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LIFE's RAILWAY TO HEAVEN.

with thanks to the sender, we print hello,
9 verse asked for some days ago.1
Life Is like mountain railroad
With an engineer that's brave:
We must make the run successful
From tho cradle to the grave;
Watch the curves. the fills, the tunnels.
Never falter, never quail;
Keep your hand upon the throttle
And your DYE upon the rail-
You will roll up grades of trial
You will cross the bridge Of strife.
See that Christ is your conductor
On this lightning train of life:
Always mindful of obstruction
Do your duty, never fail;
Keep your hand upon the throttle
And your eye upon the rail-
You will often find Instructions.
Look for storms of wind and rain.
On q I'LL. or curve, or trestle
They will almost ditch your train.
Put your trust alone in Jesus
Never falter, never fail:
Keep your hand upon the throttle
And your eye upon the rail
AS you roll across the trestle,
Spanning Jordan's swelling tide
You behold the Union Depot
Into which your train will glide:
There you'll meet the Superintendent
God tho Father, God the Son,
with the hearty, Joyous plaudit .,s
Weary pilgrim. welcome home,m
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
For Human Thoroughbreds

SAN FRANCISCO. July ga regis
try for human thorou&hbreds will be
proposed at the Second National Con-
ference on Race BetteTSent to be held
at the exposition in connection with
Race Retirement Week. August As.
DR.. j. IL. Kellogg, OF Battle Creek. is
author of the plan, which is endorsed
by Luther Burbank. who declares thai
a new species of man can be produced
by selective mating in six generations.
~ eugenics registry would under
take TO register two classes Of per-
sons DIR. Kellogg asserts. First,
those who, on examination in relation
to personal Characteristics and family
pedigree, are found to measure up to
the cugcnics standards Second. the
children born OF parents whose pedi-
gree and physical characteristics con.
form to the required standards Such
a registry would be the beginning Of
new and glorified human race, which
some time. far down in the future, will
nave SO mastered the forces of nature
that disease and degeneracy will have
been eliminated. Hospitals and pris-
ons VIII no no longer needed, and the
golden age will have been restored as
the GROWING result OF human achieve
ment ana obedience to biologic law"
both DR. Kellogg and Burbank will
deliver addresses at tho conference
Other speakers will be David Starr
Jordan. Paul Popenoe, editor of the
american Journal OF Heredity; Edgar
l.. Hcwett. United States Bureau OF
Ethnology, and others Of national
prominence. AS a feature Of the meet
ing the dominant note of race better
ment Will be demonstrated by a
morality masque in which largo num-
Der of actors will take part.
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the inauguration Of submarine attacks on
merchant shipping. 1t Is more just, really, to
regard the orders in council as reprisas than
SO to regard the destruction of belligerent
and neutral merchantmen.
, Great Britain did. in fact, give these orders
that significance. OF course they were not
so designed. save in very restricted sense.
Britains real purpose was to attack Germany
economically. through curtailng her indus
trial output. 1t was sought to kill German
manufacturing and thus reduce German finan-
cial strength. by preventing importation of
raw materials and expectation of finished
products. A secondary purpose was to pro-
vent importation Of any articles useful In the
prosecution of the war. Reprisal and the
starvation Of Germany, 1t may be taken as
assured. were far less in the minds Of the
trainers Of the orders.
The point is, however. that the circum-
stance supposed TO justify German reprisals
had no real existence, just the French pur-
pose to invade Belgium had no real existence
Germany first assumed necessity and then
proceeded to give it verbal support.
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MIME. DE WlART PLUCkY

If the Pope. as reported, has secured
the release from q German prison OF
Nine. Carton de Wharf, wife of the
Belgian Minister of Justice. it is only
reasona HE recognition of pluck.
Sho remained all winter in her house
in Brussels. literally surrounded by
German soldiers, and refused TO leave
1t took charge of corresponding
with her husband in France to get rid
of her. She bluffed the German army
for many months.
Nine. Carton de WARTS house is one
OF the line of official residences flank
Ing the Parliament Building on the Rue
de In Loi in Brussels, across the park
from the royal palace These houses
have been occupied by the German
Government oilicers-all except the
house of the Minister of Justice. When
the Germans came there and ordered
the occupants out Nine Carton de
Wharf refused to leave. She said there
was only one way to make her GO
to pick her UP bodily and carry her
out.
AS she is a distinguished looking
woman, intellectual as we'll as hand
some, the German officers baked at
that, but filled the house with SOL
dicrs. The dining room and reception
halls We're turned into barracks. and
only one floor was left to her. On
the newer posts OF the staircase lead
ing to her floor sign was posted for
bidding tho billeted soldiers TO mount
farther
The officers tried to convince me at
first did not need that sign." she told
me. They said: Our soldiers are
good boys. They will not harm your
young family"
What did you say to that" I asked.
81 told them that might all be-" she
replied. but some day there might be
soldiers billeted there who were not
inclined to be good boys and before
] could get help II would be too late"
But how did they happen TO let you
stay?" asked
'It Is my house." she replied my
King gave IL to me. and 1t is mine
until he takes IT away"
did you tell that to tho Germans?"
"Why. yes. of course" she said.
AS the Rue de la I,oi is reserved for
the Germans, IL takes considerable red
tape to get to Nine. Carton de WARTS
house. The first time 1 met her we
dined at the house of u mutual friend,
and I took her home. We walked, Of
course. Every one walks in Brussels
except the German officers. and they
seem to be joy-riding most Of the time.
But when l reached tho scntrics | was
not permitted to pass. and I had TO
stand and watch her go down the
empty street alone to her homo and
mount the steps to her floor through
the soldiers sleeping on straw on the
floor. had to get a pass in order
to call on her. but 1t was we'll worth
all tho trouble, She looked so frail
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Payment for Prohibition

I N Alabama Governor Henderson has been
waging warm fight with the extreme pro-
hibitionists and seems to be getting the best
or the Tray. Alabama has been adversely at
fected by prohibition and tho allied measures
advocated by prohibitonists The States
revenue has been cut in pieces and there is
a considerable deficit. Over this the fight
RACES.
The prohibitonists. in spite of the had
financial outlook, have been pushing bills to
abolish the State convict lease system, which
would mean further reduction OF $500. 900
In the income. The Governor advocates a
bond issue Of $4,000, 900 to cover the deficit
while tho prohibition majority in the Legisla-
ture has favored an increase in taxation. But
the Legislature has recently inclined more
and more towards the Governors position, and
II seems probable that the bond issue will be
made. the tax bill defeated and the convict
lease system continued
Alabhma's plight teaches what Is OBJ
scryahle in all prohibition States--and that
is that Statewide prohibition Is accompanied
by great increase in taxation. Prohibition
may be good thing, but the people pay for it.
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SONGS AND SAWS
Ardity.


They say that thirst is something flerco
In West Virginia.:
That frenzied cries the welkin pierce
In West Virginia.;
That luckless wights, in that dry State.
Have nothing left to celebrate;
They'd rather far incineratc
Dear West Virginia.
The man who once bracer took
In West Virginia
Pants as the hart for running brook.
In West Virginia.;
or course. It's not for brooks he pines.
Or nught that's built water lines
He wants real solnce ere he dimes
In West Virginia.
They hike to some more favored land
From West Virginia,
Drink waited joys that now are banned
In West Virginia:
We see them on our streets to-day
With thirsts to quench and cash TO pay
Next year they'll go another way
From West Virginia.
Next year we'll pant as they pant now
In West Virginia.:
With naught to cool a fevered brow
In all Virginia.
Wed like to differentiate
The mother from the daughter State,
Hut then the family well berate-
Too dry Virginia.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30

Tar ms we arc allowed to know II is
PROBABLY the dullest. No really de.
cisive and permanent stroke evidently
mas been mnde ut any point in any
enea,er OF the war. Possibly an ex-
ccptlon may now he made In the case
OIL General Botha's successful cam
paign In Africa
AT tho outbreak OF the war tn. Cav
mans failed In their Immediate. original
objective. Is II too much 10 ,e.,,rso
that this failure was I'm a rrn,, ,oan
ure due 10 the lack of commnndar
OF unhcsitntnR insight and inItiative,
But. on the other hand. this original
failure was followed by no trnmendous
countcrstrokc on the part OF tho allies
but by stubborn retreat OF tho Ger.
mans. ending in n state of endless in
trenchmcnt; and so matters. II Will
hardly be denied. remain ut the present
moment In the western thoater
>" IN the cast NC were at nrst led
20 believe That the Russians were so
VIGOROUSLY advancing that It was
merely question with them by what
hme and by what route they should
arrive In Berlin. At the present mo-
ment. so far from any great aggressive
movement having succeeded, they arc
being steadily and continuously beaten
back. and are themselves invaded not
invading.
IL Is possible, Of course. that signal
military ability has been displayed on
inc German side In this massive and
tremendous offensive: but news now
comes, once again bearing out ny
original thesis, that the Germans I'm
their turn are now being held In the
Dardanc!les we were practically told
that but few miles separated us
from brilliant and OVERWHELMING
victory, but 1t Is now found that the
piercing OF the Turkish defense, If not
ultimately impossible. is likely TO as
sumo the n>onotony OF operations else
where.
The Fleets Deadly Vigil.
BY sea hitherto little conspicuous has
been effected on either side. but II
would be, OF course. an impcrtinence to
criticize the deadly vigil OF our feet
Hark!ng back to my original con-
tcn,ion OF an apparent lack of any
towering individuality. in home affairs.
In England. this Is. perhaps, even more
kccnly obvious. y crisis like the
present cannot be dealt with drastical-
~ by the lawyer politician" who may
be fairly successful In more normal
times. This crisis cries for a dictator
4 man of caliber. and nothing short Of
it, OF the elder. not the younger. Pitt,
or, better still, Of Cromwell. II has
usually been said that the greater op-
portunity finds the man Surely
greater opportunity than this conflict
affords has never been given in his
tory
venture once more to assert tina,
apparently no genius on the vast scale
has yet emerged from this world
weller.
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Association Roolx,.

Please tell me exactly what is meant by the
phrase. Association books?
CHARLOTTESVILLE
Locally, IT might almost anything
Years ago the names Richmond Library Asso-
citation" philadelphia Library Association" etc
were very common designations and many
have survived that there must be scores in this
country and in England, and hundreds If you
include the Y w. c. y. and the Y NJ c. A.
collections of books. Hence association books"
might mean the books belonging one of these
associations Generally, the IL used TO
designate books to which some "aSsocation"
attaches volume with the authors autopronb
or having letter of the author or even of the
authors Eummed in or containing the auto
graph or some person of distinction or his book
LABEL or book plate etc, would be clnssed as an
'associa ton book The fact that the term ia
no very happy one and it's use not especially
necessary has little hearing on the facts By
this sort OF elimination might dispose OF
some two-thirds Of the words in general use
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
AnnitieS

wv ATCH the country boys who come to the
w city to seek their fortunes Some turn
to the y. NJ. c. y. for companionship and some
10 the saloons. 1t is needless to select the
road to success; countless volumes have been
written on both sides of this subject.
If you are coarse in your tastes and vicious
in your tendencies. YOU do not have to try
very hard to get with coarse, vicious people;
the law of attraction causes them to seek
You. Those who aspire to get on and up in
the world very quickly find those who are try
ing to do the same, and association with them
is natural
We make our own associations, and these
form fully onc-half Of our success or failures
in life
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30

among all the bulky German soldiers.
nut she came and went among them
as IL they were pieces OF furniture
They watched her closely as she moved
about. and. as there were always dog
ems or them there, they must have re-
hil@cd she could not be up to any
thing. She certainly got no informa-
tlon from them, as she ignored their
existence. II must have been dull
witted person, with no appreciation Of
spunk, who ordered her under arrest.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
England Grows Impatient

e NGLlSH dissatisfaction with the relatively
- minor part that country is playing on the
conduct Of the war on land acquires new and
more conspicuous expression every day. An
influential section of the press has criticized
bitterly, the coalition ministry is the result
of spirited attacks on British strategy, at
home and in the field and Parliament itself
becomes the forum of the latest and most
unfavorable utterances
Liberal members declare they have not the
same confidence in the government thew had
nine months ago. One asserts the public has
lost faith in the War Office, (which has proved
itself miserably inefficient
To the lay mind, considering events from a
distance, it appears obvious that something Is
wrong. year has passed since the war be-
gan, and Bri,ain has not justified herself on
land. The great exploits of the British navy
are not TO be forgotten-they cannot be-but
something more than victory on the seas must
be achieved, unless the war is to become a
mere contest in endurance, terminable only
by the exhaustion of one set of allies or the
other.
IN modern warfare casualty lists when
theF are honest indicate with reasonable con-
clusiveness the extent to which nation is
participating in the struggle. The latest list
published shows total British casualties of
42S,000, compared with 1000 for Franco
3,4S5,O0O for Russia 1,567,00O for Germany.
1,235,000 for Austria 1t is to be remem
bered, moreover, that these British losses are
those OF imperial forces in every part of the
world. They include those OF troops of the
Union of South Africa. Canada Australia and
New Zealand and the Indian and Egyptian de-
Tendencies Botha won German Southwest
Africa without help from the empire Cana
dian and Indian troops have been in tho thick
OF the lighting in Belgium and France, and
haVe borne some OF the heaviest losses Aus
tralians and New Zealanders have won honors
In the fighting along the Suez Canal and on
the Gallipoli Peninsula
Where are K:tchener's 100000 men?
What are they doing?
On the sea, as we have said Britain has
accomplished much, and in the destruction of
Germanys colonial empire she has wrought
great things, but the fate of empires is being
decided on the battle fields of Europe
There, considering her resources of men and
money and enormous industrial DEVELOPMENT
she has done very little.
There is evidence that Lord Kitchener and
Sir John French not in agreement and
one OF them must be at fault. The surpris-
ing thing is that Mr.. Asquith-no sentimental
list, TO say the least Of it-has not managed
to assess the blame and get rid OF the man
VINO stands in the way Of progress
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monument, but history of the inner life of the
English race. The quotations that illustrate tho
meaning of word have been assembled by
hundreds Of scholars the world over, Including
not few from tho United States and tho
arrangement Of and comment upon this mate
rial-of which there have literally been tons
have been the stupendous work Of Sir James
Murray and his assistants. DR.. Murray's fame
have been bestowed upon this great Scotchman
need no mention at this time 1t is less widely
known that he was the father of eleven chill
dren. One Of his six sons is an assistant secre-
tory OF the British Observation-Disclosures Re-
publican
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Hcraldry.

Please advise me what is the best elementary
work on heraldry. r. +, HUNTER
Probably Aveling's edition of 'Bouten" pub
hshed by Warne in London and New York in
1888, ana easily procurable from your bookseller
no one BOOK would suffice to the subject
but this will give you as clear view of the I'm,
deriving principles as any know and 1t la
especially useful for the good Judgment dis
prayed IN the selection of hundreds of subjects
for tho Illustrations
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
Time for Governor TO ACT

THERE seems no reason to doubt that con-
1 ditions at llopewell require the active in
tervention of the State authorities. AS
general proposition we oppose the interfer-
ence OF the State in matters purely local, but
Hopewell is getting to be the sort OF adver-
tisement that Virginia neither needs nor
wants and the police force of the town mani
testify is unable or unwilling to meet the
situation.
1t is not pleasant to read in the newspapers
of New York, Baltimore and Washington ex-
tended descriptions Of the Hopewelian ac-
tivities-to have that community, only few
miles from the capital Of Virginia, compared
to some oil or mining town OF the wild and
woolly West, with lurd accounts of its addic-
tton 10 gambling, illegal liquor selling and
worse vices.
Virginia really has no right TO permit such
conditions 10 continue, and we have no doubt
that Governor Stuart will take such steps as
may prove TO be necessary
postal card mailed in New York town
thirty-four years ago has just been delivered
in New Jersey town. Why doesn't New
Jersey get on the map?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30

minority of tho small minor
Foolish ity Of newspapers that deny tho
Critics Of law and logic OF President Will
p,a.idont sons third Lusitana note to tho
German government assert or in
slnuate that the positions taken
oy our government are part Of some secret
agreement with England" Such thing as a
eecret treaty is legally impossible for tho
united States That dirty practice of European
diplomacy known rs tho secret agreement Is
morally impossible for American statesman
ANY American citizen who suggests such
d th1ngS existence dcfamcs the government to
which he owes loyalty. Therefore. let us hone
that the editors who assert insinuate are
not conscious falsiners but in their absorption
IN study of the devious and dirty mazes or Eu-
ropean intrigue have remained ignorant of
american history. American craftsmanship and
American idcals.-Chicago Herald
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30

John Bull is trying to make up his mind
what he will say when a few notes on the
subject Of the freedom of the seas are ad-
dressed to him, rather than to Kaiser Bill
UP to now he has not settled on suitable
response
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Cold Sto.nee for Bread.

V''''''Tr'''fVf'S J1hITHtCh 10 New York
SUM-
Cold storage bread is the latest In
noVation in the commissary department
OF the farm-at the University OF Min
ncsota. II has been found that bread
placed in cold storage will keep en-
tirely fresh for at least five days. Az
n result the number Of bakings at
tho institution has been materially ra.
duced, a,. "A,
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Compensation

Compensation.
asked the Lonely Fisherman
II luck had come his way
We'll, no." lie murmured with a sigh
I've caught no fish to-day
But still, when l regard the facts
My fate is not so tough
My darling wife is far away
That should be luck enough"
THE TATTLER
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A Necessary Ctcnsil.

The Gay Young Bird
That's queer sort Of fish
mother has brought home
for breakfast. wonder IL
she has thought to provide
a can opener.
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We are told by some OF the superoptimistic
that the improvement in business conditions
is reflected in the money movement of the
large financial centers Of the United States
This is quite discovery
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
Old Books,

Please give the address OF some dealer
WHO will buy quantity of old books
MRS. E. f. n.
We do not publish such addresses but shall
% glad to send what you desire on receipt OF
stamped envelope.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30

Some men born mad, achieve mad
ness and some get into arguments on the stat
OF tho weather
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
Queries and Answers
Song Wanted.

Will you publish the words to the song The
Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane?
MISS ~ II.
Will some reader kindly send COPY?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-30
Facing an Unpleasant Task

CCARCE anything makes less appeal to the
~ people OF the United States than the as
sumption OF authority over one OF the black
and-tan republics to the south of u.s. unless it
be similar assumption in the case of the ex
clusively black republic of Haiti. There is a
country that we distinctly want nothing to
40 with. and that yet, by the relentless logic
or events, we may have to take under our
guardianship
The mob that invaded the French legation
dragged out tho President Of Haiti hanged
and mutilaied him and then paraded the
streets with fragments Of his body, was
typlcai OF that land OF revolution. graft and
blood AS fitting preliminary to Gull
laume's end, one Of his satellites had butch
cred 100 helpless political prisoners and had
himself succumbed to the mob's fury.
france must have reparation for the injury
she mas suffered, and, under the Monroe Doc
trine, it may we'll be held that it is the duty
of this country to see that she gets It. II is
a disagrecable prospect