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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19
s. Prose NAfscellaEaies. y

ONE of the very best of the Watson books
~ is "Prose Miscellanies," which is col
lection of some Of the shorter essays written
within the past twenty years by Mr.. Watson.
The book is beautifully bound in paper is
richly illustrated, printed on fine paper, in
large, bold type.
The price Of the book is $1.10, postpaid,
and it will be of interest and instructive to
every member Of the family.
The table Of contents is: "The New Year"
"a Forgotten Scholar" Random Talk on
Literary Topics" "a Tragedy in Tree
Top" I'm the Mountains" "Convalescent,"
"Glimpses Behind the Curtain" E'Not Quite"
"How I Came to Write Life Of Napoleon
CAT Fifty" "Eccentricities Of Nervous Peo-
pie" Dream Children '"The Oddities of
the Great" Bubbles on the Stream" "The
Greatest of Women" "A Rose on the
Snow" 'Reverie and Suggestion" Gas It Is
and AS It May Be" "The Song of the Bar
room" ''The Vulture," "Uncle Remus Is
Dead" :'The Wine Cup" Coward the
Light" ''The Country Wife," "The Path of
Glory" S'Is It Worth the Price," "The
Late" "The Old Packet Boat by the James,"
'sThe Most Original Poem" "An Incident in
the Life Of Epenetus Alexis Steed," "a New
Years Greeting"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19
TWO BALES TO THE ACRE BY
INTENSIVE FARMING.

Vicksburg, Miss.-One thousand
pounds Of three-sixteenths lint cot
ton per acre, raised on three test
acres at Anguilla, is the result
achieved in scientific cotton planting
and cultivation, as reported by J. P.
Hearst, an agent of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
who has charge Of the demonstration
farming in Sharkey, Warren and
IssaQuenna counties. Mr. Hearst
said that this cotton was raised by
proper cultivation and good prepa-
ration. In ten additional acres a
splendid crop was raised, and in the
same immediate territory the aver
age cotton yield did not exceed, in
most instances, $50 TO 500 pounds
Of lint cotton an acre.
He said that where the test was
made on these three acres he found
boil weevils in the early part Of the
season, and the bolls affected by
these insects were Immediately
burned He claims that intense cul-
tiyatiOn will overcome the obstacles.
Mr.. Hearst is arranging a number
Of demonstration meetings.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19
THE VATICAN AND AMERICAN
ETS&EEEG
ARMIES.

A few months ago The Menace
stated that the object Of the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy in securing. con-
troll OF the United States government
was to use it's military strength in
securing advantages from other
countries.
It was hardly expected however,
that the Hierarchy would begin be-
fore it had secured q Catholic ad-
ministration in the United States to
set up members Of the Hierarchy as
IA ruling power over nations with
whom the United States is at peace
yet that very thing has been done
in GantO Domingo, whose only Of
Tense consists in their own weakness
and inability to offer battle to the
United States.
Tor some months there has been
one of the usual, common, ordinary
revolutions" in Ganto DOminSO--a
republic of the West Indies, lying be-
tween Cuba and Porto Rico. The
people were engaged in their custO-
mary manner Of getting rid Of one
president and selecting another.
Selling upon the internal cOndj-
tiOng as an excuse, the Taft admin
lSLlGt4Ol QISpdJcu6u lOFC9 u UAl-
ted States marines, on a United
States war vessel under the com
manG Of a United States military
Official, to Santo Domingo. The Uni
ted States military force was landed,
together with a United States COM
mission consisting Of three members,
two OF whom bore significant Irish
names.
The United States commission,
backed by the United States military
force, shut down on the revolution
airy forces, kicked the incumbent
President of Santo Domingo out of
his job TO which he had been elected
by the people, and installed the Cath
Ollie archbishop as president Of the
republic
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is
Both the church and the State in.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19
WASHINGTON STIRRED OVER
GERMAN DECREE,

Washington, d. ca stir was
caused in Washington society when
it became known that the German
Imperial Chancellor has barred dip
lomats Of his country from marry
ing American women. In the Ger
man Embassy here it was said no
word Of the ruling had been re-
ceiYed.
Incredulousness generally was ex-
pressed by diplomats who were in
formed of the report from Berlin.
They said they did not believe Ger
man diplomacy would countenance
such a rule.
Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend, one of
the social leaders of the capital. said
the rule is not directed against the
United States alone, but applies to
all countries in which Germany is
represented automatically. A Ger
men diplomat may not marry a ma
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19

gentlemen Of the vatican; you are
notorious for making asses of your
selves, but this performance is one
that you will have occasion to long
remember. You were down and out
Of it before you undertook the
strong arm tactics in the West In
dies, but you will be well taken care
of in the United States in the next
twelve months.
The United States army and navy
are not intended for your private use
in establishing yourselves as the
official heads of such governments
as are not able to help thems elves
The Menace
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19
PAGE TWELVE
EDITORIAL NOTES
BY j. ID. WATSON

CONCLUDED FROM PAGE NINE.
Mr. Wilson may wish that President Taft had
pat more Offices under the classified service
When asked-if he approved such transac-
lions as an operator on the New York Stock
Exchange giving Simultaneous orders to diff
ferent brokers to buy and sell the same num-
Der OF securities to create the appearance Of
activity in the market>for that security, and
in this way rob the public, T. X Sturgis,
formerly president of the Exchange, replied
that he considered it all right so long as such
transactions paid the operators their proper
commissions.
He stated that the question was moral one,
but that he answered it with a Stock Ex-
change answer meaning that he did not con-
slider the right or wrong of gobbing the pub
lie, SO long as the robbery paid the operator
who was perpetrating the robbery his com
mission.
And Mr.. Sturgis' idea of what is due the
public by the Stock Exchange is the idea that
prevails throughout Wall street, as we'll as on
the Stock Exchange.
The question Of whether stock is worth
more or less than what it is quoted at-the
question Of whether or not the activity Of
stock is caused by legitimate demand from
purchasers, or is a fictitious demand created
by one operator selling a hundred shares
through one broker, and buying hundred
shares of the same stock through another
broker simply to make the public believe that
that stock is good investment, is never con-
sidered by the New York Stock Exchange.
All that the Stock Exchange operators con
slider is the commission.
Instead Of the Stock Exchange being run
to protect the public, it is run to rob the pub
lie, and instead of being a general market
where purchasers and sellers Of securities
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19

transact their business through their brokers,
1t is gambling house run by those brokers to
rob their clients
And the banks Of Wall street are operated
for the benefit Of the same crowd that control
the Stock Exchange.
Just as the Pujo Committee brought out
the fact that shady transactions in securities
were all right so long as they paid the COM
missions, it brought out the fact that these
brokers used the peoples money deposited in
the Wall street banks to carry on the specuIa-
ti0ns.
The banks sometimes get tremendous rates
Of interest for the money that belongs to the
deposltors, but the people pay these rates back
to the brokers when they transact business
through them
And the securities that the brokers' give the
bankers belong to the brokers' customers.
The broker creates fictitious demand for
stock, he borrows the peoples money from the
Wall street bank with which to operate, he
gives the peoples stocks or bonds TO the bank
as security for the loan, and he makes the
people pay the interest on the loan, while he
pockets the liberal commissions, which the
people also pay.
The report Of the Secretary Of the Senate
shows that the tax payers bought for their
Senators during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1912 ice, mineral waters Of many kinds,
bath salt, palmleaf fans, bath slippers, per-
fumed soap, cologne, talcum powder, massage
cream, castor oil, bronchial troches, cough
drops, quinine pills, soda mint, glyoerine,
razors and bay rum.
Besides these little items the people main
tain handsome private bathrooms for each
Senator, at cost Of about $87 per bath.
After all, being United tSates Senator is
not such a hard job.
Baths at $87 per bath, with expert rubbers
in attendance, and all Of the above little Gin
cidentals" thrown in at the peoples expense,
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tive Of the country to which he is ac-
credited.
From other sources it was learned
that the reason back of this ruling is
the belief of the German Government
that the foreign wives OF German
diplomats might find it difficult to
turn their allegiance from their
fatherland to that of their husbands.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-19
THE JEFFERSONIAN

is higher living than the majority Of them get
at home-and perhaps little bit higher than
the tax payers are able to provide for them
selves.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
DR.. Denny Succeeded on Charities
Board by DR.. Hatcher

At meeting in Richmond Friday
the State Board OF Charities and
Corrections, resolutions OF regard
fo- the retiring president, DR..
George H. Denny. were adopted.
DIR. Denny met with the board for
the last time, his resignation becom-
ing effective on Jan. 1. He made q
short address, expressing his per-
sonal friendship and esteem for
every member OF the board. He
said that he was as deeply interest
ed in it's work az in that OF any in
stitution with which he had ever
been connected. AS final message
before his departure from the State
TO take up the presidency of the
University Of Alabama, Dr.. Denny
asserted that there is no more inn
portant work than that in which the
charities board is engaged. that
his interests in it would continue
and that be- would always be at it.
service.
, Resolutions regarding DR.. Denny
departure were offered by DR.. Hatch
{ err and MIR. Cabell and unanimously
adopted. His services we're com
: mended in the wArmest terms, ant
/, the State of Alabama was congratu
n lated upon acquiring him. TIL
q sympathy and confidence OF tn
n the people among whom he will liv
g we're bespoken for him. and hope
r were expressed for as large as meas
!, ure of success as has crowned hl
r. work in Virginia as an educator.
Rev. DIR. S. G. Hatcher of Ricl
o mond was elected chairman TO su
coed DR.. Denny.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
Girls Get the Marriage Licenses

4 Philadelphi report few days
ago tells the following interesting
story:
Taking advantage Of leap year.
two well-dressed young women pre-
sented themselves at the Marriage
License Bureau in City Hall this
afternoon and asked for marriage
licenses. They said they intended
marrying brothers tomorrow.
They gave their names as Rose
Miller of 712 Hoffman street, and
Mary Harris of Alb Mercy street.
The bridegrooms-to to- be. who live in
Hudson Heights. N. J.. are Joseph
and Harry Jung. 90 and q years
old.
why didn't the boys CONS for
the marriage licsnse?" asked the
clerk.
Don't you know that this is leap
year," replied the girls. We love
the boys and thought we would
come here quietly sad get the H.
censes and be married with )ut our
parents knowing anything about
it,"
Miss Miller first met Joseph Jung
last summer when he rescued her
from a crowd in Atlantic City.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
Staunton Retains General Manager

Staunton's unique plan for NUM-
cipal government, which caused
much interest, has again been
brought to the attention OF the pub
lie through the election on Saturday
at a Joint meeting of both bodies OF
the City Council OF Samuel d. Hol-
singer 70 the office of city manager.
Mr.. Holsinger's election came as
complete surprise, the meeting hav-
ing been called to either reject or
accept a report of special commit
tee on the nomination of Senator j.
! |. Addison of Portsmouth. Ohio, but
formerly of Stanton, who was
candidate for the Office.
Mir. Holsinger is very capaols
man, and is thoroughly familiar
with the duties OF the Office, having
been clerk to G. T.. Ashburner the
first city manager, WHO resigned
last spring. The Office has been va
cant since Ashburner resignation
the city authorities being in doub
as to the man needed and as to thu
aoyisability Of continuing the Office
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
Lee Family Sells Islands

Smith and Myrtle Islands, op-
posite Cape Charles, which ira
dition marks as one of the retreats
OF Captain John Smith. after lapse
OF $50 years or more. have passed
out OF the ownership of the famous
Lee family Of Virginia into the hands
OF Oliver S. Campbell Of New York
The islands comprise about 4. 00(
acres and were formerly included
in the large estates Of General Johr
Gusts and General Robert f. Lee
The islands we're q part oftbe gran
made to one John Neale about 1886
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
SI.00 PER YEAR
AGRICULTURAL TRAIN
TO RUN TO LEXINGTON
Will Operate Over Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
cooperating WITH the Department.
OF Agriculture aud Immigration Of
Virginia, will operate an agricultu-
raj educational train over its Shen-
andoah Division, from Vaudeville 70
Lexington. for FIVE days, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and
Saturday, January 10Th, 18th, 18th,
18th and 10Th. The subjects OF the
lecture, which will be delivered by
experts under the direction OF Prof.
1 G. w. Koiner, commissioner OF agri-
culture and immigration. have been
selected with view to increasing
the yield OF farm products and ad-
vancing the prosperity OF the farm
ing communities through which the
train will travel. Addresses will
include discussions on improving
soil, increasing the yield per acre OF
corn, alfalfa growing, fruit culture
and poultry husbandrv.
The special train which will pro-
pagate the doctrine OF scientific, or
{ latter day, farming, will be COM
, posed of first-class coaches placed at
the disposal Of the Department Of
Agriculture and Immigration for
a lecture purposes. The schedule ar
o ranged allows ample time at each
n stop for a general discussion OF
farming. in order that the farmers
may have the benefit OF the advice
and suggestions OF the experts in
charge. An educational train was
\ operated over Baltimore and Ohic
= lines last spring, with the result
that marked improvement has beer
'r noted both in the increased yields
.r Of the farm as we'll as the prosperity
g. OF the communities.
N George H. Campbell, assistant 4
ID the president OF the Baltimore anC
OHIO, and W. w. Wood, general in
20 dustrial ageut, will represent th,
n railroad on the train. These officer
accompanied the educational trail
as last spring. expressing satisfaction
ny at the interest of the farmers a
r. shown by the large attendance q
d the lectures.
by The following schedule has bee
re arranged:
Tuesday, January 10th. Wades
vile, 900 10 1900 a. M; Middl,
he town, 100 to 500 p. M.
Wednesday, January 18th, Harr
sonburg. 900 to 1900 a. ~; Plea
'g- ant Valley, 1890 to 500 p. N.
cy Thursday, January 18th. CAY
ne Station (Weyer's Cave). 900 to 12:C
ng- a, NJ; Fort Defiance, 1890 to 81
p. N.
be- Friday. January 10Th, Greenvill
900 to 1900 a. M; Spots WOO
re- 1890 to 500 p. m.
me Saturday, January Goth, Timb
last Ridge, 900 &c 1900 a. m; Lexir
ton. 1890 to 500 p. NJ.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
RICHESON ADMITS He
KILLED SWEETHEART
Under the Lashings of Remorse
He Makes Confession
HOPES TO REDEEM HIS PAST
Confession Given to Press Through
Prisoners Attorneys

A dispatch from Boston, Mass.
under date of January 6, 1912, says:
The Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson
has confessed that ne killed Mss
Avis Linnell, the Hyannis choir
singer, for whose murder he was to
have been placed on trial here on
January 10Th.
News of the confession was first
made public this afternoon, but the
confession itself was made by Rich
esou to his attorneys on January
Sd in the cell which the former pas
tor occupied in Charles street Jail.
The confession was made public
by Richeson's counsel shortly alter
O'Clock this afternoon.
Richeson admits his full guilt OF
the charge made against him in the
indictment-that be killed Avis Lin
nell by giving her cyanide of potas-
sium-aud says that he makes
clean breast of the affair in the
hope that God, who knows all, viii
protect me"
The confession follows:
Boston. Mass, Jan. 3, 1912.
John L. Lee, Esq. William A
Morse, Esq, Philip R. Dunbar
Esq:
Gentlemen. Deeply penitent 10
my sin and honestly desiring as t.
as in my power lies to make atone
ment. ] hereby confess that l ar
guilty OF the offense of which stan
indicted.
/ Il am moved to this course by Z
ipducement OF selt-bene6t Or lei
iency.
"Heinous as is nv crime, God ha
= not wholly abandoned me, and m
conscience and manhood, howeve
'e uepraved aud blighted, will not az
NIT of my still further wrouging /
IS a public trial her whose pu
le Young life have destroyed.
in Under the lashings of remorse
at have suffered and am suffering Il
ne tortures of the damned. In this
lie find q measure of comfort.
IN In my mental anguish l reco
e. nize that there is still in the mere
of theIMaster some remnant OF tt
he divine spark Of goodness still lin
lat ering with me.
in / could wish to live only
ge cause within some prison : walls
ON might in some small measure
ian deem my sinful past, help So
a other deSpairing soul, and at
the find favor with my God.
re- You are instructed to deli
Us. this to the district attorney or
but tie Judge of the court.
'ir- Sincerely yoIrs,
and CLARENCE V. I. RICHEsC
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10
Roanoke Has Meanest Man in the
World

The Roanoke Evening News takes :
exception to the statement that the /
meanest man in the world was in .
Lynchburg on Christmas eve-that
title having been bestowed by the
local papers on the thief who stole
the turkeys from the Presbyterian
Orphanage in Rivermont. The Eve
ming News says:
THE day before Christmas the
report came from Lynchburg that
eight turkeys for the Christmas din
ner at the Presbyterian Orphanage
] in that city had been stolen from
the institution by the meanest man
in Virginia. 4 few days later a
dispatch came 10 the effect that the
thief suffered such pangs OF re-
morse that he returned the turkeys.
1T is distressing to relate, but
evidently the meanest man in Vir'
GINA was here Christmas eve anC
he is unlike the Lynchburg man
inasmuch as be has not suffered re
morse. The proprietor of one of the
largest saloons in the city said tina
, he had taken a pride in having thu
= Salvation Army Christmas Box il
/ his place make good showing an
: that contributions this year ha
g been larger than ever. The DO
@ was we'll filled and contained gooc
Q ly sum OF money. During the rus
S Christmas eve the meanest man i
). Virginia stole the box and contents
S He has not been heard from"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10


ALIoHr IN THE OCEAN, AGAIN FROM THE WATER AND
trim THE AIR.
We aeroplanes that aloft twenty miles hour
and under get them condition do that and then
reef in the spread after send them to ONE
HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR the present engine develop
en single aeropane capable Of running twenty and then at
houhow would that be for development
Wouldn't it make the automobile look sickf
The railroad doesn't haul the load of the steamship Yet
between steamships railroads prefer the latter where speed
requisite facing chance between fixed points
from SEVENTY FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR
OVER THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE ROUTE, and we must not
beItte the aeroplanes capacity.
When these things ahead OF US 1t aInazes u.s.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

There will be four eclipses during
this year, 1912, two OF the sun and
two of the moon. as the follows: A
partial eclipse OF the moon on Tues
day. April lst.It will be invisible in
the United States. A central and
total one OF the sun on Wednesday,
April 18th, the sun rising more or
less eclipsed throughout a majority
OF the Southern Middle States. The
next succeeding eclipse OF the series
to which this one belongs will be or
April 18th, in the year 1880. A
third will be an eclipse OF the moor
on Thursday September 10Th, which
will be visible throughout the Unit
ed States. The fourth and last viii
be a total eclipse Of the sun OF
Thursday. October 10th, which will
be visible in the Southwestern por
ton of the United States.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

The Judge OF the Corporation
Court of Stanton has notified oil
the liquor men that they will revoke
their licenses il they do not at once
step the practice Of sending runners
or drummers TO wagon yards. trains
and other places to drum up trade.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

Subscribe for the Gazette only
u. 90 = year.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

The practice OF tarring roads has
bee n found to destroy trout fishing
in some parts OF England, tar wash
ed into the SIRENS by rain killing
the fish.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

If there was q duty On faas fewer
woald be imported.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

IA apple eaten before breakfast
serves as q natural stimulsnt. to the
digestive organs.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-10

Did you ever see woman VINO
was capable of saving wood and
saying Esthing?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14
HOUSE BILLS


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