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low one--the researcher discovers
that our total consumption stands at
2,50O,oO0,0oo pounds per annum. we
might say that this meant twenty
eight pounds of candy yearly for every
man, woman and child In the country,
except that our least informed reader
would instantly know better. Stats
tics are wanting, but every chick Of
us understands that not less than one
half of all candy is devoured. or let
us say consumed, by young ladies of
between the ages Of seventeen and
twenty-tllree. Ono sex buys the candy
and the other cats 1t.
1t used to be, we read, that for every
pound of candy eaten on all the rest
OF the globe, somebody in the United
States ate pound Now for every
two pounds eaten elsewhere, somebody
over here eats three. Our swect-tootl,
is growing like the dcntals of wisdom.
Is all this waste? Does the half BILL
lion year represent nothing but triv-
ial appetite and fleshly qualification
and masculine suasion and sweet flut-
ters in many pretty dovccote? Well
maybe not. But all we can find tc
the contrary is that some temperance
people think that eating candy tends
to kill thirst, and that doctor once
said that chocolates were very fine fol
lettering that tired feeling.
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the theft here in America OF the re-.
mains OF a. T. Stewart
The whole country was wrought up
over the affair: spiritualists and other
pretenders TO occult knowledge took
up the quest for the missing body.
their efforts proving as unsuccessful
as those of the police. Nearly a year
afterwards the body was recovered on
information given by man named
Charles Suter, who was an accessory to
the crime. and the corpse was found
hidden away In a remote corner OF
Dunecht Park, and thereupon re-
entombed. this time at Wigan. Sutei
| received five years PENAL servitudc,
but the actual perpetrators OF the theft
were never brought to iustice.
Not unnaturally. the late eari's
! widow and her son, the present peer,
who is premier earl on the Union roll
! of Scotland, became imbued with an
aversion TO Dunecht. and sold 1t at the
earliest opportunity. 1t passed through
several hands. and has Just been pur-
| chased for a very large sum. in the
| neighborhood, it IS said. of s2.opoooo,
| by Sir Weetmap Pearson. the great
| contractor, who IS almost as well
known en- this sido of the Atlantic
| as in Great Britain.
| (Copyrlght. 1910. by tho Brentwood
| Company
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Probably tho quashing of the indict-
ments in New York marks the dying
sputter Of Mr.. Roosevelt's absurd libel
suits. In Indianapolis Judge Anderson
decided that the defendant publisher
could not be hauled off to Washington
for trial on the flimsy ground that
the offending publication was cir
culated on Federal territory, /. e., at
West Point. Now another Federal
Judge rules that the same ground OF
argument Is too weak to give any
Federal court any authority to pass
upon the matter. Thus the attempt
to turn alleged libels against Theodore
Roosevelt, Douglas Robinson, c. p.
Taft and others into a libel on the
government falls ignominiously to
earth. The abortivc effort was a
hand down from tho Bonaparte
regime, and we do not look to see
| Attorney General Wickersham display
much enthusiasm In pressing it fur
Their. AS for Roosevelt ct al, If they
still feel themselves to have been
criminally libeled, they have the full
and fair privilege of demanding re-
dress in the State courts like any other
citizens. They could have saved them
selves good deal OF modification, and
a certain amount Of judicial con-
temptuousness, If they had done this
| In the first place.
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WHO MADE THE "DEAcoN.,
New York Sun and Charlotte Observer
0f \Nnr nx,pr. NJninr JnmnhllI

New York Sun and Charlotte Observer
mt War Over Major IIemphill.
Alas that the New York Sun should
be wrong in a matter of history! The
Sun claims an honor which Is ours be-
You'd the slightest question. as even
our modcsty cannot prevent us from
saying. First. the claimant endeavors
to raise an Overwhelming presumption
in favor of it's entire cpedlbility as q
witness on this occasion. Knowing the
Observers "many sound and engaging
qualities" 1t has forgiven It's beset-
ting sins. humored it's poets; admitted
cheerfully that George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson,
William j. Bryan, Edgar A. Poe, Ben
! jamin Franklin, Edwin Forrest,
Thomas A. Edison, William Shakes
peare, Count Johannes, Daniel Webster,
Daniel Pratt and Ollie James were
natives of Mecklenburg county, North
Carolina" 1t has subscribed to the
Mecklenburg Declaration. has done call
and more than the most long-suffering
friendship and comfy could ask" But
after this perfect orgy of reminders
| the Sun exclaims: when the in
satiable Tar Heel asserts that it made
Deacon Hemphil! "a Deacon Truth iN
| an apopleXy of indignation must cry
| out And so: "In sense Deacon
Hemphill was born a deacon secular,
but. as the terms of his patent prove,
we signed and scaled him to that
dignity" centipedal AleSandrine, In
which the Sun frenetically accuses us
of usurping its prerogatives and "fol-
lowing the system of DR., Cook" ends
the song,
Far be it from us TO forget power
full aid extended in a good cause, hut
we always take our history straight
AS we'll might the Sun claim to have
invested Cl,arlemagne and Napoleon
with the imperial honors as Deacon
| Hemphill with the diaconate. Here arc
the exact and heretofore undisputed
facts OF history: The Observer firs'
made the honore an Elder in .recogni-
| ton of his able defense OF that great
Calvinistc document tho Mefklen-
burg Declaration; later, for apostatlz'
ing. 1t degraded him to the diacona
hut still distinguished rank, where NJ
has since remained.-Charlotte OBJ
4 server,
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MAGAZINES AND THE MAILS.

The magazine publishers assert 'ha'
Postmaster General Hitchcoclk's figures
on the loss of handling second-class
mail are wrong by a detail OF $eo'oVV'-
600. This error they trace nome 10
mistake of oo,0Oo.OOO pounds IN INC
total weight of this class OF matter'
to charging against them nearly $l4'-
900, 900 which should be charged TO the
rural delivery system; and to mistakes
in charging costs of railway maj! ser
vice, post office car service, city ocliV-
cry rentals. compensation to post
masters and the like. In hearing
before the House Committee on POST
Office and Post Roads, one of the rep
resentatives of the Periodical Pub
| Fishers Association pointed out that a
raise in the mail rate would result in
greatly increasing the prices of mag
azines to subscribers This Is one
of the best answers to Mr. Tafts the
DRY Of subsidized" magazines: it is not
the magazines that are subsidized"
so much as it is the people. Not every
I6lHllS SuhSSi lpNS w u ilAi = W
course. Neither does every family live
on a rural route and get its letters
delivered at far below cost.
: 1t does not seem that the magazine
: men intend to submit to a 400 per cent
increase in their carriage rate withou
letting their side of the case be full.
known. One of them. publisher OF
: widely circulated weekly, announce
that the proposed raise viii increas
his costs 100000 year. Besides at
tackins the Hitchcock bookkeeping
they seem extremely anxious that tn.
congressional and departmental frank
ing system be looked into. and tina!
some inquiry be pressed into railway
NAH contracts. One point recently
brought up is more novel but entire
~ sound: the fact that this second
class matter Is the means OF creating
q large first class business for the post
office, From the wide circulation OF
: the magazines, under low postal rates
has grown up a vast volume Of mai
: orders transported at a good profit
: and in addition there is the healthy
collateral correspondence among pub
: fishers, subscribers and advertisers
: TO cut down the circulation of TIL,
y magazines, IL is argued with reason
$ Win at once reduce tho government
u paying business in the higher class.
% Why doesn't Congress show it's sin
alceriu and Observation-Disclosures in posta
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reform by beginning at home? 1t Is
notorious that tho frank is being great
ly abused, at the cost OF tho tax-pay-
crs. Next Congress might insist that
modern and efficient methods be intro.
duced into the department and further
determine whether or not 1t is being
MIXED by the railroads. Then the re-
quirencnts for the second-class privi-
lcgc might be overhaulcd and tight
ened UP, and large numbers OF fake
magazines cut off. When these things
have been duly and faithfully done. 1t
will probably be time enough to take
UP the question of qulntuplIng charges
on class Of matter which has dis
tinct educational value to the country
as a whole.
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Voice Of the People
a strong Complaint From Grove
Avenue,

Avenue.
Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,--I saw from your valuable pa
per Of the 25th that the city had an
over surplus of funds to expend, On On
the annexed territory, and wanted 10
use 1t somewhere. Please suggest that
our Councimen DO awakened ana taRe
n look at Grove Avenue nave oecn
a large taxpayer and have hVed on.
here fen years, and VIC have in those
tan years had hardly passablc drive
way on Grove Avenue. For mohths
we would have to go around and cross
streets. and when at last the mains ~.
or other appointments were iliied ~
the avenue was absolutely left IN q
worse condition each time. Last year.
to quiet our murmurings, they dump
ed a little gravel and dirt In the
middle of 1t to Auburn Avenue. lleIe
they left a bump. and during the SUM- :
mer the holes were so deer. that II
you were driving at any gait at an
YOU would be hoisted out of your Vehi-
Gle nearly, and now 1t has gotten to
the point that 1t is only very. very
muddy lane.
Yesterday. before o'clock. three
teams had stalled at my front gate.
One man building in front Of as kept
an extra pair OF horses all day to
pull the teams that were We !, ha n,,,a 'he
Now. these are facts. and this is
the condition right along one of our
hest avenues, which Is favorite
driveway, and which leads to some or
our best citizens homes: which is built
up solidly on one side and all OF the
lots arc sold to build on the other
side. and we are paying city taxes;
For two years We had no lights, anu
there Were electric lights put over on
Roseneath Road and Monument Ave,
nue.. where there We're no houses, and
farther down, where there We're very
few. Nearly two years later when
lthey had some secondhand gas lamp
posts we were given those. When
they were at work with good force
| of city hands I asked them II theS
would put some terra Gotta pipes N
| the drain by my alley and some graVe1
in the alley. The men said they NAG
no right to. but would gladly !. 90 10 >. y
I would cali up certain authorities and
get permission I dfd; and was re-
ferred to seven different ones who de-
olined, although I told them the city
workmen were right here and were
willing to do the work, and Woulf
| furnish the terra Gotta pipes. and j
would save the trouble and expense o!
sending them out another time. TheS
refused, and refused to allow me t.
have it done. The market wagon came
Ion after tho road machine had cut
out the deep drain and broke every
egg bought that day, and every nov
and then they come out and cut the
drain out, and againsI have It brldget
over. with the thought each time tina
i I may be fined.
l ment Avenue should be made beauti
/ ful, but we need something done t.
our avenue dreadfully, and we mus
Ishave 1t. We women have waited fo
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28
THE COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT


Under the form of returning to
pie, the Assembly, in our judgment,
did the people an injustice yesterday.
BY supporting the constitutional
amendment which provides for the re-
nue. and county treasurers, the mem
bers of the House partially discount
cd, In advance, the benefits OF what
they propose to do for tax reform.
The Timcs-D Dispatch has always felt
that the election of these officers was
wrong in principle and unjust in prac-
tice. They ought not to be public
favorites. They ought not to receive
the hearty and unfailing support Of
the people. They are put in office to
protect the whole people against that
portion of the people which cvades It's
taxes. If they honestly do their boun-
den duty, without fear or favor. they
are not likely to be popular enough to
secure majority at the polls. If the
amendment is adopted and approved,
and if the commissioners appeal to the
people, the result will inevitably be
low and unequal assessments.
| There is second and no less valid
objection to the amendment. The
| whole plan is aimed to perpetuate the
| commissioners and treasurers In Office
| In many instances this would not be
wrong, for many of them are good
| men. we'll trained and honest. But, In
! the main, the amendment will merely
! add another buttress to the fortitica'
| tons which keep the courthouse rings
| in power. Every one who has studiet
| this amendment knows that 1T. the
law which it upset and the constitu
tional provision upon which 1T is baset
have been iuggled for six years. mere
ly to keep the old officers in place
} This. we submit, is contrary to th'
best interests of the State.
1t is not yet too late to defeat the
amendment. Many members of tho
House, we believe, voted for 1t with
out FUZZY RnoWlhS io" ~ "'" ~
rate; others would not support 1t !
they were fully cognizant of the man
ner in which it has been handled II
i previous years. Then, too. the Sen
/ ate will have chance to oppose TN
amendment when IT comes up befor
that body. Should this fail, we trus
| that public sentiment in the state J
sufficiently enlightened 10 ueiea'
when it comes before the people 10
! ratification or rejection
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MERELY JOKING.
Stay Of Proceedings.

Stay OF Proceedings.
II think I'll sue for her hand"
"Why, 1 hear she's to be married next
week"
Gosh! In that case, I'd better get out
an observation-disclosures Post.
Little Revenue.
rs there any money in poctry?" inquired
the hopeful amateur
"Not for me-" replied the editor. Few
poets are able to pay for moro than one
Insertion. louisville CONFECTIONERY.
Only This and Nothing More.
Willis: Ibid the poiicyhoders have a
voice in the affairs of tho company?
uillls: 'Yes-the customary howli"-Puck.
Bound to Quarrel
Mother: children. why are you quarrel
ing SOP
Willie: ITS a new game. We're playing
discovering the ole."--Lippncotts.
She's Converted.
Mrs Gratnercy what is your opinion
about the right of women TO yote?"
Mrs Park. Its enough for me to know,
my dear. that it is fashionable."-Ju
How Could She:
He: You haven't told me that you love
me once to-day"
She: ..And you haven't asked me II
love you since last nisht."-st. Louis Times
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the men to- find out why We are so
neglected. and they Will not. l have
tried to find our Councilman, but could
not. / hope no brought the Council
men out on Grove Avenue to the city
limits when they were out in tho
autos yesterday. inspecting where most
was needed. Then they could at u
glance appreciate why n me-loying.
quiet woman should want some man
to wake up and look after this black
eye to our beautiful city where we
have located. to have our homes beau
tiful on an avenue that could be mads
so beautiful. and we are praying for
1t. GROVE AVENUE TAXPAYER.
Richmond. January &c.
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Charles T. Lassiter's defeat in the
congress was rather unexpected
though very close contest had been
generally anticipated. 1t proved even
closer than had been looked for, Judge
Watkins running strongly and the
threo leaders being separated by I'M
usually narrow margins. Many friends
of Senator Lassiter through this part
OF the State will sympathize with him
in the upsettins of his ambitions to
higher office. At the same time there
Will be general satisfaction that Vir-
ginia is not to lose his services yet
awhile. Mr.. Lassitcr has done good
| work for the state in constructive
ways, notably In behalf Of better roads,
and his departure from the Legislature
would be a distinct loss to that body.
~ very young man as men in public
| life are measured, he can afford to
walt. and doubtless higher honors are
destined to come to him later on. Rob-
ert Turnbull. OF Brunswick county,
! whom the Fourth District voters have
chosen to serve out the late f. r..
Lassiter's unexptred term in the House,
is less well known to the State. He
is understood to be a man of abilities
and OF wide legal experience. The re-
1narkable vote that tho people of
Brunswick county gave him, almost a
solid one. is strong evidence that
those who know him best have the
fullest confidence in him.
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Borrowed Ingles
TO uER-,,NsroKEN.

Go to him, ah 30 to him. and lift your
eyes aslow to him.
Fear not royalty to give whatever he may
claim;
All your spirits treasury scruplo not to
show to him.
high for shame.
Say to him. ah, say to him. that soul and
body sway to him;
Cast away the cowardice that counsels
you to flight,
Lest you turn at last to find that you have
lost the way to him.
Lest you stretch your arms in vain across
starless night.
Be to him. ah. be to him. the key that
sets JOY free to him;
Teach him all the tenderness that only
love can know.
And IL ever there should come memory
of me to him.
Bid him judge me gently for the sake OF
long ago.
Amelia Josephine Burr. in the Century.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28
Stole PEERS Body.

Old Lady Crawford, widow of tho
twenty-ffth Earl of Crawford and
friend of Queen Victoria. who on sew
villa Palmieri, at Florence. now owned
p1y .. w, Ellsworth, of New York, has
Just been laid to rest beside her hus-
band In tho Bradshaigh Chanel Of
Wlgun parish church, a chapel be-
longing to the ancestors of the Lords
or Crawford in the female line.~ from
whom they have Inherited their great
Lancashire estates.
The late earl's remains underwent
tho most extraordinary experiences be,
4haigh Chapel; for when he died, lust
thirty years ago, no was inferred In
the family mausoleum OF his ancestral
-Aberdeenshire place, known as Du-
masoloam Was Nf FOUND to- Nave been e
gbroksn open and the earl's remains
.Gtolen. "a crsss~e suggest cd, no doubt. by
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28
THE AMERICAN swEET-roorH,

The statistical flend has been at It
again this time IN the toothsome
realm Of the confectioner. Thence he
returns with the somewhat startling
intelligence that We the people of
this country, are spending approXi-
mately s50o,oOO,ooO a year on candy.
This is large sum, being nearly as
large as the national debt of China
and twice as large as the national debt
of Canada, You could do good deal
with ii in the direction of building
dreadnaughts, fghting tuberculosis
opening up waterways constructing
Eoads and the like, But 1t is the
American fancy TO eXpend IL on bon
bons and swectmeats. chocolates. pra.
lines and caramels, nougat!nes ant
nougatelles, lemon-drops. jaw break
ers. stick and French Averaging al
this mass OF dainty edibles al 9
rents pound--a high average, not
a.
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STATE PRESS
The Alexandra Rctrocession.

There is very ugly move started in some
Federal sources to grab back from Virginia
Alexandria county, 1t is a pleasure to note
that Senator Martin SAYS he will fight 1t to
the last ditch. Alexandria county was orig
inally given by Virginia to the Federal gov
ernment as part of tho Federal District. In
1916 it was coded back TO tie State by Con-
gress with the consent of nearly the whole
population of the county. 1t would be an
outrage to grab it back in any such Indian
fashion. but tho poor state Is helpless
whore power chooses to act. Some even
hold that the act of retroccssion was not
legal. If that is not so. how would 1t be
possible for the court that would so decide
to then uphold the acts by which West VIZ
gna was cut off from, this state and maze
separate State against tho will of tho
one and by very unjustly taken vote OF
tho other? Poor Virginia seems 10 nave
the bad end OF every bargain. Its 50 strange !;
that tho State that did SO much Tor the
national government should always nave 20
suffer at its hands-Eastern Shore Herald.
Senator Parkss Football Bill
Senator Parks OF Page. has forgotten his AZ
youth. We are forced to this conclusion pS
the radical character OF a bill which he mas
prepared. The measure viii probably never
! emerge from the committee TO which II VIII
newspapers may put stop to the ill-ad :
Nised ATTEMPTS to rthlessly stamp oul
sports and athletics at our Virginia instltu-
lions Of learning, senator Parks seriously
pIopoSSS' NV ollS to dppHSl IputpN.'' - -
the state, but to smother every form OF
healthy athletic sport in the state by pre-
venting intercollegiate and lnterschoiastlc
contests among the students OF our col'eses
and schools, Senator Parks wants the boys
to be confined to books and their own cam
pus He would rather see boy Win ms
head full OF knowledge and his body devoi q
of development than a hoy With hoth brain
and body amnly developed for all praetica
purposes. Again, Senator parks finds excuse
for his bill IN the collection from students
OF athletic dues but his reasoning IN IN s
connection Is so contrary to the actual tacts
that II should not be allowed to pass un :
noticed, Ills statement that boys IN poor
circumstances who are unable to subscribe !.
50 or $40 to the athletic fund are ,ol .is
| listed, ostraczed and made TO feel lmS!.
| position IN every way,n is absolutely WIN
out foundation The senator must IND SONG J,
his radical bill. Let the bows alone. Lesis-
lation along the limo proposed viii do no
good q, and IN, VIII make the body which en ni,
Elt fialcnlous IN tho eyes OF the %oriu'-
/ Frcdnrick sburg Star
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28
THE MERRY MoCKERs.

THE cost-of-lvinE agitation will scarce
y affect the Rancs Law sandwich. of
which the chief meat has been always
dehance.-Ncw York World.
DR.. Cooks stenographer says he owes her
for eight days worS-ss0." Well we'll,
there is no reason why her young lady
friends should sniff and turn up their noses
about it How are they going to prove the
good doctor did not promise 10 pay her Az
per day?-Washington Herald.
1t has been clearly demonstrated that the
glorious climate of California Is also good
for raising airshps.-clcveland Plain Deal
er.
Pictures of those Ohio Legislators who are
Investigating tho prices of food show then,
to be well-fed lot.-Cmaha Bee.
Mr. Rockefeller says you can generally
do a thing ii you try hard enough, but
the average citizen Will file an exception
on making salary and cost of living meet
PRtsburg Dispatch.
Paradoxical as it may seem, tho world 8
surplusage of gold seems to be causing
trouble only for those who haven't got any
of it.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28

For any comments he may care to
make on the latest Panama libel de-
cision, we have authorized our field
agents in Nairobi to offer the Colonel
the sum of 81 per column.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28

While Richmond's winter climate has
not been fully up to the usual stand
ard this season, We should all bear
in mind that it has been from rs to
3S1 per cent better than the winter
climates offered In other cities.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28

Uncle Sam is asked to remit that
S12,00O,0o0 by New York draft. or It's
equivalent, as we do not desire to
pay any exchange on it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28

The first thing we know somebody
will be starting CLAWS boom for
President.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28

Getting tired of oats. peas, beans and
barley, you boycotters you?