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wi,ici, H.,,s d designed for oh elderly wo-
man Of fashion Is or SUNNI er -weiE y =
moire In egg plant Shade. Tho Waist
OF tfiia rartic,lar gown WAS tight
fitting ana made with round back and
slightly pointed front, to winch
plain skirt OF MORO was gathered. me
sleeves, made over fitted lining, were
rippled horizontally Ca sort Of James
River effect in time OF the Spring
iiloods), or from the elbow TO the
SHOULDER, and finished by deep frill.
The neck was drnped with fichu
Of lovely lace No such gown as this
ought to be worn in Richmond, ana
will not be worn here It is probably
dcsi gned only for some elderly woman woman
of Fashion haling from OIL City,
Pennsylvania, or the river country
near Houston, Texas.
1t Is wolf, however, for the general
public to keep up with the fashions,
and again we advise the women
who arc so unfortunate rs to
1.-Two outside OF Iichmond to come
here to buy their Spring and Summer
and Fall and Winter garments. We
are so sorry for the women In the rest
OF the world when we SEQ how utter.
lly fiat, stale and Improbable they ap.
pear to be when compared with the
women Of this town.
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oyERNs1ENT ny PETITION.

The election commissioners OF Chl-
cago have decided that the petition
tor an election III that city on the
question: "shall this city become ants
saloon territory 2" lacked sufficient
number OF signatures. Those who We're
opposed to the election filed a COM
plaint that out Of tile $4,000 names at
tached to the petition for the election,
2G.12S were of those who arc notsrcg-
sistercd voters and who were not quail
fled, therefore, to. sign the petition.
This complaint was sustained by tho
commissioners, and 1T is said that the
decision ''nullines the work. Of huns
dreds of prohibition workers. includ-
ing many women who stood for weeks
in tho downtown streets, on elevated
train platforms and in public buildings
seeking signatures to the petition
In way. this Is greatly tc
bc regretted. but it is exactly
what might have been expected
in the circumstances. Petitions ar
a powerful aid in legislation. blu
| they ought always to be signe'
by those who are qualified to sign then
and by those whose Signatures carr.
weight with them. Government b
fake petitions is worse than govern
ment by commission.
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THE coPY1,1GI1T or IDEAS.

a citizen OF Waynesboro was arrest
ed Thursday for an alleged violation
Of tho copyright laws. He Is said to
have taken the writings Of other men,
duly protected by law, and to have
sold them as his own. The man was
admitted to bail to be given a hear
Ing in the Federal court.
1t is togbe hoped that the warrant
Is groundless and that the man IN
question has violated no law. The
charge Of stealing another mans
thoughts is SO unsavory and the accu-
sation carries with 1t so great re-
Election upon the honor OF the
man that we hope 1t may be wiped
out in open court.
Aside from the merits and dement's
of this case, we rejoice to see thai
the copyright laws are really being
enforced. as FAR as they can be en-
forced. BY the Federal authorities
These laws are practically the onl!
protection that writer's have for thei
work. Without them, no man coult
croft for a moment by his literary la
Dor. or secure the honor which shoult
\ come as the fruit OF high intellectual
4 toll. Unless these laws are enforced
II plagiarism would appear in every ma 6
; dzine and the few men who do orig
J, nal things would be forgotten anon
the many men who copy what Other
t have done.
i OF course. the protection OF the la
l is only partial and should be only pal
: tial. Words may be copyrighted, bt
t IDEAS cannot he: Aman may have, uhdt
4 e law, the right to all that h
5 writes, but he has no mortgage Q
D all that he thinks. Many of tn
: worlds masterpieces are taken frol
books or from fables which have lon
been forgotten. Boccacclo's stories
his Decameron are seldom read, BIT
they furnished the plots for many {
, the greatest dramas. Shakespea1
borrowed ideas from Boccacci
and from others, as did Nj
iere CorneIlle, Charles Reade, DUMB
and host of others. whose work
none the worse for this fact. The
stole the ideas of Others and ma,
them immortal. They never stole Il
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HENCE THESE TEARS.

Mr.. poindexter, OF washington State.
is described as an Arch-1nsurgent, and
he has been expressing himself IN this
way: ~ can't see a great deal Of
difference between a Rules Committee
run by Speaker Cannon and q Rules
Committee run by Speaker cannon's
friends Neither can we. The New
York Evening Post, however. processes
to see a distinction with a difference.
But h
|"optlcs keen 1t takes, Tween,
10 Sea what IS not TO be SEEM
: II there is any difference between
tho situation now and tho situation a
week or SO ago before Mr.. Cannon was
|repudIated without being reppd!ated
lin fact, we are not able to perceive
~. The whole thing appenrA II
be what tho classicists call brAtun
fuimen. Cannon tss still Speaker
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body ever tried very hard. Every other
medium. good bad or indifferent n, mas ma 2
been caught IN fraud at some time OF
other. Munsterburg was puzzled by
isignora Paladinos movements until ~ ~ ?
carried a detective with him to ono no
OF her seances. and the latter caught
tho fat lady's foot in the act Of NOV
ing the mysterious table.
There arc other manifestations OF
spook-lifo which the scientists are
by no means so quick to reject. They
are unable to account for the AUTO
matte writing .ad TIL remarkable lt
Soincldences that are recorded when
two mediums are being influenced by
tile same spirit Take the we'll
remembered case OF Mrs. Holland, az.
English woman residing In india, as
an example. For months this wo-
nan frequently wrote. under alleged
spiritualistic control, on precisely the
same subjects which another medium
Miss VERBAL. was writing about IN
England. Insisting that she did not
know what she was writing Mrs. Hol-
land would iot down some notes and
send them to a third party. Miss Yer
rail- would do the same. In hundred:
OF cases where tho notes were com
pared the two were found to be writ
ing on the same subjects
j The scientists do not know villa
to make of this. and we are sure W
4 do not. There may be spooks, an
there may not be. There may be spirit
moving through the air and directin
different persons to do the same thing
at tile same time. We have never see
them. nor seen anybody else that eve
saw them. For all OF this. the scer
lists are open to conviction. and $
are we. If there arc spirits we war
to meet some Of them. They mist
BIO useful.
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the Committee on Rules Is dominated
by Cannon's partisans, tho Committee
will do what Cannon wants and Can
non will do what the Cannon Com
,nlttee directs him to do, and having
exhausted themselves In their first
bout With him the miserable old
wretch Will contlntie to lord 1t over
the House as aforetime. AsNe farce
comedy. the play has been. what Ber-
nard Shaw would possibly call 1t. ia
bowling success" It IL probably bet
ter that It Is 30, as the ind locations all
point to a Democratic House after the
next congressional elections.
Tho next Conimittee on Rules
will be Democratic committee,
and we should be in helpless
situation. indeed. If by the tyranny
OF the new Democratic Speaker
we Should not be able to give them "as
good as they. have sent" with interes,
from date, and oil that sort OF thing
Besides. most persons seem to have
forgotten that the Speaker has beer
compelled to resort In the transaction
Of public business to rather drastic
measures over since the days Of Jane:
L. Orr, OF South Carolina, some fifty
years or moro ago. 1t Is, OF course
very satisfying, in q sense. that W.
have been able, by the help OF thu
Insurgents, to make Mr.. Cannon "bit'
the dust" for once at least: but nov
that the scrap Is over we can stol
to take stock. so to say, and, loolSin,
ut the situation in perfectly cold
FLOODED way. we do not appear to hav
made very much progress. The ney
/. Committee on Rules is Cannon. an
Cannon is the new Committee o
, Rules.
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ROYALTY
ON ROLLER SKATES

OF James Wilmington. and when Mc-
Laren became unable TO continue to
earn his living as cab-driyer. soma
good people, on learning that he was
q descendant of Richard Penderel OF
Boscobel. Interested themselves in his
case and determined TO 1nd out what
had become Of Wilmington. since II his
demise wit bout surviving issue could
be established his moiety OF the pen
sion. namely, $3.50 a year. would fall
to the old cab-driver. After an extern
s.ye search on both eu sides Of the At +,
January last. that tho Wilmington
family had become entirely extinct.
and early last month the Court OF
Chancery issued an order for the re-
lease OF the Wilmington pension to Nc
Laren. together with the arrears since
inEtons. more than twenty years pre-
yiously There Is always certain
amount OF red tape TO go through In
connection with such matters. and be-
fore tho funds could be turned over
to the old cab-driyer. who had been
case. he died suddenly.
This has had the result Of putting
the pension and the arrears back in
chancery. for Robert McLaron's son.
Robert William AicLaren. Is missing.
At the time OF tho Boer War he left
Inn Road, London, and his wife and
| it Is underst God In charge OF horses or
supplies bound for the front. and has
never been heard OF since. Not until
his death has been legally established.
or 1udicially presumed. can the. ben-
sion, which would have brought 90
cab-driver. DO paid to his daushter-in-
| law and to his grandchildren.
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Mayor Gaynor. Of New York, has
some very correct views as to the adj
OF the law !. In a letter to
Police Commissioner Baker OF that
town several days ago no laid down
this sound principle: ''The way to efn-
GENTLY enforce the criminal law is
the way prescribed by the law itself.
Whatever the law says. or any court
decides, the police must obey" What
ils GOOD as to the criminal law is good
also as to tho civil law. Well-ordered
government depends upon obedience to
law. This IS one Of the reasons why
old Taft holds an inapresnable position
in the Pinchot-B allinEer business. an6
In q number of other matters. fol
which he has been much criticized.
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EAsTER DAY.

tfselected for The Timcs-Dispatch.)
"rhat may know Him. and the
power Of His esurrection."-Phil. III.
10.
This was the Easter prayer OF Paul,
and, we may add. 1t was the prayer OF O:
| his whole life. Tho only one Of the
disciples who had not personally
known Jesus, the spiritual life Of d! the ts1tt
risen and assembled Christ. seemed 10
appeal to him the most. IF Christ 't:s1 p
not risen.' he cried. "your fai attn rs IS
vain: we are yet in your sins
There arc different kinds OF KNOW WI
edge. Every fact has It's visible shape
and its hidden power. There IS N n ;['e
/ ma ton, and there is experience. some m 9
men are content with knowing facts fact!
Others arc not intent until they know
4 Its mower. Paul was not satisfied 70
A lknow a truth unless he also knew It's
4 power and felt its influence on MS MS
] life.
Pauls prayer must be our prayer
/ to-day We must put ourselves i i1'
. the power Of Christ's resurrection ane
j be possessed and formed by It, WHAT nat
then, is this power? How does th's
event, past so long ago. lay hold
! govern ana change the lives Of living
! men to-day? What now life does !
] bring? what new spirit does u IN
!, fuse? ii
on Easter We celebrate the rising
) our saviour from the tomb, Our I'M
' mortality is bound up with that
4 Christi; and the certainty. that b ''c"all
Q He rose from the dead, we shall IT'S
y also, makes the day Of resurrection
y message OF gladness to all.
4 But eis this all? Is this what Pau
3 means by tho "power Of tho tresurreo
!. tom" It is evident that Paul mean
i, much moro than this--that II wa
n some great powerful . change to b
i worked IN and on himself. On him
~ not merely on things about him. Nc
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ny ia MAnouIsD DE FoNTENoY.

~ UEEN ELENA and her children
& have taken to roller skating. at
" which little Princess folande
great parqneted halls OF the ouirinal.
where formerly the Popes held court
and presided over great ceremonies OF
the church and OF the state. in the
presence OF cardinals and diEnitaries.
parts of the world. now resound with
The clattcr OF the roller skates and
with the merry laughter OF the little
and everywhere. like veritable sprites.
In addition to Queen Elena. her young;
err sister. Princess Vera of Montenegro.
who resembles her greatly In appear
ancc and In character. and their niece.
Princess Helen OF Servia. only daugh-
ter OF King Peter, take part In tho
roller skating: also the ladies' In wait
ing on the Queen. But thus far. In
spite OF the entreattes of his children.
declined to risk fall on the wheels.
and contents himself with looking on.
Perhaps 1t Is owing to the presence
4e5a
gayer this winter and spring than at
any time since the accession Of King
Victor Emmanuel. The latter and his
eensort seem to have emerged srs from from
dances, dinners and receptions and en-
Itertainmcnts. both great and small.
more than ever before. while the
| Queen, with her sister and her niece,
Fare constantly to be seen ut concerts.
picture shows, at the opera and at the
| theatres. But neither she nor the
King, however. has as yet attended
entertainments at the houses OF any
Of their subjects. This was abandoned
during the last reign. owing to the
difficulties made by the great ladies
| OF the Roman patriciate about sub.
hitting to all the demands which the
| foreign ambassadors and ambassa-
dresses and the ministers and their
wives put forward. with regard {
| their place and precedence at all en-.
/ Entertainments at which tho sovereign
was present. Matters reached q climas
on ono OCCASION, at a ball given By
1.-The now widowed Princess lPallavicini
at which Queen Marguerite was thu
i principal guest, and from which ~,
l German. the Spanish and tho English
ambassadors and ambassadresses sud
denly took their departure on tho pre-
text that they had not been treatet
with the consideration due to thel
Il rank
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\ COMPTON,, Nor A THEORY.

There Is no uncertain sound In what
the Augusta County Argus says about
the report CT the Legislative Commit
tee OF the Antl-saloon League and Its
advice that a fight for State -widc pro-
.hibiton be made at the next election.
'regardless OF personal and political
Affiliations" Says the editor Of the
Argus, and his voice rings like bat
theory to all Democrats: =
TT we did not in our paper edito-
rally denounce tho spirit exhibited IN
a part Of this report as an insult to
ali truo virginians who love their
state and are proud OF her record and
her place among the states, and cherish
| the memory Of their ancestors VINO
fought and bled for tho right OF per-
sonal liberty and free institutions. we
would fail OF our duty to our people
| and to ourself.
After quoting the statement of the
committee that ut will be necessary
! to carry the fight into the election OF
the next General Assembly" regard.
LEGS OF personal and political atfilia-
tons" the Argus continues:
..TIere comes this arrogant bunch
giving advice that If followed may do
great mischief to our State, including
| the possibility OF return to odious Re-
/ publican rule, the vicious black men,
. ace that would be more glaring IN
districts unprotected by omcers OF la"
| and the resultant overthrow OF the
Democratic party, that has saved and
made and kept the State-all this fol
\ the sake of forcing upon the people
| measure Matched by a fanatical rule
or-ruin CLIQUE that should be wipec
! out of existence by the honest citizen
( ship OF the State. We have loca
option law. and that is sufficient fol
all Its Intended purposes
This Is a FREQ country, and II the
|Anti-saloon League shall determine t
4 adopt the course advised by It's legis
|lative committee. 1t has the chance t
3 do so; but the managers OF the Dem
ocratic party should mako it very plail
that, making their contest "regardles
4 of political Affiliations" they shall no
! make it under the cloak Of Democracy
There are good many other ques
tons in Virginia> of as great impor
tance as the whiskey question, whtc
is already in fair way Of settlement
with due concern for the cause
temperance, and we do not believe tina
the white people are willing to jeo
pardize all the higher and better In
terests of the state for the sake Of
doubtful experiment n legislating me
rality into the people.
A convention OF the party ought
be- called without delay. so that tn
party may provide for Its own de
tense against the sapping and mimi
work Of those who have declared the
intention to fight for the control OF II
! next General Assembly, IRE CARELESS
} personal and political Affiliations"
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Daily Queries and Ans,pers
ali for this column 20 Query Editor
problems Will be solved no coins
stnnps dealers names Will be given

Old Clocks. Il. ,.,.., .sa,
works, which was made 81 Epprlm
Downs, OF Briston, Conn. but cannot
ind any date except on inside n,ea, q DIAL aa
Clocks lsl o. tis ineke 1ny pRHAp -
= we know OF no premium on a clock
of this character.
Chief Hospitals OF Large Cities.
Please give Inc a few names OF tho
main hospitals In the cities OF New
York, Washington and Baltimore:
the Presbyterian. tho Roosevelt, the
.G;onverneur, the BELLEVUE and and F Ira
R 1sh1'. and Hnon pro,estant 1nfirmafy
tho Church Home. tho Hospital OF tbs
College OF Physicians and SURGEONS
s ana tae ana
"To Love-"
Is It correct to use the word love
to express fondness OF food? ! hear It
perfectly devoted to It." II. p. r.
Yes. under the broad definition OF
love- as fondness or desire dor any
properly be said to love Ice cream"
How to Press FIowers.
Can YOU tell me something about
pressing flowers? have heard they
should be placed between layers OF
blotting paper with felt OH top OF
the plotting paper. Can the same
piece OF plotting paper be used oyer
and over again? NJ. +.
The method suggested by You IL q
good one, thought the felt Is not
| necessary. The plotting paper should
be OF rather fine texture 50 that It
will not injure the fibre OF the flow
crs. You should DO careful to place
the flowers in perfect shape befote
applying tho plotting paper, and should
then press them heavily with q book
or any convenient weight that Will
spread over tho whole flower.
stMnttyss Book"
Please tell mo when tho book on
baseball written by Mathewson WILL be
This story-a very poor ono. BY the
way--is now appealing In number
| OF newspapers. and can be had In book
form within tho next few weeks. Any
OF the book dealers advertising In The
Times-Dispatch can then furnish you
with It.
Democratic Speakers Since the War.
Please name all tho Democratic
Speakers In Congress since the war.
and thereby settle dispute among
several OF your readers. "A READER
John G. Carlisle and Charles &. Crisp.
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A New York Republican insists on
a thorough party house cleaning, but
some Of his friends think that the
winter OF legislation has not yet
broken sunioiently to Justify such
reckless exposure OF the family treas
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It's pity some OF the Great I'm
washed do not grow commandment.
like that old lady who walked to the
river in her Sleep
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It was a mighty poor race the Colo
mel won In Africa, but It. pleased him
tremendously because his eye for game
had been none too good. we are told.
We had to win something.
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finally been sentenced for aiding In tho
sugar frauds. This is but another
proof that tho government is about
through with the real thieves.
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:Princess Alice's sister. Dona Elvira
who was In such want two years ago
through her fathers refusal to cons
tribute anything to her support. that
the married Roman painter with whom
she eloped q decade ago, is at present
50 we'll off as to be able not only to
Indulge in luxurtes. but even to lend
whom she and her painter. Folchi, have
thus assisted has been Don francesca
del Drago. one OF the elder brothers,
% sha Il HeW EaE9
q year ago the multimillionaire widow
OF New York brewer Of the name
Of Schmidt. Tho SUM advanced by
seems to have been QUITE a large
amount, and it is the demand made
in her name by Fo1chi for It's repay
lment, in consequences Of it's failure to.
DO applied for the purpose FOR which
between Del Drago aud the painter.
There Is q certain amount OF piquan-t
cy in finding Princess Elyira loaning.
latter is the grandson Of the late
Queen Cristinn OF Spain. through her
morganatics union with the guardsman
Munox, and Is nephew. therefore, OF
cess Elvtra Is a daughter Of that Don
Carlos who was. like his grandfather,
tho original Don Carlos. the sworn foe
OF queen Grlstlna,KIo Tor. having induced
her husband. King Ferdinand. in his
| old age. to alter the succession at their
expense. in favor OF his daughter,
| Queen Isabella g. RE- Nah "a "a
tho death Of Don Carlos transferred
their residence from Milan to Rome,
where they occupy a handsome house
In tbs, new rtber quarter Of the Eter-
1 nal City, IA t5 NJ
/ copyright, 1910 b. the Brentwood
i Company ass5i ss q
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one way to protect American uni
forms lis to nut better men dn them,
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II some OF the men who ride about
New York An automobiles should
change places with the chauffenrs' 81 g eS
might earn enough to buy cars.
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We almost fear that, by tho time
The dore returns the prize fight VIII 8. 50
monopollze the papers that the return
from Eba Will not set on the front
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"a ~ J. I,onner sat on n Sweet Potato

vinc.V
recall my mother years ago sing ~
YOU tell inc where 1 can secure ~?
"Grnsshopper sat on a sweet potato
vine, n sweet potato Vine, q sweet po.s
tato vino. Along como q turkey gobpler
hopper off that sweet potato vino
This Is ono OF tho verses. have
made many Inquiries at music stores
to secure the words and music, but
the old-umo soDg collections and can
not BIO located. II. y. y.
this song in music. Some OF our read .t,.. q,
.ers may perhaps recall IT. Wc sIlalI
be glad to henr from them.
An Osteopnthic Hospital.
Is there an ostcopathio hospital in
Richmond. and II not, can you tell me
where there Is one? a. Is:
No such hospital Is listed In the CITY
Directory.
National nnl stntc Courtr.
Please inform mo which Of the ma
tionnl and State courts decide cases
by appointed juries. J. E. =. .
We suppose you mean drawn 5nriss.
All the state courts nbova tho n Had,,s,
decide cases by juries, as do the Fed
| cral district courts.
Stntistica OF Drunkenness.
| i. Please tell mo the statistics on
drunkenness In city and country.
9. Please give me some information
on debate, Resolved. THAT the City
Is More Important Than the Country.
| A SUBSCRIBER.
/. There is no way OF ascertaining
/ the exact figures OF comparative
drunkenness In the cities and the
| country.
2. II you will tell US what kind OF
"information" you want, wc shall be
| glad to furnish you with 1t. Tho ar;
gumcnts in behalf OF tho city are
numerous. For example. the city Is
tho distributing point for the country
tho city Is the centre OF population
and OF culture, directing the thought
and molding tho conduct OF the. coun-
1 try without tho cities the chief In.
4 dustries OF the country. would soor
4 disappear. You may add other argu
mcnts indefinitely. OF course. az muct
can be said on the opposite side.
II 4