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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
BUY I'm Richmond.

THERE is no reason OH earth why Rich
mond women should go to New York, or
any other city, for the purpose OF buying
their clothes. There is every reason why
Richmond women this year should be espe-
cially determined to make their purchases at
home. There Is no economy, certainly, in
trailing away to New York or Baltimore, as
many do. Quality for quality, prices are as
low here as they are in other cities, and on
the shelves and counters of Richmond mer-
chants are wares TO suit every taste
That is one view OF the matter, but there
is another. The business depression that
has followed the European war was not
anticipated last spring, when buyers were
ordering their FALL and winter stocks They
expected season OF aEeat prosperity and
business activity, and they.bbught generously
with that in view. These stocks must be
moved If they are not, the merchants will
suffer, and then their employees, and then
the great multitude with whose lives those of
the merchants and their employees are inter
related.
TO patronize home merchants this year is
patriotic duty
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
Effect Of Big Howitzers

BERLIN. October I2.-What the eff
Get of the German field howitZcrs'
lire can be when directed upon troons
In close formation Is described III tho
letter OF German officer. which. pub
lished in the Cologne Gazette OF Sep
TENDER 20, reads in part as follows:
"On August 90. at s o'clock in the
evening. just az we were about to go
into quarters, fight developed sud
denly. Before wc knew what had
happened we were I'm the thick Of IL.
1t was n quick victory The French
slept in a ditch along the highway with
the starry Sky for Il blanket. The cold
was mean.
ON the following day matters pro-
ceedcd. The French were retiring on.
the road to Sedan. Following them we
saw terrible scenes. This was especial
iy true OF stretch OF straight road
running through u forest. Here two
French field artillery regiments had
been annihiiatcd. The pieces stood in
the road In marching order: the horses,
six to each piece. lay dead in the traces.
as II struck by lightning. Near them
were scattered the dead officers and
men.
There were twenty eight pieces Of
artillery, and alltheir crews dead. The
thing happened in ten minutes. and a
Captain Wllhclmi is responsible for
this fine piece of work. He surprised
the French with his field howitzers mt
Il range of 500 metres. The captain
was shot in the chest, but lie could
tell US tho story. one of the French
officers, who happened to be n short
distance away from the artillery. and
who was wounded, told us that tho
experience was enough to rob anybody
of his senses.
81 will never forget the awful pic
~
pieces Of artillery. corpses and the
cadayers OF horses"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
War News Fifty Years Ago
From the Richmond Dispatch, Oct. Fl. 1864,

There nothing doing down below Rich
mond Yesterday except that the Confederate
at Dutch Gap, and the Smelling yesterday was
heavier and more vigorous than for several
days past.
Butler has placed many prisoners on the
works at Dutch Gap and THUS placed them In
danger Of the Confederate fire from the gun
boats. Among the officers thus put to work
and i'm imminent danger is Mntor uan,ow ~
the Third Virginia Battalion. Buffers excuse
for this action Is that he has Heard that GER
tain negro troops held prisoners by the
Confedcrates have been put to work the
Notifications around Richmond. The fact is
whp were thus put to work were placed on
the works at their own request. they prcfcrring
to work in the air to being kept confined
IN cells in Libby and other prisons.
SiNty-f1ve naval officers and men came in by
flag OF truce boat yesterday, having been repu-
larly exchanged. Butler kept them mt Fortress
Monroe eleven days, and II lie could have had
his way would have kept them indefinitely,
but General Grant took the responsibility and
sent them to Richmond. Is said that
Butler grumbled much at Grants action but he
could not help himself
Barnburner Sheridan. is reported to be keep
ing very quiet in the Valley Mosby keeps
very busy in his rear. and thus gives Early
chance to choose his own lighting ground on
the front.
Mosby in the affair at Dufiield safely
landed in Libby Prison last night.
The quietude in the front OF Petersburg is
getting to be monotonous, not to say distress
ing. TO the soldiers. The average Confederate
soldier does not like to be kept loahng He
wants to keep lighting all the time.
The information reaches here that the Fed
erals have left the Orange and Alexandria Rail-
road and concentrated their forces on the Ma
nassas Gap Road. This seems put an end
TO the probability Of their approaching Cor
louisville.
Captain Luther Libby, who was quietly re-
siding his farm Fort Harrison. wasl
taken prisoner by direct order OF Butler and
ncarccratcd in Fortress Monroe His daugh-
ter. Mrs. Hutcheson. and her little daughter
were also made prisoners anti taken to Der
mnda Hundred. Captain Libby's sister, Miss
Silvia Libby was also made prisoner. and
taken to bermuda There Is charge against
these good people except that they bear the
name Libby Captain Libby lis reported TO he
quite sick at Fortress Monroe
From Newborn, n. C., the report that
119 deaths from yellow fever occurred there
In one day this week. The deaths were mostly
among negroes and Federal soldiers. Only
one death has occurred from the dreaded dis
ease in Wilmington this week
Rev. d. w. Clark, d. D.. Edward Thompson.
-. d.. and Rev. c. Kingsley have been elected
bishops of the Northern Methodist Church MI
three have regulations abolitionists
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New Zealand and Colorado.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-YOu publish to-day Il letter from Miss
Dooley, in which she gives woman suffrage in
New Zealand all the credit for the Court of Ar
bitration. which settles labor disputes in that
country Then what is the matter with the
voting women of Colorado? If any one OF the
suffrage states OF our own country had proved
a model OF good government il would impress
us more than distant New Zealand Virginia
has IL" industrial warfare, she has little or no
trohole with strikes of any kind, but If such
disturbances should occur it is Uncomfortable
that Nirginians would depend on sort Of
army OF occupation to govern the Old Do
minion. 1t is not Votes. hut character that
makes a people great and re best law cannot
be enforced among lawless people
In this connection 1t is Interesting to note
what perhaps Miss Dooley does not know that
within the last year there has been Very
remarkable strike I'm New Zealand, in which
the rarties concerned would not consent to ar
bitration The Federation OF Labor called out
all workers on Dominion vessels and coastws 40
trading ships, all workers on wharves and piers.
carriers in the cities and coal miners through :
out the country. In Auckland 10000 persons
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went on strike simultaneously. Industry was,
lpracticafly dend. Vessels were deserted by
their crews. wharves were in possession OF
strikers the shops werc closed on tho empty
streets" Arbitration having been refused. the
government would not interfere. But the
Farmers Cooperative Union brought 1900
mounted farmers into Auckland and 900 into
Wellington, all prepared to carry on the work
and protect the workers. Their arrival settled
the question, and III week the great strike
was practically ended.
Since this experiment In syndicalism' the
excellent arbitration law OF New Zealand has
worried better than ever, but It Is really I'M
possible to sec what votes for women had to
do with the matter A. W w
Richmond. October 10, 1914
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2,. 1914,
THE TIMES DISPATCH and Breakfast
are served together with unfailinE resu-
Isrity in the Best IIomes OF Richmoad.
Ii your morning program completef
Keen Richmond Clean!

IN CAUSING the arrest and securing the con-
l viction of the man responsible, under the
law, for an indecent theatrical performance,
Chief of Police Werner has served warning
again that Richmond is not, nor ever desires
to be, a "wde-open' city.
Itinerant showmen, who disregard decency
and fling propriety to the winds. in order to
make money for their employers, may sneer
at Small town methods, but the citizens Of
this conservative, yet prosperous and progress
sivc, community heartily indorse the determi-
nation Of its Chief of Police to keep 1t also
clean.
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Letters From the PenitentIary.

Sir,--Don't you think the penitentiary Off
Gals. In ruling that prisoners he restricted to
writing one letter month work an unneces-
sary hardship on relations and friends?
Are the prison authorities and convict camp
guards afraid that certain events will be over
looked by the ccnsors and reach the public
unless this ruling is enforced?
Anything the public will do TO tighten the
load oil these unfortunates will surely be ap-
prcc:ated by those who realize conditions.
Richmond, October ~, 1914. s. b
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UnyfeldtnE.

He CATER the refusa)-
Don't you think you will
ever change your mind.
She-Never. | gave up
that woman's privilege when
L took up the fight for
woman's rights. But you
might leave your address.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
The Voice of the People

Letters TO the Editor should not be over
$50 words In length and the and ad-
dress OF the writer must accompany each
communication, not necessarily for publicn-
tion, but as an evidence OF good faith. Write
one side of the paper, and inclose stamps
II manuscript In to be returned. Partisan
letters concerning the European war will not
be published.
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In n Pinch.

In Pinch.
i, Cold weather time is my bette noir,
1t gricves me much. for then
The deadly. dread revolving door
Goes on the job again
w. Kee Maxwell, in Peoria journal.
That deadly door gives me the blues
! am too fat, they say:
But dern that door, I'd hate to lose
My extra flesh that way
Houston Post
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Cause and effect.

Stubbs--What is your understanding of the
relation between cause and cTect2
GrubbsLLet me explain it to you Suppose
YOU came up to me and said. you wanted to
borrow $40. That's cause.
Stubbs-Yes.
Grubbs--And then up the nearest
policeman Hnd asked him to protect inc. That
would be effect.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
Fifty Years

ON this page The Times Dispatch, prints
~ war News Fifty Years Ago" Half a
century hence newspapers will be chroniclng
the events of 1914 under a similar heading.
VIII the people Of that day wonder what sort
OF barbarians were the old men of that time.
VINO sent the blood and brains and souls of
youth into armed conflict?
Aside from war, surprising some great
mind could accurately write Fifty Years
Hence That prophecy would perhaps
speak OF the disappearance Of such curious
Things as 1914 automobiles telegraph. tele
phoHe' unbalanced aeroplanes snail Like
serenty-mile express trains, home cooking
ana Indigestion. Writing Fifty Years Hence. .
we might we'll imagine some such paragranbs
as these:
Birdnau John Jones has successfu,I,,
flown 500 miles an hour win his
shoulder wings.
tunnel has been completed from
New fork to Chicago, through which
by air compression a passenger car.w,s
Sent to chicago in fifteen minutes
a wireless message has been gent
around The world without relay, the
operator who sent it instantly receiving
II again without interfereice
Mnc Melba -lIeink. IN hey apartments
~ the ST Regis. New York gave con
cert by wireless telephone al CRYSTAL
Pa!acc. London. accompanied by am
orchestra playing in Moscow at the sam.
time
The Rockefeller Insiplte has AT last
manufactured in It's laboratory AN egg
mat WAS actually ha;chcd in an inct
bator.
The New York CONSTRUCTION Company
sas contracted erect sixty-stor,
ireproof office building, which must he
completed and ready for occupancy In
four days.
Sounds foolish, doesn't it? IL any prophet
offered such nonsense we would all hurry
right away for a policeman and talk about
what a pity it was TO let irresponsible people
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21

| the opinion of the author of 'The Truce Of the
Bear" who pronounccs the bear that walks
look ii.
Editor Beazley thus extends his sympathy in
his South Boston News:
+ Senator Mapp. OF the Eastern Shore. though
surrounded by much water. is one OF the dry
est men In the State. a prohibitionist from
your heart
The plight OF the nctonal hero excmpiHed in
real life. Water, water everywhere. and not
drop to drink
The Covington Virginiun, which has no fear
of punishment nor hope OF reward but Is given
to Dayiny at the moon, thus mocks
and NOW the old highway and by way edi-
tor of the It'd. carries four or five sticks day
on biblical authorities and the analytical con-
cordancc and the Talmud and the Seven Books
Of Moses. and the Newport News Press is gasp
ing and gurgling and quoting st. Paul and Min
neapolis and Mark Hanna, and religion is roll
ing all over the peninsula and threatening 10
fill up thoac already too shallow harbors down
the river. And only the other day they were
wrangling which took the pot--four aces or
royal strnight flush. situation possible in
Richmond and Newport News where there are
frequently many five six q
deck
The meanwhile the impression concerning
the unprofitabcness OF casting pearls before
the unapprcciative grows more vivid.
our belief that the optimism for which Edi-
tor Ben Fisher has made his Eastern Shore
Herald famous is largely inspired by intimate
knowledge and intelligent appreciation OF the
worth while things is confirmed by this ut
torrance:
"IIurrah for Richmond the greatest con-
vcntion Of bankers In the history of finance;
the first regional reserve bank, and lots OF other
big things. What Rome was once to the Tiber,
Richmond is to the James. May she hold all
she has and gain morc"
The Fredericksburg Star cautions it's read
ers:
"A number of counterfeit half-dolars are
said to he in circulation and bear the date
1910. Don't get Bit"
Half dollar Brother Byrd is four bits"
Says the Danvlle Register:
General Thomas C.. Rye IS candidate for
Governor of Tennessee; and 1t is said that the
long divided Democracy of that State will unite
in support Of his candidacy. Men have gotten
together rye frequently before this"
Not fair comparison. although the situa-
ton might be such in either make
applicable the tmc-honorcd slogan, United
|
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,rhe Pcnsimint snyn,

am not going TO dispute the accuracy OF
the statement that sit is long lane that has
no turning" but l usually find after the lane
has turned that 1t Is sleeper and rocker than
1t before.
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The Real strategy.

Hleks-"What do you think OF the general
Staff
wlcks-"Huh. use more real strategy to
get 4 night out with the boys."--Boston
Transcript.
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SONGS AND SAWS
Not wa.tfns .rimcr.

Not Wasting Time.
The baseball players gone to roost
Throughout the winter drear.
But still he Is not wasting time,
AS will In time appear
He's thinking now OF ways to boost
.liis salary for next year.
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,rhe Real r,llinr.

The Real Thing.
Well this-is the weather, October,
That YOU should provide
Not the curious medley. half-sober
Which you have supplied
We have need or the and its kisses:
We're tired OF rain.
or what we'd attain!
THE TATTLER
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The Bakers ns Teachers.

~, , NJ"
am glad to many bakers here to
share Richmond's hospitality" said the pronli-
nent Citizen. while il is quite true that we
cannot live by bread alone. it is almost equally
true that can't live without 1t. And with
so rnapy experts here ought to learn how
to make bread that Is not only better. but best"
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She Should unye Knovn.

oh, am sorry can't marry you j had
no idea YOU thought or me that way! We'll
what do you suppose I've been letting your
father beat me at golf all the time for?"-
Judge.
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Chats With Virginia Editors

i"rhose Russians seem to have lost the road
TO Berlin the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch pauscs
to remark. but prefer to pin faith to
the opinion of the author of 1.-The Truce OF the
Bear who pronounccs the bear that walks
like man" most dangerous when lie doesn't
look il.
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The Bright Side Of Life
whore Money Fnila.

"rhat rich Mrs. Stggins doesn't speak to mo
now. Yet she used to be my next door neghbor
and they awfully common" well
there are some things money can't do" What %
Make old-timc neighbors forget the early days.
Plain Dealer
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Shippers and
troopers
of Bombs.

for civilans---that is. men ont OF uniform--to
fire on soldiers. why Is il equally repre-
hensiblc for the occupants of airships to drop
bombs OH nonmilitary positions? The Cathedral
of Notrc Dame, Paris. was crowded with
shippers yesterday when German aircraft
dropped a bomb upon its roof. Fortunately
the bomb did not explode. Had 1t exploded and
wrecked that noble structure ii would have
mainly killed manned noncombatants for
few French soldiers probably within the
sacred precincts To-day bomb been
aimed At a crowded Paris railroad station. Pos
sibly n railroad station i'm these times may be
considered a military position, as troops arc
constantly passing through II, but, nevertheless
the question recurs In this instance If bomb
dropping il not attempt al promiscuous mas
sacrc and eXcusablc only TO those who accept
the doctrine that tho might to do Il thing is
equivalent TO the right to do it.-Boston Tran
script
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With the Carman and Ramsay Harrison
cases now on trial, news FROM the seat of war
VIII have some frst-class competition.
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Former President Taft has spoken in terms
OF the highest praise of the foreign policy of
the Wilson administration. With the excep-
ton OF r. r., this makes the nations approval
unanimous.
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If any man had dared fifty years ago, to
write the above prophecies they'd have had
him in il padded cell in no time, plucking
hypothetic cherries from imaginary trees.
And yet all these things and many more have
come TO pass, and, as we look ahead, the
fanciful predictions in the first group do not
seem i'll the least degree more unreasonable
than those in the second group certainly
would have seemed to the man who curled
his lip in derision and doubt in 1864.
Again, we rise to remark that it is a won
derful world-a wonderful, whirling, zig
tagging, staggering, preposterods world!
There is no end of what man might do, no
telling what he might attempt, even to
scaling the horizon, if he could locate it, to
force the gates of heaven! When man neu-
tralizes gravitation and finds a way to exist
and so through that dead belt beyond earth
atmosphere lie may even fly to Mars, as he
will surely some day fly to the North Pole,
and make nothing OF it more thrilling than
a fast ride OH roller coaster
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Gavro Prinzip, Judged by the
Iiyjno evil he wrought. is likely be
Responsibility nmtia. hs one oa 'ne mos, 'ntiu
'o ""' tory. y crack-hrained school
boy. barely eighteen years of
age brought Europe TO death grips. Hating
the powerful neighbor which shut off his
fatherlands proper opportunity to grow and
develop. he struck at the head OF Austria, and
slew the crown prince. Not Indirectly, but
straight and speedily from this act has
come the struggle which already. barely in its
inception, has cost thousands OF lives and
brought misery beyond computation rccom-
pense The world does not believe that the boy
was the agent OF the Servian government. No
government would be blind to inspire IA
deed which must rebound to it's disadvan-
tage and its disGrcdit. More probably he was
merely AN unbalanced enthusiast, seeking to
sacrifice his own life in striking a blow for
his country. Prnzip is trial his
life at Sarajevo. There is doubt OF his
guilt The punishment of the murderer is his
due But the trial will go still further. 1t
Will be Austria's attempt to convict Prinzip,
but the whole Servian nation. Austria is maxi
ing final desperate effort to clear her own
skirts and to shift the responsibility for the
epoch making catastrophe in which she has
involved Europe-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Alpllonse to CASTOR

tI REGRET that 1 am compelled to drop
bombs, but is war;" wrote a Taube
aviator as he let one fall on Paris, and sent
the letter, addressed to General Gallieni
whiring through the air to be delivered to
that warrior.
If there ever was irony, it is in this Al
phonse-Gaston proceeding. Pardon me- my
dear general, for blowing up cathedral but
| 1t is necessary to my nation" kiss me- sol
der ! an about to blow your head Off and
/ it makes me sorry!' Don't cry little girl;
am going to shoot your father but you know
don't like to do it,"
OF all the utter nonsense. the worst or
record is the profession of nations involved in
war that they don't want to fight Ger
mans English, French, Russians-it's all the
same. The only nation that didn't really
want to fight, perhaps. was Belgium The
rest are in it grinning, tapping gore eager
for slaughter, looting and robbing, destroying
homes and wrecking villages-not because
they have to and regret ii, but because they
want to, and wouldn't stop if the chance
was offered.
! That may sound extreme and harsh, but
isn't it the truth? If the nations don't really
want 10 fight, isn't Woodrow Wilson waiting
for the first simple request to mediate?
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1t is mighty hard to believe tnat the bakers
will be successful in their reported plan to
raise the price OF bread They may be able
10 reduce the size of the loaf but bread has
cost cents too long for the great American
public to be willing to pay either more or
less. ma
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Current Editorial Comment

II would require the perverted
ingenuity OF hardened casuist
30 present an ethical distinction
between snipins and bomb drop
ping on noncombatants. IL il is
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run around in the heavy traffic! And yet.
what would we have done to man fifty
years ago to-day, who. writing Fifty Years
Hence" dared to say:

ience, dared to say:
All OF Europe is engaged in q gigantic
war, and America is threatened.
An aviator flying in the air shot
from the deck of a gunboat. fell into the
ocean. but was saved by n submarine.
Trains are now running from New
York to Jersey City under the river,
instead of over II.
A man named Marconi has sent
telegram across the Atlantic Ocean
without cables or wires, through the
air
Horses are no longer used for driv-
ing. carriages running on their own
motive power.
Street cars being run by cleo
tricity.
\ machine has been Invented by
Thomas a. Edison that will record and
reproduce all sounds. including the
human voice, which be identified.
by new process many as eight
kilograms can be sent on one wire at
the same time without confusion
II is possible to talk over Il wire,
through an instrument known the
telephone from New York to San Fran
cisco.
The United States has gone Demo