Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 178, 5 May 1909 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AN1 0I7N-TEIJ3O11AII, WEDNESDAY, MAT 5t 1CCD.

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Four years ago a boy of seven years, suffering from bone tuberculosis, was takes from the tenement home of his poor parent in New York to a hos pital at Coney Island for treatment It was regarded as a hopeless case, but ths physicians were determined to try to save the little fellow if human agen eies could do so. - He was stranned to board, and In that condition he remained season after season. His cheerful disposition and his never-fall Ins; smile became famous. His nhoto graphs were spread throughout the country. Appeals for the support of ths hospital and the general work of ths New York" association for Improving the Condition of the Poor were couched in the name of "Smiling Joe." Funds were gathered in fom all sources in consequence of this effective demonstration of the need of an institution where the children of the poor eould be given scientific care. It is estimated that no less than a quarter of a million dollars came in response to the appeal which "Smiling Joe" made to the people of the United States. Last Saturday the officials of the association gave a circus party In honor of "Smiling Joe," who had Just been discharged from the hospital, cured. The case is regarded as a scientific marvel, but It will appeal to the public more, eloquently than in scientific terms. , It shows what may be done with proper treatment in perhaps thousands of apparently hopeless cases sad what should be attempted In alL It emphasises the need of more liberal funds for the maintenance of the agen dee for the succor of the unfortunates. "Smiling Joe" has been only one of a multitude of tenement children in need of good food and medicines and fresh sir, and while it Is good to know that he has been cured, It is better to know that through the medium of the pictore of his pathetic little figure, strapped t6 . a board: but beaming brightly upon i the world, a large amount, of money has been placed at the disposal of the good people who are working far the. rescue of the afflicted. The charity problem presents many sides to the public attention. Chiefly, however, Is there need of large permanent endowments, yielding substantial revenues for the societies and the associations and other agencies striving to lessen the evils of ignorance and sloth sod Intemperance, t The best charity is that which goes at the roots of the; disease of poverty and seeks to cure it. : This cannot be done with out funds, and the case of "Smiling Joe'! suggests strongly that It can be . done tx funds are given. Washington Star. j HONORS TO MAJOR L'ENFANT. It is more than a century since Maj. L'EufanU a favorite engineer officer of Washington, laid out: the federal city.whlch eventually was named for ths Father of His Country. , George wasnington neuevea in tne young man, but he was temperamental to a degree and in later years he was scout ed as a', dreamer. Washington was called Sdty of houses without streets and of 'streets without houses. 1 1 The point 'was that the engineer forecasted the future. ': He laid out a city for fifty states instead of thirteen. But he was top fsr ahead of the wisdom of his time and left Washington In disgust and died a disappointed man. The ceremonies anent ths removal - of his bones to - Arlington - cemetery ' were appropriate and impressive. Here was a young foreigner who cast in his lot with us during the struggle for independence and t who fought bravely In peace and war for Ideals. He coulj Imagine things a century before they - happened. He waa a seer and a pro- - - A. 1 . .At. M m pneu ijikb many outers ox nis Kind, he was desd Jong before his dream came true. 1 The lesson Is obvious. Most of us are coldly material In our views and lack Imaginative quality. But it can not be doubted that a hundred years hence our present status will be looked back upon1 as crude. . We shall fait la our duty unless we also keep our eyes oft the future snd lay our plans la every way, not for the moment, but fjw :. atiuaJfon which nattritr 1 ;ars t eaje Washington la rapidly becoming one of the most beautiful dtl;H the' world, but It would be juw ci taore than the average recta nCar' American city save for the ge-tf-ji sad Imagination of a man who "tri considered a fool by the wiseacres " t2 Lti geserstlon. Philadelphia En-

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Anotomieal Displacement, rWhenever I interoret a song,',' said the musical youth," I put ' my whole heart into It" "Well! Well!" answered Mr. Cumrox. "No wonder' it sounds kind o' painful at 'times," A Low Percentage ef Points. - "Possession," said the readymade philosopher, "is nine points of the law." . , - "Yes," answered; Mr. Dustin St ax; but where my interests demand what someone else possesses, my skilled at torneys can prolong the game to an indefinite number of points." Applause in Waiting. Among the orators who take A chance on sapient speech in turn He'll , be the favorite who Bhall make The final motion to adjourn. A Victim of ths "Cops." - ' "There is no number so unlucky as thirteen," said the superstitious per son., j "Yes, there is," answered Mr, Chuggins. "I don't remember it. but it's on the back of my motor car." Diagnosis. "Your baby cries a great deal." '"Yes." answered Mr. Bliegins. "It Isnt well." ,' : ' "What's the ailment?" "I don't know. The only thing I'm sure of is that it isn't the sleeping sickness. PUBLIC SUPPORT OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN When the public accounting com mission gets to work, it will invest! gate county exenditures. One thing needing correction is the custom of paying for the support of children who are public wards. - In many counties these children are cared for by private associations, the county paying a spec! fled amount per day toward the sup port of each child. ; As long ago as 1807 a law was passed which contemplated that the coun ties should be required to pay only for such children as were properly com mitted by a public official, or were known to have no means of support. It was the Intention to reach, by this law, a custom which had become noto rious in certain parts of the state, that of receiving for care at public expense children whose parents were entirely able to support them. In 1907. the leg islature passed another law on this subject,' the effect of which was to strengthen the 1897 law, making it 11 legal for a county to pay for the main tenance of a child unless . that child had been declared a public ward by the juvenile court , - . Unfortunately this law is not always obeyed. ; In some counties bills pre sented by the orphans' home associa tions are paid by the counties without the : slightest attempt to ! ascertain whether the claims are - legal or not An example of this was found a short time, ago in Shelby county, when the agent of . the Board of State Charities examined the claim of the Orphans Home association against the county for the preceding quarter. The claim was for the maintenance of thirty chil dren, but an examination of the juve nile court records indicated that only two children had ever been made pub lie wards. . Eight of the thirty had been sent to the Home since the passage of i the 1907 law. The agent found further that one. child, who was included in the bill had been placed in a; family home the preceding "August and had therefore been off public sup port for nearly seven months. The next week the same agent was in Montgomery county. There he found that the county had just paid a claim for the maintenance of 'twenty six children, not one of whom had ever been made a public ward. In one case the - association was collecting from the county for four children whose board ? in the home was being paid by their father. These are but samples of what the Board of State charities believes can be found in a number of other coun ties. It is not believed that it was the intent to do any wrong. The prac tice has grown up and become a cus tom. It is a condition which should be corrected at once. If it is not done now by the associations or - the com missioners, it will doubtless be forced upon these various boards later by the public accounting commission. The first concern is. of course, for the chil dren. Without a court proceeding, good families hesitate to take depend ent children into their homes, for fear of being annoyed later on by worthless parents or : relatives. Many a f de pendent child has lost a good home !ri that way. On the other hand the pub lic funds should be handled in a legal and business-like way. i..--. - , Ant Sauce. "During the lumbering operations in the Canadian backwoods in the win ter said k' lumberman, "the French workmen you know the French eat cocks' combs and snails and skateseason their beans and bacon with ant sauce. Nearly every tree that falls. you know, discovers a great colony of red or brown ants. These,. the French woodmen say. have an acidy, agree able taste.' They tone up the food like tomato catchup or pickled walnuts. They dry the ants and eat them with a plentiful sprinkling of salt and pep per, or they steep them In molssees. Strange to say. ant sauce, taken, mod erately, seems to improve the health. Aw . and then, though, the French men take too much of it, when their eyes become "bloodshot and they shake an over as with palsy, exhibiting the symptoms of a man recovering from drunkenness." MASONIC CALENDAR. Wednesday. May 5 Webb Lodge. No. 24. F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Master Masons degree. Thursday May X 6 Wayne Council No. lO. R. and S. M. ; Stated assembly and work oa two candidates. 3

COMMITTEE GRATEFUL By the direction of and In behalf of the republican city committee, the thanks and appreciation of the committee, is hereby ; extended to the press, republicans generally, and particularly ; to all candidates in the . primary of May 3. for. the efficient aid extended us, in faithfully carrying out the rules made for the government of the same. (Signed) George G. Ferling, chairman. Carl L. Baker, Sec'y.

Heart to Heart 1 alks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye TWO BOOTBLACKS AND BUSINESS. A magazine writer tells the story of two bootblacks who were - soliciting trade on a crowded thoroughfare one Saturday afternoon. : The two boys had no regular stand. Each had his box slung over a shoul der, and they stood near the curbstone crying their business to the passersby. , But there was a difference In the boys. Each had bis cry, composed of four words, and never varied it. The first boy cried out, "Shine your shoes here!" The second boy solicited his custom by shouting. "Get your Sunday shiner Note the difference? The cry of the first, boy announced the simple fact that be was in the shoo shining business for any one who should desire his services. The second boy's cry was more significant. It was Saturday afternoon. The hour was 4 o'clock. The cry carried with It the fact that tomorrow was Sunday and it probably would be a pleasant day; that he (the bootblack) knew an extra shine was needed; that he who went to church or walked in the parks on the morrow owed it to his self respect to present a good appearance, and. lastly, that he was there to do the business. " Do you see why the second boy got the larger share of the business? He had imagination. He linked facts together. T He conveyed suggestions. His cry told all the other boy said and more. There Is in the incident an object lesson in the problem of modern business.; ' ,' y Imagination in business Is money. The successful merchant uses it. He projects his Imagination In such a way as to reach the mind of his customers and by suggestion causes them to buy his wares. ? . The inventor can do nothing without imagination nor,.tb promoter, nor the engineer, nor the architect or builder. The professional man must have imagination: Even the farmer or breeder needs It. , t . And yetOccasionally you hear of a parent who does not want his .child to read fairy stories or believe in Santa Claus. He Is a practical man himself, and he wants his children taught practical things, etc. - ; . . . . He fails to see the large place occupied by the imagination. , : The man who Is without Imagination misses much of the pleasure in life. He dreams no dreams. Unseen things of beauty are not for him. Besides , He misses a big asset in .business. KILLING A MOTHER. The state of New York killed Mary Farmer, wife and mother, last month. ' .It was a sickening story. They harnessed the woman in a chair, having shaved her head, and the executioner .described an arc with a lever, sending the deadly current into her convulsed frame." . And then After examination they found that Mrs. Farmer still had a spark of the life that God bad given her, and again the electricity. W'arden-4 Bonbam telegraphed the governor following the execution: ; ."There were no , distressing Incidents." In the estimation of the calloused warden the killing had been done with neatness and dispatch. ' No distressing incidents? ; Was it no distressing incident that s wife was being killed by the state while her husband prayed in his cell; that ' a baby boy should be made an orphan; that every woman . in the land should be shocked at the dishonor done her sex;, that, society should be brutalized by the spectacle; that the dial of civilization should be moved backward? No distressing incidents? ""Why, the whole life of Mary Farmer -was a distressing incident. - She was a poor, ignorant woman who never had a chance. . Both heredity, and, environment combined to make he;r what she was. Her surroundings had calloused her heart snd stunted her mind. Society made her what she was snd then killed her for being what she-was snd doing what she did I , Is that too strong? . But can you expert .anything bat degradation and 1 disease and crime from the Mary Farmers whom society feeds with the measly crumbs, thrown from its sumptuous tables? ; ; Msrys Farmer went to her own place --the' place the world made for her. Under provocation she did just what might hare been expected of her. To say4 this is not to condone her crime, but the pity of It I vWhen the history of oar times Is read by the people of 2000 they win be horrified to lean that commonwealths officially "killed Ignorant and erring women " Without "distressing Incidents." " The wages of the coolies who raise tea la Ceylon vary from &33 to 11.08 cents a day. They are. however, housed free and get rice at cost pries.

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Pittsburg Boodlers Were Heavily Fined and Sen- , tenced Today. TRIED TO CORRUPT COUNCIL t MEN WERE FOUND GUILTY OF OFFERING BRIBES TO SECURE THE BANK DEPOSIT OF THE - MUNICIPAL FUNDS. ... t Pittsburg, Pa., May 3. For alleged corruption of councilmen, by bribery, in securing the bank deposits of city funds, former councilman, John Klein, was today sentenced to a fine of fifteen hundred dollars and costs, and three and a half years in the penitentiary! The former president of the council got a five hundred dollars fine and a year and a half imprisonment. Former Banker W.?W. Ramsay got a one thousand dollar fine and a year and a half imprisonment. H. M. Bo!ger, a hotel proprietor, was fined five hundred dollars and given two years sentence. Cbas. and John Colbert, juror "fixers," were each fined five hundred dollars and given two years' imprisonment. SECRETARY BROWN SLOWLY IMPROVES Condition Still Critical, Will Recover. But Sharon E. Jones of this city has received word from Mrs. Charles Brown of Michigan City, stating that her bus band is slowly improving from the re suits of an operation undergone a few weeks ago. While he is in a critical condition still, yet hopes for his ultimate recovery are entertained. Mr, Brown was subecriptlon secretary for the local Y. M. C. A.

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Report That Patten by Wire, Secures Control of Mark- ' et, the Cause. RECORD PRICE IS REACHED Chicago, May 5. Persistent rumors that James Patten is in control of the wheat market, by private wire from Bartlett ranch, New Mexico, sent wheat soaring " again today. May wheat sold at a dollar twenty-nine and a half cents during the first hour. This Is the highest for ten years. ASSOCIATION IS III HEED OF FUNDS Must Discontinue Charity Work Unless Secured. It is imperative that the Associated charities have funds in order to meet expenses incurred during the past' winter and to carry on the work next fall and winter. At the meeting yesterday afternoon it was reported that the association was $200 in debt. . Mrs, Candler, city missionary, states that the work will have to be discontinued unless the deficit is raised, and the different churches meet their apportionment. RAILROAD FINED FOUIOLATIOH Total Fines and Costs Amount To $2,000: Washington, May 5. The depart ment of justice announced today that the Missouri, Kansas ft Texas railroad had entered a plea of guilty to two indictments for violation of established rates. The total fine of $2,000 and costs was imposed.

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