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Sunday1 only. 6 cent? I
Entere? January n. ISM. at Richmond. Va?
f,t *eeor.il-cla?5 matter under act of Con
cross of March 8. 1SV8.
phom t11i3 potomac to TlitJ
jam ks.
All roads load to Richmond?the
Gateway of the South. It is "On to
Richmond" now (is it was fifty years
ago. Throe of tiie great' railroad sys?
tems of the South pour their 1 raffle I
into or through this town. A never
ending, steadily Increasing stream of.
travelers seeking netv opportunities or
refreshment from their labors in other'
less inviting fields flows hack and
forth through Richmond, and now the
road-builder.-: have caught the spirit
bC the time? and have determined to
build a ; *4 t highway between "Wash- I
M gt?ri inu^ Richmond; n highway run-|
hing through the most historic ami
beauilfiil cbnntrjj in all the world;
across quiet streams once reddened
with the blood of heroes, across Holds j
upon which immortal deeds were done;,
along trnils over which truiijs of army!
wagons rumbled half a century ago.
by stretches of. forests once lighted .
with the eampiires of contending
hosts. 4 I
As t'nc road runs, it will cover rij
distance ol 170 miles from the Capital;
on the Potomac to the Capital on the I
James, arid for il;? building of tins
highway :he Richmond-Louiea-Gor
tlonsville Highway Association was or?
ganized Thursday night, with Ugbcrl
G, Leigh, Jr., Road Builder, as J'rcs-l
Uent, and a corps of Vice-Presidents
and Directors which would be an honor I
to any movement, and whose Intercsl (
In this undertaking means its triumph?
ant accomplishment.
The conference Thursday night was
enthusiastic, and It was made tip or i
men who do things, men from Orange I
ant) Hchrico and Louisa mid Hanover,
all intent upon building a road which
will link the North and South to?
gether and wili result not only in the j
development of the two Capitals of our
country, but in filling in all tin. hinds
between with a generous and Indus
:rious population. Fairfax has al?
ready determined to buil,i a road to
Washington, Prince William will com
struct a macadam road next year, CuR
poper has begun to macadamize a road
through its territory, Orange has al?
ready built a macadam road all tin
way through its limits. Ilenrleo will
do its full share, and when the roads I
arc buiit through Louisa and linnov< i,
the work will be finished, with a high?
way 170 miles In length, over wnich
the business of seven of the most pro?
gressive counties In Yitginiu will i>i>
done, and over which tue people who
lravel by automobile will Und an easy
way to marken.
It is a great undertaking and weil
wot'tb the support of all who have i?:iy
interest in the development of tho
country, in tin- promotion of iigrie il
lural prosperity, in the building tin
of new communities and in the lin
provonVeijt X>f*"bld settlements. l*r>;-re
Ought to be*a name for the highway,
short and crisp and expressive, some?
thing that wnl describe what it is rtii i
what it moans, something like tiie "Ap
jdari Why" in Home, something f hat
will signify that the road to Richmond
i.^ no longer uiilieult. but that here all
good men ate welcome, and In Hits!
wonderful Stale all good men can limit
homes where life is worth living. '
muck hak 131 LS MtKOAH \ \|) ,\t;
iio.Vn:.
Edward H. .lames, the editor of The
Liberator, ti t- dirty little paper print?
ed in I'atis, which has acquired some!
notoriety because of its libeling bl |
King George of liuglaml, has "issued!
* ststjtement, In which he (leclare.s
that the tflaj and eonvietion of K?i-'
ward Mylijts, his agent in London, wiib'
f'tand, and lie t.ii.i ? the ground that
as Mylius refused to fcubslaptiate tin
bigamy eiuirg'- mad" by him against
the c'tiko ended Irhinc
lius' refusal to proceed
ing refm.d to testify,
u s with this str.ti-m.m:
lad gone on the stand
. the marriage had not.
du be glad to apologize
tor, whit h, under the
<un only attack the
principle of Im;;h law. evidence and
liberty;'' Just the same, however,
Mylius h;.s boo, coin idea and sen?
tenced to twelve months', imprlson
it:criL rind the:.- is m>~\vTyT>y which
^ he can be released until lie lias served
out his sentence-?a very Just sen?
tence in out o;-.i::lon and in ?he opin?
ion of all honest men.
The charge made in Jitthes'S paper
whs that the i:-.!.;. ,vas iriorganullealiy
married to a daughter of Admiral Sey?
mour in tho I: . if Mai a Yrj I StfO,
and that after ?M of .... :<:.,u;
er, the Duke ol '.: . t..-.u bell
to tho throne, tho King Vfo?lly aban?
doned his true wife, tho daughter or
isir Michael Culmo-Soyinour, of the
British Navy, and entered Into a sham
and shuincful mnrrlage with the
daughter of the Duke of Teck lit 1893."
The King did not go on the witness
Storni because, under tho constitution
of England, he could not do so. but
Admiral Seymour was present and Ad
; miral Seymour's daughter. It was
j proved that the alleged morganaltc
marriage had never taken place; that
George was not at the Island of Malta
in 1S90; that at the time of the al?
leged marriage one of Admiral Sey?
mour's daughters was ten yearn of
ago and tho otner eight; thnt the Sey?
mour daughter who died never saw
George In her life; that the Seymour J
daughter who Is living now us the!
wife of o respectable English gentle-j
man did not sec him until four or live :
years after the alleged marriage; tflid
My litis was convicted and sentenced
to Jail. It would have been more Just
if he had been sentenced to bo hanged, j
The crime lie committed, und for which J
the editor of The Liberator is rcspon-j
slble, was a crime against decency and i
humanity, and the King is to be eon- j
grutulatcd und thanked for allowing I
the case to come to trial so that at,
once and forever this miserably dirty I
story might be laid to rest.
The tide seems to be turning some?
what against the in tick rakers. ? Only'
the other day It was reported I lia t the'
Standard uil Company had brought:
- ii for J-'HO,000 damages against the!
Hampton Magazine for the publication;
of a story written by Cleveland Mof?
fett, charging that company with be?
ing responsible lor poisoning children
by the use of glucose in the manufac?
ture id" candies. Hampton, rue presi?
dent of the magazine company, and
Moffclt, the author of the article upon
which the suit for damages was based,
'have written apologies and retrac-j
lions. Moffett says in a letter to the j
Standard uil Company:
"Upon investigation l h.ive ase?v
la in cd that your Company was in no I
way connected wit., the transactions
referred to, and I hasten to retract in
the fullest than her all charges made ;
against your Company, and to express
my sincere regret that I should have,
fallen Into this serious error." Benja?
min B. Hampton, the President of the I
Company, has w ritten it letter saying: j
".We beg to state that wo are con- :
yinced that Mr. Moffett was In error j
in his statement in reference to your
Company, ami we deeply regret that !
this error should have been made." Itj
would seem that the "investigation;* j
blight to have been in ado before the
article was written.
The papers, and particularly the" i
magazines, have been tilled for month:*
and years with all sorts of charges
against the integrity of men engaged;
in business enterprise .- or In public j
station, and they have stood it all
with the hope probably that conditions
would improve and that the people
would not be willing to credit tile j
statements of unknown and irrespon- j
slble writers and publishers; but the!
muckraking has become steadily more
violent, until tiie people are really he- j
coining .surfeited with this sort of j
literature. We are glad that the \
Standard Oil Company, which has been.
Up to this time, tiie uncomplaining
victim of much of the muckraking!
done in "high class publications. ' has
given the muekrakcrs something to
think about in tiie prosecution Of their
"literary" labors.
BETTEIt INVEST IT IN RICHMOND; j
There has In en ;i great booster but?
ton campaign in the town of Charles-I
ton to raise money for the display of I
tiie resources of Hint place, and it is
announced that about S ,1,0 00 resulted
from this enterprise. We would like,
to suggest that the best thing the
booster.-; can do with the money is to';
invest it in IMchmond real estate or
deposit u In one of the Uichinond ;
banks, where it would feel rich with .
the forty-nine other million dollars wo
have salted down in Richmond for a
rainy day.
STI lllis ON Tlll'f TO It OUR AN.
According lb the Afchisf-n Globe,
??Governor \V, i: Stubbs, >f Kansas, Is
losing ground with tHo Legislature of
that State, which, instead of following j
Ills instructions very ebu'-'y. "seems
to be muking a specialty pf luffing
Stubbs's pets tint) pet measures wher- j
ever they show their heads." This lit
' iuicburiiging. Anything is eijeourag-I
Iny in Kansas that show's that Stubbs'
is really no; ropt'csoii I a vi ?> e of ihoj
: People ?f that State, for LuViiteniptibie |
tu; tiie.- an. girmelhi p'Hh iples; Ibey
Would lud end be beyond contempt j
should Stubbs be regarded a:; typical ,
of Cum it threatened thai stubbs,
will make iho members of tee Legis- i
1 la tu re suffer Cor their disregard of his)
j recommendations, and that he will stir
title populace against them when the
next light is on Stubbs '> not nearly
so popular, however, us tte appeared
to be in i90fi when In- received t&6,GP"i
v i,,r Governor. At ttic list clec
11ion he received only 162,181 votes. :;i.
.. M votes less than lie rece vod In his
fir ft race f"i Governor. lie is growing
suiulicr by degrees and beautifully
j less.
1 Nobody outside of Kansa-5 can teil
;wi;y l-.e h.!V,.d any votes, und the
i Kansas people ihcmselveh an: begin?
ning to wonder why they ever voted
for him. It !. a pretty hard business
j to fool all of lh,i people ail ..f ihc time
i FRANKLIN M'VC.M.ll; II I'.MOItlST.
Things seem to be coming Mr Taft'a
J Way just now At a dinner in Wash
I I jig lb ii the oti^et night, the Hon.
Franklin MacVeagh. ids S'ecrctary of
the Treasury, made a speech in which
he described with a few bob) strbUei
Cue President US lie is. or as ho up
rfUt.<
I
I
] most automatically to proceed w hen
tho consideration of a public o.ucsttou
gels beyond its purely public environ?
ment and relates to his political in?
terests; a strong party man. born and
bred a Republican" (Alas! Alas!)', but
acknowledging bis titular leadership,
though "not enough of a politician for
I hit? leadership;" a President who
j "hates with a holy hatred Iho wholo
business of dispensing olllccs," and who
\ "resents his official obllgalton to waste
his time in such poor work," and yet
I a President "with tho crowning gift of
1 humor."
j That, was line, even if It was a bit
funny, but the finest thing in Secretary
?' MacVoagh's spoeeh was his almost pa
' thctic story about tho affectionate re- j
j lailons now subsisting between tho \
? President an is and the President as j
j was. "It was a foregone conclusion
from the start,'" said Mr. MacVctigb, I
"that the strange efforts to break iho
alliance between these two men would
fail. The theory that tho way to inako |
the Republican party strong is to!
break it in little bits was too much1
fur the humor of these old friends." I
"The President shares this humor with j
his friend Roosevelt."
?'ome to think of it. this is one of:
I
the most nmitslng things that has been
known in American politic;-, that is
Only heightened by the recollection of
the strenuous efforts made by tho
Colonel during his whirlwind cam?
paign last summer to avoid even men?
tioning I he name of his Successor in
any of the grand orations with which
lie stirred the heart of the Oolden
West. That was part of the joke, that
was where the humor enme In, that Is i
why the Colonel and the President talk
to each other by telephone every day, |
so that they can enjoy the humor of'
the situation, ami now that Secretary j
MacVeagh has supplied the, key, any- !
body can see how funny it i^. Even
the sober-sided Pinohot is beginning
to understand, and ho Is jollying the;
business along in stately form, und |
as president of the National Conserva- ;
tlon Association, has just isEitcd a .
.statement commending President Taft's
water power policy and calling upon ?
all friends of conservation .md all |
enemies of monopoly to testify their ?
real delight at the course upon which 1
the President lias determined. "The
policy so declared." says President j
Pin-hot, "ha? been enforced by the
United States Pores! Service (so far
ns the existing law would permit) for
a number of years, and has had the
active support of this Association from
the time it was formed." And that is
where another little joke comes in, j
hut whal Is joking among friends, and
what docs Mr. Taft care so long as lie !
can keep such a humorist as Franklin
MueVrnuh ut the head of his Treasury
Department, and. such charming racbn- i
tciirs as the Colonel and the Forester j
in the ciaquo?
TUP, COMMISSION AND Till-: DOCK, j
Sometimes It puzzles the State Cor- ,
potation Commission itself to know In
just what capacity it Is procecdirng.
The attorneys who are engaged in
prosecuting before it the Richmond j
dock case do not agree on this point. !
Certainly, we would ijot attempt to
dehne its position. Neither would we
attempt to advise that honorable body
what its decision should be on the mor- j
its of the proposition to dose the clock j
tin til all the evidence is in.
Rut the Commission appears to take
the position I hat it is vested with spe?
cial power, by virtue of an act of the
General Assembly, to act as the chosen
representatives of the sovereign peo?
ple of the State.
Why, then, should not the Commis?
sion properly assume the prerogatives
of an additional House of the Legisla?
ture? Why is it not proper to review
the circumstances of the passage of t'.ie.
bill and to consider the petition of the.
bondholders of the Trigg Company in
t'ne li'.:ht i?f tin- circumstances of tic
passage ot the bin in the other Houses?
Three honorable and trustworthy
members of the General Assembly tes?
tified on oath Thursday that they bad I
no idea of the purport of the measure,
which, as frankly stated by a pro?
moter, was Iiis own proposition, taken
up as a business venture. Counsel for
the bondholders' committee announced
that he was willing to concede that!
every member voted for the bill under I
a misapprehension, with tin- result that i
no further legislators were put on the!
stand.
Chairman Prent is has said from the!
bench during the course of the hear-1
iir.g thai this is not a question of law,
but of public policy. Without ventur-1
iriy w express an opinion ?n the hicrri
its of the eontroverpy-?-for il h'jj's two
sldcs--we ask whv it would not bo
proper tor the Commission to take;
I cognizance of the fact that the re pro
jsentaiives of the people ,?t no time
I desired it to be clothed with such
j-pow, r ris the bill gives?
Tilli CLEVKLAMl MU.MOIMAfr
? S'-v.-my-six thousand dollars has
been raised to erect a tower a; Prince
Ion. New Jersey, tin a memorial to
Grnyey Cleveland. The towi V is to lie'
ri part of the graduate college of !
Princeton University of which Mr
Cievoland was a trustee an.I a de?
voted friend. The final years of Mr
i 'lev, l.imlY. lifo we tic spc.pt m retire
I ineni at Priricet?ni\ whero be wrote
hutch, but appeared little in public.
As an occasional lecturer in Pi I nee ton
? und as a participant in Ho commence*
? men I exerciser! he was known to
', hundreds of alumni of Obi Nassau,
j The funds for iheifcnemorlal town
I were raised without urgent public ap
peal. It will be a line way if honor
lug a former President ".whose t'ourago
and high purpos.- must ever o. an in
spiral ion to public men." 'u I he word'!
I of the DoHtoti Globe. *
j II is proposed to raise ?,i! Lrlop ad?
ditional by March IS; Mr (:|e ? ela h.; r;
j birthday Contributions niaj i < eul to
Daniel S. Voorhces, treasurer o? tho
memorial fund, at Newark. New Jer?
sey. Tiie contributors uro not conUned
to the Democratic party, but the list of
gtvpra includes inuny who wore offi?
cially connected with Mr. Cleve?
land's administration, such as Jud
son Harmon, Richard Olnoy and
? George B. Cortclyoit. Other oon
I trlbutors arc George J. Gould.
: Jacob H. Schiff, Morgun J. O'Brien.
? Franklin Murphy, lloke Smith, John
? F. Drydcn, J. PIcrpont Morgan and E.
C. Benedict. From New England thcro
are such man ns Charles B. Codmun,
I Augustus kohienway, James . J. Stor
j row, Charles It. Taylor, tt. at. Salton
! stall and Charles J. Paine. Mr. Clove
j land had Iiis summer home In New
? England, and is widely remembered In
i that part of the nation.
Washington has Ills greatest of all
'monuments at Washington; Grant 1ms
a magnificent tonil) In Now York;'
Lincoln ha? monuments in many cities.
Some Presidents, notably Jefferson and
Jackson and Arthur have memorials,
but other presidents have inspired no
lasting memorial shafts. The Cleve- |
land memorial ought to bo erected,
and when it has been finished It will
stand there at Princeton, a stately
reminder to generations of. tine Ameri?
can manhood that this nation was once
blessed with a Chief Magistrate who
steered right onward toward the bea?
con of duty and the right.
A MODEL, TO FOLLOW,
. Representative llawley, of Oregon,
has lately delivered what is said to
?be tho shortest congressional speech
oh record to be published In pamphlet
form. Here It is:
"Mr. Speaker: 1 favor an increase In
the compensation paid to the carriers
in the 11 Ural Free Delivery Service
much larger than that now proposed,
but will support this Increase of 5100
Per annum on regular routes as a step
in the right direction Those men must
furnish and maintain an equipment
for transporting tlie mnil3 over their
own routes at their own expense, and [
which takes a comparntIvel:' large pro?
portion of their yearly salaries. These
salaries should be sufficiently la rye so
that after paying their living expenses
and the cost of maintaining their
cqUipment they will have left a rea?
sonable sum as a saving lor the fu?
ture. I hope in the succeeding bill a
more adequate compensation will be
provided:''
That is all of It? biiof, but to the]
point :|ul covering the whole ground I
It would have taken many pages for!
the lion. Napcleon B. Thlstlcwopd. or
the Hon. Gerrit John Dtekcma to have
said the same thing. These Important :
statesmen and many others: in Con- j
gross like to spread themselves In '
countless paragraphs written for home
consumption, but, happily, never
spoken. It would be a saving of valu?
able time ami much money if other
members of Congress would follow
the admirable* precedent set by tho
lion. Mr. liaw'ley, who speaks .in a
business-like way and after the fash?
ion of a man of common sense.
NO .IfISNOMER.
Frederic .1. Raskin, vice-president
of the National Press Club, said somo
striking thln,gs about newspapers sev- :
erai nights ago in the com so of an ad?
dress. He pointed out. among other
things, that some Idea of tho magni?
tude of the newspaper business in the j
United States may be had from the
statement that the total dally circula?
tion of all the dallies in this country
is now 22,000,000 copies?one for every
loti;- persons in our population. Al?
lowing lor duplication und for infants
and illiterates, it is calculated that
three out of every four persons in our
population road some newspaper every
day. .Newspapers are printed in thir
iy-flvd languages in this country. in
the amount of capital invested, the!
publishing business lias lor some tilhu]
been seventh in place among American |
industries, and it is likely that by the
tow census It will be raised to fourth
or fifth place. "From these facts.'' ,
.ay-: Mr. Uaskin, "it will be seen that
'the power of tin: press! is no misno?
mer." When it is considered that the
newspaper business is one .,f the
youngest of considerable industries, ,its
growth is indeed remarkable.
A GREAT PRESIDENT.
Provost Charles C. Harrison has re?
signed from his position as head of the
University of Pennsylvania. As be re?
tires t<> private life. he * carries
with lie. tie affectionate assurance of
his cbilchgnos and students thai be has
been a "good and faithful servant'' to
? old 1'. iiu." By hi.s efforts, Pennsyl?
vania has gone to Hie forefront of
American Institutions of learning. The
development of the university has boon
phonoiiiona] under the sixteen great
y u s f.i in- administration,
j In ism ihe total matriculation list.
I of tin University of Pennsylvania wits
::.:,'<^, there was a teaching force of
273 professors, and tin appraised valun
( t ion of nut t er hi 1 resources amounting
abbut $5,000,000. In 1910, there
' were 5,000 students, ."?00 members of
tin I'm nit:.', and an estimated total of
52 0,000,000 of material resources. By
! his fruits will Provost Harrison be. re?
membered.
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'?COLONEL."
j fine of ihc things that strike the vis?
itor to the South as strange is the frc
[ t|U<:hcy with which we in this part of
j the nation bestow' military titles upon
'persons who have never worn a
sworn, it would be interesting <?>
itn ? ?. ahy i ie tank thus conferred is
almost aS ;| rule "colonel" or "major."
Captiiin*- und generals are rarely found,
and lieutenants unheard or. The Ken?
tucky colonel" is a proverbial person?
age .
Hip.- ? : :
I Simeon Ford, (lie famous raconteur,
has in-1 added ir*' possible explana?
tion for certain classes of colonels,
lit inentlotted at it recent banquol ?'ol
?>h<l Abraham llurdgruss; who told ?'
?picltioi/ici thai ho w.-iu neither a reg
?i.u ii or .i volunteer , colonel,, but
Absolutely Pure
Tho only baking nowdfor
made from Royal Grape
Gream of Tartar
colonel by marriage, having wedded
the widow of Colonel Harrison Pike,
of Pink Creek. Yet ?omo time ago,
'said Mr. Ford, a "still better colonel"
came into his ofllce. The colonel looked
rather seedy, and handed Mr. Pord a
soiled visiting card, asking at the same
! tlmo for a loan of two dollars. Tho
I inscription on tho card was "Colonel
William Mclchcr Dana."
"You are, I presume," said Mr. Ford,
'?a colonel in the army?"
"Yes," replied Colonel Dana.
"Regular or Salvation?" queriod Mr.
Ford.
"Neither," said the colonel, "army of
tho unemployed;''
Whatever the source of these titles,
there seems to be no indication that,
there will bo any cessation of the out?
put.
A DEATH-BLOW TO CORN.
{
North Carolina has, suffered great
trials In the last few years. The first
crushing blow came when it was flls
i covered that the so-called Mecklenburg
; Declaration of Independence was a i
pure fabrication and an titter myth,
j Fast on the heels of this historical
i revelation came the announcement that
the faint tradition that Andrew Jack?
son was a native of North Carolina was
a monumental mass of mcnduclty. Now
comes tins fatal and climactic judicial
declaration that corn whiskey ia not
necessary and Indispensable to the life,
liberty and pursuit Of happiness of the :
North Carolinian. 'Tis North Carolina, !
but living North Carolina no more'.
Here are the facts of the ease: A
lumberman, Ncwsoine by name, tele?
graphed for 1 gallons of whiskey for
his raft hands. The telegram was mis?
directed through tho fault of the tele?
graph agent. No whiskey arrived, and
the. raft hands naturally refused to
work. A freshet was at its height, and
because the raft hands refused to go
Into the water without the whiskey
no rafts were constructed, and tho
benefits of the freshet wore lost.
In the lower court, the plaintiff, with
case and dignity, recovered J?OO for tho
damage brought about by tho non-ar?
rival of the famous preventive for dis?
eases caused by wet feet. The case
went tip to the North Carolina Supreme
Court on appeal, and war. reversed on
the ground that the damages were too
remote; and uncertain.
The linal court thought that it re?
quired "quite a stretch of the. imagina?
tion to conceive that, had the whiskey
arrived, the raft would have been
properly constructed, loaded, and safo
ly conducted over a hea.vy freshet and
mrofitabiy marketed." The court fur?
ther said: "Whiskey is very potential
at times, but it cannot be relied upon
to produce such beneficent results as
is claimed in this case."
Vet there is hope. Tiie court took
judicial notice of the fact that "whiskey
is very potential at limes." To this
dictum North Carolinians may cling,
murmuring to themselves I hat motto
of South Carolina which used to bu
impressed on dispensary whiskey bot?
tles in the Palmetto State: "While wo
live, we hope."
When the Hon. Lou V. Halsby takes
i he stump in his approaching congres?
sional campaign, it is to be hoped that
he will' not. forget and address his
follow citizens in the graceluJ French
lie used in Paris last supiriier at the
I loudon statue ceremonial.
Yes, hoc troussenu will cost her
$60,000, but she will not, In all her
raiment, be half eo lovely as a Vir?
ginia girl, clod in simple white, with
a rose at her throat.
Polite attention pays. An Indiana
1 widow lias lately left ?100,000 in her
will to a railroad conductor who was
polite to her. If he had been the kind
of' conductor we have in Virginia, sho
would have left him the whole estate.
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Red.
Why does red excite n bull? Z.
Tho following has been, glvon on an
explanation: "Why rod excites bulls
is attributable to two facts: that tho
optics of thlB particularly irritable
animal aro habitually dlrocted (almost
exclusively) to green things, and that
red is the complement of green. And
the mixture of any two complementary
colors, as is woll known, produces
white?that Is to say, produces that
dazzling negatlvo color which, for want
of a better word, wo call 'whiteness.'
Similarly, of courso, an animal kept ex?
clusively amid bluo surroundings
would bo temporarily dazzlod by tho
suddon Bight of tin orange colored ob?
ject. Tho bull, being dazzled by the
sudden uppeuranco of red, makcB a
rush for it, possibly to discover what
It Is."
Ceorree Eliot,
What was tho.true name of George
Eilot. the novelist? HEADER.
Marian Evans Lowes Cross.
Second Entries.
Can one who has made an entry on
government land mako a second entry?
INQUIRER.
"Suggestions to Homesteaders nnj
Persons Desiring to Make Homestead
Entries." Issued by tho General Land
Office at Washington, soys: "An addi?
tional homestead entry may be mado
by a person for such an amount or
public lands adjoining lands then hell
and resided upon by him under his
original entry as will, when added to
such adjoining lands, not exceed in too
aggregate lfiO acres. An entry of this
kind may be made by any person wtio
has nqt acquired title to and Is not, at
the dato of his application, claiming,
under any of tho agricultural Inno
laws, through a r-ettlemcnt or entry
since August 30, 1S00, any other land1*,
which, with the lands then applied
for. would exceed In the aggregate 320
acres; but the applicant will not bo ro
quired to show any ot the other quali?
fications of a homestead on try man.1'
The Hipper.
What gives the "dipper" the appear?
ance of moving around tho north star
within a certain number of hours?
N. y
It Is oxplnined thut the rotation ot
the earth upon its axis causes all the
stars of tho sky to appear to moy?
around the North and South Poles ot
the sky each day. Tho "dipper" has
this motion, with all the other stars.
I Tho rotation of the earth is from west
to east, and tho stara appear to muve>
from cast to woBt. Tboso ntars near
tho North Polo with us do not set or
rise, but move toward the. oast In m?
j lower part of their motion and toward
tho west In tho uppor.
Penrjr.
How is the name of Peary. United
States Navy, of North Pole notoriety,
pronounced-.' A.
Pe-ry.
Hobwoii's Choice.
What la tho origin of "llobson's
choice"? (0.
In tho time of Charles I., who
reigned from 1025 to 1G49, an ihnkeep
or named iiohson let horses to the stu?
dents at Cambridge. He would never
break an established rule of letting
the horses In strict rotation. Any oni
wanting a horse had to take tho ono
whose turn It was to go, or do without.
; Prom this practlco arose the say Infi,
, "llobson's choice," that or none.
A Quotation.
Who wroto the poem in Which are
the following lines and In what povtnY
"No pity she looks for. no alms doth
sho seek;
Nor for raiment nor food doth fho
rar?-." POKT;
From "Mary, the Maid of the Inn."
by Robert Southey.
EMPEROR CHANGES
AN ANCIENT CUSTOM
UV I A IM AlUlt IHK DE FONTEN'OY.
Fi MPEROlt FRANCIS JOSEPH has
lately inaugurated a reform
which has caused much hcart
burning among the members of
tho bouse ot Hapsburg at Vienna.
From time Immemorial, carriages and
burses from the Imperial stables have
been at their disposal, and the
archdukes and archduchesses arc very
nurnoroue?there are probably a bun
died of them?and moreover required
carriages and horses, not only for
themselves, but also for the members
of their suite, the drain on the Impe?
rial stables 'and consequently upon
IJmperor Francis Joseph's purse, waa j
vry great. \
Jiis stables and his horses and cor
riages are still at the disposal ot the
archdukes and archduchesses, hut eacii
time they art used in this fashion the
fact Is recorded, and early in last
month each of the grown-up urcn
dukes and archduchesses received an
account Horn the Imperial stable de?
partment for their use of the horses
and currlagea during 1910. They can?
not retime- to pay; for were tncy to
resort to any such step the further use
of horses and carriages from the im?
perial stables would be denied to them,
while the money which they owe
would bo subtracted by the grand mas?
ter of the imperial household, from
the income which they derive from
the large private fortune ot the house
of Hapsburg, which is under the sole
control of the sovereign, of the min?
ister of the imperial honsti and of the
grand master of the court, that Is to
say, Prince Montcnuovo.
If the Emperor has been Induced to
inaugurate this reform. It Is because
the Imperial family has become very
numerous, and the. privilege with re?
gard to his stables has been abused.
Moreover, his civil list, although It
? mounts to close upon $5,000,000, Is
barely sufficient to meet the heavy
calls that are made upon it. Thus,
the subvention to the Imperial Opera
and to the Court Theatres considerably
exceeds 1,000,000 crowns; while nearly
twice that, amount goes to the upkeep
of the various Imperial parks and
zoological gardens that are open to
the public. The museums and the li?
braries, which are accessible to the
people, represent another million of
crowns per annum, in fact, there Is
hp end to the expenses of this kind:
while enormous sums are devoted to
charitable objects. It is only imbed
by the most careful management that I
it Is possible to balance the expendi?
tures with the receipts; although tho
veto ruble monarch's own personal ex?
penses uro'SO meagre that they could
easily be covered by $"< a day.
With the death of Sir Charles P.l- J
Hot there disappears a baronetcy which
was created in favor of his grand?
father, a. singularly picturesque char?
acter, old Sir George Elliot, the orig?
inal of "Sir Gorgeous Midas," so fre
queritly and amusingly portrayed by
>*.>u Maurler in the pages of Punch.
While ills vulgarity was of the most
appalling character, yet it was coun?
terbalanced by much kindness of heart,
princely generosity, singular shrewd?
ness in business matters and great
energy of enterprise.
His one weak point was his vanity,
<>f which he gave an amusing illustra?
tion on one occasion at. Swlndon in a
public toldress. During the course of
the latter he related his humble be?
ginnings; how he hnd .started out as
a pit laddie at. the age of ten. working
tip his way to tho ownership of the
very mine in which he had ebnir
menced his career, to the possession 'if
immense wealth, a baronetcy and mem
bership of Parliament, He wound'tip,
however. with the characteristic
phrase that, although he had held up
his life as an Illustration of what
Could be achieved by energy, honesty
and perseverance. "Yet I cannot, expect,
that you will all become Sir George
Elliots." x
It. was this vanity?a pardonable
vanity perhaps?which was the cause
of sir George becoming the prey of a
notorious American adventuress of llio
name of Amelia Hairs; also known to
the police in this country art Madam
Chlome, and who some "fifteen years
ago attracted much attention through
her efforts to obtain money from Mrs.
O. II. P. Belm on t and other well known
people in New York society. She had
?natle his acquaintance in 1SS.;?, in con?
nection with some Sllcslan mining
concessions which she claimed to pos?
sess, ami which she expressed a de?
sire to turn to pecuniary account. The
acquaintance thus begun, terminated
it, 1 sso in a sensational breach of
promise ease.
The trial was a cause eelobl'6, and
in reply lo the cross-examining coun?
sel, tin? plaintiff, who was about thir?
ty-five, confessed thai she did not love
the sevrihty-slx-yciir-old and rathe!
homely baronet at the time, but de?
clared that she admired "his Intellect
more than his manly beauty"?-a re?
mark that obviously pleased the judge,
the Jury and the Queen's counsel pres?
ent, as they at mice st raightened them?
selves up in their chairs and endeav?
ored to assume expressions ?f counte?
nance usually associated with high In?
tellectual, ability. The lady went on
to say thai hi length she was com?
pelled to draw the attention of the
baronet to the fad thai, their inttmaev
had resulted in a condition prejtldl
c^al to social conventions with regar'l
to unmarried ladles. The baronet liu
mcdlatcly. according to her statement,
offered to marry bur, t>v way of' r< p?
iiintlon. but failed to lulfil his pledge
Sir George then told his tdory. ami.
as was to be expected,* rung in his au?
tobiography; incidentally mentioning
that lie had sous In Parliament and
a targe fnmllj of grandchildren, Ibi
declared that his Intimacy with the
lady writs the one great sorrow of an
otherwise happy and successful lit'-,
but totally denied that ho had over
made any promise of marriage. Not?
withstanding all the efforts of fcjlr
Charles i<uss<dl (afterwards Lord
Chief Justice i. who represented Sir
George, the. Jury failed to agree upon
a verdict, ami the trial came to nought.
J he laying bare of her record, how?
I ever, led to the plaintiff leaving ISng
i land, her depnrture bcine, hastened
I by the discovery that Sir George had
'taken the preliminary stops with the
object of having her arrested for
perjury and conspiracy sip- claimed
I to be of American birth, und the
daughter of a New York journal:.-:.
She was possessed of a tine voice, and
was undeniably good looking rind fas?
cinating.
King Frederick Augustus of Saxony,
who left Dresden last Monday for a
! sporting expedition In Central' Africa,
along much the same route as tliat.
followed by Theodore 1 loose velt. will
be the hrst full - tledgcd European mon?
arch to visit the great lakes frojn
which the Nile takes Its source, and
j to confront the sleeping sickness and
the dangers of one kind and another
; that are inseparable from a tour of
thin nature. Leopold of Belgium on
I several occasions made arrangements
to visit the Congo Free State, but
novcr succeeded In putting his project.
lhtb execution, and although his suc
?CSH?r, King Albert, as well as King
George of England, has visited tho
Interior of Africa, yet they made 1 lie
trip, i not as monarchs, but as heirs
apparent.
loiring the absence of the Kins In
Africa, which Is to extend over a pe?
riod or" some three months, the duties
of sovereignty at Dresden Will he
performed by ills brother. Prince John
George. This arrangement has ex?
cited some comment, owing to the fact
that the King's eldest son. the Crown
Prince, celebrated his eighteenth birth?
day on January 1.1 last, and thereby
attained bis majority, for princes of
the blood are supposed to reach years
of discretion und manhood, in the full
sense of the term, three years earlier
than young men of more ordinary clay,
who only come of age at twenty-one.
This being the case, it would have
been natural for the Crown Prince of
Saxony to be unpointed I'tegent.
The King, however, who Is at liberty
to designate whom he pleases to take
his place in his absence, has mani?
festly considered it bell er to confide
his task to the hands of his brother,
as a man of more mature judgment
and experience.
(Copyright. 11)11, by the Brenlwood
Com pan y.)
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