Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 169, 2 August 1908 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, SUXDAY, AUGUST 2, 1903.

COUNTY OFFICIAL TURNS RINGMASTER Demas S. Coe Will Direct Af- - fairs at the County Employes' Picnic.

BIG EVENT ON TUESDAY. ALL KINDS OF ATTRACTIONS TO BE OFFERED FOR THOSE PLEASURE BENT AT ANNUAL OUTING IN GLEN. r When the county officials, their families and attaches of the courthouse meet, at Glen Miller park Tuesday afternoon for their annual gathering an event of unusual interest is to be expected. The program committee has provided for many features that are expected to prove highly sensational and wonderfully exciting. There will be combination and individual performances of a kind never before presented outside of a mammoth, circus tent, where the price was 60 cents for board seats. Demas S. Coe, county auditor, will appear as ring master. He will make tise of Harry Penny's fishing pole and line as a whip to keep horses and performers In action. The following is a partial list of stunts: . Trapeze act unaided by cork Charles Potter. Bareback steeple chase ride Charles Newlin. Exhibition of high school horsemanship Miss Elizibeth Townsend and Miss Addison Peel. Three cornered clown act Charles Jordan (hunter), Harry Penny (fisherman), Linus Meredith (bait catcher). Trick bicyclists Misses Clara Myrick and Alice Griffin. Leap for life Oscar Mashmeyer. Modern Sampson B. H. Myrlck.C Jr. David and Goliath M. W. Marine and Robt. A. Howard. Zouaves of '63 F. C. Mosbaugh and Alonzo Marshall. Right vs. Left John Markley. Friend from the country Judge H. C. Fox. We three that's us John Dynes, C. W. Wiley and Robt Beeson. Chorus by sailors county council. Hannah: Nothing better for the boys than bread from Gold Medal Flour. Rebecca. 'S 1 AUGUST SALE Special Clean-up Sales for Intelligent buyers who know a good thing when they see it. Royal Doulton Plates, $1.00 each. French China Salad Dishes, 25c each. Japanese Plates and Fancy Dishes, 10c each Very fine China Water Pitchers, 49c each. Beautifully decorated Water Pitchers, 25c each. Water Tumblers, 2 for 5c. Japanese China Cups and Saucers,' $1.50 a dozen, or 2 for 25c. C Toilet Paper, 9 rolls for. .25c Over 50 patterns dinner sets, sold in broken lot or full sets at very special prices. Ms Store 6th and Main. 2

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NEARLY EVERYTHING WORTH EATING HAS BEEN UNDER A BAN. From the IJay of Adam There Hu Beea Slot Oalr PorbtddB Km It, bat Forbidden Meats and Yegretablea. The Pecaliar Belief of "Totemlsm." From the days of Adam and Eve to the present time there has been not only forbidden fruit, but forbidden meats and vegetables. For one reason or another people have resolutely refused to eat any and all kinds of flesh, fish, fowl, fruits and plants. Thus the apple, the pear, the strawberry, the quince, the bean, the onion, the leek, the asparagus, the woodpecker, the pigeon, the goose, the deer, the bear, the turtle and the eel these, to name only a few eatables, have been avoided as If unwholesome or positively injurious to health and digestion. As we all know, the Jews have long bad a hereditary antipathy to pork. On the other hand, swine's flesh was highly esteemed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. This fact is revealed by the many references to pig as a dainty bit of food. At the great festival held annually In honor of Demeter roast pig was the piece de resistance in the bill of fare because the pig was the sacred animal of Demeter. Aristophanes in "The Frogs" makes one of the characters hint that some of the others "smell of roast pig." These people undoubtedly had been at the festival, known as the Thesmophoria, and had eaten freely of roast pig. Those who took part in another Greek mystery or festival, known as the Eleusinia, abstained from certain food and, above all, from beans. " Again, as we all know, mice are esteemed in China and in some parts of India, but the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Jews abhorred mice and would not touch mouse meat. Rats and field mice were sacred in old Egypt and were not to be eaten on this account. So, too, In some parts of Greece, the mouse was the sacred animal of 'Apollo, and mice were fed in his temples. The chosen people vere forbidden to eat "the weasel and the mouse and the tortoise after bis kind." These came under the designation of unclean. But people have abstained from eating kinds of flesh which could not be called unclean. For example, the people of Thebes, as Herodotus tells us, abstained from sheep. What is the matter with mutton chops? Then, the ancients used to abstain from certain vegetables. Indeed, the Romans sneered at those Egyptians who did not dare to eat onions, leeks or garlic, and. yet the Romans themselves were superstitious about what they ate or what they should avoid eating. In his "Roman Questions" Tlutarch C3ks, "Why do the Latins abstain strictly from the flesh of the woodpecker?" In order to answer Plutarch's question correctly it is necessary to have some idea of the peculiar custom and belief called "totemism." There is a stage of society in which people claim desccir from and kinship with beasts, birds, vegetables and other objects. This object, which is a "totem," or family mark, they religiously abstain from eating. The members of the tribe are divided Into clans or stocks, each of which takes the name of some animal, plant or object, as the bear, the buffalo, the woodpecker, the asparagus, and so forth. No member of the bear family would dare to eat bear meat, but he has no objection to eating buffalo steak. Even the marriage law is based on this belief, and no man whose family name is Wolf may marry a woman whose family name is also Wolf. In a general way it may be said that almost all our food prohibitions spring from the extraordinary custom generally called totemism. Mr. Swan, who wag a missionary for many years In the Kongo Free State, thus describes the custom: If I were to ask the Yeke people why they do not eat zebra flesh, they would reply. "ChiJIla" 1. e., "It is a thing to which we have an antipathy," or, better, "It is one of the things wTiich our fathers taught us not to eat." So it seems the word "bashllang" means "the people who have an antipathy to the leopard;" the "bashalaraba," "those who have an antipathy to the dog," and the "bashilanlanzefu," "those who have an antipathy to the elephant" In other words, the members of these stocks refuse to eat their totems, the aebra, the leopard and the elephant, from which they take their names. The survival of antipathy to certain foods was found among people as highly civilized as the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. Quite a list of animals whose flesh was forbidden might be drawn up. For example, in old Egypt the sheep could not be eaten In Thebes, nor the goat in Mendes, nor the cat in Bubastls, nor the crocodile at Ombos, nor the rat, which was sacred to Ra, the sun god. However, the people of one place had no scruples about eating the forbidden food of another place, and this often led to religious disputes and bad blood. Among the vegetables tabooed as food by the Egyptians may be mentioned the onion, the garlic and the leek. Lucian says that the inhabitants of Felusium adored the onion. According to Pliny, the Egyptians used to swear by thejeek and the onion. Juvenal pokes fun at those who thought it a sin to eatthem. He exclaims, "Surely a very religious nation and a blessed peace where every garden Is overrun with gods!" The survivals of totemism among the ancient Greeks are very interesting. Families named after animals and plants were not uncommon. One Athenian genus, the Ioxidae, had for its ancestral plant the asparagus. We may be sure that this plant was tabooed as food to every man. woman and child of the Ioxidae. New York Pont. An Honest Horse. An Irish dealer when selling a nag to a gentleman frequently observed with emphatic earnestness that he was an honest horse. After the purchase had been effected the gentleman asked him what he meant by an honest horse. "Why, sir,- replied the seller, "whenever I rode him he always threatened to throw me ff, and he certainly never deceived me." London Mail. Pollt: Gold Medal Flour makes bakinsr easy. . THE&ESJl.

MEDIUM NOW UNDER CLOSE jMINATION She Has Acuteness in Interpreting Affairs.

New York, Aug. 1. A medium of rare gifts is under the examination of Prof. Hyslop. She is Mrs. A. B. Quentin. Her acuteness in interpreting affairs past, present and future has been the subject of earnest discussion in psychic circles for several months. "Last Thursday," she writes in compliance with a request for some of her experiences, "I said to the children's governess, "I am perfectly sure that Mary, the cook is going to leave me.' She laughed at me and said: "Why should yMi think so?' I replied that I did not Know, but that I thought her children were ill. She got a telegram on Friday summoning her at once, as all five of her children had scarlet fever. I may add that the woman is valuable, and has been with me for a long time." NO BUMBLE BEE NO CLOVER SEED Wayne County Farmers Speculate on Old Adage. Will the good old saying of "no bumble bee, no clover seed," stand good this year? This question is worrying farmers since they have discovered that there are no bumble bees this season. Last spring clover seed sold at the highest price it has reached in a decade, soaring from $14 to $20 a bushel. Wayne county farmers are wondering of the authenticity of the old proverb. THREW HER HEAD OUT OF PLACE Wyoming Girl Is Now Gradually Recovering. Baggs, Wyo., Aug. 1. Miss Mary Calvert, while scuffling with another young woman, threw her head violently to one side and then was unable to return it to its normal position. She has since been under the care of a physician, who is unable to explain the cause of her peculiar predicament. She is now-able to lift her head slightly toward its proper position, and is expected to entirely recover in time. FOLLOWS DEAD WIFE AS HE PROPHESIED Man Warned by Spirit He Would Die in Fifty Days. Oakland City, Ind., Aug. 1 Fifty days ago, while coming to this city from Clinton, Ind., where he had been on a visit to his daughter, Charles J. Whitten, one of the pioneers of Gib son county, said to his son: 'Mother (his, wife who died several years ago) came after me last night. I asked her if she wanted me to go with her now and she said she would come to take me in fifty days." Yesterday, the fiftieth day after the dream, Mr. Whitten fell dead at his home in this city of heart disease. Mr. Whitten was 77 years old. WIFE KEPT HUBBY AWAKEAT NIGHTS She Persisted in Having Photograph Play at Bedside. New York, Aug. 1. Because his wife loved to hear a phonograph play beside her bed when he wanted to sleep, and because she employed a cook who kept the kitchen stove so hot it set fire to the house, and for various other reasons detailed in a long petition filed in the New Jersey court of chancery, Sylvester Brown of Asbury Park, N. J., replies to the petition of his wife, Ida W. Brown, for divorce, that he Is the one who should have the legal separation. PROGRAM FOR BIBLE INSTITUTE Elbert Russell to Be One of the Speakers. The program for the Bible institute that is being held at Earlham college Monday Is as follows: 8 a. m. Meeting. 9 a. m. The Message of Paul, Elbert Russell. 10 a. m. The Book of Job, L. G. Leary. 11 a. m. The Hicksite Separation, Ida Parker. 5 p. m. Conference. 8 p. m. The Book of Job, I Q. Leary.

AN "ORANGE GROVE." j Modern Method la Caltlvattas? th Cold of the Orchard. You are certainly entitled to look through that wire fence and see all that constitutes an orange orchard. There are 200 round headed trees, about twelve feet in diameter. The fruit looks immensely as if it had been artificially put In place. Really those would pass for 200 Christmas trees. Does nature do this sort of work anywhere else? You forget the cherry trees in your northern orchard. You have become so familiar with the scarlet globules that hang all over those trees, with orioles and robins shouting approval, and tanngers with indigo birds sitting In the apple tree overhead, that you cannot fully see and appreciate the charm. But you certainly have not forgotten the glory of a Mcintosh red apple tree in October or indeed a whole orchard of ripe Northern Spies. Spitzenburgs and Kings. Yet the orange has a glory all its own. It is the gold of the orchard. You thought the trees grew1 in groves, "but here they are in long, regular rows." That was a word borrowed from the wild oranges that in Spanish days came up where they might and were seldom transplanted. They grew as those wild persimmons grow at the edge of the orchard or as pines and maples grow. But your modern orange trees are grown in long rows to be cultivated with plows and horses. The real orange tree should stand about twenty-five or thirty feet high, with a trunk of five or six inches. Its foliage Is dense and a rich green. It is a grand tree to sit beneath at midday and drink the juices of the fruit Instead of water it is distilled perfectly. But these trees are round and low headed, and one must stoop to get beneath them. They are made of the grafter shoots that came up around the old trees after the freeze. They are more convenient to spray, to protect from the blizzard, while the fruit is more easily gathered. . You can walk all about that orchard and reach half the fruit without a ladder. It is a good illustration of how good sometimes comes out of evil. "Different shapes P' To be sure. There are quite as many varieties of oranges In this orchard as there are of apples or plums in most of your northern orchards fifteen or twenty, at least. The grower knows them all by name and can tell them all by the shape and the quality. He does not go at random and pick any fine big orange for his own eating, but he takes his selection the King, or the Homosasa, or the Jaffa, or the Ruby, or Parson Brown, or Satsuma. or possibly the tangerine. He fills his pocket with selected varieties and then goes to that pine grove over there and peels them as he lunches. It is very much as we do with our pippins, and Swaars, and Princess Louise, and Jilllflowers. Independent. Rnaaiaa Cnthrift. A condition of general unthrift among the peasants is one of the most striking features of Russian country life. Every stranger passing the frontier between that country and Germany is struck by the marked change in this respect which he encounters up to the very boundary line and which the geographical position does not at all account for. There is no gradual change in the appearance of the face of the country or the people from comparative prosperity to extreme poverty, but a sudden difference in the conditions marked by totally dissimilar methods of cultivation, dwellings and habits of thrift. Everything on the German side indicates careful cultivation and industry, while upon the Russian side the fields show bad tillage and neglect, squalid houses, Inferior and uncared for stock and tools and implements lying in the fields exposed to the weather. Herbert H. D. Peirce in Atlantic

An Old Encllah Custom. The nomination of sheriffs according to the present mode dates from 1461. The "shire reeve" was first appointed by Alfred the Great to assist the aldermen and the bishop in the discharge of their judicial functions in the counties. In Edward III.'s reign it was enacted that they should be "ordained on the morrow of All Souls by the chancellor, treasurer and chief baron of the exchequer." The only Instance of a female sheriff is that of Anne, countess of Pembroke, who on the death of her father, the Earl of Cumberland, without male heirs In 1643, succeeded to the office in Westmorland and attended the judges to Appleby. Homely Voltaire. Voltaire was the ugliest man of his age. Emaciated to a skeleton, all the features of his countenance were exaggerated. His nose and chin nearly met from the lack of teeth; bis cheeks were sunken and wrinkled, his eyes set so far back in his head and so obscured by shaggy, overhanging brows as to be almost invisible. He usually wore a large wig, from the midst of which his attenuated features peeped out with comical effect. For years before he died his weight did not exceed ninety pounds. Nothing; More to Do. Hubby I don't see why you shouldn't exert yourself to make me happy. Wifey Why, of all things! You know you told me when I accepted you that I had made you the happiest man on earth.' What is the use of my trying to improve on that? Different. "She told me in confidence that the way he makes love is absurd. "Yes, but the way he makes money isn't." Puck. People whose reputation depend upon their clothes have to keep dressed np all the time. He Seldom. The head mistress of a. certain provincial school was one day examining a few of her select pupils in grammar. "Stand up, Joan, and make me a sentence containing the word "seldom."' she said, pointing to a small urchin. Joan paused as If in thought, then, with a flash of triumph on his face, replied. "Last week father had five horses, bat yesterday be aeldosn Philippines Gossip. Scsax: For Peter's appetite trv twikteg powder Mecults made of Gold Medal Flour, Mama.

OLD SOLDIERS TO REUNE SEPTEMBER 3

Several Richmond Men to Go To New Hope. The tenth annual reunion of the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer infantry will meet at the United Brethren church at New Hope, Thursday. September 3. There will be a number of Richmond members who will attend. The program which has just been completed is as follows: Morning lo o'clock. Invocation Chanlain Address of Welcome. Rev. O. F. Bilger Response J. E. Elliott Report of Secretaries. Report of Treasurer. Report of Committees. Talk of comrades on business of the 15th Association. 1 Dinner Laales' Aid. Afternoon 1 o'clock. Call to Order by President W. H. Brower Music Choir Collection to defray the expenses of next reunion. Music. Address R. E. Lowry Music. Election of officers and fixing of plaee of next meeting. Talks by comrades and others. Closing song. Benediction. BEES NOT ALWAYS CAREFUL OF WORK Place Their Honey in Strange Places. New York. Aug. 1. Dr. G. W. Donohue of Northpiirt , Long Island, was seated at breakfast ' recently when there dripped upon the table from the wall overhead a substance he thought was water. He discovered that the dripnings were honey and that bees had been industriously at work between the walls of their home. The Northport bees found a telephone box, high up on a pole, another fine place for depositing the sweets from flowers. Soon the phone in a nearby house was out of business. The lineman sent to fix up the trouble took home twelve pounds of honey. BLINDNESS CAN BE GREATLY REDUCED Physicians Interested in Advanced Step. Local physicians are concerned by an advanced step which has been tak en by the state board of health to reduce blindness among children to a minimum. As the result of com plaints of apparent carelessness on the part of physicians in attendance at births, the board now requires the physicians to take the greatest precautions to prevent blindness In children at birth. An extra blank has been incorporated in the birth returns which, since January 1 and under the new law, physicians must return to the State board of health. In this blank the attending physician records whether or not he has taken the proper precautions. It is in this way the State board hopes to reduce the number of blind children each year, and it has been found that many cases of blindness result from carelessness. PRMANCE OF MANY YEARS CULMINATED Bride and Groom Both Past Three Score Years and Ten. Georgetown, Del., August 1. Mrs Harriet W. Prettyman of Georgetown and Justice of the Peace Mlers B. Betts of Millsboro, both of whom have passed the allotted three score and ten of life, were married today. The wedding Is said to be the result of a remarkable romance beginning In the days when both were young. Some difficulty arose and they drifted apart, both to marry and rear families of their own. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS (Furnished by County Recorder Mosbaugh.) Nellie I. Ross to Franklin E. Winchester, lots 310, 311. 312, pt 313, Elizabeth Starr's add to Richmond; $2,800. Juliana Fronapfel to Wm. A- Creitz. trust, pt n. e. 27-16-12, Cambridge City; $300. Margaret B. McCaffrey to Wm. A. Creitz, trust, pt n. e. 27-16-13, Cambridge City; $000. Sophia Cokefair et al. to Wm. A. Creitz, trust, pt n. e. 27-16-12, Cambridge City; $200." , Otto A. Hanneier to John A. Spekenhier, trust, lot 159, Mendenhall & Coffin's add to Richmond; $350. Son (studying geography) Say, pa, what is a strait? Absentminded Pa Nine, ten. Jack, Queen, king. Chicago New.

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THREE HORSES STOLEN AT EATONJ.AST NIGHT AH Were Valuable AnimalsPolice on Lookout. Horse thieves secured plunder by the wholesale at Eaton last evening. They managed to get away with three horses of exceptionally fine breeding. This is not the first time that the peaceful little town east of Richmond has been Invaded by hor?e thieves. Some time ago a valuable anixal was stolen and it was found b:t recently near Connersville. The man who had the horse and rig bad it hidden in his wood and the police believed that he knew it was stolen property when he purchased it and for this reason Home Tel. 2062

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5.98 II 2.00 3.00 he was arrested. The animals stolen last evening were all three fine bay mares. One of the horses was taken . from In front of the court house, while the others were taken from different rarts of the city. Nearby towns have been notified of the thefts. The Richmond police are on the lookout for the horses answering the desriptlons, as it la believed that one of the rigs with the horse taken from the court house, la coming toward Richmond. WAGNERJrtONUMENT. Venice Will Remember the Great Author. Vienna, Aug. 1. The Town Council of Venice has set aside a place in the park for a monument to be erected to Richard Wagner, who died in Venice. There he also wrote the poetic seeond act of "Tristan and Isolde." HomeTeL 2062 P..T.JL Richmond, lad.

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