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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14
NOCIAl AND -
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Miss Ellen Barnes left Friday for
Richmond.
Mr.. r. II. Ball spent Wednesday
IN Norfolk.
Miss Ida Faulkner lett thursday
for Richmond.
Mr.. John W. Jones was in Rich
mond Monday.
The Misses Powers are visiting
Miss Bessie Scott.
Clerk Geddy was in Richmond
yesterday and today.
Miss Conditt. Of Boston. IS visit
Ing her brother here.
Miss Mary Garrett has returned
home from Norfolk.
Mrs. Harriet Cowles. OF Dlascund.
visited relatives here last week.
Miss Anne Ruffin. Of "Weyan-
olSe IS visiting her cousin. Miss Nora
Macon.
NJ. ard Mrs. J. H. Stone re-
Lt1rned home Monday from Rich
mond.
Miss Georgia O'Kseffe left Friday
for Chicago where she wills pend
1.-THE winter.
Miss Mary H. Spencer and Miss
! Caroline Morris spent several days
here last week.
Mss E'hivn Styrnbrough. Of
Westover. is visiting Miss Reb',
Evan. OF Magruder.
Miss Helen Potts. OF the Woman.
College. Richmond. visited Ms.
J Alice Ware this week.
i Mrs. tt Turner and Miss Louis,
3Turner. Of Richmond. are guests o.
I'M and Mrs. r. L. Spencer.
Judge d. c. TYLER was in WI
= Harrisburg tuesday night. he he.c
court in Warwick this week.
4 Misses Cara E.rshberg and Ag
1nes Nszere. OF Newport News
spent Thursday In Williamsburg.
Judge James Keith. Chief Justc,
of TIE Supreme Court. spent las
Saturday here fishing with NJ
\ John w. Jones in the lauer's ponc
MIS- Walter Van Ness and l;tt,,
q daughter. Of New York City. ar
v.sicns The formers parents. Capt
anG Mrs. {. 3. Trevilian.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14
A. Braxton Edmunds ,


TIdCllCdf NlNil EUgIi Get.
City. River. Rsiiroat and r I'm orl
Grading. Excavating srd Pspe 7 svirg
a Speciality. Couufv Surv~vc- 81 ar
wick coaatv 222 3ist street y, port
News. Va Citizens Phone $50. snail
Contracts az well as Large Coutracte
receive pI0mpts AtteLtion.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14

Squire 3. F. Wolfe acted as Po
lice Justice in his FRS, case yester
day. when be heard the case OF
a local Eyerynsn against a drum
mer for 81 due on livery bill. The
drummer paid the bill after losing
his case.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14

Capt. and Mrs. s. J. Brooks and
children. of Manchester. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. NJ. Brooks and children. OF
Richmond. and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
z. Stubs. Of Portsmouth. who
were called here by the death OF
their mother. returned home yes
terdsy.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14

Mr.. II. D. Cole. OF this city. and
DR.. II. U. Stephenson. Of Tosno.
members OF the board OF directors
OF the Eastern State Hospital. have
returned from a meeting of the gen
eral board held in Stanton this
week.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14
To Close Thanksgiving.

All the merchants Of Williams =
burg have signed an agreement 70
close their respective stores al 10
o'clock a. n. for the entire day
Thanks giving. AL persons should
bear this in mind and DO their shop
ping the day before or before 10
O'Clock next Thursday week morn
ing.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14

The City Council met last night
and reduced the price of gas TO 81
per hundred.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14

The Civ Council laid the levy for
l0Co-Co 'as- night
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14
Special Notices.

~OR SALE -Fortr or 6ftv theus.
Il and cabbage plants. ~e-iv Flat
= Duth. Charleston Wakefield ready
Tor setting out App'v 20 81 BILL
WOOD. Williamsburg. Va
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-11-14

TOR RENT A 6--0om dwelling
- house on College Avenu. Anulv
Il % y l.. HENLEY Attorney. Wn
iamsburx Va.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
University Graduate.

Collins is q graduate Of the UnIver-
sity Of London. o. the SOrbOnne III
paris. ana OF Heidelberg University in
Germany. He has been a tutor in
high class educational institutions for
years and he has prepared students
for university examinations. From
this il viii be seen tLat he has no
prejudice against the ordinary learn
ing. All that he contends is that the
average child is stunted and weaken
eel by being compelled To- tax its brain
and body hy beginning its formal edu-
cation too early.
Il do not believe in beginning TO
learn the formal thIn"s too early
said Mr. Collins. Children should be
encouraged to ask questions, to learn
rather than 10 be taught. My eldest
boy could not read a line until ne
was nine wears old. Then he learned
the alphabet I'm week and he learned
ii without any difficulty. He just ask
ed his mother or me what the letters
were and in a week he was reading
for his own pleasure Before that, OF
course, we had read 90 him poetry.
Shakespeare plays and many other
things which were suitable 10 his UNI
derstandiLE. Since then he has read
all OF Shakespeare. several Of the En-
glish poets and a great deal of the
finest English literature
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
Method OF Teaching.

The children viii be encouraged TO
ask questions. want 10 encourage
the natural development OF ideas For
instance. IL we are having q history
lessor and some one suggests a geo
graphical question growing naturally
out of history. there is no reason why
we should not drop the history and
follow that line Of thought Geography
may lead us into mathematics and so
on. The reason for this is that the
children should realize the essential
relation of all branches Of knowledge
10 real life. In the oId-fashi0ned
school each subject is taught by rote
and the children seldom realize that
one has any relation 10 another.
For the same reason I have always
taught my children both arithmetic
and geometry by means Of matches or
little sticks. They learn by laying two
sticks beside two Cther sticks that two
and two make four. and that simple
addition ami multiplication have some
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

and suggestions are spoken during
the treatment iE some cases. while in
others nothing is saiG.
Perhaps the most remarks Bile side ~
the psychO-tLe-aueurlC -Uel--Jr.
anyway. the most difficult ru believe
in-is the diagnosing OF diseases by
Dr SprigEs. president uf the society.
who decides how every case shah be-
treated before It goes under the COP
orators" care Iu large private
room Dr. SprtEEs looks over all pa
tents He never permits any Ques-
lions % De asked. and he never puts
any. His Judgment on each case Is
accepted as final His admirers claim
that his decisions invariably coincide
with what the specialists have told
their patients
DR.. Spriggs smiled "a flraway sort OF
smile that implied unlimited conf
dence in his own powers when asked
how he arrives al his diagnosis
We'll he replied 81 go into a
sort Of trance Or unconscious condI-
ton. over each patient While I1 that
condition can see exactly what is
the matter. DR. SnrfEEs appears 10
believe that some SORT OF spirit guide
leads him % his decision. but tire be-
lief i1 s1i-i-- guided diagnosis IS rr-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

one OF The essentials OF the psyche
-LevapeUrlc treatment
whatever may be thought by Lhs
ordinary citizen about the cure az
bodily ailments through the mind. the
soul. The aura. or any other agency,
the fact remains that every year up-
ward OF 600 patients receive psychic
treatment iu Bayley street and. at
t-e hospital are thousands Of tesla
Eal-ary letters evidently written in
Many or these cases are serious after
effects or surgical operations IN which
suggestion could not possibly play
a pert The success Of the PSYCHIC
therapeutic movement in England h.
been phenomenal
IL was started IN 70 little back room
about eight year ago without A.
uaUCes- and FOR q long tine u looked
as II IL could never get a fCCthOId-
Vow. their doctors. about fifteen IN
number, are I'm constant demand, both
iu private practice and at the hospi-
tai and -lcir ftJe treatment Of the
London poor IS beginning 10 be recog-
Ui1ed as a good work So great has
been The success OF the hospital IN
fact. that The space available for pa
me mana E-uE committee IS consider
ing plans Tor a large building OF their
own IN a central part Of London.
where every form Of psychic treat
we.- can be- given
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

a sort of nervous atmosphere ne
auras of healthy persons-the doc
tors, for inStance-can be made TO
affect the auraS of diseased per-
sons. BY placing his hands on an
III person, the psychic doctor can
abstract most of the disease-aura
from his patient, and return to that
patient a healthy one instead. Any
how, that is the way the undoubted
cures at this queer hospital are ex-
planned.
1t all sounds weird enough, but
the reality Of the human rays have
been recently demonstrated to the
satisfaction of a good many French
scientists. DR.. Baraduc, of Paris,
has not only succeeded in photo
graphing the rays, but has invented
a machine, called the biOmeter,
which shows how many degrees Of
"ray- or odic force" each human
being possesses. Prof. James
Coates has also taken good photo
graphs of various emanadonS, and
the reality of human rays IS now
accepted pretty generally, it seems.
Some psychic doctors claim to be
able to see these rays even in nor
nal light and to distinguish their
color.
1t seems that the color of each
persons aura has a lot TO do with
his health. If you have a gray
aura, or ray-envelope, your health
will not be very good, and you
will be Of a melancholy DISPOSE
ton, whereas a yellow or green ray
envelope IS a good one. Every
color has its significance. | am
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
MoN1E e EQLADS FAtOUS SYcEo=TFFP4PFUTTcT 10cToPS

on the idea that forcefUl rays Of
healing emauate from certain persons
who are gifted with healing powers
At the Psycho-TherapeUtic Hospital
I'm EayIey street there are two large
rooms cUrtsined OFF with green tapes
Try. which divides the looms up into a
number Of small cub icles. In each
cubicic Is q couch. upon which the pa
ticnts reCIiue. while the operators
sit by their sides In e. ost places
where cures are effected by mental
treatment, hyuuotism is Tes0rted 20.
but iu the -clo-The-apcItic est7b-
il-nutUt, while EyrDOtlSm IS TeCOg-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

pital and gives treatment TO hundreds
Of poor children from some Of the
worst slums Of London. As this treat
ment" means being enclosed IN a stUfry
cubicle. and working personally over
the bodies OF the patients, the strain
on the sensibllities OF Lady Coomara
can well be understood. especially IN
view Of the fact that many OF the
patients seem 20 be unaware Of the
fact that soap IS one Of the C0ucOmit-
ants Of civilization
The treatment I'm Dsy-l0-tLerape utiCS
differs from most agencies OF this
character, I'm that il bases its claims
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
4 Shining Example.

This boy. Ivan Julius Collins. was
examined by the magistrate. and il
was his proficiency that forced the
London magistrate to decide I'm favor
Of Collins system. He is now four
teen years old. and his upbrinsing is
evident both in his physical and men
tai equipment. He is as tail and
sturdy as an ordinary English lad Of
seventeen. and he can converse intel
ligenCy on most subjects in a way
that would do credit to many ,rown
men. He has written articles IN the
current political aid educational prob
lens which have been accepted on
their merits by leading English news
papers and magazines, and he has also
written verses which display consider
able merit.
Collins has been asked TO open a
school IN the country by a number of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

uized. il is seldom used, except in
cases where the treatment Of the
rays viii not suffice Sometimes
mild hypuotism Is cor bined with the
treatment OF the aura. p"
The doctor. or operator" VIII first
place "a healing Laud-Cn the forehead
~ the patient. and, as il is explained,
extract the disease By certain
passes. these diseases are thereafter
literally thrown away Then with
other passes. beginning a. the head
and continuing downward. healthy
carnations from the doctor are passed
ON 90 the patient. Soothing words
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
GOOD HUNTING.

-'abic-les Jungle is dark and still,
There's snakes iu the Carpet Glade,
And lions and tigers on Sofa Hill,
But Pm never q bit afraid.
lIy dog, I know is a trusty brute,
ACu I've got gun tlaLu really shoot
once there was Indians under the bed
But / hunted 'em ain away
There's elephants hiding there now IN.
stead
They're perfectly safe today.
cause I'm near the cavern Of Easy.
Chair.
And ] scent the track Of a Teddy Bear
II 7 was Ike nurse or ike Baby Sis
What never had hred a gun.
/ guess ] wouldn't be brave as thfsi
They'd both Of 'em cry and run.
BUS I'll stalk him down and III shoot
him through
And Tu make him into a Teddy stew
Burgess Johnson, IN Everybody's.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

reference 10 real things. The geome-i-
eal -arms ar Iheir relation 20 realities
e-.E L- laugh in the same way After
thew nave .>9stered the principles in
this way the formal learning comes
easily 10 them II is simply teaching
them To- express in words what they
already FULLY understand.
The religious teaching in my school
VIII be very broad. believe in giving
each child the essentials Of religion
and letting the parents themselves I'll
iu the details OF whatever creed they
believe In NJ principal assistant viii
DE clergyman in holy orders. but I
~ I'll no, object 20 N0ncOulOrmisI or
Roman Catholic c-ergymeu visiting the
children OF their laIrh under my
-..-.e.-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
Services Are Free.

A remarkable feature OF the soul
hospital consists IN the fact thai the
entire staff gives its services for moth
ing. and the large numbers Of the poor
OF London are treated without charge.
Among these voluntary workers who
operate" on the poor from the Lon
don slums is Lady Coomara. Twice a
week her ladyship attends at the hos
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

I've our classes in the gardens and
fields which surround the fine old
country house that I have taken, and
we viii adopt the kindergarten method
IS much as possible I DO not mean
~ shis the formal kindergarten method
which would shock FrOebeI almost as
much as the old system did. but we
VIII adapt his principles TO our sur
Iouudings our class gardens and fields
viii be well supplied with large black
boards at which the teacher can stop
i'm his walk and Illustrate his talk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

ne became impatient and refused [.
listen 90 more. Collins insisted. how
ever, and he has just succeeded iD
forcing the unwilling admission from
the magistrate that his children were
far in advance OF the public schco!
children Of the same age. The sequel
20 this decision Is the opening Of Col
Inns school where he will teach other
children on the same lines chat he
has taught hts own.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

r. Collins has bean 1T var
II n with the education author
V tiles over the education of
his own eight children. The
law OF ENGLAND says that
every child must go 70 school Il a
child does not attend the public
schools the school attendance officer
calls TO ind out why. and if The pa
rent can satisfy him that the child
IL heinz efficiently educated elsewhere
all is well. II not, the parent is sum
r1oned to appear before a magistrate
and If he can not satisfy the magis-
trate he is fined. and II the offense
continues lie is fined again as often
ae the attendance officer iuds time 70
summon MIN.
Collins has been fined many times
FOR not sending mis- four elder children
% school The British magistrate is
,,lpatfent OF new ideas and when he
earned that Mr.. Collins idea of edu-
.oarion vas e. allow his children 10
grow ,,p ~ olrrfs and '-s~@-s crow,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

ONDON now has a regular hos
pital where the poor are treat
L ed daily by means OF drusless
medicines and knlfeIess opera
lions and with remarkable results. OF
course, lot has beer written in re-
cent years on mental treatment.
christian Science, and such things. but
acknowledgements, as the treatment
is allied, differs from all these. so
much so. in fact. that many we'll
known physicians Of good standing are
now sending their patients to the
cho-Therapeutic Hospital. at ;
Bayloy street. Tottenham Court road.
London. inside the waiting roms of
this hospital every week one sees
long lines OF patients from various
London hospitals. waiting TO be treat
ed by the operators" who admins
ter psychic tonics" that restore
health when all ordinary curative
methods have failed.
Quite a number of regular medical
practitioners IN London have identi-
fed themselves with this institution
as vice presidents. Among these are
Drs. Robert Bell. A D. Deane. J. Stem
son Hooker, J. II. JOlline, J. NJ
PEBBLES. J. H Push. G. ". Within
shaw. and Forbes WInslow, all OF
whom have regular medical and surg
ical degrees, and several are recogniz-
ed as prominent in the profession An
other strong supporter Of the hospital
for soul treatment is DR.. Bernard
HOllander. physician 10 the British
Hospital for Mental Disorders. who ad-
vocates mental gymnastics" for the
cure OF insanity. IN addition to these
open supporters Of the psychic treat
ment there are a large number Of
physicians and surgeons who send
their patients TO the hospital regular
ly, but who do not wish their names
used IN connection with this treatment.
which IS, perhaps, somewhat too nov
el" for the conservativs-minded.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13


who has beaten the Lon
don county council edu-
\ cational committee after
a fight lasting several years He
has compelled the courts to admit
that his system of education, which
the education authorities say IS all
wrong, IS all right, and in a few
weeks he is going to open a high
class school within thirty miles Of
London, where his theories will be
put into practice.
The man is Edwin Collins, an
university man, a writer and a
teacher who does not believe in
teaching at all-that is, in the or
binary acceptation of the term
teaching" His motto is that
children should he taught little
and should learn much" His
theory and practice are that TO
child should he asked to undertake
formal lessons until it IS nine or
ten years old, and that until It
reaches that age It should be al
lowed to run practically wild and
assinlilate knowledge as a flower
gathers its sweetness from the sun
shine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

YCHO - THE
RAP ~ TIC
doctors say
that every hui
man being is
surrounded by
what IS known
as an laura ;"
this aura being
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
IVAN JULIUS COLLINS

lljeeu years old. he said. and prac-
ticaHy all orr teaching will be done
out of doors and by the Peripatetic
method. No class will have more than
ten children. for no teacher can give
individual attention % more We viii
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

told that a violet laura" is a highly
desirable variety, possessed by few.
Fot every psychic doctor can, how
ever, see the rays, nor IS this con-
Sidered essential. All the doctors
need to know Is that the rays exist,
and that they can be operated" on.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13

sons who wished him 10 undertake
ne education of their children. and he
VIII start with enough pupils to insure
1e financial success of the under
akiug.
I'VE Will have children from I'VE TO
The daily sentinel., 1908-05-08
HE ADMITS
HIS GUILT

This afternoon Lewis Barthole-
NEW, the young man in the county
jail charged with forgery, appeared
in the district court and entered a
plea of guilty.
However, the court was determ-
ined to hear some evidence, as is us
ual in such cases, and when he asked
to have Frank johnson, the man
whose name Bartholomew is sup
posed to have signed to several
checks. the court found that the
prosecuting attorneys office had
failed to have Mr.. Johnson sum-
moned as a witness. The court at
once ordered Deputy District Attor-
ney Fry to get Johnson into the
court room. Action in the case was
postponed until tomorrow morning,
and in the meantime Mr.. johnson
Will be summoned to appear in the
court.
The defendant, Sentinel readers
Will remember, was working on the
Johnson ranch ON Orchard mesa, and
one night telephoned to one or more
business men in this city and, imper-
sonating Mr.. Johnson. told them a
man would present a check for pay
ment later on and that it would be
all right to cash the check Then
Bartholomew signed Mr.. Johnsons s
name to several checks and came to
town, and succeeded in cashing one
or more of them. He left the city.
but was caught at Glenwood Springs
The daily sentinel., 1908-05-08
STRIKER PLACED
UNDER ARREST

There were many strikers present
at the hearing.
The trial was very short. Small
took the stand and stated that he was
just leaving the railroad eating house
on the day of May about $50 pm.
when he passed Coleman and Cole
man struck at him without warning
Said he lodged, and as a result he
caught the blow on the shoulder, In
stead of on the head. Small said
the blow hurt him badly at the time
but he went on to work He did
not strike at Coleman. He had new
er known Coleman before.
Officer Knowles was the only 9TH
er witness called for the prosecution
Said he saw the defendant strike at
Small, but was unable to see wheth-
er or not the blow struck Small. Said
Small went on to work, and that
Coleman got off the railroad
grounds and shouted Come off the
| company's grounds and l will give
you some more" Knowles said he
told Small he would come off the
company's grounds, but Coleman did
not wait.
Coleman took the stand and said
that he struck at Small, but did not
hit him-Small was out of his reach
man We're sitting in the eating house
near him shortly before the trouble
and were making remarks about him,
so he stepped out and struck at
Small as he passed.
Neither of the attorneys made any
arguments.
Small vehemently declared that
had the blow that Coleman directed
at him "hit ME in a vital spot it
would have killed me.
Justice Sweeney, warning Coleman
to quit striking at people without
cause, assessed fine of So and
costs, amounting in all to $22.50.
Coleman could not pay up, and was
turned over to the sheriff However,
it is pretty certain that his friends
will meet the fine and costs before
night and secure Coleman's release.
1t is said that another nonunion
man claims that Coleman hit him a
terrific blow recently without sufl-
cient cause.