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Gcrmic Misunderstanding A pa in
ACCORDING to our Washington dispatches,
diplomats customarily well informed
think Germany's unsatisfactory reply to the
President's note was inspired in part by fixed
belief that this country is determined, in any
event and at any cost, to remain at peace.
If Germany actually holds this foolish theory,
i* may account for a pood many things, but
the theory may he accounted for itself only
by recalling the monumental inefficiency of
the German Foreign CHice and diplomatic
service penerallv.
Count von Rerustorff. the ambassador at
Washington, knows better, and it is said he
has been endeavoring to convince his gov
ernment that the peace-at-any-price party is
not stronp in the I'nited States. We shall
hope for his success. Few in America want
war with Germany or any other nation.
America would avoid it in every way con
sonant with national dignity and honor.
But we shall not pay "any price." Peace
is all-desirable, hut it can he acquired or
preserved at too high a cost.
Roy Scouts at the, Reunion
TOO much praise cannot be given the Boy
Scouts for the work they are doing t->
make comfortable and happy the visit to
Richmond of thousands of Confederate vet
erans. They are at the trains early and late,
prompt with offers of advice, assistance and
guidance, and withal so courteous and smil
ing and cheerful that they receive in an
instant the confidence, they deserve.
Every time we see the Boy Scouts in action
we are won to new admiration for this re
markable movement. It capitalizes to useful
purpose those activities of boyhood that
result, when misdirected or neglected, in
frequent disaster.
We feel very sure that many an old vet
eran will carry from this reunion a now
and fragrant memory of boyish chivalry and
kindness, for which the Scouts will have been
responsible. They are aiding Richmond in
the reception and entertainment of her guests,
and they deserve the city's thanks, as well as
the thanks of the veterans themselves.
The Air ltaid on London
HE ]ong-heraklc<l Zeppelin raid on Lon
don lias come at last, with a total result
of some four persons killed. a larger num
ber injured and various (ires, three of which
attained respectable proportions. Xo defen
sive worRV Vcre? damaged, no public building
was struck' by. a bomb, absolutely no military
purpose was served.
From this distance it would seem that the.
terror those raids inspire in advance is alto
gether out of proportion to the harm they
actually do. As their purpose is terrorism,
it might be better for Berlin not to make any
raids at all, but constantly to (ill the people
of England with apprehension that a raid is
imminent. Hysteria is so ill-justified by
accomplishment that the raid, when, it is
made, wears a 1! the unpleasant aspect of anti
. climax.
There is not much use of discussing the
,ir- of the German raid. Germany has
decided that it is all right to drop bombs
from the sky on private dwellings, and as
London undoubtedly is fortified, it may be
that the raidr. have technical justification in
international law.
When Death Comes Home
"Sitting in his cell in the dr-nth-hoim*
at Ping Sing, ho swayfrt from side to
side, now weeping violently, then burst
ing into loud threats against thos? who
had caused his conviction."
WHO. reading Dickens and remembering
Fagin, the debaucher of youth, in his
^'terror when the punishment canto home to
him. or the hangman m ,,liarnaby Kudge,"
tool at murdernig others by the instrument of
'law. but terror-stricken to his soul when ho
himself came to his just end, can fall to think
of these examples in fiction as the above
? quotation, sent broadcast by news agencies,
^describes the pitiable plight of Becker. the
.Tpolice grafter and plotter of assassinations?
If all that has been testified is true?and
'.^twelve men have said it is. in the main, and
"appeals have failed to *?s aidish anything to
offset the verdict?there never was a more
cold-blooded leader of blackmailers, grafters
and assassins. 1'sing his high police position
^as a club, he created a mesh of praft and
crime that led to the murder of Rosenthal,
'"the squealer."
- Becker's tools went to the chair with less
agitation than he has begun to show in the
^realization that there is no hope, and that
? he must die. In this moment Becker, the
.-master of murderers, the chief of the as
sassins, who boastfully asserted his power over
!.;;<he underworld that did his bidding, finds
himself in much the position of Fa?tin and
Dennis. It has come home, and lie is craven,
as most men are craven who are cruel. Now
i he is writing a statement which will expose
the whole miserable organization of crime,
it is said, in the hope that Governor Whitman
will commute his sentence as a reward. Hut
It Is a barren hopo.
Exiled from the sympathy even of those
worse than himfclf. with no friend on earth
who can help him, Becker is a sorry picture.
It is well that his history he known. Every
man who is letting himself slip might learn
his own salvation from the plight of Becker.
When death comes home, the wickedest man
in New York, the boldest, most boastful, most
cruel, most arrogant of knaves, finds himself
"swaying from side to side, now weeping
violently, then bursting into lou' threats
against those who had caused his conviction."
Mexico Will Not Reform Herself
PRESIDENT WILSON has borne patiently
with Mexico?borne not only the dis
orders its warring clans and rival revolu
tionists have created and the devastation
they ha.ve wrought, but the angry and spite
ful, and at times almost menacing, criti
cisms of his own countrymen. Now his
much-abused endurance reachos the breaking
point. He gives the parti-colored patriots
distinctly to understand that they must either
amend their ways, bring order to their dis
tracted land or submit to the firm regulation
that some one must supply, and that he will
supply.
The President's Mexican policy was born
of an enlightened humanitarianism which
amazes and rather offends, each time it is
displayed, a jealous and distrustful world.
His desire to do good because it is right,
rather than because it is profitable, is some
thing that the man of the world, whose code
of ethics begins and sometimes ends with
the maxim, "Honesty is the best policy," can
neither forgive nor understand.
The old-school statesmen laugh at it.
Altruism is all right for women, children and
preachers, they believe, and may have oc
casional justification in the lives of ordinary
men, hut it has nothing to do with national
policy. As to that':
. . . Tlio jronrl nlrl rule
Stifllceth them?the simple plan.
That he shall take \vh<> hath the power.
And he shall keep who ran.
So, naturally, they couldn't understand
the President's views as to Mexico. There
was every excuse to climb over the fence
and get something, and. for the life of ther1,
they couldn't see why there should be any
delay.
Should Mr. Wilson decide to intervene in
Mexico, his critics will hail this result as a
vindication of their own wisdom and final
proof of the President's folly. They will
declare lie should have intervened lone ago;
that his failure to do so then indicates weak
ness and his decision to do so now vacilla
tion.
They will not comprehend his feeling?
that, however, an increasing number of his
fellow-countrymen have come to share?that
even troubled Mexico was entitled to a chance
to work out her own salvation. They will
not understand because at bottom they are
not democrats?with a small d at any rate?
and are quite as well satisfied with a gov
ernment that is applied from without, as
with one that is evolved from within. They
don't care a rap about a free Mexico; all
they ask is a pacified Mexico. If the pacifica
tion is produced with the butt end of a rltte,
they are yet perfectly content, the more espe
cially as they have no intention of volunteer
ing for the fight.
It would seem now that the rifle-hutt
meth,od may have to be employed. Mexico
needs it for herself, and?which is somewhat
more important?Mexico's interminable broils
have become dangerous and menacing to us.
We cannot endure forever a political and
revolutionary ? pesthole 011 our Southern
border. The President, for many and valid
reasons, has preferred to have Mexico find
her own path to peace and safety; but if
needs mu::t, we shall put her ourselves in
the straight and narrow way.
Special Propaganda in Public Schools
rHK question has arisen in Baltimore and
other cities, and In time will reach Rich
mond. as to whether the public schools may
he used for the instruction of youth in the
evils of cigarette-smoking. The answer,
without other consideration, is that the
proper place for such instruction is in the
home, in tho daily life of the hoy. Smoking,
along with other objectionable practices
among youth, may be prohibited in school
or on school grounds as a matter of regula
tion. but it is not the llrst purpose of public
schools to instruct in things other than those
connected with fundamental education. Any
destructive or injurious habit may be at
tacked, indirectly or incidentally, in the
stated study of physiology, hygiene or any
of the physical sciences, but to single out
cigarettes or any other alleged vice for the
satisfaction of those especially interested in
suppression would be to divert attention from
the necessary things.
Without doubt there is merit in the con
tention that cigarette-smoking, because of
the wholesale availability of the article and
the fact that cigarettes depend principally
upon deep inhaling for their effect on the
nervous system, interferes with application
to studies, and should, therefore, be discour
aged in and by the public-school system.
Hut, again, that is a question of home train
ing and influence, and 110 set of enthusiasts
along this or any other line should be allowed
to cloud the issue?which is, that the youth
of America require, for their future success,
tho solid fabric of real education, with very
few frills.
Now a mask has been invented to protect
men from the deadly fumes of gas bombs.
So fast as they make things to kill, some one
Invents a preventive, until one would think
the inventors were in cahoots to make nations
waste money.
This is the merry season when all the State
agricultural colleges join their protest against
underdone appropriations. And yt we
have the annual distribution of government
seeds, and that should keep up interest.
A wide-awake German firm making arti
ficial limbs is flooding France with catalogues
offering to sell cork legs at a price below
competition. This is the last straw in irony.
In rnion Center, N. V., Gregory Goode has
just been married to Emmeline Prudence
I)amm, and every darned headlinor in the
country wrote it: "Damm-Goode Wedding."
An Oklahoma woman with a gun held up
two Oklahoma bandits and made them divide
recent loot, which, considering the vitality of
present-day feminism, is some vindication.
The Pope denies that he forced the Vatican
diplomats of Germany and Austria to leave.
However, they probably didn't care to stay,
anyhow.
SONGS AND SAWS
llrblrtb. ,
We hear to-day aomc old war sons.
Tho world heard long ago.
And memory sweeps tho years along,
To battle's ebb and flow.
Wc see again tho thin gray Uno
That flung Itself in might
Through forests of shot-riddled pin?
Or stormed a mountain height.
'"Thou wilt not cower in the dust,
Maryland, my Maryland.
Thy gleaming sword shall never rust,
Maryland, my Maryland.
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the Just,
Maryland, my Maryland."
Yes, these songs fill the air to-day
* As fifty years ago
They burst forth from the proud array
That met the stubborn foe.
The voices of the men who sing
Have lost youth's clarion peal,
Tet still the deathless stanzas ring,
Yet still youth's fire reveal.
"Sons of the South, awake! awake!
Anil strike for rights full dear as those
For which our struggling sires did shake
Earth's proudest throne?while freedom
rose *
Baptized in blood of braggart foes.
Awake! That hour hath come again."
Ah, knights who bore the Southern ? ross.
Your glories are not past;
The world that sorrowed for your loss
Of hopes too fair to last.
Is thrilled again to hear a song
That it heard long ago.
As memory sweeps the years along,
To bat lie's ebb and flow.
"And here's to old Virginia?
The Old Dominion State?
With the young Confed'racy
At length has linked her fate.
Impelled by her example
Now other States prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star.
Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!"
.Not Very Serious.
"No." paid the once muii
i cal maid, firmly, "I could r.ot
sing even if you should ask
'ne. I have given it up."
"But why?" asked the won
dering friend. .
"The doctor ordered it."
"Is that all?"?breathed the
friend, with :i sVh of relief.
"1 was afraid it might have
been the police."
The PeNNlmlnt Snym
A reasonable amount o. curiosity is not always
an undesirable trait. There are few persons
more disagreeable than the man who will not
listen to our stories of our children's brilliance.
A Prut?Thnt'* All.
Rain. rain, the beautiful rain?
My, but you give me a te/riblo pain!
You always come pouring and U-mbling down
Bight through the air and the streets of t'.:e town.
.lust when finite nobody wants you around?
You worst of all pests that I ever have found.
THK TATTLER.
Chats With Virginia Editors
Just what it all means, we do not know, hut
here is what the Staunton News has to say:
"From a Maryland exchange we learn that a
rabbit has slipped up on and bit a hunter. In
view of this unfortunate occurrence, we wish to
warn the citizens of Augusta that we have no
ticed from dispatches that fish are also biting.
In case of attack, the public will remember this
warning and blame us."
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot points a moral
and adorns a tale in the following paragraph:
"An army shoe lasts only six weeks, and Eu
rope has millions of soldiers In the field. The
prospect ought to be tinged with a roseate hue
for New England in general and for Massa
chusetts in particular."
Bristol is in a bad way, and the newspaper of
that town Is in a much worse way?that is. the
part of it that moves and has Its being on the ,
Virginia side of the line. The conclusion above !
indicated is justified by the following from the
Bristol Herald-Courier: "The publication of '
Sunday newspapers Is not prohibited in other
cities and towns that have Sunday closing
laws. Only a few cities and towns have clos
ing laws, probably for the reason that such
laws, if not contrary to the spirit an?l letter 1
of tho Constitution of the United States, are
not in consonance with it.
The ugly Newport News Times-Herald, with
out daring to give the name or the initial of its
informant, says: " 'An Old Vet' complains that
the Confederates are likely to be a side attrac
tion in the reunion in Richmond this week; but
the old vets cannot hope to compete with the
young sponsors." No old %vet has said anything
of tho kind. If there was one on the ^arth
who thought it. and he was in Richmond this
week, he has changcd his mind. Her<\ this
week, the old vet has certainly been in com
mand, and no one dared to question his right
so to do.
Current Editorial Comment
As n social gathering tbe Pan
American Financial Conference
helrl at Washington through last
week was a success. Nor !s a
success of this kind without its
value In laying tho groundwork i
for larger trade relations. But the great ini- !
mediate problem before the conference was left
at the end hanging in tho air as it was at the
beginning. "It is the sense of the conference
that improved ocean transportation facilities !
between the countries composing the Pan- i
American Union has become a vital and impera
tive necessity." It will doubtless interest Sen
ators and subsidists who defeated the admtnis- j
tration's ship-purchase bill last winter that the
South American delegates to the conference were
practically a unit on the requirement of gov
ernment action to meet this "vital and impera
tive necessity." Their own governments were
ready to assume a share of the enterprise.
Hut tin- hands of our government had been tied.
We presume those South American delegates
know as much of the needs of the situation as
American editors who talk of ships following
trade against trade following ships. This is
right as a general rule, but when a world war is
trying to force into our hands a great Kuropean
trade with Latin America and is holding back
or sinking the ships that carried it, what then?
What is private "enterprise" going to do about it
now that government action has been killed off
at the command of old subsidy??New York
World.
Now comes lovely, love-laden
Weddinir J"?e?the month of blushing
R#?ll? Hinrr br,,J<,a and?well, the bridegrooms
f t ,,re usustl,y stm ,n?re crimson of
in ?)uno face, unless they are chalk-white
with fear. "In the spring a
young man's"?you know the rest?and In June,
he most often gets his ideal?or whatever you
may call her. Why the poet should have limited
those spring "thoughts of love" to the mere
masculine is not unite clear, unless he meant
to infer that a young girl's "fancy" turned seri
ously in the same direction all through the
year. F-?ut let the scoffers scoff. However comi
cal "love's young dream" may se?m at times to
the oldsters, it Is, after all, the sweetest and the
realest thing in life, and the most appealing.
It Is the one real glimpse of heaven that we poor
earthworms get here below, and poor indeed is
he or she who has never known Its joy. Some
times the dream fades Into a drab reality, or J
Headline
a Lame
('(inclusion
worse. Its ecstusy Is at host but transient. Men
find they huve not married the angels they sup
posed, and brides soon discover that their liege
lords arc not the noble super-men they thought
them. But love, albeit saner and less Idyllic,
persists In a vast majority of American homes,
ai)d love Is the greatest fact In human existence
?the greatest gift vouchsafed to man from high
heaven. Let tho wedding bells ring out!?Balti
more Sun.
War News Fifty Years Ago i
(From Newspaper Files, Juno 2, 1865.)
A new general military order has been Issued.
It Is designated general order No. 8. There are
so many general military orders that It 1b very
hard to keep up with them. But this particular
one goes on to say that clergymen and magis
trates are Instructed to properly Inform and
Instruct the negroes In regard to the status they
ought to hold, "In the sight of God and man,"
In the matter of marital relations. The order
reads in a peculiar way, and leaves It upon the
mind of the unsophisticated negro that to be
really married he must waltz up before a Fed
eral official, pay a $2 fee and call himself and
herself legally married. There are Federal
officials who are doing the marriage business by
the wholesale, performing- as many as twenty
five ceremonies at one tlmo and all In a line, at
$2 per ceremony.
All kinds of people are doing fast things In
the way of calling on Governor Pierpont, tho
so-called Governor of Virginia. Among those
who doffed their hats before His August Majesty
yesterday were W. K. Richardson, late adjutant
general of Virginia; Hon. C. B. Hall, of Loudoun
County, and Dr. Strihling, president of the Asy
lum of the Insane at Staunton.
The farcical trial of the alleged conspirators
is going on nt Washington, and going on in a
very slow way. The Washington papers carry
some very long-drawn-out details of one kind
and another, hut up to the present writing there
have been no new developments.
Noah Walker & Co., of Richmond and Haiti
more. principally of Baltimore, because they de
serted Richmond as soon as the fighting com
menced in 1861, have come back to the old stand,
and will open up some kind of a clothing house.
They are looking for the clippings after the
d rappings.
The recent freshets that have flushed all of
the rivers and the creeks In Virginia seem to
have had much more effect in Prince George
County than elsewhere, so far as heard from.
Several mills have been washed down In that
county.
The reports of the crime of rape that are
coming in from all parts of Virginia and from '
all parts of the South are terribly distressing.
Th*i law that was once called the "order of }
lynch" is to lie invoked. It has already been ;
invoked, and the men who wore the gray uni
form, and are supposed to he under a kind of
parole, are not going to regard that parole. If it '
forbids work under tin- order of "lynch." Tho
white women <>f The South are going to bo pro- ?
tectcd by law if possible, without law if need be. |
Two negroes, guilty i.f the crime of rape, were
hung-by th?-ir necks in Campbell Counts- last
week.
The "Voice of the People
lienr (lunril of the Confcd^mcj.
To tlie Kditor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?The rear guard of the army of tho South
land?the men of <*hancellorsville. Chlckatnauga, 1
Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Slilloh, the Bloody j
Angle and Cold Harbor, will pass In review on
tlie hallowed ground of a historic capital. The 1
heart of Richmond and the cheering thousands ?
will swell with pride, and the heart of each j
veteran will beat faster in response to the mag
nificent welcome. And so with their ranks closed |
as gallantly as of yore, with the decimating
years hanging on their flanks, their brave old
eyes shining true, with heads held high despite
the snows that crown them, the old veterans will
march in close order to-morrow beneath the
silken folds of the Bonnie Mine Flag.
And here will be battle flai;s tattered and
torn with shot and shell, and begrimed with
powder and smoke, but each rent will tell its
dramatic story of battle, and each stain mark
an emblem of glory.
Richmond will gaze with pride upon the
superb spectacle as she sheds a silent tear of
affection for tin- "boys" who stood like a "Stone
wail" in her defense and who flinched not am Id
tile death song of the rifle halls and the wild
shrieking of the bursting shells.
I see in fancy Stonewall Jackson advancing
at the head of his legions, as rising in his stir
rups he waves his sword, and his voice ringing
above the din of battle, "Virginians, follow me!"
When the Stonewall Brigade charged the earth
trembled with the imparl of his wild battalions,
and the welkin cracked with the shrill terror
of the "rebel yell" in the name of the god of
ha 11 le.
Wood-by, old "vet." Tho end of your long and
lofty life will soon come when a moving volume
of human history will be closed and clasped.
Full of years, full of fame, and full of honors,
you will bear to the grave the blessings of a united
country and a record without the spot of an
u ilk nightly deed.
The laurel will draw eternal freshness from
the cypress with which it will he twined; the
artist will enshrine your form and features in
noblest work of brush and chisel; poets will
hymn the heroic pathos of your life in thrilling
??pit- strains, and the sweetest of lyrics will tell
to posterity the story of the chivalric Confed
erate?an American, proud of his country that
was. and ever will he proud of him.
And when a hundred generations shall have
rolled by. right and duty will still speak to the
Confederate man and l?e obeyed, and in the
great Southern heart hope still singing her
victorious song.
A hundred years from now the praise of the
Confederate soldier will find universal echo in
the heart of the civilized world.
A hundred, a thousand years from now, men's
hearts will leap up when they behold the monu
ments of Robert R. I-.ee and Stonewall Jackson.
Culpeper, Vrt., May 30, lfilS.
Confederntr Idonl* of Wnr,
To the Editor of TJie Tlmes-Dlspatch:
Sir.?For the benefit of the present generation
I wish to Rive you an account of a war incident
of the year 1S64. when the Armv of Northern
Virginia, under General Lee. and (he Armv of
the Potomac, under General Grant, were facing
each other on the Southside.
General Grant's headquarters were at Citv
Point, and that was the base of his supplies
Colonel Thomas H. Carter, of the Second Corps
of the Army of Northern Virginia, had been
ordered by General I,ee to remain tin the north
side of the James River with several battalions
of artillery, and was directed to annoy the
enemy's transportation In James River, below
City Point. On one. occasion he took three
batteries of artillery to a bluff below Willeox
handing, on James River, some distance below
City Point. He placed the batteries at night,
concealing them with brush. At daylight the
next morning they were ready to attempt to
annoy the enemy. For several hours :io"thing
passed up or down the river in this locality, hut
l;iter in the day a large passenger steamer" came
up James River, bound for City Point, loaded
down with troops. Nothing- could he seen on
her as the steamer approached except soldiers.
The guns were aJl sighted for her and the
command "ready" was given as the steamer pot
in close ranpe. Just as the men were about to
fire two women walked out on the upper deck
of the steamer and began looking around the
country. Colonel Carter ordered the men not to
(ire, saying. "We are fighting armed men, not
women." It was afterwards ascertained that
there were more than 300 commissioned officers
on that steamer, and that those two women
were the only noncombatants aboard.
The above "incident can well be contrasted with
the action taken in regard to the Lusltania. In
one case chivalry and humanity prevailed. In
regard to the other I wish to make no comment,
leaving that for others. COURIER.
Richmond. June 1. 1015.
Queries and Answers
School Snlorlen.
How may I learn the amount of salary of
principals of grammar and high schools in Vir
ginia? K. n.-s.
Such a record is kept in the office of the
State Superintendent in Richmond and in the
ottice of each district superintendent for his
own district.
Itlchmond.
What was the former area of Richmond?
\\ hat is its present area?
RUFFNER SCHOOL.
The present area is twenty-four and one-third
square miles. The figures usually published Just
before were eleven square miles. In 1914 the
figures were five and one-half square miles, etc.
I'lumhrm.'
Must one stand an examination to he licensed
as a plumber In Richmond? p.
Yes. You can get full Information from the
Plumbers' Examining Board, City Hall.
ANYTHING TO WIN!
One of the Day's Best Cartoons.
?From the New York Evening Sun.
REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL LEE
IIy K?l*rnr?l V. Valenllnf.
Possibly if I were asked to name the
noat characteristic feature of General
Robert K. f.c,. who ?al for fof ^
,n 1S;o- m-v answer would be " A
ln'"uT nhHOnr" 01 th* melodramatic
in all that he saM and did." And 1 may
add that an art?st. above all other men.
* nuUk to observe the faintest sugges
t on of posing; the slightest, Indica
on of a movement or an expression
I.e.; SrT ?f V"nUy hC ?"? to
? uch weaknesses (which, as
'ar as I know, are shared by many who
/"J th' "Kr**1 '"l"" Of the
w orld) were totally lacking In General
In my diary (which, with the oml?- |
"/lnKl,? I have kept since
o.) 1 have endeavored to note down
the very words of my sitters ?t time,:
?nd only on Ono OCCJ|,Ion (,M Qen
Lee make the sliKhtes, remark In re
tard to the likeness which would le?d
me to believe that he had critically I
ften matching the progress of
work, and this was when the bust was
In an unfinished condition
>n the 25th of May. jsto General
*****? si
"f >is fslco 'fo%r
1 was able ^rt^
ca'loii ?h-i t* rCP' V"tU wa" that oc
a-ion that | experienced for the lirsi
?me h?s quiet sense of humor. During
tTT""? 1 ha,i wl,h
h.?i Jipoko "f how ,?y fortun.-s
v h \henR? 1rp ,h" W;,r- Possibly
with the expectation of hearing some
**r> sympathetic words from him but
? m! surprise he simply remarked that
inonov" i?#Rl11 "0t l" hav* "? '"Uch
money. | am sure that he had at the
moment no conception of the condition
after this?*' f?r ,n lf>ss ,ha? '?nvs
after this conversation I had to borrow
uo toA r'a,tiye ,h" necessary funds to
. . . .PxinKton trt 'node| h. t
which I have mentioned. Mavbe how
rv;r. It was for my consolatioA th u
later in the conversation he said "Mis.
fortune nobly borne Is good fortune"
At the moment I thought the sentiment,
was original with him. but some time1
?ifter his death while my wife was
reading a oud the "Meditations of Mar
cus Aurelius,' j discovered that it wis
a quotation from that author. \t
rate, no more appropriate epitaph could
be carved on the tomb of the jreat V r
f^liiian. 1
Just before parting with the general
I remarked that 1 would go to Lexing- I
on then or In the faU. and he replied
that he would have more time at the
|atter season. but that 1 had better ~o
then. The fact of his appointing an
early date for the sittings made the Im
pression on my mind that lie was at 1
he moment thinking of the uncertainty
of life. Mad I waited until the fall
possibly I should never have had him
pose for me. He died October 1"
l' J*'". I Wt Richmond fori
2 , hy wav of 'he Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad. going via Goshen
Pass, made ever memorable by the words !
mJmi i/?31 VlrR,n,an- Commander I
,'iL V? i 1 ?ntalne Maury, who on his
deathbed asked that his remains be1
.V* ,e11 through this beautiful defile
when the laurels are In bloom." I ar
rived in Lexington by stage earlv the
next morning.and called on General Lee
at bis residence. He was very kind in
his manner; showed me the portraits
hanging on the wall; and then I start
ed to seek a room where I might model
the bust. After an unsuccessful search
ror this tempornry studio. I reported to
the general, who possibly from mv
manner saw that I was disappointed in
not finding one. At any rate, he said 1
.jou can work in here." speaking of
the room on the left In the front hall !
I at once remarked that there was a
carpet on the floor. "I will have that
taken up." e said. Rut I preferred
not to accept his kind offer." and in a I
further hunt I found a vacant store
under the hotel on the main street. Un
fortunately, it had been closed 1 know
not how long, and I feared the damp
ness. Although it was in June j h*id
a fire lighted, for 1 had noticed that
the general would put his hand on his
breast from time to time, probably suf
fering with a heart trouble that fol
lower! an attack of pneumonia after th?
battle of Fredericksburg.
The day of my arrlval the general
walked with me up into the town
?Stopping at a store where lie espied
an acquaintance (Mr. Archibald A lev*,
ander). he said. "Mr. Archie, here is a
young gentleman from Richmond who
has come to make a bust of me. I wish
you would sit for him."
All such Jokes could but be reassur
ing to me. and I began to feel less
dread at being closeted for days with
this great man.
After the sittings began we were in
reality/closeted. I had been requested
frWo .T not to allow ?ny one to come
Whi.I room "no one but Professor
Uhitc and my son Custis," he said
suited me exactly. Seeing the
?irTlf8tu manftr ln wh,ch 1 w?nt to the
work, he gave me every advantage. I
ra?ml1iJyuttUdl*'1 ,hft face' and tol(1 him
I would like to.see his mouth. He knew
what tli.it meant, ami I raised hi]
mustache and took measurements of h!
lips. Willi'; tin- work was progressing
he would from time to time entertaiL
me with reminiscences and an>??dote?l
11" seemed to be fond of speaking c|
his boyhood, snimminK in the Potomal
?of his teacher. Weir, at West Poin
ami of the Mexican War. I was al?
much Interested In hearing his corr
nients on persons and things of a mot
recent date.
Kvery artist of experience in pot
tfailure appreciates the advantage
being able to work from a costur
which he knows has been worn by tl
subject whom he has to represent,
could not expect to cet a whole cos
tutile, hut 1 did desire to income th
possessor of a pair of the general]
military boots The question was hot
to get them. I al last thought of th
expedient of approaching the subjec.
by te 11ink my sitter an anecdote of al
office-seeker who begged that President
Andrew Jackson would consider htl
claim as minister to England. In
tlie man was tolrl that there was ad
ready a minister at the court of Si
James's Then the applicant desired tl
lie s < ? n t as secretary of legation. ixx
was told that that office was also Mle'
Then he wished to be sent as consul
but there was no vacancy. "^"eM
then," said the importunate man. "wit
you Kive me the place of vice-consul?!
"And there is no vacancy there, elther.l
said "Old Hickory" sharply. "Well
then. Mr. President, would you give m
a pair of old boots?" I
"That is what I would like to hav
vou do for me. general." said I. I
"I think there is a pair at the nousl
that you can have," said he. And tM
next morning the general brought then
under his arm to my working room, anl
they are now safely stored in a oanl
In Richmond. While 1 prize them mosl
tnuhlv they were not exactly what r
wanted 1 was in hopes that he woul<
give me a pair of military boots slmll
l-.r to those which I have often w"rk?1
from, though I have found difficulty
getting a man of any size who couU
pose in them for me. Jhey jvere to
Cirge f?r the general. The size of th
nair he gave me Is No. 4 1
hiv are dress boots Wrl.trnonth
lining is the following: R. E. Lee?
\ The Outlook.
The Good Old Rebel
Ily lnnew Itnndolph.
|Thp following verses, which ?
to music, and formed one of the fa\or
i,o songs of the Reneration now n ar
Lone were written almost tnimediatt?l
nfter the close of the Civil War. whei
the South was in the throes of recot,
struction, and when an oath of allegl
ance and consequent P*rd?" * ?h.Ji
requisite to the rights of cltlzensh p.J
Oil. I'm a good old Rebel.
Now that's Just what T am.
For this "fair Land of Freedom
1 don't care a dam.
rm. glad I fit against it?
I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
I hates the Constitution.
This great Republic, too;
1 hates the Freedmen's Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle.
With all his brag and fuss;
The lyln', tliicWn' Yankees.
I hates 'em wuss and wuss
I hates the Yankee Nation
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too.
I hates the glorious Union,
'Tls dripping with our blood;
I hates the striped banner?
I fit It all I could.
I followed old Mars' Robert
For four year, near about.
Got wounded in three placos, .
And starved at Pint Lookout
I cotched the roomatism
A-campin" in the snow.
Rut I killed a chancc of Yankoes?
I'd like to kill some mo*.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Refore they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
? I wisli it was three millions
Instead of what we got.
1 can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no more,
Rut 1 ain't agoln' to love 'em,
Now that Is sartln sure.
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
I won't be reconstructed.
And 1 don't care a dam.
IIIn Winnings 6 Cents and 2 Halos.
(Detroit Free Press.)
T. n.'s butting average in the libel
courts Is still 1.000.
And One That Inn't of Paper.
(Chicago News.)
Europe seems to ha've had several
scraps of paper.