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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30


BY REV. T.. IL. RAWLINGS.
Conference Missionary Secretary. yfr-
ginia Conference.
We are not doing what we ought to
do or what We hope 10 do. but are
grateful TO think that we are at least
doing better than We once did.
What We Are Doing.
Two years ago we reported at the
end of the Conference year. In round
numbers $4,000 raised In the con-
gregaIons. One year ago we had adj
vanced TO $s4,000. and at the last con-
ference the amount recorded was SSH
0oo- The total amount for missions
from all sources advanced last year
from $S4. oe0 to s1ea, oo0.
Home Missions
In cur home mission work we are
proposing n reorganization Of our
Methodist Institute. In Richmond. on
lines SO radical and large that as
Vet We have not had the courage to-
present our plans TO the full board
Of directors.
We mean to overhaul thoroughly
our half missions, making the APP
preparation much more carefully than
heretofore, giving more to the needy
and very much less TO such as for
so long have really imposed upon tho
mission board. We are putting two
esangelsts In the mountains of the
AiasitN k4Stf anu 14N RtChbuFk GtStFtCtS. A1lG,
furnishing them tents, direct them to
spend their time holding evangelistic
services and organizing Sunday
schools in the more destitute sections
of those haekwoodH districts.
Foreign Missions
In our foreign mission work, be-
sides the special objects already taken
and pledged. embracing about forty
churches 4 the conference we are
proposing the following new specials
namely, sSo0e in the Petersburg dis
trict fer a training school in Korea:
$4,000 for CRANBERRY College, in
Brazil, as a memorial to our own be-
loved and late lamented Bishop Gran
berry, and to he raised in the Eastern
Shore. Rappahannock. and Farmvilie
districts Call country districts: SIS, 900
for hospital in Monterey. to be raised
In the Sunday hools OF the con-
ference; and about half a dozen
smaller specials in stations that ill
now have undertaken no special work
but. think. are quite ready to do
so If the opportunity is presented 10
them The Korea and CRANBERRY spe-
cials will cover a period Of two years.
II the promise OF the last year Is at
all fulfilled, we expect the offerings
in the congregations TO reach $e5. 900
and maybe $40. 00o.--Nashville Advo-
cate.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

Tickets To the General Conference.
The committee of the Methodist
General Conference at Asheyille. y.
- having in charge the matter OF
special rates over the railroads for
the session of the Conference to be
held In Asheyille. n. G., MAY TO
70, 1910, artlinged that these special
tickets should be on sale only on
May : to IL, both days inclusive.
Any one wishing to attend the Con-
ference who cannot leave home on
or before the 18th day of May con-
not get the beneft of the regular
Conference rate over the railroads
unless the on sale" dates should he
extended. There will he placed on
sale on May Is, however, regular
summer excursion tickets To Ashe-
vile. These tickets. while not giving
quite as low Il rate as the regular
@~9aaf+ftitee schedule, arc very cheap,
and the tickets are good until tcttt~
Der 81, with stop-oyer privileges st all
principal points, both coming and go
ing. Nith the exception OF the very
small increase in the price. these
regular summer excursion tickets,
are more desirable than the regu-
lar Conference special tickets. and
can he bought at any ticket Office if
notice ia given that such a ticket is
wanted There tickets are on sale
regularly at all coupon Offices and
the notice in advance that such uck-
cts viii be wanted Will have to DO
given only at the smaller towns
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
The Christian Voter.

VIII attend to his own political
duties, 10 the disappointment OF those
who would like To take the task of
hts hands
VIII have his own political opin-
ions, without reEereaee to their popu-
sarsty. es'#e''-.''..-.
VIII be a Christian In politics
whatever effect that may have on his
partnership.
80 WIN not only vote as he prays. bul
will pray as he votes.
Will insist that the ten command
ments have not been repealed, even
fer the benefit OF politician.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
Fcast Of Esther.

The Feast OF Esther begins on the
evening OF Tuesday, March ~. This
L. indeed O, sowons~ season, and At
Jews would do well to read the story
OF thu intrepid Jewish maiden who
dared to brave the anger of the king.
SO that her people might be saved.
1t is from such lessons a. this that
we get inspiration to keep unfurIed
the banner of Judaisn1. and to keep
up the fiEht Tor ~ ultimate yooegne
ton, Jewish Record - ].
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
Guarding the Sabbath

simply out of form. He is a rem ark
able man who Is not down and out"
now and then. There is no harm in
man losing his nerve occasionally.
the harm comes from one Gathering
himself together again. After all, when
a man has faith in God, nothing IAN
side-track him for good.
\ SANDER is not like q word written
ON a slate, that can he rubbed out with
a sponge. Ii is like a poisonous Al
row; the shaft may be Withdrawn, ut
the poison remains.
Love is the greatest thing that God
can give us, for himself Is love; nd It
IS the greatest thing We can give t.
Cod, for it VIII also give ours rs cs,
and carry with it all that is ours
Jeremy Tailor
Great hearts alone understand now
nuch glory there is in being good To
y" and Keep 80, amid the injuries
Of man and the scverities Of prlvi-
derce. Is not the gift OF a happy pa
'ur" alone, but II is strength and he
roiAm Jules Miehelet,
beyond all wealth, honor. or c,cn
hedith, Is the attachment VIC form IL
noble souls. because to become one
WITH the good, generous and true - 10
become IN measure good, Generous
ailG true ourselves. Arnold.
Ihe union of churches go@s on
apaCe. and the prospect is growing
brighter and brighter that In, the near
fGlure the number of denofniila Ions
VIII be considerably reduced in nrm
per through the process OF organic
nitn; notably, Of churches suhstan-
ttall] identical in doctrine and policy.
A fresh illustration is the movement to
ring about union of the Methodist
f.tdStopal church, South, which have
been separated since the Civil War. and
"a :" the Methodist Protestant catIrcn
The Vagina and Oklahoma confer
eltee OF the Methodist church, South.
haN" memorialized their general con
fetonee to create "a special commission
ia NEE ia like commission from me
Methodist Episcopal church to devise
ii basis Of organic union for these two
religious denominations.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
FOR THE LITTLE ONES

Bobby put his hands on the counter
ana drew himself up till his feet were
on the floor and his head was quite
high, nearly as high as the younk
mans.
II Is my grandmas birthday said
BOBBY, and / want to buy her n
suitable present. Are those pink roses
IN the window more than two shili-
ings? Those lovely big pale ones?"
Ihats exactly what they are" said
the young man.
oh, isn't that lhcky," said Bobby
VIII you please choose the very bes,
ones for grandma
certainly WILL" said the young
man, and he did. First he put the
roses in soft, glossy thin paper. and
In thick, stir white paper, pinned over
at each end with pin that had pink
glass TOP The paper package was
almost az tall az Bobby.
Thank you very mueh," said Robb,
to the young man. She's to have her
presents at teatime; she doesn't come
down 10 breakfast. and m at school
at noon. Good by"
"Good-by, and many happy returns
To your grandma" said the young
man politely
What in the world" cried Aun,
Aachel and Aunt Susan and AuA,
Jane. when Bobby handed his long
paper parcel to Grandma Rand at tea
time. They had hurried home from
call, and had forgotten to ask
Bobby about the present. lie waa
glad The three aunts looked n little
disappearing, but Bobby kept his eyes
on gtandma's face.
The shawl and the foot warmer and
the bed slippers and the book Of
hymns and the new spectacIes were
in her lap. but she let them all slip
to the floor.
"A posy!" said grandma, softly. to
herself MY dear husband always
brought me a posy on my birthday
Then she drew Bobby close ana
kissed him.
Il is suitable present to match
Yonr cheeks" said Bobby, with many
happy returns'.s-E. l.. Gould
Two Little Old Ladies'. /.
Two little old ladies. one grave. one
gay.
In the self-same cottage lived day by
day:
One could not be happy because"
she said.
$50 many children were hungry for
bread"
And she really had not the heart to
When the world was so wicked all the
while.
The other old lady smiled all day
long
As she knitted or sewed or crooned
song,
She had not time TO be sad. she said.
When hungry children were crying for
bread
SO she baked and knitted and gave
away.
And. declared the world grew better
each day
=
gay.
Now which do YOU think chose the
wiser wavf
III Maud Merrill. In st. Nicholas
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
Heartsease

God touches the soul. and he Is
born. God surrounds soul with an
SNfmoSpherr. and he lives and grows.
43Ie is not Judaean. he is not Hindu.
S4Ht Ii not Greek he ls human. HIS
|&nission IL not To one race and cline;
s4t liz 10 all races and all ciImes,-F,
~. Hinckley.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
a y Conduue by
u ~ Rev. .H
TWO SABBATH INCIDENTS
BY Edward Leigh Pe1, D. D.

I
reprinted
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

an a day Of gloom and depression,
when sky and mind alike overcast
md the nervous tides were at ebb,
~ mournfuily asked. shall | ever
again be young and well?" The
answer came like a soft CHEEKY, in
ward voice Il shall never be other
Wise than young and we'll" What
had a passing cloud To do with the
Eeternai prospects OF a son and heir
lDf God CHARLES g. Ames.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

n We have within us higher force
than all the forces Of material ma
k&ure.--a power III will which can adj
here to>Adaty and TO God in oppost-
E43uD to all the might OF the elements
EMnd all the malignitT OF earth or hell
k14aR has capacities thoughts, i'm
EpulSes. which assimilate him 10 con-
Cadence sn oracle of the Divinity,
kpubIishing the Eyerlasting Law Of
k3kactifnde. Therefore God lis his
EFHthGrs and heaven II a glorious
Eroa lity.--W r. Charming
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

have a thousand times tested the
6&1fcacy Of sudden prayer In moments
E& little temptation. when over
kNheimed with irritation. before an
ESuxious interview, before writing
Ev3iI.,nit passage. How often has the
foafed away. the trrita-
Mon mastered itself. the right SEN
E41eaee written, We are to do the besr
|1e can and trust results to Cod
Siected-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

0f the gs.651 increase In the mem
E&&xAhfp OF the Methodist Church dur
&n3 1908. 2f.as5, FOR nearly half. was
|3m the Conferences west OF the Mis-
{s1ippt River. These Conferences
PM&ts only about third OF the total
S41nhcrxhip The New Mexico Con-
4eAae haa an increase of twenty.
<yeh and one-half per cent In MEM
Nhtp and paid for church expenses
Qxal az 5000 per member
FA oct discouraged occasionally
~ hHnsar. snthuslasri. earnestnnss
- courage Eeem sometimes To hap,,
- Mings u our lives. but we ure
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

SANDER is not like word written
ON a slate, that can he rubbed out with
a sponge. Ii is like poisonous al
row: the shaft may be Withdrawn. ut
the poison remains.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. MARCH ls. 1910.
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Miss Elizabeth Hays, Will.

A number of charitable requests
are contained in the will of Miss
Elizabeth A. Hays, whose home in
Burlington was found to be a treasure
house when she died. The will was
probated by Executor Reginald
Branch. Rich relatives of Miss Hays,
including Schuyler Rainier, the
farmer whose safe was robbed by a
daylight craftsman last fall, are be-
queathed nothing. There are be-
quests of from 500 to $500 to other
relatives, but the residue of the es-
tate, said to be valued at nearly
100000, is left to Miss Ella Horner,
a grandniece. The estate includes
five farms, the Dutch Neck shad fish
cry, several town properties and
mortgages. Mrs. Edward Richardson,
wife Of the caretaker of Miss Hays
farm, is given a furnished house at
305 Stacy street, Burlington, and
500, and her husband and three chill
dren each 500. The Home for Aged
Women is left 5000; the Florence
Methodist Church $500, and $4,000 is
left in trust for the perpetuation and
upkeep of the Hays burying ground,
where Miss Hays and many ancestors
are buried.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
ENORMOUS PROFITS in MOVING PICTURES
Thomas A. Edison, As Inventor, Gets About $1,000 a Week, or Nearly $375-
600 a Year-Recognized Producers Get an Injunction Against un-
authorized Traders Now Some $4,000 Shows in This coun-
try Which Exhibit Motion Pictures.

New York City.-Since the settle
ment not long ago of the differences
between Thomas A. Edison and h
Biograph people and various inde-
pendent moving picture companies,
which resulted in Mr.. Edison reaping
profits of his genius and industry,
a settlement which followed a Federal
Courts affirmation of Mr.. Edison's
patent rights, peace had promised to
reign among the manufacturers of h
pictures for the first time in nearly
fifteen years. But a few months ago
a number of new manufacturers
sprang up who, it is charged, boldly
infringed upon Mr.. Edison's patents
and set about justifying themselves
on the ground that, as they alleged,
the eleven manufacturers in this
country and Europe who since b
settlement have been paying Mr.. Edi-
son royalties were violating the Sher-
man antitrust law.
1t is declared that these men repre-
scented that they would either break
up the settlement or force Mr.. Edison
to open his patents to them. This idea
of contending that the exercise of an
inventors patent rights led to viola
ton of the Sherman law was the only
novel feature in the litigation, which
resulted in a decision by Judge Noyes,
of the United States Circuit Court,
that an injunction should lie against
the group of defendants, who ad-
mittedly have been infringing upon
Mr.. Edison's patents, the defendants
being Carl Laemmle and the indie
pendent Moving Picture Company of
America, of which he is president,
and the Paragraph Company.
The president of one of the COM
panies which are paying royalties to
Mr.. Edison said: You may see
at a glance that with the 100000
or 100000 persons who make up
the daily attendance of the $4,000
moving picture theatres in this u
try the question of the supply of these
films is a matter of wide interest.
But there is a more intimate interest
for the great bulk of the American
people who admire Thomas A. Edi-
son, and that part of the story has
never been told. Mr.. Edison has al
ways given his patents to the public
or told the public of his achievements
almost before he had the patents out
and before he had organized any COM
panies to operate under them with
the result that in no single instance,
I believe, has he reaped the undis-
turbed benefit of his brain work.
"Now, until the settlement of the
moving picture patent dispute in his
favor, which resulted in the union OF
the Edison and Biograph Companies
in the Motion Picture Patents Com
pany-the plaintiff in the action just
decided by Judge Noyes-he wasn't
getting anything from his moving pic
ture invention and was involved in
costly litigation. Since then these
concerns have been paying him royal
ties: The Biograph Company, the
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
Women Paint Their Church.

Lest church improvements should
be halted by a lack of funds a dozen
prominent society women OF the fash
ionable st. Barnabas' Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Burlington, undertook
the job of painting the exterior of the
church. Headed by Mrs. Philip Smith.
a young English woman, and wife of
the rector, and Miss Florence Stew
art, a popular society girl, the women
astonished residents by appearing
with ladders, paint pots and brushes,
and bravely setting to work. By noon
they had completed a thirty-foot sec
ton, from the caves to the ground.
The women baked on using the lad
ders on the front facing st. Mary's
street, and after a consultation
formed a pin-money club to employ a
real painter to do that section. No
crowds stopped to gaze at a mere man
up a ladder.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
Ladder Race Kills Him.

After climbing two ladders leading
out of a mine shaft at Mount Hope,
Jacob Evermont, of the night shift,
dropped dead of heart disease. He
vas only nineteen years old. The
ladders are each los feet long, and
Evermont mounted both at a rapid
pace. He was employed by the En-
pire Steel and Iron Company. Ever
mont started in the lunch hour to
climb out of the mine and was in a
friendly race with fellow-workmen to
reach the top first. In order to reach
the cage which carries the men the
last stage to the surface, the two lad
ders have to be climber first. Ever
mont ran to the bottom one and be-
gan climbing swiftly. He never
slackened his pace, though his rivals
were far below him. Just before he
reached the elevator he dropped on
his face, and when picked up was
dead.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
An Open Knife Returned.

Freebooter Hugh Gallagher, of
Montclair, has a knife which has
broken the record of the famous cat
for Coming back" Some months
ago, so the story goes, a shark was
killed by fishermen on the Newfound-
land Banks. The big fish vas opened,
and inside was found a knife, with
one blade open. Through a celluloid
plate on one side was read the name,
Hugh Gallagher" and OF the other
side was the photograph of an i'm
posing store. The knife was sent to
New York City and the mind readers
in the p~ostofice discovered that the
photograph was of a business man in
Montclair. Mr.. Gallagher, who had
let the knife slip overheard from the
ship on which he was being carried
on a visit to his native green isle.
was astonished to find it at home on
his return,
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
The Power of the Word.

1 knew a man once whose wife be-
came intensely interested in a revival
meeting as a seeker of salvation. He
was a skeptic and a scoffer, and when
he found her constantly reading b
Bible searching for some promise
that would comfort her, he said:
"Bosh /! 1 will give you enough OF
that, / will read the Bible to you
every day, till you are sick of it; ana
be began. Day by day when ne came
home he read the Bible-chapter
aAer chapter, having his wife sit and
listen. At last ono day, when he had
finished the third chapter of John, he
said:
my wife, won't yea pray for me?
I am a poor lost sinner" and they
knelt and prayed, and God came In
mercy, and both were converted
Reformed Church Record.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18

Edison Manufacturing Company, the
Essaney Film Manufacturing Com
pany, the Gaumont Company, the
Ka1em Company, George Kleine, the
Lubin Manufacturing Company,
George Melies, Pathe Freres, the
Selig P~olyscope Company and the
Vitagraph Company Of America, eight
of them being American concerns and
the others European interests.
"And here is what the business
amounts to in dollars and cents:
Twenty productions are issued each
week in this country. Each is of 900
feet of film, making $4,000 feet, and
eighty of each are issued, making L.
40, 900 feet. On this production a
royalty of one-half cent per foot is
paid to Mr.. Edison, giving him from
this source a weekly revenue of
$1,000.
"Since the settlement under which
these royalties are paid there has
arisen a swarm of people, of whom
Carl Laemmle is one, who have gone
into the business of supplying moving
picture films in which they had to
violate MI. Edison's patent rights.
In the course of it they have taken
from the concerns already enum-
Grated some of their employees and
actors, paying them preposterously
high prices, and then in some cases
letting them go after having used
their talents and information for a
short period. Their main contention
before the public and the profession,
or business, has been that the con-
Germs paying the Edison royalties
were violating the Sherman law and
would sooner or later have to quit,
while really these concerns are using
patents on which they are paying
royalties.
"The matter just decided by Judge
Noyes was an action by the Motion
Picture Patents Company against
Carl Laemmle and the Independent
Moving Picture Company and against
the Pantograph Company. The Judge
has ruled that the validity of the pat
emit in question has already been adj
Indicated, and he adds, and infringe
ment on the part of the defendant
corporations is conceded He also
says: I am also of the opinion that
the charge, if established, that the
complainant is itself, or is a member
of, a combination in violation of the
Federal antitrust statute, is not a
defense available in an action for the
infringement of a patent and fails to
show a defect in the co~mplainant's
title. An Injunction against the de-
PENDANT corporations may therefore
issue. The proof of personal in
fringement by the defendant Laemmle
is, however, deemed insuficientto war;
rant the issuance of an injunction
against him and it is denied. But
this action is without prejudice to the
right of the complainant to renew
his application in case future acts
of personal infringement are dis
closed"
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
Captures an Albino Muskrat.

James Marsh, of Caldwell, who
makes a business of trapping musk
rats in the Big Pine Swamp, captured
an albino muskrat. The creature has
pure white fur and pink eyes. Old
hunters and trappers who have killed
many hundreds of muskrats every
spring for years in the lowlands along
the P~assaic, Pompton and Rockaway
Rivers, say they before have
seen an albino muskrat. The usual
color of the rodents is brown, some
times shading almost to black.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
Twentieth Century Club Finds ST.
73O,155 Spent on Picture Shows.

Boston, Mass.-In investigating the
high cost of living the Twentieth
Century Club has discovered hat $2,-
7~3O,155.5O was spent by patrons OF
theatrical and moving picture shows
during ten weeks of the winter season
in this city. It was found that NOV
ing picture and vaudeville perform
ances made up about eighty-ive per
cent. of the amusement enterprises of
the city and cost the general fun
loving public the grand total of $120,-
s69.10 weekly through the height of
the season.
Turning to the legitimate theatres
and grand opera, the total expendi-
lures weekly was found to be but
slightly more, or s152,646.45.
The club says that Boston has a
greater number of performances of
the cheaper class in proportion to the
population than any other American
city.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-18
PLATT'S LACONIC VIEWS OF
PARTY LEADERS HE KNEW

Senator Platts book of memoirs was completed only a few weeks
aro and is now OF the press. While revising the final proofsheets he
discussed the merits of many of the men famous in national politics
with a reporter. Here was his summing up:
1 regard Lincoln as u greatest President; Mckinley, the most
lovable: Hayes and Garfield, the most ungracious or treacherous; Ar
thur, the most princely; Grant. the greatest warrior and peacemaker.
Roosevelt al the best organization Governor the party ever had;
Cornell. the most inconstant; Black, the most stalwart; Morton, the
safest; odeI, the most forgetful; Hughes. a tyrant; Hill, a peanut
politician.
Blaine, the ideal American; Thomas R. Reed, the most expert
Parliamentarian Congress ever saw; Quay, the cleverest politician the
country ever produced.