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pubghe each day
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several days have now elapsed since
MI Longwortn gave the cue for
somebody to come forward and force
another nomination on his always pop-
uar Iather-in-law. Perchance John
Temple Graves sleepeth.
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A naturalist asserts that a. mosquito
lives only three days; but no man
knows the exceeding number of his
nights.
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Ihef man who eats seventeen Texas
pies DAY Is, of course, a Texan. Cen
uenen from other States who have
reGkiessly tried to make qualifying
score on Texas pies have Invariably
expired after the second.
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Entered January 81. 1903. at Richmond
Va. as second class matter, under act OF
Congress OF March 3, 1872
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No. 1895.
To Meadows
BY ROBERT HERR1cK.

Ye have been fresh and green
Ye have been fill'd with flowers,
And We the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours
You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home.
You've heard them sweetly sing.
And seen them in a round:
Each virgin like a spring.
with honeysuckles crownsd.:
But now we see none here
Whose silvery feet did tread
And with dishevelld hair
Adorn'd this smoother mead.
Like unthrifts, having spent
Your stock and needy grown,
You're left here to lament
Your poor estates. alone.
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Discretion is the better part of valor
which is one marked difference be-
tween valor and Richmond r. Hobson.
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"Prunes are worth sac a ton in Call.
lorna SAYS the Nashville American
star $40, ooarders win trust that this high
lripht. 70 their worth will persuade
California. -
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now TO GALL rlMEs-plsrArcH-
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Charleston has got baseball 5pen-
naht, and the News and Courier Of That
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When Roosevelt becomes an editor
Mr.. Loeb, We assume, WILDE his print
er's devil.
-------------------------
Japan seems Interested in getting to-
gether a nice little collection of enc
mics.
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One Week one Year
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crcaGiy subscriptions payable In advance0
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i The fear made mo nestle nearer TO-
him, and cling tightly, because said
to myself that perhaps I might never
be In his arms again; that this might
be the last time that his eyes-those
eyes that are not Goodnight look Al
mo with love in them, as now,
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q lTo be Continued To4morrow,)i
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POSTAGE PAID. Year. Mos. Mos. Mo.
Daily with sunday $500 2soo s15o 80
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BY Tines-Disra,ch Carrier Delivery Ser
vice In Richmond tand suburbs,. Manelies-
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1s, 1907
Going Out of Town?

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F.H ItOUtc 10 SNrNnnC.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Mccormick
Greene. of Ben Venue. Va. stopped
In Baltimore last week, en- route to
Saranac Lake. Niagara and other
Northern points of. interest.
Mr.. and Mrs Greene will visit the
Jamestown Exposition before return
Ing to their country home in the
mountains OF Virginia.
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when electric railroads viii connect
distant cities and greatly shorten the
hours Of travel.
chicago to New York In Ten Hours.
In fact such railway already b
being built between Chicago and New
York by the Chicago New York Elec-
tric Air Line Railroad company, of
Chicago. This company, headed by q
group of practical railroad men, pro-
poses to run limited trains, making not
more than three stops. through to New
York or Chicago, in ten hours The
thought fairly takes ones breath away
ut first, but the project considered
sOberly seems practical enough, and
certainly is "a consummation deyoutly
to be wished" The work of grading
began Sept. near LaPorte, Ind.
AS the new road will be an air lire,
with few curves, the route surveyed
Is 16O miles shorter than the Pennsyl-
yania "Short Line" and 23O miles
shorter than the Lake Shore and
New York Central, each Of which runs
trains covering the distance in eighteen
hours. Taking into consideration the
shorter route OF the Air Line, this IL
equivalent to a fOurteen-hC~~ Eervice
With low grades, a straight track and
no grade crossings, the seventy-five
miles an hour average necessary to a
ten-hOur service ought easily to be
maintained. Even on the first class
steam roads Of today ninety miles an
hour is not uncommon for short dis
tances.
The Scientific American Of Feb. IS,
1905, speaking editorially of the New
York Central experiment, says, 1.-The
success Of this installation, Of which
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Of function was publicly demonstrated
for the first time At the Vienna expo.
sitipn In 1873.
Not until 1879 was the first electric
railway put In operation, taking the
current from a dynamo, using a mod
sFn motor and carrying passengers.
This novelty was In operation at the
Berlin exposition and was mile and
tw0-thirds, in length. The train con-
sisted Of small locomotive and three
small cars, capable Of carrying twen-
ty people. 1t reached speed of eight
miles an hour.
About this time Stephen D. Eel
and Thomas Edison in the Unite
States began experimenting. In JS.$"
Edison was operating at Mealo Parl.
an electric locomotive which pulled
two cars.
The First Electric Railroad.
The first regular electric line to he
established was - Lichtcrrelae Ger
many, near Berlin; 1t was only mile
and a half In length and opened for
traffic in May, 1881. The trains car.
ried twenty-six passengers, at maxi
mum speed Of thirty miles an hour.
The first electric car to be operated
regularly in the United States was in
stalled by Def on the Hamden branch
Of the Baltimore Union Passenger
Railway in August, 1886. That
was barely twenty years ago. So
great was the skepticism of the public
and railway men generally that the con-
tract under which the road was built
withheld payment one year so that it
might be determined whether the cars
would run. mo one but knave or
q fool would undertake such thing"
said a we'll known scientist at the
time. Scientists sometimes have trouble
keeping up with the procession. About
the same time small cars were oper-
ated by Van Derpoele at South Bend,
Ind, followed by other small roads in
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MYTHICAL CREATURES.


4he 0enenal Relief H Fabulous Aooe
stern IN Olden Days.
Now that the cold light Of science
has thrown Its rny upon the most re-
mote parts OF our globe there Is no
longer room for legendary creatures
save the sea serpent-and we are told
that the mermaid Is nothing more than
a dugong. unicorn either rhinoceros
or a Tibetan antelope, while the cocka-
trice. the phoenix and the roc appear
to be pure imaginations.
But in the Elizabethan AEGEAN age
when the dodo had but recently been
Observation-Disclosures and many other
mythical creatures were, If not living,
at all events actual realities to the or
binary public, and as such were refer
red to in the works of the great drama
fist and other contemporary writer's.
We meet, for instance, in the "Win-
ter's Tale the line. make me not
sighted like the basilisk," and In ''The
Tempest" -'Now l will believe that
there are unicorns." But not only was
more or less of credulity given to the
existence of these and such like fabu-
louS monsters, but a web Of mystic
lore encircled the most common and
best known Of beasts, birds and fishes.
Who, for instance, is forgetful Of the
popular superstitions connected with
the salamander, the newt and the
blindworm, and who fails to remember
Whites account Of the "shrewash" at
Selborne? And IL such superstitions
still survive among uneducated peas
ants of the present day we may be as
sured that two centuries ago they were
fully believed by the higher classes
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there can be no doubt Whatever, marks
the first step in the gradual substi-
tuition Of the electric for the steam
locomotive in the operation Of long dis
lance express, trains" The Chicago
New York project may be regarded the
second step.
Mr.. Spragle himself says that speed
IL "a matter Of finance" what then
will determine the future?" he asks.
Chiefly the financial factor, as it must
the future of any other great Industrial
problem. When savings in operation
and the increased return for traffic
will wore than pay fair dividend on
money invested for electrical equip
ment. will trunk lines be operated by
electricity"
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Story of the Wonderful De-
velopment in Electric
Traction During the
Past Twenty
Years.
PASSING OF STEAnl TRACTION
Gradual Elimination of Distance
Through the Development OF
the Electric Locomotive
Chicago to New
York in Ten
Hours.

During the summer Of 1887, there
appeared in the New York Sun the
following facetiOus news item:
"They tried an electric car on
Fourth avenue yesterday. 1t created
an amount Of surprise and consterna-
ton from Third st. to One Hundred
and Seventeenth st. that was some
thing IKE that caused by the first
steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys
yelled "dynamite!" and 'ratsr" and
made similar appreciative remarks I'M
til they were hoarse. Newly appointed
policemen debated arresting it, but
went no further. The car horses
which were met on the other track
kicked without exception. as was
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natural, over an invention which
threatens to relegate them to Il sausage
factory
That was less than twenty years
ago. Today the New York Central
Railroad Company is expanding So
10000 in the electritication Of the first
tllirty-five miles of its system. and the
car horses were long ago relegated to
the boneyard, if not to the sausage
factory"
"They" have done marvellous things
since the increasing knowledge of
electricity open, I'd up new world of
achievement. and we have scarcely
crossed the threshold. In 1880 the cleo
trio car was a dream; in 1880. an eX-
pertinent: in 1900, a great and wonder
full fact which is revolutioniZing pas
senger TRANSFORMATION and will enable
human beings to move from place to
place twice as fast as they do at pres
cnt.
Born in Old Vermont.
When in 1884 Thomas Davenport, of
Brandon, Vt. ran a toy motor mounted
on wheels on a small circular railway.
the modern electric railroad with its
possible speed of over one hundred
miles an hour was born.
In 1888 Robert Davidson, of Aber-
deem. Scotland, built an electric loco
motive which actually reached speed
of four miles an hour on the Edin-
burgh-Glasgow railway. Nine years
later Professor Moses G. Farmer op-
Grated an experimental car which car
ried two passengers at Dover, New
Hampshire.
Then the United States congress be-
came interested. By special grants
Professor Page Of Smithsonian insti-
tute was aided in the construction Of
several forms of motors. One of them
was used as locomotive and, driven
by a battery of one hundred Grove
elements. was tried April %, 1851, on
q railroad running from Washington
to Bladensburg. A speed Of nineteen
miles an hour was developed, so great
that it destroyed the batteries.
Numerous other experiments fol-
lowed, all commercial failures because
tne motors were CruQe ana Cne source
of power a primary battery. The de-
velopment of the wonderful modern
dynamo was necessary before electric
railroading could become commercial
success. The first great step was in
1850, when IN Italian named Pacinot-
ii invented a continuous current dy-
namo. Three years later the first
practical commercial machine for con-
tinuous current operation was made
by Gramme.
Still the modern electric car was i'm
possible. The ''reversibility of func-
don" had yet to be discovered, involv-
mg electrical transmission Of energy
through two machines, one driven by
power and generating electricity; the
other reversing the operation, receiv-
ing electricity and developing me-
chanical power.
Like many other important discov-
cries, this Is said to have been the re-
suit of accident. A workman coupled
q machine to a live circuit by mis-
take and was greatly astonished to see
It begin to rotate. This reversibiIity
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At any rate, the world seems on
the eve of great things, and no scien-
fist dares say today as was said twen-
ty years ago, "a man is knave or a
fool.'' The attitude of the American
public is one Of faith and expectancy,
best expressed by a recent remark Of
an old lady in her last sickness:
II don't want to die" she said, 4
want to see what they are going to
DO"
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perimentally at MeDlO Park, 1880.
Windsor, Canada: Appleton, Wis; Port
Huron, Mich; Scranton, Pa, and
Montgomery, Ala. In the autumn of
1884 Frank L. Spra que, whose name
is inseparably connected with electric
traction, began to attract attention
with his motors.
Twenty Years of achievement.
AT the beginning of 1887 there were
in the whole world less than sixty
miles of electric railroad track, and
only about one hundred motors and
motor cars. In 1905 there We're nearly
thirty thousand miles of electric track
in the United States alone.
This change was not accomplished
without opposition. encouragement
and financial difficulties. Mr.. Sprague
himself, who was so potent factor in
working this change. has told the story
of his first important contract In the
spring of 1887. the Union Passenger
Railway company Of Richmond, Va,
engaged him to build an electric rail-
way. The first car was run out one
night while the skeptical people slept,
to make sure it could climb the hills.
1t started out in blaze of glory and
ANONYMOUSLY was towed back again
by four big mules. But Sprague per-
sisted until on Feb. 2. 1888, in a
drizzling rain, the road opened for
business.
From that time forward the future
of electric railroading was assured and
events moved rapidly. City after city
adopted the new motive power; horse
cars became things of the past; in
terurban roads began to gridiron the
country everywhere, and in each in
stance a commercial success was
scored. Electric interurban lines have
been money makers from the start.
The greatest development has been
in the east: but the west is not far
behind. The Aurora, Elgin and Chi
cago Electric railway (the third-rail
SYSTEM which has been in operation
several years, is famous. From one
center power station over two hun
dred miles Of road are operated, or will
be as soon as the line to Belvidere is
completed. Electricity at wholesale IS
sold to cities and villages along the
route for lighting purposes; electricity
FOR power is sold to farmers. Trains
OF elegant cars run into Chicago at a
speed which would have seemed i'm
possible few years ago. Passengers
wave good bye to steam trains on
paralleling railroad, which they pass
easily. A parlor and dining car is one
of the luxuries which the suburbanites
enjoy going to and from the city, and
the railroad seems veritable gold
mine for it's owners.
The horse car has long since disap-
peared. Will the iron horse, the great
steam locomotive. be supplanted also:
This question occurs to all who can
see the significance Of passing events.
Probably not for many years to come.
| as far as heavy freight traffic is con-
cerned, because steam is especially ap-
plicable to the hauling Of freight. But
the action Of the New York Central In
electrifying thirty-five miles Of its road
| leading out of New York, and the
popular agitation for similar improve
ment in Chicago and elsewhere, would
seem to point to time not far distant
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-07-05
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.

Miss Clara Hodgkins' eighteenth
birthday occurred on last Saturday.
June 49, She was treated to a sur
prise by gay company of her friends
while she was attending the house
party at Miss Edwina Smiths. It
was a complete surprise as the young
people met at the home of Miss Ten
ME Hughes and went in body to
Miss Smiths and had surrounded
Miss Hodgllins before she knew what
was happening.
The young people who surprised
Miss Hodgldns were the four young
ladies Of Miss Smiths house-party
and Misses Carrie Richardson, Tennie
Hughes, Lottie Haygood, Nita Scott
md Amanda Perkins The young
men were Mes3rs. Ira Scott, Chap
pelle, Ferguson and Taylor. Many
laughable games wore played and ices
were served. All enjoyed themselves
md left for their homes congratulate
ng Miss Hodgkina on her eighteenth
birthday
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MuRFREEsRoRo NOTES.

Mrs. Dora Douglas, of Henderson
Vile, Tenn, spent a few days in the
city visiting her mother, Mrs. James
Eules.
Messrs. George Vaughn, VIM. Doug
lass, of Hendersonville; Irwin Wade
and Reid, of Nashville, spent Sunday
in the city the guest of Misses Eules.
Miss Mary L. Douglass entertained
a number of young folks at the home
of her grand parents Mr.. and Mrs.
James Eules Refreshments were
served.
Miss Lille Mae Lillard, who has
been very sick, is improving rapidly.
Mrs. Mary Jenkins of Cairo, H.,
was the guest of Mrs. g. B. Brady at
5 o'clock tea Sunday evening.
Misses Hattie and Freddie Lane, Of
Snow Hill, Ala, are the guests of Mrs.
G. B. Brady
Messrs. John Sublett and Tom
Smith are on the sick list.
Mrs. Fishback. of Ohio, was the
guest of Mrs Florence Mefford and
Mrs. Fillie Keeble Sunday.
Mrs. Sallie Patterson entertained
Miss Emma T Chears at o'clock tea
Thursday evening. Those present:
Mrs. Rosa Overall, Mr.. Joe Sanders
and Miss Elma A. Williams.
Mrs. B. K. Hendrix was hostess at
dinner Sunday in honor of Miss
Emma T. Chears. Those present.
Mrs. Rosa Overall, Lula Alexander,
Misses Maggie Nelson and Elma
Williams.
Miss Drue is guest of Miss Allie N.
Green.
The rally at Keys Chapel Sunday
was quite success, raising $247.35.
Messrs. Saul Johnson and Joe San |
ders are in the city.
Misses Johnnie O'Neal and Cor
della Butler have gone to the Expo
sition. While away they will visit
Washington, Baltimore, New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago.
Master James Miller is in the city.
Master Harley Pierce, who has been
in school at Knoxville, is at home
for vacation.
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the songs in the Harp of Zion and B.
Y. p. U. Hymnal by Sherwood, all of
which are published by the National
Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville,
Tenn, were rendered almost like unto
the heavenly choir" as has often
been pictured from many pulpits.
Much credit is due to Profs. Thomas
w. j. Tobias and John Pace, musical
directors, who took charge of the
music and directed the singing, as
well as the good work done by Prof.
James d. Ross, the organist The
whole choir, Of thirty-fve voices, was
a credit to the city of New Orleans
and the Congress. The leading mem
bers and ministers among the Baptists
who could possibly get to New Orleans
were here to do honor and service.
Fully twenty-five states were repre-
sented. Conspicuous in the audi
ence daily We're many young ministers
The meeting adjourned with bright
prospects for next year in whatever
city is fortunate to capture such a
gathering.
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Malyina Hoage, $40 10 Johnston
avenue
Mollie Chamberlain, City Hospital
43 years.
Mary Louise Brown, Clifton pike, 2
years.
Theodore Henry, 1922 shankland
alley.
Della L. VOORHEES,, 1900 Alberta av-
enue, North
Will Jolly, City Hospital, "a years.
Thomas HerTe1l, AIT Howard street.
sc years
Green Lance, County Asylum.
Ed Mitchell, 1914 Jefferson street,
36 years
Jas. Henry Davis, 61O Sylvan ave-
nue., IS years
Chas. Murray, Jr, 10 Fillmore
street, IS years.
Minerva Waugh, 1904 Clifton pike
II years
Laura Ford, 1919 Pike street, %
years.
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PIANO RECITAL.

There was grand piano recital
last Thursday evening at the resi-
dence of the Misses Mayberry, S21
Cedar street The programme was
arranged by Miss Sophronia Mayberry
and 1t was quite musical treat for
the guests. Several selections were
rendered. The instrumental solo by
little Miss Ernestine Cross and the
duet by Miss Sophronia Mayberry and
little Miss Mary S. Ewing held the
audience spellbound. At the close of
the programme refreshments were
served.
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MARRIAGES.

Ode Anderson and Annie Hibbet.
viii Hall and Eva Driden.
Elmo Smiley and Melanda Davis.
W. M. Austin and c. c. Perkins.
Paul Franklin and Mary White.
Albert Marshall and Ellie Simpkins.
Edward House and Callie Dismul1es.
Geronimo Cannon and Mabel
Turner.
Samuel M. Totty and Parthenia M.
CAN'T.
Isah Redmond and Mary Bell Nc
Neise.
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DEATHS.

Elnora Bunch, 81 Lewis street. II
months.
George Robertson, 1903 Twenty-frst
avenue, North, 8 years.
Matte Kelly, 619 Ewing avenue, AZ
years.
Mary Smith, 594 Sycamore street,
81 years.
Minnie Bathey, First street and
South Hill street, 16 years.
Frank Thompson, 7O4 Ewing ave-
nue. 81 years.
'of1rt -of "o"o'o md William
Gwen, coo weeds street.
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GREAT ODD FELLOWS MEETING.

The District Grand Lodge No. 6. of
the Grand United Order of Odd Eel.
lows will hold its 25th annual session
in the city, beginning August 10 and
continuing three days. The opening
session will be held at Greenwood.
Park and will be called to order at
~ o'clock a. m. on the above-named
day The district grand lodge of the
state is a powerful organization and
mas strong membership There is
an endowment department connected
with the fraternity which has several
Thousand dollars of insurance in
lorce. An enormous amount of in
surance has been written during the
present year. The G. u. O. of o. F.
II might be interesting to state. diff
lers from the l. o. of o. F. in that il
extends over the entire world. while
tne latter is an American organiza-
tion' There is clause in the con-
stltutlon of its endowment denart-
ment which reads that no white man
can become member of the organi.
Zatlon and receive benefits. MANY
prominent men are connected with
the organization.
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One Of the most beautiful pictures in the home,
church or Sunday school, is an organ-one that
the financial condition Of the people This is what
a National Baptist organ will do
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-07-05

Mrs. M. T. Cole, widow of the late
Henry Cole, who number of wears
ago ago KEPT popular restaurant on Main
street, keeps in poor health
MIS- Julia Corder, of East Nashville
mac an operation performed bv Drs
townsend and Bandy on Monday. Mrs
Corder is doing nicely '
Mr. Horace W. Clark, of Twelfth
avenue, South, is not in the best or
health this week, ' =