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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
WANTED MANUFACTURER-F0
FOR MEMS CLOTHES SHOP
TO GO TO PARIS

French firm in Paris retailing
mems clothes requires Il good fore
man understanding thoroughly the
making of mems garments, to super
intend Its workrooms, employing
actually 900 people, of which $50 arc
in the Coat Department.
Salary to start with would be fixed
at $S,500 annually, and all expenses
TO move over to France will be paid
by the firm.
Only Il first-class man who has
had experience in important shops
need apply by letter, stating refer
enccs, experience and enclosing pho
tograph if possible. Letters will be
promptly forwarded to the French
firm and Il prompt reply will follow
y preference would be given to the
applicant speaking or having slight
knowledge of the French language.
One year ago CHS firm engaged an
American cutter, who drauebts all
its patterns
Address in strict confidence, 37S, care OF
Mems Wear. II East Twenty first Street.
New York City.
The above adj appeared in Mems
Wear. the leading publication Of its sort
in New York, last week. which shows
that American tailors-the sort that we
employ in our New York workroons-
are the best i'll the world! That even
Paris is sending to America for skilled
tailor5 and designers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
GEBHARDT TRIAL TODAY

Alleged Gnn,bicr Comes Up In Hastings
Gourt on Appeal From Police Justice.
The trial OF Chris Gebhardt charged
with having operated a gambling re-
sort at 31S West Broad Street. will
come, UP In the Hastings Court this
morning.
Gebhardt appealed from decision
In Police Court. His alleged resort
was raided by Detective Sergeant
Wiley. Acting Detective Atkinson and
several patrolmen some months ago
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
SLAIN BY BURMA SAVAGES
Two British officials and Forty-eiyht
CnnlicA Arc AInsNnCrch.

:
Calcutta. April a-Thc report is con-
hrmed that MY. Williamson, the British
assistant political officer 81 Sndlya and
LAX himpur in upper Burma, ard n
party accompanying him were murder
ed on the border of Assam by Abor
FavaGes
Ar. Williamson and Dr. Cregonson,
accompanied by nifty Coolies. were as
cendins the Lihong River They were
Nnarmed and Oh friendly mission
when they We're suddenly attacked. The
Two white men and forty-eight of the
coolies We're masSacrcd Two coolies
escaped and brought tho news or tho
yliSaStcr. ----- ---L
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
PETRIFIED OYSTER FOUND
IN THE RAPPAHANNOCK


FREDERICKSBURG, Va. April o---W. D.
Mills found a curiosity at woodward.
or the ppahannock River. fourteen
miles below this city. It was a petri.
ned oyster in the shell. 1t was of very
largo size and the shells as we'll as
the oyster were as hard as flint. and
portions Of the shell had almost turn.
cd TO pearl The she'll was eight by
five and half inches In size Mr..
Mills will submit 1t to the Smithso-
MAN Institution at Washington for re-
port. One shell can be taken off. The
oyster is hard and fast in the other
shell
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
johnson Sill I.iycx

Cleveland. Ohio April l0.-At /
O'clock This morning word came from
the sickroom 10 the effect that Tom l..
johnson was sleeping, under the in
huencc o. powerful stimulant. admin
istered by Dr. Thomas 10 ease the pain
he suffered during sinking spell which
came on about 10 o'clock
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
Has Husband Arres4e0.

A B; Cline. white. was arrested early
yesterday morning on n charge Of VIE.
beating, which, 1t Is said. occurred
about three weeks ago. RE is al
Legged to have returned home Satur
gay night IN condition which caused
his wife to fear that he might attemIs
10 beat her again. She took her chill
dren and went to the home OF neigh
Dor. and then swore out the warrant
for her husbands arrest -
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
NnthanteI j. w I.eca,,

lSpcclai 10 Ine Times Dispatch
Cnancock. Va. April 9.-Nathanicl
J; W LeCato died at the home OF one
Of his children, in New York City,
Thursday. aged So ty-six years. His
remains were brcusht to the county
Friday and buriai was made at AT
lantic View. the old homestead on the
seaside His family has long been
prominent in the affairs of the shore.
and he bad filled many positions of
honor. He was. best known as an au-
t thf Among his works Of fiction were.
Mahalinda.' Aunt Sally's Boy Tim
Tom Barton" and THE Curse OF
Caste" He also published many poems,
and arrangement were about being
made for their collection and publica-
Iiofi IN ono volume. For several years
he had been almost totally blind
Mrs. Jnmcs CALDWELL
special TO The Enthusiastically
Appropriations. Va, April 9.-Ars. j meg
Gald we'll aged forty years, died to-
day at . O'Clock, after a lingering Ill
ness; She is survived by her nus.
band. ten children, three sisters-Irs.
VIII Moses and Misses Lucy and Emma
smi th-.and four brothers--Len, Will
and Richard Smith, OF Appomattoy.
and Hunter Smith. Of North Carolina.
lnterment will be made here to-mor-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
Too Tightly Drawn.

San Antonio. Tex, April o.---Com-
plant IS heard from merchants here
because OF the agitation against ne
gro soldiers, resulting in their prob
able removal. They say 1t Will mean
business decrease, and that 1t looks
as II tho color line was being too
tightly drawn.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
and few other committees is also

and q few other committees is also
Important.
1.-THE Senate Progressive Democrats
are not inclined TO humility. despite
the fact that they lost out in the CON
test oyer tho minority leadership. AS Il
'nntcr OF fact, the anti Bailey Demo-
Gratis arc tho more numerous. and ii
DEVELOPS that the plan Of tillinS
tho additional places with tho Bailey
men is going to be adhered to there
doubtless will be A row Of large
dimensions
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
shoot. Ills Mother-in-Law.

" ROCHESTER, \. y, April 9.-Angered
because his wife did not come home
from her parents to see him when he
asked her, Addison Phillips, a farmer
Of North Oaktiold, day broke into
his father-in laws homo and shot his
mother-inla Mrs George Addison,
through tho head. The woman died
early this morning. Phillips was cap
tured after he had been twice wound :
cd by ncighhors.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
SHOOTS WIFE IN HOSPITAL.
Hhcn Slabs Iimsrlf--I]Oth Now Pa
------- tIents In the Inst ltuflnn

tents In tho Institution
l'ittsburg, april a.-Walkins into the
laundry OF the Passayant Hospital,
where Ills vile Lena is employed, N.
Polka, Without warning, shot her
through the breast. Throwing The re-
Noiyer aside, he then drew a knife and
stabbed himself in the right lung.
Both are now patients in the insti-
tuition wherc the crime was committed
Polka and his wife, il is said have
been separated for some time. AIrs.
Polka will probably die. Polka Is in :,
Serions condition
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
Drought IL Broken.
Special to The Timcs-I)isna

ISpeciaI % TIC Tlmcs-Dispatc h j
Spencer, N c., April "A long
aronght, lasting for several weeks. was
broken yesterday and Friday bv tho
heaviest rains seen in this section or
me state for more than year. For
INC trst time since the early part OF
1910 the streams In many places vera
grnntly swollen. and farm lands thor
oughly drenches.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
MISS CROMWELL TO WE'D
Friend Of Indy DccIc. Wu, Mari
Walter Il. FRANKS II

yI-,,,,'tHttET u. fifOOkS, Jr.
:, W asn.ington, - Aprtl 9.-rhc engage
ment or Miss Louise Cromwell dant,n.
ter OF Mrs. oliver Cromwell. Of Nav
York and Washington. 10 Walter p
hrnoKs, II. OF Baltimore. has been
an ounce Geo. II IS understood that the
marriage VIII occur early In juno. in
order that Mr.. and Mrs. BOOK ma.
nc ne me guests Of Lord and Lady Dccies
IN toho9n Tor the. coronation.
9usiy IN the dcbutan;e set In New
oIk. ana was one OF the brides ma i'll
at the Gould-Dccies wedding
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
NeW Ambassador Arrives.

Washington, April o-Senor Zams
cona f. lncian, the new Mexican am
bassador, arrived here tonight and
vas met by tho staff of the Mexican
embassy He Will present his credet-
tials TO President Taft within the ncNt
tTo days.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
BURN ED TO DEATH
Men Enter Ro1cnr and Set II On

Cairo, Ill, April a.--Charlcs Kelly
md his father. Joseph Kelly. of Utica.
n - and James Thompson arc dead
from burns received While sleeping In
n hoXcar last night. \ fourth occu-
pant Of the, car. James Ryan. is in a
serious conditions
'rhe men, who were on their way
from Memphis 10 their homes IN New
York, entered he car and accidentully
Fet It afire. The kellys died to-day
and Thompson suscumbcd last night
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
Nchcl Leader Dead

Mexicali, Mex, April 9-Gcncral
Stanley Williams. who was wounded
yesterday in the spectacular assault
when his little force OF eighty men
engaged the entire Eighth Battalion
of the Mexican army. died to-day in
the improvlsed hospital established bv
the United States troops at Cclexico.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
IN BAD CONDITION
Rabbi Swize Talks OF the "situp,Ion
of israeli,

Of Isrncl"
stephen Swize, rakh! OF the Free Svns
sogue, speaking at Carnegie Hall to-
day. said that the Situation OF Israel
was never worse than it Is to-day.
hall or the worlds icwcry dwell IN
lands Of persecution. and, as far as
the Jew Of Continental Europe is con
cernod, Is the impotence OF the weak.
Or worse still, indifference of the
strong"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
.Arnh Rebels Defeated.

Constantinople, April a.--Thc govern
.meni troops. after stubborn lighting
nave defeated the Arab rebels in tho
vicinity OF Sanan. in Ymon. killing more
Than 100 The rebel forts have been
destroyed
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
OBITUARY
Mrs. Elizabeth nrimmer waltl,e,

MIS-. Elizabeth BrimIner Walthcr died
at 1870 O'Clock yesterday morning. She
wa was the widow OF Fred F.. Walther.
She leaves two sons, Fred w and I'D :
win IL. Wa!ther, and four daughters.
Mrs. A. H.. May and Misses Amelia
Theresa and Minnie. :
the funeral viii take place from her
late residence. S25 South Pine Street.
AT O'Clock tomorrow afternoon In
terment Will DC in Hollywood Gene
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
E. A:lSszz||;izGzsu [gEI D
DEAD BROUGHTOOT
IN STEADY STREAM

Continued From First rage.)
respect TO the dead. and then to tn,
cemetery 70 attend the burials All.
me church bells tollcd continually
ne other funerals occur tomorrow.
President TAFT ,clegraphcd his SYM
pathy. ana as head OF the Red eros
lio ef luna gn e5s r ala The citizens
i IN u dng the Red Cross Contributions
Each Of the adult victims belonco,
70 the colliery "keg fund" which mo.
ea apfs y Sign as beneilt to tho family q
~ .Sod TIE neo local relief committee 10 raise
Nothing new has developed IN ,,io
story OF how tho catastropi.c occurra6
e aHic,, INC veriiication OF the company
oiLclals claim that prior to scIidir:.
men IN to urge the tunnel workers "a
hasten out. {; telephone message was
sseh1 INTO that part OF tho mine 10 war,i
~, anem Of the ire ana order them to
Coroner Saltry Is selecting ipry
and summonng witnesses. 1850
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08

from Missouri was David Barton,
the most popular man in the state
a, ire time Of his election,
The first capital building at JEFF
ferson City was d brick structure,
costing $4,000. 1t was accidental
ly burned November 1887.
The first member of Congress
from Missouri was John Scott of
Ste. Genevieve. After serving six
year, as delegate and congressman
he retired from politics, and for
forty years successfully practiced
law.
The first supreme judges were
Matthias MCGirB, John d. Cook and
John Rice Jones They we're chos-
EN- without regard to politics.
The first attorney general of Mis-
souri, was Rufus EastOn, a native of
Connecticut, who had previously
served as postmaster of St. Louis.
The first bill vetoed by a Missou-
ri governor was bill to forbid
dueling, and providing whipping
posts as a penalty for engaging in
a duel. Gov. Bates vetoed the bill
taking strong grounds against duel
ng, but disappearing of the whip
ping post punishment. Later an
other act passed the legislature
which effectually stamped out
duelling.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08
MISSOURI IN
A NUT SHE'LL.
Scme First Things in History of
This State, as Told by Walter
Williams of Columbia.

The first woman to hold office of
pOStmistreSS in the United States
was a widow of Col. Richard Gentry
OF Columbia.
The first Spanish Governor of
Missouri was Don Pedro Piernas.
. The first settlers of Missouri held
much in common. There were no
,farmhouseS or separate farms, in
! a large field were cattle, hogs and
horses, the property of all the will
age.
The first governor of the new
territory of Louisiana under the
American flag was Gen. James
Wilkinson.
The first division OF the Territory
of Missouri, then called Louisiana,
was into the military commands OF
St Louis, St. Charles, Ste Genevieve
and Cape Girardeau.
The first English-Speaking immi-
grafton TO Missouri was from Ken
lucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
The first petition to Congress by
MiSsourians, made Sept. 20, 1905,
asked that funds be appropriated
for the support and land set apart
for the building and maintaining of
a French and English school in each
county and for the building of a
seminary or university, of learning
! where not only the French and Eng
lish language but likewise the dead
languages, mathematics, material
and moral PHILOSOPHERS and the
principles of the constitution of the
United States should be taught.
The first stone house built in Mis-
ssouri was by Maj. Nathan Boone in
St. Charles county. Maj. Boone'S
father, Daniel Boone, died in this
house, Sept. &c, 1920.
The first time residents of Mis-
souri, Territory had direct voice in
the affairs of government was in
1912, when a delegate to Congress
was elected from the newly organic
ed territory He could speak in
Congress, but had no vote.
The first delegate to Congress
from Missouri was Capt. William
Clark.
The first counties in the territory
of Missouri were five in number
st. Charles, St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve
Cape Girardeau and New Madrid
The number had grown to fifteen
when the state came into the Union
1T is now ia and the City of St.
Louis.
The first legislature of Missouri
passed laws regulating weights and
measures, creating county offices,
establishing courts and county seats
providing for the punishment of
criminals. regulating elections, for
bidding Sabbath Dissertation. and
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08


encouraging the killing of wolves.
panthers and wild cats.
The first bank chartered by the
legislature of Missouri was the Bank
of St. Louis.
The first large, permanent Eng
fish settlement was made in the
Boones Lick country in Howard
county in 1910. Here came Capt.
Benjamin Cooper, with 100.
The first subscription to locate
the University of Missouri at Col
umbia, was by Edward Camplin,
who could neither read nor write.
He gave $4,000, heading the sub
scriptiOn list.
The corner stone of the first build
ing of the University of Missouri
was laid July 4, 1889.
The first location of the town of
Brunswick is now five miles inland.
The first settler of St. Joseph was
Joseph Robidoux.
The first French fort on the Mis-
souri, River was Fort Orleans Its
exact location has never been de-
termined.
The first name of Sedalia was
SmithtOn. SmithtOn was also the
first name of Columbia.
The first white settler of Hunts
vile was Daniel Hunt, whose name
was given to the town afterwards
founded.
The first court held in Boone
County was under an oak tree at
SmithtOn, now Columbia.
The first great maStodon found
in the world, and probably the
largest one. now in the British
museum, was reconstructed from
bones near Kimmswick. Mo.
The first commission as general
received by U. S. Grant, from Presi-
dent Abraham Lincoln was deliver
ed to him under an oak tree still
standing at Ironton, Mo.
The first general name for Mis-
sourians was "Pikers." They were
so called from Pike county, the one
county of Missouri known to dwell
ers outside of the state.
The first nickname of St. Louis
was The Mound City" 1t was so
called on account of the number
and sizes of the ancient work of the
mound builders which stood upon
the present site of the city.
The first long boat race on the
Missouri River was in 1911 Two
rival fur traders in keelboats raced
from st. Louis to a fur trading sta
ton at the mouth of the Yellow
stone River a distance of 1880
miles.
The first pension granted by Mis-
souri, was of So Is a month to
Samuel Tarwater of Ray county for
injuries resolved in the Mormon
war.
The first and only painting made
from life of John Howard Payne,
the author of Home Sweet Home"
is owned by J. v. C. Karnes of Kan
sas City. The painting is the work
of George c. Bingham, the Missouri
artist.
The first settler of Kirksville was
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08
Dehumanizing Effect of Hunting.

Civilized humanity has always
claimed a strong admiration for
such virtues The pages of history
are full of noble effort and heroic
sacrifice in the cause of truth and
right. The whole story of the ages
proves man to be a justice-loving
animal. And yet he has felt no
qualms of conscience in the breed
ing of game birds that he may have
the pleasure of killing them; he sees
no wrong in the stalking of deer, or
in riding a fox to death. AS yet he
glOrieS in such sport and today we
are taken as a final treat to view
his private StorerOOm of trophies.
The walls are adorned with the
antlers of the moose, the stuffed
heads of deer, rows of fox tails and
wings of birds of all cOlors and de-
sCriptions. The floor is carpeted
with the skins uI Us wild bear, the
tiger, and the deer. Cases of van-
Gus stuffed animals are there for
our entertainment. Such rooms
are called, in our modern homes,
the "dens," and to a sensitive soul
they are truly "dens of horror" for
every trophy on wall and floor tells
of an unfair advantage taken over
fellow creature, or of a terrible
struggle for life against overwhelm-
ing odds.
1t is this injustice of sport which
must, or ought to appeal to every
thinking man and woman injuS-
tice alike to hunter as we'll as hunt
ed. Macaulay is supposed to have
made an exquisite hit when he de-
clared that the Puritans we're OPP
posed to bear-baiting because it
pleased the spectators, and not be-
cause it gave pain to the bear. And
yet no better reason could possibly
be given for suppressing sport than
its dehumanizing effect upon the
sportsman. Blood-sports must of
necessity breed indifference to suf-
fering, and indifference is in itself a
drying-up process of the soul.
Someone has said that we must
take life as we find it" and so we
must; but we have no right to leave
it as we found it. Is not that man
or woman guilty Of crime who goes
out of the world without having de.
veloped to the full his own God
given powers, and without having
added something to the sum total
of the worlds happiness, guilty
of crime not only towards himself
but against all humanity? For
whatever does not tend to crush out
the lower instincts cannot fail to
retard the whole human race in
that march towards perfection,
which is the ultimate aim of all
life. Is is not time, then, that the
aboriginal instinct to kill were
crushed out of human nature? Is
is not time that humanity should
come to realize that underlying all
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08
Call E. Y.

When you want your sales cried
and want Col. w. I. Youell, call up
Ebert Yates at the F. & M. Bank
and he will give you dates. Re-
member and call E. Y.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08

-. .--.....-.- -~-~-.-..-- .-..------..--
life there is but one principle. one
soul? Is it not time that this long
and. useless warSGrA between man
and beast were at an eui? But if
we have not as yet progressed so
far. if " still must hunt. let it be
with camera and feld-glass. You
will find this sport quite as excit-
/ ing If we must hunt to kill, let it
at least be done fairly. Leave your
horses and guns and dogs behind
and 20 out into the woods to match
your human instincts against those
of the creature whose life you seek
and take your chances of being
hunter or hunted in all fairness of
the game If animals must be kill
ed at all, let us, at least, not find
our pleasure in the killing. Dumb
Animals.
Tells Several Incidents in the School
History. nix
c. A Torreyson, who calls Lad
donia his home says the Htrald, and
travels for St. Louis 5rdCery firm,
was giving in some Of hi3 school
days experience the OTTER day when
he was a student Of Mrs. Champ
Clark Charlie was one of Peck's
| bad boys when he went to school
in the seventies.
He says himself he was hard to
handle. L went to school in Mar
tinsburg in '78, Miss Bennett, of
Galloway county, now the wife of
Speaker Champ Clark was my
teacher, and she knew her business.
She was assistant teacher in the
school and had charge of about
fifteen pupils. There were four
tough boys in Miss Bennet's room.
Yes, I'll tell you they were, Charlie
Clark. Tom Roach, Will Powell of
New Florence, and myself, and
what meanness one of US couldn't
think of'another could.
In the spelling class we were al
ways foot, but remember on one
occasion we spelled every word that
came to us, and when the lessO
was over we stood one two, three
four at the head Bill Ficklin told
Miss Bennett We had looked on the
book. The fun commenced when
school was out and we gave Ficklin
a licking.
Next day We we're brought before
the court | tod Miss Bennett we
whipped him because he told a
story on us but to just give me the
licking and let the other boys so.
1t was all the same to me as got
a licking every day, anyway. The
other boys put up a good talk, ex-
Cept Bill Powell who wouldn't say
a word. She turned the rest of us
loose and gave it to him in good
fashion. The tears came to my
eyes and said, Goodbye Bill you
re gone
The directors had a meeting and
wanted to expell him, but Miss
Bennett objected. She said she want
ed to make a good boy out of him,
and she did. | saw Bill at New
Florence the other day and he said
he believed that if it hadn't been
for Miss Bennett he would be in the
penitentiary. l told him he ought
to be, anyway,"-Perry Enterprise.
Horse thieves have been active
in the neighborhoOd of Columbia
for several weeks past, says the
Statesman. The police are positive
irregular organized band of horse
thieves are operating in that lOcali-
ty and every effort is being made
to break up the band, but with lit
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-08

Mrs, c. F. Dierks left Friday for
a visit with relatives and friends in
Maryville, Ind,