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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
DECISION AS TO BONDS
Insurance Companies Limited to United
States, State, City or County
Securities,

Two opinions on insurance matters
were handed down yesterday from the
office of Attorney-General John Gar
land Pollard. In one opinion it was
held that. under the Virginia law, town
bonds cannot be accepted by the State
Treasurer from insurance companies as
security for the protection Of policy
holders. United States, State, city or
county bonds however. may be accept
ed. 1t was also held that foreign fra
ternal beneficial societies are not re-
CURED to pay a fee of $3.50 required
of insurance companies for service in
cases brought against them through
the State Insurance Commissioners
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
MANDAMUS DISMISSED
Judge Wells Drops Petition OF Dis
charged School Tcnchcr Against
DIR. Chandler.

The case OF X. y. Thomas. the school
teacher who was dismissed several
months ago by the City School Board
was terminated as far as the Hastings
Court. Part H.. is concerned yesterday.
when the mandamus proceedings were
dismissed from that court. The rea-
son given for the dismissal of the pc
lltioh is that since II was entered in
the court. DR.. j. \. C. Chandler, SUI
perintendent OF the Richmond Schools.
mas decided the issue by affirming the
decision OF The school board
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03

Lula stiff. colorcd. was held for tho
grand jury on a charge Of breaking
into the store of II. Rohm. 3ll North
Second street. and stealing So worth
OF liquor and 5000 worth OF leather
when she was arraiGned In Police
Court yesterday
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Assigned tn stnH Dutx.

Captain Stuart C. Leake. formerly
commercial agent Of the Richmond,
and Potomac Rail-
voad Company, who was recently COM
missioncd captain In the Quartermas-
tcr-GcncraIs Department, United
states Army. has been assigned to the
STAFF of Colonel r. w. Littell. in charge
OF cantonmcnt construction, with Offices
in WASHINGTON. Captain Lcake is now
in Ohio on confidential business for the
government
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Paint Old Free Rrldre.

The Administrative Board yester-
day adopted a resolution asking the
City Council TO make an appropria-
ton to defray the cost of painting the
iron work on the Ninth Street Bridge.
The resolution was adopted at the re-
quest Of the City Engineer. who re-
ported that paint was badly needed to
preserve the iron from rust.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03

Waited for Them to Come and Get Him,
Matthew CoruclI. an alleged Stacker,
was held for the United States grand
jury by Commissioner Flegenheiner
yesterday. He Is thirty years old. col
ored. and lives at West Point He told
the commissioner he didn't register be-
cause he was waiting for them to
come and get me and they didn't
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03

X Five heat prostrations were reported
yesterday at the Virginia Hospital all
of the victims being colorcd women
The women were Alma Duncan. 9l2
Brook avenue. Jennie Edwards, 2ll
West Duval street; Charlotte Lewis.
109 Jefferson street, Beatrice Smith
120l St Johns Street, Martha billiard
500 West Moore street
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03

a bicycle stolen from Bicycle Police
man Strain while he was serving papers
at Twenty-hrSt and Ncnabie Streets
was recovered yesterday. when Dctec-
tives Bertucci and Duffy found it in d
clump of bushes in Paramount. Bicycles
are disappearing al an average of one
day, the no!lCe said Yesterday.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Lucbbcrt Arrcstcd.

Z. II Lucbbcrt, a Salesman. was ar
restcd yesterday by Patrolmen Sweet
ana Akcrs. of Second Station. and
charged with contributing to the de-
ihquehcy OF Flossic Campbell, a minor
under the age OF is. lie gave bail for
MS appearance In the Juvenile and Do
nestle Relations Court.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
RcQuInLtiOn Inxued.

Governor Stuart yesterday issued a
requisition on the Governor of West
Virginia for William c. Anderson.
wanted here for failing to support his
wife and infant child. L. c. Tanner
was sent to Charleston, where An
derson is being held in Jail.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
CHARGED With Theft

n. G. Bennett. "A laborcr. is under ar
rest at Second Station on a charge Of
the theh OF sS3 in cash from the Rich
mond Ice Company Patrolmen Thur
man and Atkinson made the arrest
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
RepOFth Robbery. =

r. IL Harris reported to the police
that burglar entered the second story
of his home by means Of ladder and
open window at Z South Eighteenth
Street. last night. aud stole lead pipe
worth 50.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Charged with Housebreak,ne.

Aaron Gibson was arrested last night
by patrolmen from First Station on
charge of breaking into n store at 1920
Cary Street and stealing pair of
shoes valued at S.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
ENCOURAGING Larceny.

virginia Brown. colorcd. a domestic.
Is under arrest at Second Station.
charged with encouraging Helena
Price. colored. minor. in the commit
ting OF larceny. Patrolmen Thomas
and Marcuson made the arrest.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Bathing Suits

Come quick and get yours
at this low price. All-Wool
Suits in one piece, skirted
style; heather colors; gray
or navy with contrasting
stripes on shirt and pants;
formerly $500 and $3.50
suit; now $3.50.
First Floor, East.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Washable Ties

A large assortment of Mer-
ceriZed Basket Cloth and
Novelty Madras Ties; were
soc; now Soc, or 3 for S1.OO.
Fiber and Madras Wash
Ties; also some Embroid-
cred Piques; were csc and
35c; now 17c, or 3 for soc.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
Summoned for s,..,,,r

w. II. Taylor 800 Taylor street. was
cited yesterday to appear in Police
Court to-day 10 answer q charge Of
auto speeding. He WAS reported by
Sergeant Samuels and Patrolman Holt
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-03
rosperity Bulletin
No. III

"a man who posncsscs the great
est power In this world to-day, a
mnn upon whom the Happiness and
destiny of the entire world depends,
the mnn who Is going to say
whether democracy shall continue
or nutocracy take its plnce, nc
quired his tremendous md stupen-
dous power through the medium OF
advertising, commonly known M
the Presidents Mesaage.'"
FESTUS }. WADE,
Pres. of the Mercantile Trust Co.
st. Louis.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
Learn the Facts for Your
Own Profit.

1t will profit directly every man
and woman to learn the facts about
lumber--its cost, its adaptability
and its intelligent use. The Forest
Ser vice report has spoken the last
word and we invite your critical
examination of the facts and figures
asi set out in the center of this page.
It has remained for the National
Government to prove to you the ut
ter untruth and insinuations Con-
corning Lumber Trust" that on
the contrary, competition has been
so keen that these products have
been marketed at a small profit,
and frequently at loss during
greater part of the time ia recent
years past. The Government did
not compel or demand of the man
ufacturers or retailers of lumber
that they furnish information for
the Forest Service report herein
quoted. On the contrary, they re-
quested it, and the Government
officials were overwhelmed with Of
fers of the lumbermen to furnish
information. The lumbermen we're
more than gratified that the Gov.
eminent intended to publish the
facts about the Lumber industry.
A volume has been compiled, and
some of the essential facts are set
out in the center of. this page. We
ask of you your candid judgment.
You have been led to believe that
every time you went to local lum-
Der yard you paid an exorbitant
price. Do you believe it is posi-
BILE to assemble lumber, in your
community from the South, North
and West and distribute it to the
consumer, from fence picket to
house or barn bill, at lower cost
to do business, or at less profit ?
We believe the consumer never OBJ
jects to paying fair and reason
able profit on what he buys when
he knows it. You now have the
unbiased facts and statement of
the Federal Government, and it is
here with submitted to you with
the belief that it will be accepted
as the truth, which it is,
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
Why Houses Cost r1ore

a recent comparison made be-
tween the present cost of modern
home and the cost of that same
home had it been erected without
modern Improvements and conven.
fences, shows the following result
The present cost of this modern
seven room house, with all con-
veniences installed, was $3,45o 90.
The deductions for full excavated
basement, with concrete floor, hot
water heat, sewers, gas, water and
electric light connections and fix
lures, closets, ETC., etc, were
$4,000 of this cost, which shows
that in order to install these mod
ern improvements 81 per cent was
added to the first cost of this
house, and that "A per cent of the
total cost of this modern house
was in imprc vements and conven
fences, very little of which was due
to the use of lumber.
1t is not question of the high
cost of building, but the cost of
high building. This does not re
fer to sky scrapers, but is due to
the greater buying ability of the
public, and a demand for better
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

living conditions made possible by
modern Improvements, about most
of which our fathers knew nothing.
When your father built the house
in which you were born he not
only did not include these consid-
cred necessities. he absolutely knew
nothing about them. Instead of
adding these to the cost, and max
ing them part of the house, he
went to the hardware and furni-
ture stores and bought his heating
plant in the form of stoves his light
ing plant in the form of coal oil
lamp, and his closet and pantries
in the shape of wardrobes and
kitchen cabinets. There was a
time when most people slept in the
house and had the bath room in
the shape of tub in the kitchen,
and the children fought for the
first chance at the hot water. The
toilets were in the back yard. We
have now reversed this order. We
have the toilets in the house and
sleep out of doors.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
Your Opportunity

All the consumers of lumber in
the Missouri and Mississippi Val.
legs have a greater choice of build
ing woods than in any other Sec
tion of our country. They also en-
JOY greater competitive conditions
among these several woods, and a
difference of two to five cents in
the freight rate often determines
the species of wood used or sold.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
How Lumber is DiStrib-
uted.

Remember 80 per cent of all the
lumber sold in the average COM
munity is sold in wagon loads or
less, not in CARROTS. 1t is possible
for a lumber yard to do fair
amount of business and not sell as
much as a carload to any one con-
sumer in whole year. If it were
possible for all consumers of lum-
Der (Which it is not to buy it in
straight CARROTS it would cost less
per thousand feet to sell it. AS a
matter of fact, not 10 per cent of
helumber consumed in the average
community can be sold in CARROTS,
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

and no mill-ether North, South or West-can
fill an order for the average house even if car
load is required, for the reason that the average
home today contains from two to six or eight
species of wood all growing in and manufac-
Lumber must come direct from the manufacturer
to the nearest point of consumption to be eco.
nomicaly distributed The retailer assemblies
it in his yard in CARROTS and distributes it to.
his customers. He can buy in CARROTS as cheap
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

as the cheapest. He buys it direct from the
manufacturer. He only pays one freight and
one profit (your information to thescontrary not
withstanding) and that to the manufacturer
Lumber is heavy. bulky and comparatively
cheap product
Freight adds largely to the cost for even a
short haul. You cannot ship it twice any more
than you can ship coal twice and distribute it
economically.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

Don't be deceived by state
ments to the effect that you pay
four or five profits when you
buy lumber from retailers,
Most large mills have their
own selling force and sell
their lumber to the retailer d.
rect. Many smaller mills
which cannot maintain their
own selling force sell their en-
tire output to the wholesaler,
who sells it to the retailer in
competition with the large
manufacturer who sells his
own lumber through his our
Office. The large manufactur-
er and the wholesaler are &C.
tive competitors for the retail
trade. Low price and good
quality always get the bust.
ness.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
Freight the largest single item Of cost
In the distribution of Lumber

of
rising
imported the increasing lumber
lumber
b
atof
the lumber low
the higher grades"
lumber Middle West which
eaten in ranspo sandso outs trkingly
will
8 the
and the universal building
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

A consumer in north Mis-
souri, recently paid $1,000
freight on a single carload of
lumber shipped from Bay
City, Michigan. This was
money thrown away because
he refused to give his home
dealer an opportunity to save
it for him.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

The small town enjoys the
same freight rates as the large
city, and is, therefore, at no
disadvantage in buying on
account of a higher freight
rate, or on account of the
quality purchased. The car
load is the economic unit in
the purchase of lumber always,
and the country dealer can
buy a carload, or two carloads
or five carloads as low as the
large or city buyers.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
To get lumber from the

To get lumber from the
manufacturer to the consumer
at the lowest cost. it should
come with but one freight
paid. Manufacturers being
unable to furnish all kinds of
wood used in the average
building. the local retailer is
the only agency thru which
this service can be rendered to
the consumer. This retailer
is, therefore, in position to
render a service possessed by
no other agency. He is al
ways in position to furnish
what the consumer is unable
to obtain in mixed shipments.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08
Are You q Home Owner?

If you are farm or home owner,
or ever expect to become one; if
you have ever bought any lumber
or ever expect to buy any, you GER
tainly should be interested in the
contents of this page.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-03-08

NS per cent of the lum-
20 Der consumed in the
building Of new homes and
barns, and in repairs, and for
general purposes, is sold
through the retail lumbermen.
The purpose of this advertise.
ment is to show that lumber
is not sold by the retailer at
an exorbitant price, and we
offer the Government Forest
Servicereport herewith quoted
to prove the statement. Up.
on the broad conclusions of
the report herein quoted the
Federal Trade Commission is
also in agreement.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13
Six Cities One Should See.

There are at least six cities on this
continent which everyone should see,
says Julian Street in Golfers. Every
one should see New York because it is
the largest city in the world, and be-
cause it combines the magnificence,
the wonder the beauty, the sordidness
and the shame of great metropolis;
everyone should see San Francisco
because it is so vivid, so alive, so gold
en-; everyone should see Washington,
the clean, white splendor of which is
like the embodiment of a national
dream; everyone should see the old
gray granite city of Quebec piled on its
hill above the river like some forti-
fed town in France; everyone should
see the sweet and aristocratic city Of
Charleston, which suggests museum
of tradition and early American ele-
gance, and of course everyone should
see New Orleans.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13

realizing that he was jealous-yes,
madly, unreasonably jealous.
Sol His divinity was not as unap-
proachabIe as he had imagined. Doubt
less LongoriO was mad over her, which
explained the fellows willingness to
help her exact reparation from his gov
eminent. Fine doings for a respect
able married woman! 1t was wrong,
scandalous, detestablei
Had Dave only known the truth, he
would have gained grim comfort
from it, for Alaire Austin was not en-
joying herself that evening. Her call
er stayed on Unfortunately, and she be-
came FESTIVE under the flow of his con-
versatiOn. For some reason or other,
Longorio was not the romantic figure
he had been; In his citizens clothes
he was only dandified Mexican gal
liant like any number of others. The
color was gone from the picture; this
quixotic guerrilla hero, this elegant
Ruy Bias, was nothing more than a
tall, olive-skinned foreigner, whose >ar-
dor was distasteful. Longorio was
tiresome.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13
Rats and Fires.

At a time when everyone is COM
planning of the high cost of living it
might be well to see if we cannot elm
mate two great sources of ,waste-fires
and rats.
Most fires are needless. All rats
are so. Some years ago a study of the
rat problem in Philadelphia arrived at
the conclusion that the rodents of that
city ate more than million dollars
worth of food each year. AT that rate.
the disgusting creatures can hardly
cost less than $lO0,OOOO00 per year
to the whole country. This is pref
ty high price to pay for the compan-
ionship of impish pests which, besides
their other bad habits, undermine
floors and carry the most dreaded OF
all diseases, bubonic plague.
Yet fires are more expensive than
rats. In 1915-the last year for which
figures are at hand-the American
people paid out in premiums for fire
insurance $419,361, 346 OF this vast
sum at least three-fourths could be
saved by reducing our fire record to
the rate prevailing in England, France
or Germany: and even in our time and
nation S300,000,000 per year is saw
ing worth noting, and zone which
would have a perceptible effect on the
cost of living.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13
The Future of the Classics.

The languages and literatures OF
Greece and Rome will always remain
attractive fields for students whose
tastes and natural capacities are chief
ly literary, and especially for men of
letters, authors, and professional stu
dents of language; but it is' certain
that they are soon to cease to make a
and higher education, writes Charles
W. Eliot in the Atlantic. There are
too many histories, too many new
sciences with applications of great i'm
portance, and too many new litera-
lures of high merit which have va
riety of modern uses, to permit any
one, not bound TO the classics by af-
fectiOnate associations and education
al tradition, to believe that Latin can
maintain the place it has held for
centuries in the youthful training of
educated men, q place which it ac-
quired when it was the common
speech of scholars, and has held for
centuries without any such good rea-
son. For this loss of status by Latin
genuine classical scholars will natur-
ally console themselves with the re-
Election that it has never been possible
to give an unwilling boy any real ac
quaintance with the Latin language
or any love of Latin literature by
compelling him to take three units"
of Latin at school and a course or
two of Latin in college.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13
The Soma Birds Moods.

All our birds use what we call their
voices. just as we use ours, for the
purposes of expression generally, and
am convinced that bird song proper,
though oftenest the expression Of some
phase Of the tender passion. is not con-
fined TO such expression. In limited
way birds have their lyric and their
dramatic moods, their serious and their
comic songs. their recitative and their
oratorical methods. Bird song has
come. it seems to me, in response TO a
growth of the natural desire for a
means of expression. Language is the
highest mode of expression, and bird
song is a beautiful and witching, but
very imperfect, language.-Exchange.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13
(TO BE CONTINUED
Syriac Language.

Syriac is one of the three groups OF
languages into which the old Aramaic
of Assyria and Babylonia was devel-
oped, the other groups being the Chal-
dale and the Nabatean-Sabean.
The Syriac is emphatically a Chris
tan literature language, the Bible was
translated into it as was a DIAL If
writing from the fourth to the tenth
century, and it, instead of Latin, is the
liturgical language of the Roman Cath
olics of Lebanon in Syria today.
The Syro-Chaldaic is variant of
the Syriac. combining features of both
the Syriac and Chaldaic groups. 1t is
found in use in Kurdistan and the Lake
Urmia districts.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-13
REALLY WENT UP SALT RIVER
Action of Defeated Office Seeker in
Kentucky Gave Rice to Saying Now
Used All Over Country.

The people of the United States have
always been prone and quick TO eaten
a happy or unhappy remark or phrase
in politics and to make the most of 1T
to the advantage of enc or the disad-
vantage of another party, observes the
Christian Science Monitor.
Some leaders are happy even in their
most casual expressions. Lincoln was
one of these. Grant was another. 1t
used TO be said that the difference be-
tween Lincoln and his greatest general
was that, while one dropped pearls of
of silence. Nevertheless, when Grant
said that he proposed TO flight it out
on this line if it takes all summer" and
when he said, 'Let us have peace" he
furnished his friends with political
campaign material of the first order.
They were sayings as simple as "With
charity toward all with malice to-
ward none" or "You can fool some of
the people some of the time, but you
can't fool all the people all the time"
and because they were simple they
were remembered.
Once. long time ago, defeated Of
fice-Seeker, in order to "get himself
together" left home as soon as he be-
came aware of the result of the polls.
A friend, inquiring for him little
later, was informed by a member of
his family that he had gone up Salt
river. Salt river was and is a modest
little stream that rises in the hill coun-
try of Kentucky, and after flowing
through a more or less picturesque dis
trict for about a score of miles, emp
ties into the Ohio. 1t was in those
days a good fishing creek, and the
kind of stream jaded and disappoint-
ed politician might naturally fancy.
There was not thing wrong about his
excursion. Yet his political enemies
got hold of the remark that he had
"gone up Salt river and used it to inn
ply that this meant the end of his pub
lie career.
The saying spread from Kentucky
into other states and for more than
half century it has been used to eX-
press the idea that a politician has
been "driven to the woods for good.
Hes gone up Salt river" has come
to mean, in fact, that politician has
'"been put out of business" has been
SO badly beaten that he cannot "come
back" "has seen his finish