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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, b$ Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Sts. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

In Richmond. 10 cents a week. By Mall. In advanceon yr, $5.00; tlx months, $2.60; one month. 45 cents. Rural Routes, In advanceon year. $2.00; alx months, I1.2S; one month 25 cents. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, a See end CUaa Mall MatUr-

The Moon and the Crops It has not been so very long ago, and, in fact,

the notion still prevails among many farmers that the moon affects the growth of crops and that seeds ought not be planted unless the moon were in a certain position. The Department of Agriculture in a recent bulletin discusses this question. The conclusion of the government scientists is that the moon has no more influence on crops than it has upon temperature- or the amount of rain or any other weather element. They assert dogmatically that the growth of plants depend upon soil, temperature, light and moisture. That the moon cannot affect soil and the composition of the atmosphere is readily seen, leaving only the element of light to be considered. Experiments were made to see if the moon could affect this, and the conclusion reached was that it is a waste of time to think about "the

moon in connection with the planting of crops. The moon has nothing more to do with this than it has to do with the building of fences, the time

of killing hogs, or any other of the innumerable things over which it was once supposed to exert a strong influence." Free Band Concerts at Glen Miller Only the small sum of $250.00 stands between free band concerts at Glen Miller park this season or the disruption of the concert band, the traction company, the Chautauqua organization and the man holding the refreshments concession at the park have donated their share. Public band concerts at Glen Miller park have been enjoyed by thousands in past seasons. The

appearance of the band always attracted large'

and appreciative crowds. The concerts afforded a pleasant place of amusement and recreation for hundreds who otherwise would have been compelled to spend the Sunday afternoon at their homes. If band concerts are abandoned this year, it means that hundreds of persons who cannot afford to hear good music will be deprived of the privilege of hearing the best talent the city has. These concerts also will enable the" band to maintain its organization. Its members practice each Monday in the year, and by being paid for their appearance at these concerts the members receive a little remuneration for their work. The holding of band concerts merits support.

! This is a matter which the Commercial club ought

; not let drop, but boost at once. A plan to raise

the necessary money ought be presented by the I club.

The Futurist Apostle at Home

STEROTYPE MACHINE

FOR HIGH SCHOOL

Principal Pickell of the high school and Superintendent Giles of the city schools probably will ask an appropriation from the board of education at the next meeting of the members to defray the co6t of buying bindery and stereotyping machinery to install in the printing department of the high school. Both official favor these additional machines for study by the students and have been discussing the advisability of installing them.

HEARS SMALLEST SUIT

Measuring Depths of Space

BY HENRY MORRIS RUSSELL I Professor of Astronomy, Princeton j University.

One of the most conspicuous movements at the moment among American astronomers is a great increase in activity in the measurement of the distances of the stars. Ten years ago, only two observatories, with relatively modest equipment, were working at this problem. Now it occupies twothirds of the time of the great Yerkes telescope, and about as large a part of that of half the other large telescopes in the country. The distances of perhaps two hundred of the nearer stars have already been measured with more or less accuracy. At the present rate, the number will be raised to a thousand within a decade. What does the astronomer mean by

the "nearer" stars? The answer em-j

phasizes, as nothing else can, the appalling emptiness of the ocean of space which surrounds us. If we should attempt to make a map or rather a model of the positions of the nearer stars, on such a scale that the earth was one inch from the sun, the sun would be represented by a small grain of sand, 1.110 of an inch in diameter, while the earth would be a hundred times smaller, and hardly bigger than a microbe. The stars too Avould appear as grains of sand, some as small as the sun, some larger, and a few as big as good-sized shot; and they would be scattered, through utterly empty space, so sparsely that the distance from any one to its nearest neighbors would average about five miles. To describe such vast distances we need a new unit of measurement, and a convenient one is the distance which light, advancing steadily at the rate of 186,000 miles every second, traverses in a, year. Such a "light-year" is almost exactly represented by one mile on the scale of our model. Stars within thirty light-years of the sun are now regarded as our very near neighbors. Greater distances, up to a hundred light-years or so, can be measured with tolerable accuracy by direct observation. But the

majority even of the brighter stars are certainly far beyond this limit. We can estimate their average distance by means of their apparent 'drift across the heavens, which arises from the actual motion of our system in the opposite direction, and it is found that almost half of the stars visible to the naked eye are more than 400 lightyears, distant, while the majority of the telescopic stars of the tenth magnitude are over a thousand light-years from us, and some of them are three or four times as remote. There is clear evidence that at these great distances the stars are more thinly sown in space, being two or three times as far apart as in the region near the sun. To sound the depths of space still further, yet another method is being employed. Certain stars which vary in brightness, owing to eclipses by fainter attendants, and others whose light undergoes regular variations of short period, have been sufficiently studied to make it possible to estimate fairly well their real brightness, which in some instances is himireds 'of times that of the sun. By comparing this with their apparent brightness in- the sky, their distances may be derived. Studies by Hertzsprung of Potsdam and by the writer agree in showing that, in the plane of the Milky Way, the stars extend in ail directions to a distance of at least eight or ten thousand light-years, unless indeed space is imperfectly transparent, and the faintness of these remote stars does not arise from their distance alone. At right angles to this plane, toward the regions of the sky which seems to us to be much poorer in stars, things

are otherwise. The stars seem to thin out considerably at 500 light-years, and none are found more than 1600 lightyears from the central plane, which' passes about 100 light-yenrs south of te sun. We may therefore conceive of our stellar system as a vast flattened layer of stars, with no sharp boundaries, but some two , or three thousand lightyears thick, and fifteen thousand or more in diameter, for in this direction no investigation seems yet to have reached its limit. Beyond lies empty spare, peopled perhaps by other systems remote from our own. Indeed, Hertzsprung estimates that the Smaller Magellanic Cloud, an isolated patch of star-dust in the southern heavens, is at a distance of thirty thousand light-years. Possibly other remote galaxies may be visible to us among the still myste.ious spiral nebulae. The great star-cloud of which our sun is an inconspicuous member would be visible, if space is clear, as a contpicuous nebula, to eyes like ours, a million light-years away. But there is no one who dares say as yet that anyl thing visible in our heavens is so far away, or even ten times less remote.

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Service For Soldiers

Masonic Calendar

Tuesday May 11, Richmond Lodge No. 196 F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in the Entered Apprentice degree. Wednesday May 12 Webb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work In the Entered Apprentice Degree. Thursday May 13, Wayne Council No. 10. R & S. M. Special Assembly. Work in the Royal and Select Masters Degree. Refreshments.

A PURE LIQUID FOOD The best in the market for less money made of y2 Old English Ale and V2 Dublin Porter. 50c per dozen pints delivered at your home. J. L. BROWN, 3 6t Phone 3462.

For every million'tons of coal mined four or five men are killed and from 550 to 600 injured.

WHEN RUN DOWN

Hood's Sarsaparilla, the Reliable Tonic Medicine, Build Up.

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The Right Rev. Arthur F. Winni ngton-l ngram, Bishop of London, hat just returned after holding a series cf religious services hear the line of battle injFlanders. He said: "Th3 most touching service to myself waa early on i Easter Day when, after Holy Communion to 200 officers and men within a mils of the German lines in a schoolroom, the roof of which had been taken off by a shell, I was told at the end that 150 more men and officers from otruer regiments were outside asking for their Easter Communion. Of course, I at once held another service."

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The smallest suit ever brought Into circuit court In the recollection of local court attaches, came to trial Monday when Edna Ralston, colored, pressed a justice of the peace case against Alfred Underhill. She says Underhill forged a receipt for $8 following a disagreement regarding the price she was to receive for cleaning vaults. Mrs. Ralston demands $8 for the work and $10 damages. The case has been through two justice of peace courts. The Jury hearing the case was composed of John Elliott, Edward Beeson, Isaac Newby, James Martin. Nelson Weaver, Daniel Lashley, Harry R. Critchfield, Benjamin Thomas, Edward Deitemeyer, Carl F. Bertsch. George A. Moller and William C. Rich.

The session of the First Presbyterian church held its regular meeting lar. night and conducted its usual business. A full membership of nine was presented. Nothing of importance was done at the meeting.

PAY MOTHERS HONOR

MILTON, Ind., May 11. Mother's Day was observed at each of the Sunday schools. At the Methodist the following was tho program: "My Mother," Miss Miram Parkins; Vocal solo, "Rock Me To Sleep, Mother," J. A. Brovn with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Brown. The ushers provided white flowers. At the Christian church there was a vocal solo by Harry Doty, a duet, Mildred Case and Laura Bothermel, readings by Dean Manlove and Charles Clifton. At the Friends church, selections on the subject of Mother were given by Mrs. W. W. Jeffries, W. H. Jefferis, Mrs. Edw. McConley and the Rev. Mr. Jerge.

CENTERVILLE

Tribute was paid to the Mothers Sunday when 128 persons attended

the special services at ffi'e" Christian

Sunday-school. The program was ar

ranged by the superintendent, Mrs. I

Ada Darnell.

Mrs. S. Mull spent Saturday with i

Mrs. Betty Ha worth.

The Friends Monthly meeting was j held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-i

liam Dynes.

Rev. Mr. Pfeiffer and his wife mo-;

tored to Jay county the first of the I week for a visit with his son. j Mrs. C. A. Langley and daughter j will arrive from St. Petersburg, Fla., ' Thursday, May 20. I

Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, North ! furniture is being taken up ' impossible posies glaring from supply barelv exceeds the deITu liVrS Hen inroad as a holiday season fad, ; another richly embroidered ! mand. Sunday. and these pictures serve to show i cushion at your feet. , Already some dealers over several stitches were required to;to what extremes the faddists; Or, if your nerves are strong, nere are beginning to introduce close the wound caused by a window . are gcing. enough, you can surround your- , tt. . e . . which fell across Miss Rilia Bertschs, In the top picture, for in- self with pictures similar tolthe lutur,st turniture in i hand. ; . , jj .i t i c: m ill u-uv hilt f ho icn tvi tint

stance, you see me Kina oi cusn- iisose wiuwn in ine uonom pic-'"""". "."

Futurist or post-impressionist j under your right ear, with some; mad" about the new fad and the

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Best Thing for a Bilious Attack. j ions inai every perieciiy gooa "On account of my confinement in ; post-impressionist should have the printing office 1 have for years: jn njs or ner home been a chronic sufferer from indigest- v 1'

ion and liver trouble. A few weeks 1 . 1 v,u ' S8: ago I had an attack that was so severe! "unge with an angular horse that I was not able to gr to the case! neighing from a futurist cushion for two days. Failing to get any re-'

lief from any other treatment, I took ; three of Chamberlain's Tablets and the next day I felt like a new man," writes H. C. Bailey, Editor Carolina News, Chapin, S. C. Obtainable everywhere, i adv.

ture.

During this season thousands of futurist furniture freaks are

"caught on" as yet.

Perhaps Americans are too nervous a race to be able to

being sold by London dealers for withstand the shock of walking presents. As they say in Eng- into a room of distortions after land, the people there are "quite I a hard day's work.

NAMED ON COMMITTEE

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Rev. L. E. Murray of Richmond, was chosen as one of the members of the executive committee ;;t the seventy-! sixth annual convention of the Christian churches of Indiana which open-

Edward Newman has gone to Terre led yesterday in the Christian church

CAMBRIDGE CITY

.Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fudge and daugh- family of Dayton motored here Saturtcr. Mis.-. Marie. , day. Rev. E. J. Vance returned home Miss Mary Porterfield who has heen Saturday from a two weeks' visit with visitinc at Economy, Ind., returned relatives in New Market. Tenn. . home Saturday. .lohn Marrinan and daughter. Miss' Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Melody and son. Katherine s-pent Monday in Dayton. . Eugene, spent Sunday with Mr. and Dr. and Mrs. W. 1 1 . Swisher and Mrs. Esta House near Eaton.

Haute to enter the State normal. -Mrs. and Mrs. G. W. Martz, Mrs. Horace Hamilton, Mrs. John Groves and daughter, Eleanor, Mra. Roy R. Klingman, Mrs. Albert Polk and Mrs. Floyd Amnion were in Richmond Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Belt Smith of Dublin were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wiseman, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Lester have returned after a few days spent with their grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. W. t Williomc rf Voiv r'actla

'Mrs. J. R. Hunt of Muncie was the I , "ss Yvonne Miller and Oliver Shel-, guest of her sister, Mrs. W. Benton lenbarger of W est Manchester motor-;

of Marion.

The officers of the State Ministerial assoeiaHon who were elected are as follows: President. Rev. Clay Rev. W. H. Newlin, Ncblesvilie; secretary-treasurer. Rev. Roilin A. Bennett, Marion. Rev. Motley of this city is also at-, tending the meetinc. ,

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Deeper they reach the Seat of the Trouble

NEW PARIS

Wilson recently.

Joseph Storch and family have returned to New Castle after visiting Henry Storch and daughter Beatrice. Visits With Sister. Theodore Dronberger of Anderson spent Saturday and Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Charles Eichlor. Mrs. Roy Copeland, Mrs. F. J. Harvey, Mrs. J. W. Harper and Mrs. George Babcock were in Richmond Saturday. Mrs. W. A. Pruitt and her brother, Omar Taylor of Dublin attended the Dalton township Sunday school institute. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Romer and daughter Mary entertained Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kreusch, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Pilger and son Robert and Mrs. T. M. Norton of Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Manlove and children arid their guest, Mrs. Jason Jones, motored to Muncie Sunday and spent the day with relatives. Miss Olive Favorite of Hagerstown and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rudicel were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kelsey Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Beeson of Milton, Mrs. Charles Kniese and daughter, Pauline, Miss Margaret Scudder and Mrs. Frank McDaniels motored to Richmond Saturday.

ed here Sunday and were Attests of

Russian demand for American cotton is almost nothing.

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