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that some other cause intervcncs Th!s
"tn"r cause. or tn" principal other
cause. is probably the t.mpering effect
OF tn" vast oceanic cxpanscs which ex-
ist IN IN" southern hemls phcre. greatly
exceeding in area those Of tho north
al tho same time II must be rerneni-
Dered that The southern winter OCCURS
when In" earth is farthest from the
sun, 100000 miles farther than in
summer when tho sun is vertical over
tn" trop!c OF Cancer in tho north Con
scquently winter in the southern hem!s-
phcrc should DC colder than tho north
cTn winter. Here again II apDears that
tho cTualizing effect upon the tcnlpera-
tG.c OF the immense southern oceans in
, tervenes in favor Of the southern CONT
nents and saves them from the ex-
trcmcs 10 which they would otherwise
lie subjected.
Around the Southern Pole. however
the effects OF the larger and colder win
ter are manifest The accumulation OF
ice and snow there Is much greater
than in the North The Antarctic CON
tinent is completely buried under an
, icy shield which may. in places be
thousands Of feet thick. while the ex-
tension Of the roof Of ice covering the
seas about the borders Of that CONT
mont exceeds anything known in tho
| North. The great elevation Of the Ant
arctic continent also has an important
effect III producing a lower ,empera-
ture.
Upon tho whole, Il may he said that,
as things stand az tho present time. ma
ture has provided compensatoyy inru-
cncca which tend 10 moderate extremes
IN both hemisphercs In the northern
the greater distance OF tho sun in SUM
ner, and it's greater proximity In win
ter furnish the compensation. while in
the southern the modcrating influence
OF the more extensive oceans Is the
compromising agent
About 1000 years hence however.
when the alteration in tho pointing %:
tho carths axis produced hv the PFC
ccssion OF the eGIinoXes shall have re-
verscd the present situation. 81 vii Re
the northern hemisphere that Viii have
its summer when the earth l. nearest
the sun and it's winter when IN. earth
is farJhcst from the sun, and since this
! hemisphere possesses more land than
sea. there viii be no compensation. and
the extremes az heat and cold VIII be
uutempered with the advantage re-
manning with the cold. which may pro-
hucc. in the north temperate zone.
new glacial age. But that concerns our
remote descendants. and We can do
nothing for them.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

'Ara there greater extremes OF trmpora.
ture in the southern than In The northern
hem!sphcrc7 Ny question j. based upon
the fact that tn" sun IL some 1900 600 miles
farther from the Hopic 81 cancer in Juno
than IN Dec uIhrr. therefore apprcciably
nearer Capricorn IN December. and vertical.
Il ". II ukiah, cal
Your question would hn clearer II
YOU had simply stated. for it's sis.
the fact that tho earth is about 5000
600 miles further from tho sun near tho
"nd of June than near the end OF De
vcmbcr.
Tho so-called tropics" Of Cancer ana
OF Capricorn arc imaginary circles
drawn around tho earth. parallel "a
the equator. and distant from it about
"Si. degrees, ono being situated in tho
northern and the other in tho south
ern hemisphere, and they derive thci,
respective names from the zodiacnl con
s'ella;ion in which tho sun IS apparent
~ situated whom II is vertical over
ono or tho other Of the tropics.
The word iropic comes from th,
Creek word for turning and it's sig
nihcance is that IN" two tropical cir
cles indicate the limits Of tho suns
greatest annual advance. either north
or south Of the equator. having at
tanned which. II turns and swings in
tho other direction. These two points
OF turning aye called the solcsticcs.
The difference in the distance OF the
earth from tho sun Al opposite times
IN the year has no connection with
tho tropica! circles, except that the
one called Capricorn is that over which
the sun Is vertical in December. and
the on" called Cancer is that over
which the sun is vertical in June, and
II so happens that the nearest approach
OF the earth 10 the sun occurs not tar
from the time when the latter is upor
the tropic OF Capricorn. which Hes in
the southern hemisphere But the
tropics would exist just tho same II
there were no change I'm tho distance
TIL" correct statement is that The
earth. as whole. and not the tropIc
OF Capricorn. IS 3.00o.o miles rcnrcr
the sun when the latter is vertical
over tho Capricorn circle. and. since
that corresponds With the summer sea
con in tho southern hemisphere. il
follows that summer should be hotter
in That hemisphere than in the north
crn. J! The difference OF distance alone
governed The case the summer temper
;tture south Of tho equator should be
about or per cent higher than
north OF the equator
But. a matter OF fact, the southern
summer. as whole. Is no hotter thnn
the northern. from which +, is evidcn,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
School To-Day, School Back Yonder

# O-MORROW in Richmond as In a majority
1 of cities in the land, is the opening of the
school season. The first day under our edu-
cational system is day of lining up. 1t is
different from the first day OF other times 1t
is creditable To our system that the return
10 the classes is not dreaded as formerly.
The boy Of average intelligence and
hition is glad to get back. His vacation has
been more enjoyable than was the vacation of
his father if the latter had any There were
more diversions The anticipated reunion
with his chums hurries him TO the old play
ground or the classroom. There is sort Of
community Of companionship between the
boy and his teacher. and the teacher of to-
day is different type from his her pre-
decessor Of earlier times.
We are not disparaging the master of the
old times, God bless him He was the salt
of the earth MS an example of learning and
stateliness and conduct. But if the boy or
girl under his tuition had natural desire
to rise from stepping stones to higher
things, the old master had no system to put
the pupil on the way. The facilities were
fewer. and education as general proposition
did not have the attractions it has to-day.
The old schoomaster stood on his dignity.
but he knew the sort of stuff boys were made
OF, and when the stuff asserted itself, the
master seldom tried to overcome It, When
the old master in 'Curiosity Shop gave his
boys a halliday in order that he might visit
his sick scholar, his favorite, hard by the
playground, he asked them to do their yelling
some distance away. They had hardly passed
through the door when they sea mpered and
shouted and hootcd to the full extent Of their
lungs The old master, looking after them
said 1T is natural. Thank God they
didn't mind me-"
If the old master were alive to-day and
made the sa me request. he would see his boys
marching away as orderly as West Point
cadets, seeking Il safe distance before emitting
n holler. SO much for system then and now
The opening Of school now is looked for with
eagerness. 1t is a continuation Of the road
that leads to the heights on which the eyes
Of pupils are fixed
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Records OF English RainfnII,

On November 7. 1907, Gibraltar ex-
poricnccd a cloudburst which deposited
four inches Of rain in thirty minutes.
Londons record rainfall stands at 3.75
inches. which fell in ninety minutes on
Juno 81. 1878. three quarters of an inch
moro than was deposited at Herne Rav
in three and a half hours on July Is,
1908. Scarborough is proud Of rain
record set up on August 6, 1852. when
the local official rain gauge registered
nine inches in one downfall, and was
tten placed out of action, so that the
total of the Yorkshire deluge OF fifty
eight years ago was never known
Pail Mall Gazette
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The Voice Of the People
The Athens of America in Virginia.
. Editor OF Tho Times

To the Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Hanover Charlotte and Wcstmor"laHd
are the three counties OF Virginia that We're
either the BIRTH place or the residence Of more
distinguished than any other sections Of
State. Hanover tho natv" county Of
rs Clay. Charlotte was the residence of the
two creates, orators tho country produced,
Patrick Henry and John Randolph Of Roanoke,
and the birthplace of the latter Patrick Hen
ry born in Hanover. but moved 10 Charlotte
and lived and died at the Red House. In" name
OF his eSdence, on tho Stanton River. John
Randolph horn in Charlotte He died in
philadelphia and on his deathbed save ,direc-
lions that he should not be buried lin Wash
ington city. with hundred hacks behind me-
but be taken to Virginia and buried under my
pa rinonial oaks at Roanoke"
But Westmorsland make a higher boast
than either Hanover or Charlotte II was the
birthplace and the residence OF the illustrious
Light Horse Harry Lee. father Of III" stu moro
illustrous Robert +. Lee: Of Francis IiSlltfoot
Lee and Richard Henry Lee. both members %
ra ton TOR Independence. and was the birthplace
OF President James Monroe II Richard
Henry Lee who. in obedience Constructions
OF the Virginia House OF Burgesscs.' offered the
resolutions for independence in the Contincu-
tai Congress.
All Of these distinguished mon we're born in
small area OF "estmoreland County not larp-
er in extent than the ten-!nile square that com
pose the District OF Columbia There is no other
with the single exception OF Athens. Greece.
that ever produced many illUstrious men. and
in consequence this favored Wcstinore-
land has been called the Athens Of America
L. G. MARYE.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

The Lynchburg Advance makes an unusual
complaint as follows: while every other coun-
try In the world is making strenuous efforts to
rake and scrape together sufficient gold to sup
ply its needs, tho United States is facing real
danger in the fact that the gold of lcurope is
rapidly being transferred to this country and is
forming an enormous mountain of money which
forms serious temptation to those who have
charge OF It, Unless the custodians OF this gold
handle 1t with the utmost and Judgment
n period of speculation and fictitious values
is very Liable to come to this country. and few
Things could be more dangerous"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
In the hffcrgIOyy.

Mother o. mine. in the afterglow
OF mothering years, love YOU so:
For loving me eer life | knew,
When next your heart new life grow;
Loving me on into fair childhood
When so little understood
The long. hard way we all must so,
Mother o. mine, love you SO.
Loving me. too. when life so sweet
Tempted my maynard, girlish feet
Away from paths of truth and right
To paths that lead to sins dark night:
Winning me back with loving tone
To ways that you had made your own
by struggle and stress and pain and
prayer.
BY loves own cords you held me there
Mother O. mine, It's mine to take
The burdensomc load, the stress, the
ache.
That come in motherhood's fair years
The JOY, the pain, the love. the tears:
It's mine TO give what YOU gave me-
Mother o. mine, | would faithful be
To the highest note in the song YOU
taught
My girlish Lips. the music fraught
With all the mother hopes and fears
That fill to tho brim the motherng
years.
Mother o mine. in the afterglow
Or motherhood's years, I thank you so
For gifts to me from out your heart.
at thoughts that rise my hot tears
start;
God give me ways to make YOU know
How great Is NY love before you go
Away TO rest from your mothering;
would remove life's every sting
And give you rest in the afterglow,
For. mother o mino, I love you so.
shufelt Rivola In The Chris
tan Herald
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
SEEN ON THE SIDE
w. w.

w. w.
Talk of German Kaiser.
Or Of the Russian Gear,
And we'll admit they're wiser
Than other monarchs are.
The King OF England merry,
The President of France
Are both good fellows-vcry-
Prepared to take chance.
To Belgian Alberes given
His need Of hard-won fame;
He serves his country. riven
BY shock and she'll and flame.
But still our faith we're pinning
To one who serves us we'll
To Wilson. all hearts winning
The rest can-well, you tell
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Sauce and Pep
Somewhat CaIlouscd.

AIRY alone in a trench with croun
OF seasoned fellows fresh from the Indian SER
vice and graduates of the Boer War AIRY
had brought tobacco and pipe with him from
London. and he generous with his pos
sessions. Suddenly there loud explosion
and the trench filed with the dust from,
part OF an exploding shell
Ono OF the regulars came UP from that dust
with his face ashen
bits dead he gasped. "Hc standn
right by me, an his heads shot ofr.'
But 'Arry's reply nothing more than
peevish.
"Arl ryte." he said; but where lis lis cad?
e wsssa-smokin'ao my pips."-Christian Hor-
aid.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

and is Staying turkeys and birds before they
arc we'll able to fly. 1t is reported that right
game warden's home. gangs of wild turkeys
have been literally wiped out, a month in adj
vance o: the season for hunting. That such
things can happen and go unpublished is n
disgrace to the administration of the law and
serious reflection on those whose duty II /,
to see the laws enforced"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

The "lifer'' who was pardoned out of Sing
Sing the other day is cighty-sx He had
served twenty-one years. In all that time
he had the satisfaction of remembering that
he took drink with Henry Clay. He must
have been like Petroleum V. Nasty. who,
visiting the grave of man at whose counter
he often QuenChcd his thirst. said he couldn't
shed any tears over the deceased. although
his mouth watcred as he thought of other
doys
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Current Editorial Comment
Dying for
Lack of
ForethouSht

Did the seem long
Dying for while the crew OF the F-4 tor
Lack of tured by the aEonizine death of
Forethought slow suffocation, awaited rescue
in the darkness OF their subma-
rine. go feet below the water?
But while life or death n matter Of hours
and minutes, the brave twenty-five struggling
in the depths. the heroic rcscuers Offering them
selves as sacrifices and the despairinC relatives
had to wait until all-wi government crossed
2.lOo miles Of the Pacific to San Francisco. They
had to wait further until all wise government
prepared plans and specifications and lesurely
Maynard. Then they had to wait until the
six pontoons were taken back across the ol00
miles OF the Pacific TO Honolulu.
And when the pontoons reached there af-
ter walt OF five months and five days. the FL
was raised to surface in four hours.
How many OF the twenty-five might have
been saved II the pontoons had been available
at Honolulu on the day Of the accident?
II pontoons useful in the recovery Of
sunken submarines. then pontoons in ample
quantities should be provided every naval
station from which submarines operate or arc
likely to operate. But more effective an
planes arc now available. n was shown in the
case OF the German submersible that sunk off
tho coast Of Belgium recently.
Why should American seamcn he asked 10
risk their lives in fragile submarines unless
every safeguard that ingenuity suggest is
provided for their protection against danger?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

What next? OF course. the street car strap
ought 10 he sterlized and the wash rag should
he incincra ed. and the towel has lost favor
with the pursts. Now somebody suggests that
the handkerchief must be releEated to the
dump. We suppose If the school that is max king
ur the list would have had they lived in the
days OF Adam cut out the fir leaf
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Judge Not. A News Story o, Nh. n.x

Allen Cartwright Richmonder believes that
all things come to him vino waits Several
months ago he gave a negro So to pay a gas
bill The amount of the bill was So Ciartricht
never saw the man afterwards until few weeks
aSo The man paid the and got a
receipt and the change. On his way back he
heard that ship at Newport News had ad-
verttsed for men TO go abroad with drove of
horses He rushed to the railroad station took
the train and few hours later he had the
job. He forgot all about The transaction a. tho
gas Office until he was we'll to sea He was
gone two months. The other day he walked
into Gartrght's Office and handed him the re-
ceipted bill and the 50 in change. Gartrisht
never worried. feeling assured that II the negro
was alive he would make it all right The
dnrkey said he thought of sending back
the bill and change by mail, but on second
thought he preferred to trust his own honesty
rather than the mail service.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

The si3teen-year -od girl who swan from
the Battery to the Narrows in upper New
York Bay with her hands and feet tied would
have had nervous prostration If sho had had
to run carpet sweeper for her mother for
ten minutes
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Chats With Virginia Editors

One. A. II. z!lmer of Waterloo Ia. delivered
a lecture in Richmond Thursday nigh: entitled
"Armageddon." Wonder if T. r. wrote it?-
Halifax Gazette
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

one place more than another in this country
that needs the protection OF ST Christopher.
it is Long Island. which can always be relied
upon To furnish list OF automobile accidents
and horrors every Monday morning.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

The early commuter is to be pitied. He
has 10 hustle to catch a train. and if he gets
home late he catches lecture
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Pnjn,nas Waltz.

Now that Secretary Daniels has ordered pa
jamas OF the navy to be removed the stock 70
he sold at auction You may be Interested. IL
you've worn ON. In recalling the words here
with which were sung in The Merry Widow:
wear my silk pajamas in the summer, when it's
l wear my flannel mighty in the winter when
it's not.
But sometimes in the springtime and some
times in the fall.
hop into my little bed with nothing on at nj,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
4 Gan.in,s tribute to spnih,nx.

or all the tributes have heard the
memory of a. G. SpaldinE. that OF Richmond
newsie TO his pal is the most sincere: Say, der
amt Eon to be ball fer a while, cause
dc fader de game Is dead"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

An Indiana woman who had been married
thirteen times died from shock. Don't I'M
derstand how a woman who lived with thir-
teen men could have been shocked
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

Say what YOU will of the German amba ssad dor
he knew enough TO declare he never gave ou
that interview.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Changing a Towns Name

IN Virginia and some other States with tradi-
1 ton and age. a town once on the MAJ stays
there In the Middle West a town sometimes
disappears, and some years ago towns
changed their site. More than once one has
been put on wheels and moved TO different
situation. 1t is not often, however, that
town changes its name as is proposed bv
Kansas City, Kans
Originally it Wyandotte 1t aspircd
one time to be the metropolis Of Kansas. 1t
is built on hills and overooks the Kaw River
as ii used TO be mapped, and the Missouri
When there was more water in what was
known as the kaw River than there has been
tor many years, Il line Of small steamboat IS
piled between Wyandotte and the villages
along the shore as far as the stream was
navigahle From Wyandotte teams for the
Mexican border were fitted out Thither
went many immigrants for the territory of
John Brown. and from it they passed on into
the then unknown wilds OF the country back
Wyandotte was a city when Kansas City
Mo, was in its swaddling clothes The boom
OF the latter put Wyandotte in the back yard
AS Kansas City, Mo, expanded, Wyandotte
diminished. 1t became suburb of the newt
city across the line When the new city ran
over, it occupied the base Of the hills for its
overflow and crept on until it invaded Wyan-
dottc. Nobody Iknows just how or WHY but
Wyandoue as name was rubbed out and
the city became Kansas City, Kans 1t has
confused strangers and COMPOUNDED the ponu-
lation OF the annex
present name and give the municipality its
old name, Wyandotte The proposition is
one that would never be made in State like
Virginia. 1t has the air OF romance 1t is
indicative OF the restless spirit OF the newer
country.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

The Rockbriage County News, Of Lexington
says: TIE old folks have hanied down a saying
There Is nothing that makes up like the
weather Its truth is being demonstrated in
the heavy rainfall since midsummer Low wa
tiers in. streams ana springs gone dry have
been the story not infrequcnt in recent wears
rms year the reservoirs Of the springs are being
filled by co?ious fall OF rain from the clouds
The weather again is making IN"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

Published every day in the yenr by The
Times Dispatch Publishing Company. Inc. Adj
dress all communications THE TIMES-DlS-
PATCH. Times Dispatch NuildinE. 10 South
Tenth Street. Richmond. Nn.
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Eumigntton Parlor.

The symposium of signs in shop windows
printed in this column in the last few DAYS.
brings out this:
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

Before you can get roasted you're got to be
To make Frenchman mad ask him IL he
would like n Turkish towel.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
DIRTY KIDS
CLEANED.

1t is in Boston. says the Globe OF that city
ri pure thought and food
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

Tho Free state News. the paper published at
henbridse in Luenhurs County, speaks right
out In meeting as follows. we have an abund
ance OF game of all kinds this yenr. but ALREADY
tho pot.hunter has.commenced his depredation,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
Here Besinneth the Week.

Quietness is the beginning OF virtue. To be
silent is TO DO beautiful Stars do not mako
n noisc-James stephens, in The Crock OF
Gold
II YOU nave seen a man OF single purpose
YOU have sen a great thing.-Roman provcrb
y mays success in business to-day turns upon
his power of getting people to believe he mas
something they want-Stanlcy Lee, in "CrowdsY
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13

Entered January -. 1905. n Richmond Sn.
rs sccopd-class matter under act OF Congress of
March 3, 1870.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
To the WEATHER ,Inp.

This is the 18th of September The pumpkin
is waiting in the field for frost. Some few
straw hats are lingering. too late TO have 'em
cleaned again. And the p b. suits look like
hIonday morning clothes line. You arc not to
blame for keeping the electric fans going
but you are particeps crinins. We don't like
what you giving for the same rea son
that Tom Brown expressed in the lines. to-wit:
do not like thee. DR.. Fell,
The reason Why. ! cannot tell
But this alone l know full we'll
| do not love thee. DR.. Fell.
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