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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
LOAN SHARKS.

The city is to be congratulated on
the verdict of the Hastings Court IN
approving the increase in the city
license tax imposed on money lenders.
The case will be fought to the Sn
preme Court and final decision from
that Court may not be had for some
months; but first blood is always en-
coura cling. and the wellknown ability
of Judge Witt makes it more than
proba BILE that his decision Will be up
held.
We know nothing of the firm against
which Judge Witt decided yesterday.
but we know the loan business in Rich
mond and in other cities is often a
gross evil The loan sharks feed on
those unfortunates who must have
money, and have it quick. Without
collateral and without friends, they
are frequently forced to pay whatever
may be demanded Of them and often
arc charged interest which makes
the legal rate look like net loss.
There is no reason why these sharks
Should not be heavily taxed, and there
lis little reason why they should be
allowed to do business at all. Rich
mond has abundant banks, and there
are always people in Richmond who
can aid an honest man in getting rea-
sonable credit 1t has no need of men
who live on the poverty of their broth
ers and grow rich while others starve,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
SENATOR CORES CHARGES.

senator Gore did not spring his SEN
sation until 80 near the adjournment
of Congress that the country has been
little slow in understanding exactly
what he was driving at, The matter
was so technical and the details were
50 unfamiliar to the public that the
press had TO look through its files to
ind the facts on which to base any
thing 1t might have been inclined to
think regarding the episode. Although
the oklahoma Senator has been
branded as n liar by the men whom he
attacked, both the House and Senate
in the last hour of the session ap-
nointed committees to investigate the
charges and to Investigate the whole
business.
II appears that the situation is a
.ononIex one and that the question in
yolved is by no means new. The
old choctaw and Chickasaw claims
IRE at the bottom of it. The rights for
which these Nations have commended
and which they have gained after so
many legal battles involve valuable
coal and asphalt properties in Okla
.,oma. Naturally enough the Indians
do not care to develop these proper
ties. and they have been the prey of
astute spectators willing to sell the
property for a consideration AS
the Indians are the wards of
the Government any contract be-
tween them and outside agents
Is always subject to the approval of
Congress. and in this particular case
Mr.. McMurray was trying to get the
consent of Congress to an agreement
between him and the Indians by which
he was to sell their rights for 10 per
eent of the sale price. OF course, this
was a very Important matter for Mr..
McMur-ay. and it involved perhaps a
milton collars; but senator Gore says
stis an important matter Tor the whole
country. claiming that a number Of
members of Congress are interested in
the claims and would be the gamers ii
Meliurray's contract was approved by
Congress,
The country has nothing yet hu
Mi cores charges upon which to draw
an Indictment of the accused men, an'
there Is some uncertainty as to who
the accused men are; but senator Gore
Is so we'll known and his knowledge
of the case is so fun that Congress
was certainly justified in ordering ar
Investigation of the charges made by
him This investigation should he full
and complete especially since it may
Involve the rights of Indians who have
long been robbed by unprincipied law
yers in the West.
Then, again, the investigation ought
10 be fun because it involves members
Of Congress, and concerns very inn
portant ethical question. member
of Congress las no.more right TO be
interested in the outcome of any bill,
passed by Congress at his request thar
he has to be the direct beneficiary OF
such a law. He has no more right tc
a fee contingent upon the passage OF
law than he has to participate In the
prohts of Government contracts. 1
any Congressman were interested ii
this transaction the people want t.
know it. because they want TO put th'
stigma OF shame on any man who vii
use his office to rob the defenceless In
dams, and because the people, onc'
and for all, want to fix standard Q
ethics in which there will be no twi
light zone of honesty
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
!lrooklyn IinniIcnp.

brooklyn Handicap.
1908? q. /. T.
King James in a:oa.
Inrgcst Standing Army.
Please tell me what nation in the
world has the largest standing army.
SOLDIER.
Russia. with 100000 men.
The University of MIME.
Where is the University Of Maino
located and to whom should | write
for information? ANXIOUS.
Orono. Me. Address DR.. q. T.. Fell
lows, president.
Philadelphia Jncls O'Bricn.
Please give me the correct name OF
Philadelphia Jack o'Brien.
A DAILY READER.
Joseph f. Hagan.
American Catholic Church.
What percentage OF the population
of the United States Is supposed to be.
long to the Catholic CHURCH.
1861 per cent.
Gate Receipts Mt Prize Fights.
What were tho largest gate receipts
ever taken in at prize fight?
The Gans-Nelson night at Goldheld.
September 3. 1906 was the record fight.
Gate receipts were s69,Tl5.
Pcnnant In Texas League.
To settle a bet please tell me what
team won the pennant in the Texas
League last year and what team was
second. PLAYER
l have horse that hasn't eaten any
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
~ THE SANE DIRECTION.

If the police authorities mad their
minds on their business they would
be able to relieve the crowded con-
dition in Tenth street and in Bank
Street. Since the work of building the
new Post-ofice began, both of these
streets have been very much choked
with traffic which could be handled TO
excellent advantage if the police would
require the teams using these streets
to travel in only one direction. All that
would be necessary would be to require
the teams entering Bank Street to
drive in from Ninth Street, and to leave
Bank Street through Tenth Street. Co
ing in only one direction, the situa-
ton would be greatly improved. We
are building so many things in Rich
mond nowadays that the same rule
might be generally applied in like
conditions
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

Mr.. Taft is reported to have spent
some time on the back porch of the
White House on sunday in deep medi-
tation. Probably he was thinking
what he might have done with the tar
If If he had only gone about it with
club instead of leaning upon Aldrich
and Payne for guidance in an embar-
RAISING situation
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

rough food for about ten days. He
cant swallow It, Just chews II up and
then splits 1t out Can eat grain and
drink all right, Can you tell me what
Write to the state Veterinarian.
Burkevilie, Va, for information as to
the probable complaint of your horse /.
"NoIverIne.' of Course.
What word or name is applied to the
native Michlganian. as, for instance,
the 1ndianian Is called "Hoosierp
INQUIRER.
A Wolverine.
Playing pool.
]. How old must a boy be in the
state OF Virginia to play pool in
public pool room?
2. Is there here. any ny law requiring pool
any contest or such--anything like the
North Carolina endurance run or the
prize contest? ANON.
/ and 2. we find no laws on this
subject in the code or in recent Acts
Of the Assembly,
3. AT present no.
JcTrics-JohnSon Flight.
1. For what New York paper will
Jack London report the Jeffries-John-
son fight?
3. How do you account for the East
Indian Mongo trick2 w
/. For the New York Herald
2. I've do not know how this machine
operates. II is possible to have a me-
chanical device that will play checkers.
Your other question does not come
within the purview of this column.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

Pinchot and Garfield have been very
active during the last week or so We
do not know where CLAWS Is, nor
what has become of KERRY; but the
whole bunch will bear watching
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

The fact that the legislation of the
recent Congress was demanded" in
the Republican platform damns it
without discussion.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

The Texas watermelon is said by
scientists to be direct descendant of
the gourd vine of Jonah. with apollo
gies to Jonah.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

1t was reported a week or so ago
that man by the name of cudahy had
made large money contribution for a
charitable object out West. The name
is familiar. 1t suggests the name of
Lillis. Has anybody here seen Lillis?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

There are no Elberta peaches in
Texas. They only grow in Georgia
and the Carolinas.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

The weather in Richmond is exactly
right. Everything in Richmond is en-
actly right, except the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, and we have hopes that
it will get right and stay right. Sim
month ago is no reason why it should
not get up and go about its business
as usual, People will think all the
more of it when it begins to take an
interest in the people
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
Voice Of the People

Communications must not con-
tain more than 300 words.
When this limit Is exceeded let
ters will he returned.
No anonymous communications
will be accepted.
stamped envelope. with the
writer's nddreas, must accompany
every communication.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
TIE TIMES DISPATCH: RICHMOND VA TUESDAY JUNE g 1910

p,aying the mischief with tho estab
lished order OF things escaped from
HID enemies and hid himself In the
| cave of Adullnm, "and every one that
| was In distress. and every one that
wns in debt, and every one that was
him and he became a captain over
them" 1t will be remembered that he
did many mighty things afterwards,
and in this incident there is both rem
edv and encouragement for Brother
irvine and his hackers. If they have
faith in their ideas of how society
should be ordered. let them find cave
of Adullam somewhere and get them
10 IT, and there work out their plans
according TO their own devices With
out bothering other people who do not
agree with them and who have organ
lied themselves into another sort of
well-ordered establishment. All that
Brother Irvine has to do, to make sure
of his chances, is to read Mark Twain's
book on Christian Science. and taking
knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, go ahead
with his new church
DR.. Irvine delivered his farewell SER
mon in the Church of the Ascension In
New York Sunday night. His subject
was "The Root of the Matter" the
same having reference to the saying
of the Master that you cannot serve
God and Mammon." DR. Irvine banged
away at the Money Devil with great
energy, and in very entertaining way,
but if he will step around TO the Man
haitian Club and send in his card to
Henry Watterson, now temporarily re-
siding at that attractive place. he Will
find the man who invented the Money
Devil and who can tell him thing or
two about how TO handle the villain.
Ii DR.. Irvine has never heard or read
Mr.. Wattersons lecture on Money and
Morals" he ought TO get copy of 1t,
1t would make his hair curl. and 1t COW
ers the whole case as, with all his
eloquence and Imagination, he could
not hope to cover it in a thousand
years.
DR. Irvine made good. as the saying
goes, in his sermon Sunday night, OF
so the "Intellectuals," as the New York
Sun says the parlor Socialists prefer
to call themselves. thought. and in the
after meeting the Rev. Percy Stick
neg Grant, who presided over 1t, said
my personal grief that Mr.. Irvine
will not be with us is great No one
will miss him as much as L, You who
choose may go where that voice ear
be found. / cannot | must stay here
But why? The vestry would probably
release DR.. Grant from his engage
ment. They certainly cannot compe
| him TO stay against his Will and would
be foolish TO influence him against tax
| ing himself out 1f the Ascension along
with those whom he advised to choos,
between staying with the Church Of
going with DR.. Irvine. At any rate
iii would be interesting if the vcstrs
should consider the situation from thi
point OF view at one of its regular
meetings or at a called meeting. Man
ifestly, a large part of DIR. Grant!
heart has gone out of his work wher
DR.. Irvine, influenced by the ves,ry
left him, and the vestry would b,
cruel. indeed, to keep him in his plac.
against his better nature.
------==
1t was reported week or SO ag,
tina, a man by the name of cudahy ha'
made a large money contribution for
Charitable object out West. The nam
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

When Jeffries Davis, of Arkansas.
referred in one of his speeches on the
liquor question to "the Senator from
South Carolina" Smith, when he
meant the Senator from North Caro-
lima, simmons, both of those eminent
men .'riz up" to a question Of personal
privilege, or something of the sort,
with the view of having the Record
changed, The correspondent of the
Spartanburg Herald says that 1t was
very funny; but it wasn't half as
funny, In sense as the fact that
both of these Senators are actually in
that body, Why wouldn't IT be good
thing, really, for the Carolinas tc
swap Senator'S for awhile. with the re-
suit that Smith would make cotton
worth fifteen cents in North Carolina
and Simmons would be able to ge,
more protection for lumber in South
Carolina2
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

Who won the Brooklyn Handicap ir
1908? q. l.. r.
King James in a:Oa.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

Lnrgest Standing Army.
Please tell me what nation in the
world has the largest standing army.
SOLDIER.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

A Sick Horse.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

The Gans-Nelson fight at Goldheld.
September 3. 1906 was the record fight.
Gate receipts were S69,T15.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28

Gate Receipts mt Prize Fights.
What were tho largest gate receipts
ever taken in at prize fight?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-01
For Pleasure

TO matter how you get your pleasure gong, motoring
boating Just waknghe enjoyment is keener if the
feet are comfortably shOd.
Then again, the who is knocking about golf links or
oughng it, any of the other many ways peculiar to
needs sensible Shoe well that properly fits the foot
And he can get style combined with service and comfort
50 much the better
BURROJAPS built for pleasure in every of the
word-for the wearers pleasure when search of pleasure
pair Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-01
For Dress

IF there is one time all others when the particular
mans footwear must look It's best that time IS when worn
for dress The wel-dressed is satisfied with good"
clothes re be clothed in garments sylshly cut and
correctly constructed throughout.
Nor the wedresed man satisfied with just good shoes
He be syIshIy shodshOuld be comfortably shOd he
would swing along with that graceful stride which only
when the shoe fits without crampng the foot at point
The who style and fine finish finds it in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-01
For Business

MAN needs his mind filed with other thoughts than
y that his feet are hurting him during business hours.
As the old saying goes he wants keep his feet off
his mind comfort is therefore absolute necessity.
stylish shoe for business Is the less important.
The successful today matter what his
appreciates the value of prosperous appearance He
while clothes may make the man., good apparel
good impression that good impressions COUNT
You'll find the style that and the comfort your
feet need in a pair Of
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22
From Another Point of View

franchise continue be- therefore unofficial
Haly declines
seeking denomination
solidarity, apparently.
would probably the
this time contains less in exaggeration
Now that Ceends ball has been opened recall the
time "neh we "'neu mems ssS were d" premium aS s essS
We do
enon Of Cleveland to the fact that only takes nine innings
minister's
failed him evidoing
a
Detroit this fall
the decides
definitely die
tors
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22

II. as the newspaper headlines say
Hearst Is In the Democratic band
wagon" we can see the finish OF the
bass drum.
An almanac printed In 1867 has been
sold for 1886 in Boston. Blamed near
as old and high.priced as their beans.
play BALI" is heard throughout the
land. and therell be others than Joe
Cannon playing buRseye for the finger
OF public scorn.
Being as the gas In that comets
tail doesn't have 10 20 through your
meter. don't worry too much about
gagging 10 death on May Is.
Eleven people have died suddenly
at Westerly. X. l.. from drinking me-
dicinal whisky. It's dry town-for
everybody except the undertakers.
New Yorks 10 have 3l-story Office
building. The beautiful typewriter
lady on the upper floor viii almost be
able TO talk with Mr., HALEY on his
comet
Charlie Taft. presidents son, can
play golf. This fact gets column IN
the newspapers. propably because II :
wonderful that a presidents son can
DO anything.
Before the defense gets through In
that Swope trial at Kansas city, II may
appear that the old millionaire was
driven To a strychnine diet by the
high price OF meat
81. Louis society bellies were enter
tanned with man hunt. Bloodhounds,
not St Louis bellies. went after the
man. SO that he got away with his
life and most of his reputation.
Since all those personal census ques-
tions are asked largely 10 furnish
basis for apportionment OF congress
men, why not ask us II We would like
10 drown our congressman?
The Hearst party announces It's
readiness 10 join the Champ Clark
party Harmon, Hearst and-Har'
mony." There be Democrats who II
put another capital H" To that
slogan
Plainheld. n. j., boasts hen that
lays an egg shaped like dumobeil,
the yolk in one end. the white In the
other What furore that hen woulu
create In cooking school!
Correspondents have TO get up at
a. N. 10 keep track OF Teddy. As they
don't 90 to bed before a. m. Tor lear
Teddy will say what he really thinks
OF Taft. their life is truly a hard one
New York city has croquet league
Take a horse car and go out ana see
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22
Friday April D
1910
OBSERVATIONS

a game, III YOU haven't heart trouble,
next time you're In the gay old me-
ttopolis and feeling bit gay yourself.
With Washington. New Orleans, San
Francisco and elsewhere 2 beating
tom.toms for the Panama expo OF 1915.
il behooves little San Diego 10 work
her Scripps Spreekels-S palding horse
fiddle with both hands.
Bryan is collecting a ZOO for Lin.
coin. Already has tomcat and a mon
key II he could only rope some such
Iampageous Democrat as Tom Tag.
CART, he'd have what might be- consid.
cred a booming old start.
Reported that Taft is considering
Gov. hughes for the United States su-
preme bench. Strange. but Just as
soon as a man shows signs OF beiug
brave. big and strong, the proposition
is sprung TO inter him in the supreme
court
Ohio has discovered a way TO speed.
lily increase her state revenues. Spe-
cial grand jury sessions have been
called, and a number OF state officials
discover that their consciences will
no longer permit them TO hold ON 10 il.
legally drawn fees.
And now there's testimony that that
Lloyd party didn't reach Mt. McKin-
leys summit any more than Cook din.
Blast all the takers, anyhow. Not an
other line OF free advertising until
they lay the north pole and Mt. Nc
kinleys summit on our desk,
Pulitzer. heretofore trombonist on
the Taft bandwagon. is now blaring
AT the president for referring TO Roose.
Welt as our most distinguished citi-
zen" Probably wanted William To
call Teddy our most "extinguished.
and William hadn't the stomach for II.
hardly.
Spring opera season in Chicago is a
fizzle. and her critics say her people
would rather sit OH their lawns hear
ing the sparrows chirp and Michigan
zephyrs sough through the asparagus
than pay So TO hear New York talent
/ cav. Spring fever's cheaper than
spring opera, anyhow.
The famous Yerkes statue OF Bac.
chante. representing a beautiful blond
| lady clad in a bunch of Delaware
grapes, is going to Boston's museum,
and Boston's views on unabridged art
are such that Mrs. Bacchantc II
threatened with pair OF cerulean
overalls, with reversible suspenders
Mr. Prizehghter Ketchel reads Os
car Wilde's poems as part OF his tfain
ing. Gets mental poise and apionr
out of 'em. etc, etc We now hope &c
see that husky son OF sunny Africa
Mr.. Samuel I.angford. punch Mr.
Ketchel's aplomb clear over 10 the
back OF his neck. at their first meet
ing. April q.
Last year 94l 900 veterans and
4 widows OF Veterans of American wars
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22

Next to- trying to corner Mr. Houfitt
and never getting hin. the most pc.
culiar puzzle I've struck since | be
gan censusing was the case OF Mrs.
Weddem.
She was very frank in telling me
she'd been al the altar seven times In
her cyentful but still perfectly ser.
viceablc career The instructions
make YOU put down a person who 3
been married more than once az NJ.
meaning married often than once. Bus
my next shock was when she stated
she'd had her seventh husband only
ten months. and according To the rules
she had 10 be marked as married
no years, only the length OF the pres
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22

eat marriage being noted and moth
ing less than full year counted.
Think Of IT, Here was a woman with
her seventh husband and had TO
mark her down as married 0 years,
We cot TO talking and she told me
Huo!tt
"fIurrah," shouted. AT last
Where is he9"
She couldn't tell me but she kindly
gave me- his picture, having no further
use FOR 10
With that picture I will track down
Mr. Hooftt pick him out of crowd
in the street II need be--and make
my list of names complete. Won't
be glad!
(Continued.) -
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22
THE MISBRANDING OF FOOD
THE CASE OF MAPLE AND CANE SYRUP. f"

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 22The
public bulletin telling the prosecution
the United o
shipped boesof syrp
be practically invisible This
chaser syrup
ery mail o ap
The pleaded guilty paid amounting
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22
The Truth. No Matter
Whom II Helps OF Hurts.

George H. Cunningham, field
secretary of the Provident Savings
Life Assurance Society of New York.
addressed the last meeting Of the
Detroit Academy of Medicine on
l"The Enormous Waste of. Human
Life"
Among other things in connection
with the progress of the various
diseases outside of those which are
most dreaded and which are carefully
guarded against because they are
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22
A RULE WITH FAULTS.

IN this life. remember, must give
thabut I'd like
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22

Last year 94l 900 veterans and
widows OF veterans OF American wars
received s160.993 900 in pensions.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-22

individual first be
His interest therefore
state holds his life of value and the should
for the then
having interested provide the he will
following directions
There question the public good the
country than the health people preservation
the of the
of the state toward the country.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-02-02
PARIS IN DANGER OF
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC

Paris, Feb. 2.-Several cases Of
typhoid were reported to the author
tiles this morning, and an epidemic
is feared among those who have
used water from the city's usual sup
ply. This water has been polluted
by the breaking of the mains and
trunk sewers under the streets, and
the health authorities have issued
warnings against its consumption.
The department of health is urg-
ing upon the people the necessity OF
boiling the water they use for DOM
estic purposes. It's agents have
placarded the city with posters ad-
vising this course. Physicians to-
day are investigating the stricken