The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17

IHE IIMESs -sDlSPA4SJt
the story told in Sue yAfnslie Clark
and Edith Wyatts Making Both Ends
Meet" an important publication of this
fall on tho income and outlay of New
York working girls. Miss Johnson, an
inquirer for The Consumers League.
worked in one of the department stores
during the week preceding Christmas
to obtain material bearing on the real
life and experiences OF sales girls.
When tho rush began Miss Johnson
was transferred from the ncckwear to
| the muller department All the girls
here stood all day long--from to Il
o'clock, and from / to s at night
| in the first day: from at noon to
10 and IL at night as the season
i proErcsscd: and on the last dreadful
nights from noon to the following
. midnight. The girls had 80 cents
/ supper money. Except for that all this
extra labor was unpaid for. The work
\ WAS insistent: the girls were nervous.
! hateful. splteful with one another: the
| manager, beautiful and extremely
rough girl of nineteen, sworc constant
ily at them all. The customers were
! grabbing, insistcnt unreasonable from
morning until evening and from even
! Ing until midnight. Behind the count
| er. with the advance OF the day, the
exhaustion and evaporation. In the
i two weeks of Miss Johnson's service
ono customer once thanked her; and
one tipped her 3 cents for the rapid
return OF parcel Both these acts
or consideration took place in the
morning. Miss Johnson said that this
/ was fortunate for her. as, at one word
Of ordinary consideration toward the
| end OF her long days work, she
! thought she must have burst into
| tears
| "'rhc Men I'm Gray"
+, BY Robert Catlctt Cave Published
in Nashville. Tenn, by the Confederate
| Veteran.
The author of this eloquent and
beautiful tribute has dedicated II to
The Mcn In Gray, who. With match
| less courage, fought to maintain the
principles of the Constitution and per-
pctuate the government established by
their fathers" Robert Catlctt Cavo
was himself n MAN in Gray" and
what he has written here is common
orativc OF comrades with whom he
| fought i'll the Army OF Northern Nir-
Sinin.
native of Orange county. Va. Mr.
Cave was for years pustor of Seventh
street Christian Church in Richmond.
and delivered the grafton at the un-
yelling Of the monument to the sol
dcrs and sailors of tho Confedcracy in
F, Richmond on May 80. 1891. 1t is this
| Grafton that names Mr.. Caves book
and finds n throbbing echo in tho
, hearts Of those, who, like himself,
served the Confcderacy,> and have
sons and Erandsons loyal to tho faith
OF their ancestors. To these mon of
a Younger generation MIR. Cave says in
his oration: Peace as well as war
demands high devotion and unswerv-
| ing loyalty. If with peace we have
decay OF patriotism and loss of virtue
and the triumph of private over public
| interests. and the sccrifcc of law and
| justice to secure partisan ends: II with
peace we have the accumulation OF
wealth at the cost of the country's
welfare and the honest manhood of
It's citizens, that peace must provo
but the slippery. downward path TO
the ruin in which SO many nations.
once great and prosperous, have been
| swallowed up"
In addition to the 1894 Grafton. which
AT the time 1t was delivered, excited
a wide comment and aroused unlim-
tied interest, the book contains "A De-
Tense OF the South" and more re-
Gently delivered Grafton on Cavalier
| Loyalty and Puritan Disloyalty in
America"
In his defense of his native section
Mr.. Cave docs not disparagc the
Northern soldiers or their leaders,
But he explains the attitude of the
South, and thus tells his reason for
doing so: "if the South would not
have her children IN the years to come
wish 10 forget rather than remember
the deeds of their ancestors, instead
of permitting the statements OF those
unable to understand her or who will
fully misrcprcscnt her to go rnqucs
, toned. she must tell her own story
and tell II with persistent reitcration.
she must refutc the charge that her
sons, solely to pcrpctuatc slavery,
be rbarous in its character and con-
dcmned by the moral sense of the
whole civilized world outside OF them
selves renowned their rightful ale
glance rcbcllcd against tho govern
mcnt established by the wisdom and
patriotism of their fathers and plunged
this country into the horrors OF a war
in which hundrcds of thousands were
sacrificed and almost every nome in
the land was converted into a house
OF mourning"
Mr.. Cave. by reference to the causes
which led to Bacon's Rebellion and
which brought out a choice of loyalty
TO the land in which they had made
homes for themselves. on the part of
Nirginans. 1T the time OF the Amcri-
can Revolution; by tho insiStcncc of
NirCipians that the Constitution once
adopted should he interpreted and
ohcycd according to it's plain meaning,
contrasts the spirit Of Cavalier obc-
diencc and Keeping faith. with the
dsobcdicncc of the Puritans. who had
rcbcllcd against constituted authority
in England, who prccipitatcd the Rev
olutionary War hy their spirit of dcii-
ancc who. during Jcncrscn's admins
tration plotted 10 form Northern
Cnnfcdcracy who were practically in
state nr rebellion during the War of
ISL. who merged the disgrace of Fed
| cr:.lism in the nntiSlavcry party. which