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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05

ISW'A.'l''I'l|..N|''|.Cl.iII.
A Railroad Was Promised But.
1t Has Not Come.
THE /, LUMBER INDUSTRY
Prospect That the Blackstone and Chase
CITY Road Lunenburg Lumber
Company Is Interested IN IT,
IN Farming Interest.

MEtInRts1N, VA. April 4,--Tho t rail- II
way that the people OF this section we're re
expecting and So eager for last fall.
seems now to be thing Of the past. Y lis
Darly last summer The Lunenburg Lum-
Der Company which was organized 9 Y IN
Richmond, came here and bought out;
right millions Of feet OF fine lumber N
this county, and set. to work Immediately
to build road about twenty miles IN
length through d portion OF the county,
tipping the Sou thern two miles below
this point. Aflargo force Of hands were
but to work and the grading Of this road
was completed about eight miles, Ties
were then purchased and scattered over
the graded section and all felt sure that
the old Free StateYf would soon have
monstrous engines hauling long trains OF
cars through the best 8timbered section OF
the county. But as winter came on and
the weather began to grow rough, work
was suspended until the first OF last
March, when they were to have COM
menced work and push the road to COM
pletion. March came and Is gone and no
work Is yet done. WI 81 j.iS 81 y q
In the meantime the Blackstone and
Chase City road was being agitated and
the Lunenburg Lumber Company became
Interested In this line, and q few days
ago a contract was let by this company
to the latter for the grading Of their road
several miles through Nottoway county,
and on Tuesday last the burg Lum-
Der Company moved all Of their tools
team, &C., to Blackstone, where they will
commence work at once Whether or
not the road will ever be run from here
remains to be seen, but all In this section
are quite sure that 1t will remain just as
1t is at present for years to come It
Is rumored In this section that the plans
Of the company have been changed since
the Blackstone and Chase City road will
go near Lunenburg Courthouse a It is
thought that they will top this road In
stead Of the Southern and build branch
back in this direction, and by this means
get their products to market over @
cheaper route. *
The timed owned by this company is
situated all the way between this point
and Lunenburg Courthouse, and should
they decide to carryiit over this route It
would be just as convenient for them. l,S25
The recent hall that fell here did no
damage so far as known to tho fruit and
vegetation, as everything exposed was
very wet from rain, and this, WITH the
cold weather didn't last long. enough to
allow a freeze The prroSpects for a fruit
crop here are unuSuahiy good at this time
Of the season; And unless Jack Frost
makest- Another Visit, the crop will be very
heassy. f
r. The farmers have been rushing ahead
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05
COMMITTEE }
Will DECIDE [. E.
The 6 Candidates Agree to to Sub
nit Their Claims.
souTHAL.Ll's SUCCESSOR ;l.J' Gee: SO
Both sides Claim Majority il the. the
Committee Or razier Delivers an
Address. on Education d Ll-
SIC by Young Ladies.

h BLACKSTONE, VA, April THE polliltt'-
yical situation here as regards the repre-
sentative to the Legislature has been zen In
terestlng since the question OF which OF
the two avowed candidates, Messrs.s -,
%. Lee or Meade HaskIns, Is to be de-
cided by the County Committee OF Motto ''ttt
way county The committee is to meet
here on Tuesday next, the 7th instant,
tosdecide this important matter,
Y The reason for this. Is In brief. as fol-
lows: 81 A j 81. !. Il II !.
This legislative district Is composed OF
two counties. NottoW,ay and Amelia, Il
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05
Heard iCrew,e.
(snecIal q The Times. pIspatch. I

(speclal to The Times.p ispatch.)
CRpWD, VA. April 4,-vA large audi
ence greeted DR., Frazier at the Presby-
terrain Church Thursday night, His adj
dress was elevating and instructive
Mr. J. r. Johnson, machlnlst, was sum
moned home Thursday by q teleGram
at his home In Lawrenceyille. (. IS
Misses Ruth and Pauline Andrews have
returned from Visit to blackstone and
Petersburg.
Mr.. Daniel Mccormick is very mpch
better.
Miss Estelle Perrin, OF Amelia, is visiting
Miss Annie Phentx. A i7f SIG.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05
IN BUCKINGHAM,
Farmers Making Good Headway Pre-
pairing for Spring. s
fspec,al to The Tines-Dispstch

Especial to The Times -Dispstch.)
GRAVEL HILL VA, April 4,-The
farmers In this section are making good
Roadway, preparing land for spring plant
Ing, They are not as we'll up with the
work as formerly, Peach. cherry, plumb.
pear and early apple trees are In full
bloom here, So far but very little harm
has been done by tho sudden changes in
the weather.
Mr., W. c. Hall, OF this place, came
near having serious accident few days
ago. In holding a stake that q neghhor
was driving In the ground with a heavy
iron sledge hammer, the handle to the
hammer broke, Just as Mr.. HAL had step
ped to one side. The hammer would nave
struck him squareiy on the head,
Wheat and oats are looking well here,
Not over half to three-fourths crops Of
tobacco will be planted, Very FEW farm
ers made any money on the crop the
past season. One or two-years more End
tobacco will be a thing Of the past In
this section--that Is at present prices,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05
THE TRY COMPANY.
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of a Unique
Presbyterian Society.

Presbyterian Society.
WOODSTOCK, VA, April 4,-The twen-
ty-fifth anniversary of the Try Company,
Of the Presbyterian Church, OF this place,
was held tonight. The meeting was
largely attended and was addressed by
Rev. Or. Charles Ghiselin, Of Shepherds
town, w va. This company devotes its
energies towards the missionary work.
and is the oldest in the state, having been
formed In 1878,
Joseph r. Wisman, son Of Mr.. Milton
tWisman, Of Calvary. Shenandoah county,
was severely kicked in the face by n
horse this week. {ii, II i. rs "A ISL
A number of new residences will be
erected In Woodstock during the coming
summer and 1t Is expected the dearth of
houses will be overcome. At present
there Is scarcely a house to be rented or
purchased 45
Shenandoah Camp, Sons OF Confederate
Veterans. has been organized here with
twenty-five charter members. l.. 8,
Walker was elected commandant; M. 2,
Stickley, first lleutennnt-commanda
D.. ", Grabill. second lieutennnt-com-
mandant, w, B. Miley. ndjutant; II. A,
Knelsley. Quartermaster; Rev, w. ],
Cooke. chaplain; B r.. Hoover, treasurer;
The emigration of citizens from shenan-
doah county continues to be very large.
and In many localities labor Is becoming
very scarce, During the last week the
! following parties have left for other
places: O. Wisman, TO Delaware; Fl, L.
Rosenberger. to Richmond R!!ssel shipe
to Pennsylvania; James Dellinger and
Charles Jones to Ohio; Erasmus and Rice
Cotfman to West Virginia Polk Lucas
to Indiana Reuben slbert, Hugh Painter
and John Billhimer, to Pennsylvania
Henry Carper and John Cooke to. Wes
| Virginia, and Emmett Barton, to Ohio,
Mr., Harrison Fndely Of Lantz MIL, ha!
OF M. v, Branch. The consideration was
| So 900,
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'VEl,S OF
] | ( ID
ste6f Yedr. Oldvir.glnlilIal,nI|
II s5Circling the Globe.
THE PHILIPPINES II NE; $;
ss)Sg Desc endant Of William l Byrd
4 foveris a Deputy Sheriff In
.I.Ph,ll'ppines at the Age
N. ;ofiFourte,en. IN,

E1EsTESR, VA. April 4.--Ricliard
Byrd, Jr., Is perhaps the young
aSsler %tl1e world who will have
sssSss The 81 lobe when he returns to this
q II summer. Dick" MS he is NJ
81 tals at ely known to his many youthful
ysd@ sstnrted from Winchester August
son his trip around the world. He
Ell irteen years OF age when, no
ana y is d boy Of unusual intelli-
Ssand is blessed with a temperament
selys devoid Of fear.
4 Sd his mother good bye atEWashf Z
ana started on his long trip across Ess.
asatfnent, stopping in e Chicago Mt
Ser1nasr House for several days.. Az
.sf ass yxing at the sights Of that great
Vast er lick ~ enjoyed a sail IN
ichigan. ,s He did not stop again
q reached San Francisco, where,
EI4Ssg few days spent in Viewing the
NJ &c that western metropolis, he
setS steamer for Manila, bound upon
S EsSssNirney such as perhaps no other boy
n ID age 4 ever undertook MS pleasure
Nsss first stop was at Nagasakf, Japan,
EEAhe globe trotter wrote home 70 ms
S3eS its* glowing and descriptive accounts
III; wonder OF that country rs they
unfolde before his eager eyes. nc
Hs u IN the beauties Of the Flowory
iomna and his youth but artistic soul,
h gSs plainly Impressed rs could be In
EEsEd from the letters that he wrote. But But
Nagasaki had its disagree
Ns FEATURES one Of which might have
Muptlyf terminated / the boyislli enth'u-
ISM OF our Juvenile traveller, had It
@tsben that a Wise Providence, needing
n blatant n Mothers prayers In Old pc, Vi Viz
islis; watc hed over the boy. The steam-
s n enc ountered 4, a fierce typhoon which
I'VE 4 the ship three hundred miles out ut
ITS course and for a while there here was;
'achs danger.
I'M TO MANILA.
However. 3$th he journey was continued
,,m Japan ~ to Manila without further
sss.;hap q and one bright day the steamer
Siediainto the \ bay Of Manila, where he
sssssmetsby the II y! G }. Carson, for
ssrly Of Warren county, but now Judge
lfheS Eight judicial Circuit. who ism
Sat friend OF icls's, HI in fact one Of
| b& Chief ob jects OF the world journey
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-05

Best ON earth for Constipa tion,
Biliousness, Dyspepsia and Liver
Troubles.
Price, a5c. everywhere,
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15

large cities. 1t is impossible to use
steel extensively in building at it's rul-
ing high price and still get a profit.
Therefore, the structural steel market
has been similarly curtailed and the
mills feel the ensuing loss. The home
market has been enormously contract
to go into the foreign market at cut
prices, and there is little new territory
to invade.
Meantime at home the big steel
trust and the independent workers
have reached an understanding to keep
prices at their present high level for
time at least. Our industries that have
everywhere struck falling tide are
to be burdened with continued high
prices, in order to help out these ia
vorites Of vicious tariff system And
our people, whose industry might still
suffer but little were they to be grant
ed in their purchases the benefit of
those lowered prices that would come
with a free market, to help balance
lowered profits, are caught between
the upper and neither millstones.
The country has to face these pres
ent conditions for some time to come.
1t will be long ere the circumstances
that produced the unexampled activity
of late years, some of the most impor-
tant of which we have recounted here.
can be revived. In the meantime, re-
trenchment and readjustment should
be the order of the day. In the mean
time, our business interests should be
helped and not handicapped by legisla-
ton. The tariff has made the trusts,
and the trusts have made their mil
lionaires; and now the common peo-
pie, who form the substratum on
which this great edifice rests, are col
lapsing underneath it's unbearable
weight. The time has come for rec
tifcation of policies, for looking facts
in the face and for a reconstruction Of
governments in the interests of the
people and against all that legislative
favoritism which breeds monopoly and
has led us out of prosperity through
the open door of business decline to-
ward a severe industrial crisis.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
HIGH SCHOOLS WILL
Do COLLEGE WORK
President Harper Predicts This Ex-
tension Will Come Within Ten Years.

CHICAGO, Nov. 14.-"Ten years
from now the high schools all over the
country will have added fifth and sixth
years, and will be doing the college
work which now falls to the first two
years of the college courses. In Michf-
gan and Minnesota the state universi-
ties are accepting work done in many
Of the high schools for the first year
of, college study. l have not a shadow
of doubt that the high schools are
going to DO college work in the futui e."
President William r. Harper, of the
University of Chicago, made this
prediction in q session of the principals
and deans of the 200 high schools and
academies affiliating and cooperating
with the University of Chicago.
A resolution was adopted that here
after the university should allow three
entrance units for three years pre-
paratory school in rhetoric and one
year of provisional college credit for
college rhetoric done in the high
schools.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
AN IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERN.
MENT.

The statement of returned mission
ary from the Congo Free State corrob-
crates some of the rumors that have
been afoat for a considerable time with
reference to that rather interesting ex-
pertinent in government. They also
confirm the old saying that what is
everybody's business is nobody's bust
ness, and carry with them a terrible
warning for this country in connection
with it's relations to subject and de-
pendent people thousands of miles dis
tant from it's centers of authority.
Rev. DR.. Morrison says that the pro-
visions of the International treaty pro-
hibiting slavery in the Congo Free
State are Systematically and univer-
sally violated. He insists that the aw-
full system f1ourishes in full force there,
and that slaves who fail to make the
expected contribution to the wealth of
their masters are subject to death or
uOrflDl0 torture.
We have heard before of the artoei-
ties that are said to be matters Of
every day occurrence in the Congo Free
State. The ordinary conditions that
prevail in Central Africa wherever
European power has not actually es-
tablished some rude form Of control
are the product of centuries of human
greed and cruelty. Ever since the ac-
cursed institution Of slavery was
founded it has drawn its supplies from
the black reservoir Of the Dark Con-
tinent. The tribes there, which are
always at war with each other, have
been taught to make captives and to
steal men and women where they can
not be taken in open fight, and deliver
them at certain designated points to
agents of the slave trade.
By.th horrible system the holds of
the slavers were filed and the planta-
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
The OPERA IN ENGLISH.

Verdi's masterpiece, "Otello," has
been Englished for the use of an Eng
lish grand opera company. This adds
another to the growing list of grand
operas that have been translated from
the italian, the French or the German
language into English for production
in the English tongue. Undoubtedly
there are many music lovers who are
quite sincere in their disapproval OF
this English adaptation Of foreign
grand operas. They are those who ap-
preciate the fact that a thought most
guage is often very awkwardly, some-
times uncouthly expressed in the
music of an italian composer demands
an italian libretto, German music a
German libretto and French music the
French libretto, since music is never
international.
"
not so finely attuned and who derive
far more enjoyment from the opera
when it is sung in a language they
understand. And these others are de-
cidedly in the majority in this country,
The story of the opera means as much
to them as the music, and the music
alone does not express that story.
Grand opera is delight for the few
and a fashionable diversion for the
Many. The latter fact is a sad one but
nevertheless it is a fact What grand
opera needs, therefore, in this country
is not better patronage-so long as it
remains fashionable there will be no
need to complain of the patronage
but more intelligent appreciation. And
this can be obtained for grand opera
only by making the people more fa-
miliar with it.
The presentation of the operas in
English will do much to bring this
about. OF course the English grand ope-
ra is no longer an experiment. For the
past few years American audiences
have been listening to some Of the
greatest operas sung in the English
tongue, and these have become popu-
lar in the best sense Of the word. I'm
fortunately those who are best able to
estimate the influence of these operas
in increasing the appreciation for good
music in this country have withheld
their approval entirely or have accord
ed the movement grudging praise.
Those who follow instead of lead,
therefore, have not yet decided how the
innovation should be received. But they
attend the operas-which is, after all,
the main thing, since their presence
gives the approval their tongues with
hold.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
Cattle Breeder in Straits.

CLINTON, Mo-, Nov. 1.-THE Union
National Bank of Kansas City today
filed a suit in the circuit court for $40
900 against Casey & Towers. Col.
George M. Casey, breeder Of Short
horn cattle, is a member of the firm.
The firm had executed notes for $40,0 900.
it is said. A United States deputy
marshal today served papers on Col.
Casey in an attachment suit for $l2,04S.
brought by the Merchants National
Bank of Lawrence, Kan. The basis OF
this suit was notes executed by Col.
Casey to a Kansas City commission
firm, which assigned the notes to the
Lawrence bank. Col. Casey is suffer-
ing from nervous prostration. His in
debtedness is said to exceed 100000.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
SHE WILL BE GOOD.

Eleanor Lawrence has promised her
papa that she will be good and he has
permitted her to go on the stage It is
up to the public to say whether Eleanor
will stay on the stage, but it is to be
said for the young woman that she
knows something about the advertising
game-and that helps largely when a
young person aims to become an
artistic.
Eleanor comes out of South Bethle-
hem, Pa. South Bethlehem is a much
better place to start from than Mauch
Chunk, but it has not produced any
heroines yet. Eleanor looks little like
the raw material for a heroine though.
She announces that she has for years
been consumed by a desire to go on
the stage. AT many amateur entertain
ments she has been warmly commend
ed by the members of the school board.
Her friends have united in saying that
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
THE EMPRESS AND THE AUTO.

Her Sacred and Serene Majesty Isl
An is a woman after all. She has fall
en- to the inducement of the devil
wagon.
ing a hard-hearted and thick-skulled
old party. She has, on occasion, mani
tested her dislike of things foreign by
having those of her subjects who dared
to suggest innovations impaled or boil
ed in oil or treated in some other disa-
greeable way. Her penchant for short
ening the foreign devil by a head has
tent. The Establishments of foreign
displomats, even when accompanied by
jewels, she has spurned with the hau-
teur of a debutante in her first season.
when she sent back his jewels to the
car of Russia, the world got the i'm
preston that there was something
L
Englishman, who knew the world, even
gave it as his opinion that he didn't
believe there was any such person as
An. And we of the Occident were in
clined to go with the skeptical Brit
Usher.
But An had put a price upon her
prejudices and has now demonstrated
that she is most surely woman and
that she may be reached. She was not
to be bought over with ice cream sodas,
even the offer of dinner in corner
window with champagne and truff1es
she scorned when it was proffered by
Minister Conger. Diamonds she sneer-
ed at and duchesse lace she treated as
dirt.
the sex who sent her a picture of an
auto. She fell instantly. And being an
empress she went her sisters of the
commonalty few better and, instead
of being satisfied with a single auto,
she has ordered nine and is going out
in procession with a view to driving all
the other girls in her neighborhood
crazy with jealousy.
Tsi is coming our way. If only some
enterprising Yankee will now open a
oodbouca hale uau hatuaep Palxip and
the summer palace and get Tsi to stand
for a single mint julep it will be a
mere matter of detail for us to look
after the partition of China
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15

practice by which pupils are forced
rapidly through the grade schools and
into and through the high school to
please parents, to crafty themselves
and to shed a certain fictitious luster
upon the educational system in force.
We do believe, as has been urged in
our own city, that the high school
should be an end and aim in itself. We
believe that it's standards should be
set very high.
In view of the enormous number OF
students who never reach the high
school, and of the relatively immense
proportion of those who do enter it
and never graduate, why should not
our chief attention and our amplest re-
sources be devoted to the greatest
good of the greatest number? The
imposition of a new test of thorough
ness in the grade schools, of a length
ening of the course if that appear ad-
visable, will raise the level Of the in
struction given to all those pupils, VIII
benefit those who are to be barred out
from high school privileges, will make
entrance to the high school mean more
than it does now, will enable the course
there to be amplified or improved and
will reduce the number of students to
the measure of present facilities
The whole system of public instruc-
ton in the United States has grown
top heavy. Our money is spent and
our best abilities are engaged upon
polishing a few choice and selected
specimens of youth, while the vast
multitude for whose benefit public
schools are instituted and in whose
name the people are taxed to support
them get the smallest attention and
the cheapest service. The way to cor
rect this is, we think, that which we
have pointed out. Make more difficult
access to these special privileges by
giving better instruction to the pupils
of the grade schools. This is the fun
damental and only just principle on
which any system of public education
at the public expense can rest. Our
board of education will do we'll to con-
slider its practical application in st.
Paul, both as solvent of existing diff
ficulties and as point of justice to
the people.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15
HELPING RUSSIA TO
CONSTANTINOPLE
Secret Agreement With the Bulgarian
Government Came to Naught.

LONDON, Nov. 14.-The Sofia COR
respondent of the Times says that, ac-
cording to revelations of the Journal
Otziv, the late Zankovist ministry
made a secret agreement with Russia
to surrender the ports Of Varna and
Burgas on lease as Russian naval sta
tions to facilitate the Russian advance
on Constantinople. Elaborate plans
were all arranged, but the scheme was
upset by Prince Ferdinand's calling
Premier Petroff and Stambuloffists TO
power and by the recent elections
which appear to have destroyed the
influence Of the Zanhoff party for some
years.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-15

she has talent. The South Bethlehem
theatrical critics have agreed that she
has future But Lawrence pere had
heard stories about "them troupers"
and he was obdurate. Eleanor's tears
moved him not at all, but as she wept
she communicated with theatrical
agents and found an opening. Then
she made proposition to papa that
overcame his objections.
She offered to sign a contract to
eschew midnight suppers, frivolous
company and the Johnnies. Inasmuch
as her knowledge of Johnnies was linn
hem Eleanor probably did not wrench
herself in making that promise. But
she promised not to eat late at night?
She might have taken the views of
some one-night- Thespian who
has been compelled to prowl for food,
after the show, before she signed the
bond as to that.
Papa Lawrence accepted the contract
and Eleanor has gone out into the
world. Presently she will emerge from
the rear rank of spear ladies and get
into the limelight-for there is no use
trying to keep girl who originates ad-
vertising down. Eleanor Lawrence is
bound to be an ornament to the stage
and South Bethlehem will shine in the
refulgence of her glory. But Old Man
Lawrence has been put into the BOBBY
class for the present and will come to
understand how like a chump man
may be who has a gifted daughter.