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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-14

ductlon of THE raw material means
wages to labor and interest to capital,
and greatly expanded commerce and
trade for merchants and railroads
distributors Of wealth..
1t lis Il long story 10 tell why pros
pcrity' is so uncertain, and just breaks
out here and there occas ional!y, only
to be- shut OFF by some unseen power
that only Il few men understand. but
Will attempt to sum up the causes
by saying that the natural channels
of trade in production and distribution
are clogSed up by unnatural and un-
wise laws and customs.
Our land tenure laws, and land tax
laws foster. Gland monopoly and the
selfish holding OF idle land so as to
get the community. increase In value,
and thus production Is hindercd.
Our laws, which put a tax on capital
and business. and industry and occu-
pations. is taken advantage of by
merchants, and the license tax they
pay Is just a species Of protection"
to prevent competition, and by this
means certain cliques of men control
Continued OH Sixth. Page.)
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A Whole BnE OF Hints.

whole BnE OF Hints.
Professor Edmond Fontaine. of Char
lottesville, writes the Industrial editor
as follows:
want to thank T.. II. La Baume per-
sonally for his article in last sundays
Industrial Section on industrial condi-
tons in the South on the farms and
small towns. Also The Times-D dispatch
deserves much credit for publishing
an article with so much hard and un-
palatable truth about our own sec
ton. and am sure that the paper VIII
thus gain in the confidence of the peo-
pie and become Il medium of thought
as we'll as of news
The. problem OF the South is ito keep
our boys and girls at home and to
use their brains and mussle on the
land, and by this means Increase our
miserably low per capita OF wealth"
production.
The thing we call prosperity is
that ideal condition where labor has
free access TO tho means of production
in agricultural land, land for factory
sites. land for home sites, water power,
mines and timber, etc. Ample pro-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-14
CANNING CLUBS IN
HENR|CO COUNTY
Meeting i'll Varina District.
Splendid Exhibition OF Work
Done by Girls.
LESSONS THAT WERE LEARNED
Sandy Has Word to Say.
Miss Agnew on the
Ground.
LESSONS THAT WERE LEARNED
by j. c. HUNTER,
farm Demonstration S-onf

Inc GIFTS Canning Club meeting ana
farmers picnic. under the auspices @,
INC farm demonstration work, held AT
me new Narina High School last " ed.
nesday, September 10, was well attend
CD ana a success In every way.
1herc vas an exhibition OF the work
by the girls CT the earning, prcsery-
ing and poultry clubs done during the
summer. under the leadership OF Miss
SyiVls Slocum, the energetic agent OF
the girls work in Henrico County
Later a practical demonstration show
ing how swiftly and skiIfuIly this
wotk, so important to a household and
profitablc to those who have had the
training, can BIO done. Just q cheap,
portable invention, made OF heavy gal
VaniZed steel, is used, with nIeboX,
boiler and ccntrivarcc for soldering
tops on air-uGht tin cans. suitable for
canning. preserving, picking and other
uses. Ii can be placed in any out
building. or. as III this instance, in the
ahade of Il big tree, right in the tomato
patch or orchard convenient to the
vegetables or fruit TO be put up
The samples on exhibition in one OF
the schoolroons. artistically arranged
by Miss Slocum, were all so uniform
~ good looking that the wonder was
how the judges could see any differ
ence to award prizes
Miss Slocum had solicited n number
OF prizes for the girls in Richmond
and elsewhere
Big Man Present.
t. o.. sandy state agent for the
farmers demonstration work, made
one of his characteristic addresses.
which kept the audience intensely in
terested during the whole discourse
l can only mention Il few of the
topics he smoke on
lie told how the school BOYS of to-
day are getting a one-siGed etlucation
not hitting them for any particular call
ing. They leave school to 60 out to
earn money with this slight school
training. and are unfit to compete with
those who have Eeen trained for some
specific occupation, hence they must
in most cases. have to come down to
manual labor, the only work for which
thoy are fitted. Also that our So call
ed agricultural colleges arc turning
out ten times as many graduates for
other pursuits. such as engineers, etc,
as agricultural students, and he Won
ders WHY agricultural is not taught
as n study in our county schools
He says twenty-five acres of land
worked by intensive methods Is not
only enough. but in this day OF high
priced labor, will yield greater pro-
likely to bring the owner in debt and
become burden to him.
Labor, he says. is the great fnan-
cial handicap to-day and is going up
III cost all the time. stu, moro money
Is being made on tho farms to-day by
Continued on Tenth Page.)
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Continued ON Fifth Page.)
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VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS;
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
BY FRANK S. WOODSON,
Industrial Editor.

This to
or,willre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18

It has often and most tritely been reit-
Grated that Dickens appealed to the un-
cultivated, but could not move the highly
cultured among his contemporaries. That
is not to be wondered at, and is the high
est sort of praise, considering what he
had chosen for his goal. He was most
human. most serious workman, with the
definite purpose to so use his pen as to
helm the whole family of men to under
stand, to sympathize, to set right, what
ever wrongs desolated the hearts of those
who needed rather consolation. Hence
no sooner had he caught the popular ear
with his first real book, the "Pickwic's
PAPERS" than he regarded the opportun;-
ty afforded by that popularity as a call,
most religious and most sublime, to dedi-
cate himself to the welfare of the neg
lected English child. The humor of
was a bait for the peoples
ina agination. How splendidly that imagi-
nation was caught. Then forthwith came
the early chapters of "Oliver Twist" the
tragedy of the workhouse child, the child
Of the slun, the child of the thieves
gang. With that terrific story of the
wrongs of childhood in England Dickens
became an immeasurab be moral force in
England. This was in 1881
when "Oliver Twist was finished in
lsss. and all people everywhere were in
dsgnant with Bundle. the workhouse
master, or were shuddering over the fate
of poor Nancy. or quivering with the
shock OF the rope that hung the MUIR
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derer, or grateful that Fagin got his
deserts, the master hand passed on in
Nicholas Niclleby," to tell the story Of
the little boy in the clutch of tentacIes
like those of Mr.. and Mrs. Squeers, a pair
of human cuttlefsh, posing as educators
and philanthopists.
And the masters skill grew stronger,
more resourceful, more melodramatic in
the best sense of that much abused word
as he passed to the portrayal OF Little Nell
and of Barnaby Rudge. Watch the chfi-
dren surrounding the central figure OF the
the huge raven. Always they are wrapt
in a mist of pathos, as though childhood
to Dickens were of necessity a tragic
thing
Passing over his first visit to America
you come to 'Dombey and Son." with the
dying boy etched forever on the back
ground of the fathers weirdly selfish am
bition. Space fails us to tell OF the child
life of the later novels. but who can for
get the child note in the Christm.s s
stories? Here ii sings and laughs.
Yes. we need a Dickens in this land. who
will see and interpret the human heart
In the neglected child, the child heart sci,
throbbing with the weariness, the tender
ness, the pain, the injustice and the chiv.
airy of the world, this contradictory
world. For our Imagination lacks devei-
oprnent. The child Of fiction must come
to help US see and love and rerve the
child Of fact
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nHE approach of June brings to mind
the death of Dickens, now 4s years

nNHE approach of June brings to mind
the death of Dickens, now 4s years
L ago.
= Amid the many forms of modern solicit
tude for children 1t is we'll to give honor
to that great master Of human hearts a
the creator Of the child in fiction. You
take up the current copy Of that humor-
GUS American weekly, called Life, and
read there an assault on the fair name of
Alabama because, it alleges. she prizes
oysters more than the tiny children who
are employed In the shucking and pack
ing OF that profitable denizen of our
coasts. You know that there are alleviat-
ing elements in that dire traffic. but yet
you feel that those children are far away.
not actual since somehow we lack i'm
aSination to conceive of them as human
creatures. with the acute distresses and
the evanescent joys of normal children
10 make US see these coast children, most
OF them already professional vagabonds
OF commerce, belonging to no state, pro-
tected by none, drifting from cannery to
berry patch. children distressingly vague
and unreal to the average citizen the
progeny of foreigners, we need a new
incarnation Of the spirit of the genius
which gave us Smike. the boys of Dother-
pys Hail, the Marchioness Little Nell
PAU Dombey, or that genial child of
Great Expectations. the wonderfully
vivid boy. Pip. We all believe in chii1
conservation, but we all see the actual
cniid through glass, darkly." not face
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purposes. Friends never wear masks to
hide their hearts from friends Friend
ship is a confidential love, 1t trusts where
II cannot understand, and waits in warm
affection for explanations. Thoreau asks,
"Who are the estranged? Two friends
explaining" | do not think this Is cor
rect. Sometimes motives and actions are
not clear to ourselves. We have to ac-
count for them to ourselves. No less is
it sometimes essential to the integrity
of friendship that friends know as much
as we have learned in the recesses Of our
hearts.
A friend has absolute confidence In his
friend. La Fontalne, the gifted French
poet, was always poor; but always had
the most charming manners and the abll-
ity to make friends In his old age he
lost his home, and homeless and poor he
was passing along the street when a
friend met him. He told the story of his
loss. His friend said, "Then come to my
home" To which the poet said, II was
going there when 1 met you" In the
home of his friend he remained until his
death. Here was illustrated the confidence
of sincere friendship.
But there is such thing as the loss of
friendship. This magic ring may be
thrown away. I have seen 1t In life, and
in seeing 1t / have beheld a tragedy.
Som emen fiippant1y refer to the loss OF
| friends. oliver Goldsmith, In his Re
| taliation," says of one,
"IIe cast off his friends,
AS a huntsman his pack;
| For he knew, when he pleased,
He could whistle them back"
And Byron, in Don juan" lightly says
Let no man grumble
When his friends fall off.
AS they will do like leaves
At the first breeze;
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Athens or Rome, center of poetry and
learning, an intellectual as we'll as a po-
litical and social capital
An American can take a greeter pride
in his country after looking upon her cap
ital city.
If we are looking for good we can
generally find 1t. The universe itself is
good. All we need to discover that fact
is to relate ourselves to it. in the right
way
Pessimism is unually a case of in
growing egotism.
The world has not treated us In the
way we imagine we should be treated;
hence we take a dyspeptic view of
things generally.
For the most part pessimism is self ad-
vertised failure.
When we think everything and every
body else is wrong, people will conclude
that we are wrong, and in SO doing they
will hit the sore spot.
know a man who Is always predicting
dire calamities that never happen. He is
a failure.
The same man is forever talking of the
things he once did.
| know another man who lets the things
he is doing now speak for themselves
He is a success.
He is also an optimist.
There are dire things happening to the
world-earthquakes fires, foods and dis
asters-but there are SO many optimists
that they repair the injury and build bet
ter than before.
San Francisco is gerater city than she
was when slip in the earth's crust laid
her low.
1 have no doubt that the many cities
that recently suffered from cyclone and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
MRS. MARSHALL TALKS
The Wife of the Vice President Tells
Story of Pretty Romance

Washington Correspondence of the Chi
cago Record Herald
AS the second lady In the land" Mrs
Thomas r. Marshall is proving delight
fully brilliant, vivacious and entertain
ing. She has decided convictions on
rearly all subjects and expresses them
with charming frankness Newspaper
people have no difficulty in securing,
audiences with Mrs. Marshall. She
treats them courteously, answers all
their questions. however frivolous, and
sends them away rejoicing, with a
bundle of good copy"
One of the inquisitive correspondents q
had the temerity to ask her to tell the
story of her love affair with Mr. Mar
shall. While the answer involved Civ
ing away some family secrets she
Obliged the scribe by relating the fol
lowing version of a courtship that was
romantic and marriage that has been
ideal:
Il knew Mr.. Marshall for three years
before | discovered that he had designs
ON me. l was deputy clerk of Stuhen
county to my father Mr.. Marshall was
JourEeyman judge. He was a little
backward in coming forward but when
ne did start courting he proved himself
a progressive. for we were married in
side of three months after he declared
his purpose.
Il had been to school. finished my acn-
oemic education and was enjoying life.
All men looked alike to me. / was a
serious minded wage Garner. Father
needed me and | was going to do my
best to fill the place of deputy clerk
or course every body in Stuben county
knew Tom Marshall. one of the few
democrats that took part in our court,
but i had never given him a second
thought. My mind and heart were open
My father came home one day and
announced that he had lost his clerk
and was in need of some one to help
him. | volunteered. and upon acquit-
ting myself fairly well, was sworn In
as his regular deputy. I saw Judge
Marshall come and go. but nevor
thought much about him.
"One day a democratic lawyer OF our
town-the only one of the kind there
announced half in Jest and half in ear
nest that he had beau for me.
Who? said l, curious.
Why, Tom Marshall. a democrat
and Presbyterian
Hes an old married man. said I.
mo. indeed an old bachelor re-
sponded my friend.
mot long after that Mr.. Marshall,
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the sense that happiness is fed, and
age and decay have taken its place in
the life.
l shall begin with the very best asset
of ones life. I suppose the majority Of
the readers of this contribution We're
reared in religious homes. In early child
hood devoted father and sanity moth
err standing in the place of God taught
the receptive mind the cardinal and es-
sential truths of religion, and the child
learned to believe them with his earliest
mental processes. He did not under
stand all that he believed, any more than
grown people do, and not as much But
God was to him an actuality, and His
authority was supreme. AS he grew in
years the memory of his early instruction
was like a benedction of God on many
occasions. Like Goethe's Faust. ar
rested by the memories of his childhood
as he hears the Easter song when about
to raise the poison to his lips and de-
sists, they have practically said as did ne /:
20, once in boyhoods time the love of
heaven
Came down upon me with mysterious
kiss;
Now. old remembrance twining round my
heart
Forbids this act and checks my daring
steps;
Then sing We forth sweet songs that
breathe of heaven,
Tears come. and earth hath won her
child again.
But there are men, who, notwithstand-
ing all the sacred memories of the past
cfidhood's hallowed home, and the truths
there learned lose the magic ring of their
early faith which they wore when thew
went forth to carve out their own des-
TIMES in the world. The years have come
and gone. They have succeeded, per-
haps, in amassing fortunes; but in the
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flood will be better five years hence than
before the elements struck them. They
are filled with American optimists, who
have the will that triumphs over acci-
dent.
Whether or not optimism is always JUS
tilted, it generally justifies itself. 1t helps
to make the god in which 1t believes
Moreover, the optimist escapes a whole
flock of forebodings about imaginary ills.
Many good people seem to be alarmed
because there are number of new cults
in the world.
Why, bless these dear, timid souls,
there have always been new cults. Some
of them'ha succeeded and have become
the accepted doctrines of the race Others
have disappeared.
But there was never much really to be
feared from any of them.
Today we are in a state of transition.
A new generation Is coming to the front
and is insisting on re-examining every
thing-religion, politics. business, indus
try. labor, thera peutics and even our sys-
tens of finance and taxation.
The young men of our age are not con-
tent to take the word of the past. They
want to know for themselves.
The so called new cults are merely ef-
forts to improve conditions.
Personally 1 believe in some of them,
and in others | do not believe, but | am
not afraid of any Of them.
If they are not good they will not last.
Meantime they will make people think.
Truth is not so puny that It need
fear one fad or a thousand. 1t out
lives all fads. For If the fads have
any substantial reason for being they
succeed and cease to be fads, and II
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while out riding with an intimate
friend, said: I am going to get mar
rled, and l bet you can't guess tho
name of the unfortunate one.'
=" 1 can, the first time said the friend.
The deputy clerk of Stuben county,
Mr. Marshall was surprised to know
that his closely guarded secret was
out love affair is something that
Will out. The birds seem to know
about it.
ITO make long story short, we werc
married We have been married ever
since. When Mr.. Marshall campaigns
or travels on business l go with him.
When go to see my parents in Arizona
he goes with me. My independence as
deputy clerk appealed to Mr. Marshall.
After we were married he told me he
had been eyeing me for two years be-
fore he let me know 1T. I never paid
any attention to him"
Mrs. Marshall has put the ban on
what she calls "highball society" Asked
If she liked society she said:
Yes real society very much. / don't
like cocktail highball society that wants
me to drink such things. / do not mind
ether people drinking IL they want to.
bur they must not expect me to follow
their example. just don't care for
cocktails, highballs and the like, and 1t
Is no use trying to get me to drink
them. There is more to society l hope
| than that. We do not serve or use
wines of any kind in our home"
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cabins, leaving the officers. The enemy
taking advantage of this juncture, fired
more vigorously still and another of
the brave commanders, Captain DeLus-
ser. the same who commanded at Fort
Iombecke, fell. The officers bringing
up the rear urged. besought, exhorted
the troops who had sought shelter in
the CABINS to rejoin their officers, but
to no purpose. They were promised
the reward of promotion, but that did
not avail Finally the officers sought to
appeal to their pride by proposing TO
tage such as would follow and them
selves make the assault, to all of which
the troops were agreed, but they did
not propose to face again the calling
lire of the Chickasaws Suiting the ac-
uon to the word, the officers pro-
ceeded TO the assault. for which they
paid severely, for every prominent lead
er was shot down wounded-Noyan, n,
Grondel, Montburn and De velles
Ihoush bleeding and suffering, Noyan
supported himself and much exposed,
held his ground with a remnant of
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our childhood and have parted from 1t.
We have seen the sun shine out of
an empty heaven to light up a soulless
earth; we have felt with utter loneliness
that the Great Companion is dead. Our
children will know that sorrow, 1t may
be hoped, only hy the reflex light of a
wonderful compassion
Renan, the most accomplished modern
French writer of the sceptical school,
sounded even n sadder note of profound
er sorrow when he wrote, I'VE are lv-
ing on the perfume of an empty vase!
Our children will live in the shadow of
shadow! Their children will have to sub
sist ON something less" In the trustful
years of his younger life he wore the
magic ring of religious faith. Life was
beautiful to him, for every common
bush was afame with Cod But he
threw the ring away, not approaching its
value and then followed the wrinkles
and decay of the happiness of life, and
the living upon the perfume of an empty
vase.p
1t was my purpose to dwell at some
length on the loss of faith in men, sor-
rowful experience that comes to some
people by reason of dsappointments In
those who have been trusted, followed by
the conviction that upon the word of no
man is one to place confidence. But l
have not space for that, and so | hasten
to the last thought of this paper.
The ability to form friendships, as one
passes through the world, is a magic
ring of most valuable quality, enabling
the wearer to hold his friends as with
ht ops of steel."f What is life without
friends? | do not mean mere aequant-
ances, for there is difference as wide
as the poles. BY friends | mean those to
whom ones heart is so closely cemented
that the life he lives is revealed in all
its hidden springs, and the life that they
live, without reserve, is disclosed with
all it's secret love, its motives and Its
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above Faustus really existed But the
legends about him are so numerous, and
the explanations of his life and powers
are so transcendantal, that one is In
clined to believe a superstitous age
largely contributed to the mystery Of
the person in its attempt to interpret
unusual mental and occult abilities.
While Goethe groups around his Faust
all that is mysterious, weird, supernat-
ural, and ma gical the character is
idealized and and unreal-a shadow
moving among shadows. The Faust of
Marlowe is strange being of flesh and
blood who grips the reader with a strong
hand and holds him.
Among other legends that have been
transmitted through the centuries is the
following:
There is a tale of Faustus, that one
day,
Lucretia, the Venetian. then his love,
Had, while he slept. the rashness to re-
move
His magic ring, when fair as a god he
lay;
And that a sudden horrible decay
O'erspread his face; hundred wrinkles
wove
Their network on his cheek; while she
above
His slumber crouched and watched him
shrivel away"
And here my reference to Faustus
ends. for | am to write of the loss of
the magic ring. This old story stands
for a profound thought worthy of being
held in unceasing remembrance. Every
man has a magic ring. With some 1t Is
one quality of character. with others
it may be something else. Be It, how
ever, what it may. its loss is attended
with the whitening up of the world, the
departure of hope from the heart, and
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in which were the men and officers
gathered. and made haste to send Beau
champ with so men to head off the
movement, rescue the troops and to
bring away the wounded and the deal.
Reauchamp moved with speed, turned
back tho movement and while many Of
the dead and wounded were recovered
he could not recover all. In this move
rent Beauchamp lost a number of men.
So hot was the firing from the fort,
however, that he was compelled to
leave a number to the barbarity of the
Chickasaws.
As Beauchamp was retiring in an
orderly way, the Choctaws issued from
their camp with much impetuosity and
fury as though they had at last re-
solved 10 carry everything before them
Fleet of foot and filling the air with
their wild yelling, they dashed toward
the fort. but just then well directed
fire into their ranks from the Chick
asaws created a speedy rout and they
fled in every direction.
Had Blenville been able to bring his