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Having noticed that repudiation and de nunciation of their late Kaiser saves them no money and gains them no tolerauce, the Huns turn now to flaunt their affection for him and to avow tlie truth that he is their kind of man exactly. In his proposal to carry the league of na tions issue direct to the people, President Wilson has found a sure way to force its acceptance by a Republican Senate. After he has made a few speeches in different sec tions of the country, all doubt will be re moved as to how the people stand. When Frelingliuysen arose In his wrath and announced that he could not be bluffed, be cause he was a Senator of the United States, he might have added various other interest ing and pertinent items of his personal his tory. However, they are well known to the American people, and to his boastful "I am a Senator," they can only rejoin, "What a disgrace to the Senate!" The Mexican government has assured the State Department that it is amply prepared to protect the lives of Americana and other foreigners in Northern Mexico against pos sible rebel attacks. That assurance has been given time and agiin, with no appreciable improvement in the protection afforded. In stead of being a protection to foreign resi dents. government troops put in most of their time trying to avoid capture of themselves. The "watchful waiting" policy as applied to Mexico has now been in force for more than Eix years without bringing any material , improvement in the situation along the border or any noticeable lessening of the tension to which -.his country has been forced to secure protection for lifce? and interests of American citizi?fc='fr."tfae disturbed area. Un less store satisfactory results are soon forth coming, this policy will have to be abandoned for sterner measures. Opponent of the league of nations seize with avidity on the latf -T in:-'ane* along the Mexican boarder ami draw their own con clusion that with the league in operation a crossing of the border and the protection of American live.- and property would have been impossible The argument i- silly, an-l mere ly proves the desperate.straits to which the enemies of the President have been driven. The covenant do -.-: not contemplate that any 1 signatory should be deprived of the mean-* of self-defense, and had it been in effect America's course toward the Mexican in: ur rectionaries would have been not one whit different. The prohibitionists are not in collusion with th'- Germans to delay signing the peace treaty and thus prevent presidential procla mation of peace and the termination of so called "war-time prohibition." Such a charge would be silly, but no sillier or more un truthful than the charges they are making of collusion between the Germans and loyal American citizens, one of whom is the Presi dent himself, to bring the falsely conceived prohibition to an end even before it becomes effective. Congress has not the courage to do its duty in this respect, but the President will not Ik deterred by threats of political retaliation from declaring the United States demobilized when the proper time conies. In addressing 'he German National Assem bly's peace commission. Chancellor Scheide mann laid stress on the necessity of consider ing the terms "with an open mind." Also, lie said 'he onl> tiling that holds the govern ment back from sending a prompt "no" to Paris was the consideration of the chaos that might befall Germany if the peace i refused. The spirit of approach to the answer to be sent thus advised i- in striking contrast to that manifested by Republican Senators of the American Congress in their attitude to ward the treaty. From the outset they have, discussed it with closed minds. They are against it because the Democratic President of the United State- took a leading part in arranging its terms. For that reason alone they would defeat it. regardless of the chaos that might ensue, not alone in Germany, but everywhere, if they were sure that it would T not provoke an outburst of public indigna tion in this country. Fearing to take that rlbk, they hope indirectly to accomplish their purpose by intrigue. Hence their plan to separato the league of nations covenant from the treaty proper, to be followed by a cam paign of deception to confuse the public as to its merits, conceived in no higher motive than to make party capital by arousing the passion* and prejudices of the people on a false issue. When it comes to comparison, the patriotism of Scheidemann in relation to the treaty is outstanding against that of these Senators. Recognition for (icncrnl Pershing REPORT has come from Paris to the effect that the President approves a plan whereby General John J. Pershing is to be ordered home within a few weeks and is to be made chief of staff of the army. General Peyton C. March, the present chief of staff, according to the same report, is to be given a high command in the field, probably to suc ceed General Pershing in command of what may at that time remain of the American expeditionary force. Moreover, the administration, as is well known, strongly supports the legislation now pending in Congress providing that General Pershing and General March be made perma nent generals in the army as a reward for the splendid services they rendered the coun try and the world during the course of the war. The country will approve such legisla tion. These two officers deserve well at the hands of the nation. They contributed hand somely to the victory over Germany, the one In the field and the other at his equally im- J portant post behind the lines. It has been the practice of the American ' people to bestow political favor on its great j soldiers, but it has not been the practice to J hand over to them vast estates and great [ wealth. Great Britain, on the other hand, j confers ornamental titles upon its heroes, raises them to the peerage and endows them with riches. It does not assume that a suc cessful field commander is necessarily a statesman or possesses any political promise, j and, as a result, it rarely encourages an of ficer. victorious in wars, to enter the arena of politics. The political future of General Pershing, however, is a matter of interesting specula tion. Ho is not a magnetic figure. He is not the kind of man whom his men naturally shout for. In fact, he has not been in inti mate touch with the rank and tile of the great army which lie organized and whose operations he directed. Those operations were too far-flung, too complex and too gigantic for any one man to do more than plan them from his post in the rear of the ! lines. And so it happens that the tens of thousands of soldiers who are now returning ' to civil life feel no personal enthusiasm for , General Pershing. Nor do they compose the backbone of any nation-wide movement for j his elevation to the presidency or to any other ] office. Even so, General Pershing is a man of great strength. His return to America will be made (he occasion for a triumphal reception, and !f he is made chief of staff he will be daily before the American people, and the country will get a first-hand opportunity to take his ? measure, an opportunity denied them as long as he remained 3,000 miles away. Rurleson as a Rurden \Y7 HEN the American Federation of Labor, by unanimous vote, called on the Presi- ; dent to rid his administration of the present Postmaster-General, a step was taken to which the President must give serious thought. He I cannot afford to ignore such a move. He can not pans it over as the voice of some injured kirker. He cannot dismiss it as a protest from political enemies or partisan sharpsters. ! This call comes straight from the ranks of the Democratic party's most consistent friend?. Organized labor in this country has stood steadily on the side of the party of the great masses of the American people. It cast the votes that twice have elected Wood row Wilson to the presidency. It proved his faithful ally in the prosecution of the ' war. It has given this administration stanch support from start to finish, and when its spokesmen solemnly declare that the admin istration harbors an uncompromising enemy of labor and keeps that enemy in high jiosi- j tion. it gives a warning to the President which must receive attention. If the Postmaster-General were not "pig- 1 headed," as he has described him ? f* If with ! some pride; if he were not thick-skinned and ' obstinate, he would not wait for the Pre.si- ' dent to ask for his resignation. He would not force on the President the embarrassment j of kicking him out of office. He would volun- ! tartly resign. He would withdraw from the i situation which he has created, knowing as ' he must know, for he is not stupid, that he i:-: a burden on the shoulders of the President and a liability to the party which he repre- I s' nts. He would understand that he has lost ; his standing before the country and that his period of usefulness has closed. If Mr. Hurleson refuses to retire of his own ! volition, there in nothing for the President to do but to request his retirement. This nee/i j not be done as a matter of appeasing those ! elements which are naturally hostile to the i administration and have concentrated their' fire on the postal official as a convenient tar- 1 get. Hut it may be done with the full con- j KciousnesB on the part of the President that I his official duty to himself, to his party and J to the nation demands that a public officer j who failed should be removed. Having wasted valuable daylight, in fighting ' a treaty which has not yet been finally nego- ' tiated, the Republicans in the Senate have ! been forced to order night sessions in an j effort to pass the appropriation bills before j ?Inly I. Indeed, the present extra session of j f ongress was forced by reason of their obstinacy in obstructing these bills in the closing hours of the last Congress. The American people are taking note. President Wilson still pj?3 ,tiH fjiith John Skelton Williams, and again lie lias nominated him to succeed himself as romp* t roller of the Currency. The Republican Senate, in jtH animosity for the President, may refuse to confirm, hut the country v. ill know the reason, and the petty policy will not make voles for the O. o. |?. jM I'rju. If the Lodge-Horah-Sherman-Johnson com- ! bination of Republican Senators is not "j.'ivin>r j aid and comfort to the enemy of this 'conn-, try," it is not because or hick of intent to <lo so. but rather the fault of their bungle some method >f going about the matter. If the President intends to act in his ef* I forts to stay the threatened drought, he would I better hurry. The first week after It begins j will be the week of greatest agony. SEEN ON THE SIDE MY HENRY EIMVAItD WAnNUIl Ufnnrd. SmUh wa8 nn Inventor, and ho made a Jot or things. From self-propelling harrows to sclf-stablllzlng wings. Ho found out how a man could burn a minimum of ffas, And how an ugly girl could look bewitching In the glass; 116 "'Tack CryIeSS bab>' ?r,b' a P?,nt,css carPCt A shovel that a man could uso and never break liis back; In fact, he made so many things to help humanity " That he was destined to be great in future history. He never quite completed all tho things, of course, because He found that he was stalled by ]ack of capital, ana law?. Hut steadily he toiled and toiled, and every day he dreamed That 1,1s Inventions were as good as to his mind they seemed. Perpetual motion was a cinch for Smith-in fact, it played A m? made-0'13"1 Pan l" n?Hr,y ever-vthln* he And as he tolled. in fancy ho could see his' mighty name High as Abou pen Adhcm's in the stretching i la lis of 1- ame. It Is a law of energy, that If a man but tries And keeps on trying, he'll succeed some time nefore he dies; So though a brief and trifling way from actual success, Jim Smith kept plugging right along, nor showed the least distress One day he yelled: "Eureka!" ' He had landed u at last! Hut Father Time, who happened to be cata putting: past. Leaned down and stuck his scythe in Jim?'tis the inventor's fate! His widow's a director In a bloated syndicate. t'harron 1 Kph'n Dnlly Thought. lien de good Lawd made man He didn't re on woman." said Charcoal Eph. ln a ln?bbe Me'rt SOt a "10, P^'cck job ! " llit- lr>' a Persimmon. Mlstah Jackson." Man smokes two for a quarter, drinks one for a half, buys another stack of blues and blows Kittle tho Time Killer to a swel! stack i of wheats at tho hotel, then kicks liko a stee. becauso he has to j.j.y tent. Appreciation. Splendid speech voU made. Sena tor? splen- j did!" .. mv fr,end: 1 rather thought so myself. ?? hich part did you like best?" Wh>, I f.tno.e.; tl.a?. part where you quit and sat down, Senat' r Parngraphlrn. An honest man has nothing to f*ar from Information. Six equals half a dozen unless it's eggs. This time six months we'll he cussing the ' furnace again. .Misery: The Bachelor who darns his own so 'ks. >'.me para graph er writes that a shirt com ing home from the laundry these days reminds him of C.eorgc Cohan's Grand old Hag. No Initt ructor. "Say. d'yuh want me f tell yuh just what I ! think of yuh, huh?" ..W-'V.'' ??ln" ?n! 1 ent nsts ''""hied up!" Well I ain't goln' C do it! you just Wanta learn a lot o' my new words!" and" f?e, lr,aMS ?f IifP* in *" th<* troubles ' and griefs, m a!, ,he sorrows and vallevs of aln. tj.ere is just one word we would whisper "Keep a-going!" ' j Humph ! And to think." said Jones, after the affair think that a!l this froiih!* was caused by an in the Harden of Eden'" "Not quit,- all. old top." Said Smith. "Vou wanta remember there was a pearh thcr<? |d Adam. ' 1 Same Thing, Mnhel. That man DeJinks is the most polished r^. fined, polite, finished gentleman I know." 'i ^s h'- is?very tiresome." A Yrr?lrli>, Love is a little thing. And sometimes splendid; Easy begun, and O! ^o f:?'?sy pndod! Business Problems sor.vKn nv nnu.\o Drier: Author. Iltirold Whitehead. lit 11 ts'; !:,np,y ""nuloB. ?tw m KK 'Continued.) ,7'' '? "" difllculty in soiling that '1- block ,.f Stock, for the Physical as* ts of the i.oiporation make the stock worth par < nsi'l.-r that the place is a growing b si-' ""ss making profit, a id js to i,e managed bv?. ms,.i with mood's record for success? and yoS can see what good thing it is" " I' ll me, .Mr. Imkf." I asked . find mood and Carpenter?" you tI.,.'..ar,"'""'r 1 through that New York I i . u r asked the president if ho ?r, ? on" ?'??? wanted to make money ..rid who could influence money if ne.es .-,<r>. lie t-ave mo the name of three noooie one of which was Carpenter. I found Blood through getting jn touch with tho " ere a. v of the Hot,., Managers' Association, l asked him if he knew of any big hotel man with i '.. ['J! ,y W'K' wanted to extend. The result was ? Mood. Secretaries of trade associations t'radf/s!"I'eter.' ''' ?>.oui ^eir It seemed easy as Duke told it. but I'd never h.i\e known how to go about locating ,,ros peclye bu.v-rs. and 1 told Nuke so. 11 s 1,cause I know where to fi,,... kind or help or information I'm after that P- M?le are w. I?,g to pay ,?e good monev U ' . ! "" "?"?'h knowing a thing as it is to know Where to get the information and then hcMv?to "few folks know either of n,ose thlncs" r '?">? o fn^J A Daily Once-Over. Put I'rp Into Old Plnn. , r..i^v:.::^,L,;r ;:,rru'h,''a Instead of trying to improve upon them von .tie making an effort to formulate s.? ^ new otder of things, and so vou ?>?? ?n??Iy many obstacles that discourage and dereii?Cv * M is dim, ,,I. to bring about son etWnJ vhTch ..uv",,,?',"rr'r"" "??" io .1.0 ,Jr:x" v;:.?1 y^::? ?iz", Health Talks by Dr. Wm. Brady (Copyright. 1018. by National Newspaper Servl o.) I'uuncn of C. V. U. Forty Is a very dangerous age for those who | arc ignorant from the neck down. It Introduces ^ th6 most eventful decade of life. In which Old General Cardlo-Vascular Degeneration plays havoc with so many health-Ignorant mortals. High blond pressure Is not a disease, but just a sign of soino disease. The familiar expres sions of cardlo-vascular degeneration are hard ening of the arteries, slow heart musclc failure, chronic Bright's disease, and apoplexy. I've harped on this subject a great deal, and several readers declare 1 have given no clue as to the causes. That only goes to show how unapprcciativc readers are, for I have twanged the life out of one string of my harp-?-on over eating and insuHicient exercise. That is the | most common cause of premature physical ; breakdown, of cardio-vascular degeneration. | You may watch the C. V. D. factory in full op- I eration any day by visiting a popular hotel or ; restaurant or riding a few hundred miles on a : Pullman train. The use of alcohol as a beverage comes sec- ! ond to overeating as a cause of cardio-vascular | degeneration. Uncle Sam is doing what he can | to remove this factor. The use of tobacco as a narcotic comes third < in the list of causes. The younger the indl- : vidual who uses tobacco, the greater the dam age done. A penalty of at least ten years' Im prisonment should be exacted from any person under the age of twenty-one years found with tobacco in his possession. Of course such a law would not please the morticians the least bit. but health comes before business nowadays. ! Poisons of infectious diseases are frequent contributing ra.iscs of cardio-vascular degen- i er.it ion. Chronic lead poisoning, incident to various i occupations and industries, and in some In stances due to the use of cosmetics containing lead. Is a cause of cardio-vascular degeneration in many cases. To this list add dignity, the politest killer of all. and you have a fairly comprehensive un- . derstanding of the causes of C. V. D. ami prema ture senility. The difference between youth and age is that youth is not dignilied. A Budget System. IIV \V. K. WIM.OKilinY, Director of (iovrrniuriil Hearnrch. American dividends of liberty and national efficiency perhaps cannot be reported in tabu lated columns, but American dollars expended in the earning of these dividends can. The first "billion-dollar Congress" created a mild sensa tion in a wave fit' newspaper headlines. That was in the days of peace and plenty. The pub lic read and smiled and said, "How big we are." being rather proud, in the American way, at that spender Congress "down at Washington." The pre-war days of plenty have done. Now we have the oavs of reconversion. The government has been borrowing a few billions from its stockholders every few months. Also several millions of these stockholders have been induced into positions In the service of the concern. The war had become rather per sonal, and so has the government which was conducting it. I' perhaps has been true that "what is every body's business is nobody's business," but the war. with its drafts, its taxes and its bond r;i ^ipaigns, has changed that. The government is no longer an impersonal abstraction. So there is a popular impression that the govern ment ought to "keep books." The business thought of the nation is distinctly impressed with the absolute necessity for the adoption of a budget system. The war was .1 factor in the destiny of the United States covoniment as a commercial in stitution far beyond the immediate and costly business of war Far-reaching changes in the present administrative system of the national government are inevitable. First conies the budget proper. iti? hiding a report on the last completed year, the year in progress and tlii year to come, in the form of balanced state tnents, so compiled as to enable a comparison by totals and items for the three years Another highly important step Is the estab lishing of a special service under the Presi dent's direction to give him expert assistance in compiling data and examining departmental requests for funds. Such a service would fur nish him an agency long needed for purely ad ministrative affairs. This service should be empowered to prescribe and standardize sys tems of accounting.?Copyright. 1IU9. A Tabloid Tale A Slight Objection. < P.y author of that thrilling tale; "The Pray ing Pirates on the Prairie"; and "'Twas a Bitter, Bitter Pay When 11?- Bit 'er, or the Pog's De mise": "Killer! by a Biscuit or How?"; "Torn Asunder by the Band of Hate"; "A Duet in a Flat. or ? 'bucked ?Mit!"; "The Scrlpps' Scrap ftver a Scrap of Scrapple"; "Kxperiences of an Infernal Revenue < ?ssifer"; "W.i t Till He Comes Back, Tilly": "Roughing It With the Riff-Raff": "The Hoarse Horse or the Whine of the Kquine"; "Slight of Hand, or Rejected on His Wedding Morn"; "While Winnie Watered the Flowers, Father Watered the Milk"; "He Tried to Do His Duty, but the Duty Was Too Much," and a bunch of others in the rough, so to speak.) I Something unusual was happening in Clam Cove, on the shores of Barnacle Bay. The little parlor of the cottage was all lit up ?so were the guests. And the little melodeon was wheezing "Where Is My Meandering Boy Tonight'.'" The bride, daintily dressed in a skeeternette veil topped with tomato hlossems and sprays of shumack. carried a bouquet of hops and j Billies of the Alley. The men all wore dainty ] sunflowers in their buttonholes. The bride was before the preacher, all ready. , when the groom came in with eyes downcast, twirling his thumbs and flipping the wedding ring, which was tied to a button on his coat, in 1 e m ba r rassm e n t. The pretty little romantic scene was touching enough to bring a flood of tears to a glass eye, ? and several of the guests sniffed audibly. The' bride's mother, not to be outdone, burst right ' out in heaving sobs. "And who." said the preacher, "lias the nerve | to object to this union of two inflamed and enamored souls?" Dp jumped an old sailor. "I've got the' nerve!" he cried. "This bride's been me wife ' fer ten years, an' I iust come back from a voyage to thtih South Sea Islands, where . . ." j With a gurgle of joy, the bride threw herself | into the old sailor's arms and cried. "Oh, Knoch! Did you bring me that rope of pearls you : promised ?" Beckoning the guests out of the house, the; would-be groom led the disappointed parade] down Crusoe Street and spitefully kicked every ' cat lie met for a week. News of Fifty Years Ago. (From the Richmond Dispatch. June'-'3. 1869.) Rev. Dr. John 1,. Bur rows. of the First Baptist Church, is one of the1 busiest of men in this I heated term. Saturdav night he was the leading! speaker at a great tem- j Iterance rally in this city. 1 and made one of - the I strongest appeals to voung j t^en^eve^r heayl hi Rs.-Ji day school address, and ? then after tha night ser *'? *Notef'l'lih'tor." D" ?"?" \? to the Dan lSCO. ville train so as to reach that town in good time to deliver the literary address before the students of the Roanoke Female College today. Dove bodge. No. 51, A. F. & A. M.. has elected the following officers for the current year: Kdward <!. Tompkins, master; Luther L<. Bass, senior warden; R. H. Flshey. junior warden; R. 15. Tyler, treasurer; August Arsell, Jr., secre tary; John A. 1-ynham, senior deacon; B. F. Shepperson. junior deacon: M. S. Quarles and John O. Davis, stewards; Thomas Angell, tiler. A negro woman, who had reached the age of 108 years, died in this city on Saturday. Her name was Ursula Smith, and she was formerly the property of Thomas Chlldrey. Kdgar Allan, of Prince Kdward. County, is actively canvassing the Southsidc counties for the Walker ticket. Perhaps 110 speaker now on the hustings hit3 Wells harder licks than does "Yankee" Allan. Danville has outdone all of the localities. I<ast week the Conservatives had an all day meeting there. Judge Gilmer spoke in the morning. Colonel George C. Cabell In the after noon and Colonel Thomas S. Flournoy at night. I^arge crowds were In attendance at all of the speakings. Ullman's distillery, the largest in Maryland and the largest east of Kentucky, was seized on Saturday by Internal revenue ofilcero bccauso of alleged irregularities. FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS National Problems Discussed for Headers of The Times-Dispatch by Authoritative Writers?A Daily lSditoriul Feature* OVERLOOKED BOURGEOISIE AND PREACHERS 1IY ALKIIKI) it. WII.MA.MM Dord Macaulay. In 1857. said the downfall of this republic was inevit able. If the disaster did not come in the nineteenth century, it surely would in the twentieth. He was a brilliant historian, poet, statesman and man of affairs, and supported his prediction by reasoning that seemed to him to be conclusive. Writing to II. I. Randall, member of Congress from New ?ork. he declared he never had expressed, nor held, the opinion that 'the supreme authority in a slate should be In trusted to the majority of citizens told bv the head." To the contrary, he had "long been convinced that liist.tu tions purely democratic must sooner or later destroy liberty or civiliza tion. or both." H?i pointed to the French Revolution of ISIS, which estab lished a pure democracy and in twenty years would have made 1* ranee as poor anil barbarous as nine centuries before if a despotism had not inter posed. Our fate, he thought, would be deferred only by our great posses sions of fertile and unoccupied la.nl. our fatal calamity would come when New Kngland will be. as thickly popu lated as old Kngland. Wages will be low and will lluctuato as much wi b voii as with us." He had seen such conditions in Kngland several times, but the country had survived because "th?' sufferers are not the rulers.* With us tile case would br different. The hungry and discontented would he the majority and would plunder the propert v-holdlng minority until we would iiavc a Napoleon, or "your re public will be fearfully plundered or laid waste by barbarians in the twen tieth century as the Roman empire was in the lifth." This propheev was made by a very wise man sixty-three years ago. Similar prophecies had been made by men equally wise sixty-three years before his time. Kuropean statesmen in 1S.17 were puzzling, .n probably some of them are puzzling now. to understand and explain how tin* re public had survived in defiance of their philosophy and precedents and of reasoning which looked like clear coinmen sense. The poor always are ni'>re than the rich. The poor, given all the power by right of their ma jority. will use that power to plunder the r ich. That seems to be p'am reasoning. Few who are In contact with the average run of people share ?lie confidence Mr. Jefferson had. or professed to liave. in their wisdom and virtue. Most of the practical ob servers. accepting l.ord Macaulay's view of the probabilities as accord ing with their knowledge of hum m nature, would assume, on the other hand, what apparently did not occur to him, that the rich, given all the power, would plunder the poor as un questionably they have done when ever given unrestricted opportunity. Yet the republic is * fact sixty three years after I.ord Macaulay and 130 years after many other brll l.etter* munt she the nnme nnd nd? drr>> of liir vrrllrr. >nnif "III not bl published If writer ho rccjucut*. Keep to One Purpose. To the Kditor of The Tim. s-i >.spat h: .^.r.- 1 tio.e with plea.-ure .in I a great de.ii uf approval the letter in you: i.-sue of .1 one 1 ^ from "It. 1.. 1' uf Charlotte County, lamenting Mi at any politics should enter into the mat ter of the extra session Ju.-t ailed in response to the petition of the i>ood Roads Association, backed by the nec es-arv number of legislators^ This is not. and ought not to be. a political <|uestion. and as "R. 1. <*' ?irupests. the people are getting tirel of this sort of thing of dragging everything into politics. May I be allowed to suggest a way by which the Ueneral Assembly, soon to be convened in extraordinary ses sion. may escape all criticism, and if .inv be "due anywhere, lay biie same w ,'hout recourse upon tiio.se who have >.i!iiewhat opposed an extri session*' My jjuguestion is this: Roth the * Roads Assoc.at on and Ili?? members <?' the iJeneral Assembly, in their appeals tor an extraordinary sess.on. tnent on nothing but the fa>t tiiat the sr??e . "..ould put itself in a position to make available, at the earliest possible date, "lie benefits of the Federal appropria t.ons for roads. If they meet, pass the uood roads appropriation, and leaving Information Bureau. Inriulrlen regarding almost nny topic, excepting ou Irgnl nnd mrdlciil ?uli jeel?, nre unitHfred free. As sll In fill I r I r ? are nn?nfrr< dlrertly by per ? oduI letter, u ?elf-nddre??rd, Ntumprd envelope I* required. Address Tho TimrH-Dtnpntch Information Ilurtau, Richmond, Vn. Compnnlllnn of Coins. Reader, Goochland.?(Sold coins are composed of ninety parts gold, two and one-half of silver and seven and one half of copper. Silver coins are com posed of ninety parts silver and ten parts copper. Itooker T. Washington. Subscriber, Richmond. ? Booker T. Washington died November 14. 19 la. lie was iiorn a slave, of a slave mother. The name Hooker was given ihlm b.v his mother an * Joking allusion to his ? arly fondness for books; the n'ame Washington he himself assumed later, nnd the initial T. stood ror Taliaferro, which he had heard was the name o. his father. Arrn or District or Coluniftta. f O A. Surry.?Trie present urea of'the District of Columbia is seventy square miles. As originally cr-.i.cd in 1789 it was 100 square mile?, .re territory having r.een ceded to the national government, jointly. :>>* the Slates of Maryland and \ ir?in.:i. lS4t> the Virginia portion, including the city of Alexandria, was ceded bac.t to the" St*te. Ten Illelient Men. J D. R.. Burkevllle.?These ten men are credited with being the ^ches1 men in America; John R. Rockefeller. $1 200.000.nftO; II. C. Frlck, $225,000,000; Andrew Carnegie. $201,000,000; ?F. Raker. $150.00rt.000; William Rocke feller $1.10.1)00.000; 1,(1 ward S. nam ness, ' $125,000,000; J. c\edt" 'noo'coo1"-' $125,000,000; Henry Ford. JIOO.OOD.OOO. W K. Vanderbilt. $103,00,000; Kd II. R. Ureen, $100,000,000. Klected Six Time*. K. P. W.. Stanardsvllle.?Henry ( lav was elected Speaker six times, viz: In November. 1S11. Twelfth Conaress, in Miv IS 13. Thirteenbh Congress: in December. 18ir?. Fourteenth Congress; In December, 1S17, Fifteenth (^ongress. in December. 1819. Sixteenthi congress, and in December, 1823, Eighteenth Congress. In addition to .speakers Clay and Blaine, whom you mentioned as having been unsucessful candidates for the "presidency, you might have mentioned Speaker John Hell a, h.iv ,ng been an unsuccessful candidal ? fcr th-it office, he being the Constitutional Ciiion party's presidential candidate in ISG0. .ludnb Tnuro. G T. M.. South Boston.?Jurinh Touro one of the most liberal-minded and public-spirited men of his day. was the Jew who contributed $10,000 to completion of the Bunker Hill Monu ment. He was born In 1775 at New port, R. I? where his father was a rabbi of a Jewish church. The son be came a prosperous business man, and was living in New Orleans when the War of 1812 broke out. In 181a he served as a volunteer In the battle of New Orleans, and was wounded. After tho war he accumulated a fortune, which he dispensed liberally. Among other gifts lie gave a valuable piece of property in New Orleans to the First Congregational Church to erect a building on, and at his death, in 1854. ht bequeathed tho greater part of hla wealth to charitable institution/*. Mailt men demonstrated Its Impossi bility. It is a fact after New Kngland ha.s become densely populated and great Industrial centers have developed ? ami after having endured tests and strains which none of th?'so wise men foresaw, including internal war, con tinuing: streams of foreign, and fre quently unassimilahle. population, rash and dangerous extensions of tho franchise and the enfranchisement of millions of newly freed slaves. It is' far nearer a pure democracy than It was In* I,ord .Macaulay's day or wan intended to he, hut it is not only a fact, hut the highest, strongest and most solid fact of t :i?; world after tiio established despotisms and strong gov ernments lie knew have passed. It id on surer foundations, apparently, than his own country, the Impregnable .??lability of which he vaunted. lie forgot to Include in his con sideration two great elements. Uiim is the continuous growth and develop ment of a middle el iss with its fringes on either side touching and Interlaced with tilic extremes of wealth and poverty, free of fear of starvation, but In such contact and -sympathy with those exposed to danger of it as to strive to remove such danger, while inclined by their own possessions or ambitions to roped property. The otlies .s the coiitinu.ng power of religi ous Inlluetfe. In the last analysis the country and small 'own preacher is the governing for e of th.s country, where anything like a moral question is involved. lie made the sentiment tion. however violent and unjust tho means. He has carried the country for prohibition. IMght or wrong, thoso are his achievement?. He works with and through the vast and dominant middle das-, wulch when it can bo nited. as it does unite when convinced that its safety or the stability of tli* government involved or when It h sftitimen: is stirred, s the. dominating and Irresistible sovereign anil court of last resort. The more Intimately the history of the country ami of its vast growth and eont lined life, contrary to ill tho h. -t of the old pr.ict.cal political philo >ophy, ar< studied, the stronger mist be tihe convl' tlon that these two forces have made and kept the republic -and :iiu-t. and can, be trusted to main tain |t. despite blunders and fanati cisms and sometimes wrongs. They .?re the r 1 foundations. The wido task for statesmanship among tm is t?> have ownersli ;? "f property made nearly iimIV'TmiI as Is ;? <.:b 1 ? and religious teaching >?' all creeds kept al.ve, potent and active. The two :>.e;ui progress w.thout violence or de strti : >>n berau-e they represent that regard for estab! shed law and earned rights whim is the bas.s clviliz.i t ion. a:' nth' r matter", including the ratl fi it. ?ti of the Sis.m It. Anthony <so ?alied) amendment to "he Federal <"o: it.v-n. to he d< lit with by a rww Asseniblj e> t.-d by the people who have reib ? ? .I up>u th? .e niat ters, the-, will ,1 ?ve <am?'i t!ie j;rat: t tide and admiration < f ail people, and .ill *. ose who vote, as they have .-?L'-.ei, on this question '?( progress, will. :f th< y offer for re-elect on and make lenr the r view* on other im p< rt.int matters :?;> be dealt with it the tegular session to be convened in Jan uary. ', be either returned at th? primaries or defeated The people are one on good roads. They arc divided on other questions The rail Is for a >pe purpose. I.et 'hem carry out that purpose and adjourn I will wager d .liars to doughnuts that if t .at hail tieen a well-assured thing there would n<>* have r>e,-n ten men in 1"0 who would ever have doubted tho wisdom of an extra *??s!on. C. CON'WAV RAKER. Montross. V.v, June I!'. 101?. Books and Authors Hon! & l.iveright announce for July publication "Th'ir Mutual I'hild," by Peih.im iJreenville Wodehouse. The publishers say that "Their Mutual ?"h11il" in n*>t only replete with famous Wo.i.>house brand of humor, but that is is i tender, fascinating lo\ e .story bued on the id'a tnat it i* "a little child shiill le:;d them." Kohert II. fnivis. of the Munse\ Co.. who ?? ritri nally brouih. Mr. Wodehouse to this country jroiti llnglaiid says that this l> bv fir the ii.-.-t thing Mr. W'.nle house has written. John Krnest Hoi^er Williams, head of the tirtn of Messrs. Hodder and stoughton. l.otidon. and vice-president 'of ileorge II l?>>ra-i Companj. New J'urk, has been knighted. Sir Krnest the eldest son of John and Mary Williams. H:s mother is the only child of the late M. H. Hodder. and Ills father, is a nephew of the late Sir ft(jorge Williams, founder of the V. M. ?' A. with whom he was connected in business for over forty years. Sir Krnest has crossed the Atlantic many times, and before the war a trip to the States and Canada, where he has many friends, was a regular event of the summer. When the war broke out. Mr and Mrs. Hodder Williams threw their whole strength into national service, but Mrs. Hodder Williams has not lived to share her husband's honors. Julius Henry Cohen. lesigned and as counsel for 'he etnp'oycrs aidej m carrying forward the institutions es. tahltehed by the protocol In the gar ment Industry, is the author of an im portant little book just published by the Macmlllans under the title. "An : American Labor 1'olicy." Herein. In brief compass. Mr. Cohen describes tho ' immediate and pressing labor problem land offers an American way out. The Bolshevists and all others who believe in uprooting and overturning industry i will not like the book -it blazes a het ! ter trail than theirs. Nor will the j "stanpatter" or reactionary like it?It 'refuses to accept existing conditions as final or irremediable. Open-minded : employers, labor leaders, lawyers, pub I licists and especially those who carry la large part of the burden of Ameri I can industry will, however, indorse Mr. | Cohen's program. It Is common sonso I hitched tip to legal principles. We hear that Mary Hasting Brad i ley's new novel. "The Wine of Astonish i ment," has caused quite a hit of ex ! citenient in Chicago, where Mrs. Brad j ley lives and where she is very well known. Mrs. Bradley says: "I learn? I with pain and surprise?that I have 1 haled forth family skeletons and drawn actual portraits! I own to nothing hut la mild analogy or two, really. One j-woman said to me at a tea last week: ;'I was so interested |n your hook! I never did know what had happened In I that case. <Jf course, I recognized them at once.' 1 didn't even know ''them.' Next time I'll write of Kgypt! But then, when I did write of Kgypt land Cairo and narems. people won dered if I had been in them." Which all goes to show that Mrs. Bradley is a realist of the best sense of the word, and that, the characters in both "The i Wine of Astonishment," the story of : Chicago, and "The Palace of Darkened i Windows." the story of Kgypt and j harems, make one truly believe that I to have drawn these characters as she has, she must have known them in I real life. Noon. i Behold, now. where tho pageant of high June Halts In the glowing noon! The trailing shadows rest on plain and hill; Tho bannered hosts are still; While over forest crown and moun tain-head The azure tent is spread. The song is hushed in every wood land throat; i Moveless the lilies float; Even the ancient ever-murmuring sea Sighs only fitfully; The cattle drowao In the field-corner"* shade; .v Poaco on tho world la laid. .... .t r?Bliss Carman*