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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

1 treasurer and ask him to tell you wfletll-
Ter your capitatlon taxes have all been
paid. according to law, SO as to entttle
lyoli to vote. If he answers in the af-
4 firmativc, we'll. III he answers In the neg
ativc, find out VIVA. you owe and pay
up
We urge every Democrat in the State
| to look after this rtiutter at once,s DO not
take chances; qualify yourself to vote;
| ray your tax even IL you haveto make
sacrifice to do so. If YOU value your
vote surely you are willing to pay n
dollar Or SO for the privilege Of exercis-
ling the manly and honorable right OF
franchise.
Lust OF all, we urge upon our Demo
cratic contemporaries throughout the
State TO ring the changes OIL this dues
ton. Brethren, keoi, your readers stirred
up, urge them the Importance Of attends
Ing to this civic duty. Don't let up un-
til every man Of them has qualified. u
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Significant.
Several days ago correspondent asked
Queries and Answers to locate q certain
poetlcnl quotation. The editor OF that de-
partment Of tho paper, who does not pro-
TESS to know everything, referred the
query to the State librarian, with the
request that he hunt It up. The editor
OF Queries and Answers is an unrecon-
structed rebel, and does not read Whit
tier The librarian reported that he was
unable TO lind tho poem from which the
quotation was taken, and 1t was SO stated
in Queries and Answers. AS soon as the
paper appeared, however, the librarian
4 teephoned that he had found the quota
tion-that 1T was from 1vhitticr's THE
Eternal Goodness That statement was
nut in form and sent at once to the
printer but BY an oversight was left out
of the form and did not appear until the
following day.
In the meantime replies began to roll
/ in from other correspondents, although
the first to arrive was that OF. the libra
grian. They camc from Richmond and
/ from all parts OF the STATE ana are still
coming In. Up to this time we have re-
ceived more than fifty letters telling US
where the quotation may be found.
81 It's fine. It indicates how popular
poetry is with the readers of The Times
Dispatch. and indicates also how care
fully the people read Queries and An
swers. III; III
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26
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q. n
IN Gen lest Spring


III, sves sp,rin 8 I is surely coming
II Il read the times Alright n II
For the bugs begun his h'l m ll'1,
81. Fl, the 5weltcring, swell night
And the skeeter's once more drumming "
Y For a bte,5 S s5,3 .s5
yes. Il he tine is fast approaching
IS GAS Two pract Teal ly sald)
When the Insects eager poaI ching
MRS our d rms and limbs and head
And we hear the low cock roachlng
# Near our bed. Ak &.
When the temperatures a dyancing,
Il q And, + by. natures curious laws
Thick tunnels set sfns dancing, ~
S{S Yet We shrink to don the gauze;
And cool drinks are most enhancing
9$s 10 our jaws. M 8s 81 4,
when the city's streets are baking, Isl
And ttlle country's frightful hot,
And the icemnns kindly taking NJ
4 All the money we've GOT Az
Through denying he Is making p;
fs Such a lot,
& Which is rob
When old Sol so brightly glowing
h On mountain. shore and camp.
Holly sees our collars growing
Very limp and very damp;
And the moths make splendid showing
Round our lamp. sf3 Ks
When we need a pair q bellows 5
no originate a breeze. & q IA.
but + hate to seem li-bel-lous.
to beat spring to her knees; Il
SoslI'll stop tim not Jealous
Butt wish you'd mention, please,
Why the poets never tell us n n "a
Things like these. \, H
Ill. S. IT,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

Kentucky As now making maple"
sugar ont OF corn cobs,} presumably 70
be used to swecten that other profitable
product of the corn
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

Professor Reussner OF Berlin. N recognlzed
3a,thoritygon Russian affairs. In a recent In
8tcrvlos, said that II, 0OO 900 inhabitants Of
The Russian Empire are literally starving. WEI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

DR.. sophronla Fletcher. tho first woman;
physician In Boston. Is ninety-nine years did,
iron, Bostnn University IN ls5i.g Her grand
father fought In tho battle OF Lexington.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

Cya1ia uilg Oku. the Japanese generals. IRE
sdescqndantsf OF Irishmen. Oyama's Irish an
and General Oku's ancestors names were
30 Keougll.' ss FE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

Il "a Russian version OF q looking Back-
ward. by any prominent general of the
Cars army would make interesting
Erending.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26
Personal and General,

Bishop Charles i. Galloway. Of Jackson
Miss. has been invited TO speak mt the an
truaf Appomattox day banquet soon TO sbe
gwen by the Hamilton Club, Of Chicago.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

mated to aIacalister College, Mt ST. Paul.
Mimi. a tract OF land valued Mt ss2 900. to
iLe added to the grounds OF the instituio lon
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

&c AZ st. Petersburg dispatch denies that hat
sRojestventsky is going back home. A tl,-
.miral Togo will try to soc to it that this
sdlspatch proves correct. n III f$s3s FL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

You can't always tell a mans politics
BY the button he wears. There is many
d slip ,twixt tho button and the ballot
box. "a ~ 80 49, III
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

when we got well into the ann ~ 49,
l,,sincss, there is no telling where f'e'',
taona may 20 to- With Glen Alien Z ~
A,h,and and all intervening territory o. Z :
the Que side and bon Ali, Gran'ie ana
manchester on the other, with street ~ ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

There is no reliable evidence that Vice
President Fairhnnlts had North Carolina
Ia his vest pocket when he returned
to washington the other day. IA
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

81; When 1luropatlsjn announced his :intcn-s
ton OF walking across the islands Is g5of
Japan, he was doubtless thinking Of y
cooks tour after 4 NIL came to be Y
late unpleasantness.,',ajl N "a #
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
MYSTERY NO LONGER.
Personality of "VeiIed Murderess" is
 RAvanIAd

Personality of "Veiled MuFderess" is
 Revealed.
 Chicago, May 15.-The veil of mys- tery which more than half century hid the identity of the Yelled Mur- deress" who died in prison at Matte wan, N. Y. yesterday, has been lifted by the hand of Mrs. Charlotte P. Nor ris, 1426 Newport Avenue. Chicago.
 The so-called yelled murderess" was a classmate of Mrs. Norris at the fa- nous Emma Willard School at Troy, N. r.. sixty years ago, The maiden name of the woman, who was a puzzle to the authorities ever since her ar- rest for murder in 1858. was Charlotte Ward. She married an Englishman of rank, Sir Walter F. Elliott, but she ran away from his home in England two years after the marriage. She came back to America to find the house of her father. wealthy Canadian mer- though under no obligation, has kept her knowledge of the identity of the yelled murderess" a secret through all the years since her arrest and con viction on the charge of killing Tim othy Lanigan and Catherine Lubee in Troy, N. Y, fifty-two years ago.
 The Chicago woman went to Sinp Sing prison more than thirty years ago to see Lady William, then a prisoner at that institution. She was with her for an hour. When Mrs. Norris came from her talk with the woman convict the prison authorities begged her to tell them who their charge was. She declined, knowing that her old school mate did not then wish her identity known.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

posing his want of information. They asked him questions about the great writers, poets and historians or the past and present and his ignorance was most amazing. He didn't Know as much about history and literature as the ordinary schoolboy would know, and when the lawyers got through with him there was precious little hide left on him. If he could have avoided going on the stand the verdict might have been different, and the jury would in all probability have given him req sonable damages. but after he had ex- posed himself so glaringly the jurymen evidently decided that no newspaper criticism could have been too harsh to fit his case. As 1t is he can take his cents and retire till his hurts are healed. It should be a lesson to his kind not to talk of what they know so little about.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
WELL DONE.

The Advertiser desires to thank Act ing Mayor Mcintyre for his veto of the ordinance allowing a street car line on Jeff Davis Avenue, and to extend the same to the City Council for sus- taining it. The granting of fran chise for a line on Mobile Street was a grievous wrong. and if the use of Jeff Davis Avenue had been allowed for the same purpose the people who live in the country and have to enter the city from the southwest would have had a right to suppose that they were not expected to come in with their pri- vate conveyances and wagons. Many thousands of bales of cotton reach the icty from that direction, and Mobile Street had already been practically barred to them, because it is not too wide at best and with a street car line on it. there is but little room for any other mode of locomotion. Jeff Davis Avenue should be left in best possible condition for traffic from the country, for it Is practically the only entrance for a great many people who come to the city by private conveyance and whose produce goes to help keep up the business of the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
HE GOT A VERDICT.

When a learned man gets his consent to talk foolishly he can make as com plete a job of it as could be done by the most complete ignoramus in all the land. Perhaps it would be too much to expect of any man, even a learned pro lessor, that he should always talk hard sense on any subject We may also remember that learned and wise men are sometimes short of knowledge on some point or other.
 A late example of the foolishness of the wise Is found in the case of Pro- lessor Triggs of Chicago, that incu- bator and brooder of so many eranks. Triggs is, was, or professes to be, teacher of literature In one of Rocke- fellers institutions in Chicago and in order to fill up his time. perhaps, he the course of which he took 1t on him. self to belittle Shakespeare, Milton. Longfellow and others whom the world has been accustomed to regard as great poets. Incidentally he praised Walt Whitman, whose alleged poems sound like pouring coal down a metal chute to most readers.
 All this was too much for The New York Sun. which never misses an occasion of this kind to blister such men as Triggs, and the way 1t criti- cised, ridiculed and skinned him was a caution. It was a species of exploita- tion that made Triggs sore and he ac- cordingly brought suit against The Sun for $50,000 damages. We are not sure whether 1t was his feelings or his rep utation that he thought had been dam aged, but he knew he had been hurt somewhere and he thought fifty thou sand of Uncle Sams dollars would ease the pain. The case was lately decided and the jury gave a verdict for Triggs, and awarded him cents damages. They seem to have gone on the theory that the hurt was a very small one, almost invisible. in fact, and that 6 cents would about heal it.
 We've no doubt that the learned pro- lessor is madder than ever. not only at the smallness of the award. but at the fun The Suns lawyers had out of him when they had him on the stand, for they apparently took delight in ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

When, by the consent and approval of the President, the route of the Presi- dential party was hurriedly changed so that MT. Loeb, the Presidents Private Secretary, could elude a lawful court summons. 1t was heralded by the par tisan press as sharp trick. Perhaps it was, but when a private individual dodges legal process the act Is called by a different name. It may have been a shrewd and smart trick, and prob ably Roosevelt and Loeb laughed over it ,but right-thinking people will hardly call 1t a good example to set before the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
TUESDAY, MAY 1e, 1905.
WAS IT CHANCEs

There are those who assert that there is no such thing as chance In human affairs. and yet 1t Is hard to understand how some things could hap pen otherwise. Take the case of the recent terrible explosion at Harrisburg as an example. The express train was q few minutes late, else it would have safely passed the track on which car loaded with dynamite toppled over just before the express reached that point. There was a combination of apparently unpreventable circumstances which caused the dynamite car to get in the way, and then caused the express, load ed with passengers. to crash into the explosive mine lying in walt for it. These circumstances combined to pro- auce a horrible catastrophe.
 But the more this accident, if we may call it that, is studied the more con- yincing it appears that it should not have happened. Here was a freight train two thousand feet In length, as one statement has 1t, and one of the cars was loaded with dynamite, care lessly packed. we are given to under stand. The long and unwieldy train ''buckled," as they call it. and fate, or chance. or something else willed that the only car to be thrown from the track was the only one which was dan gerous. Then, by another combination of circumstances. the express train. "just few minutes behind time," run ming at high speed in the dead of night, encountered this death-loaded car and the result is a ghastly list of killed and maimed human beings who. a minute before. were either sleeping peacefully or If awake had no thought of danger.
 Here was a combination of untoward circumstances in which chance seems to have played large part, yet we are bound to take into consideration the fact that there was what we may well cali criminal carelessness in connec- ton with the affair. There can be no defence for thus coupling a dynamite car into a long freight train. A car of that kind is necessarily dangerous and should not form any part of a mixed train. There are so many things which may cause dynamite to explode that 1t should be shipped sep arateIy from other freight and on such schedule as will as far as possible re- move all danger to others. Whatever we may think of chance we can at least feel assured that something else en- tered into the Harrisburg affair." and 1t was something which could and should have been prevented.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

According to The Chicago Tribune. "seventeen men, including the six members of the employing firm. were concerned in the original dispute out of which the great Chicago strike has grown. Thirty-seven men were pres ent at the meeting that voted It." Then The Tribune makes an estimate of the actual money losses caused by the strike and thinks that $2,500,00O per week would be a fair statement. Be hold. how great matter a little fire kindlethw said the Apostle, and the people of Chicago have an opportunity to appreciate the truth of the saying. Out of an insignificant incident like that a matter has grown that has threatened destruction to the second city in the Union. It is a remarkable case. and as disgraceful as remarkable, from any point of view.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
A Good Precedent.

Chattanooga Times.
 The Philadelphia Press reminds Mayor Dunne that he has a mighty good Democratic precedent on which to base effective action in the present crisis, He might follow the exam ple." says The Press. "set by Grover Cleveland when Chicago was once be- fore the scene of innocent bloodshed. |" The Press might with much more pro priety. remind a certain distinguished official of It's own party who has fre- quently expressed the opnion that the negro as well as other workers Is entitled to square deal" and who is now in position to follow out the his torical example set by MT. Cleveland, Mayor Dunne couldn't do 1t if he would, and apparently wouldn't If he could. President Roosevelt is the on- ly authority who has the power to fol- low MT. Cleveland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
sas. sO1, 500 $10o, 527. 900 $12O. 252. 900

Total s93 301. 800 $100. 527. .0O0 $120.2S2.OOO
 Thus, 1t appears, that out of the total resources of the Equitable, which amount to $304,329.7S4, the sum of $sS.SO1. 500 is invested in the stock and bonds of railways controlled by certain directors of that company. The Mu- tuaI Life has assets of $24S,440,993, of which $lOO,527,0O Is invested in the same railways; and of the $35S, 465, 45S assets of the New York Life $120,252,- 900 Is invested in the same companies.
 The Equitable has also $11S,5ls,S56, the Mutual Life, $l36,729.59S, and the New York Life $36. .605 invested in real estate.
 It should be said, however. that nearly all of the holdings of the three big companies are in the bonds and not in the stocks of the railroads The Equitable Company has only $17,953,S7O and the Mutual Life $SS,0SO,OOO in stocks, while the New York Life has no stocks whatever; only bonds. It should also be said that the bonds of the Penn sylvania, the New York Central and other railways represented by the gen. tlemen named are as secure an invest ment as could possibly be made; but that is not the question. The point which interests the policy-holders Is that the men who control the invest ments of the life insurance companies have bought their own securities to such an enormous amount. MT Nor gan, for example, has sold the three big companies $91,OO0. 900 worth of his own bonds and stocks; MT. Cassatt has sold them $S5, 900, 900; MT. Vanderbilt, $7s.O00 900, and MT. Hartman, $5s.000,- 900; while all of these companies are largely interested in the Gould rail ways and other properties managed by members of their boards of directors.
 Another very important matter, which has been known all the time, but which has never been publicly discussed, Is that bo large a number of directors of these great companies are dummies" who never attend the meatings who
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
KILLED FoUn AND HIMSELF.
House Cleaner Runs Amuck With Dis
 aatrOUs ReSuItR.

San Diego, Cal. May 15.-William P Robinson, house cleaner, ran amuck in this city today, killing four persons, wounding one other, causing serious injury to another and then blew out his own brains. The four of those killed met almost instant death. The dead are,
 William Stewart. Mrs. Emma Stew art. H. W, Chase. Harry Doddridge, w. P. Robinson.
 Wounded: Mrs. W. P. Doddridge; in- jured: w. P. Doddridge
 At first 1t was supposed to be the work of a liquor-crazed man, but later 1t was stated that Robinson had been heard to make threats against Dod- dridge, who. he claimed. had once been engaged in an attempt to have him shanghaied when he was a sailor. It is said also that he had expressed a dislike for the Stewards. Robinson had relatives living at Riverdale, Ina
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
stiIl sustaIns Them.

The patriotism of the women of the Confederacy was everywhere recng- nized and applauded. That patriotism that sustained them through the try ing ordeals of war still sustains them and their daughters, and they are stili laboring to keep green the memory of the matchless deeds of Valor of the Confederate soldiers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

The Earl of Selbourne. new high commissioner for South Africa, is one Of the group of young men, more or less contemporaries. who were chosen by fortune and trained by the accident of family to embrace the profession of politics as soon as they left the uni- veEaity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
The Richmond News-Leader rises to
remark:

The Richmond News-Leader rises to remark:
 We beg to inform the esteemed Montgomery Advertiser that there is no danger of a "first-class row" between Virginia and England over the bones of Pocahontas. Virginia does not row ever dead issues.
 Isn't that enough to dislocate your diaphragm7 When a virginian alludes to Pocahontas as a dead issue 1t let's us out
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
For Good Roads.

Birmingham News.
 Good roads available for farmers are to the farm lands what all the modern Improvements are to the city lots. Nothing increases the value of farm lands more than good roads by time and expense market their prod ucts. There is great need of improve. ment along this line in Alabama,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Just FIgureNa Little.

If farmer would just figure a lit- tie and find out how many pounds of cotton 1t takes to buy a mule, and how to same Re &Ra MoS ptbn was before he planted down the plunks for a Tennessee or Missouri raised mule.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Two Grent Men.
Alabama

Alabama Courier
 When Grover Cleveland heard of tho death of Joseph Jefferson, he paid him a tribute that there are not many worthy of. and but few men are cnpa- ble of paying. Cne great man speak ing of another.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Ahout the Thing.
chomoia ctaDl nUu

Sheffield Standard
 The Brownsville (Tenn,) Graphic has a department headed "Colored So- ciety Circles" A Franklin County hillhillie while looking over the paper in this office. and seeing this particu- lar department, exclaimed. Well. I'll be derned:" And that's just what we thought about 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

E. s, Noble, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn, says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser's circulation for the month of ApriL 1905, is true and correct and compiled after all returns from news boys, news agents and leftover copies have been deducted
 B. s. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this
 F. W. JACKSON. fSeal1 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Raising a Kick.
Mobile Iten

English country folk are raising a kick on the automobile. They claim the machine raises too much dust. We, too, have thought so. They raise so much dust that some people can't pur. chase.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Great Chunks of Truth.

lJtINtID IIV'T IT IWUIIt.
 The editor may not know it all hut he does not live in community long before he knows a darned sight more than he publishes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

A gingerbread sociaf' is announced by 8 contemporary. to which every body is invited, but unfortunately the locality is not given. That Is cruel omission.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

The editor of The Cumberland (Md.) Courier is laid up with a sore foot. Caught in a bear trap, possibly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Wbat State Papers
 Hre Saying
The Wrong Men.

Brmlngham Age-HefaId.
 Jimmie Hyde's directors refuse to bounce Alexander and Tarbell, and Jimmie begins to think he did not pick out the right men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

Nan and Roosevelt reached Washing ton about the same time, but we sup pose there is nothing significant in 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
Back to Ills Native Land.

Mir Geering-Wherc is the French chauffeur that you had last summer? Mir Sparker-He went back to Ire land
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

It win be observed. by comparison with the statement of previous months. that the circulation of The Advertiser is making very substantial gains day by day The Sunday circulation Is now nearly 17,oo0, and the Daily circulation Is in excess of 12,S0O
 WATCH IT GROWl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16

know nothing about the management but who are willing to allow their names to stand in the advertisements to stimulate public confidence.