Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 119, 19 May 1907 — Page 2

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The Richmond Palladium andSun-Telegram, Sunday,. May 19, 1907.

BOWER FINDS GEM PLACE Are Well Pleased With Their Trip With the Exception

Of Some Delays.

Speedily Americanized.

DONT LIKE THE COOKS.

TOURIST OFFICE OF THIS NAME IS PRONOUNCED UNRELIABLE TRAIN SERVICE IN UNITED STATES FINEST IN WORLD.

M. L. Bowmaster, of Cambridge City, who is abroad, has written from Genoa, Italy. This extract is taken from the letter: "We procured tickets to Genoa from Thomas Cook and Sons, and by the way I would add that they are as unreliable people as we have met, so far. The clerk who sold us the tick-

eta declared that we would go straight! through with not a change of cars, f .Their representative at the station said j ve would have to change twice andinj

the end we changed seven times, in coming from Paris to Genoa. I

"would say to any mends who may , come to Europe to steer clear of Cook's '

tourists offices and depend upon yourselves. The trip was delightful and we enJoyed every moment of - it, but that was not caused by anything they did for us. French trains are noted for fclow running and the one we were on was no exception, though It was called the "Raplde" or express. ' We changed cars' at Macon, seeing nothing of the city as it was dark. "Reached. Amberieu early fn the morn'ing. ' It being daylight we had a fine Mew of the country through which we passed.' We" now" continued to ascend the valley of Albarine. On the left lde we saw the ruined castles of "Vieuxmont, Ferrand and St. Germain, j

I enquired of the conductor if we changed cars at Culoz and he emphatically said no and the consequence was we nearly made a tour of Switzerland, going to the frontier before discovering we were on the wrong road. Outside of the delays it was a pleasure to us. The grand scenery, the mighty snow-capped mountains and the fertile valleys all passing in panoramic view before us. All one may

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PRESIDENT'S DOG

IS UNDER A CLOUD

Has

Chewed Up" Too Many

High Dignitaries.

DEATH OR BANISHMENT.

HARRY

SAMMIE

WEIMER AND

COHEN.

The two boys whose pictures here appear, are noteworthy examples of the speedy . Americanization of young

foreigners when they reached this

country. The boy at the top is Har

ry Weimer, who, although only in this

country eight months, has been elect

ed Mayor of School City, a juvenile

self government established In public

School No. J10 of New York City. The boy in the medallion at the bottom is

Sammie Cohen, one of Mayor Welm

er's nolicemen. They were elected

after a red-hot fight.

1.G0O to 2.000 men were constantly

employed on. each side and when the noints of the drills met they were less

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read and an tne pictures one may seejth foot apart. Tne tunnel is 2G

can give you but a faint idea of the feet wlde and 19 feet high and almost

real beauties of this mountainous

country. Referring back to Bellegarde, we felt thankful that we had come further than we intended, as it Is here the mountains are seen at their best, being on the border of France and Switzerland. From Culoz to Modane, we went

through 25 tunnels. We reached lindane in the night. Vhile here I met a man from Canada 5 and he took me .through their train, the Oriental Special, with a party bound -to Calias. As soon as he learned that I was from the States he began boasting of the beauty of their cars, the accommodations etc. He said he would show me something that the United States, with all their boasting, could not compare with. I followed him through the

sleepers and dining cars and at no time fflt overawed by the elegance. Of

course T praised them and he was happy and so was I and we parted good friends. Yet I knew train service in the United States was superior to anything in the world. Soon after leaving Modane we passed through the Mont Cenis tunnel, miles long, the longest in the world. We went through in CO mintites. - The construction of the tunnel was begun in lSiJl and completed in aSTO, at a cost of $15,000,000. From

entirely lined with masonry.

Blotches, pimples, flesh worms, black heads, are unsightly and denote impure blood. Hollister's Rocky

Mountain Tea will drive them away, carrying people clear to the top floor

of health and happiness. 35 cents,

Tea or Tablets. A. G.- Luken & Co.

Australia's Wealth In Sheep. The greatest Industry of Australia is sheep raising, mainly for the sake of the wool, but also in part of course for the meat. Australia now ranks second among1 the great sheep raising countries, Argentina being first with 1)2.000,000 sheep, Australia second with 72,000,000 and Russia third with 70,000,000. But a few years ago Australia was first, possessing no less than 108,260,000 head of sheep. That

was in 1891. Prolonged droughts were the cause of the destruction of many mlHlons of Australian sheep, but since 1902 there has been an annual gain. Yet these sheep were not indigenous to Australia. They were first introduced in 1797, being of the Spanish merino species. DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 5c a package.

Washington, D. C, May 18. "Pete,"

the prize bull terrier of the White

house, is till nursing his wounds while the dignitaries of the administration are determining what to do

with him. "Pete," only a few days ago, attempted to take the measure of

a very ordinary street mongrel and was most artistically chewed up. There was mourning at the French embassy when it was learned that "Pete's" an

tagonist did not altogether finish him. Ambassador Jusserand is one of "Pete's" victims, for on the occasion of a recent visit to the white house to play tennis with the president, "Pete" chased the distinguished Frenchman up a tree, and he was rescued only after a squad of determined bluecoats had charged his canine captor. Several cabinet officers have' beaten hasty and undignified retreats

before "Pete's" onslaught, and only the

other day the dog, whose taste evi

dently has slightly deteriorrted, took

a section of leg from John T. Thomas,

a clerk In the navy department. It

has not yet been decided whether a

death penalty shall be exacted or ban

ishment be "Pete's" fate.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.

Won. Lost PcL New York 24 a .883 Chicago 23 4 .852 Pittsburg 12 10 .545 Philadelphia ... ....13 11 .542 Boston ,16 1G .3S4 Cincinnati 9 ig .360 St. "Louis '..... C 22 .214 Brooklyn 5 20 .200 Boston, May. IS. R. If. E. Cincinnati. .. . ,.2 11 1 Boston ..1 3 1 Batteries Lungdren and Kling;

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