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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
pnEssLY AT FIRST.

His name is Pressly, and he plays
first base for the Roanoke team. He
Is right on his job" in the language
of the bleachers In the game yesterday
he put out eleven of the Richmond
bunch. assisted twice, and made no
errors. That is his record almost every
day unless some unforeseen contingency
prevents, and he could do 1t and would
do 1t straight along throughout the
year if. unfortunately, the season
should last so long. He can't help 1t.
He halls from Due West, and is pre-
destined to win or lose. and his gem
era record is not in the alternative.
He was seen in action yesterday and
will be seen to-day and tomorrow,
and he is really a sight to see. The
wonder Is that he does SO we'll. and
none could do better after spending a
year or two in the medical college IN
Atlanta What he ought to do IL to
finish his medical studies in Richmond.
If he would do this, he would play on
the first base all his life long, because
everS body would have to get by him
before they could get anywhere or to
anybody else, and there is a great deal
in that. speaking in a professional way
a long time ago the only athletics
taught It Erskine College were Town.
Ball" and Antony Over and Bull
Pen and Sting Ma Rec, Pop-it- to
Me-" and the exhibitions then were of
the most thrilling character, as the
Rev. DR.. James Young Fair, of this town.
and the Hon. Joseph j. Darlington.
of Washington, can certify. The say
that the modern game OF baseball Is
as much more scientific than town
hail as golf is than shiny, but none
of the old fellows will believe 1T. Press
ly's father would probably not be able
TO get 'em over but no more would
his promising son who now holds
first place for the Roanoke robbers.
be able to catch her on the first
bounce" unless he happened to be
somewhere in the neighborhood. Al.
fred Williams may object that it does
not require any internal equipment
to say thing like this. but 1t Will be
observed that he never has said
1t, not because he has not had the OPP
portunity, but because he really doesn',
know how. The reason is perfectly
plain: He was never in Due Yves. but
once that we know of, and then he was
only passing through, as 1t We're.
The report yesterday was that Roa-
noke had won fourteen games and lost
ten, with a percentage of $50. Ii
must be admitted that Roanoke is
playing some" Watch Pressly at first
to-day and tomorrow and give Due
West the credit of having taken the
lead once more in the usefr. vocations
Of life.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
THE PRESIDENTS TRAVELLING
EXPENSES.

There was a lively time in the House
at Washington yesterday about the
Presidents travelling expenses Las,
year Congress appropriated $4,000 for
This purpose; but this sum was not
sufficient. and the President Is out of
pocket about $4,000 He can't afford it.
The motion to allow him to make
this deficit good out of the appro-
priation of $4,000 for the same pur
pose contained in the present sundry
civil bill caused the fracas yesterday.
There was elimination and recrinlina
tion. thrust and counter thrust, land
the motion was defeated
The most resrettable thing about the
whole discussion is that there should
have been reflections upon the con-
duct of either the President or the
gentlemen whom he entertained on his
trip around the country The indigna-
ton of the Georgians was wholly nat
ural in the circumstances, and the de-
meanor Of Tawney in batting them
was without excuse. The offer of
Speaker Cannon to wager his immortal
soul had no takers; the risk was too
great. The talk about hospitality was
altogether foreign to the question at
issue The speech OF one of the mem
bers that the President had used his
opportunity to make partisan speeches
on his trip was lacking in substitute.
The whole affair was badly managed
from every point of view. In spite of
the fact that 1t has become the habit
OF Congress to call upon the Presi-
dent at times for official correspondence
and papers bearing upon questions of
great national Importance the OBJ
jections vociferated against the bad
form of the President. or his secretary,
in giving Tawney the names of the
Representatives who had shared in his
hospitality were well made. 1t is not
n question of hospitality. but a mat
ter of $4,000 that should be made good
by Congress, even If Congress should
find II necessary, in the present de-
pleted condition Of the Treasury, to Gu,
out any appropriation whatsoever fol
the next year At least the expenses
OF the last year should be met
There ought TO be some sort of gar
deem" for the President at Washing
ton. The mistakes that have beer
made by his friends are enough Il
make this suggestion very clear.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
COMMON SENSE CHARITY.

Peter f. Burns, Of Liberty, Mo, did
not nave a great deal OF money. but hu
was blessed with what Is still more
Vaiuable-~a large stock OF old-fash-
Toned common sense. When he made
his VIII few years before his death,
he found that no had $4,000 and he
proceeded to dispose Of II. After pro-
viding that his wife should enjoy the
interest OF the money as long as she
lived, BURNS willcd the rest to his ma
tive county. TO he used as loan fund
for home Builders. The Judge of the
local court twa8 made administrator,
and 1t was provided that the money
should he lent in sums not to ex-
coed $1,000 to men who wish to build
houses for Themselves and families but
did not have the ready cash. These
loans were TO be repaid In easy an
nual instalments, and were to bear In
terest at per cent.
We have seldom read, even In these
days OF great gifts OF charity tina,
showed better Judgment and that will
accomplish greater good, The sum III
itself is email hut IT will be a Cod
send through coming years to men who
wlBn 10 build homes. Working on small
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
BRIBERY UNDER ANOTHER NAME

BRIBERY UNDER ANOTHER NAME.
ator William Lorimer will probably
end in the acquittal of guilty men.
The evidence was strong enough at
least 10 warrant a trial; Senator Lori
mer's silence did not presage any
great desire for the exposure of the
facts; and the exchange of $1,000 for
much-needed vote was strongly sus-
pected, If not positively proved: yet
there seems now little prospect that
this serious offence against honest
government will be punished. The at
torneys for the defence, instead of en-
tering definite plea of guilty or not
guilty, have avoided the main issue
and have moved that the indictment
be quashed because there is no law
on the Illinois statute books prohibit
ing a Senator from bribing a Legisla-
tor. Where the law on bribery does
not specifically mention this form of
bribery. the lawyers are not disturbed
about the morals of the question.
This is a sorry showing for sena-
tor Lorimer and a sorry showing for
the United States Senate. The offence
is so serious and the man against
whom the charges are made occupied
so lofty position. that the plea of
legal technicalities only increases the
popular distrust, The people care
nothing for such bubbles. but they
have a right to know the facts, and IL
the facts be as charged. the Senate
has a right to expel Senator Lorimer,
even if the Illinois courts cannot con-
Wet him.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
REv1vrNc THE GERMAN PERIL.

The Kaiser kissed the Queen
Mothers hand at the funeral OF King
Edward, and the populace took this
to be a token of his desire for peace
with the nation over which his uncle
ruled; but the war cloud has not lifted
and there seems little prospect that
the sun of amity is soon to shine on
the two Teutonic nations The anti
German sentiment, which was aroused
when the Kaiser's greater naval pro-
gramme was announced. has become
so deeply-seated in the English mind
that no words of peace-makers and no
ties Of blood can check it.
In a current magazine a German
Professor,-one Of those savants to
whom the Colonel lectured in Berlin.
writes on the subject and quotes a
number Of English newspapers which
have been predicting war. He con-
cludes that the press OF Great Britain
has adopted as Its motto, "Germaniam
esse defendant and is preparing to
hasten war with its old ally. He elites
the conservative leaders of England In
their rebuke OF this sentiment, and
declares that tho whole idea Of war
is absurd; but he fails to carry con-
viction, He writos like n man hoping
for the hest and fearing the worst
hoping that common sense shall pre-
vail to settle tho difficulties between
the nations without bloodshed, but
fearful that the voice OF the peace
makers VIII be drowned in the tramp
of armed men.
If there were any particular diplo-
matte question at issue between Eng.
land and Germany there would be a
prospect Of settlement at The Hague
or by treaty, II a boundary were
disputed II might he adjusted II co.
loniai rights conHicted, they might he
settled but the question is one or
commerce and upon thit England'a
very existence depends ii has only
been within the last decade that Ger
many came forward 10 dispute the
shining supremacy OF England. hut
as her powers have Increased and az
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
LEc1sLAr1Ne AGAINST MAnn1Acr


Bishop Mcvickar of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Rhode Island. la
evidently clergyman of broad views
and fearless mind. He does not hest
tate to overthrow ancient traditions
and to attack old ideas when he thinks
they stand In the way Of higher
morality and righteous living. He
clearly showed this when he said in
recent speech that the State should
legislate against the marriage of per-
sons mentally physically or morally
unfit for marriage, and should thus put
Its ban on an institution approved by
the Church and ordained OF the
Apostles as honorable among all men.
The Bishop has probably received
several hundred letters from good per-
sons protesting against this view. but
this is only partial proof that the
Bishop was right in what he said No
body who has studied insanity and
nobody who has ever worked among
the lower classes OF society will hest
tate for a moment to cry Amen to the
Bishops speech. Harsh as It may
seem and paradoxical as 1t may sound,
marriage. in certain circumstances, Is
the worst foe to the progress of the
race. The epileptic begets the epilep-
tic; the mother suffering from any
faint of insanity is more than apt to
transmit the disease to her progeny:
degeneracy. in any form. is inherit
table. ard certain types of disease
show in the weakened constitutions
of the second generation, where they
are not directly inherited. When So
ciety can put an end to these mar
riages it can better the race, and when
1T can prevent the marriage of deg
crates it can lessen the public burden
of caring for delinquents. The story
of the Jutes Of Pennsylvania. and of
how their moral and mental degen-
eracy, descending from generation to
generation, cost that Commonwealth
millions. is sufficient to convince
every doubter that Bishop Mcvickar
was right through and through.
This. however, must rest with the
future. The present generation will
not support such laws. We may pre-
vent consanguincous marriages, and we
may prohibit miscegenation. but we
can only hope for the rest through the
gradual education of the people.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
Kissing THE srEAkER.

The Presbyterian Assembly in At
lantic City Kissed Speaker Cannon on
Tuesday. when the Federal bill for a
national investigation of the temper
ance question was under discussion.
Brother II. T. Laughbaum, of Okla
homa. led the delegation from that
State in speaking on the resolution,
saying: Il shall oppose any move
ment to have. any. temperance legis-
lation handled by men who may be
appointed for that purpose by the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives." 1t was at this point that the
Speaker was Kissed
The Speaker appears TO be in wrong
all the time of late, The House turned
him down and then notified his
wounds with soft words of high per
sonal regard" for him. and left him
threatened with complete annihilatIon
as soon as the Colonel gets back, al
though he can throw up that Watson
letter as sort of breastworks against
another sanguinary charge like that at
San Juan. and even his own home
folks down in North Carolina have
lost confidence in him. The hardest
blow he has yet received, however,
was that delivered by the Presby-
terians in Atlantic City. 1t was a
beautiful chance and they made the
most Of it, and we are glad OF it, 1t
looks as if the Speaker is on the to-
boggan at last, and we trust that he
VIII have a speedy descent.
Our Northern Presbyterian brethren
seem TO be going into politics head
foremost. Only the other day Brother
stelzle, of the Department of Com
merce and Labor. argued for shorter
working day, and now Brother Laugh
baum ineites the Assembly to hiss the
Speaker. BY combination and hard
work we may set be able to knock
him out completely. and, as a means
TO this end, we would suggest tina,
our Northern brethren persuade more
of their church members TO vote the
Democratic ticket. There is not tbs
least doubt that If the Democrats have
good working majority In the next
House Cannon will be driven out oi
power This is what all the Presby.
terian preachers and presbytorles ant
synods and assemblies should work TO,
kissing without voting in vain.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27

her navies have swept the sea, she
has become real and daily rival of
Great Britain. Just as her commerce
has Increased on the high seas, her
popularity has decreased in England
and just as she has captured English
commerce. she has brought on herself
English hatred
Germany will not give up her COM
morce and England will fight for hers
Friction must result. and war, In all
probability. must come, for England
may not always fight for principle
but she always fights for trade.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
rruN1rY.s rENEmENrs.

The directors of the Trinity Church
Corporation in New York have APP
piled for permission to raze ten OF
the church tenements to improve
other property owned by the church.
The tenements in question are paying
we'll at present but they are SO con-
structcd that they cannot be kept in
sanitary condition. and, in addition
they cut off light from the model ten
ements which the church has erected
in front of them NO new structures
will be placed on the site Of the old
buildings. Sunshine can food the
open space and light can filter into
the adjoining dark houses.
This should set the directors OF
Trinity Church right in the eyes of
the public and should silence even
the yellow press. When Trinity's ten
ements are all removed and new
buildings take their place, there can
be no reason to criticise the parish
as the champion Of crime and unsani-
tary surroundings. There has been a
great deal of injustice done the
church in connection with this So
called scandal Trinity's tenements
were ruined by their surroundings.
When they were erected, some TWEEN
ty years ago. they were not in the
midst OF packed street. They were
good houses of their kind were used
for moral purposes and were rented at
reasonable figures. When the stree,
was built up the tenements were
crowded in. and as they were grad
ually surrounded they inevitably be-
came unsanitary. Yet New York's
rapid growth and not Trinity's heart
lessness was responsible for this state
of affairs.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
Typcwriting Records.
Please give me some facts regarding
typewriting records

S.rENOGRAPHER.
The typewriting record is held by II.
OTIS Blaisdell. of New York. who, on
November ~, 1909, before the Missouri
valley teachers convention, wrote g.
1s4 words an hour. beating the previous
record. held by Miss Rose L. Fritz. OF
the same city, who. in September nre-
eeding. averaged 90 words a minute.
The following was published in No
yeinber, 1908: Last October Rose T..
Fritz, of Brooklyn. N. Y, typewrotc
5,b91 words In an hour. with only 81 err
rors. Allowing for five words deducted
as penalty for each error her aver
age was Swords a minute. Miss Fritz
won the $1,000 cup offered By the trade.
In New York. October 81 1906. she
wrote c.4e7 words from dietation in
half an hour making five errors. In
the blindfold contest in Chicago in 1906
sho wrote 1907 words correctly in so
minutes. May Carringtone. of Spring.
field, Mass. in 1906, wrote. bllndfoid.
$3.50 words In first half-hour and
2,531 tho second, total of Sci
words in ono hour exclusive OF errors,
for ench OF which five words were
deducted. This gave an average Of
little more than 81 words "A minute,
In 1906 she Is said to have attained a
speed OF IFS words minutes. and kept.
1t up for a full hour. IN the Patent
Office. Washington. Mary Pretty wrote
$500 words in seven hours. In Chi
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
Forgery, In Fact.

Please answer the following and set
tie dispute between two persons TIE
ilrst person says that A. who has no
money IN the bank, can take BIS check
book and FIJI our check with BIS per-
mission, sign Bs name to the check, go
TO the bank, draw out the money for
b. who has money in bank Now l. the
second person. say that he cannot do
so legally. II the teller at the bank
knew that the signature was not BIS.
a may Ill out the amount ETC.. but Il
must put his signature to II to be
legal. / am business girl and have
had experience enough in my position
to know that ! am correct, but still
would like to have you publish your
answer, so that I may be convinced.
ANXIOUS.
You are correct. If a we're to 10 as
"flrst person" suggests he do. he would
be technically guilty of forgery. even
X he had the consent OF b. or course.
3 may give a formal power of at
torney to draw his money from the
bank. but this would have to be regis.
tered with the bank before 1t could be
recognized,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
THE PR1MARYIN INDIANA.

Primary elections We're held in In
diana on Tuesday. The official returns
show that less than 40 per cent. of the
vote of each party was cast, land de-
spite weeks of canvassing there was
little interest in the nominations" Pri-
mary elections We're held by both or
the great political parties. The result
must be disappointing to the advocates
of the primary method of selecting
candidates for the offices. The plan in
creases the cost of the elections ana
multiplies the political machinery and,
in at least one state that might be
named 1t has not improved the charac
ter and fitness of those who are chosen
to represent the people In public sta
ton. One of the reasons urged in ia
vor Of the primary system Is that it
will make the elections honest" and
break up ring rule. There is just as
much opportunity, however, for sharp
practice under the primary plan as
under the old convention plan-those
who take an interest in the politfcai
affairs Of their communities and work
for the success of their candidates win;
those who expect some kind providence
to look out for their interests lose.
That is the rule, whatever the rxcep-
tiOns
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
TAFT LED on THE WRONG Roam.

II President Taft were left to find
MS own way and 10 follow il, he would
Gave a better chance to win the favor
sf the entire nation He has good
aease and good Judgment, and he mas
only to use them 10 gel to the right
place when the time comes. II has only
been when he let his adviser set him
on tho wrong trailthat he has come 10
igrist, and At rs only when ne has list,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27

This is good weather for planting
tobacco. 1t is also good weather for
the flowers. In little while the
sweet Girl graduates will hold the
centre of the stage. We have seen
them in many states; but the sweet
girl graduate of Virginia is the sweet
est thing that ever breathed.
THE roses nowhere bloom so white
AS in Virginia,
The sunshine nowhere seems so bright
AS in Virginia.
The birds sing nowhere Quite so sweet
And nowhere hearts SO lightly beat
For Heaven and earth do seem to meet
In old Virginia"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27

The Houston Post invites Mr.. Taft to
spend the summer in that town, and
Promises to spend an hour, on the
front porch with him every evening,
while Archie Butt courts our beautiful
Widows" This would be all right for
Archie; but 1t Is asking far too much
of Mr. Taft. Besides, inviting anybody
TO go to Houston in the summer is very
much like inviting them to go to Hades.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27
FLOWERS rRoM TEXAS.

There is a law against sending boil
weevils through the mails, and some
plan should be adopted of preventing
the carriage of so-callen cape iessa-
mines by the express companies in
the South. They are noxious dover.
full of death-dealing germs, and, be-
sides. have most disagreeable odor.
Last week the editor OF the Houston
Post flooded the leading newspaper
Offices in the South with boxes of the
things, and ever since they came into
these precincts we have been trying
to get rid of the smell. "willam,"
the same being the ferret which,
has taken the place of =. the office
cat in The Times-Dispatch Building,
came out of his hiding place after al
most years absence as soon as the
jessamines arrived under the misap-
prehension that he smet rats, and the
kind friends on whom we worked off
some of the buds and blossoms have
not returned thanks for the gift as
we now do for them and for ourselves.
1t was very thoughtful of course,
for Bailey to remember US In this way;
but if there are some other flowers
in Texas that do not smell the same
we trust that he will send them the
next time. We hope that this is not
the sort of posies the little girls
dressed in white. who have been en-
ployed by the Post for the present
campaign In Texas, arc handing to
Cone Johnson.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27

- monster movement" as 1t is call
ca. has been started by the sunday
school convention in WASHINGTON to
eradicate the saloon from the Ma
tlonal carital. laut how is the Con-
gress to legislste at all If it is not
lin liquor?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-27

Grand Duke Michael AleXandrovitch
has been cured by his most unpleasant
exile to the remote provincial garrison
but frail divorced wife OF one of his
former brother officers. and largely
through the intervention of the widow
ed Empress, a reoonciliation has hes.
efrected .between the two brothers,
Grand Duke Michael promising the
Car ia turn over new leaf and TO
refrain from giving any further cause
for offense, He is not dissolute rake,
merely Very susceptible to feminine
charms charms is what the Germans can
"schwarmerisch," that is to say, dis
posed to be sentimental and romantic,
In one word to seek forget -me-nots In
every affaire de occur This naturally
renders him somewhat facile prey
for designing womeN. However. he