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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-27
TRUSTEES AUCTION SALE
or THAT
DESIRABLE
Three Story Corner Dwelling,
No. 1901 Grove Avenue.

In execution Of "A certain deed of trust.
dated September 10, 1897, of record 10 the
Clerks office Of Richmond Chaucey
Court. i'm Deadlock l6l &C." page rs.
Will sell by auction, upon the premises. On
WEDNESDAY. MAY 81. 1879,
at $50 o'clock T. NJ. the aboye-describei
PROPERTY, fronting p Ieet on Gro,s
avenue. by depth Of l3V feet to an alley
Il 9-l2 feet wide.
The dwelling is attractive I'm design.
Wcll-built. and finished iu the bost man.
ner throughout. 1t is especially ADAPTED
to the use of physician or other pro.
fessional man, and more comfortable
house is hard TO find.
TERMS: One-fourth cash; balance AZ
six, twelve, and eighteen months, on mon
liberal terms, or all cash. If desired.
my % SOL. CUTCHINS. Trustee.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-27
The Confederate Museum,

TWELFTH AND CLAY STREETS
Open daily from 10 a. NJ to 5 T. NJ
Admission Is cents. Free on Saturdays
NH lf-lY
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PHYSICIANS RESIDENCE.

BY j. Thompson Brown & Co..
Real Estate Agents and Auctloneers,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-27
WANTED.

CARPETS. RUGS. DRCGGETs. AND
FUR Rugs to Dust. Scour. and Store
moth proof. Mrs. A. J. PYLE, 3l5 north
Fifth street. New phone. i6S. my 3-lm
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-27
FOR SALE.

A NEW GROOM DETACHED DWELL-,
INC i'm Fairmount. within one sluat,
church. school, and electric ear ff..
ssjO-s2J cash and balance az ~ y"
's,,"otL J. ID. Carnival
nv gT-lt No. ii05 east Main stree
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-27
BUSINESS WANTS.
BUSINESS WANTS.
The Skinquarter
Philosopher Says :

"Children are the coupons
cut from the bonds of matri-
meny."
Such a thing rever entered
YOUR head before-did it?
Goliath Made the Very Same Remark
when David hit him in the head
with stone.
Goliath was very much sur
prised at this little striking re-
mark of David sand lots and
lots of people will be astonish-
ed when they read our extern
sive list this morning.
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FcR SALE.

TWO NEW THREE-STORY FLoNr
AVENUE DWELLINGS, with II io9h
each and every convenience. Can DC HA-
low as The owner Is anxious 20 sell.
49, j. -. cARNEAL
my 27-lt No. llQS east Main street
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ID. O'SulliVan,
Eighteenth and Main Streets.
WANTED.

THE p1-BIIC TO KNOW THAT WE.
! NE 49, dnest cf the season Cantaloupes
n, St a'i1 No. Sc. Second Market. }. r.
pnpTER NY 49,
The times., 1899-07-27
A Misused Title.

The leader of the Boston Marine Band
Mr. Brooke, has distinct aversion to be-
ing called professor" and it is not much
10 be wondered at. The world is full OF
professors in these days. Some of them
merely profess, and others do things But
the former class is SO much larger and so
much more in evidence that the professors
who not only assume knowledge but have
it, are thrown somewhat in the shade 1t
is as if distinguished physician should be
obliged on entering community to explain
whether he was really a doctor of medicine
or simply a horse doctor
The word professor has probably had more
meanings in this country than any other
in our language. For some generations it
was common for persons of certain religious
beliefs to enquire of the newcomer in
country village. Are you professor" anl
as the visitor might be a young lady or
college boy. the enquiry was somewhat puz-
zling 1t would then be explained that the
inquisltor really wished to know if the
newcomer was 4 professor of religion"
There is wide gulf between this kind OF
professor and the gentleman in green
checked clothing, with pink gingham col
lar and alleged diamonds blazing on his
shirt front and his fingers. who makes his
living by hypnotic exhibitions or selling
shoe polish.
Another variety of man to whom this
hardworked word has been applied is the
deep-thinking. hard working scientist of
wide reputation and research; the Egyptol-
ogist, the astronomer, the biological au
thority. the doctor OF philosophy. For this
type of man the term seems as much too
small as II Is too large for the exhibitor
of trained mice. The person whom the
word really seems to fit is the teacher in
the country academy or high school; the
energetic, resourceful, Somewhat nervous
individual who takes the raw material of
human nature and hammers it into the
rudiments of an educated m4n. Among his
neighbors his title Is really iap honc.. 1t
conveys just the idea that4it ought TO con-
vey. that the bearer of it is a man of
The times., 1899-07-27
Mayor Farley,s Farce.

Under almost any conceivable conditions
the farcical course of Mayor Farley, of
Cleveland, would be certain to result in
horrible gazette of dead and wounded. Be-
cause of his fear of political or personal
consequences he has allowed a mob of
Anarchists to dominate his city, blowing
up cars and stables and numbering inno-
cent women and children with dynamite.
tie is an official degenerate and coward.
Even. after all the sad experience of the
past days, and his tardy call for State
troops. he still halts on the side of fear,
and does not have martial law declared.
Even Farley cannot be such fool as not
to know that when the civil authorities
have shown themselves powerless to pre-
serve order, and life and property, and
must resort to the military arm of gov
ernment. they should retire from control
and give it free hand TO restore peace
and social obedience.
But the mayor of Cleveland has done
nothing of that kind. He has issued
paretic proclamation ordering citizens to
refrain from assemblage for illegitimate
purposes. and has warned them not to
throw firecrackers among the horses of the
cavalry. A brave and sane official in his
position would have admonished all decently
behaved persons to keep out of crowds,
and explained to them the certainty that
their blood would be upon their own heads
should they refuse to comply. Then he
should have turned the whole situation
over to the military the commander of
which being a trained and competent SOL
dier. would simply disperse gatherings with
bayonet. infantry fire. or artillery as the
exigencies of the case might suggest-and
there would be an end of the insurrection.
Paltering with mobs is not only cow
ardly. but it is ultimately murderous.
Good citizens, when cautioned, will keep
out of the way when there is likely to be
rioting If they do not, they have no one
but themselves to blame for death or in
juries. Under such conditions as have ex-
listed in Cleveland for a week, the only
thing TO do is to sweep the streets with
nusketry and Gatlings. Antecedent ques-
tions can be better arranged after few
score of Anarchists have been sent to we'll
earned graves.
The times., 1899-07-27
THE TINES WASHINGTON. THURSDAY. July 81 1899.

in fact for the alarming rum9rs from Paris
it is evident that the game In the far East
is being played a great deal faster than
the common herd has had reason to suspect
Japan. though she be never SO spunky.
would not dare provoke single handed
conflict with Russia. 1t would be hari-
kari. Nor could Russia afford, in the
present loose relations of Europe, 10 drive
Japan into war The Cars advisers are
wiser than would be indicated by that fool
ish course There was no telling. in view of
the recent rapprochement between France
and Russia. what even France would do
in such an emergency. Great Britain, OF
course, would have to see to it that Japan
got fair play. and Russia is too anxious
about Aanchuria at the present moment to
have England keep a too close watch on
affairs in the North Pacific
Weighing all the chances, therefore. it
is evident that there is no cause for alarm
in the Paris rumors. OF course they are
based on proper understanding of pos
sibilities, but the element of probability
is absent Not until England, Germany
and France are ready is there liable to be
an outbreak Of hostilities anywhere along
the line in tie beleaguered 0risnt But when
they do get ready the fur will fly, and the
American eagle will be lowering around
with a watchful eye on everybody in the
melee
The times., 1899-07-27

The TuIIuInh Lynching.

(FrOm the New Orleans Times Dem0cTat-)
The law-abiding people of Louisiana viii read
the terrible news from Tallalah with profound
regret. The different versions Of the affair dis
close important points Of divergence. and it IS
clear that the conduct of the Italians may have
afforded or les logical hasis for the action
of the mob. DR.. Hodges stood very high in the
community, while there undoubtedly vas
very strong antipathy TO the sicilians. at whose
hands the esteemed physician has. in all proba-
biiity, met his death. Nevertheless. it should
have been possible to mete out punishment in a
perfectly legal way. In that case. the good
name of the State would have been saycd and
the General Government would have been spared
a disagreeable imbrogiio.
In the circumstances, it will be better TO
await all the facts before forming a final opia-
ion. 1t is perfectly clear, however, that means
must be found to prevent the recurrence of
lynehings in this county. The reform Of the
organic law has placed the control of public
affairs in the hands OF the better element Of our
population. for good and all; it viii never do
to admit that the wild methods Of Judge Lynch
are necessary amid conditions 50 radically
changed. We do not doubt that the people CT
Madison parish will see the matter in this light.
on calmer reflection. In the mean while. they
should take instant steps to place themselves
right in the eyes of the State, the nation, and
the civilized world.
The times., 1899-07-27
Gond Work.
(From the Atlanta Journal. J

Gen. Leonard Wood Military Governor Of San
tago, has won victory noble any that
achieved land during our with
Spain. His victory has been the saving of hu-
him to laurels as fair as any that are worn by
our conquerors in the red rush OF battle.
He has made Santiago, for the first time in
its history. a clean city. He has thrcttlcd yellow
fever in one Of lis s;rongholds and it is reason
able TO hope that he viii yet crush the life
out of the monster in a quarter where it was
once so powerful ard whence il set out often for
rayages uDCn our land.
The death rate from yellow fever in Santiago
under the Spanish regime was aboat go per
month. General Wood. by giving the city a
thorough cleaning and by industriOpsly applying
sanitary science, has wrought a wonderful change
there. Only sixteen deaths from all causes oc-
CURED there last week. There were no new
cases Of fever for five days The monthly death
rate is placed at i12. hut this viii be constantly
decreased. The city il in a cleanly and vir-
tualy in 4 healthy condition. not the slightest
apprehension Is felt in regard TO the spread Of the
fever into an 0ld-time epidemic. The few patients
in the hospitals conyalescent.
General Wood il in love with the work for
humanity which he is prosecuting SO success
fully. Recently he refused business offer Of
$4,000 a year in Washington that he might con-
time in his present position and pursue his
present task 1t is far pleasanter and safer to
live in the beautiful Capital Of the nation than
to fight disease and discomfort in Santiago. but
General Wood declined to give up a hard and
dangerous task. which PAYS him $. 900 a year.
TO accept which would have placed him in
delightful surroundings and paid him $50. 900 a
year. Such men deserve our highes- regard. He
is not only protecting the lives of our troops
in the Santiago district and leading the people Of
that region along the paths Of safety and intell-
gent progress, but he is doing much to guard
from the invasion of a foe which has often
wrought havoc on our coast and in many interior
aff
The times., 1899-07-27
IngersolI Dead.

1t would be quite impossible TO give
! space to all the letters which The Times
/ has received in regard to the editorial tri-
butte TO Robert C. Ingersoll which appear
ed in the morning edition of Saturday last.
( 1t need only be said that those who knew
and appreciated the great agnostic seem to
! feel that their sentiments have been ac-
curately expressed.
/ In writing of a man so genial in per
| scnaIity. so brilliant in intellect, and of
| such sterling worth of character, 1t was
necessary only to review his career as it
was. and describe the same as it ap-
peared to those who knew him. Ingersoll.
as a character. was like statue, whose
most effective test is ''the light OF The pub
I lie square"-rot like faulty picture which
must be hung in good light to be ap-
preeiated The trouble was that many,
through tinnidity. prejudice or fanaticism,
did not care to make an examination. 1t
was once charged that he sought notoriety,
but history recognizes the fact that the
road to fame would have been far shorter
had the young orator adroitly concealed his
opinions. 1t was said that he sought
wealth; but his death reveals the fact that
though his income was large, most of it
was bestowed in charity, and that he left
almost nothing except his life insurance.
As he taught the importance of char
acter rs against mere belief, so his death
has gone to prove his doctrine. in most
curious way. Through the length and
breadth of the land, people of all derom-
nations have been saddened by the news.
not because he thought or did not think
that any particular dosmas were true, but
because he had an honest soul and great,
warm, loving heart. Even those who OPP
posed him in creed are alf-unconsciously
trying to prove that he has not been con-
demned to the future their creeds pre-
scribe for him. There is no man whose
fame rests on connection with any belief
whose death. at this moment, would be
mourned by as many people as that of
Colonel Ingersoll. Measured by the stan
dard of mere dogma, he could have no
place in heaven, but If all the clergymen
in this country were to rise in their pull
pits next Sunday and declare-as most Of
their creeds definitely state-that the soul
of this honest iconoclast is eternally lost,
more adherents to the Ingersoll doctrine
would walk out of those churches than the
man himself made in his life. He did what
he could to transfer the aim of the aver
age man from the salvation of his own
soul to self-sacrifce for others; and If re-
ligion is to rest on any sure basis in the
future. the stress will have to be laid on
conduct and not on belief; on good done
from altruistic motives and not for the
sake of personal gain in the hereafter.
The times., 1899-07-27
Some Tax Facts.

A correspondent OF the New York Even
ing Post" discusses in an unusually ra-
tional manner the subject of this city's
tax burden and the inequalities in its re-
lations to the Federal Government as COM
pared with those of other cities of the
country
Some instructive figures are quoted
from a pamphlet recently published by the
Washington Board OF Trade protesting
against plan of Congress to compel the
taxpayers Of the District to bear the whole
expense OF opening and improving the
streets of the city when extended into the
suburbs. The correspondent points out
that in its narrower aspects the question
is one which affects only the purses Of local
residents and property owners, but admits
that broader phase of 1t concern the
whole nation.
In the pamphlet referred to attention is
called 10 some facts in the matter Of this
city's anomalous fiscal attitude which have
not generally been published and which put
different light on the subject than that In
which it is commonly viewed. That for
the last twenty years the citizens of Wash
tngton and the Federal Government have
divided local taxation between them is not
only generally known. but is source of
rnhappiness 10 certain microcephalous
statesman. who break into the halls of
Congress with their cheesaparing ideas of
economy; also the public IS probably
The times., 1899-07-27
A HALFWAY Reform.

(From the Chicago Tribune.)
Mrs Helen L. Bullock, OF the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union. has made another hor
rible discovery to the effect that roOtbeer con-
tains alcohol and has begun crusade in Evans
ton against the dangers OF the rootbeer habit
No doubt Evanston needed this new reform. 1t
has been so quiescent of late that anyone might
have known it was III some mischief, but it re-
quired the keen scent OF the Women's Christian
Temperance Union to discover that the secret
sin of Evanstonians was rootbeer. The only
trouble with Mrs. Bullock's crusade is that it
is too limited. Rootbeer is not the only thing
that contains alcohol. To be certain that no
vestige OF alcohol gets into the Eyanstonian
stomach she should close up the bakeries and
forbid the use Of yeast. Homemade bread, espe-
cially when fresh, may contain quite as much
alcohol as rootbeer. Unleavened bread is less
open to suspicion. Fruits sometimes known
to generate alcohol in the stomach. In fact, all
solid foods are less dangerous in this
respect. Nothing remains but milk and water,
and milk is not above suspicion. At present
there seems to be no particular danger OF deli
rum tremens in a straight diet Of absolutely
pure water, but it should first be filtered and
boiled. Mrs. Bullock is too modest in her
reform programme
The times., 1899-07-27
TEE SPANISH WAR LOAN.
Rapid Conversion of Coupon Bonds
Into Registered Securities.

The conversion OF coupon bonds OF the .
per cent Spanish war loan into registered
bonds continues to go forward rapidly.
When the loan was first issued. there wers
S30.s14.000 registered bonds issued on orig
inal applications. Since that time there
have been exchanged SCI. .64s.549 coupon
bonds for registered. so that the total
amount of registered bonds OF this issue
outstanding for the payment of the divi-
dend August /. is $99.460,5i0. For tim.
the amount OF bonds registered in the
names OF national banks held as security
for circulation and public deposits Increased
rapidly. but for the quarter ending August
l there will be a change shown, the total
being less than May l.
At the date OF the first interest payment
the quarter ending November 1, 1898, the
registered bonds standing in the names of
national banks amounted to 81. IA, ,22o-4i6
banks having holdings averaging S5S.2SS.
At the end of tie next quarter the amount
had increased to- ss2. .O5O. .000-772 banks
having an average holding OF s67.i22. The
quarter ending May 1 showed q further in
crease. the total being $50. .Si1, $50. divicei
among s6S banks, an average Of S6s,366.
The quarter ending August / will show a
falling of OF about 81. 900 600 in the hold
ings of national banks. the total being S5s.-
361, $50. The number of banks has in
creased. however. that amount being di-
vided among 800 banks, and the average
holding being s65.574.
As against this falling of in the holdings
of registered bonds of national banks. there
seemed TO be a continued sharp increase
in individual holdings. November l. 1898,
there were 1896 holdings other than those
in the names of national banks, S2s. s.I6S,Iso
registered bonds OF the war loan issue. At
the end of the next quarter that total had
fallen off nearly sl.s00.o00. standing at
s2S S.s6l, 800. May 1st it increased 20 s34,-
S36, $50. and for the quarter which will end
with August /, the total has increased to
s40,O99. .260. showing the largest increase in
such holdings of registered bonds in any
quarter since the loan was issued.
The times., 1899-07-27
Reform Must BE Thorough.
Trom the New York Advertiser.)

(From the New York AdveTtiser.)
The reaction which Senator Proctor predicts,
in the public opinion that forced a change in the
War Department. will serve no useful purpose
unless ii is enduring and patient enough to go
back OF individuals to the system. to go back
of Administration to legislation, even to
20 back of the Government TO the people and
search out responsibility for the neglect OF na-
tionl defense that has compelled a nation al
ways exposed to the chance OF war always to
make preparation for it after war actually broke
out. The conditions oi army administrations
which this neglect has produced are as well
known to Senator Proctor rs to any man, no;
only the imperfections OF means OF defense, but
the torpor and rigidity produced by iuaction and
inanition in those that exist. He can serve the
Administration and Congress by frank commu.
nication of his knowledge. The subject is going
to attract increasing attention of the country
and Congress cannot neglect
The times., 1899-07-27
Otis as Correspondent.

An English Journalist has added con-
vincing testimony to the case made against
Otis by the round robin OF the Ameri-
can correspondents. Our authorities, of
course. VIII have to treat the complaint o.
the British correspondent with the same
contemptuous silence with which it met
the round robin. Any other course would
be contrary TO the Administration policy
toward Otis and the Philippines.
For some reason which the censor
would not explain General Otis refused to
allow US 10 send the death of the Monad-
nocks captain (Nichols) for two days after
its occurrence" writes the Engiishman
This recreation is valuable. 1t shows be-
yond a doubt what the controlling motive
is in the rigid censorship. General Otis
would rot let the correspondents send the
news OF the death Of 4 naval captain until
it was two days old. Then, of course,
when permission TO send it was granted, it
was too old to be news, and the CORE
spondents would not handle it. The cause
of this is as plain as Otis afiiuent side
Ehiskers. The War Office in Washington
has journalistic department. Otis is its
correspondent at Manila. BY forbidding
the newspaper men the use OF the cable
correspondent Otis was able to scoop the
universe on the death of Captain Nichols,
thereby eleyating himself several notches
in the estimation OF the able editor of the
War ofice's journalistic department. The
occurrence also shows what induced the
President to notify the American newspa-
per men in the Philippines that their use
fulness to their employers would be de-
stroyed If they dared send anything that
did not contain the blue pencil 20. K" of
Otis. The President wants TO preserve a
monopoly OF Philippine news for his War
Once editor. This. Of course, is good Ad-
ministration journalism. The Akhoun Of
Swat OF the Shah of Persia could not i'm
prove upon it The general also refused
to let Us send news OF the disappearance of
Captain Rockefeller (April 2s), on the
ground that it would worry his family, or
OF the killing OF Captain Tilly, of the Sig
nal Corps, until the next day." the corre-
spondent adds. This gives US another in
sight into the motives of Otis. He has al
ready told the correspondents that they
must not send the truth from the Phi fp-
pines. because it would set the country
by the ears" Now We can understand
that through his sympathetic nature the
Iood and great man wants to save loved
sles at home from worrying over their
.oved ones in the Philippines. But we do
sot see why. on this principle. he did not
suppress altogether the news of Captain
Tilly's fate. Still, we should cease to won
der at anything done by the correspondent
at Manila of the War ofice's journalistic
department, OF at what the home office
does. The methods of Administration
journalism are so different from the meth
DDS of ordinary Journalism that they are
quite beyond our ken. We are encouraged
TO believe. however. that the new tituIar
chief OF the War Office is going to change
editors in Washington and correspondents
In Manila Until these changes are made
We shall have TO put up with the present
service and express gratitude to ProYi-
deura for tvba4 We