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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Where Money Could he Saved.

Who can tell how many millions OF col
lars the South sends to the West every
year for corn and oats and meat Which
could be raised in our own region!
The S3,o0oOG0 which, it is stated, texas
pays out annually for condensed MIX IS
a small item compared TO what Georgia
sends to other States for canned Ifuit
and vegetables which, she could save by
utilizing the vegetables and fruits that
are waStcn in our own fields every year.
With her almost unrivaled capacity for
fruit and vegetable production. Georgia
should reap an immense revenue from
canning industries instead of paying OUT
money for the products of other States.
Happily. our people are waking up on
this question. During the past summer
more fruits and vegetables were canned
in this State than ever before in one
season. Canncries We're esta biished IN
many Georgia towns. and others which
had been in operation before were enlars-
ed. It has been demonstrated that those
who attend to this business properly can
make it profitable It will grow. but it
will have to grow a great deal before IL
reaches he proportions it should have at
tanned long ago.-Atlanta journal.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Cotton k.oviHg in Earnest.

a glance at the manifests of the three
steamships that cleared at the Custom
House Satur6a:- shows that the move
ment of cotton has begun in earnest. The
three vessels carried 17,141 bales, valued
in the aggregate at SS97;0io. OF these
shipments there went to Bremen 9S9l, TO
Hamburg, 1850 to Barcelona. $50. and
tc Genoa 3,050. From this on the proba-
bilty Is that the movement OF cotton
through the port will be liberal as the
crop is late and is just now beginning TO
come to port.
Whether the crop is large or small, it
is not likely that Savannahs receipts Will
be cut off a great deal. for the reason
that through the activity OF local bust
ness men. and particularly cotton men.
much new business is being attracted TINS
way Points in the interior that hereto
fore paid little attention to this port nave
been brought into close touch with local
firms, and are sending their cotton this
way. All this is sure to add to the pres
ent seasons business. More cotton viii
come to Savannah from MISSISSIPPI this
season than there did last season.-Savan-
nah News.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
NobiIo's R;csntenary.

At the meeting held Tuesday night, pre-
liminary to the organization OF the MO-
bile Historical Institute, the point was
made that in January, 1902, will occur the
2coth anniversary of the founding OF
town on this gulf coast with the name OF
Mobile. It is true that the town was not
on the present site of the city of this
name, but as a settlement Mobile city is
the direct consequence of the town found
eG by Bienvile. The first place. selected
was found unfavorable, and the inhabi-
tants, with Bienvlle at their head, moved
bodily to the plain at the mouth of Mobile
river. where the city of Mobile now
stands. This was in March. I'LL Both
anniversaries may, and they should be,
the occasion of celebra tons. and it is pro-
posed that the Historical Institute as
sumo charge OF the preparations therefor.
With the cheerful co-opera ton of the peo-
pie the January celebra ton can be made
memorable affair.-Iobile Register.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Christmas Gifts TOR iro .ps.

An urgent appeal has been made from
South Africa to the Field Force Fund to
undertake the work of getting together
Christmas gifts for the men at the front.
and the honorable secretary, Mrs. Sclater,
writes from Cape Town that If the men
are to receive the gifts on Christmas Day,
the collecting and packing must begin at
once. It Is proposed that each parcel
should, If possible, contain the following
articles: I pipe and tobacco pair or
cocks or handkerchief, small plum pud-
ding, Christmas card and e small
housewife. Plum buildings must be
packed In sealed tins to insure their safe
arrival. The object OF the Field Force
Fund is to supply these gifts to every
soldier who is not already provided for
regimentally. This scheme has been sub
r:litted to Lord Kitchener for his approval.
and cable has been received from him
dated September eth. in which he ex-
presses his best wishes for It's success
The Broad Arrow.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
FOREIGN NEWS
AND GOSSIP

1nus1ciai&-llcr faycrite instrument being
the koro, o. harp OF seventeen strings
ana one OF the greatest poets OF the en-
rirc. shc IS intensely interested III the
welfare anc progress of Japanese women
ana is a patron and frequent visitor at u
female school known is the Empress
school. Her influence and money are ever
at The call of the Red Cross Society, the
Toxic Charity Hospitals, appeals from
famine districts aud other charitable
works.
AT present the Empress and her court
wear foreign dress Of the latest style ex-
Japan makes her Go this rather under pro-
clusively, though Haru-kos loyalty to
test. in respect 10 the decree of the En-
peror, who desired the dress of the ladies
TO harmonize With the modern military
uniform used as court dress by thu En-
peror and his staff. The Emperor and
Empress always breakfast. lunch and dine
together. and seem in hearty sympathy.
and accord on all things that VIII lead to
greater happiness, peace and progress
throughout the ef1lpire.-Leslia's Monthly,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
CATS GALORE
IN RICHMOND
Roam the Streets and Make Night
Hidecus with HowIs.
NOTED soLolsTs AMONG ITEM.
Choruses, f,cwsver, Ar. hisre Popular With
the FeIia.s- iiany fAssboss, but
Some Live in Lap OF
Luxury.

Rats and mice ought to lead a hard
life in Richmond" remarked someone the
other day in the hearing OF newspaper
man.
why for" inquired his companion
with an argumentative tone in the ques-
ton.
Because" responded the first speaker,
there are enough cats here to supply
generations of old maids yet unborn and
still furnish .aoh family with one house
hold pet of tls= feline species
The arGumentative map suggested tha1
even admitting that this were SO, 1t did
not follow THAI the mice would have a
very hard time OF it, Because So many
OF the cats were absolutely ignorant OF
the fact that q cats mission in lie Is
to kill rats and mice.
The takers passed out of hearing, DuI
their scrap Of conversation led TO an IN
veslisasion OF the number of cats IN
Richmond. their occupation and their
mode of life.
Dnigent inquiry and careful COMPARE
sui: Of estimates leads to the belief that
there "A certainly no less than twenty
thousand cats in Richmond, and that half
of these are utterly useless save TO make
night lord with their unmelodIous
walls.
There being no directory of cats. the
number c;lnuot De definitely determined,
nor can it be stated what proportion are
black. or gray or white; but all sing.
There is no doubt of this and they have
not only a Wednesday Club but CLUB
for every day of the week, and give
continuous concerts every night in the
week and every week in the year.
NOTED SOLOISTS.
There are soioists whose tenor strains
have a carrying quality that would make
a fortune in grand opera and they can do
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Recent disturbances


Old Serva. more particu-
biStHFfaaces larry those in koIaschin
II Old Sery;s and the neighborhood. were
caused as is known, by
the house-t toulouse search
for hidden weapons mace by the Turk
ish officials and Albanians in the dwell
ings of the Servian labitants.
The Servian papers, including the semi
official Belgrade organs. Indignantly de-
MED at the time that any weapons had
been found. as was alleged by Turkish
sources of information. BIT this tone
did not last long. anu a few days ago the
semi-official paper Of the Servian Gov
eminent, the Dneznik. had to confess
that. rs a matter of fact. weapons had
been struggled from Servia across the
frontier into Old Servia. but it fastened
to add that this took place without the
knowledge OF the Servian authorities,
and only for the self-oefence of the
Christian population against the constant
attacks of wild hor;ies of .Albanians. ana
that these weapons had not been en-
ployed against the Turkish authorities or
even the Albanians.
This declaration of the innocence of
the Servian authorities seems to be con-
tradicted by the following fact, which
source: a short time ago there was ar
viously been a gendarmerie officer on the
Servo-Turlzisn frontier. with the ropua-
ton living on both sides OF which he
was well acquainted. On this ground he
was selected to distribute arms secretly
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Fruit for Health.

More than seventy years ago, Col F.
L. Darcy, as an officer of the United
States Army. was ordered to open the
road from Jacksonville to Tallahassee. IN
the month of July he commenced WORK
with forty men, sleeping under snelter
tents and serving their ratlons IN camp
he worked his men Until November,
when the outbreak of the Indian War
conapelled the abandonment of the enter
prise.
During those four months his men new
er lost a. day from sickness Colonel Dan
cy would always have fruit about MN 1or
himself. and his dependents. He believed
in it thoroughly as necessity Oh TINS
climate. He established himself at Or
ange Mills on the ST Johns. where he
lived for more than forty years, reared
a, family of fifteen children, never PAID
ten dollars for physicians. never had a
case of chills and fever in his family. ana
in his old age was S hale. hearty and full
of energy as any man. North or SOUTH
a splendid illustration of the healthful-
ness of the FLORIDA climate even on the
banks of the st. Johns. where the citl-
zen observes the simplest laws OF ny
giene
He had an orange named after him.
the kid glove tangerne. and was an en-
thCsiastic cutivator of the citrus family.
Some of his views and practices Woulo
not be generally approved to-day, as his
advocacy of the sweet roots, IN a belef
that ''the sweet tree will stand degree
o. cold without serious injury that VIII
Kill the wild or sour tree to the grouno.
Also, as a preventive Of scale insects, he
depended chiefly on shading the groun"
underneath the trees until they grew
large enough to shade themselves.
But whatever his theories or practices;
Colonel :Dancy had fruit-fruit to sell and
fruit to keep, fruit for the market and
fruit for his numerous family and de-
pendents. not only the orange. out 81
the fruits suited to this climate. Ano, 1t
was his belief that with fruit in plenty
and properly used, no one need be sick. =
Jacksonville Times Union.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
soutt,erc Railway Object Lessons.

The plan Of the Southern Railway to
build good roads is a. very commemorate
one That it will bear good fruit there is
no doubt. Good roads will be helpful to
the people CT the sections of cuntry IN
which they are built. and they will be
profitable to the railroad. There are
very few sections OF the South In which
attention Is given to scientific road build
ing. In fact, 1t is only within the last
few years that the OLDER and more thick
Unsettled sections Of the East have
turned their attention to the building OF
roads. But wherever roads have been.
built--that Is, good. hard ma cadamized
roads-there ample evidence is to be seen
Of the benefit that such improvements
confer. on q community. Everywhere
there's an appearance Of prosperity. For
mesreason sor other the farms seem to
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
The Boer Fighter.

SADDLE and bride and girth.
Stirrup and crupper and bit:
Man on the top of a little horse,
Shaggy and strong and fit;
Rugged and bearded face
Ragged old hat of felt
Rifle that kills at a thousand yards
And u tight-crammed cartridge belt
CHORUS.
Oh. it isn't by turning out your toes,
You can beat the foe in fight
Or by learning to march like a marion
cite,
Or by keeping your buttons bright:
And it isn't the way that You crook
your arm.
When YOU shut your eye to shoot;
Bnt it's taking to cover at every chance,
Hllock and rock nd root.
He doesn't know how to dress
And he doesn't know how to drill:
But he met the snlartest troops in the
world,
And fought till they had their fill:
He's slovenly awkward chap;
He's luhberly farmer-man;
But he lay on the veldt from dawn till
dawn,
And shot till they broke and ran.
CHORUS.
For it isn't the way that you keep the
touch,
Or the way that you wheel about:
And it isn't by pulling your wast-belt in,
And by padding your tunic out;
And it isn't by cooking your forage cap,
Or by gluing a glass in your eye:
But it's knowing the way to shoot like
And it's learning the way to die.
They have gathered his kith and kin
In a prison beyond the sea:
But they can't imnrison a daring SOUL
That lived in bosom free:
They have scattered the ca1cin~d walls,
Which sheltered his child and wife:
But they can't extinguish the fame
they've lit,
Till it dies with his dying life.
CHORUS
For it's never the heat Of burning,
home,
That has softened a foeman's heart:
And it's never the reek of a lvddite shell!
That has riven his ranks apart:
And it isn't money: it isn't men.
When the guns loud song begins:
But, it's feeling your. foot on your na-
tive land.
And it's being right-that wins.
-Bertran Sllad'well, in the Cape Town
African News.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
,ANVAl DOWN
SOUTH IN DIXIE
News.Notes and Gossip Gathered from Various
Parts of the South.
], be more productive and the farm build

be more productive and the farm oullo-
ings more comfortable.
AS 2 matter of fact, farmers do not
realize how big the interest is on money
spent in building good ROADS. II they
would give every year, for ten years. the
amount that good roads would save them,
they would have roads that would last
them. with little annual repairing. Tor a
century, and would email Bile them to carry
to market their products at less than hait
the present cost OF transportation.
Most farmers, however, know the bene-
fit that comes from good ROADS. but 1t
is difficult, somehow or other. to get a
concert of action in respect to public
reads Doubtless this action of the
Southern Railway will have the effect OF
getting them together on this important
subject. If the Southern succeeds in its
purpose it will have the satisfaction of
knowing that it has conferred q great
boon on the South.-Savannah News.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Destroyer.

the submarine hoal Nal
val,
That little vessel displaces 1i6 tons
when navigating on the surface. and 20
ions when under the surface of the water
She lis constructed and equipped for i
maximum voyage OF $50 miles and IS pro
vided with apparatus Tor firing four tor
a,edoes. For navigation on the surface
she has a steam engine with a Seigie boil
cr, the fuel being petroleum. An electric
motor fed by accun1ulators is employed
for navigation under the surface OF the
water. This submarine boat is callsd au-
tonomous. because while on the surface
f1er sccumulators can be recharged with
electricity by means of a dynamo worked
by the steam engine.
The Naa-val had previously successfully
undergone trials demonstrating her ca
1lfcity for immersion and steering The
recent experiments were destined 10 prove
ller endurance or autonomous capacity.
The minister had ordered her to make u
cruise of 40 consecutive hours. She naTi-
gated without any stoppase during that
lime. covering 25o miles. at The average
speed az six and a half knots an hour, in
a heavy sea During TIE voyage she nav
igated several hours under the surface
OF the water and recharged her accunu'a
tors twice while on the sus.face.-Paris dis
7,atah to London Standard.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
pidn't Watt Him Even in a Rattle.

Goodheart-I've got you down for a
couple of tickets; were getting up a
-qffle for a poor man Of our ueishbor-
hood.
Joakley-Nore for me, thank you. +
wouldn't know what to do with a poor
man if l won him.-Boston Christian
Register.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
The Cause.

Circus AIanager-What's all that row in
the tresstng-room?
Attandant-Oh. the man who walks
barefooted on swords ran a splinter in
his foot.-Ohio State Journal
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
4 NnM Eee';nu

Clara-It seems so strange to be in love
Maud-Why, haven't You ever expert
cnced that ,feeling?''
Clara-0h. yes but not for severa
weeks.-Detroit Free Press.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
a R,vard oi Abstinence.

First Commando suppose we all eat
too much.
Second Gourmard-No doubt of it. II
we'd eat less we'd have better appetItes.
Puck
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20
Southern Prosperity.

Most writer's on the Industrial South
have way of looking into the future tor
prosperity. They see such big Things
ahead that they practically forget 70
look at the big things of the present. l nc
South, as a matter of fact, is already en-
ioying a remarkable degree OF prcspeIr1ts.
1t may not be so full and widespread %
that which the future holds for US, MY a,'
ertheless, we are doing pretty conn or "a,
bly, we'll" Some idea Of our proouctio.il
Of wealth may be gathered from the III
lowing table. recently published IN l1e
North, and which it is said has opelieo
the eyes of some of the Northerners:
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20

steps OF back fence which On vdf;tte-
vile stage wo;tld 5e the hit or tae week
Duets are plentiful qu5r,attes snd
quintettes are not iac!Ziug, but the eEo-
rus is the strong suit of the Richmond ic-
lines. IN some vacant lot or on sorle ;tn
roof thsy gather and sing the s5u2s ai
sorrow or of joy. Fhay are occasiaaa1Iy.
interrupted by the duh thr1t, of z5nle t,zsyEs-
ping brick. but hurled with ieitan5 anss
mouth-nling oaths from some Gsis:Ana.-
ing window. This they s5oT eazIE-Cds -
be q demonstration Of approve. ars! i,lt-
me6iately tune up and Te:taszr ~ e-f@ss5
Imp-acatioas are nc rlc-s rsgard<d e'tla
is q Republican cam paiEn Speech III Z
safe Democratic community.
1t is not necessary that two o- three 10
be gathered together that music he heard.
for where there is one there is sound
enough to make the tin roof ring With re-
sponSive echoes.
SCORN NICE.
Some of the numerous cats hsre are Of
course reared III the lap OF luxury and
feed on cream and other things nice, ana
such thing as eating mice would DC IS
repulsive to them as the same diet wouiu
seem TO you.Oth by the direst means
| manage to live upon the refuse picEea Up
in back lots or alleys.
There are some Industrious cats among
the feline population, as q matter Oh
course. At the Custom-House there Is
very valuable one. that not only protect.
the mails from, the ravages OF rats and
mice but in addition, raises q family on
kittens OF, the average of twice year.
Various modes have been suggested fot
Riding the city of these undesirable In
habitants, but none so far has been eflec'
tive in the least, and instead of decreasfna
the number is on the increase.
But for the danger to eyes and windows
perhaps the best way would be to GIVE
the small boy carte blanche to use his
cat-rife. For the small boy despite bad
luck and all the rest OF it. is SWORN
enemy to the feline race and is very In
credulous as TO the nine lives theory. A
cat license might help, but II would prob
ably call forth vail louder than that OF
the best soliets among tho whole cat pop
lllation of this cat-infested city.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20


among the Servian opula ton. o1so 10 ser
,,nrt,,nity I'd drive a trade on his own
account. and. instead of distributing the
weapons Eratuitously, according 70 ms
orders he sold them to the persons VINO
ought to have received them tree, me !a
affair was finally discovered anu ~ .ile
Servian Government had MN y a %. ~.
and tried by the Belgrade court ~ ~. al
secrecy None the less. all the eta az
soon became public property, ana lle
,rnrk,sh Government naturally heard OF
It. too; and this was the real cause OF ING ING
house-to-house searches and OF inc W'1o'e
of the Recommendations dlspatch "
London Standard.
During Prince Bismarck
~Chancellorship and slgnor
Crispi and Crispt's Premiership the
,.,, autumn visits of the lat
oiSinS1 m fer to the former became
notable annual events
Whoever was in Berlin at tnat ti.he
might often see the brisk little gentie-
man with the dark eyes and the "ni.e
mustache passing from tne halsernol ~
The Chancellor's palace opposite III lAe
A,..uelnnstrasse.
of the Chamber Of Deputies. had met
Bismarck for the first time in 1877 at GAS
t,i3s fo. those deliberations concerning
which SO manv fables have been SCI
aaoat. The meeting Was in realty the
result OF 'Crspi's conferences WIN ~.
KIM and the Premier, DeDretls.. us
pu.ncse was the formation OF a BASIS Q,
a Germn1-Itaiian alliance. -ia,,or
proof of this will be given In hlstoi
Crspis memoirs.
Prince Bismarck made at ihat Z''!'le ~
fascinating an impression on Crispl tiSte
the italian stataShnan became his Eieioi,s
mi most enthusiastic adn,irer. Bismarck
an the other hand felt himself attracted ~
Crispi's glowing patriotism and ny MS
almost fanatical alteration of England,
which had contributed so nucn toWaiu
JtaIy,s ,1n;ficaticn, and OF Prussia, when
had known how to weld together the
nsttv German, States iato one EMPIRE:
Crie,i vas also Of opinion that ltalE S
vita! irteres.s required lier Intimate
friendship with England and Germany.
His political programme was mus
sFriendship with England by sea anu
with German, en- land
To this end he Went 10 Gastcln AMI
knew how TO secure Bismarck for his al
lance Plan Everything succeeded Wei
cq-,eciail-. as he shortly afterWai eN
changed his presidency Of the Chamber
fo1. a ssat in The Cabinet.-London Stanu-
ard
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20

In otTicial circles in ST.
Rivalry Petersburg much concern is
felt at the confirmed an
or feisla nonncement of the concur
CortroI. sion Of an Anglo-Persian
convention for the con-
s.rrction OF a British telegraph line TO
connect Kashan with Baluchistan.
This concession OF the Shah is not looked
upon as OF such vast Importance in it
self as St is indicative of fu ther privileges
to follow and significant of England's
sleepiess activity i'll a region 10 which
Russia has latteTly not devoted that close
attention which il should. 1t is pointed
out that this country holds the right, by
convention with the Persian Government,
of running a line Of telegraph from
ENsclaal5ad through Mcschid, Turbeti. Hal
dari-Kain and B!rshand 10 Nusretabad,
end this project should now be carried
out forthwith. Russia cannot, it is urg-
Cd resl1ain an indifferent spectator of
England S exploitation of the region lying
between Quetta and Seistan. When the
!Aschabai- Nusretabad telegraph line is
contfleted the Russian Consul in Seistan
will no longer be isolated: he will have
ilia means CT keeping the St. Petersburg
Chanceilery timely advised of every move
in England's game of aggression in that
region.
From Tiais It is serli-of1icial!y stated
that the work of building the new Russo
Persian Railway from Julfe, on the trans
Caucasian frontier. TO Tab,iz and Hama
dan has now been actively commenced at
several points. The complete Plan of the
railway includes a branch line to Tel1eran.
whence. later on. il is Rtssiafs intention
10 extend the system via, Meshe6 to the
Persian Gulf. Although this latter is not,
In Western Europe, considered as an
achievement ot' the very near future. it
maat not be forgotten that when once
Russia actively addresses herself to the
task or constructing a strategic line Of
communication she displays a marvellous
CELEBRITY. as was manifested in the Won
desftl cSoedition with Which the Trans
Casraan Railway was completed--OGeSsa
dispatch to London Standard.