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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
Officers Installed.

The following officers were duly in
stalled at Hestia Conclave. Improved
Order f Heptasophs. last night by
John Krouse. district supreme archon;
past archon. J. + EsglestOn; arch on
T. - smoke: provost. l. r. Hite; Pre-
late. O z. Morgan: secretary. c \.
Raines: fnancier. !. T. Morrisett. trea-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
MAJORITY VERDICT VALID.
ohio Provides Way to Avoid Stubborn
ness In JurOrs.

Columbus. o, February The Leg
islature has enacted law providing
that in civil cases verdict may De
rendered by any number OF members
OF the Jury not less than three -fourths.
IL is the first time in the history OF
the State that less than unanimous
verdict has been permitted The act
is in conformity with an amendment 10
;he Constitution adopted last year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08

Charles Edward. the infant child of
Mr.. and Mrs. \. II. Wilkinson. died
yesterday morning at ; O'Clock al the
home of its parents. 223 East Tenth
Street. Funeral services will be held
from the home this afternoon at ;
o'clock Burial will be in Maury Gene
terry.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
Death 81 VII. WARY ar,,,.

1iiss Mary Brltf. eighty years Oh.
died early yesterday uorrirg 90 fhr
home % fer rie-e. Nrs John Ha~rl-
gaiupo. ~ Thirty third street. " ooT
land Heights Sre is survived br "a
large number % relatives. The funeral
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08

Educators Visiting che schools On
Camphrll County Thfs Wei.

tifavisfa. Va. February IL. "
Birford. ~ Richmond. secretary Of the
CO Operative Education Association Of
Virginia. and County Superintendent
W. L. gsrb~e. are spending the entire
week visiting the schools OF Campbell
County. The Cooperative Education
Association has organized On the state
OVER SEQ school and civic leagues. Last
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
Funeral of Mrs. Pool.

The funeral of Mrs Alice c. Pool.
wife of w. w. Pool will be held this
afternoon at 8 o'clock from the home.
721 Twenty eighth Street, Woodland
Heights The services will be con-
Quoted by Rev. Henry &. Pfeiffer. pas
tor of Central Methodist Church.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
Odds and Ends From the Wire

: them with the Dead March" from
saul" or some SIavoufc death wall
This method of procedure. II is SAID:
will prove effective with keepers OF
''Dsind tigers and other resorts here-
tofore this class OF criminals have pro-
ceeded TO offend again as soon as re,
leased. Danville IS highly interested
II the scheme.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
NEWS OF PETERSBURG
Times Dispatch Bureau.
) Bollingbrook Street,
Telephone 1850
Petersburg. Va. February

Petersburg. Va, February q
Worshipful Grand Master James Il.
Blanks last night conferred the mas
ter Masons' wives and daughters de-
gree on seventy-six applicants. There
was large gathering of Masons on
the occasion and the ceremonies were
of 4 very interesting character. Fol-
lowing the comforting of degrees. a
banquet was served, which was great
ly enjoyed.
Personal and Otherwise.
The vacancy in the Office of city
treasurer. caused by the death of Will
liam T. Ramey. will be filled by APP
pointment by Judge Mullen, of the
Hastings Court. A .. Lockett is the
deputy treasurer. and there are two
candidates before the people for the
office-F. G. Stratton and c. L. Barks-
dale.
The condition OF Robert Roper.
stricken with paralysis several days
ago. is represented as critical to-day.
The Richmond College Glee and Man
dolin Club gave a delightful musical
entertainment tonight in the audi
torium of the D. NJ. Brown Public
school.
Among those who tooh the Masonic
degree last night we're Mrs Walter
Stewart, Mrs. Dr. L. W. Perkins and
Miss Ruth Perkins, of Dinwiddie Coun-
".
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
Newsof SouthRichmond.


will be held this afternoon at the grave
in Maury Cemetery.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-08
Foot Misery Spells
a Good Dinner
Nc More Swollen, Aching, Blistered
Feet After Using TIZ.

Send at Once for Free Trial Package.
You may think shes nervous and
fretful-but Just remember she mas
feet: poor, tired, aching feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

hands of vaster power. In other words,
the experience is not gained by being
sought
On one side mysticism belongs to the
simplest acts of the devout life and
stretches out on the other side to all sorts
of extravagant theosophical speculations
and magic And the remarkable features
of modern mysticism. as presented in
certain sects which profess to heal the
sick or to undergo remarkable psychology
cal experiences are precisely these. They
include theosophical speculation, they
defy physical facts, they produce a quasi
science based wholly on such speeula-
tion plus the magical experience which
is held to justify the speculation. They
reach all the way from the ecstasy of the
Holy Rollers to the fervor of the lady
who stamped upon the earth and shook
her little fist as she cried by the bed
side of one who had died in spite of her
treatment" you shall not get me, old
earth!''
So when we inquire what has been
the history of mysticism we are told
that the first founder of that school
in the Christian era was Plotinus (pro-
nounced with a long 30" and long "f0
who was born in the year 205. Maeter-
linck calls him "the one analytical mys-
tic" He was apparently of Egyptian
BIRTH went to the University of Alex
andria when % or % years old. and
like so many young men of that school
was possessed of a most passionate
longing to know the truth of things
| Teacher after teacher failed to satisfy
him, until he found the classroom
of Ammonius Saccas, 'the porter'-ap-
| parently a self-taught teacher in thai
| most hospitable world of learning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
MYSTERIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN-By George Eaves D. D.

day and our own utilities. heroisms,
opinions and conceits. How this could
be done within reasonable limits, so that
our busy age could find time to read it
all, / do not know. That Is the prob
lem of the desiderated expositor himself
But If done, 1t would certainly explode
some overblown nfrog-reputations; it might
teach some of us new sort of modesty,
but then again it might start us out afresh
with revivals of dead enthusiasms, worse
even than some now current, which the
judoious would deplore.
Perhaps the most characteristic by
product of our time is its mystical ten
dency. Just as in former ages systematic
thinking and prosperous era produced
always a kind of spiritual nausea and
rebellion, so now. There are multitudes
who are driven to deny the very founda-
tion principles of our modern world, its
politics, its civilization, its science. In
politics this spells socialism, in civilization
it spells nihilism. in~science it spells mys-
ticism
make no apology for grasping as
science not only philosophy but re-
ligion also, with science proper. These
relsels are irritated by the complacency
of a world of accepted dogmas. They
feel heartsick for the ideal, obscured
and prevented by these nauseous real
tiles. More than that, still vaster null
titude have periods of similar revolt,
"a sort of undercurrent of sympathy
with these poets and seers and vision
aries So greatly true is this that in
theology, for instance, the heretics are
more numerous than the othordox
Every preacher has his pet heterodoxy
and every layman differs in some par
ticular from his pastor. So in politics,
it seems as though the nihilists We're
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

almost as plentiful as the socialists,
as If Mr.. Roosevelts henchmen were
topping over every moated castle of
the old privileged order. and Mr. Lloyd
George preparing the way for a new
sort of England, from which everyone
must escape but the toiling masses.
All this by way of Introduction to
the fact that the presence of mysticism
is a most appropriate and inevitable
phenomenon in these later days. AS
mushrooms spring where conditions
favor the spawn, so has this or thai
intellectual movement appeared, in
every race and age when the right con-
ditions existed There were bound to
be mysteries in an age like ours.
Precisely what is meant by mysti-
cism? To begin with, it is not fog or
confusion. 1t does not mean incoming
or gasping, either imbecility or hys-
terics 1t is not impractical dreaming.
Apart from a certain philosophic sense,
in which mysticism is the closest kin
to theosophy. and staying by the term
wholly in it's religious sense, mysticism
has again and again been described as
the faith of those who attempt to hold
fellowship with God Immediately, and
not through reasonings. creeds. doc
! trines or ordinances of the church.
Among our contemporaries the most
eminent and widely known mystics are
the Quakers 1t is notable that the
Quakers have never failed to be sane
and practical people. But also in every
age and in nearly every religious or
p ~iZa ton some souls have been born
who were truly mystics stepping out
b ond the shell and form of their
creed and traditions. into a region OF
ecstacy and, az they believed most in
innate and immediate intercourse with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

Is very greatly to be desired that
with powers of popular exposition.
10 tell the people in simple form the
tory of the thinking of past ages. There
i so much that passes for new thought
Fhich is in fact feeble imitation of
Incient error that one may well suppose
public exists which would welcome a
hear presentation of the older, keener.
Itronger and more masterful version.
am led to these remarks by the tenn
orary use of a volume prepared for the
|eries known as the Library of His
|pric Theology and entitled. Mysticism
| Christianity" The series appears to
e produced wholly by scholars of the
Inglican church, as though designed for
he clergy of that communion. The Rev.
n. X. Fleming, B. D., author of the
resent work, teaches theology to stu
ents at the College of Allhallows, in
Iondon. He comes so near providing a
atlsfactory book for general use that
ne cannot but regret its defects in that
Erection. 1t suffers from the attempt to
over too many details, so that none out
iirly competent students can absorb its
Ill value. And yet 1t Is worth the $l.50
which it is listed
What l think we, in this nebulous and
bnfused condition that is called modern
bought. most need. is a simple descrip-
on of those ideas and personalities which
Xreated ancient thought and which later
ere absorbed into the scholasticism and
ie mysticism of medieval Europe, the
3ediaeval people themselves, their opin-
Sns and utilities. their heroisms and
|yalties. and so come down to our own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
HISTORY-No. by Dr. W. E. Evans

am tcmpted to th.nk that to be des-
pi sed Iy her sex is a very great COM
pliment to a woman"
MISS SEDLEY'S LETTERS.
"Her letters were full of repetition.
She wrote rather doubtful grammar
sometimes. and in her verses took all
sorts of liberties with the metre. But,
oh, mesdames, If you are not allowed
to touch the heart sometimes in spite
of syntaN, and are not to be loved
Until you know all the difference be-
tween tiimeter and tetrameter. may all
poetry go to the deuce and every
schoolmasrer perish miserably:"
perhaps, in Vanity Fair there are no
better satires than letters. Take a
bundle of your dear friends of IL
years back-your dear friend whom You
hate now. Vows. love, promises. confi-
dences, gratitude, how queerly they
read after whilel There ought to be
a law in Vanity Fair ordering the de-
struction of every written document
Except receipted tradesmen's bills)
after certain brief and proper inter-
val. The best ink for Vanity
Fairs use would be one that faded
utterly in couple of days and left
the paper clean and blank, so that
you might write 1t to somebody
else"
PEOPLE IN DEBT.
"As general rule, which may max e
all creditors who are inclined to he
severe pretty comfortable in their
minds, no men embarrassed are alto
gether honest. very likely. They con-
ceal something; they exaggerate
chances of good luck hide away the
real state of affairs; say that things
are flourishing when they are hopeless
keep smiling face Ca dreary smile
1t Isl upor the verge of bankruptcy--
are ready to lay hold of any preteXJ
for delay, or any money, so as to stave
off the inevitable ruin a few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
THE POWER OF WOMEN


And, oh, what mercy it is that these
enerl We can't resist them if they do Let
thew show ever so little inclination, and
men go down on their knees at once, old
or ugly, 1t is all the same. And this /
set down as a positive truth-a woman
with fair opportunities and without an
absolute hump. may marry whom she
likes Only let us be thankful that the
darlings are like the beasts of the field,
and don't know their own power. They
would overcome us entirely if they did
THE AFFECTION OF YOUNG LADIES.
For, the affection of young ladies is of
as rapid growth as Jacks bean stalk,
and reaches up to the sky in a night.
1t is no blame to them that after mar
riage this Sehnsucht mach der Lebe sub
sides. 1t is what sentimentalists. who
deal in very big words. call yearnng
after the Ideal and simply means that
women are commonly not satisfied until
they have husbands and children on
whom they may center affections, which
are spent elsewhere, as it were, in small
change.
RACK PUNCH.
"Oh. ignorant young creatures, How
little do you know the effect of rack
punch. What is the rack in the punch
at night, to the rack in the head of a
morning? To this truth / can vouch as
a man; there is no headache in the world
like that caused by Vauxhall punch.
Through the lapse of 20 years, | can re-
member the consequence of two glasses,
two wine glasses! but two upon the honor
Of gentleman, and Joseph Sedley, who
had a liver complaint, had swallowed at
least a quart of the abomnable mix
ture.'
WHAT A BANK BALANCE WILL DO.
Miss Crawley had a balance at
her bankers which would have made her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

who had repudated Christianity and
was setting forth his own ideas "Amrl
the welter of beliefs that clashed and
strove for mastery in the lecture halls
and streets of Alexandria. Plotenius lis
tened and unused and gradually
wrought out his idealzed Platonism,
intellectually and morally the most per-
feet system of belief. outside Chris
tianity. that the world has known"
Plotinus stayed student under AM
monius for II years. and when the
teacher died set out for Persia, in a
military expedition, with the purpose
of perfecting his mental experience By
a knowledge of oriental beliefs
/ may not follow Plotinus to Rome
where he spent the rest of his life, nor
can | do more than recognize the pur-
| ity of the mans character, the marvel
Gus eatholicy of his eclectic system
of doctrine, but it is necessary to note
that his conception of God was more as
law than as personality and yet not
so as to rob him of the attractiveness
of perfection. MAN may love God,
but God cannot love man. Religion is
the desire for the star. Man can reach
the star and cannot he happy until he
| does but the star does not know any
thing about him and does not care
whether he reaches IT or not"
! To be attracted to this one and inet-
fable, to love Him without hope of being
| loved, leads to the true ecstacy vet he
/ who would reach it must not seek it, but
| be passive. All we must seek is purity
| love of the ineffable, communion with
! intelligence the second person of the
| Plotinian Trinity. From this point OF
| view we must behold the absolute. Leav-
| ing out all care for the form of truth, we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

must concentrate upon the light. In other
words, the seeking soul must make prep
aration for vision by poral purity. knowI-
edge, the pursuit of beauty. but must in
no way try to force the experience"
This the, ecstasy will come unsought. but
must never be forced by psychological
devices such as hypnotists now USE and
which are older than any existing re-
ligion. we must not pursue Him (ths
ineffablel" says Plotinus. hut wait quiet
ly tilla He show Himself, only We muse
make ourselves ready to behold. as tho
eye awaits the dayspring. And He swims
above the horizon and gives Him.
self to our gaze" . j. so what was
object becomes sight, the One sud
denly appears with nothing between
and the soul and the One are no
more two but one "and the soul
knows that he would not exchange her
bliss for all the heaven of heavens"
Plotinus considered evil to be dsntegra-
ton and formlessness, but his system
leaves no room for evil. What he tried
to do. apparently, was to graft a pagan
philosophic speculation ON certain selects
ed principles of Christian theology, with
an ethical devoutuess. traceable in part
at least to St Paul. st. John and those
great early followers of the apostles
whose heroism had often smitten the con-
science of the pagan world.
| Both he puts to the blush the somewhat
arrogant, ignorant and vulgar crowd who
in these days are looking for a sign, SEEK
| ing after physical demonstration of the
heavenly vision or losing the way OF
| knowledge in vague aspirations of a r1-
mantle and selfish sort. It Is also evident
that if these wistful folk will only take
| patiently to the study of the past they
will be far less grotesque in the present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

God. Thus any list of the great mystics
will certainly take account of St John,
of the Apostle Paul, of St Augustine,
of ST. Francis of Assist, Thomas. a
Kempis, the Saints Catherine St John
of the Cross, st. Teresa, all of the old
Catholic faith 1t must also include
some reckoned among dangerous heret-
les, such as Nine. Guyon, and it will
admit Bunyan and George Fox and
Jacob Behmen The most eminent moe =
ern mystic was perhaps the Catholic
poet, Conventry Patmore. Indeed in a
sense every devout Christian holds to
the fundamental mystical doctrine of
immediacy in fellowship with God, not
that he denies the Mediator, but be-
cause he accepts Him.
There is. therefore. a certain larger in
tensity that marks tha true mystic He
pushes the unseen and ordinarily mac
eessible facts of divine fellowship into
the realm of the available and the neces-
sary, and he holds to a spiritual discip-
line which cultfvates a keen sense of these
facts.
So. then, your true mystic substitutes
experience, for dogma. Prof William
James has given four marks whereby
the mystical experience may be proved:
l. Such experience is ineffable; it cam
not be described or transferred to another
Patmore is also quoted to the effect that
1t cannot be repeated.
. Such experience carries a strange
assurance of knowledge, an authority suf-
ficient for all time. You cannot deprive
the believer of this first hand knowledge
3. Such experience is transient, so that
clear memory of it goes; only availins
in case of recurrence of the vision.
L. The soul feels itself passive in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
THE POOR AND IMPOVERISHED OF

Capital customers and prestige had
gone under the whitening process
which Wall street has endured so long.
What is going to become of Wall
street? 1t has had periods of dull
ness but this is not dullness from
which it is suffering now but stagna
mics without and within in other
times, but never until now has 1t been
unable to bring the public back to
the game after a moderate period of
penitence. 1t Is not in stocks alone
that the people have ceased to specu-
late. The situation is almost as bad
with bond brokers, grain men and in
the coffee and cotton markets. Con-
servative estimates place the number of
persons dismissed by brokerage houses
in order to retrench at from 5000 to
employees lot go by the bankers, law
yers, printers, supply people. restau-
rants, and the various other concerns
that fattened on the business of the
stock exchange. Even the bootblacks
are affected by the blight in the finan-
cial district. Uptown it is the same.
The lobster palaces, theatres, great ho-
tells, jewelers., caterers, furnishers, all
sorrow because Wall street is having
such a hard time
There used to be a score of broker
age houses that employed from so To
z 5persons. Now there are few that
have rs names on the pay roll. On va
rious occasions in times of plenty one
speculator, Daniel G.. Reid, gave more
business to the street in few hours
than has been transacted by the whole
exchange in one recent day. Men who
once were big factors now are rarely
heard of. A. o. Brown Is an example.
Five or six years ago his establishment
was the biggest In Wall street.-the
biggest in the history of the stock eX-
change. He had thousands of custom
ers and hundreds of employees. His
main office was packed with people
throughout the day. There Were
branches in most or the big hotels.
Special wires Connected him with his
out t-of-town branches in all of the prin-
cipal cities. Uptown he had a nigh.
establishment where there were private
rooms for such customers from dis
tant points as wish to be his guests
while in the city. These visitors were
as much at home as If in a private
club. Their host providede everything.
even to a valet. Wine was free as
water. The finest of cigars were theirs
to take in any quantity. A $4,000 a
year chef prepared their meals.
BY cable and special wire they could
get news at ony hour of the night from
any quarter of the globe. While they
We're in bed they could get reports as
to the opening of the London market.
The running expenses of all the A. Q.
Brown establishments were far in ex-
cess of $1,000 day.
When the broker married popular