The times dispatch. [volume], February 15, 1912, Page 7, Image 7

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Here and There
in the Legislature
(Continued From sixth Rage.)
from one county to another, bo as to
follow the Individual, wao reported fa
vornbly.
The preeenl local option law regard?
ing compulsory school attendanco will
bo repealed If a bill put In yesterday
by W. 13. Walton, of Hanover, und Wol?
ter Tenslli Oliver, of Fairfax, becomes
a law. Counties und cities may now
choose, for themselves, and this bill
would take away from them that
right.
J; J. Creamer offered a bill yester
d: >? to permit the city of Richmond
to op, ii sin.lit Avenue through the
property of the Confederate Memorial
Association! This would be directly
contrary to the bill Just ppssed to
forbid any street through that prop?
erty. Ijahd owners who have brought
turthei west desire Stuart Avenue
opened.
FSdwln T Cox would appropriate 5110
to the Vlrglnln room of the Confed?
erate Memorial Literary society.
He woal.l also, in another bill, ap?
propriate 150.600 10 build an exhibit
Structure on the Slate Fair lirounds
for the displays of counties.
1/o.uor tnny not bo drunk on trains,
even with the consent of the conduc?
tors. If a hill Offered yesterday by W.
a. wilieroy becomes law. The Byrd
llouor law make- such practice legal
If the conductor gives his approval.
The Throckmortoh bill, designed to
clve, farmers the right to sell flowers
and products of Hu girden and f,r
'hard. In any Incorporated city with?
out tax or license, received a black eye,
at the hani i of the Senate Committee
A Skin Tightener
to Reduce Wrinkles
5 (From Popular Medicine.)
tn beauty culture, as in the treatment
of discise, the tendency nowadays is to
seek the removal of rauhes rather than to
treat symptoms or effects. In 1 he mattcr
of wrinkles, for instance, we know tii.it
the lines or furrows are caused by the
akin becoming loose in plires, so it rloes
not perfectly fit the flesh beneath. The
?kin then ' wrinkles" or sacjs. Naturally
tit" proper thine to do is to tighten the
skirt?make it fit?then there's no room
for linen, wrinkles and fel ls, and no sur?
plus skin to sag or ban.
The bc;t known fo.-muli for the pur?
pose: is: Saxolite, 1 oz., in }4 pint witch
harcl Use as a wish lotion. The effect
is truly remarkable, cspo ially as results
arc immediate. : Ask the drmrftist for the
powdered saxolite. w'nirli dissolves more
rjui kly than any other form.
COUGHS, COLDS, CATARRH, \
, CROUP and CATARRHAL DEAFNESS
Hyomei Will Give Satisfaction in Any of the Above
Named Diseases, or Money Refunded. Just
Breathe It?No Stomach Dosing.
Good for Men and Women; Boys,
Girls and Little Children.
Do as Mrd. Fred Kobinson, Hartwiclc,
N. Y., R. F. D. 2. writes she did. Kead:
"I have a HYO.MEI outfit and u^e it
for my little girl. She has always had
?uch stubborn colds that we were lidd'y
'-.fhtened whenever she caught one. Wc
never could get anything that would
lireak up her cold until t purchased
UYOMKI. Now I don't worry ,m>
I uorc when wc have it in the house. You
j an uee thib letter if you like, for 1 cer
I tainly think it saved its cost many times
in doctors' bills."
HYOMEI is made of purest Australian
[ Eucalyptus and Listerian Antiseptics. It
docs not contain a particle of cocaine,
opium or other injurious drug.
Breathe it for colds, coughs, catarrh,
croup, catarrhal deafness and bronchitis
and the toothing antiseptic air will quickly
heal the soreness and banish all misery.
HYOMEI outfit, including inhaler, $1.00,
extra bottles 30 cents.. Sold by Tr.igla
Drug Co. and druggists everywhere.
on County city and Town Organisation
yesterday morning. Senator 12. |
Koikes, of Richmond city, and City At-I
tornty h. p.. Pollard; botii argued
against the measure, ami It was finally
reported with the recomtne.iida.tlon'
that It do not pass.
Delegates Throckmorton expressed
surprise at what he look.-d upon as
opposition from an unexpected quar?
ter. The present law exempts from
license or taxation farmers selling the
products of their fields within Ihe
city. The proposed law would broad?
en It to Include also farmers bringing
to the city for :<ale the products of
their gardens and orrhnrd?
More than S 1.500,000 of additional
revenue from the taxation of rail?
way property will nccrue annually to
the cities and counties of the State
If a bill Introduced yesterday by Senn
tor Wenderburg becomes law. It
makes the earning power of the roaas
the basis of valuation for assessment
purposes. The net profits of the roada.
It provides, shall be taken to be 1
tier cent, of th<- value ,,f their entire
taxable holdings, and the assessment
made accordingly. The lew Is intend?
ed to apply to all railway corporation.*
with.nil regard to the motlv.- power
employed.
Members of electoral boards will be
provided wlih mileage In the same
manner as In the case of Jurors. If
a bill Introduced ye?terrtay by Senator
West Is enacted Into lew.
law TuTrOTECT
fish and OYSTERS
Senate Committee Reports Les
ner Fish Bill With
Substitute.
Dafore the Sencte Committee on Fish
and Game yesterday morning a large
delegation from the counties of Nor?
folk, Accomac. Gloucester and Math
ews nppep.red In support of Senator
Lesncr's l>!ll regulating the Ashing in?
dustry. The argument wo? frequently
heated at, one or the other of iho
speakers lodged objection against par
titular features ot the bill which seem?
ed to militate against the Industry of
his own section.
A3 a net. result of the hearing tho
committee voted to report, the bill with
a substitute dealing particularly with
the slie of the fish, the capture of
which is permitted under the proposed
law. The substitute provides also 1" >r
a thorough cull law. and puts a stop
to the taking of clams off Ocoan View,
V irginia. .\ penalty Is also provided
for any person fishing, clamming,
oyslorlng or crabbing, who docs not
display conspicuously the number of
his boat.
McDonald Dee. chairman of the State
Fish Commission, spok-; in luvor
of the measure, and told of the
necessity of a new law to pro?
tect the flah ?t the eastern coast.
Reckless fishing. he assorted. Is
destroying the resources of the eastern
waters, and a stringent law on the sub
Jest is needed. Senator West opposed
several minor provisions of the bill.
Fixes .Size of Flab.
The substitute bill establishes the
following minimum lengths within
which fishing |s prohibited:
Sturgeon, t feet; rocktlsh, 10 inches;
spots. 1; inches; bluefish, S inches; but
tertish, 4 lnchee; bonlto fish. 20 Inches;
croakers. 7 inches: black drum, 10
Inches; red drum. 12 IncheB; hogrtsh. 6
Inches; mackerel, 12 inches; mullet, 7
Inches; pompanos. 7 Inches; moonflsh,
9 inches; roundheads. 7 Inches; sea
bass., 5 inches; sheeprhead. 12 inches;
bay trout. S inches; salmon trout, 10
inches: gray trout, 10 Inches; black
boBs. i Inches; carp. S Inches: inud
shad. 7 Inches; white perch. 6 inches;
yellow perch. 7 inches; biuenose perch.
* lnchea; sunf.sh, 4 Inches; bream. 8
Inches, and hickory fish, 8 inchee.
The bill provides that all measure?
ments be from tip of nose to tip of
tall, and that persons catching flah
smaller than the sires prescribed he
fined not less than 125 and not more
than ftOO.
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About It?
CjjDo you enjoy a weird story?one
that carries you out in the cold of a
winter night?in the pursuit of a strange
phantom? Try
99
By HUGH PENDEXTER
fcJAnd if you want to glimpse into a
life story?see a little life shipwrecked,
and be a mute witness of a tragedy of
man and woman love, you must read
th ose blood -warming
S
By LEONIE WOODWARD
99
>n his twenty-first birthday he was
setting type, now he is the greatest of
living American novelists. Who he is
and how he did it, is the subject of an
interesting article. Hy Gage has made
some fanny cartoons to go with it.
All in
illustrated Magazine Next Sunday
BOGUS TRADING
Id VIRGINIA LAND
'Buchanan County People Must
Suffer From Practice T\vo
.More Years.
DEVELOPMENT IS PREVENTED
j
Speculators Deal hi Property
Under Old Grants Which i
Were Never .Made.
Union? uomebody c m devise a plan
to make the owners of bogus land
titles In Buchanan county pay their
taxes or else have their claims for?
feited to the Commonwealth, the de?
plorable, conditions there must con?
tinue 'or two year, longer, and the
development of that Immensely rich
?action of the State will he corre?
spondingly- delayed The action of the
House Committee for Courts of Justice
In passing by Indefinitely all the Mils
relating to the subject has exhausted
the plans of the Buchanan delegation,
wi.ilch wlli now proceed to go home.
Tver since the session of the Legis?
lature began. W. L, Dennis and J. W.
Klannagan, Jr.. have been in Rich?
mond endaavorlng to :-<e if something
dnllnlte could not be accomplished for
the relief of the peo/Me or their county.
They have appeared before commit.
tf-s time and ugaln. have sought ad?
vice wherever It eould be obtained,
and probably the shortness of the ses?
sion, wltto the time limit on the in?
troduction of the bills, have prevented
thim from renchirK sonte sort of so?
lution.
The Buchanan situation Is one of ab?
sorbing Interest, ar.a presents a prob?
lem with which the State will sooner
or '.ater have to deal. There Is still
some talk of a bill providing for a
committee of lawyers to "v,->rnln? and
report to tae next Central Assemhly.
Much in Litigation.
More th-tr. a -entur-- ago grants wer?
driven by the State to certain parf.es.
Taxes were paid for io^io years, and
then default was made, nnd t'-.e land
was either sold to the Commonwealth
or should hnve been. Good titles have
been established to a portion of the
lands in the. coenty. while a great por?
tion ha? been and |s sill! vicing con?
tested. Henry C. Klntr Is now claim?
ing under a paper claim of title from
an ancient grant, but ha? so far lost
In the ronrts as against tr.e settlers
or citizens of the county, who r.iav
been paying their taxes. Mr King
and his confreres desire not to pay
But a far greater complication than
tneso claims from parties who can
produce real old grants, Is the dealing
in lands on absolutely bogus titles.
Millions of acr?s have been sold un?
der a claim of n grant to Ceorgo
vCythe. naming even tha page o* the
hoolt where tho grant uns supposed to
be on record. Yr-t no tuch patent was
ever Issued. Bogus deens are put on
record, and then the beneficiaries re?
sell to unsuspecting victims, being
able to ehow that the land was con?
veyed to them, the deed being on
record. It seems that a clerk cannot
refuse to record a deed properly ao
knowledged.
Every ltfwyen- In the Soutnwest has
had applications for Information about
these lands, showing the act'vitles of
the fraudulent dealers. One attorney,
It Is said, keeps a typewritten form
of reply, which he sends to applicants.
Some pitiful cases have cotno to light
of men, who have bought lands under
bogus titles. and have gone to
Buchanan to claim their property, to
find they had no rights. Two English?
men who wore gulled caught their,
roan and landed him in Sing Sing.
More I.nnd Into State.
But the trading goes on. The pur- (
chasers and dealers In CIs property |
will exhibit mips of the property, cut
into sections. They hnve psitents on j
land formerly In Kentucky, but being j
forced out of that State by the laws, i
they havo moved the lands which they J
do not own Into Virginia, nno trading
goes merrily on. Deeds of trust are
given, to secure money borrowed on
property which Is a myth.
The worst of It Is. that railroads
will not try to develop the Immense
mineral wealth of Buchanan, and real j
Investors will not buy, while the titles;
aro clouded with uncertainty. The'
natives, who have paid for their lnndj
and paid taxes on it and lived there;
for years, aro unsettled and de- :
spondent. Everything Is kept under
a closd.
It Was this situation which Mr. Den?
nis and .-it. Flannagan have en?
deavored to correct. They proposed ;
the Kentucky law, out tho committee,
feit that It was unconstitutional, as it'
applied only to tracta ot more than ,
f..000 acres, as proposed here. In West!
Virginia the 1,000 acre feature Is in tho
Constitution. Some attorneys appear?
ed, who deslrn the matter cleared up.
but folt they could not tall In so short
a time what the effect would bo on
their penulno holdings, which they
have secured by purchase from both
senior and Junior patentees. Other
attorneys cast doubta on th* proposed
bills. The truth Is that the time ot
the. Legislature Is too much taken up.
and everybody Is so crowded with
work, that tho matter could not be
traced down and worked out.
But there seems to bo no way to
prevent toe continuance of assessing
this bogus property for taxation, under
tr>j law. What the peoplo want ts a]
Ktituto to make these speculators pay:
the taxes, or. In default, (which would'
nlways be tho case, since they would)
not continually sink money In taxe3;
on a contested piece of property), to
have the lands forfeited to the Com?
monwealth, which would forever debar
the extrnnoous claims.
INVITE VIRGINIA
10 HS CM SHOW
California Men Urge General
Assembly to Provide
for Exhibit.
Before an audience which filled
barely half tho scats of the nail of
the House of Delegates, former Gover?
nor Glllatte, of California, spolte op-1
Umlstically of tho great exposition
which will be opened in 1916 at Kan
Francisco in honor of tha completion
of tho Panama Canal. The exposition^
ho said, will In every way ba commen?
surate with the. magnitude of ih : event
which it win celebrate, and will com
pare with the: largest exhibitions held
in this country or In Europe.
"It will not ho a soctlonal affair and
fioS (or the cxplcltaUon of one part of]
are only in the Pictorial Review Spring Fashion Book. It
can't help being that way?for the Pictorial Review pattern
business is the big part of the American Fashion Company
which supplies (as it has for twenty years past) the cloak
and suit manufacturers with all their advance models.
These manufacturers must have their styles three or four months before
the retail selling season opens, so as to get their goods made up, so
you will see why Pictorial Review fashions are offered you perhaps
even before dry goods stores put the newest models on sale.
This is also why Pictorial Review patterns are
of all others?you could easily convince yourself, as have thousands
of other women, by comparing all the pattern publications. If you do,
just notice the numerous Pictorial Review styles for draped skirts, the
latest waists, the new cutaway jackets?as against the one or two
partially new or "warmed-over" models
shown by others. This leads us to say:
When you select your patterns from the
Pictorial Review Spring Fashion Book
you do not run the risk of having your
dress out of date as soon as it is made.
too, are superior to all others?here are the reasons:
In each Pictorial Review pattern
is a patented Cutting Guide. This
shows how to lay out the pattern
correctly?and just as scientifi?
cally as an expert cutter could
do, so as to use the least possible
material. There is absolutely no
chance of making mistakes?no
chance of cutting two backs or
two fronts, no .chance of wasting
an inch anywhere.
With each Pictorial Review pat?
tern is a patented Construction
Guide, showing how to produce
a perfectly fitting garment with
absolute certainty. There can be
no home-made look about a gar?
ment made from Pictorial Review
patterns; it looks right?fits right
and stays right.
Because of these Guides, there is great economy in using Pictorial
Review patterns. Other pattern makers, who can use no Cutting Guide,
realize that you won't lay out the material as carefully as a professional
cutter, so thev allow an extra half-yard or so of material to compensate
for your possible mistakes. You always pay for this extra material when
you use other patterns?but with Pictorial Review patterns you save
your goods.
These 'wo guides, both FREE, are given only with Pictorial Review patterns.
Try one Pictorial
Review Pattern?
just one will start
you buying them
regularly.
the country against another," said
?Mr. Gill.-tte. "It will be truly a cele?
bration of the American people, as
thoy have a right to celebrate, having
I mdertaken and brought to a ?ucces?
! ful end the greatest work ever fash?
ioned by hand of man. I am hire To?
night asking the State of Virginia to
do her share, as she has never yet
felled to do at the other great Amer?
ican exhibitions, to aid In making the
, Panama Exposition at San Franclsc.V
1 the largest and most completj yet af*
tunnted on the American continent.-*
Will Help the South.
The opening of the canal, thought Mr,
"lllletto. will possess d?ep significance
for the South. It will bring th? South
Atlantto ports thousands of miles
nearer the markets of the Orient and'
create now marketB for the South's
great staple?-cotton. Intsrstate com?
merce also will be given a new stimu?
lus.
"I assure you." said Mr. Gillette,
"that Inside of a year after the open?
ing of tha caned, steamers from my
Wt;t;rn home city will be unloading
lumber In Hampton Reals. To-day the
shipment of the West's abundant lum?
ber to this part of the country Is Im?
practicable becaus* of prohibitive
freight rates. And we will take til
the com you can send us In retuA;
It's ths only thing we can't raise In
California."
The Panama Canal, In tho opinion of
California's former Governor, will re?
store America's long lost merchant ma?
rine. It Is llloftlcal to nt'sume. be said,
that after spending hundreds of mil?
lions In building tho canal, and many
moro millions In fortifying It, the
Tnited Statss will stand Idly by and
permit Its greatest benefits to go to
vesrels flying foreign flags.
Aaka for Commission.
.Mr. Ijyrich, who Is traveling wit*
Kx-Governor Gillette In the Interest of
the exposition, asked that Virginia ap-!
point a commission to go to San Fran- I
j Cisco and look ov?r the exhibition site, i
jills speech was tho first of the ovo
jnlng, and dealt with some of the fes-|
tares of the big show. More thanj
I $22,000,000. he said, was already avalt?|
I'ihle for tho orectlon of buildings anSJ
Installation of -exhibits?a large*
amount than was ever raised before
I for a similar enterprise.
A bill has alrandy been Introduced
I In the House by 13. A. Banks, of Nor?
folk, providing for nn appropriation of
STS.000 for the erection of a Virginia
building and tho Installation of an ex?
hibit. A similar bill Is before tho Sen?
at? conmlttec with Senator Montague
as patron. !
STATE HAS LITTLE
MONEY TO SPEND
i
General Appropriation Bill, Due
in Two Weeks, Provides Few
Extensions.
It is not likely that the general ap
proplratlon bill will males its appear?
ance. In either house ot tho Legislature
much earlier than March 1. although
It may beat that date by a day or two
Tho Joint subcommittee has not made
He report to the full committees, al?
though its work of preparing the rough
draft Is nearly completed. Thj sepa?
rate Committees on Finance must go
over the mensure and deal with each
Item In detail, no doubt making some
changes In the work of the subcom?
mittee.
Not a great deal can be done. It Is
understood. In the way of betterments'
'and Improvements at any Stato Institu?
tion of learning or for the care of the
unfortunate. It Is necessary to incr-ase
tho annuities for tho insane, since the
number grows, and thore aro sundry
deficits to bo confronted; but tho re?
port of tho Auditor of Public Accounts
clearly shows that so far as tho fiscal,
year beginning March 1 Is concerned, j
ths. State must keep Its sails trimmed.,
Tltero Is Jus-t Rbout enough money to :
run the government and to pay oif the j
real defllcit which exists In tha treas?
ury.
An obstacle In the way of nn early |
report on the appropriation pill has.i
been the failure of the Legislature to j
' sottlo the convict lAbor proportion, i
I Until some sort of bill was agretd upon \
tho committees say, they could notj
make a start. Hlnce tha matter has |
been settled, thoy aro proceeding with
more certainty.
! The subcommittee of the Pennte Fi?
nance Committee, appointed to look
especially into the situation ns regards
the Xormnl and Industrial School for
Women at Rndford. hap reported to thj
effeert that there should be an appro?
priation of $147.23S for tho next two
years <n buildings and equipment, with
S1S.000 for annuity the first year and
*25.OO0 annuity for tho second year.
The largs white population In the
Southwest, It Is sold, Justiilcs and de
manda this ncfrool. Tho report Is si gm it
by Senators David C. Cummin?fs, Jr.,
chairman of tho subcommittee; J. E.
Wost and V. M. Sowdor.
FIGHT PROPOSED
DISTRICT LINES
People in Sixth Work Hard.
Have Apparently Averted
Joint Caucus.
The fcltuaUou rogaj-dlng the redta
trlctlng of congressional lines becomes
more complicated each day. An effort
mid? to call a Joint Democratic cau
ous of tho Legislature has apparently
failed, because O-talrmaji Cox decllnud
to Isbuo the call unless petition .id to
do so by a majority of Che caucus
members, which It seems has not aa
yet been secured.
SlvrTi District naopl-e are especially
earnest In their right against tho com?
mittee bill, which would take Hali?
fax from them end put It In tho Fifth,
and take Gilos, Bland and Tazewcll
from the Ninth and put them In tf.ie
Sixth. Thuy not only protect against
changing the linos for political rea?
sons and making It look like a "shoe?
string," but alao fear that tho Demo-,
era tic majority would be reduced to
suoh on extent ae to render It doubt?
ful. \
On the other hand, tho argument Is
made that the Slx8h would still be
safely Democratic; that the Fifth
would bo made s.ifs. and that the.
-situation In the Ninth would he mate?
rially helped by the loss of Tazewell.
Underneath It all Is tho fear* on tj>*
part of some friends of Representa?
tive Carter Glass that It Is a blow
aimed at him, as the balance of power
would be thrown rather to the west?
about Roanoke Instead of Lynchburg.
Some Sixth District members say
they can win if all the Houses votes?
Republicans well as Domocrats?
I the ml\".-ity party holding the ba.l
I snco of power, a rather remarkable
situation where It has but nine votes
out of too. They have fcirea a Demo
era tic caucus.
"Lectme on Oteistiam I
TO BE DELIVERED BY
OF BOSTON, MASS.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ Scientist in
Boston, Mass.
At the Academy of Music
Sunday Afternoon, February 18th., at 4 o'clock
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND ADMISSION FREE