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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
ROANOKE COLLEGE SCHEDULE.
Ball Team in Good Practice-Literary

Ball Team in Good Practice-Literary
Celebration.
SALEM, VA. March A.-Spectal.-Th
baseball team of Roanoke College has
the brightest outlook of many seasons.
Under the management Of Mr.. II. e.
Spencer and Captain Hall their progress
is very marked, and the College can boast
of one of the best teams on College dta-
monds. The following games for Roam
oke have been arranged:
March 31st, st. Adams; to be played in
Salem.
April 18th. Washington and Lee Uni
versity; to be played in Lexington.
April 18th, Virginia Military Institute;
to be played in Lexington
April 18th. University of Maryland: to
be played in Salem.
April Goth, st. Adams, to be played in
Salem.
April 24th. William and Mary College;
to be played in Salem.
April 18th, University Of Virginia; to be
played in Roanoke.
May 9th, University of Virginia; to be
played in Charlottesville.
Games are being arranged also with
tHampden-Sidney. Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. Richmond College. Rando. PHI
Macon. and William and Mary, on their
home grounds.
nlr. and Mrs. John alcConkey re-
turned yesterday from Fincastle. where
they have been visiting Mrs. McConkey's
parents.
On Saturday night week the Demos
thenian Literary Society of Roanoke Col
lege will hold a special meeting. which
excludes all from taking part but mem
bers Of the junior class. Every one Is
invited
CleveLard Morgan. a former Salem boy.
but now Of New York, is visiting reia-
&tives here.
Prof Wythe Morehead. OF Roanoke Col
lege. left yesterday for Wythevflle, Wnere
he will visit rela tives.
Miss Carrie Wilson. of this city. is very
sick at her home on Elm Street
DIV. p. Norris and FAMILY left yes
sterday for Roching CHAM. where they VIII
visit Mrs. Norris parents.
Quite. an enjoyable mus Gale was given
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. p A lie
mong. on Pennsylvania Avenue. las.
night. After the exercises refreshments
were served.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
,oo,e cot,n re at Fortll,atn.

poc,s Cottage at Ford ham.
Here stands the little santiquated mousse.
a few old fashioned flowers~at the door,.
The dead mast leaves It, quiet as mouse,
Though just beyond a giant city s roar
See here the curious porch, the attic there,
The quaint, square window with us
awkward blind,
The wea tter-beaten wall, al Dla a1lf i anu
bare,
And Swallowed by an apple tree behind.
within This room Virginia lay when III,
A black cat nesting there to warm her
And 50 she languished, growing paler still,
And shivering as the winds OF winter
beat.
And here her mother through the lons.
long night
tive's side,
Here by the smoky lamps loW-f1lckering
They looked upon Virginia when she
died.
And here it was they wrapped her in her
shroud,
And thence they took fher through the.
falling snow,
So on this old house closed at last the
cloud
That haunts it still with griefs SO long
ago.
And here the poets life grew darker still,
AS dream by dream vanished into air;
Here day by day grew weaker yet his
will
AS golden hopes were rusted in despair.
But here were born those strains that
cannot die,
heart:
Here fame whose summer hears no au-
tumn sigh,
Shall rear immortal marbles to his heart
Here Legela haunts US with enchanting
eyes,
We catch the rustic of Morella's gown;
Here Usher treads, and William Wilson
dies,
And ISRAELI sings Poe's supreme renown
Walter Malone, in The Critic
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25


tempted criminal assault A mob gath
cred near the courthouse, determined to
lynch him without trial. Governor O Fer
rail- was Informed by wire as to the cons
dition Of things, and he promptly: ordered
to Berryville a company from Char ttes-
Vile. The captain Of the company wired
the Governor that It was impossible to
get his men together in time to take the
first train. The Governor replied that
nothing. should be impossible to soldier.
IN a little while thereafter the captain
teIegraphed the Governor that his men
had been assembled and that he as
about to leave for Berryville with forty
soldiers. Just before the train bearing the
military arrived at Berryville the Cover
nor telegraphed the officers OF the la"
that the soldiers were coming, and SO
quietly was 1T all done that the people
of the town were surprised when the SOL
diers marched to the Jail.
Robertson was protected from the mop,
which, by the way, had already formed,
was regularly tried and convicted, and
sentenced to fourteen years in the peni-
Tertiary A little more than three years
after that time some citizens Of Berry
willie discovered that the convict was in
nocent, and petition for his pardon was
numerously signed and sent to Richmond,
and one Of the first acts of Governor
Tyler after he was inaugurated was to
pardon Henry Robertson, an innocent
man, who had been saved from the mob.
It is terrible thing to take mans
life for an alleged crime without having
given him an opportunity to prove his
innocence. This man o'Grady, who was
lynched at Emporia yesterday, declared
that he was innocent and asked for a
few days respite, but the mob strangled
him to death with the cry, II am inno-
cent" in his throat.
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Lungs.

- -
without meaning to impeach our con-
temporary's yeracity, we do not believe
that President Morley ever made such
a brutal speech. A man capable OF ut
terins such a sentiment could not live
in an atmosphere Of American tree
men.
The New York Herald of yesterday
prints the following in its news columns:
"Archibald a. Mcleod,
n ietaee .o millionaire railroad man.
who lives at No. 70 West
Thirty-frst Street, before Recorder Golf,
in the Court of General Sessions, yes
terday morning asked for clemency in
the case of John WILSON,, his colored
butler, who had pleaded guilty to the.
more than 500, from his employers resi-
dence.
why do you ask that I suspend sem
tence in the case of this man?' inquired
the Recorder.
Your Honor, he has been in my en-
ployment for twelev years, and has al
ways been faithful servant. I want
to give him chance replied Mr.. Nlc-
Leod.
CT deny your request said the Re-
corder, and I sentence your servant to
twelve months in the penitentiary.
CHANGING at Wilson. he continued:
Sometimes footpad steals from sheer
necessity, but you violated your en-
ployer's trust !"
This were all right if that sort of
justice were dealt out as well to bank
cashiers and other men in high places
who abuse their trusts
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25

Telegraph, in the shape sof note for
81, 600 with which Admiral Lord cochrane.;
the Their Of the plucky present
Earl of Dund donald, paid his fine when he
was falsely accused Of spreading, with
an interested object. runors that Bona
parte was dead, in 1874 50 as to cause q
rise DIN the price of stocks. The sum
mentioned was raised in subscriptions OF
a penny by his West minister consti tuents.
The note is Endorsed wi TIL the rame of the
intrepid but ill-,lsed salt, and has IN
scribed on it a sentence in which he ex &,
presses the hope that. enc day he III
prove his Innocence End triumph over ms s
accusers. That corsumr:ation Wa no., not
effected until eighteen years later. wd s7'i
he was reinstated by lillian
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
90
AFTERMATH.

A special from Topeka, Kan, says that
the Rev. Mr.. Sheldon, who conducted tne
CAPITAL for week as a Christian daily,
will receive between $4,000 and $4,000 as
his share of the venture, which sum he
intends to expend in improving and beau
tifyingy the negro settlement in Topeka
This settlement is surrounded by the
homes of aristocratic citizens VINO maze
tried to buy out the negroes but have
failed, and their hope is that Mr.. Sheldon
will make the locality more respectable
Congressman Jefferson Levy, Of New
York, has rented a mansion in Washing
ton. and will go to housekeeping next
week.
The date for the opening of the South.
ern Industrial Convention has been made
one week later than originally planned,
saws a special from Chattanooga The
date now fixed is May 15-1Sth inclusive.
Colonel William S1ddons Young, Who IS
4 grea t-grs,ndson Of Mrs. siddons, has
presented to the British Museum a relic
of the great actress in the shapes OF S a
gold and tortoise shell snuff box, W l1lts
was given to her by George V.s9zf
Leslie Livermore. survivor Of the
civil war, has refused an offer Of adm MS
sion to the Soldiers Home In w asnln e
ton because it would seDara tie him from
his faithful dog Kaiser. The animal once!
saved his life by walking him up when a
fl re wa lin prOgrRSS.
Ss.. "a curious souvenir is preserved IN ina
Bank OF lEngiamd, :. says the London
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
"A Novel Suit.

CAPRCN, VA, March 23.-Special-A
magistrate case Of considerable importance
came off here to-day, in which Mr.. Manly,
the agent for the Penn Mutual Life In
surance Company, instituted suit against
a merchant of this town for not accept
ing a policy from the said company.
Captain Hall, of Richmond, was present
in the interest of his company.
Both sides were represented by able
lawyers, and considerable time was taken
up in giving In the evidence. So it was
decided that the counsels Should present
their arguments In a verbal form to the
magistrates, who will report their decision
later.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
CURRENT COMMENT.

We find the following in the Memphis
Commercia!-Appeal: 5
.,c...,., ~, Some few days ago a
ingmen Marry ness Makers so' Union .s cali
ed on Morley Brothers Saddlery Cons
pany OF Chicago for the purpose of en-
sdeavoring TO induce the firm to :arbitrate
certain differences between 1t and Its
employees who are members of the union
and on a strike. The delega ton pointed
out the great cost of living In a big city,
the expense Of rearing family and the
.diflcultay of keeping out OF squalid or
immoral neighborhoo The president
of the cson1pany, Afr. George Morley.
listened qusetly to the ar>gument and
representa- lions Of the spokesman of the
delegation and then coolly replied:
&; IS Z. n working has a right to mar
ny or aspire to become the head Or q
Family or to raise child en-. =
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
Prolific Paupcr.

STEyENSvILLE, VA. March "a
Special 1.-The wife of a married couple,
inmates Of the Poor-House Of King and
Queen county, in such feeble health as
to be supported by the county. last April
gave birth to twins. and now. not q::dte
a year afterwards. the mother again gives
birth to twins. =
One of the infants died the next day,
the other is still living.
The mother gave birth to four children
in eleven months.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
a Wonder.

.Well, sir" said the man who had
lust come from the concert. II have
heard the most wonderful yiolinist in the
world this evening""
''Who is he?''
'I've forgotten his name, but he didn't
spend much more than half the time he
was on the stage in tuning his fnstru-
ment.'-Chicago Times Herald.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
OUR RELIGIOUS CoNTEMPORA-
IsITTC

-H
In certain quarters, just now, indie
cision' as regards doctrine, dogma, creed
and all such matters, seems to be the.
popular position. The via media
whatever that handy and convenient
combination of words may be taken to
nean-and we imagine it can be made
to reflect almost any meaning In the
mind of any man-seeins to be the popu-
lar position as to matters Of belief just
now.
1t is well for the world, however,
that there are many-thank God, very
many-positively convinced and actively
enterprising people in it, who waste no
time. thought or energy looking for
so-called via media, or whiting away
their beliefs to the finest point possible,
but go earnestly on their way, doing
the work God has given them, express
ing and living upa:sto their God-given
convictions, with no question in heart
or mind as to the great fundamental
verities of Christianity, and able to say
with st. Paul, II. know whom I have
believed, and am persuaded He is able
to keep that which I have committed
to Him against that day.'-Southern
Churchman-
WE have admiration for the sturdy
common sense and seasoned courage
friend and ours, DR.. Rodgers, reported
him as saying that II have kept my
face towards all truth, and, If 70 had
seen a religion superior to our faith, I
would have embraced it. I do not
know all the purposes and thoughts Of
God, as some seem to do. The light
have is narrow circle around my
feet-eEough for my safe progress.
There is darkness beyond on all sides"
The words are ours. The thought IS
our memory of the report. There IS
humility and frankness in DR.. Bonds
Observation-Disclosures Advocate.
Mr.. Sheldon, the preacher-editor, is an
honest, earnest hearted man, if we
may Judge him by his writings. We do
not believe that he is moved at all in
his editorial venture by the hope of gain
to himself. It is not in his mind an
advertising scheme of which he is to
reap the advantage. Our opinion in re-
gard to the publishers OF the journal
which he has been editing during the
past week is quite different. The i'm
preston made upon us is that they have
seen the opportunity for sensation;
that they saw money in 1T, and that
they have used the Supplemented en-
thusiast to bait their trap They have
done nothing dishonest or dishonorable,
unless, perhaps. they ere chuckllng IN
quiet over the spectacle the largehearted
reformer is making Of himself while he
is raking in profits for them. The at
tempt in any literal way to SHOW what
Jesus would do If he were here fails
to help the wise and constantly mis-
leads the unwary. Probably the dress
that Jesus wore-graceful, comfortable
and suited to the climate-would now in
any public assemb.y-worn, for instance
by Mr. Sheldon-be regarded as absurd,
If not indecent-Christian Register.
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FuIly Resigned to 1t.

RI wish you. please. sub. write me a
obituary on de death er my las wife,
..Why-how many have you had?"
EFF I don't disremember. sub, she wuz
de seventh
IT suppose you want me to put in, we
would not call her back again. don't
your
Eyes, suh-let her stay dar, too!"-At-
lanta Constitution
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
RockBRIDGE REPU.BLI CANS.
Endorse Mckinley and Instruct 10
Col. Robert HUBBARD.

LEXINGTON, VA. March 2a.-Speeia4
The ERockbridge County Republican con-
yention met to-day and endorsed PRESS
dent arcKinley's administration. pledstns
themselves to support him.
Delegates were elected to the Tenta
CONGRESSIONAL Republican Convention. to
he held In Buchanan, and instructed for
Colonel Robert Hubbard, Of Buckingham.
Delegates were also elected 70 the State
convention to be held In Norfolk Bus.-
ness was expedited rapidly and tho cen
5yenrson was one OF great harmony.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
UIanfaDle.

1T see those friends of yours. the Rust
Iers, have their names in the paper
again." said the lady who is interested in
social topics.
'.Have they, Indeed?" responded Miss
Cayenne, languidly IT didn't know the
delinquent tax-list had been published
again! IVA shington Star.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
As Heretofore,

STILL" reflected Uncle Hieronymus,
spreading his costly Royal Bengal tiger
rug on the pine floor of his fiat, 'as
somebody has observed before me, beauty
is only skin deep."-Chicago Tribune.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
Southside Democrats.

8 The South Side Democratic Club, OF
Monroe Ward. will meet tomorrow night
at NIoores Hall, No. 1873 South Second
Street. IS ~
present.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
Elks' Homo Ciub5

IS The 'Ell<s.# Home Club held an enjoy
able social last night at the Home. and
many friends Of the club enjoyed its hos.
spltalit y. so.
The prospects Of the Elks' convention
for next year were discussed and tae
prospect seemed bright s.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25
FnrmvilIc EDterprIse.

FARMEIIJLEl VA. March 2A-Special
FarmytlIe will soon have q dime savings
bank and a knitting mill. AttoEnAy Va
fdersl;oe = eat1g psonotss.
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The Times is always indebted to friends
who favor 1t with society items and per-
sonals, but must urge that all such be
sent over the signature OF the sender.
All unsigned communications will be re-
iecfed aln.ayS
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All subscriptions by mail payable In ad-
vance. Watch the label on your paper,
4. YOU live out OF Richmond. and see when
your subscription expires. so you can. re-
new before the paper is stopped.
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College this week. where he had been
very i'll. He IS still very sick.
Eustace Kahle son OF Dr. Kanle, came
from Covington this week, also quite ~
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-25

MANCHESTER BUREAU. 11o1 HULL
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PETERSBURG AGENT,
MRS. S. C. HUTCHINSON. 4 LOMBARD
STREET
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-22
Her Bow was Chaneed.

Private Edward ~, wounded be-
fore johannesburg, returned home on
sick leave a few days ago, and a lady
interested in the family called ON the
mother, whose only child he is. To the
visitors dismay the woman, who had
been so brave during the weary weeks
of waiting, burst into tears. They've
gone and took away my boy" she said
at length. Last October e went off
full of is fun, pullin' Krooger's whis-
kers and the like o. that nonsense. and
now, now of sudden, 'es got man
good and kindlike, as e wasn't never
afore: but I'm empty fer my little lad,
wot the army's took and left in Afriky.
Seems just the other day lis father give
i'm the strap fer mixin' treacle with the
blaekin', and now>we can't neither of
us find a tongue fer to talk easy with
i'm. London Evening News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-22
PASSION PLAY REALISTIC.

Lillian Bell Describes the Acting of the
Peasants of Oberammergau.
In the Woman's Home Companion
Lillian Bell writes of her experiences at
Oberammergau and Of the impressions
made upon her by the great Christ
drama. She concludes with these vivid
words:
'As to the play itself, I wish I need
say nothing about it. Ny mind, my
heart, my soul, have all been wrenched
and twisted with such emotion as is
not pleasant to feel nor expedient to
speak about. It was too real, too
heart-rending, too awful. I hate, I abhor
myself for feeling things SO acutely. T
wish | were a skeptic, a scoffer, an
atheist. | wish | could put my mind
on the mechanism of the play. I wish
could believe that it all took place two
thousand years Ggo. I wish I didn't
know that this suffering on the stage
was all actual. / wish / thought these
people We're really Tyrolese peasants
swood-carvers and potters, and that all
this agony was only play hate the
women who are weeping around me.
hate the men who are letting the tears
run down their cheeks and whose shout
ders are heaving with their sobs. 1t
Is SO awful to see man cry!
But no, it is all true It is taking
place now. am one of the women at
the foot of the cross. The anguish. the
cries, the sobs, are all real. They pierce
my he TT. The cross, with its piteous
burdeA.. is outlined against the real sky.
The green hill beyond is Calvary. Doves
futter in and out, and butterflies dart
across the shafts of sunlight. The ex-
preston on Christ's face is one of an
guish, forgiveness and pity unspeakab
Then his head drops forward on his
breast, it grows dark, the weeping he-
comes lamentation, and as they an
proach to thrust the spear into his side
from which, have been told, the blood
and water really may be seen to nonr
forth, | turn faint and sick and close
my eyes. It has gone too far. / am no
longer myself, but disorganized bean
OF racked nerves and hysterical ween-
ing, and not even the descent from thn
cross. the rising from the dead nor fho
triumphant ascension can console me-
nor restore my balance. The Passion
Play but once IN lifetime"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-22
They Are Easily Upset,


81 remember once of hearing of fell
low who, coming uninjured out OF a
railway wreck, worked like demon to
assist his less fortunate fellow passen-
gers" said a railway official. "All the
time he was at work, however, he held
one hand to his collar, and, when it was
over, one of his companions discovered
that he was holding tight to his necktie,
which he had been in the act of tying
when the collision occurred.
People act very queerly when they
are, or think they are, in danger.
81 know young girl who had
learned to swim quite well, and one day
she tried to swim across river. There
were plenty of people about and the dis
lance was not great, but when she was
half way across someone called out;
"How deep is it?'' She let her foot
down and, of course, found she was out
of her depth. Instantly she lost her
nerve and sank. She came up once,
tried to scream, but the water choked
her, and down she went again.
"a man, realizing that something was
wrong, jumped in, clothes and all, and
pulled her out. He was none too soon,
for she was unconscious when he pulled
her up. 1t was the sheer fright of
knowing that she was out of her depth
that caused it all, as otherwise there
wasn't the slightest danger. Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-22

The romance of travel and the TO.
nance of industry, so to speak, are GU
riously blended by the statement that
the Sultan of Johore has contracted for
an electrical plant to cost nearly a
million dollars The name Of Johore,
a little state at the tip of the Malay
Peninsula, has the very flavor of 1.-THE
stored East But is there anything
in the Arabian Nights" more truly
wonderful than the fact that such a
plant will transmit the power of five
thousand horses ninety-eight miles over
three copper wires the size of lead
pencil? 1t is said that the first expert
ment in thus transmitting power was
made at mill in Rhode Island which
was about to be abandoned as inacces-
sible, when some one suggested stretch
ing wire from dam five miles away.
The plan succeeded. Other millmen
miners, lighting companies and munlcl-
palities adopted it. A single corpora
ton engaged in the manufacture or
power transmitting machinery Will
build more than six million dollars
worm InlS year. IulS SHOWo ACSoAu
breaking" development, for the tlrst
years business of the same corporation
in 1893 was only one-fftieth as large.
The Sultan's great plant, which will
carry the force of cascade to the gov
eminent gold-mines, ninety-eight miles
away, marks development in still an
other direction. The greatest distance
over which power is now regularly
transmitted is about eighty-three miles
from Redlands to Los Angeles, Cal,
where it runs a street railway, lights
the streets and performs other service.
1t is true that power can be thus trans
mitted to almost any distance. AS the
distance increases, however, so does the
expense, until in the end it becomes
cheaper to produce the same power
from coal Here is an economic prob
lem which the progress of electrical de-
velopment will probably solve. Few
things are really impossible in an age
that has harnessed Niagara!