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STICKS TO 1T.

The Montgomery Advertiser said
that the horse was seventeen feet
high, ana swcars to ii, ana VIC admire
1t for its audacious mendacity. Ana
MAS as almost everybody knows. has
been one OF the most prominent figures
in the history of the world, and he
wasn't born in North Carolina. week
about man who had picked 75G
pounds OF cotton In one day We de-
MED that anybody could have done
anything of the sort. and called for the
proofs, and now comes the. Montgomery
paper unblushngly insisting not only
! that It's story was true. but insisting.
further. that "a few days later fell
! low named ManIey, of Hunt County.
/ Texas. picked o0i pounds" The ex-
PLANTATION is made that where these
very thick; that the picker made only
one pass at a boil, and that after the
| picker comes a boy who cleans up
the cow-licked cotton. getting the
! scraps, as 1t were" 4 sort OF Ruth
and Naomi business, we suppose: and
by counting the oow-licked cotton ana
| having such other assistance as cor,ld
be provided. the picker was enabled
! TO do the trick IN cotton where the
seed is so heavy that IN every pound
I OF cotton picked there are three pounds
/ Of seed. Was it In Alabama that the
| progressive farmer packed his grind
stone In the middle OF his hale to make
| II weigh well?
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William Eleroy curtis win writo M
more. The busiest and one Of tho mos,
effective pens among the Journalistic ot
this country is sun, with tho geporo,,s
heart, the quick Intelligence. tho alert
observation, this man of affairs mas Nm
ished his course and finished it win
honor Born in ohio sixty-one wears
ago next month. educated at the West.
ern Reserve College traveller In
many countries, an author Of many
books, writer for the newspapers OF
prodigious energy and an officer Of the
Government in number OF Important
places Of great distinction, one of the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
AMONG THE Mon,IoNs

MIR Taft Is meeting all sorts of peo-
pie on his present tour. Last week no
was smuggling up to Stubbs and Brls-
tow in Kansas. then he was saving
pleasant things 10 Bryan in Nebraska.
and day before yesterday ne was
Knocking around with the Mormons in
salt Lake City. The "old folks" of Utah
were having their semi-annual enter
tainmcnt at the Tabernacle, and the
President was introduced to them by
Bishop Nibley. OF tho Mormon Church.
When tho Bishop asked all of those
present who had crossed the prairie In
the Mormon migration OF 1867 to
stand UP. the greater part OF the CON
eregat'on arose. and when the pilgri-
mage hymn. Come. Come. Ye Saints
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HAnMoN,s COOP HOBBIES.

Governor Harmon. OF Ohio. declares
that he has two hobbes-good roads
and limited taxation.
Good roads mean the interchange OF
small commerce. They mean q broader
development of the people. In the old
days a man lived and died in his native
town. but In these times through good
roads, tho horizon of every person in
the community has been enlarged.
Good roads mean better citizens.
BY limited taxation Governor Hnr-
mon means direct and customs taxes
together that arc not oppressive. The
methods OF taxation ny tariff and in the
several States are unsystematic and are
productive OF unequal burdens and
ought to be changeu.
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Doc. Not Go Far Enough.

To the Editor OF Tho Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Thc- Vonderlehr ordinance does
not go far enough. It should apply
to theatres. Take our Academy OF
Music. for instance. Why should a
horde of negroes be allowed to go to
play like THE Soul Kiss" leering all
the while at poor white girls, who
because of their impecunious circunl-
stances arc compelled to sit in the
gallery? Or take a great play like
Macbeth" why should white patrons
of the Academy be compelled to sit
in the same part of the building with
pack CT negroes who laugh 1T
tragic scenes and groan at comic? In
other words, why not let the blacks
have their own theatres and the whites
enjoy the same blessing?
Richmond. POOR WHITE
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tithe of the political influence with
which they are credited. the President
has In the feminine citizens of tho
state ono of the most successful
PROSECUTING agencies now working in
his behalf" They like him on gen.
eral principles; but chiefly. we arc
told, because no stood by DR.. wIloy,
the great American food export, wo-
men being oonstitutionally opposed to
tho use of any sort Of dope in the
things that they eat themselves or
that they serve to others. Another
reason Colorado women are said to
be for him is that his Views on the
divorce and peace questions have ap-
pealcd to the feminine mind. Some
OF tho saleswomen declare that they
will not back him. they do not know
exactly whyi but ut least one OF them
has declared her preference for In
Toilette, probably because there is a
corset sold in his name, and with
their Ia Follettes pressing upon them
steadily during waking hours as a
sort OF constant reminder they cannot
forget Battling Bob"
1t is a great thing for Mr.. Taft to
have tho women with him. even if
they can't vote, and no will need all
the support he can get. and Will take
all that will come to him and be duly
thankful. His main trouble Is not
personal but political. and whenever
the sky looks brightest to him lit
tie cloud no larger than his veto
messages on tho wool and FREQ list bills
Is almost sure to darken all the tirma :
ment about him. When tho women
begin to buy their winter nannels
they VIII want to know why they cost
so much more than they would have
cost II tho President had approved
the Underwood wool bill.
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Voice Of the People
ana sanity 1,unl,naf..

conservatism ana sanity INMATE.
To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir,--lt is not Il pessimistic plant to
say that danger threatens our great
democracy. The optimst may wisely
consider perils and seek with rcsolutc
heart and. an abiding faith to avert
them. Perhaps our greatest danger is
in the cXaggcratlon Of perils real and
imaginary.
Our cver-abiding grandest OF lands
comprises vast territory, pcopled by
a cong lomerate citizenry representing
the many countries and races of tho
globe, with their attendant varied and
conflicting tastes and types. while yet
true American ideals are dominant.
The rumbllngs of discord chiefly cen
tire In the old and ever new industrial
problems: The contemptnous dictum.
| The public be damned" shows tho
sentiment of an extreme school of sell
part In the unswerving condemnation
of air Individual wealth above some
imaginary common level---individunl-
Ism and socialism run mad Happily,
the public will persistently refuse to
be damned" and will as assuredly re-
sent tho proposition that every mon
who by brains, industry and frugality
accumulates money IS of necessity dis.
honest and must disgorge at the be-
nest or In tho interest OF his less
frugal or less fortunate fellows. And
| there must, I'm the nature of things.
ever be combinations of capital to por-
| form great tasks otherwise imposs-
pie, and which must not be llnmpered
by tho unjust dci1nBds of cvary social
asitatora Nag or fcttered. BY unjuot
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One of the Boosters. who is toler-
ably we'll known to Boschen, of Broad
Street, was overheard the other day,
the last strenuous day of the Great Ex-
petition, holding conversation with
his feet. about in this way: Look
a-here. feet, you and 1 have been
friends long time; hut 1t pears to
me YOU amt doin' your fair share OF
the work just now. II you're goin' to
keep up our reputation you want to
do better" This private audience is
said to have taken place at Lynchburg
after the fourteenmile march the
Boosters took In that town.
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GOING BACK no THE ps.1.us.

Woodrow Wilson's head is level on
at least one subject: He does not he
lieve in silly and meaningless.
hymns. and said the other night in
Trenton that they have neither poe
try nor sense in them" and he was
entirely right. Warming up to his
subject he said further: "Why can't
we sing the old Psalms? Why can't
we take In paraphrase, II in no other
Wise. those immortal voices which
have sung the spirit of God throur n
generation after generation. WHY do
we have to concoct silly rhymes of
our own?"
That's what we want to know
that's what the Sccedcrs. the Psalm
singing Presbyterians, have been ask-
Ing all these years: that's why these
few but faithful people who were de-
scribed by old Parson Brownlow, mis-
cradle wretch that he was, as "a pecu-
liar sect OF Christians who sang David's
Psalms, Dloughed with double lines
and creased their shoes with tallow.''
nave stuck to the Psalms; that's why
lhcy used, until n few years ago. the
old Scottish Version OF Dr.. Rouse, in
, spite OF its many impcrfections in
metr" rather than adopt the two-step
variety that has made it's wav into
the organ loft to the destruction of
both dignity and praise. Among the
United Prcsbyterians OF the Northern
states and the Associate Reformed
| Presbyierians OF the South there win
DE nearly approval of DR.. Wilson'S
tribute to the old songs. We do not
believe however, that he could sing
paraphrase even to save a presl
dental nomination.
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OK these two sieges. Lord Harloch was
formerly an officer OF the Co!dstream
Guards. and is married to Il sister OF
LORD Huntley the premier Marquis of
scotland.
The royal petticoatcd colonies of
ressments OF European armies now
number nearly half a hundred. and arc
increasing all the time. while the boy
colonels in pinafores are dimiui shIng
In fact. to-day there is virtually only
one OF them left. namely, the caro-
Witch OF Russia. who is the ranking
officer OF nearly twenty regiments OF
cavalry infantry and artillery. as we'll
as hetman OF all the CossAcks. lie is
a llttle over seven years OF age King
Alfonso was. az monarch. gcncralis-
simo OF the Spanish army from tho mo-
mont OF his birth. But he has re-
Trained from comforting any commits
sion upon has tonr.year-oH eldest son
and heir tho Prince of the Asturias.
VINO hSures merely as a private soldier
In the crack First Regiment OF In
fantry. that is 10 say. the corps d'elite
OF tho Spanish forces. In Germany as
also in Austria, princes of the blood
only receive "A commission In tho army
on attaining their tenth birthday.
Tho practice Of comforting colonel
10 those who belong to the rcigning
houses of Europe. and dates from the
middle OF the nineteenth century. when
King Frederick William ~. OF prus-
STA appointed his sister. the widow of
Gear Nicholas J. OF Russin. TO be hon
orary colonel OF the Sixth Cuirassier
regiment of Prussia. which her hus-
band had commanded until his death
In 1865. King William OF Prussia,
grandfather of the present Kaiser. be-
slowed the colonclcy OF the Fourth
Grenadier Guards upon hts consort,
Queen afterwards Empressi Augusta.
the colonelcy OF the Second Guard Hus-
sars upon his English ,eughter-ln-
law. the crownprincess. tafterwards
Of the Third Grenadier Guards. upon
the widow OF his predecessor. Queen
Dowager Elizabeth
The custom was followed by the
man and Russian colonelcies arc held
by number of native and foreign prin.
cessos. both the Queen OF the neither
lands and her mother being Prussian
naught. wife OF tho new Governor
General of Canada. Is colonel OF the
Sixty-fourth regiment OF Prussian In
fantry.. formerly commanded by her
father, Field Marshal FRINGE Frederick
Charles OF Prussia the captor OF Metz
Queen Mary, also. Is the possessor OF
a. German colonelcy namely. that OF
the Fifth Regiment of Prussian Hus-
sars.
CuriousIy enough. Queen Alexandra
never received any military distinction.
Emperor. or yet from her brother-in-
law. the .Jate Emperor Alexander III.
of Russia, who was greatly attached TO
her. This IS all the more strange.
since Queen Victoria commanded the
First Regiment OF Prussian Dragons
of the Guard.
There is hut one royal lady who holds
any command in European navy.
namely. the Queen OF Greece. who Is
the only she-admiral in existence. hav-
Ing been appointed to that rank In the
Muscovite navy by the late Car Alex
ander III. in recognition of her kind
ness to Russian sailors at Athens. and
her father. the late G7and Duke Con-
stantine Nicholaiovitch. rendered TO tho
Russian navy.
Copyright. 1911, by the brentwood
Company
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to dignity his noble craft and to make
himself one among thousand Of those
who write for the public.
Mr. Curtis's home W. in Washing
ton. though no might have been re-
gardcd as a citizen of the world; for
there was no land under the sun his
feet had not trod. He was charm
Ing companion, n generous host. n
finished workman. a Christian gentle
man. and In his death tho journalism
one of it's brightest lights.
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The Huntington (NNest Virginia. the
same being the name of the State
which will not pay It's debt to the Old
Dominion) Herald stands UP for the
fat women OF the country. 1t pro-
claims boldly Its fascination for the
oleaglnous female" declares that
while fat women abound there will
be saved to humanity generous recep-
tacles for tho oil of humap kindness"
doubts that any one ever saw an un-
tanned shrew who was not as lean as
n bean stalk. asserts that Fat women
are sweet tempered and equable in all
things" avows it's belief 'in the pris-
tine saccharinlty of the fat sister" and
confesses Its Contempt OF those who
would discredlt her" That's all right;
can't make her too fat for us nor too
lean. Fat or lean, long or short, thin
or thick, old or young. wise or simple
strong or weak--it doesn't make any
difference. she is the salt of the earth.
and she will come mighty near inherit
ing 1t before this scheme of things is
wound UP.
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was sung. the old men and women wcpt
aloud as they rocked with tho rhythm
OF the hymn.
It was a moving spectacle. and tho
only thing that seemed to mar the oc-
casion was tho statement of President
Fred w. Prico. of tho Young Mems Re-
publican League OF Utah. who suffered
HIS enthusiasm to get away with his
Judgment whom he declared, in intro
ducing tho President and predicting his
re-election, that November next year
would find tho Democracy of Utah IN
its customary place. deep down In the
slough of despond." Tho President
said, on rising to his feet, 1T am here
as President of tho United States"
which was rather hard on Fred Price,
although he probably did not care very
much.
Exactly why the President should
have been inoensed by the remark of
Mr.. Price we do not quito understand.
when tho President himself has on
more than ono occasion explained his
course in vetoinG bills passed by Dem
ocmtio votes partly on tho ground that
they were not in koeping with his
obligations. to his own party and Its
historical position on tho tariff ques-
ton. The President was entirely right.
however. In calling down tho spokes-
man Of tho Young Mems Republican
League Many n good thing Is spoiled
by the idle talk of immature youth.
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A Victory Fon run nouAw, y,

postal clerk in New York has re-
tired after almost sixty years of work
for Uncle Sam.
This man has chewcd tobacco all
his life and the successive efforts OF
ten postmasters could not stop him.
Other clerks, who used spruce gum
were long ago incapacitatcd.
This Is a luminous commentary
on the value of the "chaw." Some OF
the greatest of Americana have
"chawed"
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Autumn.


The void is sadly growing colder.
Summers perfumed breath has lied;
The solemn sea Is sounding holder
Its dreaded dirges for the dead.
Sadness fingers In the tonic air
And at night the skies weep tears
of dew.
Which blight the fields and forests
where
Late the summers flowers grew.
And on the grieving world around
Tho falling flush of autumn CLOVIS
And lifeless leaves come raining down
On seen the gentlest breeze that
blows.
But spring will come with pulses
throbbing,
And WOO 10 life the seeming dead.
And the skies that now are sadly
sobblng
VIII BIO as laughter overhead.
And those who live to see thoir blight
In the declining autumn years
May lift their hearts unto the light
That beams ABOVE tho valo of tears.
BAKER LEE YOUNG.
Newport News,
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MAJOR sTEDMAN is COMING.

Major Charles M Stedman, Of
Greensboro, has been appointed by
Governor Kitchin delegate from,
North carolina to tho fourth annual
convention OF the Atlantic Decncr
waterways Association to be held in
Richmond week after next-on octo-
per 17-2o Major Stedman Is the nam
Der of Congress from the Fifth Nor,h
Carolina District and is bound To
make his mark in the House at wash
inBton', as he has made his mark. and
very high mark, wherever he ba 6
neen tried The other day in Greens.
ooro he marched with the Boosters
and marched like ono OF tho bovs
1t is hoped that the people OF this
town will have the pleasure of hear
Ing him while he is here; for there IS
no better speaker In North Carolina
which Is to say in the South, the
North Carolina men being all horn
orators. and. without prejudice, it NAV
be said to their credit that they sneak
in words of soberncss from tho cradle
OF the grave.
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TIE WOMEN i.on rAIrr-

y star correspondent of the Chi.
caEo Tribune. who has been follow
Ing the Taft expedition In tho Insur.
gent country, writes from Denver TIM,
the women OF Colorado admire Pres
ident Taft and approve his Admins.
tration," and that III they have n
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All the Boosters who were at Lynch
burg on Wednesday and took part In
scaling the heights of that place,
where tho railroads are built in the
cellar and the main streets on the
housetops. will undo rstand how It hap
pened. probably. that Carter Glass did
not run we'll in his recent race.
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AFTER THE SOUTHERN GOVERNORS

Inerc is 10 DE ColeDruuon III Balt-
more in December. 1t will be called
Maryland Week." and Will begin on
the Sd day of the month. Governors
of Southern States and Presidents of
Southern railroads are expected for
an all Southern conference The spc
cial purpose OF the conference is to
discuss the ways and means OF en-
couraging immigration to the South to
the end that the material resources of
this part of the country may he speed
fly developed. The conference will be
held under the general direction of
Greater Baltimore Committee, a boost
Ing organization of great faith in Its
own community. The conference has
not yet been called, 1t is true: but Gov
ernor Crothers says he will do every
thing in his power to induce the South
ern Governors to meet in Baltimore In
December, and III personal letter to
each OF tho Executives will he Of any
weight, / certainly shall write them.
Baltimore" continued the Governor, 'Is
of the South, and its metropolis. 1t Is
the proper place for such meeting,
for 1t the policy of Baltimore and
Maryland to keep in Nclosc touch with
all the problems which affect the
Southland"
Mr.. Edwin l. Quarles, director of
the Greater Baltimore Committee.
SAYS that before 1t CHE conference in
Decemher) meets II programme should
Ee arranged in which all the sections
of the South could be represented" 1t
would appear that the conference is in
nubibus so far; but tits likely to de-
velop almost any minute.
We would suggest that arrangements
be made by Business Manager Dahney
to capture all the Southern Governors
II they shall attempt to pass through
Virginia, and that the conference be
held in Richmond. which is not "of the
South" but is in very truth The South
That would be a clever thing to do.
and with the help of the Boosters it
can be done: anything can be done
for Richmond If Richmond men and
Richmond Influences will get together
and work for Richmond. There is no
question OF larger consequence to the
South than the increase of it's popu-
lation by desirable immigrants, but
we have waited so long for the
tide to turn this way we should he a
little careful of what it shah bring
in when 1t starts this way There
Nil
land In the world lying fallow in the
South because there arc none TO till IT,
and there arc millions of men who
could be trough. here to take care
of IT. but there are other millions
who should not be invited There are
many men in Maryland who would
make Eood Virginians, and It is after
these. an@.such ,as these, that the Gov
ornors OF the South should go.
Mr.. Norman NJ. Parrott. secretary of the
Travellers and Merchants Association
of Baltimore. is heartily in favor OF
the proposed conference In December
''as a means of strengthening tho
bonds between Baltimore and the
Southern states" But. Men and
Brethren. II we understand the pres
ent situation, it is to loosen in some
degree the strange hold of our friends
and neighbors on the Patapsco River
upon the commercial ANA industrial
South BY al! means lot tho Governors
Of the Southern states yet together on
the immigration question hut let
them get together in Richmond.
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Spanish Word for had place

L. Tell me what Spanish word cor
responds to the English word he'll"
2. Also tell me how long timc
would have to elapsc lin Virginia) be-
lore person would be safe from ar
rest Tor obtaining money under false
pretehses. Could I have him arrested
after the offense was two and half
years old? ROBERT.
/. inferno"
.. Yes
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Against Incompetent chnoreur,

To tn, Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-In regard to the accidental
killing of Mrs Wharton and exonerat-
ing Miss Fairlamb and Mr.. King, don't
you think it Is time TO put stop to
boys and girls and young women run
ming automobiles that are not COM
petent? Mrs. Wharton was a woman,
and there is too much of this going
on. SUBSCRIBER.
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The oIympian Jupiter.

Please print brief sketch OF the
Olympian Jupiter? c.
This celebrated statute. the master
piece OF Phidias, the greatest OF all
soulptors. was removed to Constsnti.
hople by Theodosius the First, in
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1t would not be out OF place to say
that tho women of North Carolina
arc also very sweet spoken set
whether they speak in tho Affirmative
or In the negative.
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There was man In town yesterday
who looked as II he might be the next
Governor of Virginia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07

The school child who described Nor
folk as the place you go through on
the way to Richmond" is pretty well
educated already.
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Another bit OF genuine philosophy
from Abe Martini" the Indiana seer:
"Th' Teller behind in a three-passcnger
auto allus looks Like he wuz ridin'
agin his will"
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