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". /. Parker
FOK STAG SENATOR
cCtE$IEESIn DISTRiGI
" are authorized To announce
d.. William Carson Black

as % ra.tilG'e Tor Republican nom.
iulriuH for member 81 the Stale
~cAa'c from tits district; subject To
thu action Of the voters of the dis
tlirt. $ oppressed 81 the primary.
II To BLACK, HES A LIVE ONE
AN prr' THINGS.
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Andorra

President Wilson recently had a let
ter from Andorra concentrating him
upon his diplomatic victories and cX-
pressing 4 Willingness TO join in u
peace conference. AS tho White House
has n good map, the President was
not long in doubt as to the location of
his warm admirer. Furthermore, the
man who brought the letter gave his
word that Andorra was in the Pyrc-
nces when he left. 1t is the Tom
Thumb OF oil republics. having been
inaccessible and independent since the
time of Charlemagnc. TO be sure.
there Is a road leading up from Spain.
hut avalanches frequently fall upon
1t and sever relations batwccn the
two countries. AndOrra has fewer
than 5000 people. but they are a hardy
race. and the nation never loses any
sure footed citizens, the careless ores
having long since fallen into France
or Spain. The capital city is larger
than Amos, West Virginia. but it VIII
probably never catch up with Amana,
Iowa The nation has no standing
army and no troubles OF any kind cX-
cept House OF Representatives. The
President gets n salary Of two chooses.
two capons and ham from each Of
the six states; otherwise the people
1.-Two on terms OF complete equality
The New Republic.
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"Engineerless" Ship

The necessity or placing tho control
OF vessel entirely in the hands OF
The officer on the bridge has long been
felt. and several experiments. aiming
at the elimination OF the engineer.
have been tried. The latest. and prob
ably the most successful, was a three
hour test of NaEasaki of Or. X. Ito's
ship Muncuvcr!ng Apparatus on the
salvage steamer Oura Maru. The can
tain of the vessel not only stcered his
ship, but started IL, stopped it, and
regulated its speed. According to the
Japan Times the Invention did all
that was claimed for it,"
1t can readily be seen that with the
elimination of the engineer must come
also the elimination Of errors due To
the misintcrprctation Of signals and
the elimination of the waste Of time
in the transmission of signals. The
placing OF sole responsibility for the
management of the ship with the cap
tain will also bring about the cffcc-
tual disposition Of those disputes which
generally arise after an accident as 10
who is To blame The final perfection
of such an invention will be a great
step towards the avoidance OF col
liSons on the watcr--Wa!l street
Journal
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IF SHAKESPEARE WERE, CENSORED

Inc censor boards Of PENNSYLVANIA
ami ohio have established rules anu
regulations and standards" to which
the producers OF motion pictures are
expected to conform under all kinds OF
pains and penalties. These rules are
little known, except perhaps one or
Two that are particularly foolish, such
as the Brcitingcr cdict tina, all
comedies must have "a serious pur-
pose" Even the censors themselves
rccoil from applying all their rules
ana regulations. have, therefore.
Judged them by their performances
rather than by their theories.
Tried by this fearful test, only six
plays escape unscathcd These are:
King Henry "" the first part OF
King Henry VI" ''rimon OF Athens"
"Coriolanus." The Comedy Of Errors."
and Loves Labor Lost" Here is what
would happen to some Of tho others
King Henry NIII"--Thc divorce pro-
cccdinGs against Catherine Of Aragou
are pointed out in too much detail.
They might have a bad effect on mar
RCD couples and must hc reduced to a
Hash. Scene ". III act !. must be ra,iI-
cally changed. The subtitle "IIc would
KISS you twenty times with :, breath"
must be omitted and the kiss follow
ing title must be reduced to normal
length ordained by the board Scene
III. In act must be omitted as tend.
inf to corrupt young Of both sexes.
Omit seen" V. OF act >. as il might Give
otfcnsc To = large division OF Chris
tians
''Cymbcline"-Not approved r'hc
board cannot approve this play. as thc
pot Is based upon a scandalous and
immoral wager. \ man by trick and
dcvic" gains entrance into 81 womau's
room wtcr" thu woman rcposcs In bed.
partly d!srobcd The man steals a
bracelet from the partly diSrobcd WON
an. Such sights might scandallzc the
young and vcrI- POSSIBLY incite them TO
theft and other crimes
Romeo aui Julict"-t'ut out juliet,
Here il Girl just In her teens CON
Quoting herself In n most uEmaidculy
fashion and opening her window in tho
NIGHT tim" or possibly In the early
hours o! The morning TO a voun. man
10 whom sh" mas never been properly.
introduced. This play nbouuds. in the
very kisses ana embraces and passion
ate love scchcs which the board has re-
Dcatedly condemned. There are too
many street brawls OF extreme violence
tcduCc these TO 4 flash OF about ten
feet. The board has frequently an
noCnccd It's disapprcval OF the admin
istrat!on OF secret sleeping potions ana
all such scenes in the play must come
out The ball which Romeo ana his
companions appear in may remain as i,
is-cducational in character
Julius cacsar-Thc assassination
OF julius Caesar must be eliminated. ~
plainly offending against the rules OF
the board. As the plot however re
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UcyOnd tho Horizon.

No one ever completely outGrows
the tendency of the little child to
think that the real world is the place
where lie lives and that all the rest
beyond the distant sky line. is only Il
sort OF fairy tale How strong this
feeling is may bc illustrated by :hc
words of an American who happened
to he living In MeXico:
40 you ever have n feeling OF skcp-
ticism as to the continued existence or
places you are no longer in? can
shut my eyes and see BOSTON and New
York and Paris, for instance. as they
are in their characteristic ways at al
most any hour Of the day or night.
know just how the people in certain
quarters arc conducting Themselves.
where they arc GoiHy next, and what
they will say and do when they arrive.
But don't altogether believe In IT,
1t doesn't seem possible somehow that
they arc going on and on when am
not there to see"
All Of us have felt something Ike
the same sensation. a horizon line Is
something no living being can ever
cross-in the flesh. 1t is always there.
encircling him. But one may ESCAPE
It In spirit. And that is why we aren't
all OF us provincials OF town or coun-
try.--Collier's.
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quircs that the fact Of tic death he
conveyed to the spectators, TWO courses
may be pursucd-Mark Antony may be
shown receiving Il letter announcing
Caesars death or Caesar may be shown
dying natural death by rheumatism
or old age Reduce all riots TO Il fash
Omit Scene II. in Act Ill ~ plainly
contrary 10 rules Of the board.
Antony and Observation-Disclosures
cleopatra. Her profcsscd contempt FOR
marriage and her plainly adulterous
passion for married man and her
habiiual cruelty 10 her slaves stamp
her rs "a woman from whose dreadful
example the boys ana girls or ohio
and PENNSYLVANIA must bc saved at all
hazards. There is a snake tn this play
IL Is true that the snak. !s small. but
It's effect on the women and children
cannot but be Gclctcrlous
King I.cnr'-Eo; approved This
Play is a grave menace to the family
HE and the homes Of Pennsylvania COR
phtob. There are at leas; four shame
fui and scandalous family discords ana
descriptions. involving criminal rcIa.
lions on the part Of husbands, ,vIves
il!esitimatc offspring and falthl.ss
servants. Bioody and barDarous scenes
abound tdcath OF Cordclia, bl!,iGiul, O..
Glostcr, almost habitual tearing out
OF eyes, inhuintn!tlcs OF Duke OF Corn
weld. immoral scenes. too, arc scat
tered through the play. Adultcrics
poisonlngs and acts Of d"Ecuuracy arc
constantly met with. Never Save tho
rules ana regulations OF OF, board
h""n more rccklcsaly violated than IN
this play
"IIamlct'- approved. This plav
~ too hldcous 10 receive" tho approval
OF our board. which has repeatedly
ruled out tn" very things in which this
play abounds The drinking of not
blood for Instance, and the doing Or
su"h business as the bitter day would
quake - look on is l[rhi,. ,,rb,rDr,i-
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4 thousand crccds and battlc-crics.
y thousand warning social schemes.
y thousand new moraiitics.
And twenty thousand thousand
dreams.
Each on his own anarchic way.
From the old order breaking free
Our ruined world desires, YOU say,
License, once more. not Liberty
But nh. beneath the struggling foam.
When storm ana change are on the
deep.
How quietly tho tides come home.
And how the depths OF seashine
And we who march toward a goal.
Destroying only To fulnll
The law, tho law Of that great soul
Which moves beneath your alien Will
We. that like foemcn meet the mas.
because we bring the future. know
We only fight TO achieve at last
~ great reunion with our foe
Reunion in the truths that stand
Nhen all our wars are rolled away;
Reunion OF the heart and hand
Ana OF the prayers whercwith wa
pray.
Reunion In tho common needs.
The common Strivings Of manl,ind.
k'Uh'on ni our warrin. crcc,lS
Ia the one God that dwclis behind
ForwarG what use in idle wordso
Forward. . warriors OF the soul,
There will be breaking up Of swords
When that new morning makes ms
whole.
Alfred Novo.
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The Voice of the PEOPLE
Agrees With DIR. TYLER

10 the Editor OF The Times hi sna, oh.
Sir.-That letter of Dr. Lyon G ryIrr.s s,.,
ing against the theory and the practice of 800
pareoheSs for war. is of the best that |
eide. ana when this war is over all OF Enyo,.
combined could not possibly land an ARM IN
ycas ,,a 9'',es or America. for tho simple
''n 'nat a large part OF their best young
men are dead, and the apparatus and ,nunitiors
OF war are destroyed or used up " "
fSut how useless it Is o argue or dch,,. ,ha,,,
war! This awful catastrophe will force mo
church ana the schools to recognize as :, fact
mar h mankind even In so-caled civilized coun-
ules' is only few grades above the cave
man, his not very remote ancestor
Dead on tho field OF honor is a phras. ,,so1
men OF France into willing service as cannon
ioader And thus We have come 10 the crisis
where millions OF good men stand up and xiii
each other for no reason whatever
Quoting the Bible story Of the flood .,,d
me Lord said will destroy man whom
have created from the face of the oar,h. hon
man ana beast. ana the creeping thing and the
fowls or the air; for it repeuteth Me that |
have made them" ~
The only good that can come oT ,,,;. u.,r L.,
mat 1t VIII serve as a horrible example to pos
terity--but at what heavy cost!
Some men. who are supposed to have brains
IN their heads. argue that Europe was not prom
erly prepared" hence the catastrophe
what perverse streak there is In human
nature which makes men decry ana hoot NJ
those who would try to lift mankind out Tho
present state OF semi ba rbarism. SEQ how tho
daiiy press tries TO ridiculc William ]. Bryan
Joscphus Daniels, Henry Ford, David Starr Tor
dan and Woodrow Wilson because they are try-
ing to use reason and science in the place OF
the cave mans club.
The prophet OF san Francisco Henry 6,.o-..
predicted that tho world would come TO this
crisis. and his book. Social Problems" should
now have new popularity.
The kind of 'preparedncss'' tina, we need &c
to make our republic free in fact as well as
in name Make II possible for future genera
u"hS TO prced better men and women instead
OF an inferior type 'PIEDMONT"
Charlottesville. Va. November o. 1915.
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out men who are able TO make good money
nj football. baseball and rowing and Il great
mass OF youths who can do nothing ut all with
their bodies.
The remedy for such II state of affairs Is
simple. All college Studcuts should be en-
couraGed-ercn to the point OF being required
To take some branch OF sport. There
should be a dozen football teams in every
school for men Of different strength and
speed IL football were so used. il would be-
come OF iucalculahle benefit 10 the lads OF this
country. No physical discipline is better: the
trouble is that j; is utterly aristocratic.
Ii YOU haven't varsity weight and stamina.
YOU arc barred
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News Of Fifty Years Az,
Trom Newspaper Files, Nov..oo 1ess,>

Governor Pierpont yesterday rcc.,voa 80.
RicSmnnd pardons for James Il. Taylor, of
hchmohd ana l.. b. Price, of Hanover County
Hon r. NJ. 7. Hunter. of Virginia. was 8, ~.
once or the Attorney-Gencral, in Washinytnn
YESTERDAY, pardon was fatty refused him
oonn W. Syme. for many years editor and
proprietor of the Petersburg Intelligencer died
In that city yesterday. u
Horse stealing has become a terrible evil In
tue Nhiiey OF Virginia. DISORDERS from hoth
armies are said to DO the offenders Peonln
are, forming vigilance committees to do guard
80. aha me hrst thing one knows there is
soihs 10 be horse thief shooting In the Valley
MAJOR William Morrison late of the Confed-
era i army, and brother-n-law of both Gen
erai Stonewall Jackson and General A. T. Hi,
yesterday. ' oic
inc New York papers tell us that tho radi-
e"iS ieei intense disgust Mt the release from
prison by President johnson of Judge W,rr,,h
and James a. Seldom. They are said to be
gathering all kinds of ammunition IN m,L.
war on the President.
movement is foot-and is said to have
me packing or some OF the most influential
nieino ers or the coming Congress-for the con.
sohdation of Washington and Georgetown Tho
re ,, OF GEORGETOWN in the main opposed
The North Carolina Legislatures n,cotv - s
noserhor holden is still confined to his bed
and Will probably not be able to send n mes
sembling. Prominent North Carolin, men u.h,
nave recently been in Washington are no, M
reconstruction anu
Icneral Wade Hampton. OF South Carolina
VIII sail from New York in n few days for I'm
rope TO remain there for an indefinite nnrind
A war OF words is being wagcd between IN.
II" Spapcrs OF the different small towns of
Vest virginia as to which of said towna sb,,I
ne 'he capital of the State The Wheel
ing lntelligencer thinks the fight win
coo'ne so acute that there will DO no hone OF
ever settling on any ono town and Whesl,rn
VIII nave to remain tho capital
ne confederate ram Stonewau now rcstipr
~ mo uock in Washington, Is described Inv
formidable war vessel '" very
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
Eyc-OpeuerH.

Eye-Openera.
When Cousin Zachary Rusticus
S'We INTO town to visit us,
We took him to the show;
chanced to be an opera night
And Zach had never seen n sight
Like he then, 1 know.
The chorus beauties were arraycd
In costumes that their charms dI.n,,y.d
Right lavishly, 1 wccn;
While In the boxes. all around
The wandering eyes of Zachary found
Another startling scene
u'crhaps you've noticed that this year
The ladies' dresses disappear
No, much below the knee:
And when they're cut decolletc
AS at the opera Is au fait,
They spell economy
We'll. anyhow. our Cousin Zach
Was so completely taken back
lie lost the sift of speech
And thereupon could only stare
Al sundry lovely ladies there
He thought each a peach
We asked Zach ii his heart was stirred
To rapture by the songs he'd heard
Then spakc tho rustic sage:
We'll! no. but | have thought il strange
these girls out hero don't places change
With those upon tho stage"
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Geographical Oddities.

II your old almanac fails to amuse YOU and
you can find anything funny in the funny pa
pers get a post office guide and go over the
names of some OF the towns in the country A
man VINO mas tried II sends this list Seen
on the side:
Ha-lIa Bay Junction. Quebec
Horse Thief. Arizona
Pinlple, Arkansas.
Good Night, Oklahoma
Total Wreck, Louisiana.
Lick Skillet. Missouri
Did our correspondent overlook Lone Jack.
Missouri"
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When Newcomer met the Guide Of CAN'T oil
Square at the squirrel fountain he was reading
newspaper.
"Interested in the war or in poIi,icsqn in,
CURED Newcomer
politics? Say, that makes me think Of wife
asst her this Inawnin eff she thought TN.
Office should seek the man. She had Il dsta mt
glance in her eyes for Il moment an scd 4 reck-
you've got wrong usual You mean the
officer seek the man. Ef you're the man T
hope he will Purity hard to ketch wife"
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Compliments Of the coming season 10 First
Chief Carranza. When the big dinner
maker of Mexico got up state feed and sent
i'll his bill OF $4,000 pesos. the equivalent OF
$500 United States money, Carranza paid
the check and immediately deported the
diuuor-maker on train with orders TO keep
travelling II would be a good thing If New
Works night diners could bring Carranza
across naturaIi2e him and elect him Mayor
for life
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Paying Roumnnia's Price

THERE is double significance in the prcpa-
l rations Russia is said to be making in
Bessarahia for the invasion Of Bulgaria The
'h"hd II theS attain the magnitude repre-
scented in the reports, may be expected not
Only 20 hufI thelr own strength into the fray.
put TO bring to the help OF the quadruplc en-
ten;c and OF haraSsed and ovcrrun Serbia
,ho ,,iia '" i', "ci 'Fic"dSh'p Tor
,n,,,.. .,', ,'' IVA """'''S 'ht transport or
rnn | ,'''' az o'' '',l territory. "hch
,,lola,;,; ~ ,,'., T'"s"t t" supply lhe
'a'''ST u '"'N'H, SHc reached the limits
a,o,, ,,,,;, u "'" ''V cannot incur inc
W W. many until assured OF
~ :; -, i"' Sc-Sca'e ailled
,ri go ,"o wa" III nv h"'h"hS
s I;, nav. "''''",' |" name houmanla
.l,,,,i,i,, ~ 9,'''"' n"h'"rcst wants
~ '"'' '""" empty assurances mat
, '',I' IT, ~ prepared I" make viii
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MOnu I,iSn.

Peasc give the correct pronuncia ton OF Lisa
III the name Mona Lisa. WaNT-rO-KNOW
lee-zcr. with accent the first syllable
would be about as near the Italian pronuncia-
ton as unmarked English letters would come
If you use that pronunciation, one could
mako an objection good You have, Also the
other common namcs-La Belle JocOndc and
La Gioconda--to fall back on II any colloqust
mistake your meaning.
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Future Men OF the Nation

\YTHEN General Sir Robert Baden-Powell
w inauguratcd the Boy Scout movement.
lie had foremost in mind. perhaps. the prac
tica instruction Of British youth 10 the work
OF men. believing that II time for
academic teachers to take a hand in the up
bringing OF boys. His plans proved sue
cessiul their adoption has followed in some
twenty seven countries OF the world.
Reports from the zone frequently
mention the brave and difficult feats per-
formed by members OF the Boy Scouts and
here At home the value OF the organization
institution, ii has becomes in evidence
every day All over the country the Boy
Scouts are called on to do patrol work even
police duty OF simple character. Certainly
Richmond will remember with pride the part
played by them during the last Confederate
Reunion, when youn gsters toiled all through
the long. rainy days for the comfort and
safety OF veterans and visitors. and dctach-
mcnts OF them remained on duty night after
night. ready to respond to any call
But great as is the material benefit to the
present community rendered by the organi
ton, even that is dwarfed in contemplation OF
the good that must follow in the future
the good that will be reflected on the whole
county from the good wrought in the indi-
Nidual boys. Many man whose youth is
gone looks at these khaki-clad boys and Won
ders what his life might be now if he had been
Boy Scout.
He remembers that when he was a boy the
influences for clean living and unselfsh ser
vice were found only in his home his school
and Lis church. On the streets and in play
grounds ne heard nothing OF kindly deeds
OF the "onc good act day that every true
Scout tries 10 do. Play games and. too
often ugly stories OF ugly things filled his
life outside the time he spent with his elders
No standard OF morality. except that of prac-
teal honesty, was held up by his companions
Boys Grifted along the line OF least resistance
the line adopted by their playmatcs. No
community OF interest existed except that
found on the common plane of amusement
II would have seemed almost prcposterous, in
his day. that he and his associates could be
formed into body for the doing Of manly
helpful and kindly things.
II. some thirty or forty years ago. the Boy
scouts had been the active growing and
potent factor in American life that they now
are, how many hopeless, soddcn wrecks. how
many men with long police records how
many tramps OF the bread line. would now
he useful and outstanding citizens doing their
part in the days work and serving themselves
and their ncghhors?
At present the Boy Scouts are helpful to
themselves and 10 others; in the future they
must raise the manhood Of the nation
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The Refort Cutting.

"Aw, aw." said young Snoblcirh
1t must bc-aw--very unpleasant
for YOU Americans to Dc--aw--gov-
crned by people whom you-aw-
wouldn't awsk TO dinner"
"Oh. ! don't know" said tho Ameri-
can girl; mo more so than for you to
be governed by people who wouldn't
ask you TO dinner."-Ladies' Homo
Journal
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General IInIiiSnn.

Can you give Inc pretty full details OF
BriSadicr- General HalliRan who commanded a
brigade of Floridinns about Petersburg In tho
Civil War? + r. T.
We can do better than give You the measer
matter accessible to us by referring you to
tho United States War Department WASHING
ton, d &.
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An Eye for Busincss.

Though politicians disagree
ON how to carve the pie,
They never let the public see
The anger they deny,
But sink their animosity
Before that pie gets by.
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pleasure comes to .us in the announcement that
inc southern Railway has changed the name of
MUD Cut to Coleman Mud Cut probably was an
appropriate name, but II didn't sound good"
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The PcSsimist Snys:

Certainly. misery loves company. That is why
the New York Tribune and Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt. both Of whom have been made miscr-
able by President Wilson. renewing their
former Platonic friendship
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MIS-. Hetty Green. with millions. took n walk
OH her eishtieth birthday. but still a plenty of
am U.en not hait mat old would have taken an
automohile.-Norfolk Ledger = Dispatch And
some not half SO rich would have taken n iltnev
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Queries and Answers
War Token.

small coin dated New York. 1863, and ha wing
pro bono pub'ico' stamped on it? INQUIRY.
No. 1t is one of the numerous tokens" got
out in the North during the war MANY or
which passed for cent by a sort or common
agreement.
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Chats With Virginia Editors

The Blackstone Courier. noting the fact that
"Richmond autoists have been able to force
down the fine for speeding from 500 to so5"
asks: who's looney now" Not the autoists
surely.