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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-01
Mr.. Williams's Letter.

Richmond. Va, JAM II. 1905.
Messrs, o. H. Berry 81 Co, lbl7 EasL
Main Street, Richmond, Va:
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in the News Leader within the dates spe'
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-01

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-01

Fourth street, 1900 feet long. III REQUIRES
highsvIaduct, CANDLES HillEto N1anchcs-
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
Rivers and IIarbors and Good
 Roads.

The advocates of the Brownlow. Latimer Good Roads bills are not afraid of criticism. In fact, it is ex. actly what they desire, as it will aid in getting the matter before the peo- pie in discussion that will develop the strength of the question. One of the strongest arguments in favor of na- tional aid to good roads is that based on the river and harbor appropriations. The only questions seriously discussed when river and harbor bill comes up i'll Congress are the amount to be voted and for what particular inn proNement the money is to be spent, the general policy being already thor oughly established. Congress has in the past fifty years voted more than s400, 100000 for this purpose, and now an annual appropriation of $25, ,0o0, ,000 Is looked upon as quite conservative. The advocates of national aid to road improvement claim that much more can be said in favor of their proposi-
 
 tion than in favor of river and harbor legislation, and much less against it. Both come under the general class of internal improvements. The gen eral argument in favor of river and harbor improvements may be summed up as follows: U They promote the general welfare. @ The improve mentS entail an expense too heavy to be borne by the people of the locali- ties most directly interested, and hence would never be made if the government refused to foot the bills. The same arguments apply with equal force to the improvement of the pub He highways Certainly no kind of
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
Cancer Cured by Blood Balm.-All Skin and Blood Diseases Cured.

Mrs. NJ. l.. Adams. Fredonia, Ala.
 took Botanic Blood Balm which ef- fectually cured an eating cancer of the nose and face. The sores healed up perfectly. Many doctors had given up her case as hopeless. Hundreds of cases Of cancer, eating sores, sup perating swellings, etc, have been cured by Blood Balm. Among others. Mrs. E. M. Guerney, Warrior Stand. Ala. Her nose and lip were raw as beef, with offensive discharge from the eating sore. Doctors advised cut ting, but it failed Blood Balm healed the sores, and Mrs Guernev is as we'll as ever. Botanic Blood Balm also cures eczema, itching humors. scabs and scales, bone pains. ulcers. offensive pimples, blood poison. car buncles, scrofula, risingS and bumps on the skin and all blood troubles. Druggists, Sl per large bottle. sam ples of Botanic Blood Balm free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co.,. Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special medical advice sent in sealed letter. It is certainly worth while such d remarkable rem. edy as the Blood Balm cures the most awful, worst and most deep-seated blood diseases. For sale by j. II. Dunayant X Co.
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
Are You Engaged?

Engaged people should remember, that. after marriage, many quarrels can be avoided, by keeping their di- gestions in good condition with Flee tric BitterS. S. A. Brown. of Ben nettsyille, $. C.. says; For years, my wife suffered intensely from dyspep- sia, complicated with a torpid liver until she lost her strength and vigor, and became a mere wreck of her for mer self. Then she tried Electric Bitters, which helped her at once, and finally made her entirely well. She is now strong and healthy" All drug gists sell and guarantee them, al DOC q bottle.
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
The Country Boy.


 The child city born and bred has fewer opportunities for acquiring a sound, practical knowledge of the es- sentials of life than the child born in the country.
 The farmers boy may not have the polish of the city boy; he may not be able to talk so understandingly of the current events which take place in town: his hands may not be so soft and smooth. and he may not so often think of how his finger nails look but of real, useful, practical knowledge he has ten times as much as the city boy.
 The farmers boy knows the birds, the beasts, the trees, the. various plants: he can pretty accurately fore tell the weather. and if he sees a good horse or COW he knows it.
 He is good judge of character. and later on in life he will not be readily taken ill by sharpers and frauds. Say what you like about the "old hay seeds, they are not half so green as they look.
 The farmers boy is courageous, for his daily life leads him into more or less danger. He must climb the trees for the nuts and apples, and climbing gives him agility and self-confdence He breaks the colt his father gave him, and he has horse it is pleas ure to ride after He raises his own hens and chickens, and when he eats the custard his mother makes for him there is no flavor of antiquity about them.
 He breathes the purest air that lies out of doors. He feels the sunshine fresh from the eternal fount and not held in solution by clouds of smoke or gases from some poison distilling man. ufactory. He is alive and thorough. He has jolly good time in life, and | bye and bye when he has made his millions in some stuffy counting house he will look to his life on the farm with regret that is akin to pain.
 He will recall the rocky hills where the naples yielded their hearts blood i'll the glowing spring, and the sugar camp where the luscious sweetness bubbed in the great yats, and the girls from the neighboring farms came up in the moonit nights to help at the 'sugaring off.
 The life of q farmers boy may have restrictions: it may hold it's full share of hard work; but work is d glorious thing when the ability to perform it is given. Work, which so many worth less scionS of eifete aristocracy affect to be mortified at, is God-ordained. It strengthens and develops man men. tally, morally and physically. The man who can work has a comfort in time of trouble. and staff upon which to lean in adyersity.
 Let no living person decry the coun try. To live in pure atmosphere, tC see daily unfolding before the eye won derful problems of the seasOns-old but ever new; to watch the sunrise and the sunset tinge the mountain tops with the light no artists brusl can ever imitate to love the gentl, animals and the singing birds whicl are ever around the child of the coun try-why, it is but step to the per lection which We hope may come t' us when the glad new life opens up t' Us in the Mystical Beyond. Farmer Voice
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
Reward Offered.

l will give reward for the name and address of lady who lived in Memphis during the war-in 1862 Her name at that time was Powers (by marriagel, and her husband was in the southern army. She was a young wo- man at that time. Would now be somewhere between 50 and 70 years of age. To any person sending me the right address l will pay liberal re- ward. Address all communications to George Stull Powers, Justice of the Peace, Hendrickson, Butler County, Missouri.
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22

improvement would do more to pro. mote the prosperity and the moral and intellectual upbuilding of the masses. 1t is also equally certain that this great work of internal improve ments will remain undone, to q great extent, if the whole burden of ex- pense is left to be carried by the peo- pie of rural neighborhoods. More than hundred years of experience in most of the older States sufficiently demon strates this fact. In truth, no general progress is being made except in four or five wealthier States which adopted | the State aid plan.
 The policy of voting Federal aid to road improvement has three great ad vantages over that of voting funds for river and harbor improvements, as | follows:
 First-While the money voted for the latter purpose is collected from the whole people by taxation, il is necessarily expended in limited local ties. the inhabitants of which receive the greater part of the benefits. In fact, great majority of the people of the United States receive no direct and but little indirect benefit from these improvements. On the other hand, Federal appropriation for road Improvement would be available i'll any section. Every State and county while large indirect benefits would come to the people of all cities and towns.
 Second-The benefits flowing from an appropriation for rivers and har- bors are strictly limited othe amount of money voted, as no help is required from the local communities But the BrownlowLatimer plan merely con- templates that the government shall help those people who are willing to help themselves. No community could have any part of the government aid until ct had raised share of the funds equal to it's quota of the gov ernment fund. Thus a Federal ap- propriation for this purpose would produce benefits far beyond the limits of the amount voted.
 | Third National aid to road improve ment would be free from the log. rollinga features of river and harboi legislation which so often injuriously affects other important matters il Congress. This is true, because the fund would be equitably distributed according to general plan. The gov ernment would simply make available a sum of money, an equitable share of which could be secured by any State or county complying with certain specified conditions. It is difficult tt see how any member of Congress car logically vote for river and harbol bill and refuse to support an appro
 priation to aid in improving the high
 ways of the country.
 Write to Hon w. r. BrownloW, al
 Washington, D. C., for copy of tht Good Roads bill and to your [. $
 Senator for Senate document No 2O4 Second Session, Fifty-eighth Congress
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
Chamber.ain's Cough Remedy Acts
 on Natures Plan.

those that aid nature. Chamberain's Cough Remedy acts on this plan. Take it when you have a cold and il will allay the cough, relieve the lungs, aid expectoration, open the secre- tions and aid nature in restoring the system to healthy condition. Thous- ands have testified to it's superior eX- cellence. It cOunteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. Price, D cents. Large size, 50 cents. For sale by ]. T. Sanders.
The Forrest City times., 1905-09-22
Card of Thanks.

In behalf of the members of the Methodist church wish to thank the fire company and all others for their excellent and effective work during the fire on last Monday, and also tC those who have volunteered such lib eral contributions to repair the loss.
 Very gratefully,
 SIDNEY II. BABC0Ck.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
a WEEK OF PRAYER.
All Young Women's Christian Associations
to Observe This Season Next Week.

The second week IN November is observed by
ell Young women's Christian Associations afhli-
ated with the Worlds Association q week OF
prayer for women throughout the world The
Worlds Association numbers over seven thousand
regular branches representing every continent, and
IN addition includes q large number OF CORE
spending members. Eleven American women hold
posts in foreign felds-two In China, two in japan
and seven In India where the national secretary
ana the secretary for student work, well as
the general secretaries of the three large cities.
Bombay. Calcutta and Madras. are all Americans.
The work Is an Observation-Disclosures and In
all countries and in every department the aim is
the sa-ne-the upbuiding Of Christian wonanhood
In China and Japan the work has been opened
within the last two years. and is specially inter-
est!ng as the association in those countries is
reaching ar present distinct classes. the fac
tory women ard the students. In Shanghai alone
there are twenty-five thousand women and girls
IL factories, working al rule from g. n to
7:30 .. m, with only fifteen minutes and
every other Sunday off In TpAo there are about
five thousand women students and about fifteen
private industries Association homes in Paris.
Rome and tbs great seaports OF Egypt, South
Africa and Australia offer protection to young
women travelling alone. and direction to safe
places Of employment and permanent residence.
Urgent calls come from South America for secre-
tarIes for Rio Janeiro and other large cities and
for the organization OF an association in Bueaos
Ayres. which. with its one million inhabitants has
the unhappy notoriety of having more white slave
traffic than any other city in the world.
The worlds executive committee, which has its
headquarters in London asks that Christian men
and women viii everywhere remember this work
for young women during the coming week
Two public services will be held at the Harlem
Young Women's Christian Association. No. IS West
12zth-st-, tomorrow al AS D. m, when Mrs
Thomas s Gladdng@ @ American % member 1d, 9Th Of the
wide Association, and on Thursday evening. No
--4-fTI aly m INN
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
BREAKING A BAD MATCH.

In the short span Of a human life there is moth
ing that the mind or heart produces that may be
compared in results with the emotion OF love.
The love of for woman, OF woman for man.
IS the CT the most exquisite happiness that
God can best5w upon His creatures here below.
From It flows the maternal and paternal love, the
home the unit Of the nation and the basis of
civilization. It has given US. in a negative or
positive form, our poetry, our music, our paint
ings. Its very lack Of sound intellectual founda-
ton is its appeal to aesthetic natures.
The COOL logical love of a man and a woman
worked out upon q purely scientific plan, the
summing up OF various characteristics. and from
thence making the deductions. would be cold
sort of love. satisfying, perhaps, TO the mind, but
not 70 the heart the SOUL which is fed on emo
ton not logic. There might be divorce re-
sulting from such a marriage. but there would
surely be little Of the beauty that comes from
the soul awakened TO love.
The true marriage, the true love of men and
women, must. TO be most productive in good re-
suits for both the individual and society DO found
ed z general iikemindedness of The mind and
heart. The person whose heart alone is aroused
70 love and not the mind. is not normal. and
should be treated as such But who is 10 judge
such q persons abnornlality, ana who shall try
10 bring about a normal condition. The ahenist
IS rare and as rare is the successful matchoreak-
Few medical men have the insight into the
human mind and body treat insanity; few men
ana women know the heart and mind or humanity,
their NAV one upon the other. There are some
such and TO them alone is the breaking OF bad
match justiiable. Such person must be pos
sessed With the sixth sense. IN adGllon 70 tacI.
sy7p;,sthv and clearness OF mental vision He or
she must have detachment, for PERSONA oIrss rt
can never with Justice color a broken HialGH. @ dne
successful matchbreaker must De one III my -, "a
arouse tie sleeping reason: then there VIII t, Hs o
bleeding nearr no wasted regrets over Iils'3Ae''
love .us ..,oor
This lack OF mental balance Is caiieo Ser PSo1
sudgment'' and judging from the nuInDer o. Eases
~ s,,is-.e,a5 roun.es one sees running through
family II seems TO be hereditary Statisucs aions
these lines would be useiul 70 soN-e -
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
SUFFRAGISTS CRITICISED.
Woman Says Industrial Problems
Are More Important than Ballot.

The New-York Equal Suffrage League had .
somewhat varied programme yesterday 1t. regu-
ls- meeting IN the Hotel Astor. the discussion
ranging sli the way from the msyoraity tangle to
~. feeding OF babies
Mrs Frederick Nathan referred to the statement
recently made by William III WINS. the effect
that when q majority OF women want the suffrage
they. will get it
Must we all ride IN horsecars," she asked 'Toe-
cause some people think they are fast enough and
s,-.- want TO risk their lives in trolley?"
Miss Charlotte Teller criticised women sunragists
In general and Colorado women II particular for
not taking enough interest in industrial questions
There are things more important than equal
suffrage" she declared
ballots can be bought. and too often accom-
nusb nothing. The industrial problem lies at the
hottom OF all our problems. but I could not find
-hsn was in Colorado that the women took
auy particular interest IN IL At time when
.v.ry constitutional right was being taken from
n. citizens Of the State by fraud, blows and
h1oosshed, women's clubs met to discuss such
subjects as Art IN the Home or the Pure Food
BILL
Ms Harriet Stanton Blatch carne to the rescue
Of The Colorado women. aud incidentally put IN
a word for venerable grandraothers that Mrs.
Anna Jackson had been talking about Mrs. Jack
.on had heard them quarrelling about the re-
sDec.ive merits OF different kinds OF baby food.
sud expressed the opinion that they could hardly
Rave been more bitter, and would certainly have
been better employed II they had been arguing
political point
Nine tenths Of the women Of the world will al.
ravs chiefly interested in pure food and babies,
Mrs Blatch declared and for heavens sake let
fhern stick 70 those interests Only let them see
mai they are represented in the State I in
rensely interested myself in municipal ownership,
though I see from the scantiness Of your applause
that you are not. But the race lived for millions
OF years without municipal ownership. It cannot
live without pure food and baby food
The afternoon closed with question box. con-
Quoted by Miss Mary Garret Hay
WHO viii be the next Mayor some asked
II an not g seventh daughter and cannot tell
replied Miss Hay, but I hope the next Mayor will
be the man who was elected
Before adjourning the meeting the president,
Mrs Belle de Rivera, announced that al the next
one they would study the system Of election, but
not as II IS practised in city
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
HOME FOR coNsUMPTrvEs.

The Home for Consumpttves which Dr.. Ennis II
90 establish in Florida through the help Of the
T. s. s. is one OF the most benehcent purposes ever
started in the OF the society, and should re-
ceive the support Of al members and friends-
Mrs. L. NJ. Halsey Of the WilliaInstown On. ID
Branch has sent $50 direct to Dr.. Ennis toward the
fund The Ever Ready Branch has contributed
so. of which So given by Mrs. Kristen.
Der of the branch, IN memory OF her brother, who
died with consumption. Mrs. w ". Marston, Of
Brooklyn gives IS for the Home; Mrs 6. l. s., Of
New-Jersey, SIS; "A Friend. in Cambridge n. Y,
Is
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
CONTRIBUTIONS.

A helpful contribution of clothing for women has
been received from Mrs. ". H Lewis, of the West
Side branch: q Christmas box containing a shawl
eleven pairs Of uttens and three pairs of wrstlets
from S. c. c, of Manhattan; useful and fancy
articles from Mrs J. B. Lane; a package Of fine
black woods and souvenir postals stamped for mail
ing, from Mrs. Morgan. of Vermont; a box of
magazines. from Mrs. Scheer: two express boxes
OF clothing, fancy articles. music, etc, from
brooklyn; reading matter from Bridgeport
Conn. and Mrs. Van Nostrand, Of New-Jersey;
sachets from Edith; wings of birds from Mon
tana, and a box of autumn flowers from the Manas
Quan (N. j branch, through Miss Salie Clark
president
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
LETTER PARTIES.

Mrs. Nellie D. Adams. of Pennington. Ne, R D.
No. 2, who has been invalid for twenty
years. will have a birthday November 15 and
she would appreciate letters postal cards. Mrs.
Ella Falstead, of Ainsworth. Neb hard working
mother living farm in Isolated place, has
never had birthday party in her life if greet
ings reach her on November Is, the anniversary Of
her birthday, they would help to brighten the dull
rnIfina Il life
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
WILL START LIBRARY.

4 Brooklyn member who has taken much interest
in the starting Of Sunshine library for branch
in West Virginia would be glad TO start another
where needed. She Will contribute thirty books to
begin with and would add to the number from
time to time. She only asks the privilege Of nam
ing the library in memory Of a little one. ANY
r s. s. branch that would like to have this library
will please notify the office.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
LECTURE BY A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER.

Miss Annie s. Peck, who has climbed the Matter
horn, Will lecture before the League for Political
o'clock in the Hudson Theatre. Her subject VIE
be: Panama and the Isthmian Canal" Miss Peek
IS said 10 have climbed higher this hemisphere
than any other wornan--21.5co feet 10 Inc
summit of Mount Sorata in Bolivia The lecture
VIII be Illustrated
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

President OF the T. S. s.: Chelsea Branch reports
dainty apron and four pretty bags. without name
VIII each one who kindly contributes to this apron
and bag sale OF November q and Is, please send
with each article full and address, that 1t
may be properly acknowledged.
Mrs P A GREENE.
No 22s West 23d-st.. Manhattan.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
r. s. s. DUES.

The president of the Chelsea branch has sent 6
annual branch dues, and the president OF the
Ever Ready branch 81 as dues; Mrs G. ". NARROW
s. dues for November.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
RESPONSE.

E A Rushn1ore. of Brooklyn, will send bead
loom and the whole outfit the sheep herder in
Montana for whom q request was made.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11

Mrs ". I Wood, Of Garrison, ". Y. has received
vools for Sunshine rainbow sha wi VIII some one
kindly send her directions for making the same?
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
SUNSHINE WOOLS.

Miss Jameson, Mrs. HILL Mrs. F. Brockett. Miss
Brink and Miss Dorr, busy making Sunshine
gifts from woods sent through the general office
New-York tribune., 1905-11-11
CHRISTMAS CHEER.

Mrs. G.. P. Lawton. president OF the Saratoga
branch. has asked for twenty-five names of mem
bers TO whom she will send holiday greetings d.
rect.