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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26

commencement. with a graduating
class of eight bright girls and boys.
There will be an address by Professor
Anderson. Of Richmond college, class
day. etc Tine first or the social func-
tions viii be given by Mrs. W. J. Mar
shall In honor of the graduating class,
OF Which iier son Jack il a member.
The senior and Junior classes Will be
invited and their teachers. Those
graduating will be, Misses Alma Cook,
F9orine Henderson, Kathleen Bland,
Pauline Garrett. Leila McCanna and
Messrs. William Gary. Dabney Hardy.
and Jack Marshll.
Mrs. Philip Gibson. OF Richmond. is
the guest of her sister. Mrs. J. n. Gary.
Miss Helen Robinson has Just re-
turned from delightful visit to her
aunt. Mrs. George. West, South Laurel
street. Richmond. An excursion with
a party of young people to Dutch Gap,
was one OF the many enjoyable occa-
sions in which she INDUCED while
away.
Mrs. Pollard. of Port Norfolk. IL Wis.
itinE her sister, Mrs. w. c. Num-. this
week
The Baptist church has just bought 4
handsome piano. and accompanied by
Master Willie Ldpscombe,s violin, tina
music y EIeatiy sntcyed, n The SUR
s00iK- D4000l> VII IN.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26

Her mother Mrs. Herbert !. Lewis is
still with her.
Mr. Harry Anderson, formerly CT
West Point, now of Norfolk, arrived
Friday and accompanied his mother
home on Saturday. His mother, Mrs.
Mollie Anderson has been the guest for
two weeks of Mrs. J. w. owens
Mrs. John Horne. OF Louisville, KY.
who has been visiting relatives in Chit
cago ILL.,, is the expected guest of her
sister. Mrs. Owens. tomorrow for some
time.
Miss Jessie DenmeAd will leave June
LIST. to visit her sister. Mrs Clara VII
lians. of Colonial Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l.. Jones, OF New
York, are the guests of Mrs. Jones
brother. President Crosby Thompson. NJ
the Old Dominion Industrial company
Miss Mary Hardy. VINO has been the
guests for some time of Mrs. Robert
C. Garden. has returned to her home
In "hase City.
Mrs. b. ". Henerfon will leave on
Tuesday next TO visit relatives in War
renton, Va. for the summer
Miss Maude, .Lipscombe. OF upper HI
Miss Maude Lipscombe, of upps,
King William, is the guest of Mrs.
Emma Roy Spencer.
gg..ae iGksnehooy u -&1ksink saady mr.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26

this week with Miss Arlene Fran
cisco
Mr. - Il Beckham. Of Gordous-
vile, vas Louisa visitor Wednes-
day,
Miss Edna keene is improving.
after d severe illness
Miss Kilburnie Barrett viii leave
Friday to attend the closing exercises
OF Blackstone institute. She will be
the guest OF Miss Louise Crank.
Mr., Frank Duvall has been called
10 Indiana, on account OF the Illness
Of his father
Miss Nancy Lee Goodman. who
has been Visiting relatives here, re.
turned to Cucko Saturday.
MI WINDOW Wills, of Richmond.
spent sunday with his parents here,
Mr. Richard Woodins and Miss
virginia Smith spent Thursday in
Richmond,
Miss Anne ,Broome. who has had
charge OF DR.. vensbles hospital in
San Antonio. Texas, for the past two
years, ~ visiting her parents, DR..
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26
LOUISA

ESPECIAL 20 The Richmond Vyginian }
LOUISA, VA. May 25.-Mrs. J. A.
Kent and her son, Mr.. Thomas
Hughes, are visiting relatives in
Palmyra this week.
Mrs. Wilson, OF keysyille, spent
several days last week with her
mother, Mrs. lisa r. Chiles.
Miss kilburnie Barrett spent sun
day with the Misses Boxleys at Ire
Villains
Miss Louise Rhodes spent the
weekend eith Miss Inez Trice
Mr.. L, r. Driver spent sunday at
the home q Mr. }. l. RoxLey. at
Treyilians
Rev G. ". l<eftRich ana Mr.. c.
:. Hester left Tnasday 70 attend the
district conference OF the Methodist
churches at White Hail. AlbemarIe
county.
Professor T, NJ. Mcclure is visiting
Judge and Mrs. F ~. Sims this
week.
Mrs. A. r. Gordon lett Tuesday for
Tyler, Texas. 10 visit her brother,
Mr.. Mcdonald. She was joined in
Richmond BY Miss Agnes Palmer.
who will accompany her
The Louisa baseball club met
Monday night. James r. Hester lr.
was elected manager. and A. ".
Flanagan, captain. Some interest
ing games are promised for this sea.
son.
Miss Susie g. Critrenden. Of Min
erai, spent Sunday az the geust of
Mrs. o. f. White.
Mrs. Hartman and Miss Seal re-
turned TO their homes in Charlottes-
vile, Tuesday. They were called TO
Louisa by the death Of their aunt.
Mr.. Anne Cullen.
Mr.. Branning Cullen and daugh-
ter, Of Memphis, Tenn. who were
called to Louisa on account OF the
death OF the formers mother. Mrs.
Anne Cullen, returned home Tues.
day.
James e, Hester attended. tho
grand lodge of |. @. O. r, in New
port News. last week as delegate
from Louisa lodge No. ~.
Miss Cora Chewing, of TreYilisps
spent Tuesday in town.
MesSrs K. l.. Gordon. Jr.. George
Y. Cameron and DR.. r. r May left
"wednesday 70 attend the Norfolk
eonvenfion.
~ virginia Butler Is spending
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great sufferer with rheumatism for
the past ten months. is hoped to be
improving by his many friends.
Miss Lille Aaude PaImere is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Palmore
of Crozier. Goochland county.
Miss Olive Davis IS visiting friends
and relatives In Richmond.
Misses Grace and Alma Palmore
after spending quite while in Rich
mond, will return home in few
days.
Mrs. Mamie NJ. Palmore ant Mrs.
r.. +. Palmore. after spending the
winter in Florida. are expected home
this week.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26
WEST POINT

Especial to The Richmond Nirginian
WEST POINT, May 25.--Miss Vic
toria Lewis, student, who has had
such a serious illness at the Randolph
Macon Woman's college. at Lynchburg,
is convasescing. and will be able In tho
near future 10 return here 10 har tlnrna.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26

and Mrs. r. 6. B. Broome In the
Green Springs neighborhood.
The Misses Fitzhugh have moved
TO Gordonsville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
RIGHT KIND OF COLLEGE BOYS

Crane, the Chicago millionaire, self
made and exultant because of it, had
something to right on his side when
he denounced college life for boys.
There are too many students who are
idle, snobbish, vicious, profigate of the
clock as well as money; boys who
spend more time on the cinder path
than of learning; FOUNDERS who run
down to big cities and are caught by
the claws of the Holsters they feed 20
chorus girls.
But there is another class, grown
almost to a small army. of young fell
lows whose quest of learning dignifies
it and them. They are the boys who,
lacking money. buy their education
with themselves; with their strength
and their sweat: who spend their va
cations muscularly that their school
hours may be given to brain.
They are met and heard of every
where in the hot days when the favor
ties of fortune loaf and enjoy their
souls. They work wherever work is
to be had and have no false scruples
about the nature of it. They lift it up
by doing it. They are farmhands and
roustabouts on steamers; they enter
mills or sit at desks or stand behind
counters. They do all things that are
honest and they do them honestly. In
one way the world is their college: the
college of men and deeds, and; so when
they get back to the college of
thought and, books, they are all the
better equipped for it..
The learning that these boys get
betters them and the world at large.
They take it with them and keep it,
increasing their store all the time they
live. They pass it on to the outside
world: sometimes directly as by teach
ing; oftener just through personal con-
tact: by the quickening impulse which
a cultured man has on those he rubs
shoulders with or even touches in pass
ing.
Such boys are now fiocking back to
the colleges and the colleges are the
the better for them, just as the world
will be better when they get into the
current of its daily life. They make
good men and good citizens. If all
college life were of their making, there
would be no criticism of it; only praise
and thanksgiving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
JAYHAWKER .JOTS

We respect a mans opinions, as
Verd Napier says, Nntil we find out
what they are.
Miss Carlson of the Lindsborg News
points out that the Lord will provide
provided you do your share of the
hustling.
Political wisdom, from the Stockton
Review: A man seldom finds that a
political party is corrupt till after the
party has repudiated him.
A high school student at Arcadia,
Crawford county. is reported to have
defined the yellow PERIL as some
kind of a contagious disease
A brave man at Paola is quoted by
the Miami Republican as saying that
he is going to wear his straw hat as
long as the ladies wear white shoes,
if that is all winter.
One reason, insists the Norton
Champion. why man does not more
resemble his ancestor, the chimpanzee,
is because the heir dispenses with
much of the hair-he shaves.
The Smith County Journal thinks
that the goose that laid the golden egg
is a back-number when compared TO
the American hen with her annual
output worth three billion dollars.
Another time old Noah was asleep
at the switch, thinks Bert Walker of
the man slip by in whose head was al
ready beginning to form the plan for
making a photograph.
You don't have to look longer than
four minutes, says the Atchison Cham
pion, to find man who has painfully
discovered that the upkeep of his mo-
tor car is responsible for the sudden
downfall of his savings account.
Marie Travers, who now has a col
umn in the Osborne County Farmer
devoted to Affairs of Women thinks
that national life, without general
elections, would be as dull as a Kan
sas town without a chautauqua."
AS the Waldo Advocate says: A
ested in the welfare of their town
when hot air is all that is needed, but
when a little effort and a small
amount of money is needed they are
not to be found.
IF I were king" an Atchison kick
er confided to the Atchison Globe the
other day, st would maintain a private
torture chamber for the corn-fed bore
who insists on telling me how many
great men he is intimately acquainted
with. Presumably he thinks he re-
fleets their fame, and is equipped with
a secondhand halo which gives him
superiority to other plain plugs. But
he really ought to soak his head and
everyone would like to know a few
great men, but he might think less
of them if he did. 1t is hard to think
as much of a man after learning his
preference in breakfast foods or that
he perspires so freely that his collars
are usually wilted. And certainly sec
ond hand information of that line is
the limit in conversation. There
ought to be a law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
HUAOR or THE DAY

KNOWN when to quit is a mighty good
thing" said Uncle Eben, but KNOWN
when not to start somethin' is still bet
ter."-Washington Star.
Judge-You say the man died a natural
death? Witness-Yes, your honor. Judge
But 1 thought he was shot2 Witness
So he was, Judge. But he was practicing
on the trombone at the time.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Golfer-Have you seen my bail. sir?
wounded PartyLYes; sir; there It is, con-
found you. Nearly killed" Golfer-Jovei
Bit of luck. Ell? I thought it was going
out of bounds.-Punch.
Whats the zebra sulklng about?' sslS-
ed the head keeper of the menagerie. He
ruped that hasn't been mentioned as some
sort Of a political emblem. washington
Star.
What was your little boy crying about
last EVENING"" "Over his lesson in natural
natural history? You astonish mei'' ITS
so just the same. He was learning the
difference between a wasp and a fly"
Houston Post.
What sort of a chap is Wombat TO
camp with?" Hes one of those fellows
who always take down a mandolin about
the time It's up to somebody to get busy
with the frying pan."-Louicville Courier
Journal.
why do you call this new tire of yours
the Mexican!a asked SIathers. rs II made
Of Mexican rubber?' ooh, nor said fine
inventor. IT call it that because it is cap
able of innumerable revolutions without
wearing out."-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
by THE WAY
~ HARVEY PARsOlIR

1t appears that Mr.. Stubs does not
agree with the large collection of
earnest voters who believe that he is
soon to retire from politics. Mr..
Stubs recently spent an hour of his
priceless time in talking politics to a
gathering of school children.
In re the local argument as to
whether the leg is a crime or thing
OF beauty, we hold that the litigants
should specify. If the leg is on fat
baby or Chippendale chair, it is pref
ty Otherwise it is merely an orna-
ment or thing of utility, unless 1t be-
longs to a chorus lady or u profession
al runner. when it becomes an asset.
Tho Chicago taxi driver who was
batted over the bean by his fare,
should not take it as a personal insult;
maybe it was the only way the fare
could think of to square the bill.
Secretary Wilson opines that the
high price of meat is due to the wide
spread habit of eating veal. We are
glad to observe that there is to be
found in the category of crimes of
We never liked anything that was
picked too soon.
Add cost Of living: Some Kansas
City saloons are selling booze at
cents the copy. This item should not,
however, appear under a three column
headline to the effect that big Re-
duction in Cost of Necessaries of Life
has set in.
1t is our observation that no man
who utilized less than 16 hours in
doing days work was ever sue
cessful chess player.
A lot of people will, as soon as they
discover that Colonel GoethalS
smokes cigarettes, decide at once that
the Panama canal is a total failure.
A. the next regular meeting, Thurs
day night, the Pinochle Debating club
Will take up the important question as
vegetable. While the principal speak
ers of the evening debate the regular
questions, other will hold side eau
cuses on whether the pawpaw is a mis-
take or an Intentional insult.
1t is reported by immigration au-
thor;ties that aliens bring over an
much, but a blame sight more than
the average American brings back
after visit in Europe.
1t is our theory that the American
habit of visiting in Europe is RESPONSE
BILE for the fact that the immigrant
ever had $3S.
OF course, every one from the office
boy to Twelfth street has advised this
department to close the coIyum with
the suggestion that Murphy and his
Chicago Cubs will not have a Chance
next season-tTat Murph has thrown
away his Chance-et cetera, ct double
cetera.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The Lord hates snob, but if you
would do best by yourself be careful
of your choice of associates. If you
would dine with. apublicanS and sin
ners upon occasion it is we'll enough,
providing the world is your parish
and you hold yourself accountable
to the world at large. For the chief
value of associates lies in the part
they play as our censors. Few men
live entirely for seIf-approvaL Most
of US unconsciously mold ourselves
to what our friends expect of US.
We are big or little. heroes or cow
ards, as the man next door demands
we shall be. Much, of course, de-
ponds upon his keenness of vision,
but those with whom we work, play
and dine usually know us outside and
in. And many of lis have replaced
our yellow streaks with white ones
because we dare not face the accusing
eyes of our comrades.
You know how this works out in
old and settled communities. This
stripping youth, with the scholarly
bent, becomes a soldier because his
father won his medal and all his
little world expects him to do like
wise. This other goes into politics
for the same reason, and still an
other enters the pulpit.
The timid boy on the playground
screws up his last bit of courage and
goes in for rough games because he
dare not incur the silent contempt of
his playmates. When he grows up he
becomes good workman because he
dares not be thought shiftless. Or
that other boy, who falls into bad
habits, does so principally because
he is governed by the opinions of his
boon companions. That dissolute
young pauper and that equally dis
solute gilded youth are going one
gait to the boneyard because of the
perverted ideals of the folk whose
opinions they value most. And thus
it goes.
So strong a personality as Napoleon
lifted himself not by his bootstra ps,
but by forcing himself first into one
circle and then a more ambitious one,
living up to each until ne had out
stripped all His story is that of
more than a respectable percentage of
earth's giants. There is no stinula-
ton like to that of the ideals of those
who surround US. We do what we
are expected to do. We live up to
other peoples estimate of us-to their
notions of what we should do.
Therefore, choose your friends with
the purpose of self discipline. They
are your taskma sters-let them be
hard and exacting ones, to your ever
lasting good.-(Copyright, 1912, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
It is better to feel blue than to have a
streak of yellow.
hard head and a soft heart seldom
travel in double harness.
Things should be just done to a turn,
especially in a vaudeville theater.
A woman can seldom distinguish tfe
difference between price and value.
The average oil well Is seldom as great
a gusher as the man who writes its pros
pectus.
There's no use in being more interested
in other peoples affairs than they are
themselves.
To always say the right thing at the
right time one must be most accom-
plished liar.
If experience is the best teacher it IS
hard to understand why Solomon had s..
many wives.
Billy-'If you'd have me I'd marry you
in a minute" AIilly-''In a minute? Why,
the very ideal 1t takes at least three
months to get trousseau ready
Don't you want to hire a Teller to
keep the tramps away. Missus?" asked
the boy. How can little fellow like yot,
keep the tramps away2" demanded the
Missus. Easy enough replied the boy.
I kin eat up all the pie an things wot's
left over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01

carriage crossed a bridge a quarter of
a mile behind them.
shell out, quick!"
is an elopement.'
THE devil it isi''
And the papa isn't forty rods be-
Honest Injun?"
Yes, it's So" replied the girl as
she bent forward please, Mr.. Rob-
ber-please!'
All right, Miss Peach-skate right
along. III hold the stern parent up
The horse of the pursuing major of
infantry, retired, came up at mad
gallop, but was caught by the bride
and stopped, and the man in the mask
cried out:
''Shell out or I'll blow the top of
your head Off,
''What-what is this?" demanded
the astounded major.
"Out with your dough!"
rs it highway robbery?'
Call it what you will, but hand
over at oncei''
"I'll be hanged if I dol" replied the
man of war; and he leaped down to
tackle and be tackled.
The horse of the lovers was put at
the gallop after leaving the robber,
but no further sounds of pursuit were
heard Two hours later they return
ed at a leisurely pace, man and wife
this time. The majors horse was
browsing on the bushes, and the major
was sitting on the ground with his
head in his hands. There was a swell
ing on his head as big as a goose egg,
and he had been unconscious for a
long time.
"Oh, papa!' cried the daughter as
she bent over him.
What is it, major?" asked the
young husband.
The major looked from one to the
other for long time and then said:
Somebody's made a fool of him
self, children, and I guess it's mai
Let's get along back home!"-(Copy-
right 1912, by McClure's Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
TREASURE TRovE.

My dictionary is a safe;
Within it locked up tight
Are tuneful lyrics, sonnets quaint,
And verses, grave and light,
There, too, lambics Turk unseen,
And jokelets hide away;
And yearning for an author, waits
The novel of the day.
These treasures are for you and me,
Or any one in sooth,
Who knows the combinations, for
They legion are, in truth.
Bill Shakespeare learned the trick when
young,
And learned it WELL wot-
And many gem he drew from thence;
So Dickens, Holmes, and Scott.
Hope springs eternal in the heart,
And therefore, day by day,
1 juggle with the words, intent.
Myself to find the way
Should perseverance reap reward,
Or chance, yield up the key,
I, too, may spoil the treasure and
Enrich posterity.
Pauline Frances Camp, in the Book
News Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01

vary greatly, and depend upon the
depths at which reddish-brown earth
is met, which is the first indIcauon
of the existence of magnesite. Some
times this red earth is found only
few yards beneath the surface, but
ordinarily at a depth of 20 yards, often
40, and even so. In this layer OF reu
earth meerschaum is found, dissent
mated in nuggest of irregular snare.
The size of these rarely exceeds II to
16 cubic inches, the greater part are
the size of a walnut. No explosives
are used, the ground being sort. Al
most the entire output is exported 70
Viena, and thence distributed 10 the
various European countries and to the
United States, the latter buying only
the finest selections.-The Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-01
FROM OTHER PENS
THE NEXT coNcpEcC

In all the political talk that Is being
heard throughout the land il is an
parent that unwarranted attention is
being given to the personality of +bs
presidential candidates and not nearly,
enough to the character of the next
congress If what is desired in the
ONCE of president is a personalitv
that VIII be interesting and lively. ana
there is no real desire on the part of
the public to have any of the pledges
made by the various candidates car
ried to their logical conclusions then
no serious harm can come from the
present top-heavy consideration that
is being given to the personalities OF
the presidential candidates. But If.
on the other hand, the voters are in
earnest in wanting various reforms;
If they want the tariff revised accord
ing to the free trade principles or
maintained according to the protective
theory, they are ignoring the most
important feature of the campaign,
which is the candidacy of the men
who want 70 come to congress-. Sure
" the country does not want to wit
ness another spectacle like that pre-
sented by the last session of congress,
when everything suggested by the
president vas rejected by the party
opposed to him in the legislative
branch. The clean-cut platforms have
been presented to the people for their
choice on November 5. None of these
platforms can be translated into stat
uteS by the election or a president
alone. If the president is to keep
faith with the people he must have a
majority in congress that will support
him. congressman, in order to keep
faith with their constituents. must
have a president who holds the view
of the majority of the members of the
house and senate.-Washingto Post.
O.
PAYING WAGES TO PRISONERS.
Warden lyman of the Colorado state
prison in urging at q Chicago asso-
citation of commerce luncheon that
wages be paid to prisoners outlined a
policy that is meeting with growing
favor among experts in prison man.
agement. Under this rational plan
men serving time in penitentiarieg
would be allowed reasonable compen-
sation for their labor in prison indus
tries, the money being forwarded TO
their wives or other relatives who
suffer loss of support because of the
misdeedS of the convicts. In some
cases it might prove beneficial to al
low the wage payments to go to the
families of persons slain. or perman-
entity injured by imprisoned malefac-
tors. The idea is worthy of the serious
consideration of legislative bodies
Chicago News.