The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-07

one than Mr.. Channlng.'"
We do not like to discuss motives, but
the fact Is that our greatest American
poet has been snubbed and disllonorcd
by committee OF Northerners, and 1t
5bcliooves his friends and fellow citizens
in Richmond to raise Il shaft to his
fame not in any spirit OF sectional re-
sentiment, but as just tribute to South
ern genius and art. If Richmond will
but start the movement, we doubt not
that the admirers of Poe In all parts OF
the United States and abroad Will have
pleasure In contributing.
===----..-.-=--- -.
Why should not n citizen be required
to servo as Judge Of election as we'll as
ararise before sun up on election day, go
to the booths, sit and receive ballots un-
I'll. shutdown, then count and return the
ballots The work of counting some-
is a hard and tedious days labor for
any man. but It Is a public duty and the
citizen who ,llas been selected to dis
charge 1t has no moral right to shlrls. IL
State should compel him. 1t is not fair
that this labor should be imposed upon
willing citizens, and selfish and indiffcr-
ent citizens allowed to sllirk. Make 1t a
legal duty, equally binding upon all.
-.:-------= asg
Tt is probably n Snfe hot TINT Mics
Alice Roosevelt, for her age, has been
more photographed than anybody else on
the round globe. Quite perceptIbie
fraction OF her young life has been passed
in front Of camera shutter.
Rockefeller Still Dodges Service"
says a headline, the reference being. not
ecclesiastical, but SUBPOENA. John is not
the sort OF man to dodge a church SER
vice. provided there is any way to get
in past the process-men
=-------=..-
Late dispatches reclare that Belgium Is
anSlously getting ready to defend her
neutrality. Belgium needn't worry. She
can put away her neutrality in the same
place that Korea keeps her entity, and
go on about her business
=---=-=-==
The Senate Is said to be Indignant at
the kind of things some of the magazines
are printing about 1t. AT first blush, n
sensitive Senate seems to be contralic-
tion in terms.
=====------==--------=--
Cav
should bear in mind, however, that the
matter Of their reelection is not to be
settled exclusively in Washington.
Admiral Togo, who is coming in April,
will not take It amlss, we trust, If we
once more give him friendly warning
to get them plugged before leaving
The we'll known drama. "llone Against
the Senate with Mr.. Roosevelt in the
title role. is being enacted daily in Wash
ington to immense audiences.
Frances steps toward separating
church and State are attended by the
preliminary difficulties usually incident
A hugger has been operating in Peters,
burg. Those who have seen tho Peters
burg girls cannot but have a sneaking
sympathy with him.
A stitch In time. none the less, may
stand in the way Of what would other
wise have been a ripping time.
==--==-I-=
Still, Judge Deuel. has a perfect right to
wait and get pushed out. II that strikes
Kim as the preferable exit
-----
Mcssrs. Tuan Fang and Tai Hung Chi
have merely come, as it were, to
Peel; in.
The one country that is not at all per-
turbed about Morroccos fate is Morocco.
The goldman and Colonel j. Frost have
evidently succeeded in patching 1t up.
Mrs. Miner was rather slow in being
convinced of her own identity
====---==
Washington small-talk seems to all in
the rate bill vein these days.
------
~ neessa nsse.ss.ueBs~ua
) THIS DAY IN HISTORY /
February 9TH. j.
Sr.aa--ssszssnsaG.=sae~e@erA4