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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-07
Norfolk Social News.
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NORFOLK, VA, June 6.---Thls week
In Norfolk has been one of weddings,
and the June BRIDES have received the
greater part or the attention of the
IBmarter set. Gradually the sensible and
mountain resorts arc claiming the peo-
pie OF the city, and another three weeks
will find social circles the dullest Of
the year.
Mrs. John w. CAST, sr., or Raleigh
Avenue, delightfniy entertained Thurs
day at her beautiful home in honor or
Miss Abbie Wilson, the occasion being
All old time sewing bee" Several
hours were spent In dainty handiworiS
with tho needle, following which re-
freshmcnts were served and an in
formal musical program rendered.
Miss Otey Minor was the hostess at
her Redgatc Avenue home Wednesday
afternoon at a pleasant bridge whist
party, complimentary to here sister,
Mrs. Abner Pope, Of Richmond, Va.
There were two table and those playing
we're Mrs. Pope, Mrs. John Sebrell, Mrs.
Mary Booth of Pittsburg: Misses Mary
Bell and Alma Glennan. Miss Marion
Simmons, Virginia Gray and Miss Min
or. The highest score was made by
Miss Minor, who won the prize, o pair
lof silk stockings, which she presented
TO the guest OF honor DAINTY refresh
ments were served after the game.
Misses Lily and Laura Staples enter
tanned. a number of friends at their
home. t314 East Highland Avenue, Tues
day evening. The evening was most
enJoyably spent by all present. Music
was furnished by the Mandolin and
Guitar Club of Portsmouth, composed
OF the following gentemen: Messrs.
Taylor, Anderson, Cain, Hardlove, Mel
Ilins and Cain. Several beautiful piano
selections were rendered by Miss Ed
monds and Mr.. Anderson. At late
hour refreshments were served.
Tuesday at the Southern Pleasure
Club at Ocean View the fifth annual
reunion Of the Norfolk College Alum
nae took place, and the outing was pro-
nounced most enjoyable a banquet
was served at o'clock and Miss Jessie
Land acted as toast mistress. Mrs.
Hcnnye spagat Nusbaum offered a
toast on Our Work" Miss BERTHE Met
ger gave the time-honored College
Days" and Mrs. Mabel Cole Davis, Our
Reunion" Miss Lillian ogilvie gave the
laiulnnae song.
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was presented to me by Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, tho American millionaire, and
1t was utilized for rowling my first
memory of you In n way which you
would perhaps hardly guess. When
you were In Derby during your mar
rlage tour, and when was n boy of
perhaps nine or ten, an evening was
spent at the house Of my Uncle John.
and you gave us on the plano ono of
Beethoven's pieces.
II have remembered 1t ever since,
and 1t has always been a great favor
lite OF mine. and on Christmas Day I
had 1t played to me as being my earll-
est remembrance associated with yoti."
The second volume Of the Life and
Letters" takes up Spencer In 1892. and
continues the account OF the man and
his work until his death, on Decem-
Der 8, 1908 The reader is told how
his body was committed to the crernn-
forum at Golders Green in the pres
erce OF few intimate friends, and
his ashes afterwards deposited in a
surcoplagus at Highgate Cemetery.
In the summing up OF Spcncer's char
acter.-Jlr. Duncan uses the following
quotation:
In the whole story OF the searchers
for truth" said the Times, Just after
his death, there is no instance OF
devotion to noble aims SURPRISING his
courage. battling Ill health, and proof
against years OF encouragement. un-
wearied patience. wise economy of
powers. and confidence In tho future
recognition Of the value Of his work"
The volumes bear SO plainly in their
title their meaning and their value
that they arc altogether independent of
ordinary book criticism. and stand in
the world Of letters on their own
worth.
MY LIFE AND MY LECTURES. BY
Lamar Fontaine, G. E.. PHI. d. The
Neaie Publishing Company, of New
York. $500.
A fascinating personality described
in fascinating book. Lamar Fon-
tame is asman of unusual experience.
and the weaving OF these experiences
into a whole makes OF his life story
a vivid romance.
Born IN q tent on Laberde Prairie.
now Washington county, Texas, Octo-
ring years and witnessed great
changes. During his boyfood he was
trained by German baron, banished
from his native land for his share
In the Polish rebellion. a man Of ac-
accomplishments and learning.
At ten years OF age. however, Fon-
taine was taken captive by the Co
mancle Indians. and after five years
imprisonment went to sea. For six
teen subsequent years he saw life in
many cllmes and among many people
in China. Egypt. india, Palestine. South
America in the Desert Of Sahara, from
Fee TO the valley OF the Nile, with
Lieutenant Lynch in the Holy Land,
with Lieutenant Herndon In the ex-
ploration Of the Amazon, with the
Kioski bodyguard in the siege of Sc
vastopol.
with the infantry from Mississippi
and the cavalry of Virginia, he fought
during the War between the states and
came out OF 1t a survivor OF the 500
Morris Island prisoners.
The book. which Mr.. Fontaine en-
titles MY Life and My Lectures" de-
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Virginia 1nstltu.e Bristol. tho pas. session,

Virginia Institute Bristol. the past session
has returned. ~ &ish u
Mrs Malcolm Smith and children return
eli Tuesday from Knoxville. where they
have been Waiting relatives.
Mr.. W. r. carnes, secretary to Congress-
man slemp. who has been In Washington
since the first Of the year. arrived In town
on Monday.
Mrs. NJ. II. McCorkie and little daughtc.'.
Julia, were tho guests of Mrs. McCorkle's
grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. ". KENNEDY,
several days last week.
Mrs. I. c. Taylor returned Saturday from
the family of Rev. j. II. A. Shuer.
Congressman c. B. Slemp and mother and
sister. Miss jamie, arrived from Washington
whore Mrs. semp, who is in poor health,
will spend some time with her daughter,
Mrs. ]. p. Edmonds.
Mrs. D. F. Orr returned Saturday from
| a ten days. stay With relatives in Knoxville
John Fox. Jr, The welf-kaown novelist
returned Monday from an extended stay In
the North. Mr. FoS's new novel. THE Trai
@: the Lone<,me Pine which ia appearing
serialIy in Scrihner's, has received much
favorable comment, and the general opinion
Is that 1t is his best work.
Mr.. James Taylor. who has been attend
ing the National business College at Roam
oke. has returned TO his home here, having
completed the business course of that instl-
tuition.
Mrs. Anns X. Morrison Is the guest OF her
son Henry. at Gate City.
Miss Margaret Bullitt, a student at RAN
dolph- Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg,
tho past session, returned to her home IN
Wednesday,.
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Wilmington Social News.
Special to Tho T imes.Dlsbntch. Z

WILMINGToN,,,yA... June s.-NIr. and
Mrs. James Goodman and two little
of Blossburg, Ala, are visit
ing Mr.. Goodman's mother at Oak Hill,
the old family home.
Miss Lucy Lee Jones. of Carysbrook,
has returned home after spending the
spring with relatives in Charleston, S.
C. Mr.. Julian G. Jones is also at
sCarysbrook on a vacation from bus
mess In Chicago.
Mrs. Charles Perkins, of Fork Union,
is spending week here with her Sis
ter. Mrs. C. o. Perkins.
DR.. Charles A. Elicit has returned
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LIFE AND LETTERS or HERBERT
SPENCER. BY David Duncan,
j Ill, y. D. Appleton e Co, OF New
y Ynrk nuhfRLnra NnlA $h.0n.


SPENCER. BY David Duncan,
Ill. y. y. Appleton & Co, OF New
York, publishers 2 Vols. $500.
These volumes, the Importance Of
which must mt once commend, them
to lovers OF what Is good in the world
OF literature, take UP at first the
family history and parentage of Her
bert Spencer. From the .chaptcr In
which both are recorded the transit
tion Is natural and easy to the story
of his birth on April "a. 1890, at n
house in Exeter Row. Derby, where
George Spencer, Herbert spcncer's
father, and his wife began their mar
ricd life. Thereafter tho years OF
the Influences which nodded them,
arc taken into estimation. and Spencer's
later entrance into the professional
world Of engineering is considered.
Then come the years between 1S41 and
1874. when he wooed but did not win
literature. His reversion to engincer-
ing comes next December OF 1S4S, one
Is Informed, was marked by hls'accept-
ance of the post OF sub-cdltor on tho
London, Economist. Soon after he pub
lished his first book, which The called
Social statics'
In July OF 1853, DR.. Duncan says.
he severed his connection with the
Economist. went for u trip on the Con-
tinent, aud In 1855 published his New
Psychology Concerning this, Spen-
Ger writes TO Lord Tennyson that:
IT happened to be rereading your
poem. The Two Voices and coming to
tile verse:
"sOr IL thro' lower lives I came,
Tho all experience past became
Consolidate in mind and frame.
1T occurred TO me that you might like
to glance through book which applies
To tho elucldation OF mental science,
the hypothesis to which you refer. I
therefore beg your acceptance of
Psychology which j send by this post :,
Subsequent chapters on "Thc Unif,-
cation Of knowledge" and on First
Principles" are fun of interest. they
tell how Spencer began work on ..Thc
Principles OF Biology" fin September,
1S6.; low the first number of the
series WAS issued In January, 1853, and
the second in April OF that year. His
after work on Psychology and De-
scriptive Sociology" on THE study
of Sociology" occupies two additional
chapters.
The writer OF his Life and Letters
dwella upon his distaste for honors and
ceremonial. as evinced In his articles
In the For;nightly on Ceremonial
Government" which. lie points out,
were followed by the appearance OF his
Data Of Ethics"
or his travels In Egypt and America
nothing more remarkable is quoted by
DIR. Duncan than the sentences from
speech made by him at Deimonico's,
New York. in which Spencer said:
Life ~ not for learning. nor Is life
for working; but learning and work
ing are for life
And again: I'VE have had somewhat
TOO much OF the gospel of work; it Is
time to preach the gospel of rclaxa-
ton
In tho last chapter of Volume I oc-
ours this passage in a letter written
10 spencer.s Aunt Anna, and filled
with "reminiscences of his childish days
lie says
Last summer-1sa1--a very fine plano
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Big Stone Gap Social News.

I l!Dlecial TO Tic TInes- De tcl.I ~ I. 7T
BIG STONE GAP. VA, .llne 6,-Miss
Pearl G;uthrie, of Bulls Cap. Tenn, Is visit
ling her sister, Mrs. j. q. Mvore. !,
MI and Mrs, Hugh Jcssee, OF l.Nlnsstone,
Ky who have benn-the guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. w. IL. Carnes for several days. have
Miss Vera Wills has returned from Nav,
tina washington College, at Abingdon. where
sl,o has been attending school,
Mrs Shulers Gilly loft Monday for Mount
itain,CitS. Tenn where she viii spend some
time With her parents.
Miss Mabel 9McWanc.t of Lynrhburg. Is yls-
ting hcr aunt, Mrs. j, S. Wright.
& Mi. and Mrs. w X, Lindsey OF Gin
cnnnti. arc spending a few days With resA-
stivcs here n lsS
Miss pullan,, daughter Of Rev. and Alrs
NC. pulIi4m.t WHO WIS Q stndent At.-ths
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plans. Mrs. Branch had been Mr.. St
Johns stenographer in his Bristol Of

plans, N1rS. BTuiCil IittQ pGeA AAA. ~.
Joints stenographer in his Bristol Of
flee.
Mrs. II. G.. Peters and little son and
Miss Brown are visiting relatives at
Martinsville. Va.
Mr.. II. Ct. Peters has returned from
Madisonville and Sweetwater, Tenn"
where he spent part Of the week.
Many Bristol ladies' attended the un-
yelling of the monument to the mem
DRY OF the Confederate soldiers Of
Washington county, Va. at Abingdon
Wednesday.
The Rev. c. C. Carson. D. D.. and his
family have arrived here from Naldosal.
Ga, DR.. Carson will preach his initial
sermon as pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church Sunday morning. he
lis a former East Tennesseean. being a
son of Lieutenant John Carson. OF
Rogersville.
Mrs. +. j. Umstattd entertained the
Old Fashioned Club "Wednesday. Among
the guest We're Mesdames Charles Pugh
u. III. McCue, l.. NJ. Bolton. j., L. Davis,
IN. j. Mcclellan. j. "A. Dickey, W. +.
Vance, w. b. Gillespie. A D. Reynolds.
ID. NJ. Lafitte, j. G. Kunnert, G. II. Oney.
George Robertson and j. 1. Grumbey.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Clark have an
nounced the engagement OF their
daughter to Captain Charles Is. Swan.
The marriage will take place at NO.
1909 Windsor Avenue, at o'clock Z.
NJ, June Gath.
Miss Kathleen Price. of Rogersville,
lis the guest OF Miss Alice Fain.
Mr.. and Mrs NJ. n. York are being
congratulated upon the arrival OF q
daughter in their home on Alabama
Street.
Mrs. Otto Bricc has returned to, her
home in Ohio, after a visit to Bristol
relatives. She was accompanied by
her sister, Miss Lula Moses.
Mrs. A s. J. Wheeler has as her
guests her mother. Mrs. j. 7. Runion.
and her aunt, Mrs. r. p. Brown. of
Pulaski and Wythevllle, respectively.
A marriage Of much interest to Bris-
tolians was celebrated at Marion. Va
Wednesday,, when Miss Nora B. Rich
ardson, the talented daughter of Judge
George w. Richardson. became the
bride OF John B. Hufford, of West Vir-
Einia. Tho Rev. j. ]. schere, who had
married the parents of both the bride
and groom, offlciated. Ferdinand
powell, of Johnson City. was best man
to the groom, while Mrs. Wy Hawk
ms, OF Marion, was the matron Of
honor.
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Bristol Social News.

Special TO The Enthusiastically
BRISTOL. VA. June 6.-Mrs. Laura
Carr Branch. widow of Stewart Branch
was married to Charles II. ST. John. a
prominent young business man of Rris-
toll, in Washington. D. c., this week.
Mr.. st. John had gone there on bust
ness, and Mrs. Branch left few days
ago in accordance with prearranged
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10 Richmond after a visit to relatives

to Richmond after visit to relatives
here.
Miss Lizzie seay. OF Richmond. is at.
home for a few days with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Seay.
Miss Evelyn Gray Bell Is at home
again after spending a few days in
Richmond.
Miss Betty P. Cleveland, Mrs. w. g.
Shepherd and Miss Sallie Gray Shep-
herd, returned from Hollins a few days
since.
DR. T. Arthur Campbell spent sew
eral days in Richmond on business this
week looking after supplies and fix
lures for acetylene gas, which is be-
ing used in private houses in this
vicinity.
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Mrs. II. G.. Peters and little son and
Miss Brown are visiting relatives at
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write "aaYnger sections and supposed
to be stlpefiofs In soidiership.o
IT IL an Dttempt OF one literary man
to compliment another literary man,
and In doing SO he unveils his own
Ignorance vi tho history OF his own
country. X. II. FLEM1NG.
sLynchburg. Va. ~
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rives its special merit from the fact
that Its author has always and under
all circumstances been an observer and
thinker. student OF men, manners
and governments His ability to fnfuse
into the story Of his experiences the
dash and color OF his personality scpa-
rates It from tho prosalc and the com
monplace and endows 1t with vitality
that Is inpcrslablc.
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An exquisite idyl begun In the days
OF King Louis and Queen Marie An
toinette OF France. and ending on the
guillotine during the mad orgy os the
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-20
FURRY" never
TOUCHED BANKS
OF SOUTH DAKOTA
When Wall Street Was Shaking
the Banks Deposits Were
Increasing.

Pierre, S. D., March 19.--The re-
port of the controller of the currency
for the call on national banks in South
Dakota on December 3 last, shows that
Che financial furry, which was then
distressing the country, did not AFFECT
the banks OF this state. From the time
of the call jn August to that OF the De
cenlber call, when the conditions were
the worst the individual deposits in the
national banks of the state increased
STG2,S42 The national banks showed
a net increase of S2,730.401 from Jam
uary TO December of last year, making
showing OF s20,a2S,322 in December
of last year The state banks no doubt
dil their share in increasing the bank
deposits and the total would make a
gooG showing.
State Lands to Be Sold.
The state lands board at a meeting
here decided to offer all the remaining
state capitol lands east Of the river for
sale to the highest bidder or bidders.
There will be no auction in the coun-
ties in which the lands are situated,
but the sales viii be made at the otfice
of the state land commissioners, after
due advertisement. Bids will he accept
ed for all which remains or for any
specifi, tract
About 5000 acres remain unsold east
of the Missouri river, being located In
the counties OF Hyde. Faulk and Potter.
All The other lands east of the river
were disposed of within the lest year.
syudicates taking all in several OF tae
counties time.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-20
MURDERED GIRL WAS
KIDNAPPED WHEN BABE

Rapid City, S. D., March 16.-That
Rose Adams, the pretty little school
girl who was shot and killed here by
her adopted mother. Mrs. Henry Har-
bour, was in reality Rose Rosso.
daughter of a Minneapolis business
man, and that as a baby she had been
kidnapped from Catholic home in Oma-
ha, were the statements made here by
Dominic Rosso, the girls father, who
has just arrived from Minneapolis
Rosso read OF the tragedy in the Min
neapolls papers on Sunday morning
and at once wired to ho) the remains
until he reached here. He tells an un-
usual story.
Rosso declares that although Mrs.
Harbour legally adopted the girl in
omaha some years ago. she secured
possession of the child by trickery.
Mrs. Rosso died when Rose was less
than year old, and the baby was
turned over to the home where the
father visited it. One day he learned
from the authorities there that an at
tractive young woman had appeared
and begged to keep the child for one
week, and on her appearance the sis
ters gave up the baby. Neither the
woman nor the child were ever again
seen by either the sisters or the father.
although they continued to live in
Omaha until two years ago. Mrs. Ad-
ans first husband was a clerk in a
packing house in South Omaha and
four years ago he divorced the woman
in Omaha. Then Harbour met her and
later married her. bringing his wife and
the adopted girl to Rapid City, where
Rnse was completing her education.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-20
PURE WATER COSTS
HARTMAN $4,000

Suffern. N. y, March 13.-E. H. Har-
rilnan is digging a ditch at cost of
100000 in the Ramapo mountains, to
make sure of having pure water in hia
new house here. The ditch is four feet
deep. four feet wide and half mile
long, the greater part of the distance
through solid rock.
1t is being eXcavated between Tower
Hill, on which the Hartman mansion
is being built, and Noun Arama, the
highest peak Of the range.
On the latter elevation will be con-
structed concrete and stone reservoir,
having one section for the storage of
well water and another for lake water.
In the ditch will run two six-inch
lines of pipe. Through one of these wa
ter will be forced from an artesian well.
exclusively for domestic and drinking
purposes. The other. leading from For
est lake, will supply the bathrooms,
swimming pool, fountains. fire protec-
ton and general servic
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-20
NEW DEMOCRATIC
PAPER FIR kAPID CITY

Pukwana. S. D., March Hilary
Wentzy, chairman of the democratic
state committee of South Dakota and
publisher of the Pukwana Press-Re-
porter, has just completed arrange
ments for establishing new democrat
ic newspaper at Rspid City. Associ-
hted with him in the enterprise is Bert
I. Barnes. proprietor of a job printing
establishment at Rapid City. The new
proprietors have just returned from
Chicago where they purchased a com
including Mergenthaler typesetting
machine. The new material will be
merged with the Barnes job plant and
will make one Of the most thoroughly
equipped offices in the state.
The name Of the new publication will
be the Gate City Guide which is sug-
gestive from the fact that Rapid City
Is frequently termed the gate city to
the Black Hills district.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-20
IOWA LUNATic FuTS
ON PAUL REVERE STUNT

Huron, S. D., March 16.-"Jake" Ze-
man, young man aged Il. who Is
nemented and who q few days ago ter
sorIzed the farmers on the Iowa side
of the line near here, has been taken
to the institute at Knoxville, Ia. He
had been at the institute for a time be-
fore his more recent escapade, and was
supposed to have been cured, but de-
velopnents proved that he had become
more violent than ever before.
The demented young man started his
reign of terror by tearing down mail
boxes. cutting up harnesses and tear
4ng things to pieces generally, badly
frishtening the residents Of the neigh
horhood. His next move was to climb
to the top snan of a railroad bridge and
nail up a flag. AT night he saddled up
horse and rode madly about the
neighborhood during the whole night.
The animal was nearly dead from ex-
haustion when the crazed man returned
1t the following morning,
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sFL03ETTA" SEEKS
MO.\EY FR IN KOME

New York, March 17.-Jere X Cooke.
the deposed pastor of the Episcopal
church at Hemstead, L. l., and Floretta
Whaley, with whom he eloped are i'll
and destitute in San Francisco. accord
ing to telegram received by Mrs.
kezieh Whaley. the girls grandmother.
The message was signed "Floretta"
and asked that an answer be sent in
care of the Western Union Telegraph
company.
Mrs Whaley later said thct some &c.
900 belonging to Floretta was in trust
at Hempsted. but that she would re-
quire more definite information regard
ing the state of affairs before she gave
aid to Ter granddaughter. The fact
that the telegram was prepaid infu-
enced her opinion, she added, that the
two were not in such financial dis
tress as to justify hasty action on her
ort
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TallOW hERC.;: .;:ANT
SLAIN IN SHANTY
NEAR SIOUX FALLS

SiouXFal Is, S. D., March 19.-Theo-
dore 5othmitn, tallow merchant, who
had lived here about eight months.
was murdered in his shanty on the Big
Sioux river three miles northeast OF
town last evening.
sistant and who gave the authorities
the first information which resulted
sn rne discovery OF the murder, states
that while he was preparing supper
for himself and his employer a
stranger appeared at the door and
asked for something to eat. He was
invited in and the young man was
when the stranger suddenly drew a
EeNoiver covered the young man and
ordered him to throw up his hands.
According to the story of the young
man he instantly grabbed his coat and
fled from the shanty. the stranger fol-
lowing him and firing several shots
at him as he fed Upon emerging
from the sllanty the young man de-
clares he saw two other strangers.
the assistant has been held and now
IS in the custody OF Sheriff Nelson.
The murdered man was about SO or
IS years of age. His home was at
Gary, IND, where his wife and family
now are The weapon used by the
murderer or nurderers was evidently
q shot gun, the entire top of his head
having been blown off,
The murder is supposed to have
robbery. as the dead man was accus-
toned to carry large sums of money.
Coroner Miller searched the pockets
OF the dead man. but found only S
cents. The pockets gave evidence OF
having been hurriedly ransacked.