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TOBACCO WAR sETTLED7
Agreement to End Night Riding In
Kentucky.

Cincinnati, March 25.-And end 70
the night riding in Kentucky has been
brought about through formal agree
ment reached between the American
Tobacco company and the executive
committee OF the Society Of Equity in
a conference at Winchester. KY, &C
cording TO apparently authoritative
statements made here by members of
the American Society of Equity.
Nearly $14.00O.000 and the purchase
of the entire crops OF 1906 and 1907
on the one side. and no planting OF a
crop for the year 1908 on the other,
are points in the agreement
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Loses 5000 DUCK Foo.

Glassboro. y. j. March 24-Owlng
10 the breaking OF main. the gas
went out in the incubator heaters Of
II. NJ. Proud, Of Glassboro. He lost
5000 duck eggs in the process OF
Matching.
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Few Suicides Among Miners.
In Germany there are fewer suicides
among miners than among any other
class OF workingmen.
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YOUR FORTUNE TOLD

Send Two-CENr
L LN-SL- STAMP with birth
date and I will send you a description of
your life from Cradle TO the Grave. All
matters of business. love, marriage and
health, plainly told by the greatest As
trologer. Patrons astonished and salts
fed.
DR.. PERRY,
Dept. 5,-To2S Arch St,
2-IS-5m Philadelphia, Pa.
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Good Rule 70 ohserse.

Be Ike "BilHkins. wear a smile
and keep your own secrets.
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Thus We Trust Him.

he makes his promise good.-Tate
and Brady
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Nnthinn Out Of Nnthinn-

any more than thing can 90 back TO
nothing -Msrcus Aurelius.
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NIRGINIA-In the Law and Equity
Court for the City Of Richmond
this 18th Day OF February, 1908.
Alemeda Fleming. Plaintiff.
vs.. IN CHANCERY.
Willis Fleming. Defendant.
The object OF this suit is to obtain
a divorce, a Vinculo Matrimoni by
the plaintim against the defendant.
And an AFFIDAVIT having been made
and fled that due diligence has
been used by and on behalf
Of the plaintiff TO ascertain in what
county or corp ration the defendant
Willis Fleming Is without effect and
that she. the said plaintiff does not
know his whereabouts: 10 is ordered
that the said defendant appear here
within fifteen days after due publ
cation OF this order and do whatever
is necessary 20 protect his interest
herein.
A Copy-Teste:
p. y. WINSTON. Clerk
j. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q.
To Willis Fleming;
Youll take notice shat 7 shall on
the 9th day or April 1908 at the Of
fee OF Phil 3. Shield. room num-
bered GO, Chamber OF Commerce
Building. situated s. w. corner OF
9th and Main Streets in the City OF
Richmond, Virginia, between the
hours OF 9 O'Clock A. NJ. and 6 e.
clock p. NJ. OF that day proceed to
take the dispositions OF Witnesses to
be read as evidence in my behalf IN
a certain suit in Chancery, depend
ing in the Law and Equity Court fer
the City OF Richmond. Virginia.
wherein you are defendant and am
plaintiff; and II from any cause the
taking OF the said dispositions be not
commenced on that day or n com
menced be not concluded on that
day the taking OF the same will be
adjourned and continued from day to
day or from time 70 time at the same
place and between the same hours
until the same shall have been coz
cluded.
Respectfully,
ALEMEDA FLEMING
BY Counsel
J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD p. q.
Office: 1919 Z. Broad ST.,
Richmond. Virginia.
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WANTED-A single or widow lady
without children 20 stay IN gro
Gerry store. Must be reliable. OF a
good family, able 20 read. write
and cipher. also neat in appear
ance. No experience necessary.
Address.
r.. IT. JONES.
ITO Liberty Street,
Long Branch. y. J.
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Cultivate Patience.

Patience is a bitter seed. but Y
Yields sweet frUit-Laun Proverh.
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Rat Must Have Lived Well.
A rat recently caught at Gatesheadzs
on-Tyne. England, measured 1Srx
inches.
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Important NotIcei

Important Noticei
Madame e. L. Monszaro, the won
derf1l medicine manufacturer and
Tooth Extractor has on sale at her
office:
Monzaro's Blood Purifier and
Stomach Bitters.
Monszaro's Liniment.
MonsZaro's Cough Syrup.
Monszaro's Hair Tonic.
Monszaro's Skin Food
Monszaro's Tooth Powders.
Monszaro's Triple Extract of White
Rose.
a Word 20 the MOthers-The Mad
anne. makes a specially of beautify-
Ing the children's teeth; Regulating
them and taking out tushes.
OFFICES E. Leigh Street.
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Woman Gets a Year For Bloamy.

Lancaster. Pa. March 23-Agnes
Jane Miller. Lancaster's Marrying
Mary" who pleaded guilty TO bigamy
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All persons owing Mr.. Joseph
Evans. Oakland Sta. Pittsburg, Pa.
for The PLANET will please settle
with him at once.
SSSys q -
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coIiIery 10 Resume After Long Idienes
Shamokin. Pa. March rs. - Oficial
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SHAFFER NOT GUILTY
Methodist Minister E1Onerated by
Conference Trial
TIE CHARGES NOT SUSTAINED

Mas Then Honored BY Methodist Con-
ference With Election AZ Delegate
20 General Conference at Baltimore.
Mrs. Deiehley May Sue.
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his hand. which he was not overwilling
to give me,
~ will speak to you," said l, a to a
friend and to you, doctor, whom |
have not the pleasure of knowing so
well, as to a man of honor and discre-
ton. l I'M very deeply and strongly
attracted toward this young lady. 1t
would be a strange and hard service
that | would not render her, Il bitter
sacrifice that l should hesitate to make
for her advantage. Do l wish she were
my sister? God knows. The question
already begins to press upon my heart.
In the very first instant l knew that
she was not, but when | looked into
her eyes and saw the loneliness and the
longing l would have died rather than
grieve her. SO | sat there and lied"
''Greatl' said the doctor. you're
the man for my money. You lied like
a gentleman. Nobody could have done
1t better. | don't know what would
have happened if you hadn't"
"Give me a week. cried Conner.
''and Ill prove she's your sister, no
lldllSl IL you l6 ul AShlllO. w ny
man, it's a positive certainty
"And meanwhile what?" said 1.
"Go right ahead" said the doctor.
accept her affection upon false pre-
lenses" said 1. Cheat her into tax
Ing gifts from a stranger; sit by her
bed and help her to build air castles
with the very solid foundation of IL
money. And you have been so kind as
to call me a gentleman
'If you do the other thing" said the
doctor with fervor, Il give you my
professional word that the result won't
look to you very much like the work
of a gentleman. If you value her safe
ty you'll play brother"
THAT'S talking" said Conner. "And,
anyhow, she is your sister, so what
harm can there be?'
When l returned to my apartments /
received word that Mrs. Gilbert had
requested me to call her up by tele-
phone, whatever the hour might be.
1t was then midnight. but l obeyed in
structions.
81 happened to Think said the lady,
that you'd want some help tomor-
row."
Its very kind of you" l replied.
about what?"
"Why your presents: the things
you'll buy for Hilda. OF course she
needs everything. just simply every
thing, but don't you buy necessities for
Christmas. No woman wants them.
We want trinkets, Injuries, useless
things. 1t took me five years to beat
that into my husbands head, and even
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of her late patron. He died within q
few months, and then began the days
of dire poverty, the days of embroid-
cry.
Mrs. Gilbert described her meeting
with my sister and spoke with tears in
her eyes of the efforts she had made
to induce my sister to accept 'the least
little thing"
"She, won't let anybody do anything
for herr she declared.
Except her brother" said |. and the
thin hand that still lay IN mine thrilled
with happiness as it answered my
clasp.
Then l told her that her real name
was Hilda owen and that If there was
anything in the world that she wanted
her big brother Bob would go right
out and get it. To which she replied
by saying Robert" several times very
softly and sweetly.
The hour was up. and we were all
excluded, leaving Hilda with Or. Har-
denberg and a nurse who had just ar
rived. Mrs. Gilbert rode home in her
car, while Conner and l walked aim
lessly for a matter of half an hour,
when I led him to DIR. Hardenberg's
house. The doctor was at work with
his microscope.
"This Is the best result I've had" he
said. "This is absolutely confirmatory."
He had been study ing . part &C a
drop of blood taken from my sisters
finger tip, wherein he saw the germ,
the infinitesimal enemy that warred
against her health, and recognized the
creature by its aspect.
Doctor" said l, you have permit
ted me to hold a somewhat exciting
interview with your patient. l hope
she has taken no harm"
"Harml" he cried. 81 should think
not. She'll get well in half the time"
what result would follow I ask
ed, "if she should now be told that I
am not her brotherT'
Hardenberg and Conner both start
ed back from me, staring.
"Good heavensl' cried the doctor.
"What do you mean? l wouldn't have
that happen for a mint of money!"
"But you know that Pm not her
brother, don't you?"
III" he gasped. mo. You must be.
There was no other female child ex-
cept your sister on that ship. How
can we doubt?"
"You have seen us both,'' said L
"you who can recognize the features
of that microscopic creature which
you, have to magnify a thousand times,
/ suppose. in order to see 1t at all"
"Tve got 1900 on It tonight" said
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the doctor. IF you were magnifed as
much as that you could carry the
Flatiron building in your pocket for
a matchbox. But what of itg'
IF you mean that she doesn't look
like YOU" said Conner. 81 tell you
you're dead wrong. There's a strong
family resemblance"
and you're the man," said ], who
saw a horse for a few minutes two
years ago and spotted a photograph of
him tonight at a glance. Do you sup
pose l could go to the nearest stable
and buy a horse-and a good one, too
land pass him off on you as a son of
Bertram and Humber
"But your sister isn't a horse" pro-
tested Conner. shes a human being.
There's a laundering sight of differ
ence."
"There's this difference" said L
that it's easy to find a man who
knows something about a horse. And
now let me tell you what this young
lady is whom | have had the peculiar
pleasure of meeting tonight. She is a
thoroughbred Saxon, the last one left
alive, l should suppose; certainly the
most beautiful example. But what
am II"
English" said Conner promptly.
"Just as English as she is"
both my father and my mother
were born in Wales" said I. Both
had what you would call Norman an
cestry on n side and Cymrlc on the
other. | am colored like a Norman, but
no person who has made yer the most
cursory study of the subject could fail
to recognize my Cymric blood at a
glance. On the other hand, there is not
the ~faintest shadow of a possibility
that this young lady has one drop of
that blood in her veins"
There was a moments silence, then
Conner said. almost with a sob:
you don't like her"
1t was the word of a warm hearted
Irishman. That good fellow had ear
nestly rejoiced in the idea hat he was
working to make two people happy,
and nov he was disappointed. l took
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pillows, a background for a girls face,
and with a sort of undirected vision,
more like feeling than seeing, | per-
ceived the doctor in the shadows be-
yond the bed, watching.
The girls eyes were blue. They
seemed very large in her pale and thin
face. They spoke to me in a silent lam
guage that | knew. They reached out
to my soul with a natural, deep long
ing.
| extended my hand to her, and she
grasped it with a quick, childish clutch.
My brother!" said she, and the tears
rushed from her eyes.
| have since been informed that l
acquitted myself admirably. Three
witnesses have testified in my favor
four, indeed, if l include my sister,
whose emotional state may be held to
impair the value of her testimony.
'You were a DEAR declared Mrs.
Gilbert. 81 could have Rugged you"
But this is the way it appeared to
me: That l was confronted by a sit
uation utterly impossible and beyond
mortal tact and discretion; that of two
courses open to me ! chose the worse
and might have done much better than
I did even with that. You must take
my evidence against hat of all the
others, for l alone was competent to
judge of my conduct, as you will pres
emily see.
My sister told me that she had been
known as Della Gray, the first name
probably having been derived from
Delphic. Gray was the name of the
skipper of the fishing vessel that had
rescued her. In his home she had
lived until her ninth year, when a lady,
a summer visitor in Newfoundland,
had taken her away to the town of
Chatham. n. II. Why the Grays had
consented to have her go she did not
know. but it was something about
money. The lady from Chatham was
a Mrs. Lawrence, and she lived in a
good home. At her death two years
ago my sister had come to New York
and had been employed as a stenogra
pher in the office of a lawyer, a cousin
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@o
a journalist, and this is his story. My
heartiest congratulations"
In my apartments the tables were
Uttered with photographs, as they al
ways are. My fad since l was a boy
has been the study of the different
kinds of men and the faces that they
wear. l do not study horses, but 1t
happened that l had some photographs
that had been sent up from a friends
stock farm In Kentucky, and it seem
ed to me that Conner saw these before
he fairly got into the room. He did
not notice any of the portraits of peo-
pie, but pumped straight down upon
the picture of a horse which he recog-
nized instantly, though there was no
lettering On 1t.
'Humbert!" he cried and went on to
give me the horses pedigree-Bertram
on one side and Humble on the other,
and all the rest of it-but suddenly
broke of this strain and came to the
business that had brought him there.
First, with inimitable brevity and
pith, he sketched the wreck of the
Delphic.
YOU said he In closing, were the
sole survivor
yes" said l.
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surely not. Whatever Mrs. Gilbert
might have learned, 1t couldn't have
altered the laws of nature OF undone
the divine handiwork. And yet / would
have given much for a few words with
Mrs. Gilbert. 1t was Hilda, however,
who appeared.
This was the first time to my knowl-
edge that she had ventured so far as
the drawing room, yet she walked
without a sign of weakness and with
a noble carriage. And, oh, she was
beautiful beyond dreams.
She wore a sort of tea gown, | sup
pose it might be called, of green fabric,
and she carried a small black book. I
think my mouth must have fallen open
like a dead mans when l saw the fig
ures 1887 in gilt upon the books cover.
My uncle's daryl
"Hilda," said I, without pause or pre-
face, 81 know what that book is. Tell
me what you have found in it. Please
tell me straight away"
Her blue eyes opened a bit wider.
She looked at me, then down at the
book and then at me again.
"Why, l haven't found anything" she
said. 81 just got it this minute. A
maid gave it to me. 1 haven't even
opened it."
Mrs. Gilbert's maid, under orders,
had been waiting for my arrival, of
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that Charlie PERHAPS SHE SAW WE
stood for Char LOVED EACH OTHER.
lotte, as is common in England, and
not for Charles. l shall institute in
%quiries." Then, evidently written later:
Lieutenant Aston seems to have
had not a relative in the world. The
child is undoubtedly his, but it will not
be claimed by any one. l have decided
to send $40 a month to the Grays for
its support. This will give its life an
added value to them, and they win
rear it more carefully"
Here were all mysteries explained.
The child was kept carefully and some
what secretly because it was a source
of revenue At my uncle's death the
income ceased, and a stranger was per-
mitted to take the child away.
II have a name for you at last" said
l. mot my sisters. Charlotte
81 would like Hilda better said she
softly. You called me that first"
Mrs. Gilbert has had this book since
the day after Christmas" said l, "or
the next at the latest. Why did she
hold it?'
Perhaps she wanted us to wait a lit
tle."
Perhaps said l, "she saw just the
very truth, that we loved each other"
I'VE must always be very kind and
sweet to her. said Hilda.
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story; the Cold
en- Bush mine
merely stands in
the background
as a source of
amnence.
l a five
years old when
the Delphic was
lost. With my
father and moth
er and infant
sister | had sail
ed from Liver
pool in this Ill
fated e s s e /,
which was in
collision before
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-
hands closed suddenly upon it.
"Oh, not yet" she said family.
Somehow II dread it,"
The palms of my hands were wet,
and / was swallowing air, but | man
aged to summon up the appearance of
calmness.
what do you expect to find hereY'
l asked.
ooh, you will think very meanly of
me-" she cried, but, indeed, l have
been overpersuaded and silenced since
the very first hour. Then for just that
earliest hour l believed, but never aft
erward. And | have drifted on and
on, not knowing what to do. l could
see no escape from the evidence, and
you were so suret'
did Mrs. Gilbert tell you that?'
"Why, yes, but I'd have known that
you believed without a word from her.
You were such a good brotherr' And
she smiled through her tears. But 1
knew in my own heart
Listen said 1. ANSWER me. Dig
you wish to believe? This p1>nbel
very last minute.
car nc7rr c"bnsfhce sres.ef
ly not me, unless 1t tells NH pu
really are. But, remember, 1t Nhy
part us forever. l have known froGs
the first instant, and / know now, and
l always shall know, that we are no
more to each other than cousins
through Adam, and so l ask you, do
you wish to believer
Il think not" she whispered, with
white lips. The book!'
1t opened under my hand at the
pages headed June a and June 5, and
under the first of these dates | read
the following in my uncle's hand:
Captain Enos Gray and his wife
came today, bringing the child. 1t has
blue eyes and bright golden hair. 1t
could hardly be more unlike poor little
Hilda, who had my dear sisters col
oring, brown eyes and dark hair. De-
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Bit bOb Oal Va
sight of the harbor. she returned
and was laid up for several days,
not very much damaged, but most
of the passengers were sent forward
by another ship. My parents chose to
stay by the Delphic, | know not why.
1t has always been supposed that
she struck an iceberg off the banks.
/ can tell you only that the disaster
was at night. l remember the awak-
ening. the thrill of half realized ter
ror, the wild noises and the trampling.
My father was carrying me, wrapped
in a coat, my mother following with
little Hilda. Then something crashed.
/ recall no feeling of a blow, but my
consciousness went out like a candle
The next thing | knew 1t was dawn
and / was in a boat with one sailor
who had a wounded head and was COW
cred with blood. 1t has been sup
posed that this boat was lowered end
foremost in true panic style and all
aboard her we're pitched out except the
wounded sailor and myself.
Eventually we were picked up by a
sailing vessel, my companion uncon-
scious and dying. | was takepstQ Bos-
ASbrr-v7eaf neutrality-suspicious.
New York. by whom | was reared. He
died when / was thirteen, leaving a
small property in trust. / attended Co
lumbia college and school of mines
and eventually took my inheritance and
went west. Two years later came the
affair of the Golden Bush. and | was
rich.
The larger part of the year 1907 I
spent in New York and thereabouts. l
had everything except a home. On the
23d of December of hat year l was
living in luxurious bachelor apart
ments, more lonely than | was in the
week that l spent on the Golden Bush
claim with only the haggard faces of
the mountains for company.
On the evening of the day that l
have named l returned from a rather
early and very lonesome dinner and
found a young man named Conner
waiting for me. / had never met him
before. He was a sturdy, pleasant fell
low, Celtic and Dutch on the face of
him, and he introduced himself by pre-
a.
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from n very es-
m a bic a d
charming young
m a n, Mrs.
Leslie Gilbert,
W h o S e e
what misguided
charities had oc-
casionally APP
pealed to my
pocket.
Mr.. Conner
will tell you a
surprising sto-
ry," wrote this
IaI- saI lH,I1
have liked to tell
you myself, but
he insists upon
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course. nat DID
it mean?
THAT is a vol
ume of my I'M
cle's diary" said
/. Beyond ques-
ton we s b a IL
find here the
answer to our
riddle, the solu-
ton of all our
doubts"
= TOOK IL from
her hand.
''T h g early
j a e s
should be the
ones,'' said I and
W o uld
opened the book,
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%scription had
q prepared
me for this. yet
| would take no
risk of error and
therefore had the
child brought to
me. If this waif
really came from
the Delphic /
think it is the
supposed son of
First Officer Al
ston, whose body
was found with
it upon the raft.
According to the
list, there were
on the Delphic
Charles Aston
Gnfa and
nurse | think
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- RERE are two matters which
may help to give me a nook
~ of your mind for a few min
utes. If you haven't heard of
one, you very likely have heard of the
other.
First, / am the only original sur
yiyor of the Delphic, that was lost at
sea in May of 1887; second, in partner
ship with Tom Campbell | discovered
the Golden Bush mine in Idaho. The
wreck of the Delphic figures In this