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TUESD?'V, FEBRUARY 14. 1911;
TAKT MAKING GOOD.
Thanks to the Democrats in the
House of Representatives at Washing
ton, the reciprocity treaty with Canada
will be passed by that body. When a
tote was taken yesterday on the ques?
tion of. whether or not the MeCall bill,
carrying but tin provisions of this
agreement, should have I mm cd i ate con - J
Fidei at ion, 136 Democrats and SO Re?
publicans voted for it. and 101 j
Republicans and 2'.? Democrats voted;
against it, the vote standing 1?C for it|
and 121 against It. Only six of the
Insurgents, or so-called Progressives, I
voted for it. "ml fourteen voted against
St. That shows where they are and
what they are?mere political pikers.
Without form and void, utterly useless:
to themselves and treacherous to their
parly as they are to the country.
After (his test vote had been taken
In the House. Champ Clark appeared at
the opening session of the Pah-Amc-ri
Pnn Commercial Congress, now holding
In Washington, and announced with
evident delight that the Administration
had won In Its stand-up, straight-out
fight for reciprocity. Yes. won by tho
almost unanimous vote of the political
opponents of the Administration in tho
House, and in spite of the unnatural
antagonism of the political friends and
party associates of the Administration
This is the most notable and at the
same time the most encouraging inci?
dent in the political lite of this grow?
ing country for generations. In this
victor:.- the Democrats have justified
Die coniidence of the people placed
In thorn at the late elections, and tho
President has established his claim to
the public favor, without regard to
party or section, for Iiis courageous
leadership;
More significant even than the vote
on t'c.t; McCall bill was a declaration
made by President Taft nt the Pail
American Congress. Champ (Mark said
"Spcahihs for myself, not for Prosh
Jent Taft or any one eise, I am foi i
reciprocity, hot only with Canada, hut
with :;U Southern and Central Ameri?
can republics. In fact, I'm In favor of
reciprocity w'th nil nations of the
earth. My principle is that honest
trade never hurt any nation."
Taking the words out of Mr. ("lark's,
mputli; "the last speaker and the next
Speaker," as ho described him. Mr.
Taft said:
t
"it is a great pleasure to be with him
In the promotion of trade in one part;
of (lie world (Canadah lie l? In ffttvor ;
of reciprocity in till pans of lite ivtirhi?'
and so it tit I."
Of course, as the President suhl,
there must, be a discussion of the
measures that are necessary to bring
about this happy condition of affairs?
this i* the w?ay we long have sought j
and mourned localise we found it not-- !
and there will he differences to com-j
pose, r.s to the right and most om'eiotil
measures to be adopted; but the Pres-j
ident. has declared himself in no tin- j
certain terms as to tiie desirability of
closer trade relations with all the
World; and out of the present situation
there will develop some plan or oilier
upon which all the sincere political
forces of the country Khal) be able tu
unite.
Yesterday was a great day for Mr.
Tntt, and ? rcr?at day for tin' Democ?
racy; and a great day for the country.
It was a bad day for the Progressives,
for Speaker Cannon, who ti led to knife
the President when he visited the Illi?
nois J egislHturc last Saturday, and for
tiie dunghill roosters of the Insurgent
cfhip, who can't stand the gaff.
\ rnrmi.r.sx \MICR1CA.
Dr. William T. IFprhrtday, of New
York, ah rvppr, student of lord and
animal life, har. fiouhded warning
that I'shouid be taken to hear! in every
State of the Union/' according to (he
Atlanta Journal. After extended oh
?er vat ion, he declares th*t unless there
If ? stay in tiie present ruthless tie.
ttruction of bur furred ami feathered
friends. America; in a few more doe
ades; wiii be well-high barren of game,
and that, the song birds win perish,
never to return.
The prevention of such a misfortune
our
from pra<
lieai fis wen as sentimental reaeohs,
Tho doctrine of conservation, now so
popular, applies not only t., the for
psts, but to their bird and animal den
techs.
' The value or'
tercats runs
They arf- t ho i
lye destroyers
pests; thai 1:
farmer. Long
realized iiiis fU< i
tnodoraiion In the
nnd wild animals,
appropriates largi
tho maintenance
whore hlrda may pi
irrls to agricultural lh?
into hilliiohs annually
st wuTchf ul and effect*
-r insects arid olhor
><nl tho Crojis of the
igo European countries
und have practiced
the i inugiiier ..? hints
oaietv. This is considered tasehtjjtl to
the Heids nnd orchards of that progres?
sive country.
The most active destroyers of insects
are sons birds. In preserving them,
we help the farmer.
? There arc few States which have
proper game laws, and Virginia is defi?
cient in this matter. Wise laws wero
proposed at the last session of tho
General Assembly, only to he rejectee!.
The next Legislature should pass a
practical and adequate game law for
this State.
HOOT'S WAKMNfS TO Tili": SOUTH.
Klihu Hoot, of New York, made a
Striking speech In the Senate last
?vcok in opposition to the election "f
i'nited States Senators by direct vote
?>f tin people, nnd. In the course of
?lls remarks, uttered several very stag?
gering warnings to the Southern Sen?
ators as to what the adoption of such
an amendment to the Constitution
would mean for this part of the coun?
try. When asked by Senator Bacon, of
Georgia, whether or not the Senator J
from New York meant to say that!
Congress would have the power to
annul the suffrage amendments of the
Constitutions of the Southern States,
if the Sutherland Amendment under
consideration in tho Semite should be
adopted along with the resolution pro?
viding for the election of Senators by
popular vote. Mr. Boot declarer.! that
he ha*l not the ' slightest doubt upon
this point, ami that he meant to place
the Senators from the South, and tho
whole country as well, on notice that
such would be the result of the adop?
tion of the amendment providing foi
the election of Senators by direct vote.
Immediately the Senator from Georgia
declared that the amendment under
consideration looking to this end seem?
ed to present too gucat a risk for the
Southern Senators to run.
\\'e were not as much impressed by
the warning of Mr. Boot as the South?
ern Senators appear to have been. Out
objection to the amendment of the Con?
stitution providing for the direct elec?
tion of Senators is not political,
or partisan or sectional. but
fundamental, nnd it was this
feature of Mr. Boot's speech that i
impressed us rather than his rescue
of the bloody-shirt from the innocuous
desuetudes Into which it has fallen and
its restoration as an active political
force. Tho proposed change In the
election of Senators, as Mr. Boot said,
is inconsistent with the fundamental
designs of the framers of the Federal
Constitution. They wished to malte the
Senate as much unlike the House as
possible, more deliberate and conserva?
tive and more secure in its tenure. ? The
Sehate," said Mr. Hoot. "Is constituted
to protect tin- American democracy
against it self. The f miners 'of the
Constitution reali/.cd that there should
bo si guardian of tin- sober second
thought "f the. people The proposed '
change only tends to make both 1
branches of Congress more alike." I
Senator Boot also was entirely right
in his contention that the proposed
amend mont of the Constitution is
liascil Oil the theory of the incapacity
of the people of the United States to
elect faithful ami honest lei: isla tors,
lb- suggested that the resolution
should read something like this:
"Whereas tho people of the United
States are incompetent lo elect faith?
ful and honest legislators, therefore be
u ?
KKSOlA'HD that the Constitution of
tie- I'nited States be amended by tak?
ing the power of electing I'nited States
Senators from the Lcglslntu res ami
vesting it In the same Incompetent
hands."
That appears to us to he the whole
situation boiled down. There Is no
reason, in sound politics or good
morals, in the proposed change in, the
manner of electing Senators. We do I
iit.t attach much importance to Mr.
Root's warning that tin- National
j Government would bo compelled to
take practical charge of the election
I of Senators If the amendment should
1 adopted. The "grandfather ? lause"
in tin- Constitutions of several South
Tin States and the other expedients
\ adopted in the South might be affect?
ed, and unnecessary excitement and
; trouble might ho caused by so-en lied
? redcrai management of Senatorial
J elections in the Southern States; but
|as the South has prevailed in the past
(against other and more serious at?
tempt s to regulate its political af?
fairs, we have not the least doubt thill
in any emergency that might bo pre?
sented the South would jib glad to
take care ? of Itself and its I'nited
States Senators. Wo come back, there?
fore, '?' ;i re statement of our position
on this subject. The objection to the
amendment of the Federal Constitu?
tion providing for the election of
Fnlted States Senators by direct pop?
ular vote is fundamental and hot par?
tisan or sectional. It is a matter of
principle, not a question of fear. This
is a distinction we should like to make,
ilid -landing upon the foundation upon
which this Republic was built we shnll
be secure from all the assaults of
j sectional statesmen and party spokes
t-UMTOH Me HM 11 AMI Till} (7,WI.
Silas MiiHrp,'.odilor of The Church?
man, Kew York. ialkcd to the Czar of
Russia last SnUtfday for nearly an
hour on the subject of a hotter under
stanrilnc bbiwoeh the churches that
would lead to closer lies and common
action; We have no doubt that tho
Czar was vcrv much interested, and
wc are sure that Brother McBce put
his best. American foot forward when
he impressed upon. Nicholas the desira?
bility of closer Intercourse between
Russia and the United States. Brother
McBec is also to have conferences with
Fr?? nil or Stolypin. Metropolitans An?
tony and Vladimir, S. M. I.oukinnuff;
chief procurator of the Holy Synod
anil Peter Iswolsky, former procurator*
Ml of these brethren arc said to br
very nine]) interested in the movement
16 brine tho churches tonretlior, \v<j
do not know, of couroo. all that, took
plnro between Brother MeBco and the
Czar and the Russian brethren, but wo
hope that lie took occasion to ?peak n
word for the .lews of Russia who htive
not been treated, surely. In u Christian
spirit. There has been nothing to
match the brutal atrocities practised
I upon tho Jews of Russia in all the
history of tho world und Brother Mo
j Beo lost his chance, if he did not
j plead with tho Czar and the Holy Sy
? nod for theso unfortunate victims of
Russian barbarity.
STILL KICKI.VG B15CAUSE UK is A
MKdtO.
Professor XV. E. Burghardt Dubols.
of tho Atlanta University, is still talk?
ing about race prejudice in the United
states. He made a speech to the
Twentieth Century Club in Boston the
other night on ?"The Individual Ne?
gro and Society." in which he said that
race feeling is not only tremendously
greater than it was ten years ago, but
that it Is increasing in every way. and
that unless it is stopped it means
i trouble in the United States, and in
other parts of tho world. He probably
hud in mind the feeling against the
negro "up North"; tho conditions down
South have not materially changed
and will never change. The negro
down hero will always be the negro,
occupying his own place, respected bv
his wlilte neighbors when lie is worthy
of respect, helped by them when he
deserves help, protected by law in his
rights to prosper by his own indus?
try, and yet always the negro, mov?
ing In ills own orbit and, when leCi
to his own devices, content with his
lot. It may not be so "tip North."
Dubols said to tho Twentieth Cen?
tury Club: "You do not realize how
far this discrimination goes In the
Northern cities. In the North of the
United States it is a uuestion with ine
whether I can get a meal at any time
of day or hot. It is a question of re?
fusal. Insult or trouble. Even In the
building where 1 live. 1 send my sec?
retary and have my lunch brought
down simply because I want to avoid
trouble." This Is probably not true;
that Is to say. it Is true only because
Dubols wants to take bis meals at
places which are reserve,] for white
customers. If ho would go to some
colored restaurant, or eating house
we have no doubt that he would bt
served precisely as other customers pi
these places are served and without
being refused, insulted or troubled
Whv should he exuect to be served j
where be knows he Is not wanted, and
whv should a dining-room or restau?
rant catering to white people bo ex?
pected to sorve him because he thinks
he is just as good as. or a little hot- j
tcr than, the whlto people? Doubtless,
lie is a better man than the majority
of the white men in Boston; but tor
some reason which wo do not under?
stand the Almighty did not make him
altogether white, and nobody In Bos?
ton or any whore else can change this
fact. He would not think it nearly
.so much of a burden if ho would only
look til it in 'lie right way, and hoi
try to make himself and his race what
they are not.
Dubols docs not think that segre?
gation will solve tho race problem; yet
that was tho solution which the Great
Creator designed when in making of
one blood all the nations of tho earth,
in His omniscience He determined the
bounds of their habitation. It is true,
as Dubols said, that the negro prob?
lem "is a great human problem." ami
the. men and women of this race should
he recognized as men. and women: hut
this does not mean that they are to
be extended any .special privileges or
advantages on act bunt of their race
Well-behaved negroes can always "gel
a meal at any time of day,' In the
South, without refusal, insult or trou?
ble, if they wijl only go to the places
where meals are served to this class
of customers. Wo suppose that it. Is
j the same way up North. "Why should
n negro object to eating with negroes
i yt a negro eating hause? How can
j he find fault with the white man for
not caring to eat with him so long ?s
lie does not care lo cat with people of
his own kind?
ATTEND Til RSI. j
To-night at 8:13, In tho Richmond t
College chapel, Dean Walter S. McNeill
of the law school of that institution,
will deliver the llrst. lecture In thn
series to be made this year by several
members of the collegiate teaching
staff Mr. McNeill's subject will bo
' Schools of Economics," to which ho
will bring a broad nnd Intimate knowl?
edge of the field, acquired in his resi?
dence as a graduate student at tho
University of Herlin No one -.nn fail
lib be interested In what the speaker
I ' i
will say, for his method of treatment
and ability as a public lecturer are well
known.
This lecture and those which are to
follow should be largely attended by
the people of Richmond. Realizing its
public function as a disseminator of
knowledge, Richmond College has
wisely Instituted this .scried of
public lectures, intended na much
for the people of the city as
for she students of the college. In
nn informing way, the members of the!
faculty will lecture on subjects to
which they will bring a breadth of
view and a rh greo of learning which
the average Individual cannot have.
HOMIhS FOH nif'I.OMATS.
I The Government is about to provide
fit residences abroad for its ambassa?
dors, ministers, and consuls. The
House lias lately riassed a bill appro?
priating (500,000 thti year for ton years
to this end. The measure is economi?
cal. The world has looked upon this
country for some time as being too
pour to provide such residences.
At present, the Government syiehds
more than $'JOO,000 annually for rent.
The bill provides that no residence, th?
ai tiding Giucn&a of site, shall bo moro
[ than $150,000. Jzi ten yours the ontlro
1 hold will be provided with siritablo
! houses.
I Tin-; xkiah-hkkh m isanci:.
j I'roni the Augustn Chronicle we leurn
tli.it tho near-beer dealers of Rich
mond' County, In which August? is sit?
uated, paid $29,200 In tho State Treas?
ury during the last year.
Thai indicates sufficiently tho failure
of prohibition in Richmond County, it
.simply means that with low licenses
and poor regulation and worse wjhls
koy, there are open saloons in A!ugusin
and its environs. Noar-bcor is simply
an euphemistic phrase applied to tycer'j
and whiskey. !
Prohibition in Georgia is about as
much of a success as Wultor Wellnmn's
trip to Europe, via dirigible;
as sisi'rz saw kicii.uoxu.
Don Seit/., of the New York World,')
spent .a night and part of a day in
Richmond last week, and picked tip
some interesting facts about this town,
which ho has repeated 10 tlie readers of j
The World in this fashion:
Tho war-worn Richmond Is no ntoro.
A splendid city is growing, with true
American rapidity and on lines of splen?
dor. IJcautlful now houses are plenti?
ful, and majestic business buildings
are cropping into the sky. Big steel
works clang and roar on Belle Isle,'
where the prison is now but a memory. |
Tobacco is doing much of It, but im?
proved agriculture and Intense; industry;
are doing more. Tbc South Is solid ?
in wealth and progress?and Richmond
Is still its capital. j
Uncle Sam still has some sentiment, j
Two sections of tho walls of the bid
I'os'i-Oflleo are being worked into tho
new one. now building, because they
were the onty ones that stood when!
Godfrey Weitzel marched into the!
Homing town in April. lv0".. The ar?
chitect has followed the old lines.
?Richmond now has 127,62S people,!
art increase of 50 per cent, in ten years.
Some -10^(119,849 folks rode in her Jim
Crow street cars last year. It is a cit> j
of churches. They arc well attended i
and a few days ago 5,000 members bl j
men's Bible classes marched in a street
parade. There are more than 11.300
Baptists In the town. The Presbyterian
population ha* grown considerably
within the year.
A colored chauffeur can be hired for 1
S2"> a month in Richmond. The uptown
railroad station Is called Elba.
Corn meal Is still a substantial ration, ,
and water mills grind the best quality.
The razor-hack hog is going, and the
Virginia ham promises to become a :
memory with the increase in thrift.
Razor-backs and sliif tlesshess haVo ah I
a (Unity.
If Seltz would go around more and
see tilings for himself, ho would bo a
Wiser and q happier man, ami likewise
a more useful and public-spirited cit?
izen. But lie makes one mistake in hla
thumb-nail sketch -..f Richmond In
what he says about the razor-back hog j
and its relation to what lie calls
"shiftlessness." As matter of fact, j
there Is no affinity between the two
things. The razor-hack is the king of}
hogs. He is not shiftless, but, instead,'
the most independent and self-reliant,
and industrious of bis rice. With him
to root 18 to live, and not t j root is to
die. No bars can restrain him; lio
takes more chances than the hogs on
'change in Chicago: he rushes in where
his fat and well-fed brother of the!
West would fear to venture; lie is a
bundle of energy, fleet-footed as the',
deer and cunning as tho fox, and when
lie has run bis race and is treated as
only creatures of his kind can be i
treated at Snilthfleld, Virginia, lie!
makes the finest eating in tho world.
Seit;: thinks, evidently, that because
the razor-back 5s thin in person, so to
say, that he is shiftless; but he is not.
If ho were running <*t newspaper in
Now York Iiis pace would ho lor. swift
even for Tho World, which comes very
near exceeding tho speed limit at limes.
Cooked at the Westmoreland Club, add
served with hominy made from Vir?
ginia corn, ground In an olrt-fpshionod
mill, tun by ah overshot wheel, fed by
a race overgrown witli mosses and
ferns, there is nothing within the range
of things worth rating to he. compared
to the razor-back, except for those who
like, to swim in grease.
A "tip" came from New York last
night that two young men had flooded
East Side boarding house keepers witli
Confederate bills. A former resident
of Charleston, now subsisting in Co?
lumbia, who was advertised ten ou
twelve years ago as "still using Con?
federate money." will be glad to learn
that there is one place. In this reunited
country where the "real stuff" goes.
The District of Columbia has asked
Congress for a good deal of money
this year?S12;S09,306 in round num?
bers?and as Washington is the seat
of the National Government, tho Dis?
trict should get the money. That is to
say. If tho appropriation for tho con?
vict settlement Is so securely guarded
that not one c<vnt of It can be expended
for the completion of the enterprise at
Belvoir. ne.-<t door to Mount Vernon
It Is hoped that the Virginia Con?
gressmen and Senators will look out
for that. Such things havo a way of
sneaking into an appropriation bill,
and it were bettor that tho District
should have no money nt all than that
it should have money for such a pur?
pose as this.
If the. Canadian reciprocity agree?
ment ho rejected by Congress an op?
position in this country will be aroused
"that will know no moderation," was.
the message delivered to tho Illinois
Legislature by President Taft In per?
son and' by iyort1 of mouth last Sat?
urday. That i the sort of thing we
should Welcome, but we should not
think it Is the sort of thing tho party
In power would hanker for.
Mr. _ Taft s luck appears to have
changed entirely. Only a few months
ago nothing seemed to bo coining his
way. i.ui now nearly everybody has a,
kind word to say for him.' At tho ses?
sion of the council of confederated
bishops at Mobile. Alabama, on Satur
day?a council composed of nccru
bishops from all purls of tho country
?Bishop Loo. ?ir YVllborforco, Ohio, de?
clared that tho President was not a
friend of his race. Bishop Turner. ?>1
Georgia, expressed tho opinion that the
negro has no rights in this country,
and that the "so-called .Supremo Court
of tho United Mates has always been
rubbing the negro of his rights, and
Congress and the President sit silently
by without saying a word." All of
which Is distinctly to Mr. Tafl'sy ad?
vantage.
Sunday night Frank Collyn. a Wright
aviator, broke tho world's night alti?
tude record by ascondlng 800 fect at
Savannah, Georgia. That was a groat
thing, hot only for tho aviator, but
for Savannah. If ho found the anchor?
age good up In tho air, tho Savannah
people might arrange it so that tho
aviators in that port during tho mala?
rious months could go up above tho
ilver to sleep instead of being com?
pelled to go ashore.
The other day ?10,000 was paid by a
man named Miner, of Chicago, for a
bull calf, which was a reckless waste
of moneys seeing that he could have
bbugnf, at the assessed rating, about
I,G00 head of cattle In Boanoko for
tho same amount of money.
The Savannah Morning News says,
commenting on the rumor that tho
Hon. James Bryee, the British Ambas?
sador to the United States, has been
offered tho presidency of Princeton
University:
"But why should Princeton wish fori
an executive head, when there are so!
ninny of its own alumni available?"
Well said. Why didn't tho News
mention as a possibility Stockton
Axton, who is not only one of the ablest
and most popular members of the
Princeton faculty, but a Georgian as
well?
Poulson is superintendent of the Ne?
braska Anti-Saloon League. The Sioux
City Tribune tells us about hi in. "As
all such superintendents, he seems to
he a letter writer also.'" He Indited
a letter to a member of the Logisla- I
lure from Omaha, Grossman by name,
and intimated that Grossman's olll
cial course was dictated by brewers;
When ho came into tho lobby of the
Legislature In the interest of so-called
prohibition Grossman saw him ai?u
called him a "liar." "cur," and a "con?
temptible pup." Then Grossman mash?
ed his face In and rubbed his^nosc
with the offensive letter. There was
no "soft answer'' about that.
Singular opposition met the com?
mission form of government Idea last
week In Galesburg, Illinois. The rail?
roads lined up their men, S to 1. in op?
position to tho adoption of the newer
form of municipal rule, and the plan
wuS defeated. 2.193 to ?SG. Pekln,
III , Farlbnult, Minn., and Apploton,
Wis., however, adopted the commis?
sion form of government. The pro?
portion of cities adopting this reform
to those rejecting It Is more than 3
to 1.
Howard Chandler Christy barely es?
caped membership in the Ananias Club.
Old Spottsylvanta must be a delight?
ful country, to dwell In,' for a corre?
spondent of the Fredericksburg live?
ning Journal admits that "l cannot get.
my consent to leave Spotsylvania, for
po where I may, o'er land or o'er sea
I am convinced that I shall never ueo
a better place until T sitrfit the New
Jerusalem." All of which lr. true as
we look nt it, but thorn wore some
"jolly-go-free gentlemen" in blue, coats
in Spottsylvanla in the sixties Who
found tho country anything but health?
ful.
The next Hbuse of Bepresentatlves
will he composed of 433 members, if
the new apportionment hill shall go
through. Why not moko It. a thous?
and? It. would cost more, to be sure,
but it must bo remembered that thla
is a country of over ninety million
people, and it does not. stand to rea?
son that so many people, should be ex?
pected to cor. along with so few "rep?
resentatives."
The Virginia Gazette is jubilant
over tho popularity which the Wit
llamsburg public, library enjoys a I
present. That is good, very good,
hut the Gazette ought to drop Into tho
State Library hero in Bichmond sorno
afternoon and sea every scat filled,
the young and the old Increasing their
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Times-Dispatch. No mathematical problems will be solved, no
coins or stamps valued and no dealers' names will be given.
Openers.
What Is the rule In draw poker in
regard to winner showing his hand!
Must ho Show the wholo hand or Open*
ni's only? POKEJlt
Rule G of the rules as laic] down In
"Poker?How to Win" Is that "if all
pass up to the player who broke tho
pot, the latter takes tho pool, and can
only b?- compelled to show the jacks or
better to break the pot. Of course. If
the opener Is called he must show tho
whole hand." The same book. In a
section under "Disputed Points," after
quoting rule fi, says: "Why should a
player hr> conipclled to show any morn
than enough to win the pot, If thero
Is no one against Dim?" lloyle says:
"If all pass up to the player who broke
tho pot, the latter takes tho pool, and
can only t.e compelled to show tho
.lacks, or bettor, necessary to break
the pot."
The Snjie Charity.
Is the plan of charity and benevo?
lence by Mrs. Russell f-'ago to give to
Individuals assistance after investiga?
tion? C. R. A.
Tlie deed of gift says: "Tho founda?
tion will not attempt to relievo indi?
vidual or family need. Its function i?
to eradicate, as far as possible, the
causes of poverty and Ignorance rather
than to relieve the -sufferings of thoso I
who are poor and ignorant. Tho sphere |
of higher education, that served by j
universities nnd colleges,; Is not within!
the scope of the foundation." Tho
foundation has already acted In tho
direction of playgrounds, the preven?
tion .of tuberculosis and suburban
homes for workiiiKmen.
flriiiiKcrn.
What was tho association known as1
tho "Grnngers," or "Patrons of Hus?
bandry"? W. T. K.
It was a secret organization formed
in Washington, D. C, December 4. 1S67,
for tbo promotion of agricultural In?
terests. Its object was to aid tho farm?
ers by enabling them to co-oporato and
purchase tho.tr supplies at first hand.
It was declared to be a nonpolltlcal
body, but its efforts to cheapen trans?
portation Involved it in a quasi-politi?
cal warfare with railroad companies.
.So liOiig.
Is tho oft used expression "so lonfi*
an Americanism? SDANG.
The Ixmdon Notes and Queries says
that It Is doubtless an abbreviation ot
tho old English phraso: "Ho long as we
are parted, take care of yourself."
''Horn me."
I contend that this expression in cor?
rect: "The hat I wore last year be?
came mo." "Became." I am told. Is un
grammatlenl and contrary to good
usage, and that "wan becoming" can
only bo used; If sneaking of tho
present, we .say, "something becomes
me," can we not then say, speaking
of the past, "something became ;uo"?
Then if in the present wo have, "It
becomes" and It is becoming." should
no', tbo past be "It became" and "it
was becoming"?
Am I correct, and what rule of
grammar covers this point?
X. T. V.
You are right. It Is grammatical:
whether it Is IdlomaMe, v.e doubt.
Shakespeare says: "Nothing in this life
became him like the leaving.'' Th?
verb. In this usage, transitive.
RESCUED FROM FIRE
WHEN TWO DAYS OLD
n> la >iAnauisn ni; foxtkxoy;
LOIID IIOUQHTON'S name was so
well known In tho United States
twenty years ago, ns one of tho
most popular and frequent visi?
tors to tills country, as a friend of tili
its leading public men and literary
lights, and as the greatest enthusiast
In Fngtind about everything Ameri?
can, as a poet, an author, an eloquent
speaker, and as a most, witty convor
Kirtlonallst, that there will bo many
people Jiere, especially of the older
generation, who will lie interested to
learn that another Lord nought on has
appeared upon the scene, to continue
the name of that, brilliant grandfather'
Of his. who tiled in 1S85, and a consid?
erable portion of whose memoirs are
devote?] to things American.
Young Lord lioughton made his en?
try into this world of Buffering on
Tuesday of'last week, and possibly by
way of indication that his career is
di mined to prove momentous, Crew?
House, in Mayfalr, the homo <>f his
pta rents, the Barl and CounteMif Crowe,
was partly burned down two night.-!
afterwards, the mother and tho bale,
being reScucd from tho Haines with
?some difficulty.
Lord Crewo is at prcse-nt the Secre?
tary of State for India, the leadcf
of the government in Hie House of
Lords, and bus been In turn Secretary
of State for tho Colonies, Lord Presi?
dent of the Privy Council; ioid in
waiting to Queen Victoria. Gladstone's
home rule Viceroy of Ireland, while
here In Amerlcttt" be was known as the
late Lord Iloughton's only son ami
constant companion, under tho name
of ''Robin Milne." Lady Crewo was
Lady Peggy Primrose, the second
daughter of'the Hurl of Hosrhery. Lord
Clowe's first wife v/as the lovely Sibyl
Graham, daughter of Sir Frederick
Graham of Nethorby, and a sister of
the Duchess of Montrosc. She died
after seven years of mprriage. follow?
ed shortly afterwards to the grave by
her little boy. and Lord Crewe's sorrow
for this d?ublp bereavement found ex?
pression at tho time in a very touch?
ing poem entitled "Seven Years." She
also left, him with three daughters,
and who, about the sanio ngo an their
stepmother, have been most Intimate,
friends from childhood.
Although Lord Crewo and Lady Peg?
gy Primrose have been married for
twelve years, yet their In every other
respect happy union remafned child
less until last week, when the long
yearned lor and anxiously awaited in?
fant w - born to Inherit his Earldom
of Crowe*, his Barony of lioughton. at
his very extensive estates, for all of
which, until last week, there had he-en
no heir.
Crowe House, the London homo of
Lord and Lady Crowe, which had just
boon redecorated and enlarged, in view
of tho impending coronation, and of
the expected birth of an heir, and which
has now been to a great extent destroy?
ed by I ho flames, Is a low pitched, wider
fronted mansion, with Ionic columns,
standing in tho midst, of spacious
grounds, the velvety lawns of which are
shaded by majestic trees, and cut off
from the busy traffic of Curzon Street
by a brick wall, fronted by a green
hedge. The latter, in eonneedlon with
tho quaint looking porter's lodge, all
covered with flowers and creepers, gives
the entire place a rural aspect, which
contrasts in rather a graceful fashion
with tho huge carved stone' palace of
the Due-boss of Marlborough, known as
: Suhderland House, just across tho way
I It. was formerly known as YVharncllfte
House, the home of the Lords of YVharn
c.liire, and built in the reign of George
i II., was in the Wharncllfl'o days, at tho
j end of tho eighteenth century, and
I throughout the greater port of the
nlncdeenth century, tho renelczvous of
everything that was brilliant In Lon?
don society, Its salons cnjbylng an in?
ternational fame. It was-sold by the
present Lord Whnrncliffo to Lore'
Crewo. about fifteen years ago.
Mayfalr did not always enjoy the
prestige which it now obtains as tho
most fashionable and'ultra-exclusive
quarter of London. Tn the reign, of
Charles II. It was the scene of a groat
fair and popular festival, held there
In the honor of Mny, in that month
each year. It was noteel In the seven?
teenth -and beginning of tho eighteenth
centuries for tho brawls anel popular
disturbances of which It became tho
scene every spring. These grow to ho
such a source of trouble to tho authori?
ties that early in the reign of George
III. the: fair was abolished. The name
e>f the district, he.wover. remains, nut
the garden of Crowe ' House and Its
magnificent old trees are about all that
aro left of tho days when the district
was wholly and truly>rural.
Dike ro many other houses of On
English urlstoci i< v. that of I.onl Crew?
had its origin In trade. No Industry la
old or than the manufacture of cloth,
und throughout the greator part of tho
eighteenth century, the cloth trade ot
\VnK< Held, One of the most prosperous
centres of commerce in the north of
England, was ? something very much
akin to a monopoly, namely, that of tho
Ml Ines. Hailing originally trout Derhyi
shire, they had been settled at \Vako
lleld since 1h7o, and by degrees Iiecam?]
nlllcd through marriage to many of tho
houses of tlit, unfilled and titled aris?
tocracy of Yorkshire. Of this Milne,
family, Lord t.'ro .ve in now the chief.
Cawdor's new Thane, who through
tho death of his father, succeeds, aa
third fail of that ilk. to his honors
and estates, has hitherto beert known
as Viscount Emlyn, ran for Parliament
three years without success, and an
captain of tint Carmarthen militia
artillery, saw some service during the
Hour War. II" is married to Joan
Thynr.e, a daughter of the receiver
general to the Dean and Chapter ol
Westminster, and a member of that
historic house (;i which the Marquis
of Hath Is the chief
Ho becomes through Iiis father's
death tho owner of Cawdor
at Nairn. In Scotland, where Macbeth
Is supposed to have murdered King
Duncan, while the memorable meeting
of tho Thane of Cawdor wlth'the throb
witches, took piaco on the "blasted
heath" In tho close vicinity of the cas?
tle. The latter is a gloomy pile, tlift
grim and massive fortress strongly
suggesting, by its gaunt and menacing
aspect, tho lie reo and troublous times
which Shakespeare lias pictured in Ids
most famous tragedy, and in an old
chamber of the castle tower visitors
are .still shown tho spot where tho
"stiver skin" of King Duncan was
"laced with his golden blood." Tt may
he added by way of explanation that
"Macbeth." Thane of Cawdor, on be?
coming King of Scotland through tho
murder of Duncan, resigned tho Thane
ship of Cawdor to the Caldern.
In the lifteonth century tho "wild
Campbells of Argyll" carried off Muriel
Caldcr, the infant heiress of Cawdor
Castle, and when she grew up, they
married her to John Campbell, tho
fourth son of that chieftain, tho Mac
Callum Moore. When Muriel Cnldor was
carried off by the Campbells as a child,
a piece of her finger was bitten off by
her nurse in order to insure her vir?
tual identification. Curiously enough,
thorn are. still a very largo number of
peasants employed and residing on tha
Cawdor Castle estates, bearing tho
name of Caldcr, This Is ascribed to tho
fact that after the abduction of Muriel,
the Campbells reduced the members of
I her dan to the position of serfs. Silica
Muriel'3 abduction, there has always
bc?Ti a Muriel in the family of tho
Campbell Lords of Cawdor, the Camp
i bells constituting a branch of that
historic house of which the Duke of
Argyll is tho chief.
A feature of Cawdor Castle Is thi
historic hawthorn. It seems that th*
original Thane of Cawdor was directed
in a dream to load an ass with cold,
turn it loose, and build the castle whera
it stopped to rest. The donkey halted
beneath a hawthorn tree, around which
I tho castle tower was accordingly
l erected, and tho venerable trunk is still
j to be seen in tho dungeon tower, its
roots spreading out heneath- the door,
and its trunk penetrating through tho
stone vaulting above. Against the wall
in this same dungeon Is the ancient
iron-bound oak chest which contained
tho gold loaded on the donkey's back,
and which was used to build the cas?
tle. Each year the Enrl of Cawdor of
Iiis day assembles his guests around
; th? old tree in the tower dungeon to
drink to the "Health of the Hawthorn"
?in other words, prosperity to tha
Thane of Cawdor.
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