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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22

And I will nurse you in my hospital,
The hospitality of heaven is mine:
am the One Physician,-yours for
ever;
And, when your wounds are healed, we
dwell as friends
In the same mansion, and in purer
air
Than where you came from that was
fraught with peril
o most destructive l was also
there"
AT this there seemed a whispering
from beneath
certain mound that bear the name
Of Mother"
And we all heard a voice as plain as
this:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22
SURsUM CORDA!

The following sonnet, the last poem
ever penned by Dr. T. w. Parsons;
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22
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Phased the KentuGkian

Henry Bernard Carpenter
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27

sive preparations for the proper celebra-
ton of John Marshall Day" February
4th. next.
The celebration will be in honor of the
one hundredth anniversary OF the eleva-
ton OF John Marshall to Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the United States.
and the principal exercises will be held in
the Academy of Music at i o'clock. The
Grafton will be delivered by Hon. Horace
Cray. OF Massachusetts, Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court Of the United
States.
This anniversary of the elevation of
John Marshall to the position of Chief
Justice of the United States is an event
in which Nirginians feel a peculiar pride.
and vie with their brethren of the bench
and bar in other sections of the Union in
making the exercises at this, the capital
OF his native State, and the city where
he so long resided. in every way worthy
the Commonwealth OF Virginia and the
august memory Of her great son.
The exercises at the Academy will be
followed by a banquet at the Jefferson
Hotel. To this banquet invitations will
be extended only to the President Of the
United States and the members Of his
Cabinet; the Justices of the Supreme
Court Of the United States; the members
OF the Supreme Court OF Virginia; the
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27

Editor OF The Times:
Sir,-Kindly forgive my knocking at
your front door again. l do not see
many 'Hayseeds' troubling you about the
question Of what IS done with their taxes
after the collector gets the cash into his
wallet. The Commonwealth his Attorney
for Montgomery county deserves thanks
for his aid The attorney of the county
in which 1 have the pleasure or paying
taxes does not agree with Mr.. Roop'
in thinking that that official should keep
the supervisors up TO their duty under
the law / do not know what the Com
monwealth's Attorneys duties are, who
pays him, or what provision there IS in
the law to ensure his doing his duty what
ever it is. Excuse my ignorance. I have
wealth Of fellows in my benighted State.
I can look back on nearly sixty years.
during which time many reforms nave
been effected in the affairs OF the people,
and every one of the reforms have been
largely il not wholly indebted to the
press l hope that The Times may have
the honor and pleasure of seeing Waltz
able fruits from its efforts to secure i'm
proyements in more than one direction
in behalf OF the people at large.
May 1 ask a. question, or advise me TO
whom I should apply for information! 1t
is this: Have the supervisors OF a county
legal authority to increase the taxes With
out the consent Of the taxpayer? Our
county tax has been raised ten cents III
the hundred dollars in 1900. No notice
as TO what this is for nor by what au-
thority it is done has been given. A
county official, in answer to a question,
saws that it was to provide some extra
ordinary outlay, and the cost Of the small
rox scare Some men, who are supposed
to be in touch with the inner circle,
Tho .',-ins" it might be in other places.
saw that the extra ten cents IS put on
for the roads. The law does not allow
the Road Board to assess over 20 cents
per s1Oo. so that any addition to that
would he entirely Illegal. This has grown
too long, by far. Please read it, II time
and patience permit, and it may be You
ca,, snare a line or two to reply. Keep
the ball rolling and we may Waken the
sleepers.
Avon, Va, January %, 1901.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
one ., Queen y,ctoria.s favorite opera

One OF Queen Y3ctoria's fayorite operas
was .Lohengrtn.s' although when IT was
sung before her at Windsor or Buckins-
ham Palace shc required the dark scene
or the s.-cund act to be cut, in which ae-s
ton many folk who are not HaEHeriaiiS
vii! approve the decision OF Her Majesty
Apparently David Be1asco IS making
corner on American dramatists. He IS
spending some of his time working on a
play by Lee Arthur. after having accept
ed the piece from him. Fl. J. w. Damn
is collaborating with him on Madame
Dubarry' for Mrs. Carter's Use next sea-
SON. belasco is also interested IN Paul
Potter,s "Under Two Flags" fIe has
given advice to w. L. Boddinston. who
has dramatized ITO Have and To Hold.
and he Is collaborating on a drama with
Charles Kiicn.
Ada Rehan was devotedIy attached to
her parents, yet fate has permitted her
to be with neither of them in their last
hours Her father died fourteen years
ago, suddenly and tragically. Miss Rehan.
then in tho fieyday of her glory, was
playing Peggy Thrift in The Country
Girl BY Mr.. DAYS. wise orders she was
not informed OF her less unit! after the
performance. and the theatre was ring
iGg with laughter over the humor OF the
daughter while her father lay dying.
She was i'll with grip at the moment
when her mother was stricken. Again
the sorrowful news was kept from her.
this time by order of the doctor. and she
knew nothing OF her mothers indispcsi-
ton until it terminated fatally.
In one way and and another. the hood
lum contingent manages to get into tho
first night performances OF English thea
tres. The managers try in all ways to
keep them out but when the curtain rises.
they on hand just the same. III spite
of the surveillance at the ticket office
These hoodlums. who occupy the very
cheapest seats. have Il most disgraceful
way of announcing their displeasure In
bowls. caterwaulinc and '.booing." as It IS
termed there. The air is filed with the
hideous sound while the heart of the ac-
tor is filled with a suffocating disconl-
fort. It is often the custom of this dis
respectful part OF the audience to en-
courage the star with delusive applause
when he has been called before the cur
tain for q sspeecF-then as soon as he
opens his mouth to speedily" they
drown his voice with their detestable
boong.-New York Clipper.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
SOME VIEWS OF FRIENDS
And READERS OF THE TIMES.
Something About the Organic Lau'-A Plea
For the Rank and Fle---A Word About
the DISPOSITION of 1axes--Ihe Sal
aries Of State Officials.
rAn1n11c- OPINIONS ON TOPICS OF MORE
VARIOUS OPINIONS ON TOPICS OF MORE
OR LESS INTEREST TO THE PEOPLE.

pride when they read of the valiant deeds
Of noble soldiers in the Philippines
ard far-off China.
Democracy is doomed ST it is determined
to make a stand against the manifest
purpose of God 10 expand the civilization
and religion of Christianity to the utter
most parts of the earth by extending the
boundaries TO the Anslo-S Saxon race.
Let not Mr.. Cleveland and others de-
ceive themselves with the thought that
free silver defeated the Democratic party
in the last election.
AS bad as free silver was. anti-expan-
sion was worse. The one was a dead is
, sue. the other a living question. loaded
with destruction
Let our party-leaders in Congress from
the South be careful how they make his
tory, and not bring reproactl and discredit
upon the proud prestige Of The fairest
section OF this great Republic
We love the old party in spite of her
sins. and hope 10 see her -egenerated in
the near future.
C. ". DRAKE.
Hollins, Va. January 18th.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
A TUG CAT AIN S
SAD EXPERIE'NCE
Thrown Into the Water, Knocked
SenseIess and Robbed.
A NEGRO GETS TEN YEARS.
offered Verdict of Five Years and
Refused ia Lady Finds Her
Infant Dead in Bed-E',-
:inrs Smash Together.
Especial Dispatch 10 The Times.)

NORFOLK, VA, Jan. 26.-After at
tempting to drown Captnln W. l. MOT
gan, of the Atlantic Coast Line halfway
tug Primers Point, early this morning,
a negro highwayman, he says, knocked
him senseless and robbed him OF S6i.
Morgan had left his vessel in search OF
a physician. a negro volunteered as
guide. Morgan says he pulled OUT DIG
roll of bills and rendered the darkey one
dollar. The negro snatched several plllS
and ran, with Morgan in pursuit. AZ
Court-Street wharf the negro turned ana
Tough Morgan, who says he was showed
overheard. He managed to get ashore,
when the highwayman struck him a ter
rife blow, secured the money and eS-
capped.
COSTLY STUBBORNNESS.
For stealing S225 from Andrew Hardy,
whose house he had robbed, Frank Sim
mons, a negro, was, in portsmouth TO-
day, sentenced to ten years IN the penl-
Tertiary. The negro admitted his crime
and was offered Il fye-years' sentence.
He declined the offer. and pleaded not
guilty. 1t took the jury ten minutes to
give him ten years.
When Mrs Adams, wife of DR.. Walter
T. Adams, returned to her home in Client
to-day, after 81 brief absence, she found
her infant dead in bed. The little one
was well when the mother left, and the
mystery of it's death is unexplained
The revenue cutter Onandaga arrived
to-day. E5he caught the gale off Hatteras
and pitched considerably. Besides a good
shaking up the vessel was uninjured.
TO REMOVE A WRECK
Charles w. Johnston, of Lewes. Del.
was to-day awarded the contract for re-
moving the werck of the schooner En-
blem, off Old Point. The price was $3.50.
Belt Line engine, No. /. pulling dozen
cars, and New York. Philadelphia and
Norfolk engine, No. II, collided at Port
Norfolk last night. Several thousand dol
lars worth of damage was done to rail-
road property, and engine No II was
badly smashed. Engineer Powell and
Fireman Euro were thrown out of the
cab, but escaped uninjured.
Major d. Humphreys, one of Norfolk
most prominent citizens, is dangerously
i'll at his home.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Give the Rank ana File a Chance.

i
Sir,-The Hon ox-President Grover
Cleveland concludes an extended article
IN the Saturday Evening Post of Phil
adclphia on the Plight of Democracy
and the Remedy with the words quoted
above as the cpitoIne of has plan for
She rehabilitation and restoration Of true
Democracy"
ghe rank and file have had full sway
Cor lie past eight years or more, and
they have been driving the leaders reck-
less!y toward Populism, because the lead
ers haze not been able TO Withstand the
pressure Of the masses.
The masses have had ample evidence
of The fact, Il they viii open their eyes
10 The logic of events that there are
many old wleei- horses of Democracy
that cannot be driven headlong into folly
by the lash of party conventions.
These party conventions must hereafter
make platforms in conformity with the
true principles of Democracy and loyalty
10 This great Republic of ours. there
will continue 10 be a, respectable protest
against their action by consistent Demo-
Gratis
The latter are 10th to leave the grand
Old party, and are holding on with the
1,ope that it VIII 7urn away from its
recent errors and fall into line with the
harding columns of Anglo-SaXon pro-
gross.
Better far that the ttme-houored party,
once the pride of this country and the
founder OF its best institutions, shall go
down in defeat than that it shall stand
in the way OF the advancing tide of Anglo
Saxon civilization which is opening the
way of the spread Of the gospel of Christ
over the waste places of the earth.
There are tens df thousands of Demo-
Gratis in The South. old soldiers in the Con-
federats army, not coflscripts, hut voiun-
ieers, whose hoso;ns swell With patriotic
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Theatrical Amuscmcnts.

Russin is to hear robin Hood
Virginia Harmed is to play Camille.
Corse Payton has amassed 100000.
Lutton,s 'HIenzi has been orasun-
tized.
Mrs. Iangtry is to do "a Great Lady
The n1ascotte' has been revived in
Paris.
Hugh Morton is to write a comedy GA
mn.
Sam Bernard has rejoined Weber 6
Fields.
Sadie NIartinot is to appear in THE
Marriage Game
Several stock companies have produced
"L'Aiglon.
Shore Acres Herne has been on the
stage forty years.
ID Ennery's .Martyre" has been resus-
citated in Paris.
ITO have and to Hold cast will include
Isabelle Irving.
Gertrude EHliott's husband is to lease a
London theatre
Grip disabled Marie DRESSER and Edna
May. Theatres closed.
There IRE TO be no more speeches be-
fore the curtain in the berlin theatres
1.-The Jungle Play is the title OF Kip
Iing's dramntiza ton of his jungle stories.
paul Kauvar' has been acted the past
two weeks by a Boston stock company
III. Grattan Donnefly's THE Triumph OF
Hone is to be produced in New York
this season.
Sir Henry Irving has engaged the Arneri-
can actor, James Young, for Juvenile
Lead parts.
Hilda Clark injured her knee at Kan
sas City, and was unnble to appear with
the Bostonians for a week
About 100 actors and actresses accept
ed Beerbohm Trees hospitality a the pro-
fessonal matinee OF Herod' in Lonoon-
The Gact that MAY Irwin intends to
build an apartment house in New York
for b;.chelors has been cabled to the Lon
don papers.
Madame Bertha Kalich. the leading ac-
tress of the Thalia Theatre In the Bow
cry. New York. at her benefit on the eve
ming of January 30th at that house. VIII
essay the part of Hamlet.
THE applause OF a weli-IGeased Arnerf-
can audience is a baby's rattle nailed to
the floor when compared to the vociferous
commentator cf q London audience.
De Wolf Hopper, I'M New York Clipper
The London pantomimes this year in
Guide nine '.Cinderallas," four Puss IN
Boots three Robinson Crusoes," two
sets of Babes in the Woods two Dick
}Vhittinstons" two Little Red hidinS
Hoods and a. double set of The Forty
Thieves
The new play which Mr.. Pinero has
written for Arthur Bourchier. and which
the latter will produce at the Garrick In
the course of time. is said to have
short cast and in the author S words
.'its action is confined practically to four
or five people.
Munroe & Sage played The Prisoner OF
Zerda'' at Boyds Theatre, Omaha, on
Friday and Saturday nights with one
company. and on Sunday and Monday
evenings presented the sequel, Rupert OF
Hentzau.'' with another company, py
Howard Goulu.
The libretto of siegfried Wagner's new
opera. "Herzog Wildfang,'' is in type. but
not vet for sale. The scene is laid in q
German city about the middle OF the
eighteenth century, and Siegried,s po-
etc model appears to have been ms Ia
theirs "Dfe Meister-singer.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Salaries Of Officials.

Editor Of The Times:
Sir.-in the editorial of the 18th, daily
issue. the statement of salaries paid to
county officials ignores the fact that
fee. large for the work performed. is at
tached to almost every official act, es-
pecially of sheriff, clerks and Common
wealths attorneys. These officials or as
canable men would serve for much less
nav. Editor Bibb, of the Louisa News. is
right in saying the taxpayers are bur-
dened. The poor farming lands of the
county are assessed high for the produc-
ing capacities. The IS Is cents for road
tax is used TO hire hands at double what
the farmer can pay for labor. Railroad
and other contractors agents scour the
country from spring till fall and take
away from the farms every hand that can
work Poverty of soil. inability to sell
lands, no hands to hire. low price OF
farm products. increase of taxes. are the
burdens laid upon the farmers. The
above is the true condition of farmers i'll
Louisa
w. A B. MCOMB.
Louisa, Va. Jan. %, 1901.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Nominated by tho President.
y Associated Prcss.)

(Ey Associated Prcss.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-,rhe President
to-day sent the following nominations to
the Senate:
Postmaster -Georgia-James L. sibley,
Milledgevile.
Mississippi-Jennie D. Lyon, Gloster; S.
S. Mathews, HazehurSt.
Florida-John Astlefort,. De Iuniak
Springs; 0. E. Stout, MyrS.
south Carolina-Rebecca c. Calhoun,
Clemenson College, Bernard Levy, Walter
boro; J. p. Little, Clinton.
North Carolina-Victoria l., Martin.
Tarboro; c. \. Reynolds, Winston-S Salem;
Julia A. Ritter. Carthage; A. R. Wilson,
Dunn; J. G.. Brown, Red Springs: Aspen
NJ Clark. Southern Pines; c. NJ. Hoover,
ThomaSyille.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
THE STORM IN PRINCESS ANNE
The Mail Service HIuch Improved.
Room for More.
Especial Dispatch to The Tin es.


BLOSSOM HILL VA. Jan. ga severe
wind storm visited this section last night.
In many places the snow is seven inches
deep. When the storm first made its
appearance the wind was from the NORTH
west and very heavy. IN some places
large trees We're blown down.
The mail service to Back Bay has been
very much improved, and the delays to
the incoming mail greatly lessened.
The mail is now brought to Back Bay
Postoftice on the afternoon Ais train,
from Norfolk; thereby giving us all West
ern ana Northern mail that has accu-
Mulated in Norfolk during that day.
1t is hoped that some time in the near
future tine Pcstotiice Department Will
consider our outgoing mail. Instead Of
the mail leaving here at the unreasonable
hour Of a. NJ. that it will be changed
TO P. NJ. at which time a regular train
goes to Norfolk.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Let Them Speak for Themselves,
Editor of The Times:

EdllOr OF The II1Hts
Sir.-Inasmuch as there are open can
didates for The Democratic nomination
for Governor of Virginia, we desire tc
know the position of the candidates upon
the question of apportionment of the
General Assembly of Virginia. in the
event some Of the voters of Virginia are
Gisfranchised under the new Constitution.
Do they favor an apportionment of the
General Assembly upon the basis of pop
ulation, as at present, or upon the num-
Der Of electors qualified to vote?
PUBLIUS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
THE CONTRACT SIGNED.
Illinois Will Soon BE Ready For Her
Preliminary Trial.

WASHINGTON. Jan 26.-Contracts for
naval work. aggregaeins seven and half
million dollars, We're signed at the Navy
Department to-day by President Orcutt
and Judge Payson, representing the New
port News ShipbuiIding and Drydock
Company. The contracts were for 4
sheathed armored cruiser of 1i500 tons to
cost s.. $50. COO and for L cruiser, uusheath-
ed to cost sS.775003-
Captain Converse. now inspector of tbs
Illinois and the future commander of the
big battIeship which is building at New
port News. reported at the Navy Depart
1nent to-day that the battleship will be
ready for her preliminary trials about the
middle of next month and be ready to
go into commission in July.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
WILL ASK FOR A CHARTER.
City Bar Association Accepts Commit
tees Report.

The Richmond Bar Association held
called meeting at the Association rooms.
IN the City Hall, yesterday
The meeting was called for the consid-
Grafton of the report of the Executive
Committee, looking toward the incorpora-
ton of the Association. The report was
accepted. and application for a charter
will be made at the present special ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The following were elected members:
Richmond T. Lacy, Joseph C. Taylor, Jas.
BulIen. George Bryan, James r. McIn-
tosh. William Crump Tucker, David a,
Ritchie, C. C. Pinckney, c. L. Williams,
Jr John P. Lea, H w. Anderson and w.
D. Gordon.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Virginia Postofficcs.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Jan. 26,-Repre-
sentative Swanson has returned from
Richmond and was on the floor Of the
House to-day.
The postofiice at Delaplane, Va. James
L. Pearson, postmaster, has been made a
money-ordel office.
The President to-day sent to the Senate
the names OF Stanley E. Moore, to be
postmaster at Crewe, and VIM. j. Jones,
at Lawrenceville, Va.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27

Tho Times checrfnIly opens its columns
10 The discussion OF subjects of interest
to the people Willie the correctness OF
the views expressed are neither endorsed
or ref,,,ed by the editor OF The Times, the
,spsr is glad 10 hear from its trends and
zea6e.s. ard offers them space in which
TO publish their opinions.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
BIG FIRE IN ROANOKE.
One of the Largest Buildings IN the
City Destroyed.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.

Especial Dispatch to The Times.)
ROANOKE. VA, Jan. 2G-One of the
largest buildings in the city, occupied as
a can mandatory, by c. NJ. Nails; j. A.
Hoover dealer il, feed, and as a storage
warehouse by Yost, Huff & Co, dealers
in farm implements, and various COM
panies they represent, was totally de-
stroyed, with contents, by fire about mid
night The loss is about $4,000; insur-
ance $50, 600.
Nails loss is between $4,000 and $4,000.
His insurance is So. eco.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
WhoCan Answer ?

Editor Of The Times:
Sir.-I am asked, if we have guberna-
torial candidate, who was an original
constitutional man. Could YOU not
answer this interrcgatory through your
paler, for the benefit OF many. and
obi:ge. - 3.
Charlottesville, Va. Jan. %, 1891.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27
Deaths in Roanoke.

Especial Dispatch to The Times.)
ROANOKE, VA, Jan. 26.-Mrs. Mary
A. Rush died this morning. aged 50 years.
She is survived by her husband and three
children.
Miss Mary Hawkins, daughter of Sam
uel Hawkins, Of Bedford, a stenosrapher
in the Norfolk ard Western offices, died
to-day from pneumonia. aged "a years.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-27

Miss Cay Ragland will sing at the
Second Baptist Church tonight beauti-
fuI new avia by Jacob. entitled 'Oh,
Lamb of God