Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 44, 30 March 1908 — Page 5

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BY PADEREWSKI Since January Second He Has Made a Pullman Car His Home. INTEREST IN THE EVENT SEAT SALE WHICH OPENED THIS MORNING AT THE STARR PIANO STORE WAS MARKED BY THE HEAVY DEMAND. When Paderewski arrives in Richmond for his concert in the Coliseum Wednesday evening, April 1, he will Lave broken his own record for the length of time in which a private car has been his home. During the first two months of his tour, November and December, he made his headquarters in New York, for all of his concerts were within comparatively short distances of that city. He spent the Christmas holidays in Boston, and on January second he tk possession of the Pullman private car, "The Magnet," which car he will have to retain through the greater part, of this month. The car is one of the best that the Pullman company owns; in fact, it is the one which Tresident Roosevelt has used on many of his trips through the country. Paderewski carries quite an extensive es tablishment with him. He is always accompanied by Madame Paderewski, who makes it her business to look after the domestic arrangements, and there is his Invaluable valet Marcel, without i whom Paderewski says he would be lost, and Madame Paderewski's maid. In addition to these there are his private secretary, Mr. Sharp. and his traveling manager, Mr. Heck. The Fame crew of service that has accompanied him on three or four of his former trips is with him this year, for these men understand his ways, and when the car is ordered, his manager, Mr. KIlis, always specifies that the eame service shall bo attached to it. The pianist, of course, always has his upright piano In the drawing room or the car, for he spends many hours while traveling, at his instrument. This is the one way in which he can rnalte an extensive tour, but the most spacious car becomes very close quarters in the course of three or four months, and it is with great relief that lie Bays good bye to it, Paderewski comes to Richmond under the direction of Ona Talbot. Sale of seats opened this morning ' Rt the Starr Piano store and there was a big crowd on hands. For the convenience of out of town patrons as well as of those of Richmond, seats may be ordered by mail. All orders must have cheek's payable to Ona B. Talbot and stamped envelopes. THE STOOL PIGEON. Its Part In Capturing the Wild Birds In Former Times. r 1 " 1 1 f.i qia i ii o a (1 1 rannrfa fir email !

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States and Canada. Possibly these are the harbingers of their return from South America, whence they migrated for some unknown reason fifty years ago. It may not be generally known that the somewhat odious term "stool pigeon as used today arose from the stool pigeon that used to be employed in catching wild pigeons in former times. They used to be bo plenty that ; they were taken in great numbers by the use of spring nets. These nets Tarled in siie, but were from two to ten yards long and were half as wide. They were concealed as much as possible, being partly covered with hay or straw or whatever was most suitable. At each end was a strong spring, to which ropes were attached, something like 150 feet long, to where the watchr was concealed. Close to the net was a stool, or stand, where the "stool pigeon," usually a tame or captured one, was placed. The pigeon was tied by the feet to the stool, and from this stool a rope extended to the person in concealment. Wheat or some other grain was scattered about the net, and when the flock was passing the rope attached to the stool was pulled, causing the pigeon to rise and flutter its wings in trying to escape. This attracted the attention of the passing flock and induced them to light where the grain had been scattered. Then a alight pull on the ropes would release the spring to the net, which would be thrown over them so quickly that they had no time to escape. Sometimes many hundreds were captured in this way at a single haul. Amateur Sportsman. At One Fell Swoop. "Have you got any of those preparations for removing superfluous hair?" asks the man who enters the drug store with a firm tread and a set countenance. "Yes, sir," answers the druggist. "Give me a pint. I want to use it on my head." "But, man. you haven't got any superfluous hair on your head. You're early bald now." "I know It. And I've got so aggra rated and tired watching the confound d hair leaking off day by day that 1 vant to remove the rest of it at one weep and have the agony over." Shakespeare Notwithstanding. "Is there anything in a name'.'" in Quired the man with mouse colored whiskers. "You can bet there is Name a boy Stuyvesant or Van Ren'-' ielaer or Gouverneur and he'll never hold anything but a first class job Nobody will ever dare ask him to swab windows or mop floors. And by the time he's forty he'll be beai of a trust company and director In twentyeven prominent concerns. Oh, yes; here's a heap In a name, lemme tell you." Washington Herald.

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r PADEREWSKI. Undoubtedly one of the largest crowds that ever attended any musical event in Richmond will be present ... . . . . at the coliseum next Wednesday nignt , when Paderewski gives his first per- . forrnance in this city. The pianoist ! comes here under the direction of Ona! B. Talbot. LARGE DELEGATION TO CONVENTION Preliminary Skirmishes Attractive. Are There will be a large delegation of Wayne county people attend the republican state convention which will be held at Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday of this week. A large number will leave Tuesday afternoon so that the preliminary skirmishes can be witnessed. DIZZINESS. Various Cannon That Brine Abot an AlUrk of TrrliKO. Dizziness, or vertigo scientific writers sometimes try to distinguish in Bense between these two words, but practically, in popular , usage, they mean the same thing is a disturbance of relation to the outside world, a loss (,f the sense of equilibrium. The sengallon persists even when the eyes are Closed. There is more or less inability to walk straight or even to stand still, and often there is nausea, followed by vomiting. Vertigo Is due to a disturbance, either actual or reflex, of the nervous "center of equilibrium" in the back part of the brain or in the semicircular canals in the ear, In which the terminations of the nerves coming from the center of equilibrium are distributed. For the most part, vertigo is a reflex trouble due to some impression . . . t . : . . 1 . . . ..I,.... ...1 fifi : . ....... . and acts upon the semicircular canals of the ear. Thus it is that dizziness Is a comparatively trivial affection, as a rule disagreeable enough, but brief and of no great significance except as a symptom of trouble elsewhere In the body. Persistently recurring, transient dizziness is often due to eye strain that is to say, to errors in the formation of the oye not corrected by rroper glagses. Wearers of spectacles can frequently tell when a change in the eyes has occurred, necessitating a corresponding change in the glasses, by the coming back of these attacks of giddiness, especially when the gaze is suddeuly moved from a near object to a remote one or the reverse. Vertigo is a common symptom of disorders of digestion seated either in the stomach or the intestine. The treatment for this form is, of course, to treat the indigestion or constipation. Another more serious variety of dizziness depends upon disease of the heart or of the blood vessels, especially those of the brain. Any disease of the ear is apt to be associated with more or less vertigo. The same is true of tumor or other disease of the brain, especially of the cerebellum, that part of the brnin in which the center of equilibrium is situated. The dizziness of seasickness, ns well as that of swinging or of rapidly turning about, is thought to be caused by an irritation of the nerves in the semicircular canals by the striking against them of the fluid in these canals. Youth's Companion. SOME FIRST OCCASIONS. The first canal was made in England when Henry I. Joined the Trent to the Witham, in 1134. Quill pens came Into use in 553; the first steei ones in 1S20. when the first gross of them sold for S30. The first pocket handkerchiefs, utilized iu the manner they are today, were manufactured at Paisley in 1743. From the press of the celebrated Wynken de Worde the first book containing musical characters was issued in 1405. The first coins were struck in brass about 11S4 B. C and in gold and silver by Phekion, tyrant of Argos, about 8G2 B. C. About TO A. 1. the first glass bottle was made by the Romans, although the manufacture was not taken up in England until 15oS. Movable scenery was first used in, theaters in 150S. It was invented by Baldassare Peruzzi and displayed in Rome before Leo X. Pliny's "Natural History" may be re garded as the first encyclopedia, since I it contained SO.ooo facts compiled from 2,000 books loo authors.

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Miss Helen Foulke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foulke, of Washington, D. C, whose wedding to Mr. Havenith, the Belgian Minister to Persia, took place last Thursday, is a near relative of Dudley Foulke of this city Miss Gwendolen Foulke was in attendance at the wedding. Miss Ixi?ise Foraker, daughter of the senior senator from Ohio, and Mrs. J. H. Foraker, were the only attendants at the wedding. Mr .and Mrs. Gilbert Dunham, gave a dinner party yesterday at the Robinson cafe. Places were arranged tor five. si One of the dinner parties at the Robinson cafe yesterday was given by Mr. Clarence Gennett, to a party of four. v J The Oriole club is meeting this afternoon with Mrs. Edward Cooper of South Twelfth. Jt , : A-Tit r.nctnn will phyi,r.rnnp 11 icirtv ........ .... ,.e .fc T..Aoaa: : - " t . " ski co cert. edn.iay evening at the Coliseum. tAr,h,v in enmnanv nf four t. the i Robinson Cafe. Jt The following clipping from the Washington Post, will no doubt be of ; much interest to Richmond people, especially those who remember Mrs. Meta Morris Evans, formerly of this city. Mrs. Evans was a daughter of Mr. I. Ben Morris: Mrs. Morris Evans was hostess at a dinner Thursday evening, when her guests were the Persian minister. Gen. Maru'za Kahn ; Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. Sanford, Mr. and Mrs. J. Selwin Tait, Miss Florence Clark, Mrs. Travers, Miss Gaylord, Senor Yoaeham, Mr. Ackland and Mr. Basil Tait. w Cottage prayer meeting will be held Tuesday evening of this week at seven thirty o'clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mount, 43 Richmond avenue. t$ The Good Cheer club meets Wednesday of this week. J J The Thirteenth Street Sewing circle meeting has been postponed. The circle will meet Tuesday, April seventh. Mrs. Stout of South Thirteenth street, will act as hostess. J Tuesday afternoon. April seventh, there will be a bridge whist for the members of the County Club at the club house. S& Chamfort has said, "Society would be a charming thing if we were only interested in one another." The Thursday Evening Euchre club will meet this week with Mrs. Oscar Williams, 324 Sonth P'ourth street. ifjt i? Mrs. J. M. Wampler was a guest at Middletown. Ohio, over Sunday. The Oomestic Science Association will meet Wednesday afternoon In the lecture room of the Morrison-Reeves library. All members are asked to attend. fctf ta The choir of the First English Lutheran church held a beautiful vesper service yesterday afternoon at four o'clock at the church. Mr. Oliver Nusbaumls the director of the choir. . Bertha Elston. who has been the guest of Miss Mable Reller of North Seventeenth street, returned to her home in Hamilton, Ohio, today. j S Emanuel Ashenfelter of Boyer street was very pleasantly surprised last evening by his friends and relatives. They called with well filled baskets to remind him of his fifty-fifth birthday anniversary. A sumptuous supper was , served. The evening was spent in games and music v ; The East End Aid Society will meet j tomorrow afternoon at two-thirty o'clock with Miss Belle Scott, no; North Fifteenth street. v The Ticknor club is meeting this afternoon with Mrs. Judson Rupe. 74 South Fourteenth street. ! & " ! The Magazine club is meeting this; afternoon with Mrs. Paige, 30S North j Twelfth street. j J .t i Miss Cannon, daughter of Speaker ' Cannon, expects to leave Washington I Tuesday for her annual visit to Vir-! ginia Hot Springs. Miss Cannon w be gone about three weeks and will! return to Washington for the spring; season. asnmgton rest. Mrs. George Mashmeyer of South Fourteenth street is entertaining the members of the Dorcas society this afternoon. The hours are br-ing spent at needlework. . The King's Herald band met Saturday afternoon at the Grace M. E. church. There was a good attendance. v . J The Aftermath society will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. T. A. Mott of North Eleventh street. ! t S t Dr. W. A. Parks and wife left today for an extended trip in the East. They will spend several weeks visiting at New York. Philadelphia and Boston. 4 4 4 Miss Hazel Freeman, was hostess Saturday evening for a bridge whist club at her home on East Main street. The game was played at two tables. The prize was awarded to Miss Pearl Hasecoster. Luncheon was served. Those present were Misses Marguerite Green, Pearl Hasecoster, Margaitt

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1 s. Sedgwick, Ann Dilks, Edith Moore, Alice Hill and Hilda Shute. The club will meet in two weeks with Miss Alice Hill, 33 South Eighteenth street. 8 Music lovers of the city are looking forward to the concert Wednesday evening, April 1, at the coliseum, when the world renowned musician Paderewski, will appear in this city for the first time. He is being brought here by Mrs. Ona U. Talbot. A large crowd from Eaton and various surrounding towns will be in attendance at the concert. J The ladies of the First Fniversalist church gave their first social in the church parlors Saturday evening. The time was spent in a social manner. An excellent supper w;is served to about four hundred people. , The annual concert given last night by the First M. E. choir, under the didection of Justin Le Roy Harris, was a very successful musical. "The Shep- ;,.,,,! I.'),,,.-' ,,. I.,K... " 'W':h lids ne of the most beautiful numbers on ,,,,,,,, Thf. nM,.r,t .,.. of .Airs. Gormon. Mrs. Longnccker. -Mr. and Hr. Harris gave a eharmLankeri nS "miber entitled 'Tm a Pilgrim," by Marsden. "If on a Quiet Sea." an anthem by the choir with Miss Huldah Kenley as soloist, was exceedingly commendable. In fact the whole program consisted of well rendered, beau tiful numbers. St The Sub-Rosa club" will meet tomorrow evening, with Mrs. Lon Cox, of South Seventh street. Mr. and Mrs. William K. Mutchner. have returned from their wedding trip and will be at home to their friends at 112 South West First street. THE CITY IN BRIEF Water bills due April 1st. r,0-10t The spring term at Earlham begins tomorrow. Miss Marguerite Green went, to Indianapolis this morning. Mrs. J. M. Wampler is visiting at Middletown, O., this week. Bertha Klston of Hamilton has been visiting friends in this city. Ethel Thomas and Edith Bowman went, to Cambridge City this morning. Water bills due April 1st. 30-10t Miss Nellie Jenkins of Winchester, is visiting friends and relatives in this city. A large party of Richmond teachers will be in attendance at the Teachers association at Indianapolis Friday. Mr. Joseph Thomas of Westville is very seriously ill and is lying at the point of death. Spring hats were laid away today and it is feared they will remain in their boxes until after Easter from the weather indications. ALLSPICE. Brrrle. of Die Boautlfnl and Fr. grant Pimento Tree. The pimento, or allspice, tree is cultivated in the West Indies and Jamaica. This beautiful tree usually grows to a height of about thirty feet. It has a straight trunk, much branched above and covered with a very smooth brown bark. The leaves vary in size and shape, but are always of a dark, thiniug green color. During the months of July and August the tree is in full bloom, the blossoms consisting of very fragrant small white fjowers. When a new plantation of pimento trees is to be formed no regular sow- j ing or planting takes place, because it j is next to impossible to propagate th i young plants or to raise them from so'Mis in parts of the country where j th-y are not found growing spoutane- ' ousiy. Usually a piece of land is se- ' lected either close to a plantation already formed or iu a part of the woodland where pimento trees are growing in a native state. The chosen piece of j land is then cleared of all wood ex- ! oept these trees, and the felled timber is allowed to remain on the ground for j the purpose of protecting the very j young pimento plants. j At ihe eud of two years the land is I thoroughly cleared, and only the most vigorous pimento trees and plants are ; left standing. The plants come to maturity in about seven years. In favorable seasons the pimento crop is enormous, a single tree often yielding a hundred or more pour.ds of the dried spice. The berries are picked while green, because if left on the tree until ripe they lose their pungeut taste and are valueless. The green berries are exposed to tfce sun for a week or ten d3vs wnen thPT lose tDeir preeil color and turn a reddish brown. When perfectly dry they are put in bags and casks for exportation. The odor and the taste of the pimento berries are thought to resemble a combination of those of cinnamon, nutmeg aud cloves; hence the familiar name 'aiiapU-e.' A Kurr t UeatH. Before the English occupation of In dia it was estimated that the Gauge carried to the sea every year l.0n'x; dead bodies. It was then considered by the Hindoos that the happiest death was one found in its waves, and al! pious Hindoos who could do so were carried to its banks and placed in its waters to die. The decaying carcasses along its banks were probably responsible in uo small degree for the pestilences which formerly desolated the peninsula. Hard Work. Mrs. A. I'm surprised that your husband earns so little if he works as hard as you say. What does he do'; Mrs. B. The last thing he did was to calculate how many times a clock ticked In the course of 1,000 years. London Tit-Bits.

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Seats now on sale at Starr Piano Store. mond, orders may now be filed to PRICES $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. POLICE DISPLEASED Say Juvenile Offenders Think They Can Do About as They Please. THE COURT IS LENIENT All the $7S stolen from the Maag & Riley grocery store by young Emmet Dickson and young Raymond Ashinger, has been returned to the proprietors of the store. The various articles purchased by the lads with the stolen money were returned to merchants who sold them and the the money was refunded. On investigation it appears that the raid made on the store one night last week was not the first time these two boys had "tapped the till" in the same establishment. A few weeks ago, Dickson and Ashinger confessed, they slipped down the pathway past the police headquarters and Ashinger entered the store through a rear window, securing $9.00 from the cash drawer. A short time prior to this robbery Dickson robbed the cash drawer of $4.50 in daylight while the proprietors were standing on ihe sidewalk. All told within the past month these two boys secured over $90 from the Maag and Riley store. The police are not in a good humor over the action of the juvenile court in dismissing these two boys. They point to the large amount or juvenile crime in Richmond and state that unless stringent action is taken crime among this class of offenders will continue to increase. The police say that manv juvenile, offenders think that they can do as they please and that1 all the punishment they will rc-eivt; 1 for their misdeeds is a lecture from i the juvenile court. "If the police had not been ab!- to place tluMr hands on the boys who perpetrated the Maag & Riley robbery thev would never have heard th" last of it. Now that they have ber. apprehended the court releases them," remarked a police officer today. Ancient Posters. It is probablv the general impression that i .osiers and handbills are modern ; Inventions, but it has been discovered ; that the ancient Romans practiced this . method of advertising. In digging at ; Ilercu'aneum there was brought to : light a pillar covered with bills, one on ; top of another. The paste usd to stick them was made of gum arable. The ; bills, when separated ar.J examined, ; were found to be programmes and an- ; nouncements of public meetings and j even election proclamations. ' Hopelessly Insolvent. "So Meier has gone to smash, I Lear." "Yes; even if he had been a giraffe one could have said with truth that he was up to his ears in debt." Meggndorfer Blatter. Every great crisis develops some master mind as well as a multitnde cf surprises. Wijtirssn: Ooid Medal Flour is best for pastry. SEATBJCa

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For the convenience of out of town be opened th- day of the sale. All checks must be made payable to Ona EVANS MADE HIT WITH WC OPERA He Has Many Acquaintances Here. William Kendall Evans, son of Mrs. Rush Evans of Dayton, who was formerly Miss Lillian Kendall of this city has just produced 'The Prince of Parcheesl," a comic opera. Mr. Evans wrote both the book and the lyrics. It was produced at Washington, D. C, by a" cast of young society people. Mr. Evans has a most promising career ahead of him. Today at the age of twenty-two years he has won fame as a song writer. His first song, "Not Because Your Hair is Curly" was for some time popular throughout the country. Of late he has been writing songs exclusively for Louis Mann, the well known comedian. Mr. Evans Is now connected with one of the Washington newspapers. He has many acquaintances in this city. Reanlt of I n t e . Kmotlon. A young cot wes seen to catch his first mouse. As he was carrying it in triumph to the house he suddenly became paralyied in the hind quarters, and for an hour remained stretched on the ground. Then movement returned, but it was observed from the way he knocked himself against the furniture and made no effort to take food which was given to him that b was blind. For two hours he remained in thia condition. Finally the blindnesa suddenly vanished and pussy was himself again. His was a case of hysterical paralysis, brought on by the intense emotion of his first mouse.

vania railroad will be given a scrubShe vm Left. ! bing. Miss Oldham awoke in the middle of j On completion of this task Street the nijrht and found a burglar ransack- ' Commissioner Dye will divide his lug her trunk. She did not scream; gang and place them at work In West

i but, looking him square la the eye, sue ! pointed to the door and said: I "Leave me at once. s:r:" I "Oh. that's all right, madam." said I thf burglar as he backed toward the door. "I had no intention of taking you. The Man RoiIbmi, "Aw really." remarked Gussie Dudeley, "isn't it ridiculous to say 'clothes do not make the man?'" "Quite so." replied Chol'y Dresser. "If one didn't have so many clothes one would not need a man." Philadelphia Press. Her Reference. "I am not quite satisfied with your references." said the lady of the house to the cook applying for work. "N'aytLer am I. mum, but they're the best I could get." Milwaukee Sentinel. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. Horse, JrrtTH: Millions use Gold Medal Flo... LCCSETtA.

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8:15 patrons, as well as those of Rich B. Talbot. iUAL CLEANING Street Commissioner Dye Says Work Will Begin Next Wednesday. BIG FORCE TO DO WORK Miss Richmond will begin annual i spring house cleaning Wednesday. To- . day Street Commissioner Ed Dy . stated that every Btreet in the city will be given a thorough cleaning and when the work Is completed. Richmond will look as neat and sweet as j a June bride. ; ; In compliance with a resolution . adopted by Council. Mr. Dye will give as many men employment In the street work as Is possible. There are , quite a number of unemployed men In J the city at the present time and there j have been numerous applications for j j jobs filed with the street department. I "Last year I had just a small gang of men at work cleaning the streets I J and it took some time to complete the j work. This year I will put a large gang of men at work. In this way the j work will be completed quicker and It j will give a number of deserving men employment," stated Mr. Dye. j Wednesday morning the street . cleaning gang will begin operations on South Fifth street. After this work is completed the gang will work eastward, cleaning every north and south and every east and west streets south I of Main street. When the south half j of town east of Fifth street has been j j renovated, the north half of the city j j between Main street and the Pennsyl- ( ; Richmond, the north end of town) j north of the railroad and the south end i of the city west cf Fifth street, The.f i street cleaning gang will probably ' numbor over twenty men. As usual , the "scrubbing" process will be donef by the street swepr. In Its wake w ill follow men with hoes and spades, i rf Aniutsi i ana. Though mokt aniital p'rfes a taIL either in the full or the incipient stagei of growth, few of them use it to tb same extent as the kangaroo, the scorpion, the horse and the giraffe. What was Its destined use? That it was not, drsticed for ornament is shown by the, fact that in certain vertebrae It isf proved to be an extension of the vertebral column. A satisfactory solntioar is to V found. I tbi&k, in the hypothec eis that the tail In animals Is nothing else than the taproot of vefetables. which has become obsolete or useles owing to the fact that the living be hag has long since adopted another method of struggling for existence. BrookJy Eae'e. I MAIIV STREET.

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