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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
Accepts Plans for New hank.

! f5IJVCIuI 70 IIIlIts-i7IsFtECII'1
ALEXANDRIA. VA, April 15-The
First National Bank to-day accepted
plans for the erection of modern
banking building on the north side of
King Street, between ST. Asaph and
Pitt Streets. 1t is expected that the
contract for the work will be awarded
very shortly. The building will be of
the most modern design and makeup.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
FRUIT NOT HURT HY FROST,
AND FINE CROP EXPECTED
speclal 10 The Times rilspatch.

LYNCHBURG, VA, April LA re-
port from several of the largest or
chards in this section show that the
fruit has not been injured thus far
and the indications now are 1or one
of the hest fruit years Middle Virglnia
has had for some years
Yesterday according to the local
weather bureau record. was the aver
age date upon which the last killing
four years, and little fear Is held now
MS to tho safety of tho crop from colo
weather.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16

Special to The Times Dispatch,l
AMELIA VA, April l5.--The rain
to-day is most welcome, eXtinsuishlng
the great forest fires and softenins
the hardening ground which was get
ting too hard TO pillow. With a few
warm days now, corn planting Will
begin
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
pnEr,En RUBY INLET SITE.
Members OF Military hoard Examine
Three, Hut Like This Hest.
EsnecIal 10 The Times-p

3 u [HpVV1H1 70 TIC I1ElIes- 11sPuto1I'l
NORFOLK. VA, April 15,-,Menlbers
of the State Military Board to day ex-
amined three sites offered for, the
cared themselves as well pleased, but
spreferring the tifty,acre site at Rudy
inlet Those present were Adjutant-
General G, j. Anderson. General c. G.
Vaughan. Colonel r.. j. Nottingham,
Lieutenant Colonel D. L. Stern, Major
G. l.. Wright. Major Alfred Pursey,
Major j II. Lynch and local officers
generally, II
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
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Hampton Weddings.
Isneeial to The Times Dispatch

INITeV1'TE 20 r'5e IIItfcs- 17rNPHtuH1 n
HAMPTON, VA, April l4.-Albert
sidney White, q merchant of York
county, ana Miss Amanthia FLORENCE
Holloway, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
WHIT HOLLOWAY, OF Hampton, were mar
RED III York county to-day.
MIR. Claude Phillips and Miss Rerthu
Brink,ey. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H, j. Brnkley. of Hampton We're
quietly married at the home Of the
brides parents In West End to-day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
SAYS Ii wa. seIr-Dercnse.

[specialto The Times pIspatch.l
STANTON, VA, April l5.-Ashhy
Rhodes colored, has been arrested and
confesses he shot and killed Walter
Miller last night, but claims it was in
Eelf-defense.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
Miss Lummie Lee Smither, daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. John Avis smither.
MIR. Charles Allen Watkins, son or MI

Miss Lummie Lee Smither, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs John Avis Smither, to
Mr.. Charles Allen Watkins, son OF Mrs.
C. II. Watkins. was celebrated, the rev.
w. l.. Ball, assisted by the. Key. >. w.
Durham, officiating.
The church was decorated with palms
and ferns. Mendelssohn's Wedding
March was played as q professional by
Miss Mary Rice, and. during the cere-
mony, 20, Promise Me-" Miss Louise
Rice was maid of honor and Mr.. John
f. Watkins, brother of the groom, best
man. Other attendants were the
bridesmaids, Misses. Marie smither,
Mary Hargroye, Ednu Griffin, Colunl-
bia Hargrove; and the ushers Messrs,
Walter e, DuVal. the Rev. Ahner r.
Wright, Of Washington; Dillard n.
Beveridge and John P. Sampson,
The pride entered with her father,
and wore a blue travelling Vostume.
with hat to correspond. Her flowers
were brides roses.
n The maid of honor was gowned IN
white SILK, en- princesse. The brides
maids were In white mull over PINK
taffatn. Both maid Of honor and
bridesmaids carried pink carnations
After the ceremony, Mr.. and Mrs.
Watkins left for Northern tour' - -
ter April a5th they will reside at No,
141s Perry Street, Manchester
Will Give Exoursion.
Commonwealth Chapter, Daughters
or the American Revolution, met yes
terday, with Mrs. D. 4. Williams. at
NO. 210 East Franklin Street
After the disposal Of routine pusl-
ness, 1t was decided that the chapter
would run. a joint excursion to Will
Harrisburg, on May 9th, With the Wv
ginta Home for Incurables, Mrs. y. !,
Williams and Mrs. ". j. Johnston Will
he members OF the commonwealth
chapter committee. and will direct the
excursion Tickets Will be placedS}on
sale at points to be designated Later
Mrs. Williams entertained the ladies
meeting with har esterday very hand
somely, at social hour before they
left. She herself will go to Washing
ton on Monday to attend the meeting
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
Nntkins-sm,thcr.

In Tabernacle Baptist Church las
evening. at o'clock, the wedding o.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16

Many of the old time songs will be
rendered by chorus of thirty we'll
trained voices. also several solos. duets
and quartets. Refreshments will be.
served n ( poptlar nrices
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
Musicale Mt Wo,nan's Club.

The Loving Circle OF Kings Daugh
tiers, of which Mrs. T. William Penn
berton is leader, will give vocal and
| instrumental concert at Woman's Club.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
Its Affairs Said, However, to be in Good
C0ndition-an Old Institution.

CHASE CITY BRANCH CLOSED.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16
Old-Fnshsoncd Concert.

The Young Peoples Home Mission
society of Asbury Place Methodist
episcopal Church will give an old FASH
Toned concert for the benefit of tile
church building fund, at the residence
o. Mrs. urlwin Michaels. No. 900 North
Lombardy Street. tonight at $50
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-16

Several delightful features Of this
musicale will be mixed quartet,
several solos. the Covenanters Or
chestra and violin numbers by little
Miss Annie Fnlton, of fredericksburg.
Tickets may be had from the janitress
of Woman's Club. or from any mem
Der of the circle.
Evening star., 1908-01-19

what you want it to have and what it should nd "
and educate it up to your level?
Give something new, something different !
say the theatrical managers, in Sunday interviews
Enter, if he get past the office boy, New
Dramatist with Fresh Idea, L. U. E.
Dramatist: Il have something new, something
different"
Theatrical Manager busily reading his mail
Lets see." Takes play and reads it through care
fully for two minutes. "N-no this would never do
Can't you do something like The Music Master @,
The County Chairman or The Squaw Man. OF
The"
Exit New Dramatist with Fresh Idea, R. U. E.
All, yes, Theatrical Manager; but you forget thas
those were new that every big hit new, and that
seques and corollaries have all the inspiration OF
hour-old pancakes. You are queerer, T. NJ, thar
your 1ooked-down-upon public.
Can't Tell 'Em Apart
60 with editors Let the editors of all the maya
- zines in the United States write their prospect
fuses, their ideas, their self estimates, slips OF
paper,-the reverse side of rejection slips would
do,-and put them in a hat. Take anyone. Do
you believe that you could distinguish them!
Would you know "The Atlantic Monthys" from
The" Il shall not say, for l may send this to
its editor)? Carpenter like, l doubt it. "Dgni-
fed, yet interesting. - Readable but unsensa-
tiona1. - Esthetic yet popular. =" Fascinating
Continued page is
Evening star., 1908-01-19

had to dress their trunks in the property mans
room they'd be to the good just the same, all the
samey
Sure!" exclaimed the enlightened Richard.
You wonder at getting your lines across the
footlights. These real things real because they
are, not because the program says So"
There silence of some minutes before Betty
went to table and took up frame holding the
photographs of two children, "a handsome boy of
Dick followed her movements with his eyes, wait
ing for a cue by which he could read her thoughts
a matter in which years of professional practice
had made him marvelously expert. She looked at
the pictures with all of proud mothers love show.
ing in her eyes. Dick risked guess :" If the
Harlem theater makes half what we figure on, we
could star the kiddies in real society without re-
hearsa1."
Betty laughed outright, kissed the pictures
beamed on her husband and said That's the an
swer! Who knows that Monsieur and Madame
Courvatel are Mr. and Mrs Courtney? Not mana
ger, not fellow professional not the master of the
academy where John is, nor the principal of the
school where Mary is. Why, Dick made low
estimate, te,-Banker Hall said so when showed him
my fgures,-and if not enough to the good
to quit the show business before the kiddies come
home to live with us, you can cut me out OF the act
Richard beamed back at his wife, and proved
that he knew what further was in her mind by say
ing, my folks, back in grandfathers time, belonged
to the silk stocking push. I've heard my mothes
do line of talk about the family that put them in
the Eddy Booth class socially. I've got property
somewhere,-a seal ring with one of these do-dads
IT,
it put your eye out to get letter from of the
kddies with the thumb prints of that crest not doing
a thing but smuggling down in the the en-
velop? Oh, scissors!'
"You never told me about that prop" exclaimed
Betty in breathless reproach. "A family crest Oh,
dumplingsl"
II never told you because many time when
engagements slow and salaries low and slow
I've hooked that ring SO that we might eat. l had
hunch that if you ever saw it you would annex
it and sink it so deep in your kick we'd 60 hungry
before your pride would let you dig it up for mo
to flash at my uncle
Where is it now?' demanded Betty.
Lets see" unused Dick. Where did store
that trunk of excess baggage? Was it Boston, OF
Seattle or maybe New Orleans? l have the ware
house receipt and will send for it..
Ring in scurry call for it, said Betty. with
an income and crest we II land the kiddies in high
society as easy as l ever took pack of playing
cards from a parsons pocket"
But look here, Betty" her husband said seri-
ously, the kiddies are to get their look-n at tho
swirl of the swell, if you like; but won't stand for
you to pass them into the show and hang around
on the outside of the tent yourself"
"Oh, as to that, laughed Betty, 1T always
needs couple of grown-ups to take the children to
the circus Well be doing high life stunts ourselves
all right, just the samey.'
And we shall see how the game advanced
To be continued February 2
Evening star., 1908-01-19

the of proportion,-the power of distinction
between the momentous and the momentary.
Don't ask me to demonstrate it. Take it on faith
Thank you. @. E. D.
The "humorist u hate that word worse than
poet but hereafter l shall it without the
quotation marks and intend it to mean the daily
newspaper comedian-has an assignment
fascinating than the reporters There more
funny things in his days work, Horatio than are
dreamed of in all his verses paragraphs and jokes
Some of them technical and shoppy and interest
only others of the craft, and By the way, ex-
pected this screed to be rejected by several editors
for that very reason TOO shoppy," one will say.
The public doesn't hang about you fellows,
will comment another.
The Dear Public
nOESN'T it, though? You should see dear editor,
= some of the letters we humorists get. Any of us
could enter a mash note contest with Hackett or
Faversham and make either feel like chorus man.
And when we meet them-this Indifferent public of
yours they ask all sorts of questions about
selves The public But that's the way, dear
public, the dear editors cheat you out of many
good thing. never knew editor yet Except one)
that didn't feel certain of the public and its taste
Give 'em what they want, say they; which MEANS
translated, give 'em what they have been and are
getting Why bless you'll if the public is weak, SO
cheap banal in taste, most editors would have
believe, why not beat it into submission, give it
Evening star., 1908-01-19

of lines who get away with the
reputation of being grand talk
ers. Oh, Dick, | nearly fell
dead when / realized what
howling swells they were! Moth
ing like they are represented on
the stage, are they? We must
have seen nearly every promi
nent parlor dress actor and
actress in the world, but not
one within a million miles of
being a bit like it. Did you
notice that they didn't act at
all? Just quiet and easy and
careless. If it wasn't tossing
posies at ourselves, I'd say that
our training not to seem to be
doing a thing when we are
doing our finest and hardest
work makes US more like those
real thing things than the legit.
actors are"
Maybe So" assented Rich
ard. But what happened to
you, near the end of the turn,
when that lad with the shoul-
ders a mile wide passed you a
ine7"
That" replied Betty with
grimace, was when / came
nearer to heart failure than ever
before in my life. The time
the bandits in Servia shook US
down for all we had was picnic
by the side of it.
"Gee!" exclaimed Dick. 1T
must have been warm stuff, for
fair"
Warm?" said Betty. 1T
was hot, if you'll believe me.
The lad you refer to is nice
boy; he was stroke in his
varsity crew, whatever that
means. Well, we were chatting
away like a variety team doing
a sidewalk conversation turn,
out, oh, Mrs. Courtney, did
vatels,-those clever legerdemai
retired from the stage?' I'd
coffee, and to gain time to see i
only fluked, / raised the coffee
dear, I'm telling you the homes
was boiling! Did I fabbergastel
tongue is one blister this mint
good peek at him, as the coffee
my poor throat, and / knew as
stage from down that it was a
always wore a blond wig and ,
we stuck to the French dialect
tell me they were very cleve
could speak, for the burn wa
quit the stage to 60 back to
and l just said, 'Really!' like t.
Really! "
Richard allowed his silence t,
Betty's cleverness before he col
you what, Betty, you look like a
what l mean: of course you are
good, hunky-dory, all around, st
/ mean that you are a lady lik
danes at lunch, because you n
Heavens! where am l at?' airs
never make a bluff at being
body off the stage except ju
Evening star., 1908-01-19

main guy says, Where McGregor sits is the head
of the table Are you on?"
"Expostulate that little said Dick, slightly
puzzled.
The way l read the line explained Betty, is
this these real things met to-day don't have
to set up big noise to make people understand
that they occupy the headliners' dressing rooms.
See? They headliners, everyone; they know
it, they don't have the colic over it, for if they
Evening star., 1908-01-19

Seer" This was an unusually long
speech for Dick to make in his non
professional capacity. Professionally he
could talk like phonograph when its
governor was off and it was running
wild. Otherwise he favored brevity
Betty took the compliment calmly,
and considered it with puckered brow
before saying, I'm not tagging myself
for any press agent notice; but what
Evening star., 1908-01-19

YOU Sdy SOuIluS dill
right to me, all
right. Folks who
are never dead GER
tain of their class
are the gazaboos
who are always do
ing hurry sprints for
the spotlight. The
real things are salts
fed as we'll at left
or right as in dead
center. l read one
time in a play-I
think it was (it
was a book. any
way)-where the
Evening star., 1908-01-19

AM not going to sign this confession"
autobiography" or whatever, dear
reader,-or if you exist not, dear proof
reader, you care to term it. l have
reasons. Obviously, it would put me in
false position. 1t will be rich in Is;
and while not egotistica1 on that account,
it is likely to have the ring of conceit
For assume that am humorist Why
not? l have had my contributions ac-
cepted by periodicals frankly humorous
and by the "lighter" departments of the
heavier magazines; ! draw salary for
doing daily funny column in a news
Evening star., 1908-01-19

paper; my 1r1ends tell me am a humorlst, and
laugh at my commonplaces my editor, who has
sign my name some would say, ID. Blank? Never
heard of him. Who does he think he is, any
way?" Others would exclaim, Suffering public!
does that man think he's humorist? I've often
wondered why the magazines publish his truck;
and for the loyal few that believe in me- can
show them the article and swear l wrote it? Hence
the anonymity.
Not long ago l read an excellent little essay On
the Seriousness of Being Funny But being funny
is not serious matter, posers and poets of The
trary notwithstanding Trying to be funny But
that's another Sunday story. The humorous job is
really humorous one, if only the workers of
proposition that the sense of humor varies directly
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-21

dered another deputy sheriff of Mo
javc county. The posse reached Bak'
ersiield two days after Kinney had
been Killed himself in a desperate
light. Sherlock also served four years
AS live stock Inspector OF Moiave
county.
Aware that Sherlock was a dead
shot. Lieutenant Odds, accompanied
by Ranger fl, r. Woods, met him
casually at the Grand Canyon Cement
company's camp. Odds introduced
Woods and while the two men were
shaking hands, Olds stuck his pistol
against Shcrlock's stomach and cried
Hands up! | have a warrant for
you!'
Sherlock calmly replied as his hands
went up: Guess you got me. kid"
Woods disalmed sherlock of a huge
pistol and extra clip cartridges, while
Odds covered him with a cooked gun.
Sherlock had been living with a Mrs.
Palmer. and at his request he was
taken to the woman's home. Sher-
lock seemed very much affected.
Guess I've got to leave you, little
woman. he said; these fellows have
got me- ..
"If YOU are coward enough to let
them take you, go on"
For the first time Sherlock weak
encd badly n wopt bitterly as the
officers took him away. He admitted
he was the man wanted and said he
had quit crooked business long ago.
and wanted no more of it. He re-
quested the rangers to speak a good
word for him, if possible, when they
reached the New Mexican officials.
When greeted by a Journal-Miner
man at Williams and asked If he was
a deputy sheriff of Mojave county,
answered;
Il used to be but I am something
else now"
"Then YOU are the man they want
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-21
For ELEVEN YEARS A
FUGITIVE FROM
PRISON
Interesting Account Of the
Capture Of Frank Sherlock
at Williams Last Week,

The Williams correspondent Of the
Prescott Journal-Miner gives the fol-
lowing interesting account Of the cap
ture at Williams last week of Frank
Sherlock. for eleven years a fugitive
from the New Mexico penitentiary at
Santa Fr. Tho article follows:
Williams, Ariz., July 18.-With a
pistol pressed to his abdomen by Lieu
tenant Odds. Frank Sherlock. alias
Charles BLY,, recognized as a convict
who rode away from the New Mexico
penitentiary on the w%arden's horse
exactly eleven years ago. exclaimed:
Guess YOU got me, kid" and quietly
surrendered.
He was delivered into the custody
Of Captain Christman Of the New
Mexico pe~nitentiary at Z O'Clock to-
night and Immediately started on the
overland train for Santa re. where he
has Two years yet to serve on a four
years sentence for horse stealing.
sherlock was betrayed by a fellow
convict whom he discharged from d
position with the Grand Conyon Lime
and Cement company at Nelson. Ariz..
Sherlock had taken a contract.
Sherlock. since his escape. has lived
an exemplary life. For eight years
he has served as a deputy sheriff of
Mojave county and in that time has
Il down many desperate criminals.
He is a dead shot with a pistol and
led a posse which followed Murderer
John Kinney through Death Valley
seven years ago. Kinney had muir
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-21
NOVEL ENTERPRISE FILES
INCORPORATION PAPERS

We are publishing today the arti-
cles of incorporation of the "lnter~
national Exploration Company, a
company organized by three well
known business men of Albuquerque,
n. M. The high sounding title Of this
company, together with the we'll
known conservatism of these gentle
men awakened a curiosity to know
more about the Intentions Of these
gentlemen than appears in the legal
instrument published. and following
this idea, "A reporter called on Mr..
Saint for further Information.
Mr.. Saint said that in May last he
made a trip across the Sierra Madrc
mountains from the state of Chihua-
hua to Moctazuma. sonora, for some
gentlemen of Albuquerque. that while
on that "trip he saw the possibilities
OF a well organized exploration COM
rich mineral country, While on the
trip ne met an old New Mexican
friend in the person of H.. w. LOOMS
who lives at the Old pueblo of Boo
~Odehuachi. sonora. He was with Mr..
Loomis three days and saw his la
Gloria copper property. After Mr..
Saint returned Mr.. LOOMS came to
Albuquerque and Mr.. Saint bought a
f~ive-eighths interest In the La Gloria
and Mr.. Loomis entered into a con
tract 10 work for Mr.. Saint on an
exploration company to be organized
for a period of two years.
A complete chemical laboratory and
assay outfit has been established at
Bocadehuachi for the purpose OF
testing ores brought In by the native
prospeCtors. Mr. Saint says that it is
not the purpose of the company to
enter into active mining. but the cf-
q A.H- 80 Hf- H. g---4
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n Kew Mexico ~

in New MeXico?'
Il resemble him some but won't adj
nit it just now
II was then he asked Lieutenant
Olds to intercede Tor him with Cap
tain Fornoff, the New Mexico ranger.
and inform him OF his good official
record here.
Olds has been after him since July
18th. He vas stripped by Odds and
Identified by a bullet wound in the
left breast three inches above the nip
pie. He answers to a description and
photograph.
Captain Christman passed through
the city yesterday morning with Sher-
lock as his prisoner. He was taken to
the territorial pe%nitentiary at santa
Re, where he commenced to serve his
dneXpired sentence yesterday after
noon. Whether Sherlock VIII be com.
PEELED to serve his fun term. together
with the additional penalty for escap-
ing before mis- time, or whether the
sentence will be lightencd on account
Of good behavior since his escape, is
not known.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-21

Mr.. Saint said. mo- that there would
be some small allotinents made to
friends only, for the present. He fur
ther stated that Il was a small affair
but with great possibilities, and he
people In the company could carry II
themselves, therefore We're indifferent
about placing stock.
Mr.. Saint says; we start with "A
tangible asset of fiv~e-eighths interest
in the La Gloria property which alone
is worth the capital stock OF he
company otsaHi@sG. besides VIC expect
during the next two years to secure
more than one prospect hat will de-
velop into big mines. In fact | never
saw greater possibilities with SO little
money involved as this proposition
offers" Then, why not let the pub
lie In q" asked the reporter. well"
replied MI. Saint. I'VE don't particu-
larly need the public's money in this
enterprise. which is quite different
from the ordinary mining venture
The reporter heaved a sigh and said,
what's the use / have no money any
how
Window frames, St,75. Albuquerque
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-21
BILLIARD SUPPLY CO.
TO MAKE FINE DISPLAY

The Brunswick-Balke Collender
company, Of Cincinnati. one Of the
largest manufacturer OF billiard ana
pool tables in the United States, viii
make a large exhibit of their line of
goods at the Irrigation congress. Word
to this effect Was received yesterday
by the congress headquarters here.
The exhibit VIII be an unusually large
n and Will consist of samples of
every article manufactured by the
company a large floor space viii be
necessary to house this exhibit.