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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
Epidemic OF Measles.
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| tsoptcldi ilspulCO IL liuIsSt
! COLUMBIA, VA, March S.-An cpl
demic of measles here is keeping many
children and older people confined to the
hose. but fortunately it is IL mild
form.
Burwell W. Seay returned from Rich
mond to-day, after a business trip to tho
city. and incidently to visit his son. Hugh
Seay, who is q page in the Legislature.
Miss Nora Perkins left for Richmond
to-day. where she will remain some time
with friends at No. 512 North Eleventh
Street.
W. C. Anderson has gone to West Viz
ginia, where he is engaged in engineering
with a railroad contractor. Mrs. Ander
son is here, but will join her husba...
next week
j. E. Lloyd. of tho Columbia Ware
house. made several large shipments OF
tobacco this week.
Miss Ella Mayo, who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Bert Richardson, has re-
turned to Richmond.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
Lost Nail Porch Eolad.

Especial Dispatch to The Tines
WARM SPRINGS, VA, March s.-Ths
mail pouch which was lost last week IN
the Cowpasture River. when the carrier
came near losing his life. was found yes
terday about 200 yards distant from the
place where it was lost.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
pichmond College Mandolin Club.

The Richmond College Mandolin Club.
Which will make its first appearances at
he Home for IncurahleS next Wednes-
,,.y, has been organized with the follow
ing members:
Nlaudolins. r. L. HudSins. Bowe. Nc
connell and Howell: guitars. Calzado.
Wiedman and Pope; banjos, ]. D. Jones
and Alley.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

snellings, who was before her marriage
Miss Eva de Traville.
Miss Lily Schwan, of Norfolk, will be
the guest this week Of Miss Strausc. and
will be among the guests at the marriage
Of Miss Resale Held Wednesday.
Miss Elizabeth Davenport is in Engle-.
wood, N. T.. the guest of her cousin. Miss
katherine Humes.
Miss Isabelle Curtis, of Boston, Will,
soon after Easter. be the guest OF Miss.
5Lulio Pleasan Miss Curtis spent some
time in this city during the winter as
tho guest OF Miss Adair Minor.
Clrs William Pritchard stoyall and
Master Gragard Stovall, who have been
Visiting Mrs. J. J. Grasard during the
past three weeks, in New Orleans, have
returned to her home, No. 1909 West.
Grace Street.
Mrs. Richard r. Ely is the guest*of her,
mother, Mrs GA CrenshaW.
Miss Margaret Pickett Stokes. who is
visiting in Charleston. will return to- this
city for the Easter festivities
Miss wolf. Of chicago Is the charming
guest Of Mrs. II. Fl sproNi
Miss Emma Frank 81 visiting ller..
friend, Miss Eta SFcle, IN this cit
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

where she will spend a few days before
leaving for New York. where she will join
her husband at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Mrs. Campbell Smith is the guest Of her
son, Mr.. Charles Evelyn Smith.
Miss sallie Coles, OF Albemarle. is stay
ing with Mrs. Thomas Boiling,
Mrs. Louis Borchers is visiting her
darghter at the Mary Baldwin Semi
nary, Staunton.
Miss Leila Myers is the guest OF Miss
Fife Branch on franklin Street
Mrs. James Evans is visiting her.
daughter Mrs. Henry r iely.s Of this city.
Miss Eva Lee Bocock had her second
Junior cotillon Friday night
Miss Adele Williams is IN New =
lessor Dumond. -
Miss Bessie Aylett Of SinssNYilliam.s
is the guest of her sister Mrs. Moses
II. Hoge -
"A meeting OF the Richmond Chapter Of
thu. United Daughters of the COME deraeys
will be held yYednesda at the Lee Camp
Hall 81 80 o'clock:
Miss Mary Elicit is cha irrnan OF the
lEntegtainmentSCp mnnit tse Of the meeting;
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Attention is called to the rummaSe sale,
which will lie held by the ladies OF the
First Baptist Church. commencing Mo,l-
day and continuing through the week
at No. 1907 East Main Street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
Monday Of the Summer Rest" at the
residence Of Mrs. Barksdale.


The general meeting of the Board of
Lady. Managers of the Sheltering Arms
Hospital will be held Monday at noon
y full attendance is urgently requested.
Mr. A T. Craig. of New York, IS
spending several weeks in this city with
friends.
Mr.. j. Taylor EI1yson and DR.. r. II.
FIT left yesterday for an extended
trip South. The tour will include Tampa,
Suwanee Springs, and Jacksonville. They
will be absent from the city several
weeks.
Mrs. r. M-NtcClune IS visiting her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Davenport,
at Gordnnsville
The Williams Memorial Circle of Kings
Daughters will meet Tuesday at 4:5u
o'clock at No. LOS North Sixth Street
Miss Bessie Madison. of Petersburg. is
the guest of Miss Morrison on South Third
Street.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of George E.
Pickett Camp, c.. v, will hold their
regular meeting Monday evening, at 5
o'clock. A full attendance is desired.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. B. White. of Leesburs,
Va, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. LIZ
Glen B. Tatum. No. West franklin
Street. Mrs Whites many friends here
will remember her as formerly Miss
Lalla Harrison.
Mrs. Charles Whitlock, the Misses Whit
lock, and Mr. Charles Whitlock will leave
in Nav for Sicily and other foreign ports.
to be absent four months.
Mrs. Huldah Steel is the guest of Miss
Louise Lewis, on West Franklin Street.
Miss Steel is one of Chester Pa, society
favorites.
Mrs. Horace Halves and Miss Mamie
Law have returned from q delightful visit
of several weeks in New York.
Attention is called to the rummaSe sale,
which will Ee held by the ladies OF the
First Baptist Church. commencing Mon
day. and continuing through the Week.
at No. 1907 East Main Street
Miss Addie Eowe, one of this seasons
debutants, who has been the guest OF
Miss Inez Montague, is now visiting
Miss Carrie Mines, Of Ashland
Miss Carrie Mercer. who has been
visiting Mrs. HoofnaSle, near this city,
has returned homo.
Miss Agnes Randolph, formerly super
intendcnt OF the Virginia Hospital, dt,
ri,-ed In the civ Yesterday afternoon. and
will visit her friends at the hospital for
a day or SO.
Miss Florence Trcvillsan is visiting
her cousins, tho Misses Trevillians in
this city.
Dr.. James P. Smith Vill lecture in the
r,reshytorian Church, Thursday week, at
Ashland, and stcnewal! Jackson
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Haines. of this city,
c.are. registered at the "Carrollton Ho-
tel Baltimore, yesterday
The city Union of Kings Daughtsrs
vii moot at o'clock Tuesday. at the Y
/ w. c.. &.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs. Horace Halves and Miss Mamie
Lay have returned from delightful Visit
of several weeks in New York.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Nora Langhorne entertained at a
matinee theatre party yesterday to wit
ness Mary Manncring in Janice Mere
dith.''
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs. Huldah Steel is the guest of Miss
/ Louise Lewis, on West Franklin Street
Miss Steel is one of Chester Pa. society
favorites.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Eda Atkinson who had but recent
~ returned from a delightful trip to Al
ken, S. c., where she was the guest of
nIr. and Mrs. Reginald Brooks, is now in
Boston, the guest of Mrs. Rodman Park
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Addie Eowe. one of this season
debutants, who has been the guest Q
Miss Iuez Montague, is now Yisitin:
Miss Carrie Mines, Of Ashland.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs. Charles Whitlock, the Misses Whit
lock. and Mr.. Charles Whitlock will leave
in May for Sicily and other foreign ports
to be absent four months.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs. Moncure Perkins Will have as her
guests about the 18th her mother, Mrs.
C. D. Langhorne, Mrs. Robert Shaw, OF
Boston, and Miss May Jones, who arc
taking now delightful trip at the Ber-
mudas.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

The Ladies' Auxiliary of George E.
Pickett Camp. C. V. will hold their
regular meeting Monday evening. at 5
clock. A full attendance is desired.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

IN speaking of the entertainment in that
city in honor OF Miss Margaret Esrey,
philadelphia paper says:
..Ye olden tyne straw ride is a back
number. The funeral knell was runs on
Saturday night by the bell of a. big auto
mobile truck. 1t came about in this
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. White. of Leesburs
Va, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. LII
Glen B. Tatum. No. . West FRANKLIN
Street. Mrs. Whites many friends here
will remember her as formerly Mis-
Lalla Harrison.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
Mrs Sallie D. Rhodes is visiting Mrs.
liver l.. Rhodes, in Baltimore.

Miss Janet Cameron Is visiting the
Misses Patteson on Maryland Avenue,
Baltimore.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

The Williams Memorial Circle of Kings
Daughters will meet Tuesday at i:so
o. clock at No. LOS North Sixth Street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs. Edgar Taylor is spending two
weeks in Baltimore
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Bessie Madison. of Petersburg. is
the guest Of Miss Morrison on South Third
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

On Monday afternoon promptly at 40
O. clock the annual business meeting will
be held in the club-rooms visitors
cards will not be good upon this occasion.
as only resident members are expected to
attend the meeting.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Carrie Mercer. who has been
visiting Mrs. Hoofnagle, near this city,
has returned home.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Agnes Randolph, formerly super
intendent OF the Virginia Hospital a.
rived in the city yesterday AFTERNOON, =.
will visit her friends at the hospita! 10
a daysor SO.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs Witcher Jones, of Salt Lake City.
who has been the guest of her sister.
Mrs. Henry Newton Price, for the past
six weeks, left Tuesday for Danville.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Dr.. James P. Smith Vill lecture in the
PRESBYTERIAN Church, Thursday week, at
Ashland, and Stcnewa!! Jackson
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

The general meeting of the Board of
Lady Managers of the Sileltering Arms
Hospital will be held Monday at noon
~ full attendance is urgently requested.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mrs. r. M-NrcClune IS visiting her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Davenport.
at Gordonsville.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Inv itations have been received from
Captain William Brockenbrough Colston
for the marriage of his daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Marshall Colston. to Mr.. VII
liam Trapnell The wedding will be
solemnized Saturday, March 18th, at 1880
p. NJ, in Trinity Church, Martinsburg,
w. Va Miss Colston has a number Of
relatives in Richmond, being connected
through her father with both the Colstons
and Brockenbroughs.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Tidings came from washington during
the week of the marriage of Miss Anna
Cameron Heard and Professor Walter S.
Holt, formerly of Manchester, Va. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. George c.
Heard, while Mr.. Holt has a number of
friends in this city, and is now considered
one of the most talented musicians in
Washington. The ceremony was per-
formed on February Goth.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Eta Sycle entertained Thursday
the Harmony Circle in honor Of her
guest, Miss Frank. which proved to be
among the most delightful events of the
week. After playing several popular
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Edna Forbes will leave on an Eu-
ropean tour during the month Of April.
She will accompany Miss Caroline James,
OF New York, who will be pleasantly re-
called as her guest during January.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. G. Haines. of this city
Uere registered at the "Carrollton no
tel, Baltimore, yesterday.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Among those composing che personal
party of NIr. and Mrs. George a. Barks-
dale on the Summer Rest excursion to
Washington on Easter Monday VIII oe
.1,r ~ Faulkner, of Boydton: Miss Sal
liz 2Tinberlake, of Halifax; Hiss Landon
Harrison, of Danville: Mrs Lewis II.
blair Misses Mary and Harriet Cringan,
I,y1e Blair .Effie Gentry and others.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Florence Trcvillaan Is visiting
her cousins, tho Misses Irevilliahs III
this city.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-12-03
BISHOP SpALDING ON QUESTIONS
OF THE DAY.

Socialism and Labor and
Other Arguments. by Bishop
Spalding. [McClurg ~ Company,
Chicago.
Even as the every day thinking
man supposes that Henry George
proposed an immense injustice to
the farmers by the imposition OF
n tax upon land instead of land
values and the average back
homeless newspaper man, with the
crowd that follows his lead, sup
pose that George advocated n
parcellingout scheme by lot, so,
in considering Socialism, are two
gigantic errors made. The
stupidity blind fancy that grand
dividing up is suggested, whilst
Others who have approached the
subject by bye paths, imagine
there is n proposal slowed away
somewhere to inaugurate II me-
chanical, regimentated state, n
kind of Frankenstein constitution
as it were. The latter error is
probably due to the imaginative
brain of the late Edward Bel
lamy. Bishop Spalding's views
are slightly colored with the Bel
lamy tint, Judging by the general
tenor of the essay on Socialism,
and the appearance of such
phrases as visionary and un-
tried schemes of REFORM" or
"mere paper constitutions and
mechanical changes in the con-
stitution of society" The So
cialism of the many opponents |
have met could more properly be
considered rs prophecy and fore
cast, founded upon the sup
posed tendency of social prog
ress towards Capitalization. 1t
was, in fact, all application of
evolution to human society.
Some, indeed, like Lawrence
Grounland, adopted the purely
fatalistic attitude, characteristic
of old Omar, and, by the way,
one now again finds Bishop Spald-
ing holding similar views, or
else l am grievously mistaken :.
This, for instance, appears on
page If, Events, in fact, solve
the great problems, and our dis
cussions are but the foam that
crests the waves" Yet, it is just
to declare that the author frankly
admits the illogical outcome"
view.
/ spoke of the environment
question last week, and find my
self recurring to the same again,
led thereto by the Bishops re-
mark:
"In small communities where
the socialist theory has been
found impracticable, except where
celibacy has been made con-
dition Of membership. The So
cial order is an organism infinite
ly complex, the outcome of many
forces, whose action and inter
action, beginning in mysterious
regions where life and mind first
manifest themselves, have been
going on for unnumbered ages
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-12-03

raised a great controversy by
saying the bible could no longer
be regarded as the standard of
morals.
You see, there is no construct
ion. 1t is all what Thomas Car
lyle would have called windiness
and wordiness.
I'm these days of overbearing
greed and self-seeking, the practi-
cal religion is sadly needed. IIar-
mony is needed in our thoughts
and n moral direction for our
intellects. 1t is almost useless
to look for help in the education
al mill where mere examining
has superseded character forma-
ton. The strict pseudo-scien-
tific training, so very popular,
but leads to belief that the hu.
man being is an automaton
dangling on any distinctive wire
which blind fate holds with an
unrelaXing grip. The result is
the adoption of the Blanchamp
theory that:
"Nice and virtue are the acid
and the alkali, the positive and
negative poles of eXistence-both
necessary, both inevita ble.-each
fading imperceptibly into the
other, like the hues of rainbow.
But the determinist, recognizing
the fact that pleasure is the mo-
tive of all action, perceives that
the habit of vice, that is, the an
tipodes of virtue, is not compata-
bic with the very highest forms of
pleasure. He endeavors, there
fore, to abandon the habit so tar
as he judges it to be prejudicial
to his interest.
This, in the commercial world,
makes for the frequent practice
of hypocrisy or dishonesty. Our
newspapers are full of examples,
but none so glaring as that con,
tanned in a recent dispatch from
Akron, o. l give 1T verbatim as
subject for a Sunday school les
son:
THE discovery that two land
lords were charging high rents on
the ground that the houses were
near the railroad, and the ten
ants, therefore would not need to
buy coal, has started an investi-
CATION of coal stealing from rail-
road cars, which at once resulted
in seven arrests. In several
cases the thefts were so great that
whole cellars have been filed"
In Bishop Spalding's works /
find the highest of moral stand
ards, true religion and sound
| philosophy, couched in magnifi-
cent language, animated by the
spirit of broad tolerance.
| G. 7 H
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-12-03

that any man is made unhappy
bordering on the destiny that
may await his great grandchild-
rem. The bent of hui
man nature is toward what is be-
meath, and the natural course of
society is downward, II
Few men love the best, or seek
the highest, or strive to shape
their lives upon the mod
ell of exalted ideals; and the truly
excellent, whittier in conduct,
literature or art, is never popular
" II Neither party dares to
touch any question that is higher
or holier than that of tariff or no
tariff; looking upon a wretched
financial problem rs the only Vi
tai interest for Il people who lack
not money, but virtue. The
eternal principles of justice and
morality are ignored, and our
electoral contests have degenerate
ed into mere struggles for office.
Il The press of our great
cities is the chronicle of our life.
What does it record? Murders,
suicides, robberies, thefts, adul-
teries, foundations, divorces,
drunkenness, gambling, incendi-
arism, fraudulant bankruptcies,
official speculations, with now
and then a collision of trains and
destruction of life and property
by mobs, This fills the news col
umns. In the editorials we meet
with reckless assertion, crude gem
eralization, special pIeadings,
ignorant or dishonest statement
of half-truths, insincere praise
and lying abuse of public men,
frivolous treatment of the highest
and hottest subiects-all thrown
into that form of false reasoning
and loose style which is natural
to minds that have not time to
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-12-03

leaving them penniless in such a
state of society, than i'll leaving
them the largest fortune in this?
Did such n state of society any
where exist. would he not buy
entrance to it cheaply by giving
up all his possessions?
Il am sorry that such a bril-
liant written essay, crowded with
magnificent expressions of good
will and tolerance, should be Sc
riously marred by mental confus-
ion on the subject of labor and
exchange values. From the So
cialist viewpoint there is an i'm
mense incentive to eXertion, mem
tai and otherwise, when the bur-
den of poverty fear is taken away,
and the equality of conditions,
not of natural powers is aimed at.
As for individuals especially tai
ented and gifted by nature, it IS
considered. owe larger return to
the community. The Bishop
fears that "in a state of society in
which the universal idea is that
of physical we'll being and COM
fort. the sublimer moods which
make saints, heroes, and men of
genius, possibly would no longer
be called forth" 1t is plain that
the Bishop has never known the
effect of grinding poverty sutii-
GENTLY to enable him to realize
the forceful truth of Mr.. Facet s
charge that: There is no choice
of work or possibility of change
for the factory land, and the boy
who is brought up to the pillow
must remain at the pillow tail to
the end of his days" Never till
/ read Professor Wyckoff's The
Workers, did ! fully realize how
individualism was crushed under
our system. Imitation common
ces at the school, and in the world
as society tends always towards
complex organization, all men
feel their great inter dependence,
each becomes more helpless by
himself. 70 the man who makes
pins heads all day, and goes to n
squalid home at night, originality
of thought is impossible.
The essay on the Basis of Popu-
lar Government, Is grand piece
of work, and contains some ter
rible truths. I'VE care" he says,
"nothing for ancestors who are II
few degrees removed from us, un-
less their lives furnish food to our
vanity, and it is not probable
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-12-03

learn anything thoroughly. And
this half-mental and half-bestial
brothel and gray mixture, brought
from the great cities by special
trains to every household, falls
like mildew upon the mind and
conscience of the people, taking
from them all relish for litera-
ture, all beliefs in virtue, all rev.
erence for God and nature, until
one may doubt whether we have
not lost the power of intellectual
and moral growth.
~
But people given over to sensu-
al delight, to foolish frolicking
and dissipation, love license more
than freedom, and, if you but
give them wine and n show, care
not what master rules over them
The Puritans of New England
had the truest instinct of politl-
cal liberty, and that instinct
made them serious, earnest, and
austere, averse alike to childish
gayety and to loose conduct. Il
y We seek facile solutions of
the great problems, and distrust
however, for interest, declares
that to teach the young to read,
write, and cipher is not to edu-
cate them; that education con-
sists essentially in the building
Of character. which is what n man
is, and not what he knows"
As a general rule, the Bishop is
exceedingly optimistic, and the
cloven hoof of pessimism but rare
ly appears. We catch sight of it
now and then to be sure, as when
he declares "the bent of human
nature is toward what is beneath,
and the natural course is down
ward. Few men love the best or
strive to shape their lives upon
the model of exalted ideals; and
the truly excellent, whether in
conduct. literature or art. Is new
or popular" At the same time
the moral is always kept we'll in
mind that the price of peace is
eternal striving, and the truly
righteous are those that DO, not
those that vainly profess. Were
/ asked to put in few words, the
spirit of the authors belief, |
could find no better word than
these-Do not adapt truth to your
pleasure, but strive to adapt pleas
ure to your truth.
1T is strange to see Bishop
Spalding thus taking the bible