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■ fiOTHAM s IMPOTi:\T MUdltlTY,
iBlia llguies throw an illuminating sidelight
fee Hinny reasons! why Mr. Knosevclt was no!
r.&p carry New York State for stirnson. Tlu
nel's plans were tms-ii chiefly on tin sup
it'popularity ot his cause in what l> railed
State", that is, that port ton ot tin Stat<
| outside of New Y ork t it; Even had thC
t not bet n mistaken, the In ts disclosed by
WiMUS show that the result while il would
have been as cniphsto would have t>c*'i,
Uc-ally the same
r the astounding fact is that Greater v w
: now holds mor« than fifty p< "lit of all
people In the Empire State Of N. w York
d,766,SS;:i are In the City and only I,
M in the State oustide the City leaving a
flty of population of C!".ts7 in the
Spoils.
Hit is seen of Vw York is evident, in
mr or less degree, throughout the country,
drift is still distinctly toward the city.
■ which have few large cities suffer in
|S stHtisties in comparison with lhose in
.Wlere arc h numiMM ui urimu ivnuimin
oven in such States it is the ntunici
not the country that shows the ratio
For ©sample, the lota! increase of
in New York of 2fi.4 ]>er (cut. over the
1900 is to be divided, lvi increase
Sty and 7 per cent for the State,
t'ot which the “up-State" is still Power
Legislature to control the greater and
srful city. Such ;i control was irksome
the metropolis in a time when, wh.it
| |p>oraiK-e of city needs and conditions,
vote carried a clear majority. Now
city, with its excess population, will
i controlled through a legislature repre
BOt nearly so many people, exasperation
time become acute New York. In n
different ways, faces a future of govern
on nothing representative of u (le
st on a fictitious representation from
riets. Rich, but helpless, great but
the richest city in the world will still
by people unschooled in its ways and
gent in its management
• often been said that one of the glaring
tOf the Federal Constitution was the lack
on for the citi<s which time and growth
luced. Much as this alleged defect has
j| to produce alleged injustice on account of
■dice, it has nevertheless burn subject
that, after all. tlie majority of the
Butt was ail powerful in a Democracy,
must yield its pride and self-assurance
Ijprodominating sentiment. In the case of
City, however, even this defense lias
A minority in the country w ill continue
for a majority in tb» city.
I. a state of affairs is almost as dimerous
be such a distinct control and gerry
|f> cf the State by Tammany, for Instance,
enable the City, by virtue of its into
population, to apply its own standards
•era and small-town inhabitants of tin
districts.
) CARDIN U. AND TUI Si I I ItVt.l
Gibbons, in publicly advising the stu
jfa woman's college to "avoid following
ltd desire woman suffrage" exerts a pow
•doe In a way to weaken and destroy it
follow in the steps of those," be said,
•ve become mannish in their ways, and
lor a place in politics. The place fov
US iu US' DOHje, Slim ; 1 I UM1 sou mi
ll do your opsi now By doing so each of
bring jo> to your relatives and friends,
the future to tl > young man whom you
your husband "
rdlnal is a man who at ami.' as tin* repro
of a gr< a* church that h is in tin* past
nporal and spiritual empires slip away
control by reason of this same spirit ol
resistance to the developing thought of
tl.. So far n? he advise* women that
is in the home and their etui in lif*
y, be expresses the fundamental senti
fboth right thinking men and right think
en. But insofar as h* temiw to imply
(ideal woman Is she who makes the home
itage of her sympathy, h>- is out of line
surely blossoming sense of women of
tionabip to the world. The <la> ha*
passed when the woman who wished
life fully and well was satisfied to liv*
DC.oblivious of the outside influences
OB the happiness and usefulness of
jj.jUtd the family. The time has passed
the mainstay of ihe church, was
personal attendant >* on mass The
I passed. in short, when woman was ar
:tB*dlBlt herself a being s.-t apart in
/'frith the other personal chattels of
Ip insisting upou such a view, the*
•imply making more difficult fai
ths loyalty and faith of the women
If Inclined, are at the same tirn>
»nt.
»indeed, vastly more to the suffrage
mere desire on the part of women
fcpotttfca". Perhaps it is true that the
worm’ll suffragettes who compos 'ho mob# and
make tho riots aro so animated Uu*. even ad
mlttlng that tliis is tho tan. the pious could not
continue and tho riot* would 1" fnatantly sup
pressed did they no; have the silent support of
h great mass of good women win . not wishing
office or |K)litleal prptnlnonct’. are still convinced
that the solution of the civic qmstions In which
they nr-’ most vitally interested needs and should
have their .nth- and practical assistance. To
attempt to stem ihis tide of thought which is
itself ! an d on a sense of obligation to the church
and to the home is the part, mayhap, of the poli
tician jealous of Ms own influence , n ich an at
tempt can result only in harm when it Is given
the sanction of a church of which women them
Ivor ar«» tbf* rhii'f support.
HI \STS AM* HA HI I V
Walter H. Pag', editor of the Worlds Work,
struck a very practical note in his address to tb>
Teachers, when he pointed out the need of
ph;steal . are of the child as an incident to ita
mental equipment Noth tug can tie truer than
that the duty of this century is to tight disease
and to preserve the ra'-e, both for the end that
opportunities nw t« availed of to tin fullest de
gree and that by the lowering of the death rate
there mac b>» practtiiilh combatted a lowe*e»1
ratio of births to population. It seems settled that
civilization checks fecundity,. Tlie only recourse
of civilization is to correspondingly check mor
tality. In this hope rests the. future maintenance
. I ; , .1 » n /l « 1. . , I \ . n i, i hi.’. i in i nn > .
perlty of the people who support then!
True ns the duty is. especially in the ease of
schools, to preserve ih» health of children by
educating parents In the fight on disease and de
feets, it seems that the distinguished educator
went a little far In illustration when he stated
that beasts of the jungle in some instances caret!
for their young more effectively than the pro
pie of the United States. A baby tiles every ten
seconds, according to Dr. Pages statistics, hut
what of the parents who give them birth? What
of the heritage of health and stamina—or lack
of it—which these weakling ones receive? What
of the system of careful preservation of 'weak
children by every means of science, only to have
them pass on their weaknesses to others and so
continue the heart rending endless chain of
human suffering? Is it f o much a want of care of
the child, so much an Ignorance of disease, as a
want of acceptance by the State of the respon
sibillty to bring about the asset of a healthy
hirtli to every child nut into the world to batti
Its tiny way past the dangers of infancy? Km
marriage is an institution appealing to sent!
moot, but sentiment is a poor crutch on whim
to rely for the practical betterment of the race.
The beast In the jungle la, of necessity, healthy.
It it were not, it would not be iu the jungle. It;
offspring eonie iijto being strong and vigorous
as the parent. The human offspring, touched
from birth with the taint of death, is frequently
preserved by science only to transmit to the ti.
ture other helpless holies to make th« appalling
record of an infant death with every ten ticks 01
the watch
Of course rhis is humanity . it is edui ation, but
it is hut the beginning of ,i dawning sense of ob
ligation which will eventually successfully light
disease by raising the race to the point where it
• will naturally rein*I. Instead of. an now in s<
, man' cases, naturally inviting It
t ill; Ml-I V WAVS Ol- l ltl H.UT It VII.".
Following Mr. Hrandeis' statement that the
complaint «»f high freight rates is the result of a
lack of sound administration of railroads goner
.tic the r.Lfe tn arlmr in \\ ashiuutnn tms been
further enlivened by .the uppi arnnce of a beard
Jets <•< onomlst of IJultimore, who reeled off lig
ures and statistics, ton miles, and all and solidly
ilit.' technicalities of rat* s and tariffs in a man
imr. utterly to confound the railroads, the Judges
ol tb*- i use, and; we susiaot, tin- side of the run s
lion to whirl) lir was called as wita-m
The name of this prodigy of nineteen years is
II. It. Hurguuder, and from all an minis be seems
to be hi till elasB of the recent Harvard math
ema'ieal prodigy who, in short pants, succeeded
in putting on the glim the most learned inutile
inaticians of a great university That lu- should
have mastered the Intricate d'tails of freight
tariffs may In- put down to this eccentric genius
that occasionally manifests itself lu youth; but
that he can have at such an age any real eoneep.
tion of the theory and practice of freight rates is
another matter, still waiting on demonstration.
Tie- important point In this sort of testimony,
however, Ik tie fact that so-called railroad expert.;
were utterly unable to wfute tile detailed state
ments which gave contradiction to their own
supposedly sound conclusions .Nominally, these
rm n are experts in theory and practical experi
ence alike. Yet. on so finely drawn a matter as
testimony based entirely on flguns and statistics,
the- were entirely unable to embirrass or con
fute tlie word of one whose age denied experience
arid whose audacity at least presupposed his con
fident e.
That tiie freight rale tp.iestioii i» one of grow
ing importance no one who appreciates its rela
tion, through business, to everyday life <v.n deny.
That it - ttleinent, us affecting the future of the
railroads involves tremendous financial changes
is even more apparent. Yet incidents such us
that of Burgunder.and they are numerous—
make for a despair in the efficacy of the long
drawn hearings which precede any action, how
ever slight. Jtule experts in the pay of the rail
roads after having test!fled to farts of policy as
matters of facts, arc frequently found to honestly
admit that there is a want of reason for their
faith. While it were absurd to suppose that a law
yer like Urondels could put his theories into
[ practice in railroad economy, or that a callow i
youth like Iinrgunder is in reality competent to
instruct the operating heads of great system* of
railway, it is conversely true that the tactical vie
tones of siif h men in court trials tend to rod the
testimony of railroad experts much of its con
< hislveness,
The genius who, through regulation or other- !
wise, shall succeed in devising a method where
by an Intensely practical question shall be di-!
vorced of the mists of obscurity and uncertainty
in which its just solution is shrouded will lino
performed a service greater Mum tluit of all the.
demagogues combined who have spouted of
freight rates on the stump, and greater than all
the wisdom of the experts w ho, giving their
positive testimony under oath, have found them
selves powerless to explain the fault in simile
testimony to exactly the opposite effect
mi: yi I.VI'ION (»|- TilWKStilVlNi;.
Amotif the usual crop of Thanksgiving
srorj. s most of them pitched on the most obvious
contrasts, was one of a suicide who, exclaiming
that lie had nothing to h< thankful for on this,
day of thanksgiving”, placed a revolver to hi
temple and shot himself dead upon the street.
Such an act indeed goes far to show that the
deluded individual concerned had scarcely am
cause for thankgiv ing in himself. For all that
lie v as woefully ungrateful for the boon of hav
ing been permitted to live in a strenuous world
until an age whon ho could be walking arouml
with loaded weapons on his person. He is in
deed bereft who carries so little In his head.
were passing strange. Indeed, that such a head
could hold anything be blown out. To speak
of such an one imtting a bullet through his
brain is obviously the most palpable figure of
speech. If the world were not so tender heart
ed to Its weaklings, the crack of a pistol In such
a cause would lx- added reason for congratulation
on a National festival.
What the fool with the pistol did, howev< r,
many of ns do without pistols, and more effec
tively in that we stab our hearts with a thought,
instead of puncturing our tie,ids with a bullet.
There is one way to an appreciation of the fact
that there is that to lie thankful for, and that is
a sense of personal inadequacy. Modesty Is a
rare gift, hut a priceless one. it is a strut**-!
point of view that, among thousands of egotists,
the. arcli megalomaniac who runs to suicide for
self-expression should attain to a certain prom
inence
The truth is that no man can be reasonably
thankful for himself. Appreciation of what the
world has done for him rests chiefly upon the
reflection of what he has not done for the world
It is bound up iu the admission of something
received for which lie has not. paid Tt can
never depend on personal worth, and who so con
ceives It deludes himself. The man who “has
nothing to be thankful for" simply sets a false
value on his own worthiness. Poor, conceited
worm, he crawls unnoticed under the dome of
life, esteeming himself and his emotions to be
set forth upon the skyline defining the world.
It is a trite saying but a true one that the
reason for thaiiksi'ulness, coming from without,
proceeds from w ithin. Only those who look
abroad can know wherein life has been kind to
then) and wherein they have been negligent of
life. Perhaps the suicide was right when, in a
world to which he was debtor, he looked within
himself to find wherln he was creditor of ex
i t(deuce. That way lies spiritual insolvency, for
which the easy surrender is a deed in bankruptcy
of effort and of courage.
\1rtr*fot»-no'c utnfnnJATlt tlifit toot*
tiiill tends to « ri'.'itt' a false physical standard
would f tun to 1.. revision in the light of the
victory of Virginia ov r her touch heavier North
Carolina opponents. and in the recollection of
t he manner In w hich i ale pluck taid brain
overcame the gt cat physical advantage of both
Princeton and Harvard. There la more head
than fret in football.
The attempt to charge President Tali with
favoritism for the Ohio River waterway improve
ments to the prejudice of the Mississippi will
not appeal to the country, that heartily approved
his effort to relieve the Rivers and Harbors bl 1
of its "pork-barn 1” taint
The iu<li< tmeuts against high officials in the Ill
inois Central seem to show that these prim-eg of
railroad finanre took a loaf from the methods
by which soap drummers were formerly accus
tomed to pad their expense accounts.
I ncle doe Cannon in Washington says that he
hopes that the Democrats will redeem their cam
paign pledges. There is one pledge that they
will redeem, at any rate. In the retirement of the!
sage of Danville from the Speaker’s chap
Theodore Hilho, down at 7.azoo City, .MisMsjtlp-j
pi, is still trving to put somebody in the bilbo for j
Senatorial bribery. The whole thing seems e»
p<n iall.v appropriate to Yazoo City.
Mayor Raynor, in insisting on politeness >roni!
city officials to the public, shows that. In- is a j
man w ho run recognize in others a virtue he!
does not himself possess
There is a sort of grim humor In the fact that
1 Gallagher. Mayor liaynor’g would-be assassin,
has been indicted for an attempt to kill nig
Bill Edwards, who ro nearly killed him.
As between an alienist ami Mrs Martin, on
tritil as to her sanity, the controversy of who
has exaggerated ego is apt to prove a dead fall.
PEOPLE’S FORUM
■\n 10 ''nMitiuMIUU MlMimu^"
Editor or Tnc Virginian.
■ Your sentimental editorial on young women
strangers in itlcnmond ha* the true Yankee
rlnp. Why |*,» that whenever a publlcl* in
Virginia conifii In contact with the gibberish
cinenating from the she chips iir> s' nr *•• r
der he promptly discards every tradition and
o' cry line 01 uiuugiii aoo n> o>n w...-* * -- v j
South Soulhren. Going to meet them as they
• ome In are they, how many are coming. Are |
they preparing for runaways? What business
has a young woman being In Richmond alone
bundling the storms of life. Have you and j
the Richmond .public agreed that there Is rur- |
i her need of the parents protecting thelt i
females. Have you concluded Yankee style j
that there in to be no barter between the ,
sexes unad thut one standard ol morals is good
enough for both. That the female Is capable
of hustling for herself.
What hiirlner . has the Y. \V. C. A. to be try- ]
lug to induce gins to leave there home for the |
marts of the city V ' Every man with a bis
ter" should stop and think. Yes, we think. In
ibis section, and In so thinking we conclude
lhat we would not give you one cent for your I
outfit, to prepare for the advent of the girls
from the country.
New allow me to say further and sky It
plain.
Three-fourths ol ihe occupants of the dives
and alleys of your cities arc country girls that
■ utinientiillns have Induced to leave their |
homes. Homes where they are needed and
homes where they could be protected. Once
you were confronted with the bad boy problem, j
to-day it is fast becoming the bad girl problem,
i he press and pulpit has more to do with this
umily desecration than any one other cause.
M-n of the world, gamblers, drinkers, prize
bghters and barkeepers Invariably advise
against It.
While the other outfit slobber over "Home
Journal Literature,'' and the dear female Invite
her as the moth to the candle, prepare her for
ihe sacrifice and then try to snatch her from
the scorching. Advise her to stay at home,
if vint are Interested In her at all.
W. N\ UKEl>,
Long Glad. Va„ November 23.
Is TlH-re Any Remedy ?
Editor of The Virginian:
Sir,—Eor the present the question of "the i
colonel" seems to be settled. But there are
other Questions which are more Important
which are unsettled. < >ne of them is how Ihe
producer is to get his fair anil Just proportion
from the proceeds of his marketing and not
allow the middle man to get it all. Here Is a
cnee In point which will Illustrate my meaning.
The other dny 1 got h check for $Di.*7 for 13
barrels of apples, which I shipped to Rich
mond. When T hauled the apples to the
station, an apple buyer offered tne $2.00 per
barrel for them, but I thought they would
bring me more In Richmond and declined the
offer. Erom the same nick am! iiack I sent .
t\v.< barrels to other parties, nno wrote “they
are .lust fine." the other “the apples are splen
did and no nicely packed '- Vet report from
Richmond was so many harrpla bad, some In
different, some others better. Xo w as the
market goes these days, I would not have rated
any of these apples as strictly No. 1. Hut they
v ere sound good nappies, and I have not a
doubt that the Richmond consumers paid 35
cents for every peck of them, that Is the con
sumer paid $54,60 for them, and I (rot $18.87
out of which I must pay 10 cents apiece for
the thirteen barrels, pay 25 cents per barrel
for picking and packing and haul them to
the depot. That is, 1 get the munlflclent sum
"f 7 2 cents per barrel for my apples, to say
nothing of the coat of es>mvlng and 'other !
Incidentals; the railroad got $3.25 and the
middle men, who open the barro's, got $2.49
par harrefl. Discouraging? VWII, ratlser.
Here is another little Incident. 1 have been
dickering for a month or six weeks trying to
s« ll some boxwood. Finally 1 have gotten a
Philadelphia house to offer six cents per pound
for it. F. O. B. at iny station, put up In fifty
pound crates which, of course. I must make,
after buying the lumber. I suppose after 1 have
furnished the crates and paid for the cutting
and packing It will net me 3 or 3 1-2 cents per
pound. At my request a friend of mine stepped
into th.- office of these buyers In Philadelphia
and asked at whnt price she could buy a fifty
pound crate of boxwood, and the reply was
$7.50. In other words the grower who has
all the labor and worry gets 3 cents, and the
wholesale man gets 15 cents, or only 500 per
cent, on his investment, and that on an article
in which there Is Just about as much loss as
there would be in pig Iron. He sits In his office
and write s two or three letters and the trick Is
done’ S : h things dej not make country people
happy! And there ought to he some method
by whic h to rectify this outrageous equity. Who
knows any remedy?
ANXIOUS INQUIRER.
“They Arc Neither Brute \<>r Human.*'
Edgar Allan Poe, finally admitted to the
Hall of Fame. ' very justly characterized those
being that Heedlessly and furiously c l&sli gongs
and bells end tom-toms In the lacerated ears
, of mankind as “neither brute nor human—
they are ghouls." Ohouls they are, but there
| are worse- ghouls In our modern world. We
are fan-ilkar with the cheap souvenir hunters
| that foray at every banquet and upon cv >ry
i newly commissioned ship of war for spoons and
; forks and napkins, and with those that chip mT
1 nieces from the furniture of Ih- homes i f the
great masters of ur all anil from the tonilu
1 and monument that gratitude or pride has
roared to tin memory of our benefactors. Tlies
I are chwip and mean enough, hut It appears
that w e have souvi nlr hunters that are worse
than these
At the aviation "meet” at Denver, Ralph
Johnstone, who held the world's record for
height, attempted, in a moment of exhlliratlon,
one of his most daring feats, the spiral glide.
He began the descent from au altitude of Clout
HOD feet, sweeping to earth in rather narrow
spirals, and, because of some accident to his
aeroplane, was hurled to earth like a wounded
bird. Uke Ascanor, he lay "dead In his har
ness”—tho wings and plumes of his feigned bird
folded over his body, tile panache of his great
achievement waving above hl» crushed frame
and Inextinguishable spirit.
It would seem that Americans—that the peo
ple of any land or of any civilisation—would
have stood afar, awed hy the magnificent hero
ism of the man. rapt Into admiration by Ills
splendid daring, shocked by th** sudden turn
of chance that hurled him. like Icarus, to un
timely death. Hut the only sentiment that
seems to have b* en shown hy the spectators
of the d-ath of Johnstone wbb that of the
possible value of souvenirs of the awful catas
trophe. We quote the report of the Associated
Dress:
"Scarcely had Johnstone hit the ground be
foru morbid men and women swarmed over the
wreckage fighting with each other for souve
nirs. One of the broken wooden stays had
gone almost through Johnstone’s body Heforv
doctors fir police could reach the scene one man
had torn this splinter from the body arid run1
away, carrying his trophy with the aviator's1
blood still dripping from Its ends. Frantic, I
the crowd lore away th« canvas from over h!» !
body and fouy' . for the very gloves that had
protected his hands from the cold.”
The question naturally suggests Itself: Would
any other American community exhibit such a
ghoulishness in so gruesome a manner? Wei
do not know, hut we are. too much ashamed 1
to answer, for we have in view similar exhi
bitions of morbid curiosity. Another question 1
suggests Itself: Do these brave and undeterred’
souvenir hunters ever exhibit their gory tro
phies; and do their guests or friends applaud
them for their zeal and bravery?
The incident is on a level with the exploit
of an Indian brave that rushes In and tears the
scalp from the head of his fallen enemy.—Co
lumbia State.
A Modern Point of View.
Old-fashioned garments are, naturally, un
familiar to five-year-old Helen. Recently, she !
was looking at the pictures In a somewhat
ancient magazine, and observed .an engraving
of a woman equipped with far-spreading crino-'
line. i
"Oh. mamma, look,” she exclaimed, "here’s a !
nollnh lady who’s wearing her hat for a skirt!”— I
CL X. Evans.
SERVICES OF SPECIAL INTEREST
IN THE RICHMOND CHURCHES
The annual training school for Sun
day school workers, held under the
auspices of the Baptist Sunday School
Association of Richmond and vicinity,
opens at Grace Street church to-mor
row and will continue through the
week. Sunday's program is as fol
lows: "
»:J0 A. M.—Model Sunday school
session, conducted hy Field secretary
Artnur Flake, of Nashville. Tenn.
11 A. M.—Address by Mr. Arthur
Flake, "Tfte Church's Opportunity ir.
the leaching service."
3 P. M.—hirst session of the train
ing school; audress. "Retrospect ana
Prospect,” by secretary Joseph T.
Waits.
x P. M.—Muss meeting in interest
of Sunday school work, his excellency,
vMuiain Rouges Mann, presiding.
Addresses ny Governor Mann and !
Sunday School Secretary Joseph T. ■
Watts. !
At x o'clock Sunday evening a ser
vice i 1 special interest will h% held
in the Seventh Street Christian church,
when the local company of tho Hoys
Brigade will ho formally Installed as
" company, hirst Regiment of Vir
ginia. I luted Roys’ Brigades of Am
erica. This company tvaa organized
about one year ago, and now num
bers i*»nut sixty, i he entire company
Is tally armed, uniformed and equip- j
ped. The Boys’ Brigade movement ,
«as instituted about iwenty-six years
ago in Glasgow, Scotland. t>y the late
Prof. Henry Urummond and George
Adam Smith. It has spread through
out the globe and now has an enroli- j
ment of about half a million boys, j
nearly one hundred thousand of these j
are in America. It differs from tht I
Boys' Scout Movement. In that It is ;
a distinctly religious organization, re- !
qulrlng attendance at Sunday school j
and church as well as at drill. It '
ulso demands a total abstinence pledge I
from tho use of intoxicating liquors !
and the use of prolane, vulgar or In- i
decent language. It seeks by the use
of military means to incubate a spirit .
of broad manliness, promptness ana
obedience ^o authority. No mretlngv
are held without prayer and Bible
reading, and every means is used to
win the boy to Christ and to send him
tortn to win hi* fellow* for the king-1!
(lorn. The company will be installed
by Pastor Burrell, of the Fairmouni I
Avenue Baptist church, who Is the
local representative of the movement !
for Virginia
Dr. H. D. C. Maclachlan. pastor of
the Seventh Street Christian church,
open* a series of discussions at the
Railroad Association to-morrow after
noon that promises to create a (Teat
deal of interest. The topic for to
morrow will be "What Reason Have
We to Hope for Immortality?” and he
will answer the following; questions:
(ai Is there any other life than that
of the flesh? (hi Has science disprov
ed further existence? (cl What ha*
evolution to say about It' It will be
an open frank Informal discussion of
these great questions, with an op
portunity given for questions. The
objective being that men may tie more
Intelligent informed concerning the
funtflmentals of their faith. Decem
ber 11 Dr. McFaden speaks on "Be- i
lief tn a Personal Devil.” December ’
11 Dr. Maclachlan speaks again on
"Is There Such a Thing as C’onver- i
Hon." and Dr. McFaden ugaln on tht 1
18th on "What Do We Think About
God ?”
The Sunday school lesson study club
meets Saturday night at *:15, with
N. Curtice Scott as Instructor, it is
a great pi see to prepare to teach the
lesson next day All men welcome.
First Baptist Church.—The pastor.
Rev. George W. McDaniel, D. D. will
preach at both services, 11 A. M. and
* P. M
Second Baptist Church, Franklin and
Adnms streets.—Worship at II A M. ,
snd s p, M. Preaching by Rev. W. K
Cultnm. D. D , of Wake Forest College.
There will be a special musical pro-t
gram at the evening service, the quar- i
trtte choir being augmented by addl- i
tlonal voices and a delightful program
arranged. Sunday school will have a
special Thanksgiving service at iR.’tO
A. M
At Centenary Methodist church Ites-.1
J. N Rat ham. D. D., will preitch at 11
A. M. and R p. M. Morning subject, “A i
Prosperotfs Church"; evening subject.
"Is There n Future Rife?" (ilrst of a
series of sermons on “Question* Con
cerning tile Future Rife I.
At Broad Bireet Methodist church,
corn r Tenth and Broad strut ts. at 11
A. M. the installntlon of stewards and
sermon on "Methodist Dlscltdlne." At
s P M the subject will be "The Prodi
gal's Rider Brother." The public cor
dltvlly invited to these services.
The people of the Third Presbyterian
church will have the pleasure of hear
ing their late pastor, Dr K. B. Eggles
ton, at both services to-morrow. He
will be In the city for a fevv day* as lhe
guest of Mr. Edwin Pleasants, 112
South Third street. Dr. Eggleston has
been bolding a *erie* of meetings in
Hanover county during the we. k, as
sisting the pastor of the Samuel Davies
church.
Tabernacle Baptist Churcli.—I>r. W.
O. Carver, professor of comparative
religions and missions in the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
I.oulsvlile, K>\, will preach at 11 A. M.
and k I’. M. Morning subject, "The
Meaning of Missions to the World";
evening subject, “The Meaning of the
Holy Spirit to Missions."
Services will be held tn First Church
of Christ, Scientist, Sunday morning
ut 11 o’clock. Subject of sermon will!
be "Ancient and Modern Necromancy
alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism De
nounced."
The regular services will be held at
Randolph Street Baptist church on
Sunday, preaching morning and night
by the pastor, ltev. W. E. Robertson.
Asbury Place M. K. Church.—Rev. L.
T. Williams, the pastor, will preach at
11 A. M. and & P. M. Sunday school
al if; SO A. M.
First Parish Unitarian, Highland
Springs,—The subject of the sermon at
11 A. M.t will be “Human Confidence
and Stability.” The Rev. Dr. Hodges,
of Marietta, Ohio, will preach at 7; 30
P. M. Sunday school at 12:10 P. M.
At the Grove Avenue Baptist church
there will be preaching at 11 A. M.
by Prof. D. P. Deavell, of Oxford,
Miss.,"and at 8 P. M. by the pastor.
Subject, “Future Punishment and Not
Second Probation.”
Venable Street Baptist chuirnh—
Sunday-school at 9:30 A. M. (C. W. i
Sims, superintendent.) Sunday morn* ],
Ing services will be of special interest ,
to all who are Interested In Sunday ,.
school work. It will be • graduating <
sarvlce for all who have completed i
the teacher training course. Rev. J,
T. Wat*, our State Sunday school sec
retary. will speak. Pastor J. R. John
son will preach to the "Order Frater
nal Americans" at the evening ser
vice. All invited.
Hoge Memorial Presbyterian church.
Nineteenth and Franklin street*—
Rev. a. B. Strlckler will preach at
11 A. M. The pastor. Rev. F. W.
Phillips, will preach at t P. 1L At
the morning services Infant baptism
and memben will be received In tha
church. Also the bt-monthly com
munion service will b« celebrated.
The pastor, Dr. Ryland Knight, will
preach at Calvary Baptist church
Sunday at 11 A. M. and IF. k
Leigh Street Baptist church—Revs
J. II. UmoB, I>. D., win preach at
11 A. M. Prof. It. P. Lea veil, field
secretary of the Sunday School Board,
will address the B. Y. P. U. at 7
A M., and also occupy the pulpit at
the evening service. Sunday school at
11:30 A. M.
The pastor. Rev. Henry Pearce At
kins. will preach to-morrow morning'
and evening at Allen Avenue Christian
church.
Seventh Street Christian church—.
Preaching at It A. M. by the pastor.
Rev. H. IJ. C. Maclachlan. Subject.
"Saving Faith.” At 8 P. M. the In
stallation ceremony of C company.
Mrst Virginia Regiment. Boya' Bri
gades ot America, will b© held. Sun
day school, at 9:30 A. M.
Clay Street M. JE. church—Ser
vices 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Preach
ing by the new puator. Mr. R. T. Wa.
terficlil.
Immanuel Baptist church (Fifth and
Leigh streets) — Annual church day
will be observed, with special services
at 11 A. M. and at 8 P. M. The pas
tor, Rev. B. Franklin Bryan. Ph. I
will deliver an address at the morning
service. Subject, “Our Church and It*
Present Needs." At the night service,
"A Night of Revelry” will be the lopio
of the sermon. Members of the con
gregation are especially urged to t.o
w»ueciii him ue turuifliiy
welcomed.
Kairmount Avenue M. E. < hurcU
(Twentieth street and Kairmount ave
nue)— Morning service 11 A. M. Eve
ning service 8 P. M. Sunday school
S:iO A. M. T, J. Teagles, superinten
dent. Preaching at both services l>y
the new pastor, Kov. J. T. Sewell.
Kairmount Avenue Baptist church
( W. K. Burrell, pastor)—Services at
the usual hours—at the morning hour
a special service of thanksgiving will
he held, participated in by the local
Councils of the J. O. U. A. M , the
Daughters of EiUrty and the Patriotic
Sons of America. Seats will t>e re
served for the members of these so
cieties. At the evening hour the ser
vice will he conducted by Adjutant
Wiggans, of the Salvation Army.
There will be preaching st th* Bar
ton Heights Methodist church bv Ue\.
.Tames Cannot), 1>. 1). at 11 o'clock
Sunday morning.
First Initarian church—flev. <\ a,
Hodges, of Marietta. (>., will preach
at it A. M Topic, "A l.lvtng Faith:
Its Bearing I'pon I-lfe." Sunday school
at 10 A. M. .Vo evening service.
At Laurel Street Methodist church—
Breathing at 11 A. M. and at 8 P. M
by the pastor, Hev. Dr. James H.
Moss.
Marshall Street Christian church_
At tills church to-morrow Hev. George
W. Kemper will preach two special
si rmons. In the morning his subject
will be -A Great Debt and How to
lav it.' and in the evening, "Five
Reasons V\ hy 1 Am a Christian.”
MILITIAMEN WILL
GET DOUBLE PIT
MIl.lTAItV HO.VIU) INCREASED
COMPENSATION of SOL
DI E KM—SERVICE MKDAUi
TO BE ISSl'EI).
Virginia militiamen who went to
Gettysburg for the lilt) encampment,
will receive twice os much money fop
their services* as they nad expected.
This is due to the fact that :t>«
Military Hoard in session In the Gov
ernor s orfice Friday night, decided
to pay the citizen-soldiers an amount
slmillar to that allowed by the Fed
L*ral (illVl-rmiletll f. .e Bald _
The board also decided to iaauc to
each command *iu a year for each
man enlisted in the company. This
will go to the commander in a lump
sum and be apportioned for armory
improvements uniforms and other
things as they are needed.
Better armoriea in the smaller
cities and towns was discussed at
Home length, and the contenders ot
the companies In Buoh places wcre
oriel ed to Improve their quarters aa
soon as possible.
The boaru approved the holding of
camps of instructions for line and
Held officers, such as was held in
Petersburg last summer, and sug
gested that if possible the non-com.
missioned officers should attend these
schools.
Adjutant General Sale was author
ised to accept the deed to the new
fine range and encampment grounds
at V irgtnia Beach as soon as the title
to the donated property was found to
be clear.
Service medals of bronze for six
years enlistment, silver for nine
years, two silver bars for twelve
years, large; silver medal for fifteen
iiars, gold bar for eighteen years,
two gold bam for twenty-one years,
gold medal for twenty-four ' years,
ami one gold bar for every six years
alter that, were ordered made and
awarded. ,
A conference between General riale
and the commanding officers of all
the organisations in the mnltta waa
heid prior- to the board meeting. The
general betterment of the citlxen
Koldler was the topic of 'discussion.
At the Colored T. M. C. A.
The Colored Young Mens Christian
Association wifi hold a- mass sactlng
or wome nand men Hunday 3:*0 I' ifT
it the tM-cond Baptist church, Southglde
5r. D. Webster Davis, pastor. Rev. W
i. Stoke*. D. D„ pastor of the £bens
ier Baptist church wii preach a special
lerraon. The male choir of the ennren
vill sing. The male quartette will ren
ter special Mlections. Ail MM erl
□en are lavited.