Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 248, 13 October 1907 — Page 8

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TIIE RICiniOND PAL LADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY OCTOBER 13, 1907.

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OF PROGRESS MADE; 4t Is Seen in the Increased Movement in England to Secure Pensions for the Aged People. GOVERNMENT SCHEME TO BE PRESENTED SOON. Will Carry With It Appropriation of $10,000,000 So cialists Distrust and mand Specific Sum. De(By Richard Abercorn.) London, Oct. 12. That most Englishmen are at present more or less occupied with the question of old age pensions is one of the obvious signs of the progress of socialism in this country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, H. H. Asquith, has promised to introduce a government scheme next session and Bays he will appropriate, two millions sterling ($10,000,000) for the purpose. The socialists, as represented at the recent Trade Union congress, are distrustful of any government scheme, even though it is a liberal government that fathers it, and have demanded that the state shall provide for the payment of at least five shillings ($1.25) a week to every man on attaining the age of sixty. Meanwhile, a very carefully thoughtout proposal is made by Lord Avebury, better known as Sir John Lubbock, banker, essayist and naturalist, in .conjunction with several other well known economists. Their Bcheme is based on the encouragement and assistance of persons who are willing to make some racrifice to entitle themselves to pensions. It is suggested that the government should cooperate with the various friendly societies, receiving from them the contrbutions of candidates for pensions and allowing interest on them at 3 per cent. By commencing at twenty years of age to pay one pound ($5) a year, or less than ten cents a week, it is shown that a man might entitle himself to a pension of $1.75 a week at the age of sixty-five if only 2 per cent interest is allowed; but an additional 1 per cent would add 72 cents to the pension. At the age of seventy the pensions at the lower and higher rates of interest would be respectively $3.36 and $5.16, so that the pension becomes nearly 50 per cent more at 3 than at 2 per cent. This extra 1 per cent is additional to the 2 which the government allows on friendly societies' funds invested to the foundation of the pension system; and Lord Avebury points out that even if the total fund collected were $500,000,000 the interest of 1 per cent would only amount to half the sum which Mr. Asquith has set aside for the government pension scheme. Lord Avebury's proposals were denounced at the Trade Union congress as "paltry", but it is admitted in the labor press that it is in theory an excellent principle, but that its weakness Is that it is only theoretically sound. How many men of the laboring class, it is asked, would be able to keep up even the small payment of 10 cents a week for forty-five years. The scheme wants supplementing by a hu manitarian system which would insure that every man got his pension. The London stage is gradually em-! erging from its long period of bratant Philistralsm, thanks tc the efforts of George Bernard Shaw and other people with ideas. The latest feature of the theatrical renaissance is the project to open during the coming winter a small theatre in London where good plays and good acting, and not stars and scenic display, will be the chief features. Miss Gertrude Kingston, who has been for some years a noted London actress, will be the manager of the new playhouse, which will be named "The Little Theatre." It will be housed in a concert hall, instead of a regular theatre, and there will be no orchestra. The repertoire will consist of modern plays by clever authors, which will be produced unostentatiously in an atmosphere of serious art. White mice appear in a curious design which the British Admiralty has adopted for the flag of the submarine fleet. The reason why these little rodents were chosen as the distinctive sign of the submarine flotilla is that white mice are always caried in a submarine when it goes to sea. They are the sentinels who give warning of the formation of noxious gases inside the vessel for they are twenty times more sensitive to dangerous fumes than men. The submarine flag is a blue, red and yellow pennant, divided into four quarters. White mice are depicted in two quarters, a submarine boat in another and a torpedo in the fourth. Forgeous Roumanian embroidery Is the latest vogue in London, where it has been introduced toy the beautiful

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KEISTNETH'IS RETURN.

By Margaret Carruthers. (Copyright,, 1007, by W. R. Hearst.) Kenneth Ulrich almost ran down the gang plank, so eager was he to be back in New York. He looked around for a moment, dazed by the many changes that had confronted him all the way up the riv er, ana selecting a caD jumped in, giv ing the cabman orders to drive him to the best hotel in the city. As the rickety old cab rattled off up Broadway Kenneth looked out of the window in a vain effort to locate a tamiliar face or object, but very little remained of his old New York. The tall skyscrapers, the roar of the undergound and the whir and buzz of countless motor cars were all new to New York since Kenneth's time. He leaned back in the cab and seemed lost midst this ever-changing panorama until suddenly they drove in sight of Trinity. Yes, it was the same old Trinity. Time alone had spared Trinity. Then he looked down Wall street and a great bitterness came into his heart. There was the sub-treasury building but nothing else remained of the old Wall street he had, known. It was ten years since Kenneth had left Wall street, and many changes had marked his going. He had been a poor struggling clerk in the offices of Mortimer iS: Co.. bankers. where he had met and fallen in love with Miss Graca Mortimer, whose father was head of the firm and one of the strongest men in the street. She had reciprocated his love, but her father had disapproved and sent her to Europe and dismissed Kenneth without even a reference. And Kenneth had gone off to Alaska, and, after prospecting a while with no great success, had come upon an abandoned claim that had made him a millionaire. He had learned that Grace Mortimer had married a man of her father's

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to be buried among the gorse bushes at Eastcote. No clergyman is to assist at the burial, and my bay mare is to be buried near me; otherwise, my bay mare Dolly Varden is to be shot and buried in the paddock at Eastcote, but her tail and one of her feet are to be put in my coffin, as also one of Nancy Lee's feet." ' Another curious will was that of John Margerison, a veteran cotton mill worker, of Blackburn, who had by extraordinary thrift, saved more than $50,000. He left $3,000 for a peal of bells for a Blackburn church, and after providing for his nephews and nieces he ordered that the residue of his estate should be devoted to the erection of a statue in Blackburn to his late employer, William Henry Hornby. Margerison had been employed by the Hornby family for fifty years. choice and after that he had written no more letters to New York. He had become a traveler roaming about with no purpose in life, keeping out of the way of the tourist, thus cutting himself off from any possible news of her. Then came that fierce longing for home and he had come back. Now that he was here he was not altogether sure that he was not sorry he had come. Everything was changed and lie seemed to have no place among the people of the great metropolis. 'JHe followed the liveried bell-boy to the sumptuous apartments, and after he had gone walked over to the window and stood looking up and down Fifth avenue at the thousands of happy faces that passed, some walking, some riding, but all in pursuit of that elusive little god of pleasure. For years he had railed against the fates that had brought him fortune too late to give him the only thing worth while the companionship of the woman he loved but never before had they seemed so cruel. He wondered if she were among the pasing tljrong. He found the stillness of his room intolerable and after vainly trying to read threw aside the papers and made his way downstairs to the smoking room. As he entered he noticed a tall. 1 bearded gentleman who looked at him j strangely, but Kenneth thought nothing of it and passed on to a seat. At last the fellow approached him in a half doubting way and asked: "Isn't this Kenneth Ulrich?"' "Why hanged if it isn't Harry Wade. Heavens, man. how you have changed.'' "Well, you've changed a bit yourself. Kenneth, but I am mighty glad to see you. But tell me, when did you get back?" After Kenneth had told him of his wanderings, his luck, and his longing to come back, he asked "But old Mortimer. Is he still in the street?'" Harry Wade looked up at him in for -

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amazement. "Why Kenneth, haven't

you heard?" . "Heard what. Harry?" "Why old Mortimer is dead. He forced his daughter to marrw thinking the fellow was a rich man, and when he discovered his deception he tried to cover up his mistake by taking his son-in-law into the firm. mi I. iLl 1 1 ... nA worse than that, a criminal. He forged old Mortimer's name for thousands of dollars and was arrested and sent to prison. "The old man was forced to the wall and died of a broken heart." "But his daughter," asked Kenneth. "What became of her?" "Her husband died in Sing Sing, and after that she opened a studio, giving lessons in drawing and water-colors. "Her friends patronized her and the last I heard of her she was making quite a go of it. "Poor girl. Ewy one felt sorry for her because she had been an innocent victim. Oh, by the way you used to be pretty sweet on her yourself, didn't you?" "Yes, but I was discharged for my presumption," answered Kenneth, the old bitterness again taking posession of him. "Well, Mortimer was a hard-hearted old fellow and eot just what he tieserved, though I am sorry for the girl," mused Wade, but Kenneth did not hear him. he. was thinking of a way to find Grace. Early the next morning Kenneth rose, breakfasted in his room and then went in search of a city directory. He found the name Grace Mortimer Aspenwall 'artist," and writing the ad dress down and placing it in his pockoat rarpfniiv fallpil a rah and was cff. One hundred and ten 5th Avenue was rather out of the fashionable npiy-hhorhoorl now. though traces of nast snlendor were noticeable in the broad windows and spacious stairway and as Kenneth ascended it to where a closed door bore the name of the woman he loved, his heart beat wildly, and he paused at the landing to regain his composure before entering. Finally, sumomng his remaining courage, he opened the door and 6tep ped inside. She was seated near the window, sorting over some new brushes, when the door opened and, as she looked up and saw who it was. she arose half hesitatingly as if doubting herself, and letting the contents of her lap fall to the floor in a clattering mass. It was some time before either could speak. Kenneth stood holding the firm, soft hand she had given him and looking at the woman whose very im age was burned upon his heart; too en raptured to speak. It was she who broka the silence by saying. "Kenneth, I really ought to scold you for keeping yourself hidden away all these years." "But, Grace, after your father dls charged me I knew I could not see you again without risking your fair name, and I could not stay here and see you the wife of another." "But Kenneth, you knew it was not my fault and yet you did not write me If you had written I should never have married him, even though father urged it as he did." "But I had nothing to offer but my self, dear." "Well Kenneth, you should have left some word where I could have found you." "To make me more miserable?" he asked. "But you don't seem to have found much happiness where you were." She was looking at the face whose every line had been touched by the hand of sorrow. Ten years before he had been a mere boy to whom the world seemed a bright place indeed; now his face had grown serious and the hair gray at the temples and it became him. He had not sought forgetfulness in dissipation, and she was glad. "I suppose I have changed," he said, noting her glances, "but for a little sadness lurking in the eyes you are the same Grace that has come to me in every land to wake new longings and old hilt reds "Since I left New York I have not seen or spoken to any one I used to know. I have kept out of the way be cause I wanted to forget, but lately something seemed to be calling me back. "I have been fighting it off for years but finally grew so hungry for a sight of home, to hear the sound of your voice or to look upon your face, that I yielded to the impulse. "I did not know of your troubles until I arrived and Harry Wade told me. "I never dreamed of finding you this way." "Does finding me this way make any difference," she asked, her voice trembling with suppressed emo tion. "Only that it gives you to me forev er, and that will repay me for all the years I have roamed and suffered and hungered for you, he said, taking her in his arms and holding her closer to him. Kenneth, I am so glad you came back," she whispered. ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBIT An Important One About to Be Attempted. 1'ittsDurg, Oct. 12 What promises to be the most important architectur al exhibit ever attempted in this counirv is Deing rapidly nrougnt to a consummation under the auspices of the Pittsburg Architectural Club. The ex hibit will be opened in the Carnegie Institute galleries November Sth and will continue to December 2nd. inclus ive. The foremost architects in the world will be exhibitors.

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lu I W0 rrOSpeCtOrS Happen Up on This Fact While on Visit to Day's Harbor. ISLANDS ARE OF CORAL THE ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EX POSITION WILL HAVE A LARGE EXHIBIT OF THE ALASKAN SPONGES MAY GO ON MARKET. Seattle. Oct. l'J.The latest reports from Alaska bring the startling infor mation that sponges crow in the wat ers of the northland and that a larro portion of the islands and reefs of the peninsula centering about Day's harbor are of coral formation. Hardly a month passes without some interesting discovery beinu; made in regard to the resources and advantages of Alaska or Yukon. The manage ment of the Alaska-Yukon-Facific exposition, which will be he'd in Seattle iu 1 !)'.'.. is investigating every new find with the object in view of having a complete exhibit of everything from tr.e norm. Lately many strange things have been unearthed in Alaska and ukou. These reports differ greatly. Now it may be that gam "ts have been discovered, or that casserite has been found in some hitherto unsuspected district, or again it. may "e that some gardener has succeeded in growing watermelon and corn for the first time -north of fifty-three." or perhaps it may be the discovery that large quantities of radium are contain ed in certain formations of rock native to Copper Valley. The discovery that sponges grow so far north is considered the strangest in recent years. They are said to te large and of the finest, quality. They were found along the Kenai peninsula by L. A. Peel and Joe Filandeau, two copper prospectors of Seward City. The two mtn had been searching in Day's harbor for copper formation, which are sometimes found below the surface of the sea, when they ran across the sponges. Many fine speci mens were secured and were shipped to Seattle for expert opinion. As sponges are generally found in the tropical or sub-tropical regions there is some question as to the authenticity of the discovery. Some claim that the sponges were dead ones, which had been torn from their hold on the rocks in southern waters and floated by the warm Japanese current to the colder north. But Peel and Filandeau show the manner in which the sponges clung to the rocks, thus proving that they are native to the Kenai peninsula. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition will have a large exhibit of the Alasnan sponges and the experts of the United States and other countries who deal in this commodity will be able to examine the raw material. It is possible that in time the Alaskan sponge will be put on the market and those who have a sentimental feeling for the northland can be reminded of it in the daily tub. Coral is valuable as raw material for the manufacture of jewelry and trinkets, and its discovery may add another industry to the many already enjoyed by the northland. MEN BEGIN WORK ON GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC I mm a v a une Hundred nave been bent To Prince Rupert. THOUSANDS GOING LATER Vancouver, Oct. 12. One hundred men with tools and supplies, have 1 been sent to Prince Rupert, the wes-j tern terminus of the Grand Trunk i Pacific Railway. It is said that these J men are the advance contingent of ! several thousand men that will be sent north within the next three months to work upon the western end of the new line. By agreement with the provincial government the railway is to be completed through to the coast by Jan. 1, 1911. A contract has been made for the construction of 180 miles of road from Kitamat to Hazleton. Work under this contract will be cornmenced by the workmen just sent forward. A TRUST IN WALL PAPER It Went Into Effect in Ger many Oct. 1. Berlin, Oct. 12. The German wall paper trust went into effect Oct. 1st, ii n n "i -v noma rf TYt 1 1 1 - r r e Ton&in. dustrie Akt. Ges. About half of the German paper manufacturers have joined this trust and nine more are ex pected to join soon. The capital has been Dreliminarilv fixed at 35.000.000 1 marks. HEATING DEVICES SHOWN Display of Machinery and Appliances to Be Made. St Petersburg, Oct. 12 The Imper ial Technical Society of Russia is organizing an exhibition of machinery and appliances used for heating and lighting to be held in SL Petersburg in December next.

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CiTF the joints don't f.t.daub a little jL stove putty in m." That's the policy of most stove manufacturers, bemuse it costs them less. But it costs.).' mere. Every time a piece of this putty shrinks, and drops out, there's a crack to suck iu air. Half of the heating power of soft coal and a great portion of hard coal, is gas. These valuable gases which should be burned, and a big part of the heat go up the chimney v.n;cd. From $ 100 to 5 lst iu fuel during the life of the stove. To say nothing of the discomfort and unsatisfactory heating of the house. Here you can see how stoves are put together.

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In the ordinary stove there is an open ing of about one -eighth inch between the top and sides. The seams are filled with stove putty, and the parts are belted together. After a few months' use the putty dries up and falls out, leaving this one-eighth inch crack all around the top, which in an 18-ir.ch stove means seven square inches of leakage. The eight or ten other joints in the stove are fastened together in the same

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Putty Makes way, so the total air-leakage soon Decomes very large. But by the Cole Method the sheet steel sides are "farfd," and the smoothly ground edges of the cast iron top are forced to fit so closely under a screw pres, that not a particle of stove putty is necessary to make a tight fitting top. The same airtight construction is used in fitting every joint. Thus, all the air is forced through the proper drafts, and the gases and fuel held back until they are consumed by the patented top Hot Blast Draft. The smoke-proof feed door in top does away with an air-leak-ing door frame on the 6ide ; the patented steel collar connection joining the ash-door casting to the body, the patented compound hinge for the ash door (which makes it water tight like a pump valve), the straight 6teel jacket and -water tifcht steel bottom all make the use of stove putty unnecessary in Cole's Hot Blast. Cole's Hot Blast burns Hard ' Coal, Soft Coal, Slack, Lignite or Wood. It holds fire so well that the fuel put in the night before will heat the rooms for 2 or 3 hours the next morning. Come in and gee this wonderfully economical stove. Jamestown Exposition Now Complete. Ideal weather conditions in September and October. Pullman sleeper, Richmond to Norfolk without change via Columbus and THE NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY. Leave Richmond ( Peons ylvAnU Lines) 4:55 p. in., daily: arrive at Norfolk next day at 7:30 p. m. For tickets apply any agent of Pennsylvania Lines. WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY I APPENDICITIS Now cured without an operation. Also urinary and sexual maladies of men and women cured in the privacy of their own homes by this new direct current system. Far superior to any electric belt Filling the Lungs by the continuous direct current cures any curable case of throat and lung trouble. Call on, or write J. Charles, 24 S. 13th St., Richmond, Ind., for free book giving full particulars. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY. are coming. Now is the time for flash light photographs. We have tbe requisites. Tooth Brush, Guaranteed. 35c. G. E. BYERS 5?