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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-05-14

Insanity. or lack OF mental balance.
takes queer turn with some indlvid.
uals An instance that comes 10 mind
Is that Of q central Iowa farmer Of
whom we heard the other day whose
Slosyncrasy crops ont in an unwilling.
ness 20 sell any Of the hay or grain
which De grows in large quantities on
MS farm Of a thousand or more acres
He builds comfortable houses for his
many tenants. most Of whom arc. as n
result n queer preference on tnolr
landlords par. chidIess and middle
aged, but oil over Lls place are to bo
found rottirs stacks NJ hay and grain
CRIBS Fun Of widowed corn and other
things to correspond s few hogs and
cattle are raised ana sold. but no,
enough so Chat tho owner could be
called stock raiser The man ia
question is known no over hia count,
ns The farmer who never sells his etrg
While queer. be o. perfectly harn'peg
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-05-14

The experience which some corn
growers living in the northern part OF
the corn belt have had the past two
or three years points quite conclusive
ly to the fact that the rather small
and early maturing variety Of corn IS
a better agricultural asset than the
whopping ear with shoe peg kernels
that gets plnched with the frost at
both ends Of the season and sours on
the cob after It is put into the crib
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-02-27

Sn Dirfli9fsit aber mar cine 2e.
pollution Dor iid sesanesn in benz
Qugenblid, als bic Oampfer, bic
gen Rorben fubren, fid5 aus Feltenen.
iSnieli6en poitbefSoerern in bGufies,
poltstbiimlide 2aItentrGger peripans
belten. W1it ben @ergensr Sadtsn
peri6panb unpiberruTlih bas alte
,Hprbldnb". llnb nit ben Oams
pfern mar Elm unabpenbbarsr unb
unaufbdltIamer 2i9tqusn in biefe
rebsligen 9ssenben sinsefiibrt. sic
bsbeuteten ia nGmlidb nidts tpenis
ger, ala bab bieIs 9seenben biels
8reitenerabe fiiblider., Der @eIt unb
an ibrem WeIen unb al feinem
Treiben nGberseriidt tparen. DurG
bic S6nelliatsit Der @erbinbunaen.
gs mar rnrube ins Wert ssfebt
porben, unb erit einmal besonnsn,
IieB iid Der 2auf nidt mehr benz
men, ionbern iteiserts ii& msbr unb
msbr, immerpdbrenb nsue @Htlpid,
lung seuaenb.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-02-27
Der @irtli6feit unb ber 3ufunft &c.

Der Wirtlidfeit unb ber 3ufunft ses
iporben.
Die in einem I9immernben @us
senblid mar es sei4eber.
Sir Sonatban RoB aber mar ss
gu fdnsn sesunsen. Sir i'm, Der
nit fsinem idperfdlisen alien @e>
tpebr unb nit ieiner an bic Generus
tiunen sebunbsnen SrabitiOa ba fab,
mar al biss Rsue elm ssfdbrpplI
berannabenber, feinblidsr Sturm>
lauf. Sein Bid mar bsfaneen;
er fpnnte ben .i9entliden unb ers
freuli9en Sang Der @nttpidIung
ni4t feben.
limb es trus biel gu Der Sriibung
bieies erfreulibsn 9ilbes BEL, bab
bas @olt. innsrbaIb beFen iih Oies
alIss polIsos, fslbit nidt tlar lab =
in besus uuf bus 9tlts. mas in Der
abIOiuns besriffen mar. @s ents
ftanb cine beitGnOis Sunebmsnbe. uns
perniinftise unb gtbdfise 8ittertsit
SeHeH .SuHplHuH Jtpb uuI 2eitilp,
Der in Der altsn 3eit unb auf ben
aIten Wsssn Der rei4e Manu ses
tporben mar.
SdIieBlid sins SOnatbun babeim
auf SennD umb.r unb fiihlte fid. aIs
sebabter, unsern gsfebsner Mann;
sr fab fein unb Ieiner Batter Bert
unb Sbun beradtet, bertannt; er
fiiblte, tpie bic 2ebensquellen feines
@sidGftes mebr unb msbr tpeeseleis
tet unO enberspobin sefiibrt ipurben.
gr fab iid felbft ala Siibrer elmer
fhp.r belabenen Stuff. bic boffnungss
los gesen ipibrige Winbe anarbeitsts,
unb er fiibIts, bab bic Winbe ipu4isn
unb beitarbis ipa9ien .piirben = Biz
bic Stuff funf.
limb er ipdrb Elm Mann nit sis
mem ipunben 6erSen unb einem
fhperen Sinn.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29

sick for some time, is much improved.
The fancy dress ball Of Washington
and Lee University, danced on Friday
night, was attended by number of
Richmonders.
Mr.. II. d. Eichelberger was best man
at the wedding of Miss Florence My
rick to Mr.. George ]. Twohy, which
took place in Norfolk at 4:30 o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. Edward Joynes is visiting friends
in Newport News.
A reunion Of the Yost family was
held in Winchester this week, in the
home of Mr.. M. j. Yost.
Mr.. William Z. Lawson. Jr Of the
Medical College of Virginia, celebrated
his twenty first birthday this week IN
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Il. Lawson, OF Hampton.
Mr.. and Mrs. King, Of Dublin. are
spending few days at No. els East
Franklin Street.
Miss Bland TAYLOR, of Norfolk, en-
tertained at luncheon on Thursday in
honor Of Miss Lady Hobson, Of Gooch-
land.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
THE BLACK PIT,
By THE EARL OF lDDEsLEIGH,
Author Of The Luck o Lassendale, &c.
(All Rights Reseryed.)

you will laugh, know that in dreams
you have no faith. but 1t is not much
that l ask. 1t Is only that through
out tomorrow. the longest day, YOU
Will engage in no pursuit that can be
accompanied by any danger. however
remote. and that at midnight when
the day ends you will take care nor
to be alone, but to have with you some
friend. oh Rupert. II this is folly
will you not forgive your Edith, or
take your revenge upon her by the
laughter of many year to conc? Once
more. my darling, / pray you not 10
neglect my heartfelt prayer
Sweet. timorous love-" thought Ru-
pert tenderly, but not even her sweet
ness must scare me from duty. He
wrote letter long, soothing and en-
couraging, but never once did he con-
template the rs1inquishment OF his
visit to the Black Pit that night.
As the day advanced the gloom deep
ened. thick haze which no breath OF
wind dispersed shut out the beams
of the sun, and when Rupert started
on his self-imposed quest. a lantern
was needed TO enable him to penetrate
the lurid darkness He had waited for
AN hour or more In the meadow ere tho
Iightning's first flash heralded the
long-delayed storm, and with the
preston of an ind!stinct form Lean
ing against the Black Pit fence. lie
advanced with what speed he conid
but when he searched the pa,ings iia
figure was in sight. Yet his amaze
ment was profound, for in the wall
of wood there was narrow gap as II
an opened door stood wide, but In his
recollection no door had ever beer
there 1t was no time to consider, he
ri on tIs
passed through the strange entrance.
and found himself at once on the very
brink of the Black Pit with its un-
fathomable invisible depths. Some
thing seemed to touch his shoulder.
and there was a word in his ear. Fol.
low" Next arose sharp cry, and then
the thunder began 10 peal, rendering
other sounds inaudible; for one second
or time the heavens were ablaze with
a brilIiance that was well-nigh blina-
Ing. and after that the wind and the
rain took possession Of the earth. What
had the lightning truly revealed? Had
1t shown two figures, woman firm
~ grasping man, falling swiftly into
that Pit of destruction?
The events that accompanied, that
famous storm in June can never be
certainly known. Mrs. Helmont dis
appeared, and in Rupert's mind there
lives the abiding belief that she per-
ished on that Wild night in her re-
solve to protect himself. Had he really
been in danger? Did that whispered
"Follow," spring from lips OF flesh
and blood? YES" was his own an
swer when he remembered Mrs. Hell
mont's saying, and imagined some de-
spairing soul to whom death was easy.,
but by whom the loss of Edith might
not be borne. Ear different Is the YER
dict of the countryside, and the peace
of Lanfair is no longer troubled by the
ghost of Sir Wilfred Oston.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
no DAR AT IDLEwooD.

Judge Witt should not grant license
to run bar at lakewood Under the
terms of the Dabney ordinance. it ap-
pears, such a license cannot be granted
and the City Attorney. or his assist
ant, will appear before the court to
protest against favorable action on
the application.
Z But whether the City Attorney IS
right or not in his contention, Idle
wood is no place for bar Byrd
Park is the chief amusement ground
of Richmond. Women and children
unattended, and necessarily so. go there
at all hours of the day and evening
for fresh air and innocent recreation,
TO use such spot for the sale OF
spirituous liquors, with all the at
tendant disorder and embarrassment
that Is so inevitable, would be in the
highest degree improper. The same
4 reason that would lead to the refusa
of a license for Il bar next door to ,
church, or in the heart of residenc,
section, should operate with greater
force to protect Byrd Park from sue!
q nuisance. II anything We're lacking
TO make the matter plain. it would
! be the spirit which The management
of lakewood showed in offering
. through their counsel, 10 abstain from
the violation Of the sunday ordinance
as a consideration for this license
The police have done their hest tt
make Byrd Park pleasant, safe ans
respectable, and lasl summer it was /,
Il regular occurrence for the employee.
of lakewood to appear in the Police
Court once week ana pay their fines
Tor open and wilful violation of III,
Eunday law. This should be. of itself
enough to make the granting OF I
license to lakewood very doubtful
procedure. even If such permission
were not prohibited BY the Dabne;
ordinance.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
Rhymes for To-Day
THE LrAp-YEAn nov.

ITO n gentleman who celebrates
TODAY his second birthday since
1861
lDY tho heavens, have BOT funny
~ fate!
- BY tho records there BIO very
few who've such:
BY my birthdays j am paleiy Haii
past 8,
BY the Bible, I ain many times as
much. "a.
Friends, the situation flIs me Win
doubt
Which philosophy is helpless to put
by
Long I've sat and tried to puzzle this
thing out:
How the devil AND Tom "aiheF ola
am II
tCHORUs: BY the birthday guests.l
Boys and girls, the thing is sad
It's enough to make MIN mad
And his doubt Is nota n'cfe' Haih-
crazy whim!
For the thing that inks the man
isn't lust. How old Is Ami
But how old. how old, how old,
how old is him!
o eight birthday cakes Is all ever. hao!
o eight sets of birthday gifts is all
Two got!
o ought to be Just eight years Old
begad.
But, my lads, there's something tells
me 1 am not!
Why, I trot around with grandpops,
I'm afenred.
/ go out to clubs and sometimes stay
there late,
/ have married me wife and shave
beard
Could do all these II were only s.?
IcHoRus.l
o the candles show that am growing
old.
But my birthdays say they're lying,
by my troth
Am I s or IS? It's nc'er been told
So I'm going to claim the privilege
of both!
I'm too old to tic to nurse strings
don't you see?--
I'm too young for men to chido me
for my joy!
SO it's. fellows, ill your glasses up
for me!
birthday boy!
CHORUS:
Otis greet him. lads and lassies!
20, it's stand and ill Your
glasses!
o it's drink her down and slap
him on the back!
For it's always jolly weather when
good fellows get together!
Are you ready. people. Bottoms
up for Mack.l
II. s. H.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
A LECTURE ON "cEsspooLs.,

In reply to a suggestion from The
Times-Dispatch that confirmed drunk
enness should he treated as disease,
the Bristol HeraldCourier delivers us
lecture on prohibition. Drunken
ness is disease" our contemporary
admits. and the open saloon is the
gesn.' The way to get rid of the
disease, it argues, is to destroy tho
germ; and it further declares that If
there were disease breeding cess
pool in Richmond that caused half as
much poverty and misery as drunken
ness causes, it would soon be abatcd
as public nuisance.
We are not surprised at this reply.
We had looked for it, but we had not
expected to find 1t in SO intelligent a
newspaper as the Herald Courier. The
same specious argument was recently
made by the prohihitionlsts of Balti-
more, and Cardinal Gibbons replied:
Liquor would be sold here quite as
abundantly under prohibition laws as
'hhtI Ntil-I cSs uldleu license. me COIL
sequence Will be that liquor will be
dispensed contrary to law instead OF
being sold in accord with law.
when q law is flagrantly and habit
tually violated it brings legislation
into contempt. 1t creates a spirit OF
deception and hypocrisy and compe1s
men to do insidious!y and by stealth
what they would otherwise do openly
and aboveboard."
| If there were cesspool in Richmond
which could not be abated, the authori-
ties would exert themselves to purify
the water and reduce its dangers to
lowest terms. They would not be
foolish enough to drain the polluted
waters to some secluded spot where
they could not be watched.
The liquor traffic Is not bad in 1t.
self. There is demand for alcoholic
liquors in Richmond much OF 1t being
a perfectly legitimate demand. And
! wherever there is demand there vii
be supply. Richmond Is dealing will
la practical question in rational way
She prefers To have her liquor traffi
carried on under the regulation an,
) restrictions of law. and under tn
watchful eye of the officers OF law
| rather than in defiance of law. Thl
/ course she believes to be in the in
! terest of law and order, sobrety an,
! public morals. She believes that at
i tempted prohibition would breed n,
, merous underground "cesspools, tina
would be ten times as vicious, vitiatin,
and germ producing" as Unite,
! number of legalized saloons regulate
], by law
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
What is tho essence and life OF
character: Principle, integrity, M
Observation-Disclosures
THE STATE HOARD or HEALTH.

The attention of the members ot.the
General Assembly is called to health
conditions in King George county. An
endemic of smallpox has prevailed
there for some time past, and 1T APP
nears that the county authorities have
aone little or nothing TO check the
disease or to prevent it from spread
ing. No disinfection or fumigation
has been ordered by them, nor has any
vaccinating been done except by ply
sicians practicing among their private
patients.
DIR. Paulus Irving. president of the
State Board of Health, las done what
he could TO meet the situation, and he
has full authority of law TO appoint
physicians and agents to do the work.
But with its pitiful appropriation of
$4,000 year, the State Board of Health
is without the means in hand to pay
the cost, and Or. Irving can give but
little except advice.
This IS an alarming condition. and
Should arouse the Legislature to action
1t 10 not alone the people of King
George who are in jeopardy. The
smallpox epidemic is menace to ad-
Joining counties, and, more or less, to
the entire state In no phase of it
is it a local affair. Local self govern
ment is good. but the state of Virginia
Is concrete organization. and no
county and no section llveth to itself
The interest of enc section must be the
care of all. The State must see TO il
that the general welfare in all cases
Is protected. This is particularly true
of the public health. Disease among
the people wcakens the entire State.
We must stamp out smallpox and
tuberculosis, and every other durable
disease: and we must, as far as we
may, prevent every preventable dis
ease. There is no excuse for small
pox MISUNDERSTANDING none from
any excuse for the spread of consump-
ton. These and other diseases spread
and destroy because of our negligence
and it is a disgrace to us as an en-
lightened people.
Give the state Board Of Health 8
liberal appropriation, and all necessary
means and facilities to carry on a sys
tematic ard scientific crusade against
preventable an1 durable diseases, am
then require the members to do Their
whole duty by humanity and the State
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29

porous business men, defouncing the
| bill In no mistaken terms. However, I
| think Mr. Snnderson Is borrowing
trouble. RI lie will turn to the meet
| ings OF the board OF supervisors OF
this county or about n year ago, he
will find that they passed a law SINH
lar to the Mann bill, and the penal
ties are almost exactly the same Our
law makes all parties engaged in heavy,
injurious hauling over the public
roads of the county responsible for
their condition to reasonable extent
| This law has improvedSour roads some,
or rather kept them from getting as
bad as they would have been, In the
had to take his own medicine like a lit
tie man several times In the year when
he did not want to do 1t, by stopping
on the road that he hauls lumber over
know to my certain knowledge OIL
several other sawmil men that have
spent from $40 to $50 each within the
had cut UP In the county.
Tho mill men here. as rule. have
responded to this law very, graciously,
and ! think the. farmers here realize
IN most cases to repair the damages
done by their wagons. Mr.. Sanderson
is one of our mill mon. us we'll as one
or our most public-Spir1ted citizens.
the first to do his full share OF repair
Ing roads cut up by his mill teams A
grant many Of the counties In vir-
ginia have similar laws to the one
Cumberland has. It strikes the writer
that the weak point In our law. and
the one that Judge Mann is advocat-
ing. IS this: IT is hard and Disagree
able to enforce It. Unless a man Is
disposed to do what is right people
are slow to make him do 1t. 1t strikes
me that a better plan would he to re-
nuiro two-horse teams to use three
inch tires and four-horse teams to
use four-inch tires. where engaged in
any heavy. Injurious hauling, and then
tax their owners so much per team
per year. and this tax to be added to
the courty road fund Then every man
would be compelled to do his part.
whether. he wanted to or not. We all
admit that lumbermen do the public
roads more damage than any other
class of business men. and yet some
of them nay very little tax. and II we
could strike on some law that couli
be easily applied, II would r,e of great
public good Respectfully.
II. p. BAKER,
Chairman Board Supervisors, Cumber-
land County.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
THE JOLLY INSURGENTS.

teT EADERs Hall Bryan at Springfield,
reads headline of tho Chicago
News. That's all right: the people
VIII snow the Republican candidate in No
vemper.--Houaton Post.
"A gentleman cannot live on $4,000 per
year says q bankrupt New York race
Track mend, Oh. yes, gentleman can do
III II Is often difficult for a gent how
ever'--Washinston Herald.
The Baltimore Sun says tariff revision
shop" It is always next, but the trusts
never get through shaving the public
Houston Post
We're in the midst OF the capitol probe
we've had spells OF the Standard OIL probe
a .Ilt., now comes the naval probe. Who
then, dare deny the probity OF our public
mon and neutrality-suspicious. Press.
After smokeess powder the noiscess
firearms. 1t 10 the costess war that many
a 6udset-laden nation would be inclined tc
,"eieome'-New York Evening Post.
J.. Both Governor Hughes and Governor For,
were We're on board the first official train to Hn-
81 Cd the button, Is this prophecy of June
New York World.
H., Prosperity is like a ram under coun.
us churcht every time 1t gets up it bump.
us head'--Nashville American
The Washington correspondents have be
gun telesraphing the prayers Of Chaplain
E, y Of the House OF Representatives
~ must ne encouraging to the chaplain t.
aos .,iaat ms prayers are attracting attention
soine"hefe.--~Boston Globe
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29

that Pullman accommodation is re /.
i fused them by these roads; that the
coaches furnished them for frst-claas
fares are inferior TO those provided for
the whites, and dirty and fltliy"; and
that these coaches In addition to being
unit and unsuitable are usually
crowded with passengers Of every de-
|sorip.ion, who smoke. drink and curse
| in the presence OF women and Gil
Others who possess decent breeding"
! SO far as these allegations refer 70
differences in the character of accom-
mediation provided for the two races.
they are, IL accurate, evidently just.
Negroes who pay first-class fares are
lcntitled to first-clasg Accommodations,
equal rights in these matters having
heen guaranteed TO them by the fif-
lteenth amendment. Railway and sleep
| ing car companies who discriminate
against them. though they may be &C
tuated by sound business reasons, thus
do so at their own risk; and the five
bishops, If they have been illegally
treated are fully justified in prefcrring
charges. But when they go on to COM
plain of the passengers of every de-
In the Presence of women" they touch
Upon quite Il different matter. When
they advance this grievance, they I'M
consciously give a thorough indorse-
mont 10 tho f,,,C to\y nInn
These disorderly persons, whose be-
havior so offended the colored bishops,
We're al negroes, ana the bishops go
beyond tl'eir rights in complaining Of
association with them. In |
this respect, certainly. the races arc
IN exactly equal terms: in that both
have to be brought in contact with
heir own disorderly element. But
here is this difference: The public
sentiment among the white race dis
'ouras.,s unseemly behavior in pubic
places, while among the colored race it
frequently tolcrates and even encour-
tges it. If a white passenger on a
ailway coach smoked, drank and
'ulseu III the presence OF women,
'ther white passengers would quickly
ind way to bring him to order. Tn
ortunately. no such condition prcva lis
mong the negroes, as the bishops
sser.ioa makes very evident. 1t be- /
ones equally evident that tile separa-
ION of these rowdy negroes from the /
whites Whose presence is frequently a
revocation to them rather than re-. ,
traint, was a step wholly in the in ,
crest Of public order and deccncy
But tho respectable colored men, for
heir part. have no right to ask the
interstate Commerce Commission to re-
ieve them of the presence of objec-
ionable members of their race. Their
objective should rather be to labor
aithfully to develop a public senti.
nent among that race which will mako
such disorder impossible
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
wythevIlle. Va. Feb. II, 1905
public Questions.

Editor of The Times-Dispatch:s-
Sir.-I have noticed for several years ,ii,s
my county and State legislative nou.eS
have given time. energy and approt,
priated money for road Improvement
with little good accomplished. As II y,
we have not the money Tor pern'th 'sla
~ improving cur roads unless tne peo-
pie, their posterity and lands are en-.
shaved by bond issue and Interest
to the national banks and rich men.
Now, II the United States govern
ment would Issue to the county on
county bonds 81 to So per acre Of land,
the national banks on government
bonds, and call 1t land or road notes, 10
be used for the permanent improve
ment of the counties roads under q
Federal supervisor or director. notes
to be taken up 5 per cent. per year
without, interest. which would be Is,
suing our currency directly. instead
of indirectly, upon the land, this
would enable US to permanently Inn,
nrove our roads for less than one-third
what we could by the bill gotten out
in the Legisla ture for permanently
improving Charlotte county roads, for
the interest in forty years would
amount to twice the amount borrowed,
and we would still have the princi-
pal to pay,
who would be benefited by the per-
n,anent improyement OF our roads,
would demand of the political parties
that they would pledge themselves
for land or road currency, to be is--
sued on county bonds. as national
bank notes are issued on United States
government bonds, then the masses
could be furnished work on permanent
" improving our public roads. with
Gut anslaving the people to the ma
.tional banks or money lenders which
would solve the asset currency ques,,
ton that Is so vexing Congress. and
make Mt Impossible for long time
for the rich men to bring about
currency panic, such as we had last
for currency. A TAN PAYER.