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WiCriNESDAY, .U'.Vi: 30, 1015.
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\ow for the Bondholders
,VT CSV that Virginia lias won the debt case
IN against West Virginia, there will he more
rouble between the State ami the bond
holders. As The Times-Dispatch told last
vyeek. Major Holmes Conrad, counsel for the
bondholders, has announced his purpose to
Apply for a receiver, to take charge of the
Honey West Virginia has heen ordered to
pay, and this motion will he opposed deter-'
pained ly.
?J The bondholders do not care to have these
[evinillions handled by the debt commission.
^V.Tli'e milk in the coconut is represented by
; their objection to repaying to the State ihe
; interest oil West Virginia's share of the
'^original debt, that Virginia paid the bond
vholders before the apportionment. The con
^^troversy that will be waged will be inter
tjesting, but we think we may expect the Su
y'lpreme Court to take the view of the matters
jjf4iin issue that is held by the legal ropresenta
rcjxitives of the Common wealth.
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j^.; Character
HE little newsboy who followed his base
ball through the window of a hardware,
store last Sunday, and there, with a cotn
ijj panion, was arrested by policemen, lias
! learned early in life the value of character.
When he was arraigned in the Juvenile Court,
men well known in Richmond, who were the
{^customers of his business, and whose rela
tions with hitn had taught them confidence
? in his truth and honesty, went forward to
^testify in hi& behalf.
Despite whatever suspicion attached to the
situation in which he was found, the evidence
of these friends suHlced to assure the lad's
complete exoneration. Justice Crutchfield
believed his story and gave him compliments
as well as liberty.
It is hardly necessary to point the moral
of this page torn from the book of human
life?the moral enforces itself?but it is
worth pondering. Its lesson is not for the
young only, although
them particularly, but
larger growth.
it addresses itself to
as well to boys of a
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A Message From the (?rave
MBROSE 1UKRCH, in one of bis most
horrible stories, tells of a Union soldier
.wounded at Stone River. The man comes to
his senses to find himself on the battle field,
and he looks eagerly an.eud to see whuJi
\vay the struggle has gone. He tinds the,
("field deserted imagines that his army
has retreated. \Y<iiw4< ring along, however, he
suddenly runs across sr monument dedicated
to the L'nion soldiers killed at Stone River,
and the liionu". > ;it is lti ch with^noss. Only
$ then the ? ?> :n?realizes that he has been
unconscious. . >r thirty years
Keminisc< ? of t his story is
in real In
& ^.Thurston Jo .
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H-iit Gettysburg
.were killed and
? Would seek tl.<
his death and >1
recent event
and William
ie l'nion side
James Rigs
; together on the
They agreed that ii the one
the other spared, the survivor
dead man's family, tell of
?liver a last message Riggiu
was killed in the battle, but Thurston was
v' utterly unalde to Jind his family and dis
charge \I'* iTissTuli. Recently however, he
t?,|scover-that Riggin's relatives lived in
D-d. Thurston went there and de
Hi. gin's last message more than fifty
i: had been intrusted to hitn.
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?s to be assume 1
Committee on
named, will r<
< hai'ter!
f i.erally that tho
Charter Revision,
<pect the wishes of
organized Civic Association in the
ii of the live citizen members. That
?hould be. The association is the out
i. i visible sign of that inward and
race which has moved Richmond
ietlon with h-r existing organic
. it:3 wishes in the matter are entitled
? pecific regard.
' ??) assured that {'resident Peters. r>f
union Council, and President Adams,
Board of Aldermen
will make their
lections with great care The Council's
st thought and most unselfish devotion to
e public good should go into the member
flip of this committee. The ?' vie As.socla
f.on also may be expectcd to beti ly an equal
l.ense < f responsibility. The committee should
be so organized and condio * ii:- ( liberations
\n such a spirit that it. fin'..n. will merit
|nd i e < ;ve popular confide; .
No city charter can guarantee good govern
ment. for, after all, tha' is a -..ttu-r of men,
ither than of measure.-. A bad charter,
tow-ever, may negative or dlst -urtige munici
pal efficiency. The best organic law is that
'which adapts itself to the city s special situa
tion and needs and to th. genius of the peo
ple, so* that the natural craving of the mass
>f the. citizenship for econo: y. eitlciency and
r progress has the fairest <. port unity to be
1 realized.
i. Tho laboratory system of nstruction is the
k most satisfactory, as well as the most scien
? tine. We trust the committee, or subcom
mittees. will be encouraged while delibera
te Clous proceed to visit other cities where
modern charters nro in operation. "The proof
f the pudding is in the eating thereof," and
no organic law. however admirable techni
cally or theoretically, is worth while unless
it will work.
This is not to say we must make no new
departures?perhaps we shall be able to blaze
the way along which other cities will pro
gress?but experience is an excellent guide
even to the pioneer. It teaches him at least
what he should avoid.
I low Britain Wrongs Us
SOME current failure of comprehension of
this government's attitude toward the
British orders in /council is based on an
antecedent failure to distinguish between
seizures of ships at sea, because they are
carrying contraband of war, and seizures
made when the vessels are undertaking to
run a lawfully established blockade. In the
former case, of course, seizures may be
effected anywhere; in the latter, only by a
ship of the blockading squadron and when
intent to evade the blockade is established.
In the latter case. also, the right of seizure
is not limited by the fact that the cargo is
wholly noncontraband.
It is true that as to contraband the Federal
government in the War Between the States
established the doctrines of "continuous voy
age" and "ultimate destination," and by the
application of these principles prevented the
shipment of arms and ammunition through
Nassau and Mexico into the Confederacy.
These doctrines had nothing to do with the
blockade of Southern ports that was main
tained by cordons of Federal warships. As ?
contraband, arms and munitions were subject
to seizure anywhere, and without regard to
the existence or nonexistence of a blockade.
That they were to stop for a time at a neutral
port oti the way to supply the Confederate
armies was held by the Supreme Court not
to change their essential character.
A blockade is another matter altogether.
Its purpose is lok stop all trade between the
ports blockaded and neutral countries,
whether the trade be in contraband or non
contraband. Its validity depends on its effec
tiveness, and its agreement with the principles
of international law. It never can, for ex
ample, extend lawfully to the coast line of a
neutral nation, which is what the orders in
council attempt to do for the so-called "block
ade" England has proclaimed.
England essays to stop, not only trade in
contraband, between this country and Ger
many, through Hollund and Scandinavia, but
trade of every description whatever. She has
undertaken to forbid American importation
through neutral countries of German prod
ucts necessary lo the successful operation of
American industries. So far as we are in
formed, no such doctrine has ever been
acquiesced in by the Un.ted States or any
other government.
Germany upholds her barbarous submarine
policy on the ground that it is "necessary,"
and Great Britain can offer no better defense
of her own violations of law. The United
States protests in both cases because its inter
ests ar ? affected and its rights violated. If
it admits the British plea of necessity and
reprisal, it must confess the German plea to
be equally valid, because in law they have
precisely the same foundation?which is none,
at all.
It is no answer to the American protest
for Great Britain to suggest, or even to prove,
that contraband shipments from this country
have Jn the past months of the war found
their way into Germany, or that, despite limi
tations, American trade has maintained a
degree of prosperity. Shipment^ of absolute
contraband leave the United States every
day consigned to allied ports, and we point
out to Germany with equal justice and accu
racy that it * not the duty of a neutral, but
of the belligerent, to pnevent these goods
reaching their destination. We point out,
moreover, that the preventive ineaturto
taken, when they concern our citizens, must
accord with the rules of civilized warfare.
We tell Great Britain exactly the same thing.
We who sympathize with the allies may
rejoice?as we do?that international law.
strictly and Impartially pursued, in spirit and
in letter, gives the overwhelming advantage
of our trade to the allied cause. That is no
reason, however, why we should violate our
own neutrality and compromise our own
dignity by permitting, unchallenged, the Brit
ish invasion of our indisputable rights.
Homancc in <he Hospital
n* OUTUNATELY, war has its humorous
1 side as wtil 1 as its tragic, or this old
globe would he too mournful for living on
these days. We have hoard so much of the
prodigious sacrifices made by all classes in
all the countries engaged in the struggle that
it is somewhat refreshing to learn that ordi
nary human weakness s.nd vanity still exist.
The Countess of Warwick has come out
with a long wail as to the manner in which
the society nurses in Ei.gland conduct them
selves. She complains that the butterflies
of London who have donned the nurse garb
and attached themselves to hospitals do not
take the duties ,of their calling with any
degree of seriousness. According to the
countess, they are a law unto themselves,
constantly seek notoriety in the papers, and
are eternally having their pictures taken in
attractive costumes, and monopolize all the
wounded men of attractions, leaving the ordi
nary soldiers to the care of auinbler nurses.
Their favorite idea of being on duty is to
smoke cigarettes with wounded officers.
What did the Countess of Warwick expect?
Did she imagine that the London society girls
would change their nature in a night? Does
she imagine that spoiled darlings prefer the
scrubbing of floors and the bandaging of
wounds to flirtations with handsome officers.
Quo of the greatest attractions of the calling
of nursing lies in its infinite possibilities of
romance. Surely tho countess cannot think
that those women to whom romance is life
itself would neglect such possibilities.
The Riggs hank case has been postponed
again, and, in the meantime, the Treasury
holds on to that $5,000 fine. As Juslico
McCoy already has held tho bank had no
other excuse for being in court than tho possi
ble recovery of this money, tho course of the
litigation ran scarcely be affording it much
satisfaction.
A Tennessee court having decided that the
locker law is illegal, and that liquor may be
kept at clubhouses, it will not be necessary
now for the club members to build additions
to th? ir homes or hire a warehouse.
American importers, like most other
Americana, do not appreciate Britain's curi
ous idea of consideration for international
law. They would ratfcer be treated justly
than kindly.
SONGS AND SAWS
IllNCretlou.
"Oh, why should the spirit
Of mortal be proud?"
The mule of the species
Is never allowed
i3y the once gentler sex
To voice his belief?
Which you'll own well enough
AccQunts for his grief.
No, this age deals a blow
To man, in his pride;
lie's wisest when meekest?
That can't be denied.
The I'e.MKiiiilut Sojh:
The President might settle "this Mexican row
by locking Villa, lluerta and Carranza in a small
room and bestowing his favor on the patriot
who emerges. If none emerges, that will provo
it to have been one of the President's lucky
days.
Somewhat Qualified.
"Does Mrs. Snlffein really
mind her own business?"
"Of course she does, but
her sole business in llfo is
to mix herself up in the af
fairs of other people."
I<Iv1iik l'p to IIIm Itcpututlon.
Orubbs?Binks is generally considered a good
fellow, Isn't he?
Stubbs?You bet he is! Why he was never
known to pay a bill or refuse to buy a drink.
ilrcomilzrd.
"See here," said the prominent citizen, as ho
handed a coin to the importunate mendicant,
"why don't you try to do something? A big.
strong fellow like you can always pick up a
good thing."
"Exactly right, sir." said the I. M., pocketing
the sliver, "and Just what I said to myself when
yon hove in sight."
Sheer Brutality.
"I don't think you can really care for me any
longer," cried the young bride, as, dissolved in
tears, she threw herself upon tTie couch.
"Why not?" nski-d the perplexed bridegroom.
"Why do you say things like that? Didn't I
kiss you before I left home this morning?"
"Ve-es" you did," admitted the disconsolate
fair one, "but as you walked to the corner to
catch the car you turned and waved good-by
on-ly thr-ee ti-mes."
All Save One.
Tho stern reformer oft proclaims
He is not out for pelf;
He simply would reform the world?
Except, of course, himself.
THE TATTLER
Chats With Virginia Editors
rf
"The Richmond Times-Dispatch says that
the Times-Herald 'Is always finding something
to boast about in a local way.' We do not
have to liiul it, dear friend; something or other
of that sort forces itself on our attention every
clay," says the Newport News Times-Herald.
Very good. In fact, good enough!
One of the brightest stories that ever came
out of the slow but good old town of Clarks
ville is found In the current Issue of riie Meck
lenburg Times-Star, and hero it is: "Mr. George
W. Uappleyea, late of New York, Kong Branch
and Clarksvllle, but now of Southport, N. C.,
has been in Clarksville several days supervis
ing the electrical work that is being done here.
Many of us will, in beholding the beautiful
lights with which Clarksville is now adorned,
behold in a vision-like way the handsome form
of this brilliant young electricpl engineer under
whoso influence and encouragement this much
needed enterprise was inaugurated and con
summated."
The Accomao News Is delighted beyond
measure at some of the good things the bank
ers have been doing. The News says: "The
vast majority of Virginians will be glad to
know of at least three resolutions passed by
the Virginia Bankers' Association in the con
vention hold at Old Point last week. They up
held President Wilson's foreign policy, and
sent a lettor to the Comptroller of the Currency,
John Skelton Williams, expressing the associa
tion's confidence In him in his efforts to 'carry
out tlx* laws governing his department.' This,
of course, had reference to the recent attack
made upon him by the Kiggs National Hank
and other allied financial interests. The reso
lution to do away with liquors at tho future
banquets of the body was passed at tho final
session. This will mean a saving of about
each year, and it also gives evidence of an ef
fort to bring one of the most Important organi
zations in the State in line with the Virginia
liquor law, which goes into effect November
1, l!tlt?."
Here is some interesting rural Virginia his
tory that is clipped from the Halifax Record
Advertlkei : "The Altavlsta Journal recently
shocked its town by criticizing the noisy be
havior of the children in the Sunday .schools.
Tin' Bitptistt- hchl an Indignation meeting; md
rebuked the Journal for daring to criticize it J
Sunday school. Many citizens, however, bucked |
up the pTTp^i'- We don't know tho circnm- i
stances in this instance. I?ut no harm ever
entries from condemning; noisy, boisterous be
havior. While we haven't noticed it in the Sab
bath schools hero, we hiivn seen children be
have shamefully on other occasions, and there
has come over us somewhat the fueling' of the
gentleman who, when dining at n house where
the children were noisy and stubborn, raised
his .ulat.-s, bowed to the young ones and drank
to the memory of King llerod."
The "proof of the puddin* is the nhmvin of
the bag." For instance, toad this from tho
Staunton Leader; "Our friend, the Clifton
Forge Keview, is slightly mistaken as to what
the new Constitution of Virginia has to say
concerning the suffrage. If the Review will
read over this article, it will find that while
our Constitution does not contain a 'grand
father' clause, it does contain a 'father' clause?
that is, a clause permitting the sons of sol
diers of the Civil War and previous wars to
register without other qualiflcations and vote.
This provision for registering became inopera
tive on January l, 1904. The writer of this
rep-isti red and is voting to-day tinder this pro
vision. as are many other sons of veterans all
over Virginia."
Current Editorial Comment
Mr. Bryan's denial that he gave
. it.. l he Austrian atnbassad >v, and
Mr. lir\an t),,<nigh him Berlin, the Impres
.\l'?cli loo siou that the - President's de
linti.si'l'Cft mauds on Germany vive e not
seriously meant, is one of those
denials which unwittingly admit the basis of
the charge. N'o one supposes that the Secretary
of State commlited himself, much less this gov
emnu nt, in the imprudent way alleged. But he
did have an informal conversation with Dr.
Dumbn. And it is clear that from it the Austrian
ambassador got the Idea that the Washington
government would not be averse to applying Mr.
Bryan's notions to tho Lusitania ease. In face,
it was stated at the time of the German reply
that Berlin thought it had done a clever thing
in proposing a long Investigation of the affair.
It would be very awkward, it was said, for Mr.
Bryan to decline the suggestion. Of course, this
may have been only what is called, though not
In diplomacy, "taking a chance." And it Is rea
sonable to Infer that It was hased upon Mr.
Bryan's free talk with the Austrian ambassador.
What probably occurred was nothing like an
official undertaking by the secretary, but a little
peace oration by him which Dr. Duinba mlsun- |
dorstood, or to which he assigned more Import- 1
ance than It really had. No matter exactly what I
passed In the Interview, we have another cause j
of relief at the change In the Department of
State. That is no place for an Impulsive and
effusive man who mistakes an ambassador for
a public meeting.?New York livening Post.
American cons\ils report that
the Turkish provinces along tho
western coast of Asia Minor have
been ruined, not so much as a
direct result of the war as by
the emigration of the Greeks. In
all this naturally licit district the Creeks are the
economic life of the community; they produce a
disportionate share even of raw materials, while
trade, banking: ami manufacturing are almost
wholly in their hands. The systematic massa
cres and persecutions which preceded and ac
companied the Sultan's alliance with his
"brothers" In Berlin and Vienna, dealt a heavier
blow to tlie prosperity of Smyrna and many
other parts of the roast than even the allied
blockade. It is a sufficient commentary on the
character of the Turkish state that It depends
for oven partial prosperity on subjects whom it
massacres whenever it dares to do so, and who
are ready to raise the banner of revolution at
almost any moment. Also, it shows that the
forces which made history in the past are still
in good working order.?Chicago Journal.
News of Fifty Years Ago
(From Newspaper Files, June 30, 1SC5.)
General Robert E. Lee, accompanied by all of
the members of his family, loft yesterday on the
canal boat for Carters villi*. in Cumberland
County, where they will spend the most of the
remaindor of the summer.
The Freedman's Bureau has prepared a list
of the abandoned lands in Virginia, and will
submit it to the President of the United States
for ins consideration. Between thirty and forty
thousand acres are declared by this bureau to
be abandoned. Well, what about it?
A Washington paper asserts that President
Johnson lias held no conference with any one
as to when, where or how the trial of ?Mr. Davis
shall take place, all reports to the contrary not
withstanding
It is reported that there are not less than
fifty Confederate blockade runners of various
sizes and capacities, from small sloops to large
steamers, in the Havana harbor, awaiting de
velopments.
It is reported that the Adams Express Com
pany is bringing to Richmond every day larRe
quantities of money that are to be used in build
ing up the burned district. It is said that owners
of the land will And no difficulty in effecting
satisfactory loans for the purposes of rebuild
ing. Of course, the money comes from the North,
The Governor yesterday appointed the follow
ing to be notaries public for Richmond and tho
County of Henrico: A. B. tluigon, James 11.
Dooley, Peter W. Ralston and V. Winfree.
The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad will
be turned over this week to the hoard of direc
tors which has been elected by the stockholders.
The military authorities have fleen running the
road since evacuation day, and they have gotten
very tired of it.
Governor Pierpont has appointed the follow
ing named gentlemen to lie visitors to the Medi
cal College of Richmond: L)r. John H. Claiborne,
of Petersburg: Raleigh T. Daniel and James A.
Jones, of Richmond.
Tho work of interring the remains and skele
tons of Union and Confederate soldiers left on
tho battle fields all the way from Chancellors
vllle to Richmond is In charge of Captain J. M.
Moore, lie has at work GOO m<jn, and the force
is guarded by a full regiment of troops, to pro
tect them from molestation.
The Governor yesterday appointed commis
sioners for Patrick County as follows: Jefferson
Pcnn, Rufus Turner and Samuel f?. Staples. For
Charlotte County: James P. Marshall, Henry
Carrington and William II. Dennis.
At last accounts there were about f.,000 Con
federate prisoners still at Point Lookout, and
the.y are being paroled and discharged at the
rate of 150 per day.
"Killing"
Wealthy
Provinces
The Voice of the People
Snino, nt l.enst, Arc Thoughtful.
To the 13d it or of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?-Permit mo to express my appreciation of '
Tho Times-Dispatch. It is an excellent daily. I
I do not ox pert a paper always to express niy '
own views. If it iil<l it would lie of no value to j
me. 1 am, for instance, too cosmopolitan in my j
nationality to sympathize with either side.of the ]
Bin-openn conflict, but I am deeply interested ;
in the progress of events.
Many nf your editorials on tho war seems to |
me rather blindly partisan, though some of them !
impress me as approaching the conception of a ;
thoughtful neutral. I cannot sympathiv.< with
your support of a notional policy that even :
remotely indicates possible participation in the :
war. and agree most heartily with the Chicago
Tribune when it says: "If we go to war. lot it
be because we s> e an embodied and threatening
menace to our form of lit"*-, and not because in
the development of the submarine and the wire
los!*, and in the new importance of tho ammuni
tion factory, international law finds itself out of
touch with events and Impotent to do justice."
in my contact with a largo number of thinking
people T find that, irrespective of ancestry, public
opinion is not as many newspapers express it.
hut is represented by such expressions as quoted
from the Chicapo Tribune.
O. .T. SCHFSTKlt.
Spring Grove, Va., June 25. !filf>.
Queries and Answers
fort Hill.
Please give the date of the enactment of the
Boston port bill. R. F\ IjIGON.
March 25, 1771.
Secession.
John Quincy Adams presented to Congress ihe
Haverhill petition of 1S12. praying for the dis
solntion of the Cnion. Charles Francis Adams
vehemently denies that the older Adams had any
sympathy with the aims of (bis petition, and
I am curious to know what is the truth of the
matter. Can you inform me?
TC. L. CART UK.
The positions occupied by John Adams and
John Quincy Adams have brought about the
practice of referring to the former of these two
as "the elder Adams," and Mr. Charles Francis
Adams has done little to give himself the real
prominence which would warrant his disturbance
of this designation, and surely lie has not done
so by any accuracy of information as to the
feeling of his grandfather towards the matter
of secession. Hence, your use of "the elder
Adams" to indicate John Quincy with Charles
Francis as the "younger" does the latter gentle
man more credit than we have any special in
clination to allow him. The whole matter of
your inquiry was covered years ago by I">r.
Jones, who observed with reference to it that
John Quincy Ada ins made in the House seces
sion speeches "which would have done credit
to "William 1j. Yancey and Kobert Toombs."
This statement was hotly contradicted by Charles
Francis Adams, who accusod Dr. Jones of de
liberate falsification, in that ho must have known
"perfectly well that when J. Q. Adams presented
tho famous Haverhill petition he did so statin.?
hat he was wholly opposed to the vie?vs of the
petitioners, etc." Dr. Jones wont to the Con
gressional Globe for the facts in the case, and
most abundantly made out his contention, citing
Mr. Adams's statement that Ihe petitioners were
not the only persons to whom the sentiments
of the paper were familiar, and the fact that he
sustained for two weeks an acrimonious debate,
in which he was assailed by Wise and Gilmer,
of Virginia, and Marshall, of Kentucky, along
with others, and citing, further, Mr. Adams's
description of conditions In which secession of
States would be Justified, etc. In addition?to
?hrow sidelight on the question?there was given
the curiously involved and oft-quoted scrap front
Adams's address before the New York Histori
cal Society in 1839, in which he says that "the
people-?under the tie of conscience?have tho
right to dissolve the constituent power?and
tho same right is in the people of every State
with reference to the general government?and
under these limitations have the people of each
Stute In the Union a right to secede from the
Confederate Union Itself."
HEARS INANIMATE OBJECTS
? From the Pph MoIiiah Register and Leader.
"Wood sounds darker and duller than j
l?rlck; there's something sharp about
the sound of a brick house," says Paul
Donehoo, the blind coroner of Atlanta,1
Ua., who hears houses, posts, tree
trunks, glass windows and other in
audible objects.
The "sixth" sense recently nttrlb- !
uted by New York scientists to the
blind is not, in Donehoo's opinion, a j
sixth sense at {ill. but a variation of |
the sense of hearing. I
Donehoo, an accomplished pianist, a |
successful practicing attorney, a rapid j
touch-system typist, and an efficient j
coroner, though stone-blind since birth, j
walks and rides horseback through tiie ;
streets of Atlanta unattended. Mis!
ability to hear houses, trees and posts
keeps liiin from colliding with these
objects.
Donehoo sees through his ears. To ?
illustrate this, his ears were plugged I
and he was asked to walk around his j
law office, a room perfectly familiar to;
him in every detail. Me stumbled over'
two chairs, collided with a table, and.
would have crashed into the glass of!
the ollice door had he not been stopped. I
With the pluus removed, he walked
without groping or stumbling to his '
desk, his typewriter, his bookcase; he
took down a specified volume of Geor
gia law reports from its place on the
shelf; he selected a letter dated ten!
days back from its place In his order
ly files. v
"l.*nless I can hear 1 hflve no per- (
ception of my surroundings." he said.
"1 am able to find my way alone on
th" streets because I can hear both the
audible things and things that are 'in
audible' to a person in possession of all '
five senses. With my hands over my
ears 1 am helpless."
A newspaper account of an experi
ment nf .Yew York scientists with blind
school children was read to Donehoo.
The object of I lie experiment, the paper
stated, was to prove a sixth sensej
among the blind.
A group of blind children, the ac
count stated, were drawn up in a line
at the New Vork school, with a stiifT
fixed iti the earth some distance be- 1
hind them. A boy of twelve, chosen at
random from the line, was told lo find
the Mtaff. !l? first walked in the wrong
direction, the account stated; then lie
righted himself.
"'lie thrust his head far forward,' ;
said the account, quoting one of the1
experimenters, "and pointed exactly as '
a setter does for game. Ris sensitive!
fingers were working rapidly, thumbs
rubbing finger tips The neck craned;
the cheeks were distended, first in this!
direction and then in another The
ln?\ moved forward against the breeze.
Suddenly he pointed an index fltisjvr
toward the staff.
" 'There: There'.' he called gleefully.
?There it is.'
*''How did you know its position'."
the boy was asked.
" '! just fell it,' he answered."
I'aul Donehoo, who had listened
with lingers pressed against his tem
ples while the article was boititi read,
drummed his fingers on his ollice table
for a moment and then Inked up with
hi?- i|ulc!<, sitjhl less smile.
"That boy heard that staff." he said.
"It's just hearing?that's all. 1 be
lieve l can hear 'inaudible' things, and
I have talked with other blind people
with the same power.
"Since 1900 I've noticed this peculiar
faculty of perception. 1 became aware
of it before 1 left the law school, and
since then I've studied and fostered It.
1 can't describe the perception, except
to say it affects my ears and auditory
nerves as distinctly as 'real' sounds
and in precisely the same way. It's a
consciousness that is more than an In
tuition; it's actual hearing in every
sense of the word.
"When the streets are quiet I can
hear a tree trunk or a post fifteen feet
off. When the streets are noisy it's
harder to hear trees nnd posts, but 1
can do so within about five feot of
them?plenty of space to save mo from
colliding with them."
Donohoo walks rapidly alone through
the most crowded sections of Atlanta.
Ue generally carries a cane, but rare
ly uses It to feel his way. He crosaea
streets tilled with traflic; he makes
turns and corners as precisely as If
he had eyes that could see; he never
collides with a pedestrian through
fault of his own, and often startles
his acquaintances by speaking to them
tirst when they pass him on the street.
Ills precocious memory for voices en
ables him to do this.
During a recent political campaign
in which he ran (unsuccessfully) for
ordinary of Fulton County, Donehoo
rode on a IjIk white horse through
the streets of Atlanta at the head o!
a brass band and a crowd of follow
ers lie picked his own route, guiding
the horse to different points In tht
city, whore he made stump speechea
from the animal's back.
Doriehoo said he could not tell the
difference in sound between a tree
trunk and a post, but said a wooden
building had a darker and duller
sound than a brick one. Chairs and
other objects of furniture have this
dull sound, he said. lilass windows,
marble msintels and most mineral ob
jects have the sharper note associated
with brick or stone buildings, he
stated.
Donohoo possesses whnt his friends
call a "psychic" map of the city of
Atlanta In his brain. He can be taken
to any part of the city in an auto
mobile and then tell the exact location,
nine limes out of ten, without getting
out of the machine. An abnormally
developed faculty for remembering
streets and crossings, and n keen sense
of direction, probably accounts for
this.
llis ability to stand on a corner and
select the street car that passes by
his home has often amazed his friends;
this he attributes to his familiarity
wlth the sound and "feel" of that par
ticular line of cars.
Donehoo conducts all Inquests with
out any assistance except the usual
help of the county physician, and the
coroner's Jury, lie makes his own re
fold of all testimony on the type
v. riter.
D1XMUDE NOTED FOR FINCHES
WASHINGTON. .Tune 2*.?Among the ?
Ku ropenn towns I It ;i t wore liefore the
war. but which a long-continued hall :
of .shell.- .tiid explosives luivo swept j
away. Is I?ixmude, a month's lone; cen- j
tor of the inlanders battle theater, j
This city, as it was in 1st 14, is de- !
Ktrs i!??*<! in to-day's National Geographic* |
Society statement*
"Dismtide, the melancholy little vil- j
Sage of yesterday nn<l the ruins of
to.ci;i v, was <i!it ?? .i hrave, wealthy
inerehant city, with more than .'SO.OUti I
inhabitants. In the days of its pros- i
perily it was a port for large shins. ?
anil the products of many countries
IIlied its warehouses. In those days it i
was a strongly walled and hnstloned |
city, and its well-trained citizen sol- |
diery knew how to uphold the honor j
of their thriylng port upon the. slug- i
Kiwh Vser. The German invaders, how- j
ever, found no evidences of the old
time walls and fortifications, nor of
any Vser quays.
"Dixmucie. Just before the war has
tened the final process of its oolii
tion, was a decaying village of 1.1 ?"? 0 j
people, with grass and weeds growing
in its sleepy streets and in its large
Grand 1 .Square?that square roomy
enough to hold in comfort a mass
meeting of twice the town's popula
tion. This large square, the splendid
Church of St. Nicholas that stood upon
it, and some solid, old stone houses
lining" the crooked streets, remained
to hear testimony to ldxmude's earlier
i mportance,
"Much of (he city's splendor was
wiped out by the ^soldiers of Ghent and
Ilruges in the middle of the sixteenth
century. During 1S53 enemy troops
burned Sou homes, the palatial guild
and corporation halls and tho chateau
at Dixinude. Its walls and the pal
aces of its merchant princes were de
stroyed long before the present war.
"When Dixmude became ono of the
key positions in the Flanders cam
paign it wits a substantial, quiet vil
lage. The martial and mercantile
fame of the town had sped. Its chief
renown v:?s that of Its super! ,-r DUt
ter and eggs, and that of the sing
ing?or, better, trilling?competitions
of its blind (inches. The natives
snared these shy birds, and, that they
might sing undisturbed by the pres
ence of onlookers, thoy were blinded
by the searing of their eyes with hot
Irons. These singing competitions be
tween the birds were held on holi
days, and money prizes wore dlstrlb
ti'id for the sweetest trilling1. Ac
i-o:npli?;hed birds often hrought their
owners large s'lms. More thnn 1,000
trills in one hour hy one of these
sightless little finches was a Dix
imjcle record, and as proud a one to
the i>ureliefs there as is a baseball
;vnnant 111 an American city.
"The town was medieval in appear
ance. Many of the houses liad win
dows screened hy heavy, rust-eaten
ijnii lmrr, and heavy, one-piece wooden
shutters. Some of them were very
ar-v'ent. and tlius valuable memories
of Kurope's struggles. St. Nicholas
Church, an imposing structure with a
Gothie tower, was the town's princi
pal boast, and its interior contained
some exquisite ornamentation work
patterns carved in stone as delicate as
rare hand-made lace. The altar screen
was priced as one of IOurope's marvels."
Not Playing Italy's Game
A plausible explanation of the reason
why Germany lias refrained from de-'
daring war on Italy is given by the
Merlin correspondent of the Frankfur
ter Zeitung in its issue of June 8. He
says:
"There was no doubt from the be
ginning, and we have said it, that Italy
was pursuing a very definite purpose
in this grotesque maneuver, namely, to
cause Germany to appear in the role of
the attacking power and itself in the
role of persecuted innocence in the eyes
of a neutral power with whom it had a
convention concerning armed assist
ance in case, of an attack. From neu
tral diplomatic, tyroles corroboration of
this view is now given to papers here
in the fact that soon after the begin
ning of the world war conversations
took place between Home and Bucha
rest, in which agreements for cortain
contingencies were to be made.
'T.oth states for tlie time being de
sired to await the courso of events, to
complete their military armamonts, and,
in case one of tlieni should be menaced
with an offensive war by any power, to
give one another mutual assistance-. It
cannot at present he foreseen what at
titude Itoumania will take in the imme
diate future, but this much can be as
sumed with certainty, that the con
structed friction of an offens^o war b
Germany against Italy will exert njj- *
(luftnce on tho Impending declal'
Hounianla."
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