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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
LeMrning ut I.unt.

Professor George =. Vincent, dean OF
Chicago University, is wroth over the
a vein different from what he alleges
he intended it, He says he spoke sar-
castically of the "cupitalistic tnstitu-
ton" With which he is connected, and
the unappreciutiye reporters quoted
him as speaking grarely. Per conse-
quence, he declares the only way for Il
college professor to avoid trouble Is
TO make fewer and fewer speeches.
Therein he voices Il sentiment tile coun-
try generally will applaud, There
have been too many speeches by pro-
fessors of this particular institution
too many freak utterances, that served
no purpose hut to keep the speakers
in the public eye.--Fort Wayne jour
nal-GaIette, g
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Had First nuttcred Potatoes.

With reIcl ence to the flftieth amt
Ver#a.y of the first railway in France
q French contemporary points out that
i was In connection with this event
We're discovered. A French chef was
travelling on the new line from Paris
Y 81. Celn,ain, and was preparing in
the train the banquet which was 10
hiefe The opening. just before
potatoes in the boiling butter. The
Tram however. was delayed, and the
POTATOES, had TO he taken out again.
Wnnn the train restarted he !pta-
toes We're Gnce again put III the boiling
butter and to every ones delight We're
found on being taken out to be deli
c!o,ls'y lieh, and inflated The hcau-
ties OF the pomme soufflee had been
reVealcd--I.ondon Globe,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
/ The Tirnes-pispatch

Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Since you are ever on the alert
as to the city's interest. want to bring
small matter before you. You know
the Davis Monument is situated at the
of Monument Avenue and
Cedar Street. They propose to widen
Cedar and perhaps have park on IT.
Why not name 1t so as to suggest
something in connection with Jeffer-
son Davis? Call it Beauvoir Avenue
Davis Avenue, Mississippi Avenue OF
Confederate Avenue. This is good
time to talk it up. as they are abou,
to mark the streets. Cedar Street suG-
gcsts country burying ground.
Respectfully,
Mrs. A. l., HAYNES.
10 East Main Street.
June /, 1908.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Voice Of the p eople
Second Answer to Myyest GrnccD

JCCOnu AhSWCE ~ .VcNt HrnCcSY
Editor OF Tho Timcs- Dispntcl,:
Sir,--1 was slstontsl1ed to see In to-
days paper that West Grace should
have taken "R. p. FL" Cor man and
a merchant.
Although do not desire contro.
versy with any ons, In JUSTICE to the
say that "R. p H. is the mother OF
health |, and the many duties Of a house .
her time in her own home.
TO further explain, I, too. will have
ago I was so III chat my lie hung
on a thread, and shall never forget
the consideration and kindness shown
me by b, TIL, the children, the peddlers and
my life depended upon quiet One
mllkman left his wagon at the end
OF the square and delivered milk at
while my life was in danger. Since
that time l have beun painfully sensi-
tive to noises have had to move to try
to Il find more ore qu'es home. stu. !
object to the peddlers calling out their
", wares ..,5 because It is not pleasant to
Wien se SnSs eSset ta 4oa s
skating. Children in cities have too
little healthful recreation for me to
wish to deprive them OF any. must tell
ueTs HdVe ueNCT lOuHu necessary
Ito send for an officer to protect me.
There Is j proper time and place for
all reasonable pleasures. but l do not
think the time referred to either rea-
sonable or proper Perhaps she does
not know that a busy housewife and
mother eyer has work to do or prob
lens to solve that require CLOSE con-
centrntlon" or mental work All that
l can tell her Is try 1t and she will
find she has need Of all her wis
DOM"
West Grace misquctes me when
she says ] used the word Irritable"
! was writing of really sick and ner
vous people. She also Intentionally or
Internationally misunderstanding the
quotation ''all members OF one body"
I had not reference to the use Of
either lungs or legs.
In one thing we agree-"it is not
matters of taste or nuisances"
only write this to let her know
that ! have no wares to put on the
market, either in stores or by ped
dlers. only wanted to say that
believe in the adage, Live and let
live" and as West Grace" agrees with
me, there Is nothing more to say.
r. +. II.
Richmond, Va. May 80. 1905.
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Editor of The Tines-D Dispatch: !.
Sir,-ln my opinion. West Grace
has decidedly the best Of the "Mer-
chant" Let me now make my com
plant. Near US lives dog fancler
She being woman OF absolute leisure
rests most OF the day. but about she
porch to enjoy the cool. Now for the
noise nuisance. The two dogs rush up
and down the yard, barking. and yelp-
Ing at every passerby, without the
slightest remonstrance on her part
This keeps up till II or II, or even
later. Then she retires to rest tai II
or ~ the next day; but we who are
obliged to get up early have lost al
hour or two Of sleep for a pair of yelp.
ing ours. Is there no redress?
WEST MAIN. Il
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
SiEnnls Are, SlrnnlcL

several recent railway accidents in
WI many nave been traced to tho fall
ure OF engine drivers to see signals,
a ;,n this circumstance has caused the
!, d ,ussiah railway administration to
aule OF the new system lies in the
Warnlhs given the engine driver that
ne y approaching a signal about 10
Nnr,is hstore the signal itself is actual.
nc use OF an electric cab signal sys-
TEN which rouses the drivers allention
n by, rinHins 2 bell and exposing a White
s cnh dRSvvfitt.lly before his eyes in the
lated The driver viii have NO e xns,
,o a I, ~ IN by signal in a fog,-Ruil-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
The Glory Of the Nurse.

Women as nurses point proudly to
Florence Nightingale. the woman whose
humanitarian work upon the battle
field gave her a place OF highest regard
and opened the door OF privileged tac-
tivity for her sex. The field OF nurs-
ing into which woman entered was al
entirelMt new one. 1t WAS hers BY
right. While women, as physicians
have not been marked success. large
y because as, inc eld was already pre- ~
her sphere unchallenged. She has en-
tered into II with buoyancy and will
ability; she has displayed wisdom and
Observation-Disclosures American.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
MR. BRYAN,s DELEC.res

me results of the Democratic state
conventions hesl during the past week
can hardly fpsl ~ be intensely er.+tt,.
ing to Mr.. Bryan. Of the fiity-eirbt
afiessfes chosen in that time, fifty
are under instructions for him. and
the eight from New Hampshire arc also
pledged to him. During the same pe-
roo not single delegate was named
Tor either of his two strongest rivals
for the nomination. Governor John.
sons total remains at 90 and Judge
oray's at 81, as heretofore
The total vote in the national con.
vention al Denver Will be zoos. Under
the two-thirds rule 1t will require 67a
votes for a choice, Mr., Bryan now
has Jas assured. AS for the States yet
to be heard from, two seemingly in
dsnendent forecasts sent out with
the beginning of the present week
the one fyom Washington. the other
from New York. reach identical
conclusions. Each fixes the nun.
Der OF delegates who will get in
&uuctions for Mr. Bryan at lS7. OF
uninstructed delegates already named
one gives him IS, the other 40. There
fore, according to these estimates, the
Nebraskan will so to Denver with 77o
votes, or 7G8, in his pocket-nearly 100
more than he will need. What wonder
that Senator Owens himself good
Democrat. referred in a perfectly mat.
ter of course way the other day to
the party of Bryan2"
Nevada held her State convention
yesterday, Idaho. Louisiana and Mary
land viii meet tomorrow. OF these
four, the first two have been general,
conceded 10 Mr.. Bryan, while Louis
lana and Maryland are slated agains
him This leaves fifteen states ant
Porto Rico yet to be heard from, al
Of which are given to Bryan, excep
part of the Maine and Colorado dele
cations and Virginia. Virginia is classe
as ''doubtful or uncommitted, and w
read in the dispatch from Washing
ION thar "the Virginia contest ha.
shaken the party in the State from
one enc to the other"
June nth is the date when pirgini
win step out from The doubtful o
gncommitted" column and make Il
plain where she stands. We may be
lleye that the eye of Mn Bryan is upo
MS, and upon that date with very gen
ltinc interest and concern.
4 f q {, q . 5 rUl -
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Rhymes for To-Day
WHAT ARE THE WILD BoOsfs say
TNGS


NM whose birth
Wv Is like lion In its mirth,
was still abroad upon the earth
From sea to sea,
A little strange. reluctant word
AS shy as any diclsy-bird,
Crept TO us and we oddly heard:
Its Taft or Me-"
When April fluttered on the scene.
And crocl came and grass turned green,
To tell us gentle spring l ween,
Was soon to be,
The little rumor swiftly grew
AS large as one mans hand, or two.
And all the owls hummed wit! Too
WOO!
It's Taft or Met
When May danced In like some child's
game,
or which disrecall the name,
And Sol waXed warm and summer came
Upon the lea
(And elsewhere. too, OF course)-well.
then
The whisper grew and grew again.
Fer stamping in the minds of men:
IT'S Taft or Me-"
And now. when Jolly June is here,
And grim convention-t time draws near
All. we'll 1t shortly must appear
What we shall see:
for one. I'd feel no marked surprise
If ere the last June evening dies.
This roaring smote Chicago's skies:
Not 'raft-but Me- Fl. S. H.
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STATE PRESS
Paths Of the Fathers.

Indeed we are departing from the old
methods and practices in too many respect.
aiready. We arc yoldnE too much TO tie
presidential office and to Congress. We are
turning to Washington whenever VIC are !,
doubt or IN Mood. We are forgetting Rich.
,ond ana NASHVILLE ana naielgh ana CO. co.
are DONG worse than thnt--wo are forget.
ting Virginia and Tennessee and North Car
GINA CIR. ana South Carolina and the othei
Of tho striking evidences OF this most danger
Gus Gus tendency OF current public thought
Petersburg Index-Appcnl
That Negro Vote.
the Republicans In tho House OF Repro
sentatives were not as shallow" in placing
a force BIZ rider" on the campaign fun,i
pupiicity bill and passing II as many Demo-
cratic papers seem to think they were. The
truth Is that tho Republican lenders are
.ern.n disturbed about the negro vote in
several OF the Northern states. They real
re u that vote goes back OH them In Ohio.
indiana, Illinois and other states where II
n ~ turn the scale, the Republican party
IN the presidential campaign VIII be "a
Roner.'-Henry Bulletin.
Clearly New Conner.
Recently an applicant for naturalization
papers answered ono of the questions asked
MN IN this wise: Congress is the law
making body OF the country; God made It."
we earnestly hope that a man with such
ali idea was promptly barred from cltizen-
ship. for the widest OF Americans Will
origin
The fact is that there is more sacriegous
stuf perpetrated In Congress than should 40
allowed In any assembly OF men in this
country--Sorfolk Ledger Dispatch.
Gone to Halifax.
Hon. Harry st. George Tucker. who Ia
an avowed candidate for Governor OF vir-
sihia, was at Halifax Courthouse on Mon
daE-court day. 1t was his first appearance
III Houston as politician. He is a gentle-
man or commanding appearance There is
something fascinating about him; the more
you see and hear him the better one likes
MN. HIS greetings are warm and cordial;
ne seems to know exactly what will please
each Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Lamp Holds out.
One by one tho opposition papers are
ciimblng In the Bryan band wagon. About
the only ones which are now outside of the
ioid are the Charleston News Courier and
the Washington Post, but there is still
time for them to become possessed OF sense
ana acknowledgement. News Press.
Mixed.
That soldier is the best soldier who most
pip1citly obeys the commands OF his Sill
periors, and that Democrat Is tho best DEM
ocrat who most consistently and Loyalty
touches elbows with his comrades. Not that
ne moves at the lash Of boss, but that he
appreciates that in union there Is strength
-Farmville Herald.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
PEARY.

Pearv deserves we'll at the hands OF
his courtrymen. and 1t is to be hoped
that his projected dash" for the pole
this summer will not fall through for
lack of funds. Peary is brave. expe-
rienced, serious in ambition. and single
any Journalistic proposition. Is not
looking for the advertising is carry
ing no side-llnes, and Is INDUCING in
no high-class specialtics whatever. His
one object in life is to find the North
Pole, and to accomplish this he has
spent twenty years of his manhood
and all his personal means, amounting
to some $4,000. In return for these
expenditures he has to show. at the
age OF. fifty-two. an unsurpassed
knowledge of polar conditions and a
record of farther north" than any
other living man.
Arctic exploration Is shifted at by
the practical minds of commerce on the
ling that a strictly unitarian view of
the universe would equally dismiss
painting, music or any form of art for
arts sake, that objection may perhaps
be safely disregarded The spirit of
hardy and resolute adventure, of strug-
gle with the earth at its ruggedest. OF
grim determination to do what many
men Of courage have lost their lives in
failipr IN do is we'll worth being kept
alive by action. The real point about
the Arctic situation is as to what our
explorers Will have to try their mettle
upon when the pole has at length been
tracked to its lair and delivered over
to the photographers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Costly Dentistry.
Tho Tombstone,
HINTS FROM THE BLEACHERIEs


A Nm ARBoR physicians have recently
~ removed a rubber eraser from the ear
LOT schoolgirl. She must have been
trying to get something of her mind
Washington Post.
At last Congress has risen TO the full
height of one of its prerogatives and has
President Roosevelts vetoes 1t is es-
planned. however, that 1t was done with the
Presidents tact consent. This proviso de-
tracts somewhat from the heroism OF the
proceeding-Boston Herald.
THE New York World is worrying over
whether the American mother is failure"
says the Baltimore Sun. Some OF them are.
or there would be nobody 10 ask such fool
ish Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Patriotism Is not dead in this country.
Chicago man who has season ticket To
both baseball parks says he intends to let
them lie unused during the Republican Ma.
t!onal Convention IL he can secure admission
to the Coliseum.-Chicaso Record Herald.
Young Alton B. Parker has just been
admitted to the practice of law. When
some one says to him. Work hard. my boy
Is apt to have his suspiclons.-Washingt
Herald.
Oklahoma will not be living up TO what
the country expects of It unless 1t promptly
abolishes the floods by legislative enactmel
or the Initiative and observation-disclosures
Leader.
Congress may we'll throw up its hands II
despair II two men who are not even presi.
dents are going to fling special messages
ut it.-New York Evening Post.
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"a New York shop girl has lost her,
position because she was too pretty,
notes the Baltimore News. thing or
this kind could never happen IN Rich-
mond Here shoppers are accustomed
TO perfect beauty behind tho counter
| owing to the fact that number OF
our little star-cyed blondes are IN
reduced circumstances and arc COM
PEELED to work for their living.
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MERELY JOKING.
Inherent crowd Entirely.

different Crowd Entirely.
eve are going to entertain company to.
night"
some people you like. I presume"
ooh, mercy, no: we would lose our so
cial standing II we. entertained people we
likc."-Nashvtle American.
Force OF Habit
True. the night was dark, but he. APP
peared to Jump deliberately in front OF the
automobile"
Force of habit The, poor FELLOW was
an actor, and naturally dlved for the spot
light."--Kansas City Journal.
Cheering Grandpa.
Mother lin a very low volce,: Tommy
your grandfather is very sick. Can't. YOU
Tommy Din an earnest voice. Grand
father. wouldn't you like 10 have soldiers
at your neutrality-suspicious.
Born s7sl Il. c.
But" cried Miss woody Indignantly
since I declare to you that the joke is
original with me, isn't 1t impudent OF you
Not a, all" replied Mr.. Chesterfield: a
should be still more impudent and ungal-
liant to believe you that old."-Philadelpha
Press.
Costly Dentistry.
II guess paw must have passed a lot OF
time at the dentists when he was in New
York." said Johnny Green.
why do you think so?" queried his ma
"'Cause l heard him tell man to-day
that it cost him nearly $500 to get his eye
teeth cut" replied Johnny.-chicaso News
The Toucl,stone.
.she is a most accomplished woman"
rs she?"
why. you have heard her sns?"
Yes"
And seen her paintinss?"
Yes"
Then how can you ask?''
II have never tasted her pies."-Nash-
VILE American.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

For ability TO turn out high grad
lpil before the storm, we would havf
our readers understand that the ma
tional political field asks favors D
nobody
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

Strangers visiting our charming city
are urged to leave our incompatible
Hanover strawberries alone. People
who have formed a Hanover straw
berry passion which cannot always be
satisfied have been proved by sclen-
lists to be the unhappiest dogs alive.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

Well. suppose Boni Castellane had
answered one of Mrs. Guinness's mas
riinonial ads?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

How many people will be satisfied
with TIE currency bill-of-fare2
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

SUICIDE AND CIVILIZATION.
Figures compiled by Mr.. George Ken
nan ard presented in McClure.s Maga.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

Hawaii is still resisting the Asiatic
between the civilizations OF the East
and West in the Pacific Ocean. But
In the fight Hawaii has suffered much.
The Pacific Coast States do not pro-
pose to permit the problems which dis
turb Hawaii to be transplanted to the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
In Honor of Davis.

Member OF Richmond Council. !
159, y. C.. r.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

Editor OF Tho Times Dispntcl,:
Sir,--I was astorislled to see In to-
days paper that West Grace should
have taken "R. p. FL" Cor man and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

Congress may we'll throw up Its hands in
despair il two men who are not even pres-
dents are going to fling special messages
Mt it.-New York Evening Post.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
Noise Nuisance.

June /, 1908.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02

Indeed we are
methods and prncti
already. We arc ,
PRESIDENTIAL Office d
turning to Washing
doubt or In Mood.
y ond and Nnshvil'
lumbln and the o
arc doing worse tn
ting Virginia and I
olina md South c,
States. And this ia
OF tho striking evid
Gus tendency of G
Petersburg Index.A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-10

past than in the present-it has repro
duced with ponderous dignity in its edi-
tortal columns the prevailing senti-
ments OF large proportion of the peo-
pie of England.
For long time it had no rival in
popular estimation. Now it has rivals
as enterprising as itself. What with
their growth and its blunders the In
f1uence of the Times has lessened and
its financial status become impaired.
1t is in some respects only the shadow
of the great name of half a century
ago.
Nothing is eternal, even in England.
Newspapers have their fates there as
they have here. But the fact that a
paper has been in the possession Of one
family for nearly a century and a quar-
ter gives one some idea of English per-
manency."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-10
THE LONDON TIMES.

THE passage of the control of the
London Times out of the hands of the
family which has held it for three gen.
erations is an event in Great Britain"
rightly says the Chicago Tribune IN
America it is no more than mere news
item. 1t is nothing to the average
American that the management of a
journal which he seldom sees, and finds
rather heavy reading when he does see
it, has changed owners and may change
its political creed.
THE Times has not been a popular
newspaper in the northern part Of the
United States since the civil war That
was not due so much to Bull Rum
RusselPs letters as it was to the I'M
reasoning, blind advocacy of the con-
federate cause by that paper up to the
last moment. Even after Vicksburg
and Gettysburg and as late as the win
ter of 1864 it decried the possibility of
the restoration of the union. Its pre-
tensions to infallibility did not hold
good in this case.
1T has made other and more dam
aging mistakes 1t made costly one
when 1t accepted as true Pigott's forged
Parnell letters. When it was shown
in court how 1t had been deceived In
that matter its prestige got a severe
blow
But on the average during it's long
career the Times has been as near in
fallible as daily paper can be- Its
news has usually been accurate, and it
has often anticipated its contemporaries
in the publication of important events.
There has been some reason for the
Englishmans assertion that a thing
must be SO because he had read it in
the Times. That paper has been in
f1uential not merely because of its news
columns but because-oftener In the