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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
Mis-. Swain wed. In Washington.

ISpecIaT 20 TIC Ilnles.UIspatCh.I
DANVILLE, VA. February 2S.-Miss
Bessie Swain. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. r. Swain, OF this city and Charles
F. Cook. who is employed by the Sea-
board Air Line Railway at Jackson
Vile. Fla. We're married yesterday in
Washington In the presence of few,
Intimate friends. They will make their
future home at Jacksonville. Mr.. Cook
was formerly employed by the South
ern Railway here
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
POINTED PISTOL AS JOKE;
HIS COUSIN is DEAD

Especial to The Times Dispa tch.1
D.ANVILLE. VA. February 2S.-W. Il.
Mebane. a negro hoy. about seventeen
years of age, shot and instantly killed
his second cousin, Frank Apple, here
last night. He pointed q pistol at him
in joking way, when the weapon ac-
cidentally exploded. The shooting APP
pears to have been purely accidental,
but an investigation will be held Sat
urday. Mebane Is in Jail.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
t:e4 rlt,nnn,a Contrnct.

Manager Lipe has received the signed
contract OF Guy Tltman, which with
the exception OF Reeve. who will not
return Tits season. and Cassidy, com
pletes the number. Titman expresses
confidence as to his ability to stick
this season and is in the best condition.
He has been boxing and playing bas-
ketball to keep his muscles in trim.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
TO arANAGE1 wINsToN-sALEM.
Robert Carter Chosen for the Place by
Athletic AssocfatiOn.

WINSTON SALEM, \. C., Fcbruary
2S.-Thc Athletic Association has elect
ed Robert Carter manager OF the Win.
ston- Salem baseball team. which VIII
be member of the North and South
Carolina League. Mr. Carter played
with the Omaha team for six years
prior to the 1906 season. For two
Years he has been with the Memphis
team In the Southern League. He VIII
assist the local committee in securing
"A team OF star players.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
sml.hnela pefent. Newport News.

TSptciII 10 -TIlt IIilIcs-DIsbHtth.I
SUFFOLK, VA. February 2S.--At a
match checker game in Smithfed, Va.
last night between that town and New
port News, Smithfeld won in series
of seventy-fiye games, winning forty
two and losing fourteen, there being
nineteen drawn games. There were
ten players.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
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49, AaAIN e Id N sTREETa
NO HUNT TO-DAY.

Deep Run hounds will not meet TO.
dav. the going being SO heavy that
neither hounds nor horses would go
rho mace. The next meet Will take
place next Saturday at point TO be
announced later.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
THE F0X-:HUNTERs

Annual Meet of Eastern Virginia Or
GnnizatIon VIII Begin on March 18th.
The annual spring meet OF Eastern
Virginia fox hunters will take place
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
Sporting Letters

The sporting editor OF The Timex
Dispatch will gIn6Iy answer In these
columns my questions regarding
sporting matters. Communications
ON sporting subjects Will also ne
printed, and comments VIII be made,
Address Sporting Editor, Times-Dis-
patch.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-29
FOR PYTHIAN oRPHANAGE.

Special Committee Plnced IN Charge uf
Matter in North Carolina.
Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
ASHEVILLE. N. C.. February IS
The Pyrhians OF this State are now
considering plans for the establish
ment of Pythian orphanase in North
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
FALL OF BALCONY
 PRODUCES PANIC

New York. December 13.-(Special)-A balcony railing in the Golden Rule vaude- vile house on Livingston street gave way during a performance last night ana dashed 50 men and women headlong upon the audience on the floor below. Thirteen nersons were injured but none fatally. Panic reigned in the show place ana when those near the doorsrfied into the street, carrying the news of what had happened inside, the neighborhood went wild with excitement and the arrival or fire engines added to this
 Even with large force of police 1t was a hard thing to control the crowd in which a riotous spirit developed. Women and children fought with the police crying that their fathers or nus bands or brothers or sisters were In the theatre and that they must be dead.
 The police and fremen working under the greatest difficulty finally cleared the theatre of all except the injured after q struggle of half an hour. Counting the injured they found there were 13 some of these were hurried to the hospital while others were taken to their homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
A Lesson From the Panic.

An uncertain year like the one through which we have just passed has not only taught most of us how easily we can dispense with luxuries, but 1t has also taught us to look more carefully Into the value of the actual necessities which we purchase. In such times, the manufact- ured article receives it's severest test and scrutiny, and when we note that the American Lady and American Gentleman Shoes have, under such conditions, in- creased their sale more than s825.000 this year over the sales of the year previous We cannot help but believe that the yer dict Of the public is that they are "a better shoe for the money"
 The Hamilton, Brown Shoe company, which makes the American Lady and American Gentleman Shoes, has for years been the largest shoe house in the world. It is not surprising that, with their enor- economies and experience gained through the manufacture of shoes on such a large scale, they should be able to manufacture economically Every worker in this enor- nous business has constantly before him the motto Keep the Quality Up'' and it is evident that the largely increased sales of the American Lady and Amer ican Gentleman Shoes, in an off year. is due to the observance of that motto
 The great ueHland TOT the American Lady and American Gentleman Shoes, in the east, made 1t necessary for the Ham ilton, Brown Shoe company to seek east. ern headquarters. Negotiations were opened which recently resulted in the purchase of the business of the old-es- tablished firm of Batchelder & Lincoln of Boston, Mass. The acquisition of this business which has been made the east ern headquarters of the Hamilton, Brown Shoe company, will provide an enormous outlet for Hamilton, Brown shoes in the east. and makes it certain that their mark of '15 million will immediately be passed, and new goal of 20 million must be set
 One may gain some idea of the mag nitude of the business of the Hamilton. Brown Shoe company when 1t Is said that their factories and offices in the east and west have street frontage half a mile long and if placed one upon an- | other would make a building 60 stories | Nigh, covering ground area of 6e,4OO | sqtare feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
LIVELY NEWS OUTLOOK
 FOR THE COMING WEEK

Stirring developments of controversies in which President Roosevelt is a central figure will draw the attention of the na- tion and, in a greater or lesser degree, of the world, to Washington this week, where features of the final session of the Sixtieth Congress will be. for one thing, the return of the Brownsville, Tex, cpl sode of the colored troops in an extend ed discussion of the matter in the Sem ate; for another, the Inquiry of the special committee of the House of Representa- tives into the Presidents remarks in his latest message on the subject of limita- ton placed by Congress upon the activ- ities of the secret service force of the treasury department
 Speaking of the interests of the colored troops make germane a reference to remarkable ''health congress- to be held at Tuskegee, Ala, where for the whole week the attention of the colored people of the south will be drawn to the sub ject of general hygiene, especially with reference to measures available in the now widespread battle against tubercu- losis. Meanwhile the eventful experience of a negro population in self-government in Hayti will give new developments Tn the meeting at Port au Prince to elect a president in place of the deposed Nord Alexis.
 President-eIect Taft will spend most of the week in New York, delivering several speeches, perhaps, the most notable or which will be that on Wednesday even ing at the annual banquet of the Ohio society of New York.
 MT. Taft is expected to speak also be- fore the annual meeting of the National Civic federation, which takes place in New York city Monday and Tuesday. He is chairman of that department Of the federation devoted to the interests of public employees, while Mrs. Taft heads the corresponding woman's department She is expected also to make a report at the federation meeting.
 The widely heralded criminal trials of the week will be those of the so-called might riders" of Tennessee, accused more especially of the lyncning of Capt Quentin Rankin and the attempted mur- der of Col. R. z. Taylor at Reelfoot LaKe, and that of Thornton Jenkins Hains, at Flushing, who is charged with being accessory to the killing by his brother, Capt Peter c. Hains, Jr., of the United States army, of William D.. Annis, the well-known magazine editor.
 In the way of civil litigation one of the most interesting cases of the week will be that embodying the attempt of Mrs Charlotte Arnet to prevent the pro- batting of the will of her brother, the late Peter Cooper Hewitt, a cousin of Senator Thomas c. Pratt. MT. Hewitt s estate has been estimated as high as ssO, oO0, ,OO0 and tffe legatees, after bequests to relatives, not exceeding s100,000, are tbe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. and other institutions.
 A novel exhibition, which begins this week, is that at Madison Square Garden of the Junior Aero Club of America. Any boy in the United States under Fl may exhibit models of kites, balloons, gliders,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
MISS FRANCES LEE
 AND HAMMERSTEIN

New York. December 1s.-(special.)- "Ah, yes," said Miss Frances Lee today to a reporter More love letters for the greedy public? Why do my affairs cause such furore? But as long as so many have been printed I might as well do a little talking now"
 Miss Lee is plaintiff in a suit for s100,- GOO against Oscar Hammerstein. She all leges that he broke contract in which he agreed to make her an operatic star '
 "Oscar Hammerstein was really dear old fellow she went on. But oh, how he used to fool me. Yes, fooled me all around the place. You see. I am so soft and was always so unsuspecting, I never dreamed but what he would fulfill all his fine promises made to me. Time and time again he has promised to make me a great singer. to place me above everyone, where my beautiful voice en- titled me to be, and poor, soft nttle Fran ces took it all in and acted accordingly. Time and time again I have sent him away from me and told him not to bother me if he could not help and he-well, Oscar just could not do it. He would always come back. sometimes in tears, and on his knees to be taken back-and ever with fresh promises.
 'I fascinated him. I held him through all the ten years In fact the real req son for his not wishing to place me bn the public eye as a star was his intense Jealousy. He hated to think of my be- coming famous. of being admired by all and becoming public favorite; which can modestly say I might have become if I had had my chance
 'oTbe great trouble with MT. Hammer stain is that he has bad case of swelled head. due no doubt, to his remarkable success"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14

Atlanta, December 13.-(Special)-One of the most unique petitions for elem ency which has come to the attention of the state prison commission, was re- ceived this week from J. w. Hart. a white man, S2 years of age, who was convicted of burglary in Savannah in September, 1907, and sentenced to serve three years at hard labor.
 Hart couches his petition in well-writ- ten verse of which there are 8 stanzas, and in which he confesses his guilt, at tributes it wholly to whisky, indulges in a homily on the curse of liquor and concludes with an appeal for mercy to a man bent under the weight of years and close to the grave.
 The old man has been a sailor prac- tically all his life. He went to sea in 1S44 when he was 16, years old, beginning as deck swabber. He has girded the globe upon the waters and sailed the Pa cifc before the time of Commodore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
Atlanta Will Profit Greatly By Sale of the Beer
DIVORCE MAY BE GRAN TED
Thomas-speer Marriage May Be An nulled-Many Hydrophobia Patients Are Now Undergoing the
 State Treatment.

Atlanta, December 1S.-tspecial) )-Comp- troller General w. A. Wright following the decision of the supreme court sus- taining the legality of the state tax or S2O0 on dealers in near beer, mas sent out instructions to ordinaries all over the state to proceed at once with the coilee- tion of the tax and to turn the proceeds into the state treasury.
 The Georgia .ordinaries have not been very eager to get on to this job. There Is not much compensation in it for them, only a registration fee of s1, and then some of them do not like the idea, im- piled, at least, of being put in the atti- tude of detectives to haul delinquent offenders before the grand juries. There is some question still, therefore as to just how the near beer tax law is going to pan out.
 There are 115 of these near beer dealers in Atlanta which means an income to the state of GOO in this city. It has been estimated that there are something like 1000 of them in the state, which would mean an income of s2OO,000 all of which must be used under the law for the sup port of the penitentiary department.
 The only point made by Justices At kinson and Holden, the two of the su- preme court judges out of six who dis sented, was that the ordinary was not the proper official to collect this tax. They held that it was not the custom of the state to put the collection of taxes into the hands of officials who are not under bond and who would not have authority under the law to issue execution to com pei the payment of the tax. On all other grounds involved they stood with the ma jority in support of the law.
 It is not anticipated that anything vii come from the proposed motion for a rehearing in the case before the supreme court, even if it should be made.
 Despite positive denials from the at torneys involved in the case, it is said there are possibilities of a settlement of the litigation which has recently grown out of the marriage of Miss silvey speer to Russell Thomas her fathers chauf- feur.
 Of course the father and mother of the young lady would hear to no settle ment which did not agree to the unop- posed granting of the divorce for which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
UNIQUE PETITION MADE :.
 BY OLD MAN FOR PARDON

Perry. He says he was on blockade runner during the Civil War. Hart opens his petition for pardon like this: Bending meath a burden of life's
 reverses And the crushing weight of eighty years, In this guise l come pleading for those
 mercies Frail mortals seek when stern death
 nears."
 And he concludes: Again at your mercy's altar I am kneel-
 ing, Again your compassion I implore. will you not-broad-minded men of hu-
 mane feeling Show that mercy which obtains forever
 more?'
 The commission will take the old mans petition under consideration at its Jan uary meeting. It is not unlikely that his case will command favorable atten- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14

aeroplanes, dirigibles or wireless tele- graph apparatus designed by himself.
 In the field of sports much interest att taches to the race between Dorando Pie tri, the Italian Marathon runner who recently took revenge upon John J. Hayes for having defeated him in the international Marathon, and the Indian runner, Tom Longboat. The pugiistic event of the week will be the ''go'' at the Jeffries Athletic club In Los Angeles be- tween Billy Papke and Hugo Kelly.
 This week the presidential electors meet to confirm the popular vote which chose Gomez to serve as Cuba's first chief ex ecutive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
Double Murder By Husband.

Roodhouse, H., December 13.-William Barnhart, switchman on the Chicago and Alton railroad. late last night shot and killed his bride of three months. and then walked to the Roodhouse hotel, where he killed Carl Clapp. an elevator agent. The cause of the crime is not known. Clapp was married and had three children. Barnhart gave himself up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
New Line of Japanese Steamers.

Tol1io, December 18.-At dinner given today to the new Japanese minister to China it was announced that the Toyo Risen Steamship company will start a new line of steamers between Japan and South America, commencing January 1. with three steamers on a regular sched- 11la
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
Norwegian Steamer Ashore.

Copenhagen, December 13.-The Norwe- gian steamer Heindal, Captain Riis, bound from New Orleans and Norfolk for Odense, swedenberg and Viela, has gone ashore at Sjallands reef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14

she has applied and in which she charges that coercion, fraud and duress were employed to bring about the marriage.
 In view of the fact that Mrs. Silvey Speer Thomas now appears anxious to be rid of her husband, 1t is possible that he would accept a money consideration in settlement of the suit for $100000 dam ages which he has brought against MT and Mrs. W. A. .Speer for the alienation Of his wifes affections, and agree not to oppose the suit for divorce.
 That there have been tentative nego- tiations looking to that end, can scarce ly be doubted. According to an authen- tic source of information there has been some sounding going on, so to put It. The talk of settlement as yet of course, is in rather the eonjectural stage.
 But Thomas cannot get his wife If she refuses to go to him, no matter what the result of the litigation. About the only satisfactory and profitable course from his standpoint would therefore be to ac- cept a reasonable settlement, if his wife's parents would agree to it.
 The Speer family is said to be worth easily d million and a quarter. It is said that a compromise would be the easiest way to end the troublesome liti- gation which otherwise might remain in the courts for more than year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14

Three conventions are scheduled for Atlanta the last week of December. The retail marble dealers of Georgia, Florida and Alabama will come here on Decem- Der % for a two days meeting. Freight rates will be an important subject of dis cussion.
 On the same date the Southern Edu- cational association will assemble here, bringing delegates from all the states of the south, for a three days meeting. Industrial education in the public schools will be one of the chief features to re- ceive attention at the hands of this gath ering.
 The national convention of the Chi Phi Medical fraternity will be held here on December 31. This association has mem bers in practically every state in the 1lniOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14

FOR SALE-My residence, 220e Fourteenth Avenue, s. Eugene Fies, Third Avenue and l6th Street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14


 Since it began the treatment of hydro phobia patients on June 29, less than six months ago, the state board of health has had a total of 225 eases in all of which the treatment has been successful. There are now g patients under treat ment by the board, and these cases are being added to almost every day
 The board has secured the services Of a woman physician, Miss Dr. Catherine Collins, who has come here from the New York state board of health, highly rec commended and Is on duty as assistant director of the state boards laboratory. Miss Dr. Collins will have entire charge and supervision of the distribution of the diptheria antitoxin which the board will be ready to furnish patients needing 1t within the next few days.
 There is quite a lively warfare on be- tween the two rival Salvation armies which have established camps in Atlanta the American Salvation Army, which came to Atlanta about a year ago, and the regular Salvation Army, which has been an institution here for years
 The two armies are engaged in collect ing their annual Christmas dinner fund for the poor and are fighting for the best position on the streets, where pass ersby are looked to to contribute dimes and quarters to this purpose
 The American Army has big chim- ney as a collection basket while the reg ular army uses the same old kettle with which 1t has done valiant service in the past. So far there has been no breach of the peace but the two armies are hard at work each determined to feed the biggest crowd and to give them the most to eat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
How Did Jesus Heal,
Correct View of Man.

Mrs. Eddy tells us very simply how Jesus healed Science and Health, page 47e-23): Jesus beheld in science the per- feet man. who appeared to Him where sinnng, mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Savior saw God s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is intact uni versal and that man is ure and holy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14
Spiritual PractIcaIity.

Humanity has sadly fallen into the be- lief that only material force (so-calleO Is practical, therefore material sense has constantly reviled and persecuted the dreamer Let us recall the charming story of the fair young boy, Joseph, of scriptural history. Buoyant and radiant in the joyous consciousness of his vision of spiritual dominion-that law of love to which all must bow-he appears before the false brethren, who say, Behold this dreamer comethi Come, let us slay him" In fullness of time it was Joseph whose forgiving love opened 10 him the treasures of Egypt, that fed the fam ishlng hope of the false brethren, and was their deliVerer.
 We also read, in the exquisite story of solomon's young manhood, when NGod said to him: Ask what shall give thee?' We should all be familiar with the beau tiful answer. concluding with these grand words: Give, therefore, Thy servant an understanding heart, that l may judge Thy people!" And the answer pleased the Lord and He said, Because thou hast asked this thing. and hast not asked for thvself long life, nor riches, nor honor, behold, have done according to thy word Behold. I have given thee an nn- derstanding heart, and have also given thee that thou hast not asked for, both riches and honorg In later times Jesus epitomized this teaching in those great words. Seek ye first the Kingdom or God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
 We have not made these great truths practical because we have not grasped the metaphysics of 1t by understanding the power of the right thought of God, as the infinite source that clothes feeds and sustains man, holding him ever in the rhythmic round of harmonies and who never stops glving-or radiating HIS own blessedness any more than the sun stops shining. Jesus own practical phil anthropy, which was purely spiritual, H. Illustrates these great truisms. Nothing but the Christianity of Jesus can ever tremendously solve the worlds great financial problem.
 Jesus Work or Philanthropy.
 It is conceded by all Christians that the historical Jesus lived and did His mighty works, that this divinely natural
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-06-10

l476 acres OF land In the Moses
Hughes survey, near Edge Price
and terms reasonable,
Half acre OF land with improve
ments, one block east Of my home.
Two small farms adjoining each
other. consisting Of so and 40 acres
respectively: each in cultivation and
west OF Bryan ON Sandy Point road
well improved; situated three miles
This Is fine fruit land
so acres adjoining 4. 4 NJ. Col.
lcge land on west side near Provl.
dence church. Known as the Geo,
v. 3. HUDSON.