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probably much exaGgsratsd Ths ss-
tronomsr weighs comets. ~ he weighs
other .heavenly bodies. by measuring
the pull they exert on bodies that CONS
near them when Venus passes near .
conast the planet pulls the comst out q
its original path. and likewise tho comet
pusss thu planet The forces sxsrted By
tho comets In all cosss have been -
minute. IN spite Of the fact that tbg
have many times gons very ciose 10 .
planet. that u has been Impossible y
measure them. and 10 q nssszs bs as~1rasd
that the mas Of a comet Ia exosedinSiy
small.
But with great volume and little mass
tho comet has little, density. OF the
quantity Of matter In q cubic mile 10
almost vanishingly small. Of this fact
We are sure. since In the great comet of
Iss7 We could see faint stars through
millions Of miles OF tail and yet ahe stare
shone with undimmed lustre.
Those who arc unfamiliar with such
things will inquire how it IL that Q thing
80 light can move AZ q whole and MOI
be blown to pieces. There are no winds
in space to blow the comet. nor h thsFs
any air 90 retard its progress In .
vacuum q feather would fall to tie ssTsA
a. quickly a. a lead ball Al Gar a. 10
know among the stars there h an ahsoluts
vacuum. and 80 . comet which In pro-
portion 20 sizs weighs . million times
less than the fufFlest feather ever mads
will move about the sun In obedience 70
gravitatiOn. Just a. would the ponderAhis
sarth II PLACED In tho same position
PROBLEMS TO Nh soLvEn
The most curious feature about comet
is that its tail always points directly away
from the sun. This ,eomId seam 20 show
that tho sun repels tho matter instead q
attracting IL. and IL would seem a. firss
glance a. II here was q place where Tho
suns gravitation were inactive. BSe
gravity In inherent In every particle a
matter in the universe. and the particles
forming the comets tail. light though
they are. are nevertheless attracted by tho
sun. In addition 70 this force centred
In the sun there must. however. Do an
other. greater In amount, which repeb
tho particles Of tho tail what b tbs
nature Of this forceI
This has long been the puzzle Of astroo-
omers. In addition 90 ths above consid-
GRAFTON. We win sec that the comets tail
IL not like smoke Isft bshind BY o lccc-
motive. for after the comet passes thu
sun The tail goes ahead % the comet
Thus IL n readily seen that tho tail is not
a physical appsndage that is firmly fixed
to the comets bead. So quickly does
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-17

The comet will rise tail first. the tail point
ing directly away from the aun. The
time Of rising Of the head OF the comet
10 given.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
woN,T HURT GAYNuR.

John Purroy Mitchell, who was Act
Ing Mayor Of New York during Mayor
Gaynor's illness, has come to- an open
breach with the Mayor because the
Mayor charged Mitchell with having
trumped up, for the purpose of scan
dal and sensation in Sensational
newspaper oitice," charges against a
number Of places at which gambling
was said to be done, and also charges
against the Police Force for neglect In
dealing with gambling and other vices
One of the places raided, or placed
under suspicion, by N1itchel's orders.
was United States Government build
ing. In Mayor Gaynors opinion this
was a very outrageous thing for
Mitchell to have done and the Mayor
apologized for 1t. Mitchell denies that
his prosecutions or raids were under
taken at the sugs estion OF any news
paper, but were based upon COM
plants that had been made to his
office and that had been verified by his
own Investigation. He says that
Mayor Gaynor's charge against him IN
this matter lis deliberate lie-l-i-e--
lie that any of the addresses which l
sent to the Police Commissioner were
mot based on complaints received at
~ office through the mails"
1t is said that there is now to be
war to the knife, and the knife to the
hilt, between Mayor Gaynor and for
mer Acting Mayor Mitchell. that the
whole administration of Gaynor is to
be ruined by this young man. but 1t
would require something more than
the accusations of Mitchell and his
newspaper and political allies to make
the people of the country believe that
Mayor Gaynor has any other object
in view than good government for New
York City.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15

adjacent to the Rectory OF the Church.
The Vestry claimed that the Scott es-
Enlistment was nulsance--that any
garage which was near church would
be nuisance, but the Court has de-
termined otherwise. The people with
automobiles and garages and gasoline
tanks. and things of that sort, must
be taken care of. What's one church
more or less and the comfort and con-
venience of religious congregations
weighed in the balance with the auto
mobile? 1t is true that the Church is
a far older establishment than the
automobile, but this is progressive
age and 1t would be taking a step
backward for the courts of law to in
terfere in any way with the fortunate
possessors of machines who must have
the open air.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15

a valuable byproduct OF cotton. The
crop In Alabama annually is 100000
tons The average haul Is over eight
miles OF miserable earthly roads, at a
cost of 90 cents per ton per mile, or
So per ton for tho entire miles, a
total cost of s1,5o0,ooo.
Haul this seed over good roads and
watch the difference in cost. The same
load can be hauled the same distance
over improved thoroughfares for 5000
600. an annual saving OF 100000
These figures speak for themselves.
IT Is better to invest In good roads
than in deep mud 1t must be re-
membered tnat the saving in trans
portation is not the only saving--for
there are many other considerations,
such IS wear and tear and convenience
and economy of time and labor.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
SATURDAY. OCTOBER %. 1910.
STUART swEErlNc THE FIELD.

Alexander Mullins, a highly esteemed
citizen of osborn's Gap, who has al
ways voted the Republican ticket. says.
in letter to the Roanoke Times. at
this stage of the political game l am
not standpatter and if i live till the
Sth of November l shall cast my bal
lot for II. c. stuart for Congress from
the old Ninth.
IL am tired of Slempism, because
1t is but a means of promoting Slemp,
rather than looking after the welfare
of the district. His most ardent sup
porters are TO be found among the pie
brigade, for these are afraid of losing
their places at the pie counter. Hence
their earnestness. Cannonism, and for
which Slemp stands, is the worst ism
that now threatens the country.
"Slemp has secured nothing for this
district that benefits the common peo-
pie during the three years that he mas
served as congressman, and 1t is now
time that ne be retired, and let man
in whose integrity / have the utmost
confidence. take his stead"
Mr.. Mullins is only one of hundreds
of Republicans in the Ninth District
end vote for Stuart The BristA
Herald Courier says that "Stuarts tri-
umphal march through the Ninth dis
trict continues, At every appointment
even in remote places, he is greeted by
unprecedented crowds of enthusiastic
voters. No such audiences have ever
greeted a congressional candidate in
this district Democrat or Republican
and in every audience there are men
who have always voted the Republican
ticket. but who will support Mr.. Stuart
this fall as the best and only means
of obtaining relief from the burdens
that have been placed upon them"
Stuart has pressed the tariff ques-
ton upon the attention of the people
af his district He has shown them
low they have been robbed right and
left and all the time by the iniquitous
tariff policy of the Republicans, how
Slemp has stood with Cannon, who has
been rejected by his own party, and
against whom even Slemp's own big
gest friend is arrayed. In addition,
Stuart has made his attitude clear to-
wards the white men of the Ninth. He
Is white mans man and his appeals
have been made to the white men of his
district. not for his own sake, because
he is not dependent upon the Office
for his personal comfort, but for the
sake of the poor white men of the
Ninth. A negroes vote is regarded by
slemp as counting for as much as a
white mans vote. What he wants is
the office; it doesn't matter to hin
by whose votes he shall get 1t. He
has had it for three years and has al
no time made anything out of 1t for
the benefit of the people. The people
are tired of Slemp.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
RICHMOND VA SATURDAY. OCTOBER

street car. who can doubt that they
were in the pay of Speaker Cannon or
one of the many octopuses in which
the Progressive West abounds? ordi-
narily, we should say that the motor
man was only trying to nuke his
SCHEDULED" but what's a street car
schedule If 1t can't be changed TO meet
the imperious requirements of siren
uous age? 1t doesn't make the least
difference what may be said In de-
Tense of these caitifi corporations;
they are discovered at last--two bad
corporations without single thought
of the good of the public, and If Bona :
parte (Charles - we're only In power
now he would proceed against them on
the ground that they are operated IN
restraint of trade.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
OUR MANuFA crURED EXPORTS.

According to information given out
in Washington, for the first time in the
history of this country. our manufac-
lures constitute more than one-half OF
the countrys total exports" For the
first eight months of this year 1t is
to So per cent. of the total
expectations in value, as against As
per cent. last year and Al per cent. two
years ago The value of manufactures
exported from January l to August /
of this year averaged for each business
day more than $2.5Oo,OOO, the total for
that time reaching S542,750,00o.
Statistics show that the gain in the
expectation of manufactured products
has been gradual but steady through
the years There are doubtless many
reasons for this. One of them is, per-
ihaps, the growing demand for grain
here at home, demand which is shut
ting off a considerable proportion of
grain expectation.
The moral of this increase in the eX-
portation of manufactured products is
that the demand for excessive protec-
ton of American industries is now fall
tlacious. There are now~many indus
tries that have ceased to be poor and
struggling which are competing with
foreign manufacturers all over the
world. The necessity for the sort OF
protection which we now have for
many of the industries con-
'trlbuting to this splendid expectation
of manufactures has ceased to exist.
70 great degree the justification for
any protective tariff is removed.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
AGAINST MAN SUFFRAGE.

Lillian Russell has committed her
self to absolute suffrage for women
and the withdrawal of the power and
the reins Of government from mans
hand''-"the contamination of suffrage
for women and the adjustment or the
male vote" She is willing that the
men should work for the women.
which would be somewhat unusual
experience for large number of
them, and fight for them, If necessary.
Lillian. we are with YOU in a sense;
but before putting the plan into gem
eral effectS don't you think it would
be as well to select some districts for
experimental purposes? There is the
Second District of Virginia. for ex-
ample, where it might be~"trted on;
We do not suppose that the women
could have done worse than the men
in this district, and If it should work
out there all right 1t might very we'll
be extended into many other con-
glessonal districts in the two Caro-
linas, Mississippi and Kansas. 1t can
be proved that a majority of the men
voters in the United States are not
worthy of the suffrage. A tree should
be judged by it's fruit.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS.

! Loeb Is making the Custom House
at New York a terror to all the SNUG :
glers In the last few weeks he has
caught the Adriances and the Morgan
thaus and the Rollinses and battalion
of other swindlers who tried to cheat
the Government with their personal be-
longings, and he has now gone after
the smugglers who are engaged In So
called legitimate business
On Thursday. in New York, the en-
tire establishment of the Duveen Bro
theirs, known all over the world as an
emporium of art and antiquities, was
seized by Loeb's officers, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the Government
out of customs dues. Only one brother
of the firm was In the city, but he was
placed under $4,000 bail for his APP
pearance. When the Cunard Liner Lu-
sitania reached port, another brother
of the firm was arrested aboardshlp,
taken off by a Revenue Cutter and
hurried to the Federal Building for ar
TdlS AlIieHl anu .plaCeu uiiuei 'oitu W
$4,000 for his appearance. 1t is claimed
that more than a vanload of "suspi-
cious" goods We're found in the estab-
lishment, and 1T is said by District
Attorney Henry A. Wise that the frauds
against the customs committed by this
esta blishment will reach at least mil
lion dollars.
1t is further claimed that this con-
Germ has been defrauding the Govern
ment for years out of customs dues,
works of art and antique furniture be-
false consular invoices. This is one
of the most important cases, and one
of the most unusual as we'll. that has
yet been made by the customs authori-
ties in New York, OF course the
charges that have been made against
this house will be thoroughly investi-
gated, and the accused are entitled to
the presumption of innocence until
they are convicted, but the customs
authorities and the legal representa-
tives of the Government appear to be
confident that they have made no mis-
take. If this case shall be prosecuted
successfully, it is not unlikely that this
new field will be cultivated by the
agents of the Government. Doubtless a
vast deal of smuggling is done in New
York among dealers. many dealers in
that town, as the activities of the COM
missioner of weights and measures has
recently demonstrated. regarding it as
wholly legitimate for them to cheat the
public whenever the public permits it
self to be cheated 1t is a remarkable
thing that none of these crooks was
cinched until after their most desper-
ate enemy had been retired from the
service of the public.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
THE VALUE OF COOP ROADS.

Alabama is agitating very success
fully and ENTHUSIASTICALLY the question
ri good roads. Isos apart of this week
The Alabama Good Roads Association
has been in session at Birmingham,
and powerful interest has been mani
tested in this far-reachng reform.
President John Craft had some very
good things TO say in his opening adj
dress and one of these was:
THE vigor of the State lies in Its
industrial vitality and the great ar
tcrfes through which the life blood OF
the Commonwealth must course are its
highways Therefore, l believe it
10 he our .bounden duty to labor to-
ward having the great thoroughfares
If the people built in the healthiest
manner possible. By having per-
manent and thorough construction OF
roads. distance will be shortened, time
VIII no longer be measured by hours.
The time OF travel win be lessened so
much that the farmer who lives
twenty-five miles or more from the
steamboat landing, railroad station or
The city. Will be enabled to bring his
products to the place of shipment and
return between sunrise and nightrau.
The farmer deserves better high
ways. 1t is ne who digs from the SOIL
precious gold represented by the pro-
ducts of his labor. He cannot be
prosperous II the hauling cost is IS
cents per ton per mile when it should
be or 10 cents.'
There is The gist of the matter. 1t
is in the cost OF transportation that
the farmer sustains his greatest loss.
That loss is equivalent to most ex-
travagant waste
Alabama furnishes a striking Illus
tration OF this IL is estimated that
the cotton crop of that State this year
wiz amount to 100000 bales
To transport this crop over good
roads. reckoning the average haul
from the farm to the shipping point
at s miles, VIII be at the rate or ia
cents per mile. fair figure, equal to
sls4.0oo.
TO transport this crop over the
present bad roads VIII cost now "a
cents per ton per mile, which is
equivalent to so cents per bale for
eight miles. making net loss of "a
cents per bale on cotton. BY the
failure 10 construct and have good
roads therefore. this loss and the
waste each year ON the cotton crop by
using bad roads amounts TO $4,000
An Alabama alone. 1t is splendid
investment in mud. yielding fine
dividend OF like material.
Take another product: cotton seed,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
c1NcH1NG THE CROOKS.
porters,

The World suggests that the Ad-
ministration could not do better than
ito employ George II, Earle, of Phila-
delphia, as special counsel in the sugar
trust cases. and it is hoped that Mr..
Taft will catch on. Mr.. Earle. 1t is
understood, is quite ready to serve the
Government without compensation, and
the recent contributions he has made
upon the subject of the sugar. trust
shows that he is more familiar with
the subject than anyone else. He
knows the business through and
through, and 1t was due largely to his
efforts that this gigantic criminal cor
poration was brought to terms.
Speaking of the cinching OF the
crooks, Earle appears to be the man
who can do 1t. The public is familiar
with the evidence he has collected ana
the public would like to see him en-
ployed in the work of filing the .peni-
tentiaries. AS General Grant said. or
ought to have said at the time of the
whiskey cases many years ago, the
safe policy for Mr.. Taft to pursue is
'let no guilty man escape
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15

power to govern; but from time I'M
memorial 1T has been found necessary
for the people to put some bride upon
their desires. The Constitution OF
Virginia is limitation upon the
power OF the people---a written
declaration Of their Will that they
will limit their actions and opinions
by expressing them through represen-
3tatives.
TO say that treasurer cannot have
more than two successive terms and
that a commissioner of the revenue
shall serve but one term when elected
by the people-.-these mandates of the
Constitution are not in derogaton OF
the authority OF the people. but We're
made, in fact, by the people.
Why Is any limitation put on the
power of the people anywhere to do
what they please at any time? Why
not elect the treasurers and the COM
nissioners for life? Why not elect
the governor for life? Why not elect
- fS.StG6aISS dll SeudtpIS w 80 W -
terms limited only by death?
Yet II any man came forward with
the serious suggestion that the Con-
stitution of Virginia be changed so
GERS, he would be denounced by the
very people who are now contending
Tor the unlimited election nf treas
urers and commissioners of the reve-
nue.. They would declare that it was
n.lJemocratic, that 1t was against The
principles Of good government, that T..
was tyrannotls Grd despotic and dan
serous, menacing the liberties Of the
PEOPLE. tending toward the ccntraliza-
ton of power and the establishment of
monarchy or dynasty
Herein lies the Inconsistency OF the
defenders Of these changes in the Con-
stitution. They cry out apout dis
trust of the people, and ye- they
realize that there are many instances
where the people have perfect right
to limit their own powers and limit
the tenure of certain offices.
Trust the people: OF course we
trust the people. In writing these
limitations into the final expression
Of their combined will in 1902 they
followed the same principle which
their fathers did in the first Virginia
Constitution and, indeed, in the
national Constitution. The Virginia
people know what they are about, and
they will not listen to the cheap cries
of the otfice-holders and their sup
nortars
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
FLOCmING TO ,pLEAS.


The trend in Connecticut is said to
be towards Mclean in the Senatorial
race. Up to last Wednesday evening.
but not including the caucuses held
Wednesday night. in 20 Senatorial
districts and &c towns. % Sena-
torial and So representative nomi-
nations had been made by the Re-
publicans. Seventy four of the dele
gates or representatives elected up to
that time were for Mclean and "a
were for Buckley. The Senate and
House of Connecticut together contain
293 members. and more than one third
pledged to Mclean. with other Mclean
Districts and towns to be heard from.
This is one of the most encouraging
signs we have observed among the Re-
publicans in any of the States. OF
course Connecticut should be repre-
sented in Washington by a Demo-
cratic Senator, but If a Republican
must be elected 1t would be TO the in
terest of that State and the country II
a Republican of the Mclean rather
than of the Buckley type should be
chosen. The only objection to Mclean
that can be made is that he Is a
Republican. Outside of his politics.
which are damnable, he is clean.
high, able fellow and would be an
honor to his State and to the first
House of the greatest legislative as
sembly in the world.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
THE ISSUE IN NEW YORK.

Lloyd Griscom, who Is taking him
self very seriously these days, screams
that "a vote against Stimson is a vote
for Democratic President in 1912"
TO which the World replies: Not nee
essarily, A vote against Mr.. stimson
is a vote against Theodore Roosevelt
for President in 1912" Which is an
entirely different thing, as even Girls
com ought to see, That, at any, rate.
IS the view the people OF New York
are taking generally, Besides, wouldn't
II be really good thing tor the coun-
try to have Democratic President In
1912?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15

Kindly state what flights Aviator
Curtiss has made to gain him such
prominence to make possible the
fake" he imposed upon the public
last week. H G..
Among the leading records held BY
Glenn H. curtiss are. July A. 1908. II.
aeroplane June Bug" at Hammoads.
port $500 feet in minute AZ seconds.
winning Scientific American cup,
August 26, 1909. at Rheims, won Gordon
Bennett cup, distance. 1914 miles. Is
minutes sc seconds; New York Albany,
on May 90. 1910, flew 1871 niles In
ZAP; and at Atlantic City July II,
1910. so miles in Ills.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
ny WAY orGENrnAL- DEN1A1.


Without exception, our contcm-
poraries who have been advocating the
four proposed amendments to the Vir-
GINA Constitution have Joined in the
chorus. Don't distrust the people,"
when referring to the proposed amend
ments relating to the election OF COM
missioners of the revenue and treas
urers. Their common cry their
chief demagogic appeal, is that because
the present Constitution allows treas
urers but two successive terms and
prohibits commissioners of revenue.
when elected by the people, from hav-
ing more than one term. the people are
not TRUSTED" and the peoples liberty
of choice and right to decide for them
selves is taken away from them. On
this single point some Of our contem-
poraries who are shouting for these
changes in our organic law are raving
and working themselves into perfect
lather,
We deny that the present Consttu-
tional inhibitions on these officers are
based on distrust of the people They
We're enacted in the interest of the
people and fer the sake OF good gov
ernment, They deprive the people of
no liberty Of any description,
If 1t is the will Of the governed that
limitations be placed upon the power
of the governed, who can say that such
limitations are distrustful of the gov
Lerned? The people have the inherent
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-15
THE CHuncn on I1IE Can,

Circuit Court No, in Baltimore has
dismissed with costs the. suit Of the
Vestry Of ST. BartholomeW's Protestant
Episcopal Church in that town to re-
strain Walter Scott from maintaining
a garage and gasoline tank on lot