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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-27
BY. Pollard & BagDy.
Auctioneers.

TRUSTEES AuG!.yM SALE
OF THAT
WE'LL LOCATED AND DESIRABLE
FRAME STORE AND DWELLlNG
SITUATED 1113 W. CLAY STREET.
BY virtue Of deed OF trust, dated April
is. 1903. and recorded in clerks office.
Richmond Chancery Court, In D. E. III
A. page 1850. default having been made In
secured and being by the hondholders
requested SO to do. the undersigned trus-
premises prem lis y. Clay street.
oc.F D s. 1995' AT S o'cLock.
the following described property: All that
certain lot Of land. with frame am store and
south side OF, Clay Street anc running
back one hundred feet.
TERMS-Cash as to costs Of executing
this trust and taxes. and to pay the sum
of s1,337.40 balance on terms to be an
''ou''oea a. A. w. RosENE,
JOSEPH B. WELSH,
JOSEPH STUMPF.
oct 2s.5t Trustees.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-27


BY request Of the trustees, we will sell
by phBlSN qns.aSs @ sfe PEf5'sss ss
at $50 o'clock A., the seo ys:
With its large lot, about 4s1:xlss feet, with
side and rear alleys, on south SIDE Lelsl,.
{ang abeat twelve large rooms besides
closets. etc; wide halls. high ceilings.
ample light and ventilated, tarobe stove,
story stable and carriage house on the
lot; the premises being. for the most part,
Its Very convenient and pl,asant loca-
centre OF the city: It's excellent canstruc.
1s sn 'aa s per- annu G render az,
slrable whether for occupancy or invest
lnent. The premises Will be open TO In
spection al the hour OF sale, and all per.
sons interested are urgently requested TO
be present,
TERMS ne,third cash, the rest In
equal installments at !, 2 and years, by
negotiable notes, with interest and So
cured by deed of trust. - =,
oct ea-5t Anctloneers,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-27
AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE Days
WIN. B. Pizzini Company,
Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers,
Tenth and Bank Streets.

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF NINETY
y EIGHT LOTS. JUST WEST OF TIE
CITY limits IN HENRICO COUN Y.
IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWN
AS "LISBuRN."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-27

Z DWELLING HOUSE NO. SlS NORTH
TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET.
In execution Of decree of the Chan
Gerry Court Of tho city of Richmond, en-
tered My 18TH, 1898, In 4 the cut Of ~ A
will sell by auction, on the premises. on
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1908,
ut s o'clock r. NJ. that attcictive and
comfortable two,story, frame dwelling No.
ls North Twenty-eiShthh Street together
lng % feet and having depth Of lss fee,
the attention OF home-seekers as we'll as
investors.
TERMS One-third cash. and the bal,
nnce in three equal instruments At 8. Y
and ID months, evidenced BY notes WHY
interest added. and title retained til! all
purchase Is paid or all cash. at the OPP
w. STUART BOWIE,
Special Commissioner.
TIE bond required OF the Special Conn
missioner by the above mentioned decree
has been duly given.
oct aA-tds Clerk.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-27

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-27
BY N. w. BCwo.
Real Els state Auctloneer.

COMMISSIONERS SALE
~ OF THE
ATTRAC TIvE TWO-SToRY FRAME
DWELLING HOUSE NO. Sl3 NORTH
TNENTY-EIGHTH STREET
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
LOUISIANA WIVES PARADISE

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 The Louisiana Supreme court has af- frmed the constitutionality of an act passed by the legislature at it's last ses- sion which provides for the punishment with Imprisonment at hard labor of men who desert their wives or fail to support their wives and children. A number of arrests were made shortly after the law went into effect but punishment of the culprits was suspended as the act was supposed to be unconstitutional. The Su- preme courts decision now settles the matter, and in future the Louisiana man who gets married must expect to bear the consequences.
 It Is to be hoped that the law will not have tendency to discourage matrimony. and there is no likelihood that 1t will. If it does. the ones who permit themselves to be frightened away from marriage by 1t will be better single anyway. Louisiana has made a good start in this matter and should now provide for the Imprisonment at hard labor of wife beat CTS That done. the State will have a clear lead in at least one important re- spect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
AIaska,s Strip on the Sea.

The long neck of Alaska that ex- tends along the Pacific half way down to the sta.s of Washington is in dis pute and the boundary commissioners of Great Britain and the United States are endeavoring to find from the maps and other evidence the true line.
 The trouble arises from the numer- ous bays, inlets and islands along the entire distance, Great Britain claiming that the three leagues inward should wind about as the seawater does, while the United States wants clear strip Inside of inlets and the like. The lat ter claim would cut Great Britain of from an outlet to the sea, while the former would give her plenty of them.
 Whatever Great Britain ceded to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Much Attentlon to LaWns.

''Birminsham property holders seem to be. giving more attention to the appear ance of their lawns this summer than ever before.s said a man interested in the beauty ofsthe city.
 "some of the lawns on South Highlands are as pretty as ever saw. and the resi- dents deserve great credit for making them so. Tine natural soil up there is not at all conducive to vegetation and considerable care and attention is necessary to make anything grow.
 Tt is well known that it requires years to make an ideal lawn, and 1t must also be kept moved to attain its greatest beau ty. The finest lawns in the world are in England around some of the old an cestral homes that were built centuries ago. It takes years for the. roots of grass to become thoroughly matted so that the lawn presents the velyety green appearance so much to be desired.
 There are lawns in England on which the grass has not been allowed to grow beyond a certain height for hundred years. It Is these that are the envy of landscape admirers the world over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
Cotton Prices apd the Weather.

Cotton has fallen to about 91k cents for the late months of the calendar year, and it bids fair to halt there until the size of the new crop Is bet ter ascertained. The bulls and bears have a tussle in the New York and New Orleans markets each day, but demand and supply are bigger than bulls and bears.
 The statistical position is very strong. Tie visible supply Is today less by 100000 bales than it was one year ago, and the current crop will be fully 11O00,00o bales. This fact goes to show that consumption is calling for an American crop of 11,50o,000 bales, or a larger crop than was ever grown by two hundred and fifty thous- and bales.
 The weakness of the Brown corner consists in the fact that 1t has driven prices beyond the point at which mills can take raw cotton and turn 1t into finished goods at profit to them selves. Many mills have been closed. Much cotton is being brought out, and if crop prospects become bright and promising the prices of the later months may decline to about 9 cents. They are not expected to go below } cents even in January. The bears are using the large acreage and the great sales of fertilizers to bolster up their views, but the only real and substan- tial factor in the case is the weather in July and August. Thus far in July it has been favorable, and continu- ance of the present weather will bring in fine crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
Sleeping nesleotlon doth betray to loss. /
 -1 King Henry W.
Cottnn Growinu in Eqypt.

England has not only bettered Egypt commercially, educationally and even morally since shs. began occupation in 1882, but she has largely benefited the country agriculturaliy. Exports have been increased from sixty mil lions to eighty million dollars, improv- ing the condition of the natives, and establishing habits of thrift among the working classes. All these things have been accomplished in twenty years. Egypt is now prosperous, peaceful and contented. The Soudan has been reconquered, and there is now ample room for growth.
 Heretofore the cotton crop of Egypt has been each year about 100000 bales, grown on 1,3O0,OOO acres, the production being about 800 pounds to the acre, as against 200 pounds in this country. The completion of the As souan dam, towering 76 feet above the bed of the Nile, hc1 materially en- larged the cotton area, and it will not be surprising if it doubles the produc- ton of cotton, and more than doubles Egypt's production of sugar.
 England has expended $24,000,000 at Assouan, all of which she expects to get back from the lands benefited by irrigation. Lake ,Tsana in Abyssinia is to become "a reservoir in the great system <and so for that matter Is Lake Albert Nyanza When the system of irrigation in the Upper Nile is perfect ed England may indeed be able to boast that she raises her own cotton, but by the time that task is accom- plished the world will need all the cotton that Egypt anG the United States combined can produce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
SOME REMARKS ON THE
 BALD HEADED RIDER

From the New York Mail and Express.
 We have at times pointed out instances of the tendency of the American to re- vert to the usages of the Indians. Not to put any sort of stress upon the habit of the Kentuckians of shooting their enemies in the back from ambush, which really was not characteristic practice of the American aborigine, nor to renew the controversy about the change going on in the physical type of the American, we may now call attention to the grow
 ing practice, in this and surrounding cities, of leaving the head bare in riding horseback This interesting practice is extending so rapidly that, in warm wealth. CT or cold, in rain or shine, one may see numberless men and women riding in Central park on Riverside drive, or on Lafayette boulevard, otherwise well clad, but with uncovered hair flying in the wind, like young Sioux riding In a race.
 This practice is no doubt all right when there is plenty of hair to fly In the wind, but we submit that it Is not to be recom- mended In the case of bald-headed men. To see, for instance an elderly man. with a grayish fringe about his head but with a poll totally denuded on top, and possibly with gold-bowed spectacles on his nose, ambiing along uncomfortably, alone or in the presence of younger or properly cov- cred riders. is distinctly disquieting and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10

Russia in 1925, we bought from Rus sia in 1867, and all maps and evidence Of the two periods support our claim. The subject was one of mild core spondence in those periods, for no gold was then known to be stored in Alaska, and the entire territory was considered of little value. The maps cover q period of seventy years, the first one of the series being the Rus sian imperial map of 1927, and later the United States official map of 1867. The British official map of 1892, and the Canadian official maps of 1881 and 1857 conform to the two first named.
 Altogether the Alaska boundary tribunal should have no trouble in de- termining the line between Alaska and Canada, and the fact that John w.. Foster has charge of the American case goes to show that the stories of Lne maps will be adopted without ss- rious objection or dispute. The matter in no way involves war. It Is, in fact, a matter of maps and old records, and no doubt a settlement will in the course of time be reached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
1Wo Excellent AppuIniments.

The appointment of Charles W. Fer guson to the place on the bench left vacant by the promotion of Judge Senn, and the appointment of John c. Pugh to the place left vacant by MT. Ferguson's promotion, will commend themselves alike to the bar and to the people, Judge Ferguson is a student and man who stands unflinchingly up to his convictions. MT. Pugh will rep resent the people of the Tenth judicial circuit with skill and energy. Both ap- pointees are good lawyers, and Gov ernor Jelks has met expectations clev- erly in sending commissions to the two men. MT. Pugh has never failed 70 help the democratic party whenever an opportunity presented itself, and his appointment Is for that reason particu- larly gratifying. Governor Jellks has been as rule happy in his appoint ments, but never more so than in the two just made for this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10

distressing. The vision of such a person teetering down the street on large, raw boned horse, looking more or less uneasy, but with an expression on his face of a firm determination to follow to the bitter end fashion set by younger persons of abounding health and vitality, causes one to sneeze asthmatically from mere sym pathy. One longs to lend the bald gentle man a pocket handkerchief to tie about his recklessly exposed crown.
 Yet more than that one longs for a way of inducing men, as well as women. to realize when they become elderly, and govern themselves accordingly. This par ticular fashion of riding bareheaded is eminently a fashion which belongs to youth and strength. Ambrosial locks may properly ride uncovered. but not bald polls. The football head of hair would not excite the derision of visiting party of Apaches when worn hatless on the bridle path. but the bald head would. It has bad effect by exciting a juvenile derision which cannot be reprobated, be- cause 1t really seems to be legitimate. If Elisha of old had dressed himself in top boots, spurs. brooches tight at the knee but bulging amidships, and a jaunty coat, and had thus mounted his donkey and ridden bareheaded through the streets of Bethel, and if there upon the street boys had derisively called attention to his bald head we do not for a moment believe that the two she bears would have been sent out of the woods to eat them up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
AS TO WATCHES.

From the New York Press.
 Everybody carries a watch nowadays- men. women, girls and boys Prices range from $i to as many thousands as one cares to expend in jewelry settings. The $1 watch often keeps just as good time as the $5OO0 one. Did you ever con- slider the amount of labor performed by a good watch in it's lifetime of fifty years? The balance vibrates 1S,o0o times an hour. 432o00 times a day, or 1576SO,OOO times year. The hair spring makes an equal number of vibrations. and there Is the same number of ticks from the escape ment. Multiply 157, 6s0000 by 50 and you have 1884. 900 pulsations. Yet the watch Is in good condition at the end of half a century of labor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
HOW THE POPE LOOKS.

By Luigi. Roman Journalist.
 One morning while I had occasion to observe the Pontlff even more closely than before, was struck by the strange resemblance he bears to Voltaire. It probably occurred to me because the night before had been reading the great philosophers "Times of Louis XIV" in an edition de luxe. adorned with fine portrait of the Frenchman.
 I think the foreheads of both men simi- iarly formed, resembling one another very much by the expression of powerful en- ergy; the veins run in the same direction. and are of equal size. The mouth also shows many points of similarity in out ward form. only the smile differs: while Leo's lips express benevolence and kind ness. Voltaire's are drawn up in con- tempt. The same may be said of the eyes: Leo's, as well as Votare's, sparkle with intelligence but the air of serenity and kindness which distinguishes the Popes eyes is totally absent In the eyes of the friend and contemporary of the great Frederick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
Selecting Rhodes scholars.


 The first of the intending series of Rhodes scholarships will be filled next year between the months of February and May, and the elected scholars will begin residence at Oxford in October of next year. The examinations for such selections in each state and ter ritory will not be of competitive na- ture, and the aspirant for Oxford must seek an educational "pull' through some college of his state.
 It has been determined that all scholars must be unmarried, and must be between the ages of 19 and 25, and must have reached at least the end of their second years work at some recognized degree-granting college or university. What is wanted is boy inclined to athletics, who is qualified to enter on a course of study and sports at Oxford.
 The manner of selection within a state is not clearly defined, but prob ably pull" of an educational, rather than of a political nature, will be needfu Left as it is, rivalries be- tween colleges may spring up, and the strife may become unpleasantly fierce and bitter Suppose, for example, Au- burn has an aspirant for an Oxford training, and the University has an other, who shall decide? This is where pull" would come in, and the boy who could command the more of it, especially of the educational sort, would win three free years at Oxford. Ii The sending of so many young Americans to Oxford Is an interesting experiment, and it Is not clear whether they will mould Oxford, or whether Oxford would mould them. Probably both would do a little in the moulding Lle. It is incredible that the fifty young Americans who go over seas In October of next year will become Britons. This is not credible. They will remain Americans, but they may become Americans of a modified sort, and here is where the Cecil Rhod es experiment becomes very interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
AN HONOR WITH EXCITEMENT.

From the New York Times.
 At recent fraternity dinner John Kendrlck Bangs told this story of one of his political experiences:
 "At the time I was running for mayor of Yonkers I saw q laborer digging in trench. and I thought I would try to capture his vote. l went up to him and said:
 Hello Pat
 ''He looked at me without recognizing me and said: Good mornin', sor.
 T said 1t was a fine day. and asked him if he had made up his mind how he would vote at the election.
 |" 'oi don't know, sor; but one thing is sure Of'n not vote for that damn fule Bangs
 "rWhy not7
 "'WeI' said he, he's swell and a 'roostercrat and dood.'
 q explained to him as best I could that Rfr. Bangs was none of these things, and, even if he was. 1t was because he couldn't help 1t. I invited him to come and have a drink with me; he accepted, and after taking two or three drinks, we became very friendly. While he was in seemingly affable mood I confessed that I was Bangs.
 q had in my pocket a cigar. and 1t was the last of box that Robert Louis Stevenson had sent me from Samoa. prized it highly. But, much as I prized it. I thought it well spent if l could l clinch Pats vote with it.
 "1 asked Pat If he would smoke and he To ha 0fO off the end. put it in his mouth. and lit 1t. Then suddenly he grasped the cigar and threw 1t violently to the ground.
 "In astohishment I asked him: Isn't it good cigarT
 "rYes, sor' he said, the seegar Is good enough, but in me excitement in meetin' you Oi forgot. O nivir smoke.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
MIR. CRANE AND LuNkHEADs.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 MT. R. T. Crane, who has written book to prove that a university eduea- ton Is good for nothing, now makes prac- tically the same comment on technical schools. He reminds us of village worthy who, after saluting a young friend with the remark, You're in col lege now, hear" proceeded to add upon a moments reflection. Well, there are lots of lunkheads in college"
 There is much truth in this com mentary, but there may be some doubt as to whether the universities, the techni- cal schools, and the colleges produce the lunkheads, and there Is still just chance that bright men may profit by education al advantages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
TO AUTUMN.

 By John Keats. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom friend of the maturing sum Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the
 thatcheaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage
 trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core: To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel
 shells With sweet kernel; to set budding more And still more, later flowers for the bees. Until they think warm days will never For Summer has OCT brimm'd d their clam
 my cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy
 store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may
 find Thee sitting careless on a grannary floor. Thy hair soft lifted by the winnowing
 wind; Or on half-reap'd furrow sound asleep. Drowsed with the fume of poppies while
 thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined
 flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost
 keep Steady thy laden nead across brooks Or by cider press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by
 hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where
 are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music.
 too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying
 day, And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue; Then in wailful choir the small gnats Among the river shadows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from
 hilly bourn; Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble
 soft The red-breast whistles from garden
 croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the
 skies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10

in Paris quite recently by Madeleine Le- maire. the artist, in her studio and Pa risians pronounce 1t the most artistic fete that has occurred for many moon. Athens. was reconstructed for one night. A Greek feast, gathering at the same board the most aristoeratic moderns, garbed In the antique peplum, as the caprice of a great artist The invitation cards, on which the hostess had drawn the graceful figure of.an yAthenian beauty, were worded: "A Soiree in Athens in the Time of Pericles, Madeleine Lemaire hegs you to honor with your presence the Greek fete which she will give in her humble abode on Tuesday. Banquet, dances games and cavalcade Ancient Greek costume de rigueur. Every one in- vited responded yes. and from the Duchess d'Uzes, in a superb robe of cloth of gold and long veil surmonnted by a circlet of diamonds to that classic beau- ty Mme Barrachin, in white draperies, with crown of pink laurel the costumes were infinitely beautiful One graceful woman went as Tahagra. The men were some of them splendid in the garb of old Greek warriors, wearing cnirass and hel- met of gold. At dessert bevy of pretty girls In classic costume distributed flow CTS and fruits to the guests. while female Greek choruses sung by female choris- ters alternated with verses admirably re- cited by Bartel and .Reichenberg. After the banquet Emma calve and Mime. Lito- inne sang passages from Philemon ct Bacus' and then there were Greek dances executed by the leading dancers of the Opera. After sit-down supper. which was quite up-to-date, and much gaiety. the evening came to a close by an animated farandoie danced, by all present It takes an artist like Madeleine Lemalre to design and execute such a fete, and beside it how commonplace sp- pear the costly functions by society in Newport and New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
RIGHT KIND OF SUMMER HOUSE.

Victor Smith, in the New York Press.
 Instead of having your cellar square or rectangular, make it circular, and have the top of the wall a railway for wheels to roll on. These wheels must support the house, and by means of simple gearing the building may be re- volved at pleasure. The winds varia- tions in this way will be conquered. Any window in any part of the house may readily be brought to face the cooling zephyr. no matter from which direction it may blow. What reason is there in sleeping on the east side of your house, in a suffocating atmosphere. when by the turning of crank your room can look west and gather in the breeze? A frame house is light Even one of stone or bricks could be easily turned about on the right kind of table. Here is a sugges- tion for enterprising cottage builders.