Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 91, 7 February 1909 — Page 2
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THE RICHMOND rAJLXADITO AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1909.
JAMES ATLAS WAS iH EARNEST OVER ROOSEVELT OFFER . Showman Uarns With Pained Surprise That the President Has Turned Down the $300,000 Job.
CIRCUS BOSS HOWEVER STILL HAS HIS HOPES "Money Talks; Don't It?" He Asked,, When Crimp Apparently Is Put in Rough Rider Project.
By Sheldon 8. Ctlne. Washington, Feb. 6. If this were Germany or most any of the world's monarchies, that man -up in Bridge-
nort. Conn.. who wants President
Roosevelt to turn circus performer might go to prison for lese majesty. The funny part of it is that the Bridgeport man, James Atlas by name appears to be in deadly earnest He offers Mr. Roosevelt $300,000 for a thirty weeks' engagement, and is ready to put up the money the minute Mr. Roosevelt signs the contract. This is at the rate of $10,000 a week, or a trifle more than ten times the salary Mr. Roosevelt has received t president of the United States. "Money talks, doesn't it?" inquires Mr. Atlas in pained surprise and he Is- considerably amazed not to say grieved that Mr. Roosevelt did not telegraph acceptance. He admits his letter to Mr. Roosevelt remains unanswered and that the president refused to talk with him over the longdistance telephone, and he can't quite decide whether Mr. Roosevelt is merely waiting until he leaves the white house before accepting the offer or whether he is holding out for bigger money. If it is more money the president wants, the Connecticut man feels certain terms can be agreed upon. Would be Congenial. And it would be such a congenial j occupation for the ex-president, reasons Mr. Atlas, to say nothing of what easy money it would be, both for T. R. and for the promoters. He wants to call the attraction, the . "Roosevelt Congress of Rough Riders," divided into three acts. The first act would be scenes from Western . life and Mr. Roosevelt, dressed in cowboy style, would come whooping at the head of a band of Indians, cow-punchers, sc There would be a, buffalo hunt, in which the buffalos would not be really, killed, a stage hold-up in which Roosevelt would come to the rescue and save the fair maidens in distress, and other genuine hair-raising thrillers. It would be whoop, slap, bang from start to finish and wouldn't Roosevelt be just in his element? asks Mr. Atlas. The scene of act two would be laid in Cuba and the climax would be the charge of the Rough Rtders up San Juan Hill, Col. Roosevelt, sword In one hand, six-shooter in the other, and the reins In his teeth, leading on to' death and glory. Then the Inauguration. Act three would represent the Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as president of the United States. Mr. Atlas has some hopes that he may prevail upon Chief .Justice Puller to administer the oath, but falling in this he would have an understudy make up to resemble the chief justice. He believes this would make a great hit as a sort of tableau finish, but has been some fearful there wouldn't be quite enough excitement in it to appeal to the president. Much against his own inclination, he would be willing to substitute a scene in the heart of the African jungle. And the strangest part of it is that
the man who proposes this thing actually has $300,000 in real money. A very pertinent question would be, how and where in thunder .did he get it. .: , For Hospital Surgeons. Your correspondent is going to indulge right here in a little "publicity" or "educational" business in the interest of a measure now pending before congress. It is a very common practice when some Interest wants something at the hands of congress to employ lobbyists and a "publicity agent," the function of the latter being to beguile newspapers into printing boosts for the particular thing in which the agent's client is interested. His success depends upon bis getting editors to print his stories without discovering their true import. This particular boost, however, is not going to be served up with any sugar coating. It is an out and out advocacy of the cause of men who are trying, or .whose friends are trying, to get money out of the treasury. The men are the 130 odd surgeons constituting the public health and marine hospital service. The pay of the medical officers of the' army and navy, with whom the marine hospital sur
geons are supposed to rank, was raised last year, but the marine hospital
surgeons were overlooked. Why? Well, for one reason, they didn't have
any lobbyists at the capital. Army
and navy officers, civil service clerks,
letter carriers and almost every other class in the public service have lob
bied for more pay and because they
could bring political influence to bear they have been or are in way of being
uniformly successful. The Marine hos pital surgeons went about their bust
ness and didn't pester congress and were overlooked. It was only by
chance that the discovery of the in
justice was made, and it is likely the
oversight will be remedied at the pre sent session. Has Small Appreciation.
The public generally has very little
appreciation of the service rendered by these Marine hospital surgeons. Their fighting ground is where the scourge of epidemic disease threatens. Twenty-five of them tackled the New Orleans yellow fever invasion in 1905 and stamped out the disease two months before frost, four of the 25 themselves contracting the fever. All told, seven surgeons of the staff lost their lives fighting yellow fever and all the insurance companies classify them as extra hazardous risks. They make no fuss about their work and have not tried in any way to influence congress to give them more pay. That's why this "boost" is written.
Ill DYING JOdDITION Father of a Kidnapped Girl Pleads Pitifully for Her Return to Him. WILL SEARCH FOR CHILD
New York, Feb. 6. In a dying condition today at his home in Brooklyn, Ernst Loerch, the father of 18-year-old Catherine Loerch. who was kidnapped by Joseph Janier and taken to Baltimore, called pitifully for his daughter., "I must see Catherine," he cried. "I have not long to live. I must see my child .before I go away." The physician attending Loerch advised that Catherine be brought to his bedside if possible and the dying man's brother, Michael Loerch, was sent to Baltimore. He will ask the police there to let the girl see her father before he dies.
Gas mottors for pumping water are gradually putting the old-fashioned Dutch windmills out of the business in Holland.
When the burglar had bound the artist and put him in a chair he searched his studio. "I don't see anything worth taking," be said by and by, "but this suit of clothes." "Thank goodness!" sighed the artist "It's not paid for." Exchange.
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Positively never in the history of this store have such enormous crowds of eager buyers thronged this corner as Friday and Saturday, ail intent upon the same purpose, that of securing a share of the wonderful Mill Remnant Bargains now being offered. The sale that's different, a sale of bright, new, clean merchandise DIRECT FROM THE MILLS AT ACTUAL MILL COST. White Goods, Ginghams, Percales, Calico, Toweling, Dress Goods, Silks, etc., all in Mill Remnants at only a fraction of the regular selling price. Come Monday. Many new items will be placed on sale even more attractive than the opening bargains.
Monday in the Clothing Section. Men's SS.aO Suits for $198 Men's Suit, worth up to $13.00. for $549 Men's Newest $15.00 Suits for $&J9 Men's Finest $22.00 Suits for 12.9S Men's SS.oO Overcoats $3.95 Men's 12.S0 to I1S.00 Overcoats for $7.95 Youths' Long Pants Suits, worth up to $10, now $1.49 Boys Overcoats, worth up to $ 4.50. now $1.95 Men's and Youths Odd Vests, worth up to $1.50. now 48c Men's and Boys' Odd Vests, worth up to $1.00. now 10c
Jusl received 1000 yds. of CALICO. Remnants, worth op to 7c, Monday, yd: - - - -
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Jusl received 5000 yds. of fine BLEACHED UUSL1N. Remnants, worth 8 to 12 l-2c yd., Monday, yd:
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"Hope" Muslin. Emory price c Yd. 20x40 in. Turkish Towels, 19c values. Emory price 10c each 6c Uubleached Muslin. Emory price, ; 3c Yd. 35c White Waisting, Emory price, 19c Yd. 15c Red Seal Dress Gingham, Emory price .- &c Yd.
35c Poplin, highly mercerized, Emory price 19c Yd. 8 l-3c India Linen, Emory price 5c Yd. Table Oil Cloth, colors and white, Emory price 10c Yd. 10c India Linen, Emory price 6'ic Yd. 59c Cotton Blankets, Emory price 38c pair
12c Shirting Ginghams. Emory price 8 1-3c Yd. 25c and 39c Plaid Dress Goods, Emory price 10c Yd. 45c Table Damask, Emory price, at . 23c Yd. 75c Table Linen, mercerized, Emory price 45c Yd.
S l-3c Stevens' Linen Crash Toweling 64c Yd. Ladies' Handkerchiefs, worth up to 50c 10c each Lace Certain Samples, worth $2.00. in full pairs 19c each Lace Curtain Samples, worth up to $3.00 in full pairs 29c each
MONDAY'S BASEMENT LEADERS. 15c box Jumbo Matches .......7c box 00 i7,uart -nte-lined Enameled 2oc Galvanized 12-quart Bucket ..1c 25c Androck Bread Toaster 10c Santa Claus Laundry Soap. 9 bars 25c Dish Pans , ' 69c Snap Laundry Soap, S bars 10c 1100 Curtain' ' Stretchers "no" sac Inverted Gas Lamps, complete, the Tc Galvanised Wash Tub, big No. 50c white-lined Granite Coffee Pots. ' , ' nn . , . 2-quart slses 29c " ' 69c set 11.00 kind .48c ,Ue Soc
REMARKABLE VALUES IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. COME MONDAY..
See the Great 1c Bargains.
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T BIGAMIST
IN THE COUNTRY GOES TO PRISON
H. J. Bauman, Who Had Married About; Fifty Women In : Europe and America, Paid Penalty Yesterday. MADE OVER $500,000 BY SWINDLING GAME
Chicago Police State That He Is the Champion Crook of His Class Was Wanted Everywhere.
Chicago, Jan. 6. Harry J. Bauman, alias Dr. Herman Brandt, said to have had fifty wives and to have swindled women out of $r00,000 in five years, was given an indetermlnite sentence of from one to ten years in Joliet prison today by Judge Clifford. Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge. who prosecuted Bauman, says he has evidence to prove Bauman married at least fifty women in Europe and America. He robbed them of their money and valuables and deserted them. Plans are under way by the state's attorney to obtain wholesale indictments against Bauman on charges of bigamy and more than 500 indictments on charges of swindling. Detective Wooldridge produced in Judge Clifford's court a list of nearly 200 victims and said that others were coming to the front by the score each day. Bauman, according to the information which has been received by the police, is wanted in nearly every city in ths country. Prominent men and women in Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries, it is said have been victimized by Bauman. It is estimated that he got
$50,000 in Chicago alone. He claims to descend from a royal family in Europe and posed as a duke. He traveled in almost every city in America and lived in style. Police pronounce Bauman as the greatest bigamist of the age and the prince of all swindlers. . Even the lawyers he engaged to defend him after his arrest in Chicago were swindled out of an aggregate cf $5,000. 'At one time Bauman lived at the Auditorium Annex at an expense of 1100 a day. He also occupied a mansion on a south side boulevard at
a cost of nearly $1,000 a month. He
rode in automobiles and posed as a! man of millions.
T. A . Coleman Tells of Distribution of Corn
T. A. Coleman. From the ears, every one of wbica we know from the individual ear test will grow, we are now to select those for planting and if we have put awav much more than we will need, we can cull out pretty severely. In any case let us select a few of our very best ears to plant in our moat favored soil from which to gather our seed corn for next year's planting. In mailing this selection we shoull be guided by the standard of excellence described by the score card of the Indiana Corn Gfowers' Association as it represents the careful thought of many of the best corn growers of the state. For this section of the state the ear should be ten Inches long and seven and one half inches in circumference measured at one-third of the distance from the butt. Here is an opportunity for the farmer to exercise that apparently scarce article com on sense. If the soil is deficient in available plant food as evidenced by preceding crops, a smaller ear, one more in keeping with its producing power should be used until by judicious management the fertility is increased. The ear should be cylindrical in shape, or in other words carry its size well towards the tip. It should have about twenty straight rows filled with regular, even sized, deep kernels. These kernels should fit snugly together both at the crown and at the tip between the rows and between the kernels in the row. They should also be well dented but not too rough. Smooth kernels are usually shallow, but if they are too rough, immaturity is suggested. The depth should be carried well to the tip to Insure a large per cent, of corn to the cob and to secure greater uniformity of the kernel. If we have enough of these well formed ears to plant the entire crop, well and good. If not, we will have
to use some of the remainder, but avoid that ear with a swelled or pinched butt, or with a tucked-in appearance near the butt, or one with a tapering tip. In shelling corn, It is well to have .i grader, but if not, you can do as well or better shelling by land. In which case place a basket on each side of your stool, and shell on a lap board or a fine screen out of a fanning mill. First remove all the large irregular grains from the butt and the small, wheat like grains from the tip, then shell the corn onto- the lap board. Jar the edge of the board so that the corn will be scattered all over the surface. Any large or irregular grains may be seen and removed. Should the grains be deep, place the corn in the right hand basket, but should they be shallow, put them in the basket on the left. In this way we grade the corn
j in a more accurate way than can be done with a machine. Before starting the planter, it should jbe properly adjusted to the corn. , By j having all the deep grained corn in ! one basket we can select a planter plate that will properly handle it. AfI ter we have planted all the deep corn ' we can put in a plate that will properly drop the shallow corn. To show the importance of this
work on the stand of corn the Purdue experiment station conducted some tests. Where the corn wa properly graded, an accurate drop wae secured ninety-five times out of a hundred, but where the deep and shallow grains were mixed, the des.'red drop was E3cured only seventy tinrta in an hundred. Vv Even though every kernel is full of that life giving power and the" stall bubbling over with available plant" food, it will be of no avail unless an even distribution Is secured, and this caa only be done when the corn is properly graded and the planter perfectly adjusted.
HEAVY HAULING RULED AGAINST BY COUNTY BOARD Action Taken Yesterday by Commissioners to 'Save Roads From Being Destroyed in This Manner.
WARNING SIGNS WILL BE POSTED ON ROADS This Winter Many of the Highways Have Been Badly Injured by Over Laden Wagon Useage.
vehicle with tires of three inches and less than four Inches In width, the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than 3,000 pounds; or on any vehicle with tires of fonr inches and leas than five inches in width the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than 3,500 pounds; or on any vehicle with tires five inches or over In width the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than 3.S00 pounds. Any person violating any provision of this section shall, on conviction be fined not less than five dollars or more than fifty dollars for each load so hauled. Provided, that any road supervisor or gravel road superintendent shall have police power to arrest upon sight any person who is seen violating or by warrant any person who has violated, any of the provisions of this section within the county or township- for which such road supervisor or gravel road superintendent is elected or a itpointed, and that, on conviction of the defendant in such cause, there shall be assessed by the court trying the same a fee of two dollars in each case, to be paid to the person maJcln such arrest-" -
State Expert Tells of . Knowledge of Cows
City Statistics
Deaths and Funerals. ';- WELLENKAMP Mildred, the thirteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wellenkamp died Friday evening at Indianapolis where its parents now reside. The body has been brought to this city for burial and was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schepman, South Eighth street. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Andrew's church. Burial will be in the cemetery
of same. Friends will he permitted to
call at anytime to rtaw tte
By Dr. David Roberts. Wisconsin Veterinarian, 1906-7-8. Too much emphasis can not be laid upon the importance of stock raisers giving each individual animal installed upon the premises proper care and attention. A herd may be in an apparently healthy condition and at the same time contain one or two animals which may be subject to a decline in health, tubs
causing the owner little worry as to
the danger they may impart to the rest of the herd, hut it is at this ailing pe
riod that the owner is deceived for when onee the germ is Imbedded in the body unless the animal has vitality to overcome same, it slowly but ; surely finds its way to parts where it may become absorbed and" later claims life thus laying a foundation for disease to present itself throughout the entire herd.
It is for this reason that the owner should ever be watchful. He should not only care for the ailing animals but should protect the healthy ones. One of the most contagious and destructive diseases among cattle today, and which is causing great anxiety to stock raisers, as to the proper treat
ment to pursue in order to destroy its destructive power is contagions abor
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several different forms. For instance some animals maycarry the germ for several weeks, others several months before aborting. This disease is oftentimes introduced into a healthy herd by an infected animal being brought into the herd. While the healthy condition of the animals are not impaired and the secretion of milk not decreased during the early stage, the owner is ignorant of the fact that this one animal Is playing havoc among the entire herd, until he is awakened to the fact that something is wrong by one animal after another aborting. It is now time for him to be up and doing. He imediately tries to stamp out the disease by caring for all the ailing animals but as previously stated too much stress can not be laid upon the necesity of protecting the healthy animals as well as caring for the ailing ones, for when once the germs of abortion infect animals in a herd, the germ is readily transmitted to the rest of the herd, thus when treating one animal, all in the herd should be treated likewise.
Wayne county is to be posted with signs warning drivers of vehicles against heavy hauling. Such a thing as a cautionary sign on a public highway in this county is almost unknown One could drive on every road in the county and in all probability if be
. kept a strict lookout, he would not see a sign warning against violating the , highways laws by heavy hauling. To
the road supervisor at Greensfork belongs the credit for recalling to the minds of the public that such laws exist. Two weeks ago he stopped a heavily loaded moving van from this city and refused to permit it to continue until the load was lightened. - Decide to Pott Signs. t their meeting yesterday afternoon the county commissioners decided tcjxst the highways. A contract will be onade for the necessary signs. It is probable that these signs will state the "required width of tires on conveyances'', carrying more than the prescribed weHght. The country roads have been cut no badly this winter, because of the (reouent thaws and the commissioners -will post the roads, so that when the usVal improvements
are made this springT jthe highways
may stand the chance io, remain in
A Miss Buchanan, rallying her cousin, an officer, on his courage said: "No. Sir. Barry, do yen really mean to ten me yon can walk to a cannon's month without fear? - -Tea,- was the prompt reply, "or a Buchanan's either. - And he did Jt, ... '. . : : t
.The women of Wisconsin have declared their intention of getting every man onH wnmnn In tho atatn vhn la
twenty-one or over to sign the petition for woman suffragge which Is to be presented to the present Congress.
On the basis of a bushel of corn producing 2.5 gallons of alcohol, It has been figured out that last year's corn crop in the United Stages iwa sufTi1 A . A .I.V A AAA AAA t.vHAMVA.
for ten hours a day for an entire year.
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What the Law Savsv
The law says: "It shall be unlawful for any person to haul ovt any turnpike, macadam, or crave! Toad
(the term "gravel road" to include lny road gra'ded and graveled with rt' less than one yard of gravel to eigflt, feet in width and nine feet in lengtcl of such road) at any time when the; road is thawing through or by reason fit WOt WaatVlAr la In nni4',la v.1
cut up and Injured by heavy hauling, a load oa any vehicle with tires of less than three inches in width, the combined weight of which load and vehicle, including the driver, shall be more than 2,500 pounds, or on any
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