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RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1904

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Is desirable, but not always possessed. If yours is not as long as you require for present needs we can stretch it to any amount you want, and make the deal so quietly that your nearest friends or neighbors will know nothing of it. We will make you a loan on your household goods, pianos, teams, or other personal security without removal. We will loan you on your salary if jou hold a permanent position, and your employer know nothing of the transaction. We will loan on fine watches and diamonds left in pledge. We loan from f 5 00 to flO'J, and give from one month to one year's time to puy off the loan. Hie following is our weekly payment plan which allows you "SO" weeks to pay off your loan : 60 cents Is the weekly payment on a $25 loan 11.20 is the weekly payment on a $50 loan Other amounts in same proportion. We also have monthly rates, and perhaps they will suit you. All our business is strictly confidential. If you need morey. cill and see us. All applications by mail or 'phone will receive ourprompt attention. 'Phone 4-15.

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SPORTING NOTES.

Kid ; McCoy Is how in training and will issue n challenge to all comers in his class next spring." ' -1 ' ' A team of German polo players will meet the leading American experts at the St. Louis world's fair. Jim Scanlon, the Pittsburg boxer, who defeated McCall in Australia, is after a battle with Bob Fitzsimmons. Jack (Twin) Sullivan of Boston wants to arrange a match for a longer distance with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. Jim Corbett will forsake vaudeville at the end of this season and star in a play which will appear in the popular priced houses. French automobile manufacturers and racers say Americans are just beginning to learn the use of motors and that Frenchmen are five years in advance of us. One of the fastest green trotters in the far west is a little black gelding by Baron Wilkes out of Lady Wilton, 2:1H1- The late Marcus Daly made a friend of his 'a present of this promising trotter. Trainer E. D. , Avery has sixteen head of horses at Mystic park, Medford, Mass., most of them being the horses that the late James Golden had charge of. Mr. Avery will have a public stable next year. THINGS THEATRICAL. F. Marion Crawford, who furnished Viola Allen with "In the Palate of the King," is to write a new play for that Actress. George Tyler is enthusiastic over tne appearance of Iiejane here next season in what he calls "the original of 'The Marriage of Kitty.' " Charles Frohinan and the Messrs. Gatti produo?d recently at the Vaudeville theater. London, a new musical comedy called "The Cherry Girl." William Courtleigh has been lent to Charles B. Dillingham by Charles Frohman for the support of Maxine Elliott as Sam Coast in "Her Own Way." The Shuberts and Aubrey Boucicault have parted company. The play "Captain Charlie." in which Mr. Boucicault has been starring, did not prove successful. Charles Frohman, who has the American rights of Sardou's "The Sorceress," produced recently in Paris by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, is arranging for its New York production. Samuel Lewis has engaged William Burt Cart wright (W. Burt Smith) for the Mary Emerson company to play the part of His Majesty in "His Majesty and the Maid," written by Joseph Le Brandt. ron- 01 tnttom. The handsome young dentist slipped the diamond ring on the lovely girl's shapely finger. ...... "If you break this engagement, dearest," he said, with a dreamy, faraway gaze, "I shall have to charge you for my time, $-ou know." Chicago Tribune. The Book's One Good Feature. "You have seen his book, I suppose. What do you think about it?' "Well, there's one good thing about it." "Indeed!" "Yes. It's simpljT impossible to dramatize it." Philadelphia Fublic Ledger. fleaxinsr Day II reams. We see Pipes the plumber sitting in deep meditation, a contented smile hovering upoii his face. "Ah," we venture gayly, "building air castles?" "Better 'u that," he tells us. "numbing them." Judge. To Our Patrons and Friends: "We have heard from all our companies concerning their losses in the Baltimore fire, and are pleased to give assurance that lor each company the losses are but a small per cent, of '!.;; net surplus, and a triile compare.! with the ability to pay. This justiries the position we have always held in representing' none but the very large and strong companies, and it emphasises to the insuring public the importance of accepting indemnity in such companies only. Win. II. Bradbury & Son, underwriters. For sale A cooking stove, used only a few months, good as new, 1 0.1 south ninth street. ll-3t GRAIN MARKET. Chicago, Feb. 11. Wheat 05 3r4c; May corn 50 l-2e; oats, 40 l-2e. There will be a special session tonight of the Central Trades Council at Union Labor hall. IOLA LODGE WORK. Iola lodge No. 53, K. of P., Will have work in the second rank on six candidates, tonight. A full attendance is desired. DR. REED DEAD. Br. Wilson Heed, formerly of Oenterville, died at Indianapolis this morning of pneumonia. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. S. K. Endsley, of this city. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Washington, Feb. 11. The senate today considered the Panama canal treaty in executive session.

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4 ITHJ4J. 1 J fltLtJ t y TV I , t OF CHICAGO i ....By MARY WOOD Copyright, 1903, by T. C. McClure fr She was so decidedly petite that even when she drew her figure to its greatest height the assumption of dignity was laughable. But her eyes sparkled dangerously as she faced the bellboy. The bellboy was Impressed. He eyed the door as if meditating escape before she proceeded to stronger methods. "Now, see here," she exclaimed belligerently, "this is the third note I have written to the office, and I want a reply this time." "If you would go down to the desk," the bellboy insinuated apologetically. "Mr. Parker" "No. I will not go down to the desk." Miss Halloway interrupted decidedly. "That head clerk Parker, or whatever name he answers to. shall come up here or I will know the reason why." The bellboy departed promptly. "And. by the way," she called after him, just hustle along some telegraph blanks on your way back. I have a few things to say vto my father and some of his friends concerning the lack of accommodations at the Great Eastern." "Oh, Belle, Belle," wailed Mis. Halloway, whose ample form had collapsed in one corner of a red plush sofa, "how can you make such a disturbance? Now, if your father was only here. But the two of iw alone, without a protector!" And she rolled her eyes distractedly. "Protector, fiddlesticks!" said the energetic Miss Halloway. "Have you no spirit, mother V" She began to pace the tioor excitedly. "Would you I e treated as a nobody you, the wife of Thomas P. Halloway? Consider your position." Mrs. Halloway doubtless considered her position she was absolutely at the mercy of her daughter's scathing tongue; therefore she maintained a discreet silence. "They must be taught the deference due to us, the Ilalloways of Chicago," said the girl. She was very young and possessed of the follies as wrell as the graces of youth. The bellboy now reappeared, holding out a handful of telegraph blanks like a yellow flag of truce.' "Mr. Parker," he averred, "he says he's coming." Miss Halloway seized upon the blanks and flung herself into a ch;.'r beside the writing table. "There wiii probably be ample time to get off the telegrams before he comes. . Things: don't quickstep at the Great Eastern." j "But. Belle," Mrs. Halloway protested after the bellboy had elpsed the door in reverential fashion, "had you not better slip on another waist. Mr. Parker" "Mr. Parker," her daughter interrupted superciliously, "is S. hotel clerk, a servant. This dressing sack is good enough for him." She dashed off a telegram and read it aloud reflectively: Dear Dad We are being shamefully treated at the Great Eastern. If things are not remedied we will change to the Grand tonight. But don't worry. I am running this affair, and you can bet on me. ARABELLA HALLOWAY. "I think that will make things hot for the Great Eastern," she said triumphantly. She did not hear the knock at the door nor its noiseless opening. Her mother's voice startled her, "Belle, here is Mr. Parker, but remember" Mrs. Ilalloway's voice trailed off into a deprecating silence. Miss Halloway straightened up in her chair wTith the laudable pride of a judge about to confer sentence. "Mr. Parker," she said impressively, "I have called you here to complain of the treatment to which we have been subjected by this hotel." She began deliberately enough, but the words soon tumbled over each other in her vehemence. "How dare you." she cried, "how dare you put us into this stuffy back room, an eight dollar a day room, when we have always been accustomed to an eighteen dollar suit? Do you know who we are the Ilalloways of Chicago? Is not our money as good as or better than other people's?" The clerk remained silent. And now for the first time Miss Holloway looked up far up and encouutered the serene gaze of his brown eyes. Mr. Parker, the clerk, was. tall unusually tall. But it was not merely his Inches which gave authority of bearing. It was his self confidence, his mental poise. Intuitively Miss Halloway of Chicago realized that here wa3 a ! man who would always be the master of circumstances no matter how adverse the contrivings of fate. Her judicial complacency vanished, and shame, hot cheeked and defiant, stood as a culprit at the bar, for a twinkle lurked in the cool depths of the brown eyes as he said easily: "I can agree with you. Miss Halloway of Chicago, but only in part. . Your money Is as good as that of other people, but no better. At the Great Eastern first come must be first served, and that," with a half bow. "is why we have been forced to give this room to Miss Halloway of Chicago." ,IIis tone was courteous, but the girl felt the sting of underlying reproof. It was a new experience for her. All her twenty years had not discovered a person who should dare to cross her. The great T. P. Halloway himself lacked the necessary courage, or, rather, lie openly encouraged her willfulness as a reincarnation of his own .indomitable spirit. As for Mrs. Halloway. she was always a minus quantity on such occasions as demanded firmness. She preferred to be comfortably seated and wring her hanfia gently. Tears came

easily and In nowise interfered with her heart action or gradual Increase of avoirdupois. ' ,, , , . Now she looked entjontingly at her daughter and murmured, "Oh, Belie, don't, don't!" Miss Halloway did not hear. Her world seemed falling about her ears. For the firt time the shameful helplessness of her sex overcame her. But womans .wit came to her aid. Her lips trembled piteously, and two large tears ran down her cheeks. This was a new method of warfare. The redoubtable Mr. Parker stood aghast; then, as became a prudent general, threw out scout lines. "Really, Miss . Halloway," he said soothingly, "the whole thing Is a trifle which we have foolishly exaggerated. In the morning you will laugh at your fancied grievances." But still the girl's head was hidden In her folded arms, and her shoulders heaved. Mis. Halloway sobbed, swaying comfortably back and forth. "If your father were only here," she wailed. Mr. Parker looked from one to the other despairingly. He was a young man. A woman's tears are saci-ed to the chivalry of youth. He cast discretion to the winds and capitulated. "Don't cry, Miss Halloway," he implored; "please don't. I think that perhaps I can arrange tly? matter. A personal friend of mine has one of the suits. Perhaps for you yes, I am sure I can arrange it." "On jour word and honor?" asked Miss Halloway of Chicago in a mu filed tone. "On my word of honor." he promised recklessly. The girl lifted her head and laughed. She had not been crying at all. "You can stop your crying now, mother," she said cheerfully: "it is all over with." She turned to the astonished Mr. Parker and extended her hand frankly. "And since you have acceded to my request," she said sweetly, "let me apologize for having asked in well rather peremptory fashion. It is a way I have, unfortunately. Of course your promise holds good?" "Of course," replied Mr. Tarker a trifle stiffly. He could not avoid taking her outstretched hand. "Of course," he repeated more heartily as some mesmeric influence radiated from her finger tips to his. There was added respect as well as admiration in the brown eyes. He recognized her powers as a strategist. Miss Halloway laughed. "I won, but I would not have if you had not been a gentleman. Mamma and I are very pleased to meet you, even in this informal fashion." Mrs. Halloway beamed upon thens. Peace and harmony were essential in her Scheme of things. And peace and harmony and Mr. Parker attended her and her daughter for the next few weeks. Mrs. Halloway beamed. Miss Halloway was radiant, Mr. Parker was assiduous so assidu ous, in fact, that Thomas P. Halloway on his advent on the scene felt called upon to interfere. He did not hesitate, but Mr. Parker spoke first. It is a way youth has. And he did not mince matters. He struck straight from the shoulder. "Mr. Halloway, I love your daughter; she loves me. We are going to be married. Have we your approval?" "The mischief!" ejaculated the astounded T. P. Halloway. "Why, you're nothing but a hotel clerk. My daughter' Words failed him. Mr. Parker was quite unmoved. "She does not object," he said easily. "Some day I shall own this hotel, then you will not object." T. P. Halloway glared at him. "I will," he snorted. "And the sooner you take yourself off the better it will be." "There is Belle to b1 considered." Mr. Parker insinuated gently. "She usually has her own waj." T. P. Halloway weakened visibly. "Yes; she usually does," he repeated more calmly. And the matter of her marriage proved no exception to the rule. She did. And that is how Miss Halloway of Chicago became Mrs. Parker of New York. it !-. Actors frequently receive xmexpected proof of the realism of their art. This story, which is reported from a Chicago theater, is like the story of the artist who painted a lire so vividly that his servant threw water on it. "Hamlet" was the play. In the gallery two small newsboys were watching with breathless interest. The last act was drawing to a close. The duel almost dragged the boys from their chairs. Before their eyes the queen was poisoned. -Laertes killed, the king killed, Hamlet killed. On the final tragedy the curtain started down. The audience was spellbound. In the gallery sounded a clatter and crash as one of the boys bolted for the door. "Come on, Jimmy!" he shouted back to his "pal." "Hustle up! Dey'll be extras out on dis." To him the acting had been at least as real as news. Youth's Companion.

A Fable on Grutltude. The snake was trying to shed his skin. "Help me off with this, will you?" he said to a frog that happened to be passing. The frog kindly complied with the request, and presently the discarded Skin lay stretched along the ground. "Now," observed the frog, "I suppose you will do with that as I do with my castoff garments eat it." "No," said the snake. "There Is something better in sight." Thereupon he ate the frog. The moral of this, my dears, is that there is more than one kind of skin rnme. aod some kinds are meaner than nthr: rMih'iiirit Tribune. t

HE IlINGS OF SATURN

THtV ,ARET;'c6ivlpbsfeG OF" BILLIONS 4 OF LITTLE MOONS. There Sa('IJi(e Are o Suruvruu That, Far From Couuilus Thejn, V ( niiiKif F.vert See . Tfim Sepa-rttlely-One of Nature' Murvela. The next to the largest world In our solar system possesses billions of moons. There can be no doubt that the number is literally billions. They are so numerous that, far from counting -them, we cannot even see them separately. They are so crowded and at the same time so far away from us that their light is Inextricably intermingled, and the vast multitude looks, even in a powerful telescope, like a frosted surface of silver. These innumerable moons are collectively designated in astronomical text books as Saturn's rings. But the word "rings" Is misleading, as is the appearance of the objects to which the word is applied. They are not solid, connected rings, although they look so. They are little moons, arranged in concrete .circles. Individually they may be no larger than meteors. But there is no particular size that a moon must have before it is entitled to bo called a moon. It is only necessary that it shall revolve regularly as a satellite around its master planet. Our moon is comparatively a large body, large enough for a respectable planet if it were independent of the earth. Jupiter, and Saturn, too, for that matter, has moons still larger than ours. Mais, on the other hand, has only two verj small moons. So size is no criterion of moonship. The larger moons of Saturn revolve around it at a greater distance than that of the rings. The latter are relatively close to the planet, and in that fact we have a clew to their origin that is to say, their nearness to the planet explains why they are so small and so numerous. It can be proved that our big moon would be broken into numberless fragments if it revolved within about 11,000 miles of the earth's surface. Then we, too, should have rings of little moons about us in place of the single large moon that travels alone its monthly round. In Saturn's crowd of moons things happen that are characteristic of all crowds. They pull and haul one another, though perhaps always keeping at arm's length. They vacillate ami lurch and waver to and fro. They collect into jams, though probably without much actual touching or clashing together, and the crowd grows thinner in some places, while thicker in others. Great waves of commotion run through this vast moon horde as through a Hock of hurrying sheep. i And yet, upon the whole, they are ah orderly assemblage. TUey never pause in their onward movement along their fixed path about Saturn. The vagaries of individuals do not affect the general forward movement any more than the dropping out and in of stragglers or the staggering of unsteady marchers stays the advance of an army. It is the stead', onward sweep of. a, great company governed by a single compelling principle of action. In many respects it is the strangest thing in the whole visible universe. Nobody world ever have dreamed of the existence of such a tl.lv. j if telescopes had not revealed it. Narrow, empty spaces divide this curious host into three or four separatelegions. Inasmuch as these billions of little bodies are not separately visible from the earth, the question may naturally be asked: "How do you know that they exist? How can you tell that the rings of Saturn are not solid?" There are two ways in which we know and can tell. In the first place, the law of gravitation assures us that solid rings could not exist in such a situation. I have mentioned before what would happen to the earth's moon if it came near enough to our globe to feel the effects of the gigantic tidal forces to which a close arpi-oaeh would subject it. Mathematical calculation has proved that Saturn's rings could not even be liquid bodies without being broken up into numberless separate particles. In the second place, the spectroscope has sliown that the rings travel around Saturn with a speed that gradually increases from their outer to their inner edges. How the spectroscope is able to give us this information is one of the most surprising stories in astronomy, but it would take too much space totell it now. All that we need to say here is that the spectroscope shows unmistakably that the rings of Saturn move in such a way as only a multitude of separate. Independent bodies, traveling side by side in the same direction, could move. The 'nearer they are to Saturn the faster they go, and accordingly if one could stand on the surface of Saturn and look up at the circles of moons over his head he would see the nearer ones racing past their next outer neighbors and those in turn outstripping their more distant companions, and so on to the outermost limits of the wonderful system. Truly, the heavens are more full of novelties than the brain of a dreamer. Garrett P. Serviss In Detroit Free Press. GommIp and Work Combined. In the Philippines the natives do their own washing in a way peculiar to the country. Once a" week the women 'gather at the riversides with the week's wash, and while they pound the clothes with a flat wooden club on a stone they discuss every question or the day, from politics to village gossip. , This Is one of the events of the week:, that lighten, the labors of the Filipinohousewife, wherein she combines profitable work with pleasure. Unlike the women of most other countries, the onesubject they do not discuss is dress.