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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01
seetts.tlle pefeat. nowardsyil1e.

Especial to The Times pispatch.
Scottsytile. Va, April 30.-ln their
first game OF the. season, scottsville
defeated Howardsville to-day on the
local diamond. by q score of to 2. No
one was out in the ninth when Scots
viile's winning run came over. star
retts pitching for Scottsyille was q
7 feature.
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some BASEBALL TALK

Continued From First Page.)
home town. even though the Colts did
have. to lose to let him do it.
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home town even though the Colts did
have to lose to let him do it.
The ground rule that gives only two
bags to the batter who swipes the
ball clean to the clubhouse. when there
is no crowd in which the ball mas.
be lost. should be recodified. Wal
lace's two hits and Murdock's ciout
should have been three-baggers at
least The fielders in all three cases
suffered absolutely no interference in
recovering the ball, and the batter
should be given the full benefit OF
his hit. Those hits were in the classic
class, and two bases don't tell what
they were.
The writer has received a good many
thanks from those who have TO suffer
from the Broad Street Park diamond for
his efforts to have 1t made the best in the
league. II the owners of the team do
not intend remedying the defects that
make 1t rank from both players and
a spectators point of view, it has been
suggested that the games be trans-
ferred from the Broad Street Park to
Byrd Park. where there is a really pass
able diamond il 1t were rolled and wa
tered. With very little Improvement It
would be almost as good a playing field
as the Norfolk diamond. and really just
as good as the diamonds in Lynchburg
and Roanoke.
Incidentally, didn't the amateur dia-
nonds play some ball yesterday after
noon and morning Every headed
catcher in the city must have been in
his place. and the embryo Wagners and
Cobbs were scattered all over the city.
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st. James school pefentcd.

Especial to The Times -Dispatch.l
Front Royal. Va April 30.-Ran-
idolph-Macon Academy defeated st
James School to 0 In a tive-inning
game, called for the visitors to catch a
train. The features Of the game were
Melyille's hitting and Dalton's twirl-
Ing
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EASTERN LEAGUE
Jersey City. N. j.. April, ao.-score:

Jersey City N. j.. April, ao.-score:
r. H. E.
Rochester acknowledgements. 2
Batteries: Mcconnell and Blair
Seton and Crist. (Ten innings.)
Providence. R. l.. April ao.-score;
r. II. z,
Buffalo .................. 0
frOVlueHce .............-4.s.s.- $50. IL d
Batteries: Burchell Kissinger. Speel
and Woods: Giles, Ruffy. Martini anc
Fitzgerald.
Baltimore. April so.-tFirst gameo--
Score: r, II. e
Montreal 513
Bdltimore
Batteries: Wilson and Bridges Adj
kins and Byers eleven innings.)
baltimore. April 3o.-(Second game)
Score: r. III. E.
Montreal ............... 3 I
Baltimore ...-........
Batteries: Sievers end Bridgers;
Yickers and Byers.
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CAROLINA ASSOCIATION

At Anderson. S. c.: Anderson, IL.
Greenville, 8.
At Greensboro: Greensboro. 8: Win
ston-Salem, 0.
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and Sharp, powell and Fisher struck
out-by Griffin. 2: by Jenkins. 2. Base
on balis-off jenkins, 1. Hit by pitched
Time, l43. Umpire. Burrowes.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-30
NODpE SENT S1

water piteher. and wish that the house
would burn There are dark secrets
hidden in the cedar chest Of every
bride with the slightest pretension TO
tastel
And then-for Mabel IS a kind
hearted little soul-there is the GER
tain knowledge that some of these
undssired things have meant absolute
going without for somebody. 1t is con-
vention and tradition that make her
condemn the siftless wedding guest. but
II is common sense that makes her pity
many OF the gift-bearers.
After al, the thing is legalized black
mail. I am going 10 be married, and so
every one | ever knew or used to know
or thilk l shall know has to contribute
10 my establishment. And once having
been given. / am under obligation to
give: and so the merry round goes on.
i don't mean that wedding presents
always have that feeling attached to
them-far from it! There are many.
many people, our close relatives and
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MISREPRESENTATION

7 KNOW a story. tairer. DINNER,
L Than any story painted in your
books.
You are so glad? 1t viii not make you
Yet listen. with your pretty, restless
looks.
rs II a fairy story?" Well, half fairy
At least 1t dates far back, as talrles
and seems to me as beautiful and airy;
Yet half, perhaps the fairy half' IS
true.
You had a baby sister and brother
Each sweeter than all things except the
other)
older. YET younger-gone from human
sight.
And who loved them and shall love
them ever.
And think, with yearning tears. how
each light hand
Crept toward bright bloom or berries
Know how / lost them. Do you un-
derstand?
Poor slightly golden headsl I think
missed Them
First in some dreamy, piteous. doubt
ful way.
But when and where. with lingering
lips. I kissed them.
Ny gradual parting. l can never say.
Sometimes ] fancy that they may have
In shadowy quiet of wet rocks and
moss,
Near paths whose very pebbles I have
cherished
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UP. pocKeted MS hands and strode
down the road
AS he went, he glanced. with bright,
alert eyes, through high fences, over
low hedges, past tall trees and widely
towering bushes. Occasionally he
paused to scan anxiously the broad
expanse of some greenly velvet lawn,
or the luxuriant bloom of some out
nodding flowers. but he went on,
eager and searching.
Suddenly he stopped, as the thought
came that he. might be passing the
very home of the man he was seek
ing; ne might live in any of those
beautiful houses that in the distance
he could see surrounded by their
great old trees and reaching gardens.
But somehow he felt afraid TO lift
the latches of closed gates and go in;
they repelled him. No. that old gen
tieman who might help him was a
big old fellow, who would leave his
gate open. and Bobby trudged on
Therei this might be the very placei
Just ahead OF him. through an open
gateway of massive iron. he could
see an avenue of trees-sweeping
swaying. signing and throwing dane
ing shadow traceries on the road
beneath. Through the lifting branches
glimpsing sunbeams chased each
other, and romped in golden riot over
the brown trunks. With delighted
expectancy, Bobby turned in at the
gate and wandered up the shadow
fiecked drive, with a childs confident
sense of desire fulfilled. And the peo-
pie who lived in that great house,
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o great triumph. Thereupon great .., -
ensued measured by the very iiil ooa
of warped mind. think nunpel one ,biact
emphasize that the character Oh Tue 80
Of lightly brushed asloe ~ -
general goodness loVlhs N nS,n
and true nothing TO mo = :,
that he responsible for and passils la1 -
hosiery. Oh yes, waltzes just like a DREAM
Is there any that the divorce courts must n.y.
owe that the countries OF lne w.
nant to MS as the epitorne OF stability OF an
hear the greatest Queslioi
of in the absolutely careless
that the above conversation suggests grow almost
in young women--for petter.
The outward show is regarded by most young women
,s-vear-od raves slouchy laziness OF
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after he gave me the money for hold
ing his horse. Bobby opened one fist
to speculate on the shining coin and
the future joys it suggested. "A lot
Of men came out with him, and he
said Good afternoon to them, and
then he got in the carriage and
smiled and gave me the money I
thanked him. and then he said il. On.
why didn't I listen harder? But it
doesn't matter. I'm sure it was about
the fountain. for he said Youth just
as plain, and looked at me as If he
knew. And then he drove away, and 1
couldn't go after him cause the bell
was ringing-but I know which way
he went, for he said to the man by the
carriage door, Come out by the toll
gate, and take the right hand road'
And that's what he meant. 1 know,
so I'll just follow him up and see IL
he has ever been there. and maybe
he'll show me the way, and then
mother won't need to be SO tired
and Bobby's small face shone with
purposeful energy. as he got quickly
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Reading the Future

HE desire penetrating the that envop the future
natural and entirely nexpcabe just long curiosity IS
characteristic viii attempts TO draw
aside the curtains Of the present to peep at the great tomorrow
that bckOn golden season OF
candle and walk along
pleasant way goodlowip Here's Do wish
The Woman Who Thinks
Feelsg
of better than The high standard
maintained secured and the discussions
compelling Daily
appreciation from readers who lend their shout
the
be Your needs, Your
and Your interests
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And her brown eyes had circles sus-
piciously red.
"whatever's the matter. my dear?''
Grandma said.
Cor Mehitable Jones was a favorite
with all
Who into misfortune or trouble might
fall.
Because of her. cheerful and kind
hearted ways;
And her gayety won her all manner OF
praise).
But now she sat down on the green
danlasl5 chair.
And cried till her tears made a little
pool there.
"Oh, Grandma" she sobbed. I'm in
terrible trouble,
And If you can't help me. 1t soon will
be double
This morning I put my left foot out the
first
And put on my skirt inside out; but
the worst
Is that 1 found in the yard black cat.
And ran under a ladder in telling it
'scatr
Then at breakfast I split all my salt
on the table
(And to tell this misfortune I scarcely
am ablel.
| fell with looking glass held in my
hand,
And it broke! How it happened I can't
understand
I've kept thinking all day of the sor-
row that's near,
For each of those signs is a bad one,
l fear,
And at last determined to come down
to you,
And ask If there was anything I could
do.
For 1 don't know just what form my
bad luck will take.
And the mere thought of it makes me
shiver and quake,
Grandma smiled to herself; then she
looked at the cage,
And found with surprise her pet bird In
a.rage;
For the neighboring cat. after glaring a
while,
Had turned on her tail with Chessy-
like smile;
And Sunshine, who'd found a halter
rifled pleasure
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TT IS becoming more and more the
custom at funerals to announce,
u NO flowers" Why don't weddins
invitations contain the words. No pres
ents"?
1t would surely be a great relief 10
all concerned. Think of the wedding
guestsl Did you ever hear the express
siops of dissatisfaction and complaint
with which the happy recipient of
wedding invitation goes out to do his
duty? ''Mabel's going to marry John at
last; well. I'll get her a cut-glass olive
dish-or a picture-or a elock-or an
armchair" And Mabels aunt or nth
cousin or next-door neighbor's best
friends sister-in-law hastens out TO
spend three times as much money as
she can afford or would like 10 see go
In one lump.
Or else she gets something That seems
valuable and isn't: or commits some
other crime 'of the sort: and then she
is ashamed TO see her present among
the others, or afraid that Mrs. Jones is
coming and will recognize her ice-eream
cutter that she gave the guilty one last
Christmas. or Mortified TO discover that
sellen's had bargain sale OF those
very tablecioths the day after she
bought hers for Mabel.
Worst of all. she sends nothing and
then she is sure to meet Mabei's mother
the day after the wedding and TO hear
that MABEL got such lovely things;
why didn't you come to see them? They
would have been glad TO have ANY
BODY comet" And just as likely as
not, Mabel cuts her dead the next time
she sees her or. what Is worse, is ice
ereamily polite.
Still, on the whole, Mabel would be
just as glad If every guest had followed
the bold or impoverished ones example.
1t is maddening. when she and John
have planned their little house down to
the very matches and toothpicks, 70
have to live surro unded by other peo-
Plies tastes in furniture and pictures
and dishes. There is sure TO be a hid
eOus china vase from Johns Uncle
Ezra, who must not be offended and
Mabers dear, devoted Aunt Selma has,
of course, insisted on carpeting the sit
ting room" (oh. that lovely hardwood
living room; and John and Mabel look
at each other across Cousin Carries
or Brother Sans perfectly awful silver
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Grandma looked at the silly bird. then
at the girl;
Mehitables pretty nose swollen and red.
A brown tousled mop on her round lit
tie head,
Her smooth forehead crossed by an ugly
black frown.
Grandma looked for a moment, then
cast her eyes down
For Mehitable's shoes. too. were but
toned up wrong.
Her white petticoat was three inches
too long.
Her collar was torn and her necktie
awry,
her left eyel
My dear girl" said Grandma-her
sweet voice was kind
Its in our own selves that our trou-
bles we find.
You've given yourself all your bad luck
today.
You've worried so much at few silly
things
That your usual good sense has. it
seems, taken wings.
And don't be surprised if you find some
time soon
You've lost good chance for some
long -wished-for boon.
Or that some ones omitted to ask you
somewhere.
Because he was scared OF today by
your air.
You and Sunshine both need Just the
lesson you've had:
A fear of bad lucks all that CAN make
ii bad.
Superstition and such is good-enough
thing
For Halloween parties: but you must
not spring
At conclusions. or think that whatever
you hear
Is true. and occasion for such foolish
fear
Go home now; wash. dress and put this
from your mind.
And | promise you good Luck this even
ing you'll findl"
And as Metty with thanks. went TO
take this advice.
Little Sunshine cried "Yesl"-that's to
say. he chirped thricei
CYNTHIA AGNES McCONOMY-
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Tl6[ NlEASUpE OFAMANH

said: ut takes clever nowadays be old
maid" But that that the wrong ones marry
ing and and must try to stop the march,
of man? Well it isn't necktles.
perfection features; neither Is his worth TO be
judged his envelope (where would of US be
n event?). you think that be able to
in three languages be of the esoterfc
few. which sangy Bob calls "highbrows"? Must he
the difference between the fshfork and ice cream
and should there be intimate knowledge of
the latest correct size for visiting cards?
All or these questions can be swept from the deck of
discussion by rolling No. The OF a>man is
determined by your own ideals of life If the
cal dominate your thoughts in all probability will
choose your man friend husband the his
coat II you look below the
to plumb to the heart things you probably
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On Saving Grace

r OWN that I am disposed to say
grace upon twenty other occasions
L in the course of the day besides my
dinner. I want form for setting out
upon pleasant walk. for a moonlight
ramble, for friendly meeting, or
solved problem. Why have we none
for books, those spiritual repasts-a
grace before Mi1ton-a grace before
Shakespeare devotional exercise
proper to be said before reading the
Faerie Charles Lamb.
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For their small sakes, since my most
lovely loss.
I fancy, too. that they were softly COW
cred
BY robins, out of apple flowers they
knew,
Whose nursing wings in far home sun
shine hovered
Before the timid world had dropped
the dew.
this you wonder.
Their pictures are-your own, as you
have seen;
And my bird-buried darlings. hidden
under
Lost leaves-why, it is your dead
selves I meant
S. NJ. B. Piatt.
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eIfIE [Olk!If:MlN'lII0 Al 4 0|IIzI;1lDuTEL

( 7 THE road s turning stood the
n little brown house, its weather
u u beaten walls smiling warmly
under the caresses of clambering
vines and OF soft shadows from the
big apple tree by the narrow path
The tree was just blooming into
rare ninkiness. and dripping honey
scented petals from all its branches.
Bobby. living on the grass was
reading aloud to his mother, who
sewed in a low chair by his SIDE.
-Oh. listen. mother" he cried. " The
cavalier. Juan Ponce de Leon, induced
by vague tradition Of a northern
country and its Fountain of Youth.
made il the object of his ambition
20 be first TO discover that marvellous
region and its magical water. The
fountain was reported TO have the
Dower Of healing the sick, restoring
the aged to youth and comforting i'm
mortality on whomsoever should
taste its clear waters oh. mother
do you suppose there is really
fountain like that?" Bobby was
breathless in his eagerness.
Perhaps. son." and his mother
smiled. Many people are still search
ing for it
"Wouldn't it be great to find it?"
oueried Bobby Of himself. Then he
forgot the book and rolled over on
his back, where he lay staring with
grave. little-boy eyes into the sway
ing maze OF blossom fragrance above
Gradually his face clouded, and his
ewes came anxiously back to his
mothers face-gently sweet, but with
a faint little shadOwizess there that
made Bobby clinch his brown hands
tightly, and a hurt puzziement over
spread his child features There
were tiny lines in the dear face that
vere new and growing daily deeper
and settling WEAKNESS looked out
from the brown eyes.
Mother" he said. softly why do
YOU look so very tired?'
Il tired?" she laughed. Why,
Bobby boy. I don't know. Perhaps
It's the sewing-I began rather early
this morning, you know
bobby. fercely ITS all the time.
AID YOUR mouth is sort O. drawn and
your eyes look all weepy."
ssyVhv. son" and the soft eyes flled,
"there, there, what baby am!
II does get a bit monotonous-out
like IT," came the hasty assurance, as
Bobby dug energetic heels into the
grass. ..,.,.-
and She hesitated before his search
= truly don't mind, dear; and it's
sood to stay at home. Some time you
ind I shall rest together, ana there
won't be any more work
Bobby glared az the branches ABOVE
WHY can't you do something eIseY
he demanded and was silenced by
her gentle, i have tried TO mo
ether work. dear. but the big world
doesn't care for one little womans
help
sThen why can't ] do something,
nnother2 It's not fair for you to
have all the work
You viii. some day, when you are
Older and stronger. And in the mean
ffroe mother is glad to do all she can"
71hen Bobby lost himself in dream
"a dream so rarely wonderful that
he sighed with an ecstasy of happy
longing Looking up. he found MS
ynofher's eyes resting on him, amuse-
rnent in their weary depths, and he
flushed to the roots OF HIS curly hair.
and suddenly fell TO studying with
religious ardor quite out of keeping
with his former attitude.
Seated under a roadside tree after
school the following afternoon. Bobby
rnused upon 1T all "Of course that
old man said something about it-1ust
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Anger

A NIGER in its time and place
"A May assume 2. kind of grace.
II must have some reason in 1t.
And not last beyond a minute.
If TO furthet lengths it go,
It does into malice grow.
'Tis the difference that we see
'Twixt the serpent and the bee.
If the latter you provoke,
1t infiicts 2 hasty stroke
Puts you TO some little pain,
But it never stings a gain.
Close in tufted bush or brake
Turks the poison-swelled snake
Nursing up his cherished wrath;
In the purlieu Of his path,
In the cold, or in the warm,
Mean him good, or mean him harm.
Wheresoever fate my bring you,
The vile snake will always sting you
Charles and Mary Lamb.
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the of faliure aie eAeeeu.i- :. -
love will ion the hands father and mother TO carry
children along the path -
Never mind about your friends almond -shaped nnger-
nails Ask Yourself If you take from his hands the
support that husband give to his Wife, and still
be to him--and to be sel1respecelnS-
DO not worry too much the number of buttons
on Styles change, and even In america theIe
Is limit to the number divorces 1t takes little
file papers know
salary may be high sounding but the question is
honestly his home family and all aHars
that affe your life development?
He may huently on the Vedas but does ne
know enough for the night so that you
not pneumonia?
Love, a combination OF the practical ana the
ideal the contribuory point in the worth OF
a. man First get the love and the practical Will
naturally evolve the IDEAL said happy married
woman the other day
the Of happiness insist upon love!
BARBARA LEE
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The Golden Age

TTYHAT Rousseau. under the name
NM of the state of nature, and
w the old poets BY the title
of the golden age. place behind US.
lies actually before US. II is a phe-
nomenon Of frequent occurrence. par
ticular1y In past ages. that what
we shall become is pictured by some-
thing which we already have been:
and that what we have TO obtain Is
represented as something which We
have formerly lost.-Fichta.
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Gl2AlNDMAMATklNSANpE ER(lA lANARY,

A S GRANDMA one day in her arm
- chair was sitting,
= With her feet on the fender. and
placidly knitting
CWhile Sunshine, from where in his gilt
cage he sat.
Exchanged compliments with neigh
boring cat),
Some one suddenly knocked at the door
Of the ROOM
And Mehitable entered: her bright face
showed gloom,
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a man for his motives and subsequent
actions. If you are an idealist-well.
fear that very few of the poor dears
will pass the endurance test.
I think that the one important req
uisite is the greatest little word in the
world-Love. Please don't ask me how
YOU are to know that you love. | shall
keep that for another day They say
that YOU know when the little god
strikes At any rate, love Will make
your little world go around when the
netghbors are sitting UP nights won
dering how you are paying the rent.
Love will brighten the darkest day.
and will spur on the weary travellers
along the path where primroses bloom
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Freedom

INDEED. the first point we have all
to determine Is not how free we are,
- but what kind of creatures We are.
1t Is of small Importance to any OF Us
whether we get liberty; but Of the
greatest that we deserve 1t. Whether
we can win II, fate must determine; /;
but that we will be worthy of Ii We
may ourselves determine. and the sor-
rowfuiest fate of all that we can suffer
Is to have 1t without deserving it--Rus-
kin
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In watching this bird-eating cat take
his measure.
Grew ashamed of his small self and
angry. as well
For he had forgotten his cage. truth 10
tell.
And the sight Of it's stTeng bars now
hlled him with shame.
So ne pecked at his seed as if 1t were
TO blame.
And ruffied his feathers In one golden
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NV friend across the miles OF uIsVdlIV0
and the days of time that separated US
1t is only when a gift does say tnose
things that it has any reason for being
And. after all, the only perfect Wed-
ding gift is the substantial eheek
from the person near enough TO oHeF
IT. and rich enough to afford 1t!
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Cheerfulness

s~IS a Dutch proverb that pant
costs nothing such are us
u preserving qualities IN damp
climates. Well. sunshine costs less
vet is finer pigment And so OF cheeI-
fulness, or good temper, the more u
IS spent. the more of II remains 10
latent heat OF an ounce of WOOD OF
stone is inexhaustible. You may ruo
the same chip of pine To the point OF
kindling, leo times; and the power or
happiness to any soul is not to be
computed or drained.-EmerSon.
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our dear friends. to
whom it is a pleas
uFe 10 give. and
from whom it is a
pleasure to receive.
Just today I sent
off a wedding pres
ant of that sort A
very dear friend
was being married
thousands of miles
away. 1 felt. as I
addressed the little
package. that l was
wishing Godspeed
and happiness to