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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18


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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

81 Newark. -. = where there are
l.ieo pupils. The mothers OF the chill
drsn had heard that threats had been
made 20 blow Up the school. and they
pushed aside police and teachers TO
rescue their little ones frem the sup
posed danger. choking ID the exits
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18
afr Q u wnrrrn.

Mrn Elnule 2 Is Arfer. WLfe %
g. IL Wa~rcn. did Wetreatay night
AZ ST. Elrcelrs. Norfolk. afteg brief
illcezs a. her ri1eteenth year. she
n survived ~ her husband and Moth
er and stept9tncr. Captain and Ms.
~ ~. EodNera and q brother. VIZ
han II ElllS- Ths funeral wfu Be
loEay.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18
Ms Ida h Hnmlrt-

Mss la z. Hamlet aged twenty
SIX years. died wednesday evening az
the residence % hs- brother-in-lav.
NJ A. s Ess-sr, il Lynch burg. The
remains were taken 20 Brooknesl for
burial
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

PHILADELPHIA. PA.-Spectal-
George Baker. enc Of the crew & the
ship Arthur SeWall. which sailed from
this port for Seattle April :. 1891. WITH
q cargo or ccsl. has arrived In this
was burned az sea shortly after round
inE the Herr. The Ere Was caused 81
spontaneous combustion So far az e
kncwn Baker. who q a Hawaiian, ans
Charles Dixon and Second Mate Vein
berg are the only survivors After
sighted q Norwegian bark which they
siEnRiied- they were picked % Oh
the third day. and after forty -nve
fays passage reached New Castle
Baker went 70 Bremen. where he ship
ped on the Krcn Prin1essin Cecile a.
stoker
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18
Solnn Srrrrns

AZ Scion Stevens. a weii-known
citizen e. Amherst county. died a. his
hon. IN the neigh horhood O. Pleas
ant Grove THURSDAY night re IL sur
vivsd ~ hts wife and q number Of
children. most % them living n
Lv-chhurE he vas a Confece-Rce
soldier
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

Ms Maria Medley. widow % J. L
Motley. OF Caroline county. died
Thursday night AZ her nome 1ear
Sparta she IS survfvsd ~ three sona
and four daughters.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

Mra- CLtowG r.. HamcrEly. wife %
Ar L q Hame-ely. dad az Rolling
her huEblnt. three so1s. and foUY
Ea1EhtrrE.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

JAMS - AuoeTHu1-
Er James g. Andersen. CO E'ittEys-
varla- cled ~ his home n@sr Mineolz
aarly Saturday morning re waG
about efry-eiEEt years old Arc ~es
twice married Hls sscolc wife pre-
cete1 him 20 TIE grave about I've
ye2rs age. leaving f01r children
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

Miss CciErbla HenterBon tied WEI
neEtEy 1tCht az her home az Pass
pzt2nxy. IN Kt1x George county. q
eypho1G fever. aEed nineteen years.
she - survived ~ her father. ave
brothers sn1 foCr sisters
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

LONDON. -Specisl-A disastrous
ESs explosion occurred on Friday
IN the Norton Hiu Coal Coliiery on
Somersetshire. Twelve are known 20
os dead al g result OF the explosion.
and many were injured. Efforts are
being made 70 rescue those 81 the
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

SALEM. MASS Special Mrs.
Clara Louise Won Hermann. in an &C
ton Tor divorce filed here. accuses her
husband. Kari stephen Won Hermann.
q former Newspaper man and maya
xine writer. o. improper conduct and
names Julia MarIowe. the actress. and
Ms. Mau6 Thorourn Backus. q we'll
known Brooklyn woman. as core
spondents Won Hermann was az one
time q sort OF assistant manager and
press agent for Miss Nsrlowe.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL-Spscizl-
The second French car reached here
Tuesday Afternoon IN the New York
20 Paris auto race. The driver said
the car Wa IL good shape. he said
the roads were verv bad til they
struck California They viii start BY
steamer FOR Seattle and trsrxhip there
20 VALDEZ. on the same steamer VIII
70 the Italian car.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

Geo-re =. Forbes. n carpenter. q
Dauvfils. died Thursday Night az the
General Hospital Ia leaves q ~tss
nnt child.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

tkry 20 Wa n the Buchanan admin
istraffc-. Afterwards q major general
~ the Confederate army
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

ar. Toe LeNs. aged abeas ssxen-
fy-uins Year.. tlee Wednesday az his
hoae near Asatcu
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

mine. The nrst party or rescusrs
vas almost overeon1e By gas fumes
and several are IN q critical oonci-
ton
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

NEW YORK Special-Dozens OF
children were injured IN n panic which
lasted twenty minutes wednesday
In tha Seventh Avenue Public school.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18
Virginia To The Front
Piedmont Section

Ter idcRl COnntrv HozncS or CltS
Propsrry. Mineral OF Timber lands,
write o. call On
TIE INTERNATIONAL FATsN
AGENCY. nc
eee Main STREET. I.ynchNurr. Va
List rour properly wiz Is ror sale
- Polr6s1ts-. Wee Pres. 6e-s and
Treasurer. = r. Campbell Pres dent.
L. l. F-oost- Sec-s-arg
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

BIRMINGHAM. ALA-Sp ecial.-
Speeding around = curve On the way
20 Eusiey. the automobile OF PreEi-
cent Corey. % the United States Steel
Curpcratou. collided with q buggy. IN
which wss Ms sarah McTycir. The
turEv was wrecked and Ms. Nc
Tyeir wEs seriously injured. The auto
was damaged. but President Corey and
The occupants escaped with bruises
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

WASHINGTON. y. C-Speciai.-
Ths National Cement Company. no.
Wal street. New York haH been fer
hidden the Use OF th- mails
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18

WASHINGTON. .. C.-Specsal.-
X +. Buchanan left Washington
fo- Chihuahua. Mex. 20 Join AmbRa-
Ssdor Creei Tor a tour OF approcia tive
Visits 20 the south American -cpub-
lies represented ~ the peace confer
encs here last winter. NJ. Buchanan
n The special envoy OF thu State De-
pSrtueut. Ee was az the head OF the
American delegation at the Rio con-
ference. and was q member O. the
American commission 20 The Hague.
-1e tour has revived rumors tha,
ambassador Creel will resign.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-04-18
TclcgTaphicBrcvitieS

ROANOKE. A-Special-Rsv. Dr.
=. Armstrong. % LynchburE. fer
ffty-tuo years secretary 90 the Bzlti-
mere Methodist Ccnfcrsncs south. dice
IA thlE city a. 1-fS this morning. of
BrslIoniz, contracted two weeks age.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Increased Cost of Living

The Dingley tariff is pushing prices
of the necessaries of life higher every
wear. No matter how large crops may
he. they keep on crowding household
ers The recent report of the national
bureau of labor shows that in the last
calendar year retail prices of food
were higher than in any previous year
of an 1S-year period, and they were AZ
per cent higher than in the previous
wear. Flour was SO per cent higher;
butter, 8 per cent; evaporated apples,
rs per cent; milk, 7.3 per cent; corn
meal. 6.S per cent; cheese, 6.7 per
cent. and potatoes, 5.4 per cent.
When the prices of last year are
compared with those of 1895 we see at
a glance what Dingleyism has accom-
plished, for the Dingley tariff was not
in operation in 1896. Out of 80 leading
articles of household consumption, 20
were higher, coffee being the sole ex-
ception. For example, bacon has been
marked up 62.7 per cent; potatoes,
Sc 6 per cent; eggs, 4S.4 per cent; salt
pork, 479 per cent, and lard, 45.1 per
cent. The meat and food trusts sitting
behind the Dingley wall have marked
up prices to suit themselves. In 1895
the average cost of food per family
was $296.76. The Dingley tariff was
passed In 1897, and last year the av-
erage cost of food per family Was
s374.75. This is a pretty accurate
measure of the injuries that the trusts
and the sacred tariff have inflicted
upon consumers and householders.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
THE TOUCH OF PITY.

New York Correspondence to the Gin
cninati Star.
That touch of pity that makes all the
world akin was felt in the Forty-second
street ferry house the other night. There
Julia Schmitt had been robbed of the few
dollars she had painfully saved to pay
her way back to Germany, to see her old
parents once again before they die. Sob
bing the middle-aged woman sat in the
waiting room. She was only working
woman. who had for years denied her
self little pleasures and petty respites from
toll that she might see father and moth
err again, and bring to them some OF
the comforts their child had lacked Her
dress was faded and patched. Her hair
hung in strings about a face sodden with
grief No searcher for romance would
ever give her second glance.
But a truckman heard her story. His
own pay was, perhaps, SIS week. The
81 bill he dropped in his soiled cap
meant abandonment on his part of some
anticipated pleasure. He went from man
to man and from woman to woman in the
big waiting room, explaining the case.
Hardly one refused to help. One woman
who had rolled into the station in her
Limousine car. after satisfying herself
of the truth of the story, first added
$40 bill to the little store in the truck
mans cap, and then went with him to
urge upon others the pleasure of giving.
Side by side, the woman in silks and
the workman in a smeared blouse, gave
up their time to a mission of charity.
II wasn't a tremendous sum they gath
cred. But it was enough to pay Julia
Schmitt's fare to that little cottage home
In Germany, and give to her poor old
parents the last bit of happiness they may
expect on this side of the river. And it
was enough to change her tears to smiles
and despair to happiness. And it should
be enough to win for a lady in laces
and a soled truckman at least respect
full hearing when their time comes to
render an accounting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
EleCilng a New Congress

In all states an increasing interest in
the congressional contests is reported.
A congress which is to revise the Ding
ley tariff and carry on other govern
mental reforms is to the intelligent cit
izen of deep and increasing import
ance, outranking in some minds even
the presidency. A president may sug-
gest but he cannot make single law.
The next congress will have a wide
field in that direction, and the control
of the House of Representatives is con-
sidered matter of deep import.
The extravagances of recent con-
crosses have been sufficient to con-
denim them. These have resulted in
yearly deficits varying from $40, 900, 900
to $9O,00O,0 900, and if continued more
bonds will have to be issued. The
policy of the Dingleyites has been to
expend money freely, in that way brib-
ing one section and another to stand
the robberies of the tariff system. But
those robberies no longer bring in
surplus and a halt will have to be
called or else more bonds will have to
be issued.
The real issue is the nature of the
control of the House of Representa-
tives. Joe Cannon, autocrat and reac-
tionary, has, in word, become live
issue in this campaign. He has posed
as the embodiment of rural wisdom,
when in fact he has served the inter-
ests as an autocrat saying what laws
should be passed and what should not
he. If he is to be seated in the speak
er's chair in the next congress, free
government in this country becomes d
farce. He and his lieutenant, Jim
Sherman, have for years stood in the
House for privilege and special inter-
ests. To place the one in the speak
er,s chair and the other in the presid-
ing officers chair in the Senate would
indeed serve the few but not the many.
Both will be marked for defeat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
INSOMNIA AND ALARM CLOCKS
ON the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The patient complained of insomnia.
you must get an alarm clock at once"
said the physician.
The patient stared.
st mean It, What time do you waken
usually in the night?'
1.-TWO o'clock. lately"
.'Set the alarm for Is minutes before
O. AS soon as it strikes, get up, dress
for the day and take a walk of not less
than two miles, Do not go to bed again
that day under any circumstances, nor
take a nap, even sitting In your chair.
'oThe next night set the alarm at 2:45.
You will sleep until it wakens you. Get
up as before, and take another two-mile
walk.
"The third night you can venture to set
your alarm at 3. Repeat the walk. If
YOU are not cured by that time you will
be a more difficult case than I have had
heretofore but if the habit of lying
awake is not broken begin back at 2
o'clock again and repeat
Another sure cure for Insomnia is sit
ting up with the sick. Just bind your
self to sit up all night with some good,
strong invalid, and IL you are not per-
manently healed of insomnia before
morning you may come back here AMI
I will not charge you anything for an
other prescription"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
In HOTEL LOBBIES
New Agricultural Efforts.

The Queen and Crescent people
through their newly organized asrieui-
tural department are awakening the farm
ers along that line TO a realization OF
the possibilities of the Queen and eres-
cent country as an agricultural propo-
sition," said W. NJ Bamberger, agrieul-
taral superintendent of the system, yes
terday.
1 have demonstrated the fitness oil
the Cumberland plateau as a potato pro-
ducing section and have already secured
the planting of that tuber in sufficient
quantities to supply large area of eoun-
try hitherto supplied from Michigan and
Colorado.
The potatoes of the Cumberland pla-
teau are of splendid flavor and are the
very best keepers. l am also develop
ing the growing of cotton on that plateau
ard am confident another season will
show that the staple can be grown many
miles north of its now most northern
limit.
Il take special interest in this work
as I served the United States department
of agriculture for many years as spe-
eia1 agricultural agent. l will divide my
time equally between the Alabama Great
Southern and the Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific lines and may
be addressed at Lexington, Ky. by any
farmer who may desire my services,
which, by the way, will be rendered at
the expense of the Queen and Crescent
route
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

there is not a city in the south that
shows anything like the business re-
vival that is in evidence here today.
At North Birmingham, Ensley and 9TH
er industrial neighbors most of the
plants seem to be working 10 their full
capacity. and l am told that the min
ing camps present scenes of busy life.
The October payrolls will be about nor
NAL and that means a great holiday
trade.
Birmingham recovery from the in
dustrial jolt that all manufacturing
centers felt is indeed encouraging; and
that it should be in the lead of all
other cities in the south greatly
strengthens the assurance of its future.
The chances are that Birmingham will
be the largest city between New Or
leans and Louisville within the next
three years and it may be predicted
that in % years it will surpass even
New Orleans in population"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
She was the sweet marjoram of the
salad, or rather. the herb of grace.
-All's Well That Ends Well.
Departure of Summer

After waiting five long months a
genuine cold wave came this way yes
terday, and straw hats became at once
untimely and out of joint. Vests were
worn after disuse covering all the
months back to last April. The mos
quitoes forgot last night to bite and all
things declared the passing of sum-
mer.
The wave came from Medicine Hat,
the true home of all genuine low tenn
peratures, and as it came through Chi
cago and Kansas City and Omaha it
called aloud for oYercoats and fires IN
the CRATES, and gloves, and in some
places even for ear muffs. Killing
frosts occurred and tender vegetation
was nipped all along the way.
Light frosts may have fallen in the
south, but the chances are that the
wave lost its ginger in the southeast
before it passed out to sea. Rain, too,
accompanied the wave and forest fires
no doubt are stayed, and, best of all,
the all-pervading dust of the last 40
days is laid. The drought of 1908 will
be long remembered. 1t was not pleas
ant, but it did nowhere great amount
of injury, for the crops were grown
before it began to materialize.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Judge Coleman'S County Plan

Judge T. w. Coleman again as
sails the Overton amendment, and in
his later assault upon it he again man.
ifests a want of confidence in the peo-
pie other than himself. He fears they
will not select wise Legislators. and
that the representatives selected by
them would vote to the public roads
money that should go to the schools or
the old soldiers or the states charita-
BILE institutions. In other words, they
would commit political suicide. Judge
Coleman should have more faith in the
selected voters of Alabama when they
act upon the expenditure of their own
money. The Overton amendment COM
pels no appropriation for public roads
whatever; it simply permits an appro-
priation when the increased revenues
of the state justify it, and taxable val
ues in the state are increased every
year.
But Judge Coleman declines to
champion the wretched dirt roads of
Alabama. He claims to be good
roads reformer. His plan, however,
when examined is found to be imprac-
ticable. In order to get good roads
ana federal aid he proposes to have
county instead Of stat cooperation. A
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

bill or amendment for compulsory
county action could not be perfected,
while voluntary county action would
give us a patchwork of hard roads and
bottomless dirt roads. One county
would build modern scientific roads
and the next county would be content
to use the wretchsd makeshifts that
are as poor as they were when the
county was first organized. Alabama
cannot be lifted up in that way. All
of its chief roads, from end 10 end,
from side to side. should be brought up
TO modern standards or none az ali.
And even if Judge Coleman's plan
were practicable, it would result i'll
waste and poorer roads and disadyaa-
tageous contracts. Nor would the fed
eral government be willing to deal
with counties. The federal govern
ments unit would no doubt be state
in any cooperative good roads move
ment
No one. however will blame Judge
Coleman for standing by the work OF
the last constitutional convention, for
its work was largely his own. The
constitution of 1903 is better than its
predecessor, but no one except Judge
Coleman seems to consider it perfec-
ton. 1t should be amended in accord
ance with experience as the state
moves on to her destiny, and the time
has come when the hands of the peo-
pie and of their Legislators should be
united in the matter of good roads.
The movement that Senator Bankhead,
Congressman Underwood and State
Senator Overton are leading should be-
come a state affair or be abandoned
altogether, for the counties have al
ready shown their unwillingness to
build good roads. Outside of a half
dozen counties there is not a foot Of
good rural roads in this state. Educa-
ton, population, prosperity, wealth all
await the building of good roads
throughout the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
A YOUNG MAN AND HIS MOTHER.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
A young man, graduate of one OF
our leading universities, put an end to
his life last Tuesday in a Philadelphia
lodging house. He had no money and
was out of work. A letter found be-
side his body, addressed to his mother,
begged her forgiveness and Gods for
a wasted life. The news dispatch Ia
conically says, His mother was in
formed of his death and Is expected from
New York tonight"
Instead of writing that letter to his
mother and giving his wrecked life back
to the mercy of God, that young man
should have prayed to God and gone
home to his mother. He may have had
no money and no work-he had his
mother. AS long as he had her he had
incalculable riches. He may have drifted,
vagrant and derelict down to the gates
of hell; her mother-love would follow
after him and find him there. Filled
with the husks that swine rejected, tat
terdemalion, returning from far coun-
try-she would have welcomed-not the
prodigal son, but her son, the son of her
loving life, and living love.
A son may forget that his mother
loves him, but his mother does not for
get. She will go as far as to the foot
of the gal1ows tree with him, and after
that will intercede with heaven. For
She went to the very gate of death for
him when he came into the world--and
when he comes to die, however shame
full In the eyes of man may be his exit
from the world, her soul goes with him
as he goes and speaks to God for him.