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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

THE GREATEST AMERICAN.

The opposition to President Diaz
melted like snow under an August sun
when the election was held the other
day, and when the great Mexican
statesman was reelected for his
eighth term. In Mexico City. where he
is best known. and where the influence
OF his personality is most widely felt
he received as per cent of the total
vote, and even in the remotest pro-
vinoes. his opponent for the presidency.
francesca /. Madero. received only a
scattering and feeble suffrage.
Diaz's reelection, it is needless to
say, is but fresh tribute to the
man. None else in Mexico could have
held his seat for more than thirty
years against the opposition of cum
ming conspirators and calculating NAL
contents. No one else could have TAX
en- Mexico as it was in 1S6I-when
Dsaz entered the Capital and over
threw Maximilian--and made it what
it is to-day.
Measured by the severest tests of
craftsmanship and balanced in the
scales of all time. Diaz deserves place
as the greatest living American. He
| is an American, a native American.
| for though there is Spanish blood in
/ his veins, the strain is that of the
/. Mexican Indians; and as an American.
/ he challenges comparison with any
figure this country has seen in recent
! years. Merely to catalogue his
achievements is to give him credit for
strength In every test and merely to
| name his triumphs is TO show his great
| ness. Soldier, statesman. diplomat, pat
ron of education, lover of art. victor OF
| a dozen bloody fields of battle, he de-
/ serves the title we gave him few
days ago-the Washington of Mex
leo.
Diaz is almost eighty years old, ant
though he is as relentless, as DARING
and as brave as when he first raised
the standard of rebellion. his end can
not be far distant. When he dies, al
epoch will be marked in the histor!
the United States will be presented
History does not belle itself, and ma
tional blood will tell. With his pass
ing, anarchy will reign in Mexico. fac
lions will destroy the national monu
ment Diaz upreared and TIL
United States will be called
on to decide whether or no
our national safety compels us t.
maintain peace among our neighbor
while protecting them from foreigl
influence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS.

The Police Commissioners of Rich.
mond are not as steadily on their job
as they might be and ought to be, Why
don't they make some rule for the
regulation of traffic in the congested
streets? There are Tenth Street and
Bank Street. for instance, through
which the teamsters insist upon going
both ways at the same time where
there is room only for wagons and
other vehicles to go in one direction.
Any man with one eye ought to be
able to see this and nine able-bodied
Police Commissioners, and generally
speaking very good Commissioners,
with eighteen eyes among them ought
not to be told again what they should
do in these premises. Why don't they
do it? What are they waiting for? Who
lis holding them back? With the com.
pliments of the season. we remain, etc.
etc
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

told perfectly straight story about
1t and how Ii works. We ought TO
have known 1T, too, because. as every
body knows, protoplasn1 is the living
substance constituting tho cells OF
plants and animals or forming the
bodies of all one-celled organs.
In one OF his stories about where
he had learned to fight Johnson adj
r.itted that he had acquired his FACILITY
with his fists in Jail; but 1T must not
be inferred from this that the cells
referred to In accounting for the
protoplasm has anything to do with
the sort of cells in which Jack john
son has spent some days of is lie.
This protoplasm Is In the person and
not in his surroundings. 1t looks like
thin syrup, is filed with highly re-
fractive microscopic granules, and
forms the physical basis of life. Every
body has some of It, as we are told no
living being can exist without 1t. 1t
is made up of compounds of carbon.
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sui
phur, associated with large proper
ton of water, is contractile and irri-
table. assimiiates its food, because 1t
1t eating away at something all the
time. respires, that is to say, breathes,
just as other people do, and repro
duces itself apparently without the
least trouble AS long ago as 17T2
Corti "suspicioned' that there was
some such creature knocking around
inside of us, and various other scien-
lists supported his views by indepepd-
eut inquiry; but il was not until 1916
that Mohl fastened upon 1T the name
which it bears to this day. and with
end. In 1850 Ferdinand COIN argued
for the identity of "sarcode" and
protoplasm, the former name having
been saddled upon the gelatinous
ing the bodies OF certain Protozoa; but
1t was not really until 1861 that Max
Schultze and DeBary finally estab-
lished the identity of the protoplasm
of plants and animals with the sarcode
of the Protozoa.
All this work was done to fix the
family relations of the two substances,
and it was exceedingly interesting
while 1t lasted; but it remained for
Jack London to establish the close as
; ISOLATION of protoplasr with prize
| fighting and that is what we are es-
pecially interested in just now. Jack
London probably found it out from
thar dog in THE Call of the Wild;
but he has found ii out and deserves
to take rank with Commander Peary
and DIR. Cook and Matt Henson and
I the rest of the great DISCOVERIES II
| Jim Jeffries has more protoplasm than
Jack Johnson he will prevail, and ii
! Jack has more of this irritable and
contractile stuff it will be all over
with Jim. They have both made a
mistake in their training in not eatine
more south Carolina rice and Virginia
corn bread, both of which make q
special business of keeping protoplasn
always fit for any sort OF struggle.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
sarah Ornc Jcwctt.
Please give me brief sketch or
Sarah Orne Jewett, who died last year.


An American author. died June "a.
1909. She was born in South Berwick,
Me-, In 1919, and was educated at the
Berwick Academy. She began early to
write, and when hardly moro than
child had contributed stories to Young
Folks and Riverside. When she was
nineteen years old she sent a. story to
the Atlantic Monthly. where 1t was al
once accepted and recognized as one
OF unusual merit. Her first story 70
appear in book form was "Deephnven"
In 1877. Other volumes are: play
Days" tls7sl; "old Friends and New"
US7O: Country Byways" t1SSD. "a
Country Doctor i1ssi) "a Marsh
Island" CsSsl; THE Queens Town"
QS99), and Tho Tory Lover" G90l).
Miss Jewett's stories are remarkable
for the skill and delicacy with which
she has delneated the characteristics
of the New England villages and coast
dwellers She wrote with a rare sweet.
ness and simplicity. She Travelled
much In Europe, but the greater part
OF her life was spent in her native
town OF South Berwick. She received
the degree Lift. d. from Bowdoin Col
lege.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

Gone Johnson Wants Bell" is the
headline in a recent number Of Cones
Houston organ. and IL Cone wants 1t
he will get it. Cone seems to be
sweeping everything before him,
thanks to the little girls dressed in
white who have been carrying cape
1essamines at all his important meet
ings, through the courtesy and at the
expense OF the Houston Pest,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

If the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals would insist that
heavily loaded wagons be equipped
with brakes they would save the mules
and horses from lot of terrible SUI
fering. The hill running from the en-
trance to Capitol Square down Ninth
Street to the railroad station is hard
to climb for both man and beast
Yesterday two little white mules We're
compelled to hold back going down
this hill load of lumber that was
heavy enough for four horses 10 pull.
1t was a fearful thing for them to do.
and 1t could have been avoided .f the
wagon had been furnished with a
brake.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

Wardani. the Egyptian fanatic who
assassinated Boutros Pasha, the Prime
Minister, has been executed in the
manner and form provided by law, and
the Government at Cairo still lives.
This case was disposed Of with almost
as great regard for law and order as
was the execution OF President Nc
Kinley's assassin The United States
have paid dearly for the work of
czgolsz. May kind Heaven spare Egypt
from like punishment Tor the crime Of
Wardani.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

Said an anectionate father to his
son who was lust about to finish his
course at the University of Texas:
My son. there are two things that r
would impress upon your mind. now
that you are about to go out into tho
world: Never run after a woman or a
street car; another will be along in a
minute" 1t was brutal thing to
say. of course, but 1t contained great
deal of homely philosophy expressed
in homely speech.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

The State Tax Commission could not
have found in all Virginia a better
man than DR.. Douglas Southall Free
man for the expert work that it will
have to do in bringing order out of the
great confusion of our present tax
system or rather lack of system.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

Times are surely changing when a
young man brought UP at Due West is
packed away among American beau
tics in cigarette packages. This is
what has happened to Pressly, who
plays First Base for Roanoke.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

The Waterbury American will take 1t
from us that "a solid citizen with stub
fingers. dome shaped brow and few
interests outside the interior of his
roll-top desk is not to be sneezed at,
as politics goes nowadays.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

The battleship Delaware was struck
by lightning Tuesday night and It's
military mast destroyed. The light
Ming probably mistook it for a light
rip.r rod
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
Incorporated Now.

Incorporated Now.
Please state whether Sears. Roebuck
& Company are two men or one.
a SUBSCRIBER.
Sears and Roebuck were the two
company is now stocked and large
number of men have an interest in the
COMPANY
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
Not In This Column.

Not In This Column.
T. a. S., Warrenton. ~ c.: We can
not answer your question In this col
unn. II you are sufficiently interest
ed to send us self-addressed stamn-
ed envelope we will be glad to give you
the information you desire.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

Blessed are the peacemakers; but
they ought to have sense enough to
discontinue negotiations when there
is bound to be fight anyhow.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

CnroIlnn Newspapers.
Which state has the greatest mum.
Der OF newspapers, North Carolina or
Virginia, and how many?
North Carolina has 2TT papers, week.
lies Included; Virginia has $50.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
THE TIMES DISPATCH. RICHMOND THURSDAY JUNE 30 1910

IA u - " NIQ sOOs t.lOIOs
----------
to commend the Nations Chief Law
as we'll as he spoke on Tuesday before
tho Harvard Law School Association.
Mr.. Wickersham made an excellent
address. in which he referred to mum
her of pending cases and expressed
the hope that the Supreme Court wonid
speedily decide the many questions IN
volved in the Standard Oil and Topacco
Trust cases. What he said on THIS
point deserves further comment, but
we were especially struck with his re-
marks about the living law" Jtris-
prudence, he said, demanded men VINO
looked at the law, not as dead SCI
ence, girded with precedent and found
ed on the musty traditions of an out
worn society, but as living, throp-
bing science fitted to the needs Of pres
emit day life vlrile and strong to con-
tend with the complex conditions OF a
great industrial age.
1t indicates the possibilities of the law
where 1t points out its failings. and IT
gives hope for the future well-beinS OF
society where 1T admits that the law OF
to-day has lost it's power to protect
1t shows the need Of readjustng our
legal traditions, or remodeling our
whole science of jurisprudence. while
1t bids us avoid the shortcomings of a
dead law.
The living law must not be law of
necessity. for law of necessity is
rarely law of justice. We must not
give into the hands of government Off
GERS new rights and new powers be-
cause those rights and powers have
We have tried this law and have found
it wanting, and the ruins OF Recon-
struction will remain forever to re-
buke q law that gives power solely to
use force
The living law must not be law of
opportunism. We have complex prob
lens to-day, and we must solve them;
we are making new demands on the
courts, and we expect the courts to
meet them but we must not make laws
and give our courts new powers solely
to meet single problems or to solve
special questions. When we warp the
spirit of our government to meet a
single issue, we can never repair the
fabric, and when we pass special
antitrust law to dispose OF a single
combination, We can never hope to re-
store the balance of our courts and the
justice of our system
! The living law must be a law OF per-
manent eduity-nothing more, nothing
| less. We must overthrow precedent
only where we can see that precedent is
| clearly against the ultimate and last
ing progress of our people; we must
reform our system of administering
justice. but only where we can be sure
that the rights OF every man and OF
every interest viii not be endangered
by the reform we must give Govern
ment new power, perhaps. to meet new
problems. but only where we can be
positive that the power given will no,
/ be used against the givers and tina,
the creature VIII not throttle the Gre
ator.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

Cleaning straw Hats.
Please print good recipe for clean.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
Daily Queries and Answers
Address all FOX this column Query Editor
Times Dispatch problems Will lie solved coins
valued and dealers will be given.


\. IT lis cheaper and better for YOU Ia
buy one Of the cleaning preparations
now on the market. Some OF them
arc very good.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
REGULATING THE FARMERS.

The Montgomery Advertiser is re-
sponsible for this fable: The father.
tired and weary to the limit, these
fields. can console himself with the
reflection that hard work in June
means peace and contentment in De-
cember." That is beautiful idea. and
everybody knows that a good deal of
the fathers peace and contentment in
December will depend upon the price
he gets for his cotton, and the price
OF Wickersham in his efforts to work
the market in the interest of the
manufacturers and not in the interest
OF the growers. IT is one of the
curiosities Of our Government that it
never thought of appealing TO the
antitrust law as long as the bears
We're on top. 1t was only when the
bulls began to feel their oats and the
cotton planters were getting some
thing like a fair price for their staple
that the Department of Justice began
to consider ways and means of keep
Ing the prices down.
=------==----=-==--.s..-------
THE YELLOW DOG TRIUMPHANT.
| There is talk OF repeating the pro-
| vision in the tax law Of Georgia i'm
posing tax Of one dollar on every
| dog in the State. Five bills have been
! introduced in the Legislature "de-
| handing" that this oppressive law be
knocked out, and the House Committee
on Ways and Means has agreed upon
favorable report. We are not SUR
prised: we are not surprised at any
thing a Georgia Legislature VIII do.
Last year there were 2l5,O0O sheep in
: the State Of Georgia. or a fraction
more than four sheep to every square
mile of territory In that great Com
monwealth. We have not the staus-
Tics at hand, but we venture to gay
that there are a hundred dogs TO every
square mile, with the result that sheer
growing is almost one Of the forgotten
4 industries In that State az &c ~ in &c
many OF the Southern States. But The
: rights of the Pecpul must and shal
be preserved, and in Georgia. we have
!, no doubt that the yellow dog vii
q prevail.
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IT WHY NOT TRY III ELSEWHERE.
y Loud and long have been the walls
from the Federal departments In Nyagh,
'e lsngton since PFeaiaen, TAFT began IL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

A Copy of VIII.
How can I secure a copy Of Will
probated in Roanoke, Va?
IGNORAAiUS.
By writing TO the clerk of the Cor.
poration Court, Roanoke. Va. and STATE
Ing that you are willing to pay for q
copy OF the VIII.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

RED CROSS CoMPAN
A bill prohibiting the use of the
cross except by the National Red Co
Society was Introduced In Congrls
but SO far as we have heard II did
pass. We think you are still at libeT
to use the red cross.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

We think you are required to give
thirty days notice If the matter is
an important one you should consult 4
lawyer.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
Tenants Notice.

Tcnnrt's Notice.
Is a tenant required by law to give
thirty days notice before vacattng
property In order that he be not liable
for the next succeeding thirty days
rent? This question pertains to a ten
ant renting by the month or from
month to month with no fixed time Of
occupancy OF property.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30

The Assessment of Machinery.
Please give mo that section of tho
law relating to the assessment OF ma.
chinery. a MACHINIST.
This is in section ASS Of the Code.
which reads as follows: "The. com:
machinery and other fixtu1 to real
estate, in mining. manuff@ 4 ring. or
similar establishments, shtE9 Afcertair
the value OF all such ma ILL., ~ and
fixtures attached thereto. Heet Va slude
tho aggregate value fheibo 90 * fm-
provement on real estate me
manner and to the same n boarG y,
the case of buildings andehers IN
added to real estate, under Red fcly
ions OF this chapter. Provte ma Al
ever, that liz the machinerserr. -
fixtures aforesaid shall be IL r
of one person. and the real \ = kW
upon which the said mach I
fixtures shall be used. be THY fgT
of another, the said mach ESA
fixtures shall be assessed "a
against the owner thereof a. Nk
property. and so listed by tRD IFA
sioner For any failure on'L 60
OF the commissioner to conn Ia
this or any of the four preccf
tions. he shall forfeit $50 for y az
ure.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
The rcd Cross.

The Red Cross.
Is il lawful to use Red Gre,
the words red cross in busine
business has been in operations
several years under this name
copyrighD. Can this be continue
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
WHY Nor TRY Ir ELsEwurnn.

Loud and long have been the walls
from the Federal departments in Wash,
'ngson since Pgesiden, Taft began iii
The Detroit times., 1910-07-06

MIRA wissio as- sesssiss syrx, -.
been USED Tor over FIFTy fElI<8 Isl
s naILT3HsS 81 WaI I1T1s ts6 ca
CHILD. sOFTENS the GUNS. AtI-AI8
ali PAIN: CURES WIND COLO ana q
the best remedy for DIARRHQEA 1oII
world. Re sure and ask Tor .shfrs. Win~
slows Soothing Syrup." and take ne
other kind Twenty-Five cents . bo<l<4.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-06
The EVENING Story

drunk a small portion when II stopped
and raised its head uncertainty. Then
II fell in a convulsed heap.
Tell My Lady" said the Diplomat
slowly. that the milk was sour"
With choked cry the girl ran to
the door.
II was dark as he went down the
long stone steps to the carriage that
was waiting. and was bowled along
the silent streets. AS he entered a
brilliantly-lighted ballroom. he made
his way toward the central group at
one end.
Your majesty" he was saying.
when his eyes fell upon a woman with
a dark, intent face who was standing
by a window looking at him fixedly.
II have been waiting for YOU" the
little king exclaimed. drawing him
aside. Who is she? You know every
one" He nodded towards the woman
by the window.
The Diplomat pressed one hand
against his forehead. Yes" He
raised his hand with a worn look on
his face. Yes. know her. When |
was very young, sire, I studied paint
ing in Paris. Have you never heard
of My Lady? Being an Englishwoman,
Paris gave her that queer name. She
was known even there where every
woman Is beautiful, for her unusual
beauty, ] happen to be acquainted
with a sad incident that happened
then In her life. She had just mar
ried. Her husband forced a quarrel
with a young art student over some
trivial affair. and as 1t was the fashion
for duels. they fought. The student
fenced well, but he meant merely to
pink his man in the arm. However,
he slipped as he thrust and his thrust
went too high. The man died. |
knew the student. He has never been
able to forget. The woman will never
permit herself TO forget. She has a
strain Of the Corsican."
A servant was distributing roses
from a basket. He stopped for a
moment by the woman at the window.
When he reached the Diplomat there
was but one rose left In the basket.
The Diplomat took II carelessly and
was raising II to his lips, when he
started. busted among the petals
was a fine white powder. He turned
shivering to small balcony and threw
the flower away from him. AS he look
ed back. the woman at the window
had grown livid and was gripping the
sill with one hand.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-06
ABOUT OTHER WOMEN.

Nine. Anna Rogstad, first woman
member OF the s,orthing, lower house
in the Norwegian parliament. was
teacher In the public schools in Chris
tiania when elected. When asked for
her reasons for believing that women
should vote and serve In, legislative
assemblies she said:
There are two reasons. Many
women are required To pay taxes. and
taxation without representation Is not
right. Women should have voice
in the direction of the schools and an
the other institutions that have To DO
with children. I am mother and was
a school teacher for many years I
The Detroit times., 1910-07-06
Gym THIA GREYS
CORRESPON DENTS

Dear Miss Grey: Cd Ny last years
cream serge suit is too small since
cleaning. Would a vest of black vel
vet and cuffs look all right, or
would you suggest ripping IL apart
and making a one-piece dress? (2)
What style and material is right for a
Maternity gown?
TREMONA.
A.-(D The one-piece dress would be
more satisfactory, I'm sure. CD Get
good pattern for this dress, as 1t is
not an easy task for the amateur
without. Cashmere, challis, panama
cloth, or some of the washable cot
ton materials.
Dear Miss Grey: am timid when
with boys even though / have two
brothers run out of subjects TO talk
about when they bring their friends
home. Can you help me? ca After
finishing a dance, how can slip away
without hurting my partners feel
ipGs? DIXIE.
Al suggest that you enter with