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VOL. 108, NO. 26 LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912 ?, ,*. ? -D ^rAn
*I.UU t tAi YEAR
DR. DENNY'S VIGOROUS
SPEECH ON TEMPERANCE
Addressed Citizens of Tuscaloosa in
Mass Meeting
Newspaper reports from Alabama
Rive accounts of an enthusiastic
mass meeting of the citizens of Tus?
caloosa county, Ala., June 10. 1912,
who oppose the return of saloons to
that county, in which is located tbe
University of Alabama. Among tbe
speakers was Dr. George H. Denny,
piesident of the University. His
address was referred to as "vigor?
ous, exhaustive and scholarly, with
no effort to dodge the issue."
Among other things. Dr. Denny
is reported as saying:
"My credentials for my appear?
ance tonight are my loyalty to a
great trust and my duty to the
young manhood of Alabama. When
I came to Alabama at the beginning
?f this year, my heart was deeply
touched in view of the overwhelm?
ing assurances tbat came to me
from the citizens of Tuscaloosa that
I might count on tbeir co-operation
and support in the great task of
building here an institution of learn?
ing that should deserve and com
maud the respect of every man, wo?
man and child of this commonwealth.
1 come to you tonight and ask you
to redeem that pledge. I come to
you and ask you tu refuse to legal?
ize in thiscommunily the conscience?
less traffic in whiskey. ? ? *
"Ten years ago Washington and
Lee was a small college, located in
a community that tolerated the whis?
key traflic. The community rose to
the situation and banished the sa?
loon. Since that day it has grown
from a small college of 200 students
to a great iustitution of 650. * * *
"My friends, have you ever known
a great colossal figure inhuman his?
tory that ever pronounced the whis?
key traflic safe for the people? Call
up William El Gladstone and ask him
whether be considers the liquor
trade safe (or the people. Hear his
answer: 'lt has done more injury to
England than war, pbstilcnce and
famine?all combined.'
"Call up John Morley, his great?
est lieutenant, and ask bim whether
he considers the liquor traflic safe
for the people. Hear his answer:
'England must put a stop to the li?
quor traflic, or it will put a stop to
England.'
"Call up the greatest leader who
has ever been called to guide and di?
rect the labor organizations of the
world and ask bim whether he con?
solers the liquor traffic sale for the
people. Hear him answer: 'Had I
tea million tongues and a throat for
each tongue, I would say, Throw
strong drink aside as you would an
ounce of liquid hell.'
"Call up tbe jails and penitentia?
ries and ask them whether they con?
sider the liquor traffic safe for the
people. Hear them answer: 'Fifty
pet cent, of the men in these dark
dungeons owe their disgrace to
strong drink.'
"Call up tbe insane asylums and
ask them whether they consider the
liquor traffic safe tor the people.
Hear them answer: 'One-half ol
these doomed inmates trace their pa?
thetic plight, directly or indirectly,
to strong drink.'
"Call up the scrap-heaps of broken
homes and lost opportunities, ant]
ask them whether they consider thc
liquor traffic safe for the people
Hear them answer: 'Human happi
ness and human hopes, when des
oyed, trace ther wreck five times
out of ten to strong drink.'
"Finally, call up the school house
the library, tbe church, and thc
God-fearing home, and ask thea
whether they consider the liquoi
traffic safe for the people. Heai
them answer: 'Save us from thc
peril and the consequences of i
nearby saloon.'
"There is no voice, living oi
dead, that Lumanity may safelj
heed that is not at this solerat
hour summoning us to do our duty
Shall we heed these voices? Abovi
all, shall we heed tbat still sinai
voice that is calling to us, abovi
the din of the multitude, beckoninj
us onward aud forward in thi:
great struggle? Ma, God in Hil
infinite wisdom uuid-: us and c othi
our rigt.t arm with majesty ant
power. '
TOO MUCH IMPURE SWEETS
A Child's "Fatal Penny" and Its
Effect on Health
In an article on "The Fatal Pen?
ny" in the July Woman's Home
Companion, Mary Heaton Vorse de?
scribes the sickness that a child can
buy with one cent. Following is an
extract.
"Making one-cent candy is in it?
self a large branch of the candy
business; tons of it are made every
year. The fundamentals of the
trade are these: to {rive as larne an
amount of some sweet substance as
is possible for a cent; to make the
substance into the most attractive
shape; to ornament it with gaudy
colors.
'There is, indeed, no question to
be raised against this candy, except
the vital one: ls it good lor the in?
fant's stomach? Dj you think tbat
the five-year old digestion of your
child will be bettered by receiving
to itself a slab of amorphous matter
sweetened with glucose, flavored
with mint, and colored with green
vegetable dye, the whole concoction
an inch and a half wide and three
inches long? Lot me hastily say
that none of the ingredients in this
form of sweets is in itself necessari?
ly poisonous; also, they are usually
manufactured under sanitary condi?
tions, and the ingenuity cf their ap?
pealing shapes and the variety of
tb-ir hues are certainly to be com?
mended, but?are they good for
childrn to eat?
"Until the child is ten years old.
at least, it seems not too much to
ask that tiie mother should know
all that her childeats. It is during
those years tbat a child's physical
health is being formed for good or
ill. The continual little gastric up?
sets, choleras, nauseas, and all the
other minor ills that keep children
home from school for a day or two
are almost without exception tbe re?
sult of injudicious feeding. A great
many of these ills could be traced to
tbe fatal penny, if we were far?
sighted enough to do so."
Fair Play for Mr. Bryan
The New York World, which can
in no sense be regarded as a Bryan
newspaper, has this to say:
"Der "orats gathering at Balti?
more who express the fear that Mr.
Bryan will attend the National Con?
vention in tbe role of a candidate
for nomination are not entirely fair
to him. He has repeatedly declared
that be is not a candidate. While
he has made speeches, especilly in
Ohio, urging the choice of progres?
sive Democrats as delegates, he has
not sought to secure delegates for
himself. There is not the slightest
evidence tbat he bas acted in any?
thing but good faith or that his la?
bors on the platform were with the
view of furthering his chances.
Mr. Bryan's mere presence at the
Baltimore Convention should quiet
fears that he is planning to be a
candidate. When he was nominated
at Chicago in 1896 be was the crea?
ture of unforeseen circumstances.
No one suspected in advance that
the obscure Nebraska delegate
would be picked out to head the
ticket. Neither in 1900 nor in 1908,
when he frankly sought the nomina?
tion, did he chase it into the con?
vention hall. He has always shown
a far different sense of decorum and
decency in the matter tban Mr.
Roosevelt manifested in Chicago.
Mr. Byrd ts Quit Politics
Speaker Richard E. Byrd of Win?
chester, who has served eight years
in the House of Delegates, an?
nounces that he will retire from
politics after the Baltimore conven?
tion. He will lead tbe Wilson dele?
gates from this State. Mr. Byrd
will engage solely in tbe practice sf
law.
He announces that he will under
no circumstances be a candidate for
re-election to the House of Delegates,
and will, as a result, lay down the
gavel of the Speaker of the House,
which he has wielded for the past
throe sessions ot that body.
The street committee is giving
special attention to the cleaning ol
the streets in tbe business portions
of the town, aod as a result greater
comfort follows.
People who are thrifty are apt lc
get a reputation for being stingy.
STATE INSTRUCTORS'
GRADEJMIFICATES
Many Changes Made by Virginia
Board of Education
READING COURSEENCOURAGED
Teachers Arc Required to Attend
Summer Normals
Changes'of interest to the teacii
ers of Virginia have been made by
the State Board of Education in the
issuance of certificates to teach in
the public schools. Tbe require?
ments for obtaining the first, sec?
ond and third grade certificates
have been made simpler and the
provisions for renewing first and
second grade certificates less bur?
densome.
First grade certificates expiring
| July 31, 1912, may be, to use the
language of the new rule, renewed
upon evidence tbat tbe holder in
each case has been a successful
teacher, accompanied by a state?
ment made by the holder thc the has
road five books of the Si.a*e read?
ing course (giving the names of the
books) during the life of tbe certifi?
cate to be renewed, provided he
either attends a State summer
school or institute for at least twen?
ty consecutive days daring the life
of the certificate, or passes a sue
cessful examination on at least two
of the books of the reading course,
one on which must be the "History
of Education."
The second grade certificate ex?
piring July 31. 1912, may be re?
newed for a period of two years up
, on satisfactory evidence that the
teacher has completed one year's
quota of such reading as the State
I Hoard of Education may prescribe,
I to be evidenced by an examination
; conducted at tbe same time and in
j tbe same way as the regular State
; summer examination, or has attend
J ed a State summer normal school or
institute for at least twenty days
during tbe said two years and suc?
cessful by completed the course of
study prescribed by the conductor
of such school.
Any teacher who attends a State
' summer normal or institute twenty
days, whether be holds a certificate
or not, may divide the subjects for
examination. Heretofore no one
without a legal certificate had this
: privilege. This regulation is intend?
ed to teachers attending summer
; normals and will greatly increase
; tbeir chances to win certificates.
Teachers may combine their Julv
| grades made at tbe end of a normal
with their spring grades and also
with their July grades of 1911.
Grades cannot be combined when
they are more than thirteen months
apart.
Another very important change is
tbe reduction in tbe average per
cent, required for a third grade cer?
tificate. Under the old regulations
an applicant bad to make an average
of 65 per cent, on all subjects re?
quired for a third, but he now has
to make an average of 60 per cent.
Along with this tbe minimum grade
bas been changed from 60 to 45 per
cent.
A Kansas Blue Law
Americans are accustomed to look
back with amused interest upon
the blue laws of the colonial days
and to complacently congratulate
themselves on living in a more
advanced and enlightened time.
But human nature is the same now
tbat it was then. Many of us are
ready to regulate the private lives
and affairs of ourselves and others
whenever the opportunity affords.
A case in point is reported f.om
the town of Iola, in the ever inter?
esting State of Kansas. There tbe
lid has been placed upon the use ol
tobacco in any form. Everybody
detected in the act of smoking or
chewing the weed is promptly ar?
rested and fined. T hoses whost
w hose system have become habituat?
ed to the narcotic aro making a
great protest, but their appeals t
the doctors foi- prescriptions ro
storing thom to their smokes and
"chews" are vaic.
Subscribe for the Galette, $1.00.
TAFT
ARE ny OHS
Of Regular Convention Saturday
Night in Chicago
NOMINATED ON FIRST BALLOT
President Won by Slight Majority
Of 21 Votes
With nearly 350 of tbe Roosevelt
delegatts declining to vote and has?
tening away at adjournment time to
tender to Colonel Roosevelt the nomi?
nation of anew party, the fifteenth
Republican National Convention,
after a long and tumultuous session,
Saturday night renominated William
Howard Tait of Ohio for President,
and James Scboolcraft Sherman ol
New York for Vice-President.
President Taft rec ived 561 of the
1,078 votes in the convention, or
twenty-one more than a majority.
The decision of the Roosevelt peo?
ple, under direction of their leader.
to refrain from voting, left no other
candidate for the Presidency.
The announcement of tbe Taft
nomination was greeted with cheer?
ing from bis adherents and groans
and hisses from tbe opposition.
When it became absolutely cer- ,
tain early Saturday that Mr. Taft
rould be nominated without great :
difficulty, the leaders in control of i
the convention decided to give him ;
as a running mate bis companion
on the ticket in 1908.
All others dropped from the race,
and Mr. Sherman was the only can?
didate regularly placed before the
Convention. A motion from New
Hampshire to make the nomination
by acclamation was'declared out of
order. There were many scatter
ing votes on the roll call that en
su -d.
The convention, amid much con?
fusion, adjourned sine die at 10:3d
o'clock.
At no time was there an indica?
tion of a walkout of Roosevelt dele
gates. They expressed their revolt
by silence.
Veterans Receive Medals
At the commencement exercise of
the University of Virginia week
before last medals were presented
to forty odd veterans who fifty-one
years ago filled with tbe impulse of
the times, marched away from tbe
campus of the university to the bat?
tlefield of the Confederacy.
Dr. John \V. Mallet,emeritus pro?
fessor of chemistry and himself a
veteran, called the roll of veterans
and as his nane was called each
veteran marched forward and re?
ceived his medal. The sight was an
inspiring one and the crowd which
packed tbe building went wild with
enthusiasm. Each veteran was
loudly cheered as he advanced to
accept "Tbe Gift of Alma Mater to
her Sons."
President Alderman addressed
the veterans and tbe sentiments he
expressed were loudly cheered.
Judge George L. Christian, of
Richmond, responded on behalf of
his comrades, thanking tbe univer?
sity authorities for tbe royal wel?
come extended.
Governor Mann Criticised
Tbe Virginia Issue, tne official or?
gan of the Anti-Saloon League of
Virginia, in its last issue, in arraign?
ing tbe liquor power of the State as
dominating politics in Virginia, re?
fers to Governor Mann as follows:
"A good man occupies the Gover?
nor's seat in Virginia. He has
written bis name into tbe history of
tbe temperance cause of Virginia.
His fellow temperance men honor?
ed bim with their vote and elected
him to bis high position. They be?
lieved he would use his influence
to carry forward the work to its
logical conclusion. Since he has
been Governor he has been as sil?
ent as the grave on tbe subject that
so profoundly concerns our Virgin?
ia people. He bas advocated and
pushed, against determined op?
position, other measures through
toe Legislature*. II * bas scarcely
.urned over his hand for the great
movement backed aod urged by the
very people tbat elected him to
offiee."
APPLE AND PEACH CROPS
Some Statistics Concerning Fruits of
Virginia
Mr. Walter Whately, secretary of
tbe Virginia State Horticultural so?
ciety,bas just secured tbe following
statistics concerning the apple and
peach crops.
In number of apple trees, Virgin?
ia ranks: In 1910, 6th; in 1900, 7th.
In number of bushels produced,
ranks: In 1910, 4th; in 1900 not
given.
Id number of apple trees not bear?
ing Virginia ranks: In 1910, 4th;
in 1900, not given.
Number of apple trees in bearing
in Virginia, 7,005,000.
Total number of apple trees bear?
ing in United States: In 1910, 151.
323,01/0; in 1900, 201,794,000; de?
crease in United States, 50,471,1*00
or 33.4 per cent.
Total apple trees not yet bearing
in United States: In 1910. 65,792,
000; in 1900, not given.
Total bushels produced in United
States: (1909) 147,522,000. Value,
$83.231,000.
Total bushels produced in United
Slaaaa: (1899) 175,52'', 000. Value
not given.
In number of peach trees, Virgin?
ia ranks: In 1910. 19th; in 1900
21st.
In number of bushels. Virginii
ranks: In 1910, 17th; in 1900.no
given.
Number of trees in bearing ir
Virginia: In 1910, 1,813.000; ii
1900. 1.393.000.
1 otal peach trees bearing frait ir
United States: In 1910. 94,507,000
in 1900, 99,919.000. Decrease. 5,
412,000 or 5.7 per cent.
Totai trees not yet bearing ic
United BtataM in 1910, 42,2r>rj,000.
Total production in United States
crop of 1909; 35.47O,OU0 bushels
value, $28,781,000.
Total production in United State;
value not given.
Sheep as a Great Money-Maker
Tbere is no live stock on the farn
tbat will bring \n greater return:
iu proportion to the money investee
than gooi sheep. And those returns
are semi-annual. When farmers an
needing money with which tt
pay store bills and hired help thi
wool goes on to tbe market. Latei
on the lambs are sold and hence
twice a year are the flocks replen?
ishing tbe bank accounts of thc
shepherds. lt is quite aa eas j
u.utter to invest $100 ia sheep anc
make it all back the first year ant
have tbe stock left. But if a faruiei
would make money in tbe sheet
business there are two essentials bc
must observe: First, be must havt
good sheep, and then he mustgivi
them good feed aud care. Wit*
these two things carefully observer,
tbere is no reason why any (aime
should not make plenty of moce;
! out of the sheep business.
Virginia ought to have ten time
j as many sheep as she now has. li
j fact she ought to have many time
I tbe number of all kinds of live stoc
i that she cow bas. When more am
I better live stock is kept an ou
j State we shall hear less said abou
I the "worn-out" lands in Virginia:
'or it is live stock tbat builds u
the farms. ? Bulletin of Virginia De
partment of Agriculture.
Third Leg Is Amputated
A perfectly formed third leg wu
removed a few days ago from tu
body cf Hunter Fitzgerald, a 1"
year old boy, of Blackstone. Va, b
an operation bv Dr. Stuart MtsOull
at St. Luke's hospital, Uicbmond.
The leg, which was separate an
distinct from tbe two with wine
ordinary man is blessed, was di
ferent in no way from either of th
young man's other legs, except thi
it"was somewhat smaller.
Fitzgerald was much talked aboi
in Blackstone because of the fat
tbat his bodily structure was s
unusual, aad, being ofasensitiv
nature, he decided upon the open
tioa.
it is understood that tho su
goon's etlorts -vere successful i
every way, aud that the young ma
will sutler no ill effects from tho r
uioval of the third limb.
Dommestic troubles never botne
a man who lets bis wife have ht
own way.
ROOSEVELT NOMI MATEO
TO HEAD THIRD PARTY
A Temporary Organization Effected
Ia Chicago
Former PresidentTheodore Roose?
velt was nominated for Presideut on
on an independent ticket Saturday
in the dying hours of tbe Republican
National Convention in which he had
met defeat.
The followers of Col. Roosevelt
gathered in Orchestra Hall, less
tban a mile from the Coliseum, and
pledged their support to the for?
mer President.
In accepting the nomination Col.
Roosevelt appealed to the people of
all sections, regardless of narty
affiliations, to stand with the fe nd
ers of tbe party one of whose ca. d
inal principles he said, was to bo
"Thou shalt not steal."
The informal nomination of Col.
Roosevelt was said to be chiefly for
I the purpose of effecting a temporary
i organization. Beginning Mouday,
when a call was issued for a Mate
, Convention in Illinios the workof or
I' ganization will be pushed forward
31 rapidly. State by State. At a later
j time, probably early in August, it
. is intended that a national conven
_ tion shall be held. Col Roosevelt,
' in accepting the nomination, ?sid be
t : did so understanding that he wo id
t willingly step aside if it sbo
? tbe desire of tbe new party, w lien
j organized, to select another st..nd
. ardbearer.
The Proud Mother
"Come hither, little Mary Ann,'
tbe doting mother said; "I have
about three quarts of jute to put
, i upon your head. I see the neigh
; bors' daughters go to school, fixed
up so fine, and I won't have it s.,id.
my dear, tbat you are not in line; so
let me kalsoiuine your face with
pigments rich and rare, aod put
some red paint on your lips, and
cook and curl your bair: and push
you in a narrow skirt that shows
your every curve, so you will get
from rubbernecks tbe notice you
j deserve. Aud you must wear your
snowy shoes that advertise your
feet, aDd eke tbe crazy bat that
scares tbe horses on the street, for
1 won't have the neighbors say that
my dear little maid is not as good
as any or as stylishly arrayed. Of
course you don't look like a child
with all your paint and curls, but
you're uphclstered just as well as
I any other girls; of course you can
< not run or play, as children used to
do, but we must show tbe neigh?
bors' girls they have no edge on
you: of course you re like a moukey,
dear, of course it is a shame: but
since tbe neighbors turn cut apes,
I have to do the same!"?Walt
Mason.
Girls Less Modest Than Formerly
Tbat the dress of our young girls
has never been less modest since
Q I the days of Louis XVI, v.;;s the
s startling charge made by Miss
^ Buelah E. Kennard in en address
before the National Conference of
Charities and Correction held in
Cleveland, Ohio, last week.
"Young girls were once sheltered
and restrained by family life," said
Miss Kennard. "They had violent
emotions, but no expression for
them except in harmless forms of
poetry or music or tbe explosive
form of hysteria. The present free?
dom of girls from parental control
and authority makes self-control
and inner-restraint necessary to
their safety. They are sopnisticat
ed to some extent, but far less than
their confident manner would indi?
cate, aud are too young to regulate
their emotions. The continuance of
tbe race and its welfare, which is
the main business of life, is being
left in the hands of careless child?
ren without any preparation or
guidan'-. whatever. The safeguard
ip- . our dance halls and places of
amusement against the more obvious
dangers is well, but not enough."
e
A human document of extraordi?
nary interest is Robert Shackleton's
j account of the sensations of an Eng?
lish woman who was born blind and
who livid in darkness thirty-six
shears, and then looked out upon the
world for the first time. His ac*
count of "A Woman of Maidstone"
is sympathetic?July Scribner.
