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Ere long the rocket apparatus is the cliffs brink,
and as a result of constant practice everything
moves with machnelike precision. and sooner
later the line falls over the ships bows.
dozen hands grasp it eagerly and haul on for
dear life In few moments the welcome buoy is
on board and in trice the weakest and youngest
member of the is helped into it. A signal is
given on the line, and across the waters, lit up by
porthres, the man goes on his aerial journey to the
shore. Helping hands get him out Others con-
duct him to cottage lighthouse, where warm broth
and hot spirits in waiting Meanwhile the
empty buoy gldes back its errand of mercy; but
by this time the ship is going to pieces fast. The
great combers lift her up and dash her with sledge
hammer force on the rocks and this time the in
the swaying buoy has terrible journey. AS the
ship wallows in distress, fast approaching her end,
he is plunged into the raging sea- but at that
ment the experienced handlers of the line at the
shore end know just how to manipulate it SO that
his head is kept we'll out of the water
1t is terrifying sight for the spectator, who had
imagined the saved once he had thrust his legs
into the canvas breeches, to behold him dropping
like rocket stick into raging Up and down
he goes the enormous rollers when suddenly he
darts out of the water and heavenward, with
dangling legs and CHASTITY face While he is high
in the air like this the life work like fends,
and just as he is about to drop once more down the
cliff face his half frozen legs touch the hosptable
shore, and he is dragged into safety.
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appalling to witness. The hull became invisi-
Bile in a mountain of flame, and in few minutes
what had been fine ship plunged with series of
explosions into the great Deep carrying with her her
passengers and crew.
Another such case, watched impotently by the
life savers from lofty cliffs the Marpesia, bound
from New York Cette in Southern France, naphtha
laden Captain Jensen was arranging Christmas
treat for his men Morning dawned gray and chilly
The bo's'n was about to pipe all hands deck,
when suddenly culver ran through the ship. A
rumbng heard low at first, and then increasing
There was a pause broken by frightful
Next moment, beginning few feet forward of the
mainmast, the entire forward section of the Mar
pesia-foremast decks, cargo, and interor-shot a
hundred and twenty feet into the air The debris
rained into angry sea, and then sweeping aft
with irresistible force wall of roaring fame.
For twelve hours the crew stayed behind the little
house on the poop deck. Before dawn the survivors
had to rig up plank extension out over the stern
for thirty feet. Here they crept and erected little
shields for protection from the awful heat and
impetuous flame puffs All in vain! The watchers
the cliff the ship go down, as they had seen
dozens of Others laden with the same deadly cargo
There many coast points in the track OF the
worlds navigation notorious for wrecks, and here
the local people reap rich harvest for themselves
quite apart from life saving; for the coast folk
wreckers, as we'll as fishermen and life savers. They
turn their hand to every sort of salvage work.
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and recover from the oozy depths the treasures of
submarine curiosity shop.
The French bark Aquitaine laden with choice
liquors for St. Miqueon, got landed a reef
off the Newfoundland coast The crew saved by
the breeches buoy and few days later the wreckers
going about gaily dressed in jerseys of
many hues, colored waist sashes, and fiat saucer
hats Visitors to the scene of the wreck were
RECALLED with champagne out of tin pannkins and
offered choice cognac at fifteen cents bottle.
Another dreaded spot is the Manacles, off the
Cornish coast, in England. In the quiet church.
yard of St Keverne you will see graves of nameless
mariners and strangers, by the score representing
every nation on earth.
Mystery of the Manacles
GONE say the Manacles have a weird, magnetic
~ power of attraction-that in someway they can
affect the ships compasses. Certain it is that
perenced mariners, intimate all their lives with the
coast whereabouts, have found to their sudden
amazement that they had strayed on these vicious
wave washed spires, when they thought they
steering well away from them and they have
had warning until they felt the jar and scrape of
the half hidden peaks and bouders under their keels
One can well imagine the scene on terrible Win
ters evening when some helpless derelict limps
below the cliffs Her master has done everything
that human ingenuity can dictate, but is at last
beaten by the forces of nature The distress rockets
are instantly responded to by the life saving
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gan to spread with alarming rapidty. The hairs
of the insect armed with microscopic barbs which
enter the skin, and cause most annoying disorder
Hundreds of trees in infested districts are abso-
1utely denuded of foliage by the pest before the
mer is half over. Entire orchards DESTROYED.
More than million dollars has been expended
great dread in which the moth is held is well founded
for in eight years the progeny of a single pair if
allowed to reproduce without hindrance, would be
sufficient to destroy the entire vegetation of the
United States.
One of the most peculiar pests with which this
country infested is the water hyacinth of Florida
1t is an aquatic weed native of tropical America
and fourishes the surface of the water without
attachment to the soil. Several years ago it
became desirable to clean out an infected pond and
the plant was thrown into the St. Johns River.
An Unfortunate Decoration
nNE unfortunate day the boatmen began to
~ carry it up and down the stream to decorate
the water front The water of the river was congen-
ia and the plant multiplied with such rapidty that
within six years it had become serious obstacle to
navigation. Shifted about by the wind, great
masses of the plant would become clogged in the
screws of passing steamers and bring them to a
standst 1t IS also injurious to the timber industry,
causing annual loss of ffty-ve thousand dollars
according to the Government estimate in so7.
In addition to this it affords excellent protection
to the fish, and for days at time the fishermen find
it impossible to use their nets.
more serious pest is the Mexican boil weevil. 1t
preys upon the cotton of Texas and neighboring
States, and in Texas alone causes loss of
Department of Agriculture has had experts in the
field for years. successful method of eXtermnatng
the small gray beetle only quarter of an inch in
length, has yet been devised.
The boil weevi might be said to be constitution
ally the strongest bug ever developed in this coun-
try 1t is proof against all the posons which usually
destroy the ordinary insect. 1t seems to have no
natural enemies, neither parasites nor disease, and
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which had forced their way from China into Europe
by land found their way back to the paternal shores
by sea- having completed the circuit of the globe
little more than a century.
In like manner the house mouse, another native
of Asia, travelled from continent to continent,
founding families innumerable, and was prolific in
this country long before it had become nation.
Sportsmen to Blame
THE rat, however, was carried around the world
by accident not so with the rabbit This appar-
emily pleasing and harmless animal was absolutely
unknown in Australia until 8o4, when a few pairs
were imported from England by sportsnen. By
1870 their numbers had grown to such enormous
proportions, and they had become such serious
menace to the crops of the farmers that the Govern
ments of the Provinces began to take action.
all in vain. A reward of twenty-five thousand
pounds, which offered nineteen years ago for
effective of Kidding the country of the
pest, still remains untouched. New Zealand how
ever has probably found the real solution of the
difficulty that is, to make the rabbit skin
article of commerce. Fifteen million skins are ex-
ported every year from that island.
The English sparrow was deliberately introduced
into lands to which it had previously been
stranger. 1t first brought this country in the
fall of $780, when inhabitant of Brooklyn, New
York imported eight pairs and liberated them.
1t was believed that the sparrows would destroy
certain grubs and caterpillars that preyng
fruit trees. They did, but they didn't stop there.
They began to devour the fruit themselves to peck
at growing grain, to uncover sown seed and finally,
by their quarrelsome nature, to drive away all
native birds. The sparrow is more prolific than
its sponsors thought and unwttingly they made
themselves responsible for a brood of godchildren
that spread at the of ffty-nine thousand
square miles a year. Every pair of sparrows
matches out annually average of twenty -four
young, so that it may be the progeny of
single pair would in years reach the astounding
total of more than two hundred thousand millions
French naturalist who was experimenting with
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duction of top orsecond crop rendered impossible
One of the most destructive of all insect pests is
the locust which af1icts South Africa. Millions
upon millions of locusts cross the country in single
fight, completely shutting out the light of day At
such time it is often impossible to see ten feet
ahead. Settling field of grain in extent,
the locusts devour every bud, every blade, every
stalk and rising in few hours leave the field as
barren as when it plowed.
Locomotives Made Powerless
THEY migrate in such astounding numbers that
i they have been known to bring railroad trains
to standstill by greasing the tracks and by becom
ing so clogged in the machinery that it took
hours after the vast army had passed to clean out
the engines.
Forty years ago the island of Jamaica was so
ravaged by nnumerable rats, black and brown, to
extent of five hundred thousand dollars annually
that it was decided to introduce the mongoose from
India to kill them off. In February, 1872 w.
Bancroft Espeut imported four males and five fe-
done their work well that there was saving of
more than two hundred thousand dollars But
then the mongooSe began to multiply, and took up
the work of destruction where the rats left it.. Pigs
KIDS, lambs, Kittens pups, poultry, game, potatoes
corn bananas, pears pineappes, cocoanutS, in fact
everything that the farmers of Jamaica cared for,
became their prey, and by the end of twenty years
they were far worse than the rats.
The worst enemy of the fisherman is the doghsh
Year after year this pest visits the coasts in schools
of vast numbers, driving off all the mackerel and
other species for which the fishermen their nets
and devouring the best of fish food. They caused
enormous damage in this manner last year to the
fisheries along the New England coast. Not being
suitable for food, they can be put to no use
that has yet been discovered. As effectual
means of eXterminatng them has been found, the
fishermen obliged to sit in id1eness until their
whin leads them off to other fishing grounds. For
the last few years their number has been increasing
rapidly and it is probable that Government aid will
soon be called for.
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it breeds with such startling
rapidity that in a single
season the progeny of one
pair may reach one hun
dred and thirty -four million
individuals. The only fairly
successful method of COM
batting it seems to be by
the immediate destruction
of the cotton plant in the
fall as soon as the crop
has been gathered. Although
great numbers of the insects
are thus killed and pre-
vented from alternating,
enough survive to repopu-
late the fields late in the
following summer. To es-
cape this generation, the
planters have to set out
their cotton early the next
year, so that it will be ready
for picking before the weevil
again becomes numerous. In
any case, however, the pro-
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W. es95s ws q s'nt 5as
takes it's way, and
westward too have all the
pests travelled. The brown
rat, more commonly known
as the wharf rat, is a native
of Western China. Like
the Huns of the fourth GEN.
fury, they invaded Europe
by swimming the Volga in
the autumn of 1877. Within
a few years they overran
the entire continent, and
by 1892 had reached Eng
land. And then, hidden in
the holds of transoceanic
vessels, they reached the
American coast in 1878.
Across the continent they
went, or round Cape Horn,
to San Francisco, where they
were found in 1855. Thence
in westbound vessels. the
descendants of those rats
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silk at Medford, Massa-
chusetts, introduced the
gypsy moth, an insect
against which the SPAR
row seems powerless.
That was in 1869. 1t
took the moth twenty
years to become acc1i-
mated. and then it be-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
GREAT CAMPAIGN
FOR FUNDS HERE
Secretary Of International Com
nittee TO Aid Y. M. c. A.
Work in Richmond.

A meeting or the board of directors of
the Central Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation was called last night 10 meet Mr
6 $. Ward. SECRETARY OF the information
al committee. who has been giving his
time 90 building movements. There were
present fifteen out OF the seventeen direc-
tors in Richmond Much tim WAS de-
voted % the commencement az the lay
ing OF the plans FOR "a vigorous building
campaign in This city.
The Central = NJ g. A. has undertaken
90 rails, $4,000 for the erection OF T. new
y NJ. g. a. home ou the northeast corner
of Seventh and Grace Streets.
Mr.. Ward has conducted during the last
year campaigns in nineteen cities. in which
the total SUM raised was S2.0s0.O0O The
building committee here has been I'm
correspondence with MT Ward Tor some
time in view OF the coming campaign
here. and sir Ward is expected 20 Join
forces with them to complete the fund
During his campaign in Baltimore Mr..
Ward raised 81 ooo in thirty days Mayor
Timanus and Governor Wardeld both hg-
ured prominently in the campaign. and Mr..
oshun lowering was president OF the
citizens committee. In Kansas City May
or Beardsley headed the campaign. and
S2Sl 900 was subscribed in thirty days
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
JACKSON CERTAIN HE
WILL WIN HIS CASE

NIIes JACKSON. dlrtft0r-general 0f tue
Colored jamestown Exposition. Will leave
for Washington this morning armed with
data which ne IS sure will satisfy the
national commission that he and His as
soriatcs have properly managed the af-
fairs Of the concern. lie and his board
held a conference last night and carefully
went over the report prepared from his
books. and they say they will Doe able 20
show tnat only 500 ~ the $1,000 appro-
priated by the government. has been
spent. while Jackson has spent over SI1-
Ooo i'm getting up exhibits.
He gives in his report the name Of
every person in the United States exhibit
ing. together with the articles TO Doe ex-
hibited.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
Commission To
MEET HERE TODAY
Much Interest Taken in Dues
ton of Virginia Hostess at
Jamestown Exposition.

Tho jamestown TercenIeuary Commis-
sion will meet II noon to-day in the of
flee OF Governor Swanson. and o.. question
OF burning interest 20 a. number of Vir-
sinia women viii have its nnal adjust
ment
Since more than year ago. tho mat
ter OF appointing &. Virginia hostess at
the jamestown Exposition began 20 be
taken seriously into consideration Ideas
previously formulated In feminine minds
crystaiized. and in short while "a number
of names We're connected with probable
appOintees. Mrs. Lucy Preston Bcalc. of
buchanan Va. Mrs. Frank Anthony
Wake and Mrs. Hugh Nelson Page. both
OF Norfolk Va. bong prominently spoken
or
It has been recently understood that
Mrs. Beale does not care for the posi-
tion. Mrs. Wake is most thoroughly en-
dorsed for 90 by the United Daughters or
the COnfederacy. by Nc~fOlk men and
chose in Richmond as wen. The claims
OF Mrs. Page are also urged with strong
support. she being Tho choice of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
The appointment or non-appoiutment
VIII be made to-day. and women are
awaiting the result with great intereSt.
So far ass Governor Swanson s. attitude
with reference 20 tho question is con-
cerned. 10 rs well under stood that the
Governor not only opposes the proposition
OF having any woman commissioner but
has emphaticaliy declared that -Acre Wall
Doe none.
He contends that there Is no law au-
thorizins such an appointment. and no
provision for salary. and be really does
not see the necessity In any event.
The prediction is made that there viii
be no woman commissioner for tne come
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Much Interest in Coming of Mr..
Ford to Richmond.

THE Virginia Historical Society was or
ganlzcd on December o. 1881. at "a meet
ing held in the han OF tho House Of
Delegates. Ever since that date the So
ciety has been intimately associated with
that famous old room. and SC has been
the scene of many notable audrcsscs.
By tine courtesy of Governor Swanson.
IN" society is allowed to use the now
hal and on Friday night at $3.50 i. NJ.
in che twenty-slXth year of the society.
another address OF great Importance Will
Dee delivered. Mr.. Washington &. Ford
OF the Congressional library. will speak
on Virginia in 1N29-the Parting OF the
Ways and viii treat Of most i'm
portant and critical era in the history OF
our state and country.
There lis, of course no charge for adj
mission. and the public are cordially in-
vitcd To- attend. Visitors had better en-
ter the Capitol Square by the Grace
street gate and thus avoid the clay OF
the new cmbankments. a granoMthic
walk leads from this gate to the eastern
entrance Of the Capitol
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
TO BOOKS AGAIN;
SCHOOLS REOPENED
All Teachers Present Except One.
COlOred Instructor. Who Died
During the Holidays.

After the usual Christmas holiday tho
public schools opened on zine yesterday
morning. and tile reports from all ser-
lions Of the enlarged city are 60 tne
effect THAI the after-hoIGay attendance
was unusually large. All the teachers
save one were on hand, apparently re-
fresh.I by the holiday season. and tie
scholars CAME up ia smiling columns. not
altogether AS bright. as they some times
arc. hut In fairly good spirits consider
ing.
Yesterday afternoon the school auth0rl-
ties had received reports from the twelve
white and the seven colOred schools n
the city. and also from the four white
ana tile three col0red schools in the new
ly-annexed territory. and all showed that
tGe conditions as outlined above were
the features Of the reoT-ning
The private schools and colleges are also
getting down to work. and every train
is bringing in students who have been
spending the holidays elsewhere
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
SUIT IS COMPROMISED.
Suboontractor and Contractor
Agree Upon a Settlement.

The srt az Van Zant * johnson VS.
Wilhelm * CO. for 5000 for alleged
breach ~ CONTRACT which was entered o.,
the Law ana Equity Court. was ,cst,r-
day dismissed set,,ed ass recorded la l,eai
parlance. lu other words. it was COM
Promised. The plaintiffs were sUo-.cn-
tractors for plasteriug. and al-se faat
Wilhelm ~ Go. lrCs,e tA.Ir contract ana
Subjected them 70 great loss ana iqisif,
Nnc terms or c0mrrpm se OF the case.
We're NOT disclosed. rn+ agreement being
private on-- Both slides age satisfied with
Tile result.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
ASK PRESIDENT
TO JUDGE BABIES
Jamestown Exposition Manage
ment Planning to Have Great
Baby Show.

NORFOLK. VA. January Am inter
national baby show with President
Roosevelt as chief judge and presenter OF
prizes viii DE "a feature OF the James
town Exposition should the President ace
ceIt The honor. which IL is proposed % be-
stow upon hiru
Tho plans FOX the show are now being
worked ONT hy exposition officials 10 is
proposed TO have babies from ALI coun-
trics and conditions in iife in the com
petition. ana there viii Do prizes far the
latest babies. for the prc$tiest babies for
tne Slmn-st bcsr developed and best
formed babies Mothers or prize ha bies
are deeply interested in the proposition
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
Hottel-Hammers

IURAN. VA, January Mr. Claude o
Hotel OF iagcrs town and Miss Nellie NJ.
Hammers. OF Luray. were married at tho
brides home this evening Rev. i A.
ruffard. ~ ST. Marks Lutheran Church.
Luray. officiating. The bride is q daughter
of Mr.. Joseph Hammers, Of this place.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
Legal Notice.

Y IkGINlA- ~ THE CHANCERY
COURT or TIE CITY OF RICH
MDND. 3IE ETH DAY OF DECERf-
Der. 1876.
Tn the matter Of the estate OF Charles
II. Phillips. deceased.
tx PARTE
To appearing CD the court that a report
a The accounts of Mary NJ phflifps-
eNccgtrix " Charles IT, Phinips. deceased
and Of tle debts and demands against ths
estate OF said Charles H. Phillips de-
ceased. have been fled in The clerks Office
of this court. ana. more than one year-
having elapsed since the qualification OF
eaid Mary NJ Phillips. cxeCutriN as afor--
said. on the motion Of the said Mary NJ
Phillips sole lcgateo OF s1id Charles ~
Phillips. deceased. it is ordered that tho
creditors of said Charles H. Phillips. de-
ceased. DE- any there be. do apnear before
tnis court en- Tuesday tho 18th day %
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
Elba Council.

Tho following officers Of Elba Council.
No. COS Royal Arcanum. We're installed by
Grand Sentry Harry Kemp assisted by
Grand Guide Minetree Folkes on Tuesday
night. y. l. Hobson, regent: w. r.. Sale.
Nice-regent, Cass Johnson, orator; &. w
Tyler. secretary. William Galloway. col
lector; Q. f. Richardson, treasurer: James
y. Angle. guide; John n. Tyree chaplain.
Joseph c. Adams. warden. and c. il.
Houchcns, sentry.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03
Maps of New City Lines.

Maps showing the now boundary lines
Of the city have been finished hy City
Engineer Cutshaw. and one each fur
uished 20 the police stations. the chief o.
police. and Justice Cvutchne.i Tra
maps are in handsome frames. and Will
adorn tine walls of the different offices.
a red line shows the territory az tu-
city. and "a yellow line shows what was
once the citys boundary
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-03

Tho regular meeting OF tae board of
directors Of the Infants Homo at T.Irts-
second and Clay Streets will Doe aeId tnls
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock 90 trr Home.
Mrs. O. Stevenson. the Nr.-Il .lt. ls
very anxious that every member shall he
on hand at the hour designated iu order
that matters OF importanle I'D tle Home
may receive attention.