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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20
BY La MARQu1sE DE FoNTENoY.

ING ALFoNSo's action in com
| muting the death sentences of
IN no less than twenty three con-
demned prisoners on Good Fri
of capital punishment in Spain, and is
hailed as such by the Liberal, the Rad
zeal and the Republican press. though
severely criticized by the Conservative
and reactionary newspapers. Many of
| the prisoners thus repriered had been
convicted, not of one, but of several
murders, and some even of the par
| ticularly atrocious crime OF parricide.
naming unexecuted was RENTED.
| After this it Will be difficult. if not i'm
| possible, to eonsign to the scaffold
more ordinary murderers.
These reprieves were granted by the
| King, with the approval of his Prime
ways been known as opposed to capital
punishment. both as Liberal Mon
archist, and previously as q Republl-
can. And in this connection II may
be recalled that Nicholas Salneron.
who was for so many years the re-
! spected leader of the Republican par
| ty in Spain, actually resigned the
presidency of the republic some two
score Years ago rather than sign the
| This ancient custom OF repreving
| criminals on Good Friday has been in
use in Spain since the fifteenth century,
| though 1t dates back to Mosaical times.
| The Hebrews We're in the habit of re-
| leasing a prisoner at Passover, in mem
| DRY of their deliverance from Egypt,
the popular choice at the time of the
crucfixion lying between Christ and
| Barabbas. Their Most Catholic Males
| tics"--for that IS the correct title of
the rulers of Spain-adopted a similar
! practice for the celebration of Good
| FRIDAY. Until the reign of Isabella ii.
| nf1l tsArt ~ ~,
these occasions Several papers, how
ever We're prepared and folded. each
one containing the name OF a con-
demned prisoner. These We're placed
promscuously on large silver salver,
and that criminal was reprieved on
\ whose paper the royal hand rested.
! the others obtaining no benefit. The
anxiety of all those whose names We're
| ter disappointment of the unsuccessful,
and above all, Of their relatives. may
be better imagined than described,
! Soon after Queen Isabella ii. came
| TO the throne the court was gathered
in the. palace chapel on Good Friday.
Cross had come, The young Queen
knelt before the cruciflx. The salver,
with several papers on it, was pre-
sented, and all watched for Her Majes-
tional words, "Yo tie perdone, yasi Dios
me perdoner (NIay God pardon me as
pardon thee). But, with tears in her
| eyes and a heart full of pity, regard
| less of tradition, the Queen stretched
forth both her hands, brought all the
papers together, and, in broken voice
! eXclaimed. 'Yo os perdone n todos
todos yasi Dios me perdone" (May
| God pardon me as ] pardon you all
Ives, AID. No less than seven prisoners
| benefited by the clemency of the young
| Queen on that occasion. But that NUM-
Der has never since been exceeded I'M
til Good Friday last, when all records
We're broken by Alfonso XIII. in saw
ing no less than twenty-three from,
! the scaffold.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20
THE TWO COLONIES.

Colonel William Jennings Bryan
reached New York on Monday by the
Red liner Caracas from Porto Rico.
He was taken off the ship at the quar-
antine station by q tug boat and ac-
companied TO the city by a few per-
soma! friends who went with him to
the Hotel Aston He called on Mayor
Gaynor and talked 10 him for an hour
or so; but they did not touch on pol
itics except in an incidental way. He
SIS said TO have told reporter that he
would like to see Gaynor elected
President When he was asked By
the Associated Press reporter about
his own intentions as TO the Presi-
dency he replied: u have said all /
am going TO say on that subject; L
think my position is understood per-
feotly" He added. however. that he
thought it hardly necessary to deny
the stories that he would be cfndi-
date for United States Senator or en-
brace the prohibition movement But
he told the circumnayigators' Club a,
the dinner they gave him Monday
night that he might sorsanize clubs
like this" This would look as ii tbs
Colonel might have an idea of taking
the water route 10 the White House
next time; but we are with him ever
there. DER moor and fen, wherever n
leads, we follow we don't intend e
make any mistake this time, and If h
As again, chosen to smtte the Philistine!
we shall be right alongside to lend {
hand or hit some head with marlin
spike--we haven't the leas, ideu wha
a marlinspike is but 1t sounds nautiea
and likewise literary.
The two coloncls are eEactly alike II
7 their methods Colonel Roosevelt wa
closeted with Pinchot for an hour o.
4 iso; but they. didn't talk politics, Col
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Familiar to American Rendcr..

Old Count Charles Won Konigs-
narck's death. at the age OF home
seventy-three years. brings into pos
session of the family estates and ion
ors Count Hans Konigsrarck, whose
name is familiar to many American
| readers as the author of one of the
most charming and altogether readable
books that have been published in re-
cent years about India. II is india
Seen Through German Eyes. for Count
Hans is one OF the most Brilliant off,
GERS Of the general staff of the German
army, In which he holds the rank OF
lieutenant colonel, and during his visit
to India, which was partly for pleas
IRE and partls, for the sake OF military
study, he managed to win 10 very
marked degree the good Will and
friendship of Lord Kitchener. who was
then commanding the British forces
there.
The ,Konigsmarcks are among the
In the history of the last few hun
bred years. Count John Charles
Konigsmarcll was celebrated in an
English state trial as the man who
Thomas Thyme, cf Longleat. popularity
known as tom of Ten Thousand" the
"Wise Issachar' and the Wealthy
Western FRIEND OF the poet Dryden,
and was betrothed to the child widow
of Lord Ogle. one of the greatest heir
esses of the day. Count Charles
onigsnarcl. fresh from love king
in all the courts of Europe. and from
fighting anything and everything. from
the Turk at Algiers to the wild bulls
at Madrid, fell in love with Thynne's
fiancee, and deemed that the best way
of obtaining her was to murder his
rival. The murder was done, and its
story is recorded in tho bas-rellef on
Thynne's tomb in Westminster Abbey.
The counts accomplices were exc
cuted but he got off. and died years
later lighting for the Venetians at the
siege of Argos.
His sister, Countess Aurora Koniss-
marek, was the favorite of King Fred
| ericls Augustus of SaXony, and became
by him the mother of that famous milf
| tary commander, the Marechal de Sake,
| who defeated tho English at tho battle
| of Fontenoy. Aurora was also the an
cestress Of the famous French novelist,
who wrote under the pen name of
| Georges Sand"
Another brother was Count Philip
officers Of King George I, of England,
| while emerging from the apartments
! of Queen Sophia Dorotllea, at Hanover,
| and in the old Schloss tho spot is still
| shown. outside of the door of the Hall
OF knights, where he was done to
| death by his murderers, and where the
Countess Platen, whose advances he
had spurned, and who had IN conse-
quence thereof made use OF her posi-
| tlon as lady in waiting OF the queen
| to betray him, stamped With her heel
! upon his lips as he lay on the floor
! expiring from his wounds. The Queen,
| 1t may be remembered, thousn nolnlng
was ever absolutely proved against her,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20
Dangers of the Drinking Gun.

To the Editor of The Tines ispatch:
Sir'--lt Is rather remarkable fact
That so very much attention is being
directed to various provisions for the
prevention and spread of tubercular
infection and to minimize the trans
mission OF tuberculosis and other con-
tagious diseases, while III many in
stances the real danger signals are
passed by UNDECIDED and dsregarded.
either from unwonted, neglect or by
being inadvertently overlooked.
Without the employment OF mi
croscope or even the common readin,;
glass, the most casual observer may
detect various germ distributors in the
city of Richmond and elsewhere, which
may. with a nominal expense and very
little attention, be corrected or en-
tirely abolished.
Unfortunately. our beautiful Capitol
Square contains one of these germ
distributors OF the most formidable
nature. Daily. the hydrant is visited
merous visitors to the city. The young.
the old, white and colored alike.
quench their thirst at this gern-teem-
ing distributor.
VIII place its lips to the nozzle of
the hydrant. while another child will
pull the lever and administer the fatal
0raught.
Fair young women, who dare not
salute their brave young Lochnvars
with a welcome kiss, will sip the
germs from the mouth of the dis
Itributer, and young men who would
hesitate to use drinking glass after
its having been employed by a con-
sumptive, Will unhesitatingly indulge
at this F'ontaine de Mort, which is not
unlike so many horses drinking from
common trough.
Elderly men. who have discussed
pro and con, the nroblem Of lessening
he spread of contagion. will likewise
forget the danger signal and help the
cause along.
This Is a serious matter. and 1t seems
very much out Of place for so much
stress, through the various health Pc
riodica!s, TO be placed upon the mitiga-
| tlon of contagious diseases, while the
germ incubators and distributors are
so prevalent in our midst.
If 1t is necessary to have public
drinking place in the Capitol Square 1t
Is equally necessary. that same should
be of the most sanitary construction.
and ono that will beautify and adorn
this pleasant retreat for tho tired, tlle
weary and convalescent, rather than
the erm-distributer now in use.
VISITOR.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20
SAVING THE ArpALAcu1ANs.

The House Committee on Agricul-
t,lre has made a favorable report on
tho bill creating the Southern Appa-
lachiau and White Mountain Forest
Reserve. This is the first practical
step towards It's passage, and we sup
pose that the bill Will now be adopted
and that the forest reserve will be es-
tahlished. The purpose of the bill is
to preserve the watersheds by the con-
servation of trees and by reforesta-
ton when necessary. 1t is also de-
signed to conserve navigable rivers,
but this is incidental to the main pur-
pose of the bill, which is the preserva-
ton of the forest resources OF the APP
palachian and White Mountain region.
The bill ought to have been passed
long ago, and would have been passed
doubtless hut for the opposition of
Speaker Cannon, which we have never
understood, There is no subject of
larger4 public interest. nor could any
law be passed which would promote
the material interests Of the South so
greatly as the establishment OF its
great forest reservation.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20

close prlsoner of state for the rel
mainder of her life in the Castle OF
Ahlden, on the River Aller.
The late Count Charles konigsmarck.
who has just been gathered to his
fathers. created a sensation some ten
years ago by becoming the defendant
in a suit ~ divorce brought against
him by his wife. after thlrty-two years
OF marriage. She is by birth a Prin-
cess Sayn- Wittgenatein, and has Eng
lish blood in her veins. her mother hav-
ing been the daughter of an English
baronot. Sir George Plggott. There
were all sorts of obstacles raised to
Miss Piggott's marriage with Prince
SaSn- Wlttgeustein, on the score of In
equality OF birth. But matters were
eventually settled on it's being shown
that she comprised among her ances-
tors a number OF former Kings of Ire
landau argument which may be COM
mcnded to American girls marrying
] raise objections TO matrimonial alli-
ance, on the plea of their bourgeois
Lineage.
Count Hans Konfgsnlarck, like the
other children. sided with the mother
in her divorce proceedings against
their father. who at once took his re-
vengc by cutting off their allowances
whereupon Count Hans Went to law.
and after a suit which attracted n
considerable amount OF attention at the
time, forced the old gentlemtn 10 re-
store the allowances which he and his
three sisters had enjoyed until Their
from the family property. In order
TO get even with them. he thereupon
married again this time young wo-
man OF the name of Paula Geissler. by
whom he had four more children. "a
son and three daughters, whose claims
to portions of their fathers inherit
tance VIII diminish the fortune coming
TO Colonel Count Hans Konigsmnrck
and to his married sisters.
Copyright. 1910, by the Brentwood Coo
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20
Choice OF I,itlc.

Herbert Gladstones selection of his
title, as Viscount Gladstone of Lanark,
is owing to the fact that the family
T We Nave a on the ath aris If inc the
Grand Old Man himself that they We're
q race of borderers. Mr.. Gladstone
traced his descent from William Gled-
stanes, who in 1854 was Laird OF Ar
thurshiel In Lanarkshire, and whose
lineal descendants continued as own
ers OF that property until another Will
liam Gledstones disposed of 1t and
went to live IN the town of Biggar,
about the year 1863, His son changed
his name from Gledstones to Glad,
stones, which his son Thomas In turn
retained, and. Thomas's son. John
changed, by means Of royal license, the
name of Gladstones to Gladstone. He
was the father of the Grand Old Man
and In his old age (1S46) was created
"a haronet. William Ewart Gladstone
the ,,NiGlQgiaR premieI. was his fourth
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20

or manufactured products. They
would not give tho United states any
| thing that they have not already in
the way OF commercial facilities. The
| tobacco grower In Virginia the iron
! maker in Alabama, the cotton manu-
facturer in the Carolinas, would still
| have to pay the freight, and the tax
| payers of the country would, in addi-
ton, be compelled to pinch themselves
to pay the interest on the capital in
vested in the ships, all of which would
go into the pockets OF the owners ana
| not into the public treasury.
| II 1t is desired that the Government
shall go into the shipping business,
let the Government build, own and
operate the ships, and not become the
mere side partner of private corpora
tons, with all the expense charged
against the public treasury and all
the profits going into private pockets.
| Here is chance to try out the Bryan
plan of Government ownership OF
transportation lines and chance
where the Government would have
fair field without interfering in the
slightest with so-called vested
rights" The merchant marine of the
! United States now has T,3SS,00o gross
tonnage, the United Kingdom 1,ds5.ooO
tons. and Germany 100000 tons. The
larger part of the tonnage OF the
United States IS employed in the coast
wise trade, but the owners have made
money out of their business without
| help from the public treasury. If it
pay private capital to invest in ship
ping for the coastwise trade. it would
pay private capital to invest in the
ocean going trade if Congress would
remove the artificial barriers that have
been put up by Congress. What the
people want is not some new enter
prise that will cost them more money,
but some enterprise that will enable
them to escape further burdens.
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WHY COMMEND ANY ONEs

The most surprising feature of the
present municipal campaign has been
the circulation, in one OF the wards,
of a letter signed in fac-simile by
the Mayor and commencing a member
OF the Common Council who seeks
reelection. This letter, which is adj
dressed to the candidate in question,
is being used for campaign purposes
and bears a date within the last
month.
As we understand the present cam
paign, it is a friendly race between
good Democrats. for seats in a Demo-
cratic Council, under u Democratic
Mayor; and as we understand the
office of Mayor, 1t is a non-partisan
position, occupied by a Democrat who
is not partial to any one Democrat
or to any one citizen. Such being
the case, why should the Mayor recon-
mend any Democrat for the Council,
and why should lie recommend one
above another? Why should the
Mayor give letter of recommends
ton to one Democrat when there are
almost two-score Democrats in the
city applying for seats in the coun-
Gil?
The personality and record of the
Councilman who has this letter is q
matter of no Importance. The prin-
ciplc of the letter is the same, no
matter who the man is. and the prln-
ciple is wrong.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20

have followed him every hour since he
succeeded the Impossible. who has re-
Gently been suggested as a benevolent
despot not unlikely to follow Mr.. Tart
in the White House.
We have no doubt that Mr.. Taft will
take another term as President, II Inc
can get it, in spite of the jollyins he
gave the bankers aud the Psi Upsilons
He oughtn't to have it, OH general
principles; Nbut we have authority
which Henry Watterson dare not ques-
ton, for~saying that "he is a gentle
man and an honest man"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20
THE sII1p SUBSIDY STEAL.

The Chicago Tribune objects to the
pending ship subsidy bill before Con-
gress because il provides for an UNI
profitable expenditure Of public money.
by which "a few vessel owners would
make little more money, but the pub
lie would gel nothing in return" That
Is the conclusion OF the whole matter.
There IS nothing else in it but robbery
of the people for the benefit of a
few shipbuilders and ship owners.
THE Tribune would like to see an
American ocean merchant marine, but
under present conditions it would have
to be maintained by subsidies after
having been built up by them, IL
would die down the day the helping
hand was withdrawn. The price which
would have TO be paid for an ocean
merchant marine perpetually fed from
THO treasury bottle would be, more
than it WAS worth"
The establishment of American
steamship lines nwould not benefit the
business interests OF this country, They
would not reduce the cost of trans
porting American products to market,
they would not make the expense of
travelling less, or open new markets
fox the sale of American agricultural
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-20

Einia Polytechnic Institute has decided
that the charges preferred against
President Paul b. Barringer do not
justify any action on the part of the
board. BY vote OF ! to :, the mem
bers of the board dismissed the charges
and ended the agitation so far as off,
ciai action is concerned.
The beard heard evidence before it
reached this decision, and the majority
was unquestionably guided by the
highest motives in reaching its deci-
sion 10 Justify all the works OF PresL-
dent Barringer. This fact should be
remembered. and the majority should
not be criticized by those who have
held a different opinion of the evidence
submitted to the board. AS the men,
bers who submitted the minority re-
port were prompted by high motives
and were entirely sincere in the recon-
mendations which they made, they
should also be given the thanks of
those who realize that there can be
two opinions on such n question as
that the board had 10 decide. To con-
denim the trainers sc either report as
partisan or unfair would be to reflect
upon men who have given much for
the welfare of the institute.
The action of the majority relieves
DIR. Barringer Of any injustice that
may have been done him by any of
the charges preferred by the welfare
committee. He stands justified and
approved. Yet the action of the ma
5ority does not relieve DIR. Barringer
of responsibility for existing condi
of the institute and is accountable for
the ssfeteeping Of the states property
and the states interests at the insu-
tute As the minority report of the
board very properly concludes: The
man who is at the head of great
educational institution cannot be ON
nipresent or omniscient, but he must
be held responsible for the organi2a-
ton and coordination of his depart
ments. for the policies that he inau-
BurateS ana LOT the 1nCInOuS lndl he
employs, for the atmosphere which
pervades his institution for the gen
eral morale of his college, for the
discipline that is enforced and for
the results which he acconplishcs.'
Measured by this standard, 1t must
be manifest to all who have studied
the situation that DR.. Barringcr will
no longer be able 10 do good work
for Virginia as president of the insti-
tute His usefulness at Blacksburs
is ended. There is too much dissen-
sion for peace to be restored as long
rs he remains al the head of the
faculty. Discipline is manifcstly
lax; the faculty is disorsanized. No
action of The 4trssideat in the cir
cumstances can restore Blacksbarg to
the position ii should occupy in the
educational system of the state
We entertain the kindliest possible
feelings for DR.. Barringer and do not
propose at this time TO enter into
any discussion of the reports on his
administration submitted yesterday
but now that he has been acquitted of
every charge preferred against him,
Or. Barringer can best show his
real appreciation of the situation by
retiring from the presidency Of his
own accord and giving place to an
other man.
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SENTENCES OF DEATH
COMMITTED BY KING

son, and It is his nephew (the son OF
his eldest brother the late Sir Thomas
Gladstone, who is now the holder OF
the baronetcy. as Sir John Gladstone.
and the chief of the family He is UNI
married, and, like his father. is a pro-
antithesis in a political sense of the
Grand Old Man and of the newly ere
ated ytscount Gladstone. who sails
with Lady Gladstone at the end of this
month to take up his duties as Cover
norGeneral of United South Africa.