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

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3MEHERRIN, VA, August 29.-Muhc
dissatisfacton exists among farmers Ct
this section on account Of the 10" prices
for the new crop of tobacco
Many tobacco ralsers several weeks ago
had prepared to save their entire crop OF
printing and write the warehousemen ri
Danville and other markets to this effect,
but they were advised by the tobacco
mon that the vices werer too low to justl-
fy the trouble.
AS a result the greater part OF the crop
mas not been saved
Heretofore the average farmer has
realized enough from primings to more
than pay for the fertilizer used.
Many OF the people engaged in this in
dustry say they will discontinue this
crop as they cannot afford to employ
labor at tho present prices and raise
tobacco for from three to six cents pei
hundred. While others say they are com-
PEELED to continue It, as there Is no crop
that tho farmer can make that VIII take
the place Of tobacco. The prospect for
this crop through here is very promising,
and several good cures has been made
land the farmers who have examined mo
leaves that are cured, say that they have
q good fat tobacco, and with the Same
prices that were received about this
tmo last year. they would have some
surplus money to make the next crop
with.
COUNTY POLITICS. .
The district committee has been called
together to devise some plan tor the
situation ain this district, and the county
committees through its secretary. MI,
George 7. Allen, has ISSUED call tor
meeting, to be held at Lunenburg Court
house on the 14th day Of September court
cay). A primary Will likely be ordered
az this meeting, While all the candidates
so far are Democrats, It Ia thought al
vlsable tha,, a primary should be leld IN
order to settle the situation
This question was before the committee
some weeks ago, but was carried over
for while TO SEQ II the state OF affairs
demanded 1t. The district comEntttee
decided 10 hold primary on Septem-
Der 18th. THE whole county seems flooded
with candidates. who are continually on
dhe 70 soliciting votes, and as the time
draws nearer the situation grows warmer.
GOOD REGISTRATION.
The registration books nave heeA openeG
side this week, and a long list OF names
have bee been added. The politicians are
working hard TO get the people to regis
tar and with their help and the interest
that is being taken In the county cleo
tons. it is quite evident that g very
small Der cent. OF the qualified voters
viii be left out this time.
4 number Of young ladies from the
adjoining county have been the Guests
OF their friends In TINS ne a,3 onniss,
has been In Quite q whirl Among those
who who have spentlthe week here are Misses
Alice Finch. Annie Farls and Lena Ma
son, -of Chase CITY; Vera Fowlkes. Of
l,unenburg Courthouse, who has been
the guest Of the Masses sllacklelord At 4,
Linden; Miss Perry. Of Eo avee ~ n Smt'
Lotte staples; MISS SAge &C.. o Misses Inez
Cakes, With Mrs.. a. Love, M'sses tAs
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-30

and Julia Barnes, OF Richmond, with
the Misses Barnes, near Brusv!lle; MISS
Vera Ltttlepage, OF King William court
house, with Miss Mary Neal; M!zs suale
nvnrhv Of Dpes; Miss lola 3. Wlnn o.
R,chmond. and Miss Ethel Berry. OF
Green Bay, with Mrs, NJ. +. Gee,
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Appropriations for Education.

The following figures for typical
states from each section of the Unit
ed States indicate the relative
amounts which the states of these
sections pay for the common school
education of these children. North
Carolina spends annually an average
of $1.92 for the common school edu-
cation of each child of school g in
the state; Mississippi, $2.o6; Tennes-
see, $2.23; Kentucky, 1892; Texas,
1888; Minnesota, 1888; Kansas, $S.76;
Michigan, $500; Ohio, 1891; Illinois,
Silt; New York, $10.91; California,
$16.44; Massachusetts, $17.79. In each
state the number of persons between
the ages of five and twenty years old
is reckoned IS the school population.
1t is easily seen that several states in
other sections pay from four to eight
times as much for the education of
each child of school age as the states
representing the southern section.
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CRUMBS SWEPT UP.

Every lot is happy to a person who
bears it with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
If we want to find life poor and
narrow, all we have to do is to choose
shallow companions and read trashy
MISUNDERSTANDING.
prayer, asking Good to keep you
from evil and use you for His glory
during the day.-Canadian Church
mar.
Truth is the highest virtue and sell
dom grows wild. 1t is difficult to
speak the truth, and those who have
tried it longest best know how diff
cult it is.-George Macdonald.
Whatever of success I have attained
is due to my unfailing custom of
reading my Bible and of praying
every morning before / leave my
room. No difficulties nor stress of
business keep me from thus prepar-
ing myself for the day.-Booker L.
Washington.
The honest service of Jesus Christ
paws the SOU a rich dividend of solid
satisfaction. There Is no wretched-
ness in a true Christians trials; his
bruised flowers emit sweet fragrance.
The fruits of the Holy Spirit are love,
joy and peace; the promise of the
Lord Jesus is that His joy shall be
full. The sweetest honey is gathered
out of the hive of a busy, u~nselfish,
useful and holy life.-Theodore L,
Cuyler.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
HOW TO MAKE A VOLCANO.

ing the country waste, a miniature
one, one that will make a pretty lit
tie spectacle, and not do any harm at
all, is greatly to be preferred.
Here is the way to prepare it: Get
a large fat glass dish, and in the
middle of it stand a small vial filled
with claret wine, and stoppered with
a cork through which a small hole
has been bored with a red hot wire.
Now, get some clay or common
earth and build a miniature noun
tain around the vial. Build it high
enough to conceal the vial entirely,
but leave a small hole in the top of
the mountain clear down to the cork
in the vial. Thus the miniature vol
can will be all ready to be set off.
Strange to say, not fire, but water,
will be needed for this purpose. A
real volcano has both, for the eX-
plosion is caused by the contact of
water with red-hot melted rocks
down in the earth, and the enormous
pressure of the steam thus generated
breaks open the earth and throws
out the melted rocks as lava. But
this little volcano can be started into
action simply by pouring water into
the glass vessel until it comes two
or three inches above the top of the
little mountain. Then give the wa
ter a rotary motion and watch for a
few moments and you will see red
streaks coming up through the wa
ter and gradually spreading out into
a red cloud. The volcano is erupt-
ing!
But what makes the red wine rise
through the water in hat way? It
rises because it is lighter than wa
ter. 1t would have remained in the
vial, of course, if we had not poured
the. water into the vessel, but when
the two liquids have come in contact,
the lighter rises to the top. Your
teacher would tell you that wine has
less specific gravity than water, but
we are not using scientific TERMS
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
POSER FOR
Eminent Student of Human Nature
Claims Children Are Educated
at Home to BE Liars.

An eminent pessimist observes that
tic of all mankind. From his earliest
infancy a child learns to lie. His par
ents and his companions teach him to
do so, and so do nearly all the grown
up persons about him.
At first the lying may be innocent
and without any bad intention. The
little girl pretends that her doll is
talking, that it is i'll, that it is catch
ing cold. This may be regarded as a
form of lying, however innocent the
intention.
Nearly all families, however re-
spectacle, make use of various conven-
tional lies in daily life. The child no.
tees this and follows the example set
him. He hears his parents tell the serv-
ants to say that they are not at home
when they are. He hears them COM
pliment people to their faces and criti-
else them after them are gone. He
hears them tell visitors how delighted
they + to see them, and as soon as
tASy L SOhC liz lila thSJ ~
a dreadful nuisance.
Grown-up people lie when children
ask them questions, either because
they cannot answer the questions or
do not want to, or are ashamed to
do so. #fftK
By and by he finds out that his elders
We're in the habit of lying to him, and
he adopts the habit himself. The child
who tells all he knows in public is nat
urally considered a source of great
embarrassment. His parents tell him
that he must not tell all he knows;
even that he. must pretend things are
not what they are. In order to force
this behavior on the boy for the sake
of keeping up appearances he is often
punished, and this of course impresses
the lesson of lying upon him very
strongly. He learns that it is impossi-
be to live without lying.-Chicago
American.
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his first grandson, the proposition be-
ing extended to his two daughters as
well as his sons. A daughter has since
been born to one of the senator's
daughters, but the winner of the grand
prize is the babe just born to the wife
of William A. Clark, Jr. 9
Great precautions had been made
for the reception of the prize winner.
There were nurses and doctors for the
mother, and nurses for the babe and
laces and finery from New York and
Paris.
Mrs. Clark, who was formerly Miss
Duf1ield Foster, has two sisters who
but they are childless. Their interest
in the coming event was the greater
because of that fact.
at is the finest baby ever born"
said one of them to-day. but there
is nothing of the Foster about it. 1t
is Clark all over.
And then she went on to relate some
of the Clark characteristics in the in
FAINT. 1t has already shown its inner
itance of peculiar gesture employed
by Senator Clark and his son in public
speaking, that of closing the two mid
die fingers of the right hand and hold
ing out the little and the index fingers.
Isn't that just too Clark for any
thing?" asked the proud auntie. "The
babe weighed 7h pounds at the time
of it's birth, is without a sign of hair
on it's head, has blue eyes and a pink
nose"
at is without a flaw or blemish,''
said one of the nurses. AS a baby with
a million dollars and with prospects
of inheriting $3.50, 600, 900 more some
day, it is an exceedingly interesting
object to everybody in Butte"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
Game of ALTERATION.

Provide each player with a pencil
and paper and every two minutes give
out a letter. During the two minutes
each player is to write a sensible SEN
tence, each word of which begins with
the letter given out. If S is given out
some n might write: Simple Susan
sat sewing skillfulIy," or the like.
When as many letters have been given
out as there r players, each player
must read one sentence. Anyone with
q sentence longer than the onesread
aloud marks his sentence, beginning
with the same letter as the n read.
plus, with a sentence shorter, minus.
The one with the most plus marks is
the winner.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
MOST CAT.
Kentucky Feline Is a Formidable
Rival of the Pelican and the
Greedy Fish-Rawk.

Capt. W. j. Stone, of Lyon county, is
the possessor of the most remarkable
cat in the world. This cat, not content
with the ordinary prowess of the fe-
line species in catching birds and ro-
dents, has entered a new field and is a
formidable rival of the pelican and
fishhawk. According to Mr.. Sidney
Shocks, deputy surveyor of the port,
and a s%on-in-law of Capt. Stone, it pre-
fers fish to any other form of food and
regularly goes fishing in Stones lake,
the big sheet of water on Capt. Stones
farm.
81 don't like to tell this Story" said
Mr.. Shocks, because people are apt
to class it as a fish story, when it is real
ly only a catstory. The fish are merely
incidental. Anyway, l always think of
Mark Twain's story of the cat that
ate the cocoanut, and 1 am willing to
produce the cat at any time to prove
my tale, provided some one else will
supply a pond of clear water well filled
with fish.
Jasper began his fishing expedi-
tons several years ago. We often
found after a days fishing that the cat
would eat the heads of the fish the
cook threw away. One day he followed
J party of us to the lake, and his dis
appointment was great when he found
that we deposited III fish in the bas-
ket instead of leaving them where be
could make a meal. After awhile some
one noticed Jasper crouched on the
bank, his eyes set, just as he Watches
sparrow he is after. Suddenly his paw
shot out and from the water he
brought q gasping perch, which he
soon put where it would do the most
good. After that the cat made regular
trips to the lake."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
TWO HIGH AUTHORITIES.
Sabbath Observance Not an Old
Fashioned Idea = what Two
Premiers Think About 1t.

A recent periodical contained these
two personal items, given without
comment as part of current notes On
prominentpeople:
Mr.. Balfour, the new premier OF
Great Britain, is a devout Presbyteri-
an. He never allows political business
to interfere with his observance of the
Lords day."
"Sir j. Gordon Sprigg, premier of
Cape Colony, made a speech during his
stay in London on the observance of
the Lords day. He expressed his firm
conviction that no man could really
prosper or live to old age who failed to
observe the weekly day of rest, and
that no country could eve be prosper
Gus where there was Sunday trading
or Sunday excursions for pleasure"
How confusing such items must beto
the minds of young men who wave
aside the observance of Sunday as an
old-fashioned idea! Here are two
men, N the head of parliapentary
government in England, one the pre-
mier of a new and great colonial state,
practical, large-minded men, both of
them, and necessarily up to the times,
who yet keep Sunday themselves, and
believe in it as a national need. Mr..
Balfour is not only a statesman, but an
author of noted philosophical books.
and one of the keenest and wittiest
minds of his time. He is not an old
fogy; he represents brilliancy and
progress. Yet he keeps Sunday, which
so many clever young men feel them
selves too intellectual to do.
Can it be possible that the brilliant
young man who is toe progressive TIC
honor the Lords day may beless clever
than he thinks? 1t is a painful thought
especially for the young man-and
yet it persistently suggests itself. II
the men who guide the destinies OF
great nations, not by chance but by the
choice of their fellows, exalt the Sab
bath, showing public and personal al
legiance to it, is it so old-fashioned
after all? The opinion of these two
high authorities certainly is worth
considering by all who see true prog
ress and true principles of living, per-
sonal and MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
Gentleness OF Temper.

Let u temper be under the rule
of the love of Jesus: He cannot
alone curb it-He can make us gen.
tie and patient. Let the VOW, that
not an unkind word of others shall
ever be heard from our lips, be laid
trustingly at His feet. Let the gen.
tleness that refuses to take ~offense,
that is always ready to excuse, to
think and hope the best, mark our
intercourse with all. Let our life he
one Of self-sacrifice, always studying
the welfare of others, finding our
highest joy in blessing others. And
let us, in studying the Divine art of
doing good, yield ourselves as obedi-
emit learners to the guidance of the
Holy Spirit. By His grace, the most
commonplace life can be TRANSFORMED
with the brightness of a heavenly
beauty, a the infinite love of a Di-
vine nature shines out through our
frail humanity.-AndreW Murray.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
A MEDAL FOR AVAILABILITY
1t Is n Quality of Character That
Makes the World Better and
Brighter.

There is a statement being made in
some papers to the effect that at a
school gathering some time ago a boy
was awarded a medal for amiability.
He was not specially apt in his studies;
he was not singularly studious; but
he Vas such a sweet-spirited fellow,
he kept everybody in a wholesome hu-
NOR, he was ever cheerful, he always
lent a hand where it was needed-so
they gave him a medal for being anna
Bile. The incident is such a wholesome
one that it is worth mentioning here
with the suggestion thai there are not
q few of us who might well seek to
no medals to be given out. AS n
goes in and out among people, noting
their temperaments, their likes and
dislikes. their frankness which is
often another name for abruptness to
the point of pain-there grows the
longing for lore amiable people. What
a different world it might be if each
of us determined to bring some sun
shine into it. There is sunshine in the
way we shake hands with people, in
the way we greet them as they pass
on the street, in the office and store.
There was a father who made an agree
ment with his two little boys; they
were to always make sunshine, ever
to be amiable. One day the little five
year-old came to his father and said:
Papa, Willie is making clouds" "And
what is the other laddie making?"
His dropping head told the story; it
usually takes two to make Clouds; n
amiable heart is likely to drive the
clouds from other lives. If al award
was being made for amiability would
your name be called?-Baptist Union.
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of poverty. He sued for Miss Goelet's
hand and fortune, but was rejected.
Prince Henry of Orleans has been ru-
mored to be the next royal sutton i'll
line for the hand of Miss Goelet.
Prince Henry's weakness for the green
baize and the footlights is phenom-
email. His highness is not much of a
scholar and is nothing of a converse
tionalist. The reports of his escapades
have been food for some of the richest
gossip of Paris. AS a title Prince
Henry is attractive, but as a husband
he really doesn't equality" and it was
folly to suppose that a clear-eyed
American girl would overlook what
even a young Frenchwoman with the
European awe of his title and the
European belief in the marriage de
could not accept. So Miss
Goelet repealed his advances and he
went back to Europe without his COW
eted bride.
Out of the long lists of triumphs
which have followed her all we the
world there have crept rumors of three
omanc in the four short years of
her life in society. The hero of the
first was the young Viscount erich
ton, reported the h~andsomest man
in London. 1t was said that
Miss Goelet sent him to South
Africa with the promise that if
he returned with the Victoria cross
she would marry him. Then, gossip
had it that Capt. Ames, the tallest
and one of the bravest officers in the
British army, whom Miss Goelet met
at a garden party, was in favor. The
last report was that young Craig
Wadsworth, attache at the American
legation in London, a popular cotillon
leader and an ex-rough rider, was head
and shoulders before all others. These
three men are very much of type,
and, if rumor is true, it is easy to see
what sort of man Miss Goelet likes.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30

bah! I don't care much for chickens,
not even little ones, and l never eat
them unless very hungry indeed.
Why didn't they bring me a live
mouse?
I ate some of the chicken neck be-
cause I was nearly starved, but after
several days my toes began to curl
up and cramp and l couldn't sit on
my perch, so the big brother said
they must let me go again. When I
was free / got a nice breakfast of
mice the very first thing, though it
was hard to catch them with my
toes so numb. They call me Screech
Owl. / know you are frightened
sometimes and run home when you
hear me in the lonely woods, but
that's just because people have told
so many bad stories about me, half
of which are not a bit true. They
have said l eat little chickens, but /
don't, though 1 do sometimes dine on
English sparrows. Still, as long as
there are plenty of mice 1 don't
want anything better.-J. Marion
Schulz, in Orange Judd Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
E OWL TALKS.
Tells Our Boys and Girls How 1t Lives
and the DeIicacies 1t En-
@. joys Most.

Good evening! Do you wonder why
I did not say good morning? Well,
it is just because my day begins with
the dusk, and in the morning l go to
bed before you get up.
Did you ever get caught when you
didn't want to be? One evening when
l was sitting in the old pear tree
near the woodshed, wondering where
the plumpest mice would be most
likely to appear, a farmer boy
sneaked up behind and grabbed my
legs. He put me in a cage and then
his big brother, who was al artist,
made a picture of me. But l
squinted n eye all the while so l
would look very wise and knowing.
But they were very kind to me and
tried to give me food and water.
They gave me a raw chicken neck
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
BRAVE FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Feet and Saved Himself by Not
Losing His Head.

A thrilling incident is told by the ST,
Paul Pioneer Press of the marvellous
escape from death of a man while
painting a bridge 100 feet above the
Mississippi river:
One afternoon Anderson was swing
ing happily like a bird on a twig six
feet below the roadway of the high
bridge, and about 100 feet above the
Mississippi river. The seat of the
swing was a short piece of plank. 1t
was attached at each end to ropes,
which, passing through a block, re-
turned to the swing as a single rope.
BY frightening or shortening this rope
the man could raise or lower himself
II was hanging close to one of the
steel rods" said Anderson, "a rod that
/ was painting. My rope was good and
fast. | had no warning of any dan
ger, when the sky and the clouds and
the bottom Of the bridge dashed
past my eyes, and the air whistled in
my ears like a typhoon on the China
seas. | knew l was going down head
first.
II wasn't frightened. / said to my
self: Now, I'll strike the river before
long and If ! keep going this way I'll
hit the water head first, which will be
just as good as diving; and, being a
good swimmer, 1 can easily get ashore
But about 60 feet down. didn't
measure the distance then-my head
struck one of the crossroads a slanting
blow. My legs sort of huddled up as
| fell, probably, and came down full
force against the rod. Icould hear the
bones crack. They made quite a loud
noise like a percussion cap. Then
thought to myself: well, this is your
last cruise, for sure and things got
black before ne. 1 guess l tainted.
"But the cold water brought me to.
/ bobbed up as natural as a harbor
buoy. But as soon as 1 made my first
kick, or, rather, tried to make it, !
found that both my legs were hanging
as heavy and dead as shot in a canvas
bag They didn't pain me, though.
But when I found / couldn't swim !
felt my gun was spiked for sure.
"Just then I heard the crew up aloft
hollering: Good boy, sailor! You're
all right! Keep it up! Boats coming.
Keep a-paddling, Jacket 1t did sound
fine and hearty, let me tell you. And
so 1 kept a-paddling until a man
reached me in a boat Is minutes after
Idropped down."
The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-30
THE SENTRY AND THE BOY.

The sentry stood before the throne, 7tf
So pompous, grim. and tall. y
A little lad came strolling In,
So quiet. trim, and small. III
Come, come! Be OFF, the sentry said;
You can't stay here, you know.
l am the Kings new bodyguard.
Be off and cont be slow!' +.
The little lad stood all amazed.
AS II he had not heard; 9B 8r y
The little lad stood still and gazed
To hear the sentry's word.
b off, you 6olt!" the sentry cried,
And see you make no noise.
The King or Prince may soon be here
They don't like little boys!'
oh. but you're wrong!' the child replied
THE King. l know, loves me!
While l like little boys myself 81
And I'm the Prince, you see.''
Tudor jerks. in ST. Nicholas. fat.