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Evening star., 1908-12-02

$500 MUSTARD JARS:
also used for horseradiSh;
pinwheet pattern. SALE
PRICE, 9Sc.
JOc TOOTHPICk HOLD
ERS: Berkshire design.
SALE PRICE, PIC.
l9c PUNCH OR LEM
ONADE CUPS; Exeter
pattern. SALE PRICE.
39c.
500 WATER PITCH
ERS: chrysanthemum pat
tern: BOT. capacity. Sl'E-
CIAL SALE PRICE,
$3.9S.
S2.9S PICKLE DISHES,
boat shape; artistic de-
signs. SALE PRICE,
$1.9S.
Evening star., 1908-12-02

$4.OO COMFORTS, s in.
high; 8 in. wide: star pat
tern: cut stem. SALE
PRICE, $2.9S.
$1.OO COLOGNE OR
PERFUME BOT r l. T. S
close cuts, with prism cut
stopper. SALE PRICE,
5Oc.
$3.50 SPOON TRAYS,
pinwheel pattern: Sin.
size. SALE PRICE, $l.5O.
s2.7o VASES, 10 in. high:
balmoral pattern. SALE
PRICE; $1.9S.
CELERY TRAYS, star
cut: 1012in. size. SALE
PRICE, $1.9S.
Evening star., 1908-12-02

$500 FRUIT OR BERRY
BOWLS, Sin. size; very
effective designs. SALE
PRICE. $1.9S.
$500 WATER BOTTLES
or Caraffe; pinwheel pat
tern: cut neck. SPECIAL
SALE PRICE, &1.9S.
5000 ICE CREAM
TRAYS, lin. size. SALE
PRICE, $3.9S.
$4.GO MA \ ON n Al Sc
DISHES, with plate; star
design. SALE PRICE,
$2.49.
$50 NAPLES or Shall
low Bowls: Sin. size; Nep-
tune pattern. SALE
PRICE, &2.9S.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16
SAINT PATRICK

There lived, we are tod, in the Emcr-
aid Isle,
A saint, brave. and bold, who knew
He loved his fair land, her sea- girted
shore;
Her old castles grand, her music and
lore,
Her rocks and ravines, her Fields ana
her flocks,
Her siivery streams, her landscapes
and lochs.
But, alas, and alack! suppose the good
man
Were now to come back to his strick-
en- Ireland?
His beautiful isle byword and-shame;
His plans the long while and labor all
Like g q s's of the night her castles
Bare walls in the blight of q coating
OF mold.
No longer. the note OF the harp's mel
low sound
Through Tara's Hall floats: no man
knows the ground
Whore stood the gay hall; bats nest
there, maybe,
And creeping things crawl beneath the
His old de beart no doubt would break at
OF tho tribe driven out--all back and
more, too
No fruit in the vine, nor flocks in
the fold:
No sleek. .fatted kline, nor herd on the
wold;
The fields brown and bare, nor olive.
nor grain;
The soil. once so fair. desolate
plain;
The night of thy sorrow has been
dark and long.
In some. glad tomorrow thy youth
and thy song
Again shall be thine, and the sweet
sunny years,
And the prayers at the shrine OF the
good Saint OF Tours.
REV. d. Fl. KENNEY.
No. 1885 East Main. Richmond. Va.
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IN THE INTEREST OF TRUTH.

: so complex a problem as the mer-
chandiang and manufacturing of the
world cannot be explained in one SEN
tence, non can the causes of such a
Widespread panic as we witnessed in
the year 1907 be reduced to one fac
tor, 1t is certainly far easier to
blame MI Roosevelt or Wall Street or
the labor unions, as the interests OF
the objurgator may dictate, than to
give clear explanation and deter
mine the chief offender. and for those
whose minds abhor exact reasoning and
painstaking investigation this method
of argument is much more effective.
Unfortunately. however, 1t does not
make. for truth. 1t obscures right
thinking; 1t perpetuates error, and 1t
serves still further to becloud an issue
whose proper settlement means great
deal TO the country as whole,
We are led to refer to this question
again because the esteemed and i'm
movable News Leader In almost daily
expressions berates rich fnanciers for
having permitted any cessation OF bus
mess. and insists that the slightest re-
turn to that prosperity which the
whole country enjoyed so abundantly
from 1905 to 1907 would have taken
place long ago had not "the rich male
factors" deliberately frustrated this
happy event. On the other hand, news
papers of New York with no incon.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16
MIR. BARTHoLDT CAME.

4 In the story, 1t will be remembered.
the kindly fairy appeared at the peas
ants door with the prefer of three
wishes. Il wish said the round-eyed
and hulking peasant, for a black pud-
ding" His wife was indignant at such
a. waste of opportunities. II wish"
cried she, at was on the end of your
nose" Then / wish" said he, "it
would come off again" And thus this
worthy couple, who might have had the
whole world for the asking, not to men,
ton a few of the stars, were left with
their hut and their pig. all precisely as
before.
The people of Richmond have wished
new post-office for a long, long time.
Some have wished it TO be on Main
Street. Sonic have wished it TO be on
Broad Street. Some, doubtless, have
wished it TO be elsewhere. At any rate,
there We're enough different wishes to
make the Congressional Committee
doubt whether any location would
satisfy majority. Colonel skeltons
letter which appeared in yesterdays
Times-Dispatch. however, shows a
powerful array of support for tho
present Main Street site with the $685.
900 appropriation, and practically
unanimous Endorsement OF that site il
tho pending bill calling for 100000
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of this year. to prepare himself for the
ministry.
Personal Mention.
Mrs. Robert Hyde Leftwich and Miss
Dorothy Leftwich, who have been
spending the winter in Waynesboro.
have returned to the city and are at
No. o212 Grove Avenue.
Miss Mary Carter.-of High Hills. near
Shirley, reached Richmond yesterday,
and Is the guest OF friends here.
Mrs. Thomas F. Jeffress, OF Meadow
Brook, spent Friday II. Richmond
Mrs. Hunter MCGUIRE has returned
from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Clay,
In Savannah, and Miss Celtic Mcclure,
who has been the guest Of her brother,
Dr. Hugh Mcguire. in Alexandria. is
also In Richmond again.
Mrs. Iohn +. May, of Waverly, visited
her daughter, Miss Mary Warren May,
president of the senior class at Wo-
mans College, last week.
Miss Lindsay Powers Is the CUES of
Mrs. D. T. Powers. In Scottsville.
Miss Dorothy Christian, Of No. AS
West Franklin Street. who has been
attending a finishing school for young
ladies'. conducted by Miss Spence, of
New York. is in the city.
The Rev. =. II. Rawlings will give
lecture in Trinity Methodist Episco-
pal Church on Thursday evening. at
S:15 o'clock. The subject Will be "a
"Trip to the Holy Land" A silver
Offering will be taken at the door for
the benefit OF the church
Mr.. and Mrs. David Tenant have. re-
F,, ,i,,fa ar,
Washington to their country homo,
Redgate, in Loudoun county.
Miss Kate Tally Is spending March
at Mecklenburg Hotel, Chase city.
Other Richmond guests at the Neck
lenburg include Mrs. Adolphus Blair;
Mrs. Il. v. Valentine. Mrs. baskerville,
Miss Matte Baskerville, Captain and
Mrs. John a. Coke.
Miss Elonla Dudley Hutchinson, Of
Columbus, Miss, Is at ST.. Luke's Hos
pital. Her mother. Mrs. EN- Hutohin-
son, OF Columbus and her sister, Mrs.
William D. OVERLY. of Danyille, came
with her to Richmond and are guasts
Of Mrs. G. g. Little. Barton Heights
Miss Bessie Wh4ttle, who has been
visiting relatives for several weeks
I'm Richmond and Norfolk, has returned
to her home In Martnsville.
Mrs. James L. Elan is Visiting Mrs.
Laura M Murrie, of Danville.
Miss Grace Vest and Miss Ellie Wing
field, who have been visiting friends
In Ashland. are In Richmond again
Miss Mamie Letper Robinson Is the
guest OF Miss Mamie Turner, in New,
port News.
Hons Daniel Trigg Sof Abingdon. IS
at Memorial Hospital, this city,.
Miss Lucy s. Darrasott Ia visiting
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additional, becomes n law. But these
Endorsements apparently are based on
two false premises.
One IL that the government will
spent si,soo.ooo. or anything like
It, on d post-ofTlce In Richmond.
che other is that the government Will
put new building on the present
slte. We assume ii,st Representative
Fortholdt speaks with authority. He
was as definite as possible upon both
of these matters. or the site, for eX-
ample, he tersely remarked that 1t was
the worst he had ever seen in his life.
Cannot the people OF Richmond, with
these things already settled for them,
now come together at last, and, through
public spirit, regard for the general
welfare and plain business sense, make
tlteir own decisions for themselves?
If mutual sacrifice Is necessary. The
Times-Dispatch stands fully ready to
do its part. No individual, firm or in
stitution, we feel sure, has such interest
in the location of the post office as has
The Times-D Dispatch. The necessity of
getting off heavy mails in the least
possible time confronts this paper In
over our postal bills, which are very
much larger than anybody else's In
town, and are more than double those
of our two daily contemporaries COM
regret that this should APP
pear to conflict with published state
ments already made in this connection
would seem plainly to entitlc us to n
voice in the matter. Yet
we stand freely ready to sink our own
preferences in the matter and to give
our advocacy to whatever site Is in
the interests of the general good.
We trust that all other good citizens
Of Richmond are ready to do as much.
The government, as the committee
pointed out, does not build offices
to promote civic beauty. 1t builds
them to take care of and to stimulate
the business which coire to 1t in tho
most comfortable and convenient way.
The people of Richmond know better
than the committee possibly could what
site will best further this end. Let
them name that site. The building Is
for them; let them place It. Let us not
permit the matter to drag dismally on.
the stamping ground of factions and
controversialists, until the
despairing of getting any
light from community SO ridiculously
takes the whole matter
finally into it's own hands.
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Ireland and the Irish.

Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Poor, poor, Ireland must she
continue to weep in chains while all
nations beside weave rose garlands and
ing ST. Patrick's Day, It will be a day
of great moment for the Irish of the
old land and their descendants.
1t has often been said that no mat
ter where an Irishman may be on St.
Patrick's Day. whether in the wilds
Of Africa or among the uncivilized ma
lions of the European continent their
hearts turn back to Ireland and their
souls go out In tender longing for her
welfare.
Once throughout the ages OF her sor-
row did she see light flickering be-
yond the gloom. Then, poor captive that
she was. when the light seemed to
guished. Since then:
Her rush mid the rush of progress
Like frozen ship in frozen sea.
Is worse than the widest waves could
Rending the rocks eternally."
In all ages and all cllmes the day
mon. banquet and story. and the idle
mind cannot But appreciate fervor so
manifest in the enthusiasm shown.
tb once ena again my memory serves me
verse to the occasion. when he said:
Her beauteous face is furrowed with
sorrows streaming rains;
Her lovely limbs are mansled with
slavery's ancient chains.
Yet pilgrims, pass not over with heed
-, less heart or eye,
The Ireland of the gifted, and the men
who knew to die"
The writer being the son OF an Irish
man feels enthused in voice to the old
land. and not long since, an incident
which showed. good spirit, he had occa-
sion to note in connection with q dis
c9ssion as related which gave evidence
or the wit, bravery. and love Of the
freshman for his fello3wman.
roar and thunder Of guns on every
side, half dlsa bled, the brave soldier
bent on regardless Of his wounds,
when he was approached by seeming
comrade who inquired as to the ma
tiQnality of his friend, who was giving
aid, when to the utter astonishment
or the interrogator. the Irish soldier,
IN his wounded condition, made answer
thusy;
Shall I ask the brave soldier who
fights by my side,
In the nos cause Of :. mankind, Do our
Shall I give up, the friend l have
If he kneels not before the same
altar with me?
No; perish the infamous heart that
would try
Truth, honor and love virtue like
this"
There are always Irishmen behind.
the guns OF such character: The Irish
man to-day is, like his nation, hopeful
as any man.
The late Father Burke said that
America had a sample of what kind
of men she received when she opened
her arms to the Irish. They gave her
taste Of It at fredericksburg fight
ing her battles: she knows what they
are and is beginning. to prize them.
ia ireland,s bone and sineW Is In Amer
children in America, and of every
principal virtue to the. Influence that
Is attached to that virtue and that
enlightenment. and to that Intelligence
and talent that will assuredly bring in
this country the help that Ireland longs
This is but slight tribute to the
subject so appropriate. and as I deem
JAMES q. OGRADY,
No. 4o5 Denny Street, Fulton.
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REBUFF FOR THE BRITISH
SOCIALISTS.


The defeat of the unemployed work.
mems bill. known as the pet measure
of the British labor party, showed at
once the strength and the weakness
of that party in the House of Commons.
It's strength was shown In the diff
many OF the Liberals faithful, con-
cerned rs they were as to what effect
the division might have upon their
constituencies. its weakness appeared
in -the emphasis which the episode laid
upon the widening split in the party's
ranks. 1t is evident that It's more con-
servative spokesman absolutely refuse
to follow into the new fields where the
Socialist wing is busily pushing.
The dead bill was socialistic meas
ure confessedly. 1t required that town
and county authorities should provide
work for all unemployed persons, or, If
they were unable to do this, should
provide maintenance for such persons
and their families. John Burns, the
labor leader in the House, fatty de-
clined to support It. He both spoke
and voted with the Liberals, apparently
feeling little sympathy with the i'm
son, the socialist dude urging
state raid upon "the bursting bags of
unearned increment" The calm sanity
of Mr.. Burns's point of view Is worth
noting. No other country, he feels,
has been so good as England to It's
poor, its aged and Its impotent. In
this fact he finds reasons for content,
not causes for increased demands upon
the public purse. Already, he believes,
II the government has made any mis-
take at all, 1t has gone too far in
"eXalting fustian and corduroy above
the frock coat and the top hat" He
feels no temptation to see that mistake
pushed further.
The passage OF any bill requiring a
government to guarantee employment
would ultimately make 1t necessary
for that government to control the
whole machinery OF production. So, at
least, Mr.. Asquith felt. The calmer OF
the laborltes appear to believe, we
think correctly. that such a consum-
nation would work out as an injury
to the workingman rather than a help.
The economic convictions of these men
are hardly SO far removed from those
OF the Liberal party as they are from
the views of the radical wing of their
own party.
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her niece. Mrs. ]. w. Vaughan, in
Ashlane.
Miss otey Minor has returned to
Norfolk after a pleasant stay with
Richmond friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. st. Clair Butler and
family expect to spend the spring and
summer at Forest Hill, with Mr.. anu
Mrs. c. e. Ford.
Miss Mary Willy smoot las returned
from visit to Miss Williams. Of North
Charles Street, Baltimore
Miss Patty Lois Hobson, of Mount
Airy. Powhatan county, Is visiting
Mrs. Augustine Royal. at Forest Hill.
Mrs. Russell Robinson. of Wingina.
Nelson county, Is visiting Mrs. Howard
g. Johnston, at No. 1o1 East Cary
Street. until she leaves for the North.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16
Chlckens OF leisure.

Mrs, Godvein. having unexpectedly come
ny country home near Torquay, where
she lived In STYLE
One day, while she was showing some. Of
her old-time friends about the place, they
camc to the poultry yard.
What beautiful chickens!" the visitor
exclaimed.
IAN prize fowl" haushtily explained the
hostess
DO they lay every day2' was the next
question,
"oh! they could, OF COURSE was the
sary for thsm tn do NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16
Voice Of the People.

The Times-Dispntch will print
signed letters on NIL questions which
relate to the public welfare. Such
articles should not exceed I'm Ienrtf,
$50 words, except under exceptional
circumstances, should be signed
with the full name of the writer,
and should bear his or her address.
The name of the writer will be
withheld II desired.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

HOW TO CALL TIMES DISPATCH.

Persons wishing to communicate with The
limes-Dispatch by telephone will ask cen
trail for "4eiI,'' and on being answered from
the office switchboard. will indicate the de-
partment or person with whom they wish
to speak.
When calling between A. NJ. and o
A. NJ, call to central office direct for 4on,
eomposing-room; 4oi2. business office: 1913,
for mailing and press-rooms.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

An editorial writer In the Ohio
State Journal ably discusses pruning
the shady trees" That Is all very
we'll in its way. but what tho country
is waiting for Is the chap who can give
pointers on freeing the shady prunes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

It's not wise to expect too much. We
suppose the noiseless gun Will go off
when 1t isn't loaded exactly like the
old kinds.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16
Borrowed Jingles

THE TRUE AND THE UNTRUE.
4n was dog.
But he stayed at home
=, And guarded the family night and day
Ac was a dog
That didn't roam
He lay on the steps or chased tho stray
The tramp, the burglar tho hen--away;
For a dogs true heart for that house.
hold beat 4
At morning and evening, in cold and
hent
He was dog.
He was a man
AND didn't stay
Hn was a man
And every day
His heart 'sar grew eallou'' it's love beats
He thought OF himself at the close OF
day,
And. cigar in his fingers. hurried
away
Il To the club, the lodge, tho hall, the
show
- But he had n right to 60, you know.
lie was n man. Pick Me-Up.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

Some day Japan Will use up all of
china's humiliation and then there VIII
DO trouble.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

"The mother Is the one supreme as
set In national life,' remarked the
President. This confirms our long
held private opinion that fathers are
only little pikers anyway.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

We predict that "the good newspaper
man. who marrles Hetty GREEN'S
daughter will have cracked his last
mother-n-law joke.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

The decision OF the Federal authori-
ties to deport anarchists will doubtless
cause Maxim Gorky to regard this
country with utterer contempt than
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

1t Is assumed that Senator Depew's
warm Endorsement OF Taft Is being
bruited about without the latter's con-
cant
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

The week beginning March Is is al;o
the time when the most experienced
umpires begin ordering their cyclone
cellars.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-16

However. we suspect that John f,
stevens's opinion Of the Panama Canal
Is mutual.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Railway En-
gineering.)
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Chr air,rs Ra:l;la Figpatrh
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

BY Times-Dispateh Carrier Delivery Ser
vice In Richmond tnnd suburbs), Manchcs-
tel and Petersburg
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.

Mrs. Howard Gould's father left
her 81.
Four out of five of all English
women of position are smokers.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is said to be
the best bridge player in New York.
Miss Ellen Stewart, of Carthage,
aged 104 years, died at Watertown,
N. Y.
Mary Kies, in 1900, took out in
Washington, D. c., the first patent
for straw weaving.
Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, convicted
OF having committed perjury in the
Druce case, was sentenced to eigh-
teen months penal servitude in Lon
don.
The first suggestion of women in
politics in Cuba was the organization
of the Vanguardia Liberal Feminista
at Santiago de las Vegas. 1t is
Zayista organization.
Mrs. Katie Hartigan, a widow, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, died of fright at the
sight of bloodstains on her waist,
caused by slight wound in her side.
The wound was not dangerous.
Mrs. Olga Bergerman, of Hibbing,
Mich, got verdict OF $4700 for a
kiss. She was tenant of Jacob Kitz,
and alleged that he kissed her by
force when he called to collect rent.
Count Boni de Castellane had de-
tecttves watch Nine. Gould and Prince
Sagan to get evidence upon which to
ask French court to take the Cas-
tellane children away from their
mother.
Mrs. Charles T. O'FerraH, sixty
five years old. widow OF former
Governor of Virginia, died of apo
plexy at her home in Richmond. Mrs.
O'Ferrall was formerly Miss Jennie
knight, of Nottoway County, Vir-
ginia. Five children survive her.
She was twice married.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-02

Boiling severed the line with his
clasp-knife, but the ray continued TO
circle. Round and round the launch
it swan, like a tiger creeping upon
its prey. Four times the professor
fired at it, and the vicious spat of the
bullets told that he had not missed.
Toss me that box" he said. II
think that beast means TO rush u.s."
He tore open the fresh box of
cartridges, and hastily filled the mag
azine.
Il reckon we'd better run for it,"
said Boiling, with a white face. and
opened the engine to her highest
speed.
The launch surged forward. head
ing for the near line of sedge. At the
moment the ray was astern, moving
very quietly; but as it heard the
swash of the propeller, and caught its
meaning. its tactics changed. 1t shot
forward with tremendous rapidity,
passing the boat as if it we're anch-
Ored. Then it wheeled, with an up
toss OF water, and seemed to gather
itself for a rush
Boiling threw over the tiller. but
before the sluggish launch could turn.
the ray was upon them. Charging
furiously, it sprang clear of the water,
outspread like a gigantic bat, its enor-
nous mouth distended and its two
great feshy fms tapping. AS Boiling
and the professor sprang overheard.
the ray fell upon the launch, smoth-
ering 1t and beating its broken tim
bers under water
Boiling had taken a long dive over
the side. When he came to the sur
face there was no trace of launch or
devil-fsh, except the violent agitation
OF the water But the professors
head was visible. minus hat and
glasses, and it nodded at him. With
out a word the two turned and swan
in toward the sedge close by. and
crawled, dripping. among its crack
ling stems.
The professor wrung himself out
/ sadly.
What a pity he got away fro
us!" he said
Why, reckon we got away from
HIM" Bolling's tone was rueful as
he stared at the spot where the
launch had been.
Perhaps you're right, Jim." said
the professor. Il suppose we ought
TO be thankful. You'll get another.
boat, and I've got material for a
paper that will make the Ichthyo-
logical Society sit up."-Youth's s
Companion.