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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11

Bile to save our credit Remember we are
10 have horse show here IN few weeks.
ii will be "a gala occasion" for driving,
and many and handsome will be the turn
outs which win be seen that week on our
streets and on the roads leading from the
city to the show place.
We violate no confidence. we belleVe.
when we say that the Grove road and
the Broad street road. in places, are IN
a sorry condition They do Richmond
no credit and ought to receive prompt
attention They ought to be smoothed
off-trimmed Observation-Disclosures Horse
Show week is upon US. ''Horsemen' all
have keen eyes for good roads. and
though we may have everything else here
in tip top order, we'll fail OF complete
success unless our streets and roads are
then seen at their best-which even then
Is not very grand. Within the time
limit. with the scant sums at the disposal
of the Committee on Streets. we do not
expect .'wonders'' to be worked" but
we know it is possible to mend and
smooth the roads and streets to some
extent, and that we ask shall be done.
Yes: get ready for the Horse Show and
nut your best road repairer foremost.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
Mark Twain,s Income.

(ROCHeSLeF FOSC hNpIeSS.J
Mark Twain's pecun1ary condition has
been topic of Importance since the dis
astrous failure OF the publishing house In
which he was interested. Lately the pa
pers have commented freely upon the be-
lief that Mr.. Clemens has recouped his
fortunes, and that with the assistance OF
his friend. Rogers, of the Standard OIL
trust, he will soon be enrolled among the
millionaires. It seems however, that the
author himself is not so sangutne as his
interested friends At least one wouldin-
fer as much from a letter written to the
Rev. T. c. Topper, chaplain at tie United
States prison in Atlanta. Ga. BY request
of DR.. Topper, Mr.. Clemens presented
six volume edition Of his works to the
prison library. II would gladly send the
other SET" writes the author. "the COM
plete one, if could stand the expense,
but 1t would cost me s55-and there Is no
cheap edition. The newspapers are try
ing to make me out a rich man. but the
continued discrepancy between my income
and my outgo convinces me that they are
not succeeding" Still. this does not nee
essarily indicate that Mr.. Clemens income
is not considerable. The reason that he
is not able to give away expensive edi-
tons of his works may be due to the fact
that he has put in his winters supply Of
coal,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11

According to Frank Les!ie's Monthly,
Austin Dabney (colored), of Georgia, was
notable among the heroes of the Revolu-
ton His owner would not enlist, but
Dabney volunteered and was accepted
and was assigned to the Neutrality-suspicious.
er as cook, or teamster, or as private
on a leve, with the whites, does not APP
pear, but the intimation certainly Is that
he carried musket as real, regular
soldier. We quote:
After the war he was pensioned by the
United States government, and received
grants of land from Georgia. For gal
liant service in the field he was freed by
an act Of the State Legislature, and his
value paid from the public funds. Crate
full to the white family who nursed him
when wounded he earned money to edu-
cate their eldest son, and wept with JOY
when the youth was admitted to the bar.
Riding into Savannah to draw his pen
sion. he humbly fell to the rear of the
white men he bore company. Governor
James Jackson. himself the owner Of
many alaves. saw Dabney, rushed out,
shook his companion in arms by the
hand, and had him lodged in his quar-
tiers" CT row of houses where the servants
lived.
Did Georgia have mixed companies of
white and black soldiers in the Revolu-
tionary army?
We have seen 1t stated that some ne
groes were enlisted in Virginia COM
panies, but never yet have we stan or
found record evidence Of that fact
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
TO-DAY,S PRIMARY.

The Democratic primary election takes
place to-day between the hours of 6 a.
NJ and P. M
1t is to be held not only in Richmond
and Manchester. but IN Henrico and in all
the other counties Of this congressional
district, in pursuance of the policy adopt
ed by the last convention of the Demo-
cratic party of Virginia for cases where
more than one candidate seeks a congress
gional nomina ton at the hands of our
party. And by the choice of the State
Committee the voting is not to be by Sc
.ret ballot but viva voce-that is to say,
the names of the person voting and the
person voted for will be cried out
One of the results of this system will be
that the relative standing of the two
candidates, Captain Lamb and Mir. Wal
lace, will be known as soon as the polls
are closed. About twenty years ago. the
same plan, we think. was used in nomi-
mating congressional candidate in this
district.
large vote should be polled. 1t would be
exceedingly helpful to the nominee to be
able to refer TO the fact that he was
chosen not by any select circle, or ring,
or clique but by a great outrouring Of the
people. And to remove as far as possible
all probability OF or liability to a cor
test from within or without the party. sc
would be of much advantage to tn NOM
inee to have ''rousing'' majority.
The contest-in the la tier days certain
ly-has been lively one; the claims of
he two candidates have been fully dis
sussed and now it but remains for the
,arty to decide between them. That deci-
ston will be almost equivalent to an elec-
ton. So go to the polls to-day and do
8 your duty.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
SOME .smAKE-pEL1pvE 1xD1ANs.,,

Nothing SO delights the heart OF the
average small boy as to play Indian
or to impersonate some other like ctass
Of mortals. who are equally as saVase
as our aborigines. That the urchins make
a thorough success OF this line OF sport
cannot be marvelled at when one consld-
ers how much native savagery is In their
makeup. In sooth, the part comes natHA
raj to them In modified degree-and
when this puerile propensity concerns our
own boys and not our ne1ghbors'-We
sometimes find ourselves highly amused
at the youngsters, but they are times
when the youthful sinners out-herod Tier
cd in their impishneSs. A case OF this
sort is just reported from Chicago. 1t
involves several boys and baby The
bows. using for torches several old brooms
which they had ignited at bonfire, were
executing a war dance. OF course. they
imagined themselves Indians, and 1t was
but natural that the infant, which was
only II months old, should play the part
of captive. And so. when the motner OIL
the little one looked out of the window
she saw, circling around the carriage
containing her baby, the Juvenile horoe
of imitation savages with their torches
blazing dangerously near the child. In
great terror the woman shouted to the
bows to desist and hurried to tho rescue
Of the infant. But she arrived too late.
Before she reached the carriage the flimsy
trappings had caught fire and her little
one was fatally burnt. 1t died an hour
later.
The would-be Indians meanwhile had
had the prudence to flee, and the police
are now Investigating. And probably 1T
will all end in investigation.
Now, what is any one to do with boys
like those? And yet these Chicago ur-
chins are probably no worse than mil
lion other boys. It is probable that they
only intended to come as near as posi-
Bile to burning the baby without actu-
ally doing it. Other boys take the same
chances-but usually accomplish their
ends without causing such disastrous re
suits. In fact, there is a kind of provi-
dence that seems to watch over small,
boys-as we'll as over those afflicted by
their presence-though babies and cats
should not rely too implicitly on this
providence when in the neighborhood of
such Indians" OF course, boys will
be boys and everybody makes this
rather intangible excuse for them, but
we sometimes wish that they would fol-
low a standard of puerility more closely
approximating the characters of the
young heroes described in Sunday school
books Then there would be no shortage
in the annual output Of missionaries and
the destruction of property would be
greatly diminished
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
aIalne,s Enormous Trout.
New York SUI

New York SUM-
To the Editor of the SEn-Sir: I inclose
a clipping OF an article now going the
rounds Of the press. end which was cr1si-#
.nally published in the Saturday Evening
Post, describing Names brook trost that
weighs nine pounds. The statements
made therein are so contrary to the ac-
tual facts that 1 hope you will contradict
them
The facts are that when the reports OF
the lal sc aize OF the Rangely trout We're
first made to spcrtsmen they We're re-
ceived with incredulity. The few sports.
men who had succeeded in penetrating
that then almost unknown wilderness,
told such strange tales OF the size Of the
trout which they had caught that party
of wealthy sportsme en- organized an expe-
dition to bring out, at any cost, few
specimens Of these large trout. AT great
expense-for there was then no roads or
thails within miles OF the Rangely-they
succeeded in getting some specimens, and
they forwarded one to each of three
newspapers. of which one was The Sun.
These papers. upon publication of these
facts with a description of the size and
weight Of the trout, We're flooded with let
tiers from sportsmen, some ridiculing the
whole matter, and calling it a fake 9TH
ers admitting that while there might be
fish as described, they were not and could
not be spotted brook trout, ETC.; but a
specimen had also been sent to Professor.
Louis Agassiz, who was admitted to be
the highest authority in the world on the
subject, and after the discussion had b.
come very heated, his report was pub
lished. It was to the effect that the
Rangely trout, which grow to a weight of
eight to twelve pounds, are true Salveln-
US fontinalis, the same spotted brook
trout that are found in streams through
out tina Northern and Middle States He
also stated that without doubt some of
those large trout were between 100 and 200
years old.
A copy of the original article, with
full history of the matter, was repub-
lished in The Sunday Sun about eight or
nine yeas age. hope you will see your
way clear to publish it again soon, or
in some way annihllate the writer Of in
closed imaginary tale S. W. MORSE.
Altoona, Pa, September s.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
The Great Strike Nearing An End
(New York Herald)

(New York Heraid.)
A belief that the great coal strike is
nearing the end seems to be spread
ing.
That the operators look for an early
resumption of work is suggested by many
little incidents. like the lowering of the
mules into the mines and the hurried
equipment of coal wharVes with electric
lights. as if night work were expected.
At the same time the chief of the strik-
ers will not admit that he knows OF any
plan for an early settlement, and the
presidents OF the coal corporations con-
tinue to arrogantIy assert that there is
nothing to arbitrate" and that they will
make no concession to the men.
In its issue of yesterday the Wall-Street
Journal, which certainly cannot be sus-
pected Of anti-capitalistic tendencies,
sharply criticised the naughty position
assumed by President Baer in his latest
statement, which, 1t contends. involves
the conclusion that those who own the
mines should also own the labor necessary
for their working.
AS will be seen from our news columns,
Pennsylvania's Governor and Attorney
General visited this city yesterday. ac-
companied by two capitalists, one of
whom is in business association with J..
P Morgan. Communication with that
gentleman and holding a protracted con-
ference among themselves was followed
on behalf of both sides.
However, the active Intervention OF
these State officials. suggesting as 1t does
the possibility OF legislation to protect
the public. which is ignored alike by
capital and labor in these struggles. may
exert wholesome influence.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
CARDINAL PLAYS GOLF.
He Yields the Clubs On sudbrook
Park Clubs Links.

G4 Baltimore SUM
Cardinal Gibbons may become devotee
of the royal and ancient game of golf-at
least such is the hope of many members
of the sunbrook Golf Club, which had
the honor Of having the links on which
the Cardinal made his first effort at golf
ing.
Cardinal Gibbons spent a few days near
Pikesvile recently, and on Saturday last
he paid a visit to the Sudbrook Park
Clubs links. While being shown over
the links he met Mr.. E. Hoover Bank
ard. champion of the club, who was prac-
ticing.
The distinguished preiate exhibited con-
siderable interest in the game and was
finally induced to try his hand with the
clubs, According to witnesses the Car
dinal manifested no little skill in hand
ling driver, brassy and cleek. but His
Eminence modestly declared last night
that he simply struck at the ball q few
any nol.ce had been taken Of the affair,
which he regarded as a mere courteous
pleasantly, having been asked by his
friends to try his hands at the game.
Mr.. Bankard, who recently returned
from Deer Park, is son of Mr.. E. H.
Bankard, purchasing agent of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company. He
is justly proud of the unique honor Of
having played COLE with the distin-
guished prelate,
Cardinal Gibbons SAID last night that
he felt very much better since his visit
to the country, and, in fact. his appear
ance and elastic step belle the reports of
his bad heal th.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
A PEAT BOG In JERSEY.
Morristovn Man Selling Coal SUBJ
stitute to His NeiGhbors.
baltimore SUM-


Baltimore Sum-
MORRISTOWN, N. j.. September a.
Columbia Meadows. a swampy territory
southeast Of the city, some thousands Of
acres in extent, has been discovered to be
a veritable Irish peat bog.
Some months ago John D. Garfield,
wealthy resident of this city, tried the
turf in his pumping station, which sup
plies the water to all the fine houses In
Normandie Park. He then acquired title
to several hundred acres OF the swamp. A
trench six feet deep was taken out in
cakes. Dried, it burned as readily as
coal.
Soon he found that he was able to keep
his pump going at a cost less than when
it was operated by coal at regular prices.
AS coal got scarcer and scarcer he tried
the turf in his range at home and found
that it worked to perfection. He has been
conducting his operations in secret. be-
cause he did not want the people gene
rally to know what he was doing until
he was ready to sell that peat to every
one.
!. He has not reached that stage yet. but
has about 90 men engaged in cutting peat.
and has several hundred cords Of the turf
dried and ready for use. which he is SELL
ing to his neighbors.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
OUR SUBURBAN ROADS.

Recent developments In municipal mat
ters. attended with no little excitement,
have diverted popular attention somewhat
from the subject of macadamized streets
and good roads. But tho pendulum is be-
ginning to swing back and we are having
fine, bracing weather, when it is pleas
ure to walk, or ride, or drive, and when
every one seeks the smoothest and most
picturesque roadwaSs
). No city, no county. no State is "up-to-
late in display of practical sense, In evil
s icnce of culture and refinement, that does
aot do its level best" to have good
streets and roads.
Richmond, we regret TO say, hasn't one
single good street from end to end, side
walk and roadway included. There are
some squares having good sidewalks;
here are some that have good roadways,
but there are few squares that possess
both. In a little while we expect our city
to inausurate great reform In this di-
rection and proceed to construct one or
two fine streets as an example OF what
~
public wish well known to exist, though
not made known as deciskvely as 1t should
be-
Yes: Richmond must and will have bet
ter streets. A thorough-going. but not
top-hcavy policy should be adopted.
Heaven forbid that it should be so elabo-
rate and complex rs to frighten off peo-
pie with Its cost Many second and third
rate towns. North and West. have better
streets than We have. We could have
better ones, We .tshall. have better ones
the tax-payers OF Richmond will
how proper interest In the matter. Why
se they SO inactive; why don't they come
yard and give this movement hearty
~ vigorous support and push?
Meanwhile there is work that ought
be done forthwith; work that will adj
pc OF no delay and which Is indispensa-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
The Lobster and Tie Lion.
New York WORLDLY

The fact that Virginia militiaman
who called another lobster has been
dismissed from the service and sent to
Jail for two months is legal proof that
the epithet is considered injurious and
abusive. ct it is hard to see why this
should be so. II the insulted officer had
been called lion instead of lobster he
might have blushed for gratified vanity
Yet the lowly crustacean has many points
Of practical and moral superiority over
the king of beasts si=95
s The lion hlls no useful place in crea-s
ton, and cannot even be admired until
Gagged. 8 In his special field he IL much
.overrated. He cannot run fast He goes
hungry unless he strikes at the first rush
from his covert a victim safely out Of
his class He il more apt Ito fee from
man than to fight him. He Is no match
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
s.Delishtful vacution Trip,v

$3.50 Richmond to Boston, or Proyi-
dence and return. by sea. via Merchants
and Miners steamer. Meals and rooms
included. Send for particulars and IL
Illustrated booklet. r. II. WRIGHT,
Agent, Norfolk, Va.
Tickets for sale at Chesapeake mad
Ohio railway and Norfolk and Western
railway offices. and Richmond Transfer
Company
Exhibition OF John Robin.on,s Cir
Gus, Richmond. Va, septsmber le.
1908.
For the above occasion the southern
railway viii sell special round-trip tick
cts at greatly reduced rates, from West
Point. Jennings, Jeterayille. and all In
termcdiate stations TO Richmond and re-
turn Tickets on sale September lath,
with return limit september lath
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
BaIlooning for Anaemtcs.
(Medical Record.

DR.. Naugier. Of Paris. in paper read
at a recent meeting of the Academic de
Medicine, made astonishing claims as to
the tonic and blood forming effects Of
balloon ascensions. A two hours voy-
age in the air, he declared, causes
marked increase in the number OF the
red eorpuscles. and the condition persists
for ten days after an ascension. Five
such ascensons, in the course of six or
seven weeks, he said, are more beneficial
to an anaemic than a sojorun of three
months in the mountains. The good eff
iecS begins to be felt almost INN dia tely,
and heightened stay in the air is of no
value, and in the case Of many is actu-
ally detrimental in. causing nervous irri-
tation.
DR.. Naugier urged that the Municipal
council be asked to provide large bal
loon, capable of taking to the upper air
daily fifty persons. who are too poor to
afford change of climate
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
THE KING CASE.

The case against former Alderman
tice Crutchfield of accepting brlbe to
control the award Of paving contracts,
is yet pending, an appeal having been
taken and a hearing before a jury de-
manded by the accused. The case should
not be tried in the newspapers. All the
evidence that has been given is before the
public to-day. and each man, after he
has studied it. may reach his own con-
illusions.
The one point established is that there
is serious guilt somewhere. There has
been fragrant ibe-taking and solicita-
ton OF bride by threat and conspiracy,
or there has been perjury. In either case
somebody must be punished severely.
These crimes are of cold-blood and greed
There is no excuse or palliation for them
Therefore there should be no liberation
for them. no mercy for those who are
guilty of them, and no relaxation of efforts
to detect and punish them. Wherever the
guilt is it should be followed through all
its ramihcatio and all who are con-
nected with it, or who have guilty knowl-
edge of 1t, should be dragged to the bar
and dealt with by law and public serti-
ment. The reputation and the safety of
our people and city are involved in the
revelations and the disposition Of this
case. and the officials charged with the
protection of that reputation and interest
and with the vindication and enforcement
of the law, must not halt until they have
reached the end and the bottom of the
whole uncleanly business.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11

for tiger. A grizzly bear from the
zenith mountains of our free republic
could do a whole lion family in a
highland when the lion is dead he cannot
be eaten.
Consider now the lobster, whose virtues
are the mainstay of so many baymen.t
purveyors. Gamers, tinsmiths, and cooks.
and whose correct habits of life are re-
Elected in the deiicacy of, its flesh All
Maine, not to speak of l>ewburg. should
rebel at the conspiracy of contempt which
seeks to decry the lobster by borrowing
his honest name as a clumsy vocable OF
diseSteenl
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11


servants, and do the hardest sort q
manual labor themselves. q have t q seen gen
them toiling In the fields under 9 biahlhs
summer sun. All the vegetab les .hes8
.conaume are raised by their own ha an,
There Is not the least doubt that t ..E -
men are Of the highest lineage, for tn llel
standing at home is known to lew PEG.
pie. Why they should have adopted t9'ls
.hermit-like mode of existence no one
seems to know. and nobody would dare dare
ask questions from the silent and unso-
ciable pair. At long intervals they go
away FOR extended periods, and 1t IS gene
rally supposed that they have been on
"a visit Ito the land of their birth. Then,
without previous announcement, they
come back and take up the desolate and
morotonors life which. to educated ana
refined people, should seem as dreary as
existence in a prison.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
The Maidstone Again.
montgomery (Ala.> Advertiser

Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser)
The Richmond Dispatch is disposed to
ridicule the story of a maidstone which
is said to have been taken from the nav
of a Prussian goat in Virginia century
ago, and wants to know how the goat
came to swallow the maidstone in the first
instance. Such ignorance in a Virginia
contemporary is discouraging Does not
the Dispatch know that madstones are
formed in the nav. or some other por-
ton OF the internal economy of the deer
family? And if in deer, who not in goats
especially Prussan goats? Don't go
back on your own State
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-11
TELEPHONES.
WHO MAY REGISTER

l. A person who has served In time OF
war in the army or navy of the United
States. or Of the Confederate States, or Of
any State.
e. a son of any such person.
g. A person who owns real or personal
property, upon which, for the year next
preceding that in which he offers to regis
ter, State taxes of 81 have been paid.
4 a person who can understand, or give
q reasonable explanation of any section OF
the Constitution, either read by him or to
him. by the officers Of the registration.
Registration begins in this city September
18th.