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I •AC'MjMaM IIltAUPT.
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OriiOOK AND POSSIBILITY.
Mm rifente still unbroken at Oyster Uay. well
Since Tuesday "Hlue feint", Dr. Rymati
tt himself contributes an editorial upon the
ion to the result of which ire contributing
so largely contributed.
;»’tt was to have been ex pec. ted tha; a politician
Apart as ;he good Doctor would view results
a large and thougutful manner, that he
lid apply to tne i viuHit ^.lets the rule of a
mi evident philosophy, and that under tne
lie of fits optimistic tom b the sunlight ot
rjr would be forced to break through the
eloucis of defeat. All thin and more the
Doctor ae«x>mpli»ties in the vehicle ol
well turned and packed with he thought
is not reauiiy analyzed ns divined. The
Skives, her declares, have been successful
defeat, colonel Roosevelt, made the "jack
era bugaboo of imagined monarchical Kill -
l” did not, he thinks, cut any figure in
result; although i! was a campaign which
I many votei s appeared to l'>- a contest rather
persons than between principle*—an
lion whic h a too personal campaign tenu
increase'', the resul; was nevertheless de
|«f personality; .Mr Roosevelt, called to save
situation, fail'd on the surface but
far as he '‘purified ' thought and condi
on the whole, the incident ol a Demo
It triumphant. The man through death
to life. In his bird's-eye view of the sit
Dr. Abbott constitutes himaeit the man
tntne ou the heels of the burial a mistaken
to a political resurrection.
( the whole the Editor of the Outlook stands
friend and his bargain. He points out
fletorj- of the Insurgents in the West as a
tor Roosevelt in the East. Even lteino
majorities art a sort of left-handed on
B«mt of the New Nationalism. Showing
fcsMHBOcraUc gains were largest where He
, speak, the writer forgets that Insurgency
p^HMwessful everywhere except In the one
where He made His most strenuous tain
tor the re-election of Beveridge With a
T remarkable loyalty the distinguished edl
, having declared that Roosevelt was in no
an issue, declares the result to have been
for the issue which he represents
all respect for Hr. Abbott, it would seent
; this Is the time when the contributing edi
i; Should himself contribute. It -is said that
elves a salary of flQO.Odn a year. Be
I Of a small reverse which even his chief ad
Is s victory, is it possible that so highly
sn author is "soldiering'' on the job. Do
. thoughts still boil and burn too hot for ut
Or is it just possible that under tin
circumstances Colonel Roosevelt limit
time a vacuum where his vocabulary
be? If that be the explanation, then* has
i tragedy connected with the election the
i of which art scarcely calculable. Words
- dollar a throw $inn,mop a year in gros
to be light!) dissipated. I!' r shall de
feat in his zeal for the * a use Colonel
Bit has exhausted his verbal magazines,
will be a crushing one. Whatever om*
| think of tiie Outlook s bargain, su. ii an
; should bring a deep and abiding sympathy
who hitherto—in whatever exigency
. ffcrted career—has never been at a loss for
or a place to market it.
bKY WKA 1*1 \ (•.
lew years ago the inquiring stranger in
gkston would !»• directed to his destination
ins of the "skyscraper'. '<5o up three
i to the skyscraper", ran the formula, "then
two blocks from the skyscraper, then
.back a half a block toward the skyscraper,
re you arc Just -watch the skyscraper,
can't miss it."
however, was In the old days The
er itself required a lowering empyrean
Me Its sixth story to t>< rape off the blue.
above the low-lying city, it wits a moil
lor miles on miles around of the modern
In an old community. You couldn't
gpt. in fact. One bumped into it at evert
It dominated the life of the people, it
their idiom and directed their thought.
0«r« aspiring times with but « single
Now, it apjieai* that till is changed,
must be punctured iu a dozen different
Competition and emulation in the build
in banks, and office buildings pile
Oaw with storied bits of architecture,
editorially of President Taft's recent
News and Courier exclaims:
tjr of Aspasia charmed her judges lie
admiration. Yesterday President Taft
I’-flW top of Charleston's latest skyscraper,
to tile extreme corner of the build
i moment he, stood there, his eyes fast
i glorious sight before him, unable to
mmNh spontaneously there broke
ttw wcIsolation: “My. what s mag
Is eyes again took In the
p, the deep' Cooper, the con
historic Sumter In the fore,
beyond, and again ho
magnificent harbor!” Then
and out of the bar
bs sailed
.tost
J riot yet full flood. Into the great ocean lieyond
on Iiis way to Fanama
Well might President Taft have Haiti "My!"
i Hut did he mean to say it? Was it not rather
his ttmjwrary habit of exclamation born
‘from tin- iteration of clection returns? "My
stakes!", lie lmi.-t have been Haying, and 'Sake*
alive!” ".My! My!" We doubt if even. Aunt Delia
was more r.v.danuc.or. when tin- tramp came
along and, threa;ening a bomb, stole one ol
Will's ides.
However. Charles!on fas > the exelaination to
itself, t* elf exclamatory \s for its we marvel
at the number of skyscrapers of_whleh this high
su;i)K>rt of a bulky President is the "latest", it
must be staunch and strong and ribbed with steel
Heretofore we had thought from Items such as
"Another side of the -kyscrap'-r is completed"
that til* ielu)pet it ion in altitude was a duel.
Now we *<*•• that, all quietly and unbeknowinst.
Charleston has been building-up, and up. and up
In the multiplicity of its peaks of masonry. Its
citizens, however, will hate to learn 10 give di
rret ions by streets Instead of by buildings.
ri i vrtvc t \i,i i >.
Following the result of tie* election, stocks
declined seriously on the New Cork exchange
For week* before November *. ex President Uowo
vf It had been proclaiming to tae country at large
the interest of Wail Street in Ills defeat. Nor,
while the "allium with Tammany was prob
able a figment of a brain over ready for discov
ery, can it be denied that. Wall Street thrilled
with pleasure at the going down of the Colo
nel It had scores to • .tie and a tomahawk
In its hand. Vet, when revenge was complete,
yhen what it professed to tear was averted,
stocks declined radically. The market, that
ought to have been so strong, was palpably
weak Judged by the ticktr the results of
Ttnsday constituted a financial n verse.
Had Roosevelt and the Republican ti• U• t gen
erally been successful, the decline would have
possibly been sharper than it has been. The
Street, had been living on its hopes As the
star of Roosevelt declined, purchases took an
upward swing By the time the hopes for the
present, were fully realised, they had hen din
counted up to the throat latch. I he good news
was out". Ill the rush to "cash in" on profit*
tenders exceeded offers. So it. was that the j
country Inis had tin spectacle of Wall Street i
securities suffering in value because of the fail
ing in of the contingency which was to he their
strength. The science of stock gambling being
the science of knowing it first, the actual lias
little effect except occasionally to can*" a revs rfwt
of the course of prices brought about by its pos
sibilities. How many thousands of the deluded
ones, cautiously waiting for chances to become
facts, have gone "logitally'’ into the market
only to see the market itself apparently stultify
everything for which it had hoped!
Typical of stock market conditions as this
ih-tance is, it ought to give to the country’ a
lesion in sanity in calculating the industrial mid
commercial importance of political campaigns.
Only he fore they resolve themselves do the for
tunes of tliis politician and that one have rim -
ferial effect on pi icet or on business. To Wall
Street life eleetiou which So excited it is mat
ter already of almost ancient history. Indus
triously it is hunting for new potentialities. Al
ready it is seeing in the rainbow of its hopes
the pah- color of its fears. Already ii wages
ininiii warfare over rumors impossible of veri
fication. lake tin seismograph, it trembles
mightily with earthquakes far hidden in the
sens of probabilities. To the life -the real life-—
of tninl.ne.-8 around it its ttuctiialinns pear no
material relation. The world wags on, and the
stock exchange wags with it. according to its
own whims and its own specious philosophy.
Relieved of the excitement of the great hi-etmial
game, the na n of business and commerce ana
manufacturing everywhere are again taking up
tlie routine of effort. What may or may not
happen when, more than a year after the event,
the new Congress shall convene is now of the
most utter triviality- The hook is closed. 1 he
page tli il thrilled the country lias been turned 1
down and forgotten. I.ike all those chapters in
the individual life lhat In the reading belli thy
limit of tragedy, the election always pales in
the eye of the, future into the gray mist of an
ail hut forgotten crisis, it is only with dis
tance and perspective that, in the dwindling in
s!guilicanee of thing.-; that oru e loomed so large,
we ran hope to catch tie rekffivi dimension ot
their importance.
i.ifi: wo W/\<.i:s.
One Leonard f’. Ayres, of New York, a mem
her of the commission on teachers’ salaries, is
the latest gentleman to break into print upon
the ever interesting questiou of the minimum
-alary upon'which an individual of a particular
cliiss can support life under particular condi
tions.
"To live on $*>00 a year " said Mr. Ayres, "a
woman must get her own breakfast, pay Bftecn
cents for luncheon and no more than twenty
five -cents for dinner. Her room rent must, not!
exceed $1 a week, fclven so, in case of Illness and
in the summer vacations she must depend on
her home. She also will have to get clothing
from home.'' j
Provided she has that pleeo of good fortune
which has provided as a synonym for luxury the
phrase "getting money from home", Mr. Ayres
seems to have it all nicely figured out for tho
industrious schoolmarin of the Metropolis—pro
vided she retains her health. .So equipped, she
may live? Hie gay life of the city and support her
self by her labors tor the children of the melting
pot. No doubt all that IMr. Ayres aays U true, j
.but wo tail Is aoato way. fo follow him to bill
“. ' "Ifilsit
conclusion to the effect that. "Kor a womaa t
live absolutely independently she must earn a
least $750 a year. That is the reason that th:
committee has recommended an inonn.se c
teachers' salarie: to that amount during the lire
three years of Ml v k in Now York.
It with six hundred a year a woman rnus
practice the* economies suggested, and then rel
on home for her hats, clothes, and shoes, v ■ i>:
to see wherein the increase of $150 a year t
sufficient for the deficiency. The margin of hi
ing having been so closely established at ‘M
the woman with $75o would inevitable f to
away a considerable portion, if not all, el ih
excess upon increases in the wist of her !i»
she might even waste valuable money on th
theatre and on concerts. She would be incline
•to scatter nickels to the car companies to a:
astounding total In the end—always provide
-lie had it to call upon -the bucket would nth
go to the well of the home supplies.
Certain as it is that teachers, above all ot'.ort
ought to be paid more nearly a fair wag 1 to
the labor they perform, figures in such a i as
are worse than useless. There is no men i ■ o
the “cost, of living". .No man can say how cue
money is required for another person to live
No man, indeed, can hope to know how much
or how little, lie himself could live on at a pinch
When girl strikers exhibit budgets showery ri
spcHnble existence on amounts ranging any
where from $250 to $500 per annum, includini
almost invariably dues for elub ntembeiship
.•■.ml tickets for the theatre, it Is seen how won
del ful a thing is fact in the light of its < ppcsit
theory.
The truth of the matter probably is that, wit]
an all prevailing ambition lo get the ma.-t on
(if life in the living, ilie average man, or woman
up to the point of earning capacity where th
surplus is inevitable, spends what, lie make;
and is convinced that he could not live on l* s
Xot to live on less when the necessity is not up
patent is. of course, an evidence of a la k o
thrift Hut the presence of t h ri ft run to ail a)
too frequently means, ,i barrenness of existence
The question with school teachers and other un
derpntd people, so far as the public obligation i;
concerned, ought to he, not how much they re
quire for existence, hut how good-an existenc
they deserve at the hands of the public.
STATIC \ll» TO Till: I>1» XK.YKH.
In advocating tin.* establishment by tin- ><niti
of a separate hospital for inebriates, Su;»-riu
l elide tit King of the Southwestern Hosjiii.il t'oi
tile insane takes advanced but logical g.otinu
fin drunkard is « pathological, as wen as >
moral, iiuestion. He survives to society as ;
burden inherited from a long history of ol.
seuio but powerful influences. While the disease
ol alcoholism may or may not be in itself a mat
ii i of inheritance, it is certain that u is tie
tragic bequest of old conditions. Indirectly, a
hast, it spells in the weakened nerves and physi
oil degeneracy of its victims the "sins of tie
fathers.” A htate that construes the freedom o
the individual to include the right ol jnaethul
iy unrest rleted marriage cannot escape with re a
son the resulting obligation to this class of un
fortu nates.
No reform of,thought is more hopeful thai
the eliangitig atliltrde, of society toward tin
drunkard. Police court methods, necessary a
they may be, are the brutal makeshifts of at
ignorant conception of what drunkentn -s reull.
means. It is no more logical to give if,- drutik
aid a jail senleuce than it is to put an epilepth
itrto a otraighl jacket. Epileptics tv. «o treat
id, not so very long ago. The proposition to re
form the public treatment of drunkards, for „il
its novelty, is founded upon the same Itumam
pi iuciple.
Theie is one cure, or hope of cute, j0r thi
inebriate. As with the consumptive, tm ntus
have ample nourishment. In addition he nius
have jdiysii'ai labor, regular and sustained. Hh
nerve power must be liuift up b\ degrees, iii;
will strengthened bv practice, his moral char
acter slowly developed out of healtliiul routine
Some while ago wo liad occasion ,i note tin
movement in great cities for the establishment
of laims for the drunkards of the police, court
The experiment lias been tried in viral in
stances with marked success. In several South
mn cities, notably Columbia. S. and Raleigh
X. t\, the practice has bet n followed of sentenc
lug -uoh characters to a "liquor cure". While
it. is not to be hoped that this attcinfit so substl
nite the temporary effect of a drug for the perma
nent upbuilding of a life is to be anything except
moderately successful, the fact of tin- attempt
shows u wholesome spirit. l)r. Kings recom
mendation, which regards the subject more
broadly and deeply, holds forth a saner and more
comprehensive treataioct, apt only for the per
sistent petty criminal, but for that large class of
unfortunates which the State now permits to re
main dependent on their families and H drag
upon society, when it might, at least, deal with
them with a measure of hope for their redemp
tion to usefulness.
The officers of the Window Glass Trust who
pleaded nolo contendere to an Indictment charg
ing violation of the Sherman anti-trust act no
doubt realized that people living in glass houses
cannot afford to throw atones.
Uncle Henry Gassoway Davis concludes thnt*
while he may be too old to marry, he is still
young enough to hold down a seat in the United
Sates Senate. For what, pray, is he named
Gassoway?
fount Tolstoy has mysteriously disappeared,
.-..i-- *w*‘ K“ “"i ■—*w» »“,nnce of his life
>d*d b«
> i will scarcely In- indicted for wife desertion, how
t ever.
I_
1 lie fore becoming too much excited over tin
burning of the American flag iu Mexico, it shonlt
be remembered that the indignity is offered it
' retaliation for th> burning of a greaser in Texas
The Republic of Portugal inis been generulij
recognized, but this tad will not operate to pre
vent the continued recognition of Manuel as v
King.
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Tlie Beef Trust objects to Judge Landis otic
asks a change of venue. It is to be inferred
from this that the Judge i> a beef eater, not tt
say that he is a bet fer.
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1
I The p.Kit'k market seems to have trouble in tin
loading the securities brought for a rise on the
prospect of defeating the Colonel.
i»r. Abbott in the Outlook appears to have en
t tiroly overlooked the facts.
• t hrlstmas Tree Tax.
, Our Montpelier dispatches record the pass igf
In l lie term nt llou.-e of Keprest ritauv i-s "1 ■>
bill imposing a tax of Jt> ' cju* per tree on
■ cvergrt-fn int x "cut to l..x shipped aoroutl aed
s. dd for c'hr.stmas trees." Km.rt on tno pan
t. i any ruir to cneeK tht depredations lipell
; you tig ion st growth commuted at t very ap
proa, n i,I the i imsiiiif s season arc to pe e< ■ i
ini luted, i ul :t Should h.iruly need to oc saiil
- that tots pa: ;t ular nc'tn ' i Mate op '■ration
win not siciol.
Mopping tie.i-.- 'abroad” presumably means
shipping mein Vi-} ond the Imrut rs of the Mat*
In any uireeiion. If it means simply export to
Canada or other foreign country, then we have
e. Mate levying an impost on exports without
the consent ol c digress, and this is prohmiied
‘ i.o s, clton It), article I. oL tile i-cneial i’on
1 stitutioii. If tt im aria broadly export or ship
Hicnl irom Vermont to other Mates in the
I nt< n, tlicti the tax would become mi inter
ference with or control <i inter.-tale commerce
by the State, when .us tin power to regulate
interstate commerce is given by I be I eoeral
' '< n.-ii;\jtton to Congrwt.
I ' ernu.iu coneedediy cannot tax imports from
"thcr Stales, nor can it impose any tax which
discriminate In lavor of its own productions
and against those *.'i other Slates. No more
■ an ii tax imports lr< m that to other States, or
i discriminate in taxation between products of
the State to be eon.-urni-d therein and those to
be exported then from. If V. rmont can place
a tax mi ires to b.- shipped outside of tno
Slate, feiinsylwiina ran place a prohibitive tax
on shipments oj anthracite beyond its borders,
and Kansas can tax its wheat as it passes out
of the Mate. Such taxes car, tic as cicariy ap
plied in in,- name * f conservation of natural
resource* by Penns>d\ania and Kansas in the
cas> s of coal and wheat as by Vermont in the
. ch.-o ,d Christmas trees; but that will not gave
such taxes from the constitutional inhibition
;im interpreted in u long line of decisions re
si'.-cling the taxatb n and the interstate oi.m
• mcrce clauses oi the fundamental law of the
L nation,
if the Vermont legislature were to impose a
1 tax on all Christmas tree* cut in the state,
irrespective of wheti'or they were to be .used
, In the State or shipped beyond, it might in some
or another > "me into conflict with the rights
. "I ’and-owners as secured by rhi Vermont or
, 'he Fed nil Constitution, but it would escape
coiitii't with. those Federal constitutional pro
■ v ish ns which have been referred to. As it Is,
B" ill involves an invasion of the interstate
commerce powers of the Constitution, if it is
ii"< coiiiinry to the sectoti 10 above mentioned,
il elm ud, it will be worth a suit in the- H.d
* ral courts and nothing more.—i-pring-tleld if >
. pdbli eh.
The Divine Sarah’s \rt and Artifice.
U h> n the divin<; Sarah took a parting swig
fr-'fm tin decanter of perpetual youth ami
.‘(all'll down the gangplank In New York she
i found a bunch of uplifted mouths which looked
. like a ncBt of young mo< king birds at norm
time. There were the cook and the captain
bold and the mate of the Provence. The as
ristaiit i-oal-heavers from the anthracite Inferno
and the .-steward’s hoy front t!>e cold storage has!
unshed tin- dust of ocean travel from their faces
ami were standing in line to he kissed.
Th sexagenary artist, who comes forth from
: hi r dr. i-:ing room erryealia rejuvenate d r.s a
im and twenty L’Aiglon, ami gets away with
ti. turn -1 one che> k and then the other with
the moat Christian f rhearmce until all the
ship s crew and half th, passe ncers had hud
a folk at those marvelous fiatures. Arid where
- the kc .es of fartivi-li left off the kisses of wel
: i (imp began.
The press accounts would Indicate that the
progress her hotel w is '-m- continuous car
peting of chrysianthem ms. sticky with the
ki-xes blown to the wide, wide world.
This prodigal osculation may have been pull
ed off, to homo extent, under the cunning guid
ance of a discreet pres? agent, who had spent
i wakeful hours arranging the spontaneity; hut
the fact remain.*; that the American people have
a aim ere regard t.*r the marvelous great-grnnd
rnolhe who has been coming oier to charm us
at Intervals for two generations. She leaves the
Impression that amidst the glamour and ap
plause of lift In Paris the American wander
lust v it a her and she clmply can’t choke hack
th- in pulse to o< me ami revet awhile in the
land of Dollar Princes and magnificent dis
lam - -that she would rather play Texas In
ft tent tha-d dwell In the marble splendor of
the playhouse on the Place do 1’Cip-ra.
full of artifice, this Sarah; hut full of re
j deeming art-—Washington Tim sc.
Aviation Meets.
! Tin aviation meet which was projected for
San Fran-isco has been cancelled, and it is
Stated that tills was necessitated by the ex
orbitant demands of the flyers, who, with few
exceptions, now ark so much money for their
; services that the promoters of such an enter
prise run serious risk of heavy loss. 1 he
sporting element of the science lias practically
been dominated." according to the New York
| Times and one American aviator, who has not
fallen under suspicion of grasping methods, pre
dicts that within a year ueroplanlng will occupy
the relative position of fake ballooning und
parachute Jumping at county fairs. Perhaps It
would not he quite accurate to say that the
money hunters arc killing the goose that lays
i the golden eggs, |,ut they seem to be making a
: senseless assault on an equally valuable kind of
bird.—Boston Transcript.
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Couldn’t Win Uhv Ninth.
| The whole power of the loemooraoy in Vir
ginia was thrown into the broach in the Ninth
congressional district In At effi rt to defeat
Slemp, the Republican. That gentleman,-how
ever, seems to have been something of a cam
paigner himself and he lias managed to pull
through by the skin of his teeth, if it is proper
to mention teeth In a political way following the
result in New York. Stuart mud# a superb run.
arid cut down Slump’s majority to almost noth-\
Ing, but he did not win. Therein there la causa j
! for tears, and much bewailing. The trouble
• with the Ninth ts that it la-too West Virginian I
; in its tendencies’., although West Virginia itself '
; has seen the light, filenip Is apparently a strong \
I man, but it ought to be possible to down him ,
[ next time. W’t’it did A. B. Williams go to
Hoanoke for anyhow? Perhaps a little more
i short and cutting writing would have t- lied
the trick, if we do not err in suggesting tp
Mr, Williams the possibility of^ anything short
from his pen being better than something lone.
Barton Heights
An entertainment that la already
attracting considerable Interest will
bn given this Friday night In tin
pariah hall of the Episcopal church
by the young ladles' guild of the
church. The name by which the en
tertainment I* known is "Country
Fair." Some of the most attractive
features of the fair nre the dying
machine, the l.ittle Princess, the Flea
Circus, the Green Family, etc.
Mrs. [j. It. Hagby and son, Master
George Franklin, have gone to Caro
line county for a two months’ stay
with relatives.
The ladies- guild of the St Thomas
Episcopal church, in Glnter Park,
subscribed $1,000 toward the erection
of their church house.
Mrs. Madison Flannagan, who un
! derwent a serious operation about a
week ago, is improving.
The Gaelics’ Aid Society of the Bap
tist church held an Important meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Ft. H. Bow
den Thursday afternoon. Several im
portant matters wiere discussed.
Among them was ft Christmas sale,
which will take place Friday, De
cember !>. in the rear of the drug
store.
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Air. John K. Ftrlnger left YCednes
day for Winchester, where he will
spend several days.
Mrs Alice Coalter Goodwin, who
has been desperately ill for several
weeks, is convalescing.
Mr. John W. Kennedy and family',
who formerly resided in Fredericks
burg. have moved to Barton Heights
and are residing at IS Minor str -et.
Mra John Albert Coleman, of
Lynchburg, is the guest of Mr. und
Mrs. Thompson, of North avenue.
Mr. \V. H, His by returned Tuesday
from a trip to Kaleigh and Kinston,
N. C.
Mr. I., M. Le« has gone to Nor
, folk.
Messrs. Kellam. of Princess Anne
county; Wray, J. Wfnfroy and Wil
liam Ivey, of Gynchburg, all dele
gates to the Methodist conference,
are guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
Jones.
Tlie Rev. J. P. Maxey and wife, of
Danville, and the Rev. J. W. Marsh,
t.f West Bedford circuit, who are at
tending tlie conference, arc stopping
While in the city with Mr. and Mrs.
, George W. Ganeaster, 507 Lamb ave
i nue.
Mrs. ,1. B. Woodward, of ({inter
Park, who returned Wednesday from
a two weeks' visit to York, Pa., left
to-day on a visit to relative* In Pe
tersburg
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Chase City
■ t Specie 1 to Thn Richmond Virginian.I
CHASE CITY, VA . Nov 11.-. Mr. and
Mrs R. D. Patterson have returned
from a trip to Washington
Mr*. M L. Anderson, of Ontario,
spent several days In town last week.
Mr. \\ . I) Norwelt who has been
travelling in the north, visiting New
' ork. Montreal. Detroit and Chicago,
returned tills week.
Mr. Fred Strudmiek. of Greensboro,
spent Sunday In town
A number of Chase City people will
go to Richmond next week to see Ben
Hur. Among them are Mrs. S A Emi
ly. Mrs James Hardy. Mrs. H. G. Nult
slnger and Miss Anderson.
i.r.st Friday afternoon Miss Lewie
Elam entertained the Woman's Club,
'the subject of the meeting was "Chan
ticier/* and It was treated In a very in
j tort sting and amusing manner. As
[usual Miss Elam's guest* thoroughly
enjoyed iter unique aiul charming en
tertainment. Those present were Mes
dames W. D. Norvell, C M Boswell. C.
W. Gregory, T. U. Eos-well W. A
Broocks. G. G. Taylor, P H. Maddux. A.
T. Finch. J H. i'ruden. 11. F, Clark. B.
loy. 11. G Noffslngrr, and Mias Dalle
Elam.
The Five Hundred Club held Its first
pooling of tiie season at the home of
Mr- T. G Boswell on Tuesday after
noon. l.t»r several games bud been
played delicious refreshments were
served. Those present were Meadaniss
W. 11. Norvell, James Hardy George
Gibson. Jr., U U Taylor. J. T. Goodo.
.1. A. Robert eon. R. L. elfreya, R A.
Patterson. J IV Roberts. W. G. Wal
den an" Misses Mary Burwell and An
nie Field.
PLEASANTRIES.
It Is not every aulomobiltst who can
successfully resist the temptation io
speed A gentleman who has a habit
Of noticing the scenery Inquired the
other day of Ids chauffeur. "What «a
that place we just passed?" "Oh/* an
swered tiie rnnn, indifferently, "that
was Rhode Island."
The soup had been brought on. and
the wif»- of the host was apologising
for, it ”1 am afraid you will tin I it
seasoned too highly, Mr Jones," alio
’ said. “ tell Su*an every day of my life
not to use so much Balt uni pepper In
, her cooking, but It* doesn't do any
good." "The soup 1« all right, Mrs.
Irons," the guest, hastened to assure
her. "It's exactly Susanert to seat my
taste."—Youth's Companion.
A young man who hod received the!
privilege of shooting over the land ot
a farmer got rather close once or twice
to tiie home grounds. Later In the dav
he met the farmer. "You’ve had pret
ty good luck," said the farmer. "Well,
no," said the young man hesitatingly.
"I haven’t had any luck at all.” "Y-s.
you have,” repeated the farmer. "This1
morning you Just missed my best Short - i
horn."—-Country Gontleman.
The bookkeeper was adding a long:
column of figures when he became eon-I
sclous of a friend at the window. As
lie had been interrupted several times, j
he paid no attention to the suppressed '
cough, but kept steadily at work, do-j
termlned to finish that particular col-!
iimn at least. “Well," said the friend i
at last, “It's well known there la noth- ;
ing so deaf as an adder." A laugh
followed anil the column had to be add- '
oil again.
As an Instance of the rigor of the'
proverbial Scottish Sabbath, the follow-!
mg anecdote defies competition A[
postman whose round lies between Stir-1
ling and Blair Drummond does Ills six!
utiles out and six miles In on a bicycle!
on week days. On Sunday, they ssy. Is j
the day of rest. It la not convenient i
to rest both bicycle and postman, so!
they rest—the bicycle.—Exchange
CXmiSTIANSmTRO. VA.. November
12.—Five of the six prisoners who es
caped" from the Montgomery county
Jail Tuesday have been captured and
iHken to tfte penitentiary at Ri«h
month !
The telephone operator ut Uiuld,
five Riilett from hare, looked out of a j
window and saw the men pausing. He I
telephoned to teas neighbors, wko j
••Ued gone and captured the fugitive*, t
DEATH CLAIMS
! (Special to The Richmond Virginian.)
WARRENTON, VA.. Nov. 12.—Or.
James Richard Sowers, a recipient •
! of the highest practice and comment
i datton for gallantry and courage front
: his chief, and a member of the fa
• mous "Mushy's men,” a lifelong mem*
ber of the Baptist church and one ot
the oldest practitioners of this com*
i rnunlty, died at his home here Thurs
| day night, after a lingering Illness.
Or. Sowers was In the sixty-fourth
year of hi* age. He was a native of
Clark county, Va., and lived thero
till he entered Columbian College la
Washington, where he got his pro
fessional education.
Jn 1Kt55 he married Miss Mary
Frances Smith, a daughter of 41r.
and. Mrs. John Smith, and moved to
Fauquier county, where he has re
sided ever since.
l>r. Sowers was a man of highest
t ideals and ambitions and followed hit
j profession until totally incapacitated
I by reason of declining years.
He is survived by two sisters, his
i wife, two sisters and two sons—Mr.
j w. S. Sower* and Miss Jane S. Sowers,
I (ft N'ew Orleans; Mr*. Lindsay Mar
sha II of Maryland and Miss Katherine
, and Mary Sowers.
interment will take place on Satur
I day from the Baptist, church.
HELPS STRANGER;
GETS NEAT REWARD
Policeman Frank Gentry Is the re
cipient of a beautiful clouded amber
nnd meerschaum cigarholder s«nt tu
, h«ni all the way from Sunny Italy by
Signor Antonio Guieseppe Luigi v Puc
' cineUI.
'I he donor, who is it wealthy resident
of Genoa, was In Richmond on a visit
several weeks ago and got lost on the»
streets. Unable to speak English, he
wx.s having a difficult time of It when
Policeman Gentry put in an appear
ance found an Interpreter, and then
escorted the subject of King Victor
to his destination. The cigarholder la
■ a token of appreciation of thl* kimi
; ness.
NAMES HIS BIBLE
| AS FIRST ASSET
iSpocial to The Richmond Virginian.)
NORFOLK, VA., Nov. 12— Arthur
Newton, farmer of the Eastern Shore,
j to-day tiled a petition in bankruptcy
here with debts of $20,000. His fam
ily Bible, valued at 12.60, wag put
down as the first Item of assets
amounting to |f34.75, but all claimed
' to he exempt under tho law* of Vir
I ginla from attachment by creditors.
SCTIvYCE OF SERVICE CLUB
PROVES A BIG SUCCESS
1 Great Interest is tn-lnif taken by
both employer* and employes In the
Science of Service Club that Is being
conducted under the auspice# of the
Central Young1 Men's Christian Asso
; elation, which includes tha Sheldon
, course on science of service and three
I lectures on salesmanship. In this cluh,
| which meets on Thursday nights a*
S o’clock, in clubroom No. I of the
Young Men's Christian Association
building, both employer and em
ployes meet to discuss the science of
service and the tilings that make fur
profit and efficiency In business and
all other of life's Interests.
It is a noteworthy fact that lead
in* firms ara taking great Interest
In this course, there being thirteen
members enrolled from Sydnor and
Hundley's and twenty members from
O. H. Berry's store. It Is understood
that a class of over one hundred has
been formed at Miller Ai Rhoads and
another class of fully fifty at Four
qurt.au. Temple A Company's store.
Young men and business men de
siring Information concerning either
tho science of service or business
building course can obtain same at
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion office. The association Is also
conduct tog educational clnsses for
men In arithmetic, business, gram
mar, bookkeeping, penmanship, ar
chitectural drawing, mechanical
drawing, stenography and typewrit
ing, and for boys under eighteen years
of age, classes in arithmetic, business,
penmanship, spelling, mechanical
drawing and stenography. The en
rollment of students U -.irendy almost
a hundred per cent, over the highest
record of last year, and with the
winter clubs coming on, It Is believed
it will be fully two hundred per cent.
A few more students can be aorom
•undated In several of the fall classes.
The winter clubs will start early la
January.
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COIPI.B TO BE MtnniED
AT PL HE FOOD SHOW.
"Yes, we are to be married at tha
Pure Food Show, but If our names are
printed In the papers before tho wed
ding takes place we will decline tha
proposition made by Director W. H.
Dodd.” said the young woman who is
to bo married next Tuesday or Wed
nesday night In Masonic Tepie, where
the show In being held.
Director Dodd had a proposition from
another couple to be married at tho
Pure Food Show and receive the prises
worth several hundred dollars. The
second couple came too late, however.
The wedding will take plane either
Tuesday or Wednesday night The
young people will let Mr. Dodd know
Saturday which night they prefer. Of
course. It Is for them to decide.
Tho first doll matinee ever held In
Richmond is the big feature for to
morrow afternoon. Hundreds of the
little girls of this city will be present
with their dollies and exhibit them fop
prises.
Tomorrow night the targe Reliance
Steel Range, offered by Ryan. Smith
and Company, will be given away tm
acme lucky visitor.
- ij
Mrs. 0)1* T. Earn.
(Special to Tha Richmond Virginian.)
NORFOLK. VA.. Nov. 12.—Ursa
Oita T. Eure, wife of Judge M. I*
Eure. died, to-day at tha Norfolk
Protestant Hospital after an opera
tion.
She was from North Carolina, but
had lived here twenty-erven years.
Towner Talks with MaeTengh.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. .Nov. IE—
Chairman Tawney. of the House Come
mttte on Appropriations, stopped Ik
Washington to-day on Ills way, to Pan
ama and h-ld a conference with Sec
retary MacVeagh, of the Treasury,