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DAIIjT?WEKKbY?SUNDAY SlUlrMi. Offlce.81? B. Main Streot. tnchester Hurenu..1102 Hull Btroet. tfterabur* Hiirrnu.<0 N. Syenmoro St. Lrnchbunr Burpaii.215 Klghth 61. ~ W MAIt,. Ono fllx Throa Onn ?? ^.^WAJr'.c.Pi TA1D Tear. Mon. 11m, ..to. /4^V?l:y wlth Sunday.. JG.00 IS.OO $1.60 ,ti5 buiy wltbotlt Sunday 4.00 2.00 1.00 .3S Wdsy edltlon only..2.00 1.00 .60 .26 fc'ttKly (Wodncsday)..1.00 .&* -26 By TImaj-DIlpatch Cnrrler Dellvnry Rcr Hc? In nichmond (and euburbs), Manr ios t?r and rotcmburg? ? _, , Ono Wcck. pally wlth Sunday...,. U conta bally without Sundny. 10 ccnta Way only . 6 ccnta Enterod January 27, 190.1, at Richmond. V?? a; aecond-cla'aa matter undor act of Ctncrefs of March 5, 1S79. WEDNEBDAY, DECEMBER 30. PUUCBHEN'S MISTAKES. MJstakes wlll hnppen ln , oven the piost earefully rognlated organl/.ations, but ccrtainly thc Pollee Deparlment of Richmond should tako overy possible precaution to avold pucli unhnppy er rors ns that whlch recontly brought a hlghly respectablo and wholly unof Tendlng young lady to .the verge of prrcst. This ls not. nnfortunately, tho flrst error of the klnd that a local pollceman has madc. Only n very short whilo has passed slnce two young wo nien, vlsitors to this clty, wero dotalncd lnte at night under clrcumstances which ereated much publlc synipathy ?wlth them, and no llttle publlc lndlg ratlon. The misbnp of Mondny was slmply a stnpld case of mlstaken Identity. Slmllnrlty of coslume Ia a very slender ground on whlch to con fuso reputablo and law-abldlng per? sons wlth those who are nclther, and this seems to havo been the sole basis t>f the offlcer's unlucky blunder. Apologles are all very well In thelr way, but they cannot undo tbe wound rd feellngs and sense of luimlliation whlch corne from an open and publlc impllcation of wrongdolng. The Times-Dispatch realizes perfoct ly that the Richmond pollccmen must use the greatest vlgllance in the fol lowing up and detentlon of suspects. T:.ey havs not at present, we belleve, nny great reputatlon for belng un usuaJly deft In thc apprehension of c-.riminals, and thc coneclousness of Ihls, perhaps, Impels them, ns It should, lo increased alortness. But dlscrotlon and common sense must control this v.eal, most especlally where womon aro '.nvolved. An off!c?r who approaches a woman r.'ith a. vlew to questloning or arresting her must be made to realire that he is dolng a serlous thing, ?*nd taught not to act untll he is sure of hls ground. #-B?ERAl. GOVERXMEXT AXD COR PORATIOX COXTROL. The disadvantasres of a Fedcral sys tem of government as contrasted with r centrallsed or unitary syctexn were Btrlkingly brought out In the address of Dr. Stephen L?acock, of McGlIl Uni verslty, before the Amerlcan Politlcal Bclence Associatlon tlie other day. Tho Impresslong and oplnlons of Intelllgent outslders always have a pectillar in terest, and tho dlstlnction of ,thls Ca nadlan professor In the fleld of pollti cal economlcs lends unusual welght to hls comments. Dr. Leacoek flnds that the "Judlcial lnterpretatlon" theory, r.omblned wlth growlng cornpllcatlons in the centrallzed power. Is serlously riernorallzlng our present systcm of ad inlnistration. Such are the inherent defects in this system, he thlnks, that lt is Itkely to prove itself only n. tran vient and e^lnodtc,.phase in the long story of t.i;,o Hr-uggle of Ptates for the Bb.undcat and most cfficlcnt methods of a'dmlnlaterlng' thelr affalrs. Naturally enough, Dr. I.eacock's chlef polnt of attack is the great corpora tion and its perplexing posltinn ln the body polltin. He cltes Mr. K. E. Ho r.ack to drlve home hls potnt that cor poratlon abuses ar>- largely the rcsult ot tho complcto Uuk of uiilformity In the Inws nnd proccduro In t),c several ptatcs. Compotltlon .,f States f<>:- <hc ,e.liarterlrig of corporafloiis and thc ab Honve <if State bupervlAon over them nftcr they are chartered aro vaiuab'.o. lillics of thc organlztd malefactors <if great wenlth. Rm rfhe main dimculty in all efforts to hold down thc conje ratlons. and in ,01 antitrust legiHlatlo'n. bo tir.dt-, in th? thnusand and on.. ways in which tho States procecd to .h-h task, Insplrcd by a common motiv?, they are gulded into anythlng but co.n mon paths, and tlie cesnlt ls, ns i-,> .'??>.<?. -'.i hewililcrlng rlm U,on/' whlch "has been ;'!! dlrectlons by iiostlli tlie r.ourtr." Tho supreme e.vidence jjlency ot Federal ndminif f'i-nnomlc fi>ld_Dr. J.i-a.-c, ? .ti'.attor of thc control of i ty-slx dlfferent sets of <tion. in ihe other lialt 1! fuch clauso; twenty-three Hlates.foi tdd tho conaolldation of parallel llnes, vnd twenty-thrco Stutes permit II. jlxtoen States ptohibit pooling, an I .twonty-nlne Staies do not: onu snu bunlRhes dlscrlmlnatlon wlth a tlne ol J50, another punlshes, :t with -> lino .,( !"'.'"".'. I'h.-.truvliim ii.:- ii:i,|,. :> ,,in. Vt:"-;... ii*. >UsHleHli.i.l I., ,-,,.- momh, ? n Jalj, in N'.-u Vork ly i, i<-,: ? t., , . ;,, Jall, in rt"j'"omiiifc' by <i- aih. Fiom ;u, 'Sxhiblt of contrafcts and curlos|tie>; i*uch as that i t. ia nol aiirprlelng tlial 'JlhlH v,l?c vihit-ur hiiould conclude tha1 81ie Staii-.-i muHt elili'er jolntly iiKre; *ii a harmonlous ^yKtc-Ill of Mtntulti:; tesulalton, i>i .,1k- they n.u.-t i.;!!!*. (jui*h so il , J ?<!,,,-,i K.,vi-nnn.-i,i ii,.m. |,?-;vrd rUiith im-r Inlorna) rinn flerce. ?.I Tltav may ju*tify Di; J.^acuck'a yi'V' dlotion anent tho itltlmato downfall of tho Fedoral llioory of governmont, but tho day In nny caso wlll bo far dls tant. Moanwhllo hls suggostlona abotit the control of corporntlons, and cspccl ally of rallways, nro doeldedly" portl nont and Intoreslltig. They are nlto gethor ln llno wlth tho conclualons of an ovcn bottor known studenl of prnc tlcal' ceonomlcs. Theodoro Roosevolt. Mr. Rooaevclt's rccommendatlon that tho control of Iho country's rnllways bo vested sololy In the Inlerstnto, Com imerce Commlaslon would givo practlcal forin, so far aa that is posalblo among a pcople whlcli gtiitrds tholr States' rlghta so Jenlously, to Dr. Leacock's nuggeatlon of a* unlfled public admln latratlon of them. That would bo a small step Indeed In tho swooplng do fcdernllzatlon or centrallzatlon whloh Dr. Leacock nppoars to havo ln rtilnd,. but It Is an emlncntly wlae and acnsl ble step, and thero ls good ground fof thlnklng thnt Congrcss will take lt. THE BPLTFT ON THE SOBTtTERN PAIUt. Dr, L. H. Knapp, of tho Country LIfe Commlssion, nnd chief of one dlvlalon of the Department of ,Agrlculturo's "co-operatlve farm demonatration work." has been for somo weoks ln tently" studylng ways arid means of cxtendliig the upllft to the Southern farnier. 'ticnow announces hls find Ings and proffers recommendatlons In trlpllcate form, aa follows: (1) Get hlm (the Southern farmer) out. ot debt. (2) Revolutionize hls home. (3) Tako over and readjuat his schools. No suggestlon could wcll be more pertinrnt thnn the flrst of these threo. Tho whole eeonomic history, not of the South only, but of all soctions, na tlons nnd pcoples, of man hlmself, has been, in a scnso, only a struggle to got out rff 'dcbt. Debt depresses; re lense from debt upllfta. Tho South eVn farmer, after havlng tho mort gage paid off, the notes remltted and destroyed and tho account at tho gon eral store llquldated, would undoubted ly fcel more in tho mood for readlng Brownlng nnd cultlvatlng hla osthetlc nature In the evenlng houra than he does nt presont. We wlll suffer no argumcnt on that polnt. But by what necromancy tho Country Llfc Commla? slon ls golng to brlng about this halcyon consummatlon does not yet appear. Paylng the debts of a mlllion farm ers la, however, as easy aa anythlng elso that tho ambltlous Knapp pro poses. Taklng over and readjustlng tho schoola of the South, to use tho Doctor's own phrases. would probably oceupy some llttle tlme and would In volve one or two minor probloma. Who, for lnstance, wlll be delegated to ac compllah tho taklng over act, and who the readjuatlng? As the besotted farmer is paylng for these lnstltu tlons, would readjustment at the hands of allens bo permltted undor , the Fourteenth Amendment? Then, as t? that llttle proccas whlch Dr. Knapp so happlly descrlbea aa revolutlonlzlng the home, who ls tho heaven-born who can safely be lntrusted wlth that? Men sorr.etimes object to havlng thlngs of this .sort done to their homcs by sclentiflc Btrangera.from Boaton or clsewhere. Would thia be a bloodloss revolutlon, and what would bo lts gen eral objective, lf any? Revolutlon for revolutlon's sakc does not, we nre con fldcnt, draw Dr. Knapp, but ho leaves the duller of us a llttle ln the dnrk as to how ho proposes to beneflt tho farmer by wrecklng his lares. A DEMOCnVTIC TAHIFF DILL. Repreacntative Clayton's ldea of a Democratlc tariff bill to bo prescntsd to the speclal sesuiun of Congress next March is Intelllgent and suggesttve. Though' lt Is iiardly likely to come to anythlng, the academlc interest of such a proposal is strong. Tho work of the opposition party is in the nature of the caso crltlcal and dcstructlve. ! t. would be a mtatakc to eonclinle, however. that the party engaged in opposition is intrlnaically ineapable of constructive work. Mr. Clayton's plan Im lo diaprove Mich a conclusloh os re gards the Democratlc party by the prcparation und preselitation of a com iilcie tariff bill, coverlng every sched ulc from agates to sslnc. Such a bill would obvlously have no proapect of belng enaeted, but it would be, at least tlieoretlcdlly, a concrete and detaiJed expresslori ot Democratlc tariff. prin ciplea, and would give the voters a concrete opportunlly to judge betwcen the two parties ou tlila i*bue. ln short, Ii would be, as .Mr. Clayton says, a j lucaaurc to go to the country on. Bi.i'l it ls not Ilkcly that tiie party ! Icudcra wlll deem this prospect ns Hiif I Ocieiit lnducemen.1 to undertakc the I Srurnensc labors involved in fi-ahilng -i icompleto Inrlff i.ill. Moreover, it I* deeldedly iiroblematlea) how far such I n liiil would uxp.rcsa thi.- roal sentl j nients of tho l>oinocrats of uia cottn ! try. Tho preparatlon or a 1,111 for j prineiple only and destined never to be I converted Into Blatute would not at jiriict that llock of Intercsted peraolni i whlch would rally. fur proteat or p.-ti I tlon, io the inakins ol ;i niorb "livc" bill The Iminenne |ircsstiro always ; applh .1 to men who an to iix Impout dutloii uiidoubtcilly bIiows itself In tlio scheduU-a us liitally arrangod, and llils [preaauro acailemk legtslatora would bo entlroly without. Tlio result would not bc ftceurntely reflectlve. It would Wholly iKiiore thnt Srowing dcnidnu foi; proiecllop uinoiig Democrafs Whlcli wc UlKl '" '."- "' 'I"' nioai .'i;.:iil!l ? ani di >. lopiiieni - hi inodorn |Vollt|cs, ''? ?';' - i' Taft ii. goiiiK io I'utlJd a -ny-ttlih tallroad in Tosua. A I'iltlii chouelH wlll lonvlnci thb In'elUgeiil ':"1"l"i? '???." ls HiiOther reaaoi, why <.-.:.U)i - 1J. Tafl oogl.t |,, !,,, nu. j1,.Nt Senator ffoin Ohto, .Mr. .loeoph Pulltzer's vlsll to I'unauii! inaj i.c sliupiy for ||,,. purpoae of iv !k>ving lila i'.-(.|inK.^ i,,. ii,,. chttu'ti dutu Alld how do you ,sii|.|,o,,. (??. io, happy 'iti/ias of .icsnoiic UiiNahi iv (;:.nl tho liberty mul iiiiliuiiiiiH'lei J:i'vi.tloiu of tuc Rtittlfoyt tvlahV Borrowed Jingles PAPA OMKCTS. lie la poor and ho'a grently ln debtj Tliat ho'a Idle I have to admlt. He la nut enargatlo, nnd yot All hls clothra havo an clegnnt flt, Thoy'vo atyle and dUtlnctton that'l grand And hl? mnmicra aro very corroct, So T rciilly cnnnnt underataml In tho leant why papa ahould objaot. > I havo hsard that hls charactor's bad, Thnt ha's rntlier addlctnd to vlce, And I thlnk that la tarrlbly ead, Unt t thlnk ho la nwtully nlca. Ho luia qtilte n awoll fninlly tree That hls hablta can hnrdly affect, 80 It aeems very funny ?o me, I nm auro, thnt papa ahould objtot. It may be that ho haan't muoh acnaa, l'd not cara If he hndn't a rtaln, J For I ncvor moda nny pretonao Ot a fond ndmlrntlon for braln. AYlint 1 wnnt la n aodal auaeeM" And a grentcr I oculdn't saleot; So ln vlow of thla fact, I confeas, T don't soo why- papa ahould objeet. ?^Chlcago Newi. .MEREIA* JOKXNO. T*V Dlfference, Stolla: "T)3ct yottr auto mateh yout gown?" Bclla: "No, I can alt In It."?New York Sun. lSelronrllvc ailsfortune. "How dld Mra. Banga comi to glve up hGuaekcepIng?" 'On account of raversea." 'Rovorses? Dld ahe loae hor raoney?" ?No, but nrat ahe broke down and then she broke up."?Baltlmore Amerloan, 1 Itonllsm. "How reallatlc your palntlng lal It falr. ly mnkes my mouth water." "A sunaot'mako yo-ur mouth. water?" "O. lt la a sunsct, lan't It? I thought lt v.as n frled egg."?Houston Po?t. Renulalte to Mllltary Burlal. . Colonel: "What do army regulatlons mnke the first raqulalte ln ordor that a man may bo burled wlth mllttary honors?" Prlvate Macahorty: "Doath, yer*bonorr*? IUuatratcd Blti. Xho Dlfference. 'You get twlce as much pay u I do," grrmblcd tlio elovator boy, "and It aln't foir!" 1 ?Thora'a a dlfference betwecn 11a, kld," majeatically answered tha elevator starter, "jcu're mercly ft neco&elty. I'm a luxury." ?Chlcago Trlbune. Hnd Been There. 'A Plttsburg aclentlat claima that h? aaw a man In that clty dlasolve Into thln alr." 'Ho llea. Thero lan't any thln alr In Pltta burg."?Houston Dally Poat. A"arletJaa. Knlcker: "A Joy rlde la In aomebody eleo'B machlna." Bockor: "Or wlth aome one olae's girl," New York Sun. FERTtNEXT AND IMFERTYNENT. ABOSTON pa'per refera to AVllllam the Conqueror aa an early nilbuater. It mlght feel hurt If the Mayflbwer wora collcd a Uttlo tub of thc aoventeenth cen tury.?st. l.rmia Globe-Democrat. It la to ba fcared that aeven yeara ln the prosldentlal chalr haa a tendency to spoll even tho sweetcat temper.?Scranton Repub llcan. ' AYhcn the suftragettoj get votes a formld ablo candidato for offlce wlll be tho inven to,- of the hooklesa watst.?Houston Chronl c!o. Now that the Kals?r hna Jolned Mr. Tnft on the water wagon. wa wlll b? glad to wel come hlm also in Augusta.?Auguata Chronl cle. 'Alwayi sr?t up from the table. hungry." advtaea an Illlnols octogenarlan. And the trusta are maklng it caaler for the general publlc to act upon the octogenarlan'a sugges tion.?j,-aw Orloana Tlraos-Democrat. It la announced from Auguata that Secre tary AVIlaon wlll atay In tho Cablnet: For pctmaiiencv, tho Washlngton Monument has very llttle on Mr. AVIlaon.?AVashington Post. - In Chlcago the prlco of brooma la golns up. Posslbly on^aceount of the preaent de mend for swceplng reforms. Senator Bourne. of Oregon, saya that thc ofTIce of Proaldcnt ls "a contlnuous and terriflc straln." AVc all fcel it.?New York AA'orld. ( # t Thla la tho time for E. H. Ilarrlman to take hbld of tho cdltlng and publlcatlon of that aerlal in whlch be la regarded as oither the hero or tho heavy vlllaln.?Poor-s Manual of RalUoads. *- ? FERSONAE AND GENERAL. Tfcls haa been a bad month for the wholc ?Uex'ls famlly. The Grand Duke Alexls dled; Prr-sident Nord Alexla. of Haytl, has been dr-poscd and la a fugttlve, and the Vcnezue land coaat guard ahlp Alexls haa been selzcd bv the Dutch. Wo aro told that all fleah ia graas and also that we are but human clay. Now the new psychology roveals the asbeatos man In Krcd E. Foakett, who fondlea llve coals without resultant blistora. Knglnes of the Unlon Paciflc are Jlttod wlth wlrelcaa tolcgraph npparatua. This ^?111 mablo up-to-date higbwaymen wlth pVrlable wlrelcaa outllta to take note of comlng traina a thouaand mllea away and set thelr alarm clocka accurately. Ono of tho thrco memorlal wlndows un velicd the other day at Plymouth Church, Brooklvn, showed a group of four dlstln gulsh'-d Amerlcan women?Mra. Harriet H,.clier Slowe, Mary Lyn, Emina Willard mul Vatherlne'Esther Beechor?deaorlbed aa tho four great cducatora of Amerlcan wo luiuihoud. Mrs Nora Stanton Blutch do Foreat, grapddaugbtePiot Mrs. ElUaboth Cady Stan? ton Is salil to be uqulpplng a faclory ut Newark, N. J., for the manufacturo of olcc tri< condensera. Sho ls a graduato of the clvl< ciiglnecrlng achool of Cornell Unlvcrslty, and Blnce hor marrlago has been studylng ehctrlclty. To tho l'?t ?f selfrmade men whose bus Pietii iriinaactionB embraced an cxtraordlnary varlt-tv of Intercat must be udded Solomon ViKiie.vB. of l.'ardlrf, whoao dled ut tho agj or, teveuty-thfee, leaving a fortuho of ti.SSO.OOtf. fnable'to reod or wrlto, he staited b'Jstncaa by liawklng pUn and tarta that lio had baked hlmaelf, Beforo loug ho ciubdrkcd ln other enirprlBos and becuinc wi aitby. Mudam ??? -luniianii-HuInk luia cxplaihed wbv sho took out naturaiizatlon papers. "In Oti'iratiy 1 navai uarnod moro tlnm $1.0011 to x 1,7o0 im-r aiiiHiin," shc ?ays. '"J'he Ger man prcas spokc ot 1110 aa a vlngcr of the MrM ordor und u gruut artlst, and many ? ro BhOwerctl upon mu by tho pub t homo I had hulf ;i dozen hulf 11,000,*.' Aii I'higliMh AVoiiini; .Aln'yor. Dr, Gnrrotl Aiulcrson, tho wo'man IMavor ni' Aldebui g, Suifolk, gavo a I tiaiiiiuei tui Suttirduy evenlng (h fnriy 'coiiiioilora uinl otjior guoats. Tln-Mnyor, ..!?-, ? i-.-ii in black, wlth 11 wldow'a cap, and wcarlng dlamonda, was thc only j woman preaont. 'I'iu- Mayor gftvc the toast nf "Tho Servlcea," and sald shc hopod thut thoy wouhl bo nuinerouH onough td meet uil ! i'ini'1 gcticlfS. ? ItOplylllK to llie toast of "AlilOburg'H ? I'roapiTlly," 111.? Mnyor milil that ilnr ni; lii'i- yehr of olllce shc would trv all sho could tn !>,? a niullirrly a'ort ut I bouKckoeipur to tho tovvn, of ?.vliich thoy had ,-vitv i-lBht to lie protid, Tho, truo.ets woro allowed in sinokel inii tho Mayor ? li< 1 not.?Fali Mnii Uu I ssofto, I'Hti'ul t'oi- l:!dUou'a Uuttulller, Tho iwi'iily-iino-yeai -nld ilaughlur , ol Thomas A. Killson Iiqs been granted n patent on u roatl man ou which n ? UiQvablu puiulcr iiidloulps tho iioalllon i'i an automohilo 10 whlch lt 1^ ut*. ' ta'chotV- -Muliliiuirc Ame,i:ii:uii, Kluji llio I'tShlioiN'M. .1 \iiiCM lllO l>UKH|?ll|H'M 011 tln !,lr.'i-|.H, ' ? adv.isoa ? U19 Jijckaon (Minw,) Uln,rloii umlgrr, lltcro nro luuKlrcds 01' |ium?iuiu 1 uta on Itotihluu'H Htreeis. but nury itv W!?wi?Uat,wrilgu?to'i i'oat By La Mairqianie <dl? -j-:-?-1?,-,? Klng Alfonao n Ucfornier. TO Klng Alfonso's Inltlatlvo and oncouragemont, more than to anythlng olse, ls duo tho uccom pllshment of a feat whlch htis attractedf vory llttlo attontlon on this sldo of tho Atlantlc, and yot whlch Is dostlned to play a vory important rolo ln thp futuro* hlstory or Spaln. It is tho plorolng of tho Fyreiioos by moatlB of a tunnel. Hlthcrtb tho Pyroneoa have formed an almoBt lnaurmountablo barrior botweon ' Spaln and tho re malnder of Europo. For tho rnllroads connocting tmrponlnsuln with tho con tlnontal system, run only along the coaat, on tho west and on tho east. whoro tho groat mountaln rahgo dlpa into tho aca. Now, howovor, a tunnel ,s, bobn construotod and tnaugurated, whlch' plorco tho l'yrenoos almosi ln the mlddlo and onables tralns to bo run rlght through from Pau to Sara gossa, thue glvlng dlroct rallroad com munlcatlon betweon Franco and Uic centro of Spaln, whoro nll tho lattor'a most proaperous lnduatrlos are altuatel. Tho corernony of Inauguratlon wua attendod by French and Spanlsh Cabl not ministors, and moroly quostlons of otlquotto prcvcnted tho preaenco of Jving Alfonao, who has manlfestod *o mnch Jnterest Jn tho onterprlse. In ract, had lt not been for hls urglng hls onorgyand hls enthuslasm the work mlght stlll havo contlnued, as it had remalned for so long, a more subject of acadomlo dlscusslon. What wlth 1his and other works, and the remark able lndustrlal and eommerclal pro gresa of Spaln during 4he laat few years, to all ofi whlch Don Alfonao has contrlbutcd, he bids falr to remaln on record as ono of tho moat useful mon arohs that have ever occupled the Ibe rian throne. Whllo Emperor Wllliam has entlrcly abandonod his dally vlslts to the chan <rw?Ls n.nl,ac? ln tho Wllhelmstraaso at Jietlin vlalts whlch, generally cxtcnd ing over the spaco of a couplo of houra, Wclr.??JeuVOt,ec:l to a dlscusslon of tho curiont buslnoss, moro ospeclally of the forolgn polioy, it munt not ho for one inomont bolleved thnt he has lost In terest ln these matters. True, ho haa seon Prince Bulow but two or threc timea during the last slx woeks, nnd then ln moro or less formal audlencoa ihiy '-iwiil10, KmP?ror no longer vlslts n,t? Wilhplmstraaso overy d(l t, Crowti Prlnco does. Each of the sons of the Kalser It requlred to acqualnt hlmselt wlth cer taln branches of the adminlatratlon ol tho state. Thus Princo Augustus Wll? liam, whose marrlage took place lasl fall, is now belng lnitiated into all the mysteries of the Department of the In terlor, where he spends the gf'eatoi part of each day, wlth the object, R lt aald, of oquipptng hlmself by means ol exporlenco far the troublesome and dellcato offlco of Stadtholdcr of Alsace Lorralno. The Crown Prlnce has al ready apent a number of months at tlu Department of Interlor, and aa mucr more at tho Imperlai Troasury Depart? ment. For the last four wecka he has been devotlng hls attention to the De? partment of Forelgn Affalrs, whoro h( arrlves every mornlng at an early hour remalnlng untll noon. then returnlng agaln ln tho afternoon, and takln;; homo wlth hlm at night to hls palacf state papera for study and conaldera tlon. He ls thus belng inltlatod lnt( all the Inner mysteries of German di plomacy and atatecraft, as far.as thv foreign relations of the empiro are cou cerned. Everything is aubmltted to hlm by the Secretary of State, Herr von Schoon, who is an old frlend of hls, and as the Crown Prince ia, despite unreliable gosslp, on the most affec lionato atul intiinato terms wlth hla father, and entlrely devoted to hlm, it may be sat'ely .assured that the Kaiser remains quite aa much ln. touch wlth thlngs in the' Wllhelmstraaso as formerly. This is in nccordanee with hls con stltutlonal rlghts and prerogatlves, and nolther tlio German Constitution nor yet the German peoplc at large, have pny wish that tho forelgn pollcy of the empiro should be left to tho uncontrollcd dlscretlon of a Chancellor who ls not reaponsible to Parllamcht. lt was becauso Prince Bismarck acted in an altogetber autocratie inanner. decllning to aubmlt to the control of tho Kaiser, ln whoiii the supremo di rectlon of the forelgn relations of the empiro is centred by the Constitution, and was equally indlfferent to the wlshes of the Imperlai leglslature, that he was dismlssed. The German poo ple do not, despite the Jucubratlons of the unwholesomo Maxlmlllan Harden, desire a revival of this form of autoc racy on the part of tho Chancellgir, ln the person of Prlnco Bulow. That is why they are plcasod to hear of the fact that the Kaiser remains in touch tlierewlth, through his cldesl son, the univeraally popular Crown Prlnco. As Councillor Hammann, of the De? partment of Forelgn Affalrs at Berlln, i3 about to receive his.walking papera, If ho has lndeed not already got theiu by tho tlmo that this lettor' appears ln prlnt. lt may bo Just as woll to ex plain that tho disgrace of this widely knowti oflicial, who has. been ln charge of tho press arrangements of tho Min Istry of Foreign Affaira for a number of years, is not due to anythlng con nected with tho alleged Kaiser Inter view in Uie London Daily Telcgraph, but results from a domostic scandal in whlch he hns becomo involved. It sooms that he was co-.respondont ln a divorco case brought by Prof. Bruno Kchmldt, of tho Royal Academy of Arts at Berlln, againat tho lattor'a wlfe, whom he marrled after the de cree had been granted. The pro i'essor now charges hlm with grosn perjury in conncctlon with tlio case, and whllo tho erlininal authoritios havo ao l'ar refrained from movlng in tho matter, tho papera whlch'have beon submittcd to the Chancellor, Prince Bulow, and to Secretary of State von Schoon, leave tliom- no nlternative bttl to dlspense wlth Councillor Hiini nianu's scrvices. Followlng tho cxamplo of so many fanioua clubs, on both sides of tho At luntlc, the Parls Jockoy Club is nbout to move, and tho question of lts now locutlou constltutes to-day a more ab sorblng toplc of discusslon in the fnsh jlonnble world of tho groat metropulh I than the i.lresomo StolnholJ mi'story; tlio tro'ublcs of church nnd stato atul jilie rovlval of royallst activity. Whon tho Parls Jookey Club was llrst fouud ed by I.ord llenry Seyniour,' the lati; Dtiko of oi'le.tns, his elder brothera, aiul sunie IVrqnch nobles of tholr Ini | medidtd enUJiirago. near elghty yoart i iigo, it was catabllshed at tho corncr i 01 the Uuc de llclder and tho Boulo I viiid, that Is to aav, woll to tho oast | of tho Oporn, ln lSlil It 'movod to the corticr of tho Rue Scribo ahd tht I Hdulovard dos Capuclnos, that ls tc auy, weal of the Opora, tho leaso belne | algncil for the club by a comnilltoe ol I thrco dukes,' naiiutlyi lliose of Fit-.: i james, Albufera und of-Ln Rochofou caiiiil-Doudeuuville,. who. dlod as \tt I prealdont quito rocontly. Tliore tlu I club has remalned evor slnce, that h to sny, for torty-savon years. But tlu btilldlng ls now roqulrod for othor pur posoa, tho leaso comoa to an end. 1p i about a yenr'a tlmo, and the Jockoj Club Is accordlngly obliged to-t'nove, Altliongh no deflnlte formal voto ha.' I boen taken", yot II. is known' to bo tlu | iilinust uiianlmous wisli of thn nienibet'.' I io libimdon the boulevards and to- so ciive lueiniaes ln or about tho Champs lOlyain'a.' ;j3avb'rii.l aro ltinlef consld j cralloii, nnd the mntlor wlll probabl.v I lio dotcrinlnod ' at the gonoral annua inccitlng earlv next month, wlian u nav\ presldent wlll also havo to bo cliosji lu tho placo of tho lato Duke de ln RocherouoauUl-Dnudpouvllle; lt is ????'? | gardod as probablo that lila .successoi I will he Prlnco Augustus Aroiibeix clilof of the Frenoh brnnch ot' thr Idiical and nicdlatixed house of tluii ! nuiiic. and who long haa lioon onu- cii the foi'Cljiojit llgttros on tho Frencl lurf. (Uid'la uotv vice-presldont of the club. Ilit lu urosidonl ,,of tho Sue> Canal; ntotulier of thp lnstit;"V< ol iFrauun.' uvX a wm:m ?oiaor?al ^ilo.ii. of Klng lOdward, who ftlways placoa hlm on IiIh riglit. hiind at hls ii.iinunl dlnnor to tho Rngllsh Jockoy Club Ut Hucklngham Fahtco, on- tho uny or tho DOrby raco. , Tlio Jockoy,Club Ib> no longer tho most oxcluslvo of Fronoh olubs, but It ls nndoubtedly tho nnmrtost, tlio most riiHiilorniblo, nnd tho ono most frotiuentod by forolgn roynlty. Tho two most oxcluslvo hro tho Union, nnd more ospeclally tho Atrrlcolo, populnrly known ns thc "I'ommos-do-torre," momborshlp of Avlilch Is vlrtuully ro strlctod to tho old torrltorlal arls tabtatiy,' that ls to say, to nohlos of nnclcnt llnoagn who aro still ln pos snsslon of ancostral estatos. (Copyrlght, ,1008, ? by the Brentwood Company.) STATE PRESS Not tha bllMiteat Danger. AVe have no idoa that .J-udga Taft ever entertalned the Idea of trylng to defeat Mr. Cannon's re-eloctlon. as Speaker of tho Houae of Repreaentatlves even If hls ldcni ns to how tho' tarlff should bo rovlaed dlf forod somowbat from Mr, Cannon's. It ? Is Dosslble that the two men do dlflfor n? to thc cxtont to whlch rovlalon ought to be carrled. but both belleve that lt ought to bn dono on the llnes of affordlng protectlon to. our own industrlos.. Judge Taft also recocnlzcs tho fact that the IIouso ahould bo left frce to elect Its own offlcors. If that body after It Is organlzed ahould pnsa a tnrlfl ftnt so rndirally oppoacd to tho vlewa held by Jndge Taft aa to convlnce hlm that tho mtcroBts of tha peoplo would be grent? ly In.fured by It, lt would then become hls duty to ?ct hls vlaws agalnst thoaa of the Hcuao nnd to veto It. But thero Is not the silghtest danger of thla.?llari'lBonbura Daily News. Dlsappolnling in Vlrglnla. A year or so'ago a blll waa Introdured ln t.'ongress to remove tlio tax from do naturcil alcohol. It was clatmod by tho nd vocatea of thla moasura that wlth the tax off a great Industry would aprlng up, that farmera ^wonld convcrt corn, wheal, corn stalks, watormelon rlnds and evcry old thln;: Into alcohol nnd that thla product would Boon tnke tho plnco of gasolone, koroaene and gna. The tax waa removed, but thc roMilts are dlaappolntlng. Tho United Statea Commlssloner of Hevenue reports that "the total productlon of denatured alcohol dtirlng tho past flscal year was 3,321,461 wino gal lons, whlch ls nbout 210,000 gallons leas thnr for tho pravlous year, and from roports reielvod thero doos not nppcar to havo been nny very matorlal Increaae In the quantttv enterlng Into' genoral or agrlcultural uso." If tha ropcnl of thla tax haa bullt up a slnglo Industry In A'lrglnlo, wo havo never heard ot lt. But wo know or one flourlsh iiu,' Industry ln Vlrglnla that It cfTectually olesed.?Newport News Tlmes-llerald. Ifow Richmond Epses. Richmond Is tho seat of a magnMcoiit enterprlse?tha Illchmond Locomotlve Worka. AA'ith thla plant the Vlrglnlan Rnllway Com? pany placcd an order for nlnetcen locomn tlvoa. But the Illchmond works Is a branch of tho Amerlcan Locomotlve Company?the locomotlve truat. Goographlcally, Richmond was tho place where tho entlro order ahould have been exocuted. But trust eyos took a- dlffercnt viow ot the altuatlon. It ia decreed that eleven of tha locomotlvea must he bullt In Phlladelphla and only elght at Richmond. ? This does not constltutc a dlvlslon of tcr | ritory. Tho Richmond works as an inde j pcrdont enterprlce probably would have bulp tho nlnetcen locomotlves. As a mem ber of the trust. the Vlrglnla caplt.al clty ?must content Itaelf wlth much the smnllei sharo of the "rqultable" dlatrlbutlon. Monopolles coat us llke smoko: but we've goi to havo 'them.?-Newport News Dally I'ress. Rcnlly SpUt?lng Ralls. AVe repeat that contemporarles whlch try to avold the Dandmark's polnts agalnst the throttllng Vlrglnla poll-tax by iruggestlng that wo are "spllttlng halr?>," wlll flnd out that wo are spllttiug ralls. Threo whlte mon vnto In North Cnrollna where two votc In A'lrglnla. AA'hy? Are ATrglnlans Inferlor to North Carollnlans in citlzenahlp??Nor? folk Landmark. Byrd Lav EITectlve. . From Norfolk vaVy Intereatlng flgure* como whlch evldcntly show that tho Byrd law, wulcli moans prohlbltlon for one day only. has reduced drunkenneas conalderably. or tho moral tono of the people Is gener allv lmproved. Accordlng to pollco rccords In Norfol.; thero wero ilvo tlmea as many nrrests on Chrlstmns Day laat yoar wlth aloona open as there were thla yoar wlth saloons closod. Thorc wore aeven tlnics aa meny persona arreated for drunkenne?a on Chrlstmaa Day, 1907, aa thore woro thla year wlth saloons closed. The offlclal flgures are: Arresta on ChrlBtmns Day last year, acvonty; arreeta on Chrlstmas Day thla year, fourteen; drunkB arrestcd laat Chrlstmaa Day, twenty two, and drunkR nrrosted thla Chrlstmas Day, three.?Suftolk Herald. Voice of the People I'OKtnl Savluga Banks. Edttor d"f The Times-Dlspatch: Sir,?In'your issuo of December 25tli occurs an cditorla] note oh the subject of postal savlngs banks. whlch calls l'ori sonre comtuent, t'or whlch 1 trust you will al.low me space in your col timns. Your suggestions faii to goJnto tho motits of the casc, and 1 would not oR'er uny coiiiinent wcru it not for the fact that the masses of tho people get thelr informatloti on publlc questlona from the newspapers, and tho expre's sion of ati adverae edltoiial opinlon in so Inlluentlul a journal as The Tlmes Dlspatch'ls llkely to have wido Iuilu enco wlth thoso not otherwlsc in formed. Your flrst objectlon is to sectlon 10 of the Carter blll (other bll'.s followins: practlcally the same llnes). in that lt provldes that jiostul savlngs deposlts shall bo tho subject of certain exomp tlons and prlvileges. You clalm that exomptlon from garnlshmeut, execu tion, seizure, etc., wo*uld contributo to fiaud by encouraglng thc dlshouost to wlthdraw thelr nionoy from bank and deposit lt wlth tho post-oltlce. A'ou apparently ovorlook the fact that, un? der present eonditions, thosq, who are dlsposod to dofratul orodltors citlior do not deposit thelr money ln bank at all or clse, at the silghtest intlnia tlon of danger, they wlthdraw andcon jCeal it. Ie thero any moro objectlon ,to having such funds deposlted ln a postal savlngs bank than in having thom concealed? ln the ono casc thc mono,?. would go hack Into circulutlon lo perform its usual function and help ofhers, and ln thc other it would bc concealed. and thus wlthdrawn from clrculallon. Your conchislon, . ln so far as it is valid, is based upon thc assumptlou that men are. diohonest; Thla ls ovi dontly incorrect'as to tho inass of the people. Thoy aro, as a rule, lionost. .But suppose for tho sako of argumen.t 'that tho facts. wero,. othcrwlso. Would It rnnke men moro honest to doprlvo them of a convonlent placo to denoslt thelr money? Tho only rosult ls to compel .them to (lnd somo other means of concoallng thelr funds, which ro siiits tt>. the "detrlment of business In ttrests,'' You-'Valso: apparently ovorlook the f.ict that most of tho States alroady havo a poor dobtor's law of sonia churactcr, which oxompts from soli-urc n certain amount of money dr proper ty, if "this is wrong ln prlnclple, t|ic Sttitos have alroady sot tho exitmplo t'or tho gonoral government. In Vlr? glnla thoro ls ln addltlon a'honiestoad oxomptlou, Incroaslng . tho .'iinouut whlch h dobtor may wlthhold for hlu crodltors to 2,500; whereas tho pos? tal savlngs blll roferred to only pro? vldes aiuoxoniptlon of 41,000. Your-, noxt objectlon Is tn the fact thnt the bill proposos only''.'' per oont. interestion postal savlngs deposlts, and you lapiont t|ie loss Of Intereat to de posltors. As your flrst. ohjeclloti 11 p parontlv fiuesUilns inou's houosty, llils roflocta* upon thelr curnniou 'sonse. Tho proposod law dons not coinpel nnv one' to wlthdraw hls money froip Imhk and 'deposit wlth thq post-olflco. The postal bnnks aro not deslgned to be tho rlvals 01' tlio savlngs lianks. luid'lfjtluiy should oltern hlgh rato ol intercsl thoy would, ItlUetnl, bo upon u- sorious crlticlsin. Thoy tirc dcslgn e.l to rv(ic|r t|u> nuuti-v ?ud tlio'lieople thnt aro not. rmioliHtl; h.v other luinlts uiui thorobv be Ilie 1'opilers of tho gen oml DaiUvitiy Inlorosis of tlie country, AVIitU would you tlilnk of th.o busl ? ness tidgmont ol' ,tv man- '.who. would ? AvltUdvaw Uaf monoy: ivom a shat'tejro.d or muttial aavln&a bank, whdra ho re colvos 3 per oont. or 4 por oont. In toVoat, and placo it wlth tho post-offloo, whoro,ho would rflooivo but 2 por oont,? Tltoro aro only two roaaomt whlcli I can concelvo for tho wltbdrawal ot funds from othor savinga banks to de poslt ln tho poatal. banks, Flrat, tho deslro to'dofraud, of whlch 1 havo al rcady spokon, and, pccond, foar of loss, In most oasos poraons to whom olthor of thoso roasons apply woultl withhold tliolr, monoy from bank ontlrely. This fttrnlshon tho postal savinga banka ono oppbrtunlty for uaofulnoss, To bring out this monoy and put it Into tho channola of trodo would oertalnly con sorvo tho publfo. weal. In tho caso of tho tlnild, thoy wlll uaually wlthdraw tholr monoy from bank at tho tlmo when Buoh actlon doos moat harm? that 1b, i ln tlmo of panio. Your thlrd ? objoctlon rolates to'the attltudo of tho banks. you aro ap parcntly concernod loat thoy ahould not bo wllllng to rocolve tbo monoy from tho postnl deposltarloa, n't lntor cst. You are ovldontly not woll ac qualntcd wlth banka If you do not know thatsthoro la nothlng olso for whlch thoy aro ao hungry as for do poalta. ' It la. scarccly to bo aupposed that- thoy would offor 3 por cont. or I per ccnt. for genoral deposits, and thop refuso to recelve depoglts from tho govorninont at 2 1-4 per cent. No; you may wcll sot your fcars at rcst on that polnt, Next, would they uso these fundB wlBoly? Thero la equal reason to ask If thoy uae thom wlsoly. at proaent. Is thoro anythlrtg at presont to provont tho banka from sendtng thelr fimds to New York for Bpceulatlvo purposos. The bill In quesllon provldns for the doposltlng of the poatal savlnga funds ln tho uelghborhood whero tho deposlt orlglnated. -If tho bank ?rccelvcs tho deposlt, lt must hold ltaelf In rcadlnesti to mcot the demand for that deposlt at home, and not ln New York, so tnat tho funds wlll always be avallahle ln the territory where the deposlt is mado. But you sny that in somo sec tlon3 there may bo no bank avallable. Unforttmately, that ls truo, but lt does not support your concluslon. On the contrnry, it furnlahea ono of .tho strong roasons for tho establlshment of poatal savinga banka. Large sectlons of the country are without banklng Jfacllltios, yot you would contlnue to deprlvo them of such advantages, Icat the ostabllahmont of poatal banka ahould work sotnc linagl nury harm to tho catabllshud bttnks. If tho opportunlty woro offered the dllllculty would no doubt work lts own solution. Tho fact that tho poatal hiiv Inga funda aro avallublo for dopoalt ln natlonal banka would bo an luduco mout to locato auoh banks ln sectlons ,j where thero aro now no banka, thua doveloplng banklng facllltlea for those who have nono. A llttle lnvcstlgatlon wlll convlnce you that tho establlahment of pOBtal suvlnga banka ls not detrlmental to the Interosta of othor banks. The oxperl enco of every country whoro they have beon tried, and that means nearly ovcry eommerclal natlon except the Unlted Statoa, provea concjualvcly to tho contrary. ln England, where tho chartered aavlnga banka offered the moat detormlnod oppoaltlon for nearly flfty yoars, lt transplrcd that they had never Jlourishod aa they dld after tho establlshment of postal savinga banka. This result ls natural and reasonable. Tho effect of tho postal savinga bank is to devclop among the people hablta of thrlft and savihg, and to edueatc them in mattors of flnance. When they have accumulated funds. tho dlsposi tlon ls to wlthdraw them from tho postnl banks and placo thom wlth pthe. Ijaiiks. wherc thoy wlll recelve a highor rate of Intcrcat. History and oxpcrlcnce show the pos? tal savinga banks to work nothlng but cood They meet the needs ot the neonlevespcclr-lly ln a large pprtlpn of tie country whoro savlngs banks ar? Bcarco"and they reach the people fn0!! manncr th-tt the other bnnks could never reach^he.m SpARKUX. Petereburg, Va.. Deeember 28, 1908. Low Prlcea for Oyster*. t-'rfttnr of The Tlmes-Dlapatoh: ^Hllr?ln a rcccnt cdltorial you ? cltUa waa fifflit and prlccs ranging l?To diacuss properly the caufo of thi* lo^pHc'e' fo? vlrglnla and Maryland f^tT8 llme ,w0non8a?het?Chc'sap,e;ko oystera exclusivcdy""njoyed the marke.a of the North and West. and wero con sldercdttlie "beatln the worldL At ti,nt tlmo the cxporlment of ">,s,eV ? Hure"Vn C.'onncctlcut Bhotl.W.ind and Long Island Mouiit. ai doven tho rielawnro Bay, was in lts Infanc>. ino Chcsapeako e'njoyed famc aa to quan titv and ouallty of her oysvers, atul tno Qualty is tho same to-day aa lt was twe ty-five or. thirty years ago-whon thoy were belng taken from our waters to stock tho sectlons that aro now got Ung good prices and a great demand. The same class of people that came to the Cheaapoake and opened pack ing-housesat Crlsflcld, Md.. andI made money o"1 ?f tn'? buslness (? rnftl ',? ?iVera from 'Coiincetlcut New Vork and Rliode island), are to-day rcaplng thelr harvest from tho effents ,of the plants taken from our waters and transplantcd in tho waters of these Northcrn States. Vfter havlng reduccd the size and niiantltv- of Clicsapeakc Bay oysters, they have turned tholr attention to tlieir homo products, and supplicd what was once tho markct for our oysters. So prolific has tho oysters in these sectlons become that they are ablo lo tako care of their own inafrkct., as woll as fill ofders from- abroad. 1 hls is a competltlon that. Is tho tvosult ot lu adequalc protc-ction . of our natural rocka In former years. The Delaware Bay also procured her planta from tho Chesapeakc and Chlnco lenguo many years ago. T can rciuom ber that any man who could inanago an oyster boat could easlly secure one from tho Delaware Bay to cngago in dredglng in our wators for plants to be taken to that sectlon. Tt was im materlal whero tho boat bolonged, so lotifr as the captain was a rcsident of Marylarid or Vlrglnln. and could secure dredglng llccnse. This ls one of the catises that lias brought our oysters ln loss dfuiaiid than formerly. Anothcr polnt Vto be looked at is that tho conslnnt dredglng for our oysters koeps- their slzo bclow the standard, unless, perhaps, it is those taken from privato beds. In this re spect we must conslder also that lt take's ovater plants (the. sizo that havo boen bcdiled in lalo years) from two lo thrce veara to. become tnarkctable, for It. Is'a.woll knowrt fact that ln many Instancus shells aro usod to form an oyster rock on whlch tho "spat" can ctitch. In this caso, .perhaps, the oysters ln tho markets of tBaltlmore and Norfolk have not been allowbd to como to inaturlty, consequcntly tho small demand and low prlre. Tho price of "ateatn stock" ln Baltlmoro twenty-flve years ago was from 30 to ?10 conta a bushel, and the supply was ihought to be almost Inoxhaustiblo. A boat could load'Mn Potomac Itivor lu a short wliilo Aylth this class of oysters and mako a good proflt each trlp at tho abovo prlccs. The Janies Rivor oysters, us well nstlio Potomac oystors woro never conaldorod nfore than ateain Kto'ck, but the plantors found out that by transplnntlng thom thoy could ibp mudo flno barrcl stock. As far as tho plantors aro, concornod tho low prlco of oysters 1b a forogono concluslon, ex? cept for fancy stoek, and it doos not aft'oot thom as badly ns lt does |ho drodger who looks to .tho natural rocks for hls supply of good .oysters, The oy.stor farmer knows* tlm'tVas long ns hls oystors are'not damagctt by natural causea his investmont Is s'afe; but iho drodger ls not so I'ortunate?he ls dc pendont upon tho Stato to . protoot hla supply. Ho it now booome.a tho duty of tho Stato to protoot hor-,natural beds for tho bonoflt of the dre^lger and set aaide tlio quostlou of reyoiiue from this source, only lii'so i*nr as lt goos to meet tho aotutil exponso of nialntaliilng that protoctlon. The quostlou ol' rovonua from Uve natural rocka comos from tlio pockots of tho drcdgoi' and not from . tho planic.i', bm.-auao nature helps tlio lat icv lii mcot hla lux,, whllo the former Is , coinpellod.'to acour tlio". hayp and rivei's in soiirch iif, a pvoliflo iiuturril rock, Tho pluutln^ af oysters pro jula?,u,u.ua,ly, *j\d ia^wuch uu'ffo <i&nu.r aai,": Scotf s Emulsion is for coughs^and colds as well as for consumption. It's easy for Scott'a Emulsion to cure a cold or cough and it does it better than anything elsc becausc it builds up and strengthens at the same time. Don't wait until you get Consumption or Bronchi tis. Get Scott 's. Scnd th>5 advertkement, logelher wlth name of paper In whlch It appcarj. your addresa ahd four cents to eover pottage, and we wlll aend you a "Complctc Handy Allas of the World" :i :: SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street. New York tltles has boen a moans of controlllnn) the prlcos of natural rock oysters and keeplng them at a low flgure, whlch must cventually drlvo tho dredger oul of tho markcts only for seed oysters, f.nd thln Ih tho reason we advoeat* the protectlon of Potomao oysters foi thc beneflt of resldents along its shoros. At the same time lt wlll brlntj In disreputo all leglslatlon for lh<= honcfit of the drodgcr. and In the end the combinntlon of plnntors wlll tnnkc n bld for the natural rocka of th? Stato and get them. Bo to my mlnd the planter has -.. two-fold advanlnge In the low prlc> of oysters In Marylnnd and Vlrglnla, namely; an opportunlty to get posscs ston of tho natural rock through lcgls latlvo" Influonce, nnd also to set th? prlco for every hushel ot oystora tnUcit from tho walors of both States. v ? Itespectftilly, J. R. FITBGERALD. Colonlal Beach, Vn., December 29Ut CASTORIA For Infants and Childron. Tha Klnd You Have Always Bought Bears tho Bignaturo It^Vf^Z^ Big Discount on Pianos. After-Christmas Selling Now is ihe time to buy a Piano, Pianola, either new or slightly used, at after-Christ mas prices. To clear out all Chrlstmas left overs from the hollday selling we aro offerlng largc dlscounts that mean a great savlng to every purchascr. Take advantage of this unusual opportunity to secure a piano. This is the Richmond home of the Victor. / Write us for prices. Walter D. Moses & Co. 103 East Broad Street. Oldest Muaic House in Virginia. Don't You Need Some New Silverware? ?Sclect lt from a showing that ls so comploto and broadly varied that you wlll havo no troubla Ivi chooslng the very style and grado you want: Tho Sllvorwaro wo sell glves tho dinlng board that degreo of rellned oleganee that women of good tastcs generally scek. You do not need a largo purso hcre, elthcr. D. Buchanan & Son JEWELERS, 111 E. Broad St. CUBAN BALED Importcd Wrappor and Filler Havana Cigars THI'J' 1IKST SMOKE 1\ THIO , CITY, 5C. We Are Selling an Im? portcd FRENCH BRIAR PIPB for. - - i '??'', , pthers Cjet-a Dollar for tho ? ?' Sairio Pipe, A Be'autlful Una of jsfew Year Post C.'urds. -Foss's.Cliocolutos, ln faucy basknts, Noveltios, Stuok ers'\Sots, Tobueea and Cigars ot ull klmls. ... ? ' i - 50c su McCoy's, -^^