Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 298, 9 December 1907 — Page 8
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TIIE RICII3IOND PALLAUlt ai AD &UA'-TJiHiGKA3I, 3IOXDAY, DECE31BEU J, 11)07.
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miicipesttiuiio mems
In Holiday Leather Goods
Bought many months ago when we had plenty of time to buy, picking from some of the best sample lines manufactured.
Leather Belts Leather Bags Leather Pocketbooks and scores of other useful articles that women are always in need of. See our special holiday showing of stylish belts at 25c to $2.00
See our special Holiday showing of genuine leather Carlton, Vanity, St. Regis, Anthony, and many other styles and shapes in brown tan, black and fancy leathers. Prices SOc to $5.00.
Christmas shoppers will find lots to interest them in our Leather Goods Section.
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IS RELIGIOUS DUTY TO WAGE WAR OH WHITE PLAGUE Members of Wayne County Anti-Tuberculosis Society Believe This Statement True In Ail Respects.
RENEWED ENERGY MANIFEST IN CAMPAIGN.
Said If People Do Not Do All in Their Power to Prevent Disease They Are Not Performing Duties of Citizenship.
A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION that will bo valuable to the housewife who wants her Xmas cakes, bread and mince and pumpkin pies to be a success is that she use high grade, clean coal. Tou can't bake fine bread, cakes, or pies unless your oven is heated properly with Rood coal such as you will find at our yard. O. D. BULLERDICK 529 S. Stb St Phone 1235.
Our East Window
Has some fine articles in it for Christmas useful, too.
Pilgrim Bros, Cor. 5th & Main.
SECRETARY LOOSES
RACE WITH DEATH
Taft's Mother Died at Home
In Milbury, Mass., Sunday Morning.
WIDOW OF STATESMAN.
SECRETARY TAFT, HEARING OF
HER ILLNESS HASTENED TOWARD HOME FROM RUSSIAWILL ARRIVE DEC. 18TH.
Automatic Phone 1198, 1199 Bell 190.
THE BEE HIVE GROCERY CO.
Automatic Phone 1198, 1199 Bell 190. New Crop New Orleans Molasses Fancy Sweet Cider Shelled Walnuts, Shelled Almonds. Shelled Tecans, Candled Cherries, Pineapple, Figs and Stuffed Dates. 4X Powdered Sugar. Now Is the time to commence making your Christmas Candies You can get meated nuts at our store
Milbury. Mass.,' Dec. 0. Death, which has been expected almost hourly for a week past, was announced Sunday morning at 12:20 o'clock from the bedside of Mrs. Louisa Maria Taft, moth
er of William H. Taft. secretary of
war. Mrs. Taft was the widow of AIphonso Taft, secretary of war and at
torney general of the United States
under Grant, and later minister to Austria and Russia.
Mrs. Taft was attacked last July with acute indigestion and a gradual
break-down of her vigorous constitution soon followed. Secretary Taft,
her son, had visited her on Independence day and left her apparently in normal healtu to go to his summer home in Canada, from which place he was summoned on August 15, because of alarm at his mother's condition. He spent a day at her bedside and found
her in a less dangerous condition than he had supposed. The imperative duties of his office called him to Washington, where plans for a tour of the world had been so definitely arranged that they could not be changed, and as his mother was reported as rallying her strength, he proceeded to carry out his program. Secretary Taft sailed from Cuxhaven today on board the steamer President Grant for New York. His wife will join him at Boulogne. The steamer is due to arrive in New York on December 18. Mrs. Taft is survived by four children, of whom Secretary Taft Is the eldest. The two other sons are Henry W. Taft, of the New York law firm cf Strong & Cadwallader, and Horace I). Taft, founder and head of the Taft School for boys at Watertown, Conn. The daughter, Fanny L., is the wife of Dr. William A. Edwards, of Los Angeles. Besides Miss Torrey. the only near relative is her step-son, former Congressman Charles P. Taft, editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star.
NEW YORK DISLIKES THE SUNDAY LID
Police Prove Law Obnoxious To Residents.
IT WAS THEN MODIFIED.
CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our thanks to the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted in sickness and death of the husband and father, J. M. Rife; also for the many floral offerings. MARY E. RIFE AND CHILDREN.
Have you noticed the improved aeryfee to Chicago via the C, C. & L? Through sleeper leaves Richmond at 11:15 P. M. dally, arrives in Chicago at 7:00 A. M. Try It apr6-tf The Sunrise Of Ufe. Infants and children are constantly needing a iaxatlve. It is important to know what to give them. Their stomach and bowels are not strong enough for salts, purgative waters or cathartic pills, powders or ts-blets. Give them a mild, pleasant, gentle, laxative tonic like Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which sells at tha small sum of SO cents or SI at drug stores. It Is the one great remedy for yon to have m the house to five children when they need it.
New York, Dec. 0. Father Knickerbocker doesn't like the Sunday "iid." He said so yesterday, when, for the first time in the history of the metropolis, the police department, hearkening to the clamor' of the reformers, reached away back in the darkest recess of a musty old shelf and raked forth the ancient and decrepit "blue laws" passed when the old man was in his toddling clothes. It was a novelty that Father Knickerbocker and his millions of children and the tens of thousands of visitors failed to appreciate. In tiie memory of the oldest inhabitant it was the first "blue" Sunday, and probably the last. There have been occasional "dry" Sundays, and Sundays without baseball, but never before was there a Sabbath when Father Knickerbocker had to choose between a Sunday school picnic or a two hour sermon and the parks to see something or hear something to entertain him.
The most ancient writing known to 09 is the manuscript by Ptah-Hotep, an Egyptian prince of the blood, who lived about 3,366 years before Christ. rtah-Hoteps book Is written on papyrus and deals with matters moral, political and religious. It is in the Bibliotheaue Natlonale. Faria
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Have yon trouble of any Wad arising from a disordered stomach? Oo to your druggist and get a 50c or $1 bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which is positively an""""','ed to cure yea and keep you won.
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Humpe's Shoe Store is Headquarters for Santa Claus. See our window. Presents for Men, Women and Children. Our store will be open every evening until Christmas. Edward J. Humpe 807 Main St
The Wayne county anti-tuberculosis society, has inaugurated one of the stiffest. campaigns r.gainst the onslaughts of the dread disease, that, has ever been attempted in this city or county. Statistics s.nw that this county is affected more than many others in the state and the organization claims to have good grounds for renewed energy along Iine3 directed toward benefiting conditions. That it is a religious duty to fight the disease that others may be protected against its ravages, is thought by all members of the organization. That people may be impressed with the duty which falls upon them, the society has
asked the Palladium to publish the following in which this feature is brought forcibly to tho minds of all. "Tuberculosis and Religion." "The famous French physicist, Pasteur, believed that it wts 'in the power of man to make all infectious diseases disappear from the vorki'. Specialists today are at one with this opinion, at least in so far as the 'great white plague' or tuberculosis is concerned. This disease, 'popularly known under the names of consumption, decline, scrofula, marasmus, w.isting disease, inanition, lupus, hip joint disease and white swelling, is caused by microscopic disease germs which are carried from one to another in little particles of waste and enter the body with the food, or are inhaled with the breath. The whole life history of these little micro-organisms has been carefully studied and it is now known that they can easily be collected and destroyed. "With some the old idea that tuberculosis is inherited 3rill prevails, but nothiug is more uutrue. 'No new case of tuberculosis c:n arise without an old one, If, thertfore,- 'you can absolutely avoid every source of in
fection, you are safe whatever predisposing cause you may labor under.' All specialists on the subject now tell us that with a little care and the per
fect co-operation of the public, the
disease can be completely stamped out in one generation, and forever
banished from the world. They repeatedly assure us that man's 'power to control the spread of the disease is absolute.' 'He can do this, too, without depriving himself of any of the comforts or of the companionship of his relatives and friends.' Nor is this all, for many cases can be permanently cured where proper care is taken in time. Yet in the face of these facts, tuberculosis is the most common cause of death in civilized society today and notwithstanding the persis-
! tent appeals of a few heroic souls who are alive to the possibility of its
control and eradication, and notwithstanding some helpful laws in a few of the states, the disease continues to spread, and the general public remains peacefully indifferent. Here is a situation where ignorance is folly and inaction sinful. "The new industrial conditions and the specialization of labor of the present day increase the possibilities for spreading the disease, and bring new responsibilities for disseminating accurate knowledge, and exercising added care. When food stuffs were grown close to the consumer and cooked by a member of the household, few peo ? handle them, and the chance of their being contaminated by diseased persons and infected cars or store-rooms was much lessened. Today nearly every article of clothing and food is handled by at least ten persons where it was handled by one a generation ago. The recent agitation concerning the careless methods prevailing in some of the large meatpacking houses is the revelation of a case in point, which vividly illustrates the possibilities for infection which our intricate system of modern living affords. "And these new possibilities involve moral questions to which we cannot shut our eyes. The health and well being of ourselves and our children depend upon our care, forethought and cooperation. At. the present time the gulf between the accurate knowledge of the expert on the one hand and the general practice of the common people on the other, is the great obstacle In the way of progress; yet the means of relief are so simple, and the result of proper care so far-reaching, that it becomes a religious duty to help bridge the chasm. To many the tuberculosis question may seem a little foreign to religious? life, but when we realize that Ignorance and neglect may deprive us and our family, or our neighbor and his family, of health, and in some cases, of l?fe, we become aware possibly painfully aware that It falls within the pale of the Ten Commandments; and a casual study of the conditions which exist in many homes and factories in which, our clothes are made and our foods prepared, and in which children as well as adults live aqd work, forces us to
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SPECIAL STAMP SALE THIS WEEK
60 STAMPS with one IS oz. can of A. & P. Baking Powder at SOc.
20 STAMPS with one 2 oz. bottle of A. & P. Extracts at 2oc.
20 STAMPS with one lb. of Coffee at SOc.
25 STAMPS with one lb. of Coffee at 33c.
10 STAMPS with one bottle of Vermont Syrup at 2e.
45 Stamps with one lb of TEA at 60 cents
15 Stamps with one lb of A. & P. Blend the best 23c COFFEE
40 STAMPS with one lb. of Tea at SOc.
50 STAMPS with on lb. of Tea at 70c.
10 STAMPS with one bottle of Furniture Polish at 2Zc
10 STAMPS with 2 pkgs. of A. & P. Soda at 7c a pkg.
19 POUNDS Of Fine Granulated Sugar for $1.00.
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The Great Atlantic iB538
& Pacific Tea Co.
727 Main Street Old Phon. 53 W. New Phon 1215
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ask the question whether it is or is not quite as much within the province of religion to concern ourselves about tho cause and spread, of tuberculosis and other like questions, as it is to discover the derivatkn of Hiblical
names or determine the exact construction of an intricate passage from an ancient prophet. Should we not take care while studying the live3 of far-away heroes that we do not pass the one who has fallen by the wayside? Let us not forsake anything that, is good; but, above all, let us minister to our age in the name of Him who came to minister and not to be ministered unto."
WEATHER SAGES CHUCKLED III GLEE
Their Predictions of the Winter's Weather Came Partially True.
THE PAST WEEK WAS COLD.
COLDEST DAY SINCE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF YEAR WAS THURSDAY WHEN THERMOMETER STOD AT EIGHT ABOVE.
The week ending December 7. was cold and old weather sages who had predicted before hand a long winter, were happy, as their statements that cold weather would come early and stay late, were at least partially vindicated. Lovers of the bright sunshine and warm weather shrugged their
shoulders as much as to say. " will stand for it if we have to, but we don't like k in the least." The lowest temperature of the week was on Thursday, when the mercury made a slide for life and was brought to a halt at eight degrees above, which is considered very cold weather for this season of the year. At no time during the week did the thermometer register more than 51 degrees. Tho high minimum temperature was 27 d.v-
grees. 1 he low maximum was Monday and Tuesday at 'JS degrees. Thursday and Friday were the only dear days of the week. There was no rainfall. The record krpt by Waiter Vossler at the pumping station, follows: Hight. Low,
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Sunday. Dec. 1 .... Monday, Dec. '2 ... Tuesday. Dec. ."-... Wednesday. Dec. 4-. Thursday, Dec. 5. . Friday. Dec. ;-.. .. Saturday, Dec. 7..
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Nature always warns you if your bowels are clogged or inflamed heed (his. Take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. it relieves all congestion and restores natural digestion. I5 cents. Tea or Tablets. A. G. Luken & Co.
K thie concents yon. rai2 raretallyt l?r. Caldwall'a fcyra. Papain U poatHvaty ruaranted to cur iodtffaatf oa. comtlpaUoa. stc-W bead che, offenatva braatta. malaria aad ail dlaaaaet -isinar from atomacw 'xoutolo.
Phone 1178 or 49
FOR
CEMENT or Building Material of All Kinds. Mather Bros. Co.
A Christmas Suggestion... MAKE your friends a PRACTICAL GIFT that will be appreciated by them in years to come by OPENING a SAVINGS ACCOUNT in their name and depositing an amount to their credit. MAKE the sift so that it will be all the more appreciated and always substantial by OPENING the account with DICKINSON TRUST CO.
We furnish with new accounts either one of our handsome Pocket or Home Savings Banks without charge. 3 Per cent. Interest Paid on Deposits.
Financial Strength The management of this companj' is in the hands of a strong Board of Directors promineut business men:
John B. Dougan Jonas Gaar Edwin H. Cates Elgar G. Hibberd John M. Eggemeyer John J. Harrington
Adam H. Bartef Charles H. Land George L. Cates Howard Campbell George H.-Eggemeyer Henry Gennett
In addition, a Capital of $250,000.00, and the Surplus of $25,000.00 assures to depositors' the absolute safety of funds entrusted to tb care of this institution. ' Richmond Trust Company
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