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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

It is reported that oil has been struck
in Augusta county, and is significant that
the man who struck it is named Light
ner. That looks like Illuminating oil.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

President Francis, OF the ST Louis EN-
position Company. says that the fair will
certainly be held in 1908. That means
that Virginia will have no exhibit.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

COL. Harwood Didn't Go.
q Owing to death In his family, Colonel
John S. Harvard, OF the Governors stair,
did not go TO Charleston last eveninS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

DIAMOND DYES give faster and brighter
coors than any other dyes,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

The police Of the First District are
looking for two negro men who assaulted
l1r. William O'Conner just below the city
limits in Fulton Monday night. He was
on his way home when he was attacked
and beaten. His pockets were rifled and
some change taken.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

Miss Raymonde Cutter, one of Georgtas
noted bellies and beauties. passed through
Richmond yesterday. en- route to her nome
in Savannah, Ga, having spent the past
year In Virginia.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

Mrs. Archer Nv. Patterson VIII. give
luncheon to day in honor Of MISS w COOS.
OF Albemarle, who is her guest.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

z Mrs. L. NJ Cowardin and Miss. Mamie
.Cowardin are visiting Mrs =. 6u1russ,
OF Orange zs
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-16

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Mason Amber
have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Anna Baker AM
bier, to Mr.. Hunter Holmes Moss. Jr.,s
the ceremony to take place April 30th,i
from Trinity Church, Parkersburg, w
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
THE AMERICAN SHIP.
The Coastwise Trade Shows How Foreign Trade Can be Made
 Prosperous
Eeston JourLa! lRep.(

Boston Journal tRepO
 One of the half truths with which the foes of protective legislation for the American ship seek to b f, E the Amer jean people IS the assertion that the merchant marine is growing or pros pering' without subsidies.
 AS proof of this the opposition points to the records of the Durequ of Navig l. ton, that more ne'v tonnage was launch cd in this country last year than in any year since 1855. and that our total mer- chant shipping has steadily increased un- til it has reached a magnitude unmatched since 1861. Those are both statements of n ,tual fact, but they have no bearing on the problem now before Congress and the country. To use them once as an ci lection to national aid for the Amori- can deep sea shtp Is ignorant; to use them twice is dishonest.
 This very report of the Commissioner of Navigation, from which the enemies of tho American ship quote the figures that are so misleading. contains proof positive that they are wrong. The com missioner explains in detail that the in- creased tonnage does not mean increased competition with foreign vessels in our deep sea carrying In fact, American
 hipi actually did less of our ocean freight business last year than the year before The proportion of American im- ports and exports conveyed in American bottoms sank in 1901 to S.2 per cent.-the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
VOLUNTEERS DO NOT RESPOND
British War Office Confronted with
 Serious Problem.

London, Jan. 1.-The British War Off, flee Is confronted with most serious condition of affairs. Its call for volun- teers to relieve the regiments at the front has so far met with absolutely no response and has served to intensity the widespread indignation existing among all the volunteer regiments. The only solution for the deadlock appears to be for the War Office to introduce conscrip- ton or withdraw the new regiments. These according to many high officers, will bankrupt majority of the regi- ments.
 According to the new rules. every regi- ment must go into camp for one week each year and government grant will be reduced in proportion to the number of absentees from the camp. The War Office refuses to recognize drills which are not attended by percentage of men which it has hitherto been found quite impossible to attain. and imposes bat talion parades of such strength that there is no drill hall or drill ground in London large enough to enable the battalions to manouvre. The matter will be brought to the attention of parliament and if the order of the War Secretary, MT. Brod- erick is not amended, the volunteer force, so the colonel of one of the strongest London regiment ssay, will dwindle to nothing. In the meanwhile the War Off, flee is still waiting anxiously for an an- swer to it's call for additional troops for service in South Africa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
A PECULIAR CASE.
In a recent issue of The Butte Mont.) Inter Mountain We find this

In recent issue or The bulte NhOHt) Inter Mountain We find this:
 A story from real life told in the news columns of The Inter Mountain yester- day, transcends in human interest the most ambitious efforts of the dramatist or writer of current fiction. It relates that workingman. weary in his unsuc- cessful search for employment, returned home to find his wife and baby by a fireless hearth with no fuel in sight nor money with which 1t might be purchased. The necessities of the penniless man drove him to theft. He made a raid on a neighboring fuel heap. secured the material for fire and was obliged to face a court of law to explain the trans action.
 So far this story does not differ mate rially from those We frequently read, both in fiction and in real life. It is not at all an unheard-of thing for man. or possibly q child to steal fuel or food to prevent suffering, and in this case the husband and father stole a little fuel to save the wife and child from suffering from cold.
 So far, the story is a not uncommon one, but there the similarity ends, for the court took cognizance of the condi- tions and circumstances of the affair and discharged the prisoner. All charitably inclined people will say that the court acted properly in this instance. and per haps they might even go further and say that every case just like this one should end the same way. but what would be the result, and how many com plications would it not bring up? Under the criminal laws and procedure of all civilized countries, a man who takes without leave that which does not belong to him is guilty of theft, and theft is q crime whose status is we'll defined and for which the punishment is fixed by tlrs law. If this man had gone to his neigh bor's wood-pile and stolen his axe, for which he had no need, he would have been sent to prison. So, if his family had been starving and he had stolen food our sympathies would have said release him. but if he had gone into his neigh bors house and taken a watch instead of food, his crime would have been well defined and the penalty plain. Yet, in all these supposed cases, the act was steal ing, and strict construction and en- forcement of the law would have pun | ished all alike
 It is easily seen what difficulties and complications must inevitably follow if d judge decides a criminal case according to his own feelings and sympathles, In l this case we are with the court which discharged the prisoner, but if other courts should take this case as a prece- dent or should decide all cases which come before them as this one decided, where would be the end? Shall each 1 judge decide for himself what may or may not be unlawfully appropriated without punishment? And, if this is | allowable. will 1t not be necessary to re- wise all our criminal laws and define those cases of theft which are punishable | and those which are not? In short. though We agree that the court acted rightly in the case before us. is it to be taken as precedent?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
"No REASON FOR
 TAX ON RAW SUGAR"
Sugar Trust President Says Repeal Would Save Consumers
 SS5, ,OOO, ,OOO.

NcW OTA NOTIl.
 President Havemeyer of tine Sugar Trust has thrown down the gauntlet to the beet-sugar refiners. He says that the duty must come off of raw sugar. According to President Havemeyer the trust of which he is President is thor oughly unselhsh and disinterestcd. It wants the duty taken off raw sugar be- cause it would save consumers SS5.OOO- 000
 President Havemeyer's speech was made at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the American Sugar Re- lining Company, 1eld yesterday in ter M. Palmer were reelected directors. The vote cast was 2S5. AT shares of preferred stock, out of a total of 440,6S3, and 267. 3OS of common, out of total of 442 461.
 MT. Havemeyer explained that the more liberal policy which New York State has adopted toward corporations has induced the Sugar Trust to do some of it's manufacturing business in New York City through a subsidiary company recently formed
 The most important points made by President Havemeyer in his plea for free raw sugar were:
 flowing Federal treasury there had dis appeared any reason for continuing the existing high tariff upon raw sugar. It constitutes a charge upon the consumer of nearly cents nound.
 This represents on an annual con- sumption of 2,360,000 tons $S5, 100000 a year. Of this, however, only 1,36O,0OO tons are imported, yielding customs rev 0OOOoO. goes into the pockets of planters, as follows.
 Tons. Value. Louisiana ... ............. $50 900 SIP, ,6O0 O00 Domestic beet ..............l50,000 3, 40O 0o1 Hawaii ... .................35OOO 1000 12,6UO00l Porto Rico ................ .150,000 5,400, ,0OO
 "A removal of this duty on raw sugar would result in a saving to the con- sumer of $S5000,O00.
 Misleading statements are constantly being made about the benefit to the company of reducing the present high rate and duty. The gain would be in creased sales. The lower the prices al which refined sugar can be furnished the larger Is the number within whose reach it can be brought To this extent there would be a gain to the company but the substantial benefit of the remls- sion or reduction of the duty would be tion is whether the public shall con tinue to pay the enormous amount which the duty requires for the benefit of favored industries. which, according to published statements by those who are specially interested, do not require the protection"
 In supplementary statement MT HaVemeyer said:
 ''As far as the beet industry is con- cerned the farmers have received no more for their beets since the tax was reimposed than when sugar was free in the years 1891, 1892 and 1893. What Mir OXnard says is of little account, but what MT. William Bavard Cutting at taches his signature to Is of account He has stated over his signature that the beet industry is profitable undel conditions of absolute free trade, and that, the United States being an agil- ing to fear even from the annexation oi Cuba.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
MATERIAL EVOLUTION.

We have no disposition to discuss the physical evolution taught by Darwin and others, or the mental evolution taught by scholars. or the me ral and religious evolution as taught by the churches, for on all of those questions there are hon. est differences of opinion among good as we'll as great men, all of whom are en- titled to be credited with honesty and sincerity. The evolution about which we propose to speak is that which belongs exclusively to the material and industrial life of the people.
 There were railroads of a certain sort in England more than a century ago. There were rails laid on timbers and on these rails cars, or wagons as they called them, were drawn by horses. These were railroads in their crude state and we have no doubt that the people who toiled at filling and emptying the wagons. and the yokels who drove the horses. really thought that they had a practically per feet system os transportation, and had no thought that it would be improved on. Horses and other animals had drawn car riages of some kind from remote an tiguity and these unlettered and unimag- lnative Iaborers thought that no further improvement Mas possible.
 But there was one Englishman who was not satisfied with that kind of rail- way. and SO George Stephenson set about finding something better. His first loco motive and cars would be objects of un- bounded curiosity to the present genera ton. who would wonder if such rude contrivances did actually travel at all But they did travel. and his rude engine drew several wagons at q speed of ten miles an hour, which was thought to be q wonderful achievement. When some enthusiastic optimlst-possibly Stephen son himself-boldly predicted that 1t would be possible to travel twenty miles an hour by this method, he was looked on as almost 4 fit subject for an asylum. A person who sees one of the latest im- proved types of engine. and travels mile or more in q minute in carriages as comfortable and luXuriaut as million aires parlor, can hardly conceive of such a rattHng, poking. wheezy rattletrap as Stephensons yet his was the embryonic railway and the magnificent trains oi today hive evoluted from the affaiHs which astonished the English people less than a century ago.
 As far back in the dim and misty past as men have known that wood woult float on water there have doubtless beer boats of some kind The tree trunk hol lowed out by fire and the stone axes o
 the savage was boat, rude and inse cure, but it foated on the water. Tht evolution from that to the ships of al
 hundred years ago was slow but con tinuous process and the sailors who spen
 weeks or months crossing the ocean haC
 no provision of anything better,
 But there were others few in numbe | but enthusiastic in their belief in tn
 strength and possibilities of a new driv ing power, who were not content to re
 main always at the mercy of the fickl
 winds, and they set about harnessini steam to a boat. as Stephenson set abou harnessing it to his coal wagons Whel Robert Fultons little boat steamed it l way up the broad and placid Hudson
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes of Persons Talked
 About Now.

A movement is on foot in Spain tn raise q monument to the memory or Emilio Castelar,, the greatest spanish republican orator of the nineteenth een- tury.
 John c. Milburn of Buffalo. at whose house President Mckinley died. will b9 tendered the presidency of the New fork Bar Association at its meeting in Albany January 21
 Paderewski, the pianist, Is devotee oi rbvsicaI culture. II is not that h. wishes to be made stouter or thinner, but has pure pleasure in the performance of feats of strength
 Thomas A. Walker. wealthy Hardin County, Iowa, stockman. landed in New York city in 1888 with but 2i cents ana stll possesses the identical 2l cents. which he will retain as valuable heir loom for his children's children.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

policy Is plain enough As The Kansas City Journal says, 'the fact that an in- dividual has committed an unlawful act does not give the constituted authorities the right to make him a consumptive. Frequently the term he Is to serve is a brief one-a year or two years. The pun ishment is intended to be light, yet if he the germs of a fatal disease. it is most heavy, Tn such cases justice becomes the grossest injustice Enforced con- traction of a deadly disease is an inf1ic-
 ton that revolts humane sensibilities and calls loudly for reform of the system that permits it." ~
 That is correct and humane view to take of it. The law fixes a specific pun- ishment for certain crimes and no offi- cial has right to add to that penalty. The convicted man may be punished by confinement or hard labor. and it is the the sentence is carried out. To confine prisoners without food. water or ventila- ton would be looked on as inhumane, if not criminal The Black Hole of Call cutta.'' where 14s British prisoners were confined in a small room and 12s of them died in one night from lack of proper ventiltion, has become famous as a specimen of cruelty and inhumanity to prisoners, but wherein does it differ. ex- cept in degree, from the act of shutting up prisoners with infectious or conta- gious diseases in rooms with those not so affected?
 The medical world is now almost unani- nous in support of the theory that con- sumption is communicated from one per- son to another. It may not be contagious in the same way or to the same extent that certain other diseases are, but that it is communicated appears to be set tied fact. This being so, it is plainly
 cruel, inkuman and unjust to subject any l prisoner to danger of infection, thereby
 adding to the punishment which the law
 provides
 Kansas is about doing what other
 States will do in the har future. Hu-
 manity, justice and good policy are all
 involved, and a government is not com ing up to the full measure of it's duty if it fails to look after the health or its convices.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
SEPARATION OF PRISONERS.

Kansas also, is getting it's eyes open to the danger as well as injustice of al- lowing convicts affected with tuberculosis to remain confined with the well con- victs The warden of the prison at Fort Leayenworth has recently issued a state ment in which he asserts that more in- mates of that prison die of consumption than of all other diseases combined, and he calls especial attention to the fact that prisoners who become sick are nec- essarily taken to the prison hospital for treatment. In this hospital all the con sumptive convicts are kept, and the re- suit Is that persons suffering from other ailments are thus, while their systems are weakened by disease of any kind forced into communication with consump- tives, the natural effect being that per- fectly sound patients, so far as any lung disease is concerned. contract tubercu- losis and die of it.
 That this is wrong in theory, cruel and | unjust in practice and opposed to public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
A LIEUTENANT ARRESTED.
Accused of Sending Obscene Card to
 the President

Richmond, Va, Jan. 11.-Lieutenant John W. Starke, Company B, 7th Vir- ginia regiment, was arrested today by Deputy United States Marshal Benditt, on the charge of sending obscence litera- ture through the mails.
 The arrest grows out of an insulting advertisement card. alleged to have been mailed from Richmond, a month ago, to President Roosevelt The charge was brought against Starke by Postoffice In- spector Bulla, who has been working up the case. Starke was bailed by the United States Commissioner for his ap- pearance on Tuesday. Starke denies the charges.
 He has been prominently before the commissioner on several former occa- sions., At the beginning of the Cuban excitement he attempted to organize filibustering expedition. He volunteered on the second call for troops for the Spanish war and went to the camp at Tampa, where he remained until muster ed out. More recently he has made att tempts to reorganize force to aid the BOerS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

coughing and wheezing and straining like some marine monster in pain. 1t was-re garded by crowds of wondering specta- tors as the very ultimate extent of hu- man invention. It was an era in water travel, imperfect and uncouth, but 1t was a beginning, and was destined to grow through the coming years to the triumphs of the builders art of the pres ent day. There are steamships of the Cunard and other modern lines which are really and truly the floating pal- aces advertised by their agents. Two hundred yards or more in length, of pro- portionate width, and finished with all the beauty, convenience and luxury of the highest type of the mechanicNart and taste, they carry across the ocean 2,ooo or more passengers, and those passen- gers are as well provided for as they could be in the highest type of modern
 hotel on land. and they travel with as much ease and comfort as they would in their carriages on the best streets and roads at home. These magnificent vessels have come up by continuous evolution from Fuiton's noisy and creeping vessel which woke the echoes on the banks of the Hudson less than one century ago.
 And so We might go on and speak of the hotels and the stores, the mills and the factories, the books and the news papers, and, in fact, everything which the restless inventive and pushing civili- 4l.z hoe a,,1 c1ptx h o they also have come up by evolution from the rude beginnings of past ages. We might speak of the evolution of the street railway. but unfortunately have no evidence of it at hand, and to speak to Montgomery people of a system that
 would compare with the railroads and steamboats' growth would be like speak, ing of rich wines and bountiful dinners to a starving man. We will cut out the street railways. but in almost everything process of evolution is continuously for ward and upward, and we are reaching a point where it seems hardly possible for us to go any further, but no one may fix limit to human ingenuity or point out barrier to human effort. It may be that those who live in the next century will look back to this day as we look back to the day of Fulton and Stephen son, Material, industrial and inventive evolution may go on till the few dis comforts and inconveniences of our daily life will be abolished or overcome, and we will rival the birds of the air or the fishes of the sea in our methods of travel. We know something of that which has been and of that which now is, but we cannot know where evolution will stop.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

If we would reform the ignorant and silent the fools in the North and East who exploit their want of knowledge and their folly about race affairs in the South, We should have resort to more dignified and decent methods than those people employ. Times.
 Possibly The Times is right, but it is hard for a Southern man to feel dignifi-d when he reads such infamous attacks as that of R. J. Cooke and others who as- sume to be teachers and leaders. When one is annoyed by the bray of jackass, dignity is inclined to hunt 8 back seat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

very smallest figure in our national his to y. The Commissioner of Naugauon was able last year to note only one new American steamship enterprise on tne high seas-the line of four ships rom Chicago through the St. Lawrence River to Europe. But this scheme has been abandoned and its four vessels are now employed in the protected coastwise ser vice. a,
 At/the present early stage of the dis cussion public men or newspapers tnas oppose the protection of the American deep sea merchant fleet because AmeIican building ships for the coastwise trade-- can be pardoned for an awkward but non est lack of information. If, however, they persist in this misstatement when Il their attention has once been called 10 1t. they can find no fault if they are characterized as they deserve.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

In some remarks q day or two ago in reply to some references of The Dothan Siftings as to The Advertisers bringing out Judge Cobb for Attorney General we took occasion to say that this paper had Ao candidate for that position, and would bA the partisan of none. Ore of our best citizens, and most capable lawyer, MT. Alex Troy, is one of the candidates and certainly We would not put ourselves in imposition to our townsman and neigh nor. .who is so thoroughly qualified for the position.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12
TAYLOR AND CLARK.
Confer with Roosevelt Regarding the
 SchleY Case.

Washington, Jan. I.-Admiral Taylor, who is to succeed Admiral Crowninshield as chief of the bureau of navigation, and Captain Clark, who commanded the bat tleship Oregon during the Spanish war. had a long conference with President Roosevelt today, and afterward lunched with him.
 The conference took place in the cabi- President denied himself to other callers. Subsequently the two naval officers who. 1t was learned, had been sent for by the President, declined to make public the subject of the consultation, which it was believed, had a bearing upon tho Schley case.