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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
CHILDREN READ
90, 900 BOOKS
Carnegie Librarian Of Nashville
Tells Of Work Among
SCHOOL, Children.

Miss Mary Hannah Johnson. librarian
of the Carnegie Library at Nashville,
Tenn, is stopping in Richmond after a
visit to the exposition. Miss johnson
is accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
Mary Payne Johnson. Miss Johnson
was most interested visitor at the
state Library yesterday, spending some
time in going over the many rare
books which are to be found there. She
says the Carnegie Library. OF Nashville
has $4,000 volumes, and that last year
sthe records showed that there Were
2G5, 900 visitors. The library has been
in existence for six years, and receives
a. citv appropriation of $4,000 year.
Miss johnson told yesterday OF a
system which they have inaugurated IN
Nashville to place books OF value n
tie hands OF the pupils Of the public
schools. There have been 10000 calls
from from school children this past year
Miss Johnson says that these books are
read not only by the pupils but by
the homo people, and in this way the
library Is able to reach class OF peeo-
nlo Who cannot afford to buy books
rhe public school teachers are earnest
ly Incorporating with The city Librarian
in this matter tN II
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
YOUNG GANG DISMISSED.

seven Roys Charged With Crime,
~ Left TO Parents for Punishment.
Seven young boys-Charles Gullett,
Willie Bnrk, Moses Ruth. Jesse Verser,
Thomas Grown. George schriener and
Royall Martln---appcared in tho Police
Court yesterday morning charged with
which lay the allegation that they had
been part Of gang who made q prac-
tice OF robhins offices. Though many
business men had suffered at the hands
OF the gang there was no one present
to prosecute the boys, and Squire
Graves was puzzled to ,know what to
do with them, He called their parents
I'd him, however, md. on their promises
to administer physical AM treatment 10
their srring sons, let them go. X K !
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
CRIMINAL GOSSIP.

A gang Of carpenters recently put
new windows In the Chemical Bank
of New York in the night time. This
was the foundation of a story. after
wards circulated on the Stock En-
change, that expert accountants were
busy all day and all night checking up
big dedication in the bank. Even
the name Of the defaulter was whis-
percd from one to another
The officers of the bank Indignantly
denied the story, telling why the bank
building was kept open at night, and
explaining that the missing official"
was one of the Junior officers who was
leave
Stories like this arc frequently in
vented in Wall Street for purpose,
and of late the air has been filled
with such rumors. BY and by some
man will be sent to prison for indulg-
ing in that sort Of criminal gossip,
and after that the craft will be more
careful now they whisper.
But these gossipers do not always
have criminal intent. They love the
sensational and love to be the bearer
OF sensational stories. When there is
excitement In financial circles. they
| delight TO go around and whisper
their misgivings concerning this or
that concern. They believe that such
and such a house is a little shaky
in fact, somebody had minated a.
much to them, and SO the rumor start!
and grows as it runs, until finally ev
erybody hears that the bank is abou
to fail In consequence there is 1
run and a panic, and possibly a smash
I. Nobody but fool or a knave viii
start baseless rumor affecting the
good name Of man. woman or business
i institution
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

next generation will be greatly re-
duced.
One Of the best school ma ans We ever
knew was negro ..ammy who pre-
sided over affairs in tho backyard,
where her word was law There were
several negro children In her SCHOOL,"
and they We're taught, first Of all, to
"mind'-whtch was mammy's term for
obcdence-then to be polite. to keep
their hands from picking and stealing
and their tongues from lying. These
were mammy's fundamentals. and she
made no compromises with delinquents
In addition. she taught them to spin
to weave, to cook and wash and to do
other household work. Nor was this
an exceptional case. In every re-
spectacle Southern household during
the days of. slavery so-called all these
lessons We're taught the negro chill
dren, with obedience as the foundation
OF the system. Yet there be those who
speak glibly of the "uneducated negro
OF ante-bellum times" The negro
| slaves were educated. and IL the system
could have been continued. with a
modicum Of book learning" added,
there would be few bad and lawless ne
groes in this generation and no seri-
Gus negro problem.
Returning to the Pennsylvania incl
dent 1t Is interesting to add that after
the shooting q crowd Of angry white
men surrounded the negro while ne
was in the hands Of the officers and
beat him numerically. They would
have lynched him If the sheriff had
not hurried him away in an automo-
| bile.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

ton. The Presidents speech was en-
tirely too radical for Mr.. Bryan. Now
comes Mr.. Bryan again with a dcnun-
citation of Mr.. Tafts speech, because
1t is not radical enough. He scores
! Roosevelt for favoring Federal incor-
poration Of trusts and railroads.; he
scores Taft for opposing the Federal
license system, which, says Mr. Bryan,
would enable the government absolutely
to prevent monopoly. But wouldn't
Federal incorporation enable the gov
crnment to prevent n monopoly, as well
as Federal license? And wouldn't the
Bryan plan be quite rs centralizing MS
the Roosevelt plan? And wouldn't
government ownership OF railroads be
more so?
Again Mr.. Bryan complains that Sec
rotary Taft, while in favor of an In
heritance tax and a graduated income
tax, Is not In favor of adopting either
OF them now. Yet Mr.. Bryan has taken
that identical position on the question
of government ownership of railroads.
After declaring for it In his New York
speech, lie subsequently modified his
views by saying that while he believed
that government ownership was the
ultimate solution" of tho railroad
question, he did not think 1t would be
good politics to force the issue In 1908.
because the people were not ready for
It, He has committed himself TO tho
principle, but he would defer action
to more convenient season.
Mr.. Bryan does not seem to know his
own mind. He is iloundering around
like drowning man, catching at
straws. Yet we arc told that he is the
only available candidate In the Demo-
cratic party. If that BIO so, the party
had hotter 60 out of business.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
PLEADS FOR MERCY.
I,dvurd Gnrrin gt0n, Respectable Young
Nun. jailed for Theft.

Edward Darlington, a respectable
looking young white man, appca req N
the Police Court Yesterday IN mor trnus
on the charge of stealing ~ from ~
W Who boarded ard d at the same house viii,
him. The young man took W from
Crones clothing. and So from Brcn-
han's belongings. He left 'note. Tor
them ia take 1t out Of us salary.
Darlington said he took, the money
because he wanted to &C, to his, homo,
in Kentucky, and pleaded N q fearful
MS lenicnt as possible. and sentenced
llhim to sixty days In 1all.
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/. VIRGINIA LAW AND CIIIvALRY.
The Macon Evening News takes this

The Macon Evening News takes this
little shot at Virginia.:
ALAS for Virginia chivalry! A court
in Richmond has declared that hus-
band has the right to spank his pretty
young wife if she nags him.
The police justice merely decided an
Individual case. but did not pretend to
declare a principle OF law. For the
principle, We cite our contemporary
and all other critics to the following:
Extract from opinion Of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia, delivered
by Cardwel j.. in the case of Daven-
port VS.. Davenport, reported In / Vir-
Ginia Appeals, at page "a:
when husband withholds from his
wife, who has been faithful, kind, con-
siderate and diligcnt In the discharge
of her duties to him, efficient and help
full In securing the means with which
to pay for a home. however humble,
that affectionate regard for her feel
ings due to her. adding to this wrong
abusive language, calling her vile
names, selling her person with vio-
lence, and threatening her with greater
violence, he Is, In morals and In law
guilty of cruelty of u gross and brutal
character. TO so treat wife as to
render it impossible for her to live
| with her husband In safety and in that
peace and concord evidenced In every
| home where both the husband and
| wife bear the one to the other that
affcctionatc regard and consideration
which their relations to each other de.
! mand, is, on the part Of the offending
! husband, descrtion and abandonment OF
the other as fully and completely as II
he himself had left the home with in
| tent never to return to It,"
The principles of law in Virginia ar,
declared by the Court of Appeals. an,
/ not by the police Justice
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
ISISHtUJ jam rs NJ, EAItII,
.tDirector- General,
Mn. nuYAN,s Fi.OUNpEnINGs.

What Is Mr. william j. Bryan up to?
After declaring for Federal license for
trusts doing an Interstate business, and
for government ownership Of trunk
line railroads he denounced President
Roosevelt because THE President de-
clarsd for Federal Incorporation Of all
organizations engaged IN interstate
commerce, on the &core that the Presi-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
Borrowed Jingles.

TO H. s. II.
Q. Poet Of Laughter we've waited awhile
In hopes that your verses more would
beguile
These dog-days weary.
So utterly dreary
With never line from your scintillant pen-
Now when Will you give us poem again :
You've spoilt us. you know. with your netr!-
cal flow.
Ycur genius for rhymng, your quick touch
and go,
Your whimsical viewpoint, your heart-chcor-
ing smile.
And the Ingoldsby Legends are beaten a
mile!
Q. Poet of Pastn1e. come give US song,
II makes US uneasy this silence so long;
TO write Is most wearing,
EXhausting, despa iring-
But what II your words set tho joybells
a-chime
And cares flee away in the lit Of your
rhyme?
You've spoilt us, you know, with your rhyth-
rnical flow,
Your genius for pleasing. your light touch
We sigh and We smile with a catch in the
For the Ingoldsby Legends are beaten to
[Our poet is taking short vacation, and
we take advantage OF his absence to pub
lislt this deserved tribute from one of his
numerous admirers.-Ed. Times Dispatch. ]
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
What's gone, and what's past
help, should be past Ericf.-Shnkcs-
penrc.
BAD FOR THE EXPOSITION.

BAD FOR THE EXPOSITION.
We thank the News Leader very
much for its gentle warning to The
Dispatch lest it fall into the
vicious habits of yellow journalism. 1t
is very kind in that paper to protect
the people of Virginia from the malign
influences of The Times-Dispatch, be-
sides leading the way to a higher path
for ourselves.
The Times-Dispatch has been n stout
advocate, by word and deed, of the
qualification to this paper to feel that
II has rendered material service to that
great enterprise. When the late crisis
came, We recognized fully the impor
lance of new business management,
md we welcomed Mr.. Barr, not only
editorially, but personally. and as
friends of Mr.. Barr we sincerely hope
that the mistake which he has made
fwill be corrected. 1t would have been
an Indifference to injury which Is un-
common anywhere, and which was to
have been least suspected to exist In
the sensitive editor Of the News Leader
that an action such as Mr.. Barr took
towards distinguished gentleman like
Mr.. Tucker, in his official capacity,
should go unnoticcd. We desired to
know what the facts were, and we be-
lieve that what was printed In this
raper is true. Disa agreeable as 1t may
be to make public display of social
ho
public action by public men, then So
cial matters come from behind that
screen Of delicacy which should prop
erly protect them, and become matters
of public Importance.
We would not pretend to suggest
any correction in the editorial of the
News Leader, for which we have ex-
pressed our thanks, or to hint that 1t
could be improved; but careless read
ing OF the following sentence from that
editorial would hardly be construed as
tending to quiet the feelings of Mr..
Barr, and it Is not to be thought that
the editor meant any reflection upon
that gentleman. He says: "Probably
no two men in tho world are more ex-
act opposites than Harry ST. George
Tucker and ]. NJ. Barr. Mr.. Tucker is
80.
s'N.te'''an W i"e nv. anu '''"eii
lance, by birth and breeding. by train
ing and habit The editor does not
describe Mr.. Barr and a malevolent
person might infer that Mr.. Barr was
the exact opposite OF Mr.. Tucker; bu
it is to be presumed that nothing o
the KIND was meant.
We are as anxious as any one to sup
port MIR. Barr in all that properly re
lates to the interest OF the exposition
but gratuitous anront to Mr.. Tucke
is not the way to help the good work
and that an affront has been given to MI
Tucker cannot be doubted nv any on
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
NATIONAL NOISE.

A correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Ledger protests against the noises OF
the city, but says that in order to
stop them our whole national char-
acteristics would have to be modihed.
Very true We are a loud and fussy
people. We do everything WIN q
fare OF trumpets We love explo-
sions. we have q great fancy tor
dynamite, not merely because 1t IS
forceful agency, but because 1t Splits
the air and jars tho earth "hei
touched off. If there be an obstacle
in the way. we'd rather blow u up
with a Slam bang than roll 1T away
quietly
Strangely enough, however, the Phil
adclphia writer concludes his letter
by saying that in one city of the
United States. to-wit, the city OF
Washington, there is graceful repose
and no unseemly noise. TO the con-
trary, more noise proceeds out OF
Washington than from any other city
! In the universe
our Zeus at the White House Wots
not OF graceful repose." He sits daily
in his Olympian Temple draped IN the
himation," with a thundcrbolt In one
hand and a big stick In the other
and whenever he gets busy-whcthei
| II be with n trust a railroad or al
Ananias, the heavens are sure to re-
sound and reverberate. Let him bust
u trust, or throw bomb at male
factor of wealth. and the sound Thereof
will be heard to the uttormost part:
of tho carth-from Washington e
! Wall Street and back again, even al
far as Lincoln. Nebraska.
Marcus .Aurelius once said that
man makes no noise over q good deed
and another famous writer OF the loni
ago said that "They that govern IN
most make the least noise" But thes
} philosophers could not have foreseel
! our Zcns, who IS law unto himsell
! and a precedent buster MS well as
buster of trusts, TO him, as TO tn
Chinese. noise Is an implement OF wal
and Is as necessary to his admnistra
} ton as TO n chariot with horses.
D.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
MILK Flows Down street.

IA Richmond DhIFY WhBDn bTOKe7
down Yesterday morning on Broad
street, In front Of the Childrey Drug
Company, and all the milk was upset
The tactical food flowed down the street
in streams. but there was mo use In
crying over spilled milk, and the driver
fixed UP his wagon and went on his
WAY. 49,. 49, -
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
Rather Cooling.

Lieutenant Ito friend: let mo tell you.
In my last garrison I was 70 popular that.
when left the people all came to the rail.
way station and cried out; Stay with uh!
Friend: ibid You owe money 70 all 81
them r '---Wienor salonWit ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
MERELY JOKING.

is a kiss?
She: Eyes. Let's talk."-Town Topics.
Disarmament.
abcut?"
1T Is a movement to prevent pretty girls
wearing pins In their belts.'--Eouston Post,
A Great Help.
Mrs. Smith: Eyes, my little nve.year-old
sir IS great help 10 my housekeeping
cn M,s - R az ha,n ., why what can such
Mrs Smith: 'she goes down and tells the
cook for me whenever we're going to have
cempany."-Harpers Bazaar
The Difference.
What" quercd the young man, "is the
difference between white lies and black
lies?"
White lies" answered tho home grown
philosopher. "arc the kind we tell: black lies
are the kind we hcar."-Chicago News.
Worth $40.
Excited Customer: do you mean to sa,
that this check ls aworthless?"
Bank Clerk: mot exactly. Il seems t.
have been worth $40 to the man who CAV,
1t TO you.'-Clevcland Leader.
HIS Qualification.
Knicker: "The President thinks he un
derstands all about business
Rocker: Much MS bachelor knows tn
best way to bring up children New Yorl
SUM-
Too Fastidious.
mo, Godfrey" protested the beautiful
glrl. you mustn't do that. have never al
lowed a young man to put his arm aroun,
my waist
That being the case, Gwendolen,' he an
swered sadly. but with inexorable frmness
you VIII have to take your head OFF m
shoulder, Chicago Tribune.
Desperate,
"Gwacious!' exclaimed the first mollycod
d!s in tho sapphire hosiery. "Harold HIATT
band Is getting veal desperate on my word.
What has the deah lad been doing now?
asked the second mollycoddle In the yer
mou tn colored shirt. "Allowlng his chauf
fenr to be fined for sneeding?"
oh no. Although there is a law agains
making cigarettes. Harold rolls one openl
and dares the policeman to arrest him.
| Chicago News
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW
Whatever occupation crowded hours
with fall every day
with Charles Eos
N ! . .
No.127e.
The Breeze After the Calm.
ny SAMUEL TAYLOR coLEn1DcE.

o sleep! It Is n gentle thing, ~
Beloved from pole to polo!
, no Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from heaven 81
That slid into my soul. tEg895
The silly buckets on the deck,
THAT long remained,
/ drenmt that they were filled with dew
And when woke 1t rained.
My lips wet, my throat cold
My garments all were danlt;
Sure had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank
4 moved, and could my limbs:
A a was so light--amost
/ thought that 1 had died in sleep, ais#
And blessed ghost.
And I heard roaring wind:
1t did not come
But with its sound 1t shook the
That thin and
The upper air burst into life!
And hundred re-hags sheen,
To and fro they hurried about
And to and fro and in out,
The wan stars danced between.
And the coming wind did roar more loud
And the sails did sigh like sedge:
And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
The moon at its edge.
The thick black cloud cleft, and stil
The moon at its side:s
Like waters shot from high crag
The lightning fell with never a Jag
A river steep and wide.
The On.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

10 avoid future complications and
cmbarrnssments, the Legislature might
eject State Master Of Ceremonies
We know men who would take the
place without cent OF salary.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

The reporters tell us In all serious
ness tltat a former city official has
gone TO Philadelphia for quiet and
n y
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From the way Rameses III. is catching
1t, one would suppose that he was Il
trust lnagnate and took rebates,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28
Desperate.
POINTS FROM PARAGRAPHERs.

AM not whipped" says Governor Var
~ daman The point Is. though. that tho
Hon. John Sharp Williams will take
his seat In the Senate Of the United States,
Columbia State fEG. f4 laas1 sta5s EVs
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28


Hon. John Sharp Williams will take
his seat In the Senate Of the United States
Columbia State,
Certain nature takers who have been lis
tenng to recent public utterances are now
prepared to believe the story of Bulnam and
his talking animal.--New York Evening Post.
.F - sfs 0.H #5
Il must be said for the long distance tele-
phone that 1t does not make talk cheap
Charleston News and Courier.
1t begins to look somewhat as II OK Gov
error Pcnnypacker. Of Pennsylvania, might
be put to packing something besides pennies.
IL he gets his dues---whlch he VIII not In
all Observation-Disclosures Advertiser.
- -
No. gentle reader tho comet which is
| travelling at the rate of thirty miles sccr
opH is not trying to lower tho record be-
tween New York and Chicago,--chlcago
Record Herald.
or hve men sent to prison in New York
for assaults on women and children, the
ono who got the longest term got one year
and the one who got the shortest got one
week. It's u wonder that "crino wave
wasn't flood ~ Houston Chronicle,.
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This series each x
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

OF Miss Florence Gcllmnn, of Richmond,
by the Misses Altschiel, of Norfolk,
Va, whom she has been visiting.
Covers were laid for seven, tho color
scheme being developed in yellow and
green. Those present were Misses Fan
ME and Minnie Altschiel. Carrie New
burger and Florence Gellman; Messrs.
Samuel and Charles Altschiel and Mel
win Griffin.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

That's right, gentlemen of the coun-
ell, saw wood.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-28

rTHD stay-nt-Homo Whist Club
met Monday evening with MIR.
nnd Mrs. G. G. Chaplin, ut No.
II Id East Franklin street.
Three tables played, tho
game resulting IN q tie between Mrs.
Ihomas Corroll md Mr.. G. c. Chaplin;
Mrs. Bland s. Smith and Mrs. Alice M.
Tyler. Tho next meeting Of the club
VIII be with Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Trav-
crs, at No. COZ West Franklin Street.
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MIR. scotl,s Position.

IN talking OF the matter last night
Mr.. Scott said he fully indorsed the
principles laid down in an editorial
in The T!mes-Dispatch on Monday.
Mr.. Scott said he believed it to be the
duty or the Board OF Health TO pro-
tect the community from impure. milk,
and to enforce such rules as might Sc