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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06

Of the best known figures in the nnan-
c!al world OF London. a son OF Marcus
van Raaltc. of Amsterdam. who had
settled III England. Charles van Raal,e
was born In London. and married an
English wife. daughter of Lcona rd
Glow. OF Great Easton. Lcicestershire
lie was one OF the very few intimate
friends OF Lord Kitchener, and the
latter. whenever he visited England,
during his long term OF service In
Esypt' in the Soudan. and In South
HEADQUARTERS under Charles van
Kaa!te's roof. I'm Grosvcnor Square
Lord Howard de Walden Is held in
Kindly memory on this side OF the wa
Ter as the host of the Harvard crew,
when they We're in England in 1906.
ana he entertained thcm in the most
royal fashion at Audley End, the
grand old place which he rented from
Lord Braybrookc. and has since, / be-
licve. purchased. 1t was built by Sir
Thomas Audley. of Walden, tho lord
chancellor OF Henry VIII. and was
described by james l., when he visited
IL, as Far too magnificent for King,
n1Ithonsh u might do very well for his
theless, 1t was royal residence. 1t
was sold to King Charles H. In lG6S
re neglected, however, TO pay down
more than half the purchase money,
- oLSS' Ii' "llen his
brother. James was driven out of tho
country. the vendors resumed posses.
sion thereof
Lord Howard dc Waldcn's possessions
include, besides broad acres in Scotland
especially in Ayrshire, and almost the
whole of the town Of kilmarnock. a
Quantity of real estate in London.
Thus. he owns acres in tho Hampstead
district of the metropolis. and "a square
mile in the parish OF Marylebone,
which may be described as a veritabic
FL Dorado; for. besides Cavendish
Square, with it's ducal mansions. il
includes Harley Street. where all the
most fashionable and eminent London
physicians have their abiding place
and dozen equally well known
thoroughfares. IN fact. this Marylebone
square mile alone yields to Lord How
ard DC Walden an annual revenue or
near s1.500000
He Is reputcd the best amateur
fenccr and swordsman in the Unlted
Kingdom. is splendid shot, has taxi
en- lead in the sport of acroplaninp
has gone in to a considerable extent
for motoring. ashore and ailoat, is -
conspicuous figure on the turf, having
taken over the entire stable Of the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06
TWO VIEWS or PRISON LApon.

In striking contrast arc the princi-
pies Of the Hon. Leslie NJ shaw and
those OF the Hon. Oscar u. Colauitt.
Shaw was Governor OF Iowa and See
rotary of the Treasury, and is now a
iinancicr. Colquitt is farmers son.
was an cmpioyc in furniture factory
and country ncwspaperman; he is
now Governor OF Texas
Shaw is chairman of the board OF
directors of manufacturing com
phny, in the prospectus OF which he
says that his factories are located
inside prison walls, with 500 prisoners
under contract In Maine. Illinois and
Kentucky. There arc no strikes or
abor troubles In prisons. Our com
pany is supplied with factory build
ings. storage Warehouses inside the
prison walls, free of rent. We have
free heat, free light free power.
We pay for our labor 80 cents per man
per day. Our competitors. who employ
free labor pay an average wage of So
per day. ;. These arc ideal condI-
liViS VI ipllNaUlc IndnuIQCluf1nE.
Colquitts opinion as to the ethical
propric;y of making private profit out
OF prison labor Is different from the
Sharian view. In the Texas peniten-
tiary there arc 500 convicts who Gov
crnor Colquitt thinks ought 10 be at
work on the public roads OF the State.
He would take off their stripes and
put the men OH their word of honor
not TO escape. lie offers to various
counties the services of these prison
crs-hridge carpenters blacksmiths
quarrymcn and others familiar with
road construction--tor the cos, OF
their maintenance and 30 cents per
day. He would lot % cents per day
OF the amount 80 to the family of
the convict, and the other 70 cents he
would pui into the treasury of the
penal system. In such a way. he SAYS
roads can be built "cheaply and CHI
GENTLY
Which is better for society as 4
whole and for the convict himself, the
shaw or the Co!quitt plan: asks tho
Boston Globe, and We repeat with
empha: =. Which is bettcr?"
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Business. Du. more profitable to mind

business, but more profitable to mind
Your own.
Know your Limitations. II men and
women had the sensc OF chickens and
ducks, thero'd be Tower chickens
crowned trying to swim, and fewer
ducks wearing out their web foct try
ing to scratch UP worms.
mo measure OF q man Is not his,
waistband. but his hatband
Men without convictions are like
radishes. You have to got all of them
IN bunch before they have any mar
ket value.
IT'S vastly easier to mako money
than TO make a man. Many Boston
man has made million dollars, but
couldn't make Il man of his own son To
take care OF 1t. Bankruptcy has made
many man whore wealth made only
Il FOOL.
How many things we mon do for,
Tie women we love because of what
the nelGhbors Will say If we don't"
No doubt some of these sentiments
stung, especially those which referred
TO pride of ancestry, for a man or wo-
man In Boston without a Puritan fore
GEAR is rare bird It Is said that
not long ago an Englishman visited
boston and was much impressed with
the innumerahlc monuments and memo
Eials TO departed worthless Asked for
his opinion as to the city, hc renIi.d
that 1t seemed 10 him that al, the Bos-
tonisns who amounted 10 ANYTHING
wcrc dead
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06

the most elementary rules of cleanli-
ness. with whom tho contamination OF
the water supply amounts to habit.
The Wright serum and ono prepared
by Dr. Vincent himself wore employed,
so as to test their relative Values.
Two hundred and eIghty-three men
were inoculatcd, 127 with the Wright
and 1854 with the Vincent serum.
Among the former single case OF
typhold-a very slight one-doveloped,
giving ratio of S per 1000: among
the latter there were no cases.
Another result, and most signin-
cant and important one. bears upon
the prejudice alluded to, in that Il
disprored popular belief that inocu-
lation for typhoid is followed by a
negative phase. in which the sub
jects are more than ordinarily prone
or susceptible to infection. Not a
case OF this kind" II is stated. OCCUR
rcd; and. on the other hand three
cases In an early state of infection
at the moment OF incubation devotion
ed only into mid form of typhoid"
BY contrast. and .accentuating con-
rincinsly the efficacy of the proven
tive. Dr. Vincent shows thar among
2.SS2 soldiers Of European origin, who
were not inoculatcd. there occurred.
during period of three months. III
cases Of typhoid ana 13i cases Of
febrilc Intestinal disturbances rate
OF l15 per 1000
What with pure Water and milk and
incubation as typhoid prcyentives.
indeed would ii seem that sanitary
and medical science is In position to
trampie under foot and cxterminnte
the typhoid terror!
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La Marquise de Fontenoy
- II p II O w y I'D DE WALDEN,
whose marriage TO Margncrita
van Raalte, daughter at inc late

y - X u IL ~ w y X - DE WALDEN
whose marriage TO Marghcrtta
van Raalte. daughter nf inc late
Charles van Rualtc. Is about TO
take place, has, with his immense ana
constantly growing income, amounting
already I" about $2,00o,0o0 year. fof
years been regarded as one Of the
greatest catches in the matrimonial
market. lie was, however, so devoted
TO his fascinating and beautiful moth
CT, even after her second marriage,
that as long as she was alive he re-
manned a confirmed bachelor In fact
II Is only since her death, last sum
mcr, that he has been prompted. prob
ably by q sense of loneliness. to turn
his thoughts TO matrimony, and has
chosen for It wife, not only a very
beautiful girl, but also one who is
already very rich, and who will come
into a still greater fortune OH the death
of her mother.
There is something particularly APP
Plopridte In TINS marriage, for Lord
Howard dc Walden is an island king,
owning the Island of Shona, in Loeb
Moidart where Argyllshire meets In
verness. while his bride may be de.
Inherited from her father the Island
of Branksea. or Brownsea, which,
situated at the mouth of the Dorset
shire seaport of Poole, was in ancient
times the site of stronghold, de-
signed for the defense of the harbor
from attack by sea
The present Castle OF Brownsea, built
on the foundations and former vaults
and dungeons of many an earlier fort
ress, was purchased some twenty years
ago from Colonel Waugh, by the late
Charles van Raalte, who spent a very
large sum of money in the restoration
and internal decoration of the castle,
and in the laying out afresh of It's
once beautiful gardens. and fine old
park. The great hall Is hung with
sixteenth century tapestry, designed by
Lucas van Lcyden; and the castle.
where Miss van Raaltc and her widow.
cd mother each year entertain members
of the English and Continental reiyn-
ing families. is full OF artistic and his
toric treasures Among them are
Marie Antoinetto's splnct, reed
organ, two feet long, which belonged
10 the first Emperor Napoleon, and a
tiny instrument resembling piano. on
which Queen Catherine de NIedici play
ed. ono of the most frequent guests
there is the lnfanta Eulalie's eldest son,
Prince Alfonso. known among the menu
bers of his family by the nickname of
All, and who. when he married at
CohurS, without the King of SPANS
permission. the Protestant Princess
Beatrice of Great Britain and of Sake
Coburg Gotha. n union which cost him
! the rank of Infant of SPAIN proceeded
! TO tho Island of Brownsea, which had
| been placed Mt his disposal by Miss
! van Iiaalte, for his honeymoon
4 The late Charles van Ranlte was one
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06
Voice Of the People
Edison, Trust sorntion.

TO tho Editor of The Times Dispatch:
:slr'DEln announcing that he will de-
faculty to solving the trust problem.
Thomas \: Edison has taken upon his
! lands probably the most complex pu2-
&c of his life. Some OF the things he
Saws about tho trust problem arc not
very complimentary to our Congress-
m m!n; coming from such source. they
even from that body. Congress ought
MAGE by Thomas a: Edison;
Most OF our industriai legislation.
works out Into manner directly oppo-
site to that intended. From data that
nc colleeted. Herbert spencer stated
n Law which, In this connection. is ex-
ceedinEiy illuminating Nearly all the
acts OF organized 'dclibe"ative bodies
VIII be found on examination TO be
least Intelligent mnmbcrs. The ma
tor!ty of the laws passed In Congress
and In the state Legislatures. when
opposite effect from that intended"
MI; Edison argues that II is hopeless
nor nor, lawyers or legislators to try to
the country. He holds that the Sher-
man law Is failure. because 1t makes
every ono IN the United states pursu-
not to DO. Every man does not want
competltion, he insists. but this law
ooiupeis MN 70 nave It. Unlike most
critics, Mr. Edison does not content
himself with having made the crit!-
cism. fre Is willing to go further. He
Is going to frame an industrial law Of
his own. which he will offer as a sub
sutute for the Sherman law. He Is
considering problems based on the COM
plcxities of all Industries. The final
plan. which Mr. Edison says may not
take UP more than one sheet OF note
parer. may he whpned into shape by
trained judicial minds
Mr. E.dlson's solution may never he
he reported to tho floor of Congress.
but IL Will be interesting to the public
10 see what kind OF n plan Is evolvc,t
istencc new industries now capItalized
at Si.oo0,0O0.o0o jsaven billion dol,arsO, |
earning annually over $1,000. 900. 600
cone blllion), and giving employment
TO an army OF more than 100000 ner-
sons. /, e q
Richmond
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06

late Colonel Harry McCalmont, as wei!
as the latter's place at Newmarket,
anu has made his debut in London as
playwright. by the production. re-
act drama in blank verse, set In the
tiine OF the legendary King Arthur,
nc inherited MS pcerage on :hc death
OF ms iather, Just after being gazetted
nient when the latter regiment had
been ordered to South Africa for the
Boer War. lie stayed just long enough
70 attend his fathers funeral and
then chartered fast liner for himself,
AZ an enormous expense. arriving at
the Cape before the transports which
mad his regiment OH board. lie went
tnroush the entire wrr took part In
iurc, of General cronje in the sur
render of johannesburg and In the
pursuit OF General dc Wet. before be-
Ing lnvalidcd home.
He is not "A member OF the ducal
house OF Howard, from whom ne Is
only descended in the female line. his
pntronymlc being Ellis True. the
Barony of Howard de Walden was
created hy Queen Elizabeth. in favor
OF Lord Thomas Howard, the son OF
the fourth Duke OF Norfolk. and who in
the subsequent reign OF James l. WAS
mainly instrumental in discovering the
GunpoWdcr Plot Being barony by
viii IL WAS heritable through the
Inc and thus 1t eventually came into
he Ellis family. The latter, hailnG
from Denbighshire. played an import
ant role in the development of Jamaica.
ana has n number OF American asso-
Citations: George Ellis. the Chief Justice.
OF Jamaica. for instance. having mar
rieu daughter of Sir Henry Moore.
who was Governor of New York in the
carly part of the eighteenth century.
Charles ELLIS was created Lord Sea
FORD in 1926 and married the only
daughter and heircss of tho NTH Lord
Howard de Walden, the son Of this
union inhcritlng tho maternal grand
fathers Barony Of Howard dc Wal
den
The sixth Lord Howard de Walden.
srandfather OF the present peer, WAS :,
Wen known diplomat, served as Brit
ish envoy in number of foreign CAPT
thls, notably at Madrid. marrying Lady
Lucy Cavendish Bentinck, daughter OF
the fourth Duke of Portland, and Sis
ter and co,hcress of the nth and Ia
duke. II is through her that LORD
Howard de Walden inherited all his
immensely valuable landed property.
copyright. 1912. by the Brentwood
Company
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06
Too NInux Nc,,snupcrs.

In tho comment on the consolidation
OF the Norfolk Landmark and the Vir-
Einian-Pilot published in the State yes
tcruay, this sentence appeared: Except
New Orleans, no Southern city that we
recall has two established and sue
eessful newspapers The misprint was.
We trust, obvious to all. the word
morning having been dropped and
iosl In the mechanical department.
speaking of that newspaper consol-
.saution the Editor and Publisher of
New York Is authority for the state
ment mat during his eighteen mont',s'
ownership of the Landmark Mr..
Abel lost between $4,000 md $4,000.
erately paying prouerty when Mr..
-Npell acquired control, but Immediately
upon the change of ownership the vir-
Glhian- Pilot sot u stiff pace. The Land
mark had to keep up, and as the field
could not furnish support for two pa
perE going their gait, the private purse
OF 1e owner of ono WIS called upon
10 bear tho burden. and did until
INC owner got tired.-Columbia state
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.m,Eonn on snclAI. rn,u,n>

Brother =. clifford, one Of tho
a"iSst BAPTIST ministers in the country
and al present pastor Of the Bgooklinc
hNp'isl Church madc an address ON
Nc" Years ni&h, AT he lSdth regular
meeting ana =uppcr Of rhc Woman.s
Baptist Social Union OF Boston ,1,s
snhicct was Is Lie Worth Living,
ana some % thc things he said md
some Of TIE knocks he Delivered Nh,
50 keen that thcy arc given below
Remember Lors VIE Size ,y,s So
stuck on her past that she had ~
fuiHtr ~
YOU may be Daughter Of Tho R.y
"iuien. pat mat Won't pay your gro.
y know q Boston man who's. ,p,.
'or" came over in tho Naynowcr a..
wouldn't 20 TO Eas, Boston IN ~,
icrrEhoa' for tho grandcs, p~lncini,
Many Of our best families ~. fu,
ground "''"'t
Heard The now beati,Udcy p,,s.
IS he that mindc,h his owl, hnsin,as
| Tor verify i, Shan he minded. Nv LIZ,
interesting 20 mind somebody else,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06
TYPHOID INocrnArioy INDICATE,

= most remarkable and interesting
report on the efficacy Of antityphod
inoculetion. as demonstrated by ex.
ipcrimcnts conducted by DR.. Vincent,
sn eminent French ep.demio!ogisl has
just been made. II is hardly goinr
TOO far 10 say that DR., Vincent ha :
virtually established the absolute IN.
cacy Of inoculation al - preventive.
and il is certain that his report ought
TO disabuse any mind. lay or profcs.
sionai. Of prejudice, against Typhoid
vaccination"
The experiments were carried on
under tho most disadvnn,agc0us con.
ditions. being made upon soldiers OF
regiments stationed on tnc Allegro.
Moroccan frontier--a notorousiy un-
healthy and fayerhrecding region
and among q population ignorant Of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06

The Columbia State makes this most
timely objection to the glib way in
which speakers and writers refer to the
Southland:
Who is responsible for the coinage
OF the prcposterous word Southland?
FOR hundred years the South de-
scriocd the section Of the United states
on the hither SIDE OF the Mason ana
Dixon line. no one thought of South !.
land IN tho days of the Confederacy,
aha no one mentions the Solid South
| land now The term is used by the
near-poets, sentimcntalsts OF small
W.T. and shallow-pated, Ioud-volceu
Srel!hindcrs,' and 1t Is an abominatior.
ne people who talk abou; the South
and are unacquainted with the South
ana never can understand"
| the state is absolutely right. The
term ought to be killed by disuse,
'hoGsh its demise would be seriously
'cit by tho molliliuous dema sogues who
are ai~ays prating about this soutb.
land q! ours o. our beloved South
land
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land OF which Nhey were tho original
gruntors. be cleared OF incumbrance.
However, they did not appear. nor
did His Honor fine them for contempt
of court. for which lcnicncy there was
good and satisfactory reason Will
liam. Richard and John Penn are dead;
in fact, they have been dead for some
200 years!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06
Chicagn,s Mig l.irc.

Chicagn's Mig Fire.
VIII you give the cause and history
same? y. H.
The great Chicago Are started in n
stable In De kovcn Street the evening
of sunday, October S, 1871. Tine story
runs that the original cause was the
Kicking over Of a lamp by COW (Mrs.
0Leary's cow. but this has been de-
Eicd. The flames spread rapidly, de-
stroyins the main business and resi-
dcntiaI portions of the city, and caus-
ing q loss OF SlS7,000,000 before Il
rain helped 10 stop the conflagra ton
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Gee but it's tough to have to tell
smart. pretty. attractive. wealthy,
fascinating girl, the fcrvor of whose
proposal shows how undying her at
lection is. that you can only be
brother to her!
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Depth.

y says that there is a spot in one
OF the oceans that Is so deep that hot
tom cannot be reached. Is that cor
rect? W. d,
There is nothing in the books 10
prove that y Is either correct or in
correct. Ill the Atlantic Ocean n
depth of 1896 feet has been reached.
in the Pacific 10000 feet, Indian ocean
lS.5 So feet. Southern Ocean 25,20O feet
and Arctic ocean 5000 feet.
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How nichmond uu. Cro,x,

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,--a1y attention was called fcw
days ago to Il stone in the sidewalk
on the block between Jefferson ana
Madison in Main Street, about cie
West: marking the corporate limits
OF Slcninond about fifty years hack
Contrast with this mark the bound
aries to-day. ending about 3Gn0 West,
and the fact is Very interesting from
the standpoint Of both the history ANA
growth of our city r,
u Richmond.
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about 10 o'clock on Monday night. II
was estimated that 800 persons lost
thcir lives and thousands were rem
dered homeless. The area burned was
e,u2i acres. OF nearly three and one.
third square miles. The burned area
was nearly covered with new buildings
within Two ycars
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06

No. Lucille. If you have the young
mans consent to marriage. IT is not
necessary to ask his parents for his
hand.
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Queries and Answers
All the Vo,rcIs.

NFI Inc NOWCIS.
Is the statement correct that there is
a word in the English language that
contains all the vowcla? r. r.
Yes. not only all the vowcls. but in
the order In which they are usually
Tchcarscd. The word MS "facctious."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-06
THE CnEcKEns, PERIL

| THE CHECKERS PERIL,
There arc number of men in Rich
| mond, married and unmarried. who
spend much time in moving round
pieces OF wood on IL pastehoard field OF
alternate blocks of red and white, That
is cuphemstic way of saying that
| thcse men indulge in the checkers hab-
1t. To be perfectly frank about Il. no
| body has heretofore regarded these
'hch' piacidly studying and cautiously
| lingering the disks, as in any danger,
Dur 1t appears that there is a real men
acc in checkers and, as Il friend of the
family, we must utter our warning.
reluctantly 1t is uttered. because check :
e's Is enc OF the most democratic games
IN tho nation, and in the country dis
tricts is an innocuous substitute for
eriase. All of us. perhaps have heard
the story of the South Carolina store
Keeper who was n checkers nend. one
day friend walked into the store. saw
lone woman customer whiting at the
counter. but the merchant was no, in
sight. Tho friend went to the rear of
the store, which was shut off from the
'front.' part by partition. and there he
found MILFORD, the proprietor, engrosscd
Ill game of checkers with tho village
policeman, Say, there's a customer in
the store" suggested the friend
"Sh-h-h," whispered the merchant;
don't make any fuss, and she'll go
away"
Myron Goulds ease is one 10 which
the attention Of families possessing
male checker players is respectfully
called Several months ago NIyron,
champion checker player of Leaven-
worth county. kan. was sentenced 10
two years IN the penitcntiary for wife
descrtion. The court, however found
eNtenratinG circumstanccs--doub
the court itself liked a little game now
and then-and Gould was paroled OH
condition that he would contribute Sc
a week TO the support of his wife ana
two children. l. would seem that even
a checker player could do that much for
his neglected hut loving family. and
the champion OF Leavenworth county
with enthusiasm promised the cour,
that its mercy would be appreciated
and Justified.
hiackadny. how frail tho checker
hend! On complaint OF Mrs. Could. the
Leavenworth county expert has been
arrested again and sent TO prison for
his utter failure to live up to the prom
Use upon which his parole was based.
Hts wife says that the checker habit
has fastened itself upon her husband
so thor oughly that there is no hone that
nc Will do anything but play checkers
Instead of earning the Sc week prom
iscd his loved ones, he has gone about
the country seeking whom he might
beat at checkers.
NO" ne must 20 TO prison and try
there to wean himself of the checker
playing habit Be warned, mon and
mon players families, against checkers
before II IL too late, lest checkers he
changed ror the stripes. The check
ers hani, strikes the high and the low,
the great and rho small-in fact, It is
said that one of our city officials of
high rank INDUCES. in Il game now and
then. without having even asked :ha
advice Of the City Attorney as 10
whether such All act was mira wires
and i'll face of the fact that nowhere in
the code of the city is there 10 be
found any section Dcrmtttfn- cit,- ou
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4 ;. rhlladelphin court thr

IN 0. Fh'Iadclphin court thr oihcr
'"S me clerk in: s,entoriam tones.
three times repeated. summoned VIII
nam fcnn and his two sons. Richard
ana 'ohn Penn, to appear before Ills
lienor IN order. Thai certain title to