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COMMERCE. AND PEACE.
inc Victories Of Peace outlast the vi.

tories OF War.
81 49,, etI MAJ peace Is best preserv-
war means disaster even with victorv'
Large fleets of battleships and great
Si n nran ga, armies may have their value
r. p'ts he ,lg harmony among nations.
.ionsnlps with foreign country and
me me weaving of an intricate net OF in
. .eI n ma interests Is much better
way 10 Keep the peace.
Ihese are sentiments expressed to his
american countrymen by the Italian
h IN ehieaao at 1.-THE the close Of busy week
and soberness. They are supported by y,
many illustrations in the history 81
the United States. They are splendid
s svarE 10 !, IN connection with the
Chamber OF Commerce. The clash Of
arms plays havoc with commercial in.
terests. The men who will lose most
Of to war That this hs'f feeling
be made a powerful factor in interna-
tional peace was declared in striking
sentences whs by the ambassadGr from
commerce Of different nations the
chances for arbitration of disturbing
war. The conclusion follows that the
more general and involved the lines
Of trade become, the less danger there
Will be of armed conflict.
From this point Of view the consular
agents of the United States are. doing
la splendid work in the interests of
peace. The great manufacturing con-
Germs of America which are reaching
out to all parts of the world may
prove more effective forces than the
steadily developing fleet. Such agencies
are friendly. They leave no bitterness
for years to overcome. They work
quietly. and every, contract or new
business connection is just one more
element against war.-Chicaso Tri-
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Contracts already let for the work on the
New York barge canal amount to over s22.-
100000.
No goods can be landed IN Turkey which
bear trade mark at all resembling a cres-
cent.
The grand hall of the recent Bordeaux
Exposition Will be re-erected for the Mar
settles Exposition
The Clyde shipbuilding yards produced
5oa vessels during 1907, as compared with
37s In the previous year.
The total value of the telegraph and tee-
phone line poles used in this country dur
ms 1906 was s9,471.171.
Turkey imported and used last year 81
asb,1 $50 pounds of ordinary soap and 51.1so
pounds of toilet soap.
"A s2o.oooooo terminal station has been
planned for the steam, electric and subway
llLes OF San Francisco.
Montreal grain merchant recently sent
an inquiry to London by the wireless system
hours. ~. - wv
There are only 1o4 miles of street railway
Ihere are sixty-four on which motive powe,
Is steam twenty-five cable and four gas
The conditions of the Arctic atmosphere
arr so favorable for the transmission OF
sound that 1t is possible for two persons tc
converse through mile OF space.
"A valuable brooch. lost thirty years, wa.
| returned to Mrs. Galen Hanley. OF Shamokn
"a, by person whose conscience. it Ii
thought was touched by sermon.
=. charles Martens won place on the
Snrlnsneld (Mass) police force by havins
ms ~ neck stretched three-tenths OF an Incl
~ nVe weeks by means of weights.
| Electric hauage has supplanted an;m,
power In the Comstock lode and twelve a.
me mules which We're brought tn the sur.
! 'ucc mad not seen daylight for twenty years
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STA TIE PRESS
consolidation.

consolidation.
\. There Ia nott,rr ,,,.o s,,tistica aud =,
place lust iiss Z nn.ns no for MIMI .hnn, +,
.piGturesuiie sham q riti,en ~ ihni raj
land " sun fiowers ma cVcione cellars NJ.
year yere nra -, ~, inc catne We MAKE. ear
! tropical vege. alton along the equator. while
fsoie az, wr rs sWltch!ng icicles on me Nortf
sa,,,e an ny me a,d OF higher mathematics tht
hpus we "a i.y nus discovered tnat u al the
| that ani,,,a usn.er annually were one no q
In two '' rnais could a dig the Pnnama Cana
pereaiis.--H arrlsonb,irg News.
Discounts Mr.. BRYAN.
Let the Bryan pcople in His stat. n,
elsewhere, point o,t The hona ~ ,yinninr ~
nGht with Bryan let them point If thev ca ~
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THE DECEITFUL FARMER.
Hi. Outrageous Traffic in wntcred

t11S outrageous 'lruuc w
Rockefeller; the farmer Is the real
inonopolst. We might as we'll quit
hammering Hartman and cussing Car
negie until we can squeeze the water
out Of the farm produce. For the
science tells us the exact proportion
of the water in his truck"
For example, beef is 76.5 per cent.
water, mutton IS, lamb 63.9, and pork
500. NSuch watering of stock Is
enough to make a traction monopolist
look like a drouth in the desert.
cream 32.2 to As, and this is even be-
fore it has come in contact with the
lump. Potatoes, our old reliable spuds.
are 1871 per cent. water. yams 1876.
Spinach sos. f mushroom as ss.7, and GU Gu.
cumbers sc. What comfort is there
for vegetarian in such figures as
these?
And even the stalwart onion. the
Goliath Of the grocery, is s9.1 per cent.
water! Only smell more than 10 per
cent. Of real onion
Fruits are So to 80 per cent. water,
and early spring strawberries are near
Even the great American hen has
seemingly been corrupted by our mod
ern methods and eggs are S5.7 per
cent. water.
Ard is this water capitalized? Is it?
Look at your grocery bills and behold!
! AT the sight of them we are almost
ready TO sing new Marsellaise," to
watered stoek" But nar Me refraln pas sees as
rotary wilson tells us that the farmer
boy insists on coming to the city Let
the deluded victim come Let him has
h o rum far Int and Sa he
generation shall see our revenge!-
Milwaukee Journal.
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to orators OF national rep1tn the Hon.
Joseph G. Cannon. Speaker OF the
House of Representatives. is to take
part. BY dwelling on national Issues
he hopes to distract attention from
local interests and the two, peeresses.
Unfortunately for Uncle Joe the
rules Of the House do not prevail in
the district, and the debate cannot be
closed until one or both OF the ladies
has had the last word.
The Republican management an
nounce with regret that Mrs. Long
worth is compelled to relinquish her in
tention of assisting Mr.. Cone. But de-
spite her withdrawal. this district re-
mains highly favored community.
The nation will await with keen anx-
iety the struggle between the gall
lnntry of the electors and their politl-
cal convictions.
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Rhymes for TO-DAY
FAREWELL no A D1cEn.

(which leaves Greetings to M,
Wicker Lid" as most tHking caption
for future consideration].
II AREWELL, old derby, frient
o. mine,
You thing Of faded dents ant
Clints!
Which l bought cheap In 30
And have worn steady ever since.
The summer season comes apace y
And so, by fashions iron law,
! now must get, to crown my face,
A straw.
But, derby, though we part to-day,
Ill not forget the faith you've kept
For warming me In work and play
In hanging round mo while slept
Full many a gust has tossed you, hat
On travels through the windy blue
Full many a portly dame has sat
On you.
I'VE found you loyal, kind and true,
/ owe you many playful rhyme
I've pasted greatly into you.
I've talked through you many a
time.
Goodbye start to weep But
then
IT'S not good-by this trip at all!
Hat. au revoir! Well meet again
Next fall. II. s. II.
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PUBLIC FAIRGROUNDS.
vast 1ncrease OF Interest In This Grca,
Question,

: The Newburyport (Mass.) Daily
News says: The nation is moving to-
ward the playground idea. The public
piayground is rapidly becoming a fea-
lure OF life In every large city, and
there Is movement under way to have
TINS same opportunity afforded to the
people OF the smaller towns" Newark,
y. j., is an example of the latter class.
spending $4,000 a year to maintain Its
PUBLIC Fairgrounds. Los Angeles is
Just finishing a $4,000 building for n
municipal recreation centre. Detroit
Is planning nine new Fairgrounds this
open ten piaygrounds for White Chill
dren and two for colored children dur
y ing the coming summer. Rutherford'
land. Ore, Omaha. Neb.. New Haven,
Conn, Mt. Vernon, N. Y, Lowell, Mass.
Knoxville, Tenn, Chattanooga, Erie,
Pa: Springfield. Mass. and Atlanta
are some Of the cities OF the smaller
class which are following the lead OF
New York, Boston, Chicago. Pittsburg
PHILADELPHIA, Cincinnati and other large
Kansas City journal.
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the globe. And II he be a citizen Of
the United States he will receive a
welcome from his compatriots here
that Will warm the cookies OF his
heart.
Hawaii needs farmers. She must
have American citizens. She wants
some OF that conquering blood &c
which our Western prairies and noun.
tains have yielded their treasures OF
mine and field and forest. In the
language Of Governor Frear:
THE policies OF small landed pro-
prietorships and diversified industries
are not necessarily antagonistic to the
prosperity OF the sugar industry. Prob
ably nowhere are business enterprises,
large and small, conducted more gem
orally under corporate forms, but prob-
ably nowhere are they conducted more
honorably or with less abuse of CAPT
talistic power Thetsugar industry Is
that from which. directly or indirectly.
the territory and It's people derive their
main support. But IL will be conceded
that the territory should not keep all
It's eggs in one basket-especially when
that baskets upset is threatened by
probable tariff revision. The high IN
|terests OF these islands require them to
be peopled as far as may be by small
landed proprietors."
Not even the solid phalanx OF the
beet sugar interests OF the Northwest
can protect Hawaiians from seeing the
ghosts OF tariff revision fnEtpp'hs
free trade and Cuban annexation. Sor,c
OF the Hawaiians are already at work
heaping their eggs in baskets other
than the one OF sugar. They have
blaZed the way and opened ths door
OF opportunity for the American VIC
has youth, industry s.nd e fey' thousand
dollars. All who desire TO fur,. these
assets into wealth and happiness, the
while living in a veri.1ble raraIre.
should answer the Turing call OF Uncle
Sans little ocean gem-iiawa.i.
copyright, 1908. by Frederic j.
Haskin)
~ r.,r;.t,c parad{Sa
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" WHO/1N VUF "VsrinN. Old WNN{V
Editor OF The Times-D spatch:
slr.-While looking at reproduc
ton of the recent photographs OF Sen
ators Allison and Dolliver, CT Iowa, II
a magazine, I noted the. fact that tn,
former is called the grand old man
Of his State Now 1t occurs to me tina
virginia Is entitled to grand Ole
man. so l respectfully submit tina
nominations are In order,
Yours very truly.
FRANK MONROE BEVERLY.
freezing. Va.
| nominate Colonel A. S. Buford. OF
Richmond, Va. Very Respectfully.
CARLTON MCCARTHY.
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MERELY JOKING.

Got Crouch.
Willie: What is reformcr pa?"
Pa: "oh. man on the wrong side o
the market."--Llfe.
Preserving 1t.
Patience !. rs she doing anything to pre-.
Patrice: We'll, she sang into phono.
graph the other day."-McCalls Magazine
knocks Out Opera.
orera?"
I'VE have no peasantry to bring in as q
chcrus."---Louisviile Courier.Journal.
No Matteawan Business.
And now he stood forth, acquitted by a
jury Of his peers of the monstrous charge
OF murder.
"safe!" he cried, pressing to his bosom,
the wife who had trusted in him through
good and evil report.
And sane.' she sobbed, for there had
been no expert testimony.-Puck.
Spoil Sport
She: He tells me all his secrets"
He: We'll. you don't object to that, do
:, She he. &C .oh, I don't. know. I think I'd
Cut Ridiculous Figure.
Dolly: Pardon me. dear. but you cut a
ridiculous figure on the street yesterday"
Polly: "Oh, forgive me. dear! II had
seen you should have spoken."-cleveland
Leader.
High Finance.
"Bnlinser must be good deal of a
fnancier."
HAS he succeeded in amassins mil
lions?"
mo, but he has succeeded in nortgaslng
grand piano for which he Is paying on the
instalment plan. thus raising enough money
with which to make the first payment on an
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Record Herald
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Elimination,

One excellent way for a presidential
candidate to eliminate opposition to
his nomination is to have his rivals
nominated for governorshipss or other
This is the plan that Mr.. Bryan and
his friends seem to be working with
effect. as is evidenced by the thrust
Ing Of the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Ohio on Judson Harmon.
There are tricks in all trades. but
they are more devious and prolific IN
politics than in any other remunera-
tive industry.-Topeka Journal.
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Turkey Oh.trnctiXe.

Under treaties negotiated some years
ed4freely in the empire and have pur-
chased and held real estate in their
own names. Recent orders from the
central government, obeyed by local Of
ficals, point to the Sultans determine
ton to withdraw these rights long ago
conceded. Americans on the ground
have not submitted without protest,
and their cause will be backed by pres
sure on the state Department from the
influential friends they have in this
country. These recessions OF Turkey
from her pledges come just. about so
often. and are always disturbing until
the Sultan discovers that the United
States will assert It's rights II need be.
and then the plan OF annoying the
Americans drops out OF sight.-Boston
Herald.
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Thc pre.ldent and the ylce-Pre.ldenc;yy.

The President and the Vlce-Prcsidency.
The New York Tribune. which is
probably closer to the Washington ad-
lninistration than any other newspa-
per, is authority for the statement that
the President, while delighted with
the success which has attended the
candidacy of the man whom he re-
CARDS S above all others fitted for the
place. and as in most complete SYM
patty with the policies for which he
has stood. is doing absolutely nothing
which can affect the selection of the
vice presidential candidate" He will
get around to that in time. 1t Is not
important duty to the convention ex-
cept that of carving out his orders
Buffalo Evening Times.
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Governor swnn.on'. EpIgrnm.

Spell Nation with a big N. but spell
the States with big s."
This epigrammatic utterance by
Governor Claude Swanson, Of Virginia
emphasizing the point previously made
by Vice President Fairbanks and
Speaker Cannon. was the keynote OF
the speech-making at the elaborate
banquet given at the New Willard
last night, by the Washington Board
of Trade in honor Of tho Governors
attending the White House conference
Hon. John Sharp Williams, IN the
added that he would spell indivldual-
ity with big Observation-Disclosures Her
AID ~ - - Ny =.
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a school girl in Damon, Pa, fell
down a flight Of stairs and split her
tongue, permanently injuring her
power to talk. Now watch, see the
harassed husbands of New York and
Texas besieging Damon for the plans
and specifications.
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Timely Arbitration Treaty With Japan.
1t is highly encouraging to all
friends of humanity and peace to know
has been supplemented with an arbi-
stration treaty. under which even the
imaginary dangers of disturbance be-
tween the two countries have been
done away The resort to the maya
zines the newspapers. and even to the
lostrum by American jingoes with
storms in their heads (and sometimes
with fees in their pockets. put there
by the armor plate trust or some other
contract hunter). is no better than a
shameful movement to encourage and
create disturbance with a friendly
nation that deserves the sympa thy and
News.
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Johnson. UnterrI11.d ~

r, ~ an q his speeches Goycrnor
9 prns;an takes issue squareiy viii,
tralIaaeinn Ro9seveI.'s ideas as to cen.
tra,ry, finds little in the Pre na eons
poilcles to condemn and as To mast
t' ltrn he freely Endorses the admin.
stTraae ma and criticizes its opponents.
people Of the United States In Mr. Mr.
Roosevelts theories Is whether bv CON.
s st,,u jurisprudence and by execu-
to be changed from one Of law TO one
OF men. ~ oie
Governor Johnson sees this issue
c!early and proposes to make the most
OF OF ite1n behalf of popular rights and
free government. II Mr.. Bryan sees
ANYTHING wrong or dangerous or UNI
}emocratic in 1t he does not say so.
r. re mas said more in support of Mr..
Roosevelt than he has ever said in
behalf OF any Democrat.-St. Louis
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We take it for granted that Mr.. Ray
Stannard Baker, in pursuing his re-
searches into the negro problem, does
not fail to carry along one of the
new cameras which take colored photo
| graphs.
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The New York World maintains that
Colonel Watterson is more OF poet
than a politician. In that case. we sup
pose the colonel is the logical converse
| of Alfred Austin.
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Still, we note that those cut-price
funerals so extensively advertised in
the Baltimore papers are all more ex-
pensiYe than the Mrs. Guinness kind,
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Elnor Glyn, who recently landed In
New York, is going to California. Per-
scnally, we should have no kicks tc
register II Elinor kept right on west
ward to Guam.
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Says the Baltimore Sun: ELLA
Wheeler Wilcox thinks Plato didn't
know much about love" Doubtless.
Ella regards the old Greek. amorously
speaking. as a cheap variety Of nickel
Flato.
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Anything continuous soon becomes
monotonous," signs the Chicago News,
doubtless cutting cold eye at the
Gasmeter.
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The growing size of women's hat
appears TO Justify the policy of I'M
perialism.
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THE girls of our city are all spring
poems" boasts the Chicago News. Re-
jected?
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Elizabeth Queen

She was Queen Of noble, state, a
Queen OF royal mien,
And round her throne moved lord
~, and knight IS
Who !, q themselves IN '" for her tte
To keep .un5ullied England's name, dc
honor to their. Virgin Queen.
Elizabeth, their Virgin Queen.
A9virgin land across the seas. in hon.
or of their Queen,
They called Virginia, and twas wise
For this new land, this paradise,
Was fairer than poets dream, was
fairer land than e'er was seen;
They named it for their Virgin
Queen. &,
Now, In that land so wondrous fair
a maiden dwells to-day
In whose sweet eyes there dwells {
Far Brighter than the stars Of night
And smiling, she doth rule my heart
each pulsing throb doth own hel
sway, as
Elizabeth is Queen to-day,
What will my sovereign to me say
when for my cause I plead? @
VIII my petition be denied, NTH
Or viii she then for me decide?
All. II her favor I could win, my hear
would from Its care be freed.
Elizabeth1 lss Queen indeed. "a Z, !, +.
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Cussing Bob says we have the best gun
ners In the world. And he might hav
added the worst Gunnesses-4Iouston Post.
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VOW ron THE Pl.AYGnouNps.

NOW FOR THE FAIRGROUNDS.
In rejoicing over the handsome sum
raised by flag day for the Fairgrounds.
the public should stop long enough to
thank the ladies to whose energy and
public spirit this achievement is due.
In this, as in many other instances,
women have blazed the way for men to
follow. 1t was woman who organized
trained nurses for the .Crimean War
and thereby eliminated one of the chief
horrors of national combats. It was
a woman who started the Red Cross for
America, and sufferers from plague,
pestilencc, famine and tornado have
raised hands to bless that impulse. In
most OF the social work OF to-day it Is
the women who lead the men to better
conditions.
The movement for Fairgrounds is one
that The Times-Dispatch has long
urged and desired. and now that it is
to be made a successful feature In the
city. this newspaper at least wishes to
give full credit to the women who
have been the pioneers in so great an
undertaking.
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Senator Teller's point that it is easier 10,
a camel to pass through the eye of a needis
than for poor man to aspire to an am
bassadorship wasn't ruled out as sacrilegious
Boston Journal.
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II wishes We're sheriffs. night-rlders
would walk, ..
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TUE LEGACY THEORY IN POLITICS

THE LEGACY THEORY IN POLITICS
! A clerkship of court in Isle of Wight
county remained in the keeping of a
single family for hundred years. So
we are informed by the Norfolk Vir-
Ginian-Pilot. The Office became vir-
tually hereditary, and passed as mat
ter of course from father to son, along
with the family plate, the farm house
and the COW. Outsiders who evinced a
hankering for the job We're doubtless
regarded as reyolutionists. and quite
possibly accused of party disloyalty.
The drift of the times is toward CEN
tralization of power. The leader Of one
great political party has recently
named his successor with perfect, and
fully warranted. confidence that his
preferences will be respected. The
leader of the other has for twelve
years held his party's nomination and
its destiny in the hollow of his hand
and the end is not yet. The legacy
idea in politics Is not confined to the
rural communities of Virginia by any
means
But the method. as applied to the
rational field, is not yet fully per-
fected ii the Young family of Isle
of Wight county will explain their
system to the White House, we take
II for granted that they may count
upon such postmasterships as they may
require for their trouble.
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High Finance
MOTIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHERS.

n OVERNOR SWANSON declares that "a
I clear conscience is to be preferred tc
gold" But however true this may be
We fear the average man will continue pre-.
fetrinG the gold and taking chances with
Ills Observation-Disclosures Post.
II is time for all newspaper shops to star,
til. office boys to Furnishing the Oyster Ba.
date lines.-Houston Post.
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II seems like an odd coincidence that jus.
as the dry" wave is sweeping over State
after State an illuminated keyhoe" is
brought forward by an ingenious INVENTOR
New York Herald
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A HISTORY Or THE CONFEDERATE
NAVY.

The Times-Dispatch has pleasure in
announcing the forthcoming publica-
ton in its columns of brief, yet COM
plete, history OF the Confederate Navy.
The first instalment OF this history.
which will run serially for some twelve
or fourteen weeks, will appear on the
Confederate page of next Sundays
Times dispatch. The manuscript is
from the pen of Mr.. w. F. Clayton. of
Florence. S, c., past midshipman in the
Confederate Navy, and present secre-
tary of the Survivors Association, c.
S. N, and Is based on abundant ma
terial ord thorough acquaintance with
the records.
Except sharf's work, there is, we
believe no good history of the Confed-
crate Navy in existence, and the school
histories generally in use in the South
are for the most part lamentably in
adequate in their accounts of naval
matters. Scharfs book, good as it Is
in many ways. is cumbersome, long
drawn-out. and not too orderly in ar
rangement There appears to be a
genuine need for full, compact story
of the gallant navy of the Confederacy
and we believe that we can promise
our readers such story in Mr.. Clay
| TONS new book.