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THE RICHMOND PLANET GERSHOM OR THE STORY OF THE NEGRO. By Lucian B. Watkins. Judge not because unto the present task I bend the shoulders of an untried strength; And marvel not or say unto thy self A vain presumption leads me blindly forth Into a fruitless effort; for I've thought, And having thought so deeply and so long. Must heed the whispers of an inner faith That tells me that the task is mine. And now Unto this faith I cling, I cling, and pray That the muse-magnet of my soul be set Full equal to the every call demand. For I am not to weave a story weird, Imaginary far beyond a truth—No! It is but my humble part to sing Interpretations of the quivering keys Of history, touched by many passing souls Through all the ages of a living race. Could I but sing the murmurs of the Nile, Or Gilton far away, in accents true Unto their secret messages of life In Ethiopian land of long ago; Or follow through the echoes of the years The span of age, stretching from the day Of present known unto the past unknown. The wisdom of the Alpha then would speak That has streaming glory to the world. (To be continued.) KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Grand Time in Richmond and Victim- ity—Able Sermons—Much Money Raised. The Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. and Courts of Calanthe, observed their anniversary in this locality last Sunday by four sermons at four places. The Uniform Rank assembled and Sir Knights assembled at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third Street, at 12 o'clock and marched to the Moore Street Baptist Church. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr., was accompanied by Gen. W. R. Green, Col. D. A. Ferguson, Col. Roscoe C. Mitchell, Col. Thomas Smith, Col. E. W. R. Glenn, Col. Thomas H. Wyatt, Maj. John J. Bly, Capt. W. Henry Jones. Major Wm. A. Robinson had active command, and was accompanied by Adjutant B. H. Peyton and Orderly R. H. Fauntleroy, Eureka Company, No. 1. Capt. W. F. Weaver, commanding; Planet Company, No. 8. Capt. Adolphus Jackson, commanding, and the Pythian Cadets in two company formations, followed by a long line of members of the subordinate lodges, made a brilliant display as the line moved up Leigh Street. The Pythian ode was sung by the Knights. Prayer was offered by Sir O. M. Steward. The sermon delivered by Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., was enthusing and able, and created a profound impression. In the pulpit was also Rev. R. O. Johnson, the popular pastor of the Moore Street Baptist Church. The congregation was outspoken in its approval of Rev. Dr. Johnson's soul stirring discourse. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., spoke and gave a vivid description or the attempt made to bar the colored Knights of Pythias and other secret organizations from operating in this state. He paid a glowing tribute to the better class of white people who had discountened the movement and who promised to do all in their power to defeat it. He told of the success of his efforts in enlisting the support of the better class of white people against the movement and the final passage of a bill that protected colored organizations as well as white ones. He felt proud of being a Virginian. Music was furnished by the choir. The Grand Chancellor called for a collection and $33.07 was lifted. Benediction was announced. Grand Worthy Counsellor, John Mitchell, Jr., fell out of line with his staff at the Ebenen Baptist Church and a few minutes after 4 o'clock, the exercises commenced with singing by the choir. The scriptures were read by the pastor, and prayer was offered by Sir Willis Wyatt. Music was rendered by the choir. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D. delivered an able and interesting sermon to the Courts of Calanthe, telling about woman's place in the world. He declared her to be man's equal. He aroused the congregation to a high pitch and expressions of approval from the ladies were heard from all parts of the congregation. Grand Worthy Counsellor, John Mitchell, Jr., spoke upon "The Influence of the Courts of Calanthe." The collection was released 117 The collection was raised and $17. 37 given to the church. The services were enjoyed by the large assemblage present. The anniversary exercises for the Church-hill and Fulton lodges and courts took place at 3:30 P.M. at the Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church. Rev. D. W. Davis, D. D. delivered an eloquent sermon. He greatly pleased the large number of persons, who had assembled to hear him. Music was rendered by the choir. The welcome address was delivered by Sir W. E. Brown. A solo was rendered by Dr. J. O. Dawson. A paper on Pythianism, written by Past Chancellor O. M. Stewart, was read. A solo was sung by Mrs. Rosa Hill. District Deputy S. S. Baker made brief remarks. They were all well received. A quartette consisting of J. O. Dawson, William Whiting, Adolphus Clark and John Jefferson, rendered a selection. A collection of $16.55 was raised. The benediction was announced. Sir Foster Lucas was Master of Cermonies. The Sub-committee was R. J. Johnson, W. E. Brown, F. L. Lucas, Chas. H. Morton, J. O. Dawson, W. H. Hanks. All of the exercises were under the management of the Committee of Arrangements as follows: Miss M. L. Chies, Mrs. Lucy Cross, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Sir O. M. Steward, Major John G. Smith, Capt. Willis Wyatt, Mrs. Anna Taylor, D. D. G. W. C., Sir S. S. Baker, D. D. G. C. The anniversary exercises in Manchester, Va., took place at the Second Baptist Church, Sir R. J. Jackson, D. D. G. C. with Sir J. E. Height, acting D. D. G. C. in charge Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D., preached an able sermon and aroused the congregation. He told of the work of Pythianism. Both the courts and lodges were out. Music was rendered, a collection lifted, and all had a grand time. ELIMINATE THE NEGRO VOTE Maryland Democrats Decide to Deny Race Right to Register. Annapolis, Md., March 25.—The Democrats in the Maryland legislature in caucus tonight decided to ignore the fifteenth Federal amendment by refusing negroes the right to register and thereby eliminating them from the voting population. This plan has been under consideration for some time, various amendments to the Constitution having failed to deprive them of their rights. Leading lawyers, who have had the proposition under consideration, attended to night's caucus by invitation and explained that as Maryland had been one of the States which refused to ratify the fifteenth amendment, it need not be bound by its provisions, and thus Maryland follows the example of South Carolina, 70 years ago, when it adopted the nullification act. Following the enactment of this law, there will be submitted a constitutional amendment which disfranchises the negro, and with this law in force it is expected to pass. This amendment also repeals the Wilson ballot laws, and provides for uniform and fair elections throughout the State. The act applies only to State and municipal elections, and becomes effective in 1912. At national elections a different set or books is to be used, the negroes being allowed to register. As the Democrats have three-fifth majority in both branches, the amendment will undoubtedly pass. The vote tonight was unanimous. LOSE SIGHT OF THE COLOR OF THE MAN, AND LOOK FOR THE AMERICAN DOLLAR. We know that you are going to buy suits for yourself this sweek. Why not give our only and first Broad Street clothing merchant a chance? He has just returned from New York with an up-to-date line of children's suits, in all the latest novelties in knickerbocker suits. He can fit your boys in knickerbocker suits from 4 to 18 years, ranging in price from $1.50 to $6.50 per suit. New suits in all the latest designs from $5.00 up to $20.00 His shelves are loaded with all the latest novelties in gent's furnishings, hats and shoes. He also makes suits to order from $12.50 to $30.00. Will you please give him a trial before spending your money elsewhere? Remember that all goods are guaranteed for the price or money refunded. Don't forget the place 314 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va. (Wrong side between Third and Fourth Street, near Third.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1910. THE GREAT POST OFFICE ROBBERY Nearly Eighty-five Thousand Dollars Stolen. The Robbers Captured in New York. Shipped the Loot in Trunks. Will be Tried Here. It will be officially announced today, when Post-Office Inspectors Albertie and Saffel, or the Washington division, have completed the task of examining the records in the office of Cashier W. McKim Marriott, at the temporary post-office building here, that thieves who entered the vault early yesterday morning carried off $85,000 in booty. Nearly all of this is in stamps of various denominations, and it is said that less than $2,000 in currency was stolen. The statement given out late last night was that the inspectors were unable during all of yesterday to determine the exact figures, but that $85,000 will not be far from the right amount, and, if anything, the loss will be a little above that figure. Chief Inspector Harrison, who is here to conduct the work of capture, says there is a standing reward of from $500 to $1,000 for each of such criminals, but that the Postmaster-General is at liberty to supplement this if he desires. Mr. Harrison, with his assistants and Chief of Detective Scherer, of the Chesapeake and Ohio, were together late last night, but would give out no information at the conclusion of their conference. Within an hour after their arrival in Richmond for the purpose of solving, if possible, the greatest post-office robbery mystery that has ever occurred in this city, Chief John R. Harrison, of the Washington division of post-office inspectors, secured the information that the yeggmen who cracked the safe in the office of Cashier William McKim Marriott, in the temporary post-office building, removed $5,000 in stamps to a room in the basement of a nearby hotel, and there packed their booty into two huge trunks, and on an early morning train, perhaps at 4:50 o'clock, shipped them to Washington. It is even said that the inspectors have in their possession the numbers of the railroad checks, but in Washington, where the fugitives are believed to have succeeded in transierring the baggage, the clue was lost, and until a late hour last night nothing definite had been learned which may lead to a capture. HAD ROOM AT NEARBY HOTEL All that is known of the identity of the man who secured the storage room in the basement of the Alhambra Hotel is that he rented it from J. A. Connelly & Co., rental agents, presumably for the purpose of displaying an assortment of toys, on last Friday, and that he gave the name of, _ purporting to be a travelling salesman for a New York novelty company. When a Times-Dispatch reporter entered the room at he hotel at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon two inspectors were busily searching it; but the thieves had been careful to leave nothing behind by which they might have been traced. The name of the suspects and the name of the hotel are know to the Times-Dispatch, but are withheld at the request of Postmaster Edgan Allan, Jr., in order not to embarrass (Continued on Fifth Page.) Another Court Organized. Georgetown Court. No. 152, Order of Calanthe, was organized in Hanover County, Friday, March 25th, by Miss M. L. Chiles, Special Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor, assisted by Dr. J. Alexander Lewis. The court was created through the efforts of Miss Ella Taylor. The officers are Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. E. A. Allen; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Nannie Watts; Orator, A. P. Allen; Register of Deeds, Mrs. Sallie Anderson; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks; Junior Directress, Mrs. Sallie Tinsley; Senior Directress, Mrs. Molle Hopkins; Conductress, Mrs. Susle Fox; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Mary J. Weatherless; Protector, Mrs. Annie Robinson; Herald; Mrs. Violet Fells; Escort, Mrs. Mary Taylor; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Susle Johnson. The candidates were delighted. Miss Chiles and Dr. Lewis left at 7 o'clock for Richmond. WANTED—A Good Baker on Bread and Cakes. Write E. P. BLAIR, Pulard. Va. Resolutions of Condolence. Death's angel was summoned to our neighborhood, Friday the 18th, at 3 o'clock, to remove from our midst our brother and neighbor, James Fox, who has been a long time sufferer, but bore his illness with patience. He was a quiet and peaceful neighbor, and a law-abiding citizen. Although his death was daily expected, it came as a shock, and cast a shadow of sadness over every one. He died at his post of duty, trusting in God. He will be greatly missed, but we bow in humble submission to the will of God, who doeth all things well, and recommend the be-veared family to the Great Counsellor, who will be with them and guide them through this affliction. To heaven he lifted his longing eyes. He bid us all, adieu. His loving wife and daughter stood around. Loath to let him go. He shouted with his expiring breath, And left them here hollow. Rehmond, V., et al., March 21, 1910. We, the members of the Ebenezer Church Aid Society, bow in humble submission to the will of an All-wise Providence, in removing from our midst, Deacon James Fox. He had been a member of the society since its organization. This is the second time within a month, that the reaper death, has thrust his sharp and cruel scrye in our midst, and taken (Continued on Fourth Page.) Rev. W. T. Anthony. D. D. The above is the way the popular pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Manchester, Va., will hereafter be nominated. The famous Gaudalupe College, of Seguin, Texas, in the month of February conferred upon Rev. Anthony the eminent degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Anthony's friends here and elsewhere will congratulate him as a most worthy and successful young divine. He is a Richmonder by birth and rearing, having been baptized years ago by Dr. Evans Payne of the Fourth Baptist Church. Dr. Anthony serve as pastor first in the city of New York, where he made an enviable reputation as a powerful presacher and a great church worker. He was called to the Zion Baptist Church, Manchester, just a few years ago, and during these few years he has made a name for himself as one of the most powerful and successful divines of the state. Last Monday night his great church gave a reception in honor of his degree. It was a grand affair. An excellent program was executed. After the opening of devotional services, Rev Dr. W. F. Graham, Master of Ceremonies, presided in his usual dignified manner. A timely address or welcome was made by Deacon Daniel Glenn. A happy response was made by Deacon Baker, of the First Baptist Church, Manchester. A voice from the church was heard through Mr. Archer Lewis and a letter from the church by the Clerk, V. Bailey. Various ministers made timely remarks. Drs. R. Spiller, W. H. White, and A. S. Thomas led the way in speeches that were highly received by all those present. Rev S. C. Burrell represented the young men. His remarks were timely and eloquent. Rev Martin, of the Union Level Church, spoke well for the ministry generally. There were present Revs. Williams, of Trinity Church, Smith of the Nozareth Church, Thomas Briggs and many others. Drs. P. J. Wallace, of Norfolk, and D. W. Davis could not be present, but courteously sent brotherly letters of greetings and congratulations. The singing by the choir and the Glee quartette was charming. Miss Etta Hall covered herself in glory by a sweet solo. A grand repast was served to the guests in the lecture room of the church. Dr. Anthony deserves all honors. May he live long to preach the word. TALE OF BLACK DOG ENTERS INTO CASE It May Prevent Re Enlistment of Dis charged Negro Soldiers. Washington, D. C., March 28.—On a big black dog may depend the decision as to whether or not any of the negro soldiers discharged as a result of the famous shooting up of Brownville, Tex., are to be allowed to re-enlist in the army of the United States. Such a dog is said to have bounded along ahead of the raiders who went on their death-dealing mission on August 13, 1906. The obscure bit of testimony was brought to the fore today at the sitting of the military court of inquiry created by law to determine if any of the discharged soldiers should be permitted to re-enlist. Captain Charles R. Howland, recorder of the court, asserted that his dog belonged to Company B, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, and scampered along ahead of the raiders, as he said, with whom it came in daily contact. For six hours Captain Howland addressed the court in summarizing the testimony or the Brownville affray. The tenor of the recorder's address throughout the day was that the discharged soldiers shot up the town. His story of the dog was only one of the points marshaled by the army officer in support of his contention that the soldiers were guilty of the crime that has been laid at the door of citizens of the town. TALE OF THE DOG The tale of the dog was told the court when Captain Howland reached the part of his argument dealing with the raid through the town. As the raiders went through Cowin Alley he recalled that Mr. and Mrs. Odin heard the noise, and looking out saw a dog leaping along ahead of the men, and thought the men were shooting at this supposed mad dog. He said Mr. Odin described it as a "large black dog." "This big black dog, which has heretofore been neglected in the case," said the recorder, "enters into it with very illuminating effect, because not a half hour before he was standing watch at the gate or the post and keeping the children out who were going home from the Cowan party. "There are generally dogs about where soldiers are gathered, and in this particular case we find that there was a large black dog with B Company, as shown by reference to Captain Macklin's testimony. The dog which Mr. Odin saw and which he felt was a mad dog that they were trying to shoot was merely the B Company dog, running ahead of the soldiers, with whom he came in daily contact." Stress was laid by the recorder on the testimony that the firing that night was done by volleys. An attempt by civilians to fire by volleys, he contended, would not have been successful. A study of the trajectory of the bullets fired, as made by experts for the court of inquiry, Captain How, land said, demonstrated that there was firing from the porches of D and B, barracks, and probably C, and much firing from the post between the barracks and the walls. Beautiful Flower Queen A Cantata, the Beautiful Flower Queen will be given at Hartshorn College, Friday evening April 1st, 1910 at 8:15 o'clock. Admission 15 cents; Reserved seats, 25 cents. Lawyer Jas. Alex. Chiles, of Lexington, Ky., spent several days in the city week before last, visiting his family. In a short while he will have completed his cases in the West and be located here. His wife, Mrs. Fannie J. Chiles, has been in the city since December 30th, at 114 W. Leigh Street. Mr. West Gone. We were shocked to receive a telegram from Mr. George W. Rison under the date of March 25, 1910, announcing the death at Danville, Va., of Mr. Charles W. West, one of the leading colored citizens of that city. 5TH ST. BAPT. CHURCH. Located, Cor. 5th and Jackson Sts. RICHMOND, VA. Weekly News Column. REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., Pastor, Residence: 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, Editor, Office: 1215 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Easter Sunday is becoming more and more interesting with the people. Churches and societies are celebrating it as as anniversary of the resurrection of our Blessed Saviour. In most of the churches special services are held. On Sunday the Fifth Street Baptist Church had an enjoyable day. At 9:30 o'clock, Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton opened the Sunday School. Owing to the absence of Miss Annie Brown, the pianist, who was out of the city, Miss Irene Pollard played the piano and Mr. R. H. duct that you can produce, your time was cheerful and the music sweet. The trio consisting of Mrs. Marie Barlette and Messrs. N. G. Booker and James Walls deserves great credit for their sweet singing. Deacon Edward T. Black, superintendent Mt. Tabor Baptist Sunday School, Savannah, Ga., addressed the school. He gave sound advice. At 11:30 o'clock church services commenced. One had only to look over the large congregation, and had he ever been in Richmond on such a Sunday before of late, he would have known it was Easter. Everything was in keeping with the occasion. Our Pastor, Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, preached a genuine Easter sermon. Subject, "Witness of the Resurrection." It was excellent and filled with grand truths and noble sentiments. It was enjoyed by all present. The choir sang some of its choice Easter music. Miss Blanche Bullock delighted the congregation with a fine solo. At 3:30 o'clock, the church assembled to partake of the communion. Communion services are always interesting; but, on Sunday it occurring on Easter made it doubly so. The Pastor conducted services, the deacons and officers, assisted. During the serving of the elements, different members of the congregation would speak mutually covengant with each other, under Divine Guidance, to do more, and whatever they could for the future prosperity of the church. There was an unusual spiritual warmth at this service. The prayers and hymns were soul stirring, and cheerful. Union, peace, pleasure and happiness, beamed upon the contenances of all present. One by one the members are falling in line for battle, step by step, they are steadily marching to the front sewing seeds of kindness, and emitting charitable sunshine. At night the day's services were closed by a fine sermon from Rev. W. H. Watkins. It was well received and highly complimented. Rev. Watkins has improved wonderfully within the last few months. A bright future, we trust, will crown his efforts with much success. Last Wednesday night the prayer service was conducted by Deacon John Cooke. It was fine. Our Pastor, Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham was at the Fourth Baptist Church, where he preached a powerful sermon. Subject, "No Cross, No Crown." This service was held under the auspices of the Puritan Club, of the Fourth Baptist Church. Mrs. Cordella Fleming, Pres., Miss Lula Willis, Sec., and Miss Julla Young, Treas., and the Deacons Club of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. A large congregation was present. A good collection was raised, which was divided between the clubs of the two churches. In the near future, Rev. Dr. Evans Payne will preach at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, for one of the clubs of said church, and one of the clubs of the Fourth Baptist Church. Date will be given later. Let every member of the Fifth Street Baptist Church attend these prayer services next Wednesday night. . . . The B. Y. P. U. is doing well. Press. John W. Howard is highly elated over the success. All are invited out next Friday night. Exercises commence at 8 o'clock. Be on time. . . . Rev. Dr. G. B. Howard, Pastor of Gilfield Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va., will preach a special sermon to women at Fifth Street Baptist Church, Sunday at 3:30 o'clock. All women are vinvited. Be on time. Let the men come as witnesses. . . . . The Old Folk's Concert was indeed a great success. The exercises were fine and enjoyable. It will be repeated at St. Luke Hall, next Monday night, April 4, 1910. The Manager, Mrs. Josie A. Graham is bending her energies to make it a success. Come out next Monday night at St. Luke Hall and help to make it a success. PRICE, FIVE CENTS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS The First Lodge in Luenenburg County. Lunenburg Lodge, No. 173, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., was organized at Brydle, Lunenburg County, Va., Thursday, March 24th, by District Deputy S. S. Baker. Dr. J. Alexander Lewis, Grand Master at Arms and Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Grand Medical Register. The party reached Blackstone, where District Deputy, H. L. Jackson met them and drove eight miles into Lunenburg County. The following officers were appointed and installed: Chancellor Commander, George W. Brydle; Vice Chancellor, Henry Maddox; Prelate, Washington Brown; Keeper of Records and Seal, George Dobbins; Master of Exchequer, F. M. Brydle; Master or Finance, H. B. Brydle; Master of Work, Charlie Maddox; Master at Arms, J. W. Maddox; Inner Guard, Ned Jones; Outer Guard, Alpheus Ogborn; Trustees, W. M. Irby; George Brydle, James Thomas. Attendants, James Patterson, Spencer Maddox, George Bates, Norman Irby. This lodge was organized under the instructions of District Deputy H. L. Jackson. Badly Injured. Eddie Wanzer, colored, was arrested last Tuesday morning, as the man who murderously assaulted Gilbert Hulcher, the fifteen-year-old son of ex-Policeman Louis Hulcher, of 735 Brook Avenue, on Sunday night as the boy was on his way home. Tessie Lee, who was the woman with whom several other boys had quarreled, was arrested the night before as the woman who could throw light on the affair. Gilbert was struck in the head with a half brick. His skull was fractured and his brains cooled out on the pavement. He was taken into the home of John Tarrant, of 201 West Clay Street, where temporary aid was given to him until the arrival of the city ambulance. He was said not to have been a member of the party or boys who were quarrelling with Tessie Lee, but merely a passerby. Wancer is alleged to have thrown at the crowd and struck Hulcher. Anniversary of Pythians in Manchester, Va. The Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe, of Manchester, Va., observed the Forty-sixth Anniversary of the organization, at the Second Baptist Church, on Easter Sunday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock with a well arranged program. About two hundred Pythians marched up Hull Street to the church, where they were joined by the ladies of the Courts of Calanthe. The program was a lengthy one, which consisted of the following: Scripture Reading Recitation By Sir Alley Byrd Music By Orchestra Welcome Address Sir Deacon Mason Baugh Instrumental Duet By D. D. G. C. James E. Height Sermon Rev. A. S. Thomas E. J. Cunningham, Master of Ceremonies Every one on the program reflected credit upon themselves and gained new laurels. All praise is given the orchestra for the manner in which they displayed their musical ability. The amount collected was $14.80. Anniversary at Randolph, Va Randolph, Va., March 30, 1910. Randolph Lodge, K. of P. and Randolph Court, held their exercises jointly at the Baptist church. A fine program was rendered and the address of D. D. G. W. C. Sister Anna Taylor, of Richmond, was the leading feature of the occasion. The subject was "The Progress of the Pythians and Courts in Virginia," and everybody was delighted and nineteen new members were added to the Order on Monday as the result. On Saturday a ball game and a fine parade ending in a festival were enjoyed by the members of the Order and Sister Taylor left Wednesday for her home, having accomplished much good in this locality. Mrs. Virginia A. Smith, 1301 E Leigh Street, is still improving. W. G. Wren, M. D., now located in Columbus, Ohio, was in the city and called on us. THROUGH THE WALL BY CLEVELAND MOFETT Copyright, 1909, by D. Appleton & Co. THE detective entered the room of the tragedy and turned up the lights, all of them, so that he might see whatever was to be seen. He walked back and forth examining the carpet, examining the walls, examining the furniture, but paying little heed to the body. He went to the open window and looked out, be went to the yellow sofa and sat down, finally he shut off the lights and withdrew soft, closing the door behind him. It was just as the commissary had said with the exception of one thing. Papa Tignot entered to say that he had finished the footprint mould. M Paul motioned his associate to a chair "By the way, he asked what do you think of that?" He pointed to a Japanese print in a black frame that bung near the massive sofa board "Why," stammered Tignot. I don't think anything of it. Coquell laughed. All the same, it has a bearing on your investigations "Disable." M Paul reached for his glasses, rubbed them liberally and put them on. "Papa Tignol," he said seriously, "I have come to a conclusion about this crime, but I haven't verified it. I am now going to give myself an intellectual treat." "What is it? "I am going to prove practically whether my mind has grown rusty in the last two years. You understand that we are in private room No 7, don't you? On the other side of that wall is private room No 6, where a man has just been shot. We know that don't we? But the man who shot him was in this room the little hair brushing, I did saw the pistol thrown from this window the dog found footprints coming from this room, the murderer went out through that door into the alleyway and then into the street. He couldn't have gone into the corridor because rb. door was locked on the outside. "He might have gone in the courtyard and locked the door after him," objected Tignol. Cougall shook his head. He could have locked the door after him on the outside, not on the inside but when we came in here it was locked on the inside. "Then how in heaven a name? "Exactly. How could a man in this room kill a man in the near room? And I believe I have solved it. I listen between these rooms is a solid wood en partition with no door in it no passageway of any kind. Let the man in there is dead. We are of that. The pistol was here the bullet went there somehow. How did it go there? Think." The detective paused and looked fixely at the wall near the heavy sideboard. Tignol half fastened stared at the same spot and then as a new idea took form in his brain he blurted out. "How you mean it went through the wall? "Is there any other way?" "But there is no hole through the wall," he muttered. "It might be back of that sideboard." But M. Paul disagreed. "No man as clever as this fellow would have moved a heavy piece covered with plates and glasses. If the sideboard had been moved there would be marks on the floor and there are none. Now you understand why I'm interested in that Japanese print." Tiguel sprang to his feet. "You're mocking me you've looked behind the picture." Coguení shook his head solemnly. "On my honor I have not been near the picture. I know nothing about the picture, but unless there is some flaw in my reasoning." The old man stepped forward quickly and took down the picture. "Tunnere de Dileu!" he cried. "It's true! There are two holes." Sure enough, against the white wall stood out not one but two black holes about an inch in diameter and something less than three inches apart. Around the left hole, which was close to the sideboard, were black dots sprinkled over the painted woodwork like grains of pepper. "Powder marks" muttered Coquenil, examining the hole. "He fired at close range as Martinez locked into this room from the other side. Poor chap! That's how he was shot in the eye." "Assasin Idiots! That's what we saw," muttered the old man. "For half Copyright. 1909. by D. Appleton & Co. T. MARSH "Enduretoilly." The spirals from the anger hide inside the holes show plainly that the boring was done from No 6 toward No 7. Tignol studied the hole then he turned. You're a fine director of M Paul but I was a carpenter for six years before I went on the force and I know more about anger holes than you do. I say you can't be sure which side of the wall this hole was bored from. You talk about spirals but there's no sense in that. They're the same either way. We'll see on the other side. They went around into No 6. The old man drew back the sofa hangings and exposed two holes the same holes. You see he went on the edges are clean without a sign of chipping. There is no more reason to say that these holes were bored this side from that. M Paul going to the sofa knelt down by it and using his magnifying glass prepared to go over its surface with infinite care. "Turn up all the lights he said "Ab" he crested present. You think there is no reason to say the hoose were bored from this side. I give you a reason. Take this piece of white paper and make me prints of his boat boots. He pointed to the body. Take the whole heel arefully, then the other one get the nail marks. everything. That's right. Now cut out the prints. Good! Now, look here Knock down. Take the gins. There on the yellow skin by the tail of that silver bird. Do you see? Now com- pare the heel prints. Papa Tignol knelt down as directed and examined the sofa seat. "Saprint! You're a magician!" he cried in great excitement. "No," replied Coquenil, "It's perfectly simple. These holes in the wall are five feet above the floor. And I'm enough of a carpenter, Papa Tignol. he smiled, "to know that a man cannot work an auger at that height without standing on something. And here was the very thing for him to stand on, a sofa just in place. So, if Martines bored these holes, he stood on this sofa to do it and in that case the marks of his heels must have remained on the delicate satin. And here they are" "Yes, here they are, nails and all," admitted Tignol admiringly. "I'm an old fool, but—" Tell me why mistakes and the Coquille's face darkened. "Ah, that's the question. We'll know that when we talk to the woman. Somebody helped him or the chips would still be there; somebody 'bald back those hangings while he worked the stager, and somebody carried the wager away." Pamela pondered. "Hah! I feel that both in No. 6, my husband, liked that picture from No. 5, still brave. Soonin and then, put it on the nail after shooting. "Yes, yes, agreed M Paul "Then this murderer must have known that the billiard player was going to hire those holes, went on Ipa Tignel half to himself "He must have been waiting in No 7, he must have stood there with his pistol ready while the holes were coming through he must have let Martinez finish one hole and then the other he must have kept No 7 dark so they couldn't see him "A good point that" approved toquent paying attention He certainly kept No 7 dark "And he probably looked into No 6 through the first hole while Martinez was being the second I suppose you can tell which of the two holes was bored first a billiard Tignel M. Paul started, and I see thats it! He loved it. He hole first! It's the right room - he when you're in this room the left hand - he when you're in No. 7. As you say, the murderer looked through the first hole while he waited for the second to be bored, so naturally he fell through the hole where his eye was. That was his first great mistake. 'What difference does it make which hole the man stred through?' "Just this time during through the left hand hole he has given us previous evidence against him. Come back into the other room and I'll show you. And when they had returned to No. 7 he continued. Take the plated. Pretend you are the murderer you've been waiting your moment while the nigger grinds through from the other side. The first hole is finished. You see the point of the nuger as it comes through the second. You grip your plated and look through the left hand hole you see the woman holding back the certains you see Martinez draw out the nuger from the right hand hole and lay it down. Now he leans forward pressing his face to the completed eye holes, you see the whites of his eyes not three inches away quick" "Plated up" "Ready to fire. No, no through the left hand hole where he fired." "Sure matin" muttered Tignol. "It's awkward aiming through this left hand blade because its too near the sideboard. I can't get my eye there to sight along the piston barrel." "You mean your right eye?" Of course. Could you get it off there? Yes. But if I climbed with my left eye I have to be with my left hand and I could not let me that way. Congrulled looked at Tiguel steadily. "You could if I were a left handed man." You mean to say The other stared. We're going to look for a left handed murderer. It was pretty 4 o'clock when Coquille of the Avonlea and started up the thighs and swept breathing deep of the earl's ear. The night was still dark with only dust being breaking in the east. And what a night it had been? After all what had he acted on? A girl's dream and an odd coincidence. Was that enough to make a man after his whole life and free extraordinary danger? Was it enough? Conquenl was just glancing about for a cab to the Turkish bath place—in fact he was signaling one that he saw jogging up the Avenue de la Grande Armée—when he became aware that a gentleman was approaching him. Turning quickly he saw a man of medium height with a dark beard tinged with gray wearing a loose black cape overcoat and a silk hat. The stranger sat quietly and said with a slight foreign accent, "How are you M Louise?" I have been expecting you." The words were simple enough, yet they contained a double surprise for Conquenl. He was at a bus to understand how he could have been expected here, where he had come by the mercest accident and certainly this was the first time in twenty years that any one, except his mother, had addressed him as Louis. He had been christened Louis Paul. "How do you know that my name is Louise?" "I know a great deal about you." an swored the other, and then, with sigilicent emphasis, "I know that you are interested in dreams." Coquenil instinctively felt that something momentous was preparing. "Rather clever, your getting on that cab tonight," remarked the other "Ah, you know about that!" "Yes, and about the Rlo de Jauroi offer. We want you to reconsider your decision." "Who pray, are we?" "Certain persons interested in this Ansonia affair" "Persons who know about the crime" "Possibly." "If that Do those persons know what covered the holes in No. 77" "Ah!" exclaimed Goddess in surprise. "Do you know why Martines THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. INVESTIGATION FORM. "To please the woman," was the prince, really. "Did she want Martinex killed?" "No." "Then why did she want the holes bored?" the detective. "T tion of two." Coquenil was s ry. That heard? And the bands, watched these fr every movement. "She wanted to see into No. 7." It was extraordinary. It was excitement. "What do you want with me?" "The person represent"— "Bay the person you represent," in- terrupted Coquenil. "A criminal of this type sets alone." "As you like," answered the other carelessly. "Then the person I represent wished you to withdraw from this case." The message was preposterous. The message was prophecited. "Naturally I returned Coquennil. 'Tell your friend or employer that I am only mildly interested in his wishes.' The dark bearded man answered, quite unruffled, "Ab. I may be able to heighten your interest." The stranger drew from his coat pocket a large, thick envelope fastened with an elastic band and handed it to the detective. Coquennil's curiosity was stirred. What desperate purpose lurked behind his self confident mask? Could it be that he knew the assassin or was he the assassin? Wondering thus, M Paul opened the tendered envelope and saw that it contained a bundle of thousand franc notes. "There is a large sum here." "Fifty thousand francs it's for you, and as much more will be handed you the day you sail for Brazil. This sum is a bonus in addition to the salary already fixed. And remember, you have a life position there with a brilliant chance of fame." Cogentil snapped his fingers. "I don't care that for fame. I'm going to work out this case for the sheer joy of doing it." "You will never work out this case?" "Why not?" "He assures you will not be allowed to. It's doubtful if you could work it out, but there's a chance that you could, and we don't purpose to take that chance." He paused as if to check too vehement an utterance, and M. Paul caught a threatening gleam in his eyes that he long remembered. "Why?" "If you do you will be thwarted at every turn, you will be made to suffer in ways you do not dream of, through those who are dear to you, through your dog, through your mother." "Not done." "We dare anything" dashed the stranger. "I'm daring something now, am I not? How you suppose I know what you are thinking? Well, I take the risk because - because you are intelligent. It is hopeless for you to struggle against our knowledge and our resources, quite hopeless. We have, for example, the fullest information about you and your life down to the smallest detail." "Wes?" answered Coqueoul. "What's the name of my old servant?" "Melanie." "What's the name of the canary bird I gave last week?" "It isn't a canary bird, it's a bull bunch, its name is Pete." "Not bad, not at all bad." mattered the other, and the twinkle in his eyes faded. "We know the important things, too— all that concerns you from your forced resignation two years ago down to your talk yesterday with the girl at Notre Dame. We know exactly the moment when you are weak and un- Parnell HIR TRAINED FINGERS SOUGHT THE PAINFUL PRESSURE POINT. prepared, as I know now that you are unarmed because you left that pistol with Papa Tignol. For a moment Coquenil was silent and then, "Here's your money." he said, returning the envelope "Stubborn fellow!" And unbelieving You doubt our power against you. Come, I will give you a glimpse of it. Suppose"you try to arrest me. You have been thinking of it, now act. Well, do your duty. I want to show you that swain in so simple an effort against us as this you would inevitably fall. The man's impudence was passing all bounds. "You mean that I cannot arrest you?" menaced Coquenil. "Precidently. I mean that with all your claviness and with a distinct advantage in position here on the Champs Slyces, with policemen all about us, you cannot arrest me." "We'll see about that," answered M. Paul grimly. M. Coquennail, you will probably never see me again, but you will hear from me. Now blow your whistle. Coquenil was puffed. If this was a bluff it was the audent, most inconspicuous bluff that a criminal ever made. The detective paused to think. They had come down the Champs Elysées and were standing the hind point, the best guarded part of Park, where the arhit, summons of his police call would be answered almost instantly. "There is no surprise, I suppose," said the objective. "I'd like to ask a question of two." Coquenil was studying his adversary. "That heard? Could it be false? And the hands, the arms? He had watched these from the first, noting every movement, particularly the loft hand and the left arm, but he had detected nothing significant. "I wonder if you have anything against me personally?" inquired M. Paul. "On the contrary," declared the other, "we admire you and wish you well." "But you threaten my dog?" "If necessary, yes." "And my mother?" "If necessary." The decisive moment had come, for just then there shot around the corner from the Avenue Montagnela a large red automobile, which crossed the Champi Elysées slowly, turning into the Avenue Gabriella, and stopped under the chestnut trees. Like a flash it came into the detective's mind that the same automobile had passed them once before some streets back. On the front seat were two men, strong looking fellows, accomplices, no doubt. "I ask because," began M. Paul with his indifferent drawl, then, swiftly drawing his whistle, he sounded a danger call. The stranger sprang away, but Coquell was on him in a bound. The bearded man, with a great heave of his shoulders, broke the detective's grip, then suddenly he attacked, smiling for the neck with the open hand held sideways in the treacherous clearing blow that the Japanese use Coquell ducked forward. "He struck with his right" thought M. Paul At the same moment he felt his adversary's hand close on his throat and rejoiced, for he knew the deadly jitua reply to this. Hardening his neck muscles until they covered the delicate parts beneath like bands of steel, the detective soiled his enemy's extended arm in his two hands, one at the wrist at all the elbow and as his trained fingers sought the painful pressure points his two free arms started a resistless torsion movement on the captured arm. There is no escape from this movement no enduring its exertion pain. Showing the stranger felt the tendons stretching, the bones cracking, in this hollow right arm. A few seconds more and the end would come a few seconds more and then a crashing shattering pain drove through a couch's lower heart region, and he sank weakly to the ground. His emerald had done an extraordinary thing—had delivered a blow not provided for in jitua to its tail. In spite of the torsion torture he had wounded his free arm under the deterence lifted guard not to Yokohama style but in the best manor of the old English prize ring, his elicited bit falling full on the unguarded solar plexus nerves. And Conquenct dropped with this thought "it was the left that spoke then." As he sank to the ground M. Faul tried to save himself, and, seizing his opponent by the leg he held him desperately, but the spasms of pain overcame him, and he felt the clutched leg slipping from his grasp. Then as consciousness faded he rallied in a last noke effort, and he bit the man deeply under the knee. When Coquenil came to himself he was lying on the ground and several policemen were bending over him. He lifted his head weekly and looked about him. The stranger was gone the automobile was gone. And suddenly it flashed through his mind that he had been outwitted from the first that the man's purpose had not been at all what it seemed to be that a hand to hand conflict was precisely what the stranger had sought and planned for, because—because— In fervid hasta Coquenil felt in his breast pocket for the envelope with the precious leather fragments. It was not there. Then quickly he searched his other pockets. It was not there. The envelope containing the woman's name and address was gone. CHAPTER VIII GIBELIN SCORE A POINT THE next day all Paris buzzed and wondered about this Ansonia affair, as it was called. Shortly before 0 by the white clock over the columned entrance to the Palais de Justice M Paul passed through the great iron and gilt barrier that fronts the street and turning to the left, mounted the wide stone stairway. Two lights up the detective found himself in a spacious corridor off which opened seven doors leading to the offices of seven judges Seven'. Strange this resemblance to the fatal corridor at the Ansonia! And stranger all that Judge Hauteville a office should be No 61. Judge Hauteville presently arrived "You look serious this morning," he said, remarking Coqenil's pale face "Tee," nodded M Paul, "that's how I feel." and, settling himself in a chair, he proceeded to relate the events of the night. The judge listened with grave attention. "You believe it was the one again himself who met you?" he questioned. "Don't you?" "I'm not sure You think his motive was to get the woman's address?" "I can't that reasonable?" Hauterille shook his head. "He wouldn't have risked so much for that. How did he know that you hadn't copied the name and given it to one of us—may to me?" "Ah, if I only had" sighed the detective. "How did he know that you wouldn't remember the name? Can't you remember it at all?" "That's what I've been trying to do," replied the other gloomily. "I've tried and tried, but the name won't come back." An hour before, as arranged the previous night, Papa Tignol had started out to search for Kiltfredge's logging, since the American, when questioned by Gibellin at the prison, and absolutely refused to tell where he lived, and an examination of his quarters was a matter of immediate importance. It was not Papa Tignol, however, who was to furnish this information, but the discomfited Gibellin, whose presence in the outer offices was A moment later Coqnault's fat, red haired rival entered with a smile of triumph. "Ah, you have news for us!" exclaimed the judge. Gibell beamed. "I haven't wasted my time." he nodded. Then, with a DARAO HE PRODUCED HOLESTER AND PISTOL AND LAID THEM BEFORE THE JUDGE. sarcastic glance at Coquenil, "The old school has its good points, after all. Although I am no longer in charge of this case," rasped the fat man, "I suppose there is no objection to my rendering my distinguished associate," he bowed mockingly to M Paul, "such assistance as is in my power I happened to hear that this American has a room on the Blue Racine, and I just looked in there." "Ab" said the judge, and Coquenil rubbed his glasses nervously. "Our friend lives at the Hotel des Etrangers, near the corner of the Boulevard St Michel" went on Gibein. "You examined his things?" "Four sur," I spent an hour there." "Well, well" broke in M Paul, "what did you discover?" Gibellin lifted his pudgy hands decreatively. "For one thing I discovered a photograph of the woman who was in No. 6 with Martinez. "The devil" cried Coquenil. "It is not of much importance since already you have the woman's name and address." He shot a keen glance at his rival. M. Paul was silent. What homiliation was this! "How do you know it is the woman a photograph?" questioned the judge. "I tell you." replied Gibellin. "I suppose you know that when this we man aligned out of the Anasona she drove directly to the house where we arrested the American. You knew that." He turned to Coquenil. "No." "Well, I happened to speak to the concierge there and she remembers perfectly a lady in a raincoat like the one this woman escaped in. This lady sent a note by the concierge up to the apartment of the conciartan's wife, where M Kittredge was calling on Alice. The note was for M Kittredge. He hurried down white as a sheet, and drove off with the lady. Later they stopped at his hotel and he went up to his room two steps at a time. And Jean the garcon had a good look at her, and he told Rose, the chamber maid and she recognized her as the woman whose photograph she had seen in the American's room." "Ah that's lucky!" rejoined the judge. "And you have this photo graph." "No but." "You said you found it," put in Coquell. "I did that is. I found a piece of it a corner that wasn't burned." "Yes," said Gibbell. "that's what Kittredge went up painters to for burn the photograph and a lot of letters her letters probably. The fireplace was full of fresh ashes. Rose says it was clean before he went up, so I picked out the host fragments. Here they are." He drew a small package from his pocket and opening it carefully, showed a number of charred or half burned pieces of paper on which words in a woman's handwriting could be plainly read. "More fragments!" muttered Clouenil, examining them. "It's in English Ah, is this part of the photograph?" He picked out a piece of cardboard. "Yes. You see the photographer a name is on it." "Watts, Regent street, London." deshered the detective. "That is something." And, turning to the judge, "Wouldn't it be a good idea to send a man to London with this? You can make out part of a face skirt and the tip of a slipper. It might be enough." "That a true" handed Hancelle. "Whoever goes, continued Coquenil, "had betterarry with him the ground notes found on Martins and see if he can trace them through the Bank of England. They often take the names of persons to whom their notes are issued." "Excellent! I'll see to it at once," and ringing for his secretary, the judge gave orders to this effect. To all of which Giblin listened with a mocking smile. "But why so much trouble," he asked, "when you have the woman's name and address already" "I had them, and I—I lost them," noknowledged M. Paul, and in a few words he explained what had happened. "Oh," enclosed the other, "I thought you were a skilled wrestler." "Come back to the point," put in Hantaville. "Must this chambermaid ever seen this lady before?" "Yes, but not recently. It seems that Kittredge moved to the Hotel des Kriegers about seven months ago, and soon after that she saw the lady with him. She says the lady was young and good looking." "Ullbain chuckled harshly. "I have kept the most important thing for the last. I am afraid, william, my distinguished colleague, even more, than the loss of the leather fragments. I have found the owner of the pistol that Kield Martines." Coquenlift started. "I should tell you also that the balls from that pistol are identical with the ball extracted from the body. The autopsy proves it, so Dr. Joubert says. And this pistol belongs in a leather holster that I found in Mr. Kiltredge's room. Dr. Joubert let me take the pistol for verification—and there, you can see for yourselves." With this he produced the holster and the pistol and laid them before the judge. There was no doubt about it, the two objects belonged together. Various worn places corresponded, and the weapon fitted in its case. "Besides," continued Gibelin, "the chambersmald identifies this pistol as the property of the American. He always kept it in a certain drawer. She put it there a few days ago, but yesterday it was gone, and the holster was empty." "It looks bad," muttered the judge. He spoke abruptly to Gibelin, "Did you see about his boots?" "No. I thought you would send to the prison, and get the pair he wore last night." "How you know he didn't change his boots when he burned the letters? Go back to his hotel" and see if they noticed a muddy pair in his room this morning. Bring me whatever boots of his you find. Also stop at the depot and get the pair he had on when arrested. Be quick!" "I will," answered Gibellin, and he went out, pausing at the door to salute of Paul mockingly. The latter soon followed to see if the casts of the footprints had been completed. Then for nearly an hour the judge buried himself in the details of this case. He also began notes of questions that he wished to ask Kittredge and was deep in these when the clerk entered to inform him that Coquellin and Gibellin had returned. They entered Coquellin was silent, but Gibellin replied exultingly "We have found a pair of kittredge's boots that absolutely correspond with the plaster casts of the alleyway footprints. Everything is identical—the shape of the sole, the nails in the heel, the worm places—everything" (To Be Continued.) A Lonely Day. Testerday she went away. Mother did with dad. All her room is cold and dark; All the chairs look sad. All the pictures seem to frown; The bed is cold and high. There isn't even any lap Where to sit and cry Tomorrow she will be back again, Mother will and dad. When they are her face again The mirror will be glint Woman's Home Companion. "I once knew a man," said the old colored brother. "who used to fall two foot for ever one he climbed out in didn't stop him. He kep a climbin' He'd git so chost do top dat he'd reach out for der highest lim, wben down he'd go. But once wen he'd done fell out do tree an' bilt mighty hard a harrine come 'long an' took de free off wild it, an' dat man say: 'Dar, now!' Ef'd been in de top ar dat tree, what would I a' been? An' he wus de yes so happy dat he was holdin' in his groun' dat he went ter dancin' "—Atlanta Constitution Grapefruit The grapefruit or pomelo, with other members of the citrus family, was brought to Florida by the Spanish about four centuries ago. It grows in great bunches upon trees that attain a height of thirty feet. Domestic Tobacco While some tobacco is produced in almost every state, less than 1 per cent of this country's crop is grown west of the Mississippi. Somnambullam. Blond persons are more apt to be somnambulists than dark folk, and in cold climates there is more somnambulism than in warm ones. In certain Greenland villages the furt doors are locked from without by a watchman in order that those within may not come forth in their sleep and may be frozen to death. Byron's Swimming Feat At Lisbon Bryon performed a more perilous though less celebrated feat than swimming the Hellespont. That was when he swam across the Tagus from old Lisbon to Belem castle. What "Bort Your Helm" Means WHAT PORT YOUR HELM. Means. In the country the helm is put to the port of your ship and hand side looking forward at the order, "Port your helm!" The rudder, of course, goes to starboard, and the ship's head moves to starboard. This is the rule of most nations, but in Sweden the reverse is the rule. Horsea. A good authority on horses says that the gray will live the longest and that the roams come next in order. Blacks seldom live to be over (twenty), and crows rarely live more than ten or fifteen years. Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame For Great Americans is the name of a building on University heights, in New York city, in which are inscribed the names of famous American men and women. Nominations for the honor are made by the public and admitted to a committee of 100 eminent citizens. In the case of men fifty-one votes are required and in the case of women forty-seven. The first balloting took place in October, 1000. Alligator and Crocodile The alligator never leaves fresh water, while the crocodile often goes to sea and in the West Indies he sometimes been found many miles from land, heading directly into an island, bounty, out of sight. ADEK O. 1990 TO CUT DOWN SPEAKER'S POWER House Antis Plan to Elect All Committees. CANNON'S LAST TERM IN CHAIR Changes in Rules Not to Come This Session, it is Said—Will Elect New Committee in Ten Days. The success of the house insurgents in outing Speaker Cannon from the committee on rules will be followed by an attempt to take from him the power to name committees. This will not be done this session or in this congress in all probability. It is likely no further attempt will be made to change the rules this session. But when the next house is organized, then it is probable that the great work which was begun in the last few days will be completed by a provision in the rules that the house shall elect its own committees as the senate does now. Until that is done the speaker will have more authority than a large share of the house members believe he can be safely entrusted with ```markdown ``` Having passed the Norris resolution enlarging the rules committee and removing Speaker Cannon from it the next thing for the house to do is to pick the new rules committee. That body has been composed of Speaker Cannon, Representative Daisell and Representative W I Smith Republicans, and Champ Clark and Fitzgaird, Democrats. It will now consist of six Republicans and four Democrats, and Mr Cannon will not be one of the Republicans. Under the resolution of Mr Norris the election must be in the next ten days. It is expected the Republicans will caucus to select their six members, and that the democrats will caucus to pick their four. The probabilities are that the regulars will control the situation as to the caucus so completely that not an insurgent will be put on the list committee though for the sake including party harmony some abscessions may be made. Pontiac laid one of the high priests of the Republican organization in the house, a man unrelenting in his bitter antagonism to the progressive wing of his party has long been identified with the rules committee. Almost as much as Cannon himself he typifies in the eyes of the country the tyranny overclosed through a long series of years by the committee on rules. The house regulars would go far to smooth things over in the house and satisfy the sentiment in the country against control of the house by a small element if Dalzell were kept off the new rules committee. But there is no sign thus far that anything of this kind will be done. It is probable Dialed and Smith will be kept on and that such powerful chairman of committees as Tawney Payne Weeks of Massachusetts and Mann of Illinois will be added on the Republic an ante. While these men and others aligned with them who are possible ties are Cannon men it would be impossible for them to run the rules committee with the high hand it has been run in the past. The first battle against the system that has as long dominated the house has been fought and the system has lost it is a forerunner of other battles by those who believe the house should be the truly representative body that the fathers of the republic contemplated. Not only has the Cannon organization been shattered but the whole organization of which Joseph O'Connor is the head in the house and Nelson W Aldrich is the head in the senate has been jarred. Not yet is the end in sight of revolt against rule of the house by a small corner of powerful politicians. But a tremendous step in advance has been taken since the outbreak of the Democrat and insurgents last Thursday afternoon against the speaker. These are the chief things that have been accomplished. By 1911 the house adopted the amended *Bureau resolution*, which disposes the speaker from the rules committee and enlarges that committee to ten. Speaker Cannon has been made an absolute impossibility for reelection to the position of speaker of the house after this congress despite the fact that the house on Saturday by a vote of 191 to 158 refused to throw him out of office. Meet Strike Declared Off The official death of the meat strike has been announced Long since the strike movement had ceased to be a force, although its leaders will not say that it was barren of results. Two months ago the movement was started by Fred W. Sahlein of Cleveland, O., who suggested that thirty day abstinence pleashes be signed as a blow at the increased cost of living Meat was the target. When the meat strike began the price of beef was 6 cents, wholesale. Today it is 7 to 74 cents. Hogs jumped from 9 to 11 cents. Eggs fell from 33 to 21 cents and buffer is 38 cents, a fall of a nickel Potatoes are 16 cents a bushel lower Thursday, March 17. In a rear and collation of westbound trains on the New York Central main line at Rochester, N. Y., one man was killed and two injured. While conversing with his attendant, at Laurel, Del. George Thomas, aged forty, died from heart failure. He had been suffering from dropsy Senor Prudencio De Murgilondo, consul general from Uruguay to the United States, died at his home in Baltimore of pneumonia. He was born in Buenos Ayres seventy-nine years ago. Friday. March 18. Two men were killed and several injured by an explosion of dynamite in the oil, and gas field north of Bartlesville Ohio. Edwin A Herndon, for fifteen years managing editor of the Lynchburg, Va., news, was thrown from horseback, and his head striking a gate post, he received injuries from which he died. Found in the rear of a Chinese store, where it is said she had been held prisoner for a year. Chan Shees, seventeen years old was taken into custody by federal officers. It was said the girl was brought through San Francisco as the wife of a Chinese, after being bought in China. Saturday. March 18. In a dispute over 50 cents, R. W. Graham an engineer of Valley Falls, S. C., was struck on the head by a rock thrown by Emory Bishop, and died. Mrs Anna Forsell, thirty years old, a patient in the Soney hospital Brooklyn N Y was crushed to death while being carrier on an operating cart in the elevator of the building She had just undergone an operation. In a desperate pistol fight near Bourne Ky between Luther Ray and Creed Turner and three sons, the elder Turner was killed and Ray was mortally wounded Ray was shot in half a dozen places and left to die in the road. John Smith Kirk aged seventy three years chief worker of the personal tax division of the District of Columbia, was found dead in a bath tub at his home in Washington The copier is sued a certificate of death by suicide by drowning. Monday, March 21 Two masked highwayman rolled passengers on a Chicago street car of about $5 and escaped One of the last surviving generals of the Confederacy General Thomas L. Rosser is seriously ill at Charlottesville Va. Preliminary returns indicate that the Western Federation of Miners have voted to affiliate with the Amorri can Federation of Labor Mrs. William Simmons of Marietta Pa. in gathering up some newspapers, accidentally gathered up her husband's pay envelope containing nearly $16 and it was burned Tuesday. March 22. The life of Roe Stephens Man- ufacturing company at Notting Hill Mech- nical makers at Stratton has been burnt Le $ A man in the city is putting on a scale large that that that year will be best known in the city's aviation field At Roe Stephens from July 3 to July 11. Diamonds in a town of Old Industrial town in a town with a fire. Every building in the business section and the residential section was burnt. After he died in the two year old daughter of a businessman in a merchant in the law firm Burg in by fire by firing a bullet. 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Daily Limited Buffet Brother to Atlanta and Birmingham New Orleans Maryland through each of the South through each for those City, Oxford London A. 00 A. M. Fr Sunday. Kerrville Local 11 45 P. M. Daily Limited Palmieri ready 0 20 P. M. for all the South YORK RIVER LINE 4 30 P. M. Ex Sunday. To West Point—one boarding for Baltimore Monday Wednesday and Friday 11 15 P. Monday Wednesday and Friday Local to West Point 4 30 A. M. Ex Sunday Local to West Point TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND From the South 1 00 A. M. 0 20 P. M. daily (Frequent). 8 00 A. M. Ex Sunday 4 10 P. M. daily (Late). From West Point 0 30 A. M. daily, 11 35 A. M. Wednesday and Friday 4 25 P. M. except C. & O. 11 00 0 C ( cargo and St Linda Fullman). 10 00 8 A ( Daily Coffee Forges. 10 00 10 A ( Daily Gordowville. 10 00 14 A ( Daily Lynsburg, Lexington, C. Gorges. 10 00 17 A ( Week days, To Lynsburg. Local from East 4: 85 A M. 8: 25 P M. Through from Kest 11: 45 A M. 7: 80 P M. 10: 10 A M. Local from West - 7: 80 A M. 7: 45 P M. Through - 7: 30 A M. 8: 35 P M. James River Line - 7: 38 A M 6: 50 P M. "Daily except Sunday. JOHN M. Higgins, Dealer in CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS G and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street. [Near Old Market.] . THE UNION OF THE MIDDLE EAST UNION YORK RIVER LINE B E BURGERS, D P A, 900 E Main St. Phoebe 458 SATURDAY . . . APRIL 2, 1010. DEADLY BATTLE WITH GRAZED MAN ON PULLMAN CAR Kills Conductor and Pofter Before Being Shot to Death. Wilmington, Dol, March 23.—An exciting battle, in which three men were killed, took place on a northbound, Baltimore and Ohio train this afternoon. The fight began at Newark, Dol, and ended in this city. Several persons were wounded in the delivery, which occurred at the Delaware Avonon Station here following the arrival of the train at 5:17 o'clock. The Road are: O. B. Wellman, aged forty years, of Philadelphia, conductor of the train. Samuel Williams, aged fifty years, named Paulillan porter who once taught to heathen in Jersey City, J. H. Buthoe, aged forty years, of Dillon, S. C. The injured: John O. Wiley, aged forty years, a park guard of Wilmington, Del., shot in the foot. Matthew Haloy, a citizen of Wilmington, shot in the tog Others were grazed by flying bullets. The triple tragedy was the result of an altercation between Bethesda, who was a passenger, and Williams, the porter in the Pullman parlor car Mercury. The car was bound from Washington to Jersey City FIRE9 TWO FATAL SHOTS Bethea, who has been drinking heavily, shot the porter through the heart, killing him instantly. When Conductor Wollman saw the porter fall he ran to the scene to remonstrate with the passenger, who still held the smoking revolver in his hand. Bethea fired a second shot into the negro's body when the shot Wollman through the heart. The conductor fell dead in his tracks. When the desperado fired the conductor throw his right arm up to protect himself. The bullet struck his arm and continued plowed through his body and lodged in his heart. Before the passengers could interfere the double murderer had barricaded the entrance of the Pullman car and threatened to kill the first person who approached. Meanwhile the train reached Wilmington. When it came into the station a hurry call was sent to the police station. A guard of patrolmen, headed by Police Captain Kane, and Evans, reinforced by park rangers, stationed near the seaport. The police called upon the seamen to surrender. As an answer he opened the door of the toilet room a short distance and opened fire at the police and the crowd with an automatic revolver. Chief of Police Black, who also rushed to the railroad, flashed the express office on the train floor just in time to escape the bullets. --- BATTLE LASTS AN HOUR Bethca is believed to have had at least 160 rounds of ammunition, for he succeeded in holding the pose at bay and also hold up the train from 5:17 until 6:35. During this time many shots were fired on both sides until finally all the troops branched Travel over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also was thuded. When the battle had lasted an hour, the police realized that they would be unable to drive the man from cover. A call was sent to a local fire company near by. The firemen responded with their engine Attaching a pressure tube to a car and with the bromen bar-riended bollid trucks and boards, a stream of water was played upon the windows of the toilet room. The des paradoxe fired a number of shots at the firemen, but they were not injured Subsequently, Bethca drenched with water, attacked to the platform, and the police was more called upon him to surrender. His reply was several in quick order from his responder. Soveral of the policemen had arm od themselves with shot guns, and just as Betha captain the last shot. Police Captain Evans fired a load. The police shot him, and thus ending this injury, he kept on blazing away. Patrolman Houghman opened fire with a pistol and struck Betha in the right arm. The desorate man tried to fire again, but Sergeant Kol- ler opened fire and also managed to kill the policeman. The policeman took hold of his arm he fell dead in the arms of a patrolman HIT BY A STRAY BULLET Wiley, the park guard, and Haley are not seriously injured. They were both struck by stray bullets fired by Bothea. A tragic incident of the affair was that when Williams, the porter, was killed, all through the battle the dead porter sat with the appearance of one looking from the window. Bethen was well dressed. While it was believed by some of the passengers who find when the train reached Wilmington that the Usporadg was insane, other passengers stated that he appeared to be sane, with the exception that he had been drifting. There was more exaltation in connection with the battle at the railroad station than anything that has occurred in this section since George White, a marro, was burned at the stake, near here in June 1862, the six assault upon HM Bishop, the sixth captain, mother of a breadwinner, colonist. the government detectives at work on the case. DESCRIPTION OF LEADER. The empty trunks are said to have been removed to the storage room shortly after 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and a man, described by Henry Lauterback, clork at the Alhambra Hotel, as having been stoutly tall, and with a red face, at once ordered that the room be thoroughly cleaned. He gave Lauterback 25 cents for the job. A little later this stranger pulled down the shades over all the windows, and over the glass door leading into the lobby he pasted which the thieves could have been seen while at work packing the stamps into the trunks. Ernest Waller, the night clerk, says he heard a wagon drive up to the side entrance of the hotel yesterday morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, but he had no reason to suspect anything, and did not make any report until the inspectors went to the hotel yesterday afternoon and questioned him about the actions of the men. From the hotel the inspectors went to the office of Connelly & Co. and there they learned that secured the room last Friday and paid for the eleven days. The description given by Mr. Robloder, who carried out the contract for the rental agents, leads the inspectors to believe that this stranger and the man who superintended the work of cleaning are one and the same. DELIBERATELY PLANNED The crackmen were to $_{0}$ throw to board at a room in the same hotel at which they proposed to carry out an important detail of the gigantic robbery and it is understood, the inspectors have been unable to locate them at any other hostelry, although they are beloiled to have been in Richmond certainly since last Friday. That the room was rented for eleven days is taken to indicate that unless the opportunity had presented itself yesterday morning the exports would have chosen some other futuristic way to commit the dead Lost Jack back to the hotel by a negro driver who runs a team on the street on his own account, and it is not beloiled he had any knowledge of the purpose of his employers The room to which the thieves carried their ill-gotten riches is but a short distance from the door through which they are believed to have entered the post-office, and a missing link is as to how they carried the trunks without being seen On the doorrill are evidences that the trunks were taken out hurriedly, as the facing is scratched off. Several persons claim to have seen a wagon standing in the street about the time of the alleged removal, and the inspectors were informed yesterday the two men came in his from the Richmond Transfer Company There are theories that the trunks containing the boggy are still in Richmond but the best evidence that the inspectors have dropped this line of work is that all yesterday afternoon Chief Harrison, with three of his sons, were closed with Chief L. Schoerer, of the Cheesapeake and Ohio detective department. In the latter's office on the third floor of the Cheesapeake and Ohio building at Eighth and Main-Streets. It is stated that the local detectives were put to work on the Richmond end of the case but it is probable if the trunks containing the boggy were still in Richmond that the government experts would have under taken the task of locating it themselves. MEN WERE SEEN AT WORK It has been established with practically absolute certainty that this safe in the cashier's office was bored into shortly before the yoggmen shipped the trunks W B. Stouffer of Baltimore, who boards at 710 East Franklin Street, just opposite the Franklin Street entrance or the temporary post-office building, gives the information that he saw two men at work yearday morning, and that they entered the building several times, each time they dumped a bug into a bug life did not see the vehicle drive off, however, and would have suspected nothing but for later developments. The crime is described as one of the boldest that has taken place in the annuals of government post-offices, and it is believed the thieves know of Mr. marriott's absence from the city and were well acquainted with every measure the offices have taken to select the most propitious time for the fulfillment of their well directed and perfectly arranged plan. There is nothing either on the doors or windows of the office to show that an entrance was forced, but it is said the locks of all entrances are easily and the men probably had little trouble in getting through them. SAFE WAS BABY Once inside, the task of boring through the steel door of the antiquated safe, which was used for years in the old Federal building before being installed in the new, was an easy task for the men, whom the inspectors regard as experts of the highest order. The outer door of the safe, which is really a brick vault projecting from the cast wall of the cashlore office, was opened after a certain period, before the combination, supposedly with chisel screw. The matter of lifting the latch was a simple one. The same method was used in entering the inner door of the safe, but the steel was much thinner and the latch inside was of an old style and easily manipulated. After entering the office the yorkman cut off any view of the spot at which they worked, as a larger better life was pulled out just far enough to have allowed them to go behind it. The holes in the doors, the hinges, the door inch in diameter. In their hurry to get away the cracksmans droppedods of the tools, and a button bearing the photograph of a woman was found on the floor of the office. DISCOVBRED AT 8 A. M Minor B. Ratellif, assistant catabiner first discovered the robbery about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. He immediately notified Postmaster Allian, who was at the office within less than half an hour. Before 9 o'clock the Washington authorities were notified and early afternoon afternoon Obit Harrison, who has charge or inspectors for the Washington division, which includes seven States, was here with five assistants and the work of arranging plans for a capture was undertaken. The office department was on the job, and Captain seMahon and several of his men were at work. The inspectors assisting Harrison are Koons, Alberto, Robertson, Barclay and Saffel. The first steps taken were to examine a number of clerks on duty at the time the building was entered, but no clue was gotten from any of them, and when the information relative to Alhambra Hotel was received every other line of investigation was apparently dropped. It is said that this information awaited the secret-service men on their arrival, but they nevertheless examined the employees, and it is said there is no idea that any person on the inside had any knowledge or what was going NIGnT WATCMAN HEARD NOTHING William Paul, of Manchester, night watchman at the Federal building, made his rounds as usual and says he passed the cashier's office not long before the time the vault is said to have been entered. The employee was a bank teller at H Winston the Minor. B ~R catechil, H B Oiphin, Thomas O'Connor, B W Russell, R F Ritchie and L T Matthews Cashier Marriott was in Blackstone, but he was telegraphed for and arrived in the midst of the excitement at 1 20 o'clock time. He had nothing to seey last night. In his capacity as chief inspector Mr Harrison had full authority at the Federal building yesterday, and his first official act was to endeavor to cover up the methods by which the mystery of the crime None of his assistants was permitted to say a word about anything they were doing, and Inspectors Albertio and Safelot, who were put at work checking up the records, with a view of finding the exact amount of the government's afternoon and said last night their task had not been finished. RUSH ORDER FOR STAMPS Postmaster Allan did not endeavor to take any part in the work of locating the yekgmen after the arrival of Mr Harrison other than to summon persons asked for help to explain the operations of his office and to explain the nature of his application of stamps was deploited to such an urgent that he was compelled to call on nearby offices in order to supply the demand Mr Allan says he has often suggested to other officials here that iron bars be placed before the front windows of the building so that he had never made any complaint to the department. E. Louise Spence of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company in which all the employees of the Richmond postoffice are bonded, was in consultation with Mr. Alan yesterday morning but his company will not be hold responsible unless the crime is traced to some person inside, the office or it is proved that the crime resulted from negligence. There is no suggestion, however that anybody here is at fault and hardly probable that an act will be taken in view of the evidence thus far secured other than to show that the crime was designed and successfully operated by experts, who came to Richmond for no other purpose. TWO RUNKFULS OF STAMPS The news of the robbery created a sensation in Richmond as well as in the department at Washington, which is working in conjunction with the men stationed here to locate the criminals wherever they may be, and in order that the whole country may be prepared to defend the employees in every large city in the United States have been notified. The trunks used by the fugitives are said to have been about five feet long and three feet deep and it is believed that they were nearly filled with the stamps. It is hardly probable that the force of the robbery will be increased, but it is likely that some of those stationed in Richmond will be transferred elsewhere, or also they will be used to instruct representatives in other cities, so that the baggage may be the more easily identified Hundreds of telegraphs were sent out from Richmond yesterday over private wires and all the rough branches of the service were kept closely in touch with each other. Exactly who gave the information which led the inspectors to suspicion that the stolen stamps were taken to Alhambra Hotel is not stated, but it is understood that the informant knew that the storage room was rented Friday night, and that the trunks were carried there Saturday afternoon and with a few hours later with the king. His first communication with a member of the local detective force, but he was later summoned by the government men and thoroughly outlined every detail as he knew it. YEGOMEN SEEN WHILE AT WORK Said "Good Morning" to Man Who Passed the Office. Two recent arrivals in Bloomond — W. B. Stouffer, who has a room at 710 East Franklin Street, and T. K. W. Stouffer, who has a shell Street, may be able to throw some light on the postmortem robbery, for both, between the hours of 8 and a thick blanket, and the two men, two men outside, the postmen, building. Stuart, who came have two weeks ago from Union Avenue, Baltimore. Md., while lying awake, he bed early in the morning, begging for he said, he was unable to sleep in an account he no more knew, leave some one about him, you, you, who?" Stuart roused from his bed, which is next to the window, which looks right on to the post-office, and saw a vehicle—a buggy without a top, something like a sewing machine buggy—backed entrance or the building on Franklin Street. A short thick-set man was standing on the side of the buggy to the east between the wheels, apparently watching the horse. Just as Stouffor looked another man, tall and rather hairy, came out with a bum, which he went inside, and is a few minutes returned with another bundle, which he also threw into the buggy. THOUGHT THEY WERE EMPLOYEES Stouffer said that he paid no more attention to the affair, and rolled over into bed again. He said one of the men had on a blue shirt, over which was a waistcoat. The other man had on a coat. Both, he thought, had on caps, which were placed far back on their heads. Without suspicion that robbery was being committed, he said he thought the men were employees the postoffice, and did not hear of the robbery until dinner time. Stouffer is a sign painter. Having been out of a job for some time, he came to Richmond to work for the Burton System, who paid his transportation here. He exhibited references. He was severely quizzed yesterday by the post-office inspectors and detectives, and stated afterwards that he was much frightened, thinking that he should be up on suspicion. He managed to wake up himself in a satisfactory manner and the inspectors and detectives bothered him no more. SAYS THEY WORE DERBIES T K Davis come from Spartanburg burg C. He has been here about a month and is a machinist by trade. He was walking home from work—for he has a night job—and walked up Ninth Street to Franklin. As he approached the corner he discerned two men sitting on the curb on the north side of Franklin Street, just opposite the post-office. One was a short thick man the other was tall and slim. Both dark clothes. So far his description accords with that given by Stoufler. But he said that the men were durbies and that both had on their coats. They looked up quickly as he came up and watched him from the corners of their eyes. He said that he was rather surprised to see two men sitting on the curbstone at that hour of the morning, and he glanced at them curiously. As he drew near both said, "Good morning," and he watched him until he entered at 174 East Franklin Street, where as he sometimes does, he went to spend the night with a friend. It is looked upon as a strange coincidence that the two men should have seen the strangers, and that they correspond so closely Stouffer, who was looking from his window some distance off might have mistaken the derbies placed far back on their heads foraps but Smith passed by, and that they were derbies. Richmond Va. Timon Dipatch March 29, 1910 Trunks Found by Inspectors in New York and New Jersey Nieman, Called, 88,000. Post Office Inspectors J C Koonna James C Robertson and Frank R Barley or the Washington division last night arrested Fred Guningham and Frank Chester at the Grand Central Station in New York City, and recovered two of their trunks, which contained $20 000 in stamps stolen from the Richmond post-office on Monday morning. This information was sent to the telephone from the Mulberry Street Police Station, in New York City an hour after the arrests were made. There is another trunk still missing and a third man has been located whom the inspectors were said to be shadowing in New York at an early hour this morning. It is not be lied that any of the trunks have been tampered with since being shipped from Richmond to Washington at 4:50 o'clock Monday morning and that they ever stamp and nearly all of the money will be recovered when the government men and detectives have completed the job. The movements of the thieves un- til they reached Washington, according to those on the inside of the case, were to be discovered in *In The Times Dispatch* of yesterday. TRAP WAS SET HERE Every trigger of the trap into which the daring crackmen fell was set in Richmond. Early yesterday afternoon the inspectors were confident that the baggage would reach New York later, and they prepared an antitheft. The three inspectors, who left at 8:20 o'clock Monday night, were reinforced in New York by Inspector Kincaid and Detective Busy, who was detailed on the case by J. G. Harper, superintendent of police of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The men were captured at 9 o'clock, and identified at the Mulberry Street Station. Wheed Cunningham and Chester entered the baggage room at the Grand Central Station, and presented the checks, they are said, in some manner, to have suspected that they had fallen into a trap, and both attempted to escape. They were arrested after a desperate struggle, and each was filled with stamps. One large trunk and a small one were recovered. Olief John R. Harrison, of the Washington division of post offices, inspectors, assisted by L. J. Scherer, general agent of transportation, for the Cheesapeake, and Olea Railway Company, conducted the search for the thieves, and through their force on Monday, the baggage was traced from Washington north. The thieves and evaded by every method to lose the identity of the trunks; but the railroad officials in Baltimore, Newark, Tronton, Philadelphia, New York and other cities offered every kind of baggage, and was switched those working here succeeded in procuring numbers, and in locating the next point in the route. HOW TRUNKS WERE CHECKED One trunk was checked from Washington, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to Philadelphia, and thence into New York. A second was shipped from Washington over the Pennsylvania Railroad, to Baltimore, was shipped from Baltimore to more and Ohio, and taken to Trenton, $ J From Trenton it was switched to Newark, and thence to New York. The third trunk was shipped from Washington to Newark and from there to the Twenty-third Street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to New York City. It was switched in New York to the Grand Central Station, where the thieves were caught. Late Monday afternoon the inspectors and detectives working here traced the baggage as far as Newark, and that night Inspector Koons was sent to Baltimore, and an inspector arrived at Philadelphia. When the baggage was traced past Philadelphia, and was known to have been sent to New York, the three men were ordered there, and arrived yesterday afternoon. The inspector Harrison remained here yesterday keeping in touch with his men by telephone and telegraph and when it became widest late in the afternoon that the arrest would be. made last night he left for New York News of the capture of Cunningham and Chester and of the recovery of larger part of the body, converted by the train on the train at Frederickburg. RED FACED MAN (AUGHT Aside from tracing the men by means of the checks those working from this end sent out minute descriptions which are said to tally exact with the prisoners, hold in York Chase the man faced man about forty years old, who contracted for the storage room at the Alhambra Hotel, and Cunningham is believed to be the tall square-built fellow, of 175 pounds, who as stated in transferring the lost from the man, stand inside out in Franklin Street Detective Schoror, who is probably more responsible for locating the fugitives than any other man, with the exception of the chief inspector, said last night that the trunks were removed from the Alhambra in a wagon which was hit at 3 o'clock Monday morning. CERTAIN HE'S NOTED CROOK Mr. Scherer said last night the actions of the men after leaving the Alhambra were typical of export baggage thieves and he believes the two prisoners will be identified as notorious criminals. There seems to have been little trouble about identifying them, and he indicates that they have worked somewhere before. My information is that they are Englishmen and I can't say that I have any line on the criminal record of either of them. If the little fellow is the man I am led to believe he is in his pernors and would have been interred with him while he was arrested on the job at the post office. I have nothing to say about my connection with the case except that the government has always helped me with similar details and I am glad to have an opportunity of assisting it. We could never have located the criminals unless the various railroads had offered us a telephone to the police had given us absolute right of way over the wires. C. S. Burton assistant baggageagent at the Union Station, in Washington rendered valuable service. He remained up all night Monday and every request we made of him was promptly and thoroughly carried out. As Washington was the central point from which we worked, he was at actively involved in the effort. He never coached or catched the men or failing to locate, the trunks as long as the baggage was in possession of the railroad, but I knew that once it got away our case would be doubly difficult. We have been lucky I admit but we have worked thoroughly and the result is most gratifying. According to information received by Detective Scherer over the long distance telephone from New York this morning valued at $4,000. Later reports sent out by the Associated Press stated that the loss amounted to only $30,000. STORY OF THE Capture New York March 29. Two men charged by postal inspectors with robbing the post office at Richmond some time between Saturday night and early Monday morning, were arrested at the Grand Central Station tonight. Both offered a stubborn rebellion, and we did not outpawel until they were knocked senseless. A third man escaped. They were traced to New York by means of three trunks shipped from Richmond, with the seizure of which $30,000 worth of the $85,000 lot of stamps obtained in the robbery were recovered. The prisoners gave the names of Frank. Chester, fifty-four years old of St. Paul, Minn., and Froderick of Cunningham maintains that he is a banker, and that his home is in London, Eng. Both mon appeared at the Grand Central Station late tonight, accompanied by the third, an unidentified man, who made his escape. Chester went inside, while Cunningham and the third man waited on the sidewalk. Chester called a boy, gave him a drink, and then said, "Certain is it was in the baggage-room. In the baggage-room was stitched Joseph Daly, a central office detective, who had been called into the case, by the Federal authorities. He was guarding a suspected trunk and when the lad made inquiries for his detective Choi followed him back to see the Choi attempted to see from the station. FIGHT CAUSED A PANIC The detective grappled with him, but Chester is of powerful build and both men fell struggling to the floor. Women passangers screamed and a panic was created in the station until the officer subdued Chester with his knife. Monnwhile the two men stationed outside, warned by the noise of the struggle, broke and ran Cunningham, however, was bowled over by two pedestrians and was quickly overpowered By the police. Examination of the trunk revealed in addition to the $30,000 worth of stamps, a set of burglar's tools, usb-desk at headquarters as the finest security device, New York. There were also two SS-calibre revolvers in the lot. New York March 29 Immediately after the report of the Richmond robbery to Washington, Inspector Frank R. Barkley James B. Robertson and John C. Koons, of the Washington division, were assigned to the case. On the theory that he men would need trunks to get the stamp out or Richmond, and further, that men would need trunks to get the stamp as soon as possible, the inspectors watched all trunks leaving Richmond. They located three trunks which they felt were the right ones. The owners of the trunks—three men unknown to the police and post-office inspectors—were supposed to be living at a hotel in that city. To follow the men meant to follow the trunks, this was the method used. All three trunks were shuled to Washington. At Philadelphia one trunk was shipped to the Avon Hotel, Thriftleigh Street and Lexington Avenue New York care of Charles Haffield, of Buffalo One other trunk was shipped to the twenty third Street Station, the baggagemaster told Chester called for the trunk the twenty third Street Station this morning Inspectors Barclay, Robertson and O Briton, of New York were awaiting him and on their orders the baggagemaster told the trunk was mislaid. Greatly excited he jumped over the railing and into the baggage room, and after a search he forwards to the Grand Central Station where his seizure and his arrest occurred. In this trunk the stamps were found the burglar's tools and the revolvers were discovered in the trunk at the Hotel Avon Robinson Ava Times Dispatch, WIDE CAMPAIGN OF THEFT PLANNED New York March 30 Five trunks and a valise which contained about $700 worth of stamps have been recovered by the police and post of five inspectors. This is a large part of the $80,000 worth of postage stamps and $3,000 in cash taken from the Richmond post office early on Sunday morning. The first trunk which was found at the central office on Tuesday had approximately $21,000 worth of stamps. The second trunk was found at the Avon Hotel Loxington Avenue and Phillips Street. It contained tools and clothing and was found in the room of the prize owner known as Chester. Early this morning a third trunk was found with the Wassco Express station of the foot of West and North Street. Then also contained tools and is not identified in the trunk. It was not identified as a kid's toy. HIS is the first book of the business that I have written. Book press. The books and all were published and all were though they were in some form in Russia and some in America. Some were in a world just a tool and all would have sets of tools. Jim would have wrapped in tissue paper. The book came in size from right to left in two. There were twenty sketches on keys attached to a single bat. The makers tags had all been removed from the clothing. There were several pairs of tables called about several two hats one having been purchased in London and one in San Francisco. There was also a bank book filled with information about banks in the South and Northwest. This information finally gathered and mostly very careful in the book. There was a description of Post-Office Inspectors Jacobs and James tonight seized the fifth trunk it was in the Courtland Street bagage room, and contained $17,000 worth of stamps. This trunk will be to be handed over tomorrow. This makes the total value of the stamps recovered $70,000. Opportunity For Economical Buyers. Best bargains on the market. Up-to-date household articles. Jewelry. Novelties. etc., direct from the factory. Send one cent stamp for our illustrated catalogue and be convinced. WM. A. CBAWFORD, Sect. The Pewless Supply Co. 17 W. 1861th Street, Dep't G; New York City. THE WHOLE THING IN AN EGG BIRL. The Secret of the Farmar's Success. Buy you a Square Deal Incubator and twenty hens, and compare them with ten acres of land with any product that you can produce. your time and money said, you will soon see your profit in the hens and the Square Deal Incubator. 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We only want to send them where they will do the most good and we will also extend you an invitation to visit our factory. If out of the city you can give some one to represent you. THOS H ALEXANDER (Colored) of Argos and War Office 1725 020 745 2222 Factory address 830 N Harding Venue Chicago Ill Phone West 1883 Square Deal In cubitor All mail should be addressed to the office D. J. Bradford Real Estate and Private Bank- ing Houses Bought or Sold, Rents Collected, Leans Negotiated Temporary Office 1018 St John Street Phone Monroe 2017 "CHEROKEE" Blood Tonic, "THE RED MAN'S GIFT TO SUE PERING HUMANITY" An Invaluable Remedy for Serofula, Illumination, Kezena, Tonic, and All Diseases Arising From Impure Condition of Blood Can be found at JOHN G SMITH, 1301 East Leigh Street Third Special Agent Fatal At 10:30 a.m. a woman with a child was killed when a truck hit her. Henry Patterson, 60, was killed when a truck hit a woman with a high headache. He was taken to an emergency room and stabilized. Things were set in motion and a child fell to the ground. The child tell the story of how she was hit and how she died. Children Dance as Mother Burra Two of her little children joined globally about her apparently thinking it was a night while Mrs. Howard Wilson aged 23 years burned to death in the hall of her home at Smokey Mountain near town, Mal The automobile was completed on the mollished Mrs Bleum was thrown about twenty feet astirting on the ground. She was about the same distance Mrs Bleum was still breathing when passivity came to her assistance. She was carried in a trulley car to little park at Wisconsin avenue and Volta place. --- SATURDAY APRIL 2, 1910 THE POWER OF FAITH Sunday School Lesson for April 3, 1910 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEN. Matthew 8 to 14 Memory ory verse. D. D. GOLDEN TEN. All things are possible to him that he believed. Mark 14. TIME. A. A. A. D. PLACE. The house of the paper man of the house on the streets of the city. Suggestion and Practical Thoughts. What Faith Is in 19 19 Where was Jesus when he worked the miracles we are to study. In his own city. (Capernaum. He was fresh from two stupendous miracles, the stilling of the tempest on the sea of gallice and the healing of the caudarone domilacs across the sea from capernaum. How did Jasus bring his petition to Jesus? He put his whole soul into his prayer—the only kind of prayer that gets results. He wagged his falling at his feet and beseeching him much (Mark) He was pleading for his only child who was at the point of death. Indeed when the ruler left the house one who was so mortal that he did not know whether he spoke of her as dead or alive, but in his distraction now he did not die and now as a Matthew writer he lived. The gift he gave to Jesus was the ordination how did Jesus show his faith? By urging the Jesus in his hand upon her and she stood live. Faith for oneself. No,222. How did Jesus respond to Jesus' petition? He gave at once and followed him and so did his disciples and a great multitude. But how were they interrupted on the way? By another appa What was the result with this new petitioner, and what years with a host of his How did he respond to his plea? She came behold him in the blue and white dress, then shining from the four corners of his skirt. What was the result? She was arrested at once, and knew that she was a Faith for Another. What test of Jatras faith came as she applied to be arrested his house? Some can not meet him till he is dead. What can he do that his daughter was dead. How did Christ strangle him and she was held? What was the result with this new petitioner, and what years with a host of his How did he respond to his plea? She came behold him in the blue and white dress, then shining from the four corners of his skirt. What was the result? She was arrested at once, and knew that she was a Faith for Another. What test of Jatras faith came as she applied to be arrested his house? Some can not meet him till he is dead. What can he do that his daughter was dead. How did Christ strangle him and she was held? What was the result with this new petitioner, and what years with a host of his Contrader in the No. 231 Who was the next appalished man to lose When he deferred home from the house of Jafar to the apartment Who made it to the law office where Like may be found at the court room to the day. How did I think of you? Not in a way late in a way the woman the fellow with them Thou wilt us of apples his ears What was address? known but though self so far mended those or Messiah the truth a deliverer voke and a ruin seems not to be others. Pretty much. Directive Study Why did I think before he nask about the faith in the cause he wan the heart of the man The presence of L. What was the last ing introductory How did it mirror the re of the living in a mass of all Why was it christ so large in size except above would think their faith wire faint water frighten oarned same way he knew the only along the industry of the in a man before the joys of the ing would arise The disc ready not Christian is ing nobody The Incomparable Book For the mass of mankind to favor the books must be those that express the common aspirations the common consolations and the common language. It is this for example that has made the little for so many centuries and so many millions of men and women, ignorant and lettered, its health and sickness, joy and sorrow, the incompatible book - The Nation. The fact that our interests gradually take a wider scope allows more scope for the healing power of compensation. Dinah Mulock Craik NINE MORE BRIBE-TAKERS CONFESS ONE "YELLED" FOR A DIME Twenty-three Have Refused to Confess and Will Fight Charges—Lives of Prosecutors Threatened. Pittsburg, March 23 — Nine more former members of councils appeared before the district attorney and confessed their guilt in accepting money for their votes while members of the municipal bodies, and were then rushed before Judge R. S. Fraser where they received their immunity bath in the way of a suspended sentence. Men a limited takings bribes from $50 up wards. Threats against the lives of the vice crowders in the latest sensation in the courtmatic cases Detective Robert Wilson, of Seren- ton District Attorney Blakeley A Lee West, of the Voters league and Assistant District Attorney Warren I Sennour are said to be in immediate danger of their lives, so much so that each is equipped with an armed guard Roll West and Sennour have involved amongst letters ordering them to deposit from further activities if they are not guarding an early grave. The fact that a presumed amo- tion which is a new form of hudge Frazer is for a suspended con- tent is a case of the men who converse is an investigation and a late filing office in Patterson is in evidence that they had offered and the fact that the con- tent is only for their posi- tion. Twenty three Will Fight Yellow like a Stink Pig" SEE MAN BURN TO DEATH Lighted Cigarette Ignited Powder Covered Clothing of Workman New Castle, Del. March 23 A cigarette falling on his powder covered clothes caused the death of Matthew Madison an explorer of the Burton Powder company near here His companions were forced to watch him burn to death for fear that their own clothes would become ignited. Two Also Men Sentenced Chicago, March 23. Edward Enders was appointed by Judge Lands to three years in the federal penitentiary at Fort Lafayette and to pay a one of $250, and Henry Hinn was first $250 and continued to one year in the same prison for violating the law governing the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. Mother and Baby Burned Springfield Ky March 27 — Mrs. George Hamilton and her two yearold baby were killed and another child was fatally burnt when their home was destroyed by fire. WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER 10c FOR 2 SAMPLES OF COMPLEXION WONDER These samples and our information book and the private letters of will write to you will show you how to have all these improvements. We cannot overcome anxiety but as far as your individual characteristics will permit, we can make you preprocessing, presentable and attractive. The advantages of colored newspapers will all you are responsible. We are doing more for colored people than any business concern in this country. Our mission is not a lie like that of Dr. Becker Washington, but in one way, we are trying to do for their bodies, what he is doing for their minds. The Company We Represent People who have good appearance and who are presentable, secure better positions commercially and socially and get along better every way. Company of New York WE WILL BE GLAD TO CORRESPOND WITHOUT CHANGE WITH COLORED MEN AND COLORED WOMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND DEBENE TO BE INFORMED OF DECODIES WHICH WILL BENEFIT THEM SEND 202 FOR THE THREE SAMPLES IMMEDIATELY THIS LITTLE EXPENDITURE WILL BENEFIT YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW. After the samples are received, write for the postman. He will bring you letter very soon. WRITE YOUR NAME AND STREET ADDRESS VERY PLAINLY = M. B. BERGER & CO., 2 Redor St, New York GEORGE W. NORRIS Prominent In the Fight to Strip Cannon of Power JOHN H. BURKE SETTLING PHILA. TROLLEY STRIKE Of the honors shown the text and be- history works a wort for the most powerful. Kensington, where the lunar and lunar are from the strong body of general strikes. It was where the best man had most damage to business. A stinging unit in hea- dquarters there was a figure of the tattle and heart-wrenching attacks. At one of the farmers delegates be- grew to make overtures to everybody they hoped would bring about a gett- ment of their quarrel with the Rapid Travelt company John L. Murphy went to George H. Earle and asked him to make another effort. State Senator M. Nahol and Brant were called in. It was an arrest that a fina sette- ment will make. PICK GAYNOR FOR PRESIDENT Massachusetts Manufacturer Offers to Date 08/26/2022 Bet $10,000 He Succeeds Taft. Lee Manh. March 28 R B An draws a manufacturer and man of wealth in out with an offer to bet $10,000 that Mayor Gaynor, of New York will be the next president of the United States barring death. "The country in tired of Taft and tariff" said Mr. Andrews. Every one of the conservative Republicans is disappointed in Taft. What we hoped for was a man on the Job and not a great dent chasing to act as a side show for a game ball game a promoter of golf, a hot supper artist. The whole country in tired of it." GOES DEMOCRATIC Eugene N. Foss Elected to Congress in Mass Republican Stronghold. Bretton Mass March 23 - For the first time in its history this congressional district the Fourteenth, went Democratic when Eugene N. Foss of Boston, not a resident of the district, was elected over William R. Buchanan, Republican, of this city, by a plurality of 5460. The special election was held to dill the vacancy caused by the death of William L. Lovering, a Republican, who represented the district since 1896. M. Lovering had 14,000 Republican plurality when he was re- elected in 1908. Bank Must Pay $700 Damages. Wilkes-Barre Pa. March 23. Bea- cause a clerk of the First National bank of this city through an error permitted a check of Samuel Simpson to go to protest when he had money to the bank, the bank was ordered by a jury to pay Simpson $700 damages. Simpson claimed $10,000 because as he said, protesting the check was a serious rededict upon his bust negotium integrity) and that his credit was injured with business houses with which he deals. --- Hurrying Home to Die San Antonio Tex March 23 In a special train with all its trays clear John F Walsh of Colorado is believed to be hurrying to his home in Washington to put his offices in share for death watch cannot be long held off Mr Walsh came here five weeks ago but his condition hasn't improved as was hoped. Pharaohs, giving up hope of one climate being more beneficial than another decided to take him back to Washington. ROOSEVELT SENDS FOR PINCHOT Deposed Forester Salls to Meet ex-President. York With Him a Trunkful of Matter Bearing on the Ballenger Controveray—Meeting Causea 81r Among Taft Supporters. Washing n n 23. Gifford Pinchot will not let Lincoln Roosevelt in Napa. It was announced positively that the president had cabled for the deputy governor to come to Europe to go him. This meeting with his former chief and not a shit to his master in Copenhagen is the real mission of Mr Pinchot, who unexpectedly sathed from the United States last Friday. His news was not on the passenger list. As this is the first outward and tariffed exponse that Roosevelt has manifested of his renewed interest in American politics it has aroused an immense amount of gossip at the capital. It is well known here that a number of the men who have gone up the Nile to greet the ox president are unsealed insurgents. Whether they have induced him to send for Mr. Pichot is a question that can only be answered by the imagination. Pichot is said carried to the American hunter a trough of matter bearing upon the Staff administration with particular reference to Secretary Haley and the Alaskaian sound and to the unargent uprising in concre For hot and Roosevelt are the warm and personal friend and when the late to couple the White II, the for her was a constant visitor and adviser Having been deposed by President Taft as chief forester for alleged inhordation Pinchot naturally is in a mood to carry his troubles to Colonel Roosevelt But the interesting query is this What will be Roosevelt a answer? Not necessarily his public answer but his answer made in private to Pinchot and the others who see him! The very last thing the Taft administration desires is an unfriendly attitude on the part of Roosevelt when he returns home. For this reason some of President Taft's supporters will now urge the sending of an emissary to see Rosevelt for the purpose of telling him the other side of the story. They realize the enormous popular following of the Rough Hilder and they will require all of his influence at the coinciding congressional election to keep down the insurgent move. The going of Pinchot has consequently been like the thrust of a thorn to the anti-Rosevelt or the pro-Taft congressman. It was an entirely unexpected blow and, they do not try to conceal their annoyance. As a sign of the aggressive insurgent spirit, the tending for Pinchot, by what *Conpressions* Palmer, of This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organise a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. 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HUNN & Co. #1 firmery, New York Broadway Office, 10th St., Washington, D.C. --- A TALE of THE LAST FRONTIER BY FRANCIS RENO BEING A REMINISCENCE OF AN EARLY BORDER EXPERIENCE OF A NOTED DETECTIVE GRIZZLY JOE'S SACRIFICE (Edgar's note: Francis Reno, the author, comes of a family of pilots who flew in the Korean War to Mal Reno of Custer Massacre fame. His earlier years were spent in the turmoil of frontier life in Arizona, where he was for some time deputy sheriff and lieutenant in the Tucson. His efforts in enforcing the Chilean Exclusion Act on the Mexican border have been highly commended by the United States, and by the Highlander who placed a price of $5,000 on his head, which stands to-day. Of late years he has held a highly responsible position with one of the largest states, and as superintendent of its secret service has established an enviable record of success in running down bank theft. These stories are condensed to his earlier books, which are laid in Arizona and New Mexico near the Mexican border. The Last Frontier, which until recent years was known as the lawless, and where this typical "bad man" of pioneers days made his last stand.) W HAT did you think of the speech that eastern chap made last night? asked Harry Eames. He reached for a fresh cigar out of the box that lay before us on the table as he spoke, and I imitated his example before replying. We were sitting in the little office at Tucson that I occupied by virtue of my appointment as mar- On the previous night we had both been present at an entertainment of a social kind that was somewhat unusual in Tucson, inasmuch as one of the principal features had been the address delivered by a lecturer from Boston, who had seen fit to dwell upon the evils of intemperance and indulgence in a hearty denunciation of King Barleycorn and his followers "It wasn't a bad talk. I responded, finally, "but I imagine he went above the heads of his audience somewhat by dropping into poetry "Maybe you go right," returned James, but I don't thinking about the other folks. A college education hasn't done much for me in one sense, but all the same I was glad to hear that she talk last night. He quizzed a couple of Jitses from Tonyson that made me think some, I tell you. Do you remember when he said "A man may rise on stepping stones of his dead self to higher things." I nodded assent and Eames continued: "Well, Reno, he told the truth thore. Years ago, when I was a young follow, there wasn't a more worthless cur strained in the west than yours truly. I'm not saying that I am so much now, but the Lord knows I'm a prince compared to what I used to be. And it's all owing to one man that is dead and gone long ago. If you want to listen, I'll tell you all about it." Consequently it was with feelings of more than ordinary interest that I leaned back in my chair and motioned to my companion to go ahead. In substance the tale that he narrated ran as follows On a certain summer afternoon, when not a single cloud showed itself in the expanse of blue sky a train was passing, at the moderate speed bending severe grades, over a little narrow-gauge road and literally climbing into the recesses of the Sierra Madre. It had glided over the plains at the base of the mountains, threaded its way among the foothills, traversed some deep canyons and clung to narrow shelves cut on the side of the rocky barrier. Some of the passengers in the car chair to whom the journey was no novelty, were reading or dozing, others, taking it for the first time, gazed delightedly at the ever-changing scenes before their eyes. Then the sun sank behind the great range, the darkness came on apace, and pretty Iris Eames turned from the window and looked at her father, who sat on the opposite side of the car in conversation with a fellow-traveler. This latter individual had fiery red hair and a cropped mustache; his costume consisted of a gray flannel shirt, somewhat the worse for wear, and trousers of dubious hue, and he was innocent of any ambition in the direction of white linen. Mr Eames was a man of good sense and intelligence, whose vacations were fow, and he had started on his western trip with the avowed intention of making the most of his time in the study of the new phases of human nature which he was likely to encounter. As his eyes met his daughter's he leaned towards her with a smile. "My dear," he said, "I want to present a fellow-passenger, the mayor of Wolf City, the place where our day's journey will end, and which I learn from him to be an important town, growing and pushing—booming," to use the phrase of the country. He has given me much needed formation." Very soon, however, the young girl, who was quite accustomed to and doubtless enjoyed such embarrassed homage to her charms, put him at his ease with a few pleasant words. She had questions to ask which he was still to answer freely, and he was soon talking without restraint. When Miss. said he, "your father let me that he had come all the way from the seat to see your brother and his children follow." We just him, for I know most of the young fellers down on the North Park, but I dismember him just now." "In his letters he has several times mentioned a friend called Joe, sometimes he referred to him as Grizzly, but I suppose that was in fun," said the girl. "I know that they are very much together, and that his friend is a well-known frontiersman." "Why, bless your mouth, cried the mayor enthusiastically. "I know who your brother is now. I've heard Grizzly speak of him. He's a friend worth having, too, and don't you forget it. There ain't a whiter man than Grizzly Joe from the Wind River mountains down to Santa Fe. I wouldn't wonder if he'd come on this train at the next station. I heard some of the boys say he was due at Wolf City tonight." "Indeed," said the young girl, with interest. "Yes, miss, he's been down to help a pard of his'n, a felter they call 'Commanche Charley' You see Grizzly, he's a chap that a got a heart of uncommon big size, and all the boys are fond of him because there's nothing he won't do for a friend Well, Commanche he had real hard luck He had a ranch on the San Rosario Flat, and the grasshoppers et up all his crops, and the Indians killed his wife and child when he was away, and you see this made him kind of looney for awhile. So Grizzly he put out and found him, and took care of him and stood by him until he come round and was more like himself again, and now he's going to take him into the moun tains for a huntin' trip to cheer him up some. There ain't no better bunter in these parts than Joe, which is one reason why the boys call him 'Grizzly' along of the boars he's got away with in his time. I tell you miss, miss, when we get to Dead Man's Gulch--that's the next station, and I've got to out there--I'll see if Grizzly's comin' in, and if he is I'll have time to introduce him. He'll tell you all about your brother, dead sure." "Did I understand you to say, Mr. Mayor," broke in Iris' father, who had just returned to his seat, "that you know where my son was likely to be" "Well," said the mayor, "I was tellin' the young lady that the man who be sure to know all about him, being a good friend of his, might come down on the train at the next station and that if he did I'd introduce him to her. His name is Grizzly Joe" "Grizzly Joe!" repeated Mr. Eames "Peculiar name, very characteristic of the frontier. I should say. And a friend of my son's too, eh! I should be greatly pleased to meet him" "Well, you won't have long to wait for that," said the mayor, who had opened the window and looked out as the train slacked its pace. "for there he on the platform, an 'I'll go out an' speak to him." A few moments later he brought him in; a tall, powerful man with dark hair, deep-set eyes, quiet and gentle of speech and in manner, but conveying the impression of great reserve force. Behind him, at some distance, came a thin pale companion, with downcast eyes and weary face. Both were dressed in the costume of the country—fannel shirts, with hand korchiefs loosely knotted round their necks, thick trousers and boots, and large sombreros. "Mr. Eames," said the mayor. "I haven't got more than a minute to make you acquainted with my friend, Grizzly Joe. But I allow you'll be soon thick, for he knows your boy down on the North Fork. So good-by, Mr. Eames; and you too, miss, an hopin' I'll see you at Wolf City." He shook hands hastily and left the train The presentation was made, and soon Miss Iris, with her eyes fixed on Grizzly Joe's face, was eagerly questioning him. Any one who knew him well would have seen that, despite the apparently imperturbable coolness of his manner, he was deeply interested, and well indeed he might have been so when thus brought, for the first time in his life, into friendly intercourse with a girl so richly endowed in heart and person. As a bustle among the passengers made it evident that the train was nearing its final stopping-place, he spoke, with just an additional shade of animation in his voice. "I tell you what it is, miss," said he: "you and your father had ought to stay in such a forsaken hole as Wolf City one minute longer than you need. Now, what you want to do is to get a bit of supper while I have a team hitched up, and then we'll take you right out to old Buck Robert's ranch, where the Old Fork comes into the river. It's only 20 miles, an' a splendid moonlight night, an' when you get there you'll have good beds and good grub. An' then to-morrow, my parch here and we we'll put out and find your brother, who I allow has been for two weeks up to a ranch farther on, and hasn't got your lettar, an' I'll fetch him to you." When this project was communicated to Mr. Eames, to whom the several drawback in his journey had been the poor accommodation, he agreed to it at once. While he and his daughter were eating their supper, and after Comanche Charley had mounted his broncho and fiddled out in the direction of a pass in the mountains, Grimly Joe had two horses harnessed to a buckboard. So in due time they started, and Iris said to herself that she would never forget that 30 "That'll be all from you for awhile" said the new comer. mite drive through the great canyon in the Sierra Madre, with the moon lighting up one of its wooded sides and its remarkable frontiersman conducting them on their journey. As for him, when the girl and her father were safely ensconced in comfortable rooms in old Buck Robert's ranch, he stood outside in the bright moonlight, and his eyes turned more than once towards the building, and at last, as he walked away, he cast one glance behind him and said, "I told her I would fetch him, an' I will." The principal saloon in Wolf City was located in a long, low ramshackle building, in the front of which the bar loomed running across one end of a wide room. Leaning against the bar, or sitting on banches ranged against the wall, were many bungers of the worst type known to the west, some dull and heavy, others quarrelsome, and waited by a surly ruffian who with an expression half languor and half contempt for his customers served them slowly and carelessly. The door opened and a young fellow entered, of good face and figure, but staggering slightly as he walked. A year or two before there had been no liker or more promising young ranchman in the mountains than he, no better rider, no one more active in the "round-up". When he wrote home about the "grand, free, health-giving ranch life, however, he did not give the other side of the picture—the long hours of loneliness, the low company and squalid accommodations, all combining to drive him to that ever-ready but treacherous resource, whiskey. Harry Eames was in a bad way, and likely to sink yet lower, unless something intervened to save him. He strode unsteadily to the bar and went about to call for a dram, when one of the loungers foiled him and uttered an insulting epithet, comprehensible even to his dulled faculties and impelling him to active resentment. He sprang forward and clutched the speaker by the arm, but was hurled roughly back and saw a glint of steel in his opponent's hand. "I've got the drop on you, young feller," said a hoarse voice mockingly, "an 'an you kn take notice I'm goin' to have a chap your size far a meal to-day" The door burst suddenly open and Grissly Joe walked swiftly into the bar-room. The next instant the man who was menacing Hames with his six-shooter received a blow on the knuckles of the hand which held it, and the weapon fell to the floor. "That'll be all from you for a while," said the new-comer harshly. "Let me see you make another move with that shootin' iron of yours, an' I'll blow your head off. Any more of you gents got anything to say agen them orders?" He confronted the remainder of the crowd as he spoke, his gun balanced carelessly in his right hand, but there was no reply. Grissly Joe had earned a reputation that extended far beyond Wolf City, and was not to be trifled with. He touched Rames on the shoulder and backoned him outside, the young man following meekly. Later in the day the two sat facing each other on benches outside the door of a log cabin. At some distance sat 'Comanche Charley, his head buried in his hands. Eames listened sumslessly' to the words of his stalwart companion. "You know, Harry," said Griselby Joe. "I've tried to do the square thing by you and keep you from the company of that devil's crew down on the Fork. But when I got on the train an' saw that sweet little sister of yours, an' she lookin' at me with them big, innocent baby, an' askin', but you, why blame me if I didn't feel as if I hadn't looked out for you, world's a mess, Harry! it also takes a She don't know nor suspect nothin' You must brace up now, an never again— He stopped and listened attentively There was a sound of galloping boots, and a man rode madly into sight a cowboy with his left arm hanging helpless by his side. The horse, panting and covered with foam, halted ab ruptly, and Comancher Charley sprang to catch the rider as he reeled in the saddle. "What is it, Bill?" he asked "Injuns broke out," gaped the cowboy "There's a whole slew of em comin' down on Robert's ranch I tried to git away an' give the alarm but they shot me in the shoulder Grizzly Jee spring to his comrade a side. "There's just one thing to do, Charley," he said, torsely "Rouse the boys, get out the horses an have some one take care of this poor chap. Then you collect as big a pousse as you can. I'll put out for the fort and get the soldiers an" you meet us where we strike the trail from there to the Robert a ranch. Commander Charley dashed off to the stable, and Grizzly Joe turned towards Eames with a look of hesitation. The latter grasped the frontierman's hand impetuously. "Joe," he said, "you will take me with you" Great heavens I must go. I know what you are thinking of but I'm a changed man from this moment, and if we get through this I will be one all the rest of my life. His companion looked at him for a moment in silence. Well he said at last, "I allow it's sent to you to go, and I can't deny you." In a few moments 'time they were off, just as Comanche Charley struck spurs into his horse's sanks and galloped 'in the other direction.' Not a word passed between the two for awhile, as they rode straight towards a tall branchless tree on the crest of the rise up which they were racing. Soon they saw the descent on the other side, and standing out against the side of a bill at the extremity of a plain, the white buildings of the fort. As they traversed the plain at furious speed Joe turned to Eames and seized the English bundling-crop the latter held in his hand. Binding a white handkerchief to the end of it, he began signaling the fort and soon there came a response from a flag waved high in the air "Lucky I learned that signal racket," said the frontiersman, as he made cuts in different directions with his extemporized flag. "It'll save us nearly fifteen minutes." On they galloped swiftly toward the whitewashed buildings, with the starry dag flying over them. Suddally they heard the sharp report of a howitzer, the signal to the men berding the troop horses on the plain outside to stampede, them to the fort. In a few moments more they discounted in front of the adjutant's office on the plaza of which stood the major of the — the cavalry. The commanding officer advanced and greeted them brusquely "We made out your signals," he said. "Now where is the place?" Grizzly Joe explained hurriedly, and the major nodded comprehensively. "All right," he said, "you can tell me the rest as we go along." He motioned to his adjutant, who gave the word to the trumpeter, and the clear, resonant notes of "Boots and saddler" rang loudly across the plain. Some one found Eames and Joe fresh.horses, and with jingling of spurs and rattling of accountaments the force debouched upon the plain. Eames did not keep his place by his friend's side, but leaving him to guide the column fall back to a humbler position. As he did so, one of the lieutenants of the second company nodded to him plausibly, and he recognized the officer as a West fellow, who had graduated at West Point, whence he bhimself had been present. They rode together for some time and Eames endeavored to gain some information from him as to their probable course of action. "I had a word or two with Grizzly before we started," said the lieutenant. I made his acquaintance last year up at Fort Petterham. He told me that the ranch lies on the farther side of an isolated hill and close under it. I suppose he has suggested to the major to make the approach screened by this bill and thus unseen divide and charge on the redskins. Jon is just the boy for expedition of this kind there isn't a sort living under stands his business better. They were making steady progress but an impatient desire to push on at top speed had taken possession of Eames and when they had ridden about half an hour he could not help asking his newfound friend if they were not going to quicken their pace. You see that he had ahead of us as responded the lieutenant with a cheerful grin. That is our oblique point and when the major thinks we are in close enough you can rest assured that he will make the pace quite swift enough to suit you. Joe had been riding close to the commanding officer in eager conversation with him. Just at this moment he drew away the major turned an order was given and in a second were in a fortune galley. These straight ahead stood the square hit, lifting itself in the sunlight and towards it at a mid pace but in the strifter order and perfectly aligned went the column. Suddenly (stirz) Joe fell back to Famen saddle. He touched his companion arm and pointed away to the left where they saw in a coat of dust another party of horsemen found in the same direction as the warriors. There they are, said he the boys Coman the art of the hat, collected Nothing the hat with him of them you bet. There are a man in the plains that knew Indiana better than Comanhe and that his heart broke along of emerald and he a wild to have his revenge. Every one of the Indians had with him a knighter too from a hundred miles of way back I know them Harry and blast me if we don't give them hell hounds the biggest thrashing they had in ten years. Soon they were baited, and Comanche Charley's party was with them, the leader never taking his hungry eyes off the horizon ahead. The hull was made at the north side of the hill or detached meas which sheltered the ranch from the winds, and herd consultation was held. The order was given to form line and the two companies were ranged side by side with the officers in front. Then they started each taking one side of the hill, and Comanche Charley's party making a long detour with the intention of coming in well to the rear of the Indiana, who were understood to be mainly on the south side of the ranch. Eames went with the second company, and they had hardly proceeded 100 yards before the rattle of steadily sustained firing fell upon their ears. The captain beckoned to Joe with whom, after he had halted his men, he rode cautiously ahead Soon they returned, and the frontierman approached Eames and drew him to the flank of the company "My boy," he said earnestly, "you are going under fire. Are you all right!" Eames nodded cheerfully "I told you I was going to make good, and I will," he responded vigorously "Well," said Joe, with a sigh, "shake hands, and God bless you." At a trot the company moved on. They cleared the hill, and the rach was before them; surrounded on three sides by a large body of Indians. Its Why Not Make Use of Your Spare Time. 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D., Bury. Box 2584 Station G. Office at Second Baptist Church, Talcott Street, Between H and I Gate, N. W. Defenders were evidently hard pressed, but they were making an obstinate resistance, as could be seen by the flashes of the rifles fired from within the building. James had hardly time to glace at the scene, and hear his friend the lieutenant say, as he looked at him with a smile. Big thing," when the captain returned in his saddle and in ringing tones gave the autosuously expected order to charge Instantly all the pent up excitement of the men burst forth and with a wild yell, they hurled themselves upon the enemy There followed a tumult of shots, groans and shrieks. Eames found himself in the thickest of the pandemonium and striving to do his part, saw fierce hand-to-hand encounters, saw savage, painted, faces distorted with rage or pain saw friend and foe go down together. Then through the smoky cloud, he became conscious of the charge of the other company and the wild onset of tomache Charley a man, with blazing revolvers and deep curses, their leader like an avenging demon, apparently bearing a charmed life and taking deliberate aim before each deadly shot. To Eames unaccustomed vision the whole affair appeared rather like the rapid passing of events in some bideos nightmare. He fired and loaded his gun automatically, until something seemed to snap within his head the blood mounted to his brain and he caught the spirit of the derestest, yelling hoarsely as he dashed forward by Gritzley Joe a side into the midst of a group of Indians making the last stand. This group of the enemy was composed of young warriors at bay and neither asking or giving quarter and the major himself led the charge on them. It was successfully achieved the road to the house was open and James made a rush for it. Although as he passed he had seen Gritzley Joe reed slightly in his saddle and saw (tomache Charlie spring to his friend's side it did not occur to him that the frontiersman was badly wounded for the thought of meeting his sister had taken complete possession of him. In another instant she was singing to him while his father held one hand and Old Black Roberts was saying excitedly. Plurkest little girl I never see Why blame me if she didn't load for us -load for us -do you hear" Its said hames come and see the man to whom you owe your rescue" She went with him Grizzly Joe lay on the ground (Comanche) harley supporting his head and the military surgeon kneeling beside him. They reached the spot just as the doctor shook his head sadly in response to a whispered question from Comanche Grizzly Joe opened his eyes as the girl dropped sobbing on her knees by him, something like a smile came to his face, and his feebly moving lips whispered I told you Miss - as I did fetch him - and I gave done it And with those words the gallant spirit of the frontiersman went out across the Great Divide Did you go back east with your folks? I asked when I came had concluded his tale. Why yes he replied but I couldn't make up my mind to stay. Somehow I felt as if I belonged in the west, and that it was up to me to make good there. And so I came. But you can understand why that follows a speech last night bit me hard. He told the truth in a nutshell all right when he spotted those lines. --- CURRENT VERSE. Alone she was tired of the goering dish As all the un- meant things Her attention hands last the her life's emile And that brave heart the emile of her A stranger hild That pelted her wretched was wretched of To find a troubled heart to round her heart Her heart the gray face of the sun of girl Yet heart was may be where Love relieves Pain that her heart does dick rolling gloom Tempt toward the other that she again must lose Among the tides of her girlhood dreams In hours when her grade children offer dole Of love awed by the need that she must hide The mother home requikens in her suit Beneath the iron armor of her pride But her days pass with tramp of heav years Long when with warts home seeking wanderers And her eyes unvisited of tears And that brave heart broken smile of her Merciful Nostrum in her hearts 1. TO INURBASE YOUR KNOWLEDGE SEVEN NICE THINGS A BABY CAN DO. It can beat any alarm clock ever invented waking a family up in the morning Give it a fair show, and it can smash more dishes than the most industrious servant girl in the country It can fall down oftener and with less provocation than the most expert tumbler in the circus ring It can make more genuine fuss over a simple brass plin than its mother would over a broken back It can choke itself black in the face with greater ease than the most accomplished wretch that ever was executed It can keep a family in a constant turnover from morning till night and night till morning without once varying its tone It can be relied upon to sleep peacefully all day when its father is downtown and cry persistently at night when he is particularly sleepy It may be the naughtiest, dirtiest, ugliest, most fretful baby in the whole world, but you never can make its mother believe it and you had better not try it. It can be a charming and model infant when he no is around, but when visitors are present it can exhibit more bad temper than both of its parents put together REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. What a woman hates about society is when she can't get into it. An easy way to get into trouble in an argument is to have it about politics. The more children a man has the better other people think they could raise them. Half the energy a man puts into his whims would make him a wonder if put into his work. Hardly anybody is such an expert liar as the man who says he likes to work before breakfast. Politics is naturally bad, but the people in it are unnaturally worse. A heap of nonense in this world comes from people trying no hard to show its sense. People can't even save money now staying home, because they can spend it over the telephone No matter how much money a man could win by saving it, he'd rather lose by gambling with it A woman loves a man because she thinks she does a man loves a wom- an because she knows he does—New York Press It is moral courage that characterizes the higher order of manhood and womanhood the courage to seek and to speak the truth the courage to be honest the courage to do one duty if men and women do not possess this virtue they have no security what ever for the preservation of any other - Smiles Since love is the artificer of all virtue, let us with exactness implant her in our hearts that she may produce for us many blessings, and that we may have her fruit continually abounding the fruit which is ever fresh, and never decays Chrysanthemum An empty heart is an abyss earth a dopsis cannot match - Annie C Lynch Answer me quick, what help what hand do you stretch over destruction's brink? Brooming One should take care not to grow too tall for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. Addison There is no wrong a man can do but in a thwarting of the living right — MacDonald The situation that has not its duty was never yet occupied by man — Carlyle Mrs Jawhack Why have men's clothes so many pockets in them" Mr Jawhack I'll be darned if I know' Cleveland Leader Use of Your Time. GOOR YOUR USEFULNESS. TO INCREASE YOUR SALARY. Correspondence, incorporated, Them. Bishop Johnson, D. D., L. L. More for you. It is the only school conducted by experienced educa-