Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 332, 4 October 1908 — Page 23

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Price SaiDe of . Posiinios . Ever Attempted in Indiana! , The Co i in Price Will ; Bie Somethiinig PheBiooieirsQl !

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TEN DAY

Commencing Monday, October 5th, 1 903, at 10 m., and Ending Thursday, Oct.B 6.

During this sale we absolutely guarantee to sell you about ANY MAKE PIANO you may want for about ONE-HALE THE PRICE your neighbor paid for his. This means cash or a good note; with a small payment down, you can buy any piano you may want, on long and easy payments, for a slight advance. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TOE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY OF YOUR LIFE for the purchase of a piano. Think of it! The piano your neighbor paid $300 for, during this sale goes at about $150; the $400 piano at about $200, etc. This is certainly a wonderful saving to you. It means you get your piano at practically manufacturers prices, an opportunity which will probably never occur again. How Can I Do This you ask? Sin gly because, during the stringency in money matters, I have been able to buy pianos, for spot cash with the order, at My Own "Price, and not the manufacturer's; again, I am willing to sell you a piano at a fair margin of profit. These are the reasons why,' for ten days and 10 days only, I am going to give the prospective piano buyers a chance to buy their instruments at JUST ONE-HALF the price commonly paid. You Run No Risk as to a first-class, high-grade piano, for I HANDLE THE VERY FINEST UNES SOLD IN RICHMOND, and during this sale, will offer nothing but well known and thorouahly reliable makes. Each and every piano sold will be STRICTLY GUARANTEED BY BOTH THE MANUFACTURER AND MYSELF, I not only giving you the same guarantee as the manufacturer, but, in addition, a separate and distinct Certificate of Warranty, that in case any piano sold by me is not as guaranteed, in every particular, EVERY DOLLAR OF YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED TO YOU, and the piano taken up, by me. With this certificate of warranty, you run no risk whatever on your purchase. I do this because I know the li-ne of Pianos I am handling, having handled many of them all my life, and, hence, know what I am doing. . , Remember distinctly, this is a cheap sale of almost any make of. piano you want, but is by no means a sale of cheap pianos. I positively will not offer an instrument for sale that I cannot fully guarantee in every particular.

No Such Piano Sale Was Ever Attempted in This Country because the many piano dealers who have been charging such outrageous prices for their pianos, realize that such a sale means death to such enormous prices. You have been imposed upon by many dealers, on account of their unreasonable and oppressive high prices, and when pianos are offered at the fair margin of proit that I charge, it means ruin to their former policies, but it also means bread and butter to you. If You Are in the Market for a piano, and there is any question in your mind about the prices usually charged, being outrageous and unreasonable, come in. I am very familiar with a great many of the pianos sold in and about Richmond, having handled many of them myself, and I will prove to you, beyond any question, that every statement I have made is absolutely true. You have been mislead long enough. Come in and let me prove it to you.

During This Sale, Piano Scarfs and I have a fine line of them, the velours with drapery effect, commonly sold at from $3.50 to $4.00, go at $1.65; the very fancy Silk Scarfs, commonly sold from $6.00 to $12.00 goes at from $2.50 to $3.90. Piano Stools commonly sold at $4.00, my price $1.80. Benches commonly sold at $12.00, go from $5.50 to $7.25. Better get in the swim if you are in the market for anything in this line. If you don't say these are the best bargains you ever saw, I'll make you a present of. a fine scarf. Try me once. , CAR FARE PAID During this sale, any and all purchasers will be given credit on their purchase, for their car fare, both coming and returning, no matter where they come from. '

10-DAYS AND TEN DAYS ONLY-10 SMi?oDinm t LM;Mam Stbreefl Alonzo Girton, Richmond, Ind.

PATIENCE CEASES -DECIDED NOVELTY

So Think United States Fire Insurance Interests it is Declared. '

FIRE UNDERWRITERS MEET

SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN CHICAGO WHERE COMPANIES WILL TAKE ACTION ON GREAT FIRE LOSSES.

Chicago, Oct. 3 The new militant mood of the country's fire insurance interests it is said will mark a meeting of the Fire Underwriters' Asoclation of the Northwest, in Chicago. October 7, something of a milestone in fire insurance history. "Patience has ceased to be a virtue," they say. the import of the remarks being best understood

i by the fact that In nearly every state

of the Union the fire insurance companies are made the target for one to fifty-seven varieties of proposed legis

lation, most of it being aimed at any mutual interchange of experience to enable each company to adapt their rates to the comparative hazard of the diffedent classes of property. The fire losses in recent years have been so enormous that the insurance companies have seen wiped out the profits of a score of years, mostly made in t'he investment of the big sums of money in their hands and not from underwriting, which has not been profitable. . A scientific readjustment of rates is their goal, that and the enactment of laws establishing the office of fire marshall whose duty it will be to investigate questionable

j fires and bring incendiaries to punish

ment, arson having been encouraged in recent years, according to the records, particularly by "valued policy" laws, which exacted the payment of a fixed sum in the case of loss by fire. Fire insurance. cSleials and special agents from a score of states will be present -it the conference. The responsibility of the public to the insurance companies and the importance to all business of sound insurance will be subjects of discussion.

BROTHERS MEET AFTER 72 YEARS

Had Long Supposed One Another. Dead.

DANGER IN HAWAII

Race Problem of the Island Brought Out Con- ' .spicuously. JAP BIRTH RATE IS HIGH.

"New Cumberland. Pa., Oct, 3. William and James Waugh, brothers, who have not seen each other for seventytwo years, met in this place at the home of their nephew, George V. Butorff. William Waugh is S6 years old. and lives at Canton, 111. James is 85 and resides at Johnstown, this state. For over sixty years of this long period each brother supposed the other dead, as he heard nothing from him. In 1S36 they were boys. 12 and 14 years of age; then their parents emigrated to the West, their father died and they were separated. For a time they heard from one another, but at last William stopped writing, and was supposed to have died. Nothing had been heard from James since the Civil war, and he was thought to have been killed, and when

Mr, Butorff received word from the latter uncle that he had found his

brother William and they had ar

ranged to meet at his home in New

Cumberland he was a greatly sur

prised man, since he had never seen

them.

They expect to have a grand old time, as one of them said yesterday, since they are in the best of health

and are visiting all the points of interest in an automobile and attending receptions given in their honor by members of Mr. Butorff'B family.

PADDLE IS RESTORED

Spanking Now Recommended

For Chicago School Children.

OPTIMIST CLUB IS

DECIDEDJOVELTY

In Age or Pessimistic Clubs for

Men, London Organization is Unique.

OTHER LONDON NEWS

FAST TRAVEL BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LONDON ASSURED, THE TRIP NOT COVERING MORE THAN THREE DAYS.

HAVE GROWN REBELLIOUS

Honolulu. II. I., Oct. 3. Hawaii's

race problem has been brought prominently to the fore by a table of birth statistics just issued by the Territorial Board of Health. This statement shows that the births among the Japanese for the fiscal yeaa just ended have exceeded those of all other nationalities in the territory combined and that the American births are largely exceeded also by Portuguese, Chinese, Hawaiians and even Porto Ricans. The following table classifies these

births according to nationality ' and sex: Males the man mm Males" Females Totals

American .... 71, 55 126 British 16 14 CO Chinese 209 179 388 German 20 17 37 Hawaiian .. .. 359 315 647 Japanese 1308 1137 2445 Portuguese.. .. 331 260 591 Porto Rican .. 97 77 174 Spanish. .... 43 43 86 Others ...... 24 18 42 Totals .. ..2478 2115 4593

Chicago, Oct. 3 Spanking has suffered a' relapse of public favor for the Chicago schools, and the chastening rod is urgently recommended from various quarters as a cure for the rebellious spirit, now rampant because of the war of extermination being waged on fraternities. The president of the school board, though a countryman of Froebel, recently declared for good, old corporal punishment not too severe, but emphatic and convincing. Two preachers in sermons have approved the plan. Both happened to be Congregatlonalists. One prescribed "the hand, strap or slipper."' The other said: "I think the proper attitude of the parent and good citizen to those boys who were reported as loafing around the front or their 'fraf houses, smoking briar root pipes, would have been to go there and reasoned with them and then if they still rebelled I think, the next step would have been to find a good elastic barrel stave somewhere and

whittle itoft at one end until a good hand hold is secured, and mix with them for a few minutes in a way that would have a tendency to re-establish parental respect, authority and sovereignty." : - The advocate of the "band, strap or 6lipper" added: "And I would add to that the committing to memory of several chapters of the Book of Proverbs, which deal with parents and

children, for we seem to be training up a generation of future anarchists."

By Richard Absreorn. London, Oct. 3 In the mldstof hard times a new club, the Optimistic Club, bas been formed in London. If con- . sists of those who acknowledge the duty of cheerfulness and who make a point of looking at the bright side of tverything. One of the founders of the club, the bearer of one of England's proudest names, said yesterday "Something must be done to counteract the prevailing- tendency toward taking gloomy views. Most clubs here are' in reality, if not la name, pessimists' clubs. The conversation in them almost invariably works round to the conclusion that everything; Including the whole country Is going to the dogs. In the Optimist club no. one will be allowed to be lowapirlted. Everything will be done to cultivate cheerfulness. The hall porter will be carefully selected. W- shall engage the rosiest, most contented looking perron we can find. The club servants la the same way will have to be "sleek headed men and such aa sleep o nights." None with lean and hungry looks need apply. The decorations of the club house will be gay and bright.

the furniture most comfortable and attractive. The walls wUl be hnng with such mottoes as "Don't Worry," or "It will all be the same In a hundred years," an dwith portraits tof 'the great cptimistB of fiction and history. Sir John Flagstaff, Rabelais and 'Dr. Pangloss. Any one who Is convicted upon the evidence of two members of being la the club for half an hour without smiling will be simultaneously fined and the penalty for expressing any doubt as to all being for the best In the best of all worlds, will - be champagne all 'round on the spot. From time to time lectures will be given on current topice to show that there Is no reason for discomfort, ' let alone dlspair. These will be reported in the papers and will spread the influence of the club through the whole nation." .

It is not in the numerical increase of the Japanese that reason for concern lies, but in the fact that every one of these thirteen hundred odd Japanese boys is by virtue of birth on American soil, an American citizen. Most of them will undoubtedly, as soon as they are old enough to have an identifying photograph taken, be registered according to law, and thereafter be able at any time to prove their citizenship. The native born Japanese are not eligible to naturalization under the Federal Constitution nor are they allowed to own real estate under the laws of the Territory, hence at the present time are no factor politically, but there are many persons who look with apprehension Into the future when the thousands of Hawaiian born Orientals here shall have attained their majority.

FATHER'S AFFINITY . PROVES FATAL

Vengeance of Deserted Husband Requires a Life. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 3. Enmity between two fishermen having its origin several years ago, when, it Is alleged the wife of one deserted him for the other, culminated in the killing of the latter's son in midstream of the Mississippi river, near here. $ S. L. Smith, one of the fishermen, asserts that he and his son were returning shortly after nightfall in a motorboat from tending their lines and encountered P. L. Nlckols, his enemy in a skiff. The latter, according to Smith, opened fire, killing the younger man and seriously wounding the elder. Nickols escaped.

MUCH

WORRIED

Chinese Minister at Washington Speculates on : Recall. ? MAY BE NEEDED AT HOME.

Washington, Oct. 3. Wo Ting-Fang, Chinese Minister to Washington, has

denied that he. had heard that Chung

Men Yew was on his way from China to supplant him at the Chinese Legation. But if It Is true, Mr. Wu went on he would like very much to know all about it. Then Mr. Wu asked for the latest cablegrams from Peking and seemed disappointed to learn that nothing later than those appearing recently had been received. "I thought you were going to tell me something about it," he said, smiling at the reporter. "You always know more about such matters than I do. I am sorry. You see if I were going to be recalled I might hear about it.and I might not it would depend on circumstances. But I have yet to find

any circumstances that prevent an American' newspaper from getting speedy news. "You see," he said; "there are always lots of rumors of this sort about a man in the public service. On my former visit to this country there were many such rumors and some apparently official statements. But they never materialized. Perhaps this one Is one of the same sort; perhaps it is different. "Then my Government may need me at home,; you know. Changes are always being made, but " and he hesitated a little "I don't know anything about it, and I musn't say anything."

Teacher Johnny, can yon tell me how many seasons we have? Johnny Yes, ma'am: two baseball and football. Chicago News,

" To travel from New York to England in three days will be possible as soon as a new steam engine Invented by Mr. Werry, a young Australian, shall have been built Into one of the largest ocean liners. At least that is what the inventor himself claims and he says that his engine will require no more coal than the engine of a slow freighter, and cost even lesB to build. The wonderful engine, at first sight seems very little different from the reciprocating engine now in ' u&6, but each engine does the work, la two directions at once as each cylinder is provided with two pistons and two piston rods, two cranks and two shafts being provided. The enormous advantage of this is that all shock due to the work done in one direction is counteracted by that done in the opposite direction and in consequence it is possible to run a 75 horse power eglne of an ordinary' table at full speed without any; fixtures, so smooth is the running The engine,1 or rather it principle, can be equally well applied J.o gasoplane motors in which the wear and tear would be reduced to a minimum, and If applied to automobiles all vibration would b done away. ( j . -' 'There will be issued privately, as a free gift to the ordinary stockholder of the richest brewery in the world,' 2.500,000 paid up ordinary $5 shares, which immediately upon their Issue will be worth double or more than their face value. This corporation is so extraordinary, if not unprecedented, that it seems almost incredible that It should receive so little public attention. A gift of $250,000,000 and probably $50,000,000 to the holders of brewery shares just at this time when complaints are heard on all sides of dwindling dividends and possible bankruptcy in the brewing trade. And it is no le33 wonderful in its way that this amazing tale of prosperity should come from Ireland, the commercial Cinderella of the United Kingdom. The other night a few men might have been seen assembled quietly together at Salisbury House. The man of lithe, fragile frame with finely cut and expressive features by whom the chair was occupied, is perhaps the richest subject of King Edward in the matter of ready cash and gilt edge securities. Viscount Iveagb, better knows

in Dublin as Edward Cecil Guinness. He Is Irish of the Irish. His father was a Guinness, his mother was a Guinness, his wife is a Guinness, all descended from the sept of the Guinnesses whose headquarters were la County Down of which Iveagh is one of the existing baronies.

There is a pleasant story being told just now of an Irish priest who, taking leave of bis congregation, gave bis reasons for going: "First, yea do not love me, for yon nave contributed nothing to my support; second, you do not love each other, for I have not celebrated a marriage since X arrived; third, the good God does not lore yon, for he has not taken, one of yon to

himself; I have-not bad a single J

al" London Telegraph.