Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 176, 3 May 1909 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, MAT 3, 1SG3.

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Utter. ........ Vwa Bltr. euzsczuprvxt tsrms. In Plshsaoad N.4 par swar (la ad- . vane) or lfte pr week. MAX! SUBSCRIPTIONS, gne yar. 1a advanc ....... .....$oo As months, la advano .. z.e One month, la advanc M RURAL ROUTK& One ytmr. In advanc ft.ee Six months, In advanc LIS Oa ssontb la advano .J6 Addr shunted aa eftaa aa desired; heth now and aid addresses most b driven, j:'..:,;. : Subscribers wfl! nlaaie rtMt with order, which should b given for a specified tar at; cin will not b nterd antU payment is received. Kn tared at Richmond, radians nestxleo as aaeond oLm mM. matter. S e t mmi e mwmw m ' ' Th aeenrieftna af Adverts (Now Yark City) has esnartaea aad oertllltd ta the atmslatiaa j af tala aabttaatlaa. Oal ta turarss of 4 ist stall ia lta rape an t - . e . ... . 4J CONCERNING THE WEATHER BUREAU. Everybody's Magazine for April contained a lone and violent attack upon the weather bureau, accusing it with being; non-progressive, untrustworthy and offensively partisan. From the expression a we see everywhere, public sentiment takes little or no stock in these accusations. In the first place, it is absolutely known that the weather bureau is the most nonpolitical feature of - our government. Politics has been absolutely ostracised. Can it be possible that this fact has had anything to do with the attack? And then.; it Is not true that the weather Bureau has not been progressive. It has increased the length of Its prediction period and extended the cope of Us service so that it reaches nearly every neighborhood promptly. It has also broadened the field of its data in order to strengthen Its forecasts, which has been accomplished In view of the Increased period of prediction. Tha people never expected certainty of the Weather bureau. They began calling it "Old Probabilities," and have kept It up ever since. It is not In the nature of things to predict definitely what the weather is going to be ' one day after another. ; All that one can say is. based upon certain observations, what -; it will likely be one or two days hence. Scientific weather prediction never claimed anything: else. Cleveland Abbe, the original projector Of the weather bureau, developed his plan to the writer of this article before he proposed it to the government, and said at the time that he expected the forecasts would come true seven or eight times out of ten. And that point has been reachad. and there is little probability of going far beyond it. until the area of conditions has been materially extended. . : But the people have been satisfied with trustworthy probabilities. They consult them every day, and exper lence has rather confirmed than weakened the habit. If the morning be bright and clear, they expect rain by night, if the weather bureau sava so, and in the long run. are disap pointed oniy one time out of five. So It has come to be a matter of faith rather than credulity. Ohio State Journal. TWINKLES Invtsttnf Hit Profits. "What are you going to do with the money you get for your crops this yearT" I guess I'll ait one o' these Jin centaurs I read about in a honk to jxm the new carriage I bought last 'year. ' "Why, a centaur is an imaginary creature." "Well,, this is an . imaginary car Tiage.w - No Prophet . "I suppose you have to be clever at foreseeing thing in Wall street." "No," answered Mr. Dustin Stax; 4T let the lambs do the foreseeinar. merely arrange to take a rake-off no matter what happens." The Vernal Songster. The merry pringtime smiles once more. The south winda rustle mid the ' trees. Yet .mournful is the troubadour, ' Ha cannot sing; he has to sneeze. Hia Experience. "Is Chicago a healthy placer "It's all right except for one thing . answered the New Yorker, "it al ways makes you terribly homesick." Frm Santtmant to Economy. - Vim Reginald as literary aa he used to ber' said one young woman. "Yd, answerdd the other. "Only his tastes have changed. Before we were married he used to recite Omar -Khayyam. Now he recites Poor,. Rich erffe aaaxlms.- ' . ' Trottar Daring nay travels la Italy I wa cs2;t&rtd bennd and gagstd bf ISs Caasr--Cow romantic; Were tTaay sttytaiatg like the bandits In the . TSt . PratUfKe. Indeed. Tfae gags thay C2ra were sn

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Items Gathered in From Far and Near And Shell Out. From the Dayton Herald. The Ni agara will soon thaw out Then the people there can resume their delight ful occupation of making the visitors thaw out. "",,,BB1B Be Cheerful Anyway. From the Indianapolis News. The one thing that the farmer is always advised to cultivate is a cheerful disposition. -Washington Star. Yet there is nothing that is more likely to get a frost Sympathy and 6ense. From the New York Sun. A soft spot in a judge's heart is a good thing it It is supervised by a hard spot higher up. Almost, But Not Quite. From the Baltimore Sun. Turkey comes nearer going to pieces without going than any other country in the world. - Popularising Himself. From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times. The discovery that President Taft is fond of peanuts will further endear him to the populace. Passing of th Old Maid. From the Atlanta Constitution. There are no more old maids nowadays. Instead, they ere women "who chose to pursue careers. Looks Like Bryan. From the Brooklyn Eagle. The genius of the democratic party for discovering unpopular issues is again demonstrated - in the resolve of the democratic senators to support an income tax. Prevention. From the Chicago Tribune. It isn't any of our business, eut might not those disastrous gorges in the Niagara river be abated just a little by dredging out that sandbar near the mouth of the river? Patten the Patriot. From the Birmingham News. Pat ten says he was not in the game elm ply for the money. Maybe he had fig ured on how well "Patten the Patriot' would sound. The Chief Criminal. From the Charleston News and Courier. No convict in stripes is so wicked as the mosquito behind the bar. Do Your Best. The quality which yon put into your work will determine the quality of your Ufa. The habit of Insisting upon the best of which you are capable, of always demanding of yourself the highest never accepting the lowest or second best, no matter bow small your remuneration, will make all the differanew to you between failure and success. Orison Swett Marden in Sc ccss Itafaaln. 'y;vKx . A feinted Hint. : An author engaged a young lady typewriter to take down hia new novel from dictation. At the passage "Oh. my adorable angel, accept the confession from ; my "Bp that 1 cannot exist without yon! Make me happy. Come and chars my lot and be mine until death do ua part!" his fair secretary mused and tngwanonsly inquired.' "la that to go down with th rest r Exchange.

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BUSINESS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK BY HENRY CLEWS

Gradually and surely the country is drawing away from the effects of the late panic. Depression may not have yet entirely disappeared; readjustment is still incomplete, and the horizon ia not entirely free of uncertainties. Here and there are complaints of dull business; occasionally there are evidences of lack of employment and over production; enterprise sometimes lacks 6pirit and everywhere there is still that disposition to caution which is always characteristic of past panic peri oda. Perhaps no more convincing evidence of business depression could be found than the excessively easy money which has prevailed for the past twelve months, not only here but abroad, showing that similar conditions prevail in all parts of the commercial world. But these are all conditions which reflect the past; they are constantly disappearing, and every observer in touch with affairs knows that curative forces are running quietly but strongly on the road to recovery. In nearly all of our great industries it must be admitted that primary conditions are sound, that credit has been purged of the rottenness that brought on the panic, that speculation is less reckless, that consumption is increas ing, that confidence is reviving, that industry and traffic are returning to their old proportions and that so far as the volume of business is concerned the indications are tbat the previa nie level will soon be reached, if not entirely passed, as it ought to be with - the FAraiir fekce: A Practical Theory of Child Training Up to Date. The modern theory of child training is to shift the responsibility of wrongdoing to aschlld's own shoulders. It is early taught to weigh right and wrong and count the cost , Mothers who are In despair over the behavior of their children should try making them free agents. Show them plainly how unpopular they are making themselves by their horrid behavior. Appeal to the reason. Teach them to form their own decisions and abide by the results. A child so trained usually acquires self control when other children are having parental control punished into them. ' - '' This method of training is not feasible, however, unless parents have the good judgment to keep in such close touch with their little ones that they can act as counselor, as a last court of appeals and as presiding judge, whose decisions are final. A mother of a large and Interesting family said. "If I bad a dozen children I would have to evolve a different way to train each one according to its idiosyncrasies.' ' Instead of mourning over a child's misconduct, study to make It good In spite of Itself. Keep It so well tbat a happy disposition comes natural Teach Mary or John self government but at the same time let It be thoroughly understood that yon are governor In chief in disputed points. . One mother who had Mess on self rule for her children allowed those children to be terrors to the neighborhood. Even In church she would sit placidly by while they crawled under the pews to pmch the worshipers in front or slyly run pins Into the next person. A mother who does not know the dlfferenca between self " control and lack of control had" better abide by Kolnmooic. nractnta af fe04vhiM

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IN NEW YORK our steady growth of population. In one Vespect only , is the outlook not entirely satisfactory; profits have been severely curtailed,' and are not likely to regain their former standard until further economies have been' introduced and extravagances. more completely eliminated. Fortunately the 'panic has not fallen as severely as usual upon labor; the number of unemployed never having been disproportionately large, and the reductions in wages being few and unimportant. The panic fell hardest upon those in moderate circumstances with fixed incomes; for. owing to the high prices for food and clothing, the cost of living has been excessive and threatens to continue so until our farmers make the earth produce more abundantly and do their legitimate, part towards rebuilding national prosperity. . At present our farmers are distinctly a favored class, and they are welcome to all their good fortune; but big profits evidently have the same effect upon them as upon other people, promoting laziness and discouraging the best methods and largest production. Our crops could easily be sufficiently augmented by more careful and more scientific cultivation, thus giving the farmer a larger gross profit and the country the blessing of cheap food and cheap clothing, which It must have If we are to really prosper. s Of course, the present high coat of living is not entirely due to the farmer; nevertheless he is largely responsible and ought to be frankly told so. . Applied judiciously, tbe method of making a boy or girl a free agent has been found to work well in the interest of family peace. GIFT FOR TRAVELER. Nothing More Acceptable Than a Graj Suode Pocket. If you have a friend who Is about tc start on a long journey you could make her no more acceptable parting gift than a safety pocket to be worn under the dress, in it can go extra money and jewels without fear of loss or robbers. , ' ' Such pockets can be made of many materials and In several different styles, but the following one will be found generally acceptable: A pocket is made from gray suede or a piece of chamois eleven inches long, six Inches wide at bottom and five inches at top. The bottom is rounded, and the top is cut square across. Two pieces of leather are cut and the edges stifcVed together on the machine about halfway up. An inner pocket of stout gray cambric is sewed on the inside of the suede, the edges finished with nickel rims and a atout clasp.; ' -;- .One side of the leather is then' cut shorter than the other, which folds down over tbe purse in a flap. This Is fastened by snap clasps such as are used on gloves. One Is sewed on each side of the flap for extra security. On the underside of the case an extra piece of the leather or chamois Is stitched to form a fiat pocket This Is stitched up the center as well as on edges to form two narrow pockets for bills or jewels. A shallow flap is added, which also fastens with the snap Clasps. English Countess (admiringly) Tour gown is just ripping, my dear. American Countess (in alarm) Oh, where? Baltimore American,

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WORLD'S RACE. Tke Haw Yk World SlSySSS airahl. rtM tmm taa "Herat la oflra te ta wk, darfava the) ttnd Wmi mletmttlM ta IS), Uata ta taa air etta a eeaealea.il j revelled alnala tat trla et Robert Faltea'e aret etaaaiaaat from New Yark to Albany a ceatarr If eaare than mum aarsoa dalleatee taa teat taa artaa will ta taa aaateataat auOclaar the faeteat rtaie. COUNTRY SHOWS A BIG DECREASE AMONG CHILDREN However There Will Be a Slight Gain Shown by the County Through the Increase in Richmond. IS ESTIMATED THERE ARE 10,000 CHILDREN On ThiS'Showim Wayne Ap portfonment im State Treasury Will B&in Neigh ' bbrhorjg of $30,( Although but Incomplete returns have been received by county super intendent Charles Jordan. . on the school enumeration of Wayne county, yet it is believed by him a gain, close to 200, will be shown for the year. The gain in the county is almost en tirely due to the gain made in Rich mond. , . , : The enumeration in Richmond and the towns in which there are commissioned schools was taken separately from that of the township. All of the reports for the districts where there are commissioned schools, except Spring Grove, show a gain, but in the townships the reports show a loss, The losses in Boston, Washington and Greene townships are specially surprising to Mr. Jordan. In Jefferson township the enumeration for this year, as compared with last, shows that neither a gain nor a loss was experienced. Amount of Apportionment. The total number of persons of school age in the county ia not known by Mr. Jordan owing to the incomplete returns, but it will be In the neighborhood of .10.O0O. The report, upon completion, will be made to State Superintendent of Instruction Aley. He will, upon receipt of the enumerations from' the 93 counties, apportion out the amount to be given each county on the ratio of the number of children reported In the school enuemration. The per capita usually runs to about $3 per person of school age. This will make the amount Wayne county is to receive approximately $30,000. basing the estimate on the probability of there being 10,000 persons of school age in the county. The allotment is made In two payments, one in July and the other in January. , The report of the enumerators to Mr. Jordan is as follows: Number of Children. Abington township 158. Gain 13. Boston townshi? 176. Loss 20. Center townsliip 314. Loss 3. Clay township 216. Gain 1. Franklin township 251. Loss 1. - Greene township 249. Gain 29. Harrison township 112. Loss 2. ' Jackson township 251. Loss 21. - Jefferson township 218. Samel New Garden township 315. Lose 4. Perry township 149. Loss 9. r Washington township 201. Loss 20. Wayne township not in. Webster township 117." Loss 9. Cambridge City 424. Gain 20. CenterviHe ITS. Gain 8. t Dublin 152. Same. Hagerstown l&g. Gain 24. f Milton 183. Gain 12. Spring Grove 13. " Loss 4. Richmond 4.987. Gain 173. MASONIC CALENDAR. Monday. May 3 Richmond Com maadery. No. e K. T. Stated con clave. Tuesday. May 4 Richmond Lodge, No. 196. F. and A. M Stated meeting. Wednesday, May "Webb Lodge. No. 24. F. and A- M. Called meetingWork In Master Masona degree. Thursday. Msy O Wayne Council No. lO, ft and S. M. V Stated assembly and work oft two candidates.

STA TE HEALTH

Hygiene can drive all Infectious aad i' coatagioua diseasaa from the earth. Here is the record of what these diseases did to Indiana in 190S. . Deaths. Cases. 1 Meningitis ............ 319 1.000 Lockjaw 0 72 .Acute bronchitis ....... 226 10.000 Chronic bronchitis .... 216 1.000 Pneumonia ........... 2.269 20.000 Diarrhoea 2.1S9 2J0.0O0 Puerperal fever 164 1.60 Tvohoid fever ........ SS5 10.000 Malarial fever S3 S30 Smallpox 10 6.000 1 Measles 209 S0.000 Scarlet fever 95 i.000 Whooping cough ...... 416 50.000 Diphtheria 316 12.500 Influenza S67 -0.000 Dysentery 2D3 2,000 Hydrophobia 5 50 Tuberculosis 4.627 20.000 Gonorrhoea 50,000 Total 13,455 309.990 Would It oar to save 13.455 lives each yer and prevent 309.990 cases of sickness 7 To answer, we win asK now much streneth. happiness and wealth did the state derive from these 13,453 nreventahle deaths and from the 09.990 cases of preventable sickness? Let us assume that one-halt or tne lost lives were cf no value to the state. That makes 6.T27 Uvea worth saving. At 15.000 each, the court value or a life, we have a loss of $31,635,000.

THE SCRAP BOOK

The Parrot's Greeting. A young sailor aent a gray Belgian parrot to bis parents. The bird swore terribly. It was only for the sake of the fiver tbat the family kept it But keep it they did. and day and night the house resounded with its shrill oaths. When the minister called they threw a cloth over the cage. The minister called every Thursday evening regularly; but once, collecting for an oyster supper, he called on a Saturday evening as welt His call was unexpected, bat they got the cloth on the cage In time. The minister had Just begun to talk about the slushy weather when from beneath the cloth came a loud squawk -Well, 111 be r roared the parrot "This bas been a Short week I" Ho Wouldn't Toll. The wily Wu Ting Fang, tb minister from China, whose frank and penetrating questionings made him the joy of newspaper men and the ban of the diplomat once met hia match In a brief encounter with E. H. Barrlman. tbe railroad magnate. Mr. Wu opened on Mr. Harrlman with this naive In quiry: -How did yon get control of all these railroads? What did you do?" Mr. Hani man smiled and replied: "I can answer you best by a story about a prominent capitalist whom I once met. He waa summoned to court as a witness and was being questioned as to his personal affairs. court I "Nothing, was tbe unexpected answer. 'Well, what Is your Income from an sources, then? continued the court M 'Nothing, maintained the witness. "'What! Do you mean to say yon have no income whatever?" -Tes. 'How much do you spend In yesr? " 'About $40,000 or so. " if you have no Income, yet spend $00,000 a yesr. how do you do ltr was tbe sharp rejoinder. M 'Ah.' was the response, tbat is my ecretr- ' teak the Truth. If any man la able to conVinc sae and show me that I do not think or act right I will gladly change, for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever Injured. But be la injured who abide In hts error aad ttswueeMsrcus Anreliua Antonlna. Where G. B. S. Drew the Line. When George Bernard Shaw commenced his career as a critic be would not wear evening clothes. So at the vaudeville one night he was stopped at the entrance to toe stalls by aa usher, who didn't know him. "Ton can't come in like that" the usher said. -What do you object to the Telvet coat?" 6aid Mr. Shaw. The usher nodded sternly, i "Very well; It shall come off." And in a jiffy tbe slender critic stood before tbe oflclal In shirt sleeves of soft, pure, hygienic flannel. "That won't dor gasped the usher. "Won't dor said Mr. Shaw. "Welt you needn't think I'm going to take off any more. 1 should like to see this play very much, but I don't propose to run the risk of being mistaken for n society dowager." .And. laughing in his most Uaphlstophellan manner, be put on his coat again and departed. Where Friendship "Never heard what broke up their friendship? Dear me: I thought every one had heard that Brown ts engaged, yon know." - "Oh, yea, Pre heard that Was White in love with the aaase nirir "No, no; not at ail. But White saw her portrait tn Brown's room and asked wbesw ft waa.-' - " 'It's a picture of say tancsc. said Brown. - : - :.,, i.i .- "White examined It critically and then pot It down, .with the remark that she must" be very rich. I do? know what happened after that hut White waa taken home In n cab. aad neither of thess waa seen oat of doors for a ;". Bungled It Oe had pleaded the "detained at the dee" and the "balancing tbe hooka" excuses so often tbat they had became transparent, so when ha arrived home lata en a mecat to lean on the truth.

iREPORT 1908

Sickness, of coarsa. coats money. How much? Somebody mast pay the cost. Let us say each case costs on the average. $5.00. Some didn't cost thirty centa. but the majority cost not less than $100.00. To have pneumonia, typhoid fever, consumption and diphtheria is very costly. ' Accepting the average cost of each case of preventapie sicaness to oe u-uv. men tne total cost was $1,549,995. This, added to ' the death cost makes $33.1S4.995. A tidy sum. and hygiene knows how to save it. Now. just to throw a Kop to the fellow who alwaya calla the other fellow a crank, when he is told something new, let us cut down the estimate, say. $13,134,995, and then we have a loss of $20,000,000. 1 won't cut any more. It m ould not be reasonable. And. If I did. the carper would only want to cut again. Welt what shall we do about the loss? Ijct It go on? Don't you think we had better employ hygiene? The cost of prevention would not be one-tenth the cost of having these deaths and cases of disease. Of course, we mill employ prevention sometime, otherwise we would not -progress In civilization. But why not . do it now? Will it be stupidity and extravagance not to employ prevention, or would It be smartness and economy? The last legislature appropriated $14.5"U ror ngnting aisease among numan beings and at the same time appropriated $15,000 for fighting diaeasea of bees and diseases of plants. Scrina. uT dear. I cannot tell a lie. r- stammered the delinquent. Then youte even more intoxicated than I thought Go to bed." Cause Fee Lively Oedgina. Two farm bands were set upon by a huge bull while crossing a rocky field. An. maIm a f bk iktlu. took refuge In a hole that proved to have aa exit ta tbe rear. The man who had chosen tbe hole was no sooner in at one end than he waa out at the other. With a bellow tbe bull made for him. Be turned and again shot like lightning through the hole. . The bull once snore bore down upon him as be came out the other end. and once more he was In and then out of the other end of his hole. This strange pursuit kept up some ten minutes or more. At first It mystified the farm hand up ta the tree. Then It angered him. "Heyr he shouted. "Ye danged nincompoop, why don't ya stay la the holer The bull was dashing around outside from one end of the hole to the other at great speed, and tbe man was bobbing In and out desperately. He heard, however, hia comrade's about and found time before his nest brief disappearance to shout back: "Dangod nincompoop yerseU! There's n bear In the bole! Union af Seals. "What greater thins ta there for two human souls than to feel that they are Joined for life, to strengthen each other In all labor, to rest on each other In all sorrow, to minster to each other In all pain, to be with each other In silent unspeakable memories at the anemont of the last narttner A Matter of Training. When Josephine was six years old Uhe was taken for the first time to see a trained animal ahow and came home much pleased with the performance. Aa she was at times slow to obey, mamma thought this a good tune te teach a lesson, no she said. "Don? you think. Josephine. If dogs and ponies aad monkeys can learn to obey so welt that a little girl like you, who knows tnnch more than tb a alma la. should obey even more quickly T' , "Of course I would, mamma.' caase the instant reply, "if 1 had only bees as well trained as they have." A Canadian minister had Inst ried n couple. The registers were afencd, and nothing re allied but the tiring and taking of the fee. ' The bridegroom, a strapping young fellow, asked. "How much Is ltr The paraost glanced at tbe smiling bride and alyly answered. "Whatever you think lfa worth." Now, it should have been worth n good deal, for the girl was young and pretty. "I reckon lfa worth about 80 cents." said the swam, holding- out two quarters. , Tbe clergy man looked blankly at th coins, then turned to the fair one. "Ill leave It to you.' madam." he amid. "What do you think it's worthr What did this young and blushing bride do? She reached out took th coin, handed one quarter to the salalst er and put the other Into her pocket. "A thrifty wife." said the Canadian. with a sigh. "Is her husband's

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