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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
THIS DAY IN HISTORY.
June l4th.

165o-Battle Of the Dunes (wars OF Louis
XIV between the spaniards, $4,000
strong, under Don Juan OF Austria
and the Great Conde and the French
in equal force under Turenne.
a17e7-Brtlsh act. levying duties on tea
paper, painted glass, etc.
179s-The French. commanded by Gene
defeated with immense loss by
Suwarow.
1soo-Battle Of Marengo (Napoleon's Ital.
Ian campaigns) between 10000 Frencf
under Napoleon and 10000 Austrians
under Melas.
1so7-Battle Of Friedland, Prussia (cam-
paign OF Friedland) between 10000
French under Napoleon and 10000
Russians under Bennigsen.
1eoe-Battle Of Raab Campaign Of Wag-
ram) between $4,000 French. under
Eugene Beauharpais and about 10000
Austrians under the Archduke John.
1s54-The MerHmac OF Civil War fame
was launched at Charlestown navy
yard.
1854 great Ore occurred at Worcester,
Mass, destroying property valued at
half Of million OF dollars and throw
Ing n thousand mechanics out OF
work.
i1s63r-Iaat tile OF Winchester; 1000 Federal
troops under General Milroy defeated
by three Confederate divisions. I'M
der General Ewell and foyced to re-
treat with heavy loss. including 300
prisoners and 80 g,lrs.
1see-United States marines take q Span.
Ish camp Mt Guantanamo hnrbor; 100
Spaniards killed, 200 wounded. Is
/ taken prisoners, 100 Mauser rifles and
900 rounds OF ammunition captured.
1eo2--Rethlchem Pa, steel plant bought
by the United States ShiphuildinE
Company,
1eo3--IIeppner, Ore, almost entirely de-
stroyed by cloudburst. Sir Thomas
Liptons' Shamrock and Shamrock ]
arrive at New York, N, Y,
1eo4--Isattle Of Te-ll.san fRusso- Jana
nese war) between $4,000 Russians
under baron de stakelherg and about
10000 japanese upder General 0ku,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
The Roberts Case.

Editor OF The Tlmes-Dispatch:
Sir,-Please tell me, If you can. what
the shortage. was and what was, done
bout 1t when Roberts was made United
States Treasurer? and oblige
SUBSCRIBER.
The treasury deficit when Ellis II. Rob-
erts became treasurer Of the United
States, on the first day of July. 1891 was
s25 ,0o1 .91. Although the government
fought the Spanish war the following
year. the increasa&of the tax on beer
and the special stamp tax on documents,
kilograms. etc, pulled the country
through and the treasury back to a sur
plus.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
rho Rnlnleb poat sars

TIC RaIcIEh FoSt says
It is gratifying TO learn that tho At
slantic Coast Line and the Armour Car
Line will settle the losses OF the North
Carolina berry, growers without captious
controversy. Tho life Of the strawberry
Industry in this state depends upon fair
treatment by the transportation compa-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

1t looked at one time that in the Eaui-
table fight, the spollcyholder was to share
tho usual fate Of the innocent by
stander."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

a 1t is not to be inferred, however, that
Miss Alice Roosevelt will spend the
summer putting up preserves.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

Few purely social"a calls have ever
been 80 fruitful Of speculative and dlplo-
matte uncertainty as the Kaiser's little
visit to Tangier.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
A Question Of Grammar.

Editor of The Tlmes-Dispatch:
Slr,-You did not touch the query.
What Is tho difference In the meaning
of the following propositions: ~ II can
not but be OF interest to the public. co
It can but be of interest to the public.
Your reply would cool the atmosphere
In one home here
Though the two locuttons have almost
the same meaning. there is a slight dis
tinction between them. TT cannot but
be of interest to the public, means that
1t cannot help being OF interest; while
ut can but be OF interest" means that
It can only be II interest, that is all
It can do.
Take two other sentences-I can but
de- means I can only die; that is all I
can do.
IT cannot but de- means cannot
help dying, cannot live.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
QUERIES AND
ANSWERS
Learning Bookkeeping.

Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-l would like to learn bookkeeping
or typewriting. but know am not far
enough advanced In my books now to
Smithdeal Night School until learnt
enough, and II so whom should apply
READER.
Write direct to the smlthdcal or the
Massey Business College, Richmond. Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

James II. Hyde spent Sunday at Coney
Islands Drcamland. Even Coney Is
land dream is better than the real
thing In nightmares.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

discussing the same subject at some
length, tho Winston-salem Sentinel says
or course. there may be numerous Oh.
jeotlons to the plan, but It seems to US
that'the idea Of a board OF paIdops, such n,
We ,beiieve it could be adopted with sue
cess In North Carolina. Three. or Ave
men Of ability could compose the board oar
and pass on appllca lions for pardon. THIS
granting or refusing pardons OF any per-
sonal element. and would be productive
of good In other ways.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
SUBSCRIBER,

The disease is probably simultaneous
emphysenia, but the cause cannot be do
termined from the mcagrc description
given. Our correspondent Is advised to
send few Of tho affected birds to the
Bureau of Animal Industry, Department
Of Agriculture, Washington and at the
same time write to D. E. Salmon, chief
of bureau, referring to The Times-Dis-
patch. The birds may be shipped by cx-
press collect
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
North Carolina Sentiment.
The Salisbury Sun says:

q Tie SALISBURY SUlI SttyS' .-1
Governor Glenn Is lying awake trying
tieath for two fellow crea lures. Ono OF
these sentences is almost as severe as the
other 10 many who DO not aetnally nave moo
feliow ia undcr the shadow OF the galloWs,
then Imprisonment for life becomes q
most attractive situation.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
OLD BACHELOR.
Diseased Chickens.

Editor Of Tho Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Can you tell me what causes young
turkeys and chickens to swell up with
wind In them? The skin separates from
tho flesh and has air between 1t and tho
flesh. BY sticking a needle into. the skin.
the air comes out, but the turkey inva-
riably dies have lost so many that
wav-almost whole flocks. Tell me the
cause and remedy
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
An Op,,en-, Letter.

best and most useful colored men In Vir-
Virginia Manual Labor School
of the
Negro Reformatory. Association *
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
Personal and General.

The mother OF Charles ]. Honaparte. the next
Secretary OF the Navy. was a Miss Williams,
Of Roxhury, Mass,
Or. j. f. Dncrdon, of the University OF
Michigan, formerly curator Of the Museum.
Jannica. has been appointed professor Of
zoology at the Rhodes University College,
Graliamstown. Cape Colony South Africa
lain III the army has Just arrived at his new
post Fort Wayne, near Detroit, He H. only
twsr.tJ six years old, but has travelled tx.
OF Europa,
DR. Frai,1 Isoas has resigned from the
curntorsilip OF tho anthropological department
Of the American Museum ~ Natural History
lie will continue his connection with the mus
scum. conducting the researches and publica-
tons of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition
and OF the East Asiatic Copmittea
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

sense IN recommending that plan, and
japan and Russia hive shown their good
sense ii, adopting 1t. Mr. Roosevelt is
direct IN all his ways. He doesn't believe
in going around circle to reaci, a given
point, when one can get there by strik-
ing bee line,
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If Mr.. Ryan expects Trustee Cleveland
to be figurehead in the Equitaple, ne
picked the wrong man. Mr.. Cleveland
makes his acceptance Of this trust the
occasion to deliver timely lecture OIL
social obligations, and he serves notice
that, while he is. representing the inter-
ests Of the policyholders In the Equita-
BILE, he will attend to business.
Llnevitch assures the Gear that he
would have taken the offensive long
ago, bad 1t not been for the rainy wealth.
err. This is not the first time that bad
weather has figured out as matter Of
self-congra tulation.
Still, 1t doesn't seem quite right for
the attacking fleet, after being battered
to pieces by the forts and blown to
smitherecns by the mines; to steam UP
and sail quietly away.
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We had hoped that the Texas had
sailed out Of her difficulties into calm
waters, but in tho recent engagement,
she was the first ship to be Sunk"
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Anti-cigarette sentiment appears to be
weakening In Indiana, Heads Of cigar
cite smokers. nre no longer bought by
the government ut 81 per.
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James II. Hyde spent Sunday at Coney
Islands Dreamland. Even q Coney Is
land dream Is better than the real
thing in nightmares.
Few purely social calls have ever
been so fruitful Of speculative and dplo-
matte uncertainty as the Kaiser's little
visit to Tangier.
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1t looked at one time that In the Elul-
table fight, the pollcyholder was to share
tho usual fate Of the innocent by
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

We had hoped that the Texas had
sailed out of her dlficultics into calm
waters, but in tho recent engagement,
she was the first ship to be sunk
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14
Entered January 81, 1908, at
Richmond, Va, as second. class
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OF March 8, 1879.

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

Anti-cigarette sentiment appears to be
weakening In Indiana. Heads Of cigar
cite smokers. nre no longer bought by
the government at 81 per.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-14

Still, 1t doesn't seem quite right for
the attacking fleet, after being battered
to pieces by the forts and blown to
smithereens by the mines; to steam UP
and sail quietly away.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
BUckING BRoNcHoS RARE.
Outlaw Horse of Years Past Is Be
coming Annotated, So Says Col
lector of Wild Equines.

The outlaw horse of years past,
the hero of broncho-bucking in the
south and west, is rapidly becom-
ing a thing of the past, and in ten
years will be more scarce than the
fast-dying buffalo and the old
time cowboy, according to John
NJ. Kuykendall, who makes a spe-
cialty of procuring the widest
horses than can be procured for
bucking contests, says the Denver
Nws.
Ten years ago the outlaw was
as plentiful as jack rabbits" said
Mr.. Kuykendall, but | have been
able to get only about 80 real
buekers that will put up a good
fight out of $4,000 horses that i
have looked at during the last
year. The outlaw horse comes
from blooded thatroam
the ranges of the west. He is a
criminalamonghorses justa as sure
~ as men who 90 wrong have bad
blood in their veins. His parents
are in nearly every case mustangs,
and the stock is the same as that
which roamed the plains of the
west in the early days and degen,
Grated through uselessness.
Nearly any horse will buck"
he declared, IF you will turn him
loose in a pasture for several
months and then try to ride him,
but he will kick up only a few
times and then quit. The outlaw
will buck, though. after he has
been ridden successfully, Just as
soon as another man gets on his
back. 1t takes years to break him
of the habit,sand he is never safe.
II he gets a chance he will start
off bucking again, and he always
is dangerous.
You rarely hear of a famous
bucker now, although 10 or 20
years ago every large range had
several outlaws that nobody could
ride. The cowboys can ride as
well as the old,time cowboys, and
they are not degenerating. The
breed of horses throughout the
country is improving steadily,
and this is the death knell of the
outlaw. 1t will take away some
of the most picturesque western
life when they 60 entirely, but
that is going rapidly, anyway, and
the horse owners will be the
gamers"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
WOMEN GAMBLERS OF YORE
Lord Kenyon's Threat Proof That
Ill-Scented Practice Was Com
mon 100 Years Ago.

However one may depl0re the
present craze for gambling among
women, it can at least be urged in
their favor that they do not in.
dulge their love of cards to any,
thing like the same extent as did
their sex a century ago, when
Lord Kenyon made his famous
scathing comments from the
bench, and threatened that any
women convicted before him of
public gaming SHOULD certainly
exhibit themselves in the pillory,
though they should be the first la.
dies in the land" says Tit.Bits.
Only a short time before his
lordship made this severe threat
three leaders of the world of fash.
ion-ladies Of high rank and NOV.
ing in the most exalted of social
circles-bad each been fined ESQ
for making their houses centers
of gambling for high stakes, and
it was stated at the time that
there werehundreds of other great
ladies whose drawing-rooms were
nothing less than gambling infer,
nos, where tens Of thousands of
pounds we're lost and won in a sin.
gle night and the floors of which.
when dawn broke, were strewn
ankle deep with cards.
There is scarcely a house of
any Importance" wrote a chr0n.
icler of the time, "tbe hostess of
which has not her faro bank, and
where the world of fashion, in
Guiding royal princes and prin.
cesses, does not congregate daily
to play for the highest stakes. II
is notorious that many of these
ladies add tens of thousands OF
pounds yearly to their pin money
in this discreditable fashion"
Nor was this encouragement of
gambling by women any innova-
ton, for a couple Of generations
earlier 1t was a common thing for
ladies OF rank to open gambling
houses for the entertainment of
their arist0cratic friends and the
plenishing of their own purses
and this they did in defiance OF
the law.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
DOMESTIC SERVICE Is BAD
Despite Fact That This Is Most Pro-
gressive of Ages, This Branch
Has Been Neglected.

We have become so accustomed
to shouting at the top of our
lungs the assertion that this is an
age of progress that most of us
have come to an unquestiOning
belief in the reality of what we
announce, says Martha Baker
Dunn, in Atlantic. 1t is, indeed,
true that there never we're so
many schools, so many colleges,
so many facilities for doing spe.
cial work, such opportunities for
learning made easy as exist in
our day; but the test of what any
system Of education is doing for
its age lies rather in what it has
accomplished for the mass than
for the individual. If the progress
of the last century has given us
Observation-Disclosures, better me-
chanics, better teachers, more
thorough and practical scholars,
better and wiser all-round men
and women than those who played
their part in former generations,
if the trend of the race has been
genuinely upward, then it must be
acknowledged that we can with
clear consciences continue to vo.
ciferate our claims to advance
ment. hope / am neither a pessi.
mist nor a cynic in regard to the
achievements of latter-day civ
ilization; ! am ready, as a rule, to
hurrah for my own side, but ! am
not prepared to confess an un-
qualified surety that the progress
of the last century has been
wholly in the right direction. In
this matter Of domestic service,
for example, it would not be a
difficult business to collect a sheaf
of testimonies from housekeepers
who are able to remember the
changes of the last so years, GER
tifying that the thrifty, capable,
and reliable "hired girl" with
whose virtues and usefulness so
many New England households
have in former days been happily
familiar, no longer exists except
in infrequent and sporadic in
stances.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
DON'T LOSE YOUR TEMPER
Control of Ones Ire Is a Virtue Which
Many Do Not Possess, to
Their Sorrow.

Almost too late ] learned the
true meaning of the exhortation
which echoed in my ears during
childhood: "Don't lose your tenn
per-" My understanding Of this
precept was: Control your tenn.
per, attain perfect composure,"
and therefore ! struggled consci.
%entiously for Catonic indifference
toward all provocation to wrath.
Fortified by reason, ] dismissed
my temper, hoping to lose it per-
manently, says a writer in At.
lantic.
Happily, this was only a pass
ing mood. Observation made me
realize the values Of temper in
giving, through richness Of expert.
ence, a poignant appreciation Of
life. Had not Dante and Carlyle
deeper insight than Virgil and Adj
olson? Assuredly, for the wholly
rational, human relations must be
monotonOus, but for the men Of
susceptible spirit existence is full
of unmanageablc moments and of
dramatic variety. The poets knew
this, otherwise where would the
Had be. without Achilles? What
is true in the material world il
true in the spiritual--"temper ia
the state Of metal produced by
heating or cooling;' it means ca.
pacity for gaining a keen edge.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
QUEER CUSTOMS IN JAPAN
Che Little Brown People Have Strange
Ways of Doing Things In
Everyday Life.

In Japan the nighttlies give so
brilliant u light and are so beauti.
full that the ladies and children 20
out in the evenings and catch the
g%littering insects for amusement.
This custom is often represented
upon Japanese fans. Once caught,
the insects are imprisoned in tiny
cages made of bamboo threads
and hung from the ceilings of the
rooms or from the caves of their
houses, and present a most at
tractiye spectacle.
AS to the matter of lanterns,
everyone carries one, be he man,
woman or child. Every house has
one hanging outside, and as they
are of the frailest possible struc,
ture, umbrellas are hung over
them to protect them when the
rain comes.
BY the way, many things are
done in Japan so differently from
our way that they are interesting
to remember. For instance, shoes
are made by carpenters, and cows
have their bells tied to their tails
instead of to their necks.
Lambs, instead of mules, are
emblems of 0bstinacy, and to call
your playmate a goose is the
greatest compliment You can pay
him. Should you wish to hattcr
anyone the way to do it is to tell
him, or her, that they are looking
very old to-day. Workmcn sit
down to work, and artists often
paint upside down-that is, the
canvas, not the artist, is upside
down. Screws turn the wrong
way, ana EfoWn'ups rlde In big
baby carriages drawn by men.
Dogs wear ruties around their
necks, and when a house is being
built the roof is made first. and
hoisted into place. There are no
sidewalks, no Sundays, no jewelry
in the kingdom. When the people
wish to honor one of their gods
they throw paper balls at his i'm.
age. The cats never play with
their tails. Why? Because they
have %none-only the shortest of
stumps. A cat is never called
kitty" but "Choppi."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
LAST FLAGSHIP OF NELSON
British Naval Expert Tells of the
Great Progress Which Eas Been
Made in Naval Construction.

The Victory, the last of Mel,
son't battleships, now floating in
Portsmouth harbor at the vener.
able age of 140 years was recently
taken by Sir Philip Watts, direc.
tor of naval construction in Eng.
land, as the starting point of an
interesting address on the last
100 years progress in warship de.
sign, says the New York Globe.
This 100 gun vessel, built in
1865, was 40 years old at the last
great sea fight of Great Britain at
Trafalgar. The length of her gun
decks is 1856 feet, her extreme
breadth 81 feet 10 inches and her
"burthen in tons 2,162 22-94." The
thickness of the oak sides of these
wooden battleships above the
water line in the DAYS of Trafal.
gar was about two feet. The old
east iron smoothbores, with their
wooden trucks, then in use, had n
range of $500 yards at eight de.
grees' elevation (the "A and 80.
Founders. The a FOUNDER was
able to penetrate nearly five feet
of solid oak and the 1Spounder
about half this amount, There
were heavier guns, but owing to
the primitive appliances then in
use they were difficult to handle.
The naval fighting machine
which 100 years of evolution has
produced is a very different sort
of vessel and is so much more pow.
erful that a single one of the late
British b~attleships could, it is
said. have engaged the whole of
the British fleet at Trafalgar and
the allied fleet thrown in.
The modern 12,inch wire wound
gun will penetrate AZ inches of
wrought iron and even at 5000
yards will force uncapped proiec.
tiles through over II inches of
rhrupp steel armor. The 12-inch
guns recently manufactured by
the Armstrong; and Vickers com
panies in England are said to be
capable of penetrating 81 inches
of wrought iron and will fire two
rounds per minute.
According to Sir Phi ilip Watts.
the present relation between guns
and armor is about what it was in
the days of the cast iron smooth,
bore and the oak sides, so that
while there have been great ad.
vances the relative positions of
offense and defense in naval war,
fare are but little changed.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
GIBRALTAR is CRUMBLING.
IEe Great Rock Is Continually Being
strengthened Because of Ten
dency to Rot Away.

The public is not awere that
the great rock of Gibraltar is
tumbling dOwn--that its crum.
bling, rotting masses must be con.
tinually bound together with
huge patches of masonry and CO.
ment, asserts the Chicago Chron-
icle.
Yet they who sail pa st Gibral.
tar cannot fail tonotiCe on the
eastern slope of the fortress enor.
nous silver.cOlored patches
cleaning in the sun. These patch.
es, in some cases 30 or 40 feet
square, are the proof OF Gibral,
tar's disintegration. Of thick,
strong cement, they ke Yep huge
spurs of the cliffs side from tum.
bling into the blue sea.
Sea captains, cruising in the
Mediterranean, say that Gibral.
tar has been rotting and crum.
bling for many years, but that Of
neutrality-suspicious. has gone on
at a faster rate than heretofore.
They say that the stone forming
this imposing cliff is rotten stone,
and that in a little while the
phrase, the strength Of Gibral-
tar" will be meaningless.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
Thrash the Idols.

In northern China, where a
drought has long prevailed, Off.
Gals have visited all the temples
and thrashed the idols for negli.
gence. Others have been put out
into the sur that they may feel
how hot and dry il is. II is not un-
common in San Francisco TO e a
Chinese joss dragged out into the
street and punished for neglect
OF duty.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
Uncle Aliens Idea.

"I've mighty little USE" said
Uncle Allen Sparks, "for the man
who keeps himself so busy with
his jaw trying to save the coun-
try from going to ruin that be
hasn't any time to look after the
children while his wife is travelling
around attending women's con
ventions and mothers con.
gresses."-Chicago Tribune
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-13
Waters of the Rhine.

A German g%eographer calls at
tention to the fact, known to few
that the Rhine gets some of its
water from Italy. A few mile;
above the Via Mala the Rhine ID
augmented by a turbulent noun
tain torrent, whose chief tribu
tary is a brook that comes from
the Val di Lei, which politically be
longs to Italy, though separated
from the rest of that country by
glacier-covered mountains over
which there is a trail of CHA.
VIENNA.