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Tf VKH1 now ami tlion Chicago deposes the
Hj reigning Caller Harrison and proceeds
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.mi Tuesday. when Mayor Harrison was de
;.ti.I for the Democratic nomination by a
person named Swell zer.
i If readers will take the trouble to listen
<lo.'(!> they will hear lhe waves of l.ake
Michigan, aided by a husky chorus from
si a to Sirect nnd the levee, murmuring sadly:
" The l?ii; cheese!"I
As Carter Harrison is not nominated by j
the Democrats. and assuredly will not bo nom- j
iimted hv the Republicans. it is probable that ;
he will retire after the next election to the j
tjuif l joys of private life. Hut not for long. ,
Ch'cngo without a Carter Harrison in the i
City Hall is as salt that lias lost its savor, !
as a rose w ithout porfume. as "Hamlet"* with- j
i."it tin1 Dane. It is almost unthinkable, and ;
whenever the blow falls. Chicago doos be- (
come unthinkable?and unendurable, as well, i
It cannot even stand itself, which is why it
returns so proinptly to its old love.
Ry the way. is there a Carter Harrison, 111 .
ready to step in the shoes of his father when ,
Carter Harrison. II., lays the sceptre down? 1
l.ack of Hallways Made Kviilent
i
ACCORDING to reports from l'etrograd,
that have a reluctant echo in Berlin,
the German drive into Poland has spent its
force, and Warsaw, which for a time was
menaced from the north and northwest, is
relieved again of the danger of hostile occu
pation. Grand Duke Nicholas has rallied the
tlvinc remnants of the tenth army, strongly
reinforced them, and on important sections
of the northern battle line has resumed the
offensive.
The tremendous importance of the Ger
man strategic railways is as manifest in tier
man rebuff as in German triumph. They
enabled Von Hiiuleubtirg to mass great
armies near the Mazurian hakes, and prac
tically to destroy the Russian forces that had
invaded Last Prussia, but when the scene of
battle is transferred from Prussia to Poland
and tlu railways cannot he brought into play
to supply ammunition, food and men, the
news di patches begin to tell another story.
It would not he surprising for it has had
precedent alr.|tdy in the same field of ac
.011 10 ser t.Ue yjeiorVous German hosts, that
a day or two ago were elat iv with just Hied
triumph, falling back on their defenses quite
rapidly as they advanced.
< hanged View of Kcsi'rvo Hoard
RADICAL change in the manner in which ;
the financial world looks now on tTie
? <<<;. t.il re ' rvc banking law. as compared
,*h ;'s vi< \\ of that measure when it was
.nder r ?nsid( ration isi Congress, Is evidenced j
so frequently nowadays that It ceases to oc-.1
casion < otnmcnt. One recent illustration of !
thb i'VitnK> 1 viewpoint, however, is worthy '
of attention
The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, '
having suggested that the Aldrich-Vreelpnd j
. i ierg< ncy currency net he extended, perhaps .
indefinitely, the Ruche Review proceeds to j
give t! - project its approval, and to amplify
? ;:<? suggestion in the following words:
It ?.?.mi!'! <! <? li-i llHl'ltl In P(|Ulp tlir
i ' ?;;i >fi'V( Hoard wlili cMr.lord .
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.1 . i: tik of ii pronouiiit rin iii of ilia' sort, .
direct from Wyll Street Why. Wall Street
folks u^? 1 to say thai the Federal lie serve :
Hoard "poliiically constituted " was not fit
to ',j< trur-'fii with supeiviMoti of hanking and
eurremy, and that its powers, at any rato,
should he limited and defined with the most
rigorous precision. Now It is urged that
great )? >w>-rs he added to the great powers
'In* h1 .ird alr< adv w ields, because ii |s c?*r
tain that this discretion "would never he
abjised'" - .
We hav.- as inucii admiration for hankers,
especially the Wall Street variety, as the
next man, hut we wonder sometimes if they
do actually know it all. ?
( ondiiiori of Helgian Kt'licf
1I?" the German governineut js really engaged
in the seizure of all foodstuffs, as well
as other raw materials, ir: Helgium, except
those actually distributed h> the American
Relief Commission, which is the charge made
by Sir Kdward Grey, we on this side the
ocean may well begin to wonder if it is not
time to call a hall on our generosity.
Millions of dollars' worth of supplies have
boon s? nt from this country for purposes of
Helgian relief. if the suppli* . thus fur
nished are counted on by the Germans to
excuse their appropriation oi everything else
the unfortunate Belgians possess -every
thing at Iqast, accessary to continued^oxiEt
fcnco-i?tho wi*dom of our polu-y will In* Ques
tioned seriouuly. That wisdom become# uvea
more rioubtlul when considered in. connection
with thq German .Jjppofltlon oj jvar
taxes, amounting to $8,000,000 monthly, on
the ulrendy ravished and impoverished Bel
glum.
Of course.' tho rnuro Germany taxes and
expropriates, the greater will he Belgium's
need and the less her ability to help herself.
There will come a time when that need will
strain to the breaking point even this coun
try's generous capacity. We have some
want and suffering here at home.
America lias not reached (lie point yet
where it would he willing to cease shipments
of l'ood and other supplies, but the possi
bility is In sight. The laws of civilized war
fare require that a belligerent nation occupy
ing a part of the enemy's territory shall care
lor lho civil population. If Germany is not
willing to do Ibis, i? should at least be will
ing to permit Belgians who wish to leave
their homes and pass into I'ranch territory
to do so. Of such pitiful refugees we could
undertake the care with belter conscience
and more profound conviction that we are
not in effect contributing to the supply of the
Cerman armies in the Held.
When People Oct Together
H I'M AN beings are gregarious. They flock
together, as a rule, for self-defense.
In large communities there is theoretically
the greatest safety. Rapacious; creatures
generally do not llock together, excepting
such animals as wolves, which are notorious
ly timid, save when traveling with the pack.
A single human being, isolated suddenly from
his pack, as it were, is less self-reliant, finds
himself less dependable, than in his natural
state of gregarious existence. This is true
until the groat necessities of survival arouse
in him the savage instinct that lies latent be
hind all intelligence. Then ho becomes indi
vidually dangerous.
In recent years there has been a wave of
agitation in the direction of doing things in
company. W'e have, as examples, the Go-to
t'hureh Sunday, recently the Go-to-Prayer
Meeting movement, in Wisconsin a few days
ago the I'a.v-t' p-Week. when all who owe are
supposed to settle. In Baltimore just before
the holidays there was a hu>;e demonstration
of doing things together, when more than
$50,000 was raised for charity by the Solf
Oenial Day plan, when all who possibly
could gave something by self-denial to meet
urgent needs of the charity organizations. A
less practical, perhaps, hut, nevertheless,
characteristic event was the day of prayer
for peace, when all were asked by President
Wilson to unite in supplication.
We are timid creatures, taken singly and
thrown on our own resources. But shoulder
lo shoulder we face death unflinchingly, fal
tering only when the directly personal eon
tact with the danger finds us away from our
comrades. It is the instinct of mutuality,
not marked in any other breathing creature
so strongly as in man, the dominant animal
of them all. In the histories of all nations
you will find Ibis fact written large; in
politics, in religion, in commerce, in all the
affairs of life, you will find strength where
there are numbers. It is one recognized
principle that never will change.
If to-day the whole people should deny
every evil that apparently confronts them,
there Is no power this side of the super
natural that could resist them. For in
stance, if the whole people should demand
peace in Kurope, that peace would assuredly
come, and quickly. If the whole people
should assert an immediate resumption of
full trade relations, in so far as they affect
the happiness of individuals, factories would
open, new trains would go into service, docks
and warehouses and elevators would teem
with activity. If the whole people should
move what money each possessed, with a
declaration of actual prosperity, no bank
could close its vaults to investment.
Insane asylum attendants will tell you
that their safety from violent lunatics lies in
the fact that no more than one at a time ever
attacks a keeper. Crazy people and fools do
not act together. Acting together requires
a common intelligence, or. as in the case of
the wolf, a common cunning. In the affairs
of a nation, could those in power feel this
unltv of intelligence, few mistakes would
ever be made. Could they have fell and
realized a unity of the actual mind of Europe,
there would to-day be no such hysterical
struggle as that which is making even the
combatants wonder at its sheer imbecility.
Spirit. Not Time, Will Count
THERE Is. of course, no reaison for hysteria
or excitement in the public demand for
Mil honest and rigid investigation of the j
Police Deflftrtment. Whatever its excellen
cies or deficiencies, the department was
neither better or worse, in a moral sense,
after the Vice Commission had liled its pre- |
liminary report. There is no special and
compelling reason why Richmond, which has j
got along with this department for a good '
many years, should insist on having it made
chemically pure by day after to-morrow.
Of course, there will he an investigation, j
Things have reached such a stage that any !
other outcome is as impossible as it would
bo undesirable. Mayor and Vice Commis
sion art not at odds, so far as we can under- i
stand,'over the character and quantity of the ;
evidence that should be submitted by the
commission to the Mayor. Chairman Starke
has professed his individual willingness to
turn over sueh "specific evidence" as may be
requested, and other members of the com
mission have taken what amounts to the
same stand
For our part, we .think indignation should
be reserved until the investigation is in
progress, and there is some indication of a
purpose to make it less than it should be. in
the essentials of completeness, impartiality
and absolute good faith. We do not as
sume that such deficiencies will become mani
fest or even with sound reason be suspected.
We do assume, on the other hand, that the
investigation will be as rigid and thorough
as it ought to be and as the public insists
it must be
So that it he of the right type, whether
the investigation is held next week, or the
week after next, or even the week after that,
doesn't make any very great difference. It
is the spirit and method of it, rather than
tlx time, i hat will count
The California Box Canyon deer that drove
t wo rich tourists up a tree for an hour has
nothing on Virginia. We've heard of a
common steer in Fairfax" doing as much for
a plowboy.
.Iiipt what would have happened had all the
men of Furopc refused to light, leaving the
scrap to individuals of the war cliques?
Well, the bout would have been a fiasco,
anyhow
Now that Mr Taft has glveu his approval
to the foreign policy of l'residont Wilson, only
the Oyster .Hay v?t<j is needed t.o make it
1 unanimous.
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Valuations.
The master of Imposing wealth
Kelt his last moment drawing nigh:
"I have," lie gasped, "a right to claim
A corner mansion in the sky.
"In all the years I've spent on earth
I've never grabbed a single cent,
Unless, of course, I needed it
To point a business argument.
"I've never thrown a widow out
? >f house I owned, on wintry day?
I'll less the woman Ii:i<1 noncash
And could her rent no longer pay.
".M\ debtors who have asked for gr.u-e
Have not It lots of times from me:
Always, in faet, when Iliey could sell
A home or cow and raise my fee.
"I've built a library or two.
I've gone to eltureh, my grace to vaunt.
The clArgy know I'll stand a touch ?
In reason?for Hit- tilings they want.
"To me it seems completely clear
That none can pass my title by;
1 have a perfect right to claim
A corner mansion in the sky."
lie passed from earth, but Peter had
No knftwlcdge of his earthly fame?
The corner mansion went to one
Who'd saved a peasant Kirl from shame
SONGS AND SAWS
Delightful Mnnlc.
"I understand this new res
taurant lias a particularly
good orchestra."
"You l>et it has! 1 was up
there for supper th<* other
evening and while the or
chestra was playing you
couldn't hear half the com
ments of women patrons on
one another's gowns.'
Some KicriiliimK.
? Iruhhs?Kvery man is the master of his own
destiny. He run he what lie desires to lie.
Stuhbs?Not in every t'asi. Take, for example,
the Inmates of the penitentiary who desires to
be an aeronaut.
Seeking Solitude.
"Don't you feel sometimes that you would
like to Ret far, far from the madding crowd'."'
"Quite often. That is why I make frequent
trips to Haltlinore."
Obvious tCnnoali.
"Why did you tell this hitld untruth'."'
The teacher asked of Johnny Pitt.
"Why, that's as char as mud," said Jack.
' I thought 1 could uet by with It."
THE TATTM5II.
j Chats With Virginia Editors
A last, despairing line from the Newport
News Press: "'I believe more people backslide on
account of the cards and dances than they do
through the saloon,' says Hilly Sunday. So
the next thing Is to have State-wide prohibition
of cards and dancing." Afterwards it would
be all right to take up checkers and surf
bathing.
"Last Siiudj!y," says the Mecklenburg Times
Star, "the Richmond Times-Dispatch gave us a
line boost and various papers throughout the
Stale took it up and passed It along. Hut why
stop there'.' loci's strike while the Iron Is hot.
The town is on a great commercial boom. A
hoard of trade will do the trick. Kvery man In
town should he an optimist and booster." And
don't try to ruin things by the application of
the old bromide about every knock being a
boost.
"On (ho lino of grip-losing." say? the Ports
inoutli .Star, "nil the world Knows why the He
puhlican party Moist its grip,' nnd why Hearst
long ?ko lost his; and a good many of us know
why Temple 'Jraves lost his. All the world
quite as well knows that Wilson has a prrip he
isn't going to lose. "No, that grip Is cheeked
with the affections of the people an.I consigned
again to the White House.
Says the Olifton Forge Review: "A judge in
Southwest Virginia has imposed fines on per
sons duly summoned to his court on account of
being: tardy. That is all right, provided the
judge is always punctual. We have never
thought it consistent in any judge to be late
himself, hold witnesses and jurors against their
will, and then tine a witness or a juror who hap
pened to he late at the sessions of the court.
There have been judges in this Stale guilty of
tliis inconsistency, and we never could under
stand how they had the nerve to complain when
others resorted to like tactics. We trust the
judge in question who has been lining people
right and left for tardiness, is himself always
on time."
Things are doing at Abingdon. The Virginian
of that place says: "If 'an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure' in matters of health,
certainly an ounce* of tire protection is worth
many tons of after regret. Our city has been
making wonderful progress, as well as history,
in the recent months. Evidences of new life and
developing enterprise are everywhere. One of
the best things that has been done in many
! years was the orgntiizr.lion of a flro company,
the nucleus, of a complete fire department. Tills
means protection for property and a sense of
safety for our people that is invaluable."
Current Editorial Comment
I'poti this country, and Its gov
ernment. therefore, must fall tlio
principal burden of shielding
I'iiina and keeping the opportuni
ties which her development must
afford open to all the world. The
task is one <? f dilliculty, and even peril, but it
cannot be shirked or avoided without considera
ble sacrifices of honor and material advantage.
I'erhaps our greatest strength will lie in Japan's
I own desire to avoid any sort of conflict with
us, and especially one in which she would lack
the approval and the hacking of Kngland, her
dose friend in Kastern affairs. Hut, however
disagreeable the. outlook, this country cannot by
j any possibility let Japan's forward movement
go by default. The demands that China shall
not grant concessions, negotiate loans or employ
advisers without Japan's consent are as offensive
an attack on her sovereignty as was Austria's
ultimatum to Serbia, which led to the present
war, and far more unprovoked. For the United
States to assent even by silence to such an as
sumption of overlordship in a field where we
have definite interests and have asserted the
, right to be heard would be tantamount to an
abandonment of all pretension to be a power
in the world sense.?Now York Kvenlng Sun.
American dollars are |n tre
mendous demand all over the
world. They have never been so
baidly wanted as to-day. and, if
all signs do not fail, the limit
of demand for thciu is not even
faintly visible. This, without attempting to
j go into the intricate mysteries of foreign ex
change, Is what is meant by the violent fall
j that has been taking place in the foreign ex
j change market this week. In that market the
i monetary units of every nation are compared
i with American dollars, and with unimportant ex
' eoptions the money of every nation is now quoted
at .1 greater or less discount in comparison with
the dollar. To put it thv other way around,
dollars are quoted at a high and rising premium.
Six months ago sterling exchange, hitherto the
world's international standard of value, was
almost unpurchasr.ole in New York. We were
then heavily in debt abroad. II took anywhere
i from to $7. to buy -a Hritish pound. On
I Tuesday the pound could ho bought for $4.79,
iand exchange in London was almost unsalable
at the prlcu. iicre la ay drop or jnore Ihun 25
Nation's
|>i^y to
t 'liiua
Dollar
N'mv nt
Premium
per cent, which adequately measures tho great ;
change that lu occurring ? >> International flnan
clal positions. To-day the whole world Is be- .
coming our debtor.?New York Sun.
Boston. though #omc of our
citizens may be unaware of the
distinction. Is one* of the windiest
places on tho map. The Weather
Bureau does not IIml any city
that has a higher average hourly
! velocity of the wind?eleven miles an hour. |
There are several other places that equal this
average rate? Buffalo. St. l,ouis, l?odge City,
Kail., Abilene, Texas. and llavre. Mont.?but
none where the wind keeps 111> a higher speed
tlio yfar around. Kven Chicago, tho "Windy
city." has an hourly average of two miles less
than Boston. Nearer home, in New York, the
hourly average of the wind's movement is Ilia
'Name as that of Chicago, nine miles, and in
I'ortlaml it is only live miles. There are a
score of cities where the wind lias attained a j
higher velocity than the Boston record of sev- |
oilty-two miles, but that is another ator.v. Tho !
thing- that counts is the daily and hourly aver- .
age through tile year. It is this high average i
velocity of the east wind that makes Boston J
one of the plensantest and most healthful places ]
in the country for summer residence, but it has *|
its serious disadvantages when the air is full
of dust, as it usually has been in spring. Manj
thanks foe the present effort to lessen this
nuisance.? Boston 11 ??raid.
War News Fifty Years Ago
(From the Richmond Oispach Kelt. 25, 1SG5.)
Since tho salutes llreil by the Federals on tho
22d < Washington's birthday), which they falsely
reported to be in honor of a great Virginian, and
on the next day. which tliev openly declared to
' l?e in celebration of the fall of Charleston, the
sound of big guns has not been heard oil the j
nortli side of the James.
In front of Petersburg.' the national salute |
was tired with shotted shell by General Grant's ?
artillery and under direct orders. Some of the
shells fell in the city of Petersburg, and were I
Intended to do damage to noli?combataills, but
fortunately very little dnmnge was done.
? in the north side of tin? James Itivcr the
Federals have done considerable artillery firing
for the past three days. It turns out that the
most of the gunning was with blank cartridges
and in celebration of Washington's birthday in
the lirst place, and in the second Y?lace, In ccle
hratloii of the fnll^uf Charleston. However, tile
firing did but liti leNlnmage, and was promptly
r- plied io by the Confederate guns.
The gunning and the bumming set forth bv
Hie Federals on the Petersburg and Richmond
lines may have been, as they claimed, only In
celebration ol historic events, but all the same,
tiie gunning was replied to by tho Confederate
batteries, and the enemy was at least taught
that the Confederates were not sleeping.
For several days there hns been a great deal
of .stir within the Federal lines south of Peters- 1
burg; so much in fact, as to give rise to the be- !
lief that the Federals are concentrating for j
another attack on the Confederate extreme right.
General Lee is ready for any assault the enemy '
Is llxlns for at that point.
The reports still come In that Qenrral 'irnnt !
is moving a great many of his troops from the
environs of Petersburg and Richmond to
strengthen and to advance Schnfleld's army to
help Sherman in his invasion of the Carolina*
The drenching rain of yesterday kept General
Grant and his forces rather quiet. The same
may be said of General l,oe and his brave men.
General Joseph K. Johnston was yesterday,
by order* of General l.ee, the commander in
charge of all of the armies of the Confederate
States, placed In command of all of the forces
opposing the march of Sherman through the
South.
At his own request and because nf Impaired
health General Bcuregard has been relieved of
the command of the Army of the Tennessee,
which command he held only In a temporary
ca pacity.
It is understood that th? Confederate States
Senate in a secret session sat down on the House
bill to place 200,000 negro soldiers In the Con
federate army. The vote In the Senate Is said
to have been very close, being about 10 for
the bill as to 12 against It. The matter may
come up again in different shape. In the mean
time there is a report that General Lee favors
the idea of enlisting the negroes In the Con- j
federate army, and this may go a great way in
changing the views of the members of the
Senato and the House. It is understood that
another vote will be taken next week.
Huston
Proud of
Its Winds
The Voice of the People
Another HIott nl liernnril.
To th(> Kilitor of The Times-Dispatch
.Sir,?In your article of yesterday rogarding
Bernard Shaw am! neutrality, you quote him an '
Having: "If tho United States should decide to I
annex ? ? ? Alaska," etc. Surely thin must be a
misquotation. I.< it possible thai Sliaw, the one
man on earth who Knows just how t:v ??rylhiiiK
should be done, is ignorant of the fact that
Alaska is no longer a Russian possession'.'
I daresay the opinion is well-nigh unanimous
that Shaw Is a fool, but the fact that lie is an
[ Itnnoramtis is a revelation of a new phase of
lils most versatile character. We feel con- 1
strained to.warn Hernard that "Teddy" II nit you i
if you don't watch out!" \\\ C. SMITH.
Danville, Va., February 23. 1015.
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War rinlermlncH HiinIim-mm Moral*.
! To the Kilitor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.?The general demoralizing effects of war
' we all will concede. This permeates to a more ;
! or less degree all classes who come in contact j
witli its disorganizing influences. One of the
first elements to be affected is the business
world. "Now Is the time to yet rich" takes
| possession of us to such an extent that our
nicer instincts which we have in times of peace
I are more or less overlooked.
This necessarily Is the case with large corpo
i rations, as well as Individuals, and we stretch
| our consciences to the straining point ami
I soothe our minds with the excuse that it Is
I "war times," and that we must look out for
i ourselves.
The general opinion is that sooner or later
America must reap the benefits in moat busi
ness lines from the presenl conditions In lCurope. I
The good and honest people, before this terrible
| conflict, invested their savings in stocks and
bonds of our well-managed tin times of peace) ,
corporations, expecting fair returns, but under
the present demoralising conditions there neces
sarily will be a tendency to overstep good,
sound business honesty, and a spirit of specula
tion will take its place, and such as have the
administration of the affairs of these corporate
interests will become imbued \v iih the idea ihat
"all is fair in war." and the individual stock
I holder will he the sufferer.
There is going to be a area? chance for busi
ness sooner or later, and it is to he hoped that
its bonellts will be properly distributed
, amongst the common people who are holders
' of securities, and not go Into the pockets of a
few who feel that they are Justified In putting
i it there from the fact It is "war times" and
everv one Is expected to look out for himself.
ALFUISD C. PALM ICR.
Urbanna. Va., February 20. IMG.
Queries and Answers
I'nlteii Strifes Survey.
1 Please give me tin address from which I may
j get information ahout places on the govern- :
? ment surveys. M. L1VKXAY.
United States Survey, Washlncton, D. C.
Physics.
Can you explain why water poured direct from !
a teapot onto a glass is so much more likely |
to crack it than if the water he poured llrst 1
into some olher vessel, say a tin cup, and then I
i poured into tho glass? MIts. II. R
There is no difference except what arises
| from the slightly lowered temperature of ihc j
. water.
PolltlCMl.
j Are there any public men in the Democratic j
I party ip the Slates of California, Nevada, Ore- I
' gon. Arizoha, Montana -who might be considered
1 presidential possibilities in 191B? Will ydu give j
i the names of several women of the ilrsl promt- J
nence in the equal suffrage movement '
IU0 AD UK/
We know of none. Anna Howard Shnw, Jane
Addams. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Stanley Me- i
Cormick, Mrs. Ft. IJ. Viflentlne, .Miss Mary John- '
ston, Mrs. Desha Hrecklnrldge.
lloraes to (irrmmi.r.
! Have any horses been shipped from the United
i Stated for tho German army? JS. S. WHITE.
| Yft have record of none,
Buzz All You Want, but Don't You Sting!
Ono of tho Day's llcst Cm-toons.
y
From tho Knn??* City .lonrnn!
MONARCHS AND THEIR MONEY
.Miu!u\ potentati s, like lesser moit- |
his. are iiri'.i sloiiullv i cdu< 1 In bor
lowing. Tin Kaiser, for ii -i;nn'p, was
once compelted in haw recourse !?> a
Berlin banker "uncle" to help him mil
of his dill!?-ii 1 lies, while about six years
iikii lie was appealing to his I'arlla
tnent for a "rise," owini:. .is he faee
tiouslv juit it. to "increased cost of
living "
Such impecnnlosit.v in all the more
surprising, tteelng tliat I )i ?? principal
Kuropc.ui monarchy each enjoys a iren
erous civil list. Probably the most
hiislucss-Iike of all. according to a
writer in Answers, is Kins 'Seorge,
who enjoys a civil 11 ?>t ot ?470,41*0 per
annum, as follows;
Privy purse, ?110,000 salaries of
household. ?1 J'i.SOO. i :\pin - ? of hon
hold. ?193.00n works, i.'.itiO royal
bounty, ?13,unappropriated, Is,>>'><<.
In addition. Ilis Majesty receives the
revenues of the Ijuctiy of lain a-t.-r
On his privy purse he pays income tax.
like other capitalists
Both KiiiK CeoiKo and Que* n M trv
are comnieiuliilily shrewd in all their
practical affairs. Anxious to avoid
waste, they are extremely ????.?tons n
their expenditure on chat laid ai.d
similar objects. The f?.-i1,4<?- ar< man
aged on a sound hut liberal has;- t!ie
expenditure <in the royal family is
carefully regulated hv Queen Mary,
whose domestic talents and laine
liearteil charitable work have earned
for her the title of the "first mother
in the land"
Crnr Itlctimt .Monarch
Certainly the Czar of Russia is the
world's richest monarch, thanks to four
inexhaustible sources of wealth: ore. !
the state treasury; two, the Imperial
domains three, the Cabinet properties;
four, purely personal property. No
man could < xactly state the amount
of his "pile," not even the comptroller
of the Imperial household, who admin
Isters it. So important Is this function
ary's position that he ranks as a high
ofUctr of state. being a member of the
committee of ministers ami of the ?
council of state, which assist the Cr.ar !
in the control of Russian policy, po- i
lltical and military.
The t'v.ar's revenues have often been
estimated at from ?.'!.00O,000 to fs.oo ;
000 per unnuin. They probably awgre- |
tate nulte La.OOO.OOo. lie spends as lie i
thinks?imperially. Ouring the Russo- ;
Japanese War he handed out ?'-'O. utt>.- '
0i?o towards Its cost. lie is probably
contributing with e<>ual generosity t ?
the present campaign lie u:\es state
functions costing from ?200,000 to i JOO,
000, and allows the Orthodox Church
over ?.">00.00.1 per annum. A full list j
of his charitable works would st.sg<er
any ordinary mortal.
As a collector of windfalls the C/.ar"'
has displayed real genius, lie owns!
the priceless Orloff diamond-? presenj -
ed t?? Catherine II. When ho was j
crowned the Khan of Khiva and the
Kmir of Bokhara each vave him jewels,
etc., aggregating about ?*00,000 in
value. A benevolent Odessa no reliant
left h i in ?1.100,000; a famous Moscow;
banker ?700,000. He Is constantly re-j
cclvliiK other superb legacies. Ilu owns ,
palaces by the score, mines that yield j
fabulous profits; he might pose as the
diamond king, for Jie has a vast for- I
tune in diamonds and precious stones. ;
Moreover, he either owns or draws I
royalties from nold, silver, copper, i
platinum, anil lesd mines in the Krai j
Mountains and from the irreat Siberian |
gold and other mines worked by convict i
labor. i
(Innrr of Much I.ami.
Altogether, he possesses about K57.-;
OftO.ouO acrec of cultivated and forest
land, vineyards, fisheries, sawmills, fac
tories. civ. Practically, In* owns areas j
h.s big as K ran re and Ireland. lie to- '
pards his wealth as a hi??* trust fori
I he" l?enetlt of Ills people, wlio liail him
as their "Kiltie leather."
In striking contract to this gilt-edged i
monarch stands President Polncarc, |
who maintains Ills position in France on i
about ?50,000 per anmnn. lie has also J
sumptuously furnished summer and j
winter palaces worthy of the great na-I
tion lie represents. Ilis honsohold, civil]
and military. Is organized on a scale of j
becoming splendor. .The President nl-I
ways travels surrounded with all the I
pomp and circumstance of n ureal ruler. |
ills private fortune is, of course, mod
est, but, being a man of modest pre- ,
tensions, lie finds It ample.
Compared with the C7.nr, the Kaiser
may bo regarded as it poor man. Ilis
position as German Kmporor yields him
no civil list and tin state revenue, with
tho exception of ?i;t0,000 voted yearly
by Parliament for the support of hifl
ofllce. Of this amount he only draws
personally about ?5,000 per annum. Hut
as King of Prussia he receives approxl-1
mately ?800,000 per annum. Nominally,]
lie is owner of lite Prussian crown- j
lands, but his revenue therefrom is lixed j
by law, the balance being paid Into the]
state treasury, lie owns a large amount
of private property, factories, etc., and j
is credited with being a partner in
Krupp's gun shop. He Jias several huge
palaces and a number of smaller cas
tles, reRldcrtces, shooting boxes, etc.
Hecelvcd Ilia: I,reticles.
During the past len years be has re
ceived a number of legacies, including'
one of ?500,000, another of ?150,000, and |
a third of ?100,000. Put he is constantly
overrunning the constable, being utter- I
ly reckless in. his expenditures, never I
having 'realized the'value of money.
Indeed, many of the Kaiser's most!
serious troubles havo arisen from his]
indulgence in extravagant fads and i
fancies; ono of his principal manias be-j
ing for building and remodeling pal
aces, ships, etc. Money was at the bot
tom of his long estrangement from
King Edward, Ilia principal caueo ot
fury against hi.i mother was in connec
tion with her income un'l li?? i daugh
ters' dowries. Tht-n, again. he had at
? time to sell half a dozen of his Ilnest
? a st Irs. When lie subscribed 10,0'?0
francs to the fund for tho victims of
?Jj- liavav ? la Oharite f\r?? in Parts. he
aiisl raeted the fund* fiom the tru;-'
nuciey under his control for the needs
of soldleiK ami sailors and their widows
and orphans
While nrsvfr denying himself any
thing, ho likes to hop the Kmpress pra**
tiic th< most i i 14i? 1 cconomy, so thxit she
is olil;i4i .i to he as catoful as any mod
es! hulls* wife. She is said to he par
ticularly watchful ovui her washing
hil!s, although she knows that the
Kaiser li spending ?SOO/'OO on a stipe; h
new yacht, Hohenr.ollet n II, which is
to he tea.lv at the end of the year.*
The Kmperor of Austria not only en
joys a civil lift of ahout t!?00,0ni) p/>:'
annum, 1 >ut has also a l,ir?e private for
tune. The KtnpresH Kllsahcth of Aus
tria. who was murdered, hail also ac
cumtilnted a larRc private fortune.
The present King of the Celgtans !):??<
never hen a really wealthy inati. al
though liiH unci", Leopold, whom ' e
succeeded, was one of Ktirope's richest
mot ?r< hv. po?s?-splnr a private fort'ir"
of over ? l.'ifMt.tllKt, besides the d\!l I "f.
Hut w.ii a horn kiiiiiIiIt, .? ri?t |o?t
hiiRC stuns In duhiotiH speculation!, in
rinding ? 4f???.?? oo in ill-fated French
Panama Canal v heme At present tur
King <>f the Helglans has, of course. : o
control over the civil li.st, but the o !?>
every reason to anticipate that thj- re
grettable state of affairs is not 111 ? l>
to he prolonged.
<>f the smaller nations. the Hutch
Queen hns a ctvll list of per .
num. the King of Denmark tfiO.OOft, i "
the King of tJreeco fB'-'.fiOO per annum
ft.noo of whlcli Is paid hy ICngland
German Press Censures Us
The protest published in the -irui
? ?fli' ial Norddeutsehr \lli;rruoluo '/.< \
ttiiiK of llerlln a?a.nst the shipment of
war mater:. 1 from the I'nlted Stat- to
the countries of the allies has been in
dorsed i?y new*papers of Germany. It
lespectlve of party, according to a
resume of Cerman press comment on
the subject, published >n tiie Frank
furter /eitung "f January L'.'. The
1*ennkfurter Zeitung, however, shurph
r-liuli' - the view tliat the protest whs
designed ti> stir up (Senna n - Americans
and I rlsh - America n ? t ? political action
for Germany In this country. After
saying that the protest of the scml
ollici.il paper merelv expresses th*
views held by every German in the
matter. the Frankfurter /.eitung pays:
"The Social Democratic paper Vor
warts prints tiie article tinder the rnp
tlon 'A .Instilled Complaint.' The
I'eut-ehe Ta^es/.eittinc emphasises the
unity of all Germany In Its JudRment
and condemnation of the unneutral con
duct of the I'nlted States, ail.Ihu; that
it is 'a great mlsunderstandinn' for
the American L'overnmont to think thai
the Herman government Is reconciled
to the shipment c.-f war material.-' to
? lermany's enemies. It adds that the
I'nlted States should understand that
if In these previous times objection
and criticism a re. volcod In tJermany
aunlnst a neutral power, Germans ami
their government will not say such
things to-day, merely to forget them
to-morrow
The semiofficial statement, it add?,
will support tho movcmnil of the Ger
maii-Amrrloftns nml Irishmen In t li o
I'nlted SI?to?, hy showing to all the
world that tho German government
1 behind the com plaints of the
German pi'fss.
'?'Phis last ass< itioii." Tho Frankfur
ter Zoit line's editor hort* Interrupts, in
parentliose.s, "Is In lie denied. Kve.t-v
ri'4hl-tlilnUln^c person ruist re conn >.e
tin- absolute just illoa t ion of the com
plaint voiced in the Norddoutsclio
Allnenmeino /.oliunii: Imt the Konii-of
lie in 1 declnratimr has certainly nut been
issin <1 for the support of Internal
American political discussions.
"Americans of lirrmaii descent have
always emphasized tho fact thJu they
are carrying on their pood ii^lit for
the safe(ruarditm of the full and true,
neutrality of America only Ihroimli
considerations for their own father*
land."
Tho VoskIpoIio ZeitunK. in its issue
of January 25, ascribes the devastation
ot Flanders to American shipments of
arms. Tho paper hAVn:
"lly. way of tiianks to Knprland for
burdening America's trade and in part
cutting it. off, America is shipping to
lOiiKlislimeti weapons cnublinu them to
destroy the towns aioitK the Flanders
coast. Wliilo the American, newxpapcrs
lament without cessation the alicj?eif
devastation of Melgiuui by I lie f?er
mans, Aniericii sends ilaily to the Kiik
lisji whole shiploads of idiclls, which
have destroyed iu part and are to de
stroy further the pretty sioacoasl re
sorts of XeebrunKc, r.fankoiiheri;lto,
Ostende, Middlolkerko,. Westende, l.oni
baort/.yde, and many othorH.
Might Have ralil Something.
(Toledo Made.) m
An Ohio woman wants I2.R00 damages
for wrinkles iu her foreheail, caused i?>*
an automobile accident. Had the acci
dent ?iveil her a dimple iu either cheek
there would have been a different story
to ti ll.
? f'hnmp'N n Classicist.
i Indianapolis News.)
"it's a live to one shot that there will
be an extra session of Congress," de
clares Speaker Clark, who rathor favors
tho ubo or auch classical phrases,