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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
THE MTFFLEP Is THE THING.

AT its meeting tonight, City Coun-
Gil should not forget. in legislating on
the automobile. to insist that the cars
shall all be supplied with mufflers. An
experienced driver and owner of sew
eral cars informs us that the mufiers
help to smother the sound without
affecting the speed of the cars or de-
stroying the pleasure of riding in
them BY all means, Council should
insist upon the muftiers.
Then there are the horns. Council
certainly has the power to regulate
them 1t is done in other progressive
cities, where 1t is a Enable offence
for automobiles to carry siren whis-
ties and the too-la-loo type of horn
should be punishable by both fine and
imprisonment. Better be killed by a
machine with a frog-in- the throat
horn than to be killed by a thing
which sounds more like reveille than
taps. 80 !,
Then, thete sare the children and
young persons and Immature grown
ups who ought to be forbidden to
manage automobiles in the streets of
the city. They can all be reached by
requiring them to pass a real examina-
1ion--such an examination. for exam
pie as Republican voter in South
Carolina is required to stand on con-
stitutional questions when he wishes to
qualify himself for the suffrage.
There is a way to get at all the OBJ
jectionable features Of automobiling il
Council will go at its business in a
business-like way. 1t ought to do
this tonight.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
STILL FEELING THE ROOSEVELT
PANIC.

Wa are not yet out of the woods,
despite all that is claimed for the new
,tarif law, and the fact that the chief
sdisturber OF the business prosperity
of the country has returned and
threatens to continue and extend MS
evil influence is causing grave concern
TO many who expected substantial
rally from the Roosevelt Panic OF lsu''
Dun's report for the first six months
of the present year shows that there
were s,ssS commercial failures, with
liabilities of s11o,2Sa.s7o, as compared
with 5.sS1 failures, with liabilities OF
sss.54IsTs during the first six months
of 1909, and S.7Os with Liabilities of
sl24,s74.sss in the hrst six months
of 1905, the year Immediately sue
reeding the Roosevelt Panic.
with the single exception OF the
wear after the Roosevelt Panic, the
commercial failures in the first six
months Of The present year exceeded
in number and Liabilities the failures
In any year during the last decade
This is not encouraging, but it is con-
dition we'll worth the consideration
of all who are whistling 10 keep up
their courage. 1t should also make
the people rather careful about fol-
lowing the lead of the political
ouack TO whose attacks upon
the so-called vested interests the
commercial and financial distress Of
the country may be directly traced.
There Is nothing better than a band
saw to convert timber into merchant
able lumber, yet such an instrument
would not be selected with which to
perform a delicate surgical operation.
The club in the hands of policeman
truly great is an effective weapon OF
both offence and defence. but the Off
Ger who used it indiscriminately upor
all the neads within reach would be
dismissed from the force.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
Dir. cooK,s EskIMos.

Knud Rasmussen. the Danish ex-
plorer. will sail from Copenhagen to-
day for Greenland on a TOUR of expior-
alton or discovery. in the arctic
which will last six years Peter
Freuchen, the Greenland expert, has
promised to join his expedition and
witness his (Rasmussen's) cross
examination of DR.. Cooks Esliimos.
Rasmussen believed in DR. Cook at
first, but afterwards changed his
mind Feeling, doubtless, that he has
done the Great Explorer injustice, ne
probably now Intends to fortity his
original opinion as to the good faitn
OF DR.. Cooks hndinss by talking to
the Eskimos who went with tho In
5trepid Cook to the Pole. We snall
await Rasmussen's report with inter
est
Several days ago sailor who hao
climbed Mount Mckinley reported
that he had found on the summit OF
that mountain the little brass, or cop
per. tube Ia which pr. Cook depoatist
the record of his ascent. read the rec.
| ord over, found IT exactly as Dr. Coot
| had said II was. put the record bacs
where he found Il, and then came
| down the mountain 10 tell the worlt
about ", Here was a man, com
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
THE SUNS CRUSADE.

There is little peace in the good city
of Baltimore these days. The muck
rakers have come to town: the-scandal-
mongers are walking the streets; sem
sation follows sensation. A few weeks
ago the Integrity Of the City Council
was assniled, and charges were made
that number of Councilmen had
been bribed to vote for particular or
dinances. This storm had not blown
over before another was raised in a
different quarter, and now the police
force Is the centre of the disturbance.
placed, number OF officers have been
dismissed from the service, and a
general police shake-up is expected.
1t is noticeable that trouble began
in Baltimore as soon as the Sun paper
changed hands. The old Sun had been
very conservative and had smiled
peacefully on the city for generations
under the management of the Abells.
When it was sold, however, and passed
under the control of Charles IL.
Grasty 1T at once began a warm
campaign against the existing order.
Its editorial tone was not greatly
modified, but 1t began to print back
page editorial articles in the form
of news stories. according to a system
we'll known to newspaper men.
and these articles have been in a
large measure responsible for what
has happened in Baltimore.
1t is little unsafe to Judge the
situation from this distance, and until
all the grand jury Investigations have
been made. the public should not pass
verdict on Mr.. Grasty and his paper
If the charges made by the Sun can
be sustained, that newspaper deserves
the thanks of. every friend of honest
government in America; but. If its
charges are not sustained, Mr.. Grasty
should be held up as a warning to
the newspaper profession everywhere
IL he be a muck -raker, he deserves
no sympathy and no support; If he be
a friend of honest city government he
deserves to be approved and ap-
plauded. The next few weeks should
decide which.
Whatever may be the outcome, the
wisdom and justice of such campaign
as the Sun has been making is to be
questioned on principle. Is a news
paper justified in beginning general
assault on the integrity of any NUM-
cipal body and the efficiency of the
whole police force? The broad side hits
as many innocent men as guilty,
and generally it does about as much
harm as good. 1t sometimes strikes
the man al whom all the shots are
aimed, but more frequently 1t Injuries
honest men and damages good repu-
tations almost beyond repair.
A newspaper has many RESPONSE
bilities. but 1t has no responsibility
as great as that of dealing justly with
all men, 1t should defend the public.
but 1t should not prosecute the indi-
vidual, and While 1t must befriend
every good cause it should never at
tack unless 1T knows the guilt of the
accused and can assert the innocence
of others.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
WATCHING THE WIRES,

The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany had wall Street guessing the
other day when ii restored telegraph
connections to number of Offices
from which the wires had been taken
Two days before. The refusal of the
Company 10 lease wires to bucket
shops followed the prosecution OF these
stock gamblers by the Government.
and when the wires We're cut it was
generally thought that the Telegraph
Company had been instructed to with
hold service by. the Government; but
when the wires We're replaced, with
out word of explanation, nobody
could offer an explanation.
The chances are, of course, that the
Telegraph people removed the wires
from the bucket shops and small brok
ers' Offices. as warning TO the men
who had leased them, The companv
knew, or strongly suspected. that ,he
wires We're being used for gambling
and wanted to show the men who rear
the tickers that their occupation Is
gone when they violate the law. With.
out telegraph and telephone connec
ton bucketshop is as helpless as
Texan is without gun.
II this he the case, the Company ma.
done the right thing in the ciroum
stances. II the telegraph corporation
want TO violate the law on Ia an
courage others to violate the law. III
Government has very little chance q
detecting infractions of the law; blu
when the Company honestly strives !,
reduce gambling over It's wires. 1T ca
greatly strengthen the hands of IN
Government,
There is no REASON in the world VIII
tbs Telesfa2h Companies should ne
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
WALTER UP AGAIN.

We knew Walter Wellman would
not down. 1t was cruel blow, OF
course, that fell when Cook and Peary
both came back and said they had
reached the Pole just at the time
when Walter was preparing to begin
his preparations for the preliminaries
of proposed attempt to find out
whether or not he could reach the
Pole. He had gone through all these
prel!minaries so often before and had
written SO many reports on them at
great length, that people had begun
to fear that he never would get to
the POLICY but still 1T was distressing
that his plan was upset by Cook and
Peary.
walter has now decided to try a
flight across the Atlantic in the dirigi-
BILE which he built for his Arctic journey.
He says he has tested this machine in
short Nights over the Arctic, north OF
Spitzbergen. and feels sure that 1t will
| prove equal to the occasion. A num-
! her of enterprising newspapers VIII
(, back him as heretofore, and viii
print stories which he Will transmit
by wireless while en- route across the
ocean.
/ This all sounds very beautiful, ant
one can imagine the kind Of story
Walter would dash off In fury while
sailing over the broad Atlantic al
tifty miles the hour, laughing at tn,
slow liners beneath him and hittint
like a mighty bird through the ether
Yet we caution the public of this par
Of the world not 10 take Walter to-
seriously He Is good newspape
man, but he has not been a strkini
.suceeas as an aviator and has spen
more time IN preparation than II
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

supervise the use OF their wires and
be positive that the wires are not IL
legally operated for gambling. rhe
Company should likewise know some
thing OF the mon who apply for spe-
ciaf wires. Every other business OF q
public character scrutinizes It's pat
rons, 4 newspaper will not accept
the advertisements of a firm that 1T
knows to be disreputable, and eau
tious dealer will not sell man he
knows to be dishonest. even with the
cash in hand. The Telegraph people
cannot afford to be less careful than
other men.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

achievement We suspect the old story
will be repeated, and Walter will find
himself forced to postpone his journey
to remodel his machine, to make re-
pairs and to carry OH preliminary cN-
periments until the country gets tired
of him and his plans.
So far as we can see, there Is no
reason why some one should not cross
the Atlantic in dirlgible even II Wall
ter Is not the man to do It, The sue
cess -of the journey Will depend en-
tirely upon the ability of some man to
make an engine that will stand the
test of any weather and will not fail
in any emergency. This. of course, is
much to demand as the wreck OF the
Deutschland showed, but 1t is not I'M
possible. Tho rest is comparatively
easy, as there Is no limit to the size
OF the drigible and practically no I'M
1t to its lifting power. No one knows.
to be sure, how strong the winds may
be over the Atlantic, but 1T Is not un-
likely that an engine can be invented
which will keep the dirisible pointed
right in the heaviest storm.
The mere possibility Is certainly In
viting. Twenty years ago 1t would
have seemed an idle dream, and hun
dred years ago man who proposed 1t
would have been looked on as mani
&C, but now. no,-one Will regard 1t as
anything more than a natural step in
the forward movement OF science
Twenty years from now 1t may be an
every day matter. The ocean will
cease to be a barrier between the ma
tions, and space will be no more.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
ILL FATE DOGS STEPS
OF ABBEY'S OWNERS

abbey to his friend. Colonel friedman.
The latter, after spending large
sum in restoring the abbey. was in
tunes. which led him to dispose of
the place to Lady Chermside's father
Not long after inhertting Sewstead
from his father-tn-l law. Sir Herbert
Queensland. But the climate of AUS
tral!a did not aeree with Lady Chern-
side. who, after having endeavored in
vain to become accltmatlzed at Bris-
bane, was forced To return TO Europe.
an invalid. Nor has she ever beer
able TO live at Newstead Abbey since
spend the closing years of her life
in Switzerland and In the South OF
France,
Just what dispos!,ton OF Newstead
Abbey General SIR Herbert Cherm-
side viii make it Is, difficult to say; 1.
is not likely that either the surviving
brother or the elder sisters OF his
wife. VIA care for the place. while az
only very remotely related to the
poet. having to go back TO the fourth
peer in order to establish the connec-
ton, he was completely ruined by the
Henry Drummond Wolff. and has fig
ured, not once, but twice in the Bank
ruptcy Court, so that there is little
prospect of his ever being in po-
cent tomb. in which Boatswaln. the
favorite Newfoundland dog OF tho
poet. Byron, is buried 1t Is four
sided structure of white marble. sur
mounted by classic urn. and the
dogs remains lie in the vault below.
occupying the very site on which the
high altar of the abbey church once
Stood The tomb had been built by
the poet for his own remains, But
when his faithful dog. that Phoenix
of canine quadrupeds. and that pos
SCISSOR of .'.All the virtues of man
1908. his grief-stricken master and
friend gave directions that he was to
be buried in the tomb waiting for my
self"
Sir Hudson Kearley's promotion
from a baronetcy to a peerage must
be bitter pill for Sir Thomas Linton
| to swallow. for he has been great
rival of Upton in the tea and grocery
business, and also in the tea plantn f
! Upton. he is self-made man and
started in life as clerk, or rather
Office boy, at the age OF fifteen, When
he was twenty years OF age, ne de-
self as a tea-seller, and his firm: now
known as Messrs kearley Ione,
was begun as one man concern, ne
being his own buyer. blender and
b
ali over the world, in the United
States as we'll as in Europe, in Asia.
Africa and Australasia. and is enor-
Entering Parliament for Deyonport
lin 1892. as a Liberal he was able, by
the knowledge acquired in his boy 10y.
| hood, to prove of such great use
| in the REORGANIZATION of the Port OF
London that when the docks were
acquired by the PUBLIC. by act Of Par
! lament Sir Hudson Kearley was ap-
pointed the first chairman and presi-
dent Of the board. declining howe.Xse n
to accept the salary of 100000 that
goes with the office. He was s., na a y
Year He has country seat at Mar
low. and another near pen n,,Isr. n n
Wales, and is one, OF the ~ pilia aTn1e 81
am much mistaken. he Is the hrst
member Of great grocery frn 10
feSe1vr + peI 1910, by the Brentwood
lt Company
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
SAMPLES OF OUR sELF-GovERNING
GENIUS.

GENIUS.
In the famous Guildhall speech this
| rule was laid down for the English
people: 1T is yeur first duty to keer
| order Where the people treat assas
sination as the cornerstone of self
government they forfeit all right tc
be treated as worthy of self-govern-
ment." Just so; but there was no use
getting mad about 1t. Besides, in our
own happy and lawabiding country
there is SO much to attract the at
tention of serious-minded reformers
that they might be kept busy here
without trying to police the world.
What great thing 1t would be If we
would attend to our own business and
give other people a chance to do the
same thing for themselves. Last Sun
day a Baptist minister in this town
offered UP timely prayer when he
asked the Lord to impress us with
the knowledge that I'VE are not the
only people on this footstool.'
Thursday afternoon Carl Burlington.
who had been employed by the State
knti-saloon League of Ohio, killed
the proprietor of a saloon at
Newark and was lodged in Jail
Thursday night the doors of the
jail We're battered down by mob
and the young man was put to death,
the leaders of the mob, we are soberly
Informed, being his personal friends.
On Thursday forty or fifty soldiers
from Fort Myer stormed the county
jail OF Alexandra in an effort to
lynch Robert Jackson, a negro, who
had stabbed q member of Battery D,
third United States Artillery, in a
quarrel about the prize fight at Reno.
1t is said that the sheriff of Licking
County may be suspended because he
did not protect his prisoner, and the
captain of Battery D is said to have
taken personal possession of the keys
to the gun racks and ammunition
chests of the Battery" as a precau-
! tionary measure
Yet these and other things exactly
IKE them have taken place in this
safeguarding land over and over
again. Our sheriffs have proved many
times 10 be powerless In the face of
the mob, and our soldiers cannot be
| allowed to take care of their own
guns lest they employ them even as
the mob employs the rope and the
faggot to put men to death without
the formality of trial. A nice country
this to tell the people of other coun-
tries how they should manage their
affairs.
The bloody work of the last few
days in Ohio does not encourage the
feeling that we are in any sense quail
fed to teach good government. When
| the officers of the law are helpless
before the mob and the mob is com
posed of men in the uniform of the
soldier, 1T would seem that we might
very well save our Guildhall speeches
for home consumption and intermit
our determination to save Egypt until
have SaVed America
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
GAyNoR BURSTS HIS OWN BOOM.

GAYNOR BURSTS HIS OWN BOOM.
State League of Gaynor Clubs has
been formed in New York. Nobody
seems to know who started It, Mayor
Gaynor has denied all knowledge of 1T.
and any responsibility for 1t. and said
the other day: "All ask is that no
one mention my name for any political
certain that | shall never ask for
any. / have all can do on my hands
now 1t is said that this disposes of
the Gaynor boom for the Democratic
nomination'f for President, at least that
is the meaning some of the wiseacres
have read into the Mayors statement.
1t is one of the strange things about
the politics of these grand and awful
elected Mayor or something Of one OF
the big cities of the country than he
is Immediately seized upon as an avail
able candidate for President Judge
Gaynor is making very good Mayor
of New York. He Is not always pru-
dent in speech; he sometimes violates
the proprieties of public occasions;
he is making his mark. and a very
good mark, In his. present office; but as
the old topical song expresses 1t, ITS
burned long way from Schenectady
to Troy" 1t is just possible that a
man might be elected Mayor of New
York or Chicago or Philadelphia ant
yet not be elected President of the
United States.
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nnrebnll necord..

l. Could you tell me the record time
for playing baseball game? Also
what teams played?
2. To whom should / write for an
appointment to the univets ity of Nir-
GINA? II. II. B.
l. We do not know whether you de-
sire the record for the shortest base
ball game or for the longest. The
longest game on record reported by
the major leagues was between the
Athletics and Boston at Boston. Sep
TENDER 1, 1906. This ran twenty-four
innings. In the minor leagues Fargo
played Grand Forks twenty-five In
nings to a draw. July Is. 1891.
g. Address DR.. Edwin A Alderman
president, University OF Virginia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
An Adopted Heir.

n n. couple have never had any chill
dren and adopt child legally In court
and that child takes their name. at
their death does their property 60 to
the. adopted child or to the relations
Of her adopted father?
a CONSTANT READER,
This Will depend upon the viii of
the father IN tho case If he so desires
he may viii his property to the child.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
The sIi.sisnippi river

VIII you kindly tell me how wide,
and how deep. the Mississippi River is
at Hickman. Kentucky, and at New
Orleans, Louisiana? n j. b
The depth OF the Mississippi at New
Orleans varies from twenty to two
hundred feet We hnd no record of
the depth of the river at Hickman. IL
you Will write to the United States
Coast and cieodetic Survey, Washing
ton. you can get the information you
desire.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

The Rev. r. f. Fisher. pastor of the
Neoga Presbyterian Church, Illinois.
has been sued for $500 damages by
Jacob strohl, a wealthy German farm
er, because he prayed after this man
ner, according to special dispatch in
the New York Sun: 70 Lord, make
Brother Stroll a better man; cause
him to pay his debts and cease back
biting" etc. etc. The congregation was
shocked, and after the minister had
finished, Brother Stroll suggested,
Now, you'd better make another
prayer and straighten things up with
the Lord" Refusing to comply with
this altogether reasonable request.
Brother Stroll Instituted suit against
the dominic for damages In the sum
of $500 as aforesaid, and it is hoped
that he will get all that he has asked
for, even to the uttermost farthing.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

One of the principal things the Char
love cohsiables should be taught is
not 70 chew tobacco. unless it is made
IN h'ehmond, and not to go 10 sleep
Whlle they are supposed To be on duty.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

The Charlotte Observer claims that
the descendants Of Colonel James
Bowie the inventor of the bowie
knife, nearly all moved to North Car
DINA long ago From the accounts OF
cutting sorapes published in the OBJ
server We are quite willing to admit
lsl t.ti
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

German Consul In Richoiond.
Is there German consul in the
city OF Richmond II SO, what is his
name? A CITIZEN.
Yes. Hon. E. Carl Victor.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

II the people of Charleston had
waited until they got their water sup
ply from the Edisto, the town would
probably have been burned down in the
hre on saturday At least one thing
was proved BY the conhagration: Goose
creek water will put out fire,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

Offices Of the Lebigh Valley.
Where are the offices of the Lehigh
VALLEY located. A READER.
Philadelphia
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

= WIS iistie warm in spots yester-
day N richmond but think OF how the
people must have suffered in sayan-
nan ana Houston, not to mention
CharlotteI .
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Justices Of the Supreme Court.
Kindly answer the following que:

tlOnS.
1.>How many Justices OF the United
States Supreme Court?
g. How Is the Chief Justice appointed
or selected? w C. y.
/. The court is made up OF eight
associate justices and Chief Justice.
2. Nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate,