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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04

Hon. William J. Bryan said in his speech
al Dallas. Texas. on Monday last that he
did not believe that an the votes cast for
him I'm 1sc6 were counted and that he did
believe that many were counted against
him which were not cast. In plain terms
Mr. Bryan says that he was cheated out
of his election three years ago. IL that
be So then Mr.. Bryan ought to be preach
ing ballot reform and honest elections
from one end of this country TO the other.
If that he so, he ought to go into the
state of Kentucky and denounce the Goo-
bel election law, for many Of those who
we're supporting him most ardently in
1906 row declare that this law is the most
infamous that was ever foistered upon
free people. One of the prominent candi-
dates for the Legislature in Kentucky Is
quoted as having admitted that 1.-The Goe-
bel election law was framed and passed
to place the Democratic party in power
and keep It there" and he added that II
was the intention of the Goebelites TO
''vin elections. honestly II they could, but
If they could not win them honestly, 10
win them
Vet MI Bryan has written letter TO
the Democratic leaders urging them TO
give Goebel their support and he has
made AN engagement to 20 into the Ken
lucky campaign and make speeches IN be-
half of the Goebcl ticket. The excuse That
De offers for taking part IN this campaign
is that Kentucky must be kept I'm the
Democratic line in 1900 That it must bo
made to cast It's vote for the Democratic
candidate. and Mr. Bryan believes that
he will be hat candidate.
We repeat that If Mr.. Bryan believes
that he was cheated out Of his election in
1896, if he believes that elections in this
country are so corrupt as to defeat the
will OF the people, then he ought to de-
nouncc corruption and corrupt election
laws whenever he finds them. When he
goes into Kentucky We shall see what he
has to say about the election law in that
state.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
stories OF National songs.

America il is only too we'll known Is
indebted for most of her national songs
either the words or music, 20 some one
not a native OF this continent Dut the
facts were never told more plainly than
3, tne .storics OF Great National Songs
lust written by Col Nicholas smith. The
first of these ia pont OF time IS Yankee
Doodle" but neither words nor music
entiuc this 20 serious consideration
Originally a comic song. and never more
than one degree better. IL was applied 10
fine revolving colonists i'm derision and
accented by them in laughing defiance.
Long associations have endeared II 10 the
American people, but IL is always taken
huuorously. and not as expressing real
national feeling.
Next to this is "The Presidents March,
afterward given words and called Han
coIumbiar' The music was composed by
a German I'm Philadelphia, called by a
number of names Phylo Feyles and Roth
among them. and Vas played the first
time at Trenton y. j.. when Washington
passed through from Virginia for his in
auguration in New York in l1S9. Nine
wears later. John Adams being president,
p Young actor named Gilbert Fox was TO
receive a benefit in Philadelphia. war
feeling was running high, France having
been the aggressor. He persuaded
Young lawyer, aiterWdIus JNuse' Joseph
Uopkinson, to write the words we still
sing. These he rendered In the evening
and the success was instantaneous. Lat
terlv the song has falleen into disregard
10 some extent
THE best known. the most difficult 10
s,nc and the most warlike of our songs Is.
doubtless 1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner"
Of the Imprisonment &C its young author.
Francis Ssott Key on a British man-of-
war while Fort McHenry was hombarded,
Of his prayers through the night for the
failure OF the enemy's arms and OF the
triumphant outburst at dawn when the
American ensign still foated over The
fortress. all are sufficiently informed. To
was writer on the morning OF Sept H. IS
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04

There is something inspiring in the fact
that the crowd Al the Dewey celebration
In New York. and the crowd at the Dew
ey celebration in Washington paid trlb-
ute 20 Schley as well as to Dewey.
This shows how just and how discrm-
mating are the American people. They
sometimes so wrong, but generally they
are right, and even when they so wrong,
they will in time return to the right way.
Thomas Jefferson had implicit conf
dence in the American people, and they
are as worthy of confidence to-day as
they were In Jeffersons time. Give them
a fair election and they will usually de-
eide every question In the right way.
Their estimate OF public men is usually
the correct estimate. No man can fool all
the people all the time. They know who
their friends are among the public men.
rhey know hero when they see him.
The administration and the partisans Of
Sampson did their best to hide Schlev's
light under a bushel, but they could not
conceal IL. The people knew that he was
worthy OF honor. and at the first oppor-
tunity they showercd their honors upon
him.
IL is a glorious thing TO live In America,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1899.
DEWEY FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

The Pittsburg pa Post says MI MAJ Il
Hanna has made the following declaration
in regard to the talk of Admiral Dewey
for the Presidency:
.1-nited states Senator Mark io.ll'S
saws this of the possibility GA
Devov FOR the Presidency: Tine piao,
~ continually placing the name oi -"
,,,,.at Da,y,v on the list OF PROSPECTIVE
residential candidates I'm indecent. ~ l7
"a Insult and a great injustice to the nero
- Manila Bay himself az ne mas ire
onentIv said that nothing n the Woiiu
would induce him 10 run for fiesideh' Ut
any other political Office.
F." sTo force upon this brave ana gallant
sailor the necessity OF again declaring
he will not accept any political once u.s.
IN my opinion. contemplate ana places
this man of integrity stern purpose an"
determination in the ranks OF the sh'i '-
ing asplrants for political honoiS VINO
have not the stamina TO resist The hotleil
or Establishments Of political schemeis.
The Senator. when asllsd If AR. Mckin-
ley would positively be candidate Tor ue
Presidency again. said everything pointed
that way"
This looks as though tho McNnleyites
v ere in great trouble about Dewey.
We really cannot perceive the force of
Mr.. Hannas objections TO The Dewey talk.
he Admiral has not made such posi-
tive refusal Of a nomination as TO make
81 Indecent TO speak of him in that con-
ncction. lie has said he ala not think
himself fitted for the place and all that
sort Of thing. but his rctusals have. been
.riahty ike the "Barhs IS wiliin'' kind
a.. Nc remarked n day or so back But
The NcKmleyites are disturbing them
selves without reason. Mckinley IS go
ing 10 be the nominee of his party as sure
~ as that ne lives The ofice-holders are
AID controlled 10y Mckinley, and they will
control the nominating convention. Dewey
viii not give Mckinley any trouble. there
fore notwithstanding all the talk.
But viii Dewey be the Democratic NOM
ince. The Democratic party does so
many strange thing nowadays that it
may even nominate man whose politics
Sc unknown as the candidate. no one can
tell.
u e docs nominate Dewey ho may give
the Republicans something % do. His
iold upon the sentimental side Of the
American people IS tremendous to-day,
trt no man can say what 1t win be twelve
moths from to-day.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
Tbc New Land Of COLD

Nome the Alaskan cape. IS the new
land Of promise. Anvil City its metFop-
oils a town of canvas built ON sand GINS
tens with yellow gold. Nome Is the poor
mans Klondike. The gold lies loosely ln
tbe grin OF the soil: IL needs neither long
and wearvinr waiting nor heavy capital
before the owner of a claim can see the
hrst rewards 81 his enterprise. Advlces
h,, sfeamer from st. Michael bring differ
inc accounts of these new fields; but all
aprae i'm the present richness OF the
eords Already six thousand eager mln-
cr. have dockcd there. I'm few months
tbore will be six thousand more. The
digoinos cover an area OF forty square
miles embracing three creeks Of cohsi0-
cradle magnitude. besides a large huilD 3.,
az tributaries The place IS dotted win
the tented homes ~ the M afs' ana lot
miles along the beach the moro promlS--s
claims are in fun working blast. Nome =
summer begins iu the middle OF June ana
ends about mid-October. buIlh5 .'.9'
month e. is possible with heavy winter
clotL, md stout wraps TO i've IN tenls
with tolorable comfort, or at leasb WIN
ONT acute discomfort; but when the WIN
Ter Gets IFS grip ON the land none put me
most t.l.hcned Alaskan workers can i've
tbere. and those must wait TIL summer
for tho sands go loosen. The difficulty or
hearing the intense severity Of the winter
a. Increased bv tho almost entire alb
senoe of natural fuel. The steamers now
returninr IN Anvil city are taking large
consignments of coal OIL Lumber is sold
mt heavy prices in the dissings.-Collier S
Weekly.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
WATTERS0N ON DEWEY
Saws The Admiral Will Not Run on a
Democratic Ticket.

Admiral Dewey IS at this moment tr
ponular idol. Die stands I'm the imagine
ton of the people as the symbol OF tAe
nations fame and glory among the n'-
lions. Under his leading The Unite.
States takes its place in the world as
world power. Hardly less than Mara
thon. Manila will go down 20 the ages as
an eDoch-makcr. SO c0nqueuns nero
ever came back 10 his native country ai''''
such sights and such sounds oi Ne.c'ii'''
THE resplendcncy of Athens ana pI h'"i'
I'm their plaiucst days sinks INTO i"-'7l
dcance bv c0mpaIlsn with the lhde
scribe paeoaut which met the mdllill'
Admiral upon the waters about me great
metropolis yesterday and last nlsnl anu
which Will greet his advent lo the ti'i
to-day: which arc reelected ana 80
bv every town and hamlet u the lahu-
And vet. with both of the political paru'7,
for AN their braggadOCiO, little uH-eI ldl'
of their future neither of them is serious
Nv concentrating Admiral Dewey as It's
candidate for President. Why is thi5t
In the early autumn OF last year some
Democrats OF standing conceived the ldea
that in Dewey the Democratic parry
mieht hnd what the Wings had found I'D
Taylor ard the Republicans ln Irdul'
They ook measures 20 ascertain no" l"e
land might lie. and, naturally, 'heI "'
stem IN that direction was ID ,o"sUi'
Dewey himself N0t merely were i''''
nj , confidential character sent ~emaha'-
ing from those who had the flsnl lo ''""
them-but confidential messenger "eH' +.
AVID at least this Dewey movement eieo
before il was born. The courier
nap does not mind now telling tnal D'
fore il threw ont the Dewey a'
which occasioned $50 muth coilul'"-
the time-at the cost of sucn I''p ''
detracti0n from those VINO can never
am idea until some one hits them '' gu.
head with it-giving many of IFS esteei'l'u
contemporaries a perhaps coFelen opp,t,
tunltv alternately u ridlcuie anu let.
u. We knew that Dewey was d. h'pu'i
c.,. tbat IL would not allow his name 10
be used. that he would not accept " b'i'
ocratic nomination and that NE slncei'Iy
,-.t.,t mo denomination and reelection
of Mr.. KcKiuley.
Thus Admiral Dewey was Iel'''fu ny
Tho democratic managers before lney
knew whether they could or couia no.
get him. As matter OF fact. tney cou'n
not get him. and SD nothing was .o'l ''
Thorn. unless. indeed. persistent and wei
conducted -uasion might have proved n
the long run chicacious. But the Feidl't
as to their lack Of foresight will stand
AGAINST them just the same They n'n
n I'M thcir power 20 give some evidence
nj sonse and Judgment Their failure To
improve this opportunity shows that tneF
arc very blind partlsans or very poor pro-
phets. holding out n either case httie nope
10 the awaiting and eXpcctant rank ana
Louisville "Couricr-Journal
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04

Ebony was esteemed as am atti''e '-
luxury by the ancients. according 10 tn'
Jewellers Weekly In India III Wa 'l"
ployed bv kings for scepters ana imases
and as 81 was supposed 10 annual VIC po ~
or rolsons was often made INTO o''hA'"s
cups. ,..
In France tho manufacture soo,y
toilet goods to-day has reached hlsn nc
gree Of perfection. Combined with silver
ebony Is striking and is growing IN pop
ularitv in this country. This combination
originated IN the United states ana Is now
being introduced abroad.
Sometimes the silver decoration taxes
the form OF monogram or shield
with chased monogram or perhaps bor-
der Of scrolls and flowers surrounds the
toilet articles. A beaded edge OF silver
is also popular
The name ebony IS given 10 the wood
NJ several trees. Al kinds are disisn-
0uished for their density and dark color
and ebony is always heavier than water.
tho heaviest varieties being the darkest.
Tho lighter grades require staining 10
make them sufficiently black. The color
is uniform throughout and never wears
awav The ebony from the Gaboon coast
~ Africa is the darkest and that from
Nadagaecar the densest. MacasSsr ebony
furnishes the lsfgest pieces Most all
ebony is sent in the form Of logs TO Lon
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
Kaufman & Co., Fourth and Broad.

shore the cold night came on. 1 saw
mother nursing a baby with no SMOKER
but the blanket which covered II. saw
one OF the brutes reel up and with an
oath drag the blanket from the baby
Miss Scott. OF a theatrical company.
gave her blanket 10 tho mother, ana D
saw "a second animal seize lt. A third of
the beasts took some bread from woman
and Child. and Boatswain Davis knocked
him down with blow
The Dominion Line, owner or me SCOTS
man. viii in AN probability demand heaNy
damage from the Canadian Government
Officers of the company say lhe loss Oh
ne scof-rntn was due entirely 10 the
failure of the lighthouse department To
notify them of a change I'm signals.
Tbe Herald of this morning prints the
following unique announcement:
Mrs. Ernest Hamilton Peck announce
,bet tho engagement of her daughter.
T.ouise Gordon Peck, 20 Mr. George ".
Gardiner. Jr., has been broken.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04

=. Wilson. said to be a noted crook was
arrested in Knoxville Sunday on a charge
Of burglary. IN a consultation with Chief
of Police Reeder. he volunteered, in ex-
change for his freedom, 10 conduct the
chief TO the place where is secretcd the
famous watch stolen from eXPresidst
Harrison five years ago. The watch was
presented by the senate at the expiration
of Uarrison's term. IL was diamond
studded. the center stone being valued at
500. The time-picce Is worth more than
& 600 and a much larger reward is out
standing.
Wilson had on his person diagram OF
a place near Akron. O., where ne says
the watch was buried By partner soon
after il was stolen. and the original thiet
ala not reveal lis place of concealment
until few months ago, on his dea'hbed.
The Southern Railway is building three
large warehouses at its Charleston termi-
nal.
Macon, Ca, viii have its third annual
carnival beginning October 18th and con-
tinuing four days.
il IS said that there is seldom a day now
in which South Carolina does not project
some new cotton mill enterprise.
DR.. Alonzo Monk. pastor Of Centenary
Methodist church, South, Chattanooga,
preached a sensational sermon sunday
night In which he roundly scored the rcgu-
FL fsi. % faff .|.N
tickets declaring that "a majority OF can
dldates for aldermen ON both tickets arc
either saloon keepers, barkeepers or
avowed friends Of the saloons. lie urged
his hearers 20 vote only Tor men who are
opposed to the repeal of the 10 o'clock
saloon closing ordinance. I'm referring 70
saloon-koeper candidates for aldermen,
such terms as "scOundreis,' buns,
agents Of hell" etc, were used.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
Recent Inventions.

s Massachusetts man has patented a
combined rowing machine and bicycle fo-
use in exercising the muscles. a sliding
seat being fixed on The frame with levers
on either side OF the seat 70 operate the
propelling mechanism the leverage being
changeable by rcsetting the fulcrum pins.
Tho rcshoeIng Of horses IN winter Il
made unnecessary by the use OF A new
shoe attachment. comprising a pair ot
curved caik-bars with Jugs ON the upper
side 10 engage the edge Of the shoe. a
screw with reversely threaded ends being
used 10 spread the bars apart until tbs
Tugs Strip tho shoe tightly.
TO securely join the waist and skirt q
ii dress a newly patented belt has plats
at the back provided with sharpened
hooks projecting upwardy and those on
the other face downwardly, 20 engage tina
skirt and waist respectively.
Incandescent gas nantes are strength
ened against breakage by new French
process. consisting Of saspending the man
tie before incandescence in tubular well
filled with liquid mixture OF paper fiber
and water current being created to
deposit a coating OF fibre on the mantle.
An electrical fountain brush has been
designed by a Pennsylvania. having the
handle and hack OF the brush hollow ana
connected with water pipe. wires being
used 10 connect the brush and A foot-nlsfa
with A battery, the current flowing thro,xh
rhe wet bristles into the body. Chicago
News
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
Statue to Edgar Allan Poe.

..Tbe evil that men DO lives after thom,
tho Good is oft inferred with their bones.
isl unfortunately, more episrammauc
than true. ,....,. ...t..-.
ON saturday next The fftieth anniyer-
sarv of the death of Edgar Milan Poe
his statue bv Zolnay win be unveiled at
the University of Virginia. The Anna
Mater Obliged for the protection oil her
otf.r children % cXpel him i'm lle
chcrisbes with pride the memory OF the
cratic genius doomed TO so mOurniul
an extinction.
The frailtics and inirmities "i 'he man
arc forgotten or lorgyen-iuterred with
his bones-whne the good that ne mas
done lives after him in the fascination
of bls prose and the weird melody oil MS
verso 10 charm uuendiug generations.
Nrulions fan under the magic 'peH OF
",rbe Raven" knowing nothing of the tuf-
b,lsnt life of their unhappy author' the
,,tctir of chat torture The worst-tne ter
,ihie Torture of thirst for the naphihaline
,iysr of passion accurst,' while more SEE
,ione readers who learn of the scenes
80 hat sad and turbulent life find IN them
a oathetic warrrr. lu the words "hich
Poe attributed ID tho echoes IN the
Coliseum .... s....,.or
From us and from aN Ruin. unto the wise
A. melody from Mcmnon 10 the sun
New York Herald.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
THE PUNISHMENT or CHILDREN,

The London Daily News reports an adj
Dress by Professor Earl Barnes. which he
cai,s a study on Childrcn's Attitudes
Towards Punishment" Tor ten years he
has been making inquiry among the chill
drcn Of California. Chicago and London,
The inquiry taking the form Of an ingen-
ious probing Of tho minds of three thou
sand children.
For example. he would have the children
write a composition on this subject: 'De-
scribe a punishment that you have re-
ceived unjustly." Then he would put this
test case 10 the children: 1.-TWO burglars
broke into a house, and when they were
disturbed ono got away with the booty
aud the other was caught. The punish
rent for such an offence is five years In
pr.son. II you had been Judge what would
Won have done with the man who had
been caught
The significant thing in the replies was
that at seven, eight and nine years OF
are scarcely child would apply the law.
Every kind Of punishment was specified
except the one imposed by law. At ten
and eleven or per cent. OF the children
sentenced the man to FIVE years impris-
onment. az twelve and thirteen over 30
Der cent. took that course. At fifteen and
sixteen most OF the children said that
they would carry out the sentence Of the
Law.
Here was another test: II was stated
that two boys had difficulty on the play
ground. The boy who struck the first
blow and provoked the trouble ran home
while the other boy went into the school,
house and feced his teacher. The teacher
had made a regulation that for fighting
. boy should lose his outings. Each child
was asked TO say what he would have
done had he been teacher. Professor
barnes says that I'm this case. as in the
other. he found that the smaller children
we're disposed 10 let the boy 80 unpunish-
ed. while the larger children thought that
the rule should be enforced.
One other test. and the last which We
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
THE YACHT RACE.

ITO feel the heaving deck beneath your
feet. to watch the swirling eddies curling
away astern: 10 look aloft at the swelling
sails and know that you have made the
winds your servants, dangerous though
they be and apt at times TO overcome
their master: TO battle with and defeat tho
SETTLING seas, depending often for your
safety on the soundness OF timber or
o strand OF rope and again 10 float lazily
for days and perchance weeks, sailing al
ways toward the dim. distant line divid-
ing the sky and sea,-these are the joys
that the landsman may not know
Yachting is great sport and men engage
I'm II for the sake Of sport, and not for
the sake OF money. That is an additional
reason for the intense interest IN the
race between the Columbia and the
Shamrock.
The two vessels arc models Of their
kind the finest yachts. no doubt. the
world ever saw. They seem to be pretty
evenly matched. and the race viii depend
upon the work Of the respective crews.
The Shamrock seemed 10 show a little
more speed than the Columbia in yester-
days race. but this may all be changed
in stiff breeze.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
Tl,c Weaver.

Beside tho loom of life stand
And watch the busy shuttle go'
The threads I hold witaih my hana
Make up the huing strand ON strand
Thev slim nv fingers through, and so
This web of mine nils out apace.
While stand ever in my place.
One time the wool is smooth ana me
Ana colored with sunny dye
Again the threads so roughly twine
And weave so darkly line for line
NV heart misgiyes me. Then would
Fain loose this web-begin anew
But that. alas 1 cannot DO.
Some day the web will all he done
The shuttle quiet in It's place.
From out my hold the threads be run;
And Friends at settling Of the sun
WIN come to look upon-my face.
And say: mistakes she made not few.
Yet woye perchance az best she knew
The Independent.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04

columbia. the Gem Of the ocean, mas
been held 20 be mere aoap'auol VI =
Older song called britannia. the Gem OF
the Ocean" This is not the case LlNe
"Hal Columbia" and THE star opansleu
Banner" 10 had its birth as a SONG lli
PbUadelphil. and a Phiiadephl1 "c''I
wrote both words and music. lie was
however. an Englishman by birth, lhonlis
a Beckett and the name and idea OF the
song originated with David T.. sha",
another actor IN Philadelphia who wished
something TO sing on his benefit ana asked
Beckett To help him. This was m the
autumn OF 1913. But both becket ana
Shaw were Americans by adoption, oeins
citizens of the republic when the words
and music were written. IL Us 'leIelo'''
almost wholly American.
The last of the really great songs OF lHg
nation is undoubtedly Mrs. Juila NJ aI 81
llowe's Battle Hymn of the Eepuonc'
This was written iu December, leol' allfI
visit 10 the camps about Washington
n T. set to the air OF John Brown $
po8v" and 30 one seems 20 bee sure "nen
or where this great marching tune came
into being IL is variously said 10 Doe the
odantation of an old camp-meetins AR.
IN have been invented by quartet IN 1ne
second battalion OIL the 18th Massachusetls
regiment i'm the spring Of l@l 10 nave
boer need bv the Mnlerites a- far BACK as
1sfq and numerous other origins nave
been devised or unearthed, all equally
probable. IL IS not likely that me truth
win ever be discl0sed.-Chlcaso News.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-04
Sou,ber, Theatre Company.

The Southern Theatre company owners
Of the Academy OF Music VIII meet at
their office AT noon to-day, IN ahhual SEES
sion 10 transact routine business and TO
view the work of the past season and act
upou the work OF the contractor in the re-
cent improvements made " the Academy.