Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 7, 15 November 1908 — Page 11

THE. RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1908.

PAGE TEN. JAP-AMEfilGAH WARPREDICTED Torio, Close Friend of Mikado, Says It May Last a Century. FLORODORA GIRL MARRIES MILLIONAIRE. MERCHANTS The Lucky Coupon for mo 025.00 HOOSIER KITCHEN CABINET Given away Saturday, was held by MRS. ALEXANDER GILCHRIST, 315 Kinsey St. The drawing was conducted by a committee of newspaper men, and Miss Nellie Becker. Great interest was manifested and general satisfaction .is expressed over the result. See the lucky Cabinet in our Big East Window. Come in and see our big Hoosier Cabinet display.! EX

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CONFLICT IS INEVITABLE.

INTIMATED JAPAN IS STRONG NATION OF ORIENT AND WRONGS DONE TO ORIENT WILL BE REVENGED. New York, Nov. 14. War devastating, terrible and lasting perhaps a centurybetween the United States and Japan is declared inevitable by Viscount Torio, Japanese "elder statesman" and one of the closest friends of the Mikado in an interview secured by Richard Barry the war correspondent, to be published in the December number of Hampton's Broadway Magazine. Coming, from a man of such great prominence, this first authoritative prediction of a huge conflict between Occident and Orient is expected to stir the nations of the world as has no utterance of recent times. Will Turn Hair Gray. "Come and see me when you return from the first stage of it," said Gen. to -M mrvlr. "Your hair Torio to his interviewer, will be as gray as mine." "What," said Barry, "a thirty year wax-" "Perhaps a hundred,' 'replied the Viscount. "You have a great nation and we have well we have a great nation too." "Bpt is it possible for nations to fight so continuously in these modern times," he was asked. ,"In the life of a nation like Japan a century is but a day," said the statesman. "Wft have existed since the growing of the first anemone; we will continue to exist after the reaping of the last sunflower. And we have existed so long for one thing to preserve our natlonla unity. Family Covers All Asia. "As a nation we are only one member of a family. That family covers the whole continent of Asia and all the islands that lie near it. It has many members from grandfather China to the little bad boy in the Philippines. It is a big family, a wonderful family, and we revere it. Behind the family we remember nothing. Beyond that family we see nothing There is nothing but the family. "All our ideas of life are based upon the family. Thereon our civilization is built. We are born, we live, we die for the family. The family gives us our colossal strength, our perpetuity, and It gives us that easy reliance in ourselves which lets us drift sometimes for centuries, secure always in the faith that if some members of the family may be weak or foolish, there will always be a strong member to fight, to maintain, to shield. Recalls Alexander the Great. "Over 2,000 years ago your boy Alexander strayed into our back yard. He was a bright boy and venturesome, expert with the sword, and we sent against him one who at that time was our eldest brother, the god Xerxes. "Our elder brother fell and your younger brother pushed on, for how long? For a breath, a laugh, a shy, exulting shout, then he slipped, he fell, he died, and his people scattered and his 'nation perished and we lived on the family triumphed. "We opened, we absorbed them, we passed them out and did not know that they had come. And therein we always win. If overwhelmed, if start led, if outwitted, we yield, we gracefully submit for a time and then the family gathers its loyal members to jether, loosely enfolds its entwining and terrible arms hospitably about our triumphant victor. Four Times Cast Out, "You have a family, just as we have one, your family of the Occident. Four times in the last 2.000 years has some member of your family strayed over to impose upon the rights of our family. Four times have we cast you out and your marks have hardly remained. "Do you think, then, that the fifth time you come upon us you are to stay, to take our lands, keep our men. remove our money? The hundred and fifty years you have been in India is but a day and a half in our slow family pride. Your decade in the Philip pines is but the interval between smoking cigarettes." "To be exact, then." asked General Torio s interviewer, "you mean that Japan today is the strong nation of Asia and that she will right the wrongs of all the Orient, that you will drive the American from the Philip pines, the British from India, the Russians from Manchuria, the French from Indo-China and the Germans from Kiaou Chou?" Oh! you Americans!" exclaimed the old man, showing his first Impatience and that only by the quick movement of his eye-lashes, "to "be exact, we have driven the Russians from Lower Manchuria. Why Russia Was Chosen. "Why did Japan choose Russia first among the white people?" was asked "ny does the wounded buffalo turn on the dogs?" the statesman re plied, almost savagely. "And yet, now that you have Korea, the natives complain more bitterly than they did of the Russians," per Blsted the interviewer. "Is that like a loyal member of the family?" The old man smiled slyly. "The bad young one never likes to " be spanked. v"Do you then regard so confidently a conflict with America?"

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4fc ' ' 4.' . 1 -N ill lif nfiilWij ii ii MRS. GURNEY SMITH. Blaine Van Selover was one of the famous "Floradora" sextette, whose secret marriage to Francis Gurney Smith,, a hiladelphia millionaire, i3 announced. , , tQ - onr fam. encroaching on the rights of our fam ily. Difference Between Races. "And you feel certain of the outcome?" was asked. "Remember this," and as he spoke the old man arose, "the whole differnce oeiween jou uu - thought - what your philosophers call 'a mental attitude.' That thought is the attitude we bear toward one another. Among you the purposes of life are absolute. We have but one purpose duty; the highest duty is the family." "Even in these casual observations," comments the Interviewer, "was shown clearly, more clearly than is usual with his diplomatic countrymen, the innate contempt that the Japanese bears for the American." GOMEZ IS ELECTED Returns From Cuban Election Of Saturday Show Liberal Successful. RETURNS COME IN SLOWLY Havana, Nov. 14. Returns from the various provinces indicate . that Jose Miguel Gomez, the liberal candidate was elected president of the Cuban republic today. Returns from the outlying municipalities are slow in coming in. Two tickets were In the field, the Liberal headed by Jose Miguel Gomez and Alfredo Zayas, candidates respectively for the presidency and vice presidency and the Conservative with Gen. Mario Menocal and Dr. Rafael Montero as candidates. ' Col. C. H. Crowder of the bureau of eletcions, during the day received re ports from each municipality except ing Cienfuegos, Cardenas, Nuevitas, Ciego, De Villa and a few others, say-1 lng that quiet reigned and that there was no indication of trouble. The followers of Jose Miguel Go mez in the city of Havana began a celebration late Friday night in antici pation of the expected victory of today. Brilliantly illusminated trolley cars with bands or music were run : through the city discharging fireworks j as they progressed. The explosion of a box of fireworks on one car injured , six persons. I Cabs and automobiles were freely ! used by both parties to carry voters to the polls. This afternoon Governor Magoon made a tour of the city and he went in an automobile to inspect the towns in the vicinity of the capi- i tal. I An investigation of the shooting at1 Cienfuegos of Edwardo Prieto, a Liberal, by Gonzalo Vieta, a Conservative and at one time mayor of Cienfuegos, indicates that the affair is without political significance. One policeman was seriously injured while attempt ing to separate the two men. REUNION TODAY. The confirmed classes of the Trin ity Lutheran church will hold a reun ion at the church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. A program consisting of mu sical and literary numbers has been arranged and a very interesting reunion is promised all those who are expecting to attend. NEW LEADER IN FIGHT AGAINST CRIME. FRANK MOSS. Moss has been elected to succeed the Rev. Dr. Charles A. Parkhurst, as president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime.

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MUCH OF THAT TRADE WHICH HAS BEEN GOING TO LARGER CITIES WOULD BE RETAINED, LOCAL BUSINESS MAN SAYS.

Several local business men are considering the advisability of interesting their associates in a movement to run free traction and railroad excursions into the city at regular intervals during the holiday shopping season. No active steps to further this movement have been taken up to the present time, but if its promoters deem it advisable to Inaugurate thM scheme these steps will be taken within the next week. The movement is contemplated because the merchants of this city have for the past two years seen trade taken away from them because of free excursions operated by the enterprising business men of Indianapolis and Dayton. Richmond merchants are confident that they have as good stocks to offer to the holiday trade as the Dayton and Indianapolis merchants and are anxious to prove this to the shoppers living in this section of the country. ' "Local trade still continues good, hut 'th mprrhanta nf this citv have been gradually losing trade they for-

merly had among the people in this and by 9:30 o'clock three thefts had county outside of Richmond and in been reported to police headquarters, neighboring counties," said a well The most serious theft reported was known Main street dealer yesterday.' j Cf two blankets that were removed "This is because our merchants from a horse hitched in front of the have offered no inducements to this Bullerdick grocery. One of the blankclass of trade to patronize them," he ' ets was new and the other almost new.

continued. "We have suffered the humiliation of seeing the trade we formerly had in Williamsburg, Economy, Fountain City and other towns close ' to us to the north going to Muncie foi the major portion of their shopping.

Now and then people from these towns nad a companion who is believed to come to my store and I have been sur- have been the rea culprit. Pettis reprised to learn that they are as fam- j fused last night to divulge his pal's iliarwith the principal stores in Mun-! name an(j was locked up in the city

cie as the people of Richmond are, familiar with our principal stores. It is also true that Dayton and Indianapolis have been drawing heavily on our holiday trade and I think it Is time the merchants of this city wake up and again secure the trade which has been taken away from us ana , which rightfully belongs to us. I would like t8 see the merchants of this city raise a fund to have free excursions run to Richmond during the coming holidays." A CURIOUS WORD. Twists That May Be Given to "Ba" In the Chinese Language. In the Chinese language the same word may be given several different meanings by the modulation of the voice. The same thing may happen to the English "Yes." which may be pronounced so as to mean "I assent to that," or "I am doubtful." or "Indeed?" ! An eminent authority on philology gives an amusing illustration of these modulations in the Annamitic language, a monosyllabic tongue spoken by the people of Tonquin and Cochin China. In this language the syllable "ba" pronounced with a grave accent means a lady, an ancestor. Pronounced with the sharp accent, it means the favorite of a prince. Pronounced with the semigrave accent, it means what has been thrown away. Pronounced with the grave circumflex, it means what has been left of a fruit after the juice has been squeezed out. Pronounced with no accent, It means three. Pronounced with the ascending or Interrogation accent, it means a box on the ears. Thus the word "ba," in the order given above, is said to mean. If properly pronounced, "Three ladies gave a box on the ear to the favorite of the prince." Chicago Record-Herald. Two Previous. A Richmond woman has In her employ a little darky. Miff Cole. One day Miff became confidential and told his mistress he was "goin" to the cimitery next Sunday." "But, Miff, that's a long walk. You know it is more than five miles." "Oh. missus, I ain't goin' to walk, I's goin' to ride." "How is that. Miff?" "I's goin' In a kerridge t my uncle's funeral." All day Saturday Miff could talk of nothing but the approaching affair. Sunday his mistress excused him, and she expected , that on Monday she would be regaled with a full account of the funeral. But Miff turned up with a most melancholy face. In answer to her inquiry he said: "I didn't go, missus. He ain't dead yit" New York Herald. - Decay of Building Stones. The causes of decay in building stones are various and depend on the physical structure of the stone, its composition and the nature of the surrounding atmosphere. The most destructive agent to which the stone Is exposed is rain or a moist atmosphere and also in a minor degree wind, frost and smoke. The air of large towns is usually charged with various deleterious acids. These acids are dissolved by the rain, which penetrates the stone iu a greater or less degree, according to its physical structure, and combines with the constituents of the stone, causing it to decay, so that any contrivance that will check the admission of water will be most likely to succeed In arresting tiding

Stocks Rise in Ten Days $2, 000, 000, 000 Since the Presidential election the market value of stocks and bonds quoted in Wall street has been advanced more than TWO BILLION DOLLARS. The enormous increase in value has been accomplished In ten days of trading. This calculation is based upon actual quotations made on the New York Stock Exchange. Following are the stocks selected as representatives of the market, together with the price per share to the nearest even figure each has advanced and the increase this means for the total capitalization: Market Price value advanced, advanced. U. S. Steel $11 $55,880,000 Union Pacific .... 10 20,000,000 Southern Pacific 10 20,000,000 Erie 5 5,600,000 Reading 9 6,300,000 Northern Pacific. 9 13,950,000 Ct. Paul 8 6,640,000 Amalgamated ... 8 12,400,000 Pennsylvania .... 4 12,600,000 New York Central 11 19,800,000 Total ... $173,170,000

THIEVES AT WORK One Arrest Made by Police Last Night for Depredations, PETTIS IS IN CUSTODY. Buggy thieves were busy last night One half dozen bottles of beer were taken from a buggy belongin tgo Wllnam O'Brien. The outfit was hitched near the Kennepohl saloon on North D street. A boy named Otto Pettis was arrested as one of the thieves. He jaii. The report was made of the theft of a ledger and a building and loan book from a buggy belonging to William Pflfer, who resides on the New Paris pike. Pfifer is anxious to secure the return of his property which is of no value to the thieves. BRASS HORNS. The Way the Thin, Seamless Tubes Are Bent Without Injury. Saxhorns, so called after a famous Belgian family named Sax, who Invented and introduced these instruments about the middle of the last century, are the mainstay of all modern brass bands. They are manufactured in many different sizes, from high so prano to the huge contrabass or bom' bardon, and the most important of the lot is the euphonium, which supplanted the now obsolete "serpents" and ophicleldes. The tallest saxhorn ever made stands eight feet high and contains more than forty feet of tubing. The advantage of seamless or "solid drawn" tubes for such instruments as trombones and horns is considerable, since, no matter how good the join may be, sooner or later the action of the breath will wear away the solder, To bend these thin brass tubes without splitting or denting the metal was at one time very difficult, but, thanks to a most ingenious artifice, the opera tion is now both safe and simple. The tube Is first washed out with a chem ical substance, such as is used by plumbers to prevent solder from adhering where it Is not wanted, and It is then completely filled with molten lead poured in from a ladle. Thus supported from within, the brass is easily and safely bent to the required shape, the lead being afterward removed by heat. Pearsons. Had Its Limitations. A Scottish farmer was proudly show ing a visitor an antique clock which had recently come into his possession. "Isn't that a gran' clock?" he said. "I bocht it at an auction sale ia the toon the lther day an' got a rale bar gain."

"Tes, but does it keep good time?" pany cf Sebring, O., against the Item the visitor asked. Newspaper company of this city for "Ah. weel. it's no good enough to $5(ooo judgment resulted in a victory catch a train or that sort o thing, but for the defeil(iant company. The case good enough to get up to yer breakfast wag heard the federal court at Inwlv' dianapolis. After J. B. Gordon, editor BobbageTnv., 2w?w grlna "and -rs President Sein bis mother's flower garden and bring of the French China company shouted- "Scat' Scatr asked that the case be dismissed and The cow didn't seem to be much in-! stated his company would pay all ex-

tlmldated and calmly ate on. Three-year-old Mary, dancing with excite - ment, exclaimed: "Tell him to scow, Wobble; tell him to scow'!" Delineator. . He Understood. H-VTt Do you understand when that fellow stood the one who waa Just talking to ns? Jewett Sure; be was standing on my feet most of the time. New York Press. We are natural believers. Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests jw. Emerson. One morning little Ruth, aged seven, was watching a meadow lark in the adjoining field and listening to his song. In a little while she came running Into the house to her mother and said: "Mother, he wasn't a bit afraid! He looked at me and then turned

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Buy an IDEAL CRIB for Baby. It s the Accident Proof Kind Furniture Stoves Carpets DEISER WINS CASE Parkers Must Pay $550 and Make Restoration of Chattels. WIFE STANDS BRUNT. After deliberating but a short time, the jury in the Wayne circuit court that heard the case of Charles Deiser vs. Winfield and Rachel Parker returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff late yesterday afternoon. The defense was- ordered 'to pay $550 and restore the property in question and pay an additional one-tenth value for dam ages. The case occupied the atten tion of the court for two days. The argument was not concluded until al most dark. The allegation was made in the complaint that the plaintiff disposed of chattels on his farm to the defen dants and the latter offered part cash in nayment and the remainder in notes. It was claimed that later the notes were repudiated and when the restoration of the chattels waB asked the defendants refused. The transac tion took place four years ago. The farm in question, which prev ious to its occupancy by the Parkers was the residence property of the plaintiff, is located in Center town ship. Soon after the filing of the suit in which he was involved, Winfield Parker, one of the defendants disap peared from home. No trace of him has been found since, although at one time the police were informed he had been at Muncie. Descriptive circulars were sent out but there was no re sponse. Mrs. Parker has expressed the fear her husband met with foul play or an accident. Other persons are of the opinion the man simply deserted his family and left for parts unknown. LOSES ITS SUIT Item Successful in Court. Federal ! The suit of the French China compenses m tne case wnicn nave accrueo. , during the past two years The court itook this action WILL PLEAD FOR DEATH PENALTY (Continued From Page One.) and the attempt made in cold blood. Keller's unrighteous love for Mrs. Thornton Is assigned as the Incentive for the crime. It is expected the Whiteman case will be full of sensational testimony of a repugnant nature. It is probable the domestic troubles of Whiteman and his wife will be recited. If snch occurs, evidence of a decidedly racy nature will be resented.

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Deaths and Funerals MEN-KI3 The funeral of Mrs. Mary E. Menke will take place Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, when short services will be held at the house and at 2 o'clock regular services will be held at the St. John's Lutheran church. The Rev. Albert J. Feeger will officiate and the burial will be in the Lutheran cemetery. Mrs. Menke died yesterday at the age of 7S years. WOULD-BE ASSASSIN OF HENEY SUICIDES (Continued from Page One) could be learned Haas, adhering dog gedly to his original story wa promp ted to shoot Mr. Heney because the prosecutor had exposed the fact that he had served time in San Quentin, after he had qualified as juror In the trial of Ruet in the Parkstde bribery matter. An enormous crowd turned out tonight to attend the mass meeting called by the citizens league to protest against the shooting. Two additional mass meetings have been announced for Sunday afternoon. AGITATION FOR LOCAL OPTION IS NOT DESIRED (Continued From Page One.) townships and city wards, just as hey promised in their platform. They stand committed to this law and If they do not pass it they will be held by the people to have practiced deceit Both parties declared for local option. The only difference was in the unit In which it should be applied. The Democrats cannot now repeal the county option law and leave the statute books blank on that subject without being guilty of fooling the people. And the people do not permit themselves to be fooled more than once on any one proposition. Whether Governor-elect Marshall will make any recommendation along this line in his first message to the Legislature cannot now be told, but during the campaign he said in all his speeches that he stood squarely on the Democratic state platform every plank of it and It is therefore believed that, he will recommend the enactment of a township and ward lo cal option law. Marshall will also recommend plac ing all county officers on straight sal aries. This Is one of the reforms that the commercial bodies over the state are working to bring about They say the fee system is rotten and that it produces graft and corruption in office. Under a straight salary system, it is pointed out there would be no opportunities for graft that exist novr. It came out today that the Indiana Manufacturers and Shippers Association is preparing a bill to be introduced in the Legislature to abolish the Indiana Railroad Commission and create in its place a public utilities commission that will have jurisdiction over railroads, street railroads, electric light, water, gas and heating companies and all other public utilities such as telegraph and telephone companies. The association is having the bill printed and copies of it will be sent all over the state next week. In the early part of December the associa-

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Children's Cribs of almost every style size and kind. Prices $3.00, $5.75, 8.50, $10, 12.50 up. Corner 9th and Main Sts. tion will hold Its annual meeting and will hear addresses by men from Uew York and Wisconsin, both of which states have public utilities commis sions, in which they will give a fud description of the workings of t&4 commission. SUFFOCATION. NOT. CAUSE OF DEATH (Continued From Page One.) house escaped, locking the door afte her and is now at large. Stop Digging at Farm. 1 While Prosecutor Smith scouts tht theory as unreasonable and far fetch? ed and constantly urges that tb death of Belle Gunness is proved there is not a doubt that at least halt ine people or laporte and vicinity be lieve he is wrong. t Digging at the Gunness farm during the early part of Thursday was susl

pended, it appears, at the request oV the authorities. ABie K. HelgeleinS brother of the last Gunnesa victlmi

who had announced his Intention ot continuing exploration until the last i secret of the murder farm had beerM revealed, declares that he will do nc more digging and Is silent as to th ! reasons for his change of plan. i It is now said that the admlnistraf tors of the Gunness estate object trl the further exploitation of the murdeij mystery on the ground that every exj humatlon of a body lessens the com! mercial value of the property. Jurors Are Guarded. Extraordinary precautions are beint taken to prevent any of the jurymeri from being approached during th progress of the case. Several deputies accompany the twelve men to anc from the hotel to their meals. whll during the progress of the meal oni deputy remains standing near the ta ble, warning all those who approact his charges too clearly. Terre Haute, Indianapolis fi Eastern Traction Co. I Eastern Division (Time Table Effective Oct 27. 1907.) Trains leave Richmond far Indus spoil and intermediate stations at 6:00 a. 7:25, 8:0. 9:25. 10:00 11:00, 12:00, 1:00. 2:25. 3:00. 4:00 5:25. 6:00, 7:20. 8:40. J:00. 10:00 11:10. Limited trains. j , Last car to Indianapolis. 8:40 p. m Last car to New Caetle. 10:00 p. xnj l rains connect at Indianapolis rot Lafayette. Frankfort. CrawrordavllleJ Terre Haute, Clinton. Sullivan. Pari $41.55 One Way to California Washington Oregon Etc Call C. C. & L Agf for Particulars. Home Tel. 2H2