Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 4, 19 February 1908 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PAL LADIUS! AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 190S.

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PRESSURE ON MORSE

Creditors File Involuntary Petition of Bankruptcy Against Banker. WANT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS New York, Feb. If. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed this afternoon in the United States district court against Charles V. Morse by a combination of his creditors, who determined to have a general distribution of his remaining assets among the interests Laving claims against 5iim. The arrangements for this move all except obtaining the signature of one of the three necessary petitioners were completed yesterday. Behind the action lies the plan. In pursuance of which the entire campaign upon Mr. Morso, has been carried on, of putting him permanently out of business by dissipating what remains of his once large fortune. It has been perfectly well known since the crisis of his affairs was reached, a couple of weeks ago, that the only chance remaining for anything to be realized beyond tho debts themselves out of the collateral pledged in almost every quarter of the financial community, was to have tho creditors hold off, in the hope that an improvement In conditions would bring the Securities up to a fair liquidating value. D1D LEE EXPECT DEFEAT? The General'! Significant Statement After Sailors Creek. My last official intercourse with General Lee was on the retreat. I was ent to him with dispatches from President Davis and reached him near mid'nljjht of April 6 near Itice's station. I iipproaehed without being challenged by a single sentinel and found him standing near a smoldering fire with one of bis hands resting on an ambulance wheel. He was dictating some oriSer to Colonel Marshall, who sat in the ambulance with a lap desk receiving his dictation. As General Lee ppoke b.9 gazed Into the bed of coals as if weighing every word. There was no staff or escort about, so far as I could see. Touching Sailors Creek, he ppoke bitterly and said in answer to Mr. Davis desire to know his proposed line of retreat that it was beyond bis control; that ho had Intended to retreat by the lino of the Danville road, but had been forced off that route by the arrival of Sheridan ahead of him at Burkville; that he was then following the line of tho Southside road to Lynchburg, but the enemy was outmarching him and might force bim off; that his movements were dependent on the developments of each hour, and then he added: "How can I tell? A few more Sailors Creeks and it will all lie over just whe.e I thought it would end from the beginning." When I first published this statement its truthfulness was questioned. Fortunately I afterward saw two of his staff, both of whom said they had heard him express himself in the same way. There may have been times when General Lee, elated by some of his surprising successes, felt hopeful about the triumph of our cause. From the probabilities based on numbers and resources bis Judgment may have aiiped away now and then by tho f. g he expressed when, after Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, be said, "No general ever commanded such troops as those under me." But his mind was too mathematical in its workings, and all its calculations were too habitually based upon what could be done with a given number of men and a certain amount of material to make him forget the vast disparity between the contestants or hope for ultimate triumph. John S. Wise in Circle Magazine. A WITTY JUDGE. His Conclusions on the Evidence of Ditto and True. The late non. Noah Davis, well known throughout the country as the Judge who tried and sentenced Boss Tweed, was justly celebrated in many ways. He was of that type of jurist for which western New York was famed during the half century following 1S50. Orleans county is proud of him as one of her noblest and most distinguished sons. He was slightly above medium height, full habited, large head, fine, clean cut face Indeed, a striking figure In any community. lie was a well read lawyer, an honest, fair minded judge, with a keen sense of humor and withal something of a writer and roct The following lines from his pen. written on the spur of the moment and in the midst of a trial. Illustrate the alertness and quality of his mind. They are perhaps the best play upou words of which we have any record in the English language. It was at the Niagara circuit In the arly seventies. Judge Davis presided. An action in ejectment was called. The dispute was over a party wall or a division line. It was purely a question for the civil engineer. The division line established and the case was won. The defendant's attorney, realizing this, calied as expert witnesses the Hon. John A. Ditto, city engineer of Buffalo, and the Hon. A. R. True, the engineer who constructed the cautalever bridge over Niagara river nt the falls. They were two of the most eminent civil engineers In the state. They made a survey of the premises and es tablished the division line as contended for by the defendant and when called to the witness stand so testified, givlmr monuments, courses and distances with puch minute exactuess that they could ! not be successfully controverted. The moment True, who followed Ditto as a witness, left the stand, Judge DuvN wrote these Hues and passed them t the clerk to hand to plaintiff's counsel: Since True swears ditto to Ditto, Anil Ditto swears ditto to True. If True bi true, and rijo ditto. I think they're too many for you. -.Tanil n. McMillan In Buffalo Truth,

SOCIAL NEWS To Reach the Society Editor, Call Home Phone 1121, or Bell Phone 21.

The following article published in the Metropolitan Magazine for March, has proved tho cleverest satire on toclety and social customs that any magazine has been fortunate enough to secure. There are few who will not appreciate the delicate humor of this article. It is entitled "How to behave in society" and says: "Every now and then a stand-up sapper Is served at a dance. This is the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel. Should a lady ask you at such an entertainment to get her some cupper, push your way through the mob and hurl yourself like a flying wedge at the trough where the comestibles are exhibited. Once arrived on the scene of carnage, you can consume a cup of bouillion. some sandwiches a little Met. some dry champagne, some oysters, and a plate of salad, an ice and a cup of coffee. After this, if your hunger has been satisfied, take a morsel of gelatine, u doily, and a lady-finger, place them on a plate and force yourself through the compact lines of angry, feeding, dancing men, until you appear before your fair partner, declaring that you did your best, and that the rest of the provisions bad disappeared. While she is thanking you. slip away to the smoking-room and send the man in attendance there for a bottle of your favorite champagne. While he has gone you may busy yourself by selecting a dozen or more of the best cigars, so as to be sure to have something to smoke on the way home. "At the theatre it is smart to "roast the show." Do not be afraid of wounding the feelings of your host and hostess. It is an even chance that Uiey are more bored than you. If the actors seem to object to your conversation or show annoyance or impatience, try to remember that they are not society people, and are ignorant of all little graceful social conventions. "On leaving the opera with the ladies, do not go into the side corridors with them, or you will surely be forced to look out for their carriage, a tedious and bothersome occupation. Tho wisest thing to do is to s,ay that you have an appointment, and merge yourself with the rabble who are leaving by the front door, leaving the ladies in the drafty side entrance, where their footman will sooner or later discover them. "Bachelors no longer leave cards. It is considered outre. After dining a good many times at a house, a man may give a butler two dollars and "his card. In return the butler will, during the next afternoon, discreetly slip the card upon the tray in the hall while the lady of the house is out driving. "If you are literally forced to pay a call, merely ask tho butler if the ladies are at home. Should he say "yes," explain to him that you have mistaken the house, and that you are looking for the residence of another lady. Slip him a dollar and retire noiselessly down the steps. J . The Francis Willard W. C. T. IT. will hold a memorial meeting at the home of Mrs. Alice Luring, 63 South Fifteenth street, on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, in memory of Frances 15. Willard's birthday. An appropriate literary program including special music is being prepared. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend. w ? The Sub Rosa club met last night with Mrs. Stout of South Eighth street. Whist was played at three tables, after which a dainty luncheon was served. The prizes were won by Mrs. Harry Glick and Mr. Sol Frankel. The club will meet again in two weeks. v . Miss Mary Crivel left this morning for Dayton to attend the wedding of Miss Mary Cooterman to Mr. Fred Crivel. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride's parents on Vine street. l4 The Aftermath society met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. William Trueblood, on the National road, west. Mary A. Wilcox gave an interesting paper on Ghent. Mrs. Ferguson also read a very good paper. Mrs. Fran- j ces L. Hiatt who was to have given a j paper on Superstition was not able to ; be present and so that part of the ', You've heard of the Department of Agriculture? A il Ix. icr lCUxLUre ; j ' They test food values. Read Bulletin No. 142. It says white flour has n . It SayS White flour has mor! available protein (energy) man any Otner Single ration. w , , .i Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Flour is the best white 1 . , t . nOUT. Gold Medal Flour a? For Sale by Grocers GoidMeoaiFioub.

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program was omitted. The club meets March 3, with Mrs. Frank Clark at her home ,321 North Eleventh etreet and it Mill be a business meeting. s4 Tho men's club of the First Presbyterian church, organized in November, 1007, has held two successful and interesting meetings of a social nature. The next session will be held Tuesday evening, March third. The entertainment committee will soon be ible to announce the program which will be given at this meeting. This club on Sunday night, February twenty-third will have charge of the evening service at the eiiurch. Special solos and choruses have been arranged for by Prof. Will Earhart, and the public is cordially invited to at-

tend. The Aid society of the East Main Street church will meet tomorrow afternoon in the church parlors. A full attendance is desired. & & v Mrs. Laura Bates and; daughter, Cornellia of Liberty, are the guests of Mr. Joseph Itatliff for a few clays. 4 A charming affair was given yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Van lleusen, at her home on North Fourteenth street, to the members of a Duplicate whist club. The prizes, which were won by Misses Mary Shi veley, "Marie Campbell, Josephine Gates and Mesdames Finley and Guy McCabe, were vases of different styles filled with spring flowers. A dainty pink and white two-course luncheon was served. The favors were bouquets of pink and white sweet peas tied with gauze ribbon. The guests for the club were Mrs. Wilbur Ilibberd, Mrs. Guy McCabe, and Mrs. John Nicholson. Mrs. Van lleusen was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Bennett and Miss Conley. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gayle of South Sixteenth street will entertain a party of friends, informally tonight. The affair is complimentary to their house guests, Miss Annabel Wheeler, and Miss Martha Gayle. Miss Marie Campbell, Mr. Thomas Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Craighead and Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Leeds will form a party tomorrow evening at a Leap Year dance to be given by tho young women of Eaton, O. & The Eastern Star will give an indoor picnic Saturday, February twenty-second at tho Masonic hall. The members will entertain their families and friends and each member is requested to bring a well filled basket. After the supper a general gpod time will be enjoyed. J & The women's foreign missionary society of St. Paul's Lutheran church is meeting this afternoon at the St Paul's Chapel. A special program is being given. 8 t Miss Blanche Jennings of Urbana, w" has been attending a house party at Anderson, is the house guest of Mrs. Addison Hunter of this city for a few days. jl The Senior banquet which is to be given Friday night in the I. O. O. F. hall is being looked forward to by the members of the Junior class of the high school in whose honor the banquet will bo given. t?t Miss Clara Luken will entertain tonight at her home on East Main street at a whist party. J The Wednesday Duplicate whist club has been postponed, but will meet Wednesday, February Twenty-sixth with Mrs. P. W. Smith of East Main street. The East End Sewing circle will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. P. W. Smith. L"Orr Main street. All the members are urged to be present promptly at two o'clock. v t& The mission circle of the Universalists church, will give a Martha Washington tea Thursday evening, February twentieth at two-thirty, nt the home of Mrs. Smith, 434 South Thirteenth street. All the members are urged to attend. j . The Woman's Relief corps is making extensive preparations for the reception to be given tomorrow afternoon in the G. A. R. hall. The hall will be oeatitifully decorated, appropriate to Washington. The Social club gave a house warmiug last night to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ford, at their beautiful new home on !!orth Twenty-first street. Games . and music followed by a hard time i bhower were the features of tho evening. A luncheon in two courses was served. Those present were: Messrs. and Mesdanies Charles Ford. Ed Marlatt, Fred Powers, Albert Fos r ter. Frank Shiffler and Charles rote. The guests of the club were Misses Edna Marlatt, .Hilda Marlatt, .V.arie Shukcrt and Camilla Black. . The ccult Resoarcl1 societJ Jin meet tomorrow afternoon, with Mrs. Gertrude Hill, at her home. 63 South Eighteenth street. The hostess will be the reader for this meeting. The "Bakers' Dozen" met last night with Miss Clara Nichter on North E street. The lub entertained their gentlemen friends and cards were played at six tables. Thos. present were Misses Leona Beuning. Margaret Wilson. Anna OrUman. Cassina Kenr,"pohl. Margaret Englobert. Clara Nio liter. Minnie Nichter. May Zwissler. Norma Range. Mildred l.ieMenfe!.-. Nettie Brornmn. Katharine Shumakr and Hilda GawsToii .i , ,i. Knjr(Browa, of Fiqw U WfciW

Rohe, Fred Foley, Ivan Wright, George Zwissler, Herbert Beuning, Jrunes DUling, Ray Mendenhall, Frank Dempsey, James Ohta, Howard Geier and Mark Attleman. The club will not meet again until after lent. 31 v The Athenaca Literary society will have a business meeting February

twenty-eighth. At this meeting the following program will be given: Anna! report of the secretary and treas urer, and election of officers. A dis-1 cussion "For the Good of the Club," will be led by Miss Laura Dickinson j and Othelia Stranahan. A recitation by Ida Mote will also be given. STRIKE WIL END ACCORDING 10 REPORT Asserted Car Men Again Want Employment. Though neither side wUl make a positive statement it has been learned that overtures have been made to call off the strike declared against the Indiana Union Traction company, Jan. j., by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes. It is said that a proposition was made to the company, that the strike would be called off immediately if the company would t,ako back all the old employes. It is understood that the company's reply was that it would employ the old men as rapidly as they could be placed, but none of the new men would be discharged to make room for the strikers. The committee that made the proposition to the traction company represented the trades councils of Muncie, Marion and Anderson. ASYLUM PATIENTS GIVEN STARVE CURE Sensational Disclosures Made By Investigation. Chicago, Feb. 19. Charges that patients In the state's insane asylums are starved on the theory that in that way cures can be effected, and that to prevent them from demanding food they are told that poison has been put into 11, were made today to members of tho legislative investigating committee. "The black bottle" js tho Instrument that strikes terror to the insane, according to these charges, and it is declared that the physicians of practically all the hospitals in the insane group make use of this device to frighten their patients and thus keep them upon starvation diet. Other charges of cruelty are also made against hospital attendants. It is declared that the "towel treatment" has grown into a system at the state institutions. A wet roller towel is thrown around the neck of the patient from behind and twisted until the patient has been forced into subjection. NEGROES WANTED TROOPS RESTORED Resolutions in Favor of Brownsville Men. the Washington, Feb. Vj. Resolutions demanding tho restoration to the army of the colored troops dismissed as the result of the Brownsville affair were adopted at a mass meeting here after addresses by Bishops R. L. Tur ner of Atlanta and W. D. Chappelle of Nashville and other leaders of the colored race. Fifteen states having a large negro population were represented. The resolutions further urge colored voters everywhere to qualify for the franchise, participate in primaries and conventions and "cast their ballots for Senator Foraker or men who, like him, have stood up manfully against the most powerful influence in defense of the rights of these men, who had imperilled their lives in the service of our common country." PALE MILK IS -NOWjEING SOLD Housewives Have a Kick on Supply. Housewives of Richmond are making complaints daily on the quality of milk peddled in the city. It is not because of the probability of infection, but on account of the thin, pale appearance of the fluid that the protest is being made. The dairymen attribme the cause lo the feed which thev j are forced to use in their dairies. JANE BE E LEADER Wife of Elijah (?) Would Take Crown. Chicago. Feb. 19. Mrs.. .lane Dowi, widow of the late Overseer John Alexander Howie, the Prophet Elijah and bead of the Dowieites. seeks to take up the leauori-hip of tho dirupiPd fore?15. J?he nosscpsos crest administrative j : i . . ii i!- ,'..... i- i r j kuwiul confidence in her.

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THE CHRISTIAN FAITH Does Not Hitch to Line Fence But Goes to Interior for Green Pasture. MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE. Despite the storm last night, tho revival at First Methodist church was well attended. The singing was fine and the Rev. llobson was in fine spirits and preached an excellent sermon. One marvelous thing about these meetings is that the audience seems to never tire. The subject for the sermon was "Faith." Ho maintained that faith in the substance of things hoped for. Faith believes the things promised will come to pass, he said. Abram filed his claim when God promised him the land. This is just an every day faith. Abram told his children that Canan is ours. Faith goes beyond vision. Faith takes patience. We sow and in patience have faith to await the narvest. uur laun ouen is lasnioneu by our friends belief. God wants us to stand alone. God wants called out people. The secret of the Lord is giv en to those who fear him. not to disbelievers. To have faith you must be able to keep so close to God that he can whisper his secrets to you. He will tell us hia secrets it we will keep them and will not associate with disbelievers. Men do not send an untrusty man with secrets for others. First, some how we must reach through the brain to the heart. It you keep it in the head, if you loose your head you loose your religion. Have faith in God and he will lead you out into new fields, if we love him he will supply our needs. When the Holy spirit conies into our lives, then he tells us his secrets. Give him of your possession and he will give you his secrets. Keep your facr to the sun and it will shine in your face, turn your back and it will not shine in your face. God will lead us if we will trust him. ., He will strip us of all, to fill us with faith. If we will let a square deal govern our lives we will have faith. We contend and wont let him have his way. Trust. Him and he will show you wonders. An urgent appeal was mad" for members to seek a stranser faith, and nearly the entire audience came to the altar. The feeling is taking a hold on the LEnjuan?, mat u taey arp going to possess the law it is best to . go into the interior and not always ! hitch to the line fence, dividing the j land from th enemy. If we go into trie interior it can only bn bv faith. . . . I The Women's Organization of First j Baptist church v. ill hold a market ( Feb. 22. at Dickinsons lrug store 10:;t Main t. AH table delicacies. If 21 Marion. Ohr State Iac'i'- im at j nil ei: Coli?iitu Wednefdar night. 1!ih. V.iz-1 Jjet aaiQ ia.C9 oM times. 113tj

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AMERICAN TEACHERS TO GO TO ENGLAND The Trip Will Be Made Next Autumn. New York, Feb. 19. Five hundred or more American school teachers will visit England, Scotland, Ireland and the continent of Europe next autumn for Inspection of schools and methods 0j teaching in vogue there. This announcement was made today by the National Civic Federation, which has just completed arrangements for the expedition. The , plan which was adopted is much the same as that followed by Alfred L. Moseley, who brought a large number of English teachers to America in 1904-1905. Mr. Moseley will co-operate with the National Civic Federation In the present movement The expedition will be confined to schools of secondary and elementary grades, manual . and Industrial training schools, and to ' institutions for the training of teachj ers. I The teachers will be selected from those engaged in similar work In the United States. Invitations are about to be Bent by the NatIonai ClvJc Fed. eration lo boards of education, . school superintendents and principals throughout the country to make appointments of teachers "to participate in the trip. PRETTY GIRL WAS BOLD, BAD ROBBER Confessed to at Least Burglaries. Fifty Chicago. Feb. !!. Queerer than the study in the psychology of crime presented by the t-tife of Mrs. Evelyn Komudka. is a confession made today by Celia rctersou. when she recounted & burglaries that she boasted he had committed or helped to commit. This slip of a girl made gray haired Lieutenant O'Hara open hi ejes wide and drop his grizzled jaw with amazement a-; she described with r-aive candor the simple, yet shrewd methods by which she has plundered the people of the south and west sections of Chicago by day 11 ht jobbery for two years with out getting caught until yesterday.

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