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The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

use in their business, vaudeville agents
have deluged her with offers to go on
the stage, artists have impiored her to
pose for paintings, moving picture con
Germs want her as a subject for a set
of films and department stores baVe
made overtures to her to act as model
for the display of gowns and millinery.
1t came about in this way. Miss
Lee is graduate of the Margaret Nor
rison Technical school of Pittsburgh.
one of Mr.. Carnegie's philanthropic
enterprises. When her father met Mr..
Carnegie at Hot Springs he thanked
him for the educational advantage Miss
Virginia had enjoyed at the school
Mr.. Carnegie asked for the girls pic
ture.
Mr.. Carnegie was Immediately struck
with her demure attractiveness and at
once pronounced her the pretticst girl
In the world. His expression was wide
Iy printed Miss Lee took the story
rather good naturcdIy. at first. but the
annoyance which resulted became very
embarrassing to her. so that she soon
wished that Mr.. Carnegie had kept his
opinion to himself.
! Miss Lee has a great wealth or
I brown hair and big blue eyes, but her
own opinion is that she is mot so,beau
tiful as all that"
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

spheres. The heralds of the middle
ages blazoned 1t on the shields of war
riors. Today it is used as mystic
symbol among the secret societies
which ape the form but have lost the
soul which animated the brotherhood
of those ages. Modern heralds term
It gammadion and crux gammata. con-
sidering it as composed of a fourfold
repetition of the Greek gamma. The
Buddhists call 1t "swastika" or. in the
Pail form. ''suti." meaning "It Is Well
or $50 be it, and it is the symbol Of
resignation. Its use extended from the
earliest day to the present. 1t is found
on early Hindu coins and seals and Is
used today by women both as an or
nament and as charm against evil.
few, however. being aware Of its ORR
gin or significance.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
PRESIDENT TAFT.

thESlDhNI IAS L
were on the calendar. and this usually
is the case, he arranges for them TO
call in the afternoon or on another day.
For a half hour he goes over nomina-
lions which are to be sent to the sen
ate for confirmation and then signs
mail and state papers.
/ 80 o. m.-Luncheon. The president
usually takes one or more OF his cali
ers to luncheon. Mrs. Taft is always
present at this meal When the presi-
dent does not get away from his office
at exactly 1:3O Mrs. Taft sends for him
or telephones and says that unless ne
hurries he will get cold lunch An
hour and half usually are spent at
luncheon and chatting afterward.
b. m.-The president returns to his
Office He takes up department mat
ters. Very often he summons cabi-
net officer for a discussion of mat
fer which is up for settlement. He
then takes up the calendar again and
roes through with his callers Leg1s-
! lafiye matters, too, come in for discus
sion. The president keeps himself IN
close touch with the activities of con-
eress. He dictates, too. in this period:
also reads the afternoon newspapers.
6 d. m.--Walk. President Taft takes
o walk every afternoon, rain or shine
If caller happens to be with the
president at o'clock be is asked to
accompany him. Mr.. Taft is accom-
nHnied on these walks by Secretary
Hilles and his military aid. General
subjects are the matters of conversa-
tion on these walks.
IN. m.-Dresses for dinner.
7:30 to $50 p. m.-Dinner. The din
ner hour varies. but never more than
an hour. During the winter the presi-
dent and Mrs. Taft go to the theatre
two nights week. When they do
they have an earlier dinner. The nights
they are at home the dinner hour Is
7:30 The nights spent home the din
ner occupies more than an hour. some
times running into two hours.
$50 D. m.-Brfdge with Mrs. Taft or
some guest or an hour or so with his
family.
1890 D. m.--work. For the greater
part of an hour and half the presl-
dent again gets down to the affairs OF
the nation. II the night happens to be
one Just before his departure on trip
he devotes the time to debating his
speech
II p. m.-Reads. The presiden'
spends the half hour before retiring In
reading. Sometimes he will take up
some popular fiction, but as a rule he
reads historical works.
1890 q. m.-Retires. he sleeps
soundly and says six hours are sufti-
cient for him.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

REPRESENTATIVE JOHN DALzELL.
tinuous service. he having entered con
gress six years earlier than General.
Bingham.
Serene r. Payne. former chairman OF
the ways and means committee and
floor leader of the Republicans. would
have succeeded General Bingham to
the title except for a gap in his long
career in the house. running from the
Forty eighth congress. He was not re
elected to the Fiftieth session
Representative Dalzell> has served
through thirteen sessions Of congress.
having entered the house with the FIT
tieth congress. Next to him in regard
to longevity Of service comes Jones of
Virginia. Bartholdt of Missouri. Cooper
Of Wisconsin, Gardner of New Jersey
and Mccall of Massachusetts.
The Democrat Oldest In point of con-
/ tinuous service after Mr.. Jones OF Eir-
ginia Is Judge Bartlett of Georgia J..
Fred Talbot of Maryland. however.
i was accorded the honor of acting as
father of the house on the occasion OF
the swearing in of Champ Clark rs
( speaker. Talbot entered the Forty
sixth congress at the same time with
General Bingham. but for ten years he
stayed at home-during the Forty
i ninth. Fiftieth and Fifty-frst con
resses.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

VIEW Of The LAW
A Race Living In Midst of a
Civilization Later Than
Their Own.
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make meal of it or hOminy of it. 1He
government meant nothing to him, He
owed it nothing. The law gave him
no protection. He did not need it. lie
protected himself when he had an
enemy; otherwise there was no pro
tecting to do The revenue officer was
to him a mere invader, and when he
had arrested their brothers and fathers
and sons end carried them off to Jail IL
the civilized settlements in the valley
they have come down and rescued
them, as their ancestors might have
rescued clansmen of theirs held In q
robber barons hold.
From jail delivery to taking pr1s-
oner out of the courtroom where he IS
standing for sentence is short STEP
for to carry out our figure, the Judge
represents the robber baron, and the
court officers are his minions The
next step of shooting the judge and
the court officers in the act Of doing
Justice becomes equally simple and
natural, for it is merely doing venge
ance upon the robber baron in his
hall-a favorite performance or the
mountaineer's ancestors, However,
that particular thing had never hap
pened in all the history of the noun
tain country until the tragedy at Hliis-
vile.
II appears, however, that the Aliens
of Carroll county are not exactly typi-
cal mountaineers. One of them lived
In q pretentious modern house, with
such fancy improvements as baths
and gasights. Reports say 1t cost
$4,000. Comparison Of its architec-
ture with the severe. classical dignity
of the old porticoed courthouse OF
Carroll county and with the galleried
front of the old tavern shows all the
gan between the old and the new.
Hillsville is an old town. and 1t is OBJ
vious that the owner of Sidna Aliens S
house belongs to the new rich.
Yet in houses like that the Aliens
maintained Illicit stills and mace whis-
ky, Just as they might have made II
in the cabin hidden in the mountain
| glen, where such things are commonly
| found.
Up to the point Of the battle in the
| courtroom there were plenty Of noun
taineers in Carroll county whose sym
pathy would lie all on the side Of the
! Aliens. Even after the battle there
would remain many who might not be
able to see the enormity of the offense
| of aYtarmipatinp n court of law As
| to the mere killing of men, the noun
| taineer's view of that is the seven
| teenth century view.
According to the Virginia papers. the
threats Of the Aliens and their KIND
were responsible for the resignation
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

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In g.,rt ,I,nrt u.t .u!, sr,.rc- the
,.i,,,., [,tn,..,i,,,l I.v tn. ,,,c Ling
oI,,ut thp uattrr n'r j, even mors
I.,,,, ,ho, ,,,g ,,j.. ru.}r IN his deter
,riu,tinn to rrgIizr Them
Aincrt bat,,n lo interest himself In
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
JOHN DALZELl.

Pennsylvania Congressman Who Has
Just Become "Father of the House."
The title of father of the house,
held so many years by the late Con.
gresham Bingham. has descended to
another Pennsyivanian. Representa-
tive John Dalzell of Pittsburgh.
The death Of General Bingham re-
moved from the scenes of the house Of
representatives the member longest In
continuous service. Former Speaker
Cannon, but for one unhappy express
sion in speech in the Fifty-first con-
gress, which resulted In his defeat at
the polls the following fall, would have
to his credit thirty-nine years OF con-
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

to shipping that he presented himself
to the people to whom he went for
information and who were in every
case wholly ignorant Of his rank.
He Is the only newspaper reporter
who has ever become king and when
lie visits the United States deserves as
such to be made an honorary member
of every American press club.
The exhaustive study which be was
thus able to make of the principal sea
ports of the old world before bis ac-
cession he wishes to continue in the
western hemisphere. though necessn-
rily under somewhat altered condi-
tions, for. try as he may. he will no
longer be able to pose as reporter
He will travel under some Relgian
title as an ordinary noblemnn. and it
IS, in that capacity that he will visit
New York and the principal ports OF
the Atlantic seaboard. comforting with
the port authorities. with the cham
bers of commerce and the lenders OF
the shipping interests With view to
the organization Of OverSen traffic be
tween Reigium and her great foreign
markets.
While on this side Of the ocean be
expects to devote ut least two weeks
to the examination of the Panama
canal work and later on, perhaps in
the following. year, hopes to extend his
investigations 10 the Atlantic seaports
of South America.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

glow Tie animal must be looking al
most directly at you. Whatever light
there be must come from behind or
above you. The cats eye is power
full lens with reflector behind IL
This gathers the rays and concen-
trates them in a horizontal beam 1t
is possible that these shining eyes ex-
ercise sort of hypnotic fascination for
mice and rats. 1t may also be that the
ray they cast, slender and faint though
it be, serves to light up their prey suf-
6ciently for their keen eyes to see it
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

Photo by American Press Association
s1pNA EDWARDS, CAPTURED MEMBER OF
THE ALLEN GANG, AND DETECTIVE lat
TUE LEFT.
descent. which make it necessary to
judge not only what they did. but how
they came to do 1t. by standards which
are not those of the country at large.
The mountaineers who live In the
fastnesses of the Appalachians are
peculiar people nnd are most peculiar
where they are most numerous and
most isolated-namely. in the ALE
ghenies lying In the states of Virginia.
Kentucky. Tennessee and North Caro-
lima These mountaineers were de-
scendants In large measure of those
immigrants from the British isles to
the American colonies who were least
fitted to prosper In the new country.
The meanest spirited among them re
mained upon bare patches of the set
tied country. They are the ancestors
Of that element scattered through all
sections of Virginia. for instance. from
tidewater to Piedmont and beyond
The better sort among them. along
with many offshoots of families origi-
nally more advantageously placed. re
| tired into the mountains. In the noun
! tains In the course of few genera
tions they grew up to the full stature
OF the mountaineer. Some of them
joined the pioneers and pushed on be-
yond into the west. Others got no far
| ther than the mountain barrier, re
mained in their wiIds and became the
ancestors of the iawless 100000 or so
morntaineers who are tucked away in
the pockets of the Appalachians in our
own day
As for the mountain people whose
origin has been suggested. they lived
apart They stood still while theiI i'm
mediate neighbors aud those who re
NAMED in the lower country to the east
/ of them and those who had pushed on
! to the west of them moved on and be
/ came the nation that we know Once
| only they were drawn into the main
1 stream of the life of that hation. That
/ was when the nation was torn by the
civil war. The war came to the noun
taineers. and the mountaineers fought
They fought on both sides. But most
Of them in the Virginias. in Tennessee.
Kentucky and Carolina fought on the
i Union side.
The end of the war found the noun
taineer following his immemorial Gus
i tom of making part Of his poof
corn crop into whisky. Sometimes ne
committed murder. and that brought
about a blood feud and other murders
But these things were and are spo
J radio. Moreover bis feuds were con
fined to his fellow mountaineers The
| strangers life was as safe except for
the hap of some chance bullet as the
strangers purse.
This is all true unless. Of course. the
| stranger is suspected of being an of
, ficer of the United States government
/ about the business of collecting inter
nal revenue-in other words. the whis.
| ky tax
The mountaineer had no conscious
1 ness of wrongdoing no conviction OF
sin. He had made whisky of bis corn
He had as much right to do that. ae
cording to his lights. as he had fe
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

~ NE day only recently, as all the
q country knows, a handful OF
mountain men shot down a
Virginia judge upon the bench
as he was IN the at Of prOnouncng
sentence upon one Of their clan. killed
the two remaining most conspicuous
representatives Of the Iaw-the attor
ney for the commonwealth and the
Shorthand mortally wounded two
others. 1t was q blow at the incarnate
majesty of the law itself, so bold and
so startling that it seemed a thing al
most Incredible Yet it has been recog-
nized by a number Of commentators
on the affair that there are circum-
stances in the lives of those noun
tain men, facts in their history and
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
NEW YORK PRIMARY BALLOTS.

Some of Them Were Fourteen Feet
Lorg-Votsrs Were Handicapped.
The unwieldIy ballot used at the re-
rent New York primary election has
come in for considerable criticism
When they read Of ballot eight and
In some cases fourteen feet long many
people probably thought the stories
were exaggerated. However. they were
not
The ballots were one foot wide
Those used in one assembly district
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

It is a sacred
s Y IN b ol in the
tombs of Egypt
and in the cata-
combs of Rome.
1t is craven on
t h e prehistoric
temples of both
the eastern and
W q st prn heni-
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

all the light that
may reach them.
If the cat be In
& totally dark
room you can
not see its eyes.
1t is only when
there is at least
q glimmer OF
light that these
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

Photo by American Press Association.
sBARPsHooTER ENGAGED IN THE VIRGINIA
MAN HUNT
of the predecessor OF Judge Thornton
L. Massie. the man who died at his
post of duty upon The bench.
1t is significant of the cleavage be-
tween the mountaineer point of view
and that of the rest of the community
that on the Sunday after the tragedy
the local parson in Hillsville itself
preached a sermon strongly rejecting
the indignation of good citizens and
pointing out the necessity of stern deal
ings with the invaders of the sanctu-
ary of society.
Further to mark the spirit of the
community. outside of the PECULIAR peo-
pie in the mountains, judge of the
municipal court of Roanoke. city
which itself is set down in the midst
of mountains. stepped at once into the
place of the man the outlaws had slain
Walter Staples. upon the order of the
governor Of the commonwealth, went
to Hillsville. and a special grand jury
assembled by him lost no tire in in-
dieting eight of the leaders of the Allen
tribe, who, according 10 well authen-
ticated report. had made a compact to
stand by each other and see to it that
no one Of them ever went TO jail.
That action makes clear the fashion
I'm which the mountaineer. who is his
own law. lives cheek by jowl with the
law respecting citizen
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
SARAH BERNHARDT.

Her Portrayal of Celebrated Roles to
Be Perpetuatsd In Films.
Sarah Bernhardt is film. The
great French actress recently acted
Camille before a moving picture
camera and has agreed. likewise to
perpetuate her portrayal Of the other
celebrated roles which have made her
name famous.
Nine Bernhardt was paid $4,000,
but the financial consideration was
not uppermost in her mind. She was
persuaded to play before the camera
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

H E arises until he retires may be
seen from the following:
Arises at G:30 q. IN. and for fifteen
minutes engages in physical eXeteise
some mornings with his physical di
rector, DR.. Barker. and sometimes
without. The president uses the Swed
ish system of calesthenics.
Gas a. m.--Shaves, bathes. dresses.
7:15 a. m.-Goes to library and either
dictates to one of the White House ste
nographers or reads the morning pa
pers or some works of his favorite au-
thors.
a. m.-Breakfast with family.
$50 a. m.-Chats with members of
his family. Sometimes he breaks this
rule by debating speeches, papers OF
state or letters. personal and official.
o a. m.-Goes to office. An hour is
given to looking over such mail mat
tiers of state as the office force Of the
White House has weeded out, If this
mail happens to be light. which is sell
dom. the president spends few min
utes reading the morning papers cT
some court decisions which have g
bearing on legal business with which
he is to wrestle. He does not allow
himself to consume a minute beyond
10 o'clock in these efforts.
10 a. m - Begins receiving callers.
This period lasts from two to three
hours and sometimes four. Senators
and members of the house call and pre-
sent constituents; members of both
houses of congress call to discuss pend
ing legislation or to invite the presi'
dent to visit their districts. These in
vitations are not confined to the Repub'
ncan members.
1 D. m. The president checks his
callers. II he has not seen all who
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14


COLONEL ROOSEVELT (X) AND THE FOUR
TEEN FOOT NEW YORK PRIMARY BALLOT.
weighed five tons. Altogether 100000
were printed at an expense Of $4,000
to the city Forty eight Of them would
paper room fourteen feet square.
allowing for doors and windows.
The length of the ballot varied in
different districts. In one district it
was fourteen feet long. and In many
cases it was eight The reason the
ballot was so long was that the law
stipulates that the names Of every
nominee for a political committee
shall appear thereon and that a quar-
ter of an inch shall be devoted to each
name
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
MISS VIRGINIA LEE.

,ndrew Carnegie Declared Her to Be
the 0rsttiest Girl In the World.
, Miss Virginia Lee Of Pittsburgh,
twenty AMI a stcnographcP who was
recently declared by Andrew Carnegie
to Ic the prettiest girl in the world, Is
not at I'll pleased with the publicity
that was thrust upon her following tn"
circulation of the laird of Skibo'S dos
ignution. She has received requests
from manufacturers and advertising
companies asking for photographs for
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

only after it had been impressed upon
her what a great benefit to posterity
she would thereby be giving.
After the films had been made Nine.
Bernhardt expressed herself as de-
lighted with the idea of being thus
immorfalized. She has donated one
of the photo records to the great Paris
library and has offered set to the
New York Public library. the Con-
gressional library at Washington and
the Boston and Chicago Public libra
ries, with the proxiso that they be
used for educational purposes In Illus
trating the history Of the stage
It takes two reels of films, 2,275
feet, to show Camille.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14

Why a Cats Eyes Glow In the Dark.
The eyes of q cat shine in the dark
not because they produce light. for
they do not. but because they reflect
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
swastika's international Origin.

More than 5000 years ago was this
strange cruciform symbol, known as
the fylfot cross, reyerenced in India.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
Average Day
With
The President
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EOW President Taft spends an av.
erage day from the time he
b arises until he retires may be
seen from the following.
The Caucasian., 1912-04-14
APPALACHIAN
AND THEIR OIt.,n
Standards of the Manner OF
Men Who Shot Up Hills
vile Na.) Court.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-04
Classics VS. Common
Sense
Nil Desperandum

There is tendency nowadays. in
institutions, to devo te
too much time on subjects that will
not be of the slightest benefit to pu-
pills who contemplate taking up a
business career. Most teachers have
an extraordinary aptitude for select
ing useless and unnecessary topics
of instruction. Take the average
master in school. He wastes our
time by making us learn Latin and
Greek and fragments of history and
high mathematics, to the detriment
of more useful subjects, and the con-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-04
The Demand for
4 Man
w. C.Van D.

In times Of great national unrest,
there is always a demand for Man
and the demand is always supplied.
These times of social ,upheaval are
always presaged by great suffering
among the masses and by great
wealth in the hands of few. Also
curiousiy enough these times, or
epochal periods as one might term
them, show a marked decadence of
religious feeling among the masses
of the people, while ceremonial or
ritualistic religion is highly exalted.
Such times brought forth Caesar,
a Cromwell, a Napoleon and in our
fathers time, a Lincoln. Study the
social conditions that surrounded
any of these men and you will find
them curiously similar.
In Rome, fifty years before Christ,
the large bulk of the people were
practically serfs, while enormous
wealth was concentrated in few
hands. The old pagan worship had
lost it's hold on the masses, but the
ceremonies directed by the Pontifex
Maximus and his satellites had nev-
er been so splendid. The ground
work of Roman society had been
sapped and mined; the apex Of cor
ruotion became too heavy and
Caesar came.
In England, during the reign OF
the first Stuarts, new and oppressive
taxes destroyed the welfare of the
English peasantry. Monopolies
granted by the King in defiance ol
law placed crushing burdens on the
people and made a few wealthy
Contempt for the state religion at
tanned to such height that men ano
even women were willing to suffer
the agonies of the torture chamber
rather than conform; while Arch
bishop Laud and his followers helG
the most gorgeous ceremonies tba
had ever been seen in England. Tn,
time was ripe for-Cromwell.
In France, during the reign o
. the fifteenth and sixteenth Louis
J the lower classes sank into the ut
most depths of degradation and dis