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

bic authority. Clarke. efers, as al TEN '
when one can get at It. but too Often lail',
We find. after. much labor lost, that IN the
nut contains a big chubby " orH1 W llt n.
has been born, raised and fattened on l1 the
kernel. and which has left practlc eau
nothing for second-comers But the child
rem do not mind this. and they are VIII .l.
ing to take the chinka pin-worm and all.
on faith. The youngsters, however, first
like to have the chinkaptns strung on
thread and to wear them as necklaces.
This desire for personal ornamentat'on,3
however, soon gives way to appetite.
Many is the small boy who has been pun
ished for eating chinkapins at school ana
equally as many, we fancy, have played
hockey In order to get into the tlelds
after them.
The chinkapin is the earliest of all our
nuts to ripen. Before the sultry days OF
August are over the squirrels begin
cutting them and shortly after that the
children have their innings.
We have gone too far down the paths
of time to appreciate this weakness OF
our little ones now, but a little retro
spection in connection with the chinka-
pin could recall some very pleasant
memories to our minds.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

It makes woman sour to have to wait
nineteen years for cnance 20 say Ah'
is so sudden
An old maid finds it very hard to be
friendly with a widow who's had four
husbands.
When an old bachelor dreams he's mar
ried, and an old maid dreams she's never
going to be, each talks the next morning
about the dreadful nightmare they nad.
It is not on record, but 1t is pfooaole'
that when Noah told his wife that it was
going to rain for forty days, she began
to throw out hints about how dreadfully
questionable her old macintosh was
The day he's married fellow is SO
happy he says it must be all dream; a
year later he wishes somebody would
come along and wake him up.
Women are pessimists; men optlmists.
When a woman feels blue she sits down
and has good cry: A man IN the same
condition goes around the corner anu
takes smile.
Most people who embark on the sea of
matrinony get seasick before the voyage
is half over.
When they get engaged the girl re-
CARDS him as the light Of her existence
After they get married the light begins
to go cut nights
Since brevity is the soul of wit, married
men ought to feel funny. They are gen
orally short
Like most men nowadays, Adam went
into matrimony with his eyes shut.
! After that Eve probably kept a broom
stick handy for any fellow, who might
come along trying to sell nice eating ap-
! PIES
One reason Eve got out of the garden
so quickly was that she didn't have to
! wait to dress.
When he talks in his sleep is about the
| only time man can get his wife's alb
| sorbed, undivided attention.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

II
ment. which has been SO often made s.
would not have been repeated nyss YOU ,S''1
The so-called subterranean passa ges az az !
Monticello consist, first, of covered WAYS
from the house to the servants quar- ters
on one side and the carriage house on
the other. These two passages are plainly
apparent to any observer. There IS an
other subterranean passage which runs runs
through the mountain side Pnnect1ng
with the house, which was made partly
& to ventilate the cellars and partly for the
removal of waste material from the
house.
The true story of Mr.. Jefferson's escape
from the British is as follows: JACK
Jouett, an inn keeper of Charlottesville.
whilst at Cuckoo Tavern, in Louisa coun-
ty, saw Tarleton's troops passing. He at
once saddled his horse and by most
wonderful ride got to Monticello early in
the morning Of the day he started and
notified Mr.. Jefferson of the coming OF
the British Mr. Jefferson thereupon
mounted his horse-having first sent his
family away by carriage-and rode to the
top of Carters mountain, which com
manded good view Of Charlottesville. He
| inspected the little hamlet with a spy
glass which he had with him, and seeing
no trace of the Red Coats in the village,
| concluded that Jouett must have beer
mistaken as to the destination of Tarle-
| toms troops and started back down the
| mountain. He had gotten some few hum
| bred yards when he found that he had
! dropped one of his gloves, or his sword
! cane-I do not now recollect which-and
! he tl1ereupon rode back to the top OF the
mountain Whilst there he again looked
into Charlottesville with his telescope and
saw the British in the town. He at once
rode along the mountain and went to his
| farm in Bedford. Had he returned to the
house he would have been. captured, for
| detachment of the British Dragons
rode into the yard at Monticello within
! fifteen or twenty minutes after Mr. Jeffer-
| son had left it. Jouett after having
warned Mr.. Jefferson, rode into Char
! lottesville and notified Patrick Hen
| ry and other members of the Legis1a-
ture, which body was then sitting in
Charlottesville, and most of the legis-
lators made their escape. Some few, how
ever, were captured
Very truly yours,
d. R. T. w. DUKE, JR.
/ I'VE have no doubt Judge Duke is right.
but our information with reference to the
subterranean passage and Jefferson's es-
cape came from a member of the family
at present in possession of and dwelling
at Monticello. We did not have Ran
dall's Jefferson at hand.-Ed. Dispatch.l
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
REGIsTRATIoN IN VIRGINIA.

There is no thrilling political campaign
In yireinin this fall; hence less interest
than would be otherwise Is taken III the
registration of voters There Is not one
single congressional district in this State
that is likely to be closely contested by
The Republicans. Candidates they win
have-the President has ordered it-but
not one can hope to win. Our new Con-
ptitution reduces the negro vote amazing
y. It is up to and beyond al. expecta-
lions in effectiveness.
1t is true that the whites are not rush
ing to the places OF registration: arc not.
n fact. bothering themselves much about
registering IN some cities and counties
there has been a strange derelIctlon In
this mattcr on the part Of the whites.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
CHINKApIN SEASON

If you were fortunate enough to be
child instead of a neuralgia adult, and
were wont to note the mutations Of the
seasons through the cravings of your
appetite, rather than through the medium
of your aches and pains, you would know
that "chinkapin'' time has arrived with
all its unsatisfactory pleasures. Yes,
this is the season when the little nut
bursts through its bristlng burr Of
prison and peeps out on world enriched
by the first tints of autumn's inimitable
colorirg. Every six-year-old child in
Virginia knows it. and so does every
squirrel. but we older ones are apt to
overlook the blessed fact in our hurry and
worry over more serious things.
It is hard for us to conceive how any
living thing, short of a squirrel, can de-
rive satisfaction from eating chinkapins,
but our little ones think differently, nor
can they be persuaded to abandon their
views. Moreover the children can quote
a very ancient authority. who declares
S. Clarke, in writing of the plantations
of the English in America" says: .They
(the Virginians) have many goodly groves
of chincomen trees that have husks like
chestnut and are good meat either raw
or boiled"
Note how this old worthy Of the long
forgotten past spells the word His die
tionary-if he had any at all-was less
plethoric than ours. for now we can write
the word three different ways-c hinkapin,
chincapin, or chinquapin. Moreover we
are told that cur forefathecs had two
moro methods Of varying their ortho-
graphy-chincomen and chechinquamen
The word, We presume, is OF Indian ori-
gin. Certainly we don't see how any but
savage race would have dared to in
f1ict SO formidable q polysyllable upon
civilized humanity. It is noticeable how
ever, that the popular tendency all along
has been to simplify spelling, until to-
day We are permitted to adopt the pho
netic way of writing it.
In S. C1arke's day the chinkapfn may
have flonrished in ..goodly groves, but
| now we see it widely scattered and usual
~ fighting for existence among blackber-
ry thickets. along the country roadsides
or on partially cleared lands and pine
groves. 1t grows on bush which rare
" attains the dignity of tree or rises
moro than ten feet above the ground.
The good meat. to which our vencra-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
our Friend ..P1ea. Remit.v

(Bedford Democracy
gentleman in neighkoring town was
favored with communication from
Lynchburg. He was greatly struck with
the excellent handwriting Meeting sew
eral gentlemen in the counting room of a
store. he asked one of them who had liy-
ed in Lynchburg, ii he knew a man there
named Pleas Remit. mo, I never heard
of him. Well, said our inquirins
friend. He is a mighty handy man with
a pen" ard he harded his letter over for
inspection. It was a drub bill. at the
bottom of which was written please re-
nit Imagine the roar of laughter which
followed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
WHERE IS CHAPLAIN MOOSE.
The seventh Cavalry Encamped In


The seventh Cavalry Encamped In
Park, Wants to Know.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. September 8.
The Seventh Cavalry, which is encamped
in the Chickamauga National Park, is
greatly exercised by the disappearance OF
its chaplain, the Rev. DR.. Moose. He
only recently returned to the regiment
from a visit on leave to his family In
Arkansas.
He came into Chattanooga on Septem-
Der 1st,~to assist the Rev. Mr.. Porter,
travelling evangelist, in getting up re-
vival meeting. No one who knows him
has seen him since. The officers OF the
regiment received no word of his going
away and have not heard from him.
The Rev. Mr.. Porter is acting as volun-
teer chaplain. and conducted the services
Sunday at which the President was pres
ent.
The enlisted men are much worked up.
The chaplain was with them in Cuba and
they are very fond of him.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

1, com ,1ete absence Of any respect for ths.
americn /, people. or for their opinion con-
9cerr,fnr him. His indiscretions OF one
,,iI,d and another, while open to critics5T
81 any time became trebly repreherslpic
IN view Of the fact that he was travelling
as a Russian Grand Duke. and as sucn.
,r1 the f1ercese glare of publicity, and MS
action while at q New = OK thea.re g, ~
isnorirr the Governor Of the State of New
YORK. who was In neighboring box. In
order 10 devote himself to ladies' OF the
chorus, was merely enc example OF the
utter sans facon'' with which he aas
behaved throughout his stay in this coun-.
try. just as if there were no necessity, IN
his eyes. for observing any of the con-
ventionaIities of life here IN america.
where nothing n1attered
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
liTHE FAITH DOCTOR.U
This the Story of Mr.. EEsleston's In
sDired by Miss winston.

In the Dispatch of the morning Of
September 4th, which contained an &C
count of the death and a brief sketch OF
Edward Eggleston, the noted author, 1t
was stated that Miss Annie Steger Wins
ton, of this city. was joint author with
Mr. Eggleston, of the book entitled THE
Circuit Rider" The Dispatch has re-
ceived a letter from Miss Winston stat
ing that she had no part II the compo-
sition Of 1.-THE Circuit Rider" but that
1.-The Faith Doctor" by Mr.. Eggleston
a popular book which was published In
1891, was suggested by what she terms "a
very crude little story Of mine which he
saw in manuscript"
It is quite unnecessary to state here
that both Mr.. Eggleston and Miss Wins
ton won their laurels by their facile pens;
and any book such as THE Faith Doc
tor which has upon it's title page the
names of both authors, must be of double
Importance to the people Of Virginia and
the South, as well as to the readers of
good fiction in every section.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
THE suBTERRANEAN PASSAGE.

Judge Duke Denies That Jefferson
Used It to Escape from Monticello.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
q was very much surprised to see in.
your paper Of the 7th the statement that.
Jefferson made his escape through one
of the subterraneous passages at Monti-8
cello. An inspection OF Randall Life OF
Jefferson would have easily answered the
question propoundcd BY your correspon-;
dent from Orange. and this abTurd state,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
REGISTRATION IN ALEXANDRIA.
-Enort. ne,nr Made to secure the
Enro1ment Of white..

ALEXANDRIA. VA, September g.
S Especial. 1.-The new registrati ton books
today In the First Ward. The Second
Ward will follow tomorrow, and the
Third and Fourth on September 22d. The
total to-day was light. The negro Re-
strength. will be materially affected
Efforts are being made to bring out the
Democrats. especially In Alexandria
county. where the books hare been open
several days, In tlsA county many ne
#groes have been rejected. owing to lack
Isof constitutional quail acattons.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Thirty-seven persons are reported dead
and several hundred Ill at Mapini. Mexico
from arsenical poisoning. Report says
that a spring of arsenic water burst out
of the mountain side and ran Into the
town reservoir, and that all who drank
from that reservoir were affected, while
those who drank from ether reservoirs
were not. with that as clue the trou-
BILE which was first attributed to the
plague was properly located.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
Mrs. Roosevelt Refused to Meet Boris
Baltimore American)

(6dlIlI1OTG tAuteElCdH.J
Mrs. Roosevelt's action in declining to
meet Grand Duke Boris of Russia. and in
leaving her husband to entertain him
alone at Oyster Bay, on Thursday. last
will commend itself to sensible people,
both at home and abroad. It is course
which. has been adopted in the past in
many capitals in Europe, in order to de-
note disapproval on the part Of the highz
est in the land, of the behavior of some
royal or imperial visitor. With the ex
ception OF the late King of the Sandwich
Islands, every Prince of the blood who.
has visited the United States, has borne
himself with certain amount Of dignity.
and has manifested regard for the pre-
JUDGES, for the conventionalities, and for
the views Of the people whose hospitality
he was enjoying. This has not been the
case with Grand Duke Boris, and, while
some of the stories, which have been
printed about him may be somewhat ex-
aggerated there is no doubt that from
the time of his arrival at San Francisco
until the moment when he called upon the
President ofsthe United States at Oyster
Bay, he behaved in a manner that implied
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

The new Indiana State soldiers and
sailors monument at Indianapolis cost
5000 COO 1t is 263 feet high, was thirteen
years in building, is lighted by As arc and
$50 incandescent lamps. and has statues
of Governor Morton. Governor Whitcomb,
General William Henry Harrison. and
General George Rogers Clark. Morton
was the war Governor of Indiana, and
few civic officials during the war SO early
gained and so long retained the admlra-
ton of Union soldiers.-Exchange
Of these four two were natives Of Viz
ginia-Harrison and Clark.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
An Obstacle.

Charlotte Perkins stetson:y
I was coming up mountain path,
With many things to do,
Important business Of my own
And other people too,
When / ran against a Prejudice
That quite cut off the view.
My work was such as could not wait,
My path quite clearly showed;
My strength and time We're limited,
I carried quite load;
And there that huIking Prejudice
Sat all across the road.
Z So T spoke to him politely,
For he was huge and high,
And begged that he would move bit
And let me travel by.
He smiled, but as for moving
He did not even try.
And then I reasoned quietly
With that colossal mule;
The time was short no ;, other oth ra path'
argued like a Solomon
He sat there like fool.
Then / flew into passion,
danced and Ehowled and sWore,
pelted and belabored him
Till was stiff and sore;
He got as mad as did
And sat there as before;
And then I begged HIM on my knees
might be kneeling still
If I so hoped to move that mass
OF obdurate i'll will
AS well invite the monument
To yacate Bunker HILL
So I sat before him helpless.
In an ecstacy of woe;
The mountain mists5 were rising fast,
The sun was sinking low
When a sudden Inspiration came,
AS sudden winds do blow.
81 took my hat, I took my stick,
Ny load settled fair:
I approached s that awful ubus
With ahsent-mlnded air
And I walked directly through him
81 AS II he was not there.
Married aIan,ss MUSINGS
fSslacksburg NeWs.)
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Every white man ought to register. me
enrolment now being made will be pei
manent one, and Il you don't want to.
vote this year you will want TO vote ee'
some time IN the future.
And SO we say regIster-register as q
veteran, If you're entitled to do SO.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

We trust the Hon. T. Plat realizes that
more than half his fortnight for the coal
strike to end in has gone, and the indica-
tons are no more favorable than when
he spoke.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
RECEPTION AT AsHEyILLE.
Presidential Party Will Visit the
Vanderbilt Estate.

ASHEyILLE. N. c., September SIT
nal arrangements were made to-day for
the reception of President Roosevelt in
this city Tomorrow. The Presidential
party will spend the night at Hot Springs,
where the train will be side-tracked. The
tram Is scheduled to arrive IN Asherilie
at $50 o'clock in the morning. Shortly
after 10 o'clock the President will deliver
a speech from platform in the public
square. School children viii be stationed
on Battery Park Hill and will sing the
national anthem as the President passes
to the public square. After the conclu-
sion OF the Tresident's address the party
will go to Biltmore. and will be driven
over the Vanderbilt estates. The Presi-
Dental train will leave Biltmore at 12:40
n cGISrR ATInNsIN- AIEYaNnR1A II.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

THE DAILY DISPATCH delivered to
Subscribers in Richmond and Mancnes'er
at so cents per month, payable TO me ear y
rier weekly or monthly, the outD1 r..
DISPATCH. $3.50 per annum; % GEMS ~
six months.
Those wishing the paper can order IT py
4clenhone or nostal card Complaints OF
delivery may be made the same way.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

The Wilmington On. c. Star says:
ga The fact remains that both OF
these so-called republics, Haiti and San
Domingo. have been signal failures, and
that both are sadly in need of some
guardian to protect them from themselves
and to check the drift to barbarism
Is this a squirt at annexation by this
country?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

'No Haiti for u.s. says the Mobile Reg
lister 1--WE have problems of our own
that we have not solved. Let that Haiti
problem stay where it is
We agree with the Register.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

General Fitzhugh Lee for the vice
presidential nomination on the Demo
cratic ticket is suggestion we see now
in newspapers outside Of Virginia.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

The behavior of the Grand Duke Boris in
this country is such, it seems, as to sug-
gest that his name might the more ap-
propriately be Booris.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
COWBOY RACE called OFF.
President Roosevelt Objected to the
c-a1+of (, COO Vile Ride

Cruelty OF n GOO-MiIe Hide.
LINCOLN, NEB., September Sine
long-distance cowboy race from Dead
wood the finish to occur at the time of
President Roosevelts visit to Nebraska
has been called off. Secretary Cortelyou.
acting for the President. made written
request of Captain Seth Bullock, OF Dead
wood that it be abandoned.
Six hundred miles across country meant
tremendous test of endurance for man
and beast. The President objected to 1t
on humanitarian grounds. Fifteen COW
boys had already entered for the race.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Some one rises to remark that what the
President needs is a talkless Cabinet, and
our Chief Magistrate does seem disposed
to do all tFe talAlng himself.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

c. M. Arnold has sold his house in Viz
Einia avenue to Mr. Haupt- Mr.. Arnold
will move to West Grove road, where h,
has purchased a home.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
OF the North Carolina Republican freeze

OF the North Carolina Republican freeze
out OF the colored man and brother. the
Wilmington Star says:
THE programme of getting rid OF the
negro In the convention was not sud
denly sprung one. but was deliberately
planned and carried out. It began IN the
county conventions, in some OF Wnlch
there was not negro present, although
In former years they participated win
and sat side by side with the white dele
gates. The freezing out began IN the
county conventions, preliminary to the
eliminating freeze out by the State con-
ventions. ruled by Senator Pritchard. VINO
had come straight from his conference
with Mr. Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay. OF
course. Mr. Roosevelt knew what was
contemplated and approved 1T: II ne
hadn't it would not have been DONE
AS the Washington Post paragrapher
said at the time of the Greensboro con-
vention. the fact that Pritchard went
straight to Greensboro from Oyster Bay
fairly bulges with significance"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Cullen S. Pitt and his brother, Robert
left Saturday by the Chesapeake and Ohis
railway for Norfolk, where they took tn
boat for Boston.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
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BY THE DISPATCH COMPANY.
CORNER OF MAIN AND NINTH STREETS
RICHMOND, VA.

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Manchester Office, No. 1903 Hull street.
New York Office, ;. E. Van Doren Agency
Tribune Building.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Miss Lizzette Winston has accepted the
position as teacher in the Barton Heights
school. The school has grown to such
an extent that another teacher was
found necessary.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Revival services were began at the
Barton Heights Methodist church Sun
day The pastor. Rev. Frank L. Wells.
conducted the services morning and
evening, preaching to large and at
tentive congregation. Night services will
be continued throughout the week.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

There are numerous cases OF typhoid
fever in Baltimore; much Of it having
been contracted in the country by persons
who have lately returned from their va
cations.
At the Maryland University Hospital
the number of typhoid patients during
this summer has averaged about 25 per
cent. more than any previous year. AT
the Johns Hopkins Hospital there are
about fifty cases-a greater number than
at any time since the war.
Health Commissioner James NJ Bosley,
of Baltimore, gives it as his opinion that
flies disseminate typhoid fever, although
he has mo positive proof upon which to
base this theory"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Miss Nellie CHM, who has been visit
ing in Richmond, has returned to he
home in North avenue.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09
BARTON HEIGHTS.

John r. Traylor visited his brother.
Franklin 3. Traylor, Saturday.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Mrs Willie Christian and daughter
Elizabeth, expect to leave this week, for
a visit to friends in Washington county.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-09

Rev. James 4. Mcclure. of Rockbridge
county, is visiting friends at the Union
Theological Seminary