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A Tabloid Tale
This Weeks Mystery.

What was 1t anyhow? That is the question
puzzled reader. that is going to worry you.
The lights in the store were very dim.
I'D like a nice clock said the tall thin
woman-the one with the face like ROGUE fort
cheese.
Here is nice one" said the clerk. handing
her ten pound affair that going like a
trip In MINER.
why yes it is nice. but it has stopped" said
the woman.
The lights quite low.
That's funny. It was going when had it."
Here is another clock that is in good order.
This is running, too
Yes; hear il ticking I'll take that one"
she said and picked it up to see what sort OF
face ii had.
Why. this one isn't running. either. 1t just
Well that's mighty mysterious" he said.
positively running! Hear it," and he put at ,h rs
clock up TO the thin womans
Yes. ii is going fine. Let me see, and then
you wrap it up quick before it stops again!'
And she picks up this one, too, to look at its
symmetrical form
MY hehvens just hadn't hadn't locked lock at 1t a
And with a mystiied air. she started to so out.
Wait minute, madam" called the clerk.
ri put up the lights and try and what is
the matter with them"
But he had only, taken one look at the wo-
mans face in the brighter glow, when he said.
"Ah, what is the trouble!" And he took
down black mask from a shelf and gave it
to the woman
Crhe reader. seeing the connection between
mask will be awarded wonderful book en-
titled. She Loved Him While He Held the
Wad, but Let Him When He Carried the Hold"
Ed. Morning Glory.)
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Voice of the People
Letters must give the name md aA.
dre.. OF the writer. Nnmc will not b
published IL writer so REQUESTS
Another Rfp Van WInkle,

Sir.-Under date of August : IA name
less Citizen" said through your
SS9finmJns that woman suffrage is a
through" in ill-consdcred haste II
Citizen" were better informed on this
question he or she would not have
made such an unguardcd statement
country for several generations. and
for the last ten years it's acceptance
by State after state has been steady
and end continuous. until twenty-nine
States haze presidential suffrage for
women. hfteen States full suffrage for
women. and all but seven States have
some form of woman suffrage O.
these seven states which have here
tics. Pennsylvania has left the be-
n'Ehted group and has recently ratified
the Federal amendment. The remain
ins SIX states showing on the woman
SURFACE map are Maryland. West Wiz
Einia,. Virginia. North Carolina. South
Carolina. Georgia and Alabama Ten
nessee recently left the black" States
and gave her women municipal and
presidential suffrage.
Inc anthony amendment can hardly
be said to have been "huddled" through
congress. when we remember tina, the
group OF women who first introduced
such a bill have passed away and A
SECOND c and even third generation have
being used on individual Si,tcs IN
force them to ratify the amendment,
ine necessary three. fourths VIII ratify
mental piece of Justice already TOO
long delayed. The home-cominr y;
our blessed boys" quoted by Citizen"
as so CONFUSING s,,,: the public mind that
ooserved. is indeed a blessed thing
Tor woman's freedom. because most Of
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those same boys have realized in their
nSnt Tor democracy that there is no
such thing as democracy SO LONG az
mar the people are denied political
self expression.
p, rci v5 ~, must have been sharing
or So she does not realize that defeats for
woman suffrage bills have SLOWLY
steadi!y. increasingly dwindled. while
victories triumphantly increase. In
need, the woman suffrage movement
began when women learned the alpha
pet. and Citizen" should have been on
haud at that time to join with those
saEes OF that far remote day who on
posed the education OF women on tho
ground that when they came into the
possession OF knowledge they would
not stop until they also came into pos
session OF power and that knowledge
and power were tor inen alone The
only indiEnity that Virginia women
now have TO fear is that their state
mans freedom and tina, they NAV
nave TO accept that freedom from tho
rest OF the Cnion-but VIC do not he
iieTe this. Virginia viii be true 10
ner traditions and stand once more
Tor progress. justice and freedom
LUCY RANDOLPH MASON.
University OF Virginia. August II,
-
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Our Present Need
~ HOMER l.. FERGUSON,
or the U. S. Chamber OF Commerce.

Is there a salesman who stands in the same
class as the steamers that carry our produce
They show the people in foreign countries that
there can be produced in America the highest
ship and consider where she is built and who
mans her quite much they look into the
The Britisher for years has been in the fore
place; the British have sent the best they have
they have estabiis hcd lines Of communica to n
and banking and merchandising ali over the
standard of honor in British trade is high the
world over
So Il we are to get in this trade, it is neces..
ships than can be built
ny. Ne md that the productive capacity Of the
necessary that We have a Tremendous quite;
aoT our energies; it is necessary that we have
marine in actual operation along established
routes probably the hest safety valve would be
offered for our business and for our production
We paid during the war, will have paid,
ish marine cost little more than $1,000. 0oO. o 90
cns entire merchant an m2rine Of the world had
that a considerable portion of the cost OF our
marine be written off. One hundred million
$1,000 900 600 during this var ou And now
If We arc not going to have any more wars.
can we apSe into thse, same condition 5 before
the cheapest ships to any port"
Before the war great business houses of this
These ships were built abroad. What happened
when the war came on? There was great
ships We built wiz ships after the European war
started for 100000. which were sold for 81
II these great companies who looked for ships
In the cheaper market abroad had bought their
ships in the United States and had fostered the
war would have been more than the value OF
their fleets bought acknowledgements. 1879
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A Daily Once Over.
Give the Other Fellow a Chance.

There are some persons constituted that
they cannot anything all except what
they want personally and that just when
they want il.
ii you are reading. they sure to step in
your light.
If you lying down they begin to thump
something. anything for noise.
If you in haste. they rush in before you
Whatever you have, they either want it, or
some thing just like 1t, and just when you
have II.
Thought does not enter into their scheme OF
things
They are creatures Of impulse. and that i'm
pulse is selfish one.
They are forever and eternally in the way
whenever they near.
You never free from sense OF their ply
steal presence
But II is objectionable IL you try to give them
q dose Of their own medicine
Why, because they want what they want so
intensely that what you want does not count.
II you belong to this ego ideaed class get out
OF IL before you shunted to the back ground
30 encctually by some one that you will stay
put.-tCopyright. 1919
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News of Fifty Years Ago.
(From the Richmond Dispatch. Aug. Is. 1859

Mr.. Edgar Allan. known as Yankee" Allan.
Conservative cause in Southside Virginia during
of the Commonwealth. However. Mr. Allan says
preference the part of Col. Walker, believ-
ing he does that that office should be filled
only by who is in every way acceptable to
the Governor with whom he has to come In such
close contact.
Herbert " Graves. Radical has notified Col
William r. Wnn member elect OF the l.egis-
lature from Hanover. that his election Will be
conteste d,-frst. that he is disGuaihed by the
not take the test oath: third because there
was intimidation and fraudulent voting. Col.
Winn's majority was only 1885,
The negro sheriff of Essex County, appointed
by Gen. Candy. qualified before Judge Bramhall
Tin vacaton) yesterday, and Will at once ent~:-
upon the discharge of his official duties.
The Grant and Colfax Association failed to
get quorum the last call for disba ing
meeting and will try again tonight.
The Leigh Street Baptist Church has planned
big improvements to the church property and
building. The members are proving very liberal
in their contributions. and the work Will he
pushed forward very rapidly
a fire is raging in the forest near the Flower
OF Hundreds, Prince George County So far
thousand OF dollars worth of timber has been
burned.
captain Tucker. Of the schooner Francis Sat
Old Point Comfort yesterday.
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when it became necessary to find funds i'm
mediatcly with which to obtain the Federal
appropriation or court the danger Of losing
1t. To meet that emergency the special ses-
sion OF the Assembly was called Needs Of the
schools and the elcelnosynary institutions.
as they have been outlined to the Assembly,
well-known oven before tina; %. are urgent.
but it may be doubted ~ 3 ~ are so acute
as to constitute emeA acy. Pans for
their relief are being form Ited and will DO
pressed to execution at the regular session
in January Delay until that time will not
work undue hardship on either.
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Business Problems
SOLVED BY BRUNO DUKE,
Author, Harold Whitehead.
Vanished Fronts.

CHAPTER I.-tContinued)
and H Hs ff Felt faS that hs
was s. not SO T3,, eontented as he said.
nam name ~, is connected with business success all
@ tounseo IS IN and a s axe tine
announce ,n;o,t him as the principal speaker at a
n s e was lonely no fun HAD
sands OF acquai ances. but few friends.
he's settled in his habits of bacheordom that
When you've finished Your sorrowful inspec
yomrs ef S s1E w SIN that You make
happened since your absence"
for an hour We discussed the detals Of varous
cases that we had in hand until was familiar
There" Duke said. with an air Of hnalty.
tina, III br dIh;, us ss up J., to date date.
Here, Here's little that you can handle
ters. and picked out one. which he passed to
me, and which read as follows:
Dear sir,-Havins heard about you decided
as settled thing that You let me ,e'k know the ths
/ nave run hardware store for three years.
and my father had i, before me. lie died
father always made good thing out Of 0M it, and
did %oo ad ysr n last
used to, be, on dairy farm and know that
know whole lot Of the hardwa ay busness So
had no real schooling; as my father did not be-
only thing that counts . '''
Heres what varies me- My expenses are
cover expenses, and my sales are as big as
and know we are all honest.
Can you hsp me- FOR IT'S got NY son
Hb Sis'o5 M$ Nsx 2s;k.
tTo be continued tomorrow)
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holiday. because he could not bear to
ieawe ms people. slecpless at night,
aLter ,hc exseSs!ve cxcitemcntsI O.:
the day. he sough, relaxation for his
tired nerves by writing. '
re wrote his first plea for the la
s Sorins or cIa si1, 81 In 1872 through his
ana sd, In . vain sought to rise above his
bird heating bloody wings AGAINST ;lH I,
inc bars of circumstances
Then he wrote his "Hypatia." tho
story OF the fourth century-a book
that is in some respects the finest
historical novel ever written
Later came westward Io." with
sparkle Of adventure in ali n the AR: .hs
the Eiamor OF tropical sea-scapcs fsIf.
ing upon every soene--a greater BOOK
than S;evenson's Treasure Island
Nor ala he overlook the Children.
than Iiaw,hornc's Wonder Tales" and
his Heroes Is still the model o, an.
thors who believe in the Knights y,
tho new chivalry. ~
lie populariZed the now sri.nco rs.
BUSY workers. The talks that he xavc
20 me boys and girls who Joined his
"a'ktnE cub. and the papers he wrote
are the most fascinating pages Of Their
KIND ever written. Finally the great
queen asked Kingsley to give a course
OF OF special instruction to the Prince Of
MIN preach in St pauls and Wcst.
minister Abbey. His personality was
coinpeI!!nE, his sentences both vivid
ana vehement, and crowds began to
follow Kingsley wherever he lccturch
FROM the very beginning OF his ito
nc was in the forefront Of the bait,e
asainst poverty and social Injustice.
itics for the People," and vas ~.
FOUNDER OF the Christian socialist
,,nnvement Not an original thinker,
hinIsIcy was the ideal aEitator r.
instinct and by education kin,sioS
was an aristocrat. but By sympathv.
habit and deeds. Kingsley was one =;
INC worlds noblcst democrats and
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Amend 1t at Their Peril

OPPONENTS in the Senate to the league
~ of nations covenant, headed by Senator
Lodge. boldly assert that they not only have
the votes TO amend that instrument, but that
they arc determined to do less They
propose to send the whole treaty of peace
back to the conference at Paris They are
not content, according TO their foremost
spokesman, TO insist upon series of reser-
vations which might be successfully nego-
tiated into the treaty by diplomacy. They
demand that the peace congress reopen the
whole question on the basis OF an American
ultmatum.
This is indeed grave responsibility which
the Lodges seem willing to assume. More
than eight months were required to produce
this treaty Every line and word in il was
debated, sometimes bitterly, and always with
a certainty Of disagreement. Only the most
conSummate skill and patience and per-
suasivencss on the part of the representa- tives
Of the four leading powers. coupled with
consciousness OF the vast responsibility laid
upon them, made it possible to bring forth
a treaty at all
Now few Republican leaders in the
United States Senate openly boast OF their
power and their determination to send this
instrument back TO Paris and from Paris
back 10 Versailles for the incorporation of
amendments which will change the character
of whole sections Of the document If this
indefinite period It is true that the peace
conference is still in session. working on a
treaty with Austria, but that body is now
made up OF under secretaries II is no longer
the conference which Woodrow Wilson
David Lloyd George, Georges Cemenceau
and Signor Orlando dominated. That con-
ference has disintcgrated
President Wilson, who knows as does no
other American, what pcrils would he en-
countercd if the peace treaty, now ratified
, by most OF the powers Of the world, should
he thrown back upon the hands of the peace
conference. must fight to the last ditch against
the Republican conspiracy. He has deferred
his transcontincntal trip from week to week
because his presence has been needed in
Washington. 1t is no doubt right that he
should nave remained at his post But ~
| new danger is threatening the nation The
| peace which this country helped achieve
| through its victory over Germany is in the
! balances, and it is the duty OF the one evangel
| in all the country who can effectively rescue
| IN" treaty TO go straight TO his country mcn
| with his appeal for ratification. The country
| VIII listen 10 him TO no other citizen
| The Rcichs,ag building in Berlin is being
cleaned OF vermin previous to housing the
ff, i ~.
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Books and Authors

Marshall Jones Co. has just published
The SOBER VOID" By Randolph Well.
wodka. France has prohibited absinthe.
The United States has amended It's Con-
stitution TO prohibit the manufacture
and sale OF alcoholic beverages a new
dolph Wexford Smith is trained
American Journals, and author, with
ashington and New York This book
arraicns the German brewery interests
and treats extensively the liquor
question in this country.
The Querrils." by stacy Aumonier.
is announced FOR August publication
by the Century Company. Mr.. Au-
monier Wi. be remembered as the Gre
ator OF that rare achievement in con-
temporary literature. short story
home and abroad The Friends" was
one OF the memorable short stories OF
the last ten years. The Querrils." an
gentle. well-manncred family OF that
name in England, whose heads Mr..
and Mrs. Querri! have contrived for
years TO live in peaceful comfort with
in circule made up Of their own family
ard n Few selected friends. The Quer-
rils are supposed to ignore all things
believed that outside the circle are
ugly and unclean things. which. how
ever. Will not come in unless encour-
aged by notice. But some OF the ugly
of life do break through; and is it the
reaction Of the Querrils to these that
make the story; America has thou
ands Of Qucrril families.
Those who do not necessarily in
sist on keeping their literary gods
carefully t:cketed and put away from
the ..slinEs and arrows" of a critical
world Will enjoy new volume OF criti.
by the Scribners: old and New Mas
ters," by the well-known English
critic; Robert Lynd; Everybody who
how Rudyard Kiping was once mod
ern." observes Mr.. Lynd at the open
ing OF his section on kipiing. as the
Mr.. Lynd Is far from chary of his
praise: OF Mr.. Conrad. for instance
he says: He is not only philosopher
of A bold heart under sky of despair
but one OF the magicians of literature"
Among the literary great who pass in
review In this volume are Dostoevsky.
the sensatonaist: Jane austin; Nat
Iiilaire Belize: the Heavenly Twins
Wordsworth, Keats. Henry James the
Novelist OF Grains and Scruples. Synge
Tchchov, the Perfect Storyteller: Lady
Gregory. Conrad. Kipling, Hardy.
Browning. Ronsard. Tursenev: Cum
4 new book by Henri Barbusse,
whose Under Fire" was one OF the
most widely discussed books produced
Dy the war Is III tTdln LOT early pup
LEGATION by T.. r. Dutton & Co. The
French title, "Clarte," is rendered into
the English Light" by the translator
OF the story, "Fitzwater Wray," whose
remarkable Englishing OF Under
Fire" won much complimentary com
ment The new story is described as
the wildly written account of the en-
lightenment which dawns upon the
mind of a typical French soldier of
all through the war and is twice
wounded. and Barbusse throws out
with startling. vividness the dawning
aspirations OF his soul against the
background of the conflict.
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O. Hcnry,s Mintnrse.

Some o you folks who haven't read o. Henry
cant understand why people do. who want to
be happy. Well. read him and find out.
But o. Henry had some peculiar ideas. For
instance, he insists time and again and in al
most the same words. that is mighty
careful how she selects a sweetheart! For in
stance, in Holding Up Train: The man
who holds up trains picks his company with a
thousand times the with which careful
girl chooses sweetheart" Again, in Jimmy
Hayes and Mure1': Picking a conrade on
the border is done with ten times the care with
which girl chooses a sweetheart" Again, in
"CabbaSes and Kings" he insists that man
chooses his wife with acute spasms of eau
ton And elsewhere, repeatedly, the
same thought.
Where'd he get the idea? Why did he re-
peat ii so insistently? Because, between you
and me. Friend Reader. love and matrimony are
enterprises that practically always under
taken on impulse. rarely Judgment. and
II every one would tell the honest truth 95
per cent of the selections turn out disappoint-
ingly to one. the other both In some future
generation the questions OF fitness and probable
happiness may be considered seriously by / per
cent of the worlds most exclusive thought but
in the meantime Cupid Is running the biggest
bunco- steering game in the universe, and he
ought to be pinched and made to put overalls.
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Hnppiext and Rest Of singers.

Happiest and best of singers he,
Who in Arts bondage greatly free,
GriSt for the mill,
Whose wheel a copious Castaly.
Whatc'er we know. whate'er we dream.
All things that are, all things that
seem,
All that in Natures Academic
Her graduates learn,
Was Bacon's province. Shakespeare's
theme,
Gocthe's concern.
The poem, well the poet knows.
In ambush turks where'er he goes
Lisps hidden In each v ind that blows
And 0rnhic 10 VS. ~ liz ona
All the symphonious worlds coerce,
That hour by hour their parts rehearse,
Winds, strings and reeds.
In this orchestral universe
The Maestro leads.
William Watson.
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1t is reported that Russian monarchists
have offered the Russian throne to the Duke
Of Romanowsky. a member OF the cadet. or
younger branch of the Romanoff family, and
that the duke has accepted the offer lie
probably would last about fifteen minutes, If
he attempted TO sit on the throne.
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
ny HENRY EDWARD WARNER


(By Mrs. Henrietta Schninslauder)
Go to sleep. My Baby; your mothers loahng
She's gone to see a picture but she will soon
be here.
The william is pursuing the tall peroxide blonde
Who yeils for help and faints when no one
wants to respond!
She'll stay until tho william is caught and put in
Jail,
She knows it's bound to happen. because it can
fail;
So go to sleep. my baby-you're lonesome now
/ know,
But Mother will come home again when she
has the show!
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Lucky Guy.

There's the luckiest dog on Earth going by,
Smith"
so? Bachelor? Clubman!"
Nope; marred-domcstic-"
Then how come it-inaybe his mother in
law don't"
Yes she does; she lives at his house"
"Iic amt got children. then, or"
six: noisy brats. too"
Then. how d. yuh-say, come on an tell me;
come t?"
Why. he's deaf and dumb travelling agent
for thc State School and only gets home on
Christmas and Fourth Of July"
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Another ministerial crisis is reported inn
minent in Spain. If Spain could not pull
off a ministerial crisis every few weeks it
would consider itself distinctly nonpro-
gressive. Dissatisfaction with its ministries
no doubt is due TO the fact that it IS the
poorest nation in Europe, hence lack OF money
TO administer public affairs in way to meet
popular approval reacts disastrously upon the
life of Cabinets.
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The party that shows most practical wis
dom in forcing legislation that will solve
the cost-of-living problem is the one that
will win in the next national campaign. Al
though the Democrats are minority in Con-
gress. they put the Goals Of fire under
the majority and get due credit for any
satisfactory legislation they may inspire.
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Information Bureau.

Inquiries regarding nlmoat any toni,
excepting on leEnl and medical snh
Ject., are answered free. Az all Ia
NufTies are answered directly nv nsr
sonai letter, neIf-nddrcsaed, slammed
envelope II required. Address T'he
IGchmond, Sa.
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The visitor at the aerodrome cornered the
aviator. who had a wife and six children and
kept house when the ground.
Who" he said with note OF keen interest
who holds the worlds altitude record?'
Il dunno just exactly" said the aviator
scratching his chin and thinking OF home; II
dunno right off tn bat whether it's Butter or
Eggs
You can call man liar if you want to;
it's just question Of judgment, that's all.
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Henry Ford's contention that he IS not an
anarchist has been sustained by the courts
in his. suit against the Chicago Tribune, but
only limited number OF his popular cars
can be manufactured out OF the cents dam
ages the jury awarded him.
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SATURDAY. AUGUST Is. 1919.

Archduke Josephs ceremonial TO allied
representatives was delayed because thief
stole his only pair OF trousers, No better
evidence is needed that true democracy has
at last-taken Hungary into its grasp.