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SATURDAY, .H'DY 1 b, 1911.
WANTED?THE DEST.
"The reformer doesn't always attack
the motive of his opponent, nor does
he always have to claim that the con?
ditions to be corrected are worse In
his community than anywhere else I
haven't hoard that Atlanta has had
abuses In her city government I have
not been told thai Atlanta has been
graft-ridden. Rut what they have told
me everywhere Is that Atlanta Is n
city that will he satisfied with none
but the best."
This statement, made by William J.
Bryan to the people of Atlanta at A
recent mass-meeting. Is equally appli?
cable to Richmond In both these
riti?? the people desire a better form
rtf cnve.rnment than tha.t under which
they now live, but neither their desires
?nor'Mhe efforts of those who are lead-J
Inp them can fairly he construed to
Implv rhat the presem-t government |
Is corrupt, craft-affording and wrong-j
ful or that Councllmen deserve repri- ^
m.md and reproach. Peeking the best |
government costs no moral reflection
on a lest efficient form of city ml*
Richmond, like Atlanta, should be ra.t
Isfled with none but the best govern?
ment, and he is n poor citizen Indeed
who dn?! not Insist that the govern?
ment of his city shall be the best
possible In Atlanta, there Is organ?
ized opposition from the City Council
to the commission form of govern?
ment proposed for that city by Its
leadir.tr citizens, notahly Its business
men
Mr Bryan went on to tell his henrcrs
thai he had never fn-.md a city In
which the commission form of gov?
ernment has failed to be a success.
It has been crltl.My.ed. hut no new form
of government pleases all at the out?
set "Often people are ton confident
In a form of government, and fail to
do their duly." However, continues
Mr. Bryan. "I believe the principle of
commission government is sound, and
T feel sure that It will prove a suc?
cess and a vast improvement over the
nld system"
The commission plan. Mr Bryan
thinks, is better for large Cities than
for small, meaning, supposedly, that
the opportunity for graft la much
larper In a great city than in a small
one. A lack of responsibility has ever
been one of the chief faults with tho
aldermainic plan of city administra?
tion.
There ha? been much graft in the
hip cities?New York, Chicago. Phila?
delphia and cities of their class All
municipalities should take warning
from this fact, realizing that the
larger they grow, the greater, under
the aldernianle form of government,
nre the nppert.inltles and the field for
corruption. The citizens of every city
should, therefore, he warned by the
101 of greater, cities to take such steps
to correct :\nd. r?form their mode of
government that the potential source
jjf u-reat harm and wrong may be de?
stroyed. <"in this point, Mr. Bryan
says:
"The duty of all the people of this
city, a? all cities, Is to remove the
temptation for craft and to strengthen
their n?leialf Commission govern?
ment places men in the glare of pub?
licity, where they can be watched all
the time, where they cannot escape
responsibility. It puls tho burden on
them to nvike good with their con?
stituents, and experience has shown
they don't co wrong."
Ward lines are unjustifiable, accord
Ing to Mr Bryan "There Is no rea?
son for them." he declares If there
if no reason for them, they ought not
to exist. "There are two reasons for
Ftares and counties, in the national
end In the Sta.te representative forms ,
of government. The first Is that the
Character Of remote people cannot he j
Judped except by representative dele. I
pates, and the second is they have n
diversity of Interests." The exact op?
posite Is tru? of the city All tho com?
munity constitute* a unit The man
tn one ward know? and does business
m-ith the man In another ward" The
ward system divides power and .- .it
ters responsibilities among many." As
a result of this, It Is difficult to pet
men to serve ar. rounellmen out of
purely patriotic motives. The remun?
eration is small. If any'at all; the
duties are arduous.
?'Therefe.;-e they often go In for loa;?
foiling reason*." cor.rl id's Mr. Bryan,
who goes or. to nay:
"A city government Is purely a
business proposition It ,.? a preat big
partnership, and all the citizens are
stockholders They ought to elect j
their omejai5. ju?t as the stockholders
of a corporation elect their directors,
and then hold them responsible The'
great trouble witn most cities is that i
business principles have not been an- j
plifd to the handling of business af- I
fairs Why create an office simply to |
put ;i map into It'.' I'nder ,t commission
form of government you can select
men of character and ability and put
tr:ern on good salaries. In the plare .->t
publicity, and they will Juttlfy ihe
confidence reposed in them and (rive
your city a good government emnoml
tallv administered."
Oiher cities are succeeding with a
new form of govern men I No one .an
show why Richmond would not. It in
Bot s question of whether commission
?roverr.ment la aoana and right. That
I* sedtled. It 'Is it question of how
long it will take Klchmond to profit,hy
the example of either*.
TUB HEV. DM .JOHN POLLARD.
The "strong staff and the beautiful
rod'' of a life nobly lived were broken }
yesterday, when the Rev. Dr. .lohn
Pollard heard the "one clear call" ofl
the Captain in Whose service he had
spent half a century. One of the
strong, fine fluures in the Baptist
Church of Virginia, be mourned by
the steal host who knew him as pastor!
and spiritual leader. No less deep la
the sorrow of the vast company of
students who sat at his feet during
the fifteen years of his scholarly
labors n.- professor of English In Rich?
mond Coilece. Unnumbered other:;
knew him as a fearless fighter for the,
right, as a cenulne cltlxen and pa?
triot, as one of wondrous capacity for .
friendship, as a stricken sufferer, yet
patient and of serene faith. Joyous In'
the expectation of that day when he'
might sc? his Master fa-e to face. H? :
left the world better than he found It,
pnd his memory la blessed.
THE BEST TIMM; HE KNEW. I
Perhaps charity is never ?o sweet. \
as in hot weather The Minneapolis'
Journal tells a pleasing story about .-.
man in Kansas City who was asked by
r. reporter if he had any news. The
man replied that be had something
better than news, but not too good to.
print
It was the story of a prominent'
manufacturer, who. starting out for a
ride in his motor car to escape the 100
degree heat that persisted In the city
C-VCn after sunset, bethought himself
of other people who needed I relief
fi'Om the excessive heat more than he
did
So he rHing up the neirest settlement
house-and said he would like to take
two passengers for a drive--"the two I
tj at needed it most."
A few moments Inter he picked up]
at the address given him by the set-]
tlomcnt ofllce a poor woman who had j
just been discharged from a hosplt.il. '
She had a sick baby that had scarcely
slept for several days' The mother
was nearly exhausted from caring for
the child. After fifteen minutes In th.i
open nlr In the car the child went to
sleep and slept without cessation for |
two hours. The mother was revived !
and strengthened. She saw the boule
vnrds. the Cliff Drlv*. Electric Park.
Pe.nn Valley Park and other parks for
the first time, although she had lived
In Kansas City for many yenrs.
A> the Journal says. "While this Is
not always a practical thing for every
motor owner to do. there are times
when It might be ensly done by some
of them it is a practical charity and ;
In addition it might become the
itrentest pleasure ride the owner could
have." There certainly would be no
difficulty In any city or town in find?
ing poor people to whom a cool ride
would be more pleasing and beneficial
than money itself.
THE RR BAT BAN AX A.
In t late Issue of "The Bulletin."
the publication of the Pan-American
Union, there Is a very interesting ar?
ticle with full information about what
has come to be a* staple food article
in this country, and consequently a
commodity that enters very largely
Into our foreign commerce?the
banana. More than 125 steamers are
now in the banana-carrying trade, and
Baltimore, according to the Star of
that-city, next to New York, is the
main port of delivery in this great
and rapidly increasing commerce.
There has lately been a merger of
several of the lines controlling the
banana business, as a result of which
several millions of dollars will be In?
vested In additional steamships, with
a corresponding spread in the sources
of supply. This enlarged company
controls unexcelled terminals.
The banana Is not only an Impor?
tant Commodity In the water-borne
commerce of the United States, but,
as the Star points out. In recent years
has entered extensively Into our In?
land commerce. Last year there were
distributed throughout the United
States and Canada more than 60,000
carloads of this familiar tropical fruit.
Euch carload represented .inn bunches
Costa Rica leads the bnntna produc?
ing countries, but the supply distri?
buted through this country comes
front more than twenty Southern sea
Islands nhd other tropical places. The
business of banana culture Is continu?
ously and speedily expanding In re.
Sponse to the continuously growing
deman-t Railroad lines have been
built In the hanana growing countries '
that are sustained almost wholly by!
the transportation of this fruit from
the Interior of the coast The banana
Is much more Important than one
would think, it is figuring largely in
world commerce.
RAILROAD BUSINESS OROWlNO.
Poor's Manual of Railroads for ion.
which was published Wednesday. Is
itself evidence if the grent extent to
which fhe transportation business in
the United States has grown, for It is
I a bulky volume of almost 3.ton pages.
I From its small beginnings two
; generations ago. Tha American rall
| road Industry has expanded until
It If r.ow represented by a eapt
I tal stock of ts.3Sft.8l9.i9n, a bonded
I debt of t?,6?0.Q34,9u6, other bond obli?
gation.- of nearly $1,006,000.000 and
total liabilities of $21,938.360,766. Con?
sidering the first two Items, for use
us a comparison, it is seen that there
has been a tremendous Increase In the
last ten years: the capital stock in
1900 was only $5.SOI,.1(6.250 and the
hoiidedr.indebtedr.es.? JS,758,692,76 I. In
the meantime, however, there has been
* very great increase in the value of
the railroad property of the country
and In its earning yowtr. Uro^s earn
Ings In 19on wore ?l.3ni,r.9;..RTS and
not earnings $483,247,526; In 10n< gross
rose to i2.801.DS0.939 and not to $919.
1'60..112#. I
These latest figures may be com?
pared with profit with the correspond?
ing totals for 1909. Gross earnings In
the earlier year were $2.519.212,713 and'
net $352.153.280. It should be noted
that just what is meant by the year
1910 by the compilers of the manual is
not clear. Seemingly, however, some
of the figures are for the fiscal year 1
ending June 30. while others arc for j
the calendar year ending December 31? ;
The compilers work out a gross increase
of Ml.59 per cent, over 1909. while the:
Interstate Commerce Commission, using
the reports for the year ending June
30 figures the gain at more than 14
per cent. The important fact Is that
there was a substantial gross increase,
accompanied by an Increase In net.
calculated by Foor at 7,8a per cent.
There are now 242.107 miles of
steam road track in tfie 1'nlted States. ,
against 238,356 miles a year ago. The
increase. 3,781 miles, is small com- j
pared with that of some eurllei years,
but Is enough to show that we are ?
still building railroads at a very good!
rate. The total length of the. rnllmuds J
of the world Is about 630,000 miles,
our share of which Is nearly 40 per'
cent. Against our 212.107 miles, Rus?
sia has 41,000; Germany, 37,000; India.
.11.000; France. 30,000; Austria-1 lun- j
gary, Jfi.onn-. th-' United Kingdom, I
23.2S0; Canada. 22,986; Australia. 10,- |
250, nnd Argentina.15..".00. If there
are added to the figures for this Colin- ^
trv ill"-" figures for second, third and
fourth tracks, siding, etc. it will be j
found that the aggregate Is 349.870)
miles, against 343.387 in 1909. and
.133.776 In 190? and 324.03.1 in 1907.
Further testimony to the late growth
Of the business Is to he found in such j
details as have to do with th? Increase
In the size of the rolling stock in use. '
Thus R new locomotive for the Atchl- j
son road has an aggregate weight of.
462,450 pounds, or. with the tender.
700,000 pounds, as much as a whole
train would have weighed a few years!
hack
WH AT'S II IS GRUDGE!
That would-be Warwick of the Dem-'
ocratlc hosts, the editor of the Con.- ?
runner. has published a list of
ir.fr whom he names as "eligible" for
the Democratic nomination for the
presidency.
Wood row Wilson1 and Champ Clark
are notable in the list Folk is counted '
In, as well as Heke Smith. Governor
Marshall, of Indiana and Senator Cul
beraon of Texas. Nor are Shafroth,
of Colorado, and Ollle James, of Ken?
tucky, allowed to play hide nnd seek j
any more Chief Justice Walter j
Clark, of North Carolina. Is given a
seat on the wagon, as well ns Gover?
nor Plained, of Maine From the far
West. Mr. Bryan calls Senator Cham?
berlain, of Oregon, and Senator New
lands, Of Nevada Senator Kern, of'
course, would do. and Senator Owen, of
Oklahoma. Is admitted. Even Dlx, of
New York, can come Into the Com?
moner's front yard.
Inspection of this list sftggests at
once the omission of Governor Har?
mon, of Ohio Yet ho has a hundred?
fold better chance for the nomination
than most of the men on the Bryan
list. This Is plainly a declaration of
war upon Harmon* It Is equivalent to
saying that In the opinion of Mr.
Bryan the Ohlnan Is unfit for the presi?
dency.
Rut why? That the Nebraskan has no
love for "Uncle Jud" has been known a
long time, but surely Mr. Bryan does not
think that the Democratic party will
repudiate one ol its distinguished sons |
simply hecause Mr Bryan doesn't liko j
him. Is Mr. Bryan so foolish ns to
believe that he cm plead "Incompati?
bility" nnd get by with it? All fair
minded Democrats are from Missouri
In this matter.
POLLUTING A PURITAN POND.
I^aurenie P. Grose, of Boston, who!
probnbly wears big black tortoise!
shell spectacles and drinks copious I
draughts of lea, has been complaining
bitterly to the Boston Transcript
about the quality of the boys who aro I
now swimming In Waiden Pond, near'
?Concord, made famous by the forest
hermit, Thoreau. He has visited this
s...red puddle lately and his Barret
Wendell sense of the aesthetic has
been rudely shocked by the fact that
he found there "boys of the rougher
sort." who were "without adult super?
vision to check their profanity." It
s.-ems that Waiden Pond Is the hered?
itary swimming place for Concord lads'
as welj as a sacred shrine for those
who revere Thoreau. That any but
? miniature aristocratic mollycoddles
should be allowed to lave themselves
in these sacred waters seems Incom?
prehensible to Mr. Grose. An expla?
nation is made, however, by Samuel
Bowles. Jr.; of the Springfield Repub?
lican Bowleses, who is visiting the
Sherman Hears at Concord Bowles
denies that all the swimmers are of
the hoi polioi, and indignantly pro?
tests that almost any dav you can go
j to the pond nnd see the siick heads of
Mayflower descendants sticking up out
of the water There, says Mr. Bowles,
you will see Fndlcott and Philip Low.
ell, descendants of Governor Endlcott,
of Connecticut, who probably never
saw fl bathtub; Henry and Frank1
Coolid^e, sons of Henry Coolldge, clerk '
of the State Senate, nnd cousin of the '
Beacon Street Coolidgea; Julian Bal?
lon, son of Murray Ballou, president
of the American Powder Company.
Me.idman B. Hoar, son of the late Hon.
Sherman Hoar and admiring brother of
the young political Boris Sid Is, Roger
Sherman Hoar. State Senator, stamp
[collector and captain of the Harvard
?chess team in the year It won from
Yale. Tong Pao' On. son of a great
Chinese mandarin and International
merchnrUi and Charles rcdgarlon. son
of C. S. EdgarUm. of the President
Suspender Company; the sons of .lames
J. Storrow. of Stedman Buttrick, "or
any of a number of other prominent i
Lincoln and Concord families."
However, and the admission is rude
! ly Iconoclastic, Mr. Bowles admits that
some of the rabid.. i;et in the water,
too. Ho does not think that "scions
of European nobility with governesses"
are needed, but he concedes that he,
has seen In the pond boys who might
j say that they "were born without
ancestors." though "their conduct is
so uniformly courteous that the most
careful mothers In Concord do not
hesitate to let their daughters, accom-,
pained by some older person, go swim
mlng in Waiden."
Shades of the Alrotts! think of It! !
"Hoys of the rougher sort" swimming
in a pond not far from "the rude
bridge that arched the Hood "where j
th embattled farmers flrPd the shot!
heard 'round the world." Endleotts
and Honrs and Buttrlcks and Coolldges j
permitting Smiths and Joneses and
Greens and Fitzgeralds and Lnmafi- ;
neys to swim in their exclusive pud- ;
die! How iniprop. r. Waldo, to do such
n thing' Retire to your scriptorium
und peruse Bfty pages ol Emerson at
U ITCH EN ER DESERTS.
Lord Kitchener has not only been at
the head of vast troops of soldiers
hut also has been chief of an army of
many million bachelors Ills Indiffer?
ence and hostility to women long ago
caused him to he catalogued by the j
fair sex as "hopeless." He was looked
Upon as n bachelor In perpetuity. But ]
to almost every man. soon or late, ,
comeih a Waterloo of the heart, and J
Kitchener has. at the age of sixty- ?
one. deserted the ranks of unmarried |
males. His bride-to-be Is about thirty.1
and Is described as very charming. j
Kitchener's aversion to women has
been noted in verse, for it, was of him
that it was said:
"For you preach the merciless gospel j
Of the tyrannous gods of ston?.
That the soldier travels the fastest }
Who travels the road alone."
Kitchener used to declare that he
had little use for a soldier who loved j
a woman. Once he refused promotion
to an officer who had a sweetheart at
home. His change of position shows |
that It is never too late to soften the ?
heart of the most crabbed bacheior. I
Mrs. Kitchener will show him a thing
or two about tactics, and he will find
out who's general In the. Kitchener!
household.
A STANZA OP PEACE.
Surely the Philadelphia Press is J
right in believing that "If President
Taffs activities in promoting univer?
sal peace resuDed In nothing more
Ihnn the eliminatlrrn of a grotesque
stanza from the. English national an?
them, our kin beyond the sea would
have ample reason to Tie grateful to
the Chief Executive of this nation."
The verses of "Amertco." by Dr. Sam?
uel Francis Smith, titled to the same
melody as "God Save the King," ore j
solemn, dignified a*nd reverent in their
sentiment of patriotism. The English
borrowed this same tune from the
Germans and musical antiquarians
have traced the tune back, to the In?
vading Huns, who may have taken It
from Asia Into Europe.
Anyhow, Henry Carey, the author
of "Sally In Our Alley," was most
unhappy In perpetrating such a stanza
as this:
"O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter his enemies.
And mike them fall;
Confound their politics;
Frustrate their knavish tricks;
i">n Hun our hopes wa-rtx;
O. save us all!"
This absurd verse has given way
under the influence of the movement
for international arbitration to one
which is said to have been approved
by King George. It Is:
"0 Lord, our God, arise.
Seal tor his enemies,
Make wars to cease;
Keep us from plague and dearth;
Turn Thou our woes to mirth;
And over all the earth.
Let there he peace."
Retaining the old stanza In the Eng?
lish national anthem has often added
point, we are told, to the assertion
that the British lack a sense of hu?
mor. "Confound their politics." an
expression which conveyed a different
meaning in the latter part of the
seventeenth century. Is comical now.
the new stanza is so much better.
VIRGINIAN STATE PltlDE.
President Robert Burwell Fulton, of
the Miller School, in a recent address
delivered at the dedication of the new
library at the University of Mississippi,
paid this glowing tribute to the Old
Dominion:
"State pride is one of the chief bill- I
walks of our American republic, and
we do well to place Its cultivation
next to the conservation of State
honor.
"In the old plantation days of my
childhood In Alabama 1 heard among
the loik songs that were common one I
that had in it a peculiar strain of '
patriotism and of pathos. The refrain
c.f this song was.
'"Oh! carry me back to old Virginia's
shore."
"Th" Virginian, whether master or
slave, who drifted westward with the
tide of settlement and of civilization
in (he earlier years, to the end of his
days, sang this refrain. Since I have
become a Virginian I have learned
many reasons for this.
A beautiful climate, enchanting
scenery, the heritage of a noble his
L tory filled with honorable achieve
in. nt and devoted self-sacrifice for the
common good?all conspire to instil
patriotic sentiment that Is strong and
everlasting In quiet dignity this
grand old Commonwealth knows,
though she does not boast of. her ser?
vices and her vicarious sacrifices. Her
children love her and honor her for
what she has been and what she Is.
' There is In (ho old Slate a beautiful
expression of patriotic sentiment, in
words that go from heart to heart like
tho lines of Scotland's poet Burns,
which all good Virginians there accept.
and which their faith malces wholly
true.
"The words. In part, nro theso:
" 'The roses nowhere bloom so white,
As in Virginia':
The sxinshine nowhere shines so bright
As in Virginia;
The-hlrds sing nowhere quite so sweet.
And nowhere hearts so lightly heat.
For heaven nnd earth both seem to
meet
Down in Virginia." "
A vary graceful tribute thnt. and
one which Virginians will appreciate
wn rmly.
It is a safe bet that Delegate Wlcls
ersham, of Alaska, and Allornoy-r.en
cral Wickeraham are not claiming kin
' now.
No, "Anxious Inquirer." Gogorsa Is
the name of Madame Barnes's husband,
and Gorgonzola Is the name of the
cheese.
Ccmlng events cast their shadows.
A Wisconsin man Is suing for divorce
because his suffragette wife Intends
to run for Governor.
Voice of the People
Tn\ Itefurm.
To the Editor oi The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.?Many vague charges are being
made against the press of the State,
and the Pres.- Association meeting at
Natural Bridge was obliged to notice
and ret utc these charges. To my mind
this outbreak Shows that the people
are realising more and more the great
power of the press, and also that the
pre.-., is trying to meet its obligation
in serving the people.
The great mass Of the people "feel
things." Instead Of thinking them, and
when things go wrong somebody has
got to smart for It. Hence these
e ha rges.
'1 he average man kt)OWB that some?
thing is wrong (for he can feel It). Ho
reads In the papers Of the tremendous
prosperity and growth of this and that
city or section, nnd how (as the papers
state) the wealth of the South has In-,
creased in the sum of $600,000,000, or
some such incredible figure, in such
and such A time. The local paper will
boast of t.hc sums of money made ('.')
In speculating in city lots and country
places, and carry whole-page ads tell?
ing the people how rapidly the prices
ol lots are going up around town.
Take an average family of six. Is
It prosperity for them to have land
quadrupled In price around town and
pay more rent. Is It prosperity for
ihem to have farm land, which pro?
duces their food. Jump from $10 to
$100? Is It prosperity for them to have
millionaires buy 10,00U-acre estates,
anil turn productive land into a pleas?
ure park? Is it fair to them to tux
their little mite in personal property
to the limit tif they arc honest? nnd
let the speculator In land pay on a tax
assessment which is I here In Virginia)
from ..bout one-fourth of its real value
to one-tenth?
Of course. It Is not possible to pre?
vent the natural economic rise in land
values, but The Times-Dispatch f in I
common with most other papers) has I
not guided public opinion along eco-l
nomic lines as It should have done.
Tho public Is now suspicious. Do you!
know that only 20 per cent, of the lnnd
of Virginia is cultivated, when food Is
so high? Do you know that hundreds
of our young men and young women
arc leaving the Slate because thoy
cannot buy land?
The president of the Virginia Press
Association stated in his speech that
the great question of to-day was tax
reform. Is It not so?
"PIEDMONT."
Charlottesville, Va.. July h. ion.
Take Better Cnre of Sbiit'knr Cemetery.
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?visiting as I often do?person?
ally Interested?the ancient necropolis,
Shockoe Cemetery. It Is pathetic to
note its neglected condition. Weeds,
worthless vines hold riotous sway,
creating n Jungle, n hiding place for
tho moccasin and other creeping hor?
rors. Granting its precincts are now
almost In a state Of desuetude, there
sleep In Its bosom tho ashes of the
illustrious dead, conspicuously Chief
Justice Marshall and many lesser lights
of celebrity?the conspicuous In our
State's history, whose names will never
die. Richmond stands for her public
spirited sentiment nnd unanimously
responds to every call, and in her
prosperity It Is a commentary that
the oldest cemetery property around
which clusters such time-enduring
fand should be hallowed) memories, bo
so ignored by our city fathers. It Is
a much-sought Mecca to sightseers be
cause of its antiquity and Its famous
sleepers. How sad to behold the de?
cay of time and oblivion! There Is
no more fitting memorial to Richmond
and her ancient regime than Shockoe
Cemetery. Only one man employed
there to do everything, grave digging,
etc. One has but to see Its piti?
able condition to be Inspired to plead,
to the committee on such affairs for a
betterment of the state of old Shockoe
Cemetery. The builders of our splen?
did city, many of them, nre resting
there (may I say forgotten?). I hope
you will make a strong appeal for one
more man In the rare <"if Shockoe. My
faith Is strong in your pen. which could
not work-in a holier or more deserving
cause. MBS. H. B. GAINES.
For Better Pension*.
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?Please give me some Informa?
tion: Why Is it that we old soldiers
who get a little pension don't get more
every year, as so many die during the
year, which leaves many thousands of
dollars? What do they do with it?
Don't think It right nnd Justice to
those of us who are almost dependent
on what little we get. to live on to
pension all the old soldiers who have
farms and money in Lank, ns some are
advocating now to pension all of
them: If so. we will never get any
more. We think we in Justice ought
to have a good deal more; so few of
US left. AN OLD SOLDIER.
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LAST spring Counl Patrick O'Brien
de Lacy, a conspicuous figure of
St. Petersburg court society, an<t
of the Muscovite aristocracy, being de?
scended from une of those Irish and
Scotch well born soldiers of fortune
who were induced by Peter the Great
to enter his service two hundred years
ago, was sentenced to penal servitude
for life. In the most remote corner of
Northeastern Siberia, for having In?
cited his confederate, Dr. Patchenko! to
poison by means of cholera and typhus
germs certain of his relatives. In the
expectation of inheriting tortunes that
would otherwise have gone to them.
His wife's only brother. Major Counl
Vasslll Bouturlin. was one of the vie-'
Urns, and an attempt was also made on
O'Brien de Lacy'a father-in-law, old
General Count Bouturlin, which did not
kill hint, but rendered him nn invalid.
O'Brien de Lacy endeavored to stay
th>- prosecution by baring all tne
scandals of his father-in-law's life, but
without avail, and when he wan con?
victed, and giv.>n by the courts the
extreme penalty allowed by Russian
law, that Is. penal servitude for life,
his wife, who had persisted, against
all evidence. In believing In the In?
nocence of the husband to whom she
was so devotedly attached, lost, her
reason, disappeared, and has never
been seen since, although soughT far
and wide, and In spite of the fact
that large sums of money have been
spent in endeavoring to rind n clue to
her whereuoouis, or to her fate.
General Bouturlin had a widowed
and childless sister. Mine, de Lazari.
who was likewise the object of on at?
tempt upon her life by Dr. Patchenko,
at the instance of Count O'Brien do
Lacy. She recovered, hut was so alarm?
ed by her experience, that she did not
consider herself safe any longer at
St. Petersburg, convinced that every
one was after her money, and took up
her residence In Paris, where she made
every effort to conceal her Identity,
and to live In the most quiet and un
obstrusive manner. She died quite
suddenly two weeks ago In Paris, of
heart disease, and now her fortune,
amounting to lU'.fifiO.uOO, goes, accord?
ing to her will, which she made many
yeara ago and which she forgot to
change, to her niece the missing
Co mtess O'Brien de Lacy. If the lat?
ter la dead, then the fortune should
go to her husband, the life convict.
At the time when O'Brien de Lacy
conceived these murders, nnd Insti?
gated their execution. lie was over?
whelmed with debts, and was Im?
patient for money. Had he delayed
a little longer, he, or rather his wife,
would have been placed beyond the
reach of any further pecuniary diffi?
culties, by this bequest of Mme. de
Lazari.
Many people are convinced that the
missing countess Is dead. But since it
Is necessary to establish her demise
before the estate of Mrne. de I^azarl
can be settled, the search for her will
be renewed, and will extend to this
side of the Atlantic. For It Is con?
sidered Just possible that she may, af?
ter recovering her reason, have sought
refuge and complotc oblivion from the
terrible past In America.
If Count O'Brien de Lacy was not
sentenced to death, It is because capi?
tal punishment In ordinary criminal
cases has been abolished In Russia
ever, since the reign of Catherine the
Great. While it'does not exist In civil
procedure. It is retained for military
and naval offenses, and If the Musco?
vite authorities are enabled to send
Nihilists to the scaffold, It is because
political offenders, particularly those
who have been concerned In Nihilist '
outrages of one sort or another, are I
not tried by the ordinary tribunals. |
but by courts-martial, as being beyond
the pale of the ordinary law of the
land.
Unique among the honors conferred
by King George on the occasion of his j
coronation, was that bestowed by him
upon one of his favorite physicians,
who had likewise been the principal i
physician of his father, and of his
grandmother. Queen Victoria, namely.
Sir James Bold. For, according to an
official announcement In the London
Gazette, George V. has by warrant, un?
der his-royal sign manual, granted to
Sir James, authority to add to the
heraldic devices of himself and of bis
descendants, following the "honorable
augmentation": "On a chief gules, a
lion passant, gunrdant. or. armed and
langued, azure, (being one of the lions;
of tho royal nrms.'i" This Is to con?
stitute a lasting recognition of tho I
oare and attention devoted by sir
James to Edward VII. and Queen Vic?
toria.
Sir James, who Is married to the
Hon. Susan Baring, sister of Lord
Bevelsioke, and of Cecil Baring, and
formerly maid of honor to Q.tieen Vic?
toria, is a son of the late Dr. James
Reid of Aberdeen, nnd his connection
I with the royal household came when
he was selected by the late Sir Wil?
liam Jenner. Queen Victorias regular
medlea) attendant, to look after her
and the royal household, during her
stays at Balmoral. This occurred some
thirty years ago. Sir James, like most
of his fellow Scotchmen at the court
of England, Is possessed of much sturdy
independence, and on one occasion, In
the early eighties when Queen Victoria.
' resented his remonstrances. he de?
liberately left Balmoral, .,nd did not
return until pressure was brought to
i hiring him back. The squabble was
j caused at a moment when she had given
'way to some extravagances, which had
1 become a source of great concern to
i all those around her, as, for Instance,
I when she forced her entire court and
household to don mourning and attend
the funeral of a young med'eal stu
| dent, whose only claim oh her con?
sideration was that he had heen tho
j nephew of her favorite personal at?
tendant and gillie. John Brown. At tho
solicitation of Princess Beatrice. Sir
.Tames expostulated with the Queen,
fully realizing that It was most pre?
judicial to her health of mind ard of
body to humor these, tendencies to?
wards melancholia. ,
The old Queen, however, took Sir
James's expostulations very much
amiss. She wag very Imperious, and
belnr; accustomed to administer wig?
gings to such august dignitaries as th?i
Archbishops of Canterbury and York,
when they ventured to offer spiritual
advice to her not In accordance with
her views, and to even coldly silenco
the torrential eloquence of the into
Mr. Gladstone, she declined to toler?
ate remonstrances coming from a re?
latively young and obscure doctor, who
owed his entire rights to the fact that
he was attached to her household.
Whin he left, however, she'Immedi?
ately wanted him back, nnd from that
time forth he became a great favorite,
not only with her, but also with every
one else connected with the royal
household, and especially with her
children, by whom he was often In?
trusted with the task of reasoning
with her. when their arguments had
failed. No one will ever quite know
what Sir James went through during
the last stay of King Edward at
Biarritz. The King would not admit
that he was ill. Yet Sir James spent
night after night, sitting by his' bed?
side, to watch for those choking tits,
which might come on at any moment,
and prove fatal. Indeed, It was a
perfect miracle that he managed to
bring Edward VII. homo alive, to die -
surrounded by his own family and
among his own people. Among tho
honors received by Sir .lames are a
baronetcy, the Grand Cross of the Vic?
torian Order, and the Knighthood of
the Order of the Bath.
By degrees, a number of little
pieces of kindly thought and con?
sideration on the part of King George
and Queen Mary are becoming known,
and contributing to still further in?
crease the growing sympathy with
which they are being regarded by tho
masses. It seems that both of th<rn
have a warm corner In .heir heart*
for that very picturesque class of Lon?
don street traders known as coster
mongers, and with the view of showing
them some token of regard. Invited the
presidents and secretaries of the \Mhlte
chapel and Spltalflelda Cdstermongers'
L'nions. to view the coronation pro?
cession from seats specially set npart
for them In the stand reserved for
the members ?.of the royal household,
on Constitution Hill. The. Invitation
was conveyed to them in the nnme of
the King and Queen, by the former's
private secretary, General Sir Arthur
Hlgge, couched In the most cordial
terms. As soon as the procession was
over, they were conducted by one of
the royal servants, from the stand to
Buckingham Palacp. where they were
received by one of the gentlemen of the
household, and taken to a private room,
where a lunch had been laid out for
them alone. During the meal this of?
ficial sat with them, drank to their
heairh In the name of the King, and
put them completely at their ease,
sending them away delighted. All
this was done on the personal in?
structions of George V. and of hla
consort.
(Copyright, 1011, by the Brentwood
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