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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1911.
HI.1)1 t 1". IT.
A matter which has been hanging
fire ice long is to bo considered this
week by the Council Committee on
Ordinance?. Charter and Reform. it
i?> the proposed ordinance reducing the
?xeossivo. allowances made to the Col?
lector >>f City T.ixes. Councilmcn
Lynch nnd Bollard aw leading the agl- I
tailor, for such a reduction, and it is
hoped thai they will keep at it until a j
satisfactory result has been reached, j
Nearly half r. year ago, Mr. Pollard
proposed a reduction in the fees of the I
Cltv Collector's office from live-eighths
to three-eighths of one per cent, of the
amount collected by the office. it is
shown by the city records thai the
fees for IflO cost tin- city ?11;'02"::?5,
and it. Is estimated that with the anno
ation of Manchester and the new assci : -
incnt the ofllep will cost th^ taxpayers
this year from fiSiOOO to Slfi.OOO tor
receiving taxes for the city. The j
same duties are performed for the State
by two or three clerks in the Treasu?
rer's office at about one-fourth the
cost.
The committee has kept the ordi?
nance for live months without hearing
from Mr. Pollard or Captain Cunning?
ham. The sub-committee to which the
prop.-irition was referred has evi?
denced no disposition m meet the
ir-snc. In fact, the failure of
the ror.untttee to art. on the
proposed ordinance has been equiva?
lent to Its indefinite postponement. Real -
Ding this, Mr. Lynch has offered two
resolutions, one instructing the City
Attorney to secure from th - next Leg?
islature a charter change abolishing
the office, and the other for Council ac?
tion in the Interim, putting the Collec?
tor on a definite salary basis of, $3,500
These resolutions should be swiftly
and unequivocally acted upon by tho
Committee en Ordinances, Charter and!
Reform and reported favorably without
deia> to the Council for (thai action.
The mailer lias been In the air long
chough. The time has conic to act.
The popularity of t/ie incumbent nnd
his personal tpitiiities should have j
nothing to do with the question.
In the first place, the entire dilice
is ijnrecessary and ought to be abol?
ished. By adding two or three clerks
to aiinther department of the city gov?
ernment, great economy would be j
brought about without the least disitd-j
vantage to the city. The bl?ce of City 1
Collector is superfluous.
Whether or not, however; liiere is'
agreement that, the ollioe. ran be dis?
pensed with, there must bo unanimous j
concurrence In the position that a re- !
Auction is necessary. There are many
men performing much more arduous, !
much more responsible, much more val?
uable services at S-'.r.tni the year than
the Coilectfii; ?w:ouldt perform at ?!l,T?0?_
und $?.,:.('.$ is h bo tit due-third of the
present income of the Collector.
Chairman M. It. pollard, jr., ,,f tiie
Flnancq Committee of the City Coun
??II. is gerieraily regarded as one of
the most conservative, fairest and most
business.-]ike members' of the legisla?
tive branch of the city government.
When he estimates that the salary of
the City Coilectoi for this year will
rnr.se from $13.000 to $15,000, it is safe
to say that lie has not ovorimot the
mark. He knows the facts about the
finances of the city, and his figures are
based on them.
One o! the miilri reasons tor the pies
ferit vigorous iiitack on tiie fee system
throughout the State is that tin- cits
fee officers, including the < ity collec?
tors, tire getting a compensation out bt
>!1 propbrlioh to the ktu'vices rendered
l-nd tn the compensation receive,! by
officers in smalit i places fur siniilai
tefviceSi
The City Collector pays \ \? ,.\. ,
clerk hire and 0111a c^p'ensH Tito res
Idue of the amount reudv^i'fior* |?|,
Si" '<wr teieb r.i 'I'-, t-i
figures as n basis r.f estimate, jiie i-t
Collector, after Pavl'tiu office i,,.,
Ihn
Trc
Die
officers.
City At tor
Die other >
Ho high a s
tvere th ore B?
mensurate wit
Is ihWitf-r of ?
tii? sen i ?. o :.
lector ar< no
Bible or vaj .
other Stat.
'Die duties ot
Isterlai and <
There is a.
Richmond for
economical at
government.
mon
red
toa'Hj of
n. natur<
cii
vnnee, hut it
o w ind go thai
the City ('.(>)
rcspon
as I hose
ofileors fender,
ire pimply inih*
>U? demand in
.I: f.!? tory and
ion of the city
du.
I'll!
is to take doth not
It is certain that tI
nlng that, cuuld bo m;>.
appear, l"it
ist begin''
o. the City
Council would be to reduco Ihc compen?
sation of the City Collector to n dofi
nlto and rcnsonnble llxod salary. If
the ofllcc were to be abolished, it would
be better for the city, but waiting the
permission of tbe General Assembly,
the nductlon of the compensation Is
all that pan be done at present. There
Is no justification for the amount of
the present allowance made to the City
Collector. Every reason Is on the other
side of the proposition.
The time has come for the Council
and its members to dispense with per?
sonal regard for the incumbent and
sentiment in this matter and put the
ofllce of the City Collector on a bus?
iness basis. Economy and Justice de?
mand it.
tue soi iii clearing through
Richmond.
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.? In the latter part of the year:
1907, when the winde United States was
enjoying an unprecedented era of bus?
iness expansion and prosperity, the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, of Now
York, became involved in financial dif?
ficulties and went into receivers' hands,
following litis great calamity, other
banks got into difficulties there, and
soon Southern banks were- notified that
Ihey could not withdraw funds on de?
posit in New York. As a result, we of
the South, who were largely an agricul?
tural people, and at that time getting
better prices than ever before for our
products, wore forced, without any rea?
son Of our own, into a panic caused by j
New York banks refusing to permit US
lo withdraw our deposits.
It was gratifying to nie to see from
a rcc. nt statement of the condition of
your Richmond banks that you now!
have more than forty million dollars
of deposits, an Increase of mote than
four hundred per cent, in ten years.
It seems to me thai (lie time has now
arrived when the banks of the South
should resolve to form a Southern
clearing House Association, and that
Richmond is the pit. for ii. and that
the millions carried by .on- banks in
N'ew York should be carried in Rich?
mond, and have the clearing lions-' there
clear through New York, with the re?
sit 11 that millions- could be saved lb the
South, and another Neu- York panic
would net materially nffcci us. Now
that the Southern Commercial Congress
Is soon to meal in Atlanta lo consider
the greater development of the South,
why not have your bankers and Cham?
ber of Commerce take up this great
question before that body and see If
some plan cannot be devised to put into
execution this suggestion?
VICTOR C. MeADOO.
Greensboro, N. C February IT.
Tills looks very good in us; but we
<Io n<d know how it can he worked out.
Till?, however, is the problem to which
the bankers of Richmond should giv
their retention. In France, there is one j
Paris; in Germany, there is otic Berlin;
in the United State.-. I hero is one New)
York: in all the world, there is one:
London, and only one. This is the view I
expressed by a wise man whom we
consulted about the merits of .Mr. Mo- J
Adoo's very attractive proposition^ and ?
ivc do hoi see how. in case of panic in
New York, the Southern clearing house
in Richmond would bo able to get Its
money away from the clearing house in
New York, which would probably lind
some wa> of bobling on to the South?
ern money, as the New York banks held
on to the Southern money they had
when the Knickerbocker concern went
to the wall in 1907.
There Is a gr^nt deal of money inj
Richmond?real riioncy, money made by
honest Industry, and money that should
attract io this town the. buisih'ess of!
the South. There is also a disposition
here to make Itlchmonri the financial .
and I uslnoss heart of tie- South. aml|
wc wish it were possible to carry but j
the McAdOo suggestion. II may be. j
we do not know, hut it is worth think?
ing about. Anything that will promote
!:i< development of Richmond is worth i
while, hot only for the benefit of Rich?
mond, hut for the benefit of the whole
South as well. I
THE '-<>! no: OF ST AH i'l v v'eiis. I
?'.-tar baseball players! as a rule, are;
born in tin- hamlets or country, not
in t'ae big cities." This is simply one:
of the depart nichts in which the excel?
lence and lioaithfiiliiess Of rural lifo
manifests itself. 1
It is an unquestioned baseball fact. 1
Eddie Coliihs, Eddie Plank, cjiief Ren?
der, Krank Baker,/ Jack Coombs, Cy !
.Morgan ami Jimmy Dygcrl are some of'
tlve Athletic players whit were born
in sin.ill towns.
Eddie foi'liis bist played lite game j
in Miiioridbi New York, on which fact |
that hamlet bases its s?le claim to
Iminortnliiy; Chief Render was born
in Braiiiurd. Minn.-sota Coombs hails
Dom l.e Gi'iiml. Pennsylvania. Frank
P.aker claims Trappe. Maryland, as his
iwttive h-aC: u>d it is more heath
than an> thing else. Tnp.--.cy iiitr'ucl
votes P; \\'cj|i:;e.i;.n, Ohio, while Cy
i .Morgan comes frbrp Fomeroy, Penn
! s; ivani.'t.
<>r ihe t'tibs. Manager Fiahk Chtiuco
; arid Orvde ov. i ti: ;,ie from Fresno and
I Yi.snUa, respectively;, these pli-ices' iie
ihg in Ctillftirhiii Frank Schult., is a
Cosi.bc.tohiio. Shcekard is from <\?
liOiibla. Pennsvivariii
.Miner r,ro'.\ ti
is froh? Roscd?lt?, Indian
'I'!
? I mlgit! bo multiplied indeli
Ihilcly: In l|uspba)i. as m other fields
Ol He roe effort and endeavor, flu
' count! v is holding its own.
rni: im \ Nil's < iti:i:??.
Iii recent issue of the Tradesman
appeared .the following statement of
1'f?HOtis why a citizen should liny in
Iiis home city. In one. of the ?-i11< a
?l i.lio smiiller class this motto lias
been posted ii> Blreei enrii and in iupv
in;--;>lct-.n-e shows:
i 1 MUY AT ilOMK -
j lici.uisi my interests are here;
j Ito.ausc tin- t'ouimtinliy that is good
enough for me to llVe In is good
enough foi pic to I>11y In.
lloeuuse I believe in trrosnellng
triisiiM >s wli.ii niy friends.
Hccause I \yant to sen the goods.
Hecutmo i want to g<". what i buy
when 1 pay for It.
Because my home dealer 'carries'' nie
when I nth run short.
Because every dollar I spend at home
stays ttt home and helps work for tlic
Welfare of the elty.
Because tho man I buy from stands
back of the goods.
Because I sell what I produco hero
at home.
Because the man I buy from pays
hl? part of the town, county and city
taxes.
Because the man 1 Buy from gives
value received always.
Because the man I buy from helps
support my schbol, my church, my
lodge, my homo.
Because, when ill-luck, misfortune
or bereavement conies, the man I buy
from is here with his kindly expres?
sions of greeting, his words of cheer,
and hts pocketbook, If needs be.
Here L live and here I buy.
1 BUY AT HOME.
DO YOU?
? Here are all the arguments in a
nut-shell. Answer them it' you can.
They apply forcibly to Richmond.
OS OI.il .I013 CA.XXtl.VS TRAU., J
Jt is reported from Danville, Illinois,
that "two enormous campaign funds
are alleged to he responsibly" fOr the
return of Joseph ?;. Cannon to Con?
gress in ioor and 1010." In 190S the
.Cannon barrel is said to have con- i
tairicd $00,000 for the Danville l-'lsr I
trict, and In 1910 Vermlllion County,
alone, the adopted home county of;
Mr. Cannon, for it must not be for- j
gotten that he is. in fact, a North j
Carolinian, is alleged to have absorbed
120.000.
Without vouching for tlie truth
of the stories in any- way, but
denying instead that Mr. Cannon would
be willing to spend so much money,
even it" be had it to spend, we should
like to know positively where ho got
it if he spent it? lie hasn't got the
money from his East Indian bequest
yet. didn't know, in fact, and doesn't
know yet. that he will ever get II, and
everybody has supposed all along that
be didn't have anything to speak of.
for he has boon in Congress for over
so long earning nothing hut bis salary,
and really not earning that, a lid if ho 1
spent $00,000 In 1908, ami JL'O.OOn more
in (910, the quest ion naturally arises
where did he got it. and why didn't
he stive it "for a rainy day," which
appears to be on hint at last, as we
were surd it would be if he should
keep on in his downward career. Where
did he ;ret It? Why didn't he keep
it? Who >;'>t it from him? What did
they do with it? Why is it that Illi?
nois should be so corrupt thai 1t must
be bought all the time for somebody;?
I
We know t'ta.t there must be excite- j
muni for people of the Illinois sort all j
the time; but why couldn't the North I
Carolinian be honest even if he do
live among thieves, or among people
who will sell their votes to the hlgli- I
esl bidder as if their votes were a i
commodity and not a high privilege?
We shall be sorry if the facts show
thai Mr. Can no n should go to jail in?
st odd of to Congress, even if it ho
true that the most of those in Con?
gress from the Northern part of our
country should )><? locked Up instead
of being permitted to make laws for
the rest of us who haven't yet been
caught; but we shall regard his iri
ca rcernt'on with Christian fortitude
and rather rejoice that his own adopt?
ed people have found him out at last;
It is encouraging, however, that there
should be objection in the present
Congress and among the prosecuting
attorneys in Illinois to farther activity
in the business of htiyihg votes in the
Danville District.
'Ill i: WORK OK COX Fill") KB vin
WOlf K.N.
About ten days ago The Timos-Dis- I
patch printed a very interesting letter '
from the Rev. nr. Pitt. Editor of the
Religious Herald j suggesting that all j
the Confederate soldiers write their .
personal recollections of the war, so
that they might, be preserved for the.
true historian who will be coming
alone, after awhile. We thought, that
the suggestion was :>. very good one, j
and that ti e work should be done and ?
done now while any of the thin gray
line are left among us. A number of
obi Confederate soldiers have agreed
that it is tl-.e thine thai should be
done. Mr. Philip !?'. Brown, who has
contributed several articles to Tho
Times-Dispatch, and who is a member
of the rt. E. Bee Camp, writes that he
thinks of writing his reminiscences of
th ? War and giving the .story to the
Camp, and we hope sincerely that lie
will do so <nie of ^lYo most gallant
Confederate survivors, at Portsmouth,
heartily approves the suggestion, but
reftiixcH' that it would be "difllctilt to
get oiii- comrades up to the writing
point." ami says: "I think if each
Camp would employ a stenographer
!"i their meetings and have the ex?
periences of its members taken down
In their own language it will iieconi
plish much towards carrying out. Dr.
Pill's idea, "and at tin' same time add j
interest to the meetings. 1 hope you
will suggest this plan as supplement- i
tif.v to your ?*n luublo editorial;''
our only purpose was to help in ?
preserving the story of the ^reat
struggle for Constitutional liberty as
told by those who look tin active part'
in Jt, and we hoped thai there would
lie unanimous agreement! as to the
value of the "recollections" which we i
nought in ibis way to preserve; but wo !
have just received it letter from Mrs.!
Norman V. Randolph, of the Con fed- I
erat.- Museum Committee, wondering |
whether i>r. Pitt and The Tlmes-bls
; Patch know of the work that "Ibis!
Committee has been doing along Hint I
line ;" the Confederate Museum." We ?
cannot niiswer for Dr. I'.tt. but we i
?an say for The Times-Dispatch that it
is fairly w ell Informed* as to what tho
women have done; that (heir work has
been don,- without reward or the hope j
of reward, and better done than if the ;
inen had attempted to elb it; but we j
do net quite understand why tlie old !
soldiers themselves should not add to j
the weaRl! of the material the women
have collected;
The Confederate Museum now has
one hundred bound volumea of the roc
ords of tho men who fought, contain?
ing over JVwenty thousand names. Many
of these - records contain only the
names of tho soldiers and their per?
sonal connection with tho service, but
many others contain "details'? of
their bnttlcs .and experiences in thu
field. This work has been done by Mrs.
James NT. Dunlop. Ch- '??man of tho
Memorial Committee, and well done.
Last year over ten thousand records
were collected by Mrs. Samuel Grlflln,
of Bedford County, and Mrs. Neoly, of
Portsmouth, and five thousand by Mrs.
Johnson, of Prince William County, to
be added to those already bound und
In the Museum. "So you see." writes \
Mrs. Randolph, "while the men wero !
thinking of tills work, the women of I
Virginia were doing it. If we had had
the S17.000 expended by the State In
the Military Records ofiicc, think what
we could hr - accomplished! Put this j
has been a.labor of love . 'th thoso i
women, and 1 wanted you to know it." |
Tlioy have done noble work; they arc!
always doing noble work, and they are
richly entitled to the thanks*and praise
and help of nil the men who have any
regard for the truth or history. Rut.
wo do not yot see why the suggestion
of Dr. Pitt Is not a good suggestion
or how it would conflict with the work
the Confederate Museum ha:; done and
is doing all tho time.
? The Con federate Memorial Literary
Society of Richmond has announced tho
publication of "A Calendar of Con fed- '
crate Papers." It contains full ab?
stracts of nil the war manuscripts !
which have been accumulated in tho I
last decade by the Confederate Museum '
in Richjnond, ?"and tints opens to the
public tho largest collection of Con?
federate material now existing outside
of Washington." This volume contains
live thousand unpublished papers re?
ferring lo many important events of Cue
war. among which are letters written
by GoriernL Leo. hitherto unpublished;
papers by Stonewall Jackson, etc., etc.
The table of contents shows what it la
and lmw valuable It Is from ? histor?
ical point of view, as follows:
Papers Relating to the Medical De?
partment of the Confederate States of
A merlon.
Papers Relating to tNo Richmond
Campaign of 1 Sfi-I: The Harrison ijoori. |
Pat.crs of Brigadier-General W. X. R. j
Real!. j
Journal of Charles K. Lining, ?. Si s.
Shonriiidoah.
M Iseollancon.s Manuscript s.
Papers Relating to the Trial of Jef-l
ferset: Davis: The Shea Memorial.
Exhibits Prepare,i for the Defense'
of Jefferson Day is.
Letters of J. vF. Mason to Jefferson
Davis.
Confederate War Maps.
Muster Rolls. Ret urns and Rosters.
Ante-Belium and Post - Bellum PapeTs.
PART TWO.
Bibliography of Some Confederate
Publications In the Confederate Muse?
um?.
The price of this bonk is $2.50. 11
contains 615 pages, and can be obtained
from Miss Manry at the Confederate!
Museum. There has never been a more
valuable collection of war records and
war reminiscences: but what Dr. Pill is
after, and what we think should be
made, is the preservation of the little
things of the Confederate soldier's life,
the stories thai were told about the
campllres or on the march or In prison
that have never yo| been told for pub?
lication by them, and that will never
be told by them except in the intimacy'
of their conversation when they gathor
fit the'r reunions. This does not mean
that Hie women should abandon their
splendid work or that any one underes?
timates what they have done, hut that
the things which the professional
writer of the day would not think of
recording should be preserved in some
shape for I he use <>f the writer who is
to come after us, and who, with the aid
of such stories, would be able to live
the days that are dead.
CODDLING THE CRIMINAL*
Charles ?'. Nott.t'Jr., points out in al
recent magazine article the .safeguards
v lii'. b life law throws around persons j
accused of crime. in 1 OOP. MO I cases
of felony were disposed of in the coun?
ty of New York.
In oriier to ascertain what the
chances were that out of (his large
number an injustice could have been
don.- to the defendant, Mr. Nolt ana?
lyzes the figures of the record. The
grand Jury in that year dismissed
1,312 cases. P aving ?,059, no defend-t
a tit as yet having been wronged. Of 1
these 5.059 cases the district attorney j
recommended Co- discharge of the de?
fendant or dismissal of the indictment
In 92S eases. leaving 1.131 cases
and no defendant wronged. Of
these 41131 eases, iS] were disposed of
In various ways (such as hail forfei?
tures, discharges on writs of habeas
corpus, etc.) favorable to defendants,
leaving 3,G 0 casus, and no defendant
wronged. Out of these 3,650 cases.
2.r.t"i2 defendants pleaded guilty,
leayitip LOIS cases, and still no possi?
bility of injustice to a defendant; inj
r.sr. out of ihesc 1,0IS cases, acquittals,
eil he - by dire'*, ion of the court or by
verdict, resulted; leaving only if,:;
crises out of fi.lOl in which any mis?
take against i defendant could have
been commit ted. This residue of 103
oases left from G.iot cases was inva?
riably presented to juries under in?
struction- by the court that twelve
men would have to lie convinced as one
man. beyond a reasonable doubt, of the
il. fehdahts' guilt before convicting;
and in each of these 103 eases twelve
men Tvero so convinced, and returned
a verdict 11r guiity. The law further
p'roiected 'he rights or'ttrbSe defend?
ants. \Vhilo the Stale was disallowed
an appoaf in any of tho 5S5 cases In
which it was successful, each defend?
iint convirted had a perfect right of
fippeal, and l'>! appeal:! were, taken
liar-iv the year, resulting in eleven
reversals of convictions, and leaving
4.52 eases as the tinal result. In which
there could- have been any chance of
injustice to a defendant. Of theso 45
defendants a number rccoivod suspond
ed sentences, and to tbo romulndcr an
application for oxocutiVe clemency or
action is always opon.
This simply shows that tho tendency
of our courts Is to throw every pro?
tection around tho supposed criminal.
If anything, our system loans too much
on the side of tho person charged with
crime.
TIIl-J ULTKCTS OP TOBACCO.
Tho Montgomery Advertiser, a some?
what partial and prejudiced authority,
thinks that it is strange that "after
all these years since Sir Walter Ra
lclgh introduced tobacco Into civiliza?
tion from tho American Indians, mod
leal authorities are not agreed upon
its effects on tho human system." They
havo never como to a unanimous con?
clusion as to whether or not Its mod?
erate use is injurious to the systoni.
The effect of alcohol is a point upon
which there is more likely to be a
meeting of minds.
During tho session of a recent med?
ical congress in Washington, two well
known physicians declared that exces?
sive smoking caused angina pectoris, a
grave affection of tho heart. Several I
other physicians of equal rank In tho
profession denied this. No conclusion
was reached. Tho problem Is yet un?
settled.
Tho latest statistical inquiry Into
the offect of tobacco has boon con?
ducted by Dr. Georgo Moylan. of tho
gymnasium of Columbia University.
Ills statement is likely to destroy some
prejudices. Ills experiments dealt
with 22? students of whom 115 or
about 53 per cent., smoked. In the two
years during which the experiment
was carried on, the smokers grew morn
quickly und put on more weight, as
a whole, than non-smokers. Dr. Moy?
lan, nevertheless, thinks that this may
be explained in part by tho fact that
the smokers on an average were eight
mouths older than the non-smokers:
Wlilie the smokers had tho advantage!
in physical gain, tho^on-smokers had
a distinct advantat;?; in scholarship.
Fifty-six per cent. of all varsity
athletes at Columbia are smokers, as
compared with 52 per cent, of all tho
students.
Dr. Moylan. summing up his conclu?
sions, says that ho does hot wish to
defend tobacco, adding:
"There is no scientific evldoneo that
the mode rat o use of tobacco by
healthy, mature men produces any
beneficial or any injurious physical
effects that can be measured,
'"There Is tin abundance of evidence
tha/ tobacco produces Injurious ef?
fects on certain individuals suffering!
from various affections, 'persons with |
an idiosyncrasy against tobacco; and
all persons who us0 It excessively."
The neutral quality of tobacco, so
far as health is concerned, seems to
be borne out by tlie fact that the sale
uf tooacco is increasing annually at a
very great rate.
XO EXCRP'tTOXS.
C. II Williams, of Smlthllold, candi?
date for the State Senate from Isle ?
of Wight, Nansemond and Southamp?
ton. ga.vc out an interview In Norfolk
a few days ago on the fee system,
though he said that ho was unprepared
to state- his position on the question
in* all phases.
According to the Newport News
Times-Herald. Mr. Williams said that
lie w?s "in favor ?f a modification of
It ("the fee system >, such as would
place tlie fee jobs in the bigger cities
and counties o? a salaried basis."
Asked this question, "Would the
modification affect tho fee officers
of Isle of wight, Northampton and
Nansemond?" Mr. Williams: said, "No.
it would not."
This statement is given to show
what, in our opinion, is a great mis?
take on the part of those who really
would attack the fee system. It will
never do to pass a law abolishing tho
system which will contain exceptions.
Limitation of the working of the prin?
ciple i.; out of the question. If tho
representatives from Isle of Wight,
Southampton and Nansemond counties
try to except those counties from the
rule, so will the representatives of tho
other ninety-seven counties of Virginia.
There must be special rights to no
county.
It v ill not do for legislative candi?
dates to take the position: "I am for
the abolition of the fee system, ex?
cept ;is t.) its operation in this county."
Such ii position as that will mean that
nothing at all will bo done. This idea
of excepting the legislator's own coun?
ties smacks too much of currying
favor with and winning over the otll
cers who now are enjoying the fruits
of the fee system.
X clear, unequivocal, unambiguous
position against the feo system is i
what Is needed now.
A dinner was given by President
Taft the other night to the Speaker
of tlie House, the same being the vote
buying Joseph O. Cannon, of the Dan?
ville District. This was the last din?
ner of the sort that will ever be giver,
to him', but what about the dinners
to Champ Clark? Suppose he. should
keep on fooling with such delicate
matters as the Canadian agreement,
how is the President to get out of it.
now that lie has sot the custom of giv?
ing a dinner to the Speaker of the
House?
A real Rembrandt was sold In New
York the other day for $70,500. The]
Times notes that "the interest was evi-1
dontly .more particularly hi' the. prico
than In the picture." Yet New York Is
said to be a great art centre.
Mr. Bryan thinks that if a Southern
man is nominated for President in 11)12,
ILoko Smith should be the man. This Is
What ho said at Atlanta last Thursday,
and he added: "I will work as hard for
him us he did for me on the occasions
when I made the race."
Daily Queries and Answers
Address ?11 coioainnlcatiemo for this column to Query Editor,
Timoe^?wnatoh. Wo mathematical problems trill be ?olved, uo
coin* or stamps valuta and no dealer*' names will bo filron
linier? of Nut in u?.
Which 1b tho propor way to address
mi envelope when sending a letter to
liiu i um;i via u. uiiuuii t ......
The President of tho United States
should bo "Tho President. White House,
Washington, D. C"; tho King of Eng?
land, "Iiis Majosty Tho King. London.
England"; Emperor of Germany, "Ills
Majesty, tho Emperor of Germany, I
Perlin. Germany"; President of France,
"Monnlour tho President do la Republic
Francalae, Purls, France."
To Re Noturallxed.
An alien comes to the United Stutes
during his minority and lives In tho
country of IiIb choice for ten years con?
tinuously; does he. In order to become
a cltlzon, have to go through tho sumo
form as ono who has jimt landed from
a foreign oountrv? FOREIGNER.
If tho alien did not fllo a petition to
become a oltlzon beforo ho became
eighteen years of age ho will have to
go through the same form as any other
alien, except that he may apply for his
second or final papers two years after
declaration and making proof that he.
lived at least five years continuously
in tho United States prior to applying
for the eecond papers. ,
Tbc Snnil-IllnM.
Is the sand-blast that we see clean?
ing stone buildings a new invention?
How does it work or what makes it
work? MECHANIC.
The building-cleaning apparatus is a
portable machine for producing and ap?
plying the gand-blast, which was ori?
ginally Invented by Oencral B. C. Tllgh.
man, of Philadelphia, and submitted to !
the Franklin Institute in 1871. The
Invention was designed as a means of
cutting or engraving stone, glass or
bard metal. Quartz sand In a hopper
is let down through a tithe with a
line, prifl.ee, and a blast of steam or air
from a tube surrounding the sand tube
driven the stream of sand against tho
object operated oh with neatly the
velocity of the steam or air jet. The
propelling jot may bo steam released
from a boiler at a pressure of SO to
300 pounds per square Inch, or air from
a swift fan flower, such as a 30-lnch
fan revolving l.soo or 2.000 times a
minute. In tho early experiments, a
diamond was easily made to show
wear, and n hole f'~ inches In diame?
ter was bored through a tV?-ihch block
of corundum?nearly; as hard as the
diamond?In 2f> minutest. Paper or
gelatine resisting the cutting, may
nerve for. patterns in carving -hard
materials. Resides its later use for
tho ruler
W. W.
cutting away tho .stalncfl surface of
buildings, tho s?nd-blas/t has been cm
ployed for a groat variety of purposes,
such as removing scale from castings,
boring und engraving or polishing
stone and glass, decorating buttons,
making pottery, refacing * grinding
wheels, and making printing blocks.
The Discovery.
PleaSO glvo a brief account of tho
Discovery, by whom sent out, its mis?
sion and various trips. F. G.
The Discovery was a srnull ship un?
der the command of Captain Georgo
Waymouth. Urst sent out by the Hast
India Company, to tlnd a northwestern
passage to China. She sailed with the
Godspeed from the Thames May 2, 1G02,
intending to make the coast of Green?
land, but the voyage had no Important
result, though Waymouth probably
paved the way for Hudson's discovery.
In April. 1010, the latter sailed In the
Discovery, and entered tho strait
which bears his name in Juno. Karly
in August he entered Hudson Hay. Ho
spent three months in exploring it,
and in November the vessel was frozen
In. In June "of tho following year
she was released, and shortl" after a
mutiny occurred. Hudson ami others
wero set adrift, and were never again
seen. The Discovery was taken home
by the mutineers, and two years after
this she was again sent to the North?
west with tlm Resolution, under com?
mand of Sir Thomas Button. He dis?
covered Nelson's Itiyor, which he called
Port Nelson, and several points. In
1015 the Discovery set out with Wil
i Ham Bollln and * Robert Bylot, rfttd
again In 1610. In both these voy
apes many important discoveries and
explorations were made.
Old French Tnlr*.
Will you kindly give me Home in?
formation regarding the cent Nouvelles
Nouvelles ? X. x.
Tho cent Nouvelles Nouvelles was
an old French collection of tales, first
I printed In folio, by Yorard. without
date, from a manuscript of the year
1156. The cent Nouvelles Nouvollca
are to all intents and purposes nroso
fabliaux. They have the full license,
of that class of composition, its spark?
ling fun, Its truth to tho conditions
of ordinary human life. Many of them
are taken, from the work of the Italian
novelists, bib ail are handled In a
thoroughly original manner Tho Stylo
1p perhaps the best of all the late
mediaeval prose works, being clear,
precise and definite, without tin- least
I appearance of baldness or drynCSB.
EMPEROR WILLIAM
BEING CRITICIZED
1JY LA MARflttJISE Ii|3 1-<?NTi;.\0V.
EMPEROR M'ibiJAM has been milde
the object of a good deal of dis?
paraging comment in tlie Ameri?
can press during the last two
weeks by means of comparisons be?
tween King Georcro's manner >>f pun?
ishing, his traducers l>y the ordinary
laws of libel and the Kaiser's appeal
to the mediaeval laws of lese niajestc,
In tho case of anything that ran be con?
strued as disrespect to his person or
to his acts. In this connection it !:>
mentioned that during the first ten
years of his reign a thousand years bf
imprisonment had been Imposed by tho
German tribunals by way of punish?
ment of tho various eases of lese nia
JcSt ? brought before them.
This is not fair to Emperor William
^Jt Is hot Bufllclently known tbat penal?
ties for lese ma Joste are Inflicted not
only upon those calumniating him, but
also upon everybody guilty of th>
Slightest disrespect to the twenty-odd
petty sovereigns of Germany and the
members of their respective houses. If
a careful list of the charges of los*
majest? brought before the German
tribunals during the twenty-three
years of the Kaiser's reign were to lib
drawn up. It would be found that tho
large majority of them are instituted
at the instance of these petty sove?
reigns ami by the members of their
families, and that relatively few have
been brought before the courts at the
instance of the Emperor. Kor Wil?
liam is ptiperlor to them nil In the pos?
session of a very strong and modern
scpse of humor, In which thev are la?
mentably deficient, and. moreover, he
i.c in rnanv respects extremely up-to
date
Lieutenant .lohn Lowther, of the
Eleventh Hussars, whose engagement
to the lion. I.ilah White, elder daugh?
ter of Lord Annaiy. has just been an?
nounced, is the heir to his brother's
baronetcy of Lowther, and grandson
of the late ami blind Sir diaries Hugh
Lowther, who died in ISO I, at the ad?
vanced ape of ninety-one.
For centuries the Lowthers have
been prominent in Westmoreland. In
Cumberland, and in Yorkshire, taking
their name from the many streams of
water that run through the woods ?>:
Lowther Park, in Westmoreland, I?ow
tber meaning. In Anglo-Saxon, "clear
running water." Peerages were sev?
eral times created in favor of the Lie?
ther family, and as often became ex?
tinct. In the eighteenth century the
Viscount Lowther of the day was raised
to the earldom of Lonsdale, at the In?
stance of Lord Hute, the unpopular
minister of George III. This .lames.
Karl of Lonsdale, married Lord Bute's
daughter. When he died childless, in
1803, it was found that he had left vast
possessions to a very distant kinsman.
Sir William Lowther, of Swilllngton,
In Yorkshire. This Sir William Low?
ther was immediately created Earl of
Lonsdale. and thereupon surrendered
his own estates around Swilllngton to
iiis younger brother John, who was
created a baronet by George IV.. and
who was tho great-grnndfpthrr of the
young subaltern of Hussars, John Low?
ther, who Is now marrying Miss White.
Perhaps the best known member of
this so-called Swilllngton branch of
the house of Lowther was the Bight
Hon. James, or "Jimmie" Lowther. of
Wilton Castle. Redcar, Yorkshire, who
sat In one of Lord Boaeonslield's cabi?
nets as chief secretary for Ireland, and
who was more conspicuous a H^ure on
the turf than fie was in polltios. In
fact, when Lord Beaconslleld appointed
him as minister for Ireland, it was re?
garded as one of the great Tory pre?
mier's characteristic jokes. Jimmie
Lowther turned out. however, far bet?
ter than was expected: for his fame
and character as a sportsman appealed
to the sympathies of tho Nationalist
element in Parliament, and It Is no
exaggeration to assert that there, was
more friendly feeling between tho
Irish secretary's department and tho
home rule party during his tenure of
oflicc than under any otber administra?
tion, whether Liberal or Tory. He
never tired a shot in anger or In spart,
never made a bei, and never smoked
a cigar. But he was a devoted at
tendant at Newmarket and all the prin?
cipal race meetings, and for many
years was not only steward of tho
Jockey Club, but was likewise, in his
private capacity, always called upon to
act as arbitrator In difficulties, whether
of a sporting or of a social character,
llo had a classic and Johnsonian style
of writing and sneaking, which was
characteristic of rneTSritish aristocracy
In the early part of the last century,
and was not afraid to call a spade a
spado, or to use strong language on
occasion. Vigorously opposed to grand?
motherly legislation in every fonm. ho
was nevertheless a staunch churchman,
and never missed attending church on
Sunday.
Let me add that it is the. Lord Lons?
dale who was the son-in-law of tho
Marquis of Bute, and who flourished In
tho last four decades of the eighteenth
century, who is still remembered In
Westmoreland as "The Wicked Earl."
and not, as so many suppose, the elder
brother of tho present Lord Lohsdale.
Ho seems to have been more eccentrlju
than evil, and iriiteli of his oddity may
have been due to .1 grout Borrow In
hin lifo, namely, thr prcmat ire death
f?r a poor but lovely girl with whom
ho had become Infatuated. She was
a farmer's daughter, and after her
death he caused her body to bo em?
balmed and preserved In his library
at Lowther Castle, that he might con?
tinue to contemplate her beauty. This
and other peculiarities led people Id
ascribe to him all kinds of evil, or
which ho was probably g illtless Ld tl
tradition- in West morel a nil sayj in?
deed, that Ills wickedness continued
after his death, and that his body ob?
jected so strongly to bo buried that
it actually hustled the officiating cler
gj man at the funeral Moreover, when
he was finally entombed lie inn tic it
his business to annoy and Insult nil
the other occupants of the graves In
the churchyard, driving over them with
his phantom coach-ahd-slx, dancing
fandangoes on the tombs, playing cards
and carousing on the alt.::- of the
Church, and carrying on generally like
a bold, bad baron of the feudal rig* -
lint it Is (obi. with a sigh relief,
how one night, when he was trying t 1
frighten some one over the edge 01 tl.o
elllTi a shepherd rolled a ^reat Stone
on the top of him, ami the peasantry
point to a large ro~k, known by the
name of the "Wallow Rag," as Lhq
stone which holds htm down, except
on certain nisrlits of the year, when
j he Is said to visit Lowther Castle In
his phantom equlpage-and-six.
Marlborough House, by the wish of
Queen Alexandra, has 'been restored
to very much the same condition as it
was when she previously lived there
for thirty-fight years as Princess of
Wales. All her personal bo! anfing.'*
from Buckingham palace and Windsor
Castle have arrived there, and are
bring placed In the positions assigned
them; while a number of works of art,
curios and .'ine rilijna have been dis
i patch",i to Marl borough House from
I SundrJnghatii; This week sin- is to visit
^Marlborough House for purposes <>'
inspection, and will find everything in
npplo-plc order. She will not. how?
ever, actually tak..> up her residence
Hier.- until she returns from her forth?
coming cruise in the Mediterranean on
board the yacht Victoria and Albert,
in time for the coronation. The privat?;
apartments of Princess Victoria at
Mallbo'rough House are in close prox?
imity to those of Queen Alexandra, and
overlook the beautifully kept gardens.
(Copyright. 1911. by the Brent wood
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I The Fisheries Commission Report.
j To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
I Slr.-'-We are indebted to The Times
Dispatch of February 1) for a portion
of Hie annual report or* the Commission
of Fisheries for the year ending Sep?
tember 30, 1910. In your editorial,
"The Fish Commission Report," of Feb?
ruary 15, you (piloted the words from
j said report: '.'Until residents and po?
litical factors will accord honesty of
purpose to oyster officials and support
! fliem In their plans for resuscitation"?
j making this exprcpslon applicable in
1 all the oyster country, when you Will
1 see bv closer reference the above1 ex
i pressloh" was intended only for Mob
Jack Bay and York River.* T think it
I Is but right that the other sections
should not have this uncalled for and
! unwarranted and untrue charge
brought against them. The. report has
very much more in tho Indictment
against Mobjack Bay and York River,
and the oltielals dwell, It seems, with
peculiar emphasis on our section. Th<
charge is not true, and if the Commis?
sion of Fisheries fail to sustain the
indictment, then let tho Governor ac?
cent resignations, which certainly
will be in order By reference, to tho
I report. 1 think r am right.
J. N\ STB BBS'.
I Woods Cross Roads.
Make this Bank Your Banlt
State and City
OF RICHMOND.