t)A ILY.WEEKL t'.SUNDAY Botlneu, Ofllce.913 _. jhlm Jit,eC Manchtstct Hurcau..,.H0J iUllt 3(rwt Petenbur,, ribrcsu.H» tf. Sycamoio Street ___^_?._!!c,i'J" ._".2,s K _*«t- fctriwl *V *»*"- Uul _x ~.«^ POSTAGLPAiD. year. Mtw. Mu. Dally with Sunday .... tc.oo tt06 $,,i(J ' Daily witr-eut t,uud.iy . 4.0U i.eo 1 M 3.S 6anuay edition cniy ... 2.tM Loo _u is ttttkly (Wednesuay) .. 1.00 M _s By Tlmcs-Dl.patdi Canier Dcllvery Servlce m Rlcluuono tanu suburow. Manclicter aud Pctera- burji. Ono Week. Dally with Sunday. ,j ceata Dail> without aunday.10 cent! Sunday only. a cent, Entered January 11. PJOJ, at Riclimond, Va., as aecond-clasj matter under ..ct ot Conyrcss o Mardi J, ISW. THl,-R=DAV. DECEMBER 2, 1009. REVOI.LTION IX KAULAAU. England ls to-day in tho rnldst of the grentest crlsis of three geiicra- tlons. History is belng made, The Constltutlnn is on the vergo of revo- lutlonary change, Never slnce tho battle over the flrst Reform Blll, so graphlcally descrtbed ln Macaulay's letters, has thero been euclVn dan- gerous rttpture ns that which occurred Tuesday nlght when tho Lord Clian- cellor announced tlie voto 0T1 the budget ln tho House of Lords. Many factors comblne to doud the polltlcal sltuatlon and to exclte the public mind. Tho battle ls free trade against the tarlff, social democracy against constltutlonal domocracy, Ire- land against the "nlien Parliament," England against Germany, wage-earn- ers against the landed classes. Ono party saw in the budget the lnevitablo result of mtstaken free trade; another regarded lt- ns tho lcgttimate outcomo of lndustrlal conditions. One party belloved the budget meant the awaken- lng of England to crylng social nceds; tlie Unlonlsts regarded lt as a dan- gerous Innovatlon, smelllng strong of Boclallsm and conflscatlon. Ono party eondemned it as an lllegitlmate ln- vaslon of capltal anj landed lnterest; the other held lt a proper readjnstment ef the public burden. One. party de¬ clared lt an Insane war meosuro, almed at a foe that would not come and a war that would hot rlse. The other stoutly saw in it a necessary war moaEure to meet the inevltnble strug- gle with Germany. But above these Involved Issties, one gr?at questlon stands out, Sha.ll the venerable House of Lords remaln an active and Integral part of Kngand's legislative maclilnery? Shall the Com¬ mons havo the power to override the upper House and pass mlnlstorlal mensures, rogardlcss of the Lords7 It has boen 23S years sinco the Commons declared "that ln nll alds glven iho Xlng by the Commons the rate" or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." Durlng nll theso years tho Lords havo never fully admltted the clalin, but When they dld protest, as ln the paper1 act of 1S60, they were decldedly Trorsted. But the Lords have changed slnce the seventeenth century. They repre- eent, not the tradltional land-owners of England, the feeble sclons of one honored lines. Few of them carry thelr tltle back three generatlons, and more than half of them have been elevated ilnce 1830. They represent the best bralns and the acknowledged leader- shlp of the emplre. But many of fhem are large landed proprletors, and as ruch have arousea the dlstrust of popular leaders. It ls diftlcult for the Llberals to see how a man llke the Duke of Sutherland, owner of a mllllon acres of Iand, can falrly rep¬ resent the best interests of all classes. Hence demagogues havo denounced and partlsans have condeinned the peers as undemocratlc and unwleldly. It seems as tft'o-ugh tjie much-abused Lords are novr Invltipg the final-test. By appeallng to the country, when the Klng dlssolves Parliament, they wlll give the people an opportunity not only of paaslng on the budget, but of saylng who shall be the real rulers of England. Beiore the general electlons are past a revolutlon wlll have taken place. Upon that revolutlon the des- tiny of the emplre may depend. MAJOR CAItY AND THE AIUIORIES. Major Cary was right ln reslgnlng hls command two months ago, and was right agaln In Insistlr.g that his reslgnation be accepted. The armorles are for the mllitary, and uses of them Which interfere with their prlmary purpose, however laudable ln them- aelves. must be prohiblted ln the d!s- cretlon of the offlcers, This was the polnt which Major Cary rcs'.gned to establish. and which we thtr.k he has fully establlshed ln the public mind. An ordlnanee embodylng this polnt was lntroduccd In the Councll follow¬ lng hls reslgnation, but what became of lt nobody knows. That the Councll meant to smother lt. we hava no ldea. Probahly lt .meant to pass lt when fc had a conv«nlent moment, which mlght have been durlng 1S10 or mlght not have been tlll later. Naturally, Major Cary dld not thlnk lt conslstent with hla personal and offlcial dignlty to leave hls reslgnation indennltely pend- tng. The voluntary retlrement from the mllitary of thlB popular offlcer and useful cltlzen wlll be regretted. At the eame tlme lt wlll not bo In vain lf lt drlves home the polnt whtoh brought lt about. It should never bo necessary to lose another offlcer on ihls partlcular score, We should say that now was «mphatlcally the tlme for the Councll to dlve Into lts plgeon-holes, overhnul its archlves, ejarlcate that wise ordl¬ nanee and pass lt. A "LOVE AND MAKHIAGE" TflESIS. One of those recurrlng "love and marrlage" dfsousBlortB has been started among the correspondenta of tho New York. Tlmos, and, as always huppens Whon a theme' of unlyernal "heart" tn- ter««at 1b throwh Into the ujora, lettera fit all sons and condtUons aro atream. Ing ln. One of these httman dneii went**, well out of tho run, we fihollii much llke to prlnt ln full, but li If-ngth makes thnt itnposslble. Tt I from n woman, marrled at soventoeti to 11 clorlt who 1ms never enrncd tnor than $15 n woek ond often less.- Sh> Iins six chttrtren, four of them glrls, o whom she fBya t.hat "1 would rnthc loao them all by death than have then llvo tho ilio of caro I hnve had." Un end Ing- worry, work, anxlety nnd wnn have boen her lot. "I loved my hu*> band whon I innrt*tad," she wrltos, "«ni never lookerl ahend moro than we should nlwayn bo together, but now nlmost liale him, not for anythlng 1k hns done, but ho had no rlght, atni "< man should take a'girl to wifo wher he hns no way to take caro of n fam¬ lly." Though she wrltos ln tho Thnnks- glvlng season, her letter rlngs, not with thanktulness for ,-provldentlal mercles, but with bltt'erness and ro- Ijcllion. Thus: I am not grateful for health nnd a roof ;ind food onough to keO_ llfe nnd clothes enough to cover us. We ought to havo thnt. God put us here. Wo hnd no choice, and lf 116 would send us some of the blesslrigs I would bo grateful and love Him, but He has sent mo only trouble, and no ond of It In slght. An esteemed contetnporary of moral nnd phllosophlc bent, commontlng on this letter, bltunes lt nll on tho wo¬ man. "Whlle "descrvlng of sympathy," It says, "sho Is to n great degree tho vlctlm of nn unfortunnte tempera- ment." nnd "woul_ evldently bo moro than half mls-erable ln the most fav- orcd of life's clrcumstances." No iloubt this Is tho strlctly correct and moral vlew to take: But tt ls about as effectlvo as tho cheery "All Is for tho best" to the torn, rackcd and passlon- ately protestlng heart whlch, for tho moment at lcast, knows better. It loesn't ln tlie least help peopfc's trnglc vvoo- to nssuro them that it is all thelr Cault. Llfe happens to be n thing of nard fncts nnd condltlons, not mercly )f higli-toned theorica. It must be lvetl,* not by angels, but exactly by .hesc people who have fnults. If this .voman's temperamcnt ls her fault, so tre those of Iiundreds of thousands of .vomen exactly llke her whose storles lever get Into the newspapers; and he pertlnent thing to Inqulre ls .vhether somethlng ls not wrong with tondltlons whlch brlng so many hu- nan llves to wreck through weak- lesses that are tho common lot. If love Ie even one part llluslon, rrlnding poverty may bo accepted as he greatest dlsilluslonizer ln the vorld. Thero are no my&terles about .alslng six children ln a couplo of .ooms on ?12 or ?15 a week. This rlrl marrled fnr lov© at seventeen.. Is t her fault that ln the succeedlng .ears an lnvoluntary process has gone m ln her consciousness which has rradually transformed her husband rom knlght, paladin and klng Into a vholly lneiTectual and unadmirablo lerson who ls too feeble evon to win rom his cnvlronment enough to caro or the large famlly he has selflshly :alled Into belng? Det sterner moral- sts say thnt it is. I'erliaps thoy know ixactly how to compel the heart after inture has lost lnterest ln the matter md the rovealed man * slts shabblly Irowslng by tho kltchen stove. We should say 'that no girl of seven- een could be expected to have any mowledgo of the practlcal condltlons if llvlng, nnd very few glrls of any .ge. Bread and cheese and klssoa ounds ample lo thelr rapt vislon. and letalls connected with the purchaae if shoes are lost ln the rosy prospect. rhat wlll do for glrls who are bullt hat way, but lt wlll not do for men. -fo man has the rlght to take advan- age of a girl's tgnorance and her love o turn her into a Hfelong drudge for ils pleasure and comfort. Sooner or ater the girl is apt to nnd him out, to rct an untlnte<j vlew of his processes, md then they feel like this girl that 'hevhad no rl^'ht." Wo see here the .everse of the large and loose Roose- -elt lnjunctlon to multlply and replen- sh the earth. In a small section of a mail class of our soclety thj-t advice nay have been needed, though, of :o«rse, that ls exactly the section vhere no attentlon would ever be paid o it. Bvorywhere else tt was much vorse than urseless. We don't need to irge our young men to marry and the ¦t-st of lt. We rathcr neea to urge h'em to prove that they are economi- ¦ally fit for marrlage, to urge them to ook beyond thelr lmmedlate desires o the sobering rcsponsibllltles that ,vlll last through llfe. The age ot nlracJe Is j-ast; the ravens do not srlng food to the needy; Provldence loes-not clothe man llke the lllles of :he field. There is nothlng in the least aoble about the lrresponslble man who >oftly surrendera to hls flrst prompt- ings and flings hlmself on soclety for the rest. Love sweetens labor, lndeed, but when tho labor outlasts the love, .is it oftcn does, there ls the deuce to pay; and tt ls n good deal to expect that every clear-sighted girl wlll go on looklng up to a man oT thla sort when once she has found him out. GOOD KOIl -1IH. UNTERMTER. A day or two ago Samuel Untermyer, or >.ew York, appeared ln the court of gc-ntral sesslons as the attorney for a poor Italtan woman charged with the murder of her husband. Mr. Unter¬ myer is a famous corporatlon lawyer who has made a lot of money at tne practlce of hls profession. Hls tlme Ih worth a good deal a mlnuta. He wlll not get a cent for defendlng the Itallan woman. Nor ls tho job one, ln all probablllty, whlch he would choosa for the pleasure of it, Mr. Untermyer took I* slmply to aid the cause of Jus- tlce and to glve Ujls humble prlsone.r the same chance for her llfe that a rich and influentl&l woman would havo. This ls « Uttle incldont ln one sense, but a vory big ono lu another. Every. crlrnlnal court Judge linowa how hard lt lu to get lawyers to defend pennl- - Iess prlsonert* aricuaerl'of rrlme. It <1 tifiUftlly liceePflHiy to fall Imok lyoung nnd Irtexpetle'nced men who u entlrnly outclnssed by tho prosocttll Q attorney, You cniinot btarrie the la 0 yers partlcula/ly for this. Thelr nll r and nbllllles are for hlre, and mn r V ' of them have nll the work they can l . on tho hlgh pay bnsis. To expect tlit t lo glve ihoir timo for nothlng ls slt . pl'y to nsk them to make a eonsldor 1 blo money contrlbiition to the Sta i ln nddltion, most of them object [ crlmlnal prnotlce, nn_ would not ta! ; lt nt nny price. But no matter ho ) j reasonable their position Is, tho u fortttnate result retualnn just tho buiv Boor dofendtints-do not got the san chaiice as wcalthy d^fendniits, und tl scales Of justico shift with tho slzo the pocketbook. In New York a number of prom nent lawyers havo agreed to tako certain number of murder cases fn each year, und of these Mr. Uhter'lriyi ls the llrst to appenr. Thelr object chlelly to servo justlce, but partly, to to rwlso the general tone of crtmlni practk-e, whlch has rleterlornted larg< ly sincy the days when the mtisters ( the American liar ,wero gln(i to gi\ thelr talents tn it. Too much cannt bo said ln pruise of tho splrit of thet attorneys, who are tluts sacrltlcln thelr valunble tlme In a most unselfts andjhelpful way. There ls not a clt In America whero tlie same splr: would not confor a publlc beneflt. 1 would certalnly benellt Richmond, an we trust that we shnll come to suc a practlcal expresslon of lt here som day. THE CIIURCII-GOING MEN OF RICH MOM>. It is Rlchmond's good fortune to re celve many comp.limcnts and tribute* Few visltors come to us without beln* Btruck by somethlng unusual, ln a de slrablo and attractlve way, about tlv city. The pecullarly grntifying thtn* Is that these polnta of admlt'atlon ar. of widoly varylng sort, which Bliow: what a many-sided appeai this olt city hns. Some visltors are particular ly imprcssed by the physlcal beautj and charm of Richmond; some by thi dellghtful soclety or by tho splendl- climate; some by the uniform klndnea: and courtesy of the people; some bj the signs of stirrlng materlal progrcst and prosperlty ln a city thoy hat thought of chiefly as "hlstorlc"; other! agaln by the poaeo and orderllness o: our daily llfe, by our many objects ol interost. by any one of a dozen thingf which go' to make Richmond what it is.tho best town fo llve in ln th< Unitcd States. . To the Rev. J. T. Watts we are in- debted for calling attentlon to a new polnt, a polnt whlch provlous so- joitrners and new-comers have over- looked, and which we are very glac Indeed to see brought out ln so au- thoritative a way. Comlng here frorr Loulsvllle with a wide experience, Mr Watts reached tho concluslon that b larger proportlon of men go to churcr and Sunday school ln 'Richmond thar in any other Southern city, and honcc ln the country. More than the men oi other cltles, he finds the men of Rich¬ mond are devoted to the uses of re- Hglon. We have no doubt that Mr, Watt3 knows exactly what he ls talk- Ing about, and that hls statement ls entlrcly accurate. Maybe this explalns much of the rest that we are all so proud of. A ehurch-golng, God-fearlng lot of men ls the best Imaglnable ma¬ terlal for a city to bulld upon. Most of those features whlch glve Richmond her dletlnction among citiea aro very generally conceded. Her tnorals. however, have been often called tn question. Because thl3 city is not ready to accept reformatory experi- ments which well-meanlng amateur crusaders declare to be necessary for her soul's salvatlon, she has been freely plctured as a dreadful "whiskey city," a munlclpa! debauchee, a rotten Sodom, a den of inlquity and a cess- pool of vlces unspeakable. We Invite the attentlon of such portrait-palnters as these to the words of Mr. Watts: "And if the men of Richmond are greater churchgoers than the men of other Southern cltles. they are, of course, the greatest church attendants ln the country, for lt ls recognlzed that the men of the South are more falthful in thelr religious dutles than those of any other section of the Unlted States." We Invite thelr mlnds' eyes to turn for a moment on the plcture presented ln the Second Bap¬ tist Church last Sunday, when a single Sunday school teacher waa teachlng the gospel to a Bible class of 275 men. If thet-e are the signs of an immoral city, all our standards and criteria are aopelessly astray. Amld the roars of ulter disapproba- tion from our Brltisli cousins, we rlse to remark that tho Hou6e of Lords wore very nice clothes. John D. has heard of a "?E,000,000 r-onsplracy" to make way with him. Unless our calculatlons are mllea off, Investlgation will show that his old enemy, Hook Worm, ls back of thla soniewhero. Old Sol ls growing «o deeply at- tached to Richmond that wo lmaglne the nlghts must nearly break hls lieart. After all, Chlna ls havlng as nearly as much trouble gettlng through that loan as an ordlnary human belng would have. "Why," tnqulreg the Mllitown Ban¬ ner rather tlredly, "doesn't come en- terprising playwrlght corne along and drarnatlze that thing of Halley's?" Why. Indeed? It ought to make a pretty brlght cornety. Help.we're un- armedl H. WeHlngton Wack could not _« moro tn the way wore he drav/ing n retalner from Brofessor Matt Henson, him of tho duaky dl.sappearanco.. Wo asfiiimo that the edltor of tlie Oongresslonal rtecord ls already pre- parins a anlutatory for hls openlng l'ali number. It ls nmply proved by tho govern¬ ment ngureH thut tho Uttlo star-eyed hlondes of Hlchiiiand can crochet tho grundest Ohrlstimis mufflers that over circled a neck. IV- 11,' nyj do! :m Feople eat more than any other food product sold in packages. It's the greatest] strength maker. Are you eattng enough of it? Regular tize pudcage 10 ccnta ^ Borrowed Jtngles BALLADK OF ANV HOSPITAL. It 1b n plonsant placo, I wcen, A very plensiint plnco lo go; With Innor walla a restful green, And little beda nll lu a row. Uh, they aro whlto n» drlvon anow; I never anw a whlter shcutl iiut i'm not thluklng much of ahow. 1 do not got enough to ontl 1' havo a bed (choae "slght unscen") That sets me rolllng to and Cro, g Ui'cuuso tho mnttreas creops lietwcen M-tf rlhs nnd hurts my Innards so; And yot.Hfo should not move so slow, y My wlndow openB on tho street; ., But I'm too weale to jjaze below. 11 I do not got enough to oatl t All thnt I soe ls vory cioanj d Ono needs muat acarch both hlgh and lov lj To tlnd a apeck of dlrt, for o'en Tho very floors reflect n glow. That npicndor nurse la nlce, I Itnow, She looka so very clean and awoet; I llko the fat ono better, though. l do not got enough to eat! L'ENVOI. O hospltal, from top to tue My lova for you ls largo, complete; But J nm lean and lank.for, oh! I do not get enough to eatl .PucK. ______ JOKING. The Orlgin of lt. "Senator," said tho lntcrvlower. "it li rumored that you Intend to retlrn trom poll- tlcs." "Woll, well," repllod tlie Senator, "It'j tjueor how rumors start. I auppoae thlB ono gruw out of the fact that I attendod cliurcli with my wlfe last Sunday.".Cathollc stand- ard aml Tlmos. Neccasurlly Ftfie. _pid Gotrox: "What are your prospocts, young man?" Harduppe: "Fine. Your daughter has Just promised, to marry me.".Phllauelphla Itec- ord. In Many Inatances. Tenchor: "What la wlsdom?" Willle: "Wlsdom Is what othor people don't know.'.Phlladelphia Record. No Loas to Nature. Artlat (proudly): "I am taking thlB vlow from nature." Spoctator: "I don't'- Delleve naturo will mlas anythlng.".Boston Herald. Open to Suggcstlons. T*io Clorgyman: "But, my Irlend, why make uao of such abomlnable oaths?" The Motorcyclist; "Abomlnnble? Do you know uny better ones?".Harper's Weekly. Ocpends on Ilow Thcy BreaK. Little Willle: "Say, pa, what Is a brolcer?" Pa: "A broker, my son, la a man who helps others to go broke in order to keop from golng broke himself.".Chicago Xo»». 3.ENTIONED TN PASSDitl. HALLET'S comet. lt appears, "ls crown- ed with a/ hood reaembllng a (rying pan." Celestial stylea scom to be qulta aa Incomprehenslble as the earthiy variety.. Washlngton Herald. Zelaya wlll aoon be able to asslat Caatro to organlze an ex-President'a soclety..Mll- waukee Sentlnel. Now that Alabama haa gona .-ot, Mr. Bryan may eaat about for a new paramount Issue..New York Trlbuno. Next to free-trado Great Brltaln, the lit¬ tle free-trade stftte of Holland la the beat .European cuatomer of the Unlted States tn proportlon to inhabltanta..Phlladelphia Record. Cablnet ofticerB are not expected to talk much. But there are evldences of vlolent thought ln the present admlnlatratlve coun- cll..Washlngton. Star. It la feared that the Standard Oil Com- pany naj cacape the dlssolutlon order on a technlcailty, by Just buying ud the reat of the world..Detrolt Journal. HUN'TING BACO_'S LIBRAK.Y. Alleged "Clpher" Suld to Gulde SenrcU- crs ln England. A party of men and women, follow¬ lng the mlnute directlons of a clpher said to have been found ln Bacon's wrltlngs, are now,-it is reported, near the spot ln England whereT according to the revelatlons ctf tho clpher, the orlglnal manuscrlpts of the late Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans are burled. In the party are Dr. Orvllle W. Iwen, of Detrolt, an earnest Bacon- lian; Drs. W. H. Prescott and John Dane, of Boston; Mrs.'Prescott and Mrs. M. L- Belelchee. wldely known ln this clty and Brookllne. y Already by followlng the Instruo- tions of the clpher the party in Eng Iand, it is declared, has found the ae- cret chamber ln a house. which, ac¬ cording to the clpher, leads dlrectly to the rlver, and thenco D» the cllff whero Bacon's entlre Ilbrary, conslsting of manuscrlpts and books, has been con cealed from the world for nearly 800 years. The directlons were clrcumstantial and the party has found, so far a» they have gone, everything exactly ag descrlbed ln the scholar's wrltlngs or so lt Is gravely reported. In a cave on the slde of "Wasp Hill" and borderlng on the rlver they found the ledge on the face ofia cllff ac- cesslble only at certaln tldes. A cavo oak tree, cllff and other landmarka told of in the clpher were there, and the party ls more than ever convlnced that they wlll flnd the Ilbrary of the great essayiat, phllosopher, lawyer and courtler of Ellzabeth's time, and per- haps the solutlon of the Bacon-Shako. speare controversy. The party, by placlng a forty-foot ladder on tho ledge, asconded the fac? of the cllff. There they found a plecc of red tnortnr, as the clpher said they would. They have already bogun to dlc down to the cave. Under the Engllsh law the laboks be- come the proporty of Klng Edward but tho manuscrlpts tha dIsco^*brers expect to retaln..New York Tlmes. The leaka lo adver- tlsing have been pald for dearly by apme of our own staff. They liave. profited (and you will gain) through thelr experience. Richmond Advertls- Infi Artciicy, Inc. Mutual BulMlng. Itlchmond, Vlr;llnlx Establiahcd 1901. Thirtccn-Yoar-Olfl Hcir of Gran Clumccllor Fainis at Dcdication. PRINCE AT POWIS CASTLI Englisli Royalty Visiting _cen of Scott's Novel, "BeLrotlied." I1V LA SIARQUISE DE FOXTENOY, ADMIRAL of tho Fleet Slr Joh Fiaher has been o_ligod t ubandon liis intentlon of takin the tltlo of "Lord Tliotford" o hlH elevntion to the peeraso. He hn selected this dealgnatlon, owlng to th fact thnt Tliotford llnil ls one of th country lienls bec-uotithed to hls sot Cecll, by the lato .lonlali Vavasseui tho Inherltnnco obniprlBlng, in additio 10 Uie manor of Thoifonl, thnt of Crox ton. and alao KilvurBtone Hall. Sl John, howovor. after havlng Intlmat.e to tho Royal ColJogo of Heralds hl Intentlon of styllng himself Lord Thet ford, was ln duo eoOrse notlllcd b Carter Klng-at-Arms thnt the tltlo I; question already beloitged to tho Duk of (.ti-nfton, whoso vitcounty of Thot ford dated from 107*;, and accordlngi- Slr .lolin has rusolved to atyie hlmaei "Lord i-'lahcr of Kilvorstono Hall," am It is under tlils dealgnatlon that ln has taken hls sent ln the upper cham her of the nntional Icglslaturo. Tho vlscounty of Thetford, I ma* add, was besto'.ved upon llenry Behnet who died as Earl of Arllngton. Hli honors wero Iniierlted by hls daugh ter, Lndy Isabella, who marrled thi llrst Duko of Orat'ton, natural son o Charles II. by Barbara Viillers. Duch ess of Cloveland, and on tho death o tho Duchess of Gratton tlie earldon of Arlington nnd tho vlscounty o Thetford pas.sed to her aon, the scconc Duke of Grafton. There Is always some trouble ln con- noctlon with tho choice of a tltlo by t now peor. When lt Is borno ln mlni that, all told, there are nearly LOOt peers, and that many of them have ai many as n dozen title**, lt wlll rendllj be understood that a large number o; numea, from which n newly createc member of tho upper house rnlght wlsi to make a selection, have already beer pre-empted, and it 1b relatively ran that a tiinn ls able to obtaln tho dcslg- uatlon upon Whlch ho has llrst sot hl: heart- Serlous alarm ls entertalned with regard to the health of young Prlnct Bismarck. now tiiirteen years of age oldest aon of the lato Horbert Bismarck nnd grandson nnd helr of the ole chancellor. It was on the dedlcatlon of tho lat- ter's mnnuinerit. a year ago. ln Bavarla that the lad"s delicacy first becanu apparent through hla suddonly utter- lng a loud shrlek and falling to the ground in a dead fuint. while Prlnc- Bulow, wlio was standlng beslde him. was dellvering the principal address ol the day. From that tlme on the lac has never been well; and. aflllcted with some sort of chronlc nllment. whlch manlfests Itself ln ngonlzlng head- aches nnd fainting spells, has now been brought by hls mother froir Friedrichsruhe to Bc-rlln. In order tt undergo treatment by a speciallst ln a sanatorlum. The boy ls tall for hls age and very good-looking, havlng lnherltt-d hls mother'a comellness. Hc has two younger brothers.Gottfrled aged eight. and Albert, ng.d six.whe each of them bear the tltlo of count. Powls Castte. where tho Prlnco and Princess of Wales havo been spendlng the last week with the Count and Countess of Powls, li*. accordlng tc some, the "Castln of Gnrde Doloureuse' of Slr Walter Scott's "Betrothed".ths castle iield by the Norman knlgnt, Raymond Eerenger. Othera agaln in- slst that It ls ldentical with "Castell Coch." or Red Castle, whlch was the homo of the Powysland chlc-ftaln, "Gwenwyn." as Scott names him. 1 am inclined to thlnk that the latter aasumptlon ls the correct one. for Cas- tell Coch is tho name by whlch Powls Castle ia known In Welsh to this day. Moreover, the records of the castle, and of the famlly of whlch Lord Powia Is the chlef, go to show that lt waa the seat of Owen-ap-Grllflth Gwenwyn, the last Welah soverelgn prince of Powls of Powysland. The latter's descend- ants havlng become extinct In the male llne, tlie castle passed, through the dlstaff side of the house, to the Her- borts, a Junlor branch of the house, of which Lord Pembroke Is the chlef. There wero Herbert Earls of Powia, Marquesaes of Powls, and even a Duke of Powls, who played a role at the court of St. Germain after the depo- sltion and extle of James II. The great Lord Cllve'6 aon marrled tho only slster and aole heiress of the last of the Herbert Lords of Powls, and on becoming through this unlon the owner ot Powls Castle, and of all the Powls property, wu3 promoted to the earldom of Powls of tlie present cre- ation. Tne Lord Powia of to-day is a great-great-grandaon of the vlctor of the battle of Plassy, the famous sol- dler to whom. more than anyone else, belongs the title of founder of the Brltlsh Indian emplre. EJaeh of the eldest sons of the Earls of Powls ol the present creation la'known as Lord Clive, untll he aucceeds to" the famlly honors. Powls Castle ls full of lnterestlng rcllcs and marvelous, Indian curlos, brought from the Or^ent by the flrst Lord CUve, who, it may bc remember- ed atormed Calcutta and lnrllcted con- dlgn punishment on lts ruler for the atroclty known ln hlstory as "the Black Hole of Calcutta." There are many lnterestlng: thlngs at Powls Cas¬ tle, not the least among them belng the stato bed-chamber occupled by the Princess of Wales during her vlslt last week. and which was tenanted ln 1644 by Charles I. whon he sought refuge at the castle. The late Earl Powls, an uncle of the preaent peor, was a somewhat ecoentrlo tndlvldual, and his entire life may be said to have been overshadowed by the fact that he had accidentally kllled hls .father, the second earl, whlle out shootlng. He was not on partlcularly goods terma with hls nephew and helr, and when the latter, as George Her¬ bert, marrled the famous beauty, MIsb Vlolet Lane Fox, they had extremely little on whlch to Uvo^ In fact, their clrcumstances at flrst were very stralt- ened. Before many months had passed the late earl dled very snddenly, and the young couple found themselves all at once ln possesslon of a very large fortune. The lato earl, among other odditles, had a passlon for hoarding thlngs ln out of tho way places, and the most amuslng stories are told of the extraordlnary dtscoverles of hld- den treasure made by Lorrl arid Lady Powls when they flrst took possesslon of the castle after thoir unclo's death. Rooma that had been unopened for half a century or more were Invostl- gated, and many preolous thlngs, ln the shape. of old plate, enporb jewels and valuable palntlnga, of the exlstence of whloh no one had the sllehteBt Idea, were brought to llght. Lady Powia remalns to this day a very beautiful woman, with golden hair. a perfect flgure and a very smll- Ing faca, Prlor to her marrlago sho wus subjected to tho moat extraordl¬ nary persecution on the part of an tn¬ dlvldual of the natyio of Randall, a gentleinan by blrth, thoug-h not by brc-diiig, who fell vlolently ln love with her. She was unable to move out of the house without belng ahnoyud by hla porslstent and unwolcomo atten- t|ons, and so importunate dld ho be¬ eomo that her mother, Lady Conyors, waa repeatedly forced to Invoke tho nsaistance of the pollco, and to cnuse hls arrest. Ho sufCered no less than tliroe dlfforent terms of Imprlsonrnont with hard Inbor for tltus offendlng, and when last charged with the ol'fense was A Health-Guarantee to be Found ln No Other Water, Because: I .The ONLY Water put up in STERILIZED bottles; 2.The ONLY Water--Domestic or Foreign .which is-NEVER put in a bortle that has been used before. The World's Best Table Water Daily Queries and Answers Addrea* all rnra mnnlcntlon* for thl» colamn to Query ISdltor, Tlrnes- DlftpiitcJt. No mnllifmnticiil praljleinh .III be noSved, no colna or itampa vnlued nnd no denlern' nnmeaj «»IU lin jrivrn. 3 .MitMni: n liook. Where and to whom must I applj for lnforitiatlon and partlculars tt write n book? WILLIAM. Llndsay, Va. This nll depcnds upon what klnd ol book. Some men have the way ol wrltlng them wlthout Informatlon frorr nny one and wlthout tho pcrmls-slon ol tho BUfferlng public.^. lf you wlll tei: us what klnd of book you wlsh tc write we wlll be glad to help you. Ilrnd Llne Menmireinentst. Wlll you klndly deflne tho terms ap- plled to a head llne on board of n shlp, such as inark8 and deops; alac the way a head llno ls marked? AMATEUR YACHTSMAN. The hand hoad llne ls marked at onr fathom with a toggle; at two and twelve fathoms with two ntrlp3 -o( leather; at threo and -thlrtoen with thruo strlps; at llve and flftoon with a whlte riiff: at seven and aoventecn with a red rag; at ten with a plece of leather with ono hole ln lt; nt twenty with a pleco of leather having two holes. Coaptlng lines and deep-sea lines aro marked allke.nnmely, at U-n fathoms with a blt of llne knotted once; at twenty with n llne having hut two knots. etc., each lntcrmedlate flve fathoms belng marked by a blt of llne wlthout the knot; at 100 fathoms ls plnced a blt of red; at 20.0 a blt of white, and at 300 a blt of bluo bUBt- Ing. Addrpsscd of Ajnertrnn IVotnblea. Wlll you klndlv furnlsh mo wltli tho nddreaaes or the followlng partles: Mrs. E. H. Harrlman, MrH. P.usscll Sage. Miss Ilelcn Oould, Andrew Carneglo, John D. Rockcfellf-r nnd James Patton, tho great whoat spcculntor? W. P. B. Mrs. E. If. Harrlman. 1 East Firty- flrst Street; Mrs. Rusjsell S.apo, 606 Flfth Avenue; Miss llelen Gould, 579 Flfth Avenue: Andrew Carnegle, 2 East Nlnety-drst Street; John D. Rockef^I- ler, 4 West Flfty-fourtli Street. Mr. Patton's addrens does not appear ln uny of the dlrectorles of notables. The Snme Money Klnc*. P. H., Clifton KorRe. Va.: Your ouery ls answered in the reply to W. P. B- I.liiroln Pennles. Pleuse tell mo If Llncoln pennles with the Inltlnls on them are of any more vnlue than pennles. and lf so. where can they be sold? M. G. Ltncoln pennles comrnand no prom- lum at preaont. No Dcnlera' Ninnes Glven. Subscrlber. Nnahvllle. N. C: If you wlll aend a self-addres3cd, stamped envelope to this ofllce wo wlll en- deavor to give you the information you deslre. Dealers' names cannot bo prlnted ln this column. ffrilt the Btsliop. I have a brother Uvlng ln Savannan, and I am very anxlous to hear from hlm. He is a good Cathollc. and I thlnk porhaps I mlght communlcate with hlm through the church. To whom should I write? I.NQUIRER. If you wlll write to Right Rev. Ben- jamin K. Kelley. Savannah, Oa., he may be able to give you the Information you deslre. Rejectlon of the Budget. Now that the British Lords have re¬ jected the budget, what will be the next step ln tho polltlcal crlsls ln England? READER. It ls reported that the Klng wiiy let go solely on the condltlon and tho pledge that he should betake himself to Amerlca. Lady Powls, besldea belng a peeress of the realm through her marrlage with the earl, ls Ukewlse a peeress'ln her own right as holder of the anctent barony of Darcy de Knaj-th. Thla peer- age, created January 27, 1331, has, thanks to lta descent through the fe- male llne, been held in turn by the Lords Conyers, by the Earls of llolder- nesse, by the Dukes of Leeds and by the Lano Foxes. On the death pf Sackvllle Lane Fox, twelfth Lord Con- yers and fifteenth Lord Darcy of Knayth, wlthout male lasue, hls peer- ages fell Into abeyance. which was i--rinlnated by the crown ln the follow- fng fashlon: The baronles of Conyers and of Fauconberg were asslgned to hls elder daughter, wlfe of the fourth Earl Qf Yarborough, whlle the barony of Darcy de Knayth was allottfcd to hls younger daughter, VIolet, Countess of Powls. Several English works of reference state that on Ludy Powls's death her barony.wlll go to her daugh- ter Instead of to her son. Thla ls not the case. It ls her son, young Lord Cllve, the future Earl of Powls, who wlll on hls mother'B death at once suc- ceed to her peerage of Darcy de Knayth, and should she predecease hor husband, will thua tako hls seat in the House of Lords durlng hls fatherrs llfetlme. The town house of Lord and.. Lady Powls ls 45 Berkeley Square, which was also the Lohdon resldence of the great Lord Cllve. The latter's coun¬ try seat, which he built for himself at a coBt of -$500,000, was Claremontr which has long slnce passed Into the possesslon of tho relgnlng famlly, was used by Queen Vlctoria for her honey- moon, was afterwards lent by her to Klng Louls Phllippe and Queen Marlo Ajnelle after they had been drlveh out of France hy tho Paris revolutlon of 1S48, and ls now the home of tho wldowed royal Duchess of Albany. But Lord Cllve's arms stlll appear on the pedlment of the Corlnthlan columns which constltuto a feature of the fa- cado of Claremont. (Copyrlght. 1909, by the Brentwood Company.) STATE PRESS Fortlfylng the Gapei. Tho plans for'a great fortlflcatlon at tha month o( tho 'phnsapaako having auoh a powerful aponBor aa tho Prosldant of tha Unltod Statea. wo ballovo. will atand a flrst rate chauco of belnz ena'ctod Into law, Thla wlll be a mnttor of congrntulatlon, not only to thla aoptlon, but to tho ontlro nutlon. Tho need o'f auch b forttdcatlon haa been apparonl fur ygars, and If thla nutlon had becomo Involved with a stiong lSuropuan dlssolvo Parllament und order a gen¬ eral election. If tho Lords oro no- feated, tho budget will pass, und strin- gent leglslation may be enacied very much llmiting the powers of the upper house. Ilrown Unlverslty, Is Brown Unlverslty, In Rhoiio Isl¬ and, under the control of nny denomt- nation? STUDENT. No, althougK" it formerly waa under tho dlrection of the BaptlBts. JVesrro Popiilnllon tn Vlrglnln. What purcentaKO or Vlrglnla'B popu¬ lation Ib made up of n<*groe"i7 .', :_ , ClTIf.EN. At the last cenHus the percentage was 35.6. Uncle Siiiii'n Debt.' What In the total of tho lntereat- bearing^debt of the government? RKADER. I*rom last roports, $397.253,r»*M*. This has probably been Increased by Pann- ma bonds leaticd wlthin the last fo-r>v months. Anierienn Surety MulMIiii;. What Is the helght of the American Surety Building. on Broadway, in New York? r. _. 306 feet 1 lnch. ConitlMiitlnnnl A mrnilmr-nt ln Alalinma. Does the dofent of the conatltutional amendinent In Alabama me-tn lliat tho State wlll go vtrot? VIROIKIAN, No. Tt inorely menns thnt the peo¬ ple declino to mnke prohlbltlon a part of the orgatilc State law. \Vngp-E_riier» ln tlie Unlted States. To aettle a dlspute. wlll you pleaBe toll me how mnny wage earners thero aro _n proportlon to the whole who earn $25 nnd more per weok? C. Accordlng'to Census Bulletln No. 33. the pcrccntage waa 1.6. Of course. this does not apply to profosslonal clasBes or to business mc-n not on a salary. TelcgrnpU JIHrngr. What is the total mllenge of the Western Union TelegTaph Company? READER This company controla 20S.477 mllea of poles and cablo3 carrylng 1,359,430 mlles of -wlro. Senntnrn Cninmln* nnd Dolllver. Please tell me whero Senator Cum- mlns. the lnsurgent leader tn the Sen- ate, was born. How old Is he? Where waa Se-.iator Dolllver born? SUBSCRIBER Mr. Cummlns waa born near Car- mlchaels, Pennaylvania, February 15, 1850. Senator Dolllver was born In Preaton county, Va., now West Vlr¬ glnla, February 6. " S58. Coliimbln I'nlvcraily Colors. Please tell me what are the oolora of the Columbla Unlverslty. *' A READER. Llght blue and whlte. Slnter Fund. What ls the total amount of the Slater fund for negro cducatlon? N. $1,000,000. Hnlley*.» Comet. Vvhere wlll Halley's comet flrst ap¬ pear? V. M. The comet ia now in the constella- tion Taurus. and wlll probably be ln the same locallty when observed by the naked eye. power, wo should havo been glven an object Icsson that would havo been appalllnjj. The neglect of tho propor defense of the gatewny of the Chesapeake has been a men- aco for a century. It ls golng to bo cor- rectod very noon, unless the -gna ar* read wrong. presldent Taft has statsd plalnly that no timo should be lost n the croat'on of a verltable Olbraltar at tho gateway of the Capes. and ho >vllt ln all probabllity use hls Influence to eecuro early action by Congress favorable to tho aohemo..Ports- moulh Star. ilore i'ralse for Swanson. . The tr'buto o[ Super'ntendrnt J. T>. B_- gk-ston to Governor Swanson, publisbod on this page yesterday, la vory g-ratlfylng to tho Governor's frlonds and admlrers throughout the State. Mr. Eggleston U ln posit'o.i to know what the Governor has done for cducatlon, and his trlbuie Is more- ly a statement of fact. Governor Swanson has not been -lartlal ln hls admlnlstratlon. Ho haH not pushed one department of tho publlc sorvice at the expenso of another.-' He has patd close attentlon to all and haa aided all, and has given tho Stato an all- round admlnlstration. Undor h s guldance the public service is lmproved In every dl¬ rection and tho whole Stato ls better for tlin work that he has dono. Swan«m wlll ii.-ivo the office with the respect and good wlll of tha publlc and moro popular than evor..Newport News Tlmes-IIerald. Newport Newtt _"rei_ht Troubles. Richmond ls protei>tln_ agalnst tho alleged dlscrimlnation of rallroad companlos agalnst her shlppers in tho matter of handllng freight after lt arrlvos in the city. Refusal of the companles to aocommodate shlppors ln tho matter of carload lots, nnd to trans- port cara freo of cost to prlvato sldlngs. forms the basle of tho oomplnlnt. This la nothjng compared with the complalnt New¬ port News has agalnst tho rallroads. The handllng or freight aftor lt arrlvos, though of groat importnnce to tbe Richmond shlp¬ pors, Is a small matter compared to what tho companles do to our'frolght beforr. lt gots hore. Among other thinsa. lt haa been proven that it costs soveral tlmes ns much to Blilp certain products from tho trucktng sectlons of North Carollna to Newport News an it doea to shlp them to Boston,.New¬ port News Press. to get a bottle of H-istetter's Stomach Blttet*8 when you first riotice any Bymp- totns of Stomach, Liver or Bowel Troublea and you will save yourself a lot of unnec- essary suffering. -.. is compounded from ln_rediorits bost adapted for cui'iiifi such ailments and for over 56 years has been very successkil. Try a bottle foFHcnrtburn, Belchhig, Bloating, Poor Appetitc, Indlgestiou, Dyspepsia, Colds, Grlppe and Malaria.