The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-17

days RerOrd, III lolloWs.
5"cbnscd them from everywhere,
/ Chased them all onward,
into the crater Of dehtii
Drove tlcnl-rsx hundred!
Forward. tho Wood brigade!
Spare not one, he snld
Shoot all sx Hundred.
l" Forward, the Wood Brigade.
Was there n man afraid?
Not tho n soldier knew.
lIenthen had blundercd
Snvnges cunt reply,
Heather cunt reason why,
Women and children die,
Forced In the crater Of death,
Forced with six hundred.
Cannon to right Of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front OF them.
Nolleyed ana Numbered.
"stormed at With shot ard shell,
T Women and children fell
Into the jaws or death.
Into tile mouth OF he'll,
All told, six hundred!
"Flashed all tho sabers there.
Flashed az they turned IN air.
Sabr'ing the women there.
Charging the women, while
All the world wondered.
Stlfed by cannon smoke
Men. women. children choke
Women and children.
Relied from the buy'nct STROKE
In death not sundered;
Families slaughtered there
All OF six hundred.
Cannon to right OF them,
Cannon to left of them.
Cannon in front OF them,
{ Volleyed and numbered.
stormed at with shot and shell.
While child and mother fell,
They that had loved so well.
Thrust into jaws OF death.
Trapped into mouth OF hell.
Not Il babe left OF them.
Left of six hundred.
What shall such blood-thist Stake.
God ask Hell-roaring Jake.
Whether Wood Numbered.
Honor the charge they made:
Honor the Wood Brigade?
For that six hundfed?''
Mr.. Ryan and Panama.
Hon. John +. Ryan former Speaker Of
itlie Virginia House Of Delegates. n no.
5sition with which he was honored FOR
several years, has been 10 California
Twenty some years ago he formed the
resolution to go. but every year some.
thing would turn up which prevented his
carving out his determination This wear
he shut his eyes and ears to every con-
sideration tending to keep him on his
fine Loudoun county farm and went
West. North, rather for iic went to New
York, where he took Ward Line steam
err for Jamaica. thence to Colon. across
the Isthnus TO Panama by rail and
thence up the coast by steamship to San
francisco.
II I enjoyed the whole OF the trip, said
Mr.. Ryan, even the Journey across the
continent by rail, from San Francisco
Washington. via Denver and Salt Lake.
I was surprised to see that the French,
had done so much work on the Panalnt
Canal. should say our government
did not pay too much for the right TO
complete the work
1T will take Il long time to finish the
canal, even II we build one with locks
It looked TO me that the work of con-
structinE sca-leveI canal would be too
great Tor even as rich a government rs
ours to undertake.. The Porto Rican ana
jamaican negroes are poor 1workmen 1t
IS said that one of our negroes will do
as much work in a day as three of them.
was much Interested IN Jamalca
Ninety per cent. of the popiiation arc
negroes. was told that absolutely no
distinction is made between the races
down there. The fruit trust has enor-
nous banana farms on the island and
in other ways contribute to its appear-
ance Of prosperity. While at dinner at
tho hotel one day ] saw man at a
nearby table whose sidcface seemed fa-
miliar, and on going over where could
get better view. was pleased to recos-
nize DIR. ]. NJ. AfcBryde. President Of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, who WAS
down there with his wife,
Mr.. Ryan has very effectually dis
guised himself by having had his barber
trim his beard into n genuine Van
Dyke, the result being n change which,
while it may add to the pulchritude OF
the former speaker, changes his appear
ance so as to make him a stranger to an
old acquaintance. In Denver Mr.. Ryan
met Mr.. John Irby, former managing
editor of the old Richmond Times, who
went to Colorado for his health some
years ago and is now secretary to Mayor
Hogg.
In Washington.
Connally T. Trigg. WHO'S about as we'll
known in washington as at his home in
Abingdon, Va, was at the Capitol to-
day. He will be here several days on
business Mr.. Trigg has recently, re-
covered from painful injuries received in
a runaway accident, which narrowly cs-
capped icing fatal.
There is scarcely an old town in the
country that has grown as rapidly as has
Abingdon In the past few years" he
said "a man who has not scent It for
some years would hardly recognize It
were he to go back. New towns have
developed more rapidly than Abingdon,
but few, If any, old ones OF the size have
forged ahead In such n marked degree
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