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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-28

refined by art, not to be transmitted to
others, not to be entrusted to the cul-
tured powers of the superior races The.
negro melodies have filed the places OF
poetry and art and other forms OF
genius in the South, and must enter In
to the literature of the country along
side the magnolia, the tangled juni-
per, and the cotton boil, and If fostered
and emboIdened, will harmonic and
memorize all shades of events, when
the records of the rebellion have grown
dim and sere with years. Only let the
negro not forget to sing. Give him time
and encoura gemeht. Let him teach &c
to his young folks. Let him sing OF
the old plantation, even though the
heat and the burden were heavy. Let
him talk in melody as of yore OF the
hoe cake, the possum. the cane break.
the cotton field. the cabin, the hickory
of the overseer, and the indulgent
Massa. for they all belong to our litera~
ture and our lore.
And thus the traveller from foreign
shores may listen as he listens nowhere
from the Arctic TO the Adriatic seas, to
the song of the enfranchised, the bur-
den of which will vibrate to eternity
And it is time too that the freedman
began to sing of his ransom. Who
shall strike the lyric. or pen the stored
melody for the ready millions to re-
hearse to posterity.
We went out of Edinburgh with
stores of pleasant memories, and turn
ed our faces towards the Highlands.
You can go from Edinburgh to GIas-
gov direct by rail in few hours, or
you may consume a day in making the
journey via Loeb Katrine, Loeb Van
nachar, Loeb Lomond, and the country
which Scott has immortalized in the
Lady OF the Lake. We chose the latter
course.
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I dominion, it is the Imagination which
jostles back the distresses of exist
ence. and discovers the secret windings
which continually lead to new beati-
tudes. The historical drama embalms
events and reproduces them, odorous
of genius, to our retrospective vision.
Poetry and art are easily transmissible
to future generations. But what of the
unwritten melodies of people?
In returning from the Queens drive.
eircling the green and path-secured
mountain wherein is poised at some
height "Arthur's seat" we were at
tracted by the array of gay colors and
costumes which lined Princess street
all the way to the Park Following the
turn at the foot of Edinburgh Castle,
we We're met by the bag pipers in short
frocks, plaid scarfs, and bare knees
the national costume of Scotland. Bet
ter than stage or story this method
preserves the old-time practices TO fu-
ture generations. A scene such as this
realizes the pen and ink pictures of the
past however graphic they might have
seemed. In its actuality it lifts tradi-
ton into the light of the present, and
gazing upon the p1aided figures of the
little Scotch people as they dance up
on the green we are brought face to
face with the 'bairn of Clan Alpine"
or the troopers of the MacGregor, and
involuntarily look up TO the embrasures
of the grand old castle half expectant
of COLLINS and robbers. or that huge
piles of rock may be hurled from the
heights, as from the dragged side Of
Ben Venue. when Iawlessness was the
poetry of Scotland.
AS music defined as concord of sweet
sounds the bagpipe is not a proven
and unchanenged success, unless a con-
vention of rheumatic, asthmatic
Thomas cats. endeavoring to sing I'VE
Won't Go Home Till Morning." may be
so considered. It has its virtues, how
ever. has this wheezy. droning nuis-
ance. 1t is energetic to the point il
may be said. of disdain of the rules of
measure. rhythm or accent. Also it
seems to essay melody, and wildly
shrieks above the harmonious and well
bred numbers comprising the Kings
band of more modern conceit. with
which the sturdy bagpipe aforesaid
condescends to divide honors on We'd
nesdays and Saturdays. But singly,
and on the hands of the blind msndf-
almost any street corner. the assertive
powers of this instrument became
asthrnatic rather than tender.
Let its constitutional irregularities be
covered by the reflection, that under
the Silly whiteness Of the midnight
moon. the old Scotch people still listen
reverently to its nasal tones and live in
a still existent past. I doubt If there
be extant. either in the new world or
the old. a people who share in the
shame or the glory. the shine or the
shade of their ancestry. as the Scotch.
who. If poor in all else, are still rich in
legends and traditions. not mean
legacy to descend TO any people.
And IN PEASANT il may not be uniting
u remark on our own saUanderiug OF
national capital in this respect. We
have among Us as Americans a people
full and attuned to q marvellous mel
odv. essentially their OWE Not to be
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Must take the nude from statues or by
stealth.
No land is perfect, SO we have some
traces
OF modesty outraged at bathing
places
The high art youth, the anxious rising
fellow
May sketch the nude from scenes at
Portobello:
There draw a soldier, and a smooth
faced deacon
Castor and Pollux like upon the bea-
con-"
At our fashionable seaside resorts at
home ladies and gentlemen battle to-
gether. I have seen a thousand at Cape
May combating the breakers, but they
were all clad in bathing costumes of
some character. In this moral land,
however, a different course is adopted,
a long pier divides the beach devoted
to bathing, the females taking the right
side, and the males the left side there
! of. No clothing is exacted of bathers
except brief pair of drawers and none
Of the abIutionfsts are allowed within
hundred yards of the pier. But what
is a hundred or five hundred yards to a
pair of lorgnettes. Thousands of visi-
tors promenade on the pier and eye the
bathers. I made but short stay in the
waters of the Firth of Forth-which
were uncomfortabiy cold-but hurried
back 10 my bathing box on wheels, and
was drawn upon the sands by a damp
but Industrious donkey.
Somehow with all its beauty of archi-
lecture, its terraces. and gardens, and
a
veys to your mind a distinct and dis
agreeable impression of poverty.
Everything is scant and scientific,
erudite and economical and the people
are pious and proud and poor. E.rn
the powder for the time gun. which is
fred by electricity every day at one
O'Clock from the Royal Observatory, IS
reduced to a four pound charge, os.en-
sibly not to startle the inha bitants. but
really TO save the powder.
BY far the larger portion of the APP
preciative world derive their pleasures
from the idealistic rather than the real
in life; not to speak Of the host of evils,
wholly imaginary. fostered in the
fancy. The poet asks solitude and leis-
ure-ima gination, with the finest pos
sible facts. will accomplish the rest.
4 ne aFllSt asks a If1OQeI, no matter IL III
heaven or on earth. or only fitting
name indeed for his transcendant
dream-almost any Promethean rock
upon which to chain it down to the
material world, and so beguile the earth
of the beautiful truth of inspiration.
The orator is successful in proportion
as he is able to lead his listeners
through pleasant and suggestive places,
persuading the judgment by means OF
metaphor, analogy. or broad. continu-
ance Of imag inative thought. Music,
that charmed link between the sensu-
Gus and the spiritual life in its COM
pleteness of purpose electrifies and de-
lights and elevates the most sordid
sold The dream of the inventor is TO
touch the dull and Intellectual flint of
hidden forces with a spark from his
ideations. and so through the illimit-
able fields of thought even TO the very
co~7~as % srtne~~t'tftio7 and oracular
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On Sundays it viii open at 1 p. m.
ADMISSION will be FREE on
thursdays. On other days a charge
viii be made of 10 cents to adults and
cents to children under fourteen years
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-27
WILLARD IN BEDFORD.
Lieutenant Governor Compares
Platforms of the Two Parties.
fgnecIal to The .1mes- i3lspn,rr,.,

~ ta (Speclal to The ImeS-JiSpntcn.J
BEDFORD CITY. VA, September 26--.
At - o'clock to-day Lleutenant- Governor
Joseph Il. Willard addressed a represen-
tativc audience OF the voters OF Bedford
upon the issues OF. the presidential cam
paisn N the courthouse. He discussed
in detail the platforms OF the two parties.
contrasting the last Democratic admtnis-
ira ton with the extravaganza and enor-
nous expenditures OF the present policy
Of government. He then took up the
tariff question. declaring for tariff for
revenue only. FIc next discussed the
negro problem. deprecating the race issue
that now agitated the country. He be-
lieves the matter would ere this have
been satisfactorily adjusted but for the
attitude Of Roosevelt toward Booker
Washington, whom he admired. and re-
GREETED that he had not declined the
Presidents hospitality He believed tlat
the policy of Roosevelt in regard TO Dr.
crum would rctard the solution OF the
rare issue a decade Lieutenant-Gover-
nor Willard urged upon all Democrats
the Vital necessity of voting upon cleo
ton dav at all hazards. 4aHe paid glow
ING tribute to Congressman Carter Glass,
tho representative of the Sixth DisS.ct..
Mr.. Heerlnans. temporary editor or the
Virginia Press, the Republican organ OF
Roanoke, spoke in the afternoon IN the
courthouse TO an attentive crowd.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-27
In1itators.

Tho negro Is our most Initiative citizen.
a band Of his race recently organized in
Sussex county Va for robbery. murder
and arson. They styled themselves
Rough Riders. Every man of them
believed IN "Bis Stick" polcy.--Lexing-
ton Gazette.
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AT STAUNTON.
Attorney-General Anderson and and
cx-,one lin Arouse Democrats.

sT !aPsS1Trot = VA. Sept oS-At.orney,
General Anderson ana axe eS,e'1 Jlm, dis.
cnssed the issues here to-day ,a,,.a
6Winr TO the fact that the opera house
was being Reconstructed and L i. !i,e
Cna,ntv Court room from being used LOT
a,,1. nS,bII,r meeting. the speaking had TO
hcsout Of doors and from the rear portlco
Of the courthouse. ~, ara
sn ealesnss He Mas introduced by, Mr.,
Richard NJ Kerr in a few we'll CHOSEN
words The Attorney-Gein,'era1 !, nef bIacsn
* party the nature of our naional govern
ment ana our institutions were uG,Is
changed from represenealivcs Lspu.ini a
ia A. centralized Imperialisni that t!te
{. three kinds Of government heretofore
4 known 10 the world could be classified as:
Monarchy in various forms; = Aris-
tocracy in various forms; 3. Democracy
1T Z h had ID, been left for the Republican,
party in its thirty-siX years controi o.
The American republic to furnish me
world the outlines OF another and q most
Objectionable sort of govcrnment-the
most venal the most sordid. the most de
& grading Of all. A plutocracy, a govern
ment of Illicit aggregatons !, or money,
bv illicit uses of money, by Illicit cembi-
nations OF money.
He amplhed and illustrated each or
these preparations and showed no" ny
the liberation of Illegal trusts, comb!na-
lions which were crimes at common Ia"
+ and ny statute law, this country was
rapidly drifting towards plutocracy-
z; 1mperial government in the interests or
plutocratic monopoly. He showed how q
tariff for protection was, not only wrong,
,but was no longer needed for the pur-
I poses for which the policy was Originally
He showed how tic Republican party
Z had failed to throttle the trusts and de-
clined to run umuek against them, and
how tho owners and managers OF the
criminal trusts We're the supporters and
bankers OF The Republican party. lie
showed that the Republican party is q
sectional party in tnc truths it breaches
and the administration of the government
hostile 10 the people Of the Southern
States; that 1t disseminated against the
South In every way. He showed tina. the
Democratic party was national party.
Its candidates for President and Vice
President men who would mete out im-
partial justice to the citizens OF every
State lie conrasted the characteristics
and traits Of Colonel Roosevcl.Nnd Judge
Parker, paid Il Just tribute to Judge Pai-
kcr and urged the Importance OF his
election, which would check the growth
OF imperlaism.st TO eradicate the spirit OF
4 plutocracy from our political system and
3 TO overthrow sectionaiiSm and establish
a broad national spirit OF Justice and
equal rights III the control of our ma.
tlonal government
Mr.. Anderson spoke for two hours, and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-27
RICHMOND COLLEGE

Next sessipn opens September ed.
Thorough instructionln ancient and mod :
ern languages, pure and applied sciences,
history, philosophy and law. In septetn-
Der. 1904, new courses III frce-h and
mechanical drawing and In practical ma
chnnics and electricity Will be opened. Eek !
cellcnt laboratories In physics, chemistry.
biology psychology, mechanics and draw
Ing. Special attention is called to the fact
that full professors teach the lowest as
we'll az tho highest college classes. Stu
dents at entrance usually take first-ycar
Latin, English, MathaA,atics and History.
They therefore have as their teachers
Professors W. j. Fousheo. r. G. Wood
ward. r.. Es Gaines and s. G. Mitchell.
# For catalogue and Information. address
Pres. F. w. Boatwrloht, Richmond. Va. &
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-27
AT HALIFAX.
Glass, Williams and Barksdalt
Make the Welkin Ring.
tspeclal TO The TimeS-D!spatcn.i

Especial to Inc ! lIne.'-b'opa.S 49,
HOUSTON, VA. Sept. 26.--To-day. was
the regular term OF Halifax Court. Ihere
was a big crowd in attendance drawn IN
great measure on account OF polltical
speaking. At noon the speaking com.
r,enced Mr.. NJ. B. Booker briefly ana
eloauently introduced Congressman Glass
Who made a logical and impressive speech
OF one hour holding his audience In rapt
attentions Hon, W. P. Barksdale fol.
lowed. ard in introducing Hon. Samuel
w. williams OF Wythe. took occasion to
alude briefly to the issues OF the cam
pagn. arousing much applause and great
enthusiasm 1t was the first appearance
Of Judge Williams In Halifax, and he cap
tlircd his audience completely Tor over
one hour and half,
He held the closest attention Of a large
audience and lie was frequently greeted
with vociferous applause. His speech was
a ro,,sins ont and full OF fire and as a
result OF the speaking Halifax Democracy
is stirred up and enthusiastic.
Hoge,- the Republican nominee for Con-
sress. and Thomas L. Moore, addressed a
small audience on the other side OF the
court green even curiosity did not attract
fair crowd OF white hearers at-the time
during which they were speaking.
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.ASSASSINS FREE
TODODEADLY WORK
slaycrs Of Won Plelvc@ Havc
Haven in Alps and Cannot
be Arrested.
N(By Associated Press.2

/
b ST. PETERSRURG,a September o7-l: 10
A. M.-While some OF the features OF the
blot, which eliminated IN the assassl.,
nat ton OF NJ. Won Plehye, tho minister Of
the interior. still BATTLE the police. the
authorities profess to be now perfectly
certain that the conspiracy was hatched
IN Geneva by half a dozen RUSSIANS,
mostly Jews The authorities know tho
names and addresses Of the consp'rh-
tors. but are unable to take legal netlon
against them, owing to the failure OF mo
laws OF Switzerland to Interfere with po-
.litIcal refugees. and therefore Russian
territories are at liberty. from their haven
III the Alps, to continue The work OF ns-
sassInatIon Of Russian ministers so long
ns they are able to find emlssaries Will
.inE to risk tleir life tire organizers never 7,
yenturng to carry out their own de'
signs. Six men who engineered the 5Plell'c
plot, according 10 tic result OF tho RUS
sian police, arc declared beyond shadow
OF doubt 10 have organized 2 series OF
political crimes
! FoP tic first time the fact Is now
revealed that M. Plellve's murder MAJ
been preceded by four abortlve attempts
ia encompass his death, which INC .us-
partmept Of political police frustrated N
5tl,o nick OF time by the arrest OF mo
would-be nssassins, who Wels{au1el'y3 an
pris0ncd.
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accepted in the spirit in which they were

accepted in the spirit in which they we're
made.
In conclusion, 1t may be said that WINE
there is no disposition on the part OF those
charged with the management OF the
Democratic campaign to create raise I'M
pressdons, there is among them an undls-
euised inclination to expect a pronounced
Democratic victory in November. pro
yidcd all Democrats march shoulder 70
shoulder in support Of the ticket ana
platform. That they will do this IS pc
coming more and moro evident day ny
day. In Indiana, for instance, where 'l'e
friends Of Mr.. Bryan are numerous ana
powerful, the party will present q united
front to the enemy. Conferences nave
been held there within the past week,
which we're attended by representative
Democrats from all sections of tho state,
Including men who have been active IN
promoting Mr. Bryan's political interests
during the last eight years. Many so
called Gold Democrats participated IN
the conferences and they, ns well as the
men who led the party in the fight for
silver. have pledged their best efforts TO
swing. the State into limo for Parker ana
Davis. From other localities, East and
West, North and South, news OF a IKE
tenor has been received II these pledges
OF party loyalty are redeemed-and " IS
confidently predicted they Will be-therc
can be but one result, and that the over
throw OF the party IN power.