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OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE AT THE RESORTS
I
1 Picture Winning First Prize of Week July 26
in The Star's Amateur Photo Contest
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FIRST PUI/.K?-PASSING SHEEP." BV NELLIE J. LATTA.
? PRIZES FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
I III-. S'l \K lu:s arranged to publish a series of pictures reproduced from photographs
taken by amateur-, at. various summer resorts These pictures will be selected and passed
upon by competent jitllge-? and tlve be>t ones chosen on their merits.
1st?For Subject 2d?For Clear, Sharp Detail
3d?-For General Points of Excellency
FRIZES WILL BE AWARDED ONE EACH WEEK.
The contest is free for all pleasure photographers?not professionals. Important condition
?Pictures must be taken at or near resorts that are advertised in THE STAR. A Ten-Dollar
1'rize. consisting' oi a ten-dollar photo supply order on Reid S. Baker, photo supplies and
art dealer. 13jj I' street, will be awarded each week to the person who sends THE STAR the
best picture a> above described. Send tinisned photo, with name of summer resort where
taken, and your own name ami ad?lre? on the back of it. to Summer Resort Editor, THE
STAR, to reach u* not later than Friday noon. August 1.
NO TE?All photographs should contain the element of human interest'with an attractive
setting and not be merely scenes.
All the photographs will be kept at THE STAR office except when postage is inclosed and
the return of the pictures is especialK requested.
SCIENCE NOTES
Or. A. Penck. professor of geography
at Berlin, has been elect?*! a corre
sponding member of the Paris Academy
of Sciences.
Francis Church Lincoln, professor ?>f
luinlnK engineering >? the I'niversity
of Illinois, has resigned to accept the
position of resident engineer for the
Bolivian Development Company, La
Paz. Bolivia.
Dr. W. Killing; has for the second
time been awarded the Lobachevski
prise of the Ph yslJo-Mathematical So
ciety of Kasan.
July an expedition for tin study
of territorial magnetism, under the
auspices of th<* Carnegie Institution of
Washington, set ?,ail from San Fran
cisco for Thursday Island. Torres
straits, Queensland and Australia. The
party consists of Dr. Alfred G. Mayer,
director, and Profs. >lubert L. Clark. D.
H. Tennent. K. Newton Harvey. Frank
M. Potts of (Cambridge University and
John Mills, engineer.
The Vienna Society for the Investiga
tion and Prevention of Cancer has es
tablished a laboratory for experimental
work on the subject, mainly in the
domain of chemistry and chemical
therapeautics. It Is to be amalgamated
*lth the Spiegler Institute, which has
been in existence nine years. Prof. S.
Fraenkel has been appointed director.
The National Geographic Society has
made a grant to Prof. Lawrence Mar
tin to enable him to make detailed
studies in September at Grand Pacific
and Muir glaciers.
The University of London has con
ferred the title of emeritus professor
of chemistry on Sir William Kamsay.
who has occupied the chair of general
and incrRanlc chemistry at the uni
versity since 1887.
l?r. P. G. Stiles, assistant professor of
physiology at Simmons College, has
been elected instructor in physiology
in Harvard College.
Prof. Barnard is using the great
forty-inch Verke's refractor to a very
useful piece of astronomical work in
following the temporary stars of re
cent years long after they have become
invisible to ordinary telescopes.
Prof. Alfred C Lane directs the at
tention of the scientific world to the
possibility of usinir the proportion of
contained metftor dust as a measure of
the rate of formation of strata, and
hence as a criterion of geologic time.
He calculates that the earth gains
20,000 grains of cosmically derived
nickel per square kilometer per annum.
From this figure and the nickel con
tent of the abysmal red clay he esti
mates that a layer one meter thick of
the latter requires 8,700 years to ac
cumulate. The profesor urges mem
bers of proposed polar expeditions to
complete Nordenskjold's observations
by determining the rate of deposition
of cosmic dust, and intimates that
within this century there will be drill
ed a hole in the bottom of the sea
which will give us the other data to
be determined.
Carroll Institute Excursion.
A ??moonlight" excursion to Indian Head
on the steamer St. Johns is to be given
next Monday night by Carroll Institute,
the affair being the fortieth annual excur
sion under the auspices of the institute.
An elaborate program of dancing and
other amusements has been arranged.
John T. Loving, mayor of Pulaski.
Va.. was stricken with paralysis Friday
morning in the city hall and Is critically
ill.
ABOJTTO CLOSE
Less Than Ten Days Remain
ing Before State Primary
to Name Candidates.
NEWS HAS BEEN SCANT,
BUT METTLE EVIDENT
Modern Home to Be Built for the
Future Governors on Fine Resi
dential Site.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
RICHMOND. Va., July -'4. .1?W
"With only ten (lays remaining before
the state primary, th?> candidates for
places to be tilled are making one mighty
effort to touch the high places and to get
a look at the voters. This will be all that
some of them will get for the month
they have put in on the stump, for the
fees they have paid to enter the race
and for the heavy expense to which they
have been put to make the campaign.
And in passing it may be remar' ed that
the campaign, which fur some three
months was about as dull as could be
imagined, and about as promising for
even scant news in a political way, has
developed some very racy thinss, and
put some of the candidates on their met
tle, forcing the saying of sharp things
and the approach to the short and ugly
word, which used to mean tight.
Instead of there being a solitary tight,
as was Indicated some time ago, there are
two?that for attorney general and that
for commissioner of agriculture. The first
is a triangular affair with Judge Samuel
W. Williams of Wythe up for retention
of the office, John Garland Pollard of
Richmond and Samuel GordonCummlngof
Hampton the other aspirants. Judge Wil
liams has been campaigning? for some
time, being an old hand at the game. He
ts a Confederate veteran, a resident of
the ninth congressional district and a
man who stands strong with the plain
people.
Mr. Pollard is a comparatively young
man. served as a member of the consti
tutional convention and is the compiler of
a code for the state. He is allied with
the anti-machine element in Virginia poli
tics, Is one of the advisers and supporters
of that faction and his announcement
was acclaimed- as a candidate for that
faction.
Samuel Gordon Cumming is a former
member of the general assembly, is a
lawyer of recognized standing and prac
tice. is widely known, and his ability as a
lawyer stands second to no man in the
state. He is a good speaker, a fine cam
paigner and is a great secret order man.
1 Measuring Swords Again.
J. Thompson Brown of Bedford and
George Wellington Koiner of Augusta are
measuring swords for the second time.
Mr. Brown was defeated by a trifling ma
jority four years ago and he at once de
clared that he was in the race again.
And in that time he has been laying his
plans for capturing the office. He has
organized and strengthened the weak
places, and Mr. Koiner has been looking
after his own interests personally. They
have not met in debate, but they have
been making' charges at various places,
the two men meeting at one time, one
making a speech and the other mingling
with the people.
There is another contest?that between
Lieut. Gov. Ellyson of Richmond and
Lewis H. Machen and Alexander J. Wed
derburn of Alexandria. But this contest
has not been even Interesting and is not
mentioned one time where the others are
discussed one hundred times.
Men who are familiar with politics
men who are aligned with both factions
have discussed the prospects and outlook,
and they are not very far apart as to
their predictions regarding the outcome,
the difference being a question of ma
jorities. While ten days remain before
the voting begins and there is no telling
what may happen between this date and
that, the chances at this time are that
only one change will be made in the en
tire corps of state offlcer&^-that being the
position of commissioner of agriculture.
This would make the complete ticket to
be voted for in November as follows:
For governor, Henry Carter Stuart of
Russell; lieutenant governor, J. Taylor
Ellyson of Richmond; attorney general,
8amuel W. Williams of Wythe: superin
tendent of public instructions, Reaumur C.
Stearnes of Roanoke county; treasurer,
Asher W. Harman of Augusta.
Will Build New Mansion.
Virginia will provide a handsome, mod
ern mansion for the use of its gov
ernors at the next session of the gen
eral assembly. The fact became known
here a day or two ago. Incidentally, it
Is recalled that the mansion now in use
was built more than a hundred years
afco. is as substantial and comfortable an
affair as it is possible to make such a
building, but it is not modern in many
respects. Up to forty years ago It was in
the immediate vicinity of some of the
best homes in the city, but in that time
all the old families have moved away.
The mansion at this time Is In what may
best be termed the Isolated part of the
city?a section which is giving way to
boarding houses, manufacturing plants,
hospitals and medical colleges.
Tf the legislature shall provide for a
new mansion it will be on the property
now occupied by Lee ('amp Soldiers'
Home, which is owned by the state. That
would make it possible for the state to
build a new library and supreme court
of appeals home on the site of the pres
ent mansion, saving ,the state not less
than $90,000, which has been appropriated
for buying a site for the library building.
The suggested site for the new man
sion is in the best residential section of
Richmond, where the streets are wide,
the drives shady, level, well graded and
well paved, with handsome homes and in
the immediate neighborhood of the
wealthy residents.
Expect Many Merchants.
More than '2,000 merchants from North
and. South Carolina, West Virginia and
Tennessee, and including many from all
parts of Vlirginia, are coming here the
week of August 11 to ltt. The local whole
sale merchants and business organiza
tions have inaugurated "Better Ac
quaintance Week." the purpose being to]
bring the merchants, many of whom
have never been to this city, to Richmond
and to show them what Richmond is and
what she can do.
The merchants will be the guests of the
business men during their stay, when
they are buying their fall and winter
stocks, and they will be taken in hand at
night and entertained at the theaters, at
lunches, at dances, cabarets and trips
down the river. All business houses have
joined in the movement, and while the
number of mercnants Is expected to reach
not less than 2,000, the number of visitors
will be more than double, for many of
them will fetch along their wives and
children.
Railway Conductor in War Time.
Capt. John T. Taylor of Lynchbui^g. one
of the older residents of that city, has
been here for several days on a visit to
relatives, and while he is pretty close up
to the eightieth year, he is active, hale
ti,e war he was In
the service of the Confederacy as a rail
way conductor between this city and Pe
tersburg. engaged in the handling of sup
plies for the army and in hauling troops.
He talks Interestingly of the siege of Pe
tersburg. the gallantry of the "thin er*v
line" defending it. and of the manner in
which the besieging army would shell the
trains every time they had a chance For
some time every trip that Cant Taylor
made he w. saluted bJ hearing the
shells go whistling through the i?ir In
Si 5 s, Szta
? struck, and his train was never iniured
There is not another living t<$ay
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By purchasing early and taking advantage of the fur market condi
tions we are enabled to make this timely pre - season fur sale particu
larly interesting.
Great care has been taken in selecting only those turs which will be
much in vogue the coming season, and at the same time prove the most
serviceable.
These very desirable Fur Coats and Sets of selected skins can be
bought now during this Annual August Fur Sale for 25% less than
the usual prices. In fact, many of the offerings are fully a 40% re
duction from what you will pay when the first cold snap arrives.
The Smart Boulevard Coat Is the Very Latest
We're Offering It in a Variety of the Richest Furs
Dame Fashion has decreed that the modified Cutaway or Boule
vard Coat shall be th? model in Fur Coats. We are including an entire
line of this distinctive style in the sale, in a wide range of handsome
skins, including Hudson seal, striped marmot, moleskin and Persian
pony.
You'll also find your own particular choice of Fur Sets of every
description included. At these prices it will certainly pay you to make
selections now. We will gladly store furs for the summer free.
$7.50 Black French Coney Set now?? ^5
$18.00 White Iceland Set now . -$14.50
$21.00 Gray Kid Coney Set now. $15.75
$2&ooJiandsome^Mol^^ j
$40.00 Black Pox Set now... ?$27.50
$40.00 Black Fox Set 75
$3.75 French Coney Muff now. ?2 pg
$35 Persiana Coat now.
$50 Russian Pony Coat now.
$65 Russian Pony Coat now.
_$25.25
$37.75
^$48.50
$78 Natural Pony Coat, civet collar, now.. .$60.25
$80 Black Pony, opossum trimmed now.. $62,75
__$85.50
? $89.75
$110 Striped Marmot Coat now..
$120 Genuine Moleskin Coat now.
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$140 Near Seal Coat,ermine trimmed, now. $105.00
It Is Your Privilege to Open an Account With Us
You may charge your purchases if you wish and arrange convenient payments either weekly or
monthly, as suits you best. This will prove a most satisfactory way to take advantage of this' un
usual opportunity; or if you prefer we will accept a nominal deposit on furs selected now, placing
them in mothproof storage until desired.
10% Discount on Accounts Closed in 30 Days
409 to 417
Seventh Street.
who was in the service of the Confeder
acy with him in operating the trains be
tween this city and Petersburg. He is at
this time engaged in selling tobacco for
one of the Lynchburg warehouses, going
to his work at 5 o'clock in the morning
and working often till 9 o'clock at night.
He has held but two positions in all his
long life?that of tobacco inspector be
fore and since the war and conductor of
trains during the war.
Uniting with the Methodists of the state,
the fight against liquor has been taken
up by the Baptists. The fight at this
time is being aimed at the Virginia state
fair, which is to l?e held here in October.
The Methodists started the ball in motion
by adopting resolutions protesting against
the sale of liquor on the grounds as det
rimental to the morals of the young, re
pugnant to the wishes of many thousands
of the visitors and because- of the many
pitiful sights seen on the grounds when
women and children are seeing the ex
hibits. Now the Baptists have entered
the contest antl they are urging their
people to remain away until such time as
the officers shall discontinue the sale of
liquor on the grounds. The sentiment is
against the sale of liquor in ?J1 sections,
and the protests against sale at the state
fair are being registered almost weekly.
First Trial of Colored Han.
At Cllntwood, Dickenson county, this
week, the first trial of a negro in court
in the history of the county was held. In
fact, three negroes were placed on trial
at that term of the court and a!l of them
were convicted.
Dickenson county, u;> to a few months
ago, was one of the two counties in the
state which did not have a negro resi
dent. They were exceedingly rare in that
section of the state, so that when the
parties were brought to trial there were
many young men and women who got a
look at a negro for the first time in their
lives.
The building of a railroad?the first to
enter that county?was responsible for the
influx of negroes, and they had not leen
given time to become acclimated before
the criminal instinct in the lower element
of the race began to assert itself.
Will Davis (colored) was given two years
in the penitentiary for the murder of
Dora McCrary. Garfield Goolsy (also
colored) was sent to jail for fifteen days
and fined $15 for petit larceny, and John
Brvin (colored) for malicious wounding of
John Dale was given three years in the
penitentiary. H. A. H.
PRESIDENT IS MERCIFUL.
CULPEPERMACCABEES
HAVE A DAY OF EON
Entertain Guests From Abroad
and Play Ball Game With
Charlottesville Team.
Permits Convict to Be Near Family
and Friends.
President Wilson has decided to permit
Newton A. Carlisle, former president of
the National Bank at Newberry, S. C.,
convicted of misapplying its funds, to
serve his sentence of one year and a
day in Newberry jail, instead of at the
Atlanta penitentiary.
The prisoner is in ill health. The
President will permit the transfer so
that Carlisle may be close to his family
and friends. His five-year sentence wm
recently commuted by the President to
a year and a day.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
CULPEPER, Va., July 26. 1913.
Monday was a gala da> for the order
of Maccabees in Culpeper, one of the
features being a base ball game be
tween the Culpeper team and the K.
O. T. M. Lodge of Charlottesville at the
ball grounds, which resulted in a score of
8 to 0 In favor of the home team. At a
banquet that night the Culpeper Lodge
entertained many visiting members, in
cluding Past State Commander L. N.
Roetlng, and both base ball teams, as
well as numerous visitors from various
parts of the state. A lodge meeting fol
lowed the banquet.
j * s: le v as made last wt*k ol 311 acres
i of lnixl <>f the large estate known as
Farley ' this county, being Mrs. Sadie
Stearns .WcClanahan's share of the 2..'i00
? acres of this farm left to his nine chil
dren by the late Franklin Stearns. The
purchaser was Roger Bickers, a lawyer
of Culpeper. This is the first time this
estate has b.-en sold except in Its entirety
?ince it was lirst established by the Bev
erly family in pre revolutionary timer.
C on test for Legislature.
The contest for the democratic nomi
nation to tin Virginia house of delegates,
which will be settled at the primary held
August 3. waxes hotter, as the days go by,
between the friends of Alden ftell, who
has represented th6 county for several
terms and is standing for re-election, and
Harry Smith, a prominent farmer and
member of the board of supervisors. In
u whv it is a contest between the "wets"'
Lid the "drys." as Mr. Smith is sup
ported by the latter element.
^?lans axe being made for the week of
chautaupua to be held in Culpeper in
September, and the courthouse green har,
been selected as the most suitable place
t0\hmoving picture theater opened here
Mondav night. which is the first time Cul
nener people have had an opportunity to
witntss this popular form of amusement,
exceot in the open air. since last Decem
ber when the old opera house caught fire
in the midst of a performance and was
burned to the ground.
Air and Mrs. Griffin Durant entertained
twenty-two of their friends at an old
time Virginia supper Tuesday evening at
their country home near Boston, this
county.
Give "Shirt Waiat" Dance.
A return to the simple life by som^fjk
I the young people was made manifest Fri
day night, when an informal "shirt waist"
dance was held in the old Armory Hall,
on Davis street.
Miss Margaret Williams of Red Springs,
N. C. is the guest of her relatives. Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Vass. She will he joined
shortly by her father, William Williams,
a former resident of Culpeper.
At a meeting of the Culpeper Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy, held Tues
day at the home of the president. Miss M.
Waite, it was decided to hold a bazaar
August 8 for the benefit of the all-south
monument fund.
Dr. Clyde Lewis has returned from Vir
ginia Beach, where he spent the past
week in attendance upon the annual ses
sion of the Virginia State Dental Asso
ciation. He was accompanied home by
Mrs. Lewis and their little daughter, who
have been visiting relatives in Norfolk.
Mrs. Burkmeyer of Port Royal, S.'
who is spending the summer in Culpeper.
joined Mr. Burkmeyer in New York this
week for a trip to Buffalo and points of
interest in Canada. En route back to Cul
peper they will visit Mrs. John S. Barbour
in Fairfax.
The "Avenue of the Presidents."
To the Editor of The Star:
When we were studying rhetoric we
were warned against the style known
as "fine writing"?thai is, the use of
high-sounding words ami phrases. Is
not the title as above an example of
that style, and. if so, does it not offend
against good taste, and should it not
be discontinued? Who, it may be asked,
is responsible for the .sacrifice of plain
and honest "16th street" for the new
and stilted title? What, for example,
could be more stilted than to say one
li\^s at the corner of the Avenue of
the Presidents and R street? Perhaps
It is not too late for ridicule and boy
cott to drive out the new and restore
the old. Perhaps The Star could sug
gest articles of incorporation for a so
ciety having this in view. Who can tell
what effect the persistent use of the old
name by a sufficient number of proper
people would have! Ft is worth try
ing. A mere name will never make a
street aristocratic. P. D. HASKELL.
Place Proposed for Lee Statue.
To the Editor of The Star:
I read with great interest the com
munication in your issue of the 16th
instant from the pe.n of Mr. Daniel S.
Gordon, suggesting that "one of our
unoccupied circles here in Washington
contain a reminiscence that will tell
the whole world the story of our united
country, that those who lost at Gettys
burg and that those who won at Get
tysburg each had qualities of which
every American can speak with honest
pride." ... ,
Whose statue so placed would be the
most fitting feminder that the south,
as well as the north, had men en
dowed by God wilh "extraordinary ca
pacity and virtue"? I answer this ques
tion without a single hesitation that
of Robert E. Lee.
May I suggest as a niost appropriate
place for the Lee statue the Chevy
Chase Circle. ' The very name "Chevy
Chase" recalls a battle famous in the
history of England and Scotland as
bringing out all the chivalrous quali
ties of our forbears 600 years ago.
Gen. Lee was a noble example of that
same chivalrous spirit?fifty years ago
and we in whose breasts there lin
gers some of that beautiful and holv
senticient will be delighted to see a
monument to Lee, the modern repre
sentative of that spirit we love in the
ancient English and Scotch.
WILLIAM DAVIS.
Honor American Heroes.
To the Editor of Tlx1 Star:
It is particularly gratifying to read
such pleasing and patriotic allusions to
the placing of a statue of Gen Robert E,
Lee in Uiis city. It bespeaks a genuine
patriotism that we, a united people, may
well be proud of. The eloquent and
touching words of President McKinley
when visiting the south some years ag>>
proved an olive branch of peace and
good-will that was so beautifully climaxed
at the recent Gettysburg reunion. It
mattered not upon which side the vet
eran served, he was recognizeed as an
Amrican patriot and the hand of friend
ship was grasped with genuine sincerity.
A nobler or more impressive evidence
of American admiration for her distin
guished military chieftains could not bt
demonstrated than by the erection of
the proposed monument to Gen. Robert
E. Lee in this the capital of the na
tiou that tite world may realize * the
esteem and honor Americans confer upon
their heroes.
MRS. MAGNCS S. THOMPSON.
Prosident Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No.
ao. r. d. c.
"Union Avenue."
To tli<- Editor of The Star:
The suggestion that old ltith street be
named I'nion avenue is the best I have
heard, for it leads directly to and from
the White House, the very physical and
political center of the American I'nion!
JOHN A. JOYCE.
"Where is the Lee Monument ?"
To the Editor of Tlie Star:
Apropos of the recent discussion of the
sentiment for a Lee monument in this
District of Columbia. I beg to tell an
incident which took place a dozen years
ago.
A gentleman came to Washington to
take part in our government, bringing
with him his daughter of eight years.
He took great pleasure In showing her
around our beautiful city, and the little
girl took especial interest in the monu
ments of those whom our government
has so deliKhted to honor, knowing who
most of the men were. After looking
about for some two or three days she
said:
"'Papa, where is the monument to Gen.
Lee?"
That little girl of eight exactly ex
pressed my feelings.
KAT1IERINE D. TALIAFERRO.
Gov. Goldsborough of Maryland has ap
pointed Miss F. Blanche Richardson a%
an additional notary public for Annapolis.
Md.