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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
Quotations.

Please give authors OF the following: !.
Wee, modest, crimson tipped flower. 2.
The green.eyed monster. 2. To err Is hu-
ed wide her ever during gates. Also name
the book In which the character Barbara
Frictchc Is found. WAYNESBORO.
]. Burns. 9. Shakespeare. 3. Pope 1.
Milton. The Poems of j. G.. Whittier.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
Dunlop Adopts Norfolk.
(SpeclaIto The Tines Dispotc

(specaIto The Times-Dispntch)
NORFOLK. VA. February 27.--Dayid
Dunlop of Petersburg, the wealthy to-
bacconist ana horsemen. has bought u
residence here, and will come to Nor
folk toaliye. He will retain his country
home near Petersburg.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
Rhymes for To-Day
Dull Care, Skidoo!
To-hlght I'm sick Of working;
Life looks a grind to me;
1 long 70 aea uhnt shIrking

Lille looks Il grind 70 me-
long to see what Striking
And Idle JOY may be.
pine to burn my papers,
And snufr these midnight tapers,
And cut some joyous cnpers,
And take shot at Gice.
I planned 81 bllthesome showing
When life was juN begun;
And now I watch II going
Will, NIL my plans iindone::
And worse, as we grow older.
The young fires die or sfnoulder-
Fate, take me by the shoulder
And stcer,ne to some Fun!
I'm sick OF all this grinding
1 shoe 1t all away;
I'm gardunlly finding
That working doesn't pay.
Now give me. Fate. my measure
or all uncloudcd leisure:
Submerge me deep IN pleasure :,
And so reinalsc me gay! III. 5. III.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
War On Noise.

The West End Woman's Republican
Club, OF New York, has declared Itself
against the noises of the city ms a deadly
menace. 1t protests That the women
more than the men suffer from the noises
OF the streets. They rise early in the
morning to attend to their household du-
ties and at intervals during the day
should rest, but the noises will not pes:
init. ut is VIGOROUSLY true says the
manifesto. that n woman at home n
this city may rarely have an uninter-
rupted hour of quiet and rest throughout
the day. II she sits down or lies down to
rest there comes up from the streets
jangling, bowling. shrieking, that tor
lures her very soul. 1t is not the playing
of the children in the streets that she
objects TO, but the unnecessary roaring
and discord made by street tradesmer,
and--of these the vegetable and fruit
lenders
The New York Sun is disposed %
ridicule this protest. but 1t is a COM
plant of a serious nature. and our heart.
felt sympathes are with the women. All
women have their nerves and noise is
wry trying on nervous organism.
We doubt not that many u woman has
been FASTENED to her death by the
wearing noises of the city. And some
men suffer also. We never know the
blessing of quiet until snow covers the
stony streets and puts all vehicles, as 1t
were, on rubber tires. II the women Of
Richmond will organize against the use
less noises of this city We promise them
our chivalrous aid.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

The Nanderbilts are not likely to be-
come infatuated with automobiling in the
Eyetalian style. To be assaulted by a
discourtcous mob, simply for running
over a boy or so, is a little too much.
Let them speed back to a country where
accidents are essly adjusted by the
chauffeur and $40 bill.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

Schemes of isthmian canal building arc
as old as the middle OF the seventeenth
century. Active work began as result of
international congress Of 1870 and was en-
tirely under French management. a COM
pany fioated by de Lesseps. This company
became bankrupt in 1850 and II great
scandal and several prosecutions arose
out OF the acknowledgement of its affairs.
When the United States seriously took up
the matter of canal the Nicaragua route
was favored because of the excessive price
at which the assets OF the old French
Company were held. The Mckinley COM
missioners, however. agreed to take over
this property at s4O.OOO,OoO. Length will
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

The mere question of pern1anency of
abode. II nothing more were involved,
would alone strongly commend this bill.
A rented embassy is not fully in keeping
with the dignity OF great nation, and
there is something unseemly in the con-
slant, but enevitable changes of location
III Paris, It is said, though, nearly any
the other great powers. hardly anybody
can tell you where the American embassy
is. Even the omniscient cabman shruss
his shoulders and says: 1T Is on wheels"
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The Suit Against West Virginia.
The Supreme Court of Appeals has
granted the motion of Virginia for leave
to file bill Of complaint against West
Virginia to force an accounting ana set
Element OF the share of liability OF that
state in the debt incurred while 1t was
a part of Virginia. and the famous suit
is now under way. The Tlmes-Dls-
patch has not overlooked that this is
serious question, nor that II would have
been better II Virginia could have kept
out of the action, but there is good rea-
son to believe that suit would have
been brought In any event, and Virginia
would have been involved III spite of
herself. Therefore. It seems to us that
the only course left to Virginia was TO
accept the offer OF the certificate holders
to bring suit on their account, the State
herself Icing II large holder of ccrtifi-
Gates, and endeavor to have final &C.
counting and settlement OF this ques-
ton that has been hanging like pail
over the state for many years.
Under tho agreement with the commits
tee Of the certificate holders. if the
Supreme Court decides that West Virginia
should pay certain sum in liquidation
of her obligations. the sum thus ascer-
tanned will be accepted by tho certificate
holders in full settlement of their claims
and Virginia will be released from any
further obligation. That is consun,-
nation devoutly to be wished and we
sincerely hope that the case will be
settled on that bass and that the debt
question will forever have been retired
by this suit.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

Information contained in the latest ad-
vices from China is to the effect that the
uprising against the foreigners is likely
to be serious, that 1T is not directed
against the foreigners, and that no up
rising will take place.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
Blind Tom.

Please inform me where Blind Tom was
born and who owned him? Algo, how
fire alarms were given in cities before
Introduction of electrical alarms. and
where and when latter were introduced?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
The Panama Canal.

When was the Panama Canal question
first agitated in this country? Why was
1t not undertaken before. What will be
the length. cost and the tins OF building?
Has this work been undertaken before.
and, II So why did It fall?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

we take pleasure in stamping as a
canard the report that Mr.. J. London's
9socialistic addresses are to be collected In
book form under the little, THE Call Of
the Wild Jack
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

In the county OF Muscogce. Ga, near
Columbus. May Is. 1919. The Bethune
family. Cries and bells. First patent for
electrical alarm was granted in England
to n. Rutter. IL 1877. First installation
was in New York and Berlin. in 1851. Ex-
perimental efforts We're made earlier in
several places, but Richmond. Va, in 1858,
had the first electric car system in the
world 4t
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

"Iow far" exclaims clever parodst.
THAT little scandal throws its beams"'
II the aphorism isn't intrinsically true,
it may be urged that the town-topcal
colonel did his best to make it SO.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

1t is painful to swear off for Lent when
you have half n box of unburnt cigars.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

surgeon-General Takaki states he in
tends increasing the height Of the
japanese by new food system. We are
obliged to regard this as rather tall
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

The Tlllman- Roosevelt rate bill has n
nice sound when you say 1t fast and
think hard about something else.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

II Pttsburg keeps on enlarging at this
rate, she has a chance OF some day grow
ing up to her smoke.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

High finance could scarcely arraign
itself more severely than by any move
ment toward the overthrow OF Mr..
Stuyvesant Fish.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28

Common honesty is not however. so
particularly frequent.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
QUERIES AND
ANSWERS
VA COLLEGE, President.

------.-.------.-- 80. -.
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hope ii is rot vet too late for our
leeislators to sise the matter tho full
consideration that Its Importance de-
lnnnds
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05

tradition-that a southern gentlema.
is all chivalry when it comes to
matter touching his womankind. AM
| don't controvert it as genera
proposition. But the Rajah has been
fighting western railroad magnate
so long that his accent is about the
only southern asset he has retained.
II I'm any good at guessing. he will
stick at nothing to gain his end"
Winton admitted the impeachment
without prejudice to his own point of
view.
Perhaps you are right. But fore
warned is forearmed. And Miss Vir.
ginia Is not going to lend herself to
any such nefarious scheme"
mot consciously, Perhaps but you
don't know her yet. If she saw a
good chance to take the conceit out of
you, she'd improve it-without think
ing overmuch of the possible conse-
quences to the Utah company"
"Pshaw!" said Winton. THAT is
another of your literary differences.
I've met her only twice, yet I ven-
ture to say I know herg better than
you do. If she cared anything for me
which she doesn't"
"Oh. go to sleep!" said Adams. who
was not minded to argue further with
man besotted; and so the matter
went by default for the time.
1t was very deftly done. and even
Adams. the clear-eyed, could not help
admiring the Rajah's skillful fnesse.
or formal dinner-givings there might
easily have been an end. since the
construction camp had nothing to
offer in return. But the formalities
were studiously ignored, and the two
young men we're put upon a footing
of intimacy and encouraged to come
and go as they pleased.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05

for what you said to me the other
evening"
Il don't know why you should; you
didn't need it in the least" she pro
tested. IF | had known then what
know now, | should have said some
thing quite different"
"Say it now, If you wish"
MAY 1? But l have no right. Be
sides, it would sound like the basest
of recantations.
would it? Nevertheless. should
like to hear it"
She nerved herself for the plunge
her uncle's plunge-doubting more
than ever.
your part in the building of this
other railroad is purely business af-
fair, is it not?"
my personal interest? Quite so; a
mere matter of dollars and cents, you
may say"
She went on, entirely missing the
irony in his reply.
You did not know the difficulties
before you came here?"
Only III SeHeTdl way. KNEW
there was opposition. and-well, I'm
not just novice in this sort of thing,
and If | may be allowed to boast a
little. | knew my appointment was
owing to Mr.. Callowel's belief in my
ability to carry 1t through"
You are not smoking" she said.
Haven't you your pipe?" She was
finding it desperately hard to go on.
IF you don't mind" he returned;
but when he had pipe and tobacco in
hand she plunged again.
You say your interest in this other
railroad-your personal interests
only that of-of an employe. If you
should have another offer. from some
other company"
He smiled. Put yourself in my
place, Miss Virginia. What would
you do?"
She tried to think it out, and in
the process the doubt grew and over
whelmed her.
II don't know" she faltered.
IF, as you say, it is only question
of so much money to be earned"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05
ONLY One Tarpon Left.

OF the two tarpon taken, one on July
81 last and the other on July 2S. In
nets in Sandy Hook bay, and brought
thence to the New York aquarium. one
still survives in captivity, the other
which was the one last taken, having
died on August 5.
The dead fish was five feet long
and weighed 60 pounds. The surviv
ing tarpon, beautiful specimen about
four feet and a half in length, is now
feeding and is apparently in good con
dition.
It may, after the manner of its kind
be found lying quietly in the water
but it is active, as is shown when II
turns up its silver sides in making for
the food thrown into the water for it,
And it may be seen swimming around
sometimes following. seemingly. the
eight foot sturgeon that is one of its
companions in the great central pool
the big sturgeon seeming then to
speed up little, as If to evade the tar.
pon's pursuit.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05
MANY Races in Abyssinia.

The most interesting part of the
dark continent is Abyssinia. Here
the beasts of the field and the flowers
of the meadow from the Mediterra-
mean region meet those of tropical
Africa. Here the snow capped noun
tains retain a wild goat; here also is
a peculiar and aberrant dog, and in
the western lowlands is a true wild
boar. Several of the antelopes and
two or three species of monkey are
peculiar to Abyssinia. as are numer-
Gus birds, few fish, two or three rep
tiles, and a great many plants. The
human races are of varied types and
widely different origins. speaking a
diversity of languages, some of them
as yet unclassified. In the extreme
southwest are negro types, in the
southeast and south they are hand
some Gala-Hamitic or Somala stock,
in the north there are Hamite and
Semitic, and traces of ancient Greek
or Egyptian colonies, and dark skinned
Jews whose origin seems to ante-date
the destruction of Jerusalem. Abys-
sinia has a history going back to a
thousand years before the Christian
era.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05

He started as if she struck him
with a whip.
That is not your argument; it is
Mr. Darrah's." Then his voice took
deeper tone that thrilled her till
she wanted to cry out. Don't say
you want me to give up; please don't
say that. | think | have been putting
you on a pedestal these last two days.
Miss Carteret You know well enough
what is involved-honor, integrity,
good faith, everything a man values,
or should value. | was only testing
when | spoke of the day-pay; that is
nothing. | can't believe you would
ask such sacrifice Of me-of any
man."
The brown eyes met his fairly. and
it was not Mr.. Somerville Darrah's
confederate who said: Indeed, I do
not ask it, Mr.. Winton. see now
how impossible it would be for You
to" she stopped short, and leaving
the sentence in the air, began again.
But it is only fair that you should
have your warning. and I'm going to
give IL to you. My uncle will leave
no stone unturned to defeat you"
He was still looking into her eyes.
and so had courage to say what came
uppermost.
81 don't care. | shall fight him as
hard as ] can, but | shall always be
his debtor for this evening. Do you
understand"
She broke the eye-hold and turned
away quickly.
"You must not come again" she
said.
But l shall-as often as | may.
And as to the railway tussle, Mr..
Darrah may take IL out of me as he
pleases from sunrise to sunset, II he
will only invite me here to dinner
now and then"
In a flash her mod changed and
she laughed lightly.
"Who would think IL OF you, Mr..
Wintonl or all men l should have
said you were the last to care so
much for the social diversions. Shall
we go in?''
'If we must: but noe until I have
thanked you for your timely hint OF
yesterday morning. II saved me no
end OF trouble"
The telegram? Mr.. Adams sent
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05

for some time; head has ached and
back also; has slept poorly, been quite
nervous, and nearly tainted once or
twice; head dizzy, and heart beats very
fast; then that bearing-down feeling.
and during her periods she is exceed
ingly respondent. Nothing pleases
her. Her doctor says: "Cheer up: you
have dyspepsia; you will be all right
soon"
But she doesn't get "all right" and
ing, morbid, melancholy, everlasting
BLUES.
Don't wait until your sufferings have
driven you to despair, with your nerves
all shattered and your courage gone,
but take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. See what it did for
Mrs. Rosa Adams, of $40 18th Street,
Louisville, KY, niece of the late Gen
eral Roger Hanson, C.S.A. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham;
~ cannot tell you with pen and ink what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
has done for me. l suffered with female
troubles, extreme lassitude, the blues
nervousness and that all-gone feeling. was
advised to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and it not only cured my female
arrangement, but il has restored me TO perfect
health and strength. The buovancy of my
younger days has returned, and do not suf-
fer any longer with dependency as / did be-
fore. consider Lydia +. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound boon to sick and suffering
women.n
II you have some arrangement OF
the female organism write Mrs.
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for advice.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05

that. And besides, 1t was meant to be
a scolding."
II have no doubt Adams sent the
wire, but he didn't write 1t. Or, II
he did, he also wrote our invitation
to dinner. They are in the same
hand, you know"
She laughed again. "I think II is
quite time we were going in" she
averred, and he opened the door for
her.
II Mr.. John Winton, c. E.. stood in
need of a moral tonic, as Adams had
so delicately intimated to Miss Bessie
Carteret, it was administered in
quantity sufficient before he slept on
the night of dinner-givings.
For clear-eyed Technologian, free
from all Merchandising and able
to grasp the unsentimental fact. the
enemy's new plan of campaign wrote
itself quite legibly. With his pick
and choice among the time-killing ex.
pedients the Rajah could scarcely
have found one more to his purpose
than the private car Rosemary, in
Guiding in its passenger list a Miss
Virginia Carteret. There would be
more dinners and social diversions
other demonstrations like this of
neglecting to look after the consign-
ment Of steel-which, by the by. waV
not yet to be seen or even definitely
heard from; and in the end, defeat.
All OF which Adams. substituting
friendly frankness for the disciplinary
traditions of the service, set forth in
good Bostonian English for the benefit
and behoof of his chief. and was an.
swered according to his deserts with
scoffings and deridings.
II wasn't born yesterday. Morty,
and I'm not so desperately asinine as
you seem to think" was the besotted
ones summing up. 81 know the
Rajah doesn't split hairs in a bust
ness fight, but he is hardly unscrupu-
lous enough to use Miss Carteret as
a cat's-paw."
But Adams would not be scoffed
aside.
you're off in your estimate OF Mr..
Darrah. Jack, way off. l know the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05
THE ONE THING LACKING.
Monument Perfect, Save in One
Small Respect.

Many stories are told about the
late Foster Stafford, who was one oil
the pioneer mill men of Fall River
Mass. He was a hard-headed bust
ness man, blunt of speech, and reli
gious affairs were not his lorg suit
Two anecdotes tend to illustrate these
points.
When the first of the mills which
now bear his name was nearing com
pletion it was found that the build
ing was to be fiat-roofed affair, and
some of his stockholders who had
an eye toward making the city beau
tiful, called on Mr.. Stafford in a body
They tried to persuade him to have
an ornate tower added to the struc
ture
When they had exhausted their ar
guments Mr.. Stafford closed the Incl
dent by remarking: You cannot
make me change my mind, cause
d it, gentlemen, towers don't
weave cloth"
Previous to his death, Mr.. Stafford
had a fac-simile of a cotton mill cut
In granite and placed in his lot at
Oak Grove cemetery. to serve as his
tombstone. When IL had been put
in place, he invited the late Walter
c. Durfee, another well-known mill
man of those days, to go with him
and inspect IL.
Durfee examined 1T closely.
Now, Durfee, what do you think
of it?" asked Stafford.
Well" replied Mr.. Durfee. "as far
as l can see, 1t is complete in all but
one detail"
And what's that?" Intercepted
Stafford, quickly
Stafford" said Mr.. Durfee, II
don't see any fire escape, and, God
knows, you'll have need of one"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05
BRAVED ANGER OF KING.
Lafayette Haunted Liberty Medal In
Face of Louis.

Shortly after Lafayette's return to
France from his second sojourn in
America, he was at Versailles, where
the king was about to review 'divi-
sion of troops. Lafayette was asked
to join in the review.
He was dressed in the American uni
form. and was standing by the side OF
the Prince de Condo, when the king,
in his tour OF conversation with the
officers, came to him, and, after
speaking on several topics, asked him
some questions about his uniform and
the military costume Of the United
States. The kings attention was at.
tracted by a little medal attached to
the generals coat, and he asked what
1t was.
Lafayette replied that II was SYM
Dol which it was the custom of for
eign officers in American service to
wear, and that it bore a device.
And what is the device upon
yours?" asked the king.
my device" said the young gen.
eral, pointing to his medal, lis a lib
erty pole standing on a broken crown
and scepter."
The king smiled, and with some
pleasantly upon the republican pro-
pensities of a French Marquis in
American uniform, turned the CONVEX.
sation into other channels. Condo
looked grave, but was silent.-The
Sunday Magazine.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-05
A Resume of Cancer Research.

William Seaman cambridge states
that cancer occurs with the same es-
sential characteristics throughout the
vertebrate creation. There is a va
riety of conflicting evidence in refer
ence to the influence of diet on the de-
velopment of cancer. However, cancer
is comparatively rare in hot countries,
especially in those whose inhabitants
subsist largely on vegetable diet. With
certain exceptions it seems to be prev
alent where animal diet is mostly con-
sumed.
Black races are remarkably inn
mune from cancer yellow races are
more prone to it, while the white races
are the most susceptible. 1t occurs
when the tissues are undergoing retro
grade metamorphosis Cancer is I'M
doubtedly on the increase. The prin-
cipal increase involves the alimentary
tract. There are certain district called
cancer belts" Such areas are usual
ly low lying and damp.
Women are attacked by cancer far
earlier and more often than men.
Much recent experimental work points
to the cell as the essential element in
the development of cancer The para
site theory is discredited by the Har-
ward commission. The report of the
imperial cancer research fund destroys
all known theories of the origin Of
cancer. but proposes no new theory.
Surgical treatment has been estab-
lished on a firmer basis than ever be.
fore.-Medical Record