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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-30
CARPET. BUYING time.

Time is rapidly drawing near when we will have TO ae e
rce M arnets # yo not taken advaakc OF our prcset
prices YOU had better come Remember they arc nllu -
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WHITE GOODS.

01-2c, Side. Q Use, &c. and
DC. yard for 40-inch India Llnons.
Y DC. for shcerest 25c. Persian Mullss
and india Linons.
53-4c. for 1910. Striped Corded
Madras.
&c. for sheerest 12kc. Persian
Lawns and India Linons.s
1920: for CSC Persian Lawns
and DImities.
i;;4is z :s.ac. for 1876. Duck suitings. 4
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ebc. for SOC. and 75c Cainbrlc and
Muslin Embroiderios-1b to is Inches
wide.
tOc, for 35o., 400. and 500. Dnibroid.
erles-both cambria and muslin-lS
to is inches wide.
10 2.3a. for is and 1e-inch Cam
brio Embroideries that It cost SOC 10
import
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co11oN WASH GOODS.

lowest we know Of
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4s-4o. for e1-4c. Checked and
Plaid Nainsoolss.
i 81 for 10 yards s1.25 English Long
Cloth
&c. for 121sc. Dotted Swiss.
1sc. for CSC. Mercerized Shirt
Waist Damask.
Sc. for values to 25c. in Woven
Tucks and Crepon effects,
7s-4c. for 1870. Fancy Stripe Yard
Wide Madras.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-30
Big REDUCTION In white GOODS.
Al, Third to Kalf off, Some Are Third Of Values.

You will need a new lot OF S1ll
and all other White Goods net
the lowest.
s-4c. for 100. White Duck.
s.-4c. for 1oe Striped and Corded
Madras.
73-4c. for 4o-inch India Linons.
Sc. for 1910. Checked and Striped
Dlmities.
Muslin. ..,-
Madras.
Nainsooks.
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SEWIAG.MAG SIS.

A $50 Sewing Machine tor Tl u
handsome oak frame, ball-nearlrig,
drop top and full set OF attlchm attachments ',s
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31
The Shoe on the Other Foot.

A manufacturer who is said to be
very disagreeable with his employees
tells a good story about himself,
which the Philadelphia Telegraph
repeats:
A Quaker who had just arrived
from England called on him to ask
for work.
.Have you any recommendation"
asked the merchant
"No,'' replied the man, "but |
have friends who will give me one.
He put his bundle on the floor
and left In the course of an hour
he returned, took up his bundle and
was leaving the office without a
word.
Didn't you get your character
asked the merchant.
Without halting a moment or
raising his eyes the man answered,
Nay, master, but | got thine
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

Senator Schain has introduced a
bill authorizing county commission
ers to dispose of real estate or other
property belonging to a county. The
necessity for law of this kind was
brought to light by the following
circumstance. Some years ago the
Traverse county board of commits
sione1s as matter of economy, pur
chased lot in Dumont and erected a
house thereon for the use of E. Pick
ert and family who were there re
eeiwing county aid. A contract was
entered into that whenever Mr..
Pickert should repay the money ex-
pended he should be given deed
TO the property aud since that time
he has paid up all but few dollars
of the amount. When the matter of
transferring the property was looked
up it was found that, while the coun-
ty board could acquire property for
the county, there was no law by
which they could transfer it and they
were therefor unable to carry out
their contract with Mr.. Pickert. The
ouly way out of the dilemma was the
passage of a law giving county boards
the authority to transfer as we'll as
acquire property for the county.
The point raised is a new one that
mar cause considerable trouble
throughout the state. The sale IF
poor farms and other property has
been made in many counties on the
erropeous supposition that the COM
missioners had authority to make the
sac and transfer Wheaton Gazette
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

There are strange things doing in
Minnesota political circles if stories
waited from Washington a,e at all
reliable. The slate of the plotters is
about IS follows: Heatwole for sen
ator, Dunn for governor, and Peter
son for congress from Minneapolis.
Fhe result of the speakership con-
test in the Minnesota legislature has
put this combination in high fea-
ther. Surely politics makes strange
bedfellows when Dunn and Heat
woIe and Fletcher and Peterson
sleep peacefully upon the same pil-
low-Grant County Herald.
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

Railroad wrecks are getting to be
quite a common occurrence. Hardly
a week passes without the daily pa
pers containing the report of some
bad wreck, resulting in several fatal
ties. Evidently the only remedy will
be the Intervention OF the govern
ment to do away with SO much care
lessness.
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

Hicks has it that we are going to
have cold weather all through the
month of February. There is no oc
eassion for his making break like
that for such prophecies are entirely
out of order.
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

The Minneapolis courts are after
Ex-Mayor Ames' boudsmen. Accord
ing to a recent ruling of the court
they will have to fine the lost Char
lev Ross or dig up the bond money
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31
SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1903.

Last Tuesday, January 26, was the
birthday of President Mckinley. The
day was appropriately observed at
Canton, where the services we're at
tended by President Roosevelt.
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

They voted on a measure prohibit
ing the practice of Christian science
in the New Hampshire Legislature
the other day, and the science people
will keep right on doing business.
The vote was 20 to 1914 in its favor
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

James j. Hill recently donated
$1,000 to the Willmar seminary. But
still that's not SO much of a dona
ton. He can give $1,000 where some
Of US would be financially embarrassed
after a fifteen cent donation.
Morris tribune., 1903-01-31

a. Ca - III u ~ Il Ia.
sa.,s, aha - The Kind Voc Have aWas s..-
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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

Eclose. Do you look like that? shall not
read your book until hear from you. be-
cause II you do you are not fit man to
write for children. Yours respectfully.
THOMAS WATSON -
TN running over my correspondents OF
some years ago find the following from
young fisherman who has some claim to my
consideration" Mr.. Bangs continued:
".Proffle House, n. n.
Dear Poppa: The trowt ar biting like
everything here and want some fis and .
good fish rodd caught one yesterday that
weighd under five ponds but he got away
also a reel. I hope you are well and Will
send a fish baskit too. Your sincere SON.
ITO discover sincerity in a son so early In
life. to say nothing Of the love of exactness
involved In a trout weighing under Ave
pounds" said Mr.. Bangs, was delightful"
When asked as to the critical judgment
Of his young correspondents. Mr.. Bangs
said:
ITO professional scribbler there - often
a nugget of real though unconscious crfu-
'cism concealed in the letter of a small
friend, whose choice Of terms is generally
inherently sound. When a certain volume
of my own was published recently a copy
of 1t was sent to fine little lad of my &C.
quaintance. who acknowledged IL in the fol-
lowing fashion:
Ny Dear Mr.. Bangs: I am very much
obliged to you for the copy OF your book.
which arrived this morning. I shall try to
read it soon. From what have seen Of II
I imagine IL Is the thickest book you ever
wrote. Yours truly.
HoDER1cK RANDo0kss
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

Of their little epistles were gems Some
were unique and humorous. others serious,
at times pathetic, but all earnest and to the
point.
Like former President Cleveland. Mr.. De-
pew considered the personality and conf
dences Of the little ones sacred, and said It
would not do to publish names or reveal the
, identity of petitions sent but he intimated
that what some men seem to lack in con-
fidence and ability they imagine could be
fully supplied by their children.
Hence a food OF infantile appeals-preco-
cious, pathetic. eloquent and otherwise
from all parts of the country. telling how
much dear papa needed money or good
place. which would make mamma and papa,
Mamie and Jasper so happy IL Mr.. Depew
could give papa an office or some good job
on the railroad.
John Kendrick Bangs was Of the opinion
that Mark Twain was. as usual: dealing
with great and inspired truths when ne
spoke Of the absolutely sincerity OF the
child's letter IT have had many such let
tiers myself" said Mr.. Bangs. land cam
not recall any in which the writer has taken
refuge In that subtlety which let's the re-
cipfent down easy.
For instance, the demand from a small
Western youth upon me as to my personal
resemblance to a newspaper portrait of my
self that be had cut out of Kansas City
daily imrSessed me as having qualities
worthy OF remembrance. Here 1t is:
Dear Sir: Yesterday being my tenth
birthday. Aay grandmother gave me copy
Of your hssk "Bkey the Skicycle," and
was very hlad Of 1t. but the newspaper this
mqruina hAd picture Of you IN 1t which
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

be Just as good looking as you were before.
'And Ma says she's ever so smart 80 no
more this time because Grant and Moses
are fighting
I'D rather hear about cats at homo and
their truly remarkable names than listen
to lot Of stuff about people am not &C
quainted with, or read The Evil Enecta
Of the Intoxicating Bowl illustrated on the
back of q picture of q ragged scalawag
pelting away right In the midst Of hin
family circle with a Junk bottle"
FORMER PRESIDENT
CLEVELANDS EXPERIENCE
1t is said that the most interesting COM
munications received at the White House
are not from Statesmen and diplomats, but
from children.
Who has not received q letter from Q
child and marveled at its simple eloauency1
Charles Reads makes boys letter unique
feature Of ono Of his famous novels Henry
Ward Bsecher says, Tho child, not the
. master. rules the household"
It was in search Of still further informA-
ton on this subject. SO near and dear "a
human hearts. that visited Princeton. the
university city Of New jersey. and called
on Former President Cleveland.
Perhaps Mark Twain's letter would e1-
press the object Of my mission better than
any words Of explanation.
So when Mr.. Cleveland came and said he
could think Of nothing that would be Of spe-
cial interest to the public I asked permis-
sion to show him what Mark Twain said of
children's letters.
Then he said 1t was true he had received
many communications from children, but
generally in a different vein.
In brief. the children's letters received by
the former President are largely from those
who had been named after him and are now
approaching an age which. as Mr.. Cleve-
land says recalls the number Of years that
have passed since his name was thought
valuable enough to bestow upon children.
The following. which came on the evening
before my call upon Mr.. Cleveland. 10 from
North Carolina school, It shows the gen
eral character Of these letters:
-. June I, 1Soa
'Ex-President Cleveland. Princeton. N. J.:
Dear slrI am II years old and was
named in your honor.
MY father, never went back on
you, nor never, voted Rep. He said that
General Jubal Early once said to him In
War Times that more men were ruined By
desire to be Popular at the sacrifice Of
Principle and Manhood than any other
cause
81 have been absent 4 year WORKING for
money to go to school here next year, for
papa needs his earnings to support his fam.
lily. Would have written my regards for
you earlier. but feared 1t would 60 unno-
ticed. Yours very truly.
GROVER c. -"
Mr.. Cleveland regards as one Of the most
amusing and often pathetic Of applications
to the President for ONCE the frequs1cy
with which young children. apparently IN
inspired. plead for the success Of . fathsr,s
application In the midst Of many othse ~.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Mark Twain greatly enjoys letters from
his little friends. In the late sixties, in the
beginning Of his fame. soon after his I'm
nocents Abroad" came out he was doing
special editorial work for a newspaper in a
town In Western New York. where the fol-
lowing letter was recently discovered.
who the writer OF the epistle is no one
but MT. Clemens knows. and he will not
tell. Commenting on "chiid letters" Mr..
Clemens says:
1.-THE most useful and Interesting letters
We get from home are from children or 9
years old.
This is a petrined truth. Happily, they
have nothing else to talk about but home
and neighbors and family-things their bet
terS think unworthy Of transmission thou
sands Of miles. They write simply and nat
urally, and without strain for effect.
They tell all they KNOW and then stop.
They seldom deal in distractions, or 'homi-
iieA Consequently their epistles are brief
but treating. as they DO. Of familiar scenes
and persons, always entertaining. Now.
therefore, II you would learn the art Of let
ter whiting let child teach you.
Z have preserved letter from q little
girl years OF age-preserved II as q Gu
Fioaty. because It was the only letter
ever got from the States that had any In
formation in 1t. 1t ran thus:
Uncle Mark, If you was here I could
tell you about Moses in the bulrushes again.
know II better now. Mr.. Snowberry has
got his leg broke of horse. He was riding
It on Sunday. Margaret, that's the maid.
Margaret has taken all the spittoons, and
slop buckets and old jugs out OF your room.
because she says she don't think you are
coming back any more, you have been away
too long.
Sissy McElroy's mother has got another
little baby. She has them all the time 1t
has got little blue eyes like Mr.. swimley
mat boards there. and looks just like him.
I got . new doll. but Johnny Anderson
pulled one of the legs out. Miss Dusebury
was here yesterday. gave her your picture,
but She didn't want 1T
My cat has got more ki.tens-oh! you
can't think-twice as many as Lottie Bel
denis. And there's one, such a sweet little
bun one, with a short tail. and named 1t
for you.
".An them's got names now-General
Grant and Halleck, and Moses and Mar
garet, and Deuteronomy and Captain
6emmes and Exodus. and LevIticus and
Horace Grceley-all named but one and 1
an saving it because the one I named
for you's been sick all the time since, and
reckon it'l die. CT appears to be mighty
rough on the shorttailed kitten for naming
It for me. wonder how the reserved vic
dim VIII stand IT..
.uncie Mark. do believe that Miss Cad
Vel likes you and know abe thinks you
aso pretty - (the letter is torn here
a. 0leglbls> . she said even IL you
bsss The smallpox eversso bad you would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-28
GRAND CIRCUIT TRorr1Na.
Dan Patch PAGES Fast Mile, but Fails
to Lower Record.

More than 10000 persons saw Dan Patch
fail In his attempt to beat his worlds pac-
ing record Of 1:59 over the Readville trot-
ting course at the grand circuit meeting
yesterday afternoon. The mahogany son
Of Joe Patchen was not as fortunate as to
conditions as Lou Dillon on Monday. the
weather being adverse to record-breaking
and the footing cuppy. However. the gal
liant champion covered the circuit in 2:0011a.
E. e. Smathers played Billy Buck very
strongly in the Massachusetts, stake race
for 2:12 trotters. Billy Buck won the race
in record-breakinS time for the event by
heat The former record was 2:OS. made
by Onward Silver. Billy Buck sold for
$3.50, Hawthorne $170. Caspian $40 and
Swift $50 in the first heat. The New York
length over the favorite
Geers won the next heat with Smathers'
horse. while his cOnquerOr Of last week was
second and Swift finished in the ruck. The
time for the mile was 2:O7A. In the third
heat Geers led into the stretch and as Scott
was making his drive the roam mare Haw-
thorne made a break. Geers won handily.
In the fourth heat the finish was the best
a length over Swift.
For not trying in the first heat, Scott
Hudson received the first penalty OF his
career by being suspended for ten days.
Alta Mcdonald. for not trying to win with
Kamares. the favorite in the first heat OF
the 2:2O trot. was treated to a similar PEN
atty. Kamares sold for $50 and Queen
Wilkes for $50. but there was nothing to 1t
but the Spear mare. she winning the first
heat from Oxford Boy by length. In the
second heat Dodie X. proved to be the con-
tender, but he lacked the power to beat
Queen Wilkes.
In the 2:16 class Mazetto opened favori Q
at SIS and Jay McGregor brought $50. In
the second selling the odds switched to Nc
Gregor who sold for 500 and Mazetto $e'l
Mazetto won the first heat from McGregor,
but in the second McGregor won handi1y
In the third heat Mazetto could not reacn
Jay McGregor The fourth heat went to
Mazetto. The fifth and final heat saw Nc
Gregor die away in the stretch, and Ma
Zetto won the race.
Lon Mcdonald of Port Henry had the
best thing in the three-year-old race, and
the record made by Charley Kerr in 1898
of 2:13h. was lowered to 2:12A by the win
ner Sadie Mac.
John A. Mckerron, the matinee cham
pion, went against his record Of 2:O5A and
was successful in lowering 1t to 2:O4A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-28
VICTORY FOR DuMBARroN.
Mount Tabors Defeated by Ons-Sided
Score Of "a to 1. &

The Dumbarton club base ball team ad-
minstered a crushing defeat to the Mount
Tabor team Wednesday afternoon on the
Georsetown College diamond. beating 1t "a
to 1, and thereby more than getting re-
venge for their defeat by the Tabor team
three weeks ago by a score Of IA to 13.
The only run yesterday scored by the
Mount Tabor team was on a fuke, while
the club men played in excellent form and
demonstrated their superiority at every
point particularly in batting and base rum
ming. The game was called in the eighth
inning, with the Dumbarton's at the bat,
with one man out and four runs tailed
The feature Of the game was home run
by Rawlings Hume. sending the bali far
down the right field embankment In the
third inning the club men showed some
heady and scientific playing when three
successive hunts to different parts of the
diamond were followed by a long drive to
left field by Suter. which cleared the bases
Dr. loves pitching was Of superior or
der, for the Dumbartons, holding down his
opponents to three hits. one q scratch sin
gle. and In addition flelded HIS position In
faultleas style.
The stick work Of Owen, Suter and
Jones for Dumharton was Of telling char
actsr, while there were many bits OF bril-
liant fielding by 6uter. Owens and Gordon
Charter. for Mount Tabor. pitched q
pbncky but losing game on account Of dis-
cOuraging support
There was large and appreciativs au-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-28

third money, a length and a half back.
Bath Beach was In front for half mile.
but blew up as usual The time was 1.06 2-5.
Odom rode another winner in the third
race. for maiden tw0-year-olds at five and
half furlongs. He had the mount on the
Waldeck stables Requiter. favorite at 13
to 5. Dutiful and Champlain made most
of the pace. but when Odom went to work
in the stretch the Requital colt got home
In front with the margin of short head.
Monadnock rushing into the place. a length
before Dutiful. who was head in front of
Champlain. ReQuiter'S time was Loo 3-5.
In addition to riding Rostand in the sec
ond event. Fuller also piloted second win
ner in Foxy Kane in the opening race for
piaters at six furlongs. The Onondaga colt
was the favorite, among his hackers being
Bookmaker Joe Ullman. who Is said to
have cleaned up $4,000 Fuller took him
to the front instantly, and the colt stopped
the others on their heads, winning in a
gallop by three lengths with Star and Gar
ter. 10 to 1. three parts of length better
than Paul Clifford, 8 to 1. The time was
LIS.
There were only four starters in the last
event. for platers at mile. The start was
poor, Water Tower being left at the bar
rier. Redfern rated Highlander. the favor
lite, with consummate skill for nearly three
quarters of mile. where he let the Ben
three lengths In 1.42. Dark Planet had a
mortgage on second money. Four favorites
therefore, enabled the farm players to
make enough money to pay their hotel
bills and make a concerted rush for
the New York trains. The layers have had
far and away the better of the argument
during the meeting which closed yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-28
READY FOR FUTURITY.
Highball Makes the Best Time in a
Work Out

Very little work will be done today by
the candidates for the Futurity, which will
be run at Sheepshead bay tomorrow after
noon All Of the youngsters that will go to
the post have been highly tried and are in
superb condition. The trainers put in a
busy time at the Coney Island Jockey
Clubs track yesterday and the work of the
colts and FLIES who will sport silk in the
big race was carefully watched.
The best trial Of the morning was by w.
M. Schefters Highball. who won the Grand
Union Hotel stakes at Saratoga last Satur-
day. The Ben Strome colt covered six fur
longs down the Futurfty course in ]. ID 4-5,
finishing all out. The time for five furlongs
was O59h. Sydney Paget's Hamburg Belle.
who will probably have an army of sup
porters. was sent six furlongs over the
main track and she finished we'll in hand in
LA. Trainer Hyland worked August Bel
mont's Magistrate full mile in Las. the
Hastings colt showing remarkable speed
and making a host of friends. These were
the best trials Of the day, although the
Whitney. Madden. Keene and Brown eligf-
bles were all out. Among the trainers
there Is an impression that Will not down
to the effect that the Futurity winner is in
John E. Madden's barn. but the Keene colt.
Delhi. already has formidable following:
Tony Aste has suspended his jockey,
Harry Michaels. for the rest of the season.
Aste has come to the conclusion that Mich
aels has been riding fndinerently for him,
yet for other owners he has displayed I'M
usual energy. AS result Michaels, unless
the penalty Is raised. will not be seen in
the saddle again until next April.
There is talk of a match race between the
star three-year-Olds Afrfcander and Dick
Welles, who recently established a new
worlds record for a mile at Chicago. But
as match races have become unpopular in
the east. 1t Is probable that the colts will
not meet under such circumstances. The
officials of the Harlem track. Chicago, are
said to have offered a 10000 purse for a
race In which Hermis. McChesney. Dick
Welles and Africander shall be the starters
at 5000 q corner. But there is little chance
for the appearance of Hermis and African
der in the west.
McChesney and other horses in E. E.
Smathers' stable will arrive at Sheepehead
Bay some time today. Smathers says he
will start Big Mac" In several of the
Coney Island Jockey Clubs stakes