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The RICHMOND PLANET BISHOP GAINES EXONORATED Judge Dismisses the Case on the Testimony of the Plaintiff—No Testimony to Prove He Had Taken Any Money—The Bishop Had No Need of Witnesses in His Behalf. Jersey City, N. J., April 28.—"There is absolutely no grounds for the complaint against Bishop Wesley J. Galnes, so let the case be dismissed," was the verdict rendered by Judge Joseph F. Farmer in the police court this morning. The court room was crowded with ministers, when the case against Bishop Gaines was called. The Rev. Dr. J. N. Morgan, had Bishop Gaines arrested on charge of embezzlement last Thursday morning. The warrant was sworn out in Jersey City, and it was intended that the constable should swoop down on Bishop Gaines just as he was about to open the conference, arrest him and carry him to Jersey City for trial. When the Bishop's friends heard of the charges and the intention of those involved they got busy. BISHOP NOT ARRESTED Instead of allowing the officer to go to conference they got a carriage, and carried Bishop Gaines before a Magistrate, made bond for his appearance in court, and the conference was opened in due form. Many rumors went out, but Bishop Gaines' friends kept an eye open. It was set for a trial Saturday morning, but by some legal process it was postponed for a week, and then an effort was made to withdraw. The conference passed resolutions declaring that Bishop Gaines had not appropriated any or its funds to his own use, hence there was nothing left. Later all the accusers of the Bishop were brought before the conference and confessed their sins and were forgiven, but Rev. J. N. Morgan said he was right and had no apology to make, hence was expelled from the conference by a unanimous vote. Bishop Grant visited the conference, expressed regrets, and then Dr. Morgan, said he would withdraw the case, and it was agreed to restore him to the conference, after he confessed his sins. Monday morning Bishop Gaines accompanied by the Rev. L. Murray, and other friends, presented himself to the court, and the case was set for a hearing. The court room was crowded when the case was called. Rev. Morgan was the first witness. He could not say that the Bishop had received the $150. The Discipline of the A. M. E. Church was introduced as witness to show that the Bishop had no right to receive the money, but there was no evidence to show that he had received it. Only two witnesses were introduced and it was found unnecessary for Bishop Gaines to introduce a single witness. The case was dismissed on the evidence of the plaintiff. There were many present to congratulate the venerable Bishop. He was accompanied by Revs. Murray and Thornton, back to Philadelphia. "I am now 70 years old," said the Bishop to a reporter, "and I have never been in court before in my life. I have always tried to do my duty and shall continue to do so. I know in this world the man who tries to do right will not get the support of all men, but I have the approval of heaven, and that's worth so much." Rev. Morgan said that he would make an effort to bring the case to the notice of the grand jury.—Philadelphia Tribune. The Negro Baptists at Work. May is a notable month with Negro Baptists. On the 11th of the month the great Virginia Baptist State Convention meets in the First Baptist Church, Suffolk, Va. It is expected that this will be one of the greatest sessions ever held in the history of this organization. The delegates are coming from all parts of the state, Washington, D. C., Maryland and other northern cities. The convention is a part and parcel of the great National Baptist Convention, which covers the entire United States. It is expected this year that Virginia through the Convention will undertake to support a special missionary station in Africa. The Virginia Theological Seminary and College, at Lynchburg, President J. R. L. Diggs, is under the management of this convention. The school property is valued at $75,000.00, on which there is a mortgage of only $5,000. They have nearly three hundred students, more than fifty of whom are studying for the ministry. The course of study in this school is second to none in this state. Its curriculum is modelled after the best institutions of the North. This school is the pride of the Virginia Negro Baptists, in as much as it represents the struggles and savings of the denomination for more than twenty years. It is owned and controlled by them. The Negro Baptists feel that while the white Baptists of the North and South are From the 25th to the 30th of May the great National Baptist Sunday School Congress meets in Atlanta, Ga. This is one of the greatest bodies of young people in all the country. It is expected that there will be no less than three thousand delegates from the various states attending this mighty body of Sunday School workers. Dr. R. H. Boyd the founder and Secretary of our great publishing house at Nashville, Tenn., is the principle promoter of the Congress. He is anxious that Virginia and the Northeastern states be well represented. The Negro Baptists of this country feel proud of Dr. Boyd, because he has given us a publishing house which is now worth $350,000.00, with a debt of only $11,000.00. Our publishing house is supplying over fifteen thousand Negro Baptist Sunday Schools, and the children of the great National Baptist Convention are not ashamed to read the literature prepared by members of their own race, neither are they discouraged in doing so by men who draw all their salary from Negro concerns. The publishing house, along with the Home Mission Board, is in co-operative missionary work throughout the southland, and the Panama canal, so that, hundreds of destitute fields hear the gospel through the agency of the Negro Baptist young folks, Virginia, and Richmond especially, should rise to the strength of her power in the support of all Negro concerns. The Negro Baptists should fall in line and help support a publishing house that is actually giving employment to two hundred young ladies and men as clerks, stenographers, secretaries, book-keepers, book-binders, type-seters, cashiers, etc. The cry now is "On to Atlanta, Georgia, for the Sunday School Congress". W. F. GRAHAM Rev. Stephen Venable Ordained. The ordination services of Rev. Stephen Venable, took place last Wednesday night, April 27, 1910, at the Zion Baptist Church, South Richmond, at 8:30 o'clock, after passing a satisfactory examination. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., was Moderator; Rev. Wm. Gray, Secretary; Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D. Catechizer. The sermon was preached by Rev. Wm. T. Anthony, D. D., pastor of Zion Baptist Church; prayer by Rev. D. W. Davis, D. d. charge, Rev. W. F. Graham, D. d., presentation of Bible, by Rev. A. C. Tillery; hand of fellowship, by Rev. L. Green. We wish our brother Godspeed. Returns Thanks I desire to thank the friends for the kindness shown me during the illness and death of my father, Jas. Braxton, and also during the sickness of my mother and sisters. JOHN H. BRAXTON. WANTED—Steady Reliable Colored Men for Factory Work. Apply THE SOUTHERN MNFG. CO., Eighth and Perry Sts., Washington Ward. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910. GOV. MANN TO COLORED MEN. Delivers an Able Address to a Large Audience. Practical Advice Given==No Harsh Notes in His Admirable Remarks==Wanted Only to Do Some Good. Last Sunday was a field day for the Colored Y. M. C. A., thanks to the foresight of General Secretary Rev. Scott C. Burrell and the kind-heartedness of Virginia's Governor, Hon. William Hodges Mann. The announcement that this distinguished Virginian would speak caused the colored men of the city to go there in droves. Previous to the commencement of the regular exercises, General Secretary Burrell led the meeting, singing familiar hymns, which could be heard far out in the street by the waiting crowds below. GOV. MANN CAME. Gov. Mann came in an unobstructive manner and quietly made his way to the platform or stage, where he sat an interested listener during the preliminary exercises. His only remark about his coming was that his visit was with a hope that he could do some good. As a matter of fact, the religious impulses or this Virginian had overcome the judicial restraints of his high office and he had come in the midst of the lowly as he described it with the hope that he might do some good. WANTED TO KNOW. He enquired about the membership of the Colored Y. M. C. A. and it was evident that he was thoroughly surprised to see the "army" of colored men, who had turned out to hear him speak. President R. T. Hill introduced General Secretary Burrell, who in turn announced that Mr. Thomas M. Crump would render a solo. The selection was appropriate and the popular singer was in his best form. EDITOR MITCHELL'S INTRODUCTION It was then that General Secretary Burrell proceeded with the program announcing that Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., would introduce the Governor. Mr. Mitchell paid a tribute to Rev. Scott C. Burrell for his far-seeing judgment, born of inspiration in, inviting Virginia's Chief Executive to be present. He paid a glowing tribute to the white citizens who assist worthy colored people, who are making efforts to improve their condition. He told of the inauguration of the Governor and then dealt with the record of His Excellency, William Hodges Mann, and commented on his career as an expounder of the lowly Nazarene, a jurist, an orator and as a statesman. THE TIME TO BEGIN He was of the opinion that this was the organization and the time for the colored men to inaugurate a movement to reform the deprived elements of the colored race and not leave it to the police powers of the state to do it. He quoted statistics as to the wealth and producing power of the colored people and then with a fine peroration introduced His Excellency William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia to the audience. AN ADMIRABLE ADDRESS This was the moment that great applause came from every part of the hall as the distinguished Virginian advanced and proceeded to deliver one of the most practical and wholesome addresses that has ever been heard by the colored people of this community. He reiterated his statement that he had come wholly and solely for the purpose of doing some good. He then plunged into the meaning of church and explained that buildings did not constitute the church, but that the people made up the great religious organizations. He told of the necessity of beginning the work in the homes and explained it by citing the fact that springs were the sources of the rivers. AN APT ILLUSTRATION If the springs were polluted the water of the rivers would be bad. He urged all present to see to it that their children were brought up right cliting the Scriptures to prove that they would not depart from it. He quoted the legal interpretation of the Golden Rule and showed how much broader was the Christian interpretation of it. His subject of "Christian citizenship was closely adhered to and his illustrations were timely, plain and at times amusing. He held his audience with rapt attention during the entire time of about one and one half hours. HOW TO KEEP A CITY CLEAN. He referred to an amusing incident when the agitation was in progress for better and cleaner streets in Richmond. Some one asked how the city could be kept clean and some one made the remark, "Let each man sweep in front of his own door." He said that this apt statement if carried out in the home would result in a revolution and in the reformation of the criminal classes. If every one would look after his own home and control his own household, the doors of the jail, the tenentaries would swing wide. He spoke feelingly of the responsibility now resting upon him. The General Secretary had spoken of seven men awaiting death in the electric chair. He said that their lives were in his hands. A GREAT QUESTION He was thinking how best he could subserve the ends of justice. He had also to consider the welfare of the community to the extent of protecting it from the criminal elements. He was determined with the help of God to do the right. At times he wrought up the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm by his quaint illustrations. The speaker who had introduced him had said that the colored people of the country produced five hundred million dollars worth of products per year. The white people of the country produce nine billion dollars worth of products. SOME WORKING, MANY WORKING. The fact cited by the speaker, he said shows that three out of four colored people were not working for the producing power should be two thousand million dollars. Governor Mann's explanation of how the individual citizen could make a prosperous municipality and that this led up to a prosperous state was very fine and his lecture on the science of government showed consulsively that he had an audience that could both understand and appreciate all that he was plain enough to say. ALL WERE THERE. One peculiar feature of the meeting was that Secretary Burrell had arranged for the men in all of the walks of life to be on the same level. There were lawyers, doctors, professors, theologians, business men, laborers, all occupying seats on the main floor and in the gallery under the common designation of men and fellows. As for the General Secretary, he was in his glory so to speak, and he proceeded about his task with all of the ease and familiarity of a person who has become accustomed to the task before him. IMPOSSIBLE TO DO FULL JUSTICE It is impossible to do justice to Gov. Mann's address in a newspaper article. No where was there observable a harsh or discordant note during the long time that he was "doing good." He concluded amidst a thunderous applause and colored men, timidly at first came forward to greet him, but not before John Mitchell Jr. had made a motion that a vote of thanks be tendered the distinguished Chief Executive. It was carried by a unanimous vote. DEEPLY IMPRESSED WITH THE MEETING Gov. Mann seemed to be deeply impressed by the greeting and finally he was conducted to the street below by the rear exit and carefully wended his way to that part of the city, where the people of the state had arranged for the shelter of the chief citizen in all of this land. CARRIER 39 OUT Armistead Walker, Jr., known in the local post-office registry as "Carrier 39" made his last delivery as a carrier last Saturday, having tendered his resignation several weeks ago, to take effect at the close of work April 30, 1910. When he entered the service more than nine years ago, he gave up the business of brick contractor in which he had been associated with his father, the late Armistead Walker, from youth. As a carrier, he was courteous and polite; he was popular and held in the highest esteem by the many patrons whom he served on his route. His official record as a carrier ranks among the best, which is attested to in the following communication from his superior officers, published below and by their permission. He leaves the department to resume anew the work which he gave up to enter the service. His brother Andrew J. Walker will be associated with him in the business, in this they have the best wishes of their friends. UNITED STATES POST-OFFICE. Richmond, Va., April 21, 1910. Mr. Armstead Walker, Jr., Boston, Mass. I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 20th instant, tendering your resignation as a carrier in the Richmond post-office to take effect on May 1, 1910. I regret that you should have decided to resign from the service as your conduct and efficiency have been all that could be expected in the performance of your duties. I regret further that the office should lose your valuable services and appreciate most highly your kind references regarding your immediate superintendent and myself. You leave with my best wishes and I personally would be delighted to see you succeed in your old line of business, which you are now about to take up anew. I therefore accept your resignation to take effect as aforesaid. UNITED STATES POST-OFFICE Richmond, Va., April 29 1910. Armstead Walker, Jr. Letter Carrier No. 39. Your voluntary resignation from the Government Service is the source of much personal regret to me, and a loss to the service. Your record has seldom been equaled by any one who has held the position you have occupied. During the many years you have served at Station "A" I cannot recall a complaint from any patron of the office, or an occasion when I had to criticise your acts as a government employee, or otherwise. No one among the large number who have been assigned to this office under my supervision have conducted themselves with more credit officially, or with more satisfaction to me personally, than you have done. I trust the change you are making will prove both pleasant and profitable to you. Sincerely yours, HAY T. THORNTON, Supt. Station "A". Mr. Philip Dandridge, or Ellerson, Va., called on us last week. Rev. George L. Coleman, of Randolph, Va., was in the city last week on business. Mrs. Virginia Smith, wife of Capt. John G. Smith, though yet confined to her room continues to improve. —Mrs. Henrietta iride of 12 W. Leigh Street has returned home, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Mary Gough of Charlestown, W. Va. and her brother, Dashwood Jones, Jr., of New York City, having attended the funeral of her brother, William Jones in Buckingham Co., Va. Mr. Jones was a former student at Virginia Union University. 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. Last Sunday was a bright day with the Fifth Street Baptist Church. The Lord was there; all witnessed His presence, especially on last Sunday night when a brown middle aged woman who was seated about the center of the church, near the southern isle suddenly arose, clapping her hands crying: "Thank God she had been redeemed, etc." and began shaking hands, and telling the wonderful story of her conversion to all whom she met on her way to the door. It was an unusual incident, as such happenings do not generally occur, except in times of revival. The day's services were closed amid great rejoicing, showered with a great blessing. The entire day was one of joy. At 9:30 o'clock Sunday School was opened by the Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton. (The Sunday School was largely attended on last Sunday; the day being bright and pleasant and the exercises were very interesting. The teachers and officers were on time ready to give instructions to the beautiful lesson, "Two Sabbath Incidents." Attorney J. Henry Crutchfield, teacher of class No. 1, instructively reviewed the lesson. Singing and other exercises of the school were equally up to the standard. Next Sunday the entire school and their friends are asked to be present. Special exercises and a special selected address by the Superintendent "Church Anniversary." Sunday School meeting every Tuesday night from 8 to 9. The attendance was very appreciative on last Tuesday night. All are asked to be present at these meetings and also every Sunday.—E. W.) At 11:30 o'clock services commenced. A large congregation was in attendance. The choir as usual rendered sweet music. Miss Pearl Morris sang her part nicely to the pleasure of all. Our Pastor, Rev W. F. Graham, preached a fine sermon. Subject: "Multitudes following Christ." The congregation was delighted. At night our Pastor preached. Subject: "Millionaire Sinner and Fifteen Dollar Sinner." He made a great impression on the congregation. Of the few sinners present one accepted Christ. The B. Y. P. U. is doing fairly well. Pres. John W. Howard together with a committee, have arranged special program for Friday night. Come on time and witness it. Exercises commence at 8:30 o'clock. Be on time. . . . Don't fail to attend the Wednesday night's meeting. On the third Wednesday night, Rev. Dr. Wm. Thomas Anthony, Pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Washington Ward, formerly Manchester, will preach a special sermon at Fifth Street Baptist Church. Subject: "Hand Writing on the Wall." Come out and hear this able Divine. Be on time at 8:30 o'clock. Fifth Street Baptist Church . . . Our Pastor, Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham left the city Tuesday, for Roanoke, Va., to be present at the High Street Baptist Church, of said city, May 4th, where he will preach at the unveiling of costly painting of the crucifixion. He will return home later in the week and be present at his church, the Fifth Street Baptist and preach Sunday morning. At 3:30 o'clock the Odd Fellows of Richmond, will hold their anniversary exercises at Fifth Street Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham will preach the anniversary sermon. The Garnett Literary Association, Lincoln University, recently elected Dr. W. F. Graham honorary member of said association. We are informed that this is the first time that Virginia has been honored by such an appointment from said association. Dr. Davis Will Lecture at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. No one should fail to hear the Grand Lecture by Dr. D. Webster Davis, subject, "The Golden Calf" Monday night May 9th, 1910 at 8 o'clock P. M. This is Dr. Davis's latest and finest lecture. He will entertain you. The lecture is under the auspices or the Deacons' Club of the Fifth Street Baptist Church and the Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church. Admission ten cents. Refreshments in the basement will be served by the ladies of the two churches. Be on time. The entertainment at Fifth Street Baptist Church May 2, of Damon and Pythias and the splendid parade of the Grand Lodge. K. of P., last June, and music furnished by Sharon Ind. Brass and Reed Band was excellent. Operetta of Little Red Riding Hood! Juvenile Extravaganza and American Flag Drill at St. Luke Hall, Monday, May 9, 1910, for the benefit of Fifth Street Baptist Church, Under auspices of Ushers' Club. CHARACTERS—Red Riding Hood, Sanada Morris; Her Mother, Nellie Fisher; The Wolf, Henry Stallings; Fairy Queen, Alma Smith. ATTENDANTS— India Shelton, Rosa James, Mabel Miller, Charlotte Johnson, Lelia Brown, Thelma Smallwood, Fannie Morton, Mammie Pryor, Hannah Giles, Marie Guerrant, Helen Guerrant, Helen Waddill, Esther Preston, Goldie Fraysyl, Charlotte Frasier, Pattie Lynch, Waddell, Ethel Lemus, Mattie Jones, Carrie Royal, Pearl Wood, Lillian Shackleford, Evelyn Thompson, Marietta Chiles, Ruby Pollard, Robenette Lewis, Marion S. Mayo, Lottie Fraysyl, Lillian Peters, Ottra Miller, Mary Coleman, Julia Lynch, Claudine Lucado, Jessie Ransome, Emma Dagget, Edith Wilson, Margaret Baker, Lenetta Johnson, Blanche Randolph, Alvin Lewis, Miles Bowler, Horace Fisher, Bernette Taylor, Wellington Booker, Andrew Walker, Armstead Walker, Joseph Pollard, Joseph Taylor, Charlie Thompson, Theodore Miles, Waymuth Tuppance, Marion Dickerson, Henry Stallings, Walter and Charles Johnson, Sadie Taylor, John Vaughn, Percy Vaughn, Alice Hill, Sallie Richardson, John Hill Geneva Shorts. Operetta will be interspersed with special solos and full dress choruses. 1 Sextette from "Floradora." 6 Little Girls and Boys; 2 Solo a. b, Marion Dickerson; 3 Solo, Little Lilian Shackelford; 4 Solo and Chorus, Little Leola Lewis; 5 "Cupids Bouquet," Master Walter Johnson and Brother; Flowers—Rose, Violet, Mignonette, Pansy, Lilly, Daisy; 6 Solo, "Til Make a Ring Around Rosie, Nellie Fisher. AMERICAN FLAG—Wilnette Ferguson, Captain; Lillian Fraysler, Alma Smith, Hortense Gray, Spotisie Ross, Eulalia White, Alice Chiles, Ruth Scott, Evelyn Bowler, Erma Caskie, Elizabeth Coles, Jeanette West, Effie Caskie, Mamie Brown, Cererel Harris, Martha McCray, Julia Nash, Armita Stokes, Marian Miles, Lula Eggleston, Ruth Wood, Katie Gilpin, Gertrude Jones, Louise Johnson, Esther James, Nellie Fisher, Marion Whittle, Nora Jackson, Ellen Griffis, Sanada Morris, Gussie Daggett, Doris Crawford, Willie Elliot, Madge Funn, Vernon Holmes, Elmaud Marks, Goldie Houston, Alice Chiles, Lella Dabney, Mattle Dawson, Leah Farrar. General admission, 15 cents; Reserved seats, 25 cents. Doors open prompt 8, Curtain 8:30. Mme, Fannie Payne Clark, Manager; John D. Shell, Secretary; John R. Holmes, President Ushers Club; Rev. W. F. Graham, Pastor. FIRST ANNIVERSARY Good Prospect Beneficial Club The first anniversary of the Good Prospect Beneficial Club will take place Sunday, May 15, 1910, at 3:30 P. M. at the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., the pastor, will preach the annual sermon. An attractive program will be rendered. The public is cordially invited. W. E. EVANS, President. CLOSING EXERCISES Richmond Hospital Training School for Nurses. The graduating exercises of the Richmond Hospital Training School for Nurses will be held at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Tuesday evening, May 10, 1910, at 8 o'clock. A fine program has been arranged for the occasion. Addresses by Dr. E. C. Levy and Rev. W. F. Graham. Presentation of diplomas by Prof J. R. L. Diggs, President Virginia Theological Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Va. The public is invited. FOR RENT—Offices in Mechanics Savings Bank Building. RUEHRM UND AND BOWLES, 729 East Main Street. Subscribe to The PLANET. --- LOWERTEN BY MARY ROBERTS KINEMART AUTHOR OF THE CIRCULAR STARRING ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. G. KETTNER CHAPTER I. I Go to Pittsburg. McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squawkman. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of claws that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. I never see a shivering white-faced writin' in the prisoners do that I do not hark back with abuddering horror to the strange events on the Fullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburgh, on the night of September 3, last. McKnight could tell the story a great deal better than I although he cannot apollise three consecutive words truth. But while he has imagined nation and humor he is lazy "It didn't happen to me anyhow" he protested when I put up to him "And nobody cares for second hand thrills. Besides you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer." So am I, although there have been times when my assumption in that particular has been disputed. I am unmarried, and just old enough to dance with the grown up little sisters of the girls I used to know I am fond of outdoors prefer horses to the afternoons out of town. Out sentiment I am crossed out and "was" substituted - Ed. I and completely ruled and frequently routed by my housekeeper an elderly wife. In fact, of all the men of my acquaintance, was probably the most prosaic the least adventurous the one man in a hundred who would be likely to go without a devotion from the sun. In the precession of the seasons summer suits to winter fannels, golf to bride. So it was a queer freak of the demons of chance to perch on my unacceptable 30-year old ghost, tie me up with a crime ticket me with a love affair and start me on that sensational and not always respectable journey that ended so surprisingly less than three weeks later in the firm's remarkable period of my life. I would neither give it up nor live it again under any inducement and yet all that I lost was some 20 yards off my drive! It was really McKnight's turn to make the next journey. I had a tournament at Chevy Chase for Saturday, and a short yacht planned for Sunday, and when a man has been grinding at statute law for a week, he needs relaxation. But McKnight begged of me the first time he had skipped that summer to run down to Richmond and I was surly about it. But this time he had a new excuse "I wouldn't be able to look after the business if I did go," he said. He has a sort of wide-eyed frankness that makes one ashamed to doubt him "I'm always car sick crossing the mountains. It's a fact. Lollie Sceawing over the peaks does it. Why, crossing the Alleghany mountains has the gulf stream to Herinuda beaten to a frazzle." So I gave him up finally and went home to pack. He came later in the evening with his machine, the Cannonball, to take me to the station, and he brought the forged notes in the Bonham case. "Gift them with your life," he warned me. "They are more precious than honor. Sew them in your chest protector, or wherever people keep valuables. I never keep any pig. I'll not be happy until I see Gentleman Andy doing the lockstep." He sat down on my clean collars, found my cigarettes and struck a match on the mahogany bed post with one movement. "Where's the Pirate?" he demanded. The Pirate is my housekeeper, Mrs. Klopton, a very worthy woman, so labeled—and libbed—because of a ferocious pair of eyes and what MoKnight called a buccaneer nose. I quietly closed the door into the hall. "Keep your voice down, Richley." I said. "She is looking for the evening paper to see if it is going to rain. She has my raincoat and an umbrella walking in the hall." The collars being damaged beyond repair, he left them and went to the window. He stood there for some time, staring at the blackness that represented the wall of the house next door. "It's raining now," he said over his shoulder, and closed the window and the mirror. Something in his voice made me laugh. But he was meacing me, his hands idly in his pockets. "Who lives next door?" he inquired in a perfunctory tone, after a pause. I was packing my razor. "House is empty," I returned absently. "If the landlord would put it in some sort of shape—" "Did you put those notes in your pocket?" he broke in. "Yes." I was impatient. "Along with my certificates of registration, baptism and vaccination. Whoever wants them will have to steal my coat to get them." "Well, I would move them. If I were wounded in the next house was confoundedly anxious to see where you put them. Somebody right at that window opposite." I scouted at the idea, but novertheless I moved the papers, putting them in my traveling bag, well down at the bottom. McKnight watched me un- daily "I have a bunch that you are going to have trouble," he said, as I locked the alligator bag "Darned if I like starting anything important on Friday" "You have a congenital dislike to start anything on any old day. I restorted, still sore from my last Saturday "And if you knew the owner of that house as I do you would know that if there was any one at that window he is paying rent for the privilege." Kipton ramped at the door and spoke discreetly from the hall. Did Mr McKnight bring the evening paper?" she inquired. Sorry but I didn't Mr. Kipton McKnight called the "same won three to nothing He listened grinning as she moved away with little "Guard This with Your Life." irritated rustles of her black silk gown I finished my packing changed my collar and was ready to go. Then very cautiously we put out the light and opened the shutters. The win drow across was made a deeper black in the darkness. It was closed and dirty. And yet I slowly owing to Richelle suggested I had an unfortunate occasion of dressing across at me. The next moment we were at the door polished to "light" "Well have to forget it," I said in a whisper. She's down there with a package of some sort sandwiches probably. And she threatened me with overhears for a month Ready now? I had a kaleidoscope up view of Mrs Klipton in the lower half, holding out an armful of such travelling impediments as she demeaned essential, while beside her Euphremia, the colored grinned over a white-wrapped box. "Afully sorry—no time—back Sunday." I painted over my shoulder. Then the door closed and the car was moving away McKnight bent forward and stared at the facade of the empty house next door as we passed. It was black, staring, mysterious, as empty buildings are apt to be. "I'd like to hold a post-mortem on that corpse of a house," he said thoughtfully. "By George, I've a notion to get out and take a look." "Somebody after the brass pipes," I scoffed. "House has been empty for a year." With one hand on the steering wheel! McKnight held out the other for my cigarette case. "Perhaps," he said; "but I don't see what she would want with brass pipe." "A woman!" I laughed outright. "You have been looking too hard at the picture in the back of your watch, that's all. There's an experiment like that. If you stare long enough—" But McKnight was growing sulky; he sat looking rigidly ahead, and he did not speak again until he brought the Cannonball to a stop at the station. Even then it was only a perforatory remark. He went through the gate with me, and with five minutes to spare, we lounged and smoked in the train shed. My mind had slid away from my surroundings and had wandered to a polo pony that I couldn't afford and intended to buy anyhow. Then McKnight shook off his taciturnity. "For heaven's sake, don't look so martyred, he burst out; 'I know you've done all the traveling this summer. I know you're missing a game to-morrow. But don't be a patient mother; confound it. I have to go to Richmond on Sunday — I want to see a girl." "Oh, don't mind me," I observed politely. "Personally I wouldn't change places with you What's her name—North South?" "West," he snapped. Don't try to be funny. And all I have to say, Blakeoak, is that if you ever fall in love I hope you make an egregious ass of yourself. In view of what followed, this cam-rather close to prophecy The trip west was without incident. I played bridge with a furniture dealer from Brand Rapids, a sales agent for a Pittsburg iron firm and a young professor from an eastern college. I won three rubbers out of four, finished what cigarettes McKnight had left me and went to bet about one 9-ounce. It was growing cooler, and the rain had peaked. Once, toward morning, I waked with a start, for no apparent reason, and sat bolt upright. I had an uneasy feeling, that some one had been looking at me, the same sensation I had experienced earlier in the greeting at the window. But I could feel this bag with the notes, between me and the window, and with my arm thrown over it for security, I lapsed again into alumbre. Later, when I tried to piece together the fragments of that journey, I remembered that my coat, which had been folded and placed beyond my restless tossing, had been rescued in the morning from a heterogeneous jumble of blankets, evening papers and cravat, had been shaken out with profanity and donned with wrath. At the time, neither I had the capacity of writing to the Pullman Company and asking them if they ever traveled in their own cars. I even formulated some of the letter. His of pride. More supernatural this time, godlike. From that we want to what he ate for breakfast and did not eat for lunchne, and then to his reserve power, which at 65 became a matter for thought. And so, in a wide circle, back to where we started, the picture, "Pater was a racal," John Gilmore said, picking up the frame. "The happiest day of my life was when the table and spoke agonized not hanged. If the child had looked like him, I—well, she doesn't. She's a Gilmore, every inch. Supposed to look like me." "Very noticeably," I agreed soberly. I had produced the notes by that time, and replacing the picture Mr. Notther, one was in his chair, his color holds over his collar. He bald, grotesque, sullied without a aggression had been drinking; raised an unsteady mouthed waiter with evening papers and cravat, had been shaken out with profanity and donned with wrath. At the time, neither I had the capacity of writing to the Pullman Company and asking them if they ever traveled in their own cars. I even formulated some of the letter. His of pride. More supernatural this time, godlike. From that we want to what he ate for breakfast and did not eat for lunchne, and then to his reserve power, which at 65 became a matter for thought. And so, in a wide circle, back to where we started, the picture, "Pater was a racal," John Gilmore said, picking up the frame. "The happiest day of my life was when the table and spoke agonized not hanged. If the child had looked like him, I—well, she doesn't. She's a Gilmore, every inch. Supposed to look like me." "Very noticeably," I agreed soberly. I had produced the notes by that time, and replacing the picture Mr. "If they are built to scale, why not take a man of ordinary stature as your unit?" I wrote mentally. "I cannot fold together like the travelling cup with which I drink your abominate water." I was more cheerful after I had had a cup of coffee in the Union station. It was too early to attend to business, and I lounged in the restaurant and behind the morning papers. As I had expected they had got hold of my visit and its object. On the first page was a staring announcement that the forged papers in the Bronson case had been brought to Pittsburgh. Underneath a telegram from Washington stated that Lawrence Blakeley of Blakeley & McKnight had and allowed the night to approach the trial of the Bronson case and the illness of John Gillmore, the Pittsburgh millionaire, who was the chief witness for the prosecution it was supposed that the visit was intimately concerned with the trial. I looked around apprehensively. There were no reporters yet in sight, and thankful to have escaped notice I paid for my breakfast and left. At the cabastand I chose the least dilapidated hansom I could find, and giving the driver the address of the Gilmore residence, in the East end, I got in. I was just in time. As the cab turned and rolled off a slim young man in a straw at parapeted himself from a little group of men and hurried toward us. "Hey! Wait a minute tiger!" he called breaking into a trot. But the cabby did not hear, or per haps did not care to. We jogged comfortably along to my trot, leaving the young man far behind. I avoid reports on principle having learned long ago that I am an easy mark for a clever interviewer. It was perhaps nine o'clock when I left the station. Our way was along the boulevard which hugged the side of one of the city's great hills. Far below, to the left, lay the railroad tracks and the seventy times seven looming stacks of the mills. The white mist of the river, the grays and blacks of the smoke blended into a halfflood of smoke. The city was filled with fire. It was unlucky, tremendous. Whistler might have painted it with its pathos, its majesty but he would have missed what made it in untimely suggestive—the rattle and He Want Over the Four Notes Methodically, Examining Each Carefully. roar of iron on iron, the rumble of wheels, the throbbing beat, against the cars, of fire and heat and brawn welding prosperity. Something of this I voiced to the grim old millionaire who was responsible for at least part of it. He was propped up in bed in his East end home, listening to the market reports read by a nurse, and he smiled a little at my enthusiasm. "I can't see much beauty in it myself," he said. "But it's our badge of prosperity. The full dinner pall here means a nose that looks like a fuse. Pittsburgh without smoke wouldn't be Pittsburgh, any more than New York prohibition would be New York. Sit down for a few minutes, Mr Blakeley. Now, Miss Gardner, Westinghouse Electric." The nurse resumed her reading in a monotonaous voice. She read literally and without understanding, using initial and abbreviations as they came. But the shrewd old man followed her easily. Once, however, he stopped her. "Do it dito" he said gently, "not do." As the nurse drenched along, I found myself looking curiously at a photograph in a silver frame on the bedside table. It was the picture of a girl in white, with her hands clasped loosely before her. Against the dark background her figure stood out slim and young. Perhaps it was the rather grim environment, possibly it was my mood, but although as a general thing photographs of young girls make no appeal to me, this one did I found my eyes straying back to it. By a little finesse I even made out the name written across the corner, "Allison." Mr. Gilmore lay back among his pillows and listened to the nurse's listless voice. But he was watching me from under his heavy eyebrows, for when the reading was over, and we were alone, he indicated the picture with a gesture. "I keep it there to remind myself that I am an old man." he said. "That is my granddaughter, Alison West." I expressed the customary polite surprise, at which, finding me responsive, he told me his age with a chuo- kle of pride. More surreal, this tide gulletless. From that we went to what he ate for breakfast and did eat eat for luncheon, and then to his reserve power, which at 65 became a matter for thought. And so, in a wide circle, back to where we started, the picture. "Father was a rascal." John Gilmore said, picking up the frame. "The happiest day of my life was when I knew he was safely dead in bed and not hanged. If the child had looked like him, I-well, she doesn't. She's very sorry. Very inch. Supposed to look like me." "Very noticesly," I agreed soberly. I had produced the notes by that time, and replacing the picture Mr. Gilmore fathered his spectacles from beside it. He went over the four notes methodically, examining each carefully and putting it down before he picked up the next. Then he leaned back and took off his glasses. "They're not so bad," he said thoughtfully "Not so bad. But I never saw them before. That's my unofficial signature. I am inclined to think"—he was speaking partly to himself—"to think that he has got hold of a letter of mine probably to Alison Bronson was a friend of her rapacillation of a father" I took Mr Gilmore's deposition and put it into my traveling bag with the forged notes. When I saw them again, almost three weeks later, they were wearing a scarf of charred paper on a copper hat and in teal other and bigger things had happened. The Bronson forgery case had shrunk beside the greater and more imminent mystery of the man in lower ten. And Alison West had come into the story and into my life. CHAPTER II. A Torn Telegram. I lunched alone at the Gilmore house, and went back to the city at once. The sun had lifted the mists, and a fresh summer wind had cleared away the smoke pall. The boulevard was full of cars flying countryward for the Saturday half holiday, toward golf and tennis green fields and babbling girls. I gritted my teeth and thought of McKnight at Richmond. And then, for the first time I associated John Gilmore's granddaughter with the "West" that McKnight had irritably flung at me. I still carried my travelling bag, for McKnight's vision at the window of the empty house had not been without effect. I did not transfer the notes to my pocket and if I had it would not have altered the situation later. Only the other day McKnight put this very thing up to me. "I warned you," he reminded me. I told you there were queer things coming, and to be on your guard You ought to have taken your revolver." "It would have been of exactly as much use as a bucket of snow in Africa." I retorted "If I had never closed my eyes or if I had kept my finger on the trigger of a skimmer (which is novaeleque for revolver), the result would have been the same. And the next time you want a little excitement with every variety of thrill you can put you by way of it. You begin by getting the wrong berth in a Pullman car and end—" "Oh, I know how it ends." he flashed shortly "Don't you suppose the whole thing's written on my spinal marrow" But I am wandering again. That is the difficulty with the unprofessional story-teller. He yaws back and forth and can't keep in the wind he drops his characters overboard when he hasn't any further use for them and drowns them, he forgets the coffee pot and the trying pan and all the other small essentials and, if he carves his characters matters a fewvent "Allah be praised in lands them drenched with adventures, at the matrimonial dock at the end of the final chapter I put in a thoroughly unsatisfactory afternoon. Time dragged eternally. I dropped into a summer vaudeville, and bought some ties at a haberdasher's. I was bored but unexpected. I had no preemption of what was to come. Nothing unusual had ever happened to me, friends of mine had sometimes sailed, the high seas of adventure or skirted the coasts of chance, all of the shipwrecks had occurred after a woman passenger had been taken on "Ergo." I had always said "no women." I repeated it to myself that evening almost savagely, when I found my thoughts straying back to the picture of John Glimore's granddaughter. I even argued as I ate my solitary dinner at a downtown restaurant. "Haven't you troubles enough." I reflected without looking for more? Hasn't laid News gone lame with a matinee race booked for next week? Otherwise aren't you comfortable? Isn't your house in order? Do you want to sell a pony in order to have the library done over in mission or the drawing room in gold? Do you want somebody to count the empty cigarette boxes lying around every morning? AY to the long idle afternoon, to the environment, to anything you like, but I need to think that perhaps I did. I was confounded lonely. For the first time in my life its even course began to waver. The needle registered warning marks on the matrimonial salamograph, lines vague enough, but lines. My alligator bag lay at my feet, still locked. While I waited for my coffee I leaned back and surveyed the people incognito. There were the usual couple intent on each other; my new state of mind made me regard them with tolerance. But at the next table, where a man and woman dined together, a different atmosphere prevailed. My attention was first caught by the woman's face. She had been, speaking earnestly across the her profile turned to me. I had noticed her, and her somber clothes, and the great mass of odd, bronze-colored hair on her neck. But suddenly she glanced toward me and the utter hopelessness —almost tragedy—of her expression struck me with a shock. She half closed her eyes and drew a long breath, then she turned again to the man across the table. Nathalie one was eating. He asked joy in his chair his coin. He took his folds of thick paper providing over his collar. He was prefably 50 bald, protegee, sullied, and yet not without a signification of power. But he had been drinking; as I looked, he raised an unsteady hand and summoned a waiter with a wine list. The young woman bent across the table and spoke again quickly. She had unconciously raised her voicole. Not beautiful, in her earnestness and stress abb rather interested me. I had an idle inclination to advise the move of the bottom from the top, wondering what would have, happened if I had? Suppose Harrington had not been intoxicated when he entered the Pullman car Ontario that night! For they were about to make a journey, I gathered, and the young woman an wished to go alone. I drank three cups of coffee, which accounted for my wakefulness later, and shamelessly watched the tableau before me. The woman's protest evidently wont for nothing, across the table the man grunted monosyllabic replies and grew more and more lowering and sullen. Once, during a brief unexpected plan, lastime in music her voice came to life: "If I could only see him in time" she was saying. "Oh it is a terrible" she was saying. On it a terrible. In spite of my interest I would have forgotten the whole incident at once, erased it from my mind as one does the essentials and I did not meet them again, later that evening in the Pennsylvania station. The situation between them had not visibly altered. The same dogged determination showed in the man's face but the young woman— daughter or wife" I wondered—had drawn down her well and I could only suspect what w it into misery lay beneath. I bought my berth after waiting in a line of some eight or ten people. When step by step I had almost reached the window at a tall woman whom I had not noticed before spoke to me. She had a ticket and money in her hand. Will you try to get me a lower when you buy yours" she asked. "I have traveled for three nights in up- por." I consented of course; beyond that I hardly noticed the woman. I had a vague impression of height and a certain amount of statelliness, but the crowd was pushing behind me, and some one was standing on my foot. I got two lowers easily, and, turning with the change and berths, held out the tickets. Which will you have?" I asked. "Lower 11 or lower 10?" "It makes no difference," she said. "Thank you very much indeed." At random I gave her lower 11, and called a porter to help her with her luggage. I followed them leisurely to the train shed, and ten minutes more saw us under way I looked into my car, but it presented the peculiarly unattractive appearance common to sleepers. The berths were made up, the center aisle was a path between walls of dingy, breezere repelling curtains while the two seats at each end of the car were piled high with suit cases and umbrellas. The perspiring porter was trying to be in six places at once; somebody has said that Pullman porters are black so they won't show the dirt, but they certainly show the heat. Nine-fifteen was an outrageous hour (to go to bed, especially when I sleep little) and the train, so I made my way to the smoker and passed the time until nearly 11 with cigarettes and a magazine. The car was very close. It was a warm night, and before turning in I stood a short time in the vestibule. The train had been stopping at frequent intervals, and, finding the brakeman there, I asked the trouble. It seemed that there was a hot-box on the next car, and that not only were we late, but we were delaying the second section, just behind. I was beginning to feel pleasantly drowsy, and the air was growing cooler as we got late to the mountains. I said goodnight to the brakeman and went back to my berth. To my surprise, lower ten was already occupied—a gusit case projected from beneath, a pair of shoes stood on the floor, and from behind the curtains came the heavy, unmistakable breathing of deep sleep. I hunted out the porter and together we investigated. The porter, air" asked the porter, leaning over deterentially. No answer for theming, he opened the curtains and looked in. Yes, the intruder was asleep—very much asleep—and an overwhelming odor of whisky proclaimed that he would probably remain asleep until morning. I was irritated. The car was full, and I was not disposed to take an upper in order to allow this drunken interloper to sleep comfortably in my berth. "You'll have to get, out of this," said, shaking him angrily. But he merely grunted and turned over. As he did so, I saw his features for the first time. I was the restless the quarrelsome man of the restraint. I was less disposed than ever to relinquish my claim, but the porter, after a little quiet investigation, of A There's no one else, however, who organized, pulling out the system just across. "It's likely nine's her birth, and he's made a mistake, owing to his condition. You'd better take nine, air." I did, with a firm resolution that if nine's rightful owner turned up later I should be just as unwakable as the man opposite. I undressed leisurely, making sure of the safety of the forged notes, and placing my grip as before between myself and the window. Being a man of systematic habits, I arranged my clothes carefully, putting my shoes out for the porter to polish, and stowing my collar and scarf the little hammock swung for the trippe. At last, with my pillows so arranged that I could see comfortably, and with the unhybrid-looking blanket turned back—I have always a distrust of those much-used affairs—I prepared to wait gradually for sleep. But sleep did not visit me. The train came to frequent, grazing stops, and I surmised the hot box again. I am not a nervous man, but there was something chilling in the thought of the second section pounding along behind us. Once, as I was doing, our locomotive whisled a shrill warning "You keep back where you belong." it screamed to my drowsy cars, and from somewhere/behind came a chastened "All-right-t-will." I grow more and more wide-awake. At Cresson I got up on my elbow and blinked out at the station lights Some gassegers boarded the train there and I heard a woman's low tones, a southern voice, rich and full. Then quiet again. Every nerve was tense. Perhaps ten minutes, possibly half an hour, without the slightest warning, as the train rounded a curve, a heavy body was thrown into my birth. The incident, trivial as it seemed, was startling in its suddenness, for although my ears were painfully strained and awake, I had heard no step outside The next instant the curtain hung limp again; but without a sound, my disturber had slipped out of the darkness. In a freeway of wakefulness, I sat up, drew on a pair of slippers and tumbled for my hair robs. From a borth across, probably lower ten, came that particularly aggravating snore which begins lightly, delicately, faintly soprano, goes down the scale a note with overy breath, and, after keeping the listener tense with expectation, ends with an explosion that tears the very air I was more and more irritable I sat on the edge of the berth and hoped the snorer would choke to death He had considerable vitality, however; he withstood one shock after another and very well started again with new vigor. In desperation I found some cigarettes and one match; plied my blankets over my grip, and drawing the curtains together as though the berth were still occupied, I made my way to the vestibule of the car. I was not clad for dress parade. Is it because the male is so restricted to gloom in his every-day attire that he blossoms into gaudy colors in his pajamas and dressing gowns? It would take a Turk to feel at home before an audience in my red and yellow bath robe, a Christmas remembrance from Mrs. Klopton, with slippers to match. So, naturally, when I saw a feminine figure on the platform, my first instinct was to dodge. The woman, however, was quicker than I, she gave me a startled glance, wheeled and disappeared, with a flash of two bronze-colored brads, into the next car. Cigarette box in one hand, match in the other, I leaned against the uncertain frame of the door and gazed after her vanished figure. The mountain air flapped my bath robe around my hare ankles, my one match burned to the end and went out, and still I stared. For I had seen on her expressive face a haunting look that was horror, nothing less. Heaven knows, I am not psychological. Emotions have to be written large before I can read them. But a woman in trouble always appeals to me, and this woman was more than that. She was in deadly fear Is I had not been afraid of being ridiculous. I would have followed her. But I fancied that the apparition of a man in a red and yellow bath robe, with an unkempt thatch of hair, walking up to her and assuring her that he would protect her would probably put her into hysteria. I had done that once before, when burglaries had tried to break into the house, and had started the parlor maid into bed for a week. So I tried to assure myself that I had imagined the lady's distress—or caused it, perhaps—and to dismiss her from my mind. Perhaps she was merely anxious about the unpleasant gentleman of the restaurant. I thought smugly that she had her about him: That he was shaken by the act of the just and the intertwined in a barth that ought, by all that was fair and right, to have been mine, and that if I were tied to a man who snored like that I should have him anaesthetized and soft palate put where it would never again grip a loose sall in the wind. We passed Harrisonburg as I stood there. It was starlight, and the great crests of the Alleghenies had given way to low hills. At intervals we passed amudges of gray white, no doubt in daytime comfortable farms, which McKnight says is a good way putting it, the farms being a lot more comfortable than the people on them. I was growing drowsy; the woman with the bronzed hair and the horrified face was fading in retrospect. It was cooler, too, and I turned with a shiver to go in. As I did so, a bit of paper fluttered later into the air and settled on my sleeve, like a butterfly on a gorgous red and yellow crest, and glanced at it. It was part of a telegram that had been torn into bits. There were only parts of four words on the scrap, but it left me pussed and thoughtful. It read: "—owen ten car sage—" "Lower ten, ton, car seven," was my birth—the one I had bought and found pre-empted. He solution opened the door. I went back to my birth. The scores across had apparently attempted, or hurried over, and so at time I dropped sleep, to be awakened by the morning sunlight across my face. I felt for my watch, yawning predictably. I reached under the pillow and failed to find it, but something scratched the back of my hand. I sat up irritably and nursed the wound, which was bleeding a little. Still drowsy. I felt more cautiously for what I supposed had been my scarf pin, but there was nothing there. Wide awake now, I reached for my traveling bag, on the chance that I had put my watch in there. I had drawn the satchel to me and had my hand on the lock before I realised that it was not my own! Mine was of alligator hide. I had killed, the beast, in Florida, after the expenditure of enough money to have bought a house and enough energy to have built one. The bag I held in my hand was a black one, sealskin, I think. The staggering thought of what the loss of my bag mount to me put my finger on the bell and kept it there until the porter came. "Did you ring, sir?" he asked, poking his head through the curtains obsequiously McKnight objects that nobody can poke his head thought a curtain and be sooul But Pullman can be and do. "No, I snapped." it "rang itself. What, in thunder do you mean by ex-changing my valise" for this one You'll have to find it if you waken the entire, car to do it. There are important papers in that grip." "Porter," called a feminine voice from an upper hear near by "Porter, am I to dangle here all day." "Let her dangle," I said savagely. "You find that bag of mine." The porter frowned. Then he looked at me with injured dignity "I brought in your overcoat, sir. You carried your own valise" The fellow was right 'In an excess of caution I had refused to relinquish my alligator bag, and had turned over my other traps to the porter It was clear enough then. I was simply a victim of the usual sleeping car robbery. I was in a father of perspiration by that time. The lady down the car was still dangling and talking about it; still nearer a feminine voice She Gave a Startled Glance, Wheeled and Disappeared. was giving quick orders in French, presumably to a maid. The porter was on his knees, looking under the berth. "Not there, sir," he said, dusting his knees. He was visibly more cheerful, having been absolved of responsibility. "Reckon it was taken while you was wanderin' around the car last night." "I'll give you $50 if you find it," I said. "A hundred Reach up my shoes and I'll—" recovered abruptly. My eyes were fixed on an amusement on a coat that hung from a book at the foot of my berth. From the coat they travelled, dazed, to the soft-bosomed shirt beside it, and from there to the collar and cravat in the net hammock across the windows "A hundred!" the porter repeated, showing his teeth. But I caught him by the arm and pointed to the foot of the berth. "What—what color's that coat?" I asked unsteadily. "Gray, sir." His tone was one of gentle reproof. "And—the trousers!" He reached over and held up one creased leg. "Gray, too," he grinned. "Gray!" I could not believe even his corporation of my own eyes. "But my clothes were blue!" The porter was amused; he dived under the curtains and brought up a pair of shoes. "Your shoes, sir," he said with a flourish. "Reckon you've been dreaming, sir." Now, there are two things I always avoid in my dress—possibly an idiosyncrasy of my bachelor existence. These taboo articles are red neckties and tan shoes. And not only were shoes the porter lifted from the shoes, a gorgeous shade of yellow, but this one was run through the turned over collar. Gumy red. It took a full minute for the real import of things to penduate my dared intelligence. Then I gave a yindictive kick at the offending ensemble. "They're not mine, any of them" I snarled. "They are some other fellows. I'll sit here until I take root before I put them on." "They're nice lookin' clothes," the porter put in lying the red tie with appreciation. "Ain't everybody would have left you anything." "Call the conductor," I said shortly. Then a possible explanation occurred to me. "Oh, porter—what's the number of this berth?" "Seven, sir. If you can't wear those," the floral. "In my relief. I almost shouted it. 'Why, then, it's simple enough. I'm in the wrong berth, that's all. My birth is nine. Only where the deuce is the man who belongs here!" "Likekg in nine, sir." The darky was enjoying himself. "You and the other gentleman just got mixed in the night. That's all, sir." It was clear that he thought I had been drinking. --- SATURDAY.....MAY 7, 1010. drew a long breath. Of course, that was the explanation. This was number seven's birth, that was his soft hat, this his umbrella, his coat, his bag. My pago turned to irritation at myself. The porter went to the next berth and I could hear his softly insulting voice. "Time to get up, sir. Are you awake? Time to get up." There was no response from num- ber nine. I guessed that he had opened the curtain and was looking fn. Then he came back "Number nine is empty," he said "Empty? Do you mean my clothes aren't there?" I demanded "My valise? Why don't you answer me?" "You doan' give me time." he retorted "There ain't nothin' there. But it's been silent in." The disappointment was the greater for my few moments of hope. I sat up in a white fury and put on the clothes that had been left me. Then, still rigging, I sat on the edge of the berth and put on the obnoxious tan shoes. The porter, called to his duties, made little excursions back to me, to offer assistance and to chuckle at my discomfiture. He stood by, outwardly decorous, but with little irritating grins of amusement around his mouth, when I finally emerged with the red tie in my brow. "But the owner of those clothes did not become them any more than you do," he said, as he piled the ubiquitous whitekroom. "When I get the owner of those clothes," I retorted grimly, "he will need a shroud Where's the conductor?" The conductor was coming, he assured me, and that there was no bag answering the description of mine on the car. I slammed my way to the dressing room, washed, choked my fifteen and a half neck into a fifteen collar. And was back again in less than five minutes. The car, as well as its occupants, was gradually taking on a daylight appearance. I hobbled in, for one of the shoes was abominably tight, and found myself facing a young woman in blue with an unforgettable face ("Three women already" McKnight says "That's going some, even if you don't count the Glimore nurse") She stood, half turned toward me, one hand idly drooping the other steadying her as she gazed out at the flying landscape. I had an instant impression that I had met her somewhere, under different circumstances more cheerful ones. I thought, for the girl's dejection now was evident her, sitting down, a small dark woman, considerably older, was talking in a rapid undertone. The girl nodded indifferently now and then I fanned, although I was not sure that my appearance brought a startled look into the young woman a face. I sat down, and hand thrust deep into the other man a jackets stared ruefully at the other man a shoes. The stage was set in a moment the curtain was lifted up on the first act of the play. And for a while we would call it our own the speeches and sing our little act, and I, the villain, would hold on to stage while the gallery blessed. The porter was standing beside lower ten. He had reached in and was knocking valiantly but his efforts met with no response. He winked at me over his shoulder then he unfastened the curtains and bent forward. Behind him, I saw him stiffen heard his muttered exclamation, saw the blush pallor that spread over his face and neck. As he retreated a step the interior of lower ten lay open to the day. The man in it was on his back, the early morning sun striking full on his upturned face. But the light did not disturb him. A small stain of red dyeed the front of his night clothes and trailed across the shoot his half-open eyes were fixed, without soiling, on the shining wood above. I grasped the porter's shaking shoulders and stared down to where the train imparted to the body a grisly suggestion of motion "Good Lord." I gasped, "the man's been murdered!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) MAN FIFTY MARRIES GIRL OF FOURTEEN Laurel, Del, April 27 Eluding practically the entire force of state authorities and hundreds of Delaware residents who had united to catch the pair John H. Hall, fifty years old, and Alisa May Horsman, fourteen years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William I. Horsman, of Laurel, eloped from the Horsman home, accured an automobile and speeded to Donton, Md, where they were married. They returned to Laurel later and were taken into custody immediately. Hall was looked up in the town prison, who was soon surrounded by a mob who threatened to do violence to the man. The girl is confined at the residence of Chlof of Police Davis. The parents of the girl say they will prosecute Hall and have already taken action to have the wedding annulled. Thursday, April 21. South Dakota Prohibitionists made material gains in a local option election, winning Pierre, which has been wet for several years. Reports from the fruit growing sections of Georgia indicate that no material damage was done the peach trop by the recent cold weather. Nearly $200,000 was raised for the work of the African Methodist Episcopal church in the fiscal year just ended, as shown by a report of the financial board. Thomas Taggart, former chaplain of the Democratic national committee, announced in Indianapolis, Ind., that he will be a candidate to succeed Albert J. Beveridge in the United States Senate. Fclday. April 22. Six inches of snow fell at Knobs, fifteen miles north of Clearfield, Pa., and the temperature fell below freezing. The supreme court of Illinois declared the law prohibiting the employment of women in factories and stores more than ten hours per day constitutional. After several weeks spent in hunting down rumors of alleged bribery by lobbyists at the recent session of the Kentucky legislature, the Franklin county grand jury has reported that it had been unable to find a shred of evidence. Saturday, April 23 Naomi Channon, three years old, after being dotaled at Ellis Island for more than a year, arrived in Chicago from New York to join her mother Harry Ukley, of Dennison, O. lost both hands when run over by a Baiti more & Ohio train. Ukley says he was robbed of $27, sandbagged and fled to the track. When officers entered his office in Kennebunk, M.e., with a warrant charging him with performing an illegal operation, Dr J R. Haley, a leading physician, pulled a revolver from his desk and killed himself. He was fifty years old Monday, April 25. M H. Bond, of Chulasky, Columbia county, Pa. has a six-legged coll. A nail in its feed killed a horse that belonged to John R Bradley, near Marietta. $^a$ Overcome by gas fumes. Mrs. Elliza beth Aorne, aged sixty-one years, fell into a grate and was burned to death at Findlay O. With ugly wounds about the head and body Samuel Raypole, of the National Soldiers home at Dayton O. was found dead just beyond the city limits. Not sattafied with his explantion of a dropped burning match. James Flanigan, of Albany N Y is held by the police pending an investigation of the cause of a fire in the Morton Hotel Tuesday, April 26 Ten thousand workmen were idle in the Northumberland and Columbia county Pa. coal regions because a large number of anthracite coal mines are drowned out Fire destroyed twelve places of business at Centralia Mo., including two of the largest dry goods and clothing house, with a loss estimated at more than $100,000. Ellijah House colored was electrified at Richmond Va. for having killed a colored man near Norfolk House escaped from the Norfolk county jail March 29 and was captured the next day. The residence of Joseph A Quick at Prairie City Ia. was demolished at midnight by a charge of dynamite which had been placed under the front porch, near the sleeping apartments of Dr. Alexander A Hall and his bride formerly Miss Myrtle Quick Miss Mary Guthrie of Carthage RI was arrested on suspicion Wednesday, April 27 Ed Keaton 119 years old who lives near Natechez Miss was bitten by a rattle snake but the doctors say he will get well One thousand foreigners who struck at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car company in Schenoville near Pittsburgh BP returned to work. The men did not gain their demands. First Lieutenant Willam B. Hatfield of the Thirteenth infantry" stationed at the Presidio at San Francisco committed suicide in his head quarters by shooting himself through the head. Henry Cantley colored was instantly killed Superintendent Spandling's legs were broken and Assistant Superintendent John Bleda' leg and arm were broken by the falling of a car in the shaft of the Halle gold mine at Lancaster S. C. Boys Crossing Continent on Horses St Louis Mon. April 27 - Louis Temple Abernethy ten and six years old sons of John Abernethy) United States marshal at Guthie Okla okla into St Louis on their horse-back trip from Frederick Okla across the con- tinent to New York CENSUS ARRESTS Three In Custody For Refusing to Answer Questions. Springfield, April 27 Two men and one woman were held to answer in the United States district court for refusal to answer questions of the census enumerators. Warrants were called for after Consus Supervisor W J Betler had secured instructions from Washington Keeper Attacked by Mother Bear. New York, April 27—When an off fort was being made to photograph a mother bear and her three cubs in their cage at the zoo, Richard P. Splicher, a keeper, went in to pose the cubs. The mother attacked Splicher The bear set her teeth in Splercs right arm and bung on Several other keepers got Splicher out, but not before his arm had been badly lacerated. Burating Meteor Starts Forest Fire. El Paso, Tox. April 27—News has been received here from the mountains near the Mormon colonies in Mexico of the falling of a gigantic meteor. It burst and fragments started a forest fire. BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON: Aamous Norwegian Poet and Author Who Died In Paris. J. BJORNSON IS DEAD Norway's Great Scholar Passes Away After Long Illness. Paris, April 27 - Bjornjørnje Bjornson, the poet novelist, known as "Norway's Uncrowned King," died after an illness of several months' duration. The cause of death was arteriosclerosis. Taken ill in the fall of 1909, his suffering gradually sapped away his vitality, great as it was, and his death was momentarily expected. He was seventy-eight years of age. The career of this great poet and novelist is regarded as having influ- enced Norway more powerfully than that of his friend and associate, Ibsen. To say that Bjornson was only a novelist would be a mistake. He was a newspaper reeditor and contrib- tor, theatrical director and playwright, political agitator and leader all at the same time, and in bewildering alter- nation. Among the writings in which he will be best remembered are "Synnoe Solbakken" "Arme" "A Happy Boy" and such plays as "The Editor" "The New System" and "The King" Two of his greatest novels are "The House of Kurtz" and "In God's Ways." One of his patriotic poems "Yes We Love the Land that Bore Us" took such hold on the people that it became the national hymn. INITIATION TORTURES TO DOOM "FRATS" Bridgeport, Conn. April 27 — Macroni cooked in soap and labeled "angle worm," had to be eaten and a cocktail of vinegar, mothases, salt pepper and the white of an egg had to be gulped down before a girl could join the Alpha sorority in the high school here according to testimonies offered to the board of education. A score of witnesses appeared. The girl is a wreck witnesses teathed. It will be three years before her stomach is again in normal condition. Loralne Clark daughter of Fayette C Clark, a member of the lower house of the Connecticut general assembly was the victim. Her nerves shattered she is now in a retreat in Vermont recruiting her health. Miss Elie Havens daughter of Colonel Elmer H Havens a member of Governor Weeks staff testified as to initiation tortures. She is a member of the sorority. In addition to the macaroni-two oysters also put through a process of bitterness were forced down Miss Clark's throat Miss Havens said "Polywog" was the name they bore on the menu. Herbert Smith an expert chemist testified that the connections forced upon Miss Clark were not harmful but when asked to drink a vinegar cocktail declined. The board reserved decision but it is likely that all fraternities and sororities in the public schools will have to go. --- Killa Sweetheart and Self Reading Pa. April 27 Ellery J. Leavitt went to the home of his sweet heart. Miss Nellie Becker, loaded, a pistol in her presence and fired three times resulting in her death. Then he walked coolly back, to a rocking chair and ended his own miserable life by drinking cyanide of potassium. He was crazed by drink and jealousy. NOT SUCH A BAD DREAM. Ethel—Frud called me a dream last night. Bertha—How funny! It was only last week. Prod was telling me what awful dreams he had! We offer you, the latest and most artistic photos, at a more moderate figure, than you can obtain elsewhere. Special attention paid to children. Enlarging and copying interior view work. 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Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second class matter The charges against Bishop Wesley J Gatnes have been withdrawn Now let the church investigate the matter him issue a statement to the public FRELDMAN'S BANK The Committee on Banshing and Currency has seen fit to make a favorable report on the Freedman's Bank Bill. The Democratic members of the committee are opposed to the report although the bulk of the money will be spent in southern states. The bill should be passed and delegations should call upon these Democratic members with the idea in view of having them change their attitude or to be quiet in their antagonism to the measure. The bill should pass. We hope that the House of Representatives will see its way clear to send the measure to the United States Senate. It has passed that body before and it should get through there now. ANOTHER REMOVAL The Republican Administrator in at Washington has again gone on record as being antagonistic to the political interests of the colored citizens in the Southland. This time it has removed Mr A B Kennedy (colored). Receiver of Public Money at New Orleans and appointed Mr Charles C. Paffrey, white, in his stead. When the apologists for the Administration can explain this away, then we shall be in a particularly happy frame of mind upon this and many other questions. The time will yet come when the average citizen of color will realize that the uname Republican is used as a cloak for many anti Negro politicians and that the only way we can judge men is by their actions. It has been popular in some quarters to hit the Negro and this feeling is shared by many Republicans, who have imbibed Democratic racial antipathies and who lose no time or opportunity to show it. Those colored men who enjoy the right of franchise should certainly learn how to cast a discriminating ballot and support those Republicans who accept the original tenets and principles of the party from side to side and from bottom to top. President Taft is a good-natured soul, but just as sure as you are born, when it comes down to the racial question gauged by the fundamental principles of the Republic, he "hasn't got his bonnet on straight." THE CAUSE OF IT. The immediate effect of the action of the President of the United States in going outside of the Republican Party for officials as well as for policies is seen in the marked efforts of the so called insurgents to defeat alleged party measures. They cannot be properly read out of the party for the reason that they have been guilty of doing no more than the accredited head of the party the President of the United States has done. The indications are that many of the measures embraced in the plat form will be defeated and the Democrats have managed to stand to gather long enough to embarrass and hand up the Republican party leaders. The Democrats will go to pieces as soon as they are entrusted with power for they are in a more wretched condition than are their ancient antagonists. As for the colored citizens they are not counted in the equation PRINCE TSAI TAD TSAI TAO GREST OF SCHWAE Chinese Prince Meets at Luncheon Great Assemblage of Wealth New York Ma 4 Prince Isaac Taeger the member of the Chinese royal family who is competing his American tour by a visit to this city was the guest of his host in Charles M. Schwab's Luncheon in Riverside Dr. The guests, many of them million dollars, attended the United States S operation, assisted more than hundred wealth than any other group similar to the world. Resides the prince and his wife Mr. Schwab's great wife John D. Reilly John D. Reilly Jr. J. R. Morgan Jr. Judge E. H Gary George Washington University Louis Van Jardin M. Sifh Maye Gaston Jane Hair Charles L. Litt Jr. Thomas Ellison Hunt L. Lars and Bert M. Waltz of Boston It is important that you not only soften the pressure you will have awarding to an amateur, but also amounting for it to millions of dollars. There will be fortunate ones of a plan to put army and navy on a modern basis. ROOSEVELT GIVEN ROYAL WELCOME Swedish and Danish Warships Pay Him Tribute. Copenhagen. May 1. Honors was accorded out of the vaults were parted. Colonel Roosevelt by the Indians and New York gavels, all with their sylvatics, on ships in their positions at a port, while the naval officers and the naval officers from a pass stranger from the coast were hanged. They on the watch ships, naval officers and men stood at attention and the naval officers of American naval forces the Roosevelt port passed to. The Roosevelt proceeded to Hager in an amphibian who was enmarched at him but he remained on the stranger which subsequently sent them to London. After a night but begged well in Denmark. Mr Roosevelt and his party left for the tritta Following Mr. R. well was born of originally two boys company penhayne lab arms American the Royal I former pres which were beasts of Afr. OXFORD DEGREE FOR T. University Will Make Ex-President Doctor of Civil Law. London May 4 Oxford university will confer an honorary degree of doctor of civil law on Colonel Roosevall on May 18 Chancellor Curzon will predeal at the exercises and the ex-president in looking formal I expectantly to the delivery of the romance lecture in his robes as the youngest degree holder in the university Killing Frost in Nebraska Kansas City May 4 Killor frost in Nebraska with temperature of 30 degrees registered at No. 1 Platte, were reported to the local weather bureau THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. MOORE SCHOOL Through its Principal, Mr. H. G Carlton, has reported to the Supt. Dr J. A. C Chandler, the following Roll of Honor, for April 7 A GRADE Maggie M Coleman Lillian 1 Scott 8 B GRADE Annie Epes, Nettie Funn Lewis Goode Ira Brown, Leon Cooke Joseph Jackson 9 A GRADE Daisy Green, Grape Scott Lella Lewis Callie Smith Lavinta Scott Viola Butler 10 B GRADE John Cary Roy Johnson, McKinley Mosby Richard Winston, Andrew Walker, Alpa Bur rell Essie Reid Rosetta Mines Arthu Wilkerson Harry Howard 11 A GRADE No 1 Elma Jack son Bennie Horsey, John Lewis 12 A GRADE No 2 Douglas Woolfolk Pascal Fowlkes Emmett Randolph Charles Ferguson 4 B GRADE, No 1 Edmond Taylor George Anderson Mildred John son Louise Jackson Gladys Robinson son Gertrude Robinson 4 B GRADE No 2 Marie Clarke 4 A GRADE No 1 Waymouth Tuppon Pew Bolling 4 A GRADE No 2 Katie Sealy Lillian Norrell 1 B GRADE Willie Harris 2 A GRADE No 1 Powell Wilkerson? 2 B GRADE Eather Johnson Victoria Minor Ernest Hill! 2 A GRADE Cornelia Archer Arnie Hicks Sarah Johnson Imogene Smith Mabel Taylor Louise Lewis Latcher Salle Herbert Tolea Lucrata Wills, Wilhemena Patterson 1 B GRADE Richard Barlow John Fields Harvey Jasper Hilary Shotton Robert Washington Sam Walker Roland Williams Regent t Coles Lillian Green Marie Lee Sarah Pearson Jennie Venable Louise Wilson 1 A GRADE James Cheatham Russell Elliott Winnana Bradley Bessie Harris Esse Johnson Blanche Smith Ida Scott Colorado Red Carriers' Strike The colored Hod carriers' union is now on a strike and many brick contractors are tied up in their work. It seems that the notice was given ninety days ago. The white brick-layers are said to have also given a notice of a demand for a five per cent increase and the same was granted to them but it was denied to the colored brick-layers. Four contractors have granted the increase and the colored men are at work but the others are still holding out. About one hundred colored men are awaiting the result of the content. OPENING GAME The Independents vs. Virginia Union University Monday, May 16, 4-8 The Richmond Independent crack base ball aggregation composed of the best players available is now ready to show their skill in the art of the great national past time. Under the leadership of Manager Mayo Stephens the team expects to over come many an obstacle that marred their success last season and will open the season delivering the goods to the admiration of every layer of clean baseball playing. We wish, to call the public attention to the fact that we have spared neither time nor expense to make the best possible showing in appearance and playing. Remember these games are the only games where it is perfectly safe to bring your mother, sisters and lady friends with out being humiliated. Under these conditions we demand your patronage and support. Don't you think so? Natural Life Do you love it? Read "Natural Life in the Human World" The big little booklet, Interate everybody 10 cents Address LUCIAN B WATKINS M T D. Ft Russell Wyoming SOLD FAMILY FOR $25 Two Men Land In Jail When Pur Shrieved Me Now chaser Claimed His Property Ultra N. M. John W. Wot ad aged twenty-two years living in Rome sold to wife and two children to his right John Wongrowski fifty-one years old for $. Wotkak pocketed the money and told Win growski to go and lift his property. There was a row where Win growski waited at a neighbor's wife and children with the result that the two men were a posted and held upon a technical charge of disorderly conduct Postoffice Robber Gets Seven Years He resided in Man M. William Shirman was sentenced to seven years in the Leaweworth prison for robbing the postoffice at Norwich town, York county. He had served six years at Atlanta for a similar offence at New Albany. He must before he committed his last robbery Mark Twain Leaves All to Daughter Rodding Conn. May 4. The will of Samuel L. Clements Mark Twain was sled for probate here. It leaves the an tire estate to the surviving daughter, Clara Langhorne Clements, wife of On- skip Gabrilow each. The amount of the detainee is not given Sentenced to Thirty Days in Jail and Fine of $100 for Publishing Obscene Matter. Adon A. Yoder, editor and publisher of a pamphlet in this city, charged with publishing obscene matter tending to the moral hurt of the South of the city, was sent to jail for thirty days, found $100, and put under $600 bond to keep the peace with all citizens of Richmond for twelve months by Justice Crutchfield in Police Court yesterday morning. Yoder noted an appeal, and will appear before the Hustings Court on June 7th. The edition of the pamphlet containing certain descriptions of a walk taken by Yoder was put in evidence by Chief of Police Worner, after which the evidence practically closed, although Yoder went on to show that such descriptions as his were contained in the Bible. Mr Yoder also drew comparison between himself and Jesus Christ and Socrates to show that he was working toward the moral uplift of the city of Richmond. W. Smith furnished the peace bond of $ 100 and an appeal bond of $ 300. Summer Normal Why not spend the month of July in recreation and in profitable study at the Manassas Summer Normal School in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge mountains. Delightful climate good' home cooking, excellent corp 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. For further information, write Leslie Pinkney Hill, Conductor, The Manassas Industrial School, Manassas, Va. 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. L W WALES D D Chairman, L W C METTS, D D Sect. Extracts from Minutes of Chesterfield Sunday School Union. April 24, 1910 April 29, 1970 Convened with the First Baptist Midtown Sunday School singing Hymn 5-5. "Puss Me Not O Gentle Saviour" etc. Scripture read by Lawyer C Mirms Prayer 4th Prayer by Bro Edward Mallory Address of welcome by Prof J M Ross After transaction of routine business name the context for the Primer Banner now held by the Mt Nebo Baptist Sunday School Judges for occasion appointed follows Mergers S. Alexander J Epps R J R Jones, M Stewart and Moss Mary E Anderson PROGRAM Rec by Mabel McRea, Otto Jones and Adel Jones First Baptist Mild out an Essay by Pearl Green Rec by Lloyd Branch, M. Nebo Duet, by Jessie M. and Corrine Jones, M. A Field Ad Taylor, Spring Creek Essay by Misa Martha Wyatt, Mr Nebo Fasser, subject "Duty of Parents to their Children," Master W. T. Roes First Baptist CONTEST First Baptist Midlothian Mary A Reynolds Mabel Jones, Porahontas Stewart Mt Nebo Gladys Day, Florence Mayo Gladys Anderson S.C. Corrine Jones, Adol Taylor Mary A. Fields, Jessie May Jones Banner awarded to Mt. Nebro Sunday School GRO H. OWENS Secty Union Wherrabonte 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 residues in New London, Conn He disappeared from home very mysteriously April 12, 1910 If you can furnish any information of his whereabouts or his relatives, please communicate with his wife, Mrs A Martin, 727 Gatos Ave., Brooklyn N Y Odd Follows 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 8:30 P. M. Dr. W F Graham will preach the sermon. The Households of Ruth will assemble in the basement of the church at 3 o'clock. The Richmond Patriarchie 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. HAWKING, Secretary. General Committee; An Effort Being Made to Have Congress Discriminate Against the Kare—Let Every Colored Man Protest at Once Against This Injustice. There is now in force in this country, a law known as "The Morrill Acts" by which the United States Government makes large donations of money each year to the several states and territories for education in Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts. The Amendment of August 30, 1890 to the Morrill Acts expressly provides that when but one institution in a state receives the whole appropriation undor said Acts, that institution shall make no distinction on account of race or color in the admission of students. It also provides that it shall be lawful to divide the fund between two institutions—one for white and one for colored students—in those states where the state law requires separate schools for the races. The appropriation from the United States Treasury to each state and territory under the Morrill Acts was forty thousand dollars last year and will be forty-five thousand dollars next year and fifty thousand dollars each year ever after for the support of instruction in Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts Fifty one states and territories are now receiving grants of money under the Morrill Acts. In thirty-five of these states the Morrill Acts grant is given to an institution which makes no distinction in the admission of students on account of race and color. In sixteen states the grant is divided between two schools one for the colored people and one for whites An Amendment known as Bill H R 24316 has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Mr Boutell to extend the benefits of the Morrill Acts to the District of Columbia The Boutell Amendment contains a provision that will be far reaching and disastrous in its effects upon the rights of the colored people for it seeks to amend the Merrill Acts so as to allow the George Washington University an institution which does not admit colored students—to receive the entire appropriation for the District of Columbia. If this amendment passes it will set the seal of approval of Congress upon discrimination against our people by educational institutions on account of race and color and will open pay for the practice of this same with by forty-one institutions receiving aid from the Merrill Fund and who now refuse to participate against the admission of colored students because to do so would make it unlawful for them to participate in the benefits of the Merrill Acts. In addition to the above mentioned edits to the Boutell Amendment, if it passes, will result eventually in taking from our people all of the benefits they now receive under the Morrill Acts. While the Boutell Bill professes to amend the Morrill Acts only for the benefit of ta. District of Columbia it is a dangerous precedent, for it Congress will agree to disregard the plain principle of the law and its criminal justice to admit the colored people to the Boutell of Columbia, there is nothing to prevent that body from doing the same. Up at the request of the governor, it is the institutions now admitting colored status and if the benefits of the Morrill Acts can be taken from the colored people in the District of Columbia in open violation of the law, why may not the same be done in any other state or territory in the United States? It is the duty of our people everywhere to resist this encroachment on the rights at the very beginning for when once the procedure has been established for the discrimination by Congress against colorful citizens because of race and color this work will go on until every right guaranteed the race under the constitution has been taken from it. The time has come for every col- onial person in the United States and for every church society and news paper among us to protest against the passage of the Boutell Amend- ment and to do so at once. This inquisitive measure will not pass Con- gress if the voters of the race in the North East and West will write their Congressmen and Senators immediately asking them to vote against the Boutell Hill (known as Bill H R 24316 of the second session of the slate first Congress) or against any other bill which seeks to extend to the George Washington University the entire benefita under the Merrill Acts which may come to the District of Columbia. We suggest that each reader of this paper copy and send at once the following protest to his Congressman and Senator THE PROTEST To the Hon or (Member of Congress from The undersigned a citizen and voter in your state (or District) protests against the passage by Con- gress of the Bill known as "H R 24316 of 2nd Gossion of 61st Con- gress", or any other Bill giving to George Washington University the entire appropriation which might come to the District of Columbia un- der the Morrill Acts, and respectfully ask that you vote against this or any similar measure when it comes up for consideration I am You're very respectfully. --- Let every colored man, every Lodge, B society and Church send in this protest and do so at once in order to save the race from unjust discrimination and wicked and unlawful class legislation J MILTON WALDRON, Washington, D.C. Your subscription for the PLANET is due. Have you paid it? If not, why not. Octoeroom Is Not a Negro, Says The United States Supreme Court. Associate Justice Oliver O. Provosty, of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Monday handed down a decision in the celebrated conubiago case, entitled "The State of Louisiana versus Octave Treadway and Josephine Treadway," Justice Provosty affirming the opinion of Judge Frank Chrestion, of Section B of the Criminal District Court. The defendants' counsel was Mr. Loya Charbonnet, who defended the accused in the Second Criminal Court and later in the Criminal District Court. This case is one of many months standing, and attracted more interest than any other of a similar character. The troubles of the Troadway couple began in the parish of Plaquemine, where the two families were immediate neighbors. The concubinage charge was first preferred in the courts of the lower parish and after two trials, the accused were allowed their liberty. They moved to New Orleans and very shortly thereafter the prosecution was renewed. WEN 1 TO A HIGHER COURT Rather than pass judgment on the case, having heard of the procedures in the lower court, Judge Aucoin, before whom the Treadway couple were given the first hearing in this parish, committed the accused to the Criminal District Court. $^{[3]}$ On reaching the higher court Attorney Charbonnet fled a demurrier, in which he maintained that when the word negro was supplemented by the words "an octoroon," the word octoroon qualified a negative, that the statute did not define, who, or what constituted a person of the negro race, and therefore the law must be not to include persons of adultery but however, small, but was confined to negro or black race of the pure blood and could not be held to persons of admixture of blood such as octoroons quadroons, or persons of one-eighth, one sixteenth, one thirty second or one seventh or other proportions. This contention was upheld by Judge Christien and is now affirmed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Chief Justice Joseph A Breaux and Associate Justice Monroe were of the same opinion as Associate Justice Provosty who rendered the decision Associate Justice Francis T Nicholls and Alfred D Land rendered dissenting opinions AS TO OCTOROON The Supreme Court held that the sole question is whether an octoroon is a person of the negro or black within the meaning of the sage. Scientifically or technologically a person is Caucasian or negro in the same proportion in which the two strains of blood are mixed in his veins and, therefore scientifically or ethno-logically a person with seven eighths white blood in his veins and one-eighth negro blood is seven eighths white one-eighth negro, but the words of a statute are not to be understood in their technical but in their popular sense and the prosecution contends that the popular meaning of the word negro includes an ectoroon. The dictionary show that the word negro does not include an ectoroon within its meaning in North Carolina a person who is a Negro or more of Afri can blood is a negro but it gives its authority for that statement the decision of the Supreme Court of the State the court having simply applied or enforced the following statute. All free persons descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive though one ancestor in each generation may have been a white person, shall be deemed free negroes and persons of mixed blood. NEGRO NOT DEFINED Justice Provocably further points out the fact that the Louisiana statute does not define the word negro as including a person of mixed blood. Find it done so there would be an end of all question. The proscription contends that the word does not need to be defined in a statute that popularly it has a definite well known meaning. The decision further reads. There is a word in the English language which does not express the meaning of mixed negro and other blood, which has been coloured for the very purpose of expressing that meaning of persons of the pure race, and it can have now a different, or more coloured meaning only by wrenching it from its original meaning, as was done with the word colored, and imparting to it a meaning different from that which it was intended to bear and has always borne in the language. THE WORD NEGRO The legislature might do this, but the statute by which it did it would have authority only in Louisiana and the word negro would still continue to mean, the world over, outside of Louisiana, a person of the pure African race." The court further says "We do not think there could be any sorious denial of the fact that in Louisiana the meaning of the words mulatto, quadroon and octoon are as of doff nite meaning as the words man, or child and, that among educated people at least they are as well and widely known. And we think there can be no sorious denial of the fact that in Louisiana and, indeed, throughout the United States, the word 'colored,' when applied to race, has the definite and well-known meaning of a person having negro blood in his veins. We think, also, that any canidl mind must admit that the word negro, or itself, unqualified, does not necessarily include within its meaning persons possessed of only an admixture of negro blood; notably those whose admixture is so alight that in their cases even an export cannot be positive. That much has to be admitted, also why should the legislatures of all Southern States have an exception, perhaps, in the one case of the Virginia statute herein above referred to and commented on, have deemed it necessary to enlarge the ordinary, or dictionary, meaning of the word by a special statutory Send Name and Address Today You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Weakened. 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Call to our office and see them. definition wherever they have desired to use it as including persons or more mixed negro blood? * * * * * When, therefore, it used the word 'negro,' plain 'negro,' or 'negro race' and not those other words or forms of speech including within their meaning persons merely of mixed negro blood, the inevitable inference is that it did so because it meant negro, plain negro, and not persons of mixed blood "It might be different if there were something in the context to enlarge the ordinary meaning of the word but there is nothing, the word stands isolated and has to speak for itself." CONCUBINAGE NOT FORBIRDEN Further ruling the court says 'That history teaches that from the birth of the State up to the last session of the Legislature concubinage with even the jet-black negro was not forbidden and that to this day concubinage with even the jet-black negro is not forbidden except in concubinage and that from 1870 up to 1894, marriage with the negro won only forbidden, but was legal. Speaking of the Legislature the court says 'it has not deemed the time ripe for prohibiting concubinage even with the pure-blooded negro except in concubinage.' Continuing the court says "The connection also in which a word is used often operates as a limitation or as an enlargement of its meaning. Thus this same word negro if used in connection with the social relations of the whites and negroes and persons of mixed negro blood would certainly convey the precise and exact meaning of the word 'colored' when used in the same connection, because it is known that socially persons of mixed colored blood are known to be classed with negroes. A notice at the entrance of a room that negroes are not admitted, a notice at the entrance of colored persons that in persons of mixed negro blood, as well as negroes proper, were not admitted." In the dissent decision Justice Land and Nicholls hold that it is conceded that the term "person of color" includes all people of mixed or un mixed negro blood. MAX PAY DEPOSITORS Committee Reports Pavorably on Freedman's Bank Bill. Washington D C May 4 The bill to pay the depositors of the Freedman's Bank carrying an ap propriation of $1,291,000, was favorably reported out of the Committee on Banking and Currency in the House today Three Democratic members of the committee—Representatives Gillespie, of Texas, James, of Kentucky, and Pajo, of Louisiana, voted against the bill. The Freedman's Bank was organized in 1865 by prominent Republicans and Abolitionists as a philanthropic institution A charter was granted by the Federal government, and the bank was authorized to borrow many million in deposits were received from former slaves in all parts of the United States. The original charter required the bank to invest its funds in government bonds but this was changed by act of Congress in 1871, allowing it to invest in real estate. The funds were consequently invested in suburban property in the city of Washington, and the panic of 1872 drove it to the wall. But 62 per cent. of the deposits were paid, and bills have been ponding for years to rollburbs the depositors who did not receive their money. It was reported favorably from committee in the Sixthth Congress, but failed to pass. The proponents of the bill, take the ground that the government had stood sponsor for the institution in so many ways that it could not escape a degree of liability. Subscribe to THE PLANET. HEAVY LANE SPORTING GOSSIP. PF LACKS CONDITION Shows Evidence of Lowered Vitality and Overtraining. BY W W NAUGHTON San Francisco, April 26 ---"Jim" Jorries is showing evidences of low oered vitality and overtraining in the shape of boils, and his advisers are begging him to lay off. Jack Johnson is so high in flesh that there is danger of his being undeprived on July 4th. If a man who hasn't kept himself posted on the championship situation were to ask either who is in touch with affairs pugilistic for the "news in a suithelf," the above is what he would be told. And this alarmist condition has all developed in about 24 hours. To say a man is overtrained or undertrained ten months before a fight is unought to cause any old conditioner of pugilists to chuckle with amusement ```markdown ``` Yesterday I took occasion to say that the idea which fixed the responsibility of discouraging reports from Jeffries' quarters on the correspondents was wrong. This still goes. The boots which trouble Jeffries at present are not fragments of any news gatherer's imagination. Information as to the alfalfa baron's affinities and setbacks is handwritten in the correspondents, and they send it along to their papers in a large measure, too. they have to rely upon Jeffries' aids for news of the work affecta Jeffries, for Jim is not in a talkative mood this campaign. JEFF IS MOROSE And what a hodggepod or stuff comes out in consequence Joffries is morse he is kittenshil, he dovoura exercise as he a hungry pup laps milk he is suffering from stiff shoulders he is limber again and fit to fight right now Last of all, there is an angry eruption somewhere around the small of his back, and Choynski is berging him to put a padlock on the gymnasium and give a few days to doing on the veranda. Well, after all, it serves to show that the men around Joffries are watching for symptoms, even if their options of their charge change frequently it is a relief to those who read to know that ton full weeks lay between now and the Fourth of July, and that there is a ample him for Joffries to reach berry beat that condition that is, if he can stand training at all. Jack Gleason who has just returned from Eastern points, says that there is no occasion to worry over Johnson's condition. Johnson has a little fat on him but he more than a man should have going into camp," said Gleason. "Furthermore, I am satisfied from Johnson's appearance that he has not abused himself to the extent with which he is charged Automobile billing, while a dangerous thing for a man with as much at stake as Johnson, has its advantages. It has kept Jack in the open air, and from the look of him, he has benefited by it. cannot ask anything about Jafar he does not know him now he went into camp but I'll go ball that Johnson will not be more than two weeks in quarters before the best judges will say that his condition is faultless." Jodrine Slow Getting in Shape New York. May 2. In Jefferson ill, and is there an attempt to conceal the fact from the public? Rumors have reached Broadway all the way from California, that Jafri fries is in poor physical condition that he finds it impossible to do stron- ous work, and that he is actually in need of medical attention. Letters have been received here from sporting men on the coast to the interior, where they were let as to his ability to get into proper trim for the fight with Johnson and is somewhat discouraged because he still finds his wind deficient. One of these letters says. "Do not be surprised if there's an explosion at Joffries' camp. He is all in with various troubles and is in no condition to train hard Borxor and Choynski both want to keep the truth a secret, because it may hurt the fight, but, novorholes, it is a fact that Joffries is ill and may call the fight off at any moment. I think you'll find that he will make a final decision about the middle of May and if heads he doesn't get any better than he is now he will declare him out of the match. Joffries is poised and ill-tempered the time. He looks heavy and fiddly. He was nothing of the old speed. If the fight took place within a wreck Johnson would cut Joffries to ribbons first and then knock him out. 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Joffres had been watching the career of the promising young fighter who died today, and was shocked and saddened by the tiltings of his death When the morning papers arrived he asked immediately for copies and, eagerly read the details of the tragedy. I am awfully sorry to hear that there has been another tragedy in the ring, said Jeffries. I feel very sorry for the accident itself, but most of all I am sorry for the family of the boy Such accidents happen sometimes and cannot be helped it is one of the risks of the business. But there is danger of death in any sport Statistics show that more men are killed while hunting for game with guns in one year than are killed in ring contests in five years. Mon get killed in all sorts or accidents in sports, but it is too bad for any young man to die from an injury received in the ring, for people seem to be more shocked by it. The crime is the master directing the whole course of his preparation to fight Johnson was apparent today when after his trainers had declared that little work would be done this week he arose in exuburant spirits and plunged into the longest and heaviest day's work he had had for a week or longer. First on the program came the road work, but rain had fallen in the night and the ronds being a bit muddy Jeffries and his companions did not do the full road run. The morning workout in the gymnasium was one of the most vigorous the big fellow has gone through. In addition to the weights and the other gymnasium accessories Jeffries bored six rounds, two with Sam Bergor and four with Bob Armstrong POSTIONE NAMING REFEREE FOR MILL Jack Johnson Reiterates Confidence in Ability to Beat Jeff San Francisco May 2 After a conference last night between Sam Berger and George Little respective managers of Joffries and Johnson. Berger announced that the date for selecting the referee for the big fight which was fixed for Wednesday had been postponed fifteen days. Berger declined to applaud on the probable choice in now taking freely of Jack Condition in his training plans and fight prospects. He asserted emphatically yesterday that he intended to regulate his own training. If I win this fight" he remarked I want all the credit that is coming. What I want is some strapping young fellow who can stand rough and tumble work for that is what this fight will be like." Johnson reassorted his confidence in defeating Jeffries. "I am not saying I will beat him because I think that Jeffries has gone back for I think I could have whipped him in his prime" said Johnson. SULLIVAN ON BIG FIGHT Says Johnson Jeffries Battle Will Be One of the Greatest Ever Fought. New York, April 30 - John L. Sullivan former heavyweight champion of the world, in a London letter to the editor of the New York Times says, in part "The fight which is to be hold at Emeryville Cal., on Independence day between James J. Jeffries, representing the white race and Jack Johnson, who now stands sponsor to the fighting qualities of the black man, is to my mind going to be one of the greatest battles, if not the very greatest, in all ring history. "I myself feel sorry the match was made, am not biased, but I do believe that the judges should fight in a class by themselves. Many times during my career I was urged by outliders to throw reason to the winds and fight a black man, but I always refused. "Now, as to the fight itself To my mind it all depends on Jeffries' condition. Jeff should win, if he stands in the ring with the same degree of strength and skill that characterized his fighting before he roiled. If he does not touch that form, then Johnson has his chance. "I was about the same age when I fought Corbett that Jeffries will be." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Yours truly. HOME FURNISHING COMPANY Deadlock on Fight Referee. San Francisco, Cal. May 4.—After half an hour's wrangling at Jack Johnson's training quarters on the Ocean Beach today, promoters and principals of the Jeffries and Johnson fight came to a deadlock over the choice of a robber. It finally was decided to postpone the selection of that official until May 18th. The controversy finally narrowed down to Eddie Graney and Jack Welch, of San Francisco, and Eddie Smith, of Oakland, Johnson insisting on one of the two former men and Sam Berger holding out for Smith. Johnson's objection to Smith was that he was not a member of a deacon in a fight with Hank Griffin in Oakland a few years ago. The negro refused to consider Charlie Blyton, of Los Angeles, as he is a fellow citizen of Jeffries. The come of the controversy is thought to have left the possibilities in favor of the choice of an Eastern man Johnson is firm in his objection to Smith. and Berger is equally firm in opposing Welch and Graney. Johnson announced today that he would begin active training a week from Sunday. Five or six weeks of hard work are required," he said. "I am almost in perfect condition now, and a little fast work with my sparring partners will finish me off." ```markdown ``` $150.00 Endowment Paid. Petersburg, Va. April 28, 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. A and A. $150 007 One hundred and Fifty dollars (150) in the claim of claim of Brother Wm. H. Harris, who was a member of Auxiliary Lodge No 2 of Petersburg, Va. Thomas Butler, Wm A Scott, K of R and S WB D, WB D, Madson Lowry, P. C. Edward W, Wood, D. G 8150.00 Endowment Paid. Clifton Forge Va, April 23, 1910 This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth- tas, N A, S A, E A, A and A. ($150 000) One Hundred and Fifty dollars in payment of the death- claim of MRS Arthur Mallory, who was a member of High Rock Lodge, No 129, of Clifton Forge, Va. Signed MRS A L. MALLORY, Beneficiary Witnesses Thomas M Taylor E Hatcher E F Scott $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond Va. April 29, 1910. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Ocanthhe $100 000. One Hundred thousand in payment of the death-limit of Sister Maggie Gooden, who was a member of Josephine Court No. 228 of Richmond Va. Jeannepoort Goode Jemima Moss. Her Frances X Swann Mark Anna Taylor $150 00 Endowment Paid Danville, Va. 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WESTON ENDS 3600-MILE HIKE From Coast to Coast in 77 Walking Oays. GREETED IN NEW YORK Entered Gotham Under Police Escort and Walked Between Lanes of Automobiles and Cheering Crowds Edward Payson Weston, when he gave the mayor of New York a letter from the mayor of Los Angeles, Calhad finished his little 3600 mile jaunt inside of seventy seven days, that was as tidy a feat for a man of seventy two, as every one remarked to everyone one else in the jam of people In the City Hall park at New York. When the pedestrian reached the Anomita, at Seventythird street, W. Stokes invited him to bid a woe and have some refreshments. From there down to Forty-second street he walked between lanes of automobiles. These were drawn up at the curbs and generally filled with women who waved their hands and overworked the home. The police escort was increased at Seventy second street and was needed for enthusiasts who wanted to tell their grandchildren that they had walked part way from Santa Monica with Weston. The crowd broke through the soil police lines at Park Row just he the mayor opened the letter which Weston delivered. While the turmoil was at its height Mayor Gaynor still smiling said to Weston. I thank you for bringing to me in such an extraordinary manner this letter from the mayor of Los Angeles. People ought to do like you and live as much as possible in the open air. If they did they'd live to be 10 years old right here. The feats of the athletes of old were not any more remarkable than that just completed by the seventy two-year-old athlete. "I am mighty proud of you, Weston. The whole world ought to be proud of you. You started on Feb 1 at 4 o'clock and got here on May 2 at 310 o'clock. This is marvelous. There never was anything like that in the history of the world. You are one of the benefactors of the human race. You have made people go out in the open and taught them how to live. If they would follow your teachings they would live in years instead of fifty." The crowd seeding that the mayor had stopped talking cheered for him and Weston. The pedestrian smiled and bowed and then said, "This is the second time Mr Mayor that you has greeted me on one of my walks I wanted to show them what a young old man of seventy two could do." From the city hall Weston went to Postmaster Morgan's office in the federal building to present the letter sent by Postmaster H M Flint of Los Angeles. Mr Morgan said he was glad to get the letter thirteen days ahead of the schedule. Weston left Santa Monica a resort near Los Angeles on Feb 1. He did not walk on Sundays and they are dared by him in speaking of his first seventy seven days. The distance of his route by railroad measurement is 343 miles but he made a detour to the Grant Canyon of Colorado at 128 miles which makes the distance as he figures it 3611 miles. His longest day a walk was seventy miles. Fights Off Possse and Killle Self After having savagely attacked the girl companion in a moment of frustre shot a policeman and wounded several others of his would be captor Clarence Woods, nineteen years old of Hickenpauk. He held to his deputy sheriff at last when about to be overcome he shot himself through the head. When the posse that was first sent down to response to a call for aid from the chief of police of Rutherford reached the awe of the siege they found that Woods had enough ammunition to keep them at a distance less they wished to make a dash through a bulled sweep space. The situation was explained to Sheriff Brew here and he went down with an automobile loaded with rifles to take personal charge of the affair. Under his direction the pose divided, about ten men going up the Hack snack river until they found a motor launch, in to which they piled with their rifles. Then as they came down the river to attack the boathouse from the rear the men on shore moved for ward, both parties pouring a storm of bullets into the little structure. When there was no reply from Woods the men in the boat ventured to come ashore at the little landing stage. They were just preparing for a rush on the door when a shot opened from the inside and the door of the boathouse opened. Woods had shot himself throw. --- --- The Independent A STAUNCH FRIEND OF THE NEGRO THE INDEPENDENT was founded in 1888 as a Weekly Magazine to secure the freedom of American slaves. In the sixty-two years that have followed, it has always been the friend and champion of the Negro Race. We have printed frequent articles from prominent Negroes and have closely followed their activities and successes. This attitude has cost us many thousand subscribers, but we have the courage of our own convictions. We feel we are publishing a Magazine that every Negro should read. SEND $1.00 FOR SIX MONTHS To acquaint you with the character and policy of THE INDEPENDENT, we shall be glad to accept a six month subscription for one dollar. Our regular price is $3 a year. We believe that by reading THE INDEPENDENT you will realize our fair attitude and position. Remember THE INDEPENDENT is an Illus trated Weekly Magazine, and that you will therefore receive 20 copies for about four cents each. Use this blank. Enclosed find One Dollar for which please send me THE INDEPENDENT every week for Six Months. In writing, mention The PLANET. the head with his ride and though he was able to stagger as far as the landing stage he dropped there and dled almost instantly Woods had started the wild scene by making a murderous attack on Miss Anna Kipp Woods and Miss Kipp went down to the boat club at Rutherford. They were to join a party of eight young persons and go for a plank up the river. As none of the others had arived yet however Miss Kipp offered to help Woods get the boat out of the house. She had approached the door when Woods who had preceded her, suddenly jumped out with a heavy cloth in his hand and struck the girl two heavy blows over the head Nine Elephants Run Amuck In City. Several persons were injured and much property was damaged by nine elephants that stampeded just after they had been unbound from a car at Danville III after several hours ride from Chicago A large bull elephant made a forc for liberty bowling over the kicker and escaping. The animal was followed by seven other bulls, which ran blowing through the street and acr swers fields. Later, while the entire force of trainers and keepers was engaged in the unusual sport of building elephants in automobiles a female elephant was made her escape. For several hours the elephants were at large hunted by all at a time of the circus all the city police and the more venturesome ones. The elephants at first moved in bunch then separated. They stood for nothing except brick and stone buildings. Such small brick and stone structures coal sheds, fences and trees came in their path were pushed over trodden down, uprooted and thrown to one side. More than 100 homes were damaged to some extent by the elephants but the total loss will probably not exceed $10,000. Hueton Guilty of Conscience Joseph M. Huston the architect of the Pennsylvania state capital was convicted in Harrisburg of conspiracy to defraud the state of Pennsylvania by certifying to deks for the equipment of the building. It required twenty five and a half hours for the jurymen to reach a verdict. George S. Graham Huston's chief counsel who fought the battle for his client so brilliantly said that he was not done fighting and that he would take into the argument for a retrial the singular circumstances surrounding the rendering of the abortive verdict because in attempting to explain it to the judge Foreman Edwin S. Farver has said "We had agreed that there was no conspiracy." When this statement was made Mr Graham at once asked the court that it be received as the verdict but was overruled His colleagues, A R L. Shields and Samuel M Clement J. of Philadelphia and Lyman D Gilbert and Charles H. Bergner of Harrisburg supported him and the refusal of the judge to accept the erroneous finding will be made the basis of a tremendous legal battle. The circumstances are said to be almost unprecedented and real interest, which has hung about the trial has been vastly increased by the developments Free Monkey Aguasca 3000 A free circus that ended in a kid-sapping entertained 3000 persons near the Auditorium in Chicago when "Mike" a large Brazilian monkey escaped from a dealers store in Washash avenue and shinned up the elevated railroad structure. He walked the third rail without exploding and when trains threatened to mangle him he hung down from the structure he his tail did a girl swing to a post and soon reached a station where he frightened a girl ticket seller so that she turned in a police alarm. The streets were packed with a big throng following the antics of the monkey. The police could not capture him. In flying leaps under and over the structure, he set a hot pace until he reached Van Buren street. There he made a loop to a trolley pole, landed in the street and was captured by two newshoys, who made off with him. His owner had offered a reward and the police have put out a monkey dragnet. THE INDEPENDENT. 139 FULTON STREET NEW YORK Regular Subscription Price $2.00 a Year for which please send me The Six Months. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Thursday, April 28. On a warrant charging him with having criminally assaulted three twelve year old girls Sing Lee a local Chinese laundryman at Roslyn Court was arrested A letter about his command at West Point written by Bengtul Arnold a month before his attempt to turn that fortress over to the British sold for $285 at an auction sale in New York Nina Anthus thirteen years old committed suicide in school by taking carcass and She left a note in which she said her foster mother had asocied her. She said that she burted with a favorite bill and wounding that had been eff by her own mother Friday April 29 The National Tube company at Pittsburgh has posted notices that a wages will be advanced May 1. The amount will be from 1 to 6 per cent. The abolition of the contract labor system at the Kansas state pension will date from the time the contract held by an overall manufacturer expires. Major Pilbara Lines commander of the rural part of the town is in Washington to purchase from the United States guns and equipment for 11,500 men and horses. Governor Stubba of Kansas received a letter from a widow at Owens making permission to wear men's shoes. The letter says the widow is supporting a large family which necessitates outside work. Batrday April 30 The New York squad of Harry C. Mitteme has refused to sort the woman suffrage bill. Harry Bald a carpenter despondent because of ill health killed himself and his two boys at Chicago by turning on the gas. Thomas Rafter said by the police to be one of three safe blowers who robbed the National Bank of Chicago worth Ill. of $5000 was arrested in Chicago. A militant was declared in the case of Jurtus A. Williamson at Petersburg Va. charged with the murder of his young wife. Williamson a wife suddenly and suspicious was around Williamson and suspicion was around him. Williamson was arrested broke in here and entailed in the army. He was recaptured at Fort Russell Wyo. Monday, May 2 It is expected that New York will be chosen as the place for the International Aviation need to begin on Oct 22. Detectives representing the Anti White Shave Society of Philadelphia raided a number of houses in Shannon Pa. A special jury in Belfast Va. acquitted H E. Cogill and W L. Cock jointly accused of misappropriation $67,000 funds of the ruined Mecklenburg bank. Swellen crooks recording showed that thousands of acres of farmland between Shamokin and Sunbury Pa. had been ruined by coal dirt washed from culm banks. Tuesday May 3 While conducting services in Hampton college chapel at Ulla, N. P. President M Woolsey Striker folly the platform in a faint Physicians she will soon be in ordinary health. In a moment of temporary glorification Mrs Ilda Webb shot her husband, Alfred S Webb in Manchester Va. and then turned the revolver on herself. She died in a local hospital Mr Webb's wound is not fatal. Two hundred head of prize winning poultry five horses and five cows were destroyed by fire at Great Neck L. I. on a farm where Miss Louise Grace and Miss Lunelle Alger had raised some of the best known dogs and poultry exhibited at recent shows. Wednesday, May 4 In a quarrel at the polls at Stapleston, Ala. M P Mathes fatally stabbed R P Ward, who then shot Mathes to death Ward is dying The Henshaw bank at Henshaw Ky. has closed its doors. The reason for the suspension was the assignment of a merchant who owed the bank $15,000. The strike of thirteen long-term victims in the county camps at Rollsville, Ga. is ended. 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The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Stock PHILADEL PHIA FLOUR dull winter low grades $3.69 $9.99 win clear $4.69 $4.76 city mills fan $7.75 $7.6 RYE FLOUR firm at $125 @ 40 per barrel WHEAT quiet No. 2 red $109 112 CORN quiet No - yellow local 66 81 626 OATS quiet 2 white 491a 49c lower grades 49 BUTTER strands extra creamy 32 in Either selected 24 in 26 in nearby 22 in western 22 POFATOPS quiet at 26:30 bush Live Stock Markets PITTUSH HOG (Union Stock Yarlar CATTIE steady) blue $79.99 CATTIE steady) blue $79.99 SHEEP farm prime wineries $7 710 culls and common $104 lambs $6@875 val. culls $8 880 HOGS sticky prime beers in dums beers Yorkers $90 lift Yorkers, plga $59 oakh $97 Beef Trust Hut in South The federal grand jury at Savannah nah Ga has returned an indictment against the Columba Packing company, Schwarzkurt and Suthergret Swift & Co the Armour Packing company and the Nelson Morris company as corporations and against Emmerd Bidan, local agent for Swift & Co Williflam D. Cooper agent for the Armour Packing company and Fred M Hull Jr agent for the Nelson Morris company. There are two counts in the indictment one charging that the corporations sold meat at less than cost for the purpose of putting the South Atlantic Packing company of Savannah out of business and the other that the local agents entered into a combination to arbitrarily at the price of beef eliminating competition. --- Bride Shoots Herself Men Adrian Serran and Eileen years a bride of a day attempted suicide by shooting herself in the breast with a revolver at her home in Clinton Ind. The young woman named Anna Misker is said to have agreed to marry Serran a merchant against her own wishes to settle her mother. There was a settlement just before the marriages. Fondly argument and persuasion kept neces- sary to get the young woman to con- tact the community. The young woman is in a serious condition though physicians expect her to recover. B & O Increases Wages Notice was given to the heads of the various departments of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company of a 6 percent increase effective April 1 in the rate of pay of all employees receiving $200 or less per month excepting those affected by agreements recently reached with the engineers firm conductors trainmen servants and telegraphers. BOY'S LEG WORTH $13.750 Big Verdict Uphold by Supreme Court In New York New York May 1 Thirteenth then sand seven hundred and fifty dollars for the loss of a leg was awarded to Harold Rehaffer the fifteen year old son of a policeman by the appellate division of the supreme court, affir- ing a decision of the lower court against the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad company it is the largest verdict ever uphold here for such an injury --- ```markdown ``` Temperance Lesson Sunday School Lesson for May 8, 1910 Special Bridge for This Paper LESSON TEXT Proverbs 2.2.33 Motivational Verse GOLDEN TIME At the time of birth she a magnificent angel as a child from 2012 TIME SHOW will always play for the language of the world PLAY FIELD and write in Jerusalem Suggestion and Practical Thought Subject The Victorious Drink Demon and How to Conquer Him The Passage Explained No. 2937 Some Searching Questions Who hath woe* Who hath sorrow* Who hath contentions* Who hath bubbling* Who hath wounds without cause* Who hath radices of eyes* The Answer to "They thatarry long at the wine, beging to cry in the day and carousing, to date at night" "They that go to seek wine" The Only Safety It looks not thou upon the wine. It looks like the first glass. It not even go where it is. Do not put yourself within reach of its insidious allurements. Says the Arab proverb The contemplation of vice is vice When it is red, as it usually was in Palestine though white and golden wine were not unknown When it growth his color in the cup" When it moves itself right The Drunkard's Degradation His Lust 34 Thine eyes shall behold strange women Thine heart shall utter perverse things His Insensibility 35 His insensibility 36 Thou walt be as he art thou shalt be in the midst of the sea Be a foaming half drowned body of a man man cast adrift in a little was cloaked beast Or as he that hath was upon the top of a mast in the most imminent danger from the exaggerated pitching of the ship yet stupily illusible to the peril His Enslavement to the Habit When shall I awake? The drunkard is eager to shake off the pestling of feet of his organs that he may be at it again I will sculp it yet again What the Drink Don’t Leave the Drunkard’s Body. No 29.94.7 Our passage pictures the exterior harm done by alcohol, the stammering speech and bleak eyes and unhealthy gait the numbing of all the senses. Modern science has discovered reasons why strong drink produces awful physical results. Alcohol is a poison. So it ranks nine so in arrest. It ranks with these agents. Health is always in some way or other injured by it benefited by it. Sir Andrew Clark M.D. Alcohol is Not a Fool. Experiments made in it key in an air tight glass, and fitted with two or three ounces of a alcohol day in addition to blood, drink and his food have seemed to show that the alcohol did not reduce the system but yielded energy, acting as fat sugar and starch would have acted. But the experiment proved nothing in favor of the use of alcohol as a beverage. Alcohol does Not Help Men Work "As a work product, alcohol is exceedingly extravagant and like other extravagant managers it is apt to lead to a plausible barker effect. It is well known that trope of march on alcohol. Strict work rules What the Drink Men Do to the Drunkard No. 29. 32 Our passage passes the pass in which wine influences the air to which it ex- cites men's senses to the slavery the awful wretchedness of the victim and the final decay and death of all the spiritual powers that makes a man Alcohol and crime The committee of fifty continent American scholars that undertook the scientific investigation of the liquor question a few years ago examined into 13,402 cases of crime and discovered intemperance to be the sole or predominating cause in 4,179 cases nearly one third while intemperance was a contributing cause in 2,155 additional cases making half of the whole 4,179 cases in which intemperance acted as a factor. Statistics of it is made in most of our large, half of them, or more than half of them, for Boston for instance, in out of 4,033 arrests, were for drunkness. Alcohol and Sorrow. Dr W. Kurbitz has taken care of the mind, for mental distress. Kensington concerting the host of patients who have committed suicide. Amargue such patients that we were pronounced all over. Alcohol and Sorrow. Remember that liquor cost England her greatest cost. Butna cost England her greatest all round man to bring made her two greatest cost painters and painters and art. Butna dimmed the glory of our Website quoted the torch committed to the hands of a man like Stephen A. Douglas. Newell Dwight Hills D. H. The greatest general of modern times I's Grant fought his greatest fight against the terrible appetite for strong drink that had set upon him. His son Maf Gen, Frederick D Grant, an outspoken abstainer, says, "Thrink is the greatest curse of Christlondom, because practically all crime and all disaster are the result of It. Ninety-five per cent. I will make it no less of desertions and acts of lawlessness." ```markdown ``` in the army is due to drink Vice. Who simply drink in another form Who ever heard of a saloon completely divorced from the 'white slave traffic', or a house of infamy without a bar? You may tell the young men that Gen. Grant does not drink a drop of liquor - has not for 18 years. DEATH CLAIMS MARK TWAIN King of Wits Passes Away at His Connecticut Home. Humerist Lapsed Into Unconsciousness and Passed Away Without a Struggle to Joke Until the Last Rehiring on April 22 - Samuel L. Tompkins Mark Iwanda died of an ingina pectoris at his home near this city. He became unconscious and sank gradually until his death. All hope of a recovery was abandoned to Wednesday night when it was evident to the physicians attenting him that the patient was given only limited ground. He had been conscious through practically all of his illness and had considerable knowledge of his condition and of the fight that was in progress. His spirits kept up to the last and until Wednesday night he tried to take a little with the people about him. He recognized his daughter spoken a rational word or two and feeling himself unequal to conversation a written out in pen. Give me my guess. Those were his last words. Loving them aside he harked for the rest and later in life. America's Most Popular Author. Beyond question Mark Twain was the most pop at America an author Home person think of him as the most popular writer in the English language certainly the most widely known him dat and a philologist of parts. In recent days his conspicuous and pungent pro pact has made him not less than a ratn institution. He married in 1837 Mas of Olava Langford in 1841 and it was to live in Buffalo where he came after being educated in the city. He later attended a school in New York and then in Chicago. He married in 1851 and took affection with the platform because very distasteful to him and he declared he would never be married again yet in 1897 he started out on the reading tour around the world which he him on his feet again financially and gained him wide apperation. Then he came to stay in Europe but after a period of family bereavement he came back to America in 1900. In 1908 he gave him the degree of master of arts and in 1901 the degree of doctor of nature. In 1907 Oxford on socially crowned his honors with the degree of the Doc. The world rang with his name. FISHED BABY OUT OF RIVER Bundle of Clothing Containing Infant Hooked by Fisherman Ithaca N. Y. April, 27 Water Powers a local angler thought he would like to link in Six Mile cook at the Main water district bridge and got a meet at the Main water district bridge and fitted Inshore water district to a heavy load on the dock. Thinking that he had not met but he vaulted it in On the dock the water was a heavy bend but the hitting and inside was the first of a seven months old bal. The water was bruised and mark ed at the water but it a good state of protection. Water was somewhat alarm and allied the sheriff. The sheriff was for the mother Just One Kind They always get all kinds of money from her first book and 'No only one kind of money Sure of One Thing "In the legislature spending the present session to advantage?" "Well it seems to be spending all right" HELPFUL HINTS TO CITY FARMERS By H.L. Rann Copyright 1914 by American Press Association It is a pure waste of time to attempt to make a rotting house out of the LOOSE ABOUT TIME Clydesdale We never saw a Clydes A NAY DON'T expect the tired girl to join herself on a wire rope every time she hangs out the wash. Buy one of those neat but not good family turbines with force foot and family turbinator. Next to a bottle of some approved colo-tin this is the greatest boon that can be used in any home. More tired girls have become shoulder wound in the attempt to wrap the band of a pink chemise around a lofty clothline than from any other cause. Never alw a cow to stroke you across the upper tip with her tail dart across the upper the process of milking. If you encourage this kind of faith do not to our prised if we thought only plants both feet in the pit of your stomach some evening and makes you cough up loose tissue for a week. The only way to to spire respect in a peaceful milk cow is to for her back teeth as about two a week with a session of a tall fence. We have P found in that the more affection you shower up, you grows the quieter they are to start a picture in your diaphragm. We have been asked why some lesions sting hard, than others. Personally we never did see any difference. The averaging rule so scientists tell us has not be varying from one eighth to one quarter of an inch each pending upon the resistance encountered. A we directed using on the surface of a toilet, for instance is liable to tear the hardness on the part of the toilet that is planted on a new start off. We then have a rotary nut that, after stinging up apparatus, when it is about as pressing as A WELL DIRECTED STING ON THE SURFACE OF A LIVE DAIL. patheless dentistry. If you are bound to be stung chops in a bare whose family relations are present or go and bite off a chunk of curing stock. The paws belong to worm ornaments his left wrist with the Birchman rooster is stain. It is stained only two hours sleep per day and be generally takes this frost to 9 in the morning. He usually takes two wakes a day. ```markdown ``` to be heard for miles on a still day when good value and his conversation are毫不逊 Hills is a large THE BRAMMA CAN be cross-extreme BEHIND FORSIX by monotopom- MILLE. He is a large rawneel and with no capacity. four full sports and is the only attitude for the wild build on the form. The Bramma can be about as debilit- us as a dancer as she is skilled in The farmer who is too poor to have a pair of worn blankets for his team with hogs at $10 and rations at $10 a hundred can be to tractor the shoes in a garage gum out and see who likes it. The man who will allow a faithful team to attend for hours in the teeth of a letter wilt while the grocery store store and the tariff question has a dispersion which would make a horse a turn green with copy. We have seen men who had plenty of time in which to gather about old clothes and the store schedule but who were too busy to slip a couple of blankets on a shirt. Beymour - Kindly be more specific. Ashley - Why instead of smoking only, he also inhaled 45 ing team. If there is a high the man who allows his team to freeze to the pavement on a winter's night will be called upon to do a jig at the tail of a toasting fork that will last 150,000 years. There is a great difference in brood sows. Some sows seem to have no sense of family relationship and are just as liable to offer refreshments to a gives us as a member of their own family. This usually results from near sightedness. Provide the sow with a pair of smoked glasses and lead her family up to the booth every morning for a few days after which no trouble will be expected. The average sow is long on a swift and short on its instinct. In fact, we never anything on a cretelligence and ci and tact will acc a member of their own family. This usually resuits from near sightedness. I provide the sow with a pair of snooked glasses on her family up to the booth every morning for a few days after which no trouble will be experienced. The average sow is long on swill and short on its select. In fact we never knew a sow that had anything on a cream vat in point of intelligence and culture, but patience and tact will accomplish wonders. PROVIDE THE SOW WITH A PAIR OF SMOOTH GLASSES. THE CLYDE HOLF HAS THE SAME RELATION TO THE BAYER RING AS A DEPPLA- TION WHEELBARROW dale in a life that could wiggle around a little track in less than seventeen minutes yet some farmers are disappointed if they can't get to town and find the same day with to a of those shales weighing 4 to 5 lbs in lingerie. The clays date is a society favorite and no whid is he has the same relation to the speed ring as a dedicated wharf but when it comes to perking a manure sprender over plowed ground he is there fifty seven ways. As a driving use the clay shale is a manure he We have provided a system which will be used to provide the information. This system is made of three thicknesses of foil with a thickness of 100 micrometers. The foil is made of aluminium and bonded to a low it is a form fitting not and is made into three struts to wet the princess and the matfat hip producer of the royal dash straight front it is not the approval of the body of health and the pure foot comfort. It has not required most wets or suspenders. It is best in pairs per reception and the form of graces. The best farm dog ever put out in the cup. A good Scotch or canadian hollie with a loud voice and first teeth will inspire more respect in her head of milk cows than a burnfruit corn stool. In picking out a stilfood dog always select one whose her was crossed with a bye-nest which can point with brow nose and sit with his tail. 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(Editors ante Francis Keno, the author comes of a family of planners and fighters and is related to Ma) Keno of outer Arizona and the family of Ma) Keno of outer Arizona and the family of Ma) Keno of outer Arizona where he was for some time deputy sheriff and later deputy United States marshal at Tucson His feats in earlier the war have been highly commended by the Washington authorities and are quoted by the Highlanders who paid a price of $5,000 on his body. He was a highly responsible position with one of the largest bank protect the associations in the United States, and as superintendent of its security he was established a record of being down bank burglaries. These stories are confined to his earlier experiences in the west the scenes of which are held in Arizona and the rest of the country. The Last Phantom which until recent years was wild and lavas and where the typical bad man of phoner days made his last stand.) MONG the many daring outlaws who infested the territory of Arizona some eight or nine years ago the name of Harry Royal or "Texas Harry" as he was more generally known shone forth as that of the most audacious criminal who sat the forces of law and or der at defiance Originally from the east, he was said to be a man of culture and refine mont, who became mixed up with a gang of New York malefactors and fled to Arizona to escape the officers of justice. Such cases were by no means rare at that time. The wild lands of the territory offered a handy place of refuge for restless spirits who had placed themselves beyond the pale of society in more civilized regions. It was no considered courteous or even safe to inquire too closely into your neighbor's past in Arizona. If he chose to assume a name that did not rightfully belong to him, that was nobody's business except his own and to push your curiosity to the extent of asking awkward questions was an indiscretion which nobody but the most hopeless tenderfoot would be likely to persist in. It is altogether probable that Royal was not the baptismal priest bestowed upon the gentleman in question at the beginning of his career, but so far as is known, no one ever attempted to argue the matter with him. Before making his appearance in Arizona he had been a compuncher in the Panhandle of Tex as—hence the nickname by which he was afterward destined to become notorious throughout the territory. During his career in the Panhandle Royal had won the reputation of a dead shot and splendid horseman, but there was no sigma of crime resting upon his name. Soon after his arrival in Arizona, however, he and a confederate known as "Slim" Judson, held up a stage, shot down the guard and express measurer and got away with a valuable consignment of bullion worth in the neighborhood of $50 000. A shorter and pooses were soon on their trail. The posees was gradually closing in on the robbers, after a hard ride which demonstrated very clearly what Arizona horses could do when pushed to the limit of their powers. The way led first through a canyon bed filled with slippery rocks and bowlers, while on either side a thick fringe of cottonwoods and oaks partially concealed the frowning sides of steep cliffs. Gradually the man worked up to a divide where they could see a range of rugged mountains. Slowly down the mountain rolled a white cloud, as the fleece rolls away from a sheep that is being shorn, until it lay in a tumbled heap at the bottom of the range. Out of the coast came the dawn, revealing peaks that rose high into the blue of the skies. Upon both sides of him Texas Harry, crouching in the crags, heard the ring of steel shod hoofs and knew that he was being surrounded. Every moment was precious, for the coming of dawn carried a warning of approaching death on its breath. He cursed the short-sighted policy which had led him to saturate from his pal an hour ago, in the hope that their diverging trails might chance to throw the pursuers off the scent. Now his only hope lay in reaching a point beyond which the horsesmen might not ride, and he hastened on up the narrow gulch. At the exit he found his path blocked by one of the members of the posse, and both men opened fire at once. A bullet from Texas six-shooter struck the officer's horse, and a slug of load from a Winchester just grazed the bandit's left shoulder. The deputy's horse was hit hard and reared wildly, making it impossible for the rider to slim steadily at his opponent. He throw down his rife and bad resource to his revolver, but his finger had hardly pressed the trigger before Texas' gun cracked sharply again and the deputy reeled backward with a bullet in his heart. The horse rider fell mainly again and the slain rider fell to the ground, his left foot still caught in the stirrup. Blind with rage and pain the broncho bounded wildly away, dragging the body of the deputy over the rooks. The animal burst through a broad cedar, and the next instant sprang over a precipice and rolled headlong down the side of a deep gorge. When the sheriff and his road agent who had ever graced that section of the country with his presence. At length there came a day when Fortune for once, seemed to have made up her mind to justify her reputation for nickeness, and frowned for the monoe on the daring individual whom she had so far honored with her amities. Texas, who was still on the bright side of forty, was gifted with an appreciative eye for female following a clew which had been given me, I departed for Phoenix where a three day feata was in progress, a sort of sublimated county fair. Timmins was equally anger, and we despatched with a small amount in government stamps and $1,000 in money. This latest exploit naturally drew the attention of the federal government, and instructions came to me in my capacity of marshal at Tucson to keep a lookout for the offender. Following a clew which had been given me, I departed for Phoenix where a three day feata was in progress, a sort of sublimated county fair. Dias street to which we proceeded was dark and forbidding, and we stopped at last before a house in the center of a block built of solid adobe. A light stone through a square win- A followers came to the spot they found the body of their late companion hideously mangled and lifeless. The three remaining officers, spurred on to vengeance by the horrible sight, pressed hard on the trail of the fugitive Texas, unable to retreat, sheltered himself among some sharp rocks, and watched for the arrival of the enemy. He was surprised to see only two men emerge from the gulch, the third having sought another route in an attempt to outflank the bandit. The advantage of a long range combat was with the officers, who were armed with rifles, but under cover of the rocks Texas was able to hold them at bay until both of the revolvers he possessed were omptied. When his fire ceased for an instant the sheriff and his companion advanced, and Texas worked with feverish zeal to reload. While thus engaged he was startled by the report of a gun in his rear and wheeled swiftly to face this new danger. Much to his surprise he saw that the newcomer was timing at the deputies, and as he approached nearer he recognized the familiar features of the comrade from whom he had separated an hour before. Uittering a triumphant whoop he turned his attention again to the advancing foe, and sent a bullet through the sheriff's right arm, causing him to drop his weapon. At the same moment the other deputy was hit and slightly wounded by a shot from the newly arrived robber. The sheriff, realizing that the odds were turned against them, turned his horse's head, and sought refuge in flight, closely followed by his ally. You came in the nick of time, Slim, said Texas coolly, as his con federate approached "I reckon they have got their bellyful of fighting for the present." "Guess that's right," responded his companion. And that aln't, eith, or Iailed the third deputy up back there yonder just as he was creepin up in your rear. He's done for all right." That being the case," remarked Texas, "I presume it up to us to keep moving lively for awhile it take 'em some time to get another pose together though and by the time they do we ought to be able to hike across the border." He made good his boast, for they managed to reach Mexico in safety with their ill gotten spoil, and from that day the name of Texas harry acquired a new and sinister signance in the case of the inhabitants of Arizona But the bandit was of far too ambitious and restless a character to rest quietly in hiding with his loot. It was not long before he was heard of again, this time in the role of a cattle rustler. For several months cattle owners near the border were harassed by bands of thieves, and suffered considerable loss by having their cattle rounded up and driven away. It was ascertained that the men who partied in these audacious raids were Mexicans for the most part but the organizer and chief of the thieves turned out to be no less a person than the irresponsible Texas harry. His identity was first made manifest in a hand to hand battle between a sheriff's posse and a number of the raiders, in which the latter were from pelled to beat a retreat Texas was recognised by a cowboy belonging to the sheriff's party, who had known and worked with the outlaw when the latter was riding range up in the Pan handle Texas gave his further acquaintance something to remember their meeting by in the shape of a bullet in his shoulder, and succeeded in making his escape after crippling two more of the posse who attempted to secure him. By this time there were a good many people looking for a change to lay their hands on the reductible Texas, for a big reward was offered by the plundered express company for his capture, and there were plenty of men in the territory brave enough to take a chance, even where such a noted desperado was concerned. But luck appeared to be on the side of the intrapol outlaw, for even after the breaking up of his band of cattle thieves he made divores excursions into Arizona and enriched himself at the public expense Among other things Texas was an adept at disguising himself, and more than one instance is related of his actually entering a town and drinking at a bar in the company of men who would have lynched him to a dead certainty had they suspected who he was Hold-ups of various kinds were numerous in that portion of the territory nearest the border at this particular time, and most of these fonts were attributed to the enterprising Texas. It is probable that he received credit for more than he performed in this line, but on the other hand he undoubtedly covered more ground in the execution of his schemes than any other road agent who had ever graced that section of the country with his presence. At length there came a day when Fortune for once, seemed to have made up her mind to justify her reputation for nicknames, and frown for the nonce on the daring individual whom she bind so far honored with her amies. Texas, who was still on the bright side of forty, was gilted with an appreciative eye for female THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "The doomed man's reply was to level the revolver he still held above his head, and fire straight at the enemy." beauty, and this amiable weakness, almost brought about his downfall. One night he paid a visit to the little town of Mackinville, not far from the Mexican border, and sought the society of a certain damself, who had already shown herself favorably disposed toward the handsome outlaw. The girl, however, who up to the date of this visit appears to have been unaware of the identity of her admirer, learned from an incautious remark dropped by the latter that she was entertaining a gentleman upon whose head was set a good price in United State currency. To slightly paraphrase an ancient saying "She loved Texas not so well, but that she loved dollars more," and she promptly laid information with the town authorities with a view to the improvement of her own financial prospects thereby. As a result of this betrayal Texas was surprised and captured at the house of his lady love, and lodged in jail Being taken utterly unaware, he had no chance to show fight, and no lives were lost in affecting his capture It may be that this fact rendered the Mackinville officers less apprehensive of the formidable individual with whom they were dealing, although one would have fancied that Texas reputation was such as to cause them to take extraordinary precautions in guarding him. However that may have been, they contented themselves with lodging him in a cell in the local bastle, just as they would have done with any common prisoner and left him there for the night. Texas was not even handcuffed, and from the window of his cell he could see the town hall, a long building with a tower, and the passover on the street below. Mackinville is a quiet town, where the folks retire early to their beds, and by ten o'clock that night the streets were silent and almost deserted. Texas, listening at his window could not bear a sound, and the only lights visible were his own lamp and the ollantan hung in front of the town hall. He felt and tested the iron bars that defended the window. The wooden stills had been split, the bars put in place, and the wood reunited again. It was not what could be called an unbreakable jail. He waited until midnight, and then proceeded to try the strength of the top bar. It was not very thick, and was heavily rusted. He took a tight 1. grip of it in the center, braced his feet against the sill and pulled with all his might. For a few seconds the bar resisted bravely but the bandit put all his strength into one powerful heave, and as it bent suddenly in the middle, one end came out of its knot, and he sprawled backward on the floor. Rising he investigated results, and found that the deflection of the bar had left an opening large enough for him to squeeze through. He knew that the window sill could not be far from the ground, as the call was on the first floor. He crawled through, and taking a grip of the sound bar let himself down. His toes touched something but he was not quite low enough to reach the ground. Letting go the bar he fell in a heap, and scrambled swiftly to his feet, unhurt, and master of his own actions once more. He wasted no time, but skirting the town hall, crossed into Glia street, and started toward the south. A horse tethered in the town hall yard caught his eye, and stepping inside the enclosure, he loosened the animal, leaped to the saddle, and rode away in the direction of the big cattle ranges at an easy canter. It was morning before his escape was discovered, and by that time he was too far out of reach to make pursuit worth while. It was not long before the effects of Texas being loose again were made painfully evident to law-abiding citizens. On this occasion he seemed to have shifted his hunting grounds, as he was next heard of as having broken into the postoffice at Chislett, and decamping with a small amount in government stamps and $1,000 in money. This latest exploit naturally drew the attention of the federal government, and instructions came to me in my capacity of marshal at Tuscon to keep a lookout for the offender. Following a clew which had been given me, I departed for Phoxhix, where a three day fiesta was in progress, a sort of sublimated county fair. without exhibits of produce and live stork, but with plenty of wild west features added to make up for such deficiency. Sports, parades and performances made up the program for the first two days, the grand climax occurring on the night of the third day. Then the fun of the carnival reached its zenith, and the freedom of the city was extended to all the visitors within its bounds. To venture forth on Washington street without a mask after eight o'clock meant for the daring one to be pegged unnerecfully with flour and rice. Under the protection of a fancy dress and domino, respectable ladies might visit even the gambling dens without exciting comment. The authorities were gracious and allowed the votaries of pleasure to indulge themselves to the limit without attempting to interrofe. It was just the sort of thing to attract a person of the convivial sport loving nature peculiar to "Texan," and I believed the information that he had recently been seen in Phoenix to be substantially correct. I had not been in the city over an hour before my eyes were gladdened by the welcome sight of Sheriff Jim Haldwin's stalwart form strolling down Washington street. He was surprised to see me, and lost no time in inquiring whether I was visiting Phoenix on business or pleasure. On hearing that I was after Texas Harry for the Chisley postoffice robbery, he informed me that by an odd coincidence he was bound on a like quest. "But it itt for no dinky postoffice robbery that I want him" he remarked. There is a big reward out for him from the express company that I wouldn't mind having the handling of. And apart from that he's the cuss who killed poor Jack Berry who used to ride range with the Double H outfit, an Jack was a good friend of mine. He was well liked, too, an' if any of the boys got their hands on Mr Texas they'd string him up in a hurry. That a why I buntit' him alone. I want to put him in the hands of the law an not pass him over to a lynchin party." I was glad to hear this for of all men in the territory there was none cooler or braver than Jim Haldwin, and his assistance in running down the desperado would be most well welcome. That he had a prior claim to mine on the person of Texas mattered "The doomed the revolver he and fire str but little. It would be fine enough to settle that point when we got hold of the outlaw. We proceeded to the hotel where Baldy was staying, and there he left me for a while. "I'll be back to about an hour. No, he said, and I kon I'll have our bird located by that time. You know Joe Timmins. like a boy I can trust an he aout south around now. Mobbe hell be back before me. If so, tell him to wait till I come." He went away and I composed my self to smoke and wait for developments. They were not long in coming, for presently Timmins made his appearance in a state of evident agitation. I hailed him at once, and after informing him of my business in the town, he gave me a piece of news which accounted for his excited demeanor. This was nothing less than his discovery of Texas' whereabouts. The outlaw was enjoying himself in a house in Plag street, the Mexican quarter, in the company of a girl named Dolores Garcia. What was more to the point, Texas had been drinking freely, according to Timmins' story, and was at that moment in a condition which would effectually prevent him from putting up much of a fight. An hour had passed and Baldwin had not returned. My impatience grew with every dying minute, and finally I came to the conclusion that my duty required me to take advantage of the information I had received and without waiting any longer for the sheriff, to go after Texas myself. Timmins was equally eager, and we hesitated no longer, but sailed forth on our expedition. It was nine o'clock and the streets were thronged with revelers, through whom we made our way without halting until we reached the Mexican quarter. The portion of Dias street to which we proceeded was dark and forbidding, and we stopped at last before a/house in the center of a block built of solid adobe. A light shone through a square win Now in the front which looked out upon the street. Holding our guns ready in our right hands we advanced to the door and rapped loudly. After a moment or two it opened and the form of a girl appeared on the threshold. Without replying to her questions we pushed by her and sprang into the front room where a single lamp was burning dimly. A tall figure of a man seated at a table looked up as we entered and covered him with our revolvers. "Hands up, Texas," I said curtly. "Try to make a move and you're a dead man!" It was our quarry all right. I didn't a doubt of that from the instant I set eyes on him. He answered to the official description in every particular. But if I had had any doubts on the subject they would have vanished rapidly in the light of ensuing events. The words were scarcely out of my mouth when he ducked his head with lightning rapidity and with a sweep of his arm hurled the lamp from the table, extinguishing it, and leaving us in total darkness. Timmins' gun and mine cracked so swiftly that the two shots made but a single report. There was no answering groan, however, and I realized that we had both missed our aim. Before I could decide what to do next, something struck me with terrific force over the head, and I fell senseless, my last recollection being of a flying figure leaping over my prostrate form, and a half smothered yell from Timmins. When I recovered consciousness I found myself in bed at the hotel with a bandaged head which ached informally Timmins was sitting beside me, and grinned ruefully as I opened my eyes. From him I learned that Texas had made good his escape, and that Baldwin had started in pursuit alone. "They say Texas has headed for the Gila, and if so Baldy'll have a merry time overhaul'd his," said Timmins. "Why, that trail leads right through the heart of the desert, and I don't believe a man and horse kin make the trip at this time of the year But Baldy always was as obstinate as a "mule and wouldn't wait to get any of the boys together. Anway it will be just as tough for Texas as for him," he added consolingly. Sheriff Baldwin chase of the fleeing bandit has passed into Arizona history as one of the most extrag- I man's reply was to level he still held above his head, right at the shoulder." Omar's father has been in court for nine months man had started with her a small supply of water lily because he was in too big a berry to touch to that important detail properly the sheriff, because of a like reason coupled with a desire for vengeance that overshadowed everything else in his mind. When the run rose on the following day, Baldwin was pressing eagerly forward through the yellow sand and a sage-brush, heedless of the merciless rays of the burning sun that poured down upon him. By one clock the force heat had almost blinded him, but still he rode doggedly on, straining his aching eyes for a sight of the fugitive. Fortune is said to favor the brave, and the saying proved so far true in this instance, that Baldwin finally hove in view of the roan man which carried the man of whom he was in chase. Even as he neared his prey, he saw Texas reel in his saddle and fall heavily to the ground. He was spaseless when the sheriff reached him, and the former's first action was to snap the handcuffs on his wrists, before attempting to revive him. The roan man was in almost as bad a plight as his rider, but by careful handling Baldwin managed to coax her into a foble imitation of a canter, and in due course of time made his way back with his prisoners. With Texas once safely lodged in jail, Baldwin left Phoenix to attend to his duties elsewhere. 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Baldwin was not on hand at this juncture, but the chase was taken up by four cowboys who had especial and private reasons for wishing to capture Texas. One of them, Dick Berry, was a brother of the Jack Berry who, as baldwin told me had fallen by the hand of the outlaw, and the others were close friends of the slain man. Accordingly, well mounted and provisioned, they started in pursuit. This time Texas had taken care to provide himself with a sufficient supply of water and as before headed for the desert trail with the intention of reaching the river. A stern chase is powerfully a long chase and so it proved in this instance. In the middle of the race the four pursuers were almost within gun shot of the fugitive when the Gila came in sight. As he neared the bank he did not hesitate but rode boldly forward and dashed for the other side. One of his pursuers reached for his gun but Dick Berry laid a restraining hand on his arm. Walt a minute he gasped we don't need no shoutin. That cuss is gone straight to his death. He don't know that river for sure. It a chuck full of quicksand right where he has headin." Texas forced his horse into the water and had almost reached the center of the stream with the water up to the animals shoulder. Suddenly the horse stopped roused slightly, then struggled fortunately as it slowly sank under caught in the treacherous quicksands of the river. The instant Texas perceived his danger he slipped out of the sudden and started to wade across. At once his feet shot from under him, and he found himself too gripped in the sand and slowly sinking. Down, down he went struggle as he might he was fast and helpless he had held his recover high above his head until now, in the endeavor to keep it dry, but the water was creeping past his shoulder. Just then his four pursuers dashed up, and halted at the edge of the stream. What had we do better do?" Inquired Dick Berry. I could throw my rope over him, an snake him out in no time, if you say so. What's the use?" queried Buck Minton a tall sallow individual, with a sinister grin. I allow he got to be strung up, anyhow an it will save trouble burpin him, long with the costs of a trial, an make a neat job all round if we just let him slide" Then raised his voice, he beasted "Say, Texas, we was goin to lynch you if we got hold of you, but wore goin to be kind an lot you off this time" The doomed man's reply was to levle the revolver he still held above his head, and the straight at the speaker The bullet whistled in unpleasant proximity to Jack's ear "He's sure an ungrateful coyote," remarked the latter, placidly, but he's game, all right There was no doubt of Jack's game he uttered no cry, but doggedly awaited the coming of death Lower and lower he sane the water rose past his mouth, post his nostrils his eyes The men standing on the bank heard a choking gurgle as the out law's head vanished under the surface of the river a few bubbles danced upon the water and all was over Texas harry had gone to his final reckoning FLATTERY AND THE SALESLADY The Shopgirl This is the very latest. We are selling a great num ber this spring. They are very be-coming to young and pretty girls. One would suit you lovely madam. The customer says I think it would I like two POULTR Gather the eggs several times a day. Clean out the nest boxes and burn the old straw The heavy laying hen usually lays a normal medium sized egg Start right by getting better hens, end right by keeping them better. Cull the surplus poultry Keep only such fowls as you are assured are money makers Do not try to start a new breed There are plenty now, and you would be sure to get nothing but scrubs for your pains Lime is a great cleanser Hens must have lime or they cannot manufacture eggsbells Lime is very useful about the poultry premise If your flock of hens does not produce a god average of fertile eggs, better introduce new blood. Secure some healthy males from another flock One necessity for the turkey raiser on the average farm is a tree for roosting purposes. A turkey does not like a house, but much prefers an open place to roost Many who keep the poultry houses clean overrowd their chickens and then wonder why they lose their fowls. Let the chickens have it rooms and fresh air Keep your chicks tame It is a nul- nance to have to use a shotgun to catch a chicken Inoculator chicks have this advantage they are accu- tomed to being handled and are never rendered unmanageable through fright. PREPARE GEESE FOR MARKET First Object is to Make Them as Heavy as Possible and in Shortest Possible Time. Geose being prepared for the market should be grown to large size and then finished for the market in the shortest possible time. It is a Toulouse Goose good plan to shot them up in a limited Inclosure and feed them to the limit for about two weeks, selling them as soon as possible after this. In many markets the heavier a goose weighs the more it brings per pound. So it is an object to make them as heavy as possible. Arthur. 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RIGHT ‘ees seneerepece putt teeta feo aes Seer eara at eee Gol Pie enra e Fenhad ecuen Rov eu Strom cee aes G BAS ey : Par gece mene Ca ES Pee eran sane cote AT ee ee ge nige a eee SATURDAY MAY 7, 1010 VHARMACISTS PASSED More Colored Than White Win Out In the Proposition Only seventern of the, Ofty chrec applicants before Us State Board ot Pharmacy for teense as reg ntered pharmacists were successful in Ket ting through This constitutes abou! an average percentage of certificates tssuod as the Feenit of examinations. Four of tho eeventoen men are ne Krova, while five colored men were thrown * It will bo seen that the percentage of eucress among the col ered applicants wre greater than among tho whites ‘Tho candidates for certificates 1s registered assistant pharmacists wore far more euccesaful Twonty-soven of the thirty got through, Only one col ered man took this examination, and he gote his certificate The boant yesterday afternoon con eluded its examination of tbe papors handod tn Tuesday. when tho lat was announced Routine business wai then taken up, but waa not concluded This belag the annual mocting, tn ropgria of officers are being present ed ant considored. It ts expected that the businoss wi! de concluded this morning This tn eludes the election of officers, ‘The list of the succcasful cand dates for certificates ts as follows REGISTERED PHARMACISTS Bonjamin Blosser, Lynchburg L. White, Fredorickaburg J K Dick inson, Carteravillc John Wise Smith Belle Haven, WC Jett. Richmond Joba Ro Whitty, Richmond A Dorsoy Houston. JB Porry, South Boston, C H. Reed. Jr, Cape Charl es I C. Hurdle, Norfolk. CT Eldridge, Danville, Frank A\ Robey Herndon, Julian $. Booker, Norfolk James T Phillips, Petersburg color ed. DC Yancey. Kimball, Wo vu colored. RW Matthews, Petersburg colored 1. A Yancey Wiisun N ¢ colored REGISTERED ASS T PHARMAG LATS EM Wallace Dansille Harroll S Falconer, Nowport News Crowder White, Newport News J A Thomp non, Jt. Abingdon R J Conner Stuart: Mark B Turner Front Ray al Sobn T Doggett Danville Wit Ham Ho Crawford Smithfield Sam A Prettow Kenbridge TC Hall Wiltamaburg ED Cole Je Hamp: top CL Coleman Richmond D H Lewiq Victoria, CC Chowning, Vrbanna 1 Atkinson Richmond Linwood H Cosby, Richmond ED. Kilby, Riebmond HG Cobb Fraok Mn Fred O Williams Richmond Thomas * Wortham itt hmond. Car | soll L, Sprinket Richmond. Wo EB Lacke Woodstock Wo Hill, New port Nowa J W Martin Ri€bmond RL, Goode Richmond W.S Lind ray. Petorsburg William H Har rison (color), Jorsey City, N J - Wiebmond Va’ Times Dispatch Ap rit 30. fy10 ¥ M © AL Notes. The Y M © A Conferonce bold a apeclal meeting for the election of the oMfners which wus dono to the Joy of all the men The staff will b¢ given to you leter Tho follows arc row getting ready for harder work Prof JW Barco was.extremely helpful last Saturday as usual in ex MNS RI Bee ea = AIA ‘The attendance was good ‘Tho committeo for the city home did good work last Sunday in tho elty fail Keop at tt men ‘The mecting for the boys last Sun day made a great it Alt Cook an aftive part lieip us ty enrvurage the boys for the right The men of Ke binend owe’ crowd af the Tine Katgriners Hall te, gone Th Wen Helges Avan tier ton shor of Miretile, Ipotr sunday, Han Sonn Mitehe't Jekateitor of The Ki binend HILYNET and President of the Mtebonts Saviags Math i a Moa alan epee & Geemtaet AR sik thee wie perteees at tutte 84 peuniay Phe theaghte, wtih wet plied forth bp eave cute CHT care in Mime rtate Land, fruit willbe pro Aueed (hat BIN taaverca blake elfen ese Cid “Themes We rae Sang tan ble ait he HONE Cae tony for hee’ anwiaiieie aed Mr At Forde ANst the Rreaer se tiga! for then are nt i going 6 Dew are Visited tomiese bret FW pire daiey CEM oF the ya AT tantdian The eaptinntion onthe Paneth tuod eamnt Nin hota weree Waly ena cits Sia! Seca fin geile tien tae Raed Guth ana tie nee wee Sunday 41 Mate MCA hultding mening for bow Mothers tend gave wane. ie once A great mecting for mon Sunday 3:30 Ff M ot the Truo Reformers’ Hall Rew © 8 Hodges BOD pas tor of the Leigh Strevt Mothodist Church will dellver a spacti) address subject vam Home nad Back west and Keinp'a Orebeatra wilt rep der apetiat oust, Be a comattes tor this meeting Be on tine Bring the uber mas De not step praying for the ¥ wR : Interesting Information Prem Washingt Wart ngton 1 © May 2 -The Colored ¥ OM © A 18 engaged at present is a determlaed effort to rats #1400 to complete and furnish {t new butltiag on Twelfth Streat. be tween S and T Already $50 000 has heen expended upon. this building, which se now under roof and It will Fequity $i Hud additional to com Llete apd equip it throughout Of the frat $59 000 expended, Jobn R Keo kefeller gave $25,000 and the col- ore men hore raised the other $25, wuts Tho Contra! Association (white) here hag now come forward with a proposition to contribute $35.000 of the remaining $50 000 required f the colored people of Washington will raise $15 dou in twenty dags To accomplish this the colo¢ed men are working Mke trojans The campaign for the $16,000 began April Zit ond 18 to close May 17th Mp to Sat urday night last, the firat three days canvass bad resulted in the ralsing of $2,000 by subscriptions from col ored men The enthusiaam ts cory freat and it is confidensy hopel ta ralse the required $18,00% within the: me specified At the recent examination beld here by the District Pharmacy Board of the fourteen applicants to take the examination, ten were white and four were colored three of the four col or) being graduates from Howard University Pharmacy School Of thin number but three of thy ten white applicants pasted the examination while three of the four colored pnas cd, and the thren colored who did pass whre graduates from Howard Univeraity This ts regardet as a high tribyte to the efficiency of Howard University as an inatitution of bigh er education At the modteal Jaw and dental examinations the Howard graduates matntalo the aame rota tive standing of auceers over thetr white competitors from wbite Inatt tutions here and cixewhere who ap ply to take the examinations . <i THB RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, anieenila In the Livw anit Equity Court of the City of Richmond, April 20, 1910. Naito Bo Christian, Plaintlet ve William FE Christlan, Defendant The object of this ault Is to obtain a diveres a vinewlo matrimonit by thy platott@ from the defondant, And atidasit having been made and fled that the .tfeadunt t# not @ rosidunt of the State of Virglota, $¢ le hereby ordeted that be do appear hero within tern dass after due publication of this totes aid de what ty neceanary teoptere 2s daterest in thiy auit ey beste TU SINSTON Clerk COM Keeton pg VERGINEN tn the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richinond, the 9th duy of April 1910 Thomas Haskins Platnum against In Chancery Mary Haskins, Defendant ‘Vhe object of this ault ts to obtain a divorce @ vinculo matrimonil, by the plaintiff from tho defendant And an aMdavit baying beon made and Oiled that duo diligence bas been Jused on behalf of tho plaintiff to as certain in what county or corpora tion the defendant, Mary Haskins Is | without effect. It 1 ordered that sbe do appear hero within Stteon days ttor duo publication hercof, and do what {s,nocessary to protect her {n- torest beretn. A Copy—Teste P P WINSTON Clerk TO MARY HASKINS Take Notice—You are hereby no ued that I shall on Thursday, Junc 2, 1910, at the Jaw office of Phil B Shield, Room No 62 Chamber o} Commerco Bullding, corner of Niott and Main Streets, City of Richmond Va. detweon tho hours of 10 o’cloch A M and 6 o'clock P. Mon that day proceed to take the depositions o} Joseph Haskins and otbers to be reat In ovidenco In my behalf tn a cortats suit In equity, depending tn tho Law and Equity Court, of the City o! gichmond, Va, wherein you are the defendant and Tam platotitt If ‘trom any causo the taking of tho said depositions, be aot com menced on that day or if commenced do not concluded on that day, the takIng of the same wit! bo adjourned and continued from day to day. or {rom time to time at the same place and betweon the same bours untt! tho eaniv bo completed Very Respectfully THOMAS HASKINS. By Counsel ee Tabane. a DIDNT KNOW HIS, GUN WAS LOADED Sweetheart Die in Hoapltal Feom Pistol Ball in Heart. White demonstrating his oravavo tn taking a revolver out of hia pocket and cleaning it before his aweet heart Mile Grinna a colored boy tweety one sears old abot and kllted Jntin Marton in ter tome 107 West Jackson Stroct lnat night ont tH Gerlook The bubet pasted Uvrongh the lower portion of the girls heart and ehe died within a halt dur att erwarde In the City Home Hospttal Roth the dad woman and tho boy she shot her de: tard at night that Ue hoot ng wae accidental An an te mortem state tient ws gotten from the seman he Dr Womack at the AMG ambatanes carps in whteh she anid that the bow had taken the re Volver fram hit parker aateastbly te Hean it whea I expluded The bal let atrack ber in the breast and de Meeted aligh ty passing through. ths lower portion of her heart Milo Grinan bas heen a porter tt the employ of the grorery houne o MiCarfly @ Haynye for severn feare and haw heen + thssed amon the Peat of vertern hy bin employers He had been paving attention te Julla Rurton for some time and f was thought that thes would be mor fled before the aummer was over DIDNT KNOW ST WAS LOADED Although he (8 or haa always beon of a most peaceful naturn he ac cording to his own atatemont made to the police had a revolver with him when he went to call on his aweetheart last night He showed thr revolver to hin aweethedrt apd, voy Uke said he would clean it Before he had begun te clean it however the revolver wert off ant the aweet heart fell ta the floor The father and mother of the we man were in the haute and they came Into the room where Milo nnd the woman wero at ho sound of the abot. A few momenin nftorwards the am bulance waa caliod and Dr Womack responded The woman was in a des porate condition when the ambulance arrived and without walting for par ticulars, she was rushed to the City Hospital Before an operation could be performed to save her ito the woman d.nd GAVF HIMSEL! UP Before tho nows of her death had coms to tho pollen station, Grinns camo to the Second stationhouso and gave himaclf up Ho did not know at the Umo that ho had killed the woman, and thonght that sho wa only slightly injured He told a atralehtforward story about — the mattor antl waa locked up. ‘The coroner will hold an inquest over tho body this morning at 10 prclock in the City Hall. Ap both parties, the dead woman and the boy have told tho somo story In regard to the shooting it Is probable that the boy, white ho will be triod for marder, will be able to prove that the ahooting was ontirely acctttental, ‘The absence of witnossea to the abooting almost insures a vardict of that charactor--Times-Dispatoh, AD- ri) 6, 2910, POOPPLEIEFOSESERELOULHIOLEDELEDOFOEOSHOOOOOSO OOOO t We Will Keep You Dressed Swell On $1 a Weeks. : MEN'S SUITS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE. 300. 4 PATTERNS TO SELECT FROM—LATEST ] FASHIONS IF YOU DON'T NEED A SUIT, : : LET US MAKE YOU’A PAIR OF TROUSERS : LADIES’ 5PRING AND SUMALER COAT SUITS, SILK OR LIN : : GERIE DRESSES, BULK PET TICOATS ALREADY MADE 3 > OR MADE TO YOUR ORDER. YOU GET THE GOOD AT ‘ ; NCE, NEEDN'T WAIT UNTIE THEY ‘ : ARE PAID FOR. : : sspears ° z ‘ = One Dollar Per Week Does | . reer ene ‘ : ; i : the Business. — a | M. H. 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