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DAILY?-WEEKL t?SU.VDA / utlneu Ofllce.9I? E. Maln Street nncheatcr Burcnu.1103 Hull Street ;tertt)ttrg Bureju.109 N. Syenmoic Strrct ynchburg Bureau.215 Elglitb Street BY MAIL One Six Three Or.c ? rOSTAGE PAID. Year. Mos. Mo. Mo ally wlth Sunday .... M.OO SJ.00 $1.59 .55 nily without Sunday . 4.03 2.00 1.00 .35 inclay cdltlon oaly ... 2.00 1.00 .50 M eekly (Wcdnctday) .. 1.00 .50 .25 ... By Timca-Dlaptitch Carricr Dellvery Scrvlce In chmoiid (and 6Uburb?). Main.iic.-ter and 1'rtr-i.-. irs*? One Week ?ily with Sunday. 14 centi Ally without Sunday. 10 ccnts inday only. 5 ccnts Entered January 27, 1903, at Richmond. Va? ? second-clasj matter uudcr act of Congrws of atch J. 1E79. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 191>. A CiniOTJS PHIMAHV HILL. Ai a casuni glunco thc oxtremely obrevlnted draft of a primary law of tred hy the offlclal subcomitilltee of io liomocratic party may appear as .;ar nothing as it could be in obedi 'icc to the Insfructlons of the party inventlon. YVThile the primary laws ! other States occupy many pages in te statute books, thls syncopafett -oposltion fits nlcely into little more lan half ii column of newspaper. Wo j -ipear to havo here, not so much a ?Imary law as ihe glio.st of a law, tho | irlfunctory, eolorless, skclctonizcd .-lnnunt and retnlnlscencc of a law. ut wiien wc come to scrutlnlze the aragraphs more closely, wc dlscover ?opping through the dry shell two -ovisions of tincommon Hvellncss and gnificance. One of them is found In section 2. jic Byrd blll provides, among other tcellent safeguards, that all primn es shall be "conducted by the Judges ? electlon appointed according to w." It 1s important to note thls irefully. Under thc law the clrrtilt id corporation courts appolnt the < otoral boards and the boards ap ."int the judges of electlon. Moro -er. the law requlres thnt the mtnorl party must be given represcntation tiong the judges, thus absolutcly larantetiug non-partisanship and ir play. These are the election ofli vs which would conduct all primaries ider the Byr<i blll. Under thc singu r provision ol the State Commlttee's 11. thc ofllcers who conduct all pri aries are appointed. not by the courts rough tho electoral boards. but by! he local committecs. of tlio party ilding such primary election.'' This eans simply that whofeyer controllej ld ^lominatcd tlie local commlttees ould control and dominate tho ap ilrilnient of thc primary election IKO.-f. It Is m'edless lo cxpatiate on such a| ?ovislon. The Democratic voters have, ked tor H direct primary on tlio j ?ouiid that it would minimi/c the | isslbillty pf inaclilne control, andi ey havo, demanded a luw which! ould glve thf primary ;iil tho sat'e lards now fhrown about eleotions.' they considor that this is an an . ,cr to their demands, they can tul:e I and bc thankful. Tlie other provision in this bill ii 1 oli early arrests the eye is fouml i sectlon 3. Of Ihe mysUfying lan lage anci curtous eontradictlons oon i ined ln this sectlon?the commanj lat parties deslring a nominatlng mvention mus^.clyjose" *rhe delegates a primary tjeing- iminediutely fol : wed wlth the assurance that parties :ed not do anythlng of the sort un :-:?- they |lko?-wo siiali not speak >w. At ihe moment we uie pecujiarly ruck wlth tlio provision that tho ato Executive Committee or uny 't-rty may decido whether .Stato nomi Uions "in any given case shall be ade by direct primary or by a nomi iting convention." The Democratic trt in convention lias ?formally dceid ! that State nomln.iliuns shali be in jery caso by, direct primary. For hat reason does the committee, tho i t-ature and agent of the convention. poppso to give iis.;]f the lega] power iguore and reverse this declsion? ^?wlll, of course, be said that no Slute ? immittce would dare to disobey tlio andate of its party. What then is <? purpose of deliberutely authorlzlhg j jj] to do so on the situtute books? | .carly this provision must look ex jctantly forward to a tinu; wlnn ihe I ^mocraiic party's spccliic decl'aratlon favor of the primary no longer | ;lds. lt. must. apticipate a day when ? -her forms o? State nomlnutions wlll 1,','..] permitlcd and authorized. Wc . iow nothiiiK, and protend to know [thlng, of the motlves of tho ytibcom (tleo of the Slatu Committee in frain ;? g thls peculiar neotlon. But no ono n examine it without percelvlng that ptrfectly pave's the Way for a re ,-. ogresslon from the direct primary to ^'ie dclegated prlmhry, und from the " ? ilegatcd primary to tlie old-fashioned l nvention. Is tliis what thc Demo '??' atic voters desire, or Is lt. tho re rse of their desire? Chairman Ellyson was her day as say ing that j s commltteo liad deferri ' o primary so long was red lo have the. heneflt ? tcs{ thoughl on the sul ? tamining thc eommittce'.-i <? tt. i iiv.;, - r.nd thlfc remark hard lo under and. W'fc riUcovc-r nothing in this 11. t>o brii.-f yet to (ull of unexpecled ? tert-st, that the committee could not v> Jramed as well last sumnier or V c tuinnier before?at uny time, in ?.'.' ct, wlic.-i it was ready lo meet and :f|':'jve a few hours to ihe Kubject. At . ait, i)i,-. commlttei-':!'coijiuu-nec in its v'llllty to friiio'j it jiilinaty luw ao cus \i My at Ihe iun. moment now beemn rar, But lf thla curlous iloeumeiit i ,tiMieh the i)emnni'i of thfl itink and fllo of tho party for a legullzcd prl inHry, or romes ftnywhore near II. We shall rcgiml Its sutlafactlon nn n nltid rlRVB' wondcr. A MAtlRY MO,\t'JIK\T. A atandlng rcproach lo Vlrginla lvi.q ngiiln been brought forwarj for dia ritsslon. Followlng Mie announceincnt! thnt tho nlumnao of tho State Normnl School had offercd prlzes for cssnyu on the lifo of Conimodoro Matthewi Konlnine Maury, thc Brlntol llerald Courler deslros to know why Hio peo? plo of Vlrginla have never crcoted a momitnent to thls great Southern gen ius. Tho anawer is not altogcther crcdl table. In a wliolly propcr ndmlrallon for the achlevemonts of our polltlcal and mllitary leaders, wc Southern peo? plo have almost overlooke(j the Wizard of thc Scas and mon of like inou'ld.j Wo huvo. Bultered Maury.'a r'enown to fade wlth thc years, and have never glven liim thc merri ol hla work. There ls nolhing bul approval of thc honora we bavc pald our heroes ot war and natlonallty, but thero should bo a speedy ena to the Incompleto patrlotism whlch has overloolted othor lmmortal leaders of the South. Tho tlme ls fully come when Maury should j have his monument, standlng amoni. those of our greatest men. Had Commoilore Maury Iivcd in Gcr nar.y or in France, and hls dcep-sea liscoveries, his submarine torpedo >oat and hls torpedo emanated from mo ot those countrles, his name nnd lis works would bo famlllar to every chool-chlld. Without the least cx iggcration, hls apprcelutivo country nen would rank hlm wlth von Moltko ind Bismarck, or with Pasteur and Iugo. Many trftorts havo been made to trouse the Southern people to a true ?stlmate of Maury'a servlces. In lieu nf other moana of ho'norlng hls name, it has been proposed that Chlmborazo Park here in thla city be rechristened Maury Parlf. This would be au ac "cptablr. tribute from the'capital city, but the due work of memorlalizatlon r-hould not stop there. Tho great com? moilore should have hls monument from thc State whlch gave hlm blrth. 1'HH WIIEREFOREOKHIGH I'KICES. High prlces hit hard.. The wage sorner auffers more than the merchant, md thc consumer fan-s worsc than ?lic producer. But where the raer .?hants' proiits are derived from thc vage-earhers' savings. and the pro lucer is necessarily a consumer aa ivcll, all classes alike are affeclcd. tlils is why economlsts the country over are now puzzllng over the start ling figures of the cost of living; this is why Secretary Wilson has Insti tuted a special investigation; thls is why Congress la belng petitioned to Kppoint a committee whlch shall probe into the whole queation. Every man's cash account cries out to know thc whercfore of hlgh prii-es. If there ls any answer to this rlddle, lt secnia lhat lt must bo found in un dorlylng general conditions. The break-up in the cattle-ranges ln 1D06 produced a natural slump in beef. In tlie same way, a short crpp of cotton ln 1300 drove the market to 10 cents. Bul these iluciuatlons aftect partlcular Industries only. Causes that affect thc prlces of all products inusf be more general than the aupply and demand of special staples. Economlsts and practical men of tinaiic'i fieetn pretty well agrced that tho increased production of gold la prl maiily responsihle for the upward t'rond of prlces. Thla can best be seen by compaWson. The year 1900 waa a season of rcasonable prosperlty and comparative plenty. Money was not tlght, Trado was not depresscd. And yet slnce that tlme the annual productlon of gold hua increased from $-.7,000,000 to $442,000,000. Thia eoun try's currency, bank notes iucluded, haa increased $1,051,000,000 durlng the same perlodV Of course, our trude and mr industries have oxpanded slnco 1U00, and our avcrage per capita wealth haa Increased $116, but neither our industries nor our accumulatcd wealth, nor our trade. have requirod all this vast multtplication of our cir culating medlum. The inevitablo has lmppenod. Gold has become cheapen ed. To bo suro thero ls little of con solatlori in telling tho wage-eanier that provlelona aro not hlgher, but that money is simply cheaper. Such philoaophy does not pay grocera" bllls or thlckcn pay envelopes. Nevertho less, it remalna the truest and deopest explanatiori for oxtstlng prlces. Along with tliis cause iwo others have operated, not. as powerfully but stlll most algnlflcantly. Thc protec lion afforded by thc larlff and the growlh of monopolles havo reduced at once the benents of foreiRn and domoa t'lc compotilton. Tho tarlff kceps oft cheap producers trom other lands; monopolles keep down competltion at home. Betwecp thc uppor utid nothcr mlllatones thero is llttlo left for tho consumer. Thc increased cost of pro cluotlan has also operated to raise prlces. I'ticli lands have becoine scarcer, whlle farmlng^lias not been wldcly Improved. The inargin of cul. tlvation has been luvaded. W"e have [ncroaaed our prodjiction?for exain ple, our wheat by 14-.000,000 hushels ln niiic- yeara?but wc havo eon'sumed moro of what we produoed than over ueforo lu thc hlstory of the natlon. ln addltlun, the number of ugrioullural workcli', comparatlvoly at leusi, haa stcadlly deereaaed, tliereby reducing our relutlve powers of productlon, Na turally, tlierefore, our demanda on our own rcsoiu'ces have been largc.r. Il those aro rc-ally Ihe cunirolllng forcea, they cannot ho eus-ily or spoud i |ly i liungi-il. There la no rainhow of pfoinleo, Tlte gold-nilnea , uro pro duciiib' us i?ovor before, ihe tarlff nnd thc monopollea aio unrelentlng; our poople aro not relurnlng io tho aoll. High prlcep, lt iippear*. hnvc como for ii long stny. tmm im!:ih>i,i<: of maxchkstmr SliOULI) SI'BAK. The pcoplo of Manchester havo hoM a public mass-iiicetlng to heckle, ex-! anilne, Interrogate, or hear from for-j | mer Clty Attorney Fage. Why should ; they not hold another ono to record tlielr opinion of tho ohstrucllve attl- ? tudc of tho committee whlch ls osten-' sibly proinoting consolidation Cor! tliem? If they are satlsilcd wlth tlie' attitude of thls committee, thc Kloli-I mond committco might well withdraw from further deliberatlons upon tlio flat statement that City Attorney Fol. lard's drafl was Richmond's last word on consolidation, which Manchester may take or leave at her pleasitre. Fcrhaps tho Rlchmond committee mlght as well do this ln any case. It all depends upon what date consoli? dation must bo effcctive lo givo thifi clty constis credit for tho access of populatlon. This has all along been a prlinc object wlth nichmond, and thcre seems to bc some dotlbt about tho ccn sus mattor. We were tirst told that the critical date was February 1 noxt. There is no longer a shudow of a chance that consolidation wlll be com pieted by that tlmc, and if this date is accurate, further haggllug is as superlluous as lt ls wearylng und un seemly. Now it is ofticially stiggested that Aprll wlll probabty bo time enough. If thls statement may be re lled upon, it is worth whlle to pursue the conferonces, provlded that Man? chester offers some evidencc of belng scrious in her intentions. This Manchester should by all meaus do. If tho cndless ?'ampllilcattons" of the plain agreement reached between thc citles long ugo aro not dellberato ly devised to strangle consolidation. thoy aro at least havlng exactly that effect. As the weeks go by. the citles are not coming together, but drlfting apart. If tho poople of Manchester mean buslness, the time is ripe and .iverripc for them to show it. lf, on the other hand, they do not mean busi? ness, if, in short, they aro satistled with the frivolous or grabblng pollcy of their spokesmeri, further going through the form of negotlations is worse than useiess. And if the hopo of unlon is thus blocked, it seems to us, us we have r.iiggestcd heretoforo, that a grave issue confronts the Manchester people. This is as to how they are to securc tho new free bridge, whieh they now so urgently need, and the other civic assets which Rlchmond, un? der the consolidation agreement, was to provide for them. According to tho Atlanta Constitu? tlon, a Georgia man who was caught wlth $2,000 worth of liquor in his es tablishment. wa/i acquitted of any in frlngement of the liquor law. This ln Itself might not be startling. but it seems that the jury gravely accepted his plea In self-defonse that "thc liquor had been ptirchased for the purposo of filling a physiclan's prescription for his wlfe." No one can blame thc dry forces for becoming cynlcal over an experience su.ch as this. Wc have nevor prctended to any great faith in thc efficacy of legislatlon to prevent peo ple's drinking. But that it should work so badly as to justify the medicinal need on the part of a lady of, say, 2,000 quarts of liquor at one time is entirely beyond us to belleve. It is much casier to thlnk that the jury Iacked falth in prohlbltion and was determlned to drivc a nail into it, regardless. Our records show that all tho societics of which he was, a member have now expelled Dr. Cook, except the Ananias Soclety. By the way. who has jjot the moving picturc prlvlleges for the forthcoming Cummins-Aldrich go? Try not to get Mr. Madriz mixed up with tlie name of a nlckel clgar. Shall we evor see it convicted and turned into a Tobacco Trusty? The Natlonal Geographlc Society has lost Willls L. Moore as president, not to mention sevoral other thlngs. A policeman at Leeds, Eng., has just | diod from injurlea rccolved in a suffra gette rlot. And thls ls what we call the gentle sex. It might be sald that Mayor Gaynor's New Year's gift to Tammany took the form of a llve-for-flve pieture post card. Also it is an extremely cold day when J. Plorpont Morgan does not in dnlge in a few well-clioscn merges. Consldoring tlio season, 11 is a mercy that it was a peokaboo shirtwaist strlke, and not a muff-and-neckpiecc proposition. Fishernicn ought to flnd tliose un slnkable targets mlghty convenient for slnkers, When tlio intra-party scrapplng real ly boRliis in Congress, It is somewhat probablo ihat wc shall ceaso thinklng of Nicnragua, the Balkans and all those parts. Few thlngs can canso more troublo In a home than a thermoiheter wlth cniotional insniilty. Caroful oxamlnation of tho Wosh ington news convlnces us tlmt it wlll not bo sale for Insurgents to tiguro on any Whlto House moal-tlckets this winter. Now or never i.s tlio tlmo for our llanuyracker frlends to cut some tco. At thls tlmo we doslrc lo extend I hearty congratulatlons to the raein I bers of tho 1'aragraphers' Union on ? their exceetllng ubstomiousness ln the use of the olil-lino R, B. Morso qulp. G|ve ua your viewAJ polnt, and let ua tell the proepectivc luiyer liow good your producl W" Kichmond Advertls* Ing Aiiency, Inc. Mutual Uuildlng, Rlchmond, Vlrglnla. Entubllilied 1904. / RunDown? Aycr's Snrsaparilln is ntonic. Itdoes not stimulate. It does not mnke you fcel bctter one day, then as bad as ever the next. There is not a drop of alcohol in it. When you take it you obtain thc steady, even gain that comes from a strong tonic. Afamily medicine without alcohol. Askyour doctor all about Ayer's Sarsafsa illa. Atk hlm what hc thinl(.i o/' it now it Borrowed Jtngies OIRL WHO LOOKEEi BEIUXD. Thc Kirl wrio looked behlnd hor Wlth shy and tlmld r;l?n"i. Such wmidroua graco nntwlned hor sho sct my hcart r.-danco; Than, Uke a nymph aftrighled, She vanlshcd in tho. throng And left mlno ejns dcllghted. My fancy frauKht Wlth sotlg. Tho girl who looked behlnd her, And flcd on frigtitcd feet, Tliough momory hutft shrined liur, 1 never more nwy mof.t. Anothcr man may fattcr The heart that flcd from mu? But who could lovo her betler, Whoso love moro falthful b>;. Thc glrl who looked behlnd her Oh. may Ihe future brlng Far falrer tlilngs and klndur Than any bard can alng; Tliough I may never greet hor, l pruy my song may tind The Ia_8 who made lifc sweetcr For hlm she l.ft behlnd! ?Boston Transcrlpt. MERELY JOKLNti. Jll.Kl 11(8 1*080. "h'tilts me." rcspondod tho subjsct. "pho tograph mo wlth my noso agalnst a griiul stone. Got one handy?"?Loulavlllo courlcr Journal. Wlll Get lt There. Kocrultfng OfTIccr: "If you ara a married man, why are you trylng to Joln tho army''" Hcnpeck: '"Cause I'm auch a lovcr of peace."?Judge. Has Trii'd Hard. Thc Lady Fare: "You cannot chcat mc, i-.y man. I haven't rlddcn ln cabs for thlrty-flve ycars for nothlng." Tho cabby: "Haven't you, mum?" Well, cou've done your best."?Xow Z?aland Fraa Lancc. ihe Couldn't. "Ycs, she thrcatcned to go home to hei nothor." "And how dld you keep her from dolng t?" "I rofuaed to button her gown for her."? ICansas City Journal. THE OBSEBVANT. PAKAGHAPUETtS. Dt. FLBTCHER B.iys chew every particle, of food taken thlrty-two tlmes. At that rate would it be posslblo to flnish dih icr by aupper tlme??Now Haven Palladium. ? ? * There ls. after all, one good thlng about . seycrely cold winter. It lessens the. oppor tunltles for skating on thln ice.?Chicago ttecord-Herald. Mayor Gaynor ts charged with hivtng forgotton v.hcrc Tammany ia, and Tammany hasn't aeemed to know for somo tlme.? Loutsvillo Courinr-Journal. Doubtlcss the golng-away statement of Mr. Morse rclleved his mind, and lt didn't ?em to hurt anythlng else.?Philadelphia Ledger. Congrsss Ib disposed to lnvestlgatc any? thlng and everythlng under the sun except Itself.?Philadelphia Record. Oddly enough. none of thc muck-raklng magazlnes enllghtcncd tbc publlc aa tc tho great burden they aro to the postal aervf:o. ?Mihvaxikco Free Prcss. OPI.VIOXS AND RAlLltOADS. Mncnnu-n IIuvc Lost by I?rcviou? Ols rcgrurd of Populur Volcc. The circumstance that tho railroad presidenta who conferred on Monday with President Tait oppoaed tho changes in the interstate commerce act which ho has ln mind to recom mend to Congress haa not caused sur prise. Thc rallroads have gene.rally opposed all the regulallve legislation that has been adopted, and that fact weakens thc force of any critlcism whlch they may make at thls tlme. If the publlc service corporatlon had co operated in the past in the formatton of regulatlve laws it would be a dam aglng fact that half a dozen of tho leadlng railroad presldents of the country had condemned a pfroposed en actment. But the railroads havo loat ln influence over publlc opinion, part? ly by their habitual opposition to all progressive legislation aiTectthg them and partly by the exagu;oruted lan guage employed ln e.\prest<ing thla op positlon. Tho ory of "Wolf!" haa grown so familiar that few take lt seriously. This is a matter of regret, for there can bo no really intelllgent general conslderatlon of the questlons Involved in regulatlon unlesH the rallroad aide of tho case ls put squarely before the publlc. The changes ln the Interstate commerce law whlch Mr. Taft ls about to recommend, to judgo from hls own speechea and those of Attorney-Gen eral Wlckersham, will aim largely at porfectlng the detalls of that law, and they will be, many of them at least, rather technical. Publlc lmpressiona regardlng them are now hazy. Will the result of the ensulng discuaslon be that the advocates of the cliangea wlll havo a respectful hearlng, whlle all that ls said by thc reprcsentatives of the rallroads will be lUsmlased aa merely another illustratlon of their customary obstructlveness? Wlll tho campalgn ugainst changes ln the law consist largely of the old prodlctlona that railroads aro to bc ruined, their crcdit destroyed and their eapacity for developnient taken away from them? lf ao, experienee has taught tlie man agers of publlc service properties noth? lng. It should be an incident of tho deepest slgnilicance to them that half a dozen ot' the leadlng railroad pres? identa of the country -ppear in oppo sitlon to proposed legislation, and that tho publlc lakes that opposltlon aa a inattor of courso, regardlng lt as a uegligiblo factor lu thn formatlou of a falr and intelligenl opinion about tho merlta of tho proposuU?Now Y-ork Trlbune. ItlV.VI. VIEWS Ol' MAUS, ontly explaln aome ontly cxpiam aome oi ihe t'uefs stami us a proven sclontiiic theory which correotly desorlbes the facts and TtTt>~ ccssos of nature. Trofoaaor J.owoll itiMsiK that. there la ratlonal llfe on iho pianet Mars ?and that tho lnhahltauts. uro digglnff ca niils. Other iiHtronoinera loutont theW" aelvoa by aaylng that changes of HV pearauco aro obaorved, I'lufysaor i.ow cli's theory. whlch, in .SiiV,s, reiioets m"l statea thc fact, Is th.- moi-r. jntcroatlHS But the other vknv in tln- safer, Ihte'i- | Icctually apeaUlng, and umrally too, for lltat matter, for what riKi,t' haa auy man x."" It int tiie onior \ i?'w in iiir i-afer, intci r-ctually speultlng, and inorally too, for hut niuttor, for what rlght-_ui(| fl?y aau to aver a fact uuiusa ho K?vowf l ls a fact??St. Loula Post-pjainitoh, 10 THE "LOBDS" FEII DEFEAT? Failure to Grive New Year Honor: iiklicate That Pcers Aru ''Anxiotis." EUROPE AND THE "FAKERS" >giis Noblcmcii and Uiisavory Diplomats Are aS r'icntiful Abroad as in Anieriea. BY LA MAItaUlSE DB FOXTENOY, NO moro eloquent lllustratlori could be furnlshed or tlio unwi lalnty which the l.iberals thcmsel.-cs feel an to the outcome of tho present political crlsis ln England tlinti ihe falliiro of the ctistomary New Year lioiiotH to make their appearance in thu iiilclai Oazette on Frlday last. It may i>e. taken to mean thut the admlnistra llon antlclpatos defeat at Ihe polls, anili iotisequent loss of ofllce. Outgolwjl ,'ahinets always slgnallze their dopart iite by the dlstrlbiition of a lnrge nun ? ?er of honors ln the shape of peerages,] Uuronetcles, knlghthoods, prlvy court ?llorships and orders*. as rewards for polltlcal and otlior sorvlces, tlie sover ??lgn rarely If over wlthholdliig hls necessary sanctlon from the nomlna tlona sttbniltted to him for npproval.l I'hat for tlie ilrst tlmo withln tho mem iiy of tho present generntlon thc be Tinning of the year should pass awav ivlthottt the ctistomary dlstrlbution of honors ls naturaliy construod us nn indlcatlon that th- government expects to have to call upon the King for tho l:estowal of a iargc number of dis tinctlons wltliln the next fortnlght or liiroo weeks in connoctlon with its leavlng offlce, aml feels that under the .?ircumstances anv New Year'a ga/.ett ing of honors would have been inap proprlate and impolitlc, SlIverberR?A Fakcr. So much fun Is made ln Europe of the gUllibtllty of tho people here in Amerlca In n'llowing themselves to be lupod by foreign adventurers mas nieradlng under extraordinary names ind tltles that It is refreshlng to li" 1 lhat hoaxes of this nature occa-sionally -ucceed on yonder slde of the Atlantic; uirl the story of how that Intcrnatlonal rook, Harry Sllverberg, has been able lo decelve such men as tho Duke of Montrose, Lord Ribbiosdale, Lord Hal fotir of Burleigh. Lord Grlmthorpe and jtliers to tho oxtent that they not only rmtered into business relnt'loiiii wlth hlm, but ovon put hlm up at their clubs, lncludlng the St. James. tho 1'oooanut, etc? is certalnly entertalnlng. lt recalls the adventures ln London -if the sol-disant. Count Jaracewski, who during two jears went evory where ln English soclety, even to Marlbo rough house, and to Sandrlngham, lorininp part of the most excluslVo :lubs. beforo tho lato Lord 1-lastings ascertaincd thnt he was the black Uheop son of the roal Count Jaracew akl's butler, and an ex-convict, while niother ex-convict enjoyed simllar voguo in Mayfalr and Pall Mail throughout an entire London season l,y protending to be a nephow of Baron lloifman. then Auatro-Hugarlan mlnls ter or flnance. In fact, if tho trutli were known. thero are just as many cases of gullibility in London and ln the contlnentai capitals of Enrope as nn this side of tlie Atlantic. the only riifference belng that oxposure hcrc teceives tha utmost publlolty, whereas abroad every endeavor is made to hush up the mattor. 'Tlie fact that Sllverberg, despite hls record as a crook and as an ex ronvlct in tlio Unlted States. ln En? land and on the continent, should havt u>anaged to secure credentlals from tiio Dhilian government, tiuthorlzinpr him to treat ln its name with English flnan ::iers for the construction of rallroads ind other publlc works in Chilo, I.s not preclsely calcttlated to improve the :redit of the Latln republic of South Amerlca ln Europe. nor to increase the somewhat battered prestlge of their Dflicial representatlves abroad. The Irequent rovolutlona and clianges of government among the smaller repu'i ilos bring Into their dlplomatic servlce all sorts of qtieer flshes; and thanks to this, Latln-Amerlcan dlplomacy has flgured extensively in card scandals in tnose clubs in Europe that extend their tiospltality to representatlves 01 for? eign countries. lndeed, the Hunt Club at Rome and the St. James Club In Piccadilly, London, have been par tioularly unfortunate ln their e;,-perl ences with Latin-Amerlcan diplomats in thls respect, while in one. notablo instance the Swlss government four that tlie envoy accrcdlted to Bernc as representatlve of one of thc Central Amerlcan republics had prevlottsly "done time" as a swindler in a Kuro pean penitentiary. Things such as these are Inevltable ln the caso of representatlves of coun? tries subject to continual changes of government, through revolntlon, and whero posts of envoy and of secretary of legation are dlstrlbuted among the adhorents of the vlctorlous dictator without much regard to their antece dents. But lt Is rather h'ard that sticli men should bo allowed to stylo iliom selves members of the dlplomatic corps, should have a rlght to the offlciul Immunlties and social prerogatives ae oorded to professlonal diplomats of reputablo states, and should thus be ln a posltion to bring tho entlro foreign representatlon Into popuiar disfavor. A Fugltlve >VitIi SIIIllorjM. Izzet Pasha, who was ail-powerful as the prlnclpal secretary of Suitaii Abdul Ilamid tlirougliout the greater part of tho latter's reign, and who was fortun ato enougli to escupe from Constantl nople before lie could be seized and put to deatli by those who regarded him as responsible for all the worst evils of the Hamidlan reglnio in Turkoy, ls'as arrived in Egypt. It may bo recalled that 'somc time after hls dlsappcaraiue from Stamboui he turned up in New York, spending several weeks in thla country, until forced'to leave by throats of a'ssasainatlon on the part of thoso of his fellow-cttizens who had been conipelled by his persoctttion to seok rcfuge on this slde of the Atlantic. All his property at Constantinoplo itself, nnd ln Turkey' proper, was confiscofeil immodlatelv after the Inauguratlon nf tho new or'a at Constantinoplo. But hc had somo time prevlously taken the precaution of investlng nn immonso fortuno abroad, beyond tho reach of his foes, and it is, thanks to this, that ho has now been able to settle down ut Cairo, and to surround both his fanu llv aud hlmself wlth the utmost lux ui-v. In faet his prosent fortuno i? ostlmated at oven $30,000,000. and when tho fuct Is recalled that he possessed for over twentv years unlimlled oppor. tunltios of gra'ft at the Yildisi Kiosque, and was able to exact trihute from uearly evorv one, thln figuro does not anv l'onger seem to bo oxnggeratod. Whllo Egvpt Is nonilnally a nortlon of tlio Turkisli oinplre, yet tlie Stlltah a writ does not run in Egypt, whero from time Immemorlal fugitlves from Ctihstantlnople havo found -raf-tige and lirotectlon. Stlll, at the same time, tha Khedlve is on such irieiullv torms wlth tho SuUan at present that lt i.s dlfli HOME MIXTUREJFOR RHEUMATISM Fuhllslied Here Lnst AVIuler and lliiu tli-cd* Helpcil by lt, Tlie i'ollowlng slmplo prescrlption wlll be found tho most effectlvo rem ody obtalnnblo for rheuniutism, palus |n tho joints, lamo baclf nnd genorul dtdillliy; lt wlll rostpro physleal vigor: "Ono ounoo syrup of Harsapurllla conipoiiiid; ono ttlinco 'IVirls eoiiipound; huli'-pint of hlgh-gradf. whisitey, Thoso lo do mlxed und. . utied .ln doiies of u tublespooiit'til beforo each" iin.al and at bcidtime." . " , Any drugglst has. those Ingrtidlents isa The man who puts off doing till to-morrow what would save money to-day is a pooreconomist. Let us submit an estimate and gtiaranteed proposition on your coal rcquirements, not next weck or next year (though better late than never), but NOW. Write us; y.our letter will be appreciated and promptly answered. Atlantic States Coal & Coke Co., Klclimoiul, Va, Daily Queries and Answers Addresn ih cominunleailona for tbla rolumii to flurry Edltor, Tlmes* Dfapatcli. IVo lnnthematlcal problema wlll be ?o4ved, nu colna or atnmp* vnlued aud no dealera' nninea ?rlll be (rlven. Itoiid Tennt* on Prlvate llond.i. Can county teams or thoso of a contractor doing publlc road work liaul materlal for road-bulldlng or re palrlng over a prlvate farm road, cut tlio road Into holes and ruts and break down or damagu brldgea without rc palring or paylng for the damago done? "A READER." There Is no State law permlttlng road teams to uso and deatroy prlvate rouda. Of cotirse, no ono Interested ih the road queatlon can object to thc proper uso ot hls rpads by road teams. On the other huun. evory such team and every road contractor should tako palns to repalr any damage done to thc roads of an Indlvidual. Trnde Dlrectory. Is there such a book publlshed. 11st inR all work ln tho United Statea. wlth their supprlnteiidcnts or managerB, and where can aamc be purchaaed? T. .1. C. If you have In mind a general tra_de dlrectory. thero la none. A number of perlodlcala nubl'sh lista of current works on special lines and a number of other dlrcctorlea glve the name of inanttgers ln special branches. Dentrojcd Currency. Does the Treasury Department ever make good greenback loat In a fire whoro it can be clearly cstabllahed that it was lost? lf so. what stepB should be taken? A younc man of good standlng in thls county :i few wcoka ago had hia atorehouae and goods burned about mldday. IIc- had ln the storo a sum of money ($90) In greenbacks, whlch he had taken from hls safe in hla dwolling that mornlng t? thc itore nnd fixed up wlth Home other papers to send lo the bank by a nelghbor who was golng to town that day. lle was called from the store in the meantitne. and on bis re? turn the atore waa r.n fire, and the flames had progretiaed too far for him to go In. It was not Insured. .1. W. a. Where romnants of the bllls romaln aufticlent to Idcntlfy them aa to amount the government will replace them wlth new bllls. Where the bllls wero en tirely consumed the owner has no re cover>" from the government. In this case lf no oartlclea of tho bllls are found lt will be a particular hurdshln. The law. however, whlch beara soverely in this case. la mado necessary by tho fact that in many casea persons have attempted to defraud the gov? ernment by nretendlng that their money had been burned up. K. of P. Lodgen. Will you kindly glve address of lodge cult to belleve that Izzet would have received permlssion either from thc Dgyptlon ruler or from the Engllsh government to aettle down permanent ly at Calru unlcss there had been some tinderstanding with the Sultan. That somethlng of the klnd exlsts Is gencr? ally belleved; for there Is no doubt that Izzet conld bc of immeime use to tlie Porte by reveallng many nf the pecrets of the former reglme, by hold? lng hia tongue on the subject "of oth? ers and by lndlcating the rnethods of evolving order from the chaos which followed the overthrow of the former Ylldiz Klosque gang. Prluce OIoTm Edticntlou Itlgbt. Prlnco Olaf. Crown Plince of _s"or way, haa commenced hla educatlon, and for thla purpoao an Engllsh governeas has l.een engaged by Queen Maud, who returned wlth her from Sandrlngham to Ohrlstianla the other day. It la in tendod that Olaf, who ia now slx years of age, and who has cntlrely lost that Bomewhat fragilo look bo notlccable ip hls portralta of a year ago. shall re celve a good deal of hls tralnlng ln England, and In due cotirse he ls to bo entered as a cadet at the Royal Naval College of Osborno, to undergo prc clsely the same tralning as has been glven to the elder sona of llie presuiit Prlnce of Wales. QuIt.Q. a number of foreign prlnces have received their tralnlng ln Eng? land, some of them havlng no such tlea wlth the rolgnlng houao of Great Brl tain as Crown Prlnco Olaf, who la a grandson of Klng Edward. Thus tho present Klng of Greece was aervlng na Prlnce Willlam of Dcnmark On board a Britiah man-of-war when elected to the Hellenlc throne. Other Danlsh prlnces have put in terms of study at ino Royal Naval College of Greenwlch, whlle the Royal Duke of Genoa. only brother of Queen Marguerite, and now tho ranklng officer of the Ttallan navy, waa educated at Ilarrow before recelv ing some tralnlng in the Engllsh navy. iCopyrlght, itllO, by the Brentwood Company.) STATE PRESS The Munielpal Conference. It wlll bc observed that thero is no pur poso to forco upon any city any particular form of government, but to securo such amendment to thn Constitutlon or tho Btat utory laws ns will permlt any city to adopt a slm'pliilod achumo of government. if a majority of tlio voters so elcct. Somo thlnk thnt 11 Ib passlhlti to securo thls oplion without changlng tho Constitutlon. Wo do not concur in that vlew. Wo belleve that a i-udical change In tho organtc law ls ea scntial. Howover. tho wholo quc.Btion will be threshod out In Rlchmond. Kome of tlie dologatea have been conaidcrlng Iho matter sincc tho noanoko couferencii waa hold, and wlll havo n doflnltn plan to propoBo. Tho city Councll of Newport Newa ad the Chu'm bor of C'ominerco havo appolntod delogates, and ouch body should by all mouns bo ro proBented. Tt ls a questlon of vital fmport ance lo tho city.?Newport Ncws Tlmes-Her uld. , __ L'.\lilbllliig Our Frult s. Wo aro creatly gratlflod to notc tliat tlie Indlcatlona nro .favorablo for n succesaful inoutlng of tho Vlrginla Stuto Hurtloullurul troclnty, which- convonea at Wlnohoster to mori'ow, and will be ln bosbIoii two days. Among tho' members who aro to contrlbule Bpecimcnn of frult tho papers mentlou slx of tlio promlnent farmora of Albomarle. who havo dovoted much Jlmo and study to this dopartnionl of ngrlcultural lnduatry, and we aro partlcularly plnased at tho an nounceuioitt thut tlio applo ia lo bo tho prln clpal fruit to bo cxhlbltod und to rocolvn coiiBlderution us to tbe best methoda of Ub c.ulturo. Tho soll of Albcmarle hns for very muny yonra been rogardod au apoclitlly aduutod to tho produulion of tho finoat Opeotmena of tlila partleulnr frult, tho napio and fnmo of tlio Albemarlo Ptppln bolng known nnd rocognizod ? not only in thls .iiuiitiy. but on (he other uliln nt thu Atlun iic?Churlottesvlllo progreas. Tlie Couipul-iiry, Prim>ry. and meeting nlgljts of anv K. of P. lodge in Rlchmond. STRANOER. IJnmon Lodge, No. 7. meets. everv Thursday nlght at Marshall Hall, Dr. R. O. Oarcin. C. C.J Germenla Lpdgo, No. 15, moeta every flrst and thlrd Wednesday nlght in Plckott Camp Hall, Wm. A. Lbehr, C. C: Myrtio Lodge, Xo. 35. meets every Thursdav nlght at Smlthdeal Hall. J. L I'attcr son, K. of lt. & S.| Old Domlnlon Lodge. No. 4. meets ln L'eo Camp Hall, flr"t and thlrd Mondnys in each month, S. B. Henderson, C. C: Syracuso Lodge, No, C. meets every Monday nlght at Stiiltli deal Hall. Georgo W. Bowden, K. of R. & S. Are I ultnrlnnx f hrlntlunn: Rev. .1. L. Koblnson, mini.stcr of tho Flrst Unitarlan Church, sends ihe fol lowing: Your unswe.r lo "IJ'.hle Stu dent" in Ku/iday'H edltion coiitains ono sllght error, and It implies that Unlta rlans are not Chrlstians. 1. Or. Bllot is a L'nttarlan, and lils wrltlngs are held lu very high esteem by our fci lowshlp. So much so that hln recetit address before the tumimer school r.f HieolOKy, entitled -The Fiitiiro of Re llgton," has been published as a trnct for free dlstrlbutlon by the American Unitarlan Assoclatlon. 8. You stato tiiat "the majorlty of our leaders aro Chrlstian men and women." Implying that Unllarlans nro nol Chrlstians. r am sure you meuiit no dlacourtciiy. It to belleve that Jesus was a i>t<: oxlstent angel or the Kternal <;<e.i is necessary to ronstltute poopie Chrlstians, then we are not Chrlstians, and Itave no desire lo be so called. But lf to htiild one's theolocy nround the eternai fathorhood of Ood. as wo b<* lleve Jesus built Hls, and to do tho will of the Father. as Jesus endeavor ed to do it, constitutes a rcasonablo Interprctalloti of Chrlstianity. then wo aro Chrlstians. Furthermore, if to be? lleve the Messlanic. or Chrlst. Idea that Ood is working out Hls pufpot through the aces:: that justice and mcrcy and righleousness and gof,.l wlll wlll one day flll the "eartli as tli?" waters covcr the sen." and that God wlll do this work through men?if this <-on-stltutes Chrlstianity, then wo are Christian*. 1 belleve that thla is a reasonable definition of Chrls? tianity, and ln this sense Unitarians are Chrlstians. Courtesy and good wlll suggosl that neorile bc called what thcy wish to bo called. This column is not lntcnded for theologica! controvcrsy. Our answr was lntcnded simply to convey th? Idea that most of t>?e leading meij and women of to-day belong to those ehurelies which, afflrming thc dlvinitv of Christ. are generally clas.siiled as "Chrlstian." why frionrlB of tho primary sysiem ar* dls plcascd with thc compuleory feature of thn Byrd plan. lf the primary ls a good thln:;. lt thoutd bo compulBory. Ir lt is not a good thlng, thero ia no nttlcker or surcr way ot aaccrtalnlng tho fact and seallng Its doom tlian by making it cornpulsory. As lo tho objection of the opponents or compulslon. that a majorlty o? tho party should bo frco at all tlmes ln adopt tho nominatlns plan that seem? best, tt ia nol well taken. A majorlty of tho party can do away wlth thc primary Byatcm at any tlmc?not at a momer.t'B notlce. ot course, Imt quickly cnough. lt a primary law. based substan llally upon thc suggestlons. of Spoaker Byrd should be paitied, and should provc moro unpopular wlth aud unwttisfactory to a ma Jority of tho Domocrats than tho conven? tion method, It doubtli-ss could be repcaird with much less difflculty than ho? attended thc efforta of a majorlty of thc Democratn u> sceure the enactment qf the law.?Brlstol Ucrnld-Courler. Blltcr on ByrdV l'rhnary Blll. If a Dcmocrat from Southwest Vlrglnla had tramed tho Byrrl prlmarv hill he couid easlly get a pasniort into the Republican party on the grotmds of compllclty wlth tho enemy. Tho passago of Ihal blll wlll guarantce a rtcpublican go'-emnent In Vlr? glnla qulckcr than another eonstltutlor.al convention. The Ucmocratlc party ln thls State ncedB to be delvered from the houna of its frlends. 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