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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-28
ORDINANCE MAY PROVIDE
PENSION FOR ElfPLOYy

To provide pensions for aged o1l1l
employees viii likely be the purp1
of an ordinance likely to BE- drA41
shortly. 1t is said. The matter -
discussed at some length Thur1
night at a meeting of the COumG
committee on water.
According to suggestions made r.
the meeting. it is proposed to estAhti
a regular pension fund not only a.
the water department. but or III &~l
partluentS %3
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-28
where Ia Mrs. perrault?

Mrs Jennie Maynor. OF. No. s01
West Marshall street called at pc.
lice headquarters yesterday afternoon
and asked the department to heir
her In locating her mother. Mrs Elixa
Perrault, who lives some place n
North Dakota. Mrs Maynor II 8
native Of Massachusetts, and has beer
living hero for some months. She
il anxious to locate her mother. and
VIII gladly accept any INFORMATION
,Mhach may- fand 1GtnnkAna
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-28
sallots Printed.

Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
HARRISONBURG. VA. Oct IT.
Eight thousand ave hundred ballots
have been printed for the coming
county election. There are about 1000
voters. There are ninety-ona candi-
dates for the forty-seven oefices.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-28

Randolph Goes to Grand Jafy.
Henry Randolph. the negro arfe@
as suspicious character. w1a e
to the grand jury by Justice 0s1G
yesterday morning on the chArU6
breaking into John Tyler's stable
carrying off wheelbarrow ard nM|
of oats, all valued at s..
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-28
FULL TOBACCO
SALES THIS WEEK
UNHEARD OF AVERAGE PRICE
MAINTAINED ON LOCAL
MARKET.
REPORTS ENCOURAGING
TOTAL SALES FOR WEEK IN Elk
CESS OF 42xoeo PoUNDs-HEAy-
TER SALES LOOKED FoR
NEXT WEEK.
REPORTS ENCOURAGING

The Richmond tobacco mark ct
woke up yesterday with the btgxest
sales and best prices OF the reason.
The average price sustained waa In
excess Of nine cents per pound. some
thing unheard Of for this season OF
the year.
Total sales OF the weed aggregate
IN e1cess OF $4,000 pounda and the
highest figure obtained was 81 cents
per pound. the record thus far for
the season. This price was gotten
1t two warehouses. the shockoe and
Crenshaw.
Reports from the country districts
tributary to Richmond are to the e.
foot that the shortage in thu crop viii
not exceed Is per ocnt-. which will,
be much more than made up hy the
high prices being gokten.
Tho good prtces pr evadling are ex-
pectad to prove q potent factor in
bringing large amounts Of the weed
to market early IN the season I'm
usually heavy sales are anticipated for
next week,
South Boston Market,
Especial to Tho Richmond virginian J
HOUSTON. VA. Oct 97.-Sales
upon the South Boston tobacco mar
ket for the past week were between
q million and q fourth to a miiiton
and half pounds; breaks being
heavy for this early in the season,
with some prina1ngs and scrap Of
afered. Prices ranged In and around
IL cents with color mixed where
rome OF last seaaon's crop was Of
Tered. An improvement in offerings
II forecasted Tor the next two or three
weeks. Sales continued regularly dur
ing the week. there being no caxsa,-
ton by reason Of tho holding Of the
Halifax Fair.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-28
Two NSw eto~ss,

: D. o. Sullivan II erecting two two
story brick stores on the north side
Of East Main street. between TwNnty-
1Sls "A $3.50 -seaqnd sFoeth M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Gave Him the Chance

President Lincoln took quiet walk in Washington one morning, in the course of which he met a well preserved tramp The tramp did not know the President and asked him for the loan of a dime to save him from immediate starvation.
 You look like an able e-bodied man." said the President. Why don't you join the army?" "They won't let me- whined the tramp. "Td be glad enough to die for my coun- try, sir. if they would give me the chance" Well, maybe can be of service,'' said Mr. Lincoln kindly. Taking an envelope and pencil from his pocket, he wrote a note and addressed it to the officer in charge of. the recruiting station near by In Fifteenth street.
 Take that" he said, passing it over, and give 1t to the officer at "A Fifteenth street. If he can't do anything for you come back here to rpe. I'm just walking around" kss ais5
 The tramp took it and shuffled away, but he never came back; neither did he go to the recduiting office. The note read:
 Colonel Fielding-The bearer is anxious to go to the front and, die for his country. Cant you give him chance?
 A. LINCOLN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Heart To Heart Talks
Bx EDWIN A- NIB

ing 1t an annual clothes exhibition?
 My wife did not think so.
 However by judicious questioning as we came home from the services learned from her that one of hei friends. regular church cop1municant had stayed away that day because she was afraid she might look little shabby in the midst of the new plumage.
 On the other hand
 l could not but note the fact that there were people in the church that Easter morning who seldom had been seen there. Perhaps they came to wor- ship.
 And I thought of all the tired milli- ners and tailors and sewing women and clerks who had been. rushed almost day and night to furnish forth the trappings of the Easter celebrants. Were they at church?.
 Easteri
 Day of all meaningful sdays in the long 2ooo years since the angel rolled away the stone from the mouth of the sepMcher and brought life and immor- tality to light through the gospel of the resurrection
 l must have thought aloud, for my wife said
 Well, the new things were perfectly lovely. And there certainly is nothing wrong in wanting to wear and see the beautiful things, is there?".
 "No," said. ''No, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
From Ditcher to Governor

| The other day I read a sketch of the life of J. Frank Hanly, ex-governor of Indiana.
 The story left out the most interesting part of Hanly's life, the part that gives the key t his character-his early strug- gles.
 1 He is not the sort of man to parade his humble beginnings for political purposes, but he began, nevertheless, very low down In tile ditch. Almost any old farmer in or about Homer, H., could tell you Hanly was a poor young fellow who dug the ditches for a livelihood But | While he made the tile ditches through the black soil of the corn belt, he also studied law of evenings. And he ar- tended every debating society in that re- zion, taking part Sometimes he would be overheard prac- ticing his speeches in the ditch-at least so tradition says-punctuatng the lofty periods with the delft motions of his long | tile spade.
 | And then
 Hanly got chance to make a Fourth of July speech that took the whole coun- tryside off it's feet. | Shortly afterward he moved across the state line into Indiana and located in Will | Transport Tn the prdCtlce oI law
 He made political speeches and won reputation in western Indiana as an or ator. Later he located in the city of La fayette, where he has a lucrative busi- ness.
 l As governor Hanly made a national rep utation.
 He stirred the state of Indiana as never before by his graft prosecutions. He
 forced the resignation of some of the state officers and recovered thousands oi dollars to the state treasury.
 Hanly hates whisky as he does poison chasing them together, in fact. He forced reluctant legislature to pass a local option law under which a large part of the state Is dry. As he is under 50 and in great request
 on the lecture platform, Eanly is likely tc
 be heard from further.
 Moreover
 He has not lost touch with the com
 mon people whom he knows so well, com. ing up from among them to his present place. The politician who knows and sympathizes with the wants of the people is power And the career of one who climbs ur out of a ditch to be governor should af-
 ford much cheer, to the poor and aspiring
 young men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

novel of all is that emanating from Cap- tain MacIlwaine, R. N, who says: "OuI late king strongly favored the growth of the beard; he grew one himself, and to say the least, encouraged it's growth by the members of his personal staff. His brother, the Duke of Edinburgh. a naval officer, grew a beard. Our present kina shares the views of his father, grows d beard himself and makes his staff do thd same
 Among the men of the present day thd beard is the exception, not the rule Is Il not incomprehensible that the manhoA of the empire, who are otherwise alwas1 so ready to accept a royal lead, shouE in this matter show such indifference, q worse, to the views both expressed ant implied of their kings? Is it not time thal they emulated their examples and full filled their wishes? ,.s1
 The British empire in boards would be a memorial to our late king such al his heart would have loved. Can anyond doubt how such a memorial would be apl preciated by his son. our present king?'|
 Nearly two thousand women assembled at the Union Congregational church, SunI derland, the other day to see ''haren skirt" wedding. The congregation werd so curious that when anyone entered the church they sprang on the seats to look The Rev. J. G. Aldridge rebuked them, This conduct" he said. 'is most un, seemly It is unbefitting the occasion, and shows a deplorable lack of reverence. I Outside there was an eager rush at each taxicab that came up.
 When the wedding party arrived they were all in ordinary conventional attireI Fhe crowd had been hoaxed.
 Quite number of aristocratio people ard anxious to take prominent parts in th9 pageant which Is being organized in con1 nection with the festival of empire at tfd Crystal Palace. Some of them are spendi ing very large sums on their costumes Lord Howard De Walden. for example, has paid a150 to equip himself properly i4 order to appear in the character of thu Black Prince.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Summer

Happiness is something you make. ~ great store's part is to help in the making with
 THE RIGHT SPIRIT
 THE RIGHT SERVICE
 THE RIGHT MERCHANDISE And o have it all here-ready the moment you want It. we believe it is all here ready NOW everything that belongs to any scheme of summer comfort and content in town or open country For women for men, for EVERYBODf AND lhh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

HE was the son of famous and
 prominent family of the south. \ | had the advantages of a liberal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
LONDON SOCIETY LETTER
By LADY MARY MANwARING

very prominent in the smart set of Bohe-
 milan society in London, and are to be
 seen among the regular habitues of the Supper club on Saturday night Among the young men who worshipped at the shrine of these dusky divnities was the young Marquis of Stafford, heir to the
 title and great estates of the Leveson- Covers. Although, of course, nothing can be said against the young ladies, who, In their own country, are among the great ones of the earth the idea of an alli-
 ance between the heir of the great house of Sutherland and the daughter of the prince of a subject race was not to be thought of for a moment, so that mme- dately the young mans family were cog nizant of the state of affairs efforts were
 made, and we hope successfully, to cure the young man of his love sickness. With that end in view his lordship is, as we
 have said, shooting big game in Africa, and it Is to be hoped that the good ad- vice of his family and the presence of his
 pretty consin may bring the young man to proper appreciation of his position as English gentleman and the heir
 to such great family traditions and power. Lord Avebury celebrated his birthday the other day He proves very effective ly the fact that the world has almost been remade in the last century.
 Though am not yet S0,' he says, 'I
 am older than any railway company, any
 electric light company, any telephone or telegraph company"
 A story is told of a surgical operation
 Lord Avebury once had to undergo. His friends tried to persuade him to take chloroform.
 "No, thanks he replied, 'T would
 much rather be present at the operation Among the multitudes of suggestions
 for fttingly commemorating the reign of
 King Edward VII, perhaps the most
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Wireless to the Brain

At the dedication of the Roosevelt dam In Arizona a few weeks ago 1t was
 stated not only would the water from this one of the biggest dams in the world fertilize thousands of acres of semiarid land. but The power derived from the fall of its waters would be made to light the lefty of Phoenix and turn the wheels of It's industries, 75 miles away. That would have been wonderful in- deed 50 years ago.
 But 1t is only half the feat of trans mission involved In the lighting the city of Syracuse, N. Y, bringing light and
 power over a thin wire from the har- messed forces of Niagara falls. 15o miles away.
 Electricity has become the obedient slave of civilization, taking the place of the shackled slaves of the older day.
 One by one masterful man is hitching his machines to forces of earth and air and water. The time is coming when he will be almost free from manual labor, giving him leisure and strength for the exercise of those qualities of mind and heart that shall transform the world.
 But
 There is more wonderful thing than all this advance of science, and it will always be more wonderful. More mysterious and more powerful
 than the transmission of light and heat over slender wire is the wireless trans mission of the light of human intellect
 and the power of human fancy that comes to the brain of man. From where? We do not know where the great power house is located, but we do | know that somewhere Is vastly greater power than puny Nigara; somewhere is resident a tremendous reservoir; some where is mighty source of intellect and | of love.
 l There is, however. this difference: | The more kilowats electric you use the | less you have to use. There is just so much manufactured. When that is gone
 all is gone
 But
 | The strange thing about the use of the | intellectual and moral kilowats is that the more you use the more you have to use
 Do you not see you are getting outside | the realm of science-outside material
 things and their laws? | Now
 | When the force that comes over the
 wire to the dynamo stops the dynamo stops But you cannot predict from that
 material law that when the force that | comes over the wireless to the brain 1 stops coming the mind will forever stop.
 The mind is different.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

London, May -(Special.)-Queen
 Mary's recent pronouncement against the
 hobble skirt is but another indication of
 the trend of her majestys mind which
 indicates that the tendency of the court
 will be towards the rather puritanical
 ideas of the later Victorian years. In fact the queen is, as has been said,
 "on the side of the angels" and already the effects of her influence are beginning to show. They will be much more marked | 1t is understood after the coronation. She is dead against playing cards for money, betting on races, cigarette-smok- ing for women, and other such up-to-
 date diversions. And she seems to think that her own sex should not shoot, stalk deer, drive their own motors, or fly In aeroplanes.
 Her majesty Is also averse to risque plays and to novels on sex questions. The domestic woman is Queen Mary's ideal.
 Then she has her own views on dress and personal adornment. As regards her la
 dies in waiting and maids of honor, she has put ban on overnight skirts, huge hats and day-gowns that are made with half short sleeves and with no neck
 bands. She likewise objects to hair that is too much puffed at the sides, or that is coiffed in the extreme of fashion. The queen likes her ladies to dress more or less on her own lines: but at court lit is an understood fact that there must be no undue imitation of royal costumes | It is no secret that the queen has much
 the stronger will of the royal couple and that she will have her way in all such matters. The younger and gayer set re- gard the outlook as distinctly gloomy. 
 | Society has been watching a rather in- | terestng romance with keen relish. For l some time the pretty daughters of a cer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Easter Observance

I am an optimist However. I strike a minor note occasionally. Now that
 Easter Sunday is far enough away let
 me sound that note.
 For several weeks preceding that Sun
 day I noted the advertising of the milli-
 ners and tailors and ready made dealers. If you remember they ran like this: Easter millinery" Garments for Easter Sunday" Get into the Easter procession" And so forth. Without desiring to be irreverent 1t seemed to me there was a kind of resurrection and what will you
 wear for an Easter bonnet mixture of suggestion in the newspaper announce ments.
 You sec
 The Fourth of July has been turned
 into sort of cross between a Pains s pyrotechnic display and a beer picnic. The observance of Memorial day con sists largely in sporting and speeding events. We have also ruined Christmas | by the pre-holday rush and our ex- l travagance in giving. l I said to myself 1 Are we spelling this most significant ] of all the Christian festivals by mak-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Retribution

IE was the son of famous and prominent family of the south. \ l had the advantages of liberal education and was gifted with more than usual ability.
 A brilliant prospect opened before him.
 After having served during the war with Spain as colonel of volunteer regiment he was elected lieutenant governor of his native state.
 There seemed no ultimate fit place for this young man save a seat in the United States senate.
 And then
 He had controversy with the editor of a daily newspaper. There was a feud between them, and one day this man shot the editor dead. The latter was unarmed.
 What was the accession of the quarrel is not now remembered. It is only re- membered that he killed a defenseless victim.
 Powerful influences intervened. Be- cause of wealth and family connection he escaped the legal penalty.
 But justice?" you say.
 You writers who observe the doings of men and the consummation of events write reams upon reams in seeking to prove how, in some way, retribution all ways catches up with the wrongdoer." "
 Let us see.
 From the day of his crime to the day of his death this man went up and down the land with the mark of Cain on his brow. His fellows ignored him. The people turned him down politically. Society ostracised him.
 Driven to desperation, he tried to for get his sorrows in dissipation. Finally his habits were such that his own fam fly turend away from him. He spent his last few years in loneliness and soli- tude, his only companion a faithful negro. A few weeks ago he died.
 There's your retribution!
 Who was this man?
 No need to write down his name.
 The recollection of his act, called up by his recent death, is sufficient.
 Meantime the dictum holds
 '@Whatsoever a man soweth that also shall he reap" There are no loopholes of escape in that law, and 1t has not heen repealed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Man and Woman

In a public discussion on equal suf- frage recently an Iowa orator exclaimed:
 woman is inherently weaker in body and intellect than man!'
 Is she?
 Let us call the roll of history.
 When Israel was at its lowest ebb a woman--the patriotic Deborah-restored the nation She not only led the armies but also wrote the battle hyms.
 From her throne in Egypt Cleopatra ruled her own country and ruled also the worlds greatest rulers-Ceasar and Mark Antony.
 The golden age' of Greece was the age of Pericles. But a woman ruled Pericles and Athens and was able to answer Socrates according to his logic -Aspasia.
 Babylon has long since fallen. Once it was great. Who organized Babylon, ruled it and led its armies? Who but Semiramis, a woman
 Who shook Rome when even Hanni- bal the great son of Hamilcar, was unable? Zenobia, woman.
 What Sovereign of Russia can be com pared to Peter the Great? Only one-the great Catherine.
 In the annals of England what two reigns stand out above all others? Any schoolboy will tell you the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria.
 Can Austria in all its troubled his tory point with pride to more eminent ruler than strong Maria Theresa? China with its centuries of government never had an abler executive than the late Empress Tsi An,. And of peerless leAders in battle who is above the Orleans maid of F, Joan of Arc.
 When Gross tyranny oppressed the people of South America the anazons alone were able to free them.
 And Margaret of Anjou leveled thrones
 Time and space would foil us to tel of those early American heroines who fought side by side with their husbands beast and savage. and of Moll Pitcher at Monmouth and Hannah Winthrop of Lexington, of the heroic nurses and spies of the federal and Confederate armies. to say nothing of the brainy women who led philanthropies and won reforms and who distinguished our time.
 Inferior to men
 I would undertake to show from his- tory that where woman has been given an equal chance she has proved her superiority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
He Came Back

Why did the millionaire of St Louis who fled to Paris during the poodle ex- posture in that city and was indicted for alleged bribery retun and give himself up?
 Why?
 What is there in the breast of the wrongdoer that makes him always long to go to the place most danger ous, the scene of his wrongdoings?
 Why?
 The St. Louis man did not come back because of lack of money. His wealth is estimated at $20,0oo,e00, made in the brewing business. So far as money is concerned. he could have remained in exile indefinitely.
 And yet
 With unlimited means and freedom to roam the world, nine years was the limit of his ability to stay away from his old home.
 It has been proved over and over again in the history of the race that the old Bible is right when it says:
 Be sure your sin will find you out.
 Which come to think of it, is ter rifying declaration. When you do a great wrong you create a thing within you that will hunt you down. There Is some thing inside you that will betray. You cannot trust 1t. You are never safe You can not run away liOin It, IL is part of you.
 (Which way I turn is he'll" said Mill tons poor Satan; myself am hell" And the thing inside you, this monster will gnaw at your vitals, making ar awful unrest, so that you can never be satisfied until you make surrender and complete atonement. "1he wages of sin is not mere physi | cal death. To many a sinner tha
 would be the easier way. The wagei
 of sin is spiritual death, which Is in definitely worse. It is living death. Yot are chained to your rock like Prone theus and watch with horror the vul lures feeding on your vitals. | The world may not find you out, but | your sin will.
 | Foolish man who fancies the only penalty of law violation is to be found out by the law! There are worse things than the penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

Society has been watching a rather in- teresting romance with keen relish. For some time the pretty daughters of a cer- tain well known Indian rasoh have been