The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-15
Virginia Comment
Our Disas trr.

the disastrous cavern of street and land in this
city. which began Thursday and still continues,
is an appalling calamity to property. 1t Is that
no injuries to persons have occurred But this is
owing more to good fortune than anything else.
Yesterday morning persons were removing furniture
from the engine room of the fire department. and in
less than twenty minutes break In the pavement
occurred which. had any of them been standing
there, would have buried him alive. The cave-in
there was sudden and unexpected, and the depth
Of the crevasse has not been ascertaned though
a measurement without finding bottom of over 10
feet has been taken.
The disaster is yet inexplainable. but several
theories advanced the most plausible being that
Lewis creek has been diverted and has been cutting
a channel other than the intended for IT, and
has thus dug an unknown tunnel the arch of which
Is low cavins In. Our published accounts are free
of sensation. and depict the real aspects words
often do very poorly.--staunton Dispatch.
Song of the Farm.
The farmer. If he only knew 1t. is a little nearer
the kingdom OF heaven than any one on earth. He
is certain of three square meals day and is the
only who fence himself in and live in spite
of the rest of mankind. A few cattle and sheep and
fowl would provide him with food and clothing. while
his field yield him -four and of So
generous are these provisions and common. that
hardly one farmer in ten makes any account Of
them although the ordinary business man thinks he
has done well when he reaches the end OF the year
and finds that he as little more tan made ends
meet-West Point News.
Let Us Have No Poaching Grover Cieyelands
Preserves.
A large proportion of human experience demon
strates and the world has, therefore for the most
part, become resigned to the fact that in many In
stances. notably where marked public usefulness Is
involved, 1t Is the lot of one to SOW and the privi
lege of another to reap, for the doubtless
that there is usually to be found among men that
healty and abiding OF fairness upon which
all may. with confidence. reply for balancing
of credits which guarantees each his honest due.
That this moral process is not, however infable in
its practical application II strfkingy exempihed in
the present day tempest which RACES around a couple
of sensational figures, who pass under the familiar
OF Roosevelt and Pinchot respectively With
characteristic Wanting and self assertvenes Colonel
Roosevelt has for the six years shouted
into the public what he would have concede
his exclusive and original discovery alarm
ing diminution dissertation our national for
estry and public lands. The press has been made
to TEEN with all manner OF extravagant claims on
the part of this self-constuted mentor of the uni
verse. until many OF the well meaning have, from
ignorance overwrought credulity accepted the
pretense that but for his vigilance and courageous
activities through the chosen apostle. Pinchot the
country would, within few weeks or months at most
have been defrauded OF one Of its most cherished
and valuable possessions.
Without detractng whit OF the commentator
those gentlemen, for both have undeniably
spicuous part in the much needed work Of conserving
the national resources there Is need, II seems
reminder that both but reapng what Grover
Cleveland sowed nearly quarter or century ago,
when Roosevelt a grinning youth and Pinchot
dreaming of the acquisition OF individual wealth
which later brought him the preferernent OF political
recognition
Mr.. Cleveland say, who sounded and
repeated the warning to which the public is only
beginning to give respectful ear.-Northampton News