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/.? secotid-claiB matter undor ?et uf Coa- j
traaa of March 3. 1ST9.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1911;
?rill-: v ah * nun in thxas.
Twenty thousand inen have' boon or
j'crcd to Texas, und the armored cruiser
squadron, consisting of at least four
of. the lastest and but-rtshtinsesl ships:
in the Navy, ha* been ordered to Ctuan- t
ton a mo. There will be two thousand j
marines with the ships; and plenty more
within easy call, thus making the]
United Stute- forces Immediately
available tor active service in the Held
not far short of 25,000 men of war.
fully equipped for fighting, and "nary
an enemy" in sight. Kyer so many
explanations have been made of this
sudden demonstration. one story is
that it has been undertaken "for the
protection of American and other for
(ign properties in Mexico," and tin
other is that it "is designed chiefly for
its moral effect." and is ''likely to act
. .' i support t? the Diaz povcrnhient."
The Army and Navy Departments -<t
Washington have tried to nuke the Im?
pression that .his movement of the
soldiers and sailors of our reunited
i dun try Is intended only as a punt ma?
noeuvre; but the strategists on the out
: ide are far too clever to credit any
stich story as that: 'it was learned
to-day." said one of Hie newspaper
scouts hanging about the Hanks of (he
on-advancing host (we do not know who
lold him about it. ' but lie certainly I
heard it. as nobody could mrthc up a |
story like that, just sol, "that the
troops .ire equipped with ball cart-1
ridges." which is a sure sign that it is j
intended that they .-hall shoot up some- I
tiling. Then thirty*six companies ofi
const artillery have been pressed into
service as infantrymen. and that
'?looks like business," to be sure. i?.c
rides, "it is unprecedented to hold hi a ?
noouvrcs at this lime of year"; they '
are generally held in midsummer, und!
that it: regarded as "significant"; and.
"in addition to all this, the present
announcement of manoeuvres differs
absolutely from the course that the
Wat and Novy Departments have pur?
sued on former occasions. Their plans
have ordinarily beer, laid months ahead
"nd have been the subject of the widest
publicity;" It was rather mean, of
course; that the Army and Navy au?
thorities should have kepi Iheit plans
quiet and sprung this surprise on the
country, it is not the way we have been
tie ustoiued to flghting in lit lit country;
but now that the cat is out of the bag,
und the defences about New Vorl. an I
nt Hampton Ho.ids, the "two most im?
port int points of defence on iht .Ulan
tic coast," have been stripped of their
artillerymen, the Commander-in ?( 'hiid
should mke a clean breast of his reul I
intentions and relieve the terrible strain'
that has bcVn placed on the American
imagination/.
Still another suspicious circumstance
shout the whole affair is that the ap?
propriations for the. Arm,- and Navy
have run low, and the small appropri?
ations that have been made for the next
fiscal year will not. ho available before
the first of. July, and here wo have thisi
expensive demonstration for the pin
pose of creating "a deficiency which
v. ill have to be supplied by a Demo?
kratie Iloutc of Representatives'''
United Stater- people are said to have
Invested $i,o??,?OO,6oO in Mexico, a
large British concern has complained j
bitterly to iir- Government about the I
depredations of the Insurrcetds, and;
the United States, w hich is at tin- us J
policeman for the yVcsterh Htjunisphc'reU
Intends that ilu Monroe Doctrine sliail
and must he obeyed, and ever so niut-b '
more of. the samt son of stuff and mm
sense. All that is certainly known i'sjj
that the United states are pouring an ]
?tmy into Texas;, and United States
ships of war have been sx-nf to Huau
lanamo, and that is enough to make tho
blood of every jingo in the country
fairly tinslr. and every Army contrac?
tor reJolee in the prospect of good pick'-'
ing<<. and ever; pcht'ion btionioy con?
gratulate himself upon tin- chance of
another service hill for the hrave sol -
diert^ and sailors who have been ordered
to the Mexican frontier
Th^ almost startling quickness with
which this demonstration has been un?
dertaken would iippeat tr. disprove the
reflections made upon the military, t.'li
clehcy of the United States by Captain
Richmond Pearson Hvh.-on and other
alarmists, who l|a\e been beating the
drp*?-s^-i?t\d spreading the news that
slnVoKt any sort of an enemy would
find this country absolutely unprepared
for war. Mexico i said to have ben
-lilting .up . v. 1th Japan? i iafeij at 311
altogether unprecedented rate, and
every Japanese iH supposed 16 hr .1
fighting men, even if ij< appear t.. i.?
onlv a cool-. 01 vi idehoi ffrid when
these little folfowH,.'f'o>irl'iip hub Toxhi
at 'he. rate of ten tho... :riM] ., day
and armed with ball <?:> ttldgi |>i fhiit,
and are told that mere .-.:< , rriilfioh
or so of;: other equally lit n ivho
touid be tlirdwn Into the heb] ,,. i|iiiek
order, and millions more \\ lliesp
Cittiic from, Ihcv : 1 ic-;- come t ? coli?
elusion that tho Vrtitc<l States is Hot']
Chin,i or Korea. j
The surest sign that thori i to be no.;
lighting !n Texas is tliat Major-Gcherol
j Leonard Wood lias net gone to tbe (
t iron, and 'hat nobody lias yet organ-j
I ised a regiment of Rough Riders. Tho,
iiibaj gratifying thing about it. regard-'
e.d from tin- newspaper leaders point!
view, i> that Dorothy Arnold will b<
Illustrated hereafter, ami until this
fcienr? is over, oh one of the inside j
pages. Another thing that will occur.,
to tli.' authorities is the unmilltary and
unpatriotic way \vc have in this coun?
try of giving away all of our plan: of
attack or defence to (lie enemy, if there
wer-, any enemy sight. Making war
in the newspapers is 'really hoi the
liest nu t hod of making war: yet we
must insist that there shall be no in |
terforenee with the liberty Of tin
Press!
TUM 13 LECTIONS MUST HE HONEST.
W ithout minimizing for a moment I
tin danger of the enfranchisement of ,
a la ige body of negroes as the result i
of the strain and stress of a contest
j
over liquor, or over sonic other ques?
tion which might arouse Intense an- .
tagonism, and without excusing those,
registrars who so' far forgot them?
selves as to violate the- spirit of the
Constitution, The Times-Dispatch
would interpose a word for sanity and
clear vision of the situation. Deiiuh- i
elation of tii,> Lynchburg registrars is
easy; is it hoi better, If.Sti little inbre
difficult, tr> work out a reined) .'
In tin- first place, it was intended
by the Constitution builders that the!
registrar should wield considerable'
power, (hi no other basis can an un- '
dcrslanding cl tiiso ho successfully
opi-rated: for, dropping all pretense,
the purpose of lite Democratic party
in Virginia was to disfranchise every
possible negro and to keep en (he
rolls every possible white man. The
registrar was expected to excrclso
discretion to I be extent of making it
dllllcult, or ivc might say practically 1
impossible, for a negro to <;iiul!fy. and
it was expected that lie should make,
allowances for while mm so as to get !
their names on the books.
Nb body of men charged with such '
varied duties as fell tu the lot of the i
Constitutional Convention of 1901 can]
think of everything. The loophole was j
left by thai body for the registrars to
do as thpy pleased ill the matter of
choosing between the races; no one
foresaw that the power would be abus?
ed in contests over the sab- of liquor,
or the issuance of bonus, or in any!
light whore feeling runs high.
N'or can the Legislature be justly
blamed for falling to enact a punhh
hieiil for registrars wlm place on Hie j
hooka ih" names of nu n who huVu not !
complied with the mandates of tili? i
suffrage clause of the Constitution
Only recently, in the storm of locht
option contests, has tbe. danger up
pea red; and. in fact, it was not beforo
the- public to any extent until the re?
it nt litigation oyer the result of tho
Lynchburg liquor election As Mt.
Speaker Byrd pointed out in hi:; New?
port News speech, hi ws tire not en?
acted until 'he reason for them ap?
pears. As tin- do ma lid lor a lav. to'
punish registrars has just arisen, n
is sale to say (hat the .desired act w ill1
I
le- passed by i he next General As- i
suinbly. That'much may bo regarded
as settled
A wrong cannot be righted umii it
i-4 a wrong. A crime cannot be pun- >
ished. until it has been committed.
Wholesale or retail denunciation of
the Legislature is unjust, unfair ami j
unreasonable.
.lodge Christian pointed obi in tn. ?
Lyiiciiburf! decision thai .barge of
fraud bad been jnado cither in <h
proof or in the pleadings. The 'hlrys."
astounded by ti e change of sentiment,
sough! to have the election set aside
upon a technically ?revealing a ser?
ious case unbss checked, it is true, but
still a technicality. The learned Judge
could see iio siitllcient ground upon ;
whlcli to override the will of the peo-;J
lie VetftiG properly cliaractisriaed
Ibi work til Mi - registrars In permit -
ting registration without application
Ih^.lho WouliPbi voter's hand writ lug j
its "Ignorance and negligence" There'
was hothiitg to slioiv who profited by j
this procedure, end the probabilities j
that both sides' registered everybody ]
lhey could
Nor i ? it fair In Hume such mistakes
or. on- side or -, u . other. .Somo of the
Ly.nehhiirs i'egistrfirjs arc, said to have
-been oh llie \\-\" side, When the
negroes were registered in Bristol
ilhri'hg the local option campaign, of,
l'.oC. llje.V y. t i e |iMI on th< book- by
.laities W. Moit. a "dry" lender; whose,
j lioii" iv no on.- has f-vcr questioned. !
! The iii-:,l Legislature Should and j
.Will providu suitable punishment,
j without the necessity for hysteria, for
jan.. stich mistake* in the future
SAINT PATRICK.
Next week, wherever there i.s a loyal
: Irish lent, the greilt deed;: of St.
I Patrick will be celebrated. It has
j been ehxlnied Ihaj he was born in
j Scotland; it is certainly Know n that
j ho Weis not horn in North Carolina,
and there Is sonic doubt as to his ex
act. hirihplace; but now comes Dr L'va
March Tappan, a former teacher in
the Worcester (Massachusetts) High
. !--'-hi.'oi. vita this statement in''her
; book; "I'.Dropean |-l,cro Stories:" "A
few years before Al.u'fe invaded Maty.-'
a hoy w i.- born in Lhgland, probably
on . tht vS'fsteih Coast, who w as to be?
come Ho famoiu St. Patrick."
Thai would be almost chough to
make Our Patron Saint turn over In
hi.- grave (t has been enough cause
the hoard of trustees of the Worces?
ter school to plan for throwing lr.
Tap).aii's liobk out of the school. Dr.
Francis A. Cnder wood, a leader of
i in- Hibernians and the Knights of
RObei'l i.uiiiict. and likewise a member
of Hu- beard of triir.teesi has declined
his intention to n ah.- ;, light against
the adoption o| the book as a text
book, (inu^we hope that he win tfuc?
cccd. When Dr. Tappaii was asked
about It, she replied' that "although St.
Patrick tutu lit hove been horn in Scot?
land, ns some historians say. Scotland
?>v:i;i then Known as Bnglnhd." Thut
ought to stir iip all the^Seotsmcn. and
between them and tlieir Irish neigh?
bors, common en use should be made
against suc.li a text book as tliis.
Besides, what had Alarlc t.. do with
Hie matter? Why should he have been
brought in as a third und wholly dis?
interested party to such 1 controversy '
us this1/ it has been claimed that St.
I'a.trick was really a Presbyterian, but
ibis contention we shall nut press until
we s<-c what is going to happen to Dr.
Tap pa it. All that we know or really
? He foe h; that St. Patrick was a great
and good '.nan; that the world was:!
belter while lie lived and labored in it. j
and that it has been growing better
;'ll the ilme since ho do .1 because he
lived.
a DKKi'i.v soi.i;.u\ THOlH.WT. ]
.1 lidgo Krauels f. Lowell, of the
1 nit cd Stsites Circuit Court, died in
Boston suddenly several days ago. He
is well spoken of by ail lii:.: neighbors
as a just .iudgc, au ?ble man. eon- j
sclentlously devoted to his duty and
possessing t.iie public, confidence. Tho j
Boston Herald prbitli a large plolure j
or Judge uciwcli with this descriptive.
line: "United States Circuit Judge,
frfend of Colonel Theodore Itoosevelt.j
who died yesterday." j
It looks as if that were dragging the i
Colonel in by thp cars, but wo are glad
that the Herald explained in this way:
who Judge Low. 11 was. feu it shows
among other tilings that Colonel Theo?
dore l'to?tieveil's friends must also die:
thai even 1 he jfaci that a man in u \
friend of the Colonel will not save
his life As soon as tin: people gen
? tally caii ho apprised of the fact that
not even friendship and acquaintance \
with the Colonel will stay the- hand
of Hit last Great Destroyer, they must
reach tiie conclusion that even the
Colonel himself w ill finally go the way |
?>f Alexander and Ctiesar and Napo?
leon ami Rutherford I'.. Hayes.
TWO >I?Mtl3 IMiOVIUlSl) KOH. j
11 was reported In Washington nil
Tuesday that Congressman Tawnev, of
Minnesota, would be appointed a liieih-;
her of the Interii^Uonul Joint C?hinils- 1
slpn to investigate questions concern
ing the boundary waters between the!
United States and Canada, An appro-1
prkition of $7>>.000 is contained in the ;
sundry civil blli for ibis coinniis.sion j
to be expended in salaries ami generali
expenses. There an to be three com-1
liilsslonerr. Air. Tawney. 11 is reported,',
is t?.i l>e mdc ..f them. Senator V'artir. j
of Montana, will be another, and Krank !
S. St rector, of New 1 fantpohlre. ,for- j
iherl> ."National Ke publican Committed
man from tliul State, will be the third.
Tawney and Carter lost out at th*j
late elect ion, but this International
Joint Commission will enable the
President id continue them on ihe pay?
rolls of H:e Coverninc.ilt
li writihL appear thai sonic of thi
"lamc docks" ai least are to be pro?
vided with very comfortable swim
mine pools. Llut here again it seem- j
to u.- the President is milking th>.
mistake of creating an olliec - holding
ciass. Ii Tawiiey and Carter were the'
alilest men in tie- country and there,
wen: no others available for the ser?
vice of this joint commission we could j
iiiidcrsiuml rer> well why Mr. Tali
should regard ii his duty to appoint
them, 'out it would seem further that. .
in a coiintrj of f'0,000,000 people, o:* j
soi most of who'a are not'in the pein
I en I la ry or in the lunatic usy ium, it
might be possible for the President
to lind oilier men of Ins own political
way of thinking equally competent tor
the service assigned the.-e wortiiy
v '?1
gerillt-then.
IS HAil.lCV. Uli WAS HA I L13 V ' '
? "To be, or not lb be'.'" l>> hot the
question at all. The real question Is,
l ? lie or was lie'.' the same being Joseph
W'eldoh Bailey, of Texas Bearing as
long as he could "the thousand natural
shocks (hat flcih i.-. Heir to," "the whips/
and scorns of time," "the proud man's
emittimely, 1 he; pant's of despised love,
the insolence 01 cifllcc and the spurns,''
in a moment when his heart was bowed
down by weigh! of won he jumped at
the conclusion that he could not such
furdels beat and grunt and sweat, und
sick led o'er with his native resolution
lie determined to take his quietus with
something less painful even than a bare
bodkin, even with a letter ..f resigna
IIon of his seal among the might:.. No
j sooner t his damnation of his taking off
than, like most suicides doubt less, be.
ought to reconsider"" his impetuous
tied, Hie weather being cold and
I threatening on the outside, by taking
? it back.*
! N'o'w comes the Washington edrres
! poll dent of the New York Run, who
maker his living by deciding constitu?
tional '.-sues, with the statement that
there is no "reniging" in this scut of
I game, and that Bailey who was. is not.
li- couldn't resign and immediately
unrosign. Ills resignation was a
wholly personal matter. It was "my
feat." "my resignation," "mv" affa'r
lie did no' say in his letter to the
j President "f Ihc Senate, who w ould
110I have anything to do with it. Hint
I am taking so much of Texas us 1
represent out of the Senate; but that
I give up "my sea*." and following
tin precedent of Gollnc y. of Kentucky,
ciie.i in Hind':. "Parliamentary Pre?
cedents." and the case of Whittemore
(tin name sounds very like that of a
Yn nkec carpetbagger who tu mod up in
.South Carolina after ilte Croat Incen?
diary burned Columbia, the Sun corhes?
pendent holds thai ' the right of re.-ic,
nation Is purely personal to a member,
: .! when he litis exercised this rlyht
lie becomes ipso factg 110 loiger a
member." Thai is to say, adapting the
fMes Home Baking Easy
Absolutely Puve
Tho only isakisiep powtMar j
mada tfrvm Roy asGrape |
Cream of Tartar
m ALUM.WD LIME PHOSPHATE
in use of Goldsmith to the exigencies *>f
the present matter?
When brave old Bailey .-loops to folly,
-Nnd finds too late thut rules betray,
What charm can soothe bid melan?
choly -
Wh;it art can wash Iiis bluff a way- !
The only thing thiii can stive liim.
wc are told, is the fact that ho formal
ofileial record has been made of bis '
resignation, although ills letters to the
President of Iho Senate and to th-:>
Governor "f Texas have been published
far and wide, and the Texas ScnatO
adopted a resolution by a voVc of 20
nyes t" ?*) hoes requesting hin! tu with?
draw Iiis resignation, uiid the Goyerhov
of Texas appealed in both branches of .
the Legislature of that tjtato stating'
that be bad declined to receive bis j
resignation. It would seem that there.
is unite enough of ti record to provo i
that Mr. Bailey did resign, if anybody
cared to go after it. and it might bo !
well for the purpose of removing any |
cloud upon his title io a seat in the j
Senate either for the Senate, which
has the right to determine the quali?
fications Of Its members (see ihn ru- j
eentlv decided case of Senator Lbrlnier, i
of Illinois* or the Texas Legislature,
now in session 10 no I upoii Bailey's j
ease; trie Senate by resolution, or the
Legislature by re-election. Many im?
portant questions will 'bo considered
by the Senate at the extra session, anil
it is riecessarj that tin' distinguished
Texan should Know whether he is a
Senator by right or only by chance.
It is reported by The Sun that "Mr.
Parley's withdrawal of ins resignation
is only temporary, and that it will be.
renewed after the Legislature adjoUinu,
which will glw Governor Colquilt the
appointment of his successor," But if
hr i., really put now, ns: Rqiiio of the
constitutional lawyers think, another
resignation will be merely a work of
supererogation. The first thing for ?
ihr Senat.. t.> du in the "surrounding
clrbumstances;" as the Colonel would i
say, is to determine what Bailey's
status is now. Is lie or was he'
: 4*
ittit ivi;i i:i.i.i:u s rcxci.isil PltKAClb
liJIL
Pour years ago the Lfifth Avenue
Baptist Church, of Mow York, brought
the Lev. Dr. Charles V. Aked all the
why from ISnglnud to till the oflicc of
pastdr. lie eanic with many "advance
llotlces" and was much trumpeted af?
ter he began his ministry in New York,
not so inueli because lie was the best
Bapti.-t preacher, this country has
ever known-?John A Broad us, of Vir?
ginia, liatill Mauley and Richard Full?
er, .lames P. Boyee and scorea of
other Baptist ministers of the South
were fur --iipcrioi to Dr. Aked as a
preacher, judging by tho reports wo'
have seen of hi-, pulpll utterances. As 1
matter of fact, Dr. Aked Immediately
attained distinction in this country,
because he happened to bo called to
the pastorate of .lolin D Rockefeller's
Church which, of course, makes a
difference. lie has always been spoken
I of since he came to the United States
us V.I oh n D. Rockefeller's preacher;"
and lost Sunday morning he told his
people in New York that he had 're?
ceived a unanimous call to the IHrst
iJongreghtlbnal Cliiirch. e>f San Fran?
cisco, and hat] hoi been able to 11 ml
j any gpod reason why ho should not
i accept When Ik came to New York
' he hud an idea tlmt becuuse the rich?
est man in the u oriel is a niemb?*v of
'<he Fifth Avenue Church that he would
; be able to sprcail out tn ;i big way,
: have a new Church cd I rice, and
; initial .- larger enterprises, but ho
; confessed last Sunday that "so far as
we can ^ce to-day there is no future
for this Church or my ministry.'' Af
, ler saying this Brother Aked gave tho
Fifth Avenue congregation leu Jays
j in which i?. consider the situation be?
fore in should fay deuhltcly whether
I he would accept Iho. call to the Pacific
Coast or hot, end Mien be concluded
j with these word.- "Le t ihosc who love
I me pray for me (hat 1 make make no
mistake through erring judgment, and
i for this church that it. may both In?
terpret and accomplish the ' purposes
of Jesus Christ, our Lord."
It would look to a disinterested ob?
server ;,i this distance that the best
thing f<?--tho-M ifth Avenue Baptists
lo do is to let Dr. Aked go to tan
Francisco to the Congregational
Church, io anytvhero else and any
oilier association he may like. Tho
Fifth Avenue Church in New York was
established, wc believe, long before
Dr. Aked was horn, and with its re?
spectable an.) useful past, wc are in
vlhi<d to think that it will be. able
to gel along in the future. with?
out bis ministry, if our dear brother,
John D. Rockefeller; would like tho
services of an able, devoted, unselfish
minister for llui church of which he
happen:! to be .i member, we think wo
could be of somo assistance to Ulm
tu lud King a wise choice,
Tho trustees of the Church have ac.
[ ccptcd Dr. Akod's resignation.
TIM.\(i IIP Mit. TAUT.
When -Mr. Tali goes to Atlanta this
week he will he entertulncd at the Uni- I
versify Club, in that town. ?'Atlanta's
Hew and flourishing; social organiza?
tion." Wo have no doubt that he will
be uuivh pleased with tills a licit lion.
Th<- Constitution suggests that 'the
Taft reception at the Club should draw
together a congenial host of. spirit.",
calculated to appeal to lli^e president
in the direction of his Hncst attributes
atsd Hieals," and because, as the Con?
stitution again says: "While he has
I many times declared that a college edU
leiiliph Is* not Indispensable to the jilgh
, est type of success, he has stressed
jits value as supplying that symmetrical
equipment inct'i-tfrsiitgly demanded with
the growing complication of our social j
!machinery." It Is all the mure, impor-1
taut, therefore, in vow of Mr. Tuft's
wen understood attitude on the sub?
ject of collegiate instruction, iliat lie
should attend this reception and that!
iie there should be met by "a congenial
1 host of 'Spirits.''
'('lie President will doubtless Ik- so
much bcnetiled by such association that
he will feel Inclined, after the reception
is. over, to go out to til rant' Park, and
. there, "discarding1 the unpleasant top
I Ich for those breathing fragrance, and
searching for the Haltering platitude
instead of the raucous and inhuming
ti ul.-m." take courage from "those re?
vivifying and tranquillizing Influences
i hat dwell where man has mingled his
amplifying magic with tho riotous de?
signs of the Clod of Nature," And hay?
ing thus put himself in touch with
that "symmetrical equipment, Increns-I
Ingly demanded with the growing com?
plication of our social machinery." Mr. J
Ta?t can go on down to Augusta and 1
play golf.
WON T ?UK.Ci;iVK" TUE tULUMJh.
Judge Norman G. Ktttrell has de?
clined to serve on tho reception com?
mittee which will meet Colonel Theo?
dore Roosevelt when ho visits Houston,
Texas, next Sunday, on the ground
that the Colonel' incorporated in his
writings certain erroneous statements
about Jefferson Davis. When Mr. Davis
called the Colonel's attention to tho
fact that these statements were inac?
curate and did hi in grout-injustice, the
Colonel refused to make correction or
response, but was reported to havu
said: "I will have no communication
with Mr, Jefferson Davis-." That is
reason enough why Judge Ktttrell
should decline to t-tjrve on a reception
committee appointed to welcome htm
to the town of Houston; but the Judge's
id.o i has been taken on the.committee
j by a Colonel?Colonel Jacob V Wal?
lers ?on tiie ground thut the Colonel
had the name of Mr. Davis restored to
Cabin John Bridge.
If there are any other members of
tin- committee who would rather not
serve, or who would like to have fioine
excuse for serving.-ii will probably" be
recollected that when Mrs. Jefferson
Davis- died the Colonel sent a bouquet
jof flowers to be placed on her oofhn.
i Wei bellevo that Mrs. Davis wrote to
[the Colonel; more than once probably,
asking him tot? correct tho misstate
mentis made by him about her husband,
j and that he declined to do eo. But
c olonel Jacob F Walters has not for?
gotten; surely*; that when Mrs. Djivis
j died Die Colonel sent dowers to be
placed on her eollln. It is by such little
attentions thai In- gains favor with
the people who forget.
I St rang*--1 hi rigs, are happening all the
time in this great country. A Mexican
Indian woman was arrested in New
York the pthcr day for inarching up
anil down in front of St. Patrick's Ca?
thedral carrying a banner with ro?
il gi oils inscriptions and exhorting men j
and women to repent. On tho same
day down in Louisiana the Mayor of
Pinevillc was shot in the back and
killed and the murderer was actually
captured and lodged in jail.
Tho lion William Jennings Bryan
was in Boston tho other day to speak
to the Civic Club of that town, and
In trying to dodge political question^
he Is reported to have said: "No, 1 j
am nqtVa candidate. I have stated j
that I am not a candidate and do not j
expect to he a candidate.'' There are
I lines, however, in the life of every
people -when strong and devoted men
are compelled to yield to public pres?
sure, and it may be that the conditions
will bo. such when the next National
Democratic Convention assembles that
Air. Bryan will be regarded as the
most ^available man to lead the party
We may bo sura If he shall not be
nominated in 11)12 he will be nomi?
nated in IMG!
President Frederick w. Hamilton, of
Tufts College, preached a sermon last
Sunday evening In which lie.?declared
that, in seating Senator Ldrinior, the
Culled States Senate, "has done the
most astoundlngly fatuous thing that l
have ever met in my study of United
States history" In the opinion of
Dr. Hamilton, all the mischief in the
world arises, not from inherent vice,
but from a faulty moral code. But
j what does it matter? If Dr. Hamilton j
I is right in his theory of what is to
happen alter this fitful fever is over,
It does not make much difference how
faulty the moral code may he. as
everybody Is to be saved anyhow.
Make this Bank Your Bank
National
State and City
Bank
OF RICHMOND.
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Address all communications for this column to Query Editor.
Times-Dlepatcb. No mathematical problems will be solved, no
|^ coins or stamps valued and no dealers* names will be given.
< '/mill .foil?. '? \
Ho.v should one apply for work on
the Panama Canal? K. O.
Tin? isthmian Canal Commission has
reeontly lasued tho following:
P.v sons who may intend to seek em?
ployment on tlio isthmus will avoid un?
necessary expense and disappointment
by addressing a' written application to
the isthmian Canal Commission, Wash?
ington, D. C, and remaining In tho
United States until they are teudered
an appointment. Under present, con?
ditions there is but little likelihood
that any man who goes to'the Isthmus
at his own expense and on his own
Initiative will lind employment there.
Thumbs,
in the gladiatorial contest? In Rome
did not "thumbs down," contrary to
public opinion, signify life, while
?Thumbs up" meant death'.' J, 13. S. j
Alden's "Manifold Cyclopedia" says:
"When cue of the combatants was dls- j
armed or upon the ground, the victori
looked up to the IDhtperor, it present,
or to the people, for the signal of death.
It was formerly thought that the thumh
raised meant his life should he spared, I
and the thumb turned downwards I
meant death. Now it seams agreed that
to dos? down the thumb was a sign of
approbation, to extend it ot disapproba?
tion."
Dtathn.
What is the number of deaths through
railroad accidents yearly'.' S. 12. I.
In the United States the records from
ISPS to 1 OOP. inclusive, show the hum
ber'of deaths from ?.850, the lowest, to
Il,8:t0, the highest, in any ope. year.
The number from that cause in 1?09
war. J>,722.
Joe Clitic
Can you inform me if Joe Clin? . a
lightweight boxer, of Pittsburg. Is ?oa
Cllno or the boxing name, of Allison
I Preise? B. B. B.
Joe. Cllno In not fighting under nu
assumed name. Ho lives In Bast Pitts
burg.
Poem of the Sen.
Who is the author of a poem in which
occurs the line: ,
"As a woman loves a man. so I lovq
tho sea"? SUBSCRlBBB.
Gerald Gould In "The Sea Captain."
COUNT THUN WILL BE
GOVERNOR OF BOHEMIA
MY I. A MARUl ISJ; UK l ONTUNOY.
ARGiH ??KB FRANCIS FKRDJy
nand'e Influence in the affairs of
the Dual Empire, or rather that
of Iiis clever yrlfe^ the Duchess of
Hohenberg, will he seen in Die appoint?
ment of Count Francis Thun to the
post of Governor of Bohemia, which im
formerly held, before becoming Pririie
Minister of Austria. For ho la a Czech
of ?te Czechs, the one man perhaps in
all the Dual Empire who knows how
to maintain order between the waning
factions of the Czechs and tho German:*
in Bohemia, and who when Governor
did not hesitate to proclaim a state of
siege in Bohemia, with the object of
impressing, not only on tho Get maus,
but also on hi* fellow Czechs, that at
any coat the law must be obeyed. He
has long since abandoned ills tdvas of
Bohemian independence as complete as
that of Hungary, realizes that Bohe?
mia's hope lies in its connection with
AUstrla und in the Hapsburg rule, and
mokes no pretense of concealing ills op?
position to the over tuet easing uemuuua
ot Hungary for complete equality of
indepenuonce, such us Austria herself
possesses.
The acceptance bw this tall, bulldog
faced, determined-looking statesman
of ihe oflice ot* Governor of Bohemia
is prompted purely by patriotism, and
a desire \r, respond to tlm appeals of!
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, wiiose
control of political affairs is becoming
more and more pronounced.
The count'divides his time between
his palaces in Prague and Vienna, und
his ancestral castle of Tctschen, which
is one of the Kibe gates ot Bohemia;
The ancient castle is perched on a crag
of rock, and in Its gardens arc over
OUO varieties of roses. The castle play?
ed a great role in the seventeenth and I
eighteenth century wars. The family
chapel stands high on a hill, and is
visible lor miles around. But the burial
place oi the family Is in the Lorotic
'.'hutch, on the market place ut Tets
chen .where for several centuries all
the members ot tho grand old house of
Thun have been laid to reel.
Lady Anne Blunt, whose inappropri?
ately nairiod house. New Buildings
Place, near, Shipley, In Sussex, was
partially destroyed liy tiro the other
day, is the grandchild of the celebrated
Lord Byron, being the only daughter ot
Ada. the only child of the poet, to
whom ho addressed iu many of his
loveliest verses.
New Buildings Place is a very pic?
turesque old manor, which dates from
the reign of Charles 11., when it was
built by one of the Cargill faintly. The.
Carglll who ow ned New Buildings ,
Place in the reign Of James II., side 1 i
with him in the Bevolution, was creat?
ed by him Lord Cargill at St. Germain?
the title being denied recognition by
the British government?and sold hie
ancestral estates to an ancestor of
Wilfred Blunt, in order to avert their
confiscation; It Is n queer place, with
stone Hoot:;, all sorts of hiding places
in the walls und in the enormous chim?
ney macks; a.nd is of course equipped,
not with one, but several ghosts.
Wilfred and Lady Anne Blunt make
their principal home when hi England
at New Buildings Place, maintaining
their Aral, stud at Crabbct Park, also I
in Sussex, on the Brighton line. Their |
winters thoy Invariably devote to
Egypt, where they have a beautiful
place, at Ma la rich, outside the walls of;
Cairo, and close to the site of the!
sacred ireo. still in existence, in which
the Virgin Mary is asserted by tradi?
tion to havo successfully concealed her?
self, with her infant, when pursued by
thp soldiers: a spider having quickly
woven its web over the entrance of
the hollow, so as to convey tho impres?
sion that no one could be hidden in?
side, while at Matarich the Blunts
don Arab dress, and live almost entire?
ly as Arabs, restricting their associa?
tion, so far as is possible, to tho natives,
being on intimate terms with the Khe?
dive, whose principal champions in
England they have always been.
Ever since Wilfred Blunt retired from
tho diplomatic service., over uhlrty
years ago, he has devoted himself to
the study of Oriental life, the taste for
Which is shared by his wife. Speak?
ing Turkish and the various Arab dia?
lects like natives, they have traveled
all over Arabia, in native costume, liv
ihg on native food, and establishing'
the closest kind of friendship with the
various: Sheikhs and Emirs. Their hold
op the good will of the latter has been
strengthened by the great popularity
which they enjoy throughout the Mos?
lem world, by reason of the advocacy
liy Wilfred Blunt of every Moslem
cause against tlie white races and thfi
Christians. He lias repeatedly defend?
ed in "The Nineteenth Century." and
other English Reviews, in the London
["Times." and in other organs of the
British press, the cause of the Sultan,
the cause of the Moslems in India, tho
cause of the present. Khedive and of
his grandfather, old Ismail. In fact,
i Iiis enthusiasm In their bohatf com
j pel led Lord Croincr. when plenipoten?
tiary at t'airo, to have him expelled
on l\vo occasions from Egypt, on ac?
count of the trouble thut he was stir?
ring up against the English authori?
ties, among the native dignitaries and
clergy.
Being regarded throughout Arabia
as the most powerful friend of the
Arab, Turkish and Egyptian races, Wil?
fred Blunt and Lady Anne have been
able to obtain from the various Sheikhs,
Chiefs, and Emirs mares and stal?
lions of the most famous and purest
breeds: horses with pedigrees us high?
ly prized as, those, of the descendants
of the. members of the l-'rophet's fami?
ly, that pol--even the Sultan himself
could buy. Moreover, Wilfred Blunt
managed !o secure the entire stud of
Arab horses belonging to the late All
Pasha, Shcroef of Cairo, whoso stock
was descended from the celebrated
mates which Viceroy Abbas I. of Egypt
obtained from Arabia for the then
phetrbmcnap cost of $600,0(10. These
horses they have heen endeavoring
In acclimatize in England, and above
all to use In Improving the. breed of
English horses, and they are known
from one. -end of Europe to the other
as the. principal experts in the matter
of Arab horses; while their Arabian
stud*- farm n't Crabbct Park; above
mentioned, enjoys world-wide. fame.
Some years ago Lady Anne Blur,!,
it may be remembered, embarked upon
a controversy with the American car?
toonist. Homer Davenport, expressing
in print her- oronouiiced dlsbchalf In
Iiis claims tu the purity of blood of tbo
Arab horses which he had imported to
this country front Arabia.
Ludy Anne presents a very striking
appearance, with her snow-white hair,
dark eyes, and tall llgure, and never
looks better than on horseback. She
has one child, a daughter, who w;.s
married from her desert home to the
second son of the late Lord Lyllon.
(Owen Meredith) ah Intimate friend
and brother poet of Wilfred Blunt, she
excels In music, and her rendering oh
thc'vlolln of the various Arabian ' bun'?
rinO ii\*it?rtl** hut* done much to win
for her the friendship of those fierce
>et chivalrous nomads o? the desert. '
ISx-Klrig Manuel haa not received a
cent from the Portuguese government
since he loft Lisbon, and the stories
which have been published represent?
hi? him as having accepted an allow?
ance, from the new-fledged republic arc
without any shadow of foundation. All
the money that has come lo him sine?,
he was deprived of his thron* has been
from the sale, of some of his personal
properly In Portugal, through friends:
and even the Jeweled Insignia of the
various Orders of Knighthood bestow?
ed upon him by foreign sovereigns, as
well as most of Queen Marie Atliollc's
splendid Jewels, are detained by Olti
Republicsn authorities, on the pretext
I that the determination of what be?
longs to the nation and what constl
1 tutes the private property of the mem?
bers of the royal family will take < 011
:Smefal>le time- The only royal per?
sonage who has received anything
from ?hc Portuguese treasury since the
overthrown of. the monarchy has been
I the King's grandmother. Quee.n Pia,
I whoso annual allowance from the
Portuguese treasury wa.3 guaranteed
i by a troat/y between Portugal and Italy,
'at tlie time when; us the. daughter of,
I King Vic tor 13mmanuol 11. she became,
j the bride of King Luis. In fact, the,
[ Portuguese government will be forced,
j by Its still existent ireuty with Italy
i to pay Queen Pia the full amount of
1 her annuity, no mutter how hostile
flier attitude may bo towards the new
regime in Lisbon.
I (Copyright, 10.11, by the Rren'wooij
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