The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-09

without having been the victim Of any
evil thoughts. he marks an x In The
block. which means perfect.
In other terms, this young man keeps
n daily account with himself, and 1t IL
good bookkeeping" The philosophy Of
life Is to live one day at time and have
a reckoning at night The man who Will
| follow this rule and keep an honest
| score, crediting himself with his good
| thoughts and good deeds, and charging
| the bad thoughts and evil deeds against
him, is apt by and by to fall into tho
habit of working in his own interest, SO
| to speak, from day to day, so as TO make
as favorable an exhibit rs possible when
the reckoning time comes at nghtfall.
Why may not ono full into habits of
thrift and enterprise In promoting his
moral welfare as in promoting his mate.
rial welfare?
This youth in the Maryland ,pcniten-
tiary has given us all hint worth
thinking about.
we are grotIfed that the Charlotte
Evening Chronicle makes a liberal synop-
sis OF the article appearing In these
columns recently on Rchmond's pure
food law. The Chronicle Is evidently
pleased with our law, saying that tho
people OF Richmond appear TO be well
snfeguarded against impure milk, but the
law does not stop here; 1t makes ample
provision for the protection of consum-
crs against the sale Of vegetables thar
do not bear inspection, and any person
violating the ordinance in any particu-
lar subjects himself to q fine and his
license may be revoked" We have a
good law in all respects, save one. and
it is we'll enforced Tho people of Char
lotto and Of other cities will do well to
get copy of the Richmond pure food
law and adopt It's provisions. It Is graft
flying, we repeat, that Richmond is set
ting so good an example.
A rather curious law has just been
enacted and put into operation in Massa-
chusetts. 1t is designed, SO its advocates
In the Legislature say, to exempt from
needless modification man who once
in while gets drunk and occasionally Is
arrested for it. Under the provisions of
the act; a fellow who is arrested for
sintoxication may, upon his written state
ment that he has not within twelve
months been twice in custody for the same
offensc, be released without arraignment
in court, where the whole thing becomes
public. 1t Is understood that tho law Is
to be tried as an experiment, and If 1t
be found that it is unwisc to be so pa
tient with men who get on an occasional
jag, 1t can easily be repealed.
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A church in Wnukegan, Illinois, has
war on hand. One faction has voted the
Rev E. N. Tucker out of the passionate
and the other faction Is urging him to hold
the fort and is trying to help him do 1t.
The fight came to an exciting, and rather
boisterous, climax last Sunday night
when one faction, led by the choir, sang
ono hymn, and the other, led by several
strong-lunged singers OF both sexes, sang
another and with an entirely different
tune. Each faction tried to drown out
the other. For nearly an hour the two
sacred hymns were put to this base use,
when the police put stop to the Ser
vices" The trouble Is to be carried into
the courts.
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From st. Petersburg comes the author
itative statement that the cost of pro-
vlding Rojestvensky's feet and the send
Ing of 1t to the waters of the Far East
was something over ninety millions of
dollars. All Of it except four badly bat
tered up ships Is now at the bottom Of
the sea or In the possession of the Japs
The estimate Of Russians killed and
drowned In the Korean Straits fight is
1900 men. and 1900 moro are prisoners.
War is just what General Sherman said
1t was. and it costs great amount of
money to make 1t So
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Governor Douglas, of Massachusetts.
says that while being Governor Is oil
right In its way. he personally prefers the
manufacture of shoes. One of those clas-
steal chaps gave some advice on this
point long time ago.
An article in a weekly periodical claims
that Professor Rontgen Of x ray fame.
is the most modest man in the world.
This seems to be doing the grossest in
justice to Mr.. Thomas Lawson, of Boston.
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Tho fellow behind the bomb proof and
miles away from the fracas generally bell
lows for fight to. the last ditch. Tho
fellow behind tho guns is the one who
knows when he has had enough.
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