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what Killed the Ad]utnnt:

~ good story from the reElmental
Journal Of the Fighting Fifth"4h e. con n, !,
and dates back to 1860. FitzRoy i. vas as
Possessed poa 81 an alrgun, and one after J,
noon he took a shot at an adj utan ~, !, 9
BIRD being an eXe t,s, IS scaY tlne
ger Is protected from in'n ncrs py aa NV
the Bird fall, but heard no +, report 6 J, !;
) court Of inquiry was ordered to IN n;
.yestigata tho birds death. 7, i, J, J
As luck would have y, 4 rlt :as,r{ W IKE
s Hpdpia Of Which was duly RECORDED. As
follows "The court, having careiul ~
eatisated ali the evidence hrou N9 : 7
before IT, has come to tne eonc1uT $40
T MI captain and president
Allafab bad Pioneer.
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MERELY JOKING.
Tl,c Exlre1ne al strenrth.

Tic Extreme OF Strength
When, SEQ what Barlow accompanies
!, am forced to admiration said Busting.
lie has great physical endurance"
yes" replied Cargoyle. "That man has
tho constitution OF a debutante"-Londo
Telegraph.
Women In Politics.
Mrs. Wardheel is making trouble for the
organization.''
"As to how?" }8
Declares she'll wear no bosses coll
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Rather.
THAT 2so-pound half-bnels wants $4,000
t1ar Mell beef is getting Observation-Disclosures
New Arabian Nights.
OF tho time when ma gazlne publishers would
come to him and fight for the exclusive
rights .!r1t 70 his his, writings At 81 per word
which wrecked Ills typewrit er. = 80 49, -
It cost him s2;s5 to set the instrument
Few Speaking Parts.
"Al the worlds a stage"
f e,iva and he, majority Of us are billed
lfke."-Houston Chronicle.
It Ought to Work.
we have Progressive Cook Club. When
a COOK er wants to leave. we pass her along
And in time you get her back?"
es but our m embership is large and
cooks soon forget."-Plttsburs Post.
Unspcakab1e.
Are YOU feeling very ill?" asked the
coctor. Let mo see your tongue. please?"
WHAT'S the use, DOCTOR. replied the
pa tient mo tongue can tell how bad
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RECORD Log Drive.

"a a drive Of 100000. feet Of logs has
arrived at the inlet Ct LAKE. 8 lrv u :;
tha lake. This drive OF logs was
tnirty days, whictl5is q record breaking
feat in driving logs down the M!ssis-
ahie. the water being High and there
Being nothing to impede the progrcas
,rhe logs were out in the Itasca State
Park and along the mississippi River
Winter on Lake sItasca and the INSISTS
sippi River. The entiro drive Will be
brought across Lake Irving, sluicod
through the Mlssisslppi between Lake
irving and Lake Helnidjl. and finally
IBenlldjl to be cut In a local saw in l.---
AT Paul Pion aAr pIaas
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nm. AS ~ 80 -9le N % q 90
Gou1zyQ ZzzzgDer
@@ ~ 80
La MarQu1:se de Rn1enoy
-'vS ------ q - ~ - - al - -

stralnt for a number OF years, and.
was givoii tho niteffnativee OF leaving
mate OF q lunatic asylum. She select
tits country about 4 the middle 81 tlie
last century, and lived for a n,,lnbe:.
of years II, a handsomely Furnished
l,r,'se II, Lexington Avenue, New York.
Dchnn- Brandenburg by way Of inG.-
eating ha, alleged connection with the
.ilohenzollerns. But she had no right
to ~ this There Is a BrandenburE
attic union Of Frederick william III. OF
Prussia and Countess Sophie Doenhoff.
Tho son 0f this union was famous Gs
n general and ms Prime Minister Q {
prnssia, under the name Of Count
Frederick William von Brnnden burg .
Copyright, 1905 by the Brentwood
C,6npnny.l +.
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Good and had Spelling.

The so-called intercity spelling con-
test which has just been decided at
Cleveland takes on national interest
by reason Of the recent declaration OF
the President Of the United States in
favor Of bad spelling.
President Roosevelt has given up his
foolish order. that the official publica.
shall be made in the improved" spell :
ing. Even his own executive promul :
cations are now printed in the usual
language OF the American people. The
onlw official who persists In this non-
sensical folly s the otherwise sane and
efficient superintendent Of schools In
Boston. And. II we mistake not. he
The award Of the gold medal
Cleveland to the successful competitor
in the established spelling of words
counts for more than an executive
proclamation from the President Of the
United States in favor OF bad spelling.
Boston Post.
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slk,lnks In Kansals.

IA locomotive engineer reTarlsed ycs-
to-day that he never made a run In
his life at night that he did not strike
soveral skunks, For some reaaon the
skunks arc attracted to the rntlrond
track, and, when the locomotive thur.
Gers along at night the rays Of the
headlight blind the little pests, and
they are grcund; to death under the
wheels. The entire train GREY inl1le-
struck. Most engineers are very sup !.
end have a .sign" about
chunks Is II TIL ey. run q long time q {
an I' al idant IS a, IS lsan Globe,
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PROFITS OF THE DRAMA.

Adolf I'Arronse, a popular German
playwright, died the other day, leaving
an estate Of some 100000 Invested
at per cent, this is 100000 a year.
BY the side Of such an income, Shakes
peare's $500 year, which his connec-
lions with the Burbages Melted him,
looks rather beggarly; and Shakespeare
had to act and own shares in the
Globe Theatre to earn that. But
L.Arronge. in turn, would doubtless be
made TO look like small financial
piker by the side Of such a modern
master Of the drama as George NJ,
Conan,
Shakespeare got eco for Julius
Caesar and "As You Like It." What
Cohan got for such chef d'oeuvre as
George Washington, Jr.," can only
be surmised. but 1t was considerably
more than that. Clyde F'itch's income
is of the type known as "princely."
George AIDE, with four or five popular
plays on the road, Is, or was recently,
knocking down something like $780,
SI 4
made Barrie wealthy. 1t ran two years
in New York City and was said to BIO
paying It's able author $4,000 every,
week during that time. Making no al
lowance for differences In the ex-
change value Of money, this weekly
honorarium was exactly years earn
mgs for Shakespeare In the heyday
of his prosperity.
The drama is the modern gateway to
fortune to young men and women with
ideas to express. From the point OF
view Of financial returns, 1t leaves
the best seller a bad second. Probably
that is one reason why so many popu-
lar authors, Barrie himself being
among them, desert the book field for
the drama. A good novel is lucky If
! 1T lives year, but royalties from a
good play may run on till the eXpra-
ton Of the copyright.
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THE RAILROADS. DIlEAIaIA, AND
THE: CONSUNlERS'

The argument of Vice-Presldent W..
10. Brown, OF the New York Central
Railroad, in defense of the proposed
general increase of railway freight
rates, has shaken out storm Of COM
7nert on both sides of the fence Mr..
Browns logic is lucid enough. Almost
without excepting the railroads Of the
country are new..reporting decreases
insnet earnings in the face of substan-
tiaI gains in gross revenue. Even
coed management has been unable to
overcome the burden OF heavily in
creased operating expenses; and the
credit OF the roads remains unrestored.
Better monthly statements are indis-
pensable to aevivlng their ability to
borrow. How shall they be attained
by raising freight rates or by reducing
wages? 7
3 In Mr.. Browns mind, the altcrna-
tive does not exist, lie dismisses with
out consideration file possibility OF re-
y ducing wages, and without conccalment
OF his guiding reasons. He is afraid
GOT a strike The Debs affair of 1898,
lle, says. would be like, a summer
shower compared with the blackness
f4the storm which confronts the bust
4 ness interests OF the country If the
i railroads are compelled to attempt to
enforce a general reduction OF wages"
5 Put simply. this means that the labor
unions have the railroads wholly at
perous period atfthe beginning Of 1907
D thesunions secured increases of wa ges
aGgregating sl0o,o000on, in Mr..
Browns estimate, and got, through leg
4 aslation, changes in the hours Of labor
ii worth some s25,o0o,0oo additional. Dur
/ Ing the highly unprosperous period
which the roads are going through
Y Aow, they would fatty decline to yield
Il anything OF what they have gained
u They hust share in their employ ers
prosperity II seems. but acknowledge
" no part in their adversely; for have
. they not presidential backing for the
conviction tnat a reduction Of wages
4 Is, prilna facic. an outrage? So mucl
has organization done for the so-callet
IS do~n-trodden working man
AS for tie railroads. they are In
pretty fix, That they must have none!
n through some. revisionof their receipt
md expenditures, and that their dis
4 bursemcnt Of II in tho purchase OF ma
terials would contribute much towar
n the general revival of business, no on
geems to deny, Yet they face on III
one hand the terror OF a strike wbic
~ would paraiyze the whole country
~ trade, and on the other The indislan
81 outcries Of already oyerbardened con
sssBumers. Between these TWO horns {
lys % dilemma. we suppose here as y
/; IN doubt which the roads Will choos'
III SINGS tho habit pta following the ltr
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nrnyil,a High Tariff.

"outside Of few cotton faodto 23le
z liz very few infant Industries to
So, IT, Of" said Mr. H. w. sapp, an
American engineer who has lately VS.
tied that country. /. vs.
,"But in the name OF fosterin g ~
industries tho Brazilian congress has
levied enormously high duties on lnl-5
ported goods. I met. a fellow American
inHthe State OF Sac Paulo who told mo
tllata buggy he brought u from the he
United States was taxed $24o py tn 9
II here only ss5.''--Baltimore American ca
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Borrowed Jingles
ON lsNOlYLEpaI,.

IA ON KNOWLEDGE. s NJ
knowledge Is good. I will admit,
It's power. ms we've all been told,
And, Join 1t TO a ready wit,
Il wins for man. both fame and gold
B,it Ignorance. they say, ls bliss.
tsuch contradictions beat the Dutch)
know I'm pretty sure OF this: *
do not want to know too much.
Pedantic bores who swell and pun
, Because some midnight oil they've burne
Have shown to m concnit enough,
For modcsty they never learned.
I late their patronislng ways; ;j5
I've not a deal of use for a,icli- t4
In fact, hardly think II pays. 8
do not want to know too much.
I'D rather be Il little dumb,
a little deaf a little blind,
And get along by rule o. thumb
Thnn be entirely voice and mind. II
Id like to keep some faith and trust
I. Not putting all things to the touch,
Some knowledge often brings disgust
do not want TO know too much.
q stst Chicago News
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- 1900
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

. u . 7 /.
~ During rms the turmoil Of the Denver conven
ton last Thursday Governor John A. John.
son WAS umpirlng baseball game at Lady
al rro or. Edward Payson Crowell after being
dor nitS years at the head OF the Latin
aoepartlnent in Amherst College, viii retire
from active service Commencement dav
Mrs. l. kenn, mother OF the senior New ,Jor-
society, She spends much of her time max
ing SILK quilts OF pieces from Gowns ~
friends. - eo"ns sot
II has become known that the three at ].
I'm - mace by Sir Thomas Upton to cap
.ufe NE America's Cup, the intrinsic value
q !, which is about $780, have cost MIN
seoo.oOo for yachts alone u 80.
a quantity Of saracen wheat has heen
~ SoMn IN emu with fine results. The first
harvest mar showed yield Of sixteen bushels
Tor one, and of u very fine oualitv' - =
5 Sa1s,., very strong and nearly four feet In
,u maholas Murray Butler president OF CO.
eve "a series OF lectures at the Universities
or Gopenhagen, Stockholm and Christiania'
si as oeen ialriy overwhelmed with attentions
s'aee MS arrival In Paris. ~ !, -
Naval conditions in the South A =, or,,. :
Ispun,tcs are TO be investigated for fla
W Ws1t'sh government BY Captain Horace
baesy W ashi at.aehe at the British en-
1856. A's government since
IN, me only complete ana unaltered saxon
T. bnn N Britain Is that of Hexham ABBEY.
neins also many Saxon stones I'm hedaa ~
~ the new walls Of theibuildlng lu0u
Di..lsh colonial governors arc apnojntad
~ sne premier having political power to oppos
| M ri aelutesce IN q suggested appofntment
ne governor has practically tho sam :. no.ua,
lhe o In,ta ppe e to govern territory Of
rne aGmsui !. Max ]. Baehr. writing from Glen
tussos. says that the increase of 4 n,aricn a
t.nue Win Cuba since tho Reciprocity franI -
= ~. "t hn the two countries went int effec,
Mas Mas s1 Teen gratifying and that 1t must h.
exporter. ~ Tue american manufacturer and
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'1Mrs.S FIELDING LEWIS TAYLOR
sllodly.E

Editor OF The Times Dispatoh:
Slr,-Would you kindly permit y
traveller to express his sentiments on
"shod dy?" With the thermometer slz-
cling at 96,, happened In b. restau-s
rant In this town the other day, Being
possessed OF a moiety Of common sense,
I had unloaded my coat. But, i
seems, the ladies' were shocked. Yaa
gods! aAnd the ladies wore peek-a-
boo waists that would cause ono TO
blush. The Bard OF Avon says:
II have thought some Of Naturo's
had made men, and not
maaGit t ~ ! oninaibly 'sueea hu-
!. And the Immortal Robbie Burns says
somewhere: Ga
5"oll, wad some power the siftie gle us
It8wad frae lnony hlunder free us
" - {. i n" - A TRAVELLER.
Richmond, Va, July IA, 1905.
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WE BEG FOR LIGHT.


statute OF January 20, 1907. making y
a penal offense for corporations tc
contribute to campaign funds, has
4 brought much joy to harassed Repub-
lican editors most Of whom had too
obviously never heard of such a law
before, but who arc now reproducing
Ut with an attempt at the familiarity
OF long acquaintance
These editors tell their readers that
this law, OPPORTUNITY uncovered three
days ago after an UNDECIDED slumber Of
eighteen months. renders futile the
manly and explicit demands OF the
l}Denver platform to this end, and gives
the credit for a great step toward
honest elections to a Republican Con-
gress. In view OF the fact that this
question OF campaign funds, with the
implied relationship of the vested In
tcrests to the voter, will be one Of
the utmost Importance during the next
four months, we venture to ask our
Republican friends for little light on
the following points:
{ If n Republican Congress passed an
act forbidding trust contributions, why
did 1t defeat an act to insure publicity
OF contributions? Why should a CAM
paign manager shrink from publishing
contributions made by individuals with
honest intent?
If a Republican Congress passed an
act forbidding trust contributions. why
did a Republican national convention
overwhelmingly defeat plank design
ed to insure publicity Of contributions?
Why is publicity so obnoxious to those
who have no Unprotected" bountiess to
conceal?
If a Republican Congress passed an
act forbidding trust contributions. how
does Mr.. George r. Sheldon, treasurer
Of the Republican National Committee,
dare avow that he will accept and
solicit trust contributions? Where Is
the loophole in a law that Republican
campaign committee must break to es-
tablish connection with It's habitunl
sources of support?
I ne Republican press, fully alive to
the awkwardness OF editorial defense
90 campaig, Doodle, has doubtless been
inwardly cursing the defeat OF the In
Toilette plank by reclamation at Chi
cago. They hail the new" law, ap-
parently slipped through in the indlf-
ference OF non-presidential year.
with gasps of relief, In which ill-con-
cealed Amusement is not wanting. But
the Republican editors have only to
argue. The campaign managers. who
have to get results. view the situation
in a different light. With them, from
Mr.. George r. Sheldon down, we hazard
the prediction that no worthy trust,
offering funds for an understood ruid
pro quo, will have occasion to feel
sighted. The more Of such trusts
there are to be tapped, the more was
the Republican convention foresighted
in enthusiastically rejecting publicity.
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UNSvIsE TEMpOR1z1NG WITH
GRAVE SITUATION.

Why should the James River Bridge
Commissioners. intrustcd with the care
& ef9the city's bridges, pay out money
Cor expert advice? Their own con-
eult.ng engineer, Mr.. Il, B. 1saacs, has
told them that they must spend SILT
600 to make the Free Bridge safe for
unrestricted use. In executive session
on Monday night they voted to spend
$4,000. Three thousand dollars is no
more able to do the work of s115,-.
600 In bridge construction than In any
other field of activity.
If the bridge commissioners thought
that the situation called for temporiz-
ing they should have accepted the of
fer OF the street car company. Score
tary J. N. Perduc, who alone of the
commissioners voiced his proper sense
Of responsibility toward the public
with the announcement that he would
resign unless something definite were
done at once, was also alone In Tot-
ing favorably upon this proposal. The
offer was presumably actuated by
business sense rather than philan-
ahropy, and could have been accepted
without mourning obligation of any
sort. The company proposed to spend
$500 in momentary bolstering up
of the bridge; the commissioners pro-
pose to spend $4,000. The con,pany's
$4,000 would have been instantly avail
able; the commissioners $4,000 will be
auailable only after their request for
st has passed through the intermin-
able machinery which clogs the work
of.two cities. The moral price Of that
destination, whatever 1t may be, must
rest with the commissioners.
But the situation, in fact, does not
permit of ,temporizins. The Disgrace
full conditions which make the chief
artery of travel between Richmond
and Manchester an object OF anxiety
to those who are compelled to use it
will not be relieved by a few economi-
cal strestles. The Free Bridge can
never be what the growing demands
upon it require until 1t is thoroughly
oFerhauled and its worn-out and
dangerous spans replaced. The case is
rot one where penny-wse parsimony is
laudable TO invite disaster by
cheap makeshifts and optimistic pro-
crasttnation is not a policy which will
commend itself to the intelligence OF
the two bodies of citizens whose COM
fort and possible safety are directly
involved.
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New York has brought To light a
girl who, mt the age Of nine. has been
associated with fifty burglaries. How
ever, her sex virtually precludes the
idea that she will grow up to be n
phenomenon OF phrellzied phinance.
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Senator Jonathan Bourne. begging
Taft to announce that he will not try
to name his successor. has attached
himself loudly to the new ch-phrase,
"residuary legateeship." Senator
Bournes circulation depends absolutely
upon the effectiveness of his adverts-
Ing departments
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Eggs So Co,,,lnol,..

his patients, a very wealthy woman,
illness, allowed her, to eat m egg aftor
q long course Of liquid food She ate
relish, and "a the nurse remoyed The
plate, said: y. Z
- octop, nh Gag Is delicious thing
What pity tbs so common among
the 200 II iCaslell's Saturday Journal
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-15

markable letter, addressed to Prince
Bulenburg, has contributed so much to
still further blacken the character of
Oldest and closest friends, their init |
to the accession Of william to the
5h5ene Ths letter n u Ms mrtea
to Eu i and a in in It Re Re denoanees
him as scoundrel and as shame,
can never forgive himself for having
introduced such a man into the circle
Of the kaiser's intimate friends. T. Is
spark Of hon9r or pride left. should
mental ta ethics to have at a once issued sue{
ha Wa un a. Donna or dsf
son or some other relative to defendl
his name on the field Of honor, or II
proceeded against him legally for
SANDER That, however. he 81 omitted
in,silence to the scathing, epitllets con,
to the latter's contemptuous % tracisn,,
furnishes In the eyes OF most. Of his
countrymen an additional proof Of his
gnb,t Hoy the b s. be
is not responsible for its being printed,
but he admits Its authenticity
The Dohnas are one OF the, very old,
tho dignity OF burgrave away back
in the twelfth century from Emperor.
Frederick Barbaroessa, the title Of Of
The In 'f family. i richard d. Dohna, the friend
or the Kaiser, having been conferred
by the latter on New. Years Day 0OG;
The name Of nohna Is rsc9r;aesa n 81
history. Statesmen, generals, and u
particular. cont1dants and 6cronies .of.
the successlye rulers OF Prussia t haye
| Is not a single king who has reig,ned
over Prussia nor before that any cleo
tor WHO has ruled over Bran e = "
sohiobitten ana occupied the antiauated
four-poster bed in which the present.
Emperor sleeps whenever ne Visits tn 4,
E fhe sa pe 81 Hnifa ss a
that time a famous m onastery.
There Waa ct one time mem160 err o..
trouble to the .reigning house 9 I' -
STA, owing to her claims to nave ! ,tye,
peror Within in 1876, that IS {, say
during Tho Lifetime OF his fathe :. King 6
frederick William III While there p, Us, Us
p ss svst too sos
Tensions created sufficient noiso ast 9
eause Tredercl; William TIT III % 10 ,ss y !,
i the following decree, MEN nppeh'su..
IL the pruSNlan stats Ansseei :; N oi'
"By order Of Els Majesty the King
4 "Annn, Countess a Donna, HAVING
Y. claimed to be the wife ct Prince VIII
lllern OF Prussia hereby deere 7, !. th Z :
4 such n union, II It over took y lace, g 9
u null and void. sssS Il s8S5 FL M
n tSgned) y !, !,
SANTTioNY Won AI.TnN e 3 E Il 4 III
= 1.-THE c0uutasS was kept " nde 81 EaIs