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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
WILL PROMOTE BALLS
BUT GUESTS MUST PAY

J Napoleonss emissaries that they fur
| nished him with n military guard. At
y III the evening his carriage stood at
the door of the Swan Inn at Perie-
burg ready Tor departure. HIS lug
gage was being put on the TOP of the
| vehicle. and while the courier w,s
standing al the carriage door talking
win the honiface, Bathurst for some
| horses heads. where a hostIer was
! holding lantern and into the dark
ness beyond, vanishing into the gloom.
the narrow street being unlishted. He
was never seen again
Tho English government onered The
AT the time enormous reward OF 500 00n
for the elucldati0n Of the mystery. and
the Earl OF Bathurst of tae dap az
much more The only result OF these
Offers being the recovery Of tho fur
coat and OF the gray trousers or the
missing envoy the former In the cellar
OF an empty house. the latter In the
river. The trousers had two holes in
tho waistband and In the pocket
half finished note, written In pencil
TO Mrs. Bathurst filled with forebol-
inss of the catastrophe
The London Times. in Its issue OF
January % 1910, plainly declared thar
Mr. Bathurst had been made awaF
with by the French Emperor. 10 witch
charge the Imperial MunitelI. respond
ed week later at Paris To the efcct
that "SF Bathurst. who like all Eng
NJ Perleburs, In lit OF insanity. Ma
poleon, moreover. through Cambarcres
tho arch chancellor OF the Emperor
assured Mrs. bathurst, upon his word
of honor that he knew nothing OF
Bathurst murder. although II must
be remembered that In violation of all
international usage ne kidnapped and
Imprisoned Mr. Rumbold. the English
quest was relinqulshed.
Forty years passed On April L.
1852, a house on the Hamburg road.
just outside Perieburs. was In course
old OF the stable WAS discovered a
skeleton, lying face upward, covered
with mortar and with stone chips The
back of the skull was smashed IN. The
house belonged to one Klesenwei,ter,
who had inherited 1t from his father,
who had been the boots at the Swan
Inn when Bathurst vanished. The Lord
bathurst OF the day was summoned To
Perleburg. But he satisfied himself that
the skeleton could not under any cir
be that of his long missing
kinsman, the stature being entirely
different and consequently he refused
TO carry II back to england or TO cause
1t to be inferred in his family vaults
Perhaps the journey which is now
being undertaken by the present Earl
Bathurst, owner Of the London Morn
Ing Post. to Perleburg may prove
more successful and the remains just
Of the missing British envoy, whose
leath may be said to have brought
lbout, indirectly, the exile and death
Of Napoleon l. at ST. Helena for 1t
vas the great grandfather of the pres
INT earl, who being secretary of state
or war and minister of the colonies
It the time when Napoleon surrendered
o the English after the battle OF
Waterloo, insisted that the faEen Em-
'eror should be deported to the damp
md solitary island of st. Helena
Copyright, 1910 by tho Brentwood
Company
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
HELP ruE,r.nI

An the world respects a self-madc
man and all the world ought to he
ready to help him. A number of stu
dents who arc working their way
through Richmond College lost heavily
IN the fire at the college on Christmas
morning, and unless the charitable peo-
pie of Richmond and of Virginia come
to their aid. these ambitious and
earnest young men must lose or seri-
ously delay the education for which
they have endured so many privations
and worked so many spare hours in
humble but honorable ways
Some of these men are from the
country, whore year in and year out
they have toiled along. saving little
here and a little there. with the noble
aim of fitting themselves for their life
work. Some of them are ministerial
students, who are struggling to train
themselves for the highest human call
ing. All of them are deserving.
Practically all of these men lost the
textbooks which they study, the fur
niture in their rooms their clothing.
their personal effects. Many of them
are without money; most of them have
no means by which to restore the
property lost in the fire.
Five hundred dollars was raised yes I
terday as part of fund for aidins
these worthy young men to continue
in college and complete their educa-
ton. President Boatwright estimates
that $4,000 will reimburse these stu
dents for their losses. and'it is 10 be
hoped that the remainder OF this
amount viii be subscribed without de-
ay. This is an appropriate season for
he assistance of those to whom Christ
mas has meant nothing but darkness
md disaster. AS this paper said yes
erday, There can be no holiday cheer
or these young men If they must
ilently bow TO the inevitable. their
ropes shattered. their hearts sad
Help them!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

American Idea" There has boen a
ulspositioh as he said to credit the
Puritan with all manner Of virtues
ana to charge him with little wicked
! ness and few errors, Whereas the
naked truth is that he was so absorbod
IN himself that he had absolutely no
concern for others. But Mr.. Kingsley
is MS own best interpreter, as follows.
we nave credited the Puritan with
an intense love of liberty. We have
supposed, some of us, that he aban-
doned his home and faced the terrors
OF savage country at the other end
OIL the world BECAUSE he wanted To
establish, away from corruption of the
afistocracy and of the Church. n gov
eminent dedicated to civil and no
liglous freedom What are the factso
me Puritan believed in liberty for
himself and for those who believed
exactly as he did. The liberty he nj.
ioWed to others was the liberty ia
Keep away from him and, to such as
came, to be gone as fast and as far as
possible.
lie built not free government. but
theocracy. which in It's bigotry. its
denial Of the right OF private i,dp-
''iSiie anu III us ruthless methods was
probably never surpassed He moi
only established Il State Church. he
made the State subordinate to the
church; in Massachusetts he made
Congregationalism statute law; In New
Haven he 'bettered the Instruction. of
statesman of our own day who only
rediscovered the Ten Commandments,
me puritan re- enacted both the Com
mandments ana tie Mosaic Code
The Puritan was blgoted, unsvm
pathetic harsh, even cruel but he he
lieYed in his right to govern him
self and to worship God as he saw
ut and incidentally to make everybody
else do as he did"
We should never have dared to saw
anything like that, and we actually
tremble to think what would happen
to Kingsley If he had given express
sion to such worthy sentiments In the
good old days when tho stake was one
of the established institutions at dear
old Salem. We have an idea that there I
has really not been much Improvement |
IN the character of the Descendants;
but 1t is encouraging TO have ono of
them peach on the forefathers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
THE ESSENTIAL xsowLEpcr.

! The New York Sun relates a story of
young man who made mp his mind to
enter politics. and applied to a district
Leader for a few pointers as to how 10
do it. The seasoned politician handed
the youngster The Star spangled Ban
ner" with words and music
DO you know that song?" he asked
The young man replied that he knew
only the first two lines OF the national
anthem.
Then" said the district leader. the
first thing you've got TO dc is TO learn
ii by heart every word and every note.
Go home and practice until you can
sing it with as much voice and musical
feeling as you have. 1t will carry YOU
over many strip of thin Ice Every
successful politician in tho land has
been saved from defeat at some critical
moment by his ability to sing The
star Spangled Banner If the fellows
who have failed had known how to
sing it, maybe they wouldn't have
fallen with such thud Later may
have a few more useful hints to inn
part; but make no mistake-the A,
G of the political game is a working
knowledge of The Star Spanglcd Ban
ner'"
The advice given here is very sound.
but applies especially to the larger
cities of the North, where the famous
song is sung at every possible opportu-
nifty 1t is said that one of the most
successful political assets of Mayor
Fitzgerald, of Boston. is his ability to
sing The Star spangled Banner" SO
that he his heard above all the other
singers. He does 1t with fine show of
exalted patriotism, of high purpose
and Of Willingness to sacrlhe himself
upon the altar of his country. lie
gets the votes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
A WISE SUGGESTION

w. L. Denison, Assistant Attornc, :,
General of the United States. gave al
the annual meeting of the national
Civil Service Reform Leapuc re,,,
explanation of the many breakdowns
IN the criminal law in cases to which
the Government is party. With a
frankness that was commendable as ii is
unusual in Government officer. he de-
cared that the failure of the Govern
ineht in its cases was largely due to
the undue weight attached to political
considerations i'm the filing OF places in
the legal service of the United states.
me people are not getting their
moneys worth in abilities and services
and often there is reluctance. in
party appointees, to enforce the Grim
inal law because the person or per-
sons against whom the prosecution
would move are political friends of
counsel for the Government was one
of the statements of Mr.. Denison.
1t is the belief of the Assistant At
torney General that the merit system
principles will finally be applied in
making Government appointments
under the attorney general. He as
serted that the present Administration
has eliminated political considerations
from many of the appointments of this
character. If advancement can be
made on competitive basis and by a
competitive examination in the lower
Offices, all will be well.
Party managers make too many and
too unreasonable claims upon the Gov
ernment's legal assistants 1t is said
to be doubtful that the prosecution
of the sugar frauds would have reached |
a successful result, if the United States I
District Attorney had agreed to make /
MS appointments conform to the wishes
Of certain politicians.
The merit system ought to be ex-
ended to the legal service of the Gov
srnment. Prosecutors who hold the
'riefs of the people OF the nation
ought to be under political obligations
o no one. If the merit system were
applied to the Department of Justice
md the offices under its appointive
Jurisdiction, better lawyers would plead
he cause of the Government. In the
asst, there have been many inefficient
nen in the Department. of Justice,
many of them dead ducks" who had
o be taken care of for political rea-
ons. If the President shall extend his
aeas about law reform TO the Depart 4,
lent OF Justice and see that the merit )
ystem is made to apply there, the i
government will have better standing 5
4 court in the future. {
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
STRIPPING .rnE EonEFATnEns !.

STRIPPING 'rIIE FOREFATHEliS, y
Ihere are good many Yankees in
New York, and they have all sorts
of societies to keep their blood warm
one of these organizations is the New
England Society, and it always cele-
brates its anniversary on the ed of
december, the day on which the Pill
grims are said to have landed at
plymouth Rock in 1920, two hundred
ana ninety years ago. Seth Low called
the dinner party to order at the Wal
dorI Astoria last Thursday night and
said some very bright things, which
We're duly appreciated by Pierpont
Morgan and other men of like respcc-
table standing in the community, and
the Rev. Or, John NJ. Thomas, Presi-
dent of Middlcbury College, Vermont,
made the chief speech, that Is to say,
he responded to 1.-THE day we cele-
ptate,' as it were, making sundry OBJ
serNations upon the decadencc of the
little red school house. no our mind,
however, the meatiest utterance of the
occasion was made by Darwin Pearl
Kingsley, President OF the New York
Life insurance Company a native
born Yankee, who first saw the lightat
+>lburE Vermont, and who turned !
states evidence, 50 10 say. against the
curtains, and made them out Il rather |
hafd lot, We are glad that the late
JTriGhin
as tho free-handed way in which this I
descendant treated these Saints of the
Lord would have caused him great dis
lress even as IT has compelled us to
rub our eyes in amaaement Ut The Az
sault and battery committed upohd
these chosen vessels OF the Divine
owe
The toast 10 which ME- Kingsley re-
bonded was 1.-THE Forefathers and The
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

Now that the business men of
Richmond have gotten through with
their celebration of the Great Holt
day, it is hoped that they will
take up 1.-the Northern Neck Rail
road proposition in real earnest
Fourteen hundred miles of new terri
tory and 10000 more people would be
a great thing for Richmond and the
subsidy asked for, $4,000, to be paid
after the road is built and in running
order, looks good to us,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

paisn OF education. Some of thcm
probably need little assistance, ana
the wood pulp people ought TO take
care of them, II Mondell has accurately
described the cause Of their undolng.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
THE sournnnNEns IN NEW youtS.

lItlp llltIu.
THE soUTHERNERs IN NEW YORK
il is said that three hundred South
ern men have taken up residence in
New York CITY, and nearly all of them
are doing well. They are engaged in
all sorts of honorable pursuits. In the
pulpit, at the Bar, in Journalism, in
finance. on change, in business and
constructive work of all kinds. they
count for great deal in the life Of
the Metropolis Now ana then one
of their number succeeds in politics
and with distinct advantage to the
public. Occasionally they show that
they are not inapt in the art of maxi
ing money. In the management OF
great railroad systems they have ac-
complished marvellous results. In the
planning and direction of large prop
ositions on the exchanges they have
developed a wonderful grasp of situa-
tons and turned a good many corners,
with good results to the Industrious
workers they have left back home.p
The most of them would not have done
so well, in a material sense, had they
remained in the old place, although. as
Richard watson Glider sang. "there's
no place like the old place" as they
have found in New York endless oppor-
tunity for the exercise of those quail
ties of leadership that have always
distinguished the race from which they
have sprung.
Count them over one by one,
and they will compare in fitness
with the highest and best of any age
anywhere. There is Henry Walters,
of Maryland, the man who made the
Atlantic Coast Line system of Railroads,
and w. w Finley, of Alabama, who is at
the head of the Southern system
There is Thomas f. Ryan, of Virginia.
who fills a large space In the financial
world. There are Walter III. Page, of
North Carolina, and Adolph ochs, of
Tennessee, who have achieved great |
things in literature and Journalism.
There is Burton Harrison, of Virginia. !
who has made his mark In the polhiga1 |
life of the country, and Martin Lit
Of Tennessee who has made
start in politics by running
away with Oyster Bay. There is GIN
Wylie, of South Carolina, who has at.
tanned high rank, as his preceptor he
fore him, ]. Marion Sims, in the sell
once of surgery. There is McAdoo. of
Georgia, who has tunne1ed himself into
glory There is Walter +. McCorkle.
IF Virginia. who is making his way
% the Top in the law, The streets are
,ml of great business places that are
MANAGED by Southern men, and Tho
most of them, be 1t said to their honor.
nave not forgotten their raising. and
When they are asked what tribe they
'elonS to they say, first of all. I'VE
IRE Americans, but we come from VIZ
5inia," or from South Carolina. or
Worth Carolina, or Georgia, or rennes-
zee, or Alabama as the case may be. i
1t is because these men are faithful q
Q their beginnings that they have or,
;anized the Southern Society. which /,
celebrated recently It's twenty-flfth am i
llNersary AT the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. +
with southern dishes and Southern :
ones and southern orutory, in a way /
hat made those present without The q
glad that they had seen
ome real folks together and had j
q
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

a Philadelphia man was unable a
few days ago to see the stage on ac-
count of the hat Worn by a feminine
theatre-goer He asked the woman to
remove 1t She refused. He reached
for the hat, and began to tear it to
pieces He was discharged from
court
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

Slow restaurant walters had better
beware. John Bennett. of St Louis,
killed waiter in cafe Saturday be-
cause q steak ordered was not served
promptly.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

Because she refused TO walk bare
footed on the dew-covered grass before
sunrise each morning with her hus-
band. Poushkeepsie woman is being
sued for divorce by him. He ought to
get 1t.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
TAxnoDGING IN soUrn CAnoLINa.

IL
Several weeks ago rhe rbncs-Dis
patch noted the sale of plantation
in Clarendon County. South Carolina.
for the sum of $4,000 and, recolleot-
ing the time when number of plan
tatlons in that part of the state could
have been bought for that amount of
money, and being of a reflective turn
Of mind, at times, suggested that it
would be interesting to learn at what
figure this plantation had been re-
turned for taxation. After confessing
IT'S Ignorance as to the fact upon which
we asked for Information, and reviling
The Times -Dispatth, (Which cannot
be induced to mind its own business"
the Columbia Stately the hand Of
William Watts Ball to whom we now
point with mingled emotions of pride
and displeasue-g gives 'the illuminate
ing facts in respect TO another farm)
in this same State of South Carolina"
as follows:
The land owner wished to borrow
large sum on a mortgage of his farm,
and stated in his application that the
land was worth Il little more than 5000
an acre. That estimate was conser-
NatlNe Several business men, includ-
ing bankers of his county town, con-
tHmed it. The bank of which the loan
was requested insisted upon knowing
the assessment Of the land for taxa
ton and inquiry proved it to be $40
an acre=-or about five per centum Of
It's actual value The application was
declined. The incident may suggest to
land owners that ii they wish to have
standing in the business world and
receive credit, taX-dodging must be
INDUCED within reasonable limits"
The rest Of what the State says WAS
to be eNpected-cb characteristic boasting
about other plantations That have been
sold in South Carolina for fabulous
sums, cotton lands that have been
worked Off on enthusiastic purchasers
Al $500 the acre other lands that have
fetched from S75 to $lT5 the acre, and
millions Of other acres in that State,
lnst as good, that can he bought at I
from 50 To $40 the acre, and apparent
y with no takers, A part of what the
2tate says is lmquestionahly true, the
better sort Of farmers in South Caro-
ma having educated Their, lands To do
7olAe %etidetlnl things; hit the meat
~ elie aflicle IN the State is contained
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

a fine New Years gift for the people
in shafer Street would be wooden
block roadway
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

VIII you kindly say IL Macnulay's
History of England" was completed
at the time of his death? r. j.
Macaulay's premature death in 1850
left his history uncompleted III health
interrupted the work as early as 1862
Volume !. of the earlier editions
brought the work to the time Of Will
nam ~. and ends with the peace Of
Ryswict in 1897 AS expressed on the
title page, 1T was the authors original
intention to extend the history from
the accession Of King James eI. down
to time which Is within the memory
of men still living"
In 1851 Lady Trevelyan. sister OF
Lord Macaulay, edited the chapters or
his unfinished history, which he left
al the time of his death These were
published as Volume V. of the early
editions and contained also additional
notes of the four previous chapters.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

some OF the beys Will doubtless be
asking themselves this morning what
it Was all about, allyi{ow. and What II
WAS that really happened.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
1'IlreshInE Machines.

lIeaSe tell Inc how grain was
threshed before the threshing machine
came into use.
me nan was the only instrument
formerly used for threshing grain. The
iIomans used Il machine called the
tribulunl--a sledge loaded with stones
or iron drawn over tho grain sheaves
by horses or oxen The first machine
attempted in modern times was In
vented by Michael Menzies. at Edin-
brgh, about 1892 Another was in
vented in 1876. 1T Is only within the
past thirty five years that the thresh-
ing machine was brought to anything
like perfection.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27

Commander Peary, II is said, will
present proofs OF his having reached
the North Pole to the Committee on
Naval Affairs of the House Mt WASH
ington we would suggest that the
committee call in DR., Cook as an eS-
pert. The Doctor believes that the
Commander really got there,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
Holland Submarines.

first Holland submarines were built
ana by whom? Please give. o brief his
tory or these boats. G.
In 1915 the first Of series of sub
marine craft. invented by John r. Iol.
land, and the direct ancestor of the
modern submarines in the United States
Navy, made its appearance The first
Holland was a tiny affair, with iust
room enough for ono man to nit down
amidsllips and work the pedals that
turned the propeller 1t was sixteen
feet long. two feet deep and twenty
inches wide. II is nrohnhlv tic