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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-12
'1THOMP PsON FREE
M. NAN ONCE ! NJ J MORE NJ ].
The Evidence Not Sufficient toI
Send Him lot,he Gram
Jury.
COURTS SEVERE CRITICISM
Witnesses Told Of the Trouble.
Between Him and His
Wife.
!. \. l..l Z. q.

(special to The Times ispatch.)
CHARLOTTESVILLE IA, April III
William ]. Thompson. who was arrested
on wednesday last upon the suspicion
OF having murdered his wife and two
children, whose remains were found IN
the charred cabin home on the morning
Of April 51st. was given a preliminary
hearing at Shadwel1 this afternoon before
Magistrate @. Villiams. fters u stem
ing to the evidence Of some fifteen ~, Wit
Enesses, the accused was dismissed and m tie the
.prlsonersEets freeS -is
Captain AIicajah " oods, the able Com C,r-
ynlonwealth's attorney OF the county. was
present at the hearing and questioned
the witness He concurred in the deci-s
sion reached BY Magistrate Williams. ,.
that the evidence was not sufficient to
send the prisoner on TO the grand jury
but openlyYstated at the conclusion of the
hearing that the facts in the case We're:
! of very suspicious Character
They point to the belief.s he said, that
there was probably some foul play, es-
5 Specially growing out Of the fact TIL t the
+ Yona NJ 8 head was found some distance
from her body. "a
Severe on Thompson.
Addressing Thompson. Captain Woods
said: .rhe evidence submitted goes TO
show that you treated your wife with
unusual cruelty. and while 1t Is not
sufficient to Justify your being held q
present, vet 1 am frank to say that the
Developments have put you in g. very
bad light. Your conduct in leaving your
wife and. children up in the mountains
to shift for themselves was certainly a
shameful one-in fact your conduct IN
this whole 1natter3is a subject Of great
animadyersion and criticism
II The hearing took place in the waiting
room at the Shadwell depot, and was
largely attended. showing the interest
that the case had aroused. The prisoner
was in charge of Deputy Sheriff Hall, and
was represented by his attorneys, 0essrs.
George E. Walker and Burnley Sinclair
Z Of charlottesville. ,ii5
a hair cut and beard trim had trans
formed his appearance-indeed he looked
entirely different from what he did when
arrested last week. 3.s d. 4.
Annie spronse.5 aged fifteen. daughter
4 Of Mr. Reuben Sprouse, who lives a mile
and a quarter from the Thompson nome.
was the first witness called, Questioned s
~ Captain Woods, she said that she
reached the scene Of the burning about out
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AsSAsslNATED WHILE
HOLDING BABY. In ARMS

16 6TUsOALOOSA, Ala, Aprll ll.--..
Stewart Campion manager OF the Jed
Strong plantation. has been assasslnated,
Campion was sitting before fire hold
Ing his baby when a shot was fired
through the window. Campion fell dead,
The baby WAS slightly wounded. Dogs
placed on the trail went to a house oceu-
pied by John Carpenter and Bob Tsobin-
son, colored farm laborers, who We're al
once put In jail.
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Children Burned to Death.

0I8I (lIy Associated Fress. i N n M q.
4 CLARKSBtIRG, w. VA, April 1.-THE
home OF George II. Maull, Of West Balti-
more Street was entirely destroyed by
fire early to-day and -four OF his children
were burned to death. The parents, With
a fifth child. had barely time to escape
bodies OF the four children have been
recovered. /
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PREPARING TO STRIKE.
Believed That Japs Are Mining
BLOW at5Vla.liyostok-Ch Chinese
Fire OH Russians.
!. lBy Ass,ciated Frass J.

fuNsHU PASS, April 1.-THE thvw
has been followed by a fierce sale which
has dried out the mire and ls now re-
ing heavy dust. It Is proYtdential
change, as otherwise tho troops teniing
in the mud probably would soon ne su d
ieot 10 sickness, even In epidemic .torIn. t
II Ia steadily becoming more evident
that first calculations as to Russian
losses In the battle of Aukden were ax-
aggerated, #
a portion OF the Fifth Rlile REGIME nj,
which was cut off az Mukder,F has Just
arrived at Kirin, having succsedcd ~
penetrating the Japanese lass 0a1nsss
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(By Associated d Press,)

X LAHORE, PIJEJAB, INDIA, Aprils1l.-
Commissioner Jullundur reports that as q
result Of his Investigations, he estimates
tho fatalities resulting from, the recent
earthquake in the lSangra dlstrict,at 10000
and In the Palanlpur district at 5000, The
total number of persons killed at Dharm-
sala was 424. besides the Gurkhas. who
were crushed to death by tho falling Of
the stone barracks. Ei M
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Children Die.

i83 fsp,. ~. /, 10 The T'mes-D! D!spateh)
NEWPORT NEWS, VA. April u.-
1,rame Hay, the folr,year.old son of (, Mr; MI
and Mrs John aydlea to,dIaay a. ce2ebro mqb@n
spiaa spaal mein,iinngSitls i,iinSitl The funeral arrange
Iieiits nave not been made, = IA
Carl Russell Fernell, nine Years ,,si oid,
I. .sppendicitis, The funeral wi take place
sto!morrpw morning and the body Will be
inferred at GreenlaWn Cemetery.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-12
Dutch on the Alert.

". y7 (By Assoc1Hted4 F7rAss, l895I
;5 THE HAGUE. April 11.---The Dutch
East Indian squadron is said to haze
been ordered to- proceed to the sAnamab bas
Islands (where the Russian squadron,
which passed Singapore April Sth. Is;
anchored) with the View to assuring
the observance Of neutrality. alsl sl
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Government and Rebates,
(3yt Associated Press.)

4 WASHINGTON. april ll.-secretary
Hitchcock has decided to refer to the
the question of railroad
rebates on material used IN connection
with the Irrigation reclamation service,
which Comptroller IRA acewell has decided
could not be legally accepted.
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El,nqui!s:;tt lis; II Inactive. 81 i
$(By Associated y Press,

81E CHICAGO, ILL. April i a Special
to the Daily News from Batavia, J ava,
says: Is 5 " s9 3i IL
There has been no movement on the
part of Rear dmiral Enqulst's sectionS
of the Baltic feet. which arrived of the
Anamabas group Sunday. The vessels
are still4at anchor to the west of Pulof
Mankiki, one OF the islands Of the group
1t is supposed that they are coaling.
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/ Japanese Val',rsh 4 shipss 81 S:,ighted
~ As 4, x1r, q All 81 .

VIA, April i ~ e british st cam 81
ier Empire, just arrived here from Aus-
strala, reports that on the mig hit Of. April
9thS she sighted a large war vessel In
Basllan Strait, between the q Islands n Of
Mindanao and Basllan. The war vessel
approached closely and then disappeared
down the coast OF Nindanao. Her mas
tionaltS could not be determined, but IT.
Is believed that. she was Japanese.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-12
FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE
NOW CLERK OF COURT

(By Associated Press,) IA
4 NASHVILLE, TENN, April lid. y.
snodgrass, formerly Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court Of the state. has been
appointed clerk of the United States
Circuit Court for the District Of East
Tennessee. y S.i} GV
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-12
Kelung z 7 ,ogo' s 4 Base.
/ (By ASSOCIATE ted Press.)l

WASHINGTON d. C.3,5 "a April a In in-8
lister Grscom, at Toxic. has cabled the
state department.. Il t hat & he has been ad n
vised Of the closing OF, Kelung to foreign
ships until further no tice.S d Kelung is Y e.
port on the. north end Of the island #ofs
Forrnosa. 1t 4 As believed \; here tha t the
action Of the Japanese government In
closing Kelung ineltcat tes that this port
for his fleet, lySsg sigS ;s2
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-12
INDIA IS SHAKEN BY
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE.
Estimated That Nearly $4,000
Deaths Resulted From Re-
cent Shocks.
(Dy Associated Press. 5

(. sINLA, INDIA. April 11.-Fresh earth
quake shocks yesterday evening and this
morning led to a revival of alarm The
new government offices lere were fresh
~ cracked.
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.Wynne Now Consul.
(By AsSOClated FT'

FFasE LONDON April 1l.-The new Amer
lean consul to London, Robert J. iVylne,
to-day assumed the duties OF that office,
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The Washington times., 1905-10-15
The EMBRYO Broom.

in the days of the decline OF the empire
the frontier was strengthened with great
walls which assisted materially in the
defense OF the northern provinces from
Germanic invaders. During the middle
ages. however. when trade between the
north and the south became a necessity,
commercial routes were established
through the eastern, as well as western
Alps. and even the savage tribes which
made their homes In the mountain val
leys and lived during a great part of the
year in a climate of arctic severity.
found il to their interest TO construct
and maintain roads through the most
accessible passes, recouping themselves
by levying a toll on the merchandise
carried by traders. Thus cupidity main
tanned what national hatreds and mill
tary enterprise began. and even when
the North and the South were at war
a current of trade poured through the
Alps In both directions, shifting from
east to west to avoid the scene of ac-
tual hostilities when such were in prog
ress. But the Alps were still a barrier
for, in a rude. but generally effective
manner. most of the passes were forti-
fed and could be held by comparatively
few men against all the force that
might be brought to bear upon them
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
Buffer Mountains.

In southwest Asia there is a country
about the size of Texas and since his
tory began the mountain tribes of this
country have never been really conquer
ed by any foreign power. Time and
again have their valleys been invaded
by foreign armies, but whenever the
Afghans found themselves outnumbered
in the open field they retired to their
mountains and every invader. sooner or
later marched away and left them, un-
conquered and unconquerable. The sto-
ries of Afghanistan being annexed to
the empire of Alexander. to that OF
Persia, and to others of later date may
safely be dismissed as idle tales. The
experience of each was that of England
in the four or five attempts at annexa-
ton. The conquest was merely nominal
and in most cases the invaders were
glad TO get away with their lives. Such
is an explanation of the existence of
AfgEanistan as a buffer state between
Russia and India: it is a Switzerland In
the heart of Asia and serves the same
purpose there that the rugged little
mountain state does in Europe. keeping
apart in both geographical and mill
tary sense the forces of the north and
the south The mountain ranges of
AfghaniSt&n have thus far served their
purpose of barriers, and the poverty OF
the country, like that of Wales and
Scotland ere the modern era began rem
ders il an acquisition of little value.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
Conquest of the Alps.

The historians OF. the palmy days of
Rome say that Switzerland and TyroI
were conquered by the Roman arms and
annexed to the empire. but in view of
the previous and subsequent history of
these rugged districts, the story hath
a very ancient and fish-like smell The
same. historians also claim that the
Romans conquered the Berber tribes of
northwestern Africa and the Basques
of northern Spain. and the claim is
stoutly contested alike by Swiss and
Tyrolean, Berber and Basque, all of
whom assert that their chieftains made
offensive and defensive alliances with
the Romans and furnished contingents
Of mercenaries to serve in the Roman
armies in time of war. Thus it was
that bands of Swiss and Tyrolean in
fantry marched with Trojan into Ar
menia and Mesopotamia and cohorts
of Numidian cavalry fought side by side
with the Romans on the plains of Hun
gary. Switzerland and Tyrol have re-
Deatedly been ovS rrun by overwhelming
forces. but time and again the defiles OF
the Alps, forced with extreme diff
Guilty by an advancing enemy. proved
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
Progress of the Railroad.

The railroad builder Is the conqueror
of the mountain barrier 1t was once
believed impossible that railroad could
be constructed through the parallel
ranges Of the Rocky mountains; now the
whistle of the locomotive is heard in
nearly everX important pass; a genera
ton ago a railroad through the Andes
was regarded as wild dream; now the
engine climbs into sorges. under cliffs
and through the hearts OF solid masses,
Every part of the Swiss and Tyrolean
Alps is now traversed by roads OF steel
The Russians have built line south
TO the northern edge OF Afghanistan.
The railroad system of India skirts its
eastern frontier and pierces the level
country of the south. An invading army
has never crossed the Himalayan range
either to the north or south but the
caravan routes are now numerous. en-
couraged by the growing trade between
India Tibet ard western CHINA. and no
one can doubt that as the volume or
trade Increases railroads VIII take the
place of the insufficient highways The
merchant the trader. must DO business
Political considera tions are nothing 70
him. When he wills. governments Will
fight for him. When he needs. civil
engineers will plan for him, rolling mills
will turn their wheels with accelerated
speed; picks and ShovelS. pneumatic
drills and exclusives will make a way
over which his boxes and barrels and
bales mis- bundles and letters viii be
carried and distributed ard the noun
tain range. however impossible TO tho
soldier, will prove no barrier 20 the man
Of trade.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
The Unused Material.

Where the corn is discolored it Is
sometimes bettered by being bleach
ed by means of sulphur fumes The
short lengths of broom corn taken
from the bales are utilized in the
making of whisk brooms. And here
it may be stated that the stalks
which remain in the broom corn
fields, after the tops have been cut
off, are not utilized In the big
fields of Arcola, H., where one-fifth
of the entire product of the United
States is raised. these stalks are cut
close to the ground and then burned
In Kansas they are often ployed
under for fertilizer.
Few industries have furnished
more employment to the blind than
broom-making. State institutions
for the blind teach it to their pupils
Often, however, these same States
ton. 1t is said. with convict labor.
In Ohio broom5 are made extensive
ly in the State penitentiary. At a
State reunion OF the blind in the
Buckeye State within the past year
this situation was discussed and no
little disapproval was expressed
The word broom" it seems, in
Europe was applied long time ago
to kind of shrub which grew in the
sandy heaths of Great Britain and
Spain Heath brooms were made
from these until broom corn in later
years became plentiful In India
and China broom corn has long been
cultivated, and from these countries
spread to Europe and the United
States. In the former countries this
corn reached height nearly twice
that now attained in the United
States Broom corn seed is planted
in the spring and grows rapidly.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
Piercing the Alps.

So the Pyrenees still remain the bar
rier that they were in the days of Louis
XIV. but that fact is due TO the lack of
If either demanded great highways or
railroad lines through these famous
mounta' the highways would be con-
structed; r;iiroad engineers and section
gangs would go to work; tracks would
be blasted from the sides of precipices.
tunnels would be bored through the
heart of the mountains and railroad
trains woul1 carry travellers and freight
through ani under passes which defied
alike the Goth and the Moslem. For
ages the Alpine ranges divided north
ern from southern Europe, as the Pyre-
nees separate France and Spain. The
vast ranges which extended from the
Mediterranean coast in France TO the
east of the Adr4atic were an almost
3tnpassable barrier TO the migrating
northern nations. The passage of Han
Bernard, now reckoned a compare lively
e&sy pass, was, IN his own time and
for many ages afterward regarded as
more notable feat than his subse-
quent victorious campaign in Italy.
Until the time of Caesar the Italians
lection against the barbarian tribes be-
yond nor was their faith shaken even
when BreDnus and his Gauls came
swarmiug down tne rugged slopes to
the fertile plains on the south. for the
northern and western sides Of the great
barrier ranges were owned and held by
the barbarians, who were thus able 10
avail themselves of passages then un-
known 20 the Romans. though subse-
quently fortified and held by them.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15

ern side rankness of vegetation which
has thus far defied the powers and in
of thousands of dollars have been lost
in coffee and other plantations along
the Amazon, because it was found i'm
possible TO keep down the native vege-
tation, while Just across the ridge.
hundred miles from the sources of the
Amazon. rain never falls, and, save
where limited plots have been reclaimed
by irrigation, the vegetation is that OF
the desert Man has not yet been able
TO overcome climatic conditions such as
these, although considering what the
labors of scientific men have accom-
plished, lit is quite within the posSibili-
ties that not only may the desert bios
som as the rose but also that the vege-
tation of the Amazon river valley may
be so subdued as TO permit the culti-
walton of useful plants and grains.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
The Pyrenees Wall.

Although by no means so lofty as some
OF the other ranges of Europe, the great
line of mountains which during the
eastern part Of its course separates the
Frenchman from the Spaniard, is more
of a barrier or natural boundary than
might be supposed. Passes are numer-
Gus. but very few are of nature that
adapts them to the construction of even
a carriage road, 20 say nothing of n
highway. From the bay of Biscay to
the Mediterranean. there are only four
or five very narrow carrIagewavs
through the Pyrenees. most of the
passes being merely footpaths, best
known to smugglers and most frequent
ed by these and similar outlaws While
the ascent on the French side is gradual
the southern aspect presents an almost
unbreken wall, often precipitous so that
the few roads there have Il steep grad
lent that renders ascent from the south
or descent from the north so difficult
as practically 10 separate Spain as
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
The Second CHAPTER.

The next chapter in the story Of a
modern broom relates to the seeder.
The operator takes a bundle OF the
broom corn in his hands and holds
it within the reach of a cylinder
which as il reyolves eliminates the
seed. Unlike the threshing of grain
the broom corn product is not auto
matically carried through the ma
chine. At all times extreme care is
taken to keep the fiber straight.
Once seeded, the brush is tied into
bundles and packed by baling ma
chine in which ii is subjected to
great pressure. Broom corn is re-
ceived at the factories in 4O0-pound
bales. One of these bales is shown
in the accompanying photographs.
Bales of broom corn are sold by the
pound.
The corn is delivered to the broom
factories by brokers. The wires
which hold each bale in check are
cut and the contents placed upon
sorting table. Sorting is done in
order TO obtain different lengths and
degrees of quality. Just as the same
field of sweet corn may grow both
little and big ears, SC one field of
broom corn may yield different
grades of brush. The brush in every
broom that goes upon the market is
divided into three parts-the filler,
the cover, and the hurl. The filler
is the first brush to be placed upon
the handle. The brush and the
handle are put together at winder.
The workman first fastens bunch
of brush TO the hanele to form CEN
tsr. On opposite sides of this center
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
In Northern Scotland.

julius Caesar has the credit of con-
quering Britain, but, in fact. he did
nothing of the kind, merely making
beginning of the conquest, which was
not completed for a century Driving
the Celts out of the comparatively level
districts OF England was difficult
enough but was childs play in COM
parison with the attempt to subdue
the mountain districts of Cornwall,
Wales and Scotland Roman. Saxon,
Norman, Englishman. each and all were
driven back when attempting TO force
the Businesses of Scotland and Wales.
Neither the Scotch nor the Welsh were
ever subdued. The impossibility of con-
quering Scotland was admitted by the
Emperor Hadrian, who for the protec-
ton OF his British subjects from the in
cursions of the Highlanders, built a wall
clear across the continent from the Sol
way to the Tyne
A few years later the Roman legions
advanced further into Scotland. occupy
ing nearly a third of the country. and
constructed a new wall between the
Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde
A generation or two after this second
advance, the weakening of the province
by the withdrawal of troops for service
on the continent and in the East COM
pelled Il retirement. and the vigorous
old Emperor Scverus. after overrun-
ming Scotland and concluding that it
was not worth holding, withdrew to the
south and constructed a frontier forti-
fication which followed closely the line
of the Hadrian wall. thereby hoping to
keep the Scots within reasonable bounds.
The eXpedient was only temporarily
successful for, of course, in time, the
hardy mountaineers broke through the
wall at any point they chose. The wall
eNped,ent was tried also on the eastern
frontier of Wales, a rampant and a
ditch being constructed, which cut off
the entire Welsh peninsula. Later, the
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
HERE are no Pyrenees,v Louis

XIV is credited with saying
though the probability is that
ne never said anything of the
KIND. for the court bIographers of the
ufoe attribute the saying 10 the Span
lsh ambassador at Paris, who. after
Inc grandson of Louis succeeded to the
spanish throne. exclaimed: There are
no Pyrenees; they are uprooted and
We are henceforth but one"
NO matter who said It, however the
idea In the mind of the speaker was that
a barrier had been removed. a barrier
all but impossible between the two
countries, and that in spite OF the
mountain wall which separated them.
the twain were in all essential particu
lars to be one. The prophecy implied
was destined never to be realized. for
the other states of Europe. taking alarm
at the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF France. form
ed an alliance for the special purpose
OF crushing the dual powers: then fol-
lowed the war of the Spanish succession.
which ragged for ten years, and ended
by establishing the fact that the Py-re-
nees still existed. that the crowns of
France and Spain should remain separ-
ate and independent OF each other and
that the barrier erected by nature az
wal between the two countries should
sllll- De tne natural frontier Of each.
The Washington times., 1905-10-15
Andes and Himalayas.

AS climatic barriers, all mountain
ranges have an influence. fc- often it
happens that on the opposite side of Il
range entirely different climates prevail.
different fora and fauna are found. On
the northern side of the Himalayas a
climate of arctic severity prevails; On
the southern slopes there are the YER
dure and vegetation of the tropics. This
fact is. of course. partly due 10 the
greater elevation of the central Asian
plateau; but in the Andes, under
tropical sun. there is found on the east