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other words when one is told how cold
1t is, he should really be informed as to
the amount of all the frost and not mere
| lv part thereof. just as when things
begin to warm up, one would like TO
know just how warm 1t is from the
freezing point, and not, as with the Fab
renheit thermometer, be obliged to sub
tract 80 degrees of nonexistent frost, In
July say, in order to learn the actual
truth.
It follows, therefore, that the truly
sensible thermometers are those knowD
as the Centgrade and the Reaumur.
Both take the points at which water
freezes and water boils as points fixed
by nature. The space between these two
points is divided on the Centigrade ther-
m )meter into 100 degrees, and on the
Reaumur into 50 degrees. The division
into 100 degrees is probably better than
that into SC degrees, but only for the
reason that so many things in this world
| are divided by tens and hundreds that
most of US are more or less accustomed
| to the decimal system.
| Both the Centigrade and Reaumur Their
| mometers are honest and accurate In
marking zero just at that point on the
| tube where there is actually nothing
doing as between heat and cold-where
4 tny change is made, it must be made
either in the direction of heat or OF frost
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We offer this whiskey to you At the same
price 1t which these hieh-class goods are
sold to the jobber and wholesaler At the dis
'tillery. Itisnot . cheap compound or i'm
lucky whiskey, made in Rec er's Green
Mountain Distillery In Woodford County,
Ky. Remember that when you buy from
the old Green Mountain Distillery gu are
assured Of receiving the highest class goods
SEND FOR AN ORDER TODAY
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tive of a foreign power. with whom lie
corresponded under a fictitious address,
and had interviews outside Vienna. A
commission of representatives of the mill
tarv court found very discriminating docu-
ments at his lodgings.
On Friday another artillerist was ar
rested at the arsenal. worker in ex-
plosives, and today 1t Is reported that
other arrests connected with the affair are
impending.
Kretchmar is alleged to have received
rather high sums from abroad. Although
he lived apparently in poor circumstances,
1t now appears that he expended much
money and possessed villa, as well as
shares in a mine.
The Neuo Freie Presse reports that
the Russian military attache. colonel
Won Marschenko, who is involved in this
espionage affair, had left on leave, and
will not return to Vienna.
More arrests in civil circles are ex.
pected.
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UtiIining Cigar stumps.

London Correspondence of the New York
Sun.
The Paris megottiers who make liv-
ing by picking up cigar and cigarette
st,imps on the boulevards are up In arms
against the state tobacco monopoly
which is prosecuting one of them In
test case for selling contraband tobacco
The fraternity now have formed them
= sort of trade union to pro
test against the governments actipn,
IA the tobacco collected has
ey paid duty, SO that they can In nc
sense be accused OF breaking the law.
ne megottier's life is pretty hard
Working from ten to twelve hours
day, he can only reckon on earning about
SO a week. Some of them are connois
seurs of tobacco and know at glance
the relative value Of the most uninvitini
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SPECIAL RATES
Via
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New Orleans, La, and return, $1,000;
account annual session Ancient Arabic
Order Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine.
Tickets on sale April 8, 10, IL and IL,
limited for return April %, 1910. with
the privilege of extention to May 10
by deposit and payment of fee of $500.
Special HOmeseeker Rates to points
in the west and northwest. Tickets on
sale the first and third Tuesdays of
each month, limited for return % days
from date of sale.
Winter Tourist Rates to points in the
south and southwest. Tickets on sale
daily until April 80, limited for return
May 81.
Tampa, Fla. md Return, 1890.
Tickets on sale February IS, limited
for return February 81, with privilege
of extention to March 10, 1910, for 81 90.
Dallas, Tex, and Return, s26.S0; ac-
count Layman's Missionary Movement.
Tickets on sale February 16, II and is,
limited for return March Is. 1910.
For further information call on or
write to p. Sid Jones', d. p. A, both
phones 977, Birmingham, Ala.
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SAD SUICIDE OF
A GERMAN GIRL
Had Been Discharged From
Service in Hospital
THE BIG MEAT QUESTION
Healthy Dogs and Horses Are More
Wholesome Than Imported Prod
nets of American Beef Trust,
So 1t Is Claimed
THE BIG MEAT QUESTION
by STEVEN BARNETT

Berlin, February Especial. There is
something Chinese about the German
disregard of death, for German men, wo-
men and even children commit suicide
under circumstances that would never
drive an American to the act. The extra
ordinary number of schoolboy self-mur-
iers in Germany has already been the
subject of much comment; and now may
be recorded as sad a case as any, that
Of a nursing sister in Berlins finest
hospital. of good family, young. fair.
ambitious and filled with the sense of
duty.
In the reports of her suicide by NOR
phium poisoning. her name is simply given
as Sister Hertha, and the circumstances
in which she put an end to her own life
were these: The medical superintendent
Of the famous Yirchow hospital, where
Sister Hertha was engaged, sent dish Of
roast fowl that had remain, over in the
kitchen to be divided among three Of the
patients.
Sister Hertha, who was acting as head
sister with three novices under her, di-
vided the dish as directed with the excep-
ton of a small portion which the novices
consumed, Sister Hertha herself eating a
piece of bread dipped in the gravy.
Twelve days later one of the assistants
It is said, out of revenge, reported the
occurrence. whereupon the superintendent
examined the accused, ordered the i'm
mediate dismissal of the three novices.
and suspended Sister Hertha until the
house committe should decide her pun
ishment
The sentence aroused the greatest sur
prise and indignation in the hospital be
'ause of its severity, all the more as 1t
rSten happened that when a dish wa
insufficient to go around the patients thu
ls,ers curtailed their own portions and
not seldom went without any. The resul
Of the dismissal was that within half al
hour of 1t the young women found them
selves in the streets of Berlin with the
equivalent of $3.50 between them, ano
could not get another situation, as thei
papers showed dismissal for grave neg
lect of duty"
Sister Hertha was reinstated in her pre-
vious post a few days later, but she
waited in vain for declaration from tn
superintendent generating her from SER
lus blame. Thus wounded her pride, an
ceiling that she was responsible for tn
ate of her colleagues she had recours
to poison. Great Glamour is raised owe
this fresh instance of Prussian 'discip-
line.
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length. but with a careful avoidance of
details, how he had done 1t. A shabby
gentcel man. with sneer on his face
was among the listeners.
II landed in this country without a
cent in my pockets" exclaimed the self
made man proudly.
Eyes, but there were other pockets
suggested he shabby genteel man.
The innuendo passed unnoticed, how
ever las ust then the self-made man was
busily engaged in counting his small
cnnnge.
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Measuring Heat and Cold.

Prom the BOslon GIODe.
The chief popularity of the Fahrenheit
thermometer is that when it marks zero
there, are at that moment just 80 de-
orees of frost in the air. which is a fair
start for a cold day. But when so degrees
of frost are added, by the drop of the
mercury this much below Fahrenheit's
arbitrary zero mark. as is frequently the
case in various parts of our country,
what folks are really getting Is 81 de-
grees of frost
AS n matter of fact, the point where
things begin to freeze or to thav Is the
natural dividing line. and not Fahren-
hait's zero mark. which does not enter
inc consideration until things have been
frozen up to the extent of 80 degrees. In
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looking stumps. These are sorted out by
the pickers at home.
Cigarette ends are carefully cleaned.
the tobacco shreds are dried and mixed
and sold in packets at prices ranging
from 40 to 60 cents a pound. Cigar ends
are separated into plug for chewing and
for pipe tobacco. There Is even a megot-
tiers exchange in Paris, but 1t is not one
Of the sights marked by three stars in
the guide books.
IN the Latin Quarter, on the Place
Mautert, the pickers foregather around
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To insure shipment same day as
your order Is received, mark your
letter Personal and address II to
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the Etienne Dolet statue, and there trans
oct business from midnight to Q o'clock
a. M. Here they make up their stocks.
all transactions being for cash. Their
best, customers are the workingmen on
their way 10 the public market in the
early morning, and to these they sell
packets of cigarette tobacco at 2, and
certs, according to grade.
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The new Prussian budget provides a
sum of 1900 marks (about s65OO) for the
equipment of a breeding and training es-
Establishment for police hounds. This grant
is entirely in accordance with public opin-
ion. as the people fully recognize the
great advantage which a we'll trained
pack Of bloodhounds would be in the de-
lection of crime as we'll as in the pro-
lection of the police officers.
The authorities, however, consider that
this movement is only in its infancy and
that many years will elapse before the
training of the hounds can be brought to
such perfection that the detection of
crime can be relied upon in all cases. 1t
is admitted that unuer ordinary c'rcum-
stances it is very difficult for the hound
to follow the scent successfully, and that
but few or any of the bloodhounds have
that sense sufficiently developed TO enable
them to follow it up If there is the slight
est Interruption But the authorities con-
slider that by constant training the
hounds natural gifts can be considerably
strengthened, and the training establish
ment will be primarily organized with a
view to success in this direction.
The police in charge or the hounds will
have to keep a detailed account of the
working and write down full particulars
of their progress-fheir successes ard
their failures. II is recognized that even
when the hounds are fully developed and
trained they will be subject to many pit
falls. as the criminals will an put
them off their scent by all sorts of tricks.
But in spite of all the difficulties it is be-
heved that in time the police hounds will
become very usefu, as a terror to evil
doors.
The espionage case at the Vienna ar
senal is O more extensive affair than was
at first supposed The name of the mil
tary official who was arrested on s.,
picion of Offering for sale TO friend
| foreign power sreeimens % the new She
and other artillery details is stated !
Military quarters to be Alfred vo
Kretschmar. He had long been under
servation, and he showed extreme int
est in matters not belonging to his spher,
OF action. The state police had already
! discovered his relation to the representa-
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e26.SO-DaIlas, Texas, and Return
Laymens Missionary Movement, Feb.
16, IT, IS; limit March Is, 1910.
Winter Tourists tickets sold to many
attractive resorts daily until April 80;
limit May 81.
Special rates to the west and south
west first and third Tuesdays of each
month. Information cheerfully fur
nished.
1925 FIRST AVENUE
Bell Main 1913. Peoples 616.
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If a tariff war between this country and
America is declared, in spite of the de-
sires of the people of both countries, it
will be principally because the hygenic
laws of Germany, owing to their rigid
system of veterinary inspection, absolute
ly exclude from the German market all
American meat, shether "embalmed" or
canned
Meat is very duar in Germany, so dear
that the working classes hardly ever get
the taste of besf, and some 140 900 horses
and 5000 dogs are annually slaughtered in
the country to provide the food for TIE
poor classes But the German government
considers that the meat of healthy young
horses and dogs, rigidly inspected before
1t is allowed to be Sold is more whole
some than the cheaper grades of meat
handled by the American beef trust.
The reichstag alone would repeal the
laws which forbid the Importation of
American meat but even If they should
take up the question its word would not
be for repeal, since it would then have to
open the German door to the meat of all
nations, and on the other hand the blue
black block of conservatives and CEN
trum, which now holds sway, is thorough
ly agrarian and means TO stay so. Pro-
lection of agricultural produce has proved
too profitable for them to think of aban-
doning 1t in any important respect.
The potash question is of less weight
in point of trade value than the me t
question. but differs from it in threatening
to create difficulties of a sort likely to
wound national susceptibilities in the
United States. Some months ago the
great potash salt syndicate OF Germany
embracing about so mines, approached the
end of its first year syndicate period AS
soon as the period expired certain Amer
lean chefS'sal and canning trusts, which
use the salts largely and had always had
to pay the high German prices for Them
made contracts with a few members of
the syndicate by which they secured their
supply of salts for the next seven years
at greatly reduced rates.
The rest of the syndicate sought to come
to an understanding with the trusts, but
failed to make them give up the con-
tracing advantages they had obtained.
The syndicate then appealed to the Prus-
sian government, itself an owner OF sew
eral mines, to put such duty on the ex-
port of non-syndicate potash as would
prevent it going to America. The Frus-
sian government went further by propos-
ing to bring in a bill only recognizing the
American contracts as having two years
validity. M
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Explained

The self made man, after the manner
OF f,s kind, was explaining at great
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-17
H0RSESARE
FEATURE OF Show
w. S. Forbes & Co. Take Blue
Ribbons Over Large Number
Of Teams From City Streets.

The first work horse parade ever
seen in the South was held yesterday
afternoon in the State Fair Grounds,
in conjunction with the Virginia Rae
ing and Horse Show Association. in
which nearly 200 draught teams which
work every day in the streets of Rich
mond participated.
The W. S. Forbes Packing Company
walked away with the first prize in
the double team entry with a pair OF
draughters that could hardly have been
beaten anywhere. D.. NJ. Lea & Co.
tool the blue in the single horse team
class with as fast competition as first
class Percherons can give.
The prizes were awarded as follows:
Double horse teams-W. S. Forbes,
first; stephen Putney & Co, second;
j. P. McDonough, third.
Single horse unconstitutional Pack
ing Company, first; Stephen Putney G.
Co., second; D. NJ. Lea & Co., third.
Double mule teams-Stephen Putney
Shoe Company. first; Times-Dispatch
Company, second.
Single mule teams-Schwarzschild-
S~ulzberger. first n second; Hermann
Schmidt, third.
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Pursuant to the terms OF o certain
deed of trust from j. n. Levy to me, as
trustee. dated September 1. 1908. and
duly recorded In the clerks Office OF
Va. in Deed Book No. 33. page No. 657.
and at the request of the creditors cnd
holders OF the notes mentioned ana
described in said deed of trust and se-
auction. to the highest bidder. at tho
front door OF the courthouse. in the
county OF Powhatan. Va.
TUESDAY. MAY "a. 1910.
at IL O'Clock loon. the following PROP
Ierty, to-W1t:
First. That certain tract of land
lying on Deep Creek, in the county OF
Powhatan. in the State of Virginia.
being a part OF what is known as the
Belle Dale estate or tract. containing.
by a survey made by Joseph Z. Maxey.
county surveyor. one thousand Q,000)
acres. a plat of which survey is at
tached to and made a part of a GER
tain deed, dated the 18th day Of &C.
clerks office OF the Circuit Court OF
Powhatan county. in Deed Book Nc
25, page No. 1884. to which reference Is
hereby mad for a particular descrip-
ton of the metes and bounds OF the
lands herein conveyed: 1T being the
same tract of land which was onvey
ed to Charles e. Hyter and John A.
Hyter by Addie P. Belvln and hus-
band. by deed dated the 18th day Of
January. 1901 and duly recorded in
the clerks Office of the Circuit Court
OF Powhatan county, Va. in Deed Book
No. 81, at page No. 66.
Second. That certain tract of land
lying and being in the county of Pow
hatan, State of Virginia. On the south
side of the River Road. and adjoining
F. NJ Bowers. r. Davis. - Belvin
and Mary Hobson. and containing five
hundred and nineteen and seven
Fights acres. more or less. as set out
In a plat or survey of February 5. 1901,
by Charles E. Ashburner. Jr., attached
to and made a part of a certain deed
from P. P. Murray to Charles F.. Hyter
and John II. Hyter, dated February IS.
1910. and duly recorded in the clerks
page No. 1o6, to which reference is
hereby made for a particular descrip-
ton of the metes and bounds of the
land herein conveyed: 1t being the
same tract OF land which was con-
veyed to Charles e.. Hyter and John H.
Hyter by the deed above referred to,
executing. however. from h above the
land containing thirty-three $3.50 acres
and bounded and described as follows,
to-wit: On the east of Deep Creek. on
the west by Horse Pen Branch. on the
Horse Pen Branch to Deep Creek.
which was heretofore conveyed to
Edward Morrell by deed dated the goth
day OF November. 1903. and duly re-
corded in the clerks office of the Cir
cult Court of Powhatan county. Va,
to which reference is hereby made
TERMS: Cash.
HARRY K. woLCoTT. Trustee.
Seaboard Bank Building.
Fl. w. GooDE. A%uctioneer.
Richmond. Va. April 80. 1910.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE LOTI
owners in Hollywood Cemetery Com
pany will be held in the Office of the
ompan No. 6 South Ninth Street,
on TUESDAY, MAY 10. 1910, at 81
o'clock P. NJ.
". S. STREET,
Secretarx and Urea sIirar
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jumps! I would rather be in the grand
stand looking out.

Ju.apsi ! Mouiu oe IN 'ne grand
9ta"' iooN'"s
~ wh,te.s 1rn, p.,.
y race oser .so a'a,ps' ror inc hrst
an,e put W ia pallorhlance
ana tns Ne.nnt' ~ haa. p,,Hea naa no
- f,rthar 'o..e. me
~ S.hs io"s'
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KELLY TRIAL TO BBGIN
IN FEDERAL COURT MAY 30

When the criminal term of the United
States District Court for the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia convenes on May 30 1t is
expected the Phil g. Kelly Company dnc.).
charged in more than 100 indictments with
violating the Internal revenue laws. Will be
tried. According to revenue Officers. the
trial Will be very interesting.
Colonel w. H. Chapman. revenue agent,
who worked up the cases against the COM
pany, is busily engaged in gathering evil
dence which will be used by the govern
msnt in the trial. The specific charge is
the sale of untaxed whiskey.
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flfebrand also ran. Time. l:h3 3-5.
Second race-steeplechase, about two
miles. for qualified hunters; purse.
s2oo-Young Bitten. first; Iron
Prince, second. Besgerman fell. Time,
4:14.
Third race-one mile. for three
year-olds n upward. purse. $500
Jack Baker. first; King Of Bashan,
second; Helen g., third. Time, 1:44.
Fourth race-steepiechsse. about
two miles. for f~our-year-olds and up
wards: purse. s200-Essex. first: Good
Friar, second: Goldfleur, third. Time.
1903 3-5.
Horse Show Summaries.
Glass Screen hunters-Amulet, NJ
c. Jackson, Of Petersburg. first: Tour
ney. DIR. F. d. owlsley Greenwood. sec
ond. Rutledse. James W. Graves. Rich
mond, third: Kenny Saw. John d.
Potts. Richmond. fourth.
Class 17-Pairs hrnters-king Ed
ward and Sans-a-Tout. U. d. Benner.
Of W~arrenton. first: Kenn. saw and
Annabei. w. w. Osborne, of Gordons-
VILE. second; Her Grace and Chris
tine. r. q. Sydnor. of Petersburg.
third; Piedmont and Tourney. DR.. F.
D. owsley. of Greenwood. fourth.
Glass :-Roadsters-Colonel Purcell.
Charles Z. whitlock. of Richmond.
first; Emma Stark. Charles e. Whit
lock. Of Richmond, second; Nellie Nc
Zeus. DR.. j. P. McDonough, of Rich
mond. third: Apperson, Forest and
Percy Alien Rose, of Sabot. fourth.
Glass IL, handicap iump-Piedmont
fDr. r. d. owsley. of Greenwood,
first: Tourney lDr. f. D.. owlsley, OF
Greenwood). second: Safe Conveyance
On. C. Jackson. of Petersburgl, third;
S~aueedunk (Mrs. Thomas ~. Carter, OF
Richmond). fourth.
Class o. middle n heavyweight
hunters-Sunday Morning (U. D.. Ben
ner, of Warrenton). first; Tourney eDr'
F. D.. owlsley. of Greenwood, sec
ond: keggy Conner CO. D. Benner, of
Warrenton), third; Orient CIV. w. Os-
borne, Of Gordonsville), fourth.
Glass 2. horse and runabout-Busler
(Mrs. j. w. McComb). first: Mace
(aIrs. W. G. Bragg), second; Bob Lee
CMrs. II. X. Franklin), third; YorKe
(B. T. Jellisonp, fourth.
Class 6, saddle horses-Lord Golden
(Herman E. Ullman. of Warrenton).
first; Golden Jim Miss Mary Butler.
of Richmond), second; Bob White OF.
and p. A. Rose, of Sabot). third;
Black Bess (Miss rutherford, OF
Richmond). fourth.
Class Is, hunt club teams-Warren-
ton Hunt Club, first; Tomahawk Hunt
Club. second; Riverside Hunt Club,
third.
Class 1s, hunters and jumpers-ori-
ent CIV. w. Osborne. of Gordonsville),
first; Her Grace (E. 3. Sydnor. of
Petersburg). second; Sunday Morning
Gu. D. Benner. OF Warrenton). third;
Keggy Conner GU. D. Benner. of War
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TRUSTEES AUCTION SALE
OF
LOTS NOS. IS, 10, 20. 20. 80. 81, 80, 80
AND 81, ON PLAN OF WOoDvILLE.

In execution OF a dcel OF trust.
dated June 10, 1907, and recorded in
the clerks Office OF the Circuit Court
of the county OF Henrico, D.. b. $50 b.
page 239. default having been made in
the payment OF a portion OF the debt.
and having been required so to do, we
will sell at public auction, on the
premises, on
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1910,
at $50 p. NJ. tho above mentioned lots.
Lots Nos. Is. 10 and 20 fronting sew
cnty-fve (75) feet on the south line or
Ragland Street, between Holly and
Poplar Streets: lots 20. 30. 81 and 80
fronting one hundred GO0) feet on the
north line of Seldom Street, between
Holly and Poplar Streets: lots Nos. So
and 81 fronting fifty t50) feet on the
south side OF Seldom Street. between
Poplar and Maple Streets.
TERMS: Enough in cash to pay the
cost of sale, any X hat may be
due n the sum OF one hundred and
ninety dollars H19o), with interest or
from March "a. 1910. which sum
is the balance due or the debt secured
in the above mentioned deed OF trust;
the residue payable in six and twelve
months after date. credit payments to
bear interest at 6 per cent. and to be
secured by deed OF trust IN the prop
erty, or all CAST at the option of the
purchaser.
Trustee.