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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4. lall.
<;:? O.V, Mit. i NDBRW?OD,
"Truth, like a torch, the more she's
shoo!:, she shines," or words to that
effect. The Hon. William Jennings
Bryan assumes full responsibility for
the editorial article printed In a recent
number ot The Commoner?which can
be had now for two years for the
price of one?which afforded the Hon.
Oscar W. Underwood the opportunity
of denouncing him as a liar In the
House on Wednesday. He took his
text from a report published of what
Mr. Underwood was alleged to have
said at the meeting of the Ways and
Means Committee on the subject ot
dealing with the steel and iron sched?
ule of the tariff at the present session
of Congross. If that report was cor- !
rect, Mr. Bryan has no apologies to
mako; If It was Inaccurate, he will
withdraw his criticism of Mr. Under?
wood so far as It was based on his
action in this particular case: but ho
will stick to Underwood'6 trail and
"take an early opportunity to glvo
hlrn some other things to discuss."
.Which, we make bold to predict, Mr.
Underwoou will discuss In the some
frank and opon way he discussed Mr.
Eryan's provlous misrepresentation of [
him.
In his editorial article, Mr. Bryan
snld: "The action of Chairman Under?
wood In opposing an Immediate effort
to reduce the Iron and steel schedule
reveals the real Underwood. . . . The
unmasking of Chairman Underwood |
will serve a useful purpose If It
arouses the Democrats to an under?
standing of the mistake made In put?
ting Mr. Underwood at the head of
the Committee?if he solidifies his |
policy of delay." Said Mr. Underwood:
"The statement Issued by the gentle-j
man from Nebraska Is false. It has !
been proven false here to-day. ... 1 |
know it Is false. Mr. Speaker, you
know It Is false, and so do all the j
Democrats on this side of the House."
- "Standing upon chalrB. waving hand?
kerchiefs and yelling at the top of
their vol-es. Democratic Representa?
tives yesterday paid honor to Repre?
sentative Oscar W. Underwood, of |
Alabama. Democratic leader of the
House, when ho fired a verbal broad?
side at William Jennings Bryan for
criticising his position on extension
of tho tariff revision programme. It
was the most romar^-blc scene In tho
House since the beginning of the extra
session of Congress." So writes ono
of the spectators of the most unusual
demonstration; but, then. "I.Inden saw
another sight when tho drums beat at
dead of night." There are all sorts
of predictions as to the results of this
first refreshing and soul-llftlng pro?
test against the Impudence of the
thrice defeated'ehnrpplon of a long
Bufterlng party.'* One writer says that
"there Is no doubt thnt the action of
the House In Its clean-cut repudia?
tion of Bryan Will be a serious blow
to the prestige of the 'peerless lead?
er';" that It "will mean thut he will
be unable to wield his old Influence In
the Democratic convention" and that
while he will retain his old personal
following "the fact that the party's
representatives In Congress have
proved him to be guilty of a malicious
fabrication, designed to injure the
reputation of a looming lender, will
prevent him from dictating in his old
absolute manner."
These be strong words: but, breth?
ren, can't the matter be amicably ad?
justed? Isn't there some basis upon
Which we cen save Our Candidate?
"What's the uso of falling out about a
little thing lUe this? Hasn't Mr.
Bryan Been engaged In the same sort
of misrepresentation about ..th^r lead?
ers of the party eve.- since he mis?
represented Mr. Cleveland sixteen
years ego. and never once thought of
apologizing until thai great man was
dying? He is having trouble In his
own .State, the wicked and irreverent
are saying mean things abo'tt him all
over the country, and would It not be
well to save him from the fate of
another Colonel who. In the short
space of u year, has discovered to ;.ll
the rubble that his godlike form and
reputation rested only upon feet ot
clay? Spare us, dear friend*, a little
longer: give us just one more chance
to win the White House with our im?
maculate Wlliiam. who has passed
through many storms and threaded
many forest* only to be overcome now,
li would seem, by the undergrowth
In the meantime, we would say to
Brother Underwood, brave soul, go
forward. Ut her roll; line her out;
give him?well, you know how we
really feel about It, and how a re
awakened Democracy is looking at you
if t,orr.e kindly disposed reportei
who was present during the rucus
will be good enough to inform The
Commoner which of the members of
the House wer* most pronounced ?
their cheering for Underwood, an of
fort win he made to ask them some
oticttioiis which might be embarrass
Ins 'way buck home. for. either lor
purposes of Increasing the subscrlp
tlon 11.8t, or for the sako of keeping
j the. ucmocrutlc ship on*an oven kool
j through tempestuous seas, there must
ho a reckoning beforo tho noxt elec?
tion.
TAIT'S SPLENDID CHANCE.
Mr. Taft has a line chance to make
j the Insurgents wish thoy hud never
I been born and to please some hun
dn rts "f thousands of Domocrats in
all parts of the country. It It the
j easiest snap he ever hud. and
he will novcr have another. We- bo
| Hove that the Insurgents are wholly
t insincere In their attitude, on the
tlirl/t question: that they have been
"playing politics" for fho personal ad
vantage of their greatest leader on
this as on other questions that have ?
j conic up for consideration at the pros
I ent session of Congress. They have j
been gunning for the President every i
I day. and they think that thoy
i have run him up a tree. If he will ;
! play a little politics himself now,
and politics the Insurgents would ln
Muntiy understand, and approvo the'
wool tariff bill and tho farmers' freu ?
I list bill, there would be weeping and .
I walling and gnashing of teeth In the;
! Insurgent Gehenna, an.l their last
state would be worse than the first.
This Is the thing for Mr. Taft to
do, although very few people think
that he will do anything of the sort. 1
One ol the stories In Washington on
Wednesday?although we must say
that it did not coyiu from any "one I
near the President," and was r ot |
vouched for by "a perfectly reliable I
\ friend of tho Administration"?was ?
, that the President has h's voto lues- |
1 sages already written out and locked
j up In h's desk; but he could wellt
j afford to think about these two bills;
] seriously to see If they really arc not
within the same general direction as |
the measures he would recommend If!
ho were making up a tar'ff bill. Wo
think they are. We think that they
are far better than any of the Insur?
gents would have favored If they had
not been so Intent on putting the
President In a hole. They are also
In lino, generally speaking, wo have
no doubt, with tho recommendations
the tariff board will make in their
report next December. If such is the
case?and tho President can very
easily lind out whether it is or not?
he would be merclj. anticipating tho
recommendations ho will make as to
the revision of tho tariff at the next
session of Congress, basing his recom?
mendations then upon the suggestions
uf the tariff beard. There would be ,
nothing wrong in that; that would not \
bo "playing politics"; that would only
be taking advantage of a situation
not of his seeking or creation, but a
Situation he must meet. Meeting it
in this way, the Insurgents would
never be able to pulj themselves out
of the pit they have diligently digged
for their larger and cleaner and but?
ter brother.
Moreover, the President could a-p- j
prove tlio wool tariff bill because ho j
has pronounced the woolen schedule
In the present law indefensible; and he ?
could also with propriety and with j
entire consistency approve the f.irm- ;
era" free list bill because he has re- |
peatedly declared that tho country
must have relief from tho tariff our- ?
dens and that the tariff question
Should be taken out of politics. We
hesitate to advise him as to bis course
In this matter. He would not take
our advice when, with tears 'n our j
voice as big as La Follettc's self
appr- elation, wo besought him to kill i
the i'ayne-Aldrlch tariff bill. He
woul .. t do It, and he knows what
happt . d. We have suggested another
chance, and the finest over offered,
for his deliverance from an embarrass- j
Ing situation, and he will be sorry j
(or it if he shall fail the second time
to take goou counsel,
VAICUAMAX.
"Vardaman, .lames* K . Governor,
Mi-*.. Jan. l, IDui-Jan. 1, isos."
Thatjs all we can lind in "Who's Who
I lit America," Vol VI., 1910-1911. Further;
particulars, however, will be given inj
the next edition, doubtless, or in the
Congressional Directory, alter he takes,
his si at In the United States Senate
two years from now, the plain people
: Of Mississippi li.iving chosen him at
their primary election lust Tuesday to
suce'eed LcRoy Percy, now rilling the
unexpircd term 61 the lute Senator
Mcluaurln. We think the Mtssisslpplans
have made a mistake; but thut is then
lookout.
We d<< not like Mr. Vardaman; but.!
' in time, we may learn 10 love him He!
ceems :<> have been caught in an eddy;
j he is not In the current along with the
! great majority of other Southern? peo-j
pie. trying to make the most of the op-j
portunltiea that ere before them. He'
is generally accounted u violent man,'
ir.'i we arc taught by the Psalmist to I
pray, "deliver me from the' violent I
man," and we think It will be agreed
I without argument thru the south has
! chosen too many of th.it sort to repie-1
sent It In the big affairs of the Nation.'
Percy has madi ..n acceptable Senator;)
' John Sharp Wlli'ams, the other Sena-.
I tor from Mississippi, is, respected fori
jhts great ability, and It was hoped;
'that Percy would lie sent back; but
Vardaman ht.a beaten hlhl, and we shall
have to do the best we can with Var?
daman. He did some very good things
! when he was Governor of Mississippi,
,i^ f< i example, when ho set himseir
[ against the mob, many of whom doubt?
less voied' for htm last Tuesday, and
insisted with f^rce of arms thai the
law should be respected and obeyed;
We have not forgotten his (lnt conduct;
whin; In spite nf ms well-known opin?
ions On the race question, he placed
j the State between a nerro prisoner In
j the hands of the law and the mob 'that
J u-a? i hi rat In*' 'or hit hlnnd W? >.r?
him full credit at tho time for his;
splondtd conduct on that occasion; In?
deed, wo bellovo that he pcrformod the
samo excellent dervice more than once,
and for these and all othor of his
worthy uets as Governor he deserves
recognition.
Probably when he gets Into the Sen
oto ho will give other ovldences of his
good disposition; at least, we shall
continue to hope that he will make a
creditable representative of his Stuto
and the South at Washington. There
appears to be an Idea prevalent that ,
Vardaman is like Jeffries Davis; but
there was never a greater misconcep?
tion of the man. Ho Is not in the sumo
class With Davis, and for that much'
we ..hould all be duly thankful. It !
he pan out well, If he grow Into the
right stature of Senator, none will bo,
more delighted than wo and none more
surprised.
HOKI3 STILL HOLDING O.N".
If Moke Smith had been in his scat
in the Senate on Tuesday ho could
have prevented another entangling al?
liance with the Insurgents: but Holte
Is still hanging on to his Job ns Gov-|
ornor, and will stick to it until he has]
coppered all the plans he has In view!
for the smooth working of his machine,
unless the resolutions that huvo been j
Introduced In the Georgia Legislature
shall be acted on promptly by that!
mushy body. One of these resolutions
Is In the form of a request that hoi
pull up his makes In Atlanta and go to,
Washington to attend to his duties In ;
the Semite: the other, and the more!
attractive of tho two, Is to declare tli? j
term In the Senate for which he has;
been elected vacant and to proceed to i
the choice of another Senator.
Never mind about the first If the last)
can be put. through. .It would settle the'
embarrassing situation. If Governor!
Smith could be eliminated from the race:
for Senator, which does not appear to be,
nt all likely, seeing that the Leglsla-1
ture appears to belong to him. body,
soul and breeches, and would doubtless:
elect him again, pending which result
he could keep on governing the State,
while its interests are neglected at
Washington. The Governor-Senator
seems to have all the better of his
State, so far. But suppose he had been
In Washington and had not supplied
the one vote necessary to defeat the.
machinations of the Insurgents, was!
It not Just as well that he stayed In :
Georgia?
FOR WILSON.
Henry Breckenrtdge, l.ee Kaufman.
Chalmers Hamlll, Jim Hosford, Ferry
Osborn. George W. Guilds, McCarter .
and all the other Woodrow Wilson
boomers will surely he glad to know
that more than half the Senate of
Georgia, including the Jovial and spa
clous .Tule McCurry, are for Wilson,
f.atfootod and to tho finish. Th
Georgia Legislature has passed unani?
mously a resolution Inviting the Man
of Princeton to address that body.
Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb, told the
House that he could not "refrain" from
the opportunity of paying tribute to i
Woodrow Wilson, who is "a scholar,
n stutcsman and. to my mind, the [
biggest figure In Democratic counsels '
to-day."
Georgia. In fact. Ig trying very hard
to claim the New Jersey Governor as!
her own. In real North Carolina
fashion. Wilson practiced law In At?
lanta for two years, but there were
thyster lawyers there then as now
gobbling up tho practice, ami it Is no
wonder" Wilson got tired of the place.
However, Georgia, leaving out Atlanta,
Is a pretty good place.
Twenty-four of the forty-four mem?
bers of tho Georgia Sonate are for ;
Wilson. Two-thirds ot the House j
members are of like persuasion. I
It looks* more like Wilson every day.
" A MEXICAN INCIDENT.
Last November, Antonio Vtodrlgucs.
a Mexican, was lynched In the State
Of Texas. We do not know the par?
ticulars of the difficulty, but the
chances are that he was cither hanged
or shot to death, probably both, and,
If ho escaped without burning, it w.ould I
seem that he "got off light " Yet his
disposition, whatever i: was. has been
made the subject of treatment by the
acrostic method in El Gate, a weekly
newspaper, of which Rnrlque Villare -
nor Is editor. The Initial letters of the
editor's effuslOh are said to spell out
In the Spanish language the vilest
epithet thut tongue affords, and this epi?
thet is applied to Americans: wherefore
Bamuel E. Magill, tho Amorlcan consul
::l Guadelajara, has demanded that the
Governor of the State in which this
newspaper is published shall Inflict'
upon the offending editor the severest i
punishment known to the Mexican!
law. Failing to obtain the satisfac?
tion thus demanded, an appeal will
be made to the American embassy.
The Mexican's offense consists of
writing verses In which the discover)'
of America by Columbus Is deplored,
because, us the singer carols in the
choicest of nil the language of ro?
mance, of the "present Infamous In?
habitants of the United States." Ol
course. It Is hard to bear when ti Dago
talks that way about us; but what uro
the facts? From lSi,'. to November 1,
1010, tho great Amorlcan mob put R.2ST
persona to death In the United States.
Up to November 1. 1010, there were slx
[ ty-six lynching* in this country, of
which sixty-five occurred.in tho South?
ern Stutes and one In the North. Ot
the persons lynched, fifty-eight were
negroes and eight were white persons,
rnd among the victims of the mob
Ihcre were three women! Of the al?
le:- -.1 crimes for which thoy were put
to Jet til, twenty-fix were charged with
murder, fourteen wlih criminal assault
and twenty-six were bunged, or shot,
or burned lor "miscellaneous Offenses,'
with these, slutlstlca at hand, and
tho unhappy fate of Antonio Rodrl
guos In Texas In mind. Ih It uny won?
der that tho Mexican editor, writing
In verse, (should have spoken of the
"present infamous Inhabitants of the
United States?" Dusldes. whatever he
may have written, he surely oould not
hove said anything worse about us
than we' have said about him and the
throat-cutting, horse-stealing, pulque
drlnklng, bloody-minded vagabonds or
Mexico. Consul Magill ought to drop
this oasc right away. There Is noth?
ing to .be gained by tho punishment of
the Mexican editor. The American ed?
itors say worse things about our own
great men than Villazenor has over
dreamed of applying to the "present In?
famous inhabitants of the United
States," end it would nevor do to re?
strict the liberty of the Mexican press
without taking r, whack at our own.
IX NEW YORK.
A citizen of New York has written
the following communication to one of
the newspapers of that city:
"What do you think of tho several
recent attacks In this city upon women
by bands of men'.' Can you conceive
of a more despicable and brutal and
barburous crime than this? .... Is
there any punishment too severe for
these human wolves who hunt In
pa oka?"
In tho crowded subways young wo?
men In New . York have In tho lust
few weeks been kicked and cuffed
about. Insulted and robbed. In one
case, the escort of a young woman
was beaten Into Insensibility by hood?
lums, and sho was relieved of her
uursc and jewelry. Several cases of
this sort have lately taken pluco in
New York, the motive being robbery.
The other day a young woman ap?
pealed to the passengers on it car to
protect hor from a party of Insulting
hoodlums. The men appeared to be
afraid to resent these Insults to a |
helpless woman. She nppeaied to the
conductor, and linally succeeded In
arousing him to do something. Ho
was severely beaten. There wasn't a '
policeman In sight.
In many parts of the metropolis of
the nation the weak ate not protect- j
cd on the streets. The police service
Is Inadequate, if not Inefficient. With
the exception of two or three other
large American cities, such a condition
could not exist. If the police couldn't
Stop It, the men could
NAILING AN OLU GRAFT.
What the Boston Globe calls "a fic?
tion that has been tantamount to pure!
and simple graft." has been discarded
by the National House of Representa-j
tlves. nnd ns a resuit $140,000 has!
been saved to tho Treasury. The fic?
tion allowed the House to grant nn '
extra month's pay to the employees (
of Congress. There ore only twelve
months In the year, as we all know,
hut past Congresses have made It a
baker's dozen. This has gone on for
thirty years The National Treasury
in that period has paid out about
$3,000,000 In salaries thnt were pure
and simple tips.
In tho past, the Democrats In the
minority opposed this appropriation.
They said that if control ever passed.
Into their honds the graft should stop.
Now that they are at last In control. |
by a vote of I'll to 2.*.. the House has '
killed the thirteen-month scheme. It
has taken thirty year? to do it.
This Is another economy effected hy
the Democrats, ami the total Is ol- :
ready tremendous. The Democrats de?
serve the hearty commendation of the
country for tho savings which they
have effected and the grafts which
thoy have extirpated.
W ATTER SON <;Ol.\G WKOXC..
"Marse Henry" must be mod. for a
fact. Ho has boon writing thoughts
that breathe with words that burn In;
the Courlcr-Journnl about the unholy I
alliance that has been made between!
the Republicans and "Reformers" Inj
old Kuintuck. but wo submit for his
reflection, when he can find a spare
moment, that nothing, absolutely noth?
ing. Is added to the strength of his
deliverances by putting them In type
like- TillS. Our dear old friend and
guide und counsellor was not brought
up this way. He knows that It is ut?
terly useless to "holler" In type, and
he ought to quit It. and leave that style
to Clark Howcll, It being necessary In
Georgia, where many of tho people
can't spell out the words unless they
are In capital letters.
SUFFRAGE AXD HOMICIDE.
Some- curious Illustrations of the
fact that custom has fixed one law for
man and another law for woman are
given by Miss Alice Stone Blackwell,
the tireless worker for eepial suffrage.
For centuries the law' has dealt
leniently with wife murderers and
harshly with women who kill their
husbands, according to Miss Blackwell.
Equality before the law la slowly ap?
proaching, but the Influence of the ol(]
Inequality clings nround us still.
Some years ago nn English Judge 1
said to a man who had nearly killed
his wife: "1 am going to make an ex?
ample of you i_et others take warn?
ing' 1 sentence you to three months
at hard labor."
a Hindu coolie cut off the head of
his wife and was amazed and angry
at his arrest. "If a man cannot cut
off the head or his wife, what legal
rights has he"" he asked Indignantly.
A Frenchman who shot his wife
dead after the court had granted her
n legal separation and the custody of
their child was let off with u month's
Imprisonment. Women cannot vote In
France.
One of the common arguments of
the sntl-suffroglsts Is that equal rights
for women would "destroy chivalry."
Women have voted for forty years In
Wyoming, where a woman not long
^ego killed her husbund. Tho Judge
Instructed the -Jury that they must
either acquit her or find her guilty
of murder in tho first degree. Thoy
acquitted hor, the foreman saying
that tho Jury could not send a woman
to the electrlo chair. Equal rights
have not destroyed chivalry In "Wyom?
ing. Women do not vote In Vermont,
where a woman was hanged for mur?
der six years ago.
? WONDERFUL HBCORO.
Ellson Durunt Smith was forty-live
I years old last Monduy. Munscy's,
j Washington Times celebrated tho
j event by printing his photograph, which
I mado him look exactly as if he had
Just returned from a pine-bark flsh
fry on tho Great Peo Dee. and telling
about the mighty things ho has done
"While In college he distinguished him?
self by winning gold medals In debate,
science and literature. And his old
habit of being on hand every time a
sharp debate Is stirred up still clings
to him. He rodo Into the Senate on
a cotton bale, and ho ncvor misses a
chanco to talk about cotton In that
body."
Good for Smith! If he would only
let the mysteries alone and stick to his
; text, keeping quiet when questions of
lmportanoo aro under consideration,
tho Senate would be spared many cur
, scry observations In no way connected
j with the making, the Interpretation or
j the administration of the laws.
A COMMONPLACE Milt AC LE.
I Hlshop Quayle, of the Methodist
! Church, spoke some time ago at a
camp meeting In Des Plalnos. Ohio,
j Hp referred to miracles about which
i people talk so much. He pointed out
? that In Oklahoma they have not had a
'good ground-soaking rain for two
years, nor ha? there been dew on the
; ground for many a long morning. The
'crops aro parchod. Fruit Is growing
?pale. Yfi watermelons come up. ver- \
dant and line, tilled with water.
I Where, does the water como from?
I There Is a miracle. How can that
jgre.it, Juicy core come out ? of that
parched ground? There was a miracle
' In which water was turned Into wine,
i but here is n case where a dry clod
Is transmuted into sug.ir. How can it
i he explained?
Senator Rayner, of Maryland, ac
i cording to the New York Tribune, told
this story at a dinner not long ago:
A Northerner was surprised during a
Southern tour by the number of Talla
f fir roe he found everywhere. Doctors
i lawyers. undertakers. clothiers?all
seemed to be Tallaforros The North?
erner put up In nearly every town at
a Hotel Taliaferro, and If he wished
a cigar a Taliafcrru sold It to him.
He d'd not understand it all, until
one day, in going through a rich coun?
ty, he saw a tremendous mill that.'
bore in great letters the Inscription:
?Taliaferro Manufacturing Company."
"O," he said, "so they turn them out
! by steam."
"The decision of two hundred Wasli
: Ington girls to taboo young men wno
; use tobacco culls to mind one of Kip
i ling's poems," declares the Newport
News Dally Press, with much delicacy
I and chivalry, evidently unwilling to
make the poet's assertion that "a wo?
man Is only a woman, hut a good cigar
is a smoke."
The gyroscope hus been adapted to
the automobile. It stops skidding.
The heavy wheel, rapidly revolving,
holds the machine stroftgly in Its
course. This insures maintenance of
equilibrium, and It will be a boon to
motorists.
John Sharp Willlams's ahsont-rnlnd
edness Is well known. He declares,
j however, that the story is false which
alleges that one day when his wlfo
telegraphed him to meet her and a
wqman friend at the station, he met
them, kissed the strange lady, and
shook hands with his wife.
Voice of the People
Moutugue ut Muuutou.
I Former Governor Montague will
I .-peak at Staunton on the 10th Instant.
! Great Interest is manifested In the ]
! ex-Governor's appearance on the stump
In advocacy of Mr. Jones's candidacy. |
i What will he say??News Item.
!
j A Montague! A Montague
j Is training for the fray; i
Ton thousand ?suffragans await
I To hear what he will say.
j With the logic of a Webster
And the eloquence of Burke,
I He'll tell them what , their duties are.
Point where the dangers }urk.
' In blistering words, a tale unfold
Of darksome politics, .
And (-how thorn that the "grand old
State"
Is in an awful fix,
And like to go from bad to worse,
j It's plain as plain can bo:
i But yet. thank God! there still is hope;
Jones Is the Remedy. ?
! He'll doubtless'say that Martin's bad,
I That Jones Is pure, benign;
i That virtues like an aureole
j His noble life entwine.
'? He will abuse "the vile Machine"
With' all a patriot's vim;
And he may teil them how he felt
When it ran over him.
Ere long another man will rise
1 o nurse some broken bones.
And he can tell us how It was
That It ran over Jones.
Perhaps our former Governor
May be Induced to say
Who ropresent? Jones's district
The while he. is awoy.
There are folks in Virginia
Who think, and boldly say.
A man should always do the work
For which he draws tho pay.
Now. Senator Tom Martin
Is always In his place;
And. for a public servant,
That's a "mighty savin' grace."
He's"~on his job?his direst foe
This fact cannot deny;
And the man who sticks to business
ils the man to which we tie.
Just ono word more by way of partln':
Make no mistake?the name Is M/irtln.
-*. T. M.
Seven Wonders of the World.
What are the seven wonders of the
world? A READER.
The Prnmlds of Egypt.
The Hanging Giirdehs of Semlramls
at Babylon.
The Templo of Diana at Ephesus.
Phldtas's stutuo of Jupiter at Athens.
The Mausoleum at Hallcarnassus.
The Colossus at Rhodes.
The Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexan?
dria.
Negro Population of l'nlted States. 1
Please toll me th? r.cgro population .
of the L'nlted States. C. H. I
According to the census of 1000. the i
negro population was S.St0,7S9, Includ- i
Ing all persons of negro descent. The
population according to nationality,
according tb the last census, hns not
yet been given out.
Reciprocity With Cnnndn.
What does reciprocity moan? W. |
I Reciprocity means speclllcally equal
J lty between the citizens of two cOUn- |
I tries with respect to tho commercial |
I privileges to be enjoyed by each with- ,
j In tho domain of tho other to the
extent provided by treaty.
j Stenmshlp Orrat Mustern.
I Apropos of your reply to T. W. J. on
the "First Atlantic Cable." will you
kindly "inform me what becamo of the
Great Eastern? Was sh0 built ex?
pressly for the purpose of laying cable,
and had sh-; any defects? . In what
yep.r and at what port was she broken
up. If obsolete? READER
The steamship Great Elstern was
designed by I. K. Bxun%! an.l built by |
Scott. Russell & Co . at, Mlllwall, Eng- ;
land, for travel east around the Cape
of Good Hope. The company under- '?
' taking this route figured thut on ac- '
! count of the cost of maintaining eoal
; Ing stations a vessel would not pay
unless l;iro enouirh to carry coal for
the voyage out and back, a Urg.- num.
' ber of passengers and a great cargo.
SO the Great Eastern was designed and
built. She waa 6?2 feet long. S3 feet
wide and was divided Into eleven
1 v.;;t?rtig'nt compartments. She hod six
masts, five funnels, with 100 Turn in*
and ten boilers. She Had both paddle
wheels and sorew, and her unit ...
wero estimated a; 1 l.ono-horse power.
She had capacity for 1,000 passen-,
G.0?0 tons of merchandise and IS.010
tons of coal.
Her troubles ocgan before She w.:m
off the ways, for either the slope Was
too gradual or the ship too heavy, fur
It required various attempts between
November 3. 1837. and January 31, lKti?j
and an outlay of ?60,000 to cfle. * a
launching. The directors determined
upon a trial trip across the Atluntlc
It was u disaster. Tho ship left tho
Thitmes September 8. 1851?. An explo?
sion of steam off Hastings killed
seven and wounded several of the pas?
sengers, and the voyage ended abrupt?
ly at Weymoutn.
She started again Juno 17, 1861, car?
rying thlrty-olght passengers and
eight guests, atij took eleven days for
the trip to Now York. She remained
In New York on exhibition, until Au?
gust Z6i .vhen she returned to England.
In 1S6I sho carried ?J.ooT) troop* from
England to Canada, but her voyages
were all losing venture? au the re?
ceipts never met the current expenses
and the outlay for necessary repairs.
In 1864 the ves*ej wax first employed
to lay the Atlantic cable, and was used
for that purpose for nearly threo
years. in IS?7 she war reconverted
to tho :)as.<engcr-carryin* trade, and
en mo to New York prepared to ca rry
2.'.'00 passengers to the Patls Exposi?
tion, returning to Euro&e with 191.
and was seized upon he: arrival It?
the soamen claiming their waget. In
IS68 *he was ngaln chartered to the
Telegraph pfm? tructlon and Mainte?
nance Or.mpany, or.d the name, which
had been changed to Levin t ah. Great
Eastern. Oroat Ship, v-as iigali re
Btored to Great Eas'err. Between
1*69 and 1*7 1 the successfully laid
some of the more Important Cables In
the Atlantic. Mediterranean and Red
Seas After forcing ns a coll hulk In
Gibraltar in JSSL the Ore.-:'. Kastern
was fold at auction In London for
(26.000, jnd for n time was used as a
show uhlp. In IS'S she vns attain lold
at auction and was broken up.
BIG CONSIGNMENT
OF BRITISH DUKES
UY LA MAHQl ISE DR FOXTFXOY.
TUE Duke of Sutherland, accom?
panied by the Duke* of Somor
minster, art- booked to rail fr?m
? England for New York, on the new
? Cunnrd liner Olympic, on August ?.
j and on reaching Now York will em
I bark on the Duke of Sutherland's
? steam yacht, now in American wat
' ers. under charter to Colonel Robert
M Thompson, for Hulifax, Nova Scotl".
From there, the biggest consignment
of British dukes that has ever reach
: ed American shores at one time will
j proceed up the River St.' Lawrence,
j and through the Great Lake,: as far as
? Fort William; from wnence the Jour
; ney will be continued by rail and spe
clal train to Brooks, In the province
, of Alberta, where the Duke of Suther?
land has acquired very large hold
ings, with the object of settling farm?
ers of his own there, from Ills Scot
! tish estates. The Dukes of Westmlns
I ter and of Bedford, both of whom aru
[ colossally rieh, art expected to follow
I the Duke Of Sutherland's example, and
to Invest largely in. land In Alberta,
I for larmlng purposes.
Afterwards the party win visit tha
i Duke of Sutherland's holdings al
I Clyde, in Alberta, in Saskatchewan.
and at Fort George, in British Oolum
, bia, near the Fruser River. The par
( ty will go West, as far as Vancouver,
and on returning to Fort William win
! re-embark there on hoard the steam
! yacht Cutania. for Montreal, w'hen
I train will be taken for New York, the
return bein^r made to Liverpool on
! board the Olympic, at the end of Octo
; ber or beginning of November.
Tnero is' no one more enthusiastic
I than the Duke of Sutherland about
\ the future of the western provinces or
: Cunada, and apparently he Is com?
municating his i-.nthusiusin to his fel
1 low dukes, who. held up to obloquy In
; England, by the present government,
! as "seitlsh landlords." are likely to
i rind a warm welcome Ln Canada, where
j socialism has not yet secured so
1 strong a footing as in the old ooun
I try.
I Of course, to Canada, tho advantage
of having rew land settled by skil?
ful, thrifty and picked agriculturists,
as tenant farmers of great English
; nobles, who have vast wealth at their
; command to give financial backing
land moral support to their tenantry,
j is of undeniable advantage to the Do?
minion: at any rate for a considerable
time to come.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand has
finally determined not to purchase the
Castle of Orth, on the Gmunden Lake,
ln Upper Austria, which belongs to ex
Archduke John Salvator. recently de?
clared dead, after being missing for
over twenty years. The result is that
the castle and its contents are about
being offered for sale by public auc?
tion.
Srrlctly speaking, there are two cas?
tles: one on the mainland, and the
other on a rocky island, connected
with the mainland by an artificial
causeway. Both are very old. dating
! from the sixteenth century, the cas
i tie on land being In the infinitely bet?
ter repair of the two. The contents
have been valued at about 11,500,000,
and they comprise somo superb tapes?
tries, very fine furnlturo, and all sorts
of bric-a-brac.
Unless some American or European
with a large fortune steps in, and
buys these two chateaux, ' which are
situated ln the most picturesque por?
tion of the Gmunden Lake, It Is ox
pected that they will bo converted into
a sanatorium for the treatment of
nervous disorders.
Lord Rcndlesham, who has Just been
subjected to an amputation of his right
hand, owing to blood poisoning, re?
sulting from the sting of some un?
known insect, is a man of over seven?
ty, who Is one of the best known fig?
ures In English life.' and perhaps the
most popular of all-round sportsmen
In -tho United Kingdom. Ho has sev?
eral times held office as steward of tho
Jockoy Club, has achieved distinction
as. a shot, as a yachtsman, and In tho
hunting field. He has no seat In tho
House of Lords, his peerage being an
Irish one, tho first, indeed, created af?
ter the act of union.
Ho maker, his homo at Rcndlesham.
a beautiful place In Suffolkshlre. wh'ch
old Peter Thollusson bought In tho
eighteenth century from tho Womb
well- f?mily. The Rendlosham peer
ana la neeullac In the fact thai It In
the only one hold by n family of Swiss
origin For Peter Thellusson, who
bought Rend I el hum, was born at
Geneva, as a Swiss citizen, and us tho
sun of that llaac ThellUMsun who ng
ured as Swiss ambassador at the court
Of Louis XV.
Peter Thellusson came to London in
1762. at the age of twenty-five,
secured letters of liaturallxation
us an Englishman, embarked in
business, and accumulated a large f .r
tnno, estimated at some f5,600,UOO, by
succeesful investments, enterprises and
speculations, as Well as by the Utmost
avarice- He se-ma to have been a
most disagreeable old man. with i
harsh, hard voice, who so terrorised
his family that ills wife isj.iid to have
died of a broken heart: while after
his death, hi* portrait, which still
ngures at Rendlosham Hah. was shot
full of holes by his disgusted soni
when they found that according to hit
will neither they nor their children
were to enjoy any of the vast proper?
ty which he had left behind him.
The will provided that the fortune
should go on accumulating at com
! pound interest curing the lives of his
' eight sons and of his grahdchildrtti.
j Then the entire property was to be
! conveyed to tho senior great-grand
! child, on the condition that he as
1 sunied the name of Thellusson. If ho
. did not already possess It at birth;
1 and that In default' of this compliance
I with his wishes or ln the event of
j there being no great-grandchild, the
j accumulated fortune should be applied
j through the agency of tho sinking
j fund to the redui tlon of the national
; d. bt.
His motive In making this will was
! partly due. to a malignant hatred of his
children and grandchildren and part*
j ly to vanity, anxious as he was that
nearly a century after his death his
j name should be perpetuated by the
I largest fortune ln existence,
j Of course his testamentary dispogl
? tlon* created a great deal of con
. troversy, criticism and litigation, and
I led to the enactment by Parliament e.r
j tho Thellusson act. which became " a
. law of the land in, 1&00, and whien
renders it Impossible for personal
property to be tied tip for more than
I twenty-one years after a testator's
i death. But tho law was not retronc
i live, and the will was upheld, by decis
! Ion oi the Houso of Lords, in June,
I lSCiS. Litigation continued, however.
I among the various members of the
! family for the following llfty years
, or more, enriching generuttoiis of law
j yers=.
The laiit surviving grandchild died
In February, 1S5C. and then a <{uestlon
arose us to whether the oldest male
descendant, or the senior male de?
scendant of tho oldest son, should in?
herit the property, the matter being
brought to a conclusion on final ap?
peal in lSHO, ln favor of the senior
male descendant of the oldest son.
namely, the present and fifth Lord
Rcndlesham.
It is said that owing to the extra?
ordinary expenses of all tho sixty
years of litigation, the fortune which
j thus came Into the possession of Lord
I Rendleshnm was only about twlpe the
size of the wealth left by old Peter
Thollusson at the time of his death.
If Charles Dickens did not linmcdl
I ately intend the Thellusson case to ho
! the original of "Jarndyce versus Jarn
i elyce," he nt any rate makes an obvi?
ous reference thereto In the preface
of "Bleak House." written In lsr.3. In
the following words. "There is an?
other well known suit in chancery,
not yet decided, which waa commenced
before the close of the last century,
and ln which fabulous sums have been
swallowed up In costs. If I wanted
other authorities for Jarndyce versus
Jarndyce, I could rain thorn on theso
pnges."
(Copyright 1911, by the Brcntwood
Company.)
I ii????? mil in ?linn i mi ii ?SB? i?
IWOMEN
It's a wise woman who puts a 1
little money In the savings bank
regularly. No woman can tell when
she'll need money pretty badly. The
National State and City Bank has
i many women amofig its deposi?
tors. Why not prove your thrift
I and wisdom by becoming one ot
j them? I
I National State and City Bank,
RICHMOND, VA.
Win. IL Palmer, President.
John s. Flint, Vlcr-Presldejot.
Win. M. Ulli, Vice-President.
J. W. Slntou, Vice-President.
Julien H. Hill, Cashier.