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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-12
ent playing games and other amuse-

spent playing games and other amuse-
ments. 10
The Campbell, bali team met at their
home ground Saturday evening and
played a fine practice game, scoring
2 to 8.
professor Fl. P. VIM. proprietor Of
Campbell School of Telegraphy, gaya
his students and others a pleasant
hay ride" to the home of one OF his
students. Mrs. o. r. Shepherd. Saturday
evening. Among those present were
Misses Maude Payne, Agnes VIM,
Lydia Carpenter, Lottie and Gussie
Smith, Georgia Mahanes, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. y. Mundy. Messrs. V. K. Hall, ". K.
Carrico, V. *. Shepherd. Fred. Smith,
and others The evening was delight
f'll2 spent in Waiting, housekeeping
;.., u few old Virginia square dances.
there seems to be quite a rage Of
horseshoe" pitching at the telegraphy
school here. Mr.. III. p. VIM and VI. Il.
Carrlco wore the belt last week.
Messrs. v. X. Hall and r. e. Mundy.
standing the second place.
Mr. r. r. Saunders returned from
Richmond last week after a very
pleasant visit to his sons. J. e. and
w. o. Saunders, of Chestnut Hill. Mr..
j. q. Saunders will be able to return
home from the hospital soon.
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Campbell Social News.
[spselal to rhe rlmes- pIspatch. !

CAMPBELL. VA. April ll,~-There
was n very pleasant evening spent at
the home of the Misses McNlullen last
Monday, All were beautifully enter
tained with music and singing by the
Misses McAlullen. Among the guests
We're Misses Maude Payne, Agnes
Winn. lydia Carpenter, Mary Holliway,
I.ettle Lanford, Marvel VIM, Bessie
Loving, BESSIE Smith, and Messrs, V,
Is. Hall. v. *, Carrico, r., b. Holloway,
Willie Loving and others,
A very enjoyable party was given
at the home OF Miss Virginia Wood
ward Wednesday,, The evening was
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Tli,a NEWS OF ELoN.
Great Interest in Approaching Debate
Z, Christian EndeavOr Convention.

Ea aag Friday night t. WHICH, pft this iy year
will occur on the 18th OF April. the
event around which, centres. more In
college calendar, will accur the an
nual debate between the Clio and PHI
lologian Literary Societies. the two
male societies of the institution. The
child labor Bill, now pending in Con-
gress. The Philologian Society repre-
scented by Messrs. I, II. Franks. and p,
g. Gunter. will maintain the aftirma,,
tive, and argue that the Beveridge bill
will insure the best interests of the
American Commonwealth. The Clio
Society, represented by Messrs: S. q.
tive Ills apr il atf M men hs Who
represent the societies in this giant
struggle Of intellect and oratory, have
been preparing their addresses for
ed, therefore, that this debate will ne
occasions at Zion College.
Grea adnstv are fe being
tainment Of the Christian Endeavor
Convention which meets here on the
22d and a3d of this month, This prom.
ssa @ f svsrs a Tha e saa
superintendent of Christian Endeavor,
Mr. p, II. stockton, of Winston Salem.
n. G., and his worthy co-laborers Of
throughout this State. are bending
every effort of their beings to make
history of Christian Endeavor In North
Caroline. distinguished Speakers from
the Old North State and from lothsr
states have been invited, and, all in
iall, IT pesins to look as II every wish
ana hope in regard to this matter is
the success Of the convention. Those
VITO are coming, would do we'll to con-
suit their railroad agent. as to train
connections and TO notify Professor,
w. a, Harper, Elon College, N. g., the
chairman Of the local entertainment
COMMITTEES, as to the train on whieh
have homes ARRANGED for, thenh
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Miss Julia B. Swanson. principal of
the Swansonville graded school at
Swansonville. read before the Teach
ers' Association at Chatham last Octo-
Der q most excellent paper on the i'm
portance of teaching drawing in our
public schools. Miss Swanson is a
very enthusiastic teacher. and has met
with great success in introducing draw
ing and industrial training in her
school. After a general introduction
urging the Importance Of cooperation
and united effort in educational work,
she said in her paper: The special
purpose of my address to-day is to im-
press upon the minds Of our teachers
the great practical benefit to be de-
rived from the teaching Of drawing.
AS l have said before. this is an age
OF educational progress, Look for a
moment {: t some of the movements that
are going forward at tile present time
for charging the scope of public edu-
cation. First, we have the kindergar-
tens, the recognition of the child in
education, one of the most benef1cient
reforms that have ever come. into the
schools. Then we have physical train
ing, the recognition of the fact that
the citizen to have healthy mind
must have healthy body. Then we
have the study of elementary science,
which has for its object the bringing
Of the Individual into closer relation
VITA his physical environments, that he
may be able to enrich the world by his
conquests over nature. Then we have
industrial or manual training, which
recognizes that labor is one of the
conditions OF mans existence in the
world. and that it is through under
standing labor and putting thought
into labor that Ian is brought more
completely into sympathy with his .fel-
lows"
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BuENA VISTA. VA, April 1.-THE
public debate Monday evening between
the literary societies of the Southern
Seminary was attended by very large
and appreciative audience. There was
a delegation OF about fifty young men
present from Washington and Lee Uni
lycrsity.
The ability and skill displayed by
the young ladies was a distinct sur
prise. They not only showed they had
made careful preparation, but evinced
an ease and force in their delivery
which would have done credit to far
older heads.
The program of the evening was
as follows:
Opening address, Mary Elizabeth
Garth, president of Athenian Society.
Vocal solo Mary Rozella johnson.
Debate: Resolved. That the Ameri-
can woman is exercising greater in
iiuence in the home life than In pub
lie life Affirmative. Miss Shaffer,
Pennsylvania; Miss Rees, West Vir-
ginia. Negative, Miss Hout, West Vir-
ginia; Miss Breeder, Virginia.
Instrumental solo. Mabel Seymour.
Reading, Minnie Stephens.
Quartet, Land of the Swallow"
Misses Garth, Homan, Johnson. Hud-
son.
Closing address, Mabel Seymour.
president of Comedian Society.
The contest was very close and 1t
was difficult for the judges to reach
a decision. They finally decided. how
ever, in favor of the affirmative.
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A FINE INSTITUTE
HELD AT BUCHANAN
Opening Exercises Of the High
School Add to the Interest Of
the Occasion.
SEVERAL GOOD SPEECHES
fsneclal To The Times. pl.patch /

Especial to The Times -Dispatch.1
BUCHANAN, VA, April 1.-THE
spring session OF the Botctourt Teach
ers Association WAS held In Buchanan
on Friday and Saturday last. An In
teresting and instructive program was
arranged, the business session being
interspersed with recitations and music.
The morning session of Friday was held
In the school building, and the visiting
teachers and n number of patrons wilt
messed the opening exercises of the
Buchanan High School, after which
the pupils gave their fire drill in a
manner which elected much favorable
comment.
Mrs. Il. c. Pechin made an address
which greatly encouraged the teachers
and pupils, and proved herself in tho
rough sympathy with them. MISC Clara
r. Emnes, of New York an authority
on penmanship, made most excellent
address on the advantages OF the YER
teal system. This address was the
most striking feature OF the institute.
The Rev. e. T. Mason, a veteran
teacher, who has only missed one in
stitute in fifty years, was present and
gave an instructive talk on textbooks
in English grammar. Mr.. ]. Fl. Booten,
to whom the success of the institute Is
largely due. presided over the meeting.
and the exhibition of the practical work
done by the high school, of which he
Is principal was both interesting and
surprising, and made pleasing i'm
preston upon those present.
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The Week S News
At The v. P. |.
fspec,al TO THE rlm.s-p,snn,oh. /


BLACKsBURG, Va, April 1.-THE
State Board of Agriculture will hold
it's regular meeting at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute next Wednesday.
April 18th. The members of the board
attention NY President Barringer. Dean
Quick and the faculty OF the agricul-
tural department of the institute. This
here. and the college authorities are
giaS OF the opportunity to show the
members what they are doing towards
giving the young men of Virginia 4
liberal education In scientific agricul-
ture.
The " p. T. Glee Club, under the
direction If Professor f. II. Abbott,
gave the first of their spring concerts
at Virginia College. IN Roanoke, satur-
day evening. The young men We're
greeted with a large and appreciative
audience and entertained by the young
ladies at dance after the concert. The
club Will Visit some OF the towns in
the Southwest during May and will
sing at the colleges in Bristol and
Abingdon.
Mr.. Leslie D. Kline, q former stu
dent of The institute, now a promi-
nent farmer of Clarke county. has been
the guest of Dean Quick this week. Mr..
Kline Will deliver the address before
the Alumni Association at the finals
in June.
Professor James NJ Johnson of the
institute shops department, is spending
this week in Chicago.
On account of i'll health DR.. Carol NJ.
Newman, of the chair of English, has
been compelled to take a four months
leave of absence, and Will spend the
time in England and on the CONT
nent.
Instructor Henry Hill, OF the station
staff, Is IN Aibemarle county, collect
ing soil specimens for experimental
work
Colonel T. Gilbert Wood and Mr.. D. d.
Martin, of the senior class at the in
stitute, We're in Washington this week
for the closing exercises of the United
States College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Mr.. q. P, Woods, a former student of
the V. P. l., was one of the graduates
there this year.
All the manuscripts, illustrations and
engravings for the 1908 Bugle, the
year book of the students. are now
in the hands of the printer. and rne
book will be Issued early in June
Professor William D. Saunders, of
the V. P. 7. dairy department. who has
just been appointed Dairy Commission
er and Food Inspector for the State
by Governor Swanson, has returned
from trip to Washington and Rich
mond. Professor Saunders has as yet
made no decision in the matter OF the
appointment.
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CLOSING EXERCISES AT AsHpy.
End of succcssfuI sesnion-Arbor Day
Celebrated,
Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.1
AsHBY, VA, April 1.-THE public
school closed here this week, after n
session OF six months. with appropriate
exercises and bountiful dinner, which
was served on the grounds by the
patrons. An unusual crowd was pres
emit. among whom were several teachers
from adjoining schools. Prizes were
awarded to Miss Vivian stonnell and
Miss Lily Belle Sanderson by the teach
ers, they having been present every
day during the term. a book contest
was participated In. which was en-
joyed hugely.
Ashby boasts OF having had for seven
years one of the finest teachers in the
state-Miss Matte Hooe-who not only
teaches the three RS, but everything
which tends to make good citizens.
She was assisted this term by Miss
Saliie Duke, who continues to teach
a private school, music included, at this
place.
Arbor Day was duly observed. the
trees being planted and furnished by
Mr. c. r. sanderson who Is always
on hand to do what he can for the
advancement of the school. He was
assisted by the teachers and others.
The school building liz new one. this
being it's first commencement, and ID
the pride or an enthusiastic sottti4. ,, - ,
ii contains two large. well-ventiiated
rooms and q hall.
Our Village. we are glad to say. IS
on the boom not only In education.
There IS scarcely a community In the
state which has progressed more rap
Idly in as few years. The real estate
he's greatly improved. We might say
there are only two things lacking to
make 1t an ideal place. VIZ, good ROADS
and a longer school term But we hope
u have these In q short time.
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For Modern Health.

"In aqua sanitas" quoted the mod
ern observer Now there's an axiom
that needs to be revised"
Whats the idea?" inquired the plain
well, to be correct, it should read:
Standard and Times.
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Pills.
TO ward of Bright's disease or dia-
betes.
Doan's have done great work in
Richmond.
Martin Franklin, Eli South Twelfth
Street. Richmond, Va, says: ''On Janu-
airy ?. 1902, I gave statement for
publication stating that Doan's Kidney
Pills had been used with most salts
factory results. My back and kidneys
lad given me trouble for long time,
and | would be SO lame in the morning.
that I could scarcely get about. My
kidneys were in much disordered
condition, the secretions so Irregular
in action as to be annoying. Doans
Kidney Pills. procured at Owens &
Minor~Drug Co, strengthened my back.
banished the pain and corrected the
kidney weakness. It Is now July 81,
1907. and 1 am very happy to say that
] have not had any return of the tro,i-
BILE during the past FIVE years. know
of many others who have used Doans
Kidney Pills with equally satisfactory
results"
For sale by all dealers. Price, 90
cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N.
y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember tho name - Doan's - and
take no other.
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Instructor Henry Hill, Of the station
jstaM, Is IN Aibemarle county, collect
| ing soil specimens for experimental
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Nature $ Warming.

Richmond People Must Recognize and
Heed 1t.
Kidney Ills come quietly-myste-
riously,
But nature always warns you.
Notice the kidney secretions.
See IL the color is unhealthy
II there are settings and sediment,
Passages frequent, scanty, painful.
It's time then to use Doan's Kidney
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am one,
But l am one.
cannot do everything;
But ! can do something.
What | can do, | ought to do.
And what ought to do,
BY the grace of God
will do"
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Colonel T. Gilbert Wood and Mr.. D. d.
Martin, of the senior class at the in
stitute, We're in Washington this week
for the closing exercises of the United
States College OF Veterinary Surgeons.
Mr.. Il. P, Woods, former student of
the V. p. l., was one of the graduates
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
NOTES.

Only twenty-three deer hunters were
killed in Wisconsin this season against
flfty-one last year. The sport seems TO be
losing it's tang.
Carmen sylvia, queen Of Rumania, has
practically built one hospital by the sale of
her stories, and has largely benefited
several others.
Many Harvard graduates Of prominence
are said to nave suggested Prof. Abbott
Lawrence Lowell of 1877 class as successor
to DR.. Eliot as president.
Winston Churchill, British minister of
commerce, always carries a cane and sc-
tually vert to church with 1t when he was
married. It's a pretty Instance of Ed
wards flattering tact that his wedding
gift to Churchill was not the silver ink
stand which is his customary present to
cabinet ministers II they marry while In
office, but a go~ld-mounted malaeca stick.
II is a very common thing for a youngster
in school to vow vengence on a teacher
who has offended him by a punishment he
regards as unjust. but it is seldom that
the threat is carried out. Opportunity does
not arrive. or the pupil, arrived at
maturity. forgets his luminosity. convinced
perhaps that after all he deserved the
licking he got. A man in Wayne county,
Indiana. carried his grudge for a quarter
OF a century, however, and then gratified
1t by thrashing his old teacher.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
TIE wAR AeA1Nsr OPIUM

aAA an AuAaAN1A
The one surprising feature Of an or
der just issued by DR.. Wiley, head OF
the chemistry bureau of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, instructing col
lectors of customs at the various ports
OF the nation to hereafter refuse ad-
mission to opium for smoking pur-
poses. is that 1t was not made a long
time ago. The order provides that
no opium except that prepared for
medicinal use is to be received.
The traffic in opium has gone on in
this country for many years without
any great effort at its suppression.
Countless lives have been wrecked and
countless crimes have been committed
as a result of the opium habit, intro
duced in this country by the Chinese
and constantly practiced by them and
their followers. II DR.. Wiley has the
authority Of law to prohibit the i'm
~portation of smokers opium the con-
science of government officials should
trouble them over the long neglect of
such restriction on a death-dealing
drug.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
RAILWAYS AND WATERWAYS.

In the carefully prepared paper read
at the Transmississippi congress by
Traffic Manager Stubs of the Harri-
man lines and now circulated in
pamphlet form the occasion is seized
to say again that the railroads do not
object to the improvement of the riv-
ers, the harbors and the waterways of
the country. Mr.. Stubs, however,
offers a new explanation when he de-
clares, I'VE think they will prove to
be valuable feeders to the railroads"
OF course. If the waterways are to
be feeders to the railroads their i'm
provement should be welcomed and
expedited by the railroads in order to
bring them more business, Just the
same as the building of branch lines
and expansions by the railroads them
selves. But only a little over a year
ago., when the railroads were con-
gested and unable to furnish equip
ment to transport the tonnage offered,
the chief argument for waterway i'm
provement was that the water trans
portation, instead of feeding the rail-
roads with more business, would re-
lieve them of the over-pressure Of
business from which they were suffer-
ing. AS a matter of fact the historical
evolution of the railroad shows that
the first railroad builders regarded the
railroads as feeders to the waterways
and never expected them to substitute
for water transportation, or even to
compete with water transportation.
This only illustrates the different
viewpoints. We venture to put out
the suggestion that our transportation
facilities must be regarded as a whole;
that the high-pressure development of
the country consequent upon our rapid
railway construction has put all the
emphasis upon land carriage and OBJ
scured the Importance of water traff1c;
that the pendulum is now beginning
to swing back with realization of the
possibilities of our waterways for use
fulness, and hat the readjustment is
coming by which both water and rail
transportation will play their full
parts in our industrial activity.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
AMI PIE.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Yes, sir, I'm living in hope, banking on
promises made,
Hoping by night and by day that a plum
on my plate will be laid;
l went to the front like a man, / canvassed
my ward, end to end.
There are hundreds of men l can name l
persuaded to vote for my friend.
And, now he has something to give, j am
haunting his office all day.
I want a political job and L long for politi-
cal pay.
Next year I'll have money to burn, at least
l am hoping L will.
In the heat of the fight l was there, l
argued while others stood still.
His cards L was proud to give out, his
pictures nailed on the walls,
And ] stood in the rear to applaud when
ever he entered our halls;
1t was valiant service / gave, now he ought
to throw something my way,
I want a political job and l long for politi-
cal pay.
1 don't say for sure that I'll land, but I'm
hoping l will, and perhaps
My name he will put on the list when
dividing political snaps;
I'm hoping he'll send for me soon, 1 am
hoping he'll say unto me-,
Il want to do something for you, what job
would YOU like 1t to be?"
I'm lodging his footsteps by night and my
friends ave gone to him to say:
l want a political job and I long for politi-
cal pay.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
4 rwo-cENr III pEo1sIoN.


The decision of the United States
supreme court in a case involving the
validity Of the Virginia law fixing a
2-cent passenger fare on the roads of
that state, will be OF great interest to
other states in which passenger fare
laws have been enacted, although 1t is
TO be regretted that the decision did
not cover more of the points that
we're in controversy in the Virginia
case and which have figured promi-
nently in the proceedings before the
courts in other states. The n point
made clear by the decision in the Vir-
ginia case was that appeal should not
be made to the federal courts until
every local authority has been ex-
hausted.
The Virginia Railway commission
established a 2-cent passenger rate.
The railroads appealed to the federal
district court, where Judge Pritchard
granted an order restraining the en-
forcement of the commissions ruling.
The supreme court has decided that
the method of procedure was wrong
and that the case should not have been
taken to the federal courts until the
constitutionality of the law had been
passed upon by the state courts. The
decision leaves unsettled the point of
real interest in the proceeding
whether the 2-cent rate was confisca-
tory-but it will come as pleasing
news to those who have thought that
the states were gradually losing all
their powers In the great NAV of the
federal union.
There is one other significant and
important feature of the supreme
courts order in remanding the case
to the Virginia state courts. The SUI
preme court held that the action of
the Virginia Railway commission in
fixing the rates was legislative and
not judicial and therefore could not
escape review by the federal courts.
The commission, the court held, might
have judicial functions, but the fixing
of rates was not one of them. This
will doubtless cause the lawmakers in
the different states to Investigate the
creating and bestowing
power upon railway commissions, but
the real point of interest, which will
be welcomed in all the states, is the
courts ruling that the state courts
must first pass upon the validity of
state enactments before appeals can
be made to the federal authorities.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
A POLITICAL "REMINISCENCES.
How the Late Senator German knitted
C1eveland's Tariff Measure.

How the Late Senate German Knitted
CIeveland's Tariff Measure.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The popular conception of the late Sem
ator German fourteen years ago as the
arch enemy of democratic tariff reform
is completely confirmed by Mr.. Carnegie in
his Century magazine article. MI. Car
negie tells of his experience as a repub-
lican and a steel manufacturer in fight
ing the democratic Wilson bill. Mr..
German was a democrat and the party
leader in the senate. but he was exactly
the man whom Mr.. Carnegie found most
serviceable in defeating the tariff re-
formers of that day. They met in Wash
ington and Mr.. Carnegie proceeds:
After several conferences he finally
said to me: 4 can afford to oppose this
bill and beat the president, but / cannot
afford to oppose and be beaten by him."
MI. German thereupon stipulated what
kind of a bill he would agree to carry
through the senate as a substitute for
the Wilson bill. and in Mr.. Flower of
New York Mr.. Carnegie found another
sympathizer. These men represented a
sufficient number of democratic mem
bers who, combined with republicans. in
sured the adoption OF a less revolutionary
measure" TIT final tribute that Mr..
Carnegie pays to Mr.. German as a be-
trayer of democratic reform pledges is in
relating an episode that occurred after
the tariff of 1894 had become a law with
out President Cleveland's signature.
Meeting Senator German afterward, he
laughingly explained; I carried every
one of your figures but one, 1 had to
submit 70 free cotton ties to secure two
enators whom 1 did not wish to lose"
Mr.. German beat the president" but the
party has been paying the price Of 1t ever
ainna