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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24

Mr.. Hugh Mercer. of Richmond.
spent Sunday here with his parents.
Mr.. Elmore Hundley has retu ned
from a visit to relatives in Richmond
and Manchester.
If the weather continues cold.
prospects for fruit and all other
crops are much improved.
The only dignified and decent
form of advertising is the newspa-
per. Handbills and posters are the
last resort.
Glazier's points and putty free to
every purchaser of window glass.
All regular sizes in stock. and any
special size cut to order.-Jas II
Stone.
Bishop A. NJ. Randolph. of the
/ Southern Diocese of Virginia. vii
be at Bruton Parish church. to ad
minister the holy rite of confIrma
ton on May 8th.
All members of Hamilton Lodg
No. 2S9. I. Q. O. T. are requeste'
TO DC present at the regular meetin
: next Tuesday night. March !
: Work in second degree.
. The Virginia Peninsula Produc
= Exchange has sold 900 bushels {
S seed potatoes, which makes it loo
4 encouraging for the crop. Pract
y cally all these potatoes have bee
sold.
A free Illustrated lecture will
given by DR.. Charles Wardws
Stiles. of tbs u. S. Public Healt
- and Marine Hospital Service. in Il
: chapel of William and Mary COLES
on Monday night. Feb. 2s. und
the auspices of the Educational ar
Civic Association.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24
DIR. HALL
LECTURES.
News Items at
", & M,

Last Tuesday night DR.. ]. Leslie
Hal. Of the facility. addressed q
large audience in the college chapel.
Dr.. Hall took as his subject The
Religious Beliefs Of Thomas letter
son.
He showed that jefferson vas
not an infidel. as he IS often accus-
cd. he Quoted passages from his
correspondence and and other wit
ings where he srek= Of The al
powerful God" thus showing that
Jetferson believed in God.
DR.. Hall pssnted out the fact that
several denominations had claimed
Jefferson as their own. chief among
which were the Episcopslians. He
proved that JSHesson was not in
sy apathy with any religious demon
inauJn, and from the writings Of this
great nan. be proved that be vas
not even a chrstiaa. ia the general
,ccepnnoa OF the tern. and did net
wish 70 become one.
| tie showed the Bible which Mr..
Jeff srson ussd. and pointed oat the
tact that Il s@s bible with the BIZ
Die pan left cut That is. al Of
toe parts which were Objectionable
20 Mr.. ff-rson ne omitted. some
im~s gong 81 tar as 10 cut a verse
n tWo.
Do. Han showed that Jefferson
'as a great ssz.ssmsn. a great proph-
ct. but notsa grsst religious thinker
10 tact Mr.. Jefferson himself said
c tlat his life BAD been 50 much takes
b Ip with affairs Of state tEat be mad
aad our very little dne to devovs
. matters pertaining 10 religion.
i Ia closing Dr.. Hall Said that Jus
s 80 TAR as the statesman. scholar anC
= Prophet went that Mr.. Jefferson va
> good model tor a young man 4
= oll1S. but 90 not take him as
nodel tor yoIc geiigious beliefs. 70
s. II you do you sill uuly live and oi
- without any L &c conception of rS
re hgiOn.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24

Eugene PEBBLES. the patient, who
escaped from the hospital here some
tine ago. is still being held IN Aiken.
s. {. DR.. Brunk has been notified
thath can get bis man by sending
for him. at the expense of the hos
pital. which will be done. 1t sp-
pears that the mental condition Of
PEBBLES has been inquired into by
the South Carolina authorities, and
they are satisfied that he is insane.
Every citizen of Williamsburg is
vitality in the prevention of commu-
nicable diseases in our city. As
DR.. Stiles has a worldwide reputs-
uon as an authority in this work. an
unusual opportunity will DC given il
MS lecture at William aud Mary
chapel on Monday night. Feb. g.
The March program meeting Of
the Educational and Civic Associa-
tion will be devoted to a general
conference OF all the citizens of
Williamsburg on the subject OF th'
health of the city. The meetinl
will be held on Monday night. March
7th. Mr.. Geddy Will be chairman
Of the evening and the paper Of
Sanitation and Prevention of Dis
ease" will be presented by DR.. J
w. Richie. of the College of Wa
liam and Mary. Il is hoped that n
discussion TO follow the paper WI
be general. and helpful IN solvin
our city's health problems.
It is time you began thinkir
about that spring or summer SUI
A special representative OF Nj. M'
ses & Son. wholesale custom tailor
of Baltimore. will be at Lane
Christians store on Saturday. Mo-
day and Tuesday. FEB. % aud
c and March lst. exhibiting a con
Il plete assortment Of woolens Z,
b spring and summer wear. AL 4
C latest designs. new shades and cC
e orings of great variety will
r shown. Individuality in dress al
q highest class workmanship guara
teed. Call and inspect the line.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24

The College Hour" for the
mo0th OF February was held IN the
college cnapei from IL 20 O'Clock
iast thursday. Enemssnng opened
oy a song oy TIC Collegs Qu4rsestc.
after wnien the xuOiecE OF q College
Glee CLUB vas discussed py Prof.
x. Al. Crawford. Prof. Crawford
polHtsd out the benefits 10 DC de-
nyed from Suec Al orRAnlz4uon.
Saying that Gise Clao was one at
me besE means by wnlch 70 increase
colege spsrlt. &c pointed OUT TURNER
tnAE weai orgGnIzed cub would DC
great advertisement tor the col
lsge.
Inc subject nexS discussed was
the Colonial Ecao. The prospect
FoE the 1910 C0ioni&l ESno vas dis
SuSsed oy AE. R0Acn. lEs edltcr-in-
Snisd. Mr. Koacn comAenced the
SATISFACTORILY on the way In which il
aAsd supported the nae. he said
'oAE zoe m@lsr.si sas aoouk 70 &C
saFnsd 0vsT % INC printer and OWING
70 INC support tn4g tne staff nad re-
ceived from the stadent-oody rnas
1nis BOOK would DC oae CT tne Best
sver gotten out AZ wnlszn and
Mary.
Lac discussion nsxi rara<d TO
noais. nos tney eouad &C mace
Inofe attractive. Pixns were susrs<d
~ wnicn more alumni could De
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24

Rev. Thomas N Potts. the prom /
inent Norfolk minister. who was in
dicted by the grand jury last week |
for not feeding certain live stock on
"Spratley's, causing death or
same, was tried in the justice court
here Monday. and fully and com
pletely indicated. The case was
ried oy Justice Frank Ayers. the
prominence of the defendant drew
a large attendance. The defence
was represented by Attorney B. d.
Peachy. and the Commonwealth by
Attorney N. L. Henley.
The evidence showed that many
sheep had died at this farm the past
year, variously estimated at from
100 to 200 head. The evidence also
showed that many of the animals
were poor and IN bad condition. but
undisputed evidence also proved that
the fearful death rate was caused,
not from starvation. but from a mai
ady. which DIR. Potts was aware OF
and which he had gone to greal
trouble 10 eradicate. Mr.. Potts
statement when he went on thS
stand, was convincing to court anc
public as well. Hc proved that h'
had provided feed in abundance
The following is a brief outline o
the evidence:
Clyde Barnes testified as follows
Was on Spratey's in Nov. Passes
through the place eight or ten times
sheep were very poor and some ly
ing around dead; thought they wer
neglected and not properly feed
Would not say they died from star
vation. Cattle was in good cond
ton.
H. B. Cowles: Worst lookin
flock of sheep he ever saw; they ia
no food and no shelter; large nuT
Der had died and rs pounds of wo'
Hould be gathered from csrcasses
the fields; he thought they die
from natural starvation; SIC
sheep would not eat, but these woul
follow a wagon loaded with fee,
and said there had not been enoue
on the place to feed 50 sheep sint
Mr.. Potts had charge. He said
had no animosity against anyoI
connected with the farm. and NJ
not volunteered to testify.
d. S. Cowles testified as follow
Passed through place and saw shes
often; animals died in Summerun
as well as winter; died off all Il
time, 100 or $50 had died; ten die
at the river shore from starvaut
and exposure; sheep Tad been ne
lected IN a Snowstorm and not te
he was sure the destruction of Ii
was due to neglect and Starvation.
w. B. Burns testified as follow
Was through the place Nov. lat
saw several sheep in bad condiuo
three were In a bunch, all in bi
condition. next day saw these san
sheep in same place; mad not DC
attended TO; mad to drive out of {
way to keep from running ov
some; saw 50 or rs. some or wni
were in good condition; did I
know whether the trouble with the
was sickness. starvation. or old az
thought If they had been his wou
have cared for the sick or old on
rs the case might be; if taken
might have been saved; also S;
csrcasses of dead sheep,
Mayor WsSburton testified Il
- nsa sr~u ene dead Sheen and
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24
the stock:

Besides the above he had pur-
chased large quanuves of stock food.
sulphur. tobacco. coal tar. and such
other things as had been recon
mended to him for his ailing flock.
He gave in detail the shelters he had
provided for the protection of the
sheep from the weather. and said
that he had instructed MS manager
to drop everything else. if neces-
sarY, in order TO care for the sheep.
He had confinencein Mr.. Goodman.
his manager, and believed that he
had performed every duty faithfully
Mr.. Potts. although a very busy
man. dropped everything and came
up to Spratley's once a week to
look personally after the stock. On
more than one night ne had been
unable to sleep on account of worry
over conditions and would walk the
floor. He had gone to the Agricul-
tural Departments in Washington
and Richmond in an effort to learn
what was killing his sheep and to
get remedy for the terrible NAL
adv.
Mr.. Goodman. the manager Of
Spratley's. took the witness stand
after recess. He corroboratrd Mr..
Potts statements as TO the kind and
quantity of feed provided. as he did
in every other detail. He had been
on the farm for more than year;
sheep died in the summer. when the
pasture was good. just as they had
in the winter time; and that they
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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24

young lamb bY its side; both were
poor, but be did not see any others
and could not say death was the re-
suit of starvation, or disease. He
testified that 263 head of sheep pur-
chased last Sept. by Mr.. Potts were
in bad condition when they reache d
Williamsburg.
<. D. Saunders butchered on the
farm Nov. oath. Condition of cat
tie and other stock good; some Of
the sheep (Mr. Harrell's) was in
good condition; saw others dead;
picked two up and carried them to
the manager. who tried to feed them;
they could not swallow; didn't know
whether the animals were sick or
starving. but believed they were sick.
Thought sheep needed feed; that
they should have been cared for bet
ter.
! Capt. Phillips. who lives on Port
| Arthur. passed through the place
once or twice a week; seemed in bad
! condition; some flOCks not properly
cared tor; would 0ot say that the
trouble was from lack of feed but
thought several hocks were not
, properly cared for; there was disease
. or neglect as the sheep were in a
bad condition.
= This ended the Commonwealth s
evidence and the defendant went or
y the stand.
I The witness said thath he had tskeI
o charge Of "Sprahey's" about Dec
o /. 1908. when MS brother. TO whom
$ the place belongs. tell i'll VIII
Il deep emotion. he proceeded to ex
II plain in detail the importance of IN
/. indictment TO him He said hi
l. moral character was on trial. an
u that his character was d-arer 70 hir
Al than all other things. He had bee
$ a minister % the gospel 20 year
,e and even the breath OF a charge
ID this nature was fsr-resching in i
,e eff cts upon his career as a -ninlste
{ He spoke feelingly and affectonau
Of ly of his brother. whose health
bad, and for whom he assume
s: charge of the farm. He is no
60 committee of Rev. Eugene Potts.
6. The witness took legal charge
y. "Spratley's" Dect 2. 1909. Tn
re be showed what efforts he had ma,
q TO care for the stock on the plac
Ar hitting these figures showi
IL what had been put there 10 suppC
-.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-02-24

A WEEKS LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Things You and Your Neighbors
Have been Doing.

I'VE would appreciate il II you
will call phone "a and give Us any
personal OF social news you may
know. Or write il out and we viii
send for 1t. In this way you viii
aslP make The Gazette more inter
eSting.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-08

band insisted that there was no scam
dal about it, that he fairly broke his
heart in releasing his wife. and when
they finally parted, he embraced her
and kissed her.
This is a strange episode. Not a
new one for it was precisely the same
case when Ruskin released his wife for
the artist Millais. But suppose this
sort of conduct would become preva-
lent and wives fall in love with other
men, and get releases from their hus-
bands to marry these later affinities.
the whole matrimonial state would be
thrown into a turmoil. 1t might not
be, but then the most outrageous fash
ions sometimes come into style
At any rate. legislation should come
to the rescue and provide that any
married woman who falls in love with
another man shall be sent to the luna
tic asylum and any man who falls in
love with a married woman shall be
sent to the penitentiary. 1t would be
well to rescue such cases from the haze
of romance to which they are drifting,
since Ruslxin pointed the way.-Ohio
State Journal.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-08
MARRYING Black and White.

.srWhat do you think of the Jericho
clergyman that married the young
white woman to a negro when all the
rest of his clerical brethren had de-
clined to do it? What do you think of
the whole affair, anyway? What about
such a law as they have in the south
against such marriages ?"-St Adams
Messenger
eff you are asking the News it's
opinion of the Jericho minister, you'll
have to excuse it. The News opinion
en- the right to be called a clergyman,
honestly expressed, would debar 1T
from transmission through the United
States mails for fifty years. But let
law which makes divorces fairly easy
to obtain. and do nothing in the way
of amending the marriage laws so
that IT would be impossible for such a
TO occur. 1t is in the interests OF hu-
mainly that easy divorce laws con-
tinue while the present lax marriage
laws prevail. "-Northfiel News.
If a man and woman love each
other, black or white, red or yellow,
oak tan, or madden brown, and there
are no common hindranceS in the way
they should be allowed to marry, re-
CARELESS Of any mans opinion or any
law to the contrary. What business
should it be of yours, or mine, or the
law, what shade of color a man fan
cies, provided he fancies 1t honorably
and takes that fancy to his heart IN
lawful way. America is q mixed ma
tion anyway. There are marriages
and interTnarriages with about every
race and color under the sun, there
fore why not with the negro? Is there
any disgrace in being black, or half or
quarter black, or even with a tinge of
it in the veins? There are worse mix
lures than black and white-Span-
iards and Chinese. for exar1ple-this
mixture forming half the Dago GRIM
mails in Cuba YOu cannot SAparate a
man from his hearts choice through
any law ever passed or that can be
passed. Wherever it has been tried
it has caused trouble and complica-
tions, ending as usual after causing
many hindrances in ignominious de-
feat. The negro is human as much
as the white; and you cannot consti-
tute it q crime for one human to mar
~ another. The Jericho clergyman
should be upheId.-Newport, Va, Ex-
f1reSs and Standard.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-08
The MerouriaI American.

When Mr.. Taft talked to the news
paper editors the other day he urged
them to be calm. to avoid exagg era-
ton and to refrain from so overload
ing their criticisms of public men with
unparliamentary expressions and init
nations as to lack of honorable mo-
tives that no one would pay attention
to them. This was the presidents way
of calling down. the editors for their
undertaking exploits. He might have
gone further and told them that they
. that it no longer received the same
notice from the public at first and
is now largely discounted by its read
ers.
Mr.. Taft would like calmness in the
treatment of all subjects at all times
and i1rdicial cor siCera
questions. He is a man of serene
temperament himself and of judicial
mind. Inpulsiveness ernotionalisrn,
hasty Judgment. the town-meeting
method of disposfng of matters, evil
IDENTIFY disturb him. But he must sub
NIT to tha1,a
ion to speak rather slighting1y of Ger
tain fo~ N re"~t-S
able The French were classed as
emotional to the point of Mysteries, the
Irish as effervescent. the Germans as
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-08
A TRUE AMERICAN.

Theodore Roosevelt, in declining to
permit Kaiser Wilhelm to entertain
him as a ruler of a great people, show
ed how true he is to the principles
upon which this government is found
ed His true eminence is in his Amer
lean citizenship and he proposes to
put up at a Berlin hotel and in his
relation to the kaiser to conduct him
self he would toward any famous
man in New York. He does not care
for the pomp and splendor which is so
necessary to royal life in European
countries 1t is said that Mr.. Roose-
welt insisted on stopping at a hotel
but would be delighted. if agreeable
to drop around at the house and have
a quiet little chat with William and
Mrs. William. So it is left that way
and it is safe to say that two most
strenuous and conspicuous men of to-
day, with so many characteristics
alike and pronounced ideas in COM
mon as to good citizenship. would
thoroughly enjoy and profit by an ex-
change of views absolutely unhamp-
cred by the glittering ceremony of the
German court
There is no question but the en-
peror will himself find most pleasure
in the jolly good fellowship which
Mr.. Roosevelt prefers and insists upon.
The kaiser having a real taste for
hunting viii find pleasure in the ex-
periences OF Roosevelt in the wilds of
Africa
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-08
ALOST Leaders
Rev. Seth Dean.

Dean, town clerk Of Piainheld, but no
light could be gained upon it, nor upon
the family connection.
YaIe'S Biographical Sketch" of its
graduate corresponds mainly with that
from Boston. 1t makes a gap of TWEEN
ty years or more between graduation
and sediment in Rindge, apparently
spent in Rhode Island, where he mar
ried Mercy, daughter of James and
Amy Fenner. He probably slipped
down to Providence on that convenient
thoroughfare and there found a bride
and . field Of labor- boch sketches deits err
Rindge in 1776. For the authentic
church records of Brooklyn show that
Rev. Seth Dean of Plainfield married
Mrs Lydia Allen, Sept. IT. 1892 Hence
we deduce the fact of Mercy's death
and Seth's return to Plainheld. Which
of the four sons of that thrifty Killing
" settler, John Allen of Marlborough,
had been the husband of this particu-
lar widow Alien" was not easily de-
termined. Thomas and Jabez had
farms given them in Killingly. Family
notes Indicate Isaac, the recipient of
that beautiful farm in Brooklyn, in
of Lydia Leonard. Marrying when
past so years of age, he died June 10,
1851 at the age of 81. leaving a
discon solate widow and nine children.
She might have scrupled to accept new
responsibilities, but there may have
been unpleasantness in the settlement
of the estate. Isaac left a will not or
daining division of his land among his
children. This may have expedited her
marriage to Rev. Seth Dean in the sec
ond year of her widowhood. There is
no evidence of her residence at Allen
Hill, which in time, by purchase from
other heirs. passed into the hands of
her Oldest son, John Allen In Febru-
airy, 1864, her son Isaac married her
stepdaughter, Amy Dean. This was
the date when many of our Windham
faI1if6 a w
Plainf1elds, Pomfrets, Woodstocks in
the new countries northward, and
so Rev. Seth and Mrs. Dean fol-
lowed the tide, finding home and pas
where we trust their memory is cher
ished After the death of Mrs. Lydia
Dean in 1776 her husband returned to
his native county, lonely old man, it
we hear nothing. had probably settled
for life in the new country. We do
not hear OF him in Plainfield or Brook
lyn. He may have found a home with
his daughter Amy.
We find brief reports of baptisma1
service in the church at Killingly Hill.
The Official at the baptismal SER
vices in the church at Killingly Hill.
burying ground gives the closing rec
ord. Whether placed by relatives or
parishioners we have no knowledge,
but there it stands, neglected and for
gotten, none living to recall his
"bIessed memory and faithful SER
vice. Perhaps some descendant of the
parent Dean family of Stonington and
Groton may have knowledge of this
particular branch. Possibly some de-
tached wandering Dean NAV discover
here the long-sought ancestor and be
enabled to pay filial tribute to the lone
ly grave in that old historic Killingly
burying ground.
ELLEN D. HARMED.
Thompson, Conn, Feb. 5, 1910.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-08
The oriain of Kissina.

Almost everything of value has its
beginning in the Far East. There civ
ilizatfon started; there government
was first established; there religion,
pfifrs my
printing, gunpowder and the mari
ner's compass were there given to
mankind. Now comes a learned pro-
fessor from Yale who tells of still an
other claim which the east has on us
for undying admiration and gratitude.
His profound chronological studies and
investigation into the social customs
of bygone ages disclose the fact that
kissing was discovered in India He
to say, the invention of lovely woman.
The poet says ''she laid her mouth to
my mouth and made noise which
gave me pleasure" There we have it
complete!-the elimination of long
ages of yearning for something unde-
fined and unrealized, given life by the
genius of q woman inspired by love,
and coming into being like Minerva
from the head of Jove, full grown from
her lips. Other things born into the
world have been added to and i'm
proved on in the course of time, or
have grown stale and been flung aside,
The kiss remains as airy and evanes-
cent, as inpalpable and elusive as
blissful and ineffabIe, as precious TO man
as was the first one those long years
ago when the Indian maiden laid her
mouth to her lovers and he responded
born caress.-Was hington Post.