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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14
Il.

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Heights, overlooking tho city. and &C.
cupies sixty acres of ground with
beautiful grove. The school is being
developed for the teaching of all practi-
cal work for home life in the country,
such rs poultry raising. dairying. bee
culture. school gardening. household
economy.
From the standpoint Of health. Its
location is ideal. There has never dur
Ing the session been the slightest i'll
ness for which the school in any way
was responsible y regularly licensed
woman physician is n member of the
faculty and serves as resident ply
stefan to the school.
The public school is closely CO. ordi-
mated with the normal and serves as
the practice school for this institution.
In fact, the superintendent of schools
of the city is tho head OF the de-
partnent OF education In the normal,
and the supervisor OF primary work
IS tho Instructor in primary methods
st Tho normal This proves an am
'nenae advantage 70 the public school.
and at the same time affords the normal
ample practice school facilities.
The normal school board has en-
perienced many difficulties and over
come many perp!cxtng problems in
providing tho grounds and buildings
81 ILLS ilSbikHllpT. II Is cNl0eNt 10
any ono visiting the site, however, that
no mistake was made In the spot
chosen. The grounds are only one half
mile from the principal residential
street of the city, arc well drained, and
give commanding view of the city
and of the river valley for several
miles In either direction. The build
ings. both the dormltory and the adj
mtnistration building. are magnificent
and modern In all their appointments
a new street has been opened, connect
Ing the city with the school property.
landscape architect has already view
cd tho grounds with reference TO nlan-
ming for their Identification. though no
actual work In this direction has as
yet been done. The cornerstone OF the
administration building was laid July
i, before magnificent asscmblage.
y great public day Will soon be ap-
pointed on which tho buildings will he
formally dedicated. The public Will be
invited 10 these ceremonies. and the
people of the state will have an op-
portunity to SEQ for themselves this
splendid new State institution Dcspite
he handicap of having the use OF
only part of the administration
| hniiding. the school opened its frst
session on time, and tho work has been
progressing steadily since. The mem
hers Of the faculty were chosen for
their experience in and special fitness
Tor the work assigned them. The
names of each member of the faculty.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14
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electrical engineering. contracting
work in Fredericksburg.
G. Mason Smith, NJ. D.. consulting
physician; a. b. Frederick sburS COL
icsc; NJ. D. University OF Virginia:
served as inferno in Norfolk protcs-
tdnt hospital: took postgraduate work
In Philadelphia and special summc,
course at Harvard Medical school:
member Rappahannock Valley Medical
society. Medical Society OF virginia
ana American Medical Association:
member OF BOARD OF Health of Fred
ericksburg.
In addition 10 these public institu-
lions. tho fredericksburg College. q
private institution established mere
some years ago recently has been re-
hboilitnted and has wide acceptance in
this part of the State
There are also other excellent pri-
vatc schools.
IhuE II may be seen from this out
line OF fredericksburs's recent e,,uca-
tional growth that this city is alive
ana alert; and instead OF living on
past memories and the exploits of an
cestra! heroes. is in very truth In the
forefront of progress and Is deter
mined. above everything else TO give
10 Inc present generation. through the
education of It's youth an amor
tunity for service, success and happt-
ness, which will inevitably increasa
Ito prestige and power and add hum
drcds of self-rcliant and happy citi-
zens to the body polite OF The old
Commonwealth.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14

together with r. brief educational bio
graphy, are as follows:
Z. H Russell. president, educated
in TIenrico public schools. Richmond
City High School Richmond College
and v. NJ J.; for two years principal
OF schools at Pulaski City: for two
years commandant at Fishburne Mill
tary Academy; for eight years super
iRtendent OF schools Bristol, Va; in
1905 was elected State school ex-
aminer. which position ha filled with
great credit Till elected president OF
the State Normal at Fredericksburg.
While superintendent OF schools at
Bristol he found and conducted most
successfully summer school for
teachers at Emory and Henry College.
While examiner nc performed q ike
service for the teachers of the State
through the simmer school at Fred
ericksburS, which he founded and con-
Quoted for several years. IIo has been
intimately acquainted with educational
conditions and closely identified with
the public school work of the State all
his life
w. \. Hamlet mathematics and
science, educated in public schools Of
Lynchburg; G. T. of V. NJ. T., special
courses in science and mathematics at
University of Virginia and Cornell;
principal of public high schools at
Ashland. Va, and Lonokc, Ark. /;
several years instructor in science in
State summer schools: ten years as
sistant principal John Marshall High
school. Richmond. and head of science
department in same; eight years pro-
fessor of analytical chemistry in the
department of pharmacy. Medical Col
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14

slightest consequence except to Them
selves
IA 4 Young man but jus, released from
hrm In New York. and asked for work.
Will you accept sevrnty five dollars
a month";" inquired the head of the
Yes" returned the collegian
Take off your coat then, but per-
haps ia better tell you. that you will
only ,ha be worth iJn FIVE dollars month to
cash The rest will be paid in expert
encc."
:, but nh | have e., some suggestions Of
mcnt of TIM business"
The head of the firm looked at him
and the corners OF his lips twitched.,
Call in twenty years" he said.
Bring those suggestions, or some oth-
crs Probably they'll be others"
There Is complaint that there is no
place for the old man and woman III
That is not wholly truc. There is al
ways room for the person who has
Kept young in spirit and in outlook,
who has kept tho body strong and the
mind clear. There Is more demand FOR
such a person than for the college
youth with lis immature ideas and his
inevitable mistakes.
What the world seeks in author
ship, in the practice of the law or mad
icine. in the business organization. 10
the physical strength of the young
man or woman, and the experience ana
sound judgment md temperate meth
DDS OF maturity.
40. Your Grace need not abandon
writing for the sole reason that you
arc middle aged and mellow" Tho
world wants middlc-agcd and mellow
ness. especially, in writer's. Go to any
asscmblaGc of notable writer's in New
York and elswhere. and your roman
tic illusions about their personality go
out the door by which you enter You
Ind hoped this man were a tall and
strong and handsome as the heroes OF
his novels. He is undersized' and his
hair is thin and silver colorcd; His
walk lacks vlgor. The man yonder
who writes exquisite love poems at
which you have thrilled. is bald and
nifty. And tho figure of that rare wo-
man who has made you laugh bends
AT the shoulders. Tho events of her
life have cut their marks deep into her
face Her hair is at the most unhe-
comingly mixed stage of turning"
But they have lived and distilled from
their lives tho essence of experience
What they have deduced from life
they tell us In novel or poem or hum
orous paragraph. They huvo baan try
Ing To write all their lives. hut only
the last few years have they actually
written. Their art like all art .is the
expression of understanding. Success
with the pen has come to them for the
same reason tho duchess alleges for
dropping It, They arc "m!ddlc-aged
and nDellow."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14
In Mellow Middle Age
BY ADA PATTERSON

The Duchess Of Sutherland has Civ
en- up writing. This in itself is not q
startling statement for only n COM
Daratlvely few knew that she wrote
anything but Invitations. acccptances
and reBNts. for the endless chain of
functions" that are society's exercise.
Many were content not to know that
she now and then wrote Il poem or
blank verse drama. which died OF
anemia after n few nights in London.
Whether the English duchess writes or
doesn't write Is of no great conse-
qucnce 10 whirling, practical world
For she has done what is OF far
mora vital import to tho world than
to write. She has lived. She has been
n WIFE, mother, friend. philanthropist
She had no need to write. for by living
we'll she has ''let her light so shine >
or typewriter to give her message OF
how to live TO the world She herself
has been an object lesson of II.
What is of genuine concern in tn,
matter is not whether or not the
duchess will go on writing, but the
ceasing her literary endeavors II
have givnn up writing" she is quoted
as saying. because I have become mid
dle-agcd and mellow"
Thus she gave no reason but rather
that limy prop in any structure. an
excuse. For little worth reading has
been written before its author is mid
die aged and mellow" Not until tho
latc summer or early autumn of life
has a man or woman learned enough
OF life to give any light upon its dark
places. and that is what worthy writ
ing does.
Singing teachers say that no voics
Is full grown until it's owner Is forty.
Meta.physicians say the mind Is at its
best at forty and after for an indeii-
nitelY long time, according to whether
lis possessor lives in a simple. normal
way, eliminating tho poison of worry
and the poison Of undue hurry. One Of
the anomalies of the stage Is that no
woman can satisfactorily play Juliet
until she is forty, when she Is too old
TO look the part.
The girl or hoy valedictorian of his
class reads commencement day es-
say crammed with advice about the
conduct of life. 1t comes from die
tionary Of quota atoms or is phono-
graph rendering of class lectures.
Some of these bright young folk hurl
from tho college platform wisdom
about tho ideal life at grlzzled heads
and scanned faces. Laughter issues
from the grizzled heads and scanned
faces, and the valodictorians are In
dignunt for q time. a few months or
years aftarward they begin family to
understand that laughter. They begin
to know that It isn't unkind laughter.
that II is only experience attempting
TO square with former Ideals. They OF
tho grizzled heads know that what
thess youngsters say isn't of tho
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14

IT, REDERlCNS BUEG, VA, January
Il observation-disclosures furnishes
q most excellent illustration OF
The marvellous advance in educa ton
which has taken place IN Virginia dur
ing TIE past SIX years. y half dozen
years aeo this town. SO -ich in his
7Gric association and so cominandingly
TIE beautiful Rappahaaaock and the
midway station between the capital OF
Virginia and OF the nation, was of no
special rspu;e Il. educa iional matters.
But aiu'os; IN r moment she awakened
from her letha-Ey. was caught IN the
educational renaissance which has OF
late been sweeping over the State, uu-
I'll nos she occupies mos. enviahle
s--d commanding position in the edu-
cat:u:isl facilities she offers. No city
OF IS size IL The State, perhaps. can
make an ctuca.!ona! e1hibi. compar-
able 'v!tA ihat OF this proud little
CITY.
: veyy few years ago public edu-
caIion was 6; decided discount here.
The more conservative people and
many Of The proEress!ves would not
paSron!ze the puhlic school and had
no interest in matters OF public edu-
cation. THIS Is not strange. but on
ihe contrary quite natural. when It is
!SNtA--tI lI4G- A.it pubic SCENpl WpIh
was done III an old art:QuGtei build
Ing with no modern equipment and
with teachers selected almost en-
ulusively from local applicants at star
WALTON salaries. But marvellous
change has taken place. Three years
ago a handsome public school hu!ld-
ing, costing $4,000, was erected. ample
equipment procured, and a systematic
plan made 70 increase salaries and Sc
cura professionally trained teachers.
The results that this building immense
though IL is, IS crowded 10 its doors.
tho public school is n source Of pride
10 every patriotic resident or the city,
ANA tho people have had a convincin.;
object Lesson IN the superiority of !,
Tcal education under proper conditions
over pretended education under i'm
proper condit!Is:
Two years. .Asa Lhc.t legislature made
an approximation for establishing a ncv:
state normal school az Frcdcricksburg.
This school opcnod it's doors September
% last and without personal solicita-
zion Of students The school was NI!ed 10
its capacity and a number Of stu
dents had TO be turned away Tor lack
OF Recommendations.
The school has received 1872 students
Every room in the Gorlntory is oc.
cupieG. and a large number OF stu.
dents had 10 be declined admission on
account Of lack OF dorm!tory accom-.
modat!ons,
This school is situated on Narye's
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14
WARRENTON
I spcciaItothe Times.Di,na,ch !

Especial to the Times Dispatch.l
Wnrrenton, Va. January 13,-Mrs
william J. Wilbur az whostcss TO the
Reading Club on Wednesday OF this
week
Mr5. S. Is. Woodin OF Richmond. ar
rlV"d in Warrcnton this week to he
the guest of her daughter. Mrs. James
Walden Jcnries.
Miss Annie Ililleary, formerly Of
stanton, hut now OF Washington is
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Hillcary
Conway Brawncr. OF Alexandria
Hpcnt several days IN Warrcnton this
week
Miss Myra RHnlctt. OF New York. is
the guest Of tho Misses Stone.
Mrs. William c. Hayes. Masters
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-24
By DR.. H. w. Wiley.

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complished by the Food and
Drug. Acts were confined to food
and drugs alone the country has
been richly repaid for its enact
ment.
Aside from the purity and
wholesomeness of food products
and the reliability of drugs there
has been established in the trade
of these two articles of commerce,
the principle that honesty is not
only the best policy but also that
it is the only means of escaping
the clutches. of the law.
The manufacturer who former
ly, under the dictates of this .prin-
ciple and his own conscience, pro-
duced pure and wholesome arti-
cles, true to name, was imme-
diately confronted by ruinous
competition with a debased and
adulterated article sold under the
same name. He was therefore re-
quired either to make his price
below that of profitable produc-
ton or to meet the competition
by making an even more debased
article.
Under these trying conditions,
honest business was almost i'm
possible. The passage of the
Food and Drugs Act at once re-
lieved the tension and honest men
were once more able to resume an.
honest business.
This reform in the methods of,
business in foods and drugs, how
ever, was Of such pronounced
benefit that it could not fail to re-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-24
PURE FOOD LAW is AN INFLUENCE FOR GOOD ALL =
ALONG THE LINE IN BUSINESS -

suit IN influencing all other forms
of business.
Throughout the business world
the leaven introduced by the
Food and Drugs Act is gradually
leavening the whole loaf. There
is marked tendency to stop mis-
representation, to give an honest
product, and to cease. exaggerat+
ing its quality. Progressive legis-
lation along the lines of the, pure
food law has been enacted by the
nation and by manyo of the states
in regard to other products.
The national legislature has en-
acted pure food law for insec-/
ticides, thus guaranteeing to the
farmer that the insecticides which
he buys contain the poisonous
properties which they are repre-
scented as possessing by the man
ufacturers and vendors. In one
state, at-least, similar law has
been enacted in regard to paints,
and, pure paint law is pending
before congress.
There is every reason to expect
that the whole field of business
will eventually be protected by
the mantle of honesty which now
covers the commerce in foods and
drugs.
The merchant who sells fabrics
and furniture will Be required to
protect the purchaser just as the
grocer now protects his customer.
The day is near at hand when
NEAR silk" will not sell for the
real article nor split cow-hide for
kid.
This ethical principle willeyem
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29

1t will occur to the business world
after awhile that bank officials will
have one less opportunity at bank
wrecking at least when directors be-
gin to direct. In the history of the
greater majority of bank wrecking
cases In the country it is shown by
the evidence that the directors per-
mitted the president, cashier and 9TH
er head officials to loan or hypothecate
the banks available funds without the
usual caution attending such trans
actions. Though presumably the di-
recting heads of the bank and sup
porting 1t to the general public with
the weight of their stability in the
business world they were not in re-
atty acting in that capacity but were
Sinking a responsibility
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
WHAT NEW JERSEY MAY DETER.
NINE

New Jersey votes today in a prefer
entail primary to determine which of
the presidential candidates the voters
will support for the nomination. New
Jersey is the last of the states having
a considerable number of delegates to
the national convention, to make its
choice and will practically end the
vigorous campaigning prior to the
conventions. on the eve of the bal
loting the usual claims are being made
as to the results which will be reach
ed when the ballots are counted to-
night
The question of what New Jersey
may determine by it's vote is equally
uncertain but this much can be said
that it Is at least President Taft's last
hope. If he should win New Jerseys
2s votes his cause would be materially
strengthened, but if he should lose
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Massachusetts, and Ohio, will he to
lose all possible hope of being the
nominee of his party though he will
be the high man in the first of the
balloting.
The New York delegation, unin-
structed and free to choose, eighty
eight strong, and the As votes held by
pledge to La Toilette and Cummins
will hold the balance of power in the
convention and the nominee of tn ?
republican party will be made by these
delegates. This is the outlook at pres
ent with the opening of the conven-
ton only three weeks away. 1t seems
now not too much to say that neither
Taft nor Roosevelt will be nominated
at Chicago and this will certainly be
true If neither receives the required
strength on the first ballot. and dis
regarding the claims of enthusiasts
and figuring on the known suantities
this does not seem possible.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
CURRENT
PRESS COMMENT
Emancipatine the President

To give the president a single term
of reasonable length is to emancipate
him and give him time and scope for
unselfish, single minded public SER
vice. 1t is to put him beyond tempta-
ton and wrong incentives, to destroy
every ambition save the honorable and
worthy one of making a clean, strong,
commendable record. The proposed
amendment is truly democratic, truly
progressive and in consonance with
the ripest thought of impartial and en-
lightened men. What Is done cannot
be undone. but be the result of the
present disheartening campaign what
1t may, let all patriotic and earnest
citizens work for an amendment TO
protect the chief magistrate while also
protecting the people against evils in
separable from strenuous personal
campaigns for second, third or fourth
terms.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29

Clark Will Not Campaign If Nominated
BY Democrats

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 27.-
If Champ Clark is nominated at Bal
timore there will be no swinging
around the circle in special trains for
him. In fact, it is probable that he
Will not have a big demonstration
meeting. His campaigning Will be
done on the front porch at Bowling
Green, Pike county, welcoming pill
grims who come from afar.
That is the confidential informa
ton given by one of Clark's manag-
ers. He said it was so probable now
that Clark would land the nomination
that several of the speakers friends
already had discussed, Informally, the
manner of campaign he would make.
Clark'S friends recognize that their
champion is prone to make breaks
when on his feet He has done that
several times as a member of con-
gress. The Congressional Record con-
tains speeches. that his adherents wish
had never been said. Even Clark's
best friends admit that when the
speaker is on his feet he appears 70
lack Judgment and is apt to cut loose
with some remark on which the op-
position may seize and make capital
of. They say that they do not dare
to trust the Pike county statesman S
tongue.
1t is said that Clark's advisers adj
NIT that there may be one big rally,
either in New York or other big CEN
ter. but that the speech on that oc-
casion will be submitted. after writ
ten to a committee to carefully scru-
tinize ii, that there may be no
breaks" in it.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29

the voice of the people cannot be mis-
taken. 1t is a protest against condi-
lions and a demand for change. II
presents it's own leader and standard
bearer and is not wavering in his sup
port. There is no questioning on the
part of the people as to who car
unite the party" Their sole conten-
ton is their right to an honest con.
sideratlon in the naming of candi-
date. and the shaping of the politica
issues for the party.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
GREAT SEAL OF THE
CONF'EDERACY FOUND
Restored BY Admiral Selfridge and
Will Now Be Placed in the
Museum at Richmond

EICHMO-yD, Va, May 25.--An-
nouncement was made today that the
great seal OF the Confederate States
of America, which disappeared half
a century ago. Lad been found iden-
titled by the English makers, and &C.
CURED by Eppa Hunton, Jr., William
II. White and Thomas P. Bryan of
this city, and brought back to Rich
mond. the old capital of the Confed-
crate States. The sacred relic was
obtained from Rear Admiral Thomas
o. Selfridge, U. S. N, retired, who
got it from Colonel John T. Pickett.
The seal will be placed in the Con-
federate Museum.
The facts show that the seal was
taken from Richmond on the evacua :
ton by William ]. Bromwell, a clerk.
or his wife, together with other Of
fetal papers of the State Department.
Tie papers We're sold by Bromwell to
the government through Colonel
John L. Pickett in 1879. for $4,000.
Captain Selfridge. now Rear Ad-
mlra Selfridge was the government
agent in the transaction, and was
presented the seal by Colonel Pickett
in recognition of his services. Self.
ridge parted with the seal for mon
etary consideration