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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
Bad PenmQnship of the Present
By MRS. JOHN A, LOGAN
Generation


1t is to befhoped that In the many
changes that are being made In the
management of the schools of the
country penmanship viii be included
in the subjects that are to receive es-
gpecial attention and In which there is
to be reformation.
If one would compare the penman-
of the present day with that OF per-
sons who never graduated from any
school in the days of old, they would
find the greatest possible difference.
Persons of the present day. write
without any attempt at legible Chi
Biography, and the recipients OF COM
munlcations written with q pen use
much time and patience to decipher
them There Is now no ATTEMPT ut
form; in the handwriting Of the ma
I do not mean that 1t Is necessary
Tor the pupils and students of this era
to waste time acquiring penmanship
equal to steel engraving. but it is GER
on records at least, should be of such
a character that any one could read it
readily
Horace Greedy had an unenvlable
reputation for his bad writing, and it
would seem that many persons are try
ing to copy ms hierog'yphics. whtc.,
conveyed various meanings, according
to the dispositions of those who under
took to read what he wrote.
empl DO .o to wliom a Mr. ar easna gave
a letter in which he expressed his con-
domination OF the character of the en-.
ployo and his general worthlessness
was taken by the discharged party
ley's letter. were told by the appll-
cant that 1t was latter OF indorse-
ment from Mr.. Greeley. This being
accepted as true, he was given em-
ployment at larger salary than he
had received from Mr. Greeley
The use of stenography and type
great difference in this matter. bul
It should be the business OF educa-
tors 70 insist upon persons acaIlr-
them to express themselves legibly
I notice with much pleasure tina,
Mrs. Ella Young lsuperinttendent Of
and presented to a firm, whose mem
specal attention to this defect In the
curriculum Of the public schools.
Girls educated in converts usually
write much better than those edu-
Of the fact that the sisters are very
rainstalsing in everything they do,
and no pupil receives commendatlon
who is. careless in her handwriting. i
party 70 sus mGpseve mstte In to ashns
writing, emphasized the fact that HI.
no S time to waste wa teps on desipherlng H.
alegible~ penmanship. 1t would be a
good thing fillmore persona We're as
frank as President Roosevelt,
There was time when social cor
respondence was~ written a1toaGther
with pen, but as the typewriter be-
came moro popular It Is no longer
considered discourteous to send COM
muncations to friend written on
tho typewriter, This may or may not
be q good thing, but It certainly pres
vents many mistakes being made. IT,,
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, thought the other side had treated
with contempt and disrespect. The
changes were Significant. Instead OF
I'VE. the people of the United States"
the Constitution for tho newly erected
Southern Confederacy read I'VE, the
people of the Confederate states, each
state acting In It's sovereign and indc-
pendent character" This Constitution
was adopted on February s, ana on
February . tho President was chosen.
This was Jefferson Davis, for some time
Secretary OF War and member of the
United States Congress-.
The Inauguration exercises were to
be held on February is. Tie band
master was to furnish music FOR the
occasion, music for parades balls. con-
yentions and other political rallieo.
There was little available tina, was
suitable. Something new must be had
Cor the presidential Inauguration, any
way. The pretty Southern girl had
capitulated by now ana was Mrs. Ar
nold, TO her came an inspirations:
Mr.. Arnold why not play Dixie for
the parade? 1t is catchy, pretty air."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

Equality is a chimera of bookworms
and Missionaries, who have never
studied nature and humanity with
their own eyes. The French Revolu-
ton thought it had condensed the
thoughts OF encyclopedias when an
nounced its motto to be: "Liberte,
Egalite. Fraternite"
Liberty So far, right. II this word
has any meaning at all 1t can only be
that the obstacles have been removed
which had hindered or prevented the
free play of the natural powers of the
Individual and of society; obstacles
usually in the form of laws, which
owed their existence to the supersti-
ton and folly of short-sighted men.
Fraternity? Oh, this is a sublime
word, the ideal goal of human progress,
q presage of the condition OF our race
at the time when 1t attains to the
summit of its fullest development, a
time still far remote.
But equality? That is n mere
creature of the imagination. for which
there is no room in any sensible dis
cussion. In justice to the period, pre-
ceding the French Reyolution3it must
be said that it never discussed and
proclaimed social equality, but mere
ly personal equality before the DAVIS
But the authors and leaders of the
great revolution did not publish this
Distinction; they sought for a striking
and an appealing word. and in their
famous motto sacrificed accuracy
to brevity. Thus "Egalite." without
any modifying term. appeared in the
trail Of the revolutionary program, and
the multitudes, who are apt to. repeat
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

at the same time. 1t unfortunately
encourages the disuse OF tho pen.
The changing of the Spencerian
style of penmanship to the vertical
style OF writing has not been an i'm
provement in pennanship. Vertical
wiring is most ungraccful and -un-
attractive, and Is not to be compared
to the Spencerian style OF penmanshtp,
which 1t is to be hoped VIII be re-
instated in all OF the schools of tho
country.
Pcnmanship was formerly suppos-
ed to Indicate the character OF tho
writer 1t would be unfortunate IL
that standard should be applied mt
the present time, as surely 1t would
signify very irregular characters.
Naturally It is more important that
what is written should be worth the
writing, independent of the chiros-
raphy: nevertheless, 1t Is a pity to put
golden thoughts In undecipherablc
hieroglyphics, as the force of the
thought Is lost In an attempt to study
out the meanlg of the characters sup
posed to be handwriting.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
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Suffolk Social News.

Especial to rho Times -Dspatch.l
Suffolk. Va. January 2a,--Mrs. lin es :
H. Corbltt. at her home ~ 5,n ..,i
bers of the Tuesday cara CLUB. me
guest prize, a library set, went TO MISS
McGwigan. of Enfield, n q; tne r,np
prize, All article of neckwcar, 10 Mrs.
George z. Trquhart and the lone
hand prize, a lace iabot. to Mrs John
Thornton Withers. Other players we're
Mrs. James G. Causey. III. Mru. y: u.
Z. Holiday, Miss Lulio Grnnip, Mrs
George Lloyd Barton, Miss Louise
Britt, Misses Virginia and Nell Jordan,
Miss Lillian Norfleet, Mrs. g. w. Jen-
lsins, Mrs. John Copeland Hclladay.
Mrs. c.. j. Riddlcl, Mrs. robert j. Nor
fleet. Mrs. Frank G. Whaley, Mrs.
Miss Anna Mary Riddick, Mrs M. T..
Withers, Mrs Fl. L. Elan. Miss Mary
judith Smith. Mrs. j. NJ. Darden. Mrs.
Claude Ga, s, G. Gahoon Mrs hieT Miss NY
]. l.. McLemore
The Married Peoples Card Club was
entertained Tuesday evening by Mrs.
We're three tables OF bridge. The guest
prize. fancy bag. was won by Miss
katharine Brothers. tho wonians prize,
q fancy plate. by Mrs. L. D. Tanner.
and the mems prize, brass match
safe. by r. l.. Woodward
The Magazine Club was entertained
OF j o'clock this afternoon by Miss
Mario Woodward, in Bank Street
Miss Martha Darden entertained the
S. j. C. Club at o'clock yesterday
Mrs. Harry vesey. of Norfolk. has
finished visit with Miss Virginia
Lynch.
Miss Rosa Bruce has returned from
n visit to Norfolk friends.
Mrs. Robert Holton and son. of Nor
folk, have returned home after visit
to Mr.. and Mrs w. y. King, in-,yVeA
Washington Street.
Miss Elm. Jones is visiting friends
in Newark. n. j.
Mrs. Harry S. Herman, of Norfolk.
this week has been a guest of Mrs.
l.. S. Baker. in Main Street.
Mrs. Murray Priest and mother. Mrs.
Hardy, of iJtichmond. have been enters
tanned this week by the Misses Jor-
dan.
The Suffolk Literary Club was enter
tanned Thursday afternoon by Mrs.
James III. Corbitt.
Miss Margaret Phillips has arrived
home from Hollins Institute.
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Some years ago young Lew Fields
in talking to aged Dan Emmett. re-
called the fact that he would always
be among the immortals because ho
had composed "Dixic.' Emmett mod
estly replied: NO, the fame rs not
mine True. ! wrote Dixie and made
IL popular on the stage. but II was n
Southern musician wlio arranged IL
for his band and gave IL to the world.''
This Southern musician ts Herman
Arnold, of Memphis, cnrnotist, band
master. director of many orchestras
He was the first to orchestrate Dixie"
the popular vaudeville melody that En-
NETT had composed in few minutes to
fill In a zap in his New York prograni.
1t was played first by a band at the
inauguration of Jefferson Davis as
President of the Confectionery. And the
tale is romantic one.
Professor Arnold was a very young
fellow then. He had been in America
with his father and two brothers only
seven years. being a native of. Ger
many. born near Leipstc in 1897. His
orchestra played an engagement IN
Montgomery some time in 1859. lie
went serenadng one night with some
of his music-loving friends ,nerc. ana
because of this serenade met beau
k,iIl,
signed up for concerts for the next
year. He remained after that to teach
and to organize a band. of Which his
orchestra was the nucleus. and the
fact that the pretty Southern girl was
still in Montgomery had something to
do. 1t seems, with the musical progress
of that city
This band was known as Arnold
Southern American Band. 1t was the
only one in the South except the ono
In New Orleans. and the first one that
Alabama had ever had. 1t was an In
stitution that met with speedy appro-
hation. Rooms were set aside In the
State House for tho practice of the
band and to be used as instruction
rooms by the young bandmasters The
Governor and his staff dropped IN 10
hear the lessons and the rehearsals,
and the men of the organization were
well-nigh to having their heads turned
with praise Once the band went 10
Selma, going by boat down the river.
for there was no railway then n!no-
ing the towns together. 1t was When
the Sou n was in a ferment and disrup-
ton near. The hand Waved 'ove- airs
such as "Suwanee River" and the
town went wild over it. The South
was music-loving and music-mad IN
those days. Not long before that
Jenny Lind had gone by boat frota
Nashville to Memphis to sing before
an enthusiastic people and have her
carriage dragged back to the boat by
admirers. True. her maid was III the
carriage, and Miss Lind walked. lleav-
lily yelled, in the crowd but none was
the wiser, and the crowd had paid the
compliment IL intended
At Selma Arnold had gifts of iewelry,
canes, trinkets showered on him. a
bag of $40 goldpieces was handed him
as nc left for the boat on his return
trip to Montgomery.
The ferment in the South grew
greater. In the winter South Caro-
lima withdrew from the Union. 9TH
ers followed On February a. 1861, a
Constitutional Convention was held In
Montgomery. The Constitution adopt
ed was modelled after the one which
each side of the divided country
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It had been heard on the stage at
Montgomery and had appealed TO the
popular taste 1t had only been played
on piano so far.
The idea seemed good. Professor
Arnold set to work arranging 1t for
the uses of his various band instru-
ments, and on a sheet of paper made a
rough draft of the arrangement. The
| band rehearsed this, with other music
| for several days. 1 seemed worthy a
good place on the program. So when
the procession was formed on tho
morning of February is. 1861, at the
Exchange Hotel to escort the Presi-
dent-elect, Jefferson Davis, to the
State House, shortly to become the
Capitol of the Confederacy, Arnold's
band was placed at the head. with the
First Alabama Regiment next. and rs
the carriage, drawn by six gray horses,
swung into place, tho band played
Dixie
And this was the first time in the
history of that most popular Of all
American airs that Dixie" was ever
played by band, given place among
the street airs and placed in the roper
toire OF the whistling. singing. cheer
ing public.
that day. 1t was stationed near the
steps Of the State House. when Davis,
standing before & little table, took the
oath OF office and made an address.
Then slowly flag f1uttered to the staff
above the State House. IT was mas
with the tri-colors of liberty. stripes
of alternating red and white. with a
cluster of white stars ON a blue field.
Somewhere near the building cannon
doomed. The crowd turned TO the
band. Dixie! DiXie!" it cried, and
over and over again the band played
pixie" Since then it is safe to say
that no crowd has ever heard the tuns
played through in silence. The music
Is usually drowned out before the band
has turned the tune"
Prophetic Davis. two days after his
Inauguration, wrote his wife: II was
inaugurated here Monday having
reached here on Saturday night. The
audience was large and brilliant. Up
on my weary heart was showered
smlles, plaudits and flowers; but be-
yond them ] saw troubles and thorns
innumerable."
The troubles came swiftly, but the
air that Arnold had given toithe South
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Cismont Social News.

Especial to The Times -Dispatch.l
Slsmont. Va. January 29-Beautltui
Grace Church is to be open on sunday
morning. when divine service Will be
Of Trinity Church, Frederlclssburg.
The Chesapeake and Ohio suryeS
through the country has created
great .sar deal OF consternat ion JTls.
most Is a matter t.; aH Of conjecture. for
several lines have been run. The rail-
ROADS are not rcspecters or persons
ana complaints are heard on every slde
OF me survey being laid through lroni
even parlors.
Mrs, Houghton of "Brookwood." has
been quite Ill for the pas. fortnight;
The , Goehnm Bridge Club has missed missed
home Mes Where 1therng a. me- hospta 1
mas made the CLUB meeting always
Jolllty.
Miss Charlotte Randolph. of Glove
ton.
Mrs; Murray Boocook, q "caat ala"
anu MRS. Allen Potts. of castle Alll'
were ae,a n GEharlottesville on Momday', ,a
Ut. Everett, Jr.,, OF "lSlnaoo, nsa A ~
auite recovered from severe case o.
sS,h!ckenpoN, and is able to return TO
MS studies a school .
v,, JoMn robinson. OF New YORK. 10
S'Sr.anG NE family Of II. y. Money, -
or Dr. Robert shackleford.. of Hay.
market, and Miss Mary Boiling. eldest
u. nn I,o Of bartlett Boiling OF ffes-
,,,s MISS Marshall. of charlottesville, I, n ~
bell 'Ni'"'' y t'i0 ~
The kiswlck hunt has found bad 60
i1s tu'a Ky, Rain and snow have . romd
sn epsa me soil too heavy fof guy
SHe muddy roads have made the
mI ,iaaoS, once more safe and 5sersMNo NJ
sutog Tor riders and drivers; . ), ~ ~
au'oN'op1le could plow sits way thisusN
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joycd 81 delightful meeting at the CiB-
mont Hull Thursday last. Every meni-
Der was present.
Spotsylvania Social News.
Special to Tho Times- jspntch. /

lSDcclal to Tho TimeS-DjSpntch.J
SpotsylVania, Va, January 29.-N 81.
fSinsey. OF fredericksburg, has return
ed home after q short stay OF acveral
days In Spotsylvanla.
Nelson v. Carter. Or McHenry. has
been the guest OF friends in Spotsyl-
Yanla.
Colonel r. G. Blaydes. OF spo.syI-
vanin. Is the guest of his friends W
washington
has returned home after q sojourn OF
eovernl days Mt Sunlight, vn.
Miss 1varenc F'razer, after visit
OF month to friends in Newport
Nows, has returned home.
Thomas Brown, OF Smell, Va. is at
home again after visit of two months
to West Virginia.
Make BlaYdes. OF Mt Pleasant, Va.
Is at home again after visiting friends
at fredericksburg.
i. r. III. CrisJrond has returned home
after visiting Richmond.
Tho Misses Smith, OF Baltimore. are
guests of friends in Spotsylvaniu, and
fredericksburg.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

Albomarle mud. when II gets in really
good sbape--as mud. Pistols and
horns are left at homo, and tho COM
munit1 can fare fortl, with no danger
10 llic or limb from the vagaries
or horse suddenly panic stricken by
'no rush and snort OF u touring cur
:, NV. and Mrs. sholto Douglas. OF
from England.
Mrs, James Page, Of the university.
Is visiting at Keswick farm.
Tho Alpha SEmn Club greatly en-
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Norwood Social News.

Especial to The -Dispatch,l
Norwood, Va, January 29.-Captain
Steadman and little Miss Lila Gray
left last week to spend some time in
Washington.
G. Cabell Robinson has returned to
his home in Ell Paso, Tex.
Miss Annie Turner spent last week
with Miss Nettie Cash, of Midway.
Russell Akers and the Misses Akers,
OF Gladstone, We're the guests OF Miss
Winnie Bolton Saturday and sunday.
Rev, j. j. Gregory left hero on Mon
day to visit his home in Greenyille
county
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
Shall I'LL Men Ever Be Egu0I?.
By MAX NORDAU-

Party cries without reflection. adopted
the term az meaning equality In the
sense In which 1t is accepted by the
democrats of the Partisan wine shops
Equality even before the laws is
possible only in theory: in reality Il
is impracttcable. 1t is true that IL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

was making history mat on the back
he had scrubbed the notes OF WMltH
he was arranging for his batd. me
paper Is yellow and old, but 't 10 one
OF the most valuable In the so'itn, noth
from IL musicians ara PsISlot'c
southorncr,s point of view, ands hen
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
THE MAN WHO MADE DIXIE FAMOUS

suitable rooms have been provided
for the growing Confederate collections
IN Memphis, Professor Arnold Will
give this manuscript to be preserved
to the South with its souvenirs OF 9TH
or days, with it's memories and It's
glories.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

"rhe cry that. rang through shilohs
woods
And Chickamauga's solitudcs.
The fierce South cheering on her sons"
Davis has passed on to greater re-
ward than the South ever gave him
for the sacrifice he made In taking
leadership for which he did not deem
himself fitted; a reward beyond the
irons at Fortress Monroe md the citi-
zenship denied. The senl of the Con-
federatc States, brave In its wreaths
and letters OF gold and It's 'Deo Vim
dice" Is only a souvenir of a cause
that was lost. The flag that Davis ac-
cepted. protesting. as substitute for
the stars and stripes of tho United
States, IS a thing now only for song
and story. A reunited nation garlands
alike the graves of those who wore
the blue and the gray. A new South
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ANNA B. A. BROWN

felt werc guaranteed TO them in the
Constitution adopted by tho thirteen
sColonIes seventy odd years before. The
rebel yell went with It,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

through his band was a tune to fight
TO and a time to die by. There was
a Tilt in the lines, trumpet call In
the gay little tune that put courage
into men and sent them to fight and
die unprotesting for the "land of cot
ton" and for the principles that they
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

~rhe cry that, rang through shiloh's
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

And Chickamauga's solitudcs.
The fierce South cheering on her sons"
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OCCASION

Llamamos Ia atenci6n 4 las Damas
de gusto, sobre la grandiosa y nunca
vista EXHIBICION DE CALZA-
DO que tienen los Seiiores Cuetova
Hermonos en- su establecimiento calle
de la Fortaleza No. 25, pues ademas
de su gran fabrica de ZAPAYos COVER
Way va bien conocida en- Puerto Ri
co, instalan otra, de caizado para Sc
iloras y sehoritas, de las clases mas ii.
mas que ell este articulo SC conocen,
admitiendo encargos desde un par en-
adelante.
CCETARA HERMANOS.
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