The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-27

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A Matter of Health.
The Board Of Health Of Henrlco coun-
ty Is doing we'll to look carefully after
the sanitary icondltion of residences In,
thckly settled sections, and to enforce
the regulations.
Iii the western suburbs the situation is
enough to alarm the natives. Filthy wa
ter Is turned from some OF the houses
into open bitches and flows into the gut
ters. 1t is ugly to the sight and often
sive to the smell, and 1t Is full Of dis
ease.
All s,,ch nulsances should be abated at
once. and dsenfectants pentifully applied.
Health Is too precious TO be trifled With.
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Shipments by fast freight and express
carrying Southern vegetables for North
ern markets has grown to enormous pro-
portions with great benefit to the truck
yer, the railroad and the consumer. Be-
tween y O. clock last Saturday night and
IL o'clock Sunday night. the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
handled four hundred and eighty-seven
cars, or thlrty-six trains, Of perishable
freight for Northern markets, and when
1t is remembered that q car load Of
Strawberries Is worth $1,000, 1t Is easy to
see what anienormous revenue is being
earned by the farming and trucking lands
OF tho Southern States. Cotton and gar
den vegetables are making tho South a
gold mine, as we'll as Garden Of Eden.
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The friends in Richmond of DR.. Robert
Strange, rector Of st. Paul's Church, are
the Episcopal Church In North Caro-
lima in choosing him to be bishop coadju-
tor Of the East Carolina Diocese. He is
in all respects qualified for that honor
able Office and the honor could not have
fallen upon a worther clergyman. But
the commandments Of ST Paul's and all
Epcopalians and citizens generally Of
Richmond cannot but hope that Or.
Strange will see his way. in duty. to re-
main here. His departure would be a
public loss.
The burgess monument was unveiled
at Williamsburg yesterday with appro-
pirate ceremonies. This monument is the
gift of the Washington branch Of the A.
F. v. A.. and is another monument to
the good work which that noble associa-
ton has done for Virginia and for his
tory.
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Bishop Turner. the colored divine who
announces the new doctrine that the
original man was negro, and the
present white man is but a bleached
Niger seems ambitious to be known In
history, IL known at all, as a kind Of
Darwin II.
Both the Japs and the Russians have
lost more ships and seamen by mines
and accidents than in battle. It would
seem that the naval problem is how to
take care OF a fleet out of battle rather
than in it.
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For the information of startled pub
lie It may be necessary to state that
the Norfolk man who forgot to apply
for reappolntment to an Office he had
been enjoying, lives mighty close to
cemetery.
The Fourth of July toy pistols are
already on sale, but there is no law
to compel people to buy them, and un-
fortunately there Is no law to make
people refrain from selling them.
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The Newport News Clearing House As
ISOLATION reports that the banks Of that
town handled slo,347, 1910 during the year
ending April Both, and that is not bad
for the shipbuilding town.
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The man who was working off that
old joke about seeing ice in the cutters
and on the sidewalks OF Richmond a
year ago yesterday, has been shot.
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1t took the Illinois Republicans longer
to nominate candidate for Governor
than it did the Northern Methodist Con-
ference to elect eight bishops.
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Wonders will never cease: A Norfolk
man has actually forgotten to apply for
an Office that he was entitled to. And
he really lives In Norfolk, too,
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The ST. Louis show has no midway.
but 1t has a pike" down the which
you had better not go. A midway by
another name can be Just as loud.
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