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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-06-05

Secretary Taft put his foot badly into
it when, on last Saturday, he delivered
an address on Gen. Grant before an au-
dience at the tomb of Grant and where
Gen. Fred. d. Grant was present. He
referred to the ''strong drink habit" of
Gen. Grant in his younger days, his
dolessness, his resignation from the
army, his falling back on his father-in-
law for support, and so forth, and so
on. This was done TO show how a life
seemingly wrecked could afterwards be
righted up, and made great. But he
has drawn down on himself the anath-
emas of the G. A. RS everywhere.
1t was all true of course, but in woful
taste, and could have been omitted
easier than said. A popular idol must
not have faults, he must never have
had any, and Mr.. Taft has learned this
to his sorrow. Suppose Mr.. Bryan had
made such speech. Think of it.
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EX-GOv. Warfield of Maryland, who
would like to be Vice-Presidental
candidate, and who has been travelling
in the west, says he finds an undercur-
rent out there against Bryan. We can
testify that there is more than an I'M
dercurrent against the ex-governor in
the east, may be this is what he felt,
and mistook.
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1t seems to us that a united DemOc-
racY can be obtained one way. and that
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-06-05

may Y !
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ing that he had been moved by an amia-
BILE and benevolent purpose to "put the
Republicans ina hole
This may not be so very much OF an
argument, either, but certainly a gen.
tleman who declaims 30 noisily against
imperialism" might be asked to ac-
count for his part in a solemn and de-
liberate act by the Senate which made
imperialism possible. II it be true as
stated, and firmly believed In Washing
ton, that the Treaty Of Paris would have
been defeated but for BRYAN's inter-
ference, the other ride has pretty well
defined right to ask how he dares to
pratS 90 abundantly and 80 persistently
of our adventures in these alien folds.
!. It is OF course unnecessary to point
out Mr.. BRYAN's innumerable weak
nesses and inconsistencies. They are
30 fragrant and familiar they anticipate
recapitulation and disarm serious COM
ment. But at least the ordinary cam
paign orators might do something with
a gentleman who breaches anti-imperi-
alism and yet seems to have thrust i'm
perialism upon us. He did it, 30 the
story goes, to 'put the Republicans In
O hole.' Tho question, however, is
whether Mr.. BRYAN IL in o position to
exploit the 'hole.'
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Now poets sing the grandeur Of the fail
The golden leaves and such things have the call
The rood old apple draws no song q, all.
The yellow russet snd the Northern Spy,
That sway and wabbie twixt the earth and sky
Are Inspiration, II bard but Try.
Soon all yon dying leaves will be mass
OF rubbish. nt for paught but hsme, alas,
While you, pippin. will be apple sass.
oh, soc the farmer. coming down the bill;
Those barrels yonder with the fru, he'll MI.
And singing, tote them TO the cider mill.
Unlike the leaves, that scarce are worth fx
This hardened juice will start festive jlE
Next winter. through the of repeated swig
Oh shame. vain leaves: you make the poet Sigh
And waste his sweetness with your lure 30 ally;
You never pleased as docs an apple pie.
whoe'er has sunk his teeth through apple skin
And caught the juice that trickled down his chin
Has little more Of happiness to win.
The dumplings too--but lot this serve 10 teach
The poets Of unhsokneyed things In reach.
Before they iooss their annual serc leaf screseh
ozAxlss r. bAnu[
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Maine.

IfBERT FERNALp and OBADIAH GARD
NER were the leaders of opposing village
parties on the question Of an appropria-
ton for a new guide board in South
Solon the issues between them would
be only a little more severely local than
those on which Maine is to give judg-
ment to-day.
However, custom must be obeyed,
and in some occult way the pulse Of
national feeling is to be felt in Maine
to-day. II the Republican majority is
not what it ought to be Mr.. BRYAN can
rejoice his eyes with more September
mirages. and Mr.. HITCHCOCK and Mr..
SHELDON may be able to scare the per-
turbed faithful into saving the country
as per check enclosed.
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81. AuRustine,, FloMer.
From the ue,tminsisr G1,snr

from Uf HfsIWIHfTfT GIffTtH.
st. Augustine OF Hippo. the great doctor OF the
church whose festival falls on August es, Is a
sadly neglected saint among modern rituallsts,
and even occasionally confused with the name
sake who lnsulted our British bishops. Yet he Is
pronounced by Hooker without any equal and
regarded by Harnack as the frst modern man :
He has been better honored In the horal world,
for to him Is dedicated the golden rod or wound
wort tSohdago viTeaurea). now beginning 10
bloom. Old Gerarde. with whom this was favor
ite remedy, tells us that golden rod fetched a
high price as q foreign herb until discovered
growing near London. when the plant was neg.
iected. He adds the caustlc comment; This
verinctb our English proverb Far fetcht and
dear boughte Is best for ladies' or for fantas,
ticali physiuons." Before tobacco the golden rod
also furnished snun for our medieval fore
fathert
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Mr.. Bryan and the Hole.

While the politicians are about it they
might concoct some roorback at the
expense of Mr.. BRYAN not only more
effective but more important than those
stale and empty yarns about his hav-
ing voted against CRISP for Speaker be-
cause Of the latter having served in the
Confederate army, and about his hav-
ing once spoken Of union labor men as
lot of public beggars. Things Of
that sort are hardly worth the notice
Of serious and sensible men. But at
least they might make fairly respect
able rechauffee Of that now ancient
story of the part he played in the ratifi-
cation OF the Treaty Of Paris and our
contemporaneous acquisition Of the
Philippines.
OF course Mr.. BRYAN had no voice In
the matter. He was not Senator or
even Representative: but he Yves the
defeated Democratic candidate for
President, crowned with the thorns OF
martyrdom, undeterred, and equipped
with a peculiar influence over the gushy
and the sentimental Of his party. Al
ready in 1899 the Chatauquas and the
Mohonks and the rostrums were in
viting the melodious orator to come
along and throw them into luxurious
paroxysms at 30 much a paroxysm.
About that, time, by fclicitous con-
junction, the Treaty Of Paris went be-
fore the Senate for confirmation, and
GoRMAN, the. Democratic leader. aided
by Senator HoAR and othet Republicans,
was maneuvring to defeat it, What
over may be the facts, it is be-
lieved in Washington that BRYAN's
visit to the Capitol was inspired by the
seeming deadlock and that his influence
prevailed with a sufficient number of
Democrats to secure the confirmation.
1t is matter Of cohmon and general
belief moreover, that Mr. BRYAN Sub
s:T'. nt! explained his action BY say
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Recipe for a Great President.

Recipe Tor Greac President.
Mr.. RoosRvELT's characteristic let
ter of recommendation for Mr.. TAFT
closes with this definition:
-on the bench Judge TAyT showed TIE TOO
qualities which make . great Judge: wisdom and
moral courage. They are also the two auaiIties
which make q great President
The essential, not necessarily the same,
qualities, Of great Judge and a great
President might be stated less sum-
marily and more sufficiently, but let the
definition pass; and it is only in regard
to the Presidency that the test laid down
by Mr. ROOSEVELT need concern us.
Admit that wisdom and moral courage
make a great President. Observe that
Mr.. ROOSEVELT regards as indlspensa-
BILE to the making Of a great President
two qualities which he himself most
lamentably lacks.
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Decline OF PidGin English.
From ne wesfmfnsier Ga,sat.

In the latest Shanghai trade report IL Is stated
by Mr. Elgar Hobson the Commissioner OF Gus
toms, that owing 10 the increasing linguistic
proficiency Of the Chinese pidgin English Is
falling into dIsuse. English. French and Ger.
man are learned by the Chinese with comparative
ease when properly taught, and with the intro.
duction OF Western education Into Chinese schools
broken English Is giving place TO more correct
speech. Well! this JarEon has had long run In
the East II is not at all like Chinese and 80
unlike English that newcomers require to'learn
It. The difference between II and proper English
was once uncoosciously and wittily expressed
by Cantonese shopteeper. who finding himself
q, loss 70 understand the correct Engfish spoken
by a new arrival turned 10 his friend an Amcrl-
can. and said: "Moh bettah you fen tAlkee Eng.
nshee talk; my no sabbee Mclean taIe-"
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Cobb's six Horse Coaches.
From ne I.ondon chronicle.

IN Melbourne the American sailors viii zee the
style and title OF famous countryman OF thelrs,
Captain Freeman Cobb. II was he who In the
early SOS established the coaching nrm OF cooo
Co. which became q household word all over
Australia. There were few railways az that time,
and Cobb's six horsed coaches became the reFu'
lar means OF communication between Melbourne
and Bsilarat Bendigo, and most Of the other up
country gold neids. That cute Yankee. Captain
Freeman Cobb. VINO saw the opportunity ana
grasped it soon returned 70 America with hand .
some fortune. but Cobb 4 Co. ID stin AZ the hoAd
Of ths coschins business in Australia. ----
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safe Rsute for Australia
From ne .Shtppt1d World,

A manager Of one Of the Lines trading to Aus
traiasia has given to . journal OF Commerce rep
rescptatve the reasons which, have actuated
shipping companies to adopt lane" routes for
their vessels The primary ono Is TO prevent
captains taking their steamers too far south.
thereby nsking an encounter with the lee. The
secondary object is to insure that any steamer
requiring Il shah have assistance In the short
est time possible. Any "lame, duck" keeping
the trnck is bound to be picked up In s'few days
by vessel OF one or other OF The lines, and IN
case Of FIRE or other casualty where passengers
might possibly have TO take 10 the boats the risk
OF lives being lost would be greatly minln!zed. ="
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made by these bodies for the spplica-
ton Of the law forbidding the proposed
procession, the Government had TO
grant It, unless the statute could be
shown to have lapsed from desuetude,
Now In England the doctrine OF nom
user has not been defined by statute,
and jurists and jurisconsults differ con-
cerning It's limits. Writer'S Of authority,
for instance, have expressed grave
doubts as to whether even the sover-
eign's veto power has become extinct
from disuse, although 1t has not been
employed for about two centuries, l: o.,
since the reign Of ANNE. The attempt
to class the law prohibiting Catholic
ecclesiastics from wearing their vest
ments In the streets with an obsolete
penal statute against Catholics passed
In tho reign Of CHARLES II. two and a
half centuries ago will not bear sober
minded discussion.
The truth Ia the Catholic emancipa-
tion act Of 1929 expressly provides that
II any Roman Catholic eoclesiastic shall
exercise any Of the rites or ceremonies
Of his religion, or wear the habits Of his
order save within the usual places Of
worship for his religion, or In private
houses, he shall forfeit ESQ for every
such offence. Nor is this all. Should
II be said. that disuse for q period Of
seventy-nine years ought to suffice to
render Q statute obsolete. o competent
English lawyer would reply that no such
disuse has taken place In the case Of tho
law under review. On the contrary, az
lately % 1852 Queen VICTORIA, in pur-
suance Of that statute, issued procla-
nation forbidding q Roman Catholic
procession in the streets. It would
scarcely be alleged that the lapse OF
dfty-six years since the last application
Of a law Is enough to render statute
null and void.
The sole question for Premier As
oUTTH, as for his predecessors at more
or less similar oonjunotures. to decide
was whether there was q considerable
likelihood that his omission to enforce
the act Of 1879, the vitality Of which had
been affirmed In 1852, would cause a
breach Of order that might have dam
gerous consequences. With this ques-
ton before him he could not well over
look the fact that in 1852, q few days
after Queen VIcroRIA's proclamation
was issued, a procession Of Catholic
school children at Stockport, although
display Of clerical vestments or re-
ligious insignia was avoided, provoked
riot which resulted In the killing Of
several and the wounding Of many per-
SONS. II Mr.. Asou1TH had reason to
apprehend repetition Of that deplora-
bic incident he was in duty bound to
avert it. He could hardly have antici-
pated, however, a violent anti Catholic
demonstration in the streets Of London
in the yeAr 1908. All tho moro reason for
repeating the act Of 1879.
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the 9easotng Ofaoers and Thefr
Functions.


The position Of the line or eeagoing
officers Of tho navy is entirely logical
and to our mind unanswerable. They
claim that a. they have to sail, ma
nouvre and fight the ships, and from
the time they take their places are held
responsible for every accident or mis-
hap, whether In battle or by way Of
.prsiinary navigation. they should have
the final voice In all things relating to
thdr efficiency.
For example, We have had some
6rightful accidents during target prao-
doe, especially in cases where fire was
communicated from the t1rret to the
ammunition room, but the line officers
have always been held accountable and
not Q word has been said by any one In
authority about the defective ammuni-
ton lifts and other structural short
comings which made the deplorable
tragedies possible. 1t Is 30 throughout
The line officers are not permitted to
dictate. They take the ships as they
are given to them, and though the name
Of the defects is legion they are ex-
pected to accept them without comment
and to stand the brunt Of every misfor-
tune resulting naturally II not inevitably
from their inherent faults.
The seagoing officers claim that they
and they only know how a vessels bat
terry should be arranged, where its
armor should be fixed, and in all other
respects what should be done to make
ships available to the highest degree.
They are familiar with the conditions
at sea, in battle and under cruise and
practice. Experience and observation
have taught them what no landsmen
and mere theorists can ever know.
Against the conclusions Of clustered
students they set the knowledge Of
hardened mariners and combatants,
accumulated in a lifetime OF contact
with realities. And they assert that to
them should be confided the privilege
of uttering the last and authoritative
word In respect of military and tactical
efficiency.
We who are 30 fond of borrowing our
ideas Of naval construction abroad
should certainly be willing to look be-
meath the surface in England, for in
stance, and ascertain exactly the extent
to which line officers there influence the
finished product. Speaking for our
selves, we do not believe that the coun-
try needs any light from Europe. The
question with us is to give free scope
to our own genius and initiative, and
this we believe can be achieved only by
bringing our line officers to the front
and relegating the constructors to their
legitimate function-that Of building
the kind Of ships they are told to build
and figuring on plans furnished them
by the men who know,
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Like Old Times on the Potomac.


For the last few days the old Potomac has been
vide awake, and according to 20 oldest inhabi.
tant looks more as II used 10 In the days Of yore
than has been the for q long. long time. Once
upon time, you know. boating on the Potomac
was INDUCED In by the elite. the recherche, the
nifty. the swagger and the elect. They had
bubble parties along the shores--the quarrying
operations hadn't been begun then-and on the
tiptop OF those Virginia palisades there were boat
clubs galore, and the public boathouse did q
thriving business In rowboats skihs, tubs, cata :
marans and other craft.
Then came the smash. Beer parties succeeded
the champagne festivals, and the crowd that
went up Sundays-whIch was formerly the select
day OF the eiects-got 90 tough the river wcpt.
Finally all the nice people quit going up the river
for pleasure and eventually even the roughs and
toughs deserted II.
For the last dozen years or more there has neen
gradual hut certain revival OF interest In things
aquatic and OF late this mas advanced by leaps
and bounds.
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An Anti Catholic Denomination In
London

-Ouuou.
At the last moment, on the evening
Of September IL. Archbishop BOURNE
announced that in pursuance of a COM
munication from Premier AsoUITH all
the elements OF an ecclesiastical cere-
monial would be eliminated from the
procession which was to be held on Sum-
day In connection with the Catholic
Eucharistic Congress. That is to say,
the Host would not be carried through
the streets, and the Cardinals, Bishops
and Abbots would refrain from wearing
their ecclesiastical vestments. In view
OF all the circumstances the course fol-
lowed proved to have been expedient,
yet, Notwithstanding the deplorable and
unexpected disorder of Sunday. the good
sense Of vast majority OF English
Protestants will doubtless demand an
early annulrnent Of the law which forbids
such professions.
It Is undoubtedly true that parochial
professions in which the Catholic eccle-
siastics participating have worn their
copes, but in which the Host has not
been carried, have repeatedly been held
during the last half century in such
English towns as have many Catholic
inhabitants and in the very streets of
Westminster which we're TO have been
the scene Of the proposed religious oere-
monies. To that extent there was
ground for assuming that the law. for
bidding such professions had become a
deed letter 1t must, however. be ac-
knowledged that on most Of the local
occasio!,s mentioned the civil authori-
ties had not found it needful to enforce
the prohibitory statute for the reason
that there was no fear OF disturbance
Of order. Tho Eucharistic Congress
on the other hand, distinguished as II
was by the prcacncc of a Papal Legate
in England for the first time since the
reign Of MARY TUDOR, had challenged
national attention and had excited
apprehensions among many narrow
minded Protestants. including Anglicans
as well as numerous Nonconformist
societies.
Fsep tue momeat that dewane vas
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Dog Must Not Work.
From ne London Clobe

Some misguided person returning from Q
Continental holiday has wondered why dogs
are not used In England as beasts OF burden.
Tho reason why Is nothing less simple than q
statute. As long ago as 1870 an act was rassed
making u a punishable offence for any person
within the metropolitan area 70 use any dog for
the purpose Of drawing or helping to draw any
cara. carriage. truck or barrow Fifteen years
later In 1854 an act, passed In "the more enectusi
prevention Of cruelty to animals" extended the
prohibition to all parts OF tho kingdom
The sun., 1908-09-14

Now and then We heer OF 0 new group OF
pyemies discovered In Africa. They have
recently been reported by Captain CorrBs.
who has found them living In the forests
Of the upper Sanga.- one Of the larger
northern tributaries OF the Congo.
II will soon be half century since
the African dwarf was redisoovered In
modern times. He was known some
twenty years ago in six or seven groups.
large or small. but since then be has been
found In many other places. Revealed
by DU CHAILLu. north Of the Congo and
near the Atlantic, found next by SoHwRIN-
YURTH near the upper Nile. the homo In
which he b latest reported h about a
third Of tho way between the Atlantic
and the Nile. Scattered through tropical
Africa from the southern confines OF
Abyssinia to the Kalahari desert. he is
by far the most widely disseminated Of
the African races. Ahthfopologists re-
Eard the dwarfs. and ouriously enough
they consider themselves, as the aboriginal
race Of Africa. Captain CoTrEs says that
their religious notions and their morality
are on higher plane than has commonly
been supposed.
Perhaps no other distinctive people 90
widely disseminated among other races
have 90 well preserved their own traits
and peculiarities as these little folks.
Everywhere they have no industry except
hunting. lead q migratory existence.
are denizens Of the forest. live in the
same miserable huts Of boughs and leaves
and are dependent for their vegetables
upon other tribes. with whom they e1-
change game for farm products; and
these Negrillos. or small people Of Africa.
have the Same general characteristics as
the Nsgritos or small people Of Asia and
Ooeania. 1t 10 q remarkable and widely
scattered family. the study Of which Ia
not yet very far advanced. ..., .
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scientihc Persons In the House OF Lords.
From the WesfB,(nsfer C1.sf,


From the Wtsfn,tnster Ga:en..
BY the death Of the Earl OF Rose the small
band Of peers In the House OF Lords whose sciep.
tho attainu,ents have won them recognition 10
the world OF solcnoe-from which In the last few
months Lord Kelvin and Lord Blythswood have
dissppeared-is further depleted. Perhaps the
mos; versatile scientist OF those stin remaining
In the upper house ID Lord Avebury. no less cele.
brated as geologist and Archaeological than 90
botanist. Physics is worhiiy represented By the
Earl OF Berkeley and Lord Rayie,eh tthe only
Senior wrangler among the peerN and astronomy
by the Earl Of Crawford. who Is also an arden,
naturalist The Duke Of Northumberland. presi.
dent OF the Royal Institution has q strong scien.
tine bent. and entomology owes much TO Lord
Walsngham. who presented his collection Of
micro lcpidoptera-the largest In the world-tc
the British Museum In i9). Lord Lister Ii,
famous discoveer Of antlseptlc surgery who l,
in his eighty second year. Is tho honored doyer
Of the scientific peers.
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Diamond. from German Mime. for Ka,,.,

From nt Bsritner Lokai- i-An:eioer.
Herr Dernburs. German Secretary Of State
for tho Colonies, viii, on bis return from Africa.
present the Kaiser with a golden casket nlIed
With diamonds from German Southwest Africa
The casket Is the work of Herr Burmester, A
jeweller OF Cape Town. Il Is twelve centimetres
long and six centimetres wide and has on the
lid the initial w surmounted by q crown. Seven
diamonds are set In the I'D. representing the
Southern Cross
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The. nomination Of Mr.. I.n1sx has been ex.
peotsd for year or Inore.-Henford courant.
In other words. IL was agreed upon and
promised by the boeses two years ego.
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The pbblIo school uopp,r,

Knicker--Llonel Clarence Montmoreuci Jones
went 10 school this morning,
Bocker-hnd Butch Jones came home to lunch.
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stelis-Did she get duplicate wedding pres.
entS' .,
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IN Summer Hotel Language.

Mrs. Knicker-whst Is en- election scaret
Knicker-A fear that there aren't enough mer
In the house.