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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
A JuSllEr. WHY. NOT Ar ALL.

Representative Macon is too hard on
the immigration Commission. the in
dustrious band of Congressman, whose
touring quest for information that
could be easily obtained at home has
so far cost tho country only s65S.000.
Mr. Macon comes from Arkansas, where
doing the proper thing" is not so
gracefully interpreted as it is in Wash
ington, and he is attacking the commits
| sioner tourists in q manner that natu-
| rally shocks their own more delicate
taste. We beseech him to be more rea-
/ sonable. to take broad, catholic, non
/ Arkansian view of the thing. No doubt
it is true, as he says. that the tourists
studied immigration around Joppa more
/ Than he, with his provincial viewpoint,
! thinks necessary; that the number of
immigrants involved may not have alb
| solutely compelled the carriage journey
from Jerusalem to Bethlehem or the
inspection of tho House of Lords; that
there is no exactly logical connection
between healthy immigration and %
per cent. tips, and that bills for shines
and shaves, hair-cuts and shampoos.
may look out of place when charged to
Uncle Sam. But what of it? Congress-
men like to see Europe and the Holy
Land now and then, and Americas got
the money to do the thing in style,
hasn't she?
And really Mr.. Macon must admit
that the cost was not what it might
have been. Not one OF these alleged
bought an automobile and
charged it to the tax payers. Not one
bought a yacht to study immigration
from maritime stafdpoint. None
went big game shooting in Africa or
dedicated himself to breaking the banl.
at Monte Carlo. None rented Buck
lngham Palace to settle down and eX.
haustiveiy examine the great emigra-
ton fields in the London West End
We commend this general line of
thought to Mr.. Macon, confident that
If he will only think about 1t and he
reasonable ne VIII soon become amazed
at the commissioners moderation. For
our part we love to think of these
faithful servants staggering the major
domos of Paris with their princcly fees,
or doing Palestine in sumptuous victo-
fias' the best-fed. best-shined. best
shaved and best-shampoocd men in
Asia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IA. 1910.
THE ASSEMBLY, THIS WEEK.


The introduction of new bills in the
assembly viii come TO an end this
eek. All the legislators who have pet
Measures in their pigeonholcs viii
ave TO furbist them up and present
rem during the next FIVE days If they
;ish to see their ideas enacted into
IVY this year. After that time the
ssembiy will settle down and digest
10 many laws which have been spread
the legislative table during the last
.w weeks. The hardest part of the
.ssion will then begin.
1t is to be hoped that the present
eek will not see any great number
new measures, even though the
last call" is resoundcd through the
orridors. There are more than enough
. Ills already before the Assembly to
i've the State all needed laws. When
'lesc have been amended and when the
arious committees have seriously con-
3dered them. they will be found amply
efficient for the states present wants.
. 1t is further to be hoped that the
ssembly Will soon get to work on the
appropriation bill. In previous sessions
he Finance Committees have been so
occupied with hearings and have con-
|umed so much time in this way that
he appropriation bills have been too
Png delayed. AS q result, when
|rought before the Assembly. some OF
hem were not given the close atten-
on and the detailed dobat, that they
|bsolutely required. Too many of the
lauses were the result of compro-
|,ises. arranged in the hurry of the
|ioment, without due regard for the
,erits of all the appropriations in
luded in the measure. Let us save
me by beginning early. Let us save
loney by taking ample tine after we
ave begun.
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Borrowed Jtngles
THE TEN-iNCiI HAT.

Men. deprive us OF our outrage!
Cast aside our equnl plcadlngs
Put away In endless sleeping
'i5ii's YOU promised us should laWs Nv.
Ttrn a deaf ear to our wlshes,
Zen refuse our delegations,
When they 20 to that old city
Where sit tironcd, our Legislators,
l'avish from Our grasp tho ballot,
Turn down all the bills we favor.
DO all these, and we are rdlp.tss.
we VIII give up hopeless struGyie
For the rights we have cnJoyed NOT
but arc seeking 10 recover
But dare not to touch our toletl
10 not venture, rash mon reckless,
Tut finger on our headgoar,
Ventui'ng thus to sot n ln,lt
To the si2es of our hat brims
Even now tho throat to force us
Ay, tho very threat---its mention
is enough to make each woman
Rush to millinors distracted.
Ordering brims MS big rs church uoofs.
so you wish to make hats smaller?
Ihen for spite Wen wear thom bsaoF,
Till the former merry Widows' =
Arc but dimes. comparing with them
And while broad. Wen mako them hlshe
And still more, on heads wei Keep then
In the theatres vel balk you,
50 You'll never get your money
Back in pleasure OF the drama.
Drop that bill. You mere men creatures!
Ten.inch hats! Well, Just you try It.,
And find out you're three-inch has-been.
Baltimore American.
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The John Marshall House.

o.. why not pull tho old house down.
Tho same John Marshall place?
Ills but oumberer OF tho ground
A Flemish on the face
or our new and beautiful High school,
Tho shrine of cultured fame.
Tho Mecca Of each youthful seul
And bears John AIarshnll's name.
Here generations yet unborn
Shall scele It's stately hall,
And gather wisdom and rsnown,
THAT from his mantle fall;
And thsthur VIII tho world resort
To give its need os pralse
And weave fresh laurels round the spot
Through ali tho coming days.
John Marshall House Is but q shell
Fast Fastening to decay,
With crun,blins walls aud rottins alls'-
It's glory passed away.
lis moss-grown bricks are failing loose.
Its cornico breaking down;
It's ROOF Is but finder heap,
Now tumblng to the ground,
los, pun 1t down ana on the site
Where now its ruins stand
Erect fitting monument
10 John, tho good and grand
The nohlest Roman OF tliom all,
The lion OF his tribe.
While history thus his deeds recall.
Due homage we aserlpe. ". y, y,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

for whiskey, pray tell us some of its
salient points. Don't try TO switch
your readers off on good roads. educa-
ton and agriculture, all of which we
recognize as Of immense worth. But
what are the great death traps in the
form OF saloons worth? i VIII not men,
ton them, for You have seen them
time and again. Have you children
that may be contaminated by the sa-
looms? Should you meet your child or
some neiShbor's child at the judgment
who were lost from reading those ar
ticles which arc entreaties to the Leg
islature not to pass Statewide legisla-
ton. how would you feel? You we'll
know that State, county or town can
be Just what the people want it to be.
Gould the towns and cities of the
State be so circumscribed as to keep
their poison in their own limits? am
always in favor Of majority rule, but
we do not want and will not submit
by shipping into country that wants
dry territory and says so by its ma
1ority vote. Then. II you Will ship it,
we are surely going to dry the foun-
the needed legislation we can wait. but
! have u sympathy for those who are
recorded against it. The complexion
may be changed politically.
Now. l have been delighted with
the editorial matter OF your valued
paper but echo only answers where
did you conceive the idea of allying
yourself with such a class as arc bar
terinG their eternal destinies for the
sake Of money at such price Of
crime, despair and death, not only Of
the bodies. but souls as we'll? have
been travelling this old globe for sixty
years, but am wonderfully surprised
at the editorials OF The Times dis
patch.
Now, my dear brother look we'll TO
the West Take due notice and gov.
em yourself accordingly.
z. T. KALE.
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Voice Of the People.
The Doctors Tax.

Editor OF me Times Dlspatcn:
Sir,-I have not been able TO follow
legislative action sufficiently close to
know whether the bill removing the
license tax from physicians has been
adopted. rejected or is still pending,
but here are few words ancnt that
bill as 1t strikes plain country1nan.
The argument for Its removal be-
cause ii is taxing a man for trying
to make living would apply with
equal force to every other calling. |
don't suppose it would be questioned
that doctors are financially as able to
pay the tax laid upon them as any
other class OF men in the community.
An editorial in The Times-Dispatch OF
a month ago could hardly have been
meant seriously. / write from lnem-
ory. but the article quoted with evil
dent approval from Il New York medi-
cal Journal. think, the statement that
the country physicians average $500
per annunl and the city doctors $1,000.
and that it was common knowledge
that they never collected over so per
cent. Of what they booked This, !
say. Is my recollection of the article,
and, If / am correct. 1t is too ludicrous
to deserve consideration. Think Of the
country doctor living on $500 per an
happen to have talked with two doc
tors recently about their collections,
and one said lie collected over 90 per
cent. and the other over 100 per cent.
LIHlS Is the WorldfS# champion colleC-
tor.-I1di tori And ] know OF one
quiet, unobtrusivc, but most+eXcellent
physician. who came to n little hamlet
among people by no means rich. and
the first year he booked $1,000 and
collected. $500 OF that, and would
doubtless have gotten nearly all OF the
balance, hut he removed to 81 better
field. This was in a territory where
there were five excellent, established
practitioners within four miles OF him.
There may be good reasons for re4
moving the license tax. but certainly
there are multitudes of people who
don't think that these reasons lie in
any hardship which the license in-
poses.
But it is SAID they do a great deal
of charity practice. SO they do, as
a body and SO they ought to. Every
other citizen In a community does Il
great deal of charitp ractce, II ne
does his duty. The merchants do a
lot OF It, oftentimes of necessity. it is
true, but they do it, And you find
citizens Of all classes who fail to
do their duty as phllanthropists. and
in proportion to their numbers, per.
hups as many doctors as others.
though asa class they arc Il noble and
philanthropic set of men. This Is the
way the matter looks to one far re.
moved from the ''maddng crowd
WAYBACk,
Yancey Mills, February ii.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
ourwAGNERlNG MAGNru

Musical critics are sharpening theil
paragraphs in New York and are put.
ing on the thick armor of dogmati
pinion for an artistic controversy
Drowsy divas. who nod through Bee
hoyen reeitals at Carnegie Hall, an
ASKING damsels. who chat without in
eruption during the most solemn
loments of the Ring" operas at tn
fanhattan. are actually becoming in
crested. Even the silent sufferer
Who occupy the back seats in III
oSes and pay the rent are having
ew words.
The recent presentation of Richard
trauss's ..Elektra" at the Metropoli.
an is the object of all this excite
nent. With professional critics solid
arrayed against it. with the neo-
Athenian element interested In its
|ovelty and with serious and impair
ial critics divided. merry war Of
words IS on. ~ 4
Nobody. in all the arsg-pment pro ana
on, alleges that there is a note of
|lelody or even measure of pleas
mt harmony in the whole opera.
Whatever merit strauss's creation has.
hat merit is altogether apart from
!hat is generally called music. The
cal question, therefore. in the minds
all, is whether Strauss. in reaching
or new dramatic expression, for q
enso emotionalsm and for vocal
Psychology, has justified himself. Is it
Forth while to stretch the accepted
traditions OF music and the eardrums
{ the audience to the breaking point.
|ust TO show how angry or how mis-
rable Elektra is?
As a matter of fact. the pendulum
as already swung too far TO one side
f'he revolution which Wagner begun
tarted the pendulum from the cx-
|reme of empty harmony to which it
ad been carried BY Donizett, Rossini,
Fellini and Meyerbcer. The same
evolution carried orchestration, dra-
|aatlc effect and histrionic develop
bent as far as they could legitimate
b be carried. Where Wagner left of
n "Gotterdammoruns'' and "Parsifal.'
|Yagner's theories ended. Those who
|olloweG after could only cxagge crate
What the masterhand had done, OF
hange the very theories upon which
modern German opera rests. If Strauss
|tas genius to do the latter, his name
|nay go down into history as the ma
ker OF q new music. II he has not
hat genius. his work will soon per-
|sh.
But the very spectacle Of Wagner
|Ear against Wagner IS Interesting,
opening as 1t does in much the same
way as Nyagner's own rebellion. New
Fork is receiving "Elektfa" much as
Dresden received Der Ellegende liol.
lander and "rannhauserr Just as
/ he critics abused Wagner, their sue.
fcssors arc now abusing the man who
s outwagnering Wagner
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
LIVING on $: A W.n,,,,

The nigh price OF living has received
sad blow. The calamity howlers who
nave gone about the streets bewailinc
the price OF pork chops and the upward
Hight of beef are driven to cover m,
militant jokesmiths, who have been BIT
terly abusing the eXtravagant man
who dares eat eggs, have been put &c
hight. Living is still cheap. They
have proved it at Smith College. Eff
teen girls are living on 50 week, and
are not complaining that they me
hungry.
OF course, there is something to be
SAID about their style of living. The
young women live in n college dormi-
tory, where the eternal questions OF
rent heat, light and fuel may be left
out OF The reckoning. Then, too, they
do their own washing, tend their own
pots and pans, clean their own rooms,
90 their own chores, They spend no
aines on lettuce and mayonnaisc. They
nnFn no dollars up in Welsh rnrebits
and fudge. They boil their egg, their
chop or the!r bit OF steak over their
OIL stoves, They cook I'll they eat and
we make no doubt that they cat all
they cook.
Probably this viii not materially aid
IN thf solution OF the problem. Such
LIVING, and such hand-to-mouth fare
ma. do very. Nell for gi.ls who have
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
a Valentine.

4 tender hope by love expressed!
Two thoughts of dreaming hearts confessed
With longing souls that swcctly seek
Through alaes where musins cherubs spcal
In bissful language and commune
\ charming message through the moon,
Which casts a mystic arrow fleet
Through unseen space while spirits greet
And speal: OF treasured JOY supreme
Hidden IN realms whore angels dream
AS cupid plays II rosy noto
On harps OF stars, while in his boat
He lightly drifts, with inner slcc,
Across tho bay of memory.
GEORGE SANDS JOHNSON.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

Eu!Lor or Inc "Tlmes-D ispatch:
Str,--In your report of the proceed.
ings before tho Committee on Coun-
ties, Cities and Towns on Tuesday
morning last. having under considera-
ton the Byrd liquor bill you say that
! stated before the committee that
70 - per Gentnm Of the people
saloon in that place, My statement
was that l believed from the fact that
the Town Council had passed {, rcsolu-
ton, without a dissenting vote, cali
ing upon the representative to use his
influence against tho Byrd bill, and
from the further fact that no opposi-
ton against the saloon, as far as. I
was informed, had developed. that 95
per cent. Of the voters preferred the
present condition to that which On
listed in the town during the two years
the town was dry.
This was simply argun1entative.
and not stated by me us a fact.
This much Us said In justice to all
parties concerned.
HENRY WOOD.
Richmond, February H.
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General the MARQUIS d'EspouilIes. the
Comte d,OrGlnndos End Lie Ra:.nn LIT.

General The MARQUIS d 'Espouilles. the
| Comte dOrGlundcs and Tho Baron Hot
tinguer. as vlce-presidents Baron
lottinsuer being, although n French
citizen. brother-tn law of the pros
ent Chancellor OF the German Empire
Among the governors OF tho club are
tho Due dc Blacas. the Due de la Ro-
chetoucauld- Doudenuvilie. Count Al
fred do Gramont, the Count Ellie d'Ava-
| ray the Comic Charles dc Monitor
td'EIarcourt tsccrctary 10 Marshal Mac
Mahon during the latter's presidency
, of the republic, and married 70 the
widowed Duchess dc Castries), the
Count Florian de Kergorlay, the
Count Alexis de Noa!lles, and the
comte dc Pouy who has been elected
TO the vacancy created by the death
of Arthur O'Connor.
Copyright, 1910, by the Brentwood
Company.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
WILL THE NEXT CONGRESS nE
DEMOCRATIC.

The Democratic members OF Congress
IRE giving evidences Of being in ear.
pes. this time. They are not sending
lut from Washington the usual bien-
Pal boasts simply TO convince their
constituents that there is still Dem
|pratic party, When they say, in the
|plf.hundred private and public utter
noes OF the last few Wecks. that q
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
For prnhihition.

Editor of The Times Dlspatch.
4 Sir,--I cannot for 4 moment compre-
mend from what hypothesis you reason
in your editorial in favor Of tho whis-
kew traffic. Arc you a follower OF tho
reasoning of Hume, Noltaire, Tom
Paine, and such as reason without
premises?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
Cannon Seen Without His Chcroot.
says the headline. Swallowed 1t?

Now the Montgomery Advertiser
comes out and says that the Charlotte
Observer has Just printed the worst
poem it ever saw. However. we de-
cline to accept the Advertisers verdict.
relieving that it has been prcjudiccd
against us from the start.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

If ANYTHING is needed to enhance ana
SCI off the perfect beauty of our LITTLE
star-eyed blondes. 1t is the accompa-
niment or the stunning young Gibson
men OF Richmond, SO nifty in their
grand uucal tur ovorcoats.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

subscriber wants to know If the
Major has Vet moved from Charleston
- Richmond. No. There will be 10
difficulty in ascertaining when the re-
moval takes place. Charleston Will
become quiescent and the Virginia Ma
uonal Guard will be concentrated IN
Richmond to preserve order until the
people become accustomed to the new
order of things.--flouston Post
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
Keep in Line.

Cook: IN be LAWN yez num-
Mistress: Very we'll, Bridget. Keep 10
the right. Incoming cooks keep to the left"
-IIarper's Bazar.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

John Temple Graves, who says that
ne loves the South. but prefers the gay
hustle OF New York, seems to be for
getting his patriotism lie. halls from
southern town which claims to out
say-hustle New York every day in tho
week and then some.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
"sl,ould" and "1vouid."

| "sl,ould.. and "yyouId"
Is the following sentence correct?
1--WE shall have been In Richmond at
4 o'clock had not our train broken
down." a. S. L.
This sentence should read: We
should have been In Richmond etc
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

as soon as the marriage had taken
place. the bankruptcy proceedings fell
10 the ground. since, according to Eng
fish law, It Is Impossible to bankrupt
u married wonap.
1t is only fail. to add that since
then tho putlRof Lady Violet Watt and
her husband has been rendered easier
by the knowledge that not only So
cieiy, but the public ut large, without
altogether condoning their indiscrc-
ton, nevertheless regarded them as
the particularly cruelty treated vic
Tins OF gross misdirection of justice
and of feminine revenge, and as such,
worthy of sympathy and good WILL
Jockey Club.
The officers who have just been
elected by the Paris Jockey Club for
the ensuing twelve months nclude.
The Due dc Fezensac. who is the pres
ident, and Prince Augustc Arenberg.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

Our private financial statisticians re.
port that j. Pierpont Morgan has now
taken about everything there is and
Is sun taking notice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
rRoDDING THE MAJOR.
Press Wits Grow Face,ioua In Sound
Ing Hcmphili's PrafscS.

After the middle of February Charles
ton must rely almost entirely upon the
towns sunday lady editorials for fame,
but we admit that they are prettier and
sweeter than anything the town has
ever had 20 commend ii. Only faith
ful, interested AMI almirtng readers
like We are know tals, however,
Houston Post.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

!, As we feared, too long devotion to
the Mecklenburg Declaration and DR..
Cook has injured our old friend. the
Charlotte Observer. 1t is making Cook-
ian discoveries on its own hook:
AS well might the sun claim to
icon with the imperial honors as Dea-
con Hemphill with the diaconate Here
are the exact and heretofore und!g-
putcd facts Of history: The Observer
first maze the honore I'd Deacon?) an
Elder In recognition of his able de-
fence of that great Calvinistic uocu-
ment, the Mecklenburg Declaration;
later. for apostat.a;ng, it degraded him
to the DIAGONAL, but still distinguished
rank, where he has since remained"
We believe that the original patent
issued by the sun creating James CAL
vim iemphll n Deacon Secular. with
all the rights, dignities, privileges. m :.
and pertaining thereto, is now IN the
vaults of the South Carolina Historical
Society. At any rate, we made AIR
FIemphill u Deacon Secular before the
Charlotte Observer had observed him.
That honor 1t Is In no mans power to
take away. Once a Deacon always q
Deacon.
Notice that our unfortunate contem-
porary is still playing with that mere
courtesy title of Deacon Ecclesiastl-
cal. Deacon Hemphill is rather decanus
than diaconua. He is the president dean
and master of his trade or corporation
IN SOUTH S!,ntirt Carolina, as he IS soon to be
AS to the remarks of this darkened
Tar Heel about Charlemagne and Ma
poleon, we have always humored It's
delusion and have been glad to con-
cede that both were natives Of North
Carolina.-New York Sun.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

castro" says one contemporary
mas lost himself" Well for mercy's
sake, don't neIp him hunt.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
Nothing Else 10 Dlnmc.

Adam had Just blamed II on the woman
There wasn't any tariff" he exclaimed.
Herewith ali agreed he had done his best
--Ncw York sun.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14
MERELY JOKING.
Present Company E,cepted.

"slr, you are the Dlsscs, acoundscl the,
know"
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Teaching school

Do you think could qualify myself
TO teach school by this fall, having
only passed through the lower school?
4 SUBSCRIBER.
We suppose YOU refer to the gram
mar school when you speak OF the
"lower school" You could hardly quail
ify 10 teach in any of the Richmond
schools with such training. Should
you intend to make teaching your pro
fession. YOU should at the least finish
the course in the High School
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From, Bruises /.

Bacon: ~ see the London suhtraset,e!
have adopted colors.'
Esbert: What arc they? Black ant
blue ?"-Yonkers Statesman.