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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-25
LONDON. Aug. 81


sC oCIETY is nothing if not business
like in this twentieth century age.
and women Of the fashionable world
rave wonderful aptitude for commercial
enterprise, many members Of the arts
tocracy being engaged in successful bus.-
ness speculations and displaying a Keen
instinct in that respect, which should
seem to show some Justification for the
Well-known assertion that England is. be-.
fore all things. a nation OF shopkeepers
The late Lady Granville Gordon "a
daughter-in-law of the tenth marquis OF
Huntly) acted the part Of pioneer IL
aristocratic shopkeeping. and the mills
Eery establishment in Park street, Gros-
yenor square, where she traded underline
name of 'Lierre" Gan ivy leaf being the
Gordon badge). proved O most prctitab!e
undertaking during her lifetime, wnic
equally successful was the beautiful and
versatile countess Of Warwick's shop IL,
Bond street, with her name displayed in
bold lettering over the door,
Though it has now passed into other
management. Lady Warwick continues
deeply interested in its original object,
the sale of the exquisitely-made hand
worked lingerie of the poor women on Ter
cal manner.
Lady Rachel Byng, a daughter i the
fifth earl of Strafford. is another we'll
known society milliner. who started a
tiourshing hat shop in the West END
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-25

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's's " WIG is.i'-
lily In County Waterford.
The Countess OF Bessboro,,gh. who
f,un,aa tha c,,-rv I'M c,ot+e ca tna,st-,,
-, @'' =. 80 -
IN 1889, as v'soouhtess l1uncannon (oetore
her husband succeeded his father In the
titie) mana ges IT entirely nv herself and
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i re iauuapie eitorl 20 iil.iuee s'iie
workers TO save some portion of their
earnings AGAINST rainy day while 40
,,ronAr,rs 4, hoan ha- ,,,,do,t.,,;r, ~
.i't'
the specialties Jewel, silk and other cm-
broideries>. have been largely purchased
| fbv the late Queen Victoria oueen al.
.v,,,an, 49, ~ t,.,.,saaz \. W.. u
e .s, ana 'fle fr''lcess OF "aies' Pc
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-25
.SERV|AN PRINCE
INC0G. IN LONDON.
bad Boy Of Europe Enjoying
the Sights Of Great English
Metropolis.
MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION
No Question Of State Involved
in Princes Visit to
England.
GOOD IMPRESSION
LoNpoN. Aug. q.

LONDON. Aug. 24.
London Ia at present entertaining one
of the most interesting personalities In
Europe-ths crown prince Of scrvia. for
rnerly known as the bad Boy OF Eu-
rope" and oils Highness the Hooligan.''
Prince George is travelling incognto,
and since his arrival he has been sight
seeing like an ordinary tourist.
Country cousins visiting the Tower OF
London yesterday r,Iazled their heads
over the Identity of tho enthusiastic for
cign-looking youth with closc-cropped
hair, prominent nose md swarthy face.
who wanted TO zee Everything as quickly
as possible" lie Wore q panama hat. a
lounge suit and brown boots, and he
might have passed for an ordinary for
eign tourist but for the fact that the
three men who accompanied him showed
him a certain Difference.
Seeing the Sights.
Little did the visitors guess that he was
the Representatives OF that Karageorge-
witch dynasty which again assembled the
Servian throne after that terrible coup
d'etat OF June. 1903. when King Alexander
of Servia and Queen Draga were ruth
lcssly murdered at Belgrade.
II was only natural that the crown
prince, who Is now 20 years OF age,
should visit The Earl's Court Exhibition.
He has become more subdued of late. and
although he took a childish delight in the
water chute-which he declared should be
twice as steep-and insisted on his suite
being Photographed with him on picture
postcards. De made very favorable Inn
preston on several servian gentlemen
who are not fayorably disposed toward
the present dynasty.
One of these said yesterday that the
young prince had undoubtedly begun tc
recognize his responsibilities. Although
as restless as King Alfonso OF Spain
and still very eIcitable, he has a frank
simple manner and capacity for enjoy
rnent which arouse a certain amount OF
admiration.
Some OF His Franks.
Formerly he led his tutors an uneasy
life--Major Levasseur, a French disciplin.
n,ian, who had the honor of instruct.
ing'' the prince for a time. was consider.
ably damaged, mentally and physically
by the time he had finished with him.
On one occasion King Peter was SO in
ccnsed over the gross insults which this
nnruly George had offered his tutor tina,
he Eentencad his son to ten days inprts-
onment in a fortress. But the prince es-
capped By selling 9 wall and later or
broke hottie over his tutors head.
The princes escapaaes at music halls
and tileaters and his wild doings gener.
grade. but every one Is now agreed thai
he is turning over a new leaf.
There is no question OF state In cornec
tion with the amiable young princes
visit to England.
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EASY TO Be BRAVE
IN UNIFORM, SAYS KING
Alfonso Of Spain Disclairns Being
Courageous on Occasion Of At
tempt on His Life.

PARIS. Aug. "a.
King Alfonso has accepted from the
Patriotic League of Frenchwomen a book
containing over 100000 signatures. com
memorating the anarchist outrage at
Madrid, which narred his majesty's we'd
ding day.
One of the delegates who presented the
volume warmly congratulated the king
upon the courage he showed on that oc-
casion.
What French or Spanish officer would
not have done the ,same?,", replied his
m ma} Sa Sa aad M6s55 oelary nj Is
Accompanied by Queen Victoria. King
Alfonso the other day entered tobacco
nist's shop In San Sebastian and recog-
nized In one OF the customers an an
archist wrongfully accused i'll connection
with the Madrid outrage
His majesty chatted with the man, and
then pinned III his coat rose taken from
bunch which the Queen was carrying.
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SAYS TIELLMAN'S TRIP
WILL END IN FAILURE

cHRIsTIANIA. Aug. "a CAPTAIN
Amundsen, the famous Norwegian trav-
eler. interviewed by the Verdens Gang,
expresses himself very despondently as
regards the success of Walter Wellman's
approaching flight BY balloon to the North
Pole.
He says Mr. Wellman has only one
chance In hundred of getting near the
pole, ard this consists in the possibility
of the balloon being caught in storm
and carried there.
Should Mr.. Welman descend In Amer
les or Siberia, Captain Anundsen says
he will perhaps return alive, but never II
he reaches the pole. as his provisions are
totally inadequate.,
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gDIVORCES GRANTED
FOR SIMPLE ASKING

. GENEVA, Aug. PA Judge who pre-
sides over the courtin a district of Berne
has been severely reprmanded for tho
manner in which he conducted divorce
cases and granted divorces literally for
tho asking.
couple who disagreed went to the
Judge, and told their story, and In some
cases even wrote Of their troubles TO m.
asking FOR divorce
No counsel appeared for the Interested
parties, nor We're. their statements con-
firmed in any way by witnesses II about
n week after the petition a divorce was
granted IN due form.
1t appears that this judge holds the
theory that couples who do not agree are
better apart than living an unhappy life.
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Boer Girls Prefer 9ritons.

PRETORIA. Aug 24.-4Daughters ot
Boer farmers In the Transvaal and
Orange River Colony make no secret Of
their preference for British suitors Mem.
bers Of the South African Constabulary
Of Boer maldens, and an old burgher who
wac asked recently IL he would like to
sec the force abolished exclaimed:
abolish them! Why, they're all aged
u our girls r.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-25
New Life Belt.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. q. --The utility of
q new life-saving apparatus has Just been
demonstrated before the Board OF Admir-
insubn ersibla cushions attached to each
other by side straps One cushion rests
on the chest. the other on tho upper part
connecting straps being placed under the
arlnpItS.
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Heavy Infantile MORTALITY.

81 LONDON, Aug 24-Tha vicar OF SIT.
Paul's. stalybridge, has drawn attention
to the fact that sta!yhridge has the ghigh-
est percentage OF lnfantile mortality in
led from July 2s. 1906, to the corresponding
date In the present year were under II
months old, and more than half OF this
total number We're @un d Ter ~ years Of age.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-25
Church as Luncheon Roor

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 2.-IIhe Rev. II. w.
Boyne Bunting. rector of Porlocl1. somer-
set, complains 81 4, yand{allsm by holiday
he had to protest against one party eat
ing their lunch in iia church, and against
Il another. party who chimed the bells.
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ST. PETERSBURG. Aug.

s .
Negotiations are still III progress ra-
garding the Anglo-Russian agreement,
and it Is not correct that the document
has been signed There Is an ilnmenas
amount OF aetail to DO worked out. and
this is the cause of the delay, ItBis not
expected hers that the agreement will sea
the light before September at the earliest.
AS already stated. It WIFI deal With all
points IN central Asia at which ANGLO.
Russian interests might come into con
tact, embracing. among other matters,
Persia, Tibet and AtgNanistan. u Will
eastern situation
Although the treaty will be OF very
much wider scope than most similar ur.
rangGments OF recent years IL will rough
lly provide for the maintenance of tina
status quo. while assuring to all powers
| equality OF commercial opportunity. Coz
operation will be provided for OILY on
| modification OF the political situation.
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ARIsTocRATs TRADE
MEMBERS OF BRITISH AZZSTOCRICY
s=s@ WHO Alz4KEszaLIVING BY HONEST TOLL

Gu5H Had Efs
BABlooae4 Identified Uh
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The Garden OF tile Transyaal.

PRETORIA. Aug. 2i.r-rhe new fai,-
road between Che Rand And Zesrust.
S SorIe Vii Viii open 81 or tha Maeo Valley
the fichesa and rnost fertile part In tina
Transvaal, to the markets OF south Africa
| and eventually OF Europe During thu
| season 5000, 900 Oranges have been sent III
the Marico farmers TO Johannesburg ana
! other centasG.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Answers to this weeks puzzle be on this coupon and
bear this date.

fate often bestows fame on a man by
giving his name as discovering some
hing he never discovered The wave
which we know as. the Marcel wave
was invented long before Marcel, at
his modest and not extraordinary
shop in the Rue de I'Echelle, began
20 use it BY then the wave was at
-eady widely popular, Lantheria and
the other hairdressers of Paris all
practicing it. and practically all the
Partisan women Of the world having
taken to it. There was one difficulty
The wave was graceful. and gave an
air of great distinction. but il was ex-
pensive, and lasted but short time
In few hours, at the most, the beau
tiful waves had collapsed to their
natural limp lankness. Here was
Marcefs opportunity. He devised
irons, method. trained attendants
under his enterprising hands. and
the wave was put in TO stay four or
five days. Imagine the gratitude of
the PardSiennes to be kept chic FIVE
days running, and that with one-fifth
of the former trouble and expense,
NJ Marcel became the object of that
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

gratitude All Paris gncl.ed - him
at least, until oSher hairdresscrs could
more or less i>sfecti ely, cory n.:i
method. How TIE women Cf atner ma
tons came, saw and demanded. yc,i
can figure for yourselves. 60 the
wave spread. carrying with Il Tarcel's
methods and that giving his name To
the wave.
Losing Little Tire.
Staten islanders are spending the
half-hour between St. George and the
Battery in debating letters TO stenog-
raphers and typists on the big mu-
nicipal ferry boats between the island
and New York. The suggestion was
seriously made and recommended to
Commissioner Rensal, of the depart
ment Of docks and ferries. L is the
idea of Mr.. Springer, a wealthy real
estate broker He wants three or
four stenographers on each boat. The
terrors of delay are diminished when
the typiSts and StenogTapheTS are
there to do the work. so that large
share of the business mans days
work is ready for the mail when he
sets foot on the shores of Manhattan
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Sitka, Alaska.

Sitka, Alaska.
Dear Cousin Charley:
Here we are in the land OF the gold
hunter and Eskimo. When we land
cd in Nome we found city of tents
saloons and dance halls built for a mile
or so along the beach. The mountains
are so close that the town can't grow
in that direction OF course II was all
mining-and that is all they talk about
or thought about. You can hear the
most wonderful tales about pockets of
pure gold and rich leads. and see men
pointed out who have started in with
nothing and made millions. They don't
tell about the thousands of poor fellows
who have starved or frozen to death while
the few lucky ones were making their
strikes" Part of the year up here they
never have and daylight, and in the sum
mer they never have any darkness Now
the nights are only few hours long.
1t seems funny TO go TO bed about sun
down, which - about ten O'Clock, and
get UP at after the sun has beat you
up several hours. There are good many
Eskimos here; they are tribe of In
dians. and in winter live in huts made
out of chunks of ice and dress in the
thickest kind of furs. They eat meat or
the more they like it, the fat of the wal
rus being one of their chief articles of
food.
Coming down from Nome we passed
the Pribilof Islands. where thousands of
seals are killed each year for their fur;
we could see a great many on the rocks.
They are protected by the L. s. Govern
nent. and only the males are allowed to
be killed as the seal hunters were killing
them of so fast that they would soon be
eXterminated.
Sitka is quite 2 small city. with
some substantial business buildings and
churches. 1t is built on island.
| Well, Charley, 1 must close now. as /
expect to see you soon, and will tell you
about all the things we saw that l didn' t
| have time or space to write about. Dor
| othy and Spots are as eager as l am TO
| get home. and l know Spots is just crazy
! for good rabbit hunt; I am.
Hoping to see you soon,
| Your Cousin,
HARRY.
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Island. 1t has even been suggested
that the government place a sub-sta-
ton post office on each boat, and that
the privileges of a lunch-counter be
granted somebody to serve passen-
gers with breakfast, luncheon and
supper AS great deal of time is
lost to business men on the trips,
which frequently occupy more than a
half hour, the trip to Staten Island
would no longer be a scarecrow, but
attractive.
Food Unfit to Eat.
1t is rather striking and significant
that twenty-five of the largest hotels
in the city were the subjects of a
strike of 300 pOTters, and it was
specially significant that the principal
ground of complaint was the food
served out to the servants of all
kinds. In many of the restaurants
and hotels the mattresses and walters
had so suTreptittiOusly take food, and
sometimes are discharged for cooking
themselves something. Some of them
are almost starving while serving the
most appctizinS of eatableS to pa
irons. There is general complaint on
the part of the hotel employees Of the
character of the food served out to
them. always second hand scraps, and
sometimes even putrid.
The following first class hotels are
in the list condemned by the strikers:
Belmont, Manhattan. Holland. Murray
Hill, st. Regis, Imperial, Grand Union,
WOlcott, Fifth Avenue, Prince George,
Marlborough. Gotham, Savoy, Seville,
New Grand, Breslin and Majestic.
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09
Badly Mixed Up.

Abraham Brown, of WintertOn. y.
Y, had a very remarkable experience;
he says: Doctors got badly mixed
MP over me: one said heart disease;
two called it kidney trouble; the
fourth. blood poison, and the fifth
2iVer trouble; brt none of them
helped Gce. so my Wife advised trying
Electric Bitters. which are restoring
me 70 perfect health. One bottle did
ne more good than all the five doctors
prescribed Guaranteed for blood
poison. wea aHCss and ali stomach.
liYS3 and i-iluey complaints by ali
druggists, 5Gc.
1-T-,, ,I.0 -
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

DR.. c. l. SMITH HAS MOVED
f!iS DENTAL OFFICES TO 1859
The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-09

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HDd
nnaBo oHsu ucny encM dF@t Anesh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-16

merchants The natives are among the
most degraded Of the Africans. They are
negroes Of the lowest type. and slavery is
common. Fernando Pc itself has convict
settlements. and the criminals sent there
seldom return.
North of the Gulf Of Guinea between Mo-
rocco and the French Soudan, Spain has q
wide strip of land which is ruled by the
governor of the Canary Islands. 1t stretches
for several hundred miles along the At
lantic coast but 1t is one of the worst parts
of the whole Desert of Sahara. 1t has no
rivers nor any GASES of value, and is very
thinly populated. 1t begins in the neigh
borhood of Cape Blanco, and its chief town
is Rio de Orc. which is golden only in name.
Convict Colonies Of Mediterranean.
In addition to these possession, Spain has
several convict colonies on the Moroccan
coast Of the Mediterranean sea. The first
is Ceuta, Just across the way from Gibral-
tar. passed it on my way to Tangier. 1t
can be reached from Algeciras by a gov
eminent steamer which takes over dis
patches and mail every day. It consists of
q rock on which the town stands and where
the fortincations and prisons are. It now
has about 5000 convtcts. swho are poorly
fed and badly treated.
Ceuta Is one of the Oldest towns in his
tory. 1t Is the Heptadelphi Of Ptolemy and
Is supposed to be one of the first three
cities Of the world. The others were Saler-
mum in Italy and Salem, in Judea.
This place was where the Moors embarked
when they first crossed over from Africa to
invade Spain, many centuries ago. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-16
BY ARTHUR STRINGER,

render everything without a struggle What
remained of her scattered legions of honor
she passionately promised herself would
still be gathered together and fostered and
guarded
Above all things. she felt, she needed
companionship. Durkin meant much to her
meant far too much to her, for time and
time again he had only too easily sha tered
her card-house of good resolutions She
had blindly submerged herself for him and
his efforts. 1t was not that she stopped to
blame or reprove him; her feeling was more
one of pity, or sorrow for the unstable and
unreconcied nature in the fell clutch of
circumstance. Yes he meant more to her
than she dare tell herself. But there were
moods and moments when he proved made
quate, and to allow that sad truth to go un-
recognized was more than blindness. II
only she had. or could have. the friendship
of women-that was her oft-recurring
thought-the companionship of one warm
nature quick to understand the groupings
and aspirations of another. With such a
friend, she vaguely felt, things might NOT
yet be so i'll with her.
But she knew of none. There was No opa
she realized, to whom she could look for
help. And she tried to console herself with
the bitter JUNCTION of the claim that with
her the world had always been doggedly I'M
kind and cruel. that with an Aeschylean
pertinacfty, morbidly interpreted as peculiar
to her case, fate, or destiny, or the vague
forces for which those words stood had
bounded and frustrated her at every turn :
This maddening feeling of self-hate and
contempt stayed with her all that day. II
made stiflingly hideous and sinister, to her
brooding eyes, the oyerfurnished woman M q
pool room which had once been Penfield's
own, where she counted out her money and
placed her bet on the Duke of Kendall The
broken-spirited and hard-faced woman who
waited about the operators wicket, the bar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-16
IN SPANISH AFRICA
Odd Convict Settlement on the
Coast of Morocco.
LAST OF SPAIN'S COLONIES
Criminals Blinded With Hot Pokers
and Sailed to Death.
ENGLISH TIRED OF GIBRALTAR
Value is Overestimated and Cost Of
Maintenance Excessive-Governor
and His Enormous Salary.
Copyright, 1907, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
MELILLA Spanish North Africa

MELlLLA, Spanish North Africa.
am in what is about the last of SPANS
colonial possessions. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries she owned the best
part of the new world. She had the cream
of North America if we include the Louis
lana purchase, which we got by way OF
France, and she had almost the whcla Of
Sodth America excepting Brazil. The best
of the West Indies were hers. Cortez poured
the treasures of Montezuma into her royal
Golfers and P;zarro. shoeing his horses with
solid silver. robbed the Incas CT Peru of
their gold by the siipload. The Philippines
added to these sources of wealth, and for a
long time two great go'd den streams rolled
across the Atlantic and Pacific to benefit
the Spaniards Spain was then the richest
of all the powers in her colonial possessions
Today by mismanagement and oppression
she has become the poorest, and since her
war with us, wnen she lost Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, there have been
none SO poor to do her reverence.
Indeed, all the land which Spain has left
outside her own boundaries is in Africa.
and even here her possessions are the rag
tag and bob-tail of the continent. They may
cover perhaps two or three hundred thou
sand square miles, but they are all desert
sand or fever swamps and the tllable
lands suitable for white men which they
contain are not as big an Ohio county,
ana their total population will hardly equal
that of Washington city.
In contrast with this the other great
powers of Europe have been quietly COB
bling up the fat things of this mighty con-
tinent France has the biggest share, if we
include the Island of Madagascar She has
almost 100000 square miles, or more than
one-thrd of all Africa. vast deal of her
territory, however, is in the Desert of
Sahara, 1t Is made up of stone and said
which might form good building materials,
but which are of no value where they lie
Great Britain comes next among the ma
tional land owners. She has close to an
other third of the continent If we consider
Egypt and its Soudan as part of her pos
sessions. Germany has not quite one-elev-
enth of the whole and Portugal almost one
thirteenth, while Turkey itself. in Tripoli,
has about as much land as Spain.
What Spain Owns.
Before l describe this God-forsaken SPOT
where l now am, l would like to tell you
just what Spain has in Africa. She owns
on the west coast of the Island of Fernando
Pc and small tract on the mainland on the
Gulf of Guinea. Her country there contains,
l believe, about 5000 square miles, or little
more than the state of Massachusetts, The
land is swampy and SO unhealthful that it
has become known as the white Mans
Grave" 1t is covered with a luxuriant veg
citation and produces some India rubber
and palm oil. The only foreigners there
are a few Spanish, French and English