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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
NEW COAL CORPORATION
FOR SOUTHWEST SECTION
Empire Anthracite Coal Cor
poration Has Maximum Cap
ilal of Sl.5OO.OOO.

Industrial life in Southwest Vtr-
ginia went step forward yesterday
when new coal company was
granted Il charter by the State Cor
poration Commission. The new con-
Germ is the Empire Anthracite Coal
Corporation. Pulaski. Va. with 4
maximum capital stock OF $500. 600
and a minimum OF $4,000. The cor
poration will mine and deal in coal
and other minerals. The officers and
incorporators arc Harry *. Furhman
president, i:imira. y. y: \. q. Mcekcr.
secretary, Ithaca. y. y; George w.
Rockwell. Households. y. y; Alex
ander c. Meeker. Ithaca. y. y. Gram
Cole, Ithaca. y. Y; Carl r. Dcuman
Ithaca, y. y; NJ. l.. Wallace. Sayre.
pa. and Ransomc r. Lewis. I:lmira
y. Y.
The Incline Lumber Company. In
"orporatcd. Maggie. Va, with capital
OF $4,000 and minimum of $4,000
was also incorporated. The officers
and iucorporators are q. W. Layman.
president. New Castle: II. II. Huff
man. secretary, Maggie. and l.. n.
Reynolds. Maggie
The Farmers National Publishing
Company. Inc, Alexandria. Va. also
received q charter. thc maximum
capital is $4,000 and minimum Sl3.-
eco. The officers and incorporators
are Jacob II. Taylor. president: Flor
cncc Rowland Taylor. secretary, 10th
OF lIyattsNille. Md, and T. u. How
land, OF Washington. The company
will do a printing. publishing and adj
vertisinE business.
To cultivate and develop orchards
and deal in orchard aud farm pro-
ducts. the Cherokee Rose Orchards,
Inc, Richmond, Va. was granted "a
charter yesterday. 1t has n maximum
capital of $4,000 and minimum OF
10000. The officers and incorpora-
tors are l.. c. Haze!grove. presidents:
John L. Flanagan, secretary, and l..
CT. Lambert, all of Richmond.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15

NJ. Lyon. j. Il. *. Bell. DIR. q. C..
Paintcr j. s. Draper. y. r. EskrldEc.
j. W. Miller. Gary I.aughon, NJ. G.
Banc. Robert Bunts. Jr. In the cleo
tion or officials by the directorate j.
w. Miller. cashier since the founding
OF the bank twenty years ago, was
elected active vice prcsidcnt. being
succeeded as cashier by Robert H.
cecil, assistant. Other officers elected
We're H. BiocksIdgc. president: Robert
Euhts. Jr.. second ice-prcsidcnt; W.
l. Dudley. assistant cashier
shareholders in the Pulaski Mutual
RufdinR and Loan Association met
Wednesday, in annual meeting d.
rcctor3 elected were Jesse y. Bosang
'ienHet Eckman. Ecal Bun,s. james
i;!mcr Bosarg. Allen =. Eskridgc. X
IL. Iiarinan. NJ. l.. Lands. Il. Laughon,
w. Miller. II. l.. Pierce. ". +.
Smith, II. II. Roberts. Thomas j.
Nalincr. II. T.. Groscc,oae and W. g.
LauGhon. TIE directors elected Neal
Eunts. president. Thomas J. wallncr.
Wee president; II. Laughon, sccrc-
tary-trchsurcr: q. @. Painter. Jr. as.
sistnnt secretary.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
SECRETARY WALLACE
ANNOUNCED NEW NAMES
National Agricultural Confer
cncc January % Attracts
Big Men Of Country.
tBy Associated pross1

WASHINGTON. Jan. i4.-Thc num-
Der Of delegates who have accep; cd
Invitations IL the national ngricultu-
raj conference. which meets In Wash
ington January %. WAS brought TO
243 today when Secretary Wallace
made public an additional, list of
nincty-ccur names.
Aaron Sapiro. of San Francisco, at
torncy for n cooperative association;
Robert McDougall. Chicago. president
Chicago Board Of Trade: Everett q.
Brown, OF Chicago. president OF the
national live stock exchange: J. Og-
den Armour. Chicago. and Louis T..
Swift. Chicago, meat packers. and
Edward :. Butler. president OF the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange. were
Frank Hagcnbarth, OF Salt Lake
City; John McSparran, Of Furniss,
Ia. master OF the Pennsylvania
State grange: +. Il. Wells, OF Min
ncapol!s. grain dealer; Clifford
Thornc. Chicago. attorney for Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation; &. II.
Merriam. Topeka, Kan. prcsiden,
Farm Mortgage Bankers AssocIa-
ton: Harry y. Pharr. Oliver, La
president American Cane Growers
Associations: Thomas +. Riggs. For,
wayne. Ind. president American
Poultry Association. and clyde l..
King, economist. of Philadelphia,
were other weli-known names on the
list.
The names OF delegates made pub.
lie by Secretary Wallace today in
clude:
y. c. Davis, Gravette, ARK. secrc-
tary National Farmers Union; j. y
Harper. Atlanta. soil improvement,
committee of American Fertilizer As
ISOLATION: q. l.. Mckay. Chicago. sec
Rotary American Association Cream
cry and Butter Manufacturers
Wayne Dismorc. Chicago. secretary
American Horse Association; j. 4
Simpson. saltwater. Okla. president
Oklahoma Farmers Unio,: w. NJ,
Riggs. president Clemson College. S.
G.: Clarence Ousley. Fort Worth,
Texas. former Assistant Secretary OF
'"ricultUre: Joseph Hirsch, Corpus
= isti, Texas. chairman Agricultural
association American Bankers Asso-
ciation: J. G. Orr, Dallas. Texas. pres
ident Texas Farm Bureau: w j.
story, CORTLAND. Va, Peanut Grow
ers' Exchanges; Bird NJ. Robinson.
Washington. president American
Short Line Railroad Association
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Peoples National Bank.

LEESBUltG. VA. Jan. l4.-At the
annual meeting OF the stockholders
OF the Peoples National Bank of
Leesburg. which was held at the bank
here. the following directors were
reelected: NJ. II. Arnold. IS. q.
Fletcher. w. :. Francis. W. H. Fra
zier, ;. X. Fred. II. c. Gibson. Thomas
Is. G!ascock, Robert y. Harper. John
G.. Hopkins. w. S. Jenkins. Bruce Nc
Intosh. l.. l.. Moore, ". o. Russell. j.
j.. Ryan. +. T.. Ross, +. f. Saunders,
l.. NJ. Shumatc. O. ]. Thomas, w. u.
Thompson, Robert Il. Walker, T.. D.
White and l.. w. Workman The
new directors elected are w. ). Fran
els. ;. +. mggott and j. S. Whitmore
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Local Bank Clcarings
Increase S3.l33.3l4

Bank clcarinrs last week In
Richmond ;otaled Si3.ii9.IaJ. AN
Increase of '3.i3S.sli over tho pre-
v!ous week. when the total was
$io.@lC.3Sl. ANA Il decrease OF
S'.O@c,"o: for the corresponding
Week in January. 1891, when the
total was s5c,i70.l5i.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
PULASKI INSTITUTIONS
ELECT THEIR OFFICERS

Especial to Che Timcs-D ispatch.l
PULASKI. VA. Jan. 1.-THE stock
holders OF the Pulaski National Bank.
in annual meeting Tuesday, elected
the following directors: *. T.. liar
man. 3. p. Miller. II. l. Trolltnger.
D. C. Sloan, l.. w. Calfee. NJ. l..
lands. O. G. Brewer, q. G. Hall. Il.
c. Boothc. w. b. Wyatt, ]. f. Wysor,
i. IT. Gardner, Percival Johnson, Q. Z.
Jordan, Sr, w. j.. Flanagan, y. G.
Hurst. The directors organized by
eiecting the following officers: *. T..
Iarman, president: .. T.. Jordan, ST..
vice president; Il. G. Otcy. cashier:
@. r. Jordan, Jr.. assistant cashier:
w. r. Rorrer, teller ~ dividend of
10 per cent was declared.
The Peoples National Bank share
holders. In annual session on the
same day. elected as directors -.
Blocksidge. 4. B. Hunt, II. w. Stegcr.
Jesse y. Bosang, j. c. Laughon, L. c.
Alassic. j. II. Glenn, r. r. Moore. S.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Hold Interstate Fair Sept. 1920.

LYNCHBCRG. VA, Jan. l4.-Sep-
TENDER 26-29 have been flxed as the
dates for the next Interstate Fair
here. and the following officers have
been elected for the year: r. c. Rob
ertson. president: William King. vice
president, and +. A. Lovclock. secre-
tary-treasurcr. The executive COM
m!ttee Will be composed OF tho Off
Gers and d. g. Frost. Dan L. Taylor,
W W. Manley. Joseph p. McCarron.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
BRITISH RAIL WAYHEAD
HASINTERCHANGElDFA
L. v RUSSELL Operating Superintendent of the Great
Eastern Railway, Says Engishmen Can Give
Americans Tips on Passenger Traffic

LONDON. Jan. li.-IntcrchanEc q
railway operating employees between
England and the United States was
usSested today by +. V. Russell. OPP
cra''hS superintendent Of the Great
Eastern Railway. Of which Sir Horny
Thornton. Il philadcIphian, and for
her American railway man. is head.
Mr.. russell. who is just back from a
-o'ooO-milc trip of inspection through
Canada and the United States, thinks
mat Englishmcn could learn much in
freight handling. but that the United
states could get a few tips on pasScn-
ser traffic from this side.
Have Much to Learn.
The United States has trc-
mcndous number of things connect ed
with its railways from which we
could learn "A great deal" Russell
said. Generally speaking. we have
much 10 learn from America in
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
STONEWALL COURT
LOTS ARE ACTIVE
Twenty or More Deeds Have Been
Recorded in Pnat Thirty Days
for Suburban Properties.

During the last thirty days. twenty
or more deeds have been put on rec
ord for lots In Stonewall Court. ac-
cording TO Robert J.. Saville. presi-
dent of the Modern Housing Corpora
ton, who reports great deal o.
home building in progress in that
section.
Stonewall Court is named after the
illustrious Southern General. 1t is
estimated that II the building con-
structcd in that section had been
listed in the Richmond building re-
port, the total would have been In
creased by moro than $4,000.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Add Six to Directorate.

CHRISTIANSDURG, VA. Jan. Ia
Az the annual meeting OF the stock
holders OF the First National Bank
0: ChTistiansourg held Tuesday, all
the OLD officers and directors were
reelected. as we'll as six new d.
rectors. the new members being "
NJ Sowder. c. S. Graphical, NJ. w.
Zirkle, r. L. Smith. Richard Shell
ton and Floyd S. Childress. making
the membership fifteen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
PRICE. SEVEN CENTS

'reiEht handling. but in many phases
OF the passenger traffic VIC can xlvs
nor start. l do not mean that only
nigh officials should consult together
but that all grades from top to bot
TOM should have opportunities to SEQ
what is being done
Copyright, 1922, Public Ledger Coz
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Put A. &. l.. Men Rack on Job.

WAYCROSS. GA. Jan. 1.-two
hundred and nifty OF tho GOO men laid
off by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road several weeks ago. will he re-
instated Monday morning. according
TO an announcement by j. l.. Brog-
den, superintendent of motive power
for the WaycroSs district, today.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
THE NEW "coLsEuN,' LoN1BARDY AND BROAD STREETS

1000 skaters can he accommodated
at the same time.
Construction o: The building makes
It possible for Richmond to handle
conventions. exhibitions and similar
gatherings. The structure is 253
feet long. i2c fee; wide aud contains
$1,000 square feet y spacious gal
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15

lery circles the building Just above
the rink.
c.. G. Worsham. who will he as
sisted by Archer G.. Jones. opera ted
the old Skating rink in the Horse
Show building at the reservoir. and
has had additional experience in
running Kinks in other cities. MIR
Jones is treasurer of the corporation.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Authors Works
And Their Ways

A new Margaret Deland novel,
"The Vehement Flame" will be pub
lished early in June by Harper &
Brothers, who compare it favorably
with "The Iron Woman" and "The
Awakening Of Helena Richie" The
title is taken from the Biblical quo
tation from the Song of Solomon:
Love is as strong as death, jealousy
is cruel as the grave; the Goals
thereof are Goals of fire, which hath
a most vehement fame"
William Rose Benet, whose novel
"The First Person Singular" is re-
viewed elsewhere in this section,
comes of an army family, his grand
father having been Brig. Gen.
Stephen Vincent Benet. He was
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT
By ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE.

4 poets to Beranger's "Qu'on est
bien a vingt ans" which Thackeray
happily adapted to "the brave days
when we were twenty-one." 1t is
not matter of being in any par
ticular year. 1t implies period of
life, rather earlier than twenty or
one and twenty, when the blood of
youth runs riot through the veins.
What are the literary ardors of that
period? What are the books to be
read then or never to be read?
Two such books were TX Marvel's
"Reveries of Bachelor" and
its successor, Dream Life" The
past tense is used deliberately.
Does youth to-day American
youth, of course-read those books
and thrill over them as youth did
in the Golden Ninetias," and as
youth before that had thrilled back
to the year 1850 or 1851? Or hasit
become too sophisticated for hearth
visions, preferring the realism deal
ing with the ''flapper" and the pet
ting party?"
sTHE Life of Donald G.
L Mitchell" ELK MarveD, by
Waldo H. Dunn, has just been is
sued from the press of Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1t was
less than sixteen years ago that
Donald G. Mitchell died-in August,
190S-yet his personal recollection
went back to what we are inclined
to think of as the very roots OF
American literary history. With
his own eyes he saw almost the
whole of the development of Amer
ican literature in its greatest pc
riod. AS Mr.. Dunn points out, he
was contemporary. friend and sue
cessor of Washington Irving. He
was a member of the committee ap-
pointed to provide a permanent me-
mortal to James Fenimore Cooper,
and helped to arrange a public
meeting in the old Metropolitan
Hall, New York city, over which
Daniel Webster presided and be-
fore which William Cullen Bryant
delivered a eulogy on Cooper.
ID EFORE Oliver Wendell Holmes
ID had won fame as the Auto
crat of the Breakfast Table, Mr..
Mitchell had attained even inter-
national prominence. When he
published his first book in 1S47
Longfellow's "Hiawatha" was as
yet unthought of and Lowell's Big
low Papers" were running in the
columns of the Boston Courier.
When "Reveries of Bachelor" was
published in 1850 Nathaniel Haw-
thorne had just completed his term
of Office in the Salem Custom House
and had ready for publication
"The Scarlet Letter" During the
decade from 1887 to 1S47 Emerson
had published two volumes of es-
says and one of poems, and was
about to issue Representative
Men" Poe had risen to prominence
and was nearing the end of his un-
happy life.
A MEXICAN copyright laws were
II not what they should have
been in the last century. The ex-
listing laxity was responsible for
more than fifty unauthorized edi-
tions of Donald G. Mitchelrs books.
His authorized publishers, accord
ing to Mr.. Dunn, have sold more
than million copies of his books.
There can be little doubt that the
sales of the unauthorized editions
have far exceeded that. To the
world in general Mr.. Mitchell, or,
rather, TX Marvel, is known by the
two little volumes which first
brought him into prominence
"Reveries of Bachelor" and
Dream Life" Yet these books
represent only a small portion of
his literary work. Moreover, lit
erary work was only one side of
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

born at Fort Hamilton, New York.
He took his degree from Yale and
lived for three years in San Fran
cisco before he took up literary
work in New York. Among Mr..
Benet's books of poetry are Moons
OF Grandeur" Merchants From
Cathay," "The Great White WALL"
&c.
Walt Whitman's "Salut au
Monde" which the Neighborhood
Playhouse has been giving, is fes-
tival visualizing the people of the
world and the manifestations of the
divine message through their re-
ligious rituals with an authentic un-
derstanding of the poets magnifi-
cent word pageant. 1t is also an
other instance of the inspiration
which musicians find in Whitman's
works. The musical setting was the
work of Charles T. Critics, the
Young American composer, who died
recently. This was his last compo-
sition and his epitaph.
The voters of yermland, Selma
Lagerlof's home, have again asked
DR.. Lagerlof to become a candidate
for the Swedish Parliament. AL
though she is a suffragist Miss
Lagerlof has declined because her
entire time will be needed to COM
plete the literary work which she
has planned. She does not write
rapidly and wishes to be unhurried
iii her work. Her new novel, 1.-THE
Outcast," reviewed in this section
March IL, was several years in
preparation. Writing and the man.
aging of her estate, DR.. Lagerlof
feels, would leave very little
time for political work. There are
now several women members of the
Riksdag, but Miss Lagerlof does not
attribute their election entirely to
the feminist agitation in Sweden.
Marjorie L. c. Pickthall died at
Vancouver April Z in the General
Hospital, after an operation from
which she had seemed to be con-
valescent. Miss Pickthall was the
author of two books of poetry, a
poetic drama and two novels, the
latest, "The Bridge" published by
the Century Company. This story
is based upon the refusal of an en-
gineer who has scamped the safety
margin of bridge with disastrous
results to accept moral response
bility.
The Century Company announces
for publication May 26 the follow
ing: "The Great Secret" by Maur-
ice Maeterlinck; "The Laurentians:
The Hills of the Habitant," by T.
Morris Longstreth; Our Railroads
Tomorrow" by Edward Hunger
ford; THE Love Story of Aliette
Brunton," by Gilbert Frankau:
Pilots and Personalities" by Edwin
e. Slosson an June E. Downey:
The Building Of an Army" by John
Dickinson; AT the Moment of
Death" by Camille Flammarion:
The Complete Radio Book" by
Raymond Francis Yates and L. G.
Pacent, and Food Products From
Affair."" by E. H. S. Bailey and H. s.
Bailey.
H., the new play by Lord Dun
sany, which Putnams have inst pub.
hshed in book form, will be pro.
duced on the New York stage this
autumn under the management of
Brock Pemberton. The plav al.
ready has had run in London.
The Mark Twain burglars"
story of his own life is volume
entitled ain fba (,I,,xel -.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

middle OF the last century Ameri-
can readers took their favorite au-
thors more personally than they
do in this swiftly moving age
"Reveries of a Bachelor" and
Dream Life" were just the kind
of books to provoke letters to the
author. Nor was Donald G.
MitchelPs espondence limited
to writer's of his own land. Not
only from far distant States and
Territories of the Union but from
the isles of the ocean," from Nor
way and Sweden, from France and
Italy and Germany the mails
brought to Tx Marvel striking testi-
mony that he had touched the
common heart of humanity.
N the Second Reverie" there is
l. allusion to the authors packet
of letters That packet of letters"
grew and kept growing till the end
of Donald g. Mitchell's life. In his
youth and long after there was
humorous aspect to much of this
correspondence. To quote Mr..
Dunn: "Languishing Adas, and
Claras, and Carries, and Jennies,
and Dorothys, and Mary 'darlings'
showered him with valentines.
Other and more ardent maidens
wrote to inquire whether the au-
thor really was a bachelor; and,
with the assurance that their
hearts alone could understand and
comfort that of TX Marvel, coyly
offered themselves in marriage.
Much verse was dedicated to him.
Young people wrote for advice and
sympathy in their own love affairs.
The old wrote to testify that age
and experience confirmed the words
of his pen. One young French mu-
sician dedicated a polka to TX
Marvel"
ONE of the prettiest of all the
" love stories of literary men
is that of Washington Irving. Ma
tilda Hoffman died, and Irving re-
mained bachelor to the end of his
days, content in his later years to
make a home at Sunnyside for his
many and somewhat exacting
nieces. In the love story of Donald
G. Mitchell Washington played the
part of kind of chaperon.
Mitchell, at 80 years OF age, be-
came restless to revisit Europe.
While in New York arranging for
his passage he learned that Wash
ington Irving was at Saratoga
Springs, and he determined to
spend a few days with him before
sailing. At Saratoga the famous
young bachelor author shared the
morning walks of the more famous
old bachelor author. There he
met Mary Frances Pringle, the
daughter of a rice planter of
Charleston, S. c. Perhaps it was
her unwillingness to be impressed
by his youthful fame that first at
tracted him. Scarcely had Mary
Pringle arrived when friend
rushed to her. ok Marvel is here.
Don't you want to meet him." But
Miss Pringle was not impressed.
NO." she said, II don't want to
meet him. If he wants to meet me,
very we'll"
T literary men and literary
IL women pass before the reader
in Edmund Gosse's ASPECTS and
Impressions" also from the Serb
'ner press. In his first chapter
Mr.. Gosse recalls strange pair
in a victoria he often met in the
course of his walks from the north
west of London toward Whitehall
in and after 1876. The man, prema-
turely aging, was hirsute, rug
ged, satyrlike. That was George
Henry Lewis. The woman, "a large,
thickset sybil, whose massive fea-
lures, dreamy and immobile, some
what grim when seen in profile,
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

|
there for the rest of his life-thirty-
eight years-but presently PAUL.
went elsewhere. He refused to let
Butler know his address, yet con-
tinually sponged upon him. He
said that he could get no help from
his own parents and that Butler
stood between him and starvation.
For three years he made no attempt
to work. Called to the Bar in 1867,
he lunched with Butler three times
week, but always said that he was
earning nothing.
THIRTY years later, in 1897, after
L having shared his poverty with
this strange friend for thirty-three
years, Butler read in the Times that
PAUL. was dead. Making inquiries,
he learned that for a great many
years past Pauli's income from the
law had exceeded s70O a year, and
for nearly twenty years had been
over $1,000. PAUL. left $4,000, not a
penny of it to Butler, whose parasite
he had been for the greater part of
his life, when every IS note was of
great consequence to Butler. The
PAUL. episode, thinks Mr. Gosse, is
valuable in supplying light on GER
tain defects in Buffers intellectual
composition. HE was the opposite
of those who see life steadily and
see it whole. He had no wide hori-
IONS, but he Investigated a corner
or section of subject with
burning glass which left all other
parts of the surface in darkness.
There were Paulis on his mental
vision"
HENRY JAMES from another
IL point of view is to. be seen
in A. r. Orage's Readers and
Writer'S" recently published by AL
fred A. Knopf. Mr.. Orage feels
that James was always after sens
ing ghosts. His habitat has been
said to be the interspace between
the real and the ideal; but it can
more accurately be defined as the
interspace between the dead and
the living. You see his vision-al-
most his clairvoyance-activ en-
gagged in this recovery Of his ex-
periences years before as a young
man in London. See how he rev.
eled in them, rolling them off his
tongue in long circling phrases. Is
it not obvious that he is most at
home in recollection, in the world
of memory, in the interworld. once
more, of the dead and the living?
1t is plain that memory
differs for him from present vision
only in being little more vivid,
little more real. In order to see
thing clearly, he had, in fact, to
make memory of it, and the pres
ent tense of memory is impression.
WITH all that has been written
w about Sir Conan Doyle, no
one seems to have recalled his ac-
tivities in 1907, when he applied
1
the Sherlock Holmes methods to an
English criminal case and succeed
ed in bringing about the release of
an apparently innocent man. That
was the Edjali affair, which was
widely exploited in the English
newspapers at the time. Edjali,
| the son of Parsee and an
Englishwoman, was accused Of
wantonly manning animals. The
prosecution made out strong
case against him. 1t was al
legged that on certain dark night
he went to a field near his home
and there brutally mu.ilated
horse. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle be-
came convinced of his innocence,
and succeeded in proving beyond
question that the near-sightednes
of the prisoner was of so extreme
nature that he would have been
unable to find the field let alone