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THE RICHMOND PLANET GERSHOM (CONTINUED) OR THE STORY OF THE NEGRO. By Lucian B. Watkins The space of human life indeed is great. And reaches from the lowest of the low Unto the summit of the highest high. "With God a thousand years is but a day;" Our mimic years are but a ripple placed Upon the ocean of the ages past. We've known the bitter bondage of the depth. Antipodes of first exalted height. Now needs must climb to sunny height again And there regain relinquished thrones of old. We shall not weep now o'er the bonded past. Nor hover o'er the echoes of the years That roll into the distance far away Our groans of pain; for since it is that God Hast raised us from the dust of servitude. A faith is born to bear us conquerors Through obstacles of intervening Alps. Tho shraws for our bricks be limited In many gleaned fields of large desires. Yet every struggle makes a larger strength And now To overcome a larger task. 'Tis unto Him who brought us safely to This day of present hope, we do commend The spirit blossoms of our teeming souls That looketh to the light of heav'n above. (The End.) Echoes From the Virginia Baptist State Convention. The Virginia Baptist State Convention closed its session in Suffolk last Sunday night. This convention was organized 43 years ago by such men as Revs. John Jasper, James H. Holmes, Richard Wells, S. W. Madden, Fields Cook, William Troy and others of the Fathers who came over from the days of slavery. The convention has made a grand history and accomplished a great deal for the cause of Christianity. At the recent session Dr. R. H. Bowling and all the old officers were re-elected, except Rev. R. C. Wood, who was elected in the place of E. A. Edwards as corresponding secretary. The convention was largely attended. Eleven new churches were received. The convention felt highly lifted up over the reception of the great Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., in its membership. Dr. Walter Brooks was present and made some telling addresses in the interest of the race and the Baptist cause. Dr. W. W. Gaines and Rev J. T. Wilson, B. Th. took care of the delegation in royal style. They deserve great credit. Dr. W. R. Brown of Roanoke, made a most telling and effective response to the welcome addresses. President R. H. Bowling was at his best in the delivery of his annual address. Strong addresses were made on set subjects by Drs. W. H. Brooks, E. Tartt, W. B. Calloway and Dr. William Beckham. The convention put itself on record as a staunch friend to Dr. R. H. Boyd and the Publishing House. The annual sermon was preached by M. W. D. Norman, D. D., of Washington, D. C. It was one of the ablest sermons ever preached before the convention. The missionary sermon was preached by W. T. Anthony, D. D., of Richmond. He swayed his audience at will and made an impression that will be long remembered. The educational sermon was preached by W. A. Taylor, B. Th., of Newport News. So grand was this sermon that Dr. G. B. Howard moved its publication and distribution in pamphlet form. W. T. Hall, D. D., delivered a masterly address on "Loyalty to Leaders." Drs. J. G. Brown, of New York, Granville Hunt, of New York, J. Anderson Taylor, W. Bishop Johnson, A Wilbanks and Drs. Cartwright and Dance of North Carolina, all made strong speeches and stirred the souls of the brethren. The convention put itself on record by standing vote in endorsing Dr. J. R. L. Diggs and the work in Lynchburg, Dr. Diggs is in the hearts of the brethren and his strong, powerful address tied the convention to him. Dr. W. H. Moses made an address full of information and stirring eloquence. The preachers of Richmond, Drs. W. T. Anthony D. Webster Davis, R. Spiller, Leroy Fraysier, M. H. Payne, E. D. Lewis, B. D., and Dr. W. F. Graham, gave a warm invitation to the convention to meet next year in Richmond with the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Therefore, the world may expect a great time next year in the forty-fourth annual session of this great body. The battle ery will be $10,000.00 and the Baptists are going to raise it. The convention this year raised during the year for education and missions nearly $7,000.00. They carried to Sufok $2,300.00 in cash. They did not raise as much as they desired to, but are determined to make up for it in the next annual gathering. Richmond will feel proud of the coming of these great men. Dr. William Beckham, field secretary of the Home Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention had things his own way at the convention and spoke as few men can to the large crowd that heard him. Memorial services were held in memory of Drs. George W. Lee, William Thornton, R. H. Porter, J. M. Powell, William Dixon and Revs. S. Tucker, Thomas Hill and J. L. McAden. Drs. W. B. Johnson, M. H. Shorts, W. F. Graham, L. W. Metz, C. E. Jones, H. Powell, R. H. Bowling and R. C. Woods, delivered the eulogies. REPORTER Services at Zion Baptist Church Zlon Baptist Church, South Richmond, Rev. W. T. Anthony, D. D., pastor, had a delightful day last Sunday, at 11 A. M. Rev. J. C. Brown, D. D., of Flushing, N. Y., preached for us. Subject, "Religion Pays," also at 8:30 P. M. Subject, "Spiritual Loansomeness." Our brother washed his hands in the clouds and kissed the mountains. We all rejoiced and wish our brother great success. He is also a great friend of ours. We have just returned from the Virginia State Convention at Suffolk, Va., where we had a delightful time, and also preached the missionary sermon. We returned much en courageed to go forward the coming year to do all we can, and prepare for the great meeting in Richmond, in May 1911. Undertaker Johnson Injured Mr. William Isaac Johnson, the well-known funeral director, had a narrow escape from death last Saturday at about 10:45 A. M. He was driving up Leigh Street having a white insurance agent in his buggy, when he came to First Street. The heavy Lakeside electric car came by, no bell being rung and it struck the buggy about the centre, throwing the occupants on the fender of the car, thus saving their lives. The buggy was a complete wreck and the occupants were not known to be injured. Later, Mr. Johnson has experienced severe pains in the body and has been incapacitated therefrom, but hopes to be all right in a few days. The horse was not seriously injured. A Colored Man's Invention Mr. Micajah Harris of Ivy Depot, Va., colored, has secured a patent for a turf-cutter. It resembles a shovel with high, sharp sides and it has a hinged foot-piece, which comes down in front and chops out the section of turf which the shovel digs loose. The shovel is thrust under the sod until it can go no further. Then the knife is jammed down and the whole with-drawn with a neat piece or sod. The operation consumes only a fraction of the time required to dig out a piece of turf by the old method and has the additional merit of bringing the sod out whole and with smooth sides and not in the ragged shape that it is sometimes cut. In the middle of the handle of this tool is a catch to engage the knife section and hold it out of the way when it is not needed to cut the sod loose. Portchester Notes A large number of K. of P. from the surrounding cities was present at the organization of Welmore Lodge, No. 14, the first K. of P. lodge in this city. The lodge numbers forty-four members. Sirs J. J. Booker of Damon Lodge, No. 12, Newport News, Va., and S. B. Pettis, Lily of the Valley Lodge, No. 40, assisted in the initiation. St. Francis A. M. Church was well attended at the Sunday services. A large gathering was out to hear the minister from New York City. He was assisted by Rev. Crews. Washington and Lincoln Booklet- Poems. Gems for American homes; in national colors and designs. Agents wanted. 15 cents each; one of each, 30 cents. Address LUCIAN B. WATKINS, Ft. Russell, Wyo. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910. Paper by Prof. Frank Boaz, of Co Jumbia University, Before the National Negro Conference. 一 The first question to be answered by scientific investigation is in how far the Negro type may be considered the inferior, the White type as the superior. When we consider inferiority and superiority from a general biological point of view, it must be interpreted as meaning that one type is nearer to certain ancestral forms than another. In this sense, the anthropologist must say that in certain respects the Negro resembles the hypothetical ancestral forms of man more than does the European; while in other respects the European shows greater similarity to the supposed ancestral form. Among the Negro race it is particularly the form of the face that reminds of the ancestral forms of man, while in regard to the proportions of the body, and particularly the length of the limbs, the Negro is more remote from ancestral forms than is the European. On the whole, the morphological characteristics of the two races show rather a specialized development in different directions than a higher development in the one race as compared to the other. The objection will be raised that the low stage of culture or the African race in many parts of America, as well as in Africa, shows clearly a lack of mental power, because other-wise the Negro race might have developed a civilization similar to that of Europe. In answer to this objection we must remember that, on the whole, our conception of African conditions is based altogether too much upon the condition of the undecided descendant of the American Negro slave. Any one who is familiar with ethnological facts will recognize that the conditions under which the American slave population developed is apt to destroy what little culture may have existed. The complete break with the African past; the imposition of labor, in the results of which the slave had no direct interest; the difficulty of assimilating the elements of civilization by which they were surrounded, all tended equality to reduce to a minimum the amount of independent cultural achievement or the group. I think it is not saying too much if I stance that among the primitive people of the world the natives of Central Africa are by far the most advanced, and that the type of their civilization belongs to the same level of culture which was found a few thousand years ago over the western part of the old world, including Europe and western Asia. If the Africans have not shared in the development, which, after many viciousitudes, gradually extended from Egypt and Babylonia over the Mediterranean area, and from there later into northern Europe. This is due to the fact that Africa occupied a much more remote position in relation to these countries, and that the current or civilization was carried with much greater difficulty through the virgin forests and deserts of Africa than along the shores of the Mediterranean and across the forests and meadow-lands of Europe. Thus it may safely be said that there is no anthropological evidence showing inferiority of the Negro race as compared with the White race, although we may assume that differences in mental characteristics of the two races exist. MUNDIN—KERSEY. The marriage of Miss Alice H Kersey, of Richmond, Va. to Dr. R. O. Mundin, of Louisa, Va., will take place at the residence of the bride, 100 West Leigh Street, Saturday June 4, 1910, at 12 o'clock. Friends are invited. No cards. The Only Colored Photographer Gone George O. Brown, the only colored photographer, who is the proprietor of the only colored photograph gallery in this city, died at his residence, 318 West Leigh Street, at 5 P. M. last Tuesday after a prolonged illness. His funeral took place last Thursday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was one of the best photographic printers in the state. Whereabouts of Mr. Martin. Kindly let me know what you can of a party by the name of Armistead A. Martin. I think he has some relatives in Richmond and his mother resides in New London, Conn. He disappeared from home very mysteriously April 13, 1910. If you can furnish any information of his whereabouts or his relatives, please communicate with his wife, MRS. A. A. MARTIN, 727 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY Closing of This Great Institution President Hovey Presides—Fine Exercises—Large Crowd The eleventh annual commencement of the Virginia Union University, which took place last Wednesday day evening 8:15 o'clock at Coburn Hall. University Grounds, was a decided success. The spacious structure was filled to over-flowing by an appreciative audience. Pres. George Rice Hovey, whose super management has been the subject of so much favorable comment, presided. He was surrounded by his faculty and by prominent colored men from all over the country. He was a classic figure attired in his black gown, student's cap, from which extended in striking contrast to those worn by others a magnificent golden tassel. The exercises were highly creditable and the subject matter was deep and instructive. Scholars were delighted and at times the public mystified. The order of exercises was as follows: MUSIC. March—"College Life" Orchestra INVOCATION. MUSIC. Overture—"Light Cavalry" Orchestra ADDRESSES. Deeds, Not Words, Simeon Saunders Booker The Function of Imagination in Life and Letters, Clifford Cornellus Robertson MUSIC. "Loveland Waltzes" Orchestra ADDRESSES. The Call of the Modern Pulpit, Joseph Caldwell Nicholas What Our Race Woes to England Samuel Lawrence McDowell MUSIC. Violin Duct—"Slumber Soul"—Julius Caesar Judkins and Harper S. Fortune. ADDRESSES. Advance in Education the Means of a Nation's Progress, John Downing Williams Our Place in Literature, William James Mundy Vision an Incentive to Action, Robert Jackson Langston MUSIC. "The Holy City" Orchestra Address to Graduating Classes, Presentation of Diplomas Conferring of Degrees Announcements Hymn Benediction CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS. Simeon Saunders Booker, Danville Robert Jackson Langston, whaleysville William James Mundy, Charlottesville Clifford Cornellus Robertson, Hampton CANDIDATE FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. John Downing Williams, Manassas CANDIDATE FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF DIVINITY Joseph Caldwell Nicholas. New Orleans, La. CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY. William Harris, Newcomb, Tenn. Samuel Lawrence McDowell, Windsor, Ont. Y. M. C. A. Notes The Y. M. C. A. Conference was well attended last Friday evening. An excellent literary program was rendered by the members. The President's address was crowded with much good advice. The critic was a live number. He used his pencil well. The fellows are delighted with this school of opportunity. The city home work last Sunday was good and all the inmates were happy. Committeeman George R. Burrell conducted the meetings. The jail committee reaped a great harvest for the Lord in the city jail last Sunday. Ten prisoners were led to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. Do not get weary men. One of the best meetings in the history of our work was he'd for the boys last Sunday. Secretary Bernard L. Allen of the Boys' Work conducted the meeting. Keep the boys in mind and the man will be all right. Rev. Paul Pollard one of our own men delivered an address to the men last Sunday that will not be forgotten very soon. Subject, "How to Win." The Reverend reached every heart present. We were happy to have him and to know that he has done a good work in his field of labors. He is teaching and preaching. We wish him continued success, Mr. Jacob M. Daly one of our boys sang from his soul and much was added to the meeting. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. A special program will be rendered by the boys of our work Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Prof. J. W. Barco of the Virginia Union University, will address the men Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Subject. "Things That Have Lost Their Taste." This meeting will be for only men. By request West and Kemp's Orchestra will render special selections. Be a committee for this meeting. A great tag meeting for men only Sunday May 29, 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Dr. D. Webster Davis will deliver a special address. Subject. "The Withered Hand." A special quartette will sing. Men do not be afraid to wear a tag for this meeting. Get one and keep it. Speak to the other man about this meeting. Everybody is invited to the Nineteenth Closing Exercises of the Y. M. C. A. Night school Thursday, May 26, 8 P. M. sharp at the Sharon Baptist Church. A special program by the students. Dr. J. B. Simpson of the Virginia Union University will deliver the address. The choir of the church will sing, Prof. T. H. Hopkins, leader. Free for women and men. Tell your neighbor. Do not stop praying for the Y. M. C. A. CRITCHLOW AGAIN GETS INTO TROUBLE Former Dayton Man and Convict is Denounced as Faker by Virginia Authorities. According to information which reached here Tuesday from Richmond, Va., Walter G. Critchlow former president of the International Labor Union, of which he was the founder and to which colored people chiefly belong, and who, about a year ago completed a term in the Ohio penitentiary, having been convicted on the charge of using the mails to promote a fraudulent scheme, has been denounced as a faker in that city. Colonel Joseph Button, of the Virginia Insurance department, has set about to frustrate the efforts of Critchlow, who has been again inserting advertisements in certain negro papers of the state asking for agents. Critchlow was stopped by the department last Winter after he had swindled many negroes in several cities of Virginia, he said. The insurance commissioners of Ohio wrote the department in Virginia, denouncing Critchlow as a "bold fake." As a result of this communication, Colonel Button has made the statement that Critchlow is a swindler and declared that his concern had no right to do business in that state. He also warned agents to have nothing to do with Critchlow, and that they would thus stay out of the hands of the law. It will be recalled that Critchlow was apprehended about 18 months ago and convicted of using the maids fraudulently. He was sentenced by the late Judge Thompson, of the United States Court, at Cincinnati, after one of the severest arraignments that had ever been administered any one convicted in his court. During his incarceration Critchlow repudiated his wife, refusing to allow her to visit him, and after his release married his stenographer. He again resumed his former tactics, tendering quite an elaborate banquet to the members of the International Labor Union and other employees. Subsequently he left Dayton and nothing had been heard of him until his present escapade in Virginia. Dayton Journal, May 11, 1910. PERSONALS AND BRIEES Mr. Benjamin Jackson visited Alexandria last week. Mr. Lee T. Hudson, of 1208 St. Paul Street, is seriously ill. Mrs. William H. Isham is spending the Summer in New York City. She is much improved. Rev. Dr. William J. Howard, of Washington, D. C., called on us this week. Mr. I. J. Miller, the clothier, left the city last Tuesday for South Carolina. He will return Saturday. Mr. S. W. Marks who conducts a saw-mill at Chilesburg, Va., was in the city last week on business. Rev. J. C. Brown, D. D., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, of Flushing, N. Y., was in the city this week. Madame Carrie Bland Sheler, Boston's sweetest soprano solist, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Mary F. Clarke, 522 North Second Street. Dr. Thomas H. White, of Clifton Forge, called on his return from the Virginia Baptist State Convention and reported his church work as being in a fine condition. He looks the picture of health. 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 The Fifth Street Baptist Church is nearing its Thirtieth Anniversary; it will take place the first Sunday in June, 1910, only about two weeks off. Exercises will be held at the church every night during that week. We hope the public who is hereby invited will attend these services. Pastors from the different churches will preach on this occasion. The program is being prepared and will be circulated in a few days. The following clubs and committees are working hard to make this anniversary exceed all others. At the same time our Pastor, Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham will celebrate his Thirtieth Anniversary as a minister of the Gospel. Clubs of Fifth Street Baptist Church—Macedonia Club, Pres. Sister Callie D. Brown; Free Will Workers Club, Pres. Sister Josie A. Graham; Deacon's Club, Pres. Dea, B. H. Peyton; Usher's Club, Pres. Bro. John R. Holmes; Rally Club, Pres. Sister Mary Page; Valley Club, Pres. Sister Mary Hamm; East End Club, Pres. Sister Alice Johnson; Volunteer Club, Pres. Sister Alice Robinson. Committee on Entertainment—Sisters Jennie Cheutham, Callie D. Brown, Mary E. Page, J. A. Moss, Martha Seay, Rosa Robinson, Martha Towns, Georgia Williams, Parthenia Mason, Mary Hamm, Mildred Matthews, Lillie Hardy, Blanche Bullock, Ella Hill, Sophia Nicholson, Sarah E. Cook, Julia Austin, Robert Winston, E. T. Coleman, Walter Moss, Eliza Hill, Annie Coleman, Ethel Cozart, Belf Ross, Bro. Wise Ellis, Jas. B. Page. Committee on Decoration—Alice Epps, Jane Johnson, Martha Anderson, Emma Williams, Georgian Byrd, Powhatan Baker, Maurice Epps, Ida Booker, Ann Jones, Henletta Branch, Mary Wright, John Cephas, Virginia Henderson, Hester Christian, John Fenner, Virginia Johnson, Emanuel Carter. Committee on Correspondence—J. H. Chiles, N. G. Booker, Wm. H. D. Lucas, Joseph Robinson, F. E. Mangrum, Jane Scott, John W. Howard, George Lee, R. H. Fauntleroy, Samuel Brown, Rosa Jackson, B. H. Peyton, John Harris, Sister Nelle Hearn, W. W. Page, Hallie Weaver. Committee on Publication—J. Henry Crutfield, John O. Cooke, J. A. Chiles, Jos. Lightfoot Alberta Walker. Let every member of the church do his duty on this occasion and comply with the request of the church. On last Sunday the church enjoyed the company of the Rev. Dr. Alex Gordon, pastor or Monumental Baptist Church, who preached for them two excellent sermons: At 11:30 o'clock services, his text was Joshua 24:22. Subject, "Christian Solemary Minded of Their Obligation to God." The Doctor masterly explored this subject as well as the inspiring contents incidental thereto with great effect upon the congregation, who were well pleased with his discourse. At night he made equally as deep an impression. In company with our Pastor, Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, who invited him to preach, the Doctor was in the en route home from the Virginia Baptist State Convention which met in Suffolk, Va. Our Pastor gave a pleasing account of the working of the convention and the lively interest manifested by the brethren. The convention adjourned to meet in the city of Richmond, Va. at our Fifth Street Baptist Church next year. This news was received with expression of great joy. Brethren we bid you welcome. At 3:30 o'clock Theban Beneficial Club assembled at Fifth Street Baptist Church and held its annual anniversary exercises. The following program was well rendered: PART I. Song, Choir Invocation, Rev. Dr. Alex. Gordon Scripture Reading, Chap. L, V. Eggleston Solo, Miss Cora B. Eppe Welcome Address, Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy Response, Pres. J. O. West Quartette, (Harmony) Matthews, Gilpin, Smith and Hill Prov. 20:29 Sermon, Dr. W. F. Graham Collection, E. L. Banks, F. B. Miller PART II. Solo, Dr. Q. W. Moon Recitation, Miss Alice E. Smith Quartette, (Coronella) Misses Epps, Nelson, Phillips and West lo. Mr. Frank J. Mayo Benediction William W. Wilson, Master of Ceremonies. Ushers—Misses Bertha E. Thompson, Alberta Hughes, Susie A. Monroe, Cynthia Edmonson, Megdames L. O. Bland, Juanita Norrell Peterson. While the entire exercises were well, special mention should be made of the solo by Miss Cora B. Epps; solo by Dr. Q. W. Moon; recitation of Miss Alice E. Smith and Quartette (Coronella) Misses Epps, Nelson, Phillips and West. The sermon by Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, "Strong Young Men, Need of the Hour." The Doctor preached an extraordinary fine sermon. After taking up the name of the organization and showing the nobility of the people from whom it sprung; he dwelt largely upon the need of strong young men in this day to bring about the desired ends of civilization, and gave many lessons the practicing of which will be a blessing to all. (At 9:30 Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton opened Sunday School. The attendance was large. Services in this department are always interesting when the little children are attentive and cheerful as they were last Sunday morning. We are sorry to learn that Bro. R. W. Coleman of the Union University, who has been teaching in our Sunday School, is to leave for Protex, Malne. He has the best wishes of the school for his success. Bro. Brown, M. D. of Baltimore, delivered a nice address to the school, giving good advice. Rev. Dr. Alex, Gordon, pastor of Monumental Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., also made a few encouraging remarks to the school. Don't fail to help our Sunday School scholars when they come to you: they are trying to help the church in its anniversary.-E. W.) Come out to the B. Y. P. U. Friday night. Pres. John W. Howard wants to see every member. Be on time 8:30 o'clock. Don't forget the prayer services Wednesday night. Be on time at 8:30 o'clock. These meetings are strengthening to you. Sunday evening at 3:30 o'clock will be our communion. This is the last communion before our Thirtieth Anniversary. Let every member come out at this communion and partake of the Lord's supper. Pastor will preach next Sunday morning and night. FIVE MURDERERS GET FURTHER TIME --- Not One of Condemned Negroes Will Die in Electric Chair To-Day. Having been unable to go carefully all through the mass of evidence relating to the cases of the men condemned to death by electrocution, Governor Mann yesterday granted further respites to Calvin Johnson, Eugene Dorsey, Richard Pines, Henry Smith and Thomas Noel. This means that no one will die in the electric chair at the State Penitentiary today. Smith's sentence was reprieved to June 3, while the other four are slated to die on June 10. Samuel Hardy and Angelo Hamilton are to be electrocuted next Friday, while the date for the execution of "Shorty" Jones had been previously postponed to June 3. MANY REPRIEVES The four Alexandria negroes have now been in the penitentiary for months. Respites began in the cases of Johnson, Dorsey and Pines last autumn. In fact, it is stated that the new date fixed for Johnson's execution—June 10—will be the anniversary of his conviction of the murder of Walter Schultz. Governor Swanson granted several delays, first to get the case before the Supreme Court and later to await the trial of Henry Smith, the fourth man, who had testified against the other negroes. The effort in behalf of Noel is recent. He was shot while trying to escape from the Norfolk County Jail, a first reprieve being given him to allow him to recover from his wounds before being brought to the penitentiary. Guesses have been made from time to time that not one of the entire bunch of convicts would go to their death, excepting, perhaps Noel. But the Governor has not reached a decision in any instance Perhaps there is more reason to think that "Shorty" Jones, of Pulaski, will secure a commutation is than the case with any of the others—Times Dispatch. May 13, 1910. 10 IHMAN IN LOWERTEN BY MARY ROBERTS KINEDHART AUTHOR OF THE CIRCULAR STROUSE ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. G. KETTNER COPYRIGHT BY DONALD MARKLE CONNERY TWO 8YNOP818. CHAPTER I Lawrence Blakeley, lawyer, goes to Pittsburgh with the forged armor of the chief witness for the prosecution. John Gilmore, a millionaire in Pittsburgh, buys a girl named Alison West by the picture of a girl whom Gilmore explains is his granddaughter Ahson West. He says her father is a rascal and a friend of the forger. CHAPTER II Standing in line to buy a lady by a lady to buy one for her. He gives her lower ll and retains lower ten. He finds a man in a drunken stupor in lower ten, and retires in lower nine. CHAPTER III He awakens in lower ll and appears in ll and retains ll anther. His clothes likewise have been arrested for others. CHAPTER IV An amateur detective interests himself to the aid he learned that the dead man is Simon Harrington of Pittsburgh. CHAPTER V Harry H. Hankey Sullivan is believed to be the name of the man who disappeared with Blakeley, clothes and girl. He is suspected of the murder. CHAPTER VI Harry H. Hankey Sullivan is believed to be the name of the man who disappeared with Blakeley, clothes and girl. He is suspected of the murder. CHAPTER 11 All the characters and dance are at the same height. The train is white. CHAPTER 12 All the characters and from the bus are a girl and a boy. His arm is brown. CHAPTER 1X The Halcyon Breakfast We were still far away I think for we wandered like two children children our one idea at first to get as far away as we could the better behind us. We were both here bounded grimy palled the ground Now and then we went a great country folk hopping right to the track they stared at us so closely and some wished to question it. But we were rised past them we had put the work behind us. I was not madness. Only once the grief tried and look behind her. The work was held den but the smoke of the fire and dense. For the first time I remembered that my companion had not been alone on the train. It is quiet here. I suggested If you will stand on the bank I will go back and make some trips I've been critically thought about Your traveling companion She interrupted me and something of her splendid pear was gone. "Please don't go back," she said. I am afraid it would be of no use. And —I don't want to be left alone. Heaven knew I did not want her to be alone. I was more than content to walk along beside her amblysory for any length of time. Gradually as she lost the exaltation of the moment I was gaining my normal condition of mind. I was beginning to realize that I had lacked the morning grace of a shave that I looked like some lost hope of vexedera) and that my left shoe pinched outrageously. A man does not rise triumphant above such handicaps. The girl for all her dishered hair and the crumpled linen of her waist in spite of her missing hat and the small gold bag that hung for lonely from a broken chain looked exceedingly lovely. "Then I won't leave you alone." I said manfully, and we stumbled on to gether. Thus far we had seen no body from the wreck but well up the lane we came across the tall dark woman who had occupied lower 11. She was half crouching beside the road, her black hair about her shoulders, and an ugly bruise over her eye. She did not seem to know us, and refused to accompany us. We left her there at last, babbling in coherently and rolling in her hands a dozen pebbles she had gathered in the road. The girl shuddered as we went on. Once she turned and glanced at my bandage. "Does it hurt very much?" she asked. "It's growing rather numb. But it might be worse." I answered mendaciously. If anything in this world could be worse, I had never experienced it. And so we trudged on bareheaded under the summer sun, growing parched and dusty and weary, doggedly leaving behind us the pillar of smoke. I thought I knew of a trolley line somewhere in the direction we were golging, or perhaps we could find a horse and trap to take us into Baltimore. The girl smiled when I suggested it. "We will create a sensation, won't wet!" she asked. "n'tan it queer—or perhaps its my state of mind—but I keep wishing for a pair of gloves, when I haven't even a hat!" When we reached the main road we sat down for a moment, and her hair, which had been coming loose for some time, fell over her shoulders in little waves that were most alluring. It seemed a pity to twist it up again, but when I suggested this, cautiously, she said it was troublesome and got in her eyes when it was loose. So she gathered it up, while I held a row of little shell combs and pins, and when it was done it was vastly becoming, too. Funny about hair. A man never knows he has it until he begins to lose it, but it is different with a girl. Something of the unconventional situation began to dawn on her as she put in the last hair pin and patted some stray locks to place "I have not told you my name," she said abruptly "I forges that because I know who you are, you know nothing about me I am Alison West, and my home is in Richmond" So that was it! This was the girl of the photograph on John Gilmore's bedside table The girl McKnight expected to see in Richmond the next : day. Sunday! She/was on her day. Sunday. She wan'd on her back to meet him! Well, what difference did it make, anyhow? We had been thrown together by the mere chance. In an hour or two at the most we would be back in civilization and she would recall me if she remembered me at all as an unshaven creature in a red crawat and tan shoes, with a soiled Fullman sheet tiled around my neck. I drew a deep breath Just a twinge. I said when she glanced up quickly. It is a very good of you to let me know Miss West. I have been hearing delightful things about you for three months. From Richey Mc Knight* She was frankly curious. Yes. From Richey Mc Knight. I assented. Was it any wonder Me Knight was crazy about her? I dug my heels into the dust I have been waiting for Grissom, in the mountains. Mrs West was saying, The person we met attended Mrs Curtis was very kind. We we were on our way to Washington to together. The spike was as she wished to give the nation a expla- lation. We were here to meet her. We were on our way to up- port. Remember to keep your eyes open. I should not be too nervous. I should not be too nervous. No, we should not be too nervous. I did not read the letter with it at the dinner. I was going to to- now. We shall be a good friend with two months to wait for the date of the dinner. I will be down the road. I will be at the dinner and will be happy to ap- port it. "Alah be praised, I said with all the voice I could muster. I hold the coffee cup. And then I pull down the cup and folded up a like jack knife on the porch floor." When I came around something hot was trickling down my neck and a despairing voice was saying, "Oh I don't seem to be able to pour it into your mouth. Please open your eyes." "But I don't want it in my eyes." I replied dramatically, "I haven't any idea what came over me. It was the shoes, I think the left one is a red hot torture." I was sitting by that time and looking across into her face. Never before or since have I failed, but I would do it joyfully, a dozen times a day, if I could waken again to the bissful touch of soft fingers on my face, the hot ecstasy of coffee spilt by those fingers down my neck. There a thrill in every one of her voice that morning. Before long my loyalty to McKnight would step between me and the girl he loved; life would develop new complexities. In these early hours after the wock, full of pain as they were, there was nothing of the suspicion and distrust that came later. Bhorn of our gauds and baubles, we were primitive man and woman, together, our world for the hour was the deserted farmhouse, the slope of wheatfield that led to the road, the woodland lot, the pasture. We breakfasted together across the homely table. Our cheerfulness, at first sheer reaction, became less forced as we ate great slices of bread from the granny oven back of the house, and drank hot fluid that smelled like coffee and tasted like nothing that I have ever swallowed. We found cream in stone fars, sunk deep in the chill water of the springhouse. And there were eggs, great yellow brown ones—a basket of them. So, like two children awakened from a nightmare, we chatted over our food; we hunted mutual friends, we laughed together at my feeble witticisms, but we put the horror behind us resolutely. After all it was the hat with the green ribbons that brought back the strangeness of the situation All along I had had the impression that Alison West was deliberately putting out of her mind something that obtruded now and then. It brought with it a return of the puzzled expression that I had surprised early in the day, before the wreck I caught it once, when breakfast over, she was tightening the sling that held the broken arm. I had prolonged the morning meal as much as I could, but when the wooden clock with the pink roses on the dial pointed to half after ten, and the mother with the duplicate youngsters had not come back, Miss West made the move she had dreaded. "If we are to get into flattimore at all we must start," she said, raling. "You ought to see a doctor as soon as possible." "Hush," I said warningly "Don't mention the arm, please; it is aleep THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. now. You may rouse it. "I if only had a hat," she reflected. "It wouldn't need to be much of one, but." She gave a little cry and darted to the corner "Look," she said triumphantly, "the very thing. With the green streamers tled up in a bow, like this—do you suppose the child would mind? I can put $6 or so here—that would buy a dozen of them" It was a queer affair of straw, that hat, with a round crown and a rim that flopped dismally. With a single movement she had turned it up at one side and fitted it to her head. Grotesque by itself, when she wore it it was a thing of joy. Evidently the lack of head covering had troubled her, for she was elated at her find. She left me, scrawling a note of thanks and plining it with a bill to the tablecloth, and ran up stairs to the mirror and the promised soap and water. I did not see her when she came down. I had discovered a bench with a tin basin outside the kitchen door. "No, I Did Not Intend to Go Home." and was washing, in a helpless one-sided way. I felt rather than saw that she was standing in the doorway, and I made a final plunge into the basin. How is it possible for a man with only a right I and to wash his left ear? I asked from the roller towel. I was distinctly notatable. Men are more righly brave of convention than on what they admit it or not. There is no such soap on me still that if I laugh I will blow bubbles. Washing with water on and homemade soap is like inoting on a slippery road. I only struck the high place. Then having a look at a brilliant polish with the towel I looked at the girl. She was leaning against the frame of the door her face perfectly colorless her breath coming in slow difficult respirations. The crathe hat was plumed to place, but it had slid rakishly to one side. When I realized that she was staring at me but past me to the road along which we had come I turned and followed her gaze. There was no one in sight the lane stretched dust white in the sun no moving figure on it no sign of life. CHAPTER X Miss West's Request The surprising change in her held me specious. All the animation of the breakfast table was gone; there was no hint of the response with which before she had met my nonnatal sailors. She stood there, white lipped smiling starting down the dusty road. One hand was clenched tight over some small object. Her eyes dropped to it from the distant road and then closed, with a quick, indrawn breath. Her color came back slowly. What ever had caused the charge she said nothing. She was anxious to leave at once almost impatient over my deliberate maculino way of getting my things together. Afterward I recalled that I had wanted to explore the barn for a horse and some sort of a vehicle to take us to the trolley and that she had refused to allow me to look. I remembered many things later that might have helped me, and did not. At the time I was only completely bewildered. Save the wreck, the responsibility for which lay between Providence and the engineer of the second section, all the events of that strange morning were logically connected, they came from one cause, and tended unerringly to one end. But the cause was burted, the end not yet in view Not until we had left the house well behind did the girl's face relax its tense lines. I was watching her more closely than I had realized for when we had gone a little way along the road she turned to me almost petulantly "Please don't stare at me." she said to my sudden confusion "I know the hat is dreadful Green always makes me look ghastly." "Perhaps it was the green" I was unaccountably relieved "Do you know, a few minutes ago you looked almost pallid to me!" She glanced at me quickly, but I was gazing ahead. We were out of sight of the house, now, and with every step away from it the girl was obviously relieved Whatever she held in her hand she never glanced at it. But she was conscious of it every second. She seemed to come to a de- clusion about it while we were still in sight of the gate, for she murmured something and turned back alone, going swiftly, her feet attiring up small pumps of dust at every stop. She fastened something to the gate post—I could see the nervous haste with which she worked. When she joined me again it was without explanation. But the clenched fingers were free now, and while she looked tired and worn, the strain had visibly relaxed. We walked along slowly in the general direction of the suburban trolley line. Once a man with an empty wagon offered us a lift, but after a glance at the springless vehicle I declined. "The ends of the bone think they are castanets as it is," I explained. "But the lady—" The young lady, however, declined and we wont on together. Once, when The trolley life was in sight, she got a pebble in hgr low shoe, and we sat down under a tree until she found the cause of the trouble. "I-I don't know what I should have done without you," I blundered. "Moral support and—and all that. Do you know, my first conscious thought after the wreck was of relief that you had not been hurt!" She was sitting beside me where a big chestnut树 shaded the road, and I surprised a look of misery on her face that certainly my words had not been meant to produce. "And my first thought," she said slowly, "was regret that I—that I hadn't been obliterated, blown out like a candle. Please don't look like that! I am—only talking." But her lips were trembling, and because the little shams of society are forgotten at times like this, I leaned over and patted her hand lightly, where it rested on the grass beside me. "You musaf not say those things," I exposulated. "Perhaps, after all, your friends—" "I had no friends on the train," Her voice was hard again, her tone final. She drew her hand from under mine not quickly, but decisively. A car was its sight, coming toward us. The steel finger of civilization, of propriety, of visiting cards and formal introductions was beckoning us in Miss West put on her shoe. We said little on the car. The few passengers stood at us frankly, and discussed the wreck, emphasizing its horrors. The girl did not seem to hear. Once she turned to me with the quick, unexpected movement that was one of her charms. I do not wish my mother to know I was in the accident" she said. "Will you please not tell Richey about having met me." I gave my momine of course Again, when we were almost into Baltimore, he asked to examine the gun metal cigarette cart, and sat silent with it in her hands while I told of the early morning's events on the Ontario. "So you see? I finished, "this grip, everything I have on, belongs to a fellow named Sallivan. He probably left the train before the wreck perhaps just after the murder." "And so you think he committed the the crime." Her eyes were on the cigarette cart. "Naturally I said. A man doesn't jump off a Bullman car in the middle of the night; in another man's clothes unless he is trying to get away from something. Besides the dirk, there were the stains that you saw. Why I have the ordered man's pocket book in this scene at my feet. What does that look like?" I colored when I saw the ghost of a smile her hot around the corners of her mouth. "That is," I finished. "If you care to believe that I am innocent." The sustaining chain of her small gold bag gag was just then. She did not notice it. I picked it up and silded the trinket into my pocket for safekeeping, where I promptly forgot it. Afterwards I wished I had let it lie unnoticed on the floor of that dirty little suburban car, and even now, when I see a woman egregiously dangling a similar feminine trinket, I shoulder in solitary there comes back to me the memory of a girl's puzzled eyes under the brim of a flopping hat the haunting suspicion of the sleepless nights that followed. Just then I was determined that my companion should not stray back to the wreck and to that end I was determinedly fascinated. Do you know that it is Sunday? she asked suddenly, and that we are actually ragged? You treat me like a child" she said almost pettyly. Don't try so hard to be cheerful. It—it is almost grasstly." After that I subsided like a pricked balloon and the remainder of the ride was made in silence. The information that she would go to friends in the city was a shock. It meant an earlier separation than I had planned for. But my arm was beginning again. In putting her into a cab I struck it and gritted my teeth with the pain it was probably for that reason that I forgot the gold bag. She leaned forward and held out her hand. "I may not have another chance to thank you, she said," and I think I would better not try, anyhow. I cannot tell you how grateful I am. I muttered something about the gratitude being mine. Owing to the knock I was sealing two cabs, and two girls were holding out two hands. "Remember," they were both saying, "you have never met me, Mr Blakeley. And—if you ever hear anything about me—that is not—pleasant. I want you to think the best xpu can of me Will you? The two girls were one now, with little flashes of white light playing all around. "I—I'm afraid that I shall think too well for my own good." I said unsteadily. And the cab drove on. CHAPTER XI The Name of BULLYAN I had my arm done up temporarily in Baltimore and took the next train home. I was pretty far gone when I stumbled out of a cab almost into the scandalized arms of Mrs Klopton. In 15 minutes I was in bed, with that good woman piling on blankets and blistering me in unprotected places with hot water bottles. And in an hour I had had a whiff of chloroform and Dr Williams had set the broken bone. I dropped asleep then, waking in the late twilight to a realization that I was at home again, without the papers that meant conviction for Andy Bronson with a charge of murder hanging over my hand, and with something more than an impression of the girl my best friend was in love with, a girl moreover who was almost as great an enigma as the crime itself. - "And I'm no kind of guessing ridicles. I groomed half aloud. Mrs. Klopton came over promptly and put a cold cloth on my forehead. "Euphamla," she said to some one outside the door, "telephone the doctor that he is still rambling, but that he has switched from green ribbons to ridicles." "There's nothing the matter with me, Mrs. Klopton. I rebelled. I was only thinking out loud. Confound that cloth; it's trickling all over me!" I gave it a fing, and heard it land with a soggy thud on the floor. "Thinking out told is delirium." Mrs. Klopton said imperturbably. "A fresh cloth, Euphamla." This time she held it on with a firm pressure that I was too weak to resist. I expostulated feebly that I was drowning, which she also laid to my mental exaltation, and then I finally dropped into a damp sleep. It was probably midnight when I roused again. I had been dreaming of the wreck, and it was inexpressibly comforting to feel the stability of my bed, and to realize the equal stability of Mrs. Klopton, who sat, fully attired, by the night light, reading Science and Health "Does that book say anything about opening the windows on a hot night?" I suggested, when I had got my bearings. She put it down immediately and came over to me. If there is one time when Mrs. Klopton is chastened "I May Not Have Another Chance to Thank You." - and it is the only one it is when she reads Science and Health. "I don't like to open the shutters Mr Lawrence." she explained. "Not since the night you went away." But pressed further, she refused to explain. "The doctor said you were not to be excited." she persisted. "Here's your beef tea." "Not a drop until you tell me." I said grimly. Besides, you know very well there's nothing the matter with me. This arm of mine is only a false belief." I sat up gingerly. "Now—why don't you open that window." Mrs Klopton said. "Because there are queer goings on in that house next door" she said. "If you will take the beef tea Mr Lawrence, I will tell you." The queer going-on, however, proved to be slightly disappointing It seemed that after I left on Friday night, a light was seen fitting fittily through the empty house next door Euphemia had seen it first and called Mrs Klopton Together they had watched it breathlessly until it disappeared on the lower floor. You should have been a writer of ghost stories I said, giving my pillows a thump "And so it was fitting fittily" "That what it was doing" she retreated Fitting fittily - I mean fitting fittily how you do throw one out Mr Lawrence' And what's more, it came again' "Oh, come now, Mrs Klopton," I objected. "ghosts are like lightning, they never strike twice in the same night. That is only worth half a cup of beef-tea" "You may ask Euphomma." she retorted with dignity. "Not more than an-hour after, there was a light there again. We saw it through the chinks of the shutters. Only—this time it began at the lower door and climbed!" "You oughtn't to tell ghost stories at night" came McKnight's voice from the doorway. "Really, Mrs Klophto, I'm amazed at you. You old duffer! I've got to thank you for the worst day of my life" "The Klophton gulped. Then realizing that the "old duffer" was meant for me, she took her empty cup and went out muttering "The Pirate's crazy about me, isn't she?" McKnight said to the closing door. Then he swung around and held out his hand "By Jove," he said. "Two beep laying you out all day, lilies on the doorbell, black gloves, everything. If you had had the sense of a mosquito in a snowstorm, you would have telephoned in a snowstorm." "I never even thought of it." I was filled with remorse "Upon my word, Rich, I hadn't an idea beyond getting away from that place. If you had seen what I saw—" McKnight stopped me "Seen it! Why, you lunatic, I've been digging for you all day in the ruins. I've lunched and dined on horrors. Give me something to rinse them down, Lollipop." He had fished the key of the cellarette from its hiding place in my shoe bag and was mixing himself what he called a Bernard Shaw—a foundation of brandy and soda, with a little of everything else in sight to give it snap. Now that I saw him clearly, he looked weary and grimy I hated to tell him what I knew he was waiting to hear, but there was no use wading in by inches. I ducked and got it over "The notes are gone, Rich," I said, as quietly as I could In spite of himself his face fell "I—of course I expected it" he said. "But—Mrs. Klopton said over the telephone that you had brought home a grip and I hoped—well, Lord knows we ought not to complain. You're here, damaged, but here." He lifted his glass. "Happy days, old man!" "If you will give me that black man." He and foosapoon. "I'll drink that in arison, or whatever the stuff is; Rich—the notes were gone before the wreck!" He wheeled and stared at me, the bottle in his hand. "Lost, strayed or stolen!" he queried with forced lightness. "Stolen, although I believe the theft was incidental to something else." Mrs. Klopton came in at that moment, with an egg-nog in her hand. She glanced at the clock, and, without addressing any one in particular, she intimated that it was time for self-respecting folks to be at home in bed. McKnight, who could never resist a fling at her back, spoke to me in a stage whisper. "Is she talking still? or again?" he asked, just before the door closed. There was a second's indication with the knob, then, judging discretion the better part, Mrs. Klopton went away. "Now, then," McKnight said, settling himself in a chair, bosied the bed, "spit it out. Not the wreck—I know all I want about that. But the thetet. I can tell you beforehand that it was a woman." I had crawled painfully out of bed, and was in the act of pouring the ognog down the pipe of the washstand, I paused, with the glass in the air. "A woman!" I repeated, startled, "What makes you think that?" "You don't know the first principles of a good detective yarn," he said scornfully "Of course, it was the woman in the empty house next door You said it was brass pipes, you will remember Well—on with the dance, let joy be unconfined." So-I told the story. I had told it so many times that day that I did it autotomatically. And I told about the girl with the bronze hair, and my suspicions. But I did not mention Alison West. McKnight listened to the end without interruption. When I had finished he drew a long breath "Well!" he said "That's something of a moss, isn't it? If you can only prove your mild and childlike disposition, they couldn't hold you for the murder—which is a regular tentwelfth crime, anyhow. But the notes—that's different They are not burned, anyhow Your man wasn't on the train—therefore, he wasn't in the wreck. If he didn't know what he was taking, as you seem to think, he probably, reads the papers, and unless he is a fathad, he awake by this time to what he's got. He'll try to sell them to ironson, probably." "Or to us." I put in. We said nothing for a few minutes McKnight smoked a cigarotto and stared at a photograph of Candida over the mantel. Candida is the best pony for a heavy mount in seven states. "I didn't go to Rlohmond," he observed finally. The remark followed my own thoughts so closely that I started "Miss West is not home yet from Seal Harbor" Receiving no response, he lapped again into thoughtful silence Mrs. Klopton came in just as the clock struck one, and made preparation for the night by putting a large gaudy comfortable into an arm chair in the dressing room, with a smaller, stiff-backed chair for her foot. She was wonderfully attired in a dressing gown that was reminiscent, in parts, of all the ones she had given me for a half dozen Christmasmas, and she had a purple veil wrapped around her head, to hide heaven knows what deficiency She examined the empty eggnog glass, inquired what the evening paper had said about the weather, and then stalked into the dressing room, and prepaired with much ostentatious croaking, to sit up all night. We fell silent again, while McKnight traced a rough outline of the berths on the white tablecover, and puzzled it out slowly. It was something like this. 12 10 8 11 9 7 "You think he changed the tags on seven and nine, so that when you went back to bed you thought you were crawling into nine, when it was really seven, eh?" "Probably—yes." "Then toward morning, when everybody was asleep, your theory is that he changed the numbers again and left the train." "I can't think of any thing else," I replied wearily. "Jove, what a game of bridge that fellow would play! It was like finessing an eight-spot and winning out. They would scarcely have doubted you had the tags been reversed in the morning. He certainly left you in a bad way. Not a jury in the country would stand out against the stains, the stiletto, and the murdered man's pocket-book in your possession." "Then you think Sullivan did it?" I asked. "Of course," said McKnight confidently. "Unless you did it in your "The Notes Are Gone. Rich." sleep. Look at the stains on his piltow, and the dirk stuck into it. And didn't he have the man Harrington's pocket book?" "But why did he go off without the money?" I persisted "And where does the bronzed-haired girl come in?" "Search me," McKnight referred him pantly. "Information of the imagination on your part." "Then there is the piece of telegram. It said lower ten, car seven. It's extremely likely that she had it. That telegram was about me, Richer. "I'm getting a headache," he said, putting out his cigarette against the sole of his shoe. "All I certain of just now is that if there hadn't been a wreck, by this time you were be alighting in an eight by ten cell, and feeling like the rhyme for it." "But listen to this," I contended, as he picked up his hat, "this fellow Sullivan is a fugitive, and he's a lot more likely to make advances to Bronson than to us. We could have the case continued, release Bronson on ball and set a watch on him." "Not my watch," McKnight protested "it's a family heirloom." "You'd better go home," I said firmly. "Go home and go to bed. You're sleepy. You can have Sullivan's red necktie to dream over if you think it will help any." Mrs Klopton's voice came drowsily from the next room, punctuated by a yawn. "Oh, I forgot to tell you," she called, with the suspicious lilp which characterizes her at night, somebody called up about noon, Mr Lawrence. It was long distance and he said he would call again. The name was—she said. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Turnip Family The turnip is supposed to be a native of Asia and Europe. It has been cultivated for Centuries. The wild Indian turnip is said to be remotely kin to the edible turnip. It is the size of a walnut and first tasted is sweetish, but in a moment the taster's tongue feels as though it were pricked by a hundred hot peppers and he feels like expectorating for hours after. It is the country boy's favorite medium for a joke on the visiting town boy. Aviation Costly A writer in the London Graphic figures out that it costs about $5,000 before the ordinary individual can attempt to fly this sum including not only the aeroplane itself, but a shelter for the flying machine tools needed for the countless repairs etc. He asserts, also that every return to earth is marked by the necessity of $10 worth of repair and readjustment. No wonder that flying is not a popular amusement A REASONABLE KICK. A man out in Los Angeles Felt something hard I kept him Hack mollars, and Cessed masticing His winners, and Began berating The waiter when Careful about showing Showed it was a dog Tug had been chewing. We don't think that The man was fussy Because he fair Outraged and cussy; He was not old And of the man smelt- They should not put The tags in sauage. PROOF POSITIVE. Knicker—Why do you believe that 13 is an unlucky number? Bocker—Well, isn't everybody that lived in the thirteenth century dead! Better Occupation: Better Occupation. We do not care where the two pugs Meet and talk about abuse, we worried over it awhile. But now we're reading baseball news Positively Brutal. "They do say," remarked Smithkins, as he pushed his chair from the dinner table, "that a woman's work is never done!" "And they are right when they say it," rejoined Mrs. Smithkins. "But what made you think of it at this time?" "That pie," replied Smithkins, as he dugged through the door just in time to escape a plate that was coming his way. Had Reached the Limit. "Father says you can't come to see Edna any more," remarked the small boy to his big sister's admirer. "W-why not?" stammered the young man in surprise. "Because," explained the youngster, "he shys you come every night in the week now, and it would be impossible to come any more. See?" Ericold Stubb—I was much interested in Dr. Cook's account of his supper at the north pole Penn—Oh, that doesn't interest me. My wife attended her club yesterday afternoon and I had a north pole supper. Stubb—North pole supper? How was it? Penn--Cold. More Appropriate. "Bo the minister has a pet parrot. I should think it would be more according to the fitness of things for him to have a vulture." "A vulture! " Great Scott! "Why should he have such a bird for a pet?" "Well, one would suppose a minister." SATURDAY.....MAY 21, 1910. MY STORY OF MY LIFE BY JAMES J. JEFFRIES (Copyright, 1910, by McCure Newspaper Rendicate. Copyright in Canada and Great Britain. All rights reserved.) {Copyright, 1930, by McClure Newspaper Gendicate. Copyright - in Canada and Great Britain. All rights reserved.} # CHAPTER II I KILL MY FIRST DEER AND HAVE MY FIRST BIG SCHOOLBoy FIGHT. I WAS only eleven years old when I killed my first deer. I had the first rifle my father gave me, and it wasn't any toy rifle picked out for a boy. My father didn't care for fancy outfits either for hunting or for fishing. So he gave me a 45-70 Winchester. That gun was big enough to A man is running away from a snake. THE SNake WAS CRAWLING SLOWLY AROUND INSIDE THE HEDGE OF THORNS. kill elephants with, and when I tried it on a quail it didn't leave anything but a cloud of feathers floating in the air. I snapped at a jack rabbit running away from me across the sand, and the whirling bullet took him end up. All I found was his hide and his ears and hind legs. One one gay a road runner went along the smooth trail around of me like a sprinter until he disappeared, and I looked around to see if he had built in a rattlesnake anywhere. Often in the desert or the mountain valleys I have found traces of a road runner's work. A road runner is a long legged bird. He likes smooth ground where he can take a long running start, and the way he can make those bony leg dry is a sight. A road runner's chief business is killing rattlesnakes. When he finds one asleep he gathers a lot of cactus thorns. Then he builds a circle of thorns all around the snake lying there asleep in its coll, turns all the points carefully in toward the center, steps back a little and begins to make a rocket. The snake wakes up, sees the road runner, looks the hedge all over, finds that he can't get through it anywhere and makes up his mind, do on the spot. He strikes himself with his own fang, and in a few minutes it's all over for the snake. Then the road runner squawks a couple of times, clears away the cactus thorns and has a rattler for lunch. This particular bird had disappeared, But as luck would have it I happened to find his victim out in the middle of a clear patch of sand. The snake had just awakened, I guess, for he was twisting and crawling slowly around and around inside the hedge. Now and then he'd lift his head high and start to slide across, but as soon as his neck touched the thorns he'd draw back quickly and go squirmming around again. There weren't any openings in the fence. To hurry matters a little I picked up a switch and tapped the rattler over the head with it. He got into a great rage, and in a minute or so he turned deliberately and struck his fangs into his own body down near the tail. He pulled the fangs free and struck again and again, slowly and heavily. I didn't waste any more time waiting to see him die. He was practically a dead rattler then. I didn't want his rattles, because they always said it was bad luck to cut out the rattles of a rattler that had died to strike himself before he died. His blood is full of poison, and if you happen to get it on your knife blade and cut yourself afterward there may be trouble. I was up in Big Tahunga canyon now, keeping my eyes open for dear And, sure enough, not long before sunset I ran into two does and a fine buck. They were standing in a group in easy range, right in a little gully. Up came the 14-50 Winchester to my shoulder. I drew a fine head on the buck and pulled the trigger. A pin of dirt flowed up into the air from the bank just behind my buck, who lit out up the hill. I could hear him crashing. Through the thickets. The two doctores off into the brush and disappeared. For a moment I stood there the most disappointed boy in the world. I had been cocksure of dropping my game, and all I had done was to raise the dust beyond him. I followed his trill for a little way in the duck, then gave it up. He was badly scared at least, and there wasn't a chance that he'd stop running for miles. When I got back my big brother met me. "Well, Jim, did you get a deer?" he asked. "No. I had a chance, but I missed." I said gloomily. "Are you sure you missed?" I told him all about it "Jim," said he, "I'll bet you hit that buck. We'll go out in the morning and get him." I didn't feel very optimistic myself but early next morning my brother and I started up the canyon. When we got near the place where I had seen the deer there were two or three vultures sailing in lazy circles over head. Looking around, we could see others, high up in the air, coming to ward us. "You got that deer," said my brother or "We're just in time" Sure enough, we followed up his trail and found him without much trouble. He was hit a little way back of the shoulder My father used to tell stories about our fighting ancestors every now and then, but not often enough to exert too much interest "The Jeffries family was heard of in the Revolutionary war and in the Indian wars," he used to say, "and let me tell you, though they were a quiet and peace loving people, they never allowed themselves to be whipped." That was the principle I tried to follow. I never picked any fights, but if one started in spite of me I took great joy in not allowing myself to be whipped. The surest way to prevent that was to pound the other fellow until he gave in. When I was a small boy in the Air royo Seo school, near our home ranch there was a bigger boy in the school named Fred Hamilton. Fred and I had some rivalry, although at that time I hadn't grown very tall. He was nineteen years old and weighed about 105 pounds. I weighed about 140, but I was stocky and broad and strong even then. One day Hamilton and I got into an argument. After a few words he reached over and hit me. Now my father used to say "If an enemy smite the turn the other cheek." I thought that was all right but if he hit the other cheek to what he followed was his own fault. Remembering the Bible lessons at home and these precepts always laid down by my father I turned the other cheek according to rule. "Just hit me one more," I said, "and I'll get mad." And then things began to happen I might not have had a chance with him when we were both on our feet but I caught him with a hip look at the first rush and threw him flat on the ground. Before he could wriggle away I was on top, hammering with both hands. I didn't know anything about fair stand up fighting in those days and didn't bother my head about ring properties. Everything went Hamilton couldn't hurt me off, and I gave him a fierce beating. His eyes were blackened and his face bruised when I got through. Then I let him up and went back into the schoolhouse. He followed. Of course there was an investigation on the spot. "Did you do all this damage?" asked the teacher after taking a good look at Fred. "I did!" she said. The teacher looked at the big fellow and laughed. The difference in our sizes made it seem ridiculous. I guess. At any rate, teacher wouldn't believe that little Jimmy was the guilty party and refused to punish me. Hamilton and I had many a good laugh over it years afterward when I I GAVE JIM A FIERCK BEATING had grown up to a man's size, and he didn't mind the idea of having been beaten by me. On another day a teacher throw a ball at me and bit me on the head. I picked it up and threw it back and hit him on the head, but much harder. I wasn't punished for that, for it was just tilt for tat and no favors. All through my school days I had little scrape, like other boys. But none of them serious. My brother Charles for Jack) did more real fighting. On one occasion he fought a big boy for a full hour and fairly massacred him. It was a fair fight, all arranged before it began. The other boy had a second, and I seconded Jack. He was a game kid. At first the fight went against him, but he stuck it out until he beat the other boy to a pulp, as the sporting writers always say in the newspapers. CHAPTER III. I BECOME AN INWORKER. AND BEKK THE HARDEST JOB. QUITT school when I was four teen years old and went to the Los Angeles Business college for a year. But that was too little work to suit me. I wanted to do something that would take strength. So I wont to work as an apprentice for ironworkers, to learn the trade. Here my strength came in very good. I mastered the work in no time, and in five months. I could handle anything that any man in the shop could work on, so that I was earning, piecework, from $5 to $12 a day, as much as any man there, except the boss. Now, in my seventeenth year I good six feet or over and weighed fully 220 pounds. The boss had a saying that any man who worked in iron should No tank. As I ran I heard the crash of timbers and the grinding of iron and felt the shock of a heavy concussion. On the other side it took only a glance to see what had happened. The great mast and boom, folded to gather, had fallen straight over on the half completed tank. The men were standing stock still, staring up at the wreckage. My eyes followed theirs and then for about a tenth of a second I felt slick. There on the scaffold right over my head lay one of the workmen planed under the heavy mass and boom—a friend of mine. His name was Kelly. He was bent but them into poise again. A tank builder hasn't much time ment. Kelly was work was lagging. To my surprise, budge the timber myself in hudged, a time, and as a cerned I'm sure good will as when off of Kelly, shug the they were up in this time and this I'D ASK THE BOSS TO GIVE ME THE HARDEST WORK HE HAD. I'D ARE THE BOSS TO GIVE ME THE HARDEST WORK HE HAD. scale at least 200, and my size took his eye. Whenever a job required unusual strength I was pulled out for it. Where a girl of men work together there is always more or less rivalry. We had our wrestling bouts and roughed around a little at moon and when the day's work was over. When I first began working I thought seventh of the men were as strong as hercules, but by this time I could more than hold my own with them. I didn't care to make much of a boast of my strength, and I don't now it. It was natural for me to be strong, and I suppose I'd have been a stranger even if I hadn't worked so hard. It was in me. I credited it all to my out of door life and thought that when other men as big as myself lacked the same quality of strength and quickness it was because they hadn't grown up out where the sun would sink into their bones and muscles and the mountain air expand their lungs. Later, when I was champion, doctors examined me wherever I went and told me that I had a marvellous reserve of nerve force" which, it seemed to me was just a way of stringing words together to explain something they didn't understand any more than I understand it myself. One thing is certain I did have a peculiar kind of strength that came to me only in an emergency. I had two kinds of strength. At ordinary times I was a strong man stronger for a steady lift or a hard effort of any kind than any of the other men I worked with. But on a few occasions came a different kind of strength coupled with quickness that always amazed me when I sat down afterward to think it over and study out a reason that would satisfy my curiosity. In the course of my fighting career I have met many strong men who pose to the top of their profession by whipping scores of others only a little less able. To the best of my recollection Bob Fitzsimons was the only one who had this knack or trick I spoke of highly developed Fitzsimons was a lanky fellow with thin legs and a thin body, but I found when I fought him that when he was almost out he could draw on some hidden reserve of strength and for a few minutes fight with double his ordinary force Fitzsimons was a trained fighting man a veteran at that time and of course he may have developed this. But to me it was entirely natural. When I have been badly battered by a fight it hasn't worried me all at once. Because I know I am in no danger. When it comes to a showdown I always have that spurt drawn from some reserve for me. I don't understand it. It has come to me in a way two three times, although, to tell you it absolute truth. I never really needed it in the ring for I've never been dazed by a blow or arm wrest from fighting. The first time that this unexplained power ever came suddenly to me before I took up fighting at all when I was still working in iron. It company sent a big gang of men out to the Punta nella wells to build of tanks. That's a man's work, and youngsters aren't needed on the job. But I could do a man's work, and I liked the rough life in the huts. Building an oil tank is no play First the structural ironwork goes up, and then the big iron plates are raised into place and riveted one to another to build the sides. Each sheet of iron like the steel plates on the side of a battleship, is rolled into shape in the works before it is shipped. When you remember that each plate wears from 800 to 900 pounds and that it has to be fitted so that every rivet slides into its hole like your foot into a tight shoe you can see that putting up an oil tank isn't schoolboy's play At the tank I was working on that day we had a big derrick to lift the plates into position. It was made up of a most 60 feet long and 12 by 12 inches square, supporting a boom of just the same size. The mast was held erect by long guy ropes of twist ed steel fastened to long iron pegs driven into the ground. Most of the men were working around the mast and boom, but I was on a staging on the other side heading rivets. I had just finished one and straightened up for a moment waiting for another redot rivet to be placed. I saw one of the long iron pegs holding the guy ropes of the derrick pull out of the sand with a jerk and go whirling high in the air, the wire guy rope twisting and squirting like a snake. Instantly I knew that the mast and boom were falling. There was no time to run to the ladder. I leaped down to the ground, went to my knees, jumped up like a flash and ran around 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. We will also be pleased to quote you prices on exterior and from old photos, a specialty. W. I. JOHNSON, Funeral Director and Embalmer, Office & Warerooms, 207 N Foushee St. Cor. Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Telephone, 686. Residence in Building. The tank. As I ran I heard the crush of timbers and the grinding of iron and felt the shock of a heavy collision. On the other side it took only a glance to see what had happened. The great mast and boom, folded to gether, had fallen straight over on the half completed tank. The men were standing stock still, staring up at the wreckage. My eyes followed them and then for about a tenth of a second I felt sick. There on the scaffolding right over my head lay one of the workmen planned under the heavy mass and boom—a friend of mine. His name was Kelly. He was bent hard way across an iron plate that had been raised nearly to its position. His head and shoulders and body were on the side toward me. Everybody, as I said, was stoked at and staring. But I didn't even know I don't know to this day how I moved so quickly. The next time I remember I was at the top of the door and stepping on the platform. There way the man plunged under the timbers. In another instant I had shoulders under them and was strating for the door. They came up slowly as I straightened my back and legs, up and clear, and then with final effort I threw them out and sideways to fall crashing on the ground I fairly tossed them away from me. Kelly's body sld from the edge of the iron plate and dropped to the ground. As I came down slowly the men gathered around to look at him. They rolled him over to see how neat cut in two he was, and to their surprise he groomed. We poured water on him, and after awhile he sat up. It was one of the quiesest things that ever happened. He was hurt more by the fall to the ground than by the timbers dropping on him. The tumble nearly broke his neck, while the timbers only squeezed him a little. When the must fell Kelly was leaning across the edge of the iron plate, looking down. The timbers came right across his back, but just as they fetched him WE ROCOHED AROUND A LITTLE AT NOON they lodged against the framework of the tank and stopped short. If they had gone a few inches more my friend Kelly would have been cut in two. As soon as I saw he was still alive I called four of the men to be. I woke the timers ahead, the ground and PHONE We offer you, the latest and moderate figure, than you can obe- Special attention paid to ch interior view work. We will also be pleased to o from old photos, a specialty. Geo. O. Brown 603 North 2nd St. W. I. JO Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS F Orders by Telephone or Te Suppers and Entertainn Telephone, 686. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D., Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken taste given by The Great Australian Modium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing more power than any four modiums combined. 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Has not the day dawned for the formation of a new political party to be said, that shall give voice to the same sentiments that created the party of Fremont and Lamoin a party which shall serve the same high purpose and which shall be powerful enough to hold the nation in balance against the demagogues of existing parties. This is the question that teased thousands of the citizens of this Republic are now asking. To demonstrate that the disintegration of the Republican Party has set in, one has only to read the following extract from the Ballinger Pigeon Investigation now under way in Washington. The newspaper extract from Mr. Lewier's testimony is as follows: I was confident I said that "gumshoe man" had been born in a true for months, and I knew there were no depths of degradation to which they would not stoop. I was afraid someone in the office might be corrupted as Kerby has been corrupted. "Asked who he thought were he and the "gumshoe men." Mr Lawler declared dramatically. James R. Garfield, Gifford P. Chot, Norman Hapgood, a man named Connelly and that man there. You mean Mr Bradels? "Yes. He came in later. He is the flower of that foul flock. Most of these statesmen named by Mr Lawler are ardent supporters of ex President Roosevelt. It may be that all of them are devotees to the principles which he advocated. This means that there is a steadily widening breach between the followers of the two great leaders.—President William H Taft and ex President Theodore Roosevelt which must necessarily extend to the principals themselves. That President Taft is endeavoring to avoid an open rupture with his old friend is evident by his graceful tender to Mr. Roosevelt of the position of Special Ambassador to the Court of St. James upon the occasion of the funeral of King Edward This tender was met by a practical robuf in the blunt cablegram which contained the one word "Accept." It indicated that he wanted so to do, but he could not decline. This cablegram created a sensation and diplomatic efforts were resorted to and the first message was supplemented by another, which was in keeping with the rules of propriety and contained thanks for the President of the United States. But Mr. Roosevelt in an unguarded moment had disclosed his feelings towards President Taft and made it evident that skill and diplomacy must be exercised in or der to preserve a break in the friendship which he was presumed to be as strong as the will to defend atlanthus. As a further reward of the disinterested of the two great parties the following news item from Washington ```markdown ``` There were laid for forging in the senate yesterday, insurgents who had been insulted to the midnight conference of last Saturday at the White House were invited to present the bigger argument that they no longer could be counted as Republicans. Their resentment was accentuated when reports came to them concerning remarks by the President and certain oration situations were quoted as having made about them and the position they have taken with regard to pending railroad bill. These insurgents held a conference yesterday morning and came to a tacit understanding that in view of the fact the President and the organization had practically concluded to no longer take notice of their counterparts as a part of the Republican Party they would go their own way and the intention to confer with the orienteers concerning proposed legislation. Here was a good effort to conceal the matter that is forever what the bush administration is an effort to put thin at its high heels to the country. Meanwhile, in the room of the reg- ister, it was also the Senate in view of the matter assumed by the pro- gressive it would be useful to ask their assistance or offer congress of its support. A side with the insurgents being making it easier for the organization then to taking over the Democratic states with a view to perfoming the bill and bringing it to a vote at an early day. There were several formal meetings yesterday with Senators Bancroft, Huntress and Bacon (D) representing him. Democrats antagonize the last three sections relative to taxation on the grounds that they are unconstitutional. It was said yesterday they had intimated if these sections are dropped from the bill and the official assent is given them that opposition will be led for a vote on the constitutional bill. Democrats will apply the necessary votes to tabulate amendments and pass the bill in the present shape. Negotiations as a long this line how we were checked unexpectedly up on the report that Mr. Allrien during the White House conference the Saturday night declared the Statehouse would not be permitted to pass. It then proves conclusively that Mr. Prolific* Taft has been elicited colored now as office holders and appointing Democrats in their places the leaders of the Republican Party in congress are eliminating insurgent Republicans and taking into their confidence the most outspoken critics of the Democratic Party. From a political stand point at host it must be a wind man indeed who cannot see and a deaf man in indoor who cannot hear and a foolish man to the point of idiocy, who cannot understand the situation how prevailing at the capital of the nation. Where is the far seeing colored leader who would dare chide or condemn a colored man who exercises his right of citizenship and who votes for any party or the representative of any party he chooses? When Mr. Roosevelt comes home the fun will begin. The country will be in a political uproar for many months to come. Their One Cause to Distinction Nice job, I get a chance to have a new job, when a new job fits, then they show it well, they try in New York The shore is called from a large body of water where the shores of the shore are bibbled in a bubble with a bibbled face bright red bibbled white board and whisk Impossible to Boast Of The Philosopher of Fully says the Philosopher of Fully that nobody can boast of a stealing That is mod- estly All In We want it to be as soon as because the plan is that it will be flat. We have no choice for more word. But we want it to be as narrow as we can. No Such Luck Parsons, I'm giving shouting in on a domestic court. You shouldn't quarrel. Think of your neighbor, John Brown who is separated from his wife. You should consider yourself lucky. Henpecked. You must, but I ain't John Brown : A Practical Benefit. "I would die to you my darling!" he whispered, with soul capture thrilling in his tones. "Do you carry much of a life insurance?" she asked with a dreamy, faraway look in her big, tender eyes. THE RICHMOND PLANET: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. EIGHT DROWNED IN MILL POND School Children Lose Lives as Result of Frolic. --- SIX GIRLS AND TWO BOYS Panic Striken Girls Grasped the Boys and Clung to Them Desperately Dragging Two of Them Down—Four Others Saved Themselves Six girls and two boys members of the grit hating and junior classes of the Huntington Mills high school, which makes it from Wilmington to out their lives by throwing in a mud pond near the school. Four other boys managed to reach shore and save the men as the drowned were all between seventh and eighteenth years of age. The pupils come to the school from some distance and carried bouncy After they had eaten at noon a party of the old ones six girls and a boy just posing for a row on the old minifit they were worked in two buses. Fifteen minutes later eight of their work was done. The visitors are Msal Sultuff Ruf Bohman, of Townsville, Carrie Koons of Harwville, Iris Davison Katilden Ghost of Waterloo, Rachel Thompson of Lowland, Rachel Minny and Ray Dixon of Hunt region Mills. The four survivors, George Dodson, Uriah Weitzel, Jay Koons and Hiree Bell tell a story. They went to the water. At the side of the river got a small rowboat and the boats and three girls were caught in each. There was much froiling and laughter as the boats pushed off side by side. The girls were at another and the boys about the con- tacts. There was much splashing of the water with the cars and one of the parrys and their boats and throw water onto others. In the boat where the boys and girls were having a dinner a boy got up to charge his. When it was the sunset the doctor stopped to have an ice that put two three of the boys in the boat the time the boy took the girls a little more. It tipped some water and the girls thoroughly a sprang up. The best instant the boys overcame and all six were in the water with a chorus of strings to help. The other boat only a few feet away trailed the boat at the water with a half dozen of the boats. It sat in the boat when an patient was asleep as those in the water. Those in the boat reached out to get their playmates in those in the water about the sides of the boat and tried to catch in the water. There weight on the general ship's deck the boat beached the water in the boat whilst trying to climb in. Whatever happened that penetrated for the second boat was barely able to strangling in the water before the inmates were overboard. The four survivors say that the there was gone, whimming confine. Some girls wield them they were some of the girls. All the boys swim and all apparently make sure fort to save some of the others brushed as all write how they got clung to them wherever they come some them some around the per some around the bodies. The survivors who broke away after being gad down saw a group of four clinging together Each of the boys who escaped tells of being dragged down by the girls or other boys and fighting to get away and end up getting the shriek after a desperate try to save his own life. Apparently there were no coworkers. This is another example of when it was not able to save others and save itself with an effort. They reached the shore an exhausted that it was some minutes before they had strength to drag them aside to the road and shout for help. The bodies were recovered. Nearly every time was clamped in a dikit embrace about some other one. Robert Minnick one of the drowned boys was the particular hero of the occasion. In the confusion he flew swam to shore and then seeing the girl were in the water he struck out for the middle of the pond again and was drowned while enduring to rescue the girls. --- White Slaves Across Women Mary Tower ball by Recorder Martin Keller, at Atlantic City charge of traffic The accusation by Travis under white slave law could be legislature It was the first arrest it is believed in the state under the new statute The specific charge made that Mary Owens took money from Mozilla Layton who swear she is in fourteen years old without bona fide consideration and that she transported Mozilla Layton and Laura Voehse, nineteen years old from the homes in Camden across the state of New Jersey for minoral purposes. Complaints reached Chief of Police Woodruff of the presence of young girls in the residence of the Owen woman and detectives for over three months have been engaged in an endeavor to secure direct evidence of "white slaves." hoto gris supplied the police with sworn statements that they were brought hard under promise of employment and that when they entered the house their street clothing was taken from them. They were allowed to leave the house they say only when accompanied by a guard being held prisoners in the house against their will. Probing Boy's Dust Nature. Prosecutor Frederick A. Pope, of $3.50 RECIPE - CUERES WHAT MEN-FIRED Send Name and Address Today- You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. 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I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in, confidence so that any man anywhere who I weak and disduraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest acting restorative, upbuilding, SPOT TOUCHING remedy ever davidson and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this Dr A E Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $300 to $500 for merely writing out a prescription like this but I send it entirely free. Reservoir N.J. has been in service since the all-inclusive nature of W. N. Miller's construction a old world who suffered a concussion of the head and being hit on the head with a basal ball which has left him with partial loss of consciousness in which he planned and executed daring actions which he appeared to be entirely ignorant when he recovered his normal condition. Professor Pope is satisfied that the boy is not becoming and it is probable that a commission will be appointed to determine his true mental condition. Young Miller received his interment while visiting in Los Angeles at Belfort the day he had lived his life at Belfort with his wife and mother he will do. He was a member of a Sunday school and was known as a star up to the time that he lived. He will man for the bereaved from California. Quoccted Spy Arrested Charles T. Wissnerberg, a German against forty years who says he lives in New Orleans is under arrest in New andiana. Va. who is held as a n sible foreign agent. The man was rested in the troop yards of the Southern railway. When the captain was taken by her Chief of Police of Alexandria a satellite harbor was found in a tain all of papers relating to torpedoes their location in various American and German harbors on the methods of their manufacturing charts on naval waters, figures of the dimensions and displacement of American vessels, and innumerable notes on naval to. The navy department is investigating the case. Fortune In Rubbish From the rolloff collected in New York city was $21,000 was received according to Professor H Hogden sanitary expert of the state de- partment of health Old bottles brought $16,000 an- greege $1,000 for use in flooring create wakes and in building 1,000 co- uble yards of ashes were used. The average city fire dispose of two pounds of ashes a week for each indi- vidual Peeping Girl Loaca Eye Anna Hortzberg a seven year old girl of Williamsburg, NY will probably be the sight of her lover by having the sharp point of a glove held wood slowed into it by an unfortunate gilt. Anna was playing by herself in her yard when she heard a noise in the next door she peeped through a hollow in the fence and as she did so the point of a ginkgil in the hands of the other girl and jabbed into her left. Ex Governor Accused of Smuggling Ex Governor Frank W Rollins of New Yorkshire and his son Deng Rollins were placed under arrest upon the arrival in New York of the steamship Lunaticia on war patrol by United States Commissar Shields. The complaint attached to the warrants argues the former governor his son and his wife Catharine Rollins with an onuship to arrest the government by signing an ordinance goods. J W Van Cleave Dic J W N. Cloave former president of the National Manufacturers association. I of heart disease at home in Louisa. Mr Van Cloave is survived by a widow three sons and a daughter. He would not accept a ronination to the presidency of the Manufacturers association last year because of the strain he was under in his fight against the boycott Eata Broad 25 Years Old While he was excavating on the old Harvey estate on Wave street, at Lynn Mass. Robert Leach unsurpassed from the sand a part of a loaf of bread and two biscuits, which are believed to have been buried there for the last twenty-five years all in such good condition that he acts a part of it for his lunch. All Women Have Vote in Norway. By an overwhelming majority the obolating of Norway has voted to grant universal municipal suffrage to women over twenty-five years of age. The new legislation will become effective at the next elections and will increase the present women doctors from 270,000 to half a million. Porter's Shoes For Ladies HAVE GAINED HIGH FAVOR with the discriminating women of Richmond. 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When his sons arrived at a person with the name Roberts a dept of finance ... George Bacon a grocer aged thirteen years was sent with his son in a barn two months from Mountville W and Joseph Shatz a man of the same age was sent to Mountville W sheff in the house that he committed the murder Friday May 13 A child is usually so strong in the Sunday schools of the nation that advocates by Rev. M. Grace Hill, Ph.D. should be before the Northern Baptist convention at age 14. Chaise Wasson Monde, former chairman of the New York Tribune, died at the home of his mother Ms. Paul N. Monde at Yorkers after an illness of several months. That the United States will reside 100 years grants during the first year ending June 21st the predicat of the Washington Christian's June April 12th annual making a of all the United States The mill on our own was in 1870. Saturday May 1.1 Former President of the Fork while working at the Port of N in Paris was born town by an tombstone H was only slightly used Marie in honor of G. D. Selden of Erie Pa will be married in June Captain H K W H was son of the late General Sir Henry Bruce of Lon don A horse was stolen from the farm of Frank Hughes of King of Prussia near Norwich town Pa while a wag and fifty chickens were taken from George Bond a neighbor Miss Mary Harriman daughter of the late E. H Harriman and Charles Cary Rumsey the young Buffalo N w archipel will be wedd of June 1 in the 10th Episcopal church with the simple monastery at the burial of the father were held Monday May 16 An auto-burger can detachment from the Northwest in Military academy will make a test run from Cincinnati to Dallas Tex. While a burgger was shot dead and a police man probably fatally injured confederates made off with $1500 at San Francisco. When Arthur Gunter of Eastport, MA approached his wife to persuade her to return home, the woman opened fire with a rill, killing her husband. George Klinger of Guaya Colombia counts it as a past on his farm found two young girls unable to fly but weighing about three and a half pounds with two half deformed robbs. Tuesday May 17 I J. Koon a student in fall at Grafton Ill for one year to pay a poll tax was informed that he will have to serve six months each for the three years he is delinquent. Because the family watchdog would not permit neighbors to interfere Mary Krizinski four years old burned to death at a river dam W. The child set fire to nothing while playing with toys. Seventeen and a half years later a down mine worker has worked after a supporter ran into an attack. An officer ransacked the miners the operators have advanced the price of all coal two cents a ton. 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San Francisco, May 17.--The gos sips of nightdom are busy with all manner of thames today There are any number of alds to conversation, including Jim Jeffries' new crop of bolls and the Los Angeles offer of $300,000 for an option on the Jef frus-Johnson fight. On the subject last mentioned, Jack Gleason, broth er promoter of Tex Rickard, is incl cled to be facettious "You know the hot weather is coming on in Los Angeles now, and sleatas in the afternoon are the cor rect caper," said Jack. "Who knows that before 5 o'clock some other fol low may roll over wake up and of fer us a million?" While there is much to prattle about, the favorite topics are the selection of Tex Rickard as referee of the big fight and the alleged falling through of the scheme for putting the heavyweights in the ring at Emoryville, the latter, by the why, being the choicer morsel. Rickard and Gleason are busy trying to nullify the effects of a report that Thomas H Williams has with drawn his support from the scheme for staging the big fight at the Oak land race track. Without any desire to appear as an alarmist, the writer has good reason for believing that Williams had informed Tex Rickard that conditions across the bay have changed, and that it would be better for all concerned if another battle ground were selected NEWS TO RICKARD Richard today said that the report of the setback across the bay was news to him, but it is believed that Tex spoke in that way because William agreed not to declare himself on the subject until the promoters had secured another ring club. Until today Williams' reticence on the subject would have made the silence of the desert appear like a royal salute by comparison, but now the president of the jockey club has unbosomed himself. He says that, whereas the business men and other prominent residents of Alameda first urged to allow the fight to be held at the track, they turned completely around when ministerial opposition became strong and asked him to withdraw the permission he had granted. He says he sent for Tox Rickard and told him that the idea of conducting the fight at Emeryville had become distasteful and advised Rickard to conduct the big ring event elsewhere. Mr Williams said, how ever, that his personal promise to Rickard still held good, and that Emeryville was at Tox's disposal if the plans for fighting over there were in sisted upon. This means that it is up to Rickard to go ahead and get another or location, and in the opinions of those who know Alameda county and the influences which sway public sentiment over there, the chances of putting the men in the ring at Emeryville are slim. Rickard and Gleason will probably maintain their present position for a couple of days. Then, possibly, the official announcement will be forthcoming that all arrangements have been made for holding the fight in San Francisco. Whorover the contest goes, there isn't one prospect in a million for the championship event being abandoned WILL. STAND PAT After sleeping on in Tex Rickard's if he is sincere, does not see why he shouldn't be capable of refereeing the big fight to the satisfaction or all concerned, with the possible exception of the loser. Here is what he said in the morning "I am going to stand pat and referee the big fight myself When the proposition was first made to me, I did not feel that I was entirely satisfactory to both sides. Now that Jeffries has indorsed Berger's action and has set the seal of his approval upon my choice, I will stand by my guns and will not attempt to have somebody else substituted." Will Tex continue in this frame of mind? As Charley Mitchell used to say, "We shall see." This was a day of road work with Jack Johnson, and as a consequence there was nothing exciting about the exercises at the beach camp. One of the things that "fans" are talking about today is the probability of Billy Nolan assuming the management of Johnson. Nolan is certainly dancing close attendance upon the colored pugilist these days and Little certainly Ibooks uncomfortable if he does not fool that way. Berry May Help Train Jeff Milwaukee, Wis., May 17.—It is considered probable here that Jim Barry, of Chicago, will go to Ben Lomond as a member of the Jeffries training camp. Barry's manager has received letters from Berger and Jeffries making tenders for the services at the Chicago boy. Referee Enda Langford's Hammering in Second Round. Referee William Joh showed cool headed judgment when he stopped the bout between Sam Langford of Boston and Al Kublaz, the Michigan heavyweight, in the second round at the Fairmount Athletic Club last night. If Joh had not interfored Kublaz might have been fatally injured. Langford had knocked him down three times with terrific sunshades on the jaw and the big white man was in a sorious way when the end came. Those who sold the fight might be Those who said the fight might be a frame-up were rebuffed, for the scrap was stricly on the level from the moment the men shook hands, and Langford, easily the master, demonstrated once more that he is one of the most dangerous pugilists in the ring. Kublak was willing enough in the first round and did some fierce rushing, but Langford's cleverness was too much for him. Then as Langford began to hit with all the strength at his command, it was plain to the members that the Michigan giant had no business inside the ropes with him. The referee was generally commended for his prompt interference when the one-sidedness of the fight was clearly evident. When the men crawled through the ropes the difference in size and weight made the members open their eyes in astonishment. Langford stood 5 feet 9 inches tall in his fighting shoes and weighted about 165 pounds Kublak was a six footer and would have tipped the beam at 190 or perhaps more. Both men wore bandages and stripped in excellent physical condition. First round. Kublak began with rushing tactics until Langford hooked him on the jaw with a left, then the big white man clinched, but on the break he rushed again, Langford taking a couple of swings on the head and driving in heavy body blows. A hard left opened a cut over Kublak's right eye and slowed him up on the hell rang. Second round Langford met a rush with a corking body punch, then as Kublak came again Langford knocked him down with a left on the jaw. Kublak took nine seconds before he got up, whereupon Langford floored him again with another terrific smash on the chin Kublak, bleeding from the nose and mouth, rolled over on his face and took the count of nine before he staggared to his feet. He was reeling around the ring as Langford rushed him with a force attack Kublak tried to ward off the smashes, but another clip on the jaw put him down hard. He lay on his face while the referee counted eight and then got up as if blind. Before Langford could put him away the referee stopped the slaughter — New York Sun. BY H M WALKER. Joffries' Training Camp, Rowarden man, Cal, May 17.--The newly in stalled Wednesday half holiday is to be lengthened into a whole holiday by Jim Joffries tomorrow. Early in the morning Jeff and almost the whole Joffries party will automobile to Santa Cruz for a day at the seaside resort. The greater part of the day is to be spent by Joffries and his pals in a fishing excursion on the bay. The only member of the Rowarden camp who has turned down an invitation to the fishing excursion is Bob Armstrong Bob is going to San ta Cruz with the party, but will devote himself entirely to the pursuit of pleasure on the land. "I got powhawful soasick once in mah life," said Bob. "and I doan want no more of that business. I went through Mackinaw Straits once and the land was so close we could almost touch it, but I got a mighty affection moth stomach No sah not for this yere dunge." TRAINS IN AFTERNOON Jeffries did all of this day's regular training work in the afternoon. He filled in the mornings with the help of his men friends and his trainers in building a rustic rail fence about his cottage With axes, picks, and shovels, the seven or eight big men howed down a dozen red wood saplings, dug post holes, and put up a very substantial and very artistic fence in less than two hours. Rope gates are hung across the pathways to the cottage and painted signs bearing the notices, "Private cottage, keep away," and "Keep outside the ropes," have been set to bar all who have not a claim upon the friendship of the Jeffries party. In the mild mountain atmosphere most of the leisure day times and ovenings is spent by the Jeffries' party on the vorandas and lawns of the cottages, and a big hindrance to the enjoyment of such social sittings has been the persistent presence of inquisitive strangers. Roger Cornell, an export massour from Los Angeles, has arrived in camp and taken charge of the rubbing of the big fellow. He declared after giving Jeffries his first rub that his muscles are in great shape and he would be an easy subject to handle in spite of his massive bulk. Cornell examined the bolls on Jeffries and asserted that he had been caused by rubbing his hairy skin without oil in the limbitt. The bolls, Cornell declared, would disappear in a few days. LANGFORD STOPS KUBIAK So Severly Punished Michiganander That Referee Halts Fight New York, May 17.—Sam Langford, the Boston negro, punished Al Kubiak, the Michigan heavyweight, so severely tonight that the referee was forced to stop a scheduled ten-round bout at the Fairmount Athletic Club in the second round. Kubiak outweighed the black by at least 40. pounds, but the shifty negro scored with such terrific body blows that the white man suffered deadly. THE DEMOND PLANET DICHMOND VIRGULI MOONLIGHT! On POCAHONTAS To Dutch Gap Thursday, May 26th. Tickets: Adults, 50c. Children, 25c. Boat leaves Old Dominion Wharf, Dock and Ash Sts., at 8:30 sharp. Band of Music. Refreshments. 25 per cent, 33 1-3 per cent & 50 per cent. Every piece of Furniture, every yard of Carpet has been included in this sale! Nothing has been withheld! It is the most remarkable sale of choice Furniture and Carpets that will happen in the South during this year. We must have room--We are overcrowded. High and medium grade Furniture for the Living Room, Bed Room, Library, Dining Room, Hall, Parlor and Summer Furniture of all kinds. REMEMBER that these reductions are bona-fide—that we live up to our advertising. It will pay you to come to RICHMOND just to attend this sale. But if you cannot come, then write us at once for photographs of any article that you are interested in, and the lowest price. You save one-fourth, one-third to one-half on every piece. Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-11-13 E. Broad St Richmond, Virginia. FURNITURE FOR THE HOME BEAUTIFUL. KETCHEL KNOCKS OUT FLYNN the Count in Third Round. Boston, May 17 -- Stanley Kotchol, world's champion middleweight fighter, sent James "Porky" Flynn, of Boston, down and out in the third round of a scheduled twelve round bout at the Armory Athletic Association tonight Flynn, however, gave a good account of himself in the two preceding rounds, keeping the champion at long range, and Jabbing him hard in the face with his left, while landing an occasional right. Kotchol landed terrific swings at will on Flynn's head and body in the third, and sent him to the floor twice with left punches to the stomach. Flynn taking the count on the last fall Johnson's Manager Says Fight Will Be in Frisco. San Francisco, May 17 1910 Sporting Editor Washington Post It is my opinion that Johnson Jeffries fight will not take place in Oakland. It will be transferred to San Francisco Johngon gained his point when Rickard was selected as referee. Johnson takes to his work like a duck to water Everything moves smoothly in his camp. Conley-Moran Match Rearranged. Los Angeles, Cal., May 17.—The Conley and Moran match, which was declared off last night, is on again, but instead of May 27, they will fight ton rounds on June 7. FLYNN EASY FOR KETCHEL Middleweight Champion Knocks Out Porky in Third Round. Boston, Mans... May 17—Stanley Ketchel, the middleweight champion, made short work of James (Porky) Flynn, the Boston light heavyweight, Benefit St. Joseph's Colored Church. at the Armory A A. tonight, knocking him out in the third round of a bout that was scheduled for twelve rounds. Flynn made such a poor howling that every one wondered why he was sent up against a fighter of Ketchel's known ability, but the fans who crowded into the clubhouse to the number of 2,500 had a chance to see the Assassin in action, something they had long desired and had been long denied. Ketchel was so sure of stowing his opponent away that he bet $1,000 to $800 that Flynn would not last eight rounds, and he found several takers who are now figuring out why they did it. While Flynn lay on the mat and the referee stood over him toiling off the count, one of the latter's seconds threw some water on the prostrate boxer, and Ketchel, rushing over to the local man's corner, made a vicious kick at the second, but it did not land Flynn had no difficulty in landing on his opponent, but the blows wore light and Ketchel did not try to avoid them. At the outset of the third round the local man shot a left to his opponent's nose that started the claret, and roused the rage of the champion to such an extent that he waded in and applied the finishing touches to Flynn PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Stock and Live Stock PHILADELPHIA FLOUR farm winter low glades $3.60@3.90 whit clear $45@4.75 citrilla mills fancy $57@6 GIN FLOUR steady, per barrel $42@4.40 WHEAT steady No 2 rod $11 @116 CORN quiet No 2 yellow loca 70%@71c GATS steady No 2 white 481g 48c, lower grades 45 POULTRY live steady, hens, 17g @18c, old roosters 14c Dresser choice fowls 19c old roosts 19%@19c BUTTER quiet extra creamer 20c per lb EGGS bath selected, 25 @ 27c nearby, 22c western 22c POTATOES quiet at 28@30c bush Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) CATTLE firm. choice. $8 20 $8 50 prime. $8 $3 25 SHEEP lower; prime wethers, $610 @835; culls and common, $264 lamba, $4.50@875; veal calves, $85 OB. HOGB steady; prime heavies, mediums and heavy Yorkers, $9.95, light Yorkers and plga, $10; roughs, $8.50 @8.85. Five Perish in Burning House Albert Ferry his three children and their grandmother were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home in Faribault Minn Mrs Ferry and two children were saved Twins Celebrate Their 85th Birthday Mrs L. T Lloyd of Pitfield Mass and Miss Mary T Webb of South Norwalk Conn twins have just celebrated their eighty fifth birthday LOST CHILD FOUND Bix-Year-Old Girl Lived Two Days In Mountains on Berries Wilkes Barre Pa May 18 After being lost in the mountains near Nantucket, seven miles from here since Sunday afternoon six year old Ida Gillis daughter of former Councillor George W Gillis of Nantucket was found by George Worth one of the scores of sparers who have been in the woods since Sunday evening looking for the child She had wandered several miles from the place where she was living along the ridge of the mountain. She was hungry and thirsty, sleepy and badly frightened. She had lived in wintergreen leaves, and berries and had only a little water to drink while at night and often during the day, he had fallen asleep under bushes when she was too tired to go further and upon waking up again had made an other effort to find her out of the woods. Troops of the state consular aided in the search Will Build Big Car Plant Schenectady, N Y, May 18 It is learned that the Pressed Steel Cut company which now has a large plant in South Bethlehem Pa. has purchased 100 acres of the most desirable business property in this city and that plans are already being made for the erection of several large buildings in expected that when the new plants opens next spring that 5000 men will be given employment and that within five years this number will be increased to 15,000. Married Three Weeks; Cut His Throat, Montclair N J May 18 Bartley Giblin, twenty eight years of age a brother of John Giblin cut his throat in the collar of his brother's residence. The suicide was married three weeks ago to Miss Morlarity of Montclair. The couple were living happily together and friends cannot assign an cause for the act except insanity AT COHEN'S AN IMMENSE SALE OF GARMENTS It's An End-of-the-Season Sale That Comes At Its Very Beginning. THE CONTINUED COLD WEATHER STOPPED BUSINESS AND THE FRIGHTENFUL HOLDERS OF MERCHANDISE ARE PAYING A PENALTY THEY HAVE NEVER PAID BEFORE IT WILL BE A GARMENT SALE SUCH AS WEVE NEVER HELD BEFORE WEVE BOUGHT RIGHT AND LEFT THE VERY GARMENTS YOU WANT FOR THIS SUMMER AND YOU MUST BUY WHILE THEY ARE HERE AND YOU HAVE THIS CHANCE, THE SILK DRESS SALE Is for every variety of this season's most stylish Foulard and Taffeta Silk Dresses, solid colors, figures, dots and stripes, worth to $17.50 for $8.75 Others are $25.00 Silk Dresses for $12.50 and $12.50 ones for $6.35 PURE LINEN COAT SUITS One of the most attractive new summer models in pure natural color linen of heavy quality nicely Tailored Suits, with 34 inch coats and plaited skirts. The price is a surprise, only $6.50 BIG SALE OF FINE VOILE SKIRTS. Purchased a maker's sample line of Very Fine All Black and Navy Blue Volle Skirts ACTUAL $7.98 GARMENTS, made of best woven materials, with all the latest style silk and button trim mings. Just 25 of these Thursday day's price for choice $5.00 60 NEWEST STYLE COAT SUITS That were intended for sale at $6.50 each, of pretty blue or blue small stripe wash material, 36 inch coats plaited skirts, lappel collar and pearl buttons—a very serviceable and stylish Wash Suit for the remarkably low price of $2.95 $2.25 WASH DRESSSES, $1.48 Attractive Ladies' and Misses' styles of Colored Linene Dresses in natural linen, white, hello, light and dark blue, tan and pink made Dutch neck, with side plaited fronts and trimmed solid (contrasting) colored bands only $1.48 THE LAST OF THIS SEASON'S $15.00 & $17.50 WOOLEN SUITS Just a few over twenty in number, the very finest of this spring's $15.00 to $17.50 Suits, in smart solid color and fancy worsteds also shepherd checks in practically all regular sizes to be sold out Thursday any for $6.50 Great Sale of Ladies' $1 and $1.25 Waists 69c. AT ONLY A sale that takes on many styles of Sheer White Jingerie Waists, from the most beautiful embroidered or lace trimmings to the dainty side planted front-ruffle effect. This season's $1 00 and $1.25 Waists for less than market cost, (or each Infants' Furnishings Have New Prices Now. The sale is a marvel—such values, such prices—and the season is only just begun. Mothers must buy while there are chances like these. Children's Fancy Straw Hats, some trimmed with ribbons and flowers, others with scarfs, lots that sold for $1.35 to $1.75 for .98c Stylish Little Milan Straw Hats, with ribbons, scarfs and tazels, for .1.25 Nobby Little Boys' Hats, with ribbon hands, for 59c and...69c Fine White Nainsook Dresses, long or short, with limitation of hand embroidered yoke, hem-stitched skirt—Dresses that are worth .98c and $1.00 for 59c Children's French Dresses, sizes 2 to 6 years, various new styles for .1.25 Stylish and Serviceable French Chambray and Madras Dresses, all dainty combination and colors; some to be worn with gulps; sizes to six years for .1.00 All Wool Coats, solid or shepherd check black velvet collar, for .1.98 White Pique Neefers, solid or with blue collar and cuffs, for .1.25 Pure Linen Waist for $1.25 Petticoats EXACTLY LIKE THE CUT FOR 88c. F F V T LEADING MAKER'S $1.25 MEN'S SHIRTS FOR 79c Men's Plaited Bosom Chambray Shirta, in the best shades of blue, a manufacturer's color-broken assortment that we bought in for almost one-half price. Exception ally well made Shirta in all sizes, instead of $1 25 for only 79c Main Floor. "ISABELL" DRAWERS, dis- tinguished by their beauty of fin- ish and cut-to-fit qualities, of fine nailhook with neat hemstitched ruffle of sheer lawn a special value for 79c --- ```markdown ``` The Death of John the Baptist Sunday School Lesson for May 22, 1910 Society Acknowledgement This Paper 2 Herod the Tarchah called Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and Pernaea from 4 A D to 39 A D, or during our Lord's ministry. He was the Herod to whom Plato sent a christ during his trial and it was he who imprisoned John the Baptist. 3 Herod Agrippa I, grandson of Herod the great, his father being Aristobulus was king of Judea A D 444 having a reign equal to that of Herod the great. It was he that slow Jamaa the brother of John Impisoned Peter, accepted divine honor and was miserably eaten up of worms. 4 Herod Agrippa II, son of the foregoing was therefore great grandson of Herod the great. When Paul made his famous plea before Jesus this Herod was present, with his sister wife Bertice. What was the character of Herod Antipas? He was a weak general and troachero is man. Our Lord spoke of him as that fox. John a Hero in a Dungeon Vs 35 How did John the Baptist get into "the foxes don"? John was sure that Herod imprisoned him because he feared that John was a audienous might be used to foment a revolution. That may have been assigned to pub. He as a protext but the reason given by Matthew is certainly the real one that John had actually relied Herod for his unholly connection with his brother's wife. Herodias and herational Mother Vs 68 Who was Herodias who was plunging against her brother? She was the niece of Herod and of his brother Philip. What opinion is this Herodias on for gaining her deference against John? Herod a birthday was kept with a trivial feast to his lords and the high captains and the chief men of tailloe (Mark). A luxurious feast of the period was not regarded as complete unless it closed with some gross pantomiminal, decorative, and doubtless Herod had adopted the civil fashion of his day. But he had not anticipated for his guests the rare luxury of seeing a princess his own niece, a granddaughter of Herod the Great and of Martina, a descendant therefore of Simon the high priest and the great line of Maccabees princes—a princess who afterward became the wife of a tombich and the mother of a king. A tax. Who was this degraded girl? Her name was Salome, and she was the daughter of Herodias and her first husband Philip. What are we to think of Herod a promise whatsoever she would ask? It shows that, weak and foolish as he was, his wit were inflamed and confused by wine. Why did Salome go out and ask her mother what to ask (Mark)” This feature of the story does not look like a plot, or as if Iberdrias had not dared to confide the whole of it to her daughter. Should she ask for jewels, beautiful clothes, a palace? Prof Stalker puts the words into the mother a month. Little fool, you know not what you ask what would all those things be to you and me unqueened and dusted as we may be any day if John the Baptist lives.” So the girl went back straightway with haste” (Mark) and exclaimed. My wish is that you give me here immediately on a dish the head of John the Baptist” Her indecent haste, her hideous petition, show that she shared the furious of her race.” Farrar The Transient Triumph of Wrong — Vs 9-12 How did Salome's request affect Herod? "The king was sorry" (Mark "exceedingly sorry") This was not genuine repentance, or Herod would have withdrawn his promise, since falschado though always a sin, is a far loss sin than murder. What was the close of the tragedy? The noble head was placed upon a charge, a broad, flat platter wont to contain meat for the table and in induced the sight was meat to the vengeance-hungry Herodias "The young dancing girl received it, and, now frightful as a Megara, carried the hideous burden to her mother. The Voice of Conscience We have all of us evils enough in these channel houses of our memory to make us dread the awakening of conscience Some trifle touches the hidden spring by more accident, as in the old story of the man grouping along a wall, till his finger heaps to fall upon our each of it, and immediately the concealed door flies open and there is the skeleton. An apparently trivial circumstance, like some hooked pole pushed into the sea may bring up by the locks some pale and drowned memory long plagued in an ocean of oblivion. A vegetation Macaroni MAKES AN ACCEPTABLE PRIZE Chiffon Workbag Especially Adapted for Souvenir of Pleasant Card Party Have you seen the new chiffon workbag? They are novel good looking and are very surprising yet, wear better than old ones. A girl has given one hard use for a year and a half, and it is still in good condition. To make such a bag for a prize at a bridge party cut an oval bottom of stiff cardboard dimensions 11 by 7 inches with rounding ends. If the board is heavy enough one piece will answer generally, two pieces are bet ter. Cover first with cotton batting, thin with white satin and overcast the edges neatly together. Put under a weight of 1000 weight warring. The top is made from white chiffon over a color. Three quarters of a yard of each color are required. Cut the piece across from selvage and sew into the seams at each end. Put the coloured chiffon underneath and tap in the edge at the top to the depth of a quarter of an inch. Turn the bottom up into a quarter inch hem to give more body for the overcasting Selvage is placed to selvage, but the chiffons are not sewed together. Two inches from the top run an inch-wide casing sewed by hand, in silk to match the lining. Leave an opening through the selvage of white chiffon to insert drawstrings of inch wide double faced white satin ribbon. To open the bag to its full extent allow five yards of ribbon cut into two-yard lengths. Overcast the bottom of the bag to the oval bottom and finish the top with half inch white cluzy of evalen, cliennes lace. For a card party of half a dozen tables such bags would form hand some prices if each one were made up in a different color such as lavender and white, yellow and white green, pink blue and coral or with ribbon and outer layer white. Chiffon is used rather than chiffon cloth, but the latter will probably wear better, the latter not so soft. In selecting the chiffon to get a good quality and make sure that both at the same width as it is, the cluzy the lighting and lets the party take in more graceful folds when drawn up. Where possible, it is considered, use narrower ribs for drawstrings and cut the narrowest portion of the trill. A finish could give a glossy crocheting a scallop, in addition to skim the color of the lining. TO MAKE UP FOR SUMMER Any Number of Materials That Will Suit the Girl of Sixteen or Seventeen Summers There are any number of pretty summer materials that will make up admirably in this style. The skirt with short pointed corset is plain to just above the knee, then the lower part, which is full is gathered to it, under ribbon which is knotted at side. The bodice has a deep joke of lace to which the front material is joined under embroidered gallion. Material is dropped over the shoulders and terminates at waist under 1 the corsolet, the front of bodice and outside of undersleeves are trimmed with buttons. Materials required 7 yards 46 inches wide, about 80 buttons, 3 yards ribbon, ¾ yard lace, 3 yards sateen, 2½ yards satin Wash Silk for Children One of the best ways of trimming the striped wash silks for very little girls is with the narrowest ribbon velvet made into bows. It is not generally advisable to use silk for little children, but we make the exception in favor of colored striped silks from Japan and China, which are so very launderable and which shed the dust as do no wash materials of cotton or linen. The ribbon, velvet bows and rosettes are necessarily ripped off when the little garment goes to the wash. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. A. H. Rudy Schwenk, who was given a tryout by Manager Chance, will wear the uniform of the Kentucky Colonels this season. With another year in the minors, Chance believes Schwenk will be ripe for big league membership. "Baseball fans in many towns have approached me asking for information as to the relative hitting abilities of Ty Cobb and Hans Wagner says 'Big Jeff, Overall pitcher of the Cubs in a signal story in a Chicago paper 'Having pitched against Cobb in the world a series of 1907 and 1908, when the Cubs scored two titular triumphs I feel in a position to discuss the batting prowess of the Detroit star Wagner, being a leading member of our league, I have had numerous chances to study his method if he has any, of hitting 'of the two stars I figure Wagner to be the more dangerous. "The Flying Dutchman is by long odds the most formidable batsman the baseball world has ever known. The pitcher opposing Hobson has just as much chance by whizzing the ball down the groove as by trying a curve. Wagner will hit anything any place on the lot and with tremor diving power. Then he is a source of great worry to the pitcher after reaching base. "Take Cobb on the other hand. The "No," said the heleness "I am sorry, but I can never be your wife." "Why not?" queried the poor but otherwise honest young man. "Because," she explained, "I couldn't bear to have your feelings hurt by hearing people say you married me for my money." USE 20,000 BALLS A YEAR Twenty thousand balls are used annually by the major league club during the training trips and championship camp paligns. John A Heydler sec- retary treasurer of the National league, reports that last year the teams in his organization called on the manufacturers to furnish them with 800 dozen spheres. The Cincinnati Reds used the best balls and then came the Detroit Pirates the Chicago Cubs the New York Giants the Philadelphia the Boston Leaves the Brooklyn Superbass and the St. Louis Cardinals each ball is probably 60 cents. The price of the spheres varies from year to year ```markdown ``` Tiger whirlwind I is lamentably weak on a low curb, ball next to his knees, but not over the plate. He usually chops at that attert. At least he did in the four games I pitched against by trust in 1987 and 1988. Official Playing Schedule of the Central League For the Season of 1910 Old Ocean Bouttings The island of Aldabra, to the northwest of Madagascar, is becoming smaller through the action of the mangroves that grow along the foot of the cliffs. They eat their way into the rock in all directions, and into the gaps thus formed the waves force their way. In time they will probably reduce the island to pieces. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requlres a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. KNICKS OF PYTHIASTE FEDERAL CESAR only absolutely necessary reg apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of thirty persons to organize a co Fidelity, exercise Harmony at an endowment and burial ben dues. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for For all, information concerning John 3' CONCRETE FOUNTAIN IS BEST Will Produce an Everlasting Article and One That Will Give Excellent Satisfaction While many similar fonts for the poultry have been made for cans that contain meat and are ugles, yet this same type applied to a concrete fontain will produce an ever lasting article and one that will give excellent satisfaction. A large flat dish is used to hold the bottom into this lay out of concrete and have it placed on the sides as ```markdown ``` Concrete Fountain shown in soil and illustration about two inches high. In the center set inside a short section of stovepipe and inside this place a smaller piece that has a less diameter so that the wall of the tank will have a thickness of at least three quarters of an inch all around the same for the center core an old tomato can or even a round piece of wood of the right size is excellent The holes for the water are made by inserting a large spike about one-half inch from the bottom through the outer core or section of stovepipe and so it will mold a small hole through the concrete, four or six of these should be made but placed below the top edge of inside dish. The concrete is placed between the stovepipe and the core thus molding the wall and bonding with the concrete bottom so the fountain is all in one place. When dry the forms may be easily removed ```markdown ``` Too Much Selfishness One of the reasons why the present age is said to be so exceptionally dismal is that so many men and women give themselves up to selfishness Selfishness is the secret of unhappiness Liberian Palms There are a number of interesting species of palm in Liberia but the more important are the fan palm, the raphia or bamboo palm the coconut palm and the oil palm. Insult to Injury Burglar full (to the wealthy grenier)— Now then out of it and do this little lot up into a parcel. I never was no hand at that kind of thing. - Comie Cuts Would Have Commercial Value The amount of carbon exhaled from a man's lungs each day, if it could be solidified, would equal that in a lump of coal weighing half a ton Hopeleas. There is no hope for the woman who cannot manage to be on time at a bargain sale —Chicago Recorded Herald Let Your Light Bhine. Beware of that terrible expression, "I keep myself to myself." A self is not worth much if it is kept to itself. Wasted Time Through Blokness. It is estimated that constantly some 3,000,000 people in the United States are ill from preventable causes. Life's Link With Death. We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the be- ginning.—Lucrotius. See Heaven Through Tears. Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven— Besoher. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand jury for all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The biggest features, but the principles handed on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning courts of Calantia. the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Debt of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 500 funeral occasions. g special rates of membership in the Mitchell 11 N. 4th BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Palaters, Graining and General Contractors. ALI, WORK GUARANTEED Cards, Letters or Orders Give us a trial, you will never regret it Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND, VA. Phone 5088. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly assemble our common free whether an artist or a businessman. HANDS ON Patents in immediately confidential. HANDOON on Patents and free. Overseed agency for receiving patents, and makes all necessary copies. Receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Torns, $3, a year four months. $1. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 381 Broadway, New York Branch O. C. 21st St. Washington, D.C. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARK-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First class Hacks and Caskets of All Descriptions I have a Spare Room for BODIES when the Family have not a Suitable Place. All Count Orders are Given Special Attention Your Special Attention is Called to the New Style OAK CABKETS, Call and See Me and You Shall be Waited On Individually. Phone, Madison-2778. A Poor Doctor Ruth and I love are chums, and were one day deploying the fact that there was not a baby in either room. Ruth said I we just been begging my mamma to get Dr O — to bring us a baby girl" Louise spoke up quickly in a disguised tone of voice: "O, I don't get him, he brought all the little Miller children, there's so many of them, and they are all so homely" - Bellmeator A New Punishment There are numerous ways of punishing a man. Sometimes he is sent to the penitentiary; sometimes he is hanged. Why not order him to attend a dance, remain until three o'clock in the morning and then force him to arise at the usual time next morning and perform his usual work all day? That would be something now and exquisito in punishment. — Atchison Globe Where the Evil Lies Griggs—"You talk a lot, Briggs; now what have you got against married life?" Briggs—"What have I got against it? Why, man, take this terrible divorce evil; it flourishes amongst married people exclusively."—Boston Transcript Need No Soap With This Water. The water in Lake Van, in Aslatic Turkey, which is about 60 miles long by from 20 to 30 miles wide, is so strongly impregnated with potash that the residents along its shores use it to wash clothing without the use of soap. The Hour Glass Noll—"Is that follow of yours ever going to get up courage to propose?" Belle—"I guess not—he's like an hour glass." \ Nellie—"An hour glass?" Belle—"Yea—the more time he gets, the less sand he has." MARIE in the lodges and courts, address I, Jr., n Street. THE ECONOMY, 303-5 North Third St FINE CLEANING, DYEING ANI REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kin of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 114 N. 17th St., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone, 763 SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladles,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. JURGEN'S SON Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of REFRIGERATORS, MATTINGS, OIL-CLOTHS And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. JURGEN'S SON, ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SEVEN Be Fair To Yourself. Buy Furniture Where You Can Get the Best Values. OUR 2 STORES=117 West Broad and 1429 East Main Are Stocked with Everything to make the Home complete in the Newest Designs, Finishes and all the different Woods at Way Down Prices. OUR MOTTO:-Quality Highest-Prices Lowest-Treatment Fairest. PITTS' FURNITURE COMPANY, New Store, 117 W. Broad Street. Old Store, 1429 E. Main Street. We are showing the most complete line of Chamber Furniture shown in the South Look at this Chamber Suite of 14 pieces. A regular $85.00 value for $69.54. SANDRA Everyth PITTS Everything for the Home. HORTICULTURE HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Never pinch geraniums at the flowering joint always one above or one below. The most efficient remedy which has been found for the plum curculio is arsenical spraying. For a heavy clay soil there is no better apple than York Imperial. Winesap does better on a lighter soil. Friendly cooperation of all the orchardists in fruit growing districts is as desirable as it is difficult to secure. Spirea Japonica can be hastened at this time by the application of heat. See that the roots are kept always moist. The mixed border is very interesting and may be made beautiful if proper skill is used in grouping the plants. Gloxinia may be raised from seeds or propagated from stem or leaf cutting. Has blossoms of many colors and is easily cared for. The lawn is the principal part of the home grounds and no planting, whether of flowers, shrubs or trees, should mar its unity or scope. Four pounds of resin, two pounds tallow and one pound beeswax melted together and pulled like molasses candy makes grafting wax Use it warm with greased hands Many plants are effective in individual borders, among which are asters, salvia, calliadums, hollyhooks, irises, cannas, hydrangeas and the hardy perennial phlox. In these days of tree planting it cannot be repeated enough that newly planted trees need plenty of moisture. If the air is dry they can only get water through the roots, hence they need it often Tobacco has been grown successfully in Mexico for hundreds of years. The soil that produces it year after year there seems never to tire or become exhausted GROW GLADIOLUS FOR MARKET This Exquisitely Colored Flower Lasts Well and Sells Readily for Home Decoration. (BY GEORGE S. WOODRUFF.) The great improvement of recent years in the gladiolus is remarkable because of the fact that this flower has been cultivated for about 100 years. There are about 140 species, of which some 15 are of European and West Anatolic origin, a few have been discovered on the mountains of tropical Africa, but practically all our garden strains are from the South African species, variously hybridized. When seeds are sown they will produce hardly two sorts alike, and many will not be worth keeping, but there may be some few new sorts. The seedling will flower the second or third year. It is much more satisfactory to buy the "cream" of other people's seedlings than to fill the garden with a lot of poor sorts. Plant in full sunshine, but not 4. thing for the OUR MOTTO S' FURN ```markdown ``` against the south side of a wall, and away from the roots of trees in well prepared soil a mellow sandy loam preferred, and one retentive of moisture. Avoid contact with manure, which should never be fresh and had better be plowed in the previous season or in the fall. Occasionally restore potash to the soil in some form as for potatoes. If the soil be stiff or clayey put sandy loam in the furrow. Plant in furrows three to five inches deep, according to the size of the corms and the quality of the soil, and at intervals of say two weeks, from the time the ground will work well up to July. By this means and by the difference in earliness of varieties flowers may be had from July until hard frost. It is most important that the ground be kept stirred and mellow at all times, especially as soon after each rain as the ground will work well and before a crust forms Where They Burpass All Others. The only records some people over succeed in breaking are in going from bad to worse Learn to Accept Afflictions. The afflictions to which we are accustomed do not disturb us—Juvenal. Enlightening Statistics. Fifty-seven unmarried people commit suicide to only 43 married. The trolley is the poor man's automobile. CHURN INVENTED BY CANADIAN Operated by Means of Gearing—Dose Work In Much Less Time Than by Old Method. It used to be, and not so long ago, that if the farmer's wife wanted to make butter or churn anything she put the stuff in a bucket-shaped vos- sel and stirred it rapidly with a pad- dle. Among the newer kinds of A Full line of Reed and Folding Go-Carts of the latest styles, can be seen on our floor at very low price The Modern Gladiolus. --- Home. O:=Quality Hi NITURE Churns one of the best is that designed by a Canadian and shown in the illustration. First there is a light but strong framework mounted on rollers. Midway up this frame a barrel is swung on a shaft which is operated by a driving gear. The driving A A Now Churn gear is worked by turning a handle A hook at the bottom of the barrel holds it stationary while the top is being opened and it is being filled Then the top is fastened on tight, the hook released and the handle turned By means of the gearing the barrel is spun around rapidly and in a few minutes the churning is done better than it could have been done in the old days after long and weary work. CHEAPLY MADE MILK COOLER On Farms Where Expensive Apparatus Is Not Warranted One Illustrated Will Suffice Upon many farms an expensive apparatus for cooling milk is not warranted by the income from this source. To such the simple arrangement, shown in illustration will be of value, says Homestead. Large size sewer crocks are placed upon a side hill or a slight incline and the bottom of each one that rests upon the ground is filled with a two-inch course of concrete, where the crocks touch each other a notch is cut out with cold chisel, so the water entering the first crock flows around the cans and into the other crocks below same. These may also be employed in the same manner for a small watering tank, as when one is desired in the barn or field. A sewer crock that has a hole broken out of the bottom end and one out of the top or bell mouth end makes an excellent fireplace for a feed cooker, as well as any large cauldron or kettle. The lower opening allows you to feed the fire as needed and the upper opening affords Easily Made Milk Cooler. the smoke outlet, thus making a good draft, while the kettle is placed in the bell mouth thus holding it secure Acorn Gas Ranges stand for quality, Economy, and Quick Results. Every one sold on an absolute guarantee Prices from $9.90 to $35.00 Highest-Prices RE COMP ly over the blaze of hot air it utilizes all the heat of fire but is safer than an open fire The Largest Dairy Broadway Dairy company a $2,000,000 corporation purposes to have the largest dairy in the United States. It has bought 50 acres of land near Rosalina. Wash, where it will support 800 high grade milk cows thus demonstrating the possibilities of intensified farming in the Palouse county, with a view of breaking up the bonanza wheat fields and making them small dairy and stock ranches. The company will feed alfalfa and expect each cow will produce from $75 to $90 worth of milk a year, to show that with a 40-acre ranch it is possible to produce almost as much revenue as from 160 acres of wheat land Diversified Dalrying Do not understand that the dairy farm should have on it only dairy cows. We would not convert overy farm into an exclusive dairy farm even if we could. Let the dairy be one of the leading industries of the farm give it the time necessary to make it such. Then go on raising pigs, chickens, calves wheat and corn, and all kinds of food crops just as you would if you didn't have a mith cow on the plow. The beauty of the dairy business is that it does not hinder general farming only helps it and pays the bills of other enterprises fall. Tuberculosis Increasing Tuberculosis seems to be increasing in this country. It is estimated that about ten per cent of the cows will react on applying the tuberculin test. Plenty of sunshine, pure air, sanitary stables and sound feed are the best preventives of this disease. Explainin it. "This is queer" "What is it?" "This newspaper picture is labelled a speaking likeness of Mrs Pankhurst." "Well, what of it?" "Her mouth is shut." "She talks through her hat." ONLY CASH THERE. 4 "It's a good thing Mrs. Chadwick didn't get to Monte Carlo." "Why so?" "Why, she would have broken the bank." "Not on your life. Promissory notes don't go there." t We are showing 50 different styles of Couches, made of best steel construction, upholstered in best leather, imitation leather and veromas POPULAR PRICES PREVAIL. Prices from $7.50 to $70.00 POPULAR P Lowest-Treatment ANY, New St Old St IN SIMPLE STYLES COSTUMES FOR MISSES ARE NOT ELABORATE Season's Models Mark Return to Common Sense Sweetly Girlish Effects Are Now the Ores Most Looked For Happily for good taste and common sense the ever rainy rains which are now displayed by all fashioners are not affording the reason of misses wear downs of every dress order for girls to the men's show on occasions. In the drapers worn by their children it the overdress is of a very shiny nature but not in some cases than a shorter skirt over the longer one the overdress of the ankle and knotting of the over drapery such as are seen upon worn enamoured contains. The picture everywhere is shown for details that may be called sweetly girlish and among those the little one piece frock or the separated waist and BROOKLYN skirt with the one-piece effect, is by all odds the favorite dress of the season. The possibilities of these models are endless for the one-piece dress, simulated or real may be anything from the most modest gingham, to a silk or satin brondcloth. Collarless necks delightfully becoming to young throats distinguishe a number of these pretty frocks the simpler ones of which are very lightly trimmed. But whether for fine or practical service the sleeves may be in elbow or three quarter length, which is certainly a style also becoming to youthful wearers, and one of unnumbered possibilities, for sex. Our showing of Dining Room Furniture contains great values from the cheapest to the very highest grade—in all the different woods and刷hes—with prices absolutely right, with Dining Room Chairs to match. 100 different styles of Brass and Enameled Beds Ask to see our White Enameled Bed with best National Spring A regular $12 50 value For $8.39 PRICES PRE ment Fairest. Store, 117 W. E. Store, 1429 E. M PREVAIL. rest. W. Broad Street. E. Main Street. eral gowns in varying degrees of dressiness may entirely change the look of the dress when a high necked and long sleeved effect is wished. One dress at least in summer weight wool is necessary for every schoolgirl who dresses at all stylishly and, very sensibly, the majority of these dresses are made in costume and plaited skirt models, English gowns in dainty mixtures and much used for these practical little gowns, with which go most stylishly fitted and toady to wear hats in unlash gowns and rather plain shirtwings of linen or piquee. The most versatile model for the coats of such dresses has the front seam extensions from the shoulder a French back with the crescent left open at the bottom and a sheer collar showing a long and very fine waistening Trimming may be stitching, or a single edge of breast on the collar and cuffs while the single or double branched fastening may be accommodated with only two or three buttons. A thin edge of silk or satin is also used upon these coats, while many a contour will show only stitching, the good make of the collar and suitable accesses giving the look look The illustration shows a shirtwaist style in two pieces, a wrist with a French back and a side-collared skirt. It is of plain blue chinchies with a checked banding cuffed with plain blue and the white cut of the little rig suggests only materials of similar simplicity. If made of natural colored pongee however with collar, cuffs, belt and tie of the same the dress would be of green with all summer long as a hot weather and emergency costume something to put on when more dressy wash toks are at the laundry. For a slender would miss of aver age figure top of twelve yards of material according to aphth would be needed for the dress. Mary Dean Would you like your shirtwaist turks? Use the whistle a two-inch tuck attached with the narrowest, which are probably tucks. John Billinga says It requires a great deal of takt not to be a bore. New York Weekly Made Perfectly Transparent. Diamonds are almost perfectly transparent to X-rays The best ten novels. Ours and nine others. Poor Timper. "I have just made a valuable discovery," announced Timper. "What is it?" asked Twiggs. "I'm a fool." "Ah, the joke is on your friends." "How is that?" "You know something they don't think you know." Wise Janitor. Harker—The jailor of these flats is indeed a genius. He has painted all of the heat radiators snow white. Mrs. Harker—Don't you call that artistic, Harry? Harker—No, genius. He knows when they are snow white they won't show the frost on them. Shirtwaist Tucks Literary Note Wise Janitor. WAS A REAL "STOP WATCH" He was a new apprentice I constable in the rural districts and he had come all the way to town to find the watchmaker who had sold him a faulty timepiece. "But what is the matter with the watch?" asked the watchmaker in all innocence. "Matter?" draw'd the old man "By Heck this watch stops every few minutes. The watchmaker came from behind the counter and patted his dissatisfied customer on the shoulder. "My dear man" he whispered, "you have just been made a constable, haven't you? "That's what I be," was the proud response. "And you expect to arrest motorists for spanking?" "You but I do "Well how can you time automobiles without a stop watch* Go home and thank you for saving you own one" And the old man was so puzzled he walked out of the watchmaker's and forgot the address Adjustable Sentiments "When others claim you as their choice for life, put on what do you do" "I abide in a patriotic spirit by the wisdom of the common people," answered Senator Seghom "And when they arise in resentment of something you have said or done" "I mount on a superior indifference to the character of the thoughtless multitude." Native Soul "Yes, larger boxes of strawberries are coming from Florida this year," said the marketer. Those Florida shippers are more liberal than they used to be. "I should say so, remarked the shredder house wife, a she fitted a pint of sand from the bottom of a strawberry box. Why they are even sending us one of the real estate." COULDN T TURN A Sam—Look heah, Liza, youso going too far wild mo. Doan yo' know dat if yo' tread on a worm it will turn? Lize—Dat's all right, but if yo' ober gits dem feet ob yourn on one it won't. Too Much. With Halley's comet billed to come Along sometime in June. And Roosevelt due that month also We fear we're a gobe coon. HE ALWAYS 忠官 KING'S BODY LYING IN STATE Taken to Westminster, Accompanied by Royal Mourners. BRIEF SERVICES WERE HELD in Dick way Baxter exam night Holstein the Duke tenberg Argyle Alexander chen Prince George Only nine marriage were in the pre- cession in the first war Queen Mary Alexandra invocation and the wage- Empress Marie Charlotte of Hosta- sta and the princess in the second war Queen Mary Princess Mary and Princess in the third rule Princess in the fourth Historian Henry Watt in the fifth of Commander in the sixth the Duke of Sage Colonel in the of Commander in the seventh of Commander in the eighth Princess Albertina in the ninth Mary of Fife in the tenth Princess in the eleventh Princess in the twelfth Louis of Hosta in the thirteenth of Hosta in the thirteenth tears Founder in the thirteenth carriages in the thirteenth Queen Mother in the thirteenth Mary Brief Religious Service The structure of the palace with people pleasing of all who were invited to the royal seat from the arrival of the body of the king and the abby briefer obliged to attend duly by the appointment of tauren bury and the tithe of lamban. The services were attended by the members of the house of lords and house of comons. The hall was not draught and the ceremonial was one of many difficult simplicity. The coffin was on a stepped atafalque. The only sign of decoration to the ancient hall is a purple cloth covering the platform of the atafalque and the trappings of the bier. The king and the queen the queen mother and the officer royal mourners of the family were grouped about the atafalque during the brief services. After the royal family had left the public were admitted to view the coffin. Four lines of people passed through the hall and it is estimated that 700,000 per sona will view the bier in the three days it will lie in state. King George Queen Mary and the Queen Mothers Ixandra and the other royalties here attended the service in the private chapel at Buckingham palace Monday Members of the royal household also were present The ser- vice vise was simple The hymn "Sleep Thy Last Sleep Free from Care and Sorrow" the music of which was writ- ten by Princess Hery of Battenberg, was sung RELENTLESS WAR ON RAILROAD BILL Insurgents Angrily Refuse A Proposals of Compromise. Washington May 18 Phone peace within the Hepatitis part the administration to a to come to nagar Acting under agreement contracted at the W House of Commons and and the regligious part a state of borders of the The law is meant of fighting on the law that corrupts the law states that than is the law ed if the putting bill Cumbers at it by repudiated were abhorrent held a fortune congruous was repudiated ostensions being to injure through mutual amenable with respect those of the law be withdraw forgive a fine at it be forgiven for wrongdoing elicit a fine more Several properties of the of the earth from the led to After and of the repeated by of earth and the surgeons In the White Plains suppression of the earth were going to fortune mount that will bear Reg. and an proceed will go surgeon will go suit if they will drawal will go probe will go rest with the earth terrestrial DEER INVADES UTICA Ran Across the City and Hid In Dense Woods in Outsides apart from drive in nature the Astonian this city and woods in Rox southern out hand was of the ants highway at tor in the park various soils atten Leper Attempt Suicide Rail no. May. He had real spent all his time in the der in May. He had milled with the Just as he was window this she line weeks and in the intended been so N Y P A N Roses Wages not tore on the N Y P A N Nor suffer in the pay above the recent raise in wages per cent Your subscription for the PLANET is due Have you paid it? If not why not. THE MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE HAIR AND SCALP REMEDIES The world's great remedy for Dan druff Cure, Scalp Diseases, Ball Headedness and Bare Temples, which trouble the people of the world so much today I have the best known remedy on the market Dr Conrad's Crystalline Hair Dressing grows hair on bald heads and baro temples 26 and 50 cents per jar Dr Conrad's Hair Invigorator, 26 and 6 cents per bottle It stimulates the roots of the hair Dr Conrad's Face Cream 26 cents per jar Dr Conrad's Palm Powder, 36 cents per bottle Send 10 cents and get a tran jar of Dr Conrad's Crystalline Hair Dressing We sell a swigs from $16 to $20, and $24 a piece Transformation pieces $2 50 23 tinctures long 9 inch pump, $1 50 18 tincture $2 00 puffs 26 cents a piece Switches, $1 00 to $2 00 nation brands $2, and 3 Send sam pie of hair when ordering Address all communications to DR L. CONRAD 798 Main Street Cambridge Mass Write today The Central Manufacturing Co $100 000 Endowment Paid This is the name of the civilian fire John Mitchell Grand Worth, Commissioner of Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Virginia $250,000 One Hundred Dollars in payment of the debt of the Fifty who Zion Travelers South Boston Va LA. H. COLUMN $150.00 Endowment Paid New York, New York Va May 1910 It is said that I have received from John Mitchell, Ir- candid Chamblee of the Brun- ledge of Virginia Knights of Pyth- theon N A S V E A A and A $10000. One Hundred and Fifty dollars in payment of the death cause of Brother W S Hohon who was a member of Damon Lodge No. 1 of Newport New Va Signed VICTORIA L. HOBSON Beneficiary Witnesses D. Hogn C. Jones L. Byrk. K. R. and S. L. Men. D. G. *150.00 Endowment Paid Newport News Va May 9, 1910 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia Knights of Pythian N A S A E A A and A ($1500) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Matthew Witcher who was a member of Lily or the Valley Lodge No. 40 of Newport News Va Her Signed LINA X WITCHER Mark Benefictary J E BYRD P C W. Cordray T J Free O O Huntington E E Jones C C Allen D D G C Wants to Find Them Information wanted of Dave Slow who once pastored a church in Richmond also the name of the church. I would also like to commute with a family by the name of Strange My husband, Samuel Strange was from Richmond He left there when he joined the Army. He had two sons, one was named Warren His sisters were Cella, Chthis and Irene his brother was called Dick or Richard They were the children of Mary and David Strange. 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For organiza- tions wrt to MRS ANNA TAYLOR Richmond, Va. PANAMA HATTERS Panama Hats Cleaned, Bleached, Blocked. Retrimmed Like New. Straw Hats Cleaned and Pressed, 25 cents. Silk, Stiff, and Soft Hats Cleaned Blocked. Retrimmed Latest Styles. AMERICAN HAT CO., (Old and Reliable Hat Shop), 404 E. Marshall St. (Basement) Nothing on earth is so valuable as a human mind. If a diamond is worth polishing as great trouble and cost, much worse is the sale as a body. If you want worth all the polishing that the schools can give it. The best education is not too good for a polished youth. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger? And who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger usefulness? Va. Union University Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN ITS MEMBERSHIP COLLEGE has for many years been the standard course for college students in the State. It offers Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries and in other colleges. The intended students for the minor are enrolled in different departments. ITS MEMBERSHIP COLLEGE, its study equipped science laboratories, its library, its faculty and its full course of study enable Virginia College to offer more than 100 students an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored address the President VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY UNITY FOR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN Press Only a small amount of cash required Culture and Tonsorial Art can best the art of making shawl going Massage Dermatology ness 16 years. Accommodations arranged for Courago from $10 000 up Culture and Tonsorial Art, Inc., 328 Lenox ny, Samuel V. Kelsey President, Mme. A Car ror Hair Beautiful Soft, Silky and Long? 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