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Railway Taxes in Virginia.

Can you inform me what railway
pays the greatest tax to the state or
Virginia? and the total paid by all the
roads? - ?. "
The Norfolk and Western. se56,29s.7l
is the amount assessed against the
roads. The amount paid last year was
about $4,000 short Of this.
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Leading University.

Please tell me which is the leading
university OF the United States j have
heard that Johns Hopkins is so con-
sidered. Is this true?
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An Address.

Atf An Address.
VIII you give me the address of
the publication THE Confederate Vet
eran?" G. a. M.
Confederate Veteran, Nashville. Tenn.
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yIrrinian indians.

can YOU give me an idea Of the
numerical strength OF the principal
indian tribes in Eastern Virginia
about the close of the revolutionary
War? n. r. T.
Mr.. jefferson writing about this
time. 17S1-2 estimates the Mattaponies
at three or four men, allI$with some
negro blood; the Pamunl<ies at ten to
twelve, tolerably pure blooded; the
Chickahomintes to have blended utterly
with the two tribes already named;
and the Nottoways to have not q male
left. B.i K. g
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Examination For Mail Service.

Where Is tho nearest mail service eX-
animation held to my station (BcaveT
Damp and what fee is charged for
entrance? X. u. 2.
Nearest place of examination to you
is Richmond. No fee is charged.
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wide experience and has studied social
conditions IN many countries. To say
that his view is biased, Will be simply
10 say that lie is human. with human
limitations.
Under All circumstances he must be
acknowledged as n man of great abl-
lily. however much one may Disagree
with HIS ideas and his manner of set
ting them forth.
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Confederate killed and wounded. 81
900: missing, $500. Federal killed and
wounded, esq., missing, 61s. A large
part OF all this record is OF doubtful
veracity. The Wells and Strait lists
compiled for the use of the United
States Pension Office are the most
conveniently arranged for reference.
and tho figures above-which we by
no means guarantee-come from those
lists.
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.Esper Ilt

Please give me short statement OF
what the Language "Esperanto" Is.
wv ffTEACHER.
It is an artificial Language, made With
the solo intent that 1T may serve as a n
auxiliary international tongue. The
Inventor was DR.. 4. u. zamenhof, of
Warsaw. Poland. The first book IN
Esperanto was published in 1885, It
employs Roman letters, and most Of
the words are Of Roman origin. Tho
spelling As phonetic the rules OF gram
mar are few. brief, simple and without
any exceptions. The vocabulary con- con-.
'taius about 1890 root Words which are
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-15

Please tell me the meaning of a
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Perhaps we can. when we learn in
what war and on which side this COM
rany was engaged. and the full name
of the captain.
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Poem.. Etc, Wanted.


There lis request for Little Breeches.'
You Have Come Back Too Late.
Sweethearts," The Absent Minded Beg
gar and Bobs." VIII some one be good
enough to send copy?
Awaiting stamp from persons who
made request for copy are over the
Hill from the Poorhouse.'' over the
Hill to the Poorhouse." The Raven
"a Soldiers Farewell" '"rhe Jefferson
Fire" "The ship that Never Returned
These cannot be kept much longer, and
Interested persons are notified to send
for what they want at once.
Various.
lowing q1esllons % Are there any
persons whose signature on mail mat
ter will take the place of stamp?
a rifle which Will drive ball mile
In a minute Is fired In the direction
of the trains motion. Will the ball
reach the milc-mark before the train
7 go Please name In order of strength
the navies of the world. w. B. r.
Cd The ranking privilege, very
widely enjoyed by government officials.
was abolished July 1, 1873. Since tina,
time. by special saving clauses, menu
Ibers of Congress-, the Secretary OF the
Senate, the Clerk OF tire House OF Rep
resentatives, may frank public docu-
ments. speeches, etc. The Secretary OF
Agriculture and mo oers OF Congress
may frank seeds. Letters and parcels
relating exclusively to government bus
mess may be franked BY officials Of the
government aud CT tbs Smithsonian
Institute. III
lss8l2p Yes. ~
tS) England. United states. Germany.
the order according 10 the number Of
first -class ships. Regarding the num-
Der OF men the order is England.
Russia France. Germany. United States.
Japan. Italy Austria.
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. IS IL
--------------
FLOWER o. THE ORANGE. BY Allie
and Egertcn Castle. The Macmillan
Co, Of New York, publishers. s1.5t
The book IS made UP Sf seven STORE ~,
eighteenth and early nineteenth cen
turtles. The book cover shows TIL
Flower O tas Orange" in it's cover de
sign. and the heroine of the romance
under this title. framed In the delicat
white and gold of the blossoms an
holding n cluster of them against IN
spraylike lace of her bodice. looks int
the eyes OF the reader from the fronts
piece.
She lived. so say her creators, dur.
ing the early years of the nineteen
hundreds. and had "a cheek like m
apricot. an eye like fawn and a crist
wave Of locks roun, head SHAPED I. iik <,
was a Scotch minister by name Mac
ken2ie, and her mother an Italian,
waif from the sea. saved from a for
eign vessel wrecked on the headlands
OF Galloway and dying at the brit
of little daughter. whom she called
after herself Maria Annunziata.
Embodying in herself the sweetness
and grace of the orange flower. she
comforts the heart of forsaken infancy
and restores to u cruelty tried but
manly nature its faith in the world
of humanity.
The story is fair sample of those
which follow it. OF these, 1.-THE Young
has the scene laid III
Edinburgh in the 1T45 period. THE
Great White Deeps" following in 1749
has a Partisan background: the fourth
story reyerts to the year 1895 and in.
PRODUCES Queen Elizabeth of England
the fifth has to do with the forty-ifti
Year of the great Queens reign, ant
the sixth makes an advance to the
time of Charles III. The seventh. ant
one, of the best of very fine series
belongs to the early Georgian era. whei
women often saw their image reflected
in the mirror OF a faithful heart"
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Virginia Oniclnls.

In Richmond. Va.
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Any man or woman gets awfully
tired tired going around with a pmply face
day after day. And other people get
awfully tired. too, seeing them 60
around With faces full of disgusting
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The unraVeling OF tho situation and
NE rnal understanding arrived at by
me lovers, each of whom had much
OF The rcadcr N-"N
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place OF the burr Trial.

r. f. D. No. i. Sherwood. Va.
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Opequnn.

Please state the losses on both sides
1T the battle of Opequan.
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Social evils are never cured by be-
ing presented in the odd Wives for
New style. so that Mr.. Phillips has
not even the excuse of pointing Il
moral. His book is simply trash. and
! If anything he writes could be so class
ed--merely stupid trash.
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He paid scane heed to the Gypsy.
however, and was quite Ignorant Of
the fact that she had fallen head over
catch a second sight of her rescucr.
Mirrab, one day recently, while de.
cidedly under the influence Of liquor.
went to HAMPTON Court where she had
heard on read Wessex was to attend
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-30
BEST WA" IN
PIANO PLAYING
An Interesting Musical Recital
With a Pedagogical
Purpose.

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Virgil, who
passed through Honolulu some months
ago on their way to Australia, and
who then presented to a gathering al
Mrs Henry BicknelI's studio, some OF
the principles of musical instruction OF
which they are opponents, presented
these last night to a much larger audi
ence and in a fuller and more compre-
hensive way.
Lecture and Technical and Musical
Recital" was the somewhat awkward
title given to Mr.. Virgins presentation
of his theories and their decidedly in
teresting and instructive illustration
and demonstration by Mrs. Virgil at
the Alexander Young ballroom last
night. There was an attendance at
once complimentary to the visitors and
fattering to the musical interest of
Honolulu. 1t was not mere musical
recital nor simply rendition of music.
1t was intended as discussion, pr1-
marily of the right principles of teach
ing music, particularly of teaching
pianoforte playing.
Mr. Virgil as music teacher has
sought to develop the principles OF
pedagogy as applied to musical in
struction, and TO formulate them in
such way that they may become the
permanent possession of the prCfes-
sion, raising the standard of the pro-
fession, and establishing a standard
by which to judge both teachers and
instruction,
The fundamental basis of Mr.. virgirs
theory of musical execution and sys-
tenn of pedagogy is that there is a
best way to produce every desired
musical effect. There is some principle
of coordination of the elements and
factors necessary to every musical
effect The first duty of the teacher
ing discovered them to make them
available to his pupils.
The great musicians, the great art
lists, have in some way learned these
or many of them. They have seldom
formulated them and may in fact be
unconscious that they use means not
common to all who practise their art.
But having discovered them, and US
Others cannot become artists except
by the use of the same means. Be-
cause the means have not been form
ulated so as to constitute a body of
principles the property of those pro-
Tossing the art. they are taught only
as individual teachers learn of them
by accident or individual investigation,
and hence the highest possibilities of
pianoforte instruction are not attain
ed. 1t is not. Mr.. Virgil insists, that
right instruction will make a finished
musician out of every one, but that
whatever possibilities there are in the
individual can only be brought out by
correct use of means, and this, except
in the rare case of geniuses, can only
occur where there is right instruction.
The program last night began with
some selections rendered by Mrs. Vir-
gil illustrative of some of the princi-
pies of correct technic. Mr.. Virgil
then gave a lecture on Education in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD PUT
IN BRIEF CHRONICLES

Gold exports in New York May goth
exceeded $3O,00O.000.
Crops were damaged in the North
west. May 81, by a three-foot fall of
snow.
Marian Grey of Chicago has been
fined $1,000 for conducting a matrimo-
NAL bureau.
City Architect Thorp of San Fran
cisco, has advised rebuilding the City
Hall on the original lines.
The big oil ship Ascension went
aground near Astoria, but was f1oated
at high tide, escaping damage.
The Wintermeyer Box factory in
Chicago was destroyed by fire, involv-
ing a loss of one million dollars.
Beer is being delivered at night to
Reno. New. customers, who are afraid
of the growing prohibition sentiment
of the community.
Cranston Allen. the first settler in
Reno, New, and once a power in
politics, died at his home near that
place at the age of ninety-four.
A new bridge on the New Haven and
Hartford railroad at Baychester, N Y,
was wrecked by dynamiters. Fifty
pounds of the explosive were used.
James NJ. Lynch was elected presi-
dent of the International Typograph-
zeal Union. at the annual election held
throughout its jurisdiction on May 90.
The Union Oil Co of San Francisco
has increased its capital stock to $780,
000,0 goo and is preparing to develop the
industry in California on gigantic
scale.
A carload of mail was burned on the
NNVnn1incr division of TTninn Pa
cific r. r. May q. The sre broke out
in a storage car and could not be con-
trolled.
Mae Wood, who claimed to be the
common law wife of Senator PIatt
has been sent to the Tomhs in default
of $4,000 bail. She says she will fight
as long as Plat is alive.
In the wrecking of the Portland
Express near Pinole, Ore, the fireman
and express messenger were killed,
the engineer seriously injured, and two
men are reported missing.
Quarrels and poverty led to the sui
eide of William H. Hannah, an Oak
land grocer. He had been forbidden by
his wife to aid his aged mother who
was sent to the poorhouse.
Mrs. Henry Bernardon assaulted Pc
ter Rogers, the official dog-catcher of
Berkeley, with heavy riding whip
when he captured her pet poodle. She
paid So and recovered the dog.
DR.. Edward ]. Greedy was sentenced
to, four days imprisonment in the
county Jail for shouting at Judge
Dooling, as he passed along the street.
Don't convict my friend Abe Ruef."
Charles McDermott, an ironworkeEa
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stole two oil paintings from Sherry's
| in New York, valued at $500 each. Ht
| took them home and his mother uset
| them to stop a hole in the cellar
window
A special train will be run from Los
Angeles for the accommodation of rs
mattresses who are required for the
| Yellowstone Park hotels. No other pas
senger will be carried on the waitress
| special
| Guy Pearson Byrd, an. Oakland posta
clerk, was given a minimum sentence
of one year Imprisonment for stealing
| s1.O5 from a letter. He had been try
ing to support himself and his wife
on $50 a month.
Thomas A. Mcintyre, New York
broker, has been indicted for larceny
| in the first degree. He is charged with
embezzling stocks belonging to his
clients amounting to 100000. He has
been released on bail.
Professors A NJ Cathcart and r. z
Swain rendered their designations as
members of the faculty of Stanford
University 1t is believed that they
were not in sympathy with President
Jordan and his satellites.
District Attorney Francis J. Heney
states that San Francisco is overrun
by armed thugs and bloody anarchists
who are more dangerous than plague
rats He asks for an appropriation of
$125.000 to drive them out.
The great wharf at Port Los An
geles. which was built at the cost of
one million dollars by the late Coils P.
Huntington, has been abandoned. The
structure is in prime condition and it's
abandonment is a mystery.
Three hundred tons of pre-digested
breakfast food is piled up on the dock
at Seattle. It was shipped from Mon
treal to England where no market
could be found. and then sent around
the Horn to the Pacific coast.
A bill in equity has been filed in
Boston to restrain the N Y. New
Haven and Hartford r. r. from alb
sorbing the Boston and Maine line-a
plan set on foot to control the trans
portation system of New England.
AS a result of the visit Of the great
fleet to san Diego. a report will be
made emphasizing the need of improv-
ing the harbor by widening the chan
mel so as to provide anchorage for large
war vessels and easy access to coaling
stations
At the Methodist National confer
ence, held in Baltimore, a recommen-
dation was made that hereafter the
book concerns of the church employ
only union men, at union wages. and
favor union labor whenever the oppor-
tunity offers
Senator Thomas c. Plat, who has
n keen sued by Mae Wood for absolute
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4 WORD To THE
PRHEF|GHTERs

Editor Advertiser: For the benefit of
those who propose to take part in the
boxing contest this evening it is fair to
notify them plainly that complaints and
prosecutions will follow violation of
the law. a reporter of the Advertiser
asked me if the ministers would be
satisfied with the making of protest
10 the prizefghting and would go no
further. I replied they certainly will
not stop with simple protest. The
matter will be followed up and test
will be made as to whether United
States laws are to be observed in Ha-
waii or not. The Civic Federation also
expects to act, believe.
If it is decided that Federal laws
against prizefghting cannot apply to
this Territory, it will mean that figh .ers
from the coast will come in, and tough
characters will find this rallying place
for big fights and prize contests of all
sorts. 1t certainly will not improve the
town or promote law and order or pros
perity. If Mr.. Breckons was right in
stopping prizefghting at Kaimuki last
year, at the request of the Ministerial
Union, he certainly is wrong now in
refusing to act. If he is right now, he
must have been wrong then. However,
the matter will be pushed and every
effort will be made to keep out of Ho-
nolulu prizefghting and its accompany
ing evils Unfortunately it may cause
some trouble to those who have been
persuaded to go into this contest and
who are liable to heavy punishment for
so doing, but the law will be enforced
if possible.
E. W. TIMING.
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Music the theme of which was that
effective playing and intelligent list
ening are the direct result of right
schOoling." In this, while presenting
some of the principles that must gujde
both the player and the listener. he
urged a higher ethical standard for
teachers. This lecture was followed
by technical illustrations by Mrs Vir-
gil on clavier and piano, showing how
given effects are produced. Some of
these illustrations consisted of scale
playing, and to this usually monoto-
nous and dreary exercise Mrs. Virgil
gave a life and character that. while
it could not make them music. could
make interesting. Besides scale studies
Mrs. Virgil gave chord studies illus
trating the movements required in
marcato legato and staccato chords.
Following these were studies from
Czerny, Schumann, and Weber in
which the principles shown in detail
in the scale and chord studies were
shown in their musical effects. The
second part of the program included
in octave scale plaving
and exercises for the study of different
grades of power and qualities of touch
in chord playing, concluding with
selections from Kullak, Mokrejs and
List.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil expect to leave
by the Alameda next Wednesday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-30

Bridgewater's popcorn Crackerjack
ready at ten this morning. Phone
49, 3
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-30

Everybody is talking about Bridge
waters hot peanutS-and no small
wonder.
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Phone iii for McLeod's big Buick,
If you want a public auto.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
BANK STOCKS.

R.nor,.d bv Clinton Gilbert. No Wall street)
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27

MONEY MARKET.-Money call opened
cent; highest. ~ per cent lowest Il per cent:
last loan. 1A cent closing. 1G1i4 per cent rui-
ing rate. ! per cent. Time money continued quite
easy Business was dull Rates . per cent for
sixty days. 2ia to 2a per for ninety DAYS 3
per cent for four months. 81 to 3ta per 5
months. 3fe to per cent for six months.
Mercantile paper quiet There was a moder-
ate buying OF the high grades Rates 80. to a.
per cent Tor sixty to ninety days endorsed bills
receivable TO AZ cent for choice four and six
months single names. per cent for others.
FOREIGN HANGE-The foreign exchange
market opened firmer at advance OF 5 TO 10
points. 4sQ4 ssCs for cables sy74 s. s5 for de-
mand sterling and 4843Gd4 s. X for sixty dav bills
Short francs were quoted at III plus 1872
and short reichsmarks at % 3-16a95 3l6 plus 1-32
The market showed increased irnness in the after
noon. rising points further from the opening
Cables quoted at 4.s605d4 S. 10. demand ster-
ling at As sd4S.sO and sixty day bills at 4S4 3Oa
4.S4 10. Short francs quoted at 5.I7Ja plus
1-32. and short reichsmarks at 95 3-l6. plus l-a2
folio
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27

rs " i
1000 Ci.v g c & st L
ST l. Div LIST. 2
5000 Col & So Ref &
Ext 4i.s ..... E
1000 g r G I Gen IS. q
1000 Col Mid i.t 4s. q
1000 Con Gas Deb ss II
5000 Con Toh As -.. :
AlfsA Del & IL PEI A.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
Bowling Green Trust Co.,
2o BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

OFFICERS:
EDWIN GOULD Pr.sia.,s
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR 1st Vice-Pr.sident
CHAS. P. ARMSTRONG I'd Vice -Preside,.
JOHN A. HILTON Sd V-Pres 4 Tr.a.
WILLIAM NJ. LAWS Secre.a-v
DIRECTORS:
Charles P. Armstrong. George J. Gould,
Frank Brainard. John A. Hilton,
Harry Bronner. Edward T. Je1ery,
Franklin @. Brown. Winslow s. Pierce,
Robert G. Clowry, Morton T. Plant,
Edmund G. Converse. Dick S. Ramsay,
VIM Nelson Cromwell, Frederick B. Schenck
P. G. Costello, Andrew Squire,
Grenville M Deige. William n. Taylor.
A. Goepel, John P. Truesdell.
Edwin Gould, E. z. G. Young.
Frank j. Gould
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

STT INT X T y 't's. lU'ItI 1'F0 do .....--
Total sale. Of bonds 81 Ts9 600
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
PHILADELPHIA S1OChS.

FURNISHED by Charles d. Barney d g. CS,5 ah street.
street New York and No -
a
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27

II nlisted
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

For the larger part of the session extreme dul-
ness prevailed in the market for outside secu,I'
while price changes in general were lllSsil.ii l.
-rn,,ord midday however a slight improvement
was shown and values advanced 1racuoiiaIly'
There was scarcely any feature to the t[ aah4fv
Tri- Bullion developed some hr1nness on r-,.
more animation United Copper improved aoo
s. Nipissing Miami and La Rose 0ohI CONSUME -
ruled steady Guggenheim Exploration a .bJg
eroup were without Importance Bay SCa,e oit 80 80
Vas. irregular and less active. Standard On .J
off about ? points Chicago Subway was ieeie iee,n
In bonds T'idewater notes were firm Aiieli0a
Steel Foundry is easier
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
GOVERNMENT BONDS.

Inc foiio"lns shows yesterdays closing Quota
fi9ns for government bonds. compared with T,es-
days:
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27
don New York New York
'Ex dividend.

FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-Cal money In
London. q. per cent; open market discount rate for
short bills, IL per cent; long bills. IL cent
Berlin discount rate, ~ per cent Paris discount
rate. IL per cent. Paris exchange London. Is
francs 13hs centimes Berlin exchange on London.
20 marks 4Ua pfennings Bar gold. 77s l017d.
FOREIGN SECURITIES.-British consols for
money 3s7 per cent: for the account, S61a. French
reutee. S francs - centimeA.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-27

Financial Meetings.

CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, & ST PAUL RAILWAY
COMPANY Broadway. New fork-The Ann1al
Meeting the Stockholders Of this Company for the
% for transaction OF any other
Company Will be held at the once OF
the COMPANY in the City OF Milwaukee, al IL oclock
noon Of Saturday September 18th 1908 The transfer
books will closed Wednesday. August 18th lSos
an med on Monday. September 2lst- 1909
ROSWELL MILLER. Chairman OF the Board
TSt