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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
light things there be Comet brings,
When it on high doth horrid range:


publicity in campaign contributions comes
nome too soon Cornelius Bliss was treasurer
Of the Republican national committee when the
largest sums ever spent in elections were poured
into the committees Golfers by somebody Be
fore Mr. Blfss' death the investigators are told
the books were burned" Senator Mark Hanna
10 dead and the secrets OF the Mckinley cam
paigns seem to have died with him George
b. Cortelxou who was chairman In the Roose-
Welt campaign of 1904. is strangely ignorant
Of where the money came fren4.-I It must have
fallen like mama from the skies.
George Foster Peabody treasurer Of the
Democratic national committee in 1903. saws
he knew very little about its affairs, as Chair
man Thomas Taggart kept the books Mr. Tag
CART admits that he burned the books in 1908.
Both parties must have had something TO con-
cea1 else why were the records burned The
publicity law passed by congress- compelled the
printing of the names Of contributors in 1905
the Bryan-Taft mpaign This year they pro-
vide for publication before instead OF after
election Mr. Perry Belmont was active in
securing the passage Of the publicity law. which,
If passed sixteen years ago, might have pre-
vented some Of the ndals Of notorious cam
paigns- Baltimore Sun,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
PLEAD FOR LIFE
OF NEGRO Girl

Governor Mann has received the
following petition from the National
Association of Colored Women. as
sembled in Hampton, in reference to
the execution of Virginia Christian,
the negro girl condemned to die on
August 9Th for the staying OF Mrs.
Belote. OF Hampton
We. the members OF the National
Association of Colored Women. in
convention assembled at Hampton.
Va. do most earnestly implore his
esceltency. ts@' governor 81 virginia,
to commute the sentence Of Virginia
Christian. who is condemned TO ha
eiectrocuted, The extreme youth OF
this girl, her lack of training during
her childhood and the neglect ,or
which she herself was not responsible,
are extenuating circumstances which,
we feel. justify us in imploring his
excellency to show merciful Glenn
ency To this unfortunate girl Con-
sidering all the circumstances in the
case we feel that the elettrocution OF
this young girl would he repugnant 20
the Christian womanhood and man.
hood, not only of the United States,
but OF the whole civilized world.
fSigned)
MARY CHURCH TERRELL
Honorary President y. A. Of C. W.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
CURRENT COMMENT


We can imagine some future Whately re-
viewing the political phenomena OF the early
tNeuftath century with view 10 launching Il
new pamphletful OF Historic Doubts sitting
down to the serious study of comets Every
body with a smattering OF scientlhc kno"leose
has a theory about comets and charming Tree
dom from false modesty in airing il. Scarcely
any two writer's agree just what a comet IS. or
why II acts thus and or what is gong 10
become OF ii In the remote bye-and-oye; out
all unite in the opinion that comet Is IN ~
terosting object for observation, ana tnat the
mystery still surrounding its constitution us
movements its potentially for good or ILL., ana
it's ultimate fate invests the study of 1t with
piquanf flavor.
Hare is AN astronomer who tells us that
comet is merely collection of cosmic dust
that it is formed in space from matter ALREADY
floating there so that there is nothing new
about it-only old stuff more pieturesaueF
rearranged The uxtes OF dust are attras,eu
by and TO each other. he eApialns crowuths
together in different lines and by diHereht
forees til their inward pressure produces heat
mt enough to repel the minute perlpheral par
ticles yet sufficient to cause rant sio" ~
the hacked core which constitutes the center,
Afer a long lapse the mass VIII be found 10
have moved slowly away from the neighbor-
Mood of its birth All this time 1t has been
condensing yet adding 70 Itself fresh particles
~ dust ne il has selected its kind from the
expanse through which 1t has passed
Thus tho comets head has been swelled TO
vas, urnportlons Its tail, we are told by
another astronomer. is not, as many suppose,
A body OF independently incandescent matter,
hui a mere collection OF lesser particles OF
eosmic dust sucked into the wake of the big
head as II shoots from one part OF the celestal
ether to another. and relieved from negligibility
only by their reflection of rays thrown upon
them hv the bold orb in front. So what ap-~
pears 10 the eye OF the unframed skygazer.
like A dense mass of fiery material is really
extremely tenuous. not fiery AZ all, and indebted
for whatever Importance II has to the self
centered luminary ii is trailing after. More
over a comet has sometimes straight and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
(ase for the .Alientisfs.

We came upon the automobile standing upon
the brow OF the hill.
Hello" we say TO the chauffeur, Broke
down p
NO sir. he responds
out OF gasoline
NO sir We have plenty"
Tire punctured?'
mo sir The tires are In perfect condition"
Lost your way %
mo sir. The country herabouts is very
familiar"
Dropped something from the automobile ?"
Nor sir. Nothing OF the sort
Then why you standing here? Why are
you not shooting down the hill and across the
level MT terrific speed"
Il do not care to do that SAYS the owner
of the machine, who has been silent until
this moment. II had my automobile stopped
here SO that ! might enjoy the magnificent
view from this elevation
with frightened glance at him turn
and hasten to the nearest town, TO warn officials
that n evidently insane person is at large in
an Observation-Disclosures City Independent.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
No r,.nIIC INQrIsrTION.


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0""e' a.. J.. .r,
the genera "'''''F "
q"''p - ,,aa;n,,., - 90, mail
reasons a 80, g.. cot ~ an
from '"e o"'''' aus"
address.
It develops shat tae reason "'eseN A0' '''''
new species OF IN P''''ne"'e ''''"
office is moral one N'h''S' a. 10
Ii The habit Of 2arIA715 vi ~ -
spoudenee NA'ch 'oey 10 "''
ents to be ACQUAINTED WIN. ne P''''.'''
being made the so-oei"'f" J." ..,,
relationships Hence. the Cove
undertake 10 act as sort OF ""''''' - 'V''7
love and the spirit OF 'hian'''e "0'9''''''
The trouble about this programme Is mat
the Government might very wen o' w.,
Things that 1t could DO more e"'''''''5
the sake OF what can al 0e'' 'l''''''
ing more than curSoFE fN"n''''','"
morals OF the country II wy" "N'e' Tan ~
this order 10 pat the power o. -ie1
the hands OF perfect d my VI
clerks We DO not KNOW VIZ ~
the lust Tor interfering N''" ....'...,
business seems 10 nave '"'' 49,.
a great department. out 1t J" 49,.
uomenoh that the most o"''o''
world IS 80 longer woman"
the posto''iee nat ell'.S' ''''lP -.
postmark machine ope'"'o'S w .,.,,
corning the lho''idu"'S ''''' ''''"
Tic is not worm KNOW" aa,
guess OF one $ 'n"'"''e' - lat
love affairs from e&"m''l'"s '"e ','l's No.,
ters leaves small ma'er'al our % ~'''e'' -,'o
struct character of any sort 10 no"
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
MAYOR RICHARDSON
BACK TO HIS DESK

Mayor Richardson had so far re-
covered from his tndisposition yes
terday as 10 be able to report 10
his office. He afterward attended tho
meeting OF the police board and then
attended the funeral OF Police Com
missioner Manning.
II am much better today" said the
mayor. and ! hope to be able 10
take the trip to Denver early next
month upon the occasion Of the su-
preme meeting OF the Knights ~
Pythias."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26
BANK STATEMENT
SHOWS INCREASE
MT GAIN IN RESOURCES FOR
II Att. OF NORTH CAROLINA
IL EIGHT MILLIONS.

Spec ial to The Richmond Nirgiulart
RALEIGH. \. c. July e5.--An i'm
portant bank statement issued today
hx the Nnrth Carolina corporation
commission shows a healthy condition
and growth Of the State banks ~
North Carolina for the official year
just closed
Net gain in resources. sT.a33,4 50a 30.
Totals resources OF the State banks
Of North Carolina ut this date. s7i.-
IA I5A.2l. as compared with s53 no.
5033 for the same period last year.
which shows an Increase Of near.y
SS.00d. 900 for the year.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Congress has appropriated $4,000 TO help
Southern farmers fight the army worm. If 1t
would only cut down the pensions which SOUTH
ern farmers have to pay for the armies that
once ran over the farms, the Southern agrieul-
tIrisfs might buy their own bug medicine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Both President Taft and Governor Wilson
are hard at work preparing to accept their
nominations Considering how hard they both
worked for them, it would seem that they
might accept them more easily.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

The House is still holding out for no battle
shjna or one at the most After the Titanic
disaster, we thought that everybody was agreed
that there should be plenty of life-boats Bat
tleships are the ife-boats Of the ship OF State.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

i, IL an hour SHE told her mother
later that the hands which struck her
had big bony fingers with nails nearly
six inches long, and the homes Of the
stranger had a creaking and screechY
sound cA-.-al-4d- l-.--A aA+4+4-++ .---- -
the house
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

1t begins to look as though the punishment
-Gaaknr- for the killing Of gam
bier Rosenthal is to be confined TO letting him
testify somebody else into the chair.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

There is new uprising in Mexico Yet there
was time when Red Stubbs OF Kansas Iooheu
for fame to his daughters salt-rising bread.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Justice Wright will find that he gets in de-
cidedy wrong, II he carries out his rumored IN
tentton of trying to attach Gompers for con-
tempt in writing an editorial which was per-
sonal attack upon the court, 1t is one thing TO
disobey courts order; 1t is quite another thing
to hold the court in contempt. Curiously as 1t
may sound courts have found out that they do
not have the power OF finding those in contempt
who hold them SO,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Very soon We ought to hear the familiar
sound of oratory in Claude Allen trial
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Dorcas snodgrass is still missing. No doub
hiding in the alfalfa.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

sheldon saws Roosevelt knew nothing abou
the Hartman contribution. tie Just thahNe'
him for it.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Norris finishes his attack on the Taft admins
ration. When Wilson finishes, there WI" NOT
lie any administration
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

The President of Colombia has wired thanks
10 Mr. Taft for his congratulations, some peo-
pie are constitutionally grateful
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

fixed e4tl.-t}.e- d4itr-ef-r ebbtng-the license of
every possible annoyance.
Yet in the police court the railroad has
recently been fined for obstructing traffic by a
freight train which. 1t was testified. stood
across a busy thoroughfare for period Of
seventeen minutes, 1t stated that the
ofense was not exceptional. but customary;
that It was practice. instead of an accident.
The railroad has appealed, and will fight
this case in the courts. 1t is regrettable that
it should do 80 Just at time when there is
pending compromise Of the rights raised
under the old charter as to exemption from
taxation. etc. BY virtue OF those rights the
railroad has privileges in a modern city that
would he considered unbearabie by the modern
village II does not look we'll, under the cir
cumstances that it should seek by legal qub-
BILE 10 preserve not only its power of utilizing
public highways but its privilege of obstruct-
ing them at will, TO the damage of business
and the annoyance Of travel.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Az an uninvited guest Banquos ghost has
nothing on the Hartman campaign eon''iou-
ton.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-26

Congress- has concluded not TO investigate
the beef trust during the hot weather. wise
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
TACKLES MUST BEAR BRUNT
Survey of Football Rules Leads to Be-
lief Game VIII Be Close Cousin
to That of 1909.

Walter Camps latest variety of foot
ball rules has been accused Of being
everything from a return to the old
eat 'em alive mass play rules to being
a slight modification, which will have
little effect on the style of play. Act
ually, a survey of the new football
laws leads to the belief that the game
that will develop under them will be a
close cousin to that played in 1909, an
invitation to the tackles to stand up
and be killed. Last years rules
favored the defense to such an extent
that scoring was almost impossible
and fuky in the extreme. 1t appears
that in their effort to strengthen the
offense, the rulemakers have gone to
the other boundary and that scoring
this year is likely to be enormous.
The mass play died when pulling
and pushing a man through the line
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

Bill Sweeney is going into vaude-
vile this winter.
They say Terre Haute wants Nor
decai Brown as manager.
Many coaches would like to get
Stages recipe for developing punters.
Isn't it a relief to get to read lit
tie football dope after being surfeited
with baseball?
1t is to be presumed that you have
a perfectly good line on all the big foot
ball teams now.
1t is said that more than half the
clubs in the International league will
Phave new managers.
John Paul. Jones, the phenomenal
Cornell runner, has been made presi
dent of the senior class.
The Cleveland Maps are the only
team in the American league to get an
even split with the Red Sox.
Eddie Harlan, the former Princeton
star, is coaching the Johns Hopkins
University squad in Baltimore.
Any writer who imagines his words
influence the belief of the average fan
has plenty of time to think again.
Tenney, who scored Browns touch
down against Harvard last year, is a
member of the Brown team again this
year.
After a careful inspection of mate
rial on hand Coach Stage thinks high
ly of the Maroon 1912 football pros
poets.
Baseball players have formed fra
ternity. One of the highest rites of
the order is the thirty-third degree of
umpire batting.
Mathewson, Ames and Wiltse are
the only members of the present
Giants squad who took part in the
worlds series of 1905.
The squad of candidates for the
Michigan football team is said to be
small, as compared to the other big
schools this year.
Why, if the players are compelled to
play off their tie game without being
paid for it, isn't the public allowed to
see it for nothing?
If the ball playres become jurymen,
they'll find it even worse to kick on
the judges decisions than to have a
run-in with the umpires.
AS for Minnesota, unless Doc Will
liams pulls something remarkable, we
think the Gophers had better pull the
holes in after them this year.
Campbell of the Braves is credited
with the most times at bat in either
league. $40. Milan has been at bat
oftenest in the American, 58S.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
FACE ALMOST COVERED WITH
PIMPLES AND BLACKHEADS

Atchison, Kan.-"For a number of
years I suffered very greatly from skin
eruption. My face was very red and
irritated. being almost covered with
pimples and blackheads. The pimples
were scattered over my face. They
were a fine rash with the exception of
few large pimples on my forehead
and chin. My face burned and looked
red as if exposed 10 either heat or
cold. 1t was not only unsightly but
very uncomfortable. tried several
remedies but couldn't get any relief
I was recommended to use Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura Ointment.
'T applied the Cuticura Ointment in
this evening, leaving it for about five
minutes, then washing it off with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. wash
ed with the Cuticura Soap and hot wa
ter also several times during the day.
After about four months of this appli-
cation, my face was cleared Of the
pimples. I still use the Cuticura
Soap" (Signed) Miss Elsie Nelson,
Dec. 20, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston"
Adv.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
Walter Camp.

was abolished. But the tackle now
will have to stand the shock of his
opponent forward, and then Of heavy
man bent on making two or three
yards He will not, in all probability,
get much help from the secondary de-
Tense. TO weaken the defensive back
line unduly will be simply an invita-
ton to the offense to work the now
unrestricted forward pass to it's
hearts content.
The situation will be much the same
as Yost faced when Notre Dame beat
Michigan and which, later in the same
year, he compelled Pennsylvania to
meet. The threat of the forward pass
was always there, but the play itself
was no great. factor in the scoring.
Instead, the first defense was simply
battered down by straight football,
while the backs waited helplessly for
the forward pass that didn't come.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
Eat Made of Concrete.

Some genius is trying to put a con
crete bat on the market. He claims
that it is no heavier than hardwood
bat. and drives the ball much farther
According to the laws of the game
the bat must be made of wood, so that
the statutes would have to be al
tered before the stone stick could be
utilized. The game, right now, doesn't
need bat that will drive the ball any
farther, but more batsmen who car
drive the ball with the bats in current
use. If they ever get bats that will
hit 'em farther, the games at Boston
Chicago and New York National
League parks will be nothing but pa
rades of home runs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
Sikeston, Mo.
fered everything.

have an operation. would not listen to
that, and when friend of my husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, l was willing to take it.
Now / look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. / can do my own homework,
hoe my garden, and milk COW. l can
entertain company and enjoy them. l
can visit when choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. l wish 1 could talk to every
suffering woman and girl. Mrs. DEMA
BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Murrayville, nl.-''I have taken Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for a very bad case of female trouble
and it made me well woman. My
health was all broken down, the doctors
said must have an operation, and was
ready to go to the hospital, but dreadedit
so that began taking your Compound.
I got along so well that gave up the
docto<s and was saved from the opera
ton. - Mrs. CHARLES MOORE, R. R.
No. 3, Murrayville, Ill.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
BERGER is FIND OF SEASON
DiminutiVe Chicagoan PIoWed or
WriggIed Himself Through Var
sity Line in First Game.

One of the greatest finds of the
season at the University of Wisconsin
has been Louis Berger. In the first
practice game he plowed or wriggled
his way through the varsity line at
will.
The diminutive Chicagoan, who is
an exact counterpart of Otto Stangel,
furnished the big attraction for the
rooters who gathered at Camp Ran
dali to watch the practice. Time after
time he shot through holes in the
varsity line for big gains, his most
spectacular performance being %
yard gain through right tackle with
half of the team trying to stop him. A
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
GIT RICH IN
Three YEARS
EXPERIENCES OF q BRITISH I'M.
MIGRANT IN CANADA-WEST

The following straightforward state
ment needs no comment to add to
its force and effect. 1t appears in
recent issue of the Liverpool Mer.
curry.
r. Patterson, Of Nutana, Saskatche-
wan. Canada, when he arrived from
Liverpool, had six of us to support"
to use his own phraseology, and his
funds were getting low. He secured
homestead 90 miles out from Sun
durn. and started living on it April
T.. 1907. The previous fall he put all
his money, $137, into a shack and lot,
making sure Of a home. AS cook and
caterer in a local hotel he made SIS
month, and out of this had some
savings out of which he paid his
breaking and improvements on the
homestead. The shack was sold to
good advantage. Then Mr.. Patterson
tells the story after he had removed
his family to the homestead:
For the first month life was so
strange and new that hadn't time to
think of anything, only fixing up our
new home. I was so green to farm
life that I didn't know the difference
between wheat and oats Il do now!
Between working out, cropping my
place, and with my gun, we managed
to live comfortably for the three
years, which time was required to put
in my duties. I had accumulated
quite a stock of horses, cows, pigs,
fowls, and machinery in the three
years.
In October, 1909, I secured my pat
ent to my land, so took a few days
holidays to Saskatoon to locate
purchased homestead wiz, Us. per
acre. from the Government Instead
of getting the purchased homestead,
I secured a half section 1920 acres)
on the Saskatchewan River for S25
per acre on easy terms, nine years
payments with a cash payment of
$1,000. l mortgaged my first home
stead obtained chattel mortgages on
my stock, and on December oath,
1909, took possession; on June 10,
1910 I sold out again for $40 per acre,
clearing, besides my crop GAO acres),
$4,000. 1 also sold my first home
stead, clearing $1,000 and two Saska-
tOon town lots, which we value at
$1,000 each today. We placed all our
capital in another farm (river front
age) and some trackage lots (6O), also
a purchased homestead (river front
age). 1 remained as Manager of the
Farm I had sold on a three years
contract at a fine salary and house,
garden, and numerous privileges.
so by the time my three years have
expired, with my investments and the
increased value of my frontage and
lots, I am hoping to have a clear
profit on my $137 investment of
$4,000. My land doesn't eat any
thing, and it is nearly all paid for. I
hold a good position (and secure)"-
Adv.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
PLAYER Steals 116 Bases.

The season of 1912 was notable in
the Northwestern league for broken
records, according to the final aver
ages recently made public. The most
important new record set was that of
Ralph Hap" Meyers of the Spokane
club, who stole 116 bases. Official
guide books show that in 20 years this
record has not been equaled in any
league in organized baseball.
Catcher Whaling of Seattle worked
in 1873 games, made only seven er-
rors, threw out 1873 base runners and
averaged 1872.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
Louis Berger.

minute later and he again wormed his
way through the forward wall for nine
yards carrying the ball within strik-
ing distance of the goal. 1t was then,
however, that the men who were Sc
lected to positions on the first eleven
braced and hurled back three assaults
sent at them by the scrub backheld,
Woods being finally nailed in his
tracks as he tried left tackle for the
two yards necessary for a score.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06
Two Champions to Quit.

The retirement from track athletics
of two well-known champions is an
nounced. They are Simon P. ellis,
who won many titles for the New
York Athletic club, and Roy Dorland,
the 300-yard champion of America.
Both will engage in business in for
eign countries, ellis In Spain and
Dorland in Brazil.