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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
GIRL REMAINED
WHILE. OTHERS FLED
fspecial Dispatch to The Times,

CHICAGO. November 25.-Fourteen
year-old Ethel Barker. daughter Of Al
derman Barker. braved smoke and me
nacing flames. while hundreds Of her
fellow pupils in the Lincoln School
marched in orderly manner from peril to
safety. she remained courageous1y at her
post and played a lively march on a
plano.
Hardly had the lines in the various
rooms formed before the stirring notes Of
quarters. Each tramping pupil knew his
place and little Ethel knew hers, too.
While the four hundred merged from aIl
corners into one great column. and was
moving out of the building she played the
piano as evenly as il there had been
- danger.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
MRS. BIDDLE CHARGES
HARSHIM WITH THEFT
Especial Dispatch to The Tlmes.y

NEW YORK. Nov. 25.-a1rs. Constance
Dre1el BiddIe was conspicuous figure
to-day in Essex Market Court. where
she appeared as complainant against
Najib Harshim. whom she charged with
the larceny OF a gold and diamond
locket valued at $3.50. which he had
pawned for $40 at Simpsons. No. 1s5
Bowery
The prisoner was held by Magistrate
Brann in $1,000 bail for trial.
The case is the sequel to similar
charge preferred by Mrs Biddle in Pail
adelphia last July whereby Hashim was
held in 5000 bail for trial, charged with
stealing jewelry worth $4,000 belonging
to Mrs. Biidle. but the case never came
to trial. as Mrs. Blddle withdrew tho
complaint.
Mrs Biddre was formerly a figure IN
society. Hashim was manager OF ono
of koster and Biais vaudeville houses.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
Has Not Been Engaged e
Assist Nj. Wise.
IS GOING 10 KENTUCKY
Has No Inside Information as 70
Fight on Constitution.
CREATE NEW DEPARTMENT.
President Roosevelt, will DesignseD
of7cials to Confer With Mr.. Hep-
burns Committee CABINET
Considers Reciprocity With
Cuba and Canal Treaty.
Capitol News.
Especial Dispatch to The Ttmes1

Especial Dispatch to The TimeD
WASHINGTON. D. c.. November %.
Former Secretary OF the Treasury John
G. Carlisle passed through Washington to-
day on his way to Kentucky. When ques-
toned in regard to the report that he has
been engaged by Alr. John S. Wise To
assist In the case against the Constitution
OF Virginia. Mr.. Carlisle said:
..I was asked yesterday If would tak<
that I would have nothing to do with 10
unless it comes up to the Supreme Court
Then if it is desired of ME Il will assist.
I know absolutely nothing about the case
and could not. of course. appear on Fri
cay. when it comes up in Richmond
and have not even looked into the vir.
ginia matter,yet''
Mr.. Carlisle said he could make no
further statement upon this subject at
this time.
President Roosevelt to-day informed
Representative Hepburn. chairman of tho
House Committee on Interstate and For
.eign Commerce. that he would appoint at
once a representative from each OF the
government departments to confer with
the committee as to the creation OF
department OF commerce.
Cabinet Meeting.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was de.
voted almost exclusively to the constd-
Grafton of the status of reciprocity with
Cuba and the canal treaty with Colombia.
The bitches that have occurred in the
the negotiations were discussed. as also
we're the prospects of settlement
Secretary Hay. while presenting tho
subject of the canal negotiations to the
Cabinet. was not able to report that any
progress had been made during the past
week.
In fact. 1t appears that the negotiations
have come to dead stop. and while no
st;ch thing as an ultimatum has passed.
the precise situations may be described In
the statement that the Colombian minister
here. Concha has distinctly informed this
State Department that he cannot in be-
halt of his government, accept the last
proposition of the United States as the
basis of a canal treaty, The State Depart
ment has already let it be known that IL
has; come to the end Of its concessions.
SO the chances of renewal OF the nego-
tiations In the near future are not very.
bright.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
HUNDRED MILLION SUIT
4 AGAINST THE HUNTINGT0Ns
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)

Especial Dispatch to The Times.)
NEW YORK. November 25-suit has
been brought for more than S100, ,O0O. .0oO
against the estates Of Coils P. Hunting
ton and the men who were his partners
in the early days of the Central Pacific
Railroad in behalf OF the remaining
minor stockholders of the Central PACT
.tlc Railroad Company. of California,
through Robert Cutting. In this suit are
charges of collusion, exaggeration Of ex1
,penses and fraud against Mr.. Hunting
ton, Leland Stanford, Charles Croker ana
Mark Hopkins.
It is charged that these four men so
manipulated the finances and construc-
ton OF the Central Pacific. now part
of the Southern Pacific system. that out
of s16s 100000 expended in building and
equipping the road. more than 500, COO 600
found its way into their own pockets.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
THE HAVANA STRIKE
HAS BEEN CALLED OFF
sBy Associated Press.l

HAVANA, November 225.-The Central
Labor Union tonight decided to call
off the strike. and committees We're ap-#
pointed to inform the various unions of
this decision There probably will be
complete resumption of work tomorrow.
Much of the credit for the settlement
of the strike is due to General Gomez,
who headed the committee which con-
suited to-day the officials of the Havana
Commercial Company against whom the
strike was first directed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
WILL RECOMMEND
SALARY INCREASE.
School Board Will Ask That
Teachers Be Given More Pay.
COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION
COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION
Several Lady Teachers Appear Before
Eli Portion OF Schoo. Board and STATE
Their Reasons for Asking an
Increase in Salary.

AS a result of action taken at a special
meeting of the Teachers and Scnools
Committee yesterday afternoon. me
SenooI Board viii, at meeting TINS al-
ternoon. pass resolution RECOMMENDING
to the CITY Council that in the budget
of 1853 an appropriation sutilcient to per-
init an increase of ten per cent. IN Inc.
salaries of the pubic school teachers
be made. This result was reached a1ter
considering lengthy petition from tl.e
teacners, which was submitted TO @ conf
mittee OF ladies and read by Miss Annie.
Granger.
Present at the meeting We're Messrs.
Hugh NJ Taylor. James II. Capers ana
Reuben Burton, Alderman from Monroe
Ward The vote stood two to one, Alder
man Burton opposing such action.
The following teachers We're present.:
Miss Annie Granger, Miss Lena Duke
and Miss Corn6lia Taylor. At the IN
stance of Mr.. Capers Miss Granger read
the petition.
The petition states trat the cost OF nv
ing has increased materially WITHIN ne
past year or SO, but that the paper -
presented through no spirit of complaint
or dissatisfaction. Board has advanced
to marked degree, table board 1orm-
erly costing sl5. now costing slS per
month. while the increased price Of
everything has caused even washerWo-
men to advance their charges.
If "a teacher+is absent from school Tor
FIVE days she has to pay a substitute 81.
and if the illness requires the attention
of a physician an additional cost is added.
The petition cites that the average
salary OF teachers is only $50 per
month for by a nine months IN
the year, or an average salary
for the entire year of about s37 per
month. With board and lodging costing
at least $3.50 per month the teachers
call attention to the small margin LETT
IN Hartford. Conn. the teachers are
allowed Two weeks absence from school
without q deduction being made in case
the detention is due to sickness or string
{ erlt circumstances.
The teachers III the public schools OF
Norfolk receive an average salary of sS5
per month, and their sasary continues
for ten months in#cach year. as against
an average of $50 per mon h in Richmond
and pay for only nine months work.
In conclusion the petition says that
even should the Council refuse the peti-
ton the endorsement of Board Will nlean n
much 10 the teachers. as 1t would indi-s
cate that those gentlemen consider their
work of such "a character as % merit
the remuneration which will enable them
to meet fairly the changed conditions
in the EXPENSES of living.
it IS signed BY Misses Lena NJ. Duke.
+. S. TAYLOR, Cora Elliott. Mary S.
Schermerllorn. Mamie T. Pegram Fan
Ine c. Ragland, Louise C. Mccarthy,
Josie II. Maddox. Annie E. Crane r,
Nora shepF,erson, II. a. Apperson, Vir-
ginia Brown.
Mr. Burton in opposing favorable
Recommendation took the ground that
the finances of the city would not be in
a condition for increasing the salaries
next year.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
FORTUNE AND "A BRIDE
FOR a FOOT BAIL STAR
Special Dispatch to The rimes-y

NEWPORT NEWS. VA. Nov. -
Joseph Theising. half back on the fooS-
ball team which plays in PhlladeiphtA
Thursday. will not return to Newpore
News. but will proceed to New York
where he will take steamer 4or Germany.
news having just reached him OF the
death Of his grandfather. who left him
fortune of eighty thousand dollars. a.
bride Is also waiting for him. Theisines
came here four years ago from PhiEa-
.de,phia and went to work at the shiu.
yard as blacksmith He viii partie6s
rate In tho THANKSGIVING sanaA
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
CLEVELAND WILL PRESIDE
AT PHILADELPHIA MEETING
fBy Associatei Press. }

Ell PHILADELPHIA. PA, Nov 20
Former President Grover Cleveland has
accepted an invitation TO preside at a
public meeting to be held here on Deem
Der 1lth in the interest of the Berean
Manual Training and Industrial School
for colored people. Mr. Cleveland will
make an address. Among the other speak
ers will be former Postmaster General
Smith. Colonel a. X. Mcclure and Booker
Il Wasl.' 'ngton.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
DINNER #TO. BE GIVEN
TO JUSTICE #HAR Ian
CIV Associated .Press.)

WASHINGTON. Nov. 25.-Justice Har-
Ian. of the United States Supreme Court.
on December 9th will have completed
OF that court, and his friends at the bar
throughout the country have arranged to
express their appreciation of his services
by dinner in his honor on that evening
at the New Willard Hotel in this city.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26

COTTON MILLS
MI. E. strudwick, of Richmond,
is One Of the Cor
pSiators.
By Associated Press.l

COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 5.-South
Carolina is to have another million dol
lar mill-the Marlboro Cotton Mills.
The plant will be located at McCol!ir,
Marlboro county, and the capital ocls
is to be sl,ooO,Oc0. The incorporators are
E. Strudwick, of Richmond. Va; I. B.
Gibson, a. w. Morrison, Charles Ice
man. Robert Chapman and ]. r. Parker.
of CoIunnia ai.t ~. II. 4M@t.n.i. stnd i.
w. Boucier, of Bennettsville. S. G.
Mr.. Strudwick is one of the officials
of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
lpany and is well known in business
circles in Richmond.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
A MILLIONAIRE WAS
VERY BADLY INJURED
fBy Associated PresS.l

ROANOKE, VA, November 25. IT. E..
Houston. a millionaire coal operator Of
the Elkhorn CIV. Va.) District. While
busy about one of his mines to-day &C
cidentally got on the track Of one of the
small coal-hauling locomotives, and was
struck in such a manner as to break
several ribs and caused serious Internal
injuries.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
SAYS SHE. KILLED WOMAN
BY USE OF A HAM MER.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)

Especial Dispatch to The Times.)
BUTTE. NON, November 25.-Believed
to be demented in prison hospital on sus-
.picion OF having killed Mrs. Patience
Conn and James Conn Mrs. Hank
Narling has made confession. She de-.
clares she killed Mrs. Conn with a ham,
mer. and then shot AR. Conn She killed
her husband twenty-five years ago, but
was acquitted on the ground Of insanity
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
BULLET HAS WORKED OUT
AFTER NEARLY FORTY YEARS
:recial Dispatch to The Times.

Especial Uisnatch0 10 II he IInts.J
FREDERICKSBURG VA, Nov. 20
Mr.. r.. C. Macon, of Orange county, was
wounded in the shoulder at the battle OF
the Wilderness in Spotsylvania county
during the Civil War, and the builet was
never extracted Within the past few
days after nearly forty years the bullet
has worked out. and he now has it as.
a relic of those stormy times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
NEW SCHEME OF
THE BELLIGERENTS
Beef Packing Tust IS
Said to Haze Collapsed.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)

Especial Dispatch to The Times.)
NEW YORK November 25.-It Is
understood in Wall Street to-day that
the big Beef Packing Trust which
was to be formed with q capital OF
s50o,ooo.00O has fallen through. and
that its promoters. the big packing
companies. have upon their hands an
Indebtedness of $50. .COO.o0O as the result
OF the attempt to form 1t.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
RusseI Sage s Farm
Is Sold for Taxes.
snec,,I Disna+ch +o The Time.

Especial Dispatch to The Times)
NYACK November Pa farm be-
longing to Russell Sage was sold at
public sale of land in Rockland coun-
ty to-day for non-payment Of taxes.
The sale was conducted at New
City. the county seat. by County
Treasurer Randolph. The Sage farm
was sold for SAT. the amount Of taxes
due. and was bought in by the coun-
ty.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
TWO BASEBALL GAMES;
YALE AND VIRGINIA
Especial Dispatch to The Times.p

= NEW HAVEN. CONN. Nov. 25.-Yaie's
baseball schedule for 1903 has Just been
announced and includes two games with
the University OF Virginia-April 11th and
April 18th
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26
aAnoE oF THERMOMETERS.

,r,,a therrnomc,er yesterday ranged as
.o,,oy, !, the Times once: 9. A. NJ. 81;
~ ~ 81. 3 r.. NJ. 5e;; p. NJ. 50; 8 2.
= &. u midnight, So: average, IS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26

CONTINUED on Second Page9
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-26

When the farmers had been paid and
many OF them had started for home
with jinsling coin warming their pocket
md their hearts. the warehouse men got
down to the next big task of housing
what was stu in the street One or two
,nf ti,cm announced determination of
working straight through the night.
And they doubtless had the pleasure of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-12
Sized Him Tn.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
At dinner in Boston the other evening
the Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale related
this bit of personal experience to the
writer, who happened TO be his elbow COM
panion: 1.-THE boys who vend books and
magazines on the trains" said Dr. Hale
need to be students Of human nature. and
if you will watch them closely as they are
peddling their wares you will discover they
are very shrewd in reading physiognomv.
/ was on train i'm Pennsylvania the other
day. The news agent passed through with
an armSul Of books. When he came on
posite my seat he looked me over care
fully. and, digging beneath his pile pro-
duced book and handed il to me Ii was
one OF my own books. L have read that
said /, and / spoke with some gruffness
Pretty soon he came back and passed an
other book to me. l considered IL almost
more than a coincidenceswhen | saw that il
was another OF my works. L have read
that, too | said, even more gruffiy. After
the boy had gone thought the matter over
and j concluded 10 find out if his acumen
had selected me as one likely 10 be inter-
strange coincidence. So when ne passed
again / caught him by the sleeve and
asked: My boy. do you know who l ame'
How the devil should l know who you
are?' he answered, with just as much
gruffness | had shown All / know Is
you don't know good book when you see
il, for / don't believe you have read either
of those / showed you just now / bought
a book" said Or. Hale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-12
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK
AN AUTHOR WHO GRIEVES BECAUSE
HE HAS To WRITE HUMOR.
Speculation as to What VIII be the
Next Craze i'm Fiction-Prof. LOeb's
BOok-The Human Interest.
of the Indiananolis Iournal.

Correspondence Of the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1O.-The new year has
not yet advanced far enough to make pre-
dictions safe, and yet no profession deals
more largely in futures than authorship
and publishing. Men and women who write
live in hopes-the successful ones largely
on advance royalties-and the firms which
engage in the production of books work
on chances. The deciding factor of success
is the reading public, though success thus
gagged is a matter of dollars and cents
and not at all a question of quality neces-
sarily. To say that the question of quality
does not enter into the matter would be an
affront to the public which, after all, is
a public of growing intelligence, and would
also put the publicity Of books and the
selling of them a patent medicine basis
Such development OF the book world we
are not yet ready to countenance. The
art of writing is too sacred and the science
of publishing is on too high a plane for
that.
recently fell TO discussing books with
writer who. as he said himself, wore the
cap and bells because it meant a good liv-
ing for him. but whose natural preference
was for life of serious work. He was not
which he stated. Humor has its proper
place, and he is such clever satirist and
humorist-the two go together well-that he
was perhaps unconsciously performing i
greater service TO literature than if he were
allowed 70 carry out his serious plans
1T is foolish. this stuff / write now
often most idiotc" he said, but the pub
lie seems TO be amused"
The publishers who have most success
fully sensed the book situation in the past.
will at once insist that to-day what is
most desired, what will be most popular
this year and the next, will be books of
humOr, and the men who are writing good
books of this class will be best rewarded.
My friend who took his mental recre-
alton In Kant, SchOpenbauer and Nietsche
and wrote stun like The Purple Cow
and "Alice's Adventures" lamented over
the present situation. Historical novels
worth reading were scarce as the re-
Gently discovered Okapi problem novels,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-12
Our Language in the Orient.

Review of Reviews.
1t is the opinion of some of the best of
our officers that we have been showing
rather too much Difference to the Spanish
language in the Philippine islands, and
that we could not do better than to bring
the English tongue to the front in every
possible way, encouraging its public use as
the general medium OF communication. But
we infer from this latest report that this
is just what now is being done Spanish
exists in the islands simply because il
was the tongue OF the civil and military
authorities who preceded us in occupation.
Even II we were proposing definitely to
withdraw ten or twenty years hence, we
could scarcely leave behind us any other
legacy of our occupation that would so
much benefit the Filipino people
knowledge of the English language; for
English is assuredly TO be- the world Ian
guage of commerce and of the higher civil
ization. Moreover. English is the language
of Australia, which is destined 10 be the
most important neighbOr OF the Philippines
il is midas language OF adoption; il is do
rnesticated in the Straits Settlements; il
has an eVer-increasing vogue in Japan: IL
prevails at HOng-kong-in short. IL is the
language of the future for international in
tercourse throughout the islands and coasts
Of the Pacific. while Spanish has no place
whatever I'm those regions beyond its hold
upon a small portion OF the Filipino people
now exerted through what remains of the
Spanish church establishment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-12

crazy TO add a few inches TO her height
that she may wear the Greek costume TO
greater advantage. The classical garment,
leaving the limbs free beneath the cover
ing and not interfering with their action,
will strengthen and lengthen them in time.
say the doctors. but who could wait until
then? much quicker. and. therefore,
more satisfactory. route TO tallness leads
through the waiting room of a certain fash
ionable physician who has his Office in the
most expensive boulevard quarters. This
gentleman makes women tall by pulling
their legs, and happen TO know an Ameri-
can girl who tried his method and pro-
nounces ii a great success. 1t would be
cruel to give her full name, but Alice vows
that her friends at home Gin CincinnatD
will be thoroughly surprised when they
see her-two inches taller than ever be-
fore.
why don't you advise your friend. the
Countess Castellane to try the doctor?''
''She-she isn't young enough. The pa
tient must be under twenty. otherwise the
stretching is liable 10 injure her"
According to Alice, the method pursued
is sort of massage of the muscles of the
lower limb, particularly the knuckles and
knee joints. The massa ging is done with
an electrical instrument, and 10 be effective
must be performed daily for six months in
succession.
YOU have to lie face downward while
the masseur rubs the bony structure above
and below your knee joint with the appar-
atus. a sort of electrical roller. The bony
structure is ironed out and it's growth en-
couraged-that's ALL
This sort of thing one stand for six
months on stretch-nOt lOnger-at least,
L couldn't. Besides, there was no need in
my case 1 gained fully two inches stand
ing in my stockings in that half year Other
short girls 1 know grew centimetre per
month, but there are also many persistent
cases of shortness. These are treated by
pulling their spine. as well as their legs
ironing them out by electricity.
Expensive? Rather. 1 had to pay 20
francs per massage, but it was worth it.
After giving my knee a rest 1 will again
submit to the treatment, and won't stop
until 1 am a regular Gibson girl. See if 1
don'tr
/ accompanied Alice to the doctors Of
fee. The waiting room was crowded with
young women, some too short, others too
short and too fieshy in the bargain. They
were good-looking lot, but not overintei-
ligent unless their appearance belied them.
HELOISE COMTESSE D'ALENCOURT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-12

stories dealing with the relation of the
sexes, adventure tales, and many other
kinds of books were overdone. An intense
realist he showed himself 10 be. and. as
such he was in active touch with present
cay tendencies For Kipling he had an
Intense admiration, but for Kipling's dec
laration that one should not write for
posterity or future fame. he had little
sympathy.
Let posterity take care of itself" ex-
claimed Kipling recently what 1 desire
to reach is the present-day public"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-07
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

HONOLULU PLANTATION COM
pany-ASsessment Notice - Honolulu
Plantation Company, location of princi-
pal place OF business, San Francisco,
Caiifornia-Notice is hereby given that
at a meeting of the Board of Directors
held this 10Th day of jane, A. u. 1902,
an assessment (Number ~ of One Dol
lar ($i00) per share was levied upon
the capital stock OF the corporation,
payable immediately to the secretary
or the company at the office Of the COM
pany 3s7 Market street, San Francisco.
State OF California. Any stock upon
which this assessment shall remain I'M
paid on the 5oth day of July, 1902 will
be delinquent and advertised for sale
at public auction. and unless payment
is made before, will be sold on the 18th
day OF August 1902. TO pay the deIin-
quent assessment, together with ex-
penses Of sale.
III. w. THOMAS,
Secretary OF the Honolulu Plantation
Company. az Market street, San
Francisco, California. 620s