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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18
A GrHyback.


One OF tho pests of camp life. which
seems almost a necessary nuisance
where large bodies OF men herd to-
gether in armies. is a little insect
whose common name is rather offensive
to ears pollte so i Will write his
scientific cognomen. In Latin he is
of the order parasitic, and Is called
pedinulus vostenlen,i seu corporis. We
call him "grayback." He made his
clothes and thence he issued forth
upon the body to cause constant
scratching. He was so prolific that he
ginning his mundane existence AT sun
rise he was a grandfather by set OF
sun. Now pediculus was the source
of many n marvellous story, and also
the subject of much malediction. Ho
disturbed mems slumbcrs by hIs pors
sistent attention, and ono could say:
loft in the Silly night, when slumbers
chain hath bound me,
! feel the awful bite of something
crawling round mo-
I we'll remembered my first experience
with pediculus. It was shortly after
we reached Port Hudson. l felt some
indications OF his presence, and I felt
also that II really was harboring him
SHoutU pe ulSSI dCGu. My own mother
would be ashamed OF me. So I skunk
off to n retired place deep in the woods
and made the examination. and 10,
there no was as largo as lifo and as
impudent rs Satan. OF course no must
die. But could not mash him between
my thumb nails. SO invented an in
strument OF destruction for the whole
family, tribe and race OF pediculus. !
got a sticl. about an inch thick and
cut It across the middle q little more
than half though. Then ] pulled tho
than half through. Then pulled the
ends Of my stick downward, opening
tho cut. Into TINT open cash I laid
the body of the wretched little para
site, and as I straightoned my stick
and brought tho sides of the cut TO-
gether, the body was crushed. never
patented my invention, but used II
during the rest of tho war when &C.
casion required.
One experience | had with the miser-
able little beast cost me whole
nights sleep and constant anxiety.
Some five or six miles back OF Port
Hudson lived an old planter. an elder
in the Presbyterian Church. His sou.
a young doctor, and were warm
friends. ! was invited 10 visit the
family, az the son was at home. 7
got leave of absence and bathed and
scrubbed my peraon thoroughly.
searched my clothing anxiousiy and
carefully to be sure that I was free
from tho pest. I had ono billed shirt"
procured for state occasions. The fam
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18
n duty stern and piercing broke
Inc Ito that linked my soul will

II mattcrr little now. Lorena.
The past is In the eternal past;
Our hearts VIII soon lie low, Lorcna.
ihfc's tide is ebbing out so fast.
iherc is future. oh! thank God
of lfc this is SO small "a part
Is dust to dust beneath the sod,
But there. up there. tits heart n
heart"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18
i,Orcun.

tThe authorship OF this po,m has
always been involved In considerable
mystery, but II has well been said
tHut Few songs are more intimately
associated with Confederate camp life
whsre II was n supreme favorite dur
Ing the Civil War;
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18
COMMUNICATIONS

from
the Confederate hhnondv
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18

Richmond Times-Dispateh, Richmond.
Va: @i
Can you give me. through youe
Genealogical Column, any Information
concerning the early history OF the
Richard Nottingham family? AnY
genealogy concerning this family VIII
DO Of Interest 70 me, Woula also Ike
to learn something Of the family OF
Miss Sallle Jarvis Bell who married
Jacob Nottingham. I don't know who
her parents were. Thanking you in
advance. I am, Very sincerely.
MRS. f. T. NOTTINGHAM. sd
ThoniastQn. Ga a,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18

y. II. Ei.AfoRE,
EH-captain of c. S. A
Gainesville, Fla, May 90. 1910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Summer Tourists Spend 5000, 600, 900

Serene s.. Pratt. in Leslie's.
The United States is one of the world s
great sources of food supply, and it is
also large producer of tobacco, and yet
IL one adds to the amount of money
which the rest of the world paid to us
in 1910 for wheat, for flour, for corn and
for other breadstuffs the amount it paid
to us for our tobacco the total is less
than the sum which American travellers
expended in various countries abroad
over the amount expended by foreign
tourists in the United States.
The American tourist is therefore a
factor in a large financial problem. He
figures in the determination of the bal
ance Of trade which fixes the ability Of
one country to draw supplies of gold
from other countries. He is an influence
in the money market. and, as the Ameri-
can is a great traveller and a prodigal
spender that influence is an important
one.
The sums expended by Americans trav-
cling in foreign countries over the sums
expended by foreign tourists in the United
States are estimated to make the impos-
ing total of $17O,OOO,OO0 net. If you
divide that by $1,000 which is the ex-
cess number of American tourists abroad
over the foreign tourists in the United
States, you have about 5000 as the
average amount spent by each tourist;
and II that is a fair average-and 1t
seems too big-then the $4,000 Ameri-
cans travelling abroad in 1910 must have
spent about $4SS. 100000, which is nearly
equal to what the rest Of the world paid
for our cotton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Cleanliness.
From the Detroit News.


The death rate in New York is just
half what it was forty years ago. Only
$4,000 people died in the metropolis in
1911. Had the rate of thirty per thousand
obtained in 1911 as in 1866, $4,000 peo-
pie would have died. How is this miracle
accomplished? What power over life and
death Is this which Is commanded by
the people Of New York that they can
say to Death. Your victims will be this
year just half your wonted allotment
The triumph of science over disease,
not been accomplished without pains and
labors. Cleanliness is one great secret.
Cleanliness heals. 1t was slow and
painful discovery. Before Lister, who
is called the inventor of cleanliness" and
who died the other day, pus was regarded
identified with holiness before the En-
peror Julian refused to take a bath, clip
his beard or trim his nails, and since
the Egyptian desert crawled with revered
votaries of filth. /.
But the temples of dirt have yielded to
the persistent demonstrations Of science,
and. year after year. the declining death
rate has marked our progress away from
the golden age" of dirt. Clean alleys,
clean schools perfected sewer systems,
isolation of the infected. location Of
sources of contagion, ventilation, light,
food supply, vaccination and, above all,
sane methods of living, have contributed
to the lowering of the death rate. The
care of infants is the largest factor Of
all. The increase of the knowledge of
how to feed and wash babies has saved
at least 1900 lives in New York in 1911
just as the protection in part, of Detroit
babies from foul milk lowered the death
rate in marked degree last summer.
Sanitation. ventilation, antisepsis and
proper feeding have wrought this miracle.
And they will work others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

that these grade crossings should 60 as
rapidly as means for their abolition can
be provided.
But there are right ways and wrong
ways. just ways and unjust ways of pro-
ceeding with these matters. and there
seems to be tendency just now to adopt
the wrong ways The drastic bill which
passed the New Jersey legislature and
was very properly vetoed by the governor
was one of the wrong and oppressive
ways. 1t threw the whole cost of the
work. including damages, upon the rail-
road companies. Not only that. but 1t
one crossing for every thirty miles of
road each year. a provision that might
very easily place these improvements
where least needed, though getting rid
OF grade crossing at any point on
line is a definite gain. The estimated cost
TO the roads would have been about
quarter of billion dollars.
The apportionment prescribed by our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
soston Tranrrfpt.


That grade crossings by railroads are
crying evil and constant menace to the
public wherever they exist is q statement
that hardly needs demonstration. or. If 1t
does. that is furnished by the record Of
accidents that annually occur at those
points of peril. probably to a much great
er extent now. since automobiles have be-
have been fortunate if'in the earlier days
OF railroading that feature had been ex-
Guided from the charters of new lines
Perhaps not many roads would have
been built, but such as were constructed
would have been safer. However, we
must accept the situation where the
somewhat cropping evolution of the in
dustry has placed it. 1t Is generally con-
ceded, even by the railroads themselves,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

Massachusetts law IL perhaps as fair as
any. The railroads must assume the
lions share of the burden, or IS per cent.
The commonwealth and the town divide
the remainder, though no town is to be
assessed more than 10 per cent. The
abolition Of grade crossings is a benefit
to every town in which it is effected, and
therefore, upon the-principle Of paying for
betterments. 1t justly belongs to them to
pay at least fraction of the expense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
A Difference.
Los Angeles Herald.

From the Los Angeles Herald.
Father" said Johnny, what is the diff
ference between farming and agricul-
tureT'
WELL my son. for farming you need
a pillow and harrow and other implements
and for agriculture all you need is pen
Gil and paper"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

w. P. Barnhart, local representative of
troit, Mich, to attend a conference at the
factory of the Metzgar Motor Car Com
pany. He expects to return Tuesday
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

Continued on Ninth Page.)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
BY HAL COLEMAN.

his schooling, if ever he had any,
or concerning the manner in which
he acquired his universal knowl-
edge or developed his matchless
power Of literary expression.
Yet the plays and poems were
written by some one! Who was it,
then? Most of those who have I'M
dertaken to demolish the Shake
speare legend have assumed that 1t
was the great scholar and universal
genius of that age-Lord Francis
Bacon--and that Shakespeare, the
actor. was simply a puppet used by
Bacon to conceal his authorship,
because, at that time, and particu-
larly because of the political sig
nificance of the plays, it would have
been fatal to Bacon to be known
as their author.
This is the view taken by Sir Ed
win Burning Lawrence, who has
just sent me a copy of pamphlet
written by him on "The Shake
speare Myth" l do not find this
pamphlet to be as convincing as
many of the more extensive works
on the subject that l have read,
but l mention it as showing how
vain is the hope of the defenders
of Shakespeare of Stratford through
thick and thin that they may be
able to discourage further question:
ing by denouncing all doubters
with contemptuous and scurrilous
epithets. THERE ARE AS GOOD
SCHOLARS AND AS ABLE
THINKERS ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE QUESTION AS ON
THEIRS. l do not think that l
could recommend to any intelligent
person a course of reading of more
fascinating interest, or more in
forming. than that which would be
furnished by an attentive perusal
of the best that has been written
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Votes for Winrnin"
BY DAMON RUNYoN.

I HEAR PUNK Peters takn onen
About this wmmin,
hadn't thought neither, but if PUNK is n
I'll take a chanst Mother an the gals!
Now PUNK has inch an hair;
He could hide behind a o room to spare
So when PUNK wimmn
I'll take chanst on Mother an the gals!
SEE PUNK: When wimmin
They'll vote US out O Office jest shoon,
An they'll be good public
So I'll take Mother an he
For I've knowed Punk fer an
They amt hair in Peters head
An never had show date when Peters
I'll take a n Mother an gals!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Are Not Adaptable.

Old people are not adaptable, and
1t seems impossible for the woman
who has ruled supreme in her own
house to take second place in some
body else's. 1t is likewise impossl-
BILE for a mother to realize that her
children ever grow up. and that
when they are married they have
duty to husband or wife that comes
even before their duty to her. THIS
is why the advent of the mothef-iH-
law In family is almost inyarlapF
the beginning of trouble, and WHY
no mother should go to live WIN
any one Of her married children =
it is possible to avoid it.
Undoubtedly daughteIs-iA-Ls"
and sons-in-law are not angels "
live with. They lack much IN pa
thence and consideration in deaIlDs
with their wives and husoaI'-
mothers. But mothers skirts a''
not clear either and the woman
who has really her children L''''
est at heart, who loves them ''
seldshly will go to an old -'u'
home before she will go to 1--we
with them.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Whaling Industry Doomed

The end Of the whaling industry is in sight according TO
hoy Andrews who recently returned from Corea with
bic additions for the museums New York City.
As other fields the japanese the most of the
whale and canned whale the substitute
for beef which is costly and hard o obtain
Only since the Russian War have the little brown men
made whaling science but already they foeseen the
end OF the pursuit and engaged prfectng rawl
ing system by which steady supply of may relied upon
instead OF the wasefu methods of foreather the Jan
ese have treated the whale with intelligent handling
al he modern packer besows the Nothing is al
lowed to
, Our propensity for killing will soon put the whale in
Nass with the carrier pigeon and the dode
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Who Was Shakespeare?

KTARK TWAIN's last book
Nj was called us Shakespeare
Dead? ?" and in it the IA
nous humorist, who had often
proved that he was no mere literary
clown, but a man of singularly pro-
found Judgment and most pene-
trating intelligence, ridiculed, in his
inimitable way, the time -honored
legend that William Shakespeare,
or Shakspere, or Shagsper, or what
ever really was his variously
spelled name, had written the i'm
mortal plays and poems that so
under the name of William Shake
speare." Notwithstanding the stud
led silence of most of the Shake
spearean literary critics, who would
apparently have been glad IL the
world could be kept in ignorance Of
what so widely read and univer-
sally praised an author as Mark
Twain thought on this subject, his
book has recently appeared in a
European edition of English mas
terpieces which everybody reads.
so that the attempt to smother it
ba TOta n1tY foi1a6
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27

: Or the old lady nags and frets .,
her son-in-law because he smo,.,
when she diSapproves OF tobacco
or he has beer with his dinner
when she is o. W. c. T. u. or he Ia.
old chums of whom she is spsr,
cious. or because he Will read III.
Sunday Newspaper instead 81 90
ing to church,
1t never occurs to the old lady
that her daughter-in-law NAV b..
far more Intelligent woman than
she is; that her way Of keepIny
house and raising children NAV bs
a thousand times more scientific
or that the d8ughter-in-law's wav
may represent the advance in prog.
ress Of generation, and that even
If 1t doesn't, the daugtter-in-Iaw
has just as good a right TO run hsr
own affairs in her way as she has
to run hers III her way. :
It Is Imperti7enoe.
Nor does 1t dawn on her that snv
man who pays for tbs support Of a
home has the privilege of doing IN
it as he pleases, and that It is an
fnsolent fmpertinence for any Qua.
slider to interfere with him,
Mother-tn-law is always an IN.
welcome guest, whether It is IN her
sons or her daughters house and
It is her own fault in the majority
Of cases that this is true. Ana If is
true because she can not keep her
finger out Of her children's pies
Because a woman happens to b
the mother OF her host or hostess
does not make her any the less j
guest under HIS or her roof, and I
she could only remember this, anl
conduct herself according TO tie
rules laid down by decent society
for the guidance Of guests, it woul4
enormously augment the sum 4
human happiness.
Because a woman is staying IN
her sons house gives her no right
to try to boss 1t and her daughter
ln-law, or to 'criticise the bread
she eats, On the contrary. It Should
make her that much more discreet
and chary of making suggestions
Daughter-in-law will ask for her
advice when she wants it, and the
wise thing is to withhold counsel
even when it is requested.
Nor does the fact that she is Nv
ing with her daughter give a wom-
an the right to police her son-in-
law and make herself disagreeable
to him. On the contrary as shs
pays for her board with her society,
1t is all the more up to her to make
that society agreeable, soothing and
fiattering.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Followed the Footmarks.


Mark Twain was simply follow
ing and illuminating the footmarks
of many able writer's who have
traVersed this ground since Della
Bacon opened the controversy more
than half q century ago. Probably
hundreds Of books and pamphlets
have been published with the aim
of proving thats Mr.. Shakespeare,
of Stratford- on Avon, was not and
could not have been the writer of
the Shakespeare plays and poems;
that, at best, he was nothing more
than fairly good actor, whose
knowledge of the world and man
kind was confined to what a play
actor, in those days when play act
ing was a profession that Guilt
waited people looked down upon,
could acquire; that he was so igno-
rant that it is a nice question
whether he could even write his
name; that he died without the
slightest public notice being taken
of his death and leaving no trace
of books, manuscripts, notes, let
ters or any, the least, of the in
Vulnerable things which a great
thinker writer, scholar. poet and
philosopher (such as the author of
the plays evidently was) must nat
urally have possessed; that many
of the greatest of the plays made
their first appearance YEARS AFT
ER HIS DEATH; that he never
claimed to be the author of the
masterpieces bearing his name, and
took no interest in their preserva-
ton; that hundreds of the most
wonderful lines in the great plays
were added by an unknown hand
after he was in his grave, and many
other remarkable facts of SINH
lar nature. L has also been shown
that he was a person of so little
Importance that not a scrap of gem
uine information exists concerning
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
The Conceit of Age.


Nor is it worth while to remind
her that other people have just as
good a right to their own code of
ethics and conduct as she has, and
that she holds no divine commits
sion to go around reforming the
world, and forcing other people to
measure up to her little narrow
inch rule.
Colossal self-conce1t is one Of the
unIovely characteristics of age that
only the biggest and broadcast
minded people escape. By the time
a woman has admired herself for
sixty-odd years vanity becomes an
incurable disease. BY the time she
has been sure she was exactly right
for half a century you could remove
a mountain easier than you could
shake her faith in her own infalli-
bility, and her mind is as imper-
vious to the suggestion that she
might be in the wrong as a granite
bowlder is to the prick of a cam
brio needle.
Old people always think they are
Solomons; that their way of doing
things is the only way; their point
of view the only correct one. and
this is what makes it so difficult
for any old man or woman, and
especially an old woman, to live in
another persons house.
The old woman quarrels with her
daughter law because the
daughter-in-lawd doesn't keep house
exactly as she did, and doesn't
bring up her children just as she
brought up hers and because
daughterin-law goes out to clubs
when she never did, or wears tight
skirts when she wore hoop skirts.
or she uses the best china every
day when she always kept hers
GfGer i6cK ana ssAx. and brought if
out onry on state AScasions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27

on both sides of this curious con-
troversy. The "anti- Shakespear-
lists" have one disadvantage-they
have, as the nature of the subject
rendered inevitable, attracted to
their side a number of persons who
ordinarily are looked upon as
"cranks," and whose concurrence
is rather an obstruction than an aid
to their cause.
An Appeal.
Now, am not going to express a
definite opinion on the question as
to who really did write the great
est masterpieces that English liter
ature can boast, but 1 am going to
make an appeal for a concerted eff
fort, by competent scholars, to clear
up the mystery. There are many
who think that an exploration of
the Shakespeare tomb at Stratford
might cast a great deal of light
upon it. Why, then, should not
such an exploration be made? To
speak of proclamation" in such a
case is in itself a proclamation.
Others are of opinion that a more
thorough search than private means
have yet rendered possible of the
innumerable repositories Of books,
pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, etc,
which exist in England and else
where might have surprising re-
suits. Many discoveries, bearing
more or less upon the subject in
controversy. have already been
made in unexpected places, one of
them in London, only two or three
years ago
What is needed is ORGANIZA-
TION and MONEY. and the world
at large would, surely, be as much
interested in knowing who the evil
liam Shakespeare" whom it has been
taught to. revere as the foremost of
all its geniuses really was, as in
knowing the character of the ice
covering the south pole.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
By DOROTHY DIX

4 n old mother went to live with
n her son, whose wife's mother
also lived in the same house.
Both the son and his wife did all
they could to make the old lady
happy, but she disapproved Of the
manners and point of view Of the
daughter laws mother, and felt
it to be her sacred duty to express
her opinion freely on the subject.
Trouble ensued.
Then the mother went to live
with her married daughter, but she
didn't like her son-in-law rela-
tives any better than she did her
daughter laws, and she likewise
felt it nothing more than right, and
her privilege, to vent her senti-
ments, thereby stirring up strife
again, and preclpitating another
family row.
It appears that before mother ar
rived on the scene both her son
and her daughter were on the most
affectionate terms with their Gin
laws" and got along beautifully
with them, and because they re-
fused to sever these kindly ties,
and take mothers part in the fool
ish quarrels, she feels that she has
been very badly treated, and calls
them undutiful children, and re-
CARDS herself as a prosecuted mar
tyr.
OF course, there is no use in
telling this old lady that her son
and daughter are right, and that
there's just one person more fool
ish than the individual who is al
ways getting into quarrels, and
that is the one who takes up some
body else's quarrel. Nor is there
any good in telling her that, so far
from having grievance in her
children loving their 'in- laws" she
should be down on her knees
thanking heaven for the miracle
that has been vouchsafed in their
behalf.