Richmond Palladium (Daily), 15 February 1906 — Page 4

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"T T THE MORNING PALLADIUM THUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1906.

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lES REPUBLICAN TICKET. Per C:ngress, ja:.:es e. watson. , Jcint Senator. RC3COE E. KIRKMAN. Representative, , . WALTER S. RATLIPFV ! " Joint Representative, RICHARD N. ELLIOTT. " . ' Prosecuting Attorney. WILFRED JESSUP. r , ! , (( ; Clerk Wayne Circuit Court; HARRY E. PENNY. , Auditor, DEM AS S. COE. . ; Treasurer '"' BENJAMIN B. MYRICK, JR. Sheriff, LINUS P. MEREDITH. Commissioner, Western District, x THOMAS E. CLARK. . . , Commissioner, Eastern District, CORNELIUS E. WILEY. . . I Coroner, ;-:; ALLAN L. BRAMKAMP.. . . County Assessor.-; - -. ..-. MOORMAN: W; MARINE.: t.rf County Surveyor. ROBERT A. HOWARD. 1 ' County Councflmen-at-Large, ; ; HENRY E. 'ROBINSON. . . ; ; JAMES C. FULGIIUM. . WALTER S. COMMONS. - - ' ' - STICK TO YOUR GUNS. In speaking editorially of the poll? tioal situation in Chicago yesterday's Inter Ocean says in part: ..,; "The Republican party. , has i never won when it shirked a duty or played the coward. It will not win in this off year 190G unless it stands by iU guns and fights in the old wayv for principles, and for, . principles 100 per cent Republican. ?,: & The same condition is true of Rich- . mond. Alarmists have trieo"; to split the Wayne County , Republicans into two factions, and in their desire to defeat the regular Republican party at any cost, would lead their faction over to the Democrats. They would cast off their party, the party of Lincoln, McKinley, and Roosevelt, the party which was called to the front in 1SG0 to preserve the Union, and which was called.upon in lSOfyto save the country from the industrial depression which would have followed Bryan's election. These alarmists belong to the same class of .' which Bryan is the acknowledged pleader. Men. who believe one thing one day and another the next. Men, who are "Jacks-of-all-Trades, politically and masters of none, therefore bitterly hat ins those who by their ability have gained the ' confidence and support of the voters 6f a community, . ' .'"':' This has been the case locally for some time past, but it is not so today. The Republican voters of Richmond and Wayne county are experiencing the reaction which- always follows any extreme, and are lined up for the fall election in a manner which will assure ictdry for' the Republican ' party; the? party which solidified' the Union when it was threatened with 'dissolution, and freed the negro from ervitude;: the party which hder President Roosevelt will purge the

plutocracy v That is the party the voters of this community are urged to support. A party by its long continuance in power clearly shows that it. has merited the support it has received in the past. A party within a party, in that it has always been able to effect reform within itself when such was needed, a thing the Democratic party never was and never will be able to do. ; - " o 'i

' POLITICAL GOSSIP t And now talk begins in earnest relative to Mavor Sehillinsrer's official family. That is to say. the municipal family with which Dr. Schillinger will surround himself when he takes oats of office next September. It has been so many ages since good old Republican Richmond had a Democratic municipal household that every voter who proclaims allegiance to that ancient patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, is searching for a job. Of course if Mayor Schillinger were to stick to the old political proverb, "to the victor belongs the spoils" he would toot the Republican horn and,! make his selections from the party , that really put him i in charge 'of the Quaker City. It is admitted that the Democrats did not do 'it for their, numbers are not' Sufficient and the Republicans' therefore lid the kindly act. ,". Ut ..,-,, Now if; Mayor Schillinger would lecide to be as gracious as his natural political adversaries have been, he would as a matter of fact think not of giving out the plums to his own party. i; ' ' V' .' ', For, instance the board of public works is composed of three members and under the law only two of them. can; be 6f The: same faith politically. Thein"c0ming: mayor might hand out iworof ;-jthese ' $1,000 plums to Republicans and simply because the law says ihenitist', "he could with a display of reluctance give the third seat on the boarfr to ft member of the Democratic party ff hat did not elect him. Then he might "continue in the good work- and place the City Controller-' ship, -1 ir '$1,200 job, in Republican hands; theseretary of the board of health, street : commissioner, superin tendent of the crematory, superintendent of the electric light plant, superintendent of the city parks, cus todian of the -city hall, the city attorneyship, ..the cify.engineer all of, these and any more that might have been missed in enumerating, should go to Republicans that is if the in coming mayor, is. highly appreciative of the good things that 'his friends, ; f he enemy" have done for. him. ;r , .But he won't, ,5 ... . ' .;. . .;: , Mayor-elect. , Schillinger 's ability. and integrity are unquestioned and his lovaltv to i Democracv ; mav also befi t Whehe, tjtakes the reins of the local municipal .. - government ,;next Septemberlhe ;will begin things with o. new sheet and Republicanism will be wiped off the city government may as. far as it is possible. ... It is" reported that one or two offi ces may remain in Republican hands but if this proves the case the reason may be found to be that there are no Democrats to fill them. Rich mond is to be a Democratic city next September and thereafter for a pe riod of four, years. What the .Re, publicans get, will be given them in the same vicinity that "Clara was wont -to wear her beads" to use the time worn vernacular of the. street in. , the neck. However, this is all as it should be. The Democrats will hold power and naturally enough they should be given the plums with it. According to i the Sun-Telegram, whose columns should be regarded as the local Democratic almanac, Thomas J. Study, the recognized leader of the local forces of Jefferson, is to be city attorney. Mr. Study was the man who. selected Dr. Schillinger as the most promising candidate to carry the Democratic banner last spring. That Mr. Study's selection was a fortunate one that he was right in his contention thatj Dr. Schillinger should be the candidate, has been borne out by subsequent events. Mr. "Study has never held public office and if he accepts the portfolio of "attorney general" of Richmond, the city's legal affairs will be in good hands.' Cliff Merril, chairman "of the Democratic city committee , who conducted Mayor Schillinger" campaign is said, to have anything be desires snugly( nestled away in his .vest pocket. The Sun-Telegram intimates , . that Mr. Merrill win wield' thegavel at the session of the board of works. Webster Parry, 'formerly county chairman of the Democratic committee, and a Democrat of the "old school" is said to be slated for the office of City J Controller.

WATSON WILL BE REWARDED. V, ''' " J For His Work as .Whip" .in .the V : House Connersville Will Ba " Given Federal Building.

Washington, Feb. 14. Representatives Watson and Brick will get their pork for. faithful services rendered the party organization. Mr. Watson, as whip of the house, displayed great energy and skill in rounding up votes for the Philippine tariff and statehood bills. He has introduced a bill appropriating $100,000 for a publie building at Connersville, the capital of Fayette county. He may not set that large amount but he will tret an appropriation amply big enough to construct a building that will be a source of pride and joy to Fayette county eitizens. Mr. Brick also worked hard to defeat the insurgents and by his energy and persistent campaigning he established a clear title to a piece of "pork" for South Bend. Tnat city already has a federal building, but it is inadequate for the needs of the service and Mr. Brick has for years been trying to secore an appropriation for an addition to it. This year he will succeed. CASSIE CHAD WICK IS ILL. Prediction Once Made by Her Attorneys That She Wouldn't Live Through Term. Columbus, O., Feb. 14. Cassie L. Chadwick is in the prison hospital at the female department again. Dr. Thomas, prison physician; said that as yet, so that it is presumed that she is not very ill. When Mrs. Chadwick entered the penitentiary her attorneys said that she wpuld not live to serve out her term, t JOHN CHENEY IS NINETY YEARS OLD STILL ENJOYING GOOD HEALTH -WILL CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY FRIDAY. GAME HERE DURING CIVIL WAR Was, Active in Business Until Sev- ' eral Years Ago Laid up Comfortable Fortune. John Cheney, one of Richmond's pioneer citizens and veteran business men, will celebrate ! his ninetieth birthday Friday. Mr. Cheney is enjoying very good health and will be at his home, 28 North Third street, Friday morning and afternoon to receive the ' congratulations of his many friends. John Cheney came to , Richmond from Worcester, Mass., during the Civil War period and has resided here ever since. For a number fof years' he was :a 'member of the firm of Deal and Cheney, which Was engaged in the egg packing business on Fort Wayne Ave., where the new store rooms of the Pogue, Miller Co. are now located. Mr. Cheney was also engaged for a number of years in the wheat business, from which he derived a comfortable fortune. He retired from active business cares about fifteen years ago and since the death of his wife, four years ago, his neice, Hiss Alice Morse, has kept house for him. Mr. Cheney is now and has been for years past an elder in' the First Presbyterian church. J ' . ,! . U TRY IT ONCE. ;- It's easy to win the Palladium prize for "tipping" off a piece of news. f . Nearly every, one knows something that the general public is not aware of. It is hard for "the reporters to hear everything that; is; going on. After getting a ''tip'it is no trouble for them to hunt it up. AH they want is' a "tip.". To win the dollar prize it is not necessary" that -the "tip'' be a tremendous piece of news. "A little item may win the prize. Try it 'once and see if you can't win."': i ' " ", "..4. ;

FAVOR BUILDING THEIR OWN PLANT

THE CENTERVTLLE COMMITTEE WILL MAKE REPORT4N A SHORT TIME. : " BELIEVE WOULD BE CHEAPER For Town to Manufacture Its Own Light and Power Richmond Could Furnish It. The committee which has been investigating the advisability of establishing an electric light plant at Centerville will make its report to the citizens of Centerville either Friday or Saturday and the indications are that it will recommend the building of the plant. The committee has consulted; with representatives of the Richmond Light, Heat and Power Company and Superintendent Rogers of the Municipal Lighting and Power plant with the end in view of having the streets of Centerville lighted with electricity from one of the two local plants, but no satisfactory - arrangements were made. The members of the committee have as yet compiled no comparative figures which would show the cheapest method for, securing electric light for ' Centerville, but the committee is inclined to believe that home production would prove to be the most satisfactory. The question has come up as to whether, .the , Richmond , Municipal Lighting and Power plant would have the right to sell eiectrieity outside of Wayne township as the plant pays no taxes to the county . ,v j At the Richmond ; Light, Heat and Power. Company it is stated that the matter of supplying'-- electricity fi , to Centerville was' thoroughly :,nvesti-; gated but . , that the -eojnmjttee ; vin charge of the enterprise seemed to be entirely at sea' and was unable to submit any definite ; proposition. They state that to supply electricity to Centerville it would be necessary." to increase from 2,000 voltage to 5,000. . " "! Tiie Roue. ; ; " The rose among the Romans was the emblem of secrecy: Ucuce the phrase sub rosa. , Mpshroomn. To tell mushrooms from toadstoola without 1 eating them "an waiting for results peel an onion and put it with the fungi while being cooked. If the onion' remains white cat with oonfldence. If it turns black, eat it not, if you value life. ' Early Pens. The early pens were so expensive that the steel pen makers advertised that they would make such repairs as were necessary to their pens for a stated time, generally about six months. When a man damaged his pea he carried it back to the factory and had it mended by an experienced mechanic. ' The Honeycomb. The honoycom!) made by bees is always in regular geometric figures. and solves the problem of the largest economy of space with the smallest expenditure of material. The Mole's Home. The mole's habitation is a regular fortress, generaX'j under a clump of bushes or in some place not likely to be trodden upon by heavy animals. The central fortress or habitation Is always provided with six or eight entrances, so that the mole t can escape in any direction on short notice. - : ' f : The Abatis. ..,-4 t r i,. The abatis was doubtless suggested to early mttitary engineers by the natural defenseon the back of the hedgehoe- "... -: 1 ' ' " " . . -i ' Invisible Ink. Among. the Romans an Invisible Ink was made with the milky juices of certain' ' plants. , Its manufacture was a state secret,-death being inflicted upon any who should disclose it, and all important dispatches from the capital to the provinces or vice versa were written in Ink. . , , , ; -"JPollen of Flotreri. . ' . The pollen of ; flower3 is in grains so small) that many kinds are. no .more than a thousandth of a millimeter In diameter. ' r i!f . ; i'V. ?.:'' Tail of the Fih.: '- hi ' , The titil of the fish was the first rudder, and also, it may be added, the first screw propeller. Any one watching th movements of fishes tails while swimming will be. struck with the resemblance to those of a screw propeller.

THINGS THEATRICAL.. Maud Granger will piay Mrs. Lf.ncshr In Benjamin Chapina c.iaracter d.-aui. "Lincoin." which wU Le p.-esan.eJ to the first time in Parsona thaatfcr, Ha; ford. Cona. ' Members of the chorus of "His Maj esty," a comic opera ssia to have

New York tearing, received $1 a day j tor reheasals $efc5ii Koberts U tin first New York, manager to take this step. ' " Henry B. Ilarris has purchase! an option on '; th aviig'jts of a 'naw play Charles "KTeia" i? writlag.' The auiio has selected as Ii'.s ili?r.ie an Issue i American affairs today, just as vital a -that illustmtei in -The Lion and tar Mouse." ., ,., The will of Sir Henry Irvlns was pre bated recently. It divides his property equally between his two sons and Mrs D:vid U. Aria, n woman journalist who has made dross a specialty . and whe has written on this tonic in America:: and English papers. An offer for a novel based on "T!u Little Gray IjOt-y 43 been made to the play's author.' Chahning Follock, by Street & Smith and has been accepted The book will be illustrated with flashlight picture.? of the play as it i3 pre sented. i " David Beiasco has written a letter to Shubert Bros, ..asserting that he and Mrs. Carter have agreed to abandon their intention of .producing Parker's "Joan of Arc" play next season bocause it would naturally come Into competition with the McCarthy "Joan of Arc." which So : hern and Marlowe are to do under the Shubert management. PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH. It is estimate'.! that Henry" rnbo1.!ehero Iiasspcat more than $l,00i.000 in defending libel Rials brought against him a;; editor of Trulh. A Vw'iter in the New Yoi'k Heral.1 bn revived the claim 4 that Hank Fanoa. once editor of the BufTalo Kepubllc. wrote "Beautiful Hnow." , Guy de Mmpassant despised literature as a profession and gave to almost any other topic of conversation the preference over books. . "There are so many other things of so much greater interest to talk about," the novelist would say. ? ; ' ,: The approaching commemoration of the death In 1856 of the sculptor David d' Angers has brought to the surface in Taris an Interesting souvenir of Victor Hugo. It Is a photograph, showing Hugo seated, beside the medallion of himself which -was modeled by David. " Robert W. de Forest, secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. hatf announceU'.the resignation of George H. Story, curator of paintings, and that Roger E. ; Fry of -Loridoii. England, has accepted "the appointmnt k his successor. Mr. Fry . enjoys a refutation sd ond to none in knowledge "of mediaeval and renaissance paintings . COLLEGE AND SCHOOL. -In the afresh 111 an class at Amherst there are twenty-two men who cannot swim a stroke and twenty others who cannot swim over sixty yards. It has been decidedUto erect a library building on tlio campus of the University of. Chicago as1 memorial to the late Dc Harper, president of that institution. H ' ' ': J 1 Yale university is to have a commercial museiim.- The new institution will be a working laboratory in connection with courses now offered in commercial geography by Professors Keller and Gregory. " In response to a question whether they used tobacco in any form or not. the answers to which were anonymous, it is said that fully 40 per cent of the boys of the high school at Burlington. Vt., answered in tlie affirmative. STATE LINES. Figures just completed show that no less than 400,000 tourists visited Maine during the season of 1905. The area devoted to corn in Kansas in 1905 was , 700,755 acre3, an increase over that of 1904 of 305,557 acres, or 4.7 per cent. Tha average yield to the acre for the entire state was twentyeight bushels. It is true that CO per cent of the deaths among the Sioux and Yankton Indians now are from tuberculosis, but it is also true that fifty years ago tuberculosis was unknown among the Indians and has fastened upon them only since the settling of the white man In Dakota. Y- - ... THE METROPOLIS, f ?. New 'York was settled by: the Dutch, is run by the Irish and owned by the Jews; Canadian Magazine, Toronto. Henry James keeps on recording his impressions of New York. : Judging from the. impressions, hev must have seen the " city In a hea v . fog. New York American. 1 : 4 It is estimated there are 1,000 former Kansans in ; New York 5 city, which seems to account for the great progress New York has been making in recent years. Kansas City Star.; n; 4 THE AUTOMOBILE." ::: -;:,; ... 1 . . vS-'fii f'iO'j There are in Chicago 2,100-Street cartand 3,jOO nutomobilesi During 1005 the street cars killed 337. people and the automobiles killed five. Is It possible that the automobile Js not as red 03 it Is painted? Louisville Courier-Journal. A cynical observer of automobile accident Q:li-. attention to the f alleged fact that most of them occur In coming home from roadhouges, ' Clubhouses, races,- etc., and ery few In' going out. The Inference Is more plainjthan complhnentary to motorists. Cleveland P!aln Dealer. . "

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PERILOUS TRIP f. f FRENCH AERONAUT RUNS INTO A STORM OFF NEW YORK BAY. V CLOUDS BLACK AS EREBUS Finally Discerns Speck of Light and Descends at a Farm House A Miraculous Escape. New York, Feb. 14. After a perilous trip through space, at the mercy of a. storm' thousands of feet above the earth, Charles Levee, a French aeronaut, returned to New York today and related a thrilling experience that bad come to him from the time of his ascent yesterday afternoon at West Point until he 'reached-' terra firma last night near Kingston. The, ascent was made at 3:53 o'clock yesterday, afternoon (. under Jhe auspices of t he Aero . club of America. Levee reached the jrround about midnight at a. place near the village Hurley, about six miles from Kingston.' lie spent the nigh at the farmhouse of Matthew' T. Dewitt. . . The daring Frenchman said , that the experience was the most perilous he had ever had. Mr. Levee said: 'Had it not been for the storm which I encountered, and which almost brought an end to my trip through the air, I would have gone far into the, interior of the mountains. If the wind had held there would have .been no trouble, but when I was sailing smoohly along a storm came dead ahead. ; ' ' ' The ; moon was shining ' and gave me plenty of ' light. ? Suddenly; the, clouds seemed to pour down upon me. They " enveloped . the balloon and shut out the light of the moonj when I was several thousand feet tip. ! The velocity of the wind was something terrific. 'I had absolutely lio means of knowing which way I was going. The cold became intense. : The temperature must have dropped to the zero point in a few seconds. '" 'i 'f After a time "the wind veered, as near as I could judge, and was, I be-' lieved, carrying me back toward the river. But the blackness was impenetrable .and. I-could no tell.'. The instruments 'I had with' ine were useless, for I could "not see them! so I began releasing the gas, slowly and cautiously, of course, for I had no desire to settle, in the. Hudson river, . ' "I realized my danger if I did not find a landing place before the equilibrum upset in the adjustment of the gas ballast was restored. Despitethe fact that I ' was , being carried with the;. wind, at a - fright f ul t speedy there was no ..sensStion ". of rushing through the air. : I realized -1 was traveling at , too great a speed r to make a landing unless I could discern a stretch of smooth land.4 ' "When I was able to read my instruments, which told me I4was nearing the earth, I was only a couple of hundred feet up, but could see nothing.- ..;.;..?; - 5 : : "After I had almost become blind in my endeavor to locate something on the earth .1 sighted a light. It was just a mere speck, but I knew it was a habitation and I allowed the balloon to settle gradually. ! As I neared the earth in the direction of this light I began to shout, but . the roar of the wind drowned my voice. "Less than 100 feet above the earth ' I could make out nothing except "an inky blur. . Then I ripped the balloon wide open. Then I Judge I was about twenty feet from the ground, and my fall was not hard. The anchor also caught on a stone and I was saved from being dragged along the ground."; . Levee landed in a field back of the farm-house of the Dewitts. The farmer answered his calls for help and aided him' in untangling his balloon and had him ; remain 5 in their home until morning. ? A variety OT T!re TSle Pvws in Russia to such a size that it shades the huts of the peasantry. Its flowers are said to Le nearly six inches across. - " . " Craaberrie. 'J'" " "Buy them by the barrel and use them every day," la what ; Is said of -cranberries by a woman who has made a study ; of health and food values. They are" considered more healthful ' than any other fruit known. r Mtrate of Silver. - K The basis of most Indelible inks Is the ordinary nitrate .of silver,