Richmond Palladium (Daily), 27 February 1906 — Page 4

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Palladium Printing Cot Publishers. ENTERED AT FICHMOND POSTOFFICE AS . SECOND CLASS MATTER Weekly Established Daily Established 12S1 1376 TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sy Mail In Advance. Daily, one year, ...'...$3.00 , Daily, six months, ... 1.50 Daily, three months,.. .75 Daily, one month, .... .25 BY CARRIER 7 CENTS A WEEK. Persons wishing to take the PALLADIUM by carrier may order by postal or telephone either 'phone no 2i. . hv-v - ' -:-vv When delivery is irregular kindly make complaint. 'S r ... - . . -a The PALLADIUM will be found at the' following places: "v'": Palladium' office, ; , ..' .. ; Westcott Hotel, . -'''' . Arlington. Hotel, t , Union News Company Depot. Gates Cigar Store, West Main. The Empire Cigar Store. TWO CENTS AT ALL PLACES OP SALE. .TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 190G.. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Congress, JAMES E. WATSON. ' JclLt Senator. ECSCOE'E. KIRKMAN. Representative, WALTER S. RATLD7F. Jojrt Representative, t , RICHARD, N. ELLIOTS. Prosecuting Attorney, WILFRED JESSUP. Clerk Wayne Circuit Court. HARRY E. PENNY. Alitor, DEM AS S. COE Tircttsnrcr BENJAMIN BMYRICK, JR. Sheriff, LINUS ?P. MEREDITH, OoinmiK.'?! ooi Western District THOMAS E.iCITARK:. Commissioner, Eastern District, CORNELIUS E. WILEY. Coroner, :r,v; .'..;."', ALLAN L. BRAMKAMP. County Assessor," MOORMAN W. MARINE. County Surveyor? k ; ROBERT A.aHQWARD. County Counciimen-at-Largt, HENRY E. ROBINSON. J AMES. Ci FULOHUM. WALTER S. COMMONS. 74 r- ." DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANISM, 1 Some time ago a prominent Democrt complained because the Repub licans are accustomed from time to time to steal Democratic " thunder. " TTa vnlcnil tin ftKiflil i itinf ilm ioil , . , , road rate and pure food bills were of Democratic origin, and that the Republicans are taking advantage of tbe justness and popularity of these two measures' to make them laws. The complaint of this man shows two things, first the impractical ideas ofi the prominent it men at the head of the Democratic party, and also the pro-1 gressive spirit of the Republicans. An example' from everyday life will make this point clear. Suppose two men are competitors in the same line of business, and one of them originates a new-idea which gains him many new," customers. The other man if he isja good business man, will be quick toeize upon his .rival's idea and incorporate it into his own -a t business, llaybe, as in most cases, he will be ble to improve upon the idea, so as ,lo render his application of it more valuable to customers, and in this event he will probably secure many of his competitor's customers. This is the case with theVftepubHcan and Democratic parties. , There is a slight difference, however, and that is that while the Democrats occasionally originate some idea of undoubted benefit to the country, it is generally so sandwiched in by the usual fantastic and impractical doctrines of the party, such as "free silver," and "free trade," as in no. way to be capable of staving off the accusiomed slaughter of the Demo- j

erats every four years. Then it is .the manl Yet after all, further conthat the Republicans show their good j sideration of the case shows that the trasines acumen, and taking hold of j man who had brain enough to write

the Democrats' good idea, make it a law under a ? Republican - administra tion. Were the Republican party not actuated-by the spirit of prog -

reit would not seek to ake advantage of ideas advanced by the Democratic party, preferring rather to use ' only measures bearing the label "Republican made." This has been the attitude of the Democratic party for years, and probably accounts for tbe few number of times the people of this country have been willing to entrust the national government to their guidance. The Republican party, however, enjoys a certain advantage over the Democratic i:s that it contains within its fold most of the progressive - and representative business men of the nation, a fact which necessarily mahes it the party of advance, and accounts far its good business like policy in always trying to act for the best interests of its customers, the voters. That is the true secret of the Republican party's success, its Democratic Republicanism.

"There is much to be sa'd on both s?des" Sir Roger de Coverly. r Religious discussion at the present time in Richmond, is centering on the merits or' demerits of public entertainments. .If some people had their way a ban would be placed on the skating rink, vaudeville and public dances. In the estimation of these people such places "of amusement are dens for"' the propagation of V vice, and .should Jbe eliminated. If: - this were the true condition of affairs, then by all means such places should be rendered incapable of operation; But this is not the case in Richmond. The skating rink and vaudeville houses are managed by men whose constant endeavor is to provide de cent, clean, and moral places of amusement. And on the whole they have succeeded pretty well. Charges regarding the skating rink have been absolutely unsubstantiated, the source from which they emanated being, unable -;to convincingly prove the truth of their existence. ' Of -course it would be absurd to claim that evcry one, who attends these places possesses an entirely unblemished charter. But it would be equally absurd to claim that everyone who latt ends . church possesses a character angelie in. all respects.,. As old Sir Roger de Coverly said, : there ismuch to be said, on both sides,' and it would be wise and broad minded if .nils (fact iwere taken ltitd- consideration,, After, all as the Rev. Mr. Hadley of St. Paul's Episcopal church, said in his sermon Sunday evening: "It is only a question of the purity of our hearts. God meant; lis to have pleasures to enjoy them as they are meant to be enjoyed, hnd the pure in heart come from all pleasures unscathed. Str&mrthen your characters and have no fear." HIGH SCHOOL SITUATION. The 'present'" situation at high school calls attention to one of the most important lessons of life, and one which the earlier learned proSeafl'ls :ssessor -with" a "Valuable weapon for overcoming j the obstacles which arise." in? the 'course of everyoiie 's life. And that 'is obedience. Probably every youngt man in the juniorclass ' now on the - touts' : with Principal Ellabarger, hopes "at some time in the future to be his own master in a business sense of the word. But if these young men will rake the trouble to question any business man in the city they will be informed that one of the first requisites a young man desirous of succeed- . . . . . ing in business must learn, is that in order to expect obedience of others, one must first learn the meaning of the word, by obedience to his superiors.Yet right on the threshold of their , . A, . A , , A. important rule, by acting in an in subordinate manner to their superior, Principal Ellabarger. Of coursethese young people could be expelled by the authorities for their insubordination, but it would be far better to bring home to them a full realization of the consequences of such acts upon the development of their characters, "and the importance of always rendering implicit obedience to those in authority. o MAJOR "RENIGS." In another column of the Palladium is printed a telegram from Charles Major, of "When Knighthood Was in Flower" fame, which explains a few things in regard to the political situation in this district. Mr. Major declares that he is not a congressional candidate subject to the Democratic nomination, nor does he want any other office. Such action on the part of a man who has even a remote chance of being an office holder is surprising, and all the more so when it appears that the office urged by the Democrats fairly sought .as good a book as "When Knighthood Was in Flower," was also brainy enousrh to realize the futility 'bf attempting to defeat aa popular a

matt as James "Watson. Mr. Major is popular enough in the book and dramatic fields, but Mr. Watson enjoys a popularity born of the confidence his acts in their interests, have instilled in the breasts of the Republican voters of the sixth district.

-rvITS "SUNNY JIM" NOW. . Jim" Watson was tbe Happiest man in Rushville Friday, when his family was increased by the arrival of a brand new baby girl. Mr. Watson is a lucky man. It isn't everyone that can be renominated for congress and welcome the arrival of a new daughter all in one week. RES. ROOSEVELT THANKS CUBANS SHOWS APPRECIATION OF WEDDING GIFT BY LETTER . TO PALMA. HE PRAISES HER PROGRESS Says Cuba Has Maintained Peaceful Relations Abroad and Ordr at Home. Havana, Feb. 20. The following letter from President Roosevelt to President Palma, under date of Feb. 19, has been made public: My Dear President Palma: I desire t thank you and through you the Cuban congress for its touching ond generous memento of the marrige of my daughter. Beautiful as was the gjft, the sentiment which, prompted and caused it was.still mo re beaut ir ful, and more to be valueo".. Neither yourself, Mr. President, nor the other citizens of Cuba can rejoice more than I at the marvelous progress ani prosperity of the Pearl of the An tilles, since it-took its place among the independent nations of the world7. The Cuban republic ha.s mantainfd peaceful relations abroad and order at home. It has shown the mott who fought for independence. it has provided "ample mans for education and it has constructed public works. . Under these conditions ft has naturally seen its great wealth develop and its people progress by leaps and bounds. I congratulate you with all my heart, thanking you and them, and. desiringt all rjossible, .blessings in the future for yon and

them. ' Believe me sincerely yarareet rtihe feet 6tt" each' side, m an-

fpend and admirer of your coiuilTTticipatiori that ' when1 the 'South End

THEODORE ROOSEVELT. BOYCE FUND IS NEARLY RAISED NOW LOOKS AS IF mPROVE-i MENT ASSOCIATION CAN BUY FARM. TIME WILL BE UP MARCH 1 During the Past Few Days Stock in the Project Has Sold ' . r: ' - Rapiclly. . The option held by -the Soath Side Improvement association on the Boyce farm, just , south of the qity limits, expires on -March 1, Thursday of this week, and unless the necessary amount of stock is subscribed 'before that time, the deal to buy the land may falKthrough with., An extension was secured on the option a month ago and since that time the promotors of the scheme have been working hard in an effort 0 sell the $3,000 worth of stock, which still remains to be disposed of before the necessary amount, $15,000 can be raised with which to clinch the bargain. This stock has sold but slowly until the past ten days, but since that time the majority of it has been subscribed for, and it is practically certain that the deal will be consummated.

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LUKE E. WRIGHT, NEW Li.

: Though a Tennessee Democrat. In which state he was born ;n 1847, Luke E. Wright succeeded William II. Taft as governor of the Philippines and has recently been appointed. the first United States ambassador to Japan. Governor Wright married a. daughter of the Confederate admiral, Raphael Semmes. During the yellow fever scourge of 1S78 Wright was active iu relief measures. He was for eight years attorney general of Tennessee.

BOARD TO MAKE AN ASSESSMENT PROPERTY; OWNERS ON SOUTH H STREET MUST PAY FOR IMPROVEMENT. llSTREET IS TO BE if Sidewalks, Barns and' Sohie Honsss Must Be Moved to Improve the . ; Thoroughfare. On April 27 the property , owners on South' H street, between Fifth and South Ninth streetVwill be assessed for the improvement !of that street. It is. the. ihte'rftlon ol the Board f Pubjie. .'Works' to widen' South - II bridge is huilt acrosSHfie wer; it will be located th'ereT1 'i'i"' ' ;'t ,To make-lhTs street improvement, it will ei necessary to tear up all the sidewalks; and' fences "and' on the north side bf -'the street -three barns will have to be set back. On r-the-f south side of thef street, three barns and three houses will have to be moved further back. City. Clerk Taggart is now busy sending out nearly 250 notices of assessment. Work on the improvement of the street wll begin as soon after April 27 as possible, and a greater part of the summer will be spent in widening the thoroughfare. The property owners on South II street have been burdened with many assessments in the past year or two, and it is stated that' this latest' assessment is far from popular. . . .. AuikcTi' Rouse. "Kamala" is the vernacular name of the red dye produced from tb. glands of the mature fruit of a tree named "Mallotus philllptnensis.'trhlch is also called the "monkey face'tree" because monkey pa in t their faces red by rubbing them with the fruit. HereJs ' a striking : instance of the influence of heredl ty. Madraailail. Observation. To behold is not necessarily to observe and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that hablt3 of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools. To this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning and the false philosophy which prevail. W. Humboldt. into streets and alleys and lots and factory sites have been plotted. The incorporation papers will be filed with the Secretaryof State as soon as the deed for" the land is made out and the proposed -organization will be a company with i'capital tff $40,000. ; After that the S. S. I. A. will go into ! the field with offers to factories to I locate here and several plants are in -irft i. iixWcl

AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN

GETTING READY TO INCORPORATE FORTY; BUSINESS I 1 ' K MEN WILL f r ' BE ASKED TO TAKE ,, STOCK. i -.. VALUE OF SHARE TO BE $25 Stock Will , . Not Pay Dividenda Board of Seven Directors Provided For.. . n The Richmond ' Chautauqua Association met last niht and made preliminary arrangements to ihcorixrate the Chantauna.1 ! A list of forty businessmejn, interested in c.tbje affair, was prepared an4 each ohol of them wi e ked'tQ Snbscrib&iS which ;will haikf 'jtbT'caital stock $1000: ,This"rteyrwp!i simply be a guarantee .f und and no dividends" will be declared, on'the proceeds' of tbe Chautauqua.: ;TTiis stock will be ire-issued to the stock holders each year. - As soon as the $1,000 has ' been raised - the incorporation papers, which have been drawn up by Attorney John L. Rupe, signed by fourteen members, of the Chautauqua Association,' and providing for a board of directors of seven members, will be forwarded to the secretary of state. , ' The members of the Association, who are. promoting the incorporation, are of the opinion that no difficulty will be experienced in securing subscribers to the capital stock. No arrangements have yet been made for the program of this year's Chautauqua. ' THEfTjjAME- "JOHN BULL." It Wot the Invention of the Satirical I j Dr. Arbcthnot. v Jbhn "bull, the mythical personage uupposedtHo represent the English peor plevwas$he Invention of Dr. Arbuthnot In one dS tiis satirical sketches rldicuU ing the great Duke of Marlborough.' In the opinion-, of Dr Johnson. Arbuthnot wag "the flrst man among eminent writers " in Queen " Anne's time." He drew John Bull a.v the typical Englishman a stout. ied faced old farmer, far too corpulenjF j f or comfort, choleric, but withal an honest and well meaning fellow: Heeiothed him in leather breeches and top boots, put a stout oaken cudgel In bis hand, and a bulldog at his heels and set him up for all time to serve as the representative Englishman. lie may have been not so bad a caricature in the days of Queen Anne, but today certainly there is much force in an JEngDsh , critic's remark that "be completely, hides the Englishman of real life. The average Englishman of today is physically no stouter certainly than probably not so stout as the avera?? American, and the stout cudgel and the bulldog are no longer apt symbols of the modem Britisher's disposlI tion.. He ftas lost. the excessive pugnaci ty of nis forerathers and is, above all, anxious td keep the peace with his Untie SamneL London Standard.

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Korway I tbe Least ,ltcnx riv:e .All tliv iaUou. i AznoriennV'are only .'iuv.Cra to !Vi ers compared with tiiowvof otLer e ,;-n-tries. The uver::e c:tl::e:i If tLe L"u:red States, couailrg Sn :1k v,-::-.H'U h; chlldreu (xviilcli is uot fair. Lut st-rvc for the Uicuicut as u hzU t j ttg::m : upon), consume. la tl.e t-ov.r?e of a year liluor3 whicli oont;Ia r.:itl a talr,l gaUous cf pur? a!t-a'a'.i!. Uuv.ths Frciiroman. wha t;j-;:;.Ii .rsixs;:? .sku' of.:.li sobere'i, hns Inx-oniy ll:e v.vu t Crv.:.kard In tl:t v;!a. absjr:: nu-iua.v I three ana a luur :1S 11 The Rolglsu anil the iwl j o:..e i:ct, with . a Ciasuui:tl::i two r.ad farVjxhi gal! sr.. , Then fi!ijw t!ie.r.:4lard with two and a third 'colons. ih Italian wh jast a tr!Se less, the Uajlishruau naJ Gerniau "with two a:ul a. tenth, and the Austro-IIungnrian with about oae and three-o4uartors r.iilons. Oa the other hand, the American citizen ty na means stands at the top of j t. i! i ... . . t .t nii . me nsi in resinvt iv iuiicv. j,uc Swede drinks only one ond a sixth gallons of pure alcohol in a year: the Hollander drjps considerably below him, with one ailou even: the relatively virtuous Russian, notwithstanding his much advertised , addiction to vodka, absorbs only a trifle, more than , sixtenths of a sallm. and, finally, the Norwegian, who occupies a proud eminence as the most' abstemious man la the world, bare'.j exceeds a modest half gallon of the stuff la a twelvemonth's potations. It might be added for the sake of deflnlteness that the average person In the United States aunualiy drinks one and a third gallons of proof spirits (which are rt per cent alcohol), one-third of a gallon of : wine and sixteen and a quarter gallon -of' wait liquors, chiefly beer. Pearson's Magariae. ECSTASIES OF MECCA. Scene at the Anneal Visitation of Moli mil moduli lMIicrttus. Mecca, at tbo season of the annual visitation of Mohammedan pilgrims, is thus deicribod iu Everybody's iu " With the Pilgrims t; Mecca," . translated rrom ine narrative or iuu juuayr 411 of Bandar Adas: ' "Like a gigantic catafalque, sohiber, shrouded in mystery, the Kaaba rises out of the seething sea of -.white garbed humanity that crowds, the reat sacred square of Mecca. Its door is covered with Din tea of solid silver studded with silver nails. From the exterior of the roof, above a stone marking the sepulcher of Ishmael, which lies at the Jects . a horizontal, semicircular rain spout five yards long, twenty-four Inch--es wide, made of massive gold. With In the roof Is supported by three colnmn nf n!ii wrutil itio nvilU nrn inn c with red velvet alternating with white squares in which aro written In Arable the words; 'Allah-J:VT-Jkalai? (Tralse to God. the Almighty'). The building is packed with pilgrims, praying, weeping, beside themselves In an ecstasy of passionate, demotion. Mingled, with their voices there rises' from outside the chant of the TaUiibV the song of the winding sheet, which , every pilgrim must sing;6n entering Mecca. "on donning the sacred Ihram, on entering the 1T..... .1 .1.. in j.t. - valley .pf de5"6 antl Arafat,,tbe moun-, tain of compassion." t 'Great In Ilia Line. Mr.'- Robert Barr once showed a portrait of Mark Twain to a silk merchant of Lyons; "Tell me who that Is," Mr. Barr said. The merchant gazed at the portrait and answered, "I should ay he was a statesman." "Supposing' you wrong In that, what would be your next guess?" askeJ Mr. Barr. "If he Is not a maker of history he Is perhaps a writer of It: a great historian, probably. Of course It is Impossible for me to guess accurately except by accident, but I use the adjective 'great because I am convinced this man is great In his line, whatever it is. If he makes silk, he makes the best." Mr. Barr told the French merchant who the portrait represented and said, "You have summed him up in your last sentence." London 'News.. - ;.- -".; ;" , - " , Spenklnqr of Ancentry. Mr. Chase has such an exaggerated reppect for the blue blood of Boston which runs In his veins that his manner Is slightly patronizing. He was lately introduced to a Syrian of good birth and education who lives in this country. 'And may I inquire." he said blandly in the course of the conversation, if you are of the Christian. religion ?" ,1 "My family was converted to Christ's teaching' at the time of John's second visit to Lebanon," quietly replied the Syrian. Youth's Companion.' till tnolUnBl Cholly Nitwit D'ye know. Miss Cut-" ter, though I've only Just r-met yoo, there seems to be a er sort, of intellectual sympathy between "us. Yon know Just bow to appeal 40 my tastes, you know. Are you a literary woman? Dolly Cutter No. I'm a kindergarten teacher.--Cleveland Leader. The Face. If we could but read It every human being carries his life in his face and is good looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work. Alexander Smith. Like the Stars. She You've been out every night since I married you. and you swore you would be as true as the stare above. He Well, ain't the stars above out every night too? Judge. '' Inveterate, organic mistrust la always the n3ult of bad education or Ignorance. Baymond.