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If and "knot" gets the sense
stars md the states.

VIII you tell me why there are AZ
stars on the U. s. flag while there are
only AZ States? IKE.
In 1894. Congress ordered that the
flag contain Is white stars in blue
field, noting the addition of Vermont
and Kentucky to the original 13 States.
In 1915 an act of Congress provided
that the original 10 States he repre-
sented by 10 stripes and that the num-
Der Of stars be always the same as the
number Of states. A flag with 4s
stars may be pretty, but 1t is not a
United States flag.
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thopes to continue and complete with
Heather and Granite"
"Furze. the Cruel" is true to its title
| 1t is q book written with great intens-
! ity and power, but II Is filled with pic
lures Of the almost primal life and
moor, and of the ignorance, brutality
and superstition obtaining among
| them. The sombreness of the book i
atmosphere. however, is Frightened by
a very genuine and beautiful love story
all the swe ter and purer, because 1t Is
brought out in contrast to so much
| that Is painful and repulsive.
! PRINCESS NADINE. BY Christian
Reid. From G.. p. Putnan1's Sons.
of New York. through Hunter and
Co. OF Richmond. 81
A graceful tale of Russo American
romance and sentiment The scene is
laid at Nice and opens with the carni-
val and its celebrated battle of flow
ers.' Princess Nadine is the daughter
of an American mother and Prince
Zorokoff, OF Russia. She is nearly al
lied to :he royal family and in the in
tended bride Of Prince Macmillan, Of
Altenburg.
She wins the prize at the carnival
and wins also the regard of Central
American named Leighton, who oc-
cupies seat in the procession with his
friend, Allan. OF New York.
From this incident the story-and a
very pretty story 1t is-develops.
Leighton, who has been prominent in
Central American politics and revolu-
lions, falls in love with Princess Ma
dine at first sight, and being Of a
masterful disposition, puts all adverse
circumstances aside and naarries her.
The book is delightful throughout
and absolutely fresh and pure.
THE FOOTPRINT. BY Gouverneur
Morris. Charles scribner's Sons.
of New York, publishers. $150.
This book contains eleven short
stories. all Of which are more or less
remarkable as the productions of one
OF the most talented of young Ameri-
can bookmakers and fiction writer's.
OF the stories here told. perhaps 1.-THE
Little Heriss" is the one to be liked
best, and The Execution" the one that
will burn itself deepest into the con-
seriousness of the reader. That they are
all removed from the realm of the COM
monplaca. all who know Mr.. Morris as
an author, or all who will make his
acquaintance in THE Footprint" will
Immediately realize.
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Gold Coins.


Dis the United States ever make .
S5o goldpiece, or was it a Californian
piece! c. r. v. :
The coins are called semi official,
me mint made them. but there was nc
currency value except the bullion
venient form for handling as comnarad
with dust. The dates are, for The
round form, 1925. and for the oc-
tagonal. 1872.
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j, p. u. stuart.


whether Mrs Stuart P mst ,he e een aeqsn
at any. time after the battle OF Spot
sylvania and before that OF yellow
iavernY AN OLD CALvARYMAN.
sheridan's command. after leaving
spotsylvanla Courthouse. we arrived
at at. Beaver Dam ,thavins skirmished
General Stuart gave command to con
tinue the pursuit. and asked me to ride
with him AIM to Pr. Fontaines, who lived
s s1me three h miles from the station. at
Jung. AZ Dr. Fontaine's he did not
dismount. Mrs. Stuart came out to
MN. and after a brief conversation he
and we rode back to the command.
On the next day the 11th at twenty
minutes past he was wounded, and
a aied At falf-past the. next evening,
residence on Grace Street. in Rich
mond. where he died, lust thirty min
utes after he breathed his last. One
OF MS last expressions was OF regret
at not seeing his wife again."
Copyright.
Please state the cost OF American
teopyright ard whether 1t is necessary
70 get English copyright also. and ths
cost. Do publishers require certain
cash payment. and what is the SMALL
est numbre OF copies a publisher will
get out? MISS r -
american copyright on a book costs
sLp0 and two copies OF the book, to
be sent the Library of Congress, WASH
ington, p. c.. to which you should write
Tor all Information touching copyright.
w wItbnni ,e eop ynsh may be secured
copies of the book TO the English
copyright office. Stationers' Hail. Ton.
don. English copyright Is unnecessary
20 protection of book in America. AS
to your last questions. If some pub
Usher Will not get the book out on It's
merits 1t is likely to have small sale.
Unfortunately there have sprung up
quite number Of publishers who
author will pay all costs and heavy
profit for the concern. These persons
use no sort OF discretion in advising
publication except to advise 1t in every
case; and they are commonly slenderlv
provided with the means to push a
book. The public mind has been SO
often and constantly offended with the
output of these houses that their inn
print on book is almost enough 20
KIN 1t even IL II deserve a better fate.
III you have been corresponding with
one of these publishers who proffers
advance payment. suppose you make
this experient. Copy number OF toll
cradle poems from some collection
hhx9id ihs ;he better known , sort send
likelihood. Just such a form letter as
he sent In reference to your book
with a proposition to publish the poems
for you provided you pay some money
in advance. He viii probably not
glance at the work at all except to
make rough calculation how much
clear profit he is leaving himself In !
his figures AS to the number of cop
les in an addition there is no rule. Il
you are paying. you may decide. II
the publisher Is making the outlay 1t
must be a matter of agreement and
his view IS likely to prevail.
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might not succeed In getting your
money before the so days. 1t is true.
but you would succeed In warning other
mill men from that firm. Even where
the practice Of delayed settlement is a
recognized one. 1t is highly vicious. Its
OF persons to whom it does not belong
and who nave given no bonded secu.
rity, and pretty we'll fixed and rather
considerable percentage of such money
is Invariably lost. Whatever bank in
terest the principals funds would
bring the agent would far better be
added to the commission and the set
Element be made In cash.
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A special feature of the April Cen
tury is the second paper of THE Spell
of Egypt" by Robert Kitchens, dealing
especially with the monuments at Den
derah and Karnak. Lady Randolph
Churchill's fifth paper OF her RENT
niscences" appears in this number, and
describes most interestingly royal hos
pitality at Sandringham, the Comtesse
de Paris, and the League of the Rose
and Queen Victoria at the jubilee. 1t
is interspersed with interesting por-
traits of King Edward and Queen
Alexandra as Prince and Princess Of
Wales. their daughters. the Marquis
of Harrington. the Comtesse de Paris.
Princess Helene d'Orleans, and others.
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I have lived in Richmond 81 months.
Can I vote in the next election? H.
If you have been in the State for "a
months you can register and vote in
any election occurring six months after
registration. /.
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Governora of Yirsinin

Please inform me how many and
what Governors of Virginia served
twice. and in what cases father and
son held the office. FRESHMAN.
Patrick Henry and William Smith
served two terms. Edmund and Pey-
TON Randolph, John Tyler and John
Tyler Jr.. John and John b. Flovd
We're all as ST. Patrick would have
said, father and son. and were all
Governors of virginia u :, -
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Address Wanted.

VIII you be good enough to give me
the address of the person who asked
question No.l2 on page 2 In your is
sue of Sunday, March sth, in refer
ence to black tongue among dogs?
L. L. BROCKWELL Edlow, Va.
We cannot recover the address, but
publish your request, that the writer
intended may see It,
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heavier and some million times -
strong. 1t may be entirely jiidlcions
for you. to entertain a very contempt-
uous opinion of this person, and. at the
same time, even more judtcious for
you not to .obtrude too violently that
opinion on him. \ 3
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Ginseng.

Please advise me whether the soil OF
Virginia IS adapted to the raising OF
ginseng. SAPPHO.
Admirably. The culture is growing
each year. The U. S. Department OF
Agriculture. Washington, D. c., can
send you some extremely helpful
pamphlets on the subject.
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Itnlian Painters.

Please give me the names of the
greatest Italian painters. NJ F. b.
There are so many that anv list
risks omissions. Raphael, Titan, An.
area da solario. Leonardo da vinc
Michael Angelo were, among the sreat.
est, but scores of others might Law
goodaclain1 to be mentioned also. -
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UNSIGNED Letters.

Quite a. number OF letters OF inquiry
are unnoticed because they are not
signed. We shall not reply to anony-
nous questions
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Anri1 Magazines

Harper's for April will have the first
of group of notable historical arti-
Giles by Frederick Trevor Hill, entitled
wall Street Under the Dutch" Other
writer's of special articles for this num-
Der are c. II. Caffin. a. w. Dimock, DR..
Edward Ayers. Vance Thompson, H. w.
Nevinson and Professor Lounsbury.
Short stories are contributed by Justus
NJ Forman, Harriet P. Spofford. Majorie
Bowen, Muriel c. Dyar. Norman Dun
can. Mary Austin and Margaret S. Rris-
coe. Henry Jamess novelette, Julia
Bride" is concluded.
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, Poems, Etc, Nnnted.

There is request for THE Rasgety
Man, The Absent Minded Beggar,''
'Bobs." Answer to the Gipsy's Warn.
ing" and poem with the refrain.
Some Call 1t Evolution: Others Call Ii
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AKnot.
Please tell me how long "knot" is?
49, a. - - y u, I rrISIAA-I 49,

]. n. TIsDALE.
In giving the hourly rate of vessels,
cal mile of 60s2 feet (nearly). In the
log line are knots placed 47.42 feet
apart, The number of these running
over in half a minute shows the num-
Der Of miles per hour of'the vessels
speed. Hence. the phrase, knots per
hour gets to- be applied to miles per
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The other problem you send was
solved last week. In the one above, A
and B do Us in day, a and G 10
and B and C ITO. Altogether. A and
B. A and G. B and edo Is plus 1-9
plus lilo in "a day or two men like A
and twofIike B and two like G do 12l :
$50 in a day or A and B and c do half
that ampunt or 121-720 in a day. From
this subtract the is that A and B do
and the remainder. or 31-72o. is what g
does in day. Then 72o divided by
81 will show the number Of days the
work will take C alone Similarly for
the others, using the 121-72o each time.
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OF life as exerplifed by maid and
widow In "PoppIes and q Sleenn

Josephine Dnskam Bacon leads In
the April number OF the American
Magazine with AN fdyll OF All Fools
Day." Mr.. Dooleys on the Temperance
Wave" by T. p. Dunno. and The Mu-
Slatto," by Ray stannard Baker. Will
attract attention from all classes Of
readers So will Miss Something OF
Somebody" by Julian Street. and "I1ls
Famous Deed" by Lucille Baldwin Van
SlYke. n
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Contributors who make UP the table
OF contents for the April Outing Maya
zine by articles such as Frank Pres
bey's Intimate Excursion" Agnes G.
Lauts Pillow Time Robert Dunn's
college Spirit" and Vance Thompson's
"Vagabonds of France" contrive to
infuse large amount of interest and
entertainment into what they have
written. Another interesting chapter
on "Old Salem Ships and Sailors. from
the pen OF Ralph d. Paine appears In
this issue.
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Act OF Assembly.

Please inform me where I may get
copy of the Sterrett bill as passed
by the recent Legislature.
j. T. GILMORE.
Write the Secretary Of the Comm on
wealth, Richmond, Va.
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Byrd Liquor Law

Kindly tell me Whether the Byrt
liquor law has gone into effect?
P. ". l..
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EYnnitckn,

Will you tell me to what language
the word "Evanitcka'' belongs and the
pronunciation? M. NJ. BAILEY.
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Putnam's and the Reader for April
will have as It's frontispiece a drawing
by Percy Cowen, illustrating ''The
shamraken fHomeward Bounder," by
William Hope Hodgson. Among the
writer's Of interest are noted Arthur
c. Benson, Clara Morris. Henry Holt.
Lille Hamilton French, H. Perry Rob
inson, Cornelia A. Pratt. Paul Helleu
and Herbert Quick.
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Is it improper to employ your. knife
to cut meat at dinner? j. E. D.
The fork is preferred whenever 1t
may be used as effectively as the knife.
as in the case OF fish. otherwise the
knife may be employed with entire
propriety. i-5
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Advertising an Account

A owes a note and a store account.
Has 3 the right to advertise the claims
in newspaper for sale? Would suit
for damages lie against b? b.
If the account is correct, B proba-
bly, has the right to advertise IT. The
circumstances would show whether the
act was done with malice. in which
case action would lie against B. II
the creditor had exhausted the usual
means of collection and exhibited the
usual patience 1t would be virtually
impossible to prove that his action
was malicious and to get damages
out of him
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..Llttle Breccl,es.n

"LlttIe Brecches."
With thanks to the sender, we print
II don't so much on religion:
never amt had no show:
But I've got a middlin, tight grip, sir.
j don't pan out on the prophets
And free-wiil and that sort Of thing;
But b'lieve in God and the angels,
Ever since one night last spring.
come to town with some turnips,
And my little Gabe came along;
No four-year-old in the county
T. Could beat him for pretty and strong;
Peart and clipper and sassy;
Always ready to swear and fight;
And I'd larnt him to chaw terbacker
Jest to keep his milk teeth white.
The snow come down like a blanket 3
AS passed by Tagsarts store:
went in for a jug of molasses. IN
And left the team at the door.
They skerred at something and started;
And hell-to-split over the prairie
Went team, Little Breaches and all.
Hell-to-split over the prairie,
1 was almost froze with skeer;
But we rousted up some torches.
And sarched for EN- far and near;
At last we struck HOSES and wagon;
Showed under a soft white mound;
No hide nor hair was found.
And here all hopes soured on me;
OF my fellow-critter's aid;
/ jest Topped down on my marrow bones ].
Crotch deep in the8snow and prayed:
BY this the torches was played out.
And me and Isrul Parr,
Went off for some wood to a. sheepfold
That he said was somewhat thar.
We found 1t at last, and little shed, i
Z Whar they shut up the lambs at'night;
We looked in and seen them huddled,
SO warm and sleepy and white,
And thar sot Little Breeches and
chirped
AS peart as ever you see;
81 want chaw of terbacker,
And that's what's the matter with
NO."
How did he git thar? Angels;
He could never have walked In that
They jest scooped down and toted him
To where 1t was safe and warm;
And IYthink that saving a little child
And bringing him to his own,
Is derned sight better business fsge.
Than loafing around the throne,
q John Hay,
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Old Coins, Etc

A Constant Subscriber. Miss Effie c.,
Thelma Carlyle. E. r. NG., Macy, Hen,
send list OF old papers, coins, stamps
and notes for valuation There is moth
ing OF value in the lot.
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An attraction OF the April Bohemian,
and for the issues OF May, June and
July will be series Of stories by
James Francis Dwyer. under the titles
Of THE Coming of the Silence" THE
Bandaged Foot" The Beachcomber"
and The Interventlon.n
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Can you tell me whether the Ameri-
can Seating Company. manufacturers OF
school supplies. is a trust or not?
SCHOOL TRUSTEE.
Suspicion in this direction might
arise from the Indictment of the COM
pany of Illinois last year and the plea
of guilty OF being combination in
by all the defendant companies ex-
cept the y. II. Stafford Manufacturing
Company, and the fine of $4,000 i'm
posed in the U. S. District Court on
NAV % 1907
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, tho ownership o

Into tho ownership of Taylor and
Hessey. These gentlemen are perhaps
best known now from the fact that
for them Thomas Hood did his first
work, his poem "Tot Hope" appearing
in the July, 1921, number of the maya
zine t4IEH 's-{ * 10. #5lt.
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Will you be good enough to give me
the name Of the foreman of the labora-
tory on Seventh Street in Richmond
during the war? j. c.
We cannot. but possibly some read
err can. -.-
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Jnckson'. Last order.

Please let me know II it is known
exactly what was the last military
order that Stonewall Jackson gave.
RELLE-N.
His order. after he had been wound
ed. to General Ponder to hold his posi-
ton in the woods at Charlottesville.
jackson was being carried by Captains
James Smith and Joseph Morrison from
the place of the accident and passed
near where Fender was. Pender re-
cognized him and with the gloom of
what he saw, added to his realization
OF the surroundings. remarked that he
would be obliged to fall back. Jack
son gave the order: General Bender.
you must hold on TO the field; you
must hold out to the last"
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John L. Matthews has an article on
THE New Mississippi" in Everybody's
for April, which describes the new
growth of the Middle West. Samuel
q. Blythe, Harlin Garland and Charles
e. Russell are other writer's OF special
stories. The fiction is by Justus Miles
Forn1an, Walter P. Eaton. owen John
son. Richard w. Child. Edward s. Field
and Bessie r Hoover
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DnhIErcn.

Please tell me the location of the
fight In which Uhlric sDahlgren1 was
hilled. VET.
In King and Queen county, some
flfty miles east of Richmond on the
road between Stevensville and Wal
kerton.
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A Quotation.

Please give me the author OF the
expression THE pen is mightier than
the sword" and the history of the sem
tence. GIRAFFE.
Bulwer Lytton There is no "his-
tory" The words occur In Lytton's
play, "Richelieh" act H., scene 2.
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scribner's Magazine for April con-
tains the first chapters of short
serial by Richard Harding Davis called
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1IeriyYetl,er Lewis.

<
Please inform me whether Meriweth-
er Lewis. the explorer, committed sui
eide or was murdered. w.
We have never given special atten-
tion to the matter, but have always ac-
cepted the ordinary historical state
ment that he shot himself In fit of
constitutional hypochondrta, to which
he is Well known to have been sub
ject. His death occurred on the borders
of Tennessee in 1909 when Lewis was
just IS years old. Any sketch of Lewis,
say. Howe-page 171-will probably
give you the facts.
The Fleet and Jamestown Grounds.
Please give an outline of the route
of the fleet now on the Pacific coast
and tell ne what final disposition has
been made of the Jam estoWnI., ETSp9sl-
ton grounds. r. i. j,
The fleet followed the ordinary SAIL
ing track down the east coast and up
the west coast of America. No final
disposition has been made of IT., There
are several suggestions as to the mat
ter no one of them, so far}as we know,
of any more interest than the rest
Payment OF Commission on Lumber.
If sell my lumber through commits
hold the proceeds 60 days before set
Element with me or charge me- per
cent for cash settlement? Whatlts the
law on the subject2 u. =. Fl.
If this is the customary practice IN
such settlement or If you had an IN
derstanding that you. would welt sixty
days for your money, you have mo re-
dress; otherwise you would Il do We'll to
warrant for the amount Mt AnaA, San
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The London MnEnzine.
Can you tell me into what hands the
London Magazine passed when Mr..
John Scott was killed in 1921?
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In my estimation there is no blood medicine
equal to SIS. S. have used quite a good deal of it
recently and found it to be all you claim for it, The
medicine thoroughly ceansed and renovated the
blood and restored it to its normal, healthy cond-
ton at least that has been my experience with it,
notice also that it builds up the general health
while purifying the blood My appetite improved
under its use, and felt better in every way Before
taking your medicine had an itching burning
eruption and other evidences Of bad blood but S. S.
has done away with this, and am in good health.
r. T. KELLY.
500 Harris Street, Harrisburg, Penn
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may mix such things. exactly when the
city of Chicago was founded?
How Cinderella came to wear a
glass" slipper has been the suo1eot o.
Perrault,s Fairy Tales (167s), and
the common superstition is that q = the =
word ''verre. glass, was from s SIM FOR
ivair" fur, and that the famous Slip
per was of tur, not glass. Chicago. vas
surveyed and the plat filed Angus. T. +,
1880. That Is the commonly sarly asss iSso
birthday Of the town N, AS earn on at the
site as recorded by Hennepln.. =, W y y,
ever apology you owe for the ,"mlSlng.
must be made to Cinderella stos she Sates
from at least So wears Years ,n psa part
IN human lunar life than chicago eyer did.
and. to paraphrase Macaulay, IS likely !
to go on her pleasing course long al z
ter Chicago is forgotteH'E
The Flag.
FIT / notice that a young man IN Fred
erick county got into trouble lnvolvlng
some insult to the United States flag
era faed 70 pu. M n an afa
henna1.pe me ii there is any; sort OF
law In this country to punish one Tor
insulting the United 't' rMSSf s!sIH assFFbf
,1t depends on what you mean ny
.law," If you purchase a plt OF
hnntine figured and colored to repre-
sant Tilted States flag you may
Claim claim IN some sense, the right to.
shootNit full of holes, to- wipe your
boots on 1t, etc, You may. at the
IF vo,,r assumed rights brings you into
embarrassing conaplications with some
rertleman Whose views do not quite
Coincide with yours, The case is Ike
his. Suppose there Is in the same
Noise with You an Individual about
nine faat taller than you, q few tons