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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11
HOUSE.

The morning session of the House
of Delegates yesterday was taken Ell
with the consideration of the VIII
liamg resolution extending the extra
session of the General Assembly and
the afternoon session with discussion
and final passage OF the modified tax
commission bill.
offered this rneasure was at times
exceedingly lively. especially when
consideration was being given the
weaver amendment liking the COM
missions 10 be paid the examiners OF
record for the extra work required uf
them under it's operation. 1t was
limited more than once that the OBJ
ject OF the Montague proposal TO lin
1t the fees to be paid the examiners
to $1,000 annually was designed to
make the measure worthless and that
opponents OF segregation wished
that contamination.
Mr.. Weaver went so far AZ to say
that if the amendment were adopted
the effort to bring intangibles from
hiding for purposes OF taxation would
be futile. and the revenues OF the
state seriously affected.
Mr. Montague was brought to his
feet by declaration from Mr.. Willis,
Of Roanoke, that hF amendment to
the Weaver amendment would pre-
vent intanslbles from being brought
TO light and that ne would not be
surprised IL that were the reason
the gentleman from Richmond city
offered the amendment
Il hope that the gentleman will
put that charge into such form that
can answer it, declared Mr.. Mon
tague with some heat.
Disclaims Reflection.
Mr.. Willis laughingly replied that
he did not intend to imply that the
gentleman from Richmond had any
Intangible personal property that had
not been brought to light, and the
iniden ended,
Mr.. Weaver, in opposing the Mon
tague amendment. created n slight
furry by declaring that the exam
liners OF records We're opposing the
bill. instead of favoring It, and that
he could say that they would Gre
ate opposition to it in the Senate.
Does the gentleman mean to say,
asked Mr.. White. that the examiner.
of record can control the Senator
by no means. retorted Mr..
Weaver, "but they can create oppo-
sition to the BILL"
The Night Session.
Last nights session was devoted to
the passage OF few local bills. to A
uiscGssioh OK the bill to appropriate
$4,000 to the Radford Normal
School and tn the rejection Of sew
eral Senate amendments to House
bills.
Two committees on conference
were made necessary by the action of
the House last night The Gerate
having refused TO accept the House
amendment to the sick benefit COM
pany tax bill making the rate two
per cent on suS,, companies instead
OF one. the Ho ve refused to recede.
and asked for conferei6ce. The
House refused TO concur in Senate
amendment to tile insurance COM
panies tax BILL and unless the Sem
ate recedes. a conference on that
amendment will be necetHary. This
means that neither Of thesl. bills.
probably, will be acted upon until AZ
ter the three weeks recess. or will
not be acted upon at all, Ii the Gem
eral Assembly adjourn sine die to-
night.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11
VIII Fly In.

For fear Of being nabbed by Ameri-
can detectives. Jack johnson. the
negro .pusilist, may come Mia aera-
plane 10 juarez, Mex, where he Is TO
fight LACY Willard next month. THIS
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11

bit Of news from the training camp
was sent out by promoter Jack Curley
yesterday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11
Charity Tea.

4 charity tea VIII be eiven al the
residence of Mrs. John {. Robertson.
at Forest HUI on Friday afternoon
from I 10 O'Clock for the benefit
81 the Parish Guild Of the Church OF
.Sfr. sy.4stai ssSsaiefa@psi A Si,eci.If fnsfa1rf
q the afternoon VIII he an author.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11
liter Entertainment.

reading by Miss Annie seger Win
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11
Quiet Wedding =.

"A VerH quiet :. wedding took place
TuesdaY when Miss Annie I.eiit
LoterZo. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
f. j.. Loterzu, became the bride If
Jos y Reynolds also of this city. The
ceremony was performed at 1:30
O'Clock iu the reetory Of st. Patrick r
Church. by the Kew. Father brennan n.
Miss LnterZos only attendant was her
sister Katherine. and Mr.. Reynolds
had ss his best man his brother. Elder
J.. Keynaics. The bride was bscom-
inely att.red ia travelling suit of cleo
'rit- blue ciUth. ana wore a corsaga
bouquet Of white roses, while her maid
Of honor wore a gown of white crepe
de chine, and carried white carna :
ions. After a brief honeymoon, Mr..
and Mrs. Reynolds Will he ar home Al
10 south Addison street
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-11

laws SO that the administrative ma
chinery may conform to the system
now TO be put in force. All tho laws
relating to the levy and collection of
taxes for local purposes by the boards
of supervisors of counties and coun-
ellis OF cities and towns. together with
the laws relating to bond issues for
road Improvement in counties and
magtsterial districts, must be care
fully studied and amended to conform
to the tax system already adopted.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
SEEING LIFE mh
r &c., JOHN HENRY
ESA~GeO1qeVHobar
S1y<,(N1V Going Shopping
Going Shopping

and gave him the mackerel eye. Then
he switched to English-and killed II
all except few vowels.
"Ah! Madame wishes a new gown
incest pas? Something chic, Partisan
ravissant, incest pas? l have here
such wonders. PaQuin, yes! Worth,
Ell! Poiret, yes! Callot Soeurs. eh ?
Doucet. yes!" Then he nailed me with
the gimlet holes he used as eyes.
is that the correct batting order for
today" l inquired politely.
Batting ordaire!" he fumbled, and
then Peaches ordered me to the bench.
She turned and whispered a few en-.
couraging words to D'Artagnan' s
grandfather. whefeupon he began to
do Pavlowas hither and thither across
the room until he finally disappeared.
Hes going to show us the latest
creations" Peaches explained.
What is he?" worried. "A
French nobleman over here under
cover to pick up bit of cake money!"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

Hoops. my dear!" I asinined. not
knowing what else to say.
lie Minaret." continued the friend
of Louis the XI. lit would be to
Madames beauty as the rose is to q
lovely garden. yesi"
He was there with the salve. that
old boy.
Hypnotized by the harmony of col
ors and carried away by the up-to-
dateness Of the creation. Peaches
breathed in the ear of Voulezvous an
eager. How much?"
Three hundred and feefty dollaire."
he breathed back to her.
Sinking for the second time. didn't
breathe at ALL
Then. with forgiving smile.
Peaches turned to me and said. Isn't
it lovely? Isn't it wonderful"
"She is" answered; she's q
quaint little package of pepper-that's
what she is! l thought l liked that
blonde. but it was only q passing fan
cy. This brunei has me limping after
her along the Road of Happiness. Did
you pipe the smile she saved up for
me and me alone? She must burn
acetylene in both lamps, because I'm
all lit up with excitement. A queen.
take it from an expert-a queen!"
Exit LIE Minaret hurriedly, while
Voulezvous stood there expressing as
constituent with both shoulders and
the small of his back.
Does Madame prefer something
else. yes?" he wigwagged. after MOTTO
ing how high in the air Peaches was
wearing her chin.
YES" butted in quickly; bring
on something nifty in transparent
skirt"
. Curtain.
When / came to ! was out on the
sidewalk listening to Section WI. Par.
agraph Nv, Of the Riot Act.
Then she pointed her nose at the
North Star and left me fiat.
Peaches will probably speak to me
again some time before Christmas.
She'll have to If she believes in Santa
Claus.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

GAY! Did you ever take your life In
- your right hand and go shopping
with your wife?
tried it the other day and I've been
hearing voices ever since.
When l say shopping" l don't mean
that simple everyday gag of bursting
suddenly in upon the sleepy floor
walker in a delicatessen parlor and
with languid elbows leaning over the
remnants Of a once beautiful cheese
while he cruelty separates four kip
pered herring from the bosom of a
large and loving family.
Nix-I mean Big League shopping.
I mean that kind Of shopping that
women go in training for two weeks
in advance; high-class, expert shop
ping, where important money changes
hands; the kind of shopping that
wives look forward to with dreamy
eyes and live ever after on the memo
ries; the shopping that sweeps a hus-
band off his feet and makes him long
to be a dusky-hued postmaster in No.
township. Samoan Islands, where
the fashion in fig leaves is permanent
and money is a myth.
John" said Peaches, the other
morning. Il want you to go to the
stores with me today. l have lot Of
shopping to do and you can be such
help to me. because"
wait a minute, friend wife,"
broke in. What have / done that
you should wish such a calamity on
me? Tell me to 60 out and get for my
personal use an attack of inflamma-
tory rheumatism and I'll do so; ask
me to try to catch a street car at the
corner of Broadway and Fifty-third
Street and I'll work hard at the job
up to the time a murderous taxicab
climbs my front elevation and mains
me for life-but don't, Oh! wife,
don't ask me to 60 shopping with
you!"
"Nonsense!" she gurgled. Il can't
go alone. can I? And, besides, you
must help me select two new gowns
at the Maison de Splash must have
at least two, mustn't I? And from
there we'll go to Ginkstein and Boob
heimer's, where / want to get hat
l must have something chic to take
on in the theaters, mustn't I?-And
then well spend an hour in Gorgon-
cola Brothers. where l can pick out
the set Of furs you promised me for
Christmas. and then we'll go to Cam
embert's for some gloves / need. and
then"
Help! Throw me anything! Don't
you see I'm sinking!
The answer is l went-and live to
prattle about 1t.
You know, this shopping gag brings
out more prominently than anything
else the fact that the high cost of liv-
ing is caused by living high at any
cost.
The ancient Greeks had a saying,
HE spends his money like a drunken
sailor" and that goes for seventy-five
out of hundred today.
The majority Of the boobs give
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
HOW ONE MAN GOT HIS START
Ambition to Be Author Not Successful.
But It Served Good Purpose
in the End.

81 got my start in life," said q
wealthy retired hardware dealer, 'iu
singular manner.
You might not think it. l having
passed the major portion of my life in
selling nails. padlocks. stoves and
shovels. but in my early youth my
great ambition was to be a writer. an
author. had no doubt whatever that
that was what was cut out for, and
certainly worked at it good and hard ;
but none of the publishers seemed to
agree with me. AS fast as l sent the
things in to them they would send
them back.
But that didn't worry me. knew
that sooner or later they would come
to like what l wrote and buy it. What
got my goat was the expense. l was
a very ready writer and l wrote long
pieces. The stamps l had to use to
send these pieces out and get them
back cost me a lot of money.
When l realized how much I was
paying out for stamps I said to my.
self. 'Humpf! Ill save up that money
for five years and then I'll 60 to writ.
ing again. And for the next five years
did put aside regularly the amount
that would otherwise have spent for
stamps. and you would be surprised II
should tell you how much it amount
ed to. But at the end Of that time did
not again take up writing.
"Just at that time the senior partner
in the hardware store in our town
died and his heirs drew out all his in
terest in the firm. There was a chance
for a man with little capital to get
into a good business. I had the CAPT.
tai, my accumulated stamp money, and
l bought that interest in the hardware
store.
From that time on was always too
busy to write; but my great success
in the hardware business you can
clearly trace to my original ambition
for authorship"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
WHEN TO CUT SUDAN GRASS
Should BE Harvested for Hay Soon
a. Plants Are Fully Headed
Big Demand for Seed.

Sudan grass should be cut for hay
a. soon a. the plants are fully headed.
Immediate cutting II recommended by
the Texas experiment station. a. this
will insure more cuttings q season.
Under fair weather conditions 1t can
be treated just like prairie hay or
timothy-cut In the morning and
hauled into the barn or stacked that
afternoon. The speed with which the
hay dries out depends entirely upon
the weather and the thickness Of the
stalks at time Of cutting
Sudan grass in . properly drilled
row should not make Q stalk thicker
than q lead pencil. and It II preferable
II It be seeded thicker to make an even
thinner stalk. The thinner tae stalk.
the more readily 1t cures and the more
tender and palatable the hay. The
writer saw Sudan grass broadcasted
at the rate Of 20 pounds an acre. yield
ing almost two tons Of finest quality
hay ut each cutting. Al quickly - .
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
Famous Walkers.

The record for one-mile walk seems
to have been made by G. H. Goulding.
a Canadian. on June 4. 1910, in six
minutes, twenty-five and four-fifth sec.
onds. H. v. L. Ross. an Englishman.
walked fifteen miles in one hour and
fifty-nine minutes. and T. Grimth. also
an Englishman. walked twenty miles
In two hours and forty-seven minutes.
C. A. Schofield Of England. on May
20. 1911, walked twenty-five miles in
three hours and thirty-seven minutes.
A few other walking records are 100
miles, 1S:53:40. by Dan O'Leary. at
Chicago, in 1878; 200 miles in 40: $3.50
and SCI miles in IA hours. by George
Littlewood in a six-day race, England.
In 1882. In six days. twelve hours
per day, Joe Scott Of England. 1883.
walked 1853 miles.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
crop was cut the roots would send up
new. vigorous growth. shich could be
cut for hay or be pastured.

crop was cut the roots would send up
new. vigorous growth. Nhich could be
cut for hay or be pastured.
II the crop IL cut for seed, Il In best
to let the pods mature well, the first
crop being the best. The grass may
be harvested with Q wheat binder or
with a mower. The seed does not
shatter badly when raked with horse
rake. II planted in cultivated rows IL
can be cut with corn harvester How.
ever. 1t II best to harvest the crop for
seed In bundles. 30 II can be more
easily threshed. At present, with n
large demand for Sudan grass
throughout the country. the price Of
seed 10 quoted 1t an average of one
dollar . pound. With an Increased
acreage Of the crop next year q large
decline in price of seed IL looked for
About ten bushels Of seed an acre is
An average yield. The seed weishs
80 pounds to . bushel.
The yield Of hay varies chiefly with
the extent Of rainfall or available
moisture in the ground. At the Texas
experiment station the writer learn d
that four crops were harvested q year
with IN average Of . ton or more q
cutting.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04


studied
ne decided was time The girls father business
oon She
and thick red veil which swathed
Arrived
bridegroom
seated facing the wall
friends gathered in
AT two o'clock in the morning
bridegroom into
bride
While
the wine and bowed They for
But this didn't werema
wedding
about $1,000
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
Oficers Wear Steel Masks.

The Paris Matin publishes the pic.
ture of a gentleman with something
on his head that at first sight looks
like a divers helmet, and at the sec.
ond like a cupola in REINFORCED con-
crete, with a couple of 16-inch guns
protruding. What it really is. 10 q
French officer wearing the new iron.
or rather steel and nickel. mask. which
there is quite serious question Of
adopting for officers and noncommis
stoned officers whose duties as OBJ
servers compel them at times to raise
their heads above the protection OF
the trenches. These observer pro
tectors" shield the face and neck Of
their wearers. and by simple. but
very ingenious mechanism. the field
glasses which are fixed to the helmet
can be focused by cords manipulated
from beneath. Thus chance Of in
juries to the hands-also distressing.
" frequent in this sort Of work-are
completely obviated.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

"Of course not" she pouted. HE is
M'sieu Voulezvous. the Proprietor OF
the Maison de Splash recognized
authority on women's dress"
Enter M'sieu Voulezvous, alias
D'Artagnan's grandfather. at Left
Second, dancingly; followed by Clara
Panatella. blonde and glad of it.
"Who is the ingenue?" l whispered.
"Shush!" friend wife came back.
"She is nothing but manikin parad-
ing costume. Isn't it perfectly love-
ly"
"Oui, oui!" chimed in D'Artagnan's
grandfather. You see what it is
yes! Faded gray chiffon cloth figured
with re raspberry and a small lemon
colored flower. You see double fichus
Of re material edged with deep cream
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

colored Bulgarian embroidery drapin,
re shouldaire and crossing in re from
and back-ravissant! Re skirt is vair,
full at re top with re pannier effec
at each side and draped into a pane
OF raspberry color silk in ze hack
which falls down from a girdle of p.
same raspberry color silk-ravissant
yes!"
Exquisite!" murmured Peaches
How much?"
Two hundred feefty dollaire," an
swered DArtagnan's grandfather
without a culver. Some actor. that
old boy.
choked back a couple NJ cob. .rd
began to think hard. Two hundred and
nity dollars for a dish of raspberries
with cream colored trimmings-assist
ance!
low do you like it," Peaches
cooed.
Lovely" I answered "A one in.
spired. "Prettiest hair I've ever seen.
And her eyes-blue mirrors Of her
native Mediterranean! I've been lost
IN admiration ever since she floated
into the room. Did you get that clad
gaze she handed out to me when"
BY this time the blonde Venus
wrapped up in the raspberry trim.
mings was being led hurriedly away
from there by the bewildered grand.
father of D'Artasnan, and in the
snort. sharp silence which followed
lightning flashed from the eyes of a
certain party and storm signals were
ordered up from the Capes to Bango-.
Enter trippingly. from Left End:
Mons. Voulezvous. followed by Carts
sima Maduro. walking Q Il SLOUGH.
Now We have 1t, yes!" spluttered
the ancestor of D'Artagnan. turning
the manikin around and around for our
inspection. You see. LIE Minaret! 1t
10 ravissant. incest pas! You. M'sieu.
should value your opinion Of L.
Ainaret. yes!"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

daily limitations of the sailor and they
don't even wait to get intoxicated.
Whatever my neighbor does l wan
to do-only more SO.
II my neighbor saves up eight dol
lars and twenty cents and buys a RED
benzine buggy / Immediately get to
gether seven dollars and a quarter
and get a blue one. In the meantime
the automobile people put a white
chalk mark on our houses.
II your wife buys a nearly-sealskin
my wife has to rush and get an almost
mink with possibly-ermine trimmings
and the children fill up the holes in
their shoes with putty and exclaim
"Oh. doesn't Mamma look sweet In the
fur macintosh"
Vanity Is a worm that eats the lin.
ing out of pocketbook.
All Of which Is neither here nor
there, as the engineer said when the
train left the track.
So it's back to that shopping propo-
sition with friend wife.
Our first port of call was the
Maison de Splash. where they trim a
piano cover with q lace curtain and
call 1t a creation"
It certainly was a gorgeous cozy
corner. that place! The walls were
decorated in soft. harmonious shades
and the floor had an Alfalfa carpet 80
q woman could faint wherever she
happened to be standing when told
the price Of the particular gown she
had picked to win
D'Artagnan's grandfather met us at
the front gate and swash-buckled us
into the main Torture Room in the
InQuisition.
Suffering Savings Banks, such
gowns! Never before have / seen 70
many good excuses for q woman. To
leave home.
In the meaHssme DArtasnan's
grandfather was splashing French
idioms In all directions until I turned
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

Ruh interested
entity enjoyed the the
their
medal Chinese c. novelty Lo is
OF Cornell taking
sy OF Pittsburgh His kite 20 feet long being
Of all kinds
these machines
intricate
boy would enter
he would be given his
ona for the altitude The altitude
his respective q
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04

The best depth to SOW the seed is
about one-half inch.
Yield.
Rape varies greatly in yield ac-
cording to the soil. Yields of 80 tons
per acre. green weight, are not rare.
len to fifteen tons is a good yield.
and smaller returns are profitable.
Under favorable conditions rape is
ready to pasture In about eight weeks
after seeding. An acre of good rape
Will easily supply pasture for 20 hogs
for two months.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
RIOTS HURT SWEET POTATOES
greatest Losses In Oklahoma. Due to
Two Funsi-crop Rotation Should
Be Practiced.

'By c. d. Learn. Oklahoma Agricultural
College.)
There are several diseases which
are quite common to the sweet potato
In this state. but probably the great
est losses are due to the two fungi
causing the soft rot and the black rot.
The two forms cause a very different
rot. hence the names of the two dis
cases.
A fungus is a plant which repro
duces by spores which are the same
as seeds; but the fungus gets its food
by sending slender filaments into an
other plant. termed the host. These
nlaments are similar to a root of
the common plant. which gathers
food.
The soft rot is probably less COM
mon and of minor importance. for 1t
causes its trouble on bruised pota-
toes while in storage. 1t gains en-
trance through bruised area while
black rot does not necessarily need q
bruised surface.
The black rot has seemed to be
more common in the vicinity of the
agricultural college the past year than
for three years. This disease Is of
great importance as 1t is parasitic and
causes a rot which may not be no
ticed In its early stages. 1t appears
as a dark colored sunken area and
gradually increases in size until this
area is very large and very much
sum- en-. and by making a cross-section
OF tie potato through such an area one
may easily note the dark. diseased
tissue.
II the diseased potatoes are used for
taking slips from they will in all prob
ability be infected. The infection is
noticed as a small. black area. There
may be several such infections on a
slip. II the slips are too badly infect.
ed the plant may die after being set
out: or 1t may not be vigorous in
growth. At least there is a chance of
the potatoes being badly diseased
when harvested
The fungus causing black rot may
live over in the soil for an indefinite
time. Such being the case. the best
method Of controlling the fungus is to
select potatoes not diseased. Plant the
potatoes. from which slips are taken,
In soils where no disease has been pre-
viously. and. last. set your slips out
where there have been no diseased DO
tatoes grown.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
The Discarded Vegetables.

A variety Of feed will stimulate the
hen to her greatest egg production.
The small potatoes and other vege-
tables that are not suitable for human
food can be fed to the chickens to
splendid advantage. IfxSou feel like
making their ration UNUSUALLY appe-
tizing. just boil these up and mix
enough bran or shorts to makesa COM
paratively dry mash.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-06-04
He Couldn't eooo.

A lady in Los Angeles decided
whether she would bring divorce pro-
ceedings or not BY boiling IN egg.
Some Of the eggs were hard and some
soft. II she drew q hard one she was
to sue. II her egg was soft she was
to remain unhappy and married. She
drew the hard egg. Any husband who
was given an even break like that
with an egg and . divorce ought to b
glad to abide BY the consequences. He
would win II he lost-and he did.