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THE RICHMOND PLANET GERSHOM OR THE STORY OF THE NEGRO. The day in which the nostrils of the world Of human life were filled, imparting life, Is in the distant past, but on the tree That then was given, in this act, the root Of evolution to the present day, Are borne the fruits of races quinary. Each present race has in its making known A different influence, and has thus been shaped A different product, yet can never lose The human kindship common 'like to all. But I have not arisen now to sing Of many races and their histories, But needs must speak the kindred sympathes That lend me strength to chronicle my own. For in the life beginning I was there— Not I but mine—the trusty, better part— The spirit medium of my inner self Was there. My race, inueed, was surely rocked Upon the waters of the mighty flood To serve the purpose of a mighty Will That moveth ever in deep mysteries To man unknown, but never yet wast known To do a thing amiss, devoid of good. If there couldst eer be found a single proof. Or any probability to show Aught in the hint of any race to say That there is any or the unknown mark Set on the brow of Cain, to be our own. Or that the curse of Canaan didst fall Upon our spirits in the distant past, Still would we stand, as now, steadfast in faith And see a noble purpose in it all HARTSHORN MEMORIAL A Fine Entertainment. Friday night April 1, 1910, 8:15 the assembly room of the Hartshorn Memorial College, was crowded to its seating capacity, with an appreciative, representative audience. Many were students of the Union University. The occasion was a Musical and Cantata. The program was rendered. The first singing class, produced the key note to the beginning of a creditable production. The music was timely; the melody or voices was in harmony with every strain of the instrumental music. The next was a piano solo (Days of yore) by Miss Minnie Hayes, followed by a piano duet, (Morris Dance) Misses Willie Cousins and Violet Grey. Then the quartette (The night has a thousand eyes) was well rendered by Misses McGuinn, Alston, Woodson and Johnson. The piano duet (Marche Triumphale), was an excellent production, by Misses Maude Howard and Naomi Hill, also the piano solo, by Miss Revella Hudges. The singing by the President's Glee Club (Sweet and low) brought from what then seemed to be an enthusiastic audience applause, after applause. The drill was conducted by students, who seemed to wear no insignia, not as his personal representatives, but rather as his escort, even though he was not visible upon the stage. The entire entertainment was under the skillful management of the accomplished Mrs. Rosa K. Jones. She was highly complimented. Emancipation Exercises Emancipation Day was observed here last Monday by tw₀ organizations, both of which had a parade. One was led by Mr. J. C. Randolph and the other by Mr. James C. Smith. The former had more carriages and the latter had more men on foot. Mr. Randolph secured the bands of Petersburg as the Mayor of that city would not grant a permit for a parade. Mr. Smith and his friends had employed all of the bands available in Richmond, it is alleged. Mr. Randolph had engaged the Broad Street Park. A base-ball game there interfered to some extent with the arrangements. Mr. Smith carried his followers to Fairmount Park at 21st and Fairmount and both seemed to have had a good time, although both parades would have made only one fairly good showing. Wedding Anniversary Invitations are out to the forty-sixth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Jackson, Friday evening, April 15, 1910, at their residence, 902 North Seventh Street, from 8 to 12 o'clock. A Level Headed Leader Has Faith in President Taft. "In judging President Taft's Administration, in so far as it has had a bearing on the Negro race, not a few Negroes have fallen into the error of considering alone the number and quality of political appointments to date. An equitable representation in the offices, whether North or South, is admittedly the wish and hope of every Negro, and he considers it but the just recognition of his citizenship, and his loyalty, too, and observance of the laws of his country. Still, however, it must not be assumed that political appointments alone constitute the one and only basis upon which to predicate criticism of President Taft and his Administration. "Regrettable though it be, there is a real and fancied line of distinction between the whites and Negroes of this country. President Taft in his every public utterance has shown that he is out of sympathy both with the real and fancied line of distinction. However, this has not closed his eyes to the existence of this line, nor prevented his attempting an adjustment of conditions which will, he sincerely hopes, eventually destroy every evidence of race distinction and race conflict. That he is sincere in this matter no Negro who knows him, or correctly judges him will affirm to the contrary. If those Negroes who are impatient for a shower of political fruit from the Presidential plum tree will stop to consider that when the Maryland disfranchising law was before the electors of that State for adoption, President Taft threw the weight of his influence against it, and in vigorous terms denounced it as an unjust discrimination; and that without that influence, probably, every Negro in Maryland today would be disfranchised, perhaps they will conclude the beneficent effect of his influence in Maryland as far more fruitful for the race than any number of political appointments. If the Negro critics of the President will recall his Hampton, Howard University, and Wilberforce University speeches, in which he declared unqualifiedly for, and urged vigorously the widest, most varied, and best possible education for the Negro, perhaps, if they are Lonest and sincerely interested in the race advancement, will conclude that the influence exerted by the President for education will have a vastly more important bearing on the uplift of our ten millions of Negroes than a hundred political appointments of high or low degree could have. If the Negro critics will stop and consider the deep interest shown, and the efforts put forth by President Taft's Administration, to preserve the independence, and to provide for the permanency and progress of the Liberian Republic—thus affording an opportunity for the Negro to show and develop his capacity for self-government—perhaps they will assume, and rightly, too, that the cause of the Negro is a matter of deep concern with the President. "If the Negro critics, and those seekers for the temporary elevation to be found in political appointments will recall that the President, in his annual message to Congress, advocated the holding of a semi-centennial celebration of the emancipation of the American Negro from slavery, in order that the race might show in concrete and assembled form the wonderful progress made in fifty years of freedom, perhaps they will agree to give him the credit he has earned for a sincere desire for race uplift. "And, also, it must not be lost sight of, when in forming a judgment of President Taft, that in every measure, policy or legislative enactment recommended by him to benefit the people of the United States as a whole, the Negro, as a part, must necessarily be benefited, and for this we have a right, in common with the whites, to feel grateful to him. "The fact that he President retained his membership on the Jeanes Fund Board, a board having the management and disposition of a fund for Negro education, although he had retired from active participation in all his many societies and boards, save the Yale corporation, makes it inconceivable that he can be regarded in any other light than one who aims to be a friend. And that he takes a keen interest in the work of the Jeanes Fund Board is evidenced by his having had its members meet with him at the White House last December. not what influence should be directed merely to and for the No-go, but what influence should be directed affecting both the No-go and white in order to smallize the conditions of the one by attracting the sympathy and help or the other. "That President Taft is destrous of having, and means to see that the Negroes receive a fair and equitable political representation no one who is informed doubts. Not because of any possible bearing it may have on his future political fortunes, but because he believes it their just right and due. But Rome was not built in a day, and no administration was able to fulfill all its promises within a year from date. President Taft is sincere in his desire and aim to reduce race friction to the minimum, and increase the harmony between the races to the maximum. Criticism is not likely to dissuade him from his purpose to conserve, first, the interests of the whole people, without reference to $_{1}$ race or color, and secondly, to conserve the interests of the classes without prejudicing the cause of the latter. "Before criticising the dispensing power the race should, at least, affect consistency. His appointment of Mr. Emmet J. Scott, an ideally balanced and splendidly equipped man, as one of the Liberian Commissioners was, without just cause, criticised by some members of the race, but not by the whites. The first, and most important term appointment made by the President was that of Robert H. Terrell to a place on the municipal bench and that appointment although a re-appointment, was made in the face of strenuous opposition. And, strange to say, the opposition was entirely on the part of Negroes, the people he thought to serve and please. And that opposition was not based on any lack, in Judge Terrell, of ability, equipment or character, but was prompted by a mean, jealous spirit. If appointments or Negroes to office must be met with opposition from within the race, the race is, at least, inconsistent. If it expects white men to be unanimously in the affirmative for Negro appointments. "Taken as a whole, there is much in President Taft's first year for encouragement for the race, and the specific cases I mention stand as incontrovertable proof of his friendship for the race." Rev. Thompson's Great Work Here. That faith, grit and push, are the trio that make for success, has been verily clearly demonstrated, by the record made by Rev. O. Paul Thompson, Pastor of the Cedar Street Baptist Church (Liggin's Hill), during the short time of his pastorate there. He was unanimously called on the 19th of February, took charge on the 26th. The membership was small and scattered. Those that remained were dissatisfied and all but disheartened. He has under God succeeded already in bringing the people together, infusing new life, vim and courage in them, and remodeling the church, and beautifying the grounds, and property in general. The membership and congregation have been more than doubled, and the same holds good in the Sunday School and the other church organizations. Besides the establishment of several new auxiliaries, the finances have kept abreast of the other improvements. The collection for February, amounted to $51.88. For March, the general collections reached $66.27 besides the $128.58, raised in the rally. The Re-opening Services, held for the week beginning March 27th and ending April 1st, were well attended and inspiring in the extreme On Sunday, March 27th, the Sunday School, assisted by members of other Sunday Schools rendered an excellent Easter service at 11:30 A. M. The communion service at 3:30 was unusually largely attended and impressive, at which time the two children of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Epps, were publicly prayed for, and named. The evening brought us some of the finest talent Richmond could afford, the occasion being a Grand Sacred Concert. Monday evening, "The Church" gathered to praise the Lord for His goodness, the result was a good spiritual meeting. Tuesday night, brought us the celebrated Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson, Pastor First Baptist Church, and a large number of his flock. He was at his best and left us food for reflection for many a day to come. Mrs. Johnson and Miss Taylor sang very acceptably. Wednesday evening, Miss M. A. Tharp, assisted by a hand of lovely young misses and gentlemen, furnished an A-1 program. Thursday evening a sad ulsappointment met us, in that Rev. C. L. Somers, Rector of St. Phillips P. E. Church, who was to have spoken and whose choir was to sing, was prevented from being present, by the illness of his wife. The Pastor spoke. Friday night the last of the program, brought to us a rare treat in the person and message of Rev. Dr. Hunter, Pastor of the Third Street A. M. E. Church. The message was simple, yet profound, timely and helpful. A committee of ladies served refreshments each evening. FRANK WILLIAMS, Associate Editor, "The Bulletin." A Letter From Our New Real Estate Agent, Mr. D. J. Bridford. A card of thanks to the generous public whom I have served for the past fourteen years. My public career began as church clerk when sixteen years of age. Then as a deacon of the church; then as an insurance agent and newspaper reporter while yet a student at the Virginia Union University, Last, as manager of the Y. M. B. A. Coal and Wood Company for three years. While holding this last position, I sold the Richmond public more than four thousand tons of coal and two thousand cords of wood for about fifty thousand dollars. In those and others positions I have served many, many hundred of my people. I have collected and disbursed, all told more than one hundred thousand dollars for the colored people of Richmond and vicinity. All this I have done by the support of a generous public to whom I wish to extend my most cordial thanks. I also wish to return thanks for the many positions offered me since I have been seemingly unemployed. With good will toward all and malice toward none, I have entered the real estate business. My object is to help my people get homes and at the same time make a living for myself and family. I do not think any one should object to this as it seems to be plenty room for me without conflicting with any one else who may be engaged in the same business. I further think that I deserve a part of your patronage. If I do not get it now, I shall wait patiently for it with faith, believing that it will come. I can get you a home on easy terms. I can collect your rents and negotiate loans for you on city property. After this week my office will be located at the old stand C. Smith's Pharmacy, across the street from the True Reformer's Bank. Call to see me. I'll do all I can to please you. If your property is listed with me, it Again thanking friends, one and all, for every favor, and again ask-will get my personal attention. ing a part of your patronage, I beg to remain. Most truly yours, D. J. BRADFORD. JEFF WILL TAKE PUNCHES Eight Sparring Partners to Box a Round a Day With Him. New York, April 5.—James J. Jeffries, who is matched to fight Jack Johnson for the heavyweight championship of the world at Emeryville on July 4th next, will not, according to Jack Cleason, one of the promoters of the contest, have to wait until Independence day to get a good, stiff punch. He will get all he wants of it before very long, but it is to come from his sparring partners and those who will be his seconds during the big fight. "Jeffries will have twelve assistants in all at Rowardennan," said Gleason today. "Within two weeks there will be eight of them who are capable or delivering a hard punch, working with the big fellow and Corbett will reach the camp by June 1st, if not before. "Every one of them will box at least one round every day with Jeffries, and he has just written me that he is going to let them wallop him as hard as they can. "In other words, Jeffries is going to take no chances on not getting into fine defensive condition. He realizes that Johnson is the strongest man he has ever fought, and the heaviest clever man. Jeffries wrote me that his idea was to allow his sparring partners to land whenever they could and with all their force, although he will not, or course, hit them as hard as he can, so that he will be trained to withstand the shock of any blow that Johnson may be able to hand him." JOHNSON WINS SUIT Massachusetts Court Holds That Contract to Box Is Illegal Boston, April 5.—The Superior Court today annuled a contract between A. A. McLean, of Chelsea, and "Jack" Johnson, the pugilist, in which Johnson agreed to fight, box, and give boxing exhibitions, on the ground that the making or such an agreement was a felony in this State and could not be enforced. McLean sued the champion heavyweight on a contract made four years ago, and claimed that be suffered a damage of $10,000 when Johnson broke it. Subscribe to The PLANET JEFF IS FIT TO FIGHT Coast Expert Says Bollermaker Is as Good as Ever. San Francisco, April 5.—According to opinions of sporting men who saw Jeffries when he arrived from the South yesterday on his way to training quarters in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Jack Johnson is in for a bad beating when he faces the retired boilermaker. Gene Van Court, one of the best judges of condition in the West, declared unreservedly that Jeffries looks every bit as good as when he was in the fighting game. Van Court said: "Jeffries looks the same to me as he did a number of years ago, when he was fighting. There is only one difference. When he takes off his hat he shows that he has less hair, but physically he is in great shape, and he has an eye that denotes he is already fit for a fight. There is no question in my mind but that he will stand the routine of training well." IS BROWN AND RUGGED Jeffries is brown and rugged. His skin is smooth and flesh hard. "I have practically been in training for this fight a year." said Jeffries, "and I know pretty well what I can do. The weight question is not bothering me in the least. In fact, I do not want to take off much more weight to be right. After my first trip into Tehatchiple Range I was fairly down to my weight. My wind is good. In fact, that has never been a point to worry me. Don't you worry about me. I am going to be fit when I enter the ring. I expect to pub in a hard three months in the Santa Cruz Mountains. "I can stand training and want to be absolutely perfect. I haven't said that this fellow Johnson would be tough or that he would not be easy. You can't tell about those matters. I am not going to neglect a thing that will put me right when I am fighting and I will win just as quickly as I can." Boxing will begin almost immediately after he is settled in his new quarters. For the present Armstrong and Burns will do the rubbing and boxing and tugging with Jeffries, although Berger plans to box with the fighter a couple of times a week. Jeffries, accompanied by Sam Berger left today for Rowardennan, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, to begin training. --- Ben Lomond, Cal., April 5.—James J. Jeffries began preliminary training today, for his fight with Jack Johnson, but it will be a week or more before he settles down to hard work. The fighter was accompanied to his training quarters from Oakland today by his wife, his two nephews, Sam Berger, Wrestler Farmer Burns, and a number of other men. Jeffries expressed himself as greatly pleased with the place where he will work from now until a day or two before the fight. After looking at the cottage and the gymnasium that have been fitted up for him, and after trying out the new handball court, Jeffries and his nephews and others engaged in a brisk game of baseball. RYAN WON'T TRAIN JOHNSON Fears Public Opinion, No Matter Who Might Win Big Fight Chicago, April 5 — Tommy Ryan has backed out of his agreement with Jack Johnson to help train the burly negro for the heavyweight championship battle with Jim Jeffries at Emeryville, Cal., on July 4th. After thinking the matter over carefully, Ryan, who prides himself with teaching Jeffries that famous crouch, came to the conclusion that it would be a risky job for him to undertake. "Supposing that I were to train Johnson, and through my teachings the colored fellow were to defeat Jeffries, wouldn't I be unpopular the country over?" asked Tommy. "You see, Jeff has a great following, and if he loses there will be a lot of soreheads. On the other hand, let's concede that I trained Johnson and he lost. Think of the roaring I would get all over the country. I have thought the thing over from every angle, and decided I do not care to train Johnson for the money. I could earn by so doing." Johnson has secured partial revenge on the police. He demanded a jury trial on the latest charge of speeding his auto, and was acquitted. Hereafter Jack will never trust himself to the merces of the court alone, he says. Johnson left for Bellevue, Canada, tonight, where he makes a one-night stand. He will be back in Chicago on Friday. 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. It seems as though the peculiarities which commenced as seemed with the Twentieth Century, are forming into a congenial mass. Churches which are now the pioneers in civilization are gradually moulding into the shape and presenting a hue singularly strange, yet in keeping with Divine precept. The great barriers, which were never the spirings of Christianity, are gradually but steadily fading; and mutual intercourse one of the strongest ties which binds brethren in one band is beginning to be aroused from its lethargy. When this element of Christianity shall have been thoroughly again practiced, many of the difficulties which now confront Christianity in general will and must crumble into dust. In union there is strength, not only numerically; but spiritually. There are some things in the form of evils to be remedied together with others for advancement, which Providence seemingly has designed for the church in general which can only be accomplished by a unified effort numerically and spiritually. The Fifth Street Baptist Church is looking well toward this matter and is gradually bending its energies in that direction. On last Sunday, though the day was inclement, it enjoyed a rare treat. Our Pastor, Rev Dr. W. F. Graham, preached an able solemn at the 11 o'clock service. He was extra oratorical and impressive. His manner and style doubly impressed his word with force. All eyes were facinated upon him. Occasionally an underbreath was heard saying, "What's the matter with him today?" Really he seemed to have been out of self. The choir was equal to the occasion in songs. Soul stirring heart cheerful music was sung to the delight and pleasure of christian service. At 3:30 o'clock, the Rev Dr. G. B. Howard, Pastor of Giffeld Baptist Church, Petersburg, va., preached a special sermon to women. Dr. Howard is a natural born pulpit orator, with abundant flowers and fruit, an original thinker and fine reasoner. His sermon was as forceable as it was fine. The instructions given were impressive and took deep root into the heart. All are well pleased, benefited and encouraged. We hope Dr. Howard will come over again soon. Since the facilities for travel or so convenient now adays, there is no reason why the ministry and churches of Petersburg and Richmond should not have a more mutual intercourse binding themselves closer together. Conventions are good; but the masses should get together sometimes if convenient. At night our Pastor preached. The revival commenced. The church will be opened every night. Everybody invited to these meetings. Christians come out and bring a sinner with you. In these times especial should all and the revival meetings. At 9:30 o'clock, Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton opened the Sunday School. A fairly good attendance was present. The officers and teachers were in their places and took charge of their classes for twenty minutes. Everything is in fine trim. --- The B. Y. P. U. is gradually moving on. They had a nice time last Friday night. President John W. Howard has notified the members that the meetings will be suspended during the revival services, and urges all the members to come out and at- . . . Let all members of the church who have not re-registered, do so in the next few days. Keep in mind the Thirtieth Anniversary or the church. Manchester Will Be a Part of Richmond. The contest for the annexation of Manchester to Richmond has ended. The fight took place across the river and the annexationists won by a majority of 290. This does not complete the consolidation, but the finishing touches will be ended in a few days and Richmond will have an increased population recorded in the census reports. If you want results, put your adv in The PLANET Portchester, N. Y. Notes: The Wilmore Club, K. of P. meetings met with much success. All members are urged to pay up by the 25th of April, as the club will close on that date. They will be orzanged on the 30th of April. Meetings every Monday night. St. Francis A. M. E. Zion Church is in a prosperous condition. The Sunday School is flourishing under the leadership of Supt. E. S. Crews. The Lyceum, of the above named church, had an elaborate program on the first Sunday in April. Rev. F. W. Crews was out of town last Sunday. He preached the last quarterly sermon for Rev. Jacobs in Greenwich, Conn. Sir H. B. Pettis, of Lily of the Valley Lodge, No. 40, Newport News, Va., has given some very interesting instructions to the club here. The officers are Rev. E. S. Crews, President; Rev. Steven Jackson, VicePresident; P. H. Threwte, Treas.; P. K. Crews, Financial Secretary; M. L. Perkins, Recording Secretary; Isaac Parham, Chaplain. The Blind Entertainer Mr. Samuel Cyrus, a graduate of the Ohio State School for the blind, is giving musical and literary entertainments throughout the state, and carries with him fine endorsements of his work. He is a deserving young man, and it will be a matter of information as well as amusement to all who hear him. Services at Cedar Street Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson preached an able and timely sermon on "Walking with God." First church was out in large numbers and Madame Johnson sang very acceptably. Come again. Rev. Dr. Somers, of St. Philip's P. E. Church, was prevented from coming to us on Thursday night, by the serious illness of his wife. We do pray for her speedy recovery. Friday night closed the week of re-opening services. Rev. Dr. Hunter, of Third Street A. M. E. Church, assisted by his choir, gave excellent service. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS Rev. Wm. B. Wood, of Petersburg, Va., was in the city this week. Mr. George W. Rison and Mr. F. L. Gunn, Jr., of Danville, Va., were in the city this week. The Knights of Pythias anniversary was observed by Craigsville Lodge, No. 133, at the Marble Valley Baptist Church, of Fordwick. Rev. J. Ware preached an able sermon at 3:30. A good crowd was out and the meeting was a success. James W. Pope, of Washington, D. C., was today admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, on motion of F. M. Hewlett. Miss Mildred C. Newton, of Danville, Va., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ellen N. Jones, 1023 West Leigh Street. Mrs. Maggie Alexander, of 17 East Canal Street, has been confined to her bed for several weeks is reported being much improved and expected to be out in a few days. She thanks her many friends for services tendered during her illness. Mr. Richard Drew, of Washington, D. C., arrived here Wednesday, to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. M. R. Hickman, who departed this life Monday afternoon. WANTED—A. Good Baker on Bread and Cakes. Write E. P. BLAIR, Pulaski, Va. JAIL BREAKER LYNCHED Son of White Victim Also Strung Up, But His Life is Saved. Houston Tex, April 5.—Following a sensational escape from jail, Frank Bates was lynched by hanging in the jail in Cartersville last night. Dolly Bates, his son was also strung up, but was cut down before life was extinct. The two Bates were the ringleaders in the jail delivery. They were both wounded, as was also Jallor St. John. All the jail-breakers were recaptured. THROUGH THE WALL TWO CHAPEL, 18 BY SILVER FORTH Lilah passed a night of offering and blessings after her last visit to the next day Mother Teresa's thought before her a lady of striving beauty, who wanted to see the towers of the amulet at thehedral. When she with her Alma was asked to hear her visitor speak of a wong Lord Elittredge and she said that at the woman in the naval way was connected with the shining murder of Martinez. That the shining visitor had come to further the purpose as sociated with the wong Lord Elittredge in aid of dent to Alma who cared and knew space for her addition the woman seemed to be well considered about M. Coquenil. Finally the wong said: "We must go to M. Coquenil to see the old saint's body and send us an errand for 20 francs." Alice suited herself. I am manage that. But what did I say to M. Paul? The wound I drew had the shape of franc notes. I had the shape of A. "Speak to lawyer for ey. I will him what and the Do what is one the be told how down was is a penil paper a page for book and American which All took well It was a Alice was and start for Left up servant glanced in strange room She saw a graph of caer car and his coat in wall and went nearer to it. Then she noticed his coat in hand and was just bent it when Coquenil entered. He turned with a start. "I-I beg your pardon" she mur- mured. Are you interested in my paster crazy? he asked promptly. "I was looking at this hand, replied the girl. "I have seen one like it." Coquille shook his head good naturally. "That is very improbable." Alice looked closer. "Oh but I have," she insisted. "You mean in a museum?" "No me in life." "You have seen a hand with a little finger as long as this one?" "Yes, it is as long as the third finger and square at the end. I often noticed it." "Then you have seen something very uncommon mademoiselle. That is the most remarkable hand in my collection. It is the hand of a man who lived nearly 200 years ago. He was one of the greatest criminals the world has ever known." The detainee's curiosity was aroused. Would you mind telling me the name of the person of course it's a man who has this hand?" "Yes," said Alice. It was a man but should not like to give his name after what you have told me. "A man that you like. "Why or why yes, I like him. But the detective cut off a strange look in her eyes. He banged the subject. "You'll have a cup of tea with me won't you? Then we can talk comfortably. A uncle told me your name." "My name is Alice Groenner. My family lived in Belgium but I have only a cousin left. He is a woodcarver in Brussels. He would pay my board with the Brommeus but I don't want to be a tutor so I work at the church." The girl was seated in the full light and as they talked I coughed observed her attentively, noting the pleasant tones of her voice and the charming lights in her, her studying her with a personal as well as a professional interest, for was not this the young woman who had so suddenly and so unaccountably influenced his life? "Would you mind telling me something, mademotyledle?" he said suddenly "What is it?" "I'm asking this in the interest of M. Kittredge. Tell me if you know anything about this crime of which he is accused. Do you know who was murdered." Yingke's M "I'd say I've got a "at the end, we'll go to a Wine, a Wine I've got a world to go me, it's a Mr. or it's a Mr. Kurtosis "Don't need a know. We're yes" Of course, I'll go to a him, it's a Mr. or it's a Mr. Wife I've got a world to go friends" Oh yes Never I'll go to a Wife, it's a Mr. or it's a Mr. I'd say I've got a world to go I'd say I've got a I'd say I've got a I'd say I've got a I'd say I've got a Quite a lot, she made me write it all to miss a word. He, I produced the torn page she had. I M Kittredge that the last word for him in the earlier draft was with the last son she thought was right not guilty. M Kittredge is really ly, so she will be able to appear and to testify in favor of M Kittredge if it becomes necessary. But she hopes it will not be necessary. She pays M Kittredge to use this money for a good lawyer. "She didn't say what this person is that she thought guilty last night?" "No." "Did she say why she thought this guilty or what changed her into Did she drop any hint? Try to remember." Alice shook her head negatively. "What can we do? Murmured Alice twining her fingers precisely." "We must get at the truth we must find this woman who came to see you. The quickest way to do that is through Kittredge himself. He knows all about her if we can make him speak. So far he has refused to say a word but there is one person who ought to unseal his lips that is the girl he loves." "Oh, yes," exclaimed Alice, her face lighting with new hope. "I think I could, I am sure I could only will they let me see him?" "That is the point. It is against the prison rule if a person au secret to see any one, it is lawyer but I know the director of the Sante prison and I think. Alice delivered at the word. Yes" she murmured, and what were you easing?" "I say that I know the director of the Sante and I think if I send you to him with a strong note he will make an exception. I think so." "Complent said we and quickly adressed an urgent appeal to M. Bedet director of the Sante asking him to grant the bearer a request and assuring him that by doing he would confer upon Paul Complent a deeply appreciated favor." "There," he said handling her the note. Now often, you are to find out certain things from your lover. I can't tell you how to find them out—that is your affair, but you must do it. You must find them out even if he doesn't wish to tell you. His safety and your happiness may depend on it. You now write down what I must know. Then I want to know about the lady's husband. Is he dark or fair tall or short? Does Kittredge know him? Has he ever had words with him or any trouble? Got that? "Yes." "Then—do you know whether M. Kittredge plays tennis?" Alice looked up in surprise. "Why, yes, he does. I remember hearing him any he likes it better than golf." "Ab! Now I want to know if M Rittredge uses both hands in playing tennis or only the one hand. And I want to know which hand he uses chiefy—that is, the right or the left?" "Why do you want to know that?" in- aptited Alice with the wrist of her Near her I why not rest in him fright. At other thing is ask M. I ask about a chest of wars. At the hotel the lady is sitting. At the bed cooler war. At this has good houses if the latter hardies two dogs. At the sale of the book lives. Near good establishment I didn't say, so you know where M. is going. Near little I am running he ared. Near I work as my friend other. Since I haven't wasted my life. Your friend told me repeated A hour in briefing. Your friend gave. He is an ordinary person who I am prepare in a little surprise. Oh. And what about the chest of friends. He is so good at parting out drawer the small one on the right hand is. Better write that down. The second drawer the right hand is repeated. Find that M. Kittleside always kits the drawer locked. He succeeds beautifully and would want to know if the members are going few days. It is all fine. Have you got it? Yes. Good job on something more neat out if M. Kittleside ever suffers from themotion or out. The girl is so good at the drawer not. He is so sweet and cute. Please do it take the tightly mud ones. The detective hided gently. It is perhaps the most im- portant part of it. He release from protection and look up. It was after 10 when Alice left the cricket roav at the Montreuil centre. She went to open place where she met regulars for the famous Bet fortune. They knew her way and hurry to the Bedfordward Arrage she presents to the greet person who knew her well. She writes and guides her children to a great gray spider. She spies between the line It should the line de la Sante and the Honour Arrage. No one told the guard heard that she went to work from M. Paul Clement who showed her politely to a soldier who grew. A clear opened and a head fled low frowned man of hears a sister who well her with a crooked sister who moved her into his shelter. It was M. Dedet the斗牛 She waited to speak with the Amor- teat. Mr. Morrison who had been sent here the day before she wanted to speak with him alone. "The later she had a tooth and par- rowed his hair in a hard stare." "Did Paul come and see you for that?" "he spotted me." As a sir, answered the girl and her heart began to sink. You see it a very special moment. "Special one," laughed the other bunch. "I should say so. It's a case of murder." "But he had to tell perfectly innoc- cent, pleaded Ate." Of course I had list several murders who have had innocent see his sweetheart work which would be a fine prison. No little one he went on, with affection for them. I am sorry to disappoint you and I hate to refuse M Paul but not be the lawyer. Man is an secret with no means that he must not see a woman with a lawyer. Alice did not see. She had been sitting in a room with a large sheet of paper. The paper was spread before writing. And on she listened to the dire rough world she took care of and twitched it nervously in her face. Then with increasing excitement as she realized that her affection had failed she began with a thinking to make little art the better and then a written word all with a singular fixed look. You had to use me, said the latter gruntly. Alice started to her feet. "I—I beg your pardon," she said weakly. Her distress was so evident that even this alloused man felt a thrill of pity and stepped forward to assist her. And as he passed the table his eye fell on the blotting paper. "Why, what is this?" he exclaimed, eying her sharply. "Oh, excuse me, sir." begged Alice, "I have applied my nice blitter. I am so sorry!" "Never mind the blitter, but!"—He bent closer over the scrawled words, and then, with a troubled look, "Did you write this?" "Why—er—why—yea, sir. I'm afraid I did," she stammered. "Don't you know you did?" "I—I wasn't thinking," she pleaded in fright. He went to his desk, picked up a printed form, filled it out quickly and handed it to her. "There," he said, and his voice was almost gentle. "I guess I don't quite understand about this thing." another note about the tuning. looked at the inner blankly. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. P. D. I did not write true? This what I saw she asked It was not asked for a permit to see this woman prisoner by ap- tender HF's day morning service was just long when Kitedge revered the Santa prison and he, his first impression of the prison, be listened to reounding at the chanted or rather chanted in the prison, and pointing on the prison with full eye through all chained. He settled down as comforted and he bowed all to pass the afternoon. The last of the Mo Alice was tired and his flight led with no engaging joy. It was a bare room with bare doors and bare yellow painted walls the only furnishings being two chairs and a cheap table, but to hit people it was a marvelous and radiantly happy place for Alice was there. He stared at her almost in believing but it was true. By some kind miracle Alice his Alice was there. Then we went any prelude without so much as asking for an explanation or giving her time to make one. Lloyd sprang inward and caught the trembling girl in his arms and drew her close to him. You darling he whispered "you brave beautiful darling" I love you! I love you! 'Lloyd dear she said 'I am here to help you to get you out of this dreddful place. "You little nug" be stalled But first you must answer some questions. If begin with the easiest question, it said, Now then, have you ever had great or rheumatism? Don't laugh at your perplexity. Never be swerted. "Do you play tennis with your right hand or your left hand?" Oh see here," he protested. "No me, she insisted, you must tell me. "I use both hands" he answered. "Now you have a chest of drawers in your room with two brass dogs fighting about the lock plates?" How the devil did you know that? "Never mind. You usually keep the right hand upper drawer locked don't you?" "That a true. Do you remember going to this drawer any time latey and finding it unlocked?" Alice hesitated, and then with a flush of embarrassment, she went on bravely "Now, Lloyd I come to the hardest part" "Well?" "It is about the lady who—who called for you. She wants to help you. I have seen her" "What?" Yes, and, Lloyd she is sorry for the harm she has done and You have seen her? he cried, dased "How?" Then in as few words as possible. Alice told of her talk with the lady at the church and I have this mes sage for you from her and this She handed him the note and the folded banknotes. Lloyd's face clouded. She sent me money? His lips grew white. "No no." he declared, "it's quite impossible I cannot take it," and he handed the money back She thrilled with pride in him "But the lawyer? Tenkly "Would you want me to own my safety to her?% "Oh, no." she murmured "Besides, they have given me a lawyer" "Then then what shall I do with these? She looked at the banknotes in perplexity "Return them!" "Ah, yes," she agreed "I will go to her apartment in the morning. Let me see it's on the Avenue... Where did I put her address?" And she went through the form of searching in her pocketbook "The Avenue Kleber," unsuspecting "Of course, the Avenue Kleber. Where is that card? I've forgotten the number too. Do you remember it dear?" "Ah. I see!" he cried, asking her steadily. "She did not give you her ad- dress and you are trying to get it from me. Do you even know her name?" "No," confessed Alice shamafacedly. "Forgive me. I—I wanted to help you." "By making me do a dishonorable thing?" "Don't look at me like that. I would not have you do a dishonorable thing but"— "Who told you to ask me these questions?" "M. Coquenill." "What? The detective?" "Yes. He believes you innocent Lloyd, and he's going to prove it." "I hope he does, but—tell him to leave this woman alone." Nothing would prevail on the young man to reveal the woman's name. The guard came forward to warn them that the time was nearly up they had three minutes more "All right" nodded Lloyd and as he turned to Alice she saw tears in her eyes. "It's tough but never inbod" You so made a man of me little and I will prove it. I used to have a sort of religion and then I lost it, and now I've got it again a new religion and new breed. It is short and easy to but it all I need and it's going to keep me game through this whole ten business. Want to hear my creed? You know it already darling for a taught it to me. Here it is. I be in Alice. That's all that a enough Let me kiss you." "Loved" she whispered as he bent toward her, can't you trust me with that woman's name? He drew back and looked at her face reproducifully and her cheeks flushed. She would not have him think that she should bargain for her lips, and, throwing her arms about him, she murmured Kiss me kiss me as much as you like I am yours." The guard's griff voice came between them. "One moment, Kuttredge said, and then to the singing girl 'Why do you ask that woman's name when you know it already." Wild eyed she faced him and shook her head. I don't know her name. I don't want to know it. You don't know her name; he re- peated and cried in the turm of the r last farewell her frank and hated deal ling in his mind. She did not know the woman's name. Back in his lonely cell Kattridge pounded this and recharged for his left volume of De Musset has treasured a pocket companion that the junior let him keep he opened it at the fly leaves. She did not know this with an name. And woodingly he read on the white paper the words and the name written by Alice herself scrawlingly, but distantly the day before in the garden of Notre Dame. A sequel was neither surprised nor disappointed at the meager results of Alice's prison. It had not been entirely vanity he had learned that Kattridge might have used his left hand in filing a plate and that he did not suffer with gout or rheumatism. This last point was of extreme importance. And the directive was specifically put in effect humor by news awaiting him at the Palms de Justice Monday morning that the man sent to London to trace the burned photograph and the five pound notes had already met with success and had telegraphed that the notes in question had been issued to Addison Winnott whose bankers were Munroe & Co. Rue Scribe Quick inquiries revealed the fact that Addison Wilmott was a well known New Yorker living in forts a man of leisure. He and his shining wife lived in a private hotel on the Avenue Kleber where they ed a gay existence in the smartest and most spectacular circle of the American colony. He was still good natured and a little fat. She was a beautiful woman, with extraordinary charm and a little girlish figure. He was supposed to kick up his legs in a quiet way, while she did the things brilliantly and kept the wheels of American colony gasp busy enough anyway turning and spinning until they groaned in utter weariness. Ruch was the information M. Paul had been able to gather from swift and special police sources when he presented himself at the Wiltmott hotel about lunchoon time on Monday. Adison was just starting with some friends for a run down to Fontaine bleau in his new Panbard, and he listened impatiently to Coquanill's explanation that he had come in regard to some English banknotes recently paid to Mr. Wiltmott and possibly clover for forgery. "Really," explained Addison. Coquanill hoped that Mr. Wiltmott would give him the notes in question in exchange for genuine ones. This would help the investigation. "Of course my dear air," said the American, but I haven't the notes. They were spent long ago. "You remember whom you paid them to?" questioned the detective. "I did not pay them to any one," replied Wilmott. "I gave them to my wife." "Ah!" said Coquenil and presently he took his departure with polite assurances, whereupon the unsuspecting Addison tonted away complacently for Fontainebleau. It was now about 2 o'clock and the next three hours M. Paul spent with his sources of information studying the career of Fussy Wilmott from special points of view in preparation for a call upon the lady. He discovered two significant things—first that, whatever her actual conduct, Mrs Wilmott had never openly compromised herself As offsetting this, however, Coquitran secured information that connected Mrs. Willimott directly with Martinez. It appeared that, among her other exections, Pussy was passionately fond of gambling. She was known to have, won and lost large sums at Monte Carlo, and she was a regular follower of the fashio sole races in Paris. She had also been seen at the Olympia billiard academy, near the Grand Hotel where Martines and other experts played regularly before eager audiences, among whom betting on the games was the great attraction. "He used to talk about this lady" said one of the markers; "he called Her the 'bells Americas,' but I am sure he did not know her real name. With so much in mind Ooquenl started up the Champs Elysées about 5 o'clock. CHAPTER XL MRS. WILMOTT, very languid and astunning amid her luxurious surroundings, received M Paul with the patronizing indifference that bored rich women extend to tradespeople. But presently when he explained that he was a detective and began to question her about the Ansonia affair she rose with a bungly gesture that was meant to banish him in confusion from her presence. Coquennil, however, did not banish so easily. He had dealt with haughty ladies before "My dear madam please sit down he said quietly. I must ask you to explain how it happens that a number of five pound notes, given to you by your husband some days ago, were found on the body of this murdered man." How do I know? the beautiful Mrs Wilmott replied sharply. I spotted the notes in shops. I'm not responsible for what became of them. Besides, I am diving out tonight and I must dress. I really don't see any point to this conversation. "No? He smiled and the keenness of his glance pierced her like a blade. The point is my dear lady, that I want you to tell me what you were doing with this billiard player when he was about last Saturday night." It is false. I never knew the man she cried. It is an outrage for you to intrude on a lady and in suit her. "You used to back his game at the Olympia." I am fond of billiards. Is that a crime? "You left your cloak and a small leather bag in the vestiture at the Asonia pursued M Paul "Your name was found stamped in gold letters under a leather flap in the bag." She faltered. "It it was?" I corneti nodded. Yes. Now what were you doing with Martinez in that room? For some moments she did it aawer but studied him with frieed puzzled eyes. Then suddenly her whole manner changed. "Now I will tell you exactly what happened. And setting herself for him Pussy Willimot entered upon the hardest half hour of her life. After al he was a nun and she would do the best she could. "Well she went on quite charmingly. I have done some french things in my life but this is the most foolish I did give Martinez the five pound notes. You see he was to play a match this week with a Russian and he offered to lay the money for me "But the dimmer the private room?" She shrugged her shoulders. I went there for a perfectly proper reason. I needed some one to help me and I couldn't ask a man who knew me so. "Then Martinez didn't know you." "Of course not. He was french enough to think he would fit with me, and well I found it convenient and amusing to atlize him." "For what?" Mrs. Wilmott bit her red lips and then, with some dignity replied that she did not see what bearing her purse had on the case since it had not been accomplished. "Why wasn't it accomplished?" he asked. "Because the man was shot." "But you were present in the room. You heard the shot." You saw Martinez fall? "Yes but. Now her agitation increased. No one had entered the room except herself and Martines and the matter who served them, she insisted Martinez was standing near her when, when the shot was fired, and he fell to the floor. That was all. Cogent smiled indulgently "What did you do with the auger" he asked "The auger" she gasped "Yes it was seen by the cab driver you took when you slipped out of the hotel in the telephone girl's raincoat" "Yes she answered weakly "And you threw it into the Seine as you crossed the Concord bridge" She stared at him in genuine attention My tired you're the closest man I ever met" M Paul smiled "I can return the compliment by saying that it isn't very lady who could throw a thing like an auger from a moth, over a white roadway and a st wall and land it in a river I suppose you throw it over on the right hand side?" "Yes "How far across the bridge had you got when you threw it? This may help the divers "We were a little more than halfway across "Who bought this auger?" "Martinez "Did you suggest the holes through the wall?" "He did "But the holes were bored for you because you wanted to see into the next room" "Yes," in a low tone "And why?" She burst out in a dash of feeling "Because I knew that a wretched dancing girl was going to be there with"— "Yes?" eagerly "With my husband" "Then your husband was the person you thought guilty that night?" questioned Coquentil "Yes" "You told M. Kittedge when you called for him in the cab that you thought your husband guilty." "Yes, but' afterward I changed my mind. My husband had nothing to do with it. If he had, do you suppose I would have told you this? No doubt he has misconducted himself, but"— "You mea' Anita?" It was a chance shot, but it went true. She stared at him in amazement. "I believe you are the devil," she said, and the detective, recalling his talk with M. Grite, muttered to himself, And now Pussy feeling that she could gain nothing against Oquenil by ruse or deceit, took refuge in simple truth and told quite charming how this whole tragic adventure had grown out of a foolish fit of jealousy. "You see, I found a pet tilt bleu on my husband's dressing table one morning—I wish to heaven he would be more careful—and I—I read it. It began 'Mon gros bebe,' and was signed 'Ta petite Anita,' and—naturally I was furious. I have often been jealous of Addison, but he has always managed to prove that I was in the wrong and that he was a perfect saint, so now I determined to see for myself. It was a splendid chance, as the exact rendezvous was given-9 o'clock Saturday evening in private room No 7 at the Anoumia. I couldn't go alone, so I got this man Martínez he was a perfect fool. I got him to take me because as I told you he didn't know me and being such a fool he would do whatever I wished. 'What day was it you found the petit belf' put in cappell It was Thursday. I saw Martinez that afternoon. "And you are sure it was his as home to bore the holes?" Yes he said that would be an amusing way of watching Addison without taking a scandal. It was the first never idea I ever knew him to have." Did you look through the holes at all? he asked. "No. I hadn't time." "Did Martinez look through the first hole after it was bored?" Yes but he couldn't see anything, as No 7 was dark. Then you have absolutely no idea who fired the shot. "Absolutely none." "Except that you think it wasn't your husband." "I know it wasn't my husband." "How do you know that?" --- "Him?" reflected Conquillé. "I won der why Anita changed her mind?" "I'm not responsible for Anita" answered Pussy with a dignified whisk of her shoulders. "You know a great deal about this young man who is in prison, he sug gested. "I know he is innocent. "I hope you can prove it." "Of course I can prove it!" she de- clared. "In Kittraidge an old friend, was arrested because he called for my things but I asked him to do that, it's absurd. I'm afraid it is not absurd as you think. You say he was an old friend. He must have been a very particular kind of an old friend for you to ask a favor of him that you know and he know would bring him under suspis- ion. You did not know that didn't you?" Go on I don't mind she said "I was not in love with M Kittredge. Please make that perfectly clear. He was a dear loyal friend, but nothing more." Was he enough of a friend to be jealous of Martinez? "What was there to make him jealous? Well," smiled Coquenil, "I can imagine that if a dear and loyal friend found the lady he was dear and loyal to having supper with another man in a private room he might be jealous. "The beat proof that M Kittredge would not be jealous of me is that he loves another woman." "The girl at Notre Dame?" "Yes." "But Martinez knew her too. There might have been trouble over her," ventured M Paul shrewdly "There was no trouble." "You never knew of any quarrel between Kittredge and Martinez? No words?" "Never." Coquennel now resolved to try a chance shot. He said impressively. "How about Kittredge a letters to you?" He watched the effect anxiously. "His letters to me" she cried, with a start of dismay while M Paul nodded complacently. "He never wrote me letters that is, not many—and whatever there were I—destroyed." Coquennel her keenly and shook his head. "A woman like you would never write to a man officer than he wrote to her and Kittredge had a thick bundle of your letters. It was only Saturday night that he burned them, along with that photograph of you in the lace dress." She looked at him in frightened open and, then with a gusture of half surrender. "For heaven's sake, how much more do you know about me?" "I know that you have a bundle of Kittrelgoa a letters here, possibly in that desk." He pointed to a charming piece of old mahogany inlaid with ivory. He had made this last deduction by following her eyes through these last touched minutes. "It isn't true. I—I tell you I destroyed the letters." And he knew she was lying. Coquenil went to the desk and examined it carefully. There were two drawers in a raised part at the back; there was a long, wide drawer in front and over this a space like a drawer under a large inlaid cover hinged at the back. He searched everywhere here, but found no sign of the 100 expected letters "Well," he said, with an air of dis appointment, "I did nothing here. Suppose we try another room" "Certainly," she agreed, and her face brightened in such evident relief that he turned to her suddenly and said almost regrettedly "Madam. I hear you are fond of gambling. You should study the game of poker, which teaches us to hide our feelings. Now, then, he walked back quietly to the desk. "I want you to open this secret drawer." A big tear of weakness and humiliation gathered and rolled down her cheek, and then still silent, she took a hairpin from her hair, inserted one leg of it into a thin hole quite lost in the ornamental work at the back of the desk, pushed against a hidden spring and prostrate a small retract drawer shot forward. In this drawer lay a packet of letters tied with a ribbon. "Thanks," he said, "I am sorry. And he took the packet from the drawer." didn't harm them, she mourned. You trusted to that drawer, he suggested. No no, I knew the danger, but I couldn't give them up. They stood for the best part of my life the tenderest, the happiest I've been a weak, wicked woman. Any secrets in these letters will be scurruptly respected, he assured her unless they have a bearing on this title. I know it then with tear stained eyes. I didn't tell you the truth about Kittlese and Marritz. There was to be between Paula. He speaks about it in his letters. It was out of the picture at No. 10. You know Marritz was a live her? I told it all. She told it very strictly. I told it all. She told it the same old story. We told it all with an tractable reef of the girl's girl. He said it was the most magnificent power. "And Kittieidge objected to it." "Of course he did, and they had a quarrel. It was the one of these letters." "Do you remember what he said?" "What yes." "What was it? She hesitated a moment and then, as though weary of resisting she re- plied. "He told Martinez that if he didn't leave this girl alone he would break his d—head for him." (To Be Continued.) PENNSYLVANIA R. R. RAISES WAGES 175,000 Men Granted 6 Per Gent. Increase. Philadelphia Man. 37. The in- sylvania national law made a volu- tary injunction of the court in the of all employees who were less $300 per month. Disposition in the fortrift from the Court of Court. About the distribution of off- ences. Period of time. Pursuit. Pursuit of the Pursuit. It is understood that the similar case will apply in the line west of Pittsburgh. That being the case an amount of probably 15000 will be billed. On the line west of Pittsburgh the Pennsylvania man employed at 130 men and the western system men. Comparison few greater than $1 per month. Mexican Pepea. Mexican peas the chiefly on beans rice corn cheap cuts of meat coffee tortillas and peppers. Bread is not used by these people. Turbine Steamers In a turbine steamer the rhythmic thumping of the pistons disappears and instead the engines give out a thin soprano song that causes of failure key with the speed sometimes suggesting a continuous squeak. The Black Panther The direct of all animals is the black panther. Hurrah "Hurry! It used to be Hurry!" and the cry is used as an England. It is the battaliery of the old Norse vikings as they slept down to burn and murder among the peaceful British but ate" was their watery, which means. Their old' an appeal for help, the god of battles. An Old English Law In the time of King Calonte, in the eleventh century there was a law prohibiting English parents from setting their children to the Irish for slaves. Hot Mentiments They were looking over the paper together "Oh, my, how funny!" said she. "What is it?" be asked. "Why, here's an advertisement that says, 'No reasonable offer required.'" "What is there odd about that?" he bored not about that "Nothing nothing," the replied, trying to blush, "only those are my sentiments." "Another wedding shortly. Quartet of Young Athletic Stars Afro-American Lads Lead on Relay and Teach Teams in Public School Athletic League of New York—Clifton Vester and Brother Two Fleetest Short Distance Runners Ever in Contest. In the Vester brothers, Lawrence Jackson and Percy Lee, Afro-Amorokaise are well represented in the Public School Athletic League of New York. Their record has sprinters of the first magnitude has been the wonder and admiration of athletic experts around New York many of whom now say that these young athletes have clearly demonstrated their capacity for the savest physical tests and for a long time they will neither be equalled nor exceeded by any of their class. Clifton Vester the midfielder spinner of public school No. 24 has demonstrated in the last two years that few athletes in the Public School Athletic league have anything on him either as a spinner or as a member of a relay team. The youngster and his older brother are two of the fastest short distance runners that ever competed in elementary school athletics and are idols among their fellows of the upper section of the city. With Lawrence Jackson and Perry Lee, both of whom are members of public school No. 24 track team, they are known in upper Harlem as the invincible quartet of colored sprinters. Clifton Vester has made an enviable record since he started to compete in the Public School Athletic league, his performances in the budget and junior classes being of a high order. He, like many colored athletes of note who have been members of public school teams, began his career in public school No. 80. Though he is now a pupil at public school No. 24, Vester earned most of his laurels at the former school. In 1958 Vester made his first apt purpose in athletics activities when he resumed to a call of Coach arr and a training for a field day which the school soon was to have. Coach arr who is a good judge of school boy athletes noted that he carried himself well and gave him special training. The results of his efforts soon took for a fortnight later Clifton took all the trials of the school into camp and won the muddget sprint in the closed games by a handsy margin Though he was coached in several open meets prior to the Last indoor championships, Vester failed to be placed in any of them. Coach Carr was not disbanded by the adverse showing of his charge and placed him on the ninety-five pound relay team. It was as a member of the relay that Vester showed his true form. Starting as first man he often gave his mates a lead and enabled them to ramp home early victories. In the in-game games of the Public School Athletic league in December 1908, Clifford brought a championship to his school by stuttling away from his clubs in the first relay and giving his mates a goal start. After taking the school to win the competition, Seymour sponored his No. 1, see, ( ) versed? He joined it. ( ) to a pull it a bed. No. 1 lost 500 of who he had Lawers. I was not who graduated from 100. I was not No. 50 Vestors brother a to a year of No. 218 speed and to a expert sprinter. He received a. I did not on the games who he was very good dash. I can not if you know of the under the was. I did not if I was a who's was too a. I'd not see of the. I was a. I'd not see of the. I was a. I'd not see of the. I was a. I'd not see of the. THE OLD TIME RELIGION Kind Fled With Worldness I did a lot to only if the sport land store. My son says he did and I didged in both pro and I did. I did a lot of the religious question. I've led that we believe in the old feet of the old, such as our neighbors of Fetites' light and blood and it has a lot of a pro and I've done it. We live in the new brand of reil, a lot to permit one to gain the power of think which dance and tell the next land any kind of an old immoral life, and still be permitted to degrade the person that of the church with that unhaled pro-ence. Why we speak of it is because Port land's church by a reg. I'veன the up with the new Ford of it, as an open Waiting to Hear Something Fall We certainly will not be eaten or not will tresbe before some of them fall asleep the legal colored Republicans who are waiting patients to hear asleep fall it is said. All the people that walt wait. Then again it is said the layers are dangerously New Hoboken NY League Jointal Biennial Meeting of Women's Clubs The next biennial meeting of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs will be held in Louisville, Ky. From Sunday July 10, to Friday, the 16th, inclusive. Miss Elizabeth O. Carter, president of the association, is expecting large delegations of club workers and visitors to be in attendance. Unrehearsed Lines Net Goodwin, the actor, was once the hero of an amusing incident in the theater. In one of his parts he had to come on the stage with a coat over his arm and call out loudly "Uncle! Uncle!" According to the book, he should have received no reply, but one night one of the gods answered him with: "All right! I'm coming in a minute." How much do you want on the coat? THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. It Was the Only One the Crank Made During the Game. At a whist club in Brooklyn was an old fellow who enjoyed the reputation of being a great crank, and his amdverations against his partners were so severe and his manners generally so bad that it was care, indeed, that he could get any one to play with him. One night, however, a man happened in from the west, and the avoided one promptly assailed him with a request to "sit in". The western man was about to comply when he was quietly taken aside by one of the members of the club, who told him the reputation of the crank. "I don't care" he said. "I can stand it, I guess." At the end of the evening he was approached one more by the curious member. "Well," said the member "how did you manage?" "Didn't he insult you?" 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Pope Hon Ralph W Tyler Auditor for the Navy and who is from Ohio has issued a defense of the present administration. As he holds one of the most important positions that has ever been tendered to a naval officer he necessary) attestation whenever he issues an order to the Afro American navy I may be well to state that when President Taft amitted that he be keenly the criticism of the press made a national error in that he advised a host to press exactly where he was most vulnerable to his military armor and it will know that where to aim the gun is of necessity. Mr Tyler Mays In judging President Taft's Administration, it is on that it has had a few New Yorkers in favor of it, and that it has had a qualifier to it. An important point is that the officers who served in the administration was and that of every Negro and his need, but the just reason is that he is capable and his loyalty to the cause of the laws or his tax. Still however, it must be noted that political appointees alone constitute the only basis upon which to predicate the team of President Taft and his Administration. Mr Tyler is correct in his statement, but he should also be equally correct in his analysis of the critic names of the conservative colored man who have not made the appointment of colored men to political offices the sole basis of their criti issue of the distinguished occupant of the White House. He then indulges in an apology for the alleged short comments of his chief, which short comments are not alone along the line of his failure and disinclination to appoint colored men to office. Mr Tyler continues Regrettable though it he there in a real and fancied line of distinction between the whites and Negroes of this country President Taft in his every public utterance has shown that he is out of sympathy both with the real and fancied line of distinction However, this has not closed his eye to the existence of this line nor prevented his attempting an adjustment of conditions which will, he succerely hopes, eventually destroy every evidence of race distinction and race conflict. That he is sincere in this matter no Negro who known him, or correctly judges him will affirm to the contrary We call this a case of "playing fast and loose", of "galloping with the fox and running with the hounds." Personally and socially, President Taft can recognize the color line. Officially, he has no right so to do. He is sworn to recognize the civil and political equality of all men before the law. Yet it is admitted that he has not done so. He has permitted racial discriminations to be made in public buildings owned by the United States government. He has issued orders to the census enumerators through bureau chiefs that colored enumerators shall be assigned only to colored sections and has issued no orders that white enumerators shall be assigned only to white sections. He has thus destroyed the basis of equality that he is sworn to regenerate. Bell at 1 o'clock now, have you served these that nothings and they have assisted them. President Taft should have closed his eyes to the sensation of a color line when it came to his official dation and if he could not close them himself it would have been right and proper for him to have some cut. He is a socialist who is being dis- cussed as a Negro who is impatient for point of view. He is therefore uninterested in this particular and behind getting the administration may be best speaking that light which is necessary. He is in order to be discussing the matter and to apply the remedy he is discussing the subject from the standpoint of a Repub- lican who sees a radical departure from the principles of the party with which he is affiliated. President Laff does not need any credit for throwing the weight of his influence against the Marxist disaffronting law for the reason that he is a Republican and the law question must necessarily be at a disadvantage to every Republi- can in the country who is true to the party's things. Mr. Tavares says about President Taft just said there could have been a liability of his speech in facing such legislation. The trouble with President Taft is that he does not stand up on vital questions when the president of the session seems to want to action and his will is not to be appealed to. And Negro sentiment prevails at some of the places where he is going. For our part we are required to favor and com- President Taty who has been trained in the use of Rehabilitation in frames with a patient is now educated and how to the age Mr Tyler says If the Negro graduates of the Pres- ident will be at his Hampton Hw- ard University and William Frost be a university trust which he dearest qualified for and urged vigor- ously the widest might varied and the best possible education for the Negro perhaps if they are talent and sincerely interested in the race an- dancement will conclude that the in- formation exerted by the President for education will have a vastly more important bearing on the upfit of our ten millions of Negroes than a few hundred appointments of fellow or law degree could have President Ita'i was all right to hold elections of the places noted and we were not taken in our common designation of the authorities. The trouble with him that he is disposed to treat the hired people just as to treat the Indiana and provide to them and politics in handling them. All we ask is an equal chance to make our own way and we respect any barring rule or regulation that tends to restrict us in our Gold of usefulness on account of our race or color. According to Hon Ralph W Tyler a logic he is rapidly arguing himself self out or office. He then leaves the colored people in the United States to discuss the action of the administration in looking after the interests and welfare of those in Africa He says. If the Negro critics will stop and consider the deep interest shown and the efforts put forth by President Tafta Administration to preserve the independence and to provide for the permanency and progress of The Liberian Republic—thus affording an opportunity for the Negro to show and develop his capacity for self government—perhaps they will assume, and rightly, too, that the cause of the Negro is a matter of deep concern with the President. He continues "If the Negro critics, and those seekers for the temporary elevation to be found in political appointments will recall that the President, in his annual message to Congress, advocated the holding of a semi-continental celebration of the emancipation of the American Negro from slavery, in order that the race might show in concrete and assembled form the wonderful progress made in fifty years of freedom, perhaps they will agree to give him the credit he has earned for a sincere desire for race uplift President Fatt certainly deserved credit for his attitude in this matter. We are of the opinion that he erred though in suggesting that a commission be appointed to enquire whether or not a semi-centennial position should be held when he had and that it should be held. He seems to have been somewhat tender footed upon the subject and in fact told the congress of the United States that he was not so sure it himself. He therefore desired a commission to investigate the matter and report whether or not this was the best thing to do. In the meantime with Dr. Bohner I. Washington and President R. R. Wright are I freed to mark the occasion until the test time. I let you know that an official has been signed out a list of opinions it will be free to give to the semi-centennial position of the head it will be held in an official and a detritus of the parties managing the affair that the president felt meant well and did what he thought was best in the premises. Mr Tyler a correct when he says And also it must not be lost sight of when in forming a judgment of President Taft that in every measure policy or legislative act must be recommended by him to be fit the people of the United States as a whole the Negro as a part of necessarily beneficial and for we have a right in common with the whites to be grateful to. M Tyler mayo The fact that the Dean's trust retained his membership, on the Dean's Fund Board, a board having the management and disposition of a fund for New England education although he had not retired to a five-participation in the faculty something and boards save. Your corporation makes it possible that he be regarded in any other light than one who attends to a friend. And that he takes a keen interest in the work of the Dean's Fund Board in exile by his having had its members meet with him at the White House last December. No one argues that President Taft is afraid to the colored people to the extent of wishing them well, but he is no more of a friend than are thousands of liberal-minded white Democrats many of them living in the Southland and who show an interest in the welfare of the colored people. Mr. Taylor should know that every effort made to elevate and make more useful the Negro citizens benefits the public at large and every white man in the country is properly entitled to the privilege of the proper use of an advancement he says. This is the correct and proper view to take and it is very good argument too against the Negro's holding public office. These declarations must have been inscribed or else Mr Tyler could not have been induced to give voice to them. We take it that he is ready and willing to retire from the position he now occupies and without a mourn whenever his chief gives the nod and intimates that his further occupancy of the position is distasteful to certain Negro haters who look with envy upon the office of Auditor for the Navy. But Mr Tyler could not let this statement go without the proper modification and in the next few lines he comes back retraces his steps so to speak when he says That President Taft is desirous of having and means to see that the Negroes receive a fair and equitable political representation no one who is informed doubts. Not because of any possible bearing it may have on his future political fortunes but because he believes it their just right and due. This then indicates that Mr Tyler may test secure in the position that he holds. It indicates too that the other colored office holders of high degree will not be disturbed just now, but in what follows he admits that President Taft is shy in appointing any other colored man to a prominent office now held by a member of the race. This is how Mr Tyler states it "But Rome was not built in a day, and no administration was ever able to fulfill all its promises within a year from date. President Taft is sincere in his desire and aim to reduce race friction to the minimum, and increase the harmony between the races to the maximum. Criticism is not likely to dissuade him from his purpose to conserve, first, the interests of the whole people, without reference to race or color, and soonly, to conserve the interests of the classes without prejudicing the cause of the latter. Now then here is a task that an angel from heaven alone would be able to perform. It is how to do a thing that will surely cause friction in a manner that it will not cause friction. In this, President Taft yields up principles to expediency. His position is that of every liberal minded Democrat in the Southland who has no autopathy to the Negro. So far as we are individually concerned, when the question of politics or office is left out of the equation, one is just about as good as the other if Mr Tyler remembers Grover Cleveland, the first and only Democrat who has ever sat in the White House since the Civil War he will note that he stood upon higher and than that. He nominated Negro to office and he stood by his nominations. He did not defer to the race prejudice against them. In this he was more of a man so far as the Negro is learned than Mr Tyler portrays President Taft to be We find all over Virginia white men of Democratic persuasion giving voice to utterances which are just so strong as those which are not so evident Taft Mr. Taft Before criticising the dispensing war the race should at least afford consensuity. His appointment to Emmet H. Scott an ideally baked and splendidly equipped man is one of the Liborian Commissioners was without just caused by some members of the race but by the whites. The first most important term appoint made by the President was that of Robert H. Terrell to a place on the municipal bench and that appointment although a reappointment was made in the face of stronomous opposition and strange to say the opposition was entirely on the part of Negroes the people he thought to resist and abuse. And that opposition was not based on any lack in skills. Terrell of ability equipment of character but was prompted by a mean pious spirit. If appointments of Negroes to office must be met with opposition from within the race the race is at least innocent if it expects white men to be unanimous in the affirmative for Negro appointments. Taken as a whole there is much in President Taft's first year for on engagement for the race and the specific cause I mention stand as in controversial proof of his friendship for the race" Mr Tyler is in error if he thinks that the Negroes opposed the appointments in question. Some of the disappointed jealous ones may have done so but the race in general has appreciated every appointment of colored men that the distinguished Ohioan has seen fit to make. Mr Tyler's appointment was a good one although he was antagonized by certain race leaders whom he had antagonized in his day to the white business in his local. We return our charge and that to President Taft regards the Negroes of this country in the same light that the average southern regards him as a child in the race of life as a valuable animal as an asset that will yield a rich return if properly controlled as an Indian as a ward of the nation and never as a political equal entitled to all the rights and privileges of American citizenship and to with his arm uplifted I am an anping men This is our criticism of the disturbing instigated occupant of the White House, and this is why we have said it is a crime vain that when it confronted us to the race question, he hasn't put his bonnet on strongly. We would not God that we were mistaken. He put Hon Johnb Dancy out of a political job to put Hon H. H. Johnson in the army job and both are colored men of ability. In the meantime, white men are swapping into the political offices on every side and from Maine to Texas they are holding lucrative positions of the most influential kind. Mr Tyler admits that President Taft is shy about putting colored men into positions formerly held by white men and he declares it to be on account of the racial antipathy existing in some parts of the country concerning the Negroes. He should know that teacup of lessening race know that instead of reasoning the prejudice in this particular it has served to increase it for the reason that it has the sanction of the first gentleman in all of this land. White people admire man of fixed convictions and with a back-bone sufficiently strong to back them up Colored people are similarly affected and President Taft's predicament with reference to thinking colored men is of his choosing As Mr Tyler portrays him we would just as soon vote for a liberal minded southern Democrat as we would support a hesitating vacillating Ohio Republican. The following telegraphic report from Washington under date of the 4th inst., seems to explain the situation The Laft administration is about to defend itself aggressively before the people of the United States. Convinced that the public mind has been impressed by attacks of various kinds upon the administration in many parts of the country, and that the criticism cannot be permitted to pass unaworned without injury to Republican prestige, the party leaders have decided to "carry the war into the enemy's country. President Taft is declared to be ready and anxious to assume the offensive. The opening guns will be fired next Saturday night, in Washington by the President in person and in Chicago by Attorney General Wick ersham. It is evident that to Hon Ralph W. Tyler Auditor for the Navy, has been entrusted the task of answering the Afro American critics of the administration. From the scant material he has at hand, he has done very well for a beginner. He makes no promises for the future further than to search the average voter and office seeker to hope for better times and better things. To our mind, President Fafta a republicanism means nothing to the average citizen of color. His general personality though leads one to expect much from him as a man. Our biggest comes from a member colleague of the Republican Party an organization pledged to, the reco- gnition of the colored man as a main brother and, the equal going about the country officially reco- giziting the existence of the color line and declining to appoint American officers to office because of their race color and previous condition of servitude. Colored folks are mighty forgiving in their disposition and it may be that a vigorous canvass on the part of the office holders and non-office holders will work a change among the black cohorts. Dr Booker T Washington could do a world of good right through here in this the administration a hour of need Thy spirit independence but no share THE BLAnder IN MARYLAND. Columbia came throughout the country should report over the action of the Maryland legislature in passing the Diggs bill disfranchising citizens of color in all state and municipal elections. For thirty years colored men have vainly endeavored to get a decision from the nine judicial phrases at Washington better known as the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. They have repeatedly ignored every point of law made in an effort to obtain a ruling upon these vital questions affecting the disfranchising of the colored people in the Southland. Now the Democrats of Maryland have had the nerve to squarely bring the question to an issue and in a way that will compel a ruling by the U.S. States Supreme Court. If there is a man woman or child who knows that the Supreme Court will contain this species of legislation because he will be undecided. This act is the part of the Maryland Legislature in the direct result of previous rulings of the United States Supreme Court. It has divorced the state from the nation in all matters pertaining to the Negroes that to be consistent it should sustain the contents of the Negrohaters of Maryland. When it sustains the contention though it will find that it has ruled worse than it could possibly know and it will open up an avenue of technical questions that will plague the court for a half century or more. We have no fear of the result however if the Fifteenth Amendment can be ratified by legislation then the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery is subject to similar treatment. Somebody is riding for a fall if not today then tomorrow and if not tomorrow then the day there after. --- THE BROWNSVILLE FINDINGS The action of the Court of Enquiry in the Brownsville investigation in declaring that colored soldiers shot up Brownsville Texas will hardly occasion any surprise on the part of those who have followed the trend of its investigations. It seemed that it was a case where the evidence had been prepared before hand. One side had the money and the influence, and the other side had only its energy. We were under the impression at the time that the members of the court were named that its duty was to as certain if any or all of the members of Companies. B, C and D. of the Twenty-fifth Infantry should be reinstated. Its action seems to be to uphold the action of President Roosevelt, Ex-Secretary of War Taft and the Negro-hating tier of Democratic senators who were desirous of humiliating and injuring one of the bravest bodies of men who ever shouldered a gun or fired a rifle. That all or the men could not have been guilty, even viewed in its worst aspect goes without question and yet the innocent were punished with the alleged guilty. It is a gratifying thing to know that the colored people can stand this further evidence of the injustices now everywhere prevalent in this country. The affair has now been removed from the arena of public consideration, but the memory of the affair will rankle in the bosom of the average citizen of color for many years to come and it may be that it may take another radical form in the attempt to wreak revenge upon somebody at the polls. Be that is it may it is best we presume that the matter end here and colored folks like us look to God and the future for vindication and relief "Peace has its victories, no less renowned than war." Let us have peace ROOSEVELT CALLS OFF RECEPTION Methodist Pastor's Statement Cause of Action. BITTERLY ASSAILED VATICAN Calonel Roosevelt declares He Will Be Used In No Way to Disparage Any One and Deplores "Religious Antisemitism." Rome April 6. Former President Roosevelt's wish that the Vatican incident be regarded as personal to him has not been restated and he is intensely annoyed. About the first thing he did was to call off the reception to the American colony. This action as stated was for directly to the issuance of a statement by Rev B M Tipple attacking the Roman church. Mr Roosevelt does not propose to be used by any one to the disparagement of any one else. Mr Tipple called upon Mr Roosevelt and then made a statement in which he gave the Vatican incident a world wide significance saving. Mr Roosevelt has struck a blow for twentieth century Christianity. The representatives of two great republishes have been the ones to put the Vatican where it belongs. The Vatican is incompatible with republican principles. This is a bitter dose for patriotic Catholics in America to swallow. I wonder how many doses of this sort they will take before they revolt. Is Catholicism in America to be American or Romish? If Romish then every patriotic American should rise to crush it for Roman Catholicism in the uncompromising foe of freedom. The world advances but the Vatican never When the Triple pronouncement was shown to Mr Roosevelt he said I had made no arrangements to speak at an church or clerical organization in Rome. I have received a number of gentlemen of all religious faiths who have called at my rooms or at the American embassy. Under the circumstances I have requested the American ambassador not to hold the reception which he had intended to hold on Wednesday afternoon. As regards all efforts by whomever made to bring about and inflame religious animations because of what has occurred in connection with the Vatican and myself I can do no more than to refer to the emphatic statements contained in my open letter to Dr Ilyman Abbott. All that I have said I desire to reiterate with my whole power. Ambassador Leishman had arranged the reception that Mr. Roosevelt might meet Americans in Rome regardless of their faith on the neutral ground of the embassy. The appearance however of the Tipple statement displayed many American saints who showed an intention of not attending the reception if the Methodists of the organization represented by Mr. Tipple were to be present. The matter was carried to Mr. Roosevelt who after hearing both sides asked Mr. Leishman to cancel the whole affair and this was done. The negotiation caused by Mr. Roosevelt a decision not to be received by the pope upon terms made by Cardinal Merry del Val continues unabated. The press is filled with columns on the subject. Papers of all shadows of political citation except the clerical organs support Mr Roosevelt a attitude Some violent anticlerical sheets intimate that the affair may result in the down fall of the papal secretary. These papers are apparently trying to arouse a great anticlerical demon- stration at the railway station when Mr Roosevelt leaves the city Wednes- day night. 1910 APRIL 1910 Sen. Flm. Tm. Wed. Thm. Prt. 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FIELD winter $1.00 winter $1.00 clear $1.00 clear $1.00 RYL P 1010 1010 $ 1010 per barrel Vol 171 Vol 172 Vol 173 Vol 174 Vol 175 201 old romans 11 13 14 old romans 11 13 14 old romans 11 13 14 BUTTERFLY mats extra creamery 3349 north street 33492 near bryn st BOTATAS dealer 3568 brush Live Stock Markets BUTTERFLY (612) 3101 stock yard CATTLE ST 3101 choice $826560 prime $819820 SHEEP firn prime watthea $86.3 ¥7 culla and common $45.00 lambs $56.75 veal calves $86.09 HOGS firn prime heavies $112.8 modula $112.0 heavy Yorker $111.10 15' light Yorker $111.10 pigs $10.80 10.90 roughs, $10 $10.80. Core-t Steel Saves Life Darby Pa April 6 Mrs Joseph B. Ellison narrowly escaped being shot when a resolver was accidentally discharged by Mrs H Ellis a neighbor who was helping her to move from one house to another. As both women were cleaning out a bureau drawer they found the weapon and an Mrs Ellis picked it up it was discharged The bullet struck Mrs Ellison in the side but was deflected by her corner steel and hurted itself in the plaster of the wall. Maryland Votes For Income Tax Annapolis Md April 6 The state senate adopted a joint resolution already approved by the house of delegates sanctioning the income tax amendment to the federal constitution. Wind and Bale The wind blows in a circle around a storm, and when it blows from the north the heaviest rain is cast of you; from the south, the heaviest rain is west, from the east, the heaviest rain is south from the west, the heaviest rain is north of you. ```markdown ``` --- ```markdown ``` was delivered by Rav. A. Thurston and remarks followed by Sir W. H. Dabney. The exercises took place at the Wavist Baptist Church, at Blackhaw, Va. Richmond, Va., April 6, 1910. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor or the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00). One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-calm of Sister H. Belle Fitshugh, who was a member of Olivette Court, No 88, of Richmond, Va. Two negro murderers condemned to death in the electric chair and a white man charged with highway robbery escaped from the Norfolk, Va. county jail by cutting their way through the roof of the prison and lowering themselves by a rope made of bedding. Roy Koeglek thirteen years old and his fourteen year-old comrade John Gerlicky were playing "cowboy" at Cleveland O Gerlicky had taken his father's revolver to make the play Ilfelke As Buffalo Bill he fired the gun at Koegle and the latter dropped with a bullet through his chest. He is not expected to recover Friday, April 1 Brigadier General John Juke Tiernon, U S A retired is dead at Bafalo N Y He entered the army as a second lieutenant in 1862 retiring after forty years continuous service Eleven hundred negro men women and children in one of the American Tobacco company's stemmeries at Louisville Ky struck. The strikers were disorderly and the police were called out. Harlow N Higginbotham seventy two years old former president of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago is reviving memories of the Civil War by tramping from Hot Springs Va to Clarksburg W Va by wagon roads Mr Higginbotham says he is imaging the journey for the pure pleasure of walking. Saturday, April 2 Twenty-eight insane foreigners left Stockton Cal on special cars for New York whence they will be deported. Two Italianes fought a duel in a New York street not far from the East Side water front. One of them was killed by a shot fired straight through his head His adversary escaped Dr James G Cumming director of the Pasteur institute of the University of Michigan announced the discovery of a new method for the treatment of hydrophobia Dr Cumming uses a virus Monday, April 4. Charged with embezzling $1000 from the Bank of Pine Valley Wetzel county W Va Cashier Extra Mayfield was arrested To succeed Robert M Lafollette in the United States senate Samuel A Cook of Nunah Wia has announced his candidacy Elizabeth and Anna Ashton Hanville girls are in jail at Shamokin Pa charged with breaking into a Reading railway coach and starting a fight The central convention of the Law men's Missionary Movement of the Re- formed Church in the United States which meets in Sunbury Pa. April 13 and 13 will be a notable affair Tuesday, April 5 The First National bank of Ran- dolph Web was robbed of $10000 by three masked men who bound and gagged Town Marshal Carroll Rear Admiral Robley I Evans retired in an interview at San Antonio Tex. deplored the fact that congress had authorized only two battleships instead of four The two Japanese who were arrest ed at Manila for attempting to purchase photographs of the fortifications of Corregidor have been released upon orders from Secretary of War Dickle- son While singing a solo in the first Episcopal church at Hoppeadale, Pa. Miss Minnie Smith struck her head against a lighted gas jet igniting a large picture hat. The solitary couple removed her headwear and handed it to one of the male members of the choir. Wednesday April 6 Fred Lampay fifty-five years old was gored to death by an infiltrate ball at Lawrenceburg ed. while his mother eighty years old looked on powerless. Harry B McAllister son of a prominent city official of Baltimore who quit college to join the army and who deserted will be given a term of two years in the federal prison. More than 300 saloons have been voted out of business by the people of twenty Michigan counties Sixteen counties voted 'wet'. There are now forty and forty three wet counties in the state. The towns of Bramwell and Poor hontas W Va are terrorized over the presence of a panther which according to advices received here badly lacerated two children at Widding Gulf and killed thirty sheep and its calves Bill-What is he doing to try and keep the wolf from the door? Jill-Oh, he's trying to learn to play the cornet. - Tonkies Stateman MET TRAGIC DEATH ON HIS BIRTHDAY Michael McCarthy Killed by Fall From Second Story Window. On the forty-sixth anniversary of his birth, Michael McCarthy full from the second story window, in his home at 1706 West Cary Street early Sun day morning April 2, 1910, and was instantly killed. A young man named "Bud" Tinsley, who was passing by on the opposite side of the street, saw the accident, and immediately ran over and told Mrs Vott, who lives in the first floor flat of what had occurred She thought that Mr Tinsley might be mistaken, and that it was simply some one fainting in the street. But the prostrate body was lying beside the fence, with the head crumpled beneath, and she recognized McCarthy She screamed for the man's wife, and the latter was horrified at the sight before her. She rushed to where her husband lay, ard, turning over the body, pulled his head back into place. The man still breathed, apparently but there were no other signs of life. The ambulance physician who was called to the scene, and who examined the body later, said that the neck was broken and that death had come instantaneously. There was also a large gash in the back of his head, where he had struck the fence. WIFF 1 HEROIC FIGHT With the aid of Mrs Vott and Mr Tinsley Mrs McCarthy carried the dead form of her husband upstairs to their apartments. The body was laid on the bed and the almost prostrated with attempt to resuscitate the life that was attent before physicians came. How the accident occurred will probably never be known, but it is thought that Mr McCarthy went out on the porch roof to get a box of matches which was lying there. He must have stumbled, or slipped, from the edge of the roof, as the matches were said to be lying near the gutter Mrs McCarthy was in a back room. A few minutes before the accident her husband called her, and she misheard him when she returned to the room. Just then Mrs Vott called her. There was no celebration on hand for Mr McCarthy's forty-sixth birthday. The couple was merely spending the day quietly at home. Indeed, the anniversary had hardly been recalled until Mrs McCarthy saw her husband dodd. The family had had a brother, Mr Grannon, half brother. The funeral will probably be hold some time to morrow. MOORE SCHOOL Through its Principal, Mr H G Caillon, has reported to the Supt. Dr J A C Chandler the following roll of honor for March 7 A GRADE Herman E Lee Lil lian I Scott, Maggie M Coleman 6 B GRADE Annie Epos, Lewis Gonde William Dudley Joseph Jack son 6 A GRADE Daisy Green Grache Scott Ethel Taylor Ruth Cattell, Elizabeth Johnson Virginia Ray 8 B GRADE Reginald Jackson, Antoine Walker, Roy Johnson, Rich and Winston Arthur Wilkerson, Al Barrell Georgia Burrell, Rosetta Minus Esaie Reid 9 A GRADE No 1 Leoonard Carr ter Bonnie Horsey Alice Frany Mo zelle Hicks Arabella James 9 A GRADE No 2 Charles Ferguson Douglas Woolfolk James Lewis 4 B GRADE No 1 Mildred Johnson Gladys Robinson 4 B GRADE No 2 Mario Clark 4 A GRADE, No 1 - Waymouth Tupponce Patrick Taylor, Robecca Mencor Eva, Rolling Alice Pettis 4 A GRADE No 2 Katie Scary, Ara Harris 3 B GRADE Willie Harris, Mario Carter 3 A GRADE, No 1 - Arthur Randolph Powell Wilkerson 2 Florence Stavev 3 A GRADE, No 2 - Daisy Brown, Willie Carter, Pauline Freeman 2 B GRADE--Ernest Hill, James Brown, Eather Johnson, Adele Shelton 2 A GRADE--Herbert Toles Lecher Salle, Lucrotta Wells, Annie Hicks, Sarah Johnson, Louise Lowia, Harry Polindexter 1 B GRADE—John Fields, Lillian Groen, Emmett Miller, Agusta Horn don, Robert Washington, Marie Leo, Bramuel Walker, Rubie Peyton, Rogotta Coles, Louise Wilson 1 A GRADE—Wilanna Bradley, Rogo Carmet, Essie Johnson, Blancho Smith, Jla Scott, Russell Ellett Anniversary of Buckmere' Lodge. Buckmere Lodge, No. 149, Knights of Pythias, N. A., G. A., E. A., A., and A., observed its anniversary, Sunday, March 27th. The sermon R. F. THOMPSON, C. C. D. C. ANDERSON, K. or R. and G. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Witnesses Carrie B Fithaugh. Sylvia Eggleston. Anna Taylor CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Thursday. March 31 Saturday, April 2 Monday, April 4 Wednesday April 6 Spring Thought of the Hobo. In the spring the hobo's fancy hobo to get it to work. How to get it to work? That's the question, there's the rub Should Hole Rame ARMED MEN ROB BANK; KILL TWO Victor Co.'s Offices at McKees Rocks, Pa., Held Up. ESCAPED WITH $5000 $5000 ESCAPED WITH After Killing the Manager and Cashier the Robbers Escaped on Horses, Shooting Down the Street as They Gallope, Away Pittsburg, April 6 A sensational bank robbery occurred at McKees Rocks, a suburb six miles below Pittsburg. Employees of the Victor Banking company were preparing to close for the night when four men appeared. Two with drawn revolvers warned away pedestrians while th other two went inside the bank and opened fire. The dead Samuel Friedman manager killed with three bullets while trying to protect $5000 on the counters of the bank. Ignate Schwartz, cashier who was shot through the head taken to McKees Rocks hospital died Mortally wounded Robert King, a citizen shot down by robbers as they ran with the plunder will live. Andrew Mikko mill workman hit by stray bullet, Mary Enoo employe of bank, slightly injured trying to save Friedman and Schwartz, hysterical from fright. The robbers jumped on horses and escaped with the $5000. The Victor bank does a heavy business with the workmen from the plants of each town. It is a bank for foreigners and also conducts a steamship agency last Saturday was pay day at most of the works and there was about $25,900 in the bank Only $5000 of it appeared on the counters however the rest being locked up in the safes. It was customary to keep the bank open until 10 o'clock for several evenings after pay day, but business being slow it appears that Manager Friedman who also acted as teller and Cashier Schwartz decided to close for the night at about 8:30. Suddenly the two robbers entered the bank walked up to the cashiers window and shot Schwartz down in his tracks. Then they grabbed the money which they stuffed into bags slung over their shoulders. Friedman who had been in the back part of the bank attending to the big safes came rushing out of the bank after the men and on the steps he was shot dead. Mary Enzo who had been employed as a domestic about the bank in the daytime was in the neighborhood. She came running and threw herself on one of the robbers as he was about to shoot into the body of Mr. Friedman. The robber tossed her to one side and ran on The robbers horses were tethered near the bank for within two minutes before a crowd had any chance to gather the four mounted men were shooting down the atest "Get out or we'll kill you, aboutto one to Robert King as he stood in front of Greena hotel King stood his ground and in another second he was writhing on the ground with three bullets in his body A little further along Andrew Milko who had stopped to gape at the fast riding men was shot through the body "The authorities of the McKenna Rocka are of the opinion that the robbery had been planned for some weeks and that it was to have been carried out last Saturday night when the bank was fatally filled with money In the Present "And before I accepted him," Miss Passay was anying. I asked him if he would love me when I was old." "The idea" explained Miss Bright. "Why, if he proposed to you he had already proved that hadn't be?" Catholic Standard and Times Suspended Communication My creed of compassion has primarily stood for the fellow who cannot make good if he wounds. But my creed is clear, as all sympa- theses should. Exactness. "So your little girl objects to sailing 'Now I lay me down to sleep?' Yes, she is a truthful child and we have been living in a room near an enclosed railway in New York where nobody could keep Washington Star Your Rising Chance If you're wealthy, let me count Hitch a carbine. Don't you let the trouble be a bar? Get an arrest sight! An go soar out of sight In the region where the best prices are Impossible Doctor Madan it is imperative that you put your husband on a low diet His fever is too great Wife But how can I when every thing is so high? I cannot Connuer cial Gazette A Quiet Tip The man who thinks he knows it all From his lotty perch may get a fall But he who is at times in doubt May find his weaknesses help him out Getting On "They seem to be getting on all right" "I should say they are I understand they're within twelve years of having their home paid for" -Detroit Free Press. His boarding mistress married him. - Lippmann's. COLLEGE OF BUSINESS MASSACHUSETTS UNIVERSITY 1910 ROOSEVELT WON'T REPUDIATE TAFT Rome April 6 Colonel Roosevelt again was beheaded by newspaper men who sought to draw from him an intimidation of his attitude toward the Taft administration. He was told of reports circulated in the United States to the effect that there was a coldness between the president and himself. This did not disturb his equanimity or lead him in any comment. Colonel Roosevelt did not come to Rome to learn the wills of the news collector. However it can be said on excellent authority that any report that he proposes to repudiate his successor in the presidency is a baseless fabrication." It was also learned that Colonel Roosevelt had hoped to see Senator Filibert Root in Europe and the following summary of the former president's attitude toward American politics was personally authorized Colonel Roosevelt has not intimated what he will or what he will not do upon his return to the United States. He has constantly refrained from discussing politics in any way or manner. He has listened to the opinions of Americans whom he has seen but declined to comment thereon. "He will see Gifford Pinchot at Glenon just as he will see other friends who desire to see him and just as he desired to see Senator Rock who unfortunately found himself unable to come to Europe." HETTY GREEN ILL Condition of Richest Woman in the World Said to Be Serious New Orleans, April 6, Mrs Hertz Green, richest woman in the world, is reported to be critically ill in this city. The nature of Mrs Green's malaise is not disfigured but from a well informed source it was learned that her condition is so serious that she may not recover. Edward H R Green her only son reached New York last week coming from Texas. At that time it was said the purpose of his shift was to con- clude a railroad deal. This Mr Green denied. It is now believed that his visit is due to the precious health of his mother and that he was notified by her physician that it might be well for him to be near her for fear of a sudden collapse. MOTORS WITH KING Italian Ruler and Roosevelt on Sight seeing Trip Rome April 18 King Victor Em manuel called upon King Roosevelt at his hotel the Beaumont and sometimes was spent in an animated conversation Following the chat the king and Mr Roosevelt entered a motor car in which his majesty had driven to the hotel and visited the barracks of the cutlersers the royal bodyguard The cutlersers execlated a series of maneuvers for the benefit of the far president who was much pleased He said he had never seen a finer body of mounted men From the barracks the king and his great motorized to the monument in course of construction to Victor Emmanuel II They climbed to the top of the coastal structure in which $10,000 has been expended thus far From the crown of the monument they had a magnificent view of the ancient city Immediately below were the capitol of the Forum and in front nesting dome of St. Peter's which the borton was bounded by the Athenian hills and the blue of the Meditatorium. Mr. Roosevelt expressed himself as charmed by the sight. As they drove back to the hotel his majesty and the American were acclaimed by the populace. Necessitarians The philosophic term necessitarian is used to denote those persons that deny the freedom of will and assert that in human conduct all volitions are determined to motivate that obey the law of motion as invariably as do the forces of nature. The word *determinists* was suggested as a substitute by John Stuart Mill and has been very graft adopted - New York american. SAYS HILPRECHT TABLET IS FRAUD U. of P. Professor Denounced as a Fakir. SCIENTISTS DISCUSS FIND Professor Barton Declares Tablet Upholding Biblical Story of the Deluge is a Fabrication For Sensational Purposes. The tablet that Professor Herman V Hilprecht of the department of archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, announced two weeks ago he had discovered in an expedition to Palestine and which he said upheld the Biblical story of the deluge was denounced at a meeting of the Amercan Oriental society at the John Hopkins university in Baltimore Mid as a fabrication and as an exploitation of an archaeological fraud for purely national purposes. The paper which was on the latest addition to the Babylonian literature of the deluge story was presented by Professor George A Barton of Birmingham college He took up in detail the contents of Professor Hilprecht and showed that they were fallacious in every particular To those who know Professor Hill precht I said Professor Barton "an elaborate refutation of his theories will be unnecessary. Nevertheless, I hope to show that his statements about the tablet are not only incorrect as regards interpretation absolutely wrong as regards the alleged age to which he attributes them and totally of no significance from a Biblical standpoint. Dr Barton said that the scholarship which Professor Hipprecht manifested in his translation of the text of his tablet was hardly worthy of a first year student in Hebrew and that the restorations which he made in the case of filling in broken lines were purely conjectural amabilies and that the chances of his interpretations being correct were only about one in a hundred. While occasionally his translation of a line is sound continued Dr Barton his drawing upon his imagination in filling out the broken lines was entirely too free. In the second place Dr Hilprecht claims that the tablet was written some time between 2137 and 2005 B C Any student of the Oriental languages could tell from even a casual examination that the dialect in which the tablet is written belongs to a wholly later period and that instead of the real date of the tablet being that of the time alleged it really belongs several centuries later. Thus even if the interpretation had been correct the tablet is of no significant value since it belongs to a period several centuries after that on which it is alleged to throw historical light At the time of the exploitation of this wonderful discovery in the public press and its acceptance by an unpaid peeping public, Hilfreich scholars were eager to see the tablet and their dearest was really gratifying. Professor Hilfrecht, who will ink) furnished copies both of the tablet and the pamphlet which he handed upon it to all who desired. All who have examined the tablet I think will agree with me in my contention that it is purely a fraud. A valid indictment of it could be based upon an) one of the three counts which I have enumerated. Maryland Negroes Disfranchised The Mar. land legislature has frac- tured over 45,000 negroes so fa- nish state and municipal elections are concerned by the passage of the bills of delegate W. Mitchell Higgess of Charleston county. It is the most awe- ing method of defiant bloom ever attemp- ted in any state and even lead- ing statement of the for southern states have expressed a doubt as to constitutionality. But the scheme is ingenuously worked out that most test can be made in the courts until after the next state election. The bills were passed by both the houses and will be sent to the gov- ernor. There are four bills in all. The first repeals the existing registration laws, the second mandates a new registration measure providing that no white men shall be registered in the future as lessors, the third carries the constitutional amendment designed to register registration for all time to the white person, off the state as it prohibits any future legislation from extending the registration privilege to negroes except those owning $600 worth of property. This amendment will be voted upon in the fall of 2014 by white men only. A petition has been initiated which will permit the white voters if they are do not extend the privilege of registration and the ballot box to negro owned and having taxes on $000 worth of property. It was thought best to limit this provision as the Democratic leader desires to abolit only the thrifty and lazy and negroes and are willing to allow the ballot box those who have a $000 worth of property. This proposal is in thought present and is an international qualification. It is believed that the mayor will be appointed property all will be worth of the francs than the $000 and negro may be weighted with all the shiftlessness of his race. The fourth to endorse the name of the mayor and other municipal officers of a minority so that their successors will be chosen at the November state election spring elections being abolished. The bills are based upon the assumption that the Fifteenth amendment is void and it is declared in the preamble that the exercise of the elective franchise by the negro is not consistent with his own best interests as the welfare of the white race. 1 Employees of the Philadelphia & Reading railway were notified that, beginning April 1 their wages would be increased 6 per cent. The announcement made in Philadelphia, says that the increase will be general among all permanent employees receiving less than $300 a month while pay has not been adjusted within the last ninety days. Coming within twenty four hours after the announcement by the Pennsylvania Railroad company of its wage boost and the increase being alike, has given rise to a report that there has been a slup in the announcement and that it was intended that the raises were intended to be published simultaneously in railroad circles it was recalled that the last general in crease in wages made by the two companies in 1908 were announced at the same time. The increase at that time was 10 per cent. The Reading's increase will affect about 27,000 employees. As the average pay is about $60 a month the addition will cost the company about $97,800 a month or $1,168,000 annually. The total number of employees including those in the general office is 27,000. Not including the general office the number of employees is given as 26,700. King Menetik Diae of Apoplexy Monetik I king of Abysinia is dead at the age of sixty six years and in the twenty first year of his reign Prince Iudj Jeean grandson of the late monarch is heir to the throne. The empress has been imprisoned by the followers of the crown prince. The king was struck with apoplexy last fall and never recovered his health. For many weeks his death has been expected and was falsely reported several times. When he was able longer to carry on the affairs of state Ras Tesameh the regent with the approval of the principal chief took over the reins of government At the same time Empress Taitou was deprived of all her power of interference in the government and her appointments made among her favorites were annulled Prince Yidj Jeason was proclaimed heir to the throne on May 1st Last he fourteenth years of age and little less than a year ago was married to the granddaughter aged seven years of the late Emperor John and niece of Empress Taitou --- Cripple Walks Before Dying Miss Anne Causey, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Joahil W Causey died audderly) at the home of her parents in White Haven Md of heart failure superinduced by a curvature of the spine aged sixteen years. Miss Causey had been afflicted with spinal trouble since early childhood and had not walked a step she was waist high until the day she popped her heart up. It is said she surprised her mother with a delightfully jumping to her feet and walking around the room just as she did with good use of the limbs she would. For nearly ten years she the afflicted girl had moved about the crawling she had moved to the still occupied for a few minutes at time she had her first illness and was a dwarf phy学 stillly. No More Prison Strings There are now so many gentlemen invited among the 700 prisoners in the western penitentiary at Pursue, that Winston John Fran s am and that the stripper are to be placed all aboard at that institution. Next a girl with lace tapes on them are to be a徒刑 gradually for the stripper and only the very worst behaved men are to be punished by confessions of the rebellant type. Fruit From a Rose If the Ilienthal a the kotes cal- hort it announces the discovery of an edible fruit from the climbing rose the leaves that this fruit will income from time take the place of the legnberry to which it is sited. Ilienthal succeeded in obtaining the fruit in cross grafting. The fruit which he has in quite nutritious and has a flavor like a pineapple may be eaten either raw or cooked. Gives $14,000 to College A gift of $1450 to Muhlsberg college at Altona, Pa. was announced by Rey W. Walt. Keller secretary of the board of trustees. The donor is the late James a prominent citizen of Altona. The money will be devoted to the purchase of the land granting the college upon which it is proposed in the near future to grant the new preparatory school. Boy Treed by Gatora Starves After searching for a week the body of Ernest Johnson was found in the top branches of a tree in a swamp near Palmistry Hla. A note in his hat said that his boat was attacked by alligators while he was fishing and he climbed the tree, which the alligators guard 1 day and night. Convict Disse of Bori Bori Sam labored one of the twenty-one convicts and up from the county chain gang of the election suffering with herb bark died at the state penitentiary at Columbia B. C. from the disease. An autopsy diagnosed that the diagnosis as best bark was correct. Several prompt physicians attended the autopsy. ENGINEERS GET RAISE Erie Railroad's New Wage Scala Satisfactory to Employees New York April 6 The Erie railroad has settled upon a new schedule of wages with its engineer. An increase has been granted which maintains the same differential in wages which has herefore existed on the Erie in comparison with other competing lines. It was said that in reaching the agreement the man took into consideration the financial condition of the Erie and did not stand out for the highest range of wages which have been granted on other lines. A Hive of Bass A hire which contains 10,000 bees in February has 15,000 in March, 40,000 in April and 40,000 to 80,000 in May F1V8 The Secret of the Farmer'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 and you will soon see your profit in the hens and the Square Deal Incubator We do not say like others that a three year old child can operate the Square Deal incubator That is non sense but we do say and are proving it every day, that the Square Deal incubator runs itself After once set and regulated, it is impossible for it to get too hot or cold. No more worry getting up through the night looking at your guang All you will have to do is to keep it in fuel and moisture Once every 24 hours once and fill your lamp Then your sign and fill your lamp and your automatic regulator will do the rest So you see that we have simpified incubating We also have les son leaves on poultry raising and how to care for poultry Feed and house furnished by Expert W C Cronek We can furnish you on short notice food improvements and instruments. We will also tell you what you need daily weekly, or any time. We also have the Square Deal cata lodge and price list for 15 cents in stamps. If you make a purchase from us we will deduct 25 cents on your valuation. We do this because we are not a millionaire firm. We only want to send them where they will do the most good and we will also extend you an invitation to visit our office or factory. If out of the city you can send one to represent you. THOS H. ALEXANDER (Colorad), Tion Agent and User Office 1753 W Luke St Factory address 930 N Harding Avenue Chicago Ill Phone West 1083 Square Deal In recutor. All mail should be addressed to the office. D. J. Bradford Real Estate and Private Bank- ing House Bought or Sold. Rents Collected. Loans Negotiated Temporary Office 1018 St John Street. 'Phone Monroe 2017. "THE RED MAN'S GIFT TO SUF FERING HUMANITY." An Invaluable Remedy for Browful, Rheumatism, Eczema, Tetter, and All Diseases Arising From Impure Condition of Blood. Can be found at JOHN G SMITH, 1301 East Leigh Street 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 CRAWPORD Sect. The Plaeas Supply Co. 17 W 186th Street, Deck C. New York City WANTS FOR JERSEY Books $25 to $20 Tax revenue $25 to $50 General Work, $15 to $25 Man and Wife $60 to $100 Farm Hands $2 to $5 on 4 HIGHEWEN 48 East 114 Street 2800 SHEEP STOLEN Live Stock Valued at $15,000 Stolen From Texas Ranch Bradley in Los Angeles, A.G. Anderson has his license to that point of sheep屠宰ing 200 head and valued at about $1 million was stolen from his ranch in the upper right of this country a few nights ago. It is in the biggest live stock theft that has taken place in this region for several years. The state rangers have been sent for to trail the sheep, and the hold the thieves. It is thought the theft was committed by Mory and that the book has been driven to Mory. It is this time Eoine Ban Away Killed Man Engine Ran Away Killed Man Bob Ruth Myrrel Fell Me Nahb biking engine in the Never Rewet mine one of the Anaconda properties was killed by the break of his engine the engine getting beyond his control and thing pieces. Me Nahb was one of the light bight to fill the place of a new engine Mother and Children Jailed For Murder Berrerville Ark Ardwick Mrs Ellen Bhafer and her four children are in jail here charged with the murder of Mrs Bhafer a husband of the boys said his father but threatened to kill the whole family His Line "Is your husband an optimist or a pessimist, Mrs Weekend?" SIX SATURDAY APRIL 0. 1910 The Mission of the Twelve Sunday School Lesson for April 10. 1910 Specially A. Angelo T. Paper Suggestion and Instruction was the prize, the best gift in the announcement of the king of heaven was at hand the sign of righteousness and joy and peace. Moreover he healed every sickness and every disease, the priest saw that most of the Jewish boys were well. They were in need with tithes of gold and silver and minn than with the crown of their people. Who was the prize, the best gift in the announcement of the king of heaven was at hand the sign of righteousness and joy and peace. Moreover he healed every sickness and every disease, the priest saw that most of the Jewish boys were well. They were in need with tithes of gold and silver and minn than with the crown of their people. If The late Rev. Appointed As 24 Who was the twelve at the and what sir it is, he is the way they parted off. 1 Simon the Philosopher of Beth salda who was a man well known the first to found a church pulse set a war with another Compiled with John the another fish in a quaint thoughtful man the latter the leader of the two he was the first principle of Christ he was the first to be found the last with John and fisheries and he is the breaka to Jesus. James the son of Sarah the son of Mary therefore prepares a service according to the Bible. He was a erman partner of John and John been the New York is glad promises to us all. Wrapped in unfolding days are new possibilities new pleasures new friend life new chances for helping somewhere new proofs of our Father's goodness. Let us wake hopefully each morning, work heartily through each day and fall asleep each night with the confidence that our days and our doings are in God's keeping All that is human must retrograde if it does not work. Edward Gibbon. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Thursday March 24 He was the 45 months old slayer from that time the home near Cooroy Oklahoma the five year old son of J M Cooper a farmer living near her home for himself for a carriage to a In an shee of and to give him to Joseph Welcome who and probably fate wounded his wife at fighting and then while trying to escape and held Mrs Marion Mac for his land a A new drug trust with a new of $ has been form the New York to make war on the New York state which now war charges at res the United States Friday March 25 P. A. B. that taunted him about his election to the seat from Altona, Burl for a suffiled a recover life in a wife of his in Tengo killing Hugh for eight years and all. She in Chingung twenty three years and Rath Board agreed of been arrested at Coventland where taken back to lowstown N.Y. to be be tried in a mapping charge. Governor W. Nor has declared that the House isiga attains three of ten, at all the federal income tax reserve or was protected at all one passage the governor will certify the matter. T. A. B. have been taunted at the M. A. B. of Minneapolis Hugh M. M. the governor having decided that we are unimportant. When a print was written in hands and face he was a great gift of paper. 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We cannot overcome nature, but as far as your individual characterization will permit, we can make you prepossessing, presentable and attractive. The editors of colored newspapers will tell you we are responsible. We are doing more for colored people than any business concern in this country. Our mission is not a lofty one like that of Dr. Bracker Washington, but in our way we are trying to do for their bodies, what he is doing for their minds. We Represent The Chemical Wonder That Company enables people, white or colored, to improve their appearance. People, who have good appearance and who are prepossessing and presentable, secure better positions commercially and socially and are along better every way. Company of New York WE WILL BE GLAD TO CORRESPOND, WITHOUT CHARGE, WITH COLORED MEN AND COLORED WOMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR PERSONAL, APPEARANCE AND DESIRE TO BE INFORMED OF DISCOVERIES WHICH WILL BENEFIT THEM SEND 20c FOR THE THREE SAMPLES IMMEDIATELY THIS LITTLE EXPENDITURE WILL BENEFIT YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW After the samples are received, watch for the postman. He will bring you letters very often WRITE YOUR NAME AND STREET ADDRESS VERY PLAINLY M. B. BERGER & CO., 2 Rector St., New York SOCIETY MAN HEAD OF GANG OF ROBBERS Must Answer Charge of Holding Up Couple. Of the Man or Only Hunter a Hive Lark and man is not the Lark of the Lark in a gate of the Lark yet we have operated Hive Lark just the next morning Hive Lark just the Judge's Hive Lark away the day Hunter is now laughs at the man crying to the man the man is crying to the man is the man the man is crying to the man we are crying to the man Huntor lived for now f. Europe a. He after a P. O. ROBBERS CAPTURED Men Who Stole $85 000 Worth of Men Who Stole $85,000 Worth of Stampa in Richmond Caught New York Man. Two were arrested after a flight and chase in front of the grand stater and were safely held, a police lead partner in pursuit the postoffice robbers at Kensington Va. early Monday morning when $85,000 worth of stamps and $7,000 were taken from two naked men. The men arrested are Fred L. Hunt, from England, and Peter A. Hunt, from England. A traveler was with the two arrested men. 1. In any way made by it is free. 2. In a 3-year term and in the case of the non-worn three times the time of the year. 3. The two were the same as the three. 4. The two are the same as the three. 5. The two are the same as the three. WAS BOUND TO DIE Man Escapea From Hospital and Committed Suicide Newark N.J. Mar 14, 1945 from the hospital in Newark where he was taken to the hospital hall by the police and the Frank W. wife and the police and the hospital front by the police and the hospital the room where the man was the ward where the man was was taken to the hospital floor of the hospital and when he interior of the hospital was taken to the hospital wife and the police and the hospital hospital where the man was dead Embezzlers Sentenced Indianapolis March 10. William H. Heart. Neal M. Marker. brothers cashier and assistant counsel or of the First National bank of Tipton were sentenced to the federal prison at Fort Leesworth. William Marker was sentenced for ten years and his brother for six. His charges were falsifying records making false statements to the controller and embezzling $67,000 of the bank's money. Visited Mother Became Insane Lexington Ky March 30. Andrew McMullin aged twenty eight years. visited his insane mother at the Eastern Kentucky asylum here. Shortly after leaving the institution he became violently insane and it was necessary to insure him in the asylum. --- Firths Brackend in the Quirk. A moment after Elliott Robbley, of Altoona, Pa., who is engineer of the private locomotive used by General The front of the Pen show of the stand, and the rest is a perfectly weight diamond half a heart Chopped Man to Pieces He and a plague Frank Hauntings children in forbearance on an island Frank Hauntings a child in hand at Haiti and Va right up to Hauntings with an axe and their shoppe while they plague With a most gathering at the attacking a shilling strik Tigre's smuggler the treasure an to the Formosa jail for safe keeping. Father and Children Murdered in Boat Alvahie will hold a wealthy farmer residing at Coor and a hat his daughter years old and his eight hat he been mysterious in telling in a murder boat on Coor if Jean river Their Haitian were of those that been shot and the to trace of their arrest Sheriff Cut Hanging Colored Men Joe King of the Riv. Riv. Riv. well with a knife the corner of a colored coat at Husley a shirt of his shirt. Ala a scar and a half age. Sheriff was last hurt while springing the trap. He sun in sweeping the ring. Bug the lever and tentally his father. Twenty-one Autos Burned Twite, n' en bœu, bour et arrêger en charge à l'on à lire au Hir kow. Hir bovon n. n. n. gargant at l'Maindelet N. n. t. t'n' boss. est maté in bov n$ an$ n n' a moit entire n. n. n. t. Dranged Over Cliff by Kite Entangled in the court of a meritorious killer, which he was acting William Fotherbear seventeen years. It was dragged over a cliff in the graph bill near San Francisco and for four to his death. Prince Itto a Assassin Pays Punishment in Han Angan the Korean who assassinated Prince Itto, former Japanese resident general of Korea in Harbin Manchuria. Oct. 26 last was executed at Port Arthur. 4. No Faith in Bank Rebbed Beneath he had lost faith in the banks the prediction often made to Samuel Chatham who lived alone in a lonely spot about two miles west of Nassauango Meeting house in Worcester county. Mad that he would be robbed of his lifetime savings came true when robbers entered the house while the old man was asleep and so cursed a sort of money estimated at from $100 to $5000 in gold coin and currency. It has been known for many years that the old man kept the cannails of dollars in the house and his last week his brother W. Chatham drove to the hut and tried to put a ham to place the money in some bank for safe keeping but he refused to part with his wealth. Mr Chatham made his money in the timber business and for several years was a money lender but for the past four five years he became imbued with the idea that then wagon he had loaned money to were trying to beat him out of it, and he called all his loans in hoarding it away. In an old trunk. The trunk was found in a thicket near Chatham's home. In the money stolen was $2100 in gold coin mostly $20 pieces. Put Target on Breast to Kill Belf Pinning a paper target upon her breast just over the heart Miss Lill Ilan D. Collins aged twenty six years of Baltimore Md turned a pistol on the "bull's eye" and fired a bullet through her heart, dying instantly. Her body was discovered by her sister with the ragged target still fluttering from her breast The target was a small circle about three inches in diameter clipped un- erently from a newspaper and appara- ntly had been punched at the middle to form a "center" or bull's eye. None of the girl's family could account for her act --- Breadcrumb To make broadcrumilm quickly cut the soft part from a stale loaf put it into a clean muslin bag, tie the bag at the top and gently rub it with the hands for a few minutes. The crumbs will then be fine enough for anything. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. KRICHTE OF HENRIUS F.C. only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene dues. The only expense for m a rosette, costing 25 cents for f For all information concerning John 31 $20,000 WORTH JEWELS STOLEN Society Woman Robbed In Washington. SERVANT IS MISSING Gema Wore Taken From a Jewel Box In Mrs. F. D. Hugher's Bedroom Suspect Has Twenty-four Hours Start On Police Washington Marsh Mrs Frederick D. Hugner wife of deputy Police Commissioner Hugher of New York who is here seeing her mother in law Mrs N. N. Ludlow wife of Roar A. A. Ludlow wife N. N. has been robbed of Jewel estimated to be worth $20,000 Mr. Hugher is a son of Mrs Ludlow by a previous marriage Mrs Hugher arrived here several days ago to spend the Easter period with her mother nlaw and to take part in the annual social activity that follows the closing of the London season. Mrs Hugher right with her friend vanessa at $ but the police officer in the seven diamonds are at $ (In our Woman who was second man at the door) Mrs Iallow is suspected of taking the jewels and the police have sent out an alarm for his arrest. The relatives are invited to have taken pictures some time Monday. Will you come to the Lullabow home about a week ago highly recommended and was f. trusted Monday he asked permission to go to the White House grounds to see the art pulling. Permission was readily granted and he left. As Mrs. Hugh was dressing all missed her jewellery from the dressing table to her bed but the setting that that had been all she went to her last. When she returned to the room she sketched for the dressing but still left. She left. Mrs. Lullabow was told to take the same for the last. Finally Wile had a small herder for a secret of many years at station and told the Catt. The appearance of the lady Wile went the dismount with a sunrise. When the second man with a view of the sunrise on the pea but Wile was not the sight. When the butler went Wile's room he found silences of a lasty departure. No trace of Wile has so far been found. In addition to the missing jewelry Mea Hugher a purse containing $150 has also disappeared and the pillion believe that Wile with this pearly money and nearly twenty four hours start is a long distance from Washington. Mrs. Hollow is a slater of Mr. Dewey wife of Admiral Dewey and also a slater of John R. McLean the publisher and president of the Washington Ginebra company. Mrs. Hollow in prostrate of her loos and confined to her room. Rocky Mountains in Snow Storm's Grip Denver Colorado March 30 Hain and snow and high win is visited till it arrives and the entire Rocky mountain region north of central New Mexico. Telegraph service is seriously crippled. Heavy snow is reported at Santa Fe N.M. with a temperature of 24 above zero a drop of 32 degrees since Monday. --- Six Children Get $1,000,000 Each Chicago March 20 Each of the six children of the late William H Mitch ell former vice president of the Illinois Trust and Savings bank in heir to nearly $1,000,000 according to an inventory filed with the will in the probate court The personal estate to talc $6,350,080 and the real estate $190,000. N. A., S. A., R. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Court for all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles based on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $150.00 per week sick dues. The badge of regalia. For information concerning courts of Calant. In the Order. It requires a memorial court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 500 funeral occasions. ing special rates of membership in Mitchell 11 N. 4th BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROFRIETERS, 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters, Graining and General Contractors. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Cards, Letters or Orders Give us a trial, you will never regret it Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND. VA. Phone 5688. JURGEN'S SON Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of REFRIGERATORS, MATTINGS, OIL-CLOTHS And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS Of every description, also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low C. G. 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His earlier years were spent in the turn in all of his life in Arizona where he was for some time deputy sheriff and later deputy United States marshal at Tucson. He left in an existing the Chinese Exclusion Act in the Mexican border have been highly comminuted by the Washington authorities and recognized by the Highlands who placed a price of $100 a year a year. It stands to date of late years to last a highly responsible point in which one of the largest bank profits are associated in the United States and in superintendent of its secret service has established an ensemble of success in running down bank burglars. These stories are confined to his earlier experiences in the west, the scenes of which are laid in Arizona and New Mexico near the Mexican border. The last frontier would be until recent years was with and lawless and where the typical bad man of pioneer days made his last stand. I WAS during a temporary solubility in the capital city of Mexico that I made the acquaintance of Jim Clarkson or as he was better known to the inhabitants of both California and Arizona Black Bart under the latter name for a period extending over four years this man the most devil may care result that song out to a traveler to I stand and deliver, hold up stage coaches, plaited passengers and relieved by leads of the balloon in their arms, and hold up of the gold mines in their arms while all attempts on the part of the authorities to catch him. At the time I speak of the country around where Black Hart played his audacious pranks was thinly settled and his chance of escape from the posses that took the trail after him were as a matter of course much greater than they would be at the present day. During the latter part of his career, while playing the same single handed, he robbed only the express messengers and took no chances with the passengers. His first big venture in conjunction with his three fillies was executed in 1955 and had for its object the holding up of the stage running between Angela's camp, Catawasa county California and Miltum. There were five passengers in the stage coach a huge, solid affair resembling an immense box. It rested on an enormous leather atropas that allowed it to swing with a diagonal motion. All five passengers were riding inside for it was a day in November and rather shill. Military trunks are fairly plentiful in the west and two of the inmates of the coach addressed each other as 'Counel and Major' (Of the remaining three one was a milla owner known to fame as 'Cactus Hill Crossbay' a New England surgeon and a middle aged (the latter a keen faced business man who took an immense amount of interest in the glowing descriptions given by the burly trophy of the unlimited possibilities of hidden wealth in the surrounding country. On the coach was an express box said to contain 5000 in bollion the product of the 1 in a gold mine, the largest in the state. In a rack near the driver's feet bung two Colt revolvers and a Winchester rifle. The road was considered safe enough, for no robbery had occurred there since the camp had been in existence, still the stage company preferred to be on the alert, and hence the weapons. While fresh horses were being put to the coach the passengers alighted and stepped into the room that served as bar, office and lounging apartment, for Sullivan's place was a hotel as well as a relay station. There was but one beverage sold at Sullivan's—whisky—though there hung upon the wall back of the rough bar an illuminated card setting forth in hypeplaced characters, the superior merits of Bund's Jamaica ginger. But as for the ginger, there was none to be had. Nor were there any indications, beyond dusty lithographs nailed askew to the wooden partitions, that soda water, solitzer or extra dry champagne were procurable an demand. Therefore it was fortunate that the systems of those passengers who needed stimulation craved whisky only, for that was positively all there was. On the sticky bar stood a half-doxon thick, dirty glasses, side by side with the long-necked bottle, half filled with an amber fluid, and behind it stood Proprietor Sullivan himself smiling blandly under his thick red unnatch at the assembled guests The passengers had not noticed at first, in the dim light of the room, the figure of a woman, clad in deep black and wearing a heavy veil drawn over her face. She sat in a dark corner and seemed to shrink from observation. But when Frank Glammons, the driver, entered, after looking to his cattle, and had forbidden his nerves with four fingers of the favorite cordial, Bulliann took his salsa and engaged him in conversation, and mime host's features then for the first time directed the attention of all to the woman. The halt was necessarily short, and the passengers were soon back in the coach, the horses had been changed, and all was ready for the start. But Glammons figured, and when he as length appeared at the door seemed to be in no hurry. He stood there surveying the scene with a severely critical eye, in his mouth a cigar, tipped up of such an angle that the glowing angle nearly touched the brim of his wide sombrero Presently there appeared in the doorway the lady in black, to whom Slammona gallantly offered him arm and thus escorted to the coach Surprise was depicted on each face when the coach door opened and Slammona looking in remarked authoritatively. Sorry gents but I shall have to trouble you. Here's a lady gun to Milton and she a gun' inside Jump in marin And the young woman jumped with reparkable lightness and took the vacant seat in the forward corner "Colonel, you'll look after her" said Slammona at the door, she's in my charge. Widow of Thompson she is, him that was killed down to the Blue Moon mine last month but she don't savvy a word of English help French You known Thompson didn't ye, coenel! "Yes, I knew him well enough but, I never knew that he had a widow," growled the colonel. I'll look after her—in English. The door slammed and the stage rolled ahead As the coach pulled out the clouds parted for an instant and a bright ray of sunlight lit up the interior striking full upon the dark volk of the new arrival. It made visible the outlines of her face and those who caught a glimpse of it were convinced that the lady was handsome. Indeed Cactus Bill, unable to repress his emotions, leaned over to the doctor and voiced his admiration in a husky whisper, to which the latter responded with an assounding nod of much vigor. Where in the world is a lady more certain of respectful consideration than in the wilder portions of the west. She is invariably treated with chivalrous gallantry, men hasten to do her homage and are proud to be commanded by her Still the presence of Mrs Thompson in the coach acted on the party as a little restraint which Cactus Bill vainly endeavoured to dispel. "A bad place to be held up along here, remarked the major after an unusually long silence during which the stage had slowly pounded over a huge rock and then silked off with an unpleasant crunch. I should hate to fall into the hands of a road agent for I have a little matter of twelve hun dred dollars about me which I don't care to lose. Of course we are all friends here" he added hastily. There was a general assent and then it came out that each man was carrying various sums of money ranging from five hundred to four thousand dollars the last amount being the property of the colonel who described how he had managed it in a package sowed in his clothing next to his body where it was quite unacceptable to dishonest persons. I believe that it would take a pretty smart chap to find that he remarked complacently as he slapped his hand on the spot where the treasure was concealed. The truth of this statement was not to be denied and murmurs of admiration were heard at his shrewdness. All this time in fact since leaving the station the mysterious Mrs Thompson had not moved or changed her position. She still kept her veil down, and in the slowly waning light her black dress seemed to emphasize the shadows in the coach. At length Cactus Bill, having recovered from his first rebuff touched the colonel on the arm. "Colonel," he said. "I've often heard as how you was strong on the foreign languages. It must be sort of lonely for the lady there, ridin with no one to say a blamed word to her. Why don't you try her with somethin civil in the French lingo. If it is only to pass the time of day civil like?" She must think we're a fine bunch of mummies. The colonel's bronzed features took on a deeper shade of red, and he coughed in an embarrassed manner "When I was in the army," he responded, "I could talk French with anyone, but I'm afraid that I've grown a loetie out of practice." "Well, have a whirl at it anyway," persisted Crosby. "There won't be no harm done, even if you can't make her savvy." Thus urged, the colonel bent for ward and stammered a few words which might or might not have been French. At all events their sense did not seem to appeal to the fair unknown, who made no reply. Cactus Bill grinned triumphantly at the discomfited colonel, and the latter frowned indignantly. "I told you that I was a trifle rusty in my French," he said haughtily. "Living among the ignorant set of asses that populate this part of the country, it's a wonder that I remember any of it at all. But I bet if I had the advantage of this lady's society to myself for a short while I'd manage to make her understand." Turning to the lady again he smiled gradually and resorted to the language of signs, while Cactus Bill watched him with a cynical fear Much to the surprise of the mine owner, however, the lady appeared impressed by the warrior's eloquent gestures, nodded with vivacity and drawing a silver case from her pocket, took therefrom a cigarette which after raising her vell a little, she placed between her lips. There was a general gasp of amusement, but the colonial, with that savoir vivre which had always distinguished him, and made him to popular with the fair sex, closely recovered himself and gals The last to descend was a widow - but a widow no longer. tantly offered the lady a light which she graciously accepted. Then murmurs of admiration were heard and Cactus Bill audibly expressed his opinion that "the dame was sure a winner any way you liked to take her." "What I admire in a beautiful woman," remarked the gratified colonel, "is the ability she possesses to adapt herself to circumstances, as illustrated in the present case. We are all friends here of course, so we can be comfortable, but I don't mind saying that I shall be glad to reach Milton. That little matter of four thousand dollars I have newed into my life in fact my shirt, the lady can understand English gentlemen and I may be pardoned for mentioning the gift is a tax on my mind and I want to get it off. Outside the dusk of a winter evening was slowly deepening into darkness. High up on the slope that rose on our right stood a solitary pine tree that had pushed its way through the rocks and now stood, by night and day keeping watch and ward over the valley. The sun long since hidden to the occupants of the stage below, shot a ray as a farwell message and for an instant the tree was ablaze, then the light died out quickly and they were in soul darkness again. The road wound its way around the face of a high cliff, on one side towered a wall of rock sheer three hundred feet on the other sank an unboundable chasm Hammons sat on the box, his two lamps lit, and his tongue playing a rapid accompaniment to his whip. Inside the small reflector at the end of the coach only served to make the night without seem darker than it was. Silently the passengers sat smoking the ends of their cigars alternately glowing and dimming in the dingy air. An unusual volley of oaths from the box, the crack of a revolver, and then the stopping of the stage with a lunch started them from their quiet. Then a shout from Slammons as he spoke to his cattle and a voice, stern and determined, rang from the rocks above. "Come, none, o that. Make a straight haul for it, d-- you. Throw off that box. Livelly, now, put up your hands and get down. Everyone of you come out of that" Sadly the passengers obeyed A pair of six-shooters, held in the hands of a stalwart man, whose face was partially concealed by a black mask, heatened their descent, and in another moment they were ranged in line, with hands raised sloft, a meek, unhappy owed group. At one end of the line stood Slammons, swearing savagely at his hard luck, at the other stood the colonel, cool, impassive, dignified, confident in the security of his concealed treasure. The last to descend was the widow—but a widow no longer, for out of the coach there sprang an active young fellow, smooth shaven, dark, of slender' but sinewy build, dressed in the conventional garb of the western rider, and carrying in his hand a nikel-plated six-shooter. And this was Mrs. Thompson—who did not speak English. The former Mrs Thompson proceeded to search the pockets of the buckle travelers and relieve them of their valuables, his associate keeping guard meantime. Down the line he went, doing his work quickly but carefully, but before he was done the other began to grow impatient. "Hurry up, Bart, he said. 'Ain't you most through?' We're late." "All done but this one," said Bart, the quondam widow, as he halted before the colonel. "He's got four thousand dollars sowed inside his shirt. I guess I'll have to pretty near rip the old buck open to get at it." Saying which he drew his knife and with a quick movement slipped the point through the colonel's clothing, cut it wide open and withdraw the precious package. "I am sorry to have inconvenienced you, gentleman," said the hickman. man, man, man, man. But I don't tain you much longer, as I know you are anxious to reach Milton. I trust this old gentleman pointing to the rent in the colonel a clothing won't take cold. He must be careful galant men are more nowadays. Now until will all kindly stand as you are until I give the word. There are a few friends of mine watching you from those rocks, and I really wouldn't move if I was you. Their gums have all hair triggers and are not liable to go off suddenly. You won't love will you? The passengers would not. Wild horse could not have dragged them from that spot for up in the rocks they familed they saw two shitting barrels covering them and they were guiltlessly anxious to remain quiet. The two road agents vanished in the dusk, and an instant later a clear voice rang out in tones of stern com- mand. Into the couch now and get away, all of you! The passengers object with wonderful promptitude. Outside they could bear Slimmons awauring strange and forcible catches at himself, the company, the horses, coach and road agents. Inside not a word was spoken until Cactus Bill stooping down lifted into view the black skirt and veil that the former widow had worn. A weary smile lit up his features and be remarked plantively. "Boys the next time I try to do the polite to any manner of female I hopes my best friend shoots me plum through the head. The cotton gaze upon the tattered expanse of his shirt front gave utterance to a mournful assent which was re-echewed by his defected companions in misfortune. It was in 1890 that Jack turned for the first time against this outlaw who appeared to bear a charmed life. Shortly after Black flart had hold up a stage in his usual manner officers who inspected the scenes of the robbery found a white cuff bearing the tail. tails J C'M' which had evidently been dropped by the road agent in his flight Close at hand they found traces of where his horse had been tethered while the owner awaited the arrival of the coach. It was the first absolute clue to the identity of the ausacious robber that had ever fallen into the hands of the authorities, and, slight as it was, they proceeded to make the most of it. The gloss on the cuff showed plainly that it had been washed in some city laundry. A careful search was made of every laundry in Stockton, but with no results. Then the detectives turned their attention to San Francisco and went from one laundry to another in the hope of finding one who could recognize the important piece of linen. At last their efforts were crowded with success, and much to the astonishment of the sleuth, the cuff turned out to be the property of one James Clarkson, a member of the stock exchange, and a man possessing the entrée to the best society of the golden Date. Following up their investigation the officers discovered that Clarkson was in the habit of disappearing from his usual haunts in the city at stated periods, and on comparing notes it became evident that the dates of his trips into the country corresponded with those upon which all the stage hold-ups had occurred Clarkson was placed under arrest and under a severe grilling broke down and confessed that he was none other than Black Bart who for four years had enriched himself at the expense of the public and express companion. At the time of his capture Clarkson was in poor health, but had managed to slow away a comfortable fortune He consented to plead guilty, with the understanding that he should be shown mercy by the court when brought to trial; and accordingly he was sentenced to eight years in the Gau Gentian penillectric. Through an arrangement with the express company which had been the heaviest sufferer at his hands, he agreed to disgorge some of his ill gotten gains and was pardoned after serving a year of his sentence. According to the terms of his release he was obliged to leave the United States and residue across the border reporting himself every thirty days to the company's agent at Aqua callentic Mexico. During the fall of 1892 the United States government found it necessary to keep a close watch on the Mexican border with a view to enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Act and my duties as deputy marshal took me into the country of the Mexican border in purpose of that task. I was interested in the situation and immediately moved to the office of Lieutenant General of the Mexican border. My business was dealing here with the issue of a border fence and paid a visit to the office of Lieutenant General of the Mexican border. While going was being in blast the Mexican authorities guarded the young and old and maintained the health of this kind of business. Believing that we were one should close the border. I gave hand at booking the fencing. I gave monte and told the fencing officer fortune and told the fencing officer mental travel. I was afraid and would place my play was a slight chance of figure. Among the others who were writing my play was a slight chance of figure. about three eight years of age with hair and beard of brown skin. There was something about it that produced a natural reaction. Amelia and one onlooking at me licked his lips and the room was filled with people to see. There was dark clouds in the sky that gazed at me as the clouds were deeply clouded of the sky that had been filled the interior. Just so I did that it will be good policy to quit we'll still be glad of the game and pokering my winnings in the room. And I went down to the head leading to the street I glanced back and noticed three Ms. I was wiling me. As I turned the corner of a dark street the footsteps behind me quizzed, and I saw suddenly around just in time to see the thin climbing in upon me. Something bright gleamed in the hand of the foremost man and I ducked my head swiftly under the murderous sweep of a knife that would probably have put an end to all the joys and sorrows of this life as far as I was concerned if the blade had reached the intended mark The next instant I whipped out my six-shooter and grasped it by the barrel I brought the butt down heavily on the head of my assistant knocking him into the gutter. I did not wish to fire a shot unless actually compelled to do so as Mexican law in a bad thing to fool with where an American is concerned, and even the killing of a thing might have brought unpleasant consequences in its train. Just then a tall form loomed up behind the other two Mexicans there was a mutilated path in the Yankee tongue and one of the Greasers fell headlong under the pervasive influence of a powerful blow on the jaw. His companion uttered a shriek of dismay and fled swiftly down the dimly lighted thoroughfare, leaving my unknown rescuer and myself masters of the situation. The fellow I had knocked down now began to show signs of regaining his senses. Until then he had lain where he had fallen, but at last groaned rolled over and staggered to his feet He limped slowly away, followed by his remaining companion. We stood on our guard least a fresh attach should be made, but there was no fear of anything of the kind. 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I was request be accompanied to the hotel where I was staying, to work and chatting with others in the morning. I now saw a point an able to be followed and a most interesting name to work with. At the volunteer I met at the station, at writing that he was working on the point I met. When he finally met me, I handed my hand in his hand and he hesitated and then said. I like your love, I love you and the only I am never that's a way to begin. I hate to suff it. It's so you may as we'll know a way I told you my name. I'm Cokeen but I used to say it's a fact that was pretty well known to me I don't do the State's a lot of you so I'd you ever I was a man out law called to look fast. Heard of I was, but I was unable to reply and good starting open mouthed at my singular composition. He laughed in a tone that had so strong of re-strained bitness in it. I see you have. I said, "It would be an odd thing for you back to being a western in a West" Back back, that was in my own way. Just never. I'd like to be good old steps. I'd like to be a very you many. I'd like to do a very while I'd do it a lot of my existents among these blasted I shook hands with him again. It makes no difference who or what you were. I said, the fact remains that in all probability I have my life to you and I am still alive. He soiled his lips. We were, he said, let a hope that the next four I was able to do in life. American may be saved from me when it comes to the final kick in. I nodded an earnest assent. What ever Black I was against society may have been lost if that I at least, had no more to speak of plaguingly of him. Distress That Filled Want One of the greatest works performed by Anz are a kite was the making of the Korean English literature. It was done by Dr J S. Lee's a Poetic Version of the many He began of the after a four years' sequence of the activity and complete it with the soars. Prior to that there was no one of other common at between the foreigners and the natives except through the Chinese language. The Office Paste After a man listens to the jokes offered during a day and all the family talk to has little time to at tend to his work. Ahlson tome An Extraordinary Aster I can't understand why a should refer to Huntington an extinct nordic aster. I was his last night, and he seemed to need it, and very little real dignity. It is not a matter that makes him extinct aster. The fact is that he has never been a threat for theoric nor gone into a skirt. I do go Record Herald. What D d He Mean? He You tell me the beautiful night, 24 years ago, when I proposed? She You intend. He We eat it for more than an hour and you've opened your lips. She You dear. He That was the largest hour of my life - Clyde's leader Taking No Chances Borsey. I got caught in a cool reception when I called at the Smiths last night, but they warned 4 up finally. Why when I was leaving, the whole family came to the door with me. Ortigia. That was because some one took three umbrellas out of their ball rack a few onings ago. Judge Not the Imaginary Kind Not the imaginary Crimean bank I once according to Pennsylvania state roadlight makes are farmers friends SEVEN Yeast—Well, don't make any mistake, he means the kind that the farmer actually sees—Yankers Statesman. What He Could Do. Kind Lady) Do you want work? Lofer (cautiously)- What kind of work? Kind Lady (can you do anything with a shower?) Lofer I (could fr) a piece of am on it. Two Souls That Button as One Little Maud Lindsay should think any one would want to carry a preacher Mother Why not not a preacher Little Maud Weel should be enough fuss when just one person in the box lambats at the link It must be as painful when there are two Life What? She has a tan in its generally heaviest in his foot year. I wonder if it publishes a book to woman? He only was a woman never gets as heavy as that Yankees Statesman PAVEMENT PHILOSOPHY. Most men a Waterloo contains no water If you've money to burn, you'd best put it into goal If unhappy married couples could have just remained engaged' Money doesn't bring happiness. It just brings more money Even the roads to success get blocked with traffic occasionally Blessed are they who expect little, and get half what they expect Some fellows run of luck is always in the opposite direction "Doubt is the station at which the train of thought stops oftenest It may sound funny, but the fellow who feels over smart hasn't any feelings worth feeling Some young men when trying to carve their fortunes, make the mistake of using a glass bottle instead of a jackknife A false-haired woman is not necessarily a false-hearted woman, but men have their little peculiarities just the same A DEADLY OFFENSE. Well air, remarked the somewhat garmented hood of the Puxico taxen. It questioned the constable, arrested a fighter before yesterday, day for a waking on Main street, here in the midst of the afternoon in his stocking for the ihn in jail now, and. But great scarcity appallated the wasteland for the account it is not a crime is it for a person to walk in his stocking feet. Why my dear sir, personal liberty. Aw personal liberty is proper enough as long as it don't interfere with the rights of other people. Anything that tries to add to the silence of our people is the city is an offense against the general weal. We publicize it here even if we ain't exactly put up mann. Puck 111 BAM'S HORN BROWN. Some men seem to think that the real cause of original sin was poor cooking A curse that is turned loose on others generally goes home to roost. Nobody has ever missed heaven because he wasn't well posted on theology It is a thousand times better to stumble toward good than not to take any step at all The devil gets very close to the man who has nothing to do The husband who does not blame his wife for his own blinders is harder to find than on honest man The Lord does some of his greatest work with little folks If it was not for the help he gets from the laake before the devil would have been dead in long age. When it is art songs the music is always good to hear who makes it. Make Use of Your Time. HEDGE. YOUR USEPULNESS. TO INCREASE YOUR SALARY. If correspondence, incorporated, Then F. Bishop Johnson, D. D., L. L. D. prepare for you. It is the only school EIGHT SPORTING GOSSIP. BELLING ON BIG HAPPY Jeff is Made 7 to 10 Favorite Over Johnson New York, NY. Belting in the Jeff Johnson tight start in each hole he tight with the throw of $20 against $40 that the former leaning in would at the greater limit. These had been some way to go for the last was made of course but the posting of $40 was the first evidence that odds were going to favor Jeffson for some time to come. Carter's Bldg. of Los Angeles at one time was a prestigious Klineyduk university and now interested in the fields of California stated that he had $2000 to put in leftovers at any price he was waived at. Charles Sturge a stock broker of San Francisco quickly took $2000 of it outside of the city and then renamed that how he I have as much more interest in the negro before the night. Jack Glass, one of the pioneers of the fight said that the odds of to be an favor of Jeffries were first established in the San Francisco poolrooms about a fortnight ago. Jason said it he looked for those odds to turn out a star for at least a month more with possibly a night shortening when Johnson commenced at training on May 1st at Seal Knee House in San Francisco. After that he said he would not be surprised if the figures showed Jeffries favorites at 11 with the 9 at 10. He was more惊喜 with the day of the fight. WEEK MONTH DAY A man of the wise is one of the often added was now being placed on Johnson. The base of this was of course. Joffries, long retirement which was figured by many as an important to his chances of regaining per- fect form. Sentiment undoubtedly favoured Joffries he stated and many even white man in the con- troys hoped that the former champion would win. But desire was not infil- ming betting to any great extent was his further comment and to wise ones it was simply a question of Joffries getting back to first class condition. Leason said that the present plan for the arena contemplate a minor case. This is the minimum if desired or believed necessary an additional fifteen seats will be tasked onto the rear of the stands now being constructed. The ring will be the regulation 10 foot affair postion of about 10 feet 6 feet above the floor. There will be a ring below the ring at $10 a foot. It will be 10 feet 6 feet above the $10 a foot. SELECT MODE, EXPECTED Seated at a wain deck and a black bath with who will be the $10, $2 and $20 seats. The front row of the $0 seats will be but 2 feet from the ringglove and the seat will then run to the foot wich to the $10 and $20 seats. The last row will be 7 feet from the ring and the last row of all will be but 1 feet away and 2 feet above the 24 foot circle. There are 24 entrances and sites in the arena as presented planned. Of the 24 entrances and sites in the arena as presented planned the motors now expect to attend the flight California and the other Pacific Coast States will supply 20,000 according to Oregon. About 5,000 of the remaining 10,000 will come from east of the Mississippi River and 5,000 from between the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. DINCT SHEN DIG FIGHT Charlie White. Famous Referee Voice His Opinion New York March 26 Seated around a table at Mack's last night was a crowd of sporting men and actors. Among the number was Charlie White who has probably referred more gloves contests than any one man in the split and break away business. It did not take long for the subject to turn to the Jeffries Johnson fight. This was natural owing to Charlie White's presence He talks intelligently on subjects pugilistic and has a "dope" on almost every man in the business Long before his hair began to "fall in" Charlie knew a "good 'un' when he saw him and has been instrumental in making more matches than the majority of promoters. "How about the fight?" asked Albert Hart, who had just pushed his long legs under a portion of the table. "It ought to be a good fight" an awered White, "one worth going a long way to see, and you can bet that it will have the biggest gate of any affair of the kind that was ever pulled off in the history of pugilism in any country. Never was there a fight of such importance to Americans. The fact that it is a battle where the color line is a factor makes it doubly interesting. It is the first time a white man has been asked to recover the heavyweight title from a nero, and "Jeff" realizes the importance of it and what is expected of him A DIFFERENT STORY "When poor old Peter Jackson bowed around the championship, no one seemed to bother about him. He was hardly considered, but it is a different story with Jack" Johnson. He has done a whole lot of damage to the white race and the pride of the latter is somewhat shattered. The color of the fighter should never enter the argument where martir is concerned. Some of the best fighters this country ever knew were pernas. Look at George Dixon Joe Wolfe and Joe Gaus White folk were always of them as if they were at the fall mindful per se. It was not to be in the case of it's the time to go along the way of being toward the world. It was a spot being now what you have now to do. The first of the day is to go to the city where I am here would be in a use face where it's worse was black and the other white. It is a question of a go and what is it, to do it If the are good men I don't say save them for their brains. But if the White defences of one of the Southern fortresses I never saw be hardy be knocked out with a sword. The punishment he has to suffer in the battle has been a terrible fight. Fifthmen but in harder and oftener than any man he must tackled and the blows sworn to be borne from him. Fourth but in death grappled yet after all the defences one punishment for more than the thousand but too bad had arrived. He is a martial for taking punishment. I think has proved many times that he is far above the average fight or He knows all about the game and is equally confident that he fights and can not harder than coalt. This brings to the question of how far on the part of fights he fights shows are more effective that were corrected by he will take into the ball-tack out of fights the tight which is the best to be yet is doubtful if Johnson and was hard Fitzpatrick could with the tight fights are the latter to be wrong that Fitzpatrick gave at the end and tak with him but that he laughed at and the Motters that building and follow If we were to use the model for creating the history of pro- gression on a continent of its uncertainty Jeffery could be a better. He may be good as he never was and he may not look as bad as he never would anybody that Jeffery could not have whipped in probably less than it was a one thing that if I were a letting man I would take him and let him tell me what he would be. TWO REHEARS FOR FIGHT Tey Rickard Will Have Second Man Ready in Event of Mishan San Francisco, April 2. That there will be two referees at the ringside at the Jeffries Johnson flight at the startling announcement made by Tex Rockard who is in full charge of affairs at the present time. There is nothing in the articles of agreement that would call for such an arrangement but Rickard says that he will see that the fighters agree to blair Tex. Tex in the newspaper disgusts the other day where a referee was identically knocked out by one of the contestants, and with the New York team forewarned to take force armed. We are not going to take any chances with such a big fight as this one, said Beth Jeffries and Johnson are big men and fast in action. It might easily happen that a referee would be disabled by got to the road of a wallop that was attached for him. To avoid that, I will meet upon two referees one of the referees will simply be a substitute. He will have a ringside seat and will be ready to take the batter of the ring if anything should be put on the other man. That ought to be agreeable to both fighters and I will take it up with them. DRAW THE COLOR LINE Plea Often a Life Saver for White Roosers New York March 26. A more or less celebrated boxer was once caught with the merchandise. The goods were on him at the time the goods were all over him. As there wasn't one chance in a million for him to be his way out of the difficulty he opened his mouth and told a portion of the truth about a half portion. It sounded all right that talk about commercialism. It sounds all right until you begin to think about the ultimate consumer the fellow who gives up his iron man at the gate because he believes that he is going to see two men doing their level best. The ultimate consumer would keep his money to buy bread. If he thought the fighters were going to carry out a prearranged plan which did not include any jawbreak ing or any gore Coming right down to cases there are few fighters who can say that they never 'saved' an opponent or stalled for a decision when hard fighting would have won a knock-out. While the white men have not been blameless in this respect, the blacks have been the worst offenders. There are plenty of good healthy reasons for this state of affairs. If a colored man is "too good" and lets everybody find it out, he is going to find himself up against the grand old life-saver the color line. There is always a fine tailor made excuse for sidestepping a tough colored man. Very possibly Ham's grandson discovered the color line and the colored men have been starving behind it ever since. All the colored fighters fear the drawing of the line; some of them are workly also enough to "pull" to an opponent now and then in order to keep the sucker crop coming. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SULLIVAN BARRED JACKSON. Peter Jackson found that Sullivan drew the color line and every really good colored fighter has found a certain percentage of his white brothren on the other side or that handy excuse. Every few years a terrific howl about the color line goes up from one weight division or another, but you never heard a bunch of fighters set up that color line oratorio unless there was concealed in their particular woodpile a colored man who could dlay them alive. You never knew a fighter to howl about the color line unless he was being systematically prodded into a match with a colored man whom he had a mighty good reason to fear. Does anyone remember what a strand of ticks Britt used to make when he beat southern blood? And how did that Southern blood cool what it was asserted that the torture it was able to reason? It is the white goose who lays the white egg for the colored fighter. Two colored men no matter how good they may be will never prove a strong drawing card. A colored man in order to get money out of the game must fight white men, and if he handles the first crop too roughly he may find the rest of it whited. Jack Johnson has been rather comical with his white opponents in the past of course since he has kept a champion he hasn't been under the necessities of saving anybody for there are always men who are waiting to take a track at any time holder because of the gambling chance for a lot of money if they win but then Jack was not a champion but a meek and lowly liver and onion government traveling from here to there if a tourist car there were wise when he showed mercy that is it was either mercy or a threat and you can take your pick 101 GANS ANOTHER EXAMPLE Joseph Gaus was another black fighter who many a white man hearted the skill that sounded the end of a fight. 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