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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
DELEGATES TO LrNcHBuRG.
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u. 4. Convention.
The delegates appointed by Post G..
Travellers Protective Association. OF
this city. TO the state Convention at
Lynchburg. met last night and made
arrangements for the trip. Post G
will be represented by fifteen dele
gates. though it is entitled TO more.
General News Notes.
This morning at 10 O'Clock. at the
msnse OF Tabb Street Presbyterian
Church. the Rev. Charles r.. S,ribling,
officiating; Miss Estelle Rainey ana
stephen G. Rose, OF McKenncy, Din
widdie County, were married.
Floyd 7. Moody, popular young
citizen of Dinwiddie. aged twenty
eight years, died yesterday afternoon
OF typhoid fever, at the home Of his
mother. Mrs. Virginia z. Moody, in
that county.
Miss l.. n. Chcoley. OF Brunswick
County, and G. c. Alley. an employe OF
the Virginia Trunk and Bag Company,
In this city, left this morning for
Halifax, n. c., where they were mar
ricd.
The seward Mems Bihle Glass of the
FIRST Baptist Church, will observe
sunday next mothers day, with
special services OF an interesting char
atter other Sunday schools will also
OBSERVE the day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08

Tho United states Circuit Court OF Appeal,
Ieronvcned yesterday morning at II o'clock,
With Senior Circuit Judge Pritchard' and
pistrict Judges Keller and Conner sitting
Nase argued yesterday; No. llHS-W. w
Fnge. plaintiff in error. rs. the Town Council
~ Warrcnton. defcndsr, in error. error 10
he District Court OF the United States for
ihc Eastern District OF Virginia. AT Alexan-
drisi Va Case argued by J. X. NJ. Norton
of Alexandria, Va, for the plaintiff in error
and j. A. G. Keith. OF Warrenton. Va and
samuel q. Brent. OF Alexandria Va, for tho
defeiJ GIANT In error.
Case IN call to-day: No ll5s-Frances +.
smith. an infant. who sues by her neyt
friend, Isaac v. Smith plaintiff in error VS.
The Baltimore aid Ohio Railroad Company
heicndant In error; error 10 the District
Tonrt OF the United; states for the Southern
District OF West Virginia. at Huntington.
10 he submit ted.on briefs by Somerviiie a.
Sonerrille. OF Point Pleasant. w Va for
the plaintiff in error, and Rankin Wilsy of
Point Pleasant, W. Va, for the defendant
in error.
j. n NJ. Norton and SAMUEL g. Brent NJ
Alexandria, Va. and J. A. c. Keith OF War
rnnion Va, were admitted 20 practice in
THE court
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
BROADWAY NEEDS
IS.SI.0NAR|E.S.
Miss sinmonton Says Don't Send
Them to african West
Coast.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
New York, May Extraordinary needs
missionaries far more than the African
Vest Coast" declared Miss Ida Vera
Simmonton to-day. Miss Simmonton
has returned here after being the first
white woman to penetrate the jungle
on tho West Coast of Africa.
young girl is really safer in the
african jungle than she is on the
streets of New York" said Miss Sim
every corner. Human cobras are al
ways watching. Industrial octopuses
are ready to coil
Life along the Congolis battle with
wild beasts savage tribes and disease.
Here we defend ourselves against auto
thieves. rent thieves and n dozen other
kinds.
The good men and women mission
aries who go TO Africa to help the
savage where no help avails. are need
cd right here. where their sacrifice
could bear fruit
The savage does not need houses to
shelter him or cultivated products TO
noUrish him. Lavish nature and torrid
heat have made him an improvitlent ami
anal. sensual and lazy. the negro savage
is best let alone.
THE so-called civilized. Christianized
savage is to be feared. To try to live
on brotherly terms with him is demon
liiSing-to him. Highly initiative. he
takes On all the vices OF the white man
and none of their virtues. He returns
to his bush town, disseminating the
had-never the good This all applies
TO the native women well as to the
native men,
Miss Simmonton was asked il she
would ever return to Africa
Never she exclaimed, with decision
in her blue eyes. New York is bar
barrie enough for me in the future"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
TO UNyEIL BOULDER.
Event Will Take Place at Site Of
Old Ferry House."

Lynchburg, Va, May AS the browning
event of it's years work and an appro :,
pirate termination of the administration of
Its esteemed regent, Mrs. c. L. DE Mott
Lynchburg Chapter. u. y. r.. will. on Thurs
day afternoon. unvcil tho tablet on tho
boulder which the cha ptcr has placed on the
site of tho old Ferry House" OF Lynchs
Ferry. which WAS the first house erected.
Hills has sprung.
From it's incipiency this chapter has had
In contemplation the fulfilment Of this cher
ished scheme. and as result OF it's iabors
large boulder OF native quartz has been
placed on plot Of ground Just across from
the Union Station. and on the site of tho
first house. thus conserving to future gene
rations that here Lynchburg had It's begin
ming.
The historic significance OF this movement
should appeal to every patriotic citizen. and
q cordial Invitation is extended cvcry
one Interested. and especially to The pa
triotic organizations or the city to witness
the impressive ceremonies at $3.50 O'clock
when the boulder Will be formally presented
to the city.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
News Of Petersburg

his left hand. He was engaged at the
time With e. J.. Roberts also OF the
corps, In doing some work near tile
company's sand, pits In Prince George.
a short distance east Of the city, cut
ting and removing some underground.
He was holding down a bush for Mr..
Roberts to cut. Unfortunately. Mr.. Rob
the sharp edge cutting entirely through.
the bones, and leaving the hand hang
ing only by the skin. First aid was
promptly rendered. and Mr.. Mayer WAS
hurried to the city OIL hand car and
taken to the hospital. There 1t was
found impossible to save the hand.
and it was amputated
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
MAY JOIN IN NEW PARTY.
Republicans and Progressives Consider Unit
Ing 10 Impose Democrats.

Norfolk. Va. May An independent
candidate for Governor. with a full ticket
for other State offices, is a possibility which
has been the subject Of conferences between
Republican and Progressive leaders in Nr-
sinia. This information, received yesterday
from nigh authority in the Republican or
BSnizatior was virtually verified lated by
Percy = Stephenson. OF Norfolk. member
Of tho state Progressive Executive Commit
tee who at the same time indicated that
he did not think well of the proposition.
Both tho Republican and Progressives were
reluctant to discuss the subject at all. hut
it was admitted that n coalition OF the two
parties in the Virginia election next Novcm-
bcr under the name independent" had been
proposed. Tho subject has been broac to
Thomas l.. Moore. OF Roanol;c. state CHAIR
man OF the Progressive party. tho PROPOSE
ton coming admittedly from the Republican
organization. IL is learned that Mr.. Moore
Is in correspondence with other Progressive
leaders concerning the matter. and that
there has been an exchange OF letters be-
tween him and some OF the Norfolk leaders
with reference to the fusion idea.
IT the fusion of the Republicans and Pro-
Ercssives does not Tnatcrialize. there prob
ably will be a Republican ticket In the State
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
REWARDED FOR HIS HONESTY.
Story Told OF MOuntaineer of
"Whito Ton" REGION.


Bristol. Va. May Am interesting story
OF the character OF James Wilson a noun
tainecr. who died at his home in the White
is told by the Rev. IL. w. Belamy, Bap-
list minister. who was invited to conduct
the funeral The minister. by inuuiring into
the life and character OF. the man, who died
at the age OF seventy EIGHT years. was told
OF one instance wliicl, deeply impressed him
with the honesty of Wilson.
Wilson was one OF the pioneers OF the
mountain section Like many others he
built n cabin on the Douglas estate built IL
fence around IL and cleared a patch In the
mountain wilderness.
Many years later, when the owners OF the
estate decided To establish their lines. they
encountered no end OF trouble with the
''sauatters," who ground of peace possession
for long term OF years.
Ono day Douglas Robinson. a brOthcr.in-
law of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. and a
friend. both STRANGERS to Wilson rode up
to his house, and after in1uiring hts name
and fenced. His answer was. mo, do not.
have always heard that II belonged to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
GLASS "Bo LEAGUE.
Fourth amateur Baseball League Or
Ennized In Pctcrsburg.

At meeting held last night under
the supervision of the Amateur Base
ball Commission, a class B league was
organized, with tho following officers:
president and treasurer, d. Hamilton
Wilcox; secretary, r. Beale Davis
Applications were made for franchise
for six teams as follows: Sixth Ward,
X. w. Alley, manager; Fifth Ward
Ernest Heath, manager: Diffos. W. c..
Pcrcival, manager: Petersburg Grays
T.. l.. Dyson, ma naSer; High school
Russell Parkinson. manager; Tuxedo,
John Craig, manager.
This makes the fourth league or
ganzcd under the Amateur Commis-
sion. classes a, c, and ID being already
In the field.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE.
Thomns r.. Clarke Decides Not to Make
Rnce in DinMidIic.

Thomas r. Clarke. of Dinwiddie, who
has represented the county for four
teen years in the House OF Delegates,
and very satisfactorily to mis- people,
was in the city to-day. On being ask
ed by The Times dispatch currespon-
dent whether he would offer for re-
election this year he replied that he
would not again be candidate There
are two candidates for the House OF
Delegates in Dinwiddic. Charles Smith,
Il wcll-known and successful farmer,
and X. T.. Wilson. young lawyer.
There is possibility that there may
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08

some people named Douglas In New York,
and II they ever come here and claim It they
can have IL, / only hero with my
family and took possession because the lana
was not in and because ! many
others doing the same thing"
Mr.. Robinson, surprised and pleased. dis
mounted and wrote out simple deed to tbs
iiny acres under fence and made Wilson n
present of IL. He afterwards employed VIII
son 10 aid the corps of surveyors In locating
the lines Of the Douglas heirs and for many
months Wilson received substantial salary
for his services in this connection
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
TALKS TO sUFFRAGIsTs.
Mrs. breckenridge and Mrs. Valentine
Deliver Interesting Addresses.

Deliver Interesting Addresses.
Under the auspices of the Equal Suf-
frage Movement I'm Virginia, Mrs.
Desha Breckenridge. of Kentucky, and
Mrs. IL. b. Valentine, of Richmond, adj
dressed the sufrragists of Petersburg
last night in A. i. Hill Comp Hall.
The audience was not Il very large one,
but the addresses We're OF interest.
The benefits that would follow the be-
stowal of the ballot on women were set
forth in foreible terms, and the justice
of equal suffrage was strongly argued.
Mrs. Valentine declared that tho acts
of the militant suffragcttes In England
were condemned by the suffragists in
this country. The Suffragists here do
not stand for violence of any kind.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
SONS ELECT DELEGATES.
s. T.. Hill Camp Will DC Represented
At Chattanooga Reunion.

a. p. Hill Camp, Sons OF Confederate
Veterans, last night elected delegates
to the Chattanooga reunion. as fol-
lows: Delegates, n. FL. Cole, l.. II.
Goulder, III. e. Southall. Jr, d. a. Lyon,
Jr,. and Lewis NJ. Clarke; alternate,
I. +, Birdsong, James P. Hoy, Thomas
Il. Maclin and James r. Banks
Commander Southall announced tho
appointment of the various standing
committees for the year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
New Reservoir for IlnrrI.onburs.
Especial to The Timcs -Dlspatch.1


Harrisonburg, Va, MAY 7.--Harri.
sonburg is to have n new reservoirs
which will hold five million gallons OF
water The present reservoir holds
less than n million. 1t is possible that
the old reservoir is built over one of
the numerous caves or cnvcrns in this
section, or at least over sinking land.
Several times in recent years portion
OF the bottom has fallen out and given
trouble. The town Council last night
appropriated $1,000 for the purpose oe
buying lot.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
Short News Stories From All Over Virginia

election next fail. according to local Repub-
lican leaders. Pending a decision rs to what
shall become OF the INDEPENDENT proposal.
The Republicans are making no plans for
themselves except 70 cast around for ma n
whom they could send out against Henry T.
stuart, who. IL appears. is 10 be the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor by comuiOn
consent. s. Harris Hoge. OF Roanoke would
probably get this honor should the Republic
cans have candidate at all. II is under
stood that Mr.. Martin and Mr.. Semp are
for Hoge, and Will advocate his candidacy
IL tho G. o. F. in to have any candidate for
the Eovcrnorship.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
Death of a Child
Especial TO The Times. Dispatc

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch.l
Harrsonburg. Va, May 7.-Alva
Earman, threc-year- old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Earnan, of Penn Laird died
yesterday at the University Hospital.
In Charlottesville. while undergoing
an operation for throat trouble.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
Two Women Fined.

Mrs. l.. l.. Tucker and Ida Bryant we're
hned $40 and costs each yesterday morning
In Police Court for assaultinG ". T.. Jones
and maintaining objectionable house in
James street. Ncighbors testified that the
Tucker house was a source OF annoyance.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Residence of s. s. Snyder on Colonial
Hcights Slightly Damaged.

During a brief storm yesterday ar
tcrnoon, the residence of S. s Snyder,
on Colonial Heights across the river
IN Chesterfield County, was struck by
lightning. Bricks were knocked from
the chimney, and slate was ripped
from the roof, but otherwise no dam
age was done, and no one was injured.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08
HAND CHOPPED OFF.
Member Of \. Il w. Engineer Corps
suffers Painful Accident.

r. II. Mayer, attached to the Engi-
neer Corps OF the Norfolk and West
ern Railway, met with a very painful
accident this morning by which he lost
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24

Even a packer may do fine act If
he tries. The late Edward Morris,
head of the greet packing house of
Morris & Co., OF Chicago, bought the
home of William Shakespeare at
Stratford-on-Avon, England, saving
it to sentimental history. For more
than two centuries this house has
been shrine at which intellectual
people have offered up prayers for
the repose of the soul of the world s
greatest literary genius, and thanks
giving that one so great had been
brought into the world. The prop
erty was placed under the ownership
of Harvard college and a liberal sum
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24
THANKSGIVING.
(By Elizabeth Yockey.)

For all the pleasures that are ours,
For birds and beasts and fruits and
flowers,
For sun and moon, for love and
home,
For mercies past and joys to come,
We thank Thee, Lord.
For all the blessings Time has
brought,
For care through hours with danger
fraught,
For past as we'll as present good,
And for our futures needful food,
We thank Thee, Lord.
For days of health, for nights of
peace,
For bounties giv'n without surcease,
For wisdom in our Ship of State,
For great minds We may emulate,
We thank Thee, Lord.
Now for the faith Thy Word can
give,
The faith that makes us look and
live"
The faith which mounts of doubt re-
move,
The faith that's born of Truth and
Love,
We thank Thee, Lord.
Ashland, Ore, Nov. 8, 1913.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24
sHoDDY Law NEEDED.

The need of pure textile law to
prevent the eounterfeiting of WOOL
ems, silks and linens and for the pro-
lection of the public will be urged
by the True Textile League from
headquarters in Chicago, adultera-
tions in fabrics. particularly silks,
having reached an acute stage. 1t is
the poor man, who cannot pay a large
price for suit of clothes, who suf-
fers the most from the shoddy wool
ems, il is said, and in the case of
silks the loser is the housewife who
pays good price oping to get a
silk dress equal in durability and
weight TO those which were made
years ago. Retailers everywhere
complain of the substitutions and
frauds by which their customers suf-
fer, and a bill now pending in con-
gress proposes for textiles the same
security that the pure fod law has
given to goods. 1t is to have critical
scrutiny with view to its endorse
ment or amendment A check must
be put upon the methods which pre-
vail in the textile trade and by which
the consumer suffers" said a repre-
sentative of the new organization.
Heretofore there has been nothing
done in the matter because of the
unwillingness of manufacturers to at
tempt to reform trade conditions. BY
tacit consent, the subsitutions have
gone on, the public has been mulcted
for many millions every year, and
none but the manufacturers of shod-
dies and loaded silks have benefit
ted. The pure food law has shown
food manufacturers that honesty is
the best policy, and the same is true
in regard to textiles and the clothing
into which they go. A pure textile
bill should be passed by congress and
would effect a saving to the public,
particularly the wage earners, OF
millions in the aggregate, in money,
and actual suffering besides. Many
a man who needs the worth of wool
buys suit of clothes which he
thinks is wool until he is out in a
soaking rain. Quite abruptly he is
undeceived. What wool there is in
the threads is on the outside and
soon is washed off. Many a widow
owes her bereavement to this very
fact, and money value of a law re-
quiring frank and honest labelling ol
textiles and materials would be but
the smallest factor"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24
WHAT THE GRANGE HAS DONE.

A few years ago the popular con-
ception of a farmer was an Uncle
Reuben, who wore a tously beard,
never put on a clean collar and
billed shirt" except Sunday, who said
"b' gosh" with great frequency, and
spat on the floor of his home-when
mother wasn't looking.
The farmer of today is very diff
ferent looking fellow. OF course the
rise in price of food products and in
land values has put many farmers
in a more secure position financially
where they can branch out into the
graces of life. But other agencies
have been at work. Prominent
among them are the national and
subordinate oranges, which recent!
held their annual convention at Man
chester, N. H.
The annual reports of this organ
ization make an impressive showing
You hear about cooperation in buy
ing and selling, legislation secured
and advocated, good roads, bette
country schools, etc. But some o
the most notable results are intangi
BILE, not to be tabulated in figures
nor set forth in annual specifying.
One of the best results has been ;
broader social life for the farm home
Time was when most farmers wen
TO bed every night at s, or at tn
worst o'clock. 1t was not so mucl
that they were tired, as that ther
was nothing interesting to make
worth while to keep awake.
When the oranges established
pleasant meeting at the crossroad
hall, with congenial amusements an
stimulating discussion, they struc
a blow at the worst of all obstacle
in the way OF agricultural advance
the loneliness OF the farm.
Keen observers of country peopl
say they are dressing much bette
and appearing much better and NOR
stylish than they were ten years age
Social life always works that way.
Reuben has got to go down to Grang
hall and make a speech, the old flar
mel shirt won't do.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24

At last China has nearly 5000
miles of railroads in all that vast
country. A plenty of states in this
republic can show as much. But
there's a difference, of course. In
this country we have a mile of road
for every 375 inhabitants; in China
the per capita runs to $4,000 to the
nile of railroad. Some day there
will be plenty of miles of steel rails
stretching across China, but that day
is still distant The Chinese are
slow to make great concessions to
foreign capital, preferring to have
the great republic develop more slow
ly. In this country billions of dol
lars have been thrown at the feet of
the railroad builders, but that day
of easy money for the promoters has
gone by. Perhaps China learned q
lesson from the prodigality of Amer
lea.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24

The women of Illinois turned out
and voted the other day and made
history. Many contests were on be-
tween "wets" and ''drys," and nearly
every one of them went against the
"wets." For years the liquor inter-
ests have stood in awe of the votes
of women. Recent political events,
in territory that has been conquered
by the women, seem to establish the
wisdom of the fear. Women hate
saloons, and perhaps not without
cause. But what's to be done about
it? A franchise once extended car
never be withdrawn. No Legislature
would dare to repeal suffrage act
SO the women of Illinois will prob
ably keep up the fight on booze.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-24

We are informed by no less an
authority than Prof. Heber D. Curtis
astronomer at Lick Observatory, that
the big dipper. most famous of the
consultations. did not exist 100000
years ago and will completely disap,
pear within the coming 100000
years. There is no authentic history
to uphold Prof. Curtis in his frs
statement and we greatly doubt if h'
will see the latter fulfilled