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f' 1- 1 THE TIMES DISPATCH: HXCH3I0ND VJL THUKSDAY JANUARY 21 '1309 Borrowed Jingles It on the other hand- expostulate because in raising the titular salary the usual $18000 appropriation for traveling expenses haa been thriftily '4ff 1 A Kentucky feudist haa been sentenced to tha penitentiary on" life fon killing a man Some day we may hope to see some trifling penalty meted out a New York assassin under thd unwritten law i CONTENTMENT Is summer when 'tie very warm And all the folks complaining go If thoA I like the winter time Bravo winter with Its Ico and anew And Whoa tha' blustering billiards rave And It Is cold as cold can bo -Ths very hottest summer day Is not ono whit too warm (or mo In aprlng I like the bracing In autumn lovs the gsmlo spring: 8o you ms tho whole jraer I'm satisfied with evarythlng: Town and Country Journal ly above tha maghtflesnt marigold window Is now hidden away In tbs Norman crypt of ths cathedral where lt Is shown only' on request It was removed by the chapter In comparatively recent times being replaced by a (tone cros Tha statue represented the primate In the -act of playing a fiddle iwhlch used to cauee the city children in York to Insist that Aha Archbishop played a Jig on hi ancient Instrument when the elock struck 11-Thls IS the archbishop who won ths primacy by uniting George with the wicked Duchess of Munster after all other prelates had refused to wed him to this Infamous woman In his youth he had been an Itinerant fiddler and in known to have put In nsveral years of buccaneering In tho Spanish main under ths command of a celebrated firsts chieftain known aa Redmond of he Red Hand whose ship was the "Black Broom" from which ths future archbishop on entering ths church took tha name of Blackburns his original patronymic having bean Muggins' (Copyright 1909 by the Brentwood Company) Bally with Bunrlar flM pyDeUr without Sunday 40 Sunday edition only lM -Wskly (Wednesday) lM i 1 By Tlmea-Dlapateh Carrier Delivery Her tfjifi- vice In Richmond (and auburbi) Manrhaa- lii-Jk We have a hand of research workers out to ascertain whether or not Jenkins Hal no carries 'his horse-pistol when he goes around submitting manuscripts to- the editors pas sod among and from us aa a "knlrhl of olden one wbo wore "tho 4s-white -of a blameless Ilf' and left hla sorrowing people tho heritage vj Ot on exemplary character' Boms one has said that men grow great-V'r When we look Into the detail of Ieoa life' wo see tho growing great- ness of tho man It la needless to r-count to Richmond people tho events of brilliant career They know It already To do Justice to his mag-nlficent courage hla wonderful ability-- as a general would require pages ut biography i Ttyls courage was nevsr more splendidly displayed than la tha last agonies of a great losing struggle There are left only a few of the band of worn grim veterans who crowded about their leader aa he cried with tears streaming down his face: "Mon we have fought through the war -to-1 gether I have done the beat I could tor you 'My heart Is too full for guv more" i -Beneath the- marble statue'' above his tomb In tho ohapel at Washington and Lee University all that Is mortal of him who abides In the hearts of his countrymen as ideal cal- disr and perfect man" 1 'If our children are to grow up with Idea of true patriotism and Venera- tlon for our honored (lead would it not bo wise 1 to 1st them see their parents anxious to make glorious the passing birthdays of our Illustrious statesmen? JL K1 January 19 ft': with Sunday Dally without Sunday Sunday only "I am now said Mr Roosevelt on Monday night "the last pub-lie speech I shall make as President In this Continued applause Wo wonder If Turkey would care to lease her new motto "Work peace and to the United States House of Representatives STATE PRESS Theodore Roosevelt's leading work la "Ths Winning of the Mr Taft shows a disposition to follow suit witl) a few chapters on "The Winning of the South" --j' MERELY JOKING 'n LawyorV-'' "After all whst Is an insano man?" '-i -1 i Alienists who has eommlttsd a ortme and provs an Clevoland Leader Defect touch out the wrinkles In your fnca?" naked the photographer "By all answered ths elderly beau "And also -those if thsro bo any In my Louisville Courier-Journal Why Not "I wonder If -a King's coronation robe could properly bo classed a an a what?" "As a reign Baltimore Amarloan The Record Redd: tha fastest Marathon that you over heard Greene: "I civs you tho exact time but 1 know it was mode by my gas met Statesman Fair KiehnsgOi snapped the sharp-faced women nt the door "I got no food fur you an I ain't gotno old clQ'e Now git!" replied Harvard ashen "I could repay you orell Give mo a square meal and give yuu a faw lessons In Catholic Standard 4 i Aborat-Mlnded What's the (hatter with him?" "Ha traded his auto for a mule and when the mute balked he absent-mindedly crawled underneath it tT fix Houston Foot If Browning the well-known poetical writer had only been an Intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt what a Ride he might have written! vr V'V ffiv fe- Slowly but surely our more or less esteemed contemporary the Standard Oil Company la amassing one of the finest little collections of ousters ever gotten together' rtr- Again Reformed BreaHts Mayor Cutchln is reforming Itoaseks with a vonfoaoce It suy be renumbered that during tba progress of tha local -option campalsn It waa stated that there wore unlicensed place In Hoanoka Belting Intoxicating beveragn The Mayor sine Hoanok weal haa boeoma an ultra reform or Monday a young lady of Roanoke was flnod for fighting Th munt bo on in Rcanoka-wilh a vongnne If ths Is ou now why wan it not on before? Hove the laws been ehsnssd or has the Mayor changed Fredericksburg Evening Journal Foil-Tax There I quiet a dleousslon being waged by the gists paporo on the advantage sad disadvantage of tho eonotllutloaol provision providing for payment of tho poll -tax six months before a regular election ae condition -of being permitted to vote Thors Is nndoubtsdly a strong and determined Opposition to this limitation pf suffrage Sooner or later wilt be The Constitution Convention did many foolish thing which must Inevltsbly retard ths pro parity of tho State until tho slow ehseges are made ss tho Constitution Winchester Star Agrtcolturml 1 Vfc' Such conduct is s' dlsgrac Instead "nf backing up Mr Kolnsr who as Commissioner of Agriculture woo sleeted by tho people upon bin merit and who hoe don a werdarful work for tbe cauee nf agriculture In Virginia under lb most trying circumstance bo is on every see-Ian and everything conceivable don to discourage hie work Tha next Legislature should abolish tho board Jf within lu Hoanok Time fi -rv A Kingly Prtroaailv To doth a President with authority to Disinterested crltlca agree that Mr Willett's speech In the House was In Charles Haskell's best vein 1 Our personal opinion la that "hay-tedder" haa only from one-tenth to one-seventeenth the stinging power of 'incunabula of veracity" The Baltin Abbey Editor ot Times-Dispatcli: 1 'j When ths whole Nuutli voted'' to place Abbey In eapi-tal of Confederacy Richmond ac- asptsd a solemn obligation eyes of South upon her now watch-ing how that trupt -shall bo adminls- i tore A double duty Is laid upon I rear an imposing structure worthy of beloved cause which it represent and at same combine with 1c the Hying Issue of prevent Within will placed thn' i' and memorials of whoxer and fame can never die and tu this will tba youth ot our land and city to dlaeusa weighty prob-1 loins ot humanity and civic progress i very Battle Abbey-Scarries with It a question as to its history and which must prove far-reaching Its results it should at pivot and centra of our city la which can point with pride I in the evening's paper of the Is reported to bd: will be If necessary sacrificed to beauty" must it large handsome Imposing and beau- tiful Such was design and such must conclusion of- ferod id that for many unsuitable and only censure will the verdict of tho South should abbey be placed there When thn museum waa given ever to Con-" federate Memorial Literary Society 1C 1 waa with difficulty that a proper was procured In that locality for present school thing would be repeated should elty decide ea that lot the and delay -In pulling' down and rebuilding will -tn the end cost far more than now estimated does the government clerk come demands the Washington Herald Toward the end of Act 4 WISE STEP IX OYSTER QUESTION Governor Swanson and the Virginia Commission of Fisheries have- taken 1 the wisest possible course for Virginia by asking tbd United States Govern' tnent Fish Commission through Its bureau to survey and mark fhe productive and barren oyster bot-lonis In James River As a paper thet in profoundly Interested In the up- building of Virginia industries Ths 'Imes-Dlspatch is greatly gratified to note that the Governor and the Vlr- v'glnla Commission of Fisheries have kytC ft atjF thla sup because we believe an we have often stated that the knowledge gained by a scientific and Impartial survey of the oyster 'V- toms Is an essential prerequisite to any successful development of that On November the 3d we sug- -gested that in view of the failure of the legislature tb act the Commission rw5' of Fisheries nhould secure the neces-aai-y informatiun by itself making or requesting the national government vto make a survey In time for It to 'r- vbe available at the next eeaalon That fiu been adopted by tne Commission of Fisheries and has been approved by the Governor It only remains now for the United States government to co-operate In order to lva the Legislature a basis of fact Which it can intelligently place its reasoning In regard to the oyster Problem Thosie who havo followed the articles 'la this psper and have seen some of the comments from' other papers must how widely opinions differ as to Uie cause of the present de-v'i)fCKion in the oyster Industry and V' 1 beat remedy therefor But none V''-Kran doubt the only too apparent fact tint despite its natural advantages for Meantime nearly everybody le hut Congress Owing to the activity of various legislatures a great many statesmen are reconnecting with tlilr senatorial courtesies these daya While It Is none of our business really we feel compelled to tell Congress that we know men who would be willing to take that place at $98750 OBSERVED BY JOHN physician says tha billionaire will live to bo 109 because he avoids all worry Here is a valuable hiut'to those who desire long life First become a billionaire so you won't have to worry Philadelphia North American see Big shoe manufacturers threaten to put tho Correct aloes on loot gear But wben tp fair ones put their dainty fast down on ouch an innovation what Now York Herald A man in Kansas City who foil fifteen torio says that- every mean act of his lift passed before him before ha reached the bottom For some paopls even ths forty-odd-atory skyscrapers would bo all too short for such a review in detall-r-Baltl-more American' i a In Baltimore and Richmond they ore united In tho opinion that it was a mlgjity good thing that Edgar Allan Poo loft Boston at an early age Cleveland Plain Dealer But perhaps if ho had remained lu Massachusetts his name weald have been chosen for tho Hall of Feme Now York Herald The disposition of Congress there days seems -to be to speed tho guest about to part with the White House Proeldancs Journal Californians sent ever 114600 to the Italian sufferers this sum being raised by the sols of lemon It seems a poetical sort of retribution for relief to ho rent In this way when one considers what a hugs lemon adverse feta has Just boon handing unfortunate Baltimore American A Connecticut paper refers to Pitchfork Ben ae "Senator South Carolina should retort with a few remarks about new Senator Brandybottle I many beautiful mohunrent sod In future there may a muMum filled with pries- less records of tho past and may along other lino but -there can never be but Abbey It should therefor given a place of abiding honor In full and dally view that may inspire and benefit our citizens and visitor Lee It bo dona properly or not at aiL JUSTICE employ She government ae a mesne 1 of bridling publie eritielsm of hla 1 act ton would be to entrust him with a prerogative of absolutely kingly character with an attribute that oould at any moment be converted Into as miserably epee lee ef tyranny os could well proceed from an Imperial mooter of autocracy-ridden psopl Tho whole oebeme seems odiously lacon-slotent- with the theory of Republican government and Invitee the scathing wrathful rrpud lottos of public Lynchburg Now i At-uo "V-' They abuse President Roosevelt for Delta the secret service for detecting wrong This stun Is much ea tho order ef that of lynch-Inf In which little thought Is ever given tu ths Norfolk Lodger-Dlopateb kishmond the Capital We think that-any newspaper or politician who imagines that there Is any prejudice in tha rest' of the State against -tha Sir of Richmond Is mistaken JUchmond4-eur capital beautiful enters rising and devote Her glory Is the glory ef the Blot and her sons are nonr os they have always baa conspicuous far Intelligent and unselfish Winchester Evening Star Ws violate no confidence in announcing that Mr' Taft will be only half as perniciously active on twice the salary It becomes our duty to remind subscribers that a free presa does not as somp seem to think imply a deadhead list Terms cash and stove-wood not accepted flOOO Would -not an additional 91E00 suffice fpr the Abbey? But If It would not and if tfca1 Abbey will be mueb more exponslye conduct than the Museum It must be remembered that It will also- have greater aoureea of revenue Poor-fees which net the Mu-4 seum over 04000 a year ara at loaat a possibility- Ths great public ball for rental to' associations and convention is a certain source of revenue So we take' it Is the great Confederate library which It Is proposed to gather under the roof of the new building The Tlmes-Dispatch' does not balleve that the queetion of 01000 a year lu endowment 1 revenue need or should determine the placing of the Abbey It believes that the Museum site will not be generally acceptable to those 'who have contributed toward the new building and that the definite choice of a situation lacking general approbation would be a very grave mistake Indeed we know no reason why tho Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans might not at any time reconsider Its former action and determine that the building might be more advantageously placed In some other city' i TEST OF THE PRIMARY The election of George Chamberlain to the United States Senate by a Republican Legislature In Oregon is eliciting some nonsensical comment from our Republican friends In this part or theigjaiprtd 1 Thus the Washington Post 'koinewbat 7 excitedly Inquires "under which the new Senator is to take his stand Sines Mr Chamberlain Is a life-long Democrat and as a Democrat haa held various posts of honor in Ills State such a question hardly requires an answer The Baltimore American finds that In naming Mr Chamberlain the Republican legislators gave rare exhibition oS political fidelity" and "certainly sliowed a high-minded almost an altruistic attitude" As a matter of fact they showed nothing of the kind The simple keeping of a solemn pledge deserves no such encomiums as thla- Such credit as attaches to ordinary good faith does indeed belong to the Republicans of the Oregon Legislature Aa candidate! for election in a heavily Republican State it doubtless seemed to them safe enough to sign -statements pledging themselves to support the choice of the senatorial primary Irrespective of party But the' people chose a Democrat and the situation was embarrassing The stress was heightened by the activity of Senator Fulton and his followers who fairly teemed with reasons why the legislators to repudiate' their ante-election pledges Doubtleea no little pressure was brought to bear and it la a sufficiently wholesome thing that this was honorably withstood But that Is about all that may be said Whila the Illinois primary for example was advisory In character this was mandatory and binding and specific acceptance of It had been made condition of election Yet hecauae it had been seriously feared that the Oregon Legislature would bolt Its primary Instructions this faithful execution of them' under somewhat trying circumstances will certainly have a noticeable effect on forthcoming primary legislation The aystem haa been put to aa severe a teat as Is imaginable and haa stood It well With two directly nominated Sensitors at Washington Oregon may reasonably claim to have biased the way In the coming democratisalion of our venerable oligarchy THE PRESIDENTS SALARY On its face the decision of Congress to do a little better for the President In the matter of salary la reasonable enough In days of almoat ostentatious simplicity our fathers thought that the responsibilities and duties of this high office were worth $2E000 a year an enormous salary for those times Since then our population has doubled and tripled and tripled again our territory has Increased enormously snd the duties of the presidency have enlarged comnieneurately Simultaneously the salary scale hat forged steadily forward so that If there was no post in the country which carried as great an honorarium ea the presidency In 1800 there are scores of posts which carry more to-day If $35000 was not too much for a President then $100600 is not cent too much for a President now There Is the argument as It presents Itself to the casual glance But any discussion of the appropriateness of raising the President's salary would be defective if It did not keep an eye on the pretty perquisites now belonging to that office A President's salary Is not to be appraised like a clerk's The figure $50000 1i seductively deluding Senator Clay of Georgia recently called attention to the fact that the country was now paying Mr Roosevelt In all $199000 a year $149-000 of which Is not counted as salary but Is In the form of various appropriations for White House maintenance Thus the President Is already officially enabled to live not on a $50000 scale hut on a $200000 scale This excess over nominal salary through appropriations is new ten times what followed at the Abbey as now at the 11 WM twenty-five years ago Added would not the Increased it- t5 ibis too Is the presidential tendency producing the most delectable of bl-Vvalvea Virginia is losing ground in competition with other States engaged V- I1 'll' aw industry To restore the Pstlge and prosperity of Virginia's oyiter business to increass the wealth of the tonger and planter alike to bring to Tidewater the millions of that can be created out of the trade haa been the steady pur-of this paper' That purpose In i- view the action of Governor Swanson and the Virginia Commission of Fisheries will inevitably be accomplished provided only that the Legislature use with wisdom the Information that a scientific survey will supply- Mr 'i 'j M4! 's 1 t- 'fipyr-y a f- Air 4 la Impracticable Of the $:00009 available $100000 Is to be spent for the building and 1100000 is to go 1o an endowment fund The endowment at per cent would yield $500 per annum If 10000 for a site were taken from It the fund would yield $3500 Thus the privilege of putting the Abbey on a Tir'Bysrtased lte Mcted on the basis Jf tta especial appropristene-s would coat but 11100 a year Is not an sd-f vantareofua situation from a practical jE? point of view worth that eum? If the costom of door-fees on certain days is Bblpatnff sad the Food Law'' Editor of The Tlmes-Dtspateh: Sir It Is a poor rule that doM nci work both way would Ilka to tft your valuable paper why that when buying shipstuff not get the feed supposed -to been analyzed and Inspected ea to rules -v-V? We do not hold however that Representative Willett has necessarily wedged Ms way Into history 4 mm ft Meantime there's a hatchet receiving obsequies In Washington Voice of the People NEW RAPID TRANSIT IDEA ofEurope By Lt Marquiie de Footenov Earl of Warwick claims Daseent From th Mag-Maker Lord boast on ths subject of hia lineage In the interview which he granted to Mrs Georgs Augustus gala snd which printed in a number of American commences "Yes I sm descended from the King-maker Earl of will- be new to- most students of history snd genealogy for there are no ties of blood between' tha house of Orevllle of which the present Lord Warwick la the chief snd ths King-maker portrayed by Bulwer Lyt-ton as "the last of the barons" In tbs novel of that name and the only association between them is that of title and of the ownership of Warwick '-The King-maker had no son but two daughter one of whom Lady Anne evil is after marrying Edward Prince Wales the murdered son of Henry VL became the consort -of Richard 1IL of England The other daughter Lady Isabel married the Duke of Clarence who was drowned In a butt of Malmsey win By this marriage there were two children a son and 1 a daughter The son Inherited through hla mother: his earldom of Warwick snd died without Issue a parliamentary attainder of bis earldom of War-wlok following his death snd being: therefore of s' posthumous character The daughter Margaret Countess of Salisbury who was beheaded In the Tower had daughter and four sons one of whom was Cardinal Pole Archbishop of Canterbury As the eldest brother of Cardinal Pole left a number of daufkteo It might have been possible that through some matrimonial alliance of their descendants With the house of Grevllle' the present Earl of Warwiok could have boasted of descent ever so indirect of the Kingmaker But had the present Earl of Warwick or any of the other four Earls of Warwick of the house of GrevlU been able to discover a descent or this kind we should undoubtedly have heard of it long ere this and they would have taken the customary steps to secure a repeal of the attainder all the more as the Kingmaker earldom of Warwick was a peerage descendable through the female ss well aa the male side of the house -1 Unfortunately for Lord Warwick his own 1 wife haa In her book entitled "Warwick Castle and Its demonstrated the fallacy of bis pretensions to be a descendant of the for the volume In question show among other thing- how It is that her husband had no connection whatsoever directly or indirectly with tha peer known aa "the last of the Tba book Is well worthy of study for leaving aside the many legends which- are connected with Warwick Castle It proves' tha historic pile which Is the bourne of so many American1 pilgrimage to have been built -by the daughter of Alfred the Great and to have belonged In turn to the houses of NTWburgh of Beauchamp- of Nevrlt of Dudley and of Grevllle the house of Rich which for 140 years enjoyed the possession of the earldom of Warwick having never owned Warwick Castle Warwick Castle belonged to the Dudleys when lt was visited by Queen Elisabeth and among its most frequent-guests was Amy -Robsart wife of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester and the heroine of Sir-Walter Scott's novel of The Dudley Earl of Warwick played a considerable role In the opening up of this country It was he who furnished Sir Martin Frobisher with the means of making all those discoveries in the northern part of this hamlsphsre which are commemorated among other things by what la now Bay and by the so-called Countess of Warwick Island north of Hudson Strait This Lord and Lady Warwick may be said to havo ruined themselvea-ln efforts to explore develop and colonise this country and among their fellow-sufferers were Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester and Queen Elisabeth herself It was another of Queen Elisabeth's favorites namely Fulks who obtained from her successor King James I a grant of 1 the then half ruined' Warwick Castle and dependencies being raised to the peerage as Lord Brooke Stabbed and killed when already on hla deathbed by a servant who waa angered at- finding that lie had not been remembered In his will tha barony of Brooke and Warwick Castle with all the other estates passed according to a special remainder of the peerag to his cousin Robert Grevllle as second Lord Brooke the eighth Lord Brooke and eighth of the GrevlUe owners of Warwick Castle being raised first to the earldom of Brook and fifteen years later to the earldom of Warwick on the death without leaud of -the last of the Earls of Warwick of tbs house of Rich This was in 1758 and the present Lord Warwick is only tha fifth sari of this creation-The house of Rich mav be said to have been founded by that rascally lord chancellor who gave evidence against Sir Thomas More and who took a personal part In ths torture of Anne Askew among its most notable members having been Penelope Rich who was the of Sir Philip Sydney and Charlotte Countess of Warwick wh6 married Addison The house of Grevllle Itself was founded by a merchant of London of the name of William Grevllle who loaned money to Richard 1L Lady Robert Montagu' whose death Is announced from London' was a grand-aunt of the present Duke of Manchester having been the widow of Lord Robert Montagu 1 a younger brother of the seventh duk She- waa Lord Robert's second wlf and was of very humble origin having Indeed been a domeetlo servant up to the time when Lord Robert led her to the altar Slie was employed -as a housemaid at the house next to that of Lord Robert and watching her out of the windows of hla study while she was scrubbing the house doorsteps of a morning he fell in love with ner and by wedding her transformed her Into a sister-in-law of the then Duchess of Manchester and present and actpal widowed Duchess of Devonshire- Pie had several children by her who have experienced some difficulty In making both ends meet for although his first wife was an heiress he only retained a life Interest In her property which went at his death to the son she had borne namely Robert Montagu -The wife a Miss Annls Me Mlcklng also a great heiress and owner of Mil tones one of the finest places in (Scotland waa convicted In 1898 of having brought about the death of her three-year-old daughter Mary by shocking cruelty and was sentenced to a couple of years' imprisonment for homicide Robert Montagu who thus enjoys through his mother and through hie wife an income of over $100000 a year and the possession of large estates In Scotland and Ireland le third In the direct line of succession to the dukedom of Manchester the first being the present duke's little boy and the second the late only brother Lord Charles Montagu a confirmed bachelor who haa not the slightest Idea of marry- Ing and who Inherited a handsome bequest from his stepfather the late Duke cf Devonshire He makes his home with hia mother the widowed Duehesa of Devonshire and was a warm friend of the late Duke of Clarence' The late Lord Robert Montagu was a most unpopular man who died estranged from moat ot the members of his famjly and with relatively few to regret him for -he was as Inconstant In his friendships as he was in his political and religious belief having changed backwards and forwards between the Church of England and the Church of Roma so many times that lt Is difficulty to recall now in which of the two he died Tn reply to a reader I would state that the famous status of Launcelot Blaokburne Archbishop of York which used to figure on ths apex of the York Minster's great south gable Immediate --jr and regulations of tha pure food law? -S And againon th other hand If I bring now mind you made from ''5 this adulterated I am liable to bo punished if lt does not come up to certain standard Then rice versa Lwhy not that feed put on the market such as shipstuff especially cornea up to tho analysis shown on bag and aruar antesd to- to- be such-' Then If seems to me that all la to for person wbo has charge of S'zi department te to any dealer but' open bag er as many aa wishes and see how been imposed upon JAFFEXT 1 Msnchsster Kosaeveit and XAe- Editor ofTh 'JS'T 6lr While Congressman Wlllet on yesterday delivering his tirade 'of abuse upon the President Utter engaged tn dictating let- ter to advisory committee for abutting memorial to General Robert Lee appealing to all people In -every section of the country for the sstab- 1 llshment of a fitting memorial to be placed In Washington and Lee Untver 7 silt jr to the -everlasting memory of our beloved chieftain This but another Instance of th clever way In which the president handicaps his adverearle In sporting vernacular It might be said that WIN let rashly ventured hU king la political without knowing hm adversary held the ac The whole country will thank tho President while only a few will agree with Congressman WUlek Veteran Company Twelfth Virginia Infantry Botetourt oounty TERMINAL AND GENERAL' Tha atreama of tha Hlmilsyen Mountains will soon ho engaged In the prosnlo work of turning wheels i A barn in Cornish EL haa a sloping roof fret fang When ono adds of ths roof woo shingled it required 11600 shingle Dennis Sullivan who for many years mads shoes for tho Governors of Rhode Island died recently In Providsno aged alghty-flve yearn There is a great agitation In England for penny cabla rate' Everybody la in favor of a lower schedule axeept the cable companies a A Methodist preacher Dr AJdsr-aon of Terrell Tex took the prise on golden Wyandotte chickens at a reoent poultry show The olectrlcal equipment of the Canard liner Mauretania Includes over 190 miles of cobles and more than 0000 fifteen -candle-power lamp A peanut plant with root leaves and four full-grown peanut was found In Farmington Me whore some ono had dropped a peanut lost fall For the first time in over forty years tobacco of a fine quality was raised last summer In Montgomery oounty Pn a fsw miles from Philadelphia An effort Is bring mode to recur uniform laws In tho different eoal mining States relative to mine operation and guarding the lives of employs Madame Emma Calve prims donna has been under ths core of a throat spaa lot 1st in Pavannkh for four day although hsr condition Is not at all alarming Joseph Schmidt sixty-four is a pupil at ana of tha public schools at Fair view Wash He is ona of tho Washington ploneoro and Is Just learning how to read John Rockefeller and rsrty number-Ing fourteen person have arrived at Auguste Go for stay- of several weeks Tho party Includes Mr Spellman and Miss McCormick Tha statistics of Ilfs Insurance people show that In tha last twenty-five years the average length of a Ufa has Increased 6 per ornt or two whole from 4L0 to 430 years? Wllfley former Judge of tho United States Court at Shanghai Chino' has arrived at Ban Francisco from tho Orient on thu liner Manchuria en roots to Now York having resigned his position voluntarily Sir James Crlchton-Browne tha famous English physician la not in favor of teaching children to use their left hands equally with their right Some time ego In the ecurre of a lecture ho mode some strong remarks against ambidexterity iV Aaarsaawat Pisa Suggested la Develop- lag Lines The Public Service Commission in making recommendations to the Legislature for promoting rapid transit facilities in this city broaches one plan that la new In this field of "public improvement" The cost of municipal construction should be so assessed ae that of street openings and Improvements is provided for There is a general demand for rapid tranelt lines to and through districts where it le certain they would not pay at first and conaequently private capital cannot be Induced to undertake them and Interest and sinking fund charges for bonds Issued for construction could not be earned and leave a profit for operation though after the districts had been "built there might be a profitable traffic It Is said that the Increase In real estate values In soma of the far uptown sections due to the construction of the subway "was several times the cost of the entire subway" No other class of public improvements the commission adds such a great and immediate effect upon land values aa rapid transit lines and this Is particularly true of development route lines running out Into sparsely -settled areas" This being the case will property owners who are ao urgent to have these lines constructed at the expense of somebody else or of the taxpayers of the whole city be willing to pay for them themeelves whole or in part" by the assessment of the cost upoti their property? If they are to fie owned by the city why ara they not "public like new streets with their sewers and pavements? If they are to add largely to the value of the real estate along their routea why should not the owners of the property be willing to pay their cost or such part of it as is in excess of their value as Investments? They are the only ones sure of a profit for a long time This Is certainly worth thinking about New York Journal of Commerce ARGUMENT -v I Ao Arid Editor of The- It is with mingled pleasure and regret that 1 beg for apaae to reply to your editorial of tho 18th instant headed Birmingham The pleasure arises from the tact that I am able to hit a blow and the regret due to tha fact that you have made It necessary to do so I am prepared to receive any kind of a in reply I have been fro- Suently alluded to ae a fanatic ypocrlte -old soak and sundry other names too ugly to print -1 hare even been threatened with bodily harm and It has hod no effect but to make my more determined v- In your editorial you hare either withheld some information or you have committed the unusual fault of writing shout something you know not of Tho iluation you describe Is almoat similar to the condition prevailing In city of Wilmington Prohibition went into1- effect' here January I 1909 and there are about sixty persons holding United States revenue liquor licenses In the county good until June ID 1909 and possibly they will be renewed on that date when they expire But that does not signify that all of those sixty persons are eeli-ing the liquor prohibited by the law Not by a long sight remember that drug Stores are required to take up Federal license It Is not within the power of any one to frame a perfect law' It is no wonder then that liquor (who have It their to do so) have found loopholes by which to the law No sooner does prohibition become a fact tban the Invent a new which they can sell without violating the State law This contains a small percentage of alcohol but does not within the of the State law but containing more than one-half of per cent alcohol the United Btates re-jin park In the various biographical quires a license or tax on It and the laketches of her It is told how she at people now holding these United Btates licenses have secured them to sell not whiskey and lager beer To a person not thoroughly Informed on the subjectlt would appear that there are Just as many In Wilmington as there were before the prohibition law went Into effect But the appearances are deceptive the saloons are not here I do not doubt that it la possible to buy a drink In Wilmington for the same reason that I do not doubt it la possible to buy cocaine In your own dear town although you hare laws to prerent the sale of It And I am In a position to say to you that If it la possible to do so we are going to hare a law passed to prevent tne sale of if we cannot prevent it under the present law The Supreme Court of North Carolina holds that the possession of a United States tax receipt Is prims facie evidence of the sale of liquor The State law prohibits the sole of Intoxicating liquor therefore the question is with us whether Is or not Intoxicating Opinions differ on this subject and tha through which ara now selling Ik Some day the Supreme Court (for we will take It there if necessary) will decide the question for us Yours truly BROWNE' Wilmington January 19 1909 Mr Weis Editor of The Tlmee-Dlspatch: -Sir In i your notice of Mr Weiss In -last Sunday's Times-Dispatch you rt ferred to her as deaf old- blind etc and for thle reason unable to give any account of Edgar Allan Poe r' Being well acquainted with Mr Weiss allow me to refute this statement an early age lost her hearing was a yonng girl In 1849 when she met Poe One of the notable thinge about Weiss Is her excellent eyesight Two years ago she wrote her "Home Life of Poe" without requiring the 4tse of She is In full possession of remarkable mental facultlee the society of her friends and freely and most interestingly of per- sons and things that she has know In her past CITIZEN 13000 for Not Smoking Tha will of John Platt the auto- genarlan who gained much notoriety because of his suit against Hannah Ells a negress was filed for probate Thursday In the offle The value of the astute is given over $10099 in personal property with no real estate' The will is dated Fobru- ary 17 1898 A clause In the will reads: the the purpose of carrying out the promise made by me to my deceased wife January 1 1888 that would give to our grandson William Jr on his twenty-first birthday the cum of $5900 on condition that he would abstain from smoking or drink- Ing alcoholic liquors untl fils twenty- first birthday I do give and bequeath the nAme my deceased wife to said the sum of $6000 provided I' A FORWARD POLICY What v- Mrs-' -glasses -her Rich Parish Will Reap Benefits Frm Dvomlag ChapeL All the arguments put forward by the rector of Trinity Parish and by those who uphold Its action In dooming fct John's Chapel are from a business point of view The same arguments would be good if applied to Trinity Church itself and to old fit As the World" has suggested Trinity and all Its-belongings would probably "cut for sixty million dollars i and It would We "good business" for the corporation to realise on Its assets The only reason always speaking from the business pblnt of view why the corporation does not close out Its holdings in real estate must be that the financiers responsible for its policies deem that their untaxed property Is likely to Increase In value The policy of converting this vast property to- business uses Should ho carried out gradually Bealdcs owing to the narrow prejudices of many New Yorkera a too rapid conversion of religious assets Into buelneas assets might lead to more pronounced criticism than that awakened by the proposal to doom 8k Thost who oppose the conversion of St Into valuabla rent-producing property will we trust' realise the mistake they have made- They seem to have been under the impression that Trinity would act from philanthropic or possibly even from a religious point of view New York World a Live Paper Coaelders to Be Live ttsistleia It la hoped that the next congressional conventions will stop etherlalls-ing about eternal principles snd apostrophizing local needs snd Indulge in some high-handed progress Let them resolve that our representatives he Instructed as follows: First To vote against any further Increase of the navy Second To establish free trade between this country snd the islands brought under our flag Third To oppose the increase of official salaries they being higher now than the officials can get anywhere else Fourth To reduce the membership of the House to 200 snd thus expedite business and save $2000000 Fifth To abolish the franking privilege absolutely and devote the saving to a cheaper portage Sixth To stand by the civil service and thus help relieve the country of plunder politic These are a few things that the people are Interested in and the triumph of political party one way or the other does not amount to a hill of beans if great reforms like these are not promoted Let the people take a stand on live questions and say their say In the open air and not be satisfied with an obsolete faith In the Interest of a meek conformity Let the Republican party which Is the heal agent for these reform be brought abreast of these forward The Ohio State Journal -on -In grandson he shall comply with- 'the conditions aforesaid" New York Time I celpts by reason ef favorable location he much larger than that? We do not understand in any case '(that a large endowment fund revenue necessary to the malntenam the Abbey If $5000 year Is ample we do not think that $3500 would be itn-possible Excepting the house regents the good and patriotic ladies who give their time' to the Confederete Muxeuir jti'j "idlo so without psy The whole pense of running the Museum for the Jlu OiAf kapwiNw a-m wit lit 4ka 1 107 barring payments to the Remember Lee Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir As I walked -up Grace Street to-day I saw in front of house The picture of a man draped In the fragments of a Confederate flag It was the picture of Robert Lee one who has won for himself a home in the of his peopl To-day we are celebrating the -anniversary of his birth but I cannot help but wonder at the seemingly lack of patrlotle enthusiasm which should distinguish this os of especially In Virginia If Richmond were to take lessons from some of her sister cities in the West and North every business house knd many reaalencc would be ablase today with the visible eigne of our loving reverfnee end respect for on who notorious with Mr Roosevelt to ro-rrw for private use government prupfriy like anny automobiles as well as government employees carried mi the pay-rolls of friendly department be shown that Mr Roosevelt any rate has had any difficulty whatever in maintaining a "suits able style of on $50000 a year Probably the country which does not object to doing the handsome thing now erg then will make no serious objections to tfcs Increase Nor will Attend It Friday The Great Factory and Be-Fore Inventory Sale of Faulkner Warrmer Co Pee and Hall ef Fame The 100th anniversary of the birth of Edgar A Foe will be celebrated In tula city to-day In varloua ways and places si related In our news columns In Poe Park a tablet and a bust will he unveiled and notable exercises will he conducted In the two universities The memory of the brilliant genius whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster may he denied a niche In our petty local Hall of Fame but haa a more enduring one In the hearts of millions of admirers iirhls own and other New Tork Herald Juvenile Courts Abroad Fellows Jenkins' secretary snd superintendent of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children will depart for Alexandria Egypt on the Csrmanls on' Thursday Mr Jenkins le going abroad In the Interests cf child protKCtion snd tha establishment of Juvenlls courts in foreign cities He also represents the American Humane Association He will visit Italy (Switzerland France Austria Hungary Germany England snd Scotland New York Herald f-iaar Pdowment fund was barely over I 7 'A i 4 A I- It V)' 11 r-'- 1 1 PSitiure-Hn tel i ill.