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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-05-20
CLIFTON FORGE AWAKE.
Her Citizeus Organize q Board Of
Tradc-Nili Push thc Town.

Tradc-Niu Push che Town.
CNFTcN FORGE VA, May l9.-spe-
Ella Tile business men OF clifton Forge
mel last night and formally organized
a Board Of 1rade. A constitution and by
laws we're adopted and several commit
tees apDOinied The following officers
were elected. Pre- ileuf. Captain John
porovan. manager ClIft0n Forge Grocery
cou.uarv. VICE President. D. IT, Stalcft
eocr.tary. judge George Is. Anderson
treasurer. -. - Booth. cashier clifton
Forge Bank.
The meeting last night was largely
..scnded and was very enthusiastic
one The board is composed OF repre-
ssntatlys men. ana a. tho ofhesTs es-
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-05-20
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Last DAYS Of the Great "Trilby." Sou
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Last days Of the Great "rriiby.' Sou
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Last days OF the Great "Trilby." sou.
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The evening times., 1899-06-12
The Bloody (:rOun,l-

The feud news from eastern Kentucky
this morning was interesting and even sen
sationel. Thomas Baker, cheftain of one
der military guard, was deliberately shot
from house occupied by the sheriff OF
the county and his posse. and but for the
fact that The State militia commander
planted a Gatling gun in front of the struc-
ture and threatened to turn it loose the
peace officer and his men. all connected
with the opposite faction. would have given
battle TO the Kentucky troops.
II is q strange commentary on our ciyiii-
zation that such a condition of things as
obtains in the mountain counties of this
Commonwealth in the heart OF the Union
should BE- allowed to exist and stranger
that II sho1ld be tolerated any longer.
Almost one-third of the State is country
as wild and lawless as No Mans Land
was dozen years ago. In most of the
eastern counties the civil law is absolutely
defied. and the Inhabitants split up into
beiligerert parties and clans whose only
idea Of justice is the lex talionis.
Some Of the feuds such as not long ago
and constantly a few years back. disturb
ed Breathitt, Bell. Harlan. and neighbor-
ing counties. had their origin in the Civil
War when the people were all bushwhack-
ers. some affecting the Confederate and
some the Federal side; but frequently
serving in the interest OF whichever one
appeared to come most handy from time
to time. Murders without number were
committed in those days, and the memory
of them has ranked among the families
and friends of the victims to the present
time. leading to neighborhood wars, as
sassinatioas, and all manner OF blood
thirsty crimes, until the mountains of
eastern Kentucky have come to the con-
ditions that obtained among the Highland
clans CT Scotland couple of centuries ago.
The whole thing is blot upon the name
and credit of great State. 1t is one very
difficult to wipe out under all the circum-
stances, but the authorities at Frankfort
sooner or later will have to undertake the
task This sort of thing cannot be allow
ed to so on forever.
The evening times., 1899-06-12
ROUGH RIDERS REUNION.
Governor Roosevelt to Join the Cere-
monies mt Las Vegas.

Las Vegas. y. NJ, June 12.-If Las Vegas
isn't turned inside out this time couple
OF weeks hence it won't be the fault o.
Las Vegas. The Rough Riders will assem-
BILE here. Roosevelt will be here. The
grim days of a year ago-the days OF San
Antonia, Tampa, Las Guasimas, and San
tiago--will be gone over again. Praise of
the First United States Volunteer Cav
airy and its colonel. Governor Roosevelt
ways. For the days of the reunion Las
Vegas population will be doubled.
And why not?" asks Col. 4. H. Whit
more Chairman of the Citizens Commit
tee of Arrangements. Isn't Roosevelt the
chief cow-puncher of the plains?'
Money will flow like water. Neither
Roosevelt nor the humblest private in the
rear rank will be allowed TO spend col.
lar Las Vegas will pay the freight. The
railroads will cut their rates in two for the
veteran troopers. Food, lodging. and
drinks will be as free as air. The boys
will be quartered in a big camp in Lineoll
Park and the guests at the hotels.
Saturday, June "a, at a. M. the reunion
will begin. Rooseyelt's trumpeter, the ia
and then Colonel Roosevelt will make a
speech OF welcome to his old comrades in
arms.
Colonel Brodie. wounded at Las Quasi
mas, President Of the Rough Riders Asso-
citation. will respond. He holds second
place in the hearts Of the troopers and Is
the idol of Arizona. The secretary. Lieu
tenant Carter. will read his report and
close the formal part of the reunion.
Tn tho afternCOn comes a review CT the
famous regiment in uniform by its old
colonel, and regimental parade. The
election of officers and a reception at the
opera house fills in the evening part of the
programme.
On Sunday there will be memorial SER
vices for the Rough Riders dead, when
Captain Brown. the commands heroic
fighting parson, will call back to memory
the names of those who fell for Cuba's
freedom. The rest of the day will be Civ
en- to reminiscence and the renewing of
old friendships.
Monday come the sports and the pyro-
technics. There are $1,000 in prizes
horse races. bicycle races, a ring tourna-
mert. bronco riding and steer-tying. The
crack cow-punchers CT the entire South
west will be there to have a try for the
prizes. There will be grand parade, and
a regiment of boys in khaki uniforms.
called Future Rough Riders" will turn
out.
Sandwiched between all this Will be con-
certs, parades. dinners, luncheons, sup
pers and receptions. at all Of which C.lonei
Roosevelt will be the guest Of honor.
He is coming with quite q large party
of fasteners and expects to reach Las
Vegas on Friday night. With him will
come Capt Woodbury. Kane. the New York
city ciubman. who fought all through the
Santiago campaign. Other famous officers
who are expected are: Major w. H. Lie
wellyn. Capt. Max Luna. Captain Muller.
Capt. Curry, Capt. McG:nnis. Capt. Alex
ander. Capt. Day, Capt. McClintock. and
Lieuts. Ballard. Coleman, Griffin, Dana,
McIlhenny: Leahy, Green, Kelley, and Car
ter
The evening times., 1899-06-12
The Dny Mt LongcI.a INNS,

| The Grand Prix de Paris was run at
Longchamps yesterday in the presence OF
| an unusually large crowd, and President
Loubet, who was on hand in accordance
| with his defiance to the royalist and anti
Dreyfus mobs, received something like an
ovation. But it was a sided greeting,
and its sources do not strike one as en-
couraging to the prospect of internal
peace.
The common people were out in force.
and the Socialists and all the other turbu-
lent elements composing the under strata
of French society. On the other hand. the
aristocracy and bourgeoisie were conspicu-
GUS by their absence. OF course. there was
not any trouble. Troops. police. and a
posse Of magistrates were on duty in the
grounds. and that settled any danger of
an outbreak.
But, while N. Loubet undoubtedly scOr-
cd against his enemies, and rather heavily,
the victory does not appeal to US as likely
to improve the general situation.s Much
as 1t is to be regretted. there is reason to
fear that the French President has drawn
a line between himself and his latest ad-
ferents. and the upper and middle classes
who are liable to exert the major influ-
enee upon the. army. He has gained the
questionable applause and cooperation Of
the Partisan proletariat, but, it is to be ap-
pretended. al the ecst of his popularity
with elements whose support may be re-
sarded as essential 10 the success of his
administration From This puint of view
1t is difficult to see that the prospect of
an ultimate coup d'etat and the overthrow
CT the republic has been at all lessened by
the events of the Sundays at Auteu!l and
LonGchamps.
The evening times., 1899-06-12

AS might have been expected. the frank
and unquestionably accurate statement of
Prof. VI. Lewis Haupt, of the Nicaraguan
Canal Commission. in regard to the OBJ
struction of the great American enterprise
by Continental railways. the Panama
scheme, and British influence. has excited
the ire of the Administration. and it is re-
garded as more than probable that he will
be asked to resign. Professor Haupt ought
to know by this time that our Republican
authorities literally accept the aphorism
that truth lies at the bottom of a well"
and that they also consider that every well
should be tightly covered. and the ooveI
screwed down. Some very important con-
tributory friends of the party in rower
will be panied and eXasperated by the in
formation to which the Professor has given
publicity.
The evening times., 1899-06-12
Busy Bee This bee. by the way. seems
to have furnished Mr.. Austin with the ideal
of his life. -.
for-Sale.

Some hopeful souls are predicting that
this will be the last year in which we
shall suffer from intense heat. They say
that in another twelve months liquid air
will be a common article. and will be sold
from house to house as ice is now.
The next invention will probably be a
room -refrigerating concern. .something Ike
stove. In which the liquid air may be
placed SO as to lower the heat OF the loom.
According to the optimists who d.scourso >
on this subject, the cost of liquid air will
be SO small that even the poor may avail
themselves of it, and We may see the
small child pushing the can ever the coun-
ter for "a cents worth Of air.
There are things pleasant and unpleas-
ant in this prospect. The unpleasant part
of it is the possible-nay, almost inevita-
ble-crganization of an air trust. This
would keep the price at point suitable
to the creation Of more large syndicate
fortunes. and above any sum which the
poor, who most need this luxury, could
pay. Liquid air would be found In the
homes of the rich and well-to-do and per-
it would no more enter the sitting tene-
ments of the very poor, where infants die
of heat and invalids endure torments worse
than DEATH than the electric fan does now
The phrase free as air. Is not exactly
accurate. Air. in a civilized country has
not always been free. Not many hundred
years ago. in Europe. there was win
dow tax" which prevented the poor man
from ventilating his miserable little cabin
and promoted a condition Of things Offering
fertile soil for the baccilli of smallpox,
fever, and the black plague. Even now.
in our large cities. the tenant occupying
a room into which the sun shines and the
wind blows must pay two or three do lars
more rent per month. Perhaps, some day,
this condition of things will seem as bar
barous as the window tax does to Us
nOw
The evening times., 1899-06-12

only. A place was wanted, that was all.
This confidential clerks salary. like that
OF the private secretary, was paid out OF
the War Records appropriation. 1t was done
through the easy complaisance of Major
(now generaD George W. Davis, then a
bureau chief. on whose roll the new official
Z in the Secretary's Office was carried. Be-
fore Private Secretary Squires and Conf
Dental Clerk Mason could draw their pay
Major Davis had to certify that the roll
was correct and the payment legal and
proper one. Major Davis consequently GER
titled to what clearly was not true at least
| twelve times year. This sort OF bureau
| laxity soon terminates into full blown Car
;; terism: 1t is simply another form OF Ly-
/ deckerism. The Secretary wasn't to
blame: he was told this was the regular
/ thing in the War Department. And SO II
was.
Perhaps Major Davis readiness thus to
serve the Secretary explains the mystery
OF this subsequent unexpected elevation to
the rank of brigadier general. He was not
in action once during the entire war; did
not get down to Cuba until after the enc
my had all been transported back to Spain.
Yet after the muster-Out of the volunteers
he was at once reappointed brigadier gen
eral under the reorganization, to the ex-
clusion of some of the officers who. sword
in hand, had charged at the head Of their
troops. Then fighting Guy Henry. the hero
of two wars, was relieved and General Da-
Wis put in command of Porto Rico. AS Da-
Wis does not hail from Michigan, this sin
gular piece of good luck is by some people
explained upon the same rule.
"A year afterward, under emergency
pressure. a provision was slipped into the
proper bill creating the two new offices of
private secretary and confidential clerk.
They then emerged into daylight. They
now secure their monthly pay without ille-
gal certification. This illustrates one OF
the methods Of War Department expansion.
The waE emergency opened the door II
all sorts Of thimbie-rigging with appoint
ments and the appropriations, and with
Congress itself for that matter. The 'emer-
gency' -the-Klondke episode CT 1897,
when the Secretary had military agents
and experts hunting the world over for
dog teams and reindeer. was entirely out
done One of the Secretary's Detroit
friends. George H. Hopkins, was immedi-
ately commissioned major and assistan,
adjutant general Of volunteers. and detail
ed as the Secretary's personal aide
which Office he still retains. although the
war emergency is past and other volul
teers are mustered out. This was new
precedent, and probably by II another life
tenure place was created. II goes without
saying that hereafter every Secretary Will
expect TO have personal aide to look
after his comfort during state progresses.
1t is TO laugh. isn't it? AT least, it
would be If il We're not so confounded.y
serious. Such scatterbrain energy and
misdirected effort, such reckless waste OF
money. are enough to make Edwin NJ.
Stanton turn over in his grave. And on
top OF it all. the country is asked: What
Of 1,
The evening times., 1899-06-12
WORK OF ANTI-QUAY MEN.
senator Flynn Expresses His View
Upon Political Outcomes.


Harrisburg. Pa. June 12.-Senator Will
lam Flynn. OF Pittsburg. will sail for Eu-
rope in a few days. and his departure for
a foreign shore at this particular time is
believed to indicate Enthusiastically the pur-
pose Of the insurgents in the Republican
party to camp on the battlefield until next
year They will reorganize the anti-Quay
forces for next year. when the contest in
the legislature will be renewed.
1T will be folly for u.s. says Senator
Flynn, Ito continue an aggressive fight in
the pending campaign. The Presidential
campaign next year will have no bearing
upon the fight for members Of the legis-
lature. 1t is conceded that President Nc
Kinley will be renominated and reelected
with practical unanimity. and it would be
impossible for any set Of men in Pennsyl-
vania to give the vote of this State TO any
other candidate
1T is clearly Mckinley State and the
Republicans of Berks in their August con-
vention will start the bail rolling by cleo
ing Mckinley delegate to the National
Convention and giving him instructions.
There is no doubt also that the State con-
vention will take the same action. There
FORE so far as the Presidential campaign
and Pennsylvania are concerned there is
nothing to fear"
Chairman John S. Killing will arrive
here this evening and open the Democratic
State headquarters for the State conven-
tion, which will be held here on Wednes-
day. He is non-committal on the probable
makeup of the ticket. but there is no
doubt about the nomination Of William T.
Greasy. of Columbia, for treasurer. He is
in harmony with the Bryan end of the
Democracy, which is now in control Of
the State organization.
The evening times., 1899-06-12
Alfred Austin Explained.

The source of Alfred Austin's lyric in
spiration has at last been discovered. and
by a London paper whose editor doubt
less knows his ground. Those who have
become acquainted with Mr. Austin's pc
culiar style have been haunted by some
vague resemblance which it bears to half
forgotten literature Of the past. 1t sounds
like something We have all heard before,
but none of Us could quite be certain what
the familiar thing was.
This London editor says that he read the
laureate's latest poem to two or three OF
his friends and contemporaries and asked
them what it suggested. They voiced
unanimously the opinion that it was more
like Mary Had Little Lamb" than any.
thing else which they ever heard Com
pare these lines
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go,
With these:
And whatsoe'er her people wilIed
That will she made her own
A vote of thanks is due to this London
editor, from the whole English-sp speaking
world. A mystery is unraveled Fifty
years ago or so-when Alfred Austin was
little boy-myriads of happy toddlers
used to sing this rhyme:
Victoria. Victoria,
We hail thy gentle rule,
Victoria the patrOness
OF every infant school.
While the piping voice of the young AL
fred trilled forth this lay; WHILE in Iutiful
and gentle submission. he conned the pages
of Sanford and Mertoun' or Little Hen.
~ and his Bearer" great ambition was
planted in his breast. He would some day
sing the elories Of Victoria, the patroness
of every infant school" Perhaps even
then his childish brain was occupied with
the conception Of poems which should
thrill the world. When he read his Moth
er Goose" or his Watts Hymns" his
mind was busy in adapting their measures
and imagery to the uses OF . laureate.
Some day, therefore. We may expect an ode
to royalty. m5deled on the plan Of Jack
and jill" or ''Humpty Dumpty." or perhaps
according to the pattern Of that beautiful
little poem, beloved Of all good children
half century ago, How Doth the Little
The evening times., 1899-06-12

cessity than the Reinforcement Of Otis ID
at this very hour.
Then why In the name of American hon
or and OF God. does President Mckinley
hesitate to do his duty and call out the
provisional army? We have waited pa
tiensiy for him to do SO; deploring the pos
sible necessity of having to expose the
whole truth. But the time has come to
speak and speak plainly. Either Mr.. Nc
Kinley will at once order out enough men
to make possible the suppression Of the
rebels and the restoration Of peace and
good order in Luzon. or he will justify .
suspicion that he has changed his Philip
pine policy and is preparing the country.
through an object lesson of military fail
ure, for an abandonment and retreat.
The critical and half angry eyes of every
patriotic citizen are fixed upon you today.
William Mckinley. President and Com
mander- in Chief!
The evening times., 1899-06-12

Surveys have been completed for the new
cable between Emden, Germany. and CO.
ney Island. and. within year the Kaiser
will only have to put his ear to the tele-
phone to hear the heavywe:ghts pound
Our commercial relations are more the
cause Of the enterprise. however. than any
imperial desire to get direct communication
with our great fighting and oriental dane
ing resort: and no doubt its completion
will greatly tend to promote trade and am
ity between the two nations.
The evening times., 1899-06-12
Total
This shows an excess Of 141 officers and

This shows an excess OF 141 officers and
men over the number Surgeon General
Hammond was employing at the high-wa-
ter mark Of the great civil war. II we
deduct the 11S chaplains from General
Hammond's force not likely to have been
employed in administrative Or executive
work. the discrepancy against General
Sternberg is still more marked.
THE influence Of environment irresist-
IDLY sweeps an incoming Secretary. If re
be ever SO slightly inflicted with moral
astigmatism. into the lax official habits of
this self-complacent bureau machine.
Even before the impulse Of war was f=lt
Secretary Alger lad already given increas-
ed momentum to personal appointments
for which there was no authority OF law
and no need. When installed there was no
law and no appropriation for private sec-
retary. Nevertheless he promptly appoint
ed one. and had the salary Of 81, 600 charg-
ed against the War Records appropriation.
In this he merely followed precedent
"Then he proceeded to infringe further
upon the law. He established new prece-
dent by creating the hitherto unheard- of
Office Of CONFIDENTIAL clerk at $1,000 a year
This was more, than year before the var
broke out. There was no emergency. 40
press of additional work. Secretaries
Proctor. Elkins, and Lamont had oil got
along comfortably with private secretary
The evening times., 1899-06-12
TO EXPLORE OCEAN DEPTHS.
Scientific Expedition to Snil From
san Frarcisco.

An expedition. headed by Prof. Alexan-
der Agassiz Of Harvard University. will
be dispatched from San Francisco in Au-
gust to study animal life in deep ocean.
The enterprise. which will be under the
auspices of the United States Fish Com
mission. has the hearty approval of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The Albatross will go first TO Tahiti. one
of the Society Islands. where the ocean
reaches depth of five and a half miles.
Dredges have been worked on the bed of
the ocean where the water is three miles
deep and strange creatures. unlike any
thing ever seen before, have been brought
up.
The waters of the Paumota Archipelago
the Friendly Fiji, Marshall, Ellice, and
Gilbert Islands will be explored also.
From the Gilbert Islands, the Albatross
will return via the Hawaiian Islands to
San Francisco.
The evening times., 1899-06-12

Admiral Dewey is reported as arrived at
Singapore in comparatively good health.
though looking worn. II is TO be hoped
that his leisurely homeward voyage may
restore his old vigor. because he will need
it when he reaches the United States. The
politico-iunket work expected OF him by
the Administration, in connection with the
Ohio campaign. would be a severe tax upon
fresh and hearty man of half his ears.
The Lord only knows what it will do to
our tired Admiral.
The evening times., 1899-06-12
Exercise in southern Cl,mes.

A British traveller doing the southern part
Of Europe and feeling it incumbent en- him to
make humorous observations as he goes along.
announces that the farther south one goes the
more the natives gesticuIate. "Ciye a Ncapoli.
tam he says, "a pair of dumbells and ask
him what he thinks Of the weather, and before
he finishes his answer he will have taken enough
heathful exercise to last him all day." The Brit
on elaborates and explains this idea at some
length; but he misses the plain moral of it.
Athletics have never fourished at the south, and
We have rather despised southerners for II. Evil
IDENTIFY, however, they take their exercise while
talking, and % save time for keeping cool.