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if in inn When h tr. lit.
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si- -i should ’ - the pl.-usuro
ail other pub; ofT.dais •< m-ognl/e hi
®re. !• is no morn possible for Roosevelt
be atm ply the Colonel than it is ‘hut th
of the nation's capital should full ; i >m
Washington The man does still, and will
,}■», carry with him tin aiir. of th. ofh •
tiled. When .. public character Ilk" .ludg>
Win elves him ufTront. h" simply shows tin
s narrowness, tne mine higotry and the
paote conceit whi.-ii ha- >• > uused Roosevelt in
pig actions as a private citizen to belittle hi*
ird us the trust, e of the Inchest puhlli place.
It matters Jitt!■• that Roosevelt slandered
Baldwin. it matters nothing that Roosevelt
Mis man refuses to acknowledge the wrong that
..lie did a man who has earned the confidence of
■the people, lie is still tin ex rresid. tr, and a“ .
anch, rather than for hiinst 1. 1- entitled to the
Stlbferenee due his place in the country's history,
ffo vent resentment against him p.r personal
act inns is not so much to injure Uoosev. it. as u
to assist him in refusing the proper d.-f.-n nee
to a natural national sentine l.t
cx»KKvsn»\ wirnoi r urn m \s< i
The Richmond Evening Journal, tin- dusky -
Guardian Angel of the Teni|K>ran<-< peo
j#k' of Virginia, makes i onf< ssion of error in
Its attempt to inatrui t (■*'■ telo|».ranee people in
reference to the liquor laws of Virginia. It
eontradicU-ii itself most comically. I, referring
la the two rear limit a- to Eoewl Option < lot
tlons, and in the very ic \l paragraph In erav | .
'Asserting the passage of .1 font year law on that
(Ject. Tin /*oV. tHnr <! I'injiHin pointed out
lit a long witli other comical < ontradirtion*
the column o! the i.uurdiai, \ngel, and it
8s pointed out by otln-rs also. Tht (luardiau
Ugel seems to tic in sor- straits in tl ••*«* days
re arc rumors that tic shadow of the Angel *
* docs not darken »r many hearth store
the Angel has claimed Whether th. riniioi
true or false the Angel is making frantic
Sorts to prove |o ill. advertisers m tin-"city
the paper Is read, alul in tragically
pbiUlt. tones * heads tile editorial enttle
tgnorunce or r s tin lotir-iini ■ /,*
UW and sorrow In ause of ignot ane
^representation proven against it h.iv
ill tin* Journal's mak* up linn tan ii
*« that the journal is read * \ia| so n
seration the Journal flaunts in
Richmond advertisers who have
rumors concerning tie tuimhei
'8 visits, tiie name of u memlier of
e from Culpeper, and tli«* editor
luge in liribtol Poor Guardian Angel; This
a. desperately daring attempt to twister i .
Mr circulation, but the • \<d any, -t i» not
Bally counted by the aiveit:
But dear Guardian Angel, confession .s worm
! Without rep' titan, , And cn 1. *. <• not :•
nl, for yon have not mad- a full con
iit,„ What alrtiut that fit n, m Pc , it . ,.*
Cbwond. which - on declar' d adv, rti-. u brandy
; th'* 'temperance l ,ru,aei,i arid would not
fertise in the Guard m Angel lx-, a use ite
ewi on the liquor question did not suit that
Since that sing!*' liquor item in orn
lirtliunnfent appeared in tie • temperam
iHhM." no advert!ser:,< n! has upptared in tie
ftitiun from ti, it firm. Hut that firm
.been advertising regularly in tin Guardian
•luce that time, and in tin, issue of
tber l"tb. there is ,■ tt; inch advertisement
up exclusive)}- to the advertisement of
Old Wines." Aladeria Port Kherr Ken
Bourbon, Old tiihs >n it..-, poemo . ('Uieta.
1 and Mozclle. and sueb ilk* Why does not
|tor of the Guardian Angel confess either
business office and the editorial writer
Angel do not agree on this question, or
better still confess that as a matter ot
liquor views of the Angel are entirely
to the liquor inters* s. There is
genuine repentance where th>: • 1 • not
frank confession.
( tben the Guardian ,Wig< i shows such a
Spirit toward th* “temp" ran re I ir
U to difficult to put faith in its t
»pciiiani o Instead of ‘banking Th> l ifff/nte*
nr iwjintiug out the numormi- i ••ntraditions in
ts columns, it turns on it Ilk' an- spoils d child
>f ton or twelve would dn. w • caught in doing
\rfim.. and slaps it 77 t n more like
Unite old gander, than t > V:- i Guardian An go I.
Such an exhibition does no < r• ti!t to thp "rats
ng" of the Angel, whither it ! • native or for
ign.
And in the spiteful . Mldish ship, the Angel
gain displays its ignorane< of geography and
listorj it declares that tie statement in Thr>
ir;7!«iiJn that the error- of the Journal on the
emperenace question bet raj od its "foreign rati
ng referring to th< igiior.it',ee on temperance
natters i is "apt and truthful an expression
.s might tv ex ported from a fanatic who came
0 Virginia from the North ' And then "the
anuth from the North' is informed that the
Ptnrdian Angel hails from 1’rine. William
ountx Virginia!’’
Weil this is ten interesting information,
nd "the fanatic frott the North'* regrets ex- .
eedingly that tin Guar 1 tan Angel did not stay
n l’rinc William long i nough to participate in
• • ti-ni|>eranre fight whirh drove the saloons
’ of l‘ritie** William tin which, by the way.
t':.e fanatii from the North' did participate*
rid to imbibe the temperanee doctrine* which
i'cri taught in that campaign so that he would
lot !»'trnv ills tori ien raising so easily "The
at ,.tl. from the North" lia- never been so much
or.eerned about where the man came from j*
hunt what the man is. and what he represents.
Uul la rejilh thinks that ignorance and rash
in verified statements ar> a- ugly and unlovely
n . Guardian Angel from Prime William
ouuty. .is they would 1, in a fanatic from th<
xortli "
This "intuitu from tin- North ' was horn and
nought up in Satis bur . on the Eastern shore
if .Maryland. KP> mile- South of Mason and
lixon's line and ten miles south of Prime Wil
iam eouuty !!' At the age of sixteen he en
1 red Randolph Mas on College .it Ashland w hich
s to miles south of prim ■ William county Ho
xa - a steward of the church at Ashland and
i local preacher of the Ashland church. He at
ended Princeton Theological Seminary, and
hen entered the Virginia Conference at the age
if twenty three, and for twenty-two years h<
hi- been in that Conference, living during that
time at Charlotte c II Newport News Farni
cille, and Hlaekstone. -• 1J of which are many
miles south of Prime William eouuty. Hie
lintm church will e-ntert; in the Virginia Annual
Conference of the M K. Church, South, next
November His home State lots given ilisliop
John C Keener and A W. Wilson to the South
ern Methodist Church.
The Coiurdian Angel is sadly ignorant of
geography and history when it declares that
the Eastern hore of Maryland is "North" either
In location or in ‘sentiment It is simply an
other example of tin icmir^i eontraditiotis of
the Coiurdian Angel
P S • Chief .lustier |; jger p, Toney who dt
livered the opinion in Co I»red Scot* ease was
another "fanatic from the North’ the Sta'e
id Maryland
I III sl l*ltl Ml < nt It I
hi He natural »«ii» •uhi* ion iih to Prosit!' nt
Taft's Jiiilli i d appointments one nl tin; most
untie, muing things was tin assumption that the
non named wotjld art u[ion the hom.-h in ac
cordance with t'lt.tit) political or persona!
\o ws. tatlirr tliiin ;i. ioi-iiitin to .in unbiased
judgment as to the law. tterorils wire can
vassed, leanings analyzed, habits of thought .util
opinion put to tin- i. st Prom all the chatter,
»*!•• Judges of the Supreme Court might he men
chosen to legislate, rattier limn to deride, mop
or less ahsirnnly, ipe tines of constitutional
law and eijulty.
\V* think that tliis assumption was as impui
;ive as it was ugh when taken at its natural
and Jogjeai deduction Tlie iieople still believe
in th- Supreme Court Certainly tlie Court has
dole nothing to bring it lii'ii popular suspicion
of Ms mot I vi 111 fact, it is probtihly Ix-rauae.
of the f.uth that the people have in it. that the.'
should apparently exhibit a led, of faith in a
very natural interest.
All tie1 lalk id whet in a . lodge so and so l.ivors
tat trust ‘ js against them, whether h" leans
to Stale in National right-, whether he is for
o! against i e|,realization is very inueh lieyond
tl. mark of Supreme t eurt history The men
put in then- high place* .u men of character.
otherwise they are impossible. They are tat*
ears, placed at one mom* nt at the height of
tleir possible ambition ilefoir them stretches
a life time ol honoralili lalio: They are fused,
indeed, with the very body and spirit of the
nuintrv With such a stimulus to high think
ing and just standards, urn a narrow man must
need.- heroine broad; ••ven a prejudiced iBtin
unit! needs become lair <'mild the hearts of
ih< Supreme Court,}*■ look'd into, there would
probably is- found there nothing sav a desire
lo so live the remainder of a life of high ser
ve.- that there should be left the record of an;
upright Jmlgi
Constituted as it it. wan the record of its
gp-ut names and its profound derisions to sits
i oil ,t the country is in small danger of In
jury at the hands of a petty politician on the
Supreme Iiej cli In Washington.
> l.sTKBOAV’S I’U'l lt.
in .in exrelb nt business address in Klclimond
several days ago Hugh Chalmers, of Detroit,
P !!iir d himself of a nubile r of biting maxims.
■it:, t v which wni that, “The hardest thing on
" < tfi to find Is yesterday’ newspaper. If
you i.'un'i believe it, try to liml one.-'
M Chalmers, of course, Lad reference to the
bueiuias use of tip paper. .His maxim, so far1
/
)
:i* the necessities of bustdpmi publicity are con
cerned, Is of the palpable verities We Hup
!>€'?«• ■ that every man enraged In the making of
n newspaper sometimes jiermits himself *he tin- i
pleasant reflection of tie* transient character of i
big work. Where is the paper and the work i
if yesterday? tJone to .:iake tires, to wrap bun- ]
illes. tn be carried uw*j with thu litter of the t
stiei is and of the homes. The thing that was <
t«irn of hours of high tension work., the stories ]
that were written at fever heat, the opinions,
and disclosures, and jests, and human records
that made tip all the pages, arc—''Themselves,
with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.' The
newspaper Is a thing of to-day. Who would use j
it, must look to the issue of the moment. A ;
■lean slate, it takes impression from the swift
waves of life, presen's its Ib'eting picture,
voices its momentary comment, and Is gone Al
most, one would say, it has never been, despite
ill the circumstance and detail of Its birth
Yet the yesterday’s paper never dies. Some
where it survives. In a hundred depositories
Its records continue, biding their time. The ,
news of yesterday, forgotten to-day, rises up the
news of the day after tomorrow. In the mass
nf the newspapers, there ore no writtlngs op the j
sand, bnt rather the iraces of life on superim
posed and long burled layers of rock. Years,
generations, alter the men who made then have j
passed, after the papers themselves have tor
one reason or another ceased to exist, these
mule fossil traces remain, waiting their re
discovery, wonderfully outlined, terribly candid
in their record.
Many a man lias made shipwreck upon the
paper of yesterday, hidden in his course like a
submerged, reef ready to destroy him. Many a
forgotten scandal has at Die first attemp to
practically forget it risen np with Htill deadly
venom to strike its prey again. Indeed, there
is a strange perversity about the paper of yes
t< rday, w hich no one ran find, and who h no
one can escape Cold, impersonal, unforgiving,
it is, in fact, of kinship with the roll of fate,
written in its indelible characters, impossible
of obliteration. < 'f all tilings the most transient,
oi all work apparent!.! that which leaves tho
bast impression, the newspaper—particularly
the newspaper of yesterday—-is of all things
the most indestructible and of all things that
which can least be hid or altered.
\ HI I ATI 1> niMI’l.lMliXT.
Contrary to expectations. Kx-Presideni imnso
velt's speech at the N-» Haven banquet cJlil
not go into tin onuses of the recent result. The
man tit the end of the calf rope is still :■ •■eeh
iess Instead of saying something which would
he of interest, he icvamped his election s;» celiea
and nave a tired country more old morality new
nationalism, and more . onscrvative radicalism,
It is a tribute to the Colonel's unkiliable popu
larity that a resurrection of this sort should
till claim place of prominence in the news of
the Imakfast table.
What was of interest was the turd, bit of
grace in the ex President s toast to President
Taft and the new Chief Justice of the United
States, "it seems to tne.'* he said. that noth
ing could 1*' a better augury of the future of
this country than that i Republican President
should appoint an ex-Confederate. oi opposite
political faith. Chief Justice ctf the I'nited States
Supreme Court and receive the unoi mous ap
plause of hi.s countrymen.''
Terseh put and well stated as tin'- -cntlment '
is. it is nevertheless necessary that tin toast be
taken in connection with the forme utterances
of the man who proposed it. It is nm possible
that the graceful utterance of a sp her at a
banquet should not he subjected to i e test of
liis. ungraceful utterances upon the sir, ■■ subject
on less formal and more candid <•■ . ions. It
is scarce eight weeks since the sa e distin
guished eitb-n who now lauds the P lent and
augurs tlie bright future of the count front a
non-partisan and non sectional appointment of •
an eminent jurist as head of one of ' co-ortli- |
nate departments of the (ioverntnent .>as public- ■
lv declaring that the department it- If was out
of sympathy with the people, was fossilized
judicial oligarchy standing in the , ah of lib-'
erty. and was actually assuming, lTo: the uni
formed egotism of a superficial mi 1 to pass
in review upon the decisions of tin ry Court
itself, without which democracy America
understands it would speedily resoi-,. itself in
to the dictation of the mob. The n an who so
consistently refrained from giving < irsement
tu his friend in the. hour of his need. w under
takes to wave a rhetorical flag ove r . actions,
now that his own ingratitude ha- i roven in
effective. The- man who made an ts.- . nf over
riding the courts, now oecontes seir ental at
a court appointment. Truly, there • - n certain
dignity of purpose, as well as a certain indig
nity of patronage, to both of which Theodore
Roosevelt—with all his presumption - * universal
knowledge-- Is an utter stranger
HACK YARDS ON f ROM’ STItl I TS.
Is it lawful for the houses of a - :• to turn
their hacks to the streets’’ That is > question
which 1* *‘. rsburg Ooune-U are-ms t , hive re
solved in the negative by the p.i.-.vege of nn
ordinance requiring In 'utuce tmr n build
ings within the city shail front cm t... streets
on which they are built. fills r>u irkab’e or
dinance was caused by the plans ot a mi tiding
corporation which contemplut fd the - re. Don of
a number of houses, all of which, turning (heir
backs dlsetfttnfully upon the public highways,
■ oulel front upon an Inner court within a square 1
Passing over the fact that any building In
cluding with its grounds the width of a
street anel have a rear entrance to an
other, and would thus, with all the best In-]
tention in the world, automatically violate the I
irdtnance, there is re teed by the new law a
>retty question of the powers of a municipality
vlth respect to buildings. So far as the man
ler of the building is roncerned, so far even as
he material goes, the city would seem to have
mdoubtod power to establish ressonable regu
atlons. It could require that sanitary conat
ions be regarded, that danger from fin) be
ibvlated, even, perhaps, that certain distances
tetweeu certain sorts of dwelling be main
allied. All these public powers, however, would
ippear to be subject to their reasonable char
icter, founded upon protection to abutting own
rs and thus to the city, it is another matter
then a city undertakes to prescribe the archi
tectural design of a house, the color It shall
>e painted, its size, or its position. Those are
luestions which it would appear lie for determ
natlon in the mind of the man who builds, and
towhere else. Much as Petersburg people may
>bject to the necessity of having to view the
•ontoniptuous backs of residences that herd
vith themselves, it is to be expected that a court
leeision will put u stern foot down upoll such
in infraction of u pure personal liberty in the
ise of private property.
Alter all. who Is to say what manner of house
my man shall build? Where is derived the
lower of a sort of aesthetic censorship on
irchitecture and taste.’ Unfortunately, taste,
specially In residences, is far from being an
iniversal possession. Every city has houses that
:rln at the passing public or stare it out of
•ountenani'O. Even on Fifth Avenue, there are
ionics costing their millions which the city
-uuId well afford to purchase for the privilege
>£ tearing down. Every city has its night-mare
nonuments and statues. But it needs only that
ino should witness the occasional rt sidence dls
riots that represent some by-gone rage for a
larticular architecture to coin hide that it were
setter that the power of this decision remain
oith the people, rather than with the municipal
ity. Individual taste is all too apt to be bad
•nough, hut community taste i • more than apt
0 be worse. After all. there is something
if a false prejudice in the idea of the bach
■ remises. The day has passed when the “back
■ ard" was a sort of unsanitary dumping ground
tor t he family rubbish No longer, ljetween
high fences, is it the icpulc her of which th“
front is t!u- whited outer seeming. Indeed, with
hack yards facing public streets, it may be
•xpetted that the one front will be as clean and
:is lovely us the other, and that Is tin- real do
dderntuni in home surroundings. Sweeping un
•lev the bed, and not sweeping the sweepings
under it, is tl distinct point of character. Any
building arrangement tending to promote such
a Virtue is a matter that has its good points,
whosever susceptibilities may be wounded by
the presentation of the rear end of a dwelling
!n the line ol vision of the fronts of the houses
across the way. We hope that there will be no
litigation over the Petersburg ordinance, and
we suggest as u solution a compromise whereby
1 hose householders who do not desire to front
their houses on the streets adopt the expedient
of building them on tin bias
No limn seems nlilo to get m-aic for his good
intentions. They an laying that George W.
Perkins, so far from n signing from Morgan
arid Co. for the purpose of helping his follow
tuau, was in reality kicked out of the firm by
the Big Boss.
Ohio Republicans havp so far recovered from
tli- shock an f<> shut their eyes and open their
mouths in anticipation of sueh sugar plums its
are left ov r for Christmas distribution.
Senator 1 ley burn ip found of sulfur.) grandeur.
Of all the hilarious gentlemen who participated
in passing the Payne- \ Id rich tariff law, he
alone still has the effrontery to stand pat.
In vow of what has happened in the Bra
zilian navy, naval estimates should include a
patened loyal gunner.
Two Chicago waiters who saved their tips
have just bought a hotel for 11,000,000 rash.
Yet the men who don't give' tips rarely own
hotels
Airs. Von tTaussen evidently wishes to force
a ' divy’’ of the Roosevelt royalties, by getting
damages for a refusal to permit h r to mingle
with them.
Judge Baldwin’s chair was empty, hut it was
not draped
Senator Taylor’s Crusade for I*ure Tobacco.
If the quality of American tonocco has become
no had that Senator “Bob" Taylor, of Tennessee.
Inks upon it as unpardonable. It must have
reached the last degree of adulteration and
degeneracy. HI* first work on returning to the
Senate la to Introduced a bill extending the
provisions of the pure food law to all those
vegetable products commonly known as tobacco.
Deceptions in weight and quality must end. It
Is a known fact that a great deal of smoking
tobacco tv entitled to the eulogium of Bottom,
the Weaver: “Good hay. sweet hay, hath no fel
low.’’ Considered ns Incense to be burned at
the shrine of Rady Nicotine, it Is not even In
the clnss with the clear Havana fillers put out
In Wheeling. W. Va.. or the Vuelto Abu.lo foliage
for which Connecticut Is so Justly celebrated
The premium series of “Killers of All Nations,"
ncludlng actresses, furnished with the ordinary
cigarette of com inert e, has never blinded the
consumer to the fact that he was really infil
trating his system with a compound of has
rteesh and rabbit, tobacco. At all events, the
uplift organisations which ave gone Into the
matter bear witness that ten years of the habit
prepare callow youths to wear checked trousers
tnd vote the "wet” ticket.
it does seem that something would have to
:>e done In the premises. T'rittl some method
pas teen discovered for utilizing tin inferior
f rad is of tobacco as provender *. r at tie. It Is
•illy fair that the highei grades of ,an age
eaves should tie protected from mis funding.
-Senator Taylor’s !ntere»t in the matter Is purely
patriotic. Any sped ■*. of misbranding must
redound to the advantage of the Tenesaee pro- I
luct, of which "the weed" Is all too accurate j
i description.—Baltimore New* * '
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SWOi OF IEE
KOI CIVEK OF
IJAl'GHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
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COMMENT ON STATEMENT OF
1>K. ABBOTT—IIINNEK FOR
VETERANS.
Discussion of plans for the annual
Christmas dinner at the Soldiers'
Home fur the celebration of General
Roe's birthday on January 19. reports
of various committees and minor bus
iness matters, were brought before the
monthly meeting of the Richmond
(. hapter, l tilled Daughters of the
Confederacy. Wednesday morning in
l.oe Camp Hull, Mrs. N. V. Randolph
presiding.
As lius been thi custom of the chap
ter for years, a Christmas dinner will
lie given the veterans at the toddlers'
Home by the (laughters during tne
holidays. Mrs. Randolph is chair
man and Mrs. Hlcnner associate ( hair
man of the committee in charge of
the dinner, which will tie given this
season on January i. Home-made
>HK«S will lie one of the greatest
treats on the menu, which will lie
made up of Christmas goodies from
beginning to end. Tills annual dinner
has come to be regarded as one of the
brightest spots in the year for the
veterans, who nre made doubly glad
by the dinner and the presence of
the daughters.
To insure an adequate celebration
of Bee's birthday on January 19 a
committee was appointed to ask the
Howitzers and Richmond Blues to
parade to and around the l.ee monu
ment on that day, in the evening
atiout fifty crosses ol honor will be
presented, when the historical com
mittee. of which Miss Kate Mason Ro
land is chairman, will provide an ap
propriate and attractive program The
chapter also voted t<> place n wreath
on General Jackson's statue that same
day.
Miss Rutty Kllysnn and Mrs Edgar
Tu>». i were appointed a • ommlttee
witn power to choose another member
to Interview the board of Hollywood
cemetery, asking that the Davis sec
tion In- taken into the perpetual care
of the Hollywood association.
The historical evening given by the
chapter on November JJ proved so
entertaining that a letter has been re
ceived by the chairman ol the com
mittee tn charge of tin- program from
Te e l amp asking that it is repented
before the members of tip i amp on
the last Griday night in January.
\n interesting matter pertaining to
historical truth was brought up lit
regard t * the question as k'-d by Dr
A dt. in his address at Richmond
College recently, when he* spoke In
most glowing terms of General R< <*,
but asked. Was General i.ec a fail
ure because he surrendered his sword
t" General Grunt" .Several daugh
ters expressed - irprfse that Dr. Ab
bott stat* rm nt that Dee had surren
dered his sword to Grant, and which
'as reported tile day following the
address in the local papers, had pass
'd so far without being challenged or
v ontradii D-d. As the daughters Itav.
repeatedly done on former occasions,
they again denied the correctness of
lids assertion, saying that Iwo did not
surrender his sword to Grant.
A letter of thanks for the maga
zine sent by tin chapter tor thu li
brary at tin Catawba Sanatorium was
rei eived from Charles R Bruner tin
librarian.
The corresponding secretary was re
nested to write letters ot sympathy
to Mrs Henry i' \Vi( khum, Mrs.
Georg' A. Barksdale. Mrs l.undnn
(’■ Edwards Miss Iren, Jennings. Miss
Annh Ja'o'i-. Mrs John R. Rogers
and Mrs. \V. K Hild.. vv ho o president
ol the l . D C. chapter at l.outs,t
A pleasing teat it re of Wednesday's
meeting was the pp tctnv of Mrs Rat
tle. "f the North Carolina l'. D. c
who IS Visiting relative.- in this city.
Tin annual meting of the chapter
will 1" held on January )!.
TRY STANDARD FOR
CUTTING PRICES
1'itoM i him, oil. risrsT rou
TIIVIM. l(> It WISH ( liMIM -
V*
rrrioN ikom it vi.i h.ii
UAhKiliH, X V' 1 >. i . ii 11 .. r n
The tliill ..I ihr Standard < *l! GompiinV
hi th. Raleigh police jiu-Uc.'.~ court
:>>r ,i violation ill tli«- North i',.rn
Hna anti-trust liov h> i tilting prices
w ith a view to pi venting a compet
ing company front getting a tooting
so that the tru.-t might tin r.oift.r put
up prices again. begin this morning
It will probably consuru* several days.
Atturm y llenernl ilickett is with City
Attorn, -y V nit- r Clark, Jr , in the
prosecution. Tha evidence to-.luy
wns principally testimony of Raleigh
dealers as to prices paid for kerosene
the part year showing tin tuts made
by the Standard.
Questions as to prices prior in 191ft
were opposed hv til" trust's counsel
hut were allowed ns to 1911*1. They
show steady prices prior to this time
Attorney Ili. kett said that tic ap
prehends that ill. trust will under
lake to sin;tv great increased demand
for gasoline through the niultlplica
ti"ii of automohiles causing: a falling
off In the demand for kerosene, lmt
lie declared that the prosecution in
that event will Insist on being allow
ed to go hack into prior years to show
that no fall occurred In Italelgh until
this year, when eompetltlon loomed
up here.
Hon. I,like IVnliic.
(Special to The Richmond Virginian.>
(iUI)K HIM., VA.. Dec. 14 lion
Luke Perdue, one < f the oldest and
la st known citizens of Franklin coun
ty, passed away December 9. Fune
ral services were conducted by Rev.
Blankenship and the body laid to
rest in the family burl.il ground. Mr.
Perdue served one or more terms in
tile Virginia Legislature. 11was a
man of high Christian character am.
a typical Virginia gentleman, uged
S7 years.
Mrs. Isabelle ('. (.leaves,
Hn.WoKK, V.A.. Dee. 14.— Mrs.
Isabelle Famphell Ohcives, widow *1
Mail r Oeol-ge Wythe Uleaves. dii d
vest, rday at h< r home in Wythe coun
ty, aged 85 years.
.1. Wllllnm Ha I 'ey.
LYNCH PPPO, VA, Dec. It,—J
William Bailey, ■ i rc i cut -f ih
Balley-Rpencer Hardware <* Tp-my
died Tue - >y mnr ung it th. ’Iy a ;.
hotpltn' a-ed f8 y< ir*. Mi 11 - u •)
nec -,fi had 'on -r ri* tn L-. :> ■
burs, except two years 1- 'lalti+i re.
He Is survived by ills wife, one 1 ro
ther, Joseph 1, lini'ey, of this city,
and Ihr.e ulstera, Mrs. It. Ii Scott
und Miss Fannie Halley, of Lynch
burg, and Mrs. L. B. Hotly, of Nor
folk.
V\ . , ■ : 1 . 'C- \ .1;. ‘ -v’ A . . : .
HABIT OF
KI»WAIU* SKAICII HAS BEEN'
AWAY HKFOKK—HAMPTON
■'US’S ACCOUNT AitE
*- at l
COiUUCUT.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA., December -
M.—It developed to-day that T. Ed
uard Sealeh, the cohtldential book
keeper (..r the Newport News and
old Point Railway and Electric Com
pany, who has been missing since last
Saturday afternoon has disappeared
before.
Ten years ago he was employed at
Old Point and suddenly disappeared
In the sume manner that now marks
his absence. After remaining away tu
obscurity and out of communication
with his family and friends for about
three weeks he suddenly returned. At
lhat time he gave mental depression
as the reason for his going away.
It was learned to-day that beforo
leaving his home at noon Saturday
the last time his wife saw him he
removed all of his correspondence
from his pockets, all papers contain
ing his name, and cut his initials and
name from the clothing that he wort'.
Friends expressed the hope that he Is
ill in a hospital, in which case his
identity will soon be established and
thAt he has not made uwav with him
self.
officials of the company by which
h« was employed have broken their
silence to the extent of stating that
lus accounts are correct and that his
place has not been filled.
His domestic relations are known
to have been happy.
1 ■ S. Circuit Court of A|>|ica|s.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals reconvened Wednesday
morning with Circuit Judges OofT and
Pritchard and District Judges Mc
Dowell and Rose in attendance.
Rankin Wiley, of Point Pleasant,
w Va . W. R. Murphy, of Pittsburg.
Pa ; J Morflt Mullen, of Haitimor-.
M l . and Fred C. Rector and Ells
worth O. Irvine, of Columbus. Ohio,
were admitted to practice in this
eou it.
The following eases were argued.
No, Joey. James A Henderson, re
eel'., r of tie Pittsburg and Cincin
nati Pa. kot l.lne, appellant, vs. Ka
mi w ha Dock Company, appellee; ap
peal from th.- district court At
charleston, W Va. Cause argued by
" P. Murphy, of Pittsburg. Pa , for
III., appellant, and by Kankin Wiley,
of Point Pleasant. W Va., for the
appellee, and submitted.
No. 3 * * 01;. Edgar II Bankard,
plaintiff in error. \». Ellsworth C.
Irvine, receiver, defendant In error;
in error to the Circuit Court at Ral
■ mor. . Mo. I’ji'i.'e arguej by Jos-ph
i' Eram-o. of Baltimore. Md„ for th»
plaintiff in error, and by w Calvin
Chernut end .1 Mortlt MtiPen. ,.f fta’
titnore. Mil., and Fr. il F. Rector, of
Columbus, i ih ... for the defendant m
error.
Care in call Thursday; .Vo ;| 7.
William K. Free-, and Joseph F.
Dickerson, plaintiffs in . rror. \»
Fnited States of America, defendant
in err.-r, in error to the district court
at Ash \ lib , V C. To be argued b;
r.- RoiiiHs, Do. Craig and
■I S Adams, o' Asheville, x. c., for
tlo- plaint in’s in err.-r. and bj A. E.
H* lion. Fnited States attorney, of
Winston-Salem, N C„ for the defen
dant in • rror
ROBERTA DE JANON
SETS B1IIST FORTUNE
MILLIONAIRE SEED MAN WILLS
WEALTH TO GRANDDAUGH
TER, WHO WAS RECENTLY
IN PUBLIC EYE.
I'lt 11 .A t iKLI'IKA, 1’A,. p, c. H.—Rn«
PeJunon. print ipal in fl truiis
continental elopement with Frederick
< 'oljt 11 .i u* -Stratiord hotel
wui(*T. a .war ago. and granddaughter
'he mlUi"tiair» r.-ed nmn, Robert
died in his apartments at
lh<- HclleviM'-Siratfnrd late liisi night,
mil lM'.-rlt his grant wealth, it 1“ said,
but with restrictions that will protect
her Irani ndventurers. Although at
tl.' Inna uf her elopement ltulst threat
ened iu i:ut her off In Im will, he sub
s' 'tm-1n 1 > took her back Into his favor.
Mrs PeJunon ir to-day en route to
tins <ilv from i.oe Angeles, to which
(iti she was aetit following her return
to thin city from Chicago, where elm
and tiie waiter wore arrested. Shewn*
summoned l>v telegraph when the phy
sical bn realized that the aged million
aire was beyond hopes of recovery.
8he will hardly arrive in time for (tie
funeral width probably will take plan*
I riday.
TOOK HER AWAY
BEFORE GOT WRIT
GIRL ABOUT TO BE DEPORTED
HUSTLED AWAY WHILE LAW
YER WAS HERE.
Tiie annual case of t.eie Utekewiez,
the foreign woman who was* ordered
deported by the Department of Com
merce and Labor, and who was remov
ed to New York by the inspector In
time to escape the proceedings under
writ of habeas corpus, will ire given
a bearing before Judge Goff Wednes
day afternoon at 5 o'clock.
I.eie Ctekeivloz was admitted to this
country sonic three years ago h.v the
itnhdgrnturn authorities and entered
the domestic servite. A month or so
ago she was urged lo come to Nor
folk l y a sinter, and it wits then that
the authorities got on her trail, and,
defining her an undesirable alien, tits
ib;.ai lment ordered *luspectoi- Martin,
ol the port of Norfolk, to arrest her
and hold for deportation.
The wr man and 8. M. Grand!, who
was enraged as tier attorney, applied
to Judge Goff for a writ of ha be a*
I r u on the ground that she was
un ustly confined' in prison and was
rt'thir allowed to consult counsel nor
!• rn tie choree a lit Inst her. Judge
<■ off granted the writ, but when the
1 .'ws re . 'lid No f, 'k it w, M found that
hi ; (i tor Martin hid put hr on tin
i dri I . n in n Loat and shipped her to
Kilis I land.
Mr. Rrr.ndt la in the city tp see If
Judge Golf will not Insist on-the recog
nition of the writ hy the Federal au
thorities and a trial for the worn**
baton ah* to dap or ted.