Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET Editor Mitchell's Long Journey. CROSSING THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN8. Up Above the Clouds.—The Jack Johnson Fight.—Science at Reno. Refused Accommodations at Ogden. Reaches Salt Lake City at Last. (Continued from last week.) We shall never forget the last morning we spent in Oakland, California, as we looked across the bay in the direction of San Francisco, which was but a short distance away. The transfer man was late in sending for our luggage, and after we had seen to it that it had been sent on its long return trip, we sauntered out on the streets for the last time and again strolled down one street and up another until the time for going to the depot was well at hand. BOARDING THE OVERLAND We returned to the hotel and the white bellman took our suit case out to the front, and we were soon on our way to the station. Reaching there, friends came to see us off, including Mr. J. L. Derrick, who left with us a package as a gift of appreciation. The fine vestibular train rolled in, and as we had secured our Pullman reservation in San Francisco the day before, we were readily assigned to our seat in that palatina Pullman car. We were soon across the bay, after having soon the train run into a steamer which carried it across to the highland again. A FINE LANDSCAPE Then we remembered reaching Bacarenga. It did not appear to be an large city as we expected to see. For hours we feasted our eyes upon the scenery of the country through which we passed, and we saw many thousand of acres of fine orchard lands. Finally we tired of the sameness and went to the observation department, where books, magazines, etc., were in evidence, and for a time we road some of these. The dinner or luncheon hour found us there ready for business. On this train we met at Los Angeles. Among those was Banker Sol Wexler, of New Orleans, La., who is President of the Trust Section. He greeted us cordially and made many inquiries concerning our institution. WANTED INFORMATION. The Mechanics' Savings Bank-booklet, showing the new building and its departments, seemed to have lifted us up in the estimation of many of these wealthy men. We did not go to them asking alms or help. We were there seeking information if they would permit us to have this, we were satisfied. We found ourselves involuntarily losing the stoop in the shoulder. We were walking upright now. Our step was elastic, and there was nothing of the evidence that he had climbed from a poverty-striken body and their surroundings to mingle upon a basis of apparent equality with the wealthiest white men in the land. HAKING FRIENDS We could look them squarely to the eye, asking no favors other than those indicated and showing a training and a diplomatic courtesy, without any of the evidences of egotism or assumed prominence which would awaken either contempt or invite antagonism. We had mastered the art of egotism, and we had financial giants of the United States. But we wore soon climbing the Rocky Mountains, and while we were doing this night came. At times we could look down below and see the spiral railroad track. Then again we could see another train that had passed us a few moments before just Mechanics' Savings Bank Buys More Valuable Property. The Mechanics' Savings Bank has secured the new three-story brick building on the south side of Broad Street near Elba. It is already under lease, and has not as yet been occupied, having no occupancy under contract. Broad Street is south side of Broad Street, it is especially valuable. The Mechanics' Savings Bank is the THREE NEGROES LYNCHED. Shelbyville, Ky., Jan. 15.—Storming the Shelby county jail here early this morning, a mob composed of less than 100 men, sized and lynched three negroes, two of whom were charged with assaulting white girls and the third sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife and hold in jail here until the day for his execution could be set. The three were lynched in different places. The body of Eugene Marshall, sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife, whom he had beheaded, was found hanging to a bridge over the Emiline Pike only a short distance from the jail. Sam West, employed as a chauffeur here for several months, and who, it is said, had been seen on several occasions throwing kisses at white girls, and who was charged with assaulting the daughter of a Sholby county farmer, was one of the victims. He, too, was hanged to the bridge by the mob. John Patterson, the third negro, lynched, was also charged with assaulting a white woman. Patterson attempted to escape and was shot, and his body thrown into a creek. The mob which attacked the fall well about its work quietly, and few perceptions of the triple lynching until the bodies were found several hours later. Few of the mob were masked. The fall jack was smashed with a sledgehammer and there was little difficulty in getting to the prisoners. Sunday at Third-St. A. M. E. Church. The last quarterly meeting of this conference rear will be held at the Third Street A. M. E. Church, Rev. E. H. Hunter, pastor, this week The Presiding Elder, Rev. George D. Jimmerson, formerly a pastor of said church and one of the most eloquent preachers in Virginia, will have charge of the Sunday services, and will preach morning and night. The church is closing one of the best quarters its history, and Sunday is expected to be a kind of jubilee occasion with the members. Friends are invited to worship with them at one or both services. To The Colored Ministers of Richmond: Dear Brethren,—On behalf of our business enterprises, please allow me to thank you for your kind words and influence that you rendered us during our Christmas and holiday trade. Our stores were crowded and we did good business; no doubt we gained many customers that we would not have gotten had it not been for your timely influence and advice. You will please pardon me for making personal references to Drew Z. D Lewis and R. V Poyton, who so kindly advised their congregation to give the colored enterprises some of their trade. Hoping that the good work may be still kept up and that other ministers in the city may join in and thereby help us to solve the great financial problem of the Negro race. Thanking you again on behalf of the Negro business enterprises of Richmond, I remain Respectfully yours, I. J. MILLER. NEGROES CRITICALLY ILL FROM WOUNDS --- The two negrens, George Lucas, and Lester Taylor, who were injured by dynamite near the settling basin January 11th and taken to the Memorial Hospital, are critically ill, and it is feared that both will die. Quantities of grit were blown into the bodies of the men, and they had to be given chloroform before their wounds could be dressed. One of Taylor's legs was broken, Lucas, however, was the more seriously injured, beightfully burnt and losing large patches of skin. The nergos were employed by the Pitts-Morris Company, contractors, and were doing some work on the Chosapeake and Ohio路. They were thawing some dynamite when the explosion took place. To Whom It May Concern: This Is to, certify that Mrs. Roberta H. Coleman is granted a divorce from her husband, William H. Coleman, and she will have after resum her maiden name. ROBERTA E. DOBSON AN IDEAL LEADER. Claremont, Va., Jan. 16, 1911. To The Editor of the Planet: Dear Sir,—Rev. John J. Smallwood, Ph.D., founder and president of the Temperance Industrial and Collegiate Institute at this place, is a man who works and never talks about his business to the outside world. Eighteen years ago, single-handed, in the face of human slander, great human jealousy and race prejudice, fresh from New England institutions of learning, with two trips to Europe, this black man came here, bought one of the finest farms upon the south bank of the James River, built "Sawyer Hall," a plain wooden structure, as a starter, then built a Bagley Hall, at a coat of $9,984. He turned a large common henhouse into a chapel, a place of prayer. Since October 12, 1882, 410 souls have found Jesus Christ in their lives beneath the walls of this "oxen-house," the now neat and attractive chapel. Dr. Smallwood has nothing at all to say about, pro nor con, as to religious creeds. His ch. aim is to get souls saved, to build up a strong, moral character and a (Continued on Fourth Page) --- Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co. Elects Mr. Gilpin President. The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company was held January 12th at the home office, 728 North Second Street. The report of the President and General Manager showed that the company had a year of unparalleled prosperity. The election of officers resulted in all of the officers being re-elected, with the exception of Mr. E. F Johnson, who was succeeded by Mr. S. J. Gilpin, the Vice President. Mr. Johnson, it is understood, has tendered the position of Field Inspector, and his colleagues hope that he will accept the position. Mr. Gilpin is well known in this city and was in the shoe business here for many years. KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS PUBLIC INSTALLATION The installation of the officers of the subordinate lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the subordinate courts of the Order of Calgatha at the Fifth-Street Baptist Church last Monday night was a grand success. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. Installed the officers and delivered an address relative to the work of the Order. He also took up the financial affairs as they related to the colored people of this city Religious exercises were conducted by Rev. W. T. Johnson; D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, and Rev. D. Webster Davis D. D. Rev. J. W. Pryor occupied a seat on the rostrum. Those dialing in the Installation zero Sir Robert Gray, Acting District Grand Chancellor; Colonel H. P. Jonathan, Grand Master of Exchequer General H. W. Major J. G. Smith, Sir S. B. Baker, Grand First Attendant, and Sir J. Alexander Lowls, Grand Master at Arms; also Sir O. M. Steward. The church was filled from the rostrum to the Doors. Even the galleries were comfortably filled. As these were officers, it may be well understood as to the nature of the interest shown. Killed By a Circular Saw. A horrible accident occurred just Wednesday afternoon in the woodyard of E. T. Long, 1506 W Broad Street. Lee Jones, a colored man, and his brother, Powhatan Jones, were the victims. The circular saw pulled out from the table and caught Powhatan Jones. The saw cut into the left side of his head, cut off his left hand and nearly covered his right hand. He'dled almost instantly. His brother was also badly injured, but it is expected that he will recover. Lee Jones resided at 10 W. Clay Street. His body lay at A. D. Price's Understaking establishment last Wednesday night, and it presented a sickening appearance. Colonel R. B. Chiles has been indisposed During the past week. To Change Some Officers...The Receivers Not Ready...Lawyers Not Active Yet...The Old Folks' Home Defict...Mr. Taylor Employs Counsel. The Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, will be called in extraordinary session by Grand Worthy Master A. W. Holmes, February 21, 1911, in the city of Richmond. Some of the people are saying that this meeting will take place for the purpose of changing officers. The receivers have not shade their report to the Court, but complain that they shifted for the Old Folks' Home department, and there are vague rumors that there are twenty thousand dollars which have not as yet been brought to light. There is, however, some of the purchase money withheld until the titles to some of the lots have been cleared. WANTED A GUARANTEE FROM MR. TAYLOR. The examination, into the accounts of ex-Superintendent Thomas W Taylor is no nearer solution than before. He offered to submit the questions at issue to arbitration, and the officials accepted his offer. When the papers were signed, up Mr. Taylor is alleged to have refused to turnish a guarantee that he would pay the amount that the Board of Arbitration found against him. On the other hand, the Old Folks' Home Department of the Grand Fountain was pledged to make good should any amount be found against the Old Folks' Home Mr Taylor Declined to do this, and submitted a counter proposition. The Investigating Committee and the Executive Committee are willing to give Mr. Taylor another hearing, but propose that all be gone over again. A DEFICIT OF FIVE THOUSAND. This would set aside the other examination and would start at the beginning. It is now claimed that it the reports made to the Grand Foundation be considered and added in they will bring Mr T W Taylor in debt to the Old Folks' Home Department nearly five thousand dollars Mr Taylor has employed Mr H M Smith, Jr, as his attorney, and he has also an accountant working on his deposits in the Savings Bank of the Grand Fontainal Grand Master Holmes institute which will help him with the financial dollars which he declares that he owes, according to the report of the committee, or he will proceed to force him so to do Dr John E Merweather is now said to be a potent influence in the affairs of the True Reformers. NO MOVEMENT BY COUNSEL. He is said to be insisting that the entire affair he properly investigated and that all secrets, if there be any, he exposed in order that the people may have confidence in the present management and be convinced that it is determined to give all "a square deal." Counsel for the depositors have made no move, so far as the public is able to observe, and is whining grimly for the report of the receivers before taking any further steps to protect their clients' interests. WANT TO SUE OFFICERS While there has been no open movement to that effect, there has been some talk of bringing suit against all of the True Reformer officials with the idea of adding all of their property interests to the assets of the Grand Fountain and the True Reformer' Savings Bank. The members in the Class Department have been in "a strait twist two." It seems that the payments in department were added Jan. 15, 1911, when members would be unbenefited who did not pay up. Some of the members, seeing the condition of the Order, were unwilling to send in this money, when they were not sure that the Order would survive the shock. REFORMERS' HOTEL LEASED. This hostelry, for a number of years known as Hotel Reformer, has been leased by Mr. J. P. Johnson, who will begin business there. Feb. 1st. The doeal was consummated through the office of B. A. Cephas, Real Estate Agent. ENTERED INTO REST. ANDERSON—Departed this life Jan. 3, 1911, N. Y. C., in his 29th year, ALEXANDER ALBERT ANDERSON, the beloved son of Mrs. Emma O. Anderson, formerly of Amelia County, Va., now of New York City. Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery. Darling brother, how we miss you; Oh, our loss we deeply feel. But 'tis God who hast bereft us. He will all our sorrows heal. His loving sister, Mary A. Anderson, 2900 7th Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. WILLIAM NOEL PASSES AWAY. William Noel died Jan. 11, 1911 at his home, on Will anism Road, Henrico County, Va. He was a faithful member of Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, also a past officer of Mt. Erin Lodge, No 1828, G. U. O. Of odd Fellows. He was a dutiful member, a quiet citizen and always ready and willing to do what he could for others. His lodge and church are bereft of a lovable member. Funeral services were held at Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Rev. Daniel James officiating. He leaves a wife, one sister and four brothers, many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. A precious one from us is gone. A voice we loved is still. A place is vacant in our home. That will be hard to fill His sister, Mrs Edward J. James CLOSE TO GALLOWS, NEGRO GOES FREE (Atlanta, Ga., Consultation) After escaping the gallows by thirty minutes on one occasion and by only a few days another, Rogera Merritt, a Negro charged with highly assaulting Miss Maggie McDermott in June, 1909, was acquitted on his third trial by a jury in the criminal division of the superior court yesterday afternoon. Judge L. S. Roan presiding. The acquittal of the negro was hanged upon lack of positive identification. The alleged assault was committed at night, in a very dark section of the city, and, although the young lady was positive that Merritt was the man, he admitted at the trial Wednesday that she did recognize Merritt the second time he was brought before her. Attorneys Carl N. Guess and W. M. Smith produced indictments from D. C. Phillips and W J. Eubanks to the effect that Merritt does not fit the description given by Miss M. Dermott of the negro to attack her. She argued to testified they were Merritt at the time the crime is alleged to have been committed, and that they spent the night with him at the house of another negro. Merritt's case has been before the supreme court and before the prison commission, and neither would interform with the verdict. After he had been sentenced the third time to be hanged, Attorney Guess secured the new evidence relating to identification, and about thirty minutes before the negro was to be hanged he secured a stay of execution from the Governor, and the third trial, and the acquittal resulted. OPPOSE "JIM CROW" CARS. (Washington, D. C. Post) Adverse action is recommended by the commissioners on House bill 30-568, which provides for "Jim Crow" cars in the District of Columbia. The was introduced by Representative Clark, of Florida, several weeks ago. The bill was sent to the commissioners by Chairman Smith, of the House District Committee, for an opinion. After carefully considering the matter, the commissioners, in a letter to Mr. Smith sent to the Capitol yesterday, said: "The commissioners know of no local demand or sentiment in the District to charter any legislation of this charter or to not believe that any such legislation is desirable. They recommend adverse action on the bill." WANTED--A single Lady Hitchcock rapher, etc., as partner in paying business, $2,000 required. Invest under fiveyear contract. Rare possibilities of $10,000 to $20,000 yearly business. Partner to receive 50 per cent. of profits. Partner to take charge of office, $100 per month salary guaranteed. Only the intelligent and ambitious need apply. Address at once. THE NEW LIFE PUBLISHER, Dept. A Newark, N. J. COLORED ELKS IN WICKED WRANGLE: Friction in the inner circle of the Improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the largest colored secret organization in this country, yesterday brought on the most remarkable proceeding over witnessed in the United States Circum-Court here. Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr., was forced into a maze of tangled evidence submitted by a quartet of colored attorneys from Richmond, Washington and elsewhere. After wrangling an hour, the court finally succeeded in bringing order out of chaos. "Such language!" If your honor please," assorted John W. Patterson, National Capital: "such language." And before a court of the United States of America" he continued, referring to statements made by the Negro attorney for the other side. "Misrepresentation of Fraud." And he comes before your honor without an audit or proof of any kind." The indignant member of the Washington bar here sipped a glass of water, which he requested from a jantor. QUITE DRAMATIC, YES Restoring the glass to the table before he removed a big watch from his vest pocket, he asked if the court couldn't hurriedly adjust the matter, as he must catch a train for Washington. The court pronounced itself unable to control the schedule of trains. "Tell me what you want," Judge Waddill insisted. "This is a most remarkable proceeding," he said. Adjusting a collar which came up about his ears, and assuming a position where his white spats were visible to the court, the indignant lawyer from the seat of government enlisted the situation thusty: "By a decree entered several months ago by your honor you remitted the improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. By means of your judgment you caused 20,000 men in this great nation to celebrate with bullaion and enthusiasm. There was general rejoicing that enemies had been made friends. Banquets and parades were given from one end of the country to the other. Thus." Ion himself knew I caused so much joy," remarked the court. Barely heeding the interruption, the new eloquent speaker continued: "The thousands of men were glad because the separated had been reunited. CALLED IT MONSTROUS "And now?" at the ton of his voice, "and now these men come here and want you to vacate this decree." It is monstrous. I had no idea of their intentions. I am not prepared to answer this petition. If you may call it such, it is barely more than a piece of paper." Another drink of water and the lawyer from Washington sat down. A less excited member of the opposing counsel explained to the court that when the order was entered an arbitration of the opposing factions had been agreed upon at a "peace conference" held in Wilmington, Del. But the crux of the matter appeared to be that a commission of three, including Patterson, of Washington, Giles B Jackson, of Richmond, and Oscar D Morris, had had appointed to carry on the affairs of the order, and that money was being turned over to this trio, none of the officers of which, was under bond, and that none had to make an accounting. He moved the court that the decree, which was supposed to have ended the matter, he vacated. Patterson was again on his feet, although he had been ordered several times by the court to sit down and to stop interrupting the other speaker. He made protests against the court doing any such thing. GILES PUTS IN A WORD Giles Jackson had petitioned the court to set aside a whole day, or at least a half-day, that he might take up his part of the matter. Finally, taking the bull by the horns, Judge Waddill dictated an order to his stonographer allowing Paterson one week in which to prepare a reply to the petition asking that the court's decree be set aside. He suspended the power of the commissioner pending a final adjustment of the affair. "It appears to me that there is some money involved in this affair," said the court, "and I want it disposed of as quickly as possible." All videos were apparently satisfied with the decision and withdrawn. Then the Washington lawyer bounced into a taxicab and raced for his train. He got it. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) RACE LINES ARE DRAWN. (Washington Post, Jan. 14, 1911) Because they objected to the presence of Negro medical students of Howard University in a hall of the Government Hospital for the insane-100 students of Goorgotown University and George Washington University on a Saturday afternoon. Dr. was to attend a lecture given by Dr. William White. Dr. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's, a few minutes after the students refused to attend the lecture received formal notice from the student bodies of Georgetown and George Washington universities, in which they set forth specifically the reasons for their action. Dr. White gave no formal attention to the notice. He continued with his lecture, speaking only to the students of Howard University. In spite of demands of the Georgetown and George Washington university faculties that the students attend future lectures in Dr. White's course, and apologize to him for their action, the students have refused to comply, and, as a result, the expulsion of the students concerned is threatened. The matter was informally discussed at a meeting of the Georgetown faculty yesterday afternoon. Because Dr. George M. Koben, dean of the faculty, left the meeting early no action was taken. Dr. Koben stated that night he will insist that his students apologize for their action. He said he did not know what further action will he take in response to the lecture in the future if Howard University students are admitted. Forty-five of the dispassing students are from Georgetown University and 65 are from Geo. Washington University. ACTION 18 REGRETTED When the students roached St. Elizabeth's Thursday afternoon they found about 30 Negro students in the lecture hall. The Howard University students had been formally invited to attend the lecture by Dr. White, who, for several years, has been giving weekly lectures on mental disorders. Last week he communicated with Dr. E. A. Ballock, dean of the medical faculty of Howard University, asking that the students of that institution attend yesterday's lecture. Dr. White said last night that he regretted exceedingly the action of the white students, but that we should not do the action. "I believe that the Negro students should have an opportunity to hear the lectures as well as white students," he said. "I am sorry this question has come up. This was a science lecture, and race prejudice should have been forgotten." APOLOGY IS EXPECTED The lectures are a prescribed part of the medical courses of Georgetown and George Washington universities, and the medical students are required to attend them. Dr. Kober said last night he will insist that his students attend the lectures in the future, and apologize to Dr. White for their discourtesy. He predicted that the students will realize their mistake and make the required amends. "It was a hasty and rash act." continued Dr. Kober, "and the faculty will see that they make apology to Dr. White. In case they continue to refuse to attend the lectures, the faculty will probably take drastic action, although I am not ready to say the students will be expelled." HOWARD UNIVERSITY COMMENT Dr E. A Ballock, dean of the medical faculty of Howard University, said that might be had heard nothing of the trouble "If it is true the students refused to attend the lecture. it is a most unfortunate matter," he added. President Thirkleid, of Howard University, said: "It is a most regrettable incident, if true. I was very glad when the medical students of the university received Dr. White's invitation to attend the lecture, because this is the only opportunity they have to study mental disorders. I shall regret if it they have to stop going to the lectures because of the silly ideas of a few students." ```markdown ``` WANTS TO FIND HIM. I would like to know the whereabouts of my brother, Robert L. Carrington. He was last board from to 1908 in Gutterville, Alabama. His mother's name is Polly Carrington., South Boston, Halifax County, Va. If any one knows of his whereabouts, please write his sister, Leslie C. Love, at 1200 U Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Liberal reward offered for such in formation. [Image of a man's head in a circular frame with a black background and white hair.] Synopsis Nat Duncan, discharged for incompetency by his employer, goes to the home of his friend Kallogg, who has helped him to the past. Kallogs sympathies with Duncan, who meets some of his old time acquaintances at the home of his friend. Duncan, who is discouraged, and outlines a novel scheme whereby Duncan can repair his shattered fortune. The theme is that Duncan should go to a country town, dress well, go to church, work steadily and thus attract and marry the wealthiest girl in the town. Duncan decides to help a Duncan's supporter buy a store of army newly made clothes departs for and arrives at Ridgville. Old Sham Graham runs a displeased shop, and helps a Duncan's supporter buy a store in Ridgville. He has for years waited his time on variegated inventions. Baffy Graham, the old man's pretty but warred daughter, works in the store. Duncan, with the help of the editor, becomes acquainted with Duncan. "Bilkay" Lockwood is the richest man in the village, and Duncan is interested in that the old miser has a daughter, Joan. Duncan obtains a position in old Duncan's drug store without pay, for he earns the village girl, including Joan. Duncan Lockwood, are very fond of soda water. Duncan advances money to buy a new stock of drugs and soda sippers, so as to enable Graham to compete with the rival Duncan meets Betty Graham, who, weary and suspicious of the world does not want to leave Roland Barnette. In fights with Josie Lockwood, introduces to old Graham a York swine farm. Burnham who tries to give York a prize in a gas machine that Sam has invented. "Binky" Lockwood has a note of old poverty. Burnham as to the consequences of nonpayment. Duncan moves at her father because of his poverty. Duncan comes in and gently remonstrates with the girl. "The sheer affliction to the store to demand payment of Graham's note. Duncan almost loses it. To the sum, $50." Duncan meets Betty "Lockwood" and asks if being victimized by Burnham much to Roland's disgust. Under Duncan's management the store outstrips his rival, evidencing the young man's real ability. The acquaintance of Betty and Duncan was a friend of the latter area that he could wed Joelle Lockwood and gain her fortunes if he no desired. CHAPTER XV. NAF didn't go to the Lockwood lawn fete and did excuse himself on the plea of being unable to leave the store. I'm afraid the young man and a faint, fond hope that Jode would be offended, but his excuse was accepted without remonstrance. But the party came off without fall, and that on a wonderful sun, moonlit night, and everybody voted it a spit-up did success. The Citizen in its next issue recorded the event to the extent of a column and a half of reading matter, called it a social function and described the gowns of the leading ladies of society present in bewildering phrases. I read the proofs with an admiration strongly tinctured, with awe and found it lacking in one particular only—no mention was made of Roland Barnette's first open faced suit. Roland had ordered it from a clothing house in Chicago, and it arrived just in time. Having board all about it from Roland's own lips they dilated upon the matter to Watty, the tailor, just beneath my windows, I sort of hung round downtown Saturday evening in the hope of catching a glimpse of it and was not disappointed. I was lottering in Graham's when Roland sauntered nonchastily in at about a quarter to 8 and called for a pack of "Sweets" Sam served him, and Duncan, happily for him disengaged at the moment, after one look at Roland retired precipitately behind the prescription counter—overcome. I judged from Roland's triumphant smirk, by deepest chagrin Well, thought I might he have been, he could never, by whatever wildest endeavor, have approximated Roland's splendor. The coat was bottled at (at least so Watty described it within my hearing) and curiously double breasted, caught together at the waist with a single button, thus revealing a shining expanse of very silly shift bosom, which crinkled for some reason. With this Roland wore a ribbed white silk waistcoat, very brilliant low cut patent leather shoes and white silk socks. The trousers were strikingly cut as to each leg after the physical configuration of the domestic pear, and the effect of the whole was measurably enhanced by an opera hat, one of those tall and striking contraptions that you can shut up by pressing gently but firmly upon the human midriff and looking unconscious, but which is apt if you're not careful. I am able to do able to report that Roland failed to commit the solemn of wearing a red string tie. His tie was a sober black firmly knotted at the factory. Duncan fell into a routine without the least evidence of discontent. He was early to rise and early to work and rarely left the store save at meal hours and closing up time. He attended church with admirable regularly, both morning and evening services, on Sunday, the midweek prayer meeting and Friday evening choir practice, for in the course of time he had been won over to join the choir and modestly discovered to our edification a baritone voice wholly untrained, but not unpleasing. Josie Blackwood sang contralto and Bess Gabriel what we were informed was soprano—only Hadriella called it a tre THE FORTUNE ```markdown ``` SAM HAD RISE TO THE DIGNITY OF A FRUCK COAT. He, Tracey Tanner pumped the orgain and puffed audibly in the pauses, a singular testimony to his devotion to Angie Tutthill, who "just sang" with the others chiefly because she, was Josie's nearest friend. Nat had settled down to a pretty steady correspondence with Kellogg, chiefly on business matters. Kellogg was investigating old Sam's burner and seemed quite impressed with its possibilities. He had quarred with Roland's friend Burnham op Duncan's representations and ordered him out of the offices of L. J. Burtlett & Co. it seemed Later he opened up negotiations with a corporation known as the Modern Gas company, I believe, a competitor of Consolidated Petroleum, and in due course representatives of both concerns came to Hadville, examined the burner and retired, noncommittal. Then Burtlett sent a requisition for a model and supplied the funds for making it, thus demonstrating his confidence. As for old Sum, he had risen to the dignity of a frock coat and felt himself an aristocrat for the first time in his life. I don't remember just how soon it was, but it was shortly after the formation of the firm of Graham & Duncan that the young man received his first invitation to dinner at the Lockwoods'. He accepted, of course, whether he wanted to or not, for there could be a lot of fun for his refinement. Sunday bid, and the Lockwoods made quite an event of the Soules were invited because they were Aramid Lockwood's brother and sister-in-law, and the Godfrey's came over from Westerly to grace the board as representatives of the Lockwood strain. At the conclusion of the meal, which endured throughout two intermittable hours, the older men folk withdrew to the garden and the lawn. Nat was left to Josie, who conducted him to the side porch, out of sight of everybody, and planted herself in a baggy hammock there. She was gay, even brilliant within her limitations, arch, naive, coquettish, shy, petulant, by turns, animated by a sense of conquest. She supplied the major part of the conversation, chatting volubly on the thousand subjects she didn't understand, the dozen she did. In the most ingenious manner imaginable she laid herself open to advances, not once, but a score of times, and when he failed to respond according to the code of Radilled had the wit to mask her chagrin, did she feel any. Very probably she laid his lack of responsiveness at the door of his shyness (a quality he was wholly without) and liked him the better for it. It was on this day that she extracted from him his promise to join the choir. He acceded through apathy alone. "Can't I see you can you can or not," she confessed, with a look. "But I do want somebody to walk home with me that I like. I want of putting it." Duncan considered without emphasis. "Roland Barnette's always walked home with me, but I think he's just thresome." "Why?" inquired the young man, with some interest. She averted her head, plucking at the strands of the hammock. "Oh you know, she said differently." "Oh!" Nat was enlightened. "Then I'm sorry for Roland." "Why?" "I can't blame him, you know." He could help this. The time, the place, the girl inspired—indeed, incited—one to banality. "Why?" she persisted. "Oh, you know." He caught the intonation of her previous words precisely. THE RICHMOND PLANETA RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. She had the grace to blush and hang her head, but he received a thrilling sidelong glance. "Ah! Aren't you awful to talk that way, Mr. Duncan?" "Yes," he admitted weekly. "Then you will join the choir?" "Oh, yeah," he agreed lastlessly. "I'm so glad." He thanked her, but avoided her eye. "We might 's well begin tonight,' she suggested presently, with different, downcast eyes. "What—the color? He was startled, I couldn't without a rehearsal." "No, I didn't mean that." "No?" "I mean about Roland." She was paying minute attention to the lace insertion of her skirt. "About Roland"— "Yes; I mean— You know what I mean, Mr. Duncan?" "I assure you I do not, Miss Lockwood." "About not walking home with him any more. I don't want to. I wish you'd commence tonight instead of chore practice night. I'd much rather walk home with you." "After evening service, you mean?" She nodded. "It'll be a great pleasure." "Really?" She gave him her eyes now. "Really," she assured her. "Ah, I don't believe you mean that!" "But indeed I do." It was not until nearly 5 o'clock that he was given a chance to escape. He had even then to refuse inexplicably an invitation to stay to supper. Minta Lockwood—an expansive woman, generously convex—almost another him with appreciation of his thanks. She held his hand in a large, moist palm and beamed upon him, "Don't you know the way, Mr. Duncan?" "Yes," Silkin insisted, blinking regularly, "drop in any time. Take好 luck. We plain people, Mr. Duncan, but allus glad to see our friends, Drop in any time." Josie accompanied him to the front gate, where etiquette required him to linger for a parting chat. "Goodbyy." The girl gave him her hand. "I'm real glad you came-at last." "The pleasure has been all mine," instated the gallant bromide, fashing the trite phrase desperately from the gray vacuity of his thoughts. "I don't forget it!" "Forget what!" "About tonight!" "Do you imagine I could?" Josie returned to the family conchace, to interrupt a symposium on Duncan's qualities. Duncan wrote to Kellogg in his room that night after church. "If 'don't want ```markdown ``` "I WANT SOMEDODY TO WALK HOME WITH ME." to sound immodest, but it looks as if you were right, old man—apparently there nothing to it. "Probably I should have stayed on for supper, but I couldn't; I should have choked. As it was, my soul was curdling. Another ten minutes and I should have jumped down on the lawn and run round the house on all fours, yapping and foaming at the mouth, and have wound up by biting old Blinky. "The worst of it all is I know I'm ungrateful; I know they mean well. But why is it that people who mean well almost invariably grate upon your sensibilities like the screeching of a slate pencil?" "But I mustn't say mean things about my future relatives, I presume. That is the great trouble with your informal scheme, Harry. It seems to be working like a charm, and now that I've got something to do I'm not so strong for it as I was. But I gave you my word, *y*. Only mind this—if the rules prescribe a perpetual course of Sunday dinners in family's life— ing to break down and turn out a natal born diviner. There are limits to human endurance, and I'm human, whatever else I am not." CIIAPTER XVL CEMMER glumbered to its close. A drowsy autumn settled upon our valley, in which its traditional peace seemed but the more profound. Josie Lockwood announced that she was going away to school in New York for the winter. Pete Willing took the pledge and kept it almost a month. Will Bigelow secured time tables and laboriously mapped out his semiannually contemplated trip to the east-like the others, destinied never to come off. Tracey Tanner went to work for Grumman & Duncan. Roland Barnett paid ostentatious attentions to Bea Ga- ```markdown ``` BESS GARDINEL brief, who tolerated him simply because she didn't much like Joel; but brighted by Joel's supreme indifference, this budding passion drooped and failed by mutual consent of both parties concerned. Angle Tuthill became more conspicuously than ever the or of Tracey's universe. Duncan walked home with Joel on two week day evening and twice on Sundays and learned how to play hatha and parcheesi. The two were so well known that Sothern & Lee vainly contesting its conquering campaign. And Duncan grew thoughtful. One has more time to think unselfishly in Indville than in a great city, where there's rarely more time than enough to think of one's own concern. And Duncan was making time to think about others, notably Betty Graham. The girl was, as usual, abl, reticent, reserved. She kept her thoughts to herself, sharing her most intimate thoughts with Duncan, but Duncan drilled that she was unhappy. He saw her go and come, a wistful shadow on the borders of his occupations, self contained, a little timid, but at the same time brave in her own quiet, uncompromising fashion. And the distant look in those soft eyes he divined to be one of longing for that which she might, not possess—the advantages that other girls had, socially and educationally; the pleasures they contrived, the attentions they received, the thousand and one slight things that make existence life for a woman. He saw her drooping insensibly day by day, growing a little paler, a shade more aloof and listless. And he became infinitely concerned for her. He told himself he had solved the problem of her disease, but its remedy remained beyond his reach. The business was doing very well indeed, but it was still young and must be subjected to as few financial drains as possible. As it ran there was an income sufficient to board, lodge and clothe the three of them, maintain the credit of the partnership and now and again admit of a slight but advantageous addition to the stock of fixtures. Things would certainly be better in the course of time, but— It came to pass that he left the store early one evening, excusing himself on the plan of some slight indisposition, and lost himself for the space of two bounces. He found himself shortly after 8 at pause by the gate to the Bohun place. An aged negro batter, one of the freed slaves brought from Virginia by the Bohun, admitted him to the hall and took his card, another his own wondermark, for in those days nobody disturbed the silence and the peace of decay of the Bohun mansion save its master. Duncan had long to wait "Cunnel Bobin will see yo', suh," the servant said and ushered him into the library. Bobin received the young man standing. He was as courteous beneath his own roof as he was impossible away from it. The colonel nodded. "At your serv- "The colonel nodded. "At your service, sir," and waited grimly. Duncan had his own way of kottinn at things. "May I impi'reo, sir, if you are acquainted with the firm of L. J. Bartlett & Co. of New York T" "I have heard of it, Mr. Duncan." "Then would you mind doing me the favor of writing to Mr. Henry Kellogg, the junior partner, and asking him about me?" "The colonel stiffened. "May I ask why I should do anything so uncalled for?" "Because it isn't uncalled for, sir. I mean you won't think so after I've explained." Bohui inclined his head, searching Nat's face with his keen, bright eye. "You are, sir, it's this way. I want you to intrust me with a considerable sum of money, and naturally you would not do this without knowing something about me." "I incline very much to doubt that I should do it in any event, Mr Dunn can." "Oh, don't say that. You don't know the circumstances as yet." Nat jerked his head warnedly at the colonel. "You poor you're said to be one of the rich men in town, and I'm certainly one of the poorest, so of course I turn to you in a case like this." Duncan could have sworn that the eyes were twinkling beneath the savely knitted brows. "You must understand I'm in business here in Radville—a partner in a growing and prospering concern—doing—very well in point of fact." "Yes?" "But we haven't any spare capital. In fact, we haven't got any capital worth mentholing. But the business is entirely sound and solvent." "I congratulate you, sir." "This you are very much. Now, I'm interested in a rather singular case, that of a young woman—a girl. I should any-daughter of my partner. She's a good, girl and wonderfully sweet and that, sir. She comes of one of the best families in these parts." "On her mother's side," suggested the colonel dryly. "So I'm told, sir. But she's been neglected. Circumstances have been against her. She hasn't had a real chance in life, but she ought to have it, and I'm going to see that she gets it one way or another." "You haven't finished?" said the colonel coldly. "Not quite, sir," said Duncan. "Good sign," he told himself. "He hasn't ordered me out yet." He came down to meet, sir, he might come to the good boarding school for a few years. I'll make a new woman of her—a woman to be proud of. She's got that in her. It only needs to be brought out." "And before you leave, sir," said the colonel with significant precision, "will you be so kind as to inform me why you think this should interest me?" "No," said Duncan candidly; "I haven't got the nerve to. But what I wanted to propose was this—that you lend me $500 to cover the expense of the first year on condition that I represent the money as coming from the profits of the business and, in short, I am the firm that will own our services absolutely quiet. If you'll inquire of Mr. Kellogg he'll tell you can be trusted to keep my word. For thermore"—he galloped, sumpeting that his time was perilously short and desiring to get it all out of his system—"I'll guarantee you repayment within a year and that you shouldn't annoy this way a second time." Bobun looked him over from head to foot, bowed in silence and, turning both had stood throughout this pas sage—grasped a bell rope by the chimney and held it up to the ceiling to the absolute fairness of that dreary house somewhere a bell tinkled discordantly. A moment later the white headed darky butter opened the door. "Ssh!" he said. Colonel Dohun essayed to speak cleared his throat angrily and indi ANGIN BECAME THE ORD OF TRACKET'S UNI- VERSE. "Belpio," said he, "this gentleman will have a glass of wine with me." "Yasmin!" stumped the aeron. Bohan turned to his guest. "Don't you be settled, Mr. Duncan?" he said. "You have interested me considerably, sir, and I should be glad to discuss the matter with you." Speechless, Duncan gasped in earnestly and moved toward a chair as the servant reappeared with a tray on which was a decanter of sherry and two old fashioned, thin stemmed crystal glasses. He placed this on the library table, filled the glasses and at a sign from Robin retired. said the colonel, indicating the tray, "to you. I hold it a privilege, air, to drink to the only, gentleman of spirit it's been my good fortune to meet this many a year." By way of an aside, it should be mentioned that this was the first and only drink Duncan took while he lived in Radville. CHAPTER XVII PROBABLY nothing ever gave more to more comment in Hardville than Betty Grisham's departure to spend the winter at a boarding school near Philadelphia. Hardly any one knew anything about it—in fact, the rumor of it was just being noticed about and contemptuously discredited on all hands—when Tracy galloped down Main Street Monday morning with the news that she had left on the early train. Radville was at Ust stupefied, then clamorous, but there was little information to be got out of old Sam. Duncan himself refused to interview. He told everybody who had the impudence that he mattered if it was Mr. Grisham's affair. Mr. Grisham was a substantial business man, he said, and if he chose to send his daughter away to school he had a perfect right to do so. One direct result of it all was to hasten Josie's own leave taking. It would never do to let the Grisham elapse the Lockwoods, you see. Josie had been talking of going to a school in Marvell, but Betty's move to a ```markdown ``` A PARTY GOWN FOR STATE OCCASIONS fashionable center like "Philadelphia made her change her mind, and arrangements were made by which Joelle was able to get Betty one better. A young ladies' seminar in New York city itself received Joelle. She left us bereaved of a week after Betty vanished from our kit, but promised to be back for the Christmas holidays. Betty was happy, she protested in every communication, and wholly content. She was getting along. The other girls liked her, and she liked them, these statements being made in the order of their relative importance Lots of them, of course, were frightfully well sued (Betty annexed "frightfully" at school, by the bye) and had all sorts of clothes. The drug store, not to be outdone, supplied her with a party gown for state occasions. Josie kept her promise and came home for Christmas. She was reticent as to her impressions of the New York summary, but seemed extremely glad to be home, notwithstanding the fact that Nat had apparently contracted no disturbing alliances, with the other belles of our village. And Roland remained true—a reliable second string to Josie's bow. Roland was working hard at the bank, with an application that earned Blinky Lockwood's regard and outspoken approbation, and his Christmas raiment proved the sensation of the season. In passing I should mention that Betty didn't come home once throughout the entire school term. The Christmas and Easter holidays she spent with a girl friend at her Philadelphia home. Meanwhile life in our town simmered gently. Duncan continued to make progress. For one thing I recalled that he put in hot soda with whipped cream, which helped a lot to hold the trade regained in the summer from Bothern & Lee. Occasionally Duncan visited some of the town in the county to develop the small order business which he had successfully inaugurated and which increased materially the profits of the firm. There was a certain night along toward the 1st of January when trade was dull, as it always is after Christmas, and there was nobody in the store save Nat and Tracey. Each had their task, whatever it may have been, and each was burdened with it, but of the two Tracey seemed the more realised. store. "What's the trouble, Tracey?" Tracey pulled up with a stare of con- fusion. "I—I duuno, Mr. Duncan; I was thinkin' I guess." "Anything gone wrong?" "Not yet." "Somebody been demonstrating that your doll's stuffed with sawdust, Tracey?" "No; o, but, say, Mr. Duncan"—Tracey's confusion became terrific. "Say on, Mr. Tanner." Tracey struggled perceptibly. The words when they came were blurted, "Ah, I was only thinkin' bout Angle." "Do you ever think about anything, also?" "No." Tracey admitted honestly, "not much. But I was deridern"—"Well." "Aro you stuck on Angla, Mr. Duncan" demanded Tracey desperately. "Great ankles! I hope not!" The boy sighed. "Thank you, Mr. F DUNCAN TRAVELLED TO THE NEIGHBORING KINGDOM TO DEKKS OR BUSINESS Duncan. I was only worryin' because you and Angle is singin' together in the choir now Josie Lockwood's gone to school an-'angle Angle the purture girl in town-an' I was 'fraid't you might like her best when Josie's away. An' I wanted to ask you to pick out 'smother girl'. Duncan chuckled silently. "Tracey," he said presently. "It strikes me you must be in love with Angle." The boy gulped. "I—I am." "And I think she's rather partial to you." "Do you, really, Mr. Duncan?" "I do. Do you want to marry her?" "Gee! I can't hardly wait! Only." Tracey continued, disconcerted. "It המשפט שהצגנו "WAS ONLY THINKIN' ASBOE ANGRY" kno't no reu, really. She's 'pour an' swell an' old man Tutillis' so rich—not like the Lockwooda', but rich all the same—an' I'm only the son of the livery stance an' man 'fat an' all that—an' "Nonsense, Tracey!" Nat, interrupted family. "If you really want her, and grabs it." long's rules at length, adapting them to Tracey's circumstances, of course, and throughout maintained, the gravity of a graven image. "You try and you'll see if I'm not right," he concluded. "Gosh, I b'lieve, you are!" Tracey cried admiringly. "I'm just gain' to see how it works." "Do, if you'd' favor me, Tracey." "Say, Mist-Not, you've treated me somethin' immense." "Your mistake, Tracey. I haven't treated anybody since I've been here. I'm on the wagon." "I mean just now, when we was talkin' 'bout me an' Angie. I'd-I'd like to help you the same way if I could." "You would?" Duncan eyed the boy apprehensively, wondering what was coming. "Yes, indeedy, I would. An' p'shape kin tell you somethin' that will." "Speak, I beg." "You—er—you're tryin' to court Josie Lockwood, aln't you?" "Oh!" said Nat. "So that was it! That's a secret, Tracey," he averred. "All right. Only if you are she's your'n." "Just how do you figure that out?" "Oh, I kın tell. She was in here to night with Roland." "Denight?" "Yes, just after you come home from prayer meetin'. She was lookin' for you, an' when she seen you wasn't here she wouldn't wait for no soda nor ```markdown ``` HE STRIPPED OFF THE TOP ONE. mothin'; said she had a headache an' was gain' home. Roland went with her, but she didn't want him to. You just missed seen' her." "Heaven's, what a blow!" "But Roland's takin' her home needsn't upset you none." "Thank you for those kind words, Tracey." Nat sighed and passed, a troubled hand across his brow. "You're a true friend." "I'm tryin' to be. Nat, same's you are to me." Tracy thought this over. "But you ain't foolin' me, are you?" he baked presently. "I mean 'bout bein' a true friend?" "Why should I?" "Ah, I dunno. You're so curn's sometimes. I ain't never sure whether you mean what you're sayin' or not." "Oh, don't say that." "Well, I sin't the only one. Everybody in town says they don't understand you half the time." Duncan moved over to Tracey. His face was entirely serious. "Tracey," he said, dropping a hand on the boy's shoulder, "do you know, nothing in life is harder to bear than not to be understood?" Tracey wrestled with this for a moment, but it was beyond him. "Then why the dickens don't you talk so's folks 'll know what it's about?" he dwindled besetedly. "Because—hun!" Duncan hesitated, with his inorganic amile. "Well, because the rules don't require it." "What'd you mean by that?" Tracey exploded. "Well, you hurry along. I'll close up this shop." To Duncan, now seated on the edge of an upturned box in a corner of the store, came an idea. He drew a roll of bills from his pocket and stripped off the top one. "Here's $5," he said to Tracey. "Girls can usually be captured by puddlecloth expenditures. I wish you luck." "Ah, thanks, Mr. Duncan." "But Tracey"— The boy paused at the door. "What?" "Remember what I told you. Don't you make too much love. Let Angie do that." "Gosh, that'll be the hardest rule of all for me." A shadow clouded Tracey's honest eyes. "But I got to do it that way, anyway. I can't ask her to marry me yit. I can't afford to get married." "It's a contrary world, Tracey, a contrary world," sighed Nat in a tone of despair malancholy. "What makes you say that? You can get married 'soon' 'you want to.' " "You think so, Tracey?" "All you got to do is 'ask Josie'." "I'm almost afraid you're right." Alias Jimmy Valentine A Most Thrilling Story Thousands Have Gone Wild Over the Play. You Will Have the Most Exciting Time of Your Life Reading the Story. To Appear in These Columns Soon. Novelized by Frederick Thousands Have Gone the Most Exciting Tire To Appear in "Why? Don't you want to git married?" "Well"—Nat smiled—"no. Don't believe I do, not just now, at any rate." "Well, you don't have to if you don't want to. G'd night." "Yes, I do." Not told Tracey's back. "The rules say so. If the girl asks me I must." He grimaced ruefully beneath his wisp of a mustache. "Anyhow, I've got a few months left." So the winter wore away, and as spring drew alight upon our valley Duncan seemed to grow perturbed, even as he had been in the autumn before Betty went away. Duncan urged Ram to move his household from over the store to a house. He pointed out that a separate residence distinctly befitted the dignity of a man who was at once a prominent inventor and one of ladrille's leading merchants (vide a "Personal" in the late issue of the Radville Citizen), to say nothing of the social position of his daughter-meaning Betty. And the house Duncan had his metaphorical eye upon was large enough to shelter Nat himself in addition to the Graham family. Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of duobety or dissent. Whatever Nat proposed in Sam's understanding was right and feasible, and even if it wasn't really so Nat would make it so. They engaged the house and moved. Miss Ann Bophronisba Whitmarsh, a malden lady of forty-five or thereabouts, popularly known as "Phrony," had been coming in by the day to "do for" old Sam in the rooms above the shop. She was engaged as resident housekeeper for the new establishment and entered upon her duties with all the discreet joy of one whose maternal instincts have been suppressed throughout her life. She mothered Sam, and she mothered Nat, and she painted in expectation of the day when she would have Batty to mother. OUAY'S WIDOW DIES Late Senator's Widow Victim of Apoplexy at Home. Mrs. Agnes B. Quay, widow of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, died at her home, Oak Spur road, Shields, station, near Pittsburgh, Pa. 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The gale was blowing fifty miles an hour when Highland Light was passed, and hauling well into the northward, made the ten miles of sand dunes around this point to the Race. the worst kind of a lee shore. The tow lines snapped and a few minutes later the barges were in the breakers. In the marine history of Capo Cod no large vessel has yet grounded on Peaked Hill bars and escaped destruction. The three barges began breaking up almost immediately, and by daylight wreckage was coming ashore and sunrise disclosed but one of the three barges remaining, and that one, the Pine Forest, was showing every indication of following the fate of the other two. On the beach stood three life saving crews, powerless to aid the men who could be seen clinging to the wreck of the Pine Forest. Bristching out for 800 yards was a gathering mass of tum Fling seas, in which even a lifeboat could not have lived, while the distance was too far for a shot from the life gun. The tug, which hovered in the offing, was unable to run in close for fear of grounding also. The life savers patrolled the beach and their watch was soon rewarded by the discovery of two bodies logging about in the breakers. These were hauled ashore. About each body was strapped a life belt, on which was stenclled the word "Treverton." In the meantime the Pine Forest was being hammered mercilessly. The crew clung on until about 10 o'clock, and then, giving up hope of help from shore, launched their own lifeboat and tumbled into it. The second sea that hit the barge, after the crew left her, swopt around her storm, and those on shore saw the four men thrown into the surf. This completed the fatalities of the day, and the life savers hauled their apparatus back to the houses, but continued their patrol for bodies. The Lykons remalned around until it was seen that all the barges were wrecked and then ran around into Provincetown. 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Matthews, James Mitchell and Frank Fifer, all farmers, received letters similar to the foregoing. Mr. Cluff did not heed the "warning note," but sent to Baltimore for Detective Robert W. Walter, who secured the services of a colored detective named Williams. Williams started in to work as a farm hand among the colored employees. Braxton was the first man arrested, and upon cross-examination confessed, implicating Thomas. Braxton said the first letter was sent to Cluff because his wife was convalescing from typhoid fever and they thought Cluff would part with the money to prevent any excitement. The federal authorities may be asked to prosecute, as the letters were sent through the mail. Carnegie Trust Report Delayed. Interest in the Carnegie Trust company's failure in New York city is centered in the forthcoming report of the state bank examiner, O W. Cheney, as to the exact status of the bank's resources. 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Bone, North 8259-m. pany has total deposits of $8,896,700, of which the preferred deposits were $4,765,380. The difference of $4,319,100 was subject to the legal reserve law. Hence the 15 per cent reserve that should have been in the vaults would have amounted to $600,000. The company, which was organized some five years ago, has had such a procratic existence that it came to be known as "the stormy petrel" in the Wall street district. The gentlemen who organized it used Mr. Carnegie's name without his consent, in spite of this he came to its assistance three during or three moments, and his retusal to do so the fourth time was the final result of its downfall. Gallagher Gets Twelve Years James J Gallagher, who attempted to kill Mayor Gaynor, of New York, in Hoboken, N. J., as he was abbot to sail for Europe last August, was found guilty in Jersey City of atrocious assault with intent to kill Street Cleaning Commissioned Edwards of New York, who was shot while attempting to aid Mr Gaynor. Justice Swayze sentenced Gallagher to twelve years in state's prison at Tronton, and further until the cost of prosecution is paid. Jersey justice, provocably swift, moved with colority in Gallagher's trial. The jury was chosen in a little more than ten minutes, two of the men selected having acted on the jury that declared Gallagher sane. Assistant Prosecutor Vickers opened for the state, taking exactly four minutes. The employees of the steamship company told how Gallagher came to the steamship and inquired for Mayor Gaynor Their testimony was taken in five minutes, and Commissioner Edwards took the stand and told of the shooting and how he went to Mayor Gaynor's assistance. Asphyxated by Auto. Gas emanating from an engine of an automobile caused the death of Dr. John Aloysius Hemteger, aged fifty-six years, of Chicago. The doctor died from the effects of carbon dioxide which he inhaled while cleaning his machine. The death is said to be the first of its kind on record. to be the first of its kind on record. According to Edward Homesteger, his son, the physician found that a quantity of carbon had accumulated in the muffler and engine cylinders and poured a mixture of wood alcohol and kerosene into them to clean them out. He then started the engine and opened the cut-off valve in the muffler. The garage door was closed and there was no outlet for the gas. The physician was almost overcome, but he managed to open the door of the garage. He was taken to his residence, where he died the next day. Physicians hold an autopsy and declared that death was due directly to poisoning of the heart by the carbon dioxide gas. No Pardon In Peonage Case. President Taft has refused to commute the sentence of imprisonment of W. B. Harlan, manager of a great lumber and turpentine company doing business in Florida and Alabama, convicted of conspiracy to violate the poonage statute of Florida. Harlan must serve a term of eighteen months' imprisonment and pay a fine of $5000. In his comments, speaking of poonage, the president says: "It is a kind of offense that is regarded lightly in some communities. If permitted to live at all, it will spread rapidly its domestication influence. "When, therefore, a man of high business standing and large enterprises is convicted of the offense the punishment should be such as to deter others from the practice. Fines are not effective against men of wealth. Imprisonment is necessary." $50,000 Mall Bags Stolen. Three bags of registered mail, valued at $50,000, have been stolen during the last few days in San Francisco or on the journey across the harbor to Oakland. 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We presume that Editor William Monroe Trotter was in his glory for agitation is his forte and sharp sayings his most convenient weapon THE TRUE REFORMERS. It is now announced that Grand Worthy Master A W Holmes has decided to call a meeting of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, the latter part of February. He deserves to be commended for his action. We are only wondering if he has delayed this action until it is almost too late. Still, he is on the inside and is therefore better able to judge of conditions than are we who are on the outside. This will certainly result in bringing matters to a focus. We have heard for some time that he has not received the cordial support of some of those about him in his effort to bring order out of confusion, unity of action out of chaos. He has now decided to give the representatives of the people a chance. The investigation on the part of the Grand Fountain should be complete and exhaustive, and the persons responsible for the present unfortunate conditions should be exposed and if need be punished. Each man is crying out, "It wasn't me", and it may be that some of them are telling the truth. It was somebody, and the public has the right to know who that somebody is. The day of concealment has passed. The searchlight of inquiry is now on, and the talk about its not being this man's business or the other or man's business is all moonshine. When people operate under a State charter with certain vested rights given to them by the public, they are subject to public supervision, and inquiry, although there are thousands of colored folks, who do not seem to know this. People who do not wish to have their business inquired into should never ask for a public charter. We hope that the representatives who will come to this city will be people of sound judgment and not that hurrah element which seems disposed to go from one extreme to the other. They are either in favor of giving a man they favor everything in sight or of taking from the man they dislike everything in their power regardless of the facts in the case. If we mistake not, there will be some lively times when that Grand Pountain gets in action in this city, and it may be that it can be induced to throw us de The vell of secrecy for one time and let the public have an insight into its workings upon this the most critical period in its existence. Upon its action will depend the future existence of the Order. We stand ready to assist all that we can to put the Order upon its feet again. It should be done, but it will require statesmanship of the highest order to bring about this result, and if Grand Master Holmes and his colleagues cannot find men of this caliber inside of the organization they should inside of the organization they should outside and get them. They should be secured, even if the searching party be required to cross the racial line and go among white men to find them. The old ship is on the rocks. She has not gone to pieces, but it will require but little more pounding to cause her to disappear beneath the waves of adversity and sink to rise, no more. O' CAN THEY "COME BACK?" The Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, has been called to meet, and now let us stop this recrimination business, saying that any one took this or that he took the other, or that anybody else did wrong. The facts will speak for themselves, and if anybody around there has done wrong and deserves punishment the public will know it. There have been sinister whisperings, talk about suing the officers and turning over their private property to the Order. All of this should cease lest some injustice be done A hearing of all parties to the controversy will be had and then it will be time enough "to speak out in the meeting." For the present, let all keep silence and await developments. We hope that the members of the Order will not desert at this time. Let the Fountains midtalk their organizations until the matter is finally adjusted. This is the only proper course to pursue until it is definitely ascertained that the Order cannot "come back." There has been even some criticism of what we have said upon this all important topic, but this matters little. We are here to represent the people in a journalistic way, and we are doing it. Thousands of dollars of our people's property are involved, and we would be recoast to our trust not to take some interest in a subject which so vitally affects the financial welfare of the race. We are here, though, to build up and not to pull down to encourage and not to discourage, to tell the truth and not to foster falsehood, and we shall carry out this policy regardless of those who may have "private axe to grind." We hope to see the Order get on its feet again. This is brought about by a local pride and would be emphasized and accelerated by any one who has crossed the American Continent and been asked from time to time "What about the True Reformers?" In addition to this, we are receiving letters making similar inquiries and statements are being openly made that this journal is the only one through which definite information can be obtained. The organ of the True Reformers cannot properly discuss much which can appear with propriety in these columns. We have decided to quit making, "Can the True Reformers Come Back?" As soon as the report of the receivers is made and the facts ascertained and there is a possibility of so doing, we stand ready to "put our shoulder to the wheel" and help them to "come back." A FAIR TRIBUNAL. We have repeatedly insisted that this State had a Supreme Court of able jurists in whose hands any citizen, regardless of race-color or previous condition of servitude could safely entrust his interests. We have declared time and again that the justice which we could not secure, at its hands we would be willing to go without. Our position in this matter is emphasized by the recent decision just handed down in the cases of Dallas Wright, white, and EJ. Jones and Rickard Perkins, colored, tried and convicted in Buckingham county of the murder of the Stuart Brothers. The testimony in the case reads like a novel. The Supreme Court granted a new trial to the colored men and denied a new trial to Wright, the white man, on the ground that there was a technical error in filing the application for an appeal, the time in which the same was filed being outside of the limits allowed by law. There is but little doubt but what Governor Mann will save Wright and that the new trial of the colored men will decide the fate of Wright as well. If Wright's case had been properly before the Supreme Court, he, too, would have been granted a new trial The Virginia of that Supreme Court are fearless and will do their duty. We have watched their actions for more than twelve years, and we would gladly recognize their decisions whether for or against us when they had carefully considered all of the facts in the case. It is a source of pleasure to know that even when jurists err that they do it conscientiously and that no factious spirit or racial prejudice enters into any of the mandates handed down from such an august tribunal. Let colored men look up and let them hope for the best. There is no use now of looking on the outside for friends. They are here in our very midst. All we want is justice, and an equality of opportunity, and there are white men ready and willing to give both to us. --- OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM The Richmond (Va.) City School Board gives out a statement of the needs of the public school system of this city and the amount asked appears at first blush to be 'frightful', but upon a closer examination it would seem to be a most conservative estimate. The John Marshall High School for a few pupils cost about a half million dollars and yet the additional amount requested for all of the children in Richmond, both white and colored will hardly double this amount. The statement is as follows The colored schools are ever worse. There are ten in use, of which none is reported as in good condition six being in bad condition and four only fair. Two colored schools were condemned outright last year and abandoned. Navy Hill Baker Moore and Armstrong are reported as being in fair condition while Valley School has no building at all renting quarters for classes. Fulton is in a building not suited to school purposes. Sidney is in a building not suitable and with location not suited to a colored school George Mason occupies two buildings and needs eight more rooms. Monroe needs eight rooms and is reported as unaffected from a fire standpoint, and Maury School. South Richmond, needs eight rooms and is unaffected from a fire standpoint. The School Board's proposition for meeting what Mr Hutzler described as a crisis in school work in Richmond is as follows Erect new Bellevue School ground and building estimated cost $80,000. Erect new Madison School, ground and building, estimated cost $100,000. Erect new Springfield School, ground and building, estimated cost $80,000. Erect new Sidney School, building only, estimated cost $50 000 Erect new Oakwood School, building only, estimated cost $40,000. Repair old High School building. to be used as administration building ing. moving school headquarters from City Hall. estimated cost $20,000 Repair Nicholson School, adding four rooms and more ground, estimated cost $20,000 Total for white schools $400,000 Erect new colored high and normal school giving up Leigh School, now occupied, to be used as a col ored elementary school, estimated cost $50,000 erect new Valley School, estimated cost $40,000, new Sidney School, estimated cost $20,000 new Fulton School, estimated cost $20,000 addition to Maury School, estimated cost $20,000 addition to George Mason School, $20,000, Total for colored schools, $170,000 New equipment for all new schools, $30,000 Total asked for: $600,000 The construction of the new buildings asked for will give a seating capacity as follows. White schools, new, 4,230 repaired, 4,850, now in operation, continued, 4,439, total, 13,519 Colored schools, new, 3,650, now in operation, continued, 2,060, total, 6,710 Grand total, 20,229. In order to finance so large an outlay and give time for preparing suitable plans and securing locations, Mr. Hutler suggested that instead of an immediate bond issue for the whole amount, the city guarantee a system of continuing appropriations, providing $200,000 by January 1, 1912; $200,000 by January 1, 1913; $100,000 by January 1, 1914, and the remaining $100,000 by January 1, 1915. The plan proposes the erection of nine new buildings and extensive alterations to four others. Under it the board could probably start active work on three during 1911, and proceed with the others as most needed during the three succeeding years. Appropriation for addition to Chimborazo School. already authorised Appropriation for Arents School building .... 222,172,00 Grand total ..... 222,172,00 It will be seen that the amount asked for white schools is four hundred thousand dollars, and for colored schools one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. This shows a disposition to be fair to the children of both races, and is a ringing testimonial to the patriotic spirit inherent in the average Virginian, irrespective of religion or politics. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE MECHANIC ICE SAVING BANK OF RICH MOND, LOCATED AT, RICH MOND, IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS 7TH DAY OF JAN., 1911, MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION: into down Resources. Loans and discounts... $26,336,67 Overdrafts, unsecured $1,198.54... 1,198.54 Bonds, securities, etc., owned, including premium on same... 2,630.00 Banking house and lot... 37,457.61 Other real estate owned 87,222.97 Furniture and fixtures 15,463.93 Due from National Banks 25,069.68 Paper currency... 1,504.00 Fractional paper currency nickels and cents 377.57 Gold coin... 700.00 Silver coin... 111.80 Total... $198,815.24 Liabilities. Resources. Capital stock paid in... $ 31,690.00 Undivided profits, less amount paid for interest, expenses and taxes. $ 1,535.44 Individual deposits $ 35,296.66 Demand certificates of deposit $ 20.00 Time certificates of deposit $ 650.00 Savings deposit $ 121,323.14 All other items of Liability, viz. $ 8,300.00 Total $198,815.24 I. Thomas H. 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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 is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest acting active, upbuilding, SPOT TOUCH ING REMOVE ever devised, and so cure himself of those quietly and quickly. Just drove this: DR. A. E. ROBINSON, $395 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 $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. Dr. Smallwood's Great Work. (Continued From First Page.) pure religious and a consistent Christian character in his pupils. "Let the pupil get a religion that will restrain him. Let him build up a good, substantial moral character, and let him cultivate race pride and learn how to speak of his fellowman and how to deal with men. Let him learn to love that Negro who succeeds by push and by honesty, courage and sacrifice." said President Smallwood to your correspondent. The institution owns one of the finest and best farms on the Cabin Point Road, just out of the village. This farm is valued at $4,500. Dr. Smallwood recently bought seven acres of land right in the heart of Claremont, just where, or near by where the Southern Railroad shops are to be built. Dr. Smallwood has just built a barn-basted, 68x30 feet, costing $1,500, and in it he has some of the finest horses in Surry County Mr A D. Price, the popular (and just so) undertaker, in East Leigh Street, Richmond, has just shipped to the institution 4th I B Mall Steanner "Pocahontas," James River route) a span of very fine blooded horses for the River School Farm. The old Claremont Wharf, where the second cargo of slaves landed in 1621, is about to be rebuilt, at which point along the James River the steamers passing will be permitted to land passenger and freight. Let the writer ask is there another man in all of this Southland who would even undertake to do what John J. Smallwood has done—actually established a practical institution with out any special religious creed, and with the co-operation of a single Christian minister in his State, and yet discouraged, at times, unjustly, humiliated, most cowardly and willfully slandered and ignorantly misrepresented this man, without a word of protest, has worked one of the greatest race examples of the age. It is a fact that Dr. Smallwood has been known to run the institution for nine months with only six pupils in the fall term, 15 in the winter term and 18 in the spring term, yet he paid his teachers, ran the farm and continued the work, while the mere critil laughed at him or spoke of him as a mere "dreamer". but today the institution owns over $50,000 worth of property, with less than $3,000 debt. Dr Smallwood said, "I don't want a lot of pupils just at this time but I want the good material quality and pluck I want a small number of pluck I want a small number of pupils for the present. Let the Negro learn to walk before he tries to run. There will be lots of Negroes and white people in Heaven if they can go there in a crowd—whatever may be the make-up of that crowd. The young Negro with specific purpose don't want to go to school. He does not want to begin at the bottom round of the ladder. He wants to enter a university with the crowd, when really he is not able to carry intelligently primary studies. I care absolutely nothing for the crowd of Negroes who go to school to be in the crowd, who boasts of the crowd only as his part of it. I want it distinctly understood that I am not ashamed of this institution nor the work it has accomplished since 1892. I can point you to lawyers, doctors, merchants, one banker, two civil engineers, four missionaries under independent efforts, 78 'school teachers and 14 ministers of the gospel who began their educational start here, and 98 farmers who are buying their farms. I have never heard an oath upon those grounds. I have never seen a fight, never heard an obscene word uttered, nor have I seen an act performed for which I would blush; have never seen a man drunk, was never compelled to expell but two pupils. There never was a scandal upon these grounds, and not a pupil, with a single exception, was over sent to fall, to my knowledge. Some of the most distinguished lawyers, doctors, college professors, and many of our public men have not disdained to come to Claremont and iningle with the 'small number' in the 'small effort' for 'small good' they can and are doing in a small way for a race that is too great to receive such small American treatment that is daily handed down to them." President Smallgood never tells his rubst what he will do. He al- GRAND RAPID'S Choicest Furniture. IS BEING OFFERED BY US AT PRICES WHICH MEAN A CONSIDERABLE SAVING TO THE PURCHISHER. Giving to our Special Mid-Winter Reductions, We are Offering Many Beautiful Pieces for the Home at Lower Prices than you can Buy the Common Places Sort. From the Little Store You Must Buy in Small Lots and Pay High Prices. Don't Fall to Write Us. Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-711-713 E. Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. Furniture For The Home Beautiful. OFFICES FOR RENT. WELL LIGHTED, WELL VENTILATED OFFICES FOR RENT IN THE NEW MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. LIGHT, HEAT AND JANITOR SERVICE INCLUDED AT A RENTAL OF FROM $5.00 PER MONTH UPWARDS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PALATIAL AND CONVENIENT STRUCTURES IN THE CITY AND THE SERVICE RENDERED IS FIRST-CLASS. Apply to the AGENTS, or to MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK, 214 East Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia. Assets Represented Over $180,000,000.00. OFFICE TBIES BUILDING. George C. Jefferson W. Gordon Harvie. The undersigned have this day formed a co-partnership under the firm name of "JEFFERSON & HARVIE" for the purpose of conducting a General Insurance Business, Fire, Life, Accident, Liability and Automobile Insurance in the latest and most popular forms, placed promptly and on short notice. We will continue to represent the "OLD HARTFORD" FIRE INSURANCE CO., and the Accident Department of the AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. The continued patronage of our friends and the public is respectfully solicited. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Phone Monroe-2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Phone Monroe-2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style or Architecture. Job Work is Special. NORTH CAROLIN. AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE. Young Man, Golden Opportunity Knocks at Your Door to day. If You Would Enjoy Some of the Rich Biosigns Opportunity is Offering You, W to at Once to the A. & M. COLLEGE for Catalog and Learn How You Can Become Independent as a Scientific Farmer, a Skillful Mechanic or an Experienced Teacher. Isham Mann Co. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN. Fine Funeral Supplies, Fine Hacks and Hoeares, First Class Service. HIGH GRADE CASKETS AT THE LOWEST PRICES. All Orders Promptly Attended—Either Day or Night. Hall for Meetings and Entertainments. NO. 9 EAST DUVAL STREET. RESIDENCE—118 East Leigh Street. Telephone, Madison-2574-J. D. J. FARRAR, Co. ALL KINDS OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANIC Phone M RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRTH Phone M Special Attention Paid to the T Any Style or Architecture GOLDEN OPEN NORTH CAROLIN. AGRICULTURE Young Man, Golden Opportunity If You Would Enjoy Some is Offering You, W be at Once to and learn How You Can Become a Skillful Mechanic or an Experienced Board, Lodging and Tuition tion or Further Information, Adoption PRES. JAMES B. DUDLEY, A. 'Phone, Monroe-2400. Isham M. FUNERAL DIRECTOR LIVERY Fine Funeral Supplies, Fine Hacks HIGH GRADE CASKETS All Orders Promptly Attend Hall for Meetings NO. 9 EAST D. RESIDENCE—110 ways talks about what he is trying to do now for his race, his life work and his country and for temperance. to do now for his race, his life work and his country and for temperance. The rebuilding of the old Clarmont Wharf will cost at least $2,500 or $2,700. Mr. Smallwood thinks he can get it rebuilt for less, but men who know all about what they are talking say that it will cost $3,000 to rebuild the old wharf. The manager's cottage will cost $1,800; the heat for the newly rebuilt Old Bagloy Hall will cost $1,340. The "Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hall" will be built during the approaching spring and summer. Brick will be made on the school grounds. Mr. Smallwood deserves great praise for his timeliness and true-heartedness. It is said that great preparation is being made for one of the greatest Negro newspaper men in the country to become Mr. Smallwood's general confidential man and co-worker. Dr. Smallwood will not affirm nor deny this statement. Every true race man should help at least to encourage this independent spirit, as is seen in Dr Smallwood. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond, Va., Jan. 16, 1911. This is to certify that I have re ceived from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., B. A., M. A., A. and A. (516,66) GEORGE C. JEFFERSON. W. GORDON HARVIE. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. OF CARRY ENTRY, MANICOS SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Source-2037. STREET SHOP IN REAR. Source-2166. Making of Contracts for Building of Store. Job Work a Specialty. OPPORTUNITY. NATURAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE. Family Knocks as Your Door to day. of the Rich Blessings Opportunity to the A. & M. COLLEGE for Catalog Independent as a Scientist Farmer, Enforced Teacher. $7.00 Per Month. For Free Tid- dress, and M. College, Greensboro, N. C. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Mann Co. FOR, EMBALMER AND RYMAN. Knicks and Hearsee, First Class Service. AT THE LOWEST PRICES. Ended—Either Day or Night. and Entertainment. DUVAL STREET. 8 East Leigh Street. One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death-claim of Brother Zebedee Wallace, who was a member of Venus Lodge, No. 46, or Richmond, Va. Signed: BENJ. A. GRAVES, Executor. Witness: Benj. Jackson, Robert Gray, S. D., G. C. WILSON TAKES OFFICE Chief Executive of New Jersey is Sworn In. Woodrow Wilson is now the governor of New Jersey. As a salute of seventeen guns boomed forth he took the oath in Trenton, which was administered by Chief Justice W. S. Gummere, that he will bear true faith and allegiance to the government established in this state under authority of the people. The induction of Dr. Wilson into the office of chief executive took place in the Taylor Opera House. Here the members of the senate and the assembly met in joint session, prosided over by President of the Senate Ackerman, and witnessed the impressive inaugural ceremonies. Desided the lawmakers, the exorcists were witnessed by 2000 people who crowded the theater to the door. ```markdown ``` Editor Mitchell's Long Journey. (Continued From First Page.) opposite us on the other side of the mountain. A CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE. Foliage of various descriptions, areas in all of their radiant colors could be seen. We were in the land of summer at the foot of the mountain, and as the night wore on we could see the snow-capped mountains in the distance. We wrapped our overcoat about us as the cold air blasts swept that Overland Limited train from one end to the other, and we were on the outside, standing those peering into the night, to see the nights in this great Western country. THOSE REMARKABLE SNOW SLEDGES. We were soon in the land of snow and the large locomotive was pumging as it hauled that palatial trap up to the cloud line, where we saw snow and felt it falling. Then we passed through snow sheds of wood and one of the trainmen explained that this was necessary, as without them there would be impossible barriers of snow that it would require weeks of time to clear away. The next few minutes brought us above the cloud line, and we could see the stars and below the clouds. A SUBLINE SIGHT. The eight was wonderful, even in the night time, and we remained on the outside of the observation car looking at these wonders of nature. For miles we could see mountain peaks, and then the valleys and then other mountain peaks beyond. At times it seemed that just a broken rail or a spiked frog in the track would hurl that palatial train, with its human freight, hundreds of feet to the valleys and canyons below. THE JOHNSON-JEPFRIES FIGHT. The statement that we would soon be in Heng caused us to think involuntarily of Jack Johnson and James Jeffries, and this thought passed from one to the other. Even the bankers and their ladies were similarly affected. We reached this place at about 9 Oclok and found its inhabitants, and they passed, brilliantly lighted. There were evidences from the signs that this town was wide-open, from a good time point of view. THE CELEBRATED STADIUM The train stopped and we vaulted lightly to the ground. The train remained there but a short time and started again on its trip across the rockies. As we were passing the other section of the town the stadium was shown to us. It was not so far out from the station as had been reported, and it loomed up in the night. It did so of course that tragedy enacted on the Fourth of July and demonstrated the superiority of one of the desplaced race in the pugilistic arena so well prepared for the purpose. A NIGHT'S BEST It was only for a few moments and then we were whirled away on the lonely mountain, to dive in what seemed to be empty space, while all of us went inside of the Pullman cars and while some smoked most of the others crawled into the sung berth and after a few moments of bewilderment, while the mind dwell upon the championship fight, rest came with the unconsciousness which followed nature's effort to give us refreshed sleep. We swoke with a start and pored of relief on the door. We were whirled in the direction of Ogden, Utah. There was little of interest now to relieve the monotony until we reached the great Salt Lake. THE GREAT SALT LAKE We crossed the fill-in and then we waw piles of salt on the shores, where industrious workmen had gathered it from the water. They dig trenches and fill these trenches with the water from the Great Salt Lake. The sun evaporates the water and leaves a deposit of salt. So heavily impregnated with salt is this lake that a person can jump into it with impunity and the body will be held up in two foot of water. You cannot sink. A PECULIAR CONDITION All one has to do is to lay out flat and hold up the head. The reason for this is apparent. The head is the heaviest part of the body, and as a result will go to the bottom. Say, for an example, if a person attempted to tread water and to maintain an upright position the head would go downward and the foot would come to the surface, while if they would spread out the hands and float all of the body would remain on the surface of the water, and it would be only necessary to lift up the head above the water line and await the arrival of hail. Lake. It is the mystery of the ages. We were soon at Ogden. Not feeling hungry at lunchoon time and our train being late, we missed connection, and found that we would have to lay over an hour at Ogden, Utah. We went into the depot and called up Mr. Lawrence Marsh at Salt Lake City, advising him of our predicament and the time of our arrival. We went into one of the Post Card stores and purchased some of the much desired mementoes, and sent them to friends in Virginia. "Who can I get dinner?" we asked of a white boy who waited on us. "You can get dinner, at any of the restaurants around horo," he said; "but Porter's Cafe is the best in town." "NOTHING DOING." HE SAID. We went to the "best in, town," which turned out to be a very ordinary place. We took a seat at the table, while the lunch counter was just a few feet away. We noticed that the white waiter disappeared behind the curtain as we sat down and presently he reappeared. He approached us mildly and evidently with much embarrassment. He said, "Nothing doing, the manager says." He told him all right and politely handed Bim one of our engraved plate cards, with the request that he give it to the manager. He informed us that he would do so. THE LAND OF THE MORMONS Here we wore in the Far West, in Utah, the home of the Mormons, where many white men had three or four wives and where it would be naturally supposed that race prejudice was not in evidence, but we had met a rebuff, politely delivered, but no less severe. We felt the embarrassment no less keenly, and we wandered up and down the streets of Ogden, wondering why it was this dark cloud of racial prescription had permeated every nook and corner of the universe in this country and every atom of space in the atmosphere of this great country. AN EATING PLACE AT LAST. We were worse off here than we were in the Southland for there we knew just what to expect, and we could avoid these embarrassing experiences which are so galling to a person of fine sensibilities. Finally in a moment of desperation we asked a colored man, who seemed that he was a railroad porter, where we could secure accommodations. "Why?" said he, "you can be served over across the street. A colored man runs the place. You can get a butter meal though right here. A colored man and a Japanese are in partners." He showed us to the door and we entered. It was a cheap affair, but tidy. A JAPANESE AS A WAITRESS We called for a porterhouse steak, and we got it. The Japanese female, who appeared to be aged, had it ready in about fifteen minutes. It was all right and" equaled the expensive repast on the palatial diners of the Pullman Company COLORED MEN DISGUST US. While we sat there we saw three colored men standing in front of the door They belonged, it seemed, to the crap-shooting elements seen in so many Southern cities. The language used by them was course and disgusting We listened until we wished that we had the power to convince these colored men the injury that they were doing themselves and all of the other colored people, who came that why These "Jim Crow" Negroes were carrying in their wake these "Jim Crow" customs until a white man presumed that every other colored man belonged to that class. A RACE'S HANDICAP They presumed that they were all of the same class and therefore entitled to the same treatment. We thought of Porter's Cafe, where the manager did not come in to see us. He wanted to know if we were a Negro, and this brought forth the laconic information, clean and clearcit. "Nothing doing." We saw a colored barber shop next door where colored men were contentedly shaving each other. We stood there looking in, passed to one of them one of our bank circulars and then we strode away in the direction of the depot, where our money and our position would be recognized, and where once more we could assume the role of the Negro banker from Virginia. BOYALLY RECEIVED We were pleasantly greeted by the porter. We were only about an hour's run from Salt Lake City. We reached there in the night-time, and lawyer Lawrence Marsh was there anxiously awaiting our arrival. He told us that we must stop over until the next night and deliver an address at the most exclusive hall in the city. As we had only expected to stop giver from one train to another, we were much surprised, but consented. We entered the carriage in waiting for us, and a few moments later found ourselves ushered into Culinary's Hotel, one of the leading white hostelries in the city. The night clerk was evidently embarrassed. He could not find the room assigned us, and only found it when Attorney Marsh produced the receipt for the money paid; and we were told to believe that he thought that John Mitchell, Jr., the member of the American Bankers' Association was a white person's means. A HAVEN OF REST. The white bohlman took our luggage and we were conducted 40 one of the best rooms in the hotel. That night we went to a theatre with Attorney Marsh and his associates, and when we returned we found that our treatment thus far was similar to that experienced in Oakland, California. We retired that night, wondering what the next day would bring forth. Had we been able to foresee our experiences for the next twenty-four hours, we would hardly have slept so well this, our first night in Salt Lake City. Five-Year-Old George Molber, Who Was Blain by His Mother. JOHN H. BROWN Mrs. Melber Says She Fed Him Chocolate Until He Asked For Water, and Then Gave Him Poison to Drink. The funeral of five year-old George Melber, who was poisoned by his mother, Mrs. Edith Melber, in a swamp near Albany N. Y., took place from the residence of his grandparents in Schenectady. The confession which Mrs. Melber made was confirmed and added to in minor details in her semi-hysterical conversation with Detective Reed, who brought her from Rochester to Albany. A ruse of the Albany police disspo- pointed several thousand persons who crowded the union station and the streets outside to catch a glimpse of the woman on her arrival. They had the express stopped at West Albany, three miles from the center of the city, and Mrs. Melber and the detoc- tives who brought her from Rochester got out there. Thus when Mrs. Molber reached police headquarters in an auto-mobile the crowd there was comparatively small. Though pale and trembling, the woman maintained her composure until she got inalde her cell, and then she fa-tured. It was several minutes before she recovered sufficiently to be arraigned before the coroner, who has charge of the case at present. The police are investigating a story that Mrs. Melber intended to marry a young Scheeckady man as a possible motive for the crime. In answer to her plea that she was unable to give the boy proper care because she had no money to keep him in an institution, they present the declaration of the relatives of the child's dead father. These say that since the father's death they have made several efforts to have the boy placed in their care, but that the mother would not consent. The reason Mrs. Melber gave for this resful was that her husband's relatives declined to take the child unless she would agree to resign all claims on him. In her confession to the police after her hysterical outburst on being formally charged with the murder, when she first, denied, then admitted the crime. Mrs. Melber gave as an explanation that she could not place the boy in any institution because she could not pay for his support there. She had been told to remove him from the Children's home at Schoenectady, since she was falling to contribute any thing to his maintenance. "They told me," she said, "that I might take him to the Albany home. But there was no one there but a girl, and she said I'd have to get permission of the officers." Mrs. Melber candidly admitted that she told the Rochester police she had planned the murder of her boy; that she brought him from Schoenectady to Albany, bought him a bag of chocolate and then got 10 cents worth of carbolic acid and put the bottle in her shirt pocket. The boy slept with her that night and on the following day she took him to the country, fed him with the chocolate, and upon reaching the lonely swamp on the Danker farm, on the Echonecky turnipke, gave the lad the carbolic acid when he asked for water. Mrs. Melber said that she forced the bottle to the child's mouth, and it was during his struggles to get away from the fuild that the boy's face and hands were buried. Then Mrs. Melber told how she knelt down, kissed the dying boy, waited until life was extinct and laid the body amid the bushes in the swamp. NECK BROKEN; RECOVERS X-Ray Photograph Shows Vertebrae to Have Knitted Perfectly. One of the most remarkable cases on record of recovery from a broken neck was, noticed at the Charity hospital in Now 'Oriental, La., when a plaster cast was removed from Philip Hoffman, a boy of fourteen years, and an X-ray photograph showed the very tebrae to have knitted perfectly. B. A. CEPHAS, Richmond's Real Estate Agent. 602 North Second Street. THIS DERD B. A. C Richmond's R 602 North JEFFRIES TO FIGHT JOHNSON AGAIN San Francisco, Tex. 13 —According to reports, Tex. Rickard, one of the promoters of the Jeffries-John son fight held at Reno July 4 last, is making an effort to arrange a return engagement of these two fighters. Rickard has given it out that he holds Johnson's promise to meet Jeffries at any time that it may suit his pleasure; providing the right sized purse is offered, and Rickard is now working on Jeffries to get his consent to arrange the match. The fact that Jeffries has repeatedly charged that he was drugged on the day he fought Johnson leads to the belief that it will not be a difficult matter to incumbent to fight Johnson again. It would be the only way to prove that he is sincere in his claim and does not fear the color champion Just what view the public would take of such a match remains to be seen. Right now the appointment would be against a return engagement for those who can figure Jeffries as having a chance are few and far between. It would be looked upon as a mere effort on the part of those interested to get the public's money, and yet it might be that such a fight would draw an enormous crowd. This would surely be the case if reports from Jeffries's training camp should be of a nature to encourage those who are anxious to see Johnson beaten. HAS NOTHING TO LOSE Jeffries, of course, would have nothing to lose and everything to gain in such a contest. If he should be returned the winner he would be the most popular champion the game has ever had, and should he lose he would be no worse off so far as reputation is concerned than he is at the present time, while there would be a good chance to add to his fortune. Rickard has the reputation of being a hustler. Few promoters would attempt to arrange another meeting between these two fighters, not only because it is taking a long chance from a standpoint of investment, but also because it looks like being up against a hard game trying to loot. In the end, the enter the final. Rickard has succeeded when others have failed, and with not a single heavyweight in sight who could give Johnson an argument, Jeffries might have stronger support than is anticipated in that he would be the only 'white boo.' KAUFMAN PRAISED BY JACK JOHNSON Now York, Jan. 13 - Jack Johnson, who is here for a day or two, denies that he has a secret understanding with Al Kaufman to fight in London under Hugh McIntosh's management, but at the same time he says Kaufman is the best heavyweight in the world, barring him, of course. Johnson declares that Kaufman would "beat up" men as Joannette, McVoy and Sam Langford, simply because of his superior knowledge of boxing and his splendid physique. As for Bill Lang of Australia, Johnson says Kaufman can beat that gentleman in a few rounds, maybe half a dozen. "I don't believe At Kaufman wanna to fight me," says the heavyweight champion. "I hear he challenged me recently just to boost his show, and I don't think he will be ready to talk business for a long time. But whenever he is ready I am. No, there wouldn't be any interest in a fight between me and Langford, because, as I said some time ago, two negroes will not draw. That's why I think in time there'll be enough interest in a fight between me and Kaufman to get a big purse. If Kaugan won't fight I hope this fellow Morris out in Oklahoma will amount to something. I'd like to lick just one more white man before a retire. But I've got to get my price remember, before I get into the ring with anybody. "That story about Doping Mistah Jeetriles makes me laugh. He wasn't doped until I knocked him down a couple of times in the ring. Then he didn't know where he was. Bednish fellow's 'were out at Reno will This. EPHAS real Estate Agent Second Street. tell you that the done story is a joke. Would I fight Jeff again? in a minute. But just remember that Jeff is through with the ring forever. He don't want any more worry and bother. He's got plenty of money and enjoys an easy life. I don't believe you could get him to fight again even if you offered him $100,000, win, lose or draw, and that a whole lot of money. How much did I make out of the Reno fight? Well, all told, my end of it was about $140,000, counting in a $20,000 wager, and I ain't blowing it in, as some people would have you believe I've got the dough salted so that when the time comes to hang the back number sign over my door I'll be able to eat three square meals a day and sleep in a feather bed as long as I live! Lil' Arthur is a very, very wise person, believe me!" Carl Morris, by the way, knocked out a heavyweight named Spike Kennedy, of Kansas City, in two rounds at Bartlettville, Oskla. Wednesday night Morris scored four hard knockdowns before he put Kennedy asleep with a heavy right hand swing on the point of the jaw Kennedy was out for several minutes. Morris was wildly cheered by a large crowd as he left the ring His next match will probably be with Jim Flynn the Pueblo fireman at Tulsa, Okla. --- TECHNICALITY SKENDS HIM TO DEATH CHAIR (Richmond (Ya.) Times Dispatch) One of the most remarkable situations in the history of criminal prosecutions in Virginia has arisen in the case of W. Dallas Wright, the white man, who is under sentence of death for the murder of the Stuart brothers, in Buckingham county. Because of a technicality, the Supreme Court of Appeals, in a decision handed down yesterday, refuses him a new trial, yet grants new trials to the two nongroves who are accused with him, and against whom the evidence is identical with that in the Wright case. In view of this unique condition of affairs, Judge George M. Harrison, voicing the opinion of the court, says that tribunal deeply regrets that it is not in position to give the same measure of relief to Wright that I grants to the negroes. This statement is made, the court says, in the event Wright is advised to apply for executive interference in his behalf WILL ASK DELAY This will almost undoubtedly be followed by an appeal to Governor Mann for at least a stay of execution pending the retrial of the cases against the alleged accomplices. Inasmuch as the evidence is the same, the presumption is that the result of the coming trials will determine Wright's fate, unless the Governor should see fit to interfere in all three instances. Wright, with EJ Jones and Richard Perkins, was indicted for the murder of Tom and Bill Stuart, two aged men who lived alone in their cabin. They were reputed to be misers and to have much money secreted. A reward was offered, but it was some time before any arrests were made. Then two negroes made confessions or statements, charging the three men with the crime. The witnesses said they had been forced to accompany the murderers. This evidence was most vigorously attacked by counsel for the prisoners, but upon it convictions were secured in all three cases. TECHNICAL POINT In Wright's case the Commonwealth alleged that the bills of exceptions upon which the appeal was basand were not signed and made a part of the record, either while the court was in a salon or within thirty days after its adjournment Sixty days was allowed in which to file the appeal, and a sort of annoded order was entered. The Supreme Court holds that the Circuit Court of Buckingham county had no power to amend an order after adjournment. During the term, nays Judge Harrison, the record is in the breast of the court, but afterwards the record can be changed only in cases where it can be most safely done, and where it is not based on the recollection of the judge. Therefore, the new trial is not at PUT YOUR MONEY IN A HOME lowed, and the judgment of the low eer court is anrmmed. DENOUNCES OFFICER. Denunciation of the act of a deputy sheriff in Buckingham county and criticism of other officials, is the feature of the opinion written by Judge S G Whittle in granting a new trial to Ed. Jones and Richard Perkins, who were indicted with W. Dallas Wright for the murder of the Stuartus. The evidence shows that an officer took Perkins from his home without a warrant which was exhibited. They were met by a mob, which strung Perkins up time after time in the effort to extort a confession, which was not secured. Then Perkins was discharged by the deputy with instructions to report at the courthouse the next day, which order was obeyed "It is not possible to read the evidence bearing upon this episode," says the opinion, "without being satisfied that the deputy sheriff convived at this partial lynching of his prisoner." In addition, the court finds that other officials must have had some knowledge of this outrage, for they refused to testify on the ground that they might incriminate themselves In view of the excited condition of public feeling and of inflammatory editorials published in a local paper there should, says the court, have been a change of venue. Therefore, the judgment is reversed It is worthy of notice that seventeen of the cases decided yesterday by the court were reversed, two of these being in part, while only 12 were affirmed and one dismised. Richmond judges fared much better than the average . RODE IN NEGRO COACH Merely because a woman had to ride in a "Jim Crow" coach by herself, does not constitute sufficient grounds for damages, says the court in the case of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company against Stone from the Circuit Court of Nansenand county. In the opinion of Judge Whittle, reversing the declaration, the court shows that Mrs Rosa Stone was a passenger from Myrtle to Suffolk. She was told, she said, to go into the negro coach. Upon her arrival there she was informed by a colored woman she knew that she was in the wrong place. The conductor told her later, she says, to stay where she was. The conductor testified that he did not remember the occurrence, but that he would probably not have permitted a woman to have run the risk in passing from one car to another while the train was in motion, which the court thinks reasonable. It is sometimes difficult, it is contended, to tell the race of a person. The verdict of $600 granted by the lower court is set aside and a new trial granted --- Bhlo Bubsidy In Canada. Sir Wilfred Laurier has announced in the house of commons at Ottawa, Ont., that the ministry has decided upon granting a subsidy of £25,000 annually for steamship service between ports on the Pacific coast and China and Japan. The subsidy is not to run for a period of more than ten years. Taft Wants Canal Fortified. President Taft sent to congress a special message urging the fortification of the Panama canal. The president recommends that an appropriation of $5,000,000, to start the work on the proposed defense, be made at the present session of congress. ROBS PITTSBURG. THEATRE Well Dressed Man Holds Up Treasurer, Getting Away With $500. A tall, well dressed stranger entered the office of the Lyceum theater, at Pittsburgh, Pa. and, drawing a revolver from his pocket, ordered the treasurer, Joseph Paul, to be quiet. Then the man robbed the office of $500. Flatly pocketing the money, he ran into the crowded street and escaped. OLIVER RE-ELECTED Returned to United States Senate For Full Term. United States Senator George T. Oliver, of Pittburg, was re-elected senator by the Pennsylvania legislature for the full term of six years, begin- ning March 4 next. The vote in the senate was as follows George T. Oliver, 34, J. Henry Cochran, 7, Julian Kennedy (Ind. Rep), 5, William Flynn (Rep.), 2. Of a total of 201 votes cast in the house, Oliver received 147. The full ballot in the house was. George T. Oliver (Rep), 147, Julian Kennedy (Keystone), 20, J. Henry Cochran (Dem). 20, James E. Rollly, 3, Georgo W. Guthria, 1, Joseph B. Cohen, Philadelphia, 1, William H. Berry, 1 Melanp Connecticut Reporter George Payne McLean, of Simsbury, Republican, was chosen United States senator from Connecticut for the six- year term, beginning March 4 next, by the general assembly Mr McLean will succeed Morgan G. Bulkeley. Democrat Goes to Senate Representative G. M. Hitchcock, a Democrat, was elected United States senator to succeed Senator E. J. Burkitt of Nebraska. Washington Electra Polindexter. Washington Election Pollutor. By a vote of 86 to 10 in the Washington house of representatives and of 40 to 1 in the senate, the two branches of the legislature, meeting separately, elected Miles Polindextor, Insurgent Republican, United States senator over George F. Cotterill, Democrat. Townsend Elected In Michigan. Congressman C. E. Townsend, of Jackson, was elected United States senator by both branches of the Michigan legislature to succeed Senator J. C. Burrows. Minnesota Re-electa Clapp. Minnesota Roberts Clapp United States Senator Moseh H. Clapp was re-elected by both houses of the Minnesota legislature. Of forty-five Democrats in the legislature there were only seventeen votes that were not cast for Senator Clapp Utah Reelected Butherland. United States Senator George A. Sutherland was re-elected by the Utah legislature. Youtsey Daniell Pardon Touraine Denied Person Governor Willison, of Kentucky, refused to grant a pardon to Henry R. Youssef, convicted of the murder of Governor William Goebel. The governor says he believes Youssef guilty of a cruel murder and therefore refuses to grant the pardon. Train Kills Three Miners Peter Keanl, Frank Compestrina and Telly Kozularilife, miners on their way to work at Mount Carmel, Pa., were run down on a Pennsylvania railroad bridge and tilled. --- SATURDAY ... JANUARY 21, 1911. Dalay- lah ab go economical? Maliae Wed. she is saving her wedding dress for a possible second marriage Philadelphia Bulletin Nell Do you think Miss Talkalot really enjoys grand prizes? Belle oh yes fluently Philadelphia Record Patteine Getting married stopped his stammering Patteine How so? Patteine His wife won't let him open his mouth now Yankees Stateman. He I have been told that I was handsome She When was that? He -Today She No, I mean when were you handsome? Comic Cuts English Countess (admirably)—Your gown is just ripping my dear American Countess in alarm Oh, where? -Baltimore American Of 1400 parts of the moon 576 parts only are visible to us on the earth and 424 parts remain hidden from the effects of man. "Father what is an empty title?" "Well an empty title is your moth era way of calling me the head of the house." New York Herald One method of cooling oneself in China is to press a warmed towel on the face. After removing it the air seems cool and pleasant. Rifles are sold that have been first invented by tiger Zoller a native of Vienna. It was about the end of the fifteenth century. Actor And the audience my boy, were glued to their seats. Rival Ab that's a neat way of keeping them there. Thirty thousand earthquakes yearly disturb the surface of our globe but of those not more than sixty are heavy enough to do any serious damage. "My wife always kisses me when she wants money." "Well, she certainly earns all she gets." London Mail The pain of a mosquito bite is caused by a fluid injected into the blood to make it thin enough to pass down the insect's throat. Children are not received in work houses in either France or Austria. They are boarded out with pessant families. Shepherds of Landes, France, walk on stilts and think nothing of being perched up from dawn to dusk like this. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man who lives in a way that his place will be proud of him. Lincoln It is one of the ironies of fate that the man who has a job needn't dress so well as the man looking for one—Newark News. The Maiden-And where did you, baron, first see the light of the world? The Baron-When I met you.—Filigende Blatter Teacher-Now, Willie how many months have twenty eight days? Willie-All of them, and some of them have three days over Exchange. In a Japanese temple there is a large drum used in worship. It is called the kagura tako and gives a tone much like a gong. Little Nellie was out riding one day with her grandmother in the country. As she passed a village cemetery the little girl looked up at the old lady and asked "Grandma, how long is it after they plant people before their tombstones come up?"-Chicago News. "Little boy," she told the lady, the heron plume of her hat bobbing indignantly, "you must not throw stones at the sparrows. It's cruel." The boy did not seem overcome. "I spose de gog wot got de bold you're wearin' used chloroform," he responded.-Philadelphia Ledger. The various decorations that have been given to American officers and officials by foreign governments are deposited in the state department, where the recipients may see them and show them to their friends, but may not take them away or use them as having possession. "I notice, Edward," said a lady to her husband, "that whenever your employers advertise for clerks they stipulate 'must be married.'" "Tea, the blooming old tranta," asserted Edward, "they want men who are accustomed to being ordered about!" -Liverpool Mercury Bessie—Oh, Mabel, I am in an awful dilemma! I've quarreled with Harry, and he wants me to send his ring back. Mabel—That is too bad. Bessie—But that isn't the point. I've forgotten which is his ring—London Express. "All the world's a stage," remarked the callow youth. "Yeah," she replied, "but so few seem to realize that the last curtain goes down at 11 o'clock." Realizing that she had given him his one, the callow youth made a hasty exit—Exchange. "That's a rather curious looking permeweight," said one of Mr. Newlyweds' friends, taking up a brownish object, round and about half an inch thick, from the desk. "Yeah," said Mr. Newlywed. "It's only a temporary site. It's my wife's According to the best general estimate, there has been, but utilized a very wasteful manner about 35 per cent of our coniferous or pine forests. About 15 per cent more has beenasted leaving about 60 per cent of the total original supply for future use. Old time barristers in England did not openly receive fees for their services. An early method of collecting fees was the pocket which in medieval times a barrister used to have placed in the back of his gown into which the solicitor would surreptitiously slip the fee. A man had just become engaged to the widow of a rich tobacco unnan facturer. A friend of his, meeting him, remarked charitty "Hello, old man! I hear you are going to marry the widow w" "Yes," he replied seriously "And the weeds too." "Quighee is a quiet sort of chap. He told me yesterday that when he feels particularly fine and unbothered he always sits down and reads a book of poems." "And then when he gets hungry, I suppose, he sits down and reads a cookbook." A little girl, who was trying to tell a friend how absent-minded her grandpa was said. He walks around thinking about nothing, and when he remembers it he then forgets that what he thought of was something entirely different from what he wanted to remember." "I see you have my pamphlet on your desk," said the economist. "What do you think of it?" "It is betwixt and between," answered the heartless friend. "It's entirely too light as an argument and not heavy enough for a paperweight."—Washington Star "Yea," hesitated Mr. Justwed, "these biscuits are pretty good, but don't you think there ought to be just a little more." "Your mother made them," inter- rupted Mrs J quikly "of them!" ended Mr J with a bash of inspiration (Cleveland Leader "What are you doing here?" said the woman to the tramp, who had got over the wall just in time to escape the building "Mindam, he said, with dignity, 'I did intend to request something to eat, but all I ask now is that, in the in- terest of humanity, you'll feed that dog.' The altarross, the largest webfooted bird, measuring sometimes twelveeven feet from tip to tip of wing and weighing up to twenty pounds, freg- quently accompanies ocean steamers from the Cape to Melbourne, a dis- tance of 500 miles, without being seen to rest on the way The village drunkard of a little Connecticut batten staggered up to a man one evening and minuted. Shay, master, do you know where Tom Brien lirea? "Why, you are Tom Brien yourself." "Hang it. I know that, but where does he live." Butter to a friend who smokes in the home of a rich man—How does it come that you are smoking cabbage leaf cigars here in the house? Friend—I must, so that when my master returns he will not think that I smoked so many of his imported brands—Meg gendorfer Blatter "If you didn't take so much interest in horses you would be better off" exclaimed an angry wife to her husband. "You have had horses on your brain all your life" "I suppose that is how I happened to marry a nag" retorted the husband.—London Expense. When the composer Billuin was knighted some one asked him why he, and not his collaborator, W. S. Gilbert, was chosen for his honor. "I don't exactly know," said Sir Arthur, "but I suppose her majesty did it to make the punishment at the crime." "Those Joneses are a bad lot. Two of them at least ought to be in jail," said a suburbanite, referring to a family in his district. "Some redeeming quality about the third one, oh!" remarked a visitor. "Yes; he's already there"—London Telegraph. To polish a piano wring a cloth out of warm water as dry as you can, then sprinkle a little paraffin on it. "Rub lightly on the case of the piano with cloth, only wetting a small piece at a time, then polish immediately with a soft dry duster. This method produces a brilliant polish and is quite safe. Always Losing His Boat. A colored man calling himself, "Captain John E. Simpson" and at times sailing and/or other names has been persistently swindling both white and colored people in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and Phoebus. His plan has been to represent that he has money in a colored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr., President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some like amount at once to the person who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Rich- mond. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Thimble Light off Bucken Beach and as he has been carrying on this kind of swindling for about two years, that boat is presumably wrecked every two or three weeks. He asks that the letter be sent to him in care of the person who advances the money. He never comes back to see if the money comes as he directs. We have written continuously to the people, who send those letters, but we have had quite a time to keep up with him. Keep clear of Captain John E. Simpson or anybody who looks like him. West Virginia Senator Dies Suddenly In Washington. P Senator Stephen B Elkins, of West Virginia, died at his home in Washington. Sudden collapse, following a long illness, caused his cath. The end was not unexpected, for the senator had been sinking for hours. At his bodice were Mrs Elkins, his two sons, Blaine and Richard Elkins, his daughter, Miss Katherine Elkins, and Henry Gassaway Davis, his father in law. Mr Elkins had been sick for several months. He was unable to attend the sessions of congress when it convoyed early in December and had been confined to his home all the fall. Every effort had been made to bring him back to health, but it was unavailing and the last few days septic poisoning is understood to have developed, and this probably caused the end. The funeral took place on Saturday at Elkins, W. Va. --- Inside Explosion Wrecked the Malne. The war department at Washington is receiving reports from those who are dead in raising the sunken battleship Maine from Havana harbor which took to ship that the disaster was on international explosion. In the mud and silt in which the hall the bore of made been found much coal and the homes of some of the crow of the ship were not their deaths when the explosion came and the ship sank. Engineer officers think the coal and the bodies of the men were blown from the battleship by an explosion in one of the air tight compartments in which was stored powder and other explosives. They do not think the coal could have been blown from the hull of the battleship by an outside explosion. Spanish authorities contended that the sinking of the Malna was the result of an internal explosion. It was the popular belief in this country that some Spanish had wrecked the Malna through the use of a mine or some high explosive because of this country's sympathy for Cuba. The wave of indignation that swept over the country precipitated the war with Spain. With the present progress of the work the hull should be raised by April. There is some fear that the hull may break in two while being raised. Defore this occurs, if it should happen, those in charge of the work will know the cause of the sinking of the Malna. Solden Auto Patent Invalid. The United States court of appeals reversed a decision by Judge Hough in New York, in which he upheld the validity of the Solden automobile patent. Judge Hough's decision was handed down in September, 1909. It affected every owner or manufacturer of gasoline automobile made or used in the country and involved many millions of dollars. It is expected now that the hard-fought and long drawn out case will be carried to the United States supreme court for final decision. The gist of the upsetting of the patient was to be the effect that Seldon had a patent on a car that made use of the Brayton twocycle engine, which was of the constant pressure type, but that his patent could not be considered as covering the Otto gas engine, of the four cycle, constant volume, type. Moreover, the Otto used a carburator and electric ignition system, things not provided for in the Seldon patent. Therefore it was ruled that the defendants in the case, Henry Ford and Panhard and Levasseur, among others, do not infringe the Seldon patent. Frazen to Death in Bleigh The extreme cold weather is held responsible for the death of Elmer C. Campbell, a freight hauler, whose dead body was found lying in the bottom of his sleigh in the business section of Utica, N. Y., Thursday. Campbell, who was about fifty years old, lived at Bitterville, a dozen miles north of Utica, and it is assumed that he was overcome by the cold while driving to this city. Maine's New Senator. Charles F. Johnson, of Waterville, was nominated as the Democratic candidate for United States senator to succeed Eugene Hile in the party caucus at Augusta, Me. This action insures his election by the legislature on Jan. 17, as both branches are strongly Democrat. Johnson received 67 votes on the first ballot, Obediah Gardner, of Rockland, 21, and William M. Pennell, of Portland, 17. Fire and Panic In Church. 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SURGEON DENTIST Office: Mechanics' Savings Bank Building, Rooms 301-6, 2nd Floor. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Nelson's Hair Dressing can be secured from the agon, Mr. Joseph Evans, 2602 Webster Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. toil. Mex. The fire was caused by the candles on the altar and most of the deaths occurred in the panic-stricken rush of the worshippers to get out of the small church Quakes Ralee Lake on Town Bite. Messages received in St. Petersburg from Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, say there are confirmed rumors that the towns of Przhevalsk and Plishpek, in the territory of Smiryatetchensk, were destroyed by an earthquake and that a lake has formed on the site of the former place. 80 Dying Daily of Subonic Plague. Reports from Fudzidian, Russia, say there are slightly deaths daily from the subonic plague in that section. The foreign colony is threatened. THAT BETTLES IT. Mistress—Did you put an egg in the coffee, Delia? Della—Yla, ma'am, Ol alors billos the eggs in the carfee—lxcept whin' Ol fry thim Placating Her. When Mra. Pitt Begins to cry, Pa Pitt jumps up And says "Buy! Buy!" In Hades. His Satanic Majesty—The new annual paving is getting on nicely, but what in the name of all the floods is the meaning of that tremendous pile of bricks lying ponder? You've got enough of that particular kind to pave the whole internal regions. Head Imp—Those, my lord, are the good resolutions about pure politics and graffiti administrations. Something Different. "I'm at a loss for a thriller," complained the playwright. "Shipwreck is state, and I've tried every form of burning building." "Well, white paper is pretty high. Still, I offer the suggestion." "What is it?" "Snowstorm on the roof." A. New Program "Are you going to take summer boarders this year?" "No." answered. Farmer Corntossel "Business is good and times are changed. After this I'm going to take a vacation in cold weather and drop in and criticise the city folks that have to take winter boarders." 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 Nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150,00. It pays $300 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. Nothing on earth is so valuable as a human mind. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young-man worth all the polishing that the schools can give it. The best education is not too good for a promising 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 IT HAS A FINE ACADEMY course including manual training for those who have completed common school subjects. ITS COLLEGE COURSE is broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Oberlin Board. ITS THERAPOLOGICAL COURSE has for many years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Believe, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are given here. One hundred students for the ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. ITS NEW GRANTE BUILDINGS, its easily equipped science laboratories, its library of 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its full courses of study enable Virginia Union University to offer colored men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of other races. For further information, address the President, VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. KNIGHT OF PYTHIA MARSHAL OF THE UNION only absolutely necessary rega- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for m a rosette, costing 25 cents for f For all information concerning John 3 Nothing on earth is so valuable as a at great trouble, and cost, much more is the pollinating that the schools can give it. The youth. Who would choose a poor physician and who would choose an inferior school to increase the strength of character and of perfection? Dormitory, Virginia Va. Union Offers the Best H COLORED V IT HAS A FINE ACADEMY course in coordinated common school subject. ITS COLLEGE COURSE is broad and as high as those of any college for whites of the Carnegie Board. ITS THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for many Bachelor Schools, Hebrew, Greek and all the are given here. One hundred students for the of the school. ITS NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, to a of the University, its sole faculty, its University to offer colored young men as se- of other races. For further information, address the Press VIRGIN JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS ; and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONY. 1610 East Franklin Street. (Near OM Market.) 60 YEARS* EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS COPYRIGHTS & G. Amyrone sending a sketch and description may guitely explain our opinion free whether as a patent holder or a patented product. MARCOOK on Patents Patents taken through Kann & Patents receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. 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STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the Lover of the Right Kind of Stimulant. Special Prices We Have All Grades of Good Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco, Call and See Us. Richmond, Virginia. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 114 N. 17th St., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone, Madison-187. BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS PRACTICAL HOUSE AND SIG PAINTERS, GRAINING AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS. All Work Guaranteed, Cards, Letters or Orders. Give Us a Trial You Will Never Regret It. ADDRESS: 608 St. Peter Street, Richmond, Va. Telephone, Madison, 6488. 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 STRINGS BATURDAY...JANUARY 21, 1911. CAPITOL SUITS ARE SETTLED State Receives $1,485,000 for End Cases. Accused Pay $1,300,000 In Cash and Surrender Sanderson and Huston Warrants For $185,000. The legal actions resulting from the frauds in the furnishing of the Pennsylvania state capital were brought to a close in the Dauphin county court, at Harrisburg, Pa., when President Judge George Kunkel handed down decrees affirming an agreement of settlement between the commonwealth and various respondents and sustaining the demurrers filed by the trust companies. The decrees require the payment to the state of $1,300,000 and the surrender of warrants by the John H. Sanderson estate aggregating $108,030 and by Joseph M. Huston, architect, amounting to $77,000. As soon as the money was paid over the criminal actions against various persons, not including the action against Huston, were formally dropped. The cases closed wore two actions in equity and twenty criminal actions. In one case $1,100,000 in cash was paid over and in another $200,000. In the cases of the trust companies the domurrers were sustained because the principals having effected a settlement the surrogates could not be held. In the case of T. Lincoln Eyre he filed an answer and the case closed without testimony being taken. Special pleas were made by Lyman D. Gilbert in behalf of William P. Snyder, Frank G. Harris, E. B. Harderbergh and James M. Shumaker, setting forth that they be joined in the proceedings to avoid prolonged litigation All set forth that they were not culpable. The court then made the decree in the case against H. Burd Cassell and others, known as the Metallic Furniture case to this effect. First—That the demurrors filed by the Commonwealth Trust company, Harrisburg Trust company, Annie E. Barr and the Lancaster Trust company, executors of Sam Matt Friday, deceased, are sustained and the bill is dislissed without costs. Second—That the demurrors filed by H. Burd Cassell, E. L. Reinhold and E. B. Reinhold, Penn Construction company, Frank G. Harris, E. B. Hardenbergh, James M. Shumaker, Joseph M. Huston, William P Snyder, W Roger Frondeel, executor of William L. Mathues, are overruled. Third—That the bill as to T. Larry Eyre and his surreptice, William P Snyder and the estate of Sam Matt Friday, is dislissed without costs. Fourth—That the loss sustained by the commonwealth is hereby in accordance with the aforesaid stipulation filed in the case ascertained and assessed in the sum of $200,000. Fifth—This decree to be satisfied of record upon the payment of $200,000 and payment of the record costs. In the case against the estate of Sanderson and others a statement was made to the court by the attorney general explaining the differences and then a decree was made to this effect: First—The demurrers filed by the suroties are sustained and the bill is dismissed as to each of said demurrants without costs. Second—The, domurrers filed by Harris, Hardenburgh, Snyder, Frontofeld, Shumaker, Huston, the Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust company, Dimner Beeber and Pedro G. Salome, executors of Sanderson, are overruled. TRIED TO KILL HIS BRIDE Young Husband Attacks Harrisburg, Pa. Girl With Hammer. Following a quarrel with his bride, Joseph F. Robb, of Baltimore, Md., injured her skull with a hammer, inflicting wounds which are expected to result fatally. The attack was made white the young woman was in bed at their home, 226 South Choster street. Robb then went to the river front and jumped into the water, but swam ashore and was arrested. The bride was Miss Julia Dean, of Harrisburg, Pa. Bon Buchede Elkina Davis Elkins was sworn in at Washington as the senator of the United States from West Virginia. He is the oldest son of the into Bonator Stephen B. Elkins, and is the third generation of the family to represent his state in the upper branch of congress. He was appointed by the governor of West Virginia to serve until the legislature, which is Democratic, elects a successor to his father Roosevelt to Hunt In Mexico The announcement was made at Austin, Texas, by Colonel Coril Lyon, chairman of the state Republican executive committee, that Theodore Rosevitt will be his guest in Texas in the middle of March and will accompany him on a hunting trip into PORTER CHARLTON. Center of Interest in American-Italian Entreatian Case. Habeas Corpus Proceedings Halted by Death in Lawyer's Family. Doctor in Lawyer's Pantry. The hearing in the habeas corpus proceedings at Trenton, N. J., brought to prevent the extradition of Porter Charlton to Italy to answer for the murder of his wife, was postponed until Jan. 28. The postponement is due to a death in the family of one of the lawyers appearing for Charlton. The case was to have been heard by Judge Rollast in the United States circuit court. The prisoner, who was in court in custody of a deputy sheriff, was returned to the Hudson county jail at Jersey City ADDS $45,000,000 TO PENSION BILL House Passes Bill to Give Veterans More. The national house of representatives passed the Sulallow general pension bill. This measure grants pensions ranging from $12 to $63 a month to all soldiers who served ninety days in the United States army in the Civil War, and who have reached the age of sixty-two years. The bill adds about $45,000,000 a year to the pension roll. Opposition to the measure was expressed by some members upon the ground that its Corps wore too general. It provides for the pensioning of all Union soldiers regardless of disability, the only requirement being that they shall have attained the age of sixty two years. The general scale of pensions fixed in the new bill according to age is as follows. Sixty two years, $15 a month; 65 years, $20 a month. 70 years, $25 a month. 75 years, $36 a month. It was declared by the advocates of the bill that but veterans are dying every twenty four hours. NORTH POLE STILL LOST Peary Admits He Made No Chart of Journey in Arctics. Admitting the North Polo is as much lost as ever and that all future attempts to find it must be independent enterprises, unified by his own work, Captain Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, answered a crossfire of questions at a hearing before the house committee on naval affairs. The captain told how he wanted the glory of the polar achievement for himself, declining to let any number of his expedition, other than Henson, to go on the last dash with him how his publishing contracts had precluded him from testifying before the committee last spring, and how members of his expedition had been prohibited from writing about the trip Captain Poerry, replying to repeated questions as to the results of his Arctic trip said that he had not yet prepared such a chart as would enable any one to follow in his footsteps to the pole, but he "imagined" that he had data by which he could prepare such a chart. He said the position of the North Pole could be determined just the same as the equator, but the trouble was the comparative low altitude of the sun, which never gets higher than $22\frac{1}{2}$ degrees above the horizon. For that reason ordinary observations could not be rolled on with accuracy. Hughle Jennings Weds Hugh Jennings, the manager of the Detroit club of the American ball league, and Miss Nora M. O'Hoyle were married at St. Peter's cathedral at Gertranton, Pa. Right Rev Edmund F. Prendergast, the auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia, officiating and celebrating the nuptial mass. John F. Murbaugh, of Elmhurst, N. Y, was best man and Miss Amelia O'Hoyle, the bride's sister, bridesmaid. The honoumoon tour will be to San Francisco. Calls on National Banks The comptroller of the currency issued a call for a statement of the condition of the national banks at the close of business Saturday, Jan. 7. South Carolinas Losses Propeller. The United States battleship South Carolinas, now on her way home from Europe, reported to the navy department by wireless that she lost her port propeller and shaft. In spite of the fact that she will complete the journey on her starboard propeller, the South Carolina will arrive, at Hampton Roads, about Jan. 12. satisfies for the voyage. Hundreds of men in England stint themselves in order to enable their sons to keep a position in one of the services. I know of a particular case in which a father manages to keep a son in the navy on an income of barely £1000 a year. The sailor boy takes £100 of this, and the rest of the family. I believe there are five-manage to squeeze through without getting into debt on the other £200. London Sun. Tenenta In Persia. In Persia the tenant is absolutely at the mercy of his landlord, who can even seize upon the persons of himself and his family and reduce them to a sort of slavery till arrears of rent and interest are worked off, and this is true of most countries under despotic rule. Tenants are generally tenants at will and can be dispossessed on most fireless pretexts. Looking Forward. When Kaiser William II. was a small boy he was discovered by one of his tutors drawing a map of Africa. When he had finished he wrote the word "Germany" across the paper. "What are you doing?" asked the teacher. "That is not German territory." "That is all right," retorted William. "When I am kaiser it will be."—London Mail The Word "Raish." Literally the word rajah means king, and maharajah the great king or ruler over several kings, but generally speaking the titles rajah, maharajah and nawab have no greater significance than the words feudal lords as used in mediaeval times in Europe. Many of them have been made by the will of the reigning chief, many bestowed for meritorious acts and deeds. Her Mistake There is a fright coldness between a young man and his best girl for which her absent-mindedness is not altogether blameless "So you've come at last!" said he the other night. "Why. I'm early," she regretted "It's only 7, and I promised to be here at 8" "But, I'm you've mistaken the day I've been waiting here since yesterday." He Had Had Enough. A stage carpenter one day approached his manager for an increase in wages. "Why," said the manager, "I don't quite see my way to giving you a rise. You have nothing much to do. Half the time you are merely standing in the wings listening to the play." "Yen, sir," replied the carpenter, with a dry face as he turned to move away, "that's just it!" London Mall. The Word "Dell" The word "doll" may be taken as meaning the same thing as "idol"—that is, an image—generally speaking, an image of the human form. The French word "puppee" and the German "puppa" were derived from the Latin "puppa," the word used for a chrysallis (insect stage), the earlier kinds of dols being remarkably like the pupae of insects. Our word puppet is derived also from the same root. How He Gained Prominence. "This Mr. Muggins is one of your prominent men, I suppose?" "Oh, yes." "What did he ever do?" "Nothing at all. You see, he has always kept in the background when anything was to be done, so that he could criticise those that do it. That's what made him so prominent as a citizen."—chicago Post Easily Fixed. "I see where a scientific fellow says there's a dark planet gain" to hit the sun an' end the world," says the man on the cracker barrel "Huh!" observes the man with his heels on the store "I reckon we needn't bother much about that. I spoke to our congressman about it this mornin' an' he'll introduce a bill makein' such acts a vilaion of interplantary commerce"—Chicago lost Why They Were Fearful. Once, when taking breakfast at a hotel in Richmond, John Randolph complained that the eggs were not fresh. "If you want fresh eggs, waiter, always buy them in Chesterfield" (a county just across the James). "How come Chesterfield eggs better? Henrico eggs, ahh!" "Because, you rascal, the Chesterfield people are too poor to keep their long."-Argonaut. When She Made Cake. "This lovely angel food," said she, tasting the cake at the high tea. "Did you make it? Wendiful. I never tried to make angel food but once. I took all day to make it, walking very lightly while it was in the oven, hardly daring to breathe. Then when it was done I put it in the sideboard. The next morning they had to use a derrick to move the sideboard in order to sweep under it. That is, that's the story my husband tells about it. You know how husbands are."—New York Press. U6 Against It The suffragete leader was addressing a meeting of the Cook Ladies and Chambermaids' union. "You women should all have a voice in the affairs of the nation," she exclaimed. "You should asert yourselves. You should be entitled to a vote." Hereupon a seaker after information crossed and in a voice of conviction said, "That would mean that we should have to live in one place for at least six months, wouldn't it?" It was not until then that the suffragete leader fully realized what she was up against. New York Times. How It Happened. Lady—Poor man! So you are just out of jail? Tramp—Yes, mum; I was a victim of fortune-tellers back in '99. Lady—Indeed? Tramp—Yes, mum. The district attorney told me where I'd ever been and what I'd ever done in my whole life, and the judge predicted where I'd be for the next ten years—Puck. A prudent life is hard to lead; You think, before you speak, Difficult to hear, before you head, With lowly mood and meek. And when at last you've told your mind With wisdom sady amuil. You think, before you find, You hadn't thought, at all. In truth you ability persevere And find, whatever you try. The substitute's about as dear As what you wished to buy. THEY ALL TALK. A Nothing is more depressing than a silent woman. He—I never had the luck to meet one. Hot Iron, Too. She pressed his hand! The mirror blasted fair Nora while She ironed and, without a smile. She pressed his hand! Binful Waste "Yes," said Colonel Oldosau, "I feel like fighting every time I see two good-looking women kiss each other." "Why, colonel," quoried Mrs Peachy, "what makes you feel that way?" "Oh, it's the result of my military education, I suppose," answered the colonel. "I never like to see good ammunition wasted." Getting Ready McCready—Mrs Richnow is determined that all her daughters shall be married to princes or dukes. Snaggs—Is she doing anything to prepare the girl? McCready—Oh, yes, she has tutors teaching them how to say "yes" in every foreign language under the sun. Homelike. Rice—Do you know why the fire department was called out the night Stoopler gave the banquet to his friends from Rome* Hendershute—Yes he who so dead anxions to please his guests by reminding them of their home city that he lighted the hall with Roman candles --- Why He Felt Provoked Mr Recentmarrie surprised and irritated) What 'Moro matched' Why I sent up a dozen boxes only yester day Mrs Recentmarrie Yes, dear, I know you did, but those matches were for the kitchen, I need parlor matches now COULDN'T READ HANDS. Jinks—I am going to study palmistry Jinks—Waffor* Jinks—I had three jacks last night and raided a man with a flush. There are many ups and downs these days Almost butcher town The higher or putton chops go up The less of them go down The Wrong Time "These frosts are very unsonsonable." "What! Unreasonable in mildwin tor? How can they be?" "They are almost too early to dam age the peach crop." The Decision "Has the new automobile or the old fashioned buggy the best chance in courtship?" "Well, the automobile has a sparking plug." The Idea. "He has an egg farm" "Ob, I ace" A shell game" A. Substitute. "Have you a billiard hall in your house?" I asked my friend, the cold-water crank, who had been bragging about the competence of his newly erected residence. "Why, no," he confessed with evident vexation, but suddenly he brightened and resumed his tone of boastfulness to tell me that he did have a poolroom. THE JOLLIER He doesn't always mean it. When he comes along each day he says, "I'm not sure." And a pleasant word to say, I know he has his troubles. And life isn't all a song. And he doesn't say "I'm am as he jolles foks along. He isn't all unselfish As he greets his fellow-man: He's quick to ask a service. But he'll do one if he can. His kindness is something That if he cannot budge, It's only just a joyy. But it's better than a grudge. TOUGH JOB The old major had been on an extended trip "up noff." Now he was back in the general store of the village telling of his travels "And Nlagara Falls, suh!" he began vividly. "What could be a grandor sight? To think of the vast, inconceivable power in those millions of tons of water that dash over the rocks! and then to think that those falls are harnessed by mere man!" The major paused for breath and the old colored man, who had just come in with a pail of eggs, looked interested. "Majah!" "Yeas, Sam!" "Who was de gen'u man det harnessed dem deh falls!" "Why—es—Sam, I can't just remember his name. But why are you so anxious to know!" "Ah was just thinkin' majah!" "Thinking of what old man!" "Thinkin' what Ab'd give to see det gon'man try in harness dat ol' ol' mule Ab bought fum de bankrupt circus last spring 'Treebee' His Views on Suffrage When the female canvasser asked the old primer to sign a petition in favor of a woman's movement he eyed the document for a while with suspicion "No, I'm again it," was reply, with the emphasis of a man who had had some domestic infidelity "A woman who's allus a movie" is allus a gettit' in trouble if you've got anything to keep her quiet I'll sign it." No Kick There. The new arrival had just written his name and address in the hotel register "From Ypsilanti eh" said the clerk, "that's the town, isn't it, where —" "No, str," interrupted the other, with a frown we were perfectly satisfied with the name of our city You're thinking of Osbkosh Modley- Hello where are you going? 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