The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26

England, King James was ineensed be- cause Rolfe had the presumption to mar " a princess of royal blood. So little did James understand Powhatan.
 Powhatan knew as little about James, for he sent a trusted brave with Poca- hontas to count the English and see if it would be practicable for the In dians to cross the Atlantic and take London The poor Indian started In bravely to take his census by cutting a notch on a stick every time he met a man, but the job soon proved too much for him. He went back to Virginia and reported that the English were as the stars of heaven and sands of the sea- But Powhatan would not believe him.
 In the ITO years of the colonial his- tory of Virginia there was as great de- velopment, relatively, as has taken place in America since Virginia became a state. The population at the time of the first Federal census, 1790 was twice as great as that of New York state and nearly half of what it is now. In Tide water. Va, the people lived in the luxury of rural England. The land was entailed by laws of primogeniture and the rich plants were aristocrats of the aristoerats. Yet these very aristocrats were the first to cry out against the oppression of the English government. The colonial Virginians have been de- scribed as slaves to church and king, yet they were the first people in the world to enact statute guaranteeing absolute religious freedom; they were the first people to declare by formal enactment that all men are created equal, the first to asert that government should derive their just power from the consent of the governed.
 The aristocrats of the Tidewater were called Tuckahoes by the simpler folk who lived In the valley of Virginia and In the foothills of the mountains. The lat ter were called Cohees. The Tuckahoes were of pure English stock Most of them were descended from the original Jamestown colonists, with the admixture of the blood of the royalists who fled from England when Cromwell and parli- ament set up the Commonwealth. The Cohees were of English, Scotch Irish, Dutch, and German descent, much more like the average American of today. But these strains of blood did not commngle as amicably then as they do now.
 The town of Winchester was established in 1752, and was settled by Irish and Dutch. On St. Patricks day the Dutch always arranged a procession and with mock solemnity would carry through the streets figure of St Patrick and his wife, Sheeley. About the god saints shoulders hung a necklace of potatoes. and his wifes apron was also full of the same Irish fruit. On St. Patrick's day the Irish had the merry custom of re- taliatnig by parading a figure of the Dutch saint dressed In frills and sauer- kraut
 All these strains of blood have been intermingled in the century of state life, and the Virginia of today is a composite of European bloods, as are all Americans, but the English predominant Virginians hold to their state pride with great ten- acity, they are nearly all experts in tracing family histories, and but few of them can be found who will not con- fess to an ancestor who was prominent Tn colonial or evolutionary days. They are courteous and hospitable, and most of them are striving hard to make money that they may see a revival of Vir- ginia's greatness.
 Tomorrow-The Empire of Corn.