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Naval News from Arizona From the important maritime emporium of Nogales, Ariz., comes the information that a Mexican federal gunboat has been destroyed by a bomb from an aeroplane. This is almost as thrilling as a cable Btory that the Rus- - slan navy, while steaming across Siberia, was intercepted at Irkutsk by a flock of Japanese destroyers and Bunk to the bottom of the tertiary stratum. It suggests the propriety of Great Britain creating a new Sahara bat

tleship division, to navigate the Africa sands and guard the Pillars of Hercules. Nogales as a port of call

for naval bulletins and their manufacturers shows us a

new development in sea power. Philadelphia Times. And most of the news sent out from Nogales

und other southwest border towns is about as ac

curate as would be a London dispatch telling of the formation of a Sahara battleship fleet. For instance the report of the storming of Madera, Mexico, and the besieging of the American colony there has proved to be, after receiving scarehead publicity all over the United States, liberally sprinkled with southwestern exaggerations. What Is J. Bull's Reason? Great Britain's refusal to exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition inclines the New York Bun to believe that the real cause for such action, although denied by the British foreign office, lias been inspired by the Panama canal tolls controversy. If such is the real reason the Sun also is not inclined to criticise our transatlantic cousins. The Sun says: It wHl be regrettable if the two leading commercial nations of Europe are not represented at the Panama-Pa-clfto exposition at San Francisco in 1915. So far as Great Britain is concerned the reasons for her abstention as set forth by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and reported in a dispatch from our London correspondent in yesterday's Sun are sufficiently cogent. The trade of Great Britain with the Western States of this country is relatively small; the expenses in transportation to the manufacturers exhibiting and to the taxpayers would be exceedingly heavy, and it is more than doubtful whether the benefits attained would be at all commensurate with the outlay. Nevertheless one cannot altogether avoid an uncomfortable feeling that the official explanation, sound as it is, involves some expression of the truth, that it is In fact, designed to save the necessity of calling attention to the fact that there exists In England a strong feeling cf resentment over our treatment of the Panama Canal tolls question, and that public opinion in England feels disinclined to take part in a celebration over what is virtually a slap in her face. England cannot be accused of lack of patience in this matter; there has been no popular clamor and no Jingo talk; the feeling, indeed, at the start of the controversy was one of pained surprise rather than of fierce indignation, and there was every disposition to believe that, with the better part of public opinion in this country sensitive to the breach of good faith that was contemplated, the wrong would be righted with as little delay as possible. When, however, after five months of office the new Administration has made no attempt to take up this question, we can hardly be surprised if England feeTs that ehe has not been treated with quite the consideration that is her due. The Administration has been busily engaged over other important matters, and It is understood to be the wish of the President to have one thing settled at a time and the most important matters disposed of first; but in the view of England an issue that but for good sense and forbearance on both sides might have given rise to an acute crisis appears to be not less important than affairs with which the Administration is dealing at the present time.

SOCIAL CERTAINTIES

"THE LAW OF SOCIAL GRAVITATION." fN THAT "golden little book of his," "Physics and

I Politics," Walter Bagehot has this to say about "pro-

X gross": "Our habitual instructors, our ordinary conversation, our inevitable and ineradicable prejudices,

tend to make us think that 'Progress' is the normal fact in human society, the fact wbfh we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did no see. But history refutes this. The ancients had no conception of progress; they A A nnf an mnr) DQ T" t:s 1 i" t ilia i i n t i t -

I J did not even entertain the idea. Oriental 12 nations are just the same now. (Written a. .41 in 1872.) Since history began they have

always been what they are. Savages, again

do not improve; they hardly seem to have the basis on which to build, much less the material to put up anything worth having. Only a few nations, and those of European origin, advance; and yet these think seem irresistibly compelled to think such advance to be inevitable, natur al, and eternal." This last sentence of the gifted and astute sociologist hits us harder than any other nation; we have surely been the apostles of the idea that progress, at least OUR progress, is going to come whether or no. Our campaign orators and our Fourth of July spread-eaglers have made oratorical capital out of this conviction since the ringing of Liberty Bell. We wave all talked of "America's niani Test and inevitable destiny," and we have all belie vec that nothing, not even his own laziness or weakness could ever possibly conquer Uncle Sam. But now, at last, a change is beginning to creep over the habit of our thinking; we are ceasing to be so cock sure and jingoistic about our "manifest destiny"; The Fourth of July orators aren't in the habit of making the eagle scream as much as formerly. Perhaps the reason for this-Is that we are coming tc see that progress is after all not inevitable but very mucl, depends on how we behave ourselves and how much w are willing to struggle and toil at the business of naticna: ly getting on. To a certain extent our old unbound optimism was a part of our youtbfullness and nativ. good spirits, but to an even greater extent it has leake; down from the scientists through our teachers and writ

ers as a result of the firBt blush of the theory of evok tion. To this day there are thousands who conside "evolution" and "progress" as being interchangeable terms. But nothing could be a greater fallacy than this. Evo lution may just as well mean moving "backward" as "for ward." There is nothing in the nature of things to guar antee that progress will be made. Such a notion is noth ing but a modern form of the old theological dogma o predestination and fatalism. Evolution is the term wt use to describe the fact that living beings change to fi their environments which are also constantly changing If a determining factor in the living conditions make fo retrogression the living species must respond to it will nilly. Were some power to cut off our present food suj ply ninety per cent we should find in a generation that we had slipped back to the level of our cannibalistic ances tors. Progress is the fruit alone of ceaseless vjgilance anc cont.nuous effort. We are like boatmen rowing up stream; the moment we lie down on our oars we begin tslip back. The power of gravitation takes hold of m and decay sets in. This tendency of a society to retrograde the moment struggle ceases is one of the most astonishing and ar resting phenomena in our world. It seems that each generation, each individual, must in its beginning take up anew the conquest of nature and the planet. Aftei the Indian youth has completed his high school cours and gotten out from under the grip and influence o his teachers he often goes back to the wigwam and let: his "culture" fall from him like a cloak. When the slavt loses his hope of freedom he succumbs to his fate and becoves a slave in spirit. Robert Hunter has clearly shown that the dividing line between paupers and povertystricken persons is that the former have stopped strug gling and yielded to the grip of social gravitation whil. the latter still keep their nerve and fight agead. The people of Israel cried for the fresh-pots of Egypt even aft er Moses had gotten them away from Pharaoh becaust they had long before lost the will to struggle and haO become merely passive and inert. To say that we are evolving is by no means to say that we are getting ahead. It may mean that we are getting behind. Evolution reveals to us the one path along which progress can be made but leaves us to do our own pro gressing. There is no way by means of which we car. enter into the promised land except by a struggle throng! some wilderness. What the gods give us we must pa;, for. In the whole concept of evolution, so far as it applies to us as humanity, the most important of all factors b all odds is just this, that while evolution among the lo er orders of life seems to be carried on in a blind, stupid wasteful fashion, with us it has come under the contro' of the will and has therefore been made conscious. That one fact alone gives the lie to the thousand-and-one theor les concerning man's own development which are basec1

on animal development. Man is an animal in the sense that he has a physiology but he is most certainly not ar animal in any phychic or social sense. And neither can

we say that human evolution must be a matter of "nature

and nature's laws." Through the use of intelligence wc are able to accomplish easily and in a brief time what na ture worked out with infinite labor through vast stretch es of time and with extreme wastefulness. In the same

way we are also able to reduce the chances of failure in our development to a minimum. For whereas nature

seems to move like a blind man, feeling her way from

point to point and almost as liable to miss as to hit her

proper path, we are able to "look before and after," tc

select our line of advance or retreat and to consciously select the means which we will use to achieve our ends. If we as a people will escape the clutches of that inevitable gravitation, that downward pull which seizes on the nation that ceases to strive we must dedicate ourselves to a never ceasing struggle, to a never ending climb. Eternal liberty is the price of progress as well as of liberty. Reasoning from an adequate and thoroughly digested knowledge of present conditions and factors we must learn to be able to take the hint which those conditions and factors offer as to the course of future advance. Coupled with this there must also go an adequate knowledge and understanding of the instruments and forces needed by us for such an advance and just what of these necessary instruments and forces are available. Over-ruling this must then come the will to ceaseless vigilance and struggle, the determined effort to push on at any price, the willingness to cut off our hand, or pluck out our eye if it hinders, the readiness to sacrifice that which Is dearest to us If need be, even our stablest appearing and most ancient institutions if demanded, and all the while, through all and in all, the consciousness that we must forever struggle in reconquest. and that a single relapse is liable to cost us the loss of all our hard won gains. We push ourselves and our society up a steep; and any lazy moment, any temporary giving up, any momentary surrender, may mean the loss and wreckage of all. "If time alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall the end be?"

PSYCHOLOGY. OF DOING THINGS Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he, with a chuckle, replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in, with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried, he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it." But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he'd begun it; With the lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin. Without any doubting or quiddit; He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you, one by one The dangers that wait to assail you; But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Then take off your coat and go to it; Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That "can not be done," and you'll do it. Lombar College Magazine.

TOINTED PARAGRAPHS

TRIED BOTH. Toledo Blade. Selecting a good canteloupe looks jusf as easy as picking out the shell under which the little pea reposes.

SOME OF 'EM STILL WORKING. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Up to the present time there has been no attempt to organize a cabinet lecture bureau.

MUST HAVE THEIR RIGHTS. Philadelphia Bulletin. Next thing those Sing Sing strikers will be demanding -rbitration under the Erdnian act.

DON'T WANT TO PLAY IN YOUR YARD

By H. B. Martin

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BUILDING PROJECT IS NOHBACTICAL Commercial Club Committee About Decides Real Estate News,

The committee on houses appointed by the Commercial club to investigate the scarcity of dwellings in this city and to consider plans for erecting more has had one meeting, at which nothing definite was decided upon, and the matter was allowed to go over to another meeting to be called soon by Chairman John L. Rupe. According to Mr. Rupe, the members of the committee do not deem the idea practical, but they have decided to see some men of capital about it, and if necessary, incorporate a company for the purpose of erecting more dwelling houses for Richmond. The Miller-Kemper company, which is putting up a large number of dwellings in this city, has been very busy this summer, having erected about twenty-live houses in various parts of the city. It Is planning for a continuance of this work. Among contracts amounting to $180,000, which were awarded on Thursday by Ohio State Highway Commissioner J. B. Marker by competitive bidding, two were awarded to a Richmond contracting firm, the Foster Construction company, which has the contracts for the Camden road in Preble county, a three-mile concrete macadam road, to cost 19,880, and the State Line road, a two-mile water bound macadam road, to be built at a cost of $12,000.

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pear to better advantage this week than in any play yet presented. The scenic equipment that will be used this week are all just the same as was used in the big production that appeared here Beeral years' ;io. 1 luring the week the regular matlneea will be given. .

At the Murray. Week of Aug. 4 "Brewster's Millions."

"Hello Bill." "Hello Bill" an original farce comedy by Willis Goodhue, will be the offering of the Francis Sayles Playem at the Murray theatre all next week v'.lh the regular matinees. "Hello Hill" is said by many to be one of the best farce comedies ever written and Mr. Sayles will give it a complete production.

Palace. In today's program the Palace presents a masterpiece in silent drama. The subject, "Little Dorritt," after Charles Dickens novel, is produced by

the Thanhouser company in two mag- J nificent parts. The leading role is i tnlron Vi V fica lVTmiHa Punlnv rria nf .

the most popular legitimate stars in America, this being her second appearance in motion pictures. Assisting Miss Fealey are the entire cast of Thanhouser players. The costuming is gorgeous and the settings are the most elaborate ever seen in a photoplay. With this is shown a Rellaivce drama "Below the Dead Line."

EMERSON IN OLD AGE.

Even His Failing Memory Could Not Mar Hi Amiability. In Dr. J. K. Ilosmer's "The Last Leaf," there Is a pathetic picture of Emerson In his old age, when his memory had failed while his other faculties remained strong: "I had as a fellow guest a man who had long been Intimate with him and whom he was very glad to see. Talking after tea in the library, Emerson said: 'I want to tell you about a friend in Germany, nis name I cannot remember,' and he moved to and fro uneasily in his effort to recall it. "This friend with whom we have taken tea tonight, whose name also I cannot remember' here again came a distressed look at the failure of his faculty 'I cannot remember his name either, but he can tell you of this German friend whose name I have also forgotten.' "It was a sorrow to see the breaking down of a great spirit and his agitation as he was conscious of hla waning power. And yet. so far as I could see, it was only the memory that was going. The intellectual strength was still apparent, and the amiability of his spirit was perhaps even more manifest than in the years when he was in the full possession of himself. "This came out in little things. He was overanxious at the table lest the hospitality should come short, troubled about the supply of butter and apple eauce. and soon after I saw him on his knees on the hearth taking care that the fire should catch the wood to abate the evening coolness that was gathering in the room.'

"Brewster's Millions." The Francis Sayles Players will enter into their 14th week at the Murray theatre tonight when they will offer the beautiful production of "Brewster's Millions." This is the longest run a stock company has ever had in this city and considering the extreme warm weather the business has been great. Tonight and during the balance of the week Mr. Sayles, as Monty Brewster, will be seen at his best, in fact each member of the company will ap-

To Be Produced Soon. "The Traveling Salesman," "In Wyoming," "The Battle," "A Woman's Way," "At The Old Cross Roads," ind "The Regeneration" will be prcFcr.ted at the Murray theatre by the Fraecis Sayles Players at an early date. Each of these plays have been successful and Mr. Say led will give them elaborate productions.

MASONIC CALENDAR !

Monday, August 4. Richmond Coramandary. No. 8, K. T. State conclave. Tuesday, August S Richmond lodge. No. 1&, F. and A. M. Stated meeting. Wednesday, August 6 Webb lodge. No. 24. F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work In Fellow Craft degree. HEARD IN RICHMOND

A Useful Picnic Stove. Picnic cooking. If In inexpert hands, will undoubtedly be better over a stove than an open fire, states an article in "Picnic and Camping" in the June Woman's Home Companion. But you cannot carry a stove on a picnic or camping expedition, nor need you. A piece of thin sheet iron thirty Inches long by' eighteen Inches wide is all the stove yon want. This, laid across two little banks of earth with the fire between or two logs with the fire between, forms an excellent stove and not only makes it unnecessary to wait for embers for good cooking since the flames cannot reach the food throngh the sheet iron but is in Itself an excellent griddle for making toast and flapjacks.

About Stamps. Do not lick stamps. The best way Is to moisten the envelope and not the gtamp. When stamps stick together do not soak them apart, but lay them on a smooth surface with a thin paper ever them and pass a hot iron quickly ver them. This separates them wtthsut destroying the gum.

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Murray ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles Players In "Brewster's Millions" The best and most finished production ever put on by a Stock Company. PRICES Matinees Tues. Thurs. Sat. 10 and 20c Nights at 8:1510, 20. and 30c Next Week -HELLO BILL"

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