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TH?RSPAY, MA\- 26, 1911.
MUCH ADO AH CHT XOTH1XO.
Robbt Stepher. S. Wise, of the Free
Synagogue, In New York, was invited
to attend the Lake Mohonk Feaee Con?
ference to make an address. Wlion
he learned that Jews were not encour?
aged to go to the hotel at that place
.11 iln> busy summer months, he declined
to go there on the special occasion,
and wrote to the hotel proprietor and
general patron of the place, Mr. Smi?
ley, declining the invitation and giv?
ing his reason for doing so.
Last Saturday Brother Wise mode
this Incident the subject of a very In?
teresting and Impassioned discourse
from his pulpit In New York, "In whlc"
ho played effectively lupon the purpose |
for which the conference at Lake Mo?
honk is to be held, namely, the promo?
tion of international peace, and de?
clared that "It is vain to hope for u
cessation of war as long a.3 men suffer
racial antipathy to go unchallenged.*'
"War. aftor all," said Dr. Wise, 'Is
not a thing of arms nad ermiea. War
Is a thing of human hearts, and arms
merely execute tho purposes of the
souls of men. If wc can get slaughter
out of the hearts of men, war will
speedily cease."
This Is tho message Brother Wise
proclaimed from his pulpit, and the
message which he sent 10 a groat many
of his friends among the people of hl?
own faith There seems to be a good
deal of bathos In the statement. It
would have been a great deal better,
In our opinion, If, Instead of expound?
ing his views in this way from Ills
own pulpit and by letter to Ms co?
religionists, he had gone tn Lake Mo?
honk and had there ti??d the people of
thelCohferencc exactly what he thought
about the narrowness" and bigotry and
unchristian attitude of those who have
drawn a line aprilnsi his people. If
Brother Wise knew the Gentiles as
well ns we, he would no; care partic?
ularly to have very much to do with
them. Wc have foutid in a somewhat
loh; nnd varied experience that good
iiieii and good women are very much
th' .'--irr,.- .-:!! over the world, whatever;
iliplr race or condition or religion; It
Is far mere important, in our opinion,
tor th* Christian nations of the earth
to take steps for the protection of the
helpless Victims of Russian atrocities
tlnn i; is '.o waste any powder In pro?
f-tins against tt.e stupidities. of the
managers cf j.?ace cor.ferr nces. so
called, at Lake Mohonk, ar.d of Fifth
Avenue Clubs, in New York. In the
or.e rase ".he Christians stair, their
IIAYM SALOMON.
In a Jrftf- address lo the .Tew? of
the National Capital. Pr< si lent T ilt
deelarea^nat :Jrhcir ra.ee needs r.r. de
?ch's?. It was a Jew. he added, who
financed the American Revolution, who
aid as much In establishing the credit
of the new nation as did V. asfclr.gtot.
on the lield of battle for the freedom
of th" people. The occasion of the
I'refl'dyit's :'pe?ch was the i-ti^n on
the part of th* Jews of Washlnvtor.
to build a monument to Hayrn Salomon,
tlie patriot Jew, who advanced to the
leaders of the struggling nation and
its fir?t administration the sum of
tAnft.Qf.iu, not nr.c cent of which was
ever paid back to Salomon.
"The President dtd that which every
fntr-ihlnded man in his exalted pcfI
tlon would do," says the Washington
HTald. "He pointed out the, merit of
the jew ae u citizen and the Usson <>f
how he Is often treated and how he
shouln be treated and n-.oro acknowl?
edged and appreciated. Hr. utter'.-:
pimple fact whon ho said the Jew is a
valued member of the community."
It has been more than u century and I
a quarter since this great and good j
J'vy vcfit to hie reward. Li til a is I
known cf ht3 early career. Kvon in I
some present day vcnoyclopialns his ]
name is left out. and if there is any I
School or college history which then
i!'/aa him wo contest to ah lunoranco
of that hook. More ought to be known
about this man and the part he played
In the making of the nr.tion?the chil?
dren In the Softools and the readers of
history arc ar. much entitled to know
of Salomon ns of any other grtat j
patriot; S. 11. Cay, Jn his life of I
Madlscin. calls Salomon "the good Sa?
maritan." Madison hlmf.elf Bald that,
this patriotic Jew rejected oil recom?
pense for the pecuniary help bestowed.
Much have we hea.rd of Hebert
Morrie a3 the financier ol the Revolu?
tion. Tib it ?0. but It would net be
surprising to learn that Salomon was
the rr.&n behind Morris. He freely
loaned Morris more thun {360,000, .<
negotiated all the wt.r rubaldlcs from
rrar.co and Kolland. When Continental
money was withdrawn, causing suffer?
ing among the poor of Philadelphia,
Salomon distributed t2.C'f>o in Bpecie
to relieve distress. The large Indebted?
ness of the Government to Ihl? man
has never been repaid. ft hns b< ?
a. matter of some'dli.t tuitalon In the
post. In ISPS ft bill was presentod to
the IIouso that a gold medal bo struck
off In recognition of Haym Salomon's
services, but tho measure was too
Into for consideration. It Is not yet
too Into to do It, howevor. Congress
will grant pensions wholesale to men
who never gave a drop of blood for
their oountry and who, after robbing
soldlors us sutlers, now 6eck the mone?
tary' reward whloh the Government
should give only to patriotism.
"We agree fully wdth the Now 'Or?
leans States when It saya;
"The memory of this Philadelphia
patriot snould bo honored not by tho
Jews alone. ' All Americans tshould
give substantial aid to the movement
to build n Utting monument to tho
man who provided the ulnews of war
without which tho struggle of the
heroes of our Itovolutlon would have
been In vain. It la well for all of us
to remember that theso sinews wore
furnished by Haym Salomon gladly
and without a thought oj over asking
the new-born nation to reimburse him
or his heirs. There nro few Instances
of such unselfish patriotism in the
history of tho world."
The wholo .nation should pcrpetun.o
tho record of tho high service of
Salomon with some line memorial
worthy of tho man and worthy of his
noble sacrillce upon tho nltar of his
country.
'<<GnANJDFAT.ilEft OliAUSK" KNOClCKn
OUT.
Judge John II. Cotteral. of the United
States Distriot Court at Oklahoma City,
has held that the "grandfather clnuso"
ot tho Oklahoma Constitution Is In vio?
lation of the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Federal Constitution. and is,
therefore, invalid. In the opinion of
the Court, tho power to grant the
right to vote was not given to the
Federal Government, hut under tho
terms ot the Fifteenth Amendment the
right to vote cannot bo denied any
person because of "race, color or prev?
ious condition of servitude." To make
certain individuals aubjeol to an edu?
cational test dependent on tholr condi?
tion before would bo to make such
lest dependent on their race and color.
The "grandfather clause" exempts from
the educational test those whose an?
cestors were entitled to vote on Jan- i
uary lj 1S6>>, or who were residents of
a foreign country. Under this clause,!
Judge Cotteral holds that the negroes
are denied the tight to vote.
It is assumed that the case, as a
matter of safety, will be taken to the
IiisIit courts for final determination.
In the meantime, It would be well for
the Southern advocates of the direct]
election of United States Senators to
hold their horses. It the wliole ques?
tion of negro suffrage is to bo re?
opened, and If there Is to bo Federal
supervision nnd regulation of .Sena?
torial elections, it would be better to j
let the case stand as It Is. where the j
Constitution has put it and where it I
has worked with fairly good results
since the foundation of the Govern?
ment. However It may be regarded,
the direct election of Senators hum?
bug Is loaded with all sorts of evil for
th..- whole country and particularly for
ti:r States of the South.
COMING To lUCHMONTJ,
As was the case with another groat
city that was set nn seven hills a good
many years aKO. all roads Had to Rich?
mond. The Chamber of Commerce hav?
ing foregathered with the Chesapeake
end Ohio and the Southern Hallways
an arrangement was made which will
C.C.C greatly to the facilities of this
town and all the country between Rich?
mond and GordonsvlUe, Orange, War
renton and Intermediate stations By
thlff agreement the Southern Railway
will use the tracks of the Chesapeake
ar.ii Oh'.-' roid from GordonsvlUe, thus
bringing a h*w lot of the best n-?ople
In the State into clo.-ter touch with the
affairs of the Capital City. When
the road to the Northern Neck
is built, Richmond will be in easy
reach of everybody in the Slate, and
everybody In Richmond will be glad to
see. everybody Jrom all parts of the
Stete. Ali roads lead to Richmond.
A.NOTJIKU OF TAFT"5 Jl.DGES.
Following his own tza.-nple of select?
ing the best lawyer he could find for
appointment to the Bench, the Presi?
dent yesterday nominated Her.ry A.
Mlddletoh Smith, of Charleston, to be
Fr.lted States Judge for the District
of South Carolina to fill the vacancy
caused by the retirement of Judge
Brawley. ife could not have chosen
a:t abler lawyer, a rnar. of richer ex
perltcce, wider ticcorr.i.llshrr.erts of
higher character. A South Carolinian
of fiouth Carolinians, u descendant of
one of, the Signers of the Declaration j
of Independence, Identified with all
that Is t.or.t !n the history and lifo or I
hin community und State, loyal to their
finer traditions, engaged for more than I
thirty years !n the active practice of |
the law, and admitted even by those j
who sought the honor which has come,
to him without his personal solicitation
ka a Utting crown of his professional
career as the leader of the South \
Carolina liar, hie appointment to this !
honorable ofllco must be as gratifying J
to him as it la creditable to the Presl- |
dent.
Mr. Taft had a groat wealth of good
j material from which to make his
I choice?fonaeT Governor Ansel State
Senator Henderson, Thomas W. rjaeoti
Ji, A. Hngood, Kdward W. Hughes and
Hi A. M. firnlth? and ho could not have
gone very far wrong had he selected
any one of this number; hut comparing
himself with himself, a:.d uninfluenced
by any personal or political consider-,
(ittonS, he choiiu Mr. Smith as, in his
opinion, the best aulled for the posi?
tion. It was a happy oholce, an It is
certain that with his knowledge (it t>..:
law. his dignity and personal <h.--is
actor, he will give distinction to the
JJench and administer tho law in luii
ilon and equity,
t Judge Smith le abo'it fifty-'it-l.t
j ycara of ane, and Ought "> be good
i for ten or fifteen year? of dintlnguinlKd
i bei'vicu, He has boeii for iibrnetnihk
like thirty years almost a glutton for
work, and will find on the Federal
Bench uhuudunt opportunity tor his
industry. Hp is a Democrat o? tho old
school, loyal to tho party, and, while
always a faithful worker, at no time
an offensive partlsnn. There was
only one Republican candidate for the
office, und with tho idea only of fitness
und the consuming desire to make tho
Federal Judiciary respected and trusted
In tho South and everywhere in the
country, tho President's choice fell
I upon Mr. Smith. In Sir. Taft's opinion,
[ tho Federal Judlclury Is really the
bulwark of our institutions, and he Is
anxious, not for political purposes, but
for the future safety of the country,
that this Court in every State shall be
regarded as a Court to be trusted, not
a Court with prejudices, not a Court
necessarily capitalistic, but a Court
that will be Independent and that will
not be afraid to decide whether Its
decisions be popular or not. and yet
n Court Ihe character of whose Judges
shall ho such that the very naming
of the Court will commend it as a
place where Justice is administered
without fear or favor.
In the appointment of Judge Smith,
the President has added another to the
many excellent selections ho has made
for the Federal Bench.
nV-Ai, vrci.T.ow JOTmXAt.iSM.
A spoclnl dispatch from Washington
was printed In the Baltimore Sun yes?
terday, saying that the statement was
made In ofllcln.1 circles that the engage?
ment of Major Archibald Butt to Mrs.
Lucy Hayes Tierron Lnughlln, of Pltts
burg, will be announced shortly. Mrs.
Laughlln Is the edster of Mrs. Tnft.
and a very lovely woman. She U the
widow of Thomas K. Laughlln, of
Pittsburg, who killed himself In March.
1310. Tho story In the Baltimore Sun
?ay a:
"Five days before he had returned
from a trip abroad and found his wife
at the Whlto Houso In Washington
and not In Pittsburg to greet him.
For twenty-four hours the Influential
Laughlln family, the big Independent
stool makers, managed to give the im?
pression that Mr. Laughlln died a sud?
den but natural death. Later the
truth beonme known, and with It the
fact that tho suppression of the trag?
edy was caused by the absence from
home of Mrs. Laughlln. The family
wished her to roach Plttsburg if pos?
sible, before the details became
known."
We believe this to be n lie out of
wholc. cloth. Mrs. Lnughlin. as wo
happen to know. Journeyed from Wash?
ington to Now York to meet her hus?
band on the day of his arrival there,
either by the steamship Mauretanla or
the Lusltanlo. She not only met her
husband upon his arrival In Now York,
but went with him to their home In
Pittsburc. Why will "ofilclnl circle.'"
or.d "social leaders" toll lies about such
things whop the truth would be equally
Interesting?
XOT ?J.IJITI3 KAI It TO .MIXES.
List week fJrJ^verhor Blease pardoned
George Hcsty. who killed two men at
Gaffney, Kouth Carolina, in 1S?5. It
was a :Cj)*l blobdy and brutal slaugh?
ter of two unarmed men. and, after
exerting every effort for acquittal ol
this double murder, Hasty was sen?
tenced to the penitentiary for life and
was committed to that Institution In
I9C"3. After five years' imprisonment,
he has been pardoned by the Governor,
which executive act has led the Spar
tar.burg Herald to Inquire: "\Vhy:
should W. T. Jone* be the only man
in the State penitentiary when Gov?
ernor Blease's term of office, expires?"
Par.f-rson's record in Tennessee will
doubUess be eclipsed by that of Blense
In South Carolina,
TUR UNITAR I ANS IN POLITICS,
At a mooting of the l.'Tiitariaiis In
Boston on Monday a resolution oppos?
ing' tho re-election of United States
Senator Fletcher, of Florida, us Vice
President of the American Unitarian
Association recelvod the approval of
a number of the members of the con?
vention. An attempt to place the con?
vention in opposition, as a body, to
Senator Fletcher was compromised, by
on agreement that those who disap?
proved of Senator Fletcher's course in
Voting for Lorlmer could sign the re?
solution without committing tho Asso?
ciation. A. similar resolution has been
adopted by the Unitarian ministers o.'
New York; but what special business
It !i of the Unitarian ministers or of
their associations we fall lo see.
Fletcher did not vote as a Unitarian
for the seating of Lorlmer, but as a
United States Senator responsible alone
to Ills own conscience and to his con?
stituents, and he voted for him be?
cause, l.n his opinion the testimony sub?
mitted to the Senate on the former In
vostlgeUon was not sufficient to Justify
him In voting for his expulsion from
the Senate When the cane Is twken up
again for consideration he will prob?
ably vote against Lorlnie'r, not be?
cause the Unitarians have signified
their displeasure with his previous
course, but because the afler dlscovor
ed evidence proves that while Lorlmer
exactly the nor; of Senator that suits
the State of Illinois, he- Is not the sort
th-.t should hold a neat In that body.
TtIK CINCINNATI IIOSS.
CJeorge B. Cox has retired from the
leadership of tho Republican organiza?
tion in Hamilton County, Ohio. It
about tltne for III in to go. Since
'ii'; 2lvt of last February, when he was
indicted for the crime of perjury, the
ii.i of Ohio hove been busy looking
fiftcrr him; the Common I'leas,, tho Clr
Courts and the Supreme Court of
the Stale having all considered his
Finally, we are told by the In
'Hann polls New?, that a Judge was
: I rid willing to quaali the Indictment
.'??r perjury, and now It is nnnouncod
that the boss is to shako oft tho dust
'.f Cincinnati from IiIh foot, the. theatre
' f hit political activities for so many
'at:., and establish hla residence in
the town of New York.
The Cincinnati Times-Star spouka of
I his retirement from the leadership of
j tho Hamilton County Uepubllenns ns
I "tho close of an epoch In local poli?
tics"; It might very truthfully have
[ ndded, one of th<* most dishonorable
j epochs In tho politics of the country.
I Cox Is a strong man. a groat organiser,
shrewd in his pi aus ami fearless In
t their execution; hesitating at no act
tin their accomplishment: worse than
any 6T the bosses $f Tammany Hall
' havo ever been, and yet much courted
by some or the mouthltst of all our
politicians of the Sunday school order.
Ho will' probably Und a Held in Now
York tor tho employment of his un?
doubted talents. Ills bavins Cincin?
nati ought to be of much benefit to
the politics of thul community.
A VICTIM OK Tili: LAW.
The Boston Globe says:
"An evidence of the quickened public
conscience is manifest In the very
active movement now under way In
New York, backed by Mayor 'Gay n?r
and a number of prominent attorneys,
to secure tin amendment to the crim?
inal laws of the State which will pro?
vide redress for persons wrongfully
arrested. Imprisoned or detained and
prosecuted."
This movement was brought ahout
by the sad case of Miss Elizabeth
Murphy. She was a stenographer em?
ployed In tho otllce of a firm, one of
the members of which wns arrested on
n charge of falsifying, public records.
She was Inkcn Into custody nnd held
In the house of detention nnd In sev?
eral hotels for B7 weeks as a witness
against her former employer. Finally,
without npoloKy or compensation, she
was dismissed. During a year and
four months she has been deprived
both of her Income and of the soclety
of her family nrjd friends. Broken In
health, depressed In spirit, she. never?
theless. Is waging a war to have the
law amended so that^due justice may
be done her.
This proceeding, or rather Its result, j
was barbarous and cruel. Tn this case,
as In countless others, the law pun?
ished not only the guilty, but the In?
nocent as well. This woman, who aided
the law In tlye fulfillment of Its ends,
Instead of being rewarded was cast
Into the lap of misfortune. This case
and many others like H are attracting
the attention of the people of the na?
tion nnd nwnkcnlng them to action.
When public sentiment has bnttored
down the wall of stolid Indifference
and Immeasurable Indolence which
surrounds legislativ?? action we shall
do Justice to all. as far as is possible,
and tylll break the back of the law's
delay and injustice.
psalm singers \xn ttvmn sijto
f.ns.
A commission. consisting of four
doctors of divinity and one ruling
elder, has been appointed by the First
Associate Reformed Presbytery to con?
sider the question of mei'Klng the
Steele Creek Church with the Preeby
terlnn Church of the same neighbor?
hood. There Is some opposition among
the members of the congregation to
Such a union. The church at present
numbers only fifty members, the
strength of the congregation having
been greatly weakened in recent years
by death and removal. We can under?
stand why the members of this church
should object to the proposed merger,
but the fact that a. commission of so
many dootors of divinity has been ap?
pointed to help them out of their em?
barrassment would seem to indicate
that, after all. the differences between
I he psalm singers and the hymn sing?
ers is really not so vital as some of
the older fashioned people have
thought for a good many generations.
Probably the hymn singers would be
willing to compromise on the use of
not more titan one hymn of human
composition at any stated service, thus
affording the psalm singers the privi?
lege of Joining in this part of the
public worship.
THE NEURO VF XOnTO.
Thomas E. Howes Is a negro. He
was born In British Oiilana, and now
lives In Scranton, Pennsylvania. Sev?
eral months ago he became a natural?
ized citizen of the United States. Helsa
bookkeeper, and being of a frugal dis?
position, doicrmlned that he "would
establish his home In Scranton, and
bought a house. No. 9f?5 Prescott Ave?
nue, for the sum of $4,000. It was his
purpose to occupy the lower floor of
the house with his own family and
to lease the upper story to hl3 broth?
er-in-law, who has a family of n wife
and five children. As soon as the
news of this African Invasion of the
aristocratic Prescott Avenue got no
rated around, thero was indignation
and gloom that could hove been cut
with a knife. The ladles of the neigh?
borhood got together and when their
husWtnds returned homo from their
labors of the. day there was much ani?
mated discussion Of what course
should be adopted to keep the colored
citizen out. Messages were sent to
hltn of so unfriendly quality that lje
felt It tlie better part of valor to place
himself under the protection of Chief
of Police Lond B. Day, who detailed
an officer to the Prescott Avenue beat
with instructions to see that the law
was not violated at No. 905, the house
in which the Senogamblan hoped to
spend many happy days. This is the
story substantially as reported by the
Scranton Trlbuno, and it is an Iptor
estlng story to come out of Pennsyl?
vania where the Underground Railroad
flourished In slavery days. The discrep?
ancies between theory and practice In
that groat State when it comes to the
negro, even the British Guiana negro,
afford the host proof of tho hypocrisy
of its people.
Another oven more exciting stoTy^
cornea from Kansas City. In which an
account Is given of the second at?
tempt that has hcon made within five
months to destroy the home of W. 15.
Griffin, negro principal of lb,e Booker
Washington School In that town. Last
Monday night a bomb was exploded.
under n bonrnwalk about throe feet
from tho house with tho rosult that
every window In tho houee was broken
nnd n largo holo was blown In tho
earth. l^ist December an effort was
made to destroy this homo of the ne?
gro teacher with nltro-glycerlne, and
within the last two years soveral other
attempts have been made to drive tho
negro families from this neighborhood.
Wo venture to say that tho people who
are behind theso evidences of hatred of
tho negro are tho people who have
been most pronounced In their denun?
ciation of the way tho colored people
are treated In the South.
According to Professor F. T. Whit?
man, who holds the chair of astronomy
at Western Reserve University, tha
present hot wave, which has almost
prostrated tho entire country. Is tho
result of the recent visit of Halley's
Comet. Tn the opinion of this learnod
man, a part of the cornet's fiery tall Is
now cavorting about somewhere near'
the earth. Probably so. Nobody can
dispute It with certainty, and wo are j
willing to accept tho story at Us full j
face value.
RhlnelnndeT Waldo has been ap?
pointed head of tho police department
of New York City, if a man with a
name like that can't keep the metro?
politans on their good behavior their
enso Is hopeless.
It must have been such weather as
IhlB which Inspired Dr. Cook to go
and find the Pole. If ho had only
brought It back with him!
Statistics are alleged to show that
the Japanese are leaving the American
contlnont twice as fast as they are
entering. Not so much "yellow peril"
after all, eh?
This Is the time of the year when
the spurned lover fools that he could
"come back" If he wanted to.
That woman- who seeks a divorce on
the 'ground that hor husband kisses
her too much and gives her the "hear
hug" should bo careful not to remarry
any of the Andover, Massachusetts
men. who are famed as Jack-the
Rlppers.
Thf! number of camps of Confederate
veterans, as shown by the annual re?
port of Adjutant-General William E.
Mlckle, la 1.183. a decrease of 13 since
last year. Virginia lost three camps.
Texas two. and other States showed
losses. Few showed gains. The gray
survivors are rapidly going, unreturn
Ing, to the Front. Tho sixteen-year
old boy of '65 Is 61 now. The ratio
of depletion will now Increase rapidly,
Just an Is the case In the ex-tJnloh
lines. Those that remain arc entltljd
to all the consideration nnd kindness
that they can receive.
=====
Mrs. .Tones, of I/>gansport. Indiana!
wishes a divorce. Mr. Jones Is her No.
C. The other five are all living, though
divorced. "If this decree Is granted."
asked tho Judge, "how many more
times will you get married?" "Until
I llnd the right man," answered Mrs.
Jones. The. other five agreed that their
sometime wife was a very fine, sweet
womnn; that she deserved to find the
right man. and that thoy would ho
glad when she got him. She ought to
start over again with the five and
give them another chance.
One of the Interesting features of
the coming Virginia Press Association
meeting will be a Joint debate on votes
for women between Vice-Prosldont
Walter E. Addison, pf t.ie Association,
and editor of the Lynchburg News, and
Vice-Presldent nnd Dr. Anna Blount,
of, the Chicago Equal Suffrage league.
It was she. 'twill he remembered, who
fUgged Brother Addison ' when he
quoted what Marse Henry Watterson
said about Mrs. Ella Flagg Young.
Some time ago we published some
sayings, or "favorite Action,'' the same
being expressions often heard, but
really untrue. To our list the North?
ampton Times adds these:
"Your honor Is thoroughly familiar,
with the principle of International law
that governments, like individuals, are
responsible only, etc.
"Why, you haven't aged a day since
I la3t saw you; that, let's see, was
twenty-two, yes, twenty-three year*
ago.
"That, dearest, Is the most becoming
hat you ever wore.
"Good night, Mrs. Jones, we have
spent a perfectly charming evening.
"Now, understand, he and I aro|
warm personal friends, and I wouldn't
Injure him for the world, but, etc.
"You see where we've got our com?
petitors beat on hosiery is a factory
failed; we bought Its entire stock and
are giving our customers the benefit."
Those are all mighty good ones and
true to life. There are a fow more,
not so good, which we beg leave to
offer:
In-town lover to out-of-town rival
In presence of "Jane": "Why, Mr.
Blank, I am so glad to have met you,
and I certainly hbpo I will see you
back here again sometime."
At the club: "No. no, I don't want to
?butt In" on you gentlemen."
"Oh, yes, I've heard Jones speak of
you often.
"You are the only woman I over
loved
"Yes, T will be sure to do that"
(In response to request, Do remember j
me to Bill and John and Mrs. Jack
and Pauline and old Mr. Prune).
FOR RENT, i
Safe Deposit Boxes
Which afford every safety and conveni?
ence for your valuable .papers, jewelry,
etc., when you don't want them, and
handy when you need them.,
National State
and City Bank
of Richmond ,
Daily Queries and Answers
Kl evn tor Joll."^?: ?
Ii' Who should a man apply to for I
position as elovator man in the new I
building that will be ercclod where j
tho Chamber of Commerce now stands.* i
2. Do they take an inexperienced
man as elevator man?
3. What is tho pay per month?
ex-s.\ilor. I
1. The First National Bank. !
2. We doubt It.
3. You will have to ascertain this
from the authorities whom we have
referred to above.
To 1'rohlbu Dog Burking.
Can anything bo done? If a pot-Bon
should have a dog which disturbs a
neighbor by harltlug all night Is there1
anything that can bo dune to mop It'/
. . ' subscriber, ;
Yes. This T"s a nuisance punishablo;
by luw, upon sulllcient. evidence.
Coin Value.
1 have a 50-cent coin; has six stars
on one side and seven on the other:
dated 1S2I. What's the value, or In
there any value for It? Please let me
hoar at once. l'AUl, SCRUGGS.
We make it a . rule to answer no
uueuttons as to coin value. Send self
addressed postal for name of dealer.
Thomas Lynch,
Will you please give me a sketch of
Thomas Lynch. Jr., one of the signers!
of the Declaration of Independence, his j
ancestry? F b. !
Thomas Lynch, signer of the Ueclar- |
allon of Independence, was born near;
Georgetown. s. <-'?., August r>. 1H0. Ho
w:is o grandson of the. Thomas Lynch j
who Introduced the planting of rice
Oil the lowlands of tho coast Of Ann :-,
lea. Ul.s fat her of the same inline
tabout lTliO-1770) was a wealthy plant?
er, an active patriot and it mcuibei' of
the First Continental Congress. The i
family was of Austrian descunt und i
derived Its name from the town of
Lint/., whence some of them emigrated
to Kent, Connaught nnd America.
Thomas, the signer, third of the name,
was sent to England In 1762. was grad?
uated from Cambridge nnd began tho
study of law In London, but soon grew
to dislike the profession. Ho returned
to America In 1772, settled on a planta?
tion on the Santeo Ulver and onterod
Into tho agitation for a separation of
tho''American Colonies from England.
He married a Miss Slitubrick. In 177"?
he was mude a captain in the ilrst reg?
iment raised by the province of' South
Carolina for the war. ? His exertions
in preparing his company for servlco
caused an attack of'bllioua fever, from
which he never recovered.
At the end of 177?, being then but
about twenty-six years old, he watt
sent to the Continental Congress to
succeed and care for his father, who
had suffered an attack of paralysis.
Ilo remained in Philadelphia Ions
enough to sign the Declaration of In?
dependence and was then obliged to
retire from public life. Ilia father
died on their way home. As a last
chance for prolonging \ his own life
he sailed with his wife for tho West
Indies, near tho end of 1770, hoping
there to take ship for Prance. Til's
vessel never reached port, and It was
supposed to huvo gone down with all
on board. Lyncll was tho youngest of
the signers of the Declaration of In?
dependence and was ono of tho first
to die. The accident of hls'brlef ser?
vice lu Congress ratlier thnn his- vir?
tues and his pathetic history has res?
cued his name from oblivion.
Possibly some reader may be able
to direct yoi| to a genealogy of tho
family.
I'rcHlilent.
How Is a candidate for the presi?
dency of the United States nominated?
How Is he elected? J. T.
He lij nominated by tho national con?
vention of his party and Is elected by
the electors from the different States,
chosen by the voters of the States.
LORD RODEN VOTED
UNDER FORMER NAME
BY LA MARQUISE DE KONTEN OY.
LORD RODEN, who succeeded last
year to the earldom of hlo elder
brother. Is charged with having
voted at the two la3t General
Elections, as Colonel Robert Jocelyn.
after he had become a peer. The mat?
ter has been brought before tho Com
mlttco of Privileges of the House of
Commons, and the case has been prov?
ed against him, beyond any possibility
of a doubt.
Of course, this Is wholly against the
law, and it Ik ilcmandod ttint Lord
Roden should bo punished by means of
a heavy line. It Is a question, how?
ever, whether this will be done by the
House of Lords, or by the House of
Commons, For Lord Roden'? peer?
ages, namely, tho Earldom of Roden,
the Viscount of .locelfn, and tho Bur
ony of Newport, are all Irish honors and
do not carry with them a seat In the
House of l.ords, since Lord Roden has
not-'been elected by his fellow peers
of Ireland to be one of their twonty
oight representatives In the House of
Lords at Westminister. As nn Irish
peer, without a seat In the House of
Lords,. Lord linden has a right to sit
for an English ur Scotch constituency.
Iii the House of Commons, but not for
nn Irish one. Lord Valcntla. and the
Earl of Wlnterton, each of them sit in
the 1 Touse of Commons, for English
constituencies. They have therefore
necessarily a vote ai paramentary elec?
tions In England, but In Ireland.
Lord Hoden argues his belief that bs-.
Im; pit liberty, despite Ills Irish peer?
ages, to vote at a parliamentary elec?
tion in England, lie had the same right
In Ireland. But his plea to this effect
la rather impaired by the circum?
stances that he voted in Ireland, not as
Earl of Hoden, but by his former name
of Colonel Jocelyn.
Now although Irish and Scotch peers
who have no seat In tho House of j
Lords, as representatives of the peer-1
ages of their respective countries, have J
nevertheless ull the other rights and
prerogatives of peers of the United
Kingdom, namely. Immunity from tlte
Jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and I
the rieht to trial by the House of .
Lords. Moreover, they are all of them
titular cousins of tho sovereign. This]
being the case, It Is doubtful in tho ex?
treme whether the Committee of Privi?
leges of the House of Commons, or that
House as a whole, has any authority to
summon the Earl of Roden to appear
before It. or to inflict a fine. He has.
In fact, ignored its summons, and its
porceenings, which have been carried
on In his absence, since he claims that
he Is amenable only to the House of
Lords.
If this view Is adopted by tho House
of Commons, then all that it can do.
will to send n copy of the findings
of Its Committee of Privileges to the
Committee of Privileges of the House
or Lords, and to request the latter to
Inflict punishment upon lta erring
member. But It is quite on the cards
that the House, of Lords may Insist,
that. In this matter, at any rate. Lord
Roden cannot be regarded as one of
Its members, since he has no Beat in
the Upper Hous6. it may also suggesl
that it has no means of dealing with
the problem until Lord Roden be?
comes a member of the House of
Lords, through his election -by _the
Peers of Ireland, as a Representative.
Peer of Ireland.
Just how the controversy is going to
be settled, It is difficulty to sec; and it
I i on the cards, that owing to the diffi?
culty of determining the jurisdiction.
Lord Roden may. especially if he keeps
a stiff upper Hp, escape punishment
altogether, greatly to the disgust of
the cofnmons, although he has un?
doubtedly been guilty of a very seri?
ous breach of the laws of the realm.
Of course the entire matter Is calcu?
lator! to prove a fresh source of bitter?
ness and of dispute between the two
Houses of Parliament.
I>ord Roden's eldest son was in Now
port. R. I., last summer, as Lord New?
port, taking his titln from Newport. In
Ireland. Lady Roden has achieved
considerable note as a novelist under
the name of "Ada Maria Jocelyn."
Young Lord Vernon, who announces
that owing to the iiscal exactions of
the present government he Intends to
dispose of his Sudbury estates in
Derbyshire, which Involves the break?
ing up of one of the finest landed pro?
perties in the Midlands, is half an
American, his mother being a daughter
of Francis C. Lawrence of New York,
ills mother, the widowed Lady Vernon.
has long been an invalid, and her two
boys. Lord Vernon anrl his younger
brother, as well as their sister, were
brought up to a great extent under
I he guarrlianship of their uncle, tho
Hon William Frederick Vornon, who
also mnrrlod an American girl, nnmoly.
the daughter of General Daniel M.
Frost of St. Louis.
The Vernons, can boast of being
among the very oldest families of
England, being descended from that
Richard de Vernon who accompanied
the Contiuoror from Normandy to Eng?
land, and .was one of tho seven bar?
ons created by Hugh Lupus, tho great
Earl of Chester. They settled at Had
don Hall,. In Derbyshire, over six hun?
dred years ago, and one of thorn, Sir
Henry Vernon, Lord of Haddon, was
governor anel treasurer of Prince Ar?
thur, the elder brother of Hpnry VIII.
This Prince Arthur spent much of his
time at Haddon Hall, and his gov?
ernor, Sir Henry, wns tho grandfather
of that Dorothy Vernon whose elope?
ment furnished so picturesque a ro?
mance, and .whoso runaway mariiago
with Sir John Manners, carried Had?
don Hall Into tho family of the Duke
of Rutland, Its present owner.
But the principal homo of the Ver
nons even since the reign of James I.,
has, been Sudbury Hall, which Lord
Vernon now wishes to sell. It Is a
grand old place, which came Into tho
house of Vernon through the marriage
of Sir John Vernon to Helen, daughter
and heiress of Sir John de Montgom
orlo. It Is a picturesque red brick
house, with snmo magnificent oak'carv?
ings Ovy Grlnliru*- Gibbons, and. la. Allad
with Old Masters, Including palntingn
by Rubens. Vandyke. Murlllo and Vel?
asquez. It stands In the centre of a
largo park, extending over a thou?
sand acres, richly wooded by grand
old trees many hundred years old,
and commanding a beautiful view of
the Dove Valley.
Ab nearly overy one of the Vernona
have married heiresses, tho family
la very rich, Lord- Vernon being no
cxcoptlon to the rule, much of his
wealth being derived from valuable
colllorleB. which were worked with so
much tact and discretion by his
guardian and uncle during his minori?
ty, that there havo nover been any
labor troubles with tho men.
The-name of Veuablos prefixed to the
patronymic of Vernon by monas of a
hyphen, comoB to Lord Vernon through
the marriage of one of hit ancestors.
Sir Henry Vernon, member of Parlia?
ment for the county of Stafford, with
the granddaughter and heiress of Sir
Poter Vonablos, the last of tho Ven
ables I-rfjrds of Klnderton, and It was
tho son of this marriage who was elo
vated to the peerage as T^ord Vernon.
at the beginning of the reign of George
if., the Barony of Klnderton being like?
wise revived In his favor, In view of
the fact that ho had Inherited all the
extensive Vcnables estates.
Lord Vernon, who has Inherited all
the good looks of his father and moth?
er, and whloh Indeed arc charactorlstlo
of his house, counts among tho mem?
bers of the family of which he Is chief,
Lewis Hnrcourt, Secretary of State for
the Colonies In the present Asqulth
Cabinet and married to J. Plerpont
Morgan 8 niece. Mary Ethel Burns.
Strictly speaking a Vernon, Lewis Hnr
courl's name, of Hnrcourt cornea to him
by virtue of conditions Imposed upon
the possession of certain family pro?
perty. The first Lord Vernon married
the granddaughter of Lord High Chan?
cellor Viscount Harcourt, and sister
of Simon Earl Harcourt. This Simon
Earl Harcourt. on dying without- Issue,
bequeathed the family estates-' to tho
second of his sisters sons, namely, Ed?
ward Vernon. Archbishop of York, who
on succeeding to the property assumed.
In obedience to his uncle's will, tho
name of Harcourt In lieu of that of
Vernon, Archbishop Harcourt had three
sons, the third of whom, Canon Wil?
liam Harcourt, was the father of the
late Sir William Harcourt, and grand?
father of Lewis Harcourt. the present
owner of the estates, which Include
Kunham Park and Stanton Harcourt,
In Oxfordshire; Nuntiant Park In parti?
cular being familiar to all those acT
qualnted with the upper reaches of tho
ThnmcB
(Copyright, 1911. by tho Rrentwood
Company.)
Voice of the People
Don't Fear the LocxiatB.
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?An editorial In the paper of
May 11 on the seventeen-year locust Is
very apt to mislead and may cause,
much anxiety. These Insects do practi?
cally all their "feeding" during their
long period In tho earth, and If they
came to maturity In a year might do
serious harm to plant life by suck?
ing the Jufces from the roots of trees.
Their growth, however. Is very slow,
as Is very readily perceived when we
realize that seventeen years la needed
to perfect the Insect.
After emerging from the shell end
hecomlng a perfect "cicada," the Ufa
of the Insect Is completed in from
Ave to six weeks, during which time
they-hardly eat anything, but spend
their time preparing for another brood.
The only harm they do is caused by.
tlie female in depositing her eggs along
the extremities of the young twigs.
These twigs after a little time die and
drop to the ground. Birds, domestlo
fowls, hogs, toads,, ants and some oth-.
er creatures eat the mature clcadae
and the eggs. And farmers need havo
no fear of crows pulling up youn'g
corn while the clcadae are abundant.
Lot all anxiety of "devastation" be
dismissed as. absolutely without any
foundation. Tho most wonderful faot
about these Insects, of course, is that
a creature so small should require
seventeen years to come to full ma?
turity.
And then. Just think of it: sixteen
years and nearly eleven months In- tho
dark, life below tho grounel; Ave or six
weeks of light and air above ground
with the freedom of their wings, and
then?that's all. S. G. HOWISON.
Braehead.
"The Confederate Way."
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?Allow me space in your valu?
able paper to suggest that you. In con?
nection with tho editor of the Mont?
gomery Advertiser, inaugurate a sorlos
of automobile contests between Rich- 1
mond and Montgomery?tho Arst and
last capitals of the Southern" Confed?
eracy?for the purpose of ascertaining
tho most feasible route between the
two cities and officially designating the
same as "Confederate Way."
A memorial highway could thus be
inaugurated by you gentlemen to com?
memorate tho valor and heroism of tho
great. "Confederate people."
I know of no way in which tho
sentiment of the "Old South" can bo so
happily blended with the utility of the
"New" as tho developing of a magnifi?
cent highway, traversing that historic
country between Richmond and Mont?
gomery, and' known as "Confederate
Way."
It. could bo gradually dovelopod into
a splendid boulevard, cleaving the
heart of tho South, to which and from
which all roads would lead.
As the years go by our people can
erect, along Its way, fitting memorials'
to our heroes and our Angs.
As a means of pleasure and profit It
would be without a counterpart in all
Amorlca.
As n. medium . of teaching our his?
tory to generations yot unborn it would
remain without, a parallel.
JAMES M. MITCHELL.
Atlanta.