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five times the rating of Cook county.
 Here, as there, sentimentalism and slushy softness are the bane of the pub lie conscience. And one wonders what will cure us. I venture to repeat the suggestion Of a friend that we provids n state law penalizing every county h which a murder is committed, thus ena- bng relatives and friends of the deceas- ed, white or black, to collect damages from the county funds, for failure to protect the citizens life. A maximum and a minimum. fine should be provided of such a character as would strike terror to the public mind. the whole proceeds of the fine to be paid 10 the outraged home.
 We talk much. But. being lovers of money. we should perhaps look aghast at the many many suits against this county for the murder toll We owe al- ready and which we ought to pay.
 And when we find we have to pay, I doubt not that courts will be more se- we're and jures less hysterical. When we translate dead men into demand upon demand for our dollars. we shall see to it that there are fewer dead men. I can conceive that under those circumstances our sheriff and our chief of police and our sedentary detectives would remove far from Jefferson county the vicious. the dangerous, the criminals whose haunts they are supposed to know. can even conceive that under such pro- visions there would be a vast impetus for the killing of the whisky trade. Yet this is no Qnlsotic remedy, but only the recognition of debt which we should be ashamed to dispute. Till some such law Is on our statute books let us frankly disclaim the name of Christian and re- vise a. wonderful saying of the Master to read tThe life is less than money ard the body than-slush."
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who amounts 10 anything.
 Work.
 Find out what you best like to do and then roll up your sleeves and work at 1t with all your might and main. It doesn't matter much what the work may be so it is honest and suits you
 Work at your work.
 Whether you use a pen to write or a shovel to throw yellow clay out of ditch, whether you preach and pray or paint house or paddle a boat or run peanut stand, you must work
 Work hard.
 The busier you are about your work the less mischief you will do, the happier you will be, the more dollars you will make and the more good you will do in the world
 Do not shirk.
 When you play you should work ar your play but you should never play at your work. Work while you work; play while you play.
 All manly men work.
 Look about you. Note the men whom you. respect Note those the world ls proud of. What sort of men are they? Tell me.
 Workers--eVery onel
 There is nothing finer in all the world than the joy a man may find in the work of his hands or of his brain. Gs is doing what he was intended to do
 Work,
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mand was ordered to Virginia, it was be-
 lieved by many competent officers that
 Colonel Rodes had the best drilled regi-
 ment in the army. So distinguished did
 the regiment become in army circles that
 officers of other commands would attend
 on the drill of the Fifth Alabama regi-
 ment to witness the accuracy of it's evo-
 lutions and to note the perfection of the
 condition of the accourtrements of each
 soldier. When the young troops had be-
 come inured to actual army life, and the
 habits of the soldier had become fixed by reason of time, the rigid and exacting
 commander was transformed into an ob- ject of admiration. and that which at first excited opposition was transmitted into popularity.
 The regiment of which he was the
 colonel barely missed becoming engaged in the first battle of Manassas. The reg iment, belonging to the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. came upon the scene just after McDowells lines broke and the flight to Washington began.
 In October, 1861, Rodes was made a brigadier general. He was under fire at williamsburg. but the battle of Seven
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secrecy in disposing of it, which they will do under these circumstances at ridiculous price-which is true, and the purchaser thinks he is making a killing-and so he is. This was sue ceeded by equally tempting schemes all calculated to separate those that hath from the needful, and give it unto those that hath not. The point that l am striving to make is, that the main object is to get the money, and that is the incentive behind every object, honest or otherwise, promoted by our money loving vox populi.
 In this day and time we have the Specialist-everything is specialized. It is the day of the expert. If you go to the meat market to buy hunk of steak, that steak has first undergone the scientific scrutiny of some three or four experts, in all the stages of it's evolution from spindle legged bull yearling from the hillsides of St. Clair county to Kansas City tender loin from the cold storage bins of some local market. Years ago you bought your steaks and chops without a
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A BIRD IN SONG AND STORY-By

says, You were Jupiter. swan, for the love of Lida
 There are many short allusions to the swan and his habits in the works of near ly all the poets Tn "The Lady of the Lake" there is a beautifully delicate ref orence:
 And when space was gained between Closer she drew her bosom screen; So forth the startled swan would swing, To turn to prune her ruffled wing, Then safe, though fluttered and amazed, She paused, and on the stranger gazed." /" Said Wordsworth in Yarrow Unvisited. ",rhe swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow
 We have all heard of "the swans song" just before her death. One by one our early illusions pass away. They now tell us, there is only poetic imagination in the story that the swan sings her sweetest song just before dying. Yet, how old and widespread is the notion.
 Shakespeare used it in Lucrece, saying, And now this pale swan in her watery
 nest
 Begins her sad drge of her certain end-
 ing"
 .Shakespeare refers to it in King John, and in Otheilo, Emilia says,
 'I will play the swan. and die in music" It will be remembered that Portia says of Bassanio, in the Merchant. ''Nerissa and the rest stand all aloof-- Let music sound while he doth make his
 choice;
 Then, if he do lose, he makes swan like
 end,
 Fading in music"
 Keats has a striking line on the swans
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he was located at Tuscaloosa, where he was married.
 He was a resident of Tuscaloosa when the war began. Even in advance of a declaration of hostilities he raised a com pany of cadets and went to Fort Nor gan. In the spring of 1861 he became the colonel of the Fifth Alabama regiment, which command saw its first service at Pensacola. It was here that he gave evil dence first of his superior soldiery quail ities on the drill ground and the camp. Superb and exacting as drill officer and a martinet in discipline, he did not at first impress citizen soldiery, and to the proud southern youth, unused to control, the young colonel was not at first pop ular In disregard of all this he pitched his code of discipline on high plane and enforced with rigid hand the strictest army regulations.
 While the raw volunteer troops were lying inactive at Pensacola, the authori- ties watching the drift of the initial events of the war; Colonel Rodes was daily drill ing his troops, and gave them pretty thorough taste of war even in the camps. When later in the spring of 1881 his com
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Loan Sharks Victim

F. NJ. White. The Worlds Work for Jan
 uary.
 According to MT. Wassam's report to the Sage foundation. there are in New York city 3O.0O0 men and women In the tolls of some 900 salary-loan and ehattel- mortgage sharks, and the money lenders are making at least two and half times their capital every year in this cruel com meree.
 Commissioner of Accounts Raymond E. Fosdlcks investigation last summer of the relations between New York city's civil service employees and the money lenders showed that about 20 per cent of these employees had borrowed from the sharks at one time or another; that the interest they had paid varied from 30 per cent to 40 per cent and that the bor- rowers ranged in importance from 800 a year clerks to assistant corporation coun- sels and an alderman.
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HHE bird of which I write is de-
 seribed as "A large lamellirostrol
 palmiped bird of the family 3atidae and sub family Cygninae, with long and flexible neck. naked lores, Eiculated tarsi and simple or ghtly lobed halIux." What do you Ink of that? Why, you say, It IS Iiculous, there is no such bird. But u are mistaken. I have copied every |rd of this description from a learned blk. It's the scientific way of say E-swan. But if I should see swan liked up in all that plumage or entific terms I should pass him by no acquaintance of mine, and l hcy you would do the same. But buld we find a gracefully arched I. swan, after the old fashioned ne aud order, I think we'd stop and him as an old friend that we have n many times swimming in ponds lakes, and imaged in the stiii ters of song and story.
 have been sitting here in my com table room, while the cold rain falls hout, and have been trying to re-
 incidents in books in which the an figures. I can recollect num- of places in literature where 1t is nd; but as confuse many such in- ents in story. I shall be compelled confine myself to those that stand
 with clear cut distinctiveness.
 may be a little curious, but the first ance I recall Is the swans in the fairy ry of Hans Christian Andersen. ught at first, that. 1t was Grimm } told the story, but upon looking in I found that Andersen related it Is the story of the II brothers who, huse of their unhappy home, flew v out into the world as II pure white ms. being transformed by fairy, se brothers, had sister. Eliza. Do- tic unhappiness drove her from home,
 '-,t, however. as a swan. so she
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about as cheerful and gay as a pro- tested note.
 This is the age of experts, and it is fashionable now to get the aid of experts in every line. If you have a lawsuit you must have expert wit nesses and lawyers, and, the fellow that gets the epertest also gets the grapes. Experts come high but we must have them. If you want to get elected to the United States Senate, and it becomes necessary to buy a legislature, you must get an expert to do the buying, an ordinary real es- tate dealer would be liable to mess things up if he were commissioned to buy a.legislature. He might ask the price by the front foot, or the dozen, or something like that, while the ex- pert can talk ten minutes with pa- triotic representative of the people and guess within 15 cents of what he'll bring in the open market.
 Then when the government develops spasm of curiosity and wants to make a great patriotic show, and pull off stunt like raising the Maine, for
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night. General Rodes was preparing to renew the daring movement with the break of day, and would have done so had not Gen. J. E. B. Stuart arrived to take command. in response to a message from Colonel Pendleton of the artillery.
 On the arrival of Stuart Rodes quietly welded the command, under the impress sion that the superior officer could inspire more confidence In the troops. That Gen eral Rodes would have more successfully executed the original plans had he re- tained command, was the belief of not a few army officers. In view of his bril- liant movements on the preceding day, confidence in him was well nigh supreme. As result Of his skill and courage on the field at Charlottesville, Rodes was made a major general. Appearing before his old regiment. he made the fact known and said: "The Fifth Alabama did 1t. It proved as easy for him to command a division as it had previously been that of a regiment, as was shown in the bat ties of Gettysburg, the Wilderness. Spott. sylvania and the second battle of Cold Harbor.
 By this time Rodes had become the
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TR. EDIToR:1 If a fellow was

M gifted ,,a with a prophetic vision, the dim, uncertain and mysterious flu ture and pick out the card that will be the leading feature few years hence, wouldn't he be the mustard He would every few years bring out some new stunt that the dear people would latch onto like long lost rich relation and clasp it to their bosoms and go the limit on acting foolish over it, and then, after getting stung, they fling it overheard like hot brick and turn their attention to something else, but while it lasts it certainly is the leading attraction. For instance, 15 or 20 years ago we had the Gold Brick" age. Then it was the smooth ones who lived by their wits unloaded on the luckless bonehead who had
 more money than experience, the gay and festive gold brick, accompanied with a nice, handpainted Fairy tale of how, owing to other claimants to the
 mining property which produced this
 brick, they must preserve the greatest
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the fate of their loved commander The wareroom was dense1y dark, to which was imparted additional horror by the piercing moans of the suffering, During the reign of terror, another am bulance train brought in a fresh sup ply of wounded from the field. Some one overheard the remark that General Rodes had been shSt through the head on the. battlefield and was dead. For an instant every voice was silent, and in another men began to weep like babes over the fall of their great and gallant general.
 Rigid as General Rodes was. even sometimes to sternness, his troops aI- most worshipped him, and a sight of him invariably evoked cheers which were rarely given to any excepting to Lee and Jackson. In his work on the war, General Early says of Rodes. "fa was most accomplished, slSillful and gallant officer upon whom l placed great reliance"
 As a soldier, he acted in thorough response to duty, and as commander. he demanded the same respect for duty which he himself exemplifed.
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to do the hard things.

t0HOOSE to do the hard things. If you want a practical monopoly O in your line, choose to do the diff fcut things. Most persons look for the easy things. That reduces the number |of your competitors. Grapple the difficult task. Because you cannot win big victory without putting up a big fight. Gold is l hard to get. You must dig for 1t. Do not skip the hard job. Because by doing the hard job you equip yourself for the doing of it, you Idevelop capacity for it. And when by Ipersistent effort and a brave struggle you have made good you have not only accomplished the big work; but, what is enore important You have remade yourself.
 You have changed yourself from what +nay have been a small man into big man.
 Do you not see?
 The work calls out the capacities you lid not know you had and develops new
 aculties. Big tasks not only take bis nen, but make big men.
 Responsibility makes men grow
 No one knows what he can do untii he tries. If you formed the habit in ,hildhood or at school of shirlSing the |1uties that are onerous, reform yourself
 Choose a mans job and
 Master it.
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NF the many chieftains developed
 from the Alabama soldiery during
 O the Civil war. none eclipsed in dash efficiency and brilliancy of leader ship Gen. Robert Emmet Rodes. A native of Virginia, and the son of Gen. David Rodes, the subject of this. sketch was trained for war by a thor6ugh military course at the Virginia Military institute at Lexington, from which institution he was graduated on July f. 1s4S. So dis tinguished had been his career as a stu dent that he was retained for two years as assistant professor, and when a com mandant was to be chosen, the name of Rodes was mentioned in close connection with that of Thomas J. Jackson, after ward "Stonewall' for that position.
 Entering on the career of civil engi- neer, Rodes was first employed in that | capacity in his native state, in the con struetion of a railroad, but he was later l induced to go to Texas as an engineer. . In 1855 he became assistant engineer of l the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad,
 where, after two years service, he was made chief engineer, during which time
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bered hundreds o, what happy voices sweetly fell out of the sky upon my lis- tening earl
 Swans are sometimes called geese, and geese are called swans In Shakespeare's "As You Like It. Celia says to the Duke
 And whereso We went. like Juno's
 swans,
 Still we went coupled and inseparate.'
 It is much more poetic to say "Juno's swans" but l am inclined to think that Juno's swans were geese. Tarquin estab- ished Juno at the old capitol in Rome. The goose was her favorlte bird. Geese became sacred to the Romans. They were kept within the enclosure of the capitol surroundings. and it was these sacred geese that saved Rome from the Galliq enemy
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-17
CAN uuGnrs Die r1,1prpn,

The Republican references to & com
promise candidate for President refer
to Charles r. Hughes. Associate Jus
tice of the United States Supreme
Court. He was Mr.. Tafts chief though
nominal opponent for the nomination
at the last conventions; at one time
preceding that convention there was a
substantial boom for him
Could Justice Hughes be prevailed
upon TO accept the nomination? Would
he heed tho unanimous voice of the
convention? Tt seams unlikely.
Only ono justice of the United States
Supreme Court ever reached out for
the presidency. Only ono justice sver
intrigued for a nomination Charles
-. Hughes will hardly follow in the =.
fated footsteps OF Salmon F. Chase.
or course, an unsolicited nomination
would be another matter. Even at
Tint. 1t would bring the bench of the
Ioftiest judicial tribunal in the world
into partisan politics, and no Judge
ever had nicer regard for the dig
nifty of mis- Office than has MT. Hughes.
Circumstances can he copcslvcd OF
In which II would be the highest pub
lie duty of n Justice OF the Supreme
Court TO accept presidential nomina-
ton In the hour OF national crisis
he might be the only man to whom
the country would nstinctively turn
for leadership, but that crisis does not
now exist. Those who suggcs. Justice
Hughes but ask him to leave the bench
to save his party from deserved de-
feat There Is no battle over great
principle OF government. but simply
struggle to retain the spoils and
keep on the pay roll the army of Re
publican ofnceholders.
President Taft and Justice Hughes
differ little in political principles
Eminent lawyer learned Judge and
profound student that he is. Justice
Hughes would naturally be aligned
with Taft rather than with Roosevelt.
Tho only advantage In drafting tho
Justice is a, belief that he could poll
more votes than Taft
That argument viii surely have lit
tie weight With u man like Justice
Hughes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-17

IN the South and West. quick to Oh
serve this disposition on the par. D,
hcaeral Judges. are ever ready, upon
, r.nrions preie%ts 10 claim and obtain
ana civil cases, which have been tried
~ me state courts and the decisions
thn,e E,aef . haye proved disastrous to
nearly every case OF any Importance.
both civil and criminal, has before its
close. been carried from the State 10
fetched very fine and attcnuated tech
n'cality. or course this is calcuInio0
TO weaken the authority and disparagc
the power and influence Of the state
judiciary.
There arc many Instances particu-
larly IL the Western and Southern
States, In which this tendency OF
United States courts TO extend their
thereby dlscred!,ing tho state colir,s
and jeopardiztng the rights OF c't-
zcns under State laws. state soytr.
signty is something more than a
gest and Imply supreme authority over
local affairs II suggests nothing. and
me Interference OF the Federal au-
thority except on lines clear aud un-
mistakable is to be deplored and re-
sisted
II cannot be denied that Tic ACT of
United States court taking roEn!-
zancc and ruling upon the conduct Of
county ana municipal officers. whether
their duties are properly or improp-
erly discharged, is certainly rctuta-
ton OF our form OF government.
A vigilant and determined main
tcnance OF the lines dividing the Fed
eral and state governments. especially
with reference 10 the jurisdiction OF
tho courts Is of the highest import
ance IL VIC would sustain and preserve
the political system handed down by
the fathers, who. in wisdom almost
Godlike, laid tho lines OF the Cons,I
tuition deep and enduring to last for
all coming time.
Every American citizen. whether
Democrat or Republican, cannot watch
with too Jealous eye those lines OF
d cinarcation between Federal and State
authority. or be too ready 10 give tho
warning cry that these lines are be-
Ing crossed JAS. L. SENSHAN. 4
Cha ri ottesyille.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-17

ual rights must be subordinated to So
cial rights: fsw diegruntled men can
not be appeased to tho detrimont Of a
whole oity. II the officials VINO COM
pose tho Board OF Public Safety cannot
be intrusted with the right TO judge In
building cases what officers shall VS.
trust at all and with what? Tho argu-
incnt that tho board will uphold the
Building Inspector because officials
stand by officials is mere poppyoock.
Tho opposition to the present method
of appeal could not give single con-
crete instance whore the working of
tho present ordinance destroyed prop
erty or infringed any rights. When
the building coda was first framed the
builders said It would be impossible TO
live under such n law. but building
operations have increased under ii from
less than 100000 year to more than
Sc. 100000 n year. One of the archi-
iects testified at the committee hearing
that all the changes suggested In his
plans by Building Inspector Beck were
Tor the benefit of his clients and for
49, f'S'SStIoii VI tHelE property. InQt
scans to be tho sum and substance of
the testimony of fair minded builders
and owners. who have felt the weight
Of Mr.. Beck's deosions-that however
much they felt aggrievcd at first, ex-
perience proved him right
The City Council should ADOPT the
nnfavorablc report and In quick order
throw out the Gilman ordinance. 1t
mas never been worth tenth of the
time wasted in It's discussion 1t should
be killed without debate so that the
chronic DIRECTORS to the workings of
an effective and adequat, building code
may understand that their interests arc
negligible when weighed with the pub
lie safety. Richmond has good build
ms law and q good man to enforce It.
Let we'll enough alone and let Mr.. Beck
alone. There never was good law
yet that did not make somebody howl.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-17
Voice Of the eople
Destruction az pnrL- T..a.

70 The Editor of Tine Times Dispatch:
S.r,-ih reference TO the shameful
u,.estruct!on OF dogwood trees in VIII
liam Byrd Park Sunday your notice in
" IuayS issue says, NO blame was
lodged against the parkkeepcr, for tho
,,.i, nat he could not be every.
One OF the charms or this park is
rs us trees and bushes. The dogwood
blossoms lend IN large degree 10
this attractivencss. Their wanton de-
Struction is strictly in line with the
previous acts OF many of the Sunday
crowds who do not hesitate 10 lovns
tate both city ana private property
ia T., M onS ioIa!iX mentioned. as well as
These pillaGcrs nave no, confined
tnelr operations To William Byrd Park.
property owners tn the neishborhooi
OF Lakeside. Wcsthampton and Forest
mn nave suffered, also. and each year
sees an increase Of the disgrace. Dog
wood trees. cedars, honcyslIcllr vines
ana other ornamental growths have
hecn torn away In many instances
.he very parent stem itself has been
uprooted and annhilatcd
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