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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-02
.WHITTINGTON
AND HIS CAT

Many years ago there was a little boy
named Richard WhitthIaton.s but every
body who knew him called him DICK;
Dick had no home, for his father ana
mother were both dead. lic nag TO =, wot u
wear Flo was often cold and hungry, yet
fle5 was honest and truthfui,i Tho little
town III which lick lived was ina ny miles
from .ond1n. Now Dick had Heard many
strange things about this strange city; !, he
have to work. because the paYcJ,lents were e,
covered with gold. All this made Dick
long to go to London, but he did not
know tho way. III ~ stla y, IA ~ 5:i
@E One day a large wagon; 4 drawn by eight
driven into the town In which Dick lived.
7Ho thought that anything SO grand must
i be going to the iine city ofsLondon.i Dick
asked tho driver IL he might wal to Lon
don by tho side OF the wagon. When the
and mother and thatshc WIS poor he tod ,d
Dick 5thatsthe wagon was full. but he
might walk beside 1t IL he wished. IT was
n long ways for such a little boy to walk,
4but5it@did not seem so % Dick. he was
thinking of the golden streets ct, and the
to see. At last they came TO London.
( Dick thanked tho driver OF the wa gon and
ran OFF and looked for the streets that
were paved with gold. He went from
place to place, but he saw only dirty
streets. He saw many people: but they
seemed to be hard at work Where were
tile golden streets and the happy people?
Dick was now, very. hungry he asked
first one man then tho other 10 give him
something TO, eat. Every, one he asked
At last poor Dick was tired and sleepy
\ as well as hungry. lie sat down on the
steps Of fine house TO rest but soon fell
asleep. Bit IA s,t W, 8SiS
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THE FOUNTAIN.

(To be contlnued.)
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4 On SUNDAY morning at 8 clock he dled.
@ 1t WAS not till q long time aIter ms
death that the world nwoke to his great.
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EASTER FLOWER S.

ALMA GYARBRoUGH. I
204S s.. Pine Street, Richmond, Va.
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Z 80 JEsSIE A. REID. Y
s"Of the Rosebud Garden Of Girls"
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IS Z 1E.'ss Il sl y ~ & y
a MEXICAN LEGEND.

N,averly, Va.
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Dear Editor OF tho It'd. C. CT:
I am sending you some OF my drawings.
trust you will receive them and note the same.
would like to become a member OF the
It'd. c. c.. aSis s
You can communicate with me and also
send megsmy badge.
Respectfully, ~
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Dear t.dltor: 2 NJ II
"a have sent you some pictures drew, and
some stories. but I am sorry they wero not
published This time I will send you n puzzle
for the other members to guess hope 1t Will
please you, and would lketto see 1t published
next Sunday. Papa says 7 can go to the,
shipyard with him and stay all day, and I will
tell you OF everything ! see. I wish you and
all the members good luck. ~ III
5 From your little member.
fi s EVELYN H. DYKE, 5l5
3 No. 2o3 West Queen Street. Hampton. Va.
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Dear Mr.. Editor: b ST Fl.
1 ain six and a half years old. send you
Two pictures drew by myself. I hope to get
the prize. Please put them IN tho t. @. C.
page }ti
HNgBRUcF
No. 4oss1-s North Eighth street. ~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
WELCOME STRIKE.
Anthracite Coal Operators Are
Viewing With Satisfaction
The Possibility That Miners
Will Go Out Next Spring.
MILLIONS OF TONS
Of the Produces of the Mines Are
Being Stored.
Highest Winter Price Can Be
Maintained All Summer.

wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 16.-The an-
thracite operators are putting up the
greatest reserve supply they ever had
in anticipation of the strike of the min
ers in early spring. This strike viii be
welcomed, even secretly promoted By
the operators who then can demand ex-
tortionate- prices for coal from the cub
lie. The blame for a strike apparently
viii rest with the miners. while the OPP
orators viii profit BY It.
1t is estimated that by April l., the
coal companies will have stored IL mill
lion tons of anthracite. Three million
tons was the maximum amount stored
on April 1, IN each OF the last two
years. The coal stored today. Is 1,6oO coo
tons.
The new storage pIants are being COM
structed as follows:
Philadelphia & Reading at Abrams
capacity 100000 tons; Lehigh at Ran
som 300, 900 tons; Delaware & Hudson
at Carbonate, capacity unknown.
The coal stored today by leading
companies is:
tons; Lehigh Valley, 100000 tons;
Delaware & Hudson, 100000 tons;
Erie, 500, 900 tons; Susquehanna Coal
company, 100000 tons; Lackawanna,
10000 tons; Lehigh Coal. 100000
tons. Total stored, 100000 tons;
present capacity. 1Os7oos0O0 tons.
which is to be hiIed as rapidly as pos
sible.
Mining property is being fenced in
by barb wire defenses twelve feet high.
Part of the miners certificate law has
been knocked out so that imported
workers can be brought to the mines
in case of necessity.
In case Of a strike there would be
no reduction of prices on May 1, as in
the past. The highest winter prices
will be the summer minimum. With
many dollars added for the II million
/ tons in storage.
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PROGRESS.
The Kansas College of Music
a Remarkable Success.
Hundred Students - Summer
Travel School in Europe.

The large registration in the Kansas
College of Music-close to 106-at the
close of the first three months of its
history, is a fine evidence of the truth
of the statement of one of the leading
educators in an eastern university that
the strength OF a college depends
upon the strength of its faculty not
upon the number of its buildings"
Although this youthful educational
institution in our midst is without a
home of its own, it is very. comfortably
housed in three studios on the third
floor of the Security building.
The college is proud of its faculty
not only the well known specialists at
the head of the several departments
Mr.. Penny, Mr.. Klingenberg and Mr..
GittlesOn, but also of its assistant in
structOrs, Mrs. Geo E. StOker and Mrs.
Emily King Wikidal. In addition to
these, the four members of the senior
class, Miss Grace Beard, Miss AllabeIle
Troutman, Miss Catherine Graves and
Miss Grace Page, are all teaching IN
der the supervision of Mr.. Klingenberg
and Mr.. Penny, and have been fully
qualified as instructors.
The college is already known as the
school of quality. Its standard is the
university standardZprecisely the
same standard adopted by Yale, Har-
ward, Michigan and other leading uni
versities.
The freshman, sophomore, junior
lished with large enrolment of en-
thusiastic students.
The college puts music above every
thing else. Nevertheless it will estab-
fish courses in English, French and
German early in January, the instruc-
ton having already been engaged.
Another feature viii be the establish
ment of a home for young ladies COM
ing from out of town to study, in one
of the most desirable resident parts
of the citv New classes in sharmony
and musical composition will be or
gained the first week in January.
The lantern lectures upon the his
tory of European art viii be contin-
ued as a preparation for those con-
templating joining the summer travel
school in Europe.
This school will make Florence and
Paris the chief centers of study this
year, the tour beginning in Naples and
ending in London and including Pom
peii, Rome, Venice. Milan, Switzerland,
the Rhine, France. and a few of the
English cathedral towns. The Kansas
College of Music has already reached
a success which means permanency,
fnsuring the continued residence here
of both Mr.. Penny and Mr.. K1ingen-
berg and the rapid development of To-
peka as q musical center.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
DOWlE IS FAILING.
Announces That He Is Compelled to
Cease Work for a While.

Chicago, Dec. 16.=The announce
ment by John Alexander Dowie, head
of the Christian Catholic church, that
his health is in such precarious con-
dition that he must lay aside for a
time all worldly cares and appoint a
number of apostles to take charge
of the affairs of Zion, has created a
great stir among the followers of the
so-called prophet. On his return from
Mexico, a short time since, Dowie an
nounced that he had practically re-
covered from the slight stroke of
paralysis he had sustained, but he
stated today in his official publication:
"Great discomfort has come to me
this week through the swelling of my
limbs and impeded circulation of my
parently passed away from my bron-
chial tubes but the inconvenience and
pressure upon the heart and lungs has
been such that sleep has been denied
me except for a few ftful hours
This and other complaints have
made it clear to me that I must go
apart and rest awhile"
The fear is general in Zion City that
Dowie is approaching his end. The
leaders in the church were besieged
with anxious questions and made off
ciap denials but the stereotyped state
ments that DIR. DOwie was no worse
and there was every reason to hope for
an early and complete recovery" did not
satisfy.
The overseers and possibly other fol-
lowers of Dowie, are to be made fapos-
tles'' of the christian Catholic church
and this act, says Dowie, will make the
reorganization of the church complete
and is IAN act of the greatest eccles-
iastical Importance since the ordination
Of the first twelve apostles"
TV1nn HKDnCfp6 IN
become 'saDostles' sre:
John c. Speecher, overseer Of Zion
City.
John G. Excel ecclesiastical secretary
of the world.
H. B. BracefeId, #overseer Of educa-
tional institutions.
William Piper overseer of Chicago.
George r. Mason, overseer of China.
Daniel Bryant, oveFseer of South
Africa.
Wilbur Doliva, -overseer Of Austria
liza.
Harry E. Kantel, overseer Of the
Paul Holder. overseer of Continental
Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
ABBOTT DAVIDSON DIES
George Hasty Stands Guilty Of Two
Murders and Insulting Women.

Gaffney, S. c., Dec. 16.-Abbott
Davidson, manager of the New York
theatrical company who was seriously
wounded when ATiIlar r. Bennett.
manager Of the company. was shot
and killed by George Hasty, proprietor
Of Hastg's hotel, who had been REL
monstrated with by Bennett for inS
sulting two of the actresses of the
company, who were guests of the
hotel died here tonight, and there is
a strong sentiment among the local
citizens in favor Of lynching Hasty.
The girls who were insulted we're
Verne Sheridan Warner of Albany, N.
Y, and Georgiana Hastings Bishop OF
New York. Hasty tried to climb into
Miss Sheridan warmers room and
Davidson knocked him down.
Hasty has retained T. B. Butler, OF
Gaffney, to defend him.
1t is understood a plea of self-de-
tense viii be made. with one months
pay advanced to them, part OF the
troupe will go to New York while
others remain in this county. Hasty's
brother claims Davidson and Ben
nett were both upon him and that
one of them had something in his
hand RESENT bling a knife.
The defendant is regarded by the
local residents as two-fold guilty, OF
murder and of gross insult to wo-
men. The latter offense is held in
the south as hardly a less heinous
crime than the taking Of human life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
CLEARlNGS RULE.
Chicago Banks VIII Charge Exchange
on Out-Of-Town Checks.

Chicago, Dec. ia new clearing
house rule, which will affect a volume
Of business in Chicago estimated at
half million dollars daily and viii
revoIutionize the mail order business
now carried on by big mercantile
houses in this city. will go into effect
January when banks in Chicago and
Cook county will begin charging ex-
change on all checks drawn on out
of-town banks. The new rule was
formulated with great secrecy at a
meeting of the Chicago clearing house
association. No bank or banker in
Chicago or in Cook county can deviate
from the rule which provides a rate Of
exchange ranging from one-tenth to
one-quarter of one per cent on checks
drawn on banks in all parts OF the
United States and Canad.
In case of small items a certain fixed
exchange, ten cents, will be charged.
1t is this point in the new rule that
may temporarily throw big mai
order houses into chaos.
Circulars informing customers of the
new rule and the date it becomes ef-
fective will be sent by Chicago banks
next week. 1t is said there will come a
storm of protest from some OF the big
gest mail order houses in Chicago
which will be the reflection Of protests
from customers who will be Obliged to
change the system OF dong business
that they have been following for
years.
Emanuel Mandel first vice president
of Mande1 Brothers. said tonight:
such a rule will certainly greatly
affect the mail order business In Chi
cago. It might work very well with
merchants in here, but how about the
woman out in Texas, say, who sends
personal check for $40 or $25 to pay
for some purchase made by mail. -
would the exchange on out OF town
checks be charged to the customers?
"Why, I don't know, the customer
probably would not understand if 1t
was not explained"
w. e. Street, manager and secretary
of the Chicago clearing house associa-
ton said:
sFrhe tendency of the rule, of course
will be to eliminate the use of personal
checks on out of town banks by people
in the country.
1.-THE banks have been paying for a
lot of things they should rot pay for.
MANY checks on outside banks are
cashed in Chicago daily. The number
has multiplied so rapidly IN recent
years that the banks have been losing
large sums in interest by cashing out Of
town checks that it might take day
or two to return to the banks on which
thew We're drawn
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MAKING HEADWAY.
CONTINUED from Preceding Page.)

Continued from Preceding Page.)
should succeed Russia would be un-
able to borrow a cent in the future for
fear of the reputation of its debts
ana the government would be seriously
damaged.
Would Cripple Finances.
All the revolutionary organizations
are now taking an active part in the
movement to cripple the home
nEances The people are advised to
refuse to pay all state taxes or con
tribute Ia any way to the financial
support OF the government Further
methods Of embarrassing the govern
ment by taking all money out Of cir
feulauon are suggested by Withdrawing
all money from banks, and insisting
that it be paid in gold.
Inc payment Of wages in gold, where
the amount is over five roubles, and of
smaller claims in coin instead of paper
money is also advocated as a part of
the plan of financial embarrassment.
II the revolguonaries can induce the
people to follow out this programme
they will soon be able to force the gov
eminent to the point where it must
elther surrender or fight. What will
happen then can only be guessed. The
reVolutionaries hope for open rebel
lion, from which they believe they will
eventually emerge triumphant.
While events of political Importance
have thus marked the week, there
have also been the usual revolutionary
outbreaks on the part of the peasants
and mutinies among the troops, which
have made the position of the govern
ment more precarious. News of the
most serious kind comes from Man
churia, where General Linevitch has
teiegraphed that the disaffection
among the troops is spreading so rapid
" that he can hardly hope to control
the men much longer.
The revoluuonaries are still waiting,
however. for the psychological moment
to strike. The outbreaks so far have
not been engineered by them They
have been spontaneous outbreaks on
the part of the desperate peasants and
workingmen in the cities. They have
all contributed to the general ends OF
| the revolutionary, however, and Will
show their effect in the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
AFTER DUSS MILLIONS.
Heirs of Economy's Founder Will Sue
the Bandmaster.

New York, Dec. 16.-Bandmaster
John S. Duss, whose lavish Venice of
Two Seasons" at Madison Square gar
den delighted music loving New York,
is soon to be given an opportunity to
explain on the witness stand the man
ner in which the accumulated millions
of the quaint little commune at
Economy, Pa, it is alleged, came under
his control.
Three heirs of Father George Rapp,
the Prussian exile who founded the
strange harmony society and en-
joined celibacy upon its members, are
preparing a suit to determine the true
ownership of the $4,000, 600 realized
by the sales of the commune's proper
ty at Economy, and the amateur mu-
stefan and leader will be made the
principal defendant.
Mrs. Ada Everett, Jersey City; Mrs.
Eliza Dunn, BayOnne, N. J., and Mrs.
Treanor, also of Bayonne, cousins and
direct descendants of the brother of
George Rapp, represent the AZ heirs Of
the founder of Economy, who are to
fight for the money. Charles E. Simp-
son of New York, has been retained by
the heirs of George Rapp to bring suit
in the United States courts.
''Duss was a rank outsider in Econ
omy," he said. LAS a youth he was the
protege or adopted son of Father
Henriei the successor of Father Rapp.
He went west, married and returned. In
spite Of the fact that celibacy was the
strictest law of the Harmony society,
both Duss and his wife became mem-
bers. On the death of Father Henrici
he became the self appointed patriarch
with full control of the finances of the
Harmony settlement"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
NOT SO COLD.
Major Glassford Says Good Word for
Alaskan Climate.

washington, Dec. LIT is not as
cold in Alaska as the story writer's,
tourists and other dealers in fiction
would have the American people be-
1ieve. according to Major W. A Glass
ford. U. S. A, chief signal officer of the
Recruitment Of the Columbia. He was
M there in connection with the estab-
lishment Of extensive cable and tele-
graph systems He intends to show he
Alaska send him daily temperatures
and general weather reports. The first
of these received were for Novemb Der 3.
He did not take the coast villages,
where the temperature is as mild as on
the Atlantic seaboard, but confined his
observation to the interior towns.
At Siana it was % degrees above. the
same as at many points in the states;
keystone had the same temperature as
Denver, Colo; McCarthys that of
Helena, Mont; Salcha as Boise City,
Idaho, and Cinema as Flagstaff, Ariz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
HAMPER THE KAISER.
E'ligIand's Policy Is to Force Him to
Keep the Peace.

London, Dec. 16.-Sir Edward Grey Is
confronted at the outset Of his career
as foreign secretary with the gravest
KIND OF an International problen1-how
TO realize King Edwards scheme of
surrounding Germany with a ring of
aired nations pledge to peace without
provoking the fatherland to a declara-
tlon or war Both the king and the
new foreign secretary are determined to
peISeVefe IN this scheme. They hold
that 1t is devoid Of all purpose to harm
or to hamper any patton, that it is
oeulcaled to international amity and
equality and that -l7a~aeore whoever OBJ
structS its realization will incur the
condemnation of humanity.
The appointment of Lord Edmond
F1tzmaurlce as under secretary of for
elgn ama1rs means that Lord LianS-
doWne'S policy, which is the kings -pol-
icy viii be continued. For Lord Ed
mond, brother Of the former secretary
IS saturated with the ideas and policies
OF the late administration. Above him
stands Sir Edward Grey who is pledged
10 Lord LansdoWne's dinlomacy, and
above Sir Edward is Sir Henry Camp
bell-Bonnerman, who is the willing
servant Of the king in foreign affairs.
Well informed men know that King
Edward preferred Sir Henry Campbell
Bannernan to Lord Rosebery as pre-
mier, because his majesty was aware
that the former would be the more
tractable instrument in carrying out the
royal peace plans. Wei informed men
also know that when certain influential
politicians tried to forestan the appoint
ment of Lord Lansdowne's brother in
the under secretaryship Of foreign af-
fairs, the king interviewed in favor of
that statesman. All these facts a~n i'm
portant because they mean the prose-
cution of the policy that Germany views
with uneasiness and which some OBJ
servers fear may lead the kaiser and
Prince BueIowi to decide for war. This
fear is intensified by the fact that Rus
STA, the ally of France lies in a welter
Of anarchic impotence and that If Ger
many expects ever to draw the sword
in behalf of a larger and freer empire,
now is the time to do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
WAS ALWAYS SO.
Admiral Whiting Discusses Recent
Events at the Naval School.

Kansas City. No, Dec. 16.-Asked
ahout the reports of hazing at Annapo-
lie Admiral w. H Whiting, retired,
who is visiting in Kansas City, said:
.rWeu. I'VE read those stories about
the hazing at the old school-you know
I was in the class of '63-but 1 don't
see where the system has changed
great deal from what it was in those
DAVIS. OF course where person is
hazed to the point of manning it is to
be deprecated, but so far as the fights
are concerned, it seems square enough
AS a matter of fact, believe a better
code of fightine exists in the naval
academy than at any college in the
country For instance, a man, if chal-
lenged to fight for some breach Of
school discipline, is not put against
man of twice his size, but the thing is
figured down to a matter OF weights,
like all ring battles. Take the case Of
Meriwether. I guess all naval men
felt the decision would be just what it
was. He was an underclass man and
was pitted against Branch, a senior. In
the bout the older man received injur-
les. they say, that resulted 81 death.
But that was all an accident and might
ihappen elsewhere and any place.
II always figured it out this way:
That a man who wouldn't defend him
self would not be much good IN lighting
for some one else or for his country, II
.need. be. I've seen many of those school
fights and did not see any serious re-
suits. IN fact, they ~iIt a man on his
mettle. If he did not fight he would
have to leave the school
..As far as the hazing is concerned
It should be done away with, but re-
garding the laws they are strict now as
they can be. Dismissal from school is
the punishment meted out. but still
congress recentlv reinstated three boys
VINO had been ousted. That does not
speak well for the carrying out ce the
law. You know boys viii be boys. and
as far rs the rules go it seems TO make
but little difference IN their real atC4-
tude.f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
WIVES ARE FREED.
Three Given Divorces and Half of the
Property.

Judge Dana handed down a decision
saturday in the divorce case filed by
A1rs. Mary G. yesterday against James
IL Easterday granting the petition of
the wife and awarded her One-half of
the property. The children in the fam
sly are nearly grown and it was left
with them to choose the parent with
whom they desire to live. The trouble
IN this family seems to have started
when yesterday expressed q desire to
home for more than twenty years and
move to the city.
A decision was also handed down in
the case Of Alnira Greaser whose suit
for divorce against Philip Greaser, was
heard the first of the week. The de-
cree being in favor of the wife who
was awarded one-haIf of all of the
property and the children viii, as in
the first case, be permitted to choose
which parent they viii make their
home with.
In the divorce case of Barbara
SPAIN against her husband which was
heard Tuesday and taken under advise
ment a decree was granted to the wife
and she was given $3.50 in cash which
represents about One-haH of the
wealth which the family possesses. The
custody of the two small children was
given to the mother. There has hard
Is been a term of the district court for
the last half dozen years that Mrs.
SPAIN has not had a case on the docket
asking for a divorce and before the
time for trial the matter would be set
tied i'm some manner.