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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
GREAT ENDSOUGHT
. N0WWITR|N SIGHT
Waterways Boosters Believe
That Their Long Fight Is
Nearly Ended.
FIND MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT
They Foresee Adoption Of I'm
provement Policy by Fed
eral Government.

Washington. D. c., December s.
That the great object which led to
the organization of the National Riv-
ers and Harbors Congrcss-the adop-
ton by the government of policy OF
inland waterway Improvement and the
adequate support of that policy with
annual appropriations-is within sight
of accomplishment is the BELIEF of the
hundreds of delegates now here attend
Ing the seventh annual gathering of
the body.
Positive declaration was made to
the assemblage to-day by champ Clark,
looked upon by the delegates as prob
able Speaker Of the next House of Rep
resentatives, that the House would ap-
prove such q bill and make necessary
appropriations. There would. in his
opinion, be few dissenting votes A
similar opinion was expressed by other
speakers, including, Governor Harmon,
or Ohio, and General BiNby, chief OF
United States Engineers
Safeguarding Terminals.
The safeguarding of terminal facill-
ties along waterways to be improved
was declared by several speakers to be
of great Importance. Some or them
stated that the railroad companies are
already in possession of dockage, sites,
which will hamper the work of trans
ferring heavy freight traffic to water
lines. Custer proceedings must now be
resorted to- it was claimed, and the
dockage sites secured by municlpal
ownership before the full benefit OF
the millions to he expended could be
enjoyed.
The delegates tonight listened to
addresses by Mrs, Hoyle Tomkies. press
ident or the Women's National Rivers
and Harbors Congress-, and others.
In his address to the congress Rep
resentatiye Clark urged the delegates
to direct their missionary efforts for
[leelslation to the Senate and White
House.
"If all the words In favor of improv-
ing our waterways" he said, could be
transmitted into dollars we would have
funds sufficient to build granite dikes
on both sides Of every river In the
country. What puzzles me Is that we
all profess to be In favor or waterway
Improvement, and yet nobody seems 10
have sense enough to devise a system
OF development that can be started and
carried through.
FavOrs Ec0nOmy.
II am in favor of economy but every
expenditure is not waste. Nearly every
member of tho House of Representa-
tives Is ready to help you, and let me
add that resolutions do no good unless
you keep UP an active campaign In
Congress. Direct your missionary
work to the senate and the White
House,
General BiNby in his address declared
that the day had passed for the appear
ance in river and harbor bills of pro-
jeets where the Worthlness of the
Is subject 70 any reason
able doubt" 4, I ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
FOR HONEST TOBACCO

senator Taylor Wants Weed Brought
Under Pure Food Law.
Washington. December S.-Senator
Taylor of Tennessee. introduced bill
to-day to extend the provisions and
regulations of the national pure food
law to tobacco, in whatever form it
may be offered for sale. His bill is
designed to prevent the mislabeling or
branding OF domestic tobaccos so
that they can be offered as imported
stock: to prevent the adulteration Of
tobacco with any other substance: the
treatment of tobacco with any delete
,rious substance. or the offering OF
packages upon which the weight is not
correctly stamped.
Senator Taylor will urge the con-
sideration of his bill at this session
OF Congress, and expects it to have
considerable support Irrespective of
party, IN addition to specific defini-
tlons of the standards by which to-
bacco shall be Judged, the measure
seeks to prevent the substitution Of
another an grade or kind Of tobacco In a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
ELECTION RESULT
IS EMBARRASSING
Politicians of EveryFac-
tion Are Nonplussed
by Pollings.
PREDICTIONS
ARE ALL UPSET
Both Parties Went Into Battle
Expecting Great Gains, and
Votes Show There Will Be
No Change in Their
Standing in Par
lament.

London. December s.--At the close
OF the polling tonight in the general
elections The standing of the parties
is as follows:
Government Coalition-Liberals, 14T:
Laborites, IS; Nationalists, 10; 1nde-
pendent Nationalists. 6 total 22s.
observation-disclosures 1913.
The fifth day of the elections ended
with the parties still running neck and
neck and with the prospect that they
viii come under the wire in almost
precisely the same relative position
they held at the start Returns had
been received up to midnight from the
voting for 4l9 members, and the result
is Unionist gain Of two seats in that
number over those held by that party
in tho last Parliament
This amazing result is unprecedented
in English history as 1t is embarrass-
ing to politicians of all factions. Both
parties went into the election predict
ing great gains. Both are now con-
WINGED that the new House of Commons
will be practically Identical with the
old.
Contests Close.
Forty-four seats were balloted for
to-day. Returns were received from
twenty-one of these and from forty
four which were balloted for yester-
day. In these siXty-five the Liberals
gained Radnorshire and Bedford, while
the Unionists gained Eskdale. The
contests were close nearly everywhere.
The Unionists continue to cut down
the Liberal majority, and to make n
number of gains all along the line,
but insufficient to turn out the Liberal
members.
Glasgow, which the Liberals counted
upon for an increased vote, went off
some 1000. Winston Spencer Churchill,
the ..ome secretary was returned by
Dundee. but about 1900 votes shifted
to the Unionist column, largely as the
result of attacks upon his personality.
The Unionist candidate in South Bel
fast, where opposition to home rule
was the strongest. made q considerable
gain over the Unionist majority In the
last election while Indications are that
the OBrienites are cutting down the
strength of the Redmondites In most
sections of Ireland
Heavy rains tonight, coupled with 8
delay In the reports. decreased the
general enthusiasm. John Redmond
speaking at Dublin. said:
THE election has already killed th'
veto power of the Lords, and tn
abolition of the veto means will
mathematical certainty the establish
ment of home rule
AT Belfast. rioting followed thu
closing of the polls. There was mucf
throwing and many windows
were broken. Police reinforcement;
| ouelled the trouble.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
KIDNAPPED BOY FOUND
First Case Where New York Police
Have Effected Recovery.

New York, December s.-"They told
me l was in Chicago" said Giuseppi
Longo, eight years old, when the po-
lice led him to freedom to-day from
the tenement room where he had been
locked prisoner by kidnappers
Among the scores of children stolen
by lawlcss Italians this is said to be
the only New York case on record
in which the police have effected a
recovery
The boy found to-day was traced
by the aid of another child. whose
brother is also held for ransom. The
police learned that Giuseppi was a
prisoner in an East Side tenement.
They searched the corridors, listening
at transoms, At the door Of a rear
room they heard child crying, The
little guide was lifted up and peered
over the transom. That's him." he
whispered excitedly.., and the police
were two men, and in the same room
with him were two other children, a
boy and a girl whom he knew only
by their first names. The police think
they also may have been kidnapped.
The two men on guard We're arrested,
as We're five other Italians. among
Gluseppi's father is we'll to- do
Brooklyn grocer. Since he disappear
ed on November 10 the father received
two letters demanding money, the first
asking $4,000 and the second sl5 :
600
The recovery of the boy makes the
third in less than week, two other
italian youngsters having turned tup
without the aid of the police.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09

Boston. Mass, December s.-The fol-
lowers Of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the
founder Of the Christian Science
Church. parted with her visible form
to-day at a funeral service that was
marked by simplicity and lack of osten-
tatior; that yielded no expression OF
sorrow, at least not by her followers:
that was surrounded W no trapplnss
of mourning. but was nevertheless suf-
iiclcntly impressive to linger long IN
the memory OF I2r persons who at
tended.
Judge Clifford p. Smith, first reader
of the Mother Church, read the greater
part of the service prepared by himself,
which consisted of selections from the
Bible. corrclative passages from Mrs.
Eddys book, Science and Health.
and prayer. He was assisted by Mrs
Carol Hoyt Powers. the second reader.
er's evening Prayer. with sweet and
tender expression.
There was no eulogy. no sobbtng ex-
cept by the young granddaughter, Mary
Baker Glover, whose crepe covered hat
was the only sombre color note in the
house.
The spacious parlors where the little
gathering sat eighteen minutes in calm
thought were bathed in sunlight. while
spray OF roses on the CONN ana mere
and there bouquet as IL for decorative
effecs were the only evidence OF the
customary massing of flowers.
Those who wished TO look for the
last tine on the face of the leader of
the sect saw the small. delicate face of
Il woman who looked sixty instead OF
ninety, ard whose expression was sing
uiarly peaceful and showed no sign of
suffering.
Eighteen carriages followed the
hearse across the snow-clad hills TO
Mount Auburn Cemetery. In Watertown.
There, before the open doors of the re-
ceiving tomb. Judge smith finished the
service of the day by reading the
twenty third Psalm and pronouncing as
n bcncdiction the last verse of Jude.
The coffin was slipped into its niche,
and the door was shut and sealed. and
| a man was placed on guard
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
WANT LONGER HAWsERs
Towing nnd Steamship Interests Make
Plea to Commission.

Towing ana Steamship Interests Make
Plea to Commission.
Washington, December S.-Sugges-
tions were received to-day from tow
ing and steamship interests in various
parts of the country by the hawser
commission, authorized by Congress in
1908, looking toward a modification
Of the recent restrictions on the length
of hawsers attached to seagoins
barges when towed in inland water
ways. a plea for q longer hawser
than 450 feet. the present requirement.
was entered The hawscr commission
consists of George Uhler, supervising
spection service: G. r. Putnam, Of
the Lighthouse, and Eugene T. Cham
berlain. Commissioner of the Bureau
of Navigation.
The commission has practically COM
pleted the taking of testimony con-
cerning hawsers and expects to pre-
sent its report to the Secretary Of
Commerce and Labor In the near fu-
ture
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
LOUISIANA GROWING
Population Shows Increase OF 10.D Per
~. Cent. In necaIo -

Cent. in Decade.
-, washington, d: G, December a.
The Population of the State OF Louis
lana lana is l,656,3Ss, an Increase of a74,-
I63, or 1919 per cent. over l.3S1,665 in
1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900
was 263,OSS, or 23.5 per cent. Popula-
tion of the. parishes containing the
principal cities is:
:, caddq $500: Caleasieu. 6a,7s7; East
Ouachlta, 26Ss0: Rapides, 44545
The population OF Spokane, Wash,
Is l044Q2. This is-an increase Of III
t5h4 or 1888 per cent. over 36,S4S in
The population of Bismarck. N. d.,
is 5,44S, compared with 1913 In 1900
Revised statistics Of the population
of Tampa. Fla, show the population
1855 per cent, over 1880 In 1900. a
previous announcement gave the 1910
census az 38,524.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
LtsF-NARR0WING.

Supreme Court Appointments May He
Ready First of Week.
Washington, December S.--President
Taft called special meeting of his
Cabinet late to-day to go over the
Supreme Court situation. The list of
likely appolntees Is narrowing rapidly.
but it was said tonight that Mr. Taft
has not reached u conclusion, and
or TUESDAY.
Mr.. Taft has consulted with over
Atty Senators regarding the fortheom-
ing appointments, The Insurgent lead
Iers, with the exception OF Senator In
the White House, have been quite con-
ispicuous IN the more recent White
House confeyen MI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
DIXON BRINGS SUIT
Charges Ministers With Preventing
Production of HIS Play.

Macon, Ga December s,-Charging
consp piracy on the part Of two minis
ters OF the gospel and five members OF
Ga, to prevent the presentation OF his
play, "The Sins of the Father" In that
city, Thomas Dixon, the author and
playwright, tomorrow will file suit in
the United States Circuit Court here,
asking $4,000 damages, actual and
punitive, The two preachers named, the
Rev. L. Burroughs and the Rev. r. H.
Bivins, it is charged, entered into the
conspiracy because OF the plays "lm-
moral tendencies" In furtherance OF
tIfe alleged conspiracy, 1t is declared
they presented a resolution to the
city Council, which was passed, for
bidding the production of DiNon's play,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
{ LOOKS GOOD TO HARMON
White House Still Pleasing to Ohlo'a
Governor. lg


Washington, d. c.. December S,---
Governor Judson Harmon, OF Ohio
called at the White House to-day To
pay his respects to President Taft.
He stopped only a few moments hili
both he and the President seemed 60
enjoy the visit Governor Harmon Was
greeted most cordially Two stories
of the campaign were exchanged. but
neither story was diSulged
When Governor Harmon visited tho
White House during the conference Of
Governors last year. he was asked II
he liked the looks OF the place His
reply at that time was that man
should always consult his wife before
taking q lease on any place OF abode
To-day. the Governor declared that ths
-i1fasf. White paint and the subducd
'greeii Walls OF the executive Office we're
quite, attractive,
II ,ntYef saw the President looking
1T tsS always q pleasure to have =
chat with him.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
MAGAZINES CONSOLIDATE
Ton, Watson's Publication h4erged With
TaYlOr-VrOtNYnOd. 49,.

Atlanta. Ga. DecemberS,- S,--Announce
ment is made Of the consolidation OF
Watson's magazine. Of Thomson Ga.
known Southern writer, and the Tay-
lor-Trotwood magazine, of NashYille,
Tenn, into one great Southern maEa-
zine, New capital viii be, invested 4 HI
the enterprise and the publication VIII
asyos s argsy t9 sSys
son will gemain in aA ehitor,in,ohief.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
rPIatt FuneraI To-Dny

/ washington, D, c.. December S.
Funeral services for Commander Rob
3eert Platt, Y. .s, n. retired. who died
stroke Of apopleXy, will be held here
ito-morroW morning. Interment will be
in iConEgession CemetegY. ~, 20.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-09
TALKS TO SHOPPERS

"Time and tide wait for no man,
so the wise shopper will take advar-
tage Of the present and-."avoid the
crush"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

One-legged men are not necessarily
good stump speakers
Don't be so sraitaced that you
can't unbend occasionally
Some doctors live well at the ex-
pense OF those who are ill.
And many a bright eyed person
looks on the dark side of things.
More men would swear off if their
wives didn't want them to.
A man doesn't necessarily break his
word when he stretches the truth
A knowing widow says that a high.
grade complexion is always worth the
price.
If you can't get reputation any
other way you might employ press
agent
Pride doesn't go before destruction
for the purpose of softening the
bumps,
When it comes TO kissing in the
dark, a home,y girl is just as good as
a pretty one.
Do you know of any man who Is
trying to get lid of his wealth because
it doesn't bring happiness?
Many a woman has induced her nus
band to give up smoking by present
ing him with box OF bargain-couDeI
cigars.
Some men who expect mansion II
the sky will have no kick coming Il
they are even permitted to occupy al
attic room. -Chicf 90 News
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18

Leaning over Steamlng WaShtub IS
fine way to ruin the complexion. Heat
and steam redden and inAame the face.
Then touch of cold air will roughen and
chap the skin.
That is one of the many reasons why
thinking women prefer to wash clothes
with Fels-Naptha soap in lukewarm water.
1t saves the hands and face from harm.
1t saves the danger of taking cold in
Winter, because you don't need to have
your kitchen or laundry full of steam like
Turkish bath.
1t saves fuel; you don't need an over
hot fire.
1t saves the clothes, because there is no
boiling to weaken them and no hard rub
bing to wear them into holes before their
time
Isn't all that worth whilef
Yes, you'll say, if it will make the
clothes clean.
Just try it. They'll be cleaner, sweet
er, whittier than you could get them any
other way. And Fels-Naptha is just as
effective with AanneS, woolens, colored
clothes.
Be sure to get the genuine FelS-Naptha
and follow directions on the red and green
wrapper
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18
Itching Eczema Washed Away

Is it worth 20 cents to you to stop
that awful, agonizing itch? Surely
you will spend % cents on your drug
gist's recommendation, to cool and
heal and soothe that terrible itching
eruption?
BY arrangement with the ID. D. d.
Laboratories of Chicago we are able
to make a special offer of a 25-cent
bottle of their oil of wintergreen
compound, known as d. D. d. Pres
cription. Call or write or telephone
to w. l.. Gokay, Az Main street Ben
nington.
We absolutely kno wthat the itch is
stopped AT ONCE by d. d. ID, Pres
cription and the cures all seem to-
be permanent
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18
IuSI THOUGHTS.
Spraying would be good for some
family trees

Spraying would be good for some
The grades outside Of Easy street
are hard TO make
The slower Success comes 10 you
the longer It Viii STAY by YOU
Opportunity doesn't knock any
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18
GRANITE CUTTERS SIDE
Prepared to Insist on Removal Of the
Dust Nuisance

The Barre granite cutters issued
rather convincing reply TO the state
ment of the manufacturers on the
matter of doing away with the dan
gerous granite dust nuisance which
is the real cause of the controversy
i'm the central part of the state The
cutters IN their statement say
Take the socalled fair proposition
Tipped of its verbiage, il offers the
flowing as an effective means of
mating dust from sheds: Water
10 e used whenever possible upon
lie part OF the stone to be operated
AEON by the hand-surfacer, and adius-
table screens 20 be furnished 20 pro
tee, fellow lfkmen from the dust
ana chips caused by said machine.
Would m se gentlemen inform us in
what wa screens. adjustable or non
adjustal viii eliminate dust
Screens may concentrate the dust
around the man operating the mach
inc, and enable him TO nhale a big
ger share of it than his protected fel-
low Workuen but 10 say that
screens are q means Of eliminating
dust is utterly absurd
The use of water, while it helps in
some degree to prevent the dust ris-
ing is impracticable during a good
part of the year and is in no wise q
solution of the difficulty.
We are also told that The only
point left i'm contention is the demand
that suction fans be installed and
that the manufacturers would no
doubt have conceded this also" in
/ their burning desire for a settlement
only that there was no known device
Of this nature which would give prac-
teal results.
This is very specious, but unfortu-
nately it is not true. Suction fans
have been in use for two or three
years in connection with frame sur.
| facing machines, and it is generally
acknowledged that they do the work
of eliminating dust in a practical and
/ efficient manner and we have been
assured by competent authorities
that the idea of eliminating dust
! from sheds by a modification of the
same device is not only possible but
quite practical as well.
During the past few years nothing
has been done by manufacturers to
solve the dust problem in the cutting
sheds, The same closed dust boxes
still exist, and the recent introduc
ton of hand surfacers by making
| conditions worse than ever, has
brought the question to a crisis at the
present time. The issue in the dust
question is clearly that of dollars yer
sus human lives and no amount OF
sophistry will make it anything else
DO the manufacturers suppose that
they can at their sweet will lock out
two or three thousand men without
any good reason, for nine weeks and
then expect that they will return tC
work like a lot of sheep without any
say whatever about the conditions up
on which they shall return?
The answer given by about one
thousand votes last Tuesday in the
opera house and repeated Friday il
the Socialist hail. is emphatically thai
they shall not, and blowing the wills
ties Monday morning will only be al
exhibition of foolishness and a waste
of steam.
The Granite Manufacturers assoc
iation is wholly responsible for the
present trouble and the. sooner they
get down to business and have It set
tied, the better it will be for all con
cerned
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18
THE TEST OF me- RIT
Bennington People are Given convin-
cling PROOF

No better test of any article can be
made than the test of time and this
is particularly true of kidney med
icine Doan's Kidney Pills have
stood the test and stood it well. What
better proof of the merits of this
remedy could you demand than the
statement of a Bennington resident
who has been cured and has stayed
cured?
Read the following:
L. j. Pierce, lao Gage street, Ben
nington, VT, says: Il can recommend
Doans Kidney Pills to anyone suffer
ing from kidney trouble as I have
used them with the most satisfactory
results. For long time l was both
cred by pains across my loihs and a
lameness in my back upon rising IN
the morning I had a difficulty with
the kidney secretions and was sub
iect to dizzI spells. | tried various
remedies but did not receive any re-
lief until I began taking Doan's Kid
ney Pills. / continued their use un-
I'll the pains in my back had disap-
peared and the kidney secretions had
become normal Statement given
December, 1861
Results Tell
On August 5, 1908 Mr.. Pierce add
ed to the above statement: THE
cure Doans Kidney Pills effected in
1905 has been permanent. ! gladly
re-endorse this remedy"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Uni
ted States.
Remember the name -Doan's-
and take no other
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18
Seeks Anty Drudse's Advice.

Mrs Neighbor- Won't you please tell me, Anty Drudge
how you keep your curtains so snowy white Mine
are supposed to be white though suppose you think
like everybody else that they're ecru.
Anty Drudge why certainly, Mrs. Neighbor It's the
easiest thing in the world l wash them myself with
Fels-Naptha soap in lukewam water. Fels-Naptha
makes them white and that kind of washing doesn't
wear them out nearly so fast. F"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18

The slower srccess comes 10 you
the longer il will STAY by You.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18

There's no reason why a smile
should cone ON, its the grin that
should Re oh.i,erated
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18

experience is dear teacher. and
yet we are told the best way is none
too good for as
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18

The grades outside of Easy stree
are hard 10 make
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-18

Fc~f fiich SO 20 a flying
mac4.ne unless you are fond OF pretty
fast going