Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 159, 16 April 1909 — Page 7

THE BICmiOND PAIXAJUUSI AND SUN-TV LEGHAJ! FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1909.

FEDERAL CLERKS FORGOTTEN WHEN PIE WAS SERVED

Nearly Everyone in the Government Service, Even Enlisted Men, Got an Increase ; In Their Wages.

CONGRESS NOW HAS ECONOMICAL SPASM This Was Shown When the House Lopped Off $1,000 From Salary of Assistant Director of Census.

By Sheldon 8. Cline. Washington, April 16. If one were disposed to be sarcastic he might extend, congratulations to senators and representatives that they had the foresight , to increase their own salaries from $5,000 to $7,500 a year before retrenchment became the style at Washington. No increases of salaries are being voted now, and government clerks who had hoped that the precedent established in increasing the compensation of senators and representatives would be followed in their own case, have a long wait before them. Temper of Congress. The temper of congress, and especially of the senate, . was manifested when the upper bouse got hold of the census bill. A thousand dollars a year was lopped off the salary the house had allowed the assistant director of the census and the cuts averaged $50O a year each in the salaries of other highly-paid census officials. The cost of taking the next census, the senate is determined, will be less than that of any recent one.

There is cold comfort in this to the

clerks already in the classified service.

Their salaries are based on the cost of living a quarter of a century ago, and

for the past ten of thoBe years they

have seen . the purchasing power of

their dollars steadily diminish. The

compensation of all other employes of

the government, even that of the en

listed men of the army and navy- has been increased. For two or three

years promises of an increase have

been made the clerks, but now that retrenchment has become the watchword it looks as if they might be left to "hold the bag" for a number of years. Helped by Mr. Tart. , Among the minor government em

ployes in Washington who take a

cheerful view of life are the women in whose welfare Mr. Taft is taking an

interest. There is prospect of better things in store for them. These wo

men are employed mainly in the gov

eminent printing office and the bureau

ef 'engraving and printing and condl

tions have been a great deal harder for

them than for their sisters who hold

clerkships in other departments. Their

salaries are lower and as a rule they do not get the benefit of sick leave

which is accorded classified clerks,

From the very nature of their work these women are absent more than

women holding clerical positions, but whereas other clerks may be sick thirty days in each year without loss either of pay or annual leave, if these wo

men indulge in the luxury of sickness

they must do so at their own expense.

As most of them have only J5 davs

instead of the usual 30 days of annual leave, it does seem like a most unjust

discrimination. Mrs. Taft is the first wife of a pres

ident to interest herself seriously in the welfare of women employes of the government, and there is not a little

curiosity to see how much she will be

able to accomplish for them. She isn't going to hesitate to "lobby" with

senators and representatives in the

furtherance of her plans, and the chances are that statesmen will lend a

most sympathetic ear to the pleas of

the "first lady of the land."

Already Mrs. Taft has made, secure her poplarity among women employes

of the government, and if women were endowed with the elective franchise Mrs. Taft could have any office within their gift.

Swept Over Niagara This terrible calamity often happens because a careless boatman ignores the river's warnings - growing ripples

and faster current - Nature's warnings

are kind. That dull pain or ache in the back warns you the Kidneys need attention if you would escape fatal maladies Dropsy, Diabetes or Bright's disease. Take Electric Bitters at once

and see Backache fly and all your best feelings return. "After long suffering

from weak kidneys and lame back, one $1.00 bottle wholly cured me," writes J. R. Blankenship, of Belk, Tenn. Only 50c at A. G. Luken Sc, Co.

PREBLE FARMERS FOSif.1 A COMPAIIV Will Manufacture Denatured Alcohol.

Arrangements are being made by a number of Preble county farmers to organize a company to engage in the manufacture of denatured alcohol. It is proposed to construct a plant to cost about $3,0U0. Its location has not been determined upon. It is believed the plant would prove a success. There is no other in this section of the country. Denatured alcohol has a large number of uses and can be manufactured and sold at a large profit. Many Doctors Prescribe proprietary medicines under a Latin name, charging for the written prescription three times the cost of the medicine, and do not hesitate to condemn that self-same medicine if it is advertised or mentioned by the public. There are, however, many honest doctors who do not hesitate to openly recommend and prescribe such standard remedies as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

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TROOPS

TO EHCAMPMEIIT Two Batteries Will Be Sent to Federal Camp in Wisconsin.

PRACTICE WITH REGULARS

GOVERNMENT ARTILLERY WILL

BE DETAILED BY UNCLE SAM TO GIVE THE GUARDSMEN HINTS ON WARFARE.

Special Correspondent.

Indianapolis, Ind., April 16. It was

announced yesterday afternoon by Ad

jutant General Perry that it has been decided to send Battery A of this city, and Battery B, of Fort Wayne, to Sparta, Wis., to a camp of instruction

from August 21 to 30. The govern

ment will conduct the camp and .-i large number of batteries of regular

army artillery will be there. Several

states were asked by the war depart

ment to Bend two batteries each to

work with the regulars during the camp. Regular army officers will be detailed to instruct the National Guard batteries from the various states and the plan will be about the same as has heretofore been followed at the camp of instruction at Fort Benjamin

Harrison, near this city.

Indiana has three batteries of artillery, one at Indianapolis, one at

Fort Wayne and one at Rockville, and

Gen. Perry picked those at Indianapolis - and Fort Wayne , for the Sparta

camp.

BISHOP T0PREACH.

Bishop Joseph Francis of Indianapolis will preach Friday evening at seven-thirty o'clock in St. Paul's Episco

pal church.

The Limit. "What did the doctor say was the matter with you?" "He said he didnt know." "Well, what doctor are you going to next?' "None. When a doctor dares to make such an admission m that be must be about as high in his profession as be can get." London Mall.

Following Directions. . Mr. McRooney (slightly indisposed) 'Tls not enough av these pills yes got me, Norab. It says, begorry, "Take from two t' four tv'ry night," an', bad cess V mm, Oi've took thlm all, an' 'tis only quarter past 3. Puck.

Remarkable. "What was the most remarkable episode yon ever witnessed? "Wen, I once saw a woman close a street car door." Louisville Conrler-JouraaL

Up Before The Bar. N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pittsfield, Vt., writes: "We have used Dr. King's New Life Pills for years and find them such a good family medicine we wouldn't be without them. For Chills, Constipation, Biliousness or Sick Headache- they work wonders, 25c. A. G. Luken & Co.

''She's a corker!" "Who is7 "Why, that girl who works down af the bottle factory.

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PAN AMERICANS III CELEBRATION

Style and comfort are but two of the good points in the "TREMONT a collar which possesses

all the other good Arrow qualities

No other Cans at ass. a pair are as

Clastt, Pcabedy & Co.,

Novel Feast Given in Washing ton by Barrett to Cement. Friendship.

KNOX IS GUEST OF HONOR

BRILLIANT GATHERING WAS TO

EMPHASIZE THE CLOSER RELATIONS OF COMMERCE BETWEEN THE REPUBLICS.

Washington, April 16. Elaborate decorations, brilliant speeches by men of international prominence, and the greatest of good cheer and the kindliest of human fellowship, were the features which made the banquet given here last night in honor of Secretary of State Knox, chairmen, and the members of the governing board of the International Bureau of American Republics by John Barrett, director of the bureau, one of national and international significance. Ambassadors, foreign ministers, and others in the diplomatic service, the

vice president of the United States, the speaker of the house of representatives, members of congress, prominent government officials and others of national note, assured the success of the dinner by their presence. Contributing causes to that success.

however, were numerous. One of

them was the appropriateness of the

decorations and other settings. LatinAmerican flags, songs and dishes were

interspersed throughout the decorative

musical and prandial features of the program is that every one of the twen

ty-one American republics represented felt that it enjoyed its full and equal share of the festivities. , The guests were seated at twenty-

one small tables, each table being named after one of the republics whose representatives are serving their country here in a diplomatic capacity. In the center of each table was a cut glass

globe in which the colors of the coun

try were represented by various hued electric lights. Around each globe were eight small flags of the country

with another flag in the center reach

ing up from the top of the globe. Flags

and escutcheons of the twenty-one re

publics were carefully grouped around

the room, with the name of the coun

try underneath. At one end of the hall were large emblems bearing the

words "Peace, friendship, commerce.'

Palms, evergreens and flowers ' added

to the beauty of the scene:

Music, food, decorations, toasts, speeches were all international. Among

the dishes served were "ostras a la ter

ra del fuego," "Sopa Centro-Ameri

cana." "Pecado a la Mexicana," "pur-

chero sud-Americano," "cocktail Pan

Americano" and other dishes charac

teristic of Latin-America, most - of

them never having been served before

in Washington. Tremendous Applause Evoked.

Immediately after the drinking of a toast to the presidents of the American

republics, proposed by Director f Bar rett, the large banquet hall was dark

ened and to the sweet strains of music,

played by the Marine band 'from the national hymns of each of the repub

lics, a light was thrown on a screen at the end of the hall, displaying the flag of the country whose national hymn was being played at the moment. The

effect was novel and provoked tremen dous applause. Following the show

ing of each flag two stereoptlcon pictures of scenes In the contry represent

ed were shown. Secretary of State Knox, chairman ex-officio of the board of governors of the bureau; Ambacsador Nabuco of Brazil, Vice President Sherman, Speaker Cannon and Senator Root, responded to appropriate toasts, and the ministers of Costa Rica and Argentina also spoke briefly. The invocation was delivered by the apostolic delegate Mgr. Falcoaio. The object of the. dinner was to emphasize the development of closer' relations of commerce and friendship between the United States and her sister republics of Latin America. A poem, "Flags of the Western World," by Arthur Guiterman, was written especially for the dinner.

CLEARS THE COMPLEXION OVERNIGHT

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avail themselves of the special 50-cent package, recently adopted to meet such needs. Both the 50-cent package and the regular $2 jar may now be obtained in Richmond at W. H. Sud-

hofTs and other leading drug stores.

Samples for experimental purposes

may be had free of charge by writing

direct to the Emergency Laboratories, 32 West Twenty-fifth Street, New York City.

CINCINNATI $1.25 SUNDAY EX

CURSION

Pennsylvania Lines, April 18. Train leave Richmond; 1 a- m.

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PATENT COLT PUMP With leather Bow Ankle Straps to prevent slipping at heel. Hand sewed extension sole. Makes good dress and street shoe. Cuban Heel. Only $3.00 a pair. All sizes. All widths. RUSSIA CALF PUMP Ankle Straps, Medium light shade. Hand sewed. HIGH CUBAN HEEL. Very popular shoe for spring and summer wear. $3.00 a pair. IDEAL SPRING AND SUMMER SHOE Hand turned soles. Soft, black Kid. Tan Kid also in this shape and style. Easy from start, needs no breaking in. Patent Colt shoe also in this. Plain toe or tip. $3.00 a pair.

LADIES' BUCKSKIN OR SUEDE SHOES The, newest thing out. High Heel, Short Vamp Tip. The new London Smoke, Green, Blue or Black color to match any dress. An ideal shoe for spring and summer wear. Hand- sewed Soles,, Wave Tops. These Shoes; in Cincinnati and Chicago, sell at $8 and $9 a pair. Our price $5.00 a pair . Call in, we would like to show you.

LADIES' BUCKSKIN OXFORDS With Sbort Vamp and Tip, High Cuban Heels. A classy Oxford for Spring and Summer wear. Black, London Smoke, Blue and Green. These same colors in Ankle Strap Pumps. Never before have Oxfords of this quality been sold at such a low price. . Our Price, $4.00 a pair

A LIGHT-WEIGHT PATENT COLT OXFORD Hand-turned Sole, High Arch Last, Full two-inch Heel; very soft, flexible Sole. Princess Pattern. For dress it has no equal. Saxoa lso in Dark Tan. $3.50 a pair

A DARK TAN VICI KID OXFORD With medium Sole. Blucher Cut, looks like a high-grade Shoe. Wear we positively guarantee. $2.00 a pair PATENT COLT BLUCHER OXFORD With Extension Sole. Extra good value, even though $2 In price. This Shoe gives very good wear. It Is genuine Patent Colt Skin. Only $2.00

MISSES', CHILDREN'S AND BABIES' ANKLE STRAP SLIPPERS. Heavy, Single Sole, Hand-sewed Very popular for Summer wear. All colors, all grades. Baby's 75c and $1, Child's $1 and $1.50 Misses $1.50 and $2.00. GUN METAL CALF BLUCHER OXFORD Heavy Single Sole, Perforated Vamp and Tip. A stylish Shoe for Toung Men. A shoe that can't be duplicated anywhere at the price. The wear guaranteed. $3.50 a pair

GENUINE TAN, RUSSIA CALF. : OXFORD ' Process. Ideal Spring and Summer Shoe. Fit and wear guaranteed. $3.50 a pair

PATENT COLT SHOE For Business Wear Heavy Single Sole, Hand-sewed. Medium Wide Shape. Same Shoe tn Dark Tan. $4.00 pair . Oxfords on this Chicago Last, la Soft. Black VIcl. ft&SO a pair

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SODA WATER SOLD III SLOTMACMIIES New Device Was Placed on the Streets of Indianapolis Yesterday. AN INSPECTOR INTERFERES

WHEN ONE OF THE MACHINES WAS PLACED IN FRONT OF A DRUG STORE WAS ORDERED REMOVED FROM WALK. (Special Correspondent.) Indianapolis, April 16. Drop - a penny in the slot of a new f angled machine that made its appearance on

the streets in this city, yesterday, and

you get a glass of cold soda water,

minus the ice cream. ' But the machine lasted only a part of one day, for the building inspector put it off the streets. The soda water machine

is hexagonal in shape and has six

places for obtaining soda water. All

you have to do is to drop in your pen

ny and the machine does the rest.

When one of the machines was placed on the street In front of a drug

store the building inspector said that

it could not remain because it was an

unlawful obstruction of the sidewalk. So it disappeared, but the promoter

of the. scheme insists that before the

have more of them on the streets. The machine Is a novelty and attracted much attention. The company that puts them out said yesterday that they will be placed on the streets in several Indiana cities this season.

Small Mabel was restless the other night and was unable to sleep. Finally she said: "Papa, please sing to me That always makes me tired."

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