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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26

Goth Out and In. -,
THE Needy One SAY say. t %la MAI IAN
could ysou lend me a ao''ar TOT 9 aay
Ths otAsr one="alx dear fellow the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26
Dressing Sacques

The kind that, while giving
you all the comfort OF an or
binary negligee, are neat and
trim looking.
Very good quality lawn, short
sleeves, fitted back, with belt,
sailor collar, trimmed with fine
Swiss embroidery, $1.5O.
Fine lawn, square neck, lace
yoke, short sleeves, fitted back,
lace trimmed. So.
Wide choice from big variety
of other styles, Soc to $3.50.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26
A Display Of New Spring
Patterns in Carpets and Rugs

These floor make with the claim
they're the handsomest entering Richmond
New designs daily we'll
while
opportunity you have again very
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26

SOC, e5c, s5c. 81, s1.e5. o., 50
and SO each.
Fibre Rugs, new colors and de.
signs. all sizes, ranging In prica
from 6Oc to $1f.5O each.
Fibre Carpet for rooms and
halls, 85c, 45c, Doc and 6Oc yard,
including making, laying and lins
ing.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26

Velvet Rugs; good patterns and color.
ings. SIS values, s21.
High-Grade Wilton Velvet Rugs, ex1a
IT,. regular s42.5o values. $50.
Few odd pieces of TAPESTRY
CARPETS, running up to 40 yards
in length, were 75c yard. Special
price, soc yard, made. laid and lined.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
The Country Daily.

The Fredericksburg Evening Journal.
one of the smaller Virginia dailies, but by
no means one Of the least bright and
deserving. fnclines. we think. to take
rather a pessimistie view of the lot of an
editor on the country press. Especially
does the journal imagine his lot unfor-
tunate and unhappy when located within
easy reach of the large dailies of the
great cities. In well-written but rather
pathetic editorial, the editor Of the Jour
nal voices his emotions and calls atten-
tion to The necessarily versatile tempera-
ment a country editor must possess.
Il is the fashion in some quarters 10
laugh AT the country editor As a matter
of fact, the purest patriotism and the loft
lest of sentiments are often found IN the
rural sanctums. The small country paper
that can be bought bribed, bulldozed, or
run over is the exception rather than the
rule. Moreover, the Journal need not give
itself great concern about the keen
wits, versatile minds. bright intellects.
and skilled employees Of the larger
dailles These have secured no corner
on the brains Of the country, and mere
word-slinging. as much editorial matter
amounts 10, is not always the editorial
output that counts. There is good deal
OF slap-dash and nonsense about much Of
the so-called scinullating and bedazzlinE
offerings Of the metropolitan press"
Then, again. the country editor enjoys
a splendid good fellowship with his con-
stituenoy that the editors OF the larger
papers cannot know. The editorial utter
ances of the rural press come to its read
ers as words of friend. close and per-
sonaL Remarks made and opinions sub
mitted are accepted as something en-
tirely in the family. and though. as the
Journal finds. jealousies ana factiOnal dif-
ferences pull and haul. first this way and
then that. nevertheless. the country
editor who is honest and strives to do the
right and advocates the good is generally
sure TO win for himself a quality Of re-
spect and high esteem among his neigh
boFs that many Of the city editors may
veil envy.
There is a sphere for the larger daily
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
QUE WATERWAYS.
Importance of the Presidents Ac-
tiou In Making II Fixed Policy.

Importance Of the Presidents Ae-
tiou in Making II Fixed Policy.
Ffom the Kansas City Journal
Heretofore, aside from the improve
menr of a few harbors. the expenditures
OF the Federal government upon the
country's waterways have been mostly
wasted. if not entirely thrown away.
Millions upon millions have been ap-
pTopriated in river and harbOr bills.
bat when the money was spent it left
scarcely a mark on the face of nature.
The fifty or sixty millions lavished upon
the Mississippi have left Ro trace exsept
at The mouth and the nine millions de-
voted 60 the Improvement Of the dis
souri, are equally fruitless OF results. And
50 with most Of the inland stroamc which
have received hundreds Of millions Of ap-
pr0DTations under the log-reiling pro-
cesses which governed the governments s
futile policy in the past
The moss promising feature of Presl~
dent Roosevelt's new departure is the
fact that hereafter the government will
stand committed as firmly 10 the sys-
tematic development % It's inland water
ways as il Is 10 the building Of the Pan
anna Canal. Instead Of having TO over
come the inertia Of indifference, or the
active hostility OF a large percentage OF
Congressman who have hitherto opposed
river improvements. the Western country
which is chiefly concerned in the matter,
will be able 10 appeal for support in de
veloping its waterways on the high
ground that Il is the fixed, settled policy
of the government. IN this respect alone
the Presidents action VIII be Of meal
culabe benefit.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
Tnrninr 10 Mother Natnre-

Il is cheering information which re-
Gently came out of the West-the infor-
nation that Champion Jcfries is not
pining fer pugilistic excitement, but is
thoroughly satisfied with life way down
upon the farm. tie says he will never
fight ''dinge'-which pugiistieaIy
means, we suppose, "a dub, a mutt, ="
d quitter," or something Of the kind
and the inference is that, ike Cincinnatus
al the pillow. he can only be enticed
into the arena by some would-be cham
pion Of real merit upon whose bulging
form the gl0ries Of the past may be Mt
tingiy imprinted and renewed
I'm a Rube now" says Mr.. Jeffries.
"aud proud of il. All I want is to be let
alone and allowed to grow my own al
falfa."
Coming hard upon the heels Of a recent
more or less extensive revival of the
Walt Whitman cult. and taken in con-
nection with government forestry and ir-
rgation work, and other general indica-
tions, it is pleasing TO surmise that this
new departure Of the stalwart gentleman
of the mighty swat is Il sign that the
gr5uehy pessimist is wrong who sees. the
finish OF free institutions in the fierce
competition and nervous strain Of great
cities. American manhood may yet learn
TO renew itself and grow strong and glad
in The soothing presence of birds and
bees, of fiowery glades and fruitful fields
and cattle grazing on the green hillsides.
Jclfries is moved by a spirit which. it
We're to be hoped. is significant Of an
ultimate general drift OF society toward
the simple life. And at least we can read
fly understand that when, I'm the absence
of a lifting vocabulary, he asks to be let
alone 10 cultivate his own alfalfa. he
really expresses a sentiment which. in his
inner entity. is couched in language like
that Of Whitman:
Smile, ola, voluptuous eool-brsathed earth.
Earth d the slumbering and liquid trees;
Earth Of departed sunset; earth Of the mountains
msty-lopti
Earth Of she titreaus pour Of The nn moon just
tinged with blue.
Esrh cf 'he limpid gray Of clouds. brighter and
clearer for ms sake
FsFsVooDing. elhowed earth. nch apple.blossoned
earth,
Smile, fer yom lover comes!
Even his political enemies remember
with admiration how, defiant though de-
feated, Bryan retired to his rural retreat
after the battle OF the standards. and
there found physical rest and spiritual re-
freshment. at the same time demonstrat-
ing to the world that he who would profit
by the plow himself must raise the blood
ed COW.
Among an classes men seem 10 be turn
Rs more and more TO neglected mother
tQre as a source of reiuvenescence and
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
WALL sTREET's MIsTAKE.

Corporation Campaign Against
RoOSeveIt Reacting in His Favor.
From tie New YORK World
Wall street understands very little about
politics and viii never learn much. Know
ing from long experience how gulilble the
American people are in financial matters,
1t assumes that the public is equally gull
lible IN political matters Taking Mr
Roosevelts refusal TO be a candidate in
good faith. the big corporations have de-
ceiVed themselves into thinking that they
could sufficiently discredit him before
the next national convention TO bring
about the nomination of a safe and
sane candidate on TeactiOnary plat
form. Instead Of carrying out their plan.
they are creating ii state OF public opin-
ion which viii force Mr.. Roosevelt 10
accept a reHominatiofs If there is the
slightest danger Of "A reactionary victory,
and which may make il impossible for
him 10 prevent his own nomination even
if there is no danger of such a victory.
As a public exhibition of biting granite.
Wall streets concerted attempt 20 de-
sEroy Mr.. Roosevelt is Iudicrous.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
FRIpAY. MARcH 2. lgg7.
PopuIarizing Investments.

President Needham. OF George Washing
ton University expresses the nope that
through Federal control of corporations
the people at large viii again become
holders of their shares of stock, and
through them owners of the industrial
property of the United States Judge
Grosscup has often given utterance to a
similar hope when he has talked of the
''peopleizati0n" Of our Industrial enter
prises. though the Chicago jurist has
never committed himself as to the pre-
else way in which ''peopleization' should
hc encouraged and brought about Dr.
Needham has no misgiyings on this point
and comes out unqualihedly for Federal
control Of corporations doing an inter
state business
William J. Bryan some years ago sug-
gested the control of corporations through
an extension of the Federal power over
intcfstate commerce, and President
Roosevelt is feeling his way toward the
acceptance of practically the same
Hiethod Of corporation control. It is "a
plan widely discussed at the present
time, and one that appeals strongly TO
the Federahst sentiment of the day. That
Federal control, especially of stock is
sues would greatly increase the stability
of such issues and the confidence of in
Vestors in them. ultimately leading to
sach a consummaton as Or. Needham
looks forward TO, cannot be doubted The
social Importance of a wide distribution
OF the ownership of industrials would be
very great, tending to the maintenance
of the present economic regime as against
"a s0eialsdc order as we'll as to encour-
age thrift and the accumulation of in
tangible property by the people. We are
not sure but that in this direction lies the
real socialism OF the future.
1t would be well, however, If the States
should take up the question of corpora
ton control with more sincerity and in
telligence. Such a measure as the public
utinti,., h;li which Gov. Hughes. of New
York, is trying to get through the legis-
latuTe Of that State would do much to-
ward insurng the rights of Investors in
The securities of pubuc-service corpora
tiOns. But the influences against the pas
sage of bills of that sort are so strong
that their enactment is matter of ex-
treme difficulty. and every failure of
State to gain the upper hand Of the crea-
lures OF its own law strengthens the de
mand for Federal legislation The States
have by no means exhausted their ca
pacity for dealing with the corporation
problem in most OF its phases. What
some OF them seem to lack is Willingness.
What is President EHots idea about
lawn tennis as a ht and proper game for
gentlemen?
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
CUBA PR0sPERING.
ships Fruit to This Country and Gets
Growers from II.


It is said that the orange crop which
was gathered in Cuba in January Is the
largest the island has known. Nearly
7Oo,0ee crates we're shipped to the United
States.
AS for pineapples, the shipments from
Cuba to this country grew from 3n .g57
crates in 1900 to S7S.9s2 crates last year.
Cuban tomatoes. raised in large guam
titles near Guines, forty miles from Ha-
Vana. were commanding s. a crate in New
York on New Years Day. About 400.0
crates have reached the United States this
year.
Tomato raising is new idea in Cuba.
and has not as yet been entered into very
extensively. bat growers are deVoting
more attention to tomatoes than ever be-
fore. They can be raised much more
cheaply than any other vegetable grown
on the island, and thirty-iive acres can
be set out at a cost Of less than 500.
Buyers on the island pay 50 cents a
crate. and often 81 during the season. The
duty is bat 10 cents, and the freight bat
81 cents. The heaviest shipments are
made in March and early April, at time
which IS not interfered with by the Flor
ida vegetable
Early in January the exports of onions
utHdA iEulii CUBAN pottc. ana tttse proved
greatly in demand in New York. selling
for S3.25 crate. The stock is reported
nice and clean, but exceptionally scarce,
says the National Magazine or Cuba.
Until recently conditions in Cuba have
been unsettled. because the wealthy Span
ards who have been advancing the grower
money were not putting any money out
for fear there might be another insurrec-
tiOn when the American soldiers with
draw in June. But this situation has been
relieved by American importers, who have
readily advanced what money was neces-
sary.
The number of growers in Cuba has
multiplied over that OF year ago. More
than 600 citizens of the United States
have acquired lands on the island and
are setting out orange groves, sugar and
pineapple plantations. tobacco fields, and
the like
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
TARIFF STANDS IN WAY.
Reciprocity Needed to Develop For
eign Demand for Clothing.

eigE Demand for Clothing.
From an address by Marcus H. Marks. president OF
the National Association Of ClothieTs.
The grsater the clothing manufacturing
industry becomes the further will the
modern factory Idea be likely to develop
toward perfection Any movement, there
fore, which tends to increase the market
for our product should receive our en-
,couragement Al this time. when our
factories are taxed TO their utmost 10
supply the local demand. Il seems to scme
that there is no occasion to consider ways
and means for opening foreign markets
But others feel that In order 10 anticipate
probable change IN the tide of our
abounding prosperity We should ncw be-
Sin to study the wants of cur nearest
foreign neighboTs both North and South:
that we should urge upon our government
the necessity of reciprocity treaties that
VIII enable us to reap substantial ad-
vantage and at the same time give other
countries the benefit of our exceptional
skill in clothing manufacturing, which.
IL viii be conceded. has not even been
approached by any other people on the
face OF the earth. The present inhexible
tariff on clothing. averaging about 3
per cent, stands seriously ia our way.
And I hope that the idea which has been
indorsed By Secretary Root that maxi
mum sd minimum tariff be established
as a basis for favorable reciprocity
treaties viii soon be acted on in Congress.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Need of Government Board for
Their Impartial InvestigatiOR.

EFam the Scientific American.
The crying need of the hour is the
institution Of government board for the
investigation of accidents on United
States railroads. This board should be
composed of railroad engineers of ability
and experience. They should be paid
salaries commensurate with their reputa-
ton. and sufficient in amount 10 place
them beyond any possibility Of tempta-
ton. They. and their local representa-
tives in the various parts OF the country.
should be invested with sufficient author
ity to enable them TO make the most
searching investigation and to enforce the
attendance for examination of any official
or empIOye from president 70 trainman
Upon this commission would devoive the
duty of outlining such legislative meas
ures as, in It's opinion, We're necessary to
secure the safety OF the travelling public
II is our firm belief that before such d
commission had been in active existence
FIVE years, the number Of railroad acci-
dents IN this country would have been
cut down 50 per cent and that before a
decade had passed the number would
have been reduced to the more humane
figures which obtain on European rail-
roads
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
OUR PHILIPPINE BURDEN.
American People waking Up to Sig-
nifcance Of Colonial Policy.

From the Charleston News aBd Courier.
A candidat for Congress in Virginia.
Judge Charles z. Nicol. who seeks elec-
tion TO the seat made vacant by the death
of the late Representative Rixey has the
sale of the Philippines as the main plank
of his platform. aud it is a good sign. Il
Is gratifying to observe that this issue is
being brought 70 the front even in a by
election Public opinion in America would
not justify the expenditure OF the money
necessary TO protect the Philippines Not
even President Roosevelt dares 10 urge
more than moderate and gradual increase
Of the navys strength, although the main
tenance Of colonial policy could be per-
manent only by the creation of a navy
comparable in power with that Of the
strongest
The game is not worth the candle. say
the American people. and they are right:
but they do not awake 10 the plain truth
that without such navy and with re-
mote islands in the Pacific utterly de-
fenseiess, the United States Ia a few years
y ill be exposed TO such humiliation as
that which Russia was forced 20 endure
The retention OF the Philippines is folly
without excuse and pregnant with distress
FOR the republic.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
After "Jeb" Stuart.

The Civil Service Commission is inves-
tigatiRg charges against Collector J. E. b
Stuart, of the customs Office at Newport
News. Va. Commissioner Henry F.
Greene has charge of the investigation
and is now at Newport News The
charges are merely that the son Of the
famous Confederate general has shown
too much partisan zeal as recent con
vert to Repubiicanism- The accusation
is that Collector Stuart has threatened 20
discharge, or has actually discharged.
every Democratic employe Of the office
Deputies and Clerks of the customs offices
throughout the country rot long ago were
included in the permanent civil service
lists. and when Collector Stuart took
charge of the Office at Newport News. he
found that nearly all OF his subordin8tes
were Democrats. thus depriving him
wholly of patronage. II the alleged
charges against him are proved it is be-
lieyed his resignation viii be asked.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
False Cry OF Panic.

From the Portland Oregonian.
Those railroad managers who are crying
panic and ruin and bankruptcy base their
alleged alarm upon The movement for reg
ulation of rates. But their own assertions
reveal their insincerlty They cry bank
ruptcy" because of State legislation, when
that legislation has not yet affected them
to any material degree. Legislation that
would mean bankruptcy would be confis-
cation. and every railroad man of ordi-
nary common sense knows that a law
that eonhseates property cannot be en-
forced In twenty-four hours after an
attempt is made to enforce the adoption of
rates that do not allow a reasonable profit
the railroads viii appeal 10 the courts.
secure an immediate hearing. and prevent
eonhscation
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
PRESIDENT STANDING PAT.
stereotSped Reply which Is sent 40
Third Term Enthusiasts.

stereOtyDed Reply which IL sent 10
Third Term Enthusiasts.
Washington Correspondence New York Post
IT you write a letter to the President
saying you have looked over the situation
in your neighborhood ana are Convinced
that he viii have 10 accept another nomi-
nation for the Presidency. you viii in due
course Of time get this reply:
White House -.
Ny Dear Sir: F0ur favor Of the - instant has
been Tecriyed. and the President thanks you fer
writing While he appreciates your kindly sentiment
he has nothing 70 add 10 his statement issled On
the night OF his election, 1893. Very truly yours,
WILLIAM LOEB. JF..
SecTetsry 70 she President.
Every few days some newspaper prints
this letter with the startling" announce
meit that 1t has just been received by a
prominent citizen who WTotr to the Presi-
dent. saying that everything therea bouts
looked like Roosevelt for 1905 As a
matter of fact. hundreds of letters come
to the White House every week from
friends of the President, who say they
hope he will reconsider his determination
not TO stand for another nomination. All
these letters are turned over 10 a clerk
who has before him the form of answer
to the weIl-wishers The form has been in
use fer months. and the country has been
literally flooded with the stereotyped an
sWer
The form of answer was originally pre-
pared by the President. and he continues
10 stand pat" Persons who know the
President best firmly believe he intends To
continue TO stand by the declaration Of
this letter Recently an effort has been
made to make IL appear that he is not sin
cere-that in reality ne is hoping and ex-
pecting that denomination viii be forced
On him but every well-infornled person
here at the Capital scouts the idea that
the President did not mean what he said
IN 1904 or that he does not intend to con
tinue to stand by tnat declaration.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22

and a sphere for the smaller. Both are
important factors in the force which, In
its entirety, controls the welfare of the
land. II is honorable TO preside over the
editorial destinies Of a fearless small
paper no less than over those Of a large
one. Both are parts Of a whole that so
eiety eannot do without
The journals editorial has interested
US because most Of the things II enumer-
ates are true and many of the obstacles
it sees along the roadway to success are
there; but that they may be overcome we
do not dor bt. That such a man as the
editor OF the Frederieksburg Journal viii
overcome them we feel assured.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
ALITTLE NONSENSE.
THE Boss noRR.


You start to talk about some place
With customs rare.
He straightway opens up his face;
oh, I've been therei'
You start to talk about some play
That's made d hit.
He breaks right in to loudly say:
''Oh, I've seen it,
You think that you tell joke.
You've got it pat.
But you are halted by the croak:
'0h, I'VE heard that"
Whoreat you get behind some door
And hug the wall.
And for a while escape the bore
Who knows Il all.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
THE LOST JoNE.

Great Great Greatl
Was the Joke that ! made to-day.
And wouid that my tongue could utter
What actually did say.
Oh, well for a notebook aid,
Where ] should have pat Il down;
Oh. vel 10 be thought a wit,
on most amusing clown.
But that good bon mot has gene.
Though I'm IackinE my mem Is still
And it's oh could I but remember now
That joke was ft to kii
Gfeaf Great Gfeat
Was that llesautry. you'd sgree
Irt the comic part I've quite forgoi
And tRiil never oame back 10 me
-Philadeiphia Pubic ledger.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-22
Tarin sharp Practice.

From the Ohio State journal
There has never been in the legislation
OF this country sharper practice than
shat of the Introduction of the reciprocity
feature in the Dingley law. and the sub
sequent reputation Of the whole matter.
II is a conspiracy Of the trust that dld 1t.
and It is time Il was undone; 1t Is time
we were having a prosperity that was
not turning out multiinillionaires by the
score