The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26


duous calling. 1t Is no wonder that
tho show-gir)s were a good deal awed
OF her. Arriving at ninety is DIM
lfciilt business In itself let alone arrlv-
| ling there handsome. There Is, indeed
IA beauty OF the nonagenarinn passing
that OF youth, a kind Of holy glory OF
age, as every man VIII, has nshale g old oil
! grandmother can testify. But this is
no beauty for "stage-women,' whose
presence must speak gaicty and vivid
ness strength and vlvacitS, the dance
music and the bloom OF life. Tho Won
derful dignity of vigorous senescence
/ is worth nothing In the blast OF tho
calcium: nor will baldhcad row permit
Its opera glass To turn upon the thlnB
that Is venerable. Nine Swift must make
tho high cnlors Of youth survive TO
paint out tho growing acqulcscence
OF age, Nature has ordained that these
colors shall not survive, that chrome
beauty shall be the portion OF youtn
forever. Art was never n match for
nature, though IT has never realized u
and never Will.
Even. IL Nine. Swift were successful
in her high quest, SHE would get no
credit and never n testimonial. Her
cunning defeats itself; for no beautiful
woman, however grateful she might pe'
would ever admit that she was ninety.
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sERENo PAYNE. TARIFF REvIsER.
y The announcement that the Hon.
serene Z. Payne, chairman OF the Com
mittec on Ways and Means. has begun
upon the work preliminary to the
drafting OF new tariff bill has an
anomalous sound in these hours of
political unrest.
other Republican statesmen are oc-
cupied solely In the picturesque activi-
ties of the campaign. The mind OF Mr..
Payne must be concerned with the
difterential duties on sugar, the In
tricacies Of the wooden schedules, the
rates on locomotives and hosiery. But
to be SO occupied is only an apparent
hardship for Mr. Payne, Tariff rates
and tariff classifications are objects
he likes to conjure with. OF such ten
derness Is Mr.. Payne's regard for them
that he is not willing that the profanc
hands OF Democrat should touch them
The true tariff reformer he looks upon
as an interloping destroyer Of the
country's Institutions. He is the. firm
est and most sincere friend the Dingley
tariff has. It's warmest admirer and
respecter of its working; and there
fore IL changes in 1t must come they
should be made by his own loving
hand.
The interesting phase OF tho present
inquiry is in what way and to what
extent Mr.. Payne will use the informa-
ton that is to be gathered by the va
rious departments of the government.
Whatever that information may be;
whatever deductions should logically
be drawn from 1t. no one supposes that
1t will affect the views Mr.. Payne now
holds. These are immutable, and have
heretofore resisted alike fact and ar
gument.
Tho cheerfulpess. the seeming a!tru-
ism, with which he set about the task
make ono more than usually skeptical
as to his intentions. Mr.. Payne is a
Republican and a stand-patter OF the
most pronounced type. Has this unex-
pccted willingness for light and change
any further design than to use them
as weapons In Mr.. Payne's long-waged
opposition to tariff reform?
GOOD ROADS PROBLEM WORLD
WIDE
Meeting new conditions successfully
is essential to the progress of civiliza-
ton. One hundred and twenty-five
years ago Trcsauget, of France, and
Macadam. of Scotland, met the diff
Guilty which arose from impossible
roads by developing the modern mac
adamizcd highway. They argued that
iron tires crushing down heavily the
rock spread over the roads would ulti-
mately result III giving smooth, hard
surface that woul d shed the ater,and re-