, however, bore the postmark "Marseilles, Dec. 14, 1805." The same envelope contained a letter addressed by Cook to the former director of the University of Copehagen, Professor Torp. The letter to Torp was dated New York, Sept. 47. 1908. The letter Lonadale produced before the committee lends color to the report that Cook sailed from New York for a Mediterranean port. Findings of the Judges. In his letter to Professor Torp Dr. Cook states that not only were his instruments left at Etah, as indicated in his cable to the university of Oct. 23, but most of his astronomical observations were also left at that northern point, and he adds that without these it seems unwise and impossible to pass a final judgment upon his expedition. After obtaining all available information the committee finds as follows. First--The report of the expedition sent to the university by Dr Cook is the same as that printed in the New York Herald during the months of September and October last. Second--The copy of Cook's notebooks does not contain any original astronomical observations whatsoever, but only results. Third--The documents presented are inexcusably lacking in information which would prove that the astronomical observations therein referred to were really made and also contain no details regarding the practical work of the expedition and the sludge jaws which would enable the committee to determine their reliability. The committee, therefore, is of the opinion that the material transmitted for a examination contains no proof that Dr Cook reached the polio. INDICT 27 FOR CUSTOMS FRAUD Importers Involved. In "Steeper Trunk" Smuggling. New York Dio 22 - The federal grand jury has returned twenty seven indictments against dressmakers milliners and importers of lace and silks who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the government by smuggling trunkfuels of fine fabrics United States Marshal Henkel is arrested thirteen dressmakers or representatives of dressmaking concerns, and a customs employee who is allowed to have been instrumental in shipping trunks through without payment of duties Caroline Windmuller held as being one of the principal offenders gave fall for $100. The others have surely in smaller amounts. It was said at the United States district attorney's office that the sleeper trunk conspiracy was no successful for five years that it cost the government about $100,000 a year in stolen duties. There was no trick according to the government prosecutor that the combination failed to work if it promised well. WAGE INCREASE Lehigh Valley Engineers to Get More Pay. Wilkes Barre Pa. Dec 22 - Bengal neers of the Lehigh Valley railroad received notice here that the new agreement to go into effect with the existing agreement will be in effect will affect the entire railroad the general increase in way. The passenger engine running between Jersey City and Easton will re- ceive an increase of 60 cents a trip moving the pay for the trip $60. One dollar is to be added to the pay of the eng- neers running between Easton and Bayre, making the pay $1. Instead of $14 for the trip. The other expense men will receive $37 for a ten-hour day instead of $31 for a day of twice and a half hours. FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH Man, Wife and Three Children Created in Their Home New York Dec 22 Five persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a frame dwelling house in Shorewood Pn. Yonkers. All the dead were members of the family of Theodore Fredericka who lost his life in the fire together with his wife and their three children. High Honor For Bind Girl Chicago Dec 22 Born with defective sight, which became total blindness when she was eight years old. Miss Theodore J. Franson was elected at the University of Chicago into the Phil Beta Kappa for high scholarship. Miss Frankson is the first blind girl to receive such distinction at the University of Chicago and one of the few students to be so rewarded at the end of three years' work. Killed on Way to Get Wife and Children Toledo, O. Dec. 22 Mistaking North Baltimore, a village near here, for Baltimore, Md. Joseph Zimmerman, a Russian farmer living in North Dakota, left the train in which he was going east. He was on his way to Goberna, Russia, to get his wife and children and bring them to their new home. He went to a hotel for the night. In the morning he fell from a third-story window and was killed. Many Gifts For Family. Washington, Dec. 22 President Taft and members of his family are getting Christmas presents from all over the country. A large proportion are from admirers the president has never seen. A young Italian in New York has sent two rather crude oil paintings. One was a bust of the president and the other a full-length group of the Taft family. "Aba Who Drama." A Macra's idea of a woman is expressed in the phrase "she who dreams," which means that her thoughts are on a higher plane than his. He allows her absolute freedom of speech and manner. for he is sure that if there is anything to be said or done a woman's refinement and sincerity will exceed his own—Ladies' Wealth. CONDENSED IEWS ITEMS. Thursday, December 16. Grant-Lee hall, the main building of the Lincoln Memorial university, at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, was destroyed by fire. A. F Woods director of the department of plantology of the agricultural department at Washington, was elected dean of the Minnesota State Agricultural college, at Minnesota, to succeed J W Olsen, resigned. At the Portland, Omaha, Live Stock Exchange the highest price ever paid for cattle on the Pacific coast prevailed. The grand champion steer sold for $25 a hundred pounds. The grand champion cow sold for $1025 a hundred pounds. Friday, December 17. The nomination of William J Mills to be governor of New Mexico was ordered favorably reported by the senate committee on territories. W T Jones, prominent sportsman and capitalist of New York city, was thrown from his mount while white hunting near Greenhore, N C and received serious injuries. Clasped in other arms, Joseph and George Adams brothers ten and fourteen years old, were found dead on a railroad track at Elizabeth, N J having been shocked to death by a high power electric wire wire that had fallen from above. Saturday, December 18. Major General Walter E Sutor, who fought under Grant at Vicksburg and marched to the sea with Sherman, died at Salt Lake City, Utah The property of the Young Men's Christian association in Cleveland, O. has been sold to make room for the erection of a $200,000 hotel by New York capitalists A court martial will convene at Port Leavenworth Kan on Dec 27 to try Major E J. N Jones, Jr. a student of the army school of the line at this post. It is reported that he is to be tried for neglect of duty The body of Lom Kaley, who was found Dec. 6 bound gagged and blindfolded dead at Canton O., from the blows of a club was claimed by Hans Hansen, of Chicago, who says the body is that of his nephew Louis Lezeben Monday, December 20. Two men are read and a coal mine at Hartford Ark. is on fire, the result of a premature explosion. In line with the curtailment policy two big cotton mills at Lowell Mass. have shut down for ten days, making 3500 life. Attempting to cash a $14,000 draft on a Kansas bank George R. Plante claiming to be a wealthy resident of Utica N. Y., was arrested at Denver Colo. Unable to agree the jury at Union City Town which tried two alleged night rides for killing Captain Quin Tin Bonkah was sent back for further deliberation. Judge Homer H. Barton was confirmed by the senate as associate justice of the supreme court. Charles Brandt, chief of the mail and record division of the adjunct general office of the war department, died in Washington from diabetes. Major Charles P. Bolles a Confederate veteran and the engineer who built the first battery and lost out the forts which withstood such terrific bombardment by the Federal forces during the Civil War died at Wilmington N.C. aged eighty six years. A memorial to his daughter ILL an eight years old of having given his wife Josephine M. Ehrhardt a power which caused her death by strayhouse poisoning Theodore Ehrhardt Jr. the father and husband is in fall at herver. Colo. pending investigation by the police. Wednesday. December 22 After an exciting campaign Walla Walla Wash has voted wet by a majority of 622 Governor Swanson granted a stay of execution for thirteen days in the case of Howard L. Little, consisted of murdering six persons in Buchanan county Va. Francis C. Whitehouse, treasurer and general manager of the Delaware Paper company and widely known throughout the paper making and the lumber trade died at Topsham Me. Contracts for the building of naval hospitals at Chelsea Mass. Newport R I and Portsmouth N H at a cost of $349,000 were awarded by the navy department to the No. 1 Construction company of Baltimore. Reports from eighteen cities read at the closing session of the Executive Missa. Worker Conference of the United States and China, in New York showed that an increase of $100,000 in offerings for foreign missions had been placed PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Stock. PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR steady; winter low grades, $4 40$46.00, winter clean, $48$0$6.00, city mills fancy, $6$9 RYE FLOUR quiet at $36$4.50 por barrel CORN firm, No. 2 red $12$10.22 CORN firm, No. 2 yellow $1.1$ cute. OAT8 firm, No. 2 white $60$40.62; lower grades $48$4$6. POULTRY Live fresh, bons, 75c; live fresh, 115c Dress firm, choice fowls, 17c, old rosters, 62c. BUTTER steady, extra cream, 37c per lb POTATO firm, selected 36$87c, near 32c, western. POTATOES firm, at $8$60 bush Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—CATTLE lower, choice. $0.75,$ countless. SHEEP at steady, prime wathers, $2.55;$6.00; culla and common $2.3, lambs. $6.50; veal calves. $9.90; $8.00 HOUGS strong; strong heavies. $8.00 HORSES strong; strong heavies. $8.00 ars. $4.55;$6.00; light Yorkers and plugs. $8.45;$8.40; roughs. $7.8. "My husband never drank a drop of intoxicating liquor in his life" "Oh, then, I presume it was you who did the proposing." Trouble for Him. a prettier girl than me." "He told me that there are no prettier girls than me." LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES BROADSHEET KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT AND LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE OR SHORT AND KINKY KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE-SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUCURRORS A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THAT KINKY, CURLY HAIR. PUTTING IT IN THE MOST PERFECT CONDITION TO BE COMBED INTO ANY SHAPE JUST TRY A BOTTLE OF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. There is no other preparation on earth to equal Lincoln Hair Pomade in producing soft, beautiful hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is a natural hair treatment that reduces the hair's brittle and straight and combable condition, but also supplies the air with a silky shoon and gloss. No matter how rough or heavy your hair is now, no matter how hard or curly if may be, the use of Lincoln Hair Pomade will give you hair that can well be the envy of others. Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior hair, as it is claimed to be just good, and insist on getting the gonquin The Lincoln Pornade Co NORFOLK, VA. U B A. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep it. send 20 cents in stamps or silver to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO. Department B, Norfolk, Va. and we will send you a bottle by return mail The Hawkins-Price Co. Thair Growers and Restorers. (TRADUCTION MARK REGISTERED) Carries a line of natu- ral human hair brands, bangs pampadours and the latest styles in front pieces—all col- ored and unstyled. Gives those desir- ing ed to match the hair must very sure in stating expi- tion of hair in all ways ways safe to send a small sample of hair if possible so that we may be in a position to make it convenient. Picee Brands (natur- al hair) 260 All- round Pampadours (nautral halr), $ 4 0 0, Front F. This Preparation has proved to be a f today delighted with its wonderful results units play it in a sphere all of its own a strength at all times after satisfactory re treatments at all times after other satisfactory and colored people in the immediate commu nity. In order to use the most equiv lent (HAW) I have printed the plan in print the plan in these giving preparation and are today among the most We do not treat the correspondence of the enable this preparation is a natural and p eaceful preparation. We will go back round the publi c national patent rights and have prepar ation of the plan in the public (nautical hair), $4 00, Front Plots (nautical hair), $2 50. This Preparation has proved to be a fortune to many of the undertakers, who are today delighted with its wonderful results. The morals of this great hair preparation nat are at it in a sphere all of its own and the glowing terms to which our patrons speak of it are the most beautiful and the greatest. We are grateful to all the trustees through at the end and other States and also enjoy the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In print the preparations of those giving us permission to print who have used our preparation and are today among the many bearing witness of the genuine qualities. We do not treat the correspondence of those expecting a molecule or anything unreal as a mere paper and pure compound the ingredients of which, we would like to thank to print. We will not be bound the public that the United States government has placed on the ground the rights to our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are to be satisfied that we are not bound by the laws of the United States and the laws of the State of New York. We are therefore to print the rights to our hair preparation by the laws of the State of New York. We will not be bound the public that the United States government has placed on the ground the rights to our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are to be satisfied that we are not bound by the laws of the State of New York. We are therefore to print the rights to our hair preparation by the laws of the State of New York. HAWKINS-PRICE COMPANY. 011 610 N 1st St. Bichmond, Va. Correspondence Strictly Confidential RAILROADS. RAILROADS. N. & N NORFOLK & WESTERN. Leave Hybrid Street Station, Richmond Daily For Norfolk - 9-00 A.M. 8-00 P.M. and 6-00 Sunday For Lyndburgh and the West-9-08 A M. 12 10 P M. M. 12 10 P M. M. 12 10 ARRIVE HICKMONT From Norfolk-11-45 A M. 6:50 P M From West-7-00 A M. 2:05 P M. 8:18 Pulkinas, Paisor and Sleeping Cars. Cate Dining Date ATLANTIC COAST LINE. EXECUTIVE APRIL 11, 1990. TRAINS LEAVED RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and Bath? 8:19 A.M. and 7:25 P.M. For Norfolk: 0:00 A. M., 0:00 P. M. and 0 P. M. For N. and W. BY. West! 0:00 A. M., 12:10 and 0:05 P. M. For Petersburg: 9:00 A. M., 12:10, 0:00 P. M., 0:05 P. M., 0:05 P. M., 7:15 and 11:15 P. M. For Goldibarb and Fayetteville: "2:00 P. M. and Richmond gally: 8:10 P. M., "2:00 P. M., "8:10 0:145 "7:10 P. M., "7:10 P. M., 8:10, 0:00, 0:00 and 0:15 P. M. Excerpt Sunday, "Sunday Only. Woman Author at Home. Home-made jam is gradually disappearing from the twentieth century European household. And got 60 years ago George Sand, who treated most of her domestic duties somewhat lightly, was discovered by a visitor wearing a cotton dress and a big apron, and skimming a panful of fruit destined for the jampot. "It is not easy work," she remarked. "I find it harder to make good jam than to write 'Valentine' or 'Muppet', but there are some tasks one cannot leave to others." 100 Phone 4001 Southern Ry TRAINE LEAVE RICHMOND N. B. following schedule figures published in information and are not guaranteed: 6 20 A M Bk University for Charities 6 20 A M Bk Local for Charities 6 20 A M Limited Budget Broker to Atlanta and Georgia for Atlanta, Montana, Chattanooga and all the South, through coach for Class XI Oxford, Durham 6 20 A M Fx Sunday Kerrisville Local 11 10 A M Fx Limited Palmread ready 9 20 A M for all the South YOUR RIVER LINE 4 30 P M Mk Tow Tow Point—connecting for Baltimore Moody, Wednesday and Friday 2 15 P M Monday Wednesday and Friday— 4 30 A M Fx Sunday Local to West Point, TRAINS ARRIVE RIHMOND From the South 7 00 A M 9 30 P M, daily (weeks) A M Fx Sunday 4 10 P M, daily (local) From West Point 9 30 A M, daily; 18 48 A M Wednesday and Friday, 9 40 P M, group. 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The Hot Springs Ark Lodge served the troops with an attractive street Christmas course. . " Winter weather has not dimmed the ardor of the colored folks who have made of their minds to succeed We acknowledge receipt of a Christmas greeting from the Regi- later of the Treasury and Mrs Will- ham T Verron 420 T Street N W Washington D C If colored folks will continue to be extra polite to white people and unapasantly polite to colored ones, we are of the opinion that the impression created will be of a most beneficial character to every member of the race. 0 It is far better for us to attempt reform and civilize our hoodlum, lawless elements than to wait for white folks to do it. The race is getting to a great extent financially independent and some members of it should undertake these progressive movements 0 We have received the initial number of the First Baptist Church Journal, published weekly by the First Baptist Church Journal Club, Rev W T Johnson, D. D. Editor It is a unique publication and we wish it success --- We cannot understand why any colored man should leave the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party. All he has to do is to remain long enough in the Republican Party under the Taft leadership and he will really be in the Democratic Party or rather he will be paying allegiance to Democratic principles under the name of Republicanism. We have received The National Baptist Review, published by the National Baptist Publishing Board, of Nashville, Tenn. R. H. Boyd, Secretary. It is up to a standard of typographical excellence that merits public favor. It publishes a "cut" of the new Scott Rotary Magazine press, which prints perfectly and delivers from 5,000 to 10,000 sheets per hour, printed on both sides. We wish the Venture success ABOUT VIRGINIA The following begin was handed to us by one of our white Virginia bankers and we give it to our readers for what it is worth. The humor is humorous and so is the pride Virginia who wrote the reply to him. The jumps nowhere apart so greet as in Virginia. The wood hogs nowhere are so lean as in Virginia. The mud creeks nowhere have the smell And nowhere else the truth to tell Is it as hot this side of Hell as in Virginia Nowhere such storms obscure the sun as in Virginia Nowhere so slow the railroads run as in Virginia And when my time has come to go Just take me there because you know I'll longer live. I'll die so slow down in Virginia The bum hotel is all the style in old Virginia Where waiters wait once in a while in old Virginia And troglodytes sometimes come along That is when the current's running strong Or something else has not gone wrong in old Virginia Nowhere can soil so well suffice as in Virginia Nowhere an ancestor cut such ice as in Virginia And I believe that lily sand of flies and niggers heat and sand is simply fashioned to be dense in old Virginia The above raised the fire of a virginian to such an extent that he sold of the following This brilliant poem handed me on old Virginia Was written by some damn Yankee not from Virginia. This may not be the garden spot but what he says is Tommy Hot. And he'll find Hell ten times as hot as old Virginia. --- The colored buildings of this city are being offered a beach and winter treat in the Rhode Royal Two Ring Crest Highway and Wild West of the Harbor Show Building. It is given under the auspices of Accy Temple of Mott Stirrings and the manicist has made arrangements for the accommodation of the colored people of this city. --- Christmas joy are born but New Year's happiness will be here when you see the Rhonda tris and Hip and the Chloe Show building between. SPORING COMMENT Hal Grillo to the greatest fighter of his high high high trimmings is pow- der more than a pumbling bag for a lot of fourth raters. It follows the lang who scored a knockout over the old gladiator on Sunday would have been more toys in the hands a few years ago and it is to be regret that a man with so great a record should be sent into the ring after he be 14 years old. But the slates was through with the game after Jeffries beat him. Norah Red Bald Sunny Sunn will recovered from the heat for the former champion indicted, though he gave them both another trial after heating them once. All things considered, it is questionable whether the ring ever developed a greater fighter than Fitz Simmons. Though by no means a giant Fitz beat all the heavy and near heavy weights and did it artificially. He was perhaps the hardest hitter in the game during his best days and besides his cleverness was greater than he was given credit for. Fitz had to fight his way to the top. When he first attracted attention there were numerous great fighters before the public and the greatest of them all was Jack Dempsey. It was Fitz's victory over "The Nonpareil" which astounded the sporting public some eighteen years ago and from that time he was the idol of the lovers of purgition. But time made its inroads, and it is really remarkable that a man of Fitzsimmons' age could last twelve rounds against an opponent twenty years his junior and 20 pounds or more heavier. The heavyweight championship title has rested on several shoulders since the retirement of Jim Joffreia, the undefeated champion, in August, 1903. It is indeed questionable if there is another instance in pugilistic history where a championship title has rested on so many undeserving shoulders in so short a space or time. Jeff retired the undefeated champion of the world after knocking out Jack Munroe in San Francisco August 1903, in two rounds. Jack Roe and Marvin Hart mot in a finish fight, for the vacant title in Rono, New Jersey, 3. 1905, Hart winning the battle on a knockout in the twelfth round. Hart, January 18 following, put on a Callahan in Butte, Mont., in two rounds. He forfeited claim to title when he was bested in a 20-round decision Eight by Tommy Burns in Los Angeles February 23. 1906. You needn't enter from the blues if you attend the Rhoda Royal Two Ring Circus Hippodrome at the Horse Show building. Resolutions. In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Second Regiment, U. R. K. of P. of Va., in regimental meeting Sunday November 28, 1909, in respect and sympathy with Major W. H. Tyler and family, Norfolk, Va. Col. C. P. Rowlett's family Newport, Nowa, Va., and Capt. J. W. Wolfe's home, Norfolk, whose homes the grim monster death had visited and stolen away their loved ones, the following resolutions of condolence were adopted Whereas, it has pleased the Omnipotent and Omnipresent God to remove from the families their honored and beloved ones. We bow our hearts in adoration love and obedience to the will of the Heavenly Father who doeth all things for good for them who love and serve Him. And as they who are demised have crossed the Mystic Stream and gained the victory, may we whom they have left behind, emulate and consecrate our lives and actions to that when we have gone from time into eternity we shall leave a record that will be Christ like and elifying. Therefore be it resolved 1. That we extend to the families our sincere and heartful sympathies from the officers and members of the regiment and commend them to Him who can and will all sorrow heal 2 That a copy of these resolutions be attached to the records of the regiment and a copy be sent to each or the families and published in the following papers Richmond Planet, Lodge Journal and Guide Committee Major Lee N. Colthrop Major B F Jackson, Capt R H Wilkerson Col Archer Drew Commanding Tickets For The Winter Circus The management has given admirable location and fine seats to the colored people for the grand circus and hippodrome at the Horse Show building. Tickets are 50 cents and 75 cents and they may be obtained at the Mechanics' Savings Bank. 611 Third Street. The True Reformers Bank. 604 N. Second Street. St Lorenzo Bank. Second Bank. 112 F Broad Street. Thompson's Pharmacy. St James and Dale Boxes. Boxes and reserved seats for any night can be secured in advance by applying at any of these places. No circus or aggregation of amuse- ments will equal this magnificent carnival, which will be a record breaking event in the history of this remarkable city. The show opens next Monday night and the street- walk will carry you to the doors where you will be treated with due coniferation and great good seats in this remarkable aggregation of modal and fun-loving wonders. STOCKHOLDERS ATTENTION! Mechanics Savings Bank. The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanics' Savings Bank will be held on Tuesday night January 4 1910 at the Pythian Castle Hall 727 N Third Street. Richmond Va at 8 30 o'clock. All stockholders are requested to be present in person or be repres- nted by proxy By order of JOHN MITCHELL JR Press THOR M CRUMP Secv Christmas Entertainment Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Choice of Midtown, who entertained their friends at a Christmas dinner December 26, 1999. The many friends invited gathered in the spacious dining room ground in the table which grenaded under the strain of rich delicacies of the season. Those present were Shr. H. C. Jones H. Choice, Mister Ralph H. Choice, Miss Louise mother and Mrs. Carole Stone mother, and Mrs. H. W. Choice Mrs. Stone who reside at Graham West Virginia will spend the Winter with her daughter. Mrs. Choice has just recovered from a severe illness. She spent four months in the Memorial Hospital in this city. Mr and Mrs Chas N Isham, of Hampton Normal School, are spending the holidays in the city Mr Isham is an Instructor of Hampton School Miss Carlo D Isham, teacher of Powhatan Co. Va. is spending the holidays at home Mr John Fleming, of Powhatan Co. Va. is spending the holidays in the city Tickets For The Circus Tickets for the Rhoda Royal Two Ring Circus are on sale at the Southern Aid Insurance Company building, 527 N. Second Street, American Beneficial Insurance Company building, 613 N. Second Street, Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company building, 728 N. Second Street, Capitol Shoe and Supply Company, 210 E Broad Street. General Admission 80 cents. Reserved seats 75 cents to $1.00. Box seats $1.50. Dickens' Dickens' Mechanics' Savings Bank, True Reformers' Savings Bank, St. Luke's Penny Savings Bank Make arrangements now. --- Troubles of Its Own High pitched angry voices reverberated through the house. "I just know it," boresly muttered the skeleton in the family closet "there was going to be a quarrel between them; I could feel it in my bones!" Knute What They Wanted. "The audience is calling you," the playwright was informed. "I hear them," he answered. "Show me the quickest way to get out of here." ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT VERSATILE BAKE IS INVENTED Teeth Can be Arranged in Different Position and Will Straddle Row of Pants. A remarkable rake has recently been designed by a New Jersey man. The teeth can be adjusted to most any angle or distance from each other and the handle can be so moved as to convert the impiment from a rake into a pitchback. In the first place, the handle is attached to the head by a pivot hook a nut which keeps it tight in whoever position it is desired. The head of the rake consists of a framework into which the pieces ```markdown ``` Andrew Babe holding the teeth are adjusted by means of serrated joints. In this way the teeth may be in place together so as to form an ornate rake or they may be adjusted with enough space between to allow a rake to be drawn over a row of units with the arched portion of the head straddling the plants and assist them from injury if desired the teeth can be adjusted so that they lie in opposite directions or in any other combination of positions that emergencies may demand STONES BALANCE RISING GATE Illustration Showing How One Is Braced Bath Ways with First Class Lumber This gate is composed of a balance weigh A Rising Gate bucket is filled with stones until the gate is a trifle heavier so that a pull will make it fold back in place AUTUMN LEAVES FOR HUMUS Should Be Raked Together and Saved -- Those from Forest Make Bed ding and Litter If you have any trees on your farm and you should have begin to rake up the leaves and save them as fast as they fall. Expectantly should this be done where the leaves fall in in posed places, where they will blow away and become lost. If the ground under the trees is covered with grass, weeds or brush that will catch and hold the leaves then they may well remain where they fall to become future fertilizer and humus Forest leaves make the very soft eat and best bedding for all farm animals that need bedding and they are valuable for mulching shrubbery and flowering plants. Where they are used for this purpose they should be covered with brush and weighted down so that they will not blow away during the winter. These leaves are also good material for scratching it in the poultry house, and they may first be used for this purpose and afferwards removed and used for mulching garden plants. There is no better material than forest leaves to use in the compost heap to make good soil for potting plants or for general garden work where the best soil is required. After they have been used in the poultry house or as bedding material they are still more valuable. Leaves not only add considerable available plant food to the soil when used as a fertilizer but they readily decompose to form humus. Their action on heavy soil is to make it light and friable. Pea Growing. Pen growing for soil improvement is quite profitable upon sandy lands that are especially lacking in humus. Peas are a good crop to sow on clover or timothy soils the first year after breaking, as they greatly aid in subduing the soil. The peas should then be followed by a crop of grain and the land seeded down to clover. The "Knocker" Mrs Crimsonbask—"You're always 'knocking at my distaffula.' Mt. Crimsonbask—"Well I've got to break 'em some way, let's not it!" When a man boasts much about his high nautapte it is given that he doesn't worry much about the height of his forehead. KING SYSTEM OF VENTILATION Its Adoption Recommended, as Its Use Insures Abundance of Air at All Times. (BY G. A. OCCOCK. AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER, WISCONSIN.) THE KING system of ventilation consists of two lots of flues, one set provides fresh air, while the other furnishes an escape for the viltated air. The fresh air flues should be placed not more than ten feet apart and located in the exterior wall of the barn. No fear of putting in too many inlets, since the greater the number the more effective the ventilation. The outlet may include one or more flues, but should be located as to provide the quickest means for removing the foul air. All stable walls and ceilings should be nonconductors of heat and cold, otherwise moisture will collect as frost in cold weather and drop as water in moderate weather. In a station barn the flues for taking out the foul air are two in number, one midway in each side wall. Those flues pass upward to the left where they meet a central chimney There is also a ventilator flue opening from the ceiling into the bottom of the chimney for more rapid movement of air in hot weather to keep the stable cooler. In winter this ventilator would sert fire a large amount of warm air and the opening should be kept closed until the stable becomes too warm. The central flue is 40 inches in diameter and rises 50 feet above the floor. The lateral flues which join the main chimney are 18 by 24 inches. There are two objects in bringing the ventilator shaft near the floor. First, remove the waste products of the lungs produced by breathing, as this foul air always settles near the floor and animals are compelled to breathe it with the impurities. Second to dispose of the cold air in the winter rather than the warm. The coldest air in a room is always on the floor and the warmest at the ceiling. The walls of the barn are made of studding placed up both inside and out with the timber lumber and building paper. Save the spaces between the studding and for fresh air flows. We have used this system for 11 years and have found it to be entirely satisfactory. Wrong construction of foul air flows has sometimes led to the failure of the system. Some farmers make thanikie any ordinary bed openings and then condemn the system because of their mistake. To construe the use of this kind the lumber is treated closely, covered with lime and after the paper a special thickness of lumber. This will insure the air capacity as it attaches the friction of the moving air in the floor. A good ventilating floor must have the same qualities as a good chimney. It should rise above the highest part of the roof so as to receive the full force of the air and wind. The best location of the towel air flue, when only one is used, would be in the center of the barn. If two flues are used place one on each side of the middle of the stable. AXLE GREASE SAVES MONEY Wagon Wheels of All Vehicles and Machinery Should Be Often Examined - Dry Wheels Costly When you hear the wheels of a wagon or any kind of farm machinery squaking be sure the squeaks cost the owner money because the axles are being cut to pieces. There is a great difference in axle grease, and the only way to know which has the best adhesive qualities is by actual test. Cheap grease is generally dear. Axle grease that quickly wears off increases the friction this pulls the flesh off the team and flesh costs money. The wagon wheels of all vehicles and machinery should be carefully examined often. It will not do to be caught with dry wheels when away from home or in the midst of a busy day in the field. CONCRETE TO ANCHOR POSTS Two Methods of Securing Braces for Fences - One with Double Action Screw To make a cost or post secure in the ground dig a hole, hole and fill with concrete. Another method is to add a dead man made of concrete and CONCRETE Anchoring Posts. draw the wire with a double-acting straw such as is sometimes used in guying telephone poles Tit for Tat. Other peoples fobiles May give us a pain. Which we quite unconsciously Hand them back again. At the Restaurant "Walter, why do you recommend everybody to take beef a la mode today?" "Because, sir, if it isn't all eaten we shall have it for dinner ourselves." The Child of the Year 1 A Pleasant Prospect. All over the land, With their wish- bones in hand. The children are Wishing for Joys old and new. And it's easy to see Just how gay life Will be When all of those Millions of wishes Come true. —Harrah G. Fernald Some Historic Happenings of January The first month in the year has always been a fateful one in English history, but it began most specially to be recognized as such during the reign of Charles 1. It was on January 4, 1642, that the attempt was made to arrest the five members. On the tenth of the month, three years later, Archbishop Laud, was beheaded, and January 30, 1649, saw the king's own head laid upon the block. There is probably no act of parliament which has ever been the cause of such amazing dissensions and discord as that which brought about the union between Great Britain and Ireland. This came into force upon January 1, 1801. It was in the same month that Richard Trevithick, the Cornish inventor, perfected the first steam locomotive which ever moved upon an English road. The great William Pitt, the most able prime minister who ever controlled the destinies of the kingdom, came into office at Christmas, 1783, and died in January, 1868. His great rival, Charles James Fox, born in January, 1749, only survived Pitt six months. One of the greatest boons that a nation ever received from its government was conferred upon Great Britain on January 1, 1840—namely, penny postage. Adhesive stamps had been invented by Mr James Chalmers of Dundee, six years previously, and these superseded Mulready's envelope later in the same year. January has for a long time past been a very notable month in the history of the British royal family. On January 25, 1858, the Princess Royal was married to Prince Frederick William of Prussia. The German kaiser was born in January, 1859. Prince Henry of Battenburg's death occurred on January 20, 1896, and the duke of Teck's life came to an end on the twenty-first of the month, 1900 The Child Said the Child to the youthful Tear. "What hast thou is sleep, for me, O giver of beautiful gifts, what cheer. What joy doest thou bring with thee?" My niece for a short time Their tree for the winter snow The winter snow A snow A Pleasant All over the lair With their w bones in hand. The children a Wishing for Joys old and n And it's easy t Just how gai Will be. When all of the Millions of w Come tr Ingenious. "Young man you have my best wishes," said the girl's father "Thank you, sir I trust that I shall also have your hearty co-operation in the matter of her support." Got the Hook "Did you go fishing during the summer?" "Only once" "What did you catch?" "Myself—behind the loft ear" Same Old Thing. Aunt Julia - So you and your niece have quarried. How did it happen? Pretty Nice. Oh, it's the old, old story. First we fell in love—then we fell out. No Progress "Why don't James make advances to Julia?" "I suppose he can't because he's backward." The Chief Cause of Trouble. Most people first not because they have so little but because their neighbors have so much. Killing the Rabbit. Victoria, Australia, spends $475,000 per year in the endeavor to extirpate the rabbit. Defined. "Pa, what is a canard?" "A He that won't fight my son."—Puck. One year later, on January 22, 1864, came the end of the most famous rejoice in English or any other history. Queen Victoria died at 6:20 on the fateful evening. In northern latitudes no nation fights in winter, if it can possibly be avoided, and yet January has seen some of the toughest struggles of modern war. January, 1871, holds the record for fierce fighting. During that month there were no fewer than six terrific battles between the French and the Germans. The last was Geal Trochu's grand sorte from Paris, which ended in his defeat and in the extinction of the last hopes of Paris and her citizens. A Resolution for New Year's The noblest resolution that any citizen could make for the new year would be the resolution to live more faithfully by the golden rule, that sublime principle of conduct for this world and for all worlds. Failure to live by this law causes the chief sorrows and collisions among men, says Edwin Markham in Success. of the Year All these and more shall be thing. Dear Child, but the last and best. Thyself must earn by a stricter driving. If thou wouldst be truly blest. Wouldn't know this last bear gift? The a conscience heart and bright. A piece of mind which the soul can lift T The irritated one Felia Theater at Prospect. land, ir wish- and. n are for d new. y to see gay life of those of wishes true. A. Fernold TOO BAD. Landlord—What do you mean by walking about my private road? Boy—Because I ain't got no bicycle, old sport. Confession. I don't feel like a song to-day Just couldn't brook it; I don't feel like a song to-day And never did look it! The Whole Thing. "Is this living out of doors for health a tentative arrangement?" "Sure, it's all tents." On Her Way. "His wife always has her own way." "She has his way, too. I guess, not be never seems to." . egy HAN ALTE TT NE EY ve 99. aganaeTerce an aks “ESOS Pe a MSS Se rane) Sere ny Fe Ser eT RUE wee fe, i ? he LoVe RA peneare eS - MU Seed Nate faye se, . nea arreiusnias cop wanton lees a ae tag t t a _THE RICHMOND PLANET; RICYMOND. VIRGINIA wi ens lnarme escmeenetegmmsnneeate maratnre enemas insnneamanin aN oe cae ON NIN A _mnenrenmenenesmamnenenanesmmenenetnenremaseeenennnns eaten rs . - ~ . wry ee ge hh 1 URS s eS . oS We Pay 4 per cent. Interest on [ime Deposits - ) ° ieee anime SS Ps Bs Baan cae Seritey Pere eo fe Se ) fed oe 8 ce pa te a 4 ee a OF as ee TLE RU ED | ae AGE Be. erro ee Pitae eee’ fel. eee: i‘ ee Boe SA a | SB ae ea ey ed ees fae O} RIC] 1! IOND, \ IRGINIA. : . + s NOW OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC the facil- ‘THIS BANKIN INSTITUTION is no WE HAVE ARRANGED for a limited num- ities which it possesses for the safe-keeping of longer an experiment. Lit is conceded to be run ber of Safety Deposit Boxes. They will be rent- money, jewels, insurance papers, deeds, wills, upon and in accordance with the most im- ed té our patrons at the rate of ($.25) twen- stocks, bonds, and all valuables of whatever de« proved rules of the best banking concerns in ty-five cents per month and upwards, payable scription at a reasonable cost. the United States. in navance annually. an keys willalone se- It holds choice real-estate, of which it will Its large spacious four story bank and of- cure entrance to one of these boxes. The bank dispose on long time payments. It requests fice building is now in the course of erection pe oneend be cron the ocner Both the patronage of the small depositor and the and when completed will be one the most mod- ned safety-deposit bor after t! sae er; before favor of the targe one. Interest paid on all ern edifices of the kind in the Seuthland and either tho Baek C ate =. Sh opened by time deposits, remaining (60) qixty days and will rank with the best whi stitutions of a This is a wieasure Sf safety Whig h he: doporitor: over, _ similar kind and character. only to be appreciated. The modern Burglar and Fire-proof Vault, with its steel lining and bur: Page, 5 é . * oa a a eee Slar-proof round-door will be a wonder to the uninitiated. | ee eee) : oe ee —- PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN UNEASY is selling at ($5.00) five dollars per share above oer] ABOUT THEIR DEEDS, INSURANCE PAPERS . its face value and rating it on the basis of the OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS: AND THE LIKE, will breathe a sigh of relief past dividends, this stock pays seven per cent. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. when they transfer them to the vault of the to those who purchase now. H. FP, JONATHAN, Vice-President. Bank, where they know that they are safe The BOARD OF DIRECTORS has decided THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier. from fire and theft. to place a limited amount on the market at John R. Chiles, John Mitchell, Jr, There is a specimen SAFETY DEPOSIT $15.00 per share, to be exact, the block equals 3 H. F. Jonathan, R. W. Whiting, BOX at THE MECHANICS’ SAVINGS BANK, | $ Just ($10,000.) ten thousand dollars and appli- 3 Thomas H, Wyatt, BE. R. Jefferson, which THE CASHIER OR THE TELLER Will cation should be made for an allotment to the < D. J. Chavers, John T. Taylor, 5 “$1 show you and either will explain its workings. Cashier of the Mechanics Savings Bank at once ; Thomas Smith, Thomas M. Crump, Sec. z | The stock of the MECHANICS’ SAVINGS ot to some member of the Board of Directors. J. J. Carter, A. D. Price, . BANK is now selling above par-~to be exact it The first who come will be the first served. 3 P. B. Ramsey, H. L. Jackson, H. Powell. 3 The Old Year and the New “Beveo—eight—aine’ Do you bear that?” asked the old clock {n th cor cer “Hero ft tsa full hour after your dedtime, and yet you alt there staring into the fret” In front pf the fire sat an old wom- an—gray hatred, wrinkled, fecble The voice of the clock did not diaturb ber Dut as she watched the fitful James, ‘one could bave reat! her thousfite “But {t's excusable on this night,” continued the clock, in soft’ tones ‘Hotgho! but {t's the ast night of the old year! Three hours more and we are done with 1909 You and I are xoing to watch the old year out to gether Let's aoe? How many years tave I seen come and go? Forty—ex- actly forty witb this one. That's « long time, long time.” ‘The woman rocked gently to and fro, and by and by the clock suddenly called out: . “What, {ears ta your eyes" Come, vow, but that's no way to end the year. We are thinking of the same thing. Yes, he was a good and toving Dusband, and I say this for doth of you, that I mever heard an unpleasant word between you It ts 12 youre ainee he died. I cowld only look into hie taco as he tay on his dying bod, and if evor heaven sent its ght to Toad @ soul across the Gark valley it was given to him, [-remembar your tears aad moans and sobs, and you prayed that death might tome to you as well.” 1 ‘The woman wiped her tears, and there was a foeling of suffocation as ahe let memory bring up the evonte. “Bight—nine—tent” called the clock after a while. “How time dogs fy! I diatinotly remember atriking the last hour of 1903. Lat me seo! eee one thon wept with you at that bediide. ‘Thore Was @ gon end, a daughter, Ab! now I recall their taces—thair gentle waye—thoir loving words. Two yours latter there was another death-bed, more walls’and sobs, and I saw the pall-bearers as they carried the daugh- ter’a body ant of the house. It seems es @ the last blow must crush you, and I well remember exying to myseit that ft woulda’t be long before you ware called to eo.” ‘The woman choked back her sods, Wasting Atumber, "Have you over tried to get to sleep ‘Dy counting an {maginery drove of @hety passing over a hill or through o waterway?” . - ee moins acts cults - “What a. Juno! se (That short sfrit Don't yeu think 7 ia elsooeet : 1 Ng whet Mike Bette” Rigi, Baan shy eg | Bea aticomio apn waza aesA SY and her lipa moved as tf she were epeaking tho nates of her dead ones For many minutes ber reveriy was unbroken and ehe heard not the Uck tack’ tickinek' of tbe steady old clock “Nine ten eleven suddenly called the clock The son? Ab’ how absentminded I have become’ Well do I remember the day a woman yeith ® pale face and frightened te tho door and banded yru a loiter, which bore the insignia of death You opened. it with trembling fingers, and next moment you were Ike ono doad There wore davs and days when you hovered between life nnd death and I for my part gare up all bopes Died in a foreign land. burled among Btrangera over the sea Tt wana blow aimed at a haart twice broken” The woman covered ber tare and moanod In anguish and the clock con unued “Don't grieve so, the doad are al rest forevermore Lité's mistakes may need to be washed away with tears bot the dead reaped their reward You aio old and poor and broken, but whe can tell whnt new friends the nex year may raise up for you? 1 cannot tell you to forget the past, for a moth era heart ever goes out for hor dead but tho new yoar may have more sunshino Come now I am about t strike the old year out and tho now year in Lat un greet the now with ¢ amile of welcome as I count--ten— elevon—twelve—a happy New Yoar’” ‘The woman did not movo “Heigho'” called the clock ‘We Dave ft the old bohind'” Her bands bad dropped! beside her and ber bond had fallen . “Dead!” clicked tho clock as the Iast faint echoca of hia bell dled away Being and Doing. Tt ln eaid, “To be good I the way to be happy,’ but to bo good and to do good Is the way to be happy What & happy world thin would be if all would do the bost thing for them aelven. if all roalized that the only way (¢ got out of life ta to put into it, that the way to recelvo fs to glvo, and the enly way to be heiped Is to ‘ba heiptul, and the way to gatn life ts to logs It for othora, anti the way to £0 up {6 to go down, for “Tho week shall Inherit tha earth.” “He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” It ig potty to live for welt, It {e grand to Uve for friends, but ‘tis gibrious to Ure foe mankind, and, as one has sald, “The only way to work for God Se to work for man.”. ‘ Practice Charity. It yon do not bogin xtving when you »bave’a Hitle, you will not do ft when Youvhare a lot. ‘ sities Honor Balonge to Chineee, ] the frat dictionary ey made by Chinese scholars fn 1209 B. 0. . The First Advartisamente, “ Kavertiavmbnts first appeared te ‘Reeepapere ta 1663, | John, the Forerunner of Jesus Sunday School Lesson for Jaa. 2, 1910 Sousaly Aveahaia tetris Baced eT TARE MAK 24 Memory MGQUBES TENT The vice of one Crying 1 the wisteruene Viepare ye the Ray ot tie tert tuke hie pat furan, ate TIMI -Jotn tegen to preach tn. the aummee of A Tye He preached ey thontim alone ten a yeat and there montha coin ent with Chriat Ul Maren Paster PLACE <The eidernens of Juden Suggestion and Practical Thought. 1 The Personal Preparation of the Herald --ve 1,4 When was John the Haptist born® In the summer of BCE In what place? In the bill country of Judah probatiy in ope of the pricst- ly eltles Who were bin parenia* Zacharias, a priest, and bis wife Elizabeth ‘What wae his relation to Josus? Ho was a relative, perhaps @ second cousin, Mary and Elizabeth being rola: tivos, translated ‘cousins’ In tho AV of Luke 1 36 Where did he spend his youth and early manhood* In the wilderness or aparscly inhabited districts In com munion with God, with nature, and with the Seriptures, living under the powor of the Holy Spirit While he meditated the fra burned Why ts he called the Baptist? Be cause he baptized thoso who repented, and 4id not merely bring them to re- pentancs What was bis character? Iio was filled with the Spirit from bis chitd- hood. He oboyed the Spirit’ Ho was @ hero, a martyr, brave He spoke the truth at aif costs. Io desorved a place in tho “Hall of Fame" for he- roes of the faith Why 4{4 John live to this manner? 1 Because it way the porfectly nat- ura) way in which a poor man would live in the wilderness IL John Prepared the Way by His Message.—Vs. 1-3 “Came John the Baptlat, préaching in the wildorness,” the wild lands and pasturo lands of Judoa. ‘The people flved almost en- Uraly te towon. | "Preaching bere ts hot our modern preaching. “It means proclaiming or acting lke o herald, and implies that tho uplifted voice and the brief, urgent message of one who ruun before the chariot and ahoutn “The king, thé king’” “His preaching ta like a guccossion of light- ning flashes.” “His mossage tx summed up tn tWo sentences, (wo blasts of the trumpet; the call tb repentanga and the rous- ing proclamation that the kingdom of heaven fs at hanil.”—Maslarén, * fu Mxpositions of Bériptnre, Matthew.” 2 Baying, “Repent yo" (Motande: ite), The Gtesk word {4° 2ompoand> é4"ot''a Proposition With two sean. thes, dfteripad with, and a Paty idan $3.50 RECIPE CURES WEAK MEN—FIER Bend Namo and Address Today— You Can Havo It Free and Bo Btrong and Vigorous. 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Ing to perceive and to think as the result of porcetving Hence tho mean- ing to think after n deed 1s done, and to think with, in comratiton with what ought to bave wen done, oF might have boon done, and fo to think differently after It In a change of mind resulting In a change of Conduct. ‘The emphasis in on the change of mind and heart, rather than op the sorrow which {a tho tupulse that leads to the chrage of coaduct. A New Motive for fepentance— “For the kingdom of heaven ta at hand.” The new ore ix about to be gin, with its new leader, Jesus, new powers through the Holy Spirit, new motives, new truths, new bopes, now fos; with deliverance from sin, and Gigoaye, and boudage (For the defi- altion of “the kingdom of heaven” se Lesson 111.) . TI, John Prepared the Way by Cou firming” the -Dectatona toi Repent—Va. 5% & “Thea went out to him" tho fObabitants of “Jerusalem,” — pract!. cally the whole olty, “ang all Judea.” Thar 4id not all £9 out at once, dit kept xotag.and coming, He 4/4 tor E9"to'theic, but they cding to ‘tm, Ret enly the commen people, But aleo fe me cee ( Comparison Will Positively Prove that “The Famous’’ Suits, Rain- coats and Overcoats at $10 and $15 are Easily the Peer of Garments Sold Here- abouts for Almost Twice as Much. Fashioned, too, in a Faultlows Way, with Great Oare Exercised in thoir Tailoring, so that they may be Right ap to “THE FA MOUS™ Requirement. They Must bo “Right” to bo Here. Gar ments most Expertly Tallored and (reated in the most Fashionable Manner. They wore Boilt in oneef America's Greatest Tailor Shops, where only Expert Workmin Find “Kmployment. oal Worth §15 to $25. “THE FAMOUS BRAND OF TAILORED TROUSERS, 68 & 64. DON'T FORGET THE LOCATION N. W. COR- NER 2ND & BROAD, AND LOOK FOR THE SIGN. ‘WE HAVE NO CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER CLOTHING STORE IN THIS CITY. She Cte “CLOTHING CO: me and leadors of ‘the nation . What attracted auch crowds? Plain ly there was comething there which they needed, atid which they reallzad that they neoded Thoy went as the hungry go for food and the chilly fer fire, and the poor for plenty, as the doves gather in St. Mark's square io Venice, at the hour when grain ts scattered. Here sro find a lesson for Preachers. and teachers, TV. Preparation by the Presentation o Motives for Entering the New Life-~Vs. 7-12. Firat Motive, Con- sclouaness of Bin.. 7. “When ho saw many oe Pharisees and Saddu- coos.” 0 two lead) religious asote of tho Jowe,Aneinding fhe prin- tpl met of the nation. “Come to As Baptism.” Drawn by the altpen ‘Yading {ntarest, poxalbly with some Goneclongnesa of afo and need, by the Mostra to watch what was going on 20 that they wight hinde- the wark if Deed be or if a new kingdon was com ing, that they might bave chief place in“it They would be baptized (uke) {€ by 40, easy a form thay could be partakern n the kingdom Golden Sand.—"Lashed into razo by the wind, the sea makes sport of hu man masonry, or crushes tho fron ships that have gone ashore Ilke #0 many playthings; eveh tho frowning cll must ultimately yield to the ‘waves. Bat when God sald: ‘Ittther ito shalt thou come, but no further; ‘and here shall thy proud waves be atayed,’ be drew around tho sea i gtr: ‘die of the.one thing that can perma ‘ently stop Its progress: wand. > De- ‘Rind that ppstecting bir the rich Jonmn may Ne udieturbed; and the or- charts and the grain may arow and ‘bear thetr fruit is safety. 7 Sve ARISTOCRACY OF CIRCLH RING COMING Famnonx Earvpoan and American Performers With the Rhoda Yoy8l Two Hundred * Tho largest moat brilliant and bInhowt walaried KAlary of Circus per formera over attached to a wloter Creua in America will be seen here the week commencing January 3 when the Rhoda Royal Clreus Hp podrome ant wild west will give daily exhibitions In the Horse show wuttding The Ig show has been on a tour of the largest American cites The show comes to Richmond under tan auaticer of Acca Temple, Nobles of the Myntic Shrine and tho Shriners will march at the head of the glit fering atrect pageant that will mark the formal entry of tho Rhoda Royal Winter Cireua into Richmond Two serial trains of forty cara each will bring tho performers atock and equiment of the circus, bippodroma and wild weat to this city The circus exhibitions will be givon In two great rings In the Horse Show bullding Among tho foaturod are A school of fifty performing horses the famous Slogrint family of aerielists, ten in numbor, giving senrational exhibitions on tho high wire Capt Walter C Sharp, with a troupe of former cavalrymon, ap- pearing in dare devil riding and driving acts Jobn Agee, champion rough rider of the world. the Dut- tons aonsational equestrionnos. the Tybell Jutan Stators wiuriwind artists, who fly Ike butterftca in apace. the Nelson family ot acro bate, the Kakanteeju troupe of Japancne mid alr athictes Virgil Barnett, sensational baro back rider, the Brachards, Europsan contortion- fata. @ battle on horseback between a vigilance committee abd train bandits fo tho Wild Wost, quadrille on horeeback In which ‘Tanchmen, cowboys and cowgirls tax part, the comic antica of a troupo of forty clowns, Including fonny mon of in- ternational famo. ‘There ero.ftty feature acts tn ad- dition to tho usual circus ring pro- aramme Special arrangements bave been made for the many thousands of colorod patrons af the circus who will flock, to the Horse Show bulld- fog during the mid-winter circus woek. A large section of the biz aaditorium will be reserved for col- ored people and érery provision made for the comfort and con- venience of the big cromi expected ‘At each performance. ‘Thess seat will afford as fine a view of the two rings and fhe, plattorss 9 any io ‘tbe apactous building. ‘Tre RRodé. Royal Circus, Hipre- rome and Wild West ts noc vd larger 1A aise thas moet of the elr- cures that have appeared ee DD. der canvass, but.ia quality fa eur parses them. Among the 200 ape jelaity attiets are the ariatocvac7 of the “eirens. siug ip Enrope “and Atierica, < am REYLNET ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT Wisconsin Hog Raiser Employs Them for Field Sheltering of Pea and Barley Feed A Wisconsin swine breeder Mr. L. P Martyn of Chippewa Falls has found a new one for the old fashioned ray barnacks which the modern barn with its spacious mows nearly crowded out of existence. He uses them for the field sheltering of pea and barley hay for winter hog feeding. He prefers pasturing or field feeding his horse on pleasant winter days there by requiring the breed news, to take their needed coverage. Each season he puts up a stack of field peas and barley upon some protected and sunny slope in the bog pasture and at some distance from the pens and sleeping quarters. The sow's are given a regular feeding of this mixture each day and spend considerable time in rooting over the straw to get at the grain which easily sheds out and rattles to the bottom of the litter. The straw and grain are properly curled and preserved having been well protected from the weather, and make it easy to feed for any class of stock. Much a stack stalker as this breed or uses it easily constructed and at a very low foot straight poles Stack Shelterer from 20 to 30 feet in length are squared and allow a good depth for putting in the posts. The 20-inch posts are bored below the posts from 12 to 18 inches in depth and from the down to within 12 inches of the ground. Near the posts these posts have to be bored directly the posts set at equal depth to the ground and perfectly plated to raise roof will only be raised with great difficulty and will not rest on above the stack. The posts are generally set from ten to twelve feet in depth by allowing the building of a joint stack of good size. The roof preferably made of matched lumber, is supported by four 2x4s which root into the iron eye bolts passing through the eye bolts. It is always better to have the roof project a foot or two and the corner posts to better protect the stack from the weather. Once however should be taken to keep the roof efficiently light for easy raising. TO SUPPORT BUGGY SHAFTS Illustration and Instructions for Con structing One That Can Be Made Easily Herewith is given a drawing showing how to construct a device for supporting the shafts of a longy. Secure a strip of eight inch plank at least three feet long and bore a three eighths or one half inch hole crosswise of the plank about three inches from one end. Next saw out a piece about two and one half inches long. Use this piece as shown in the illustration. It swings on a bolt through the hole previously bored. A square B shaft Supporter of leather or old rubber boot is tacked to the end of the strip, and this comes in contact with the crocspeice of the shaft. When in position the center of the plank rests on the top of the lower spring of the front axle, while the end of the device to the left comes against the bottom of the buggy box. LETTUCE FOR WINTER MARKET Now Is the Time to Sow Seeds—Rad Ish May Be Mixed In—Phosphate Makes Good Mixer Bow seeds of the Brown Dutch, cabbage and Bilisla lettuce in the open ground for the fall and early winter markets. A second sowing should be made the last week of this month to raise plants to set out in the cold frame, and to set out on ridges between the hardy cabbage plants in November. Select a small strip of ground from which an early crop of vegetables has been just taken off, flaves the bed deeply forked up, the ground fires and fellow. Bow one handful of good phosphate to the square yard evenly over the surface and rake it in then sow the seed quite thin A little Black Spanish radish seed may be mixed with the lettuce cover seed with a fine rake water the soil late in the evening if ground is dry Thin out the plants to stand one inch apart as soon as up. HAY IN STACKS FOR YEARS Illustration Showing How It Can Be Done Better Than in a Barn. The pictures in the article show how to stack hay so it will keep bet ter than in a barn and be far sweeter even for three or four years. Grain in the straw may be stacked in the same manner. As long as the air gets underneath it will keep all right, and by stacking as shown in the sketches of the pictures it will al HAY SIDE VIEW Side View ways keep perfectly dry. The thatch or roof is much larger than the base and the water runs off like running off a house. The pillars can be made of wood or stone. They should be 15 inches high, although 25 inches would do. Lay the timbers from pillar to pillar and cover with round poles and over this put boards or brush. Tramp down the hay solid and while building the stack use poles to prop up the sides. After three or four days when the hay has retreated to move the side props and mount a ladder and commencing in the caves pull out all the hay you can with your hands down to the bottom. Always commence at the bottom and work to the bottom. Finish with a hand rake always raking downward. Use straw as straight and long as possible and lay two or three inches thick and evenly. Computers at the grave and over lap your straw clungy fashion as you would board ones with longer laps. I have found grain staked in the was better than in a basket and is sweptness and is more likely to the animals. This is better than it is likely in England at the farm for the triees to outdo it and in making the largest and best shaped stack. OVER there they make both oblong, square and round stakes. I have seen some stakes and a grain from PLAY END VIEW End View 60 to 100 feet high built to this man ner and have known it to stand for years in perfect condition In Yorkdale lodge they is goldm used until it is two or three years old, and in good horseman will never feed his horse new hay as it may cause heaves and good old hay will not A Therapist FALL MANURING OF ORCHARD Little Organic Matter Is Needed and Usually This Is Obtained from Crop of Cow Peas A fruit grower asks when is the best time to manure the orchard. The first thing to take into consideration when manuring the apple orchard is to ascertain whether it is manuring or not. The apple does not require a very rich soil, but if the soil is too rich the trees will make heavy growth of it, but there will be little fruit. It is for this reason that orchards do better on any bites than on flat bottom lands. This is why the Ozark mountain region is better for apple raising than the rich prairie lands of central Illinois. But very little organic matter is needed in the soil of the orchard, and usually enough can be obtained by growing a crop of cowpeas and allowing the roots to decay in the soil. If, however, it becomes apparent that the soils need a little additional humus this should be applied in the form of well rotted manure. Never in any case should the manure be fresh, and it should never be applied close to the base of the trees. Make the application in the fall very light after the warm weather is over. Beatter the manure between the trees allowing none of it to fall closer than five feet to the trunks. Disk it at once into the surface three inches heavy at one time. It is better to make several applications than to apply the same amount of manure at one application. Weed the Garden Begin to weed the garden as soon as the plants are large enough to tell what they are and keep it up during the entire summer. If you do not the weeds will crowd out your pet plant and eat up the nourishment that would go toward making the garden beautiful. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA YOU Want a Pair of REGAL SHOES —and so does every other well-dressed man here. They're the smartest shoes that money can buy—exact reproductions of expensive metropolitan custom models. They're made in quarter-sizes, giving you an exact fit. Regal Shoes are the greatest shoe values in the world—that's why we sell them. Let us show you the new Spring styles. $350 $400 and $500 1611 East Broad Street. W N WATKINS R. T BIBBS R. E. MALONE N. WINSTON, Headquarters for Pure Ice-Cream Wholesale and Retail. Special Attention to Family Trade, Plants Excursions, Sunday Schools, Lawn Parties, Etc Furnished on Short Notice Choice Pound and Wedding Cakes furnished to Order. Foreign and Domestic FRUITS AND DELICACIES 537 Brook Ave., Richmond, Va. 'Phone, 2253. Effective Method is Smearing Nose with Tar When Animal Reaches in Hole for Salt ```markdown ``` Spearing Steeps Place While of course it is disagreeable to the sting, it is宜宜 to get the salt they will get more or less of the tar snout on their noses. At this time it is宜宜 to be well to describe the example, indicating the presence of the godfly in the flock. When attacked the sheep generally rushes towards the flock with its nose close to the ground. It shakes its head violently and sneezes. This is due to the sting caused by the godfly in the nestrill in its effort to get a foothold and deposit its eggs. The eggs remain in the nasal cavities in the head until mature, when according to those who have worked out the life of this fly, it falls out of the nostril and completes development in the soil. Where a sheep's head contains a number of larvae a catarrhal discharge will be noticed coming from the nose. In bad cases the sheep is inclined to lie down and point its nose into the air and is also restless and unfluffy. A single sheep may be infected over and over again by the fly and have in its head larvae of different ages, the annoyance from which may last a large part of the year. ERRORS IN HORSESHOEING Three or Four irrational Practices Followed by Country Blackamiths That Cannot Be Tolerated There are three or four most irrational practices followed by many country blackamiths in the shouting of horses that cannot be too strongly condemned, says Farm Horseshoeing. First, the butting away of the frog, which is done by a majority of the country amiths, is a most positive injury to the foot, and can have no wasnable or not is favor. The tire is of the foot and ex- pander of the boot and was placed to the foot and the foot of the foot of the boot and the foot of the cone of the boot and to allow the foot of the boot at the heel and become sitting. It is fitted. Annotate must it is that the sole of the foot should be tilt it will be to the pressure of the than the sole should never be been by the sole. All loose sole is be be away but the hit the sole now but the sole of the foot. All trim on the bot ton of the foot should be done by the raysth will trim the edge and Certain a frog or mole in any way works on injury by causing the flies to stink and become hard and dry. A frog that has been trimmed by the knife often draws us to be come detrimental to the foot as a stone or other foreign body. There is never any good excuse for touching the knife to any healthy frog. It will wear away that enough if let alone. The writer never saw one that was too large. Hot fitting of shoes to horse's feet should not be allowed by the horse's owner. Not if it may be possible, as claimed by some horse owners, that a better fit is obtained in this way, and that no real harm is done to the foot if properly trimmed after touching with the hot shoe. It is also possible that a good fit may be obtained by cold fitting and the latter process is certainly safer. If the foot be perfectly leveled with the ramp and the shoe be made perfectly I feel there is no trouble about making a fit Cultivate the Colt If the colt becomes ill or suffers any injury doctor it and work with it. Your working with the young animal will make it learn to love you. Trim its hoops if they grow too long or become broken in any way. A horse with poor feet is a poor horse, but proper care of the feet of the colt will make good feet for the mature horse. Lamba grow faster if they can get plenty of water to drink a pointer for the man who is in a hurry to get his lamba to market. Makes Lumbering Opportunible While there is an abundance of suitable timber in Brazil, it is difficult to find many districts where the trees suitable for lumber are close enough together for profitable work No Avoiding It If a man gets into the habit of hunting trouble he's sure to find it, and if he's so lazy that he always tries to avoid it, it will find him.—Catholic Standard and Times. The Greatest Japanese He is great who confers the most benefits. He is, Base—and that is the one base thing in the universe—to receive favors and render none. Emerson. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. KNIGHTS OF ARTHIASTA 1888 only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene dues. The only expense for re a rosette, costing 25 cents for f For all information concerning John 31 Should Be Shunned. Why that faraway look in his eyes" Since our engagement he has thought of nothing but marriage! "I wouldn't marry a man who looked on the dark side of things in that fashion!" HOPEFUL Billy Sparrow "God" I hope they'll leave these sucking on the line till after Christ they will think it a mine and be it a lot of good things, maybe The Honest Jack Money makes the world go That the world go But all the world go Won't be beaten Aui a Dream 'I was dreaming just now How do you know you were dreaming I thought I was reading a novel in which the plot 'attains agreed with his text' Merely a Shortage Stranger Your new city directory seems to be a case of Too Much John son Resident Not It a case of Not Even Not Brooch from Lump of Coal A brooch made out of a jump of coal isn't so valuable as a diamond brooch, but it has the merit of rarity. An English woman possesses one which was curved for her by a minor with the aid of a knife and file. The design is a star showing up against a rough cast background. Origin of "Yonkers" Patroon Van de Honck, in the years after 1642 lived such a serene and robust life on his Hudson river estate that the Dutch villagers, called his monarch farm De joukheer landt"—the gentleman's land later compressed by the frugal English into "Yonkers --- Bismarck's Drink Capacity Hismark is credited with drinking one gallon of French brady in a one-night session. Hismark claimed that so long as alcohol wasted its effects upon the brain in keeping up abruptly thought and conversation it had little effect on the rest of the system. - London Barges Disappearing. London barges disappearing. The picturesque red-salted London brage, formerly so plentiful on the river reaches is slowly vanishing. The coopling trade in and out of the Thames has been so bad lately that barges have had to look elsewhere for a living Aa Advertised. He (tank, lean, and much the worse for drink)—Are you the young woman to whom life would be a burden without the companionship of a man, of noble character, and imposing presence—Flegende Blaster. --- N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand Master all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The biggest features, but the principles founded on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $150.00 per week sick dues. The badge of regalia. For information concerning courts of Calantia. In the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 500 funeral occasions. ing special rates of membership in Mitchell 11 N. 4th THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. 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DAUGHTER FINDS HIS BODY Unable to Sleep, He Arose to Smoke a Cigar, and It Is Believed He Was Stricken With Paralysis and Lighted Cigar Set Fire to Couch Cover. With help close at hand, Thomas V. Cooper, "the father of the Pennsylvania house of representation," and one of the best known figures in Republican state politics was burned to death in the sitting room of his home at Media, near Philadelphia. While one of his sons was summoning the fire department, his daughter, Susan Cooper, ran to her father's room, where she thought she would find him sleep. She discovered the aged politician's body was being slowly consumed by the flames from the burning couch on which he lay. The covering of the couch, it is believed, was set on fire by a lighted cigar which Mr Cooper had been smoking. Death may have resulted before the fire, as members of the family, as well as a physician, believed Mr Cooper suffered a stroke of paralysis and fell on the couch unconscious, the lighted cigar dropping on the properties of the couch. While the fire was still blasting the body was dragged from the couch by Harry Turner, a nephew. Mr Cooper spent Saturday night happily with his family. Early in the evening he was seen on the streets of Medla, but returned home to play cards with Mr and Mrs. Thomas V. Cooper, Jr his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Percival Cooper; his youngest daughter, Misa Susan Cooper, who kept house for her father, and Harry Turner and J William Cooper, nephew. The card party broke up at 11 o'clock, and Mr Cooper, who was in excellent spirits, talked of plans for Christmas day. It was after midnight when the family retired. Mr Cooper had for a number of years been unable to sleep at night and was in the habit of arousing members of the family for a brief talk or else going down to the sittingroom on the first door to smoke. During the winter a fire was kept constantly burning in the open fireplace of the room His Last Chat. At 8 o'clock Sunday morning the vetern politician unable to sleep, aroused Mr Turner. The two conversed for an hour. Mr Turner said that his uncle during this time talked of Christmas, telling how he was planning to send turkeys to all the members of his family. Finally Mr Cooper said he was going down stairs. He wore a bathrobe of very infamable material, a Christmas gift from his children. Thomas Cooper, Jr. awoke at 5 o'clock and detected the odor of smoke. He aroused his wife and rushed down stairs to find smoke pouring from the slitting room. While Mrs. Cooper ran upstairs to arouse the other members of the family. Mr Cooper, clad only in night clothes and a bath robe, ran to the fire house a square away not knowing that his father was in the burning room Meanwhile Miss Cooper ran to her father's room, and not finding him there hurried to the sittingroom. She ran down stairs and was about to dash into the smoke when she was pulled back by Mr Turner. He crawled on the room and found the body on the couch. The fire was quickly ex tinguished. The couch was practically destroyed, but the fire had not spread to other furniture. The legislator's face was so burned as to destroy his features and one hand was burned off. Zelaya Forced Out by People. Jose Santos Zelaya has resigned the presidency of Nicaragua He placed his resignation in the hands of congress Apparently there was no other course for him to take The people wore at last around The guns of the revolutionists threatened The war ships of the United States in Nicaraguan ports Manakua has been seeking for days The spirit of revolt has spread even to the gates of the palace. Zelaya surrounded himself with an armed guard Unchecked, the populace have matched through the struts, crying for the end of the old, proclaiming the new regime. Who will take up the reins no one knows, nor cares It is sufficient that Zelaya, as dictator, will be known no more. There is no doubt that congress will act quickly on his resignation for the people have demanded it. Tortured by Robbers Jacob Glimbler, an aged farmer, of Bountain Spring, near Rheenandoah, Pa., was called to the door by four men, struck upon the head with a blunt instrument and felled to the floor insensible. He was quickly bound andugged. His aged wife, at the point of revolvors, was commanded not to move or make an outcry. Two of the men ransacked the house while the others stood guard over the old lady. They secured $00 in cash and turned their attention to Mr Glimbler, taking off his shoes and torturing him by burning his feet with a candle dip and matches. He told them where $41 was. The robbers got it. They then put the aged couple into a bed and beat them cruelly until the old gentleman finally told where his last $95 in gold was hidden. This they received and fled. Will Sell Body. For $10 Xmas Money. Driveth almost to desperation by the thought that her children would be Reprived of the Christmas joys to which they had been accustomed, a framed mother advertised in Baltimore that for $10 she would sell her body, to be delivered after her death to the purchaser. She inserted the following advertisement in a local newspaper. FOR SALE—To secure means to give my children a Merry Christmas, I will sell my body, to be delivered upon death, for $10; am strong, healthy woman, 36 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 153 pounds. Christmas always has been a time of cheer and joy for this woman, who is the mother of four children. She begged that her name be not mentioned. This year, owing to an accident which incapacitated the husband and main wage earner, the little family has just been owing out an exertion on the $3 a week earned by the oldest girl, who is fourteen years of age. Asked what she would buy with the money, she answered promptly. "First of all, shoes. Three of the children need them badly. Then all of them need stockings and the little ones mits Candles there are to be none. The older ones expect nothing, but for the little ones who still believe in Santa Claus there is to be a doll for each" Bix Cremated in Burning Factory. Six lives were lost in the fire which destroyed the six-story casket factory of Schrack & Showwood, at 1618 1618 Callowhill street, Philadelphia. Five others were badly burned and were taken to hospitals for treatment. The financial loss is $250,000. The dead are Joseph Toner, 1507 Parrish street, a fireman, twenty four years old, fell into the interior of the building and was burned to death. Catharine Schoole, nineteen years old, 631 Meeting House lane, Eva Arepa, twenty-one years old, 1241 South Porty-ninth street, Luella Porter twenty years old, 680 North Porty seventh street, Rebecca Smith, twenty years old, 1703 Panamann street, and Louise Camac, seventeen years old 733 Liberty street, Camden, N J. The bodies of the five girls were not found until nearly twenty four hours after the fire started Burned to a crisp, and in some cases dumbbomed, the bodies were almost unrecognizable, but they were identified by jewelry and other articles All these bodies were discovered at the foot of the stairway on the third floor They were piled in a heap together, and the supposition is that one of them fell or fainted in the rush downstairs, and the others stumbled over her and were unable to rise. Girl Killed by Fall Hazel Wolff, a pretty young girl, seventeen years of age, who had been confined in the Christian home York, Pa. for incorrigibility, white trying to make her escape by means of a sheet, dropped from the roof of a three story building and struck her head against a cement pavement fracturing her skull and killing herself almost instantly. The escape was adroitly planned, and it is thought that other girls detailed in, the institution were to follow had her escape been successful Mra. Lydia Clare, the matron, was absent from the city at the time. The girls knew this and took advantage of her absence Daisy Wilcox, who had planned to follow the Wolff girl, gave the alarm when she saw her friend fall to the pavement Admit Huge Sugar Fraud Arbuckle Brothers the big sugar roffiners of New York believed to be independent of the trust and its strongest rival, have acknowledged that they, too, smuggled raw sugar into New York in defiance of the customs laws. The company, which consists of John Arbuckle and William A Jamison, has paid to the treasury department $695.67319 to cover the difference between the amount rightfully due the customs revenue and the amount paid by the company through some as yet secret, means of representing the total weight of raw sugar imported Parenta Are Freed A polite prosae was entered in the court at Mount Holly N.J. by prosecutor Atkinson in the indictment against Mr and Mrs Edward M Watson, prominent residents of Moncatown who were convicted of man slaughter in May 1908 for having caused the death of their seven-year-old son in refusing to summon a physician when he was ill with pneumonia. The supreme court not aside the verdict on account of an error in the judge's charge and the prosecutor thought it useless to try to secure a conviction A Democrat to the Last. Henry Brannon of Samsville, near Kingston N Y who was buried at Palentown requested that no Republican should have anything to do with his funeral or burial Through mistake a Republican from Tabasco was asked to act as a pallboar, but his political faith was discovered before the funeral, and he was displaced Novortheless, the man who served in his place was a Republican. Brannon was always a Democrat. Way Out. Oh, hair dye is pernicious stuff So it your hair is red Or any has not good enough And you feel forced to make a bluff Secure a wig instead Misunderstood. Spinster-I wish the Lord had made me a man. Smart Nephew—Perhaps he has, only you haven't found him yet.—Lippincott's Magnine. Mr. Crimsonbeak-I wish to gracious you'd take that bunch of hairpins out of your mouth when you're talking to me. I can't understand a single word you say. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—There you go. You hate to see me have the least bit of pleasure.—Yoekbars statesman. The Rhyme for Rachel By Clifford Howard (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub Co.) Boated in a street car, Miss Marjorie Hollis was absorbed in the latest issue of the Literary Post. It contained this week a most unusual announcement, and it was this which now occupied her attention to the exclusion of all else. The announcement read as follows An formal appointment ann will be made in literature and in practice not be chosen by any inquiries for other explinations. L N H R Y & B U L T H M Attorneys at Law Was in 1814 D C Circumstances compelled Marjorie Hollis to warn her living and against these circumstances her artisticate and artistic soul waged constant rebellion. Her family and her acquaint ances are regarded her as a spoiled child troubled with extravag gant tastes and a lack of practical sense. On her side she felt that she was not understood nor properly prepared until she met Carter Dillington Like herself Mr. Diltonson was poor and had little literacy reputation and Marjorie felt that in him she end at last found a welcome fellow mortal. He accepted special invitations to the house but cared so much of his own accord appearing a visitor to the home with her in the evening. He was excessively reserved that was one of his personalities so that not withstanding the increasing familiarity of the acquaintancehip Marjorie knew no more of his personal affairs at the end of four months than she did during the first week. There was one other subject on which he was equally resilient and that was the discussion regarding the rhyme for 'Rabel.' The remarkable offer in commission with this matter was a subject of unending curiosity and discussion in literary circles, but Carter Diltonson personally avoided every allusion to it. To Marjorie on the contrary it was one of alluring interest. She lectured a long time before venturing to speak to Mr. Dillington about it. His peculiar aversion to the whole matter embarrassed her. The mere mention of the name 'Rachel disturbed him and her occasional forts to lead the conversation around to the subject were promptly frustrated. Finally however she decided to appeal to him for help. Only one more week remained and she behold her dreams of work, falling from the dull reality of drifting. So as he was about to take his departure after a short call on Christmas day she said suddenly. If a son came to find a rhyme for Rachel it would make him famous who do it? I suppose it would be answered dryly. And it would make him rub! "Oh, Tina. You should be all right with it," he said, his voice full of conviction. Portrait of Tina, it was more esthetic than the next work, but it was more glorious of a life. He and I had been then to be in the same room, and his hand he held for a good night. "Good night," he sounded me mechanically, and the teacher she staggered into the patio and throw log herself upon the wall, burst into a torrent of passion in a trance. Suddenly her sobbing ceased. She sat up bowed, carried in the midst of the crowd, after troubled spirit there, and upon her without warning she thought a rhyme for it to be. Two days later Nathlea Hollis was in Washington. . . on the morning of December 27 she walked into the office of Dundurby & Horden and quietly announced to those two gentlemen that she had come to claim the $250,000 for a rhyme for "Rachel." For a moment the two men stared at her without uttering a sound. Mr Dundurby was the first to find his voice. "Impossible!!" he ejaculated. Then noticing the sudden flush upon his face he checked him self. "Pardon me, my dear young lady! I did not mean to doubt your word; but you have astonished us beyond measure. Let me explain." and he placed his chair beside her. "The extracurricular to which you have responded was made in compliance with the will of our late client, Mr Benjamin F. Morton. He was a trifle eccentric and one of his hobbies was writing poetry. He took a great fancy to a nephew of his and apart no money to have the boy well educated. The old genthemian filincoff had a very limited education, and he was determined that his nephew should not be handcapped as he had been. Well, just about the time the boy got through college the old gentleman struck a snag in this poem of his about Fedora Lilian Hilldagero at all, and he called upon his nephew to help him out with a rhyme for "Racabh." The young man informed him that there was no such rhyme, but his uncle refused to believe it. He insisted that as the lad had had a college education he could find a rhyme if he chose. Well, the upstart of it was that the old gentleman took it into his head that his nephew was obstatine and ungrateful and he cast him off A short time before he died, however, he finally concluded that perhaps there really was no rhyme for Racabh, and he decided to reinstate his nephew in his will; but with this prosaic That a rhyme should first be advertised for and that should any person produce such a rhyme within a year then the money should go to such person in stead of the nephew "As the executors, we, of course followed the provisions of the will, but we were definitely satisfied there was no such rhyme. And yet you say you have found one I am I troo to say it seems incredible incredible. Still, at the same time the offer is a boun fide one and will be carried out to the letter if your rhyme proves to be a legit A "Iimpossible!" He Ejaculated note one. It will certainly prove a most astonishing revelation, and to the nephew Carter I learnt Marjorie felt that she was "to faint May I have just a word to think" she asked faintly Certainly certainly! I did not mean to hurt you. Of course I am afraid you had a trifle against, but take your time and we'll call the rhyme in a minute or two. Several moments passed in silence. Then Marjorie arrows. She faced the two lawyers, and with a tremor in her voice that she struggled bravely to subdue she said slowly "I have not forgotten the rhyme but—but I have decided not to submit it." It was New Year's day when Marjorie again saw Carter Bullington. He called late in the afternoon. Why had he come? she asked herself. Was it to torment her? To cause her wound ed heart to bleed afresh! He appeared not to heed her constrained manner nor the quick flushes that reddened her checks. "Marjorie" he said suddenly, with an impulsiveness and a familiarity he had never before manifested, you have wished me a happy New Year. Do you know that it is you alone who can make the year happy for me supremely happy? I did not dare express my feelings before I was absolutely sure that I could offer you the comforts and the pleasures you deserve. Now I am independent-wealthy, and you Marjorie will you share my fortune with me." It was late into the day we were ready to part. "Is it any wonder" he was saying, as he lingeringly prepared to leave, "that I avoided the subject of my uncle's outandback offer." Supposing that by some possibility there had been a rhyme for Rachel's supposing some one had succeeded in finding it. "But thank fortune, dear there is none." "Yes, but there is a rhyme for 'Rachel,'" she answered softly, casting down her eyes to hide her sudden emotion "Would you like to hear it? Let us sit down here on the sofa, and I will tell it to you." She waited a moment after they were seated and then on a half tromulous whisper she recited the following lines. "A fitting rhyme has been found for each and all of us: Fedora, Lillian Grainy, And Hildegard Leine. And in these names ourselves we find The hidden rhyme for Rachel For in the letters of these names Then in the quiet glow of the mid night firelight she told him her little story Joy of Application: To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end; of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a lauded estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of plausible activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich - Robert Louis Stevenson. --- Whetstones and Houses The particular classes of stone used in sharpening edge tools are varieties of state, derived from agrilaceous schists of the paleocroix. These stones are found in Turkey, Bohmeia, Persia, Harris mountains, in Birr, in the United States, Spain, Peru, and Eiberia. One of the best American stones for bones comes from Arkansas. EMDARRASSING A FRIEND. Attorney H A. Kelley once caused untold embarrassment to the late E A. Handy, general manager of the Lake Shore railroad. The two were sitting side by side in the theater. Handy happened to glance up into the balcony and noticed a loering, fahyed person wearing genteel clothes and a particularly ruddy specimen of night blooming highball blossom on his nose. "Kelley," asked Handy, as he pointed out the man upstairs, "who is that drunken loater there that I see about town so much?" "That follow," repeated Kelley, "oh, that's a cousin of milo"—although he had never seen nor heard of the fellow before. Handy was stunned with mortification. But he did not attempt to apologize. 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There were no important disci- source from Reid's testimony Washington D. ( Post Joe Game Will Be Great $act To Jack Johnson --- When Jack Johnson holder of the world's championship, engaged Jog Gans, retired lightweight champion, to act as sparring partner and chief adviser in his training for the big fight with Jeffries he showed much wisdom. Gans is one of the brainiest boys who ever stepped into a ring from a static point of view. Joe was a strategist from the outset of his career. In fact he won all of his battles up to the time he defeated Frank Erne for the lightweight championship at Fort Erie by strategy for until then Joe was not known as a terrific hitter. He was regarded as a rather tinnel careful sort of a fighter. He never was known to take long chances but fought all his battles with the utmost care at all times exercising good judgment and excellent generalship. Even against then whom he could have knocked out in short order. Gans was never overconfident or careless. GANS ALWAYS CAREFULL He boated with a dud just as carefully and as a wall-guarded as if he had a champion in front of him, and it was a pleasure in those days to see him fight and fiddle and the his opponents into knots. He fairly bewildered them by his cool and tantalizing movements. He glided about the ring with the spring leg movements of a wolf and his lightninglike jaws with the left fat often reminded the writer of the snapping of the caged wolves we have seen frequently in zoos, occasionally sending a short jolt across the other fellow's left to the jaw of those dazziers and the made gans opponents a myriad of stars. Not will he felt positive that he had his man practically subdued would Gans in those early figures take a chance and go to close quarters to out in the finisher. He continued these careful tactics until after he lost to Champion Erne in their first meeting in New York. It will be remembered Gans received a bump from Erne's head or elbow in that fight that almost put one of his eyes out and as he reeled about the ring blindly. At Herford his manager throw up the sponge The New York papera accused Joe of having a charge of felony stalking in a charge that was a downright bit of伤害 for Gans could not see with his elbows hanging down over the eye and the other eye blinded in sympathy with the injured one. CRITICS AROUSE IRE Gans tried to continue, but he could not see his opponent and Herford wisely gave up the fight When the charge of being a quitter was made Gans became angry, and he got right after Erne for another fight. He placed a forfeit of $500 in the writer's hands in the office of the Buffalo Courier, and issued a challenge to Erne. The latter hesitated for some time at the advice of some of his close friends, but Gans and Herford were so persistent in their demands for another whirl that Erne was finally obliged to yield to writer threatening him with Milo Erne. Covered the forfeit, and the Fort Erie Athletic Club handed me its forfeit of $500 as a guarantee to pull off the contest. Both men trained hard for the fight, and they were in fine trim on entering the ring. Erne was as nervous as a race horse at the post, but Gans was as cool as the proverbial cucumber as he sat in the corner waiting for the tap of the bell. In his heart Gans bore malice toward the men who called him a quitter, and he had no particular love for Erne. It was on that night that Joe Gans, for the first time that he career, showed the world that he could hit a knock-out blow at any stage of the game and end a fight in a moment if the opportunity presented itself. He was out for vengeance that night as well as honors and shekels, and he decided to waste no time, but to win the world's championship in a hurry, thereby proving that he was a fit custodian for the title. The colored boy wore a most determined expression as he glided toward Erne on that Historic night. He made no false moves, but went forward with perfect guard, hands almost still, while Erne was prancing from his corner, feinting with lightning-like rapidity as he approached his cool opponent. "Tonight we'll see who's the quitter, Frank!" whispered Joe as they faced each other Erne did not reply, but continued to list Jana made a bluff lead with left hand to the head, and Frank slipped his head to the left to escape what he thought was going to be a left hook at Jana. They fainted some more—that is, Erne did while Jou crowded in closer his now rather pale visage having assumed a terrible expression He let fly another hook with the left for the head just a trifle harder than the other, at the same time concentrating all his power in his right arm and as Erno again ducked away from that left lead Gans shot that terrific right hand up to the jaw with all the force in his make up. It landed squarely, and the Pride of Buffalo went to the floor of the ring as though shot Gans was known as a hard bitter ever after that up to within a year or two of his defeat by Nelson. He lost his punch before that first Nisslon fight, having grown stale through all the years of hard training and fighting he had done during his wonderful career as champion. HELD TWO TITLES WILL COACH JOHNSON Then he will expect Johnson to have enough in reserve to step in at the proper instant and deliver the blow that will bring the battle to an end. Knowing guns style so well the writer feels sure that the foregoing tattoos are the ones Gans will counsel. On the other hand Jeffries does not hesitate to say that he will go after Johnson from the start and put him out of commission in a hurry. We will all be able to get a good line on Johnson for he will do his athletic stunts at the Star Theater this week. We saw Jeff a few weeks ago. Now for the comparison. All the wise follows will doubtless he there in front seats at every performance. Washington D. (Post) 7001 4000 Source Area (m²) Model 1 Splendid Sunday School Commentary Among the recent outputs of the National Instapt Publishing Board in the way of Sunday school help is the National Baptist Sunday-school Lesson Commentary. 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