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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Claiborne Watkins
have returned from their wedding
trip to Canada, and are the guests of
Mrs. W. A Watkins at 3l5 North
Harrison Street
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-18

Mrs. Gilbert Weldon, of the Ches-
terfield. is spending several weeks at
Virginia Beach.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-18

DIR. and Mrs. W. Wallace Gill re-
turned today from New York, after a
short visit in the North.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-18

Miss Blanche wilkinson. of Bristol,
Is visiting friends in this city.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-18

Mr., Clagett Young, of Norfolk, Is
spending n few days here.
Miss lisa bella Ware has returned to
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
FOUR DEAD IN AIRSHIP RAID
One Graft Got Within Mile of Buck
ingham Palace-7o People
Injured.

London, England.-Four people were
killed and nearly seventy treated at
hospitals, of whom ten probably will
die, was the harvest of the last Yep
pelin excursion to London. Police re-
ports show that 80 bombs were drop
ped by the aircraft, the number of
which took part in the excursion can
not be learned definitely. Some peas
ants say there were four Zeppelins
travelling at great level, but ap-
parently they separated when they
reached London, because most specta-
tors saw only one.
The government has permitted the
foreign correspondents to cable and
the newspapers to publish only brief
official bulletins. The reason for at
tempting to maintain secrecy is that
the admiralty officials doubt whether
the Germans knew their exact posi-
ton when they dropped their missiles,
and definite information on that point
would help the next air squadron on
the same errand to lay its course.
fYyB uDkD (a,.high with
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
FRIENDLY TONE is AckNoW
LEDeED BUT UNWILLING TO
COMPROMISE.
CAN'T DROP UNDERsEA WAR
Count ReventIow Says Wilson's In.
ability to Recognize War Zone
Makes an Agreement
Impossible.

Berlin.-The Berlin papers gener.
ally comment more or less on the
American note along various lines.
While there is a general disposition
to recognize the friendly tone of the
note and the fact that it makes fur
Their negotiations possible, the press ie
divided, roughly, into two parties, one
of which appears disposed to enter
into negotiations looking into a COM
promise on new basis, while the
other, by implication or expressly, re-
jects any departure from the course
heretofore followed.
Among the representatives of the
latter idea is the Taglische Rund-
chau, which declares that while the
note seeks a way to compromise It
seeks it along lines which must re-
suit to the disadvantage of Germany"
Friendly Tone Acknowledged.
The Taglische Rundschau contin-
ues: 'The note, therefore, is calcu-
lated only to postpone a settlement of
German-American relations, and not
bring it about. The friendly tone we
acknowledge, but the declaration that
the sinking of the Lusitania was I'M
paralleled in warfare seems opposed
to the character of upright friend
ship"
The Rundschau defends the sinking
Of the Lusitania, and in conclusion de-
clares: And the watchword is the
torpedoing will go on
The Kreuz zeitung emphasizes Ger
many's right to prevent the shipment
of ammunition to an enemy by every
means. 1t also is unable to see what
England can offer in return for the
abandonment of the submarine cam
paign, since the plan to starve Ger
many has finally failed"
Count Won Reventlow, in the Tages
Zeitung, says:
'If President Wilson persists in his
refusal to recognize the German de-
claration of war zone, we are not
able to conceive of an agreement or
even a real understanding"
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
Urqes Uniform Composition Laws.

Washington, ID. CA report Of
Joseph p. Davies, commissioner Of
corporations, on trust laws and I'M
fair competition, made several months
ago, has been given out here. It
draws special attention to the differ
ence In the treatment OF trade mon
opolies and combinations between the
United States and certain foreign
countries. Mr. Davies urges that
state laws regarding competition be
made more uniform. The federal laws
on the subject are now quite salts
Factory
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

Washington, d. C.-Following is
the text of william Jennings Bryan's
appeal to the American people on the
issue between President Wilson and
his former premier on the United
States note to Germany:
To the American People:
You now have before you the text
of the note to Germany-the note
which It would have been my official
duty to sign had remained secretary
of state. ask you to sit in Judgment
upon my decision to resign rather
than to share responsibility for it.
am sure you will credit me with
honorable motives, but that is not
enough. Good intentions could not
atone for a mistake at such time,
on such a subject, and under such
circumstances. If your verdict is
against me, ask no mercy; I desire
none if 1 have acted unwisely.
A man in public life must act ac-
cording to his conscience, but how
ever conscientiously he acts, he must
be prepared to accept without COM
own errors may bring upon him; he
must be willing to bear any deserved
punishment from ostracism to execu-
ton.
Force We. Persuasion.
The president and / agree in pur-
pose; we desire peaceful solution
of the dispute witch has arisen be-
tween the United States and Germa-
ny. We not only desire it, but with
equal fervor we pray for it; but we
differ irreconcilably as to the means
of securing it. If it we're merely a
personal difference it would be a mat
ter of little moment, for all the pre-
sumptions are on his side-the pre-
sumptions that go with power and
authority. He is your president, am
a private citizen without office or IT,
tle-but one Of the 100,0O0,000 In
habitants.
But the real issue is not between
persons; it is between systems; and
rely for vindication wholly upon the
strength of position taken.
Among the influences which the
governments employ in dealing with
each other there are two which are
pre-eminent and antagonistic - force
and persuasion. Force speaks
with firmness and acts through the
ultimatum; persuasion employs argu
ment, courts investigation and de
Ponds upon negotiation. Force rep
resents the old systematic system
that must pass away; persuasion
represents the new systematic sys
| TEN that has been growing, all toe
slowly, 1t is true, but growing for l.,
200 years. In the old system war is
the chief corner stone-war which
at it's best is little better than wal
at its worst; the new system contem
plates a universal brotherhood, es
tablished through the uplifting power
of example.
Note lie of Old System.
If / correctly interpret the note
to Germany, it conforms to the stand
ards Of the old system rather thar
to the rules of the new, and cheer
fully admit that it is abundantly sup
ported by precedents - precedenti
written in characters of blood OF
every page of human history. Aus
tria furnishes the most recent prece
dent; it was Austria's firmness tina
dictated the ultimatum agains
Serbia, which set the world at war
Every ruler now participating II
claimed his desireRy-:v
this unparalleled conflict has pro
claimed his desire for peace and de
MED responsibility for the war and 1
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

Washington, d. C.-RoQue Con.
zales Cara, head OF the Vina-Zapata
government in Mexico City, was de-
posed June by the convention in
session there. Lagos Chazaro, Villa
delegate from Chihuahua, was ele-
waited to the provisional presidency,
state department dispatches told Of
the change.
villa headquarters here said the
new executives full name was Fran
cisco Lagos Chazaro. and that he was
a civilian who had been governor of
the state of Vera Cruz during the ad'
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
se.Ooo.ooo Loeomotlve order.

Philadelphia, Pa--Alva B. John
son, president of the Baldwin Loco
motive Works, said he had received a
cable message from the Russian gov
eminent awarding contract to the
company for ESQ locomotives. The or
der amounts to $6,O00,0 900.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
Man Wins $4,000 by Marriage.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Arthur L. Wis
sers was married to Miss Myrtle Bush,
thereby complying with the terms of
will by which he is to inherit $751;
900. The will was made by Vissers'
grandfather and required that Vissers
be married by Sept. 1.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

orviIle stayer-well, l must think
about going.
Vera weereigh-ohl please don
think OF it!
The sedate city of Elizabeth, N. J.,
having checked the speed Of automo-
biles and motorcycles. considers It.
self strong enough to regulate the
speed Of baby go-carts. There is where
the city dads are riding for q fall
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
STRIKE Arbitration Beqlns.

Chicago of the strike
Of 10000 union carpenters which has
tied up building operations in Chicago
since April has begun.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

Baron Won saaIfeId Falls in Battle.
Berlin.--Baron Ernst Won Saalfeld,
19 years old, son of Prince Ernst Of
Saxe-Meiningen, has fallen In battle
His name is included in one OF the
latest casualty lists.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
PRESIDENT GARzA DEPoIED-

ministration Of President Madero.
The Villa agency was without adj
vices of the change or Its significance.
Chazaro had been acting as presi-
dent of the convention.
Gen. obregon. Carranza's com.
mander in the lighting against villa
at Leon. lost his right arm and mar
-rowly escaped death by shell while
directing operations on the firing line.
Consul SiIliman reported from Vera.
Cruz several days ago that 1t was ru4
mored Gen. Obregon was wounded!
and it was confirmed yesterday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

@That rich old misers doctors de-
gpair about his recovery"
"Humphl His gay young wife
doesn't"
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
CandId MIaalvInae.

when / go home at night" said
the querulous man, my wife always
seems glad to see me"
els there anything surprising about
that7s
Il don't know how to look at the
matter. When look into the glass
can't help feeling that anybody who
Is glad to see me must have mighty
little artistic sense"
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

After girl has been engaged three
or four times she begins to look az
shoDworn as Q widow.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

Another reason for the high cost OF
living is that people give away their
baby buggies too soon and have to
buy others.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

The under dog will usually turn on
you Il you try to help him in tho
night
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

"Can you tell nae the best way to
open the door TO a successful court
Ship?"
Certainly; ring the bs1le-"
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

A millionaire Is the only man no
doesn't need to keep up appearances.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
It Wouldn,t Work.

why don't you keep dog as q
protection against thieves?"
1T doesn't work that way with me.
A dog is merely temptation to some,
people. I've already lost three"
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17

Appropriate Action.
$50 congress Is going to provide for
che aviation corps"
Il thought it would rise to the oc-
casion."
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-06-17
Secretary Of State ad Interim.

NNINlN.NNN-N~0N.NeNrNo
Pat had been engaged to take a
trunk across the lake. He placed the
trunk in the bow of the boat. with
the result that the boat tipped for
ward.
Man ION the dock)--What are you
rowing with that trunk in the bow OF
the boat for, Pat7
Pat--Sure, an If II was in the stern
wouldn't | be rowin' uphill all the
time? An this way I'm rowing down.
hill all the time.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
FOR GOVERNOR, 1916
HON a. 3. HITCHCOCK, of Mitchell.

The sincerity with which the vice
president of the United States makes
it clear that he would not like to be
president seems beyond question.
Neither ambition nor temperament
leads him to look long1ngly at the
Office. To steer the senate parlia.
mentwise through it's dignitied
debates, to travel and lecture during
the intervals OF adjournment, to
moralize wisely and wittily on nun
dane things and to keep or being a
good comrade-that is Mr.. Marshall's
program. Not for him the rigors OF
the White House vigils and the strain
of guiding the nation between Scylls
aud Charybdis. He is not 80 consti.
tinted.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
FEASIBLE IN ALASKA

This mornings mail brought us a
remarkable picture-a picture of a
garden with immense heads of cab.
bage and other vegetables filling up
a stretch of an ere or more. The
remarkable thing about the picture
was on the back of it. 1t was:
This is the market garden of j. P.
Rlckert at Fairbanks, Alaska"
Fairbanks, which is in the Tanana
valley, almost in the center of Alaska
is to be the northern terminus of the
government-OWned railroad running
inland from Seward. The picture of
the garden set US to looking up on
Alaska. We found some interesting
facts.
So far as soil, climate and topo-
graphy determine the matter, Alas
ka has probably 100, 900 square miles
OF area on which there are p%ossibili-
ties for farming and grazing. The
larger portion of this farming land is
in the Youkon drainage area, IN the
interior. On the coast, notwith-
standing the mild climate, tillable
land is scarce, as the mountain ranges
are close to the coast and the shore
line is in many place preciptous.
Successful home and market gard
ems are found at numerous points in
southeastern Alaska--Juneau. Haines
Skagway. and Seward; in the Cook
inlet region; and all along the Youkon
and Tanana in the interior. Some of
the more hardy vegetables are grown
in favorable localities far above the
arctic circle, on the Chandalar, Koyu-
kuk, and other streams. A success.
full cattle raiser is located on a home
stead near Juneau; a homesteader at
Circle, on the Yukon, is establishing
a herd and building silos and barns;
and there are good diaries at Juneau,
Skagway, Fairbanks and Nome.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
LAST CLICK.0FTHE TYPE

Governor Byrne returned home today
from Denver and points in the west.
The Thomas Grocery company have
placed on sale a'carload of apples; the
choicests the..market afford.
A big shoe sale is on at Moores; he
going outof the shoe trade, ..and the en-
tire stock now OF hand mustsbe sold.
B. A. Cummins and e. M. Wambaugh
left yesterday for the lakes to the east
Of Pierre, where they will shoot duck
for q few days. It is but fair to pre-
sumo that ere this date many birds
have put on theiriangel plumage.
Much business activity is noticeable
out at the A. w. Ewert hay camp east
Of Pierre. Mr.. Ewert began the work
Of putting 1000 tons Of hay into stack
axmonth ago, and now has the work
well thigh completed; he is . business
pusher in whatever he; undertakes.
WM IAa 2&H IE ~ AMN ~ EHaN. go Err
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Ambassador Bernstorff, represent
ing Germany in the United States,
has handed the state department a
concilatory note that will avert fric-
ton in the settlement of differences
arising from the sinking of the Arabic
and the loss of two American lives.
The ambassador is presumed to have
admitted that the Arabic was not en-
%deavoring to run down the submarine
when she entered the zone of attack
to rescue those upon another ship
that vas being sunk.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Secretary Rood will hold the cleo
ton registration books up to the lat
est possible time for sending them
out, in anticipation of a decision. Of
the supreme court, which will defn-
itely settle under which primary law
of the state the registration is to be
made this year. 1t is presumed that
there will be a decision on that issue
in ample time to get the machinery
of either act working before the dates
for action expires.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

In order to enable the foreign born
population of the Lead district to &C
qulre sufficient knowledge of govern
ment and English to secure naturaliz.
alton, the government is making ar
engagements with Superintendent
Saam of the schools to open at once a
night school familiar to those estab-
hshed in the larger cities, where ali
desiring naturalization may fit them.
selves. The government has request
ed the board Of education TO establish
this school without tuition, claiming
that the city gets back any expense
incurred In the additional efficiency
OF those who take the course.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
COTTON AND WAR

Cotton has been declared contra
band of q There is a terrible
blow to the cotton planters, but by
strong financing and with a decreased
acreage it is hoped that the planters
may escape with losses not greater
than those of last year. 1t is aver
possible that they may do better.
Cotton has been declared contra
band because it is used for ammuni-
ton. Nitro-cellulose is guncotton-
merely cotton treated with chemicals
which make it explosive. In every
great artillery battle thousands of
thousands of bales of cotton are shot
away.
Cotton has always been the foot
ball of war, and inevitable hard
times come to factory workers as
we'll as growers when the shipment
of 1t is stopped. In our civil wal the
supply of cotton was shut off from
the English mills, and the people in
the Lancashire district were plunged
into the deepest poverty and want.
Thousands would have died of star
vation had it not been for charity.
Yet these poor people had the broad
%mindedness to pass resolutions at
their meeting congratulating our
President Lincoln on the abolition
of slavery, even though it was the
war which liberated the slaves that
reduced themselves to starvation.
On January ~, 1868, Lincoln wrote
these cotton workers a letter in
which he said: II cannot but regard
your decisive utterance upon the
question an instance of sublime chris
tian heroism which has not been sa1-
! passed in any age or in any country
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Forest culture is as much Of an art
as is corn culture. A good woodlot.
like a good cornfield, is the result of
applying intelligent methods to pro-
duce q full, valuable crop. A corn
field with fail spots, empty hills,
stalks and half filled ears is neither q
credit to the farm nor a paying in
vestment for the farmer. No more
is a woodlot half stocked with in
ferior trees. When timber is cut is
the time of all times to apply forestry.
The way in which the cutting is done
will determine what the subsequent
condition of ths woodlot will be.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
Extraordinary care will be needed i


Extraordinary care will be needed in
curing seed corn this fall. Most of
the seed corn picked will contain
much moisture the more serious will
be the danger from freezing. Conse-
queDtly seed corn should be stored in
9 dry and sufficiently warm place as
soon as 1t 10 picked. Moreover, it
should be hung up or placed on racks
In such . way that the air may circu
late freely about every ear. If these
simple directions are followed, the
corn will dry out rapidly the effects
OF the cold winter weather will be re.
duced to q minimum, and the corn
will give the largest possible germina-
tion in the spring.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

A program Of government building
excelling anything in American his
tory will follow a half billion dollars
appropriation which congress is ex-
pected to vote at its coming session
for the rehabilitation OF the army and
the navy. The purchase of munitions
and the cost of building have prev
iously evoked long drawn out fights
for certain firms, but that the advo-
Gates OF government owned munition
plants are soliditied it is believed to
be certain.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
RoBB1NG THE PRODUCER

Huron Huronite: Manipulation of
the grain market by speculative mid
die men is openly charged by North
Dakota farmers.
In the earlier stages of the Euro
pean war wheat and other grain
quickly went to prices that afforded
the producer a large profit, but sud-
denly prices began to drop until a
bushel of grain will now sell for but
little over the cost of production and
transportation. That is all the farm
er can get out of his summers toll.
A writer in the Pierre Free Press,
and that same 100 pounds of wheat
sells in Liverpool for s2.70 and that
the same 100 pounds of wheat sells in
Duluth for ST. SO leaving a difference
of $1.14 for transportation and handl-
ing.
The real cost of transportation and
handling is 50 cents. leaving 62 cents
to be absorbed by on-producers and
manipulators. The farmer is there
fore deprived of the 62 cents that
should go into his profits.
On other grain the same dis
crepency exists between Duluth ard
liverpool and the difference repre-"
sents the rake Off commanded by the
organizations that fix the buying
price on this side of the Atlantic.
For a long time the methods of
gambling combines known as grain
exchanges haye been exposed and
written about and talked about un-
til the law makers of the country
must be ware that they have a duty
to perform that has long been neglect
ed,
If the farmers of the west could Sc
cure the full value of their products,
the west would throb with prosperity.
That they are compelled to divide I'M
equally with law sustained organiza-
lions that put no toll into production
keeps them poor and keeps the state
poor.
Everything in this country is regu-
lated through politics. The farmer
of the west are a large majority.
They could improve their condition
if they would. Why not do it?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Bulgaria has turned upon its Bal
kan neighbors and Is in a fair way to
enter the war In Europe on the side
OF the German.Aus Turkish al
lance. Bulgaria owes its ~independ.
gence TO Russian assistance and it now
joins the enemy that Russia rescued
IL from. Russia is naturally indignant
and Is about to turn its guns upon
Bulgaria and 1t will be assisted by
the entente and by Greece.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Possibly the colonel. when he shot
that moose in self defense, to save
his life, up in the Canadian woods,
took the animal to be the republican
nomination for president. a~-chasing
him again. Anyway, after due ex-
planatiou was made, the Canadian
authorities agreed the colonel did
inst right. Aberdeen Daily News.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07
A PEACE VICTORY

A few months ago there YER 1OO,-
900 cases of typhus in Serbia. and the
new cases numbered 10000 a day.
The American Red Cross and Rookie
TELLER Institute stamped out the
disease in less than four months by
the simple system of Kidding the
population of lice. The most won.
derful medical campaign in history.
1t ranks in Importance far above any
military campaign of this greatest of
all wars.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Tom Taubman, q. S. marshal In
writing TO the Planklnton Herald on
How 70 Prevent Fires says to
have insurance companies select
agents in the smaller towns who are
not 50 greedy as to write insnranc &c
Tor more than Che property is worth,
simply Tor the paltry fee connected
Herewith. That would prevent q
whole lot OF tires.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

Republicans are not saying much
about hard times these days. Espec-
tally after looking up bank c~learings,
railroad earnings, bank reserves of
gold and currency, and the deposits
OF all classes of citizens. The ma
jority Of the people rather like the
present conditions. and are not con.
demning the democratic administra
tions 90 any extent .--Vermillion Plain
Talk.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-10-07

The Nebraska Newspaper Union, Of
York. Neb., has brought suit in the
federal court, against the Western
Newspaper Union, Of Maine. for
100000 for treble damages. claim
Inc they ;a7ea monopoly ID restraint
az trade and put them out Of business
md have fixed u 80 they cannot get
a6ack 10. They claimed 10 have been
forced ont IA 1910.