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mm ?uiiiitu onice.?1? a. Mtjn Strata Sou lb lllchmos?.1010 Hull Street *P?ttraburc Bureau....109 N. Sycamor* Strati ayyacbburs ?u.*sn.1U Slgbtb 8tr**l BT MAU, Od? biz Thro* Oot POSTAGE PAID T??r. Mos. Mo*. Mo. Daily with Sunday.JS.W 1S.00 11.60 .6. Del) without KunSay.... 4.00 too ]_oo .U ?uod*y edition onl7. *?? l ?' M :: .Wtfkly OVrJutiiliy). LOO to .S? ... B> Timer-Dlepalch Carrier Delivery Ser ?lc* Id Richmond (Ban ecburbi) and PS- I lr n> urg? , On* W?*l !>?.' > r, 11h Sunday. II centi Daily without Sunday. 10 crni* ' 6ucday only. I - ten Entered January Tl. ?i Itlcbmond. V*., aa -cecond-rlnsa matter und*.- ac: of <-or.?.--?? if Marrh j. U7*. MONDAY. JANUARY ?7 1912. a m:i:duii prbvextive pumcv. Thero 1? upon tlfc House ca 1 end a v. ?with a favorable committee r?p?rt, a bill which seeks to establish i horoe foi the feeble-minded on the" farm of the State Epileptic Colony, near Lynch burg. Tills measure should be passed at this session and not done *.o death by legislative inaction. It? passage ?will prevent the spend'ttg of millions by the State in tie future, because it will segregate the feeble-minded and prevent the pro pa get sliable second genets ought to act tor its i tectiou. if not fot . tii peliing reasons. Th eventually become wa piling up scat munlty evcr> become ch.tritablc wards ihey bee criminal or Insane wards, and iu'1 the state vast sun-.-- of money Thnt the proposed institution m of an linde-] ion. The State' um la! ;,olt-pro i valid -m 1 im-j feeble-ntlnde ;; Is of the Static uses in cv?ry com-i If they do not' r.etied in Virginia i.? sj the letters which have many sections u: ging th *fs--*i.T.e and take rare > Eiitiicd peorlr. Tonder minded child in Amelia, in Flanpihanr.ork. a liepcn for-vfd fecble-mindeo sir two weak-minded children the mother feels thst eh a feehle-mir.d-id c-iphin teen, with no home and danger, a be> : r when rartr.ts car. no longer car the menace to society whl spc-nsiblc What chance I ati orphan, honicleys and dsngcr. to avoi'i being enemy to society" If thi established' ?he couiri b< from iror.i: ?st.tte: rebi? ' constant s grand-! i it .nrl . sor.stai.t >ductivc men of given pre po?ed. fo moat d?f potential society. If this in mission of weak-mindedness ity. insanity would be dcci per cent, and criminality These Figures ate the result < Investigations covering ii wltl research. Professor Davcnpt tor of tlu- Carnegie station f.' mental Evolution, believes th class can be prevented fr?n on their affliction through witiiin thirty years feeble-n refill d ??{' ?Vi . If this passing r.Udrc:.. j fdcdness! of * higher minded, supp ku Ii i'im: i t>ip cause oi Rinc cnmp und ail that ihut Institution stands for in iieallli and sees! welfare, there should I? no doubt as to the size and iiuiillij ?l the a j'iieiiee ECUXOMt in fill. i l iii.lt \i si:h efficiency and economj service is a most Uli valuable public d?i urn the commission has dl less opportunities for thOtigh Its work. ac President; haa )usl c airead;. aouompllfchtd by changes in departmental is estimated to be greutei coat of the inquiry up t> wnlch la 1130,000. The ta'v'ji tat commission thus !?:? hat be p.-acticablc are estimated 006 annually The commisatoii hai tt. often the governmeni pu>* sonK for doing tlie work of It has unearthed gioss d.sp tween tiic costs in difforcn divisions and departments ting and Naturally, red count-' nomy, ai ig to tilt nie eat Ins suggested methods than the this time, doing the aaaio sort of work. It finds that sonic of tho bureaus and divisions ure duplicating the work of other bureaus and divisions. It concludes that cer? tain services may be done away with completely and the work assigned them handled more efficiently by other ser? vices or dispersed with as unnecessary. It finds that the government bus been anything but business-like in some ot j its dealings. As a typical instance of stupid tin-; business-like methods the distribution! of public <l.intents Is a case ill i point. The department publications J arc manufactured ir. the Government j Printing ?fllcc. Bach job when com-' pic ted Is delivered to the department j ordering ?. where in? copies arc wrapped and addressed. Then they go] to the post-office to be pssorted and prepared for shipment. From there they arc hauled to the railroad station. : ivhleh Is only a few sic;.? from the. Government Printing Ofllce. where they originated. No less than a quarter of a million dollars. President Taft asserts, is wasted by this Uli-j necessary handling, "to say nothing of the Indirect loss due to luck ot proper: co-ordination." Another case cited is the showing thai the handling of incoming mall ' costs in one department *e.S i per' thousand, and Ir. another $Si.tO per j thousand, while the cost ot handling outgoing mail varies from ?.."> ?t to $09.S!?. The government spends $12.- ; 000,000 for the transportation of Its employes, but the commission found that, although the largest user of transportation, the government was' purchasing railroad tickets on a less favorable basis than would be possible !f the subject of traveling cxpfiidt tare: wer' handled systematically] from me pou t of view of xTie govern? ment us a whole. By lest m two de? partments an average saving of a halt .1 cent per mile wss she>wn to be feasible. Attachment to traveling ac- j counts of an affidavit said to be un-, necessary cost? $60,000 a year. Tests of Improved methods of copying docu-1 ments in several government offices re- | s ilted in a *aving of more tlisn '. .'? per cent- "This change' in one small | cross-section o: ofllce practice." writes the President, "will offset the whole : oat of Inquiry." I An appropriation of $2?v,000 is > therefore, asked f?t the continuation J of the work of the commission. The New Orleans Times-Democrat pern- ! nently says that "some of ?s win be j tempted to suggest that the commis? sion Is taking a painfully long time to, complete its tusk, and thereby is es:-1 1 posing itsetl to * suspicion tnat it ts J : doing a lot of costly work ciuite as un- 1 necessary as some of that uncovered | bj Its research, of depattment meth? ods." However, if the commission can j .Ufec; the saving that the President ' tninks.lt can. the investment will bei wise and one which the government tut: fit m vi.i . .Motion pictures constitute the most popular indooi amusement to-day. In fact, they rank nest to the ertat game of baseball in ouMic favor, and no j i amusement has made such enormous! strides so rapidly a* that which centres! j iron nil the scudding him. The souvenir posts! card is ru-.ning behind in effort to compete with the film. The', moving picture enjoys a worldwide I \ popularity, It has secured a strong I i foothold in Europe5, Australia, c^utli,. \'''ie?. Japan and many other parts of j i the globe-. Report? ?.onie-.nint the j j moving picture Industry, made to then D?pa-tint-lit of Commerce and L-.bor blyP L'nlttd Ptate.? consuls In these cdtin- h did liot ex!": 10-dilj Ft vast busuetsl has developed both in producing ind exhibiting films London has 217 pic? ture- playhouses, and more are being added constantly. There the prices r'u fidih i cents to "l cents. Pome Knghsh lilnis are made very rapidly. For ir,siar.ee. the Grand National Stee? plechase race was held In Liverpool. London, and mej the music halls i id ai e tnalnl) ! I.lle in eicr-j meets with! of cohstrut ?<i Turkey ihowa and' general ?t verse ins.ilar ?'res scars ago inern were no moving picture shows Vm In a decade the moving picture nas circled the world. Mill TAX MOCKS SCHOOL TAX. I Durham uj,r; one of the first countict in North Carolina te, start goe.d and perinanent road building, and has kept! up the work until now by every man'"] a good hlghwa; ' Durham's population is ahoul ".-..o*Jf?. I i of whom about one half live In the rural I districts. Stoke-s county, which, jo far j as natural resource.- are concerned. I? I described as "having Durham bae-kedi j off the map." has hardly a foot of , good road in H. in Durham the schools ar? ?pien-! didly housed and equipped, and the at ! tendancs even in the- wont of weather. j Is ipoken of ?* a wonder, in Stoket tho school? arc. for the most part, on jtt par with the roads, and the attend? ance comparatively meagre ami spas j modle, varying with weather condl j Hons. j One of the principal Stoke* school ' districts has 12$ white children of j school age. hut during the month of l December the average attendance was ? less than thirty, which argues a de | plnrahle drift toward.-, illiteracy, if not a large percentage of illiterates. The school superintendent of Dur? ham county reccntlv reported, in addi? tion 10 the gratifying attendance men? tioned, thai there were only forty-four white illiterates In the entire terri? tory under his supcrlhtendenoy. in discussing these contrasts, South? ern Good Roads atgu.s that they prove j that good roads and pood schools, and j consequently diffusion and ad\anee-j nient of education, arc largely inter-j dependent. To our mind, the arsu-1 mc'nt is conclusive. The im I ;n mocks the school las j The press has lately been filled with | ringing estimates of General Dee, and ' one of the most eloquent of them was that ot the Rev. Plato Durham, >f Charlotte, delivered on Dee's Birthday. ! Hero is its peroration: "Once many years ago I stood within the doors of the chapel at Washing? ton and l.ec. A dim and holy li:--ht filtered through the windows, around which the shadows of the evening wer? gathering. Through the half light ; there loomed before me in the apse of the chapel a white tlguro resting majestically upon its couch. It was the world-famous statue of Lee. If to the students of that institution. If to the young men of the .South, that si? lent and majestic Image means half so much as It did to tue in the twilight of that day, even in his ashes Dec is the mightiest force among us. and his dead, dumb lips speak a message more exalted than the pen of any writer or the tongue of any orator of our bet- . ter day." As we have said before, the ir.- j fiuenco. as well as the fame, of General i Lee is immortal. Postmaster-General Hitchcock may be expected soon to recommend a gOV-l ernmcnt.il monopoly of tho air for wireless telegraphy purposes. The congressional Investigations are', becoming so obstreperous that it may! eventually be necessary to Investigate j the Investigators. Tho Irish players were treated to: stale eggs in Philadelphia. Perhaps fresh ones would have astonished! them more. Governor Foss is being guarded by 1 u'itcctives. That is probably the only presidential prerogative he will ever enjo>. An army post In Richmond would! l ave a tendency lo keep the army bet- I ter posted. The General Assembly and Tax Reform 111. Equalization Means De? creased Taxation The tax question will be square- I ly presented to the General Assembly! this week. With the Hyrd bill sot n special and continuing order for Thursday, the legislators of the i lower house will begin the discussion n that day. In the meantime they I are carefully studying a measure I, ?vhich. tor some reason, has gained a1 reputation for great complexity. The Byrd bill is not complex. If lima to do a few things and do them j as cheaply and thoroughly as possible. I It alms above all else to equalize as -< ssments. ThU is the fundamental fact. Opponents of the meneure may strive to becloud the issue, but the i ruth remains. Under no conditions .-.I ir. -n contingency will the opera? tion o:' the Byrd bill mean a dollar Increased state taxes on the aggre? gate personal property of the State. Xo Inorraae In Taxe?. It is true that the hill as originally drafted contemplated the assessment Of p?i mnal property for a single year i: its full market vslue and the continuance of the same rate there? on. But this will not be done if the* House adopts an amendment which Mr. Byrd himself w'.ll offer. This amend? ment provides that ihe tax rale wilt be automatically reduced for every dollar of increase in the assessment, nd that toe aggregate, taxes levied un der the new law shall not exceed ihono levied under the old. In some local1 ties tl\e Increased valuation will prob? ably l,e proportionately greater than the dectease In the tax rate; but it i? I ;i demonstrable fact that llie taxes of ill considerable majority of the people r,f Virginia will be notably reduced if the' o |] becomes a law. The frienels of progress should remember this and should remember that with the pro? posed amendment, this hill seeks equal? ization or,'.: If 's opposed It will lie opposed by those who oppose equaliza? tion llnllroa'l Taxes, The Lynchburg Newa and the Brook neaj Union, In discussing the tax re? port, have come to the conclusion that prent injustice is being done the. taxpayers of the Commonwealth be? cause no increase in railroad laxes s ontcmplaled at this time. It is per- j ffcetly proper, ?'ays the able, editor of the Nov.?. to increase the- valuation of! personal property to its full market j all-, and to ta x It accordingly; hut 11 ls\ thoroughly Improper to do this vtthout increasing the valuation of railroad property. Lei til' cold facts be applied to this! apparently reasonable argument. In ; the first plae.r. has Just been point-) <-d out, there Is to be no increased lax. I ation of perse/natty. The Byrd bill i merely proposes that the personal; pi iperty r, ot.T-r Virginia clliea and) counties be. a*se???.) at the tame rate-! kit which it In assessed in Lynchburg; ?>:-? the arfmltable commissioner of that; town. But. declares the new amend-! rnent to the Mil to prevent any in- j istlee the ?ig^.-'-gat? shall not exceed the present aggregate, The rat* will! be reduced. Wollt the valuation Is in- I creased. Can this, by any process of argument, 'ot construed Into an In-1 crease r/f uj?f or, personalty? '-'an It; re regarded honestly by any logic, as., a discrimination :,:r.,(ni-t the people in, .favo- of th? railroads? But there > i:,',!,,rr answer to thi I same argument' Personal property; throughout t:t Mate: .* assessed at i a'..o'it :i: per cent of its value. The: Personal propert) of railroads, after; careful Investigation, appear* to be, i assessed at a>re,.j. go f)?r ctnt. oi iXf , market van? l .-??!. w?r? mere an in- -' ? real.: In 'h? *, fcK reya t e taxes on pai - ' son,,; property- arid thure la none ? " trK ?'?''<-<. within' '???.ona.'blr. lim? its, would be Justified oy actual fa<u* JVhjn H C?mo?e to r?H| ??Ute. th* rail? roads and privat? holder* are about on a parity but there ar*. to be t.o in? crease* Ir. Ihe Ux on re.) ?*ti,t? until I'JIC -until then ,? ample rime to low ?1 tae rate I To conclude, tile Writer belUva* that the railroad* will have * setter com plaint agaip?! tr.e publle than the pub' I he ulll ha????. sira.nrt ft? rajiroads. un dor the proposed law. If th'trc It) dls ci-imlnutioii It I? certainly in favor of the individual property ftoWor, i he mim'K nuil Hood Tu. A nuiuocr of Individuals mid two newspapers of acknowledged stand? ing? tiie Dunxlllc Ucglstcr and the iticimiund Journal?have criticised the proposed ITetcher bill, which Is t" levy a low rate of iax on stinks uu>! bonds and t>- limit the looul tax. Thj? oil has nothing to do with the Byrd bill; it Is one of a dozen subsidiary bills which are to ;>c Introduced In uc conlancc with the -recommendations of the Tux Commission. Rut the Tax Commission is iirinly behind this mcaa itrc and bcllleves it eminently lust. To illustrate Us justice, I t n ease be cited Which will uppenl !?. the Iteg Ister?the easu of it 1111,11 vllie widow. Tills woman's husband died and left her $3,000 In trust for her children. Trust 'es wi re appointed: the runds were invea-tod In a real estate inert 'gage by direction of the court. The mortgage paid c per cant., or JlSu the year. Yet from this amount?nor oniv I Income?the Danville widow had 1,. ; pay the State $10.50 and the cltv ?( Danville fi'J.&O. in other words she Inad 10 pay :?!' per cent, ol h;r total Income in taxes. is there a man In lAlrgliila v.i.o win d< f, nd this? Yet it is this very condition which the Fletch? er bill, tvhe lllntrodilvid, will seek to remedy u will |m)vidb that the lax be matte at least ?omowltnt proportion? ate to the earning capacity of I he property taxed. Hut. it will b> argued, suppose this Is done. There will be a reduction in the Income trom the tux ami u ten sequent decline In the public revenue To meet this, there must be increases in tiie taxes on personal proporty and ieal estate. Experience has not shown this |o be the ease, but were It the Case, it might atilt be defended. If a decrease in the ts\ on intangibles did mean an Increase in the tax 011 real estate, thai iaereasi would be iiimi. lied, so Ions 11a tiie present rule re? mains The owners or Intangibles are certainly discriminated against. Hut would there be a decrei.se in the revenue and would there have toi be h consequent increase in the tax on tangible personally and real es? tate? experience answers, no. Busi? ness men who now evade the tax 4>n j stocks and bonds and who would bei justlticd in evading it but for their I oath, would pay a fair tax- Hidden stores of wealth would come on thai tax tiooks. and the Increased valuation of Intangibles would more than offset the decreased tax. Tins Is no Idle1 dreami Maryland tried It. and In lif teen years the valuation of Intangibles increased fron: 16.000,000 to } 11'.? i?ii" . POO. ^ Capital I? Beloc Urpellcd. Something must be done to cud our old policy of ferreting out inlunglbk'S | and taxing ihem at the flnt property rate. We are losing capital by It: we are repelling capital at our bor? ders. Stich methods cost Ohio the 1 s Idcnc? of John l>. itockefcller iytd more thai, $200,000,000 into other States. ] .Such methods, if continued, will drive our capitalists from the State. As an i-iiMencc of what this may' mean to Virginia the writer met a' trustee of n large estate Saturday. I with whom he discussed the question.! Tbc man wog no plutocrat, no capital-; ist: he was a hard-headed, common-j sense business man, who managed the estates of his wife and of a former business partner, estate;- won by hon? est toll and suved by patient economy, i And here is whai this business man said: "I cannot pay Richmond and j State taxes unless I Invest In r.on taxable securities. If 1 do this the : Income of the estates I control is re- J d?ced by at least 1 ?-4 per cent. Un-! less relief comes l shall have 10 move I to Washington or to Philadelphia. Where 1 can get a low rate." Docs, Virginia want to see this man and hundreds like hlni driven away.' Does the .State want to stand at the Mary? land boundary and warn away capl- j lallStS? Yet she Is doing both. Another feature of the Fletcher bill' may he mentioned. When It Is in- | troduccd it will carrj a clause ex-| emptlng from taxation the bonds of: any Virginia district, county, town or j city where such bonds arc- exempted by the locality Issuinc them. This 1 will mean that Danville bonds will have to pay no local tnx in Richmond, and that Wise county bond- need pay no taxes in Danville This, In turn, means wider markets, horn a' invest? ments, a lower rate of interest on municipal securities. Who would pre? vent this In an ace where there Is much need for economy and little in? clination'.' Write Your Member. It Is useless t? conceal the fact that the Byrd bill and Its subsidiary measures will meet with opposition. Why there Is opposition and whence . it comes will he duly explained to the public when It appears In the mean-; time let Cltlcens who are- interested in tax-reform write their members of . the I General Assembly, ur.glnK their sup? port of the Byrd bill. Point out thej fundamental truth and- Vtnmand an answer: canalization means reduced] taxes for a majority of the citizens of Virginia. D. R. FREEMAN. Voice of the People The OHlce-Holder?' Trust ?t Work. To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Slr.t?-1 read with Interest the edi? torial, in your Sunday issue, in regard to the proposed effort of the city treasurers to have the Constitution so amended aa to allow the sito succeed themselves. I am glad to see your earnest opposition to any such meas? ure. The power of these treasurers should he broken, and one of the best ways to accomplish this Is not to perpetuate them in office. I was In your city the day and night the Democratic caucus was hold to nominate the candldnte for Auditor o? Public Accounts. I was n t there as a lobbyist, but on a matter of busi? ness, but 1 was deeply interested in the success of my fellow townsman. Hon. Chas. A. Johnpton. What time I could spare 1 was In consultation with him and his friends. While hopeful of success, they stood In dread of the pernicious influence of the "office? holders' trust." I had doubted that there was any such organization in existence, but when 1 learned that more than sixty telegrams were sent Abe Martin Verj few authors live happily ever afterwards. Th' rich man frets his picture In th' paper m-jien he dies nn' th' poor man when he's cured. A JOKE ON THE OLD GENTLEMAN. By John T. McCutcheon. (rvpvHsrtit: 1013: By John T. McCSitcheoc 1 "Uncle hat quite a bad cojc of Teddyphobia. We'll "By the way, Uncle, I tee by thit paper that Roote play a little johe on him with thit old newtpaper." celt refute* to allow hit name to go before the Pret identlal convention." "Don't you belieoe it for a minute! He may tay "At the latt minute he'll decide to accept the he won't run, but you mark my wordt? nomination in tplte of hit promite not to run. He can't fool met" "Why, I'd bet a million dollart to a cent that "You loots, Uncle. He didn't run. he runt!" out of Richmond on Wednesday night, urging treasurers and clerks to tush to the city so iih to i(e on bund Die night of the caucus; when I saw a number of these ofllcors who had re? sponded to the call; when 1 was in? formed that there were a large number present who were unknown to me: and when Individual In? stances of their efforts were brought i to my attention, all doubts vanished, I and there stood lb* "trust" disclosed before me In all Its arrogance and power. T could mention at '.east a dozen In? stances in which they made them? selves felt, and should occasion re quire It win be done. Notably a cierk i from tne city of Norfolk, whom It Is I represented had received favors, was ! most active and effective. The trcas-; urer of the city of Rounoke got in his I work well, and yet he is of the .las? who desires to perpetuate, themselves I in office and power. i ills contept should open the eyes Of the people and set them thinking, for It discloses the fact that the, of? ficers of the Commonwealth, who arc charged with the collection of its revenues, have exerted their power and Influence to dlctata who should be the officer with whom they must ac- | count, and whose duty It is to call] them to book, is not tills alarming:? < ibans' *be Snow Ilcmovnl T.avr. To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir.? Please print the following In your paper for the benefit of th.-isc llvlng In. the central part of the city, I who can" ill afford to pay a tine for not moving snow from unfrequented street?. T have cleaned my sidewalk five times, but had to pay SL' line for not moving the sleet thai could not have been moved without damaging the bricks. It Is no trouble for a policeman to go out Tenth and Eleventh Streets and report violations of the law, but bad he gone out to I.ee District (say Allison Street) he would have been very busy reporting delinquents. Tf the " policeman b.nd Just notified the people they would have cleaned off the snow and he would not have wast? ed time In court that could have heen spent looking after real lawbreakers. Now why not mnke n. move either to abolish the law or allow any clt. een to report cases of violation of the law, so nil may suffer the penalty, and not only a few people of the working class? J. P. T. Richmond. La Marquise de Fontenoy | f ORD HYDE, who. with his Vlfo and two younger children, is ' inking up his residence in Can? ada, in the province of Ontario with the Intention of making his principal1 home on the property he lias purchased there, until he succeeds to his father's honors and estates, is the only son Of tho Earl of Clarendon, who two years ago married the rich widow of the Hon. Edward Burke, son of the fifth Lord Mayo. Lord Hyde, like h'n fath? er, Is a cadet of the house of Villlers, of which the Earl of Jersey Is tho chief. Tho actual Earldom or Claren? don was created by George III. in 1776 In favor of Sir William Villlcrs, a younger son of the second Lord Jer? sey, who married the granddaughter and heiress of Henry Hyde, the lust Earl ?'f Clarendon and R?chest of the Hyde family. To the latter, It may be remembered, both Queen Mary and (j?icn Annr belonged, through their mother, who was J-ady Anne Hyde, daughter of I-ord Chancellor Claren? don. She died as Due.hess of York before tho accession to the throne of her husband, James II. His r.ocond wlfo was Mary, of Modena, who be? came his Queen and mother of the old pretender. The present Dord Claren? don has two places in the country in England, which will be eventually in? herited by Eord Hyde, .he one Is now the. completely ruined Castle of tvonll worth, so familiar to all the readers C11 rt IST IA N SBURG1". 1: ot fcjlr Walter Scott, through hi* pop? ular novel of that name, while the oth? er, where the eari m?kea his principal home, is. known as the Drove; and la situated at Watford, not fur out tronil London. It is of the Queen Anne, style of architecture, dating In Its j present condition from the. first years of the eighteenth century, and wasi purchased somewhere about 17f?3 by the ilrst Lord Clarendon of the pres? ent line. It Is said to be haunted by the ghoet of the third Lord Doneralle,I who was one of its former OWnors, and{ v.-hose appearance on a ghostly horse. 1 accompanied by a pack of spectral hounds, chasing a phantom fox, Is said to constitute a punishment for the ? :t. which he committed In building the kitchen on the site and foundations of the old-time chapel, which le de-j stroyed for the purpose. The place Is full of nil sort? of rnag-| r.lficent pictures and hlstorh rellci, among them the original gold key fit Hyde Park in London, presented by King Charles 1. to his Lord Chancel lor Clarendon, when In l^s.S he decide ed to sacrifice his own pleasures of the chasH to the welfare of his peo? ple, and abolishing his game preserves :n the park of Hyde, threw It open to the public. giving the gold key; of the gates of tho domain to the Lord High Chancellor In token of the. occasion. The people car.nol be sal.i to have shown themselves grateful foi I the gift, since shortly afterwards they; rose against him and deprived him not. only of his throne and of his liberty, but also of his head. Another relic is the portrait of the Infanta Catherine of Braganza. which was sent over to Charles II. from Lis? bon for his inspection, and which so captivated him that he made her his Queen. The present Lord Clarendon was for many years lord chamberlain to both Cjucen Victoria and to Edward VII., and in that capacity has been called upon to take an active part 1.1 lh-j presentation of many men and ,'oincri from this side of the Atlantic et the eourt of St. James. His llrst wife was Lady Caroline Agar, eldest daughter] Of the third Earl of Normnnton. and it, Is by her that he has his ?wo children,; Lorei Hyde and Lady Edith. ..iurrle.il to the (ion and heir of Lord Mount! Eelgecumbe. One of Lord Clnreini?? is to say an aunt of Lord Hyde, wl'll be remembered botli in the Dominion and In the United States, us having spent several years In the New World] when her husband, who. dying as six? teenth Earl of Derby, was Governor General of Canada, under the name of Lord Stanley of Preaton. Another aunt| of Lord Hyde is the widowed Lady Ampthill, whose husband, as Lord Odo Russell, was for many years Brit? ish ambassador in Berlin. The father of Lord Clarendon played a very Important role under Queen Victoria as Secretary of State for for- ! eicn Affairs, and was on tern.s of par? ticularly close Intimacy with Empress Eugenie, his affection for her being al? ways marked, prior and subsequent to her marriage, by a certain amount of parental tenderness. This served to give color to the report according to which the lato earl wns In reality her father, having been tis a young man one of the most devoted and favored admirers of her niothor, the wjeked old Comtesse do Monlljo, whom oven Queen Isabella, by no means H saint, could not stand, and considered it n< ? cessnry to deprive her ot the rlignl ties In connection with the royal court of Madrid. Lieutenant Michael Maxwell-H of the royal navy, whose death is re? ported from England, was thi sccon : son of Mrs. Maxwell-Scot:, own< r ."t Abbotsford, and a groat-granddaugh? ter of the great novelist. .Sir Walter Scott. The Hon. Jost pit and Mrs Max? well-Scott arc frequent visitors to America, while there are few American or Canndlan tourists visiting Scotland who have not made their pllgrltnvgc to Abbotsford and to Melrose Abbey. In fact, Abbotsford. three miles to the west of Melr?sc Abbey, is visited each y?ar by an average of from 10.000 to Ol 5 strangers, and It Is the lark of privacy in connection therewith that led the widowed Marchlor-css of Bute, who had rented It for a time, to terminate her tenancy. :-'ir Walter Scott's dautrhter married John Lockhart, the historian. They had three children, the youngest of whom. Ch.irlotte married James Hope who by net of Parliament, took th? name of Hopo.Scott, earliest and most Intimate friend of William E. Glnd Btone The Hope-Scott? hud also three children, the eldest of whom, Mary Monica Hope-Rcott, is the present own? er of Ahbotsford. In 1S74 she married the Hon. Joseph Maxwell. younger brother of the late Lord Herrles, of l'veringham Park, and her husband after the wedding, took the necessary legal steps to assume the name of Maxwell Scott, which he now bears. The late Lord Herrles was succeeded in his honors. not by his younger brother, but by his eldest daughter, the second and present wife of tho Dttko of Norfolk. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott wns the object of an unusual net of graciouanees on her first presentation nt court during the reign of Queen VlctoTla. The Queen was in the hnblt of according a kiss to peeresses, and to the daugh? ters of peers on their first presenta? tion. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott could lay claim to no such distinction of birth. But when sho was presented at a drawing room at. Buculngham Paiete by the Duchess of Bucclouch. the Queen, who always preferred the Waverley Novels to every other form of romantic literature, kissed her on both cheeks, exclaiming. "Here is all we have left of Sir Walter." Mrs. Mnxwcll-Scott bears a consid? erable resemblance to her celenrated great-grandfather, and tho familiar drooping eyes of Sir Walter look out from beneath p wldo, full brow, which Is so like that of Chantry's nend of the novelist that it might have served as a model. She is herself a gifted writer, has edited the lust an'', best edition of Sir Wiltor's "Diary." his been a frequent contributor to Har per's and other American magazines and is tho author of "Incidents In Scottish History," "The Mak.'ng of Abbotsford" and several other popular books. (Copyright, 1012. by the Brent wood Company.) COMFORT IN TRAVELING The National State and City Bank R.CHMOND, VA., Furnishes LETTERS OF CREDIT and TRAVELERS' CHECKS, which enable a traveler to obtain money without inconveni? ence in any part of the world.