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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-10
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IA oil conditions that eII6t upnn the
u % water there Is none SO frausht With
~ danger rs The foS. that impene,rnile
m'st mat ohEcnrcs all vision, distor.s all
"bjects and through which ,arpds OF
Whistles and bells curry but family and
urrcliatiJ.
All VITO have ever Travelled uuon a
steamer through q fog know the feeling
OF depression that Is experienced by the
passengers aid yet upon the men vino have
the shin IN charge and upon ,hosc shout.
defs rests the responsibility 0, not on,z
We property OF their owners but the lives
oi all of those on toard The hours thar
PASS as Tie Tessel slips along are torttiou.
Inc United Stntss government. through
rs Lighthouse Service, has ever been In
ihc forefront Of nations ccekiny to throw
safeguards around the mariner. No shore
line in tho world can boas. Of moro or OF
better lights thsn those strung out Hionz
Inc edge OF tho Atlantic from Maine 70
florida Where Il has been found I'm.
possible TO erect n lighthouse a iicht,hip
mas been placed and the craft on Nan.
tncket and diamond Shonls are unequaied.
me mariner. while be hEa ever been
wary ihou; selnc caught Ia a hurricane.
does not fcRr the wind or the wgrny. II.
knoTs tint II Is matter az strength Of
hiA SHIP snd the careful handling Of her
hra rs looE ms lie can keep clear OF the
h"sch tud can soc where he lie going he
fsris that he has schtinr chaucr.
Wien the sea mist nr,sos ard casts ~.
b-hEet owe. him he tE.n feels that he Ia
hsi!'ssS. not oriy tccnutc he ~ afraid
teat b. may piie his vessel ashore bu,
'hat lie may be cut down OF somc other
Yr,s4l
Among The rec.u; disasters ir which
me shsns we're lost were the grounding o.
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on, the bridge.
This instrument Is round. metallic
csso about nine inches In diameter,
shaped Ike ships clock and fastened
IN the same way to the wall Of the room
or bridge railing. On It's face is a
switch. by means Of which either the port
or stnrboard n,tcrophono can be connected
with the receiving telephones. II haa
also dial which shows to which side
the phones are connected, and inside is
small electric lamp for use at night.
The receiving phones are similar to thu
common telephone ear pieces aud nro
hung on hooks one. on either side OF the
Indicator. They are also connected to-
sether. either to the port or starbonri
trnnsr,itter, according to the position Of
tho switch. They may DO used sipgly or
together, as in cases where the sound Is
faint md II is DESTROYS Of shutting ont
other noises.
The operator places the receivers TO his
sars ana then turus the switch until he
has picked up tho sound and thon thu
Indicator shows the direction whence ls
COMES. BY carefully listening to the
sound and swinging tho head OF the ship
=, snhl the sound is equai from both sides
IT Is thus possible to roint the nose OF the
vessel toward It, meanwhile getting
bearings from the compass.
The further Development Of the subna.
r3nc signal will DO watched with interest
By EhlpowneSs. mud at no distant date it
Is possible that the dangers Of voyagins
over1ea will be reduced greatly and the
average annual loss of 1000 good craft
Eill DO greatly reduced by preventing col.
nHious ami groupdings during that most
awful condition Of life afoat fog.
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LOUISA

1.oui "a, Va, December a.-P. /. La
Toncy. OF West Virginia, Is spending
several days with +. p. Smith, neal
here.
Mrs. Ryland Gwathmcy, OF Richmond
Mrs. +. v. Winston.
. Mr.. Clever, of New York was tho
guest of Judge and Mrs. Il. w. Sims
recently.
is teaching this year in Frcdericks-
burg. spent several days last week
with Mrs. Charles Donnally here.
Miss Isabelle Chandler left Tuesday
for Richmond.
Mrs. Annie Barrett and daughter XII.
burnlc, attended the suftragist meet.
in.s in Richmond Friday night.
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which 1t can beat ont code which can
he received on board the flagship Of tho
squadron and thus not only can the d.
rection Of the submerged craft always
be nBccrtained, but n conversntion can
be carried on. orders given. otc. at a dis
lance Of between fre and sir miles.
This apparatus, which has been In
stalled on ali naval craft Of this country.
consists Of two parts. frst the signaling
apparatus TO produce sounds IN the water.
This may be at r l1ed station. as q buoy
or lightship. or on a moving vessel. Sec
ond, the receiving Instrument. usually
located on ship. The former In of dig
ferent forms. For stationary fog slgnaia
tho deT',s IL a submerged ball Of peculiar
design adapted to produce sounds Of long
range. The bell Is rung By striking WITH
arated By intervals OF silence so that Il
can be operated like q DIRE alarm bell, the
numbers EeryinS TO Identity tho location
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SOUTH BOSTON
Especial to The Times Dispatch. !

lsnccldi 10 nc l1lncS- DiSDat cn.l
South Boston, Va. December o.
Miss Virginia Peachy, of williams
burg. is visiting Mrs. j. D. Tuck cr
ON Washington Street
General William McComb, of Crozet
arrived few days ago to spend tho
winter months with his daughter, Mrs
ii. j. Ingram. Jr.
Mrs; l. j. Paylor. Of Fuquay Springs
Is Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs
IL. b. fancey, on Broad Street
Misses Lucille and Wilder Carter. OF
Danville. were guests of relatives here
during the week
Miss Sallic Edmunds and Miss I,uIu
Edmundson, of Houston, and James
3. chastain; who has been IA guest at
the Edmondson home, left few days
ago for New York to visit
Mrs. Willie WillinEham, Of Dan
vliic, visited the home of Mrs. A. b
Willingham here this week.
The women of the NIethofitst rS,,,..,
OF this place. gave n bazaar on Thurs.
day and Friday. Many beautiful spec
hibition. " -
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HOUSTON

Special to The Times Dispatch
Houston. Va. December g--AIrs
ilournoy EoulGin left Houston on
Monday for Norfolk. Mrs. Rouldin
viii be tho guest OF her brother. Dr..
j: Warren White, whose marriage takes
place on The evening OF Thursday.
December ~
-.iss Mamie Darlington, who spent
thanksgiving with Mrs. W. Il. Barks-
dale. returned during the week past
10 Lexington, her home.
Mrs. Gilbert Meem. OF Seattle. Wash.
Edmunds, left Houston on FRIDAY for
Nh. Airy. Mrs. Neon will chaperon
a house party. which is to be given
IN compliment to her nephew Mr.
Keller, who is 1T school in the East.
.lrs. James :. Eafslcy and Miss l!Iiz-
apcatn RpulGin. who spent Thankssiv.
ing rs the guests OF Mr. and Mrs.
Il, HOLT Easlcy In Washington. have
hliHS 'Iantts ;. EaSlcy and Miss Flor
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nve different llRhtships continuously
night and day during a period OF two
months. aud all nnvigators wero Invited
to send to the board their opinions OF
submarine signaling as an aid to uayiEn.
tion.
The result showed that By the uss Of
duplicate apparatus 1t was possible to
ccmproaa into two months ms much ssrv-
Ice In point Of time as the average
whistle Is called upon to DO In three
years. and that. too. without injury to
the mocha nisrn. capable Of being worked
under 70 feet OF water. and operated
by tbs regular Grew Of the lightship With.
out any increase In the cost OF coal.
tho American Navy, In which the
submarine torpsdo boat Ia expected TO
play an important part In the nesr IN.
t,irs. the efNcioncy and adrsntagcs of
appreciated. for II hus been found that
the submarine craft can use q bell ON
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cncc Easlcy entertained at bridge on
Tuesday afternoon in honor of Mrs
gilbert Meem and Mrs. James Durrier
OF Scottsville. Those playing were
Alesdaines Meem. Durricr q. O.. Beet
tlcr. III. IL Edmunds. ". H. Edmunds,
{. III. Stebbins, G. r. Frost and the
Misses Sadie Leigh and Helen Bayks-
dale. Delicious refreshments of sew
eral courses were served during the
afternoon Tho prize. Il silver picture.
frame. was won by Mrs. Durlier.
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p III Little. - Bits OF Interesting Information @

The sosorbent capacity OF : brick is
about 10 ounces OF water
nc last windIn!!i al Yarmouth ErS.
land. wsa recently sold for demolition.
thu average Nh OF snluiou is 10
yeGrs, but that OF carp or 4 pike ia $50
years.
The Queen o. Holland discourage. quo.
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zero InnuonIr
Tho human hair crop &c 4 profitable and
expensive industry. Five tean nf Il are
annually imported ny tho merchants Of
London. The center OF the trade Is Parts,
wnere 100000 pounds nra harvested an.
nuaily, with valuaucn of $4,000. 600.
Tho Queen Of houInh mia Is nrdently
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Miss AS far as she Is nbie. She IL an
ardent lover Of Gil aniuixIa
EGir"n praphcs!es that the SIarconi
w;te!esa viii som be able TO transmit
1910 words n i.,laute.
Iho"e who hive Nintcred IL Alaska say
mat u t. rot the cold but the MOSQUITO
that Is the hardest thing 20 endure in the
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They nro killed at night by torchlieht and
with sticks.
Whom writer's speak of waves "noun.
tain high" they arc merely indulging IN
poetic ezfrnTagance. wave exceeding
30 feet in helght IS seldom encountered.
some have been aeen on the Atlauttc
TINT reached height of A to IS feat
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hin9 Leopold hos offered a pr,as of
$4,000 for remedy for the sleeping
sicknenE. which ls wIpIne oft hia sus-
JectA IN Africa.
No Arctic explorers ovar have colds
until they return to civilization. Then.
one ard oil. they are Frustrated by sc.
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Of BOO and 40 pears have been assigned
TO whales from these indIcations.
In Central Tennessee nre largo tracts Of
cedar1, tho bsrrios Of which serve 10 at.
tract mJrinds of robins In the winter. One
small hamlet In this region sends to innr.
Rct annually enough robins. TO return $500
Mt cents n dozen, oauei 10 1co. 600 BIRDS.
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pursuing har philanthropic tdoa, which
hrnt took practical shape iaat ycar. OF
collecting the blind of her country In one
city, which Hor Majority hos given tho
name OF "Yatra Lunlnoxa."
Tho age Of whales Is nscertained by
the size Ind nnmbar OF ihminae OF tho
whnlebone, which increase yearly. Ages
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J their daughter, Miss Eva, to Thomas
u. farrar Tile wcddinr viii take
place on Tncsdny morning. December
~, ~ 1850 o'clock. at The home Of the
| ArLlc. icAr .NuI,iur.t
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DIAMONDS

The most complete collection Of
cxquisit stones, purchased before
the recent rise i'll values and there
lore offered at a great savings.
Solitaire Diamond Rings, $500
TO $3.50.
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Solid Silver Teaspoons, regular
5000 value at $500 set.
New handsome Shaving Mugs
and stands, S3.5 to $500.
Handsome heavy Solid Silver
Tea Set, regular S175.00 value,
$3.50.
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Diamond Brooches, $500 10
$4,000.
Diamond Necklaces and Laval
Heres, Sl2.00 up.
Diamond Lockets, $500 to $50.
Signct Rings, from the smallest
at Sl.0o to the largest at $500.
Ladies Solid Gold Brooches, 81
UP.
I. WATCHES-Ladies' lax, $40
to $500.
Mems Solid Gold. s3s to $500.
Boys Watches, the NIGER
SOIL, 81. Other radcs up TO $40
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23
WESTERN

The Nevada Senate has passed the
measure submitting woman suffrage
to vote. The Assembly already has
passed the bill.
A total of $S75,7OS,925 gold has
been invested in twenty-one years by
foreign interests in Mexico outside OF
the mining industry
The rigorous winter has caused ex-
treme suffering and hundreds OF
deaths among the people in barren
Labrador peninsula.
Every woman in this country Will
be wearing some variety OF the
new so-called 'harem or Pasha'
skirt within very short time" says
Mrs. Belle Armstrong Whitney, con
sulting fashion expert in Paris.
Senator Sutherland of Utah is max
ing an effort to have Salt Lake Sc
lected as headquarters for the pro
posed new division of the railway mail
service, which is to be made up OF
Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and
portions of Utah and Idaho.
In his speeches at Albuquerque. N,
NJ, Colonel Roosevelt tackled the
Mexican question. Senator Lorimer,
Governor Haskell and statehood for
New Mexico. He said all the United
States demanded of Mexico was or
der. justice and independence. He
asserted that Senator Lorimer of
Illinois and former governor Has
kell of Oklahoma were unfit to hold
office. He told the people of New Mex
leo that they had not been given
n square deal on statehood, but that
they would get II.
Western cities and towns make
the best showing for the first
two months operations OF the
new postal savings system according
to a report issued by Postmaster Gen.
eral Hitchcock. OF forty-eight places
having postal banks, I.eadville, Colo,
leads with 1862 deposltors and s2l,255
on deposit Anaconda. Mont, Is sec.
ond with 256 depositors and sl3,75O
deposits. Laramie, Wyo., is seven
teenth with seventy-one depositors
and $4,000 deposits, The total
number of depositors in the forty-eight
postal savings offices is 2.66i, the ~
gregate deposits, sl33.S69, an average
balance per depositor of 1864.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23
News Summary of the Past Week

Officers of the State Militia, who
are to join the army in Texas, are
not to report to the instruction camps
before April lst.
The condition of Tom l.. Johnson,
former mayor of Cleveland, who suf-
fered relapse in his present illness,
is serious.
President Taft, according to present
plans, will confine his message to the
extra session of Congress to Canadian
reciprocity and the establishment of
permanent tariff board.
Cotton is to be the main field
crop under the Carlsbad project
of the reclamation service on
the Pecos river this season. Last
year the cotton yielded a bale, or a
gross return of 800 an acre.
Pathetic details of the sufferings
from famine in Anwhai and other
provinces of China reach the mission
boards in New York in every mail.
Unless help comes before summer a
million persons will starve.
htJtCllUs WHAT he ltl lhtu lut
alarming exaggeration of pessimists," !"
in their Interpretation of the at
titude of the United States to-
ward Mexico in the political disorders
of the latter country, Baron d'Estour-
nelles de Constant, one of the leading
diplomats of France, in an address re-
Gently at the Pan-American union,
urged faith in the "conciliatory policy
of the United States.
At Milwaukee fire in the plant of the
Minnesota Billiard Company late this
afternoon caused loss of 100000
and seven persons We're taken TO hos
pitals badly. some probably fatally, in
jured one man is believed to have
been burned to death. The fire is
supposed to have been due TO an ex-
plosion of sawdust from sparks from
the machinery Three men were
blown out of window.
Eighteen strange appearing men
wearing drum major" hats, quilted
blouses and trousers and leather
boots are being detained at the i'm.
migration station because government
interpreters are unable to classify
them or to understand their language.
The men arrived on the Ivernia and
in the twenty.four hours they have
been unable To make themselves un
derstood. 1t is thought they may be
natives of some village in the eau
casus mountains. They have tickets
for Seattle, Wash.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23

Two persons were killed and four in
jured when a Delaware & Lackawa9na
passenger train running at high speed
That the transplanting of human
kidneys from dying TO living man
is simply like plumbers job, is the
declaration of DR.. A. NJ. Shipley, pro-
fessor of surgical pathology at the
University of Maryland.
Announcement has been made that
Abe Attell, featherweight champion
pugilist, and Johnny Coulon, holder of
the bantamweight title, would meet
in New Orleans on April 9th in
twenty-five round bout. The con-
ditions call for 116 pounds, ringside.
Failure to fortify the Panama canal
would be an act of criminal folly" de.
clared Theodore Roosevelt at the
Dallas Chamber of Commerce. He
said that only two treaties relative to
the canal existed, those with England
and Panama, and hence any other ma
tion would be at liberty to destroy it in
case of war.
The Milwaukee Socialist City Council
decided to buy stretch of 500 acres
along three miles of the upper river
front for public park at a cost of
100000, to be paid in twenty annual
installments. The Republican and
Democratic minority fought the propo-
sition on the ground that the city has
already reached its bonded debt limit.
At Grand Canon, Ariz., Col. Theodore
Roosevelt lunched beside the boiling
waters of the Colorado river, 4,2O0
feet below the rim of the Grand canon.
1t was his first visit and he is the
first occupant of the White House
who ever made the fourteen miles
round trip to what is often declared
to be the most striking sight nature
has provided in all the world.
President Taft has followed with in.
terest the discussion pf the last few
days in the English parliament on the
international arbitration treaty pro-
posed by him. He is delighted with
the manner in which the proposal has
been received in Great Britain. The
President is hopeful that the treaty
may be adopted by both countries and
believes it will be great step toward
the abolition of war. And, with war
practically impossible between the two
great English speaking nations. there
is every reason to hope, according to
the Presidents view that other ma.
tions may come into such an agree.
ment and thus make for universal
peace. The treaty is broad one. and
proposes that all disputes including
even those of national honor and ter.
ritory shall be settled by arbitration.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23
Better Suffer the iIls," Etc.

Fort Collins.-Believing that any
change in the irrigation laws OF the
state will interfere with or adversely
affect the interests Of the water users.
as well as the reservoir owners, the
board OF managers OF District No. 3.
Consolidated Water Users Associa-
tion. at a meeting here recently,
adopted lengthy resolutions opposing
the passage of the Carpenter bill, and
appointed a committee to present the
action of the meeting to the Legisla-
ture.
The eleven reservoir and ditch com
panies of this district are represented
in this organization which was re-
Gently perfected, and it comprises
practically every water user and reser-
voir man in Larimer and Weld coun-
ties.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

one side by a four-horse team, Denver
fish merchants seined Windsor lake,
securing one and half tons of fish,
the greater part being carp.
Grand Junction Chamber of Com
merce protests against the proposed
construction of the High Line canal
by private capital and telegraphed
resolution to that effect to President
Taft and Secretary Fisher.
At La Sale. Margaret, 15-months,
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua
New, had a narrow escape from death
last night when she drank a cup of
gasoline. Prompt work on the part of
a physician saved the babys life.
Directors of the Northern Colorado
Irrigation district are making a final
investigation of all matters relative to
the water available for the proposed
district, boundaries of the district, ETC.,
so that land holders in the proposed
district may know exactly concerning
the feasibility of the plans proposed
before matters advance further.
One of the last official acts of Sec
retary Ballinger was an order for a
survey in Monument park, near Grand
Junction. A letter was received from
Ballinger stating that an officer of
the geological survey would soon ar
rive in Grand junction to make the
necessary surveys so that roads could
be built in the park.
When the Agricultural College dem
onstration train arrived at Eaton,
hundreds inspected it. School was dis
missed and farmers drove miles to see
the exhibits. The train visited Fort
Lupton, Brighton and Platteville and
from there went to Sterling, Brush,
Kersey and Fort Morgan, returning to
Fort Morgan by way of Greeley.
The Western Slope Traffic Bureau,
recently organized by the Fruit Grow
ers' Association of Olathe, has won
its fight for fair freight rates. John
F. Moore, chairman of the executive
board has received notice that the
roads have withdrawn their new tar
ifs on fruit shipments to Texas and
Florida, which had advanced from
$40 to SIS car.
AS result of collision between a
motorcycle, on which she was riding
with her brother. and a team of horses.
Miss Hazel Moore of Colorado Springs
had narrow escape from death when
she was pinned beneath qne of the
horses at Pueblo.
Falling from a load of hay, Jens
Christensen, farmer of Ault, was i'm
paled on a fence post, and only the
fact that he wore heavy clothing saved
his life. He was internally injured.
His condition is so serious that he was
| taken to a Denver hospital.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23
FOREIGN.

len policemen were requisitioned to
carry Adelard Aquin, clerk, who
was stricken by paralysis, from the
Montreal city hall Aquin weighs 462
pounds and could not be taken down
in the elevator or usual ambulance
stretcher. He is the biggest man in
Quebec
Peace is assured in Mexico in
the near future, if certain in
fluences now at work toward that
end proves effective. With the
arrival in Mexico City of Senor
Jose Yves Limantour, minister of fl
nance, President Diaz will begin con-
ferences which it is expected will re-
suit in the announcement within three
or four days of a reorganization of
the cabinet Minister Limantour will
present an explanation of the demands
of the revolutionists and the changes
IN the official family of President
Diaz as well as the demands of the
present government.
With the Mexican ambassador and
the insurrectos aghast at Washington
declaring that American Intervention
means union of rebels with Diaz to
fight the United States, and the am
bassador asking all Mexicans to get
together and work together for the
motherland. there is hope here that
the troubles of Mexico will soon be
over. Official Washington and the dip
lomats here believe that the leaders
of the revolt and the Diaz government
will find common ground on which
to stand while reforms are planned
and grievances adjusted, the United
States meanwhile guarding the border
and keeping hands off.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-03-23
No Peace While in Arms.

Mexico City.-With a warning to
all Mexicans that with every day the
rebellion continues, the danger of in,
ternational complications increases, a
plea to them TO rally to the support
of General Dlaz and declaration
that the government never can enter
into peace negotiations with individu,
ais in arms, Finance Minister Liman.
tour has entered upon the task OF pa.
cification which the world. at least.
has set for him, and In the outcome
OF which the world is interested. He
denied being the bearer of peace over.
lures from the rebels and said they
must lay down their arms before they
talked peace.