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I ANOTHER ENGLISH EXAMPLE.
America, this time the press, is again afforded
r;J:; food for thought by English practice as illustrat
- ed in the methods taken in connection with the
Crippen ease. 1 he London Daily Chronicle hav
ing published an article in which the intimation
was made that the fugitive dentist had poisoned
wife, the Court of Criminal Appeals has sum
the editor and proprietors of the newspaper
appear and show cause why they should not be
:hed for contempt. And it may be definitely
d that, if the report of the publication is eor
to the extent that it indicates that the nowa
ll paper brought in a verdict of guilty pending the
trial before the court, the responsible parties will
»ot onlv be attached but will be severely pun
ished.
Nor should it be inferred from this that the
‘‘Freedom of the Press” i3 any the less in Eng
land than in America. From time immemorial.
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Virginian Follow You.
If you intend leering Richmond for a vacation,
Virginian eent dally to your cottage
hotel. You may then enjoy the mountain
air and at the same time keep in
touch with all that is happening In the
Jty and State, and country—political, social,
business and sporting circles.
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the printed word in England linn been the vehi
cle of absolutely uutraixunelcd opinion. Fearless
newspapers do m*t hesitate, not only to criticise
even the King himself, but even to report the
details of scandals in which Royalty may have
permitted itself to become involved. The action
of the court in this instance is based upon another
principle, which is the constitutional right of the
Accused to a fair and unprejudiced trial. The
courts, in other words, have rights equally with
the press, and the prisoner at the bar rights
equal with either. When the press in the oxer
Oise of its power of opinion undertakes to im
pingo upon the right of the prisoner to have his
cause beard bv unbiased minds, the court takes
affront at the injustice done to one under its care
and protection. And this is quite a different
matter from the attempt frequently made by
courts more sensitive than profound to punish
as for contempt criticism of their own judicial
«ets. In the latter ease the courts, after all, are
no more than public servants, equally with other
persons invested with official position; in the ease
of a prisoner they are the protectors of his
right to the assumption of innocence with
which the law surrounds him.
As American police methods suffered by com
parison with the care exercised lest Crippen be lee
to incriminate himself, so in this instance is re
flection cast, upon American newspaper methods
English justice is noted for its speed, its certain
itr, and its fairness. The "Fredum of the Press'
could not hope to be better, and should not irv
to be. Yet it needs only that a man fall undei
grave suspicion for American papers to at one<
try the cause and convict the prisoner, therein
placing themselves morally, if not technically
in contempt of the courts and aiding in that ven
miscarriage and delay of justice at which, be
tween times, they so vehemently protest.
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““ INSURGENT LIMITATIONS.
Quotating Harper* Weekly 10 the effect that
it is impossible for men of the Aldrieh-Cannori
typy and of the La Follette-Bristow type to re
main politically within the same tent, the Nor
folk .Landmark opines that it is true that, the
Insurgents have ‘'burned their bridges bellinc
them/’ and that one or the other of the Republi
can factors must speedily obtain control. Neith
er, it thinks, could follow the other’s leadership
Assuming that this is a correct statement of fix’
©ase, it speculates as follows:
“Taking it for granted that the next
Democratic national platform will be a
progressive one, proclaiming the inter
ests of the people and of the average
citizen rather than the millionaires,
what will happen if the ‘standpatters'
or ‘Old Guard’ of the Republican par
ty saddle it with a special-interest.
, * platform or show themselves to bo in
such control of the machinery that the
country cannot trust the Republican
party to carry out ‘progressive’ prom
ises made to get votes?
“Will not the Insurgents in that case
either have to support the Democratic
ticket, if it is a good one,—as the inde
pendent Republicans supported Mr.
Cleveland in 1884 and 1892,—or play
'into the hands of the Old Guard by at
tempting a third party movement that
has no ekapee of any constructive suc
cess?”
We think that the Landmark’s questions as
cwhat the Insurgents would do in case they met
’ it Within their own party is well answered
several instances during the recent session oi
when, with a majority through Dem
fusion ready to their hands, they never
followed calmly enough the “standpat’
a,-.
clement, tthieh in season and out they moat con
sistently denounced. It must not be forgotten
that the Bristows and La Follettes are Repub
licans first and Insurgents afterwards. While
there is no doubt that their jaws are dripping
in anticipation of controlling the organization,
they would be in defeat for the organization. It
is exactly because Democrats have not this quality
of faithfulness in the inidst of difference that the
Republicans have been so uniformly successful.
Bright as Democratic prospects now appear to
be. we see more danger in Insurgency to the j
Democrats than to the Republicans, through the
fear that in the West the possible Democratic
victory this fall may be lost by reason of Demo
crats who, instead of profiting by the fight among
their enemies, will undertake to join the Insur
gents on the strength of their protestations.
If there is ever to l>e any real reform of the
tariff; if a halt is ever to be called in the pro
gram of centralization; if there is ever to come a
time when the aim of parties is to again be to
legislate within the law and in conformity with
the constitution, instead of to legislate despite
the constitution and to act in defiance of the
law. it is tho Democracy which must be charged
with bringing these reforms to pass. The Insur
gents. so far as these vital needs are concerned,
differ as greatly from the Democrats ns the
Stand-patters otherwise differ from them.
A CHICAGO VIEW OF THE SOUTH.
“Judicious Advertising”, published at Chicago,
lives up its name. Its purpose, we take it, is to
direct the attention of the Northern and West
ern manufacturer and capitalist to tho fields most
fertile of profit. At least, in tho July issue
* which we have at hand, that is the effect from
I which the purpose is easily deduced. In a fore
i word by the editor, entitled “Awaken to a New
| South”, wo find in black letters a number of
'paragraphs of which characteristic samples are:
“You northern manufacturers, you
advertisers—do you realize the mag
nificent field 1 hat. the South of to-day
presents ?
“.The industrial regeneration of the
Smith I* nr-iA-s to the world. It is a bit?
thing after years of adversity.
'‘You advertisers whose mental grasp
of Southern Business conditions is still
hitched to a business picture two de
cades old—you have not kept the pace
the South has set in its marvelous re
generation.
“A few Northern manufacturers al
ready have blazed a business trail
through the new South—their cam
paigns have won and these business
scouts Itccken the rest of you into a
new, virgin field.
“Yoti advertisers, always ambitious
to expand, have a now a great new
country into which to expand your
forces-amid 28,000,000 people. The
true principle of Southern hospitality
breeds admiration for meritable art
icles—that’s why Southern campaigns
win under proper coaching."
Following which, the magizine devotes a. num
ber of pages to a comprehensive and detailec
write-up of Southern conditions in represent#
tive communities, in which facts are minglec
with appreciative study in au almost bewildering
story of success and progress. What is said o:
Richmond is at once so concise and inclusive tbu
we make room for it in greater part:
“The purchasing power of Richmond
is very large because so many Rich
mond’s citizens are turning their time
into money. How popular this occupa
tion is may he gathered from the fact
that Richmond has 1,753 manufactur
ing plant#, employing 31,388 hands,
and selling annually eighty-five and a
half million dollars’ worth of products.
It has one of the largest, purchasing
powers of cities of its size in the South.
Mete dollar swapping is no test of the
real vital strength of a community,
ana vur, nicnmona s uank clearings ior
1901) were $3(11,000,000, an increase of
21 per cent over 1908. These clear
ings represent business done in Rich
mond alone and are not the aggregate of
the clearings of smaller outlying cities.
The 31,388 hands who were employed
in Richmond in 1909 piled up the bank
deposits in that, town by over $3,000,
000. The bank deposits for 1909 reach
ed a total of $38,243,000.
‘‘Now these figures are best under
stood when we compare them with the
figures of ten years ago. In the last
ten years the number of manufactur
ing plants in Richmond has increased
41 per cent. The number of hands
employed, 48 per cent. The amount
of capital employed, 97 per cent, and
the annual sales have increased $44,
000,000, or 106 per cent. Bank clear
ings have increased nearly $200,000,
000, which is 207 per cent. Fost-offiee
receipts have increased nearly $400,
000, the figures for 1009 being $831,
205, which means the post-office has
grown 159 per cent.
“Best of all, Richmond is not a one
industry town. Tt has the largest wood
working establishment in the world,
the only locomotive works in the South.
In tobacco Richmond employs 8,118
hands. Many of these are women and
girls in the cigarette departments, who
earn large wages. In all walks of life
and for all classes of labor Richmond
offers a steady employment at satis
factory wages. And the prosperity of
the city has developed In' and along
with the prosperity of its citizens of
all sorts.”
Applying these facts, the writer finds in Rich
mond a “distinct character”, in which ‘kind
liness and liberality” are marked. He finds it
a place in which homes are easily established,
because “it is above all else a city of homes and
homo lovers. The tenement and the slum are
unknown in Richmond. Class antipathies do
not, exist. And the strength and success of the
city in a large measure depend upon the eo-op
eration that exists between all classes, a co-op
eration which has developed the manufacturers
and the trade of this community and which pre
sages an even greater and more desirable growth
for the future.”
These be, it is true, kind words. 1 he best,
of it. is that they hold nothing of exaggeration.
They %re the professional report of a business
man who has explored the South for the purpose
of interesting Northern and Western people and
capital in this section. Hence, they are mani
festly accurate without prejudice for or against
They stand as the revelation of a condition. Ihe
things that the forthcoming census will abundant
ly point to the student of commercial economies
have been here anticipated in a practical vein for j
the practical benefit of business men.
Without- a doubt, “Judicious Advertising
known* it* business and live? up to its name.
ART AND PRACTICE,
j Colonel Roosevelt continue? to 6how that he is
in a very real sense possessed of the artistic
! temperament. A sure enough artist recently de
j dared that “Art is a lie”, meaning thereby that
lit was a thing apart, from ihe individual by
i whose eye, brain or hand it found expression.
Jn saying that the Colonel continues to prove
himself an artist, we have no intention of sug
gesting that he ought to be forced into involuntary
association with the membership of his own
Ananias Club. On the contrary, we grant him
! the virtue of that same peculiar sort of subcon
scious veracity which forces an utterly unscrup
| ulons artist occasionally to declare himself in
j visions of perfect truth. The Colonel yields the
1 palm to no man in knowledge of -what it is right
\ for other men to do. If he himself goes wrong,
i bis eternal verities remain. He has simply, for
i the nonce, decended from his art to the ground of
| human weakness. For that reason is he, then,
any less tho God ?
Speaking from the same platform with Book
er T. Washington at a meeting of the Negro
Business Men's League the Colonel conceded that
the ‘“white man of the South is the vital man
to have sympathy with the negro. When your
neighbor likes and respects you, you have won
your battle. The white man of the North’’, he
admitted, “does his worst work in interfering
j between the t wo peoples of tho South, and his best
work when he improves their relations”. Again:
j “every down-at-tbe-heel. ramshackle negro cabin
is not only bad for the people who live in it. but
I is a reflection on the race”. The Colonel told
his auditors that he believed in the league: “As
II wrote live years ago, when 1 was President, I
. i believe in it because it is out of politics”.
Let us admit at once the obvious truth of these
propositions—and then let us remember that
the immediate result of them upon the convention
, was that a negro Bishop arose to pledge the un
: 1 divided support, of the race for any political pro
I motion which the speaker might desire of the
people. And in the light of these words of wis
jdom. if is perhaps not amiss to recall that, "when
II was President”, “1” also did my apparent ut
termost to combat just this particular doctrine
'of business regeneration and respectable labor
outside of politics that "]” then, as now, solemn
ly counselled. Indeed, it would be sad were
it possible to say to what extent negroes were
kept in idleness, how many of them waited like
political Micawbers for the lightning of office
to strike from Washington to illuminate their
ease.
It is perhaps too much to expect that the ne
groes generally will be able to achieve the difficult
c_i _—_l_
the name time disapproving of what he does. It
is easy to say, “Do as I tell you to do, not os l
do’’, but it. is hard to separate doctrine from ex
ample. That the Negro Business Men’s League
remembered better than they listened is shown
I by the instant political appreciation with which
[they rewarded a purely non-political talk for
racial uplift.
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MAYOR’S SUICIDE NOT PROVED.
At the time it was announced that the detec
tive theory was that Mayor Bousman's death
i was caused by his attempt to oommit suicide
while giving his death the appearance of assas
sination, The Tirgmx-an expressed its doubt of
a solution which involved the simple device of
charging the crime to the victim. This is a not
unnsual resource of baffled detectives. In this
instance, however, the cruel charge seems to have
'been given almost universal credence. We are
therefore glad to see in the Roanoke Times a
communication from the acting Mayor of Ridge
way, in which he states that the reports as to the
conclusions of the detective have been exaggerat
ed, and that his conclusions have not been of
ficially or otherwise accepted in Mayor Bous
inan’s home. He says, indeed, that the report of
detective Funk was not laid before the council
of tho town of Ridgeway until August 15 and
was not then officially accepted as being correct.
“In fact”, says Mayor Griggs of the report, “it
did not contain any conclusion of the detective
at all, but simply gave a list of circumstances
that tended to the theory that Mayor Bousman
might have been the author of his own destruc
tion, but admitted that there were missing links
in tha chain of circumstances that fall short of
proving this theory as conclusive, and in fact
tome members of the town council” and a Targe
auml>er of our citizens do not believe this theory
»t. all. And there are a great many circum
stances that strongly refute it and I will thank
roti to give space in The Times to this letter, that
his erroneous idea may be corrected."
When a man is seen lying peacefully upon the
rrass in his front yard, and is next seen, after a
erritic explosion, lying maimed unto death with
wth legs blown away, it ought to require some
hing more than a plausible chain of deductions to
found against him the charge, much less the rind
ing of suicide. Detectives arc al ltoo ready, when
hev do not. succeed in putting hand on the crim
inal, to declare that there has been no crime, or
that it has been committed by a man whose lips !
have been stopped by death.
The Richmond boy who is trying to stage a
play with local color would do well to secure a j
copy of Dugger’s “Balsam Groves of Grand- ;
father Mountain”. By applying such ruses
as this famous author employs to Richmond ho- j
tels and enterprises, the means for production
would he legitimately forthcoming in advertising j
returns. “The masticating department of the
Yarborough House”, for instance.
The King and Queen of Italy afford a striking
contrast to the. King of Spain and his consort.
In Italy, disaster finds the rulers on the spot ‘
ready to face the common danger; in Spain the
threat of trouble empties the palace across the j
border. Perhaps that, is one rcasop why the
threat of trouble is so much more frequent in
Spain than Italy.
The fact, that, the Americans have bought
Ryan need not. attract renewed attention to
Thomas Fortune. In the later case, at least, to a
considerable extent, the purchase and salt* is by :
opposite vendor and vendees.
Stuart having opened hi* campaign in the j
Ninth District, it will not. be long before there
will be the sound of something thaT will fall
“with a dull thud’'.
The disclosures of the amount of the Mc
Murray fees must . make Elibu Itoot and the
other corporation lawyers green-eyed. Did ever
stress of business keep so many good men out of
a fertile field ?
Nebraska Democrats have elected, after all. to
choose a Cowboy candidate for Governor. This j
i? at least one species of the wild and wooly !
which cannot be laid to the door of William
Jennings Bryan.
Disclosures of graft, in the Illinois Central in
dicate that there are other reasons beside in
1 creased wages and lower rates for the decrease
! in net earnings despite an increase in gross.
A Chicago doctor is attempting to compel
Knox by mandamus to produce records. He
had as well attempt to pick the lock on the vaults
of the Treasury.
The ex-President’s attitude toward the Pres-;
ident seems to lie that he will play with him no
longer unless he be permitted to dictate his other
play-fellows.
President Taft’s visit to his ancestral shrines'
indicates' that in the moment of desertion by all j
his political friends he is having recourse to the
call of the blood.
President Taft named the latest of the name
“RobertIt, would be interesting to know his
latest name for “Teddy”.
Japan will tako the Empire of Korea. It
has taken Japan quite a time to claim posses
sion of that which she already had.
There have linen so many ultimatums fired
! at Beverly recently that Mr. Taft has possibly be
! come callous in the light, of the alternatives. 1
i But isn’t Griscorn the busy little man ?
THE PEOPLES FORUM
Hm the Little Woman Right?
Editor of The Virginian.
Sir,—Almost daily the papers of Richmond publish
acoounts of scenes enacted In the police court which
appeal with power to hearts that are not void of
feeling nor Insensible to an evident injustice which
legally exists Ih our State. 1 refer to those scenes
wherein the chief actors are the drunkard husband
on the one side and the poor, neglected wife and chil
dren on the other. The better to illustrate what I
mean I would call attention to a scene reported from
police court in another city.
A man was before the court, charged with drunken
i ness. The Justloe said: “What: Again? Thirty days”
1 A little pale-faced woman, with a child In her arms
j stood by and looked appealingly at the judge He
I satd to her: "I am sorry madam, but I’ll have to lock
I him up." Then, the little woman tearfully replied
“Yes. I see, but. Judge, wouldn't It be better to lock
' up the saloon and give my husband a chance to work
and give us proper support?'
Fall's Church, Va._ 1|P. J. RICHARDSON
Rad Pavla* Between Car Tracks.
Editor of The Richmond Virginian.
Sir,—The city paved the south side of Broad Btfe-t
from Harris!n to Allison Streets, some few years ago.
It was the duty, under the City Ordinance, for the
Street Car Company to pave between their tracks along
the same route.
This matter was taken up with City Attorney Pol
lard and he gave his assurance that the Street Car
Company would do thla paving two years or more
ago. It has not been done and there are places where
a loaded team cannot cross the car tracks, so wretched
Is the street between the tracks.
All that Is necessary Is for the city to compel the
Street Car Company to do this work.
as you seem to be taking an Interest tn tlie rltv
will you kindly publish this card? SUFFERER. ■ '
No Ice for Drug Stores on Sunday.
T^at Sunday the Iceman were forbidden by the town
officials to deliver the Ice to the drug stores In Thom
asvllle. The reeeult was that thirsty ungeherates were'
served with lukewarm drinks that day. This may he
an lndlreot way of enforcing Sabbath observance, but
It strike* us that the way to do that la to paa* Sunday
law* and enforc* them. Don’t beat the devil around
the »turns.—Charifuud Children.
No Mistake After All
By GERALD PRIME.
(Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press.)
Three months after she had promised to marry ,
Dick Hathaway, Molly Abernathy was convinced that
<hc had made a mistake. In a little less than that
time It was made clear to Dick Hathaway that it
would be criminal on his part to marry Molly Aber
nathy.
And this was not at all because Molly had become
less attractive or Dick less than the perfectly upright
fellow he always had been. After an almost ynln
terrupted companionship of considerably longer than
the period of their engagement, each was as willing
is ever to bear testimony to the superlatively good
■ utilities of the other and would have been highly
indignant over any suggestion to the contrary. Molly
ttlll regarded Dick as ‘the dearest fellow In the
world,” and Dick had no desire to recall his estimate
j( Molly as “the sweetset girl on the footstool." Noth
ing whatever had occurred to convict either of these
thoroughly conscientious young persons of Inconstancy
but—
The “but” in the case of Molly Abernathy was a
young man of singularly unattractive personal equip
ment and a name that offered no recompense for his
lack of good looks As a life burden H. Darlington
Hopper was serious enough, but it would have been
crushing with the Initial H expanded to Its full.
Hooker. Clearly there was no fault to be found
with the victim of such a baptismal combination
because he had contracted It Into decent eufhonlous
ness. >
In point of fact, ihere was no fault to be found
with H. Karlington Hopper on any account He was
» right-minded n young man as ever hung out his
shingle as a lawyer, and he had scarcely captured
Ills first client before practically all of the very
nicest girls In town were Interested In him. The
speed with which he became a social favorite In
Eureka was phenomenal. He was so genls^ so alive
to the expectations of others, so unfailing in hi*
effort* to establish a frank understanding with every
(■•>dy. that h- who recognition immediately as an A
•\'o 1 fellow among the men and—the women.
Ignoring his plainness of face and awkwardness
of figure and movement, the Eureka young women
of all ages hud become greatly interested In the
sayings and, even more especially, In the doings of
H Earllng'on Hopper. And that, of course. Included
Molly Abernathy, who for some reason unrevealed
to her was led by this Interest to doubt the co-opera
tion of heaven in hfr choice of Dick as a life com
panston.
By a most amazing coincidence there was also a
“but” In the rase of Dick Hathway. A certain
vyvung woman named Helen \Vart> had come to
town to visit her uncle, the rector of Ft. Jarlaths.
Before she had been at the rertorv a fortnight all
th<> young men In the parish. and a hoat of those
"ho were outside of It, woke up to the fact that
she was an unusually attractive young person, and
Dick was one of the young men of the parish. He
did not precisely understand how ft was. but when
ever he stood in the presence of Helen Ware he
found himself wishing—well—he found himself
wishing.
Both Dick and Molly were members of the mixed
choir at 8t. Jarlath's. Iiick sang tenor when he did
not forget and reiapae into baritone, and Molly was
possessed of an excellent contralto voice, but she
was an indifferent reader. That was why it was
necessary for H. Earlington Hopper, who had been
made choirmaster on account of ht» musical ability,
to coach Molly privately whenever *n alto solo »t»
to he sung Hopper believed that he had discovered
great possibilities in Molly's voice, and after a whila
aJto solos were frequent at St. Jarlath’s.
About that Um* the organnat succumbed to tbs
Infirmltes of old age, and Miss Ware consented to
substitute temporarily. Hhe did not profess to be
mistress of the noble instrument, but she agreed that
if some one wot-id come to her assistance—sit beside
her on thabenoh at rehearsals, puli stops and turn
music—she would do her very best. Every man in
the choir volunteered in the same breath It actually
frightened Molly. Abernathy to discover how Uttia
it diaturbed her to have Dick named as the preferred
one.
For more than two years Dick had walked home
with Molly after choir practice, but the time cam#
when neither of them felt aggrieved over the willing
ness of the other to abandon the habit. The inter
ruption came about so n&turaliv. Miss Ware was re
sponsible for the deed. One evening after an un
usual tug at a refractory anthem, which persisted In
going wrong after every effort had been made to
Induce it to do otherwise, the organist requested the
tenor to rsmatn for a few minutes after rehearsal
In order to perfect himself In his part.
Instead of waiting until Dick should prove himself
either the victor or vanquished, Molly was possessed
of a sudden whim to start off alone, only to be In
tercepted at the door of the parish house by the
i holt-master, who had returned in search of a paper
he had mislaid.
“If you will give me one minute. Miss Abernathy,’*
he said. "X will walk home with you—provided, of
course, you will permit me."
Without pausing to receive her consent, he disap
peared Into the building, reappearing in rather lees
than the specified time with the recovered paper
"X notified Hathaway of my intention,'1 he laughed
as they moved off. _ _ _
"TT "WaWf aT~ aTT necessary." she declared em
phatically.
“He didn't hear me. X couldn't attract his atten
tion.''
Was he singing?’’9he knew he wasn't but she
wanted to hear the answer.
“He hadn't begun. He was seated on the bench,
his back toward me, and Miss Ware was talking earn
estly—giving instruction, probably.”
"Probably,” she said, with an air of indifference
that seemed genuine to him, lawyer though he was.
After Dick had sung over the baffling two measures
or so at least a dozen times and had at last attained
perfection Miss Ware dlemlssed him with a parting
Injunction not to forget that he was a tenor.
"And 1 hope I haven’t offended Miss Abernathy by
depriving her of your company—-or you, either,” the
added, without looking at him.
"So need to worry on my account," Dick assured
her. "As for Miss Abernathy—
"I suppose Mr. Hopper availed himself of the op
portunity to seat her home safely. Ha seems to b#
greatly taken with—with her voice,” she said.
They were at the door of the pariah room that
opened Into the rectory. The sexton, who was wait
ing to put out the lights, stood grumbling audibly.
"Wouldn't it be Jolly if those two—" Dick began
anti than
“No—It wouldn't!” she returned so promptly and no
decidedly that he wondered at It. Before he could
a.«k her why not she had bidden him a haaty good
night and passed within.
Next evening when Dick put in hie customary' ap
pearance at the Abernathy house he waa told by tha
maid who admitted him that Molly had gone over to
the rectory. He waa both ashamed and relieved—
humiliated by his treachery toward the girl who had
promised him what he asked and relieved to And
that the dreaded confeeeion might atilt bo poatponed.
It so happened that Dick waa spared the pain of
that confession. An affatr that came to a culmina
tion on the very next night—an epleode that stirred
the social fabric of Eureka to its foundation—brought
Dick and Molly together again, this time secure in
the belief that their only mistake had been to doubt,
oven for a single moment, the gentleneae of their at
tachment.
This Anal state of affairs waa made poaelble by the
elopement and marriage of H. Earllngton Hopper
and Helen Ware. They had been lovers long before
coming to Eureka, but the young woman's friends
had not taken kindly to the man of her choice. She.
however, knew of her own mind and was convinced
that she was making no mistake.
Farmer Not Use Villain.
The man who started the hue and cry against thg
farmers, charging them with being responsible for
the high cost of living, must have had either a most
vivid and lurid imagination, or like the thief who cried
“stop thief” to divert attention from himself, were
seeking to turn the public mind from themselves. One
has but to scan the local market quotations. In any
community, and then compare these with the prices
he pays for the same commodities, to be Impressed
with the ridiculousness of the charge. In Fredericks
burg at this time the farmers are being offered cer
tain prices for their butter, eggs, beef on the hoof,
etc.; they must take these prtoes or carry their pro
duce home, as they cannot or do not fix prices them
selves. On the other hand, tha consumer. If he buys
from the midteman, must pay anywhere from >6 per
cent, to *00 per cent, advance for jany or all of these
necessities, even In Fredericksburg, where conditions
are far better than In most places. We do not know
that even at these prices the middlemen are mailing
Inordinate proAts, as It costs them so much to handle
merchandise, but we want to point out tha fact that
the farmers are not responsibly for tha high price#
.which tu, AMtft