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!? * DAI__T-W?_EK-_T-_V-n.AT. ?-_ ohllt sola mon l_vl< lnst. '? -.uilnt-s Offlce....?1- B. Maln Street ! J___>eheater Bureau.UO. Hull Strtet furn ; t?*terebur* Bureau...19. N. Bycamora Street | itttlc \ |_yne_burff Bureau.815 Elghth Street [ en^t BT MA__?, One Slx Three One POSTAOB PATO. Year. Mos. Moe. Mo jjally wlth Sunday.11.00 .-_? .IVM ?BB Dall? without Sunday... 4.00 1-0- 1-00 .85 Funday edltlon only.!.M 1.00 .60 .25 ;w.ek!y (Wadneaday).... 1.00 .-0 .2- ... By Tlmea-Diapateh Carrler Dallvery Ser vlc. In I-lchmond (and euburba), Manchea? ter and Pets.-burff? ? One Week Dally wlth Sunday. ? ?ntl Dall.v without Sunday.10 centa Sunday only. 6 certta Entered January K, 1903. at Blchmond. Vb? as second-clBss matter under act ot Congreaa of March 3, 1ST9. SUNDAY. MARCH 20, 1910. pro. W in A ths liXe mor< gava wort sacrl Ev not whei ?wlth certa some sensi the "Whe Shell Br ltnoi zeal tlm< dre. lons blas can. Wlt opln wou goat 'Wo cove mcrl by i fortt man tho t W O.SOI falle now tho * Ham the of enoi and has how a ge whi Ello spec A CASE, XOT A TYPE. A fow years ago wiien newspaper j ;men were no.tng about for sensntiontil "- etories they always went to the Unl , verslty of Chicago, and they never \ jtvent ln valn. Some professor or as | .*lstant professor?lt dld not matter j "jtiuch who, so hls name would pass : would always glve out a sensational ' Interview to herald somo new dls \ Tcovery or overthrow some public fdol ? irimes have changed, and the Univer 'plty of Chicago professors have '; Jearned better; but tho reporters have found thelr successors ln the pulplt. Scarcoly a day passes but that somo * preacher or other comes forward wlth k full-blown sensatlon ready for the prees and -waiting for the people. . Theso men nre na\ reprosentatlve of thelr class, but ali of thom como from '. tho North or from the West and wo nro glad of lt. We do not like to think that in the South any mlnister ; ;who has the fear of God ln hls heart i_nd the welfare of hls people ln mlnd JH.-11 vaunt hlmself in overthrowing i_eople's images or ln exploltlng hls | own dlscoverles. The latest comes from New York ; -whero a clergyman told the ^Federa? tion of Church Clubs that courtesy ls ?Eoing out of favor. Thus he sagely ??eays: "The respect for gray halrs, j aho gentle courtesy toward women, 'and the tenderness towards children . once so prevalent now seem to be iiorgotten." In othcr words. accordlng .."to thls clerlc, wo aro ceislng to re ^Vere those things that aro worth _ievcring aud are givlng ourselves V up as a natlon to tho love ot glory __tnd ot gold. "Wc have sheathed the , sword of chlvalry and have taken oft jLhe garment ot courtesy. Every "man l_ thlnking now of what he can ilo tor himself and not of what he j can do tor thoso about hlm. . Thls is cheap talk. lt ls the view or * n. man who looks not at the world as a ilwliole, but at that partlcular world I '-. VSn which he llves, but ot which he sees T ;Jittle and knows less. Chlvalry ls not J.i-ead, even if Burk dld chlsel lts epl _'taph in lmmortal periods a century or J.jnore ago. Courtesy ls not a lost graco _?_nd lcindness a forgotten charlty. 5. Tho world may not ba ali it should .'.be or all that it wlll be, but the {world is not a_l reckless, rudo and ..s-lotous. To be sure, wlthln the sacrcd fconftnes of Manhattan, where this preacher llves, somo thousands of men cal may have so forgotten the better things lng cf life that they havo glven to the u -world a false Impression of man's ] i'hetter self,' but down here ln God's s* 'country all of the people are courte ous Even ln the North thero are roil_toi-3 and mlllions of men who Tcn'ow "that ho Is gentil that doth gen JtU. dedls," ?'. ' ? . ;;, The preacftcr "Ts "wrong, and wrong .because he takes a few scattered cases jior a type of mankind. He ls wrons 'fcecauso ho counts not on the best of lf r ;?nan, but on the worst, and wrong be- j -?y j cause ho puts a little ill against a'Mai An E P. mov cha! Wlt witl his aut! the po*w thi ch: in an. eff "_ t I i V pat Hei lil.. ? mass of good hls tllei j . A X.IFE: ?SOt). t. Gmoke rlses no longer from the mi__e ,'Bhaft at Cherry. The black. damp :cavern has glven up lts dead. The ?llttle mlnlng town has returned to Us ?daily routlne of work and play. The ,' people. are trylng to forget the iw 'ful catastrophe of the wlnter and are "(even venrurlng back into the mlne Iwhich clalmed its hundred3 ot vic Itlms. The last a_t in the tragedy has beon played. Shrewd attorneys for the mln? lng" corporatlon have been around among the**families whlch s'uffered by ',xhp aceldent. and have settled out of ;rourt 'th'e claims against tho compWy. Wlth 111-concealed satisfaction. these lawyers aiiliouhco that they have set? tled many claims for $S00, and expect to pay no moro than 51.SOO ln any ca.e .For every check returned paid, end for every qult-elalm flled in the vault of?: the company, thero ls a sav? ing to the mlne owners, This flxes the new standard for hu? man life; ?S00 ls tho price of a man who riaks hls Ufe ln the depths of the m|ne, and Ieaves a wlfe and children lH-.the Bunshlne auove the shaft; $800 l?;the price for thc angulsh of tlie ex plpslon. hundreds of feet away from tt\e earth's surface,?for the mad, wlldj flght against oncomlng death, for the last gasp ln a MllUng air, for the te&r? aiid sorrow and the hopeless attempts at rescue, for tho wall ot the orphun 'atl? *or' the?HObs of tbe heart-brokeu Wlfo. I l'erhaps some of the women who re. \ca_vc4 these checks are satlslled. They '?aro Ignorant folk and speak no Eng Sjfsh." They had never seen more than their passage mbney to America or the . Sjweek's P. y whlch the swarthy father ? Utaed to bring home when tlie whlsUo k>\evr on Saturday. Some of these wo 1 jrnfln think, perhaps, that tliis buiu wlll Hi j i wlt der unt is rea n-.o Hc of tlil Jren, a competency for Ufe and a co for old ago. tfliolr awaken t wlll not come until tbe eh.rltt ;s on the kltchiin atove, and tlift Umant man haula off tha bed-r oom Iture. Then thoy wlll flnd thelr J > bank--.--_unt vartlihed. thel- ? Iren hungry. and no husbands to I ect them ln a strangO land. ' e say that we hold life cheap here - .merlca, where mlllions strlve for i mastery, and thls proves it. If ls worth the llving it is worth i than tho plttanco the company i these wldows, and If men are h the saving, they should not be Iflced for such a price.' . A POET BORX. ery good man loves poetry, btlt every man knows good poetry 1 he reads lt. Almost any man, an ear for sound, can teli that 1 lin words, twlsted together ln t i way or other. produce a pleaslng _ atlon, but not every man can teli difference between Mrs. Ella l eler Wllcox and Percy Byssho ? ley. ? other Altrcd Willlams does not * ,v thc difference. Wo admlre the -1 wlth which he has defended, In < is past, the poetlc claims of An- 5 v Jackson Andrews, but we have * r felt that Alfrcd Wllliams was "? ed ln favor of Andrew Jackson be te the latter llved on Church Hlll. h renewed regard for tho edltor's :Ion of poets and thelr work, we Id modestly suggest that we know 1 poetry ourselves when we see lt. have been fortunate, too, ln dls rlng more than onco poets whoso ts appear to havo been ovcrlooked .thcrs, and lt has boen our good jno to hall as true poet, many a whoso verses generally dled ln :opy. 0 have just now, through the icy of tho Clnclnnatl Enqulrer, n upon such a genlus, whom we hold up to the ad^mlrlng gaze Of world in general arid Brother WI1 s ln partlcular. Thls new star tn galaxy of verse bears the name Henry Clay Hodges?quaranty igh of wlsdom and of euphony? he ls an astrologer by trade. He a rare faclllty for phllosophlzlng. ever, and nov^ and then dashes off im of pure verse. Here is his latest, ch we welcorae to a place on Dr. t's bookshelf or ln any other re itable company: 's many yeara ago, George. inco I went to vielt you. d we thought we'd have some fun ty playlng upon the tnow." assing over a sllght rheumatic ?ement in some of tho measures, we tlengc the country to excel thls. h what simpllclty he begins, and i what dellcate touchos he unfolds pastoral lay! But in theso lines'the lior is hut baiting hls audiencc. In next stansas he reaily shows his ?ers: Vhlle frolicklng upon tho hay, George. 1 broko tho crodle flnge-". hen thought I'd atart tor home, Fcarlng to longer Unger. I started up tho lane, George, As fast as I could run, 'or tho broken cradlo flngcr Had rulned all our fun." Could anythlng be moro dlgnlfled m this? Could any catastrophe be ronicled ln more chaste language or more compact form? Could genius _ art comblne to produce a flner ect? In the next verse Henry is re lod. The story is contlnued in fiow ? phrases: .s I reachod the head of the lane, George, ; heard you call for my return, ylng the broken cradlo finger iad cauaAd not a slnglo harm. hit nothing you could say, George, .Vould alay my nervous fcars; felt If I went back : might Iosa both my ears." re obsorvo here both herolsm and hos. George, forgettlng self, puts lry at his case, and Hdnry. child i in his innocence, fears the worst ie returns to the seat of his former s. The reader is now on tip-toe. _i_cstly tho master-hand wlll flnlsh lay with a broad, strong stroke. nry Clay does not decelve us: Veeks after thls, George, r was plcasantly told. _d I revnalnad longer. lrrlond Pearl would not havo _cold." 'erso and elegant indeed ls this, h a flavor of mystery. and a liid i meanlng to make tho reader pause .11 the signlfIcance of "Friend Pearl" fully appreclated. Tho cllmax .ched, but the opportunity for ral reference is- not to be lost. nry Clay soars high on the wlngs phllosophy as he ends hls song in is wlse: But times hav? greatly changed. George, Slnce you and I wera boys: 'hose boylsh plcaaures now appear Only oftcrvescent toys. 'While our sight wlll srow dim, George, As wo approach the gr-^at unknown, Still our ubldlng falil. tolls us We will bo known aa wo were known. 'So let us bo choorful, George, The few years wehavo to stay, lappy in the thought that wa'll Meet on a brightor day." Words aro superfluous. The reade: overpowered by the world of hope id of good cheer in the subtje refer ico to the futuro meeting of Georgt id Henry where cradle flngers are Dt broken and young Henry wlll not ; afrald. We submit that thls ls poetry, un qualed even by the pet bard oi 1'other Willlams. Our only regret is nat Virginia cannot clalm thla plumoc on of song. Ilo comea from Indlana .o eonfess, where poets grow in ever; neadow and slng from every barn ?ard. Wo shall Import hlm to Vlr rtnla.' ~~~* THE Uim<_ _N 100 PAGES. Some preacher out ln Ann Arboi Mlchlgan, has made a dlscovery. Ho 1 very proua of lt, und has Inslsted o telling the papers all about lt. In tli fulness of his wlsdom and the rlpenes of hls powers he has dlscovevod tlu we havo too much Blble, henco ho lu advocated tha reductlon of tho o: i-.--0?J._____?____L^^ oC l'O jiajKfl Within thln space, he says, we ean or nclude enough of scrlpture for our ise. We say tlt-l preacher ln (juestion ls )rou_ of hls dlsoovery, and he doubt eaa it, We suppose he thlnks that his snow of superior knowledge on ils part wlll rank hlm among the rreat r.formera of hls day, but we ear he Is mistaken. We foar he will aT Ind that tho people are more amuscd( 8l1 .t hls dlsoovery than dellghted, or, per- *'' laps, It would be better to say that j en he people wlll be more amused at hlm j ln han at hls dtscovery. In thls w'ork-a lay world of average men and women ome of ua know very llttle about the Mble, and some of us uso very llttle f what we know. Even at thls, thore j Ph re few men, good, bad or indiffercnt, j Pl< Fho wlll not rlse up ln arms at any uch plan as that proposed by thls Vestern preacher. "We may not read he Blble, all of us, biit we love, revcro nd eherlsh tho great old Boofc It would perhaps be posslble to prlnt n 100 pages Al the great vltal teach ngs of Scrlpture. They mlght bo put n even less spaee. The Sermon on he Mount, tho last few chapters of St. ohn's Gospel, St. Paul's charge to the .hurch at Corlnth and a few other pas age8 of the- New Testament contain he letter and the appllcatlon of that vhlch Christ and Hls Dlsclples taught. We suppose lt would al3o be posslble o digest the Old Testament and to >rlnt ln about flfty pages of type the rundamental doctrlnes of tho old Law, :he Ten Commandments, tho tcachlngs ot Moses. the most beautiful Psalms and the Messlanlc prophecles of Isalah. From these the world mlght get enough of Scrlpture to llve Its dally llfe and to flght Its dally flght. Thls ls not all of tho Blble, tho Western olerlc tar tho contrary not tvithstanding AHogetber apart from ts Dlvlne orlgin and ethlcal teaching, :he Blble is a book of which not ono eaf could be dropped "without a great oss to the literaturo of our language. IV'here wlll one find such figures of ipeech, such reaches of imagination, ;uch lmpassioned invective, such mag liflcent fllghts of oratory? Whero is here such simpllclty, such grandcur ind such matchless poetlc beauty? rhere is not a book from Chaucer to ?.uskli) that has exerclsed so great an nfluence upon our language or has lone so much to mold it Into strength, oeauty and vigor. The Western parson is a modest man. He merely says that such a re vision of the Scrlptures as he proposes should be made, and does not intlmate that he would be tho proper man to make lt. Perhaps he expected that his frlends would impose this, task upon him. We hope they will. It would do him good to try lt, though we must confess we should not care to read hls revision af? ter ho made it. If he want a Blblo of hls own let hlm make lt. The world wants the Book as it stands and wlll have lt sli tc POE IN POOR COMPANY. Edgar Allan Poe Is at length to be adraitted to a place among the lmrnor tals. The canonlzation is declded on. Hls admlrers have made a close can vass pf the directors of the New York Hall of Fame and have gained enough votes to secure blm a tablet in tho corrldor wlth Mary Lyon. Great is tha reward of tho Southern poet; great ts the tribute of the New York Solomons. This is the tone of tho New York Press in announclng that a new al lotment of famous men are soon to be glven places In that pet Now York menagerlc. the Hall of Fame. We are glven to understan<j that thero is somethlng of condescenslon about. it and that tho South should feel much elated that her poet Is to be lmmor tailzed. To bo perfectly frank wlth theso generous frlends, we beg to suggeSt that they mlght as well leave Poe out of thelr Hall of Fame. When they put in men ot the flrst class to repre eent thelr political thought and lead ershlp?such men as Webster, Frank? lin, Adams and Llncoln?we felt it rlght and proper when the directors of tho Hall placea Washington. Lee, Marshall and Jefferson close bestde the Northern leaders. But when Mary Lyon and Emma Wlllard ?whocver they were?were put in I c beforo Poe. the South thought that a tone had been glven the llterary side o,f the Hall which would hardly make Poe a flttlng addltion. Much as lt may pain tho Now Yorkers to know the truth, we confess that we havo long thought poe too good for even the Longfellow ana the Whlttler whose names grace the Hali o? Fame, to say nothing of the lesser Ughts. Poe is not to bo measured by the samo yard stlck wlth those self-ad mlrlng poots who gatl.eroa in the porches around Harvard Collego am) applauded each othev's work. He was not made after the mould of the Bos? ton poets and poetastcrs. He was mado to havo hla place among the lm mortals of tho worlj and he is to be measured in comparls oui with them. In tho scale of International fame, where evory man ls balanced accordlng to his real worth, Poe outwolghs the en? tlre wood of Amorican song blrds from old Froncau down. Ho ts known and revered where Longfellow has been forgotten, and he ls loved and road in countrles where tho names of the othor Amerlcan poets have not been whlspered even by a braggart traveler. Thore ls a re.ason for thls late honor which tho North plans to glve Poe. The directors of the Assoclatlon have flnaUy fixed hls tltlo to gonlus. He waa born ln Boston. and should be >'e mamWed a6 such, not as the author or tho best and tvuest poetry Ariterl ca has ever. seen; or rather. he was bovn Tn BoBtou ana therefore ls to he remembered as a poet, flt to stand be slde Mary Lyon and to Ua remerobarea lli thaswno tl\.U?b,t y,\^ th% .mgwjN 1 Emma Wlllard. Thla Is, ln our , dgrrtertt, all tho moro reason why ho iould bo left out "BESIDE TIIE CROSS." (Seloctsd for The Tlmes-Dlapatoh.) "Jesus ln tho mldst."?John xlx. _._. Aa we take our stand by that crosa } . Calvary, wo gazo -wlth reverent|f ro upon ".Tesuti in the mldst." Wo t all never bo ablo to gauge Hls bod- ; ? surtorlng. and still less may we ' ter Into tho awful depth of agony ' Hls soul. whlle His Father's faco j ls turned away from Hlm, when He; tde Hls soul nn offerlng for the| 1 of tha -whole world. ij S'otJct. tho company in whleh manj.j used tha Christ of God! They . tced Hlm botwoon thlevos and tnal- , -ctorj, as if he wero tho very arch- * lef, the chlof of all malofaetors. ; ce beforo He v?ns on the mount, i d there wlth Him appeared Mosos, ] s great law-glver, and Elljah, the ophet of Israel, and Ho was ln tlio [ dst of that company of^glorifled ( [nts. Turn. to tho flfth chaptor of , volatlon, and you wlll see where laven places our Lord. "In tho mldst : the throne stood a lamb, as it had en slaln." All tho hosts of heaven nd ln adoratlon before that lamb, iln from the foundatlon of the world. Jesus ls in the mldst to-day. He ls 0 great central flguro and manlfes tlon of God's love and of God's wer, as seen upon the cross of Cal ry. He ls ln tho mldst of crea in. Ho upholds all things by tho >rd ot Hls power, He ls in the mldst the church. Ho has promised Vhere two or three aro gathered gether in _ily name, there am I in e mldst." I-Ie ls the centro of Hls church as s head, as lts heart, as lts standard, i the medlator between guilty sln _rs and tho God ot Heaven. The Fa icr so loved us that He gave Hls Son i dle for us, and thus to bring us| ear to God. In the mldst of all of ir trials and temptatlons. Ho ls near i help and comfort and sustaln. A naturallst tells a sweet, pathetlc agody of a fleld ot English gorse. >mo one set lt on flre. whlch swept i fast untll It carae to a llnnet's ?st. And there they found covering ie llttle brood (whlch was s^saved ?om the sweeplng storm of flre), a nall black and blasted skeleton, hlch might have been a colored and Ingea songster under the blue sky ad she not been "falthful unto ?ath." Smali but beautlful plcture r the love of Hlm who gave Hlmself tr us. i Whero do you plflco Jesus to-day? Ts; e ln the mldst of your business, wlth 1 its trials and cares and straln. ou need Hlm there to gulde and up old you. Is He in the mldst of your _me Ufe, sheddlng love and klndness round, and sweetenlng the dally task ad Joys? Is He In the mldst of your, impanlonship? Ho stooped from eaven to earth in order to be your :iena and to atay by your slde. He ecame man that He might lay Hira _lf down beslde us, that wo might sel the throbblng of His heart against ur own, and hear Him whisper in our ar, "God ia love." By and by He wlll be ln our ildst?no longer as the unltlng llnk, ut ln that last dread day standing s tho judge between tho rlghteous nd the sinner. AVhat place wlll you glve Him? By ae memory of Hls great love and Hls orrow, placo Hlm in the mldst of our heart to-day! WHAT THE PAPERS THINK. The Petersburg Index-Appeal does ot take the Insurgent movement in ongreas to mean much? In fact. the idex-Appeal might properly be class 1 as a thorough-goins skeptlc. It tys: "The Repujjlican party Is never so mgorous as when lt is scared. Then ls that lt sets about compromising s dlfferences, poollng lts Issues and ottlng together on a platform of har lony and peace. Tho hope of the >untry lles in the strength of tho rotest which the independent voters tay make against the perfldy of the epubllcan partv ln the pretended re ision of the tarlff. On a sane and mslbie tarlff plank in the Democratic latform and a nomlnee of the Clevo md typo of Demderacy, thero is no .ason to doubt that the Indenendents ?111 east thelr strength wlth the pem _rats, and iclve the Republlcan lead rs substanttal cause for alarm. we o aot now discover that there ls oc aslon for alarm from that sOurce, lough wo cherlsh the hooe that tno ature may y$t furnish lt. We seo othlng in tha locai and transient re olts against State and municipal raftlng, or in tho faotlonal flght over he despotlsm practiced by the Speak r. under thc sanction of the rules ??hlch ho dlctatcs. to encourage Demo rats or to alarm Republlcans. We, too, might have hopes of In urgent support, lf?lf?the Democrats fould agree on the tarlff questlon. lut wlll they do lt? AS long as a few nen put the Interests of a few con tltuents above the wolfare 'of the ountry and the integrity of the Dem .cratic party, we fear that tlio party vill not present a solid front j*on the arlff questlon. Until wo do. we need lope nothing more than passlng' aill inco wlth the Insurgents. Then, too. ve might __s well teli the truth: the -tepubllcans may yleld a point or twe .q win the Insurgents back into the ?anks. Then where will we ..e? Th? James River Clarlon heard twe yood sermons last Sunday and pro :eeds to say so. Under a flno fortv jolnt head, lt talks about "Solid Gos ?ol," aud lauds a mtnlstry of compior sense. Thc Clarlon boconies, so mucl enthused on the subioct that lt take: tha poople of Arvonla to task for noi going to cliurch, and wonders whj the pnws are not full. Wo wondew the samo thing, onoe, and d.dded tha the reasou was often In the pulplt. Tht bost way to flll the pews ls to fiU tht pulplt, Tlie FredQi'loksburer Free La_nce Ji advooatlng a Clvlo Improvement league ln order to clean up tho streeta o tlte old rtappahannock town. It ar gues tho questlon in all lts aspects and concludes that a cleanor town 'wll he a better town ln every way. W tiuHo agree wltji the Free Lauce. no only aa to Fredoi'Ieksburg, but as t every town and olty ln Virglnta. 3.1-? -Upj-tniialonjfc ?"_.._??,. rauclu _-.<_,.?..^Pj vlth its streets Httored wlth trash md fllthy wlth tho acolimulatiofis of he week's mud hardly attracts strang* rs or lnvitos r.apital. Last year_,thore vas a general t^?vement In many of mr clties to have a olean-up day, to Id tho town of all its dlrt.fl.nd waste t ono 8weep. Tho plnn worked will n many places and gavo the towns ueh a npiekHind-span appearanoe as hoy had not presented for years. ? Ni ere ls a bottor way than to cloan I J JP one day, howover, and that ls *v' o cloan up evory day. If a Civlc Im- I ?" irovoment League does thls. lt- Id a' * nost valuable munlclpal asset. Our frlend, tho Farmville Horald, ls itirprlsed that there aro not moro than ialf a dozon men ln tho country who tro really competent to reartjust and 'eform our tax laws, "Thls," lt says, 'is a cohfossion of natlonal poverty hat strtkes us with astbnlshment. Uodern-day educatlon must be a dls nal fallure." The troublo ls not wlth :he educatlon. Thero are many men (Vlth sufllclent theoretlcal educatlon to Iraft a model tax law. Tho troublo ls ivith tho opportunlty. Few mon havo jver had the chance to test, by praetl ial Work, how tho theorles of taxa? tlon flt in with condltlons. The fow nen who havo thls oxperlonco are. In DUr judgmeht, the only men fltted to lo the work, and tho only mon whom Virginia could trust and follow ln gi%r Ing U9 laws that would stand tho test Df tlmo and of the courts. Everybody remembers that Chaso -Ity had a sovere spell of good roads tover last year. Tho peoplo of that town boosted good roads and talked good roads and dld almost everything but bulld good roads. If tho Chase Clty Progress .has its way, tho cltizens ut Mecklenbur'g wlll get tho roads be? foro long and ceaso to travel ln the mud. ' Here is what It says: "lf the present condltlon of the roads does not niovo the peoplo of Mecklcnburg to issue .100,000 ot bonds and relocate, surface up and drain tbo publlc roads of tho county, thon It soems to us nothing ever wlll. Thln could be dono wlth not a penny of addltlonal taxes. It would, ln tho end. bo nothing moro than changing the use of tho money, tho mothod of an plylng lt for road purposes. It seems to iih a proposltlon so plain that lt cannot be galnsald. Thls causo needs nothing but tho champlonshlp of some young leader who could by devoting hlmself to It pull our people out of tho mud and wln for hlmself a name that would llvo long la tho years to came." ho ed, A 3 pe an < de. flu un na The Eastern Shore Herald, which koeps an eye on thlngs thls sldo of the bay as well as on tho Eastern Shore, has thls to say about the work of the Assornbly: "The Herald has commonded the re? cent State Loglslaturo on several oc caslons, and the splrlt of economy and rotrenchment dlsplayed ln most part was highly commendable. But why thoy should liavo sidest.pped thls stralght and narrow path Ln order to vote hlgher sulartes to several State offlcers, who wero already nald amplv. and when it would have been an oasy matter to have found ready candldates for the place of any on.cehol.ler who happened to be dlssatlpflert with his j ti: pay? ls past our understanding. Such. > 1 _ however, was the case. lt ls a rogret j g! to stato, and such is the case all over cl the State. Wondcr lf anybody ovor si thlnks of this whon the taxes are to bo paid? From the Dleacuro de rlved in paylng hlgher taxes we much doubt lt." Our frlend, In vlewlng the expendi? tures of the Assembly, must remember the temptatlons lt had. If the Herald had seen the crowd Of men hanglng about the lobbles of the Capltol. scek Ing salary ralses for themselves and for thelr frlends, lt would agree wlth us that the Assembly dld fatily well. In fact, whlle the members of the As? sembly are not to bo pralsed for rals Ing any salarles. they deservo all man ner of pralse for stopplng where they dld. XVe do not mind tclling the Her? ald, In strlct confldence, that lt look? ed, late in the sesslon, as if every Stato ofllcer had stopped work to Joln ln the genoral effort to get more money.- The members who stood these ofllcers off dld nobly. We are sorry to see that the propa gada for a "sane" Fourth of July has begun. People wlll forget all about it beforo the tlmo comes. They really have concluded a Con? gressional Investigatlon tn Washing? ton, but they are apologtzlnsr profUsely for the accident. In the absence of any other citizen on whom they could confer the tltle, the great Stato of Texas has made John W. Gates a ColoneL I ln The talk about Mars belng inhablted by women only is nonsense. If lt were the t_r.uth._-we could hear the nolse from here. There is a "rising wave of democra? cy" in Spaln, and as tho wave is not truo Southern in hue, we can recom mond them a Certain Party to crest the wave and to covor the trough. "Won in tho Ninth," by our young frlend Christy Mathowson, goes to show that a man has no excuse for thlnklng he can spread lnk just be? cause ho can throw tbo spltball. We have not seen the new Salomo gown, but wo expect it can bo found on the streets of Houston every day. All sorts ot queer things are down thore. A baoterlologlst estimates that thore aro threo tlmes as many germs in a saucer of ico cream as in a klss. All the more reason for the klss. There used to be a club of twelve poets in London. . Two of them dled from drlnk, one commltted sulcide and two became insano. Thls mortallty does not Include those tnnocent readers whom the poetry kllled. At a sajo of illlclt liQUor ln Chatta nooga the other day. whiskey brought only ono cent a quart. You need not carry coals to Newcastle, and you aro foolish to try and soll lltfuor in a pro? hlbltlon country. Everybody has an abundance. If that &os Angelea man who has two rlbs over and above hls usual allotment could meU them. he could sp&re ti^cm. The Imprlnt nhown here you/lL, find be neath goodTHve. well. larrangcd and attractive 'copy. Richmond Adtertln Im} AO.encyj Inc. ,' Mutual Building, , Daily Qucries and Answeri Addre__ alt comrnunlcatlona for thla column to Query Edltor, Times-DIspatch. No mathematlcal problems wlU be aolvcd, no colna or stamps valued and no dealers' names will be glven. rrcct U_nge. ?Ir, A argucs that a Tuxndo meots iry roqulremcnt of ovoning dross. s. A contends that lt shbtilcl ttovor worn outsldo of tho woarer's own ne. Pleaso state/the eustom of thls lvenlant hybrld of haberda-thery, A. t_ C. 3ood usago proserlbes that the Tux > of dlnner ,coat shotild ba worn only Informal dltincrs or at an lnformal 1 aftor rt o'tfiock. It doos not take i placo of full dross. (liimtlon of Debt) s thoro a law in Vlrglnla to punish ?sons who get goods on approval 1 wlll not pay for or return thom? ' . , , ANXIOUS. ..ertalnly; you can sue the person for >t a? in tfeO caso of any other debt ?. lf the porson socured the goods ilor false pretenses you can crlml ily prosecuto hlm. 100I l_a-m .. If a school board employs tcach i at a flxied salary for nlne months teach In a county school, and dlirlng j sessioQ a scaro of scarlot fever svalls, wheroupon tho so-called ilth board orders tho school closed leflnltety, 1? tho school legalb- bound pay tho teachom for the-tlmo lost account of tho closing of the 100I? / i. What Is the law regnXdlhc the slng of. schools bv health boards? I. Do you think the school board Is ?rally obllgated to pay the teachers * Iors caused by suspenslon of 100I? x Y. 5. 1. Wo think tho school board ' Is und to pay tho teachers for tho tlmo it In thls wav, J. Wrlto to the State Health Com ssiorter. no Capltol Street, for a ay of the law, We think tho board a wltjhln its rights ln thls matter. 1. In our Judgment, yes. dl<M -Pero X? Dentedldn." Kindly publlsh tho translatlon of dlos pero no destedtda." _'??:'<; A READER. _rood-by. but not forgotten. ?len Goiilrt, Kte. 'Please glvo me Mlss Hellen Goul dress also Ethel Rosenveltx." . ' G. S. H. Miss Helen Gould's oddros-s ls 657 fth Avenue, Now York. Mlss Rooso lt has no flxed address at present thls country, / ie Grown In Battlo. Accordlng to history. Henry VII. was >wned on Bosworth Fleld Immedlate after the battle. Dld Rlchard III. to hattle wlth hls crown on, and. if t, how dld the crown happon to be at Bosworth? ' READER, It ls highly probably that thls ls * flctlon. Wo nover heard of a Klng who _-oally went into a battle with the royal crown <m, If any crown was worn by Glontor. lt waa probablv mado of Iron or other gross metal, and waa worn over his helmet. Mr*. o. ii. p. Belmont. Please tell who Mrs. O, H, P. Bel. mont Was before her marriage, and lf she ls a dlvorcoe, INTERESTED. O. H. P. Belnjont's flrst wlfo waa Sarah Swanwhlte. His second wlfe Was Alva E. Smlth, who was flrst wlfe of Wllllam IC. Vandorbllt. Notary Publlc'* Age. Io any qualification rcqulred by lawi' to got a commlsslon as notary pub? llc, and if an act lcgalized by a mln? or, oommlssionod aa a notary publlo ia lmpugnable or can bo annulled? A SUBSCRIBER. The Constitution,, sectlon 32, flxes tha ago llmlt of a notary publlc at elgh* i teen. "In tbe Green Fleld* of Virginia." Pleaso prlnt the poems, "in the Green Flelds of Virginia," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," and the authors of each. READER. Wo cannot prlnt poems In thls col? umn. Our rule ls that lf any of our roaders send us tho poems which other readers request we wlll be glad tn forward them upon receipt of a self? addressod, stampcd envclope. Pnpera Publlahetf In the V. 9., Etc. 1. Whero can I get a llst of the papers publlshed In the United States? 2. Whero can I got a map of Virginia wlth the publlo roads on lt? READER. 1. Ayer's Amerlcan Newspaper An? nual llsts all these papers. 2. The United States Coast and Geo detlc flurvey. Washington. wlll furnltW you. through your Congressman, wlth copies of theso maps. "See Thnt My Grace Ia Kept Green." Pleaso publlsh the followlng nooms: "Seo That My Grave Is Kept Green.'* "I Am Nobody*e Darllng" and "In tha Shade of the Old Apple. Tree." ? A READER. See the answer to "Reader" above. A Sheep-KUUng Dog. Havo I thc rlght to klll a dog that kllla my sheep? Also, have I the right to stop any ono from huntlng on my land? FARMER. If you know the dog kllled your sheep, you havo a rlght to klll hlm under tho statute law of the State. If you post your land you can keop men from buntlng on It. tfAUNY-TALVANDE FALLS FROM GRACE . LA -XARQl'ISE DE FOXTEXOV. )E MAUNY-TALVAXDE. whose financlal affalrs are now cntrag Ing tho attentlon ot the Eng llsh courts, wlll be romembered thls country as a drawing room lec rer, who, durlpg hls stay in Am_r. i. plclted up quito a llttle money bv vlng talk-_ on French chateaux and ateau life. Rather trood looklng. he bsequently managed to securo tho nd of ___ady Mary Byne, who had en ono of tho ntaids of honor to the toen, and who ls a daughter of the te Barl of Strafford. lt was said the time. that her marrlatro waa rgely duo to her hostlllty to her ther's marrlage to the former Mlss ira Smlth. of Now Orleans. wldow of .muel Colgate. of Xew York. Thls is'glven, at any rate, as the explana _n of Lady Mary's throwim. herself vay upon young Do Mauny-Talvande, ho had no, blrth, social positlon or rtuno to speak .of, w.hereas Lady ary was very good looklng. accom Ished and popular. and might ca6ily tvo made a far better match. From the #rst tboy had a great deal diiilculty an maklng both ends meet; ere In quitb straitened clrcumstances. id eventually leased from tho Mar ils do BleucQurt the hlstorlc Chateau Azay le Rldeau. Do Mauny-Tal mde therrtupon attempted to start ere an Eni?lish boardlnc school. rely g on hls w-lfe's relatlons, frlends and qualntantfete to help the scheme along id descrlbing tho chateau in tho clr ilars whlch ho sent out as hls an stral home, Notwlthatandlng the at actlons hcTH out to Engllsh parents having thtefr boya acqulro a knowl [ge of Frertoh in a grand old Frencr tateau, undter the care and ausplce. 1 an EingllK-- earl's daughter who hac sen a maid nt honor of Queen Vlcto a, tho sche.no came to erlef: nartlj rough the fcck of puplls, and parth irough trcto-bles wlth the landlord ;e Marquls de Blencourt, who com alned of misrepresentatlon. and tha: i had never dreamt of rentlng ou zay le Rldeau, for a boardtng school I may add! that popular sentimen* France was altogether against thi :hemo, and Ithat the Journal des De us, whleli. }s the most careful an. tberly writtbn of all the Parisiai swspapers, Hho French counterpart deed, ln we&ght and Influenceof thi ondon Times. assailed Mauny-Talvan j aa a f'vuigtiiro marchand de soupe.' hlch may b*i translated as a "hash ause Reeperr while the gentry ant oblllty of tWo dlstrlct ln whlch tli hateau was sltuated subjected no aly Mauny-'I-alvande, but also hi Ife, to the mtotet severe ostraclsm. Af sr that, I_adfc> Mary and her Frencl usband toolfl up thelr resldence ii ngland. wh-ire l10 adopted tho tltl f count, ana lat'ely they have beei vlng ln a small houso near Sallsbury 10 count dabtoling in ventures ln Lon on which Hrave apparently hrough lm to grlef-, Gr.'|tve of Cortez. ? Francls A-.ja_acNut./former Amerl in chargo tlaffalres at Madrid, ha uoh a worttff-.vlde repv\tatlon as ?rltor on earlfc Spanlsh-Amorican hls an-. and as tii'e edltor of the "Letter t Cortez," tht-t it ls surprlslng to fln 1 hls story otf Cortez. and of th? Iat _r'_ conquest.of Mexlco. Just: puhllsh d by Putnan^, a remark to the effec hat mystery still cxlsta wlth rcgar a tho last refcting placo of tho erea onqulstador, i for whatover myster Hero was haB been* dlspolled by th ooont dlscovery of the remalns of Cot er. ln the Church of Josus, at Mexlc iltv incloscd ? in a double casket c /a'o'a .and of ifead. rlchly adorned-wlt cautlfully clIBaeled sllver mountlng, he remalns fchemselves ..belnar envej ned ln the ilnest cambrlcs and tn nost costly lKces, tbe skull belng c .ltogether amjazlng smallness. The remalnb wero found ln the lrr nedlater netg_#ior. ood,of the high a ar, on the. __*t>spcl side of the latte vhere they. wfcro replaced ln 1827 b ho clergy In, charge of this cburc) ounded by cfcrtez. at the instance.( ho Marquls ?Foi Vallo de Oaxaca. tt ?rlnclpal dosebndant .of ...bajconquistt lor. and the;recog..i_ed chief of u after's famll;K A record was mat it tho tlme p_ tho interment. copii of which wore retalned by the chaDter ?. _U,e ?h.Krch, and by **? marquls. iiioso of tho church seem to havo been ?jst, whlle thoso of the marquls. whlcli Jiad been tnlslaid, were recovered by ,J_.ere_ c,,an.c? ?? J'ear ago, and wero of ^T.t?f.?nSSi;tJ^.ce ,in , determlnlng tho questlon of the locaiity of the tomb of Cortez, and in dlsprovlng tho story ???^,2Kut?u7,rh,ch llla bodv had boen removed by hls famlly to Europe. that Is, to Palerrao. at the tlmo of tho Mexl can vvur of Independence, In the early pa?* of thQ nlneteenth century. Tho wandorlngs of the ^rcat Soanlsh demis? He dled. lt xnay be recall.d, ^,ifaln' 'J1 m7> at Casttlleja do la Cuc-sta. and as ho had expressed tbo deslre to rest ln tho New World. hls body was temporarily placed in the mausolcum of the Dukes of Medtna 61 aonla, whenco lt was removed several years afterwards, and conveyed aoross thc Atlantic to Mexlco. and entombed Ul the Church of San Francisco, at Taxacuzo. __lfty yoars later the re? malns wtre removed to the Church of San 1-rancisco, in the City of Mexlco. and agaln. about 1S0 years afterwards. name y. in 1794, the Spanish Vlceroy. Revillaglgedo. caused the remalns to t>e removed to tbe Church of Jesus. and to be placed ln a pyramldlcal mau.o leum which he had constructed for thelr reception. In 1823. when the War of Independence was at its helght, the Mexlcan. populace announced Its inten tlon of destroying tho tomb of Cortez. ln whom the Mexloans professed to see the founder and reiwesentativo of Spanish despotlsm and tyranny; - The body, fortunately, was removed in time and hidden away by the clergy, and the mob had to content itself with wrecklng the mausolcum and in burnlng tho banner and the escutcheon wlth which lt was adorned. The re? malns were concealed in the vaults of tho church. and lt was only after things had quteted down a little that they were secretly re-errtombed: not in the former "lace, but near the high altar, beneath the floor, without ony thing on the latter to tndicate thd' remalns that lay below. Klng Gustav Popular. ICing Gustav of Sweden's recent lll? ness, in connectlon wlth the ooeration ' for appendicltls to which ho was sub? jected, has proved a perfect rovelation. not only to hlmself, but also to hls government: for lt has demonstrated tbe very .warm regard and sincere af foction ln which, desplte all that has been aald to the contrary. he ls held by hls subjects. During the two or three days in whtch hls condition was critical the sorrpw and profound con? cern were universal among all classcs of the population at Stockholm: whlle. as soon as he began to mend, the re* jolclngs wero general. Moreover, dur? lng tho fortnight that followed the operatlon, the great square in front of tho palace would be blaok wlth peo? ple at about the hour when the medl? cal bullotlns were Issued, the crowd waltlng, often by the hour, ln the snow and raln. in ordor to learn of the con? ditlon of the Klng. Untll now, an imprcssion - had nre* valled, not only abroad but even in Sweden Itself, that Klng Gustav 4Jd not by a long way posscss tho same good wlll of hls subjects as hls glfted father. Gustav cannot boast" of the good look's, of the splendid presence, of tho wonderful talents, or ot the fas olnatlng manner of his predecessor on tho throne. Yct ln splte of all thls. ? and of tho fact that his relgn has lasted but two years, he has already managed to secure a strong hold on the,' aftoction of the Swedes, who have learned to appreciate the jaot that. al? though less brilliant than hls fathen he has plenty of very solid and ster llng qualities, and a very deep sense of the obllgatlons of hls offlce and ot hls duty to the natlon. Klng Gustav and hls subjects wlll unclerst_*fU ono anothor a great deal better from now on than heretofore, anfl a bond ot sym? pathy has been establlshed between thom by his 'lllness which cannot but strcngthen the foundatio'ns of tljo Swedlsh throne. 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