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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-29
ITIT III ~ VT"Tf :
THE DECEAsED'S PAPERS.
WIFE NOT HEARD FROM.

Mrs Carpenter VIII no; receive the telc-
gram announcing the death Of her hus-
band until some time to-day. Dilisboro' ,
the nearest telegraph station to Frank
lin. is twenty-five miles away and the
Office there was closed Last night when
tho tol-rram WIS sent. Mrs. Carpenter
was wired yesterday afternoon that her
husband was ill.,.
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swIss-RIBBED UNDENWENt

Ladies' White and N1lhr rin
Vests, full size. w.fh fancy
neck and sleeves 3 pairs iIf
White Svlss-R!p t-'f.
At neck ana sleeves. al sizes.
&c.
Extra value IN SBiss-kln o.l
at neck and sleeve. fu.i l-nt 70
value 33c., our price l.c.
Imitation Isle Vests, WIN
and sleeves, special Salus Tor
made ., ....
Extra-Slze White SN.ss-i,'h'i
price Csc. ..
Isle ests. good quality. SIX
neck anC sleeves, tu.l itA6tA ".'
price $50. ,..t -
Uigh-Seck and long-Sirrf'
and Pants 10 match. Ntsy s-
price 50c .......f . TO-
briggan silk Jersey Ribbed Nes.'
rious prices. ..I.t ...
Chlldren's Vests IN various si'''
prices, as well as sizes.
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Ice-Cream.
The Moesta ia now being dispensed a. cry
nrucs,oros sofa Fountain. Drop IN at Eignth
and Main streets Ten cents glass.
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KAUFMAN &C..
o:
THIS WEEKS
Great Offering
or
MILLINERY,
UNDERWEAR.
DUCK AND SERGE
SUITS And VESTS
Your dollars Wilil.r
purchasing power hcm
THIS WEEK.
MILLINERY.

To advertise N'I.nn.
would say was har'
sary if YOU saw te
piling in and the c..
throng of purchasers F.
department. Bat W.
tell the other ha.ioi ...
about our Millinery Oh
Trimmed Hats far Clt.
Laaisf besln at $50
upwards.
Thes. are ste.h Ut,..
sight th. o-al ot
knows bow, aUl -
almost every dIN.
our FINER HATS A>'
g.. $ial. so. 3d. ST.
changed Tric. Il- rf
from 81 % go i.e-
We must htv" r..H
these must De- -nII
We aim - bass. Hu
FOR your inspection t
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at Hume Minor Company's. 90 Broad
street. All kinds at publishers prices.
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Organ for Sis.JO

at Hume-Minor Company's, 69 Broad
street. \ little beauty Good as new.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-29
linri.Iit pinno. &l2h

at Hume Minor Companys. Go Broad
street Lovely instrument Terms easy.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-29

ISAAC sYcrE & co. are selling Figured China
siks at 19c. n yard.
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lYNcHBURc's MILITARY SCANDAL.

Hastings Court OF the City OF Richmond
i desire 90 40 TO Hollywood cemetery"
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Old Pianos, S25

at Hume Minor Company's. COO Broad St
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- i'i'- number O. Council committees
W. "'. l.-.t'r-av afternoon. Streets
I'D i.Up $50. . Of the city Hln
'i.h schools n room No. II %
- -''e' "a loom No. u a. /: Claims aad
l'' 'A room no. n at 7. ana Print
'.s 10 room 80. 80 at {.
"a" JUDGE NOT \ CANDIDATE.
- - WIZ was asked by a Dis
:. '''''i,r yesterday Il 4 was tFGe
''''' 'tpice - Wise wo1ld rot 5e
'''e "a ior Congress anI hat
- ~'' VINO would enter the race.
a., '.o''' "y-ed with mach CmQhasis
'.0n mort Was q mistake. Il
- 49, not take the nomination for con.
49,. 49,. Oh silver waiter. Iwant 10 stay
's"' ""''s am. When l leave the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11

multiplicity of things which children are
now required to cram into their minds
but little time and attention can be
given to any one study, and particularly
that which comes On their rest day, Sun
day. Besides. as a part Of the modern
tendency TO make learning easy. chill
dren are no longer compelled to mem
orize any lessons. A stream of informa-
ton. sweetened and diluted to suit their
supposed taste and mental digestion, is
allowed to trickle into their minds.
Some is retained under this process, but
more flows away and is lost. 1t is not
well to learn many things by rote, but
fine literature is an exception. 1t is not
necessary that children should thor
oughly understand a beautiful poem or
a passage of Scripture in order to men,
orize it. When they have once commit
ted it to memory 1t will remain with
them, and they will understand 1T. and
treasure 1t. and rejoice over 1t In later
years, as they never do over beautiful
thoughts read once and forgotten. The
art of memorizing is almost out of use
except among stage people, but 1T might
be revived to advantage. and especially
in the line TO which the college profess
sor directs attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAIL
A


The facts presented in a report of the
Interstate-commerce Commission in re-
spouse to an inquiry of the Senate rel
alive to the results of government own
ership of railroads make 1t very clear
that the management of railroads by
government is neither profitable to the
government nor advantageous to the
people. Ten countries do not own the
railroads, but eighteen own and operate
them, among whic are Austria-Hun-
gary, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France,
Germany, India, Russia and Spain. In
Canada one-tenth of the fifteen thou
sand miles of railway is owned and OPP
Grated by the government at a loss of
more han 5000. 600 in 1892. In France
about f~ve-sixths of the mes are oper-
ated by private companies, but the roads
will ultimately become the property or
the government. The average passen-
ger charges per mile in that country are
3.S6- cents for frst-class. 2s6 cents for
second and EOS for third. In Germany
the charges are $40. 2.32 and 1.54 cents
a mile. In the United States the aver
age charge is 2.12 cents. which. consid-
ering the accommodations, is much
cheaper. than in France and
The average charge for freight in
France is 2.20 cents a mile per ton; in
Germany it is 1.64 cents; in the United
States. / cent. And yet in France and
erma the labor. which constitutes
so large a part Of the cost of keeping
up and operating railroads, does not cost
more than half as much. man for man,
as in the United States. The interest
on capital invested in railroads in
France is 3.S per cent. in Germany, 81
per cent. while in the United States 1t
is 81 per cent. Two or three States
nave embarked in railroad building and
operating, but all have now abandoned
the experiment. Illinois constructed a
road at a cost of 81, 000. 900, which it sold
for 500, 600. Georgia owns a railroad.
but, after trying to operate it for a
time, leased it to a private D to
escape increasing deficiencies as the
years passed. Several other States have
been involved in railroad enterprises,
but all abandoned them after finding
that success was out of the question
These statements, compiled from ex-
listing sources of information, should be
studied by those who may have been in
1uenced by the plausible theories Of the
advocates of government ownership and
management of railroads. The facts,
which are ever so much more conclusive
than mere theories. tend to show that
under the best conditions, such as
France and Germany present, the peo-
pie are not SO economically served as in
the United States. while nothing Is
gained in efficiency or convenience. I'M
der the very different conditions exist
ing in this country the cost of operating
would be largely increased, for the sim
pie reason that the government always
pays more for its service and gets less
efficiency than private companies nan
aged by able and experienced men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11

1t is told Of the late Oliver Wendell
Holmes that when last in England he ex-
pressed an earnest wish to meet the En-
glish agent of his American publishers.
When that gentleman called he naturally
expected the conversation to touch upon
business, or, at all events. upon literature.
Instead of that he found the "autocrat' so
much interested in the merits of a patent
razor that he scarcely talked OF anything
else. This was no doubt the same razor or
facial moving machine that the good
doctor described with such warm elouuence
in a letter written to the Atlantic Monthly
during that same journey. Some kind
friend had presened him with one just be-
fore he sailed, and he was so pleased with
its workings that he wanted all the world
to know its value. The reading public is
accustomed to having skillfully constructed
advertisements of places and persons and
manufacturing establishments foisted upon
them by leading magazines under the guise
OF literature, but the Atlantic Monthly Is
not guilty OF this species of fraud, and a
free razor lad" in it's choice literary COL
umns was therefore decidedly startling. DR..
Holmes was probably the only contributor
from whose manuscript such illusions
would not have been mercilessly expunged.
but his intentions were obviously so guile
less that the editors probably decided to let
1t go. perhaps as a literary curiosity. But
there must have been millions in it, to
the razor makers.
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circumstances alter cases. Two years
ago, when a Democratic tidal wave
swept over the country. and the people
gave a thoughtless verdict in favor of
free trade. Nj. Bynum thought it was
"a fine exhibition of popular intelligence,
but when, after two years of hard times
and hard thinking. they reverse their
former judgment and pronounce in ia
vor Of protecting their own interests. he
loses faith in popular government. In
his pessimistic interview he emphasizes
the stat .ment that thus far the people
have only tried to strike down the party
in power" but he intinlates tina the
time is coming when they will try to
overturn the government itself. The
whole interview is an insult to the in
t~elligence and loyalty of the people, and
shows that. although calling himself a
Democrat. Mr.. Bynum has no firmly
fixed faith in popular government OF
free suffrage.
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The snob's heaven: Eternal high life.
London Truth.
waited-for opportunities are usually more
or less frazzled at the edges.-Detroit Free
Press.
One trouble with the church Is that there
are too many babes in IL from five TO six
feet ~high.-Ram's Horn
It is the better half that doesn't know as
much about the other half lives as she
would like to k~now.-Puck-
Half the women who can't cook board.
ash the other half keep boarders.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
What a pity it is that our neighbors do
not know as well as We do what is best
for them.-Chicago Standard
This" said the bachelor, as he paid for
sewing on a button, sis what is meant by q
single ax-"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Collector-Say, look here. I'm tired OF
calling here about this bill. The Debtor
Well, I'm mighty glad to hear it--Life.
The wheel of fortune turns round inces-
sanity: and who can say to himself: Il
shall to-day be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Teacher-A mole eats daily as much as
IL weighs. Pupil-But how does Ii know
how much it weighs?-Fliegende Blatter.
We are never willing to admit there IL
insanity in our family until some member OF
it makes a viii that doesn't suit us.-Tit-
Bits.
Di Dio. a New York concert hall high
kicker, has Just married a millionaire club
man Of that town. Serves her right-De-
troit Sun.
Enough; here is a world of love; no more
we ask to know; the hand will guide thy
ways above that shaped thy task
w. Holmes.
sIt SEEMS said the judge. that you
have only lived in Georgia six months"
Must be longer than that. sir; why, Judge.
I'm a brigadier generalv'-Atanta Const-
tuition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11
GOOD cIrrzENsHIp.

The courfe pursued by a number of
citizens before the election who claimed
to represent an organization devoted to
the elevation OF citizenship seems to
make a few remarks upon the subject Of
good citizenship in rider. An ~organiza-
ton of citizens devoted to the promo
ton of clean and competent administra-
ton of public affairs can be very useful
If Ii shall pursue its work with a liberal
spirit and IN unselfsh purpose. When,
however, such an organization under
takes to narrowly define good citizen
ship and to condemn all those who do
not come up to the requirements it's
leaders AVE adopted it will fail to ac-
complish any good. To say that a man
is not a good citizen because he does
not believe. do or refuse to do certain
things that the men who make the
standards believe and possibly do, has
its inspiration in the same spirit of in
tolerance which. a few centuries ago,
burned men at the stake as heretics and
hanged women as witches. 1t was that
same intolerant spirit which inspired a
committee to ask candidates if they
drank intoxicating liquors as a bever-
age. If all the men in this country who
occasionally drink intoxicants are to be
excluded from the ranks of good citizen
ship a considerable part of the most use
full and honorable men in our cities will
be outside. 1t may be unfortunate that
1t is so, but SO it is, and when that good
citizenship which means an intelligent
purpose to secur clean and efficient
government and the enforcement of the
laws is the sole purpose of organization
these men cannot be rejected without
sacrificing a large and influential ele-
ment. Nor can the ends of good citizen
ship be promoted by men of a single
idea or those who are stimulated to ac-
ton by spites.k Furthermore. the men
to whom such work is intrusted must
themselves be model citizens, intelligent,
broad-minded and earnest, and, of
course. men who have regulations for
strict integrity. The good citizen must
be manly. and good citizenship must
commend itself to oilers by manly
methods. Acts will count for more than
words and an honorable record for more
than ~pretentious professions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11
AMERICAN GIRLS AND DOMESTIC
SERVICE.

A woman writes to a LaPorte pape
that she recently advertised for a
bright, capable woman as assistant in
her work. which, by inference, seems to
be that of a small shop keeper. and was
surprised by the appearance of thirty
applicants for the position. All of them
were in need of employment, and one,
with tears in her eyes, begged to be
chosen. saying she had no home and but
little money. When told that her work
would consist in sweeping, busting and
washing dishes, as well as in waiting on
customers, she declared that she would
rather s~tarve." The other twenty-nine
were of the same mind. apparently. all
of them being opposed, as the would-be
employer says, to using their hands. She
holds the opinion, drawn from this and
similar experiences, that women who
desire to ear money have an uncon-
querable antipathy. to manual labor, and
her lack of sympathy, and even on
tempt, for them is great. She is I'M
doubtedly wrong in this respect. In the
strict sense all labor in which the hands
are used is manual labor. even that in
shops and offices so much sought after
by young women. But in it's more linn
tied and conventional sense it is not OBJ
jected to of itself. Girls crowd into fac
tories, they learn typesetting. laundry
work and a variety Of trades where the
work is hard and unpleasant, but they
do not complain of it because it is man
ual labor. What these same girls OBJ
ject to is what is claimed by them as
mental labor, namely, that of the kitch-
en- when the kitchen is not their own.
1t is a curious distinction to draw. but
it exists. and no argument can over
come it. Social grades exist down to the
very slums. and a girl who must earn
her living-that is to say, an American
girl accustomed to this false view of an
honorable occupation-will try almost
any variety of arduous toll before she
will become a household servant. She
feels, rightly or wrongly. that when she
has once entered the kitchens portals
as a paid employee she has lost caste.
and that the way to social advancement
is closed to her. No matter even if her
status was below that of a servant be-
fore, no stigma attached to her, and
now she is convinced that it does. 1t is
the American spirit, that wish for and
expectation Of social advancement, and
it is useless to argue against it. The
fault is with the system and not with
the foolish girls, who fail to see that
they may so dignity any honest en-
ployment that it becomes an honor TO
them. Already there are signs of a
change in the conventional attitude to-
ward household workers. The recon-
struction of public opinion is a slow pro-
cess, but in course of time it is probable
that an accomplished cool or housemaid
will rank as high in the social scale as
an employee of factory or shop. When
that time comes-and it need not be the
millennium, e~ither-thirty women will
not answer a shop keepers advertise
ment, for at least twenty-five who might
possibly desire such employment under
the old conditions will be working in
kitchens.
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wish that book to be saved from it's less
discreet friends. There is danger now of
its being done to death in parlor enter
tainments. Omaha has set the dreadful ex-
ample by having IAN evening with TriI-
by" at which essays were read on the life
and work of the books author and on diff
ferent phases and features of the story,
and a quartet sang the songs spoken Of in
the tale. Tn next step will be to give
amateur representations of the characters
and scenes. after seeing which genuinely
appreciative souls will almost wish the book
had never been born. The great trouble
with emotional Americans is that they
never know when to place a check upon
their enthusiasm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11
INEFFICIENT SCHOOL TEACHERS.

The school superintendent, in their
annual session just closed. discussed
some matters of vital Importance to the
of these was the hindrances to ais eff
cheney Of town and city schools. The
report on the subject by superintendent
Carr, of Anderson, showed tina out of a
hundred school superintendent who
were asked to give their views on the
subject sixty-seven thought that inefa-
cient teachers were the greatest him
france to better work in the schools,
while twenty-five laid the responsibility
on poor superintendent. OF the patrons
Of the schools whose views on the same
subject were solicited, a majority
thought the greatest drawback to the
schools was politics and favoritism in
the selection of teachers.
One cannot tell how we'll considered
or well founded these views were, but
they are certainly entitled to some
weight. n the teachers evidently
thought so. for they devoted some time
to discussing them. The concurrence of
so large a proportion of the superintend-
ents whose views were asked in the
opinion that the schools suffer more
from poor teacher than from any other
cause would seem to imply that there
is something radically defective in the
method Of selecting teachers. Assuming
that our normal schools are effective
and that good teachers can be obtained.
the question arises. why are they not?
The only answer to this would seem to
be either that school boards and exam
liners are themselves incompetent or
that they are not doing their duty. and
this raises a further question as to how
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-11
ONE VOLUME is ENOUGH.

Americans are familiar with illusions
in English writings to t~hree-volume nov
els, but the three-volume move itself is
unknown in this country. 1t has never
existed here, and, in this day Of railroad
literature and the demand for books
that can be read through In an hour.
would not be tolerated. The English
novel must be put inside of a single
cover here. and its length in that way
concealed. Even then it must have un-
usual merit if American readers do not
condemn it as tedious. Even when. as
sometimes happens. 1T is made into two
volumes, it must be a great name or
peculiar attractions hat will carry it
through. Many people read Mrs. Wards
'Marcella" as a matter of literary duty,
or for other i%nscrutable reasons, but 1t
is safe to say that nine out of ten of
them were repealed at the sight of the
two books. and that their s~elf-imposed
task seemed thereafter more formida-
BILE. There is reason to suspect. too,
that General Wallace's Prince Of In
dia" would meet with more ready ac-
ceptance had it been bound In a single
volume.
English readers are less impatient Of
prolixity than are Americans, because
their mental activity is less: they are
accustomed to novels in three volumes,
and custom is strong with them, conse-
quently they lave not insisted upon a
change. For some cause. however, a
change has come about. James Payn,
the novelist. writes that the t%hree-vol,
ume ale has suddenly and unaccounta-
bly, gone out OF fashion. Writers who's
work was lately rejected if it could not
be stretched to the three-volume limit
are now informed that the t~hree-volume
style is not acceptable either to pub
fishers or libraries. Formerly they were
assured that circulating libraries OBJ
jected to the single volumes. MI. Payn
is a good deal puzzled over the matter.
but is evidently inclined to accept it as
one of those mysterious movements of
publishers by which. in the end, profit
comes. but not to authors. 1t is more
likely that the change comes spontane-
ously as q result OF American influence.
American novels. printed in this coun-
try, circulate to some extent in Eng
land; many which are republished there
are so brief as not to admit OF padding
to the customary size. 1t has probably
dawned at last upon the slow-moving
English mind that fiction In condensed
and even homeopathic form is not only
convenient, but agreeable to take" Mr..
Payn and his fe,low-writers need antic-
ipate no loss TO themselves by this
change. On the contrary. they are ike
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much politics n personal favoritism
may be responsible for the employment
of poor teachers. The subject is one OF
great Importance and calls for thorough
discussion. So far as the schoo of this
city are concerned. which are undoubt-
eddy the best in the State and among
the best in the country, the Journal does
not know that the charge of inefficient
teachers lies against them, but Mr..
Cars report and the discussion. of it
shows that the evil does exist in some,
and perhaps in many. localities to an
extent that threatens serious injury to
the graded schools.