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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
MONDAY. FEBRUARY IL. 1908.
man never fall. so low as to be
unable to rise again, II he do not
inck courage and true hcnrt.-snnd.
sEN.Ton wALKEns nEpLY.

The Times-Dispatch acknowledges
the very courteous letter from Senator
C. Harding Walker in response to some
questions of ours on the oyster indus
try.
At the outset Senator Walker lays
great stress on the constitutional In
hiaition against breaking the Baylor
survey. AS the Senator says. apart
from all question OF expediency it is a
constitutional impossibility to lease the
natural rocks. The Times Dispatch has
never urged or advocated the leasing
o. natural rocks-that is. grounds
where the oysters are found in such
quantities as to make their taking by
licensed tougers profitable. Nor does
The Times Dispatch share in Senator
waIkerFs BELIEF that the bill which was
recently reported urfavorably from the
cnrnrultree Of which he is chairman
was a cIandestiHe and studied attempt
Ia secure public and profitable oyster
grounds for private use. Had The
Til1es-DispatrE held this belief 1t
would not far an instant have counten-
rnced or supported any such bill. The
reasons that this paper had for sup
porting the bill to which senator Wal
ker objected were that, despite Senator
Walkers opinion, We believe 1t is
demonstrable that the oyster industry
is suffering for lack of seed oysters
that such seed cannot be raised or
commercially profitable basis upor
the lands at present open to planters
and that to allow barren lands withl'
the Baylor survey to be made produc
tive could not by any intendment b.
considered source Of harm to TIL
State or danger to the tongers, sine,
from the basic hypothesis the bottom
to be leased are at present utterly pro
ftless for all longing purposes.
Upon this much at least Senator Wal
ker and The Times-Dispatch are in per
industry is valuable, should be pro
tected and is capable under prope
protection OF much greater develop
ment. This being so The TimesDis
patch trusts that Senator Walker will
lend the great weight OF his persona!
fly and experience to the bills intro
duced Saturday by Speaker Byrd an
Senator Wickham. These bills appea
to The Times-Dispatch to offer til
best solution TO the mooted points c
the oyster Question. If, as the planter
4 claim, there are utterly barren bot
toms in parts of the Baylor survey
beginning with James River-this fat
will be scientifically determined or tn
converse, which the tongers assert, wi
also appear Individually. In eitht
event the General Assembly, witho,
being committed to any course Of a,
ton. will have before it exact informs
tion upon which TO act. Surely 4
harm can result from acquiring tn
Information. and much misapprehel
tion, with its consequent unwise pr'
cedure, can DO dissipated.
This Is specifically a case where Il
chief need for Piedmont and Tidewat
alike Is clear-cut informatlon--and tn
need is met by the Byrd and Wckha
bills in n wiser and more statesma
like way than any method yet pr
< sented
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
MERELY JOKING.

| Another Point Of View.
! "The rich bankers daughter ras gwen rne
her hand for life"
Rather say, for ng."-Megsendorfcr
Blaetter (Munich.
at tho Flood.
Hearing OF rising river ut the head
waters of the Euphrates. with a falling
barometer and indication of flood In the
| valley, the Pithccanthropus changed his.
| mind and frankly admitted it TO NOAH. His
person
you monkeycd too long" said the
| Patriarch. I'VE gave you n chance to come
| in with US. and you wouldn't take It,, Now
wo have arranged for all the stock We care
| a:out trying to float"
| The general liquidation which followed had
| tho usual effect upon all but the insiders
| Puck.
Woman, willy Woman.
please give me two bills for my hat. one
| for $40 for my husband and for $50 to
| show my lady Observation-Disclosures
Blaetter (Munich).
The Most Suspicious Ever.
! Henry Ciews. the banker and author. was
| talking at the Union Club In New York
about certain financier.
said Mr.. clews He is the most careful.
F., the most suspicious fellow ever heard of.
| In fact, he reminds me of Staffordsh!re
farmer my father used to tell OF.
1T was said of this farmer that, when
ever hc bought herd of sheep. be exam
! iEed each sheep closely TO make sure that
| 4. had not cotton in it"-Washtngton Star.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
Woman. Willy Woman.
The Most Suspicious Ever.
ROYAL RICHMOND.

The depraved Charleston News and Cou-
rier is now trying to curry favor with RICH
rond. Atlanta Nashville, Birmingham
Charlotte, New Orleans and Washington by
telling them they are precisely like Hous-
lon."-Houston Post
Those Richmond lovers must be quite
undesirable. One had to get his sweet
heart at the point OF his pistol before. she
would elope with him. That order OF things
is reversed in the land of the dmpled and
redheaded widows.-Atlanta Georgian.
In the matter of bank cearings all the
Southern cities behind Houston excnn.
st. Louis New Orleans and Louisville. as
bank clearing proposition Houston makes
towns like Atlanta, Richmond. charlest IN.
Nashville. Memphis. Birmingham and Ntr-
folk look like two-blts and ickel-EIous-
ton Post.
Smallpox has broken out in medical
college at Richmond. where It was first
diagnosed as chckenpox, and this ought to
acquit the doctors OF many mistakes they
make with other people.-Norfolk D!spa tch.
Richmond, Va, has formed a Civic I'M
provement Association, and one OF its first
acts is to start an agitation for public play
grounds for the children of the "Old Doniin-
ior INSTRUMENTATION tDel.) journal
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
A VALENTINO Conquest.

I loved lass, and she was fair,
With laughing eyes and sunny hair,
The prettiest hands. the dalntiest feet.
A rosebud mouth SURPRISING sweet.
But when my suit fain would press
The maid would never say me yes.
The most provoking girl Of girls;
So full of prank9 the saucy maid,
TO WOO her / was half afraid,
And failed to draw. with incest art,
At length one morn. 5half-desp'rate,
Resolved another plan to try.
4 token decked With blossoms rare,
The violet spoke of faith and youth;
The rose breathed love; the lily, truth
The pansy whispered to her soul
or hope and yearning past control
They made the tale OF love so sweet
Her hearts surrender was complete
And so this saucy maid of mine
Was captured BY my Valentine.
JULIA r. HENNING.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
swAnrHmonE AND THE MILLION


Tt is hard matter TO have ones
fingers all but clenched about an idle
million and then draw them back be
cause of scruple. Hence the number
of men who embezzle and go to jail.
not to mention the number who ems
bezzle and do not go to Jail. Swarth'
more College, of Swarthmore, Pa, Is
now facing this difficulty and dallyns
somewhat poignantly with the tempta-
tton of It. A maiden lady of Philadel-
phia. IT will be recalled, bequeathed
this college a million or two, provided
only that 1t would give up intercol-
legiate athletics. The college rejected
II. after a great deal of troubled
thought, because the acceptance Of It
appeared 10 involve surrender of
principle. But that did not end the
matter, after all. From recent Phila-
delphia dispatches it appears that the
agnring how they may get the money
without the surrender. And now, we
are told, one of them has hit on the
simple expedent of turning Swarth-
more into college for women, who
never indulge in intercollegiate ath.
letics anyway,
The plan is. in our opinion, bril-
4 liant one. If any obstinate one enti
tied TO vote on the colleges destin!
N objects to ii, however, other solution
II OF equal efficacy soon suggest them
y selves to the minds Of the thoughtfu
Thus SwAsthnaore might convert itasl
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
decidedly Stuck Tn.

phamley: "Goodey called on US the
other day, and never saw u man so stuck
IN In all my life"
Wise: t.'Nonsense! that Isn't his style at
aih'' 81,
Phamlcy: II know his style was simply
ruined. He, brought our children candy and
hold them on his lap while they ate it,
Catholics STANDARD and Times.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
Voice Of the People.

The Timcs-Dispntci Will print
signed letters ON NIL Gucstiohs whlcn
nrtIuler should not exceed in length
100 ,yords, except under cxceptiona!
cIrcuinsfr.sccs, should be siEncd
viii, the full name of the writer,
and should bear Ills or her nunress.
Thc name OF the writer ~ul DC
withheld II desired.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
Ne Plus Ultra.

Mrs Bridey: "To-morrow will be
Georges Birthday and I've bought love-
Is box of cigars
Mrs Oldenweis: 20! l wouldn't have
done that. It's mistake for woman to
buy cigars for her husband unless she's care
ful to get the very best-
Mrs. Bridey: 20! but was careful. !
picked out box called Best Ever Q.
course, there couldn't possibly be anything
better than that"-catholic Standard ana
Times.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

In Norway the longest day lasts
from May 81 to July % without inter-
rupton. This appears to be the occa-
sion when the man who draws day
wages advances and gets 1t spang in
the neck
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

We note with surprise that Jan
Kubelik violinned in Houston, Texas,
on Monday night. Possibly Jan needed
the money. bu, somebody should have
told him that the musical appetite of
those ferocious and root-eating tribes
is wholly satisfied by the hoarse din
of the tom-tom
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Mr.. Bryan intimates that Mrs. Bryan
has qualities which would shine to re-
markahle advantage in the White
house. We are divulging no confidence
when we say that we know of men
who entertain precisely the same opin-
ions concerning Mrs. Fairbanks, Mrs.
Knox and Mrs. Jesse Grant.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Coal Drops at Knoxville" says a
Chattanooga Times headline. Which
will inevitably remind local readers of
the other interesting fact that the best
coal is only SO ton at the mines.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

To refer for the last time to a pain
full subject. we cannot forbear the
suspicion that Cabot Lodges supporter
has furttNely stampeded himself for
Fairbanks.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

A lady with the striking name of
Dinah Might has been discovered in
Colorado. 1t goes without saying that
she blows up her husband.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Mr.. Taft could make many new
friends by frequently reiterating that
his first official act In the Whitehouse
would be to break up the megaphone,
fire the stenographers and bonfire the
Big Stick.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

The great bard mentioned three ways
in which greatness may come to men,
Mr. William Dudley Foulke appears to
fal, naturally into class 8.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
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Entered January ~. 1908, at Richmond,
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Congress OF March 3. 1879
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Senator -Aldrich's little bill has
plunged him into defensive PROPOSE
ton second only in difficulty to that
faced daily by the Houston Post.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Charles w. Morse, OF New York. ha.
determined to observe an Old Hon,
Week, beginning on Sunday.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

The writer who asserts that it takes
nine men to hold down a tiger evidently
anticipates tina: the police will come
armed
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

How quickly does news become stale,
We predict that by next Sunday every
body will be referring to him as a
MOI Sc back
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

The feminine of paragrapher is
psragrapher," says the Norfolk Land
mark, didactically. Get out The fem
mime Of para grapher is old maid.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

In observing that women should get
mems wages" Colonel Graves ex-
presses himself like confirmed bache.
Ior
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Asserts headline: Morse Keeps
Silent" Not to mention the swag.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Aldrich spoke for his bill the other
day He was about the first.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
coNrEMrT or LAW IN CHICAGO,

Chicago has law requiring saloons
to be closed on Sunday, and a Sunday
Closing League has been organized to
have the law enforced. But it's efforts
thus far have been vain. The police
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

Meantime. the days are growing al
most long enough to shave.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17

(To be Continued To-morrow.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
AN APPRECIATION

The letter which follows written educator
cuc holds high America
Richmond, ID, 1905
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
NEGRO is BURNED Ar STAKE
Texas Mob Takes Woman's Assauiter
from Sheriff-Fagots Are Heaped
in FuaIic Square.

Dallas, TeX.-Tad Smith, IS sears
of age, a negro, charged with
criminal assault on Miss Viola De-
lancey at Clinton, Hunt county. Mon
day afternoon, was captured by Off
GERS early Tuesday.
The young woman identified him.
The prisoner was then hurried toward
the Greenville Jail.
Before arriving there, however, a
mob Of citizens overpowered the Of
ficers, took the prisoner and prepared
to hang him.
This idea was given up, however,
and the mob agreed to burn him at
the stake. Fagots were piled up in
the Public Square at Greenyille. and
the negro wa splaced thereon. Kcro-
sene oil was poured on and a match
applied. Smith slowly burned to
death while a thousand people wit
messed the execution by fire.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
PROD DUCTION IS INCREASING
TRADE CONTINUES TO GAIN EACH
WEEK. IRREGULAR
Hopeful Feeling in the Primary Mar
kets for Cotton Goods-New England
Shoe Business Reported Quiet.

New York City.-R. G. Dun e.
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Trade reports continue to indicate
moderate net gains each week. al
though progress is irregular. Some
sections make much better exhibits
than others, the southwest leading,
while improvement is slowest at the
east. There is also a similar irregu-
larity in returns from the industries,
some occupations gaining steadily
while others proceed erratically. The
net result, however, is larger volume
of business in the aggregate, and COM
parsons with this time last year are
especially cheering, when it is con-
sidered that year ago all records
up to that time were being eclipsed
More plants have resumed, wholly or
in part, but there are still many un-
employed
At a further slight reduction in price
of Bessemer pig iron the Pittsburg
market has experienced increased ac-
tivity, and other markets are some
what buster, including coke ovens at
Connellsville. Most finished steel
lines are quiet; new contracts coming
forward slowly and for small quanti-
ties, but specifications on old orders
aggregating fair tonnage. Each
week the production of all the mills
increases slightly, more plants con-
stantly resuming, although usually on
part time and with reduced forces.
More inquiries are received in the
primary markets for cotton goods, and
there is hopeful feeling regarding
the future, but actual transactions are
still restricted.
New England shoe manufacturers
report business quiet since the de-
parture of western wholesalers, and
mail orders are not large
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
Winus Like a Dove.

Man long since ceased signing for
wings like a dove, that he might fly
o the uttermost parts Of the earth,
and began practical experimentation
in initiating natures handiwork.
Overcoming the law of gravitation
was least difficult The problem of
propulsion was easily solved. The
problem of adequate control and re-
liable power of direction has been the
challenge to the aviators. Even that
is being successfully met, and the day
Of the airship is at hand. The an
nouncement that Count Zeppelin has
sustained flight for two hours, during
which his airship was manipulated in
the most complicated maneuvers, in
dicates that the reward of success has
come to his persistent effort and ex
penditure. From possibility to prac-
ticability may be but a step, remarks
the Boston Herald. Inventive genius
which has made the impossible pos
sible will not hesitate at the task of
rendering it practical and usable.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06

The removal of the half-nude statue
Uf Washington from the plaza in front
of the national capitol building is an
encouragement to others who are tor
tured by statues representing the dark
ages of art in America. II is evidently
not impossible to secure the elmina-
ton of public statues which time and
the maturing taste of the people final
ly condemn. If, says the Springfield
Republican, competent art commits
sion could be empowered to pass upon
the curious assortment of statues now
raised in public places throughout the
United States, including Washington
itself, the slaughter would be terrific.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
A BLAZE IN THE QUAKER CITY
The Hamburg-American Line Pier
Burns, Entaiins a Heavy Loss
to Shipping.

Philadelphia, Pa. - The Hamburg
American line pier, 46 South Delaware
avenue, was destroyed by a spectacular
fire Friday night, entailing loss es.
timated at 100000. The fire is sup.
posed to have been started by crossed
electric wires The German steamer
Albano from Hamburg was anchored
at the pier and had to be towed out
into the river. The cargo of the boat
was on the wharf and was destroyed
together with great quantities of gen.
eral merchandise, including 900 bales
of burlap. A train of freight cars was
on the tracks in the long wharf shed
and while the fire ragged Ebbert Ham
ilton ran locomotive out on the pier
and ran the train out on the Delaware
avenue tracks, where it was deluged
by the firemen. The burning bales of
burlap sent up dense clouds of smoke
and Il number of firemen were over
come. One fireman fell overheard
while fighting the blaze and was res
cued with difficulty, and another was
hit by falling beam and so injured
that he had to be taken to a hospital
The pier burned from end to end.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
YOUTHFUL INCENDIARY HELD
A Cleveland Young Lady Starts Fire
Which Threatened the Lives of
200 Girls.

Cleveland, O.-Gertrude Mcdonald,
aged Is years, of Akron, arrested at
the House of the Good Shepherd,
charged with attempting to burn the
building Friday, is held at central po-
lice station pending an investigation
by the state fire marshal.
The fire, which burned hole in the
wall between the lavatory and sleeping
room, threatened the lives of 200 girls.
Ellen Mccarthy, living in the House
of the Good Shepherd, was examined
by Deputy Fire Marshal Brockman.
She discovered the fire and gave the
alarm
Il went to the lavatory a few min.
utes after Gertrude Mcdonald had
been there" the girl told Brockman
THE room was filled with smoke and
fire burned in one corner"
Girls in the dormitory, awakened by
Ellen Mccarthy smothered the fire
with blankets and bed clothes.
Patrolman Stout of the second pre-.
cinct arrested the Mcdonald girl.
The girl was taken before detec.
tives and sweated, but refused to give
any information.
Other girls told the police that Miss
Mcdonald set fire to several brooms
and pile of waste paper.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
John 4. Van Rensselaer, Released.

New York City.-John A. Van Rens.
selaer, who was arrested on Mon
day of last week for writing threat.
ening letter to his mother, Mrs. John
King Van Rensselaer,, and who spent
a few days in the psychopathic ward
at Bellevue hospital under examina-
tion into his mental condition. was dis
charged Tuesday in the Tombs police
court. Lawyer Waddington repre.
senting Mrs. Van Rensselaer,, appeared
at the hearing and said that the pris.
oneT's mother would be content to
drop her complaint.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06

The decision of the British admiral
ty court that the cruiser Gladiator was
alone to blame for the collision with
the American liner st. Paul off the
Isle of Wight during a snowstorm last
April is complete exoneration OF the
officers and crew of the American ship.
There had been intimations that the
testimony would be the basis for such
a finding, but the formal verdict is
conclusive and gratifying. The affair,
resulting in the loss OF over score Of
lives, was most lamentable, but the de-
cision of the court shows that Ameri-
can seamanship was in no wise at
fault.