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Get prices at Royal Laundry for family work, special rates in rough jrY, next to new electric plant.
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| sell Square, giving the number affixed
to the door OF n gloomy house In the
| least frcquented corner Of the stately
| quadrangle.
lis Mr.. Guy DISCARD at home?" he In
| quircd Of the grave man-servant.
"IIo Is. sir replied the butler. step
ping aside.
Victor Durnovo thought that n mo-
| mentary hesitation on the part of the
| butler was caused by very natural and
proper feeling OF admiration for the new
clothes and hat which ho had purchased
| out Of the money advanced by Jack
Meredith for the outfit OF the expedi-
| ton, In reality the man was waiting for
| tile visitor to throw away his cigar be-
] fore crossing the Threshold But he walt
! ed In vain, and Durnovo waited, cigar
In mouth, In the dlnng-room until Guy
Cscald came to him.
at first Oscard did not recognize him,
and conveyed this fact by distant bow
and IN eXpectant silence.
You do not seem to recognize me-"
said Durnovo with laugh which lasted
until the servant had closed the door.
Victor Durnovo",
oh yes-how are your
Oscard came forward and shook hands.
His manner was not exactly effusive,
The truth was that their acquaintance
dating from some trivia, servIces which
Durnovo had been able and very eager to
rcndc. to the sportsman.
novo' 81 only landed at I.iyerpool YES.
tertlav. I'm home en- business. I'm buy
inr niles ana stores. 7" - ~
c;uy oscnrds honest face lighted I'm at
ce...,He curse of Ishmae Vas on him
In its fnll force. He was destined TO be
wanderer on Gods earth, and ali things
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CHAPTER VII-Continucd.)

Jack Meredith was leaning forward,
watching with Il certain sense Of fasci-
nation the wild, disease-stricken face,
listening to The mans breathless periods.
IT seemed that the fear OF death, which
had gotten hold OF him, gave Victor
Durnovo no time to pause for breath.
Yes, said the Englshman-"ye go
on"
There Is practically no limit to tho
demand that there Is for It. At present
the only way OF obtaining 1t Is through
the natives, and you know Their manner
OF trading. They send little packet
down from the interior, and 1t very Of
ten takes two months and more to reach
the buyers hands. The money is sent
| BACK the same way, and each man who
! fingers II keeps a little. The natives
| find the leaf In the, forests by the aid
OF trained monkeys. and only In very
small quantities. DO you follow meg
/ Yes, | follow you"
/ Victor Durnovo leaned forward until
his face was within three inches of Mere
dths, and the dark, wild eyes flashed
| glance.
| What" he hissed-"what II l know
where slmiacine grows like weed
What If could supply the world with
Smiacina at my own price? Eh-h-h!
What Of that, Mr.. Meredith2"
| He threw himself suddenly back and
wiped his dripping face. There was a
silence, the great African silence that
drives educated men mad and fills the
| imagination Of the poor heather With
wild tales Of devils and spirits.
Then Jack Meredith spoke without
moving,
I'm your man." he said, with a few
more details"
Victor Durnoyo was laying back at fun
| length on the hard dry mud, his arms
| beneath his head, Without altering his
/ position, he gave the details speaking
! slowly and much more quietly, 1t seemed
as If he spoke the result of long-pent-up
thought.
I'VE shall want" he said two thou
sand pounds TO start II, For we must
1 have an armed force OF our own. We
/ have to penetrate through a cannibal
country of the hercest devils In Africa.
| II Is a plateau, a little plateau OF two
I. square mileI aaS the niSgers think
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. e i 4
bring home to- dinner. One woman does
not know another without bringing her
in to meals and showing her her new
hat. l: is merely matter OF custom.
Men IRE in the habit of associating In
daily, almost hourly, intercourse with 9TH
ers who are never really their friends.
ard ;lre always held at distance 1t Is
useless attempting to explain it, for we
are I.ierely reprlmanded for unfriendll-
ness, stiffness and stupid pride. Soft!
Lei it go Some of us, perhaps, know
our own business best. And there are,
thank Heaven! amidst multitude of fe-
male DOCTORS female professors, female
wranglers, few female women left.
Jack Meredith knew quite we'll what he
was about when he listened with a fa-
SorabIc ear to Durnovo's scheme. He
knew that this man was not gentleman.
but his own position was SO assured
that he could afford to associate with
any one. Here, again, men are safer.
\ woman Is too delicate a social flower
to bs independent OF environments. She
takes the tone of her surroundings 1T
Is, one notices, only the ladies who pro-
test that the barmaid married In haste
and rcpented OF at leisure. can raise
herself to her husbands level The hus-
bands friends keep silence, and per-
haps, like the mariners bird, they me-
dinte all the more
What Meredith proposed to do was to
enter into a partnership with Victor Dur
novo, and when the purpose of 1t was
accomplished, to let each man go his
way. Such partnerships are entered into
every day. Men have carried through
Il brilliant campalgn-a mountaineering
scEeme-side BY side. working with ono
mind end one heart; and when The result
has .,een attained they drop out of each
N hrr's liyoc forpVar. They are praa tod
so-lor very good purpose, no doubt.
But sometimes Providence steps In and
turns the little point of contact into the
lelyen that eaveneth the whole lump,
Providence, 1t seems-or let lib call 1t
Fate was lowering over that lone Afri-
cnn river, where two men, sitting In the
stern of native canoe, took 1t upon
themselves to prearrange their lives.
A month later, Victor Durnovo was
In London, He left behind him In Africa
Jack Meredith whose capacities for or
ranizaton were developing very quick
~
There was plenty OF work for each to
do. In Africa Meredith had undertaken
to get together men and boats, while
,ournovo went home 10 Europe for n
threefold purpose, Firstly. visit to
EGrope was absolutely necessary for his
health. shattered as 1t was by too long
a soIourn In the fever-rddcn river-beds
of the vest coast Secondly, there were
rifles, ammunition, and stores to be pur-
chased, and packed In suitable cases
And, lastly, he was to find and enlist
the third man, "the soldlerly Fellow, full
OF fight" who knew the natives and
This indeed. was his first care on
reaching London, ana before his eyes
and Lrain we're accustomed to the roar
Of the street life he took a cab to Rus
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come home to buy rifles, ammunition and
stores
He paused. watching the eager. simple
face.
we wan, to know" he said quietly.
"it you Will organize and lead the fight
ing men,"
Guy Oscard drew a deep breath. There
arc some Englishmen left. thank HeaV-
en-! who love fighting for Its own sake,
and not only for the gain OF 1t. Such
men as this lived In tho old days OF
chivalry at which modern, pupy
carpet -knights make bold to laugh while
inwardly thanking their stars that they
live In the peaceful age Of the police
man. Such men as this ran their thick,
simple heads against many windmill.
couched lance over many far-fetched
insult. and swung sword in honor OF
many q worthless maid; but they made
England, my masters. Let us remember
that. they made England.
"rhen there is to be fight!ng?
Yes sair Durnovo, there will DO
fighting, We must fight our way there,
and we must hold 1t when we get there.
But. so far MS the world Is concerned
we are only private expedition ex-
ploring the source OF the Ogowe.
1.-THE Ogowe?" and again Guy Oscard's
eyes lighted up
Yes. / do not mind telling you that
much. To begin with. ] trust you sec
ondly, no one could get there without
me to lead the way"
Guy Discard looked at him with some
admiration, and that sympathy which
exists between the sons Of Ishmael. Dur
novo looked quite fit for the task no
set himself He had regained his strength
on tho voyage. and with returning mus
cular force hs moral tone was higher.
his influence over men greater. Amid the
pallid sons of the pavement among
whom Guy oscard had moved of late,
this African traveller was man apart
II being much more after his own heart'
The brown of the mans face and HANDS
appealed TO him-the dark, flashing eyes,
tho energetic carriage Of the head anu
shoulders, Among men Of fairer skin
the faint that was In Victor Durnovos
blood became more apparent--the sHhupW
on his flnger-nails, the deep, olive OF ms
neck against the snowy collar ana the
blue tint In the whites of his eyes
But none of these things milltatea
against him In Oscard's eyes, They ohty
mado him filter for the work he mao
undertaken.
GLOW long will 1t take?" asked Guy
Durnoyo tugged at his strange, cur
tain-like moustache. Ills mouth was
hidden: 1t was quite impossible to divine
his thoughts.
"rhree months to get there" he am
swered at length. zone month to pick
tho leaf, and then you can bring tliH
first crop down to the coast and home
while Meredith and stay on at tho
plateau"
(To be cotinued Tomorrow
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GEORGIA BANKS
CLOSE THEIR DOORS.
Two Financial Institutions Of
Macon Await the Bank
Examiner.
tHx Associated Press.l

(B. Associated PEess.l
MACON, GA, May 16,-The I: G. Plant
Sons Bank failed to open to-day. The
First National Bank. opened. but later
closed posting a, notice that It awaited
fetal statement OF the banks condition
has been given out.
It IS reported that tho First National
numbers among its depositors the Central
Of Georgia Railroad Company and sew.
eral large manufacturing concerns; The
Plant Sons Bank was a private instltu,
ton. and Is said to have. done only q
small business recently. Tho last report
OF the First National Bank showed Its
affairs to be in good condition.
According to recent statement the
First National Bank of Georgia owed de-
positors s6S3000. It's capital is $4,000
Robert II. Plant. president Of the First
National Bank, is also the head of the
firm of T. C. Plants Sons, which had u
capital OF $1,000.
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brilliant literary attachments and
scholarship.
The Opening Night at Art Club.

LIE opelllllS NlSHC dC AIC S4up.
The opening night OF the Richmond
Art Club exhibit last night was q bril-
liant affair Guests We're received in
rooms handsomely decorated with palms
and flowers by Major James II. Dooley.
Mrs, NJ. c. Patterson, Miss Il. r. Seldom
Miss Louise Williams, Miss Annie
Fletcher Mrs. B. Lorraine, Miss Annie
Gray, Miss p. S. Patterson. Mr.. A. b.
Clark. Mr.. Robert Lancaster. Miss Bessie
Hammond, Mr.. John Rutherford, Mr..
Nj. NJ. Strauss Miss Julia Woodbridge and
MIR. Dugald Walker.
The oil paintings are hung In the
saloon parlcr to tho right of entrance and
In the hall. The water coors, pastels and
miniatures were In the two parlors on
the left. The work of the Richmond Art
Club was in saloon opening from the
main hall and formed by the cavasing-ln
of the piazza in the Crenshaw house, No.
II West Main Street, where the exhibition
Is being held.
Last night was given up specially to
| club members and patrons who filled
| tho rooms fell into easy groups, chatted
| brightly with each other, and paused
in front Of tho masterpieces of we'll
known artists, to discuss values and
1 merits.
The exhibit at once commended itself
to experienced and Inexperienced eyes
as one ola very high order and one which
| Is sure to prove success in It's power
| Of attraction. rs well as potent factor
| in art education.
| Delicious refreshments were served dur
| Ing the evening by the young ladies of the
| club.
| To-day the exhibit will be open to the
public, who will be offered the fullest
opportunity of inspection. and who will
be made very heartily welcome by the
ladies' in charge,
1t Is hoped that the exhibit will full
fill its primary object in affording pleas
IRE and instruction to many, who through
1t Will be given the opportunities to be
found. as a rule only in the art celrers
of metropolitan cities, and will become
acquainted with the Municipalities in ex-
preston of many of the foremost Amer
can artists of the day.
A number of Richmond favorites-John
Alexander, Ben Foster, Elliott Dainger-
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field and others-are recognized through
their pictures, by exhibition visitors
Other now lights, rs Dumond, Church
and others equally celebrated, will at
once commend themselves to all comers-
In.
If the period and progress Of the exhibit
can be gagged In peasantness by the
opening night the ninth annual celebra-
ton will surpass all that have over gone
before It,
Hollywood Memorial.
The Hollywood Memorial Association
will meet in the lecture room Of the So
cond Presbyterian Church to-day at
noon The meeting Is important All
members are asked to be present.
Stay-at-Hotne Club.
The Stay-at-R Whist Club will
meet this evening in the homo of Mr..
John Tyler
Observation-Disclosures.
The wedding OF Miss Gretchen Gunther.
an attractive and well known young lady
of the West End, to Mr.. Richard Duck
hardt was celebrated yesterday In WASH
ington, the Rev r. p. Williams offlciat-
ing.
Mr.. Duckhardt belongs to the Chrlsto-
pher Engraving Company, and has also.
for some time, acted as class instructor
In modelling and free hand drawing at
the Mechanics Institute. He stands
unusually well in his profession. Mr..
and Mrs. Duckhardt will make their
home In Richmond.
Personal Mention.
Mrs. c. l.. Bigelow will leave for Scran-
ton, Pa, to-day, stopping en- route with
friends In Washington.
Wy
loughby Beach, Va, for the month OF
June.
Miss Louise Herbert will visit friends
in Cincinnati for the month of June. At,
forwards she will spend some time
with her friend, Miss Jones, at VIII
loughby Beach, and go to the Virginia
mountains for the rest Of the summer.
Mr.. j. II. Capcrs has gone to Cobbs Is
land for week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles straus and son.
Malcolm, will spend a week at the Ar
lngton cottage, Virginia Beach.
Mr.. ]. j. Montague is enjoying the
f II, Vs. at Gys's'' IN Sorth'"pto" sou"-
Mrs. w. II. Lipscomb. Of Danville, Va,
is the guest of Governor and Mrs. Mon
tague at the Mansion.
5t#5
Miss Mary Drake. who has been visit
ing the Misses Watson, of Danville, Va.
was entertained by Mrs. James I.
Pritchett at dinner.
The annual exhibit of David Bendaun's
engravings and prints is now being held
at the Bell Book and Stationery Com
pany's store. The collection Is fine. and
is proving very attractive.
Miss otey Cullen is the guest Of Major
e. T. D. Myers.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will
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Brunswick Democrats.

(sreclal to The Times ispatch)
LAWRESCEVILLE, VA, May 16.-The
Brunswick county Democratic Executive
Committee decided Saturday to elect del
egates to the State convention by mass
meeting next Monday, the 23d.
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By HENRY SETON MERRINdAN

that 1t is haunted by an evil spirit When
we get there we shall have to hold 1t by
force Of arms. and when we send the
stuff down to the coast we must have IN
escort of picked men. The bushes grow
up there as thick as gooscberry-bushcs
in Il garden at home. With a little cut
tvatlon they will yield twice as much as
they do now. We shall want another
partner, | know a man, soldlcrly fell
low, full of fight, who knows the natives
and the country. I will undertake to lead
great care OF me. You will have to have
me carried most OF the way. am weak.
devilsh weak, and am afraid OF dying;
but know the way there, and no other
man can say as much. 1t is in my head
here; it Is not written down. 1t Is only
In my head. and no one can get 1t out
OF there"
| fined Voice-"no. no one can get 1t out
| Come. let us turn in. Tomorrow l will
! go down the river with you, l will turn
back, and we can talk 1t over as we 10
| downstream"
CHAPTER VlIl
A RECRUIT.
| Said the Engine from the East,
! They who work best talk the least"
| II ls not, of course, for poor limited
| masculine mind to utter hercsles regard
| ing the great question Of woman's rights
! But rs things stand at present, as in
fact. The fore-named rights are to-day
situated women have not found compre-
| tension of the dual life, The dual life
| IS lca solely by men, and until women
| nave found out It's full compass and
| meaning, they can never lead in the
world There is the public lfo and the
] INpi NTT Ia u 4
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Richnonders in New York.

Especial to The Times-Dlspatch)
4 NEW YORK, May 1e.-st. Denls-w. 8.
Freeman G. Drewry, Miss Drewry; Ear
lington-F. Y. Glasgow Jr.; Holland-G.
MIllhiser: Manhattan-M. NJ. Martin.
Pulling; Herald Square,. H. Fiske Now
Amsterdam-G. Snapper; Marlborough
w. Herlstein, S. Cohen; York;. L. Adj
ans: Criterlon-C. W. Rea and wife;
Grand Unlon--M. We'll and wife
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spend the simmer at her English home
put will return to Washington. D. @.
for the WitlIer,

spend the simmer at her English home,
but will return TO washington. D. c..
Tor the winter,
Tho season, will open Mt the KeswicR
H ~ Club, May goth. With play oniiea
"A Cup of Tea In which n play called
soyce Tupper, southern CIR, put
slTaduate from, a dramatic school IN new
YORK city. Miss Tupper Is spending May
A. A. Clover Field, the country nome OF
Miss Mamie Jordan Of Pittsylyanla
county, Is visiting Miss Louise 1lickson'
III this city.
The Norfolk vlrgInian-Pllot Of Sun
day says.
Miss Jane Nicely entertained few
friends Informally at her home home IN
Worth Street. Portsmouth, on Thursday
evening In honor of her guest, Miss
were. Miss Ruth Gibson, Of BROOKLYN
y, ~; Miss Annie Gordon. Of Rlch-
tr,ond; Miss Susie Persons, Miss Frances
Gulpeper, Miss Elizabeth Martin, MISS
ELIZA Urauhart OF Norfolk; MISS
Eannio Capps and Miss Elizabeth Nicely.
Mr.. Hunt Hannah, Mr.. Johnson Nicely,
Mr.. John urquhart, Mr.. n. w. Pentross'
Mr.. Danforth, Of Richmond. and Lieu
tenant Gilmer, United States navy.
Miss Mary Cameron and her aunt Miss
Cameron, OF Paris, are being entertained
ny Mrs. George Pegram at Mount Erin.
Petersburg, Va.
Or. j. w. Henson will leave for Europe
In juno.
$50
Miss Julia 8. Payne, OF Columbia. Va,
IS the guest Of Mrs Calvin Satterfield.
Friends Of Mr.. s. II. Bosher and Mr..
Charles Nfcveigh are much gratified over
Mr. Bosher's election as class secretary
and Mr.. Mcveigh's being made class
historian at the University OF Virginia for
the ensuing year.
Tho Masonic Home Auxiliary will hold
Its monthly meeting in the Masonic Tenn
pie Wednesday,, May 18th, at P. NJ.
Ia ~. 900
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Miss Julia s. Payne, OF Columbia, Va.
IS tho guest Of Mrs. Calvin Satterfield
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If the period and progress Of the exhibit
can be gauged in pleasantness by the
opening night, the ninth annual celebra-
ton will surpass all that have ever gone
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Tho Masonic Home Auxiliary will hold
Its monthly meeting in the Masonic Tenn
pie Wednesday,, May 18th. at d P. NJ.
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field and others-are recognized through
their pictures by exhibition visitors.
Other now lights, as Dumond, Church
and others equally celebrated. will at
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sell Square, giving the number affixed
to the door OF a gloomy house In the
t-frcoucnted corner Of the stately
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Mr.. Duckhardt belongs to the Christie
pher Engraving Company, and has also.
for some time, acted as q class instructor
In modelling and free hand drawing at
the Mechanics Institute. He stands
unusually we'll In his profession. Mr..
and Mrs. Duckhardt will make their
homa In Richmond
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Hollywood Memorial.

uckhart-Gunther.
The wedding OF Miss Gretchen Gunther,
an attractive and we'll known young lady
of the West End, to Mr.. Richard Duck
hardt was celebrated yesterday In Wash
ington, the Rev. r. p. Williams offlciat-
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Or. j. w. Henson will leave for Europe
in June.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-08

affairs say the section destroyed In
cludes all the leading trust companies,
many of the principal banking insti-
tutions, all the largest wholesale houses
many of the principal retail stores and
thousands of the smaller business es-
tablishments. Many of these carry lit
tie or no insurance, and it is doubtful
If many of the insurance companies
will be able to pay their losses dollar
for dollar, and those that do will prob
ably require time in which to arrange
for the payment.
The start of the fire was in the base
ment of Hurst & Co.'s wholesale dry
goods house. After burning for ten
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minutes or so there was a loud explo-
sion from the interior Of the building.
as the gasoline tank used for the en-
gine in the building let go. Instantly
the immense structure collapsed.
sending destruction to adjacent build
ings in all directions and causing the
fire to be beyond control Of the firemen.
The first attempt at dynamiting was
in the large building of Armstrong,
Gator & Co., but it failed to collapse.
and attention was turned to the build
ing at the southwest corner of Charles
and German streets, where six charges
of dynamite, each charge containing
100 pounds, were exploded. The tre-
meneous force of the explosions tore
out the massive granite columns that
supported the building and left it with
apparently almost no support, but the
walls failed to collapse and stood until
the flames had crossed Charles street
and We're eating into the block between
Charles and Light street.
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ana Lexington, and on Gayette street
from Charles to Holiday including a
total Of about twenty blocks of the
most modern and substantial buildings
In Baltimore involving a loss which
cannot now be estimated, but which
has certainly already exceeded thirty
or forty millions of dollars.
Ever since about o'clock, when
darkness came, the fire department.
although aided by engines from WASH
ington, Philadelphia, Wilmington and
the surrounding suburbs, has been ut
terly powerless to make any effective
resistance to the consuming element,
though for hours as many as 400
streams of water were thrown into the
flames. Indeed so terrific has been the
heat ever since the fire started and so
dense and suffocating the volume OF
flying sparks and burning cinders that
it was difficult for the firemen TO stand
long within fighting distance of the
flames, while early in the afternoon
several trucks and Engines We're hope
lessly disabled by timbers.
Fireemen Use Dynamite.
At o'clock the situation was so des-
perate that Chief Horton decided that
the only thing left to do was to dyna-
mite buildings at threatened points
and thus prevent as far as possible
the spread of the flames. In pursuance
of this policy buildings on Charles
street, between Germain and Fayette.
were blown up. simultaneously the
splendid structure of ]. w. Puts & Co,
notion dealers at Charles and Fayette
streets, was dynamited, and then the
Daily Record building, Ross drug store
and others. But this heroic remedy
merely delayed but did not impede the
onward march of the flames, and for
two hours or more the fire department
has stopped, practically helpless and
resourceless in the face OF the flaming
furnaces, which send their fierce
tongues 200 feet into the air, and
which fill the heavens first with
cloud of black. funeRaI smoke. and
then with a shower of lurid sparks
and livid cinders.
Following the destruction of the
palatial commercial buildings in the
wholesale district, the cyclone of flames
burst into Baltimore street, licking up
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