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THE RICHMOND PLANET GERSHOM (CONTINUED) OR THE STORY OF THE NEGRO. Lucian B. Watkins. Then nation rose within itself and smote Its brother to the heart in bitter war, And wonder eyed the bondaged people walked Out o'er the bodies of the dead into The light of freedom's happy morning star. It was God's way, we say, as looking back Into the purgatory of the years Two centuries and more in their length! It was God's way that these sad-strickened years Should bring to Him into eternity The blood and groans and tears of human hearts! It was God's way that Israelites should mourn. And that the tyrant Pharaoh's heart should flint. And that His mighty plagues shouldst smite the land; It was God's way that Moses should be born Unto his work of great deliverance, And take an Ethiopian for his wife; That Gershom should be born unto this love, It was God's way! The wheel of rolling time Does in its mighty revolutions mark The rise and fall of nations each in turn. We've seen the Ethiopian banner set in high exalted honors of the world: Jethro, the priest of Midian have we seen A mighty power and a man of wealth, The father of Zipporah whom he gave As wife to Moses, though in after years Was Moses censured all because of this His marriage to an Ethiopian maid. (To Be Continued.) NEGRO SUES THEATRE They Wouldn't Seat Him in Hammer stein's Victoria, Davis Says. James J. Davis, a negro of 41 West 133d street, before Magistrate Butts in West Side Court yesterday after noon complained against George F. Knox, of 339 West Fifty-third street, head usher at Hamsterstein's Victoria Theatre, charging Knox with violation of the equal rights law. Knox is also a negro. Davis said that on March 12th he went to the Victoria Theatre, accompanied by his wife, to attend a matinee performance. His wife, he says, bought the tickets, which were for orchestra chairs, at the box office. The usher, according to the testimony, took the tickets from Mrs. Davis and started to seat her, but refused when he saw Davis. Mrs. Davis is very fair, with roddish hair and blue eyes, although a negress, while her husband's skin is dark brown. Davis said the usher told him that they could be accommodated in the balcony. He demanded the seats for which the tickets called. Then, according to his statement, the tickets were snatched from his wife's hand and balcony tickets of a different color substituted. When he continued to protest, Davis said, both he and his wife were ejected from the theatre. The case was postponed until next Monday. Knox being held in $100 ball, which was furnished by Henry Mock, superintendent of the Victoria Theatre. Davis also instituted yesterday in the Seventh district municipal court two suits against Oscar and William Hammerstein, owner and manager respectively of the Victoria Theatre—one for $2,000 charging assault and ejection, the other for $500 for alleged discrimination. These suits will be heard today.—New York Sun, April 20, 1910. BISHOP GAINES ARRESTED He Explains the Cause—The Work of Enemies. Camden, N. J., April 21.—Bishop Wesley J. Gaines, of Atlanta, Ga., who is holding the annual New Jersey conference of the A. M. E. Church, in this city, was arrested today on a charge of embezzlement. It is alleged he diverted to his own use $150 that should have been appropriated to the superannuated ministers fund. The warrant was issued in Jersey City and was obtained by Rev. J. H. Morgan, of Bordentown, N. J., formerly secretary of the conference. Bishop Gaines was held in $1,000 bail for a hearing before Justice of the Peace Miller in Jersey City. He declares the charge is the work of enemies. The bishop says he is allowed $500 a year for expenses, and that he used the $150 for legitimate needs with the approval of the financial secretary. BOY KILLS HIS SISTER Shoots Her With Flobert Rifle and Denies Knowledge of Crime Kinston, N. C., April 21.—A twelve-year-old son of Gus Sears, colored, who lives twelve miles from Kinston, yesterday shot his little two-year-old sister to death with a Flobert rifle. None of the family was at the house when the shooting took place. The boy is an epileptic and almost an idiot, though he had cunning enough to deny shooting the little girl, and tried to place the blame on some one else, but evidence that he did the shooting himself is conclusive. The family of Sears has had quite a tragic career. Two years ago the home was burned, and two children lost their lives in the fire. ATTENTION The Brotherhood of the Virginia Baptist State Convention: Dear Brethren: The Virginia Baptist State Convention will convene in Suffolk, Va., Wednesday, before the third Sunday in May. The battle cry is $7,000. Let us all come prepared to do our whole duty; our cause is just and right. The seminary at Lynchburg, must be sustained and it will take money and not talk to do so. The State Mission Board is in great need of money, for it is impossible to do mission work without money. Please don't forget the State Mission on your letters this year in your contribution. We need a good strong man on the field, and we need money to pay him. May the Lord bless you all. From State Mission Board. From State Mission Board, L. W. WALES, D. D. Chairman, L. W. C. METTS, D. D. Sect. Miss Mary E. Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Anna Taylor is quite sick at her residence, 120 W. Hill St. Mrs. Taylor will not be able to leave home until there is some improvement in her condition. Mr. J. M. Clark, of Danville, Va., was in the city and called on us. He was en route to attend the meeting of the Board of Trustees, of Hampton N. and A. Institute, of which he is a member. Y. M. C. A. Notes The membership meeting of the Y. M. C. A was well attended last Friday evening, and much business of importance was accomplished. All the committees made excellent reports. Keep at it men and you will win every time for the right. The explanation on the Sunday School lesson last Saturday was extremely helpful. The meetings in the city home last Sunday were enjoyed by the inmates, and all were happy. The jail committee did excellent work in the city jail last Sunday. Two prisoners accepted Christ. Pres. W. H. Cary addressed the boys last Sunday. Subject: "The Industrial Boy." He made a great hit for good. Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, spoke to the men last Sunday from the depths of his soul. Subject: "Fishing for Men." If the men will put in practice what the Doctor said, untold good would be accomplished in a short time. Mr. Jacob M. Daly sang in the spirit of the hour. The meeting was a great one. The heart of a man was won for Jesus Christ. You are invited today 5 P. M. to the Y. M. C. A. building to hear the explanation on the Sunday School lesson. Bring a friend. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. The boys will hold a special meeting Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Be on time. Hon. William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia, will speak to men only Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hail. Subject: "Christian Citizenship." Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., will introduce the Governor. Col. Thomas M. Crump will sing special solos. Men be on time 3:30 P. M. Tell every man whom you meet. Do not stop praying for the Y. M. C. A. DR. WIMPELBERG, EYE-SIGHT SPECIALIST, is now permanently located at 18 East Marshall Street. Eyes examined free. Special attention given school children. Office hours: 3 to 8 F. M. HISTORIC BROWNSVILLE DOCU MENT. Basis Laid By. Colored Lawyer For Fight To Be Made For "Black Battalion." Basis for Marshall's Declination. MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT: The oldest and strongest presumption known to the common law of England and adopted by our country as the most sacred and inviolable cornerstone of its criminal jurisprudence is the presumption in favor of innocence of crime. In a comparatively recent decision in Persons vs. State, 90 Tenn., 291, it was held that no presumption in a criminal case can be allowed to operate against the presumption of the innocence of the defendant. There are no decisions, federal or state, to the contrary; and my departure from this basic principle might well be regarded as alarmingly subservious of our system of government. I, therefore, decline to submit an argument to this Court for two specific reasons: First, because the procedure adopted by the Recorder, and acquiesced in by this court, leaves it undetermined in my mind whether this is a court of inquiry or a court-martial; or, in other words, whether the recorder is an impartial investigating officer or a prosecuting officer. Second, because the instructions of the Secretary of War to this court conflict so fundamentally and totally with my legal training as to make it impossible for me to build an argument which would attempt to prove a negative. NO PROOF OF GUILT OF A SINGLE SOLDIER. For these reasons I can neither argue nor can I appeal to your merciful consideration; for in all honor this honorable court is bound by the limitations imposed by the authority from which its instructions proceed. I can simply submit that the evidence before this court falls entirely to prove the guilt of a single soldier of companies B. C and D. 25th U. S. Infantry, discharged for alleged complicity in the shooting up of Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August 13-14, 1906. RECORDS HIS OWN CONVICTION THERE IS NO GUILTY SOLDIER And in this connection I desire to record the fact that I have for over three years diligently and honestly striven to ferret out the persons engaged in this crime and that I have had close personal contact with nearly all the soldiers discharged as aforesaid, I have never adduced one clue which might lead to the identification of a single soldier. On the contrary my investigations have tended to the conclusion that the shooting up of Brownville was not an affray, but $\pi$ crime committed by persons not in the military service of the United States Government. The record of this will show that I offered to produce testimony of an affirmative and positive character giving the names of the participants in, and the details of an alleged conspiracy to commit this crime. The record of this court will also show that no effort has been spared to produce before this court evidence, no matter harm filmos or circumstantial, which might in the slightest degree tend to demonstrate the guilt of the men who formerly defended the flag and the honor of this, our common country. And yet I am not complaining for I have infinite faith in the judgment of a Divine Providence which, in the final analysis, holds for naught the judgments of mortal man and scorns of sophistry that although the integral parts of a given body may be innocent; the whole must be guilty. "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again." N. B. MARSHALL, Washington, D. C. Recipe. Recipe. How to make a preparation to make your dry, brittle, and kinky hair soft and glossy. Price 15 one cent stamps. Address STAR FORMULA CO., Durham, N. C. LOW FARES TO ASHEVILLE, N. C. VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Account General Conference M. E. Church, South. Tickets on sale May 2 to 11, inclusive, good returning until May 31, 1910. Rate $11.50 round trip. Splendid opportunity to visit Western North Carolina, "The Land of the Sky!" For full information, apply nearest Southern Railway Agent, or write, S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A., 920 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. Bishop W. J. Gaines is Accused of Embezzlement—Presiding Officer of A. M. E. Church Conference Held Under $1,000 Ball For Further Hearing. Camden, N. J., Special. An unusual combination of circumstances prevails at the session of the annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, of New Jersey, which met Thursday at Camden, N. J., in its thirty-eighth annual session in Macedonia A. M. E. Church at Third and Spruce Streets, where the Bishop Wesley J. Gaines, is presiding and yet is held under $1,000 bail on the charge of embezzling some of the accounts of the conference funds. Every effort was made to create an impressive scene when the conference opened this morning, but the friends of the Bishop prevented it. Instead of permitting their director to board the pulpit of Macedonia Church and be arrested just as he was in the act of calling the conference to order, his friends advised him that he had better accompany them to the nearest office of a magistrate and learn more about a warrant that was said to be out for his arrest. In the meanwhile it was learned that a constable from Jersey City had arrived in town and was hunting the Bishop to inform him that he was under arrest. The Bishop was directed to go before Justice of the Peace T. P. Colding, at Ann and Chestnut Streets for a preliminary hearing. In the meantime while the secretary of the conference, Rev. Joseph H. Morgan, of Bordentown, was told that the Bishop was ready to submit to arrest and the secretary went to the office of the magistrate where he was met by the Bishop. Secretary Morgan was represented by Speaker Simpson, attorney at law, of this city. The complaint was read and the Bishop admitted the charge except that the Finance Committee had authorized the payment of the alleged embezzled funds. He was immediately placed under $1,000 ball for a further hearing to be held in Jersey City, Saturday morning at ten o'clock. Ball to the sum of $1,000 was promptly supplied and the Bishop returned to resume the charge of conference. An effort was made to oust him on the charge of being under a criminal indictment but failed and the voice of Bishop Galnes prevails over the sessions. The charges leading up to the arrest of the Bishop date back for some time. The complaint, however, which was made before Justice of the Peace Robert Miller, in Jersey City, on Tuesday, directs that the Bishop be taken into custody and brought to Jersey City to answer the charge of maladministration and misappropriation of funds in connection with the thirty-seventh annual session of the New Jersey Conference of the A. M. E. Church which was held in that city April 22-26, 1909. It is charged that he caused to be appropriated from the expense money that should have gone to the benefit of superannuated ministers and widows the sum of $150. In accounting for this expenditure it is stated that the Bishop caused to be entered on the books of the conference "Miscellaneous Accounts of Conference, $150." Just how long this practice has been in existence the warrant does not state, but it is alleged by his accusers that he charges when pressed before court will show that it has been in progress for a number of years and that it's scope not only covers an operation in New Jersey, but also in New York and Pennsylvania, which conferences are also in charge of the Bishop, who has yet two years to serve before his time of appointment will expire. It seems that the Bishop receives a salary of $2,000 per annum as Bishop from all three conferences. To this amount he is allowed a special appropriation of $500 as expense money. But from all accounts the members of the black cloth cannot live on that salary and is compelled to have other assistance. This seems to be the wrong doing of the Bishop. It is charged that the Bishop names his finance committee but a few minutes before the appointments in conference pastorates are read. Added to this is the charge that no opportunity is given the conference to approve of the appointments of the Bishop, for if they did there would be some very undesirable appointments to follow. So that all which remains for the members of the conference is to let the appointments of the finance committee go by without a voice of protest. Ten accusers of the Bishop charge that he meets the finance committee and directs them to appropriate the sum of $150 to himself as "expenses." It is said that he has not yet been turned down in his demands and that in this sort of "graft" he receives at least $5,500 more to his salary and expenses of $2,500 annually. Although the case has taken on a rather serious aspect and the outlook for his accusers seems very gloomy, provided that the Bishop will be permitted to make the appointments of this session. In fact it is understood that many of those slated to go down lower are asking to be transferred to other conferences in which the Bishop has no voice. On the other hand the insurgents who are now holding down apparently good charges and feeding in green fields will be sent to new grounds and stony pastures at the end of the conference, if Bishop Gaines listens to the men who have stood by him during the past year.—Camden Daily Courier. MILLER & RHOADS DISCRIMINATES No Colored Person Fitted in the Glove Department According to a statement made to us by Mrs. Sallie Lindsey, the Miller & Rhonds dry goods store does not desire the patronage of colored people who wish their gloves fitted, although they will be accommodated in any other department but the restaurant where refreshments and eatables are served. Mrs. Lindsey in company with Mrs. Miller, or Mrs. Miller in company with Mrs. Lindsey went to the Miller & Rhonds store and secured a ticket which enabled them to buy from the different departments and have it entered on one bill. They had purchased about forty dollars worth of goods, when they came to the glove counter and asked for gloves. WANTED HAND FITTED The lady there asked the size, Mrs. Miller told her to fit them and held out her hand for the purpose. The lady stated that they did not fit gloves any more. Mrs. Lindsey remarked that she had just seen her fit a white lady. She then said that they did not fit colored people any more, and when pressed for the reason she stated that it was Mr. Miller's order. The customer stated that they would see Mr. Miller. They went to him and he bluntly told them that it was the order of the house not to fit colored people and that it was no more than the refusal to serve colored people in the dining department. TORE UP THE TICKET Mrs. Miller tore up the ticket for goods she had purchased and walked out of the establishment. This affair occurred April 12th. Mrs. Miller is the wife of Mr. William Miller, the well-known hotel proprietor, who does business at Second and Leigh Streets. So far as we have been informed, this is the only dry-goods store in the city that makes this discrimination. Mr. John T. Taylor, the well-known and popular General Manager of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, has been confined to his room with pneumonia. He has recovered sufficiently to be able to walk about again. GOV. MANN TO COLORED PEOPLE Will Speak at True Reformers' Hall To-morrow. Gov. William Hodges Mann will address the men at the True Rev formers' Hall tomorrow (Sunday), afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. This gratifying announcement has been made by Rev. Scott C. Burrell, the General Secretary or the colored Y. M. C. A. who was thoughtful and successful enough to secure the consent of this distinguished Virginian to speak to the colored people of this city. The announcement is all that is necessary to secure a large attendance, President R. T. Hill will preside and John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank has been requested to introduce Virginia's Chief Executive. The pupils of Mrs. Olivia C. Bolden will give a Musicale at St. Luke Hall Friday eve, May 6th. Free. Silver Offering for Friends Orphan Asylum. Natural Life. Do you love it? Read "Natural Life in the Human World." The big little booklet. Interests everybody. 10 cents. Address LIUCIAN B. WATKINS, M. T. D., Ft. Russell, Wyoming. Subscribe to the PLANET. 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 On Sunday the weather was changeable, first cloudy, then fair, afterward showery. The attendance at the churches, was fairly well. The Fifth Street Baptist Church had a glorious time throughout the day. At 9:30 o'clock Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton opened Sunday School. The officers and teachers were at their post of duty; everything seemed lively. A large number of scholars were present. The music from the piano, played by Miss Annie Brown together with the sweet music from a large number of juvenile voices, filled the air with pleasing sounds, Chorister N. G. Booker deserves great credit for the interest taken in teaching little children how to sing so well. Next Sunday is banner day. Lively interest is being manifested by the classes competing for the banner. Services in this department were very good. At 11:30 o'clock church services commenced. The attendance was fair. Our Pastor, Dr. W. F. Graham preached a most interesting sermon. Subject: "Two Sabbath's Incidents." He swayed the congregation giving the alkalies needed for the solution of some of life's problems. The choir is well up in the different branches of sacred music; they can sing shouts about as well as they can any other sacred music. Well, we like to see that in a choir, and since music is such a powerful element in every service, we feel that the choir will in a body some time in the near future, come out to the prayer meeting and sing as many shouts and spiritual hymns, as may be consistent with the occasion. The Fifth Street Baptist Church choir deserves great credit. At 3:30 o'clock the church assembled to partake of the communion. The Pastor officiated. The deacons served the elements, while the other officers discharged their several duties. Communions are always interesting. The members really enjoyed themselves. A good attendance was present and everything encouraging. This was one of the best communions the church has witnessed this year. At night the day's services were closed with an extra fine sermon from the Pastor. . . . Don't fail to attend the prayer services each Wednesday night. These meetings are of value to you. They are so to speak, drill nights. No member can be spiritually strong who does not exercise prayer. The early christians always assembled themselves together in such meetings; from them they gained strength and the favor of God. Don't drift too far from the old land mark. There is nothing which exceeds prayer, except the answer thereto, worship and praise. . . . Remember the B. Y. P. U. meets every Friday night, at 8:30 o'clock. Pres. John W. Howard is laboring hard. Come out and help. A fine program is arranged for next Friday night. The exercises last Friday night were grand. The Pastor will preach next Sunday morning and night. Don't forget to re-register your name. Richmond, Va., April 26, 1910. I take this method of returning thanks to my friends for kindness and assistance to me and my children, during the illness and death of my son. Especially do I return thanks to the good people of Ninth Street, who cared for my four motherless children and to the members of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, who so willingly came to my aid in a financial way. God bless you all. Damon and Pythias Come to the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Monday night, May 2, 1910, there you will see the full life of Damon and Pythias, and the parade of the last Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Sacred music by Sharon Independent Band. Given under the auspices of Free Will Workers' Club. Admission ten cents. MRS. JOSEIE A. GRAHAM, Pres. and Eureka Company, No. 1. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. Odd Fellows to Celebrate Their Sixty-seventh Anniversary. The members of the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows will celebrate their sixty-seventh anniversary at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Sunday, May 8th, at 3:30 P. M. Dr. W. F. Fragham will preach the sermon. The Households of Ruth will assemble in the basement of the church at 3 o'clock. The Richmond Patrilarchie No. 6. Capt. C. W. Young, commanding, will lead the parade to the church. M. V. P., MORTON DEANE, Chairman. P. N. F., A. B. HAWKINS, Secretary. General Committee. Brilliant Marriage The marriage of Miss Rosa Brown to Mr. Emmett Botts was solemnized Wednesday night, April 20, 1910 at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Rev. Lucas officiating. The reception was held at the home of the bride, Stop No. 12, (Petersburg Turnpike) and the contracting parties were the recipients of many presents and congratulations of their friends. —The Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Coghill, Sr. will be celebrated the 5th of May (next Thursday night) at their residence 1017 Hull Street, Washington Ward. Friends are invited. Mr. E. D. Nelson, of Surry Co., Va., was here last week on business. He was looing the picture of health. While here he was the guest of Mrs. Amelia Jones, 200 W. 21st Street, Washington Ward. Passed Away Entered into eternal rest. Wednesday, April 27, 1910, about 6 o'clock P. M., Mr. James Braxton, at his late residence, 1110 Tyler Street, after an illness of four months. He lived a consistent and exemplary Christian life, died in full assurance of faith. He was a faithful member and deacon of the Fifth Baptist Church, for about thirty years. He leaves a devoted wife, Mrs. Minerva Braxton, one son, John H. Braxton, two daughters, Mrs. Sarah C. Fowlkes, and Mrs. Heurtta C. Pleasants and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. His funeral was held from the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The following gentlemen acted as pall-bearers. Active—Messrs. Isaiah Scott, Isaac Crump, John Bly, Sidney Robinson, Samuel Roane, Robert Ferguson, Honorary—W. H. White, Shepherd Shorts, W. D. Polindexter, John P. Graham. The funeral designs were numerous and costly. Mr. A. D. Price, officiated. A precious one from us is gone; A voice we loved is stilled; A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. His Bereaved Wife and Children. Mrs. Thompson Returns —Mrs. W. B. F. Thompson made a hurried trip to Orange, N. J. on account of the illness of her sister, Miss Pearle Jones, who was in the hospital there. She made side trips to New York City, Coney Island, Newark, N. J., and visited several of her relatives, among them Mr. Isaac Holt, her Uncle and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Holt and Mrs. Robert Foster, her cousins. She brought her sister to Richmond on the 19th ult. Whereabouts of Mr. Martin Kindly let me know what you can of a party by the name of Armistead A. Martin. I think he has some relatives in Richmond and his mother resides in New London, Conn. He disappeared from home very mysteriously April 13, 1910. If you can furnish any information of his whereabouts or his relatives, please communicate with his wife, Mrs. A. A. Martin, 727 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. J. P. H. Coleman, Ph.D., President of Columbia Chemical Co., Newport News, Va., is in the city this week in interest of Hair Vim. Subscribe to The PLANET. THROUGH THE WALL By CLEVELAND MOFFETT COQUENT'S MOTHER N accordance with orders Papa Tignol appeared at the Villa Montmorency bettails the next morning. "Ah, Papa Tignol" said M Paul as the old man entered but there was no heartiness in his tone "Sit down, sit down" Coquent was packing a bag "Is anything wrong?" he asked final ly. "Why-er why, yes," nodded Coquent "Going away?" he rentured "Yes. I—I'm going away." The detective hauled back and closed his eyes. He looked word and gray. M. Paul opened his eyes and said to a dull tone. Did you take the girl to Pougeot last night? "Yes, she all right." "Good." And you showed her the ring? The old man nodded. She under stands, she will be careful but—there's nothing for her to worry about now is there? Coquennil's face darkened. You'd better let me have the ring before I forget it. "Thanks." He slipped the old talks man on his finger and then after a troubled pause he said. There is more for her to worry about than ever. "More? You mean on account of Groeuer?" "But he's caught he's in prison" The detective shook his head. He's not in prison. "Not in prison?" "He was not at liberty about about 2 o'clock this morning." The old man恼恼 his head in perplexity. I didn't know anybody was too important to be tried for our der" "He can't be tried until he committed for trial until a judge "Well? And Hautevillle" "Because Hautevillle has been reuor ed from office" "What-at?" "His commission was revoked this morning by order of the minister of justice" "Coquenil nodded and then added sorrowfully "And you too my poor" friend Every one who has had anything to do with this case, from the highest to the lowest will suffer." "Whe-ew' he must be a senator or—or something like that?" "Much more," said Aquenil grimly. Coquenil pointed to his table, where a book lay open. "Do you see that red book? It's the Annuario do la Noi blesse Franceale. You'll find his name there—marked with a pencil." Tignol glanced at the printed page and there came over his face an expression of utter amusement. "It isn't possible!" he cried. Then slowly in awestruck tones the old man read from the great authority on French titles. Baron Felix Raoul de Heidelmann-Bruck, only son of the Baron George Raoul de Heidelmann-Bruck upon whom he was conferred for industrial titles in the late 18th century at 18, 1833. Lieutenant in the Forty of cuisinerats, now retired. Has extensive iron and steel works near St Elenin; also naval construction yards at St Mauro and the Yacht Club de la Rue Royale, the Yacht Club of France, the Automobile club the Aero club, etc. Decoration Commander of the Legion of Honor the Order of St Mauro and Anzaro (Ally) the Order of Christ (Fortune) Address: Paris, Hotel Rue de Varennes chateau, near Langer, Toulouse Married Mrs. Elizabeth Coogan who perished with her daughter Mary, in the charity bazaar fire. "You see, it's all there," said Mr Paul "His name is Raoul and his wife's name was Margaret. She died in the charity bazaar fire, and his stepdaughter Mary is put down as having died there too. We know where she is." "This will rip things wide, wide open," said Tigoln. The detective shook his head. "It won't rip anything open. How can I prove it? The counts are closed against me. And even if they weren't do you suppose it would be possible to convict the Baron邓 Heidelmann-Bruck of any crime? Nonsense! He's the most powerful man in France. He controls the banks, the bourse, the government. He can cause a money panic by lifting his hand. He can upset the ministry by a word over the telephone." Coquillil lighted a cigarette and breathed in the smoke deeply. "Taps Tignol," he said. "I am through with this case." Tignol bounded to his feet, and his little eyes flashed indignantly. "I don't believe it!" he cried. "I won't have it! You can't tell me Paul Coquillil is Copyright, 1909, by D. Appleton & Co. And I've got one it can't be bought can be I'm a lot of M. Paul felt in his coat pocket and drew out a foded telegram. Head that old friend he answered with emotion Slowly Signed send M. Paul caged a Vula Montmorency Fars He was born, he destroyed by a ordinary fire in night. Your mother�ανot but seriously injured. M. Alet says it sequence policy had laised. Come at once EONESTINE "Quet mother" quet mother" ex claimed the old man. And you you think it's I'm doing "Of course. They had warned me they had killed my dog and and now they have struck it my mother." He bent down his head on his hands. She's not I've got. Ignol she's seven to years old and within and no, no, I quit. In through And the insurance? Pignal asked presently. What does that mean? I sent the new payment to the lawyer. That answered comment in a diary time. They have used time against me to take care of savings. There fell west three days of painful anxiety for a complaint at his strained mother's side. Mine Compensal now ever never watered in her power so that all was well. Mine was comfortable now in the home of a spartan neighbor. I finally Compensal told her all of the murder of Matthew and all of the adventures that and before him in his quest of the slayer. The old woman would not stumble to its shoes shopping his hunt to cause its danger that might threaten her and she insisted that it was the duty to trick down the guilty man. Compensal pondered over the situation for a day and a night. The next thing to come against tables mother's side, with his old son and son and the young great tags he said stolony. I all right the mother I sent a way I going to take the chance and he did confidence between you and me I think I have discovered the way to win this fight against the most powerful forces in all wars. Starting on his noisy outlined campaign against the false midwife Coquille succeeded in having himself employed as a stableman at his luxurious establishment on the rue de Varecens. Next by a jubilous expended bride he gained the aid of a bowhiskered flunky who was one of the household attendants and who kept him informed as to the going and coming of the master of the house. Thus it came to pass that on a certain night in August about 20 check in the morning. Paul Coquille found himself alone in the barous spacious silent library before a massive safe. An experienced burglar chaser naturally becomes a bit of a burglar himself. At any rate, the safe swing in duo course, without accident or interference, and the detective stood before it. All this Coquenil had done on a chance, without positive knowledge, save for the assurance of the black whiskered valet that the baron wrote frequently in a very which he kept locked in the safe. Coquenil was certain that in this diary would be found records that would prove valuable evidence in fostering the guilt of crime on the unprincipled nobleman. And the result of his dangerous quest proved the great detective to have deduced correctly. On one of the shelves of the safe among valuable papers and securities, the detective found a thick book bound in black leather and fastened with heavy gold clasps. It was the diary. With a thrill of triumph, Coquenil seized upon the volume, then closed the safe carefully Cogencil now paused, opened the diary and began to read. There were some 400匆忙 written pages—brief separate entries without dates, separate thoughts, as it were—and as he turned through them he be found himself more and more absorbed until presently he forgot time, place, danger, everything. He was absolutely lost in a most extraordinary human document—in one of those terrible utterances, shameless and fearless, that are flung out once in a century or so from the bot, somber depths of a man's being: L—I have kept this diary because if amuses me, because I am not afraid because my nature craves and demands some home expression from me. These I would should be desgusted, understand that, but I am in constant danger of being destroyed anyway I might be killed by an automobile accident. A small artery in my brain might snap. He would be dead. I regard own life and all other lives as of absolutely trifling importance. II-Half the great men of this world are great criminals. The Napoleons of France are the great men of trade and finance plunder of thousands. It is the same among beasts and fates, among birds and insects, probably amphibians and evils. Every worker we have to do is a plunder, a gravitation, that impels the strong to plunder and destroy the weak. III-11 it is five years since I committed what would be called a 'monstrous and oceantly ornate. As a matter of fact, I did what my intelligences recognized as necessary and what is therefore my duty. However let us call it a crime. I have been interested to watch for any consequences or effects of this crime in myself and I have discovered none. I study my face carefully and fall to my knees. I have a clear and beautiful my skin is remark afty free from lines. I am in splendid health. My nerves are absolutely steady. I have a keen sense of humor. I am certainly a better man, better looking, better looking. I was before I committed this crime. It is absolute nonsense, therefore, to say that sin or crime - I mean intelligent sin or crime- puts an ugly stamp on a man. The ugly stamp comes from bad health, bad surroundings, bad conditions of life, which may be changed by money, which I have! IV- Last night, July 4, I shot a man Martinez at the Ansonia hotel. I served my sensations carefully and must say that they were of a most common place character. There was no danger in the adventure nothing difficult about it. In fact, it was far less exciting this shooting mosque. The Maine woods of New Hampshire were a place after tigers in India. There is really nothing so tame as shooting a man! V-1 have the most tremendous admiration for myself for the use I have made of my opportunities. I started as the son of a broken down nobleman, my maternal grandfather was a slave and chance was to marry one of the vain and shallow rich women of America, and I succeeded in marrying the very richest of them. She was a widow with an enormous bride bred hard wrong from the tops of battles in torturing mines. Following his method, I disposed of the woman then of her daughter and came into possession of the fortune. It would have been a tremendous potential power to a chit of a girl who could use it or appreciate it. I have made myself a force throughout Europe. I have overthrown industries averted wars taken up great industries helped the development of the nation. I have made an agenda for the brutality and disdain of the lady a first husband before he was Mika. VI-1 am afraid of this girl's dreams. I have a sense of less control than I am more or less control in my mind but I cannot control her dreams. Looking up with a start M Paul saw De Heddelman Bruck himself A "PACE AGAINST THE WALL! HANDS HIGH!" standing in the open doorway. His hands were thrust carelessly in his coat pockets. "Hands up!" And Coquenill obeyed "My pistol is on you in this side pocket. If you move I'll shoot through the cloth. Stand over there!" came the order "Face against the wall!" Hands high "Now keep still!" Coquenill did as he was bidden. He stood against the wall while quick fingers went through his clothes, he felt his pistol taken from him, then something soft and wet pressed under his nostrils. He gaped, and a sweet isb. sickening breath filled his lungs. Iron arms held him helpless. He felt himself drifting into unconsciousness and strove vainly against it. He knew he had lost the battle, there was nothing to hope for from this man—nothing. Well, it had been a finish fight, and one or the other had to go. He was the one; he was going—going. AS Coppeni came back to consciousness he moved his arms and legs and discovered no injury then he reached out a hand and found that he was lying on a cold stone floor, with his head on a rough sack filled apparently with shavings. He caught a sound as of rustling paper, then a faint scratching. Finally he spoke aloud in playful reproach, "it's a pity, baron, to write in that wonderful diary of yours with a lead pencil." The baron's voice showed his interest. "Where do you think you are?" "In a deep underground room where you store firewood." "How do you know we are under ground?" THE RICHMOND, PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. --- CHAPTER XX. A GREAT SOINENAL cause you need a candid when it's full daylight above. Counselell was now looking about him wonderingly noting the damp-stone walls and high vaulted ceiling of a large, windowless chamber. "By the uncertain light of the baron's candle he made out an arched passageway at one side and around the walls piles of logs carefully roped and stacked together. "Coquenil," said Do Heidelmann-Bruck slowly, "I give you credit for unusual cloverness," but if you tell me you have any inkling what I am waiting for"— "I know that you are waiting for the girl." "The girl!" The other started. "The girl Alice or Mary, your step-daughter." "God Almighty!" burst out the baron. "What a guess!" M Paul shook his head. "No, not a guess—a fair deduction. My ring is gone. It was on my hand before you gave me that chloroform. You took it. That means you needed it. Why? To get the girl. You knew it would bring her, though how you knew it is more than I can understand." "Gibellin heard you speak of the ring to Pougeot that night in the automobile." "Ahl. And how did you know where the girl was." "Guessed it partly and had Pougeot followed." followed. "And she's coming here?" The baron nodded. "She ought to be here shortly," then with a quick, cruel smile. "I suppose you know why I want her?" "I'm afraid I do," said Coquentil. "Suppose we come in here," suggested the other. With this he led the way through the arched passageway into another stone chamber very much like the first, only smaller and lined in the same way with piled up logs. In the middle of the floor were a rough table spread with food and two rough chairs. On the table lay the diary. "Sit down," continued the baron. "Coquentil, I ve watched you for years I know all about you, and I'll say this--you're the most interesting man I ever met. You've given me trouble, but--that's all right, you played fair, and--I like you, I like you." "It's a pity you couldn't see things my way. I wanted to be your friend, I wanted to help you. Just think how many times I've gone out of my way to give you chances, one business chances." "I know." "Now see where you are! See what you've forced me to do! It's a pity, it cuts me up. Coquenil." He spoke with real sadness "I understand." answered M Paul "I appreciate what you say There's a bond between a good-detective and" "A great detective." put in the baron admiringly, the greatest detective Paris has known in fifty years or will know in fifty more Yes, yes, it's a pity" "I was saying," resumed the other "that there is a bond between a detective and a criminal A suppose it gets stronger between a-a great detective," he smiled and a great criminal Do Heidelmann Bruck looked pleased ed "You regard me as a great crimi nal?" Coquenil nodded gravely "I certa tly do—the greatest since Ludovico Scherizl you know he had your iden tical little finger" "Really?" Coquenil was silent a moment. "This American—what of him—now?" "He will be ried." "And be found guilty?" "Yes, but with jeasouay as an ex tenuating circumstance. He'll do a few years say fire." "Ah, that brings me to the main point—how did Martinez get posses sion of your secret?" "He met the girl accidentally and remembered her." "As the one he had rescued from the charity bazaar fire?" Coquennil thought a moment. "Oh! Did you know that private room No. 7 would not be occupied that night by Wilmott and the dancing girl?" "No!" "Then how did you dare go in there?" "Wilmott and the girl were not due until 9. and I had-finished by half past 8." "How did you know Willmott would not be there until 9?" "Martinez told me. It was in Anita's petit bluen that Mrs Willmott showed him." "Hind you no direct dealings with Anita?" The baron shook his head. "I never saw the girl. The thing just happened, and—I took my chance" "You bought the sugar for Martines and told him where to bore the holes?" "Yes!" "And the key to the alleyway door?" "I got a duplicate key—through Dubois. Anything else?" "Ah!" said Coquenil. "By the way, how long have you known that I was working here in your stable?" The baron smiled. "Since the first day." "And about the safe?" "And about the salary?" "It was all arranged." "Then—then you wanted me to read the diary?" "Yes," answered the other, with a strange expression. "I know that if you read my diary I should be protected." "I don't understand." "Of course not, but"— Suddenly his voice grew harsher, and M. Paul thought of the meeting on the Champs Elysées. "Do you realize, sir," the baron went on, and his voice was almost monicasing, "that not once, but half a dozen times since this affair started, I have been on the point of crushing you, of sweeping you out of my path?" "I can bellieve that!" "Why haven't I done it? Why have I held back the order that was trembling on my life? Because I admire you, I'm interested in the workings of your mind, I rise, by God, in spite of your stubbornness and everything I like you. Counsell, and I don't want to harm you. "You may not believe it," he went on, "but when you sent word to the Brazilian embassy the other day that you would accept the Rio Janeiro offer after all I was honeysuckle happy for you, not for myself. Then suddenly you went mad again and—and did this. So I said to myself, 'All right; he wants it; he'll get it' and—I let you read the diary." "Why?" cried the baron horosely, "Don't you see why? You know everything now, everything. It isn't guestwork; it isn't deduction; it it's absolute certainty. And because it's true, and because we both know it to be true, neither one of us can draw back. We cannot draw back if we would. Suppose I said to you, 'Ooquent, I like you; I'm going to let you go free.' You would say: 'Baron de Heldelmann-Bruck. I shall not only take this fortune from you and make you very poor instead of very rich, but I shall denounce you as a murderer and shall do my best to have you marched out from a cell in the Roquette prison some fine morning, about dawr, between a jailer and a priest to the gullotine." "Yes," nodded the other. "Ah!" smiled the baron. "I must destroy you or be destroyed." "I see," murmured M. Paul. For some moments the two were silent; then M Paul asked gravely, "How soon will the girl be here?" "She's undoubtedly here now. She is waiting outside." He pointed to a heavily barred iron door. "But—she doesn't know anything about you or against you," added M. Paul, and he seemed to be almost pleading. "She has caused me a lot of trouble, and—she might know." "You mean—her memory?" "Yes, it might come back." "Of course," agreed the other with judicial fairness. "I asked Duprat about it, and he said it might." "Goodby, Coquenil!" He held out his hand. "I'm sorry." "Goodby," answered the detective with quiet dignity. "If it's all the same to you. I—I won't shake hands." "No? He moved toward the heavy door." "Wait!" said M. Paul. "You have left your diary." He pointed to the table. The baron smiled mockingly "I intended to leave it. The book has served its purpose. Don't be alarmed. It will not be found." He glanced with grim confidence at the stacked wood. "You'll have fifteen or twenty minutes after she comes in Goodby." The door swung open, and Coquellain saw white, white clad figure among the shadows, and Alice, with beautiful, frightened eyes, staggered toward him CHAPTER XXI THE LOST DOLLY "I've been so frightened," Alice said to him. "The man said you wanted me, and I came at once, but in the automobile. I felt something was wrong, and—you know he is outside?" "Does Pougeot know about this?" She shook her head. "The man came for M Pougeot first. They went off together I'm afraid it was a trick. Then about twenty minutes later the same man came back and said M Pougeot was with you and that he had been sent to bring me to you. He showed me your ring and"— "Yes, yes. I understand." interrupted Coquenil "My poor child!" he muttered. Taking the candle, Coquenil went through the arched opening into the larger chamber and made a hurried inspection. The room was about fifteen feet square and ten feet high, with everything of stone—walls, floor and arched ceiling. Save for the passage into the smaller room there was no sign of an opening anywhere except two small square holes near the ceiling, probably ventilating shafts. Around the four walls were logs plied evenly to the height of nearly six feet, and at the archway the pile ran straight through into the smaller room. The logs were in two foot lengths, and as the archway was about four feet wide the passage between the two rooms was half blocked with wood. Ocquenil walked slowly around the chamber, peering carefully into cracks between the logs, as if searching for something. As he went on he held the candle lower and lower and presently got down upon his hands and knees and crept along the base of the pile, "What are you doing?" asked Alice, watching him in wonder from the archway. Without replying, the detective rose to his feet and, holding the candle high above his head, examined the walls above the wood pile. Then he reached up and scraped the stones with his finger nails in several places and then held his fingers close to the candlelight and looked at them and smiled them. His fingers were black with soot. "M. Paul, won't you speak to me?" begged the girl. "Just a minute, just a minute," he answered absently. Then he spoke with quick decision. "I'm going to set you to work," he said. "By the way, have you any idea where we are?" She looked at him in surprise. "Why, don't you know?" I think we are on the Rue de Varennes—a big hotel back of the high wall." "That's right." she said. "Ah, he didn't take me away!" reflected M. Paul. "That is something. Pougout will scent danger and will move heaven and earth to save us. He will get Tignol, and Tignol knows I was here. But can they find us?" Suddenly he said to the girl: "I may as well tell you our lives are in danger. He's going to set fire to this wood and—" "Oh!" she cried, her eyes starting with terror. "See here." he said sharply. "You've got to help me. We have a chance yet. The fire will start in this big chamber, and—I want to cut it off by blocking the passageway. Let's eat." He searched through his pockets. "He has taken my knife. Ah, this will do!" And, lifting a plate from his table, be broke it against the wall. "There! Take one of these pieces and see. If you can saw, through the rope. Use the jagged edges—like this. That cuts it. Try over there." Alice fell to work eagerly, and in a few moments they had fred a section of the wood piled in the smaller chamber from the restraining ropes and stakes. "Now; then," directed Coquennil, "you carry the logs to me, and I will make a barricade in the passageway." The word passageway is somewhat misleading. There was really a distance of only three feet between the two chambers, this being the thickness of the massive stone wall that separated them. Half of this opening was already filled by the wood pile, and Coquenil proceeded to fill up the other half, laying logs on the floor lengthwise in the open part of the passage from chamber to chamber and then laying other logs on top of these, and so on as rapidly as the girl brought wood. They worked with all speed. Soon the passageway was solidly walled with closely fitted logs to the height of six feet. Above this, in the arched part, Coquenil worked more slowly, selecting logs of such shape and size as would fill the curve with the fewest number of cracks between them. There was danger in cracks between the obstructing logs, for cracks meant a draft, and a draft meant the spreading of the fire. "Now," said Mr. Paul, surveying the blocked passageway, "that is the best we can do—with wood. We must stop these cracks with something else. What did you wear?" He glanced at the chair where Alice had thrown her things. "A white cloak and a straw hat with a white veil and a black velvet ribbon. Tear off the ribbon and we can't stand on ceremony. Here are my coat and vest. Flip them into strips and— Great God! There's the smoke now." As he spoke a thin grayish feather curled out between two of the upper logs and floated away; another came below it. Somewhere Do Heidelmann-Bruck had pressed an electric button, and under the logs deadly sparks had jumped in the waiting tinder. They were prisoners in a huge slowly heating oven stacked with tons of dry wood. "We must stop this," he cried, and, tearing the shirt from his shoulders, he ripped it into fragments and wedged these tight between the logs. "We must have more cloth," he said gravely "it's our only chance, little friend. I'll put out the candle! Thereel Lot me have—whatever you can and—be quick!" Again he worked with frantic haste, stuffing in the last shreds and rags that could be spared from their bodies whenever a dull glow from the other side revealed a crook in the barricade. "There," he panted; "that's the best we can do! Now it's up to God! I believe we have stopped the draft," he said after a moment. Suddenly a faint sound broke the stillness, and the detective started violently. It was a low, humming sound that presently grew stronger and then sang on steadily like a buzzing wheel. He moved about in perplexity. It seemed to him that he felt a current of air. "Alice, come here!" he called "Stand where I am. That's right. Now put out your hand. Do you feel anything?" "I feel a draft," she said. As she spoke the humming sound strengthened, and with it the draft blew stronger. "Merciful God," cried Coquenti in a dash of understanding. "It's a blower!" "I don't understand." "He's forcing a draft from that room to this one. He has started a blower, I tell you, and"— "What is a blower?" put in Alice. At her frightened tone Coquilmed himself and answered gently: "It's like a big electric fan. It's drawing air out of this room very fast with a suction, and I'm afraid unless"— Just then there came a sharp pop, followed by a hissing noise, as if some one were breathing in air through shut teeth. "The blower has sucked out one of our cloth plugs. There goes an earl" he said as the popping sound was repeated. "And another! It's all off with our barricade, little girl." "The fire may come through a little," he told her comfortingly, "but I—I'll fix it so you will be—all right. Comel! We'll build another barricade. You know wood is a bad conductor of boat, and—if you have wood all about you and—over you, why, the fire can't burn you." "Ooh!" said Alice. "We'll go over to this door as far from the passageway as we can get. Now bring me logs from that side pile. That's right." Most of the smoke at first was borne upward by the blower's auction, and Alice was able to help Coquall with the new barricade. They built this directly in front of the iron door with only space enough between it and the door to allow them to crouch behind it. They made it about five feet long and three feet high. "Lie down there," he directed. "Stretch right out behind the logs and keep your mouth close to the door and as near as you can to the crack under the door. You'll have plenty of cool, sweet air. Now I'll fix a roof over this thing. Just shut your eyes and rest. Understand, little friend?" "To ex." raintly. He turned toward the barricade and saw that the names were licking their way through the wall of logs. The heat was becoming unbearable. Coquill crawled in behind the shelter of logs and crouched down beside the girl. She was quite unconscious now, but was breathing peacefully, smilingly, with face fushed and red lips parted. Suddenly there was a crumbling of logs at the passageway, and the chamber became light as day while a blast of heat swept over them. Coquill looked out around the end of the shelter and saw games a yard long shooting toward them through wilting branches in the floor. Then he thought of his mother. She would know that her boy had fallen in a good cause, as his father had fallen. Alice, stirred, screamily, and opened her eyes. Then she sat up quickly, and there was something in her face. Coquennil had never seen there, something he had never seen in any face. She cried. "You have taken my beautiful dolly. Egoe little Emmerald! You throw him up on that shaft, Willie-yek, you did." Then, before Coquennil could prevent it, she slipped out from behind the shalter and stood up in the fire bound chamber. "Come back!" he cried, reaching after her, but the girl swaded him. "There it is, on that shaft," she went on positively, and, following her finger, Coquennil saw, what he had not noticed before, a massive stone sheaf jutting out from the wall just over the wood pla. "You must get my dolly," she ordered. "Certainly, I'll get it," soothingly She stamped her foot in displeasure "I don't like this place." She caught Coquenil's hand. "We'll go out where the falries are. That's a much nicer place to play. Willie." Here there came to M. Paul an urging of mysterious guidance, as if an inward voice had spoken to him and P. P. A MOMENT LATER HE HAD CARRIED HER SAFELEY THROUGH FLAMES said that God was trying to save them; that he had put wisdom in this girl's month and that he must listen. "All right" he said, but how do we get there? "Through the door under the shelf You know perfectly well. Wine" "Yes," he agreed. "I know about the door, but I forget how to get it open" "Silly." She stamped her foot again. "You push on that stone thing under the shelf" Coquill looked at the shelf and saw that it was supported by two stone brackets. "You mean the thing that holds the shelf up?" "Yes, you must press it." "But there are two things that hold the shelf up. Is it the one on this side that you press on the one on that side?" "Dear me, what an aggravating boy! It's the one on this side, of course." "Good!" He found her suddenly limp in his arms. Having spoken these strange words of wisdom or of folly, she had gone back into unconsciousness. Ooquenil believed that they were words of wisdom and without a moment's hesitation he acted on that belief. The wall underneath the shelf was half covered with piled up logs, and these must be removed in spite of the flames. It was the work of a madman or of one inspired. Three times Ooquenil fell to the floor, gasping for breath. The skin on his arms and neck was hanging away in shreds. At last the space was cleared, and Paul Ooquenil stumbled forward and seized the left hand bracket and pressed it with all his might. Instantly, a door underneath, cunningly hidden in the wall, yawned upon on a square black passage. With a bound he was back at the shatter and bad Alice in his arms, smiling again, as she slept—as she dreamed. And a moment later he had carried her safely through flames that actually singed her hair and laid her tenderly in the cool passage. And beside her he laid the baron's diary! Then he went back to close the door. But first he reached up inside that flery furnace and, groping over the hot stone shelf brought down's scorched and battered and dust covered little figure that bad lain there for many years. It was the lost dolly! CHAPTER XXII AT THE TRIAL THE details of the hours that followed remained blurred memories in the minds of Alice and her rescuer. They wandered in a strange subterranean region of passages and cross passages that widened and narrowed, that ascended and descended, that wore sometimes smooth under foot, but often blocked with rough stones and always black as night. Surely no more pathetic pair than these two ever braved the mazes of the Paris catacombs. --- At any rate, through the ghastly horror of darkness and weakness and pain there presently came hope--flickering torches in the distance, then fatal voices and the presence of friends, some workingmen, occupied with drainage repairs, who produced stimulants and rough garments and showed them the way to the upper world, to the blazed sunshine. An hour later Mr. Paul and Alice were in clean, cool beds at a private hospital near the commissary's house, with nurses and doctors bending over them. Ab on a chair beside the girl battered and blackened, sat Eamese white under the desertshell. ```markdown ``` SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1910 low in an adjoining room was the scorched but unharmed diary of De Heidelmann-Bruckl During the weeks that Coquenil and Alice lay in the hospital, slowly recovering from the shock and their burns, the time swung around for the trial of Lloyd Kiltredge on the charge of murdering Martinga, the billiard player. It was a delightful September afternoon. The courtroom in the Palais de Justice was crowded with fashionables intent on witnessing the trial of Lloyd Kittredge. Pussy Wilmott, in her most fetching gown, sat well down in front. A distinguished looking man pressed through the crowd and was given a seat on the platform occupied by the three judges. "The Baron de Heidelmann Bruek" whispered eager tongues as the nobleman was thus honored. Yes, it was the baron, intent on witnessing the last act in the awful drama he had inaugurated. And now, suddenly, the blow fell. As the prosecuting officer soared along in his historical flight a note was passed unobtrusively to the presiding judge, a modest little note folded on itself without even an envelope to hold it. For several minutes the note lay unnoticed; then the judge, with careless eye, glanced over it; then he started, freeway, and his quick rereading showed that a spark of something had dashed from that scrap of paper. The presiding judge leaned quickly toward his associate on the right and whispered earnestly, then toward his associate on the left, and one after another the three magistrates studied this startling communication, nodding learned heads and lowering judicial eyebrows. The public prosecutor blazed through his persecution to an inattentive bench. No sooner had the speaker finished than the clerk of the court announced a brief recess, during which the judges withdrew for deliberation and the audience buzzed their wonder. During this interval the Baron de Heidelmann-Bruck looked frankly bored. On the return of the three an announcement was made by the presiding judge that important new evidence in the case had been received evidence of so unusual a character that the judges had unanimously decided to interrupt proceedings for a public hearing of the evidence in question. It was further ordered that no one be allowed to leave the courtroom under any circumstances. "Call the first witness" ordered the judge and amid the excitement caused by these ominous words a small door opened and a woman entered leading on a guard. She was dressed simply in black and heartily velled, but her girlish figure showed that she was young. As she appeared Kittredge started violently. The woman came forward to the witness stand and lifted her veil. As she did so three distinct things happened. The audience murmured its admiration at a vision of strange beauty. Kittredge stared in a daze of joy and he Heidelmann-Lrück felt the cold hand of death clutching at his heart. It was Alice come to her lover's need. Alice risen from the flames, Alice here for chastening and justice! "What is you name?" questioned the judge. "Mary Coogan was the clear answer." "Your nationality?" "I am an American." I came to France as a little girl." How did that happen? "Your mother married a Frenchman?" "Fea." "What is the name of the Frenchman whom your mother married?" The girl beastified and then, looking straight at the baron she said, "The Baron de Heldeimann Bruck." "Is your mother living?" "No." "How did she die?" The witness turned to Rittedge "My mother was burned to death in the charity bazaar fire," she answered in a low voice. "State what you remember about the fire" The girl looked down and answered rapidly. My mother and I went to the charity bazaar with the Baron de Heldemann Brück. When the fire broke out there was a panic. There was a window near us through which some people were climbing. My mother and I would have been able to escape but the Baron de Heldemann Brück poused us back and climbed through himself." "Is a lie!" cried the baron hoarsely. "Silence!" warned the clerk. "And after that?" There came into her face a look of terrible sadness. "I don't know what happened after that for a long time. I was very ill and–for years I did not remember these things." "You mean that for years you did not remember what you have just testified?" "Yes, that is what I mean." The room was so hushed in expectation that the tension was like physical pain. "You did not remember your mother during these years?" "No!" "Not even her name?" She shock her head. "I did not remember my own name." "But now you remember every thing?" "Yes, everything." "When did you recover your memory?" "It began to come back a few weeks." "Under what circumstances?" "Under circumstances like those when—what lost it?" "How do you mean?" "—I— She stared slowly, as I drawn by some horrible fascination and looked at De Heidelmann-Bruck. The barrow face was white. White. "Xex" encouraged the judge. "I was in another fire," she murmured, still staring at the baron. "I—I nearly lost my life there." The witness had reached the end of her strength. She was twisting and untwisting her white fingers pitucously, while the pupila of her eyes widened and contracted in terror: She staggered as if she would paint or fall, and the guard was starting toward her when, through the anguished alliance, a clear, confident voice rang out: It was the prisoner who had spoken. It was the lover who had come to the rescue and whose loyal cry broke the spell of horror instantly the girl turned to Lloyd with a look of infinite love and gratitude, and before the outraged rick of the court had finished his warning to the young American Alice had conquered her distress. "Tell us in your own words," said the judge kindly, "how it was that you nearly lost your life a second time in a fire." In a low voice, but steadily, Alice began her story. She spoke briefly of her humble life with the Bonnetona, of her work at Notre Dame, of the occasional visits of her supposed cousin, the woodcarver, and finally described the moment when she was thrust into that cruel chamber and left there with M. Coquille—to perish. Women screamed and fainted, men broke down and wept, even the judges wiped plying eyes, as Alico told now Paul Coquennil built the last barricade with fire roaring all about him and then how he dashed among leaping fames and, barebanded, all but naked, cleared a way to safety. Through the tense silence that followed her recital came the judge's voice, "And you accuse a certain person of committing this crime?" "I do," she answered firmly. "Whom do you accuse?" The audience literally held its breath as the girl passed before replying. She turned slowly toward the cowering nobleman and said distinctly, "I accuse the Baron do Heidelmann Bruck." All eyes turned to the accused. He struggled to speak, but the words choked his throat. If ever a great man was guilty in appearance the Baron do Heidelmann-Bruck was that guilty great man! "I insist on saying," he burst out finally, but the judge cut him short. "You will be beard presently, sir. Call the next witness." The girl withdrew, casting a last fond look at her lover, and the clerk's voice was heard summoning M Pougeot. The commissary appeared forthwith and, with all the authority of his office, testified in confirmation of Alice's story. There was no possible doubt that the girl would have perished in the fames but for the heroism of Paul Coquenil. Pougeot was followed by Dr Dupat, who gave evidence as to the return of Alice's memory. "Call the next witness" directed the judge, and the clerk sang out. CHAPTER XXIII MRS. LLOYD KITTEDGE MURMUR ot sympathy and surprise run through the room as the small door opened, just under the painting of "Justice," and a guant, palid figure appeared, a tall man, wasted and weakened. He came forward leaning on a cane, and his right hand was bandaged. The audience was like a powder mine waiting for a spark. "What is your name?" asked the judge as the witness took the stand. "Paul Coquenill" was the quiet answer. It was the needed word, the spark to fire the train. Paul Coquenill Never in modern times had a Paris court room witnessed a scene like that which followed. As Coquenill spoke there went up a great cry from the audience, an irrestible tribute to his splendid bravery. It was spontaneous, it was hysterical it was tremendous. Men and women sprang to their feet, shouting and war THE MASTER "I—I WON THE LAST THICK ANTHOUF ing and weeping. The crowd, crushed in the corridor, caught the cry and passed it along. "Cognepill: Cognepill!" Then down in the courtyard it sounded, and out into the street, where a group of students started the old snappy rafrain: Oh, oh! I nous (aut-ol) Beau, beau! Beau Cocoono-ol When at length the rumuit was stillled and the panting, sobbing audience Has satisfied back in their seats, the presiding judge, Jesuit at heart to the disorder, proceeded gravely with his examination. "Please state what you know about this case," he said, and again the audience waited in deathlike stillness. "There is no need of many words," answered M. Paul. Then, pointing an acusing arm at De Heldelmann-Bruck, "I know that this man shot Ericur Martins on the night of July 5 at the Ansonia hotel." The nobleman sat rigid on his chair; the judge went on with his questions. "You say you know this?" he demanded sharply. "I know it," declared Coquenili. "I have absolute proof of it—here. He drew from his inner coat the baron's diary and handed it to the judge. "What is this?" asked the latter. "His own confession, written by himself." The judge turned gravely to Do Heldelmann-Bruck. "I have a painful duty to perform, air. Take this man out, under arrest, and clear the room." "Astounding!" muttered the judge. "A great achievement, M. Coquelin." At this moment an awestruck attendant came to say that the baron wished a word with M. Paul. "By all means," consented the judge. Hellingly, on his cane, Coquelin made his way to an adjoining room. As he glanced at the baron, M. Paul saw that once more the man had demonstrated his extraordinary self control. He was cold and composed as usual. "The other day you said you were sorry when you left me in that hot collar," said Coquelin "Now you're in a fairly hot place yourself, baron, and I'm not sorry." De Heldelmann-Bruck shrugged his shoulders. "The point is," said the baron, "I am going to pay the price that society exacts when this sort of thing is found out. I am perfectly willing to pay it, not in the least afraid to pay it and, above all, not in the least sorry for anything. I want you to remember that and repeat it. I have no patience with cowardry, canting talk about remorse. I have never for one moment regretted anything I have done, and I regret nothing now. Nothing" I have had five years of the best this world can give—power, fortune, social position, pleasure, everything, and what ever I pay I'm ahead of the game. I want you to believe, though, that I was genuine when I said I liked you. I was ready to destroy you, but I liked you. I like you now, Coquell, and this is perhaps, our last talk; they will take the off present, and you collect odd souvenirs—here is one—a little goodbye—from an adversary who was—game, anyway You don't mind accepting it." There was something in the man's voice that Coquenil had never heard there. Was it a faint touch of sentiment? He took the ring that the baron handed him, an uncut ruy, and looked at it thoughtfully. He handed back the ring. The baron's face darkened. He made an angry gesture. Then he twisted the ring in his fingers. "Ah, that pride of yours! You've been brilliant, you've been brave, but never unkind before. It's only a bumble, Coquenil, a-" De Holdemin in Bruck stopped suddenly, and M. Paul caught a savage gleam in his eyes; then, swiftly, the baron put the ring to his mouth and, sucking in his breath, swallowed hard. The detective spring forward, but it was too late "A doctor—quick!" be called to the guard "No use!" murmured the rich man, sinking forward Coquenill tried to support him, but the body was too heavy for his bandaged hand, and the prisonerank to the floor "I-I won the last trick, anyhow," the baron whispered Coquenill picked up the ring that bad fallen from a nerveless hand. He put it to his nose and sniffed it. "Prussic acid!" he muttered. Two minutes later, when Dr. Duprat rushed in, the Baron do Heldeimann-Bruck, unafraid and unrepentant, had gone to his last long sleep. His face was calm and even in death his lips seemed set in a mocking smile of triumph. When a sweet young girl finds herself in serious debt to a man and at the same time one of the richest heiresses in the world, she naturally wishes to give some substantial form to her gratitude, even to the extent of a few odd millions from her limitless store, which Alico was very glad to do. At any rate, Coquennil was henceforth far beyond any need of following his profession. Whatever use he might in the future make of his brilliant talents would be for the sheer joy of conquest and sinister in the spirit of art for its own sake. On the other hand, if at any time he wished to underlie a case it was certain that the city of Paris or the government of France would tender blim their commissions on a silver salver, for now, of course, his justification was complete, and by special arrangement he was given a sort of roving commission from headquarters, with indefinite leave of absence. "Best of all, he was made chevalier of the Legion of Honor "for conspicuous public service" What a day it was, to be sure, when Mme. Coquenil first caught sight of that precious red badge on her soul's coat! As for the lovers, there is only this to be said—that they were ridiculously, indescribably happy The young American had one grievance. "It's playing it low on a follow," he said. "when he's just squared himself to hustle for a poor candle seller to change her into a bowling millionaire, I'd like to know how how the devil I'm going to be a hero now?" "Silly boy!" she laughed, her radiant eyes burning on him. 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We have made the interests of the race paramount to all else during our long career in journalism and it is a source of gratification to us when a veteran journalist of Editor It H. Murray's experience is frank enough to say so LOOK TO THE SOUTH There is much talk about the success of the Democrats in certain congressional districts in Massachusetts and New York. We do not see that this should worry the party leaders for the reason that President Taft has been doing missionary work in the south and it may be that he was not old like Democrat Taft districts going Republican when the elections take place. At least this is his hope for the Democratic natural and congressional representation we have been given practically everything that comes down the pike. A Democrat administration could likely have been more liberal. They have gotten distinct judgements in the cabinet and a position on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. If the elections go so the other way then Press Taft should consider that his Council have brought about not only integration of the Republican but its destruction as well. --- GOY HUGHES FOR THE BENCH President Taft never made a more diplomatic appointment than when he named Governor Charles E. Hughes for the position of Associate Justice of the United States and we are of the opinion that Governor Hughes was never wiser than when he accepted it. The position is in keeping with his temperament and disposition. He was on the ove of a "battle royal" with the political leaders of his party and he lacked the facility of harmonizing conflicting interests. As to the lenders in the political camps there is but little doubt that they are having a regular "clog dance" in celebration of the event. They may have breakouts ahead in another direction, but they are looking to the present. The news now floating across the water would indicate that Hon Theodore Roosevelt will be an important factor as so as he lands in this country All --- or the discordant elements who opposed the present administration and its affiliated interests will yell, "Roosevelt" whether they are in favor of him or not. He will certainly create a stir in political circles soon after he reaches our shores and those people, who think that he will retire to private life will be easily mistaken. --- THE TALK AT HOWARD Mr Andrew Carnegie the great philanthropist and President William H Taft the distinguished Ohio delivered addresses at the dedication of the Carnegie Library at Howard University Monday, April 25 1910 They made some admirable assertions Mr Carnegie is quoted as follows Alluding to President Taft Mr Carnegie said President Thirkeld wrote me that the President was desirous of having me present Now there is a rule in the old country that the king must be obeyed That being surely the President of the United States must be obeyed President Thirkeld has shown me your library and although I have seen hundreds of them I have not seen one that causes you as a library. It is only during the last few minutes that I have gained an adequate conception of this university. The impression it has made is unequalled I see here the nucleus for the uplifting of race. I have seen Hampton and Tuskegee Here you not only give the practical training but you have also not a standard equal to that of the other higher institutions of learning and the Carnegie education trust believes you are entitled to a share in the Carnegie fund. Here Mr. Carnegie told about his early access to a library in the days of his youth when he was a teleoperator. "Then he continued. I saw that I was bound to make a fortune. I had made up my mind to that and I resolved that I would provide libraries for all. All my success I own to books. Books are the best kind of philanthropy. They give nothing without work. I don't believe we can do much for the submerged tenth. The State will have to take care of them I like to help others to help themselves. "The best society to get into is the society of a library. A library is a triumphant democracy it is no respector of persons. When the colored race becomes truly the problem the race will be the equality of education. I believe what Dr Abbott said that the colored race has made more progress in 10 years than any race in the history of the world and the day is not for distant when you will take your place with every other race and the race problem will be no more for life." This then was the key one sound for higher education. We are asked to take that Mr. Carnegie realizes the necessity for the higher education of the colored man just as much as the necessity for the higher education of the white one. At institutions student can acquire useful information from books and when he is possession of sterling commonwealth good books are of inestimable value. But we are doubly interested in the remarks of the distinguished occupant of the White House. He struck no disordant note in the day, uttered which electrified the great audience at Washington He is quoted as follows: I am glad to be here to celebrate the dedication of this library which is the university and the country owe to the generosity of Andrew Carnegie. We do not enjoy Mr. Carnegie's money and the fortune that has attended his efforts. The thing we may be the hapiness that it is great give him to be able to do so much good to his fellowmen as he is doing every month in the year. President Taft certainly told the truth and demonstrated that he believed in the divine declaration that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Certainly, there is as much joy in giving to a thankful person or organization as there is happiness on the part of the organization on person that receives it. H. in quiet further Now I am not going to make a speech on negative education or on the advantage of this university. We have listened and I wish to pay the highest compliment possible to the beautiful the discriminating the elevating and interesting address of the librarian of Congress and certainly I could add nothing to this description of the importance of a library as an instrumentality in the university for the proper education of its students. "But to come again to this university. This university offers to the colored race what it needs, and with out which it cannot make advancement. to wit colored leaders of thought in every profession in order not that all colored men may be university men, but that there may be among colored men, university men who shall lead the whole colored race onward and upward." You may say what you will but President Taft is on the right track in dealing with this great question and he occupies the platform of a statesman in all that he was kind enough to say. Industrialism is a vital necessity, but it aburd not be pushed or advocated to the exclusion of that higher education, with- out which the leaders cannot attain that degree of efficiency, which will enable them to lead this ignorant and illiterate race of people to that higher plane of citizenship where their presence will not be a menace to the other citizens among whom they live. The day is breaking for us and if President Taft will continue to preach that gospel and eliminate in all of his official acts every vestige of the color line or of race prejudice then the haleyon day of hopes will be at hand. BISHOP GAINES AND HIS ANTSER It is almost inconceivable that a minister of a great denominational church should swear out a warrant against the bishop of that church before first submitting the matter at issue to the religious tribunal of which he is a member. No one who knows Bishop W J Gaines will consider for a moment the charges which have been made against him. One hundred and fifty dollars is too cheap a price for one of his prominence and standing to sacrifice the reputation of a lifetime. We had hoped that this element of the race would be relegated to the rear. We refer to those who in order to gratify a petty spite or to all some personal grievance would sacrifice not only the man but the cause. We have no interest in the matter further than from a racial standpoint we hope that a higher order of leaders will come to the front and that men of the stripe and calibre of the one who promoted this prosecution will be buried so deep in the grave of racial contempt that even Gabriel's trumpet will not awaken them. He was after W J Gaines the man but he had done great injury to W J Gaines the bishop and leader of the colored people of this country. Let us have peace. THE TROUBLE IN ATLANTA. Three colored men are alleged to have shot and killed S. T. Brown, motorman, and dangerously injured Walter H. Bryson on a streetcar in Atlanta last Saturday night, robbing the latter. As a result there was much excitement and in some sections of that city one would have thought that a band of Indians had been turned loose. The feeling among some of the lower elements of white people was intense and the lives of innocent colored people were said to be in danger. The white authorities were careful to prepare for an outbreak and took radical measures to prevent the scenes that occurred in the former Atlanta riot. These murders will occur. It is not the result of racial antipathy on the part of the colored men but just a species of devility to obtain money. Colored people are just as anxious to see them captured and put out of the way as are the white people who are searching for them. Lawless colored men of this stripe are after money and they would kill a colored man or woman in order to obtain it just as quick as they would murder a white man or woman for the same purpose. There is no need for indignation on the part of any body to the extent of killing innocent colored people in a spirit of revenge for outrages committed by guilty ones. This brings us back to our former observations and that is we should take steps to reform the vicious elements amongst us and see to it that the rising generation is brought up in the paths of rectitude. We depend too much upon the officers of the law to fail and execute these shiftless worthless elements, but from the army of ragged, dissolute Godless hands of young boys and girls roaming the streets of every south city and in many northern ones too it seems to us that some organization should be under way to provide for other their redemption or for their corralling for the time being until they have been instructed along those moral lines which will convince them that the true road to happiness leads through the gateway of right living and the observation and practice of the fundamental principles of the Scriptures. TROUBLE IN TEXAS. It seems that there is great need of missionary work among the bond- lum white elements of Texas, if we are to believe the reports that come from Coleman, Texas. Colored men have been employed upon the construction work of the Santa Fe Railroad. The feeling of race prejudice has become so intensified that between 150 and 200 men-women and children of the colored race have been driven from their homes by a mob. Some were brutally beaten and none resisted. This took place Sunday, April 24, 1910. The mob did not use firearms, but only clubs, sticks, and stones. An aged colored preacher had to run for his life and narrowly escaped being lynched. The Mayor and the Town Marshal pleaded with the mob to desist, but they were brushed aside. We do not see where the Governor was called upon for assistance and as a result these colored people are now hiding in the bushes and in the heds, suffering untold agonies in this southern country. This is a deplorable condition and it appeals direct to the heart. We cannot say that we favor this kind of action on the part of the men in that community. We believe that the women are down on their knees praying for deliverance and that God on his throne looks down with a pitying eye. Evidently help will come and the supperless children and, crying mothers may live until they are able to secure food to nourish their suffering bodies. But then some positive action should be taken. The firing of one gun would have brought on a lynching perhaps, but it would have brought also the armed forces or the state. With their arrival would have come peace. It may be that these conditions will get better after a long time but the best way to prevent them will be for colored men to be prepared to defend themselves. These white hoodlums evidently knew that the colored people of Coleman Texas were harmless that they would not resist. They knew that there was not a Winchester rifle, with ammunition and with a nervy colored man to pull the trigger within the radius of the town and they accordingly took no risk in driving every Negro out of the neighborhood. Had death been lurking in the venture anxious white mothers would have kept their boys at home and expectant wives would have seen to it that their husbands did not go beyond the confines of the front gate. But then colored folks have not been educated up to these facts as yet. They are learning slowly. When they are able to get this dying religion that will nable them to face death with impunity and after a brave fight, "go shooting home to glory", then a long stride will, have been taken towards improving these blighting conditions in the Southland WATER SUITS JEFF Big Fellow Spends Day Rowing and Swimming. BY W W NALGHTON Jeffries Training Camp Rowdennan, Cal. April 23 - This has been a day of aquatic sports in the training camp of Jim Jeffries. Jeffries spent the greater part of the day baiting and swimming on the river and the main part of the population of Rowdennan was either out on the river or lounging on the shady banks for hours in both morning and afternoon. The place more nearly resembled a Henley rogetta than a training camp for a world-famed fighter. Only one regular feature of the training routine was adhered to by Jeffries today. That was baseball on the tennis court. He played twice once in the morning and once in the late afternoon. The morning game was a variation of the usual batting and fielding of grounders. An indoor baseball outfit was brought out, and Jeffries and his trainers and a few of his friends played a game of "Old Cat" that was more for fun than exercise. The work on the river, though a decided change for Jeffries and a good rest from the monotony or pulling weights and swinging at punching bags and hand halls was vigorous enough. Before the forest shadows and lengthened Jeffries had rowed or 10 miles, going a stretch of more than half a mile between the dam and the rails. Jeffries long spell on the river came about unexpectedly. It is many mornings since Jeff had not worked in his gymnasium at least an hour. Not having worked in the morning, it was taken as a foregone conclusion that he would spend a part of the afternoon in the gymnasium. But a rarely race which he won in the morning on the river had whet ted her a petite for more exorcise on the water. Jeffried friends Dick Adams and Jack McNeil were working in his cottage, writing together and Jeff was alone in another. They were at the dam when the challenge was made. The two skiffes sped up the river ahead for a time but Jeffried strength proved too great, and he pressed the finish line well ahead. TRAINERS DISAPPOINTED In the afternoon Jeffries' trainees prepared for the expected workout with the gloves and gymnastium apparatus and Joo Choynski got into fighting tops for his first work with the big follow. Jeff drifted down to the water, as he himself probably intended, for a short row in the cool air in the heat of the day. The morning rowing had blistered his hands, and he wore cotton gloves. Then he started out on what proved to be a very long row. With Molville and Adams in the stern seat, the skiff carried an excess weight of fully 850 pounds, but Joff pulled back, and forth without firing for more than two hours. Other boaters wont out, and returned after a white, scarred, but Joff steadily rowed on, trip, after trip, until the watchers on shore wondered at his endurance. Joe was in trunks and gymnasium shirt and suddonly, while he was rowing down stream he sprang up, jumped from the boat and dived to the bottom of the river. The boat rocked as though a typhoon had hit it, and the two passengers got half cooked. Joe swam around diving and aptishing like a happy boy for about fifteen minutes. Farmer Burna watched him from the shore in perplexity. "That is an awfully bad thing for a man when he is hot," said the Farmer. "It makes them go stale. It ruins a horse to go into cold water suddenly when it is warmed up, but this fellow likes it, its thinks it is good for him, and I guess it must be from the way he goes at it. It is against all the rules of training though." The river is playing a big part in the life of the camp in this hot weather, and thermometers here were up to 96 in the shade today, Jeff was off for a fishing trip yesterday and came back with the limit. Papke and Choynski went out with rods this morning, and returned with another limit catch between them. Incidentally Papke slipped on a wet rock and received an unexpected ducking JACK JEFFRIES COMING. Word has been received here that Jack Jeffries, brother of Jim, will join the camp on May 1. Jack is now engaged in mining engineering in Mexico, and is a very busy man, but he has aided his brother in all of his former rights, and figures that he cannot miss, being with him in his preparation for the greatest fight of all Jack has been out of the ring for many years. He fought Johnson in Philadelphia, in 1905, and was knocked out in four rounds. The complete recovery of Mrs. Jeffries would be to be a matter of only a few days. She will return here on Wednesday, and Jeff is counting the days until then Mrs. Jeffries will be accompanied by a piece, from Los Angeles who will visit her for a few weeks. A telegram was received this afternoon by the big fellow from Rickard, announcing that he would be in camp tomorrow for a brief visit, Clarence Borry will come down with Rickard. A fairly large crowd of over Sunday visitors came in today by trains and automobiles, and the camp is livelier than it has been for many days. Jeff May Have to Defeat Both Leng ford and Johnson to Vindicate BY FRANK GOTCH Champion Wrestler of the World To misquote the popular song a little, Jim Jeffries may have "to haul two loads of coal away." When the big fellow came out of retirement for the sole purpose as his gib press agent, Sam Berger, put it, of proving to the world the superiority of the white race over the black in things pugilistic Jack Johnson was the only man who was regarded as a fit opponent for the undefeated alfalfa rancherhoe Since that time, however, Sam Langford has been knocking at the gate of the championship every heavyweight division, and even JJ-whiff, the present title holder he may be called upon to stow away the "Boston Demon" in order to fulfill his great desire of "winding the Caucasian race." Langford is not to be denied. He meets any one who is willing to risk a collision with his uppercourt or terrible right cross and beats him. His victory over Jimmy Barry the other night marred the third time he has put away the big Chicagoan by the knockout route in nine fight matches and argued that Langford inked the stamina to go over a long route. It was pointed out that when he defeated Iron Hague for the heavy weight championship of Great Britain he was a very tired boxer at the finish. That bout went but four rounds and the cry went up immediately that Langford would be sure to lose as soon as he met a man who could escape his uppercourt for ten or fifteen rounds. Jim Flynn came along and catching Langford out of condition stayed ten rounds with him. Again it was said that Sam could not go the route Flynn was given another chance and went to dream of winning again. But Sam who from the experience he had gained from his eight previous rights with Sam had evolved a defense for Langford's famous uppercourt. For fifteen rounds he stalled along, escaping Sam's one best bet, only to run into a good old fashioned right cross in the sixteenth and go down and out. LANGFORD CAN GO ROUTE Langford has proved he can go the route and he be strong. If Jeffries wins from Johnson as I think he will there is sure to be a demand that he give Langford a chance Many may say that Sam is too small for the Big Bear of California but he is no smaller than Fitzslimson and there is every reason for believing that he can hit just as hard as Ruby Robert Langford now is on his way to fight Kotchel six rounds in Philadelphia, April 2(th) He is not able to run into a snag in such a short bout with the Thunderbolt, and should come up to July 4th with a clean enough record to demand a fight from the winner. This fight between Kotchel and Langford, by the way, should be a terrific one. Sam surly is right just now, and reports say that Kotchel at last has awakened to the realisation of the fact that he has a roal fight on his hands and is training. Both men have terrific punches, but I do not look for either to take much of a chance in this fight, which probably will go the limit. Langford is far the cleaver of the two and is fully as hard a thumper as Kotchel. A long battle between the pair would be a great card for an opener of the big fight carnival at San Francisco in July. JEFF ACT8 WIBELY IN TRAINING Jonitors appears to have settled down into a sensible routine of training. He started altogether too unconsciously for a man nearly three months removed from a battle, and the easing up he tild last week was the right thing for him to do. Strong as he is, he might have grown stale before the time came for him to step into the ring with Johnson had he continued his breakneck trainingosed. The good thing about his scheme of preparation is that he is doing those things which he likes. He always was a great fellow to be out of doors and has the playful disposition of a boy. He is an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter, and hardly a day passes that he is not tramping across the country in search of game or fish. In doing this he is following his own inclinations, enjoying himself to the limit and at the same time gradually getting himself into shape for a fight. By mixing up pleasant things with the always hard things of the training camp Jeff is sure to come through in good shape. A good disposition is one of the greatest aids to a fighter, and a fellow who is fighting, hunting and playing ball with all the spirit of a street gamin cannot be of good cheer. SHOWS OLD-TIME BOXING SKILL Joffries had done little in the boxing line to date, but what he has done has demonstrated to all who have seen him that he has lost none of his old-time running. The same skillful dodging and footwork that caused him to outbox Corbett in the first round has enabled his accuracy of hitting still are big. The best thing of all in his work has been the proof that his wind is right. No man whose bellows are working badly can go eight or ten miles on the road and end with a two or three mile sprint, then follow with baseball, handball, boxing and wood chopping. Jeffries's endurance will be O. K. All his friends may rest assured of this and I want to repeat the same statement that I made three months ago—that the longer the bout goes the better will be the chances of the white man. He is seemingly impervious to fatigue and in a long battle, his tremendous weight will toll greatly in his favor. When Jeff want to rowardenan he was much nearer to fighting trim than he thought and his first hard work put him on such an edge that he declared, and so did the best critics on the Coast, that he was right for a fight. All he has to do from now on is to keep in his present trim and he will climb into the ring July 4 ready to fight as well as ever he battled BIG BETS ON THE FIGHT New York Flooded With Money to Back Jeffries. New York, April 23.--That there are now large sums of money in this city to wager on James J Jeffries, in his fight with Jack Johnson on Independence day, at odds of 2 to 1--if it should become necessary to give such odds in order to place the money--that many thousands more will be sent on before long from the Pacific coast for the same purpose, and that Jeffries will have no trouble in getting into prime condition for the big contest, is the information imparted today by Jack Cooper, an old friend of the former champion, of Gleason Corbett, and others prominently connected with sport. The first big wager that has been made in New York as to the length of the fight was placed last week. A prominent local sporting man placed $5,000 against $7,000, put up by a broker, that the fight would not go more than ten rounds. Norther party to this bet entered into any details as to who would be the winner. The wager was solely on the length of the fight. There were a number of smaller bets, ranging from $5,000 down to $2,000 reported most of them at odds of 10 to 8 or 10 to 7 on Jeffries to win. I know that right now Gleason, Rickarion Jefffoft and a whole lot of other men "in the snow" have sent and are sending all kinds of colts New York to bet on Jeffries at any odds at all up to 2 to 1. And I'll tell you this much more Jeffries is sending some East himself for the same purpose. And what the 'big follow' is sending is no trifle, either." If there is a lot of money to get on Jeffries at 2 to 1, there'll be no such odds given in England, according to a prominent Englishman, who recently came over here. Even money backs will give on the other side. FAVOR JOHNSON IN EUROPE Johnson is very much fancied throughout Europe this traveler said, because for one thing, his reputation is bigger there than it is in the United States also, there is not the prejudice against negroes abroad that there is here. In Cooper's opinion, "the big fellow" showed succinctly when he was in New York last November that he could easily regain his old form, that absence from the ring for four years had not impaired his faculties to any serious extent that his eye for distance and speed was almost as good as ever, and that he was terribly in earnest about giving the nogro the worst beating that Joffries has ever met out to an opponent. "Joff came into my gymnasium," said Cooper, "whole he was here last November and put on the gloves several times. Corbott was then in light training here—as he usually is the whole year round—and the two old opponents frequently did a row stunts in private. Joff was anxious, of course, to know just what he had in him, and so so Corbott. Well, the 'big fellow' soon showed us. "That punching dummy over there? That thing weighs just 41 pounds. The first day Joff came in this gymnasium he lounged over to where it hung, and without having taken on even his overcoat, hooked it twice with both left and right hand. Each time it stood out horizontally, and it takes a mighty strong man, with a real punch accurately delivered, to do anything like that." $12,500 For Loss of Both Eyes. Columbus. O. April 27. — Joseph Frank, a former employee of the lior- nancourt Brewing company, was given judgment for $12,500 against the company by the supreme court. He had lost both eyes and claimed that shel- lac with which he coated the interior of the company's vault contained wood alcohol and that he caused his blind- ness. SADS BROOKS CURRY WHAT WEEK—FREE Bond Name and Address Today You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. 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PEACE EFFORTS PRAISED Baron Constant Lauds Former President's Work For Conciliation—He Watches Avators Fly Paris April 12 At the American embassy in Delray Rouveilt received a deputation from the French parliamentary group for international arbitration headed by former Premier Leon Bourdin and Baron D'Estouville De Constant. The baron who shared last year's Nobel prize with M. Bermann of Belgium expressed to the former president regret that parliament was not in session as the group had panned a great demonstration in his honor. Nevertheless the group, he said desired to again show its gratitude many times expressed for Colonel Rouveilt's decisive interventions in the case of conciliation justice and international peace. He continued. To our gratitude for the past is added our confidence in the benevolent influence that you will continue to exercise in the future. This confidence is all the greater because your conception of peace conforms with our own Peace for you as for us is not peace at any price but justice. Our propaganda is a continual fight for the right despite skeptics who are your enemies and ours. We will not stop the good fight so glorious for democracy against the abuse of force which is the negation of all morality human dignity liberty and civilization." "I Am a Private Citizen" M Bourgeols after saying that Colonel Roosevelt was responsible for the second peace conference at The Hague, declared that he looked forward to a third conference and counted upon Colonel Roosevelt's influence to that end. Colonel Roosevelt replied that his influence could be taken for granted and added "But you must remember that I am now a private citizen." "I too am a private citizen remarked M Bourgeols. The other members of the deputation were presented by Baron De Constant to Colonel Roosevelt who had for each a word of encouragement concerning the work in which they are engaged. Mr Roosevelt spent the foreseen in a visit to the Luxembourg gallery being accompanied by Amhassadors Kasarand and Bacon. After inspecting the paintings and sculpture Mr Roosevelt and M Jusarand walked for some time in the garden of Luxembourg, the former president showing special interest in the Fontaine de Modiels by Debroze President *Fallerses* through commandant Hard, the officer of his military household, presented Colonel Roosevelt with a magnificent tapestry the design of which is a copy of Giromo's famous painting, "Love Mounted on a Hippopotamus." The tapestry was made at the celebrated government factory at Boavius and involved several years' work. It is considered one of the handsome pieces turned out by the factory in a generation. Colonel Roosevelt went to Iazy Lee Moulinneux, where, as the guest of the Academy of Sports, he will witness some acrobatic flying. A dinner in his honor, followed by a reception was given at the American ambassy by Ambassador and Mrs Bacon Subscribe to THE PLANET. PLANET Postoffice Robbers Plead Guilty to Indictment in Federal Court. Richmond, Va.. April 22.—Game to the last and with unfinishing faces, Eddie Fay and "Little Dick" Harris, charged with having robbed the Richmond post-office of $86,295.54 worth of stamps, pleaded guilty yesterday in the United States District Court, and, after a fow of the usual proclaim inarales, were sentenced, each, to ten years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $6,000. The plea of guilty came as an anticlimax to the greatest and most daring post-office robbery over perpetrated in the history of the United States government. As Harris afterwards stated in his cell in the Honor County Jail, it was "Hobson's choice," and was the only alternative. Attorney Harry M. Smith, Jr., had no defense to make, not a ghost of a show, and Mr. Smith usually fights every case in his hands to the bittor end. READY FOR SENTENCE After the voluminous indictment had been road to them, the two men, with their counsel, retired to Judge Waddell's office for a ten minutes' conference. They returned. From their faces the inspiration of hope had fled. They had submitted to the unalterable decree of the law, and were ready for conviction and sentence. Clerk Joseph P. Brady commanded the prisoners to stand "What say you" he asked, as silence fell over the crowded court room "We plead guilty," replied Mr. Smith "And what say ye?" again asked Clerk Brady, addressing himself to the men behind the bar "Gullily," replied Fay, bowing his head. "Gudly," echeod "Little Dick," alm most inaudibly. Judge Waddill proceeded to impose sentence. There were five counts against Fay and Harris, conviction on all of which would have meant a twenty-four year term in the penitentiary. But as they had pleaded guilty to the whole indictment and because three of the counts are included in the other two, Judge Waddill imposed sentence only on two counts. "I will impose sentence under the third and fifth counts," said the court amid an almost audible silence "The third count charges the prisoners with forcibly breaking and entering, the Richmond post office, and bears with it a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment and a fine of $1,000." I impose the full limit under this count "Under the fifth count of the indictment, which charges the prisoners with stealing stamps and cash from the Richmond post office, the maximum punishment is five years imprisonment in the penitentiary and a fee of $5 000 Under this count the court imposes the maximum sentence." Judge Waddill then explained that the other three counts were included in the two under which the men had been convicted, and passed sentence. STAY HERE FORTY EIGHT HOURS As is usual, they were asked if they had anything to say why they should not be sentenced, and they stood mute The United States Marshal was commanded to take them out Mr Smith inported a moment to ask that his clients be allowed to remain in Richmond forty-eight hours, so that they might make all arrangements they felt necessary before their departure for Atlanta The court acquiesced, and the two men were then lod from the room. The vordict was, it is said, a compromise between the government and Fay and Harris Attorney Melvil Flegenheimer was engaged in the case last Friday to help effect a compromise, when it was found that Fay and Harris would have no chance in facing trial that Flegenheimer went to Washington early Saturday morning and interviewed Postmaster General Hitchcock and Chlof Harrison, of the Post Office Inspectors' Department. He had a long conference with them, it was learned, and notified Mr Smith over the long-distance telephone of the results of his efforts. They were evidently reassuring, and Mr Flegenheimer returned Saturday afternoon for another conference with the post office authorities here. MISSING STAMPS HURT His main difficulty lay in the fact that his clients could not produce the $17,000 worth of stamps now missing. Had they been returned the sentence might have been less, but another Fay nor Harris could aid in recovering them, stating that they had absolutely no idea where they were or by whom they are now possessed. Inspectors are still trying to trace them, but with little hope of success. Mr. Flegonholmer's efforts were probably the reason for the sentence being limited to only two counts. Otherwise, Fay and Harris would have been sent to the Atlanta prison for twenty-four years, in which case Harris would have been seventy-eight years old when liberated. "That the two men were seen in Richmond and could positively have been identified could have been sworn to by several witnesses," said Assistant United States District Attorney Robert H. Tallley yesterday afternoon. "We had a restaurant keeper who would have sworn that Day came into his restaurant twice, each time at 3 o'clock in the morning. We knew that he stayed at the Richmond Hotel, and we knew that the tools found in his trunk were the ones used to break open the post-office safe. Of course, we have always plenty of evidence to convict Harris, and we soon found enough evidence to convict Fay. The men had absolutely no chance. They risked all and they lost." PRISONERS MUCH DEPRESSED Fay and Harris are much depressed, though they give no outward signs of their emotion. While in the United States District Attorney's office, just before the trial, one of those present made a joking remark. Harris laughed, but Fay bawed his head in his hands. No smile has ever crossed his features. He is a man of deep emotions, a flash of anger in one minute and a gentle word in the next. On one or two occasions he has been overcome by his feelings, and he would stalk his coll like a caged lion. But in a moment the reaction would come, and a gentle word would fall from his lips. Both men were seen in their coils yearday afternoon. Each had his coat and collar on. They appeared willing to talk about their present plight, but little has been gained from them as to their past history. They had a long conference with Mr. Smith and made arrangements with him to send their property to friends. The three trunks in which they carried away the stamps and their clothes were brought down to the Henrico County Jail, and, with Mr Smith, Fallor Sydnor and his aides, and two post-office inspectors present, they were opened and examined and the contents listed. Each man had ten or two twelve suits of clothes and eight or ten pairs of shoes. There was also a quantity of shirts, underwear and neckties. Each has a handsome watch and valuable toilet articles, showing that they are men who have never denied themselves any luxury they could afford. FAREWELL TO LAWYER After this had been done there were a few farewell words between Mr. Smith and his clients, and the men went back to their cells, while Mr. Smith, with a wave or his hand, walked out into the open. Several negro prisoners, charged with minor offenses, started a dirgellike hymn in their colls above. Their song sifted down to where the two white men stood. They listened, and "Little Dick" sighed He is a little, thin, frail man, with a good face. His eyes were moist, but there was nothing more. Neither man would give vent to his emotions, though both looked forward with dread to their long imprisonment. The younger man has confessed that he is the real Eddie Fay "I came out of a reformatory," he said, "when I was a little boy They have traced me back to when I was but twelve years old, but, by G-Arl, they'll never trace me back further than that There is no man under the sun who knows my history back to my childhood days, and no man ever will know I know I'm a thief and a robber, but I never harmed a poor man or robbed an individual I stole from the government, and it is being done every day There are plenty of government but most of them see They caught Harris and me, and we got ten years. I thought the limit would be five, or maybe seven years But they soaked it to us hard FEELS SORRY FOR DICK "I fell sorrier for Dick than I do for myself. I am only thirty five years old, and I will still be comparatively young when I come out of prison. But poor little Dick is fifty four years old, and ten years in penitentiary means a life to him." Fay has told Jailer Sydnor that this was his last job and that when he was liberated he expected to set down to some business and work honestly for his living. He denies that he was in Richmond at the time of the robbery, and says that he was here some days before. This leaves the impression that he was the man who engineered the project and laid the plans. "Little Dick," with his frail body, presented a mournful picture. "I will never live to get out of the penitentiary," he told Jailor Sydnor, "and this means the last of me." An attempt was made to reassure him by saying that, perhaps, he would be pardoned. He shook his head. "We don't expect that." he said Fay also shook his head at the suggestion of a pardon. When confronted with the restaurant keeper who went to identify him as the man who had been twice to the restaurant at 3 o'clock in the morning Fay denied it vehemently a thief and robber," he said, "and I've gone pretty low. But I've never gone so low as to enter a place like that. This man never saw me before in his life." VIGILANCE REDOUBLED Both men thanked Jallor Sydnor for his kindness toward them, for Mr Sydnor has been as considerate of their comfort as he could possibly be under the circumstances. And the two men appreciate what he has done. But vigilance was redoubled last night, and Jallor Sydnor, who, since Fay and Harris have been in his care, has slept only four hours out of twenty four, slept hardly a wink last night. Anxiety for the sokeeping of the men doopened with the passing of sentence upon them, for dosapir gives rise to now courage and more fertile invention. No certain apprehension was felt by the jail officials, that they decided to be prepared for any emergency that might arise. The two men will probably be taken to Atlanta some time today.—Bichmond Va. Times-Dispatch McCLURE'S MAGAZINE Contents for May. 1910. Drawing by Wladyslaw T. Benda Friendship Policing the Czar Kavier Paoli Illustrated with Photographs and Paintings The Mocking Shepherd's. A Poem Anita Pitch M. Kavier Paoli Rens Lars The Glamour. A Story. Oscar Grave THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Illustrations by C. Foemire Love of Friends. A Poem The Blue Pearl. A Story Neith Boyce Illustrations by Robert Edwards The Skulls of Our Immigrants Burton J. Hendrick Illustrated with Photographs ... The Nineteenth Hat. A Story Arnold Bennett Illustrations by Froderie Door Stoele The Anthropologist at Large. A Story R. Austin Freeman Illustrations by Henry Raleigh Our Duel With the Rat William Atherton Du Puy and E. T. Brewster Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings by Charles L. Bull The Point of View' A Story "Ole Luk-Ole" Illustrations by Wladyslaw T. Benda The Education of King Peter. A Story Edgar Wallace Illustrations by Arthur G. Dove The New American City Government George Kibbe Turner New Facts on Cancer Burton J Hendrick Home of Race Hatred Fanned Into White Heat. Atlanta, Ga., April 24 —In a moment of consciousness today at the Atlanta Hospital, Conductor W H. Bryson, one of the victims of the three negro highwaymen who last night held up and robbed a street car in an Atlanta suburb, identified one of the negroes caught in the police dragnet as probably one of the guilty trio. This negro and four others, who are held on suspicion, are tonight in what is known as "the tower." The fact that the wounded conductor had partially identified the negro was known to but few, extraordinary precautions having been taken by the county and city police to keep from the thousands of whites, who today thronged the vicinity of the crime, any facts which might tend to further fan the flame of race hatred manifested All kinds of rumors, however, gained credence and the officers found M necessary to prohibit negroes visiting the neighborhood where the crime occurred. There were even expressions of dis approval of the few negro chauffeurs who piloted automobiles to the scene. PRECAUTIONS TAKEN Chief of Police Jennings stated tonight that every precaution had been taken against manifestations of a riot spirit, "although we have not the slightest apprehension that there will be trouble" he added. The funeral of Motorman S T Brown who was shot dead beside his car by one of the nogroes, will be held tomorrow. A coroner's jury was impanded and viewed the body, but no formal report will be made for the dead man, but a performance this morning on Conductor Bryson, and it is announced that there is a slight chance that he will recover. A score or more of negroes were arrested last night and today, but after being subjected to a sweating at police headquarters, all but five were released this afternoon. A rumor that on one of the negroes arrested was found a receipt which bore the name of the dead motorman, was denied by the police. They also denied the report that weapons were found on several of the negroes arrested. The bloodhounds last night followed the trail of the negroes from the point at the end of the car line where the hold occurred to a tented construction camp where about sixty negroes are employed on grading work. Hero several of the arrests were made, and all the other members of the construction gang are under surveillance. Today whites were not permitted to go near this camp because of the exoticable attitude of the crowds which thronged the vicinity of the crime. TOOK MONTHS WAGES Besides robbing the conductor of all of the company's cash that he had the negroes took from the dead body of the motorman a purse containing his month's wages. The street railway company offered a reward of $600 for the apprehension of the guilty negroes. Tonight the reward for the apprehension of the negroes was increased to $1,800. The street railway company increased the amount offered by it to $1,000, while Mayor Robert F. Maddox offered $600 on behalf of the city of Atlanta, and Governor Brown $300 for the State. The street car man have started a subscription for the benefit of the family of the dead man, which is meeting with a substantial response from business men and other citizens. Late tonight Conductor Bryson is still alive but his condition is critical. Or three other negroes taken before the dying conductor late today, he partially identified Jim Black and Ananias Holland as his assailants. While the identification was by no means positive, the police believe that with those two and another negro identified by Bryson earlier in the day, they have the guilty negroes. Nevertheless, the search is being continued tonight, and several others negroes have been arrested, who the police believe know something of the crime. They will be held pending an investigation Race Plots in Texas. Coleman, Tex., April 24.—Twelve nogroes badly beoston, one white man sortially injured and the entire negro-population of Coleman of between 150 and 300 men, women and children, driven out of town, was the result of race riots which occurred here, as I o'clock this afternoon, and raged far into the night. That many persons were not killed or seriously wounded is due to the fact that the nugroes offered no resistance except in insolated cases, and the whites contented themselves with using clubs, sticks, and stones instead of firearms. Until the Santa Fe Railroad began using nugro labor on construction work in this section a black face was a rarity and trouble has been brewed over the nugroes in considerable numbers, and the towns to town. This feeling has been greatly intensified recently by allied inflammatory utterances of some of the nugro leaders, who asserted that they were here to stay. The trouble began this afternoon when two white youths became involved in a fight with a nugro. Quickly the word spread, and in a short space of time a mob of more than 1,000 men and boys were sweeping through the section of the town occupied by Negroes, clubbing and stoning every black head that appeared The officers of the law protested, were brushed aside and literally run over by the crowd. For several hours the main mob maintained its strength or about 1,000 or more men, and by that time every section of the city was raided as by a fine tooth comb for negroes, the latter fleeing in every direction. The very bulk of the mob was a favor of the negroes, as pursuit was hampered by numbers, not more than a dozen of the fleeing blacks being overtaken. About 9 o'clock tonight, when not a nogro remained in town, the mob dispersed, and at this hour here it is believed there will be no further trouble. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., April 19, 1910. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100 00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Jeannette Cunningham, who was a member of Queen Esther Court, No. 50, of Danville, Virginia. Signed WILLIAM J. CUNNINGHAM. Administrator. Witnesses Cordella Hardy, R of D. J. R. Wilson, R of A. S. J. Holbrook, D. D. W C $150.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., April 21, 1910 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth ias, N A, S A, E, A A and A. ($150 00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death chain of Brother L. Cunningham, who was a member of lone Star Lodge. No 136 of Danville, Va. Signed DRUSILLA CUNNINGHAM, Bonefclary Witnesses Matt Cunningham, K of R. and S W J Hubbard, D D G C $150.00 Endowment Paid. Dauville, Va., April 21, 1910 This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia Knights of Pytha- nus, N. A. S. A. E., A. A. and A. ($15000) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Joseph S Price who was a member of Moravian Lodge. No 13. of Dauville Va. Signed ELISA HOWARD PRICE ```markdown ``` 8150.00 Endowment Paid Newport News Va April 24, 1910 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N A S A, E, A, A and A, ($150 00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother C. P. Rowlett, who was a member of Damon Lodge No. 12 of Newport News, Va Signed M A ROWLETT Beneficiary Witnesses E J Jefferson, W T Bell P. C. I E Byrd. P. C J C Allen D. D O C THE TUENDAY CLUB MUSIC FESTIVAL City Auditorium, May 3rd and 4th, Corner Linden and Cary Sts. With a blaze of a musical feast still burning in the hearts of the music-loving people of Richmond, loft by the Wednesday Musical Club, all of Richmond's population will be offered another musical feast by colored talent, composed of 150 voices of trained singers, and a careful trained ensemble The chorus will hold its final rehearsal Monday night. All are now quite, ready, and the castle seems fully prepared for their critical task. The City Auditorium has been selected for this great musical feast, and all lovers of music seem anxious to witness this enormous undertaking by a colored chorus, colored castle and colored orchestra. The Auditorium will afford a splendid opportunity and convenience by which the Tuesday Club can be heard to a good advantage. All arrangements for the comfort of all at the Auditorium have been made and every person will be given every attention. Tickets are now on sale at the following places: True Reformers Bank, Beecher & Bongora, 721 E. Main St.; Crafts Plano Co., Fifth and Grace St. 'Phone calls: Madison, 704, 7789, 7234, 6456, 6508, and 6138; for any and all information. Take Laurel Street, Oclay Street, First Street, and Oakwood and Broad Street cars for Auditorium. 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Enclosed find One Dollar INDEPENDENT every week for Enclosed find One Dollar for which please send me. THE INDEPENDENT every week for Six Months . In writing, mention The PLANET. $50,000,000LOSS IN BLIZZARD Western Crops Almost Totally Destroyed. MUST RE-SEED GRAIN Eight States Are Covered With Snow and Millions of Trees In Blossom Buffered—Storm Sweeps the Great Lakes. The most disastrous April blizzard in a decade in the central northwestern and Mississippi valley states has caused a monetary loss to fruit vegetable and grain crops estimated at $50,000,000 has wrought havoc to the shipping on the Great Lakes has caused death and untold suffering among the unprepared and has impeded railroad traffic. The snow and windstorm which started Thursday night still continues and snow variegating in depth from two to eight inches covers the states of Nebraska, Iowa Minnesota and the Dakotas Wisconsin Illinois and Mississippi while temperatures are below freezing. Coming as it did with millions of acres of fruit trees in blossom and with spring wheat and vegetables all sprouting the storm is nothing less than a calamity in Minnesota north through Dakota and Wisconsin much of the grain will have to be rescued. The entire fruit crop of the central lakes region excepting westward to the foothills of the Rocky mountains and southward into Kentucky and Tennessee is almost certainly wiped out for the season. The losses in the principal fruit growing states are told in the following dispatches received in Chicago. Illinois Greatest damage was caused by the blizzard that covered the entire state Early vegetables on the truck gardens in the northern districts and berry patches where beds had reached an advanced stage are reported as total losses Damage $600000 Iowa Storms in Iowa have continued with greater or less vigor for nearly a week but the frigid atmosphere and snows of the last two days have done the greatest damage Not only fruits and vegetables but even the oats crop is threatened. Entire damage $1000000 Indiana Apple or hards and truck gardens were the greatest sufferers. The damage, which was confined to the northern and central districts amounts to $ 500,000. Michigan Fruit belt almost entirely gone for the season. All that remains according to expert growers is the grape crop which has been damaged to a great extent $ 400,000. Wisconsin It is estimated that 50 per cent of the fruit crop and all of the early vegetable and green stufa have been killed Damage $ 200,000. Kansas Snow and low temperatures have killed the hula and in many instances even the leaves on the tree. The corn crop however is safe damage $ 100,000. Kentucky All the fruits and vegetables as well as budding plants and flowers, have been damaged by the cold weather and furries of snow largely because of the fact that they had reached an abnormally early development. Loss $ 200,000 Missouri Clouds and favorable conditions saved much of the fruit Friday night, but the clear weather and continued cold completed the damage. Estimated loss $2,000,000 Ohio—Early fruit particularly watermelon and other vines have been killed by the spouts and freezing weather Grain has not been hurt Loss, $500,000 Nebraska—Small gardeners and the truck farmers were the heaviest losers in the storm that it is believed now has not damaged the early wheat Loss, $2,000,000 In the northwest—Minnesota the THE INDEPENDENT 120 FULTON STREET NEW YORK Regular Subscription Price $2.00 a Year Dakotas and eastern Montana farm crops and garden truck have shrivled up and died. The total damage so far reached in over $150,000 with the wheat crop still in doubt. Explosion Kills Forty-one Miners. Not one of the forty-one miners imprisoned in the Mulga Ala mine of the Birmingham iron and Coal company by an explosion of gas is alive. This became certain when unison schools from the deadly fumes of the shaft Superintendent Johns of the mine and a man named Honds who risked their lives for those who had already perished were drawn up to fresh air Long before the rescuers were revived their condition told the fate of the miners. Following the explosion fames shot up the shaft of the mine for a distance of about 100 feet and the ground is covered with shared timber around the mouth of the shaft. They were blown up from the bottom of a 350 foot shaft. Every window in the villa lage was broken by the explosion. Around the entrance to the mine in addition to the families of the tombbed men hundreds from the surrounding mining districts swelled the crowds and it was with great difficulty that the work of rescue could be carried on. Three Saved. While Three Drowry. Braving the heavy was the Andean sea. The life saving crew after the command of Captain Benton drove its lifeboat in miraculous time to the side of the capsized boat of the Ocean Fish. Many and rescued three of the crew who were clinging to the side of the lifeboat, while three other men who were on the boat sank and perished. The names of those who perished are Captain Frank Tompkins married and leaves a wife and child Willis Murphy, single Joseph Reed of Chincoteague Va. The three rescued men were hurriedly brought in and by the hardest kind of work Dr. Margaret Mace succeeded in reviving them. They are still in a serious condition after their hard experience. The upturned boat was brought into port by the life-saving crew who also are grappling for the bodies. The crew went out and placed the nets on the pond poles. They had finished their work and were returning when as they reached the bar a heavy breaker that was caused by a sudden gust of wind filled the boat and without a moment a warning all six men were plunged into the angry waters. Hughes Named Supreme Court Justice Governor Charles F. Hughes of New York has accepted the offer of the appointment to the supreme court of the United States to fill the vacant caused by the death of Associate Justice David J. Brewer. This announcement was made on Thursday at the White House. The following statement was given out at the White House. The president letter of April 22 tendered the appointment to the supreme bench to succeed Justice Brewer to Governor Charles F. Hughes of New York By letter of April 24 Governor Hughes accepted. In the president's letter to Governor Hughes he told him that an the supreme court would adjourn its hearings this week the person appointed would not be called upon to discharge any judicial functions until the opening of the October term on the second Monday in October and that therefore if Governor Hughes could accept he might continue to discharge his duties as governor until his qualification on the day of the opening of the court in October. "This was a material factor in Governor Hughes acceptance Accordingly if the nomination is confirmed as there is every reason to believe it will be. Governor Hughes qualification will not take place until October." Mine Explosion Kills Eightteen Eighteen miners lost their lives as the result of a gas explosion at the Youghigheny & Ohio Coal company's mine, at Amsterdam about twenty miles from Steubenville. 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CONRAD, 798 Main Street, Cambridge, Mass. Write today. The Conrad Manufacturing Co. One woman threw herself into the shaft. She is said to have fallen directly upon the body of her husband who with eleven other miners died at the bottom of the shaft, overcome by the deadly after-damp before they were able to reach the open air. There were but twenty five of the night shift of machine men working when the explosion took place. Seven of them were taken alive from the shaft but before the rescuing party could return for the balance the deadly damp rolled out of the mine and drove the rescuers made up entirely of miners back to the surface Meat Investigation Eride Believing that he has all the evic- dehence he needs to begin quater pro- ceedings against the meat packing companies Attorney General Major brought the meat inspection to a close at St Louis Mo. The attome) general said he would begin court action within thirty days Attorness for the packers after ad- journment said the facts which they wave willingly would not furnish a legal basis for an outster order. They said the National Packing company the holding corporation for the Ar- mour Swift and Morris interests which has been shown to own the St Louis Pressed Roof and Provision company had been pronounced a legal cor- poration Two Killed In Explosion Just to see if gasoline on water would burn George Meekin of Sharpa applied a match to it white in a gasoline launch at Warawai Va. As a result Meekin and his companion J. L. Brann of Toulouse are both dead. The men were in a launch towing a lighter and a barge loaded with ex-colored water and had been engaged in filling the gasoline tank from a larger tank on the lighter when a quantity of the fluid spilled on the creek. Immediately upon the match being lighted the explosion occurred Meekin's body was blown to pieces Brann's body was blown high into the air and landed in a skiff. Wolters Guildy of Murder Albert W. Wollers who has been on trial in New York city for the murder of Ruth Amos Wheeler the girl who went to his rooms to get employment as a station graphicer was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in Judge Wheeler's parish general sessions. Wollers gave motion of the slightest embezzlement. His face was void of expression as he answered questions that make on the formal court record of a person completed and his voice was low and even. Glory For Dead Antelope Elm and Holler the zoologist of Riveraical tide who accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on his roses. African hunting trophs that he tasted the sable antelope killed by Kermit Roosevelt is a new species popular to the Mombasa region and not heretofore described. It will be named to Roosevelt. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Block MAD LIVE BLOCK PHIJ ALPHA PHIJ FILO R panel winter low grade $149.29 winter clear $49.29 milia (new) $75.660 RAF FILO R panel at $149.29 per barrel WHITE STATION $149.29 112 CORN STATION local 6561665 OATS STATION local 4941665 PATIERS STATION local 49206165 choir STATION local 49206165 FARM STATION local $1c per P EGG FOOD STATION local by 22c water POTATOES STATION at 33.33 Live Stock Market PITTISH ROOT on stock Yankee CATTLE head choker $20.90 prince $19.90 SHREP firm prime watters $3.30 $7.60 cills and common $7 lambas $9.99 calves $8.50 turtles $9.99 ducks $8.50 dungs $76.90 heavy bows $7.00 $70.95 light Yorkers $9.00 $70: pigs $6.95 rogans $4.97 (1) ```markdown ``` Two Sabbath Incidents Sunday School Lesson for May 1, 1910 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT - Matthew 12:14 Mem ory verses, 11:12 GOLDEN TEXT I will have mercy and not anaclit Matt 12:1 TIME Early summer of A. 12:24 Mark and not anaclit Matt 12:24 Matthew's grouping would indicate PLACE Some field and synagogue in Galilee probably in Capernaum Suggestion and Practical Thought A Work of Necessity As 18 The Cause of Criticism v. 1 What act of the disciples seemed to defy the law of the Sabbath? Can you not imagine that quiet Sabbath afternoon walk through the ripening corn fields? The sun is declining in the western sky, there is not a cloud in the blue heavens the breath of wind attires the wheat-fold now white with harvest. To-morrow busy reapers will be here with the skillet to begin the great work of the year the cutting and carrying of the grain. Then the heavy ears and the light ears the scarlet poppy and the blue bottle and the purple corn cookie will be mown down together. As Jesus and the twelve walk through the corn fields they are hungry and they pluck the ripe ears rub them in their hands blow away the light bisk and eat the hard brown yellow grains that remain in their pains - Rev S. Haring Gould The Charge v. 2. What was it in the act that the Pharisees spying upon them objected to? Not taking the grain or eating it but the manual work involved. Reaping and threshing were properly forbidden on the Sabbath and the Pharisees insisted that plucking grain with the hands was a kind of reaping and rubbing the bunk off was a kind of threshing. C The Fourfold Reply (vs. 3.8) Our Lord's answer to the Pharisees charge is especially interesting because of its variety. First Reply, the Example of David (vs. 3.4), who, when fleeing from Saul, persuaded Ahimelech the priest to feed him and his hungry followers with the twelve symbolic leaves of bread kept on the golden table in the Holy Place of the tabernacle to signify that God was the provider of the people's food. Moreover, this was done on the Sabath, the day when the loaves were changed (see Inductive Study 3) and no one but the priest was allowed to eat that sacred food. Thus Jesus "mot them first on their own ground because life is more than law, when according to rabbi. Ian Maclaren. It was an illustration of the far greater importance of human need than any ceremonial requirement or act of ward form, however sacred. For haps they may be at a lat in the double. Have you not read that they could not produce a sacrifice for their prohibition as he would for the liberty which he all wished. The first illustration is perhaps best seen with some reference to the unallied between himself the true King now unrecognized and hated but his best fellowers and the fugitive outlaw with his band. Alexander Maclaren DD Second Reply the example of the Priests (v. 6) for whom the Sabbath is the basis of day of the week. But no one learns them but rather all men praise them because they are serving God a holy temple. Third Reply the laws Real Requirement (v. 7) which is more and not sacrifice a point upon which the prophets often hear. Fourth Reply the laws Authority (v. 8) Mark's account provides these words with the notable utterance "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was not made to annoy man re strict him, impower him, but to en enrich him, free him from hostility to toll bless him with the highest joy that God can bestow upon him. A Work of Mercy An 914 A The Blessed Opportunity (v 19) 101 What is the best test of correct Sabbath keeping? A whether it conforms to Christ's example. Seven of his recorded miracles were performed on the Sabbath, among them this of the withered land. What had case won Christ a sympathy? A man which had his hand withheld his right hand the most useful one as Luke the physician carefully noted. Tradition says the man begged Christ to heal him and Luke tells us that the arches and Pharisees were there watching him as they had dogged his steps through the wheat field --watching him fortively the Greek impiles. How was the cure performed? With a look of sorrow and indignation cast upon the withered hostel Pharisees (Mark) and with only a calm command to the cripple Stretch forth thine hand. Perhaps only the hand was withered but probably the arm also was paralyzed and if the man had stopped to think and reason instead of promptly obeying he would not have been healed. And it was restored whole. The Unmiserful Pharisees iv. 141 What effect had the miracle on the Pharisees? They could bring no charge against Christ, for he had done no work, he had merely spoken a quiet sentence. Nor could they proceed against the cured man for he had only stretched out his hand. Am yet their fanatical spirits were more enraged by Christ's defiance of their absurd Sabbath restrictions than, by anything else he ever did. They all once began to plot how they might destroy him. To such depths can a man's selfish pride bring the human heart! A Writer In the Wrong Pow. When James Payn was editor of the Cornhill Magazine his private office was invaded one day by an unannounced visitor who had managed to evade the porter downstairs. The collector's hair was long, and his clothes were shabby and untidy. He had a roll of paper in his hand. Payn, surmising a poet and an epic several thousand lines long looked up. "Well, sir." "I've brought you something about sarcoma and carcinoma." "We are overcrowded with poetry couldn't accept another line, not if it were by Milton." "Poetry" the caller flashed. "Do you know anything about sarcoma and carcinoma?" "It Italian lovers, aren't they?" said Payn imperiously. The caller retreated with a withering glance at the editor. Under the same roof as the Cornbill was the office of a medical and surgical journal, and it was this that the caller sought for the disposal of a treatise on those dangerous growths with the euphonious names, which with a lay man a ignorance, Payn ascribed to poetry McLurea. Things to Forget. If you see a tail fellow ahead of a crowd A leopard then, marching fearless and proud And you knew of a tale whose more telling aloud Would cause it to proud head to in anguish be bowed It is a good plan to forget it. If you know of a skeleton hidden away in a closet and guarded and kept from the day In the dark at 1 whose showing whose surface display Would you grief and sorrow and life long daisy? It is a pretty good plan to forget it. If you know of a thing that will darken the joy Of a man or a woman a girl or a boy That will wife or a wife or the least A fellow or a good groom to it A pretty or a good girl to forget it Hefst With His Own Petard The girl with the soft, shiny crass looked up at the tail shouldered a string that who was seeing it. "With a protecting air having just stared from a bated rival "It is she murmured, now that we've been engaged ever since last night and you won't ever need to be jealous again. I brought you to se- lect a tie for anyway, you will want you? A man's taste is so cor- rect in such things" The Phil you mean? Of course I will simp replied with a magnific- nous air. "This green tie with the yellow stripes is fine and dandy (tie) him that "Are you sure it is quite your choice, the girl asked anxiously I am sure you so much quiet ties That is, I presume my taste, the tie is perfectly The girl was tanned a two dollar bill for the girl's kilt and a monoch later shipped it into her companion's hand. "Jim, she said, 'I can't just keep it secret an instant longer. It is really for you the first gift I ever given you so. I wanted it to be exactly what you liked. You must wear it always when you come to see me.' added the possessor of the self-appointed case with an adorned brush. Kat is 65 Times. An Eye Out Inside the office with fare in hand I gave Henry Hermann the dramatic opportunity for playing a grim joke on the driver's expense. Hermann was an infirmate passenger of a grasshopper which John's waxing demons tried with his whip where if the passenger perturbed near he suddenly pulled out and thrust in cabbage face. You rascal! he verifierated look what you've done! You're in my eye out! Without waiting for our money in dispute the driver lashed her horse and fled agast A Sad Experience C K G Bittings the famous herman man had a heartbreaking experience with the first horse he ever owned. When quite a young man Mr Bittings fancied a fast trailing motorpriced to the list at $250, but not taking more than $200, this man persuaded the fast trailer to advance the balance which she did after much coaxing and benging. In due time it father heard of the fast trailer his sister had bought and expressed a desire to try her. The request was complied with and after a few ups on the road the old gentleman asked how much he had paid for her. "Six hundred dollars father," was the answer. "Well, Charles, the mare is not worth it," said the governor "but I rather like the way she steps so I will take her from you and you can have your $000. The deal had to be closed. Real Economy "Martha," said old Silas Long to his wife, "I think I go and get a few apples from the orchard." He looked at her timidly. She said "Well, be careful now. SI, only to pick the bad ones." "Suppose there isn't no bad ones, Martha." "Then you'll have to wait till some goes bad, of course," the old lady snapped. "We can't afford to eat good, sound fruit with its corses a bushel." HELPFUL HINTS TO CITY FARMERS By H.L. Rann Copyright&1919 American Press Association THIRD ARTICLE F every farmer who has a hard milking cow would use bushing gloves when draining the animals milking cow would use basking gloves when draining the animal he would find it a sure cure for the holdup habit. Some cows are tight by nature and have a deep accession to loosening up. When a tight tipped heifer feels the warm chap of a pair of spike studded mats, however she will be ready to give to the heathen, if necessary. The self opening farm gate is a deformation and a snare. We used to have one, and it was a bigger four flush than an elder who led a double life and a camp meeting at one and the same time. This gate was guaranteed to open at the sound of its masters voice in the teeth of a head wind and was warranted balter wound and sound of wind and limb. As a matter of fact, that gato always had to be cooped with a set of jack screws and a season of prayer it was the big OPENING A GATE WITH PRAYER gest nuisance on the place and caused all the hired help on the farm to fall from grace. We finally gave it to a Methodist neighbor who wanted to test his plenty. A farm paper raises the interesting query, "Am a farmer raise duties and retain his burth membership?" It depends on what burth he belongs to; it is easy if he is an Episcopalian, but if he is a hard shell Baptist it is a little doubtful. We had a Methodist neighbor who kicked the curriculum of a music in a moment of playfulness and bad both of his cysteethed ripped to his collar button in reward, and when he came to the next day he rose to his feet, repeated the third chapter of Nebuchadnezzar backward then swore a streak which blistered the lining out of a new steel range. The man who can rear a family of mules from help A man in a suit jumps into the air, throwing a frisbee. Below him, a cow jumps upward, carrying a hat. In the background, a dog and a cat are playing. A METHOD OF INFUSION WHO TICKER THE DURABILITY OF A MCLR less infiltrate a naturally without a dis- persion of cell burial profanity in the good for many births. We are so afraid that we are the best tell the age of a child. I here only w and that is by the color of the tall feathers at the molting period. A year long hen wears purple so she feathers a year old fawn the polka dot feet and the fowl down with age and grief wears here decked and down up in a haircut. The farmer who can't tell the exact age of a petlet by face inspects that tall feath OUGHT TO STUDY LAW ers ought to leave the farm and study law A nearby reader who has a fine heed of male and female bees asks us, "How can you catch the queen bee so as to clip her wings?" We generally use a scoop helmet with a pucker string which should be slipped over the mouth of the bee and tied in a bowknot after which the wings can be clipped with a pair of tinner's shears. The Un to Date Ehe—What's that curious looking charm you are wearing on your watch chain? He—That is our new coat-of-arm— chauffeur rampant policeman couch- ant, justice of the peace expectant. Easily Arranged The calcium was out of order. "I can't do my best without a glare." queen bee carries a nopsy and penetrating sting in her hip pocket, so considerable care must be exercised in fondling her Horace Greeley used to say that you can never get milk from a cow which is disattached with her lot or inclined to nurse a grouch. The sage is true today The man who tears around the barn like a demented wensel, plaiting a kick here and there and talking loudly through the basement of his Adams apple won't stand jack high on creamery pay day kiss on the cold moist nose of a beaver is a better divi d and producer than wharf rat today The man who tears around the barn like a demented weasel, plaiting a kick here and there and talking loudly through the basement of his Adam's apple won't stand jack high on creamery pay day Kiss on the cold moist nose of a heifer is a better divider producer than wharf rat profanity A cow whose slats are little to be re plated any minute by an frate milker will back her milk away up out of reach of the cheese factory. After you have caressed a milk cow across the breadbasket with a No. 11 shot you might as well try to extract milk from a farrow mule. When chickens perspire too freely and take cold it will usually be found that their plaffeathers need resetting A man is running away from a dog. CHASE THE BIRD AROUND THE BACK YARD This is a simple and easy process and will save many a pullet from pung mona. Clause the bird around the back yard until the perspiration oozes from her porcs then lay her on her back and clink the porcs with port land cement which will hold the pet feathers in place If your gasoline engine bucks it will do no good to hammer it over the foretop with an ax. First see if the cross bar which comes to the cuspider with the spark plug has not been short circuited then examine the bowels of the water jacket with a dark lantern in search of microbes. If this does no good run your gasoline through an oystermeat mattress and hang out to dry A good many of the faithful little hotels of the country are introducing pumpkin seed tea as a vowenfire. The tin is a good one. The pumpkin has been the fruit of cultivate in song and story since some it dispensed the Hunt hardship she a choice office but we are here to say that a man much of pumpkin pie washed down with elder sugar and dill饼 will make a cotton motif stomach all up and take notice. The man whoisses a cold pumpkin pie to his bosom on an empty stomach and survives the ordient we never need a massage for his digestion. We have a word to say to the farmers wife. If your husband sticks up his nose the meals lead him up to the food poter by the car and tell him to drown his appetite with pig fodder. Some men will attown in their own home before a nicely cooked meal and tear from soup to soup to appreciate the way things taste but they will go to town and let a fifteen cent dinner serve to their cochinos with out a murmur. We know a man who kept this up for a number of years, and on day his wife reached over the LEAD HIMMEL TO THE PEED LOOKER BY THE KAD spoon borer and jerked him into several holes of dishabille before the whole family. When he got his jaw back into alignment and picked his false tooth out of the grawe he was a changed man becoming mellow in spirit that he offered to go four rounds with a soup bone. As a rule, we deplore violence in the home but sometimes the only way to get along with a cross grained feeder is to beat him up with a mop handle. "I can manage that," responded the imprecise. "I'll station one of the other prima donna in the wings." Witness -Now, judge, I came down here to do my duty in a peaceful manner, and I don't want to be cursed by anybody! -Judge. 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 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. KRICHE UNTERREIS only absolutely necessary regu- 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 arosette, costing 25 cents for For all information concerning John 3' THOUGHT HE HAD 'EM. The Surprise That Greeted Him After His Debauch. A millionaire who had queer ideas of humor and the means to carry them into effect lived in great style near Monte Carlo. This man had an ivory white villa on a gray crag in a garden of palms and roses, fronting the sun and sunlit sea. Here he would entertain his friends with practical jokes. One night, after roulette at the casino and supper at times, a party of young men were taken to the villa. A certain young man had drunk a little too much vintage champagne at the elegant restaurant and him the host resolved to play one of his jokes upon. So when the young man fell asleep in the billiard room two servants, repressing their smiles, carried him away. The other guests were awakened the next morning by the host in person. He led them through sunlit marble OLUTCHED WITH FORNZED HANDS THE STEM OF THE CHANDFLING. CLUTCHED WITH FERNZIND HANDS THE STEM OF THE CHANDKLIER corridors, through roof, whose walls of glass gave views of the blue Mediterranean of sailing ships, rose gardens and the faroff maritime Alps, with their pale snow caps. Finally he brought them to a peephole. The scene they saw through their peephole was abutted. A dazed man in evening dress, slowly waking to conciousness, lay on a white plastered floor and looked up in horror at a carpeted ceiling. A messy bed, a builraou washstands and armchairs, all securely fastened, stared down at him from above. His eyes rested on a huge tub directly over his head, in which a fine palm was growing downwards. He gave a wave of terror rolled over and clutched with frenzzed hands the stem of the chandelier which came up through the plastered floor. Thereupon the practical joker of a host burst, with a loud laugh, into the room "They all do it" he cried. "They all without exception grab the chandelier for fear they will fall up to the ceiling" Be Considerate We lose trust in each other not through the faults of our neighbors, but because of our own reactions. 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MASON'S RIVAL (Batters =nate §=6Francte = Meo. the author «aie of a fainliy ob ple ener and fighters. ant. im related fo'Mas Teno uf cusier Stasvacte fame, Hie earlice years were spre i the ture molt of frontier Ie in Arizina. where be Was for name. thine steproty serif and Hater deity Cnted States marshal, at Tucson Hin efforta tn entoreing the Tle eae Exclunion Acton the Meztean bor Ger have been highly cominended ty the Washington. authorities, anc rc ugalxed by the Mightinders. who plasad a price OF F069 on tin hina) whted ntandn tn day Of tate Yours hie hag Twit a tighly te sponatite prattion with ue of the Inegeat Dank proar. tive napoedations in the United Staten, und as muperintemiant of Ite wee eret service hus estabilahed an enviable Ferord of aucvese in running down Dank Burmiare ‘Theer_storien are confined. to la ‘earlier experiences In the weat Oe scenes of which are Taid tn Arizona and Now Mexico near thw Mexican border The tase Fruntice which unt recent Years wan wild and tawieas, and where the typical oad’ man” of pioneer aaye made hia tast stand! @ \ THE boxinoing of the year 1899 1 wan earn: ing my living by the festhettc puroult of punching cows on the 1. Bar ranch, not far ea : [ esreolh trom Sata Ross, New Ves Mexico The onward Ses march of civilization ie ay O Gh gradually but wurely Fete’ ff oliminating tho pictur BES R\ f c2aue conboy from the aN scenery of the went, ESE CeRtDY but at the time I speak BSA) of be wan In the hey: zee pKa rnb, ‘Gat Bie ee gen cee nee day of bis glory, auch ae it was As a matter of fart thg fiction writers have alwéve thrown an undeserved halo around tho life of & cowpuuéher being “long” on the Fomantic aide of the same but “short” on the many disagreeable features attending 1 It wae during the tnat year of my compunching period that Red Mason came to work on the L. Bar ranch He possessed social qualities the existence of which were revealed on tho occasion of a dance at the Widow Houstons ranch, apd which won tim the unatinted admiration of his matex The Widow Houston was the reli of the Inte Sam Heuston who died some five years before, leay tng behind him besides tbe widow a gon and daughter They bad prow: pered. an¢ by carerut management of what the (d man had left them, had become po-scssed of a fair ranch, four miles up Los Tanom aref a bunch of several bundred cattle. The daughter, Nettle Houaton wax the admitted belle of Sun Mignol county She was not a frail languishing type of beauty by any means, that kind did not our fah on the froatier Of course such an event an a dance was batied with pleasure, and every fone at onco mada ready | Therw wan & greasing of bouts oud u poltsliug of spurs and & dusting of clothing all that day and the coxt’ Tho time for starting was impatiently waited, but at last It camo, and the party was off, cavalcade of six Includiig Red Mason and your humble servant Tho danco went off with tremendous eclat, and Red Siazon was omphatically the hit ‘ofthe evening on the male side Me attentions which he tavistied upon both the widow and her daugh: ter were the cause of much remark. With easy grace be led tho matron out on the floor took bin place at the esd of the reel, and saluted ber with stately bows as the accordion and fid die struck up “Moncey musk” It was a pleasing slgut to ace bim guide his buxom partner down the middle, his epurs and chains playing a jicgling ac- companiment to the music, ané when the dance was over lead her gallantly to @ seat and hurry, to procure her tome nogus ‘His versatility was stilt further dis played whon be appealed to Misa Not le for the favor of her hand in the Dolero, With the dame he hed been dignified; with the maiden ho was as agile and graceful se Vigtor Ramirex, the Mexican, who bore the reputation of being the best danctr and most no tortons liar in San Miguel county. ‘t's sure aurprisin' how he kin ent out just the heifer he wants, overy Umo, while wo fellora stay inside the corral,” sighed one Jeslous guest who envied Red's popularity with the sex. But the L Bar ranch contingert ex- ulted oponly, proud to find themselves 40 well represented. For sevoral weeks after the dance It became evi- dent that Red wan bent upon follow- tng up the apparent advantage he had gained in the good graces of tho Indies on tho Houston ranch. Every evening after supper ho would mount hia ateed and ride away fo the scone of his triamphs. Ho was extremely Tetlcent, however, about his affairs, ana@ gavo no hint concorning them, | nor was any one aware whethor It was tho mother or the daughter whoee affections 62 sought. Chafing on thd aubject be resented promptly, and the boya egreod that it was safest to Tet him alone. Matters continued in this way through most of the winter. Regu- larly every nlght Red rode away into the davkness, returning at the waual Ome, But one morning he appoared at breakfast Iimping slightly as be ‘walked an@ with one of bis eyes Black and swollen. Evidently he bad ean waging battle with some penton et persons unknown, He refused, Sowsyer, to discuss the cadso of his Datlated apperrance; and went shoot Kis, Antles with » piece of raw beat Mod over bia oye. But that evening, instead of ‘niennting aud: riding away, Ag (poe Rideat by: wie tire auatrolnend ROO SEE oe ae BRC RS we eA ee OW la Oe ESP aT A sae Wwomes rolls & young chap rode. Up an’ got if his horse and come In The widow didn't appear to take to him, but Netto did She acted awful sweet, and called bim Tom—right be- fore ‘my eyes Well, he awelled around as if he owned the hull of Ban Miguel county, crackin’ jokes an’ mekin’ himself right to home, Soon ho bogtas shootin’ hin mouth off at mo, an’ I reckoned the time had come for mo to call him down some I did Xt, too—told him he looked Itke a rons betweon a mangy coyote an’ a Kreasor sheopherder He roso outen his chair an’ plunked mo In the eye, an’ wo mixed considerable on the floor" Ho paused and sighed heavily “And what happened then?” 1 de manded “Why.” sald Red sheepishly “‘noth- §ng much, ‘cept that I reckon 1 had some the better of him But the widow, she -nbo up an‘ threw us both out of the place an‘ I came away Guess Netto was sore, too 1 don’t allow that I'll go there so often after this.” He kept his word, for from that day bis visits to the Houston -ranch ‘ceased altogether With the warmer “weather came the usual work on the range Preparations for the spring roundup were mady, and the men ‘were sont out over the range to ex- amine the watering places, with or dora to pull out of the bogey ground about.them apy L Bar cattle that had become mired and unadle to extricate themselves Ono morning Hed rode away from the reoch with instruc: tons to examine carefully @ certain specified territory that lay In the west. His route lod up Los Tanos, and the afternoon of the second day of bls expedition found him approach- fog the Star Ranch It had been a Perfect day in April, that best of all months in New Mexico. The gramma frase bad exchanged its winter coat of sliver for a fresher one of green, the few trees that grew along the river were bright in leat and blossom Even the sombre sage brush had put off {ts mournful gray, and the cactus ‘was gofgoous in its yellow flowers. Red dismounted at the ranch houso, ‘and having unsaddied his horse, turned him into the corral and strode 4nto the bunkroom. “Ym from the L Bar," he sald to one of the two occupants there’ an’ T reckon I'l put up with you tonight “Sure,” responded ono of tho men “Anything new over your way?" “No,” returned Red briefly, “there ain't nothin’ much stircin’ * * Bedtime comes carly at a ranch, and there were a dozen men packed away in the bunkhouse thet night Yet, although Red was tired, he could not aleop Tho injustice of his expul sfon from the widow's premises atl! rankled tn bia breast, and hia thoughts wandered Insiatontly to that discour- aging incident He was partially roused trom Ma reverte by hearing a Yotco over in tho darkest corner of the room say “Well, Jack wag tellin’ mo you bad right pretty mixup with the feller” “I gure did," assented the second yolce “Why. he called me a greasor, Toughtor havo filled bim with lead by Fights.” “When did you say you calculated to run off the girl?” “Tomorrow 1 guoss She'll be all alone up to tho pinco The widow Houston an’ hor non bas gone to Vegas, an‘ I'll skip with Nottlo while they're away, an’ make for Santa Rona.” 7 Red saw the whole business This was the scoundrel with whom ho had the fight ut tho Houston last winter, and now he was golng to forcibly ab- duct Nettie tm tho absence of her mother aad brother. He determined to upset the plan, and saro the help: Yese damsel from the tolls of the vil- lain, Ho would— Wis thoughts were Sntorrupted by tho frat voice speaking again e “How was you Oggerin’ on doing it, Tom?” , | “I'm going to hoist her on a pony and make for Santa Rosa. I'll follow the old overland-stege trail ull we come to the Montezumy marabes, and thea cross lote There's a path over the bog near the apring, and I'll save five silo over goin’ that way As we ain't had no rain in atx months I recksn the bog als't very shaky 1 want you to atand by me. Joe Bean, an’ be over to Santa Ross to-morrow At thror o'clock” “Bure, I'll be there, good night, Tem Fallon, an’ good luck " “Good nignt, Joe.” responded the second yolco, and then the camp alopt. Before sunrinn next morning Red left the Star & ranch. He had sworn that ooma what might, Nettlo should be savod, although be had tiot boon properly trested by her or her mother. Ho would intercept the party at the Montezuma crossing, and do thd deed ainglebanded Terhaps Netto might | amile upon her reacuer -porbapa abe might even marry him out of gratt: tude, His head grew dizry at the thought, and pushing his horses into THE_RICHMOND’ PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. U CWA (2 ; 7 Se 3 Vag j NI FG fe ; if / g NG Abad / / VY Sree f/f. \A\ MPA ee EE ae LN LF ee) Glee Rhy, x ~ oe s WO RS AG aa SON, yes sh AN AN Pe 5 , Ky \ (== ERS iH Wy BY Wy) Pag oe os 1h yi Me a : fi i “on (NY UN, \ he i Zo Vi *e \ Y Wa “Ge Sy © AO TE BIH ) All this hine Red had been concealed rn ambush ar, Meas tar ancy to hear what Him oud fo eie of Ay increasing im darkness and alse. ‘Then flashes of lightning darted actors the heavens, followed by penls of'thinder. A storm was approach- ing—a most unusual opourrence tn New Mexico during the month of Apri, Down the road that skirted Los ‘Tanos a man and a women ware rid- {ng kt full speed The man looked anxiously up at the aky, and said to bis companion. “Wish you -would stir up the mare some, Nottie, We must got across the Montezumy bog bofore the rain comes, if we mean to be married this year., Least bit of water there will make the path too soft” “Iva fo use Tum.” responded the fil “I've spurred all 1 know, but abe won't go no faster” “Have to take our chances, then,” commented the mao “We can’t turn ‘Dack, for the widow'll be after us with 8 posse” Bofore them stretched tho low, flat expanse of the mareb, extending to the right and left for sereral miles To look at, the surfaco of the bog appeared to be a bard crust, baked stiff and dry, and covered with a ‘white coating of alkall through which ‘grew no manner of living plant Down through the middle of the des ert flowed the sluggleh stredin that came from the Monteruma spring ‘Across the bog there was a faint path, which could be traversed 10 the ‘dry season; but once let the crust be come wet and It turoed to a slimy ‘mud that yielded to the welgbt of ‘nan oF horse, and gripped so tightly what it solzed that self-rollef was im- ‘possible ‘Just before the two riders reached the edge of the bog, the atorm, which bad beep gathering, suddenly burat upon them, and the rain came down in torrents Nevertheless, they ad- vanced slowly across the bog. Tho dlindi6g sheets of rain soon obliterat- ed the path, and the ground grew totter and softer every moment Twice tho man’s horse sank to the knees, and once the mare narrowly ‘escaped, but at length they reached the stream Pausing a moment on the edge, "Tom started to ride into it, “Btay where you are a minuto, Net- Ue," ho said, “'ti T fod how the bottom is here.” All this tlme Red had been con- cealed tn ambush x few yards off He ‘was too far away to hear whst Tom sald to Nettie, But he could sce her face, aaxtous and wet with the rain— or it might be toars. He buraed to Alstiagulsh himself, to eaatoh her from the power of her ruflanly abductor. Watobiag Tom ride into the atream, he saw bia berse lifted off tte feet and carried down by -the flood current; saw him recover a foothold; then heard him shout to Nettle: “Go back eo back!” and he realleed that the horse was fast in tho bog, for the antmal was churniog tho water tnto suds in his frantic efforts to escape, Now was Red's obance. The villain was helploss to harm the maidsx, while be was free and unfettered, Leaping to his saddle, he rode ont from behind the chapparal and dashed straight at Nettle, She gave a scream ot surprise when she saw him, and ‘he endeavored to reassure her. "*Thave come to save you," he cried exaltantly, “lait! yelled a harsh votco, and Ret looked up to seo a shining steal barrel covering him In deadly alm. Fervently ho cursod his rasbocss 1p ‘nturiog too quickly from his am- Bush. Tom had the drop on bim with © 45 at ton yards, atid e¥en as Red fared he roared angrily: “Put up your hands, and rely, ‘fore I tet aay Ught through you." ‘There wae no disputing tho stern command. Red raised his bands anf ant disconsolate : What are you up to around hero? dbmanded'Tom fercely “T came to rescue this girl from & villata that’s carryin’ her off agen her will.” returned Red doaperately, “You're an Interterin’ fool,” inter fected the lady sharply. “Tors ain't to *MIAln, We're ruypin’ away to Ana Rae Aa See 2D TR en eatin te dee ee 6 mw U8 hag Sr pene igdireethece . Red gasped in astonishment. 80 it ‘was an elopment, and inot an abduc- Hgts after all, But bie mind was made vp, in an fnstant, If she wanted to marry Tom It was not for him to say her nay. He bowed low to Nottie, a smile breaking through the gloom up- on his features. Nettle laughed light ly and turned to her lover. “I reckon you can put up that gun, Tom," abe called “Red's all right. Tom returned the revolver to tts holster, and Red set bimsclt iantully to smooth the course of truo love. It he could not bo the best man te would be tha next dest, and’he bur riedly untled the rawhide lasso that hung from bis saddiehorn, All this time Tom had been seated on bia mired horse in midstream Red rode to tho edge of the bank and said “FN chuck this over you, Tom, and et you out Look out* Deftly Red awung the toop about his bead and sent it twiating through the alr It settled down‘dver ‘Tom's shoulders, and, taking a turn of the freo end about his anddlehorn, Red backed ble horas away from the atream In another moment Tom wet and muddy, stood by Nettlo's side. | Once more Red swung bis Ineso, ‘and this time the loop settled over ‘the head of the horse. This time he had bis bands full, but the ettect of }the strong, ateady pull was soon ap- parent, and at Inst the horao joined hls master on the bank. About four o'clock that afternoon a muddy party of threo rode up to the Uttle adobe church in Santa Rosa. Loitering before the door were sev- eral cowboys dressed in thotr best, who hatled the new arrivals with atentorlan cheers “Well, you'ro on [Ume, ‘Tom Fallon.” cried one of them; /"but where'd you pick up your extra pal?” “Ho's my hated rival, leastways he was a hated one,” returned Tom com- placently “But now we're, friends, and he's agoin' to give tho bride away” Tt was oven as the triumphant lover anid. Red Mason had nobly agreed to woar the martyr’s crown of renunola- Hen with as much grace as he had once displayed m stepping the bolero at the Houston ranch ‘A year from that day saw few changes in Sax Miguel county. The widow bad long forgiven Nottle and Lom, who were living at Tom’s ranch ‘wa we Tupy crecx Also Toh Bad Decome a man of family, ahd it was Red's great delight to solemnly andle Nottie's baby boy on his knee Red and Tom wore fast friends, and the former was « constant visitor at the Fallon homo, where he was always eure of a hearty welcome It ts cer tain that Tom had vowhere a more falthtul adherent than bis eratwhile rival, and tho phrase, “As thick aa Mason and Fallon,” becamo » familiar saying along the Los Tanos About this thme I baée « more of lesa fond adieu to the life of a cowpuncher and entered the xorvice of Uncle Bam as United Stator marshal, with headquar- ters at Tucson, Arie Dosing my second year tn office I one day recoived instructions to look for and place under arrest an Apache xamed Gulllormo Katrada, belonging to the White river Indian rosorvation fo Arizona, This Indian had crossed the Gita river to place called BMam- moth, where the Mammoth gold mine fu looated, obtained a supply -of the flery Mexican itquor known as pulquo, and while drunk and ugly shot and Kdited a white man The name of the latter was not given, but some par- tloutara yere added regarding the Apache, wbich antlated mo that t had dad case to deal with Thin Ratrada had" originally Jeon one of the cele bratod Geronimo’ band, and was with the Jatter when he was rounded up and captured by Gen. Larton Ak though of great age, time seemed td have made but xcant Impression on ble tron alnows, and hé was looked upén by the younger bucks as a yert- table wonder of strength and activity, It may Be remembored that his leader, Gerémimso, died quite recontly.st Fort 81, Oxtaboma. . - . Upon receipt of my instructions I (went to Ban Cartes, where I obtained ‘a John Doe warrant, and the services of two Indian policeman, who, by the way, were fellow tribesmen of Estrada, but nono the leas to be trust- ed on that account. The Indiah police have no equals at the work of trailing down a fusitive tn their native wilds, and thé two men who accompanied me on this expedition were aplendid trackers and absolutely without fear ‘Tho wily Estrada bad made good use of the time which had olapsed since the iling of hls victim, and it was two deys befdre the police man- aged to get a clew to where he bad gone. It then developed that he bad sought refuge in the Rincon moun taln, and the two Apaches at once started in purault, It was ne part of my duty to accompany them, and I was not corry A bad Indiar at bind fs not a desirable creature to 61 with, and Estrada was decidedly one of tho worst of his kind, However. my curlosity led me to cover the first stage of the journey with them, and 1 traveled about 70 miles out of San Carlos, finding quarters for tho night in & deserted shack, where I resolved to await thelr returm. I could have Deon of no possible service to my as sistants io @ long and woarisome mountain climb, and would in fact have probably delayed the movements of the mea, who wore both as activo as goats, and quite at heme when it came to soaliag dangerous heights. Aa it turned out, however, I had not long to wait SBcarcely &ve hours had passed before a keoek nded upon the cabin door, and springs to my foot, I hastened to open it. There ‘were four men standing before mo in tho dim, uncertain light. Two of them were my Apaches, aud they were guarding & couple of prisoners, one of whem, short, of chunky build aad sewastly,.I had no“dificalty in receg Dising from his official description av Guillermo Bstrade, But the ether | stared in wonder at the sight of thu tall Sgure, that amazing shook of re hair. ft was none other than my for mer friead and brether cewpuncher Red Mason. By tho light of the lantern I saw that bie wrists as weil as those of the captive Indiam were handcuffed. For an instant he too stared wildly, and then burst out with: “Rene, old pal for tho Lord’s sake what aro you doling here?* “L might welt osk you that, Red, 1 returned “Ilow In the name of all that's quocr did you come to get mixed up with my men?” “Your mon!” he repeated, “I don't understand— Oh, | seo it all now, } remember hearing that you had be come a marshal Bo they were after this beggar, too, wero thoy? Why | thought they wero a couple uf hia In dias pals trying to rescuo blm I had him dead to rights when they closed fn on us, and If they bad been one second lator they'd havo had a dead dog to carry back with them They sald something about being officers that I wouldn't awallow, and #0 I gavo thom ® rough tuasle if ono of them dadn’t got me from behind I'd ‘a’ got away with them, too” “Well, let's get theso ornaments off you,” Teald, unlocking the baadeufts ‘Now, alt down and toll me why you wore after thin Indian" Red threw his big body on a wooden Dench and heaved a deep sigh ‘Tt was this way Reno,” he sald “That Apache okunk killed the beet frfend I had on oarth tho husband of the girl that I loved batter than any: one else.in the world You romember Tom Fallout” “Remember him.” I exclalmed. “T should think ¢0 Dut you don't meax to toll me that he was the man that Ertrada shot?” "It was Tom,” replied Red sadly; “ita, an’ no other Tom, he went ovér to soo bie old uncle, who ts muperintendent of the Mammoth minv and means to leave all bit dough to Tom's kid. While he was there thig Indian rat come along and Killed hits, Wray, 1 guano. Dut when t heard of Tcame on from Santa Ross with Some of the Features That Lend Interest to 2 Nes 4 ie oy Om i athe | CUT Rta CARY It BER LS ae pop, Y Ve. witch Gire BOSS ire i re We 4 hors Sty (POV ge t LW yy ba f see ys RIMEHARY? f A Pos-fo Uh PAA ri Sta a) APPEL Ae deh tanta se (oll A Capital Crime Committed on a Pullman Sleeper. A Daring Robbery. A Ternfic Train Wreck. Esidence That Seems to Incriminate Four Different People. / Tracking the Criminal by Kinetoscope. The Clues of an Amateur Detective. A Battle Through a Locked Door in a Forsaken Mansion at Midnight. ‘ | I sos | Se Le Re . Be OS Don’t Fall to Read It <i . ° Spare Time. 1 TO INORRASH YOUR KNOWLEDGE. & TO INOREASE YOUR USEFULNESS, 1, TO INOREASH YOUB AALARY. 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Wh thy mind miadé ap to get the tellow that dooe It, I trailed him to the mountain, and put a bullet through his shoulder ‘Then your fellows come slong juat lo tine to stop me from completin’ the bill They done took my gun away. too" Here oue of thw Apaches handed mo along 40 which he stated belonged to Maxon and 1 passed the weapon over to iny old friend “Heres your Kuu, Red,” Laaid, tim sorry you havo veen roughly bandied, Dut you can t blame my men for that.” “Oh that's all nquare," be returned “only 1 winb they hadn't come until a oinute later an Td have fzed Ouinks up the way I wanted them” tion t be divvouraxed {told bim *Mr Patrada will get all that le com ing to bim. Uncle Sam hae bin tn hand now” In spite of this augurance Red's face still wore an saprenstan of Intense Sloum and I halt regretted DACIOR iven bin. back bla weapon feariog feat ‘bo vaight be tempted to some fash move having far its object the clinieation of Fotrada trem thie ter Testrtal sphere Aw matters turned Out, my anxiety on thie porot was not Altogether without foutidation We decided to stay where ne Were until dawn nod accordingly disposed our seiven (0 rest ay well ge the extremely Timited sceoumodations at hand would allow. The bullet wound tn tho Captive Indlun'y shoulder did not seem to trovble him murh for, tylog on thr flout at the shack be slopt soundly, while iny two men worn ost win tee ips Ui iow Red too npyaved to stumnby e but the demon of unrest seemed. to have perched on my sheudor and 1 was Unable to shine my yen Te must havo wanted about-an hour of dawa sien I enw Red slowly rine to an ercet punture and lance eau Uousty around bin 1 ld nut move and satiated with hin areutiay of the Occupantn of the tabi he woftly drew his mun from tte seauburd Aootber Inatant and. Estrada wentd have ut fered the tute weted tut to poor Fal Ton but { inanaged to reach Reds tide with a madden spring and Knocked lis gun up an It exploded Feaditig bis Bonet: sbistiing:baralesn: SEVEN ty Yo the roof, Detore be coil Fe cover from hls surprise I twlated it out of bis hand, and be sank back Oa the bexch looking st me in a rather shamefaced ‘manner My men had jumped to thelr fect, uttering hoarse grunts of sstonisb- ment, but I calmed them with « ware of my band ee all righty Pantd “Just an so cident, gun went off while we were banding tt” Ym sorry old pal." sald Red ro sretfully “It kind of come over all of & sudden to put that murderin’ devil away You see, 1 thought of Nottie, fo" that there poor fatherless kid”-an" I just couldn ¢ help myself “Thats all right" T said “I blame msaelf some. Red for giving you back the gun and putting temptation in your way But T guess I'll hold onto ‘it now until | nave stowed my prix oner wharo bo belongs” I kept my word im thin respect. for T did not hand Red bia 45 until ho stopped aboard the train en route for Santa Rosa | took Hatrada to Florence. Ariz whero he was tried, convicted, asd semtenced for lifo Io the Yuwa penitentiary - ‘Two years afterwards I beard Red was married to Tom's widow, so thot Be may bo wid to bave at laut gained tho reward br deserved for bie tal fulness to Nettle and bie eaytpe rival, ee Revelation, The truth that “Aurea never Me™ T'never dared pavert, nah yaa tanidie go by Clad im ber, new wheat skirt | But nom § nat mast canta My fealing can ¢ be. bil That whoo Wes tnen tow: men ® ores MPeete better they aia odio: Force of Habit. “The trouble with the American peo- plo fe that they aro too restlvas, They aro nover aatiefled uninss thoy aro get- ting on tho cars to go somewhere" “L know It. My wife bax become 80 Deed to travoling about that when she goes to bed at night abe always calls in the chambermald and arsures her that abe will not be able to sleep © wink unless she can havo a lower berth.""—Cbicago Record Herald EIGHT KETCHEL FORCES FIGHTING. BUT LANGLAND IS BEST BOYER Little to Choose Between Two Leading Middleweight Artist Philadelphia Pa, April 27 Sam Langford of Boston and Stanley Ketchel, or Michigan, two of the best middleweight fighters in the country, met tonight in the arena of the National Athletic Club in a six round bout, and at the end there was little to choose between the men if anything. Langford had a slight advantage, but a draw would have been a fair decision After the first round both men fought viciously Ketchel playing for the colored man's stomach, while the Boston fighter used a straight left varied occasionally with a right up per cut. It was one of these damaging blows which caught Ketchel dash on the nose, near the close of the third round, and started the blood flowing in a stream Langford thereafter played for the damaged organ, driving his long left straight to the face repeatedly. This attack seemed to unnervate Ketchel, and he swung wildly many times while Langford was cool all the time. As the men rushed to a clinch just as the bell sounded for the close of the fourth round Ketchel drove a vicious left into Langford's stomach, and the colored fighter's eyes closed and his mouth opened. He was visibly affected by the blow but what might have proved a damaging blot on his career was averted by the bell. Ketchel paraded his usual tactics of forcing the fighting. There was not a moment during the battle that he was not right on top of the Boston fighter never allowing him to get set. This was the part of wisdom, for Langford easily outboxed Ketchel when the men once or twice separated. Ketchel's method of fighting puzzled Langford. He would rush in with his head down and drive a hard left into the wind, and bring the right over but the latter seldom landed Langford resorted to his famous uppercut, and often caught Ketchel as the latter was coming in or breaking from a clinch Toward the close of the fourth. Ketchel appeared to be tiring, but he came back strong in the closing session, and appeared to have shaken on his opponent. From the time that Langford started the blood flowing from the Michigan man's nose until the final gong sounded the colored fighter paid particular attention to the damaged or gan causing the claret to flow in a stream. Both men missed many blows and the referee was forced to pull them apart nearly every time they rushed to a clitch. There was not a mark on either man as they emerged from the ring but Langford apparaed to be the freesher. Not in the history of the club has there been such a representative as semblage of sporting men as that which surrounded the ring. Every large city from Chicago to Boston was represented. It was estimated that there was a gate of nearly $20,000. BOUT OF SIX ROUNDS Round 1 The men advanced cautiously Ketchel was the first to lead with a light for the wind Langford missed left and right, and Ketchel tapped the colored man on the head They clinched and in the break Langford landed light left on wind Langford missed repeatedly Ketchel was forcing the fighting He landed a left on the wind, and a right to the same place as the bell rang Not a solid blow was struck Round 2 Both advanced quickly to the centre Langford tried a left for the head in a hot mixing Langford seat two good lefts to wind and head Ketchel drove a right to head and again to wind Langford sent a head and Ketchel landed lefts to wind Another mixup and clink and the referee had to pull the men apart. Ketchel landed left to wind as the bell rang As in round one Ketchel tapped the forcing Round 3 - Ketchel started the third round with a left lead to the head, but was blocked. Langford jabbed two lefts to the face and then sent Ketchel's head back with a straight right. Both landed left on the wind Langford jabbed left to mouth and drove a hard right to wind and Ketchel sent a left to face which clinched Ketchel sent Langford's hard left, and repeated the blow a second round. Langford missed a left uppercut and Ketchel drove a hard left to the face. They were clinched at the bell. Round 4—Up to this time Ketchel was doing all the forcing. He did not let the colored man get set. Ketchel led left to wind and they clench ed Langford two hard lofts to the jaw, and Ketchel was more careful. Ketchel drove a hard right to wind. Langford brought the blood from Ketchel's nose with a stiff jiff Langford chopped a hard left to the nose, and the blood cand from the injured member in a stream, Ketchel sent a hard right to the wind, and Langford uppercut a hard one to the chin. This was Langford's round by a good margin. Round 5—Ketchel led light left to face, and then sent a hard right to jaw. Langford again punched the damaged nose, starting the blood afresh. Langford sent left to the face and Ketchel right to the body. Both drove lefts to the face and Ketchel sent a hard right to the nose. Ketchel milessed a hard right uppercut, and they clinched. Ketchel landed right on the thigh, and Anglford uppercut to chin. The ball landed on the bell rang, and fell to the floor. Round B—Langford lifted Ketchel off the floor with an uppercut. Both drove hard left to the head, and in a clinch Ketchel pounded Langford's stomach and Langford again started the blood flowing and he shugged Ketchel with a right to the wind. Ketchel was weak and Langford sent his left back repeatedly. Ketchel was weak on his legs and they climbed repeatedly Langford played for the damaged nose and had Ketchel rested with blood when the bell rang. JOHNSON SAVS SKILL WILL WRIP JEFFRIES Thousands Greet Negro Champion at Omaha Show Show with Fighters Omaha Neb. April 23 Jack Johnson the colored postalist was given a notable reception when he arrived in Omaha yesterday. Three thousand people were at the station to see the big prize fighter and many insulted on shaking hands with him. The crowd was so great the police forced a passageway through which Johnson and his wife might pass. As he walked between walls of people he was showered with flowers Immense bunches of American Beauties were presented to Mrs. Johnson by a little girl. Johnson is not holding Jeffries too cheaply. He realizes that he has a big task on his hands but hopes that Jeffries will be as good as he was before he retired, as he wants the satisfaction of having whipped Jeffries when he is at his best. Mr. Jeffries cannot whip me said Johnson. I know that he is a hard hitter, but I can box rings around him and he never will have a chance to land one of his mighty walls. They used to say that you could not knock him down" continued Johnson 'but that is probably be cause the men he met did not have the punch I can hit as hard as Jeff ever did and when the opportunity offers itself I am going to hit fly if it lands the fight will end then and there. Some people have said that I am going to make a long fight of it so as to tire out Jeffs. This is all wrong. No one can talk for him that subject is found in light from the top of the bell, but even these plans may be changed It all depends on how Jeffs goes about his work Maybe he will want to play the stalling game and wait for me to come to him. If this should be the case Jeffs will not have to wait long I be there with both foot and both hands." THE NEW MANASSAS What Can You Do to Make it Possible? Manassas Va April 20 1910 The friends of the Negro and of the great cause to which all Negro schools are dedicated will rejoice that the Manassas Industrial School for colored youth at Manassas Va has been assured of sufficient funds to enable it to begin work on a new hospital in a new wing on Howland Hall in which will be located a modern kitchen and dining room with additional dormitory space and a $30,000 trades building. This last gift is conditioned however upon the colored people who must raise $5,000 of the $30,000. The colored people of Northern Virginia have responded as generously as they were able and have given out or their monege funds more than a thousand dollars it seems difficult to get in this limited field the remaining $1,000 by commencement day May 10 to enable the school to proceed at once with the building so that it may be ready for use by the opening of the next school year. It will be back set to the work to which Manassas is pledged if the construction of a surely needed building is delayed because the colored people have not rallied to the cause. But the colored people of the nation when they know the need and the condition upon which this $30,000 building is made possible, will not fall The new trades building will enable Manassas to take advanced ground in the realm of trade school education and a trade school of high standards on Manassas battlefield, on ground made sacred by the first great battle of the Civil War will be a worthy monument to those brave souls who here gave their lives that the fight for self liberation and self fulfillment might be made possible for colored youth. A dollar ten cents five cents if given at once and given by all who love their race will enable Manassas to go forward at once to now and better things. Wont you who read these books be able to afford Manassas possibly? No amount is too small to be valuable in educational purchasing power, or to be graciously acknowledged by Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, President of the Board of Directors, New York City, or by Mr C Willams, Treasurer, Mangasas Va., or by Mr Leslie Pinckney Hill, Principal Manassas, Va. Summer Normal Why not spend the month of July in recreation and profitable study at the Manassas Summer Normal School in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge mountains. Delightful climate, good home cooking, excellent carp of instructors. The Normal School aims to prepare for the State examinations which take place at Manassas at the end of the session. Charges for room and board for the entire session, ten dollars. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Roll O. Paul Thompson Ordained On April 4 our Pastor, Rev. O. Paul Thompson, left for Newark, N. J. to be examined and oriated and to got his family, consulting of wife and two boys. He reached home safely, sent souvenir postals to all the members they appreciated his thoughtfulness very much. Tuesday April 12 a council composed of forty three messengers, representing twenty five churches, convened at the Bethany baptist Church, of which the great Rev Dr R D Wynn, is pastor. They put our pastor through very rigid examination which he passed very creditably Rev Dr W T Watkins was the Moderator Rev Dr E Morris Cateshier and Rev A Worrell. The meeting brought out the elite of Newark to witness the ordination as Rev Thompson was a favorite of Newark has worked his way into the hearts and confidence of the community by his work in the hos pital jails, slums and in the other religious interests. Rey Dr G E Morris preached a masterly german Rev W A Harris D D offered the ordination prayer the Dr Wynn delivered the the right hand of fellowship Rey Dr G W Klinger resigned to teach John Mitchell John Mitchell or Richmond Va. is editor of the Richmond PLANET, and for years has been fearless in his expression on all public questions. He does not hesitate to criticize the present National administration nor any other National administration though he be a member of the party to which the administration belongs. He is president of the Mechanics Bank one of the most successful Negro banks of the South and also as head of the Pythian organization of Virginia has built it up to rank among the strongest Grand Lodge of that organization in the United States. It is a man of Mitchell's energy and manhood that the administration should look to as a leader of his race not to a temperator or compromise who succeeds by self abnegation and appeals to the charitable disposed. Mr Mitchell is still in the prime of life and many good things may be expected of him before he reaches the period of retirement. He not only tells people what to do but he goes ahead and does it as an example. His motto is opportunity to be and to do and not opportunity to solicit others to do for you what you ought to do yourself. Self reliance, energy and business characterize his movements. He already has accumulated a competence St Louis Missouri Advance VIRGINIA In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, April 20 1910 Hattie B. Christian Plaintiff The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonio by the plaintiff from the defendant. And adjudify having been made and fled that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is hereby ordered that he do appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this notice and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit A Copy Teste P P WINSTON Clerk I M Rosset p q VIRGINIA In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond the 9th day of April 1910 brown Haskins Plaintiff against In Chancery try Haskins Defendant Thomas Haskins Plaintiff against In Chancery Mary Haskins Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vicuolo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant And an annulavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used on behalf of the plaintiff to certain in what county or corporation the defendant. Mary Haskins is without effect. It is ordered that she do appear here within fifteen days after due publication hereof, and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein A Copy—Teste P P WINSTON. Clerk TO MARY HASKINS. Take Notice—You are hereby notified that I shall on Thursday, June 2, 1910, at the law office of PhH B. Sfield, Room No 62. Chamber of Commerce Building, corner of Ninth and Main Streets, City of Richmond, Va. between the hours of 10 o'clock A and M 6 o'clock P. M on that day proceed to take the depositions of Joseph Haskins and others to be read in court. The court will suit in equity, depending in the Law and Equity Court, of the City of Richmond, Va., wherein you are the defendant and I am plaintiff. If from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place and between these hours until the same be completed. Very Respectfully, THOMAS HASKINS, By Counsel C F Whittle, p. q. D.J. Bradford Real Estate and Private Banking. Houses Bought or Sold, Rents Collected, Loans Negotiated. Temporary Office: 1018 St. John Street. Phone Monroe 2017. --- FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EM- BALMER Open Day and Night. Office and Warerooms: 800014 P Street Office 'Phone, 2237 L. Residence 'Phone, 6010; 1224 St. John Street. RICHMOND, VA. Look! Look! If you are coming North, come to see us Positions for Male and Fem- ales Hotel, Clubs and Private Families. In and out of city, Fif- teen to twenty positions allied daily. Our demand is larger than our supply NEW YORK GUAR ANTEE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. A G Thompson, Prop, 339 West 59th Street New York City We Will Keep You Dress MEN'S SUITS MADE TO PATTERNS TO S FASHIONS IF YOU LET US MAKE YOU LADIES SPRING AND SUMMER GERIE DRESSES, SILK PET OR MADE TO YOUR ORD ONCE, NEEDN'T WE ARE PAID One Dollar P If You Dressed Swell Or IS MADE TO YOUR MEN NS TO SELECT FROM NS IF YOU DON'T NE MAKE YOU A PAIR OF AND SUMMER COAT SUFF SES, SILK PET TICOATS AL TO YOUR ORDER. YOU GET T OK, NEEDN'T WAIT UNTIL T ARE PAID FOR. Dollar Per Week We Will Keep You Dressed Swell On $1 a Week MEN'S SUITS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE. 300 PATTERNS TO SELECT FROM—LATEST FASHIONS IF YOU DON'T NEED A SUIT, LET US MAKE YOU A PAIR OF TROUSERS LADIES SPRING AND SUMMER COAT SUITS, SILK OR LIN GERIE DRESSES, SILK PET TICOATS ALREADY MADE OR MADE TO YOUR ORDER. YOU GET THE GOOD AT ONCE. NEEDN'T WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE PAID FOR One Dollar Per Week Does the Business. M. H. W Clothing 517 EAST MAIN ST., Bands of Constitute a Feature, and person ones join. Children received from Benefits $1.00 to $1.50 per $40.00 at death. Matrons want tion of new bands and all particu W M. 120 West Hill Street, R H. White Fishing Company MAIN ST., RICH Boys of Calais are, and persons cannot do bett received from Two to Twelve to $1.60 per week when slot Matrons wanted in all localities and all particulars. wr to MRS Hill Street, Richmond, Va. M. H. Whitehill Clothing Company, Bands of Calanthe. Constitute a Feature, and persons cannot do better to let the little ones join. Children received from Two to Twelve Years. Benefits $1.00 to $1.50 per week when sick, and $30.00 to $40.00 at death. Matrons wanted in all localities. For organization of new bands and all particulars, wr to MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, W M. 120 West Hill Street, Richmond, Va. Make the the Heir --- Makes the Hair Grow. An Ideal Scalp Food and Hair Tonic. The peer of all other Hair Dressings. On sale at all first class drug stores. 25 cents the box, the bottle. Soap—23 cents the cake. Agents Wanted. COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO., Newport News, Va. Star of Zion Union Reform Royal Relief Corporation of Virginia. This is an ideal organization, founded upon a solid financial basis and chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, March 16, 1909. In this brotherhood, members do not die to win. They can win in life as well as in death. This fraternity offers protection to the whole family upon a single fraternal membership. 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