Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 237, 24 September 1906 — Page 5

The Richmond Palladium, Monday, Sept. 24, 1906,

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HOSPITALS CROWDED MUOaiTY OF PATIENTS WOHEH

Mrs. Plnkham's Advice Saves Many From tola Sad and Costly Experience. It is a sad but V, certain fact that 'every year hs-ine-s an in crease in the numberof operaI tions performed upon women in four hospitals. More than threei fourths of the k patients lyintr ' nn t hrw snow nhl(i p nr wnmpn and trirls who are awaiting or recovering1 from operations made necessary by neglect. ' Every one of these patients had plenty of warning in that bearing down feeling, pain at the left or right of the abdomen, nervous exhaustion, pain in the small of the back, pelvic catarrh, dizziness, flatulency, displacements or irregularities. All of these symptoms are indications of an unhealthy con- " dition of the female organs, and if not heeded the trouble may make headway until the penalty has to be paid by a dangerous operation, and a lifetime of impaired usefulness at best, while in many cases the results are fatal. Miss Lueila Adams, of Seattle, Wash., writes : Dear Mrs. Pinkham : "About two years ago I was a great sufferer from a Revere female trouble, pains and headaches. The doctor prescribed for me and finally told me that I bail a tumor and must undergo an operation if I wanted to get well. I felt that this was my death warrant, but I spent hundreds of dollars for medical help, but the tumor tept growing. Fortunately I corresponded with an aunt in theNew England States, and she advised me to talw Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound, as it was said to cure tumors. I did so and immediately began to improve in health, and I was entirely cured, the tumor disappearing entirely, without an operation. I wish every suffering woman would try this great preparation." i Just as surely as Miss Adams was cured of the troubles enumerated in her letter, just so surely will Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure other women who suffer from female troubles, inflammation, kidney troubles, nervous excitability or nervous prostration. Mrs. Pinkham invites all young1 women who are ill to write her for free advice. ; She is daughter-in-law of Lvdia E. Pinkham and for .twenty-five years has been advising sick women free 01 charge, .address, iynn, jua&s. WATERLOO. Oron?hr Was Solely- to Blame Fr (be Downfall of Xapoleoa. Napoleon would have won the batt'.e of Waterloo had Grouchy prevented the junction of the Prussians "With the English army, because he would no! have had to light two battles at once. Few persons realize that the so called battle of Waterloo was in reality a double battle, somewhat like Jena and Auerstadt. Napoleon fought one bat tie at Waterloo against the English On the arrival of the Prussians he was forced to go in person toward Planchenoit and there fight another battle against the Prussian army, leaving to Ney the conduct of the troops at Wa terloo. It is a well known maxim in war that a very great or decisive victory cannot be gained unless one com mander- makes a serious blunder of which the other takes immediate advantage. It is very evident that the fact of the emperor having to fight two battles at once instead of concentrating his attention on one alone enor mously in-creased the possibility of a mistake. Moreover, Napoleon did not have the able lieutenants of bis former campaigns. Desaix. Kleber, Lannes and Bessieres were dead, Massena and Macdonald had taken the oath of allegiance to the Bourbons, and Murat had split with the emperor. Napoleon's personal attention was therefore imperative. To Grouchy alone all blame must be attributed, for had he prevent ed the union of the Prussians with the English the emperor would have had to fight ouly one battle at a time and could have given his entire personal attention to that ouo battle. In the second place. Napoleon would not have been forced to fight with 71,947 men against two armies numbering about 123,000 nearly two to one against him. Tie would have had 71,047 good soldiers pitted against a raw. undisciplined army of C7.GG1 men under the Duke of Wellington, which was not only Inferior in mere numbers, bat far inferior in morale and experience. The chances would have been greatlv in favor of the French. Then, too, the French army was commanded by the acknowledged master of modern warfare, whose brilliant successes at RivolL Marengo, Ansterlitz, Jena, Friedland. Wagram.-the Borodino and Dresden bad dazzled the whole world. Until then Napoleon had never been defeated In any gjeat decisive battle except Leipsic, and the French were strong In their confidence of the emperor's success. Tivo of the best writers on the .Waterloo campaign. ShawKennedy and Sibonrne, both Englishmen, concur in saying that had Grouchy kept the Prussians away the English army would have been badly beaten. This vlerr is also held by the ablest writer of all, Mr. Ropes, United Service Review. 5w Ides la Food Cannln K. A new method of making and sealing tin cans withoct heat, solder or acids has been .announced. The cans are made of any size or shape for containing anyTklud of fjod product where processing is not essential and where r hermetical tin can. is required. Hie 'system embodies aa entirely new Ilcr in canning food pr3ducts and is s:ii." to make unnecessary the present man ner of drenching tha interior' and so'i ing the exterior of the cans with objec tionable solder, or fields, No heat is re quired to fasten the tops and bottoms and holes ere uccoeessary. The ne-rr method consists inic'.paily ia !!1y ing ta the flanges of the covers lj means of a lining machine an odorlc and tasteless comp3tied camMned wit. asbestus in such a maimer as ta msk; an absolutely air tight seam wtthoir. the use of solder or wflds. r!ri3nt PJ.ice o I.tve. A resident of Moscow or St. Peters burg cannot rac?jve tha visit of n friend r.o rsrsaia raany Laura wltb out notifying tlio police.

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MRS. LUCY HOWARD ENTERTAINED WITH A DELIGHTFUL MORNING MUSICALE SATURDAY THE DORCAS SOCIETY WILL HOLD ITS FIRST MEETING THIS AFTERNOONMRS. J. Y. POUNDSTONE WILL BE HOSTESS AT BRIDGE WHIST PARTY THIS AFTERNOON.

Mrs. Lucy Howard entertained with a delightful morning musicale Saturday. Mr. Edwin Farmer of New York furnished the entire program Of Mr. Farmer's complete musical skill there is no question. As a performing artist, an interpreter, he is a masterly pianist. His Chaplin Ballad being especially fine. J 3 m3C w 7ST Mrs. J. Y. Poundstone will be the hostess for a bridge whist party at the Country Club this afternoon at 2: CO o'clock. . - 4CThe Dorcas Society will hold its first meeting of the season this afternoon at the home of Mrs. John Eggemeyer in South Fifteenth street. -Sfr Mr. and Mrs. John Stranahan entertained at dinner Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin I. Lemon of Milwaukee. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Doan, Mr. and Mrs. Erie Reynolds. Mr. and Mrs. John Saylor, Mrs. Clementina Seager and Mr. Robert Seager. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Dilks entertained at dinner yesterday at their beautiful home In Spring Grove. The occasion being the birthday anniversary of their daughter Mrs. J. E. Wellef. The guests were: Mrs. Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Geo., I T. Dilks, Dr. and, Mrs, J. E. Weller and the Misses Ann and Dorothy Dilks. A pleasant surprise was given Mr. Fred Kauper by his family last evening at his home, 627 South 5th street, the occasion being his fiftysixth birthday. Those present were: Fred Kauper Jr. and family, Charles Kuhlman and family, Claude W. Ad. dleman, Henry, Willie, George and Gussie Kauper and Mr. P. Kuhlman. An elegant supper was served. ELECTORAL EEF0RM. THE MOVEMENT FOR THE DIRECT NOMINATION PLAN. Election of United States 8aatori by Popular Vote or by a Near Approach to TU1 System La Follette'a Ideas and Ileault of Their First Trial. R E PO RTS from various states during the progress of the political campaign this fall indicate that systems for giving the voters a greater share in the nomination of party candidates and especially in the choice of members of the United States senate are coming strongly into favor. In SENATOR LA FOLLETTE. many states party conventions have recently declared in favor of amendment of the constitution so as' to permit 'of election of senators by popular vote. In the absence of constitutional authorization for such a method of election at tho present time the party organizations in a number of states have adopted a plan which provides the nearest approach to popular election of senators that can be obtained without a change in the constitution. This Is the plan of voting at the primaries for the party nominees for senate seats. By this system the senators are elected by the legislatures according to the method provided In the constitution, but the party majorities in these bodies are expected to respeci the will of the rank and file as expressed at the primaries. This plan was tried at the recent primaries In Illinois. Indeed, at these primaries the voters, balloted "not! only for senators, but fof-congressmen and other officers from sheriff up, thus doing away with the holding of party conventions for the nomination of sTich officers. The Democrats made no nominations for the seat -In the senate to be filled. Among the Republicans there were three leading . candidates Shelby M. Cullom. Richard' Yates, former governor of Illinois, and William G. Webster. Mr. Cullom now holds the seat which is to be filled, and the Republican votmum 4,' mm EETBESEXTAT1VE THSGDORS E. BFKTOJf. ers dce:dxl on instructing the next leg isiature, should it be Republican, tv send hira back to the senate. In Ohio the question was-brought t the front by Representative Theodore E. Burton. The rcceat Republican state couveu tlon adopted a declaration favoring nomination of. cjijijidittes. for state of-

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Rev. I. M. Hughes is in Indianapolis Miss Anna Kenley is the guest of Miss Maude Brooks of Fountain City. Miss Ruby Atkinson is visiting P. Hannon and family of Fountain City. Rev. Ivy, who has been the guest of C. T. Henchman and family, has re turned to Indianapolis. Mrs. J. O .Campbell was called to Marion yesterday on account of the death of her father, Mr. Wilcox. Mr. and Mrs. John Wohrley of In dianapolis, are visiting in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Holton of Cincinnati are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Land. Mrs. Harold Pence has returned to her home in Pittsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGuire have returned from New Paris, where they were called on account of the death of Mrs. McGuire's mother, Mrs Scott. Mrs. Harry Land has returned from a visit to Cincinnati. D. P. Whelan and wife have re turned from Cincinnati. Mark Thistlethwaite returned to Indianapolis last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fraser, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs John Shroyer, have returned to their home in East Orange, N. J. Miss Edna Martin has returned from a visit with' her brother,-1 Fred Marfin, in Pittsburg. Walter Fulghum, who has been con nected with the Lavalle Cream Sepa rator Company, in New York, has ac cepted a position as general manager of the Victor Phonograph company. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Henderson who have been visiting relatives for several weeks, have returned to their home in San Francisco, Cal. Miss Agnes Mull of Connersville spent yesterday in the city. flees at the priiucre. it said In re spect to senatorial elections: Until otherwise provided by law, when a United States senator Is to be chosen notice shall be given to the Republicans of the state that the delegates to tht state convention, in addition to making other nominations, shall indorse a can didate for United States senator so that at the primaries tho Republican electors of the state in the selection of delegates to the slate convention may have oppor tunity to express their preference as to candidates for that ofiice. This is not as radical a plank as was favored by Congressman isurton. In Wisconsin the direct nomination idea was for years a pet feature of the scheme of reforms urged by Senator La Foiiette. As governor he advocated this plan in season and out of season. claiming that doing away with conven tions, nominating party candidates for state offices and for membership in the house of representatives by direct vote at the primaries and instructing the legislature by the same . plan whom to select as sena tors would abolish bossism, minimize the evils of corporation interference in politics and make all elections more truly represent the voice of SENATOR CriXOM. the people. He was a pioneer in the advocacy of this plan and fought for it for years before he could get it embodied in the statute law of the state. Curiously enough, when the plan became law and was tried for the first time in a guberna torial canvass the result was contrary to Senator La Foilette's preferences In the primaries recently held he advo cated the nomination for governor of I. L. Lenroot. The letter's chief op ponent for the nomination was the present governor, James O. Davidson, and he It was who won. LEGAL ADVICE. A Case Where Proceed in o-s. In Court Were Unnecessary. Two or three Chicago lawyers were discussing the tricks of their trade. "A big. burly fellow from the Michi gan pine forests came into my office," said one of them, "and told a very mean story about a rich man here in town who was trying to cheat him out of $2,000 or $3,000 and who had man aged to get a pretty tight clutch on the money. The backwoodsman looked and talked like an honest man, and the old miser's reputation was meau enough to match the story, so I felt in clined to believe it. When he had finished I looked him up and down from head to foot. He asked me what I was looking him over for. Well, said I, 'I was thinking that if I were over six feet tall and as powerful a man as you I wouldn't hire a lawyer to help me get that money. The man's excited face smoothed out into blank astonishment. 'What do you mean?' he said. I answered: I mean just what I say. You are sure, are you, that he has that money in his office? 'He had it there last night. 'Well, you don't need a lawyer. s "The man turned on his heel and left without another word. In a day cr two he sent me a check for $30 ant! his thanks for mv advice." Sixteen Sliles I'rJ PTgrroond. The most remarkable canal in the world is the one between Worsley and St. Helens, in the nsrth of England, It is sixteen miles loug and underground from end to end. In Lancashire tha coal mines are very extensive, half the county being undermined. Many years ago the managers of the Dake of Bridgeport's estates thughr'tbsy. ei.:2d 6ave(iao3ey by transporting the enai underground instead of ou the surface: thareforr the caaai v.as ccuoiruc;cd end tj. mines caanciea , ad .vzl3&(L -at ,Ur E&ma tiaVI-r:ciriD3lj'pejiy, - '

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0 X Sept. 15 Lieu tenant General Henry C. Coroln went o the retired list of thearmy. He served less than six months at the head of Uncle Sam's mil itary force and did not assume the detail of chief of staff H. C COBBIJT. to which he was entitled by his rank, but instead took command of the northern division of the army with headquarters at St. Louis. It is understood he will now make his home in Washington. Gen eral Corbin has been best known as adjutant general of the army, but he has seen exciting service in the field in the course of his career He was born in Ohio in 1842 and entered the volunteer service of the United States as a second lieutenant in the Eighty-third Ohio volunteer Infantry in 1SG2. He saw four years of active service at this time and was honorably discharged with the brevet of brigadier general. A few weeks later he was commis sioned second lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to the Seventeenth infantry. Shortly afterward he was appointed to a captaincy and assigned to the Thirty-eighth Infantry and for twelve years thereafter he was continuously in command of his company at stations in the west, engaged In In dian campaigning and frontier duty, iris most important services were rendered during the Spanish war, when he was adjutant general. He retained that post after he became a major general and until he was advanced to be lieutenant general last April, but after the organization of the general staff in 1903 he was in command of the department of the east with head quarters at New York and was also in command in the Philippines previous to taking bis most recent command that of the northern division of the army. His last important official act was a report in favor of restoration of the canteen system. Roger C. Sullivan of Chicago, who has become conspicuous through his controversy with William J. Bryan, is connected with several prominent Chicago corporations. Including the Ogden Gas company and Cosmopolitan Electric company. It is on account of his corporation connections that Mr; Bryan objects to his prominence in the Democratic organization. Mr. Sullivan was born in Belvidere. 111., in 1SG1 and made his entry into politics as custodian of the Cook County hospital. In 18SG he was appointed deputy collector of Internal revenue and in 1890 was chosen clerk of the Chicago probate court. Mr. Sullivan is at present the Democratic national com mitteeman from Illinois. Mr. Bryan ROGER C. 6CLLIVAX has maintained that his election to 'this post was not legal and while in Europe sent a request that Mr. Sullivan tender his resignation of the office In the Interest of the party. This Mr. Sullivan declined to do, and he secured action from the Democratic state convention .which was interpreted as an indorse ment of his attitude. The same convention indorsed Mr. Bryan's candi dacy for the presidential nomination in 1008. In his recent Chicago speech Mr. Bryan said he did not want an indorse ment given under such circumstances. and he made some quite pointed remarks about the course pursued by Committeeman Sullivan. Another Sullivan In the public eye la James E. Sullivan of New York, the athlete and manager of atlfletics who was so signally honored by the king of Greece recently for his services in con nection with the Olympic games at Athens last spring. Mr. Sullivan, who was a prominent figure in connection with the world's fair at St. Louis, where he had charge of the physical culture department, is secretary of the American Athletic union and was American commissioner -to the Olympic games. His work in this capacity was so much appreciated that King George singled him out for special honor and conferred upon him the golden cross of the Royal Order of the Saviour. The bestowal of this decoration is the exclusive privilege of the king. The Royal Order of the Saviour is the most honorable order In Greece, its membership including sovereigns, ambassadors, cabinet mlnis ters and commanding generals. Mr. Sullivan was born In New York forty-six years ago. JAMES E-scxuvAsr and though his hair Is now gray he still looks every inch the athlete. His athletic career began when, as a schoolboy of eighteen. he entered a walking match, and he was subsequently successful in con tests In running, boxing, jumping and klctJcg. His business Is that of n publisher of books on athletics and sports. He was assistant director of sports at the Paris exposition of 1900 and was in charge of the athletics of the Tan-American exposition at Buf falo. Under his direction the physical culture department of the Louisiana Purchase exposition was one of the most successful features of that en terprise. Senator Thomas C. Piatt, who now that the fall campaign has begun is again a figure in politics, celebrated his seventy -third birthday the past summer. lie wa at Manhattan Beach.

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MILLINER FOR SIXTY-SIX YEARS. Mrs. Sarah A. Iliff Davis, Now Eighty-Six Years Old, Has Been Constantly Engaged at Hat Trimming Since 1840 - With Splendid Eye-Sight and Good Health, Mrs. Davis Still Conducts Her Store on K. Seventh St.

An active milliner at the age of S6 years and having been constantly in the business since 1810 such is the record of Mrs. Sarah A. Iliff Davis. In her little store room on North 7th street near Main, Mrs. Davis can be seen each day, ever ready to attend to th wants of her customers. Although her trade is not as heavy as during the period between 1S40 and 1S80, Mrs. Davis still makes hats for many persons, who knew her when she was the leading trimmer in this part of the state and are still willing to trust the design and trimmings on their bonnets to her. Mrs. Davis, perhaps, is not as modern in some of her styles as many younger milliners, yet her eye sight is still good and. her work is as neat and thorough as ever. She says that she has nearly as good eye sight now as she had years ago. The class of work in which she has been engaged is most trying on the eyes and one would think that she would be nearly blind by this time, but instead she has use for glasses only in doing close work. Mrs. Davis is very cheerful and in her conversation there is not the least bit of pessimism. She says that she will probably continue in the millinery business as long as she is able. She likes the work and says that now, her shop serves as a place for friends to gather when they are down town, and there the leading aged women of the city talk over the times, before, during and" after the war. .... Mrs. Davis has alwaj's been engag a favorite leort v.un mm, ana some newspaper' men were offering their congratulations. "Life," said the senator, "is a fleeting thing. The longest life passes like a dream. Nothing is so amazing, so bewildering, as time's swift flight." lie smiled. . . . "Imagine," he said, "how impressed with time's flight old Ilenry Skerritt of Owego was. Henry ran away1 from his family a year after his marriage. That was T. C. PLATT. about 1SS0, and a few months ago, taking up a local paper in Chicago, the deserter read in the personal column: "'If Henry Skerritt, who twentythree year ago deserted his poor wife and babe, will return home said babe will be glad to knock the stuffing out of him.' " - i eWilliam II. Crane, who recently opened his season in New York in Alfred Sutro's "The Price of Money," was once asked how it was that he never attempted serious Shakespearean roles. "But I did once," replied the comedian. "Yeare agi in the west I played 'Hamlet. " "Did you, indeed?" said an admiret and friend. "Didn't you have a great success? Didn't tho audience call you before the curtain?' "Call me," replierl Crane. "Why, man. they dared me!" It was in Crane'5 early days on the TOIUAMH.CHANE.stage that fae was assigned a part that came near bein? too heavy for him. He was under study for the leading man of the com pany, and it became his duty at a crit ical time to lift up the fainting heroine and convey her to the wings. At the time mentioned Mr. Cram was slight and anything but strong, so that the task assigned was extremely difficult, when it Is considered that the leading woman weighed nearly 20T pounds. After srtnclry attempts to accomplish

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ed in business in Richmond although she was born at Oxford. Ohio. She has been at one stand for over thirty years. Several times during her long career as a milliner, Mrs. Davis was the only hat trimmer in Richmond and this vicinity. In her "balmy days," she employed many trimmers and her shop really set the styles in Eastern Indiana. Nearly all the Richmond brides of the earlier days wore hats at their 'weddings made by Mrs. Davis. Wives of many prominent men, of the old school were constant patrons of her shop. The change in styles, the peculiarities of trade and other points pertaining to her business are interestingly discussed by Mrs. Davis. She has a wise philosophy regarding the tastes of different periods. She thinks that people always have lived up to their times. During the period just preceding and after the war, Mrs. Davis was engaged principally in making and trimming bonnets. She says that occasionally a hat was worn then, but only on some great occasion. She says that during her early days a milliner's main skill had to be the ability to reshape straw bonnets. In those times women bought expensive bonnets, made of Leghorn and English straws, and each year they would have the bonnet made a different shape. Fine trimmings, however, were used, mostly of ribbons. Mrs. Davis formerly had much work of the Quakers, of whom there were many in the period from 1S40 to 1870. They had many fine silk bonnets made.

me "Business " is.-.uou uui, witn nx.ua hope of its accompllshment.the strain was broken byi the heartyl laughter of the audience, ?for a'strong.shrill voice from the gallery had shouted: "For heaven's sake, man," take what you can and come back for the rest!" The CountessTolstoi, whose serious illness is reported, has always Insisted on protecting iher husband's health, his property "and' his financial interests, and It is due, to her that Count Tolstoi is alive today and?able'to give' his genius to the serviee'of the world. Countess Tolstoi has been an ideal mother to her thirteen children, eight of whom are still living. She taught her children music and English herself and has for years had complete charge of the publishing and sale of her husband's books, naddt not been for her the count would have carried his doc trines to the extreme limit, and the family would now be penniless. No one is more ready to give the countess tribute than her husband, and, while their ideas dif fer radically, they are yet extremely C.'.Tki'3S?' happy together. When her husband was excommunicated from " the Greek church of Russia she wrote: "God will be COtJNTESS TOLSTOI. lenient to those who, even outside the church have lived a life of humility, renunciation of the good thirgs of thlt world, love and devotion. His p.-Tdo:) is surer for them than for those whose miters and decorations sparklo with precious stones, but who strike and expel from- the church those over whom they are set as pastors." Deaths and Funerals. COLMES Mrs. Bert Colmes, aged 27 years, died yesterday afternoon, at her home, 325 North 16th street. The funeral, arrangements, will, be announced later. See how what you have rteard looks in print and get a dollar for doing It. Win the news "tip" prize.

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