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The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02

INVENTOR desires TO communicate with prac-
tical businessmen who will help him to pro-
mote invention of great possibilities: upon
receiving your address | will call and disclose
the invention. Address JOHN WILLY. 1908
Buchanan ST.. city.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02

FOR ssle-Well established grocery store in
Western addition; will sell one-haf interest or
whole. This is a bargain. Inquire
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02

FOR sale-A good newspaper route In a goo
HART, circulation department. S. F. Call.
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BUSINESS CHANCEs-Continuea

FIRST CLASS HOUSE, Plumas co.: ballroom.
dining room ) bedrooms. ETC., completely fur
nished; doing we'll: run by the same lady far
years; price 81 500 cash, 81 800 on terms,
incl property: good supporting surroundings.
Inquire $50 Market ST. room sos.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS SALE
Saloon and fixtures. Apply to NJ. ]. HYNES
S5S Phelan building.
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GROCERY store for sale; good location; goo
stock; will invoice If desired; about $500; n
agents. Box 526. Call office.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
WINDOW SHADES

WINDOW SHADES, SOC; bamboo porch shade
GEO. WALCOM CO. 1131 Suffer ST.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
DRESS MAKING

McDoWELL'S Dress Making and Millinel
School, 121 Geary st. near Grant av.; evenir
classes: patterns cut to order. Douglas 473
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02

HAVING dissolved partnership with the Califor-
MIA Mirror and Beveling Works. / Will not be
responsible for bills contracted after this
date. September l. 1910 n SARTER
HAVE bought the business OF the J. f. Re
walk Company, 472 Jackson 81. All outstand-
ing bills must be presented within : dsvs
JAS. MULRYAN Purchaser
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S900-17 well fur. r.. water, closets; sunny r
clear 800 mo. w. HI. S., 2567 Mission st.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
MINES AND MINING

GOLD, aolalgam, rich ore bought; cash: assaying
50c. PIoNEER ASSAY CO., 131 9TH st. near
Howard.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
BUSINESS CHANCES

HOTEL PROPOSITION
l have for sale of the best paying country
hotels in the state; so rooms, all nicely fur
nished; fine dining room, decorated with beau
tiful paintings and doing fine business; an
elegantly fitted up bar room with good first
class trade; location the best in town. popula-
fion about 5000; hours from San Francisco: !:
fine climate; good schools and fine homes; IL
years lease; rental 81 400 year; income from
stores and Offices Sl.s0o This is fine op-
portunty for good hotelman. For particulars
and terms address p. o. box A, Napa, Cal
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02

SALOON, SAL0oN-BARGAIN in corner saloon:
living rooms, good basement; place for horse
lease years; rent $50; price $500: good
place for right party. Call and talk ii over
G. A. HERRICk, 1905 MARKET ST. COR. 9Th
XIX
CREAMERY and branch bakery-$400; rent s25:
daily receipts $25: good place for man and
wife; very attractive front; nicely fitted up;
no opposition an opportunity seldom offered
If you want a good paying business cheap see
this at once; a bargain. Reliable Investment
Co., 96S Broadway, oakland
FOR sale-Good city route on this paper;
good chance for a hustler. See circulation
department, San Francisco Call.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-02
POPULAR REMEDIES

RECORD CELEBRATED PREPARATIONS for
mems private diseases Sold only by E B.
JoRGENSON. GA Kearny ST, San Francisco
Mail orders specialt Send for circular.
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6T-1 TO Is YEARS-6q6
Income Realty Bonds.
Issued for 500 or 5000
Bond department, r. N BURGESS COMPANY
DOT First National Bank building
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
HAD TROUBLE IN
FINDING PREACHER
Several Declined at First to Per-
form Ceremony Because
!: Woman Was Divorce.

Though two may make bargain
three are sometimes needed to carry
1t out. as was learned yesterday by
Walter c. Thomas and Mrs. Lilly Shope,
after most trying experience.
True love having run It's course. the
couple decided to get married, or such
Is the story. With their minds fully
made up and with all other prelimina-
been obtained. they beat II forth in
the rain 10 find the preacher. thinking.
OF course. that would be easy. But
finding the parson TO tie the knot prov
ed difficult.
Preachers were fnv-d plentiful
enough-th. City Directory shows that
In one street seven reside within the
length of block. The difficulty was
in finding one who was willing to
perform the ceremony. Il seerns that
the obstacle in the path of the couples
desire was the fact that Mrs. Shope
was a dIvorcee. Never was there such
a cruel predicamnnt. Ever since mar
riage became an institution 1t has been
attended with more or less difficulties
hut seldom had there been such a soul
trying case as this.
However. the kid with the bow and
arrows and the wings is no gutter, as
he has demonstrated SO often In the
past. Love generally finds way. and
1t did yesterday for this couple, though
not until many weary hours OF WORRY
and anxiety had been passed. Last
night they called at the Associated
Charities to ha~e DR.. buchanan per-
FORM the ceremony. DR.. Buchanan
them TO Rev. j. 7. Mastin. who Off
riatod
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
WAS A REAL MAN
Performer on Piano in Window of
Chas. M. Stieff.

Chas. M. Stieff has had figure in the
window Of their store at 2o5 East Broad
Street, demonstrating the Stieff Player
Piano, and much speculation was rife as
10 whether the performer was an auto
maton or living man. As the novelty
proved such drawing card and not wish
Ing to deceive any one, the firm desires
to let it be known that he performer was
real man.
In order to satisfy many curious in
uuircrs, Mr.. Baldwin, who does the work,
states that it is simply gift of nature
which enables him to have such perfect
control OF each and every muscle and nerve,
thus permitting him to assume a rigid
pose for a period Of from fifteen minutes
to three hours.
The eye is the most delicate and diff
cult member to control, and many times,
MIR. Baldwin says, he has had an inclina-
tion to wink.
Mr.. Baldwin has exhibited his wonder
full gift in all the important cities OF the
United States and takes great delight in
fooling the public.
The Sticff Playing Pianos are so simple
in construction and SO easy to play that
to saya wooden man" can operate them
would not be cxaggerating, SO to speak.
Intending purchasers OF this class OF
Instruments should not fail to see the
products OF Stieffs factories, including
the Stieff, the Shaw and the Bennett
Bretz Pianos, sold atpriccs and terms to
suit the most economical.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

might, and claimed that negroes were
property, under our Constitution, and
would not consent that the negroes
owned by HRS. Andrew be set free,
even IL Mrs. Andrew had consented
This caused a division IN the church,
at which time the Northern members
claimed that they were entitled to all
the property OF the church. and tho
Southern members. to maintain theiI
rights. had to go into the courts. (by
the way, Bishop Andrew was the only
one out of six bishops who was
Southern man; in fact, no Southern
bishop had been elected since 1900
The Northern branch OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church has made overtures
to the southern Church to unite with
them, and the Southern Church has
very properly. in my mind. refused to
Join with them. believing that they
would demand the same rights Tor
the negroes in the South that they
have awarded to them in the North.
First Conference.
The Southern branch OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church met in Peters
burg, Va, in May. 1876, for the pur-
pose OF organizing its body, electins
two new bishops. missionaries, secre'
taries, editors, etc. / must not omi,
to state that that grand old man
Bishop Soule (born in Maine). the
senior bishop of the church, came
South. believing the South to be right
At this meeting two new bishops
Bishop Payne and Bishop Capers, were
| elected, giving US four, all of whom my
/ father invited to dinner at his home
| In 1886 the General Conference was
held in Richmond, at which time foul
new bishops were elected-Bishops
| Key, Galloway. Hendricks and Duncan
making a total of ten (many Other
bishops having been elected between
1876 and 1850. to whom my father also
| gave a dinner. I was present at boil
dinners, and am perhaps one Of thu
very few now living of those who
| were frequent attendants OF the con
| ference in Petersburg in 1916.
Upon the election of Mr.. Lincoln, 1r
| November, 1860, to the Presidency OF
! the United States on the Free Sellers
| ticket number of the Southern
| States seeded from the Union. Vir'
| ginia, although strongly urged by mel
| Southern sisters, refused to go Will
| them. and she never would have Sc
| ceded from the Union had not Mr.. Lin
coin on the 14th day of April, 1861
after the capture of Fort Sumter
| called on her to furnish her quota O
troops to whip South Carolina ant
the other Southern States into line
1 Up to that time my father, who was
a member of the Secession Conven
ton. had refused over and over agail
to vote for secession, but on the 14tl
| day of April. 1851, the day that Mr.
Lincoln issued his proclamation TO
troops, my father said that If he hat
to fight he would fight on the side o
the South, and when he signed TIL
ordinance of secession the tears role,
down his cheeks. and he said it woul,
be long and bitter war and the sea
of battle woulu be on Virginia sol
/ He had five sons and three sons-in
law, all of whom We're in the Southern
army. and surrendered with Genera
Lees army at AppomattoN COURTEOUS
on the 9th day of April. 1865. On TIL
4 14th day of April, 1865. Just four year
4 after the proclamation declaring wa
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
TELEP HONE while
ENJOYING LUNCH.
Patrons of Business Mems Club
Have Unique Tine-saving

What is known as cord system
telephone was installed in the dining
room of the Business Mems Club on
the top floor OF the American National
Bank Building yesterday, by which any
patron of the club may use the tele-
phone from his table without inter-
rupting his meal Nor are the tables
Uttered about with telephone receiv
ers. All member has to do, should
he desire to call his office, or make an
enga cement while waiting for his
lunch to be served, is to ask waiter
TO bring him a telephone. with the sana
Eonchalancehe would order another
cup of coffee or some more bread. Tho
waiter sets a desk instrument by his
plate and attaches the adjoining cord
to knob on the wall or in post near
the table, the concealed wiring having
been put In when the building wax
erected. When through talking the In
strunent is disconnected and taken
away.
When an outside call comes tor q
member OF the club at his lunch 1t is
not necessary for him to leave the
table. The cashier sees at what table
he is seated, and the waiter brings .tha
instrument and connects 1t. swltcn
board being operated In the office. The
outfit Is unique In character. and Is
said to be the first one installed in
Virginia. The principle Is that of the
detachable electric fan or iron, or the
we'll known massage machine used IN
barber shops.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
TRIED|T KILL HERSELF.
,Irs, Miller Takes Laudanum, but

Mrs. Miller Takes Lnudnnum, but
Doctor Saves Her.
Mrs. w A. Miller, Of 1721 Washing
ton Street, last night attempted to
commit suicide by swallowing a dose
of laudanum. She was saved after he
,roic treatment by DR.. Harshbarger of
the City Hospital Corps, who had
great difficulty In treating the woman
on account of her desire to die
The only cause which can be as
signed to tho attempt at suicide is
the fact that Mrs, Miller's husband had
left the city against her expressed
desire. She is the mother of eleven
children, three of whom. are small.
alone. and there swallowed the lauda-
nun from two-ounce bottle, which
the physician discovered afterwards
to be nearly empty,
Mrs. Miller has been living here
about year. having resided former-
aly In Lynchburg,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
WEEK AT CITY HALL

.Councilmen Must Put On Double-Up
Bill After Fair.
AS practically no work was done
during the fair. this will be busy
week for members of the City Council
Meetings scheduled for the week are
as follows
Monday-Committee on Relief Of the
Poor at the City Home. 2 r. NJ: Com
mittee on Electricitv. 1:3o p. NJ: Com
mon Council. s r NJ.
Tuesday-Board of Aldermen, p NJ
Friday-Committee on Water. 5 p. NJ.
Chairmen of the various committees
will issue special calls for meetings
during the week.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
LAMBC0MMENCES
ACTIVE CANVASS
Speaks in Gooch1and Tomorrow.
Republicans Are Also
Busy.

Representative John Lamb. the DEM
ocratic nominee for Congress in the
Third District, expects to pretty thor
oughly cover the district in speaking
campaign during the next month. He
delivered his opening speech at King
William Courthouse on Tuesday Of the
past week, and was heard by large
crowd.
Captain Lamb will speak at Gooch-
land Courthouse tomorrow, and he
has an appointment for speech at
Charles City Courthouse on October 20.
He will have further engagements, for
which the dates have not as yet been
fixed.
Some speeches will be made in Rich
mond prior to the November election.
although the dates and places have not
been determined upon.
Republicans mt Work.
On the other hand, the Republicans
are not idle. City Chairman c. Ridge
way Moore said yesterday that he has
two men employed sending out litera-
ture to the voters. Thousands OF cir
cdlar letters have been mailed. ex-
planning to the citizens why they
should vote for w. r. vawter for Con-
lgress.
| There will be some public speaking
! from the Republican standpoint In
Richmond and IN the district, to be
announced later.
Mr.. Moore expects that the disput.
between himself and John e.. Luce over
the position OF district chairman vii
come up for settlement some time this
month before the Republican Stat
Committee. That body Will hold ;
meeting about October 20. and MI
| Moore presumes that Mr.. Luce will
present his protest to 1t.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

against the South, Mr.. Lincoln was
killed I deeply deplored his death.
because 1t was wicked. and had he
lived the South would have received
much better treatment in the DAYS OF
Reconstruction than was awarded to
It. which treatment all now know was
unjust and diabolical But greater
calamity was the robbing us of West
Virginia by the general government az
a time when Virginia was helpless.
His Rules OF Life.
II am honored by your request to tell
you briefly the principles that have
ing my life work came into this
honest and sturdy parentage, of deep
e in the face of all Obstacles
was conspicuous characteristic OF
both my father and mother, and their
example in conformity. to the les
the sons Of men has been since my
| boyhood the very foundation stone on
which I have endeavored to build my
character and fix my standard in the
have lived and increasingly labored. /
have constantly kept in mind the IN
| junction to fear God and keep His
Commandments; to be just and fear
| love; to earn my bread by the sweat
! of my brow, and in my business az
| fairs "a part OF the time very Strenu-
| Gus and e9acting) to fly the COLDER
| ICle on my standard
And this day, recognizing the GER
! tainty that l am facing the evening
/, Of life when the shadows must thicken
7 I would here make record Of my deer
/ and humble thankfulness to the Glvel
! of every good and perfect gift for sc
long a life. in which. even though ver1
far falling short OF my hearts long
ings. ] have been spared to my family
and those who so faithfully have
lonored me with their friendship"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
Around the Hotels

Better bored Legislature than a
bad bill slipped through This aphor-
ism expresses the view of the proposed
amendment to the Constitution abolish
ing the three readings OF bills at
length before passage, entertained BY
Senator n. b. Early, Jr.. of Greene
county.
"When the Constitutional Convention
incorporated into the, new organic In.
strument the provision that no bill
should become law unless 1t had
been read three times at length In each
house of the General Assembly, 1t act
ed wisely said Senator Early in
based upon the experiences of the
times. I have been member of each
General Assembly since 1897, and l can
recall many undesirable bills which
We're passed under the old method be-
cause the members did not know Tor
what they were voting.
Pay Closer Attention.
"When bill is read at length OH
three separate days. the members are
obliged to pay some attention to Its de-
vision is detected and amerded,. and
many vicious bill is stopped entirely
II know that it is frequently tire
some to listen to the reading of long
and cumbersome bills. know. too,
that it is frequently not done now.
the wisdom gained bv the Legislative
experiences of the past and 1t is best
not to remove the safeguard.
"Besides So far as ! am concerned
sixty-day sessions Of the Legislature
are long enough There used to be
the same scramble. at the end OF ninety
days under the old regime. when the
Legislature transacted business now
handled by the State Corporation Com
mission
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

This, however. was not satisfac-
tory to the Northern brethren, be-
cause Bishop Andrews wife was the
owner of number Of negroes which
she had Inherited from her father, and
the Northern brethren demanded tina,
they also should be set free. The
Southern members then arose in their
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

"More than anything else. was in
terested in the, exhibit OF ID, dairy eattle
Of lower Henrico, last night. Not only
because of the good display Of sni-
mails but because q the object les
at IS a commentary on our short
sightedness as a people. that with our
opportunities for ratsiGg dairy ao y, cattle
ing we send Sc per cent. of the money
spent BY the people OF virginia for
dairy products to producers outside OF
the State.
"pairy cattle" continued Mr.. Kline.
"are hardly to be found. know dairy
men who are seeking to oh buy Y. t. 2 build n,lr
chase COWS, not only is this true In
Virginia, but it is hard to buy them
anywhere.
lust now in Virginia than the scientific
and systematic rearing Of dairy cows
to be sold to dairymen"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

In 1883 Mr. Brandt succeeded his
father on the board of trustees OF Ran
dolph- Macon College, to whose endow-
ment he had largely contributed. He
donated 10000 to establish the Mary
Louisa Merritt Branch Students Loan
Fund. the purpose Of which is to aid
young men who need help to secure an
education. This was in memory of his
wife. in whose honor he also built and
equipped the Branch Dormitory at Ran
dolph- Macon College, at Ashland.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

Representative Robert Turnbull, of
the Fourth District. has been Il visitor
learned, to their surprise. that he has
been quite Ill and has undergone an
operation for throat affection, Tho
Congressman has now, however, prac-s
tically recovered. He Is at his home
he has no opposition for re-election.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
Waiting MRS. Folkcs.

Miss Sue caldwell, of Fishcrsyllle,
Va. is visiting Mrs, Minetree Folkes.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Fl, Rowe, Jr. who
have heen visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mine
tree Folkes, have returned to their
home in1 g ee snd X,..
are Visiting Mrs Minetree ,Folkes, i,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
Both National In Scope.

IN announcing the fact TINT funds
would be collected for the Jewish Con-
Ilahmptives Relief Society Of Denver. In
l Richmond. 1t was stated that the Ma
located In the. same city. was q purely
local affair, AS a matter OF fact, thu
name OF this organization would imply
that-tt~;was Xix 7se,matio nal~ In scope.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

Captain James L. White, &C Abing-
don, and former Judge William y. Full,
ton, OF WytAeville. at the. RICHMOND
Hotel lasty7iight. added to the general
chorus 81 predictions Of Democratic
| success al thc polls In the Ninth Dis
ltrict In the November election.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-04-09
CHORUS GIRLS GET
IN JAIL FOR IOOG|NG
Time, Place and Girl Show
Having Some Great
Experiences.

The chorus girls of The Time, the
Place and the Girl" company which
was In Hammond recently, had a great
time in Button.
Button is a dry town. and to this
is due the fact that there are no pris-
oners in the Wells county JAIL which
housed the chorus of the show last
night. The Methodist conference is in
sess ion, and all the hotels were packed
to the limit. and there was no other
place open to the girls
The company arrived during the aft
ernoon, and the manager found every
hotel and lodging place crowded. A
few members of the company succeeded
in securing quarters, but no place
could be found for ten of the chorus
girls, although the manager secured
the city high and low. Finally 1T was
said to him that sleeping room could be
secured at the county jail He breach
ed the matter to the girls and they
consente dto go there. They made the
best of their surroundings and now
are telling how they got in jail at
Button, Ind. dry town"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-04-09
SIZE WAS ONLY
WASHING HER HAIR
Police Patrol Makes a Use
less Trip to Theater
Today.

A hank of sun dried hair was the
cause of useless trip of the new
patrol wagon this afternoon. Mrs. A.
G. Laatsch, who lives on Fayette street
in the rear OF Towles Opera House
happened to look out of the window
when she saw woman sitting in the
rear of the opera house with her face
in her hands and her hair blowing in
the wind.
She pittied the poor thing and took
it for granted that she was drunk. 1t
was a disgrace to have a drunken wo-
man sitting in the alley and she
called up the police department and
asked that the patrol wagon be sent
to arrest the woman.
The police hurried down with the
auto-hurry-up and found the woman
In the place described. She was spok-
en- to and looked up at the officer in
surprise. The officer asked her what
she was doing there and she informed
him that She was simply summing her
hair
The laugh was on the officers and
the young woman. who is a chorus girl
with the Buster Brown company was
permitted to go on drying her golden
locks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-04-09
Census Supervisor Here.

Francis H Doran. director of the
census of the Tenth congressional dis
triet. is in the city this afternoon where
he held a meeting with the enumera-
tors who are to have charge of the
work of counting Lake county's $4,000
people.
Mr.. Doran went into the matter very
carefully and cleared up some of the
points that seemed most likely to per-
pie xthe enumerators He told stories
to illustrate his points.
The enumerators seemed to be very
intelligent and asked a great many
questions about their work. The meets
ing was held in the federal building.