Richmond Planet

A Review of Past Difficulties and Present Achievements. It is an open question as to just who was responsible for the insurance business activity of the colored people of this city. Col. Joseph T. Wilson, author of the Black Phalanx, in conjunction with Major J. B. Johnson of old Manchester were the pioneers. It is no reflection upon either of them to state that so meagre was the information of the colored folks upon this branch of business that the insurance tables of the standard white life insurance companies were free copied and modified so form essays for the work of this profitable branch of legitimate business endeavor. EMPLOYED COLORED SOLICITORS Some white insurance companies, too, began the experiment of employing colored solicitors for work among colored people. Mr. P. G.2 Roberts, now deceased, was one of the most export at this business and he finally transferred his efforts in support of the Galilean Fishermen's Relief Association. The discrimination by white companies against colored people aided vary, materially the work of these colored insurance companies and the large membership which finally came to the colored enterprises justified the expectations of the promoters of this branch of business activity. THE TRUE REFORMER MOVE MENT. It is hardly possible too to overestimate the effect of the True Reformer movement under the leadership of Rev. William W. Browne, who with his organisation began experiments in the business world which attracted much attention and which tended to inspire other colored men to ventures along a similar line. The fact that he reached the "zenith of his glory," blundered upon the advice of treacherous friends and died, is too well known to need further comment here. His successors did not understand his plans and "wrecked" the great enterprise which had he lived might have still been enjoying its meed of prosperity. But it was with reference to the insurance business free from the meeting, fraternal plan with which I desired to deal. "MINE AND THINE." The colored insurance companies were having a hard time of it, due primarily to lack of efficiency and ability and the management, which caused money stringency and which money stringency caused some of the officials of the struggling companies to "borrow" from the company and not pay back. This caused something of a handcap. The most "ancient" of these companies is the Southern Aid Society, then located at 506 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. A sketch of its history and progress will prove interesting. For the present, I shall reserve further comment for our next issue. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. A surprise Wedding Miss Lilian Chilch, daughter of Attorney James A. Chilch of Lexington, Kentucky came to this city to spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. John R. Chilch. 316 W. Leigh A. She left last Tuesday night for home. It was afterwards ascertained that she was joined in wedlock during her stay time to Mr. Thomas Gilpin, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Gilpin. It is further reported that Rev. J. T. T. Mqby, pastor of the New Baptist Church performed the ceremony. Rev. Dr. Anthony Called. Rev. W. T. Anthony, D. D., pastor of Zion Baptist Church of South Richmond, Va. has been called to the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church of Philadelphia. It is not known whether or not he will attend. Fifth Baptist Church Office a Pastor. On December 29, 1619 the Fifth Baptist Church opened a call to Rev A. B. Bury of the University University, Duluth, MN, and unfortunately, closed prematurely after closing the first Sunday of early 1620. We pray, bless, and before the congregation hangs by our side. Benjamin Jackson's grocery store 902 N. Seventh Street in this city was the scene of a "hold-up" last Saturday at about ten minutes to seven o'clock. It was dark and he had just gone into the next room with his wife after waiting on a customer. Hearing some one enter the store, he started out when a colored man stood in the middle door way and commanded him and his wife to throw up their hands and in the meantime, he saw another colored man of light complexion behind his counter in the store riffing the cash drawer. He wore a cap which was pulled down over his face. IN WESTERN STYLE When this had been completed, the robber ordered Mr. and Mrs. Jackson to turn their faces to the wall. He then quickly disappeared. The amount secured was between twelve and fifteen dollars. Miss Cora L. Bright was upstairs at the time and did not know about the affair until she was called. Information was at once communicated to the Second Police Station and in about five minutes a bicycle officer was at the store. The robber who held the revolvers was of dark complexion. He had one of these revolvers in each hand. ONE MAN ARRESTED. The police arrested Frank Johnson of North Eighth St. He had a new revolver in his hand when arrested. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson-walle not being able to positively identify him, owing to the fact that the man like him was in the store riffing the money drawer state that he looks very much like one of the men who robbed them. They can Identify the one who held the revolvers if they see him again, but he has not as yet been apprehended. Mr. Tate Grows Enthusiastic. Mitchell, Va., Dec. 31, 1912. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. 311 North Fourth Street. Editor The Richmond PLANET Dear Sir: Since the setting apart of Orange Lodge, No. 150, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. October 27, 1908, where I had the pleasure of meeting you, and listening to your able address and counsel and where I subscribed to your valuable paper, The Richmond PLANET. I have been constantly reading after you and studying you, complimenting you, etc. until I shall no longer withhold from writing you a few brief lines. Truly I am unable to confer upon you the praise and honour that is rightly due you; however I congratulate you on the noble work you have rendered in defending us an am humble and down-trodden race. While there are many of my race that is an integrable burden and by their dire and unwarranted deeds, hinder much the progress we would make; yet, notwithstanding all this, you make such logical, many appeals in our defense and throw, on every possible good deed of onna a light more brilliant than a "Planet," which proves well to the civilised world that a large percentage of the race are striving to advance in the highest ideals that can be accredited to any race or people. I congratulate you on the noble adventures you are making in life. The establishing of the Mechanics' Savings Bank and the Anglo-American Finance Corporation, in Richmond, Va. is very praiseworthy to you indeed, to say nothing of the membership of the American Bankers' Association and the Royal Society of Arts of England. I also present many bouquets to those of your coworkers, and trust that each of you may reach the summit of fame. When I think of how much energy and endurance you must have undergone to reach the stage on which you now stand as benoční light, second to none. I hastitate not to tip my hat once twice, three times to you, Brother John. I trust that onward and upward will ever be your watchword, and that you may continue to lift up fallen and downtraced humanity in my race and every other race who may chance to find inspiration in your worthy perseverance. And when life's battles are finished, I hope to meet you in the Haven of Blench. WARNER—A LIGHT COMPLEXION of Matter. Must be deeper. Gear must be 1440. I will send thither. WARNER L. MIXLLE V. Va. 75 miles W. B. C. Mr. Rison's Tribute. A MOVING JOHN MITCHELL JR. Let us trace him back for twenty years or more and see what he has been doing. First, Take The PLANET. a paper that has been wielded in the defense of the colored people as a two-edged sword in a fierce battle. Yes he wielded it manfully and fearlessly. Second. We next find him at the head of one of the strongest institutions in this country, known as K. of P. He has held the position as Grand Chancellor for ten years or more, and has raised the Order to a higher standard, socially, mentally and financially. We next find him as a President of one of the strongest colored banks in the United States. The building alone is a credit to the Negro race. We next find him seated amongst the bankers and a member of the American Bankers' Association, a position no other colored man ever occupied. Where will we find him now? Crossing the briny deep mingling and commingling with the Loyals. What is the result? Just a life member of the Royal Society of Arts. The last but not the least we find him at the head of the strongest institution that ever was known among colored people. In a position to handle and to loan any reasonable amount of money. Yes, you can say $1,000,000 if need to be. Now where is there another John Mitchell? We have read of John the Baptist. Surely they must be relatives. We next expect to see him going as Ellaba. If so, drive your chariot by her and let me get in because I believe you are right. Farewell. John. GEO. W. HISON. Colored Man Killed. Hampton, Va., January 1.—Lloyd Tignor, a building contractor here, to-day shot and fatally wounded John Lattimore, a colored barber. The colored man was shot at 1:45 o'clock and died in the Dixie Hospital tonight at 6:45 o'clock. The ball entered his abdomen and punctured his intestines in eight places. The shoot ing occurred in Curtis's saloon. Tignor claimed that Lattimore attempted to attack him with a pocket knife. Tignor is a member of a widely known family. He was arrested and balled on the charge of murder. Ball was refused him pending an investigation by the coroner's jury. Tignor has a wife and three children. GREAT THANKSGIVING SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL IDEAL BENEFIT SOCIETY At the Historic Cherry Memorial Baptist Church.—Supreme Master, Hon. A. W. Holmes Makes an Able Address and Pays the First Death Claim. (Special to The Richmond Planet) Philadelphia, Pa.—Dec. 29.—The National Ideal Benefit Society met in its first Thanksgiving meeting Sunday evening. December 29th at Cherry Memorial Baptist Church. The members assembled in the lecture room of the Church at 7 o'clock. At 8 o'clock they entered the main auditorium of the Church which was crowded, even the gallery, with persons anxious to witness the first public appearance of the Society in Philadelphia. While the choir rendered excellent music the Supreme Master A. W. Holmes was escorted to the roostrum by State Deputy Mr. Lewis Thompson followed by Ideal Nursery children led by Miss Lucy A. Hall; female members led by National Ideal Lecturer Mrs. Rosa Thompson, followed by the male members. Rev. W. A. Creditt, D. D., LL. D. pastor of Church, Master of Caramones, conducted devotional exercises and introduced the following speakers: Prayer by Rev. Thomas Walker; Address of Welcome, Hon. Lawyer Charles H. Brooks, President of Cherry Building and Loan Company and Chairman of Trustee Board; Response, Miss Lucy A. Hall, Secretary of Ideal; History of Organization, Mrs. Rena Thompson, Ideal Lecturer; Address by Supreme Master Hon. A. W. Holmes; Sermon by Pastor, Rev. W. A. Credit; Ideal offering lifted by Trustees, assisted by Miss Lucy A. Hall and State Deputy Lewis Thompson; Poem composed by F. L. Bryant of Midland was well delivered by Miss Harper Sheedy; Presentation to Pastor by National Lecturer to Stuart, M. R. Baldwin; to Supreme President by Billy Baldwin; to Congressman by Billy Baldwin. B. Taylor, Sadie West, Dana Walker D. Baldy B. Hammer Too much concern should in praise of the pastor and members of the church for the health welcome and their endowment of the National Ideal Society. Philadelphia is surely on fire with the spirit of this organisation which can reached here a few months ago and more than 300 members to thank God for its advent in this city. The Supreme Master remained in the city several days. While here he paid the death class of the first member of the organization, notice having reached headquarters just a few days before his leaving. Say the people of Philadelphia. Surely the National Ideal Society is a reality. Washington Bank Messenger Walks Off With $0,000 when he is Trusted Whobster Morton, colored, the defaulting messenger of the Washington and Southern Bank, 1413 G St., Washington, D.C., who yesterday ran away with $6,000 belonging to the bank, was captured at the home of his grandmother in Jackson ward early this morning, but escaped at a patrol box, after felling Detective Sergeant Wiley with a heavy blow on the back of the head. Sergeants Wiley and Kellam had been detailed on the case directly after information came from Washington that Morton might come here. They watched the house of his grand parent through many long hours, and finally caught sight of Morton. GET BACK $5,500. They arrested him with little parley, and confiscated a suit-case he carried, in which they found $5,000. On his person they discovered $400. The man consented to accompany them and the two detectives took him to the patrol box at St. Peter and Baker streets. Sergent Wiley had his nippers on Morton, and as the patrol wagon came into sight Sergeant Kellam, as is the custom, called the signal operator to see if another call for the patrol wagon had come in. No sooner had Kellam turned his back than Morton swing around and dealt Wiley a terrific blow on the back of the head, knocking him down on his hands and knees. It happened so quickly that both men were taken by surprise. Wiley recovered himself in an instant, and, with Kellam, started in pursuit of the fugitive DISAPPEARS IN DARK They called to him to halt, but he sped on, and the shots they fired at him did not take effect. He was soon lost in the distance, though the patrol wagon, with its large searchlight, followed as far as it could, and rendered every old possible. However, $5.840 of the missing money was recovered and was taken to the Second Police Station. Major Werner and Captain McMahon were apprised of the capture and the escape, and Washington was notified. The local authorities sent out teleographic messages to adjacent cities, and they hope soon to recapture the man. Both detectives who made the arrest were sorely disappointed that their man escaped from them and were much chagrined—Virginian, January 1, 1913. Married in Danville, Va. Saxe, Va., December 19.—Mr. Jefferson Jackson and Mrs. Catherine S. Brooks were married December 18, 1913 in Danville, Va. Mrs. Brooks the widow of the late Mr. D. B. Brooks went to Danville December 10, 1913 to visit Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rison and wait for the solemn ceremony on the 18th. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. R. Carr, assisted by Rev. Goode and Rev. Yancey at high noon. Witnesses were Miss Mildred Newton and Mr. Charlie Hammond. The party left for Saxe at 2 P. M. and was met there by 24 waiters and accompanied to the Henry Church for the reception. The march was played by Mrs. Mosley (white) and Rev. Lanke was also there. Mrs. Catherine S. Jackson is satisfied with marrying the good old farmer. Sir George L. Coleman wished to be there but was not at home. DRAKES BRANCH (VA.) NEWS The sudden disappearance Monday of James Coleman has aroused the feelings of the people more than anything that has happened here for a long time. Had Coleman remained here until Wednesday, 26th inst. he would have been expected to perform a life long obligation which would have made Miss Geneva Marshall Mrs. Coleman. The man had made himself busy in preparing for the occasion, prepared a house, bought furniture etc. Why the fellow's mind changed is to be wondered. That Mrs. Coleman, James' mother, drove from Eureka Mills to Mossingford Church to see the marriage shows she knew nothing of the broken promise. Remaining as it is, the way is illuminated for would-be rascals. There is a remedy for the wrong, but "is up to" Mr. Thornton Marshall. Will anything be done? Rev. T. B. Daly, evangelist of Randolph, Va., preached at Charlotte Courthouse at Beautiful Plain Church Sunday from the text "Go and wash seven times in Jordan and be clean." Rev. Daly held his large audience spellbound for over an hour. The people are anxious to hear him again. A social was given Monday night at the residence of Mrs. Lizzie Miles. Music was furnished by Mr. Isaac Hodge's string band. A pleasant time was enjoyed. Some of those present were: Mr. M. M. Lee, Mr. Henick Reed, Misses Bertha Hodge, Eliza Hodge, Jennie Ellia, Julia Ellis, Jennie Roberts, Emma Dupee, Lucy Miles, Dora Hodge, McArra Nelson Lewis, J. J. Shepperson and others. A pleasant time was had. Mr. S. A. Hall and Miss Dora E. Hall of Hampton Institute and Thyme respectively are spending the holidays with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Hall. Miss Eliza Hodge of Montclair, N. J. is spending the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Lottie Hodge. Miss Jennie Ellis of Richmond was tired of the noise of the city and is having a quiet Xmas with her parents. Mrs. Margaret Brooks and daughter, Miss Mossie of Sparrow's Polite are home for the Xmas. Mr. Charlie Turrell of Newport News spent Xmas with his brother in-law Isaac Hodge. The public schools opened again last Thursday. — Prof. W. E. B. Dullbos will lecture at the Virginia Union University Monday, January 12, 1913. He is regarded as the ablest citizen of color in this country. — Dr. P. B. Ramney, who has been ill for two months was out for a drive New Year's Day. While still weak, he is looking as well as ever. He does not know when he shall be able to resume his practice. — Miss Janie Scott of Washington, D. C. was here this week to attend the marriage reception of her sister Miss Sailie W. Scott whose marriage to Mr. Harry J. Williams took place June 24, 1912. Stockholders to Meet The stockholders of the Mechanics Savings Bank will hold their annual meeting next Tuesday night in the Concert Hall of the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third St. TEXAS TO TRY SOLDIERS. State Will Get Six Troopers Wanted for Shooting Agrary. Austin, Tex., Jan. 1.—Announcement was made here today that mandamus proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States to compel the surrender of six soldiers at Fort Clark, near Brackettville, to the civil authorities of Kinney county, Texas, will be withdrawn, on Gov. Colquitt's request. The soldiers were wanted in connection with a shooting affray at a Mexican dance at Brackettville. Gov. Colquitt has been informed the military authorities will turn over the troopers without a contest. Pretty Marriage in South Richmond. The marriage of Miss Edna Mc Kenzie to Mr. Floyd O. Hickmons was solemnized Tuesday day, Dec. 31, 1912 at the residence of the brides' parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Cuningham, Sr., 1701 Decatur Street, South Richmond, Va. The license was brought in by little Miss Emilia Cunningham. The sisters were Miss Means. James McKenzie and Willie Harris. The bridal party marched into the parlor to the accompaniment of sweet strains of music, played by Miss Radio Mitten. The couple was united in the bounds of marriage by Dr. Dr. A. Hage, Jr. After the ceremony the couple received the congratulations of friends and reinstatement were served. The couple came and married Tilt Over Troopers. Texas Wants to Try Six Soldiers Held For Killing—Fort Commander Resists. Six troopers of the Fourteenth United States cavalry, stationed at Fort Clark are wanted by the State authorities of Texas for "shooting up" a dance on the night of November 9, 1912, killing one person and seriously wounding two others. Jas. D. Walthann, the State's attorney general, yesterday filed a motion with the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus. After the commission of the crime proceedings were begun under military law and a court-martial ordered. When State warrants were issued on November 13, Col. F. W. Sibley commanding at Fort Clark, declined to surrender the men holding that under the county between the civil and military authorities, both had concurrent jurisdiction in the case, and that the military jurisdiction having first attached by the service of process, should not be disturbed until fully satisfied. REFUSED ADMISSION TO HALL The men indulge Iave Nicholas Andruzza, Booth Toregan, Harry Larson, Econ F. F. Von Rysin, Augustus Craig and Frank Corbene. They are charged with killing Pedro Ortega, after having gone twice to the hall where the dance was in progress and being refused a admission. The hall is not on the military reservation, and Gov. Colquitt of Texas has requested the War Department to order the release of the prisoners. Bragg Brothers and Company Brass Brothers Co. is a new company or co-partnership formed to conduct the Real Estate and Loan business in all its branches, with offices at 500 N. 2nd Street, where they will be pleased to meet property owners, prospective buyers, sellers and borrowers. The Brass Brothers, formerly proprietors of the Richmond Steam Laundry, which they recently sold at a handsome price, together with their own money have the backing of Richmond's largest financial institution. Hence they have a large sum of ready Cash for those who wish to borrow. Their integrity and pre-eminent success in their laundry business will serve them well in the Real Estate Business. Attorney J. R. Pollard will have legal direction of the business which will be private banking, brokerage and real estate. --- Funeral of Mrs. Laura A. Johnson Richmond, Va., December 25.—The funeral of Mrs. Laura A. Johnson, the wife of Mr. Simon Johnson, who died Monday, December 16, 1912 at 2:30 o'clock P. M. was preached from the Second Baptist Church, of which she was a useful and consistent member a number of years. Thursday evening, December 19, 1912. The several organizations with which she was connected, L. e., True Reformers, Courts of Calanthe, St. Luke and Deborah's Industrial Union read beautiful and appropriate resolutions. Afterwards, the Pastor took his text from II Timothy, 4th chapter, 7th and 8th verses, thus, "She has fought a good fight. She has kept the faith, henceforth there is a crown laid up for you in heaven." The beautiful and numerous floral designs showed the high esteem in which she was held by her many friends. She leaves beside her husband a devoted daughter, a sister and brother, with many friends to mourn their loss. "Oh, for the death of those Who slumber in the Lord! Oh, be like theirs my last repose. Like theirs my last reward." Rev. Allen Baylor Remembered. Ruther Glen, Va., December 24.—The ladies of the Star of Bethlehem Club presented to their pastor, Rev. Allen Baylor of the Reedy Baptist Church, Caroline County, a morris chair as a Xmas gift at $25.00 as an appreciation of his labor in their midst. Praying that the Lord may continue to crown his labors with success, R. R. Card of Thanks. Mr. Simon Johnstone and family return many thanks for the kindness shown his wife, Laura A. Johnstone in her last illness. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. BUCHANAN SOOKES DISPRAN- CHISEMENT OF VIRGINIA NEGROWS. Supreme Court Judge Speaks at Anniversary of Negro Business League. Bristol, Va., December 31.—In a speech here tonight at the thirtieth anniversary of the Bristol Negro Bus- ness League of which Robert E. Clay, the noted Negro leader, is president, Judge John A. Buchanan of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, condemned the disfran- chement of the Negro in Virginia. He attacked the conduct of the offi- cers in executing the provision of the new constitution and not the law. "The black man of Virginia had better be worthy to vote and still be disfranched than to be as the white men who were given the vote and sold it." said Judge Buchanan. In Memoriam. In memory of Deacon Philip Brown of Belona, Powhatan County, Va., who departed this life December 24, 1912. He leaves a wife, seven children, three grand children, two sisters and one adopted son and a host of friends to mourn their loss: Dear husband and father, thou hast left us. And the voice we loved is stillled. A place is vacant in our home. Which never can be filled. By his daughter, MRS. SARAH B. HARRIS. 911 William St. 2. OTICE. It has been found necessary to buy and properly equip the home for homeless and dependent Colored chil dron, located at 1512 Taylor street, known as the Working Woman's Industrial Home and Day Nursery, moved from 516 Third street May, 1910. In order to make the perpetual and purchase it, we must appeal to the generous public for help. All interested in this work can help by contributing freely through the Mite Boxes and envelopes already distributed, which will be called for by a committee wearing a badge containing the words "Children's Home." Contributions can be sent directly to Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart, 1031 West Grace street, who is the Treasurer of the Building Fund. No fund can be too small to help. Please do not give money to anyone except those soliciting and wearing the "Children's Home" badge. This work is approved by Gov. Mann, Mayor Ainalle, Dr. J. T. Mastin, Rev. James Buchanan, Judge Richardson and a Committee of Ladles. The work is also enforced by the Colored Ministers' Conference of the City. The following compose the Colored Committee for soliciting Funds: Mrs. Rebeker Violet Crawford, Manager of the Home; Mrs. Adelaide G. Thompson, Mrs. Mattle Hewin, Mrs. Harritt Page, Mrs. H. R. John son, Mrs. Anna Hunter. Will you be one of the two thousand to contribute $1 or more? If as please forward it to Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 1031. West Grace street. We thank the Public School Children for $65 as an offering. We have heading our colored individual contribution list. Dr. R. E. Jones, $6.00 and Mr. Nelson Williams, $2. WHO WILL BE NEXT? W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, the Flary's Foremost Scholar to Lecture in Richmond. The people of Richmond will have the opportunity of hearing Dr. W. E. B. DuBols, the author of "The Souls of Black Folk," The Philadelphia Negro" and the "Quest of the Silver Fleece," at Virginia Union University on Friday evening, January 10 1913 at 8:15 o'clock. Dr. DuBols who is Editor of the Crisis was a delegate to the Universal Race's Congress held at London, England, and has achieved international fame as a student of sociology and as a writer. Wants to Find Them. I am very anxious to know if any of the family of Quivers still survive. My father Emanuel McPharron Quivers while yet a slave was Prueman at the Tredegar Iron Works on Belle Isle. Father had a sister by the name of Sarah M. Kemp. She died in Richmond, Va. about 33 years ago. My first cousin, Stephen Kemp was Postmaster of Glendale after the war. Any information that can be furnished will be gladly received. EMANUEL QUIVEN P. Q. Box 101 Stanford, Cal. ```markdown ``` The Three Guardsmen SYNOPSIS Young D'Artagnan, going to Paris to seek service under the Treville, captain of the king's guards has a quarrel in Meung with a man accompanied by milady. D'Artagnan is received by Treville and meets the three guardians Porthos, Aramis and Athos. They have been quarrelled since the siege of Richelieu's guards Athos is wounded. Treville offers D'Artagnan a letter to the direction of the royal military academy. D'Artagnan sees the man of Meung rescues to intercept him, bumps into Athos and is challenged. D'Artagnan offends Porthos and Aramis and engages to fight with them after Athos instead he adds them in a fight with the cardinal's guards. The three embrace D'Artagnan. The king listens to the cardinal's account of the fight. D'Artagnan wounds Hermouj, relative of M de M. Tremouille, who compares to the king. Louis places D'Artagnan in M. Despercourt's guards. He acquires a jacket, the king and the man. The two then has Mouqueton. Aramis who intends to take orders, has lashed Bonacieux, D'Artagnan's landlord, misses his wife, sequestrates to the queen and protects of Laporte, queen's valet. She knows of the queen's love affairs. Bonacieux assists all of D'Artagnan and his friends. Bonacieux is arrested. His wife is rescued from the police by D'Artagnan, who loves her. He takes her to Athos' house. He is to go to the D'Arkene and warn La Porta. Mina. Bonacieux is surprised by D'Artagnan in mysterious intrigues at night. She warns him not to mislead in them. He promises to go home. The Duke of Buckingham, favorite of King Charles of England, is in love with the queen of France. D'Artagnan assists him, and Athos is arrested by mistake for D'Artagnan. Queen Anne sends Buckingham away after giving him a level casket as a remembrance. Bonacieux, under arrest, blossoms Athos, who is released. Ribelle interrogates Bonacieux. Ribelle learns the casket contained studs given to Anne by Louis. He sends them to Athos, where they find studs. Bonacieux freed. Treville protests against the cardinal's treatment of musketeers. Louis force from Anne a letter planning an attack on the cardinal. Richelieu induces Louis to plan a ball and ask the queen to wear the stula. Milady has done two. Louis Bonadeux offers to aid the queen to recover the diamonds from Buckingham, but discloses unintentionally to Bonadeux, now Richelieu's tool, that Anne wishes to send a messenger to London. D'Artagnan offers to go to London for the studs. His three friends and the four hosts are to accompany him. Athos, Porthe, Aramis and their servants are forced to drop out at various places by ruses of the cardinal. At Calais Artagnan wounds Count de Wardes to death. D'Artagnan in England. Buckingham has two studs made to repaint the stonaen, and D'Artagnan sets out with 10 thieves for France. At the ball the queen wears two studs, measuring the king and mysterying the cardinal. Anne gives D'Artagnan a diamond ring. Mona Bonadeux is kidnapped again. D'Artagnan is to set out next day to seek the three friends and their servants. D'Artagnan suspects Benedicta of being concerned in his wife's kidnapping. Forton is lying slightly wounded in a country bus. He is awaiting money from a woman," really wife of a Paris lawyer. D'Artagnan finds Aramis discussing the theory with two churchmen and more firmly received than ever to enter the church. Aramis worldly agan after receiving a letter from his sweetheart. D'Artagnan nades Athos beheaded in a country hotel and arbitrates a quarrel between his friend and a party of Englishmen. Athos tells D'Artagnan of having hanged his wife because he found on her obeyed the fear-de-lis brand of the executioner. D'Artagnan does with the Menkhiem. The friends plan to get their war equipment. Morth depends upon his mistress. Coquasman the lawyer's wife D'Artagnan sees milady. Milady's letter to De Wardes is given to D'Artagnan. Heights with De Winter, brother of Lady Catherine (lady) and spares his life, later visiting milady. Milady is widow of De Winter's brother, D'Artagnan makes love to Kitty, milady's maid, but is infatuated with milady. Perthos dines with the Coqenardes. Kitty gives to D'Artagnan milady's love letter to De Warden. He wishes to learn from milady Mme. Bonacieux's whereabouts. Mme. Coqenard gives Perthos a decrepit home. Milady, taking D'Artagnan for De Warden, rushes him in her darkened room. Forcing De Warden to leave, milady milady in order to make her turn to help. the plans revenge on De Warden. D'Artagnan, received by milady, confesses his deception. She tries to kill him, and he surprises her secret, a branded bruncher. Kitty visits D'Artagnan. Alaska wrews from his wife the safe house. Boulaine has given to her. To over-ear mailman D'Artagnan and his friends encumber a hooton attacked by the Boulaine. The friends warn De Winter in England of milady's departure and of Buckingham garruland also warn the queen. Brunson. Mildy is impressed in English by De Winter, who intrigues her to the cause of his lieutenant, John Fulton. She is to be deported. Mildy educates Fulton by pretending to be a Puritan. Fulton is a religious connoisseur and hates buckingham bitterly. Fulton's conquest by mildy is completed when she begins to tell him a false story of persecution by a man whom she does not name. Mildy's story continued. She names Buckingham as her persecutor and assures De Winter aided him. Fulton helps mildy to escape and then, at her instigation, stabs the Duke of Buckingham, De Winter arriving too late. Buckingham, dying, returns Queen Anne's gifts, lt Artagnan obtains from the queen an order for his sweetheart's release. Mildy returns to France to the convent in which Mine Bonacieux is kept. THE despair of Athos had given place to a concentrated grief, which only rendered more lucid the brilliant mental faculties of that extraordinary man. He procured a map of the province, perceived that there were four different roads from Bethune to Armenières and called Planchet, Grimand, Bazin and Mousqueton, who received clear, positive and serious orders. They were to set out for Armenières the next morning at daybreak and to go to Armenières, each by a different route. All four were to meet the next day at 11 o'clock. If they had discovered militia's retreat three were to remain on guard, the fourth was to return to Bethune to inform Athos and serve as a guide to the four friends. Atthus then arrose from his chair, gripped of his sword, enveloped himself in his cloak and left the hotel. It was nearly to cloak. He made his way to a small house, isolated, solitary, dark and dismal, on the outskirts of the town. Three times Atthus knocked without resisting any answer. At the third knock, however, steps were heard made. The door at length was opened and a man of high stature, pale completion and black hair and beard appeared. The man whom Atthus had come so far to seek introduced him into his laboratory, where he was engaged in fastening together with iron wire the dry homes of a skeleton. All the frame was adjusted, except the head, which lay upon the table. All the rest of the furniture indicated that the inhabitant of this house was engaged in the study of the natural sciences. But there was no family, no servant. The tall man inhabited this house alone. Athos explained to him the cause of his visit and the service he required of him, but scarcely had he expressed his request to the unknown who remained standing before the musketeer, drew back with signs of terror and refused. Then Athos took from his pocket a small paper, upon which word written two lines, accompanied by a signature and a seal, and presented them to him who had given too prematurely these signs of repugnance. The man had scarcely read these lines, seen the signature and recognized the seal when he bowed to deputate that he had no longer any objection to make and that he was ready to obey. Athos returned to the hotel and went to his apartment. At daybreak I Arragan came, to him and asked him, "What was to be done?" "Walt!" replied Athos. Shortly afterward Planche returned. He had traced mildly to Armentiers. She had engaged a chamber in the inn there, had sent for the master of the hotel and told him that she was destined to remain for some time in that neighborhood. Planche did not want to know any more. He hastened to the rendezvous, found the hackers at their posts, placed them as sentinels at all the issues of the hotel and came to find Athos. At 8 o'clock in the evening Athos ordered the horses to be saddled and had Lord de Winter and his friends informed that they must prepare for the expedition. In an instant all five were ready. Every one examined his arms and put them in order. "Lattence!" cried Athos. "One of our party is still wanting." The four horsemen looked round them with astonishment. At this moment Planche brought out Athos' horse, and the musketeer leaped lightly into the saddle. "Wait for me," cried he. "I will soon be back." In a quarter of an hour he returned, accompanied by a tall man, masked and enveloped in a large red cloak. At 9 o'clock, guided by Planchet, the lift the cavalcade set out, taking the route militay's carriage had taken. It was a stormy and dark night. Yast clouds covered the bearnes, concealing the stars. The moon would not rise much before midnight. At every instant Athos was forced to restrain D'Artagnan, who had but one thought, which was to go forward. Several times Lord de Winter, Portos or Aramis endowed to enter into conversation with the man in the red cloak, but to every interrogation put to him he bowed without making any reply. A little before they came to Fromilles the storm burst in all its fury upon them, and they unfolded their cloaks. They had still three leagues to travel, and they performed it amid torrents of rain. At the moment the little troop had passed Goukel a man advanced into the middle of the road with his finger on his lips. Athos recognized Grimand. "What's the matter?" cried Athos. "Has she left Armenterion?" Grimand made a sign in the affirmative. D'Artagnain ground his tooth. "Where is she?" asked Athos. Grimand stretched out his hands in the direction of the Lyn. "Alone?" asked Athos. Grimand made a sign that she was. "Gentleman," said Athos. "she is alone in the direction of the river." "That's well," said D'Artagnain. "Land us on, Grimaud." Another fish enlightened all around them. Grimaud extended his arm, and they, distinguished a little inserted house on the banks of the river within a hundred paces of a ferry. "This is the place," said Athos. At this moment a man who had been crouching in a ditch jumped up and came toward them. It was Mousqueton. He pointed with his finger to a window with a light. "She is there," said he. "And Basin!" saked Athos. "While I kept my eye on the window he guarded the door." "All is well!" said Athos. Athos sprang from his home, gave the bridle to Grimaud and advanced toward the window, after having made a sign to the rest of the troop to go toward the door. By the light of a lamp Athos saw a woman enveloped in a mantle of a dark color seated upon a joint stool near the dying embers of a fire. Her elbows were placed upon a mean table, and she leaned her head upon her two hands, which were white as frovry. At this moment one of the horses neighed. Milady raised her head, saw the pale face of Athos close to the window and screamed with terror. Athos, perceiving that she knew him, pushed the window with his knee and hand. It yielded; the frame and glass were broken to pieces. And Athos, like the specter of vengeance, sprang into the room. Milady rushed to the door and opened it; but, still more pale and menacing than Athos, D'Artagnan stood on the sill. Milady drew back, uttering a cry, D'Artagnan, believing she might have means of flight and fearing she should escape, drew a pistol from his belt, but Athos raised his hand. "Put back that weapon, D'Artagnan," said he. "This woman must be judged, not assassinated. Come in, gentlemen." Behind D'Artagnan entered Porthos, Aramis, Lord de Winter and the man in the red cloak. The four lackeys guarded the door and the window. "What do you want?" screamed miliady. "We want," said Athos, "Charlotte Backson, who first was called Countess de la Pere and afterward Lady de Winter, Baroness de Sheffield." "That is I, that is I!" murmured miliady in extreme terror. "What do you want with me?" "We want to judge you according to your crimes," said Athos. "You shall be free to defend yourself. Justify yourself if you can. M. D'Artagnan, it is for you to accuse her first." "Before God and before men," said D'Artagnan, "I accuse this woman of having poisoned Constance Bonnecloux." "We bear witness to this," said Porthos and Aramis. D'Artagnan continued: "Before God and before men I accuse this woman of having attempted to poison me in wine which she sent me from Villerol, with a forged letter, as if that wine came from my friends. God preserved me, but a man named Brisemont died in my place." "We bear witness to this," said Porthos and Aramis. "Before God and before men I accuse this woman of having urged me to murder the Baron de Wardes, and of having employed assassins to shoot me, from whom I was again preserved by God's providence; but, as none can be witness to these facts, I attest them myself. I have done." "It is your turn, millor," said Athos. The baron came forward. "Before God and before men," said he, "I accuse this woman of having been the means of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham. That is not all. My brother, who made you his heir, died in three hours of a strange disorder, which left vivid traces behind it all over the body. Assassin of Buckingham, assassin of Felton, assassin of my brother, I demand Justice upon you, and I swear that if it be not granted to me I will execute it myself." Milady let her head sink between her two hands and endeavored to recall her ideas, which whirled about in a mortal vertigo. "It is my turn," said Athos. "I married that woman when she was a young girl. I married her in opposition to the wishes of all my family. I gave her my wealth, I gave her my name, and one day I discovered that this woman was branded. This woman was marked with a fleur-de-lis on her left shoulder." "Oh!" said miliy, "I defy you to find any tribunal which pronounced such an infamous sentence against me! I defy you to find him who executed it!" "Silence!" cried a hollow voice. "It is for me to reply to that!" And the man in the red cloak came forward. All eyes were turned toward this man, for to all except Athos he was unknown. And even Athos looked at him with as much stupefaction as the rest. "The executioner of Lillel! The executioner of Lillel!" cried miliy, a prey to wild terror. "Oh, pardon, pardon!" cried the miserable woman, falling on her knees. All eyes were fixed upon the unknown, who said: "That woman was formerly a young maiden as beautiful as she is now. She was in him in the convent of the Benedictines of Templemar. A young priest, of a simple and trustful heart, performed the duties of the church of that convent. She undertook his seduction and succeeded. She prevailed upon him to leave the country. But to leave the country money was necessary. The priest stole the sacred vows and sold them. But they were both arrested. "Within a week she seduced the son of the jailer and get away. The young priest was condemned to ten years of imprisonment and to be branded. I was exonerated of the city of Lifte, as this woman has said, and the guilty man, guardian, was my brother. I threw away that the woman who had stabbed him should at least share his punishment. I followed her, I sought her and I improved the more imprisonment upon her. "This day may my return to Lifte." our husband of the best succeeded in making his group. I was accounted of complexity and was condemned to re-make in his place till he should be again a prudent. His poor brother was unwilling to continue. He rejoined this wife. They fed together into flury, and there he obtained a little cunning. This woman passed for his niega. "The lead of the estate upon which the church of the curry was situated saw this prepared estate and became consumed of her, so much so that he offered to marry her. Then she left him she had mined for him she was destined to ruin and became the Countess do in Fere." All eyes were turned toward Athos, whose real name that was and who made a sign with his head that all was true that the cutoutor had said. "Then," resumed he. "mad, desperate, my poor brother returned to Lille and, learning of my sentence, surrendered himself and hung himself from the iron bar of the loophole of his prison. I was set at liberty. That is the crime of which I accuse her; that is the cause of her being branded." "M.M. d'Artagnan. Porthos. Aramis. De Winter," said Athos. "what is the penalty you demand against this woman?" "The punishent of death." replied the four in stern, hollow voices. At these words mildly raised herself up to her full height and endeavored to speak, but her strength failed her. She felt that a powerful and implacable hand seized her by the hair and dragged her away. Lord de Winter, D'Artagnan, Athos. Porthos and Aramis wout out close behind her and the executioner. The locksey followed their masters. Two of the lackeys now led, or, rather, dragged, along milady by her arms. The executioner walked behind them, and Lord de Winter, D'Artagnan, Porthos and "Aramis" walked behind the executioners. The two lackeys led milady to the banks of the river. Being a few pieces in advance, she whispered to the lackeys: "A thousand pistoles to each of you if you will miss my escape, but if you deliver me up to your master I have near at hand avengers who will make you pay for my death very dearly." "Athous, who heard milady's voice, came sharply up "Change these lackeys," said he. "She has spoken to them. They are no longer safe." When they arrived on the banks of the river the executioner approached milady and bound her hands and feet. Then she broke silence to cry out: "You are base cowards, miserable as assasins, ten men combined to murder one woman! Beware! If I am not saved I shall be avenged." "You are not a woman," said Athert coldly and sternly. "You are a demon escaped from hell, to which place we are going to send you back again." "He who shall touch a hair of my head is himself an assassin." "The executioner can kill, madame, without being on that account an assassin," said the man in the red cloak, striking upon his immense sword. "This is the last judge." Thesecries had something heartrending in them. D'Artagann was the youngest of all these men. His heart failed him. Oh, I cannot behold this frightful spectacle" said he. "I cannot consent that this woman should die thus." Milndy heard these few words. "D'Artagann, D'Artagann," cried she "remember that I loved you." Athos drew his sword and placed himself between them. "One step further, M. d'Artagnan, said he, "and, dearly as I love you, we were awsome." He made a step to ward malady. "I pardon you," said he, "the fil you have done me. Die in peace!" Lord de Winter advanced in his turn "I pardon you," said he, "the poisoning of my brother, the assassination of his grace the Duke of Buckingham. I pardon you the death of poor Felton. I pardon you the attempts upon my own person. Die in peace." "And I," said M. d'Artagnan, "pardon you, and I weep for you. Die in peace." "I am lost!" murmured milady in English. "I must die!" The executioner placed her in the boat. The boat moved off toward the left hand above of the Lys, bearing the guilty woman and the executioner. All 3 the other connected on the right hand back, which they tie on their knees. The group of friends meet the bear. Mindfully, during the pummel, he continued to unite the cord which fastened her foot. On coming near to the bank he jumped lightly on where and took to flight. But the soil was moist. On galving the top of the bank she slipped and fell upon her knees. Then they saw the executor raise both his arms slowly. The two arms full with a sudden force. They heard the hissing of the scimitar and the cry of the victim, then a truncated mass sank beneath the blew. The executoror then took of his red cloak, spread it upon the ground, laid the body in it, threw in the bed, lifted all up with the four corners, lifted it on to his back and got into the boat again. When arrived in the middle of the stream he stopped the boat and suspending the burden over the water: "Let the justice of God be done!" cried he with a loud voice. And he let the body drop into the depths of the water, which closed over it. Within three days the four musketeers were in Paris. CHAPTER XLVI Conclusion. ON the 6th of the following month the king, in compliance with a promise he had made the cardinal to return to La Rochelle, left his capital still. In amazement at the news which began to spread of Buckingham's assassination. The return to La Rochelle was profoundly dull. Our four friends in particular astonished their comrades; they traveled together, side by side, with spiritless eyes and heads depressed. One day, when the king had halted to hunt and the four friends had stopped at an inn on the high road, a man coming from La Rochelle on horseback pulled up at the door to drink a glass of wine. "Hilloo, M. d'Artagnan?" said he. "Is not that you I see ponder?" D'Artagnan raised his head and uttered a cry of joy. It was his unknown of Meung. D'Artagnan drew his sword and sprang toward the door. But this time, instead of avoiding him, the unknown jumped from his horse and advanced to meet D'Artagnan. "In the name of the king, I arrest you," he said. "How? What do you say?" cried D'Artagnan. "I am the Chevalier de Rochefort, the equergy of Mgr. the Cardinal de Rochelie, and I have orders to conduct you to his enmilence." "We are returning to his enmilence. M. le Chevalier," said Athos, advancing; "and you will please to accept the word of M. d'Artagnan that he will go straight to La Rochelie. We will be his guards, mongoles, upon our words as gentlemen." "Gentleman," said Rochefort, "M. d'Artagnan will surrender his sword to me and join his word to yours, I will be satisfied with your promise to convey M. d'Artagnan to the quarters of Mgr. the Cardinal. I wish to continue my journey." "If it is for the purpose of rejoining mildly," said Athos coolly, "it is uneasy; you will not find her." "What is become of her, then?" asked Rochefort eagerly. "Come back with us to the camp and you shall know." They were only a day's journey from Surgeons, to which place the cardinal was to come to meet the king. They resumed their route. On the morrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon they arrived at Surgeons. The cardinal here greeted Louis XIII. On returning in the evening to his quarters at the bridge of La Pierre the cardinal found D'Artagnan, without his sword, and the three musketeers, armed, standing before the door of the house. He made a sign with his eye and hand for D'Artagnan to follow him. D'Artagnan obeyed. "We shall wait for you, D'Artagnan," said Athos loud enough for the cardinal to hear him. His eminence went to the chamber which served him as a closet and made a sign to Rochefort to bring in the young musketeer. Rochefort obeyed and retired. "Monsieur," said the cardinal, "you have been arrested by my orders. Do you know why?" No, monsieurneur, for the only thing for which I could be arrested is still unknown to your eminence. If monsieurneur will have the goodness to tell me in the first place what crimes are imputed to me I will then tell your eminence what I have really done." You are charged with having corresponded with the enemies of the kingdom. You are charged with having surprised state secrets. You are charged with having endeavored to thwart the plane of your general." And who charges me with this monsieurneur? said D'Artagnan. "A woman branded by the justice of the country, who attempted both to poison and assassinate me!" What is all this, monsieurP? crid the cardinal, associated. "And what women are you smoking of these?" "Or Milady do Winter," replied D'Artagnan—"yea, or Milady do Winter, of whom crimes your ennounce in doubt less ignorant because you have honored her with your confidence. But she is punished, promised reward." "Is she in prison?" "This is dead. Three times she attempted to kill me, and I pardoned her, but she murdered the woman I loved. Then my friend and I took her, tried her and condemned her." "D'Arignan then related the story. A shudder crept through the body of the cardinal. But all at once, as if unnaming the influence of a secret thought, the continuity of the cardinal, all that moment glimmer, pierced up by degrees and recovered perfect strength." "By," said the curialist, in a tone that exemplified strength with the severity of his words, "You have contributed yourselves together, without consenting that they who punish without it sense to punish are mismined?" "Management, I do not hold. If you don't enough to be afraid of death. Another might reply that he had his pardon in his pocket. I will content myself with saying: I issue your orders of condemnation, household. I am ready." "Your pardon?" said Richallie, surprised. "Signed by whom? By the king?" "No; by your ordinance. Monseigneur will doubtless recognize his own writing." And D'Artagnan presented to the cardinal the precious piece of paper which Athos had forced from mliady. It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done. RICHELIEU. Dec. 2, 1627. The cardinal after having read these two lines sank into a profound reverie, but he did not return the paper to D'Artagnan. At length he raised his head, fixed his eagle look upon that loyal, open and intelligent countenance, read upon that face, furrowed with tears, all the suffering he had endured in the course of the last month and reflected for the third or fourth time how much that youth of twenty-one years of age had before him and what resources his activity, his courage and his shrewd understanding might offer to a good master. The crimes and the P. B. B. "Monstigneur," said he, "my life is yours." Infernal genius of milady had more than once terrified him. He felt something like a secret joy at having got rid of this dangerous accomplice. He slowly tore the paper which D'Artagnan had generously placed in his hand. Then he went to the table and, without sitting down, wrote a few lines upon a parchment of which two-thirds was already filled up and affixed his seal to it. "Here, monstigneur," said the cardinal to the young man; "I have taken from you one signed blank to give you another. The name is wanting in this commission; you can write it yourself." D'Artagnan took the paper hesitatingly and cast his eyes over it. It was a lieutenant's commission in the musketern. D'Artagnan fell at the feet of the cardinal. "Monsigneur," said he, my life is yours; henceforward dispose of it. But I have three friends who are more meritorious and more worthy"— "You are a brave youth, D'Artagnan. Do with this commission what you will, only remember that, though the name be a blank, it was to you that I gave it. Rochefort." The chevalier entered immediately. "Rochefort," said the cardinal, "you see M. d'Artagnan. I receive him among the number of my friends. Embrace, then, and be prudent if you have any wish to preserve your beads." Rochefort and D'Artagnan saluted coolly, but the cardinal was there observing them with his vigilant eye. They left the chamber at the same time. "We shall meet again, shall we not, monseur!" "When you please," said D'Artagnan, and they parted. "We were beginning to grow impatient," said Athos. "Well, here I am, my friends," replied D'Artagnan, "not only free, but in favor." He related all that had taken place between the cardinal and himself and, drawing the commission from his pocket, "Here, my dear Athos," said he; "this belongs to you naturally." "My friend," said Athos, "for Athos this is too much; for the Count de la Fere it is too little. Keep the commission, it is yours. Alas, you have purchased it dearly enough." "Here, my friend," said D'Artagnan to Portsion; "write your name upon this and become my officer." Porthe cast his eyes over the commission and returned it to D'Artagnan. "Yes," said he—yes, that would fatter me very much, but I should not have time enough to enjoy the distinction. During our expedition to Be thune the husband of my duchess died, so that, my dear friend, I shall marry the widow. No; keep the tenancy, my dear fellow, keep it." And he returned the commission to D'Artagnan. The young man then offered the commission to Aramis. "Aha, my dear friend," said Aramis, "our late adventures have disgraced me with life and with a sword. This time my determination is irrevecably taken. After the siege I shall enter the house of the Lazirista. Keep the commission, D'Artagnan. The profession of arms suits you. You will be a brave and adventurous captain." EPILOGUE La Rechaix, deserved of the assistance of the Bastille foot and of the resistance promised by, Buckingham, surrounded after a stage of a paint. On the fifth of October, 1804, the organization was signed. mink. Forthset but the service and in the course of the following year married Mina. Cogsworth. The so much serviced after obtained 50,000 mhr. Monaghan became his fortune. Aramie took the habit in a consent of Nanny. Bain became a lay brother. Athos remained a muskeeper under the command of D'Artagnan till the year 1881, when he also quilted the service under the pretext of having inherited a small property in Ronsillen. Grimaud followed Athos. D'Artagnan fought three times with Rochefort and wounded him at each encounter. At length they embraced heartily and without retaining any malice. Planchet obtained from Rochefort the rank of sergeant in the guards. M. Bonacieux lived on very quietly, perfectly ignorant what had become of his wife and caring very little about the matter. One day he had the impudence to intrude himself upon the memory of the cardinal. The cardinal had him informed that he would provide for him so that he should never want for anything in future. In fact, M. Bonacieux, having left his house at 7 o'clock in the evening to go to the Louvre, never appeared again in the Rue des Fosoyeurs, and the opinion of those who seemed to be the best informed was that he was fed and lodged in some royal castle at the expense of his generous eminence. THE END. LIFE. We must eat to live, not live to eat-Fielding. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.—George William Curta. God gives each man one life like a lamp, then gives that lamp due measure of oil.—Browning. It is a narrow heart alone which does not grow. The wide one becomes larger with the lapse of years.—Jean Paul Richter. CRITICISM. Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. But of the two less dangerous is the offense. To tire our patience than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this— Ten conserve wrong for one who writes nausea. A fool might once himself expose; Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgment as our watches—none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In poetry, as true genius is but rare. True taste as seldom is the critic's share. Both must alike from heaven derive their light— Those born to judge as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel. And ensure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, this true. But are not critics to their judgment too? -Alexander Pope. It is very certain that no man is fit for everything, but it is almost as certain, too, that there is source any one man who is not fit for something, which something nature plainly points out to him by giving him a tendency and propensity for it. I look upon common sense to be to the mind what conscience is to the heart—the faithful and constant monitor of right and wrong—and I am convinced that no man commits either crime or a folly but against the manifest and sensible representations of one or the other. Every man finds in himself, either from nature or education — for they are hard to distinguish—a peculiar bent and disposition to some particular character, and his struggling against it is the fruitless and endless labor of Bishypsus. Let him follow and cultivate that vocation. He will succeed in it and be considerable in one way at least, whereas if he departs from it he will at best be inconsiderable, probably ridiculous. —Lord Chesterfield. RIGHT VERBUS SIN. When God hath a temple the devil will have a chapel—Burton. PROGRESS. There is a great difference between adherence to old principles and adherence to old methods. Progress consists in the application of old principles to new conditions, and it is only when there is a firm grasp of fundamental and essential principles that it is possible to devise new methods which have permanent value. Merely because an idea is new it does not necessarily follow that it is wise or profitable. The art of invention can never be independent of fundamental theory. John Grier Mibben, President of Princeton University. PROLOGUE. This fascinating romance of society life, politics and the underworld, this problem of the ninety-eight pearls, this tragedy of the missing state treasurer and a beautiful daughter's search for him, holds the reader's interest from the very first chapter to the last and gives the author a high place among the creators of mystery fiction. CHAPTER 1 I my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayel and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has grown wealthy by selling chickens at twelve ounces to the pound or the silk sweep of Mamle Tracy, whose diamonds have been stolen down on the avenue or the stairly respectable black and middle aged skirt of the client whose husband has found an affinity partial to laces and fripperies and has run off with her-all the wearers are ladies and as such announced by Hawes. In fact, he carries it to excess. He speaks of his wash lady, with a husband who is an ash merchant, and he announced one day in some excitement that the lady who had just gone out had appropriated all the loose change out of the pocket of his overcoat. So when Hawes announced a lady I took my feet off my desk, put down the brief I had been reading and rose perfunctorily. With my first glance at my visitor, however, I threw away my cigar and, I have heard since, settled my tie. That this client was different was borne in on me at once by the way she entered the room. She had police in spite of embarrassment, and her face when she raised her veil was white, refined and young. "I did not send in my name," she said when she saw me glancing, down for the card Hawes usually puts on my table. "It was advice I wanted, and I—I did not think the name would matter." She was more composed. I think when she found me considerably older than herself. I saw her looking furtively at the graying places over my cars. I am only thirty-five, as far as that goes, but my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early—a business asset, but a social handicap. "Won't you sit down?" I asked, pushing out a chair so that she would face the light while I remained in shadow. Every doctor and every lawyer knows that trick. Only too often the raising of a woman's veil in my office reveals the ravages of tears or ronge or disdain. My new client turned fearlessly to the window an unlined face, with a clear skin, healthily pale. From where I sat her profile was beautiful. "I hardly know how to begin," she said, "but suppose"—slowly—"suppose that a man, a well known man, should leave home without warning, not taking any clothes except those he wore and saying he was coming home to dinner, and be—"— "How long has he been gone?" "Ten days." "I should think it ought to be looked into," I said decisively and got up. Somehow I couldn't sit quietly. A lawyer who is worth anything is always a partisan, I suppose, and I never bear of a man deserving his wife that I am not indignant, the virtuous scorn of the unmarried man perhaps. "But you will have to tell me more than that. Did this gentleman have any bad habits—that is, did he—drink?" "Not to excess. He played bridge for money, but I believe he was rather lucky." "Married, I suppose?" I asked casually. "He had been. His wife died when I"— She stopped and bit her lip. Then it was not her husband, after all. Oddly enough, the sun came out just at that moment, spilling a pool of sunlight at her feet. "It is my father," she said simply. I was shameless relieved. "He would have papers to identify him." "His pockets were always full of envelopes, and things like that." "Don't you think I ought to know his name?" I asked. "It need not be known outside of the office, and this is a sort of confession anyhow, or worse." "My name is Fleming, Margery Fleming," she said after a second invitation, "and my father, Allan Fleming, is the man. Oh. Mr. Knox, what are we going to do? He has been gone for more than a week!" No wonder she had wished to conceal the identity of the missing man. So Allan Fleming was lost! A good many highly respectable citizens would hope that be might never be found. Fleming, state treasurer, delightful companion, petalled gentleman and successful politician of the criminal type. Outside in the corridor the office boy was staging under his breath. "Oh, once there was a mill," he sang, "who lived in a mill." It brought to my mind the reform meeting a year before, where for a few hours we had blown, the fuble spark of protest against magazine denomination to a flame. We had sung a song to that very time, and with this white flood god seemed from its words come back with revolting truth. Oh, there there was a night! There are on a hill! As we are laying on the ground We probably there all! Roxana "I am more than sorry." I said. I was too. Whatever he may have been, he was her father. "After all, there may be a dozen simple explanations, and there are exigencies in politics"—"I hate politics!" she broke in suddenly. "When I read of women wanting to—to vote and all that I wonder if they know what it means to have to be polite to dreadful people, people who have even been convicts and all that. Why, our last butler had been a prizefighter?" She sat upright with her hands on the arms of the chair. "That is another thing, too. Mr. Knox. The day after father went away. Carter, our butler, left. He was not there that evening to serve dinner, but—he came back late that night and got into the house, using his key to the servant's entrance. He slept there, the maids said, but he was gone before the servants were up, and we have not seen him since." "Your father has not been ill, has he? I mean recently." "I cannot think of anything except that he had a tooth pulled." She was quick to resent my smile. "You have not noticed any mental symptoms—any lack of memory?" Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday two weeks ago." she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten in nineteen of them." Nineteen. Nineteen from thirty-five leaves nineteen. "What I meant was this." I explained. "People sometimes have sudden and unaccountable lapses of memory and at those times they are apt to stray away from home. Has your father been worried lately?" "He has not been himself at all. He has been irritable even to us and terrible to the servants. Only to Carter—he was never ugly to Carter." "You have no brothers or sisters?" "None. I came to you"—there she stopped. "Please tell me how you happened to come to me." I urged. "I didn't know where to go," she confessed. "so I took the telephone directory, the classified part under 'Attorneys,' and, after I shut my eyes, I put my finger uphair on the page. I pointed to your name." "I am afraid I flushed at this," but in a moment I laughed. "We will take it as an omen," I said. "and, I will do all that I can. But I am not a detective. Miss Fleming. Don't you think we ought to have one?" "Not the police?" She shhildered. "Suppose you tell me what happened the day your father left and how he went away. Tell me the little things, too." "In the first place," she began, "we live on Monmouth avenue. There are just the two of us and the servants—a cook, two housemaids, a laundress, a butler and a chauffeur. My father spends much of his time at the capital and in the last two years since my old governess went back to Germany at those times. I usually go to mother's sisters at Bellwood, Miss Letitia and Miss Jane Maltland." I nodded. I knew the Maltland ladies well. I had drawn four different wills for Miss Letitia in the last year. "My father went away on the 10th of May. He got up from breakfast, picked up his hat and walked out of the house. He was irritated at a let tor be had read. "He took the letter with him. He did not come home that night, and I went to the office the next morning. The stenographer said he had not been there. He is not at Plattstburg because they have been trying to call him from there on the long distance telephone every day." In spite of her candid face I was sure she was holding something back. "Why don't you tell me everything?" I asked. Sheushed. Then she opened her pocketbook and gave me a slip of rough paper. On it in careless figures was the number "eleven twenty-two." That was all. "I was afraid you would think it allly," she said. "It was such a meaningless thing. You see, the second night after father left I was nervous and could not sleep. I expected him home at any time, and I kept listening for his sleep downstairs. About 3 o'clock I woke me I heard one in the room below inside. I felt relieved, for I thought he had come back. But I did not hear the door fly, his bedroom clean, and finally I managed glimpse to the hall to the room. I had a glimpse floating before I moved on. The light that there was some one standing close to me. But the room was empty and the hall too." "And the paper?" "The paper had been pinned to a pillow on the bed. When I saw the pin I was startled. I rang for Annie, the second housemaid, who is also a sort of personal maid of mine. It was half past 3 o'clock when Annie came down. I took her into father's room and showed her the paper. She was sure it was not there when she folded back the bedclothes for the night at 6 o'clock." "Eleven twenty-two." I repeated. "Twice eleven is twenty-two. But that isn't very enlightening." "No." she admitted. "I thought it might be a telephone number, and I called up all the eleven twenty-two in the city. Annie said Carter had come back, and she went to waken him, but, although his door was locked inside, he did not answer. Annie and I switched on all the lights on the lower floor from the top of the stairs. Then we went down together and looked around. Every window and door was locked, but in father's study, on the first floor, two drawers of his desk were standing open. And in the library, the little compartment in my writing table where I keep my house money, had been broken open and the money taken." "Nothing else was gone?" "Nothing. The silver on the sideboard in the dining room, plenty of valuable things in the cabinet in the drawing room—nothing was disturbed." "It might have been Carter." I reflected. "Did he know where you kept your house money?" "It is possible, but I hardly think so. Besides, if he was going to steal there P. On It Was the Number "Eleven Twenty-two." were so many more valuable things in the house. My mother's jewels as well as my own were in my dressing room, and the door was not locked." "They were not disturbed?" She beastified. "They had been disturbed," she admitted. "My grandmother left each of her children some unstring pearls. They were a hobby with her. Aunt Jane and Aunt Lettin never had their strung, but my mother's were made into different things, all old fashioned. I left them locked in a drawer in my sitting room, where I have always kept them. The following morning the drawer was unlocked and partly open, but nothing was missing." "All your jewelry was there?" "All but one ring, which I rarely re move from my finger." I followed her eyes. Under her glove was the outline of a ring, a polite stone. "It does not sound like an ordinary burglary," I reflected. "Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen, according to my mental process, although I know men who could make the difference nothing." I believe she thought I was a little mad. "We must find him, Mr. Knox," she insulated as she got up. "If you know of a detective that you can trust please get him. But you can understand that the unexplained absence of the state treasurer must be kept secret. I am sure he is being kept away. You don't know what enemies he has—men like Mr. Schwartz, who have no scruples, no principles." "Schwartz" I repeated in surprise. Henry Schwartz was the boss of his party in the state, the man of whom one of his adversaries had said, with the distinct approval of the voting public, that he was so low in the scale of humanity that it would require a special dispensation of heaven to raise him to the level of total degradation. But he and Fleming were generally supposed to be captain and first mate of the pirate craft that passed with us for the ship of state. "Mr. Schwa, is and my father are allies politically," the girl explained, with heightened color, "but they are not friends. My father is a gentleman." The inference I allowed to pass unnoticed, and as if she feared she had said too much the girl rose. When she left a few minutes later it was with the promise that she would close the Montsouris avenue home and go to her aunt at Bellwood at once. 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Bass and only colored member of the legislature making an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the proper observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the colored people in take country. The celebration will take place next September in the city of Philadelphia. The work is proceeding with dispatch, but already, the tendency of our people to disagree and to disgrace themselves is now in evidence and the daily newspapers are being called into service to discredit the present management. At this distance, we are unable to pass upon the merits of the charges and counter-charges. We do not know whether or not the money is being invested in the best manner possible. We do know that Attorney Harry W. Bass is a member of the Pennsylvania legislature and ranks among the great leaders of the race in this country. It is inconceivable that he would be connected with any movement which would be open to question or that Hon. W. W. Crow of Uniontown would lend his name and support to a plan which would be discreditable or dishonorable. We regret that this Pennsylvania movement was not made in unison with the Wright movement which is now pending before the Congress of the United States and asking for a large appropriation to fitingly observe this Centennial. Philadelphia might have been an ideal spot for such a display of our progress. We hope however that the friction now alleged to be existing in Pennsylvania between contending parties will disappear and for once all of our people will work in harmony to make the grandest display ever seen on the part of our people in my Northern city. FARMVILLE (VA.) NEWS Farmville, Va., Dec. 30.—This look has been a full one, both night and day with entertainments of all India. Christmas eve night a Canada was given, at First Baptist church by Miss Pearl Hilton for the month of the Sunday School. The mourn of First Church were divided clubs, and several entertainments on night during the holidays. Friday night was well filled. At First Church was "The Famous Southland Nightingales," a company of Negro Jubilee Singers. Our people were so delighted they were requested to remain over and sing on Saturday night. This troupe is the best of its kind ever stopped here. There was given at the Opera House for the benefit of First Church S. S. a drama, "The White Line." Mr. A. W. Lancaster, manager. The participants acquitted themselves with credit. They were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lancaster, Mrs. Annie Mae Brown, Miss Cassandra Branch, Messrs. Wesley Blind, C. S. Blue and Richard Young. On the same night there was a reception given by St. Luke Lodge, "Appomattox Council" at their hall on Third St. It is reported to have been a grand affair. On Sunday morning the pulpit of First Church was filled all day by Roy Adams. Mr. Gilbert Mason of Virginia St. spent the holidays with his people in Reanoke, Va. Mrs. Susie Foster and Little son visited friends in Blissfield, W. Va. Mrs. Ophelia Spencer of Lynchburg, Va. is visiting Mrs. Ida Bolling of Ely St. Mr. Page Lancaster from Hampton Institute is visiting relatives. Mr. John W. Holmes, Bernard Blue, Miss Kate Hafeston, Mr. Nathaniel Miller and Thomas Branch, all students of Hampton Institute are at home during the holidays. From Petersburg Institute: Misses Martha Hilton, Inez Ward, Gertrude Blue, Martha Blue, Blanche Palge, Josephine Hughes, Gladys McDaniel Viola Cousin, Messrs. Joseph Jordan and Richard Hilton. From Virginia Seminary and College: Miss Cecelia Murrell, Lemuel Bland, Philip Bland, Arthur Jordan and Mr. Johns. From Hartshaw Memorial College: Misses Mattle Price, Evelyn Hatrston and Brea Adams. Keysville Institute: Miss. Lottle Redd and Taylor Redd. Rev. and Mrs. Adams took tea with Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Scott on N. Street. Mr. Perry Wood from N. Y. City is visiting parents on Main St. Mrs. Mattle Matthew of Newark, N. I. is visiting relatives. Mr. Joseph Madden, William Redd who spent the holidays with their families returned to their work in S. C. Misses Lottle Paige, Estell Price, Cusanandra Branch, Eiffle Ward, Jesse Conn, Jessie Johns, Alberta Bolling Misses Hattie and Bettle Branch. Mrs. Julia Wammock, Mogell Price, Mrs. Bertha Anderson and Rev. P. W. Price. Mr. Willis Pettis of the Dental Department of Howard University is home visiting parents and friends. --- $150.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythian N. A. S. A. E. A. A. and A. Officer One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother Johnson Jones, who was a member of Roman Engle Lodge No. 19 of Danville, Va. --- $100,00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Dec. 23, 1912 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Virginia Carter, who was a member of America Court, No. 14 of Richmond, Va. Signed - Elizabeth Hewlett. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Mary M. Ayles. Harriet Blunt. Electric Stock "Suspends" Life. With "animation suspended," as the result of an electric shock, Warner T Vandegrift, an electrician, lies in the Merry hospital in Treton, N. J. His case baffles all the efforts of the physicians to revive him or to induce any indication of the life they know is still in his body. Vandegrift was sent to the old power house on Ingham avenue to repair a wire. He was oil off a car at work when a heavy current passed through his body. The man was hurled to the street and has lain since as one dead. --- Mother Frozen to Death It has just been learned in Mount Holly, N. J., that death had banished Christmas joy at the home of John Lowther, who lives in the pines near Clatworth, the body of his wife having been brought home, frozen to death, just before their Christmas dinner was ready. Mrs. Lowther and her two daughters left Marris Station to walk home, a distance of four miles, and got lost in the woods. Realizing the terrible situation of her mother, Mary, aged fourteen years, picked up her younger sister and started for help. It was not long before they were overcome and were compelled to lie in the snow all night. Mary had her hands and feet badly frozen, but Dr. Haines, of Medford, thinks amputation can be avoided. A resident of the Pines found the girls while carting shingles. Later he found the body of the mother. Unloading his wagon, he took the unfortunate ones home. Right. Teacher-Who can tell me what sailors live on? Willie Bright -Water, most of the time. One Prisoner Given Seven Years, Eight Get Six Years Each, Two Four Years, Twelve Three Years, Four Two Years and Six One Year and One Day. The thirty-eight labor union leaders convicted in the federal court on Saturday of conspiracy in connection with the interstate transportation of dynamite, were called up for sentence in Indianapolis, ind. One prisoner received seven years, eight six years each, two four years each, twelve three years each, four two years each, six one year and one day each. Five prisoners were given their liberty through suspended sentences. One, though he pleaded guilty, was given a suspended sentence, making a total of thirty-nine prisoners disposed of. Frank M. Ryan, head of the Ironworkers' union, was given the heaviest sentence, a prison term of seven years. Others were given terms ranging from one to six years. Olaf Tweltmoe, of San Francisco, convicted on charges of alking in plotting the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building, and Eugene A. Clancy, also of San Francisco, were given six years each, as was also Herbert S. Hockin, once secretary of the International union. Terms of imprisonment were imposed as follows. Seven years—Frank M. Ryan, president of the ironworkers' union. Six years—John T. Butler, Buffalo vice president; Herbert S. Hocklin, former secretary and formerly of Detroit; Olaf A. Tyvletmoe, San Francisco co., secretary of the California Building Trades Council; Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco; Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans; Michael J. Young, Boston; J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, Utah; Frank C. Webb, New York Four years—John H. Barry, St. Louis; Peter J. Smith, Cleveland. Three years—Paul J. Morrin, St. Louis; Henry W. Legeltner, Denver; Charles N. Baum, Minneapolis, Minn.; Michael J. Cunnane, Philadelphia; Edward Smythe, Peoria, Ill.; Murray L. Pennell, of Springfield, Ill.; Wilford Bert Brown, of Kansas City, Mo.; George Anderson, of Cleveland, O.; Michael J. Hannon, Scranton, Pa.; Ernest G. W. Basey, Indianapolis; William J. McCain, Kansas City; William E. Reddin, Milwaukee. Two years—Fred Sherman, Indianapolis; Richard P. Houlihan, Chicago; Frank J. Higgins, Boston; Frank K. Palmer, Omaha. One year—and one day—Edward E. Phillips, New York; Charles Wachtel, Detroit; Fred J. Mooney, DuLuth; James E. Ray, Poorla, IL; William C. Bernhardt, Cincinnati; William Shupe, Chicago. Sentences on the following were suspended: Patrick F. Farrell, New York; James Cooney, Chicago; James Coughlin, Chicago; Birm R. Kane, Muncle, Ind.; Frank J. Murphy, Detroit. On motion of the government, Edward Clark, Cincinnati, confessed dynamiter, who testified for the government, was given a suspended sentence. One of the six men who were given their liberty by suspended sentences, Clark, confessed to blowing up a bridge with the help of Hocken. He appeared as a witness for the government. Ortle K. McManigal, another confessed dynamiter, was not sentenced at this time. A remarkable scene in the struggle by the wives of the prisoners to reach their husbands attended the sentences. It was ordered that all the spectators be cleared from the room and the prisoners be allowed to talk with the members of their families. The sentences of one year and one day were imposed so that these men might be confined in a federal prison. Prisoners with terms of less than one year are kept in the county jail. Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson had many of the prisoners whom he said, he considered less guilty than the rest, brought before him to make statements. Thus, for an hour and a half the judge in a conversational way asked them whether they believed in dynamiting as a method of promoting a strike. All of them professed innocence. All the prisoners who received prison sentences were taken to the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Murder Mystery Is Cleared. The mystery surrounding the fatal attack made upon Miss Luella D. Marshall on the outskirts of Trenton, N. J., on the evening of Dec. 3 was suddenly cleared up when William Atzenhafer, thirty years old, confessed the crime after he had been placed in the power of the police by Miss Ida Capen, a trained nurse, and Dr. Joseph G. Denelsbeck, a physician, both of Trenton. This unexpected turn in this now famous crime startled the police and the people of Trenton. The confession came when all hope of solving the mystery had disappeared and while the police authorities of Mercer county were discussing theories and motives for the assault. The first intimation that Altenhafer was connected with the crime came to Miss Capen, whose suspicions were aroused by the man's aggressiveness to obtain information from newspapers regarding, Miss, Marshall's condition before her death and the movements of the police afterward. Attenhafer and Professor William B. Crusader of the University, that he attended fellow Attenhafer, just declared he mistook her for another person and that he did not intend to kill her. When questioned as to whom he thought he was attacking, Attenhafer said he had no reason to attack any one. Further questioning brought from Attenhafer the fact that the attack was made with the two and a half foot length of pipe found by the side of Miss Marshall. Unconscious form the night of the crime. Attenhafer said he got the pipe from the rear of two houses in course of construction, near the scene of the crime. He added that after he struck Miss Marshall he dragged her body across the road, through a barbed wire fence and left her unconscious in the field upon the approach of two men. Brutal Attack on Woman. Following the sending of a Black Hand letter to Mrs. Harry Brooke, a matron, of Stowe, near Pottatown, Pa., a man attacked the woman as she was returning from a Christmas entertainment. Mrs. Brooke was beaten into unconsciousness and her clothing was saturated with coal oil, her assailant probably intending to burn her alive. The woman screamed for aid, and her husband, armed with a gun, rushed out of the house to her assistance. Her assailant fled before he could apply a match to her oil-snaked clothing. Mrs. Brooke had been knocked unconscious by a club. Her condition is regarded as serious. For two years the woman has been receiving anonymous communications from some enemy who signs himself "The Black Hand." Various attempts have been made before on her life. Vitril was poured in her eyes a few months ago, and on another occasion she was ordered to meet a man in Mount Zion cemetery or she would be murdered. --- Dying Man Coughs Up Tooth: Recovers William Peck who has been operated on for lung trouble, treated by a score of doctors and given up as an incurable consumptive, went from a sanitarium to his home in Sayre, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., believing that he could not be cured. He was seized with a violent coughing spell at his home, and the cause of his illness was coughed up in the form of a wisdom tooth which for two years has been impounded in his lungs. After he had coughed up the tooth he began to grow better at once and his speedy recovery now seems to be certain. Two years ago Peck was in New York and had a wisdom tooth extracted by a dentist. He took gas and the tooth slipped from the dentist's forceps into the mouth of the patient. Boy Shoots Sister Dead While examining a new shotgun given him for a Christmas present, Vernie Lawrence, of Lookout, near Seranton, Pa., accidentally pulled the trigger. The charge struck his seven year old sister Mary, who was standing a few feet from him. The child's head was literally blown from her body by the heavy charge. It is believed that the shell was left in the gun by the dealer who sold the weapon. Both the boy's parents are prostrated over the affair, and it is feared that his mother will not recover. Congressman McHenry Dies. John G. McHenry, of Benton, Columbia county, Pa., who represented the Sixteenth district in congress, died at his home from apoplexy, aged fifty-four years. McHenry had not been in good health for over a year. For years he was a power in the Democratic party in his section of the state. He was elected to congress in 1906 from the Sixteenth district and was reelected in 1908 and 1910. He was manager of a distillery and head of the Farmers Grange banks in several counties. C. C. Kirk, a hotelkeeper of Quarryville, Pa., who was convicted of violating the state health law in polluting a stream, was found $25 and costs. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $1.10 & 4.25; city mills; fancy, $7.75 & $5.50; FLOUR FLOUR quiet; per barrel, $3.60 & $7.75. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 97% 91¢ CORN at steady; No. 2 yellow, 54% 65¢ OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 40% 11¢; lower grades, 38¢. POULTRY: Live steady; hans, 13¢ 15c.; old roosters, 11¢11¢11¢. dressed dress; choice towls, 16½¢; old roosters, 12c.; turkeys, 12c. BUTTER steady; fancy creamy; 33c per lb. nearby; steady; selected, 35 © 33c; nearby, 32c; western, 32c. POTATOES steady; 70© 73c bush. 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T I will be a man who wrote Because the day was bright, Because the light at night, Because God gave him sight To see the world all Because will be the same Because the sun will Shine on the earth he smiled He smiled at the sky Wrote that you heed, Because the sun was set, Because the past was dead He smiled with delight why The Lord had bounded so That all that he go The wrong way here below The overarching sky He told and still was glad Because the or was free, Because he loved and she That glanced he love and she Shaped the cloud he saw Because the grasses grew, Because the sweet wind blew, Because that he could hew And he gave, he was glad. --- Because he had be smiled At did not look ahead With bitterness or dread, Put mightly sought his bed As closely as a child And people called him mad For being always glad With such things as he had And shook their heads and smiled —Unidentified ASPIRATION. THE desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow. The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. -Shelley. THE MARCH OF GREECE. W HOME face, whose on high Lifts through the sky That murrele? Who over earth and sea Cries victory? Europe, thy soul Comes home to thee? Is it a dream, a cloud That thus hath rent the abroad To speak, sublime and proud, Thy faith aloud, Whose eyes make young and fair All things earth and air, The shadow of whose white wing Makes violets spring? Is it the angel of day Whom the blind pray Still, that their faith May sleep sound by night? Iyoye a white, Berlisen, she saith, Let there be light. Whose are the composing eyes That turn through those dark skies? Whose is the voice that cries: "Awake!" Arise! If it areSpeak one word, To shalt draw the award Her nations on that day Answer her Ye! It is the angel of God. Hun crowned, fire shield, Hiding hate crease My orphan is high Hids darkness die Her name is Greece Or- liberty! -Affred Henry Noyes in London Mall. THE INDIAN RANCHER. M fathers roamed the prairie In the days when men were free. But a hundred and sixty acres Is the home that must do for me. I must master the plow and reaper, Nor look at the winding trails And thousands there are to pour me In case the red rain fails. My fathers dwell in the open, But I have a stitting shack; I dream of the shirting teepers, But the morn brings sharply back The fences that clip one's freedom- The ranch and the toll that waits- And I say farewell to my fathers When I open the barnyard gates But visions still o'erhelm me, In spite of my will to win, And the fences and buildings vanish, And the village comes trooping in; The teepers gleam in the meadow, The children about the stream, But I wake at the clank of the harness- 'Tis only a red man's dream! I WONDER **WINKLE, twinkle, little star!** *How I wonder if you are* *When at home the tender age* *You appear when on the street!* *—Lippottica.* THE STONE REJECTED. FOR years it had been trampled in the street Of Florence by the drift of head- less foot. The stone that Buonarrott made that shone you know, that marble love means. You mind the tale—how he was passing by When the rude marble caught his Jovian eye. That stern man had dishonered and had flirted. Out to the limit of the wayside dust. He stepped to lift it from its mean estate. And here it on his shoulder to the gate. Where all day long a hundred hammer- way. And upon his chinis round the marble Till suddenly the hidden angel shone That had been waiting, prisoned in the stone. Thus came the cherub with the laughing race That long had lighted up an altar place —Edwin Markham in Nautilus Gems In Verse OLD FAVORITES. AN EMBER PICTURE. AS I sit sometimes in the twilight And call back to life in the coats Old faces and hopes, and fantasies Long buried. (Good rest to their souls?) HEIR face shines out in the embra- I see her holding the light. And hear the crunch of the gravel And the sweep of the rain that night. "TIS a face that can never grow older. That can never part with its gleam. Tis a gracious possession, forever. For is it not all a dream." -James Russell Lowell "MARCO BOZZARIS." At midnight in his guarded tent The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in appliance bent, Should tremble at his power In dream through camp and court to bore The troopers of a conqueror, In dreams the song of triumph heard. Then were his monarch's signet ring Then pressed that monarch's throne —a king. As wild his thoughts and gay of wing As Eden's garden bird At midnight in the forest shades Bozzaria ranged his sultate hand, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's thousands stork. There had the glad earth drunk their blood, On the Hatea's day And now there breathed that haunted air The work of area who conquered there With arm to strike and soul to dare, As quick, as far, as they An hour passed up, the Turk awoke, That bright dream was his last— He woke to help his sultate shriek: "To arm it! You come!" The Greek: The Greek! He woke to the midst flame and smoke And shout and groan, and saber stroke And death shots falling thick and fast As lightning from the mountain cloud. And heard, with voice as trumpet loud. Hozzaria cheer his band "Strike till the last armed for ex- strike Strike for your altars and your fire" Strike for the green graves of your altars. God and your native tank! They fought, like brave men, long and well. They piled that ground with Ma- lem slain. They conquered, but Hozzaria fell. Heeding at every with His few surviving comrades saw His smile when tang their proud burial And the red field was won. Then saw his death his wounds close Calmly, as to a night's repose. Like flowers at set of sun. Hozzaria, with the stained brave Grace, purified in her glory's Reat there! There is no provider give Even in her own proud clause, She wore no funeral wounds for three. Nor bade the dark hearse wave its vitreus. The heartless luxury of the tomb, but she remembers the as one long loved and for a season gone. For the her portals it is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed. For the she rings the birthday hells. Of these her babes' first lisping tells: For nine her exending prayer is said At palestine's door. Her soldier, closing with the foe. Given for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she feeps. For him the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fats and checks her And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in thy eye and faded cheek is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried joys, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. —Ple Greenno Halleck. SLEEP. SLEEP that knits up the raveled sleeve of care. The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath. Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course. Chief nourisher in life's feast. WARRIORS OF MONTENEGRO. THEY rose to where their sovran engle sailk They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk, whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep falls And, red with blood, the creecent reels from flight Before their dauntless hundreds, in prince flight By thousands down the crags and through the vales. O smallest among peoples, rough rock throne Of freedom, warriors beating back the awakens Of Turkish Islam fair five hundred years Great Ternogora, never since thine own Black ridge drew the cloud and branched the storm Has breathed a race of mightier mount taunners; —Tennyson WHAT OF YOU AND ME? WHAT OF YOU AND ME? THINK when our one soul understands The great word which makes a things new. When earth breaks up and heaven pands. How will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands! -Brownin. YOU will help THE PLANET. It when answering our advertisement, you will mention, our game. Gema In Verse UPON THE HILLS. DOWN there in the valley the city lies a-calling- Clear and loud I hear the call the wint bears up to me- But, upon the hills the purple night is falling. And breezes lull the birds to sleep upon the awaying tree. DOWN there in the valley my unashaped work is lying- Book and tile the life through the livelong day- But, within the west the opal light is dying. And from the upland meadow comes the fragrance of the hay! DOWN there in the valley the world's work is a-stirring- The air is thrilling with the noise of forges and of mills- But, I hear the sound of the night birds' wings a-whirring. And far away the blue-gray mist lies heavy on the hills! DOWN there in the valley the city lies a-calling- With weary feet and troubled heart the beaten paths are trod. But on the silver lake the vell of night is falling. And over hill and wood there lies the brooding peace of God. -Izabella R. Hea. TH18 18 MY CREED. A dash in the dark— Alla's done-stiff and stark. No time for a lie; The truth and then die. Hide not thy heart. Foesh with thy thought! Boon 'twill be naught. And then in thy tomb. Now is air; now is room. Down with false shame! Reck not of fame; Dread not man's spite. Quench not thy light. This be thy creed. This be thy deed. "Hide not thy heart." If stolf for the made. Sunshine and shade. Heaven and hell. This we know well. Dost thou believe? Do not deceive. Boon not thy faith. If it be a wretch. Boon it will fly. Thon, who must die. Hoon not thy heart. This is my creed. This be my deed. Faith or a doubt. I shall speak out. And hide not my heart. - Richard Watson Glider. HUMAN GENEROSITY. THIS man who says he takes a pride In honest talk which none should shrift Will always kindly stand aside And let you have his work. Washington Star. THE VESTIBULE. "Banquet rooms" and "pictured walls" And of "gardens cool." Not to these our thoughts belong. We would make a little song Of the vestibule. Unromantic little place, Narrow, close and bare? Not if we in fancy trace All that happens there. Welcome to the honored guest, Little lips to mother's pressed Are they start for school. Lingering lovers last good night— Love your fancy's flight In the vestibule! There shall Fancy contemplate Bull a greater bliss— When the good wife speeds her mate With a morning kiss. He who will the may With this blessing start the day Is a knave or fool. Many cares are overthrown. Many battles fought and won. From the vestibule. THE GOOD OLD WORLD. THE angels are callin'- 'The well to believe it- But the world looks too good For a sinner to leave it. -Atlanta Constitution. THE UNLAUNCHED SHIP. UNFINISHED and unlaunched, upon the ways. She stands, with the spray that dances by. Heartbeat forever from the sea the cry. "Come to me, break whatever spell de- lays." She sees afar white sails that seaward turn. She sees the motors' hum, the siren's call; She sees them pass the far horizons' wall And feels the urge of winds upon her stern. She knows that some in far off seas will sleep. Bome will lie wrecked on some uncharted far. But gladly would she sail for lands after. Daring all peril from the treacherous deep. They will have known the water's clash and roar. But she must die unlaunched upon the shore. --Ninette M. Lowater. OPTIMISM. HAVE no faith, but this one fact finds. That love is growing better day by day. What we call sin is what it leaves behind; What we call good attracts it on its way. HAVE no hope. With God's love in my heart. What is a selfish loss to care about? In the world I've played my little part. Let him who lit the candle put it out. HAVE no fear, and so 'the day by day in sunshine or in storm, in weal or woe, best I can I go along life's way. To that vast future where all men must go. -New York Tribune. OPTIMISM 000.000 For New Year's Eve New Year's day in France, generally observed with the giving of presents, a custom Americans observe very lightly. Boxes of candy take the lead. Paris alone it is estimated $800,000 is expended on candles for New Year's presents in 1912. OLD FAVORITES. THIS hold that sparrow makes us whine. Yet why hold such wisdom steps we should not hold? A LIFE in civile action warm. A soul on highest mission sent. A potent voice of parliament. A pillar steadfast in the storm. —Tennyson's "In Memoriam." A DROP OF INK. SMALL drop of ink. Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. —Byron. THE HAPPY WARRIOR. [The favorite poems of President Elect Wilcox.] W HO is the happy warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought. Whose high endows the an inward light That makes the path before him always bright; Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn Abides by this resolve, and stops not But makes his floral being his prime care; Who, downed to go in company with pain And fear and blisshed—miserable train! Turns his nessy to glorious gain; In age of three both exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dow- er! Controls them and abducts, transmutes, beneath Of the moral influence and their good re- actions By objects which might force the soul to abute Her feeling rendered more compassionate; Is capable, because occasions rise As tempted more, more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence also more alive to tenderness. Thence his law is reason, who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence in a state where men are tempted and still To serve a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or art is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to nx and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows; Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honorable terms or else retire And in himself possesses his own desire: Who comprehends his trust and to the Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim. And before does not stop nor lie in For wealth or honors or for worldly state; Whom they must follow, on whose head must fall Like showers of manna if they come at all; Whose powers shed round him in the common strife Or mild concerns of ordinary life A common influence, a peculiar grace. But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover and, attired With sudden brightness, like a man in inspired And through the heat of conflict keeps the least In calamities made, and sees what he fore- Or if in an unexpected call succeed, Come when .. will, is equal to the need; He who, though thus endued as with a And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a soul whose master bliss leans To home felt pleasures and to gentle return; Sweet love, which, wherever no be, Are at his heart, and such Adelity It is his darling passion to approve. More brave for this, that he hath much to love Tis finally, the man who, lifted high, Conspicuous object in a nation's eye, Or left unthought, in obscurity, Who, with a toward, untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays in the many games of life that one Where what he most doth value must be won, Whom neither shape of danger can dis- man; Nor thought of tender happiness betray; Who, not content that former worth stands fast, Looks forward, persevoring to the last, From well to better daily self surpass; Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth; Forever and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, And leave a dead, unprofitable name, Finds comfort in himself and in his cause, And while the mortal mist is gathering forth His breath in confidence of heaven's ap- plause - This is the happy warrior, this is he That every man in arms should wish to be -William Wadsworth. WILLS. WILL8 MEN dying make their wills, but wives leave a work so sad. Why should they make what all their lives The gentle dames have had? SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT. SHIPS that pass in the night and speak each other in passing. Only a criminal shown and a distant voice in the darkness. So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another. Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. DEATH SONGS. SWANS sing before they die. Twere no bad thing Would certain singers die before they sing. Modern Philanthropist Modern Philanthropist. "Why are you sobbing, my little man?" "My pa's a millionaire philanthropist." "Well, well, that's nothing to cry about." "It isn't, isn't it? He's just promised to give me $50 to spend at Christmas provided I raise a similar amount." Eye Bornin Eye strain is said to be largely a defect of civilization. To counteract it children should be encouraged to use their eyes at long range, and older persons should be trained themselves. A teacher who has a surprisingingly small amount of eye strain among her pupils attributes it to her practice of having the scholars drop their work at the end of each hour and look out the window. There is a contest over who seem farthest. This rests and trains eyes and teaches observation. A woman who does fine sewing for her living found her eyes strained and weak. She was advised to drop her sewing every half hour and look for a minute into space. Relief was quick and the eye strain disappeared. Nearestighted persons who hold their book or work close will ease eye strain and lengthen their vision if they frequently remove their glasses and look at some object on the farthest horizon. This long distance training will not, however, relieve eye strain that comes from astigmatism, reckless disregard of the eyes or from glasses that do not suit the eyes. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Two of the chief causes of insomnia are mental excitement and overfatigue. One of the best means of combating the first is a long tepid bath just before retiring. Meet overfatigue with some simple, warm, nutritious drink. Then do not make an effort to sleep. Make yourself perfectly comfortable, and even if you lie awake for a time you will suffer little harm from the insomnia. Never use artificial means on your own impulse. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Good teeth are necessary for the proper mastication of food, without which there cannot be perfect digestion. Impaired digestion soon results in poor health, lowers the vital resistance and therefore makes a person more susceptible to disease. Cleanliness of the mouth is the factor of greatest importance in the care of the teeth. "Clean teeth do not decay." Food particles allowed to remain in the mouth ferment with the production of the acid, which erodes the enamel of the teeth and results in decay. Children should be taught early how to keep their mouths clean, so that it becomes a fixed habit to be continued throughout life. The mouth should be thoroughly rinsed and the throat gargled at least twice a day with plenty of pure water. The teeth should be cleansed with a toothbrush at least once a day, preferably after the last meal. The brush should be manipulated so that every part of the teeth is cleaned. This is accomplished by brushing up and down and across, inside and outside, and in between the teeth. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Diet. List plays a great part in preserving health and therefore has a great influence on the complexion. All rich and greasy foods tend to make the skin greasy; therefore the simpler one's food the better, provided it is nourishing and well cooked. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Cold weather is here. The advent of cold weather always marks the rise in the pneumonia death rate. It also marks a general increase in the number of cases of the contagious diseases—measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, colds, etc. Why? Because from now on people begin to close their doors and windows, and stagnant air diseases get in their work. When people are closely bound in, in poorly ventilated rooms, the four air lowers our vitality, and this, together with close association, makes disease transmission easy. What is the remedy? It is easy enough to locate the remedy. The remedy is simply a continuation of the first class ventilation we have been having out in the open air all summer long. But how can we get it in the winter? In winter we have to live in houses, to be sure, but we don't have to sacrifice all our fresh air. Get fresh air at any price, even if you have to break a window or two. --- Dust and Consumption. Dust is a threefold factor in consumption. First, it acts as a gaseifying cause. It is a direct physical irritant to the respiratory passages. By then irritating or inflaming the mucus THE MAGIC SHAPER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER. MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $1.00 POSTAGE PAID. membranes it weakens their power to resist bacterial invasion. Second, dust may carry infection directly by means of dried tubercular sputum recently discharged by some careless or ignorant consumptive. Third, dust may aggravate an incipient or curable case of consumption and thus convert it into a rapid and virulent case because of the added pus producing germs. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. A Uniform Diet Beat That digestion is daily adapted to the food eaten is evidenced by the fact known to all physiologists that when a patient has been for weeks on a special diet, as milk, it is necessary to change gradually to the ordinary diet. When there is no system, as in the case of one who eats all of the ordinary foods, there is a constant waste of vitality in continuous excessive adaptation. This is recognized in the mono-lectile treatment of the sick, which is constantly becoming more popular. Several years ago I proved by personal experiments that one can live very well and do average physical and intellectual work on many of the ordinary foods, eaten alone, which are commonly regarded as containing an excess or a shortage of protein, although it is, of course, best to choose a balanced ration. In abnormal conditions a high protein, a low protein, an alkaline or an acid diet may be beat, according to the "indications," for a time, but when the normal condition of nutrition is attained a uniform diet is best as we see in the lower animals, which we know do not require a great variety of highly spiced and seasoned foods. The abnormal conditions brought about by wrong feeding are hereditary, and this must be considered in adopting a diet, although hereditary conditions can be largely overcome — Dr. E. B. Lowry HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Bad Combinations With Meat. Dr. Feeton B. Turck says that "the use of meat has been shown to favor intestinal autointoxication; hence many advise total abstinence from the eating of meat." When meat is eaten alone or with a food that is nearly compatible, such as bread, the results are less undesirable than when eaten with a meal consisting largely of fruits, green vegetables, rice, or milk, since these foods, being digested principally in the intestine, hasten the passage of the meat from the stomach, where it is best digested. Pork, for instance, requires five hours in the stomach; rice, milk, apples, uncooked cabbage, toast, potatoes average less than two hours, so that such a combination would not be as good as a larger quantity of beef or pork with bread alone. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Children's Headaches. "Children," says the noted English physician Crichton Brown, "have no business with headaches, and if these occur frequently at any school there is something evidently wrong there. The headache girl is not unlikely to grow up an invalid woman, and the unstable mental state may develop into epilepsy." New parents are fully alive to the importance of recognizing the signs of nervous breakdown in children during the school period and of taking steps to prevent injuries through overstudy and the anxiety that frequently accompanies study, especially during the high school period. It is better to consult a physician before it becomes necessary to discontinue the school work. It is more important that athletic exercises and games that will relieve the mental strain of severe stress be provided for girls than for boys in the high school period. Every lady can have a beautiful and luxurious head of hair if she uses a hairstyle. After a shampoo or bath the magic dries the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will shine the curled head of hair. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Why Not Now? Eventually. Imported & Domestic LIQUORS S. W. ROBINSON Mail Order House, Richmond, Va. LOVE SONG Down on the vast, deep ocean The sun his beams doth throw Till every wavelet trembles Beheath their ruddy glow. How like thou to those sunbeams Upon my life's wild seal They tremble all and glitter. Reflecting only thee. -Friedrich von Bodenstedt. LEADERSHIP. Life is not a game of chess, which is won by the man who can make the best calculations. Now and then a man like Alexander or Napoleon possesses such transcendent intellectual powers that he can treat life as if it were a game and can dispose of nations and armies as though they were mere castles or pawns on his chessboard. But neither a Napoleon nor an Alexander was able to leave an enduring empire. The men whose work has lasted best are those like Lincoln and Washington, like Cromwell and William the Silent—men differing greatly in intellectual gifts, yet marked out above all others by the habit of self command. Go back through the list of Christian heroes and martyrs, back to Paul, back to Jesus himself, and we find that the thing that counted most in their character and work was that they had risen above the distractions of success and failure into a command of their own souls and that this gave them command over the deeds and the souls of others—President Hadday of Yale University. CIVILIZATION Civilization is so general in its nature that it can scarcely be aided, so complicated that it can scarcely be unraveled, so hidden as to be scarcely discernible. The difficulty of describing it, of recounting its history, is apparent and acknowledged, but its existence, its worthiness to be described and to be recounted, are not less certain and manifest. Then, respecting civilization, what a number of problems remain to be solved! It may be asked, it is even now disputed, whether civilization is a good or an evil. One party declares it as teeming with mischief to man, while another lauds it as the means by which he will attain his highest dignity and excellence. Again it is asked whether this fact is universal; whether there is a general civilization of the whole human race, a course for humanity to run, a destiny for it to accomplish; whether nations have not transmitted from age to age something to their successors which is never lost, but which grows and continues as a common stock, and will thus be carried on to the end of all things.—Frabbie Guikot. AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. It is a striking fact that the greatest contributions to pure learning in the nineteenth century land, for that matter, to fine art have not come from those English and American universities which have closely avoided doing anything useful. On the contrary, in almost every department of pure learning all the world recognizes the aviruated leadership of the German scholar.—President Bryan of Indiana University. 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But now I stand and marvel at The wonders one brief year has wrought. SOME friends that were to me so dear Have passed beyond the bourne of life And left a painful vacancy To mar the record of the year. THE ways I tred a year ago Have changed their course, and, lo, I pass Through various scenes to broader fields And enter realms I did not know. NEW faces greet me everywhere; New voices sound upon my ears; New friends have made my life more sweet; NEW thoughts come often to my mind; New visions greet my simple gaze. Some things that I for years have sought I now on higher levels find. -Howard Phillips LIVE DEEP. BETTER a day of strife Than a century of sleep: Give me instead of a long stream of life The tempests and tears of the deep. -Father Ryan. FULL happy is the man who comes at last Into the safe completion of his year. Weathered the perils of his spring that blast How many blossoms promising and dear! And of his summer with dread passions fraught. That oft, like fire through the ripening corn. Bright all with mocking death and leave distraught Loved ones to mourn the ruined waste forlorn. But new, though autumn gave but harvest night. Oh, grateful is he to the powers above For winter's sunshine and the lengthened night By hearth side genial with the warmth of love. Through silvered days of vistas gold and green Contentedly he glides away, serene. —Timothy Cole in Century. NOTHING. BELIEVE me, I am naught-yea, lean than naught. By naught and less than naught what can be taught? I tell the mysteries of truth, but know Naught save the telling to this task I brought. —From "Lawall," by Jarol. PUT ME AWAY FOR WINTER. PUT me away for winter, somewhere out of the blast. Put me away till blimards and snow and the snow are past. Put me away till morning comes smiling again to me. Out of the valleys of April and over the brine of the sea. Put me away for winter, wrap me in com- plex, too. 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As a consequence, just after a special board of inquiry had begun to ask him questions he announced that he will return to Hamburg on the first THE BANK OF NEW YORK liner he can catch and there need be no more trouble about it. His announcement was received with favor on Ellis Island and in Washington, and so until Saturday, when the Amerika is to sail for the German port, General Castro will have the best the immigration bureau on the island can supply. Commissioner William Williams made the announcement for the general in the following brief way: "After a preliminary hearing at Ellis Island, General Cipriano Castro informed Commissioner Williams that he desired to return to Europe forthwith." Although Mr. Williams would not amplify his statement, it was generally known that the resolution had not been extracted from the man who once prided himself on being the Diaz of the Andes, until the state department at Washington had made certain little representations that, no matter what the case might be, General Castro was not going to land on our otherwise hospitable shores. The treasury department, operating through the United States public health service, had made very close examination as to the man's physical condition and had failed to discover anything which would warrant it in saying that he was suffering from a disease which is a bar to entrance for an alien. Then the department of commerce and labor had tried it and failed, for the general could show sufficient money to prove that he was not likely to beceive a public charge. That left only the state department, which has more leeway, particularly where a neighboring friendly nation or the ruler of it has lost its taste for a former citizen. When he understand it, General Castro, who has had some little experience along the same general line, bowed to the invitable and sent for steamship agents, through whom he booked his passage. WALKS IN SLEEP; STRUCK BY TRAIN Track Walker Find Body of Society Girl. Walking in her sleep, Miss Mary Catherine Cullen, socially prominent and a noted amateur musician, was struck by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad at Tyrone, Pa., and probably fatally injured. Clad only in her night clothing, Miss Cullen's unconscious form was found by a track walker. The left leg was cut off and there were other serious injuries. Miss Cullen was taken to an Altoona hospital and when she was restored to consciousness she could give no explanation as to how she got away from her home and wandered onto the railroad tracks. The accident occurred at a point opposite the handsome home occupied by Miss Cullen and her sisters, known as "Villa Maria." Miss Cullen is a daughter of the late James Cullen, for many years supervisor for this section of the Pennsylvania railroad system. Arm Ground Off: He Dies Not stopping the machinery, Clement Kern, a rich young farmer residing near Emaus, Pa., proceeded to adjust a belt that had slipped from a pulley. His glove was caught and his right arm was drawn into the feed cutter and macerated from his body. He had lost so much blood that he died in a few hours. Miss Lizzie Barrett, of Pottaville, Pa., picked a pimple on her face and is now in a serious condition. Her finger nails polished her. Workmen began the destruction of the 125 years old home in Washington of Benjamin Scott. Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," where Key lived from 1808 to 1828. The Francis Scott Key Memorial association gathered in its efforts to raise sufficient money to preserve the structure. INDICTED FOR FATAL WRECK Three New Haven Railroad Officials Arrested. REGLIGENCE IS ALLEGED They Are Held In $6000 Ball on Bench Warrants Charging Them With Man- slaughter. Criminal proceedings against officials of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company for loss of life in the wreck of the Springfield express at Westport, Conn., last October, were begun by the Fairfield county authorities in Bridgeport, Conn., when Vice President Henry J. Horn, of Boston; General Manager Benjamin R. Pollock, and Superintendent Charles N. Woodward, both of New Haven, were arrested on beach warrants charging them with man-daughter. They are held responsible for the wreck and loss of life because through --- alleged "gross and culpable negligence" they failed to keep the roadbed, equipment and service in such condition as to insure the safety of passengers. The specific allegation is that they "did kill and slay" one "Jane Doe." She was burned to death in the wreckage. The three railroad officials came to Bridgeport from Boston, having been notified there of the nature of the proceedings against them, and each furnished a bond for $5000. They were not called upon to plead. No date has been set for the hearing. After the legal formalities the accused men left the city. They declined to discuss the case. Henry J. Horn is operating vice president of the railroad system. He came to Boston eighteen months ago from a western road to be assistant to President Mellen. Later he became vice president and assumed charge of the operation of the road. Mr. Pollock was promoted from general superintendent to general manager of the road on Dec. 4. At the same time Mr. Woodward, who had been superintendent of the New York division, was made general superintendent. Fell ninety feet to Death. 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