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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
ARVONIA
Especial to The Times-Dispat

Especial TO The Times Dispatch.)
ARFONIA, VA. July 3.-Miss Edith
Davis. who has been spending some
days with her aunt, Mrs. p. B. Pet
teson, at her home in New Canton, has
returned to her home near Fork I'm
ion. In Fluvanna County.
Miss Laura Connellee Of Middle
town, Delaware, arrived here few
days ago TO spend some weeks at
bellevue visiting her friend, Miss
Miriam Pitts
DR.. and Mrs Perkins Glover. accom-
panied by Mrs Arthur Letcher Pitts
motored 10 Richmond on Friday. re-
turning home that night
Misses Leila Jackson and Rosa VIII
Hams, both of Farmville. have been
spending some time here as guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E. Roberts.
William 4. LeSueur was visitor
this week in Richmond and Norfoll.
Miss Annie Wilson, now a regular
missionary in China. was n visitor a,
the home Of her cousin. Mrs. Willie
Amber, at Seven Islands" this weak
On Thursday afternoon she ADDRESSED
the women of Trinity Church. New
Canton. upon the SUBJECT of China. and
on Friday she spoke TO the ladies OF
the Arvon Presbyterian Church
q.
visitor ut the home of Philip Mich
olas. at bridgeport. on Slate River.
Miss Ethel Hughes has left to enter
the summer school at the University
of Virginia
Sands Gayle, of Gold Hill. was a
visitor here on Monday in connection
with the matter of erecting a State
road through the district
Misses Lila Waller DuVal and Ne,l,e
Jeffrey left few days ago for Char
lottesville TO attend the summer nor
NAL school.
Mrs. John Cabell boswell spent sew
eral days in Richmond this week.
Miss Winifred Almeda Pitts has re-
turned TO her home here after having
spent some time at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. j. l.. Pitts, in Scottsville.
Misses Bogart and Hooper. of Car
tersville, were visitors at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Plummer +. Jones
at New Canton, on Thursday They
came with view of selecting camD
ing place for the Gainesville Camp
fire Girls. 1t is probable they will
camp at Bremo Bluff, on the heights
overlooking the valley early in Au-
gust. They number about twenty in
all.
w. II. Luckoadd. OF scottsville. was
a visitor here and at New Canton on
Wednesday of this week
Albert ]. Terrell. accompanied by
Reuben Hudgens. was visitor at
Cumberland Court on Tuesday of this
week.
Rev. Mr.. Daniel, of Dillwyn, will
occupy the pulpit of the Methodist
Church here next Sunday morning.
Preparations have been made for
gigantic celebration here on Monday
July D. The Masonic bodies here. the
Blue Lodge and the Royal Arch Chap
ter. have joined In arranging for a
county picnic, people from every sec
ton of Buckingham being invited, and
all Masonic lodges being expected
There will he dinner on the grounds
in the old fashion. and games OF base
ball. speeches, athletics Of various
kinds, and many other features Of
interest. Later the Masons will give
a tremendous reception in the temple.
and many ladies will be given the
daughters degree.
Rev. Plummer F. Jones will preach
at Fork Union next Sunday morning
and at Trinity, New Canton, at night.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
PROVIDENCE FORGE

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch
PROVIDENCE FORGE, VA. July g.
he entertainment given here by the
oodmcn Of the World on "Wednesday
ght was largely attended, visitors
finS present from four counties. All
pa n most enjoyable time.
Misses Gladys and Miriam Coleman
Hve returned to Richmond after a
sit to Stirling
Miss Ethel Perdum was one OF the
aduates on Tuesday night at the
chmond Conservatory of Music
MISS Mary Martin has returned to
W York, where she is training for
nurse.
MISS Phoebe Potts is at home again
Ter visit to her sister at .\rvonia.
". II. Christian spent Sunday with
lends here
Miss Jennie Martin has returned to
lr home here after teaching last ses-
N at Gainesville.
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Ms ZNS1usIZI5 o07R5o2

King Albert hns personally decorated
Miss Muricl Thompson, of the first aid
Nursing ieomnnry Corps, for braveIy
reacuing wounded mon from the
trenches while under hcnvy shell fire.
Miss ThOmpson received the Order OF
LcOnOII Ill.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
1000, 900 HOGS LOST.

Farm and Fireside, the national farm
paper published at Springfield, Ohio, is
conducting great campaign of educa-
ton on the subject of hog cholera, for
the purpose of informing farmers and
helping them to reduce their losses from
this dread disease. According to D. S.
Burch, associate editor of Farm and
Fireside-the man who is writing the
articles-7, 100000 hogs died in the Unit
ed States from hog cholera in 1918. The
figures are almost beyond comprehension.
You can get an idea of the loss by think
ing in terms of sausage. If all the hogs
that died of cholera in 1913 had been
made into Bologna sausage, weighing
pound per foot, that sausage, linked end
to end, would have gone around the earth
at the equator SIX times. Another way
to state the loss follows: Forty pounds
of meat for every family in the United
States was the loss from hog cholera in
913.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
MEN FROM MANY SCHOOLS IN U. OF
M. FACULTY.

Written BY Guy B. Condor, '16, of South Pc
nobscot
Education in its literal sense implies
the seeking of wide acquaintance with
men and things outside the pale of ones
environment. knowledge may be achiev-
ed not only through the pursuing of
variety of subjects, but through the per-
sonal contact of men trained in institu-
tons standing for different ideals.
The faculty of the University of M aine,
according to DR.. Robert J. Alley, pre- ST.
dent of the institution, is as cosmopoli-
tan as the average university. This
statement appears to be conserva-
tive when one reviews the facts set
forth in the catalogue, which shows that
o5 l-o per cent of the faculty members
have degrees from we'll known public and
private endowed institutions of this
country and Europe other than tie
University of Maine. This cosmopolit-
anlsm is regarded as of great value in
mat 1t tends to give greater breadth to
the ideals of education.
Dr. Alley also states that an institution
IS fortunate in having from twenty five
per cent 10 forty per cent of the faculty
Its own graduates, if these men have al
80 studied elsewhere. Graduates are
valuable in the faculty not only for schol-
astlc attainrents, but for their acuuaint-
ance with the traditions and general ad-
illustrative machinery of the university.
Ihlrty-six and two thirds per cent of the
members of the faculty of the University
OF Maine are its own graduates.
Out of total of $50 faculty members,
% have degrees from the University.
Harvard is represented by eleven men.
Other institutions ranking high in the
list are the University of Pennsylvania
and Bowdoin College, each with seven
men; Yale and Indiana University, with
SIX each: Columbia. Chicago and Ohio
State. with five each. Sixty other in
situations are represented in the list of
instructors provided by the State for its
University.
Seven foreign institutions are repre-
scented on the faculty, the list including
Munich, Paris, Yassy, Toronto, Dorpat,
besancon and Hochschulef ur Boden-
kultus.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
BOSTON CALLS
SAN FRANCISCO.
Direct Telephone Line Open
Across the Continent
SPEECH CARRIED $500 MILES
Bell Telephone Engineers Ex-
tend Long Distance Line to
J the Pacific Coast Science
and Inventive Genius Finally
Overcome Great Obstacles
WHAT 1T MEANS TO
TELEPHONE FROM BOs-
TON TO SAN FRANCISCO
Distance-35O5 miles.
Twelve States Covered.
Miles of Copper Wire-14 ,020.
WEIGHT of Wire-Over 5000 tons.
Poles on Line-Over $40 1000.
Speed-One- fifteenth of second.

ton to San FranciSco-in one-fifteenth
OF a second is an actual accomplish
ment. Direct conversation between
the two cities so far apart was es-
tabIshed for the first time, the other
cay, over the longest telephone line
in the world-more than $500 miles.
The successful contamination OF
this great work is an epoch in history
the acme of telephone attainment.
1t is an achievement made possible
only by the scientific study and per-
great Bell system.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

| days, ana developed his great idea
until one in every eight persons in
the United States is connected by
telephone, are Boston men. Many of
them are living today.
Theodore N. Vail, president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, has been in the telephone
business almost from the beginning.
Today he is perhaps the greatest con-
structive business man in the world.
John j. Carly, chief engineer OF
the company, the master mind in
scientific telephony, was a Cambridge
boy who worked as an operator in
the early days for IS week.
Thomas D. Lockwood. general
patent attorney of the company. a
telephone expert for nearly forty
years, lives in Melrose.
Thomas A. Watson, the Youthful
mechanic who assisted Bell in his
early experiments and who was the
first person in the world to hear the
human voice over a wire, lives in
Braintree and in Boston.
Some Facts and Figures
At the present time there are two
complete physical circuits, each 35O5
miles long, between the two cities
Then, by means of a wonderful de-
velopment of electrical study, in the
transposition of these two circuits &C.
cording to certain scientific formula
third circuit called a phantom"
circuit is created, making it possible
for six people to talk at one time
three at each end-over these two pair
Of wires.
There are IA, O2O miles of hard
drawn copper wire in both of these
circuits. Each circuit mile of wire
weighs $40 pounds, so that the entire
weight of both circuits-four wires
is over 5000 tons. This tremendous
weight is supported by 14O, 900 poles.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

II 1olepnonlng over suCn - t8I03ts MS
lance would have been absolutely Inn
possible without another wonderful
invention-the reneating, or loading
coils. Without any technical descrip-
ton, IT. Is sufficient to say that these
loading coils are placed at various
points along the line and give the
electrical waves additional force and
power.
The line from Boston to San Fran
CISCO runs direct to Buffalo, 4o5
miles; thence to Chicago, Cos miles,
to Omaha 500 miles, to Denver 5S5
miles, to Salt Lake City $50 miles and
to San Francisco no miles. total
OF 35O5 miles.
"A spur line runs from Chicago to
P1ttspurg, 545 miles, and thence to New
YORK, $50 miles. Another spur con-
meets Buffalo and New York, $50 miles.
On the same day the line between
boston and San Francisco was opened
telephone conversation was estab-
hshed between New York and San
Francisco Professor Bell talked from
the New York end and his early asso-
c1ate, Thomas A. Watson, from San
Francisco.
An interesting fact in connection
with the opening of this line is that
Professor Bell used at the New York
end an exact reproduction of n,e first
crude instrument At first If could
be used only few feet. That that
instrument could be used II. talking
between New York and San francisco
Is due to the skill aid Inventions OF
those engineers who followed Bell af-
ter his retirement from the telephone
business, in the perfection of the
telephone and of switchboards. cables
and the hundreds of other accessors
to successful telephone transmission.
Looking Backward to the Beginning
On the evening of Oct. 9, 1876, the
hrst long conversation over the tele-
phone was made by Bell and Watson.
They talked for three hours over a
telegraph line between Boston and
Cambridge 1t was the wonder of
the day. In May, 1877. a Charles
town man leased two telephones-the
first money ever paid for telephone
service. The same month the first
tiny and crude telephone exchange
was born with five telephones con-
nected.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

By August there were IT'S tele-
phones in use-all in Boston-and
four men had an absolute monopoly OF
the telephone business. A little later
Theodore N. Vail was prevailed upon
to resign from the government mail
service and become general manager
OF a little telephone company that
was hardly organized and had no
money. Month after month the lit
tie Bell company lived from hand to
mouth. No salaries were paid in
full. Often, for weeks, they were
not paid at all. In 1880 John j.
Carly timidly asked for job as
operator in the Boston exchange. He
showed such an aptitude for the work
that he was soon made one of the
captains.
In 1893 Boston and New York were
talking to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pitts
burg and Washington, and one-haIt
the people of the United States were
within talking distance of each other.
The thousand mile talk had ceased to
be fairy tale.
Several years later the line was
pushed over the plains to Omaha, and
subsequently nearly 900 miles were
added, enabling the spoken word in
Boston to be heard in Denver.
The BostonSan Francisco line will
probably not be offered for general
commercial use until the early sum-
mer.
Telephone engineers have dreamed
Cf the time when the wires would
span the continent. That time has
come. For the moment it seems as
though there is no other great thing
for which 20 strive. And yet progress
in telephony in the United States is
making such tremendous strides that
no man can prophesy the wonder
full things that may be done in the
future.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
DANES and DAUGHff$

Mrs. Mary G. Spenser has ho
librarian in Michigan for tho ,a stu
ty-twO years. tNe.
Miss Elsie Burr, a well knou !
ton society girl, has gone - WI Bas
where she will act as a pos rak,
nurse. VrOs
The Duchess of MARLBOROUGH
a net to fend off Zeppelin bo,p PS Aad
ged up on the roof of Snna cg
house. The net is the device ~ e'laAd
nous artillerist. "a.
Fame" said Mrs. Carrie ch
Gait, depends not only unon 'paaa
you do, but upon getting what "at
into the written record. For Cow W. Go
1t has been civilizations policy ~ a''e
more and discourage in woman y Y
achievements that make men po, '40se
Lady Victoria Perry, who is d N
ter of the Earl of Limerick. chic sa'
British feminine flying corps is o, VI
the most daring of English womoa ~ W
ators. She was trained by Crab 4
White and the late Gustave Han, Y
whose company she ''looped the ~. p
in most daring manner. Wy
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

Legal Neutrality versus Moral Neu-
trality" is the arresting title of the first
of the February Atlantic articles on the
war and the problems it has thrown in
tine path of the American people. Paul
Fuller, recognized authority on inter-
national law, explains conclusively that
expressions of opinion are consistent
with complete legal neutrality, and calls
upon President Wilson to give utterance
to the universal American sentiment by
protesting against the real violation of
neutrality in ''the massacre of Bel
GUM" This reasonable and vigorous
article will meet with sure approval
from those who rebel at the embargo on
the expression of American opinion.
Quite different, but no less brilliant, is
"Germany's Answer" by Hans Del
bruck, Treitschke's successor in the Uni
versity of Berlin. Professor Delbruck,
who is well qualified to speak for modern
Imperial Germany, on account of his init
mate relations with the authorities in
Berlin, does not confine himself to ex-
cuses for the invasion of Belgium; he
points out the guilt of Russia, and makes
the startling accusation that there was
willful Justification in the "White
Paper" In "La Grande Nation" j.
0. P. Bland tells eloquently of Frances
complete transformation since August
John Galsworthy contributes touching
Love Letter to France" Sydney
Brooks reveals the methods of "The
German Spy System" shows what bril-
liant things it has done, and lays bare it's
weak spot. 1.-The Vexed Question of
Contraband, which for some weeks has
been the object of anxious American at
tention, is discussed by Arthur Willert;
while of equal interest is Secretary Red
fields analysis of "The Present Mer-
chant Marine Problem.''
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
THE OLD BARN DANCE. Z"

In shirt of check and tallowed hair
The Fiddler sits in the bulrush chair,
Like Moses basket stranded there
On the brink OF Father Nile.
He feels the fiddle's slender neck,
Picks out the notes with thrum and cheek;
And times the tune with nod and beck,
And thinks it a weary while.
Begin" Down comes the bow on every string
"First couple join right hands and swing"
AS light as any blue birds wing,
Swing once and half times round"
Whirls Mary Casey all in blue
Calico gown and stockings new,
And tinted eyes that tell you true,
Dance all to the dancing sound
She fits about big Moses Brown,
Who holds her hands to keep her down
And thinks her hair golden crown,
And his heart turns over once!
His cheek with Mary's breath is wet,
1t gives second somerset!
He means to win the maiden yet,
Alas, for the awkward Ounce!
1oui SloSd DOoL mas crushed my t0e!
I'D rather dance with one-legged Joe,"
You clumsy fellow!" "Pass below!"
And the first pair dance apart.
Then Forward sikh" Advance, retreat,
Like midges gay in sunbeam street
tbs money Musk" by merry feet
And the Money Musk by heart.
"Three quarters round your partner swing!"
ACROSS the set!' The rafters ring,
The girls and boys have taken wing
And have brought their roses out!
tbs Forward Six" with rustic grace,
All, rarer far that "Swing to place!''
Than golden clouds Of old point-lace
They bring the dance about
Then clasping hands Albright and Left!''
All swiftly weave the measure neat
Across the floor in loving speed
And THE Money Musk" is done!
Oh, dancers of the rustling Husk,
Good night, sweet-hearts, IT'S growing dusk,
Good night to 1.-The Old Barn Dance"
For the heavy march begun!
E. d. WHITE.
Belfast,:Me
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

fastest trains it takes five days and
five nights-120 hours-to go from
Boston to San Francisco. And yet it
will only be little while before the
business man can sit comfortably in
his office and travel instantly by tele-
phone between the two cities over
tons of copper wire.
The opening of this line has a Pc
culiar significance to the people OF
Boston and New England, for it was
in Boston that Professor Alexander
Graham Bell invented the telephone in
1876, less than forty years ago. A
little later the longest toll line in the
world stretched from Boston to
Lowell and the service was poor and
intermittent. How marvellous has
been the progress.
And the men who were associated
with Bell in those telephone pioneer
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

AS an event, it is on a parity with
the opening of the Panama canal. II
Is another connecting link that physi-
cally binds the far east and the faJ
west of America into one COMPLETE
union.
Four Thousand Miles Instantly
One-fifteenth of a second! Like q
Hash of lightning goes the spoken
word through storm and sunshine over
thousands OF miles. 1t starts in Bos.
ton at p. m. and, paradoxically,
reaches San Francisco three hours
earlier. The time schedule has been
turned topsy turvy. While you wink
your speech hs been carried nearly
half way around the world.
Imagine a giant with lungs power
full enough to carry his voice $500
miles through the air. Picture him
standing on the dome of the Massa-
chusetts state house and yellins
Hello as loud as he could. Fou1
hours later it would be family hearc
at the Panama Pacific exposition
Blow up million pounds of dynamite
on Boston common and the souno
would travel but a few miles. And
yet the telephone wizards with a tiny
wire have outdistanced nature. Surely
brains and energy have won a great
victory.
In 1S49 pixies peak or BUST was
the slogan that dominated those hardy
pioneers and urged them forward. In
1909, to paraphrase this, the slogan O,
the telephone engineers was "the
Golden Gate or bust" That was the
goal upon which they set their ewes
more than five years ago. The lone
distance lines had already been ex-
tended as far west as Omaha. Two
years ago Denver became a reality BY
telephone, and now, in one long iumL
OF over 1900 miles, the Pacific coast
has been reached.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
SHARP AND SHORT.

The motto of the soldier &, trench
and trench.
Concealed knowledge is rs uspfuj as
buried treasure.
An earthquake is almost us Qes.-7,
tive as modern army INVASION
If you desire to worry your ar'g.
become a success at somcMUe
1t is better to begin the d.. With.
smile even if you have to eul ta with
a howl.
Placing the blame doesn't -l -ha
controversy unless you plu. tae aug
on yourself.
Speaking of the rise in a0. ne
doughnut man can balance bg f4re
ing the hole.
Nor is that new scheme To- raff.s ,ls
national constitution every wu'a
years expected to create muc 4r~
ment.
A Paris paper has Off roH .e
cash prize for the best mIp H Lg
rope after the war is over j ar. of
prize puzzle. as it were.
Possibly the safety first ua,.lI
IS doomed to be permanent l.
to the United States. beuause r.r
only country that has any
If somebody. acting on SoTO.. sig
gestiOn, should substitute ,r-
in Slay, there'd be a storm NJ "-
from the Russian contusm-
Among the other bores yoU .mH
have met is the fellow who
tell joke and becomes So iuu'>aI
in a flow of language that ID. .---a
the point.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
Three Reels.

Italians are making their o" e''
ing pictures with such marE
that foreign films are in Iitl.... l
A motion picture theater b., w.
geles. Cal, restricts its pa;G T.
clusively to women and cljt. -.
+ o'clock in the evening unless .. .H
is accompanied by woma
The motion picture neg 0'=
in the United States in THE r
months would reach from ST..
Kansas City. while the finn
bition would encircle the H0. a07
than three times.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
TnAW vs.. JEROME;
END OF LONG BATTLE
fx-Dlstrlct Attorney viii No
Longer Figure In the Case.

The case of Harry X. Thaw is one of
the most celebrated and remarkable in
the history of criminal Jurisprudence.
The fight to win freedom for Thaw,
which has dragged through the courts
for years, was recently renewed when
Thaw was led from the Tombs in New
York city, whence he had been brought
from Manchester, N. H., over the
bridge of signs, to the criminal court
building, where he was brought before
Supreme Court Justice Vernon M.
Davis on the charge of conspiring to
escape from Matteawan. 1t was the
third time Thaw had been arraigned
In New York. and, while the charge
to which he answered recently was
minor one. he realized that the battle
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04
FIippant filings.

Price of oats is going up. Ha,r,.
what will be left for us to eat 9S
mately ?-Portland Oregonian
1t is stated that it costs hut ,...
month to feed a chicken in Raoi,.
We've had such a different eyrorf,-
in American restaurants CIerer,a,
Plain Dealer
The state of Massachusetts is 4,.4
vestigate its preparedncss to rppat 4,
vasion If Texas and California NIL,
take the same steps Missouri win fa'
comparatively Safest. Louis Glys.
Democrat.
A New York man who kissed qi,I
in church was sent to the wlrs..rs.
for twenty days. Now he Eravs rr.,
the commandment love tLy ne.g71or
is not to be taken literally Uptrat
Free Press.
The Republican journal., 1915-02-04

The February Popular Mechanics Mag
azine contains, in all, $50 articles and 359
illustrations. The following are es-
pecialiy noteworthy: "Novel Plan for
Utilizing Power of Niagara Falls; Era
dio Gone, Ship Signals Rescuers with
Lights; How to Shoot an Airship or
Acceptance; "Firemen Make Thrill ing
Leap for Life; FLOATING Crane Built
for Panama Canal Wrecked"; "Giant
Kelp Beds of the Pacific Contain Vast
Wealth is Potash; Cost of Insect
Ravages in Damage to Crops; p utting
New Skin on anOld Boat, "etc. The Shop
Notes and Amateur Mechanics depart
ments contain large amount of useful,
practical information. Many ilustra-
tons accompany the text, and every
article is written SO you can UNDER
stand it."