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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-06
KING TO CELEBRATE
HIS SILVER JUBILEE

i lives In the popular imagination as
| the central figure OF the struggle in
England for the rights OF the people.
more than 200 years ago. took very
welfare OF the at that time newly
] formed settlement In Massachusetts.
and was at one moment on the point OF
emtgratins, to this country as Pill
| grim Father, but decided at the last
minute to remain in England where
his services were required by his party.
| History teaches us how he rejected all
offers, of Office and preferment made
! by Charles l., who was anxious 70
win him from the popular cause, and
how he fell In the battle OF Chalgroye
Field. fighting against the Royalists
rs one of the principal generals OF the
Parliamentary army.
John Hampden left large family
named Mary, who married a baronet
Of the name of Sir John Hobart, and
on the extinction OF the male line OF
nn! IN ne early part OF the las.
to John Hobart. fifth Earl OF Bucking-
hamshire. as the heir and lincal descan-
dant In the male line of the Sir John
The Hobar,s themselves are Nor
folkshire and SuIolkshire families.
are descended from Sir. James Hobart.
who was attorney-general to Henry
VII, and have branch which settled
in Massachusetts in 1888. and which
still survives in this country It was
Sir John Hobart. the grandson of Mary
Hampden. and the great-grandson of
the Patriot. who became first Earl OF
Buckinghamsh!re, during the reign OF
George l.
The present earl is the seventh of
Els line. and his principal country seat.
Hampton House. in Bucklnghamshire
den. i is a grand old place, vita
trees beneath the shadow OF which
the Patriot discussed Charles l. with
Oliver Cromwell while among the
sented by Cromwell TO Hampden. and
In which a number of records OF both
their families are inscribed. Queen
Elizabeth was sumptuously entertained
the, magnificent oaks to furnish a
fitting approach to the mansion still
remaining as memento OF her visit.
The house includes the historic brick
arrested for refusing to pay shin
Hampden Place In Bucking M hire Ire
is perhaps the best shown by the fact
mat rnat When John Hampden, the last
Patriot, died unmarried In 1854 the es
tates thereupon coming into possession
of the fifth Earl OF Bucking hamshire
his tomb in the parish church close
Lord of Great Hampden. In the same
church lies the body Of the Patriot.
whittier y was brought by the Round
mead soldiers after the battle of Chal-
grove Field. chanting the nlnetieth
Psalm.
Lord Buckinghamshire has a little
son FOUR years old who bears the name
title of Lord Hobart. He is known on
the countrywide by the nickname Of
the last Of the Hampdehs." not be-
cause the family to which he belongs
Is destined to become extinct with him
but by reason of the fact that he Is
ITS most recent arrival. The present
Lord Buckinghamshire assumed the
name of Mercer Henderson. In addi-
ton to his own of Hobart Hampden.
when his wife succeeded to the very
valuable estates fsher maternal. grand
father, General Mercer Henderson,
Peninsula veteran
Copyright. 1910. by. the Brentwood
Company
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! ton OF divorce law. Not long ago a
New York court decided against a wo-
man of that State who went to Reno
and came back In three months with
a divorce and decree for the custody
of her children. The husband refused
to give the children up. and the New
York court sustained him. and de.
clared the law invalid. The Judge was
of opinion that a married woman's
legal address presumably. was where
her husband lived, and that she could
establish legal residence nowhere else.
One of the most pitiful sights in
the world is that of the children OF
divorced parents WIG are running back
and forth between their parents or
have no home at all. The example of
divorced parents is deterrent to
marriage on the part of the children.
Divorce makes them unhappy; 1t re-
moves them from the powerful sphere
of the home; 1t often makes bad cit
izens Of them. and 1t is a devastating
influence upon the character of the
people of State and Nation. Remedial
legislation is imperative, making 1t in
creasinSly difficult to secure divorce in
the States where divorce mills are the
most notorious industries.
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AN 1LL-r1MEp a,1ENpMEyr.

me General Assembly at its last SEES.
! sion had great financial problem TIC
solve. The deficit In public funds was
the chief interest of legislation. APP
preparations were greatly decreased
cuts here and there were made, public
utilities and many forms of business
were taxed admittedly more than was
fair and equitable. Economy was the
Key on which almost every legislator
drummed constantly.
INC proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution adding thirty days more to
the session OF the General Assembly
would, II 1t become law, mean an extra
burden upon the people of more than
SloV,oo0. 1t will Just mean that the
taxpayer will have to dig down deep
er In his pocket and bring UP more
money; it will mean that the financial
condition Of the State will be greatly
aggravated.
1t might be otherwise, even under
these conditions, IL these extra thirty
days We're necessary. They are not
necessary. The advocates who have
defended an extra addition OF thirty
days can give nothing but empty gen.
eralities in support of their position.
To impose this great financial bur-
den upon the people, who are carrying
pretty big load already, would work
a serious hardship upon them This
extension is not necessary; there are
no real reasons for its-passage. Let
1t be voted down.
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EARNEsrNEss.
for The Times-Dispatch.)

loelected for The Times-Dtspatch.) !.
SO run that ye may obtain. "--1
Corinthians tx, part of verse "a.
! On the western side OF that narrow
strip of land which connects what is
now called the Morea with the main-
land OF Greece, there stood In St
Pauls day. and there still stands, a
country town, called Corinth, Of some
note then. but Of none now.
little to the north of 1t there was
place called Isthmus, where once in
every two years there was great
gathering OF the neighhorhood to see
running matches. boxing matches,
chariot races and other sports. These
"lsthmian games" (as they were call
ED were to the people Of Greece what
the great EPSON or Ascot races are
to many Englishmen, or the great aus
tomohile races or hall games are to
our people now---the great event of
the time.
In these games, though, ms in many
other things, the heathens put us, who
call ourselves Christians to shame. On
the English or American race course
we often find the very headquarters
of gambling, drunkenness and general
Vice Not SO among these heathens,
Their games We're free from almost
all that is our shame and disgrace on
similar occasions, Persons who had
been guilty Of offenses against the low
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A GEnMAN-AMERICAN HERO.

1t Is ESPECIALLY fitting that the Ger
determined on Monday night. to send
representative delegation of their
number TO the unveiling OF the statue
OF Baron Won Steuben at Washington
have but Joined themselves with ,citi-
gems of all the States of the Union;
but the fact that Baron Won Steuben
served part of his military career
IN the defence of Virginia under the
American flag makes 1T all the more
appropriate that after these many
years, when he has lain in an almost
forgotten grave. the citizens OF this
State who We're born in his native
land or are of German extraction
should thus honor their distinguished
compatriot who fought to establish
liberty in this republic.
1t was but a little while ago that
sone contemporary OF ours referred to
Baron Won Steuben as :" a4neglectea
Revolutionary hero" There is moro
than grain of truth in this. La
tayette. the French general in the
Continental Army, has been honored
often Pulaski and kosciusczko, brave
sons OF Poland, who came to the Amer
lean patriots aid, are immortalized in
marble and bronze; so is De Kalb, the
Bayarian; but there has been no mo-
mortal to Baron Won Steuben, who was
the peer in real service of any one OF
these other foreign allies of the
Colonist cause, for 1t can be safely
said that no major general IN the field
did half SO much toward American
success as this great organizer and
dlsciplinar!an.n 1t Is a reproach TO this
nation that neglect of this Great Ger
man soldier was shown by the Govern
ment even in his life time. II broke
faith with him about the compensation
thatghe was to receiYe--honorab man
that he was he had stipulated In the
early part of the Revolution that he
was 10 receive no pay unless the Amer
lean arms triumphed-it refused to nav
him the money 1t owed him, but gave
him land Instead a much inferior com
pensation One of these portions OF
land. II may be said by way of paren-
thesis, belonged TO an old Tory who
would have been left destitute without
~. but Baron Won steuben refused to
take II. exhibiting the typical German
Kindness of heart
Baron ETrederich William A,,us, N.
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: CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

Assistant William NJ. Hayes of the
Department OF Agriculture said some
very striking things the other day
when speaking before the Iowa State
Teachers Association. taking as his
main topic consolidation OF schools. He
said:
Consolidated village and rural
schools, bearing three-tourths of the
burden of formulating country life ana
education, arc the greatest factors in
the establishment Of, virile morality
and high ideals of every day life in
this country
This fact is becoming more and more
realized by those who are in touch
with modern educational systems. The
development OF practical education In
rural districts is the surest means for
national uplift. In the last analysis,
the education which is afforded in the
country districts Is the, education which
most vitality affects the life and prog
ress Of the nation. The consolidated
school is a school of greater efficiency
than the ordinary single rural school,
because it admits OF a wider curriculum
and because it is potential for kinds
of education which small schools can
not have.
The consolidated school, If directed
Alright can be tremendous source OF
enlightment and upl1fr. radiating Its
energy through a whole community 1t
makes for swift progress.
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Daily Queries and Ansloers
Address all for this column Query Editor
problems
valued and dealers BIO aiven.
FIFNt UHIIUOHH.
Please give me short sketch OF the
first balloons also when and by whom

First balloons.
Please give me short sketch OF the
first balloons; also when and by whom
they were invented.
looms is to be found in the discovery
by the English chemist and physicist
Henry Cavendish, in 1856, OF the re-
markable lightness OF hydrogen gas
ny cavallo y l77s. TIE invention .oi
the balloon Is due to Etienne and to-
seph Montgoliler, two distinguished pa
permakers at Annonay, France. In
loon, which assembled to d height OF
1900 feet.
snle OF Cookie.
In reply to the query recently put
In this column as to market for
that Plttsburg, Pa, has q dealer who
imports cookies from Wales and sells
same to Welsh settlements In Pennsyl-
vania and Vermont in the Welsh min
ing and quarry regions.
Correspondence with the Chamber Of
Commerce Of Pittsburg will doubtless
elicit all required information.
Various Prisons Defined.
and distinguish them from each other:
Penitent'ary. Jail. reformatory. house
of detention, house of correction.
juvenile court and Federal prison.
1t is a little hard to define speci-
fcally the difference between several
of these, as they come under the gem
eral heading of prisons A peniten-
tiary is a State prison, where State
convicts are held for a considerable
term of imprisonment. where they are
compelled to labor. or In which GRIM
mails condemned TO penal seryitude are
confined.
A jail is usually recognized as
place of confinement for minor Of
lenses.
A reformatory is. as Its name indi-
and reformation of youths who have
already begun career OF vice or
crime.
A house OF detention Is a place
where offenders (and sometimes wit
nesses) are detained while awaiting
trial.
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ssSPe Ia LilG uuii'S on -
gument on the admissibiltty OF certain
testimony. ~
This opinion OF the highest tribunal
In the lard is evidence of new Spirit
on the part OF appellate courts, q spirit
that makes for justice and not for
red tape and technicality. The allow
aiice of the things which are permitted
by this decision of the Supreme Court
has hitherto been cause for "reversi-
Die error" which would permit an APP
peal from the trial Judge to the high
er court. This dread Of error has made
many Judges weak, validating ard neg
alive. The decision handed down by
MI Justice Holmes is likely to bolster
UP the judiciary and give 1t more
breadth and latitude n such cases in
the future.
The tendency in our judicature is
toward the superiority of Justice over
reasonless technically The great
popular unrest over the processes OF
judicial thought has not been without
its results. Hamlet cried out against
the laws delay and his cry is a
powerful one to-day, supplemented by
an notwithstanding chorus OF popular
dissatisfaction. Common sense and
reason are coming into their own.
Yet when changes come in judicial
thought we cannot rightly wish them
always to be sweeping changes. Take
the case or permitting newspapers to
be read by iurymen. AS a general rule.
1t Is surely safe for them to read and
reflect upon the contents of newspapers,
but we think that the allowing Of such
reading ought to be left within the dis
cretion OF the trial Judge. There is in
our mind case where such Judge re-
FUSED the jury the privilege of reading
the newspaper published by the family
OF the deceased who had been slain
by the prisoner, at the bar. In this
particular case, tho newspaper in
question was virulent, prejudiced. one.
sided, narrow and wholly unreasonable
IN Its news policy. 1t disobeyed many
tenets OF journalistic ethics. The Judge
refused to allow the Jury to peruse this
paper, ana he was right.
In our opinion, the Jury under no
should be allowed to
hear evidence to which the objection
OF lncompetcncy or Misunderstanding has
been made. In such circumstances, the
Jury should, we hold, always be ex-
Guided from the courtroom. we agree
tuily with Henry NJ. Earle, who has
lately declared in an article in Bench
and Bar:
comparatively few jurors are aple
70 forget testimony given and stricken
from the record as 1nadmissible
While jurors may determine in their
minds to erase from them such testl-
mony as has been admitted and then
ruled out, they unconsciously do
not obiterate 1t from their minds.
They may wish to, but they can
not The int may be judicial
but the mental process and result are
not. When an attorney asks aues-
lioH ana II is answered against objec-
ton and then ruled out, it has made
an indelibleimpression, however slight.
on the mind of the Juror.
The popular outcry against techni-
calities is all we'll ana good. but the
fact must never be lost sight Of that
often the elimination of these technte
calittes may work almost as severe 4
legal hardship as their permission, =.
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GIVE EVERY MAN a SQUARE DEAL.

n
Every man who believes in equality o
opportunity in politics ought to go t.
the polls on Tuesday and vote dowr
the proposed amendments, which pro
pose unlimited tenure for treasurer
and commissioners of the revenue
Every man who believes that either
of city or county ought to have as
fair a chance to be elected to office as
any other man will vote down these
proposed amendments. Every man
who believes that a candidate for city
or county Office ought not to have a
nrachine against him ought to vote
against these proposed amendments.
Why?
Because the passage of these pro-
posed amendments, Will SO entrench
treasurers and commissioners in power
that only by political miracle can
any other man be elected to these Of
fees 80 long as these present incum-
bents wish to stay in office. The APP
prevail Of these proposed changes Will
enable these office holders to erect
political machine for self-perpetuation
In office that no one can break down
BY granting unlimited tenure to treas
urers and commissioners. you would
put into their hands the power to die
tate to great extent city and county
politics in hundreds of instances.
In the last hour of their despera-
ton. these office-holders are setting
UP the howl. do not put a good man
out of office" Would 1t not be well /
for the voter to ask, Glow about re-
fusing good man other than the
present incumbent the opportunity of
holding Officer" Is it better to let one
man hold office for life, or to let good
men hold the office in turn?
Rotation in office is an important
principle which must be preserved.
No man ought 10 have the right to
gather to himself such power that he
can be defeated only by a small polit-
Teal revolution.
Give every man in city and county a
square deal. Do not say to good men
Who are not in Office, "You shall not
run for Office, because l have put a
man there and clothed him with such
vast political strength that you can
not defeat lilltl'' This Is a free coun-
try, where we ought to have equality
of opportunity in politics. a
Every man has "a rightsto run for
office on fair basis with any other
man. If these treasurers, and commits
sioners of the revenue are given 1nden-
mite terms by these proposed amend
ments. the result will be that
future opponents Will be defeated
by the personal machines Of the incum-
bents. and in some cases no one will be
brave enough to make the race.
Shall the people rule, or shall these
petty Caesars rule?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-06
LODGES WHITE ELEPHANT.

| Henry Cabot Lodge, who, unfortun-
iately for the welfare OF the people or
Massachusetts, is about to be reelected
as Republican Senator from that
State, has been making lately many
/ protestations OF his honesty and
neagre expenditures in political cam
4 paiens. B'oss caught him leaving out
( many thousands OF dollars in a state
/ ment of former campaign expenditures.
and now Congressman Henry Y. Rainey.
of Illinois, being duly sworn. testi-
fes to the, American electorate chat
| from the United States Treasury to
discharge his political obligations to
| the banking firm of Kidder Peabody
and Co., in Boston
Lodge. according to the statement of
Mr.. Rainey, caused to be inserted in a
bill a clause reading that $4,000
should be used for the purchase of two
ships of 5000 tons burden, to be used
In carrying cement to the harbor of
Colon. Later Congressman Rainey dis
covered that there Were In all the
world only two such ships as those
named in the bill at the suggestion or
Ledge, and that these had been built
bs Kidder Peabody s. Co. in the vain
hope that .tne ship subsidy bill would
pass Congress. 1t did not pass. and
SO these two natural white elephants
were left in the hands OF Iftdder,, Pea
body 6 Co.
The bill with Lodges rider was en-
acted into law, the ships were pur-
chased and the Government had to
bring them all tho way from Seattle
to New York at cost of $4,000. In
addition to this, 1t required 400 car
penters and an outlay Of S350ooO to
get them into shape for service. When
they arrived near Colon 1t was found
that they could not get within a mile
and half OF the harbor.
1t cost the United States Govern
ment more than s271.ooo to dredge the
harbor so the ships could enter. And
after the northern winds blow there
this fall the dredging will have to be
done all over. again.
In other words. Lodge, in order to
oblige friends who had stood by him
In politics, caused the Government to
buy two white elephants, which to-
gether cost Uncle sam Just S2,l77, 600
That is Just as good evidence as is
needed to show that Lodge Is "a mere
puppet in the grasping hands OF spe-
cial interests,
II the plain people OF Massachusetts
could vote directly for their senator's,
they would administer terrible
rehuke to this betrayer of State
and nation. But 1t is the old
story Of the Nmachine controlling the
Legislature. and Lodge and the inter-
ests behiad the machine, 1t is far
huddles In his seat.
JuRYMEN CAN READ NEWSPAPERS.
A decision that will be of interest to
the legal profession generally as well
as to the public has recently been hand
ed down by Mr.. Justice Holmes. speak.
ing for the United States Supreme
Court. 1t Is that Jurymen may read
newspapers when they have retired
from the box or taken q recess sin the
course Of n trial in which they are
sitting. Additional points covered by
the decision are that jurymen can
separate, that q prisoner can be re.
CURED to put on a coat alleged to haye
been worn by him at the time OF the al
49, - u ~. ~ ~. - IN
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There wouldn't be much left OF yale
II It dared to tackle that v. p. /. foot
ball team. Wow. but didn't they smash
things up yesterday?
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Smash the oftice-h holders trust.

Speaker Byrd killed the Income tax
amendment in the General Assembly.
and If his recent vigorous attack on
the four amendments to the Virginia
Constitution be successful, he will have
done pretty good years. work for the
people of Virginia.
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THE EFFECT OF DIVORCE ON chill
DREN. ~

DREN,
Thirty per cent. of the 5,575 In
mates of thirty-iour reform schools in
the United States became dependent.
and In many cases demorallzed
through desertion or divorce. This is
the fact found by Professor Elwood,
of the University of Minnesota. who
has been investigating the subject Of
the relation of marital infeliclty to
the after life of the children involved
In the sundering of the bond In the
South Dakota Training School thirty
per cent. of the children came from
MONIES wrecked by divorce. The court
records of ST. Louis reveal the fact
that 400 out of 6s7 of the children in
the Juvenile court OF that city came
from homes shattered by the separa-
ton of the parents That is a little
more than seventy-flve per cent
|, These. statistics reveal a tendency
| that should be alarming to all those
to whom the welfare of the State and
Nation are not alien. They show that
the light-minded view of divorce a :.
the careless disregard Of the serious
responsibilities of marriage leads To
results that are potentially dangerous.
Not only is marriage deprecated. but
parenthood is degraded.
Is the quality of an creasinr,v
great proportion OF future citizens 70
nepend upon the formative influence
of the reform school and asylum for
children, rather than upon the rea,
/ home? These Institutions, however
worthy and however sympathetic and
kind In their attitude, cannot equal the
home as mold for character. The
authorities of many OF these art .5cial
\ homes realize that this is so. and do
| all in ,neir power to put their inmates
1 In good families.
| The checking of the tide OF divorce
| Is of immense Importance to the State,
| because. as the facts cited prove, the
reform schools, jails and penltentiaries
| are recruiting too rapidly from the
| ranks of children whose home life
/ have been blasted by divorce 1t Is
well enough for the State to reclaim
and reform bad citizens, but how
much better it is to abate the evil
that makes them bad
The conferences for uniform State
laws on certain subjects have con-
sidered for many years the problem
OF national divorce law, They haze
/ not achieved oyermuch in this direc-
ton, but they have Kept pegging away.
Renewed hope must doubtless possess
them when they reflect that the New
York Courts, which are followed in
many jurisdictions, Show a tendency
TO call 2 halt on the loose administers
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One. of the events of the year in
Lynchburg has been the exhibition Of
a 5ten-pound sweet potato grown on
the farm OF Mr., j. n. Edmunds, AS
they say In Georgia. "That is some
potato"