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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Let the PnNnln Say,

TT is gratifying to The Times Dispatch to
l have policy on which il has insisted and
rensisted honored with the approval of the
itself squarely in opposition TO any change
in the charter OF the city Of Richmond that
has not received the approval OF the voters
at a popular election.
That action reveals an understanding OF
the fundamentals OF this problem most en-
coura ging to those who want the problem
solved and solved Alright. Ii Richmond is TO
it must come in response TO the peoples will.
A charter is only so much machinery; the
intelligence and skill and uprghtness OF the
operator are the things that count for most.
The electorate OF Richmond must select the
operators of the city's machinery OF govern
ment, and. if the new instrument is to have
a fair chance OF success, must pick the right
men for the jobs. That implies real belief
in the possibility of reform and real desire
to that possibility realized in fact Re
form in any honest sense, cannot he thrust
on any community The majority must APP
prove and desire it as an initial proposition.
The Civic Association is justifyng conf
dence by showing itself TO be an agency OF
the people, and not mere collection of
theorists and vsionaries prescribing political
panaceas. 1t is cndeavoring to find what is
hest in modeEn municipal government and
then submit .;hl. Gnding TO popular approval.
It's whole attitude is sensible. Considerate and
right
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
News of Fifty Years Ago

Inc general committee. composed OF seventy
tnIee members. appointed to act with the press
his entire Cabinet to visit Richmond. will meet
at the Hall of the Common Council at o'clock
ments" and on resolutions" will meet Mt tho
same hour in tho office of Wellington Goddin.
on Main Street.
Lewis f. Harve, president Of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad announces to the stock
holders of that company that his resignation
and must take effect on the day upon which
the annual meeting of the stockholders shall
DO held
and Petersburg have become very active. Tho
intense demand for the leaf tobacco. required
OF tho lenf to both of the markets. and the ex-
changes in both cities have been exceedingly
busy busy for the past ten days. All grades Of the
Virginia leaf are bringing prices that are very
satisfactory to the growers and other holders
of the hogsheads.
Franklin stearnes is the chairman of the
committee appointed by the citizens meeting
to act in conjunction with the press commit
tee in extending the invitation to the Pres-
dent TO visit Richmond next week.
Joseph walters. an unfortunate young man.
who has tarred at the wine too long attempt
ed suicide yesterday by the hanging route, but
was rescued by friends who reached him In
time.
great. even wonderful. religious revival
Is In progress ut tho Sidney Methodist Bpls-
copal Church. Rev. John a. Duncan. OF
the ablest members of the Virginia Methodist
Conference, is the preacher announced for to-
night.
The Atlantic Coast Mail steamship. the AL
bemarle, will leave the companys wharf. at
Rockets. Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock for
New York All available space, both passen-
and freight having been engaged the
agents announce that no local business he
accepted. and the Albemarle will make no riv-
or or Hampton Roads stops, but go direct from
Richmond to New York
dispatch from Fortress Monroe to the New
York Tribune says: MIR. Davis and Mr. Clay
are now allowed to have all OF the papers and
magazines that are approved by and have the
o. Is. of General Miles; and the general is very
liberal with his .. ks; in fact turns down
nothing that the distinguished prisoners de-
sire to have their table"
Robert Lecky, of Richmond. has opened n
beautiful little hotel in the beautiful town o.
Ashland and 1t is we'll crowded with summer
visitors
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
SEEN ON THE SIDE
Hay Fever Time.

This Is the season when YOU hear,
No matter where YOU may appear,
Strange noises in the atmosphere:
"Kerchoo! Kerchoo"
Red noses sprout on every side
And eyes emit saline tide.
While by wild screams you're Mortified.
''Kcrchoo! Kcrchoo"
Perhaps the bnll game you attend,
Or to some play your presence lend
These screeches still your ears offend,
'Kerchoo. Kerchoo!"
There's really no safe place to go
at least there's no place that 1 know
Where you won't hear some victim blow:
'Kerchou kcrchoo."
They all have remedies enough
To Danish this annoyance rough
Some swear by Copenhagen snuff
'Kerchoo! Kerchoo"
Some think that drugs will set them free,
Some swear by osteopathy.
Or to fake science" bend the knee
"Kcrchoo! Kerchoow
But yet this early autumn pest
Gives those II harries no peace nor rest
But makes them with unfailing zest
"Kerchoo! Kerchoo,"
l1arE! Whad is this that hnlts my odep
Thad images me fear shall explode?
Great guns. Too soon sad ad crowed-
'Kerchoo! Kerchdo!'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

such is the case. am in cons,an,
sotnfnuhication with Americans. as
wen as with Chinese. i'm China, and
their letters invariably rcport excel,
tent progress along reasonably renuh
licah iincs with n etrengtheninr he
lief in Yuan Shi-kars sincerity az
republican President, combined with
ms determination to establish real sta
biiitE in his government 1t is To hc
assumed that President Yuan liz well
aware of the sentiment in China All
ms acts justify us in cretiiting hin,
with patriotism and wisdom He Is
making wonderful record as n nation
builder. We have his own word for
it-expressed recently to n general
OF the Chinese army--that he would
prefer exile TO n crown. Also We know
that during the last days OF the Man
Gnu empire. Yuan thrice refused a
narQuisatc.
He is now busy saving his country
from foreign aggression and preparing
Tor the assembly a Picking OF China's
first real Parliament. He Is too busy
and too wise TO bother about tinscl
titles. The permanent welfare OF his
country viii be his sole thought No
title could exceed in honor that which
he has already earned from China and
the world as one man that stood stead
lastly between distracting, discordant
Internal and external fires In order that
his people might enjoy stable govern
mcnt and freedom from foreign moles-
tations as from domestic tyranny. Tho
question for him to settle is whether
II Will ala his country most to try
to be Chinese George Washington
or to sink his remarkable personality
under the shadow OF the dragon throne
Most Americans. who have noted the
support given to Yuan as President
by the business men of China who had
Invariably refused such support to the
empire, and even TO Yuan himself "a
official of g.
tie doubt that his answer will he the
strengthening of the republic"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Origin of Famous Phrase

From time TO time discussion arises
In the newspapers over the origin of
the most famous phrase in Linco,n's
Gettysburg address: Government OF
the people. by the people. and for
the people" The words were not
original impulse; the thought had been
In the minds and on the lips of lovers
or liberty and democracy for years
In 1850 Theodore Parker, addressing
an anti slavery convention at Boston,
spoke of the American idea as "a gov
eminent of all the people. By all the
people. for all the people" Twenty
years before, in tho course of the
reply TO Hayne. Daniel Webster voiced
the same thought The peoples gov
eminent. made for the people, made by
the people and answerablc to the
people" la the form in which he left
tho thought
Still earlier. tho germ Of the his
toric phrase can be found in William
Wirts Life OF Patrick Henry" pub
lished In 1918. IN describing the poll
ticnl tenets of the Republican party. OF
which Jefferson became the leader, he
said: They declared themselves
firm advocates of n government Of the
people, by the people con-
sidered man as the only title of no.
bility which ought to be admitted, and
his freedom and happiness the sole
objects of government"
We should he glad to know whether
any of our readers know of n still
carrier occurrence of tho words in
literature or orhtory. for 1T would be
interesting to trace to its earliest birth
IN human brain that thought which
Lincoln finally clothed in a form that
VIII always remain it's perfect ex-
pression.-The Youths Companion.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
BATTLE Sleep,

BATTLE Sleep.
somewhere, sun, some corner there
must be
Thou visitcst where down the strand
quietly, still, the waves go down to
sea
From the green fringes of pastoral
land.
Deep in the orchard bloom the roof
trees stand,
The brown sheep grazc along the
hay,
And through the apple boughs above
the sand
The bees hum sounds no fainter than
the spray.
There through nncountcd hours de-
clines the day
To the low arch of twilieht's close,
And. just as night about tho moon
grows gray,
Ono sail leans westward to tho fad
ing rose.
Giver of dreams, o thou with seattle
less wing
Forever moving through the fiery
hail
To flame scared lids the cooling vision
bring,
And lot Romo soul go seaward with
that sail. The Century.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
OES NOT WANT TO BE E,MPEROR

NEW fORP, August 26.-Profcsscr
Jeremiah w. jerks. director of the Far
Eastern Bureau, says the Chinese gov
eminent officially denies the statement
that DR.. Frank Johnson Goodnow
president Of Johns Hopkins University,
and adviser on constitutional law 10
the President of the Chinese republic
had advised Yuan Shi-Kai 10 set him
self on the throne as Emperor OF
China.
NO such advice WINS given" states
the cablcgram to Professor jerks
which gives the following official OK
plahation from the Chinese republic of
the origin of the report that China
might revert from republican Ia
Il monarchial form OF government:
In theoretical discussion as To
whether republic or a monarchy was
more suitable for China, Or. Good
now's conclusion was that, inasmuch
as the republican form OF government
had no fixed method OF determining
presidential succession, the monarchist
form OF government would for this
reason DO safer and more satisfactory
conforming, as II does, moro to the
genius of the Chinese people and TO
the historical development OF the ma
ton. But whether this was the proper
time for such change no could not
say"
The newspapers have performed n
useful service to China and TO the
world" Professor jerks said, lin
drawing attention to efforts which. II
is very evident, undoubtedly arc being
made to inject monarchial ideas into
the heads of the Chinese President and
many of tho leading men of China.
The fact that DR.. Goodnows name
Is being used 30 freely in this conncc-
ton would certainly lend color to the
belief that the supporters OF the mon
archial movement. for good reasons
or bad. would like TO have II appear
that intelligent American opinion ia
vors monarchy instead OF "A republic
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
How TO ThinI; OF Cole Hlease

C ORMER GOVERNOR COLE BLEAsE of
4 south Carolina following his announce
men' that he will again be candidate for
the Office he once held with such aignal inca
pacity, proc!aims: "On with the dance: le,
Joy be uncOnhned."
Some OF The lines following those he quoted
VIII bt more appropriate after the dance
N!caSc mas in mind. There will DO mount
Ing In hot haste" and white lips will y,bisner
The foe They come" Tor Dlcasc ,nd'
"nen he meets The foe anybody Is 4 foe n
h!ease who is not his capper there VIII be
som" sort Of burial. tn which Blcasc viii be
the corpse
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Water for Fire Fighting

ON a far smaller scale. the Fire Department
~ of Richmond is hampered in precisely
the same manner as the English were ham
pered during the first period of the war.
The department has the men. so had the
English; the men have the courage and spirit
so had the English Everything is abundant
except the one essential thing. With the
English ii munitions: with the Fire De
partment it s--water! Without q sufficient
water supply, all the costly apparatus for fire
fighting is as useless rife without a
cartridge 1t is, therefore, Of the utmost
Importance that Council act promptly on the
recommendations OF the Superintendent of
the Water Department, which have been APP
proved and forwarded by the Administrative
Board.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

acquaintance week." says: "Whiio Richmond is
getting better acquainted she should SEQ Yir-
ginia first" Well Richmond saw a good part
OF .he true bone and sinew OF Virginia during
that same better acquaintance week. ana ber
hundreds OF commercial evangelists arc seeing
Virginia every day in the wear
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
BETTER CITY MARKETS

success OF the branch market system
has STRENGTHENED this belief. and re-
ports show that the housewives Of
Washington arc so enthusiastic about
tho results attained by Mr.. Sherman
That they are largely responsible for
the demand for the six proposed new
branches.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
II rncticing.

The young son of the house had Just given
his mother account of his actions that she
found it difficult to believe.
johnny" she said, do you know what be-
comes Of little boys who tell stories?'
Sure l do. replied the unrepnntnnt culprit
They grow up and join dads club
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

The silence of President Wilson should not
be interrupted by any ono who formerly held
Mr.. Wilson'S Office. or by any one whom Mr..
Wilson once held in office. We do not want
to be more specific lest we should be misun-
dorStOC6
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
The Voice of the People


The Chicago Tribune's Attack on the South.
To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-four editorial in to-days paper, refer
ing TO the scurrilous attack the South by
the editor OF the Chicago Tribune, appre-
ciated by all your readers who believe in fair
play. In this connection, ii might be we'll
remind this slanderous editor that long be-
fore Chicago founded, and when her site
was wilderness. the South producing
statesmen In Il recent issue of Harpers Week
ly. New York, list Of six names was given
as the representative Americans OF the six,
four were southern men. The first college
planted American soil in the South,
and until the sectional prejudice of the North
had blinded it's eyes to everything good in tho
South. this section led America in almost every
department of intellectual endcavor. Until
Chicago purge her history of the Hay
market massacre. the 1roquois holocaust and
the Enstland slaughter. she ill-aTord to
draw comparisons All of these horrors were
pcrpetrated by residents of Chicago For every
last fifteen years, five have been ruthlcssly
lust for gain. In tho Iroquois and Eastland
drcn persisted because ChcaEo-enliehtcncd
progressive. sensitive righteous Chicago
loved money better than the lives of the hap
less victims. who trusted their lives Chi
cago's law enforcement. All OF this multitude
persisted uselcssly because Chicago winked al
lax enforcement of In WIS intended to safeguard
people who dared to entrust their lives in
places OF amusement. Verify "let him who liz
without guilt cast the first stone
WILLIAM C. SMITH
Danvilic. Va. August 25. 1915.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Trade Enough for Us All

I NDER the caption. "A Threat TO This
- Citys Trade the Baltimore News voices
the fear that if Richmond's ambitions arc
realized by the construction of the Yves,
Point-trbanna Railroad. this thrifty and
willy community is going TO capture a valu-
able prize 10 the injury OF Baltimore :"
Wherefore it warns the Oriolc City TO be M
ana doing 10 defend the trade that has long
been hers
IL can be hardly necessary to rcpeat tho
common-sense statement The Times. Disnatch
has made in this connection several timcs
heretofore: Richmond is not trying to take
trade, but 10 make trade. The country that
VIII be reached by the proposed railroad IS
rich and fertile. and its undcvcloped resources
are great When these resources shall have
beeh commercialized by being made rcadi'7
a'ccsS'n,e oo'h TO Richmond and to Baltimore
there viii be trade enough for us all
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

ment OF the three-platoon system. under
which the men will do eight hours Of duty.
with sixteen hours off duty. when the time
siderable item
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

The worst parasite in the South is the bigger
not chigger, as they call il in New York The
way To kill iiEger is to rub the spot where the
jisger turks with piece of fat. salt pork In
some sections 1T takes whole drove of hogs to
chase tiEger, and then il is liable to counter
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

Reno divorces Will be good in heaven"
says clergyman. but most people who get them
DO not expect to them there.--Norfolk
Ledger Dispatch.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Simple Justice.

The Pullman porter doesn't feel
Much gratitude for peoples giving
He thinks that on his car of steel
The travelling world owes him a living
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
joy CnlenShcd.

Herewith an excerpt from the society column
OF the McCreHry County. KY. Advocates: THE
new Spradlin Hotel at Whitley City was formally
opened Saturday evening election day) by
Sponsor II. NJ. Cline. who broke a table leg over
the head of Noah Strunk"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

And we are asked this: Is golf a cure for in
sanity? If n man is crazy before he goes on
the links, the disease is apt to get worse ac-
cording to the caddy. If the man gets 'swampy
IN the attic after he goes into the game, he
stands TO make the first hole, and If he gets out
the game is postponed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

Inc war between Hartford, Conn, and
bridgeport as to which has the more houses
mas broken out again. 1t Is unfair to renew
me r0hpus While the elephant trainers who
live in the latter CITY are on tho road
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

The bee is on the job three months in the year
and has a vacation the of the calendar
How doth the busy bee improve each shining
hour must have hecn written by somebody who
got stung on honeymakcr's bluff
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
For womnn's Cause.

To the Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
than the fact that there always simple
poorly-informed folk ready to be influenced
speeches ilinE the Richmond air, and few In n
any other air. except in cases where the liquor
interests and corporate interests furnish the
money. They have little to air hut store of
viliifcation and mud throwing. Let state
that if the men of New Jersey have formed an
n clean up" that prompts the Anti Surfragc
Leagues in States where beer s king Clear
ly they want women keen out of their poll
want to manage child labor. minimum wage
and ~. work p hour laws In their own sweet way
would be- better equipped to Judge of woman's
ability in affairs OF State when an opportunity
ono can he so ignorant Of the history of ones
own generations; of what influence the
autonomy of Finland secured through
woman's political genius. It Is doubtful If
braFra "vngs Of ensrd inf arne DAVIS ana
above the good works of Jane Adams. What
me tho 'front.' or nron GsSs SAID that the
of the foe. Germany early in the war ordered
her breweries to conserve their output for the
sodiery, and We know this output not
used TO wash hands in. but to keep up cour-
age As long az men are determined to kill
one another the women of the world are not
going to censure them for even taking dope"
to make it easier Tho attitude Of the large
silent majority is explained by their lack OF
thinking When women and men really begin
to think OF the bctterrnent of conditions they
upon good women and good men as a combined
power to legslatc and enforce civic righteous
ness.
man realized the growing strength of tho
Congressional Union and the effect of their
haston to write their own State amendments
enfranchising their women rather than In a
clause NJ. H.
Richmond. Va, August 25. 1915.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

When is Labor Day? asks postal ard writer
Newspaper people know if anybody knows
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

There is some virtue in nearly every crime
except hypocracy.-Hazlitt.
Of all offenses that's the worst offense
That seems to hint YOU are not worth a
thought.-Don Juan.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Chats With Virginia Editors

Thu Roanoke Times agrees most heartily with
the Washington Posts suggestion to the effect
that ii Is possible that the Russians have mis-
translated one of the bcatitudes to read, BLESSED
the pacemakers'"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
FOrCcful. AnYhnAH.

"Howler says that all his clients swear by
him.
We'll. he's nearly right, at that What the,
actually do is to swear at him."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

The Norfolk Vireinian- Pilot expresses the
opinion that "Carran2a is apparently anchored
in opposition TO any scheme for the pacifcation
of Mexico which docs not recognize him as the
only one competent to do tho pacifying.'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

English Estntcs.
Arc there any English landowners having as
much 10000 acres? AS much as 1000
what Is about the average income per acre?
1INTER PARK
Fifteen or twenty. Three four. About a
pound.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

Tho Halifax Gazette copios from The Times
Dispatch ;he Associhtcd Press story OF the
BeofK!a !ynching, and cdtorially comments as
iDIrws; we don't know how authentic that
inside story Of the Frank lynching is. but it's
certainly good Newspaper work. anyway"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27
Queries and Answers
Freehold Suffrage.

Did Virginia ever have law giving per-
son votes in proportion to the amount of land
he owned? WEST VIRGINIA.
Only In the fact that tho landholder was en-
titled TO vote in every county i'm which he
held land. Many very small tracts were held
by young men whose fathers transferred to
them on their majority land enough to enttlo
them to vote.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

What has become OF the old man who used to
do days work before he had breakfast?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

"cur idea of very present help in time of
trouble" says tho Stannton News, "is what
Russia rs not getting from her friends to the
west At this particular moment"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

The United states" says the Fredericksburg
Star. "announcca II haH choice among the
Mexican chiefs. Neither have the Mexicans
They would probably be glnd to get rid Of all
Of them"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

IN" Indianapolis News prints long lis, Of
names showing that John has been popular
since the Christian began, but we fail 10
find John Smith in the cast
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

1t is Just as we'll, if you are thinking about
the war. to remember that Russia is not all
in nor is Germany all out
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-27

protectoratc over Haiti tor ten years is
talked Of by our government. The talk ought
TO he extended that long before a decision is
maGc.