Richmond Palladium (Daily), 27 January 1904 — Page 5

RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM. .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1904

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The Richmond Palladium

.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1901

THE "WEATHER. Indiana: Fair tonight, possibly snow Thursday. Wising temperature. LOCAL ITEMS Optical goods at Haner's. Eye glass changed at Haner's. Dr. W. A. Park fodentistry. tf Boy wanted. W. U. Tel. office. 2t Mrs. W. S. Hiser's shothand school. Spectacles correctly fitted at Haner's. Howard Campbell has returned from Chicago. J. H. Teeter of Hagerstown was here yesterday. Edgar Fisher returned from Indianapolis yesterday evening. J. D. Fox of Hagerstown spent yesterday in this city with friends. George Miller returned last evening from aTbusiness trip to Anderson. This is the last week of Nell & Nusbaum's big consolidation cut price sale. mon-wed-f ri John Bayer spent last evening in , Indianapolis and attended the polo ' game. All kinds of job printing is done at the Palladium office. Call and get

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Louis to resume his studies in wasnington Institute. Bev. George H. Hill returned last night after a few days visit with relatives in New Castle. Mr. and. Mrs. Ben Turner returned yesterday from Cumberland, Md., where they have been for the 'past few months. Henry Wilke and son Walter returned last night from a short business trip to Indianapolis. Mrs. Kate S. Maxim of south seventh street left last evening for New Castle, where she will reside. "A Gentleman of France" was presented to a good house at the Gennett theater last night. The piece is a good one and was greatly enjoyed. Typewriters, all makes, rented, sold. Rentals, $3 to $5 per month. Repairs and ribbons for all machines. Tyrell, W. U. Tel. offiVo. 'Phone 26. Mr. Wm. S. Crane, of California, Md., suffered for years - from rheumatism and lumbago. He was finally

advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which he did and it effected a complete cure. This liniment is for is for sale by A. G. Luken & Co., and W. H. Sudhoff, fifth and Main. This is the last week of Neff & Nusbaum's big consolidation cut price sale. mon-wed-f rl Popular Lecture Course Wednesday evening, Jan. 27. Herbert .L. Willett. Subject, "New Continents." Remember the change to East Main 'Street Friends' church. The two north doors of the church will be open. All holding tickets in sections A, B, C, and J will go to the east room. Those in sections G, II, I and K will go to west room. Those in D , go to the east gallery and those in F to the west gallery. 2G-2t FUNERAL NOTICE.

All master Masons are requested to assemble at Masonic temple Thursday at 1 o'clock p. in. to attend the funeral of our deceased brother5 David M. Richey, late of Richmond lodge No. 39(3.. Free and Accepted Masons. Fraiik Pier, W. M. A. G. Compton, Secretary. People's Exchange STORAGE Ground tWr, six t cent and Main. Vera Smith. TOR SALE Old papers for s.,)e at the Palladium office, 15 cents a hundred and some thrown in. TOR SALE OR TRADE A good new 8-inch well boring machine and complete outfit for making water wells. Have made two wells a day with a machine like it. Must qui! work on account of age. S. B. Huddleston, Dublin. 14-tf Wanted Weaving at 112 west fifth street. Telephone S79. FOR SALE Two good houses for home or investment, 18 north ninth street. 23-3t WANT ED Boy at W. II. Telegraph office. 27-2t LOST A gent's gold watch in front of Gennett theater, last niht. Return to 1110 south A street and receive reward.

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EDITED BY MISS CHARLOTTE MYKICK SOCIAL CALENDAR. ' Today. Penny club with Mrs. A. M. Duffee, 214 north fifth street. Ladies Aid society of Christian church with president, Mrs. William G. Burr, 36 south ninth street Wednesday society of First Presbyterian church with Mrs. Fred Mil ler, 21 north tenth street. Duplicate Whist club with Mrs. William II. Campbell, 410 north fifteenth street. ; Fourth number of Popular Lecture Course, given by Dr. Herbert L. Wil lett. of University of Chicago, at East Main Street Friends' church. Woman's Foreign Missionary so ciety of First Methodist Episcopal church with Mrs. J. O. Barber, 117 south thirteenth street. Thursday. Occult Research club with Mrs. J. B. Rush, 325 north eighteenth street. Afternoon Social club .with Mrs. J. H. Shofer, 48 south seventh street. Thursday Thimble club with Mrs. T. C. Harrington, Wayne flats. Merry-Go-Round with Mrs. Milo Ferrell, 33 south eleventh street. Thursday Evening Euchre club with Miss Henrietta Luken, 114 south thirteenth street. Grand Army of the Republic and Woman's Relief Corps social in G. A. R. hall.' . Thursday Afternoon Whist club with Mrs. Guy S. McCabe, 8 souih twelfth street. ' -Si) Friday. Athenaea with Mrs. Frank Coffin, 10S south fifteenth street. Woman's Missionary society of the United Presbyterian church with Mrs. George Ballinger, south seventeenth street. . Card party and social by St. Vincent de Paul society in St. Mary's school hall. Musical under auspices of Young Ladies' club in Dublin. Thimble party by Mrs. L. II. Bunyan, 32 north twelfth street, assisted by Mrs. W. B. G. Ewing. Social by Chistian Union at home of Dr. S. R. Lyons, 1050 north F street. ' Woman's Missionary society of First Presbyterian church with Mrs. D. L. Mather, 326 north twelfth street. Saturday. Saturday Cinch club with Mr. and Mrs. - Charles D. Slifer, 217 north thirteenth street. Mrs. Walter Paulus entertained the Tuesday Card club yesterday afternoon at her home, 1518 north A street. The ladies played the customary euchre, Mrsl Paulus adding enough guests for an extra table. The club prizes were won by Mrs. Adolph Stauber and Mrs. Henry Kamp. Of the guests Mrs. Edward Johnson held the highest score, and was, also, awarded a pretty prize. The hostess afterward served refreshments at the card tables. iu u n i j i : . - The next meeting of the club will be at the home of Mrs. Henry Wicke meyer, 237 south seventh street. Friday's meeting of the Woman's Missionary, society of the United Presbyterian church, at the home of Mrs. George Ballinger, 24 south seventeenth street, is the first of the New Year, and promises to be an unusually interesting one. The devotional service and literary pro gram will be led by Mrs. Little. Mrs. Frank Glass will give a paper ' China a Self-Centeed Empire," and a reading by Mrs. J. II. Griffis is noted. The May Festival chorus resumed its regular Tuesday night practice at I. O. O.'F. hall last evening and the meetings will probably continue, henceforth, to fall on each Tuesday evening, without interruption. The work is progressing to a. degree of satisfaction, and interest is not lag"in1. One of the number of pretty and enjoyable dinners, which have been given this winter was that of last evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Marvel, 127 north tenth street. Mrs. D. R. Ellabarger, 31 south thirteenth street, was the charminhostess for the Tuesday Aftermath, which met yesterday afternoon. Ihe year book program was given ver batim, the two papers, "Spanish Painting The Renaissance. Sovpn, teenth and Eighteenth Centuries,"

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and "Academic and Historical Paintings," by Mrs. Albina E. Jones and Miss Peninah Moorman were exceedingly entertaining and developed an interesting general discussion. During the afternoon an invitation from President R. L. Kellv was extended the ladies of the clnb to attend the lecture, to be given at Earlham by Dr. Josiah Royce, Thursday evening, February 4th. The next meeting of the Aftermath will be with Mrs. Kelly at barlham. The Thursday Afternoon Whist club will not meet with the Misses Hill this week., as has been prcvonly announced, but with Mrs. Guy S. McCabe, 8 south twelfth street. The Hoosier Reading society, the meetings of which have ceen held ir regularly this season, was entertained last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter McConaha in Centerville, a number of Richmond members attending. The program was rendered as prepared, with the exception . wf som recitations by Miss Buhl, whose illness prevented her attendan e Several delightful musical numbers were added by Messrs. Crow - and Tan Raden. It was a very entertaining evening throughout. The bean supper, given by the Woman's Relief Corps in the G. A. R. hall, last evening, was very well attended, considering the severe weather. It was a substantial and palatable supper, and served to add a neat little sum to the relief fund, which is heavily taxed at present to provide for the sick. The regular meeting of the corps will be held in the hall tomorrow aft ernoon. In the evening a social will be given for the members and the members of the Grand Arnry. The Young Men's club entertained an audience at the Second Presbvterian church last evening with a unique and pleasing program, aranged by Mr. Arthur Bennett. The principal numbers were tricks of magic and pantomimes, but there were dialogue; and music also. The proceeds of the entertainment wil be added to the young people 's department of the church building fund. Mr. Benjamin F. Wissler will entertam the ladies and their guests at the monthly evening meeting of the Occult Research club which meets tomorrow with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jvush, 32o north eighteenth street. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Campbell will leave Saturday for Miami, Fla.. to be gone several weeks. Mrs. Howard Campbell, who has .i.jj .iviij nuu iiclo been the guest of her daughter in Chicago for a few days, returned home last eveninsr. Mrs. Frank Burgoyne has gone to Dayton on a visit to relatives. Miss Lucile Whiting of Muncie is visiting friends and relatives here. Cold Comfort From Doctors. Doctors say neuralgia is not dangerous. lhis is poor consolation to a sufferer who feels as if his face wer3 pierced with hot needles and torn with a thousand pairs of pincers. A Avord of advice to him: stay indoors and use Perry Davis' Painkiller. The blessed freedom from pain which follows this treatment cannot be told. There is but one Painkiller, Perry I! Eli Cates and wife, of Greensfork, c j ,:u ix: ... spent Sunday with relatives in this place. Prof. Baldwin, Leroy Kimmel, Miss Lawler, and Miss Moore attended institute at Williamsburg last Saturday. Miss Moore remained over Sunday with friends, returning Monday morning. rpi . i xi , The heavy rains raised the cre,?k and fn,1 nn inn nt- u :i . fa" i at. lUC mil road bridge which rendered it very insecure. The railroad company had men blasting last Wednesday night and Thursday.

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CAMBRIDGE CITY

The Colonial Motion Picture com pany, which showed here Monday night; under the auspices of the J, 0. of B.'s, owing to the inclement weather, was not very well attended. The show is, , without doubt, one of the best of its kind on the road and deserved better patronage. The "Boys" cleared about $5. Mark Bates, of Liberty, was in this city Monday. Miss Mabel Kepler, of Ger:r'antowni was the guest of friends here last night. Miss Edith Doney entertained the B. M. C.'s at a taffy pulling last night.' ; About twelve of the members were present. Everette Bates, of Liberty, was in this city on business yesterday. Miss Mary Taylor, of Hagerstown, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. L. Richey. II. Hiser, of Hiser's station, was in this city yesterday. Mrs. Virgnia C. Meredith has returned home from her trip in the northern part of the state. Leslie Knight, who has been ihe guest of John Patton and family for the past few days, returned to his home- in Richmond yesterday. Clara Vanausdal has the mumps. Bert Wilson returned home yesterday from his trip to Chicago. , Mrs. Bert Wilson, who has been the guest of friends in Spieeland for the past week, returned home yesterday. . E1 J Mr. and Mrs. George Reid entertained at dinner Sunday the following: Messrs. Reed Gordon, Fullis Gordon, George Ireland and Everett Reid, Misses Pearl Barton, Ambe Wiley, Mary Smith and Goldie Reid. Quite a number from this place attended the opossum roast at Bethel Saturday evening. Bert White entertained his friends, Walter Berg and Denver Harlan of Bethel Sundaj'. Calvin Hassett has deci.-ed to quit farming and Avill have a sale of his personal property February 4th. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hyde visiteel at Bethel Sunday. Miss Edna Gordon is a victim of the mumps. "vVY H. Addleman, who has been sick --for-., some time is no better at this writing. AVERAGE TERM OF LIFE. (From the Chicago Tribune.) The average age of the 10,203 per sons who died in Chicago in 1S72 was 15.2 years. The average age for the 2S,333 persons who died in Chicago last year the victims of the Iroqnois theatre fire not included-was 32.1 years. This is a remarkable showing The has been -r,W Ration of the average period of life in every eivilizod mnfnw. Grpaw cleanliness, the extended use of antisePties and antitoxins, the more intelligent care bestowned on the rearmg of babies have worked together to bring down the death rate. NoPvnGre have improved sanitary and 1 . . medical methods been more effective than in Chicago The birth rate is declinin?? in manv parts of the country. That has alarmed some persons and has occasioned the cry of "race suicide." A lower birth rate is not so terrifying when it is accompanied by a' lower death rate. The one is more than off set by the other. It is certainly to be preferred that eisht children should be born of whom only t wo die in infancy than that twelve shnnhl ho born, six of whom die in the cradle, The nonulation inn a in one case as in the other. Though the avera-e term of life of Chicago ,Wpn1nnt w t, i n,.i " " -...j mi.! utiu iinmiiciicu r-u greatly in a generation, there is room for still further improvement. There are still too many lives sacrificed through ignoi-ance of or indifference to sanitary and other precautions against disease. If the health department could fill all the inhabitants of the city with its own knowledge of the arts of prolonging life the Chi-u.ie-ort nne as it is, soon would be much more surnrisinHv n-nnd By Bribing the Nerves with opium a cough may be stopped T- T1 ' , . mnwnn,atwn ot fT " 7 ? and tnl i f' I . "v"-"'" IinAluIls - itemember that Allen's A e"H " . uivreiy pm me nerves to sleep. It gets right down to the root of the trouble and so cures even deep-seated affections of the throat and lungs. (7)

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A SPANISH PIRATE

: (Copyright. 1903. by C. B. Lewis. One afternoon In the year 1805, as the Jane Snow of Newburyport, bound for the West Indies, had sighted Porto Itico a pirate brig appeared to windward. She had. been so often described that there 'was no mistaking her. She was a Spanish craft familiarly known as the Black Devil. Josiah Marsh was skfpper of the Snow, and his crew numbered twelve men. As he had no guns aboard and as the craft was a slow sailer he ordered out the longboat, and everybody got into her, and the Snow wras abandoned. The pirates chased the longboat for a couple of hours, but as the wind was light they could not come up with her. Then they returned to pick "up the Snow. She was loaded with staves and lumber, and there was little or nothing aboard of her the fellows could make use of. They dared not set fire to her, and the holes bored in her bottom only waterlogged her. A cat and a parrot were left aboard, and in re venge the pirates tortured the cat to death and hung the parrot to one of the beams of the cabin. As the longboat, with Josiah Marsh and his crew aboard, ran down through the Moua passage they met the British frigate Courier and gave her the news. They had left the pirate craft forty miles behind them, but the Englishman was prompt to go iu search. The Americans asked that they might be taken aboard and serve until the Black Devil was destroyed, and their request -was complied with. :'; In a spirit of bravado the pirate captain had entered her capture on the log and had added that he should cruise for a week between Porto Uieo and Barbados. Accident had changed bis plans, however. As his craft lay alongside the Snow their rigging became entangled, and the Black Devil had her fore topmast sprung. She came to anchor under the lee of one of the Virgin islands to repair damages and had just got all autanto when the Courier hove in sight. The Englishman knew that he must disguise his ship if he wished to get near the Spaniard. As he took up the A pursuit he began to overhaul his top hamper, and after a few hours the smart frigate looked as slovenly as any merchantman afloat. The pirate let herself be overhauled to within a mile before she flew the black Hag, and as the emblem floated to the masthead sha fired the first gun. She mounted twelve guns and had a crew of US men. The frigate mounted twenty-four guns and a crew of 140. It was not many minutes before the pirate found that he had been tricked. He would then have got away, but the breeze fell, and he was under the guns of the Courier. The only thing to the credit of the Black Devil was the fight she made against superior force. Capture meant the halter, and for four long hours the pirates stood up to their work. At the end of that time they had lost eighty men, half their guns were dismounted, and the brig had been hulled so often that there was five feet of water in her hold. She was still fighting when the frigate ran her aboard and poured fifty men on her decks. In ten minutes they had possession. Little of value was found aboard the brig, as she had just returned to her cruising ground, but many of the articles removed are to be found in the British museum today. She was regularly fitted out with a stock of implenienls of torture. .Between decks there was a large caldron set in brickwork and close by a stock of seven barrels of oil. She had thumbscrews by the dozen, spiked boots, the racks and benches used in the inquisition, and indeed nothing was lacking in the torture line. On.y twenty-eight men of the pirate's crew lived to be taken prisoners. Among them was her fourth or fifth captain, whose name was Alvarez. lie was a man of thirty, and a greater fiend never lived. lie was the last man to give in and was so severely wounded that for some days it was a question whether he would live or die. The brig was so badly knocked about that she foundered, and the frigate landed the pirates in Jamaica for trial. They were a swaggering, boasting, defiant lot. Not one of them would turn king's evidence, nor did any fear death. In cold blood, and knowing they would be used against them, the captain, mate and several of the crew made statements which held them up as veritable devils. The captain had only engaged in two captures, and both vessels were English. . One had a crew of fifteen and the other of eighteen men. lie boasted that every man had been tortured to death and that some of them had lived six hours after their torture commenced. He said that with his own hand he had cut-off the ears, toes and fingers of a merchant captain and then spiked biro down on his own deck with no less than fourteen ship nails. The mate had been with the brig from the outset of her career. It took him two days to make his "confession." All the implements of torture were In his charge, and he was the one who directed their application. He said he had been the death of 100 English, French and American sailors, and there was sufficient corroborative evidence to prove that he was not boasting. The trial of the pirates lasted about two weeks, and they were given two more In which to prepare for death. Not one of them weakened In the slightest, and they sang songs and Joked with each other as they went to the gallows. M. QUAD.

THE HAN WITH ' THE PATIENT SMILE

(Original.! , ....,..., ....... "When I was running the Olympic," said the veteran manager, "one day I was stopped on the street by a cadaverous, threadbare, hungry looking chap who asked if 1 was Mr. Fuller, the manager. I told him I was, whereupon he pulled from his pocket a roll of manuscript, a play, and asked nie to read it. " 'What do you call itr I asked. ""'A Lucky Find." The hero loses his fortune and finds it again in the third act. The heroine' 'Yes, yes; I'll oblfge you.' " 'Be careful of it. It's the only copy I have, and it's not copyrighted. " 'All right. I'll take care of it. "I had to go to several places before returning to my office and must have laid the manuscript down somewhere. At any rate I never thought of it again till one day the playwright came to my office. For my life I couldn't remember where I had seen him. " 'Have you read my play ?' he asked. " 'Your play? Oh, yes; now I remem ber. No. I haven't had time to get at it yet.' "Meanwhile I was trying to think what play it was and where it was. " 'All right. he said, with a winning, patient smile. 'I'll call again.' "As soon as he had gone I hunted high and low for his manuscript, but it was nowhere to be found. Finally I recalled taking it from him and going to several places afterward, but what places they were I -couldn't remember. I was very busy at the time, too busy to take any definite action In the matter. Indeed, there was no action to take except to confess that I had lost his play. In a week he was back. "'Haven't got at your play yet,' I said. Then, fearing he would ask for it to take it away, I added: 'I'm going to have some time next week. Could you wait till then?' " 'Oh, yes,' he said, with the same smile. " 'If you need a little help, I could let you have a fiver while we're waiting. " 'Oh, no. I've had a bit of luck lately. I don't need anything.' 'Well, come a week from Saturday. I'll be ready for you. "When he called again, I was ready for him with excuses: 'Couldn't more than get through the first act. It opens well. Let me see. Th'e next few days I'll be very busy, but I tell you what I'll do. I don't like to work Sunday, but in this case I'll do it Come in Monday week.' "'All right,' he said, with the usual smile. 'Don't hurry. When I saw you last, I'd just got $100 first payment on a play, and today I got $400 more; so, you see, I can afford to wait.' "Meanwhile I was lying awake nights worrying over the matter. After he had told me that he had sold a play I worried all the more, for a claim from him for damages would now be good. If his play were successful, he might make me pay a large sum. There was nothing for it but to put him off as long as possible. He came again at the appointed time. Fortunately I had a cold. "'You see the condition I'm In,' I said, coughing. 'A man's not fit to pass on a play when, he has to blow his nose between the lines. Beastly weather we're having. On "Sunday I thought every minute I'd surely choke. But. I've got through the third act.' " 'Climax all right?' " 'Capital. Notwithstanding I had a coughing spell I was much affected.' "'Cry?' " 'Cry? My eyes were all water.' "'Climax or cold? He was as serious as a tombstone. " 'Oh, both. Y'ou come in here a week from today. "I was getting tired of that smile of his. Such a man was too angelic to live. Instead of writing plays he should be sitting in heaven with all the heroes and heroines who have died on the stage from au excess of virtue. I determined that at our next meeting I'd sound him on the subject of buying his play for as small a sum as he could be prevailed upon to accept. When he came again I said to him: " 'Your play will never do in the world. You've got an anticlimax, an impossible situation, in the second act, and the whole scheme is undramatic. But I can use a part of it for a curtain raiser. Would you take a hundred dollars for it? "There was no verbal reply only that confounded smile. I drew my check book and wrote him a check. "'I 'can't take this. he said. 'Somebody has got hold of my manuscript, and the play is to be put en at the National.' I turned pale. He smiled. 'Say, ny friend, what '11 you take to let ,-ie out of this?' "'If you'll give me the hundred dollars for keeping me waiting I'll call It , square.' , : . ' " 'Take it and welcome "As soon as he had gone I heaved a deep sigh of relief and congratulated myself on having had a man to deal with who hadn't any more sense than to take $100 for a play be owned and was to be put on the boards by another manager. " A Lucky Find' was a great success. I received seats for the opening night and was Invited to supper after the performance with the playwright. Curious to know who had stolen the play, I accepted. Who should greet me but the man with the patient smile. " 'The manuscript,' he said, 'had on It my name and address and came back to me at once. In ten days more it was contracted for. This Is your dinner to me, and It has been already paid tor with the check you gave me. "

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