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THE RICHMOND PLANET CONVICTED MEN ARE ALL INNOCENT Smith, In Confession, Says His Testimony Was False, Alexandria, Va., January 12.—Henry Smith, colored, convicted along with Richard Pines, Calvin Johnson and Eugene Dorssey, of the murder of Walter P. Schultz, near Alexandria, last March, confessed this morning to Crandal Mackey, Commonwealth's attorney for Alexandra county, that Johnson, Dorssey and Pines were all innocent of the crime. He said that he, upon whose testimony they had been convicted, had brought-them into the case merely to save himself. He insisted that he, too, was innocent. He had no thought of saving himself in making this confession, he declared, but did not wish to face his Maker until he had done all in his power to save these innocent men who had been brought into the shadow of death by his statements. Stalling his cell at the county courthouse this morning, with knees bowed almost to the tooo and with arms raised to heaven. Smith called upon God to witness that the three men were not guilty. APPEAL TO BE MADE TO GOVERNOR. Crandal Mackey was later to a reporter that he intended to write to the Governor of the State and ask that the Governor himself listen to the confession of Smith. Mr. Mackey said he had been asked to listen to Smith's confession by Harry Cracks, jailer for Alexandra county, to whom Smith had also his story. From the beginning to the end of the confession, Mr. Mackey said, Smith understood how to show that he had been led into turning State's evidence by the police. Smith told Mr. Mackey that he had no knowledge of the details of the murder of Schultz or of Schultz himself until he learned them from the police. Smith said he had been born, and reared in Richmond; that he had never been farther from Richmond than Washington. When he was fourteen years old he stole a diamond ring and served a sentence for the crime in the penitentiary. There he learned the trade of an uphoisterer. Later he settled in Richmond and worked at this trade. SAYS POLICE TOLD HIM DETAILS "After the murder of Schultz I had no idea that I was connected with the crime, or even suspected. I knew nothing of Schultz, and had never seen him. The police, especially Captain Goods and Policeman Simpson, taught me the details of the crime. "A lady had given me household goods to sell for her. I had sold them, but had kept back the money. Her attorney threatened me with arrest if I did not make good. "I learned that inquiries were being made for me. Thinking it was for this trouble, and that I might be locked up before I could attend to certain matters, I left my home in Alexandria at night. "I walked into the police station later, thinking I was wanted for the monkey matter, and not knowing anything about the Schultz murder. I was told to go on back to a cell, and did so. I was kept there from Friday until Sunday morning without food. "The police thought they could get me to tell about the murder of Schultz. They told me about the murder, and said first, that I was accused of having murdered a Chicago man." NET DRAWN ABOUT HIM "I was glad, for I knew I had never been to Chicago, and could prove it. But I had told people I learned the upholstery trade from a Chicago firm, so they would not know I had learned it in the penitentiary. So they afterwards connected me with Chicago. "The police told me that a mob was coming to lynch me. All Saturday and Sunday night I was in fear of my life. Sunday I was offered food, but refused, asking what was the use of eating if the mob was going to kill me. "The police first suggested to me that Pines and Dorsey had something to do with the murder. They told me they were sure these men were guilty. "The net was closing in on me. I decided that if I was to save myself from the chain of circumstantial evidence I must say that Pines and Dorsey had been guilty. "Later I brought Johnson into the crime to still further strengthen the story. I knew nothing about Johnson, except that he sold cocaine." SAYS POLICE GAVE HIM HOPE Mr. Mackey asked Smith if the police had promised him immunity if he turned State's evidence. Smith replied that he had been told: "You need not fear if you tell everything you know about what Pines and Dorsey and Johnson did." Smith said that the police had taught him how to tell the story of the crime by letting fall bits of information which he made use of in giving his account of the murder. A similar confession, which Smith made to the Alexandria police within the last few days, and which has not been made public before was given out this morning. In his confession he accuses Chief Goods, or the police force, and Policeman John F. Sampson of assisting him, and said that the first story which convicted the men was made by Chief Goods, Policeman Sampson and himself. "I am innocent of the crime," he said. "I was forced to say what I have, and perjured myself so that Chief Goods might make a record in discovering the criminals." As the result of this second confession the three negroes convicted of the murder and sentenced to be electrocuted Friday next will not meet death on that day. Governor Swanson has respited them for sixty days. CONFESSION MADE TO POLICE Smith said in his confession to the police: "I desire to state that the confession made by me at the three trials of Calvin Johnson, Richard Pines and Eugene Dorsey was false and untrue. If they had anything to do with the murder of Schultz I know about nothing about it. "I had always intended to deny this confession and I been acquitted. This was the reason I wanted the judge to sentence me at once so I could tell the truth before Johnson, Pines and Dorsey were executed. "During all of the trials Chief Goods sat behind Mr. Brent and gave me the signs when Mr. Machen answered me questions whether I should answer or not; this by him winking his eyes. "Mr. Sampson handled me all during the trials, and stood by my chair all the time and whispered what I should say." LIE, SAYS CHIEF GOODS Chief Goods, when seen by a reporter, who read to him Smith's confession, branded it as a deliberate and infamous lie. He was greatly surprised that Smith had told such a story. On representations from Attorney Lewis H. Hachen and Judge Barley as to the nature of Smith's confession Governor Swanson yesterday respited the three Alexandria negroes from January 14 to March 18, by which Governor-elect Mann will be in office. If Smith's application stands the tests, application will be made to Governor Mann for a full pardon shortly after his accession. Rev. Dr. Lewis Gets More Money. The Second Baptist Church has raised the salaries of its officers an it is reported that Rev. D. Lewis $150,000 per month or $1,800 per year. Rev. O. P. Thompson, of Newark N. J., an evangelist, is conducting revival services at the First Baptist Church. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. pastor. He called us: A Statement to The Public Concerning The Vernon Lecture. The Executive Committee representing the patrons of the Vernon lecture at True Reformer's Hall, December 9, 1909, beg to say that the event was highly creditable to the good people of Richmond both in the magnificent expression of appreciation for the distinguished position, service and rare talent or the honored guest of the occasion and the satisfactory financial result. The committee has carefully reviewed and closed all accounts. All tickets have been either paid for or returned. There was received from the door, 316 reserved seat tickets; general admission 235, gallery 95, amounting to $183.60. The actual financial returns amounting to $189.10. The total expenditure for securing Lecturer, hall rent, advertising and incidentals were $89.05. There was accordingly a net balance of $100.05, which sum goes to the credit of Third Street A. M. E. Church in the interest of which the lecture was given. R. T. HILL, Chairman Ex. Com. E. H. HUNTER, Pastor Third St. Church. Mr. Robert R. Scott, the brother or the late Capt. Benjamin Scott, is in the city, and will remain several months. Subscribe to the PLANET. As Fists in Squared Circle Boston, Mass., Jan. S.—One of these days the sporting world will prefix the title "Champion Kidder" to the name of Jack Johnson, for, if a fighter ever took keen delight in worrying an opponent with tongue and gesture, it is that same Lil Artha. It is almost a gold mine to brass tacks that Johnson never saw the lines. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," which the poet Longfellow borrowed from Cicero, but he exemplifies them in about every bout in which he engages—presumably an acquirement of ring experience rather than book learning. Take Jack's recent fight with Ketchel, for instance. While the middleweight champion, as he calls himself, was game to the core, Johnson golden smile," and his ever-so-rattled repatriate got poor Stan so rattled that he clearly knew what he was doing. He clearly forgot all about his famous shifts, and the instructions from his corner that he was not to rush, the champion. Time and again, in response to the tannets of Johnson, Ketchel tore in like a wild steer only to receive the shower of straight lefts in the face the champion had in realiness for him. Stan's blind swings, several of which nearly took him through the ropes, served to add to Johnson's merriment and the further disconfirmation of his undersized opponent. AL KAUFMAN SLOW Then again, there's that matinee Johnson had with Al Kaufman. Al is as good natured as a cow chewing her cud, but though big and strong, he is also as slow as a heavily loured freight. Or this Johnson was well aware. He knew Al like a well-thumbed book and the verbal knocks he handed the big German about "slow freights," "cold molasses" and "slow turtles" were particularly raw. They had the desired effect, and of course Kaufman finally got rattled; well. Johnson won and that easily. As to that affair down at Sydney with Tommy Burns, it won't soon be forgotten. A lot of people got an awful jar; were kind of shook down a bit along with Tommy, for they thought the Canadian was going to win. As every one knows Tommy never had a chance—he was out punched and outgenerated to the queen's taste. Johnson had on his enamel leather "kiddin'" shoes when he entered the ring and before the end of the first round had the then champion so riled that he hardly knew what he was doing. "I am going to put you out, you pup," was Johnson's opening shot, and there was no humor back of it, either. "I had to chase you around the world, but now I've got you." "Who ever told you that you could fight?" The vicious shafts or the negro all bore fruit. Remember how Tommy walked into those right-hand upper cuts; what a target he was when Johnson really tried to hit him? Tommy in his blind rage allowed himself to be coaxed into range time and time again of blows which he might have otherwise escaped or guarded against. WHEN PAPKE WON Let's go back to that day in September, 1908, when Stanley Ketchel received a fearful whipping at the hands of Bill Papke and temporarily lost the crown of middleweight champion, which he has of late refused to defend. Like Johnson, Papke fully comprehends the advantages of the talk game, and the breeze he sent to the champion on that day contributed its share toward his defeat. The "Thunderbolt," as Billy is known, had a special brand of talkfest prepared for the occasion, sort of a reservoir of adjectives he had been storing up since that day earlier in the same year, when Ketchel had put one over. This, their second meeting, lasted twelve rounds. Stan taking the full count on his back. During the 36 minutes of actual combat, Papke's fists but beat time for his tongue. The lashing he gave the cowboy-miner from Montana had the latter sky high for fully half the distance. But it was a great lesson for Stan, and while Boston holds that the so-called middleweight champion is scared half out of his wits every time he hears Langford has boarded a railroad train for parts unknown, he wasn't scared to meet Papke again and what's more, won back his title. This last time Ketch just closed his ears, opened his eyes, and waded in from the rub-knuckles, never giving Papke time or opportunity for any conversational warfare. CORBETT AND McGOVERN There are certain fights and fastic happenings that will always bear retelling; I am going back to that Young Corbett vs. Terry Mgovern affair at Hartford, Conn., in 1901, a famous instance wherein talk won a fight. Terry was one of the most excitable chaps that ever entered a ring, having more than an abundance of the quick temper and ready wilt that tradition attaches to the inhabitants of the Emerald Isle. Young Corbett, you may well believe, was fully "heep" to this state or affairs and studied out a program of abuse previous to the battle that he well knew would hit the fiery Terry in a most vulnerable spot. What Corbett actually said may well be left unsaid, but it is history that from the first bell he turned loose a torrent of torrid adjectives, vitellic quips, and hits that aroused McGovern to a pitch of fury as never before. In a twinkling, from one of the most formidable guantes of his duty, he became practically help and in the short space of two rounds was a beaten man, all due to the Denver boy's talk. Corbett's gift of gab more than his boss won that fight. (Continued on either page.) Property Owners Nearby Seek to Prevent Its Use by Colored Congregation. Richmond, Va., January 11.—On behalf of a large number of property owners on Clay Street, James L. Shelton yesterday appeared before Judge Ernest H. Wells in the Chancery Court, asking an injunction to prevent the further use of the Friends' Meeting House, on Clay Street, by a new colored congregation which has recently split from one of the colored Baptist churches. Judge Wells heard a partial statement of the case, and continued the application for the filing of affidavits to substantiate the allegations made by both sides. In his application, Attorney Shelton set forth in some detail that the church on Clay Street, seven First and Fousser, had been owned and occupied by a Quaker congregation and known as the Friends' Meeting House since November 15, 1865. Recently the Quaker congregation disbanded, few of the original members remaining. Last year, with view of selling the property and winding up the affairs of the Little congregation, Judge R. Carter Scott in the 'City Circuit Court named as trustees W. A. Ricks, James G. Whitlock and J. Hoge Ricks. BOUGHT FOR INVESTMENT On October 15, 1909, sale was made by the trustees to W. P. Arwood, a member of the real estate firm of Edward S. Rose & Co. The application alleges that Arwood stated at the time of the purchase that he had bought the property for the purpose of tearing down the church and erecting two dwellings as an investment. The petitioners state in their application for a restraining order that they "had no dream or an idea that any white man could be found in the city of Richmond who would be willing to foil upon the neighborhood a body of regroes." Believing that Arwood was sincere in his statement of having bought the property to convert into real dwellings, the neighbors made no complaint and no effort to prevent the sale, believing that their social and property interests were fully protected. The petition goes on to state that the neighbors have now been informed and believe and charge that Arwood really purchased "with the express intention of immediately selling to a certain negro congregation known as the New Baptist Church," being a body of negroes which split off from the Fifth Street Baptist Church, colored, recently, following the dismissal of Rev. Alexander E. Edwards, the latter being for a time the leader of the new church. CROWDS BLOCK SIDEWALK On the third Sunday of November, the colored congregation took possession of the meeting house, and has since been holding services twice each Sunday, with crowds which far exceed the capacity of the building and which have blocked the sidewalk in front. So far has the overcrowd been noticeable that Building Inspection Been forced to interfere and insist that certain supports being installed under the main floor with changes in the exits It does not appear as a matter of record that any transfer of the property has been made from Arwood to the colored congregation, and it is that transfer that the neighbors seek to prevent, claiming that it would be seriously detrimental to their social and property interests, and greatly alter the character of the neighborhood as a residential section. Judge Wells took the paper under advisement, and directed that affidavits in support of the various contensions be filed in writing. The petitioners are: H. O. Tiller, C. G. Yates, P. Coleman, J. H. Chappell, P. B. Hatcher, E. M. Redford, H. C. G. Rattell, G. Gary J. M. Hulcher, A. Cauthon, J. W. Smith, J. H. Wade, W. O. Day, H. G. Heeke, R. Franclone, J. Weinstein, M. Goshen and J. L. Lindasy; and N. V. Coleman, Wilson N. Hugs and R. E. Tiller as trustees of the Clay Street Methodist Church. Charles White Sentenced Yesterday to Four Years in Penitentiary. Richmond, Va., January 11.—With three police officers testifying against him and three three sitting in his benign, Charles White, the noorious Seventeenth Street negro, and the man who by his own acknowledgement was the first to introduce the illegal trafic of cocaine into Richmond many years ago, was convicted in the Hustings Court yesterday of the charge of having cocaine in his possession, and was sentenced to four years in the State Penitentiary. Gilbert K. Pollock, his attorney, made a hard fight for the negro, and at times it looked as if acquittal was in sight. But the prosecution was bolstered up with evidence that could not be undermined despite the fact that three officers—Detective Sergeant Wiltshire and Policeman Smith and B. H. Werner—went to the witness stand for the defense. Immediately after the reading of the verdict to the trembling "King of Cocaine," Mr. Pollock moved to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and evidence, and made a motion in arrest of judgment, which motion the court continued until a later date in this term. HAD ALL DAY TRIAL The trial lasted all day, and the verdict was rendered just before 7 o'clock. Both Mr. Pollock and Commonwealth's Attorney Folkes argued at length. The defense based its case on the theory that Eddie Fields, the negro who purchased cocaine from White and who was one of the black alliances for the prosecution, had concocted a plot to "throw" White because the accused had given information to the detectives which led to the arrest of Sarah Cousins, the alleged consort of Fields, the Cousins woman afterwards being convicted of a wholesale jewelry robbery in New York. The prosecution showed that the arrest of White and the plan for his capture was due only to the work of a detective department through a white man named Armstrong. Armstrong purchased the cocaine through Fields, giving the man a dollar, the latter not knowing that he was to be a party to the detective's plan. Armstrong furnished the detective's department with the first information, and made an oner to Captain McMahon that he would "throw" White for him. DETECTIVE CAUGHT TWO Captain McMabon then detailed Sergeant Wiley, Wren and Baller on the case, and late one night the three men arrested both White and Fields, holding the latter as a witness against the former. It was on their evidence, coupled with that of Fields, that White was convicted. In their evidence the other three officers helped to sustain the theory that White was given up to the police through the machinations or Fields. Efforts were made to destroy Field's character, and Mr. Pollock introduced several witnesses who sware that Fields had made threats that he would throw White because the latter had thrown Sarah Cousins. One of these witnesses was very amusing. He was brought up from jail to testify. He admitted that he had spent several terms in various city and county jails. He is now serving time in the Richmond Jail. "What for?" inquired Mr. Folkes. "Dey 'cused me of stealin' chickens." he replied, and everybody laughed. "What did you go to the penitentiary for?" again inquired Mr. Folkes. "I dunno zackly," he said. "But I think it was somethin' like lossy." Another witness said that he had gone to jail for "fightin', shootin' and gettin' drunk." It was a fine array of jail birds. AFTER HIM FOR YEARS Fields, when placed on the stand, denied all the accusations brought against him in toto, and declared that he had never known the Cousins woman. Most of the other evidence was in controversy of that / brought out by the defense, though the latter was very strong. White is fifty-two years old. The police have been trying for years to catch him in the cocaine traffic, and he has often been arrested, but always without conviction following. The conviction yesterday is regarded as a great triumph for the detectives and it is believed that with White safely locked away, there will be a great reduction in the cocaine traffic. While the jury was considering its verdict the negro made the statement that he was the first man to introduce cocaine into Richmond, though he declared that he had given up the traffic since it had been made a penal offense. He is much broken and was nervous and excited throughout the trial. — Times-Dispatch. Valuable Hints to Reduce Winter Half a dozen blankets are not necessary to keep warm, nor are thickly piled quilts essential to keep out these chilly January blasts. The great American newspaper will do almost as well. At least, such is the view of a prominent Health Worker in a statement given a reporter today. "It is of course highly desirable," he stated, "to have ample covering of blankets and quilts on cold nights; but where these cannot be had a few simple makeshifts will greatly reduce the amount of suffering. If newspapers are spread between blankets, they will keep the sleeper as warm as several additional blankets. If heavy newspapers, or folds of wrapping paper, are placed under the mattress, next the springs, they will prevent the chill from below and greatly increase the comfort of the bed. This is especially important since many persons, sleeping on single mattresses, overlook the fact that as much cold air comes through the mattress as through the covering. In the same way, persons riding for long distances in the country will find paper a great protection against cold. If a newspaper is folded under the coat across the chest and another across the back, they will effectually protect a person from cold. MOORE SCHOOL 7 A GRADE—Elyen Branch, Clara Hill. 6 B GRADE—Alberta Henley, Lillian Scott, Malinda Jackson, Mary Branch. 6 A GRADE—Jerdenia Johnson, Robert Lewis. 5 B GRADE—Ethel Taylor, Lavinia Scott, Daisy Green, Ollie Jackson, Lella Lewis, Ruth Catlett. 5 A GRADE, No. 1—Rosetta Mines, Richard Winston, Harry Howard. 5 A GRADE, No. 2—Rebecca Martin, Annie Smith, Andrew Walker, Reginald Jackson, Everett Evans. 4 B GRADE, No. 1—Leonard Carter, Elmo Jackson, Belle Payne. 4 A GRADE, No. 1—Marie Clarke, Fanny Ivey, Harvey Johnson, Wm! Kimbrough. 4 A GRADE, No. 2—Mildred Johnson, Edna Anderson, Gertrude Robinson, Louise Jackson, George Anderson. 4 B GRADE, No. 2—Douglas Woolfolk, Wesley Taylor. 3 B GRADE—Chas. Freeman 3, George Branch 2. 3 A GRADE, No. 1—Linwood Briggs, Armstead Walker 2, Elise Boyd. 3 A GRADE, No. 2—Willie Harris. 2 A GRADE—James Brown, Samuel Mosby, Joseph Winston, Rerer Bland, Phoeba Reid, Frances Bland, Lester Johnson, Alma Mann, Raymond Bland. 1 B GRADE—Harry Poindexter, Herbert Toles, Letcher Salle, Cornell Archer, Mary Baker, Annie Hicks, Sarah Johnson, Louise Lewis, Mabel Taylor, Lucretia Wells, Wilhemenia Patterson. 1 A GRADE—Ilene Babel, Regetta Coles, Lillian Green, Jennie Venable Willie Edwards, John Fields, Lesley Hicks, Samuel Walker. Gas Nearly Killed Him Charles Lipscomb, 40 years of age, was found unconscious at 122-A N. 19th Street last Wednesday morning. He failed to come down from his room at the proper time and persons in the house went to see what was the matter. A gas pipe was found to be leaking, although it had been turned off properly. They were just in time. He is slowly recovering. A Baby Wanted I desire some one to give me a little baby. I am able to take good care of it. Write for further information. I will give you full satisfaction in every respect. MRS. SPRIGS, Danville, P. O., Danville, Va. Census Instructions Issued. Washington, D. C., January 3.—U. S. Census Director Durand issued today a letter of instructions to supervisors of census throughout the country, approved by Secretary Nagel of the Department or Commerce and Labor, defining the conditions relative to the employment of negroes as census enumerators. They are directed to select negroes, so far as competent ones are available, to count the negroes in those enumeration districts in which two-fifths or more of the population consists of negroes. He does not consider it desirable that in the South negroes should enumerate white families and he informs the supervisors that it will be necessary in many enumeration districts to appoint both a white and a negro enumerator. The Director's letter to the supervisors is as follows: "SHR. It is exceedingly important to the interests of the people of the United States and particularly to the people of the Southern States that the coming census should give complete and accurate information with regard to the negro race. It is probable that the census will show approximately 10,000,000 or that race in the United States. In large districts in the South, negroes constitute more than half of the population; in fact, in many of the enumeration districts established by the Census Bureau, they will constitute from 75 per cent to nearly 100 per cent of the population. "Negroes can doubtless obtain the information required by the census from members of their own race more accurately than white enumerators. In various of the southern cities the Boards of Education regularly employ negro enumerators to take the school census of the negro population. This is true, for example, in Montgomery, Alabama, and in Savannah, Georgia. This practice shows that the white men or the South themselves recognize the desirability of employing negroes to do work of this character among their own race. "You are therefore hereby directed to select negroes as enumerators of the negro population, so far as competent negroes offer themselves for the position, in those enumeration districts in which a large proportion of the population, say two-fifths or more, consists of negroes. "On the other hand, I do not consider it desirable that in the South negroes appointed as enumerators should be authorized to enumerate white families. It is certain that in many, if not most, parts of the South negro enumerators would not be able to obtain as accurate statistics regarding the white population as white enumerators could. It will therefore be necessary in many enumeration districts to appoint both a white enumerator and a color enumerator in order that the entire population may be properly enumerated. "It is understood, or course, that all applicants for the position enumerator, whether white or colored, should be subjected to such tests regarding their efficiency as may be prescribed, in order that only competent persons may be employed." Contractor Farrar's Narrow Escape Contractor D. J. Farrar had a narrow escape last Tuesday while assisting his men in laying joists on the third story of the Mechanics' Savings Bank building. In helping them, he stepped upon the end of a plank, which snapped like a pipe-stem under its weight. He fell to the planks below, which fortunately for him had been held there. Had he fallen on the north side of the building, he would have gone through and fallen three stories. As it was except for a blown on the head, he was not much injured. Southern Law and Collection Co., 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, (Rooms 12 and 13), Richmond, Virginia. The Installation: The officers of the lodges of Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calantha will be installed by John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor and Grand Worthy Counsellor at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Monday night January 17th, at 9 o'clock. Mr. Mitchell will deliver an address to the members of the Order upon that occasion and all interested in the work of the organization are requested to be present. Subscribe to the PLANET * The The CHAPTER XVIL MORE TANGLES. HILLARD passed the card to Merrilhew who presented it to Kitty Smith had already seen it. He waved it inside moodily. La Signorina's eyes roved as in an effort to find some way out. "It's a pretty kettle of fish," said O'Mally, rather pleased secretly to having created so dramatic a moment. "There's nothing for us to do but to clear out, bag and baggage." Then La Signorina rose to her feet. She took the card from Kitty's fingers, store it into many pieces and fung them over the wall. "We have been betrayed!" she cried a storm in her eyes. "Betrayed? In what manner?" asked Elliard. "Her highness has had no hand in this. I know. Some one with mother has done this." La Signorina, her arms folded, her lips compressed into a thin line of scarlet, the anger in her eyes unabated, began to walk back and forth. "O'Mally gripped Smith by the arm and pointed to the gates. Two carmindieri and an inspector of seals dusty but stern of countenance came up the path. The inspector came on. Without touching his cap—a bad sign—he told upon the tea table a cool and a newspaper familiar now to them all. "Signora," he said politely, but coldly to the whilen prima donna "will you do me the honor to explain this? We have some doubts as to the authority upon which this invitation was" is sued. She spoke evenly almost insolently "The invitation is perfectly regular." Everybody experienced a chill. This time the inspector bowed "Then her highness will occupy her willa?" "She is already in possession I and the Princessa di Monte Bianco calmly Had an earthquake shattered the surrounding bills and guilds opened at their feet it could not have spread to nor more quickly among the transient guests at the Villa Aradne than this declaration. They knew that she was not the princess, and here calmly and negligently she was jeoparding their liberty as well as her own. She was mad The keen eyed inspector look ment note of these variant expressions "Your highness he said his cap setting the dust on the stones dying a thousand pardons for this disagreeable intrusion. It was not only known that your highness was here "It is nothing" replied the pseudoprince "Only I desired to rename cognito for the present" "And the senata" purred the official "We shall go through that formalize the morning after theull. At present I do not wish to be disturbed with the turning of the villa upside down as would be the case were the seals removed." "That will require the permission of the crown your highness" "Then you will set about at once to secure this permission" The air with which she delivered this command was noble enough for any one "You will telegraph to Cranford & Baring, in the Corso Unterno Prime Roma. They will surprise you with the necessary details and information." Loud were the examinations of dismay from the unfortunate Americans and only Hillard and Merritt showed faith in La Signorina and her presentation that she would straighten out the tangle without any additional misfortune coming to her former as sociates in the opera troupe. Kitty, O'Malley and Smith however were convinced that a dirty Italian prison would be their ultimate resting place. "Suppose we go and break the news to Worth" remarked Smith. O'Mally assented stopping a moment in front of La Signoring "We have all been together for many weeks" he said. "Yet who you are none of us knows." The shadow of a smile lay upon her lips and railed. "My name is Sonia Hilda Grosvenor." And her voice was music. "Tomorrow" said Merrilhew. "I'm going to look up the jail and engage rooms ahead. It might be crowded." Beth he and Hillard rode back to their quarters for the night, but they found that sleep was practically out of the question. The morning sun poured over the hills, throwing huge shadows in the gorge below. O'Malley sniffed. As the wind veered intermittently there came to him the perfume of the locust trees now in full bloom. Pietro rucked, his legs crossed, his face blurred in the frilling tobacco smoke. "No more tourists, Pietro?" "No" Pietro alighted. "Did you ever see La figurina before? Do you know anything about it?" Lure of the Mask Copyright, 1908, by the Bobbah Merrill Co. "Never! Not answered Pietro, with the perfect candor of an accomplished lair "Have you ever seen"— "Zitt! She come!" Pietro got up with slurcity. La Signorina was as daintily fresh in her pink frock as a spring tulip. Her eyes were shining, but her color was thin. "I have been looking for you, Mr. O'Mally" she said. "I have just re- ceived a telegram from her highness." O'Mally accepted the yellow sheet. "I can make out a word or two," he said. "It's in Italian." "I forgot apologetically I forgot apologetically Bryce La Principessa di Monte Bianca, gave Sonia Hilda Grosseaner full authority to act as her proxy in giving the ball. As for the invitation she knew absolutely nothing about it. This last statement rather staggered the erstwhile concerlege if the princess hadn't issued the invitation, who deuse had? The dreamy pleasurable days at the Villa Ardinea were no more. The spirit of suspicion now stalked abroad. And there were a coming and going of the many needed extra servants, a to and froing of extra gardeners and carpenters and the sound of many hammers. The ballroom and the dining room were opened and aired and the beautiful floors polished. In Florence there was a deal of excitement over the coming affair for the Villa Aristide bad once been the scene of many a splendid entertainment. There had always been a mystery regarding the Principessa di Monte Blanca Many doubted her actual existence. But the prince was known all over Europe as a handsome spendthrift. And the fast that at this precise moment he was quartered with the Eighth corps in Florence added largely to the zest of speculation. As for Hillard, well indeed he understood now why Mrs. Safford had warned him. He understood now what the great mistake was. He was always at her heels now but speaking no more of his love. She understood and was grateful. Once she plucked a young rose and gave it to him and he was sure that her hand touched his with pity though she would not meet his eyes. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the day before the ball now that the noise had subdued and the servants were in their quarters, La Signorina went into the gardens alone. ArChour earlier she had seen Hillard mount and ride away the last time but once. There seemed to bear down upon her that oppression which one experiences in a nightmare of being able to fly as high to run madly and yet to more slowly, always pursued by terror. Even now there was a single avenue of escape but she knew that she could not profit by it and have these unfortunate depredicts to shift for themselves. Love! She laughed brokenly and struck her hands in suppressed fury. A fitting climax this! All the world was mad, and she was the mad dest in it. Some one was coming along the path. She wheeled impatiently. She wanted to be alone. And of all men Worth was not the one she cared to see. But the sight of his pale face and set jaws stayed her words. She waited restlessly. "I have something to say to you," he said. "upon which your future welfare largely depends." "I am listening." She showed surprise. "There has been a tremendous wonder. as I understand, about this ball in regard to the strange manner in which the invitations were issued." "Have you found out who did it?" she demanded. "Yes." The light in his eyes was feverish. "Who was it?" fiercely. "I issued those invitations." "Your" her lips parted. "Yes. I am the guilty man. The list was the main obstacle. I represented myself as secretary to her highness." "And you have the effrontery to confess your crime to me!" her bury blazing forth. "Call it what you please." "What purpose had you in mind when you did this cowardly thing?" "I had a definite purpose. An imposture like yours is a prison offense. You have seen that I love you, yet always ignore me. You must marry me." "You are hiding a threat." "I shall hide it no longer. Marry me or I shall disclose the imposture to the police." "Oh!" Then she laughed the laughter of one in deadly anger. "Mr. Worth, do you suppose, even had I entertained some sentiment toward you, that it would survive a circumstance like this." "I am waiting for your answer. Yes or not." "No." "Take care," he advanced. "I am perfectly capable of taking care. And Mr. Worth, you will leave this villa at once. And if you do not · THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA quite quickly I shall order the servants to put you forth. "You speak as though you were the princess," he snarled. "Till Thursday morning I am!" La Signorina replied proudly. A man who loses his last throw is generally desperate. He seized him in his arms. She struck him across the eyes with full strength. He gasped and released her. On the night of the ball there was a brilliant moon. Kiss Chinese lanterns stretched from tree to tree. The orchestra was playing Strasa, the dreamy waltzes from "The Queen's Lace Handkerchief" Bright uniforms and handsome gowns dashed by the opened windows. Leaning against the door which gave entrance to the ballroom from the hall were two officers negligently intersted in the moving picture "Shall we go?" "No, not! The prince himself will be here at 11. He was, singularly enough, not invited, and, knowing the story as I do I am curious to witness the accem." Hillard peering gloomily over their shoulders, overheard the Prince Oh. this must not be! There could be only one prince in a matter of this kind. He pushed by the Italians without apology for his rudeness, edged around C. She struck him across the eyes. the ballroom till he reached La Signorina's side. He must save her at all hazards. "The prince himself will be here at 11" he whispered. "What prince?" Dj Monte Blanca. Come, there is no time to lose. I have been holding my carriage ready. "Thank you but it is too late." She smiled but it was a tired and lonely little smile. She had long since armed her nerves against this moment. He stepped back discouraged. He would wait and woe to any who touched her. At precisely 11 the music ceased for intermission. There was a toll. Two carriblers pushed their way into the ballroom Tableau! "Which among you is called the Principessa di Monte Blanca?" was asked authoritatively. "I am she, said La Signorina, stepping forth." "What do you wish?" "You are under arrest for imposture You are not the Principessa di Monte Blanca." Hillard, wild with despair, started to intervene As the carabinerist were about to lay hands upon La Signorina a loud voice from the hall stopped them "One moment" An officer in riding breeches and dusty boots entered and approached the dramatic group. Hillard and Merritt recognized him instantly. It was the man with the scar "This woman," explained one of the carabinerist, saluting respectfully, "is posing as your wife, highness. We are here to arrest her" "Do not touch her!" said the prince "She is the Principessa di Monte Blanca, my wife!" CHAPTER XVIII MEASURE FOR MEASURE SILENCE invested the Villa Arl salue yet a warm and mellow light illuminated many a window or marked short pathways on the blackness of the lawn. A solitary addle horse rattled his bit, pawed reatively and tossed his head worried ly from side to side as if proclacence had touched him with foretelling. On the other side of the wall, lurk ing in the dark alces was a tall, lea- gray hatred old man, who watched and listened and waited. He was watching and listening and waiting for the horse. Seven years' It was a long time. He had not hubbed for this man. He was breaking no promise. Their paths had recrossed. It was deat- The leaving of the guests had been hurried and notay. In truth, it resembled a disorderly retreat more than anything else. The denouncement was evidently sufficient. They had no desire to witness the anticlimax, however interesting and instructive it might be. His highness the Principi di Monte Bianca, Enrico by name, strode up and down the floor, his upright tinkling and his saber rattling harshly. Occasionally he glanced at the group on the opposite side of the room. He laughed silently. Oh, he would enjoy himself tonight. He would extract every drop of pleasure from this unexpected moment. Had she been mad, he wondered, to give him, this loughed for opportunity? A month longer and this action would have been impossible. At fast he came to a stand in front of La Signorina, who was white and weary. "So," he said, "after five years I find you, my beautiful wife! What a岁th of a time you have given meaccessors oceans and continental. A hundred times I have passed you without knowing it till too late, and here at the very moment when I believed it was all right, you sing yourself into the sorrow brains of your adoring husband I do not understand." "Be litle!" she replied, the chill of anions in her voice. Her hate for this man had no empty corners. "Bay what you will and be gone." "I shall, telegraph the attorneys in Rome to partition the estates, my heart!" he mocked her. "The king will not add to his private purse the riches of Colonel Grovehurst and the Principil di Monte Blance, your father and mino—old cools! To tell the truth, I am badly in need of money, and, head of Bacchus, your appearance here is life to me, my dear Sonia. Life! I am a rich man. But," with a sudden acowl, "what position in my household does this gentleman occupy? Indicating Hillard and smiling evilly." "So it is all true, then! Hillard exclaimed. "You are his wife!" "Well?" cried the prince impatiently "I inquire again, what position does he hold?" "This this is mine," she answered, her tone giving hint to the volcano burning in her heart. "However the estates may be partitioned, this will be mine. I command you to leave it at once. I loathe you." The prince laughed. She was simply a sack of gold. But this was his hour of triumph, and he proposed to make the most of it "I could have let the carnibularl take you to prison." he said urbanely "A night in a damp cell would have chastened your spirit." "Is it possible?" returned Hillard "Your highness has but to say the word and I will undertake the pleas ure of relieving you of this man's presence" "Be still," she said. "Will you go?" to the prince "Presently First I wish to add that your dear friend is both thick skilled and cowardly. I offered to alp his face a few nights ago, but he discreetly declined." "I am arm." replied Hillard, gently releasing his arm from her grasp. He approached the prince, smiling, but there were murder and despair in his heart. "Did I known you that night one of us would not be here now?" "It is not too late." suggested the prince "Come are you in love with my wife?" "Yes." The bluntness of this assertion rath er staggered the prince. "You admit it. then?" his threat swelling with rage. "There is no reason to deny it." "She is your" But the word died with a cough. Hillard, a wild joy in his heart, caught the princess by the throat and jammed him back against the rose satin panel. Hillard seized his sword arm and plumed it to the panel above his head. Again and again the prince made desperate attempts to free himself. He was soon falling in a bad way. He gasped, his lips grew blue and the whites of his eyes bloodshot. This man was killing him! And so he was, for Hillard, realizing that he had lost everything in the world worth living for, was read for killing. La Sigortina was first to recover. She sprang toward the combatants and grasped Hillard's hand, the one buried in the prince's throat, and pulled. She was not strong enough. *Mergont*'s *O'Malin*'s *Antele* "Merrithw. O'Mally. Quick! He is killing him!" she cried wildly. The two finally succeeded in separating the men and none too soon. A moment more and the prince had been a dead man. La Sigmirina turned upon Hillard. "And you would have done this thing before any very eyes." "I was mad," he panted, shamed. "I love you better than anything else in God's world and this man means that I shall lose you." The prince birched toward Hillard, but fortunately Merrithw heard the slithering sound of the saber as it left its scabland. Merrithw with a desperate lunge stopped the blow. He flung the saber at O'Mally's feet. "You speak English," said Merrithw in an ugly temper. "You may send your ordering to the Hotel Italie tomorrow morning, and your saber will be given to him. We can get along with out you pleas." The prime toro at his mustaches, Meddition. To return to Florence with out his saber was dishonor. He cursed them all roundly and turned to La Signorina. "I am in the way here," he cried. "But listen. You shall remain my wife so long as both of us live. I had intended arranging your freedom once the estate and money were divided, but not now. You shall read my wife till the end of the book, for unless I meet you halfway the marriage contract cannot be broken. In the old days it was your conscience. The still small voice seems no longer to trouble you" turning suggestively to Hillard "You are stopping at the Hotel lalle?" "I am You will find me there." returned Hillard, with good understanding. "Good! Your highness, tomorrow night I shall have the extreme pleasure of running your lover through the throat." He picked up his cap and took his princely presence out of their immediate vicinity. "It will do my soul good to stand before that secondrol," said Hillard, stretching out his hands and closing them with crushing force. La Bignorina laid a protesting hand on his arm. "I love you," he murmured as he bent to kiss her hand. "And it is not dishonorable for you to hear me say so." "I forbid you to say that!" But the longing of the world was in her eyes as she looked down at his head. "This is what comes of American "I am almost italian, Mr. O'Mally. I had no choice in the matter. The afair was prearranged by our parents, after the coiffinal fashion." When Hillard and La Signorina were at length about the asked, "When shall I see you again?" "Who knew, Some day, perhaps "Who kowpwt, some day, perhaps, withth tah- taal, written the shark cues of this moment. Numbers I shall write, or very soon. "You will send for me!" with eagerness and hope. "Why not? There is nothing wrong in our friendship, and I prize it. Promise." "I promise. Goodbyt. For a little while I have lived in paradise. Wherever I may be, at the world's end, you have but to call me. In a month, in a year, a decade, I shall come. Goodbyt." Without looking at her again he rushed away. She remained standing there as motionless as a statue. He had not asked her if she loved him, and that was well. But there was not at that moment in all the length and breadth of Italy a louder woman than her highness the Principessa di Monte Blanca. Meanwhile the prince, raging, mounted his horse. Eh, well. This time tomorrow night the American should pay dearly for it all. And the woman—he could never understand her. But for her fool's conscience he would not have been riding the beggar's horse today. She was now too, self reliant, too intelligent. She was her father over again, soldier and diplomat. He was riding past the confines of the villa when a man daried out suddenly from the shadows and seized the bridle "At last, my prince!" "Giovanni?" Instinctively the prince reached for his sabor, knowing that he had need of it, but the scabbard was empty. He cursed the folly which had made him lose it. Oddly enough, his thought ran swiftly back to the little casa in the Subine hills. Bahl Full of courage, knowing that one or the other would not leave this spot alive, he struck his borse, with purpose this time, to run his man down. But Giovanni did not lose his hold. Hate and the nearness of revenge made him strong. "No, no!" he laughed. "She is dead, my prince. And 1-1 we not going to seek you. I was going to let hell claim you in its own time. But you rode by me tonight. This is the end." The prince unhooked his scabbard and swung it aloft. But Giovanni was fully prepared. He released the brittle his arm went back, and his knife spun through the air. Yet in that instant in which Giovanni's arm was poised for the cast the prince lifted his horse on its manneches. The knife gushed the animal deeply in the neck. Still on its manneches, it backed, wield with the uncustomized pain. The tip of the road at this spot rotten and unprotected gore way. The prince tried to urge the horse forward. The blind quarters sank and the prince tried to vain to slip from the saddle. There came a crash a cry, and horse and rider went pounding down the gorge. Giovanni trembled, and the sweat on his body grew cold. For several minutes he waited dreading, but there was no further sound. He searched mechanically for his knife, recovered it and then crept down the abrupt side of the gorge till he found them. They were both dead. "Holy Father, then hast waited seven years too long!" Giovanni crossed himself. He gazed up at the ledge where the tragedy had begun. The cloud passed and neglected the shining munkets of two caramilier doubtless attracted by the untoward sounds. Giovanni stole SCHOOL This man was killing him over the stream and disappeared into the blackness beyond. It was Merrilhew who woke the sleeping cabby, pushed Hillard into a seat and gave the final orders which were to take them out of the Villa Arladen forever. He was genuinely moved over the visible misery of his friend. Whop they arrived at the white hotel in the Borgognanni Merrilhew was glad. At 0 in the morning Hillard heard a fast banging on the panels of the door "Open, Jacki Hurry!" cried Merrilhew outside. Hillard opened the door "What's the trouble, Dan?" he asked. Merrilhew whispered, "Dead!" "Who?" Hillard's heart contracted "The prince. They found him and his home at the bottom of the gorge. The concierge says that there has been foul play—tracks in the dust, a strange cut in the deck of the horse and a scabbard minus its saber. Now, what the devil shall I do with the blamed sword? Dead! Hillard sat down on the edge of the bed. Dead! Then she was free, free! "What shall I do with the sword?" demanded Matthew a second time. "Put it in the bottom of the trunk and leave it there till you land in New York. But the prince dead? You are sure!" "Florence rings, with the story." And then Merrick notwed. Hillard still, wore his evening clothes and the bed was untouched. "That's very foolish." "Why. I couldn't have, closed my eyes." replied Hillard. "Not wont and need was on them!" that won't and need you or them. Meirlhew was obviously troubled. Marrinne was obviously troubled. "If she needs me she'll send for me. I shall remain here and wait. She is free. Thank God!" "Didn't Glovanul tell us that he had friends in Plecopte, near Florence, and that he was going to visit them?" asked Merrinne. "Glovanul! I had forgotten. But what had my old valet against the prince?" "Glovanul had a daughter," said Merrinne. "His kulfe left a scar on the man. The prince carried a long scar on his cheek." Hillard began dressing in big day clothes, stopping at times and frowning at the walls. At night the last of the American Comic Opera company straggled into the hotel. O'Mally, verbose as ever, did all the talking. "You wouldn't know her," he said, referring to La Signorton, for they would always call her that. "When she heard of that duffer's death I swear that she believed you had a hand in it. But when she heard that the accident had occurred before you left the villa she just collapsed. The police were hunting for the missing anber. Of course we knew nothing about it." with a wink at Merrthew. When the others were gone Hillard asked Kitty if she had any news. "She said that she would write you and for you to remain here till you received the letter." "Was that all?" "Yes. Have you seen anything of that wretched man Worth, who is the cause of all this trouble?" "No, nor do I care to." Kitty and Merrihew went out together They were gone to America, and Hillard was alone. He missed them all sorely. Merrihew with his cheery laugh. Kitty with her bright eyes and O'Malley with his harmless droleries. And no letter! Daily he searched the newspapers for news of Glorantau. But to all apparances Glorantau had vanished, as indeed he had, forever out of Hillard's sight and knowledge. The letter came one week after the departure of his friends. It was post marked Venice. And the riddle was solved My father was Colonel Grovese, member of the Confederate army during the Civil war. On General Lee's staff was an Italian named the Principi di Monte Blanco. Rich fitted a real noble he was at heart an adventurer a word greatly abused these inglorious days. My father was out from the same pattern a wild and rockless spirit in those crowded times. The two became friends such as you and Mr. Merrifield art. Their exploits became famous. My father was also rich and a man of foreight. His real wealth was in foreign securities, mines, oils, steel steamships. When the war terminated the prince prevailed upon my father to return with him to Italy Italy itself was in turnoll II Re' Galantiumo, that Piedmontese hunter Vittorio Emanuele wished to literate Venice from the grusp of Austria to wrest temporal power from the Vatican and to send the French troops back to France Well, he accomplished all these things and both my father and the prince were with him up to the time he entered the Quirinal. After victory pence. My father invested in villas and palaces and settled down to end his days in the Venetian palace on the Grand canal Then my father, still young, remember, fell in love with the daughter off a Venetian noble. It was a happy union. Shortly after the prince also married. He was with the exception of my father, the most lovable man I ever knew-brave kindly impetuous, honorable, witty and wise. It does not seem possible that such a father should have such a son. There came a great day. A young prince was born and the rough king stood as his godfather. Later I added my feeble protest at the cost of my mother's life. As I grew up I became my father's constant companion. We were always out of doors. By and by he sent me to America to school. I returned from America to enter a convent out of Rome and inker went to Milan and studied music. One fatal day the old prince and my father put their heads together and determined that this great friendship of theirs should be perpetuated. The young prince should marry the young signorina They drew up the strangest of wills. Both men were in full control of their properties. There was no mentailed estate such as one finds in England. They could do as they pleased. And this was before Italy had passed the law requiring that our art treasures should be sold or transported Fortunately for me, my mother's property was considerable. The impossible clauses in the joint will read that if we two young people declined the bargain the bulk of the estates should revert to the crown Again, if we married and separated and were not reunited inside of five years the fortunes should become the crown's. If, having seepitted from my husband, either for just or unjust reasons, I should secretly or publicly occupy any villas or palace mentioned in the will it would be a tact admission that I accepted my husband. Was there ever such an insane tangle kindly miscast? We must marry; we must be happy. That our minds and hearts were totally different did not matter at all. Time went on. The old prince died suddenly; his wife followed. And then my kind and loving father went the way. I was taken under the wing of a duchess who was popular at court. At this period the young prince was one of the landowner men in Europe. He was brave, clever and engaging. On completing my education I decided to live in Rome. The old duchess mothered the rich American girl gladly, for, though I was half Italian, they always considered me as the child of my father. I was presented at court. I was asked to dinners and receptions' and balls. I was quite the rage because the dowager queen gave me singular attention. changed in some way. But I was blindly young. Often I noticed the long scar on his cheek. He had received it he said, in some cavalry exercise. Now, there was another clause in this will. It was the one thing which made the present life tolerable and possible to me. We were to be mar- R. "Because I love you!" ried without pomp, quietly, first at the magistrate's and then at the church. At last the day came. We passed through the streets to the magistrate's. I did not know then that I was not in love, that I was only young and curious. I threw roses to any who asked. The prince sat heathen in full dress uniform looking very handsome and distinguished. The prince smiled but he was nervous and not at ease. I thought nothing of this at the time. I believed his nervousness a part of my own. The magistrate performed his part. Legally we were man and wife. We were leaving for the church when at the very doorway a handsome woman, sad eyed, weary shabbily dressed touched me on the arm. "A rose, signora" I gave it to her, smiling pityingly. "God pray," she said, "that this man will make you happier than he made me!" "Let us be on!" said the princess eagerly. "Walt!" I turned to the woman. "Signor, what do you mean by those words?" "His highness knows." She pointed to the princess, whose face I now saw, strangely enough, for the first time it was black with rage and agnellness. "What has he been to you?" I demanded. She answered I understood In that moment I became a woman without illusions Without looking at the prince I entered the carriage and closed the door in his face He stormed; he led I was of stone He turned upon the poor woman and struck her in the face. Even had I loved him that would have been the end of the romance I drove home There would be no wedding at the church that day There was a great annual Every one took up the prince's cause, with the exception of the king The prince was almost bankrupt He had squandered his all He had sold to usurers half of the fortune he expected to get after marrying me He had not the slightest affection for me He was desperate and wanted the money How old and wise I became during that ride home from the magistrate I rowed he should never have a penny It should all go to the crown When at length he found that I was really serious he became base in his tactics. He was the one who was wronged. He gave life id such rumors among those I knew that soon I found doors closed to me which had always been open <No Italian woman could see the matter from my point of view. I was an American for all that my mother was a Venetian therefore I was wrong --- There! That is all. There is no more mystery concerning Sonia Hilda Grosvenor. And so the letter ended. There was not a word regarding any future meeting. There was nothing to read between the lines. A great loneliness surged over Holland. Was this, then, really the end? No! He would wait here in Florence till the day of doom. He would waste no time in seeking her, for he knew that if he sought he would not find. Day after day dragged through the hours, and Florence grew thinned and torrid. Sometimes he rode past the Villa Aridne, but he never stopped. It was in the middle of June that one afternoon the concerge handled him a telegram. It contained but three words. 一 Villa Berbellolo, now a hotel, stands on a wooded promontory among the Alps and between the lakes, at Belloggio, and all day long the warm-sunshine floods its walls and terraces and glances from the polished leaves of the tropical plants. The 6 o'clock boat from Como puffed up notily and smokily to the quay, churning her side paddles. Hillard stepped ashore impatiently. What a long day it had been! How white the Villa Berbellolo seemed up on the little hilltop. He gave his luggage to the portor from the Grand and followed him on foot to the hotel. He dressed quickly, and in less than an hour he stepped forth from the gardens and took the path up to the villa. Afar he saw a table spread under the great oak. A woman sat by it. It was still daylight, and he would have known that help of hair among the ten thousand hours of heaven. She did not rise, but she extended her hand, a grave inquiry in her slumbrous eyes. With equal gravity be clasped the hand, but held back the impulse to kiss it. He sat down opposite her and smiling whimsically for ```markdown ``` SATURDAY.....JAN. 15, 1910. quired: "Now, whore did we leave off" At first she did not understand. He enlightened her. "I refer to that Arabian Nights entertainment in New York. Where did we leave off that interesting discussion?" She smiled brightly. "We shall take up the thread of that discourse with the coffee." "Why not countermand the order for dinner? I am not hungry." "But I am," she replied. She was wholly herself now. The tact with which he began his address dissembler raised her. For two days she dispatched the telegram who had lived in a kind of ecstatic terror. She had even regretted the message once it was beyond recall. "I am human enough to be hungry sometimes." She summoned the waiter. The dinner was excellent, but Hillard scarcely know what this or that plate was. And when the waiter brought the coffee and lingered for further orders it was Hillard who dismissed him rather curtly. He said mutually: "We had agreed that it would be best never to meet again, that, to keep the memory of that night fresh in our minds, a souvenir for old age. It were wistful to part then. Well, we can keep the memory of it for our old age. It will be a little secret between us, and we shall talk it over on just such nights as this." He reached for her hand, which lay upon the cover, but without apparent notice of his movement she drew it back. A flash of pain crossed Hillard's face. "I have waited patiently for weeks." She faced him with an enigmatic smile, lighted a match, bliss it out and drew a line across the center of the table. He laughed. "What! Again?" "Observe." As a refollower he smoothed out the telegram he had sent to him. "Why did you send this to me?" Her line bad no answer ready "There can be but one reason," he pursued "Friendship." The bestening of the night was cool, but the fire of the world's desire burned in her cheeks, and she was afraid. She stepped to the railing, faced the purple mountains and sang "Die Zauhernote." Hillard dared not touch her till the sat note was gone. "I did not come here because of friendship," he said. "Only, one thing brought me—love and the hope of love." She stared at him, her hand at her throat. Then he took her in his arms suddenly, hungrily even roughly "You are mine, mine, and nothing in the world shall take you from my arms again, Sona." She pressed her palms against him and stood away. She looked bravely into his eyes now. "I sent the message because I wanted ed you, because I am tired of lying to my heart, because I have a right to be happy because because I love you! Take me and oh, be good and kind to me, for I have been very lonely and unhappy. Kiss me!" with a touch of the old imperiousness She clasped him fondly to herself "See Naples and die," she whispered, "but the spirit will come to Bellaggio." Snake's Sixth Sense. That the snake bite has a sixth sense by which it finds its mate in the woods and unmeringly trails its prey is the belief of a man who is a special student of snakes. The seat of this sense of direction is supposed to be the curious forked tongue, which can have none of the uses to which the tongue is usually applied, but is a feeler and more and is incessantly darting about as the snake travels. A lizard was seen to come from beneath a house in the woods, take a sling course and disappear under a box feet away. Two minutes later a black snake appeared, passed over the lizard's exact course, keeping the tongue constantly seeking the trail, and darting under the box, quickly emerged with the lizard in its jaw. Many other observations seem to prove that the tip of the tongue is the guide. Ex change. Steadfast. There had been a cyclone, says a writer in the Cleveland, Plain Dealer, and the colonel's house was unroofed, his barn crushed and two miles of his fence blown clean over into the next county. Commenting on the catastrophe, two men of the neighborhood engaged in the following conversation: "Pretty stiff blow." "Yep; ninety mile an hour. The explorer says he crawled out of his cyclone cellar after it was all over, an what do you suppose was the first thing he saw?" "Give it up." "He looked across his back lot, and there was his bired man still sittin' on the fence!" African catfish have the percular power of discharging an electric shock that is sufficiently powerful to disable a man. "I see where some college professor is writing about 'The Women Men Marty.'" "Ten, I've read it." "Do you agree with his conclusion? What women do you think men generally say?" COLONEL JOHN SNEED, having cultured with satisfaction to himself and pleasure to his wife, lighted a cigar and strolled around the corner to the modest cottage in which his son-in-law had recently established himself. "Where's William?" he inquired after he had paternally pecked at the pretty lips presented to him and accepted the comfortable seat in the living room. "Hope he's at home." "Yes, he's at home, papa," the daughter replied, and a roster flushed came into her cheeks as she added. "He's just gone to the woodshed for a moment." Colonel Sneed noticed the heightened color, and his curiosity was aroused. "It's a pretty warm day," he remarked, with a twinkle in his eye. "I don't reckon he's gone to build a fire, is he?" "No, papa, it isn't that. I told—he thought—I—he went out there to smoke." "What," exclaimed the colonel—"gone to the woodshed to smoke! What in the world! Why don't he get on the roof, or sit on the gatepost? Why don't he come into the house or—say, little girl, is this some of your doun's? And he looked at his daughter sternly through the incense that arose from his cigar. "Well, well, papa," she replied falteringly, "I don't want him to smoke in the house, and I thought we ought to begin right and—" "Huh!" grunted the colonel. "That's a fine way to begin. Turn your hus- "TURN A MAN INTO AN ANGEL." band out of doors just because he wanted an after dinner smoke, force him to roost with the chickens while he contemplates the vanity of life in general and of matrimony in particular; Go and tell him to come no-na, wait a minute, little girl. Just let him keep on roostie' for a little bit while I tell you something' "This world, honey, wasn't fitted up as a habitation for cherubims and things of that sort. It was made for mortal men and women, and you can't turn a man into an angel without call in the undertaker. I believe everybody ought to be good, but there's such a thing as bein' too good to be interesting. It's the little 'faults I'm talkin' about, you understand—the fallin' that all of us have, more or less of, and wouldn't be exactly human without. I don't know whether it's exactly right to call 'em blessin', but it seems to me that they act kind of like safety valves and keep us from dour worse things. Anyhow, it's been my experience, an' I've been here a long time, honey, and kept my eyes open—it's been my experience that a man who don't appear to have any faults had better be watched. The natural born cussetuous 'i pile up inside of him until some day he'll bust out and 'stonish the natives. That's why I say, honey, that it won't do to bottle a man up too tight. Unless you have an outlet for the meanness that's in him you're likely to have trouble, and I don't know of any better outlet for masculine depravity than a good clear. "Now, little girl, you've married a man. I've been watchin' William pretty close since I came home, and I'm tolerably well attained that he's the real thing. He's got some rough edges that might be sandpapered down with benefit to himself and to you, but I want to give you a straight tip, little girl, and that is that the smoothin' out process will go a whole lot easier when he's got a ```markdown ``` in shape to submit, good cigar between his teeth. There's something about burnout's tobacco that makes a man more susceptible to impressions from without and more readily influenced by reflections from within. Let him have a mild Havana, fix him up comfortable in an easy chair, and he's in shape to submit to most any kind of a domestic operation that is prompted by love and reason. He isn't doped. Smoke don't steal away a man's brains. On the contrary, it stimulates his intelligence and opens his eyes to a better appreciation of the beauty and goodness around him, while at the same time it softens his heart and soothes his nerves. It has a tendency to make a man more amenable and more amenable, and after a good many years of observation, my dear, I am pretty well satisfied that there's noth- Subscribe to the PLANET. 0 MARINE SEA "TOO MUCH TOBACCO." in' that'll promote matrimonial harmony like a good cigar smoked at home. You never heard of a man with a cigar in his mouth breakup' in the furniture or draggin' his wife around the room by the hair of her head, did you? No. I guess not! Not it don't induce hip to sneak out into the kitchen and kiss the cook, either. Its influence is always in the direction of virtue. Many, a crisis domestic and otherwise, has been prevented by the contemplative restraint of a good cigar. You needn't smile, little girl. That's no joke. Of course you can always get too much of a good thing. Too much tobacco will work harm in time, but so will too much ham and egg, and the man who smokes at home isn't half as likely to overdo it as the man who has to go out in the woodshed or to the corner saloon or to the club. "And that brings me around to the main point that I want to press into your pretty little head. You've got your hair fixed mighty nice this even 'nin' honey. New style, ain't it? Ituh!uh! Looks fine. But, as I was about to say, the best place for a man to smoke his cigar is at home. Now, you've got Bill out there in the back yard tryin' to get some satisfaction out of his smoke, and he isn't gettin' it. Smoke, for the most part, is a mental process, and its enjoyment is measured a good deal by the surroundin' Bill's puffin' away out there and wonderin' why it burns so slow. All the time he's thinkin', and you oughtn't to blame him if his thinks al't the man you'd like to have workin' around in his brain. He ought to be sittin' here and lookin' at you just as I am and wonderin' to himse how in the world he was lucky enough to get such a dear, delightful little wife. Instead of that he's probably thinkin' that it's mighty tough that a man can't smoke in his own house. if he has to go away from the house to do his smoking' he'll gradually go farther and stay longer, and the first thing you know you'll yourself sitin' up at the front window at 2 ALL THE TIME HE'S THINKING. o'clock in the morning trying to figure out what's happened to Bill and wonderin' whether you ought to get out a rollin' pin or a mustard piaster. "No, little girl, mind what your old daddy says. Don't try to make a seraphim out of Bill. Keep him at home. Make him think that home is the sweetest and pleasant place on the face of this green earth, and let him smoke anywhere he doggone pleases." Be Sociable Anyway. There never was a road yet that didn't run in two directions, and unless you stand still you've got to travel one way or the other. There's a considerable crowd goin' both ways on this highway of life, and that belft the case it's just as easy and a whole lot pleasanter to have company. Whether a man's goin' to heaven or goin' to the devil it's better to be scable. I never did have any use for the fellow who flocks by himself to practice either his virtues or his vices. Now, I take it for granted that you want to go in the right direction, and, if so, you'll find the only real crowd that goin' your way is in the church. They're in the church primarily, I guess, because of its promises, but apart from that they're in it because Jordan, as the old song says, is a hard road to travel, and they need the help of the church to get them the stony places. That's just why you need it and just why you can't afford to go along without it. Don't get in the habit of lyn' in bed of Sunday morning's—Colonel John Breed. Enforced Polliteness During his term at the Military academy General Fitzighn Lee placed a dummy in his bed one night and went down to Benny Havens. The inspecting officer reported him, and he was hauled up and sentenced to walk ten extra hours of Sunday guard duty during the time cadets were allowed out of barracks. One Sunday afternoon, when all the world was having fun and enjoyment, young Lee was walking one of those extra hours when he saw General Robert E. Lea, then captain of engineers and superintendent of the academy, pass his post with his father-to-law, George Washington Custis. As they passed he came to a "present" and heard the general say to Mr. Custis. "Do you know that young man is walking extra hours for violation of the regulations?" "No, quickly responded Mr. Custis, "but he is very polite, is his not?" We will also be pleased to quote you prices on exterior and interior view work. 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In public that the United States Government has placed national patient rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected, and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. positively remove Dandruff. Our The Balsam of all impurity, Restore Hair on Clean Tentile Hair. Our The Face Beauty makes the use of power entirely uneremy and the perfectly harmless Sale Price, 25 and 50 cents and $0.00 per bottle. A charge of ten cents extra is imposed on all of our orders, money can be by Post Office Money Order, or karges Money Order, all compounded. HAWKINS-PRICE COMPANY, 616 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. Phone 4601. Correspondence Strictly Confidential. RAILROADS. N & W NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Schedule is Effect April 11, 1900. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond Daily; For North-8:000 A. M., 8:000 P. M. and 8:000 P. M. For Lybbach and the West-8:000 A. M., 13:100 P. M., 9:000 A. M. For ARIEFE RICHMOND. From Norfolk-11:450 A. M., 6:500 P. M. From the West-7:000 A. M., 2:000 P. M., 8:150 P. M. Pullman, Monitor and Sleeping Cars Cars Dining Cars. W. B. REVILLE, Gen. Pess. Agent. G. H. BOSLEY, District Farm Agent. ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE APRIL 11, 1904. TRAINS LEAVE HIGHWEST DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:125 A. M. and 7:255 P. M. For Norfolk: 8:000 A. M., 8:000 P. M. and 6 P. M. For N. and W. Ry., West: 8:029 A. M., 13:100 JOHN M ARRIVE RICHMOND. From Norfolk-11/45 A. M.; 8:10 P. M. From the West-7/00 A. M.; 8:10 P. M.; 8:15 P. M. Pulmina, Past and Sleeping Cars. Cars Disc. Ours. W. B. HENKEL. G. G. BOSLEY. Gen. Paas. Agent. District Paas. Agent. ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE APRIL 11, 1894. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:13 A. M. and 7:25 P. M. For Norfolk: 9:00 A. M. and 9:00 P. M. and 6 P. M. For N. and W. Ry., West: 9:00 A. M. and 12:10 P. M. For Petersburg: 9:00 A. M. and 12:10 P. M. and 6 P. M. and 6 P. M. and 7:15 P. M. For Goldbreeze and Pyrtwells: "8:18 P. M. 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If you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your subscription has run out, you then notify us by Postal Call to discontinue it. The courts have decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the end of time for which it lasts been paid are held liable for the payments of the subscription up to date when they end of the paper disclosure. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discount your subscription, in full (or in full all others) we cannot find your name on our books. OF ADDRESS—in order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the farmer as well as the present address We shall one day reach the top most round in the ladder of success - 0 Dr. Booker T. Washington is more active today in racial enterprises so far as they relate to white men than he was ten years ago ```markdown ``` Colored people are not dis- couraged. They are often disheart- ed and worried but they are stepping up to success --- When a puffy colored man goes round he always wins friends from both white and colored folks even though he does not speak a word. A colored man who is a Democrat can now obtain a hearing. Twice years ago he couldn't even hear tinnitus when he talked to address the colored man upon a critical subject. The right now raging in the house of Representatives should cause no uneasiness. The policy of the present administration has put a premium upon the support of Democrat policies and politics. President Taft has placed a free trade Democrat in the cabining and he is quoted as saying that he hoped a free trade Democrat would succeed President Taft in the White House. We are disposed though to doubt that even under the influence of wine, Secretary Dickinson would have made any such statement -0 - PEINTRY IN ITS WORST PHASE The disposition of white furies to accept on their face value the perjured testimony of witnesses who allied that they are turning state's evidence was never better exemplified than in the cases of Richard Pines, Calvin Johnson and Eugene Dorsay, who were to have been electrocuted for the alloged murder of Walter F. Schultz, of Olcago, Henry Smith now saw that his story was a base fabrication of the facts in the case. A white, witness had previously established an alibit for these men, but upon the weight of this man, who was anxious to save himself, all three of them were sentenced to die in the electric chair and finally he was given the same fate. White people, who interested themselves in the affair succeeded --- in having Governor Swanson captures the convicted man from time to time. Governor Swanson has further requested them for sixty days, thus transmitting to his successor in office a legacy which he would have done well to have retained in his own keeping. This wholesale execution of colored men upon the slightest provocation where a white person is involved has become a stench in the nostrils of those Virginians, who like justice and who abhor evil. This case is an object lesson and in the future white men would do well to remember it. Perjury is a common asset in this commonwealth and it is certainly time that the penal side of it be enforced Her Objection Real Estate Agent trailing off description of house to Mrs Fradley a prospective tenant. Here the kitchen en-suprised room all modern conveniences hardwood floor Mrs Fradley interrupting. Oh it won't do at all. My present kitchen has a soft wood floor and the break age of dishes even so that is some thing frightful. Break in life FIRE FOLLOWS MINE EXPLOSION Five Killed and Four Injured in Anthracite Colllery. Witkes Barre Pa Jan 12 A terrific explosion at the Nottingham collery of the Lighh & Wilkes Barre Coal company caught a number of the workman and it is known that five have been killed and that four others are injured. Officials of the company headed by General Manager Charles F Huber are doing all they possible to get into the working where the explosion occurred, and the fire is raging and it will probably be many hours before it is finally known just what the extent of the explosion was. A party of men under the charge of Foreman David Roberts were doing some repair work in one of the lower voles of the colliery which is a very gaseous mine and they were equipped with safety lamps and it is presumed by the mining officials that the carelessness of some man in the party in exposing the flame of his lamp caused the fire to ignite and the explosion followed It is stated that Roberts and four Shlavit labors were killed and that of the four Shlavit labors who were injured were so badly burned that there is no slight chance of their recovery. 0 1 2 3 Bill to Grant Pension to Mrs Cleveland Washington Jan 12 Pension of $5000 a year to the Mrs Griser Cleveland land according to president and senator Ront presented to the senate a bill making the grant. The amount is the same as all wards. Mrs M Kwon Mrs Gafford W. Ward and Mrs Taylor window for presidents. Kills a Widow With Bare Hands Slowly close the window and the widow will be able to put the window up. PLUNGES FROM HIGH BRIDGE TO DEATH Worker Killed as Wife and Children Arrive. New York, July 14, the fate that are not yet known must of the train wreck which took on life on lift bridge to the train station in Swede who died while fighting to his health in the New Manhattan biting at the train station instant that had not been to train cars were coming up the tracks of the steamship that had brought them from Europe and were gazing on the towering structure of which Hanau had not many picture past cash home to Swede. To get at his work Hannon had to get into a sort of shallow basket, a large edition of which in which films are packed, which was suspended from the lower stroke of the bridge by two slender steel cables attached to either end. He attached up from his sucker of a basket to haul himself along the structure to a particularly difficult bit of wiring, when the contraption slipped and Hannon slid over its edge. He managed to grip the edge and hung there, the sweat drowned down his fists and the fear of the end that was to come in his eyes. He didn't dare to speak; to have done so would have been to waste the strength he knew he must husband. The blood squeezed out of his finger tilted left hand, which he still maintained a grip of his swirling perch, loosened, and he shot through the loop down to the river. The man's body didn't reappear All the force at work on the structure quit after the river had closed over Hanken's body. No one had been deputed, however, to go to the plier over in Hoboken and explain to Christina and the kids why Julius was not there to meet them. Says He Will Be a Candidate For Re-election. Pairing In House of Representatives to Be Closely Scanned by Both Parties—insurgents Have Strong Agreement and Keep Their Plans Secret. Washington, Jan 12.—Speaker Cannon in an interview emphatically denoted that he intended to rotire as a result of the bitter factional fight in the house. He also said he did not contemplate making an announcement that he would not be a candidate again for speaker "These imaginary stories" dealing with retirement are getting to be the regular thing," he said. "Hereafter I am not going to take the trouble to deny them But I will say now, once and for all, that I am not thinking of realising and will not resign I have repeatedly said that I intended to die in the harness and the only thing that will make me change my mind will be in the failure of the people of my district to re-elect me to my seat in the house." Nothing could have been more empathic than the manner in which Speaker Cannon made this statement. Apparently unworried never with more vigor Mr. Cannon did his best to put a quietus once for all for the reports that as a concession to his loyal but harassed friends in the house he was contemplating making an anouncement that he would not be a candidate for the speakership of that body in the Fifty-second congress. Undoubtedly at this stage of the game there are quite a number of Mr. Cannon a friends who are having considerable trouble in their districts over the issue of Cannonism, so-called, and who would be happy to bear that the speaker had issued a formal statement declining to be a candidate for reelection, and are not the kind of men who duck from under and they intend to stand by the speaker Significant action was taken by Representative John Dwight, of New York the Republican whip of the house, when he ordered the Republican pair clerks not to make up any more pairs until approved by him. As soon as Representative Underwood, of Alabama, the acting minority leader or learned of this, he sent Representative Garner of Pennsylvania, acting deputy to the Democratic pair clerks to say that he more confidently for pairs should be considered unless submitted in writing and approved by him. Those insurgents to whose attention the Cannon non retirement statement was directed just smiled, sat tight and said nothing. They learned one thing since the strumous days preceding the special session of congress which opened with a fight on the rules wherein the insurgents lost out by only 10 votes, and the mouths shut. Nowadays they are carrying the secretary agreement among themselves which they admit they have made as strong and as binding as possible to the extreme refusing even to tell where they are holding their frequent meetings and all that sort of thing. The insurgents were continuing to claim that the statement purporting to have come from the Republican congressional committee but in reality issued by two of its officers, Chairman McKinley and Secretary Leonid-Nagelger, have the only remaining action as president Taft Organization men around the house and of the applause were just as emphatic in their claim that Mr. Taft real the state mind and that it was raised with his full approval. FREEZES WHILE DRIVING Tax Collector's Body Haulled by Horse All Afternoon Baltimore Pa Jan 12 To be overcome by exposure to cold while driving through total sections in pur- suit of his duties as tax collector of Union township, Spider county was the fate of Isaac Timmerman. His body was carried in his sleigh about the country roads most of Tuesday afternoon passably thinking Timmerman was merely asleep NO SHORTAGE OF BEEF Experia Say Price is Regulated by Shipments Abroad. Denver, Colo Jan 12 ---President H. A Jastro, of the National Live Stock association and Murdo Mackenzie, vice president. In spec has denied that there is any danger of a shortage of beef in the United States. They declared that so long as $200, 000,000 of beef is exported from the United States each year there is no n danger of a shortage. The loot of beef in Chicago is regulated by the price received for our surplus cattle shipped abroad," said Mr McKenzie. "The how that present prices are putting beef beyond the reach of the poor man is unwarranted." STEEL TO MAKE RECORD Forthcoming Quarterly Report Will Make Best Showing Yet New York, Jan. 12.—Smart improvement to record figures will be shown in the steel trade in the forthcoming quarterly report of the United States Steel corporation, to be made public Jan. 25. The report, it was learned, will show an unfinished tonnage at the close of 1809 close to 6,000,000 tons, the largest reported in several years and a gain of over 1,000,000 tons, compared with Sept. 30. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Thursday, January 8. Frank Jackson. A negro, was also trecured at Dangemora, N. Y. for the murder of his wife at Sandyhill, N. Y., in August 1908. Louis D. Cone, of this city, and his wife were instantly killed at Chicago when their automobile was hit by an Illinois Central train. Suffering from peligroous mania, Mrs. Valentina Herman, a patient at the state naval at Poorla, Ill., escaped in her night grass, dying later of exposure. Mrs. Linton Davidson and her two children, and Joseph Pacey, who roomed with them, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Hovenden barn at Poorla, Ill. Friday, January 7. With $14,000 in drafts and cash on his person, Harry Wilson, of Knoxville, Tonn., has disappeared from Denver, Colo. John Ellott was killed and Alonzo Hatteras probably fatally injured by being struck by the Delaware railroad pay train at Dehner Del. Hugwilick and John Lacocach were instantly killed when a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train struck the wagon in which they were crossing the railroad tracks at Laubroa, Pa. City Judge Edwin S. Cochran, Jr., of Wilmington, Del. was seriously injured by falling on the ice at Delaware avenue and Rodney street. A petition bearing over 82,000 names was filed with the secretary of state at Guthrie, Ohio, asking that a constitutional amendment granting the franchise to women be submitted to the people of Oklahoma. A commission of friends and friends of Mime, Barrios, widow of the former president of Guatemala who entered an almshouse on New Year's day at New, Orleans, have persuaded her to return to her native country. She will receive a pension. The postmaster of Charleston W Va. is in receipt of a two-cent stamp from a young woman living in Los Angeles, who states in a letter that two years ago, while here she mailed a package and the government was done out of the money she closed. Monday, January 10. The Christmas storm cost the telegraph and telephone companies $300,000 in New England alone. Grief over the disappearance of his twenty year-old daughter caused the death at Shamokin Pa. of John Bockoski. Her clothing fired by a defective lamp. Miss Emma Turner, who lived alone at Danville Pa. was fatally injured. With a chloroform scaled handkerchief across his face the body of William Berkemeyer a Baltimore mechanist, was found in a freight car at Hollyoke Mass., and is culled. Tuesday, January 11. President Taft has reappointed Joseph A. Bosser assistant United States treasurer in Philadelphia. For stealing $8 from a poor box in a church in New York, John De Lange was sent to the penitentiary for one year. She Sarah E. Partridge, one of the best rife and revolver shots in the world, shot and killed herself at Medford Hillside near Boston while deprived because of illness. Three persons were killed and one was fatally injured in a collision in the Texas & Pacific freight yards at Shreveport, La. between a Kansas City Southern switch engine and a bound Texas & Pacific passenger train Wednesday, January 12 Marits Meinhard, a waiter leaped through the balustrade of the second mezzanine floor of the Metropolitan Life building in New York and was killed instantly. W P Whitaker, cashier of the Bank of Kennesaw at Kennesaw Ga. is being sought by the police and the bank as the result of an allied shortage in the cashier's accounts of $10,000. Kennesa quail and other birds are dying in large numbers from starvation. The ground has been covered with snow and it for forty two days and the birds are unable to find grain or ground seeds to eat. Caught robbing the store of Rudolph & Son Company near the central station in Cheeland by a burglar, William Felldt was shot by Detective McFarland of the city force. Rehfeldt died half an hour later. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Lup Stock PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet winter low grade $4.40 @ 60, white clean $5.25 @ 199 lily, fancy $6.10 @ 499 RYE FLOUR steady, per barrel $4.35 @ 4 11.28AT steady, No 2 red $12 @ 148 CORN quiet No 2 yellow local 71@72 CORN quiet No 2 white $53 @ 546 lower grade 52c POULTR.7 Live farm, benn, 16c old roosters 114 @ 13c. Dresser farm, 114 @ 13c. old roosters 11c BUTTER steady, extra creamery 88c. per lb EOUS farm, selected 42 @ 44c, near winter 38c POUTSTER steady, at 58 @ 60c per poult. Live Stock Markota PITT-BURG (Union Stock Yards) — choice. $62.75@8.50. Pitney, $44.88 (Union Stock Yards). SHIRP steady, prime wethers, $7.75 $8.05; culls and commod. $6.05 $4.75; VEAL GALVES dvm, at $7.05 $10.05; $8.05; medica $6.05; shaw Yorkers, $7.75 $8.05; light Yorkers, $8.55 $8.05; $8.55; roughs, $4.75 Ohle to Probe Cost of Living. Ohio to Probe Cost of Living. Columbus, O. J., 22—Aroused by repeated calls from legislators and citizens from every part of the state, Governor Harmon will write a special message to the present legislature on the cost of living in Ohio, and has named a special committee to go to all parts of the state and inquire into the reasons for this increase. Saya She Was Lonesome After the Death of Her Mother, and as There Appeared to Be Nothing But a Boarding School For Her She Ran Away. Miss Roberta De Janon, the young Philadelphia helrose, and Frederick Cobon, a waiter, who eloped ten days ago, were arrested in a rooming house in Chicago. To Captain Rohm, in charge of the station, the girl told a pathetic story of longeemenses. She said that her mother had just died, and that her father was living in another city. There appeared to be nothing for her but a boarding school. Nobody seemed to understand or sympathize with her but Cohen a waiter, married and forty two years old. He was employed as a teacher. He did not use my father very often, and on the first of October mother and I took apartments in the Bollovue-Stratford hotel. My grandfather Robert Bulke was with us a great deal of the time. On the second day of November my mother died after a short illness and I was almost heart broken I cried a great deal and was very lonely. There was nothing that money could buy that I could not have yet I was very unhappy. He cloaked, soon after my mother had moved away my grandfather said he was going to send me to Mrs. Shipley's preparatory school at Bryn Mawr "The very thought of going to a place of that kind where I knew no one and had no idea of the kind of people I would meet made me desperate, Cohen Sympathized With Her. "Mr Cohen was a writer in the private dining room in the hotel where I took my meals, and to him I talked a great deal after my mother had gone. He sympathized with me and seemed to understand how I felt. He knew what my sorrows were and it was only natural that in a short time I told him everything. His sympathy and kindness seemed to relieve me a great deal and I began to respect him greatly. "Finally, when I could stand my lonenessness no longer, I begged him to take me away. He refused at first, even after he admitted that he loved me, and not until I had threatened to kill myself would he consent. Then we made up plans." Beginning with their flight from Philadelphia on Dec. 29 the girl told how they had gone to New York and spent one night there. In New York they decided to go to London. England and fearing detection if they were caught, they took a train to Montreal. Fallsburg catch a transatlantic steamer at Montreal, as they had hoped to do they traveled by rail to St Johns N B where they boarded the steamer Corsean. According to the girl's story they wouldn't allow her to have her dog *Tootsy* with her on the boat so they landed when they touched at her dog *Tootsy*. But as their combined capella left Montreal delphia was only $14* $12 belonging to the girl and $15 to Cohen it is believed they did not have money enough left for their passage to England. Passed as Father and Daughter Passed as Father and Daughter From Halifax the pair went to Boston and after staying there one night hurried out to Chicago reaching here last Thursday morning. We passed as father and daughter when we met the named Miss Dajon. Sometimes we gave one name and sometimes an alter but usually registered as Mr Robert La Place and daughter. Killa Timskerner and Himself John D Brooks a nego who was employed by the Toltec Construction company) which has the contract to repalp the asphalt paved streets in Reading Pa. entered the office of the company in the Rer building and began a dispute with Frederick S Neu dofferer the timekeeper as to the amount of money due him. He angered anglers by pulled out a revolver and several bullets into Mr Neudofferer's body. Neu dofferer did fifteen minutes after being shot. He never regained consciousness. He had been shot in the head and near the heart. The negro ran down the stairway of the building, and as soon as he reached the street was pursued by a large crowd. Four squares away, just as the foremost had about reached him, the negro pulled out his revolver and himself through the head. He dropped the pavement. Mr Neudofferer the most popular citizens of Reading Brooks came here a few weeks ago from Jacksonville. Fla. It was learned later that the crowd in pursuit of Brooks was bount upon lynching him, and that knowing this, he killed himself: --- Art Dismisses Gilford Pinchot. After a cabinet meeting lasting early four hours, President made the announcement that he had directed Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to dismiss Gilford Pinchot from the office of forester of the agricultural department. Later on it was made known that Secretary Wilson, in accordance with a decision of the president, was dismissed by Secretary Overly, W. Price, associate, and Mr. Pinchot's chief assistant, and Alexander C. Shaw, assistant law officer of the forest service. The action of the president on the eve of the congressional investigation into the alte- gations and insinuations against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger's conduct of the policy of conserving natural resources is certain to cause a sensation. Coupled with the dismissal of a Pinchot was the significant action of the house of representatives in connection with the joint resolution for an investigation of the charges affecting Secretary Ballinger. Through a combination of Democrats and Republican insurgents aided by personal friends of Mr. Pinchot, the house rejected that provision of the resolution which directed Speaker-Cannon to choose the representatives who should sit on the congress Committee of Inquiry. The Cannon organization, with the assistance of an investigation, was overturned by a bare majority of three. Under the resolution as amended the house members of the joint committee of inquiry will be elected by the house itself. Dr. Cook a Mental Wreck. That Dr Producirk A. Cook, the discredited Arctic explorer, is a victim of aphasia, unable to think upon any subject for more than an instant; that Mrs. Cook is constantly at his bedside; that she has no idea of suing him for divorce; that she is not holding his records from him for a ransom; that while on the way to recovery recently he suffered a severe relapse that he could not controll in his Cook shall not leave him for a moment, were the statements made by Mrs. Josephine Dudley, Mrs. Cook's sister, and the one woman in New York who knows where Dr Cook is concealed. General Booth Says We Are Still Bad. General Booth, head of the Salvation Army while proaching at Clayton, near London, deplored the fact that, notwithstanding appeals, warninga and opportunities for centuries past, men and women were still steeped in wickedness. In the course of his remarks he said "Today all nations of the earth seem to be banded together in rebellion and transgression, until some think, and, I believe, with a considerable degree of probability, that we may be approaching rapidly the end of all things and that the world and its inhabitants will be destroyed by fire." Georgia Congregaman Dlic. Judge James M Griggs, who has represented the Second Georgia district in congress for years, died suddenly at his home in Dawson, Ga. from heart failure. Judge Griggs was in bed apparently convalescing from a slight cold. Judge Griggs left Washington Dec. 17 to come home for the Christmas holidays. Tuesday he complained of being ill and went to the hospital. He was supposed to be on the road to recovery when the end came. He had already made preparations to return to Washington. The $9 Hog Has Arrived. The $9 hog arrived at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, and his coming marked an epoch in high prices for hogs. Except for a short period in 1882, when the price reached $9.85 per pound weight, the $9 hog has not been seen here since the Civil War. Continued intense cold impeding transportation and an apparent hesitation of producers to market their hogs are initial causes of the advance in prices, which involves all of the pork products. Raw Pork Kills One; Poisones Nine. Mrs B F Kroger is dead and nine members of the families of H F Kroger and C Duke farmers living near Fairbairn. Nobs are ill from triching poisoning. More than a week ago the two families are raw pork sausage. The illness was first supposed to be B F Kroger's Saturday. Mr Kroger died and two others cannot recover Physicians say the illness is due to triching a parasite that sometimes infects raw pork. D A B's Founder Dead Mrs Florn Adams Darling founder of the Daughters of the Revolution and of the United States Daughters of 1812 died very suddenly in New York city from apoplexy at the home of her brother John Quincy Adams. She was preparing to return to her home in Washington when stricken Mrs Darling will be buried at the place of her birth Lancaster N H Pay $25 Else In Penguins Four girls serving as pickets in the schiitwat strike in New York city paid in pennies $25 in fines, three of $5 each and one of $10, to the clerk of the Jefferson Market court, after Magistrate Kernoch had found them guilty of disorderly conduct. It took the entire staff of court clocks fully twenty five minutes to count and retount the 2600 pennies. This Railroad Kills No Passengers. During the decade, Jan. 1, 1900, to Jan. 1, 1900, not one passenger has been killed in a train accident on the Lackawanna railroad. During that period this road has transported 102,7872 persons. Box Killed While Coasting White Benjamin Habecker, a schoolboy of Lancaster, Pa., was coaling in a fog near the schoolhouse he ran into a tree stump, receiving injuries that quickly caused death. Recently his little sister was burned to death. Curtles Breaks Records Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 12. - Glenn H. Curtis, in a Curtis monoplan, established a world's record for speed with passengers, fifty-five miles an hour, at the aviation meeting here. Curtis also broke the world's record for time consumed in getting a machine into the air, six and two-fifths seconds. Curtis also broke the world's record for a short distance traveled in a run before leaving the ground, ninety-eight feet. Search Bars For Wrink Washington, Jan. 12.—Four revenue outliers have been sent out to look for the steam boat Columbia, which left New York Dec. 24 for Jaceline, Hall. (AP) I have in my possession a prescription for nervous laxity, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follicles of youth, that has cursed so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help, or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his pansy power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of a plain, ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men and I am convinced it is the surest acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent modifiers, secure what I believe, is the quickestacting restorative, upbuilding, BPT-TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly by me a line (the) Dr. A. E. Robinson, Uku Build, Detroit, Mich, and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. FORT ATTACKS LOBBY CONTROL Declares Jersey's Laws Are Dictated by Corporations. PEOPLE THE SUFFERERS Governor's Message Arrargis Legislators For Not Keeping Election Promises and Rapa Multing Public Utilities Corporations. Trenton, N J, Jan 13.—In his annual message to the legislature Governor Fort scores the grasping corporations and the failure of the legislators to enact laws to prevent the multing of the people. The argument nausea with the governor's appeal for the creation of a commission with power to regulate public utilities corporations. Governor Fort says "The burdens which the people of the state now bear are the outcome of the consolidations and mergers which have frightfully over-capitalized the public utility enterprises and which make it hard to light in order to meet their fixed charges and pay even small dividends on their stock that much higher prices be charged for gas and electric light than a fair, or even liberal, capitalization would have required. The people should not be compelled to suffer for this. "The Republican party in the state platform declared We pledge our selves to enact a law providing for a commission with ample jurisdiction over public utility corporations effectively and authoritatively." There is no ambiguity in this language. "There is absolutely no excuse for not keeping this pledge except that the corporations to be regulated oppose it. At the last session of the legislature their lobbyists were about the state house. In a most notorious and audacious manner they entered the assembly chamber and tried to defeat any public utilities bill. They opposed even the reasonable and fair act known as the 'Pierce bill' then pending in the house of assembly." Governor Fort approves all the work done on inland waterways and urges greater appropriation for the license fee imposed on all inland craft would serve to maintain the channels. He condemns the county boards of taxation, saying "their existence is without excuse and always has been" and urges their abolishment it as vigorous language Industrial schools for boys, the state militia, the ocean boulevard the Palladies:park and the war being waged on tuberculosis, the farming conditions of the state, the annual encampment of the G. A R at Atlantic City this year, are all commended by the governor as worthy objects for liberal support FOR NEW INAUGURAL DAY Bill In House to Hold Ceremonies on Last Thursday in Anil. Washington, Jan. 12.—If the joint resolution which Representative Moon, of Pennsylvania, reported to the house from the committee on judicialy, proposing an amendment to the constitution, is ratified by the required number of states, the present term of President Taft will be prolonged for about six weeks. It will end on the last Thursday in April, 1913, instead of March 4, 1913. The amendment is the outcome of the movement for a change in the date of inauguration. It provides that the terms of the president, vice president, senators and representatives in congress shall commence and terminate on the last Thursday in April at noon; also that their existing terms shall terminate on the last Thursday in April, 1913, at noon. It is also provided that senators elected prior to the adoption of this amendment shall continue in office until the last Thursday of April succeeding the 4th of March of the year in which their terms would otherwise expire. Bargains Stand Out Boldly! Rich, meaty, timely bargains that appeal to men and women everywhere. It means "Good-bye" to the entire stock. It means your saving won't land! No High Rent—Lower Prices CHEATWOOD 1509-11-13 East Main Street Clip the Bargains Out And bring them with you. It will save you time—it will guarantee that you will not overlook anything. Yes, bring the list of the items you want along! Shining Shears Show All Richmond the Way To Cheatwood's Greatest of Clearance Sales! Values—values—living, throbbing—all satisfying values stand back of every price! and what prices! How they tingle with savings! How your money does double work buys double the usual amount! Welcome to the feast! CLIP OUT THE BARGAINS—BRING THEM WITH YOU! The most gigantic January Clearance Sale will open tomorrow at 9 A.M. We tell you in the plainest words that every price has been cut to rock bottom and profits scissored away. The store has too many godds and too little money. They are bound to be sold and sold quickly. We Want Money and Room--It's Your Opportunity The store groans with the choicest merchandise. These goods are doing no good on our shelves. This January sale—this price-cutting feast—will prove the most far-reaching, most potent money-saving event of the winter. If you live miles out of Richmond it will pay you to attend it. Every hour will have something special, something unusual, something that means dollars to you. BE HERE—THE FLOODGATES WILL BE OPENED. Look for the scissors, the deadly price-cutters. --- The Great Sale Opens Thursday, Jan. 13, 9 A.M. Ye Out-of-Town People, Listen! Come to this sale—it will mean money to you. After paying all railroad and other expenses you'll have money left out of your savings here! ```markdown ``` Undermuslins! 69c Gowns, prettily trimmed with tacks, lace and ribbons; price scissored to ..... 49c $109 Combination Suits, nicely trimmed, consisting of Open Drawers and Corset Cover, or Corset Cover and Skirt; price scissored to ..... 89c 25c Drawers, prettily trimmed, tucks and hemstitched, open and closed; price scissored to ..... 19c 29 dozen 25c Corset Covers, beautifully trimmed with lace and ribbon, price scissored to ..... 19c $100 Long Chemise at ..... 69c Ladies' Knit Underwear Cut Ladies Heavy Pants, Jersey ribbed, bleached or unbleached. 350 grade; price scissored to ..... 17c Heavy 500 Fleece Lined Voats and Pants, sanitary, full regular made, comfortable, warm; 35c price scissored to...... Ladies 500 Union Suits..... 25c Misses 250 Voats at..... 15c Waists Cut Ladies' Shirtwaist, white lingerie and cambridge; a stylish 75c 39c Waist admiored to..... Ladies' Shirtwaist- Suits, blue, green, carpet and gray, lace trimmed, all also; a 17.00 $3.98 grade out to.... This Is Your Big Chance to Save Hard Cash! Specials! Warner's Rustproof Corrects, batiste or couffl. latest shapes, supporters attached. 75c grade 47c scissored to 590 Umbrellas, for men and women, paragon steel frames. 39c 75c grade scissored to Ladies' All-Wool Molton Coats, brad trimmed, 50 inches long, fancy cuffs and pockets, rent $10.00 grade at scissored price of $5.98 Ladies' $15.00 Double-Bronzed Long Coats, sizes 34 to 48, well tailored, scissored down price only $6.98 Ladies' $10.00 Blue and Black Hudson-Fulton Coats; $4.89 scissored down in price to Children's Teddy Bear Coats, gray, white and red, ages 1 to 8 years, sold for $3.00. $1.79 scissored to Children's $3.08 Coats, ages 2 to 8 years, price not scissored $2.48 down to ... Suits Cut $12.00 Princess Suits, in lovely shades of green and Copenhagon, garnet, etc., carefully made; cut in this great sale $6.98 to ..... Lot of 25 Suits of $12.98 quality, a half-decan rich materials and lovely colors; scissored, $8.98 down in price to ..... Ladies $8.00 Eton Suits, some very choice styles and rich quali- ties; scissored down in $3.98 price to .... ```markdown ``` Gloves Cut 300 pairs of Men's and Boy's Gloves, a job lot bought to sell at bargain record price, some cloth some leather some fur all colors, all sizes and lengths. They are absolutely 50c gloves solded to 25c Men's Wear Cut Men's 50c Shirts, heavy blue Jersey, sizes 14½ to 17, scissored to 33c to Men's Shirts and Drawers, heavy flored lined full regular made and a 50c grade scissored to 29c to Sizes Couches Brown Ribbed Shirts and Drawers, These Drawers are 49 grade at only 33c Wright's Health Underwear, Shirts and Drawers of a truly matchless $1.00 grade scissored to 79c to Men's Negligee Shirts, best or kind on market, white or fancy patterns, no better 78c value scissored to 49c to Men's 25c Ties, four-in-hands, many styles, scissored to 11c to ... Men's and Boys' Collars, 4-ply, all linen, sizes 12 to 17½, lat. 25c ost styles, scissored to 4 for Men's Linen Stiff-Bison Shirts, 50c and 75c grades scissored to 29c to 600 dozen pairs Men's Sox, fancy or plain, 10c grade, cut down 5c to Lot Men's 50c Overalls, well made, good quality cloth. 25c scabsured to. Furs Cut All Furc have been included in the collection of one-half and less. Towels Cut Heavy Turkish Towels, size 16x 38, heavily fringed, 12½ grade acclsored to 8½c Turkish Towels, size 3¼c 12×32 inches, acclsored to. 500 dozen Linen Huck Towels, size 18×36 and a splendid 12½c grade acclsored to 200 dozen Huck Towels, size 20x 42c a striking 17c grade to 13c Sweaters Cut Men's $1.50 All-Wool Sweaters, several colors, turtled neck acclsored to 50c Ladies' Coat Sweaters, white, striking $1.50 grade necker 98c to Ladies' $3.00 Coat Sweaters, double or single bronzed acclsored to $1.79 Lot Ladies' $5.00 Coat Sweaters acclsored to $2.48 Grand Cut on Dress Goods Sonational cut-price sale Lot Ladius' Suiting, green, gray and brown, 36 inches wide ringing 50c and 75c grade; sus sored to 29c 84-inch All-Wool Broadcloth, $1.00 and $1 25 grade; brown gray and other colors, cut to 19c 75c Shepherd Plaids Suiting, 58 inches wide, formerly solid fast at 75c; scissored to 39c Lot 25c Dress Goods, old rose, pink, garnet and brown solids sored to 16c Scissors Ginghams Cut 2,000 yards Red Seal Dress and Apron Gingham, 26 inches wide, all colors, stripes and checks. 4½c 8 1-3c grade scissored to 3 cases Apron Gingham, strictly 8 1-3c goods, scissored down to 6½c 20 pieces 10c Flannelettes, red and brown, scissored down 6½c to Goodbye Cut in Boys' Glothing For lack of room we are going to sell out every Suit and discontinue the department. Therefore prices have been cut to the heart! Boyz 75c Pants, Knickerbocker, ages 6 to 16 years, jeans 20 Boys' 73c Pants, Knickerbocker, ages 6 to 16 years, acsorbed to clothing-out price of 200 pairs Boys' Knicker Pants, ring 25c value, acsorbed to 19c clothing-out price of Boys' $2.98 Suits, double-breasted, knee pants, aplondid quality, stylish, scissored to clos- ing-out price $1.69 Boys' $4.98 Suits, double-breasted, any size, bloomer pants, to close out, scissored $2.98 to Boys' $6.00 Suits, double-breasted, all wool, ages 10 to 17 years, extra pair pants, scissored $3.98 to closing-out price of Notions Cut White Ball Darning Cotton, solids at or for $c; scrimmed to 5c balls for $c Good Spool "Cotton, white or black, 200 yards to spool; 5 spools for ..... 5c 200 packages 2-ply Knotting Cotton 10, $6 grade; scissored 14c Every department—every section—every shelf—every article has been included. Throughout the store the shoarers have done the deadly work to prices! Flannels Cut 2,000 yards Outing Flannel, for women's and children's dresses and gowns and underskirts, all styles, 8 1-2c grade, scissored to Lot 10c Light Outing Flannels, heat patterns, scissored to 6¼c 8 1-2c Canton Flannel, 3,000 yards, heavy unbleached grade, scissored to 7c 28-inch Canton Flannel, good nap, regular 10c grade, scissored to . 7¼c 2,000 yards 12½c Canton Flannel, long sanitary nap, scissored to . . . . . Domestics Cut 8,000 yards Vintok Plain, 26 inches wide, good round thread for dressings or quilts 8 1-3-6 $4\%$ 8-16 inch Rockland Sheeting, unbleached grade "C" and 7o $4\%$ grade, accelured to 30-inch Bleach Cotton, soft finish, 10c grade, accrued to 7c 36-inch B. 8 Roo Milla Bleached Sheeting, better than Bea Island or lawn, 12½ grade, acissored 9½¢ to 25c 10-4 Unbleached Sheeting 2,000 yards, heavy round 18¢¢ thread, acissored to 20c Bleached Sheeting, 10-4 size, acissored down 20¢¢ to Quilts Cut Real $1.00 Marseilles Quilta, double bed size, nicely finish- ed, scissored to. Lot Extra - Heavy Marseilles Quilta, extra size, strictly 97c $1.25 value; scissored to. Scissors Shoes Cut Never Such Bargains As These Full stock of Shoes has been so out in price that you may secure an ample supply for your family and save from one-half to one- third of the purchase. The items mentioned below are more sign post signs to guide you to Fair- land of bargains that await you. Men's Shoes, Box Calf and Vict Kid Bluchers, worth $1.75, $1.29 acclsured to Ladies' Sample Shoes, Vict Kid Bluchers, sizes 2½ to 4½, $1.19 worth $2, acclsured to Ladies' Shoes, Westover Patent Cott Blucher samples, sizes 3½ to 4½, worth $00, acclsor- ed, $1.79 Men's House Slippers, worth 43c 75c, acclsured to Ladies' House Slippers, worth 43c 75c, acclsured to One lot Ladies' Shoes, Vict Kid Lace and Blucher samples 2 to 6, worth $2.60, acclsured to $1.49 Scissors Remnants! Every Remnant in the house has been adorned so low in price that it will go like hot chestnuts on a frosty November morning Many desirable lengths—get your choice. Free to You To any customer purchasing a Dress Goods Department we will give absolutely FREE one of the famous Pictorial Review Dress Patterns. Absolutely Free ```markdown ``` JAN. 15, 1010 SATURDAY The Beginning of the Galilean Ministry Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 10, 1910 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TIME MON 12 MAR 1997 GOLDEN TIME MON 12 MAR 1997 in darkness saw the light MAT 6 16 TIME MON 12 MAR 1997 was imprisoned by the Lord MAT 23 The Lord was imprisoned by the Lord MAT 23 continued his imprisonment until from April 12 MAR 1997 the close of A D 23 PLACE Jesus now made his home in Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. The sage of his ministry was the Prince of Galilee. Suggestion and Practical Thought Introduction to the Lesson, Vs. 12 13 Why does Matthew omit more than a year of Jesus ministry? Because he would have his record that of an eye witness, from personal observation By whom were the events of the Judean ministry recorded? By the Apostle John, the relative and most in- timate friend of Jesus Why did Jesus go to Galilee for his longest work in establishing the new form of the kingdom of God? Because it was better soil for the good seed, less cumbered with the stony ground of official and superficial ceremonies and with the thorns of selfish interests, of worldiness labeled as piety less trodden into heaten paths of ritual, forms, customs habits pleasures, and cares connected with the machinery of religion Why did Jesus leave Nazareth? Because, as we learn from Luke 4 16:31 his townsmen rejected and tried to kill him. This wrong Providence caused to work out good, for Nazareth was not the best situation for carrying out his mission I. The Prophetic Vision The Dawn of the New Kingdom - Va 14:16 Ia 9 1.2. Spoken by Esasla, Greek for Isaiah, God's message through the prophet. (Ia 9 1 2) The territory spoken of, the tribes of "Zebulun," and "Naphtali" were the northernmost tribes, (15) "by the way of the sun," or toward the Sea of Galilee, where the great eastern reads entered the country "beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles," the portions of Gallilee adjoining the heathen nations. II. Proaching the Gospel A Charactoristic of Jesus' Work Throughout His Ministry V 17 Jesus began to let this new light shine, and to prove that he was the one foretold by the prophet. "Began to proach" proclaim as the harald of the king who had sent him he proclaimed in every possible method by which he could reach the hearts of men. III Selecting and Training Work ora. The Calling of the Vo. Ver. 18 22 Jesus now made another advance in his plan of selecting and training men to enlarge his present work and to prepare for his continuance and the extension of his gospel after his death. It was a school of instruction in his ideal of righteousness. Simon who is called Peter, the Rock, so named by Jesus on his first acquaintance (John 1 42) as a prophet and ideal a call upward to fulfill the possibilities within him "And Andrew his brother," who had shown his possibilities as a fisher of men, by bringing his brother to Jesus "Casting a not title the sea." Matthew gives a condensed account of the story told in full by Luke. Jesus used one of their boats as a pulpit to preach to the people on the shore. He showed the fisherman that the boat was of value, although they had fished from it all night in vain. Then at his command they let down their nets and enclosed a great number of fishes. It was with great wisdom that at this point when they were marvelling at their success Jesus (19) "saith unto them. Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Their partners, James and John, who had been summoned to aid Peter, were not far away 21 "Going on from thence, he saw these "other two brethren" in their boat "with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, which had been torn by the great catch of fish "And he called them." All four left their nets, and followed Jesus, and became fathers of men. IV Going About Doing Good to the Bodies and Souls of Men. V-23. 15. These verses are a summary of which chapters 9-10 give a detailed account showing his "varioll, extpinae, and far-famed work." 23 "And Jesus went about all Gallicee." This was his first tour of the country Jesus scattered the good good everywhere, knowing that some of it would fall into the good soil of honest hearts and spring up and bear fruit 34. "And his fame" the "report" of what Jesus was doing. The result was that from all the region, including Syria, the country to the north of Galilee, "they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases," such as fevers, leprosy, blindness, lameness, dropy, and tormentes, diseases attended with excreting pain. Illustration. The ordinary great seal of the United States is commonly seen, but the design for the reverse side I have never seen, except on the outside of some of the postal cardes and in the encircledia. The design Is an unfinished pyramid; over it is an eye symbolizing God's providence and the motto, "Anuit cooptis," "He loves what has been begun"; and underneath the motto, "Novus ordo seculorum." "A new order of the ages." Much more may Christ's coming, and the gospel of his kingdom be called, "a new order of the ages." Why Children "Fidget." Fidgets provoke wrath from thoughtless grownups. Often one hears an angry tool shouting "Why can't you sit still?" but the child can't sit still nature will not let it, but is stimulating it through its nerves to make it grow. The fidget arises from lack of proper play or employment. Supply this or divert the attention to something interesting and the nerve centers will have work to do. the growing need is satisfied and the fidget stopped --- A Waterless Bath. "What do you think?" said the man curious. I cleaned my face to-day with a vacuum cleaner. It just takes the skin and pulls it so you can hardly get away. The man who operates one told me that he went over his face and clothing every night when he got through his work and felt as fresh as a daisy. Of course, he takes off the thing he uses for floors and walls. I believe I'll start a fad—taking waterless baths. Always There. If all who count themselves happy were to tell, very simply, what it was that brought happiness to them, the others would see that between sorrow and joy the difference is but as between a gladsome, enlightened acceptance of life and a hostile, gloomy submission; between a large and harmonious conception of life and one that is stubborn and narrow — Masterlink Chineza Floating Hotel. A floating hotel is to be established in China. The vessel will have three decks, the lower being arranged for dining, billiard, smoking and card rooms. The main deck will contain a drawing room and 24 bedrooms, each with a full-sized bath and dressing room, while the upperdeck, or spar deck, has been arranged as a promenade. Washington Inventor A Washington man has invented a muzzle for the roosters, to keep them from crowing before he gets ready to wake up in the morning. Now, if he will invent some process by which the babies can be prevented from crying during the night he will have conferred a lasting blessing on the race His Preference Five year old Bobby went visiting with his mother and unexpectedly remaining over night, was obliged to wear his cousin Kate's nightgown. The next morning he said tearfully "Mamma before I'll wear a girl's nightgain again, I'll sleep raw"—Harper's Weekly Maine's Double Eggs A Norway (No) bay has a hen that lays many double yolked eggs, but within a few days the hen went her previous record one better by dropping an egg within an egg. The outer shell and egg were perfect and inside was a smaller egg also perfect. Physicians: Fees Fixed by Law A German antiquarian has found documents showing that in ancient Babylon, 4,150 years ago the sums due to doctors for treatment were exactly prescribed by law. They varied according to the social position of the patients. Expensive Of all the quiet expressions I have heard recently, said a clubwoman, "none has struck me as more delightful than that of an English woman who told me that her daughter "would never smooth out a room." Reforming Atlanta The spirit of old blue Connecticut is abroad in Atlanta. A travelling man returning home from a trip recently was wied to kiss his wife on the street. Atlanta Constitution Heart Not Always on the Sleeve. A light manner does not necessarily mean a light heart. Nine out of ten feast to cover a sorrow. It is better so and you may find serious worth under that gavety you fear Do Not Use Creeosote Crescote should never be put into a hollow tooth for toothache. It relieves the pain but in time destroys the substance of the tooth. Leave crescote to expert use. Truly Celestial Young Lady This novel is heavenly. I never read one with so many romantic unfortunate and miserable failures in it. Filogenode Blaetter Or Courset Of course, speculating or dealing in futures sounds more refined than gambling. but a man will lose just as much.—Chicago News. New York's Import Recolpts. Import receipts at the port of New York are nearly three times as much as all of the other ports in the United States. Uncle Ezra Says: Once Era says: "A man isn't half so apt to hide his light under a bushel or he is to hide somethin' that won't stan' the light." The Use of Sorrow and Trouble. But for some sorrow and trouble we should never know the good there is about us.—Dickens. Life's Greatest Happiness. That is the greatest happiness of life—to add to our highight acquaintances.—Emerson. 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. Special Attention to Family Trade, Picnics, Excursions, Sunday Schools, Lawn Parties, Etc. Furnished on Short Notice. Choice Pound and Wedding Cakes furnished to Order. Foreign and Domestic FRUITS AND DELICACIES. N. WINSTON, S37 Brook Ave., Richmond, Va. 'Phone, 2253. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR FALE LIGHTER COLORED FOR EVERY IMPORTANT OCCASION! YOUR SKIN CLEAR SMOOTH FINE YOUR HAIR COND. THICK DRESSY YOUR PERSONALITY MORE ATTRACTIVE! SEND 10c FOR SAMPLE OF WONDER HAIR GROW ANOTHER 10c FOR 2 SAMPLES OF COMPLEXION WONDER These samples and our information book and the private letters we will write to you will show you how to have all these improvements. We cannot overcome letters, but as far as your individual characteristics will permit, we can make you prepossessable, presentable and attractive. The editors of colored newspapers will tell you we are responsible. We are doing more for colored people than any business concern in this country. Our mission is not a lofty one like that of Dr. B.ocker Washington, but in our way we are trying to do for their bodies, what he is doing for their minds. We Represent The Chemical Wonder That Company enables people, while or coloured, to improve their appearance. People, who have good appearance and who are prepossessing and presentable, secure better positions commercially and socially and go along better every way. WE WILL BE CLAD TO CORRESPOND WITHOUT CHARGE. WE WILL BE COLored AND COLORED WOMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND DESIRE TO BE INFORMED OF DISCOVERIES WHICH WILL BENEFIT THEM SEND 20c FOR THE THREE SAMPLES INDIMINATELY THIS LITTLE EXPENDITURE WILL BENEFIT YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW. After the samples are received, watch for the postman. He will bring you letters very often. WRITE YOUR NAME AND STREET ADDRESS VERY PLAINLY M. B. BERGER & CO., 2 Rector St., New York Why Not Make Use of Your Spare Time. The Afro-American School, of Correspondence, incorporated, Thoa L. Jones, L. L. B. President and W. Bishop Johnson, D. D., L. L. D. Secretary, will do these things and more for you. It is the only school of its kind for colored people and is conducted by experienced educators. It provides a course in English, Theology, Law and Special Academia College and Business Course. It will make a course especially for you, of the things you need to know and teach you privately and confidentially and you will lose no time from work, studying at home or where you are employed, when it is convenient, and readie to us when you get ready. $60.00 will pay for our course, payable to $3.00 per month, until that amount is paid. We darsh! text books and thats are no other charges. We give you five extra to English and English ver. five years to finish and graduate you. We teach by mail. If you know how to read and write, we can help you. Send for a catalog, we scop in our office and get information. Do it now; W. BISHOP JOHNSON, D. D., Bee. Box 2234 Statista G. Office of Second Baptist Church, Third Street Between K and I St., N. W. This organization is offe 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 $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. KNIGHT OF PYRHISAL 1835-1836 only absolutely necessary regu- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organise a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for it a rosette, costing 25 cents for f For all information concerning John 3' A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST. A Glamorgan papa was about to apply the strap "Father," said Willie, who had just completed his second term at the Grammar school, "unless that instrument has been properly sterilized I desire to protest." This made the old man pause. "Moregoror," continued Willie, "the germs that might be released by the violent impact of leather upon a porous textile fabric but later exposed to the dust of the streets would be apt to affect you deleteriously." As the strap fold from a nerveless hand, Willie sloped to imbibe more science. UNPLEASANT ASSOCIATIONS. FARMER Tinkle—This is a beautiful country we are passing through Winkle—For for me I got stuck in a horse trade here once Straight Goods Zeppelin is a sharp owl Of the air who be Drove his machine eight hundred miles And hit a tree Too Much for Them "So you rode that toothpick salesman out of town on a rail" interrogated the tourist in the mining town. "By George, yeah" thundered the mayor in the couthide boots and red shirt. "When he tried to sell us tooth picks with our names so them he most started a fight but when he asked us if we wanted them flavored with old rose or turtill fruit that was more than we could stand so the boys just pitched into him. The old bowelknife is the only kind of tooth pick we need in these diggings." The Way It Looked to Him "Are you guilty or not guilty?" asked the judge of the defendant in a case of assault and battery. "Which I must "I think I must be guilty, your hon or," answered the defendant. "You think so" said the judge "Don't you know?" "Well, your honor," answered the prisoner, "it's like this. The plain tiff and I wore the only ones in the room, and the first thing I knew was that I was standing up, and he was doubled up under the table. So I guess you'd better call "culty." A. Last Report "You remind me so much of my brother," she said coyly as they sat in the parlor. "I'm awfully glad of that," he answered, gallantly. "I have always admired my brother. In what way am I most like him?" "Well, Harry seems awfully fond of me, yet he never offers to kiss me." After that it was unnecessary for her to ring in any of her relatives. The Luorative Rod "So you don't want to be the manager obeys, new hooil! "No," answered the head waiter. "Td rather go on accepting gerultutes in my personal mental position." "But you won't have any dignity or authority." "True. But the chances are that I will eventually have a mortge go on the place."—Washington Star. CLEANING, DYING ANI REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRISTOR. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts at Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROFESSOR 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTED ... Cards, Letters or Orders. Give us a trial, you will never regret it... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND VA. Phone 5688. JURGEN'S SON Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of REFRIGERATORS, MATTINGS, OIL-CLOTHS And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. JURGEN'S SON, ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WORK-ROOM, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. and 81, Wirt-class Macon and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention will be called to the new style Oak Caskets Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. Phone 3252 "Who is that man? He met you with so often at the tea and receptions" * "What a very popular young don that." "Thereel I might have guessed it from the way he always works on my nerve." ```markdown ``` the lodges and courts, address I, Jr. Street. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. PURE WHISKEY Will satisfy the lover of the right kiss of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Ogars and Tobacco. Call and see na. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 114 N. 17th St., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phonon', 763. SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. DR. P. B. RAMSEY, DENTIST, 115 East Leigh St. 'PHONE, 816. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 16TH ST. WHERE IS FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. ALL stock sold at interment, with PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectively solicited. THE TRAIN NOW OFFERS ities which it possess money, jewels, insu stocks, bonds, and a scription at a reason It holds choice re dispose on long time the patronage of the favor of the large time deposits, remain over. The modern glar-proof ro PERSONS W ABOUT THEIR DE AND THE LIKE, w when they transfer Bank, where they from fire and theft. There is a sp BOX at THE MEC which THE CASHI show you and elthe The stock of t BANK is now sellip NOW OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC the facilities which it possesses for the safe-keeping of money, jewels, insurance papers, deeds, wills, stocks, bonds, and all valuables of whatever description at a reasonable cost. It holds choice real-estate, of which it will dispose on long time payments. It requests the patronage of the small depositor and the favor of the large one. Interest paid on all time deposits, remaining (60) sixty days and over. PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN UNEASY ABOUT THEIR DEEDS, INSURANCE PAPERS AND THE LIKE, will breathe a sigh of relief when they transfer them to the vault of the Bank, where they know that they are safe from fire and theft. There is a specimen SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX at THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK, which THE CASHIER OR THE TELLER WILL show you and either will explain its workings. The stock of the MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK is now selling above par- to be exact it ```markdown ``` POULTRY To Do It Profitably Must Be Done Quickly—Suitable Food Is Necessary Regulates. (BY JBAAC MOTEL) To fatten poultry quickly and profitably requires good judgment and proper management in the care of the fowls and proper feeding. The best foods are bits of fat meat, marshes of meat or fine grits made from yellow corn, with skim-milk; boiled potatoes, rice and oatmeal and milk. If anything, oatmeal is preferable because of its greater heating qualities and its effect on color or fat. The main point to keep in view is to fatten your fowls in the shortest time possible. To do this they should be kept in a coop or pen, whose they cannot take much exercise, for by exercise they work off flesh and keep down fat. A good way is to confine them in small, light coops made of lath or wire notting. Those may sit out in the back yard or barn yard, on well-drained ground. In case of rain or damp weather cover them with oilcloth. Keep the pen dark during the daytime, except when the fowls are eating, by throwing a thick covering over the coops, such as old carpets, blankets or quilts. This will prevent the fowls from stirring about between meals. In the morning give them boiled potatoes, mashed while hot and thickened with cornmeal, with a little salt and pepper for seasoning. They should be fed three times a day, and their bill of fare varied as much as possible, but with a large proportion of starchy, heat and fat producing articles. Very little green stuff should be given them, though pumpkin or squash may take the place of boiled potato occasionally. Fresh bedding should be supplied frequently, and the coop and spot it occupies kept clean. The coop should rest on clinders, or on gravelly or sandy soil, with a bedding of hay or straw. The coop being light, it will be easy to move it to a new place occasionally by a man getting at each end and lifting it an inch or so of the ground, gently pushing the chickens along inside the coop as it is moved, having prepared the bed of hay on the new place beforehand. Unless a hen is a very valuable breeding fowl it does not pay to keep her after a life is two years old. They should be marketed just before their second molting. Whether or not you buy your feed during the winter, it hardly pays to feed calfhorses hatched the previous spring, except, of course, the most premature pullets for next spring laying. Keep the others well fed and OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. growing until they weigh between three and four pounds, then put them in the fattening coop and give them all they will eat for ten days to two weeks and rush them to market. Both young and old fowls should not be fed within 24 hours previous to killing. Whether you ship dressed or alive must depend upon your market and the wishes of the parties to whom you ship. If you ship to a packing house or commission firm it is customary to ship in coops, but if you ship to some retail grocer or market in the city, it will perhaps be best to ship fowls dressed. Dry-picked fowls bring a slightly higher price in the open market. White or buff colored sell best, as the pin feathers do not show so much on the dressed fowl, and this gives it a noatier appearance. CROSS-LEGHORNS WITH GAMES Fancier Eliminates the One Fault of the Former by Introducing Indian Game Blood. (By WILLIAM R. FLANDERS) I have been a fancier and advocate of pure bred poultry for over 40 years, and the way I am eliminating the one fault of the White Leghorn is by introducing Indian game blood. Six years ago I purchased some Indian game hens, and by using White Leghorn sires ever since I have built up the best flock for general utility I have never owned. The game blood has added these characteristics to the Leghorns, hardi- Leghorn Cook ness, increased also and improved table qualities. They are, if possible, better layers and the-best fowls for raising chickens I ever had. Today I have 160 fowls, over 100 pullets, about every one pure white, but some having the game form and comb. I purchase new cockerels of White Leghorn blood each year to head the stock. The reason for it. "I see that Jennie has golden hair" this week. "Yes, she has her sweet hair, like goldout hair, better than krown, no she changed it at this day ing request." THIS BANKING INSTITUTION is no longer an experiment. It is conceded to be run upon and in accordance with the most improved rules of the best banking concerns in the United States. Its large spacious four story bank and office building is now in the course of erection and when completed will be one the most modern edifices of the kind in the Southland and will rank with the best white institutions of a similar kind and character. is selling at ($5.00) five dollars per share above its face value and rating it on the basis of the past dividends, this stock pays seven per cent. to those who purchase now. The BOARD OF DIRECTORS has decided to place a limited amount on the market at $15.00 per share, to be exact, the block equals just ($10,000.) ten thousand dollars and application should be made for an allotment to the Cashier of the Mechanics Savings Bank at once or to some member of the Board of Directors. The first who come will be the first served. CURTAIN FRONT FOWL HOUSE Planned and Used with Excellent Results by Main Experiment Station—Description Given This style of building is regarded very highly by practical poultry raisers. A certain front house 20 feet wide by 400 feet long has been planned and used with most excellent results by the MV experiment station. The description is here given, as it represents the latest development of this style of poultry house. The building rests on a stone wall high enough from the ground for dogs to go beneath to look for rats or skunks. The wall is built on the face of the ground and has openings in it like car windows every 20 feet, to allow the air to draw through and keep the basement dry during the Interior of House. summer. The building is boarded with one-inch boards and is prepared and shingled with good cedar shingles on walls and roof. The floor is of two thicknesses of hemlock boards which break joints in the laying The building is divided by tight board partitions into 20 sections, each section being 20 feet long. All of the sections are allike. The front side of each section has two storm windows of 12 lights of 10x12 inch glass. These windows are scrawled on upright two 2 feet 8 inches from each end of the room; they are three feet above the floor. The distance between the windows is 8 feet 10 inches, and the tor part of it to a depth of 3 feet 8 inches from the plate is not boarded but is left open to be covered by the cloth curtain when necessary. This leaves a tight wall 3 feet 10 inches high extending from the bottom of the opening down to the floor, which prevents the wind from blowing directly on the birds when they are on the floor. A door 16 inches high by 18 inches wide is placed close to the floor under one of the windows for the birds to pass through to the yards in front. A similar door is in the center of the back wall to admit them to the rear yard when it is used. A light frame made of 1x8 inch pnin strips and 1x8-inch crosettes is covered with ten-oneous white duck and hinged at the top of the front opening, which it covers when closed down. This curtain is easily turned up into the room, where it is caught and hold by swing holes until released. This rook platform is made light and extends above the floor length. End Elevation. of the room against the back wall. It is 4 feet 10 inches wide and 3 feet above the floor. The o are three roosts framed together in two ten foot sections. The top of the roosts are one foot above the platform and hinged to the back wall so they may be turned up out of the way when the platform is being cleaned. The back roost is 12 inches from the wall and the spaces between the next two are 16 inches The roosting closest is shut off from the rest of the room by curtains similar to the one described. There are two curtains each ten feet long and three feet long and six inches wide, for ventilating the roosting closest when necessary. Ton trap nests are placed in two tiers against the partition in each end of the room, each nesting space being one foot wide, one foot high and one foot long, with the entrances near the partition, away from the light, and with hinged covers in front for the removal of the egg. Each section of five nests can be taken without disturbing anything else cleaned and returned. Bsmall Flock Profitable. A small flock of chickens will prove more profitable, in proportion to numbers, than a large one. This enables those who live on small areas to procure eggs at nominal cost. The same amount of food given to a pig and a flock of hens for comparison will give better results with the fowls than with the pig, to say nothing of the fact that the flesh of poultry is superior to that of the hog, white greater cleanliness is also secured. There is no good reason why every urban resident should not keep a small flock of fowls, whether his area is large or small. Profitable Layers. There is but one guaranteed way of determining the profitable layers, and that is by the aid of trap nests, and no poultryman can afford to do without them. It will mean a profit in the crop, and a saving of feed, room and labor. Vegetables for Poultry Vegetables should form a good portion of the diet for poultry the year around. They promote the health of the flock, increase the egg yield and are an economical feed. Army Crossed Prozan River. The Damna river was frozen over so that an army crossed it on the feet to the river 469. WE HAVE ARRANGED for a limited number of Safety Deposit Boxes. They will be rented to our patrons at the rate of ($.25) twenty-five cents per month and upwards, payable in advance annually. Two keys will alone secure entrance to one of these boxes. The bank has one and the depositor the other. Both keys must be used, one after the other; before the safety-deposit box can be opened by either the Bank Cashier or by the depositor. This is a measure of safety which must be seen only to be appreciated. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Thinking Pleasant Things. Make yourselves to be pleasant thoughts. None of us know for none of us know how to be early youth what they promise we may build of be with the promise we against all odds for the promise we satisfied in ourselves not with a faithful service these hours of precious and trustful hours which care cannot be taken in make glorious for our lives take away from us homes with hardies for our souls by John Rockin Our Debt to Labor Verse and prose in a book have honored the life of the author in inspiring story of prose, and all unceasing tolls in his life his way step by step to triumph over the fate of the author. verse is most important to tell by his formative and litterature. Among the two books is more forgile in imitation of author or in incentive to it, the latter the book of all the authors who of dead or hand B. B. The Future I have read for a long time to live in the great city to return over the blissless of the past as the page is turned and there is no remedy for what is done except the wisdom experience may give. Neither do I indulge in fears of the future as it is impossible to tell what one may bring forth - Elizabeth (Cad) Stanton Chance for a Bargain. Dejected Youth. I would like to return this engagement ring I purchased here a few days ago. Jeweler - "Didn't it suit the young lady?" Dejected Youth - Yes, but another young man had already given her one just like it and I would like to exchange it for a wedding present. Titita Spartan Self Dental When Mr. P. known to be miserly, but not believed to be a miser was approached delicately for a contribution to the origin fund he shook his head courteously but with an air of finality "Charity he said, 'is a pleasure one must do without.'" Youth's Companion Uncle Allen. "In looking back over the mistakes you've made young man," counseled Uncle Allen Snorka, "don't regret them. They have made you feel ashamed of yourself, and you can't take a more wholesome mental exercise than that." Tact. Mrs. Pyne—"Mrs. Blank certainly possesses tacct." Mrs. Hyne—"What is your definition of tacct?" Mrs. Pyne—"Tacct is a woman's ability to make her husband believe he is having his own way."—Lippincott's Magazine. ```markdown ``` OF DIRECTORS: M., President. Prince-President. Cashier. Mitchell, Jr., Whiting, R. Jefferson, Taylor, M. Crump, Sec., Jackson, H. Powell. & $15. SUITS Will Positively Prove that "Ous" Suits, Rain- and Overcoats at 10 and $15 Order of Garments Sold Here- Almost Twice as Much. Fauldless Way, with Great Care Exercised that they may be Right up to "THE FA- they Must be "Right" to be Here. Gar- dored and Created in the most Fashionable It in one of America's Greatest Tailor Workmen Find. Employment. Real OF TAILORED TROUSERS, $8 & $4. THE LOCATION N. W. COR- & BROAD, AND LOOK FOR THE SIGN. SECTION WITH ANY OTHER CLOTHING STORE IN THIS CITY. Famous THING CO. OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHIAN, Vice-President. THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier. John R. Chiles, John Mitchell, Jr., H. F. Jonathan, R. W. Whiting, Thomas H. Wyatt, E. R. Jefferson, D. J. Chavers, John T. Taylor, Thomas Smith, Thomas M. Crump, Sec., J./J. Carter, A. D, Price, P. B. Ramsey, H. L. Jackson, H. Powell. Famous $10. & $15. SUITS are Easily the Peer of Garments Sold Hereabouts for Almost Twice as Much. Fashioned, too, in a Faultless Way, with Great Care Exercised in their Tailoring, so that they may be Right up to "THE FA MOUS" Requirement. They Must be "Right" to be Here. Garments most Experiently Tailored and Created in the most Fashionable Manner. They were Built in one of America's Greatest Tailor Shops, where only Expert Workmen Find, Employment. Real Worth $45 to $25. "THE FAMOUS BRAND OF TAILORED TROUSERS, $3 & $4. 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. The Famous CLOTHING CO. Sorrow and Belfabness Borrow is sometimes another form of selfishness. One is apt to become absorbed in one's own grief and to think less of others who may, perhaps, hide under their smiling faces a breaking heart—Home Chat. Tit for Tat Mame—"Tan this mast Aunt Sarah sent me a beauty?" Dorothy—"It's nice, but I want a much larger one." Mame—"Of course you do. But this is plenty big enough for my hands."—Lippincott. Dally Thought. He who cherishes the spirit of kind, heartedness and magnanimity, governed by Christian principles, cannot fall to become a worthy, useful and beloved member of society.—Colleen OUR VAULT ```markdown ``` Her Sphere "There is one thing which woman could understand in political matters if she had the franchise." "What's that?" "When sweeping reforms are on the carpet." Baltimore American Not In That Class Wlgk—"Miss Caustique says she is very fond of young Saphedpe" Wagk—"Why, I thought she was a man-hater." Wlgk—"So she is. I suppose that's why she likes Saphedpe." Aa to Jungleworth. "Old Juggleworth died at an advanced age, didn't he?" "On the contrary, he died at a greatly reduced age. He was really 20 years older than he said he was." IGAFLNET Repartee Is As Dangerous as Fists. Continued from the First page PETER MAHER In the balloon gas department must go the name of Kid McCoy one of the ring's great clever men with both hat and tongue that on the weight of banana 1900 it was the kid gutt in one of his most of fective conversations. Peter Macher was the other entertainer and the game was on in earnest down at Coney Island New York. They climbed in the second found and McCoy hold Peter's arm so he could not move. Looking the fishman in the coy and smiling that maltown ran back that boy the Kid could on when he has a maled behemoth said. With you big pig I see you are in the newspapers holding for sympathy because your wife is sick. Well when I get through with you you'll want more sympathy than ever. Now as a matter of fact Peter's wife was critically ill and when I heard this insult Matteo became fraught with overload and of course that helped Metotio beat him. When it was over the rounds was tough Metotio came across to Peter's sister and told him his hand. What I said in the other doesn't go be whispered I only said it as a matter of business I know. This made Peter matter than ever for her joy that he had a sweet little girl out of a particularly sick baby as it helped to charge anything the last mark of the way she was doomed! Intended to a kindness and love offering It should be said for Maleh however that he was not a dominant ring conversationist. I missed when he and Gus Holladay had their first meeting in New York May 2. An email that went to a 2000 draw, which I did not notice, led to Irishman started something on his own account. Ha ha ha you Dutchman ordered I will make you quit. Dutchman work so well however for Rush I promptly prompted back. Boss you I am Dutchman I am American and I will make you quit. Dutchman up with three hot swings to Maleh rib that fairly made them crack. LAUGHS THROWN IN The singles are not all seriousness as assesment who is followed the games well known. There are tournaments and tournaments always straight up that provoke as much length as any vandalism. Now the Nazis are not half as hard to first of the antisemitic part as the winning vandalism with vicious slander. The tales that a referee could condone of the dialogue in the climbs would old greatly in the gaggy of nations. For example, every one has heard of George Uhowa M. Milton and Stuki. Sullivan One night at the Old Roadway A. New York, they were having a great fight and George Uhowa was on the winning end. Stuki had an injured I and smashed Stuki but he was not injured for much down time. Harry is the best man now. He was married to a famous man named George from a town in the country. The Sailor, named him but cannot tempt him. He told you that he just bought me that all you need is something. Mr. Falcon nearly lost the flight there and then they landed on laughs hard. They forked out a few amounts could land on laughs. We it was so hard to land on laughs. FIT 7 VS SHARKEY When Firstimmons and Tom Sharkey fought at Coney Island 1909, their second meeting since that one four years before out on the coast when Bob was deliberately robbed of a well-camigned victory the sailor who had improved a great deal in the moatline rushed at Bob swirling both hands. His left caught Fitz on the jaw and rocked him but was placed a little too high to cause serious damage. "That was a good one Tom" Fitz exclaimed. "Yes and here comes another one returned Sharkey, and I am not the easy mark you think." Sharkey had the host of the opening round and kept Ruby Rob on the defensive as they wheeled to return to their pier at its close. Fitz turned his heels and gave the sailor a malleous wink. "I will sink the ship next turn," he was shaken. The ship by the way, was a big three-master that Thomas has tattooed on his expansive chest. In the next round Fitzs suddenly exclaimed, "Ere now, Tam, ere goes for your face." Unhintingly, the sailor throw up his guard to protect his jaw, and the same instant Fitz's right hand punch landed a torpedo down wont the ship with all on board. But Sharkey has courage, lots of it, so up he came in a rally with all sails set, and for a few seconds was full of business. Once more Fitz chimed, "Ere's one for your face," and, as the sailor again throw up his arm, Bland landed on the ship with all the punch he could put back of it, and down wont the man of the sea for that number of counts, which multiplied by five, returns a quotient of "Oh!" says Fitz, when the noise had quieted down, "I am sorry, Tam. I really meant to say, Ere's one for the ship."—Washington Poet. Fighters of the Present Day—Are Great Financiers. New York, Jan 8—Hon Jim Jeffries is peeved—that is, he was peeved at last accounts. As he cools out very slowly being something like an Indian in that respect, the chances are that he is still smoldering in the basement. Some rash young critic hurried himself into type with a statement that the big fight was fixed. That was what started the alfalfa baron. First he said that he would search out the columnator and bite him on the left ear later he argued his own case and wound up with some the $. a word probably. The trouble has been that Jeff and Johnson did not proceed to business in the good old way. They sat down to argue, this light as a business. They cautioned Jeff did not take the light and threatened to kill him when he got him into the缸. We write all a trifle disapointed. Not to go too far back into the dates ages of pagelism did you ever hear of a fellow called Jim Corbett the fast of the great press agents in was the boy who could work up a first in a fight. Do you happen to call the grant knock down and fragment along in 1990 when Fitz emmons first began to challenge Corbett the Object. Corbett met B.E. in a barroom members of being being present and Gen. W.H. H. Toth to Fitz Newman and used old Bob's left. For a consider. That was only the beginning of friendly negot at the between the two. Later when they were training at Caron City, I had not been to the entertainment of the way I was of the most important point of by the inhabitants and Fitz always good to read when not to go to a co-held in place offered his forked, saw. At "I" I know how. I am. I'm off the gate at the new line of life. I'd get at it, and the It was the day of the bonders. We got about to work that day and the even bonders were there to help and work that day. It was the day of the bonders. We got about to work that day and the even bonders were there to help and work that day. It was the day of the bonders. We got about to work that day and the even P. a. good off. I've only with a good to do what I've with a good time. I put the w't go and put it back to it. I've been to the thing a. I've got a story on my life, so I've got some idea off. It's a long heavy time with it. I don't do it, I'm not said. I'm on a day of ink stand on one of the Toben's didn't come on. But it got into the papers and the Australia's are it book line and feathers Now we are so sure that he will fail and be defeated by the mistake. They should not take the traditions of the party as they do in our own way, making us a bit more useful than having too many parts. If he had hit John Borg in the head, and between him and the wrist, he would have been more useful than the right Ward. But if he had hit John Borg in the head, and between him and the wrist, he would have been more useful than the right Ward. Not all the two years that he has spent the people more than they have spent in the wars were worth it. When these two men met in the ring, they lent a hand to the country with good blood. The other who does not hope to be with the same kind of people as the one with a keen interest in the war and the people with a keen interest in the war. It was a kind of better life for a party than for a war. everybody knew he was going to right to win and win as soon as could. It was one time in life when he stabbed along it when he right to San Francisco. Carhart was killed in a second round but it was a tremendous house and left gave the sports a run for their money. He was never measured for it. It is safe to say that Jeffries will fight every step of the way against Johnson. Nobody really expects Johnson to do the attacking in the early rounds. The light is slated to give the long route and to soon a play will be to wait and be carefully in order to the Jeff if possible. The speed of the fight in the early rounds will be in Jeff's hands, and as he has nothing to gain waiting and everything to lose by waiting two long it is reasonable to assume that the big fellow will cut out a slashing pace from the opening round. Speaking of his intentions, here is something that Jeff said before he left New York the last time: "If I can drop Johnson with the first punch, I'll do it. If I can end the fight in the first round, my third of the moving pictures won't stop me I'm looking further ahead than the life of the moving picture films, because if I should happen to lose this fight, I'm done. I'd be so ashamed to have been licked by a rockman that I'd go back to the farm and never come in town again. I wouldn't want anybody to see me." He doesn't like a bobby hair on Johnson's shaven skull with Jack knock his brother collar with punch, and Jim would like to play even for that—and a few other things. You can offer a little 7 to 5 that it will be a tough fight while it lasts—Washington Post. Richmond, Va., Jan. 11, 1810. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor or the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pytan- n, N A, S. A., E., A, A. and A., (1450 00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother Wm. O. Loe, who was a member of Fulton Lodge, No 42 of Richmond, Va. Signed M ALICE LEE. Beneeflary Witnesses W E Brown, J O Dawson, S S Baker, D D G C Boneclary 814000 Lodowment Paid. Martinsville, Va. Jan 12, 1910 This is to certify that we have received from John Mitchell, Jr. and chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia Knights of Pyth as A S A B E J, A and C (Sons) On billed and Pity Dollars in payment of the death- bain of Brother Wm H. Smith who was a member of Douglass Lodge, No. 600 of Martinsville, Va. GRRAVELY & GRRAVELY Attorneys for Maggie Smith Dales Smith Lula Gilbert Witness J B Anglin Something New and Novel in Race Literature. The purpose of Eminent Negroes and John Edward Bruce is to publish newspaper corrections. A collection of readable biographies of eminent negro men and suitable for the library the study of race history. The home of the literature. To each sketch a series of questions for the study of the young. As soon as both subscribers have been paid the book will be made available to the finest work by John Edward Bruce. If John Edward Bruce should be made available to the consignments will be paid. A LARGE ORDER I like I like that they will you like that off at the grass? I like that off at the grass? I like that off quietly youself Time Works Wonders A.ady Supplied (1) To be a teacher. So you are an special for teaching children. What you must try to do in that house. Ask: Why not? Give: It is necessary. Give: It is necessary. Answer: I didn't know. When I told him I didn't drink it, I wanted to know what my reasons were for not drinking. I have a grudge against our new pastor Is that so? What's the matter? He has a poor way of clearing his throat and every time I doze off comforted, I wake me up. Oh. That Kind What sort of a housekeeper is she? " Well she brages of the way she can bang the piano while her husband brages of how his mother used to cook." Caught. "Fahawk!" exclaimed Miss Yorman, impatiently. "I'm sure we'll miss the first act. We've waited a good many minutes for that mother of mine." "Hours, I should say," Mr. Gloman retorted rather crossly "Ours? Oh, George; she cried, and laid her blushing cheek upon his airtight blush. New Disease The perfectoin of common things an' the removal of obstacles seem like it would result in perfect ease an 'unrelieved health, after a white; but I s'ploit it'll only mean a shifft of pirots an' a new class of allments—an 'healers—Ruth McEnery Stuart, in Century. Very Different Case Father (to bashful son)—"If you want the young lady why don't you take courage and propose? How do you suppose I managed when I got married?" Bon—"Oh, yes, you married mother; but I've got to marry a strange girl."—Boston Transcript. DISTINCTIVE MARK OF THE BEA SON'S DHAPERIES. Three Excellent Examples of the Pre- vailing Mice Are Here Shown— Gowns That Are Adapted to All Figures. A glimpse at the pictures of three treppe gowns, given here, reveals the commensal art of their designer in the management of draperies. The season has demanded hunts of the pannier and overkill and drapery of some aort on almost every gown, but these draperies must be arranged to follow the lines of the figure and the gown must be gracious else mildly will have none of it. . in Fig. I a gown is shown in which the pannier idea does service that is excellent for the woman of slender figure No other should at tempt to wear it. The pannier drapery is fullest about the hips and extends to the botom of the skirt the beautifl lines of the high neck are preserved by a panel spooled over the skirt apparently with the lower end banging free there the opportunity for decoration is taken advantage of by a scroll pattern of souffle braid match the gown in color. A sleeve entirely covered with the braid and the introduction of braid on ```markdown ``` For those "plump" figure the node in a happy life This is the way we work and the way we live to the end of the day to drop off the ground over the ground to follow the slow� in front of the ground to follow the� half way to back - a : you which let us to the figure to act I actually I need to advantage to the back and news at the wall the There is not so much as a wrinkle any where I'd be cutting and it will be noted that a knife puts the bodies in order to provide for the adjustment of the drapery without a plint or gather. No decorator appears in this book except at the sake and everything about it presents a glimpse of the work to which she works to look taller or more tender. Fig. 2 was not designed for a interface, but to show the in in to show the in- production of the overskirt idea at a dress. A drapery which simi- lates a drop skirt and overskirt to cleverness in a gown all in one-o- prolains the arti- tist. This model is suited to any of the light, tight fabrics in silk or wool and for a dress design costume cannot be excelled for gen- eral excellence of design. The yoke is in heavy lace. A model in black toufard having a dry scattered dn in gray was made up this way. The yoke in this case was of black braid. ```markdown ``` ed net over a deep crimson satin lining, flanks of black velvet ribbon were set across the back, over the shoulders and across the bust. Jet ornaments were applied to them. This was a feally brilliant and untougtable gown, although made of so simple and inexpensive a fabric. Each season the florist or the milliner makes a certain flower the fashion. Violette and gardenias and orchids hold their own, but added to those one flower is held up as a favorite. This season it is the Bermuda lily. Europe is quite entranced over it. It is in white and pink, and is grown small or large. Old Rose the: Venue Old rose is reappearing this year. At present, with a few exceptions, it seems to be confined to waist garment or hat trimming, or, at most to a net or chiffon overdress, but little choux or bows of this tone in satin or velvet are frequently set upon darker or lighterigned fabrics—Harper's Bexar Victoria of Reputation tutor of inspiration. The first word in the building up of 'big reputation; all the time you are building it you are thoroughly enjoying it. The fond mother, instead of looking at the noming, bridgroom, banking account, should have a look at his insurance policy. Any Number of Practical Garmets, and Accessories May Be Mac. at Home. The girl with crochet rapidly and eventually uses fashion any number of practical garments and accessories. A house jacket in kimono shape of white, rose, blue or mauve worked is not a stumped task to undertake if it is crocheted in alternate abell and chain stitch and finished with a loosely meshed ball fringe border. Such a jacket may be made to look exceed ingly elaborate by weaving wide inch satin ribbon through the chain stripe and fastening the fronts of the garment with a row of cluster bows. A sleeveless jacket, which terminates at the waist line may be plainly crocheted on one piece, bordered wilt ban - edging in any fancy stitch and faced together beneath the arms with inch-wide satin ribbon. These little garments are convenient to wear over a fingerie blouse during cold weather, and when the outdoor wrap is removed look infinitely more daly than the regulation sweater. A man's golf vest should be crocheted in two subdued tones, the lighter one forming the main portion and the darker a band to outline the single breasted fronts, the top edges of the four pockets and the arm eyes. A child a short sleeved crocheted vest may be modeled after the Italian silk undersweats worn by women but it should be made somewhat higher over the chest and the shoulder straps slightly broadened. A small girl's bloomers should be closely crocheted fastened about the waist with a ribbon woven through a double chain stitched band and at the knees with a broad silk elasti The only crocheted slumber robe that is not cumbersome to handle when only half completed is the model that is formed of several five-inch wide strips made separately and joined with an overcast stitch. For an infant an all white robe is daintiest, but the Roman sash pattern is infinitely more practical while a grown person would certainly prefer a robe wholly of gold colors or in the subdued shades of a clan plaid. FRILLS RESTORED TO FAVOR Low Cut Coats Responsible for Revival of Fashion Popular in the Spring With the incoming of the low cut coat there is an immense festival of those knife-plaited rims that we wore last spring French women have been wearing them all summer as they were compelled to have something to relieve the severity of the American tailor made which they have been wearing with such fervor And again they have worn the low cut coat more than we have, and trills are not very effective on a coat that fastens nearly to the neck It is heat to get separate frills and button them to the blouse. If the latter does not fasten in front those frills can be attached with ornamental safety pins, or roughly basted. They are rarely of lace, but of soft muslin and fine linen or flat net. They are lace-edged and knife platted. They begin at the collar with an immensely broad black velvet bow the ends and loops of which tie over each other and are of almost the same length. Stiff Linen Collars Stiff linen collars accompanied by the tailor made bow of taffeta or crepe de chine are making their appearance for wear with the autumn tailor made. This mannish looking linen collar has given way for several seasons to the dainty Peter Pan or other confection in embroidered linen or muslin and the light-fitting collars of dotted muslin but this autumn will probably see the arrival of the stiff linen collar accompanied by a neat little tie. The Peter Pan collar though extremely dainty is only becoming to a few women with almost perfect necks. The empire frill, too did much to eclipse the stiff linen collar but this frill has entirely disappeared. Rose-Colored Fur It is here. No longer must we accept furs in colors which resemble the natural tones. A furrier has thought of dyeing a fox to match a grayish rose-colored gown, and it is a success. It may have been a light gray fox, the natural color giving that delightful ashy tint over the dark old rose. It may have been a white one soiled beyond the cleaner's rejuvenating touch. But whatever the reason for the new "dip," it has emerged for much profit, and the one successful color trial blinds of other possibilities. The High Handshake The customs of society often have queer origins. Some years ago the members of a somewhat inferior sort took to shaking hands on a level with their chins, a mode copied from royal personages who, suffering from an abscess under the arm, avoided the painful friction entailed by shaking hands in the ordinary manner and resorted to a higher level. This was observed by some lesser lights, from whom the custom spread - Home Notes. Two New Fabrics Among the new materials with fun- fuciful names are Thais moore and Alaska crepe. Both of them are quite o- ffective, but they have nothing sug-gestive of their names in the textures. However, we have such a variety of fabrics this year that it must be difficult to get names for all of them; and we are adopting the old French method of using the name of the hour for our garments and our textiles. She Does. When a woman is in doubt she usually chooses the more expensive article—Detroit Free Press. Massachusetts Planting Trees. In Massachusetts tree planting is systemically conducted along the public highways. Filtred thousand trees have been planted in a few years,—Arboriculture. ```markdown ``` N. F. Jacobs Ninth St. L. UNREDEEMED PL DIAMONDS, WATCHES PISTOLS. WEAR OF ALL Complete Line of Hardwa- Instruments—Drums, E ments Bought. So 9th ST. 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