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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-28

dance It now" / exclaimed on a
sudden impulse. And away We
Nhisk around the room.
There is q crash. The table ia
In confusion. My husband has
raised his plate and smashed it to
otis in front Of him upon the table
lie had risen red-faced and furious,
and ;ne evening is ruined.
A dance at our house several
weeks later-I have moped at
home until Mr.. Alsop has con-
scented to the dance. He strides
upon the floor in the midst OF a
maxixe and holly orders my young
partner from his house. never to
return
These cruel humiliations con-
tinued and developed new phases.
My allowance OF spending money
VAS so small that it amounted to
practically nothing. But if went
shopping 10 New York, my fond
but Jealous husband let me know
that 10 would pay no bills. That
was TO bring me home early.
Ny nerves broke under the
strain. In despair fed to Europe.
lie came after me and brought me
nome. But ! shuddered in the air
or the quiet house. | shrank from
his constant caresses. | fled for
the last time.
Had ! ever been in love with
min? No. But | had honored and
respected the stately courtier who
began TO dominate my life when
was fourteen years old.
Fourteen, a little maid in
snnbonnet on the lawn OF a ho,e.
at Lake ToXoway, North Carolina.
My mother is with me. Friends
from Atlanta have friend TO in
troduce to us. IL is Mr.. Alsop.
Instantly he has singled me out
from among the others. He bends
above me as defercntially as to
queen. He pays me playful com
pliments. And ! sit and look IN.
blnshing with embarrassment.
into the eyes OF the man who is 10
he for years to come the con
trolling figure in my life.
At ToXoway they called him
my big Newfoundland dog"
because he followed me about
so faithfully They are skilled
and persistent wooers-these r
OF seventy. Every day after IN
meeting he sent me flowers: ever,
day. box of candy. lie flattered \
silly seif-esteem by confiding to m
49, y.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-28

The problem before us then, IS lar more
complicated than usually admitted For
the present we must depend upon patriotic
volunteers, but there is no objection tot
making military drill part of the publ1
school curriculum
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Transfer Rights.

The District courts have been busy
lately in the determination of cases
involving the rights of passengers on
street railway cars. The latest de-
cision along this line is that of the
Court of Appeals. which holds that
a passenger who tenders a transfer
on which the time limit has expired
is in effect voluntary trespasser,
and may be elected from the car if
he refuses to pay his fare. This es-
tablishes the responsibility of the
passenger to ascertain the correct
ness of his transfer punch upon re-
ceiving it, and to take car in trans
fer within the time limit. The trans
fer may be right due to the pas
senger who has paid one fare and
wishes to be exchanged to another
connecting line in the same system,
within the rules of the company. But
that right does not absolve the pas
senger from the duty of protecting
himself against error on the part of
the conductor.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

alliance. There are few strongholds
in Hungary to check hostile move
ment. whereas several large estab-
lishments upon which the Austrians
depend for the supply of war muni-
tions lie in the path of the invaders.
The Russian campaign, however, is
attended with serious difficulties. Once
over the mountain range which forms
the boundary between Hungary and
Galicia the czar's armies must MAIN
tain long lines of communications
which may prove a source of peril.
The invasion will require an immense
force of men, and it remains to be
seen whether Russia can assemble
and provision the needed number
while holding back the Germans now
menacing Warsaw.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

of Americans seem not to have been
profoundly interested in it-even if
they have ever heard of it-except
in an academic way. Thrift is an
interesting subject to Americans as
theme for discussion. but as a
practical proposition it calls for too
much of reduction in those things
which Americans through long en-
joyment have come to consider
as necessities.
The American is apt to be an ex-
travagant person. Rich or poor, he
is self-indulgent, and especially in
dulgent to those persons near and
dear to him. In extravaganza and
indulgence there is bound to be
waste, but when man becomes
obsessed with that new thing called
efficiency and begins to cut out
waste, American-like, he may let his
enthusiasm carry him to such an ex-
treme that he will prune all the little
pleasures out of his life. Extrava-
gance is indefensible and waste is
bad, but pinching, impecunious
economy, when its practice is not
necessary, is apt to have shriveling
influence on mans nature. There is
a twilight zone between extravaganza
and parsimony. and in drawing the
line between those extremes a man
ought to bring to bear his common
sense, or, what is generally better,
the common sense of his wife.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
The st. Mihiel Campaign.

With an almost incessant battle in
progress throughout the entire war
zone in Europe, the fighting develops
from time to time with particular
fury in certain sections. Just at pres
ent the most important action in the
western field is taking place in the
Mouse region. where the French are
making strong attack upon the
German position at St. Mihiel,
southeast of Verdun, captured by
q dash last October. This wedge"
driven into the French line in
an effort to complete the encir-
cling of Verdun. has been a source
Of great anxiety to the French COM
manders and repeated efforts to dis
lodge the Germans from St. Mihiel
itself have failed. Now a drive i. in
progress against the two sides of the
wedge. in an endeavor to render the
German holding of St Mihiel unten-
aAe by cutting the communication
with Metz Considerable progress
has been scored in this attack. the
French lines being gradually drawn
nearer together as the jaws of wise
are closed. If the French move
ment continues unchecked the
evacuation of ST. Mihiel is in
evitable. and would be serious set
hack to the German campaign. con-
siderably reducing the area of French
territory occupied by the invading
army. =
Evening star., 1915-04-11
From the Atlanta Journal

From the Atlanta journal.
History repeats itself. Jess Willard
the new champion. is modest and unas-
suming like all the rest the day after
the big battle.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
It happens in moro things than prize
fights that the winner is the man VINO
takes care of himself and lives clean.
From the Topeka State Journal.
Although it remained for Kansas to
produce the white hope" there are
probably any number of other things in
Connection with the state Of which the
bulk Of Kansans are prouder.
From the New York Evening Mail
References to Jess Willard as cow
puncher have been fnnumerable, but we
trust we are the first to suggest that Jack
Johnson is in a position to sympathize
with the COW.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Jess Willard may now look forward to
that inglorious day when he. too. will
bite the dust
Evening star., 1915-04-11
E,om tbe RuFalo Expres,.

From the Buffalo Express
The clifford Pinchot case will hardly
make Americans think better of the Ger.
man authorities in Belgium. but 1t Is not
important enough to be treated as an az
front.
From the Buffalo Commercial.
The Germans have expelled clifford
p,nchot from Belgium because his sister
is the wife Of a British diplomat These
family genealogies are embarrassing at
times.
From the Boston Advertiser.
But YOU can bet that the Germans
wouldn't have thrown Amos out Of Bel
GUM. before-''Crack. crack! And three
army corps had bit the dust"
From the Phila delphia North American.
Tho Germans just naturally wouldn't
want Clifford Pinchot in Belgium Any
body who advocates conservation couldn't
Evening star., 1915-04-11
THE NEW CHAMPION.

From the Portland Gde.) Argus.
There Is nothing the matter with Kan
sas as the raiser Of a pugilistic white
hope that can make good.
From the Utica Observer.
Mr.. Jess Willard. champion heavy
weight. is going to tour the United
States. and he will rival Billy Sunday in
the matter of receipts.
From the New York American.
Willard once beat his way on a freight
car. He's still beating it.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
A sport writer says that when Jess
Willard 10 In tho ring he keeps his mouth
open It's going to pay him still better.
Some scores of interviewers will now make
it profitable.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t is reported that tho new champion
will do his best to retain his new honors
by not imperiling them.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Who. a few years hence. will wallop
willard?
Evening star., 1915-04-11
The Carpathian Campaign.

The movement of the Russian arm
les over the Carpathians into Hungary
appears to progress steadily, if slows
ly. A continuation of this advance
cannot fail to have decided effecs
upon the entire Austro-German cam
paign, inasmuch as it is calculated to
increase the disposition of Austria,
indicated in numerous dispatches re-
Gently, to seek separate peace to
prevent a general revolt against the
war, which has brought the most
acute suffering to the people of the
dual monarchy. But even if it should
not have this immediate effect Rus
sian invasion of Hungary is certain
tQ be , severe blow to the Teutonic
Evening star., 1915-04-11
The Tariff.

Same old story about the tariff
Soon after the Underwood law began
its work, complaints were made IN
business circles that the measure was
ininica1 to American interests. Many
industries. it was asserted. had been
hard hit and would suffer until the
revision was revised
The department of Commerce took
up the matter, and sent out agents TO
investigate. Reports were made, and
they denied the charges. Where busi-
ness was suffering, it was declared,
business itself was at fault. It was
not up to date. and therefore not
equal to its opportunities. American
business men had something to learn
in order to be able to compete with
up- -to-date outsiders.
To this charge those accused make
reply that their accusers are not
qualified to pass on the subjects. and.
moreover, that their principal object
in the investigation was to make out
a case in support of the tariff law.
Being in the employ of the admins
tration, they had regard principally
for the administrators measure.
Now here, in a nutshell, is the ar
gumcnt in the case of that tariff
commission proposition. If the COM
missioners were appointed by a re-
publican President and confirmed by
a republican Senate they would be
under suspicion as agents to uphold
the policy of protection; if of DEM
ocratic extraction, under suspicion as
agents inimical to protection. Such
officials would remember, and serve,
the known ends of their creators.
1t is very likely that the statistics
for the revision of the. Underwood
law-and that law is destined for an
early revision, no matter which side
wins next year-will be collected in
the old way. That is to say, the
democrats will select their collectors,
and the republicans theirs, and each
side will be informed from sources
in which it has full confidence. A So
called tariff expert leaning to protec-
ton will never influence legislator
advocating tariff for revenue only,
nor a low tariff expert influence a
legislator committed to protection.
The next statistics. however, will,
it is plain enough. be gathered with
great difficulty. All lines of produc-
tion and consumption, foreign and
domestic, have been affected by the
war, some radically; and to search
for facts and reason from them
where there are no guides will be
task of magnitude, not easily. or to
be hurriedly. performed And these
statistics will not be available until
the war closes. and not Immediately
then. Time viii have to be allowed
for Europe to shake down again into
the activities Of peace.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Prohibition and the Stump.

One result of Mr.. Bryan's commit
ment to prohibition must be to bar
him from the stump this year and
next in certain states. For in many
states prohibition is, or soon will be,
an issue, and voters are taking sides.
Two states will illustrate the point.
In Kentucky this year full state
ticket is to be elected. AS matters
stand, one hundred and six of the
one hundred and twenty counties OF
the commonwealth are dry under a
county unit law, and many democrats
want this years campaign based on
that law-on the proposition that it
is working we'll, and is sufficient to
meet all the requirements of reason
able temperance sentiment.
But there are democrats insisting
on statewide prohibition, and de-
claring that this years platform
must contain a prohibition plank,
and that the party's candidates must
accept it in good faith and solicit
votes on it.
Suppose, as now seems likely, the
county unit men win. Mr.. Bryan
could not participate in the campaign
without incurring criticism, and may
be injuring the democratic ticket
He is a prohibitionist, and Henry
Watterson asserts that no democrat
can be a prohibitionist. And Mr..
.Watterson, despite some reverses, is
still power in Kentucky politics.
In Indiana next year a full state
ticket and United States senator
are to be elected. Mr. Kern, to whom
Mr.. Bryan is much attached, will
stand for a second term in the SEN
ate, and of course Mr.. Bryan will
want to help. But the Hoosier DEM
ocrats are not going to declare for
statewide prohibition, and Mr.. Bryan
as a prohibitionist might find stump
ing in such circumstances a little
awkward. He would confront his
prohibition deliverances wherever he
went.
What will be the loss to the de-
mocracy from this source? Mr.. Bryan
remains, after eighteen years of ac-
tivity. his party's most popular and
effective orator. He is, not exclud-
ing even the President himself, the
strongest individual force in the
party. Very many more men swear
by him than at him.
But there are great numbers of
democrats who will not accept pro-
hibition even from him. They agree
with Mr.. WattersonL that prohibition
is repugnant to the record and pro-
fessions of the democracy. and that
the democrat who accepts the doc
trine ceases by the act to be demo-
crat.
A very lively time is scheduled for
both parties on the temperance is
sue, and before this time next year
some republican of eminence as
great as Mr.. Watterson enjoys on
his side Of the fence-may declare
that no republican can be prohibi-
zionist. Which will make genuine
howdy-do.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
PNCHOT'S EXPULSION.

be expected to approve their treatment Of
tho little kingdom
From the Brooklyn Times.
Clifford Pinchot has been ordered out
of Belgium. Apparently there is no
haven of rest for bull moose on this globe.
From the Philadelphia Press.
They are treating Clifford Pinchot al
most az badly over there in Europe as
the voters Of Pennsylvania treated him
and It's now about time to begin to SYM
pathize with him. It is pretty hard to be
kicked around In all parts Of the world.
From the Portland 0MeD Press.
The Germans in eliminating Clifford
Pinchot from Belgium have undoubtedly
saved themselves a lot Of trouble. His
reputation as a promoter Of harmony has
evidently preceded him.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Pinchot was searched for some Of
T. RS explosive letters.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Wondering.

I wonder IL putt Til dub
The way did last year.
And IL I'll use my wooden club
With stroke that's free and clear.
I wonder IL the ball I'll slice
Bout every other blow.
Oh, well, the days will soon be nice
And then I'll know-In know.
I wonder il I'll miss the course
The way did last year,
And will I feel the same remorse
When hazards interfere.
I wonder IL I'll send the ball
Where would have 1t 60;
But soon I'll hear the golfers call.
And then III kAow-Tn know.
Detroit EIeA PreaS.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Thrift.

One result of the international con-
gress to study ways of economizing
and saving money, which is scheduled
to be held at San Francisco during
the Panama-Pacihc exposition, may
be to give wide publicity to the prop
aganda of thrift. There is an asso-
ciation called the American Society
Of Thrift -thasGk- 4 Sseak- majority
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Book Pretenses.

"The kind of books people read
nowadays is rather startling"
"Yes," replied Mrs. McGudley, "but
/ have my doubts whether folks stop
dancin' long enough to read 'em
When I was young we used to read
books and pretend we didn't. Now
people pretend they read 'em and
don't"
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Miss April Day.

Miss April Dayi Miss April Day!
You sure have coquettish way,
A-smilin' till the distant skies
Are most as blue as Sallie's eyes.
Miss April Dayl Miss April Day!
The flowers noddin' by the way
Are most as graceful and as fair
AS those she's twinin' in her hair.
Miss April Dayl Miss April Day!
Sometimes your mood is far from gay
With passin' clouds of doubts an
fears
That mean no more than Sallie',
tears.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.
Changing Views.

When / first went into politics, .
said Senator Sorghum, Il thought it
would be easy to reform the govern
ment."
"And have you changed your
mind?"
"Yes. l now very much resent the
idea which prevailed in my youth,
that the only way to reform a gov
ernment is to put in a new set of
people to run its affairs"
Evening star., 1915-04-11

The report that Clifford Pinchot
was expelled from Belgium for being
friend of Theodore Roosevelt will
enable the colonel to realize how
Secretary Loeb felt when he was be-
ing blamed for everything that went
wrong
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Gloomy Humor.

The disasters at sea are appall-
ing"
"Yes," replied the Englishman who
now favors prohibition; the only
thing a man isn't supposed to take
a chance on drowning is his sorrow
Evening star., 1915-04-11

New York theater managers are
still accused of cornering the market
for their own products, by means of
ticket speculation. Broadway may
yet be able to teach Wall street some
thing about financiering.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Efforts to exclude critics have
placed New York managers in the
peculiar position of going to court
to prevent somebody from paying S.
in real money to see show.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Being already a total abstainer as
matter of nationality and faith, the
Sultan of Turkey cannot stir the pa
triotic admiration of his subjects by
signing the pledge.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

1t would be discouraging to find
that the wicked communities are so
numerous that Billy Sunday cannot
possibly find time to attend to them
all.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

1t is now hoped that the war will
end in time to enable the commence
ment essayists to contribute valuable
suggestions as to the terms of peace.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

China regrets that a nations fight
ing strength cannot always be esti-
mated by the amount of space it oc-
cupies on the map.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

1t might further popularize pro-
hibition if the soft drink manufac-
turers were to step forward and vol
unteer to make up the deficit in
taxes.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

The fact that the early warmth of
spring reduces efficiency is well rec
ognized, but the scientific regulators
of human affairs have found no way
to remedy the situation.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

There is hope that the war will end
so soon that the extra supply of war
songs spoken for some time ago will
not be needed.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

As the open street car appears the
question OF what to wear becomes
one Of hygienic as we'll as scenic i'm
portance.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
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Eptered ss seeopd-elass mafl mstter at the post
once at Washington. d. o.

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MT he Addressed 10 any individual connected
with the once but simply to THE STAR. @ 70
the Editorial or Business Department. aecoroins
to tenor or purpose.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
Foreboding.

The summer days will soon be here
And beauties who now make a hit
Alas, in public will appear
In bathing suits that do pot fit.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

The crew of the Prinz Eitel are in
the position of men who have sum-
mer vacation thrust upon them.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Several European statesmen are
considering whether q nation can
take drink or let it alone. as cir
cumstances may seem to warrant.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Suspicious are expressed that the
F-4 should have been allowed to go
to the junk heap without sacrifice of
human life.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
A Patriot.

DO you think man ought to lose
his job for political reasons"
Certainly. I'm waitin' for post
Office right now"
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Nobody is now accusing the New
York Stock Exchange of being pes
simistic.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

The snow shovel has been retired
and the ice pick has superseded it.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Collecting taxes from John D.
Rockefeller might be easier if they
could be disguised as donations.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
|Napoleon's
| Design.

| time at Antwerp-itS numerous snipydrhs.
stores great basins-''but all that" said
the emperor. was nothing: Antwerp stu
was little more than a commercial city
the military city should be on the oppo-
site side of the river The emperor said
that he had drawn all his plans. which
were gigantic and colossal Antwerp
would have been for him alone province
in returning to the subject Of this vrand
establishment which he had proposed.
Napoleon remarked that Antwerp was
one Of the great causes that he was
there (Saint Helena)-" And Napoleon
.ddad. THE cession of Antwerp was one
of the reasons which had determined nun
not to sign the peace OF Chaliioh.
January 4. 1914. he instructed tannm- i..,
court to write: France without Belsi"',i.
without Ostend, without
nothing >..,o.,,,
took up ancient projects OF Joining me
Meuse to the Rhine; already IN me SEA
10 unite the two rivers and the loss"
Eusenia'' was well remembered Leih-
nitz had the idea of a canal from Ems ~
Groningue In the eighteenth centu.
prussia desired to unite the Meuse with
the port of Ernden on the Rhine the en-
sineer who had studied the trace ~ro.e
in 1744: Commerce and Prusslan nei-
chants will be substituted Tor cofhiheieo
and Holla nd merchants.
Under the Directory 1t was proposed Z"
mite the rivers in France by canals win
the Baltic, and even canal from Ant
werp to the Nistula.
The Prussian idea-turn Holland nv
the south-attracted Napoleon and he de-
yeIoped it. July 2s. 1906. he decided upon
the construction Of canal from the
Rhine to the Scheldt by the Meuse: the
great north canal which was to be united
later to the Canal st. Quentin: the great
way from Antwerp to Marseille would be
traced. The work was begun in 1906. but
money was lacking; In 1911 the work was
adjourned If the time. the military cir
cumstances and the means had permitted.
Antwerp would have become the great eA-
change port between the north and the
south, the point of meeting Of the com
merce Of the Rhine and of Germany from
the southwest.
The military port OF Antwerp with its
arsenal was carefully watched by English
fleets until the moment when the treaties
decided the suppression. In 1913 Castle
reagh warned the British ambassador az
Vienna that Antwerp should not be left
in possession of France. In 1914 Lazare
Carnot by an act of devotion to Napoleon.
shut himself up in Antwerp. submitted to
bombardment and surrendered to the a.
lies only after the treaty Of Paris Accord
ing to article Is Of that treaty Antwerp
was thereafter simply a commercial port
CHI. CHAILLE-LONG
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Not every one who goes down to I
sea in motor boats-and it Is estimat
Evening star., 1915-04-11
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING

of coastal waters of the United State
that would not be navi8able within the
national limit by vessels Of even the
greatest draft.
Evening star., 1915-04-11
The Delusion Of
Universal Peace

predictions as to the universally of
human unity" and that. after the
present war. for example. We shall all
be blessed by human unity. We are
to have universal peace and, of course,
the universal republic"
The trouble is our modern prophets
either never heard of Cloots or. II
Evening star., 1915-04-11

A great number of our moderr
prophets, sages. philosophers and poll.
Evening star., 1915-04-11

Five or six places Of that kind was th
new system OF defense which he had