Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 163, 8 July 1906 — Page 10

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man? Perhaps you have never stopped to consider that the selling agent must have a profit as well as the manufacturer and that when you buy of the agent you cannot avoid paying TWO PROFITS. Another thing. You cannot depend upon the price of a piano bought through the middle man. He may shave his profit to press a sale to your neighbor, while you are likely to have to pay a higher price. The STARR PIANO COMPANY sells direct to you when you buy one of its instruments. The prices of STARR PIANOS are always the same. There is no juggling of the middleman's profit. Every instrument is tagged in plain figures and these figures are never changed. They are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Honorable dealing in the piano business should be as essential as in every other line, but it is not always so.

CHOOSING BETWEEN VARIOUS MAKES

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price, hesitate and think it over before you close the deal. The agent says it is as good as the Starr, therefore he is unconsciously admitting that the STARR PIANO IS THE STANDARD, but are you sure he is right when he says the substitute is really as good? Who backs his word? What guarantee do you get? If a year's use proves that the instrument is not as good as a STARR, what recourse have you? Note the difference. When you buy a STARR PIANO or a RICHMOND PIANO, both products of the STARR PIANO COMPANY, there is an absolute guarantee, backed by the company (not an agent) that you are getting value received. If there is a failure to realize your fondest hopes, you have the satisfaction of knowing that the STARR PIANO COMPANY will make its contract good in every particular. That's the value of doing business with a reliable Concern.

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HONOR FOR HERO OF OLDEII DAYS

Dedication of the Putnam Cottage at Greenwich, Conn., the Past Week.

WAS INTERESTING EVENT

GENERAL ISRAEL PUTNAM SUPPOSED TO HAVE STAYED THERE BEFORE HE MADE HIS DAREDEVIL RIDE.

Publishers' Presa Greenwich.. Conn., July 7. The career ami adventures of General Israel Putnam, affectionately known as "Old Put." were vividly brought to mind by the dedication the past week In this place of the so-called Putnam Cottage as va "meellngplace or i'utnaitf" UITl chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. This old house has a history antedating the Revolution, and there Is a tradition that Putnam , was staying here at the time be made his escape from the British by bis celebrated ride on horseback down the tono steps at Horseueck. That ride lias been the subject of much controversy, and some have even questioned .whether the doughty New England general ever performed any such feat as tradition has credited to him. However that may be, the tory of the ride at llorseneck la perfectly lu keeping with other adventures of this hero, and reckless daring was his leading characteristic from boyhood to old age. One of the earliest adventures of which we have record was his bold act of bearding In her den the old she

est lo aQnTlrers ot iixe "aoTuTe r "or Toll g ago. The adventure with the wolf Is supposed to have occurred during Putnam's early manhood, and he won his first fame as a warrior In the French and Indian war. lie was born In 1718 and therefore was about thirty-seven years of age when this war broke out In 17C5. It was In 1758 that he was captured by French and Indians and came near being burned alive at the 6 take by the latter. He was rescued, by a gallant French officer from the red warriors Just as the flames were Hearing his flesh and sent to Montreal for exchange. He performed several acts of courage and skill during the French and Indian war that have since become celebrated. He was fifty-seven years of age when the news of the battle of Lexington came to him while he was plowing a field on bis farm at Pomfret, leaving the plow In the furrow and turning the oxen loose, he Jumped on his horse without stopping to don bis uniform and arrived at Cambridge the next morning to proffer his services In the struggle with the British. It was four years later, in 1779, that be was stationed at Greenwich, engaged In trying to prevent the British from invading that part of Connecticut. Though nearing sixty and twice a widower, he was still gallant to the

fbTcelnenfs, returnetfTinorwTirppe(rfiie enemy. In 1000 Putnam Hill chapter dedicated near this flight of steps a monument to commemorate this episode. And now the cottage from which, as some historians claim, Putnam made his escape on that historic morning, is to be preserved and maintained aa a center of patriotic interest

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WRITES OF GEO. W. BARNES

A. B. Young, Now Living in Portland, Ore., Gives His Appreciation of a Companion of Former Days Who has Passed to Great Beyond.

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rrolf who had destroyed his sheep, shooting her at close range and bringing her carcass out from the dark cavfi.i in triumph. The wolf 'a den, in fiyittf ret. XTniu IslsUII r FisLoUaler-

PtTNAM COTTAGE AT GREENWICH. fair sex and on the night of Feb. 2G had ridden to a ball with Miss Sarah Bush of Cos Cob, one of the prettiest girls of those parts, on horseback behind him, according to the custom of those days. He had returned to his headquarters maintained by the D. A. II. to have been the Putnam cottage and was shaving himself when he saw In his mirror a party of redcoats coming down the road. Lathered and half shaven, he seized his coat and Jumped on his horse, galloping toward the Congregational meeting hotise, where his men were drawn up. As they were too few lu number to offer effectual resistance to the approaching British, he bade them disperse and started off toward Stamford for re-enforcements. The British were almost upon him as he reached "Put's hill," a steep declivity in which were stone 6teps, partly natural, partly cut in the rock for convenience of pedestrians. According to the tradition, he turned his horse toward these steps when he saw the redcoats behind him and went down the hill at a gallop, the British being too astonished and too timorous to follow. A bullet pierced his hat, but he turned in his saddle as he reached the foot of the hill and shouted, "I'll hang ye to the nearest tree when I get ye!" He thus escarp o Stamford, gathered . re-cn-

A. B. Young, a former Richmond man, a pioneer in business affairs of the city, now a, resident of Portland, Ore., has written to the Palladium an interesting letter relative to the late Geo. V. Barnes. In part it follows: Portland, Ore., June 19, '06. Editor Palladium A cony of the

Palladium has just come into my hands announcing the death of George V. Barnes. Though of no bloodkin he at any rate was one who stood and of whom I am now writing, as an "adoptive father." He did in effect fill that relation to me, in the years and times when waywardness ignored the behests and prayers of my own father; than whom no more indulgent to a fault parent ever grieved over the apparent, inevitable downward course of first born favorite son.

I am now writing been tenderer less unwelcome memories past, in the hope of the future, had I

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of his eye." The George Y. Barnes, of his day and time, is a character so far backward in the calendar so far in the rear of the "get rich quick genius furnishing most of the studious, accurate writing of this day and time, that anything like "accurate" estimate of that life is hardly was hardly to have been expected. He was descended of ancestry noted for intelligence and faithfulness and old fashioned integrity. His father, born early enough in the 17th century to be old enough to join the group of children, and participate with them in that prettiest "Flower Scene" in America, or any other history, strewing flowers in the pathway of the "Father of his Country", when riding from Trenton, NewJersey to be inaugurated "First President" of his country. That father was no ordinary man, from whom the father I am trying, in my feeble way to write about inherited" "many noble traits and no faults, or that father had none to transmit.

The mother, whose saintly form, tho' never seen by myself in the flesh seems now, in my minds eye, standing "just beyond the river, on the other shore" manifesting her verification of the facts asserted in my last preceding sentence. From her too, her favorite hoy, doubly so, from tho accidental loss of the fingers of his chubby little right hand by a sharp hatchet cut, when, oh such a little fellow. One thing I've often heard that "grown-up-little-fellow" relate shows the fibre of that mother's heart, more than pages and pages of other words, tho true, could. From the time of that loss his mother had sought to create in him fear of a gun, lest by accident in the "handling" of one, injury might ensue to the other, still perfect hand. And you know, for you've heard him tell many a time and oft, how thoroughly well she succeeded. For, beside his impossible touching of a fire-arm "off" when he was near where one was likely to go off, he had to shut his eyes, or get beyond Its purview. Sustaing himself in such way as to make life long friends of his employers, from his St. L,ouis business position he went, in the early days of '49 to California, along with the

world's rush thitherwards. If the days of "Valley Forge" tried

men's souls, the days of '49 across the Isthmus via Chagris river tried men's bottom to the center. Few men have returned, beside taking a fair complement of the new El Dorado's golden sands, who could say, as could the father I am writing about, truthfully: "I never played a card for money nor drank a drop of liquor." His business was in the practical sense, his religion. No "member" ever more faithfully than he, respected, and obeyed his professions. Customers, men and women, would, from "George" hear anew perhaps for the oozenth time, some annecdote some "bon mot" and get new pleasure, new inspiration perhaps, just listening there in the "old store" to his smiling, laughing, congenial, recitals. , A time there was too, and it lasted through many campaigns, when the candidate whom George W. Barnes, "was for" could pretty nearly count his "election sure." For if he was for a man, he was for him, and worked for him. But, and that's something you all that are still this side the shores of time can not only be thankful but proud of never, never would he lower himself or deprecate the chances of "his man" by stooping to trickery oft subterfuge of any sort. If this obitnary had transpired when David P. Holloway was editor, and Benjamin W. Davis co-owner and associate editor of the Richmond Palladium, in its columns would have appeared, you may rest assured, in addition to the feint effort of mine, some such tribute as that, as a citizen his loss was the more to be mourned for that his counsel, his advice, but above all his example to young, especially, young men, would be regretfully missed and that if they of which the good

book says and, inheritance in Heaven is vouchsafed "the peace -makers" had lost one of their ablest, sincerest, indefatigable compoers. And too, I feel positive, that one of the ' faithfulest dispensers of the the milk of human kindness, has gone to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns. And, 1 can conceive too, that they might have concluded such well mental eulogium as I feel that this weak attempt of mine may just as aptly and truthfully be concluded: "An honest sn lies here at rest, As e'er God with his image blest. The friend of man, the friend of truth; The support of age, the guide of youth, Few minds like his with knowledge formed, Few hearts like his with virtue warmed. If there's a world beyond he lives in bliss. If there's none he made the best of this." I remain very sincerely and respectfully. A. B. Young.

DRINK WHILE YOU EAT

LATEST MEDICAL ADVICE

It Is Excellent for the Digestion and Neither Gastric Juice Nor Pepsin Work Properly Unless Well Diluted With Water.

now mucb water should we drink and when should we drink it are questions so simple that at first sight their discussion seems superfluous. One would naturally answer, "Drink all the water you wish when you are thirsty," but authorities say, "Drink more than you wish when you are not thirsty," for they recommend that a gallon or so bo drunk between meals, which is more water than we need and the very time the system least demands it. Usually we experience thirst during or directly after eating. Inasmuch as 87 per cent of the whole body is water, which is, of course, being used up every moment, there Is no question that we should drink of this element copiously, but it is a serious question whether we should refrain from water at meals the time we particularly desire it. There is a class of persons, ever growing more numerous, that believes that whatever is is wrong. For the natural and simple they would substitute the artificial and complicated. To drink water while or directly after eating is a natural instinct. Give a dog his dinner, putting a bowl of water near it, and observe that he will first eat all he can and then Immediately drink. Wild animals look for a stream after feeding. Cage birds will stop pecking at seed to peck at water. Children have a Deruetual thirst- And I

have seen babies tnat, unlike young Oliver, have refused to eat more when denied water after every few mouthfuls. It is especially important that babies be given what water they wish and at the time they wish it, which Is usually at table. The thinner food Is the more easily and thoroughly is it digested; in fact, it cannot be digested until It has been made liquid by the gastric and Intestinal juices. Indigestion is caused often by food that has not been sufficiently moistened by the digestive secretions. There are sound physiological reasons for our craving water with meals. Water is the solvent that constitutes 95 per cent of the gastric juice. Now, when one eats a hearty meal and does not drink, the amount of water In the stomach is not sufficient thoroughly to moisten the great quantity of food, and this makes digestion difficult. On the other hand, when enough water is ingested with the food the latter is well moistened and broken up, the digestible particles being then readily acted on by the gastric juice and afterward absorbed. Again, when the partially digested food (chyme) passes into the intestines it Is most Important that it be very moist, particularly as water Is constantly absorbed from the chyle in the large intestine. Bad cases of constipation are caused by dry chyle remaining in the intestines, where it sets up an inflammation that sometimes proves fatal, dry faeces, of course, resisting peristaltic action. The excrement of persons suffering from constipation is always dry and hard and is a potent cause of appendicitis. The idea that water drinking at meals unduly dilutes the gastric Juice is nonsensical, water being not so palatable that one is apt to drink more than his digestive functions require. As a matter of fact water generally facilitates the digestion of albuminous substances. In this connection Dr. A. Jacobi in his work on "Infant Diet," page G7, says: "In experiments upon digestion of albumen with gastric juice obtained, from the stomach of animals it was noticed that after a certain time the process began to slacken, but was renewed merely by the addition of water. Tho gastric juice became saturated with the substance It had dissolved and ceased to act upon what remained until it had been diluted. In the living stomach this dilution is of even greater importance, for It permits Of the immediate absorption of the substances Foluble In water and which do not require the specific action of the gastric Juice." Neither the gastric juice nor pepsin has any true digestive action unless they be largely diluted with water. It goes without saying that It Is not the food that is Ingested, but that which Is digested, that does good, and this principle holds good with water, which is practically a food. Now, when one resists the perfectly natural desire to drink while eating he may be not thirsty several hours afterward, but he is advised nevertheless to force himself to drink at that time. Bat if he drinks then, the water, having no food to mix with, it, will go through him, as it were that is, it will do no good-

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L EXAMINE ALL JUVENILES

New System of the Court for Children at Indianapolis.

ARE NO PHYSICIANS FtF.S

CASES CITED TO ILLUSTRATE THE NEED OF SUCH EXAMINAt TIONS LONG STEP TOWAPD BETTERMENT OF CHILDREN.

Indianapolis, July 6. (Spl.) A system of physical examination for Certain of the children who are dally brought into the Juvenile Court-on the charge of delinquency or for petty misdemeanors, has been established In Indianapolis. The physicians are to serve without compensation. For the present examinations' will be made only on one day of each week Thursday and only those children whose condition and actions indicate that their delinquency ' is caused by their physical condition will be examined. A case which illustrates the need for physical examinations, as a part of the preliminary Investigations made in every case before it Is brought to trial, was related by an officer of, the court. A hoy was constantly? in trouble at school and elsewhere with his playmates. Several times, in the course of a year, he was charged with assault and battery on some other child. He was dull in the, schoolroom and unable, apparently to compete fccessfully with the other pJils in the room. - Nervous and Deaf. When he was brought into the Juvenile Court charged with delinquency and incorrigibility a physical examination made by a physician revealed the fact that he was suffering from an affection of the throat which had in turn affected his nervous system. In addition to this he was almost deaf. The throat trouble had resulted in the boy being classed as "mean" and "scrappy" and always inviting trouble while the deafness made it impossible for him t bear in the school room and he fell behind in his work and was classed as "dull". Proper medical treatment soon brought the boy around to a normal and healthy condition. He left off his almost dally "scraps" with the other boys and became one of the best pupils in his room.

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