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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
CALIFORNIA FIELD
FOR PONY POLO
PLAYERS FROM EAST AND FROM
ENGLAND WILL APPEAR IN
MATCHES THERE.

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-Polo en-
thusiasts all over the country are
looking toward Southern California,
where the first OF the big winter tour
naments will be- held. The season
will open on January at Coronado
Beach.
The entry list 10 larger than ever
before. There are over dosen
teams entered for the numerous cups
and other trophies. According to
reports from there, an Eastern team.
which will be known az the Rock
Always" has entered the lists. II will
be composed of Monty Waterbury.
of the international Meadow Brook
team: Fred Mclaughlin. Malcolm
Stevenson and Cheever Cowdin.
This will be a strong aggregation
and should come pretty near. clean
Ing up when 1t Ia playing on the fiat.
The team carries goal handicap OF
twenty-one goals, this, OF course. CIV
ing the weaker teams a chance to
hold them.
From present Indications the polo
on the Pacific Slope should be better
this year than 1t has ever been since
the game has been taken up 20 en-
Enthusiastically out there.
1t Is to be hoped that soon we
shall have two or three teams from
The West entering the tournamen.
engagem ents around here. 1t would
give the game q wonderful impetus
and greatly increase the interest In
polo In both sections Of the country
Then. with IN army team or two. our
tournaments would Be little more
exciting than they are ct present.
Lord TWeedm ovth has arrived ~
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
OFFICERS QUALIFY
IN HENRICO COUNTY

Henrico county officers celebrated
the Yuletide yesterday by qualifying
before Judge Scott for their respec-
tive terms as servants of the people.
Among those who were sworn in
were the clerk. the sheriff, commits
sioners Of revenue. constables, magis-
trates and overseers OF the poor.
The Christmas spirit dwelt among
hem as they exchanged the season g
greetings. and good cheer had the
upper hand for the day
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
MRS. BRITTON WILL
HAVE LADIES' DAY

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 27.-'Iadies' day"
at the National League Park here was
announced ~ 1 New Years gift to the
women OF st. Louis by Mrs. Helen
Hathaway Britton. owner Of. the st.
Louis Nationals.
Mrs. Hrttton. It II announced. win
select Thursday q each week q the
day whepS III women with ~ admitted
- " bassball Gaanes next 1eason.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
Wedding Announced.

The wedding of ]. @. Garrett, of
Chesterfield county. to Miss Anne
Ennis, of Richmond il announced
The ceremony took place in WASH
ington December 20, Mr.. and MIRA
Garrett will be at home after Jan
nary at 1909 North Twenty third
street, Richmond.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28

high order.
A Norfolk critic said that Nat
GOODWIN made less of a hit than his
new play, The Captain" in that
city. He Is no longer the hand
some. athletic appearing young man
he was several years ago." wrote the
critic. There is nothing surprising In
that Even Nat Goodwin cannot re-
main young, with the years piling uI
tallies. as we'll as marital troubles
However, it appears that Mr.. Good.
win was Ill the night he appeared In
Norfolk A physician was called In
and fixed the actor up 80 that he
was able to go back TO New York
next day.
Mime. Jeanne Jomeili. who appears
at the City Auditorium January Is
says that Debussy is the coming mar
in French music, He is a composer
of individual talent. "an impression
moving canvas Of varying tonalities
who wanders dreamily through q
maze OF ever-changing harmonies the
fitting interpreter of Dante. Gabriel
Rossetti and OF ! Maeterlinck His
Prelude de Iapres midi DUN Faune
is one Of the most curious OF modern
orchestra works. La Demoisells
Elue, the 'Nocturnes.' are also ex.
quisitelv poetical and suffice to stamT
Debussy as q musician OF very un-
common gifts.
II have read the manuscript o.
several unpublished compositions o.
his and l am really appalled, at thu
magnitude Of the mans genius wal
fortunate enough to secure an ad
vance copy Of one Of those marvel
GUS love poems. lie Promenoir DEF
deux amants.' and Will sing 1t OF
my American tour.
mo. Debussy Is not a fad, ant
there will never be a reaction agains
modernism In music. The success
obtained by everyone Of DebusAy''
works shows that Paris Is decided
to be in the forefront OF the mod
ern muical movement. The attitude
adopted by the younger French com
posers proves indeed that they arr
anxious to renew obsolete forms
They evince wholesome dread o
writing anything that may be con
sidered 'vieux jeu.' Some are boldel
than others, and perhaps In thei
search for noevl effects may Ia.
themselves open TO the accusation o
cultivating eccentricity At the. ex-
pensc OF simplicity. but at any rat
they rarely allow themselves to b.
banal."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
The Weather

tH8AniA~-rAiFs WuCH COiufT lnuTS.
day: Friday fair. continued cold. North
colder Thursday; FRI
day fair.
Special LEGAL Data for Yesterday.
IL noon temperature .............. 50
r. ~. temperature ........... 50
Maximum temperature up to r.
M. .................. $40
Minimum temperature UP to p.
M SS.N
Mean Temperature ............. ~
Normal temperature .............. 80
Excess in temperature today. 10
Deficiency In temperature since
sMArch ] -
Accumulated excess in temperature
since January -
Rainfall last twenty-four hours. Of
Deficiency In rainfall since March
.-..t.. OH
Accumulated deficiency in rainfall
since January l................ 6.66
Leeal Oeservatten r. n. Yesterday.
xemp4toIur0 .........t... .'t........ ~
numI0Ky ..s.r...,. -. ~
Wind. direction ................N IN. W.
wind; velocity ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, II
N04tnSr ..s.....s. - .A1oaE
AAin9AM lAat - hours ..........s.sAl
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28

Dekoven's new opera The We'd
ding Day" has been pronounced a
success by New York critics. but there
is nothing specially new in the book.
The music is said to be of very
high order.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28

Continuous vaudeville and moving
pictures.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
At the Theatres
Empire

hIJVU.
Eugene Blair in The Test"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28
Colonial

Continuous vaudeville.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-28

II the standard set by Mr.. Sullivan
was applied to the athletes now at
tracing public attention and all who
did not measure up to ii debnrred from
competition the falling stars would
resemble shower OF meteorites in
November.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-24

Rev. r. B. Wadeigh who has been making speeches for the
vets in Idao and informed recently in Ohio was
acting pastor of the Presbyterian church in Kelthsbug ILL.,,
for wear and half He claims be Presbyterian preacher,
but this is not fact the following letter will show:
Seaton, Ill., August a. 1911.
TO whom it may
This is to certify that Rev. T. B. Wadleigh OF kelthsburg
Ill., member of the Presbyterian church. In the spring
he became the supply of the Presbyterian pulpit in
Keithburg with the approval of the Home Mission committee
of the Presbyery River Rev. Wadleigh presented him
self member of the Dubuque Association Of the Congrega
tona church. Up to date he has not presented his ministerial
letter of transfer to our ecclesiastical body
(Signed) Philip Palmer,
Stated Clerk of the Prebte Rock River Synod of Illinois
Chas Eyra Fisk,
Sec Com on Home Mission Pres. of Rock River.
Starting supposed vacation last Rev. Wadleigh
handed in his resignation take effect weeks later during
which time he should draw his salary The last he
preached against the saloon The next heard of
him that he campaigning for the vets Iaho having
gone directly from his field in Illinois, turned his coat and
went work for the fake liquor organization known The
Mems and Voters League of Canyon County When
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-24
Rev. 7. 3. Wad1eig}h

became what he had done his Session accepted his
resignation, to take effect Immediately The Rev. Wadegh
had the courage return to his home town but sent his
wife back to pack the family goods and withdrew from his
former parish
While Mr. Wadleigh may be kened to Judas Iscarot it is
hardly fair that ancient character because he repened
and exposed the price of his act Of betrayal which Wadegh
hasn't done up the present time 1t is reported about Kehs
burg that he from the liquor for three
months service The value received that the liquor fellows
getting for this service set forth in editorial in the Cald
well News, follows:
The sending of so-caed minister of the gospel into the
speak for the institution which all religious thought
of the day recognizes directly opposed to purity of the souls
of and Of the homes the people, such has turned hum
ded against the campaign that good had undertaken
work because they honestly believed license and rega
ton to be the best way handle the liquor question:
Two years ago Canyon County voted dry by 800 After
Mr. Wadgh got through his campaign for the vets voted dry
by 1900.
The residents of Khsburg report that the Rev. Wadleigh
which should properly be spelled 'Wabby left number
of bad debts behind him. After he has received his reputed
salary his creditors ought naturally expect hear from him.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-24

fire opened Lucy dropped to the floor and the bullet that
intended for went wide It evident that the
thought that they had killed her. for they did not fire again
The shot directed at Nellie and struck of her
corset and DETECTED to her right through which
passed With this the seemed to take fright for they
suddenly ceased their bloody work and from the house and
disappeared in the darkness They made their to Adar
and there succeeded in boarding freight train that went to
Bushnell.
Called for Help.
Lucy lost time in calling for help and in ummonng the
DOCTORS The within the dining of confusion
Mr. Mcdonald had been severely wounded and hurried to
the ST. Francis Hospital at Macomb where he is His
don Serious but the injury may not prove fatal Some
couragement has held Nellie is at home and will be
cared for there.
The assault absolutely unexpected and uncaled for
that the inmates of the house had time whatever defend
themselves.
The Two Soon Captured.
Marshal Hanks of Bushnell notified and in short
time the captured and taken back and quickly dent
fled by the MDonad and then taken and lodged the
county jail Further investigation showed that the two had
been drinking all day in Bushnell Saloons finally getting
freight train and dropping off at Affair." and seeing the light in
this home took drunken fancy to clean out the inmates
sort of climax to their days spree.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-24
Were at Supper Table.
Mr.. Mcdonald Shot First.

The first shot directed at Mr.. Mcdonald and this
before he could stir from his to defend himself The
appear to have demand for money for Mr. Mcdonald
wealthy farmer bullet fired at close range passed
through neck of Mr. Mcdonald and then into his left shout
der said have gone through The moment that the
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-24
Especial to the Republican-Register.)


Bushnell, ILL.,, Nov. 17-Ths community has been deeply
stirred the last twenyfour hours the murderous attempt
made the family of Urah Mcdonald farmer living
half mile from Adair, and the shooting of Mr. Mcdonald,
through the neck and shoulder and the woundng of his daug
Nellie aged II, through whose bullet passed. while
another daughter Lucy aged escaped only by div
ing the table, the bullet that intended for her missing
her. The parties that committed this heinous deed live in Alb
ngdon and Lawrence Vaughn aged nineteen and Richard
Kendall aged hryfour and they captured speedily and
lodged in the Mconough county jail Feeling high
the affair." for there appears to have been incentive whatever
for the deed unless robbery for the two were en-
tirey unknown the McDonads who them before
Were Supper Table.
the time Of the firing the McDonads sitting at the
supper table and parag Of the evening meal said
that the two the door open and walked in and with
word of warning began firing the group Kendall was
pretty well under the influence of liquor
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29

Climatic conditions in Michigan are
too extreme to permit Of the use of
hog cots for all. classes OF pigs, for
all purposes during the entire year,
but for the summer season the sys-
tenn Of cotting and yarding cannot be
excelled. Cots are especially desira-
BILE for dry brood sows and young
males and females being reared for
breeding purposes. They are desira-
BILE because an abundance Of fresh
air, sunshine and exercise are pro-
vided.
The illustration represents a form
of cot recently designed and construct
ed and now in use in the hog lots at
the Michigan agricultural college. 1t
Is 6x8 at the foundation, with the
sides raised perpendicularly three
feet before receiving the half pitch
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
Wire Worms
By r. II. PETIT, EnfomoiogiSf
Michigan Agricultural College

Low ground and more especially
mucky ground, is apt to be infested
with wire-worms These are slender,
yellow, little creatures, cylindrical in
form, and in size varying from half
an inch to more than an inch In
length All have hard, polished skins
amounting almost to shells, and six
short legs behind the flattened heads,
besides a sucker like false-foot on the
last segment. Wire-worms usually
feed on the roots Of grains, corn and
other grasses, though they will bur-
row into potatoes, sugar-beets and 9th
er root crops, and even apples lying
on the ground.
The adults are the common snap
ping-beetles or click-beetles, the little
fellows that jump up into the air with
click, when placed on their backs
These beetles lay the eggs from which
the wire-worms hatch, and the wire.
worms in turn become click-beetles
after passing through the crySalis
stage in their little earthen cells in
the soil. 1t is probable that two years
are required for the larvae to attain
maturity.
Wire-worms are primarily insects of
grassland and the fact that they re-
quire two or three years to develop
helps to explain why it is that they
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
Grim Shrewdness.

Sir Wemyss Reid tells story redolent
Of a grim shrewdness characteristic of
canny Novocastrians: "There was a
worthy, long since forgotten, in my
time, who was prototype of Rogue
Riderhood, in Our Mutual Friend He
was known as Cuckoo Jack, and he lived
upon the Tyne in well-patched old
boat, picking up any trifle that came
his way, from a derelict to a corpse.
One day an elderly and most estimable
Quaker of Newcastle, in stepping from
a river steamboat to the quay, slipped
and fell into the stream. Cuckoo Jack
was at hand with his boat and quickly
rescued the lucllless Friend and landed
him, dripping, on the quay. The good
man drew half crown from his pocket
and solemnly handed it to his pre-
server. Jack eyed the coin for mo-
ment with lack-lpster gaze, spat upon
it solemnly for luck and, having
placed it safely in his pocket, said, in
II matter-of-fact tone, to the soaked
Quaker: Man, ah'd hev gotten five
shillin' for takin' yc to the dead
hoose.' "-London Telegraph.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
r A G w e e d
By r. J. BALDWIN, Michigan
Agricultural College

The vitality of it's seeds and it's
ability to find a footing for growth on
road and lane sides, fence rows and
all other out of the way places makes
ragweed one o. our worst farm weeds.
1t is not eaten much by animals, and
II bitten or trampled what is left of il
can produce seed under the hardest
circumstances.
The plant is recognized by its finely
divided leaves, which suggest its
name. When fully grown the STAN
inmate flower forms very conspicu-
Gus tassel, while the pistilate or seed
producing flowers are partly hidden in
the axis of leaves and branches.
The use of cultivated crops which
are kept clean is the surest way of
cleaning fields of this pest. Even
when labor is high priced, if 1t can be
had at all, it will pay to go over the
corn and bean fields with hoes and
remove the weeds missed by the cul-
tivator.
A practice which is very effective
in controlling ragweed is to clip the
stubble fields after the grain has been
harvested. If ragweeds are present
in the grain they are cut six or more
inches higher by the binder, and the
part of the plant left branches far
Their down and natures quantities of
seed. The mower gets these plants
below the branches leaving them un.
able to do further harm. This opera
ton will always dispose of many 9TH
er seeds as well as ragweed, and If the
land is seeded to clover, the hay will
be much cleaner the following year.
The following Is quoted from Bull
letin 260: THE seeds of ragweed
are light brown or black, top shaped.
broadly oval the sides irregular
ridged vertically, with five to ten teeth
at the apex. Sometimes the hard GOV.
ering is removed by a clover huller,
exposing the naked seed
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
SAN-JAK

No other medicine in the world raises
the specific gravity if too low and pre-
vents the dissolution of salts from the
tissue and prevents swelling Of the
limbs and other parts of the body.
You may have the ability to manu-
facture the normal quantity of uric acid
alkaloids, but if the specific gravity is
too high, nue. to weakened condition Of
the kidneys, the normal quantity is not
eliminated. If normal quantity is not
eliminated and is carried back by the
circulation of the blood, absorbed into
the tissue causing soreness and lame
ness or rheumatism, catarrh and many
other dsagreeable symptoms. We re-
turn the price of one bottle of San.Jak,
500, if it fails to do good in any case.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
An Unhealthy Place.

"Silas," said Mrs. Acres, laying aside
daily paper which their son Caleb had
sent them from the city, "Silas, do we
bear me? wish that boy of our'n were
safe to hum
'Why, Sarah? Amt gettin' foolish
about him, air YEP"
mot 'xactly; but, you know, Silas.
Caleb never were strong, an the city
amt no place for him. Law. here I've
been reading in this paper that 3s pco-
pie died in New York Yesterday! We
amt had q death down here since old
man Cubber died of the rheumatism.
They're dropping off in New York
mighty fast, and I feel Caleb'll be took,
sure."-N. Y. Truth.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29

are often worse the second year after
grass than they are the first, most Of
them being full grown at that time.
In corn the most noticeable injury is
20 the seed after planting, though the
larvae also feed on the roots after the
corn is up. Experiments have failed
TO show any practicable method of
treating the seed so as to prevent in
Jury by wire-worms. II has been
shown, however. that late fall-plowing
kills many of the pupae by breaking
open the earthen cells in which they
have prepared to spend the winter.
The use of commercial fertilizers has
failed to check this pest except when
used in excessive quantities. II is
good to use wood-ashes because of
their tonic effect on the plants. but.
of course, this is recommended only
for aggravated cases and not for regu-
lar use in the absence of the pest In
dangerous numbers.
The most satisfactory way to deal
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
Business Sagacity.

Some years ago Lord Salisbury had
occasion to enter into BARRIERS shop
in a suburb of Portsmouth. The tom
serial artist recognized his customer,
for when his lordship passed the shop
some two or three days after the event
he was surprised to find n placard in
the window bearing the following no
tice: "IIair cut, three pence. With the
same scissors as / cut Lord Salisbury's
hair, six Dence."-N. Y. Sun.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29

with this pest is to keep the soil free
from them by short rotation of crops.
If the grain fields are seeded to clover,
and after the first or second year the
clover sod is planted to some planted
crop, there is less chance for June
grass or other grasses on which wire
worms live. to get into the fields. If
an old meadow or pasture is to be put
into crop, two years must elapse after
it is broken before it is safe to plant
any crop liable to be eaten by wire.
wors. To do this plow the grass in
early fall. and SOW clover, either with
oats, wheat or rye. Allow the clover
to stand two years and follow with
corn or beans as desired
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29
LIFE MYSTERY.

There are songs enough of the home fffA
OF parents and children sweet
sing of the many who stand alone.
And whose lives are incomplete,
Who in some way have missed the choicest
or blessings they most would prize,
And look upon happiness only
Through other more fortunate eyes;
Who bravely carry the burden
OF heavy daily cross.
Whose tranquil, smiling faces
Give no hint of pain or loss:
Yet whose hearts are filled with yearning,
Beyond their strength to deny,
For the things that are sweetest and dear
est
Which alone can satisfy.
oh sad are the ones who possessed them.
And have watched them fade from sight
With the lingering look from loviag eyes
That had filled their lives with light
But sadder are those who, softly.
In their Utmost souls must say:
mot your to one another,
They meet in their narrow way;
Yet who feel that the sun is shining
Fen now on the thoughtful brow
OF the man or woman in all the world
Before whom their hearts would bow;
Who in turn are wistfully waiting,
With eager outstretched hands,
To welcome the long-delayed one
Who would answer their souls demands
oh. for those who miss each other
Through all life's long sad years,
Cnloved, uncared for, and lonely,
My eyes o'crfiow with tears.
But think the loving Father
VIII some time make it clear,
And Heavens sweetest joys be given
TO those who missed them here.
Minnie May Curtis, in Chicago Inter
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-29

sity for hurrying back to Aliacoochee
that night. The small hotel was clean;
the supper had been of the kind which
prophesies wholesome breakfast,
and he was weary enough 10 call it Ii
days work and go to bed. None the
less, when he realized that his last
chance for reaching Allacoochee had
faded into II distant roar and two red
eyes staring back at him down the
long stretch of straight track
north of Glenco, he was i'm
mediately possessed with an i'm
Fortunate devil of Impotence. AS a
matter of fact, since there was an early
train in the morning, it could make lit
tie difference whether he slept at Glen
co or ut his room at the Johannesburg;
but it was a part of his plan that he
should reach Allacoochee at once, and
go he must, if he had to walk. So
much he said to the hotellieeper, who
was at q loss to understand the impa-
thence of his guest. A man might
walk, he said; it was only ten miles.
And then, again, n man might ride, if so
be he were willing to pay for horse.
Philip caught at the alternative and Of
fered to pay literally. The horse was
found, and after many minute direc-
tons about the road, which were quail
fed, repeated and amended until they
were hopelesssly obscure. ThornIyke
rode away in the darkness.
lTo BE Continued