Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 333, 14 January 1908 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PALLAD1 C3I A SLTA-TELEGKA3I, TLi:SDA V, ,J A FAK V 11. tHS.

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REMEMBER THIS RECIPE FOR COLD AND COUGH CURE. Simple as It Is, there is nothing better for colds and stubhorn coughs. Tastes pleasant, too, and can be made at home at small cost. Granulated Sugar Syrup, 1M oz. Pinex 2 Hi oz. The 2V oz. of Pinex vill cost you 50 cents at any drug store. Put the Pinex in a pint bottle, then fill it up with the Granulated Sugar Syrup. Take a teaspoonful every one, two or three hours, as required. The pint is enough to last a family a long time. "Well corked, it keeps indefinitely. Pinex is the most concentrated form of Norway white pine extract. It is rid i in all the elements that have made the Norwcgiuii pine forests famous 1u curing consumption and other membra no diseases. In making up this prescription, do not expect good results unless you use I'lnex. 1' may he that some druggists do not have it. but. they can Ret it for you easily if requested to do so. STORE TEETH EXPLODE AND WRECK OFFICE Was Caused by Vulcanizer Bursting. Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. J I.-A set of torn teeth was directly or indirectly responsible for the wrecking of the dental office of Alexander 1'. Herron. dentist. Room When building, just before noon. Kit her the teeth themhelves or (he holder iti which they were being vulcanized, exploded and the. office was badly smashed. OBITUARY. Mrs. Catherine K. Leive, widow of Charles A. Ieive, passed away at 3:13 n. m.. today, after an illness of several years' duration. Mrs. Leive was born in OsnahrucU, Germany, Dec. 1st. 1S4. and came to this country with her parents 14 years thereafter. Of a family of 12 children she is survived by but two brothers, Chris F Hartel and Adam 11. Battel. Mrs. Ixuve leaves live children, two sons and three daughters, Mrs. Henry Ii. Siekniann. Mrs. Kd. II. ISggemeyer, Miss Lena Ix'ive. Mr. .lolm W. Leive j.Mid II. L. Leive of Indianapolis. After Jifty-three years continuous residence in this cily. the deceased leaves a largo circle of friends and relatives to mourn fcer loss. At all times a consistent christian woman, and always ready with kind -words or deeds for the sick or afflicted, her death will be keenly felt. As she lived so also she died, patient, fore-bearing, kind, with never a thought of seif but always for others. Mrs. Leive's constant wish was that bhe might be surrounded by her children at the end was gratified, and her passage to the realms of bliss was peaceful. Funefal notices later on. Please omit flowers. The Lat straw. A certain small boy much given, to punctuating his remarks with the Interrogation point rather exceeded himself the other day. All morning and II afternoon did be keep up a steady fire of questions. If it wasn't "Why doss the wind blow?" it was "What makes the leave green?" or "How many drops of water are there in the ocean?" At last hla poor, long suffering mother could stand it no longer, and shortly before dinner she hustled blm off to lied and told him to stay there until he could break himself of the foolish troublesome habit of asking questions. But the Jilld safe in bed and the house quiet, the mother began to repent. How cross she had been, how Impatient and how unwise and unmotherly it was to thus check the aspirations of the childish mind for useful knowledge: Here was this young, growing intellect, eager to reach out and grasp whatever was of interest and value, and here was she, to whose charge that young intellect had been committed, shirking her duty. At this stage in her reflections the mother rose and, repairing to her son"s bedside, told him that he wasn't such a dreadful boy, after all, and that if he had any more questions to nsk she would do her best to answer them. "All right." replied the little boy. "Mamma, how far can a cat spit?" The Ivimberly diamond fields have been developing only since 171. A new London library ha;- a room set a part for talks on literary mutters. Ten pounds of blood are sent through tne human system at each heart beat. The Italian go eminent is making efforts to div. rt the ti,i,. emigration from the L t.jivd S'ates to Africa. Delicious Lemon pir T BY THIS RCCtPC: IQuarWaar fKa UUn-KIt, follow Oroc oc-ia onrWki Pafk Pmj-WaW M.I t tkkJ. ' - - I... . 10 0Oea Fa om Any GnociilQ

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THE ORIGINATOR OF THE TWENTYFIVE SECOND LINGERING KISS.

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MARY GARDEN. GRAND OPERA STAR.

Richmond Witnessed an Osculatory Exercise That Completely Overshadowed Her "Buss." There is much comment, throughout the country concerning the new "Louise" kiss, just introduced in Xew York by Mary Garden and Charles Dalmores, two grand opera stars. This kiss lasts twenty-five seconds and is said to be about the most passionate on the market. Richmond last Saturday night saw a stage kiss which as a lingerer does not. have to doff the hat to the famous "Louise" osculation. This kiss was introduced here by Miss Mary Hall and Carl .1. Uriekert in "The (iiil of tho Golden West." Like the "Louise" kiss it. was "not a soft-wafted, butterflyMice brush of the liis of a detonating labial salvo that startles the horses in the streets." t It, was not even like the "N'ethersole," " Emma Abbott" or any other of the much exploited brands of mer

SOCIETY N

To Reach the Society Editor, Call One of the prettiest social affairs of the month was the anagram party given Monday by Miss Marguerite Green of South Twentieth street, assisted by Miss Coral Weeghman. It was the. occasion of the announcement of the engagement of Miss Green to Mr. Karl Myers, both among Richmond's most prominent young people. The announcement was made, by Miss Fa yell e Fisdeck of Terro Haute, who was the honored guest, and who has been the house guest of Miss Green for several days. The wedding will take place in June. The home was heal'.ifully decorated in pink and green; carnations, sweet peas, ferns and smilax being used in the decorating scheme. Resides the festoonings of smilax. largo bridal bells were suspended from tin-, chandeliers in the living and dining room. The feature of entertainment was anagrains and the prizes were awarded to Miss Elizabeth Thomas, and Miss Maude Zimmerman. During the Hours a charming three course luncheon was served. The place cards were bridal bells and bore the engagement announcement. The company included thirty and was the Misses llattie Lyons, Mabel Farrow, Gertrude LeKever. Bessie Jones, Elaine Jones, Ann Dilks. Marcella Luken. Elizabeth Thomas. Maude Zimmerman. Alice Hill, Eari Roney, Marie Green. Merle Weeghman. Mabel Barber. Nina. Harris, Ellen Swain. Angela Freeman. Irine Mather. Coral llusecoster, Esther McCone, Mabel Steir.kamp. Fayelle Fisdeck. of Terro Haute and Mesdames Fred Genneti. Fred Davenport and Robert Study. The Epworth league of will give a "Poor Richard First m. i:. social this the church. evening ni tne parlors of A program of music and short talks on Benjamin Franklin has been prepared. Prof. Rants' wi'I speak on "His Career as a. S'ates-tuati." and Dr. Kwiuu will speak ou " His Scientific- Inv'i-.-tioris." All members of the hauue and their friends, are itni'ed. K-frh-nicnts w ill be m rved. 4. 4. 4. Miss G oldie Dadisman ceiebra'ed her eighteenth birthday anniversary Monday evening at lu r homo on South. Eleventh street, by entertaining :' number of friends. The evening's entertainment consisted of games and music, after which a nice luncheon

cury-raising, kiss-as-kiss-can whereof the old lime theatre-goers of this city used to blither. Tho "Golden West." osculation comes in the second act. Miss Hall, who plays the part, of "The Girl," rushes into the arms of her tinge lover, Carl Uriekert, who is a bold, bad outlaw. Both close in a dreamy half-Nelson and the half-Nelson is countered by Mr. Uriekert in an ardent :-i i ;i - ioliohl. There was not a hint of shirking full duty. Hack of the stage settings a fierce stage-storm rages. The wind moans and howls. Still the kiss goes on. A terrific blast from the gale pushes the door of the cabin open and bangs it. at. a lively rate. The windows of the cabin shake and rattle. The lamp on the table Quivers and flickers. The paiier snow blusters into the room. Still the kiss goes on. The orchestra plays Eliza-Crossing-The-Ice kind of music and blushing misses steal sidelong glances at their staring escorts and finally the kiss comes to an end. "I love you" breathes Uriekert as if no on. in the house had guessed that fact. The Golden West kiss has the "Louise" osculation lashed to the mast and starved to death.

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Home Phone 1121, or Bell Phone 21. was served. The hostess was the recipient of many congratulations and best wishes. The marriage of Mr. Dowell King, and Miss Angela Freeman will take place Wednesday. The principals are both well known young society people of tke. city and have a host of friends. They will make their future home in Nashville, Tenn., where Mr. King has charge of the accounting department of Gaar, Scott & Company. ! ! The Musical Study club which met j this morning had a very pleasant and ' profitable period in studying the life j and compositions of MacDowell. Six ' local musicians and members of the, club participated. Mrs. Joseph H. Mills is hostess this afternoon to a largo company of friends at a luncheon at her home on South Ninth street. j Mrs. Thomas R. Jessup was hostess ' to the Criterion Literary society. Monday- afternoon at her home on ; North Nineteenth street. The cluh ! is making a study of the growth of the ' various world powers. Russia is at , present under consideration. j I Mrs. Warren Gifford was hostess j for the Magazine club Monday after- i noon, -at her home on North Tenth ! street and the readers for the meeting were Mrs. Charles MoGuire, and Mrs. Harry Laud. Magazine seh-e- ; tious ou current events were read. . The Trifolium society of the First English Lutheran church held its reu-: ular meeting last evening at the home, of Miss Sarah Swain. South Twelfth street. The program consisted of a paper ou "Universities and German Education." by Miss Ella Min- : ter. "Dresden and Us Art." by Mis. Herbert Fledd r.tolui, and "Loipt-ic , and Its Hooks." by Mrs. Dai" Mote.' Several musical numbers were rendered by Miss Esther Kcsselman and Mias Alice KnoilenlxTcr. A buflVt. luncheon was t-orvet. V V $ ' Miss Pearl Saunders. of North ; Eighth street, entertained as her gne.-is Sunday Mis Grace Hough and Mr. Thurman Overman, of Earlham and Misses Arline Barlow and Nona Albright. Mrs. Atrusta C. Scott cf North Tenth stre'-. assisted by Mrs. Charles Mc"hw. Mrs. Frank Glass and Miss Ella downing, will entertain the ladies of r.eid Memorial church Wednesday afternoon. . : Mr.-;. Howard Ridge of North Six- ! rceitth street, is enteruiiuing a new i- : organized club thi j afternoon. T'iu.-e -oniosing the club are. Medames William Lane. Edward Cooper, E. 1L :

ORGANIZING STATES TUBERCULOSIS WAR

World-wide Interest In International Convention for Prevention of Disease. TO BE HELD IN WASHINGTON Washington. Jan. 14. Widespread interest is being taken in this country and abroad in the International Congress on Tuberculosis which is to be held in this city next September, under the auspices of the National association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculoids. It will be the first congress of the sort to be held in this country, and it will differ from the earlier congresses in giving greater prominence to the nonmedical aspects of the campaign I against the white plague. The program I will cover the anti-tuberculosis move- j incut as a whole, and emphis will be! laid upon the humanitarian and social' factors of the problem, as well as upon the medical, surgical and pathological j aspects of it. j Some idea of the extent of the in-I t crest shown in the United States in the congress is to he gained from the fact, that over persons in different sections of the country are serving on j state committees. St oner. Edward Koser. Sol Frankel, ''dward Klute, George Scott, Ion Cox. ohu Livey, William Fry, Frank t'anks and Howard Ridge. fr Mrs. W. K. Bradbury of North Kifeenth street, ow for the will bo hostess tomorWednesday Duplicate Waist club. i i An error was made in announcing the. bridge whist party at the country club for this evening, the affair having been held this afternoon. Miss Josephine Cates being the hostess. 5 -I An important meeting of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, will be held Wednesday evening. An attendance of all members is requested. The Modern Prescilla club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Thomi as Wiekeit, SOU North Twelfth street. J The Merry-Go-Round club will be entertained Thursday evening by Mrs. William Fry. 221 South Fourth street. ! The Alice Carey club which was to have met this week has postponed its! meeting for a week, when it will be entertained by Mrs. J. II. Mitchell, of South Twelfth street. Mrs. Henry Heager of South Fifteenth street, will be the hostess for the next meeting of the Happy Hour circle. j. .;. Mrs. Theodore McClellan will be the hostess for the mooting of the South Thirteenth street Sewing Circle, the last of the month. OF DISEASE GERMS Ministers, Dogs and Cats Are Blamed. Chicago. Jan. 14. "Potent factors in the spread of disease are dogs, cats, ministers, physicians and undertakers." In this way County Physician Arthur II. Reading summed up the problem of contagion at the conference on public health. " Cats and dogs visit the sick room and carry in their hair the germs of disease animals which, if minute, are quite as ferocious as lions or tigers," said Dr. Reading. "Doctors visit their patients and frequently go directly to see other patients without so much as washing their hands. Ministers, in visiting the sick, and undertakers, in the course of business, are common carriers of contagion. There may bo some excuse for the minister, but. the doctor and the undertaker should know better." "But." said the vaudeville manager. I "what makes yon confident yon would ' mke a great juggler?" ! "At our boarding house." replied the' applicant, "we had a gravy boat on a! slippery detached tray, and for years I have passed it to ami fro with never an accident." Kansas City Times. j Many persons surfer with weak stomach and more or less illness because they fail to understand the simple and healthful plan of a breakfast somewhat like the following: A little fruit. A dish of Grape-Nuts and cream. One or two soft eggs. A Cup of Postum Food Coffee and perhaps a piece of hard toast. A man says, "I couldn't go on that until noon." One or two day's trial will teach him a big volume of facts and make him feel "fit as a lord." There is a deep underlying and scientific reason. The best argument, however, is the actual experience with such breakfasts

COMMON CARRIERS

CUBA FOB CUBANS IN SPRING OF 1909

Taft Fixes Time of the American Evacuation as Then Says Report. WRITES TO PRESIDENT. Washington, January it As far as he can. Secretary Taft has committed the American Government to a promise to withdraw completely from Cuba in the beginning of the spring of It'Ofi. This pledge is contain' d in a letter from the War Secretary to the President, transmitting the report of Governor Magoon for tho last year. After declaring that the report from the Governor shows the conditions in Cuba to be encouraging-, Secretary Taft says: -it was hoped by home that the census might be completed in September last. I did not think bo, and I am not at all surprised to learn that the census has not. yet been completed and probably will not bo until April or May. This wiil postpone the local elections until June, the presidential election until December, and the installation of the President ami Congress and the turning over of the island until about March or April of li'nO. This is in compliance with our promise when we assumed temporary control of Cuba, and it. seems to me that we ought to allow nothing to interfere with carrying out that promise. There are important interests that would be glad to delay our stay there for years, but good faith and good policy both, in my judgment, requiure us to leave at the time appointed." The report of Governor Magoon constitutes an exhaustive history of the American intervention in Cuba and of the passage of the island under American control. Isolation In a Great City. "New York city is no place for expansion." said a Colorado man who has been a resident of the metropolis for six months. "1 find myself narrowed down here more than I was out in the wild west. I know fewer persons, my nearest neighbors knownothing about me. I am coutlned to less actual territory and instead of variety in this great population I find myself following substantially the same short trail day after day, within boundaries more narrow than if I lived in a village of 10.000 Inhabitants." New York Telegram. INSANITY OP THAW FAMILY BEING SHOWN BY THE DEFENSE (Continued From Page One.) ing address. Ten minutes were granted. At the end of that time Mr. Littleton reappeared and walked around to a position in front of the jurymen. The men in the box. all grave and solemn, sat tip. Mr. Littleton, in a very low voice began his speech. He was almost inaudible at. first, but his voice grew stronger as he progressed. He said that the only issue was the sanity of the defendant at the tim of the murder. Was Not Murder. "Now, if the facts are that, this defendant committed murder in the first degree, without any excuse, any explanation, any ameliorating circumstances, then the only manly thing to do. for him to do. for everybody conneccd with the case to do. is to say that this defendant was sane, and therefore responsible under the law. and to say: "This is murder in the first degree." "Here and now 1 tell the distinguished counsel for the other side, that there may be no misunderstanding, that it will be warfare from now on between that degree and the acquittal of the defendant. So we have added to our jdea of 'not guilty' another, that he was insane at the time of the act and not responsible." Then came the court vivisection of 1 he family as a whole, which Marry Ti.aw. his mother, his sister, the Countess of Yarmouth, and other members of the family have fousht for years. "On the father's side of Harry Thaw's family." began Mr. Littleton, with frank brutality, "there was an insane sister, who died in an asylum at the age of ." . She had bi t a insane from her youth. "His father's cou.-iu. Adoiph. 'li-u is; L.vneliburg. Ya.. so fliehty and unbalanced that In- was generally regarded as insane. Horace Thaw v. as a young man. a sou of Villi;:m Thaw, the first. He died iu v: of h'-reuitary delusions. "Harry Travis Thaw was alto insati His halt' si.-ur i- confined !n aa iusaue asylum." As Mr. Littleton progressed with his merciless recital the prisoner did not seem able to keep still. He kept shifting in his chair and whispering into Mr. Peabxly's ear. There were no indication of a brain storm or one of Thaw's bitter tirade against his counsel. He fairly cringed. "The defendant's mother was a Copley." continued Mr. Littleton. "One of Mrs. William Thaw's sisters. Margaret Copley, married a man named Ross. At an early age their sou became insane. "Let us look into the strain of this boy who is charge', with cowardly murder in the first, ttesr-r." said Mr. Littleton, "for :"j ma:i tsn get away from the despotism and circumstances thrown around him: no man can escape, from th;- tyranny of his ancestry

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or can flee from the fever iu his blood. So that is the reason 1 ask jou to look into the timber from which he comes. Harry Thaw's Character. ' Harry Thaw was a peculiar instrument from his birth. He was on the verge of infirmity. Sleepless nights he passed iu the arms of his nurses and mother. He had a nervous instability and infirmity. Rut though weak, as many of you know, he was active in mind. He spent, his infancy with sleepless, wide-eyed nights. At three mouths he had brain fcer. at five months convulsions, and so his youth went on until between ', and 7 he had St. Vitus' a dance. "At six he could not talk. His first teacher, Uelle Morehouse I-awrence. las come here to tell you of it. She ras come clear across the continent for hat purpose. She loved the boy and tried to help him. "A man named Reck, who was also Thaw's teacher at a boarding school, would also be called. Thaw was then 1 1 years of age. Ho acted so insane that he had to be sent home. "At the age of It;, in the Wooster university, the teachers made entries iu their note books of his abnormal characteristics. Witnesses From Europe. "I have not been able to get the doctor who treated him. but I have the nurse," said Littleton. "In London also. Thaw was under treatment and a physiciau who attended him. and who declared him insane, is on the ocean now. and will testify. "After his return from Europe there came a circumstance into his life that ordered it. controlled it, shaped it, and fixed it." District Attorney Jerome, seemingly

How Syracuse Woman Took Her Wrinkles Out In Three Nights AFTER MASSAGE AND BEAUTY SPECIALISTS HAD FAILED.

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Ever since woman"? beauty held sway over man and brought her powr. intltience and wt-alth. she has sought a way to stav jpc processes of obi aj;e and lani..h dc-p liner and furrows from th- brow. Chemists. t.;iuiv du'tois and rkin specialists iiin for centuri past vain!;' trii-d to fathom 'ii- seaU'd s'-cret-of na:t:r and find a wa v to ke.-p tlo- in-aU' of ;o'H'i in a woman's fa - ; nd to; in. Harriet M-;,t was 1:0 ecpiiot to rhi' ii.'nera! rule of wcmMi. Trouble and worry k-r ihoi: un.-igjrly lines and murks upon her faff. She ;4 th- boauty of licr vonrn vivingr way to th heavy imprints of omini ac7-. Her first report was to face massage, cold cream and steaming pots; then t.ext to beauty sptcialisu; but all in aiu. T.i wrinkles seemed, if any thing, to grow der and deeper. Massage tven appeared to stretch t'.tts skin; more wrinkles came. She had spent a!" tb- money he could afford to spend, and was rady to cive up in despair, when one dav a friend trade a fcapny susg?sUon. This eave her a brilliant idea. She set to work on the thin.? Lmsclf, and after several mouths hard labor a:-.d i!n. '"-.- s i.dless cxpnr; anting, she set -ce ded :n producing a wHnk r?i.:uv- . . rn:i--!'." (i'f'ere-:- froru il':;: she had :' a or heard of. Si,..- rried it on herself, and. lo and behold! it worked a wonderful transformation in a single night. She tried it the second nipht, and ;ier wrinkle were practically cone A third ,jjht thre treatment in all an hT wrinkle had entirely disappeared, and her skin ai soft, clear, rosy ?nd smootji. Rev. JofpMrp Talroncc of Chicago, writes; "h tb only ucatmartst iu.

taken by surprise, seated himself la thi" witness chair better to hear the outline of the new defense. Mr. Littleton promised to forge a chain of circumstances and to produce a line t f testimony which will prove Harry K. Thaw undeniably insane at the time of the homicide. Mr. Littleton challenged the district attorney to produce a single reputable erson who would say that Thaw was not innane pt the time he killed the noted architect. Mrny Surprises. Mr. Littleton a speech fairly bristle with surprises. He startled th court room by declarinR that after Evelyn Ncbbit had told him her story in Paris in IPOCl. Thaw "drenched himself with a poison." and would bav died but for the heroic work of three physi cians who labored over him all of on uisht. Mr. Jerome had his surpri too. and when Mr. Littleton started to launch into the relations of Stanford White with the girl whom Thaw married, the Histrtt Attorney was ou ni feet with an objection. Justice Dowling sustained hint .and the name of tne architect wa not linked agaia with that of the defendant's wife. Mr. Littleton touched but lightly upn the girl's story as she told It to Thaw, but careful as h waa. on thin point, he again drew an objection from the prosecuting officer, who said: "Mr. Littleton is now straying Into a field of stuff, which in my opinion, will bm excluded.'' Demands Acquittal. "I make no claims for this defendant above those of the average man as to morals, vices or Tlrtues." declared Mr. Littleton. "Hut I say his life history is enough to free him from tho charge- that he was resionsible for hit act." the world t'tat will remove wrink!. I am nior than I-!ichi-d. When all other treatment. have' fallal, yours sranris alon- a suerf:i." In spvaking of her !ii-overy. Mits Meta saye: "Yes. I know It sounds too gxd to be true, hut really I do no' think .moving wrinkles is half so wonderful as tap telephone. Ilefon; the telej ic'ie was Invented it appeared ridiculous to think of talking from New York u, Chicago. Those who have r,j cold creams, if., fannot understand how my treatment fan a t quickly. Vet. aft. r all. it if very simple, an-! I ' wonder that foriuoiie did not discover the process long ago. My lett.-rs from patients tll the whole story. Here is one from a lady w hj says my 'rca.i,mr;it made. ar look twenty eai younger. I do not how anyone can doubt in 'bo face of such testimony an thla. I tried cold cranii, rnassa;. etc.. niylf. without reju'.s, ami I can thoroughly .13 -mpathize with those who have trid to get rid of wrinkles, and I am truiy elad that I feel I can now offer womankind a surer and shorter wav. "I wiil jpive further (Particulars to ad those who write me within the :iv:t t"" d.-' . I rr -i.-t exact a prom!e t.r rf.r.r .,.y fr'n everyone, for mv own pro'eerjon before I Kive full jnforn.atio'i if yo'i can u-e my treatment on .-f it or ia j our own family, but you li.'iSt r.o. tf:" ';t it is to ouif 2-;:ii2r.e r,;j t -ntt meat Will H! : -j wj.y ;pi'ii e your si iu. On the cor.rary, it w HJ giv it a soft. Telvety 1 -eling and greatly Improve yonr com1 'exion. as well as banish unsightly !im-. and wrinkles. Jt takes only a f-w minuter to use it. .dlr Harriet Suite CT1 K. Syracuse, X. V. I will send everything in plain sealed envelop', so that our rorresiMjndencc wi'I ! strictly private-"