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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05
MExIco,s HIGHEST MEN.
Southern Nnbobs Have Splendors Equal
to Those of Northern Ncighbors.

--o''> - tNcIkuUOISsE
General Luis Terrazas is Mexico's
wealthiest man. General Terrazas is
seventy nine years old. the same age
as President Diaz The lives of both
men have been full of stirring adj
venture. 1t was in reward for daring
military service that General Terrazas
obtained from the government large
gifts of land Which placed him upon
the road to the great fortune which
he now possesses
1t is conservatively estimated that
General Terrazas is worth not less
than $2O0,000,0O0. His property hold
lngs are chiefly In the State of Chi
huahua. but he also has large invest
ments in other parts Of the republic.
General Terrazas is the greatest
land and live stock baron In the
world. 1t is said. lie owns fifteen
ranches in the State OF chihuahua. The
ranches embrace an aggregate area Of
more than 100000 acres. For many
years special attention has been given
to raising horses upon these ranches.
More than 100000 head of horses are
grazing upon the Terrazas land
The mule supply for most of Mexico
comes from the Terrazas ranches.
These animals now number more than
100000 head, and are scattered over
the different properties. Gen. Terrazas's
cattle holdings number more than.
100000 head. Several hundred thou
sand head Of goats and sheep Craze
upon his land 1t is said that the
choicest grass lands in Northern Mex
leo are embraced in the Terrazas es-
tate Streams Of running water pass
through them, and the grass grows
luxuriantly the greater part OF the
year
Some idea of the vastness Of these
landed possessions may be had when
It is known that more than 10000 men
are kept constantly looking after the
live stock. The services Of 1000 men
are required to ride the fences" 1t
is the duty of these fence riders to see
that the wires arc Kept intact. so that
the live stock cannot escape from the
pastures Many Thousand miles OF
Wire We're used In constructing the
boundary fences More than score
Of towns, some or them Of consider
able size, are upon the ranches. kan
sis City Star.
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KING LEOPOLD HAD
MANY RESIDENCE
Diplomats Were Kept Busy
Securing Possession Of His
Private Papers.
KING ALBERT's CLEAN SWEEP
Has Dismissed the Entire House
hold Of His Uncle-Entire
Change at Court.

ny Ia MAI.aUIsE DE FoNTENoY.
TN 1PLONIATS have occasionally ode
duties to perform. This has
~ been brought home recently tc
some of Belgium's representa-.
yves abroad, for no sooner had Leopold
II. brcathed his last than, by order OF
his successor. steps were at once taken
to secure possession of the papers and
corresp ondence OF the dead monarch
in his various residences abroad. Thus.
ne had ground floor apartment in
the immediate neighborhood of the
Arc de Triomphe in Paris small
house in London, the Chateau of Bal
alhcourt. near Paris. now occupied by
Baroness ;ad, Vaughan and his two nat
riviera and an apartment at wies-
baden. 1 understand that he also had
a buen retro In Switzerland and am
other otisr. In the outskirts of Naples. the
being to enable him to indulge in his
passion for travelling about. either
alone or with the Baroness Vaughan
without attracting the attention or in
viting the publicity involved by put
ting up at hotel. Much of his jour-
neying was done by motor, and with
his long white beard concealed be-
meath his motoring cloak and his eyes
hidden by goggles, it was difficult to
recognize him when on his trips
~ d,
Italy and Switzerland.
Ono of the drawbacks of these many
residences was the danger of dis
honesty on the part of the dom estics
SO much in the matter
OF the hlching of yaluables as in the
Inert OF confidential papers and docu-
ments. which in wrong hands might
prove a source of endless embarrass-
ment and trouble to himself. to his
government, and, above all, to his sue
cessor. That is why the Belgian diplo-
matte representatives abroad lost no
time In placing every vestige of the
papers, correspondence and documents
which they could find in the late Kings
p1eds terre under lock and key with
out an instant's delay after his demise
This they We're enabled to do by
means of that international agreement
according to which sovereigns and
princes of tho reigning houses enjoy
n foreign countries the same extra
rights as their ENJOYS; that is
% say, their abodes, even II merely
temporary, and no matter how insig-
liticant, are regarded as Just as much
Exempt from local jurisdiction and as
much part and parcel of their own
erritory as their embassies. Conse-
iuently the Belgian ministers were
lble to fulfil the Instructions which
hey had received without any inter-
erence on the part of The police or
judicial authorities of the governs
nents to which they were accredited. !
md We're regarded as so many Belgian
ficials performing Belgian official
lutieS on Belgian territory
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Prohibition.

Editor of Tho Times-Dispatcl,:
Sir.-With all good temperance ad-
vocates, The question whether the fight
against liquor shall be conducted on
the line Of local option or by the
method of Statewide prohibition IS
one Of eSpediency only. The point
aimed at Is the expulsion OF the sa-
loon. The champions OF both modes
of attack are sincere and vigorously
com bative.
If. however, under the stimulus Of
the blbulous and commercial interests
involved, the wet majority on the
Statewide proposition in our large
cities should be large enough to over
come the majority in our counties and
towns against the saloon. what then?
Could not the liquor clement in the
Immense territory now held by the
"drys" claim such verdict of the gem
leral vote as a restoration of the status
from which the local vote had ex-
PEELED It? In other words. could not
the liquor men claim such result Of
the general vote as a repeal of the
local option law under the clause of
the Virginia Bill of Rights which says
ttied 10 cXenstye s or 81 en e y. EN-
ments from the community?" II such
is even debatable question:. can we
local optionists, who now control six
tenths of thccountlcs and about three
fourths OF the towns OF the State, at
ford to risk our achievements for the
trial of a vote on the Statewide prop
osition? A bird In hand is worth two
in the bush, and the now well-shotted
as handwriting on the wall, that
the occupation of the Virginia liquor
vendor Is doomed
Something. however. should be done
the local option fights. N An enactment
for the submission OF the
question every five or six years to the /
counties and towns acting as units,
would enable the voter to determine
by results what his action should be,
and would be a much more atiafactory
test for the guidance of Others who
might otherwise be unsympathe
u But to return to our mutton: Pro-
hibition advocates should not be too
precipitate, lest they get Il setback
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No sunrngl.ts, STAMPS.

Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir VIII you kindly correct a state
ment made in your issue of January
TO the effect that the suffragists OF
Richmond were to further their cause
financially by tho sale of votes for
women" stamps, after the manner en-
ployed in selling the Red Cross stamps
during the Christmas season?
This statement is entirely erroneous
as the, Equal Suffrage League of yir-
sinia mas never even considered the
question of selling such stamps. and
the members Of the league individuai-
~ are so deeply Interested in the fight
against tuberculosis that they arc dis
posed to do all in their power at this
time to promote the sale of the Red
Cross stamps in this community.
KATE LANGLEY BOSHER.
CARY MCCORMACK.
LILA MEADE VALENTINE.
Committee on Publication.
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public health measures. they practl-
eally work to reduce the basis OF their
own living. Yet the fuct remains that
the doctors are the best friends OF
public health.
These facts do not proclaim, physi-
clans us shrewd business men, but
they attest the fact that physicians
are at least generous as clnss and
charitable as individuals.
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blizzard Weather In the zoos in Accomuc
LlitD rChn- Il m eS-Ili Snl

blizzard Weather In the zoos in AccOmnc,
Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sr,--Here at Forest Deport, on this
Thursday morning of december 30.
1909, withsthe mercury at only seven
degrees above zero. my mind goes back
to a spell Of cold weather in 1898. 1t
lasted for weeks. During its worst
ten days otficiated at three burlals in
Acco1nac county. regret that I kept
no record OF the temperature, but some
entries that made at the time arc
exceedingly interesting, as they Illus
5trate the Intensity and duration OF The
cold spell. Until then I did not sup
pose that 1t was ever cold enough In
climate modiiied BY the Atlantic for
dom that 1t ever does. But I question
alfGit froze as deep during that bitter
weather Of 1867 as II did during the
long Arctic spell OF 1898, Indeed, If
nesses to the recorded facts, I would
hesitate to state them. AS In addition
to the local interest. they may have
Se t %d Mhs hs alS w0 Se gys
my record verbatim. Whethersit pro-
tected the earth from deeper freezing
OF, caused 1t to freeze deeper than Id
!. "a would nave aye done, DO not
the earth that froze so deeply. Two
Of these hurials We're IN the historic
.upsher's Neck" the other was at Mr..
Frank Stockley's, near Grangeville. II
now quote my record:
s''Bnried. January 1898, Mrs. Elizal
Colhurn. January 91st buried Mr.
William AZ Johnson. His widow, Mrs,
Annie johnson, Was exceedingly III at
tbe time or her husbands death, Arter|
some days. she died, and on|
january 2Sth I committed her remains
to earth In q grave next 10 her be-
loved companions,
hese three burlals noted above
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from which 1t would take their cause
many years to rally. The effort made
in some quarters to prevail on
churches. acting as such. to come 10
the front in the fight for Statewide
prohibition would not only be grossly
violative of the relation of church and
state. but would prove alike injurious
TO the temperance cause and the church
I'll Ill, w. C.. j.
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LILA MEADE VALENTINE.
Committee on Publication.

The statement as printed was based
On the fact that suffragists in many
large cities Were preparing to adopt
the stamp method for raising funds,
the Inference being that the plan
would be followed generally.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05
icularly cordial towards them or look
lpon them as qualified to loyalty carry
.ut the extensive and radical changes

ticnlarly cordial towards them or look
upon them as qualified to loyalty carry
OUT GU, the extensive and radical changes
which he has In mind.
Ihat Is why all the dignitaries Of
mig Leopolds court are receiving
their walking papers. And. In view
or the devotion and fidelity which they
nave shown to one who was far from
an easy master and whose demands
upon their services were often OF a
very exacting character. 1t is to be
hoped that he has shown some graft
:tuue towards them in hts testamentary
dispositions. though royal personages,
as q rule, are rather neglectful about
such matters.
In view of the diversity of portraits
or the new ruler of Belgium, it may
be just as well to explain that the
beard which he wore unfit the time
That he left for Africn, and with which
ne is shown in most of his pictures
to be adorned, was shaved off immc-
diately on his return from the Congo
last fall. The change Is greatly To
his advantage as ne has Inherited tho
straight. clcan-cut features of his
mother, the Countess of Flanders. n
sister OF King Charles of Roumania.
~ present Albert wears nothing but
slight mustache. and there is no re-
semblance whatsoever to the late King.
save IN the one respect that he is very
Unconditional and thoroughly master OF
-
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

Our local corps Of little research
workers reports to the office that some
awfully nifty New Years resolutions
were broken In Richmond yesterday
between the hours OF ~ noon and IL
midnight
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05
THE CRISIS IN nosToN.

soston's warm municipal campaign
is drawing to close. The election vii
take place next Tuesday. January Ii
election for several reasons, not the
least of which is that II Will offer the
first test of The new and radical city
charter. Much has been hoped for
from this charter, which makes sweep
4 ing changes in the governmental ma
rilinery and. colncidently. introduces
he most advanced nominating system
in use among American municipalities.
The Boston charter cuts the City
Council 10 eight members and greatly
enlargcs the powers of the Mayor AS
be opportunities and responsibilities
ufsthe chief executive increase, so, of
t.ourse, does the profound importance
OF getting the right man for the place.
lii the hope of wiping out the influence
ur the machines and bosses as far as
that humanity can be done, party lines
lave been officially cbliterated, party
designations are not permitted to go
on the ticket and nominations are
made only by petition of 5000 or more
voters. This system has brought out
four candidates for the Boston mayer
atty. Nathaniel II. TAYLOR, who doesn't
count: George A. Hibbard the present
Mayor who Is ineffective and has no
chance of election; John j. Fitzgerald.
who was Mayor in 1867. ana James
j. Storrow, a banker and business man,
who carries the whole souled indorsc-
ment of the Boston Good Government
Association. The race is between the
last two. with not pin 10 choose be-
tween them; and this is the discour-
aging and omipous fact which now
protrudes through the climax period of
a long fight for better government in
Boston.
Fit, is politician of the Tam
many type No more can be said for
him than that he has been good 10
his friends. His administration three
wears ago was thoroughly discredi-
table and injurious TO the public IN
tcrests Of Boston. The Finance Com
mission has asserted that Fltzgerald's
aim as Mayor was mot merely to use
or perfect a political machine then in
existence but to become the machine
itself and that he tireIessly busted
himself In directing the misuse of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

John u. Rockefeller. Jr. is foreman OF
q grand Jury in New York. Other
members of the family, we believe,
have considered the grand Jury uues-
tlon from the other end OF the PROPOSE
ton.
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lie is paying too much for foodstuffs.'
Tile Secretary Is Ill right, but 1t lis
proper to inform him that some s5,-
100000 persons heat him TO this par-
ticiilar bit of Information.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

Mr. Knox" says the Brooklyn
Times, lis one Of the ablest lawyers
In Pennsylvania And in Nicaragua.
too, brother.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05
Making Clean Sweep.

King Albert Is making clean sweep
OF all the members of the household
Of his uncle. Count John d'Oultremont.
who throughout the greater part of
the late reign was grand master of the
court of Brussels. has already rendered
his resignation, and the various other
members Of the entourage Of Leopold,
s sue, as the two Barons Gonlnet. also
snoy and others. have already taken
their departure, or else are leaving.
. There are several reasons for this.
IN the first place. the new King wishes
reign the court of Brussels Will DO en-
tirely different in every respect to what
II was In the days of Leopold II, and
that former conditions, which excited
SO much criticism at home and abroad.
will no longer prevail Albert knows
full we'll that his uncle was a great
deal too arbitrary and masterful to
permit himself to be guided By those
around him. save the Baroness Vau ghan,
and that ne cannot really hold Count
cipal officers of the late Kings en-
Wronlnent responsible for the atmo-
sphere Of the court OF Brussels during
tue last twenty years. Still, at the
same LINE nc feels that they have
conspicuous manner.
Then, too, his own relations with
Leopold. IN spite Of all that has been
stated state to the contrary were not al
Ing Years yas Of tbe wle during the GIGS
Count Of Flanders, the latter was not
on speaking terms with his brother,
Leopold. The Barons ciof,lnet and their
st,I g,., were, OF course, obliged to
King. AMI and vues afttnploy,er, the lats
OF his disnleasure as exercised against
Albert and against his parents. Natu-
rally ne cannot therefore, feel par
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

Tho government has now decided to
Investigate the Burley Tobacco Society,"
that being about the only unlnvesti-
gated institution in sight.
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Tho thermometer seems to have got
ten itself mixed UP with an express
elevator. If it persists In this effort
to keep going and coming at the same
time VIC fear that it may have hor-
rible collision with itself.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

No double-headers for President
Taft. He believes that two messages
for one admission is being more gem
erous than the situation requires.
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AN ENGLISH CRITIC OF AMERICAN

| LIFE,
| G. Loves Dickinson. Cambria &c
| don of abilities and observation, has
provoked some newspaper discussion
by shyng "a few familiar bricks a,
things American. Mr. Dickinson says
that we in America Cannot CONVERSE
but only talk the deficiency back OF
this higher dumbness being our lack
OF culture We shall indulge in no
duck-tits at this animadverson. No
doubt there is truth in it, though
truth tincturcd some what with the
superior British bias. Culture is an
embroidery; Illuminated converse ii on
is fancy frill; and here in America
we have so far been greatly engrosscd
i With emincntly practical things. Yet
probably there are spots in our be-
nighted midst where Mr.. Dickins son
could hear talk as good as the kind
he has always used in Cambridge. We
are not so much interested In this
phase of his criticism, but there is
more solid pabuum in another part of
his article in the Cambridge Review.
or America he says:
There is Instruction: there is re-
search; there is technical and profess
sonal training; there is specialfsm
in science and in industry; there is
every possible application of life to
purposes and ends; but there is no life
for its own sake.
1t might be retorted that life for its
own sake is not so common anywhere,
but let that pass. The point is that it
is not common in America. Mr.. Dlcl1in-
sons phrase strikes deep at our mn
tional habit. more pronounced than
any other NATIONS habit, of profitable
Industry We think it is quite true,
II somewhat commonplace, that Amer
leans work. for only money. entirely
too hard. The deeper meanings and
purposes of our stay on the earthly
ball are too apt to be lost sight of
in this mundane process. The proven
bal visitor from Mars would fairly
nfer from watching US that we Judged
ourselves put here for no other object
han the amassing of material wealth.
70 that grand design every relation
hip, opportunity and possibility must
e ruthlessly bent Men of sixty. or
ven seventy. who have long since
,ottcn together much more than
living rush off of a morn
ne TO catch the commuters express
IS early and as determlnedly as the
,ouns fellows of twenty. Their whole
ives have been consecrated and sac
'ihced to the great yellow ambition.
10 die in harness. exactly as they
nave lived, is their erea, praise And
I never once dawns on them to the
md that they have thus totally missed
many of the things that make life
most worth while
There is saying that the English
nan works that he may play, while
he American plays that he may work.
Doubtless the aphorism was made In
Britain, but there is "a world Of truth
n IT for all that. We are very likely
o put our cart before our horse and
SO drive contented TO the grave But
low Americans are to he stopped from
giving their best to making money,
While there is so much money to be
made and everybody (incuding Eng
ishmen) attach such laundering I'M
ortance to its possession, 1t will take !
more than epigrammatic
from the banks of the Cam
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

The Supreme Court will now decide
the Tobacco Trust case, there being
nothing else In the world left for IT.
to do.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

Governor Harmon favors an Income
tax, but says nothing about providing
any incomes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

So far the administration has made
no bigger hit than the instalment-
plan message.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-05

The melancholy case OF No 2S14
ought to put something of II crilnp in
the theory that there Is one law for
the poor man and anot Their for the rich.
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II Walter Wellman honestly desires
to make good in the field of polar ex-
ploration, let him so and find DR..
Cook.
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Collector William Loeb has more
than doubled the customs receipts at
the port OF New York over 1908, some
OF them were painful duties but Will
liam did them.
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How Many Oysters to N Tonf
How many oysters arc there 10 :.
ton? READER
$4,000 OF fun aizo. -
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occurred during the cold spell In this
month. AT the burial OF Mrs. Coleman
| the earth was frozen to depth OF
eleven inches At the burial OF Mr.
lJoilnson It was frozen to depth OF
eighteen Inches. At the burial OF Mrs.
johnson it was frozen solid to the
great depth OF twenty seven inches
In cutting out the frozen earth for
Mrs. JohnSon's grave. axes Were ne
eessity and two were worn out in the
process"
..Grave-digging was slow work in
preparing Mr.. Johnson's grave they had
gone through the frozen crust of eish-
teen inches, and had removed a foot
or more OF the soft, unfrozen earth.
when nightfall and the bitterly In
digging. The grave was covered over,
but despite the protection. 1he diggers
had TO cut out with axes a layer OF
earth six inches deep that had frozen
during that bitter night
To the above record | add one fact
that, With other facts concerning that
blizzard weather. Is we'll remembered
by my family and myself. The living
pied at that time was az comfortable
as the average well.built country mouse.
1t was heated by stove that burned
anthracite or hard coal, and 1T was run
to Its highest heating power during
That awful spell. On the coolest OF all
hot most Of the time.--I would not tell
II in the presence of strangers only. for
II seems scarcely belevable--watcri
froze within that room, and within i've
feet of that stove at It's highest hea.
A neighbor Of. mine, a Mr. Beach. who
we'll remembered the winter of 1s57-'5S.
expressed the opinion that while the
long-continued high winds and the
great fall and great drifts of snow
made the winter of ls57-'5s far, Tar
worse one on the shore than any
that we have had since. yet none OF It's
nights surpassed in intensity and keen
ness the cold of that later night of
1893. j. r. STURGlS.
Forest Depot, December 30.
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Still, it would be sheer madness to
take lem off now
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Call money brought IA per cent. In
the stock market on Monday. but none
of it called on us,