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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-23
NEW YORK CURB MARKEr.

New York. Sept. 23.-ThA offering OF
100000 shares Of American Safety
RaSor Corporation stock. which was
to have been put on the curb today.
has resulted In 4 tremendous over
subscription. Oyer t30.o0o.oo0 actual
stock has already been subscribed tor,
The American safety Rasor Corpora
tion. which II the new combination 81
tbs Gam. star and Over Ready safety
companies, - capitalized 1t $4,000. 900
divided into 500. 900 shares 1t : par
value Of us. II 10 estimated that the
earnings Of the three companies for
this year are In excess Of per cent
on the capitalization
Stock Of the corporation will be
placed on the curb during the latter
part Of the week. The corporation
win have only ono class Of stock. It
70 starting in business entirely frss
from Indebtedness.
Curb list:
1000 Aetna Explos. llk @llh.
$500 Cosdsn Oil 11k @11X.
500 Fed Oil 3A@1.
$40 Int. Petx0. 1ek 01ox.
Lee NAsz4tt on M 90
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-23

STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL
Condition of South Richmond Bank,
Incorporated, located at Richmond.
in tho county of Chesterfield, State
of Virginia at the close Of business
September IL, 1917, made to the
StatA Corporation Commission:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-23
LOST AND FOUND.

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-23
HELP WANTED-FEMALE.

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-23

TAirty-ave HatcAeA silver Laced wy
andotte cockerels At 1900 each u
taksnA 1t ones. MRA w. =. CHEM
AULE. Hnaeld. VI.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

tables; but he, heigh-ho, has the interna-
tional viewpoint! He has been to France
and back again!
1t is the furrin travel that has done more
than its share to rob US of trivial concerns
and make the soldier of the world the lord
thereof, whether in peace or war. One can
not care too much about leaky pipe if the
plumber will insist upon telling you about
the Battle Of the Argonne Forest. 1t would
be both unpatriotic and picayune to put the
claims of flooded bathroom against those
of that great American epic. Even though
the epic will be expensive literature when
1T appears upon the plumbers bill later
And one would not dare foist small talk
upon a dinner partner if he really pines to
reclte the beauties of Paris to you.
And so we plain clothes people must bear
the brunt of peace, they bore the brunt
of war. AS the Frenchwomen put on dark
clothes as foil for the horizon blue of
their heroes, we must set ourselves IN
as background for our husbands and eleva
tor and grocery men and let them gather
laurel while they may Which seems fair
enough, after all. even if it does entail q
servility to husbands that the twentieth
century never dreamed Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

fruit of small conquests and domestic
triumphs out comes the hateful khaki to
strut around the house ard assert its male
domination. Ask any woman if she'll say
the same things TO creature in splendid
and olive drab she will to the craven
wretch in housecoat and baggy trousers.
She won't, and (to make it rhyme) she
don't, and thereby comes a new woe in the
life of women the horrid remnant of a
great war. The peace table has its prob
lens of reconstruction, indeed but so has
the breakfast table, and reconstruction on
the domestic scale needs a Colonel House
at every hearthstone.
Husbands are not more culpabe for this
dominion of the uniform, however, than
are certain others. There is the new ele-
vator boy, for one, he who wears his leg
gngs and khaki trousers with bell boys
coat and hasn't been arrested yet. 1t is
those leggings, OF course, that give him that
indescribable air of patronage, but that
does not make enduring it any easier for
the abused tenants, who pay exorbitant
rents, for the privilege Of living in the
house and like to dispense the favors and
benefits themselves.
Or try to get job these days and sec
how blue serge is treated. Nothing to it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Martinique's link with Napoleon
The statue of Josephine, a native of
the island.

swizzle stick, but if he is fortunate enough
to get it in Martinique he calls it baton
lele
There are bananas and plantains of
many varieties, mangos and tamarinds,
avocados and oranges, lines and many
other fruits whose names have forgotten
At one counter in the market an old
porteuse was putting out her wares A
small boy had helped her lift the heavy
wooden tray from her head and was scurry-
ing around trying to drum up trade for
his gran'mere's fruits. Frisesi Strawber-
ries! Mountain Strawberries
went over to buy basket, but the old
dane, wrinkled and wise from years of
meeting tourists, or perhaps with memory
OF the back-breaking task Of picking the
berries way up the mountainside knew
there was more money to be gotten out of
selling them by the saucerful Taking
cracked saucer from her tray she gave it
a dextrous swipe with the dirty pad she
wore over her turban as a base for her
tray, and placed in it ten strawberries,
with the request in patois that [ pay
franc for the privilege of eating
| did not eat the frises Later. however.
| had a chance to sample the berries and
found them rather like very seedy rasp-
berries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Marfinique's
Great Figure

BY far the most interesting figure in the
history of Martinique Is that Of Pere Labat,
a Dominican father, who lived in the island
in the early part of the seventeenth century.
Methods of distlling, sugar cane raising
and even engineering projects instituted by
Pere Labat remain in Martinique to-day.
Yet all that is remembered of the stern
fighter, priest and layman, is a legend which
the Creoles use to frighten their children
into good behavior.
Slavery was introduced into Martinique
before Pere Labat's time yet it is always as
ISOLATED with him because of his cruelties
toward the negroes, whom he believed lit
orally to be climbs of Satan" And when at
night light is seen twinkling on an mac
cesslble mountainsde, it is believed to be
the lantern of Pere Labat condemned 10
wander thus as penance for his cruelties.
Slavery was abolished in 184S. Many Gre
oles, especially among the women, we're
freed voluntarily years before, yet Pere
Labat's lantern still wrinkles in Martinique.
Socially there is little distinction to-day
between the races in Martinique, and politi-
cally there is none whatever. 1t Is the color
problem, therefore, with our less liberal So
cial and political attitude, which this coun-
try will have to face if the island should be
coded to US. 1t is the same problem which
faces US in the Virgin Islands, formerly the
Danish West Indies, where class and nor
color was the dividing line under Danish
rule. In Martinique there is also the bar
rier of language, for where English is UNDER
stood and spoken in the Virgin Islands. only
the French patois is to be heard in Mar
Unique.
Judging from reports that have reached
me from st. Thomas since the American
occupation, the color problem is not being
met very happily there. That we would be
more successful with the Creoles of Mar
Unique, who enjoy far greater economic
and political freedom than did the native.
OF the Danish West Indies, is unlikely
Trade, too, is bound up more closely with
the mother country than was the case with
the Danish West Indies. The white rum
which is distilled in Martinique forms the
basis Of the fine French perfumes
Furthermore, Martinique is only one ot
tie French West Indies. Its population q
lS5,oO0 slightly exceeds that of Guadeloupe.
the second island Of Importance in the proun-
Besides Guadeloupe there are four othcr
islands belonging to France in the Wesk
indies, all closely connected with the mother
country, and in all of which the population
is 95 per cent black or colored,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Mont Pelee, the volcano that buried ST. Pierre.
The Plan to Cede Martinique, and the
Resources We Should
By Grace Phelps

room, she swayed like a brilliant bird Of
paradise.
Tall and slim, with perfect features, her
dark eyes now mischievous, now coquetting,
she paraded before US in her gayly figured
purple and yellow dress, fastened high in
front over a stiffly starched white petit
coat. On her head she wore the yellow
calendered (painted) turban-typical Of
Martinique-with one end sticking up in
front, and in her ears hung heavy hoops
of gold.
Just what she was doing there ct that
early hour not obvious unless she con-
sidered it her duty to give strangers a
favorable impression of Martinique on
their arrival. However, beauty needs no
excuse in any land, and the men of the
party were especially pleased though she
was too shy to talk to them and would not
permit herself to be snapshot.
The streets of Fort de France are mar
row and during the busy hours Of the early
morning or late afternoon are crowded.
Shops or bazaars with corrugated iron
shutters which roll up, leaving the entire
place exposed, open on the still more mar
row sidewalks The cutters run with water
which comes from stream led down from
the hills behind the town. Occasionally
a tropical "white wing" with a long hooked
pole loosens jam of cocoanut shells or
other refuse which threatens to choke back
the stream and prevent the sewage being
carried off
The bazaars rather uninteresting
being a confused tumble of goods, crockery
and implements of various sorts One
bazaar, however, is the exception. 1t is
where the squares for the turbans are sold
The Bingham, madras or silk for this pur-
pose is designed in France especially for
the colonies, and marvellous combination
Of colors and designs these squares repre-
sent In addition to their original colors
the squares are painted brilliant sulphur
yellow between the stripes or squares Be
sides making the turbans stiff when tied
the yellow seems to have some sort of
significance, similar, l gather to the
ancient use of purple as a symbol of roy
atty. At all events, it is a costly process
and the calendered turban is only worn by
the better class Of blacks and creoles.
1t is the market which is the most attrac-
tive place in the town, for here are the
mechanics, the women who, save in the
fish market, are the vendors of provisions.
There all kinds Of strange looking
tubers and roots, among which can dis
tinguish white potatoes and vans. Of the
others, one is the mabi, a bitter root from
which is made the favorite native drink,
mabiyage. A little white rum and sugar is
added to the juice The favorite drink of
the white population, however, is the
cocoyage, known in other West Indian
islands as the swizzle. This is made of an
egg, cocoanut milk, little gin and sugar,
beaten up together with stick made of
young twig with whorl of twigs at the
end which have been shortened, stripped
Of bark and the whole polished. Every
visitor to the West Indies brings home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

tan and pagan and it is difficult to tell
where the pagan leaves off and the Chris
tian begins, so closely are they interviewer.
Devout Catholics for the most part, they
worship at the numerous wayside shrines
scattered all over the island But even
the presence of holy figure in its moss
grown chapelle is not potent in their minds
against the zombis
The zombis are neither devils nor COLLINS,
but they have the characteristics of both,
and while they sleep in the day time at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

ulHlOuS sign tne OCner Qdy and
vowed aloud that he was a man
among men once more (sincc November ID
and no longer subject to the condescensons
and insults, implied and otherwise Of his
lady friends. He declared that his Norfolk
was the uniform of the future and would
slandercrs please take notice?
But with due respect to the Norfolk, he
released that announcement too soon. For
although American girls arc flirting with
the Prince Of Wales these days and Mrs
Vincent Astor has turned working girl in a
"Y" cafeteria, that we'll known and over
ridden word that begins with I'D" and
ends in "cy" is still just word. We have
with as this year the aristocracy of the
uniform, still and yet, and let nobody
think he deny it, The demon democ-
racy still has wings with which to fly, APP
parcntly, and feet with which to run, for
sooner do we catch hold Of one Of his
loose ends than TO- we have lost another.
Returned husbands, for example. We
have one. He was tractable in the old pre-
war days, like all other men, and then,
with the shadow Of danger over him and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

to inland places, are very careful not to
travel at night, for fear of the fer-de lance
These porteuses travel forty or fifty miles
day with their burdens, swinging along
erect and easily. SO accustomed are they
to heavy weights the head that when
their trays are emptied, they hasten to
fill them with stones. Horses and mules
used over the roads play out in a
very few years, but the human carriers
seem none the worse for their work
The mongoose, small weasel-like Great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

night they roam the city and country doing
evil. quaint native name for the zombis
(Which explains one of their characteris-
tics) isl Those Who Make Noises at Night
None Can Understand. The country people
are especially fearful of the combs, but
even in the towns the natives look grave
when the subject is mentioned by whites
There is tree growing on the island
whose seeds are red, with an irregular
black spot. These spots, the natives say,
are caused by the touch OF the zombis
None the less, this belief does not inter
fere with the native practice of stringing
the seeds into necklaces weaving them
into mats for the tourist
But if the interior, with its Llama over
grown forests, is impenetrable to the trav-
eller, save with guide and cutlass. the
town has one attraction which makes up
somewhat for the lost delights of the
jungle. This is the carnival or mardi gras
Big and little black or light colored for
this season in the year every native IS
white. A white wire mask, with just
touch Of pink in the cheeks, white paint
with splash of red, DISCUSSES him per-
fectly. And there is none too sick, or too
old, or too young, to join in dancing the
bamboula.
The mardi gras may be French, but the
bamboula is pure African, and the songs
sung all refer rather unpleasantly to GER
tain individuals who have incurred the
wrath of their fellow islanders. Led by
a group of devil masqueraders, the crowd
Of men, women and children surge through
the streets, swaying back and forth in time
to the beat OF the big drums, the kas and
the rattle of the smaller calebasses, or
swinging in q kind of hugging dance. At
the end of each song, the dancers take up
the refrain:
Bamboua bimbouai
Zamboula, zimboulal
Boil Lol Bo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
BY Sarah Addington

CIVILIAN friend of ours, with i'm
q possibly bad eyes, hove him pro
digious sigh the other day and
al b,4 h.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

NJ ART1NIQUE, The best known Of
"a III the French West Indies, may
" soon belong to the United
- - IL 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

haps it was the closed season for them.
The interior of the island is very noun
famous and the fer-d Glance. one of the
most poisonous snakes known, keeps ma
tves as we'll as travellers from exploring
those regions. The roads. too, are bad
so that many persons born on one side
of mountain range live and die without
seeing the natives in the valley the
other side.
The porteuses, girls who carry produce
and merchandise over the mountain roads
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

glory of a uniform Upon him, he became q
being to be feared, respected and truckled
to. Equal rights? Vanished. His rights,
that was all.
Now, however, mes back and seemingly
the old order should be established. But
here's the sticker. Returned husbands have
fatal weapon: they put on their uniforms
at any impending crisis. Just as the wife
person begins to tread the old familiar
paths of feminine tyranny and pluck the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

my man. 1t is only the doughboy who can
land one. You may have all the talent
and he none, you may have all the expo
rlence and he none; but he's been to war
and you haven't.
Your grocer picks out the turnps with d
careless hand and far-off gaze, and though
you urge upon him that you want red ones.
or blue ones, he still forgets his post as
grocer in the light of his recent job as a
warrior. Turnips, indeed, mere penny vege-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

ure, is practically the only wild animal on
the island. 1t introduced, as in ell
West Indian islands, TO destroy the rats,
the carriers of the dreaded bubonic plague
of the tropics. There is a curious crab
found on the east coast, with claw
larger than the other, which he carries
folded up close to his body. The natives,
who lilened him to g Catholic penitent
striking his breast and crying mea culpa!
mea culpal have nicknamed him crabe-
c'est-ma-faute (crab-it-is-my-f FAULTY
The natives are an odd mixture of Chris
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

% We left the disappointed Vi canoti6
'sn'nd and we're soon or the dock. LAT
.ao'' hearn himself could not have picked
Da' more beautiful type Of Creole than
-" siFi par"ding up and down there.
sx@ipst background Of her darker sisters.
g"o hnmbiy stepped aside with their bag~
-s's Vi tourist lrinkets TO give her more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
A Lizard
AS an Enfree

A favorite dish in Martinique is made
of the iguana, huge lizard. 1t is said to
taste like chicken. | cannot testify to this
fact, for like the monkeys which | was
promised in pie in st. Kits, the iguanas
seemed very shy during my stay. Or per-
Bonners Ferry herald., 1919-10-14
WILL ORDER NEW SIDEWALKS
VIII Be OF Concrete In Park Addition
and New Walk On Mahoney Hill

Very little business of general in
terest was transacted at the meeting
of the city council held Tuesday even
ing of last week. The usual grist of
bills was allowed and City Attorney o.
c. Wilson was instructed to prepare
a general ordinance providing for the
construction of sidewalks up Highland
avenue and in Park addition. On
Highland avenue the ordinance will
provide for board walk but else
where in the district the walks will be
constructed of concrete except in a
place or two where fills will be nee
essary. 1t is the intention of the
city council to order the construction
of the new sidewalks cas soon as pos
sible, believing that board walks TO
the top of the Mahoney hill should be
built this fall.
Charles O'Callaghan, the chairman
of the sewer committee, reported that
the sewer system mad been given a
thorough inspection and that all re-
pairs had been made where necessarv
and that the sewer was now in good
working condition.
Bonners Ferry herald., 1919-10-14
Music Teacher Mar Come Here

o. Freels, of Spokane, was in the
city several days the past week to
determine whether or not it would be
possible for him to organize a music
class large enough to pay him to come
here regularly When he left for his
home Sunday he had secured class
of some 30 pupils but had not def
nitely decided to come here regularly.
Prof Freels is pupil of Louis Des-
Voignes, of Spokane, who is reputed
to be one of the best music teachers OF
the Pacific coast states. Prof. Freels
is an experienced teacher and comes
very highly recommended and in fact
was persuaded to visit this district
by Miss Lolita Clio Wallis, who has ha6
large music class in Bonners Ferr,
for a number of years.
Bonners Ferry herald., 1919-10-14

Kent's hall was we'll crowded all
day Saturday with grown-ups and boys
and girls who came to see what the
members of the county clubs had
grown and raised the past season and
who had been awarded the prizes.
The greatest amount of interest CEN
tered in the display of rabbits and
there were on exhibit rabbits of all
sizes and colors and breeds. The
exhibit of the Johnson boys from the
Rockview Farm hutch was very at
tractive and the owners of the exhibit
received a great deal of praise.
Owing to the lateness of the seas
on the garden display was not up to
expectations but the products shown
were of very good quality.
The canning demonstration held in
the afternoon proved to be of great in
forest as was also the display of
canned goods that club members had
put up. Many persons were surprised
to see the amount of fruit and vege-
tables put up in tin cans and to see
the method by which it was done.
A great deal of interest was shown in
the canning club equipment.
There was good display in every
class and the club members present
have all decided that they will try tc
do even better the coming season.
Following is list of the prize win
ners:
! CLASS ONE-GARDEN PRODUCTS.
Lot One-Best garden display: 1st
Phyllis Bowman; End, Mary Johnson
3rd, James Burke.
Lot Two-Best plate of tomatoes
1st, Phyllis Bowman.
Lot Three-Best six onions: Is
Phyllis Bowman; 2nd, Mary Johnson
Lot Four-Best six table carrots
1st, Melvin Johnson; 2nd, Albert Haw
ley; 3rd, Phyllis Bowman.
Bonners Ferry herald., 1919-10-14

How did Samuel Gompers get
hooked up with William H. Foster and
why? Foster is the secretary-treas-
urer of the national committee for or
ganizing iron and steel workers, and
is the directing genius of the steel
strike. He is a blood-minded revo-
lutionist and as late as 1911 he was
an /. w. w. and syndicalist- His al
filiation with the l. w. w. at that time
was admitted by Mr.. Gompers, testl-
fviug before the committee investi-
eating the steel strike, but Gompers
claimed that Foster had reformed.
According to a statement from Chi
cago. carried in the Christian Science
Monitor. 'in letter published in Soli-
darity, the official organ of the |. w.
w. on November 4, 1911, William H.
Foster urged the /. w. w. to work
within the American Federation OF
Labor to make it a revolutionary or
ganization." Foster is reported to
have said:
az am satisfied from my observation
that the only way for the l. w. w. TO
have the workers adopt and practice
tbe principles of revolutionary union
ism-which / take is its MISSIONS
TO give up the attempt to create new
labor movement, turn itself into a
propaganda league, get into the organ
| lied labor movement, and by building
up better fighting machines within the
old unions than those possessed by our
reactionary enemies, revolutionze
those unions, even as our French syn
dicalist fellow workers have so sue
cessfully done with theirs
In a pamphlet called "Syndicalism'
Foster and Earl c. Ford advocate
I"putting the machinery on strike by
disabling it, cutting railroad wires
putting cement in switches, runnint
locomotives into turn-table pits, put
ting emery dust in machinery bear
ings, or hiding, stealing or destroying
some indispensable part, and they cit
the example of the French syndical
lists who look upon strike-breakers
$50 much vermin to be ruthlessly ex
: terminated-They literally hunt scab
, as they would wild animals. Thi
| war on scabs is popularity known a
the "fox chase"
His first big job was the organiza
tion of the stock yard and packin
! house laborers in Chicago and kansa
, CITY. and his energies and capabilitie
' were such as to commend him to M
5 Gompers and other leaders, who, ate
conference in Chicago, somethin