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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-15
ERRINC AND
The POOR
Condition Of Life in Virginia
JdilS and AlmShOuses.

NO feature Of the meeting Of the Vir-
ginia Conference of Charities and Cor
rection, held in this city during three
days Of last week was more Interesting
than the report of the Committee on
Charitable and Penal Institutions Of the
counties. This paper was presented by
DR.. John NJ. Pitcher. Of Petersburg, chair
man OF the committee 1t is given here:
we have sent circulars of inquiry to
all Of the clerks of the one hundred
counties Of the State. We received re-
plies from forty-eight. some of them Civ
ing only the addresses Of jailers and SUI
perintendents of poor-houses. We sent
circulars a second time to tifty-two
clerks. We have also communicated with
the Jailers and superintendent of poor
houses, whose addresses We had received.
Only two of these have responded. We
have used all diligence to obtain the de-
sired information from each county. We
ME herewith copy Of our circular.
Our efforts have been rewarded with
information moro or less complete from
tho poor houses Of ffty-scycn counties
and the jails of sixty-two. The jnils
are contiguous to the courthouses and
the clerks who kindly assisted us wcro
able to procure information easily, but
IN many Instances tho poor-houses are
remote from the court-houses and the
clerks are not informed concerning them.
Some Of the counties have no penthouse.
Alexandria county owns q poor-house
and farm. but finds It more economical
to pay for the care OF its poor, than to
maintain the poor-houso. II pauper Is
merely inflrm from age, we pay some
one In tho county to caro- for him, but
II tho paupcr Is sick and requires spc-
cial care and medical attention, we ar.
range with the Infirmary of Alexandria
city to care for him for SIS month.
Wa rd fhtu Y7lo WOrthv 0P m IA
and imitation,
HAS NO PooR-HoUsp.
Bland county has no poor-house and
hires Il superintendent to keep the pau
pers. Tho superintendents salary Is $3.50
per annum and he Is paid $2.79 per month
per head for keeping them. ! under
stand they have poor accommodate ion
and that white and colored are Kept to-
gether Fl.
Our Gloucester county poor are cared
for by the Gloucester Charity School
Fund invested ut 6 per cent, which yields
about $500 or $1,000 a year, tho paupers
remaining at homo and with their friends.
This Is charity indeed. 2asi5a
James City county has no poor-h o,,se.
The poor are looked after by a superin-
tendent for tho county and an oyerseer
for each district in the county. They
are cared for at their homes or boarded
with friends.
An ideal system which we heartily re-
commend,
Forty-cight poor-houses were built one
In tho period OF 1so0-1S26, nine IN ls25-1S5o,
twelve lss0-ls75 fourteen lS75.1900. Bed
ford In 1902 and Culpeper in 1908
OF forty-seven poor houses. forty, ARE
constructed OF wood, I'VE OF brick and
two Of brick and wood. They consist Of
cases OF those, which ara cluster o.
Cabins with two rooms each. The poor
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-15
Bad Manicuring,

many women suffer from tho results OF
bad manicuring, First aid to these SUI.
1e's is the advice to givo up having their
nail" manoured unless they can md a
Eood manicure, Hero Is good remedy
Tor chopped and mutlated cuticle: Buy
ten cents worth OF pure olive oil ana a
small tin CUP Heat the oil over GAS.
not Soak thu fingers In tho oil for III
teen minutes. relocating tho oil IL 1t COTS
too cool Do this three times week and
~ TWO weeks there will be surprising re-
s s,,;,. tak'ns care that It does not eet too
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-15

Take Soda Springs siding quick. Ex-
ira 24O West lost control Of tho train.
DIR"
There never was such bubbllng ut
Soda Springs as that bubbling The OPP
orator tore UP the platform like a hawk
in n chicken yard. Mon never scattered
so quick as when No 10 began screaming
and Wheeling and backing for the clear.
Above the town, Aloysius, eyes white
to the sockets, shooting the curves like
a meteor watched his lessenging stream
and sand pour into the frost on the track.
As they whipped over bridges and hills
fear froZe eyory soul on board, To leave
the track now meant @ scatter that would
break West End records.
When Soda Springs hghted Extra 240
West pitching down tho mountain. the
stool dancing behind and Aloyisus jump
Ing before, there was painful sensa-
u0n-ths sensation OF good men who
6ec disaster they nre powerlcss to
aver Nor did Soda Springs know how
desperate the wlpers extremity had be-
come, Not even the struggling steel
foreman knew that with Soda Springs
passing like films of cinematograph.
and two moro miles of down grade ahead,
the last cupiul OF sand was trickling
from tho wiper's tank, Aloysius at that
moment wouldn't have given the odd
change on pay check for all the
chances Extra 240 and he himself had
left. He stuck to his lover merely be-
cause there was no particular reason for
letting go. IT was only a question OF
how man wanted TO take the rocks,
Yet, with all his figuring Augustus had
lost slight 0f hA pnl.s salvation, maybe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
THE THING QUESTION.
TAleona Rep,,blican.1
np Iz eN74A

No subject discussed at the kossuth
County institute was more interesting
to the farmers present that that of TIL
ing. 1t was ably presented in a paper
read by A. Hutchinson. one of the ex-
tensive tile layers in past years in the
county. Mr.. Hutchinson said that wate,
yet 1T is, when we lose control of 1t,
one of the most cruel and relentless OF
masters. The rain may come so cop
iously as to inundate and destroy the
crop, or 1T may render the soil too
soft to permit of its being harvested.
Mr. Hutchinson said before beginning
to drain farm, the whole tract should
be considered, SO that a main tile may
be laid capable of accommodating all of
the laterals. A surveyor should be en-
rloyed If the farm is anywhere near
level and duplicate plans made. Be
careful not to order too small tile. and
see that they are hard and of uniform
sizes. Avoid the common error of or
dering too small tile. especially for
your main ditch, and employ man of
ordinary good sense to lay them. A
good outlet is very important, and If
the natural course of your drain is
across your neighbor's land, try and
persuade him to join with you. The
statute makes provisions for crossing
the land of another with a drain. 1t
provides also for crossing public wag-
on road. or railroad at the expense of
the township or corporation.
1t is important to screen the outlet
to prevent rats, rabbits and turtles
should be laid on a true grade. If
compelled to adopt steep grade the
tile selected should be larger. Short
turns should be avoided. No willow or
elm should be allowed to grow near
tile drain, as the roots may intrude
and Till up the tile. Rape roots and
horse radish do the same thing. Much
instructions of practical value was
given. Mr.. Hutchinson concluded by
saying that he regarded the money in
vested In tile as q perpetual insurance
gainst both wet and dry weather.
Money so expended will bring the larg-
est returns and prove the best parna-
nent improvement that can be made on
the farm.
Mr. Hutchinson and F. w. Vinson re-
sponded to many questions, and a gem
eral discussion of great interest en-
sued. 1t was the general agreement
that nothing smaller than 4-inch tile
should be laid, and some urged 5-inch.
Tile should be laid three to four feet
deem.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21

most remarkable letters l ever re-
ceived," he said, "arrived on the morn-
ing the first full accounts of the Mar
Unique diseaster were printed in the
The writer said he saw
that the American consul at Martinique
lad been burned to death He applied
or the place and wound up with this
sntence: / make this early application
as to get in ahead of those loathsome
FEATURES, the Office seekers"
Lovers of holidays regret this year
IN some other date than that which
brings his anniversary around on Sun
lay.
Congress has finally reached an
agreement on a bill to protect the pres
dents life, after the strenuous and
prolonged agitation of the subject that
followed the death of the lamented Nc
kinley.
The new word "inanywhere." which
Baron Avebury of London has just
turned out of his mint, seems intended
TO fit the live newspapers source of
supply.
Now it is limited that Bryan may be a
boiler If his party doesn't adopt his
views; but in Bryans view it would be
the majority that would be so classed,
a la Iowa stand patters.
Hotels and other public houses that
accept the guardianship Of many lives
can only be accorded credit for having
performed fair measure of duty when
they have doubled their guard against
fire at night.
Pope Leo, who has completed twenty
five years service as the worthy head
of the Catholic church. has celebrated
that event. To those outside, who
have been hearing for years of his
delicate health. the even. is surprising
in the length of service.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
Eurmtr ~ 1909

The people of Iowa alone are doing in
this line of speculation. Probably every
reader of these lines has had one OF
more chances, by mail and personal so
llcitaton, to go into some investmen
company. some silver. copper or gol6
mine deal. 1t by no means is csrtais
that all of these schemes are fraudu
lent in intent or a sure result. Blu
let one look around and find out hoy
many have really mada any money
any actual cash, by the Beaumont 81
wells speculation or stock. Not to as
any of these investors in copper. sii
Yer. gold or oil will stock what 1T Is
worth today. but how many real. solo
dollars you nave to shea for such III
vestments. Another thing that has .
bearing on all such Investments: Fake,
for instance this real estate deal.
Millions of dollars in New York City
alone are seeking a safe investment al
3 and 4 per cent. Why IS it these men
have to flood Iowa with circulars "a
Iowa merchants and their customers
when so good a thing would be picked
up in one day in New York if they
would only llst these end per cent
investors have a chance at the plum
And here Is another strange thing
Business men in Iowa and elsewhere
will invest in such schemes. but to get
tfsse same business men to invest in q
home mandatory that promises fair
return on the investment is almost an
|impossibilty. as promoters of home en-
terprises know to their sorrow.
II 20 EL@1xA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
THE PRESIDENTS INCREASED POWER.

The New York Sun is recognized
advocate of worthy republican meas
ures, and yet it has not been wholly in
sympathy with the trust busting" eff
forts of congress. Recognizing the view
of the administration that the power
over business interests put In the presl-
dents hands is potent and satisfactory,
1t outlines what might possibly follow:
"Tf this view is correct" says the
Sun, at simply follows that the de-
partment of commerce act has added to
the equipment of the federal executive
an instrument of political aggrandize-
1nent tmmeasurably more efficient than
any he has previously possessed. He
can put on the screws whenever and
wherever he pleases. He can make
business howf-howl or come down
with the campaign cash. He is respon-
sible to nobody, and nobody can stay
his hand. He has only to point his fin--
ger at this corporation or that corpora
ton and say Bad! Must be investigated
for the information of the president
and the inquisition proceeds and the
option Of publicity is with himself. He
has only to smile upon this corporation
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
THE cuRRENcY INITIATION BILL.

II makes some difference who faith
ers' bill introduced and urged in the
congress of the United States, as many
a legislator has learned. 1t is now re-
garded as certain that the measure in
tredvced by Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island providing for an expansion of
the currency will be adopted by both
houses and become law. Senator AL
drich is regarded as one of the ablest
and most influential members of the
senate and his great influence is po-
tent factor in pushing the measure
along. The features of this bill have
been outlined in these columns hereto
fore. 1t allows the acceptance of state,
municipal and industrial corporation
bonds as security for government de-
posts in national banks, and to this
extent releases government bonds,
which may be deposited for additional
circulation with the treasury. These
deposits are subject to the call of the
treasurer. 1t Is carefully drawn to
guard all interests.
According to the Washington pro-
gram the reference of this Aldrich bill
to the ways and means committee of
the house as soon as it has received the
favorable consideration of the senate is
practically settled and is considered one
OF the diplomatic moves of legislation.
The bill will go to this committee be-
cause it has to do with the disposal of
public moneys collected from the reve-
nues of the government. 1t necessarily
conflicts with the Fowler flexible cur
rency bill, favorably reported from the
banking and currency committee. and
for that reason would stand little
chance OF favorable action by the DOM
inant forces in that committee. The AL
drich bill will pass both houses, accord
ing to the prediction of the leaders.
That it will accomplish the ends sought
by the Fowler bill, as well as the vari-
Gus minority bills, is also predicted by
its friends and supporters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
FIRE PROJECTION FOR HOTELS.

The last general assembly made a
law concerning fire protection for ho-
tells. Previous to this the matter of the
protection Of guests in lodging houses
and hotels had been under the super
vision of city councils and boards OF
public works. The last legislature.
however. took a step forward and par
tally provided for the safety of the
transient public forced 20 the shelter of
public lodging houses. 1t was pro-
,ided that all hotels of three or more
every $500 feet of superficial surface;
that these ESCAPES shall be contiguous
u two or more windows; that hotels
where more than twenty guests are
lodged shall furnish tn building With
an outside stairway of steel or iron
that escape may be made easy and cer-
tain. These and other provisions in
the new law. If complied with, would
make such horrors as the recent holo-
caust at Cedar Rapids ar impossibility.
But they are not complied with. The
Clifton House is only one of many ho-
tells in the state where penurious and
criminal policy on the part of owners
puts the lives of the travelling public
in jeopardy. The owners of the Cedar
Rapids hotel property arc in large par.
morally responsible for the twisted and
charred shapes that had been men oil
women the night before which lay at
the morgue yesterday exposed to the
stare of the curious and morbid: they
must accept moral responsibility for
the burned, broken and mangled suf-
ferers who moaned all day in the hos
pitfalls. The legal consequences of their
safety of the public 10y whom they
profited may be evaded, hut the moral
felony toward the guests who trusted
themselves to their care is ineradicable
They can not escape or evade that.
The Iowa Association of Travelling
Men is a powerful body. 1t should give
Its attention at once 70 the enforce
ment of the present law and the enact
ment of another more stringent in Its
provisions. There should be means of
escape from every window of hotel
building. To pass corridors full of
smoke and flame to ladder perhaps
100 feet distant is manifest impossi-
bility. The Iowa hotels are deathtraps
most of them. Let the travelling men
who are most interested in their bet
terment take vigorous action along this
line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
REpLANT,NG FORESTS.
[Washington Corrcspondence.l

washington Correspondence.
Evidence of the growing popular ap-
probation of scientific methods of
managing forests is afforded by the re-
sponses to a circular sent out four
years ago by the bureau of forestry. in
the United States department of agri-
culture. Owners of 4,709,124 acres OF
private lands have asked for advice and
assistance. Nearly one-half of this area
was represented by the applications
made last year. DR.. Clifford Pinchot.
forester of the department, says that
the bureau offers to cooperate without
cost to the owner, when lots of 200
acres or less are to be studied, and to
prepare working plans for larger tracts
after a careful examina ton, the actual
expense of the labor being borne by
this applicant. AS yet the promised
service has been rendered on less than
one tenth Of the land to which these
requests refer, but the .ntersst shown
is encouraging because much larger
part of the forests in this country are
in private hands than are embraced in
government reserves.
Two small tracts for which working
plans were made last year lie In New
York state. One was at Arden, Orange
county, and belongs to F.. A. Hartman.
IT includes $4,000 acres. and was
studied by nine men from the senior
class of the Yale Forest School, who
reported on the character, condition,
present stand and future yield of tim
Der. The other tract WAS in Herkimsr
county. belongs to the Moose River
Lumber Company, and was of the same
extent as the first. This includes some
virgin forest, containing a fine stand of
mature spruce, and a cut over region
On which there is some hardwood.
One of the private tracts on which
observations We're made embraced $780,
600 of the 275,000 acres belonging to the
Great Northern Paper Company in
Maine. Twenty men were there four
months. Complete measurements of tbs
stand were obtained en- over 5000
acres. the rate of growth was deter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

Has become famous during the past
fifty years because 1t is family medi-
cine that can always be relied on for
any arrangement of the Stomach, Liv-
err, Kidney and Bowels 1t is therefore
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from Indigestion, Dyspepsia, consti-
patton, Nervousness, or Liver and
Kidney troubles and who want to get
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ters today. Good health is sure to fol-
low. Avoid substitutes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21

Nashua's efforts it ayers that "a mar
shall armed with linen, safety pins and
nursing bottles must feel proud of the
fathers and mothers OF his town.
The Odebolt Chronicle has no doub;
that Col LATE Young. while in Wash
ington, gave President Roosevelt as
surances that ninety-nine out of every
100 Iowa republicans were stand -pat
ters."
AS to anti-trust legislation, the Lon
Ion Times believes The party pledg,
mas been kept, and, while the Legislation
S not radical, it is believed it will prove
effective. 1t does just what the presi-
dent most desired; 1t lays the grounl
work. for investigation and regulation
of the trusts by the federal govern
ment."
According to the Ottumwa Courier
Mr.. Bryan seems to be the only per
son that is greatly concerned with re-
gard to his candidacy"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21

or that and say: Good! Inyes tigaticn
ton and the trembling concern es-
capeS annoyance and obloquy for such
space of time as he chooses to maintain
this benignant attitude toward it, The
question of the campaign fund is settled
at once and forever more in the case of
any president ambitious enough or po-
litically practical enough. on his own
account or on account of his party. to
take advantage of the tremendous, ir
responsible power WHICH congress- has
enacted away from itself-a power be-
yond the most irdescent dreams Of the
Quays and the Platts and all the little
local fat fryers, past or present, real "
alleged, concentrated now in the hands
of the president of the United States a.
his peculiar, personal and exclusive
prerogative!"
But the Sun has faith in Theodore
Roosevelt as a man of integrity and lof-
ty ideals, and tho pledges are not neces-
sary, it quotes from his utterances:
He must have had in view the pres
ent accretion of opportunity. with its
incidental temptations to politician
not resolutely single minded, when he
declared solemnly at Wheeling. All the
power that is given can assure you
will be used in a spirit as free as posi-
Bile from rancor;' and when he prom
ised in the same prophetic speech TO
most earnestly advocate that the pow
err be used with the greatest wisdom
and self-restraint:' and when he said
again at Cincinnati, I wish to repeat
with all emphasis that desirable tho 1t
is that the nation should have this pow
err 1T is equally desirable that it SHOULD
straint.'"
The Sun. like the people, does not
doubt the wisdom and self-restraint Of
the present occupant of the white
house, but" it suggests, with what
apprehension must the business inter-
ests Of the country contemplate the GER
tainty that sooner or later, in the course
of human events, the power which he
has secured for himself must be trans
ferred to the hands Of an unknown 9TH
er, republican, democrat or a social
list, who may perhaps bet a practical
politician without high ideals and self
ishly bent on second term"
Perhaps 1t may be we'll to wait until
1t is time to cross the bridge before
its strength or weakness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
WORK OF HUMANE SOCIETIES.

Many of the towns and cities of Iowa
have humane societies in harmony with
the progressive sentiment OF this en-
lightened era. Their chief effort, as In
Dictated by a reading of exchanges. is
devoted to looking after the relief of the
patient and most abused member of the
animal kingdom, Citizens in towns
( whore these societies are established
are so much in sympathy with them
that they have many assistants who
detect transgressors. The chief offense,
as disclosed by the press, is that of al
keted in the cold for hours, and even
the entire night. An Iowa newspaper
enraged at this cruel treatment, ex
presses its contempt of the offender
and declares that he should be thrown
across kerosene barrel and thrashed
with stave.
In the large cities the scope OF the
work is larger and members find much
10 do in relieving distress. Here is a
mere glimpse of what occurred in New
York city on recent day when a few
inches of snow had made the hard
pavements of the city slippery. The re-
port says:
1.-THE Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals had busy day. All
of its ambulances were out turnout the
day. Four horses, whose right hind
legs had been broken, were shot. and
twenty other horses, which were badly
strained or otherwise injured, were ta-
ken care of by the ambulances One of
the astonishing things which the rep
resentatives of the society found was
the ignorance of many drivers in charge
OF valuable horses. They seemed to be
HELPLESS when their animals fell The
societys men gave many such drivers
instructions as to the course they
should pursue"
From this report 1t will be seen that
the owners of injured stock become as
helpless as the manned brutes in their
Efforts to find way out, and that TIL
society has distinct mission in this re-
spect. These societies will increase
and their educational effect upon the
people will be helpful in many ways.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
Nearly Forfei.s His Life.

A runaway almost ending fatally
started a horrible ulcer on the leg of j..
Il. Orner. Franklin Grove, Ill. For four
years 1t defied all doctors and all rene
dies. But Bucklen's Arnica Salve had
nc trouble to cure MIN. Equally good
for burns. skin erurtions and piles.
Twenty five cents at George P. Powers
drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21

Men who want their youth, to feel
the same as when budding into man
hood, use Rocky Mountain Tea. Brings
back that vim, vigor. mental and ply
steal power of bygone days. Free if
it fails. 35 cents. Mcbride & Will
Drug Company.