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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

triton and devoutness OF heart. Let
us not be too greatly disturbed by the
connections and strlfes of the pass
ing time but may our spirits dwell
with Thee in those still depths Of
the eternal life where there Is calm
and peace for ever and eVr ANN
Rev. r. A. Armstrong.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

The will of the late Horace Il. Silli-
man, of Cohoes. y. Y. bequeaths half
of the testator's Million dollar estate
TO William X. Moody, Of Northfeld,
Mass, son Of the late Dwight L.
Moody. In addition TO Mr.. Moodys
legacy Of more than $4,000 there are
various public requests. The Board
OF Home Missions Of the Presbyterian
Church Of the United States is given
ten thirtieths of the other half OF Mr..
Sl1imans estate: the First Presby-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15
Religious News From Everywhere

! terrain church of Cohoes. three thir-
tieths. Hamilton College, two thtr-
ticths; the Cohoes Young Mems Chris
tian Association. two thirtieths, Va
rious Presbyterian organizations are
given substantial sums
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15
Notaa.

The following are some Sunday
school statistics for North Amertcas
Sunday schools 1885; officers and
teachers. i,622.Sso. pupils. 13,461.27A
Total enrolment 15.0S4,I64.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

Having "a good time" is all right, but
when out OF the regular working hours
1t takes all your time, II means IN
empty head and heart
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

The laughing girl who can be heard
clear across the street is not refined
enough
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

4. The character OF human works
Wen love TO create. They wish TO be
like GOO IN their ability TO make
things Our power 20 create Is limit
n ed To discoveries, TO the formation
of new combinations, to the Use OF
material already In existence. and to
limitations of nature. and yet we love
70 speak of our works as the ere
Ations OF genius. In the work Of ami
mails the mechanism is perfect. * tn
the product of instinct. force which
can only work one way and according
{ to unalterable laws. and which shows
no real progress from year TO year
~ the result Of experience: but the
works OF man are the products Of
thought. of reason, OF experience. and
OF art Man incarnates his soul In
his handiworn. What a world OF hu-
nsHn keings are made to live and act
and teach lessons OF truth and vsr-
tue In the .'Iliad" and in Paradise
D Lost" What do we learn from THE
Emancipation" and The Last Judg-
naent?" What are, the lessons Of the
Apollo Belyidere and the Venus do
Milo. OF the Parthenian and st. Peters
- 4Romei
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

The Biblical Recorder. the organ OF
the Baptists OF North Carolina, Is
seventy-five years old, and celebrated
the fact last week by publishing an
anniversary number containing CON
gratulations and good wishes from
many of our UNCONVENTIONAL period
Gala
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-15

The Baptists of Texas are planning
for Women's Training School in
connection with the Southwestern
Theological Seminary at Fort Worth,
DIR. Len G. Broughton. of Atlanta.
Ga, has succeeded In raising the 49,
600 required for the completion of his
great Tabernacle building enterprise.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
THE HEIGHT OF TREES.
How Growth Is Influenced by Location
Difficult of Correct Measurement.


A tree 100 feet high, accurately meas
ured, is not as tall as it looks. There are
not many trees in the gardens and parks
of this country that exceed 100 feet, not
w~lthstanding the records of reputedly
much higher trees than this. We have
been told that the highest tree in Kew
gardens carefully measured with a tape
was 1Oo feet and that the tallest pine, a
COrsican, near the entrance, is SO feet.
There are some fine specimens of Atlas
and Lebanon cedars in these gardens,
but not one of them is 20 feet high. A
larch that had been drawn up by sur
rounding beeches and was looked pom
as a giant was blown down IN 1907 and
it proved to be 100 feet long. Beech,
among the tallest of our trees, rarely
reaches 100 feet, though DR.. Henry
measured one in Kilkenny in 194 which
was 1T feet. The famous d%eciduous cy-
press, Tarodium distichum, in Syon
park, Brentford, is, according to Mr.. Ell
ives, ITO feet high, the tallest OF its III
in Europe.
The same authority gives 1O5 feet as
the height of the tallest horse chestnut
he had seen, though there are others es-
timated to be even higher than this. The
tallest walnut is from 80 feet to So feet,
and the tallest black walnut, at Marble
hill. T~wickenham, was SO feet -lel- when
measured Dy LIZ. houIy III ICOO' Jan
nave been measured up to 100 feet, but
they are quite exceptional, 100 feet be-
ing above the average for II tallest
oaks.
The height of trees is Influenced by the
company they grow in. Tor example, a
larch growing in the open would most
likely fail to reach 100 feet in height,
whereas larches growing close together
or pressed upward by other trees have
peer known to exceed 13O feet in this
country. The California giant trees OF
the ~wellingtonia owe their great height
to the same influence. Not even in that
country would this tree have grown to
800 feet or more if it had not been forced
to grow upward because it could not
grow outward.
According to Mr.. ELVES, one of the
tallest wellingtonias in this country is at
Fonthill Abbey, which in 1906 measured
certainly over 100 feet and probably
1O5 feet high This is at least 10 feet
higher than the tallest at Strathieldsaye.
1t is next to impossible to ascertain the
correct height of a tree by any other
means than that of careful measure
ment; there are, we know, ingenious con-
t~rivances for doing it otherwise, but they
are not reliable. Of course the approx
innate height may be near enough and
vet be a long way out.-The Field.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
THE HINDU WIDOW.
Indian Author Explains the Sacrifice of
Suffice,

SASS~
Contrary to the usual western belief,
said Sarath Kumar Ghosh, the Indian
author, Indian women are more highly
esteemed by their husbands even than
their western sisters. The Indian is
taught v%eneration for women from his
earliest bOyhood. Any u%nkindness to a
wife is supposed to be swiftly followed
by misfortune n a mans prayers are
of no. effect unless his wife joins in them
with all sincerity. At a coronation the
presence of the sovereign's wife is of
the utmost Importance. Should she be
unable to appear a statue of her must
be placed at her husbands side. Other
wise the ceremony is not legal.
The standard of morality, the lecturer
asserted, is higher in India than in Eng
land. The Indian, it is true, is legally
allowed to take a second wife should his
first marriage prove childless, but it is
most rare to heal of an Indian aValllng
himself of this privilege.
When the Princess of Wales visited
India she was regarded with the great
est generation, not merely for her charm
of manner or the fact hat one day she
would be Empress of India, but for the
fact that she had five sons.
Death was not forced on any widow,
the lecturer asserted. They were free to
choose for themselves. If they did not
feel called upon to make the sacrifice of
suffice they were always at liberty to re-
fuse. However, should they desire to
sacrifice themselves the act brought them
a crown of martyrdom, earning for them
selves the title of "Devi." 1t was an err
ror to think they were burnt alive. A
cup of poison was drunk and cremation
followed.
Finally Mr.. Ghosh related that a pre-
diction calling down disaster III a man
passed harmlessly over a woman, her
moral standing being the higher of the
two. The great diamond of India, the
Kohinur, carried with it a curse to the
effect that it's wearer would rule over
India but die a sudden death. A wom-
an might wear the jewel safely. The late
Queen Victoria had it placed in the royal
crown, but now, said the lecturer, it
adorns the one made for Queen Alex
andra by the order of the King, to whom
the prophecy was sent from India.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

expense of gathering is not so great and
the income an acre is nearly as much.
The thrashing continues for only a short
time, and costs a moderate amount
The cucumber thrasher is Il peculiar
looking machine. 1t is built on a wagon
like frame, with great wide wheels, and
is drawn by two horses. At the rear of
the machine is stationed the little twO-
horsepower gasoline engine which oper-
ates the machinery of the rhrasher. Just
in front of the engine l. the crusher.
which looks something siEe a common
cider mill. 1t contains two iron rollers
moving together and crushing the Gu
cumbers as they pass between them.
Against the crusher is set the frame
work containing the real seeder. When
the cucumbers are crushed they pass out
into this large cylindrical seeder, the
outer surface of which is a wire netting
with meshes large enough to permit the
seed to drop through into a vat below,
but holding back the crushed cucumbers.
AS the cylinder slowly revolves the seeds
drop through the netting into a box.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
A Food Faddist's Fix.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was congrat-
ulated in his office recently on the fact
that he, like the poet Maeterlinck and
other famous men, has taken to the mo-
torcycle.
"And has motorcycling benefited your
health?" his congratulator, a journalist,
ventured to ask.
II think it has," Mr.. Rockefeller re-
piled. L won't ask you, though, to take
note of my clear eye and good color, or
I might find myself in the food faddist's
fix.
"A food faddist was lecturing to a
large audience on the marvellous results
to be obtained from chewing u or
eating nut butter, or something of that
kind. He was not a very imposing per-
son physically, but, swelling out his
chest, he slapped it thrice with his palm
and cried:
".Friends, two years ago I was a walk
ing skeleton, a haggard, miserable wreck.
Now, what 10 you suppose brought
about this great change IL meY
"He paused to let his words sink in,
and a voice asked: q
What change? '"-New York Trib-
une.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Good Tune in WRONG Church.

According to a story told by the Rev.
J. Ed Shaw of Hammonton, N. j.,
while OH a visit to this city the other
afternoon, a man should always adapt
himself to local conditions if he wants
to slip along without falling over his
feet.
Some time ago, Mr.. Shaw said, a little
colored congregation over in Jersey in
vited a preacher friend of his to occupy
their pulpit at the coming Sunday even
ing service, and the good dominic, wish
ing to encourage the colored brethren,
readily complied.
Reaching the church, where he was
the only paleface present the preacher
delivered a sermon full of helping adj
vice, made an eloquent prayer and Their
announced that the service would be
closed by singing the hymn, Wash Me
and I Will Be Winter Than Snow At
CATION rose to his feet.
look heah,, p a;11 Ss said he, i'm
but I rise to a point OBJ ordah."
"What is it?" asked the preacher, with
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Nigeria.

The estimated area of southern Nige-
ria is 1900 square miles, that of north
ern Nigeria, the hinterland of southern
Nigeria, is estimated at 255,0OO, and the
native population of the two combined
at from 100000 to 20,000,O0O, yet
any effort at scientific agriculture or min
ing is confronted by the labor question.
The wants of the natives are few, and
on account of their primitive custom of
acquiring only personal property, and
that in the form of cattle, wives and
children, depending on the latter in old
g for support, they give little thought
to laying aside money for use in time of
illness or old age. In the far interior
traders say that the natives often re-
fuse money in exchange for their prod
ucts, gathered where they have not
sown, but will receive tobacco, spirits,
cotton goods, etc., when they desire them
for immediate USE. In some parts of the
hinterland tobacco is an absolute neces-
sity in trading with the natives.-Daily
Consular and Trade Reports.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
BELLS 1000 YEARS OLD.
Scientist Discovers Wide Variety Made
of Brass in Cave.

Andrew H. Blackiston, a New York
scientist, who has arrived from Central
America on the steamer San Jose, re-
ports the discovery in the mountains of
Honduras of a sacred cave, in which he
found a large number Of copper bells
which were made, he believes, not less
than 1000 years ago. The cave is about
fifty miles from Pimiento.
Mr.. Blackiston is taking the bells to
Washington, where he will give them to
the National museum. He found III all
about two hundred bells. They range in
size from a watch charm to a set of
chimes. Some of them are decorated
with wire work, some are cast in fan
tastic shapes and others beaten into faces
and figures. He also found a number of
spear heads, to one of which a petrified
handle is still attached. Among the bells
was a large ceremonial copper mask in
laid with turquoise.
Near the ave he found the mine from
which the copper of which the bells
were made had been taken. The mine
appeared to be very rich, but when he
told Of the discovery later it excited lit
tie interest. He was told that copper
had little value i'll Honduras.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
The "Chantecler" Fad.

London seldom has accepted any craze
from Paris as quickly as it has "Chan-
t~ecler.' No sooner did the weird feath-
er connections known as chanticler hats
appear in the gay city than they were
imported post haste INTO to E!s%ngiand in all
is most popular. 1t is a hat made of
a large black fowl with red comb worn
we'll over the forehead. The "Simone
toque'' is made of natural golden pleas
ant plumage. The white hen toque'
and the "yellow chicken toque' are 9TH
er French m~onstrosities which English
women are Fastening to buy. A pleas
ant opera cloak is a cleyerly shaped
coat with kinglike sleeves in a wonder
full combination of blue, purple and
green. Of course, there also are chan
tecler hatpins. purses, and buckles on
the market. The Merry Widow, who SO
long reigned supreme over millinery,
gowns, and novelties, must hang her
diminished head. Her day is over. The
milliners say Chantecler has given a
tremendous boom to early spring mil
linery.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
SEEDING OF cUcUMBERs.
How Machine Thrashes Great Stacks of
Crisp Vegetable.

In eastern Colorado, where most vine
crops grow ''to perfection on the irri-
gated lands, hundreds of acres of cucum-
bers, c~antaloupes and water melons are
reserved for seed by seed companies and
by farmers who grow them for the seed
houses. 1t is a common sight from the
first of October to the first Of December
to see machines in the fields of cucum-
bers and melons ~thrashing them for their
seed.
The growing of cucumbers for seed is
considered very profitable, and often the
owners clears from $500 to $3.50 all acre.
While it is possible to sell the cucumbers
to a canning factory, many farmers pre-
fer to let them remain for seed, as the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
LAKE SHORE %PROSPERS.
Declares an Extra Dividend and Conjures
Hopes for More.

The directors of the Lake Shore q
Michigan Southern railroad gave Wall
street a surprise by the declaration of an
extra dividend of 6 per cent. in addition
to the y per cent. paid for the year
which closed on January 22 last. I'm
mediately after the declaration New
York Central jumped from 1918 to 1885
on the report that the extra dividend
~foreshadows an increase in the next
quarterly dividend of New York Central.
The declaration gives the latter road an
additional $2,717,OO0. The extra divi-
dend was the result of heavily increased
dividends On subsidiary stock. The prob
ability is that the dividend for 1910 will
be Is per cent. Last month the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, which is controlled
by Lake Shore, declared an extra divi-
dend of 40 per cent. A few days there
after the Mahoning Coal company, also
controlled by Lake Shore, declared an
extra dividend of so per cent. The gross
earnings of Lake Shore during 1909
showed an increase of $6,O44. 600. The
New York Central controls $45,2S9,20O
of the $49,466,5OO Lake Shore stock out
standing.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
The Bartlett-Patten Business.

James Patten, the Chicago cotton
broker, will soon change the Bartlett
Patten partnership into a corporation.
All the present stockholders will remain
and Frank P. Frazier will be added. The
wealth represented in the company will
be as follows: William H. Bartlett, 3d.
George w. Patten. $4,000, 900; Frank p.
Frazier, $4,O00.OO0; Charles B. Pierce,
81 ,OOO,O 600. w. H. Hudson. George E..
Fuller and Edward D. w. Pogue, other
members of the concern, are also
wealthy. The private fortune of the
members total close to S40,0OO,0OO.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
King Manuel's Love Affairs.

The matrimonial affairs of King Man
ned of Portugal are in the hands of two
of the most skillful matchmakers in Eu-
rome, These are his mother, Queen
Amelia. and his friend, King Edward OF
England. The gracious Amelia is
at Biarritz and King Edward mas
Just joined her for the purpose OF
King. Though it is said on excellent au-
thority that he did not favorably impress
the Young English princesses, it is still
thought that King Edward and Queen
Amelia may come to an understanding
Rnt after all, what have the daughters
Of the King to do with the choice OF then
husbands?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
DECLINES TO GO.
Authority of President-G General Scott
D. A. R., Questioned.

L. Cabell Williamson, attorney for
Miss Agnes Gerald, the d. A. r. clerk
dismissed by Mrs. Matthew T. Scott
for alleged INSTRUMENTATION, addressed a
letter to Mrs. Scott, saying: Il am in
formed that Miss Gerald was placed as a
clerk on the permanent payroll of the
National Society Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution by its national
board of management at the personal re-
quest of Mrs. Mclean, your predecessor
in office, therefore she can only be dis
missed by said board of management or
by the Continental congress-"
Mrs. Scott's letter dismissing Miss
Gerald has also been made public. 1t
said: "You are hereby informed that you
are dismissed as clerk for copying Con-
tinental hall records, and from the cIeri-
cal service of the National society, d. A.
r. Your salary will continue until the
first of March, 1910, but you are re-
lieved from further clerical duties and
directed not to report at national head
quarters after today. This course on my
part has become necessary, owing to
your continued and persistent acts and
attitude of INSTRUMENTATION as an en-
ploye which eliminated in your action
of February 81"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
The Sting of Ingratitude.

A young physician whose Office is in the
west end, spends much time in charitable
practice in that section. In fact, he
sometimes gives to a poor patient enough
money to pay for prescriptions. Tn not
getting rich,' he explains, "but l simply
can't see them suffer for medicines that
may put them on their feet again."
Not many days ago the doctor had oc-
casion to visit a woman who occupied
one small tenement room with her three
children. After making out a prescrip-
ton he gave her So, telling her to buy
the medicine and to use the change for
needed food. On the following day, as
he was about to enter the tenement for
a second call, he met the 1O-year-old
daughter of the patient.
"How is your mother?' he inquired
of the child.
"Oh, she's WELL" was the answer. "She
took that So and got a real DOCTOR"
-!--
SIS there any soup on the bill of
fare?'
mo, sir-there was, but l wiped it
of. "-Harvard Lampoon.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Mrs. Taft's New Social Secretary.

Miss Mary d. Spires, a clerk in the Of
fee of the surgeon-general of the army,
will succeed Miss Alice Blech as social
secretary to Mrs. Taft about the LIST of
March. Miss Blech will become tbe wife
OF Lieut.. Richard Wainwright, u. S. N.
this spring. Miss Spires is a North Car
Gilman. Although retiring in her tastes.
she has hosts of friends and is especially
well liked in army circles. She is a pro-
nounced blonde, with sparkling blue ewes
ana a wealth of wavy light hair. above
stylish.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
The First Dessert Spoon.

When dessert spoons were invented,
Hamilton palace, the seat of Sir Charles
Murray's uncle, was the first household
north of the Tweed to adopt them. A
small laird. invited to dine with the
Duke of Hamilton. was Disguised to find
a dessert spoon handed to him with the
sweets. "Wha do you get me this for?'
he exclaimed to the footman. DO you
think ma mooth has got any smaller
since | lappit up ma soup ?'-London
Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Prepared for the Inevitable.

T. o. Wightman, 81 years old, a man
of eccentric character, who died at his
home in Garden Grove, Cal, recently. was
prepared when the end 'came, having
made complete arrangements for his fu-
neral services even to making his own
coffin. He made this of redwood forty
years ago and kept it in his home to be
used when the occasion required.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
Music in the Air.

SIS that you, dear?" said a young hus-
band over the telephone. II just called
up to say that I'm afraid 1 won't be
able to get home to dinner tonight, as
l an detained at the Office"
"You poor DEAR" answered the wife
sympathetically. 81 don't wonder. I
don't see how you manage to get any
thing done at all with that orchestra
playing in your office. Good-by.':-
Everybody's.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
A Worthy Motive.

Harold, aged 8, came home the other
day in such a state as to cause great
perturbation in the household.
Mercy" exclaimed his mother. GLOW
on earth, Harold, did you manage to get
your clothes so frightfully torn?'
Harold assumed a virtuous air. 'Tryin'
to keep a little boy from bein' licked
he explained.
''That was fine of you, Harold"" was
the enthusiastic response of the parent.
"And who was the little boyT"
"Me.'-Harper's Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31

large symptoms of surprise floating over.
his features.
1T am dis way" replied tie parish
Toner. "YO' hab evidently made a mis-
take in de crowd. Dis am a culred COM
bregashun, an since all de puInp watah
an sof' soap in de county can't make
de words oh dat hymn come true, | ies'
wish dat yo' would change her to. some
udder tune .'-Philadelphia Telegraph.