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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER IP, 19X1.
CARRINGTO.\ AT Tin: PENITEN?
TIARY.
There is a good deal of talk about
appointing some ofher physician ' to
take the place of Dr. Charles V. Car
ring ton as Burgeon to the Vlrg'nln
State Penitentiary. What for? Why
shrtild there be any chungo In this of?
fice? Who else is bettor fitted for it
than the incumbent? What has he
done, or foiled to do. that would justi?
fy the Governor of the State In nam?
ing any other physician to tuke his
Vlace? This Is not a political office,
and should not be regarded as one of
the loaves and fishes tobe distributed
among the workers. It Is not a..per?
sonal possession to be given away for
personal reasons. It. Is an office* that
snould be tilled by the Attest person,
and the littest person. It seems to us.
in the man who has filled If with dis?
tinction, who hus been faithful to hlsj
trust, who has initiated reforms, who
has converted the State Prison from a
breeding-place of disease and death
into an institution where the inmates
are treated with humanity, where the
sick are well cared for und the death
rate has been greatly reduced. The
year before Dr. Carrlngton began his
services as physician to the peniten?
tiary there were thirty-seven deaths
among the 1,130 inmates of the prison;
the average number of prisoners in
.the penitentiary during the last fiscal
year was 1,265, and the number of
ile?ths was 3 per 1.000. The difference
between .17 nnd ft is the difference be?
tween the management Of Dr. Carrlng?
ton and the management of the peni?
tentiary before he began his great
work.
Why should there be any talk of
putring somebody else, unybody else,
in his place? If he had not made good,
if he had neglected his duties. If un?
der his administration the sanitary
condition of the pen had not been im?
proved, if he had failed In any way to
give good service to the State, we
should say he ought to go; but why
8 tried nnd efficient officer In a place
which should be free from the touch
;>f personal politics should be put out
to put somebody else In, Is one of tho
many things which we cannot under?
stand. , H may be that there is noth?
ing in the stories that a change in
this office is to be made, there has been
no official proclamation on the subject,
at least, and for the present we prefer
to believe that the appointing power
would not make a change just for the
sake of a change, or make any change
without giving due consideration to
the welfare of the public service. Dr.
Carrlngton should bo kept where he
is. because he has proved his fitness
for his place.
DEAD AGARS >3> HARMONY.
In the last number of The Catalogue.
Mr Bryan conies out strong against
"Harmony' in the Democratic party.
He doesn't want It. won't have it, It
he can help It. and vociferates that
"the nu-n who are now preaching har?
mony should understand that harmony
will cost the party its chances of suc?
cess We have not had harmony In
the party for fifteen years, but we have
seen the progressive element of the
party dominating Hie political thought
of the country, and it is ready to sweep
the country- Shall we turn over the
fighting to th) progressive Republi?
cans? ? ? . What we need is not har?
mony, but a straightforward tight for
principle in behalf of the public?such
a fight will win."
We do not know what effect this
sermon will have on the party; but It
show.- very clearly where Mr. Bryan
stands, that he is willing to die rather
thap yield; to rule or ruin tne party
as he has ruled and ruined it for six?
teen years. He has raised the war
(ry against Wull Street again, declares
that "Wall Street Is bribing the cor?
ruptible, fooling the gullible and
frightening the timid," and that "the
Wall street crowd will be at the next
convention, as usual, ready to sell liar
tnony ut wholesale at the regular price,
namely, the betrayal of the public "
Down with the W&U Street crowd! Up
with the banner of the Invincible
Leader of the Derr.ocra.tic Party once
more; the Boy Orator of the Platte,
the Irreproachable Master of Men and
Assemblies, the Great Unforgiving
Tribune of the People: Harmony,
avaolnt! The Democratic party can't
win without It; but that is na^rssrrso
why we should have Jt. Divided coun?
sels, reckless expel iments, Irreconcil?
able antagonisms, partisan differences,
broker, confidences, helpless warfare?
these are the elements of the great
N'ebraskan's strength
"Double, double toll and trouble;
Eire burn, and cauldron bubble "
Af matter of fact, the only time the
Democrats have won since Mr. Bryan
Resumed the mastery of the parly was
when the party refuted to follow his
leadership, when, tired of the unnal
>.caj. divisions he had cultivated, tne
voters made up their minds to sot on
their own responsibility, and with the
result that In the present Congress
the Democrats havo an overwhelming
majority. Mr. Bryun sought to make
s Infiuoqco In tho organization of the
Senate felt: his advice was rejected and
the Democrats in the Senate wore
never more effectively orgunlrod or
capable of doing more and better work.
He "demanded" that the Democrats in
the House should follow htm: they fol?
lowed L'nderwood, under whose leader?
ship they have uecn woldod together
In a lighting farce not known beforo
since the malign influence of the Ne
bruskun obtained possession of the]
party. Ho submitted a catechism of]
paramount questions to the Demo-j
cratic candidates for President. Only
one of them was weak enough to an- j
swet.
Not satisfied with tho Intimations he I
has received that his advice is not re
garded us In any senset necessary to
the success of Democratlo measures,;
Mr. Bryun now holds up harmony in I
the party to the derision of the multi?
tude. This is really tho queerest of I
the many vagaries of Our Candidate;'
but we know him woil enough to think]
thai this is not the last curd ho hasj
to play In his little game against tho I
Democracy. Will he be a candidate
for President? Is the weather cold atj
the North Polo?
TALKED AHOL'T THE TRUSTS.
President Taft spoke at Dotroit yes.
terday. His subject was "Trusts."
He said nothing in favor of these j
Industrial combinations In restraint of
trade, combinations which were cre?
ated and fostered, It must not be for?
gotten, by the political party whoso
support Mr. Taft is now seeking for
another term in tho White House. His
exposition of the recent decisions of
the Supreme Court was entirely in
keeping with the views already ex?
pressed by this newspaper; the mean?
ing of the anti-trust statute has been
made clear after twenty years of liti?
gation, and wo do not see how any
contract in restraint of trade, mado
for the purpose ot excluding compe?
tition, controlling prices, or of main?
taining a monopoly where it affects
interstate trade, can escape the con?
demnation of the law as finally con?
strued by the highest Court in tho
land. The decision of the Court is not
legislation, but construction of legis?
lation which would not by literal In?
terpretation accompli!"!! the purposes
for which the legislation was do
:dgned.
We agree with Mr. Taft that tho
decisions of the Supreme Court havo
cleared the air, that combinations
hereafter formed In restraint of trade
will be formed against the light; that
the combinations heretofore formed
must be dissolved; that wo can get
along without monopoly; that we can
get along with competition; that the
public Interest has been conserved by
the decisions of the Supremo Court;
that amendment of the anti-trust law
would only result in further embar?
rassment to the business Interests of
the country, and that tho business
men of the country must square them?
selves to the necessity of competition
"or wo must proceed to State social?
ism and vest tho Government with
power to run every business."
Mr. Taft'a speech on trie subject of
the trusts and his exposition of the
meaning of the decisions of tho Su?
preme Court were exactly what might
have been expected from him, in view
of his frequent discussion of the same
subjects; but wait until he tackles the
question of the tariff ?und his failure
to approve tho work of the Congress
which gave him a chance to carry out
the pledges of his party and his own
pledges to revise the tariff downward,
and there will bo doubtless qulm
enough points of difference to make
the debate both Interesting and In?
structive, not only In the newspapers,
but on the stump and In Congress |
when this Issue of all Issues Is pre?
sented for the decision of tho peoplo
and of their representatives.
A FT Elt SIXTY YEARS.
Sixty years ugo, on the 18th of Sep?
tember, the first number of the Now
York Times was printed. Its editor
was Hetiry J. Raymond and Its publish?
er George Jones. Raymond owned a
fifth Interest In the paper, Jones owned
one-half, und E. B. Wesley the remain?
der. The capital stock was $40,000.
The paper was Issued from u narrow.
Ill-fitted building in Nassau Street. It
was a small foilo, with four pages of
six columns each, und wus sold at one
cent a copy or delivered by carrier at
I <14 cents the week. Since that day in
1S51 The Ttmos has changed its home
five times, and Is now building a new
bouse In Forty-third Street, far above
the city limits when It first began
business It has grown from very
small beginnings into an enormously
big affair.
Yesterday It celebrated Its six?
tieth birthday with a special edi?
tion, filled with a complete ?tory of Its
I lifo and times, the men who made. It.
?he vsrled experiences and vicissitudes
through which it has passed, and tho
reasons for its existence. It Is a mov?
ing story of lofty ambition, worthy
purpo-e and high achievement. Many
newspaper men of distinction celebr.it
' ed the ?vent with communications
' touching directly or remotely upon tho
j history of the paper, the duty and
j obligations of the Pi ess, the art of.
j newspaper-making, and so on. When
' The Times was started, New York City
had a population of about half a mil?
lion; to-day it has a population of
4.766,888, and the little thumb-paper
I of Jones and Raymond and Wesley has
j kept even pare with the magnificent
rrowth of the great community In
I v Mch It has ever been a power for
I gr.od. It Is now read dally by 100,000
neo?le, and iast year its cost of pro
auction wai more than 1*1,260.000. As
: Tho Times eays In Its birthday fellcltu
tlons to Itself and Its readers: "In try
j Ing to serve tho publlo well It has beat
? served Itself. its sixtieth year has
j beun the most prosperous In Its his?
tory." Our most hearty congratulations
, to tho men who mako It every day and
to the people whom It serves and to
j tho guild to which It belongs. Length
j of days and long lifo und peace to Tho
1 Times und Its puoplo.
This birthday edition of our big con
tomporary contains a great deal of
food for thought about newspapers und
what they nro and what they ought
to be. "From the beginning the found?
ers and tho makers of The Times
havo held It and regarded It, not as an
instrument of private servlco and util?
ity, but as an Institution dovoted to
the public use. . . Its guide has been
the conscientious Judgment of its con?
ductors in determining what alms nnd
causes, what, men and measures, ought
to be helped on and encouraged for tho
good of the community and the coun?
try." That must be a rather hard am?
bition to live up to. for so many of
the newspapers full to roach it; hut The
Tlmos has lived up to its principles,
and grown rich and powerful in doing
it. In the opinion of Samuel Bowles,
of tho Springfield Republican, who has
contributed A valuable article to this
birthday number, the guiding princi?
ple and purpose in newspaper-making
is "to convey information, to present
truthfully, accurately, a daily record
of tho world's essential activities,
movements. experiences. tendencies.
The newspaper producer may reason?
ably seek to make his sheet enter?
taining and attractive, us well as in?
forming; he may properly lend the in- j
tiuence of his editorial page to certain j
causes; but such features should be
subordinate to the main purpose, and I
when the editor voluntarily or under
coercion deliberately distorts and ex?
aggerates the record of facts, and par?
ticularly when he consciously magni?
fies evil, for the purpose of seli-ng
papers, he becomes false to his trust
and an enemy of society."
The present editor of The Times Is
CbarleB Ransom Miller, a Dartmouth
College man, und a most accomplished
writer and sound thinker. The publish?
er of Tho Times is Adolph S. Ochs, who
learned how to make a newspaper down
in Chattanooga, and who hus achieved
amazing success In the larger metro?
politan Held. That the people who
work with him in the making of The
Times think well of him wus evidenced
in their congratulations to him on his
tiftieth birthday, which occurred last'
March, and which they expressed Hi-!
these happy terms:
"In their dally relation of co-work?
ers, they havo found you just, consid?
erate, resourceful, enlightened of view, |
undaunted by difficulties and unspoiled j
by success, preferring always the
Straight and open way to the path ot j
indirection, us mindful of public re-j
BPOnsiblllty as of private duty, loyal to ;
principle oven at the cost of present j
advantage; and they are prompted by
sentiments of very real friendship and
respect to tender you In this way their
good wishes."
It was worth living and working
for fifty years to win and deserve such
a tribute as that, and we hope that he
will be able to run out ut least another
fifty years, Just to seo The Times con?
tinue to grow.
Tin: WEAKNESSES OF THE LAW.
The Kansas City Journal snys that
sometimes the law Is wcuk in little
things and sometimes weak In big ones.
A cold-ljlooded, unprovoked murder
took place on the streets of Kansas
City, in plain view of several specta?
tors After a delay of live years the
law Is powerless to fasten the crime
on anybody. That is "ono of the big
weaknesses"?not so much of the law
ns of Its administration. Another man
"beats up" a woman on the street, and
the law regards It as a misdemeanor,
when it should be a felony. That
should be remedied. An undertaker
?-rets from a poor widow money to give
her husband a decent burial, a sum
small In itself, but large to her. In?
stead of applying the money to tho
purpose for which it was given and
taken, the body is buried In the pot?
ter's field, and the law of Kansas says
that there Is no actionable offense of
any sort committed?though the un?
dertaker was Induced to return the
price of another lot, burial in which
removes the brand of pauperism. The
law should provide some sort of pun?
ishment for so hold a betrayal of trust,
even If the undertaker had lost some
money on the Job.
In Kansas an unusually barbaric out?
rage was perpetrated by a bunch of
cowards upon a defenseless woman,
who was subjected to Indignities that
would have been unworthy of savages.
Again the law Is "hazy" as to whether
the criminals enn be sent to the pen?
itentiary or escape with only n nominal
punishment, The' voice of the law
ought to be lifted against such crimes.
The penalty of the law should be com?
mensurate with the aggravated natura
of the crime. "There is Uttlo danger",
that the law will be too harsh," says
tho Journal. "The danger Is all the
other way In most Instances, and It Is
rarely outstdo tho comic opera that
the 'punishment' really 'fits the crime.'"
"THERE AIN'T NO WEST.?
. A Kansas City hoy a few days ago in!
a moving picture show saw wild and'
WOOlly picture fitorios of the West, in-;
j dlnnS jumped up and down in their war:
dunces, brandished tomahawks and]
I scalped pale-faces with much action.
Cowboys thundered up at the last min?
ute Just In time to'save the beauteous
maid from a fearful fate at the hands
of the rapacious redskins; then re
tuined to the ranch and galloped
around herds of buffaloes The pral
i rles bockoned and the canons called
1 .to the lad. He dreamed of himself as
I a cowboy hero, elad In bearskin chaps
I and armed with nj least two slx
I shooters.
So tho boy stoalihlly slipped away
i from homo. Ho caught a freight train
j and Btarted out into tho Wyoming
! wilds. The disillusionment came slow
I ly- Ho saw nobody In the West that
j could have been used in a "woolly"
' motion plcturo show without a good
j bit of making up. Cowboys In chaps.
I wearing big pistols, wcro not In evi
; donee. Street curs wsre running along
i the old Indian trulls. The boy was
j disappointed and disillusioned. He felt
that ho had been cheated.
Finally, the thought of home came
' to him, and he went buck to Kansas
City. Ashamed to face his father, ho
hid, and at lust was halod into tho
! Juvenile court, where he tuld the result
? of his journey of discovery. He said;
."There ain't no Weal-'
Suro enough, "there ain't." Lads who
toe Indians with scalping Knives on
' the motion picture wurputh cannot find'
j them In real lilq ever so far out West
Tho Indian of to-day is a very peace?
able person. Kurely does he live in a!
top..-e of boughs. He wears store- '
bought clothes. His children go to
school.
All this suggests to the Savannah
New.-; that "It : i ght bo a good plan
tor all motion pictures to bear the
dato of their .-upposed uctlon." Let
sculping scenes be dated 1SS5 or soon?
er. Tho almost extinct cowboy of the
old West and the "oud man" should be
so dated thut youths may be spared
the Journey In search of thnt which
is no more.
GLAD HE STAYED A WAV.
There were twenty-live Governors at
tho Conference out ol forty-six. Amon~
the absentees was His Excellency, the
Hon. Coleman Livingston Blease, Gov?
ernor of South Carolina, and somebody
has offered what the Raleigh News and
Observer calls "a tilting rebuke to
South Carolina's Governor, who waa j
not present at the Conference of Gov- j
ernors when the biggest question of j
this generation came b?foro that 1
body." The rebuke consisted In the |
statement that while It was of In- i
terost, It was of no significance, that j
"the Stnte of Calhoun und McDuffio, i
the State or Nullification, the State that j
protested when the 'Star of th? West'
was sailing to the relief of Fort Sum- j
ter, and thut led to all the other
States In protesting to the point of !
separation from tho Union, was not
represented."
But the Protestant seemed to forget
that having done all this, the State
of Calhoun and McDuflle, and the rest
of the rljfmarole noted, should have
been excused from taking part in one
of the most foolish things the Con?
ference of Governors has done. Be?
sides. Governor Blease had "a pre?
vious engagement." He was attending
the convention of the Redmen at
Cleveland, Ohio, an almost equally Im?
portant gathering of the real sove?
reigns of this country, and it was bet?
ter for the good reputation of his
State that he was at Cleveland tlian if
iie had been at Spring Lake.
WHO PAID THE niLLSt
The cost of The Colonel's African
hunting trip was $S0,000, of which
?57.000 was paid by the Smithsonian
Institution, acting for several man ot
wealth who contributed privately tho
money.
Who are these men? What relation
did they hear to the famous sportsman
when he was In thj White House?
The Colonel began muklng arrange?
ments for this expedition more than a
year before he left the Presidency. It
Is believed that while he was in '.hat
office he committed the Smithson'an
institution to the enterprise. He went
almost directly from the White House
to the wilderness. No other President
or King ever went hunting in so much
pomp or at so much expense.
Very fairly, then, does the St. Louis
Republic say: "We think the people
would like to know who footed the
bills. We believe also thai they have
a right to know."
We believe so, too.
WHY WE HAVE FIRES.
Former Fire Chief Edwartl F. Croker
gives in the current number of
"World's u ork" some reasons why wo
lose yearly millions of dollars and
thousands of lives on account of tiro.
These reasons are:
Carelessness In factories, which in
most cases means dirt and rubbish
and oily waste.
Carelessness in the use of mutches.
W.ho stops to watch where a lighted
match falls after it has been used to
light a cigar or clgurette?
Bad electrical wiring.
Careless housekeeping.
Dark and dirty hullways. People at
night scratch matches to rind their
way about, and throw the match in a
corner Into a pile of rubbish, and u
few hours later there Is a call for the
firemen.
Dark basements. Tenants go down
after coal or wood with a candle or
with matches. A startling number Q>!
bad fires occur in this very way.
Oil stoves.
01d-fushion<-d oil lamps.
Cigar and ligarelte stubs.
All these causes are easily removed.
A little more carefulness, and tho fire
loss would be vastly decreased.
SUBSTITUTES FOR EGOS.
The evil days are upon us. Antici?
pating the high price of eggs, an Amer?
ican concern Is making an ogg substi?
tute. It is being used widely In the
United States, and In England Is even
mnr> extensively demanded. The Brit?
ish article 1? sold by almost every gro?
cer. One brand of egg powder sells
at 8 to 16 cents the tin, according to
s'ste, and another at 8 to^H conts. or
1! cents per dozen small packets. There
is also a new prodnot known as "Eggo,"
which is declnrcd to consist of now
laid eggs In the for.rrvcf powder, which
Is retailed nt 13 conts iho carton.
These substitutes are not sold through
agents, but directly by the makers to
the various retail stores and grocers;
thuv o-ro waU known!and.widely, used.
I A method often ndouted to spread the
j sulo of such articles Is to deliver small
' samples at householders' residences,
j with names of nearest retailers.
The prices of eggs on the wholesalo
London market In the first week In
August, por ten dozon, were: French,
! $2 to $2.80; Italian, $2 to $2,34: Danish,
j $1.8$ to $2.36; Hungnrlun, $1.46 to
$1.94: Russian, $1.62 to $1.76; English.
I $2.43 to $3.01.
A TREE'S VALUE.
A construction company In New York
cut down ;i tree and tho owner Hueti
lor cfuitiutses and was awarded $500.
11 was a line tree, no finer than many
, other trees. The decision Is Important,
because it shows that the law regards
a tree us valuable. On account Of thut
tree, the public derived much pleasure,
, and this fact entered into the value
' from the owner's viewpoint. The in?
trinsic value of the tree might not
? have been great. There wan not more
than $10 worth of wood In tlie tree.
j but there was $500 worth of pleasure
to the owner and his neighbors to?
gether.
SIGNS OP THE IIAND.
Dr. Holmes, the psychologist of tho
University of Pennsylvania, who is re?
membered In Richmond as a speaker
at the great, rally of the men':; Bible
classes two years ago. lately address?
ed the Delaware County teachers' In?
stitute In Indiana. He suid:
"Tho hands of an Imbecile or men?
tally deficient person are ulniost al?
ways smooth, with a pink skin like
that of a baby, and when the hand is
allowed to .relax the lingers assume a
straight position. Sometimes th? fin?
gers are short and stumpy, and hav.i
bumps on them, although they may
never have been used to manual labor."
The doctor goes on. adding tests. If
a child use Its thumb and fingers In
picking up a pencil or other object. It
is normal, according to the psycholo?
gist. If one. In grasping a bar to pull
himself up. places his- thumb on the
opposite side of the bar. he Is nor?
mal; but he Is dellclent if he put tho
thumb on the same side with the fin?
gers, as monkeys do.
John H. Fahey. formerly a news?
paper slave, but now a freo man. liv?
ing In clover on what he made out of
the business, has been "doing Europe"
this summer, and when last heard from
was nt St Andrews. "Scotland. In a
note, written on a post-card and noi
intended for publication, ho says: "The
chief Industries of this town are Golf
and Presby terlanlsm. 1 believe you
would do well here; for you would
qualify for the latter game If not for
the former. I hope you are living up
to the tenets of your form of super?
stition, as well ns you can. in Rich?
mond." 'Wright and Otis and Gray
will all Join In the chorus: "The best j
Chairman ever."
It has now been discovered that the
stone of Scone, on which the Kings
and Queens of England elt when they
are crowned, Is the same from which
Moses struck water for the children
of Isiuel on their long inarch through
the wilderness. It has also been
claimed that this stone was the one
used by Joseph for his pillow at Bethel.
Canon Wllberforce asionlshod the con?
gregation at Westminster Abbey on
Sunday by saying in his sermon that
the stone was really the one Moses
used In the wilderness. However this
m.xy have been, there Is no evidence to
support the theory, which !s almost'
certain to be advanced, that the stone '
was found at the base of Chimney :
Rock, In North Carolina.
It Is speedily becoming plain that j
Chnrles W. Glldden, of Lawrence. Mas?
sachusetts, the 5S-ears-of-corn-eater.
has a small capacity. George Murdoch
on the U. S. S. Chester ate a trial meal
early last week In which he consumed
four dozen scrambled eggs nnd a cou?
ple of steaks. A. A. Hudd. fireman on
the U. S. s. Nebraska, is also some
eater. Between 10:15 P. M. and 12.05
A. M. he got away with three dozen
oysters, four sirloin' steaks, two smajl
steaks, four platters of French-frltd
potatoes, eighteen scrambled eggs, the
usual bread and butter, one custard
and two apple pies, nine glasses of
milk and one cup of coffee. At 12:05
he leaned back and smoked threi
cigars to help out hi? digestion.
Eater Information received from
Hartford is to the effect that the edi?
tor of The Courant was not present
at the reception to Governor Harmon
because he was not Invited. That was,
of course, a good reason why he
Should have stayed away; but it was
pure bungling on the part of the
managers of the event that he wa.i
not Invited. He is the sort of Repub?
lican that Is worth converting.
A New York magistrate has ruled
that the cucumber is a fruit. It seems
strange that any one should have
ever thought that It was not. Cu?
cumber pie Is a favorite with Peters?
burg people, and Is highly regarded In
ether circles of culture. The "cow
cumber" has been much maligned, but
It Is one of the choicest desserts.
Probably It Is Harmon and not "Har?
mony" that Mr. Bryan objeots to and
would cruBh out In the party.
Voice of the People |
The Went Virginia Debt.
To the Editor of The Tlmes-Dlspatch:
Sjr>_Lot us suppose that West Vir?
ginia desires to pay Its debt, but does
not care to settle on the cash basts
Why not roturn to Virginia Alsace and
Lorraine, the counties of Berkeley and
Jefferson? This would square out the
line, be handsome amends and ex?
tinguish the debt. No calculation has
been made, but it is presumed that the
assessed value of those counties would
be about equal to the principal, and
their tax Income would take care of
tho interest.
ALFRED J. MORRISON.
HamPdcnrSldney, Va^ Septeniber 18
SL Klimm $t (&xt
WILL MAIL, ON REQUEST. A COPY OF
THEIR NEW CATALOGUE No. 104, FOR THE
AUTUMN AND WINTER SEASONS. 1911-1912.
SFiftlt Attrnm?. 3411? miu 3511? &tttvta. TStm flarfu
Daily Queries and Answers
Locution of Missions,
Give tho locations of th*> old inln
sions In California. Y.
San Krancisco Solano mission, "-?o
noma; Ban Rafael Archangel. San i;i
fuel; Sun Francisco do Asls. Ban Fran
olsco, Santa Claru, Santa Clara: Sun
.Jose mission, San Jose; Santu Cruz
Santa Cruz; San Juan BaUllsta, neat
Sargents. San ("trios Borromoo, heal
Monterey; Nuestra Senora de lu Sole
dud, near Soledud; San Antonio. Je
Fadua, twenty-six ml Ioh from King
City; San Juan Cuplslrano, near San;
Juan; Sun Antonio de Fala, at Pala:
Sun Luis Hey de Francis, Octanslde; j
San Diego de Alcala, near Sun Diego;
Sun Miguel. San Miguel; San Luis
j Oblspo, Sun Luis Oblspo: La Pu
rlsstmu Concepelon, near Lompos; i
(Santa Ynez. near Los Ollvloe; San- j
j ta Barbara. Suntn Barbara; Ban i
Duenu Vuntuaa. Ventura; dun Fernen-1
do, near San Fernando; San (labrlrtl
Archangel, near Los Angeles.
r.otd.
What is the value of gold? W.
Four, cents a grain, or SI? 20 an
ounce.
Violin.
Can you give me any Information
rcgurdlng a violin on which Is the
following Inscription: "Antonius Strad
?arlus. Cremonensls. Faclovut, Anno
The quoted lnnguagc la not oorreot.
because the famous violin maker of
Cremona wns named Stradlvarlua, and
he lived from 1(549 to 1737. The value
(i an instrument hearing the name
and date of the make of this violin,
maker can only ho told upon examina?
tion by an expert.
Inventor's Wife.
Whero can l find the poem entitled
"The Inventor's Wlfo?" H. R.
I This poem, by Mrs. E. T. Corbett, Is
; to be found In "Choice Dlaleot" and In
! "Choice Selections," 26, In "Soper"!,
I Scrap Book of Kecltatlons." 13, and In
"Treasury of Humorous Poetry."
What Is the membership of the or^
I der of Knights of Pythias? O.
i At the beginning of tho current yea*
the membership was 706,922.
I Itelntlonsblp.
What relation Is my niece's boy tq
line? Also, what relation Is the boy's
father to me? K.
I Grandn^phew. The fathor Is no ro
I lutlon.
G.
RARE WORKS SENT TO
IMPERIAL LIBRARIES
I BY l.A MARQUISE DE FOATENOY. ,
AMONG the rarest works contain?
ed in a tew of the royal and |
Imperial libraries of Europe, are!
??ertaln annual contributions from the!
Vatican. Each year the Pontiff sends!
to the Emperor of Austria, to the
Kings of Spain, of Belgium, and of!
Saxony, as well as to the Regent of
I Bavaria, a volume, most artistically!
bound In whit? vellum, and adorned
with the pontifical arms In gold, con?
taining a Eutin summary of the con- J
tldentlal annual reports supplied to the
Holy Father by his nuncios, Internun
I ClOS and delegate? abroad. The Latin
is of the most exquisite purity; and
| Inasmuch as this practice has been if
I vogue for the last ."00 years, und none
have received these books save Cath
i ollc sovereigns of countries in which
! Roman Catholicism Is the state religion.
I they are exceedingly rare. For oven
I nations, such us France, which have
; abolished monaschical forms of gov
ernmcnt, or broken with the Vatican
[ httvc nevertheless been keenly allvoi
I to the value of the volumes as liter?
ary and historic treasures, and have
retained them as such In the stato
archives, or else In the national library j
1 learn, however, that the new repub- ]
lie in Lisbon, which is now engaged in]
converting into sorely needed cash |
much of the former crown property. Is |
likewise endeavoring to sell the col?
lection of these papal reports, that be?
longed to the former Kings of Portu
Igal: and although there is likely to
be some heavy bidding on the part o?
the ?tat? libraries of Germany, of
Russia, and of. the British Museum In
London, they would prove a remark
able accession to some public institu?
tion or private library, such as that of
J. Pierpcnt Morgan, in the United
Stat.-s. That is why I take this op?
portunity of calling attention to theli
impending sale.
Emperor N'cholas has Just issued an !
amendment to the family laws of the j
house of Romanoff: the first change j
since they were completely reorganized !
by his father. Alexander III., In July, j
1SS6. According to the statutes as
then decreed, it was provided that mar
i luges of princes and princesses of the
house of Romanoff should be restricted
to members of reigning dynasties, and
that all other matrimonial alliances!
should be considered as of no account- j
In fact, Alexander III. Instituted aj
degree of exclusivlsm In matrimonial
letters that not even the Hapsburga
have ever dreamt of onforcing.
The amendment Just Inaugurated by
Nicholas II. Increases the range of con?
sorts for scions of the house of Roman?
off. For It declares that the latter are
no longer restricted In their choice to
reigning dynasties, but can from
henceforth select their helpmates from
nmong the dethroned sovereigns" fam?
ilies, and even from the mediatized
houses of the Central European nobili?
ty.
It was necessary for the Czar to
do this, in order to enable tho marriage
to take place of Princess Tatjana
daughter of Grand Duke Constantino,
to Prince Constantino Bagratlon, ol
the Chevalier Gardes regiment, and
who, member of the royal family that
formerly reigned over the kingdom of
Georgiu, . can traco his descent in an
unhroken line from the biblical King
David.
Among the most useless things that I
are. presented to royalty ui*e engrosser.!
and illuminated addresses from public
bodies and Institutions. It is doubtful
whether they are ever read by the
personages for whom they are intend?
ed. If presentod on some state oc?
casion, they are Immediately handed
by the more or less distinguished re?
cipient to an attendant; and that Is tho
last that he Bees of them. In ninety
nine cases out of every hundred, he
does not see them at nil. Thus, when
King Edward died. the. addresses of
condolence to King George, and ot
wishes for the success of his reign',
numbered upwards of 30.000. They
came not only from every municipali?
ty, from every phlVuithroplc assocla
tlon; .-'corporate body, public institu?
tion;, and evon mere clubs, In Great
Brltnln and Ireland, but also from sim?
ilar bodies in the various colon'es
In fact, It would have been almost a
human Impossibility for King George
to have rend them all. It to reported
that there are no less than 15,000 of
them lying still unopened at the Horn?
Department in Downing Street, all
hailing from different parts ot Great
Britain. At tho Department ot tht
Colonies thero are nearly as many more
ntlll unpacked ; while the Foreign Office
has likewise its share- ot these testi?
monials of regard for the lato King,
[ and of good will for King George,
from British communities and socie?
ties In foreign cities, and even from
foreign bodies.
All these addresses have received a
i stereotyped official acknowledgment
But that does not mean they have ever
been seen by King Goorgu. and one I*
tempted to ask oneself what possible
use there can be In wasting the trou
' hie and money In sending such utterly
useless things. Some of them are
handsomely framed, others contained
...kuts. and under the circumstances
it Is fortunate that the government de?
partments at Whitehall have cnormoui
cellar accommodation, where they maj
j be left to molder and rot.
In the library of the King of th?
j Belgians at Brussels, situated In an an
I nex of tho royal paluce. In a two*
storied structure, hidden under a ro?
mantic garb ot greenory, there ars
many thousands of addresses, tendered
to Leopold I. and Leopold IL, through?
out their respective long reigns: ad?
dresses from every part of their domin?
ions. In honor of all sorts of occasions,
and also addresses from the municipali?
ty of London and of other foreign
cities which thoy had visited. They
are piled away thero under the stair?
cases, the majority of them In boxes
and packages that have never been
opened since their receipt, und which
are olowly being eaten away by weevils,
without any attempt to preserve them,
on the part of the librarians, who Just?
ly look upon them as merely so much
rubbish.
i How little even the members of
the imperial house of Hapsburg koew
about the late Empress Elizabeth. - 1?
shown in a rather striking fashion Id
tho "Reminiscences" of the ex-Crown
princess of Saxony, which have Just
been published here and In Europe
She devotes a considerable amount ol
attention to the Empress in the book,
but practically admits that It Is near?
ly all second-hand gossip, since ahs
scarcely kiuf-w her murdered kinswo?
man, having only seen hor three times
In her life: once when she was a child
of eleven, and she happened to en?
counter her in a corridor of the Hof?
burg, and received a kindly smile as
Elizabeth passed by without speak?
ing. The second occasion on which
the ex-crownprincess saw tho Empress
was just three months after the tragedy
of Mcye.rling, when, having attained
her legal majority, she was presented
by her mother, the Grand Duchess ol
Tuscany, to the Empress, at the Hof?
burg. In private oudlence. In order to
receive from her hands the Order ol
the Star Cross. During the entire cere?
mony, which lasted about four minutes
the Empress did not speak a single
word, constantly raising her handker?
chief to her eyes to wipo away the
tears thnt were running down her
cheeks. Tho only other time that the
ex-crownprincess ever had the op?
portunity of approaching the Empress,
was when the latter lay In her coffin,
Just before the funeral.
When It Is borne In mind that the
ex-crownprlncess was In those days a
member of the Imperial family and an
Archduchess of Austria, and that In
spite thereof she saw so little of the
Empress, it will be readily understood
how Infinitely less her compatriots of
Inferior rank had the opportunity of
learning to know the llf-fated consort
of Emperor Francis Joseph.
(Copyright. 1911, by the BrentwoodT
Company.)
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