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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06
THE WONDERS OF ASTRONOMY
ny GARRETT Il. sERyIss.

1 don't care anything about astron-
omy | judge il Is about as impor-
tant as chess" l heard these words
from an apparently intelligent man.
evidently unusually well-to-do In a
material way, who had made his for
tune" and had learned from his cx-
pcrience in life no higher lesson than
that strict application to business is
the surcst road 10 prosperity. l said
TO him:
when you link astronomy with
chess, YOU at least acknowledge it's
Intellectual character, although you
show complete ignorance of its his
tory, its methods and it's aims"
We'll what does II amount to-" he
demanded, testify. can anybody i'm
prove his condition in this world by
incoming about other ones? What do
l care whether Mars is inhabited or
not? What good does it do me if there
are giants up there..as l have heard:
/ can't sell them anything. They are
commercially Of no account. SHOW
me a way to open up trade with then,
and I'll go as far as anybody in as
tronomy. IT would have some meaning
then.
Purc Speculative BOsh.
But all this stuff is pure specula-
tive bosh, / don't even care whether
the earth goes round the sun or tho
sun round the earth"
Then" said i, ''if your mind is in
capable of kindlng into great thoughts
at the stupcndous spectacle of tho
starry universe: if you arc unmoved by
the sight of the countless multitude
of vast. blazing suns scattered around
us in space, at distances so immense
that they appear like mere points OF
light in the bottomless black pro.
fundity; if there is nothing for you
in tho reflection that the earth is OF
infinitely less relative Importance
amidst this illimitable creation than
sparkle Of mist lowering in the spray
of Niagara: il you can catch no in
SEPARATION from the thought that man
infinitesimal as he is physically never
theless possesses the mental power to
grasp these wonders-then take a
lower view. and consider n side Of as
tronomy which even YOU must acknow-
ledge TO be in the highest degree prac-
teal and useful.
No Guide For Man.
Even tho most ancient times the
traders. crossing the vast Oriental des-
erts with their treasures, were in
debted TO men wise in star-lore for the
laying out Of the routes that they fol-
lowed. The first navigators of the lit
tie Mediterranean Sea had to learn tho
geography Of the stars before they
could venture out of sight of land.
But" said the man. these are old
things, passed long ago. 1t may he
that once astronomy was useful in
studying out these things. but this is
all done now. We have got our meas
urcs and our timckecpers, and TO keen
on bothcring with the stars seems To
me like studying the y b G. book after
you are out Of school,"
NO" / said, you arc still wrong.
If the observatories of the world were
closed tonight, never to be reopened
in little while the entire life of the
planet Earth would be completely IN.
set. Clocks and chroromcters would
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06
Politics
Out
OF Place
News Of Fifty Years Ago

1t has been announced that James A Cowar-
din and Henry X. Eyson have entered into a
mond Dispatch, the great newspaper that all
Richmond and all of Virginia loved and read
during the war The Dispatch establishment.
with all of its type machinery. ETC. was de-
stroycd in the great fire of evacuation day. and
MT Cowardin. the editor and owner. being "un-
der the ban," could not at resume the
publication Of the paper. Mr.. Cowardn is n
brilliant writer. and Mr.. Elyson is of tho
best business men in the city, and knows the
printing business from the ground up The
new firm of Cowardn and Ellyson announce
that they will put in first class newspaper
plant. which will take time. and II may be
several months yet before the Richmond Dis
patch makes its appearance. but when it does
come all Virginia will welcome It,
The Of Henry C. Taylor appears among
tho list of the virginians who were pardoned
by tho President day before yesterday.
Norborne S. Pescud of Petersburg has beer
Fourth District OF Virginia, and will enter
upon the discharge of his duties and get his
name on the pay roll tomorrow.
Orders have been issued for the disbanding
OF thirty more regiments of infantry, cavalry
and artillery OF the United States. This order
will take another regiment from Vir-
sinia
General Lee has reached Lexington. Tie
board OF trustees of Washington College has
tho acceptance of the presidency by General
Lee and fully ndorslng the policy he laid down
in his letter OF acceptance.
Horace Greeley is to make an address at tho
Minnesota State Fair. to be held next week.
He has announced that he will talk altogether
on agriculture and eschew politics. II he keeps
his word it will kill him.
Colonel John B. Young yesterday qualified as
Commonwealth's attorney for the County OF
Henrico and entered upon the discharge of his
duties such.
In the Henrico County Court yesterday Rich
ard Wells. colored and n regularly
dained minister OF the Baptist faith. IL
censed to perform marriage ceremonies 1t is
believed this is the first negro In Virginia to
be authorized to perform the marriage
mony.
The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad has at
last been opened for travel and general traf-
fc between Portsmouth Va. and Weldon.
y. c.
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OllcSc of Agriculture.

room to store 1t. Too often II is easy
come and easy go. the cotton having
been taken In trade and n profit already
having been made. Such a situation
is hard to reach. II will only IL
reached by gradual processes of educ, a
ton. -AAo
To what extent the State will
a hand in grading. standardizingcV
warehousing cotton will depend E. I,
how much the need for State rel
ton Is permitted to exist. All &C.,,
state action has been taken and the
agitation is on In others. II cannot be
presumed that public demand is going
10 cease until there is the largest posi-
bic conservation and utilization of the
cotton crop as a loan basis. II is not
improbable that the Standardization of
tho warehouse will be one of the phases
of Legislation, well as the standard
ization OF cotton. for II not properly
stored tho cotton might lose its original
collateral status while in storage
When cotton grades are taken into
considerat ton, the problem of conserva-
ton extends back 10 the picker in the
cotton field. Varying amounts. all
enormous. but none Of them more than
guess, have been given as indicating
the loss which the cotton suffers for
lack OF proper grading when gathered
Until the pickers arc required to carry
TWO bags and put In one the weather
only the clean will they get the maxi
mum price. \ little OF stained cotton
lowers the grade OF whole bale OF
otherwise good cotton, and with the
lowering of the grade also goes the
price. Nainly the cotton grower
!magines that the little off color cot
ton will mix In and never be noticed
More often than never IL is noticed, and
degradcs the whole bale.
a condition that has 10 be borne"
Is the usual comment concerning i'm
proper picking Of cotton, in view OF the
quality Of labor that has TO be employed
to harvest the crop. Undoubtedly Il is
an appalling difficulty, but, like many
other mountains OF difficulties. IL may
be gradually worn away. Wherever tho
practice Of discriminating picking Is
once used and the benefits observed
there will be a radnting influence FOR
the better way put into motion
In this broader field Of usefulness
trained agents are going from the col
! leges OF agriculture TO help. direc, and
| induce in Whatever way the farmer TO
make the greatest use of his resources
1t is great task, naturally a slow
process. but eventually the work will
be accomplished
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RICHMOND MEs-DIsPATCH: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER G. 1915

no individual ambitions and grinding no polit-
ical axes The public gives its methods un-
stinted approval.
If the charter committee and the directors
of the association can go to the members with
n proposed form OF city government and OBJ
tain the approval of these more than 5000
voters. ultimate adoption Of that form will be
assured That many substantial citizens be-
hind any movement will guarantee Its ulti
mate success. Victory may not be a matter
Of next week. or uex month, even Of next
year. but it Will come.
In INT view OF the case. compromise is as
unnecessary as it is unwise Richmond ought
to have-it deserves to havc--a chance to OBJ
tain the best
We arc not among the faint-hearted who
believe that political influence can prevent an
aroused Richmond from adopting what is best
in city government. The one thing needful is
to determine what is best-best, that is, for
this people-and the rest will follow in due
time.
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Men Who PASSED. M M,nmen

Ihe case of Helen" Phillips, tho man
VINO Tor years has passed for a woman
has parallel in that OF John. alias
Elizabeth Russell. who died at Streat
ham In April. l17c. at the age OF loI.
early In life Russell associated himself
win mo Eypsics, and went wandering
over the Continent. Returning 10 Eng
land dressed ms woman, he scr M n,
Strcathnm as n female doctor and for
tune teller, and among other things
was AN excellent scmpstress, and celc-
brated for making a good shirt"
Among his acquaintances was DR.. john
son. VINO. hnding tho supposed woman
shrewd and sensible, was fond Of con-
versing with her" Russell died sud-
denly. when his sex was discovered, Ito
the extreme amazcment OF the neigh
orhood"-London Chronicle.
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No Time for CuInpromisc

Ky ZEN the careful investigation of the ad-
w vantagcs and disadvantages OF the sew
r7rl forms OF municipal government now be-
tx made by committee of the Civic Asso-
cfation, shall have been concluded and after
consultation with experts and wise delibera-
ton the committee has resolved what form
Is best adapted to Richmond's needs we trust
it's unexpurgate ed findings will be given to the
association and. through the association. TO
the general public
If there is one thing reasonably clear about
this whole matter. it is the total undcsira-
AbiIity of halfway measures, slipshod reforms
and o patchwork charter What the funda-
mental law Of this City really requires is a
real revision Whatever form OF government
is adopted, the charter by which ii is to he
provided should be consistent throughout
with every part agreeing and harmonizng
2ith every other part. That ideal ought not
. be sacrificed, in the very inception Of the
movement by tho organization TO which the
public has come 10 look for intelligent guild
ance along constructive lines.
The Civic Association Is representative of
Richmonds desire for more efficicn; munich
pal government. Especially in it's later dircc-
ton and activities II has shown itself worthy
of confidence Its disintercstedncs., and that
Z of it's leaders have been made manifest and
the hostile criticism, 10 whose accompa nimcnt
/ 1t was born. has died away. 1t is furthering
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06
"PIny the Gnmc!"


There's a breathless hush in the close
Tonight
Ten to make and the match to win
a humping pitch and binding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake Of a ribboned
coat
Or the selfish hope Of seasons
fame,
But his captains hand on his shoulder
smote--
play up! play up! and play the
game!'
The sand of the desert is sodden red
Red with wreck of a square that
broke
The gatlings damned and the colonel
dead
And the regiment blind with dust
and smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his
And England's far. and Honor a
But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the
Play up! play up! and play the
This is tho word that year by wear.
While in her place the school Is set,
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears it dare forget.
This they all with joyful mind
Bear through life like torch in
fame
And. falling. fling to the host behind
Play up! play up! and play tho
game!"
Henry Newbolt.
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
Acquired Wisdom.

The Dove of Peace, so experts say.
Is lowering now around this way
And looking for place to light:
But that birds grown discreet and wise.
He'll not forget and close his eyes
He may lose in this world fight.
The Dove Of Peace cannot refrain
From showing some small signs OF pain
Of course. he's had a lot to bear
l;ut also you can bet he knows
Enough to keep away from blows,
Which may, by choice, cost him an ear
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06

go wrong. There would be collisions
and disasters without number on land
and sea. until the great line of naviga-
tion and of railroads and communion
non were all thrown into disorder or
mad TO be abandoned. l could not tell
YOU IN an hours talk the full story OF
the calamity that would ovcrtake man
Kind IL the practical cultivation or
astronomy should suddenly cease TIL,
astronomer has many other things Z,
think OF besides the question OF TN.
existence or noneXistencc OF inhab,
tants on Mars"
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"Another One Gone"

n Washington officials quoted as hav-
L ing said, in connection with the tor
pedoing Of the Hesperian on Saturday night
1T is uncomfortable that German submarine
has destroyed another peaceful passenger ship
without due warning. Correspondence be-
tween the government of the United States
and that Of the Kaiser has been too clear to
admit of the possibility OF miscon ception on
that point and too long time has elapsed
since the last note to permit the question of
instructions to submarine commanders to
enter into consideration.
Therefore, it must be taken that circum-
stances widely differentiate this case from
that OF the Lusitania. Indeed circumstances
already reported clearly indicate that this is
not another Lusitana case-certainly so far
as international relations may be involved
So far the British Admiralty has not denied
the statement that the Hesperian carried
mounted gun, and it is admitted that she had
on board a number Of British soldiers
To the extent suggested by these facts, the
Hesperian appears to have been at least q
constructive auxiliary Of the British navy If
she was then passengers travelled on her at
their own risk, and no complication with this
government can arise from her destruction
In any case, it is our duty, as neutrals to
await fuller details before forming final judg-
ment.
But, if the Hesperian was an auxiliary in
that she merely carried wounded soldiers, was
hospital ship in fact, even though she did
carry gun, the action Of the submarine COM
mander furnishes another instance of that
ruthlessness which Carl Frank List is de-
scribing in these columns in his account of
his experiences aboard the U-39 Whether
the men In her cabins were passengers or
whether they were wounded soldiers. their
tate did not concern the Germans The de-
structton Of the vessel that bore them was
only-"another one gone!"
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Business and the Churches

eeh BUSINESS MEMS SUNDAY" in Rich
y "A mond is proposed movement by the
Virginia Baraca-Philat thea Association. The
churches will be invoked to give it their aid.
The stronger the church influence in the
average town. the better the moral condition,
and the better the environment for the bust
ness man. is the slogan of the association.
The second Sunday in October has been set
aside in the principal cities and towns of the
country for agitating the question. One plan
is to ask ministers to invite laymen to occupy
the pulpit and preach cermons that will ap-
peal directly to business men.
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Holmes Conrad

Mo statJ can well afford such loss vr.
gini3 has sustained in the death of
Major Holmes Conrad OF Winchester. With
him, there passes a high and fine type of a
school that is fast dying out, a school whose
ranks are thinning too rapidly to close up
when one of their number answers the final
roll call.
Ma jor Conrad represented the best in
generation that is nearly gone. the best in a
generation that.is still strong and his career
may we'll serve as an example for generation
that yet has its work TO do. a brave soldier
and distinguished officer during the War
Between the States he arose undismayed.
when ii was over, and set about his lfe's
work. With a splendid intellect in a SPLEEN
did body, both governed by an indomitable
will. he became one Of the outstanding figures
OF the American bar.
No interests were too small to command his
attention; position too great for him to
fill: he gave to the teaching OF Bible class
Sin his native town the same quality OF in
5tellectual effort that he displayed in his bril-
liant practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States.
4 Full of years and Of honors, his career has
/ come to end but there is left the memory
of n wcll-roundcd man and a very gallant
gentleman.
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sit Happened III Richmond.

He'll hath no fury like woman scorned an
less it is woman with umbrella. slipper
and a mans necktic. The combination was eff
fective in Richmond. She broke the umbrella;
then shc took her slipper then She grabbed his
tie and chokcd him until he was penitcnt. Par
ticulars lacking. Absence of details fire.
quently make the story better. Imagination
likes a hiatus.
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Guide Right.

The guide In Public Park telling the
conner about some OF the unpopular men who
used to live in this city
There was (name deleted by the editor)
who never suspected that he wasn't liked until
some of the boys presented him with a gold
headed cane, and then he just took the hint, and
got job"
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Looks had for Giddins.

Il understand Giddins is living here now"
said the visitor II used to know him back
in my home town"
rs that so? What did the people think OF
him thcre?'
Well" answered the visitor, cautiously, IT
never heard any of his neiEhbors threatening
mob him, and, the other hand. I never
heard OF anybody there offering him bonus
II he'd come Notwithstanding Age-Hcrald.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06

Virginia boasts that not lynching has oc-
CURED within its borders for twenty years
That makes no difference. The Chicago
Tribune is holding Virginia partially respon-
sible for the fate Of Frank just the same
Houston Post. Oh, we'll, the Chicago Tribune
will hold to anything but the truth
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06
sinsulnr Eneet of New EnElnnd RUM.

Talking OF Dreams said the jolly faced man,
the other night incandescent bulb burst in
bedroom while doing and dreaming
that was driving my auto along country
road. On hearing the explosion got out and
when woke up ! was under the bed tink cring
the springs with my wife's manicure set
Boston Transcript.
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To-Day Is the Day.

To-day is Labor Day. and some men think
they are celebrating it when they go OFT hShlng
or hold down bench in park while theT
wives are a. home trying to remove the polish
from the seats of their husbands trousers
caused b. sitting around in a back room away
from home
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06
A Stampcde EypInined,

y lady press agent from town not a hundred
miles from Richmond called at this Office and
complained that tho meeting which her sex
had arranged for failure. in fact it wasn't
held She couldn't understand wh", tickets
we're sent every man in the village. Asked
what the subject to be considered, she
replied. The Meanest Man in Town" And she
prctends that she doesn't know why no one was
present
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The political landslide is all right if |
doesn't contain a boomerang.
Post Up on September

Q EPTEMBER has several weeks to run, and
- it will interest all Of us to know that, as
heretofore, the month will contain the
equinox and the harvest moon.
A few years ago coterie of scientists got
together and decided that the equinox was
a myth. Nevertheless, you can't tell that to
the marines, or, If you do, they will prove
that scientists do not know everything, and
there are many landlubbers who will agree
with the marines So it is refreshing to
learn that Lowell Mass, astronomer has
arranged for an equinox this month
There is no getting around the fact that
the sun gets across the equator on the 23rd
1t is always on time. And this is the date
for the start OF autumn The almanac
makers fixed that long ago--bcfore people
got to relying on the scientists.
BY the last Of the month the sun will he
playing an engagement in the constellation
of Virgo. We all know the result-going
home in the dark at the hour when we used
to get away while the sun was shining.
ln ieC inn hon J,,nx- h t,,l ic II.
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C0WardiCe
III q
Nation

jectural foe, and we do not believe the United
States is that kind of country. 1t never had
been, and there is no evidence of n revolutionary
change in the national character.
We do not near that tho nation ought to rest
snuCiy satisfied witt, inadequate means of ma
tional defense or that its military resources
should be LEFT to chance and Improvisation. We
have no more regard for Colonel Rryan's COM
placent army Of 100000, which is to spring
INTO being overnight thar we have for Colonel
Rooso velts froth and fury against every Amer
lean whose teeth do not chatter in terror when
he looks at map Of the world New York
World.
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One saunter In Broad Street.

A merchant hung out this card a display:
~ Dollar a Piece
His competitor put this: Piece at Any
Price"
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No lTnYOriteS

SerEeart-Now then how many times do YOU
chaps want telling to put that light out?
Voice From Tent-It amt light. sergeant
It's the moon.
Sergeant don't care tinker's cIank blash
what it Is, put 1t out!-London Opinion
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duke and approved by tho Car and his min
isters." will be carried out.
It's queer optmsm-not at all like the buoy
ant optimism Of other nations. There is In It a
touch OF the world sorrow ono notes In Russian
literature There is IN 1t a bit Of the fataliSm
winch gives TO Russia sort OF Oriental cast TO
many people-Chcago Herald
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rcrlls OF Going to Church in Kentucky.

Sim Flinders fell through the loft az the Hog
Ford Church Sunday morning while preaching
going He had gone TO the loft to hear
tho sermon through crack without paying
the preacher NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. (Ey.) News.
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AT tho latest hour the report that Villa
was killed while he was asleep has not been
confirmed. If he is as hard to Stay when he
is in that condition when he is awake, he
will be in the Methuseleh class before they
get him.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06

Thirteen families in New York own one
fifteenth of the assessed land in the borough
OF Manhattan The exact number OF people
there who act as if they owned the earth is
not stated.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06

Published photographs Of contemporaneous
feminine fashions show one costume that might
have been designed FOR the star cauestrienne In
n Bengal circus, but was really intended for
street wear, and another that succeeded In
making An American opera singer look like a
Chinese mandarin's wife.-Frovidence Or. -
Journal.
You don't have to rely upon photographs to
such things.