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|; -Tit* passing of heo Tokens force# from the
«\»fW a retrospect of a life which might he said fb
be almost the pattern ot evolution of the human
heart The poetry ot the Book of Kcete 4bso a.
h>. lived, in hint ius made powerfully and per
soualty animate all the everyday philosophy, all
i tkc homely «• a< i.u.ge of expo; iei.ee that arc so
S !..leiir that they never arc heed.-d. I’oder tt ♦
hysbings it h;s pa siomi'o stilt-examination n
t dtS much toward making possible #>‘li-onfr.ssioii,
a. If tmdetstanding in laying bare Ins life to u'* ’
... world, in explaining ami examining the logical
tendency of #uch a life. In hiding nothing and
condemning everything about hinmeli, perhapt
..lies tie- secret of his genius and the mwwurc <*f
|*ifcrat"d a pathetic picture of spirit tethered
fpwith flesh —of flesh, worn out. regenerate.! In
| spirit.
P 'Magnified;! ns was his art. *» t link that it is
the means by which he expounded hm own lib
it it will he finally judged, lie wrote always
Tolstoi—Tolstoi s follies, injustices, immoral
Tolstois regenerations, mental struggles,
ring ideals; Tolstois experiments, Tolstoi ?
ilores. The picture# sum a long life, painted
brilliant but varying colors, flashing like gold
with ambition, idling into soft greys of sor
and of unfathomable melancholy, lie re
himself as wonderful in all things, yc
all things was he the average man except in
power of portrayal. It is this intimate sym
I and understanding with the universal heart
it makes him so wonderful —and so. strange
read and to contemplate. With Tolstoi that
an act. which to another is a vagrant
ht. He met life with his brain and with
body. He yielded to its environment not a;
for himself, doggedly for others. And at
s he protested against the life that swallowed
man. always he preached the man controlling
Tolstoi was vivid in all his periods- his child
1, his reckless, dissolute youth, his cynic.,
successful curl; manhood, his ardently n
fill maturity, hi# calm and sternly thought
Site. These an- the things which the work
in his self-illuminating books things tin
9W of which every man has felt, principle.
! Justice which cannot Ik- dmied, but which ap
Strange in their practical denial almost t
ipoint of appearing insane the record of oik
.throughout many years forgot and through
many others plumbed the deepest secret!
'.fen. own sou). As a result we have a fieri."
Tolstoi portraits unparalled. perhaps, in tin
of any other public man or artist As .
It, to those who have not followed him in hi
It phases, he has appeared an enigma
1 a Virile novelist, again a man set upon revo
ll. Bow a Christ like figure preaching non
bee—roue, soldier, as. etic, pnilosopher
Of the world, anchorite, (lashing a dlff. ren
from a hundred facet#, but always, in tin
of his progressive and developing nature
ent and true.
tresi of all forms of literally < xpreesion i
I autobiography The secrets of self are thus*
; lUflenlf of extraction Toe attempt to eon
Is the one cause mow prolific of deception
Tolstoi confessed. II. told tt.., whole story
pletely. unshrinkingly. in the faith of at
egotism he preached a sr- at lesson am
to tiie world a valuable, if sometimes ap
Itngiy candid, mirror for it# wlf-exHinination
TfcA« u»;its- (o.vn itiM i
..The meeting of On Virginia educational ( on
ttre tbi* year bring* together ;< particular!.'
»u* and repr-scntalivu botiv of mm am
Bn whose livi h are given over to the ttoil
! strengthening ami rendering progressive: tin
eat work of universal learning
*iW>la i* a scientific ag. an age <>f method am
lylr as the basis of accomplishment i’articu
ily in the eauRt of populat education is tin
rn thought of : up m ijinpbnh/id and mad<
ive. tioing hack to find ucmtals. the ton
of government is realizing as never be
i tite obligation nf *he State in tire training o
tnabtp. Nothing in this greet campaign h
to haphazard it reeiilres and compels, o;
» Other hand lie highest • •:< rt.iee <4 v, hat ii
i of the most i railing and most important o
I Ik* professions. The educator i“ sometime* ;
yr in things material to bis faith and iabo<
1 appreciation of the work t,<at lie .* doing ii
•f the things whid. ha? ;uily developed h
K>!U- recognii.cn,
sideut Tab, representing •;> head c: tin
#nt. gives this year h's official endorse
to tfcd - Meeting. iJirtUig ; *te i speakeri
h«OBJ« from many grates. T!i meeting ivil
tuly representative of the South and of tin
ft is reasonable to suppose liiat the ai
marked impulse Tor a more universal am
[ thorough educational era will find in it:
tlon a.still further Incentive.
#d, city of convention*, could not l»
i^gmored by any meeting than it Is by thi
t convention could more thoroughly repr*
It* hope. To all the delegates, t<
m th» Capital of Virginia will
tend an undivided welcome in a spirit of per
fect mpathy.
\ mit!,K'.M, IMITATION.
An older generation was wont to quote liber
ally the odes of Horace, to take its figures from
I he Haiti, to revel in illustration* drawn from
tile play* of Shnke*|ieare or tie- Psalms or Para
hies of tin liibic. The older generation ol
; student* *rher read more closely, or ruiueni
hcretl hotter. Perhaps tiiey read not so extt li
slvcly; they certainly i-ad more deeply. Am!
what they read, they tppnrently t<K>k more tc
heart, made deeper application of, than is now
the rule. Even the present-day classical stu
dent r. members suhstamially. rather than in ttir
old manner of in fatsinnhs rnrbts. He has
merely brushed tho masters, rather than ah
sorbed them. When It 'ones to the Bible, tin
average 1 niversity Htudcnl is apt to Is- as igno
rant of us beauties as be is a stranger to cur
rent literature and i ontcnyiorurv thought.
To meet this itu k in the modern spirit out
Professor K. t\ italdwin. of the University o!
Illinois, has constructed for student us« a sor
of an abbreviated Bible, in which the hooks a '<
condensed and expurgated, mum in the manner
we suppose, of some of those mangled editions o
Shakespeare by which it is sought to uiuke tin
vouiliful mind acquaint with the genius o£ th>
Bard, without permitting it to come Into con
tact with anything of tic genius of his work
lust ns the classics in Greek, and Latin an
conned by the college student chiefly through tin
medium of a small and dog-eared ".lack ', so i'
is hoped that the busy student may eventuall;
attain to a speaking acquaintance with the Bool
through the medium of the little volume whirl
might la- (ailed "The Bible Made Easy”.
is it not tho truth that what this now in
vention aims to do is the cause, in what has al
! ready been done along that line, of a genera
iauli of superficial and unappreciative know!
edge of great literature" The mines of though
yield their nuggets to no personally conductet
expedition. Many a college student finds ou
this truth in the after-life away from the insti
union of learning and repairs In time wrestei
from a busy life the ravages of neglect in a da:
when time was the only jewel which he did no
think to value and enjoy. Certainly it wouh
seem ilint, for a failure to read the Bible. ;
1 Bible "pony" were a poor substitute, as vicioui
in its tendency to belittle the real thing a;
arc imitations in general.
I MtM'IU SKVrVTIVK SKXATOIIS.
Then- is much to bo said on both sides of tin
question whether or not United States Senator
should be elected by the people. The Senate i
a constitutionally devised check upon hasty at
fion. rt is the bar set up against the path o
sudden emotions of popular expression. Th
j term of a Senator’s office permits him to in ;
' measure keep ins head in the face of popula
passions of the moment Whether, in case Sen
atora art- at some time mad* subject to popula
will, the purpose of the deliberative Senate wil
be weakened is a matter at least open to argi
inent..
It Is not open to argument, however, that ih
' intent of the Constitution was not that the cas
1 should ever arise wherein a Senator would b
returned to his post against the expressly ind
t ated desire of the people he is supposed to reprc
| sent That this happens on occasion is the resul
' I of adroit gerrymandering of legislaiivo unit)
• and is the cause of the resentment against who
may well Is- a safe and sound constitutional prit
r|pb* State-w ide party primaries by which Lc*
islutures are practically bound to do the will c
the people are expressive of nothing more no
' |.b» than a clistrust of what the Legish
tines would otherwise do. They are a specie
of i unsiiiution.il evasion readily discerned, bu
difficult of treatment. So long as (ho Sermt
’ sits, it is scarcely likely thai an amendment t
this effect will be submitted; so long as it i
j possible for a Senator to return in the face i
tin popular verdict will the people continue, I
an increasing number of States, to make legish
tivi elections scarcely more ihan matters of Torn
.Massachusetts at. this time presents a curiou
instance of the possible re-election »t a lliorougl
!y discredited Senator. The principles for whir
Lodge stands met. in the recent election a posltiv
rebuke from the people of Ins State. Yet th
legislature is Republican, -iiiii Ixidge looks to rc
turn If he returns, he will continue to ndvocat.
i the policy of a high tariff which .Massaehusset
through the electorate has unequivocally r<
pudhiteil. In such a case the principle of popula
< lection of Senators will have been provided wit!
■it well nigh unanswerable argument.
In the case of Lwclge. Jlr Loss is adopting th
unique exiierlment of calling ui«>n him as
moral duty to retire from tire race. He is puttin;
It squarely up to the people of tne State to sa
whether or not they will submit to the electio
of a man whose at tions will inevitably deny am
; udirtte everything fo** which they voted a
the election. There it- a startling quality abou
tins plain, straightforward i Humiliation of po
lies. Lodge has the machine and, so far as th
Legislature is concerned, the machine has th
votes Will the; machine cUre. in the face o
an undoubted expression of public opinion, to us
Its temporary power to flout and render lmpoten
I Its will”
INTKKVVnoX.Yi. OHM) EXCHANGE,
'( he New York World discus-es interestingly i
1 newly promulgated plan for the- exchange o
children of American and European ramiliei
"in the interest of mutual understanding ate
; education." Theoretically, from the point o
view of that cosmopolitan sympathy which unit
> he depended upon in the end to insure the peac
■ j of the world, there to much to commend th
. principle. For a number of years sui t ex
changes of people nniJ ideas have keep eucour
aged by tbis and other iouniries. Pllgianagt!
la made fioni time to time by representative
bodies ot Congress and foreign Parliaments:
lectures are swapiied, industrial and commercial
organizations study themselves by studying
their brethren and their pobkms in other land*;
professors from the Sorbonne lecture at Har
vard. and Aniet lean professors talk to Herman
students at Merlin; ail tins*.* interchanges of
thought, ,.s well as the visits of pubb men,
thinkers, artists, tend to make the world imall
and human interest a live and powerful duality.
As The World points out:
"Exchanges of school children in an iniorrnal
way tire not new. American hoys have tic n go
ing to German and English universities t< r more
than half a century. Thera have beeu t 'uuese
and Japanese studen.s at American collegi s, and
for generations English and American gins have
been sent to schools in Germany, I* ran* and
. i Switzerland. The American art stud'nis in
Paris, Rhodes scholars at Oxford, college gradu
ates in Europe on travelling scholarship; i-.ng
land's younger sons in business litre or on West
ern ranches, are ail factors in that internalional
comity which It is desired to increase through a
systematic arrangement, for tlie interchange of
me tubers of families.
How tin- formal interciiangt* is to be accom
plished, we are not told, however. ’I o give
the policy anything ot a practical turu. the
interchange of children would have in souu sort
to he general. The foreign younsters would
have to be numbered by the thousanua. as would
the American schoolboys and schoolgirls sent
abroad, it. would follow that they would have
to exchange parents ns well as schools. I - per
sonal equation could not tie prevented Either,
ot public expense, sacrifice of home life would
1 lie required of thousands, or the parents who con
ti United to this new entente cordial would be
' compelled to barter their own offspring for alien
' children. Wo can imagine how such a proposal
' would appeal, say, to tile French and American
mothers involved in the particular trade Even
if the exchange were practical, it carries the
1 doubt of its value. The children, growing up,
■ | would on return to their own countries itml that
they had been poorly equipped lor life Ke
l, maining in the country of their adoption, they
would Is* equally handicapped, or else, thorough
ly alienated, would lie useless as combining in
1 one citizen the thought and understanding of
1 two nations. As soon expect a baseball loving
* American to be content with a cricket game
‘ lasting ten days.
Of course, this idea originated with a Pro
fessor". It is no doubt thoroughly formulated
in all its details. On paper it possibly works
’ out to perfection. But it illustrates powerfully
1 what from time to time becomes more apparent,
* that a prerequisite to faculty position in institu
tions of learning should be at least a four or
f five years’ course of study of tbe actual condi
■ tlons in which people live and wherefor they are
‘ educated
, | 1__
Training lias again told. The Savannah edi
r tor who waited lor hours for the opportunity of
t "v
1 lighting with a Cong!essumn was given a trounc
ing for his pains. Legislative halls make a far
. better training school for puglism than the
' ! sanctum.
! Austro-Hungai j is contemplating cutting on
immigration to America, its attempts in this di
rection will scarcely meet with success, so long
ns the peasantry remain hungry.
Senator Henry Cabot i.otige, politeI.. requested
to withdraw from the race for the Senate, has a
' tine opportunity to retrain from attempting to
enter where he is not welcome.
Premier llriand. assaulted b\ a . -alist. de
s
{ nonecd h\ the socialists, must find himself in the
majority with the bourgeoise.
B
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Between teachers, aviators and loot .ballistic
B
Richmond tliis week will afford ever body a lib
eral education,
i
New England and the South seem in lead the
country in census increases Homeward the
tides of immigration take their way
The new rules of football do not >*■* m 10 have
prevented fn*al accidents, even to ' riain well
established football reputations.
The story of tlte one time nurse ;ii ; tie City
Hospital that Ink v as used as a hypodermic is
equivalent to a charge of Hlack Death.
i
I lie Spirit Thai Count".
A week ago -Yale University, with . uc most
• disastrous football reeordl in its hbtor.v behind
it, made ready to face Princeton In ,ne of the
1 most important games of the year, li .,as only
j a game, of course, the result not being of great
importance one way or the other, but to the
7 students »t Yale it meant a whole lot. Ap
, pareutly the situation was a hopeless one. De
But in the forthcoming contest would have been
1 a cepted as (Inal by an ordinary foot ,ul team,
I . t by an ordinary man similarly situated. "Hut
(lie Yale team was not an ordinar. team, and
t Just as men who were not ordinary have grit*
ted, their teeth in the lace of defeat and
snatched therefrom their must glorious victories,
? so the A'ale team, backed by the Indomitable spirit
, (hat hr.s made Yale famous, entered the final
week of preparation with absolute itermlna
f tion. unwilling to acknowledge def.-at and
ready «*yen in the most adverse i u umstances
1 to tight to the last ditch.
! Saturday Hiat Yale football team defeated
Princeton’s superb eleven, by a smi.l! score, I*
is true, but It was a victory Just the same, and
greater than any ordinary victory imply be
cause It had been won w hen deft at seemed
< ertaln. Back of those men struggling on the
field was what Is known as the Yale spirit, the
1 spirit that has made men out of hoys almost in
f a night, that lias taught the absolute folly of
ever giving up. that has made men get- out In,
> the world and "fight against overwhelming odds.
| l It is the spirit that has made Yale wliat it Js,
and Princeton what It is. and other colleges
i what they are. It Is the spirit that to many
t men in after years has been worth more than
all the other college training th"> received. ,
s it never doe* to give up. and no man has any
, right to give up while he still lives. He cannot
' ‘ adequately weigh the odds against hint. Ha la
not a fit judge us to whether he cun succeed
or not fits bushiest is to try for what in* wants,
and to keep on trying, working hardest when
tilings are most contrariwise, profiting hy r.ft
mistakes, always making ready and always being
ready. The Yale spirit is the American spirit
which enabled our forefathers t/» comiuer the
mountains and the wildernesses, the spirit that
hat made miliionair<s out of poor farmer boys
and governors out of pauper orphan*. These is
no suc h thing as defeat for the man who knows
what the American spirit is. w no keeps hti* heart
right even when everything else is wrong, the
man with the courage to do, the willingness to
endure, the absolute determination to keep up
the ii f to the bitter end. Against sueh a
man a. . rsc fate is almost impotent.—Charles
ton .News and Courier.
“Walking to l*rinertoi».“
A Yale University junior had a dream • before
the Yale-Princeton game, the substance of which
was that ii h.* rode into Princeton, to see the
game Saturday, Yale would los«*. iX course, he
had to be at Princeton Saturday, other places
icing of /fin hit*Tc.t, and so he took counsel
with Jus via?'..mates toned ning ids ureani. and
>t wap their unanimous opinion that he should
do everything in his power •*> help hts university
m time of stress, and that walking from New
Haven to Princeton whs the only possible course
of procedure open to him. And so our young
junior set out sully from Now Haven end
walked to Princeton, and lo and behold. Satur
day afternoon, before the eyes of astounded
thousands Yale also "walked to Prineetun. and
oid n*»t stop upon at riving, but walked right
over the Hengai Tiger, and is perhaps walking
i et.
Now we would not like to put ourselves on
record as saying that because the junior heeded
th» warning of his dream hours and obeyed
the signs, that the \*»ie Bulldog downed the
Princeton Tiger; hut w *■* should like to have a
word or two t«» say for many of our pet .super
stitions. Sonic of us would Ifiirdlv think of going
into any wort of enterprise at all hazardous or
uncertain without "knocking on wood" or
going through some oth* r apparently foolish
motion. There is no intrinsic value in such hoo
doo ‘•preventives.” but they' have a purpose for
those < t us who are weak enough to pin our
faith to them, just aw the Yal»* student's dream
had for him and his classmates. Hy crossing
our lingers, we get confidence, backbone stiffen
ing, Just as we do by "knocking on wood or
"walking to Princeton.” There lc a stimulation
in this heathenish practice that haw a real value,
and bo we often get more "pepper and ginger ’
in our football games of every-day: life, when
wo have our rabbit foot safely stowed away
in an inside pocket.—Charleston Kvening Pest.
\ Tragedy Thai Touched llic Hearts of
Thousands.
While uHiking on the railroad track near
Tuxedo. Jill., a man and his wife were struck
by a train and instantly killed. in their cot
tage not far away were live little children, or
phaned In an instant All the residents had
been warned of the danger of walking on the
track, but the railroad bridge formed a "near
cut’ and scores of them used It as a thor
oughfare. The accident in which Mr. and Mrs
dray were killed shocked the entire community.
Many others had walked along that same
, stretch ot track, never considering the .fact
that they were jeopardizing their own lives and
running ;he risk of leaving their babies alone
In th" world.
The fate of these children left without father,
mother or near relatives touched the hearts of
thousand'-.. Friends were rais^l up on every
hand. They found that not only were the chil
dren left penniless, but there was a mortgage
1 i f $80o on the home. A fund was started in
Washington by the Herald, and In a few days
the entire amount needed to raise the mortgage
and put a free roof over their heads was sub
scribed. V prominent lawyer. Mr. Robert Wells,
volunteered to undertake tin- responsibility of
their guardianship. Funds are now being con
tributed for their support, and though a good
deal more is needed, there is no doubt that
ll aill lie eontrihuted. Clerks in the pension
bureau, mechanics In the navy yard, jurors in
the courts, pari tifs and children were glad
to give their dimes and dollars.
Hut charity cannot give hack their parents
\ statement recently issued showing that since
the i ornpanies have kept correi t records more
! than 50,000 persons have been killed and over
1 oo.ono injured while crossing or walking along
! railroad tracks. This is a tragic record never
: approached in any other country. In great part
■ it is undoubtedly due to the recklessness .,f pe
! destrians. w ho. in spite of all warnings, per
sist in using the track* as a roadway . but
many are killed on the deadly grade . tossings
still maintained by the roads In every section.
Yet this shocking waste of life goes on with
no strong concerted effort to prevent It. In
ICngland there are no grade crossings, tin
tracks are fenced in. itnd the number of p'-r
s'-ns killed or maimed by trains is probably
; not so great as tlm number killed by cyclones
; In this country. To dwellers In Knglund or
on the continent. Americans must coin to have
: a reckless.disregard for human life. — I :.i Itinio: ■■
1 Sun.
John la l arge an "Old Master" in Modern l.llc.
It is with a sense of personal loss that Haltl
ttiore people learn of the death of Juhn Fa
Targe, who lias just passed away at I’rovldenco
after a long illness. The mural decorations in
j the t'ourthouse will always remain as a. local
reminder of his genius. He was one of the com
j polling influences in the world of art and has
i left a name with which few American artists
; can worthily lie linked in fellowship. Tin ver
satility of the man. the intensity of his feeling
for the beautiful and the true in all their
forms of expression, together with the depth
and tang.- of his studies, give him a unique
place among American artists. It has often been
remarked that he was one of the "Old Masters"
whose spirit had been projected into the Nine
teenth and Twentieth Centuries.
The range of Fa Fargo's genius is seen to ex
cellent advantage in the skill with which he
mastered the practical details of painting on
glass. Me revolutionized the art in this coun
try. More than one American city can boast
priceless examples of his mural decorations,
while his paintings, executed in Japan and Pa
cific islands, hl= (lower studies and landscapes
i constitute an output commensurate w ith his
i long life atul constant activity. A man of
strong and genial personality, with the highest
feeling for his work, his career has been an
inspiration to American art.—Haitimore News.
Toothpicks.
l'ifty years ago there was not a toothpick
made in this country. All that were used
, were quill a am! a few hand-made ones from
1 Japan. A man in Dixllelil, Me., invented a
' machine which turned out. a fairly good pick,
i but he could find no demand tor his goods,
i He. took a man In the village and dressed him
'in a top hut, frock coat, and all the externa!
1 appearances of prosperity and sent him into
. all the best restaurants and cafes in New
1 York, where after a light, well chosen repast he
i raised a big row because there were no tooth
' picks. Next day a salesman for (he toothpick
| house trailed him, and between the two of
I them the market was created. To-day there
are four factories In the town. One factory
has 10 machines going and each machine turns
out 10,000 toothpicks a minute and works n!m
1 hours a day! Truly yesterdays luxuries are
j the necessities of to-morrow.—Tampa Tlrbune.
One Better.
A Western buyer is inordinately proud of the
fact that one of his ancestors affixed hto name
! to the Declaration of Independence, say the
; Ladles' Heme Journal. At the time the sales
! man t ailed the buyer was signing a number of
1 checks and affixed his signature with many a
| curve and flourish. The salesman's patience
j becoming exhausted In waiting for the buyer
to recognise him. he finally observed:
"oil haOc a fine signature, 'Mr. So-and-Bo."
i "Yes." admitted the buyer "I should have,
lone of my forefathers signed the Declaration
of Independence."
"So?"
MAN DROPS DEAD WHILE
CLERGYMAN IS PRAYING
Mi. Corbin W. Mercer Expires
Shortly After Rector rfad As
den Death—Second Trag
Soon lifter Kcv Dr. J. V. Down
mutt. tlu- rector, had read the litany
In which deliverance Is especially ask
ed from audden death, Mr. Corbin W.
Mercer, n prominent business man
of lllchmoml. war pel-zed with a heart
attaek in his pew In All Saints Epis
copal ehnr' h during services Sunday
morning anil died a few moments
later.
llev. Dr. Down man was offering
up a special prayer for the sick when
i Mr. Mer-er was overcome while seat
ed near the rear of the church with
his wife arid son
"Fannie, Fannie," cried the 111 man
in subdued voice, addressing his wife.
Persons seated nearby thought Mr.
Mercer was merely affected by the
i prayer the rector was offering for
: orni one that was perhaps especially
dear to him. but they quickly grasped
the real situation when he sank in his
j seat and two doctors in the congrega
tion hurried to his side.
Mr. Mercer was removed outside as
quickly as possible and was pro
nounced dead before the ambulance
I could be summoned.
NEWS OF SOUTH RICHMOND
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SETS SIX MONTHS
NKI.HU Will. IIAVK TO Sl'KMl
II VI.F YK VH IX IMHROVISli
COVX’TY HQWillWAYS.
Charles t arrlngton, colored, "»*
sent to the roads for si* months
Monday morning by Justice il. A
Maurice In Police Court No 2 for
stealing oread from Various South
■ side grocers
It Is alleged that the negro bar
1 for some time been taking the con
tents of the boxes of the American
Bread Company, which stand outsld.
of the shops or Hull street merchants
Charles White, colored, was wise
arraigned before Justice Maurice
Monday lor stealing one quart "I
whiskey from a passenger "ii a Hull
street ear of the Virginia Hallway
and Power Company
A warrant was issued for the Ain
, erir an Bread Company to appear It;
'court Wednesday morning to answei
; a charge of obstrut ling the streets
1 it Is said that a pile of several bread
I boxes was fSi-rmlUed to remain at
. Seventh and Perry streets a long
i while after the company had beet,
notified to remove them
FIVE TRUE HUES
The November term >-f Hufttiugi
Ciiiirt, P;irt 11. opened Monday morn
ins. A special (irund jury, which xva»
empauneled by Judge K H- Wells hue
week, returned the followtrig true lulls
Jack Hubert»• in, felony
1'. J. Tufe. robbing Baldwin's store,
a sejifi Hook, felony.
William I-iwreiee and John llpU
• rt. felony and’ inisUenienhot.
Tile Ladies' Aid Society of the J'or
lter Street Presbyterian ehureh wil
I have a Thanksgiving reunion Monday
' afternoon at 1 o'clock In the rnab.St
house, when all members' lire expert
ed to be present.
1'nder tile dtroetlon of tin- Indus
trial Chapter of Meade Memuria
church there will be a. r-ak-- sale
Wednesday morning at 1 1 o'clock at
I'Umani' store.
Iliauk-gli lug Herndon
t.uild Meeting.
There will he a regular meeting
! Monday night at s o'clock of th> iSt
i Agnes' (iuihl of the Meath Memorial
church.
« lilld'* I nmeiil
The funeral of Vernell Fowler, two
year old * hlltl of Mr. and Mrs. George
T. Fowler, of 20# Midlothian turn
pike, who died Saturday, took place
Sunday afternoon from the residence.
Interment was made in Maury Ceme
tery*
Diredors .Med.
To consider plans* for the winter's
work there will be a meeting of the
hoard of directors of the Dixie Ath
| letic Association Tuesday night. Rev.
: Mr. long, pastor of the forward In
j Avenue Christian chureh, has been
! chosen to till the place recently va
cated by Odis tlinnant,
SETTLES STRIKE
AT AFINA MINES
K_ C. DAMSON OP RICHMOND,
AFFECTS AG RE KME NT INDKK
\VltIt'll 50C SI.ATKMA K P.RS
RETURN TO WORK.
Through the mediation of K. C.
Davison, acting fo? the American
Federation of Dabor toe long stand
ing trouble between the operatives
and operators at the Arvonia slate
mines in Uuckingham county have
I been settled and- work will be re.
sunied theho by 500 or more nier
this week. \
The slatemakers. topmen and la
I bored* went on strike last May, hay.
lug a number of grievances which thi
operators would not arbitrate. Th<
; trouble centre* around the refuaal oi
the mine owners to reduce the hour*
•- : .1 V, ... i ... V.. •- * i
in All Siinfs Episcopal Church
ked Deliverance From Sud
c Incident in Two Years.
Many person* seated In the for
ward section of the church did not
know of the traffic incident until af
ter services, so quietly was Mr. Mer
cer removed. Even the rector him
self was kept in Ignorance while the
services lasted,
This is said to lie the second sud
den death that has occurred in All''
Saints within the last two years.
Mr. Mercer had keen in lit health
for some time, but his condition was
not regarded as immediately serious.
Me was born in Williamsburg In IMS,
and a was a great grandson of Gen
eral Hugh Mercer, of Revolutionary
fume, lie served under Colonel John
S. .Vlosl.y during the Civil \Var anil
was a member of K. E. I-ee Camp of
Confederate Veteran*.
Mr. Mercer married Miss Fannie
; Nelson. of Yorktown. who survives
him with one son, Nelson He leaves
several brothers and sisters.
Interment will take place Tuesday
morning in Yorktown. Pallbearers
; will be Stuart Christian, Thomas
! friend, Benjamin P. Alsop, John K.
I Cary. John B. Cary. Kenneth Graves.
I of labor, increase the pay of the
slatemakors, recognize their union or
adopt any agreement regarding thu
' working of apprentices.
| After many futile attempts to set
i tie the matter by arbitration, to reach
ia satisfactory settlement with the
mine owners, the state operatives
walked out and have been out sines
i spring
Commissioner of Labor Doherty,
who has been following the strike
closely ami kept well Informed a r
to the turn of affairs in Arvonia. said
londay that he was glad to announce
that Mr. Davison had been so ad
' mlrably successful In affecting an
agreement thoroughly satisfactory to
all parties concerned and thereby re
turning the great number of men to
work.
Mr. Doherty spoke in high terms
of commendation of Mr. Davisons
success, and said the settlement of
the strike was a long stride in tha
right direction for the Industrial bet
terment of the State anil the labor
conditions in the < 'id Dominion.
CURSES WHITE W&MJIN;
MO IS FINED
NO ATTKMPT AT HIGHWAY Holt
KKItt is CHAKC.KI) AGAINST
I.KL MORTON.
Th>- reported attempt at highway
robbery on thi part of I.ce Morton,
cooired, turned out to have been
nothing more serious than the proffer
ing or a drunken insult according to
, the testimony or Miss Lizzie Williams,
tiie victim, In police court Monday.
Justice Crutchfield lined Morton »5tl
and the tatter took an appeal
Mis* Williams testified that Morton
had approached her w ith an oath at
Seventeenth and Washington streets
Saturday. Morion was under the In
fluence of lfijuor, and Miss William-,
thoroughly frightened, screamed for
help Pedestrians responded and
Morton ran. An exciting chase fol
I lowed, Ktul ended when the negra
i stumbled, fell and was captured.
WOMAN IN TROUBLE
WITH SIXTH SPOUSE
! sill-; HAS DRAWS' BUSKjT
l\ IOH MAiRI.MO.VlAL.
I
\I*V ENTIRES.
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WA.-HINGTON. I). Nov. 31.—.
After suffering live matrimonial dis
' appointments, Mrs. W. O. White sot
din ut the task to-day of getting her
: -sixth spouse out of the workhouse,
announcing that if lie did not relorttj
.-■h.' vi mild get u divorce from him
nail try a seventh. Mrs. White is Just
1 thirty yours of#* hut she is determined
to keep on trying.
I have certainly drawn blanks III
my time." she said. "Out of the fly#
husbands I have had. the only tsr#
good ones died in loss than a year.
1 married the tlrst one when J was
fourteen in Charleston, W. Va.
Since than 1 have b«en having
, the worst kind of luck. 1 got on#
j out of the penitentiary after he had
j shot a saloon-keeper, but he didn't
reform. Another turned out to be a
I Bing Bing prisoner out on patrol. I'm'
now counting on BUI, the latest. If
he quits drinking, he’ll be all right.
: and I'm going to give him th#
j chance."
It looked as if the chance might
lie futile, for another woman claim*
ing to bo "the original Mrs. White”
was waiting for the prisoner, and the
woman of the atx husbands was In
formed that her right to "Bill’' vu
contested.
AN ESCAPED CONVICT
IS STEALING STOCK
1 (Special to The Richmond Virginian.)’
I I.YNCHBURG, VA., Nov. *1.—Mil
ton Jones, an escaped convict, wag
caught here by the police last night
on the charge of stealing stock In Am
herst county, besides being wanted by
j the State penitentiary authorities. Hg
| escaped last spring and It Is believed
that he has been In this vicinity ever
; Since. A number of cows have been
i doled. He was caught In a residence
; hero where he was visiting a
j cock, a relative of hia
; Residence on Fire in
EMPORIA, A.. November SO.
i broke out in the residence of
! Walter Everette on Baker_
North Emporia Saturday In the
and while the amount of dtwaai
insurance has not been
the top of the building