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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
PRESIDENT BROKE
HIS OWN PET LAW
Violated Civil Service Act in
Making One Dollar Cam
paign Gift.

WAsHINGTON. ID. O.. October ls.-It
was reluctantly admitted at the civil
service Commission yesterday that presi-
dent Roosevelt himself had been guilty
az violating his pet civil service law by
making a. contribution Of 81 20 the Re
publican Congress ioual Campaign Gone
ulttee fund ia response 60 the appeal
OF Chairman sherman. asking all Re
pghlcans to chip in that amount To help
% clect a Republican majority iu tie
House
i was also admitted AT the commission
that Chairman sherman and the other
members Of the Congressional Campaign
Committee. WHO are members Of Con-
gross or connected with the executive
departments Of the government. had vlo-
lated the law in receiving tho President
contribution. Section il Of the civil SER
VICE law expressly prohibits any employee
of the executive departments. or any one
on the government pay rolls. from solicit
inC or receiving contributions for polu-
cal purposes from other employees OF the
government. and contains a similar pro-
hibitiou as to making such contributions.
The CivN Service Commissioners would
not say whether any action would be
taken against the guilty officials. There
is. however. no expectation that any
tning VIII be done about the matter.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
Poles RUSE COT
GOVERNMENT ARMS
Disguised Revolutionists Escaped
With Big Consignment of
Revolvers.

WARSAW. October IA consignment
Of several thousand rovOlvcrs. purchased
by the Russian government in Berlin re-
Gently fell into the hands ~ the Polish
reVolutionists. Shortly after the arrival
of the car containing the pistols at the
Warsaw freight yards an artillery officer
and squad OF soldiers appeared. presented
The bills OF lading and an authorization
TO receive the weapons. w'lch were load
ed upon wagon and carried away 1t
later developed that the soldiers were
disguised rovolutionists. and tho docu-
mcnts forged
Investigation shows that since last De
ccmber the reNoiutionists have been ac-
cumulating large stocks Of rifles and re-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
No. 0CS
There'n Come a Day
BY MARGARET j. PRESTON.

Z Is soy
Theren come day when the spendor
or earth ~,
Whate'er their miracles or end
VIII wake
ThereW come day when aspiration
Nov" with
As lifts 90 heights oxidation.
VIII thing
There'n a honor. glory.
Music
q u-out
Where each played his
Therein day when he eee
Gift that includes the
com
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Thcrol
cloud
only lark like. grasses.
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published each aa.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
Prominent Visitors.

Among the prominent visitors in the city yee-
ter8av were Hon = r Rarlam. Jr member
o. the House from Prince George and Surry.
and Dr. T.. s. Foster superintendent ~ ths
Eastern State Hospital ar Williamsburg lr
Foster @aiisI OF Governor Swanson AMI was
villa his Exceuency Tor some time.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
MI. Eggleston Better.

a letter received NJ the Department
~ Education states that Superintendent
Joseph D. Eggleston. Jr. who has been
e.rk for some weeks az his homo in
Prince Edward county. IS slowly im-
proving
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
Bonds Are Active

There 's good deal OF activity n
Virginia securities. ana u was stated a,
the Second Auditors Office that quite Il
large amount Of funding was going on.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
Poems You Ought to Know

Whate'er occupation
hours WIN aiars do
dy for Lefeshmeu of poctry-PIot
Charles Eliot Norton
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17

Mrr p = McNsmare snd Master
CrlAsm Glenn have returned from vls.t
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17

Miss lillian Profit. ~ Shores va.
uao has been visiting friends In CHS
.,tv is now $50 scottstlle. WHOM. sIe Will
teach thls winter
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17
Or. Lyons
PERFECT
I Goth Powder

Cle9nses. and beauties the
-eerh and purifies the breath.
Used by people OF refinement
1or over a quarter of q century.
Convenient for tourists.
PREPARED BY
II ZEe2S)070. .nUc s.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-10-17

a'r aa1 2frs Shelton Walden of cre.1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29

tistics. So New York goes on eating. drinking and making merry Said a health expert:
 There is a lot written and said these days about the extravaganza of the feasts of the rich and the hunger of the poor, but during the sumner, at least the peril of New YorlS's poor. find, is not hunger. but too much food.
 The rich are saved from some of the penalties of an osererowded stomach by the fact that their feasts are periodical. They may gorge themselves perhaps. from time to time but they do stop eat ing for a few hours afterward The canons of police society frown on the lunch basket continuous performance.
 Among the poorer classes these canons do not exist, and it tries my soul to say nothing of my stomach. to watch the indiscretions of young and old-but es- pecially of the young-on the days out ings, which at this time of year from so large a part of their social schedule. On such occasions it is eat eat eat, from the time the family leaves home in the morning till 1t gets back at night, and until the various members are stuffed to reDletion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
Return of the RockefelIers.

With the return of the two senior Rockefeller, John D. an William, tho Standard oil giants have again reaS- sembled and the street iz full of gos- sip as to what plants and campaigns they may hnNe in view The home coming of William Rockefeller took the street entirely by surprise and Is regarded as being especially slgnif- cant. The William Rockefeller person ality supremely controls St. Paul. He is the strongest force In New York Central, and although representing a minority interest in the great New Haven system he Is nevertheless very strong in that quarter. When he is within reach 1T. H. Rogers Is in con stant touch with him in the direction of Amalgamated and other mining and industrial enterprises inwhich they are mutually interested and in which Standard oil capital to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars is in vested.
 William Rockefeller, much more than John D., represents Standard oil in Wall street. a fact well known In finan- circles and on the stock exchange: William Rockefellers return is ex- pected to be followed soon by an nouncement of either the sale of St. Paul to the Hartman interests or the adoption of plan for the finacing of the roads extension to the Pacific coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
Defended the Wealthy.

Abram Hewitt once said that men with "too much money cannot be good citl- zens'' Mir Sage protested immediately
 ''It's the man and not the money that makes the amount wrong," he said "One of the easiest ways in which poor citi- zens are made is through inheritance Take a young man who hasn't been used to handling large amounts Of money Let him come into fortune or say S1OO,O0O and what does he do with it? Wastes It.
 "As for me. am constantly turning ever my wealth in a way that will help others, If a man does not do that he will not be a good citizen"
 In defense of the millionaires, Mir. Sage once said
 Ut Is the man with great wealth who develops the material resources of a country, He constructs railroads, with out which there would be no commerce or no great cities. He gives employment to his fellow-men, and undertakes large enterprises which are for the benefit of the public
 'No mistake Is more foolish than to be- lieve that the rich man Is working only for himself He is really the nations agent and turns his wealth over con- stantly in a way that helps others. Tho naillionares of today do not work so much for more money as to protect and manage their interests. In doing this they are the guardians of the public welfare The prosperity of the whole nation depends upon giving fair treat ment to those who are bearing the most responsibility"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
Bull Speculation May be En-
 Couraged in Autumn
THE ROCKEFELLERS RETURN
William Rockefeller's Presence Here Unexpected and Causes Much Cos sip--Russell Sage's Death Has
 No Effect on Stocks.
BY w. G. NICHOLAS.

New York, July 2S.-The stock mar ket has a way of going counter to programmes and charts and forecasts which is a puzzle and disappointment to the wise men who try to look into the feature and tell waiting world what is going to happen to prices Last winter nothing was plalner, ac- cordng to the very generally accept ed theories of these wise men, than that the market was going to have a great boom during May, June and July in order to permit bankers, specu- lators and Inside interests to unload their stocks thereby escaping the tight money discomforts of next fall and winter. This late-in the year period of stringency was to be attend ed by skyscraping interest rates and a terrific slump of stocks What hap pened during the first half of the year is of record. The spring and summer was like baboonAs instep; it made a hole in the ground Everybody was seized at the same time with an inn pulse to get an early start and to sell their stocks first without waiting for the advertised advance.
 The fall break in the market began in April and kept right on for nearly three months, resulting in slide which carried some stocks down 100 points, and caused an average shrink age of about S20 a share through the entire active list. It now begins to look as though the forecasters might be as far out of the way the last half of the year they were the first half In anticipation of tight money later on nearly everybody in Wall street has made arrangements for all the time money they may need to carry them into 1907. Quantities of this money are now being loaned in the street by brokers who loaded up with more funds than they have any pres ent use for and there is likely to be a pressure from that quarter clear down to the end of December. All of which may operate to the lowering of autumn interest rates and to the en- couragement of bull speculation in HtoCkS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29

estimated at $2,OOo.O0 oOO of which 25 per cent must go into the account for the years 19O405. Directly offsetting this may be enumerated fully s3O0, 900 900 spent annually abroad by american tourists, sl00OOO'OOO expended in ocean passenger fares and ocean freight paid to foreign vessel owners, $1O0, ,00O,0O0 in interest and dividends and possibly $25, 100000 in in- terest on money borrowed in London to carry American stocks for speculative account, favorable device of many of the rich operators in Wall Street. If the international bankers could get together and compare notes 1t would probably be discovered that European and British capital Is employed to far larger ex- tent than generally believed in the finan- cing of American enterprises. Interna- tional exchange brokers have a
 inkling of the volume of this kind [ indebtedness, but the public at large has no conception of the real figures.
 America is a favorlte field for the em- ployment of surplus European capital and growingly so. for no matter what conditions may be, there Is no time when the money can't be drawn down by it's owners. It's use In America is attended by minimum risks and yields the best average returns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
A Neuro Experiment.

There is a real estate company in this city. run by negroes, which makes a business of introducing black families in localities where they have not hither- to resided. Quietly a flat house Is pur- chased or leased and some morning the white occupants wake mp to find sign out front announcing apartments to let to negro tenants. In twenty-four hours there are no white tenants left, and in a week or two there is negro family in every flat. The nelghborhood com- pIains for a few days, the newspapers nrint stories about 1t, and then the mat ter is dropped. Soon the house next door is rented by the negro real estate company. its population changes sud- denly, then another house, and so on until the block is Inhabited almost ex- clusively by blacks. The experiment was first tried in West One Hundredth street, between Columbus avenue and Central park, west. This was looked upon as being a daring venture on account of it heinz so near Central park, west, one of the best residence streets in the city. But there has been no trouble. The only noticeable difference is the large num- Der of negro childrep that now play in Central park Property owners in West One Hundredth street complain that their property has decreased in value. This is true, because those who did not lease or sell to the negro real estate company had to rent to negroes any way. Their white tenants fled at the invasion of the blacks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29

Every politician of any consequence in the country knows James w. Gray. For twenty-five years he has been a bar tender at the Fifth Avenue hotel, which has long been the home of the republican state organization and the temporary abode of prominent men from far and rear. In his long experience Gray has made come interesting observations, and here are a few of them
 '"There Is one place in the world where the real truth Is told and that is over the bar. There is one man who hears more of the real stories of human weak ness and ambition than any other kind of functionary and that is the bartender. ''I have seen a man working for SIS money to keep while they finished a jag, and I have had a man hand me the se- erets of community to keep for the rest of my life, which means neither profit nor pleasure to me.
 T have seen man w) l1.ng for sla n week who took a drink or two a day go Il by steady application to a position of importance and a yearly raise of pay to tho head of the ho isf and ihe increase of a csplain of industry.
 ''I have sen men with fortunes and the fairest prospects in the world go down as surely the days passed ard in-
 'eir rum consumption in the same ratio, not because they were vic- tins of alcohol, but because they were victims of their own lack of strength of purpose and character.
 There is nothing in the world for which so many excuses are made as there are for drinking whisky.
 "When a man has had piece of good luck he wants to take a drink; when he has had some misfortune he wants to take a drink.
 When man is thirsty he wants to take drink; when his appetite Is off he wants to take a drink so as to sharpen 1t up.
 ''The morose man drinks to cheer him up and the cheerful man drinks to be more so"
 
 Signs
 The most difficult work solicited. Hernli- tage. of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
Starved In New York.

The doctors say we eat too much. Yet there are hundreds in New York who feel the bangs of hunger. The other day a woman was found starving in Madison Square and died in Bellevue hospital without having been identified. Thou sands dined night within call of her voice in famous restaurants where the price of a single meal would have meant month of plenty to her. But of all the tens of thousands who passed her by her only friend was laboring man, with all his earnings engaged for the support of his family. He gave all he had-half of his luncheon.
 Few have ever charged the New York policemen with lack of human kindness to the poor, and there is little doubt that any effort would have won for the stary- Ing woman. But under the weight of misfortune and in the weakness of hun ger her mind worked too feeby to send her in search of help, while thousands of bold beggars reaped a plentiful llveli- hood from the carlessly kind only across
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
HOUSE INTERIOR LIKE SHIP.
Owner Says He Can Always Feel as If
 He Was at Sea.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 One of the most originally constructed houses in the United States Is owned and of the Louisiana Navigation and Fisher. ies company. at Egania and North Peters streets. Captain Doullut states that he built the house in which to end his days and to suit himself.
 He likes to feel that he is aboard a yes sel even when he is at home, and the h. terior is BIO constructed as to suggest this at all times. The house overlooks the river and the captains vessels land direct ly in front when they are in port. From the cupola the captain can stand and see the lights of Canal street to the right and those of Chalmette to the left
 The plan of this house was originated by Captain Doullut Twice he tore up plans and was not satisfied until he had made them different from anything he had ever seen. and he has travelled considera- bly. The house was built by Captain Doullut and his crew of boat builders and one year was occupied in it's construction It cost about $9,ooo
 This house is fifty-four feet square. sur rounded by an iron fence, with cement pavements. The rooms resemble the in- terior of ship; there are port holes
 
 floor. in which is located the store room bears a striking resemblance to the hull of an ocean going vessel. The lower story is of brick, the upper of frame The roof, of slate. is modelled after the Japanese style The caves and cornice are built directly from Japanese patterns. The house Is ceiled with pressed steel and finished as elaborately as the saloon of ship. The cupola Is constructed ex- actly like pilot house. and has windows all around If a breeze is blowing the captain is sure to catch 1t there. The gallery is continuous. and at any time the owner can swing his hammock so as to be In the shade. Electric lights are used for Illuminating, and everything is situated so that 1t is unnecessary to leave the house for anything, even the cistern being located on the gallery.
 There is an entrance to the yard on Egania street. but from North Peters it Is necessary to climb to the top of the levee, where one goes down a walk built like a gangplank. Captain Doullut is satisfied that he has a house the like of which cannot he found anywhere in the state. and he takes great pride in show ing friends over 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
scrubwoman Rested.

One of the scrubwomen in the old Ar cade building approached him when he had come back to is office after the bomb throwing and thought she could move his purse, as well as his sympathy in view of his narrow escape
 "Oh, Mir. Sage" she began, these are hard days for me, and I thought you might give me a little help. for you know that I'm a hard working woman and my husbands down with a broken leg and my daughter is sick and one of the children has got diphtheria, and If any one dies I have no money for the funeral; and can't pay the doctor, and there's little to eat in the house.
 'Tbo bad, too bad" murmured the financler, ''but I'm afraid that money would do you no good. How much do you earn a week here?"
 "Six dollars, sir"
 And how long have you been here?"
 Ten years"
 "Six dollars a week Is $312 d year. If you had been an economical woman you would have saved at least 50 per cent of your income, or $156 a year. In ten years you would have had $1b6O, or adding interest, about $1700. Now take my advice and make 1t a point during the next ten years of saving at least 30 per cent of your earnings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
Facts In Ills Life,

Here is "Uncle Russelrs life in a nutshell:
 Worked on his fathers farm until he was 16. and saved 1850.
 Became an errand boy in his brothers s grocery store and increased his capital to s1OOO
 Rose from errand boy to a partnership, and at 20 was worth S75,000.
 At S5 the richest wholesale grocer in Troy, and quoted at sa5O0O0.
 Served four years in Congress and studied national finances.
 Began his financial career in New York in 1863, buying and selling privileges.
 Made $2.000,000 in one hour selling gold At the close of the civil war was re- puted to ba worth S6,000,000.
 Was the principal manipulator In the Union Pacific Railway consolidation with Jay Gould.
 Lived ifty-two years in one house on Fifth avenue.
 Became the controlling power in the elevated railroads and opposed the abo- litlon of the coal oil lamps.
 Paid SIP a suit for his clothes, and wore three suits year.
 His daily luncheon downtown cost 20 cents.
 Bomb thrown at him by Norcuss in 1891 He used Walter Laldlaw as a shield, and Laidlaw sought payment for the in- juries he received MT. Sage won out in the lawsuits.
 Got out of sick bed to loan money when rates were high and made $555
 Was a director in twenty-slx corpora tions; until he became too feeble attended tho meetings regularly, drawing the fee.
 At the time of his death estimated to be worth $100,000O00, principally in rail- road securities.
 Swore in 1903 that his personal property was not worth more than s2,00o,o0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-29
Secretary Shaw.

MT. Shaw is one of the secretarys of the treasury to arbitrarily bond Wall street to the government inter ests in doing It's financing. The GUS tom has been for the treasury al Washington, whenever it had any bonds to float to first find out what the big bankers in Wall street might think about the proposition any how they would receive 1t. There were al- ways "pickings," more or less rich. for Wall street every time the govern ment had any bonds to sell or any re- funding schemes to put through. On the Panama bond accession, however, Secretary Shaw took the other tack. having received a hint that the big banks look with dlsfavor on his pro- ject for selling a $30.N00,000 Issue on terms which would realize for the treasury every fraction 1t could get in stead of allowing for the customary rake off"
 He virtually took Wall street by the scuff of the neck and gave 1t out cold and flat that if the banks did not re- spond in proper spirit they need eX- pect no treasury favors in the future. as long as he had the say. He did not tion was clear. The bankers took the hint and made the bond issue the greatest success of any of the minor treasury operations in fifteen years. The transaction raised MT. Shaw in the respect of Wall street more than anything else has ever done.