Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-10

| In n1-
miration Of performance it hears has taken
| place down in dear old Georgia. ..An Atlanta
soc'ai CRUZ, II says. served roast ostridgc at
New Years dinner. showing that Atlanta is al
/ ways ready TO take chance" That is u new
| sort OF bird, readers will notice. PERHAPS how
ever, the ostridge. with which the faunnl natnr-
alists in our library betray acquaintance is
second cousin to the partridge
| Using exactly half an eye we are ennbleu 10
! perceive that something pathetic has happcned
In the good town Of Monroe. Says the ENQUIRER
OF that place: They are sickins the Solons on
the dogs now, and demanding that some
thing be done TO suppress the 'yallcr dog Well
the dog needs to be suppressed. We need sheen
and birds more than We need dogs hore in North
Carolina: but there Is another breed Of .yaller
dog besides the sheep-klling kind and that IS
the kind that slips In with worthless check
gets 1t cashcd and then makes waller streak
for the next town and works 'en, there. II the
! laws made and provided against that kind OF
yalier' cur are not strong enough make EN-
strong enough to inpound the necktied, yal-
Ter shod canine for good long time" 1t Is
| hard TO endure, and that's IL fact. However If
, the editor OF the Enquirer would harden his
heart against the travelling newspaper man.
with Ill wife and seven--count 'em-seven
starving children, lie would not he moved to
| this outpouring Of passionate Indignation.
AS matter OF fact. anguish appears to be
rather widely disseminated down home. Here
for example, Is chunk from the Rocky Mount
ed to receive telegram asking him to be
pallbearer, is asking $1,000 in damages from
| the Western Union Telegraph Company, and
while 1T first blush It appears the anguish comes
rather highland probably 1t does--its case
f, of aim upward. Nevertheless, there fewer
| companies that get out any lighter with their
mistakes than do the telegraph companies
That barber never knew when he well OFT
Most persons are willing TO pay ans rcas onabie
| fee escape the duty he mourns that he did
| not discharge
| They even make faces that collection OF
| wisdom and purity known the state Ieeisn-
| ture. the winston Salem journal opinine that
! most people are not half no much Interested in
! what the Legislature ought to do as I'm what
| it ought to do. Indeed there are doubtless
| old fogies who really believe that the
! State Is getting along very well without any
| more laws, md that We would All be better or
| IL tho Legislature wouldn't meet this year at
| ALL Fut then there always cranks and
| crazy folks in every commu.ity." 10 be frank,
| there arc folks III this neck OF the woods who
| hold Hike opinions
| Showing conclusivey how perfectly willing
! and eager folks ara TO make proper choice,
| when they are properly guided, the Durham Sun
| declares: Mr. HooBevelt, In an article In the
| Independent; says that 1t must be Utopia or
| He'll Speaking for ourseif only we're for
/ Utopia. II we can find the signboards pointing
out tile way So say the rest us, one rea :
son being that II 1t lie Utopia tho Colonel viii
| not DO there.
! The following bit OF lore Is pluclicd from the
| Greensboro Record: 'chirkens may not ne good
weather prophets, but they give some mighty
| good pigns occasionally. Thursday It was
| cloudy All day. About o'clock in tho evening
| a who Keeps good many chickens and
was feeding them. noticed that they showed an
inclination roost in the trees In the lot, which
! reminded him to say that the sky going
! to be clear the next day, and 1t was, although
the weather report vas for clotdy--and It was
clenr to day, with the saline forecast for to NOR
| row" Even il the chickens aren't perfect prog
nosticators. there are others, with more claims
| TO scientific attainment In the same boat.