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THEY FOOLED Us ALL.

Unsympathetic readers who saw in
Yesterday afternoons papers 4 full de-
NAL OF all that Tho morning dail!es
had printed about the Mexican crisis
probably concluded that they had been
sold" to create sensation. De-
ccived they certainly were. but not one
whit more SO than every newspaper in
The country
If VIC may confess TO the inner work
ings of the newspaper world, we must
acknowledge that Monday evening was
spent very nervously by every news
editor in the larger cities. The news
from Mexico City grew more and moro
confused as the night passed, and
hroush; ono dispatch after another.
each with some new promise OF 4
CLASH No journalist knew what he
nigh, expect before press time.
The most remarkable aspect of tho
whole matter was that every news
service IN the country was led astray.
The Times Dispatch. which subscribcs
to two OF the largest services In the
country. found both in absolute agree
ment. and confirmed the news they
sent by communicating with every pos
sible news centre. Even the -Associ-
matters OF this sort az to he almost
infallible. was positive In its report
that an ultimatum had been delivered
Mr.. Lind And wnen that service is
positive. the average news editor has
no suspicious.
The situation was further compli-
Gated BY suspicious silence in Wash
ington Tho Times Dispatchs CORES
pondent called up both the White
House and the residence OF Mr.. Bryan,
but received the cryptic reply that no
statement would he issued before
morning No denial OF the ultimatum
was forthcominG secrecy cloaked
what many thought was n heated mid
night conference.
For their own protection, the news
papers OF the country will investigate
the origin OF these false reports and,
in our Judgment. will find them the
product az Mexican politicians who
wished to test the temper Of the coun-
try. Every reputable newspaper feels
tina, il is due an explanation for the
decei, practiced upon it,
But this rare fraud on the news
papers Is the exception TO the rule. and
should convince the reading public
OF the ANTIQUITIES a newspaper has in
s ,.IteIf, i,For-,a,ior rather
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-20
what the Negroes Want.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-I have read with considerable
interest several letters published in
your paper concerning the proposed
park for colored people. and with your
kind permission l wish to voice my
sentiments through the same channel.
1t is true that great deal needs
to be done to better the general con-
dition Of the negroes of Richmond
That being n fact, think we should
begin by seeking the most important
need first and set about to remedy that
first. "A parc, in my mind. is not very
pressing need and IL needed 1t should
not take precedence over some others
more pressing.
The strength OF nation is measured
by the health of Its citizens. There
are hundreds OF negroes in Jackson
Ward (and in other congested negro
sections in Richmond) who would well
como u bathhouse.
In tho back streets and alleys can be
found decaying cats and rats. Just
this morning I found a dead cat and
two rats in such state of decomposi
tion that my sense, OF smell warmed
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laboratories OF manufactures, and then
which You are asking. will be known
to no one now living.
the doctors whose regulations have
been established will take the young
graduates from our medical colleges
INTO their Offices as assistants, not
only as assistant NJ. DIS. but apothe-
carries as we'll. Even now the average
Doctors office is filled with these. ready
prepared goods. OF which l have al
ready spoken, and AZ time goes on
they'll add to their supply until every
physician Will have compromising
room IN connection with his Office. II
* already so win those who have been
highly successful in medicine and sur
gerry, and they have established hos
ptals OF their own. How manT hos
pitGls did we have In Richmond thirty
years ago? How many prescriptions
doe: the druggist get from them? |
answer "None!" They have their own
laboratories and supply their patients,
supplied them with everything they
used. This condition OF things was
predicted by Mr.. John Purcell. OF Pur-
CELL Ladd & Co, when he set me up
In business in 1873. and said to me-
You'll only be n cook for the doc
tors but a few years more. for they'n
soon be their own apothecaries, and
then you'll be no longer n pharma cist
but Il trader, with n department store.
selling every kind of stuff. the least
of which VIII be medicines" The old
our line as we'll as in all others, have
been forced to give way for the up-to-
date, progressive spirit of the times
POLK MILLER
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Voice Of the PEOPLE
The New Drug Store.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-A short time ago you asked the
question. In your editorial columns.
what has become of the old fashioned
drug store" AS the oldest retail drug
gist in Virginia, think can enlighten
YOU Formerly, IL man wanted TO find
drug store. in n city In which he
was stranger ne would walk down
the streets until he came TO a small
place (generally on corncr), in which
there were three or four show bottles
filled with colored liquids a few lars,
any number Of dead flies. and the dust
about an inch thick on tho bottom
Inside YOU would md Cbut not al
ways) neat-looking lot of showca ses
filled with toilet goods. while the
whole OF the lower side of the house
was filed with drawers Which CON
tanned drugs, spices, etc. Cigars and
chewing tobacco then would have
looked out of place in any other than
a drug store. Even the retail grocers
didn't sell them.
The upper walls of the store were
filled with bottles. neatly labeled. and
containing the popular powdered drugs,
tinctures. fluid extracts, etc. The men
inside were of high order of intel
ligence. and understood the business
Of pharmacy from the ground up They
made their own syrups, tincturcs and
fluid extracts. and selected the very
purest of the crude drugs and pull
verified them in the shop" They were
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HEREplry AND BODYBUILDING.

EUgen!cs and Nacht-raciDg would
seem TO rHve very little in common,
but the encouragement that y. C. Her
reshon is to design two OF the American
cup defenders should interest not only
engenlsts, but every man who believes
in the blessing of q clean heredity.
Visitors TO the International Con
gress OF Hygiene and Demography-
which was very popular gathering
despite it's Hame-will recall that in
the exhibit on eugenics was an in
ieresting chart showing the ancestry
Of family which. II was stated. had
exhibited . genius for bodybuilding.
The chart demonstrated how. for at
least four generations, this marvellous
skill had descended from sire to son
just as brown eyes might descend ana
that the youngest Of the race, little
girl Of thirteen was already demon
s,rating the family genius.
That family was the HerroshoNs
TO whose ability we owe the fastest
staunchest yachts that ever cut the
water in the races for the America cup
Now that they are again to give
America the beneht Of their Inherited
skin, We have 4 practical guarantee
that Sir Thomas Upton win 80 back
home without the cup.
As far as one can see, there was
originally nothing in the Herreshon
blood that distinguished them from
other people They acquired skill IT. a
particular direction. and they increased
that SKIN by sensible marriages ana by
sane, temperate living In fact, when
one thinks OF it, they are shining ex-
amples Of the only euecnics about
which we know anything that when
gives promise OF "a worthy progeny &c
kim who walks worthily
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A CONFERENCES WORTH WHILE.

we certainly hope that the delegates
whom Governor Mann has named to the
coming meeting OF tho National Tax
Association will attend the conference
II is distinctly worth while, and 1t will
afford Virginians an opportunity of
rubbing elbows with men who have
studied taxation for years.
| Tho chief trouble with us in Vir-
ginia. in our efforts to solve our tax
problems, has been that we have re-
lied too much upon our own Judgment
and too little upon the experience Of
other States. Every American Com
monw ealth which boasts q tax code
that is not Disgrace has passed
| through the same dark waters that now
| cngulf us. Every good law on the
statute books of every State is the re-
suit of just such agitation rs that
which is now stirring us. All have
made mistakes, and all have tried ex-
periments. They have learned lessons
applicable to every State. and they have
weighed and found wanting riany plans
that have been suggested for our relief
In particular we should like for Il
strong and representative delegation
from Virginia to hear segregation"
discussed by the men who have tried
It out-men like Adams, Of Wisconsin;
Corbin, of Connecticut Puriy. of New
York, and Galloway. of Oregon. All
these men have pursued that fieeting
wll-o' the wisp and they have aban-
doned the chase after bitter experience.
Their observations. based on practical
experience. may save Virginia from So
rious mistakes and costly errors.
We cannot live unto ourselves alone,
and we cannot hope to solve our prob
lens alone. We need calm argument,
careful consideration and open minds
to receive the truth. Above all else In
taxation we need men who are willing
to learn lesson from the experience
OF other States
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REJUvENAT1Nc JOHN DULL.

| Fastidious Englishmen have reached
that point of refinement where they
resent the traditional caricature of old
John Bull. and they have launched a
movement to subject the familiar fig
ure to the tender mercies of the tailor
the barber and the halter. The out
come, they declare. will be national
type more in accordance with the pres
ent good taste of England
| Bully, But while they are doing
over John Bull and are rejuvenating
him. we trust they will make the job
complete. Do away altogether with
the short, fat fellow, whose eyes are
twinkling with good humor and whose
person seems to breathe forth con-
tented prosperity. Consign him TO the
National Museum and enact n law MAX
represent Mr.. Englishman in the cos
tune of 1910.
In his place. we hope these artists
will give us the type OF Englishman
who is demanding the change He
should be about thirty-hve. tall, with
a 'willowy" waist and a pair of ex-
tremely Ions. thin legs. His clothes
should be Of Partisan cut, with only
such notifications as Strand tailor
would make TO correct the inartistic
lines of the original. His neck should
be somewhat scrawny, his collar n
trifie too large and his walking stick
thin Malacca, YOU know-should be
in evidence. But his face and his man
ncr arc the details upon which the
artist should expend his genius. His
chin should be lifted on high. his nose
should be tilted as though he cncoun-
tered bad odor, his monocle should
be In place. and there should be in his
eyes that vacant. superior stare that is
supposed TO annihilate cocknev.
Crown him with a London straw hat.
shoe him with spats and nnrrow-toed
boots" and the job is done-at least.
1t will conform TO the original OF these
purists.
The WHOLE proceeding. in a word. is
the veriest rot! John Bull is the type
we know and admire; his lines are
true TO England; his manner is that
which one expects TO find in the true,
born Briton." To substitute for him
and for the splendid race he typifes
modern London snob would be to
subject Britain 10 the ridicule of the
world. John Bull is n character: his
rejuvenators are a Joke.
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me OF their presence long before

me OF their presence long before 1
reached them.
The colored children should have n
playground. as children will play. and
II the street is the only place to play
In they VIII naturally seek The street.
and By so doing they are continually
exposed TO danger. There are many
things that could and should be done
10 Improve the general condition of tho
colored people OF our city. but shall
coniine these remarks 10 suggestions
concerning the betterment OF health
conditions.
think II would be wise and proper
thing for the city authorities to invite
number Of colorcd citizens (who are
In position to know best the needs
OF their people) TO meet them and talk
such matters over before action is
taken. ] am sure great good would
come from even that much recogni-
ton
Lastly, park should como in Tina,
but for the present give US bath
houses. clean streets, Fairgrounds for
the children and better housing con-
ditions, and you might throw in few
extra policemen TO round up the corner
loungers. the human parasites, that
have sworn that they won't work.
MILTON NEWMAN.
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Signs of the Times

Have YOU ever noticed how the ice
box door hangs open? One of them is
from the outside is Just eating up
your good ice that you have paid for at
taXicab rates. We have an opinion
upon this subject we believe that the
ice trust holds stock in the refrigerator
factories and that every icebox is so
made that at least one door will hang
open.
bolt Of lightning made an Illinois
man walk. Betting on the horses will
make almost any man walk
Henry Few Sessions of Georgia
ought to be good man for the Su-
premc Court.
One OF Professor Taft's chief con-
solutions is that he doesn't have to live
IN Washington in this kind of weather.
me chances are that Huerta will
nave TO resign as President of Mexico
Is such.
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Cnp K,,,,nr n. Abo,,,bed,

(To a doctor ESQ cailed). who ad-
vised, as preventive OF the spread of
disease. the abolishing by law of the
habit of kissing)
You doctors who claim that the kiss is
OF sundry diseases we'll known as
contagious,
Suggesting that kissing be hindered
Advice which young lovers denounce
as "outrageous'
1t may be your reasoning Is perfectly
sound;
1t may be our ways are in need of
restrictions:
Your Puritan laws may be very pro-
But never could lead to single con-
viction.
you may?
If Cupid but NEEDLE, his shaft seldom
misses;
He wanders at will, and he has his own
And who does not know of his fond
ness for kisses!
Just Danish the custom of kissing from
sight,
Or hamper the habit with rules which
Twill prosper meath skies which arc
warming and bright
Twill flourish in zones which are
frozen and frigid.
Some loved one beside you, some ma
tron or maid.
With mercury reading hundred, or
over,
Some dear. one may, kiss you--"just
two in the shade"
And buoyant you'll be as the bee
in your clover.
We meet with these dear ones each day
of our lives;
Exact not law which will lead to
transgression;
Well CALAMITY kiss the raised lips of
our wives
On Sabbath. or week day. or just at
discrction.'
IAN old Puritan law OF New England
forbade 81 man to kiss his wife on the
RI. NJ. CLARKSON, A. M, NJ D.
Haymnrket. Va. August S.
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WHAT AIS TN MAnKETt

ld-fashioned Richmonders who love
to go to market are asking us wha,
ails tho historic Second Market and
under the Blues Armory ono sees sc
few customers purchasing tho tabled
deiicacics OF Hanover.
The question is certainly apropos
The market, for some strange reason
does not seem to attract the public
as In the past, when ono might meet
| every good housekeeper OF Richmond
and half the epicures in the space un-
der the old Second Police Station The
hucksters have discouraged air. and
rs they walt beside their stalls, laden
with every fruit and vegetable that
the rich soil OF the counties produce,
| they seem To be signing for the old.
busting days.
| Many answers are offered. The ac-
tirity OF the peddlers. the use of the
telephone, the rise OF the green
grocery" business and the like. are all
alleged to have played a part in keep
ing tie public from Sixth Street. Some
of these are doubtless responsible in
part, but none of them accounts fully
for the falling off in trade at the
market.
One of the greatest reasons, in our
judgment, is the unfortunate design
of the new market building, with its
ponderous doors, its low pitched roof
place, in short, is not inviting. and it
does not attract buyers as in the days
when the space under the police sta
ton was open. If the Administrative
Board We're to tear out the walls and
unhinge the doors. We believe they
would find their tenants much better
satisfied.
There is another possible reason for
the decline in the patronage of the
market-a reason that we blush to
own. But rs it comes from the buck
sters themselves 1t must havo some
foundation in fact. They are selling less,
those good citizens aver, because tho
people are eating less and have for
gotten the classic joys OF old Virginia
cooking.
Can this be possible? Have we
reached that point OF gastronomic de-
generation where we do not love the
heshpots of Virginia? Heaven forbid,
Why. people have been known to taste
Virginia cooking, on visit to this
state. and forthwith TO forsake all and
move TO this Commonwealth: starving
men have been restored in a trice to
the full vigor of manhood with n
single vegetable dinner; the weary
have been rekindled and the hopeless
encouraged by the mere smell OF n
good kitchen. Do we no longer eat
snaps-no Nirginian insults his an
cestry by calling them string beans
and have we lost our taste for the
toothsome black-eyed pea? If so, we
are doomed people,
We recommend to those who have
been led astray by French table dhote
visit TO the market; they will learn
to know again their childhood friends
and forever thereafter will feast on
the viands that cheer the heart!
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The Nirginian Gazette strikes the
right key when it says IF Roger T.
Gregory. member eject OF the House Of
Delegates Nor will he forget that
while he represents primarily the Pc
hlhsnia that other sections of the State
have their rights as sacred and as de-
handing as his own. He would be a
sorry representative indeed who were
not broad enough to see and know his
duty TO the whole" That is the real
patriotic viewpoint for the lawmakcr
% tnke.
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F ES!

Horse manure Is tho principal
Matching place for flies.
II Gun be made sterile with ConI
oil. cnrboiic acid. copperns water or
dry ionm by mixing thoroughly.
HOrscmen, stnbIemen, owners of
horses and sanitary inspectors, pny
attention.! Cut this out.
Let 1913 he a fyiess year.
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TuAD AS lie MAS

| Will the day ever come when South
ern men will uncover the lies which
are paraded as fact in reference books
issued and written by partisans? Is
IL too much to hope that we will de-
velop In the South a school Of his
torians who will write for our children
the true facts of our history and will
describe characters as they really were ?
We are led to ask these questions
from a review of what purports to be
life OF Thaddeus Stevens. written by
James Albert WOODBURY. and given to
the world as an authoritative account
OF this ''reconstructors character.
Professor WOODBURY. Is an able man
and sincere student-so able and so
sincere that when he parades such a
biased view of Stevens as that which
appears in his new book. one despairs
of unprecedented judgment from the
North
II one is to believe all that Mr.. Wood
burn says of Stevenss political career,
we should rear a monument to him as
the great apostle OF virtue. and should
!dilh E!Ii iIBu among lNe modest
spirits OF our national history Stevens
was patriot, n man who never erred.
the Richard Of new crusade. and a
knight without reproach-in DR.. Wood
burns opinion.
What Stevens really was. one can
gather from even cursory reading of
the Congressional Record during the
years stevens was in Congress. He was
III peace what Butler was in war, and
he vented upon the PROSTATE South q
venom unbelievable About him there
was vndctive bitterness, a thirsty
craving for blood that makes one shud-
der. By every count, he was the basest
enemy tho South ever knew. and thcro
was in his public career, as we see it,
scarcely q single redeeming feature
/ Yet he is held UP as sain, OF aboll-
tionism. q savior Of the nation.
Again we ask, will Southern men ever
give 10 the next generation picture
OF stevens and his Tx as they really
were?
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On the Spur of the
Moment
BY Roy K. Moultcn
VINO Can Advise This Poor Chnpf
we nave received the following from

VINO Can Advise This Poor Chnpf
we nave received the following from
Dear Sir.-I have to ask you some
thing: L know you are n good hand
! 20 give advice free for nothing on
a ioSXelorn:, If lovelorn means having
1rouDie with my VIII. which l do much.
NY WIZ she Amt much honey and
peaches and Ice cream like she was be-
lore took the fatal leep with her be-
ago.
she is n trent. and makes me
was Wash and wipe the dishes and do all
.ne housework and sewing and mend
ing and sweeping. She don't use no
i iEaicai force. but when l don't do what
sne wants, me to she sets down and
cries until do. She amt nevor
.nrowed nothing at me yet but hard
words, and l hate them worse than
bum shells. as l ain "A tender hearted
man. 1 have to stay home from the
iraiirode where ! work and wait on
ner' ana can't make much money. Will
you pleas advise me what l should do
Very respectfully yours,
u B-"
Our advice would be to go and apply
ior q life membership at the home for
the q minded
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New York has been forced to nuc an
icemhn 500 for giving short weight.
but In Richmond the noble icemcn
VIII pay anybody Il hundred TO nnd
their weight short.
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Maine boasts barber who ia ninety.
TWO years old, From the bewhiskcred
appearance Of Maine statesmen. there
is no chance that he viii die Of over.
work or riches
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The New York Globe bewails m.
ethical tragedy Of politics" Tears
in vain The only tragedy New York
politicians fear is one that viii cut Off
tho graft
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Baltimore man is dead after having
700 operations performed on him. but
his popularity with the surgeons must
have been some compensation to him
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Modeatly We would confess tho fact
that long sermon sounds shorter
from Richmond pulpit than any
where else in the world.
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"A Progressive" writes a fervid
article in New York paper, but fails
to state which one of the nfty-seven
varieties Of progressive he is.
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Bangor man reports that an "o.<,.
FED man of that locality is dead. AND
Maine dry at that!
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Tama Jim Wilson is back from
abroad but who cares for poor Jimmy
now?
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= woman named zartorski is said 10
have scared of n burglar with her
husbands pipe. We suspec, it was her
husbands name.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-20

Fashion prescrlhes green shirts Tor
men next winter. which is trne hard
on Crangemen.
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One of our exchanges accuses :,
prominent citizen OF being a liar be-
cause he stated In public that his vie
had asked him the date Of his hirth.
gay. why abuse the man or doub,
ms veracity? His wife probably ala
1t In the hope that he would DO nh.
sent minded enough to ask her tho
same question.
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The discovery Of the New York State
Health Department that married men
i've longer than bachelors may be
nothing more than an example OF mis-
cry long drawn out.