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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
THE STRIKE.

Tom Plat, Senator Quay, and other
such eminent statesmen of the period
say that the great strike in the anthra-
cite coal regions soon will be ended. The
rise in the stocks of the coal roads also
point in the same direction.
We believe 1t is true that settlement
will be reached before long. We never
thought the Republican leaders would
consent to go into an active congressional
campaign with a question so dangerous
to them open; question likely to cause
an irreparable breach in their ranks.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been praising the
workingman nightly, and is out and out
in favor of labor unions. Meanwhile we
guess that his chief lieutenants have been
talking scare talk to Morgan & Co., and
telling them that they cannot afford to
let the Democrats get possession of the
House
Yet we cannot guess precisely how
the end will be brought about-through
political agencies, we are sure-but what
will be the initiatory step on the part of
mine owners we cannot even surmise.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Museum managers have fairly haunted
my footsteps. all anxious to buy or lease.

Museum managers have fairly haunted
my footsteps, all anxious to buy or lease
her"
Many surprisingly large offers have
been made me, but [ would accept none
of them. AS long as have money
enough to keep her well fed, we'll housed,
and we'll cared for, Myra and l shall not
be parted. =
The Chicago veterinary surgeons who
have seen the mare are at loss to
account for her mustache, The only
theory they have advance that Mr. King
says is at all reasonable is one of pre-
natal influences.
II am inclined to believe there is some
thing in It," says her owner. The doc
tors argue that when Myra's mother was
in foa1 some man with heavy black
mustache frightened her. This. they say.
had it's effect on the unborn colt.
Its fact that the hostler who took
care Of Queen Myra. the mother of my
mare, did have heavy black mustache.
but I doubt very much If he ever pur-
posely did anything to frighten her.
..As far as we know, he always seemed
extraordinarily fond of Queen Myra.
Still, we can't know. of course, how he
treated her when we weren't about to
watch him.
So much for the cause. The fact is in
disputable The mustache on Myra's up
per lip is as tangible as her tail and as
much in evidence. It is six inches long
on either side and heavy.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

That Colorado balloon which started
from Denver for New York Sunday
with a party of artists and reporters,
seems to have had particularly strenu-
Gus experience. 1t circled Pixies Peak
twice. bumped against the peak once. was
caught in a deep canon during Sunday
night, barely oscar ping a wreck, and later
sailed into a snowstorm. During the
night the voyagers suffered intensely
from the cold. At one time the basket
caught in some trees, but was dislodged
and sailed up over Pixies Peak. At day.
break Monday morning the balloon began
leaking and descended steadily, alighting
in tree, and the aeronauts descended,
walked eight miles to a ranch, and hired
a real conveyance for the journey home
It seems to have been a case of "Pike's
Peak or bust with the balloon, and it
busted
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
rorrNG MELONS OUTSIDE.

The Winchester Star tells Of unique
wager, involving water1nelons. which was
won and lost at Capon Bridge, w. Va,
few days ago. John Hutchinson bet
John Oates that he could not carry two
watermelons. weighing forty-two pounds
each, from a certain spot to the post
office, a quarter of a mile away, and re-
turn without resting or dropping one or
both of tire melons.
But let us quote the graphic language Of
our contemporary as to what followed
the bet:
while a considerable crowd watched,
Mr.. Oates took the melons and started
on his difficult task. Any one who has
ever tried to carry huge watermelon
knows that one of them is about .as
unwieldy an article to tote as can be
imagined. but with two of them to carry,
1t is almost superhuman. The hope OF
winning hundred dollars. and the fear
Of losing his own money, lent Mr.. Oates
strength, but when the bridge which
spans Capon river was reached he sue
cumbed to the task. we'll nigh exhausted
and Mr.. Hutchinson was declared the
winner"
1t seems to us that Oates was all wrong
in the way he went about the business
First, ne should have eaten the melons,
and then done the "toting." We venture
to say that had he followed this method
he would have been an easy, not to say
very happy. winner.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Marriage of Divorced Roman Cath
Indianapolis News.)

Indianapolis News.)
3. MISHAWAKA, IND, August S.-The
wedding here yesterday of Edward Joseph
Farrell and Carrie Cevan Emeline DaVen-
port was an extraordinary affair, owing
to the fact that the ceremony was sol
emnized in a Catholic church, despite the
fact that the woman has a divorced nus
band living. The memorable statute or
the Church recognizes no divorce, nor
does it sanction the marriage of either
divorced party while one or the other is
alive.
In this case weeks had been consumed
in correspondence between Dean Oech-
tering of this city, and the highest dig
nitaries of the Church. At Fort Wayne
Bishop Alerding and his official advisers
held council over the case, and three days
ago the final permit reached here, allow
ing the marriage to proceed
Bulky documents figure in the case. The
brides former husband, William d. Mid
dleton, from whom she is divorced, was
obliged to file his written release of the
young woman forever. He was required
to swear that he had never been bap-
tized, ard similar affidavits were de-
manded from the woman and her parents
on that point All were executed before
notary public, and have been accorded
a place in the diocesan archives at Fort
Wayne.
To persons unacquainted with the cir
cumstances, the proceeding appears ir-
regular and in conflict with the oft-pro-
claimed and ever-revered tenets of the
Catholic Church. The ceremony was al
lowed only upon full and satisfactory
proof being supplied by all parties that
neither the man nor the woman had been
baptized A marriage between such per-
sons Is not recognized by the Church, nor
is their divorce considered in violation of
laws nor a ban to future nuptial cor
| tract The young woman, who is said to
be highly connected in the East and re-
| lated to Fanny Davenport, was baptized
| "Wednesday in the Catholic church.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
WHO MAY REGISTER.

/. person who has served In time of
war in the army or navy of the United
States, or of the Confederate States or of
any State.
2. a son Of any such person.
3. A person who owns real or personal
property, upon which, for the year next
preceding that in which he offers to regis
ter, State taxes of 81 have been paid.
4. A person who can understand, or give
reasonable explanation of any section of
the Constitution, either read by him or to
him, by the officers of the registration.
18th.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

Politeness doesn't always pay. Indeed, /:
may cost certain young man OF Buffalo
his life He gave his seat in a street car to
a woman and stepped on the side plat
form just as the car was crossing
trestle. In some manner unexplained so
far he was forced from his position, and
fell to the ground underneath the trestle,
a distance of twenty feet. He was Sc
verely injured, and the doctors think he
can hardly recover. Still, and notwith-
standing this young mans misfortune,
one should never fall to be polite.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

The Public Ledger, of Norfolk, on Sep
TENDER 1st, made its appearance in a
somewhat changed form, which clearly
indicates that this fine old afternoon
paper is now enjoying new mechanical
equipments and other modern improve
ments." The Ledger has always been
good and good-looking; but it will now be
even better than heretofore. It has a
strong place in the hearts of the people,
and neither competition nor the flight of
years can shake the loyalty and devotion
of its many readers And the reason for
this is plain. The Ledger has been fair
and conserva tive in its treatment Of every
subject, and what is better still. it has
always printed the news.
We wish to be numbered among the
Ledger's heartiest well-wishers, and it
affords us no little pleasure to see our
already rigorous contemporary preparing
for a still greater campaign of useful
ness.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Making Coal for Bner.

Oh. D. Nesbit in Baltimore American0
(.'.The rights and interests of the labor
ing man will be projected and cared for
not by labor agitators. but by the Chr!s-
wisdom has given control Of the property
interests of the country. Mr.. Baer.) Z,
In the prehistoric ages, when the world
was ball of mist
A seething swirl Of something unknown IN
the planets list;
When the earth was vague with vapor,
and formless, and dark, and void
The sport of the maynard comet-the jibe
of the asteroid-
Then the singing stars of morning chant
ed soft: keep out OF these!
Keep off that spot which is sizzling not
it is making coal for Baer."
When the pterodactyl ambled, or flut-
tered, or swan. or jumped, ,
And the pleSiOSauruS rambled, all care
less Of what he bumped,
And the other old-time monsters thas
thrived on the land and sea,
And didn't know what their names were
any more than to-day do We
Wherever they went they heard 1t: 7 on
fellows keep out of there
That place which shakes and quivers
and quakes-it is making coal for
The carboniferous era consumed but
million years;
It started when earth. was sheddlne the
last of her baby tears.
When still she was swaddled softly in
clumsily tied on clouds,
When stars from the shops of Nature
were being turned out in crowds;
But high DER the favored section this
sign said to all: Beware!
Stay back of the ropes that surround
these slopes-they are making coai
for baer!'
We ought to be glad and joyous we ought
to be filled with glee. ;,
That aeons ago the placard was nalleo
to the ancient tree,
That millions and millions of ages-bacS
farther than Adam and Eve
The ichthyosaurus halted, and Speedlly
took his leave,
And so it was all saved for U.S. the spot
with the sign: Beware!
This plant is run by the earth and sun
and is making coal for Baer!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Dnnce at ClnyvIne.

a dance was given at Clayville. Pow
hatan county. a few nights ago. under
the auspices OF NIessrs. Frank Michaux
and Percy Weisiger. Mrs j. Newton
s.Inhnston. Mrs. Frank Ridout and Mrs.
8 Zee Dance were the chaperones. A coll
Ia ton was served at midnight. The music
was furnished by Solomon's String Band.
The dancing lasted until day dawned-
CINCINNATI; Mamie and Nellie Balmer,
Matte and w. Carhart, Matte Webster.
Frances Dunn. OF Bon Air:ELulu Mnnford
of Charles City: Laura Webb. Annie Ran-
dolnh King. Susie Christian King. May
Wills. Mary sWortham. and Alice Thaw,
of Richmond The gentlemen partiei patins
were. Messrs Clarence WeisiEer. Malcolm
zHarring Louis, ParnH and jam 8 w aasi-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
NO BAIL FOR CHALKLEY.
Mrs. TAYLOR, Alleged Victim, Did Not
Appear In Court.

Mrs. Taylor, Alleged Victim, Did Not
Appear In Court.
The trial of L. H. Chalkley, who IS
charged with attempting to criminally as
sault Mrs. Lula Taylor, wife of an en-
n,oyee of the fire alarm department, was
continued until Saturday in the Police
Court yesterday morning because OF the
absence Of Mrs. Taylor.
Messrs Glenn and Wise, counsel for
the accused, allowed the testimony of Mr..
Taylor. the husband, to be given on a
motion for bail for the accused, in hopes
that Justice Crutchfield would grant the
same, but after the story was heard. he
court decided that it could not grant bail
without hearing the testimony of Mrs.
Taylor.
Mr.. Taylor's story was as follows:
II got home at II o'clock. My wife VISA
on cot in a middle room. She had been
sick for week, and was subject to faint.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
MUD-DAUBERS.
How the wcIl-Knovyn Wasp Comes
Into Life Well Provided for.
Country Life in America.)

Country Life in AmericaO
An interesting tenant of the farm is
the mud-dauber, the best known of the
solitary wasps, whose nests are found
stuck to the rafters in the attic and out
builders, or to nail in the wall or IN
an old coatsleeve behind the door. She
places several cells about an inch long
side by side or on tiers above another
without any regard to regularity; AS she
tolls she sings squeaky little solos In
high key which sounds like a tiny circular
saw as it issues from piece OF nara
wood The moment the Industrious ut
tie mason has completed the cell she sets
about to fill it with spiders, all Of the
same species, of which it takes eighteen
on an average, On one Of these ls:s. an IN esq
grub. and Immediately begins to devour
the feast Of paralyzed SPIDERS ro When Govt !.
ering for itself, which is about trans
parent At the. proper time 1t brea *
through the walls of it's mud house ana
proudly jerks it's pretty, steel.bue wings 55
with the same graceful flrt as u :Iti
mother while she was busily engaged with
her nest-building.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Police Court Docket.

Frank Venable, harmless but we'll
known character in police circles, and
who had but last Friday left the confines
of the city Jail, appeared in court yester-
day morning. being charged with seeing
things" on the street. He was sent back
to his recently abandoned cell for ten
days.
Robert Anderson, rock-throwing. So.
Katherine Grants and Martha Winslow.
fighting and cursng, $3.50.
George Burton, cursing and threaten
ing. So.
Sam Hobson. cruelty treating a horse
continued.
Alberta Lacy, drunk and bowling, So
T. c. Morris and NJ. II. Coke. drunk and
fighting in the street, $40 each Mr..
Coxe's face was deliberately decorated
in blue and red.
Gulnell Guy. cursing and using indecent
language to H. NJ. Selden Cloth fernales).
$50.
Sim Minor and Dorsey Coles, throwing
rocks in a Chipanan's windows, $3.50.
George Hansburg assau1ting his broth
er JEFF and chewing the said Jeff's jaw.
$40 and 60 days.
Robert NJ. Guy, cursing and threatening
D. w. Billiard IS. and 500 security for
his good behavior.
Annie Quarles, drunk and slightly in
sane discharged.
| James Williams, drunk, 10 days.
| Frank Venablc, drunk, 10 days.
| Cary Lawson, bond jumper from Dan
| Vile, held for orders.
Thomas Going, assauIting woman
friend, dismissed.
William Anderson, stealing ham, 60
days.
Dorsey Coles, stabbing George Bailey.
! dismissed
| Charles Murray and Bossy Burk, lar
ceny of $50 from John C. Cheatwood, CON
tinued.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

It appears from a recent issue Of the
London Economist that this years crop
of hay. wheat. spring grain. pulse man
Colds, turnips, and potatoes are all at
least up to the average. and nearly all
decidedly above the standard. The esti-
mate on the wheat crop was "a little
above the average. which for the last
ten years has been thirty bushels per
acre for the United Kingdom" France
reports a full wheat crop while Ger
many has begun to reap good harvest
in striking contrast with the meagre one
of 1901 I'm Austria-Hungary the wheat
crop is so good that there will be a con-
siderable surplus for export" Roumania
will have a large export surplus, and
Russia has apparently produced a crop
considerably in excess of the average,
while India will have wheat to spare.
But the Atlanta Journal is Informed that
more recent reports. however, have
shown a deterioration in crop conditions,
due to mildew and other diseases, but.
still, it is clear that Europe will not prove
as good a customer for US t4lis year as
last. in the cereal line, at least.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

The latest number of the North Caro-
lima Booklet" series on great events in
North Carolina history" is 1.-THE Indian
Massacre and Tuscarora War of 1711-'13,'
by Hon. Walter Clark.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Orient when the toothpick habit ravages
f<.I fx,.,x

Orient when-the toothpfck habit raVages
our own fair land ?"
4 AS a general thing. we are not inclined
to accent Chicago as a pace-maker In the
matter OF etiquette and good manners. but
we come pretty nearly being "on All
fours'' with the Post in the toothp1ck
case. Still. we can well understand now
the Louisville people get puzzled ABOUT
the thing. for the almost universal custom
of placing tcothpicks in private and pub.
lie dining rooms and in accessible parts
of hotels, certainly leads one to the ire
sistible conclusion that they were put
there for Immediate Use. And, unfortu-
ately, too, they are used--and by thou
sands at that. That they afford great
deal Of comfort-to the user, II not to the
n-!ookers-cannot be denied, though the
dentists say that they serve an evil pur-
pose when too often brought into applt-
cation Frequently. they jam the parti-
cles of food more tightly between the
teeth and thus do the very thing they are
intended not to do.
The people who recognize the utility and
the comfort of the toothpick would do
we'll to place them in the private apart
,nents of their guests rather than on
dining tables and at the doors of dining
rooms. Then the temptation to lapse into
bad manners by using the toothpick pub
licly would be partially removed and the
suggestion of privacy delicately emphasiz-
ed. It would be we'll too, to substitute
the gooscquill article for the wooden one
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

The devastation wrought by Mont Pelee
is terrible to think about. It looks as
If the volcano would eventually make the
larger part Of Martinique, once the most
beautiful of. the West Indies, a desolation
and horror. At the present rate Of
eruptions and explosions. the island Of the
dead will before very long become abso-,
lutely a dead island.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

Our warmest weather seems to have
come after the departure of the warm
weather season. strictly so-called, and 1t
hasn't been any pleasanter for the varia-
ton from due form, either.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

SIS It may be that Senator Hill purposely
used the word woman in radist.nc-
ton to girl" There is a big difference
between the two when it comes to oscu-
1ation, and abstemiousness which might
apply to one class, wouldn't necessarily
esthes the other. At any rate, Senator
Hill will have to make affidavit to his
statement before we believe him.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH 2. ! &c.
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

And now your Cousin Tom L. Johnson
takes the centre of the stage, He seems
to be the automobilious candidate for
President.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

Nice customs court'sy to kings" and
the navy of the United States gives
tea party to the American-born Duchess
of Marlborough. even in the midst of the
war manoeuyres! Hurrah for the Ouch
ess
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

With n leak in the Norfolk water
pipes and with water famine in Berkeley,
the politicians Of that section will have
some excuse for striking q bar.-F'ree
Lance
Yes, so they have, and we don't suppose
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Pera...aacrs can be made by post-o1nce
.noncy order che safest way). check or
registered letter. Currency sent BY man
IT the risk of the sender
Subscribers wishing change OF aocress
must give she old rs well as the ne"
poSt-ofice.
Sample copies free.
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Thursdaxs-at ONE DOLLAR per year.
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Those wishing the paper can order 1t by
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Delivery may be made the same way.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

Now that labor has had Its parade, the
march home of society will begin.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

The case of Jerry Hunter, In the Boz
rough of Queens, Greater New York,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Our Mothers.

(By Joaquin Mller.)
The bravest battle that ever was fought,
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the map of the world you will find it
not
1t was fought by the mothers Of men.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

goes TO show further that the North Is
rapidly learning to know the bad Mig
GER as he is. 5
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03
Current Comment,

Some regard for propriety was mani
tested by widower in Kansas. just two
weeks after burying his wife he married
another, and several of the neighbors
came to serenade him with tin horns, ETC.
The discordant racket brought him to the
door, and he said: You ought to be
ashamed to make such an uproar at a
house where funeral has been so re-
Gently held-Winchester News Item.
A man with as much ingenuity and
get-up-and-go as that Kansas widower-
or bridegroom rather-certainly deserves
something better than a tin-horn sere-
made. 1t isn't every bereaved husband
who can get another wife in two weeks,
and we are glad to say it isn't every
ones who tries to.
Although the bird season did not open
till to-day September 1st) the marshes
near this city were filled yesterday with
pot. hunters who shot every reed bird
aid sora in sight, and no arrests were
made. AS the State has game laws
there should be some persons whose du-
ties are to enforce them.-Alexandria
Gazette.
This reminds us that there are splen-
cid promises of a fine game season this
fall In every section of the State par
tridges are abundant, though hundreds OF
them will doubtless fall victims to pot
hunters. Why is it SO difficult for Vir-
ginia to secure suitable game laws?
If Richmond knows how fittingly and
fully to reward merit she will send a ton
of coal around to Policeman WAITS
house.-Portsmouth Star.
Yes. that would be good if all the awful
reports about the ''black diamond we
hear are true. but we fancy that If
WAITS efforts prove successful, he'll oc-
cupy SO warm "a place in Richmonders'
hearts that he'll need no other heat.
A newspaper quotes ex-senator Hill as
saying that he never kissed woman.
The assertion is probably not intended to
be without exception. David B. is awful.
#ly ugly, but there probably. never was
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

And so, unfortunately, even sham war
has its fatalities!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

A newspaper quotes ex-senator Hill as
saying that he never kissed woman.
The assertion is probably not intended to
be without exception. David B. is awful
ly ugly, but there probably never was
a boy 80 ugly that his mother would not
kiss him.-Petersburg Index-Appeal
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-03

Quay Joins Plat now in saying the coal
strike will end in two weeks. This looks
hopeful. at least.