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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27

claimed that Canada was entitled to. the
upper part Of most, or all, of the f!oTds
between the Portland canal and Mount
Saint Elias.
According to the AnSlo-Russian and
AnSio-American treaties we have men
toned, the territory Of Alaska should in
clude strip Of land from the southern
Mount Saint Elias. The treaty was
drawn In French. the language Of dip
lo1nacy at that time, and it said that
the inland frontier OF this lisiere should
be a lsne drawn parailele aut slnuotes
de la cote" Upon examination, it will
be found that the maps of the great
photographers Of France, Russia, Britain
and America r nearly eighty years
have outlined the Alaskan boundary by
drawing it as closely as possible along
a line run thirty miles inland, parallel
with tidewater. Now come the Cana
dams, frantic for the mnercial advan-
tages of the ports from which Russia
purposely excluded them in '25, and az
sert that tidewater does not mark
coast line and that the deep bays or
tiords. therefore, run up into British ter
ritory. The absurdity of the whole
British claim is shown in a most val
liable monograph upon the subject, writ
ten by Thomas Willing Balch, of Phil
adelphia, which clearly proves, as he
says:
.There Is no more reason for the United
States to allow it's right to the posses
sion of this unbrollen Alaskan territory
to be referred to the decision Of foreign
judges than would be the case if the
British Empire advanced a claim to Sow
ereignty over the coast OF Georgia, or
the port of Baltimore and proposed that
this demand should be referred to the
Judgment of subjects Of third powers.
It is the old story over again. as Count
Nesselrode, Of Russia, wrote Of his nego-
tiations in 1922, '23. "a and rs. with Sir
Charles Bagot and Lord Stratford de
Radcliffe: Thus we wish to retain and
the English companies wish to &c
=ol1ire"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27

They are multiplying all the time. The
birds, If we will remember, were killed
and worn in ladies' hats to church right
up to the altar Of God that He might
see them by the millions. Now, if this
was not showing contempt for His
creation, I am no judge. We have not
only lost these birds as lovely songsters
and beautiful objects for the human eye.
but we have lost them as our greatest
Saviour and protector on earth.
If we would look at them as we should,
ought not we to love them and pro-
teCt them? I have examined the craws
and gizzards of birds with maSnifyinS
glasses and find them full of heads,
legs, eyes and shell Of different kinds
of insects saw In the New York Jour
hal recently that in the last fifteen
years it estimated that more than half
Of the birds have been destroyed. l am
satisfied that there are not one-twentf-
eth as many birds now as there were
forty years ago. Many families Of them
are nearly extinct.
do not wish to be looked upon an
alarmist, but I will say that I can
weigh and measure numbers almost
with any man. It has not been billion
of minutes since Christ was on earth ana
the wealth of the United States is esti-
mated at eight billions. T am satisfied
that the destruction of the birds has and
will, before twenty years more, cost the
people of the Union more than half OF
the present wealth OF this country, and
in less than twenty years a great many
more people will find that I am right
unless our national States and municipal
governments will pass and strenuously
execute laws to protect the birds, such
as live ON insects. I would suggest that
laws ought to be enacted in every State
to compel 1.-The teaching in our public
schools and all other schools os the
mission of birds here, that people may
know what they are doing when they
are killing birds
In closing, I would say that believe
every person is here to be of benefit to
his fellow-man; he may fill his mission
or he may not. I write this to try to
do what I can. hoping this will be of
value to the public.
T. F. sTONEBRAKER.
Richmond. Va, April 9th.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
The Alaskan Boundary Dispute.

The British have what may charitably
be called an unfortunate way occasional
~ Of recollecting that they have claims
upon other peoples property. This re-
memhrance comes suddenly, as a rule. just
after that property has developed in
value by reason of gold discoveries or.
the demands Of territorial aggrandize-
ment.
In 1925 the Russo-British treaty was
made at St Petersburg. which fixed the
boundary of Alaska as it appears to-day
upon all the maps OF the world made
since that date-even upon the Official
mans Of the British Admiralty. When
Russia coded Alaska to the United States
in 1867 this identical boundary-line was
accepted by all governments without pro-
test.
Very promising gold prospects were
found later in Alaska: the sealing bus
mess alone more than paid its purchase
price; it was found "a be very rlch
territory indeed in Ns-rious ways At
the Quebec Conference, in August 1sss,
the British Empire, for the first time.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
The Lunch a Success.

The lunch given by the Board OF Man
gers of the "Shelterins Arms Free Hos
ptar' at the Cohen Company's store
Thursday was a complete success. The
members OF the firm, as well as employees,
were zuntirinG in their efforts to assist
the ladies in every possible way. The
board feels that too much appreciation
cannot be expressed to these charitable,
enterprising merchants. who have coma
to the aid OF the sick and needy.
Tile, committee in charge of the luhch
was Mrs. H. *. Franklin. chairman;
Mrs. George T. King. Mrs. w. Fl. Tatunl,
Mrs. J. II. SouthalI, Mrs. j. f. Newberry.
Mrs. a. D. Landerkin, Mrs. w. III. Nell
son. Mrs. E. p Cox, Miss Cora Harris.
Miss ESaIlie Anderson, Mrs. NJ. D. Hoge,
3r.. Mrs Eugene Shepardson and Mrs. r.
William Pemberton-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27

it was no case of embezzlement at all.
Captain Lipscomb was not discharged
by reason Of age. former good character.
nor by reason of a doubt, but because
he was not guilty of the charge. The
cost was thrown on the private prose-
cIItors because the warrant was taken
out without good cause, and the reasons
given by you for dismissing the warrant
are not in keeping with the learning.
dignity and good sense OF our mayor.
who has no use for the slang, Justice
tempered with mercy which means. IL
1t means anything, that guilty man has
been excused.
Boydton. Va. April ed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
CITY AND COUNTY POPULATION.

Overlooking cities attract more atten-
ton than they deserve in the study of the
real quality Of our population, for we
are still rural people. The Worlds
Work for May has an interesting map
showing the distribution OF population
in America This study Of the COM
parative density of population gives the
suggestive fact that the New England
hill region. which is less than 3 per
cent. OF the area OF America, has more
than 13 per cent of our continental pop
ulation. In other words, 1t is four times
as thicbIy settled as the average district
in America The country east Of the
great plains contains 81 per cent. OF the
area and nearly 81 per cent Of the
population In other words. all but 6
per cent 1.-The people live in one-half
OF our territory. But this is not all
that is of interest. Only two-fifths Of
our people live in towns of over 250o.
To bs sure, in the North Atlantic group
of States the city jewellers are moro
than two-thirds, but In the North Gen.
third, and in the South only little
moro than one-sixth. How few OF US
think that three-fifths OF our population
live outside the zone of gaslights and
bath-tubs, that Is, they dig their living
out of the soil. The land and the peo-
pie are still raw, and we have hardly
begun the serious Development OF either.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
SI,O0 c. Q. SL,OO
Sunday Outings
TO
MewporfNeWs, Old Point, Brck-
roe Beach, Ocean View.
and Norfolk,
$1.0O Round "Trip.

The popular Chesapeake and Ohio Sun.
day Outing train with parlor car leave.
Richmond CNlain-Street Station) every
Sunday at S:45 a. M. Stops at Jeffer.
son Avenue. Newport News, going and
returning. No other stops between
Richmond and Old Point Arrives Nor
folk 80 a. NJ.
Returning. leave Norfolk, via Ocean
View line, every hour until P. NJ: re-
turning, leave Norfolk via SeaweIli
Point line every hour until 500 P. Nj
returning, leave Ocean View every hou,
until 7:S0 P. NJ; returning leave Old Point
500 P NJ; returning. leave Jefferson
Avenue Newport News. SIS P. NJ; ar
rive Richmond 1000 P. NJ.
This is the most delightful season OF
the year to visit these points
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
CARE FOR THE BIRDS
important That They Be Preserved to
Destroy the Insects.

Destroy the Insects.
Editor Of The Tines:
Sir,-I wish to bring before the pub
lie an extremely important fact. and hope
you will give me a helping hand. 1t IS
that Of the Importance of protecting BIRDS
I would say that more than likely 5 have
had better opportunity of learning the
mission Of birds than most any other
man in the United States. I have trav-
eled over thirty-odd States and terri
tories in this Union, and more than
nine-tenths of my travelling has been
by private conveyance. The last four
years my business was with the farmers
of Virginia, Maryland. West Virginia
and Pennsylvania. More than half the
time I spent on the roads; my business
is treating fruit trees. I carry with me
magnifying glasses to examine the roots
of the trees for insects many families
Of which are too small to see with the
human eye, and as near as can estt-
mate, the farmers are losing annually
more than half Of the natural product
of their soil. Plants and vegetables of
nearly all kinds are being preyed upon
by different insects.
With fruit trees, find they are not
getting one-twentieth Of the product
from the trees that they should and
would If the insects did not poster them.
LIZ ~ die +h11lSl1E oeSl1Oy
ed by the million. I know that this
trouble is not only in the States that
/ have mentioned, but it is all over the
United States, from the Rocky Mountains
east, ana this trouble is growing fear
fully worse every year, caused by rapid
increase of the insects.
The farmers are always surprised when
I dig up the roots of their trees and
show them through my glasses the in:
sects that are preying upon the roots.
The roots OF the trees are knotted ana
twisted up. The insects eat the young,
tender roots that fect=ttle fruit. Now.zwe
have no means by which we can destroy
these insects except by poisoning them
with arsenic poisoning, and that would
be a fearful expense to put 1t all over
the earth. Thereby we have no means
to protect ourselves.
The Lore. In His great wisdom. had
furnished US protection against this pest
He created these insects as food for the
birds, as he did the animals for food
for man. Now, we have destroyed the birds.
and where are these pests going to stop?S
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
A Vision.

~ ViSIOIl
Life's ftful dream IS past stand
In the temple limitless, whose columns
grand
Fade to the sight as upward still they
stretch,
Nor will r,ine eye with all Its utmost
reach
Tell of its outlines, where It's boundaries
lie;
For I stand in the courts Of the temple
on high;
It's columns, majestic. unchanged through
the years,
And heavens blue canopy studded with
Is its roof. A light pervasive seems to
dwell
Rather than radiant shine; that light so
10th blend with peace and Joy and love
And all of high and pure the heart doth
move.
"Is it then true? Is there a life mortal?
Spake true the seers, as catching through
it's portal
Some strains Of heavenly music, some
RAYS of glorious light,
AS they hushed them to its harmonies,
or strained them to its sight?
Is there indeed God, a Lord supernal.
Whose only Son divine, Els word eternal
A fathers message to his erring children
brought?
IT'S true, all. yes; and yet for me twas
nought,
For I believed it not; In mists OF doubt
I dwelt
And sought by reasons to find the truth:
felt
There was some truth Should shed Its
To guide our wandering feet in paths of
right.
How Oft a child, catching the scintillat-
ing ray
Which from star ON frosted leaf doth
play,
Thinks It's a gem and grasps the glis-
tening frost,
When 10! the light is gone, the gem Is
lost!
How like the child, with eyes bent on
the ground,
I sought the source Of truth. but had
not found
The Jewel which my heart so longed to
grasp,
A treasure well worth all beside to clasp!
Strange. was it not, that should look
within for light,
sight
All power, all light comes from above.
without,
And knowing this, should give my heart
to doubt?
And yet there dwelt a light. God-giyen,
in my mind;
I sought in love to bless, to benefit man
kind.
And now I see my wrongful view too
late;
My pride OF intellect Is gone, resigned
seem 10 wait.
A mystery to my vision now appears,
An altar on my left, whence through
unnumbered years
There rises ever upward and evermore
must rise,
Like clouds of burning incense. the smoke
of sacrifice.
.Rapt out OF self. astonished, awcd I
stood,
Into mine Utmost soul rushed as Of truth
food: s.
I. eager, trembling. dared not say twas
light
But concepts new and beauteous burst
there upon my sight;
Yet nought Of earthly glory in the sweet
vision shone, ss&
It's light a revelation. Its radiance all It's
There stood beside me one. to him I
turned,
For my soul was filled with wonder, my
heart within me burned: -
See aright2" asked, .'and is there
thensi in heaven
Eternal pain. Of which yon scene sym
bolical is given %. ~
You read Alright; that altar Is a mystic
whose ONCE in this temples great de-.
s.4,,I1 : . -. ! -,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
BREAD MAX.

II the mona gricnltural classes Of Eng
land had known in 1900 that they would
have to pay additional price for their
bread as the result Of the continuance
OF the war in South Africa, would they
have returned Lord salisbury's govern
ment by the great a5ority that they did?
We doubt It.
This srunise brings out a very inter
csting line OF thought by showing that
England. no less than Germany, is face
to face with an agrarian questions and
party. When Golden made his great
fight for free bread he began with the
view point OF q manufacturer. for he
had amassed a fortune IN the cotton
trade, which he lost by giving up his
life In politics. It was obvious to Cob
den that the cost Of the bread which
the woriingmen ate was as much a part
OF the cost CT raw material as vas
the unspun cotton or the rnburned
coal. He felt and MAIDS his feelings a
motive power for the great voting COM
munity Of England that the manufac-
turing classes as the largest class OF
labor were entitled to buy their bread In
tho open market since they were compell-
ed to buy their cotton and iron under
those terms.
That was the day Of the little England
er. There was then no imperial fedora
ton, nor had the idea of a globes irdling
empire been conceived. though Disraeli.
up on the horizon as the leading poliu-
cal factor In public life. To-day, how
ever, all that is changed. The desire and
the need alike for closer bonds between
England and the colonies has made it
on that ground alone expedient to md
If possible some special concession which
may be given to the colonies.
In casting about for this possibility
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. has hit upon the
expedsent OF a small import tax on
breadstufra The effect of this has not
been to materially increase the price
Of bread, but It has already put home
grown grain to a premium, and from
this beginning very Interesting conse-
que1ces may well proceed. According to
the New York Sun Great Britain can
raise wheat enough to supply her pres
ent population. There are in the United
Kingdom forty-eight million acres OF
cultivable land. OF this. twenty-eight
million acres are in permanent pastur-
age, only twenty, million acres being at
lion acres are under wheat. OF course.
it would be possible to go back to the
old conditions and raise more wheat
than heretofore, but the question would
still remain whether it would be the
part of wisdom for the British laborers
to spend their energies in raising wheat
If they could get larger measure Of
materialsreturns from manufacturing pur-
suits. In any event, differential in
favor of colonial grains would give an
enormous impetus t. the imperial fed
Grafton idea and would at the same time
put q premium on a return to farming
in England. OF course, this whole
scheme Of import duties is only to be
supported by such economists as Sir
Robert Giffen on the theory that all
the possibilities Of direct taxation have
been exhausted.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
DO NOT LIKE JURY DUTY.
The Wheat Fields That Were Bare Haye
Come Out Green.
(SpecIal Dispatch to The Times.

BLACKsBuRG, VA. April 26.-Deputy
Sheriff Price has summoned the jury for
April court, Montgomery county, from
this place and Vicinity. Some OF these
good citizens do not like jury duty, and
are trying to beg off.
The Baptist and Presbyterian congre-
cations hope to build new churches this
year. The Methodist will build 4 new
parsonage and remodel their church.
The warm weather for the last few days
has caused a great Improvement In the
wheat crop. With a warm rain and more
sun the farmers will be surprised at what
they have in the ground Two weeks ago
the fields were bare.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
MORE TROUBLES IN FINLAND.

l.
The Russian workmen. who are among
the most inefficient and underpaid on
earth, have struck to have their hours
of labor reduced to ten per day. This is
only another outbreak of unrest in a
country where every aspiration for social
or intellectual betterment is sternly re-
pressed Such outbreaks as this are a
sign Of vitality among the people. and no
matter how much the students and la
borers suffer in their struggle for proper
recognition they carry In their suffering
the germ Of freedom for their descen-
dants The ministers of Russia, no les
than the subjects. deserve the sympathy
OF the public, for every one are seeming
ly at cross purposes. An example OF this
is the state that exists in Finland. The
trouble in that country is the present
Russian recruiting law. which requires
tho Films to enlist for foreign service.
before and feel that it is an unjust dis
elimination against them, as. according
to their Constitution, they were to be
always liable only for service at home.
The feeling against this new law is SO
intense that the communes have refused
to cooperate with the Government in
choosing recruiting boards, and as re-
suit the Government has imposed heavy
fines on the cornmunes.
Tammefors was fined $500. Helsingfors
$500 and six others from $500 to 500
each. Or. salzmann. chairman of the
state Medical Board and ma nv. rneuahnrs
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
Acquittal of Capt. LipscomD at boydton

IultOf. OF TIC -
Sis,-Your paper of the I'D contains a
comb Discharged - which does great in
justice to Mayor Baskervill as we'll as
the accused, Captain J. s Lipscomb, who
was charged with embezzling funds. OF
the South Atlantic Life Insurance Com
pany, and who was tried on Saturday
evening last by the MAYOR of this town.
You must have been misinforEed as to
the reasons given for the discharge of
the accused. Mayor BaskerYilI. who has
high reputation as lawyer, stated
that he had studied the case closely:
that in one view of the case it was a
prima facic case Of embezzlement. but
that the evidence showed positively that
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
The Oil Borers.
ecIal Dlspatcn to The Times.l

fSpecial Dispatch to The Times.l
WAYNESBORO, VA. April 26.-Tne
OH, Gas and Mineral Company will not
begin work until May 18th. owing to
delay in getting their machinery. The
promoters are confident Of striking gas
Or oil.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27

which are peculiar at the present time
to the South These may ,o be illuTfrn i
tpTed oy PsfHne say This espeealy true q
older people The naste ef t day w sosd
love. It may violate somebody's stand
ard of taste but it does not violass me
laws of language; This is a use SEQ OF h sne
1t was formerly univer-
sal among our Southern people. we say say
that our teacher learned US Latin.
that is to say we would have done SO
tE enty to forty years ago and most of US
do to this day The latter day distinc,
ton which is made between learn ,; ana
teach was unknown then and IS entireiy
ignored in many of our communities even
bv teachers. To show that the south
erner who uses these words as I have
indicated above is not only not wrong but
his side, I quote Websters first def!ni-
ton of love:- Love, to be pleased with,
to be fond of, to like. His second detni-
ton of learn is, to communicate knowl.
edge to. to teach Shakespeare says Hast
thou not learned me how to make per-
fumet?" I once heard q southern student
in a. northern institution upset the gravity
both Of his professor and fellow-student
by saving of an Ngebcaic equation. that
he was trying to get shut Of the
radicals in it. Not one in the class had
ever heard the word in the sense in which
the southerner used it. He had the laugh
on them when he pointed out that even
their best loved dictionary defined shut
as meaning to get rid of.
It is never safe to mass criticism on the
use Of words until the critic is sure of
his founda ton. In this paper I have
traced only few of these old verb forms.
but these viii suffice to show how we
came to possess them. There are many
others of like kind and use. 7 shall in
my next give the old German contribution
to the dialect
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
LOWEST RATES NORTH AND WEST

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
ASTlJDY SOUTHERN DIAlDbC1:
/ seem to be still in use also In England,
81 aStssyennySOnS has this sentence III

seem to be still in use also in England.
at least Tennyson has this sentence u,
his Northern obbiers' :,
q bigger, felier.to hgnfM1l
an'#toWrsits GU - another ssntences1ro PHI
this same poeIa calls 70 MIND the Use VS.. -
another word ma ,eS to, lrrlta.e
or to stir up. Inc sentence Isl ne lnooi
she riIed me, she druy me to drlnk,,en ne
moor" Here we have two words Wh, ie.l
are used IN the daily conxersatloIt. o. on,
people; Ihese are a1c ~
This illustrates sthe,Way these psopaIe ~ ~
the same STOCK ana sLnes sttille D 9u 49,
time and distance 5
80, Z, ~, :. M
sall INTO. r haa1its origin in the
old Torn, Of assail, sale. hear it
y s, .;, - Inrds and with blows SIe
assam Win Morus ,la Nom and yerb
is the cnmnon snronunciation. Sile is an
old word meaning silt or sediment It can
FOR eTu the Word e soil. However. there is a
use of the word that is Quite common that
is Sr not so apparent, namely to affect. This
.:He never SIZED me- meaning although
he attacked me and struck me he 2, did not Ct
among the common people which changes
many words ending in .:oil,' to '.ile' while
the same can be said of those ending in
"oyal." Such words as spoil, boil. oil,
ulOIl. WIZ 1Oy Sliih aPAoPSA
as Royals and Broyles, beGom ms spllef #p hna
lie, brlle, rial Ryies ana #Bryles g. nat
an odd experience Win one fanny
whose nome l STAG on one OCCASION. ~
was introduced to them by kinsInan OF o.
theirs, who gave me the name as ft s:n,,ss
After enjoying their hospitality 1or s ONE
time y mad occasion 70 seI Ine siSiath tao
~ me ni1o ~ +b;a time
tiau Ganeu I'M S u S n nv
,tseil ~ Sfa ~ lI MS snro1 would nave
I Iaa., : III i1a ~ R 3tv
De1-1 estie = ,5 -.