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Books and Authors

II is the unanimous opinion OF all
book reviewers that i. Robert w
Chambers had included chaperon in
the personnel OF In SccrcS" (Doran).
the book wouldn't have been haH so
much fun. Mr. Chambers had many
good reasons for committing this
breach Of etiquette. and. anyway, who
ever heard OF chaperon who could
keep secret?
George j. Hecht has made Il coliec-
ton OF distinctive American cartoons
Of the war. which L. +. Dutton Co.
have brought out under the title The
Mr.. Hccht was tho head OF the Bureau
of Cartoons. which he had suggested
and established. OF the Committee on
rs asK inf9, ,IIin for pnnlissd
containing suggestions of subjects for
car,oon!st in the United states.
Janet Laing won decided success
with American readers when T. r.
Dutton & Co. published her "Eefore
the Wind" year or so ago. Critics
called IL "deliciously amusing" and
drew attention TO its unusual combi-
nation OF an ingen!ously complicated
detective story with love story and
with humor In both character drawing
and situations and the general whim
sicality Of the tale. Now she has
THE Man with tho Lamp" which the
buttons have Just published. II tells
an ingenious story OF adventure. In
which there is much incident and stir
Of satire. while II fairly sparkles with
dry humor. But It rises also to
heights Of tragedy and II ends upon
deep and somewhat mystica! note.
which throws the renders questioning
thought on into the beyond.
Grape Growing" U. P. Hedrick. horti-
culturist OF the New York State Ex-
pertinent station, has presented COM
piete, popular treatise on grane grow
the practical question of climatic
limitations. choice of site. land In its
preparation, fcrtilizing, tillage. plant
ing, pruning, training and marketing.
the diseases and insects Injurious to
the grape. Special attention is paid
TO descriptions of the leading CONNER
cial and amateur varieties also TO the
vinifcra grape as grown in California.
Professor Hcdrick has had long cxpe-
ricncc in the study OF the grape in all
Of its aspects, and his book will he
found to be n useful up-to-date man
ual of propagation. manipulation and
the handling of the crop. The text is
we'll illustrated.
Frank Packard. author OF The Wire
Devils" The Miracle Nan" The Ad-
new book out. "The Night Operator"
published by George Fl. Doran Co. He
made his first reputation as writer
of thrilling railroad stories while he
was working as civil engineer. Three
years ago, after considerable success
in the magazines. he broke away from
active railroad work. took a house with
its front door on the shore Of Lake
st. Louis. near Montreal. and set out
to engineer the typewriter. He has
been writing steadily ever since. Dur
ing this time Mr.. Packard las been
bus!y developing from the writer
whose stories OF railroad work we're
accepted because Of their lively local
color into = man who has something
TO say bigger and deeper than plots.
Much as we enjoy Mr. Packard's stories
more thrilling than the adventures or
the Elk River Junction railroadcrs and
the bunch of old.timers who fill the
pages Of The Night Operator"
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to destroy cruelty. autocracy and mill
tarism). one Is amazed by the dis
11uaily toiied upon the different wheels.
Liberty motor. while fifty-fve men
were palnners. inventors. drafts.
men. bookkeepcrs, clerk OF supplies.
backers shippers. accountants In,
watched every Item. carried on sys.
tenn or bookkeeping so Intricate that
one voucher cost the government 81
Tor the assembling Of the estimates.
But this intellectual element, that
does not appeal to the eye and the
In the shadow, behind the steel narts
stands the soul with It's inspIration'
patriotism and devotion. The machine
is IKE the world house In which we
n Int SIS Is not al matter We have
apple or the peach, while % per cent
IS compac,gd out of the invisible eles
ments OF the air making up the per
iumc and juices. Oftcntimcs the as
,ronomcr and philosopher; the sage
as chalk. with hardly enough of body
lett 10 serve as q scabbard for thn
sword. The real thing in this hero
however. is his soul. Tho elcctricity,
that hurls the car forward is invisible:
grayity; the greatest force in the
earih. is unseen. Mans body. mans
tools. mans iron and stone NAV
harvcsts and ships are imDortnnt
through the forty-hvc men who nroe
dnccd them; but the other hfty.fve
their work also through thoughts and
hopes and fears and sacriHrcs and
prayer and love. There il a n.,ur,i
man. but there Is also a mental and
spiritual man. and the greatest OF ali
,ninss are the unseen God and the
unseen soul ~ ''S
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28
News of Fifty Years Ago.
tFrom the Richmond Dispatch. Aug. 2s. 1869. }

Judge Bramhau yesterday granted charter
of Incorporation to Franklin Storms. John j.
Werth. william H. Gwathmey, Martin Burton
and Wellington Goddin under the and
etyle Of the "Winterpock Coal Company" for
the purpose of mining transporting and selling
coal and other minerals and metals.
Rev Dr. r " Moore is spoken of as DR..
Wilson'S successor in the Presbyterian Theo
logical Seminary.
Judge Bramhall does all of the habeas corpus
business here now. No other Judge lives in
Richmond.
Collector Burgess like Captain Bohannan. de-
cIincs to be an Alderman for the City Of Rich
mond.
REV DR.. Curry. of this city. has consented to
Circenbrier white Sulphur Springs the both
instant
Frank Camm has beer. appointed. clerk of
the Third District Court of Appeals of Virginia.
The great Press ball comes off at GreeGbrcr
White Sulphur next Tuesday. and roundtr
tickets at reduced rates being on sale, the at
tendance from Richmond VIII be very large.
Married. On the 25th nstan. at the First
Captain Robert n. Roberts. Of the steamer Hat.
tcras to Miss Annie S. Baxter. daughter of
Alexander r. Baxter, of Manchester.
scheme is a failure. Most Of the letters from
prominent generals deplore the movement as
tending to tear open half-heacd sectional
wounds
John b. Read. of Tuscaloosa, Ala. has OBJ
tanned patent for making paper from the
cotton plant.
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A Tabloid Tale
Not in Mt the Finish.

e5ss "Is hHRs ss
hiding pack of cards under pillow. showing
a paperback novel under the curtains and pack
ing the breakfast dishes into the oven.
Sure enough. the Rev. Fiddle, d. D.. was
be seen between the tall rows Of holiyhocks
n, Good Good morning. Mrs -. Barbecue. How is Mr..
GOOD morning. Mr. Fiddle We are very
'"f i MFs Faes and dk ine
She meant little Frederick Fiddle, ii.
won Ms to yoS this 'h molnns
n. eS y0a w an nesa s wGrksr n
Sl3.s7. Gould you think Of plan. my dear Mrs
Ge as as they Of 9k
ally walk into church during prayer"
We might pad underneath the old carpet
The poor animals need the hay and 'F stfa w.
However; Thie was in the bar"
This, morning. was in the bar"
r, Good sEaeious Mr. Fiddle Don't say that.
Mrs Il Il ,I ne you misunderstood me. While
No no wouldn't have believed it if I
hadn't heard card 1t from your own lips this very
We're telling us how Horrible and deFrsd Sos
but. my dear Mrs. Barbecue. I was about to
II know what you said Mr.. Fiddle, and you
quents bar-rooms!"
And she wouldn't listen to another word
Of how he was about to say bar. Der siiop but t
she flew over to Mrs. Vera Idccrs and told her
got around and back again to the Rev
Fiddle, he heard that he was drunkard. a
the torturcs OF the thumb screw, the rack and
the guillotnc were heaps too good for him.
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A Daily Once Over.

Money Is getting away from you and you can
not think at the end OF week, let alone the
end OF a year, how you have spent your income.
An expense account where every item is
tered you mink too much troublc-or
really afraid 10 ind out where the money goes?
You have thought Of adopting a budget sys-
tom, Keeping within the allotment for each
tain purpose. but you cannot be so lncthodical--
~ II that you do not wish TO deny yourself
In the line which SuCh a system would show up?
TDu put lot of honest cndcnvor and good
work into your wage winning. and why should
you not be as earnest about saving just pro-
portion Of II?
TO become thoughtful spcndcr. and that Is to
pay by check. ana !ts results may 6urprsc you
GO about II by dcposting the greater paLt or
your income and keep very little currency about
you-then pay by check.
Many times you VIII hesitate and hnally givo
M hpcndlng certain small Gums OF money rather
than draw - check for IT.
Try thia pian.-Copyright 1919.
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Business Problems
SOLVED ny BRUNO DUKE.
Author, Harold Whitehead.
Fire Insurance.

,-tiSl'IFR l.-tContinucd.)
see NOW what about those inslra noe neo
PIE. what's their problern---whats their name
hey trade as NARROW & Brown--both ava
named Fred, strange say. As far as I r.,
satner they are both bright young men W.,
"ere very successful in selling general insur-
ahc H, .or an old estahIished firm in Detroit
dhXous 70 get back Brown he had ga we'd
littie money. so decided 10 70 into renerai
insurance selling for themselves
ihcE LOOKED over the field and found thu.
"hlie there w"r" three strong agencies in Ene'
scented. 800 "'' repre-
After some negotiations they eor tho
* tHclcs Tor tour fire insurance compani ,,vo
~" insurance companies. and burglary DIntc-
E'nnaS ana accident company.
, lhcY had Specia lied on fire insurance in
in kcchoo 9 "'''' LOT IL
Now, Peter, AS you probably know. wbe,
peHp: tahe out fire insurance they usually ,nkc
ihfec or hVe-year policy. Life inslrancc nros
bGcis ta%e tine TO worl-you have TO know q
bil itbont II before you can expect TO do much
oiSincss-but you know more about thai ~. -
:, 1icFc. thcn. Is the problem. These 20 me-
harlow, about forty. and Brown ahou, tvcn ,,t
~" ~, are IN hechoo With money enough to carry
thcfn Tor about year. The people ihcy see 70
get hrc insurance are covered for ali periotIY
rom, year to h"c years. For every txcndy
pc0p!c thcy see, perhaps only one will have
po!!cy expiring this year and many of tbose
ION MINK OF changing agencies All tbcy
"hht ~ i,st OF people whose policies exnire
Ih'S ycar Nice little problem, isn't it?''--Tn he
continued tomorrow - nc
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Health Talks by DR.. VIM. Brady
Questions md Answers.
'pyriCht 1919 ~ hhtiu,,si N.xsu.n., es,.. -,

cities Without Hay Fever-please suggest
a tSf me w, sSms cities whore
Maekinss Island Mich: santa p naqbara MGn "
Ten ba,hlche a'SuSSa \. f. n Nj s"" Antonio
a sss y S%aep Pss
matiis! ! have been Informed that this is a sign
III the 1oSwn ,F3ur An early stage Of
true? ~ ar Il % 'nis
Illness or accident. and gradually grows out
skin diseases may involve the nails and dis.
tort or injure them. but tho white spots You
Fter TO are insignificant
The Symptoms OF Chronic Appendicitis =
Please tell me the main symptoms OF chronic
cttis without any acute attacks? q. &. As
Answer.--chronic appendicitis often occurs In
srs over thirty acute attacks
though constipation and such complaints as in.
testnal indigestion" and stomach trouble are
Flabby Folks Joints Crack. - Whenever
move move my arms or bend my knees my joints
G or tR would you kindly tell me what 1 must
Answer-You must go in for reasonable
amount of physical cducation; tina, is. proper
general exercise In Il gymnasium. Tor instance.
The cracking is due to nabbness, lack of tone
ana only physical training will overcome 1t.
sh Your dreeions Nf fsr @afing P%S
gotten. &c ~ SS
as @ much sa cold ws,er in
white of egg Then put the fire. watch
does ns pot oaca Watched wa, pot hos and neither
about to boil up take it off the fire and let
stand few minutes before pouring.
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Demobilizing the Army

d September l, the great American army
raised 10 the strength of approximately
100000 men at the time the armistice was
signed will be returned to a peace footing.
All reserve officers who do not pass into the
regular army will be discharged from the
service. All regular officers who were given
war rank will be reduced to their former
grade. And most, ii not ALL the enlisted men
VINO entered the service for the emergency
will have returned to civil life
In less than year, therefore, the War
Department will have performed another
miracle It's achievement in raising arming
and training the vast military force must
ever be regarded one of the monumental
Facts Of history. No other nation ever con-
summated such an enterprise in so short a
time And Of course, other ever under
LOOK the almost impossible task of sending
100000 much less 100000 men. 10 q
battlefield 5000 miles across the seas.
II experience in this war has settled any
one military question. it has demonstrated
clearly that great standing armies are not
necessary for the defense OF a nation situated
as is the United States It confirms tho
theory of American statesmen for a century
mat IN time Of war, this nation can draw
It's hghting forces straigh; from civil life
can arm and equip them and can count upon
them to make as effective soldiers in battle
us the professional man Of arms
mere IS no occasion or excuse for th;s
country to maintain powerful military az
Enlistment in time Of peace There is M
occasion Tor the people to burden them
serves by taxation in order to sustain hun
dreds of thousands of soldiers. of trained
soldiers, marking time in camp ever ow,i,
ing the possibility of war while the hest arru
'heh' ior program Of universal military
tanning IS that the discipline, the rigid mill
tary control and the democratizing cncr, ~,
wDul1 adj
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
ny ROY Il. MoUIroN
I'icnics.

I never saw Il picnic spread
That did not have among the eats
Some peanut huttcr on the bread
And many plates OF picked bccts
And rs for the picnic spreads l know
or many !aunty little trips;
Where all they had was just row
or boxes Of potato chips.
l never to IL picnic went
And this is true hope to die
AT which Il summer painted gent
Sat down in soft custard pie.
The p!crics don't appeal TO me,
With waspS and other hugs that sting
And garter snakes and flies and Skects
And ants all over everything.
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Putting Premium on Property.
SWIMMING CHARGES.
with SUITS .2Qc
Bathing Pool Sign al Piosa (Mo).
TO Keep the Head CIear.

10 Nccp inc Head Clear
In these days OF strikes, high PRIZES and zen
efal ali-around worriment. it eases the mind to
sit down and read in our daily prints such
items of interest as the following:
In Japan they rub noses instead of kissing
but in spite of that. somebody has aid who
the heck wants to live in Japan?
AT the present time all our quill toothpicks
come from China. Maybe that's the reason
nobody uses them any more
1t has just been discovered that when Dom
Paul Kruger president of the Transvaal died
he left s3ooo.ooo. He had TO-
There is a bird in Australia called the woofus
IL takes its name from its peculiar habit of
barking like a dog-woof- woof
Lucius w. Pringle. OF California admits that
he invented the first patent glass cutter hut
he doesn't state why.
a traveller slips this report to u.s. Sand your
track; here it comes:
girl rather hoydenish. is sitting in a street
car. rouEhneck enters and sits beside b.r
She begins laugh boisterously "Wel," s,,,s
he. what the h tickes you?" Gallant voutb
across the way arises addressing the
roushneck says, Hey DO. you want to saw
lady after that there remark"
IIu! Ia!
II the Regina saskatchewan, Post we s,
chronicled the return, after brilliant overseas
service, OF Lieutenant Eher Laugh
Tut!-Tut!
Mans wife wants little here below,
"A poet sang, with fire
There's only comment 10 make
That poet is liar
She wants great deal yes, indeed
And yet. an, vain regrets:
were telling you of what she wants
And not OF what she gets
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28

Seven Governors of cotton growing States
will meet in New Orleans early in September
10 help ix minimum price for cotton. The
trouble about fixing q minimum price for
cotton is that the market refuses to recog-
nize the authority that fixes it. 1t has
way OF calculating 10 suit its own ideas OF
changing conditions to supply and demand
and other factors which at times become in
tiuential in determining price equations.
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Or, what has become of the old-fashioned doc.
Who carried 81 tchel containing stock
OF pills and sQuillS
To all Ills
The ld-fashioncd party without any frils?
He doctorcd pains and aches and our
chils,
And never was quick at collecting his bills,
The Old fashioned doe shiny high hat
And 4 Prince Albert and white tie, and
all that;
And his old one-horse shay
Travelled slowly all day.
He wore flowing whskers. or mutton chops
gray
Which offered a place for the microbes to stay;
But the old fashioned doc worried not about
germs
He and his hacill were on splendid terms
The new fashioned doc. he's n dingcr all right:
Hes on a job always from morning TO night
His face is shaved clean
He is suavc and serene.
And he dashes about i'll high powered machine
The new-fashioned doc is a business man, too
He carries no bundle of pills long past due
He's up to the minute,
There's money in it,
When new germ appears, he is promptly asin.
He will swat it and stab 1t and smash II and
skin it.
The Old fashioned doc Is no more in the land.
The new-fashioned doc gets the calls, under
stand?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28
Information Bureau.

Inquiries regarding almost amy tonic,
excepting lcEnl md medical sub.
jecfa. are answered free. An all In
quiiicN arc answered directly by per-
aOnal letter, n sclf-Uddrcs>ed. stamped
envelope II required. Addrcss Tho
TimeS- Dispatch Information bureau
Richmond, vn.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28
THURsDAY, AUGUST IS, 1919.

Chairman Esch of the Interstate Commerce
Committee gives assurance that the Repuo-
licans will reject the Plumb railroad plan.
That seems to make it unanimous except ior
Mr. Plumb and that radical element of labor
which is supporting his Soviet confscatory
program
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28

Governor Davis has come to the rescue or
The States various eleemosynary institutions
which are suffering sorely under the exi-
gencies OF the high cost of living. There is
no doubt that the Assembly will grant the
100000 he says is needed to carry them over
until such a time as the Assembly at its
regular session can make permanent pro-
vision for their relief.
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At Sunset,

Sing! your hair against his cheek
As his life is over thine:
Hair of amber charged with fire
Shading eyes that burn as wine.
Sing We not Of yesterday,
Tales Of gods nor chivalry,
Only sing of things that lie
Sleeping In life yet to be.
When the birds at last forget
To return at summers cali,
When the sun Is dark and cold
And the dew forgcts to fall;
when the stars are scattered far.
Still be singing, II you can;
Whisper, in the final night
Proudly, II have loved a mann
Wells In tha New Republic
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progra m .

Food prices may be temporarily oroughl
down by wise governmental action, as the
present supply of foodstuffs is ample to JUS
tify lower prices if proftecring be suppressed.
but if production be arrested by threatened
strikes there is power in the universe
that can prevent them from going still higher
i'll the future.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28
Enemy Allen property.

F.. II. F., Dinwidde-When A.
Mitchell Palmer retired rs alien prop
crty custodian his oihcc was admins
ierinS 32.236 separate trusts. with an
aggregate value of S502,3+5. 72i.
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The Tcrm "Grcrnronm.v

Reader. Richmond-In the days of
Queen Elizabeth IL was customary to
strew green rushes on the carpetcd
noor OF the actors retiring room in
the theaters. hence the term green
ROOM"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28

L. W.. Milford.-A republican form
of government is usually understood
is conducted by elective Representatives
of the people. If the people actually
control their representatives then the
government is democratic. y pure de-
mocracy is one in which the people
make laws in convention assembled,
as in the New England town meetings.
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business Addrensex.

are not printed in this column. Parsons
wanting such information as YOU re-
quest. should always enclose stamped
se.faddresscd envelope. so that an
swer may be sent through the mails.
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Voice of the People
Letters must give the mime md nd
nISrs OF thc. writer. Name will not be
published II writer 80 requests.

Good Roads.
% rhe Euitor OF The Tines dispatch:
point viii not be sufficient to induce
the people OF this State to vote bonds.
! believe tAat majority OF the ciu-
Zcns OF Virginia feel that IL the city
people want roads for touring pur-
poses they should build them IL they
want TO build roads which can be
turned to account. they will have TO
1uiid them to the various depo,s of
good MpG 1o,5 is said said, in eonnse,on Win
see how the high cost OF living is
going to be reduced by building roads
, ,,1a o touring PURPOSES II the city PEG
ing Of roads in the rural sections. it
is no more than the people OF the
rural sections object TO their taking
equally with themselves to bui!d tour
ing roads. Now let every representa-
t're see 20 1t that the rural sections
%. EirG mia which are not touched
in TINS state levy. lie; every city
representative remember that accord
ing to their argument the cost o. liv-
necessities OF life through the mud
TO the railroad station. believe every
representative who has the !n;eres, OF
other people at heart. Will work to
get A part OF the proposed levy for
me county roads. \. w. HOLT
Wakefield, Va. August 20 1919
Plant "service Tree
To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Throughout the ages the
forest has played a large part in mans
progress and development. In the
earlier stages II hindercd and in the
later stages helped mans struggle up
ward. II has furnished material for
his dwellings,. for the ships that have
carried his goods across the seas. for
his implements OF peace and war
To guard against the possibility OF
our exhaustion OF our tim Der supply
and to continue the regulating inf'u-
ence on streamnow and climate con
ditions which the forest exe.ts. the
policy of establishing In the State OF
Virginia a movement OF planting a
service tree" recommend
In cities all over the United States
there is being esta blished the planting
Of n memorial tree" hut think the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28

Thus far our proitecring hunt &c ,,o
process OF blowing a horn, beating n drum
and going after man-eatng sharks win =.
mlnnOw net.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28

one thing in the Ford suit that will no,
be feeble is the fee bill.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-28

mensurate with the labors he is called on to
perform and the responsibilities no must
shoulder.