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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19

the appoint mcnt Of = board Of drain
axe commissioners and the outlining
"i drainage district hy the ihige OF
tho Circuit Court can come only after
petition for such action has been
MED with bond and security. by the
"ncrs OF three iiftus of tn. over
hawed or swamp lands. ana ,acn an
on TIC other owners are TO % duly
ho'ihcd In order that they may appear
ana oppose the improv ,ments to De
made II they want to. In any event
II would take year or more TO nm
wind all of the red tape. and comply
with all OF the ramihcations Of the law
an" perhaps another var To set the
commissioners down TO actual work.
;" far as I have been able 20 dis
t""'r' and have made much inquiry
no action other than that mentioned
by NJ. o!d in his paper given above.
mas yet be IN taken anywhere IN Viz
Rlnia looking To tho appointment cr
BOARD of drainage commissioners under
'he provisions OF this law although
IN" original law is over two wears Of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19

Hond Issue Provided For.
The highest assessments thar can no
mace In one year is an averas, OF -
cents per acre of the lands to 10 hene-
Evening star., 1912-07-21


and had. each of US many empty hours,
unburdensome intimacy. / had. to tell
the truth been wretchedly lonely before
she came because Dicks work, or his
pleasure. ] weakly preferred not to know
which, allowed him 10 be at home SO lit
tie: a fact which / preferred that my
older friends should, 50 far as possible,
not suspect 1t was different with Con-
stance Larcher: one could not mind her
knowing. 1t was her exquisite way not
to appear. by the least implication. to
see or to know anything that l had not
specifically told her. and she was no less
scrupulously reticent about her own at
fairs than about mine. And If, unspoA-
eniy ! came to be more interested In her
concerns than was legitimate l may make
the feeble defense that l was not wholly
to blame. Lonely. unoccupied women al
ways become busybodies. / believe; ],
at least. if ] proved a dangerous, was not
a malicious one.
From the very first one thing troubled
me. Constance Larcher was not well.
From an inadvertent remark OF hers /
learned that the physician she had con-
suited in New York had promptly told
her that she must go away. and it seemed
strange and terrifying to me that she did
not go. Secure in my own strong health,
gers she houted. So one day ! spoke
OF it to her.
She laid = gentle hand on mine.
Please don't object. oh yes she
conceded, lightly. II should go away, of
course. But YOU have all made il too
now
For the first time she seemed to he
preposterously trivial and light minded.
But how can you balance them" I per-
Evening star., 1912-07-21
The Hat and the Spectator.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
4 court in Berlin recently decided that
there was no legal power which could
compel a woman to remove her hat while
she was sitting in theater. The court
might have gone much further and as
serted that there was no illegal power.
either. Let US assume that evil-minded
man. eager to evade his responsibilities
in this matter. as he is in so many others
relating to the nobler sex. were to OBTAIN
court ruling that while there could De
no legal removal of a Womans hat III a
theatcr there might be an Illegal one Tor
which the woman could not secure any
legal redress What would be the prac-
tical effect of such ruling?
Fortunately for Americans this question
is for them only one of theoretical IN
terest. We do not have to seek for meth
DDS either legal or illegal of lifting the
hats off the fair heads in our theaters.
Some years ago gentle agitation or the
question was started. At first the Woin-
en- were unwilling to go to the trouble
of removing their hats but 1t was NOT
long before they accepted the situation.
All that was necessary was recognition
on their part of a general public desire
that Eats should be taken OF. ana OH
they came.
But In Berlin they do these things diff
feren1ly 1t is conceded that, no matter
how long and dull and heavy a German
play may be- there are nevertheless Ger
mans who wish to remain planted firmly
in their seats with gazes fixed on the
stage till the thing finally dies of Its
own inanition- 1t Is also unquestionapie
that these singular Germans also wish
to see the people on the stage, even the
women who are there. But when the
true Teutonic hat intervenes the pro-
scenium arch is the whole picture seen
by the spectator.
The German who had parted with good
marks for his seat ought to be entitled
to see the players, IL such is his curious
wish. He may. therefore, avail himself
of the broad shelter offered by the Ber-
lin court s decision. Let him assert that
his right to wear his hat in the theate-
is equal with that of the woman. Prob
ably when all the frauen find the hats of
the herren obscuring their sight of the
stage they will remove their own head
gear and thus place themselves In a po-
siton to make demands.
Evening star., 1912-07-21
Manufactured Rubies.
'pondence OF the London Times.

correspondence OF I-onQCn IlmeE
Reconstructed rubesare real rubies made
by taking small real rubies, or particles of
ruby dust and melting them together so
that they crystalline into one larger gem.
Synthetic rubies, your able contribu-
tor. Mr.. Herbert Smith. has explained,
are manufactured by fusing and crystal
liZing together the still more minute par
icles of oxide OF aluminium. the material
of which the ruby itself consists. Ii is
not a question of colors To reconstruct
pale ruby one begins with little Lale
rubies and fuses them together. To re-
construct a full-colored ruby one natur-
ally begins with the dust or fragments OF
fuil-colored ruby. But whether pale or
full colored, the reconstructed ruby is un-
questionaby a real ruby, fused together,
/; is true. In the laboratory of the chemist
and not in the underground laboratory of
nature: but none the less real. 1t is
equally hard. equally capable of taking
polish. and identical in crystalline form.
The expert can distinguish IT, il is true
and microscopic bubbles: for the manu-
facturcd ruby las usually fewer flaws
than the natural ruby. and the micro
scopic bubbles in ii have 4 different sha De
from those of the natural ruby The un-
doubted fact that the dealers still charge
much higher prices for the natural gem
than for manufactured one OF equal
weight. color and clearness does not touch
the question of the geRuineness Of the
manufactured article
Evening star., 1912-07-21
Queer Bits of History.
From the Chicago News.

FROM the taicago news
Certain kinds of medieval Venetian
glasses were popularity supposed to fly TO
pieces IL poisoned liquor were poured into
them. In contrast, also dating from the
bad old days. were glasses which poisoned
all who drank from them. The poison was
crystallized at the bottom % the glass.
from which IL was indistingutshabl ana
as it dissolved very slowly il could he
used many times with deadly effect. some
such glasses can be seen at the British
Museum. and every collector knows that
ii Is never quite safe TO use medieval
glass for drinking purposes without tax
ing precautions.
Authentic records as to the origin or
leap year privileges for women are Few.
Here is one, from WalSh's Courtship,
Love and Marriage, 1905: Albeit II IL
now become q part Of the common law, in
regard TO social relation or life. that, as
often as any bisseXtill year do return. the
ladies have the sole privilege. during the
time it continueth. of making love unto
the men, which they may do either by
words or looks to them IL Seemeth
proper: and, moreover, no man will be
entitled to the benefit of clergy who doth
in anywise treat her proposal with slight
or contumely.''
Roger Crab the hermit and astrologer.
almost solved the problem of how to live
without eating. About 1641 he began to
restrict himself to vegetarian diet,
avoiding even butter and cheese From
roots he got to a vegetarian diet of broth.
thickened with bran. and pudding made
Of bran and turnip leaves chopped to-
leaves and grass He drank nothing
but water. and lived for nearly forty
years on 3 farthings a week. He died in
London In 1850. in HIS sixtieth year.
Evening star., 1912-07-21

only TO be beaten down: others are di-
verted in direction. and many turn sOmer-
saults in midair. The falls seem final
barrier. doubt takes possession of the
spectator. when of sudden out of the
depths. like an arrow from a bow. shoots
a salmon, high and with graceful curve,
clear over and above the edge. \ clean
jump of ten feet, and twelve-pound
fish has fallen on the shelf.
Watch the struggle as the floods sweep
down upon him. Fins and the powerful
tail are instantly at work: all speed ahead
is the signal. Will he hold? Will he make
it" The fish is making frantic efforts.
the tail vibrating at its ma aximum: then a
slight upward motion Is seen, and faster
and faster. with spurts of water from
dorsal fins and tip of tail marking it's
course. he disappears in the rapids.
Some fish are not successful in STEM
ming the tide and are swept over into the
pool. Some fall heavily on the rocky
edge and are soreIy wounded. some even
killed. Some make the jump with the
ease and grace of a trained athlete taking
hurdle. and drop lightly. with margin
of several feet of safety. into the less
forcefui waters above. Even the big
thirty FOUNDER jumps clear over and we'll
up on the shelf and glides easily into the
triangular pocket above. So the jump
ing is continued until all are over, and
the continuance of the race Is assured for
Salmo salar.
Evening star., 1912-07-21

the walls. spot is perceived on the
paper. Or does the veXed consciousness
only seem to note a blemish Then
through the open door a glance shoots
out into the comfort of a greater re-
ception room. the gathering place for
those who belong to the club: and ao-
probation of its ease adds stress to the
ills of the visitor. Furtive attention
again creeps back to the walls OF the
cell. and of all its conventional efforts at
mural decoration a thermometer stands
out starkly. The prisoner gides toward
the mercury tube. The indicator rests at
60-never more, even in the dead Of win
Ter Again the eyes travel out to the
hospitabie land beyond the narrow bound
aries. as Oscar Wilde at Reading gaol
looked at the sky. Endless sitting and
squirning-for ~ten minutes or a quarter
OF an hour, perhaps-and the friend ar
iiNeS. rushes into the retreat and drags
forth the miserable man to the place of
courtesy. Present Ills are forgotten until
another friend in another club or perhaps
another city conjures UP again the agon-
lied question: Why don't reception
rooms receive"
Evening star., 1912-07-21
WHERE THE SALMON LEAP.
Great Sight When the Silver Fish
Go Up the Humber River.
" Life in America.

From Country Life in America.
The Humber river is one OF the largest
In Newfoundland. Fifty miles above tidal
waters, between high cliffs. are the falls
of the Humber. sheer drop of eight TO
Twelve feet The salmon comin:, up from
the sea on their annual pilgrimage to
spawn in the quiet upper reaches of the
river must get over this seemingly i'm
passa bile obstacle somehow or other.
In the great pool below the falls they
congregate. Young salmon = srilse - OF
three or four pounds, adults OF ten or
twelve pounds. big fellows of twenty.
thirty and even more pounds pause here
to rest before making the, supreme effort
TOR that great leap.
Above the falls the river advances with
rush and pours in broken masses into
the pool below. Dashing spray and flying
foam are everywhere. And from all this
smother OF mist and whring waters the
river surges onward TO the smoother runs
below. The pool just below the drop of
the fall is alive with moving. striving.
jumping salmon.
Some dash through the curtain of falling
waters into the water-worn recesses un-
derneath the lip of the shelf. All along
the face are jumping salmon-all jumping
At the fall-there are several in the air
at once Many FISH only thrust head and
shoulders. or half the body out of the
water as il inspecting the fall and meas
uring the height of the jump. and this the
natives declare they do.
Big and little essay the jump The time
And the place for the supreme effort are at
land: on and over is what must be. And
"a they dare the leap. The three pound
grilSe cleave the air Ike bars of polished
silver: the mature fish of twelve pounds
the big ones of twenty and the leviathans
n thirty pounds or more. all are trying
Out OF all the turmoil and welter they
spring.
Even the little ones no more than six
inches long pop up three or four feet into
the ar. BY actual count the fish are
jumping at the rate of thirty to fifty a
minute for hours. tho period OF greatest
activity being the middle of the day. The
salmon seem 10 sense the least distance.
ind the low shelf near the middle is
the favorite place for trial.
Jumps OF all kinds are in the air. here a
feeble one of only a foot or two. here one
OF four or five feet. there one of ten and
some even twelve feet Some hurl them
selves straight at the descending water
Evening star., 1912-07-21

My first rather bungling attempt was
made shortly after the evening l have
spoken of. Dick had gone out after din
ner, leaving us alone. Sidney and !, and
as we sat talking / imagined he looked
rather anxiously toward the door.
"She's not coming / smiled at him.
'.Oh, You mean--,
Evening star., 1912-07-21
Checks in Germany.
From the Manchester Union.


There is nothing especially new or sur
prising In the report that the recent
crisis in Germany has resulted In the
Inauguration of a campaign of education
for the greater use OF the check In the
retail trade of that country. II has been
recognized as fact for several years.
both in Germany and in France, that Q
more general use Of checks would be
powerful influence in the movement for
placing the finances OF those countries
on a more satisfactory basis. Particu-
larry is this true in Germany Never
thaless. whereas the check feature In the
United States has been showing spectac-
ular growth in recent years, IL has been
by no means popular in France and Ger
many, by far the greater proportion OF
retail payments there being made I'M
cash. The present agitation, IL SO II may
be termed, is a revival OF an old move
ment rather than the start OF a new one.
The recent crisis I'm Germany was one
of the occasional occurrences which
stimulate the zeal of the check advocates
A hopeful feature OF the present plan is
that it contemplates a campaign Of edu-
cation. which. while IL may be less
quickly productive of the desired result
than some might wish. is likely to be
more certain.
Evening star., 1912-07-21
As to Reception Rooms.
rom the Chicago, Evening Post.


Why is the fashionable clubs recep-
tion room SO dreary and 50 forbidding?
1t matters little what club or what city
one elects for consideration, the condi-
ton is universal In proof, recall some
frigid moment when. as stranger within
the doors, you took the interior details
of a reception room into the basic layers
of experience. A friend expects to meet
another at the latters club and the host
is ten minutes late. An obsequious. over
powering hunkey seizes the visitors card
and demands the occasion Of the intru-
sion- A subordinate fiunkeylet conducts
him smoothly but powerfully to small
nearby chamber with the injunction to
await developments. Like sentinel pac-
ing through the gloom of an unfamiliar
skirmish line. the imagination of him
who waits flies about hither and thither
Long minutes elapse. and observation is
succeeded by annoyance. The furniture
of the prison first makes Its arrival into
the consciousness of the bound man. The
straight lines OF the chairs weary, and
the worn place in the upholstering adds
"a sense of petulance to the already
strained mind. tThe attention wanders to
Evening star., 1912-07-21
JOEL CALLS HER "H0NEY"
AND HUSTLES THE CROWD
Chicago Hooters Annoy Timid
Woman While Her Husband
Is Absent Shopping.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star
CHICAGO. ILL.,. July 2p--One weary,
sad-eyed horse. a dilapidated buggy
stuffed with straw for seat and a
farmers wife crying with all her heart
today at State and Madison streets. held
the attention of three mounted police
men and many citizens incidentally
trafflc was blocked.
Joel Hopkins. just arrived from his
farm near Palos Park III. on a shopping
and sightseeing mission. hitched his rig
at the busiest corner in Chicago, telling
his wife he would return in five minutes.
as he intended buying clothes in the
store ''over the way" She promised TO
wait and watch the horse until his re-
turn.
Murmur Comes From Sidewalk.
For the first five minutes Mrs. Hop
kins sat serenely counting the number
OF floors in the skyscrapers around her.
At the fifteenth floor she was startled by
a murmur from the sidewalk.
Bringing her gaze down. she was
astounded by the sight that greeted her
more than 100 persons gazing at the out
fit and yelling: "Where'd you come
FROM" and "Whered YOU get Ii -"
Policemen failed to disperse the crowds.
autos lined up and high interest in Mrs.
Hopkins prevailed.
Joel Is Indignant.
For while Mrs. Hopkins wept and
called loudly for Joel. When he arrived
he was indignant.
Whats the matter. honey? he yelled.
What arc they doing to ye:
Then the Paios Park man chased the
on!ookers to a distance and Jumped into
the wagon and kissed his Wife. The
crowd yelled In delight.
When the Hopkinses inalS' got sepa-
rated from the crowd and drove on down
State street the yelling continued. The
crowd followed them for blocks until
policemen intcrfered.
Evening star., 1912-07-21

T brought on our
strange crisis the
more quickly that
the winter | knew
Constance Larcher
was the harsilest.
everybody said. that
the New Workers
of our generation
had ever known.
There seemed an
nsatiable malice III
the sharp winds, a
Evening star., 1912-07-21

An hour passed. or two-I do not know
how long it was. But l know that I sat
trembling, thinking of the two who l
knew were upstairs together and of the
thing that / had brought about.
thought. too of the ngly things that peo-
pie would say of me if they knew all that
| had done-and had not done. And |
tried to judge myself but could not for
the panic that was upon me, lest, after
al. | had done evil-evil to them both
Evening star., 1912-07-21
DID THE END JUSTIFY?
By Olivia Howard Dunbar.

street. ard that she must have come fG
me TO go out with her as usual.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
CABLEGRAMAS
La fortuna del
presidente Gomez

Nueya York, viernes.-
La Association de veteranos de CANA
guey acord6 aver pedir al Congreso Gu
bano que lleve a cabo una investigation
acerca de la repentina adquisici6n de
riqueza por el Presidente de Cuba Y
otros funcionarios, que la Asamblea per
manezca en- session permanente con el
fin de vigilar al Gobierno Y evitar que
deSpilfarre el tesoro pdbEco en- subven-
clones, concesiones y contracts fraudu-
lentos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
Un discurso de
Santiago Iglesias

Nueya York. viernes-
Santiago IgIesias pronunci6 IN dis
curse en- la Union Central de Trabaja-
dores en- Washington. d. c. Ese orga-
nismo ha decidido pedir al Congreso
que Sc le conceda la ciudadania a los
puertorriquenos y que Sc cree un depar-
tamento de Trabaio y Agricultural. Ell
Representative Wilson, Presidente del
Comite del Trabajo presentara un pro-
veto de ley pidiendo la creaci6n de tai
Departments.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
Atentado contra
el Rey de Italia
Nueya York, viernes.- :

Nueva York, viernes.-
FL anarquista Antonio Dalba dispart
tres tiros de revolver al rey de Italia
aver al salir este monarca de su palacic
en- Roma. Ell rey result6 ileso, pero el
Comandante Langa, jefe de la escolta
del rey, fu6 herido de gravedad Ell
aseSino fu6 agredido por la multitud
anteS de ser arreStado.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15

FL germen de
las revoluciones

Nueya York, tiernes.-
Ell Senado de Washington ha aproba-
do una Resolution Conjunta prohibien-
do el envio de arnas y pertrechos de
los Estados Unidos a cualquier pals de
este hemisferio que Sc halle en- estado de
revoluci6n. Sc espela que la Camara
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
Un choque de trenes

Nueva York, vierneS-
Aver ocurrio un choque en- ell ferroca-
rril de Santa Fe en- McCartys. Mejico,
resultando 3 muertos, extraviados Y
20 heridos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
FL hijo de Montojo

Nueya York, viernes-
FL captain Montojo. hijo del Almiran-
te del mismo apellido Sc suicide aver en-
Madrid, Espana, tomandose una dosis
de venen0.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
Las armas>
revolucionarias

Nueva York, viernes-
La Camara de Representatives. de los
Estados Unidos aprob6 la resolution pa
sada aver en- el Senado y en- la que Sc
prohibe el envio de armas desde este
pals a cualquier otro del hemisferio que
Sc halle en- estado de guerra
(Contin1a en- la Ia. pagina)
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
La anarqu1a en- China

Nueva York, viemes.-
Sc reciben informes de que la lucha
continda en- Canton. Los canoneros
chinos han bombardeado a los sediciosos
matando mil Y destruyendo muchas ca
SaS.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15

de Representatives. apruebe hoy esta re-
soluci6u Esta medIda acabara con los
envios a los rebeldes de tales armas V
pertrechoS
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
Hecticidad, la MOderna Economic del TrabajO

Todas las mejores recientes econ6micas
dmico
de exposici6n, puedan
Planchs eHctrcas Westinghouse kctricos Motorea
maquina de braserios caentadores de
caentadores cafe cnadorea leche
Tenga la bondad de
den da Vd la satisfaction
uso de las nuev lampara Westinghouse Wire Type Tungsten sin
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-03-15
HERMINIO DIAZ

Su actividad prodigiosa
y el cuidado con que este
ABOGADO-NOTARIO
estudia y despacha todas
las cuestiones que Sc lie So
meten, asi como 10 modico
de sus honorarios, le haccn
cada dia mas merecedor
de la conhanza absolute
que Sus numcrosos Glen
tes le dispensan.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-04-19


Experienced men in political af-
fairs in Maryland and every other
State in the Country are much anus
ed over the claims made by the sup
porters of Col. Roosevelt since the
Illinois Primary. They seem to be
of the opinion tEat because of the
Colonel having been given the dele
ga,ion from that Slate that Presi-
dent Taft's chances have been weak
ened but comparing The same period
Of time in 1908 with the present it
will show that the President has now
10 more Delegates than he had then.
The present conditions are much
more favorable for the re- nomination
Of President Taft than in 1908, for
in that year the President was candi-
date for the same office as that to
which he aspires now and remember
ing, anyone will know that the Hi
nois Delegation to the Convention
was opposed to the President
Illinois was for Speaker Cannon and
voted for him at the Convention, at
the same Convention the New York
Delegation named former Governor
dughes and supported him. The
Pennsylvania Delegation presented
the name Of Secretary Knox aud
backed him to the limit. Wisconsin
in 1908 was for Senator Lafollette
and voted for him at the National
Convention. Now compate these
conditions with TIE present time
Illinois did not again support Taft
it wasn't expected she would. Indiana
who supported former Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks at the Convention,
has now sent an uninstructed dele-
CATION to the Convection for Taft.
Mr.. Fairbanks himself is a Delegate
at large for that State. New York
will bave solid delegation for the
President. Wisconsin continues to
be for LaFolIette.