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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-25
m UNSOLICITED LETTER. FROM.
NEWT NEWSPAPER MAN OF
RICHMOND PAYS TRIBUTE
TO THE MAN AND THE
e
OFFICIAL.

The following unsolicited letter,
which speaks for itself, has been re-
ceived by Commissioner of Agricui-
ture George w. Koiner from Mr.. Rob-
ert NJ. Lynn, city editor Of the Rich
mond Evening Journal:
Hon. George W. Koiner,
Commissioner of Agriculture,
Richmond. Va.
Dear Eir,-I have watched to see
what issues would develop in the
campaign for the ONCE to which you
aspire again. So far there seems to
be nothing that has not been threshed
out before. We all know that leg
islative committee six years ago said
you needed bookkeeping system and
. bookkkeeper, and we also know
that the same committee said In Its
report that 1t found no shortage In
the accounts Of your ONCE. We-know
that since that time you have been
provided with o 6ookkeeper and that
you have followed the bookkeeping
system your board adopted. and that
the books are audited three times a
year by the State Board of Agricul-
ture and once a.year by the State Ac-
countant Nobody, then, can question
your honesty 1t all times nor doubt
that you have observed for six years
q system Of bookkeeping that, while
Il may not exactly suit the precise no.
tons OF some. Is nevertheless a system
that would discover fraud were 1t
committed. Certainly. IL Is the sys-
tenn your governing board has laid
down for you. On this score your
critics ought to commend you. for one
OF their favorite statements has been
that you would not cooperate with
others. Yet I think you would have
pleased them better had you defied
your board and ignored its instruc-
lions.
Fails 70 Produce Evidence.
Your opponent seems to base his
Campaign chiefly, II not wholly, on
the allegation to the voters that you
will not act in harmony with other
AGRICULTURAL agencies. But 1 notice
that neither he nor any Of his sup
porters-newspaper or farm paper or
labor committeeman or Farmers
hnion committeeman---has furnished
khe public anything IN the way of
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Contest Closest
Sat. July 18th, 1913 4 4.

Always use the blank to the right wh1n !
submitting solution. Read the oiank care-
INV ana Ill out every portion Of II Write
names and addresses plainly. Specially printed
blanks ON heavier paper will be supplied All
making application to The Virginian for
them.
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kowree Bosscrman. on the ground OF
unfaithfuiness.
cii II IT, !. - coutn2 LOT shrdlu llss..
/ Some time ago Hosserman Found A.
d. WORTH. whom he thought Was
being attentive to His wife. IN the
Bosserman home. Worth shot Bos-
serman seriously In his attempt to
escape.
Mrs. Bosserman was kept in jail
and tried a. accessory. but the jury
failed to agree. Worth Is now serv-
Ing term OF five years In the peni-
Tertiary.
Mrs. BcssermAn was accused OF per-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-25
The Problem

The problem Is to ascertain tho totane of th(l
igures in the puzzle chart
Just add EN- up i Z
The figures run from TWO 10 NINE.s$Thers
.re no double figures. and no charactersAwhtch
IRE not figures. There are no ONES
The tail Of all "6s" has decided3curv
while the tail OF the "9's' 10 straight. AL the
,ther figures have their usual charGterasttcs.
So there 10 no intent to allow any question:
to arise over the identity OF q figure.
In the event that no one ascertains thetexace
total tho prizes will be awarded forfthe nearest
correct solutions. VA
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THE Observation-Disclosures july % 1872

Jury in testifdng for Worth. tried and
again the jury failed to agree. That
charge against her and her. sister.
Mrs = Rowan. ALSO for perjury, has
been dropped and the divorce de-
cfsion today will end all proceedings
which have been sensational.
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fspeciaf~to The Richmond virginian.)
HEATHSvILLE. VA, July "a
Wharton Grove Baptist camp meet
ing. near Weems, Lancaster county.
will begin Friday, July 25th, to con-
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How o.Errter

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AZ from ONE DOLLAR to FIVE DOLLAREn
entities a contestant to submit ~ solution OF
the puzzle. nv
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desires TO register may be submittedsmpon the
same terms. Not more than $500. Showever.S
can be paid with any ono solution. ~
As the main prizes have an ADDED values
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This contest IL open TO both old andsnrwt
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lory. treasurer Of Jefferson Council.
J. o. u. a. II. 70 August 3. Mallory
= alleged 10 .is.yss suabersied funds Of
the organisation.
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Mallory Case II Continued,
In order to secure witnesses In
tho case, Justice Crutchfle1d yoeter-
day continued the case Of ]. A. NAL
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BOSSERMAN GETS
DIVORCE FROM WIFE

srAUNToN, VA .,Juy 24.--Luther
B. Bcsserman Wa this morning grant
Cd Z divorce from his wife, Clara
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EXCURSION FARES TO wAYNES.
VILE, N. O., AND RETURN

EXCURSION FARES TO WAYNES-
VILE, N. @, AND RETURN
ACCOUNT General Sunday School and
EpwOrth League Conference NJ.
e. Church, South. August
6-l7, 1913.
Southern Railway will sell tickets
from all points on it's lines to
Waynesville, ". c.. and return at
greatly reduced rates.
Round trip fare fro mRichmond,
e12.45; Danville,, 1925: South Bos-
ton, s.2o; Burkevilie. $io.s5; Chase
City. $10.26.
Proportionate fares from other
stations.
Tickets on sale August 4th to 9th,
inclusive; final limit returning, August
20, 1913.
For tickets and detailed informa-
ton, call on nearest Southern Rail-
way ticket agent. or write
&, e. BURGESS, d. r. A.,
Richmond, Va.
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tinue for ten days DR. II. M. whar-
ton. d. D., founder Of the camp, will
do most OF the preaching.
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1.-THE PRIZE LIST.

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luton $500 yonr subscription gives you solu
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
BELIEVE ME-"
Useless to Try to Keep Slang Out OF
English Language.

From thu New Haven Register
In slang as in dress, fashion constantly
strives to achieve the utterly inane I'M
partial observers cheerfully concede the
attainment of a considerable de5ree OF
success I'm that direction.
Nobody knows when new indiVidual
of slang arrives lin our midst IL they
came with warning and notice, the great
majority of them would be shooed off
like a smallpox patient. by the common
sense of the majority. But they come
insidiously, and before We know they are
here they are intrenched. So came
when o. low no one can say-one or the
latest and the silliest, believe me.
S The thing is not striking, and III ltsel1
is not new Some have not recognized II
as slang But closely observed i'm ITS
present usage ii plainly Is meant for
that The user of il intertects into
mediocre conversation. props up state
ments which have only nominal force
with the ptiful, pointless appeal TO De
lieve me-" 1t seems to imply that the
speaker knows he IS lying and wishes 70
fcrestall incredulity, but Ii really doesn
mean that In fact * doesn't mean any
thing except that another footless imita-
tor has caught at another straw borne on
the wind of senseless custom, and saddled
1t en- the speech Of the day. And the null
titude of sheep are tumbling over them
selves to follow the form, tickled half TO
death i'm the notion tnat they are achiev-
ing the latest thing i'm language-up-to-
the minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
belonged to anybody. ] really didn't

| belonged to anybody. really didn't
Did your"
NO" replied Jerry, his eyes sparkling
with excitement as he watched Long
legs and Whitehall, Its news to me-"
You're too lazy to hunt like honest
people," tainted old Whitehall. as he
wheeled around Longlegs, watching for
a chance to strike with his great, cruel
claws.
I'm too honest to take the food out
of other peoples mouths, retorted
Longlegs. dancing around so as always
to face Whitehall, one of his great
broad wings held in front of him like
shield. and his long, strong yellow
bill ready to strike.
Every feather on Whitetaifs head
was standing erect with rage. and he
looked very fierce and terrible. AT.
last he saw chance, or thought he
did and shot down. But all he got
was a feather from that great wing
which I.onglegs kept in front of him,
and before he could get away that
long, yellow bill had struck twice
so that he screamed with pain. So
they fought and fought till the ground
was covered with feathers, and they
were too tired to fight any longer.
Then slowly and painfully old WHITE
tail few away over the Green Mead
ows. and with torn and ragged wings
Longlegs flew heavily down the Laugh.
ing Brook toward the Big River. ana
both were sore and stiff, and stu
hungry. ..,
"Dear me, Dear me, What terrible
thing and how useless anger ls. sald
crandfather Frog. as he climbed back
on his big green lily-pad i'm the warm
sunshine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
ERRATIC EROS.
Variations of the Tiny Planet and Its
Value to Astronomers.
From the London Post.

from the LODuon fOSts
OF the regiment of minor planets the
most valuable to astronomers is Eros.
which, in addition to being of quite re-
spectacle size. has furnished by its orbit
the material for a revised estimate of
the suns distance. Since the beginning
of the twentieth century tens of thou
sands of photographs have been taken of
this tiny spot of reflected light, and 1t
may claim to be, with the possible .ex-
ception of Mars. the most observed of all
the planets during recent years.
DR.. i. c. d. Crommelin of Greenwich
observatory mentions in knowledge a
rather curious fact about the variations
in its appearance. At the time of its
near approach. at the end of 1910 and
beginning of 1911 a large variation was
detected in it's brightness: there was a
question whether the period of change
was five hours or two and one-half hours.
1t now appears certain that Eros takes
five hours TO change from its brightest to
its least brightest, but that there is a kind
of double wave of change. and its brig at
est moments are not at all of the same
intensity. When Eros was in opposition
far to the south during 1905 its varia-
bility was examined very carefully by
Prof. s. Bailey from the Arequipa OBJ
servatory in Peru. The visual and the
Photographic methods of estimating the
show good agreement and enable the va
ration and it's timing to be now stated
with eXacJitude The exact value of the
period of change is .2196 of a day, and
one period OF greatest brightness is less
IN value by one-sfXteenth than another.
The most probable cause of these varia-
lions in light seems TO be the irregular
shape of the planet. In such a tiny body,
not much larger than cubic Great Brit
tain, gravity is very weak, and would be
insufficient to draw the planetary ma
terial into z regular shape. On such a
world anything of the nature of ice or
snow is out of the question, for Eros
could not hold an atmosphere to its Sides
For similar reasons We cannot suppose
that II mas any organic rocks, such as
chalk; IL is simplest to suppose it to be
a crag of metal
1t seems not impossible that when Eros
again draws very near in the year 1881
our giant telescopes may be able to
sean II as tiny disc and to detect any
notable departure from roundness There
Is no reason TO suppose that Eros is the
only small planet whose shape is irregu-
lar Many were, therefore, examined at
Arequipa for irregularity in light reflec
ton, and Sirona, Celuta and Tercidina
all come into the category of variables.
They all, II seems, must rotate RAPIDLY
In the same number of knowledge +, M
Antoniadi, in the course of a correspond
ence on the reality of the canals on
the planet Mars, remarks that the aerog
rapher who drew more straight lines on
Mars than any other. Prof A E Dong
lass, declared all the canals which he had
been seeing for years with the telescope
at F1agstaff, Ariz, to be Elusive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
LongIegs and Whitehall Quarrel

you did, II didn't! I didn't You did,
Such terrible fuss when Grandfather hid,
You see, Longlegs the Blue Heron
had patiently stood on one foot all the
long morning waiting for Grandfather
Frog to go to sleep on his big green
lily-pad. He had meant to have Grand
father for his breakfast and lunch for
he had no breakfast, and it was now
lunch time. He was so hungry that it
seemed to him that the sides of his
stomach certainly would fall in be-
cause there was nothing to hold them
up. But Longlegs has patience a very
great deal of patience. and so he had
stood, and stood, and stood, and stood.
all the time on one foot.
Then without any warning at all old
Whitehall. the Marsh Hawk. had glided
out across the Smiling Pool with his
great claws stretched out to clutch
Grandfather Frog With a slap of his
tail on the water Jerry Muskrat had
warned Grandfather Frog. who had
dived into the Smiling Pool with a
great splash just in the very nick of
time.
Now is there anything in the world
SO hard on the temper to lose a
good meal when you are very. very.
very hungry? OF course, Longlegs
didn't really have that good meal but
he had thought that he was surely
going to have it. So when Grand
father Frog splashed into the Smiling
Pool of course Longlegs lost his tenn
per altogether His yellow eyes SEEM
ed to grow even more yellow.
You robber. You thief" he screamed
harshly at old Whitehall
Now old Whitehall was just as hungry
as Longlegs, and he had come even
nearer to catching Grandfather Frog.
He is even quicker tempered than
Longlegs. He had whirled like a flash
on Jerry Muskrat, but Jerry had just
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
Chincoteague and the War.


Even in the civil war the islanders
showed their characteristic curious nix
ture of laisser-faire attitude and a
tendency to take enough care for the
morrow to be sure of a good living.
Chincoteague was one of the first places
to be visited by the federal troops, and
something like forty men enlisted, but
the island luck held. and it seems that
they saw no active fighting Some houses
few the Confederate flag, two or three
men Joined the southern forces; few
sympathizers put out the lighthouse
lamp, but it was promptly lighted again
by islanders who wanted permits for
their oyster boats to run up to Pennsyl-
vania and New York. The Federal SOL
diers tore up few fence stakes belong
ing to old ladies and demolished: the
benches of the Methodist Church. ne
gro company came, but even they were
not resented deeply. Chincoteague is al
most the only part of Virginia where
there are no wounds left, physical or
mental, to mark the signs of civil war.
Since there is so much comfort, no real
poverty and very little sickness, it is no
wonder that -Cincoteague has been called
the island paradise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12

curate notation of any material facts; yet
the wing-beats were seen, the direction
taken by the fiiers, and in many cases
the species of the bird was disclosed
One bird happened to poise with hutter-
ing wings within the field of the tele-
scope for half minute. 1t was recog-
nized as one of the sparrows. The birds
were moving generally southwark, put
frequently one or more of them would be
seen going in some other direction. once
during the night two birds crossed the
line of vision at the same time, apparently
some distance apart.
In his report the ornithologist sum-
marizes his observations as follows
Brief as was the time each bird APP
peared in the circle of vision. number
of species were identified. More of the
red-winged blackbirds were recognized
than of any other kind. and next In
abundance were meadow larks, of which
several f1ocks were discernible. The pur-
pie grackle, sparrow hawk. yellow ham,
mer and one species of duck were dis
tinguished. while several fiocks of, birds
resem bling gulls were seen, the identity
of which could not be determined
The purpose of the government investi-
cation was to ascertain the times and
manner of bird migrations, whether they
were governed by storms or other meteor
illogical conditions, and such other facts
as might be revealed. The conclusions
reached were that birds nest in succeed
ing years at or near the places where
they were Matched; that they go south in
autumn. pass the winter there, and re-
turn to the same localities in spring, the
female birds often bringing a different
mate. The autumn and spring migra-
tons are fixed by the melting periods
of the birds and not by the weather. The
flight of birds i'm following their migra-
tory instincts. often displays a stupidity
that would be inexplicable on any other
theory than that they do not profit by
reason and experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
Influence of the Bath.
the London Chronicl,

From the London Chronicle.
1t would be interesting TO inquire q
year hence as to the effect of the recent
ly installed bathrooms at Chrsts Col
lege Cambridge, on the attendance at
morning chapel. For one social observer
has laid il down that the decline of fam
lily worship i'm England has been in d.
rect ratio to the improvements in do
nestle sanitation. In the old days be-
fore the fully equipped bathroom in the
house, each room had its own sponge
bath, so that the family arrived stimuli
taneously downstairs for prayers and
breakfast But with the one fitted bath
room. each member of the family must
await the turn. Result: A struggling
procession to the breakfast room and the
breaking down of the full family assem-
bly, for prayers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
SERVICE IN THE MILITIA.
Employers Who Favor Their EN-.
ployes in This Matter.
From the Boston HERALD


IT is announced that the Genera,
Electric Company of Lynn paid its
workmen who are members of Com
pany d. Sth Infantry, $3.50 per day
while they were on duty at the annual
state camp. and thus encouraged by
their employer enlistments among the
best class of workmen who are in the
service OF the General Electric are be-
coming general 1t has been known
THAT the company's plant located in
schenectady, n. Y, has been doing the
same thlng for such of it's workmen
as belong TO the local companies of the
National Guard, and the effect is seen
IN fuller enrollments for the city's
National Guard, and a much happier
group OF men at the company's plant
The Herald has announced from time
10 time the names of employing con-
Germs in Massachusetts who look with
favor on their employees connection
with the state military service. and il
Is wished by military officers generally
that the idea of backing the military
establishment by helping out their EN-
ployes would become much more gem
eral than il is The Boston elevated
has encouraged many of its men who
are members of the M " NJ" by al
lowing them their time OFF without
prejudice, in order that they might at
tend to their military duties and a
number of banking houses in this city
permit their clerks to attend their or
ganization camps. at the same time al
lowing them, in addition, the usual
two weeks vacation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
Centenarians.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle
Sir James Crichton- Browne says we
ought to be ashamed of ourselves IL we
do not live to be centenarians- Well,
eleven persons who died in Irish work.
houses last year at least claimed TO have
done their duty, the alleged ages OF two
being 116 and ia But these cases
would certainly not have satisfied Sir
George Cornewall Lewis. who disputed
all the alleged instances of centenarian-
ism and doubted whether any person ever
had lived into three figures. With Lewis
the extereme of cutting down was reach
ed The Seventeenth century's claim OF i52
years and nine months for Old Parr was
modest beside the case of Johannes de
Temporibus, who, according to Stow, died
in 1014, aged 361; and what was that to
Methuselah's 500! With Sir James' aid
We may work back toward that