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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-20
PLACED UNDER s25, 900 BOND
Cashier of GOldsbOrO Bnnk Alleged to
Short I'm Acs.oIII.f.

Charlotte, n. c., March 1911. G.
Smith. alleged to have been short over
$4,000 in his accounts as cashier OF tho
Goldsboro Savings and Trust Company,
and as an employc OF the National
Bank, OF that city, was this afternoon
arrested and placed under n $25. 900
signed. according to q special from
GoldSborO tonight.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-20
sno,rstorm NJ nristnI

Bristol. Va. March l9.-Bristol and
this section had u severe snowstorm
tonight. The snowfall Is said to DO
tho heaviest for this season that has
been known in this section in many
years. AT midnight II was four inches
! In depth and still falling.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-20
Vote

There's Il fine contest on to
decide who is the most popular
school teacher in Richmond and
incidentally to win the 100000
pian0-piaycr offered by The
Timcs-Dispntch.
The race has just been start
cd, and some teacher whose
Eame is not yet on the voting
list may win; for there arc
plenty of votes TO he had by
simply clipping them from The
Timcs-Dispatch.
Every day Tho Times.Dis-
patch prints nearly CH 000
Every Sunday Tho Times
Dispatch prints over DC 0O0
So It's just matter of ask
ing to secure many thousand
votes every day.
Why not help your teacher?
Monroe !
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-20

CONTINUED on II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
OHIO's Ex-GOvERNORs

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 The death of a former governor of Ala bama the other day leads the Birmingham Age-Herald to remark that the state ''has seen all of her governors up to the advent of the present century pass away Ala bama has two ex-governors, but each served his time since the present cen- tury came in.
 Ohio has five living ex-governors, four of whom were elected to the office and one rose to the position by the death of his chief. This state, however elects every two years, twice as often as Ala bama, which makes-her mortality record In respect to governors about equal to Alahama's.
 Against the southern states two for mer governors Ohio presents her five and challenges the two for any sort of hon. orable contest. One of the five is in the midst of fight for election, now United States Senate and another, now American Ambassador to France. may become a candidate for the nomination. Still another of the five it is admitted, would make very strong bid for his party nomination for the Senate if he were to announce an ambition in that direction.
 Has any state longer list of living ex-governors than Ohio?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
The Approaching Total Eclipse

The present year will present on August 21 the interesting spectacle of q solar total eclipse, but unfortunately for us it will not be visible in America except at sunrise in the extreme northwestern states and Canada, and then only as a partial phase.
 Much interest is taken in the phe- nomenon and the principal European nations will furnish government and private observing parties, while the Lick observatory of California will send Director w. w. Campbell to Rus. sia, and Amherst college will send Professor Todd to Persia to take ob. servations. The moon, which is the cause of the eclipse, is so much smaller than the sun that the cone made by its shadow will, when it reaches the earth cover an area of but 85 miles, The belt of totality will be about 100 miles north of Stockholm and Trondjhiem.
 A total eclipse never lasts longer than seven minutes, and the one to be seen in August next will endure but trifle over two minutes. When the cone of the shadow fails to reach the earth the eclipses are called "annular, '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
LIKE M,LUkE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 A man will leave everything else to the Lord but he wants to attend to the pun ishment of his enemies himself
 It is easy for the fellow with the rain coat and umbrella to remember that the sun is shining behind the dark clouds
 You learn few things and forget a whole lot of things every day that you live.
 When you size up the yellow polka dots on some mems white shirts you figure that they learned to chew tobacco at a correspondence school.
 Of course you can have your own way in everything if you insist upon it. But you are going to be mighty lonesome. I'd rather have the girls dress the way they do than return to the old days when you had to wait until woman's clothes began to move before you knew they were inhabited 5 Some of the grouches who complain about this being cold world will be .hollering about the heat in the next world.
 If we ever get to where's we can run motor cars on hot air, I know a lot of auto owners who will never have to pur-
 chase any fuel.
 They claim that man can now fly as safely as a bird. But l never saw bird break his neck because his spark plug failed to work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
BLACKBERRY JAM
he Yonngstown Teleeram

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Lieutenant Colonel D. s. Stanley, quar- termaster of the United States army at St. Louis. has received instructions from Washington to purchase 240O0 pounds of blackberry jam for the army of Mexico. If there is any inducement that would make one want to join the army it is blaclxberrmy jam, the best jam ever made. The fact is that any kind of jam is a family necessity. Bread and butter and jam is a meal. There are no two things in all the pantry that make up a meal like these And then, if anything else is added, it glorifies that.
 It is a handy viand at home. If some- one drops in to stay for dinner or supper, bring out the jam and bread and butter. There are the snow-white bread, and the golden butter and the blackberry jam smiling at you from cut-glass dish, and maybe an olive or splint of celery, and a cup of delicate tea, close at hand. It is plenty for a high-toned stomach 4 soar ing brain and a loving heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20

Fror, the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Lovers of wild bird life and those who appreciate the economic significance of it's preservation ask the Senate of the United States to do two things. They ask that it restore an appropriation item, knocked out by the House, suffi- cient to permit the agricultural depart ment to take advantage of the Weeks Mclean act They also ask prompt and favorable action on a treaty with Great Britain carrying out the spirit of that act.
 Birds need no defense with intelligent people. Their desirability is admitted. The Weeks Mclean law is a triumph for reason and humanity. It is too good a measure to lie upon the statute books useless because of the lack of reason- able appropriation.
 As for the proposed treaty, it proposes to give wider scope to the conservation principles contained in the law. Ca nadian opinion appears to favor it's rati- fication. Though the treaty must be made with Westminster its application would be largely in the dominion to the north. Its completion would be for ward step which people both sides the boundary would doubtless indorse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20

for the reason that they cause the suns disc to appear as ring.
 The present eclipse is the last one that will be visible in any part of the United States until June 8, 1918, which will be followed by one on Sep tember 10, 1923, and another January 24, 1925. The long solar eclipses of this century will occur in Africa and South America in May, 1919; upon the Pacific coast in June, 1887; in Cey- lon and the Philippines in June, 1955; in Africa and South America in July, 1873, and in Hawaii and Central America in July, 1891.
 During the coming eclipse the solar corona will be the special object of consideration upon the pal - the ob- serving astronomers. This cannot be seen when the sun is unobscured. It extends from one of the three solar diameters and changes its form every year according to the number of sun spots which prevail and the discovery of which diameter is the source of it's emenation is the particular quest of men of science. 1t has to be studied Tn two minutes, and this year in belt of but S5 miles extent. Hence the impor- tance of the approaching phenomenon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
Virginia and Statewide Prohibition

Virginia is now in the throes of a statewide prohibition campaign" said Edward l.. Chalton of Philadelphia.
 'I spent two days in Norfolk and two days in Richmond last week and found intense interest in the election, which is to be held in September. l have no idea what the result will be. but among busi- ness men in the two cities named senti- ment was overwhelmingly against state wide prohibition.
 ''The Anti-Saloon League has been try ing for several years to get the legisla- ture of Virginia to pass a statewide bill, but failing in that Niey finally compro- missed on the legislature submitting the question to the voters in general cleo tion. Most of the counties in Virginia, as in many other states, are dry under a local option law.
 Local option seems to be good demo- cratic doctrine. President Wilson, who is opposed to saloons, is a pronounced local optionist on principle. When the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey urged him as governor to favor statewide pro- hibition he declined most positively. It was then that he first enunciated publicly his local option position. As President he has reaffirmed his local option posi- tion'i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
Much More Optimism

While in New York week ago busi- ness men were talking much more opti- mistically than they were in March. when I spent several days in Gotham, said J. F. Mcdonald of Chicago
 Tn my home city business gets duli sometimes, but we are never pessimistic or calamity howlers. It takes New York to say business has gone to the demni- ton bowwows.
 q talked to New York banker the other day, and he told me that the tide was turning, and that he expected large prosperity very soon.
 Every body is talking now about the great crops in prospect. If nature con tinues to be kind there will be enormous crops in every section of the country, and business activity will be the rule from the Atlantic to the Pacific"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
The Needed Auditorium

It looks now IS if Birmingham would have its long needed audito- rum. Last fall the people voted for $200,OO0 bond issue, but the city commissioners, in order to be on the safe side, thought it well to have the validity of the proposed issue passed upon by the courts.
 Chancellor A. H. Benners' decree, handed down yesterday, was in favor of the auditorium proposition. The case will be taken to the supreme court without delay, and that tribunal will give it early consideration. There can scarcely be any question as to the final decision being satisfactory to the city.
 A fireproof auditorium of large ca pacity can be built for ,000, At lanta's auditorium cost about S175,- 900, but it is not fireproof. Birming- ham will be satisfied with nothing short of fireproof structure. With the $20O,O00 bond issue set tied the next question will be the site. If the city cannot provide site in one of the parks, it can easily finance $50,O00 or S60,000 site.
 Ground will probably be broken for the auditorium within the next three or four months. The new building should be available for festivals and conventions in the spring or summer of 1915. Now that we have adequate hotel accommodations all that is needed to make this notable con vention city is the auditorium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
Regarding sunday Concerts

'The St. Louis Symphony orchestra, which delighted Birmingham music lovers May ', was booked for concert in Beau mont on Sunday, May 10, but the pastors of that town got out an injunction re- straining the local theatre from opening its doors for the proposed event. said a man who keeps in touch with the musical world. Fortunately for the orchestra management it had sufficient notice to make other arrangements. It secured a hall in Galveston and gave a Sunday concert there without protest A large audience made up of the flower of Gal weston society attended. All good music has an elevating influence and in all large cities thousands of people patronize Sunday concerts who would not attend a theatrical performance on Sunday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
FLORIDA SUNSHINE
he Florida Times-Union.

From the Florida Times Union.
 The bald headed man shines in the hest society.
 How beautifully bloom the flowers Gin the spring seed catalogues.)
 People who live in glass houses shou,d do their bathing at the seaside.
 A man never falls so low in the scala of humanity that he won't accord due respect to virtuous woman when he sees one.
 While you're investing, Mir. Business Man, why not invest little in real happi- ness? It's the cheapest thing in the world-if you know how to get it.
 One may remove mountain, it is said, with faith no bigger than a mustard seed, which may have something to do with the faith the suburbanite puts in a garden seed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
-
What War With Mexico Would Cost

While our trouble with Mexico has already cost the United States the ex- traordinary sum of S6,000,0 ,0O0 it is to be hoped with a view to economy, Ii nothing else, that the present media tion board will accomplish an amicable result.
 Competent military experts have es- timated that to conduct a war with Mexico would cost us million dollars day for an indeterminate period of time.
 Our present predicament with the rebellion-ridden republic is closely al lied to that of Great Britain during the Boer war, for with all our military prestige and prowess, with all oui modern engines and equipments oi warfare this country would find, as did Great Britain, the foe uneasy oi access and difficult to dislodge.
 It is true that in point of numbers and superiority of armament we have decided advantage over Mexico; it is true in the possession of our superb navy the struggle would be an uneven one and the odds of warfare over whelmingly in our favor, for the United States would in a trice be able to blockade all of the Mexican ports and sea towns and cork the country up completely, leaving it at our mercy, but this would not reduce the interior We would have to smoke the enemy out and this would be no child's play Owing to the physical nature of the country, the sparse railway facilities the miserable roads, the peculiar char acter of the natives and their desul- tory methods of conducting warfare the struggle would in all probability result in costly and protracted cam. paign ere perfect justification could be accomplished. A strange climate and tropical diseases would also decimate our ranks to greater degree per haps than would the bullets of the Mexicans. Compared to this, in addi- ton to the cost of transportation of munitions and commissary supplies and the conduct of field operations, the $6,O00,000 item already expended would be as drop of water in a bucket.
 A million dollars day, independent of the loss of human life, is too much for the United States to pay for war fare, If it can be avoided without a sacrifice of national honor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
BECKER,s CELL POPULAR

From the New York Tribune.
 Newton Tomins, who shot and killed his son George in Stoney Point, won a lively contest yesterday among those in the death house at Sing Sing for the '1ucky cell' which former Police Lieu tenant Charles Becker occupied.
 Fourteen murderers, including the Rev, Hans Schmidt, pleaded for the big cell It is the largest of the lot. Furthermore, condemned men believe there is some thing lucky about it, because so many have escaped from it alive Roland Moli- neaux, Albert T. Patrick, Lawrence Spohr, John Cargin, and Becker occupied it and all got new trials From it every person entering the death chamber can be seen This is supposed to be another attraction.
 Warden Clancy let Tomlins have it be- cause he is the oldest condemned pris- oner. All the death house occupants ask for news of the Becker trial daily, but Tomlins. given hope because of his new abode, is the most inquisitive of all.
 So overcrowded did Sing Sing prison become yesterday that Warden Clancy was compelled to send draft of 50 con victs to Clinton prison to make room fol new arrivals. He wanted to transfer more. but couldn't. Three keepers took the shackled convicts in a special car There are still 1925 men left behind, with out near enough cells to go around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
THE DEsERTED TULIP BED

By Horace Seymour Keller. In a rambling, quaint old garden, With its gateway to the sea. Lies a tulip bed whose blossoms In the wild weeds growing free Court no courtiers or maidens, Glad no passing eye, l trow; But the tulips there are holding Proudly as of long ago. Underneath the blasted linden Leans moss grown. crumbling seat: Once the sacret tryst of friendship Once the lovers loved retreat Now the weeds are crowded to it, There the wild bull thistles grow, Choking, killing. but not stilling The old songs of long ago.
  Comes the curfew from the distance, From some modest bell whose tongl Is attuned to calm and solace; And a thousand songs are flung Into paeans-sweetness sadness, Glory. valor. there beside The old garden in it's beauty Where the tulips lift with pride Some are red and crimson elowing, Some like lilies white and pure, Some are darksome as the midnight. But they finger and endure, Winning kisses from the angels, Proud old tulips growing fre6f And each kiss 1t is f1indroU In tho garden by the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
CONSERVATION OF MuRDERERs

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Scientific men have from time to time ventured to suggest that healthy human beings who are killed by society are a dead waste. They have urged that con- demned criminals, instead of being hanged or electrocuted in a highly unproftabie way should be devoted to the cause of science. Merciful vivisection might be performed on those whose lives are for feited, the human race might benefit, and the criminal might pay in practical manner the debt he owes to society.
 From practical standpoint this position is unassailable. But it is not assailed from a practical standpoint. It is opposed on sentimental grounds and has never gained any considerable measure of popular SUD- port. The idea of deliberately cutting up a man in the interests of science is re- pellant. Those who uphold capital punish ment find a large dignity and impressive ness in the exacting of the Mosaic pen alty. The vivisection idea is merely hor- rible without being impressive.
 In a modified form the plan has just been preached once more by New York lawyer in an address before the American Association of Medical Jurisprudence. He suggests that criminals be not deliberately killed by the knife of the experimentor, but that they be herded and preserved foi experiments from time to time as occasion arises. If one of these experiments were to prove fatal to the subject no blame would attach to the experimentor. but the general aim would be to keep the sub- jects alive as long as possible. One mur- derer, under this scheme, might be the foundation of the cure of a dozen ail- ments and unhappiness of humanity. He would be in the highest degree useful
 It is not likely that this conservation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
JACK STRAINS CASTLE om the Manchester Guardian.

From the ManCnSsteT Nudrutdi
 Jack Stfaw's castle on Hampstead Heath which is mourning the death of it's landlord, is one of those rather numerous inns whose claims to honor rest more on legend than on solid fact It is srue that every Dickensan goes there at least once in his life and there is solid warrant for the pilgrimage on the authority of John Forster.
 In 1887 Dickens wrote to him proposing a winter tramp over the heath, with the added attraction of 'I know a goodo 'ous there where we can have red hot chop for dinner and glass of good wine." For ster adds that this was the first of many happy meetings at Jack Straw's castle. But the story that Dickens often stayed there has not the same authority
 The other Jack Straw legend is that the peasant leader built a fort there, of which it can only be said that the house is apparently built on an ancient earth work, whoever was its architect The first reference to the castle is in men, ton of a horse race on the heath in lI4S' but it has a corner in ''Clarissa Harlowe.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
HAS \ NEW FACE

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Ross Allen of whitby Canada, the man with the new face. will be discharged from st. Josephs hospital before the end of the month if he continues to improve. The final touch was given to the new face last week, and all that now remains is a shaping up of the nose.
 Allen spoke with pride yesterday of the work of the hospital surgeons. and took interest in the accomplishment of the wonderful work. H ewas practically faceless when he came to Baltimore six months ago. His nose was gone and the lips were missing.
 Three years ago he was thrown against large circular saw at a log mill. An instant later he had been caught by the revolving teeth and flung to the saw table a badly mutiiated man.
 Aliens vitality pulled him through. and the scars gradually healed. His facial disagreement resulted in his coming to St Joseph's. There, by skillfu splic- ing. new lips and mouth were formed for him. Tn ecorners of the mouth had to slit nearly half an inch to allow the ends or the lips oDe drawn together for the stitching.
 When this phase of his face renewal had been completed a triangular piece Of cartilage was cut from his breast and grafted to the forehead bone. The fore head skin had been slit to allow the ''fiange" of the cartilage section to be inserted. When the cartilage had knit successfully to the forehead the cartilage was "pressed home ocer the facial struc- ture.
 This also knit, leaving only the nose to be covered with skin This covering proved also a wonderful step. The fore head skin was cut in the. shape or shank, with a bowl at the end, and' with the shank cohering to the forehead, the piece was turned around down over the new nose structure.