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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-24
Defect in Primary Plan,

Editor of The Times:
Sir,-I have read with care and inter
est all you have printed on the import
ant subject of nomination or canu1uases
by primaries-both editorials ana COM
1nrnicatio1n / fully agree with You that
it is preferable to any other means mere
tofore employed of giving all the voters
of a, party the opportunity of partlc1pat-
ing in nominating candidates anc with
the least possible personal inconvenience.
But this is one objection to the legalized
primary now in force in this city that 1
have failed to see any reference to by
you or any one else.
I hope I will be pardoned for using my
own personal experience in this connec-
ton to elucidate the objection refer to.
The act leEalizing primaries in this
city plainly clothes the City Democratic
Committee with power to adopt such rules
and regulations for the management and
control of the election as they choose.
Their rules and regulations are thus made
legally binding. One of their rules Gin
the last primary held here) required the
voter to bind himself to vote for the
nominees of the primary then held, at
the ensuing election. Now, suppose one
of the candidates being voted for at the
primary is a man l know, by his pre-
vious acts or his private character. to be
untrustworthy and I will not under any
circumstances vote for that one man and
have no such knowledge or opinion to
prevent my voting for any - the other
candidates and am anxious to vote of
others. Is it not q plain injustice, de-
NAL of my rights as legally quallfed
voter to refuse to me the privilege of
voting for others whom l wish to vote
for? Is such dctation in harmony with
the boosted free ballot? For one. if l
am to be trammeled in any way in eXer-
cising the right Of suffrage. very reluct-
antly but forever surrender that right.
I believe the primary law can be and
should be amended, and further if tested,
it could be shown to be unconstitutional.
Before the primary was leSalized, i
voted at it and also on election-day, ct
both for whom chose, knowing COM
mittee of, private citizens could not die
tate terms and conditions to control my
vote, but now l am lawbreaker II
do not submit to their dicration. if vote.
I will only add I am as true a Demo-
crat as walks the streets of this city.
but never was of the Chicago or Kansas
City stripe.
INQUIRER.
Richmond, Va, Feb. o. 1901.
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Putnam Outdone.

"Old Flip as he was called py All
who knew him, died at Claremont,
Pulaski, Va, February 9Th, IN ms
nineteenth year. This old horse. raised
and owned by the late Frank MacSlll'
performed a feat which suppose was
never before accomplished by any
other horse and rider in Virginia, ana
likely by none in the United States.
save the one ridden by General Israel
Putnam in his escape from the BIT
ish. All who are familiar with Rlch-=
mond know the old Arlington House,
on Main Street between Sixth ana
Seventh Streets. This house is situated
above the grade on Main Street, anu
has about ten. granite steps OIL ABOUT
eight inches rise to eacn step, from
the street to q yard about eight Ieet
wide, then eight marble steps, Win q
rise of about seven inches 10 each
step, from the yard to the small porch
on entrance, making a total of elgh-
teen stone or marble steps from Nam
Street to the entrance. About fifteen
years ago Frank had Flip in Rich
mond. and one afternoon rode to the
Arlington, where he found q number OF
ladies on the porch, all of whom were
glad to see him, and called to nm 10
ride up. Frank, who was too Saliant
to refuse the ladies, refined Flip up
and started up the fight OF steps.
Reaching the porch, he dismountedi..
chatted while with the fair ones,
remounted and rode Flip down the
Same steps to Main Street. rms
created quite q sensation on MAN
Street, and a large crowd gathered III
front Of the Arlington. Many OF Them
now living in Richmond will remem-
be,. tha instance Flip" was by
Brennan, he by Orion Gull brother to
Planet, he by Revenue out of Nina
5(NJina nv Rostonl. Pulaski.
February 18th. Pulaski News.
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The El.rrcdse Concert Company.

One of the most attractive and fasci
ating entertainments that has hes
resented by the Young Mems Christia
ssociation during the past two yeai
ill be given in the association auditc%
sum tomorrow nightly the Eldreds
illustrated Concert Company. The chic
cure Of the combination is Miss Gracs
Idredge, a reader and impersonator g
20 mean merit. Her work will be illus
rated by colored light effects. maxim;
Ter artistic posings delightful and eff
sective. Miss. Helen Day. in her illus
rated songs, will be something entirels
news Information has just been received
rom the Hedpath Bureau, substituting
sdr.Ralph Smalley, cellist, for Mr.. iNa1
Scranton, the hEmorist. This Will pleas
The lovers of instrumental music. Prob
bly, the finest sterepoticon work that has
yer been witnessed in the association
hall. Will take place on Monday night
when Mr. Fred Mace. who accom-
,anied Dr. hansen, the great American
Spiorer, on his lecture tour. gives tho
Illustrations in this entertainment. The
programme will be novel and varied.
rhis combination was originally booked
FOR the Star Course. Reserved seats arc
now on sale at.the. association building.
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the morning to the Grove-Avenue con-
sgregation on What Is Man ?'' There
S will be no service at night.
Rev NJ. Ashby Jones will preach
morning and night at Leigh-street Bap-
: fist Church.
Rev. W. z. Hatcher. D. D., reached
Richmond Friday night and will preach
to-day at Grace-Street Church.
THE METHODIST CHURCHES.
& Rev. 81. M Hope. associate editor of
the Richmond Christian Advocate. win
preach In the morning at Centenary.
His subject will he seW hat Is There in q
Name q At night the pastor. Rev. w.
w. Lear. will preach.
& Rev.. John Harmon. D. D.. will preach
as usual to-day at Union Station.
Rev. r. II. Bennett will preach morn
ing and night at St. James.
Rev. GIL. spooner win preach In the
morning at Trinity on 9. Woman's
Curse. and q night .on s Hiding
Place.
RsI.sLS sD1esY sWWs IN hisspulpit st
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SOME VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE READERS OF THE TIMES
"a Word About the Constitutional Convention
Again The Truc Democracy Roster
Of Company g., Third Virginia
Regimcnt-Defect IN Primary
Plan-Census Figures.

TRAN statue of General r. y. Lee Conf
pany G held reunion Of Its Survivors.
and First Sergeant John B. Purcell had
the original roll printed and presented
copy to each, survivor. That Toll con-
ia:ns eish.y-two names an! 1 send yo'1
a copy of Il. On your roll my name
was omitted ] was only sixteen when
mustered in with the company, in 1867
Z was afterwards detailed as courier for:
General G. w. Gusts Lee, and served
under him in that capa city until we were
all captured, at the battle OF sailors
Creek QIatcher's Rum, on the retreat
L anu proud of being member, OF that
boy company and so do not like any
roll that leaves my name out. Hence
this correction. Others may feel the
same 1sridc. and for. :llair sakes. too, l.
send YOU the roll as printed i'll 1880. -Four
Of the company became nlinisters-viz..
Rev. ". r. Cowirdin, S. J. B., in. the
Roman Catholic Church; Rev Beverley
D. Tucker D. d.. Of tho Episcopal
The Disciples Church: anu Rev. Frank
i. brooke, D. D., of the Presbyterian
Church.
The following is the lnuster--oll of
Company G. Ihiid Virginia Battalion:
Captain Edward S. Gay, Jr. First Lieu
tenant aEaverly Anderson, Second Lieu
tcna ut Samuel TAYLOR, Third Lieutenant
Wilton Randolph, First Sergeant John s.
Purcell. Second Sergeant W. r. Cowardin,
Third Sergeant William, Al. Hill, Fourth
Sergeant r. 6. Rind, Fifth Sergeant John
B Faris; Corporals L. G. Battelle,
George ]. Davidson, PortiauX Robinson,
Swift Johnson, Thomas j. Walsh. Benja-
min J. Shepherd and Charles II. Quarles;
Prirates Roscoe D. Chesternan, John p.
Quarles. Edward a. Willis, E. B. Lew
ellyn, James II. Walsh, James w. Glib
bons, r. II. M. Harrison. Alfonso Dibrell,
John ]. Womble. J. Henry Grant, Waiver
ley T. Iarbrough, c. NJ. Nimme, Charles
p Taylor, Edgar T. Jones, w. z. John
son, George w Bridges. G. Kennon
Wren, W. c. Sclater. William B. Tyree.
Gwynn Lyell. Richard Brooke, George w.
Semple, James II. Pecor, u. Taylor
Briggs. Charles p. Williamson, William
Hammond, John AZ. Hammond, William
A Mathews. Beverley D. Tucker, ]. Ran
dolph Tucker. Jr., Edgar u. Taylor,
G. Watson James. Frank j. Brooke, Rob-
er. II. Gillian, Gray boswell, James A.
PEBBLES, Charles Browne, James Carr.
e. r. Devine, ". c. Tenpleman, a. w.
Timberlake, Thomas Murphy. Marion
Randolph, George Watt, Jr., Emmett c.
Pecor. L. G. Wood. G. B. Doggett.
r. Willis Thompson, f. S. Cardoza, Wal
lice Deane. Thomas NJ. Rutherford,
Simon Cullen, Walter Sydnor, Claiborne
Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, George
FernCyhoush, w. B. McCaw, W. E.
Page, B. l.. Hendricks. ]. II. Owens,
NJ. B. Owens, o. O. Owens. James E.
Roane, Jr., G. Percy Halves, A. T. Aber-
nethy, S. r. Mallory. Jr., and Temple
boswell. FRANK ]. BROOKE.
Alexandria, Va. February Is, 1901.
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Where !-irsinia's Population Has In.
creased Most.

Editor The Times:
Sir.-Of the 100 counties in the State, &C
have increased in population and "a have
decreased during the decade, those show
ing the largest percentage of increase
being, first, Wise, in the extreme south
vest and in the mineral and timber Sec
ten of the State, the increase being I03
per cent. In 1890 this county had 9,345, and
in 1900 it had 1868, the increase being
1866; second, Allegheny, which IS also IN
the mineral and timber section of the
State the increase being 75.9 per cent. In
1890 this county had 9,2S3 and in 1900 1t
had 1880, the increase being 7,0i7; third.
Buchanan, in the extreme southwest and
in the mineral and timber section, the in
crease being 652 per cent. In 1890 this
county had 5,S67 and in 1900 it had o.
&c. the increase being S,S25; fourth Dick
enson. which lies between Wise and
Buchanan and adjoins both counties This
county is also in the mineral and timber
section, the increase being SIG per cent.
In 1890 this county had sou and i'll 1900
it had 7,747, the increase being 2.6I0. No
other county increased SO per cent; the
fifth is northampton 1876 per cent. the
increase in this county being principally
caused by the town of Cape Charles;
sixth. Smyth. 2S.2 per cent.
These four mountain counties of Wise,
Allegheny. Buchanan and Dickinson, all
in the mineral and timber belt, have in
increase OF the whole State, the total
increase of the State for the last decade
being 19S, 204, or Il per cent.
OF the four cities in the State with
more than 10000 people, the increase is
fn1l 49,
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for or a Constitutional ! Convention which
Is caused by a deeper reason than the.
desire to get rid of the negro vote.
This vote is now most Feffectually sup
pressed. but it is suppressed by q method
which gives to the officers of lion the
power to cancel the votes of the most.
Intelligent white men and thereby put
the State itself under the domination OF
sclf-perpetuating machine. 1t is not
S to be expected that Democratic leaders
will, go before the people and express
themselves with the freedom which I
use.
Nevertheless, it's more or less clearly
recognized and accepted everywhere that
the true end of q Constitutional Con-
vention is to get rid of the negro vote by
act Of law rather than by perjury and
fraud, as is now customary wherever it
seems necessary to the party in power,
and thus to make it possible for the peo-
pie to get rid of the election machine now
in power and the election methods now
in vogue. If I correctly understand the
situation it is this idea and this hope
which is expected to influence the people
in carrying out the movement for new
Constitution.
Now. shall the question of honest cleo
lions under the new Constitution be left
to the will and pleasure of the machine
which at this time controls our elections
and our State or shall it be left to the
pleasure of any political party, faction
or combination which may. at any. time
hereafter. obtain control of the election
machine?
Are the white men of Virginia willing
to leave their right to vote in the years
to come to the grace Of a political ma
chine. or will they see to it that in the
Constitution itself shall be embodied such
provision as may be necessary to put it
beyond question or doubt that no matter
what party may come into power here
after the freedom and sanctity OF cleo
lions shall be preserved?
~Ne.s HENRY NJ. HOLLADAY.
Holladay, Va, February %, 1901.
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Mules at Bay.

Mr.. Talbert Wright went to his
barn a few Sundays ago to show a
friend his fine span of mules and was
utterly surprised to find that an army
of rats had taken possession of the
barn and had his mules at bay. One
Of our correspondents was sent for at
once and on his arrival the battle be-
gan. The little Critters. all made
their escape, except about fifty, and
they were murdered in cold blood
GraySOn Journal
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Quick Service.

The ambulance service OF Richmond
is at all times so prompt and efficient
That .snecial occasion for mention OF It's
excellence rarely occurs The quick re-
snonse to the call to the lower sas-WorAs
Yesterday morning. probably estaohsaeu
: ,,a,,r record for -the ambulance. how
ever Between the time when the caii
was received at the almshouse and the
rival Of the ambulance at the gas
works lust nine and a half minutes
e,ansed. The distance is at least three
miles.
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A Watch lick BY telephone.

The new telephone line to Lynchburg
has been completed and the first mes
sage was sent over the wires Tuesday
by Superintendent Vint. The public
was invited to use the phone free I'M
til Thursday evening, and many have
taken advantage of the opportunity.
The central Office is at Kern's drug
store. The action of this phone is
1rst-class in every respect, and a
watch ticking in Lynchburg could be
heard plainly.-Bedford Bulletin.
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sEABoARD AIR LINE RAILWAY
reduction in Rates and Change OF
conditions in Mileage Books.

On and after February 9th, i8i. tne
sTIsn,,se So.NIiIe Books for IS. good over
tha entire system from Washington. D.
Z r 10 all points on the seaboard Air Line
21a;,S,av including the State OF Florida
m, e. hoo< will also ba honored for trans
nar,ation between Portsmouth and Baltf-
more BY the Baltimore Steam Paekse
mon.,anv and between Clinton and Co
,...s.l,s ~, the Columbia. Newberry AID
. Ia,,rans railroad. This also applies to
-, one-Thousand-lIile Books that are
60 n the hands OF purchasers For
~ Information apply TO any aGent Of
80 ssahnard Air Line Railway or call on
sI 1e. s ~'7 49, Z.P. SMITH.
District Passenger agent
SIS Main StreeA
s.. d1csssi Passsnssr Agent.
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church congregation at the morning ser
s'S REV DIR. SWEENEY HERE.
Rev. u. II. Sweeney arrived from Wash
ngton last night at $40 o'clock ana nd IS
stopping with Colonel j. S. Harwood, No
5sO09 Floyd Avenue
He breaches for the West-End Christian
church at la. M. to day, lectures for
he Lyceum Monday night on The
Golden Age" and Tuesday night for the
benefit of the West-End Christian Church
lis subject, by request, will be Go1ns=
up to Jerusal lem.
s. REVIVAL ATTHE COLLEGE.
The series of revival services under Dr..
mcconnell at Richmond College closed,
yesterday morning with 5an extra prayer
service. Thursday and Friday night Dr.
Mcconnell asked all young men who
would declare their intention to- live e
traightforward Christian lives to shake,
his hand and it is safe to estimate that
5nlne-tenths OF the student body 90 de-
iclared. The rel ious# tone Of tho COLLEGE
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-24
Cupid's Antics.

The Buena Vista Advocate relates a
strange antic of Cupid's. wherein he
induced one Mrs. Stuart Thompson
! to leave her husband and four young
children and tramp through four
inch snow across the Blue Ridge into
Amherst county to live with Tom
Floyd, whom, she told her husband,
had conjured her. With her went Miss
Laura Coleman. who had been con-
jured by John Wheeler, to share, his
fortunes.
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A Dogs Devotion.

A striking incident of a dogs devo-
ton to her pups has recently come to
light near White Stone, this county.
Last week one of the pups was given
to neighbor living half a mile away.
The next day the mother dog heard
the pup whining, and at once took a
piece of bread in her mouth and car
ried it over to the pup. Since then
the mother dog has been making daily
trips. carrying bread, ETC., to her Off
spring. This is a true story, though
it may sound q little questionable
Chesapeake Waterman.
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Tho Times checrfuily publishes the.
views of us friends and readers on ques-s
lions of interest 10 the public. While the
editor OF The Times neither undertakes
s 10 endorse mort TO refute the correctness
,of tho views expressed. the paper is
pleased TO orfer space for those who nave
something 10 say.
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Contract awarded.

The sub Committee on Relief OF the
Poor met at the Second Market yester-z
lay and after carefu trYestiga ton Of
awarded a three-months' contract to-
supply beef to the almshouse to John u
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THE BAPTIST CHURCHES.
Truthful Newspaper Tales.

aware of the robbery, and his suspi-
cions were so aroused that after put
ting the man to bed in his new house,
which was several steps from the old
one, he went for his neighbor. Heath
Kirby. In the meantime the stranger
lsft his bed in the new house and came
back to the old one, where he had left
his pack and crawled in a bed there.
King returned with Kirby and they
entered the old house and began lay
ing their plans for procedure. not
knowing that their game was hearing
every word they said.
Their plans all completed, they got
a light to examine the goods, when
the man, with two or three pistols
buckled around him, leaped from the
bed, seized his booty and out at the
door he went. And he is going yet,
so far as King and Kirby know to the
=cOntrary-GraySOn Journal.
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AQucry.

Editor Of The Times:
Sir,-Kindly state which of the follow
ing sentences (rhetorically speaking) is
correct:
HE is a cultured man"
''I1e is a cultivated man.
Thanking you in advance, I remain,
Respectfully,
Richmond, Va, Feb GOTH.
Either is correct. although cultured
people seem to prefer the former. Bot
cultured and cultivated come fro
he same Latin stem and their primar
meaning is the same. "A better form o
Expression is, "a man of culture
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1aa1a las. oas 1913

Total $500. 1i4,SiS 10o,uJo 1891
These four cities, with combined pop
ulation of 1889, have only increased in
the last decade 1851, while the fou,
counties above, with the combined pop.
uiation of 5S.423 in 1900, and 1852 in 1890
have increased 23,S50, or 1859 more than
the four cities.
Three of these counties are in on,
legislative district-viz.: Wise. Buchanan
and Dickinson, and only. one Df the tire
counties has railroad. Buchanan an
Dickinson only have one town in eacf
that being the county seat. Grundy, i
Buchanan. has 200 people. while Clint
wood. in Dickinson. has 255 people.
Buchanan and Dickinson counties ha1
as fine coal and timber as Wise or ar
other county in the State, and all thu
need is u railroad to make these tw
counties the wealthiest counties an
where in the great coal and timber be
of Virginia and West Virginia.
ROLAND T. CHASE.
Clintwood, Va, Feb 16, 1900.
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lake 10 Your Trees.

We understand that all the trees
planted in the city nursery froze up
during the last cold SPELL. Some Of
them had already grown several feet,
and would have been ready to plant
st. Patrick's Day but for the freeze.
The best way to raise a, nursery is to.
take it in at nights. This may be a
little troublesome. but trouble should
not be considered when raising shade
trees to supply a city-Danyille Bee.
A SPIDERS Bite.
G. A Savedge went to Sussex last
Thursday to visit his brother, n.
Savedge, who is suffering from the eff
fects of a. spider bite received last
summer-Claremon Herald.
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A Strange BedfeIIow.

Major w. r. Rogers, the ever and
constant genial passenger agent OF the
n. C. and st. /. Railway, is out IN an
other great story that is causing
many a ripple of hearty laughs. MT.
Rogers is a good story-teller, ana can
amuse one for hours telling them he
tells a good story that happened one
night on a sleeper near Dalton. An
old tourist had dropped into the fad
of taking a live alligator home from
Florida. He had one about three feet
long in q box. This was. much too
large for the road, according to the
leas OF the negro porter in the car
nd he kept his eye on it all the time
!. lie begged the man to put IT IN the
I assage-car,s but he would not. me
adv passengers were all in the lower
oerths, and the gator was showed I'M
Ter one of them. 1t was about MD
hight and all was serene, When the
porter looked in and saw the amiga
or creeping along the floor. lie raised
the yell, "Alligator's out; alligator
out.' and broke into the smoking
room and shut the door, Everybody
vas awakened and much confusion.
reigned. When the conductor ap-
peared upon the scene the women
were screaming and scamperlnS
everywhere. One of them was Climb
sng into an upper BERTH.
"Hold on there, madam" he sad,
there's man in that berth.
II don't care" she exclaimed, "a
-ather be in a berth with two men
than one alligator. Bristol Courier.
ARobbef Bold.
A store near the foot of the noun.
tain, just beyond the Roaring Gap
Hotel, was broken into Thursday
night of last week and robbed Of a
quantity of goods by an unknown
thief, who then set fire to the build
ing and made his escapes coming in
this direction. On Friday night an
Z unknown man with a pack of goods
called at the home of Joseph King.
near haywood, this county. and was
taken in to spend the night.
Before bedtime Mr. King was made
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has been strengthened, and as one of the
professors puts it. I'VE are all glad to
have had DR.. Mcconnell and his stay mas
done us good
DR.. Mcconnell came Monday night ana
has spoken fourteen times to gooo d..
tendance of the student body. He left
Yesterday at 1880 for Lynchburg, where
he will preach Sunday.
THE BAPTIST CHURCHES.
Rev. George Cooper, D. D., will preach
at the First Baptist Church, at both ser
vices. His subject in the morning will
be Hearts and Treasurers. and at nlsnt
zone Against Eight Hundred.
ReyW. r. L. Smith, D. D., will con-
duct services morning and night at the
Second Church.
DR.. J. B. Hawthorne will preach IN
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Rev. Arthur coriup q indispossd He
- SUFFERING With t1eubls With hi1 threat
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.~c,. q. Th,ra yirxInia battalion

1ichraond. Va. Feb. 2. 1901.