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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
Iconoclnsm aud Religion.

TIC the Editor of The dispatch:
Sir.--I nave read with pleased in.
tcrest the very clever communicating
by j. Stanton Moore, in your issue OF
the 9th. One More lido Shattered
1t has aways amused me and perhaps
tempted mi to indulge a critical mood
to hear scf-assured Soons from the
pulpit throw discredit and doubt upon
the accuracy and authenticity OF the
Scriptures as revised and promulgated
by His Majcsty's special command.
and known and accepted amongst
scholars as the King James version.
Whenever hear a minister q am now
speaking generality with self-conscious
and dogmatic assertion hurl his IN
tended eoauent Use dixits at the heads
of his hearers, who are seeking infor-
nation from the Holy Book. declare
a correct translation, n should be
construed SO and so, frequently a
meaning quite contrary to the ac-
cepted rendition, and at a uniquely
construction to be placed upon the Ian
guage used. the writer then feels like
leaving the church,; this casting II
doubt upon the text Is SO gratuitous'
to my mind. SO unlearned, that 1t is a
wonder that the high church authori-
ties do not forbid It. for the man who
does it may do 1t merely to crafty a
an impression of erudition which really
inspires disgust.
Qui bono? Does IT really impress the
nearer that the speaker is a man of
profound research, limitless knowledge.
and this his ipse dixit, his undeniabe
ultimatum. is entitled to greater Gre
dence, more consideration, than the
scholarly efforts of the learned and pro-
found linguists who labored for years
TO give us the Interpretation placed
In our hands and used by our fathers
for so many years aboundinG in un-
firing faith and undying love? II. is
to DO presumed the revisers weighed
carefully the import, the true meaning
of the words they construed, that they
We're versed in the mysteries Of the
Hebrew and Greek languages. II these
sion they produced upon the minds of
Intelligent h2arers they would cease
this innovation. this iconoclastic ten
aency, and content themselves In read
their minds and hearts an abiding love
and faith, even that of a child; then
they would cease to disturb the faith
of their congregations. Surely there
are doubt and skepticism enough In our
world which should be suppressed, ana
in nowlse encouraged ny any MAJ or
men for any personal vanity.
AN HUMBLE BELIEVER,
Richmond, May 10,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
CONE ANn HIS ORGAN.

We cannot help admirins the skin
with which the Houston Post is con-
Quoting It's campaign for Cone Johnson.
Almost every day It finds some new ar
gumcnt for his support The Rev. pr,
Twitty, pastor OF the Methodist Church
al Tulla, swIshcr county, having
preached a sermon in favor Of Conc, the
Post faithfully reports the fact with
tho statement that Gone johnson be-
ing a Methodist, jealous in the faith
thereof, 1T Is but natural that Rev,
Twitty . should like TO see him
placed in the Executive Mansion at
Austin
Then, again, tllerost reports we
are told that Conc Johnson Is very
popular with tho women Of inc state
and that Il IL no unusual feature Oh
his political spealttnsa 70 see h'h' lre.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
\ DUTY TO HUMANITY.

Several days ago the rescuing.
party in the mines at Palos, Ala
bama, reached the lowest level
of the mine and has recovered
the bodies Of eighty-seven men who
lost their lives in the disaster last
week. Near the lowest point of the
min slope the scuer found three
bodies lying close together. One of
the men had taken off his coat ana
had placed IT around his head; another
was lying face downward with his
arms covering his head another was
found with his dead hands holding a
Cloth over his face. These silent
corpses told their story. The mon
had been killed by suffocation and
not by the force of the explosion which
wrecked the mine,
This has been The case with the most
OF the recent mine disasters that ave
eHacted SO heavy a human toll dur,
ing reeen years, Bad ventilation
meant choke darnr%pd choke damn
meant death, The, water was subduea
the lifts were kept in order, nres
seldom broke out. but when q chance
explosion ca me in the mines the air.
fans failed. The resi- Was assured
The deadly c%hoka-damp spread through
the mine and killed tho men as 500,
AZ it reached them.
Ii was shown some time & that II
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
MANY ROYAL WILLS

considered by many as having become
extinct.
ever. the eldest son OF Lord Walls
Youngest brother, Captain Ig-
Mathis Bluke. who had died in 1907.
that is to say, prior 10 the creation
Of the peerase, was INDUCED BY ms
as second LORD Wnllscourt. He, too
died without Issue. and then. In 1915,
the son of another brother Of the first
Lord Wallscourt assumed the barony.
the present GER being his son.
When the patent was made out in
1900, the Duke of Portland. Their Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, and the famous
Lord Castlereagh. afterwards Marduis
OF Londonderry. both protested strong
the document. realizing that its valid
ity would be called into ahesticn. But
the Blakes insisted upon having 1t Just
SO. and as they We're ail-powerful in
Galway. where their support was need
ed by the crown, their wishes were
complied with.
The very Fact that neither Lord
Wallsconrt, nor yet hts father before
him. should eve have sought tc es-
tablish their status. constitutes in it
self an admission OF their " doubts
and fears ms 10 The value OF their
pcerage.
son and heir. tho Hon. Charles william
Blake. married. in 1897. the 1rish-born
widow of q certain Joseph Roisset. AM
the union attracted much attention ct
the time, owing to the fact that tho
fascinating bride kept a tobacco shou
in the putney district of london. II
may be questioned whether the union
has been an altogether fortunate one.
as the Hon. Joseph Is a familiar figure
in the London Police Courts, in con-
nection with charges arising from his
native Hibcrnian pugnacity. developed
beyond conventional bounds by pota-
lions.
Copyright, 1910. by the brentwood
C6mpany.)
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scnted with floral offerings from little
feminine tots In white. and the Post
sees nothing wrong about IT," or
course 1t does not. How could 1t. when
1t is generally believed In these parts
that a regular account has been
opened In the Office or the Post under
this entry:
DR..
TO flowers for the little tots......s'oo
Or.
BY votes for Cone Johnson.....A..5 500
Tho Houston post has reduced lts
campaign to II strictly business basis
n 1t will not be It's fault II Cone be
defeated.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

They must take out a charter in
some other state than North Carolina,
where straight history is always in
sisted upon" SO says the impertinent
Charlotte Observer. animadverting
upon the almost indcfensible loyalty
of The Times-Dispatch to the cause
Of DR.. Frederick A.. Cook. There is
nothing straight about North Carolina
when it comes to history. that is to
say. about a part of North Carolina.
the Mecklenburg part. II has built
up it's reputation for historical veractty
upon historical i~nYeracitics, and thcv
sccre to serve its purposes just as
well,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

lne PFesluent Saturday and cxpresSeu
JOY at q famous victory. Cummins
and Dolliver, with the rest of the In
surgents, or Progressives, as they now
call themselves, declared in the pres
ence of all men that they had won the
day, and the Democratic Senators, as
usual. said that they were responsible
for the amendment.
a study OF the final amendment,
regulating the charges for long and
short hauls, fails to show us that n
ono has any special right to rejoice.
The new provision is somewhat more
impressive In its wording thanS the
same provision in the Elsins bill, but
1t is not strong enough to regulate,
to aid or to damage any railroad. The
bill says that the charge for the long
haul shall not he greater than the ag-
gregate of the charges for the short
haul, and limits, more or less, the
charges for the short haul. but it
gives the Interstate Commerce Com
mission w to upset the provisions
of the bill when 1t thinks thai new
rates ARE just and reasonable" This
Is about as broad as 1T is long, so far
as the railroads are concerned, and 1t
is merely taking eggs from one bas-
lSet and putting them in another. so
far as Government regulation is con-
cerilcd.
The reason why this quibbling of
words. or this ~marking-time. SO to
speak, Is agreeable to all the Senators
is perfectly simple: nobody in the SEN
ate knows precisely what he wants.
and nobody has power to get what he
wants IL he do know, OF course. the
Senator's of the Aldrich persuasion
want no rate regulation which will
really regulate, but they kno that
they cannot prevent the enactment Of
laws which may make regulation pos
sible, n consequently founder when
they try to sail between the rocks. The
Insurgents and the Democrats want
effective regulation, but are at sea
so far as shapink that regulation is
concerned. What the Insurgents want
tAib tbO aL5 w ~ hbiiih SNPNHiSiii
and what pleases the Democrats Is not
satisfactory to the Republicans who
call themselves Progressives.
When the smoke has cleared away n
the bill is finally enacted into law the
country will be about where It was
before Congress began It's debate. and
the solution of the railroad question
will probably be as far distant as 1t
has ever been. The bill may change
the method of procedure in the Gov
but it will only put in a new cog
where it takes out an old one, n
will only try another method of at
lacking a problem that has baflcd
Congress. When 1t is lei everyone
will claim tho victory and nobody will
be victor.
Their must be an end to all this
shutfiing tic and fro before very long.
Congress cannot make, unmake n
then remake the machinery of rate
regulation indefinitely. There is a limit
even to the complications of railroad
laws. When a Democratic Congress is
elected, and becomes the
order of the day, we believe the ma
jority will frankly confess that it
cannot regulate rates effectively I'M
der the Constitution. and will do what
it should nave done long ago-leave
the matter TO the courts for trial under
the common law.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
, Peer without franchise.

Lord Wallscourt. whose ancestral
home, Ardfry Castle, in County Gal,
way, has Just bee partially destroye1
by fire, is in the singular position o.
being wholly without a franchise. Al
though he figures in all the standard
and official works OF refer
encc, as Lord Wallscourt. served as
such in the Coldstream GUARDS; is re-
ceived as such at court, ana . eNser
the crown as deputy lieutenant OF the
county Of Galway, under the name OF
Lord Wallscourt. yet ne a nov ess
his position IN the roll sot
irish peers, He Is, thereI or 81 hp rcn re.
Sentative peers, or to himself become
a candidate for election to the House,
of Lords, while he is, OH account OF
the presumption of his peerage, pre-
This peculiar condition of affairs
is due to the unique .~character OF the
patent by which the barony OF Walls.
court was.created, on July 81, 1900. ~
W Eial be - We fry np% Mhere so his anc tau,o!Y
had been established SINCE 1912, with
remainder in default Of Issue male OF
his body, to the heirs male OF the pods
Of his father" Strictly peahlnE .rr rne
upon Joseph Henry Rlake's father, who
was still alive, and who was a power
in the county OF Galway. But no was
q Roman Catholic, and by the laws
then in existence was as suci! pre-
Guided from any ONCE or honor, His
eldest son was "a convert to Anglican
ism, Some say he became q protest
nnernue and his conversion was not
r pesardst as real. lie died three years
inter. during the lifetime OF his father.
and without issue, From, the time OF
iuhrce or four year afterwards. the
barony remained in suspense. and was
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
New Mnrkct, May rs. 1864,

Phoenix -liko from ashes sprung.
The V, NJ. /. was first among
THIS Nations schools, on~-flanle-lit fields
10 marshall boys, who died on Shields.
Al famed New Market, tontthis day.
Succeeding columns. clad in gray.
Are marching down her Valleys pike,
That 80 pcrchancc, faint echoes strike,
no tell whore DiXie's sons did light
For homes defense and StatehOod's right
Where standing staunch, Virginia boys
SliDne in~etal-nade. without alloys.
GEORGE ROSS, NJ, ~,
iaptntn and Assistant. surgeon In charge
4, NJ. 4. Cadet Battalion, Hattie of New
Market. May Is. lSfi.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

Charleston is talking about a Com
lpcrcial Secretary, and that is what the
place needs; but to make his work ef-
fcctive he must have tho united sup
port of all the commercial bodies and
of all tho business men as well. In
Richmond the Chamber of Commerce is
efficient because It is supported by the
people who are Interested in the devel-
opment of the town,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
o MUCH NOISE.

Noise In n city Is rather desirable
in moderation, for there is such u
thing as a silence that Is oppressive.
In some of our neighboring cities to
tho South, the streets arc like BY
maths in a country graveyard. The
silence Is appalling. and q dead quiet
CRATES on tho nerves. lei u
wagon rurnbles by, in Houston, Texas.
for. instance, 1t is little less than a
sensation: the dogs bark, Rip a
winkles on the c-porchcs open
their eyes and wonder at such acttvi-
ty: and when two wagons pass, peo-
n,c ret excited and think that the
end OF the world is at hand.
Hero in Richmond. where everybody
is prosperous and where everybody is
Industrious. we have gone to the other
ex,reme. Cary street. Main street.
BROAD street and a number of the
cross streets are alive with noise from
daylight until midnight. MILK wagons
rumble by Mt dawn: city carts and
dclivery-wagons move to their places
before the city is properly awake:
brick wagons. contractors carts
draws. strect-cars and a thou
sand miscellaneous vehicles make day
hidcous from sunrise until long after
honest men have gone to bed. Main
street, from Sixth and Eighteenth, is
a perfect Bt33am all day long. and
the man a can think without dis
traction, ,1s he makes his way down
town, Is little short of a genius-we
never como down that a We
venture to assert that more patience
is lost. more strong language spoken
and more good plans forgotten in the
hubbub of Main Street h a in all the
mishaps of a busy day. barring, of
course. such provocations as delayed
street-cars and reckless Automobiles
About four-tifths of this noise is
unnecessary. and where a city hon
cstly ~endeavors to reduce the street
noises, 1t can accomplish wonders.
Some of the Sprtilcrn and Western
cities which have adopted ordinances
on the subject and ave enforced
them vigorously. have found that
most of the noise car be suppressed,
that patience is improved. that Chris
tian fortitude is subjected 10 less severe
tests and that general love among all
brethren Is fostered by keeping heavy
drays off the streets and by strictly
regulating the movement of all wag-
ons.
What VIC especially need in Rich
mond is some regulation of the heavy
traffic and particularly some ~restric-
tion on the movements Of heavy vans
There are in the city a number OF
wagons, so constructed that every boil,
%rattles, every beam creaks and very
spoke rumble when they move owe
the paved STREETS. If these wagons be
compelled by city ordinance to go al
a walk over the heavy streets, per-
haps half the noise OF the city will be
silenced. The city has ample authority
to regulate this traffic and car do so
If some entcrprising Councilman. de-
voted to the public welfare. wilISput
the proper ordinance on the books.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
Keep THE PRESIDENT MOVING.

Some of the members of Congress
priating $4,000 to pay the travelling
expenses OF the President of %theIJnited
States. They belong to the tin-can
order of statesmen. They never say
a word against appropriations for
their own mileage: some of them have
mileage and to have taken it when
they could give it to themselves. They
never vince when 1t comes to taking
the public money to pay for their
restaurant facilities, or for such
creature comforts about the Capitol
as they may require, or for "funeraliz-
ing any of their deceased comrades,
or for any of the things in which there
is any graft for themselves, such as
the ranking privilege for garden
seeds or other benevolences of the
Government. BY such means they are
enabled to keep in touch with their
constituencies. and we are not saying
anything at this time against their
keen appreciation of their own i'm
portance. but we must say that he is
a tolerably sorry member of Congress
who would take all these things for
himself and who would not at the
same time provide literally for the
mileage of the President.
If we were President. and it is a
pity that we are not, we would much
-. - --- u. -.. IT.
in the White House and stay there
as long as we could, for it is a very
pleasant sort of place; but the people
want to see the President, and we
do not mind saying that in the present
case he is worth seeing and generally
worth hearing. When he was shutting
himself up and seeing only the people
who wanted to get some sort of Office
there was a great outcry that he
ought to "get out anon the people
to circulate than a lot of cheap states
men, who have squeezed all they car
d out of the public lemon for themselves
begin to talk economy" and try tc
t impress the gr%oundlings with their
desire to save the money of the peo-
pie; that is to say, all that they have
r not taken for themselves. This is Gust
like them"
The shame of 1t is that the Demo-
Gratis. some Democrats we mean, are
trying to prevent the appropriation for
the Presidents travelling expenses
from becoming retroactive so that 1t
will cover something like $4,000. which
he has already spent in making trips.
TNhis is taking a rather unfair advan-
tage of the President. He has not
gone anywhere he has not been asked
to go, and he has gone doubtless be-
cause he thought that it was the policy
of Congress to have him spread himself
all over the country as well as he
Now that he has done what Congress
and the people wanted him to do, he
should not be expected to draw on
his personal account to pay for what
Congress and the people ask ed him Ia
Il do. Besides, he hasn't got any per-
} sonal account to speak of, ana in this
respect he is doubtless very much like
! most of the members of Congress be.
e fore. they got where they could make
y more than they could earn anywhere
$ else or in any other business.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

What in the name of common
sense" asks an indignant reader of
this newspaper in dear old Charleston,
made them put that 'ad' over the
only page in the paper? 1t looked
like an eclipse. Every one lost what
was written on it. However, the
previous days was f!ne-the Colon
in Norway and Alfred Austin's poetry
We're immense" But we always try
to please. 1t So happened that the
''ad' did not run across the '.only
page of that day; but aver an old
only page" which the Indignant
reader had already read on April "a.
We can understand. however, why he
should wish to read it over and over
again, and the oftener 1t is read the
better it gets.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

The next time Governor Mclean
ought to get 1t in writing from SEN
ator Bnlkeleyi but, OF such. we are
reminded, is the kingdom of politics.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
aAu unnrfa nn prny.N

MI HCHTtN DO TTNy.V
The limo rs. H." inquiries nbout-"All
Mrs. Browning's poem, "a Portrait"
JANE II. SHAW.
A Reader has already located this
for us.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

was put around the Capitol Square,
w. II. EGGLESTON,
Primarily. we arc informed. to keen
grass.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

Establish n Cnnnery.
Where can i obtain information In
regard to establishing q %canncry?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

Write to the state Department Of
Agriculture, Richmond, Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16
Pension.

Teachers Pension.
Please tell me through the Query
Column II n teacher fails to be re-
elected Will that interfere With the
pension to which she Will be entitled
by reason or service, etc.
MARIAN i. MOSLEY.
Not IL she already be fully qualified
for q pension.
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" As YIN M
Primarily. W. arc informed. to keen
out dogs and to prevent injury to the
grass.
To Establish n Cnnnery.
Where can i obtain information In
regard to establishing u canncry?
Write to the state Department Of
Agriculture, Richmond. Va.
"CIergy" ana "Lniis."
Please give the gender OF CLERGY
and of "laity." / read in a report OF
the General Conference Of tho Mctho-
dist Church, South. now In session at
equal rights of the women with that
of the laity was debated etc.
a LAY MEMBER.
Clergy" is nsuter or masculine. ac-
.cording to It's iisc Rev. Anna shaw
says II is also feminine. "Laity" IL
common.
WHO WINS Jos. ID. Price:
/ have received a ntiinber of let
tiers from a distant State asking for
a description of tiie murderer OF JOS.
ID. Prise, or Price, who is described
as a deputy sheriff OF this state. |
been. unable. after extensive
search. to Identity Price. Can you. or
any Of your readers. give mo infor-
nation regarding him?
j. HERBEltT MERCER.
Sheriff.
Our nles do not |cGutain any refer.
.ence TO this murder. II any of our
readers can give us particulars. we
shall be glad to communicate them
to Won
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Use Of state Library.

Use Of stntc Library.
VIII you please inform INC IL they
loan books at the State Library?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Yes, IL you are a State officer or en-
ploye, or can get tho recommends
ton of such n person. School teachers
and pupils, duly recommended by their
principals, can also use the library.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-16

NC tTVH TCHCV'
Please answer why the iron fence
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Richmond, May 10.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-06-11

The sympathy Of the many friends
in this community go out to Mr.. and
Mrs. W. l.. Shaffer in their hour of
aiiiiction over the death Of their infant
daughter which occurred this morning
The funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-06-11
CLAIRVOYANT.

Psyehics the and wko
ad
Mrs Ne.,es will them for and
left behind Nsstes will
after evening there three more
readings They hours $50
until Remember the number so Colorado street Now the
Colorado Street. bet lh and 18th Ave
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-06-11
For Sale or Rent-Two Pianos.
Address Box 325. TT
Furnished Rooms

For housekeeping and sleeping. Clean
nice and newly furnished -up-to-date
in every respect-hot and cold wafer
baths. Prices reasonable. Call and
examine.
Mrs. E. S. TUCKER,
1910 Miner ST., across from the Swim
ming Pool.