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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-30
SOME WAR PRICES.
Trooper Paid $4,000 Ia Have HIS
Horse SIOd

! TVONcrJ i1uiu Slo,uuU Ia Have HIS
Horse SiiOd.
In 1866 IAN ounce Of uuinine could
not be purchased for less than $l,70O.
In the south Provisions were simply
enormous In price Here are Just a
few instances: In February ham.
weighing fifty pounds. sold for exactly
$3.50 or at the rate OF IS a pound
Flour was at $500 a barrel.
Fresh fish retailed all over at So a
pound, and ordinary meal was at $50 a
bushel. Those who lived in boarding.
houses paid from 5000 to $500 Il month.
White beans retailcd at $40 a bushel.
Tea went for anything from sac a
pound to $50. and coffee in like ratio,
says Spare Moments.
The most ordinary brown sugar was
sold for $40 a pound. Ordinary ada
mantine candies were sold for $40 a
nnrily $40. In April sugar went to
$500 Il barrel, and articles of wearing
apparel sold. coats at S3h0, trousers at
500. and boots at $3.50.
Butter was SIS pound. Potatoes
went for 50 a quart, Tomatoes Of the
size OF Il walnut sold tor $50 q dozen.
/ Chickens varied from S35 Is sac a pair.
The prices on the bill of fare OF the
Richmond restaurant in January, 1864.
We're: Soup, SLIGO; bread and butter.
s1,5o; roast beef, plate, So; boiled
eggs, So. ham and eggs, $3.50; rock
fish, n plate, So; fried oysters, n plate,
$6: raw oysters, So fresh milk, glass.
So: coffee, a cup, So. tea, a cup, 81.
These figures are taken from various
sources and have the virtue OF accu-
racy. IL nothing else. Always was
present the fear OF famine, and time
and time again did The soldiers donate
n portion OF their rations, taken from
their apportlonment in the field. to
relieve tha pressing necessities.
The shrnkuge OF the currency was.
of course, responsible, and some idea
may be gathered from story that
went the rounds Mt the time. A sol :
der galloped along Il country road
and a farmer leaning over q fence adj
mlred the animal He called to the
trooper, Offering to buy the horse,
"Give you 100000 for him, Johnny"
he said.
mot much, old man. lust paid SIS
600 to have him shod.N was the reply.--
| washington Herald.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-30

ready large sum Of money has been
raised. and in the near future the
memorial will be erected.
Nothing relating to the various
Confederate organizations has been
more remarkable than the organization
of Sons Of Confederate Veterans,
which, from small beginning in 1896,
has grown with great leaps and
bounds until to-day 1t lIas become a
powerful organization. At the last re-
union SAT camps were reported.
The Organization.
The organization Of the Sons Of Vet
erans at this time is as follows:
Commander In Chief - Thomas NJ.
Owen. Montgomery. Ala,
Department Commanders.
Army Of Northern Virginia Depart
ment-George r. Wyman, of Louisville.
Ky.
Army Of Tennessee Department-R
L. L. Byn,up, Jackson, Tenn.
Army OF the Trans Mississippi De-
purtment-J. NJ. Tisdal, Greenville, Tex.
Division Commanders.
Alabama-C. y. Owens. Abbeyville.
Administrations P. Logan.
District of Columbia-Thomas r.
Raincs, Washington.
Florida-H. j. McCallum, Jackson
VILE.
Georgia-w. Lamar Williams; Macon.
kcntucky-A. NJ Sea, Jr, Louisville.
Louisiana--R. +. Green. New Orleans,
Marylund-J. M Garrett, Jr., Baltl-
more.
Nl,sslssippi-E. A. Miller, Meridian.
decentralization Atkinson. st. Louis
North Carolina-E. r. Mackethnn
II, vattnvillc a.lr 5.t4 49,
oklahoma-B, H. Kirk. Oklahoma
City.
man, Lexington.
Tenn
yirginia-J, p, Banks. Petersburg,
West observation-disclosures G. Lewis
! Charleston IN.
sketch of Commander.
Thomas McAdory Owen, historian
was born In Jonesboro, Jefferson coun-
ty. Alabama, December is, 1866; son o!
DR.. William Marmaduke and Nancy
| (AIcAdory) Owen; grandson OF Judge
Thomas and Dolly Payne (Williams)
Owen, and great-grandson Of Marina
duke and Agnes (Payne) Williams
Agnes Payne WIS q first cousin of Dor.
tothy Payne. wife Of President James
Madison. HIS owen and Williams an,
cestors We're seated In Henrico ant
Hanover counties, respectively, in Vir.
GINA. as carly AS the beginning of the
Eighteenth century, and his McAdor,
ancestor was a scotch-Irlsh Immigrant
from North ireland to South Caroline
prior to the Revolutionary War, III
was graduated from the University O.
| Alabama, A, b., and Ill, D., 1887 A. M.
/ 1898. He was admitted to the bar ii
rollton and Birmingham, Ala, unit
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-30
5URING the reunion some four
score physicians and surgeons
who served In the Confederate
Army and Navy Will meet IN
= hctnn tn nnDerS

o. i /. -.y'.cI
read by distinguished members OF the
"Associntion of Medical Officers or the
Army and Navy of the lConfederacy"
and make plans to bring into closer
touch the men who performed sucn
wonders OF surgery and medicine and
who enabled the Confederacy to With
stand an unequal combat by keeping
its soldiers and sailors In a high state
OF physical being.
TO no arm Of the service belongs the
greater glory than to the medical de-
partment OF tho Confederate States.
for with everything against them,
without supplies. without adequate
hospitals, without proper operative IA
cilities, tho surgeons Of the army and
navy mada records which stand tar IN
advance OF those made by tho Federal
surgeons with both equipment and
supplies at their command,
Defense of Surgeons.
IT has been said that the Federnls
Morris tribune., 1907-12-14

SUBSCRIPTIONS so per year advance months,
4c for three months All continued until explicit
order received for until all
paid The date following subscribers shows
the date to which the subscription isl paid.
ADVERTISING RATES-Eight per inch issue fat
and five cents per inch additional for composition
Local notices, five
Gard of Thanks, twenty-five cents.
Lodge resolutions, SLIGO
Legal notices legal rates.
Morris tribune., 1907-12-14

ranging from about per cent in the case of
rye, potatoes and tobacco to % per cent in the
case Of oats. But as 1916 was a bounteous year
the record year for corn, winter wheat and
barley-the decreases in 1908 did not as rule
represent a short crop. In fact, the totals were
very satisfactory. Moreover, the shortage SO
far as the producer concerned has been
largely offset by higher prices; for in spite of
the slump in prices, the percentage of increase
in the price of almost every crop is greater than
the percentage of decline in the yield This is
the substantial foundation upon which the
business of the country rests. It means prompt
recovery from the recent setback.
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There has recently been published in book
form series of lectures addressed to the Bos-
ton University Law school by Henry S. Haines,
ex-president of the American Railway associa-
ton, and for years connected with this PLANT
System" of railway and steamships lines, deal
ing with the whole transportation question.
The writer favors government regulation both
of traffic and stock issues. AS to passenger
fares he is inclined to believe that two-cents
mile would be fair rate for all the Unite
States, and that its adoption would greatly
benefit the roads themselves. He points out
that in Great Britain fully 80 per cent of the
people travel third class and at the rate of a
penny nile, the third class corresponding to
our socalled first class-not Pullman. The
result is that in Britain the average number of
trips taken by the individual is 80, while in
America it is but 9. The prophesy is therefore
made that the two-cent rate will pay here
Mortified News
Morris tribune., 1907-12-14

place when the next Republican national con-
vention will meet to name the Republican can
didates for president and vice-president. With
the large number of active and tentative can
didates for the Republican nomination, it is
impossible to forecast the outcome. In fact,
there has not been so great uncertainty as to
who the candidates of the party would be since
1880, when Garfield was nominated.
A case of considerable interest in Pope
county was tried before the district court in
Glenwood last week. The Pope County Farm
ers Cooperative Company was plaintiff and
John E. Berg, defendant, the suit being to re-
cover $1O81O, Bergs subscription to the Co
Operative Company. Berg claimed that he
had subscribed on the condition that 800 sub
scribers be obtained, and that he had demand
ed the rets-rn of his application. The company
alleged opposite facts, and the jury found for
the company, and Mr.Berg will have to pay his
Subscription. The company is also suing
several other subscribers for their subscriptions.
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There is little prospect of m uch important
legislation being passed at this session of Con-
gress When presidential election is coming
on, it is quite the custom for members of both
parties to play politics, while each party tries
to demonstrate to the people their own loyalty
to the peoples interests and the disloyalty of
the other party. But the people have got next
to the game and w hatever grand stand plays
are made this winter it is not probable that
the country will be fooled very much. Then
again, on the questions which are before the
ion, and congress never acts until the people
are pretty well agreed what they want.
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There has been change in the Pioneer
Press Official announcement was made few
days ago of some changes in the officers and
directors, and atho the P. p. did not say 50,
yet it is apparent that the paper has escaped
from the control of J. J. Hill. On account OF the
great amount of capital necessary to conduct a
metropolitan daily the large papers are APT to
fall under the Influence of "the interests and
their editorial policy and even the news col
umns be warped thereby. But within the last
few weeks the Pioneer Press seems to have got
ten rid of the hobbies, and once more it's utter
ances have that freedom and independence
which made it of the great newspapers of
the country The editorial force of the Pioneer
Press are to be congratulated, and the people of
the Northwest will welcome the change.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21
RooKS RECEIVED.

Clementina's Highwayman, roma by Robert NeeIson Stephens and Gec Hembert Westley; illustrated by laide Everhart. L. c. Page & Co., ton.
 Two Teddy Bears in Toyland, as l rated by Elizabeth Gooden and ph graphed by Charles Wylie; Dodd, N 6 Co.,, New York.
 Patty in Paris" oy carolyn ", York. Terhune Herrick; Dana Estes Ss Boston.
 Alice in Blunderland. by John I drick Bangs; Doubleday, Page & New York
 The Uprising of the Many by Cha Edward Russell; Doubleday Page Go.
 The Spotter, by William " Canf R. F Fenno & Co.,, New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

THE CoUNTERsTRoKE," by Am prose Pratt, vol. pp. 320;R, F, Fenno & Co., New York; at Judd's; $1.50.
 Mild and harmless is the handsome picture on the cover of this book, which represents a maiden fair. Turn to the contents and you awake at once to vivid story full of exciting incl dents and dramatic scenes. You are launched Into a tale dealing with un- eonscionable villains-villains of the deepest dye. The first hint of this is given in the colored frontispiece, which shows a gorgeous apartment, a f1erce- looking old man in Court costume, and a terrified Turkish gentleman in the act of falling through trap door. This gives, however, but a slight hint of what follows in the tale. In it Nihilism is dealt with and Nihilism receives it's death blow; but before this desidera- tum Is attained many must fall before the blows of assassins. First the lord high potentate, the chief of the Nihil- ists, is tracked to his sunptuous abode, which is on an island and in which he lives in splendor, surrounded by about all that great wealth can buy, in fact with an array of treasure from every quarter of the habltable globe, such as a Monte CrIsto would envy. Here ev- cry now and then he directs the lop- ping off of the head of some European sovereign, King Humbert of Italy be-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

About ten years ago there were dozen English novelists whose boo outsoid in America the best Americ; novels. Now the case is practical reversed. MT. Sears put but three English novelists in the class of o best writers, commercially speakiu A book by Hall Caine sells about 2o 900 here; Gilbert Parker sells abo 100000: Mrs. Humphrey Ward se well here and not we'll in Englan Marie Corelli sells better in nngla, than here, and book of Robe Kitchens means 6 sale of from 95.o to 50.000 copies. and so on. Taki American authors, Winston Church sels over 100000 and Robert Cham CTS a close second to him, while the are very big sales for Mrs. Whartc George Barr McCutcheon, and seve, others. these same authors taki ranking positions in England.
 shown by this years success of American novel.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Doubleday, Page and companya next publication date Is September IS, when they will issue the following: Me moirs of an Arabian Princess" trans lated by Lionel Strachey. "Mosses and Dichens' by Nina L. Marshall. "The Tracks We Tread" by G. B. Lancas- ter. "The Near East"-Anonymou Hymns Every Child Should Know" edited by Dolores Bacon "The Good Comrade," by Miss Una L. Silberrad.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Frederick Mccormick, journalil artist, and war correspondent, N also become an author. His bod "The Tragedy of Russia in Paci| Asia" will be published in October the Outing Publishing company. T| narrative tells the story of the war he, q war correspondent, saw it, al felt it, MT. Mccormick was VI the Russian army, as special repl sentative of the Associated Press, al shared the fortunes of that unhap host during the dark days of flight from Mukden He witness the first and second attacks on Pt Arthur, and all the principal land b, ties of the war, and after the signi of peace, he accompanied the R Cross Squadron to Japan to arran for the evacuation of the Russi prisoners. The book Is serid study of the Eastern question: az VI as history.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Mary D. Waller, whose 'The wood Carver of 'Lympus" has gone into its 17th edition, has forsaken her home in the Green mountains, Vermont, for Canada, where she intends spending the present month. Many of the fino qualities of her best known book are to be found in her previously issued "A Daughter of the Rich," which Mar garet E. sangster recently pronounced "the most suggestive book for girls that has appeared since Miss Aicott wrote Little Women"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Works of fiction published this week by Dodd, Mead & Co, are: "The Daughter of Anderson Crow" by George Barr McCutcheon; Those Queer Browns" by Florence Morse Kingsley; "The Revelations of In- spector Morgan" by Oswald Craw- furd; John Caldigate." fourth in the series of Anthony Trollope's Manor House Novels" and Beside the Bon- nie Brier Bush." Q handsome holiday edition of this best known of Ian Maclaren's works.
 Three books for juveniles are pub lished also this week by Dodd, Mead & Co.,; Two Teddy Bears in Toyland'' by Elizabeth M. Gordon; Patty in Paris" by Carolyn Wells and "A Lit- tie Girl in Old Baltimore" by Aman- da M. Douglas,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

"Grinmar," novel by Nathan Russ
 LoYella, or the Mystery of Marst py Lydia R. Bixby. Also these boo of verse; "The Rabbit Foot" by By Mason; Sand Burrs,' by George Ca penter Connor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Miss Alice Browns Rose Maclead" will begin in the October Atlantic, as announced, and 1t will be accompa- ried by Henry James and His Dou- ble," by MT. w. A. Gill; Virgil" by MT, George B. Woodberry; The Child and the Imaginative Life" by Miss Louise L. McCrady; '"The Ideal Minis ter" by the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, and "rhe Muskrats Are Build- ing" by MT. Dallas Lore Sharp. Mir. Harold Murdock's Earl Percy's Din ner Table" issued in the current num- Der of the magazine. is to come forth in special limited edition late in the autumn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

The John Lane company, New York which for some time past has been paying special attention to historical memoirs and monographs, will soon publish another book an Napoleon. It has been written bv MT. H. r. B. Wheeler, and MT. A N. Broadley, and is to be brought ou' in two volumes, entitled Nap p0lson and the Invasion of England. The Story of the Great Terror" An intersi'ng feature of this study will be large collection of cartoons and other illustrations, exhibiting, from French and English sources, the moods of rhe two peoples involved.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Lawrence Lowell; 'The United States as World Power" by Prof. Archi- bald Cary Coolidge of Harvard Uni- versity; "The Government of Euro pean Cities" by Prof. W. B. Munroe, also of Harvard; Essentials of Econ- omic Theory" by Prof. J. B. Clark of Columbia; "The Rate of Interest" by Prof Irving Fisher of Yale; "The Out look for the Average Man, by Dr. AL bert Shaw; Essays on Municipal Ad- ministration," by Prof. John A. Fair lie, and discussions of problems per- taining to public ownership in books by Prof. Hugo R. Meyer and Henry S. Haines.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

The readers of the Memoirs of an Arabian Princess" published this month by Doubleday, Page and com pany, are treated to a rather unusual glimpse into the private life of an Arabian home. In their Cicerone they have none other than the sultan's daughter who is real Arabian Prin- cess in her heritage and feelings, and who has given us an intimate knowl- edge of her people and their methods of living. which we could not have gained elsewhere.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

On Sept. 20 James Pott 6 Co. VI publish the following books dealing "reminiscences of famous wcmd Madame de La Fayette and Il Family" by M. MacDermott CraI ford; Madame dc Stael ana Her Id CTS" by Francis Gribble; "Famc Beauties of Two Reigns.' being an count of some fair women of Stu; and Georgian times, by Mary Grave and "The Book of Fair Women"
 Federigo Luigino.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

The situation in Korea, the Cold do corporations and miners and
 uegro question in the south are s| jects discussed in "The World
 day" (Chicago) for September Dd Forgan, the president of the Chicl Commercial association, and JohnI Slater describe improvements planI for the city, and the spirit of co-oI ation that has been aroused in beI of civic betterment. The Chic park system is described by the Il in charge of 1t. Chicago as an Center" and Chicago as Bank Center are the titles of articles Charles L. Hutchinson, president the art institute, and ChariesE Dawes. Hoyt King writes of ''I Commercial Importance Of the Sf tary Canal and Gulf Waterws There are also articles on "Vitali4 German Art" by James William ! tison, From Beyond the Snow LiE by Alfred Sidney Johnson, and a graphical sketch of "Gifford Pincl Forester" by C. H. Forbes -Lindsal
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Readers of exceptional fiction will find in Mir. Lancasters new book, ''The Tracks We Tread" narrative which is as vlrile as the country 1t depicts. It Is tremendous story in which the clash of elemental passions is felt from the first page to the last. The scene is laid in New Zealand.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

The September number of "7 Outing" as usual is full of intens Interesting true stories of out-of-t way personalities of the past and pI ent, and there are a goodly number outdoor stories. "The Pent and HI died East" by Vance Thompson is living picture of to-day's Lon( sluns. Caspar Whitney's "Viewpoi is given up to discussion of
 truly true" animal stories, which \ give the view" of one of the prir pals in the recent controversy betwI the Rev, Mir. Long on the one side President Roosevelt, MT. John B roughs and MT. Whitney on the d CT. The department articles d "Three Important Phases of YaI Racing: "'The Quality of H Dogs Nose" "A Few Pitches in FId Packing" by Stewart Edward Whit Affairs of the American K@rI Club; Autumn Tasks in the Hd Garden" by Eben Rexford and "Y Horse's Action,' by F. M. Ware.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Henry Holt & Co. will publish this week "A Turnpike Lady" tale of Beartown, Vt, an cltl-time American idyl with the spirit of locality strong upon 1t, lala Tn the period of 176S-1790, by Sarah N Cleghorn. On the same date will be issued volume of One Hundred Great Poems" se- lected by R. J. Cross, and published in the same general style as Lucas "The Friendly Town"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

Leroy Scott, author of "To Him That Hath is in receipt of number of letters from ex-convicts testifying to their appreciation of his novel as they read 1t in serial form. One of these ad- mirers writes that MT. Scott must have had some dark secret in his life to en- able him to write so feelingly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

An important theological publica- ton is announced by Messrs. Tough ton, Mifflin & Go. in Swedenborg's Theological Works'' in thirty-two volumes arranged under eight titles and sold only fin sets. This Is the only complete and uniform edition at present to be found, and 1t is printed on rag paper of the best quality bound in blue linen buckram, and sold at very moderate price, An eleven-vol- ume set in full levant, and printed on Oxford India Bible paper, is sold at $150 a set.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

The September issue of the Peopl Magazine offers the summer reader very wide choice of material fin 192 pages of complete fiction which holds. Besides a complete novel a a shorter novelette,, there are numere tales, love stories. a story of Wests life. a railroad tale, child stories, story of theatrical people. as we'll a theatrical review department. q or tow stories of adventure, and s, eral other pieces of complete fictl which partake of the nature of ma Of these--20 in all.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

There is full page table of all 1907 game laws of the United Sta| and Canada, in "Recreation" for Sl tember, and the regular departure devoted to hunting. fishing. auton bling, motor boating and the q and breeding of dogs are replete W up-to-date informative articles. editorials this month are exceptions strong: The Shame of the Elks" c, not fail to make members of the E fraternity sit up and do q little hl thinking. The cover is a good ii ness of Grover Cleveland attired shooting clothes and with his and bag of ducks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21

ing among the number to fall vic- tim. Nihilism must perish. Perigord, the mysterious leader. has sworn it, likewise Lord Francis, likewise the Count; and others, too, have joined in the compact. Blood flows and knives glitter and pistol shots ring out. There are Kidnapping and secret islands and there are long lost relatives. Murder and torture fairly revel. But all Is not gore and slaughter. There is beaute- ous maiden, an English girl, and of course love affair. The hero of the story loves her and she, though coy and retiring, as Is becoming, returns his love. Added to this there Is anoth- CT pair of lovers. One is the sworn follower and adherent of the hero of the story and he loves the granddaugh- ter of the prince of Nihilists, an inno- cent maiden who, until she was IS years of age supposed she was Q, boy. To sum up, on the one side Is grouped the Nihiiists, on the other the society pledged to exterminate Nihilism, and the weapons and methods are the same in each case. As before remarked Ni- hilism is downed in the story and there is a happy ending for the lovers. The book will certainly please all who like to sup full of horrors and crave ex- citing and blood-stlrring adventure.