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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-14
ARCHITECT.
DIMMOCK. M. J.. State Bank Building.
ARTEsIAN AND BORED WELLS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

sYDNoR PUMP AND WELL CO., l44o
Main
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
COMMISSION FRUITS.
COMMISSION, TOBACCO, AND GRAIN.

]. FERRERO & MAGNANI, 1904 e. Cary.
JENKINS, w. g. SON, 1911 e. Cary.
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PRINTING AND ENGRAVING.

OLD DOMINION PRESERVING co.
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CHIsEL-TOoTH SAWS.
CIDER AND VINEGAR.

BENNETT, D. s. 1900 E. Cary.
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AINSLIE. DAVID A., s. Tenth.
BOSHER'S, Il. H, SONS, 10 3; Ninth.
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RopEKER BROTHERS. 1n4 Main.
PURCELL. LADD q CO, Governor.
POWERS, TAYLOR DRUG CO.. 1905
SCOTT. w. H.. nth and Franklin.
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HATS AND CAPS.

CoTTRELL sADDLERY Co. 1903 Mai
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BooKBINDER AND PRINTER.

MERCER, WALTER c.. SO E. Main.
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The Old Dominion Hospital.
MI Sitterding, who is always ready 10
arc the ladies' or the city IN their chart
table work, has constructed the beauti-
fui japanese house" for the old
Dominion section. after a design bv
Captain Marion l.. Dimmock. This booth
Will face the entrance, to the right
OF the centre, and will be lighted by
electricity, in japanese lanterns. The
tea-garden, 70 the right. will be Indebted
70 the Cohen Company. for most Of its
pretty furnishings. II is here that tea
will be sold, and probably chocolate. also
The unique Japs Sc handkerchiefs
which are 10 be given with each cup will
be a special attraction
Mother Goose" In her car, viii leave
the booth fer tour OF the hall every
evening at o'clock. She will bring with
her attractive novelties IN the shape of
boxes OF sweets TO tempt the young and
the old. Who could resist a 5-year-old
mother Goose" and her little red
horses7
The Old Dominion will be represented
by the following ladies':
Representatives from Auxiliary 10 En-
tertainmens Committee: Mrs Levin
Joynes Miss de Keville, principals; Mrs
Sam Martin and Miss Kirk. alternates.
Soliciting Committee (heads): Mrs.
Percy Montague Mrs. Levin Joynes,
Mrs. Anthony. Mrs. George Ben. John
sion. Mira. Garcin. Mrs. Clinton Boudar.
Miss Fanny Lyell Mrs. DR.. Peterfeld
Trent Miss Higgins Miss Delaney. Mrs.
Barr.ss
Restaurant Committee: Mrs. c. w.
LYMAN. Mrs. LYMAN, and others.
Reception Committee 10 be al Aruory
Hail. Monday. bth); Mrs. Henry VIII
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The sheltering- Arms Booth is to be In
the style of gala-tent In some foreign
fair. In this tent viii be displayed pic
lures, beautiful pieces OF fancy-work. use
full articles (such as aprons. caps and other
things). and, In fact ell that Is pretty.
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UNION BROKERAGE CO., 10 S. 14th.
SMITH, r. NJ, & CO.. is S. 18th.
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OLD DOMINION IRON AND NAIL
WORKS.
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HORSEsHOES.

Stokes & SIMMONS. 1907 Ross.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

$23,154,740 These shipments went to China.
Japan, Australia, South Africa and several
other countries. The import trade has in
creased in as great a ratio. 1t is estimated
that previous to 1889 the entire importa-
tions of tea at Tacoma amounted to s., 000-
600, while from 1889 to 1897 they amounted to
$26,OO0.0O0 This is due to the establishment
of the Northern Pacific steamship line,
which plies between Tacoma and Japanese
and Chinese ports. Since the establishment
of that line Tacoma has become the second
seaport in the United States in the number
and value of foreign packages received for
immediate transportation without appraise-
ment. New York being first and San Fran
cisco third. 1t is estimated that about one
half of all the tea imported into the United
States is received at Tacoma. These facts
are of general interest as indicating the
rapid growth ST our foreign trade through
Pacific ports. They show there is truth as
well as poetry in the line. Westward the
course of empire takes its way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
sIcKNEss AND SUICIDE.
Theory that the HOpeIessly Ill Should
Die When They Wish.

Edgar Fawcett, in Golfers Weekly.
The reported suicide of Mrs. Anterior
Blight, at Newport, makes one marvel why
so many suffering consumptives consent to
live on as they do. Several years ago
went again and again to the bedside of a
most amiable lady whose lungs were slow
was no hope of even her partial recovery.
She must simply lie and gasp herself into
gradual extinction. Every day brought with
1t certain hours of acuteSt misery. She was
not religious woman, though by no means
a Scoffer; l should have called her the most
consistent kind of agnostic. One day she
said to me, with tears glittering on the raw
aged haggardness of her face: Il think it
is horrible that j should be forced to linger
on in this anguish! Any physician could
give me painless release, and yet, even at
my entreaty, even when we both recognize
that my getting we'll would be a miracle
lady from my soul Through five or six
months more she was compelled to linger on.
Meanwhile that ridiculous monster, Popular
Prejudice Zone which has the body of
mastodon for bigness, the head of an idiot
for smallneSs, and the claws of tiger for
malice) had been propiuate.di: O Of course course
the future arrangement of such distressing
cases. The tortured man who demands to
die will have the right to do so. 1t will
universally be held an act of tyranny to
thwart such voluntary and preferred exit
from life. The first principle of human lib
idea-the freedom to live. Next comes Tor
should Gomez the laissez MOURN sanction
full civic PERMISSION TO ole, at the VIII Oh
the citizen. l am not attempting to discuss
the moral question of suicide. There may be
occasions when it is aR. act of the most
scandalous immorality-of the groSSest do
nestle selfishness and cowardice. But the
state need not and should not NEEDLE with
these forlorn and shocking psychical affairs
Between insanity and suicide it can draw
no definite line. 1t does not make insanity
criminal why then should it drag to prison
those who have failed in escaping from life.
the life which to them has become a prison
uncomfortable? True democracy is not a
jailer, with a bunch of keys dangling at
his belt. 1t gives the world to men, untram-
meled by all restraints inside the bounds
of law. TO bolt the doors of egress from
an existence which the individual desires to
quit is pure social despotism. To say that
when these bolts are torn by him partly
asunder he should be put into durance, with
a don t-do-it-again''. monition, is childish
folly. However, time has slow but sure
way of righting all such wrongs. And as
for the poor invalid, agonized by disease
well, there are anaesthetics, there is mercy,
and some day there will be a Popular PreJu-
dice as dead as the dragon slain by fabulous
PerSeuS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26


There have been numerous indications of
late that foreign manufacturers and bust
ness men are alarmed at the rapid growth
of American trade and are waking up to
the fact that the United States is danger
Gus competitor with them for control of the
markets of the world. This sentiment pre-
walls in Great Britain and on the continent.
1t is reflected by the press, apparent in the
reports of trade commissions and openly ex-
pressed by statesmen and by prominent bus
mess men. A few days ago Count Golu-
chowski, Austro-Hungarian minister of for
eign affairs predicted that great feature
of the twentieth century would be a COM
bination of European countries to prevent
the commercial supremacy of the United
States. Now comes the Right Honorable
Charles T. Richie, president of the Lon
don Board of Trade, with warning to the
same effect. In a speech delivered before
the Chamber of Commerce of a provincial
city on Tuesday he expressed the opinion
that the greatest menace to Englands con-
tinued supremacy in trade was American
competition. He regarded the United States
as a more dangerous competitor in manu-
featuring and trade than Germany Contin-
uing, he said:
There is no doubt the United States are
executing orders which ought to be exc
cuted here. AS we all know an American
firm obtained the contract for the Central
Underground Railway (of London), as it's
bid was lower than those of the English
concerns and it could deliver the supplies
three months ahead of the British tenders
Many important continental orders have
gone to America. The same is to be said
of Egypt and Japan, where the Americans
are doing work that Englishmen should
ing dispute many orders are leaving the
country, and unfortunately these orders
seldom return.
1t is impossible to mistake the significance
of these expressions from different foreign
sources They mean that the United States
is forging to the 'front.' and that foreign
statesmen. manufacturers and business men
recognize that this, above all other coun-
tries. is the one that must be reckoned with
henceforth for the control of the markets
of the world. This is highly complimentary
to the resources of the country and the en-
terprise of its people, and should incite
American manufacturers to renewed efforts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
WAsTEFULNEss OF GOVERNMENT
SERVICE.

The advocates of the theory that gov
eminent should manage railroads, tele-
graphs, coal mines, and even control the
trade in certain necessaries of life, meet
the main objections to it by referring to
the postal department of the United States
as an illustration of the perfection of man.
agement which can be attained under pub
lie direction. They declare that a corpora
ton could not do it as well as does the
government If one of the elements of
well means prudent business methods,
exception can be taken to their claims.
The mail service is, perhaps. better man
aged than any other branch of the public
service. Such is its nature that efficient
and trained men must be employed. A man
who can scarcely write may act as a clerk
in a department. In fact, years ago many
such were appointed, but a railway postal
or postoffice clerk who cannot learn the
distribution of his route or his office cannot
be kept on the pay roll for the reason that
the number is so limited that every man
must be fairly efficient.
In it's broader management, however, the
Postoffice Department is not managed upon
business principles, or even upon the
theory of the greatest good to the greatest
number. This is the fault, very largely,
of Congress. 1t seems, also, to be partly
the fault of those who have made lenient
constructions of the postal laws. Take the
law in regard to second-class matter: it
was intended to apply to regularly pub
lished newspapers and periodicals. By
seemingly inconsiderate decisions every
thing but actual merchandise can be sent
as second-class matter. Indeed, it is not
impossible that packages of merchandise
under the cover of some advertising sheet
issued regularly, would go through the
mails under second-class rates. The gov
eminent carries hundreds of tons of mat
ter which is not really second-class mat
ter at a loss of six or eight million dollars
year. Again, newspaper trains are MAIN
tanned at considerable loss for the sole
benefit of few publishers in the larger
cities. For years efforts have been made
in the House to defeat the voting of con-
siderable sum of money to railroad lines
between New York and some points in
Florida, but so strong is the outside pres
sure that it cannot be done. Private cor
porations would not do such things con-
sequently if postal affairs could be turned
over to a corporation it would serve the
general public just as we'll and save mil
lions of dollars. 1t is hoped that Congress
may. have the strength of purpose which
the last House had and follow its example
by passing the Loud postal bill as meas
ure of economy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

The movement in the gas belt to stop the
waste of natural gas does not come any
too soon. If it had begun some years ago
a great deal of waste could have been pre-
vented and a public sentiment created that
might have forestalled the present form
of waste by boring for oil But it is useless
to discuss past mistakes. The proposition
that a special session of the Legislature
be called strikes the Journal as hasty. The
first thing to do is to exhaust the remedies
provided by the present law, and then, if
these are Ineffective, to ascertain if any
legislation on the subject will stand the
test of constitutional attack. 1t would be
unreasonable to ask that the Legislature be
called together to pass a new law before
the. efficacy of the present one has been
tested and it would be waste of time and
money to do it if no law on the subject will
stand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
A TROPICAL KLoNDIKE.
The State of AntiO1uia, Colombia, Is
Vast Gold Field.

The State of Antioquia, Colombia, is in
the lap of the Andes. Medelin, the cap
ital, is las miles northwest from Bogoea
and some $50 miles from the Caribbean
coast The Porce river, on which the rich
est washings are found, Is branch OF the
Nechi which is an affiuent of Caica one
of the principal rivers of Colombia, which
unites with the Magdalena river and emp
ties into the sea at the port of Baranquilla,
the most important port<of the republic.
Antioquia has an average elevation in
its valleys of 5000 feet, but on account or
the mountains and some swamps at their
feet is difficult OF access, although the
climate of the state itself is nearly perfect,
and no unhealthful conditions exist.
The Porce river is 175 miles long, and runs
through the capital, Medellin. Sixty-five
miles of this river is full of gravel bars
and flats very rich in gold. For three hum
bred years the Indianss have washed out
gold in a crude way, following the bor-
ders of the stream where the water per-
mitted, and from 1902 to 1920 as near as
can be approximated, $6,OOoOOo had been
washed out. In recent years it has been
estimated that $1,0000O0 per year has been
washed out.
An English engineer made an examina-
ton of the river, and estimated that the
river contained IA 7-10 ounces per superficial
square yard, and that in the lower fifty
mile reach of the river there were more
than four thousand tons of gold.
Mr.. j. d. Garrison, while connected with
the surveys of the Intercontinental Rail
road made some examinaticns TIC see IL
these reports were not very much exagge-
rated, but his tests showed results fully in
keeping with the reports made by the Eng
lish engineer.
In one place Mr.. Garrison found a bar
where from the surface down the show
ing was 50 per cubic yard, while at six
feet down 1t averaged $50 per cubic yard.
Mr.. Garrison says that the examinations
of this river by experts read like a fairy
tale and had not the richness of the river
valley been fully demonstrated by the ex-
animation of experts and by mining opera
tors he would certainly hesitate to give
them
erage was "a to As cents per cubic yard,
while in the Porce valley So to SIS are av-
erage yields, and in some places $500 per
cubic yard and in one place $435 was shown.
By this comparison some idea be
formed of the incredible richness of this
valley
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

the Constitution or laws of the United
States prescribing the method of nominating
candidates for President and Vice President.
They provide for the manner of choosing
electors and the counting of votes, but con-
tain nothing whatever relative to the man
ner of making nominations or bringing out
candidates. The modern nominating con-
vention is an evolution of politics. In 1889
there were twelve candidates for President
that is, twelve persons were voted for.
Out of 142 electoral votes Washington re-
ceived SO. John Adams "a, and ten other
persons received from one to nine votes
each. John Milton received two and Benja-
min Lincoln two. Washington and Adams.
having received the highest and next highest
number of votes, became President and Vice
President. In 1892 five persons were voted
for, in 1895 thirteen persons and in 1900 five
persons. In this year Jefferson was nomi-
mated by congressional caucus, which met
in Philadelphia, Aaron Burr being named at
the same time for Vice President The peo-
pie at large had nothing to do with the
selection of these candidates. The same
year Adams and Pinckney were not nomi-
mated at all, but ran and were accepted as
natural leaders of their party. From 1900
to 1911 there was no caucus or convention
held, the States choosing electors, who
voted for the recognized leaders of each
party. The system of nominating conven-
tons has only been in vogue since 1892. 1t
has some drawbacks, especially in the noisy
and cumbersome character of national con-
ventions, and might be improved upon, but
the plan suggested by the Bryan leaders
would not be an Improvement. The people
would never consent to have the nominating
power taken out of their hands in that way.
The suggestion shows that the Bryanites
are afraid of the people and are casting
about for some method to secure the nomi-
nation of Bryan on the Chicago platform of
1896 without having to run the gantlet
of national convention, which, there is
every reason to believe, would be fatal to
both. But no way will be found to secure
the nomination of. Bryan in 1900. His name
will never appear again on any ticket as
presidential candidate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
A BRYANITE SCHEME.

The Journals Washington dispatches of
the Esd contained the following:
A new departure in the methods of nom
mating a Democratic presidential ticket has
been projected by Bryanite members of
the national committee. 1t is, in brief to
dispense with national convention in 1900
and in lieu thereof have the state conVen-
tons do the business by nstructing ma
tional committeeman to cast the votes of
state delegations for the readoption of the
Chicago platform and the denomination of
Bryan. and empowering him to name his
own running mate. This unique proceed
ing is counted on to give the campaign a
terrific send-off, eclipsing the start of 1896,
with its ''cross of gold and crown of
thorns' establishment.
1t would be quite in harmony with the
methods of the Bryan managers to adopt
this plan. 1t probably originated with
Bryan himself for he. is very fond of the
spectacular, and so bold a departure from
established political methods as this would
be just TO his liking. There is nothing in
the way of its adoption, provided the Bryan
managers are willing to take the risk of
SO novel 9. procedure, There is nothing in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

The name of Charles K. Lush Is new
among fiction writers, but one that his
first book, 1.-The Federal Judge puts well
up in the list. 1t is a story of political ana
business life, the main theme being the
manner in which certain wealthy railroad
spectators secure the appointment to the
federal bench of a county Judge noted for
his opposition to corporations, and AFTER
ward bring indirect but powerful influences
to bear upon him to gain the decisions they
want. The judge is incorruptible by all
ordinary means, but somewhat unSo-
phisticated and has his weaknesses, which
are shrewdly played upon until he plays
into the schemers' hands unconsciously to
himself. The incidents are well handled, If
a trife improbable at times, and the writer
shows ability to estimate values in using
his material. Some of the minor features
of the tale show crudeness and inexperi-
ence. There is a tendency to the melo--
dramatic, as, for instance, in the method
taken by the Populist congressman OF
breaking to the judge and his wife the
news of their wandering sons return. The
faults are those that may be easily over
come, however The novel as it is is
worth reading, both for it's intrinsic merit
and it's literary promise. Published by
Houghton, Miff1in & Co., Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
LIBRARIES IN WISCONSIN.
A Plan Which Has Proved an Unaua1-
flied Success.
kansas City journal.

Kansas City Journal
In May. 1896, Senator Stout, of Menomi-
nee, Wis, bought sixteen Libraries contain
ing thirty volumes each. These were sent
out in little wooden cases into any COM
munity of the county where twenty people
in one place for six months and then be eX-
changed for another. The people were rot
slow In making application. and the num-
Der of libraries had to be increased TO meet
the demand There are now thirty-seven Of
these miniature libraries In circulation, con-
tanning about fifty volumes each.
Some one farmer. or the postm 1ster. or
school teacher. is chosen to take charge of
them, and the little case of books some
times stands in the village store, or up on
the farmers milk cupboard, or in his best
room.
ono community reported a circulation of
IA books for their first library, and an in
crease of PA books for it's second library,
and when one realizes that this circulation
of pa is among about twenty families who
live from a half mile TO a mile apart on
their farms, 1t means more TO them than
half million circulation does to Minneapolis.
During the last year the circulation OF these
little libraries reached J5s volumes, so great
was the eager desire for books. Where such
an opportunity TO read exists, the farmers
boys will not have 10 drift into the towns
to find amusement and occupation for win
ter evenings and farmers wives will not
find life on the farm such humdrum ex-
istence.
These libraries are composed of the most
carefully chosen books. In every one of
them Is a copy of Shalers Our American
Highways" and the farmers are getting in
terested in the subject of good roads. In
many of the libraries are good cook books
for the farmers wives, also the standard
books on agriculture and domestic animals,
together with good stories and histories,
and books for the children.
Report was made that in some plaSss the
farmers wives are forming themselves into
home circles for reading, and for discus
sion of topics suggested by their library.
Their hoEizon has been widened. and their
lives enlarged. and they are finding other.
topics of conversation than the weather ana
the crops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

The Detroit Tribune says Governor Pin
gree in his Thanksgiving proclamation did
not plagiarize from an old proclamation of
Governor Rich. He merely ran across a
sentence or two and few phrases in the
archives of the State, discovered that they
expressed his thoughts and used them much
as Shakespeare used certain material at his
hand for The Merchant of Venice" 1t
concludes There was no plagiarism in
either case" Pingree frankly admits that
he borrowed from Governor Rich, but says,
II guess too much was taken from the Gov
ernor's message to look good" There
should be method in plagiarism.