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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
DIR " Z [ SMITH.

The resignation Of Rev. w Il. l., Smith, u.
d.. pastor Of the Second Baptist Church of
Richmond. comes as surprise and Will carry
regret to the entire city, regardless OF denom
national utilization. DIR. Smith, during his pas
torate of thirteen years, has been a moral force
III the community AT large. He has given him
self body and soul, to the whole people His
Interests have been Catholic. In every cause, re-
ligious educational and civic looking to bothered
conditions. he has been in Richmond a valued
leader
Were it not for the quality of the man, we
could hope that the refusal of loyal congrega-
ton to accept his resignation might avail to
keep him in Richmond. 1t is not 10 be supposed,
however that he took the step that must have
been painful TO him without long consideration
and good reason. In accepting call To Chapel
HILL the site of the University of North Caro-
lima. he goes TO place where the opportunity of
ninisterine to three or four hundred Baptist
students will afford him a work and oppor-
tunity Of which any minister mil ht we'll be proud
No doubt he has gagged the question of his rela-
tive usefulness and decided it, according to the
higher tradition of his calling, against p@om-
inence and financial success. Wherever he goes,
it will be to leave city that is grateful for his
service and rcgretful of himself.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
RENOVATING THE MIND.
to a finish.

Il do not read novels and love Stories" said
lady in our hearing the other day; II regard
it as a waste of time
DIR. Woods Hutchinson, medical authority and
writer takes different view in Good House
keeping" for august
And at least once a day, be says, prefer
ably just before going to bed at night, plunge
into it "a good novel; long enough to forget your
self and be unwilling to stop. 1t will make your
sleep sounder, your brain clearer, and your tenn
per sweeter and saner than almost any other
form of mental exercise possible.
information he continues, no matter how
useful or important, is of 10 value until it has
been digested and the only faculty which CON
tains any pepsin is the imagination.
From the view of bodily health as well as
mental efficiency, you might as we'll let your
liver go to sleep as your imagination.
IF YOU tired, good novel will rest YOU !;
if you are worried, it will make you forget your
worries and yourself; if you sick, it is one
of your best medicines The man or woman
who in the sunset aftergow of life can enjoy a
good story has found the secret of perpetual
youth
All of which we firmly and steadfastly believe.
Any good story which rivets your attention,
without requiring mental eXertion is a mental
refreshment and renovator. We once knew a
lawyer who had come out Of an irksome law suit
in state of mental collapse. He consulted a
physician and a dozen yellow back novels was
the prescription he got He took the prescrip-
ton, read all the novels through and the cure
was complete.
Man does not live by bread alone. The mind
tires of crusted facts served cold or hot The
imagination must have its nourishment and it
feeds on fiction, woman Graves her chocolates
and a man his cigar after dinner. They are
like the benedicion that follows after prayer
1t is needless to say that we prescribe fiction
that is clean. Nothing that is nasty is either
wholesome or refreshing to mind or body of a
decent person. Take your pure fiction at odd
times and take plenty of it. Deyour it as YOU
eat an apple. The one is as easily digested as
the other and each acts in its own sphere as a
profitable laxative.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
LAYING THE GHOST OF WAR.

The opinion of Attorney General Wickershamf
10 the effect that there is no reason why Nir-
GINA should not offer q statue Of General Lee
to Statuary Hall, even in Confederate uniform
is another blow to those who would still persist
in waving the bloody shirt. 1t Is IN line with
the better sentiment of the country Any other
action would at this time have been an anachron-
ism. "The war is over, however much those
isolated ''tre-eaters" who made their diet after
the event may seek to perpetuate 1t.
It is satisfactory, also, that the Attorney Gen
eral did not confne himself to a strict legal dis
cussion of the question involved 1t is properly
ethical question and he properly so treated 1t.
In declaring General Lee to be one who has come
TO typify all that was best in the cause of the
Confederacy and also as the one most loyal and
unmurnuring when the Cause itself had met
defeat he spoke the exact truth 1t Is, more
over, a truth that is recognized throughout the
country and throughout the world. The greater
truth Of an equal recognition, is that in the
final test of Amcricanism going 10 make fer tit
ness for representation in Statuarv Hall the side
upon which Americans fell in the sixties is to-
day of entire immaterialty, except as the way
in which they conducted themselves in that issue
showed them to be Americans.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
A DIFFERENCE IN METHOD.

The end of criminal chase of sufficient in
terest to engage the attention OF the entire world
has resulted in the arrest in Canada of DR.. Grip
pen and the young woman whose possession is
supposed 10 have been the motive prompting him
10 the commission of one Of The most calculated
crimes in police history
The long start obtained by the couple, the
completeness with which for while they were
lost to sight. the dramatic disguise adopted by
she Leneve woman were all circumstances going
to make of ordinary police manhunt an in
f4rnatiefal fneiodrama o say fneiodfama, be
cause in spite Of the ghastliness of the corpus
delictt, the London police furnished the comic
element apparently SO necessary to tragedy. The
official notice given the criminals that they were
rnder suspecion the nd4rete of Scotland y ards
assumption that they would quietly remain IN
London until the police discovered the technical
evidence upon which TO found their arrest caused
An universal smile TO around the universe.
The later theories of the evidently bafied police
added to the lnerriment, which gave sauce to the
chagrin that the most thorough police organiza
ton in the world should prove so easy dupe to
amateur criminals. And in the final chapter, the
stage figure Of the great Inspector Dew, done up
in Pilots togs, passing ''sleepess nights" await
ing the ship from which the quarry he had in
no way aided in finding could not escape, robbed
the curtain Of the one opportunity OF dignity
afforded by the entire sensation.
1t is true that had Crippen and his typist been
in New York, or any other American city, they
would never have been gwen the start the Lon
don police permitted them to gam. Instead, the
order Of procedure would have been their ar
rest first, and investigation afterward. 1t is
true also, that such procedure would have been
rnore practical than legal, and that the first
thought Of the police would have been to make
their action legal by the illegal practice Of sweat
ing out Of their captives the evidence which
10 cnnYict them--Bnt ii is-alse- true that,
put upon trial, the doubt of conviction would
have been as marked as the certainty of arrest.
Technicaities would have interviewed; delays
would have been sought and obtained; appeals
would have been taken. And, after long and
expensive trial, the subsistence of popular in
ferest might well have left the guilty to escape
who were arrested before legal proof of their
guilt had been established. That this distinction
in true in practice is shown with humiliating
clearness by the fact that this country has far
more homicides than England; that il has also.
many less convictions
The haste Of American police is offset by the
ailatoriness of American courts.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
HIGH LIFE IN JAIL.

According to sensational story in the Roam
oke Times, Jail life in the town Of Christians
burg is one grand sweet song. 1t was SO agree
able to one j. NJ Hoffman, a forger that al
though he twice broke out, twice did he return
and give himself up He says that his last es-
cape forced upon him by companion in
prison at the point of pistol, and that after
wondering around for SPELL be became so home
sick that he bound to return
But the story he tells of his companion, Herr
Carl Reemer Won Loudenbeck, is still more re-
markable. Carl was horse thief by profession
and incidentally musician. The strains Of
melody which be drew with his bow from the
violin enhancing that they would en-
tice horse out of the stable and it is needless
to say that the women were crazy about him.
Soon after he went 10 all he became trusty
and social man. He attended the social func-
tons Of the town, 50 Hoffman says, and on
Sunday, accompanied by a guard, he would sit
in the choir loft and play with soulstirring
inspiration sacred music" to the delight of the
congregation, if not to the glory of God
But he couldn't stand prosperity and by and
by he decided to break Jail and beat it to another
town. This accomplished so Hoffman says,
by aid of accomphces from the outside, one of
whom was a society woman.
1t is altogether most extraordinary nara
tive that Hoffman tells and if it is alf-way
true, an investigation by the State authorities
is imperative.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
SENATOR SWANSON.

In appointing the successor of Senator Dan
iel Ex-Governor Claude A. Swanson, Governor
Mann meets the wclldetned sentiment of the
State at large. With practical unanimity public
opinion has expressed Its wish that the toga of the
Lame Lion OF Iynchburg' should fall upon the
shoulders Of the man upon whom the Executive
has placed it. 1t is tribute to Governor
Mann that since the death of Senator Daniel,
the wish for the appointment of Ex-Governor
Swanson has scarcely been touched with a doubt
of the Governors action. In no sense is the
appointment personal one, no matter how glad
" it may have been bestowed. 1t comes as the
result Of informal primary to guage public
desire.
Elsewhere viii he found sketch of the
career of Virginias new Senator. lis reading
is an inspiration TO youth. encouragement to am
bition and endeayor. In the best SENSE, the new
Senator is 'self-made man Stll young, he
leaves behind him long road of difficulties
overcome, hopes attained, obstacles pushed aside
His life has been the record of strong hearted
youth vigorous unafraid confident. Making
his own way, he has what he has and he has
the best thing that any man can gain, the con
fdence and love OF great people.
Taking Office under such circumstances and
after such record the people of Virginia can
confidently expect their new Senator to win i'll
the Senate as he has won in Virginia He is
essentially product Of the old South in the terms
of the new. The closing drama of war marked
his birth is adyersites steeled his youth; the
throwing off Of it's numbing effects marked his
ripened manhood A Young man. he is type
touching three eras. each of which impressed man
hood, taught courage inspired 10 the higher forms
Of success
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
A Glorious Country,

clustering weather is reported from Kansas Iowa,
Oklahoma and South Dakota and serious damage to
we have had spell of hot weather in this sec
ton of Virginia, but 1t did not blister the 1t
nourshed them and made them grow their best Mr.
Charles Il. Nelns recently returned from a journey
through Gloucester, York and Warwick and he he
has never in his life such luxurious crops The
corn Is especially good and he Informed that
Gloucester will break the record by producing all the
corn she needs and many farmers will have corn to
sell
As for vegetables and fruits the yield is enormous
and fruit trees have to be supported to prevent the
limbs from breaking under their luscious burden. In
addition, the waters OF the Chesapeake and Its ribu
taries are teemng with the finest fish and crabs which
may be taken In abundance without cost
1t s glorious land. We do believe that II has
its equal, all things considered In the SouthNewport
News Times Herald
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01

The Urbana Sentinel strongly recommends to Gov
Mann the appointment OF Ex-Governor Montague
to the vacant senatcrshp. II that this
must have been sleeping on post not to have be
come cognizant OF the several cogent
ing the Governor from such a his discre
power As well might President Taft be expected to
name MIR. Dollver as Chief Justice and we sur
prised that our Mlddiesex friend should have INDUCED
suggestion so grotesquey at variance with The pos
neutrality-suspicious. NrKtnian- Pilot
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01

The death of John G. Carlisle, Cleveland's
Secretary of the Treasury, removes an ancient
landmark of Democracy Except for his deser-
ton of Bryan in 1896, he was constant in his
devotion to the party, and one of its leading ad-
visers His term in the Cabinet was marked by
trials and crises, which he met bravey and with
patriotism. He was an able lawyer, master
politician, a man with the instinct of statesman
ship.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
Let the Virginian Follow You.

n you intend leaving Richmond for a vacation
have The Vireinan sent daily to your cottage
or hotel. You may then enjoy the mountain
or seashore air and at the same time keep In
close touch with all that Is happening in the
city and State, and country-poitical. social.
business and sporting circles
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
Virginia Comment


Captain Myers of the Richmond Howitzers. has or
dered general court martial to try OF his best
srgans for absence from duty at the recent encamp
ment Captain Myers has wish to punish the ser
sesnt His purpose In ordering the trial is to have
brought out the fact that the absent from the
encampment because he could obtain leave from his
employers to attend it. The employers 1t appears. are
the American Locomotive Company. In of riot.
strike attended with violence other disorder the
locomotive company probably would be bawiing for
troops and military protection rather louder than any
body In Virginia. But 1t wants somebody else to main
tain the troops.-Roanoke Times
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01

Many Virginia Republicans sincere in their desire
TO make their party white mans party Many others
who cry the longer Is factor in politics" in
their breath denounce the Democrats for taking
the steps which eliminated the factor in Vir
gina politics
The Fifth District Republican convention. which nom
mated Parsons Saunders for congress adopt
ed resolutions commanding the wide safe and patriotic
administration of President Taft" condemnng Virginia
Democracy for the legislative enactment of the most
unfair and partisan gerrymandering OF the Fifth DIS
trct OF Virginia" etc. and concluding with this para
graph:
We condemn the Virginia Democracy for the enact
and enforcement of the unfair and partisan
suffrage registration and election laws that ever
forced any free people We demand that every
legal Of the commonwealth be allowed to cast
unrestricted ballot and that II be counted
and returned cast.
What does this mean II IL does not mean that the
Fifth District Republicans condemn the suffrage limt
tations through which the Republican State orgsntza
ton has been changed from black and tan to white
NeMport News Daily Press.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01

his oratory by which the worse was
made to appear to be the better cause.
But in the defeat which he has sus-
tanned at the hands of Democrats for
upholding a Democratic principle he
has our highest admiration and pro-
foundest sympathy. We are opposed
to prohibition in any form, and would
oppose it in any election, but if the
option, the right, of the people to decide
the question for themselves in local
or county election is not Democratic
principle, then we don't know what
Democracy is. 1t is Democracy in Vir-
ginia, even though Nebraska repudiates
it,
Mr.. Bryan thinks that it is Democracy
ebraska, too, and he proposes to fight it
a finish
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
BRYAN AND COUNTY OPTION.

Elsewhere we publish signed article from
Mr.. William J. Bryan in which he gives clear
and forcefu exposition of his views on county
option, the issue for which he is making such
gallant fight in Nebraska
County option says Mr.. Bryan,
simply recognizes the right of the peo
.- pie Of county to speak upon this sub
iect, as the people of the town or city
HOW speak, and as the people of the
State have The undoubted right to speak.
When the right of the people of a county
to act upon this question is recognized
in this State, as it is in many other
States the people of each county can be
trusted to consider the subject and to
act upon it according to the conditions
10 be met"
That is pretty tough nut for local optionists
to crack
The Petersburg Index-Appeal, which is sound
in its Democratic doctrines, says:
The Index-Appeal has never been
Bryan enthusiast and it has never
yielded its convictions to the spell u
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01
Where Hunted Men Fail.

John r. Marshal alias Darby Mouton, "wante"
by the United States government for mis- share IN
at 3128 North Broad street In this city and held
yesterday because his wife not willing to do with
a bull terrier. j. Howard Lowery, defraudina
assistant cashier in a bank In Utica, N. u, was ar
living the obscurity of boarding house. because
he able deny himself neither his wife nor
his stenographer's letters. Both wrote to him and
the trail of their letters led detective to his door,
certain do this, the mail addressed
to an abscondng criminal LIZ watched and traced
IL Crippen Is caught 1t will be some foolish thing
like this. Marshall had disappeared into space,
There but his wife had bull terrier.
habit and Marshall will walk more. II Bessie
Sanderson, pretty stenographer or Mrs Lowery
had kept away from Philadelphia there would have
been trail OF letters to follow
II Crtppen does not take too much trouble to
conceal himself may escape. IL he from
place to place, waking the new suspicious Of
he caught. .Lowery had pttiabe
Of it hunting work and this broke his nerve. bank
clerk he was not used the fight of the strug-
Cling world. Thousands of immigrants make the
ame nght and win out. Work always
the who refuses to be down and goes steadily
forward
What the hunted usually lacks is the nerve
to cut himself off completely the strange i'm
migrant and take the world The hunted man
who this usually escape and adds to the mys-
FERROUS crimes never punished. Instead. the hunted
man hangs his past He yearns for letters He
is homesick. He hear from his family. He
cannot bear the pitiless pressure of the unknown
man, the loneliness OF the wanderer the isolation of
the waf
SO keep the clews that catch them. They
weave that finally them They
taken and generally relieved at their capture
The hunt is too much for the nerves Of hunted men
They cannot bring themselves to cut Off all the past
This Is human nature and the human heart
man run away from everything but himself
PHILADELPHIA Press
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01

1t is in the older country that the law, by
virtue of its care for personal rights is the more
dignifed and more certain.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-01

Colonel Roosevelt "summering' and simmering at
Sycamore Hill gives forth that he hesates to ex-
press his opinion with regard TO Republican party
questions in the various States of fear that
he may called Il dictator
What has that do with the merits OF the matter?
II the exPresdent is trying to dictate he is trying to
dictate. and there's and end T." He protests that
he is not disposed be the behind the throne
but his conduct is not exactly consistent with his
testations.
The most famous preceding imperial citizen and
soldier similarly sensitive about what he was
called. When hailed king the mighty Julius frown-
ed his displeasure that all could and turning
the rash uterer of the hail rebuked him with the
historic assertion, Il not king, but Caesar Nor
folk Landmark
1t Just Seems Long.
People live longer in North Carolina than any
where else the world" says the News Observer of
Raleigh, Possibly but inclined to think II
only seems ouger.-Norfolk Virgtnian- Pilot.
Evening journal., 1910-08-30
PENNSY ADVERTISES
FOR TELEGRAPHERS

Although the telephone system of
dispatching trains is being put into
service on practically every division.
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has just issued an advertisement call
ing attention 10 the company's school
for telegraphers at Bedford and
urging young men and boys 70 enter
the school TO prepare themselves for
work.
The school at Bedford. which has
been in operation, for the past two
years. has been very successful. 1t
having already turned out a large
number of young men qualified TO
follow the telegraph occupation. A
six and eight months course is re-
quired, the ages of those being ad-
mitted, being from seventeen to
twenty-five years.
The increase in wages Just granted
the wire men on the Pennsylvania
lines. viii become effective on the
first of the month. It will amount TO
about six per cent IL Will effect
nearly 1000 men and will require an
additional annual expenditure Of
about 100000.
Evening journal., 1910-08-30
BACK TO SCHOOL
ON NEXT TUESDAY
Enrolment for New Year
Promises to be Unusually
Large

Time to be thinking Of school, young
people OF Wilmington. All the city
schools open on next Tuesday. The
first day will be spent in organizing
classes. in distributing books. acquir-
ing pens. paper and pencils. making
out programs, and in filling out en-
and a mutual getting acquainted be-
and a mutual geeting acquainted be-
tween new teacher and new pupil
There will, OF course be Introductory
remarks and directions given at the
high school. but no formal exercises
however. the new seniors will realize
for the first time the full Importance
and glory Of their position.
There promises to be a larger en-
rollment than ever before and teach
ers and pupils are looking forward tc
profitable year.
Evening journal., 1910-08-30
DeiC0fely
Formed

and gently reared, women will find in
all the seasons of their lives, as maid.
ems. wives and mothers. that the one
simple, wholesome laxative remedy,
which acts gently and pleasantly and
naturally and which may be taken at
any time, when the system needs a
laxative. with perfect safety and real
ly beneficial effects, is Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA.
9lt has that true delicacy Of flavor
which is so refreshing to the taste,
that warming and grateful toning to
the stomach which responds so favor
ably to its action and the laxative ef-
Iect which is so beneficial to the sys-
tenn when, occasionally. its gentle
cleansing is required.
The genuine. always bearing the
name of the California Fig Syrup Co.,
may be purchased from all leading
druggists in original packages Of one
size only, price fifty cents per bottle. !