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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-06
NEWS OF HORSES
And K0RSENEN
Ballet, Daughter of Planet, Dies,
Aged 81 Years.
WAS A FAMOUS BROOD MARE
last of the Great sire's Get General
Townes and Captain Hancock Buy
Bonnie Lizzie II and Charming
Bells Other Live Items.
WAS A FAMOUS BROOD MARE

iSailet, considered by many ono of the
greatest brood mares in America, died on
he 18th instant at the Balgown Stud OF
her owner. George II. Clay, Lexington,
Ky, where she was chloroformed. Bal.
lc. was filirty-one, just a year older
than the famous Pocahontas. the great
rst OF all brood mares when she died.
Ballet was daughter Of the great Fir-
einia-bred race horse and sire, Planet
and the last Of his get Her dam was
balloon, by imp. Yorkshire. She was the
dam OF Modesty. Blue Grass Belle, Eli.
za,,eth l.. Peg Wellington. Busteed, Bal
Nicer, Major Richards, Cathay, Vega,
Lady Longfellow, Thunderclond and Mary
:.
Referring to this remarkable thorough,
bred, an exchange says: Just think or
1t. mare living to the age Of thirty
ono years, which corresponds IN the hui
man race to the age Of $50 Many. wears
nso in England. when old Thomas Parr
arrived at the age OF $50. 1t was consid-'
cred 80 very remarkable that he was or
dsred to appear before the King that he.
might look upon member Of the human
race who had reached such wonderful
number of years. We are not told that
Thomas Parr was remarkable for any
thing save his love for whisky, but Bal
let, besides being remarkable for her age
was aone Of tho most noted thoroughbred
0aannAa thai e1Ar lived and founded q
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-06
The Cohen Co,
Sole AGENTS.
Sc resemblance to a nun in ccstatio

false resemblance to nun in ecstatio
devotion"
"A ferocious creature it Is. ever bent
on carnage. the workshops OF various
burrowiDg Hymenoptera being its favor
lite haunts. since there it is almost GER
tain to find prey
'Posted on some bush near the bur
rows,'' says M. Fabre, in his account
of the insect, 1T waits patiently until it
sees some other insect, probably a spheS,
returning home. BY a sudden rustic of
its half-open wings it territies the APP
preaching insect, which hestitates for q
moment, and then, as suddenly as a
spring the toothed forearm folds back. on
al, arm also toothed and the insect is
grasped between the blades Of the double
saw in the same manner as the Jaws Of
a wolf trap close on an unfortunately
at the instant when it is Selling. the bait
Then, without Enclosing the deadly ma
chine tes mantis slowly eats its vic
tim
In Province this cruel insect is known
as "Frego Dieou," which means Pray
to Cod &c
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-06
PACIF|CAT|0ll RETARDED BY
JEALOUSIES IN The PHILIPPINES
The Policy of the Government to Gradually
Withdraw the Military Arm and
Strengthen the Civil Government.

done here and in the United States to
such an extent as to create an impress
sion that the military is antasonistic to
the civil. but il one reflects, the ahsur-
dity OF such a charge at once becomes
apparent.
The President of the United States
has adopted weiI-detined policy to-
:. ards tie people of these islands. This
y,olicy is carried into execution through
the instrmnentality and agency OF the
Civil Commission and the Army. Both
t: Ike their orders direct from the Secrc-
tary Of War, and both make their re-
ports to that officer. The policy pur-
sued here is marked out by the Prcs1-
dent The work Of the commission IS
his work; It's policy is his policy: to at
tack the commission or its work is TO
attack the President and his work.
Whether his policy is right or wrong,
whether suited to existing conditions or
rot, il is the duty of every person con-
lected with the service to CONFORM
thereto and TO refrain from INDUCING III
useless and naGging criticism. 1t is SUI
ficient for the civil and military afiicers
TO know what the Presidents policy Is
The plain duty of all civil and army
officers, is to faithfully and Loyalty render
true allegiance and service to the gov
ernment established by order of the
President the coln,nandcr-in-chief of the
army We have no option in the matter.
..The Secretary Of War, in his annual
report, defined the policy of the govern
ment as follows:
.The policy contemplated in The In
structions of April 9TH, followed by the
War Department, has been to steadily
press forward as rapidly as could be
done safely and thoroughly, the gradual
substitution of government through
civil agents for government through
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-06
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Isl. fI T 6. 81 j ]:
SON
A. Study IN Southern dialect

Crap for craw. as the Scrap .iof a
fowl. the same word . for crop. clatter''s
,to:talk rapidly, &C leep' to chirp, drap'8
to- drop, ..dribble" for drizsling and It
is dribbling rain, .scrimp to make
.scant or to be stingy. Isl pe,..::s a narrow
strip or to cut In marrow strips, CLAW
to scratch, 'spreckled'' for spotted. may
not all be found In the unabrid ged die
,tionarles of the day. but would be heard
In the daily conversationEofa southern
Scotch-Irish community. Anot her tm-5
poltant fact must not be overlooked,
which Is that each and all of them. can
be found in the literature of Scotland
of a hundred years ago: Vang and
"Whang leather are from the same
source. The hooks ofsthe names. of the
harness are called logger heads" In
are called duck Bills Any one who
has seen two of these hooks or logger
heads hooked together can see at once
the aptness of the saying, they are at
logger-heads. have heard 54s.::thick
to be intimate, even in the best Of So
ciety. "Flnders.'' small bits, and CAB
to talk rapidly are OF frequent occurrence.
''daddie'' and "grannie' are good Scotch
words, and are even yet in good taste
own people. or others who are older thar
we. I heard the word "hone," in the
sense of longing 'for. from the lips Of
college physician. during the summer Of
1900. I had not heard it in thirty years
before. It was in common use in our
Scotch-Irish neighborhood when = was
a child, but it meant grieving for j
refer to the line Of Scott in the lament
over. the dead chieftain called ''The
Coronac11 of Lord Ronald" It begins:
80 hone a. RE. Q. hone a RE"
The Scotch dialect and even the Gaelic
can be heard in the Highland commune
ties of North Carolina about Cross Creek
now Fayetteville. I spent a night in this
part Of the State only last spring and
an intelligent gentleman from Glasgow
Scotland, said he heard the Gaelic from
a few old people whom he had met in
that section. The Valley of Virginia, the
middle and western sections of North
Carolina, as well as those Of South Caro-
lima and Georgia, were mostly settled by
these Scotcf-Irisf and Scotch people
They moved westward as the country
opened and thus they scattered their Ian
guage wherever they went. It is not an
extravagant claim to say that these
people have modified the speech Of the
nation from Indiana to Texas. This is
only one source from which these words,
called obsolete, have come. Others will
be considered in the papers which are to
follow.
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military agents, 80 that the administra-
ton Of the military officer shall be con-
tinually narrowed and that of the civil
officer continually enlarged, until the.
time comes when the army can, without
imperiling the peace and order of the
country, be re1egated to the same rela-
ton toward government which--it occu-
pies n the United States. In this way
we have avoided the premature aban-
donment of any power necessary to en-
force the authority Of the United States.
and at the same time have held open to
tho people Of every community the OPP
portunity to escape from the stringency
of military rule by uniting with US in
effective measures to bring about peace
full conditions in the territory which they
inflabit.' -
policy Of our government. It's success
is guaranteed by the character and
ability Of the men who are charged with
its execution It cannot fail, because
the full power of our government is
pledged to It's success. Doubling
'Thomases may delay but cannot de
feat its accomplishment. The local. press
can aid very materially in making this
policy a success and it is it's duty to
assist. One thing may be taken for
granted, the President will not permit
the press or any person to throw any
obstacle III the way. of success. Fai
and friendly criticism of the official acts
Of officers is invited, but, this
does not mean that attacks upon
the government will be tolerated
1T is immaterial whether it will re-
quire fifteen or twenty thousand Ameri-
can soldiers, a year from this date, to
maintain peace and order In these islands
All may rest assured that the admiration
of the military officer shall be continual
=ly narrowed and that of the civil officer
continually enlarged until the time comes
when the army can without imperiling the
peace and order of the country, be re-
legated to the same relation toward gov
eminent which it occupies in the United
States.'' This is the fixed policy OF uur
government. ALL fault-finding, pickering
and malignant criticism OH the part of
either branch Of service affects the ef-
cheney of the government and reflects
seriously upon those who indulge there.
in This should cease, and it is the duty
of those in either branch to join bands
and cooperate in order that the fined
policy of the government may De car
ried to successful conclusion with as
little delay as possible.
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recent copy Of the Manila Times
throws some sidelights of interest upon
The political situation and official bick-
erings right on the ground which have
been given little ventilation on this side
of the Pacific ocean.
Assistant Attorney-General john ".
1Ianssermann. in communication to the
Manila Times, outlines the policy OF the
government IN the islands. and the fact
that it rs being delayed by jealousy
between the civil and military depart
ments. Mr.. IIaussermann says:
In view of The general discussion
which is at present being held by pro-
civil and pro-nilitary partisans, and the
tendency which such discussion has to
create friction between these two
branches of the service. tho following eA-
precision Of opinion from John w. ldaus-
scrmann, the Assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral, should be read with interest:
1T is not known what object the local
morning papers expect to accomplish by
lnalioiously attacking the civil branch
of the government and boldly pronounc-
ing it a failure. These attacks do harm
and serve no good purpose. 1t is ire
alcntly animated that these attacks are
inspired by those In charge of the m1i-
i,ary branch of the government, but this
cannot be true My experience OF more
than three years as q volunteer officer
induces me to believe that no army Of
iiccr who has the interest of his country
AT heart would knowingly inspire or
countenance such attacks and criticism
on the civil government. lis true, many
officers in speaking of the situation,
ihoughtlessly permit themselves to make
dispara ging remarks. This has been
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10 ii ;
T1Est, every word referred to has been
heard by the writer and also traced by
him III the literature of the past nave.
examined more than five hundred S-ors
these words and can here give but a.feWs
as examples. .Noggin' meaning head
and also a small vessel made OF slaves
with sPiggfn, "a small vessel, one OF s
whose slaves IS longer than the rest
and shaped into a handle. is verysc CON
mon in many OF our rural districts. nay
wood III sDumbard Opened uses this
sentence, ..Broa d mou,fed dishes. nog-
gins. land pisgins.'' Lug Is used both
by Scott and Burns, meaning an ear..Ihe
5 chief use.of the word nowsis to indicate
certain leaves of the tobacco plaEt MS
{ use. came in roundabout way as Ao i-
lows: There is. an ear-like appendages
on the stalk where the stem OF the lea1
joins 1t. This was fofmeti 5, q ~
smokers and was called the Tugs. e When
the whole leaf andacfr all tne lea >
were ground into smoking tobacco they
were called Tugs and are so known 70.
day. ..Ingan'' for onion and "chimbly'
for chimney are in everyday use IN our
country Scotch-Irisfl communities. IheSe
are good Scotch words, and can he fonnd
in abundant evidence throughout Scout
md Burn S BRAID Scot" any one who
has read their books can testify.
z MAY BE USED ETHER Wal.
''Redd up roor4' means to put IT IN
order. ..Shanks" is a Scotch word for
merly meaning the legs entire but no"
among us applied to that part below
the knees It has also iig,Irative mean
ing, as the shank of the evening In
ali southern rural communities the female
sheep is called a "yowe" and never
eve. 1t is so spelled and SO used by
Scotch authors I have heard 'huZzie
both as term of endearment and re-
proach. 1t means a jade or frolicsome
Young girl Walter Scott uses it as a
rn,re Scotch word, though 7 find it in
both Shakespeare and Ben Johnson, they
spelling it ..hussy.'' 'Gowk and gowky'
are used to mean over-grown and a.wk-
ward. The country people pronounce
II gawk and gawky. The first are pure
Scotch. 7 find "duds.'' referring to un-
tidy and half-worn clothing, i'll daily use
among our people. 1t is often used to
7epreciate the clothing OF another. thus
',ecoming a term of reproacil. .Elather'
Cor bladder "lather" for ladder. pow
tI1cr horn for powder horn" and
..shoulthe1-'' for shoulder were much
used forty years ago. and are still heard
m some places The Scotch origin of
these words may he seen in this line
from the "Gaberlunzie man. of James ":
my dochter's shoulthcr he gan to clap"
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The word dialect, as used IN these pa

y - IN :
The word dialect, as used IN these pa
pers means thosc pcruliaI words. phra sca.
rrpnunc1auons and expressions which are
not considered good English by grams
mar,ans and rhetorieians. It refers to.
the speech OF the common people mere
ts ever u wide difference between the
speech OF the college-brcd man and
that OF his neighbor who has been de-
MED tho advantages OF the higher tr,sti-
tuition OF learning. However. tie con-
stanfly Increasing curriculum of the; COM
mon schools is fast lesscninE this DIR
ference Commercial intercourse and the
constant shifting Of popnlat1on is another
factor whose. tendency Is to unity the
speech OF our nation. There is still anoth-.
e.. namely. the interchange of teachers
and business men and women petWeen
the various sections.
The South still has. however, a dialect
decidedly and peculiarly her own. Many
words that are supposed to be Southern.
arc found IN New England and the West.
but even with these. there is something
IN their pronunciation and use which.
marks the Soutli's imprint The speech
OF the native Southerner is less harSh
even in tho use of precisely the SAME
words The dialect as defined above
may be considered as made up OF several
clements.
The first which may be mentioned is
the retention of obsolete or unusual and
rare words The occasion of this reten-
ton is the intense Conversation OF the
Southern people Southern man does
not Ike a new thing. Even when it is
shown that the new is better. he hesi-
ta:cs. lIe believes in his Institutions.
Ills habits and customs and methods OF
thought. More than this b.. IS proud Of
thern. innovations he spu,ns.. new things
which are not positively TO his advan-
tage ne rejects. What is true in other
lines is emphatically true in his speech.
7,,is applies. in some respects. to every
class but particularly to the common
people. and more especially to that class
which came over to the present time from
Rnte-bellun davs.
SCOTCH AND IRISH.
There are three main sources from
r.hici, this class of words have come Tho
first that may be considered is the Scotci
and the Scotch-Irish
Thnse neople scattered thicllv throuE'
fllc South. left an abiding influence or
trn LANGUAGE. 1t is not pronoscd tr
give in these papers ANYTHING like an cy
l,austive research but simply to awslise~
~, interest and point toSthe source fro'~
which so many words used among US
came. Two things may be kept in mind
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family OF thoroughbreds. phenomenal,
both as racers and producers.

family Of thoroughbreds. phenomenal,
both as racers and producers
Marshall & Thompson. of Warrenton,
Va, the well-llnown- newspaper men,
breeders and owners OF thoroughbrcds ana
trotters are now confining themselves
mostly to running-bred horses and nave
in their stud a collection of stations that
will do much toward improving the stock
in the rich grazing districts OF fauauler
and Loudoun counties. Tournament,
great race-horse during his turf career and
now already on the march to distinction
as a sire, heads the stud. He is by imp
Sir AIodred, dam PlaythinE, by Alarm.
Tournaments stud companions are black
cock, by imp. Pontiac, out OF Bonnlo Gai'
dam of Disguise IL, winner of Jockey Club
stakes in England for James r. keene, by
Galopin: His Grace, by Eoius, ou' "
Lady Grace; King Artem H., tuii nro1ilst
TO Freeland, by Longfeliow, out OF Beile
Knight; Mills, by Hayden EDWARDS oul
Of Maonla, and Harper. by Ecuaoof,
ont Of Alice Harper, the daughter OF
Lonsfellow.
The former Kentuckian, T. NJ. ARA
smith, of the Haven Farm, GREENSBORO.
n. c.. where he now resides. mas round
ed to after a siege Of i'll health during
the greater part of 1901 and is now busy
handling housekeeping harness and sad,
die horses and few speedy strotteIS anu
PAGERS Mr.. Arrasmith whose genial man
ners and straightforward way oil DONG
business has won him many irleho-
writes me that he has recently disposed
of some ligh-class horses. among them a
Grand looking black gelding to John "
Vaughan. Norfolk. Va. This morse was
sired by Roland, son of Frank Denmark:
lam by Sinm, Clark Chief. 2l:l0. sire OF
dam OF May Allen, s2:0914, second dam. by
the famous show horses Harrison ChleI.
and is described as one of the best horses
that ever left the State, style. finish, sac-
ton and manners being considered.
John Hanning. of the American Blood
Stock Agency, New York. has made the
following sales: 10 General William y.
TONNES. of the American Tobacco Co..
New York. whose stud of thoroughbreds
is kept at Stokesland, Va. the chestnut
mare Bonnie Lizzie IL. foaled @lS97, by
Uncas, out of Wyandotte. by imp. Lean,
inGton, second dam DemeSls. by imp:
Eclipse and to r. ]. Hancock y Son. OF
the Ellerslie Stud. Charlottesville. Va
the chestnut mare Ginning Bells. foaled
1887. by Uncas. son of Lexington dam imp
Amelia, by Muncaster.s second dam I'm.
by Mandrake. third dam Lady Flora. by
aStockwell. Ginning Bells will be; bred
this season to the Ellersiie Studs pre-.
mfer sire Eon, the son of Eolus and fa-
nous War Song, by Var Dance,
During a recent visit to friends In Xir-.
Einia,. s., b. Nelson. OF the American Horse
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Exchange, New York, purchased some
eight or ten trotters and high-stepp1ng
harness, among the speedy bay mare ,n ia
West by. Bursar 2:17i4, from VIC. west
Onancocl1. This mare is expected to trol
in 2:15 this season if she keeps right. From
w. A Walker. of this city, he obtained
a doclI-tailed bay gelding with exception Keep y
also a speedy bay trotting seldlng, by
Toodles, Jr., dam by Woodburn Handle
tonian.
Recent foals dropped. at the; Ellerslie
Stud of Il. J. Hancock &, Son, Charlottes,
vile, Va. include Il. fine bay colt, foaled
March 18th, by imp. Fatlerless, out OF
by Eolus. This is the first foal by Faith
eriess and one of the best ever seen at
Ellerslie. The Nlessrs Hancock have
sustained quite severe loss II the death 1a5
was a chestnut mare, bred i'll the Ellerslie.
Stud by imp. CharaXus, dam Cola, a full
sistersto l1oie, etc, by Eolus.
r. C. Broaddus, of Manchester, has ex-
changed with James Nunnally, of the
same city. Maud Alpine, bay tilly, 4. by
Egwood. 2:11A, dam Lucy Alpine. by, Clan
bay gelding, 5. by Toodles, Jr:, dam Lucy
Alpine for a bay pacing gelding, 5. by
Havelok, Jr;, 2:Ss4. odin Alpine is also
Nellie D., Elsa, and Miss Thompson, 2:20l1ss.
Among the winners during the closing
We're the brown horse Braw Lad. a, by
Eolus, dam Brown Beauty. and the bay.
gelding death. a, by imp Charaxus. dam
The q Alarm Death won the Flight
added money being $1,000. He finished
bara Frietche and five others bringing
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a few. months since to parties in Georgia
is now in the stable Of o. Mowers, of Ma
con. by whom she will be trained and
driven this season..
A.. L. Powell, Manchester, Va, has a
prospect for speed at the trot in the
chestnut filly, 8. by Egwood, 2:1S11ss, dam
by Woedburn Hambletonian. She is now
being logged on the road and later will
be placed in training.
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a OF
yE "a M M AD1ToR F1f Of
5uANGa ITO TO TIE TIE Lays OF VIRGINIA
C.. 4 &
ncipaIO
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e. PRAYS" AS 1T PREYS.
Cruel Insect With a, Peculiar Method Of

Cruel Insect EWitha7 ecuIiarl Method Of
SEEKING Its Prey. Il
f5;3 philadelphia Record.) -
Very strange is the insect popularity
known as tho praying mantis.." OF
this insect NJ. J.. HI lFabre,.. distin-
guished, French naturalist, has made
thorough study. According TO him, ''its
long, pale green wings like ample wells,
its head appraised to heaven. its arms
folded and crossed on Its breast. give it
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Tine bay mare Matte Lynn Holt. 3 :131111,S
r. y. Battle, Greensboro, NJ c.. but sold