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cunning that was genius" Lincoln
would never have imperilled his popu-
larity With the North for the sake Of
saving tho South from persecution
Ono fact alone shows this. In his In
terview with Judge Campbell. in Rich
mond, just before his death, Lincoln
outlined plan OF reconstruction In
wiling the conquered states TO send
members to Congress at once, and left
a rough draft of IT in Judge Camp
bells handS. In his own writing, but
as soon as Lincoln got back to Wnsh-
lnEton and under tho influence OF tho
Republican Leaders, he revoked IL all
only day or Two before Booth killed
him.
As The Times Dispatch says: There
are no important acts OF Lincoin's
upon which TO base the accepted az
sumption that had he lived, tho
horrors of reconstruction would have
been spared the southern people,"
In fact. the only Important act bear
ing upon the matter Is that related
by Judge Campbell, which shows plain
~ that Lincoln, before he died, had
ueciued TO lei The Republican leaders
have their way Iii restoring the SOU III
ern States to the Union. And they
had their way. with vengeance, be-
ing greatly helped by the quinn cast
ON tho south Ly the manner or Lin
coins death. BERKELEY MINOR.
Stauntoil, Va.
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ONE OF OLDEST ii IN ARG
GROCERSY Nf.fH

e. "A. Saunders sonst:sses sroqjlI
panies in the South. FSP MI
years ago. II has built ;s&$y H
Is a household word inSsSids
the Carolinas. Located MH lii
Of Fourteenth and Cary SFhENlll
is the largest building occll HIlll
wholesale grocery In RiciSsIu
Saunders Company carries q 81
Is equal to any establishm enH
kind In the East. Aside from [
store. they maintain one of the
warehouses in Virginia. The.
Is made up of all brands OF 6
and canned goods that are best
N ~
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To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-If "a Confederate Son." who
asks for facts and records that Justify
the oft-heard assertion" that Lincoln
was friend to the South. and that, IL
he had lived, the horrors of recon
struction would have been escaped"
will give me his address, will give
him good reason to believe that the
only hurt to the South that came from
Lincoln's death was that 1t gave the
conquerors a good pretext for persecut-
ing and plundering the conquered
States as Lincoln had been killed by
n Southerner. Furthermore, If Lin
coin had not did as he did. such kind
heartedness as he may have had TO
the South. whether much or little
and / think 1t was very little, Judging
by the approval he gave to tho ravages
of men like Hunter, Sheridan and Sher-
man-would not have saved us from
very evil fate at the vengeful hands
of such haters of the South as Thad
Stevens, Zack. Chandler, ct Id omne
genus. Lincoln was one OF tho most
astute. crafty. cunning politicians that
ever lived.
Seward. Lncoln's Secretary of State.
once said of Lincoln, THAT he had a
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woman from tho unscrupulousness Of
the world. But personal contac. with
mankind at large, enforced by the
oxigencies Of the needy. proves con-
clusively tina. sentiment with the body
polite Is an empty sound. What od-
vantage to the poor. overtaxed work
ing woman IL the sentiment OF tho few
that woman liz too pure, too good. TO
have the ballot? Woman's purity is
not tarRished because she helps pass
laws that relieve strained and wrong
ful conditions. Truly. II Is small com
Diimcnt to woman, a very hollow SON
timent, to believe she should not and
could not help to purify polluted CON
dttions.
This gentleman said that the very
iact of seeing young. pure girls listen
Ing to some OF the unvarnished truths
told by speakers at the suffrage hear-
ing settled his convictions agains,
equal suffrage. When asked why he
permitted his own dear. pure ones to
read far worse things In public print,
he said, In substance. that men could
not do everything-thus tacitly ad-
uniting the need OF help In maintain
ing and Increasing social purity.
This sentimcnt--this much distorted
word-docs not even stand In any
branch of work between woman and
her employer. Does he pay her more
because sho is woman? Sentiment
surely demands. but, alas docs not
enforce. an adequate wage to women
workers.. Docs he shorten her hours
OF labor? II IL rings true. sentiment
should see that the strength OF women
In Industry is not ovortaxed. Does no
give protection to her daughter for
sentiment Does he even put food into
the mouths OF babes because they are
born of woman?
sentiment Is n sweet and gracious
word, but so hollow that only the few
can OF do give II its true ring Scnti-
nent, then. Is colder than charity in
the hands OF the many. and no longer
should be a tinsel shield for woman to
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will offer inducement for their capture
appoint a game warden, who will not
season opens. Ii any kind OF game Is
allowed to be hunted, all kinds will be
killed.
Do not allow deer hunting until the
season opens for all other game. Deer
hunters kill lots OF turkeys. There are
thousands Of acres Of idle land IN the
game. and II properly protected will
afford n great deal of sport for the city
ana country, boya and men. besides
adding largely to our meat supply and
thereby reducing the cost of living.
We hope our lawmakers will see the
Importance Of legislation along the
lines mentioned. We are no enemy to
the dog. but want him controlled
G. r, SANDERSON.
Ashhv Vo
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Prohibition Logic.

To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Shiny letter on the enabling act
in your Issue OF February 9 mus,
have been quite e punch on the ribs
or the Anti-Saloon League. Judging
from the howl (see Issue of February
-. which it caused
The usual prohibition argument is:
1Gtemperance is an evil; therefore, we
mast have prohibition" Reams OF
papers are covered with variations OF
this sentence; paid and unpaid orators
expand IT. Tears arc shed when the
horrors Of drunkenness are described,
therefore. we must have prohibition"
prohibition writers describe p!tiful
cases. always with either the expressed
or the implied conclusion. therefore,
VIC must have prohibition" THE man
was discharged for drunkenness, and
hia family had to suffer ..ttiIerefore.
we must have prohibition). My uncle
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Sentiment vs.. sunrase.

To the Editor OF Tho Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Aftcr listening TO several I'D
dresses made by members of the Equal
Suffrage League before the Committee
ON Privileges and Elections. u CONVEX
sation between lawyer member OF
the Legislature and an outsider de-
veloped his opinion and bias thus lie
first complimented one address espe :
rtaHy. but nc said lie would never vote
for equal suffrage for women. because
1t was a matter OF sentiment with him
and would always be so.
Now this Virginia gentleman OF
more than ordinary Intelligence. a pro-
grcsslve man In all that pertains 10
the advancement OF the sciences. this
man and others Of his type. arc so
blinded by the prejudice born of senti-
ment that Il Is n foregone conclusion
with them that only sentiment shall
stand.
With this type OF man. perhaps, SEN
timent would sometimes shield the
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Asalpst prohibitiou.

To the Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
4 SiI-If all the money that mas been
| spent ITO further tho cause Hof absus
nence had heen spent in improving
educational conditions. sanitary condi,
tions and IN assisting the poor, why.
greatly progressed. IL all the States
time these aKitators have consumed I'm
Istructive legislation. such AS tax re-
form, rorrens system OF land regIstra-
ton and In adjusting the fec system
eQuitabiy, Virginia would have greatly
benefited.
AS It y. tho mountain labored and
Srom n forth nonseI and the mouse
bubonic plague. believe I'm local op-
tr on 10 ana do 'Inpsyance IL All things and
! lteve in telling man what he has to
III penal institutions. what is food %0a ae
| been in North Carolina and Tennessee.
II Is bowling farce. There are a
great number Of bars and very fine
selling beer. Why should We tell q
man ,hat he cannot drink beer. when
drugs and In drinking soda fountain
"dopes"? have heard OF men in this
ebty Sglnki asy as s, high ten to fifteen
aS Sas mem e% w 8as taS Ge
/ Why should virginians be forced to-
S Thn, their ,hr , money ont Of the State?
lnat III the trouble with the South now
The South sends millions of dollars
yearly. TO mail order houses and other
firms In Chicago. New York and other
large cities. How about those bust
ness men who raise the necessary capt.
tai and build most excellent hotels
ornaments 10 the city, places OF rest
comfort and good cheer. increasing tho
taxable value of property, adding rev
enuc to the city. helping the mer-
chants in bringing. trade to the city /?
should these mon lose on their enter
pfisesY VIII II make all OF their en-
deayors to build up the city of no
avail The abstinence" people say We
are trying to make 1t right for tho
coming generations. Well. If that is
the case, was the State dry when 1t pro-
dnced washington. Jefferson. Henry.
tons preceding the Civil War make
generations2 No; they lived temperate
duced such men Az Leo. jackson, John
and file. Do we look with shame on
period? Has all tho romance and
chivairy fed from the Old Dominion?
! Are We Anglo Saxons no longer? Are
! Nirginians so Incorporate that they
cannot be trusted with wine and
| spirits? Have we lost all OF the honor
able instincts OF Virginia gentlemen?
/ Perish the thought. The chivalric
| spirit OF our forefathers who shed their
! blood for this old Conimonwealt still
| Richmond - ~
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ruined himself by drink" therefore.
prohtbItion)

Now, 1t would be logical to say:
No. !. Intemperance is an evil. No.
2 Prohibition is n very drastic
! means of abolishing intemperance or.
at least. restricting II to minimum.
No. 8. Therefore. let us have prohibit
ton"
| But this is not the usual prohibition
/ ioglc. With an enormous amount of
| PAPER, printing Ink and elocution, they
prove what nobody contests, No. l.
| Whether TO draw conclusion No 3 will
IL no other factors come In, depend
upon No 2. Here Is where all tho evil
dence submitted should appear All
the rest is superfluous. But the usual
procedure Is TO skip No entirely. II
comes now to State wide election
on prohibition. there will be proven
again in Virginia hundred thousand
times NO. l. Thousands OF times No.
10 VIII be Vehemently asserted Rut
watch them about No. .. This is ice
on which prohibitionists must skate
sometimes but they are uneasy on il;
IL cracks too much
rrohinition Is much advertised
quack medicine for the disease of in
temperance of the body polite. and fol-
lows advertising methods OF pictures.
ana then comes usually: cure. one
bottle. 40 cents" What we should ike
10 see is proof, which Will stand inves
, tisation by experts. that this medicine
cures this disease, but this Is omitted
Ihere are, OF course, advertisements
with testimonials" anu the prohibi-
tionists also publish "testimoninls"
ana TO the investigation of these tes-
I tlinonlais SPECIAL chapter must he
devoted But In this letter. attention
shail only be called TO the usual skin
from No. l to No. 8. a Judge womb
! throw two-thirds or four -dfths of all
the prohibition literature and clio.
quence Out of court, saying, You file
long declaration OF damages ana
ask Tor verdict. but Introduce mn
pi oper evidence whatsoever"
The usual prohibition method T.,
ciudes sleight of hand trick. ths
SUBSTITUTION OF one thing for another
l"hich surpasses the work of anv
magician or iegerdemain artist Here
IS magic hat; we put In "temnor-
ahce and Immediately We take II mn,
as prohibition" Or. we put in "nro.
hioition" and, presto, 1t has beco,no
temperance" The crux of the whole
matter is to investigate. In what reI..
ZION temperance stands to proh,bition
ihey might be, and, as matter of
iact' they are. two very different things
/ nut II Is the logic of prohibition to
assume that as proven which 10 70 ho
proven, and from there start arr
Ni'ii.s' OTTO MEYER
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DICE Of the People
Dog Tnxcu and "a shotgun.

TO tho Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Slr,-Noting an article in your paper
from q Country Woman" Ii set me TO
thinking that the reason so many peo-
DIE keep too many dogs is that they are
never forced to pay taxes on them.
know of a largo farm with six or
seven tenants, and they keep over
twenty-five dogs. Two OF them own
hve apiece. They were asked why did
they keep so many dogs. and they an
ewered. simply because they had no
taxes to pay; that they could not be
Now. my dear Country Woman, get
yourself n gun and some cartridges
Vitcd one. and when he does come
prowlinE around do AS did some time
ngo. load your gun. get behind the foe,
holler hey. and then shoot Don't for
get TO take good aim. and IL that dog
doesn't move. why, just forget IL all.
MATILDA FLOY TRlCE. .
Duane Va
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The Hart-white Game Bill.

TO INC EdltOr OF The Times- Dlsuatch.
Sir.-This law should bv ali ,ne,,n
De passed; II not, game viii be practia
oaliy extinct in five years II will he
lection without stringent measures io
enforce IT Birds were killed In nv
section al of October, and doubtless
the destroyers what they were shootinu
they would say squirrels. and most OF
THIS shooting. was in open, old sedre
find squirrels. If the law allows hum.
Ing. OF squirrels they Will XIII birds
turkeys or anything else. j. %.
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sember total enrollmen, In v,rrlp

cemoer total enrolment In Virgin,
of about 1000. It Is equally as 2
TO assume. then. that all persons n,
the books OF the Anti Suffrage her
clation are opposed to the objet
that association. ON
The deduction. however, Is ,, IN
There are many unenrolied suffname
and many unenrolled antisuffr and
but the 1000 sufrragists are king
ana anXious that this questtiihS
placed before the voters of VIZ.
as promptly "a possible, and the -
organization of 1000 Is petitloufngrTS
Legislature not to give the people e:f
men. rather) the opportunity or SOY
ing whether they do or do not ~
me women Of Virginia to become Z
franchised.7 NY
$3.50 O. ANyrof eS'
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Arguing From Numbers.

To the Editor of The Times dispatch:
Sir,--At tho recent suffrage hearing,
Delegate My ers. of Richmond, ask Ell
how many persons We're enrolled as
members OF the Equal Suffrage League
or virginia. Being told that there
were 4.OUo. he then argued that those
who were not members OF the Equal
Suffrage League were opposed TO equal
suffrage
Tho antisufiragists claimed In Do
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Wantn Gnme Lnua

TO the Editor of Tie Times Dispatch:
Sir.--SaVe the game of our STATED
rms Is most important! 1t is one OF
the States natural resources that needs
conservation. Its worst enemies are
first. the worthless ours that are allow,
keys to their nests In the spring and
destroy the eggs and young. Remedy:
restrict him to his owners place; sec
hunt all the year, destroying most az
the game whom too young to get away.
Remedy; bounty for hawk scaips.
Mink and fox pelts nre valuable and
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darts OF persecution

hold before tho darts OF persecution
and evil.
God grant that sentiment, az tho
world now knows 1t. may hayo tho
light OF Justice reveal the false glitter
OF it's frail shield os q protection for
women. OBSERVER.
,Richmond :.
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The brands owned by this company
such as Monogram" are known and
can be found on the tables of nearly
linas The Monogram" peas, tou,a-t
toes. asparagus and rolled oats are tho
leaders. All visitors coming to Rich )
mond this spring to trade Will do well
to visit the office. store and warehouse,
OF II. y. Saunders * Sons.
Cheyenne record., 1914-05-14
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO IN q ., ACHIEVE,
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Mothers Day, Sunday, May 10. was
generally observed.
Oregon's registration for the state
primary election on. May Is is 226.361.
An increase of 66,463 over 1912.
Mine No. of the New River Col
lieries Company at Eccles, w. Va, was
sealed after 158 of the 172 bodies had
been removed.
Swedish residents of the San Fran
cisco bay region turned out in force
for the ground breaking ceremonies
for Sweden's building at the Panama
Pacific exposition.
Seymour Stuart Of St. Louis was
elected commander in chief OF the
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
at Jacksonville, Fla. succeeding w.
w. Old. Jr.. of Norfolk, Va.
In northern Arizona, Utah, Nevada,
southern Idaho and western Wyoming,
the fires on national forests set by
campers have decreased in four years
from nearly third to approximately
one-fifth.
With a bullet from rifle he had
previously concealed in his apartment,
Charles w. Post, millionaire manu-
facturer Of cereal foods, killed him
self at his winter home at Santa Bar
bara, Cal.
General Jose Ynez Salazar. former
ly Of the Mexican federal army, was
taken to Santa Fe. N. M, from Fort
Wingate to be tried on a charge of
conspiring to send munitions Of war
into Mexico.
At Chicago John F. Jelke, oleomar-
margarine manufacturer, was fined
$4,000 and sentenced to two years in
Jail for conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment OF taxes on illicitly colored
oleomargarine.
National guard officers at Fort
worth, Tex, declared that 250,00O
volunteer troops would be mobilized
in Texas within the next ten days.
This statement by the guard officers
Is denied in Washington.
Three new aeroplanes are en- route
from eastern aeroplane factories for
service with the Second detachment
OF the First Aero corps at North
Island. The new machines will be put
through series Of trials upon their
arrival to test their fitness for army
service.
Cheyenne record., 1914-05-14
FOREIGN.

Madam Lillian Nordica, the singer.
died at Batavia. Java.
The House Of Lords rejected the
woman suffrage bill by a vote Of 10A
to 60.
The crucifixion of 200 Mohamme-
dams by Greek Epirote invaders was
reported in dispatch to the Albanian
government.
Lillian Lenton, militant suffragist
was sentenced at the assizes at Leeds,
Eng, to a years imprisonment for
setting fire to Westfield house in June
last year.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston. Jr., former
ly Mrs. Grover Cleveland. sailed from
Liverpool for New York on board the
Lusitania. She intends to make only
. brief stay in the United States.
Colonel Roosevelt during his ex-
ploring trip through the wilds Of Bra
zil lost fifty-five pounds In weight. He
is still very weak, but-his condition is
better and he is recovering from the
abscess on his leg.
Persons under forty years of age
are to be shot If found smoking opium
at Chengtu, in the province of Sze-
Chuen. China, after the expiration of
a period Of twenty-one days, accord
ing to government announcement
issued at Pekin.
Three thousand federals under Gen
eral Arzamendi were decisively de-
feated after forty-eight hours, fighting
by constitutionallsts under General
Eulalio Gutierrez, near Ocaponeta, ac-
cording to a dispatch received at
chihuahua, Mex.
A sensation was created in the
House Of Representatives at Havana
when Representative Segaro an.
nounced that a big fraud was being
perpetrated with lottery tickets by
the printing of two series, one gen.
uine for the Cuban government, and
the other spurious for sale abroad.
Senor Segaro said the persons send.
ing abroad the spurious tickets were
reaping profit Of $4,000 a month.
Cheyenne record., 1914-05-14
SPORT.
Standing of we.tern Le.xue Clubs.

In closely contested ten-inning
game at Boulder the University OF
Colorado won over the State Agricul-
tural College, 6 to s.
Play ended at st. Petersburg in the
elimination round of the International
chess masters tournament with Jess
r. Capablanca, the Cuban expert, we'll
in the lead.
At Stettin, Germany, Lieutcnants
Faber and Kurtz, German army avia-
tors. were killed while attempting to
make landing. They were on q
flight from Schwerin to Psen.
The establishment of racing In
Colorado under a state law and COM
mission is meeting with most favor
able comment and keen interest
throughout the East. This Is the
statement Of General Manager w. A.
Read of the Denver Fair and Racing
Association, who arrived in Denver
after an extended tour of Eastern race
tracks which included visit to New
York city to confer with the officials
of the New York Jockey Club.
For the first time In twenty six
years and the fourth time in the forty
years history Of the race, the Ken
tucky derby was won by gelding.
when Old Rosebud, owned by H. G.
Applegate and Company OF Louisville,
and ridden by J. McCabe, raced under
the wire in the event at Churchill
Downs track at Louisville, a victor by
about eight lengths. Hodge, owned by
Kay Spence Of Missouri. was second,
and Bronze Wing. owned by A. p.
Humphrey, Jr., of Louisville, was
| third.
Cheyenne record., 1914-05-14
WASHINGTON.

Army detachments have been sta
toned to protect the locks along the
Panama canal.
American Consular Agent Montague
has reopened the American consulate
at Cananea, Sonora.
King Alfonso has signed the decree
raising the Spanish legation in Argen.
tina to the rank Of embassy,
Provision for free distribution OF
seeds were stricken from the agricul
tural appropriation bill by the Senate
after a vigorous debate.
Nelson O'Shaughnessy. charge OF
the American embassy at Mexico City
until United States troops seized Vera
Cruz, arrived in Washington.
Secretary McAdoo, son-in-law OF
President Wilson, will retire from the
cabinet and become ambassador to
France, is the report at Washington.
The State Department announced
that the Brazilian legation in Mexico
City had transmitted information of
the departure of a train bearing be-
tween 500 and 600 refugees for Vera
Cruz.
Colorado marble will not be chosen
for the interior Of the Denver post
office building unless 1t is offered at
price in competition with other mar
bles which will make it the most at
tractive.
The French government is taking
active steps 10 obtain news and secure
the safety of John r. Silliman, Ameri-
can vice and deputy consul at Saltillo.
who disappeared while on misstpn
to San Luis Potosi.
The German steamer Kronprinzes-
sin Cecelie, reported to be carrying
arms and ammunition for Huerta, has
returned to Vera Cruz without de-
barking her war stores at Puerto
Mexico. 1t was announced that the
munitions on this and a second Ger
man steamer, the Bavaria, would be
returned to Germany by order Of the
German Steamship Company.
Cheyenne record., 1914-05-14
GEN e RAJ.

The steamer City OF Rome, bound
from Buffalo to Toledo, was burned
to the waters edge just off shore at
Ripley, N. y.
Word has been received at El Paso,
Tex, of the finding Of the body Of
James S. Beard, a wealthy American,
near Parras, Coahuila.
Chester Burnell Duryea Of New
York. under arrest for killing his aged
father, General Hiram Duryea, was re-
moved to Bellevue hospital raving and
fighting.
The Air Brake Association, at the
session of its four-day convention in
Detroit, elected L. H. Albers of New
York president and T. w. Dow of Den.
yer vice president.
Delegates to the Illinois district
convention of United Mine Workers at
Peoria accepted contract with the
operators after receding from their
demand for . 4-cent increase in the
southern field.
A cyclone that suddenly appeared
at Danville, ILL.,, and disappeared after
travelling but short distance, flung q
horse into q treetop and tore down
several farm buildings. It was neces-
sary to cut the tree down to rescue
the horse.