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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
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Especial to The Times Dispatch.
Fairfax Courthouse. Va. October L.
Mrs. Frank Page. wife Of DR.. Page,
rector OF Zion Episcopal Church here,
died suddenly to-day of heart failure
Rev. Frank Page and family recently
came TO Fairfax from Brooklyn. N. Y.
DR. Pages first charge after leaving
the seminary was at Fairfax. Mrs.
Page leaves a husband and three chill
dren, all of whom are grown
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
MADER0 IS ELECTED

Relieves That His Candidate for Vice.
President Also. Wins.
mexico city. October l.---Basing his
nehei upon Information received from
various parts OF the republic. Fran
cisco l. Madero. whom the people of
Mexico to-day officially elected Presi-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
THE WEATHER

Forecast. vlrginla-Rnln Monday,
with moderate south winds, Tuesday.
local rnins. cooler near the coast.
North Cnrolina-I.ocal rains Monday
and probably Tuesday, light to mod
crate south winds.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
Funeral Topaz.

ISpecIaI 10 Inc Ilmes- DlSpAtcN,I
Alexandria, Va. October Funeral
services for George II. Harlow who
died Thursday night. will be held Al
10 o'clock tomorrow morning from
st Mary's Catholic Church, The ser
vices Will be conducted by Rev. II.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02

Special Local Data for Yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
HONEST DIES MONIES
om the New York Telegraph.

From the New York Telegraph.
 Mme Gerville-Reache says that al- though she has travelled good deal over several continents she has never yet been in a community where the standard of square dealing is as high as In Des Moines. where she sang recently To sub stantiate this broad statement she cites two incidents
 On the morning of her arrival she called for a messenger boy and was told that the charge for the errand on which she sent the youngster would be 40 cents. At 5 O clock that afternoon who should enter her room but the boy.
 .'Missis, here is a dime; overcharged you 10 cents this morning." x<
 For the space of several seconds Mime. Reache felt dizzy. Nothing like that had ever happened to her before. To recover her mentAl and physical balance she de- seconded to the dining room of her hotel and wrote her order for modest sup per-"scrambled eggs with asparagus. French fried potatoes and so forth.' The waiter perused the list with a critical eye ,and leaning toward hs operatic pa eye. and leaning toward his operate pa order fried potatoes; we serve you about a dozen chips with the eggs free. Tnat ought to be enough" That was the climax and Mme. Gerville-Reache had hardly enough vitality left that night to sins her arias.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13

from the Washington Herald
 Col. E. o. Joyner of Minneapolis, Minn., formerly of the army, who is at the Ar lington, said that the dismissal of a cadet from West Point for lying is rare. "Iy- ing Is condemned not only by the off, cials, but by the cadets themselves. From the 'plebe's' first appearance he is taught more by implication than by direct advice that soldier must not lie. The regula- tions may not be explicit on this point, but it is understood by both officers and cadets that this is transgression outside of ordinary discipline, and one of which no cadet can be guilty.
 A cadet may do a great many things" said the former soldier, "and commit great many breaches of discipline, but if he is to maintain his standing with his comrades he must not tell an untruth to get out of them. There have of late years been many cases in which cadets have been called upon to answer the charge of hazing, for which the punish ment is particularly severe, but they have chosen rather to refuse to make any statement than to make a denial A col ored cadet who came into prominence several years ago on account of his claim of having been treated with severity by the white members of the corps owed his unpopJiarity less to his race than to the fact that he had shielded himself from punishment for a breach of disci- pline hy what tLe cadets knew was : falsehood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
A Worlds Fair for Birmingham

w. P. G. Harding, president of the First National bank of Birmingham, laid before the Chamber of Commerce last night plan for great worlds fair to be held here in 1919, in cele- bration of Alamaba's entrance into the Union 100 years ago.
 A capital idea! Up to this time Birmingham has not been in the worlds fair class, but it is growing rapidly and eight years hence it will be quite large enough to hold amin dustrial exposition.
 MT. Harding stressed the point that now, in this year of our Lord, 1911, we have barely time to get ready for 1919. Most of the great worlds fairs have been year or so behind time in opening. Of all the American ex- positions which opened on time the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876 was the most satisfactory. It was ready on the advertised date, because the management started to organize as far back as 1867. The worlds fair at Chicago was a year behind, and so was the worlds fair at St.  Louis
 If the citizens of Birmingham will take hold of this 1919 worlds fair project-a great cotton industrial ex- position-it can be made brilliant success. Such project organized now would stimulate business inter ests and real estate values here as nothing else could do at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
ARNOLD's TRIBUTE TO OXFORD

From Essays in Criticism"
 Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serenei
 There are our young barbarians, all at
 play.
 And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moon Wight, and whispering from her towers the last entertainments of the Middle Age who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffa- ble charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal to perfecuon-to beauty, which Is only Truth seen from another side?-nearer perhaps, than all the science of Tubin- gen. Adorable dreamer whose heart has teen so romantic who has given myself so prodigally. given myself to sides and to heroes not mine. only never to the Philistnesl home of lost causes and for saken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyatiesi what example could ever so inspire us to keep down the Phil istine in ourselves, what teacher could ever so save us from the bondage to which we are all prone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
Your name, fair gentiewomanf
 king Lear.
Reunion of Confederates

The sixteenth annual reunion of Confederate Veterans is to be held in Little Rock, beginning May 15. Con pressman Richmond P. Hobson is to deliver the annual address, and other notable men will be present and will speak during the reunion. Little Rock is preparing to make it a notable event<in the lives of all survivors who attend it.
 The Age-Herald is glad to be able to state that the people of Jefferson county have contributed sum that will suffice to aid all needy veterans in the county to go to Little Rock where they will greet their comrades in another notable reunion. When it is remembered that but few more re- unions of the veterans can be held, the action surely is timely and happy. It affords a trip to those who will enjoy it the most.
 Pretty soon, alas, these reunions will have to be handed over to the sons and daughters of the veterans, but if every county within the old bounds of the Confederacy will do as Jefferson has done great gatherings
 of the veterans will be possible for
 ten years to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
Nine Thousand Cases of Hookworr

Nine Thousand Cases of Hookworm
 Dr. Dinsmore, state director of the Rockefeller commission, with which the state board of health is working, states that 5000 cases of hookworm in Covington, Coffee, Dallas, Houston, Geneva and Dale counties have been treated. This fact in itself shows that there are at least 100000 cases of the hookworm disease in the state. There are probably two or three times that number.
 It is regrettable that there are but three physicians engaged as field workers in this state. If we had 67 field workers, or one in each county, the disease could be speedily eradi-' cated to the great advantage of the state.
 For some reason people reluctantly accept the fact that hookworm is prevalent in this state. It is no more prevalent here than it is in the sur rounding states. The truth is, the soil has become polluted and the bare foot child is pretty apt to gather the bacillus of the disease. It enters the system through the soles of the feet. The more that have the disease the more the soil becomes polluted. It is simply time to wake up to the fact that a general effort is needed on the part of local physicians and all other people if this pest is to be overcome and driven out, or at least minimized.
 Beyond all question all parts of this state are afflicted with this disease. The state board of health is doing it's best to help the Rockefeller commis- sion, and it becomes a question whether every board of county com missioners should not strive to rid it's own county of pest that lessens the energy and strength of the children of the state, to say nothing of numer- ous adults. All needful information can be obtained from Dr. William w.. Dinsmore, state director, Montgom- cry. Each board of county commits sioners should at any rate ascertain when its county can be visited by a field agent of the Rockefeller com mission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13

Several have signified their intention of placing orders. and this is. of course. en- couraglng to steel makers.
 Perhaps the most encouraging fea- ture. as far as the furnacemen is con- cerned, is the noticeable curtailment in pig Iron production. This is evident Ill every direction--in the south, in the Pitts burg district. in Ono and Virginia. and in the north. Undoubtedly this will do more toward relieving the situation than anything else. Iron is selling today at prices which allow no profit to furnace men in many districts-in fact in num- Der of instances they are running at loss in order to keep their organization together. The sooner consumers begin to thoroughly appreciate this fact the sooner buying will begin. It Is remarka- ble how firm prices remain despite the efforts of some large buyers to force them down below the level at which they have remained for months now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
The Local Iron Market

"The pig iron market continues quiet
 and the past week has brought forth no
 new developments. It is clearly waiting
 market and 'the only question seems to
 be how long it will have to wait" says
 Matthew, Addy & Co. Without any
 doubt verylarge percentage of pig iron
 buyers have not covered their require
 rnents for the remainder of the year., and
 tkey evidently do not intend to do any
 thing until the market has taken a turn either one way or the other. Some of them have enough bought to last them for two or three months and some are
 running right on the ragged edge. buying every time they need car. But the im- portant fact is that they are running.
 The foundry business has not fallen off
 to the extent that the lack of buying would indicate. Comparatively few of our
 customers are'holding us up on shipments and as rule when man orders in a car he wants 1t in a hurry and stays after it until he gets it, It Is significant fact
 that the railroads are beginning to realize that tE-5 Is propitious time to buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
COST OF CIRCUS TRAVEL

T loiU iile ANcWs.
 With the return of the circus season the question of how much the railroads get out of circus transportation comes up again Under the law, when circus comes into this state the railroad hand ling 1t must file a special tariff sheet with the railroad commission, showing the charges made.
 It will cost the Hagenbeck- Wallace shows, which will come here for show, s2OO for It's 4S cars from Marion to this city, and an additional s2O0 to go from this city to Muncie for an exhibition next day This is a flat rate based on the provision that no additional cars or equipment will be required and that the show company will supply all cars. The schedule provides also that should the train mileage extend more than seventy five miles in the transfers, an additional charge of s1 a mile shall be made. If ex- tra cars are required the following tariffs will control For each additional passen- gar car. sl5; baggage car, s10; box or flat car gondoa car or horse car, s each .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mir. GiIreath at Corona

Belton Gilreath, In compliance with request from the Corona Coal and Iron company, went to Corona yesterday and delivered an address before the colored industrial institute at that place. J. R. Ryan, vice president Of the Corona com pany, came to Birmingham and escorted MT. Gilreath to the institute.
 No white man in the south is more prominent in educational work In behalf of the negroes than MT. Gilreath.' said MT. Ryan. He is known to be a sin- cere friend of the colored race, and has given his money. his time, and his tal- ents generously in the educational cause. He has done 8 great deal for white churches and white colleges, not only Of the Methodist denomination with which he is identified, but all denominations have interested him and he has contrib uted to many of them. But for several years past his most passionate desire has been to further the negro's uplift move ment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13

themselves felt. They can no longer
 be safely ignored or steam-rollered by the old guard of the Senate, for they constitute the balance of power. The latter could not muster on Thursday 37 senators who would vote to put Senator Gallinger in Senator Frye's place. The democrats are support ing Senator Bacon, and the most of the progressives are supporting Sem ator Clapp, and the rest of them are paired. In the final vote on Thurs day over the question of adjournment 35 regulars were met by AZ democrats and progressives and the Senate was adjourned without electing presi- dent pro tenn.
 The matter is chiefly important be- cause it shows that the standpat crowd has lost control of the Senate. The 13 progressives are a party to themselves and it is plain that they intend to stand together, and that the old guard will be compelled to accept their terms on many questions. Sen ator LeFollette and Senator Cum mins- and Senator Borah are each and all more powerful in the Senate than any like number of standpat senators that can be mentioned. They outrank for example Senators Lodge, Hey burn and Shoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
Business in Fl Paso Custom House

Juarez has been declared the pro- visional capital of Mexico, and pro- visional cabinet has been installed there by Provisional President Ma dero. To this gain is added the fact that practically all of northern Mex leo has passed out of the hands of the Diaz government.
 The international port of, Juarez has also been opened to trade, and all supplies except arms and ammunition are going into it freely. If case of arms beshipped to dealer in Juarez "a dealer nowise connected with the provisional army-it is difficult to see how the line can be drawn against it. Such a case would be goods in the same sense that a barrel of flour would be. The question will come up when an attempt is made in the Fl Paso custom house to pass an invoice of rifles or ammunition through to Juarez across the river. When a reg ular dealer in the United States ships . case of arms to a regular dealer in Juarez. those arms will be permitted to go through unless the Taft admin. istration decides to stand by Diaz anc to stand against Madero in a civi conflict which is none of the United States business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
BELGIUM LAND OF INTEREST From the Washington Post

We do not hear much about Belgium on this side of the Atlantic" said Fred erick Lauensten of St. Louis, who has recently returned from Europe and who joined a party of friends at the Shore ham last night. 'The average American traveller does not finger long in Belgium save, perhaps, to visit the field of Water loo and to see the sights of Brussels for a day. The rush of the average Amer can is for the large cities and then for the resorts, health cures, and the cool weather of the Alpine region. had considerable stay in Belgium this last trip, thanks to some business affairs. and I had time to mingle with the people and find out what they were talking about
 They are doing the talking this year in two languages, and there is bound to be war between the French-speaking Walloons, as they are called, who live in the southern half of the kingdom, and the real Flemish people, who live in the north, and who retain their love for the Flemish tongue.
 "The French insist that the government shall conduct its business in the French
 
 away with the bilingual system which has prevailed so many years. The Elem ish folk, on the other hand, insist that Belgium is a Flemish country, and that the French are invaders. who ought not to be recognized officially, and so the war goes on. Of course, in the cities you hear French all the time, but out in the country especially in the northern pro- vinces, you get the real old talk of the real Flemish people. I used to think be- fore I visited Belgium that the chief in dustry of the country was the raising of walters for our big modern hotels. In New York it seemed that most of the walters in the big taverns either came from Belgium or had worked there at some time in their career. It is a rule of the waiting business that a waiter must be able to speak at least three languages, and Belgium is a good country for the waiter to learn languages without actu- ally going to school"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
REFLECTIONS OF X BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Debt grows In any sort of climate.
 Even in church a man can scheme to try to sell sSo horse for 800.
 Some men could have k"od opinion of themselves for going to jail
 To the guillible everything looks gen. uine except the genuine.
 Some men are such poor financiers that when they have a little ready cash they will let the family know it.
 It seems as if any man would rather talk about how a i''in'~ ought to be done than know how to do 1t.
 A man doeSia't @e's. to have chance to win at sNc,il9if'n even by betting against his Judgment. A girl gets alfncSt IS excited over hei first engagement as she did when she first rut her hair up. Even man who can remember to post letters for his wife when he is home can remember to write them to her when he lis away.
 k Anlan can leave his wife at home every evening while he is out enjoying life and at the theatre have his blood boil over the treatment a stage heroine seta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 A LTHOUGH the roster of the inter
 A national armada which is to ride off Spithead in honor of the coro- nation of King George has not been of ficially declared, the officers and crew of the American representative at that naval show are willing. to wage any amount that not one of the vessels which will go to that rendezvous can approach the extraordinary steamng record which their own ship, the dreadnaught Della ware, has accomplished. Q
 So accustomed are her engines to con- tinuous going that it was iokingly said her engineers had difficulty in stopping them when the great battleship reached the New York navy yard.
 Since she left these shores in December, a few days more than five months ago. the Delaware has churned through 20,V0o miles of ocean, a record which her officers believe to be unapproached by any war ship of any nation. Here, in brief, is the story which the officers told of the far seafaring of their big ship. With the 15 other battleships of the Atlantic fleet the Delaware had made the notable cruise to European waters. From Europe the fleet went to Guantanamo, Cuba. There the Delaware was detached by cabled or ders, and directed to proceed to Hampton Roads to have on board the body of the Chilean minister, and to convey the remains to Valparaiso. The vessel made a record run to Hampton Roads, spent one day in dry dock, and sailed the next on her long voyage, the body of the mln- ister in mausoleum which had been con- structed on the upper deck, the mausol- cum being draped with Chilean flags and guarded by sentries.
 The first stop was at Rio de Janeiro, where the battleship put in for coal TWO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
sCOTIA's DECAY

From the Washington Post.
 "When I saw Andrew Carnegie walking up F street on the arm of John Barrett,
 said Andrew MacLachlan. now of Chi cago. but born in Scotland, T could not but wish that his benefactions could do something to prevent the evident decay of Scotland. I visited the scenes of my youth not long ago, and 1t was painiuiiy apparent that emigration to this land or the free, or the impulse of the younger men to reach the larger centers, was de- populating the old country. There IS a stagnation and a retrogression Tn cities that is startling. Where our American cities show a wonderful increase every 10 years. the cities of Scotland have been standing almost still and the increase is but slight in a decade. Many reasons are given for 1t, and one is that the allure ments of this country prove powerful, and the young men insist on leaving the old home to make a fortune like Carnegf.
 ..His example has had much to do with bringing thousands across the water. You can imagine that there is not much chance for a young man of ambition in Scotland when you recall that 70 lords and others own most of the country and our friend Carnegie is counted among the 70, although he is loyal American citizen It is this land monopoly that is causing the desertion, and, after all, l do not know as Americans should com plain, as the situation brings to this side a mighty clever lot of citizens every year who aid in making this country prosper ous and themselves happier. The popu- lation of the cities in Scotland nas m, creased slightly. but Glasgow, the iarses'
 city. has less than soo,ooo. while Eain-
 bureh, the second largest has a n''ie
 more than soe.0oo, and none of the scot'isn cities look for any great increase m the years to come" ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-13
KHAKI AN ACCIDENT

From the scientific American.
 A lucky accident led to the mvsna - khaki. that olive colored ciotn 'ne' 's worn by, soldiep' t. ,.
 Tor wears the British troops in India wor. a cotton cloth of greenish browns t,,t if always faded when washed with -osr while discussing tnls defect with some British ,officers business man man from ur-,.nd carelessly observed that the ,nanufacturer ffst to discover the means vhereby cotton drill could be made that