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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
War News Fifty Years Ago

new general military order has been issued.
IL Is designated general order No. 8. There are
so many general military orders that it is very
nara 10 keep up with them. But this particular
trates are instructed to properly inform and
instruct the negroes in regard to the they
in the matter of marital relations. The , order
reaos IN peculiar way, and leaves 1t upon the
reaI, OF the unsophis,icated negro that to be
e enaI official pay 81 fee and call himself and
omcas wh" are dosp ,ho nete are Federal
me Wholesale. performing many as twenty
hve ceremonies one time and ali in a line Mt
~ per ceremony.
, All kinds of people doing fast things in
enc way OF calling on Governor Pierpont the
VINO dotted their hats before His August Majesty
Yesterday were w. r. Richardson, late adjutant-
county. and DIR. Stribling. president of the Asy-
ium OF the Insane at stanton.
The farccal trial of the alleged conspIrators
IL, Is gong on Mt Washington. and going in a
very slow way. The Washington papers carry
some son, very long -drawn-out details of kind
ana another. but up to the present writing there
nave been no new Developments.
Moan Walker Co. OF Richmond and RaIti-
more. principally of Baltimore. because they de-
serted Richmond soon as the fghting com.
meneed in SCI. have come back to the old stand
and will open some kind Of n clothing house
drappings "''e the
:, The recent freshets that have flushed all OF
,he rivers and the creeks in Virginia seem TO
have had much effect in Prince George
Sewes, man ,iI elsewhere so far as heard from.
county 49, " ''''
The reports of the crime of rape that are
coming in from all parts OF Virginia and fron,
~ parts OF the South are terribly distressing
nc law that was called the order OF
iEhch is to he invoked IT has ALREADY heon
r r, ana the men who the gray uni
FORM and are supposed to be under n kind OF
r'''otc' are not going to regard II
~. o'ns WORK under the order of lynch" The
$50, Wo'eh nt thr south are going o @ pro-
tected 10y law If possible without law ~ mood h.
w" negroes. guilty Of the crime OF rape we're
huhE>b by their necks in Campbell COUNTY last
week. 0"''S i'H'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
The Voice Of the People
Renr Guard Of the Confederacy.
:ultor OF The Times Dispatch:

20 the Euitor of The Times Dispatch:
and,he men Of Ghaneelorsye na"th
Ans and cod aSer w snsh the soody
the n ma LOVED ground of historic capital The
Will swell WIN pride and the heart '' OF enes
neent w Wi. meat fassr in rssp9nse the
as as. galantiy as OF yore, with the decmati ting
EYES shining true with heads held hieh desp Gs"
me SHOWS that crown them. the old veterans viii
silken folds OF ,hs bonnie Blue Flag ps"e"'h the
torn Win hfre sh %i be Gae flags ,at,ered and
Gqse tie and saoS sm9k ok hI each viii its
an emblem OF glory o''''s' ana each stain mark
Richmond viii gaze with pride upon the
wh ass Stood iiI like saG
Wa d IN her defense and who hnched amid
shrieking Of the bursting shells. '"'' VII"
head Of his lcgoms as rsinG in adhHa s
rrps he his sword and his Voice "S
When tho Stoncwal Brigade charger the earth arr
snd the W w1 me ermeaS of his bs wild
OF the rebel yell" in the name of the god Of
Good.by. old vet. The end OF your long and
i1i'y iife will soon come when moving volume
Ful Gf Essrs W nd mi in" Of fh'a onsrs
n The laurel win draw eternal freshness from
ar artist viii s,nshrine your form and features in
hymn the heroic pathos Of your life poG,s I'M
to- posey 1 e so s Of ,h Of yrgs vim e
.rate-an american; proud of his country that
And When h"nGTe G'a ssne %f h shall
rolled by right and duty will stn speak to the
great southern heart hope still singine h her
% n" "S ,nf nraiSe echo Gf the
y hundred thousand years from now, mems
hearts " vii d LEAP up when hs behold the
Culpeper, Va, May 30, 1915
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
Boy Scouts at the Reunion

TOO much praise cannot be given the Boy
1 Scouts for the work they are doing to
make comfortable and happy the visit to
Richmond Of thousands of Confederate vet
Grams They are at the trains early and late,
prompt with offers of advice. assistance and
guidance and wthal so courteous and smi-
ing and cheerful that they receive in an
instant the confidence they deserve.
Every time see the Boy Scouts in action
we are won TO new admiration for this re-
markable movement. 1t capitalizes to useful
purpose those activities of boyhood that
result, when misdirected or neglected. in
frequent disaster.
We feel very sure that many an old vet
eran will carry from this reunion new
and fragrant memory of boyish chivary and
kindness for which the Scouts will have been
responsible. They are aiding Richmond in
the reception and entertainment Of her guests,
and they deserve the city's thanks. as we'll as
the thanks of the veterans themselves.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
German misunderstanding Again

a CCORDING to our Washington dispatches,
a diplomats customarly we'll informed
think Germany's unsatisfactory reply to the
Presidents note was inspired in part by fixed
belief that this country is determined, in any
event and at any cost, to remain at peace
If Germany actually holds this foolish theory
1t may account for a good many things, hut
the theory may he accounted for itself only
by recalling the monumental netfciency Of
the German Foreign Office and diplomatic
service generally.
Count Won Bernstorff the ambassador at
Washington. knows better. and it is said he
has been endeavoring to convince his gov
eminent that the peacc-at any-prce party is
not strong in the United States. We shall
hope for his success. Few in America want
war with Germany any other nation.
America would avoid ii in every way con-
sonant with national dignity and honor.
But we shall not pay ANY price" Peace
is undesirable. but it can be acquired or
preserved at too high cost.
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Confederate Ideni. or wor

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-For the benefit of the present genera ton
wish to give YOU an account of a war incident
Of the year 1864. when the Army of Northern
the Potomac under General Grant were facing
each other on the SouthSide
General Grants headquarters were at City
Point. and that was the base of his supplies
Colonel Thomas II. Carter. of the Second C,orps
of the Army Of Northern Virginia, had been
ordered by General Lee to remain on tho mort h
side Of the James River with several battalions
of artillery, and directed to annoy the
snemy,s transportation In James River, below
batteries of artillery to blur below WilIcoS
Landing, James River. distance below
City Point. He placed the batteries at night
concealing them with brush At daylight the
next morning they were ready to attempt to
annoy the enemy For several hours nothing
passed up or down the river in this locality hut
later in the day a large passenger steamer came
up James River. bound for City Point loaded
down with troops. Nothing could be seen on
The guns were all sighted for her and the
command ready" was given the steamer got
in close range. Just AS the men about to
fire women walked out the upper deck
of the steamer and began looking around the
country Colonel Carter ordered the not to
fire. saying, I'VE lighting armed men, not
women" 1t afterwards ascertaAed tina
there more than 800 commissioned officers
that steamer, and that those two women
The above incident can we'll be contrasted with
the action taken in regard to the Lustania In
case chivalry and humanity prevailed. In
regard the other wish to make comment,
leaving that for others. COURIER.
Richmond, June J. 1915
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

~SY/ HO, reading Dickens and remembering
w Fagin, the debaucher Of youth in his
terror when the punishment came home to
him. or the hangman IN "Barnaby Rudge."
+cool at numbering others by the instrument of
: law, but terror-strickcn to his soul when he
himself came to his just end, ca II fall TO think
of these examples in fiction as the above
y quotation, sent broadcast by news agencies
= describes the pitiable plight of Becker the
police CRATER and piottcr of assassinations?
=. II all that has been testified is true-and
twelve men have said it is, in the main and
: appeals have failed to s-aDlish ANYTHING to
= offset the verdict-there never was more
y cold -blooded leader of blackmaicrs eraiters
and assassins Using his high police position
las club. he created a mesh of graft and
! crime that led to the murder of Rosenthal
the squealer."
- Becker's tools went to the chair with less
agitation than he has begun to show IN tho
reaization that there is no hope and that
he must die. In this moment Becker tho
master OF murderers, the chief of the as
'4sassins, who boastfuly asserted his povcr over
1.-the underworld that did his bidding finds
z himself in much the position of Fasin and
= Dennis. 1t has come home. and he is craven
as most men are craven who are cruel Now
$ he is writing statement which will expose
the whole miserable organization of crime,
1t is said. In the hope that Governor Whitman
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

will commute his sentence as a reward But
1t is barren hope.
EXiled from the sympathy even of those
worse than himself. with no friend on earth
who can help him, Becker is a sorry picture.
1t is we'll that his history be known. Every
man who is letting himself slip might learn
his own salvation from the plight of Becker.
When death comes home the wickedest man
in New York the boldest. most boastful, most
cruel. most arrogant of knaves, finds himself
'swaying from side to side weeping
violently. then bursting into lou threats
against tLose who had caused his conviction"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
The good old rule
Sufficeth them-the simple plan.
That he shall take who hath the power,
4 nd Ia a. LIZ .l,1A-.

So, naturally, they couldn't understand
the Presidents views as to Mexico. There
was every excuse to climb over the fence
and get something. and. for the life of Their
they couldn't see why there should be any
delay.
Should Mr.. Wilson decide 20 intervene in
Mexico, his critics will hail this result as a
vindication Of their own wisdom and final
proof Of the Presidents folly. They will
declare he should have interviewed lons, ago;
that his failure to do so then indicates weak
ton.
They Will not comprehend his feeling
that however an increasing number Of his
low-countrymen have come to share-that
even troubled Mexico was entitled to a chance
to work out her own salvation They will
not understand because at bottom they are
not democrats-with a small at any rate
and are quite we'll satisfied with gov
eminent that is applied from without as
with one that is evolved from within They
don't care rap about free Mexico all
they ask is pacifed Mexico. If the pacfca-
ton is produced with the butt end of rifle
they are yet perfectly content. the more espe-
cially as they have no intention Of volunteer
ing for the fight.
1t would seem now that the rhe-butt
method may have to be employed. Mexico
needs it for herself and-whch is somewhat
more Observation-Disclosures interminable broils
have become dangerous and menacing to us.
We cannot endure forever a political and
revolutionary pesthoe our Southern
border The President, for many and valid
reasons, has preferred TO have Mexico find
her own path to peace and safety; but if
needs muat. we shall put her ourselves in
the straight and narrow way
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
SONGS AND SAWS
Rcblrth.

We hear to-day some old war song.
Tho world heard long ago,
And memory sweeps the years along,
To battles ebb and flow.
We see again the thin gray limo
That flung Itself in might
through forests OF shot-riddled pine
Or stormed mountain height.
Thou wilt not cover In the dust,
Maryland, my Maryland
Thy cleaning sword shall never rust,
Maryland, my Maryland.
Remember CAROLS sacred trust
femember Towards warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the just
Maryland. my Maryland"
Yes. these songs fill the air to-day
AS fifty years ago
They burst forth from the proud array
That met the stubborn foe.
The voices OF the men who sing
Have lost youths clarion peal.
Yet still the deathless stanzas ring,
Yet still youths fire reveal.
Sons of the South. awake! awake!
And strike for rights full dear as those
For which our struggling sires did shake
Earth's proudest throne-while freedom
Baptized in blood OF braggart foes
Awake That hour hath come again"
All: knights who bore the Southern ross.
Your glories are not past:
The world that sorrowed for>your loss
OF hopes too fair to last,
Is thrilled again to hear song
That 1t heard long ago.
AS memory sweeps the years along,
To battles ebb and flow.
And here's to old Virginia
The Old Dominion State
With the young Confed'racy
AT length has linked her fate.
1mpelled by her example
Now other States prepare
To hoist high 20
That bears single star.
Hurrah, Hurrah,
For Southern rights hurrah.
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single starr
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
Chats With Virginia Editors

Just what 1t all means we do not know but
here is what the Stanton News has to say:
From a Maryland exchange learn that a
rabbit has slipped and bit hunter. In
view OF this unfortunate occurrence, wish to
warn the citizens of Augusta that have no.
ticed from dispatches that fish are also biting
In case of attack. the public will remember this
warning and blame us"
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worse. Its ecstasy Is at best but transient. Men
ind they have not married tho angels they sup
posed and brides soon discover that their liege
iords are not the noble super-men they thought
then But love. albeit and less idyllic.
persists In vast majority of American homes.
ana love is the greatest fact in human existence
the greatest gift vouchsafed to man from high
heaven Let the wedding bells ring out!-Balti-
more Sun.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

Bristol is in bad way, and the newspaper of
that town is in much way-that is the
part of il that moves and has Its being on the
Virginia side of the line. The conclusion above
indicated is justified by the following from the
Bristol Herald Courier: THE publication Of
Sunday newspapers is not prohibited in other
cities and towns that have Sunday closing
laws. Only few cities and have clos
ing laws, probably for the reason that such
laws. if not contrary the spirit md letter
of the Constitution OF the United States are
not in consonance with 1t.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
Tie Good Old Rebel
ny InneK Randolph.

1.-THE following verses. which were se
O music. and formed one OF the favor
tie songs OF the generation now neari1
zone, were written almost imWedlate']
lfter the close OF the Civil war, ~he1
ne South was in the throes OF recon
4 r,Iction, and when an oath OF ailegi
,nce and consequent pardon were pre-
'equisite to the rights OF citizenship
OH I'm good old Rebel.
Now that's just what I am.
For this fair Land Of Freedom
don't care a dam.
I'm glad fit against it
| only wish we'd won,
And ] don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
hates The Constitution.
This great Republic too:
hates the Freedmen's Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
/ hates the nasty eagle,
With all his .brag and fuss;
The lynn. thie&n' Yankees.
] hates EN- wuss and wuss
I hates the Yankee Nation
And everything they do;
] hates the Declaration
or Independence. too.
j mates the glorious Union,
IT'S dripping with our blood;
hates the striped banner
fit IL all l could.
] followed old Mars Robert
For four year, near about,
Got wounded in three places,
And starved at Pint Lookout
/ cotched the roomatism
A-campin' in the snow,
But ! killed a chance OF Yankees
I'd like to kill some mo-.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot:
i wish it was three millions
Instead of what we got.
] can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no more,
hut l amt agoin' to love 'em,
Now that is sartin sure.
And l don't want no pardon
For what ! was and am;
won't be reconstructed.
And j don't care n dam.
His Winnings 8 Cents and 2 HaIos.
Detroit Free Press.)
L. RS batting average in the libe
is still 1000.
And One That Isn't OF Paper.
Chicago News)
Europe seems to have had severa
scraps OF paper.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

The ugly Newport News Times Herald with
out daring to give the the initial Of its
informant. says: IAN Old Vet COMPLAINS tina :
the Confederates are likely to be side attrac-
ton in the reunion in Richmond this week; but
the old vets cannot hope TO compete with the
young sponsors" No old, vet has said anything
of tho kind If there the earth
who thought 1t. and he in Richmond this
week, he has changed his mind. Here this
week, the old vet has certainly been in COM
mand, and no one dared TO question his right
to do
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

The Norfolk Vrginian Pilot points n moral
and adorns a tale in the following paragraph:
AN army shoe lasts only six weeks and Eu-
rope has millions of soldiers in the field The
prospect ought to be tinged with a roseatc hue
for New England in general and for Massa-
chusetts in particular"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
Current Editorial Comment
AS social gathering the Pan
American Financial Conference
held at Washington through last
week was success. Nor IS a
Reaching
q Lame
Conclusion

value IN laying the ErOundw ork
for larger trade relations. But the great i'm
mediate problem before the conference was left
the end hanging in the air it at the
beginning. 1T is the OF the conference
that improved transportation facilities
between the countries composing the Pan
American Union has become vital and .impera-
tive necessity" 1t Will doubtless interest SEN
ators and subsidists who defeated the admins
traton's ship purchase bill last winter that the
South American delegates to the conference were
practically unit the requirement of gov
crnment action to meet this vital and impera-
tive necessity" Their governments were
ready to assume share of the enterprise
But tire hands OF our government had been tied.
presume those South American delegates
know as much OF the needs of tho situation as
American editors who talk Of ships following
trade against trade following ships This is
right general rule. but when a world is
trying to force into our hands great European
trade with Latin America and is holding back
sinking the ships that carried IT, what then?
What is private ENTER prise going to do about il
that government action has been killed off
the command Of old subsidy New York
World
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
4 Pest-Thnt'n All.

KAN, RAIN, the beautiful rain
My. but you give NE terrible pain,
You always come pouring and trmbling down
Right through the air and the streets tie tow n
Just when quite nobody wants you around
You worst of all pests that ever have found
THE TATTLER
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

Now mask has been invented to protect
men from the deadly fumes of gas bombs
So fast as they make things to kill, some one
nvents a preventive, until one would think
the inventors were in cahoots to make nations
waste money.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

This is the merry season when all the State
agricultural colleges join their protest against
underdone appropriations And yet we
have the annual distribution of government
seeds, and that should keep up interest
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
The pessimi.t Saws,

\ reasonable amount o. curiosity is not always
an undesirable trait. There few persons
more disaEreeable than the who will not
listen TO our stories of our Childrens brilliance
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

in Union Center, n. Y, Gregory Goode has
just been married TO Emmeline Prudence
Damn, and every darncd headliner in the
country wrote it: Damn CT code Wedding''
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Not vcry Serious,

Very Serious.
No" said the once mu7i-
cal maid. firmly, Il could not
sing even il YOU should ask
me. have given it up"
But Why" asked the won
derinG friend.
The doctor ordered it."
us that ail"'( brcathed the
friend. with Il sigh OF relief.
Il was afraid it might have
been the police"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

wide-awake German firm making arti-
fetal limbs is flooding France with catalogues
offering to sell cork legs at a price below
competition. This is the last straw in irony
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02
Mexico VIII Not Reform Herself

DRESIDENT WILSON has borne patiently
I with MeXico-borne not only the dis
orders its warning clans and rival revolu-
tionists have created and the devastation
they have wrought. but the angry and spite
full. and at times almost menacing, criti-
cisms of his own countrymen. Now his
much abused endurance reaches the breaking
point. He gives the parti-colored patriots
distinctly to understand that they must either
amend their ways, bring order to their dis
tracted land or submit to the firm regulation
that some one must supply, and that he will
supply.
The Presidents Mexican policy was born
of an enlightened humanitarianism which
amazes and rather offends, each time it is
displayed, a jealous and distrLstful world
His desire to do good because it is right
rather than because it is profitab BILE. is some
thing that the man Of the world, whose code
Of ethics begins and sometimes ends with
the maxim. Honesty is the best policy" can
neither forgive nor understand.
The old-school statesmen laugh at it,
Altruism is al right for women, children and
preachers, they believe, and may have oc-
casonal justification in the lives of ordinary
men, but it has nothing to do with national
policy. AS to that
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

Published every day In the by The 1imes-
Dispatch PublishinR Company, Inc. Address nil
communications To THE TIMES DISPATCH.
Timcs-Dispntch building, 10 South Tenth Street
Richmond. Va.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-02

An Oklahoma woman with a gun held I'D
two Oklahoma bandits and made them divide
recent loot, which, considering the vitality OF
present-day feminism, is some vindcation
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When Death Comes Home

Sitting in his cell in the death house
at Sing Sing. he swayed from side to
side, now weeping violently. then burst
ing into loud threats against those who
had caused his Conviction''
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The Pope denies that he forced the Vatican
diplomats of Germany and Austria to leave.
However, they probably didn't care to stay,
anyhow.
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Queries and Answers
School Salaries.

SCHOOL SRInrfeN.
How may I learn the amount of salary of
principals of grammar and high schools in Vir-
Ena? +. l.. IS.
Such a record is kept in the Office of the
state Superintendent in Richmond and in the
Office Of each district superintendent for his
own district
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Richmond.

What was the former OF Richmond ?
What is its present area?
RUFFNER SCHOOL
The present area is twenty-four and one-third
square miles. The figures usually published just
before eleven square miles. In 1914 the
figures five and one-half square miles. etc.