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u Happcncd In Nevada.
MILD INsINUATIoNs.

MYTH Morgan, Hill, the Gngsenheims
w and few others similarly Interested
for the Federal Incorporation law
who will be against it? And what's the
use?-IndanapolIs News.
We refuse to admit that former Vice
President Fairbanks Is or can be converted
into political or religious issue.-Boston
Journal.
Some day, perhaps book store clerks will
know what you mean the first time--another
way to spot the milennium.-Ncw York
Mail.
According to wrathful member. Cannon
is a Colossus sitting astride of Congress. The
Colossus did not st.-Philadeiphla Ledger.
a St. Louis paper says that wall Street
marks time. Easy marks. at that, we sur
Iuisc.-Charleston News and Courier.
The bill introduced into Congress for Fed
cral control of automobiles is the latest ex-
ample Of the intoerable itch for enacting
laws.-Philadelpha Record.
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Voice Of the People.
oppo.e. a Liquor Referendum


sir,-In a letter under the caption
OF For Prohibition. published re-
Gently in yolr paper in the column re-
served for correspondence. the writer
asks from what hypotheis YOU
reason in your editorials In favor of
the liquor ic'-meaning, i sup
pose. your attitude In reference to the
principle involved in Statewide pro-
hibition. Your position on this ques-
tion. is in my Judgment. in accord
with the basic principles of our demo-
cratic theory of government as enun-
ciated by the men who achieved our
liberties; and your sound and lucid
reasoning as set forth in your editorial
minds unprcjudiced. If reason, sanity,
logic and experience are to determine
governmental principles and policies.
rather than popular enthusiasm ana
tense emctionalsm, which are at times
invested with force of morbid obses-
sion.
The principle OF local option or
home rule, upon which States right is
based. is In theiry and practice the
strongest possible e.Nemplification Of
local self-Eovernment that wisdom can
suggest. Local self government is the
fairest, most just and equitable scheme
of government that the accumulated
experience Of mankind has or can de-
wise, being the resultant ana crystal
lization OF the lest thought OF the
ages, ana any ny o. WI " .A.tS -
right is criminal and socalistic In the
worst incoming of that elastic term.
Tho local option liquor law was pass
ed, ] am informed, at the solicitation
of the prohibitionists, and has been
for years their declared and approved
policy in dealing with the liquor
traffic.
The people Of tho State at large nave
accepted this plan, and the, Demo-
cratic party has adopted and lncor-
porated the local option law IN Us
platform. Tho people of tho state
| have proceeded under this law, and ~
the various cities, towns and districts
| have determined by popular ma1orltles
| the question whether or not liquor
| should be sold In their respective. com
! munities. The same people, who IN
| effect declared that local option was
tho wisest ana nest approved method
OF dealing with the question, Q
problem. they said. that each COM
munity had tho right to settle for it.
self, now proceed to reverse. them-
selves and ask the legislature to
stutify itself and perpetrate self
contradiction In the enactment of q
law and the legalization OF a policy
which is in principle and method dia-
Imetrically opposed ana ahtllhetlcal TO
| the principle OF local option
! Are they not IN lustlce ana equity
esioppcd from multiplying and declaring
Snid the elections in thesseveral COM
lmunities under the local option law
which have declared IN favor o.
| licnnsinE the sale of liquor, which
would bet the result IL Statewide pro-
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The Automobile Tax.
The Tines-Dispatcll:

Editor OF The Times-Dispatch:
Silt Is well enough for the Legis.
,lature to put special tax on auto
mobiles. They are fully able to bear
the tax and should help to bear the
burdens of taxation which now so
largely rest on the toilers Of the State.
But may i ask what becomes of the
usual contention that tho Legislature
cannot enact laws which are known
as "class legislation? II automobiles
are subject to special license tax why
may not other vehicles. at the discre-
ton of tho lawmakers, he required to
pay special license tax? Why should
not such tax be put on lumber
wagons? They do more damage to the
roads of the State In one day than
the automobiles do in q, year. BY all
on lumber-wagons. That will go a
long way towards solving the high
way problem. A. b.
Sparta, February is.
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|
hin when, as Anna Gould, she married
his son, i3oni. has called forth we'll
deserved expressions OF contempt and
disgust In the American press. But
It Is not fair to tho French aristocra-
cy to describe his greed as savorng
or the ancient regime. MS some ma
pers here lave done editorially. Nor
can tho marquis be looked upon as u
Representative type. Indeed, the French
arlstocracy and tho fashionable world
OF Paris have long since closed their
doors TO him; while Ills resignation
demanded of him. and given, rciuct
antly. of course, to escape more dras-
tic measures. 1t should be added
that his long-suffcring wife, tho Mar
qilisc dc Castcllane. docs not approve
OF bis suit against tho Princess DC
SaEan. any more than she has APP
probved of many other things that
he has done.
Copyright, 1910. by tho Brentwood
COmpany.l
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hibition obtained in an election held
under tho enabling act now before the
Legislature? Have the people collec-
lively the right under our democratic
theory of government to override and
nullify the expressed Will of indi-
vidual communities? If SO, this ques-
ton ensues as logical sequence: II
the people declare by popular majority
against Statewide prohibition in an
election under the enabling act. would
the result cause that portion of the
State now dry to become wet. ipso
facto? If not. how in law or under
any conceivable principle of justice
and equity could communities now wet
be declared dry, if said election re-
suited In favor Of Statewide prohi-
bitlon?s A
[ Virginia is Democrati0 State. The
bedrock principle of its political faith
Is home rule,tas exemplified in local
option. The principle underlying
Statewide prohibition is not demo-
cratic. but subversive of home rule.
| A large majority of the present mem
bcrs OF the Legislature were elected as
Democrats, and not as Third Party
Prohibitionists; Therefore, their duty
! in respect to the enabling act now
pending in the Legislature is plain.
| l am persuaded ,nat the Legislature
and the people of Virginia as whole
| will remain firm and steadfast to the
| principles and traditions OF the party
OF their fathers. j. r.. GARLAND.
Amherst, February 16. q g-
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value Of the original security. Such
an arrangement would be beneficial
to both the state and the railroad, and
MS such 1t ought to be simple mat
ter for Governor Mann to hold a cor
ference that would decide upon the
exact terms of IA satisfactory bin,
without having recourse 10 penal
statutes. or embargocs on necessary
traffic.
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therefore be we'll to explain that II
lhe alliance was tolerated, II was be-
cause the Duchess had become. as a
very young and Inexperienced girl. In,
VOWED through tho dsloyaty and
cnrelcssncss OF her governcss. in a
Foolish Irritation. In which she was at
the worst, guilty of indiscretion, but
which malcvolent gossip. gross exag-
Seratlon. and en1eavors by unscrupt1-
louis parties connected with the affair
to blackmail both her and her parents.
had converted into scandal Of sum-
cient magnitude to render royal suit
ors shy about applying for her hand.
Her sister, Duchess Jutta, Is married
to the Crown Prince of Montenegro.
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BoyyoweA Jtngies
rnElcs n1, TRADITION

In legends live n lot Of trees
Which have been widely sung
We still can see
The willow troo
On which tho harp was hung
The woodman stu Restraints Ills axe;
In fact, lio doesn't dare
TO touch a Dough.
Tia growing now
That troo we babe him spare
Wn go back to tho chestnut ire"
And view its spreading top
And visit with
The honest smitl,
Who runs the village shop
But OF tho legendary trees
That You and recall.
Tho cherry tree,
As you'll agree.
Is grcGncst of them all.
philadelphia Evening bulletin.
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NJ ~ ~

Colonel Cameron Widcn HiA Portal
to Welcome Major Hcmphill.
Deacon Hemphill would be more or
less than human did he not feel regret
at leaving his long accustomed place
in dear old Charleston, even though Sfs
migration is to be to Virginia, and the
new raising of his Ebenezer to be IN
Richmond. Several times lately note
Of sadness has pervaded his references
to the subject in the News Courier.
and there has been something pathetic
in the effort at self-cons1lation or TINS
soon be exile from his native en-
vironments and associations Blessings
brighten as they take their flight, and
| it is a brave spirit. which on the verge
| of the severance Of lifelong ties can
| look forward with hope instead OF
backward with despair Fine Is the
| the impending divorce from century
Madeira and pineapple punch brcwed
after the recipe OF Colonel Harry, can
, smack It's lips over the comparative
reflection that nowhere in the world
| Is the art OF connecting juleps so thor
oughly understood and skilfully prac-
ticed as In the city whittier the Deacon
goeth. That this is misapprehen-
sion is not material; for all Virginia
viii Join heartily in such welcome and
entertainment as shall make tho
Deacon at once a homcbody in every
nook and corner OF the Old Dominion;
and this will be so no less In Norfolk.
where the shades OF Ben Pcddle and
of Jack Franklin still haunt the back
slider who would mix a julep Rich
lnond fashion or b. any other formula
than that those adopts beaueathcd TO
grateful inheritors in the City by the
Sea. From the Westmorcland to the
Virginia Club Is a mere step in time
and travel. In the moment Of disillu-
| sion the Deacon must take that step.
| and We VA! hav. distilled for hitn7an
| elixir guaranteed 70 cure 5wiHs
/ nostalgia, and for the honce tn banigtf
care and sorrow from lie heayteat
| heart
| r. S.-The Scotch whiSkey In Rich
mond Is paagsbly gpod, but rsliabln
brandy -----s We are teetotaiGfs, hui
our memory is perfeet--SorfDlk VIZ.
leinian,lsloL
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Agricultural High schools. Etc.

/. Please tell me the agricultural high
schools to be established in Virginia
this year, giving the county.
9 Please mention the secondary ag-
ricultural schools and normals. with
their addresses in Florida, Texas and
Oklahoma. READER.
not yet been chosen by the State Board
of Education.
.. None of our catalogues list these
schools. You should address the Su-
perintendent of Education CT the States
you mention for the location of the
schools.
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"To set" and ..To sit.o

A brilliant young attorney. residing
in the Mutual Building, furnishes ths
following erudite note on set and
"st'': ! think careful examination
Of the authorities will show that tho
verb Ito set is always transitive, and
therefore must take an object. Ono
sets. a vase on the table, but tho vase
sits" there tnever sets there). ITO
Sit can never take an object. ITO
set must always take one. / believe
the Grammars do cite one solitary ex-.
ception TO the rule, and that exception
seems perverted one: 1t Is said that
the sun and stars set"
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Jan,etel n snob.

Had Jametel, after the marriage kept
quiet. avoided publicity, retrained
from ostentation, and remained IN the
back ground; above all, had treated his
royal wife we'll, and had rendered her
happy, he would in course of time
have acquired the good VIII and friend
ship of all her royal kinsfolk, Ger
man as well as English TO his own
thing to gain thereby. Instead of that.
he conducted himself with such an
amount Of vulgar snobbery as to force
them to hold aloof. and when he found
that his wife's relatives We're not in
clined to do anything for him in the
wav of social advancement. he COM
menced to neglect her in tho most
shameful manner. He subjected her
only with the consent. but with the
warm approval Of all her knsfolk.
that she got rid Of him by divorce.
1t may be, remembered that two
m men secured possession Of the diaries
land confidential correspondence of
Mgr. Montasnini. on his expulsion from
France, where he had been in charge
of the diplomatic affairs Of the Vati-
documents in question for publica--
ton. one of the letters addressed
by Mgr Montagnini to the Papal Sec
rotary Of State at Rome mentions "a
metel as follows: "lametel IS tnaklhE
itcd a certain amount Of money, which
lie has to a great extent squandered
In gambling"
OF course, the question will arise
as to how the relatives Of the duchess
could ever have given their consent
Ito her union With a man OF such OBJ
scuro birth and of such a lack Of any
kind of social status as lJametelawho
| had little else to recommendation but
good looks and money derived from
tho paternal patent medicines. 1t may
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A New Jersey man has Just died
from a bolo wound received a long
time ago. We urge all Richmonders
to seize the first opportunity to have
their bolo wounds overhauled by a
competent physician.
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Household Premium Contest.
The household premium coupon in
Mondays issue OF The Times-Dispatch
was dated February Is. when it should
have been February IA. VIII you
please issue a coupon dated correctly?
MISTA k f.
The coupon of February II was mis-
dated. 1t will be accepted in regular
course as though it were properly
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The Cooncr Cn.e.

/. Please inform ME what the pres
ent status OF the case against the
Coopers. who shot Senator Carmack. is.
2. The name Of the author and where
to find poem starting thus:
~ think it was in the month of May,
When old S. Perkins to me did say
etc. READER
i. This case is now being argued on
appeal.
OF our books of quotations. We could
not afford TO give it space in this
column If we found it,
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Postal Negotiations.

Is 1T against the law for a person
employed at the post-oflice to play
cards. drink. curse. etc, and is il not
against the law for him to read postal
cards and to tell what liz written on
them? AN OLD READER.
The postal regulations require that a
post office be kept in an orderly and
becoming fashion. If the one you have
in mind is being improperly conducted,
a complaint to the Postmaster General,
Washington, d. c.. Will receive atten-
ton. The postmaster is prohibited
from reading mail that passes through
his Office.
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Offhand we should venture to pass
the remark that counterfeitins is about
the worst paid profession in the cat
alogue.
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r,r.t RnIIrond to Rtchmond.

Please give mo the name OF the first
railroad to be completed into Rich
mond. and the date of the entry OF this
first train. G.. s. l..
We are unable to fix the exact date.
but our impression Is that the first
railroad coming into Richmond was
the Richmond and Louisa Line. Some
of our antiquarian friends may be able
10 give us definite information
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is shameful and degraded. Neverthc-
less, we are confident that time will
establish the wisdom ofsits decision.
THE REBUFF no THE PROHIBITION

THE REBUFF TO THE PROHIBITION
BILL.
In all human probability the Strodn-
J Myers prohibition bill received its
1 death blow yesterday, when tho House
Committee on Privileges and Elections
reported II with the recommendation
| that 1t should not be passed Gossip
| has II that the committee vote stood
seven against and ono for. 1t may be
seven Democrats and one Republican
on this committee. But at all events
it Is plain that the great prcpondcr-
ance of Democratic sentiment, as rep
resented by this committee. is opposed
to the theory of so-callcd referendum
in the direction of Statewide prohibi-
ton.
Sincere and earnest prohibittonists.
who honestly believe that they were
entitled to this special measure, and
who arc disappointed and possibly IN
clined to feel resentful to-day, should
bear in mind all the circumstances. The
legislative committee and tho LeEis-
lature must consider this bill as they
| consider any other bill laid before
them. They are elected and paid by
| the people expressly to weigh and ap-
praise proffered legislation upon its
| merits. and they are directly respon-
sible to the people for the way IN
which they discharge their trust. Here,
1t seems, is a piece of proposed legis-
lation which the Legislature over
whelmingly dfsapproves, just as 1t
might disapprovc tax measure or
milk bill. Some cities and counties
want to sec the bill passed: some of
them do not. But the legislators have
received no instructions from their
constituencies upon this subject, and
they are entirely right to discharge
their trust as seems best to them,
counterchecked by the knowledge that
those who empowered them to make
laws hold them responsible for what
they do. An attempt has been made
to show that opposition to this bill
is denial of majority rule. 1t Is
nothing of the kind. No one has ever
shown that the majority of the people,
ar OF the voters. or of the Democratic
voters. desire TO have so-called
referendum for Statewide passed. On
the contrary, the two parties in the
state are pledged, the one through Its
nIatform. the other through its tradl-
tions and its present Governor, to local
option; the Legislature has long since
Endorsed local option; and the present
Assembly doubtless feels, in our judg-
ment correctly. that it is not 1ustifled
in reversing this settled principle
without direct authorization and IN
struction from the people.
If the people desire either legislative
prohibition or referendum on 'he
question. they could have made their
desire known last summer, with the
certainty that it would be carried out.
| They will have another fair and clean
cut opportunity in 1911. Virginia mas
gotten along for many years without
nrohibi,lon and with considerable dis
,inction: and another two years In the
9 same case is hardly likely to prove
fatal TO her, while giving prohibitlon
] a fuller chance to demonstrate else
where its particular efficacy
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Il NH 4
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Royal Divorce.

Among the number OF royal divorces
recorded in the 'Almanach dc Gotha.H
ihere appears for the first time in its
issue for 1910. tho announcement of
the divorce of the daughter of the reign
ing Grand Duke of Meclslenburg- Strelitz
from her plebeian French husband.
Georges Jametel, who obtained his title
of count, through the Papal Nuncio at
Paris, towards the close of the reign
of Leo XIII. The Almanach mentions
that the decree of divorce was granted
by the French courts on December 81.
lsYs, that Is to say. too late for pub
LEGATION in last years issue; and i,
adds that since she obtained the de-
cree this princess. who is in the limo
of succession to the throne OF Great
Britain. has dropped her name OF
Countess Jametel, and resumed, with
her fathers consent, her rank and title
of Duchess of Mecklenburs- streltz.
The courts awarded to her. as was
only natural under the circumstances.
the care of the child, little girl, who
is the issue OF her unfortunate mar
her venerable grandmother, the widow
ed Grand Duchess of ELECTROMAGNETIC
litz, in the latters beautiful villa at
Dresden. The aged grand duchess now
in her eighty-eig year, Is by birth an
English princess of the blood. being
a sister of the late Duke of Cambridge
and of the late Duchess of Teck, and
the last surviving grandchild of King
George ILL., of England.
Jametel, who since the dissolution of
his marriage has been mentioned as
one Of the suitors Of the American
DIVORCE, Mrs. Hart Mckee. does not
belong to any of the leading clubs
| in Paris, where he has spent all his
life, and in spite of his having been
allied by his former union to half the
reigninE houses of Europe, he has
never been able to secure admission to
the Union. the Jockey Club, the Agri-
cole, or even to the smart. but by no
means exclusive, Cercle de la Rue Roy
ale.- He is the son of an apothccary
at Fontainebleau. who made a fortune
by means of a patent medicine. Filled
with social ambitions and ENCOURAGED
by the 1nfanta Eulalie, whose acauaint-
ance he had made, he sought. and OBJ
tanned with some difficulty. the hand
of Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-St Sire
|! litz, and in order to quality himself, at
| ter a fashion, for the union. secured, as
have mentioned above. from the Vati-
can the title OF count.
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ArrIcnlturnI CoIlcgc..

Please give me the address of some
of the leading agricultural colleges
in the United State.. A. l.. 81.
For complete list write to the
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, d. c.
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Making n Social enlargement.

Making n Social Engagement
If young lady has an engage
ment to go driving, and before the
young man arrives another young
man calls on her. would It be polite
for her to go driving with the one she
has the engagement with and leave
the first caller? MARGUERITE.
Vigor. Va.
1t would be most improper for the
young lady to break her engage
ment to go driving. She should gra-
ciousy and politely excuse herself
from her caller when her expected
visitor arrives. or, better still. she
should incidentally mention to the first
caller that she was going driving be-
tore Tho second caller arrives. In this
way she would relieve both OF them
of embarrassment.