Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 350, 25 October 1909 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND .PAMADIU3I AXD SUN-TELYEGRA31Y MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1909.

MISSOURI TRIES SAflD-GUMBO ROAD

Stretch of One Mile Already Constructed, Found to Be Satisfactory.

PROVES TO BE INEXPENSIVE

USE OF MATERIALS AT HAND RESULTS IN CUTTING THE COST BELOW FIGURE OF $1,000 FOR A MILE.

Columbia, Mo., Oct. 25. A stretch of Band-gumbo road, the first in Missouri, has just been built in Mississippi county. It is one mile long and extends north of Charleston. The road was built as an experiment by Curtis 11111, state highway engineer. Sand-clay roads have been in use several years in the state of Mississippi and other places, and they have proved successful. The road at Charleston was a sand bottom, in "which wagon wheels often went to the hub. The first work was to clean out the ditches, so that it could be properly drained. Then a trough sixteen feet wide was made. Gumbo was hauled and placed in this trough and mixed with the sand. The mixing was done by plows, disc harrows and toothed harrows. A sprinkler was used to get the gumbo wet. All was mixed together and then the road was rolled. In time this mixture hardened so that it becameceinented together in such a manner as to turn water. "I am trying to build roads out of the materials at hand, with the smallest expense possible," said Mr. Hill. "There are six counties In Southeast Missouri, known as the lowlands, where there is no , rock to construct roads. They have plenty of sand and gumbo. That is what we have tried down at Charleston. "These roads are not expensive. It rosta less than $1,000 to build a mile down in Mississippi county. The money was raised by donations solicited by J. Russell Ellis, the county highway engineer. J. El Warner, the engineer of Scott county, saw the work done, and he is now raising money for a road in his county, which touches Mississippi county on the north." The county courts of only sixteen counties In Missouri took advantage of the law passed by the last legislature and levied a special road tax of twenty-five cents on the $100 valuation, according to the state highway engineer. These counties are Boll nger, Cole, Cedar, Harrison, Howard, Jasper, Knox, Mississippi, Monroe, Newton, St. Clair, Saline, Schuyler, Stoddard, Webster and Worth. Twenty-nine other counties assessed a portion of the levy. Nine counties of Missouri have township organizations, and the special road tax creates a township instead of a county fund. They are Bates, Carroll, Chariton, DeKalb, Henry, Mercer, Nodaway, Sullivan and Vernon. The special road tax creates a fund under the control of the county court. It Is assessed against all the property in t!i3' county. The general road tax which may be twenty cents on a $100 valuation. Is assessed against property not in corporate limits of towns and cities. This last fund is divided Among the road districts of the county.

A RUSH OF BUSINESS.

It Cam Just at the Tim He Wanted to Sell His Place. One of the leading men of Louisville, reported to be one of the richest, got a bad start In business. He began by being a photographer, but found that the business didn't come up to expectations. He therefore wisely decided to sell oat and start at something else. He finally Interested some people in the proposition and appointed a time when they should come and look things over. He now has the reputation of being shrewd,1 and that this is not a complimentary designation only is indicated by what happened then. He inverted an advertisement in the dally papers in small enough type not to attract every body's attention and yet conspicuously enough to win consideration from those who make a point of looking for bargains, announcing that on a certain day he would take pictures free of charge. By a coincidence the day he set was the day when the prospective purchasers of bis business were to be there. The ad, as usual, paid, and that afternoon his gallery was crowded with visitor. They thronged In and out, and he could not take care of them rapidly enough, even with the aid of several assistants. When the folks he Intended to do business with came he greeted them with a crown of disappointment, explaining that he was simply so busy that he couldn't see them then and asked them to come back in the morning, when things would likely have slackened ip. They agreed and went away duly Impressed. He sold out to them next day. and it Is perhaps superfluous to add that he got more for bis outfit than be would have done if it hadn't been for the modest little advertisement. Louisville Courier-Journal.

. The Long Ride For Him. - "This is where you get off." said the railroad conductor. . - ' "But I haven't rid fur enough," said the BUIville man. -Can't help that. You cant go any farther on this ticket." "My friend." said the man. "it's the fust time I ever rid on a railroad train, an' ef you aint a better man that what I am I'm a-goin to set right here till I see wnar the road ends. 1 know it must end som'rs, an I'm carious to see whar. Here's one more dollar. Mow. go 'long an le'me aloner Atlanta Constitution-

AH! A LITTLE DRAW, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 25. A dozen round tables, the tops of which were carefully covered with canvas to conceal nicely padded green cloth3 beneath, attracted no little attention and caused not a few sly winks among the officers and deckhands busily engaged in stocking the larder of the boats that will make up the Taft flotilla on the trip to New Orleans, which starts from St. Louis today. The poker tables (it might as well be confessed right here that such they are) are of the latest improved variety, with niches for chips, stands for bottles and a depression in the center for the "kitty." - Half of them were taken aboard the St. Paul, the steamer that will transport 30 governors of Mississippi valley states and St. Louisians of distinction. The others were placed in the main cabin of the Qulncy, on which "Uncle Joe Cannon and 177 members of Congress Senators and Representativeswill be guests. It is said that draw poker will be the game. '

FINE LIGHT HOUSE FOR ALASKA COAST

Government Putting Up Modern Station at Cape Hinchinbrook Now.

COST WILL BE $125,000

LANTERN OF TWENTY THOUSAND CANDLE POWER IS INSTALLED AND WILL BE VISIBLE TWENTY MILES AT SEA.

Cordova, Alaska, Oct. 25. C. W. Leick, chief draughtsman of the engineering department in charge of lighthouse construction for Alaska, has returned to this city on the lighthouse tender America from Cape Hinchinbrook, where the government is at present erecting a light. To shipping men Mr. Leick explained the high class of light which the government is erecting at this important point, and much gratification is felt for the protection which this light will offer. In speaking of the character of the light, Mr. Leick said the main building is to be two stories high, built in a hectagon or oblong shape, with the light tower in the center, which is to be built of reinforced concrete. The building is to be thoroughly modern in every respect. On the lower floor will be baths and lavatories, engine room," work shop, store rooms and a tank room for the storing of oil. The second floor is to be used for the living rooms of the keepers. There are four bedrooms, sitting and dining room, kitchen and pantry. The entire building will be heated by a hot water plant. The water supply comes harnessed By a huge concrete cistern of 15,000 gallons capacity, situated underground to prevent freezing in winter. About forty feet from the main building is a small fireproof structure in which paints and oils will be stored. A complete set of carpenter and machinist tools will be carried and supply of lumber, so that the station will be equipped to repair any ordinary damage. The light proper at the top of the concrete tower is twelve feet in diameter and eighteen feet high, constructed principally of plate glass. The light will be of the third class order, but with new improvements which gives it the same power as the first order light. It is a white flash light with at least 20,(iO candle power, and can be seen at a distance of twenty to twenty-five miles at sea. In connection with the light is a huge fog signal or air siren, which is operated by two coal oil engines, and an air compressor, and during fog or thick weather can be heard many miles at sea. When the lighthouse is completed and accepted by the government, Mr. Leick stated, it will be the finest equipped light along the Alaska coast and cost approximately $125,000. Owing to the recent loss of a scowload of materials containing the plate glass, light, copper plates and a lot of lumber, the permanent light will not be completed this fall, as expected. A temporary light will be maintained however, which the shipping men are very thankful for.

State Employment Bureaus. In this couutry eighteen states have employment bureaus. Canada has four governmental bureaus. Just how much work they accomplish may be gathered from the report of Mr. Gettamy of the Massachusetts bureau of statistics. Without fee or any feeling of race or sect, with preference only for those who are native Massachusetts men, the Impersonal state placed in employment an average of forty-nine men a day last year. This was done from its three offices in Springfield. Fall River and Boston. This year an average of fifty men a day have been given employment through the Boston office alone. : Wages In Chicago Looking Up. In Chicago the tendency of wages in the various trades is upward, ac cording to a recently published schedule. It has been estimated by the unions that from $3,000,000 to $4,000.000 more than last year will go into the pockets of the 52.000 building trades workers in the next twelve months. The Increase in wages has been from 10 to 80 cents a day. From 40,000 to 50.000 more men are employed in industrial enterprises now than

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Finds Bees Better Playmates Than Little Children

Trenton, N. J., Oct. 23. John B. Wroth, Jr., the eight-year-old son of John S. Worth, a prominent Trenton business man, prefers bees to childTen playmates, and! the little fellow never tires of making companions of the insects. Although his parents are fearful that he . might suffer severely in case the bees attack him, he has not the least fear in this direction, and has never suffered any injury. Mr. Worth, prompted by his son's love for bees, started to raise these insects. He followed the suggestions of experts and! was successful. While the father fears serious consequences if he disturbs the bees, his son holds them in his hands by the hundreds and assists a main employed for the purpose of caring for them.

If a bee be injured or killed, the little fellow cries as if his heart would break. He loves to handle these honey-making insects, and only laughs when warned to be careful while playing with them. The little fellow is envied by all the children, in the neighborhood because he is able to handle the bees as if they were playthings. The children will not even dare enter the Worth yard, although Johnny has invited them on numerous occasions to become acquainted with his playmates. Prom almost the time he was able to crawl the boy seemed to have a particular liking for bees. His parents can not understand this strange fascination, but allow the little fellow to follow his whims.

CHILD LABOR EVIL

Pitiful Condition of Infant Toilers In Southern States. At a recent session of the national conference of charities and corrections in Buffalo A. J. McKelway of Atlanta, secretary of the national child labor committee for the southern states, attacked tbe institution of child labor in the south. He denied that fewer children are being employed in the south, saying in part: "The American intelligence appreciates the evils of the system the racial degeneracy, perpetual poverty, growth of illiteracy, the disintegration of the family, the increase of crime, the lowering of the wage scale and the swelling army of unemployed. "The oyster packing industry in tbe south is extensive along the gulf coast. The wages today are below the standard of American living, and the workers are mainly Bohemians brought from Baltimore. During the summer season they are employed in the fruit and vegetable canning industry of Maryland. The oommunities where they are employed testify to the pitiful plight in which the workers often find themselves. Their children are numerous and from eight years old and upward are employed in shucking the oysters piled upon tram cars after having been run through a steam heated chamber. Out of one force of 150 hands at work I counted thirtyfive children not over ten years old apparently. From the peculiar conditions of their employment they have absolutely no chance for an education. "The cigar industry in Tampa, Key West and to a lesser degree in Richmond, Petersburg and Danville. Va.. employs a large number of children. In Tampa alone the number of children under fourteen years increased in two years from a few score to more than a thousand. Formerly only Spanish and Cuban children were employed, but now a great number of tbe native white people of Florida have moved to Tampa that their children may learn this trade. The inevitable effect will be the lowering of the wage scale in what is now a high waged industry. "The students of the child labor problem know that the cotton mill has always been cursed with' child labor and its natural accompaniments of long hours and low wages. On account of nonenforcement of laws, themselves defective, southern cotton mills are conspicuous for the employment of children. Hundreds of them have been photographed at work within the last year, and they are but typical of tens of thonsands of them working from ten to twelve hours a day or night. The evil Is too great to be concealed, and the children are too numerous to be hidden. There is no possible excuse for snch wholesale abuse of childhood.

fatal accidents to railroad employees in Pennsylvania during the first three months of 1909 shows the relative number of victims In the various classes of employees and also the proportionate number of killed and injured in the various kinds of accidents. Of the 74 employees killed 21 were brakemen and 20 were section men and work train men. Of the others. 7 were conductors, 5 trackwalkers, not more than 3 of any other class of employees having been killed. Brakemen also headed the list of injured, there having been 425 brakemen among a total of 1,369 Injured. Of section men and work train men 186 were hurt, 108 firemen. 101 freight handlers. 97 conductors, 90 engineers, 53 members of yard crews. 51 flagmen and other employees in less numbers.

SCARE IS NOW OVER

Four Diphtheria Cases in Franklin Township to Be Released.

IS NO OTHER CONTAGION

Chicago's Breezy Way. The people of Chicago certainly do things in a breezy fashion. When it comes to showing their sympathy with the labor cause they are not satisfied with resolutions and talk. They act, says Joseph B. Buchanan. Case in point: A firm having rooms In the Garden City hotel was furnishing nonunion men to take the places of the striking cab drivers. Fifty guests of the hotel packed their trunks and served notice on the proprietor that they would leave at once if he

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reau, he agency got wind of what was going on and took flight, bag and baggage, before the proprietor could serve thenotice of eviction. PALUDIUIVTWANT ADS PAY.

The four children of Samuel A. Rhodes of Franklin township, who have been seriously ill with diptheria for the past few weeks, will be released from quarantine tomorrow. The children attended school at district No. 3 and when the contagion broke out it was necessary to close the school for several days in order to prevent a further spread of the disease. According to Dr. J. E. King, county health officer, the health of the school children in Wayne county, outside of Richmond, is excellent at present. He states that with the dismissal of the Rhodes children from quarantine there is not a case of contagion in the townships, out of this city. Dr. King asserts that this is a very unusual condition for this time of the year when there are generally several kinds of contagious diseases reported among the school children of the county.

President of the Aero Club Predicts Triumphs in 1910

(American News Service) , New York, Oct. 25. This year has eclipsed all others of endeavor in aerial navigation and next year I confidently expect to prove one that win make history for the United States and for the world," said Courtland F. Bishop, president of the Aero club of America, when he arrived on the La Provence. Mr. Bishop was met .by A. Holland Forbes, winner of the Lahm cup, and a delegation from the Aero club welcomed home their president. "Next year," said Mr. Bishop, "we are to have the national bolloon meet in June, the international balloon meet and the aeroplane International meet

in October. We expect to raise $150,00O to bring them all off successfully. During his stay in Paris, Mr. Bishoj took- a party of eight Americans In a trip over the city which lasted four hours. He also took up Curtiss and Mix, the winner of the Gordon-Bennett cup. On her way across La Provence was battered by one of the most terrific storms she ever encountered. She was buffeted for three days. On Tuesday a wave 75 feet high Jarred her and washed the decks. The windows of the bridge covering, almost an Inch thick, were smashed, and the thick steel sheathing was bent inward. The gigantic wave also carried away a section of the deck, railing.

THE TALL HAT IN INDIA.

Bare Poles. Purser Don't go on deck, madam. It is stormy, and we are running her with bare poles. Aunt Polly Well, I suppose that, coming from such a cold country as

Poland, they can stand running round i

naked, but I think it's downright scandalous to let 'em. London Telegraph. i ' Brainless.' Nell Mr. Sapbedde has more money than brains. Belle Why, I never knew he had much money. Nell He hasn't Philadelphia Record.

Lucky Mimmi Didn't Hear. "Papa, what is a masked battery?" A shrewish tongue concealed by a pair of pretty lips, my boy." Bostos Transcript. Her Luck. "She's very homely, but doesn't seem to reaiize it." "Hasn't she any women friends?"

Advocates Injunction Against Drinking in Ten Commandments

Railroad Accidents In Pennsylvania. A detailed report of the state rail-

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Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 25. Following j closely on the announcement of the J "new religion," fostered by President i Emeritus Eliot of Harvard university, ' comes the statement by Thomas Nixon

Carver, professor of economics in the same institution, that the ten commandments ought to be edited or added to, that some of them have outgrown their usefulness and should be rewritten to meet the wants of the more modern conditions existing today. While this suggestion has nothing In common with Dr. Eliofs views, it advocates the remodeling of the tenets of the old religion to cover the vices that have sprung up during the life of the New Testament. This comes from a man who has spent a lifetime in the study of political economy and sociology, rather than in the pursuit of philosophy. Professor Carver believes that as a matter of economics, towards the- social uplifting of America and Its people, that drinking should stand in the same light and under the same divine injunction as blasphemy. He goes even farther, and says thai the command

ment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," could be laid aside with little or no detriment to public morals to make way for a precept, "Thou shalt not drink to drunkenness or bewilder thyself with strong drink." Furthermore, the professor declares that the utterance of the name of God as it occurs today has lost its old time significance and intent; it is not intended to be profane or lend a sting, but is the outlet of a limited vocabulary and a lack of good taste. Drinking, on the other hand, he says, is a practical injury to the value of a man as an economic unit and as a factor in the inter-relative activities caused by the modernized inventive life of today. "I do not declare by any means," said Professor Carver, "that the tea commandments are passe. What I have said is that the commandments were rules of conduct fitted for control of the people at the time. But changing conditions require changed rules of conduct and so today I think that a commandment against drunkenness Is needed.

Its Rets Is Eve Mar Deaststte nu It la la BasrlMA. From noon till 1:30 p. m. is the calling hour. and. though Calcutta even In winter is a hot place, no man who is not an outer barbarian will walk into a drawing room without a tall silk hat In his hand. Should be drive round In a dog cart to pay his calls, the man wears a helmet or a "sola tope," while he drives, pulls up at a house door, asks whether "the gate is shut." and. if told that it Is not, puts on a silk bat. which tbe syce produces from a hatbox carried under the seat, and goes In to pay his call. Another instance of the British worship of the tall hat, which the natives consider an Interesting form of piety. Is to be seen at the Calcutta races on the day of the Viceroy's cup. On that occasion the lawns and paddock are thronged by people as smartly dressed as can be seen In tbe royal lnclosure at Ascot, but during the early hours of the afternoon all the men wear helmets. Directly the sun dips toward the horlson all the "bearers" of tbe helmet hatted men may be seen outside the palings of the grand stand lnclosure. Jumping up like terriers to catch sight of their masters, each with a carefully brushed silk hat he has brought for his employer to put on. London Onlooker.

Distance of the Pleiades. It was calculated some years sgo by the leading astronomers of Europe that Alcyone, the star la tbe Pleiades around which tbe sun and the whole solar system are thought to be revolving, was about 044.000.000.000,000 miles from us. a distance that it would take light about 163 years to travel, going at the rate of 186 miles a second. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.

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From 26 to 69 degrees was the range In temperature last week according to the report of voluntary observer Walter Vossler at the water works pumping station east of the city. With tbe exception of Tuesday, rain fell on every day of the week, the largest amount of preclpatkm betas; recorded on Friday when L35 of an inch of dampness broke loose. Tuesday was tbe only clear day during the week and a heavy frost was reported Tuesday night The dally temperature was as follows: High Low Sunday .. .. ..52 26 Monday ... .. .. 43 Tuesday .. .. .. .. ..53 26 Wednesday S3 33 Thursday.. W B0" Friday 63 43 Saturday .. r St 36

LABOR K0TES.

The labor anions and unemployed ef New Zealand are protesting sfitnst assisted Immigration to the colony. Charles W. Fear, editor ef the Missouri Trades Unionist, published at Joplln. has been elected a delegate to the International Typographical salon. The 9-000 union carpenters of Bos

ton have secured sn advance In wages. The new scale Is 47 cents an hour, an Increase of 4 cents. The schedule calls for Saturday half holidays the year round. Next to textiles, the pa perms king Industry Is manifesting the greatest growth In Massachusetts. What Is expected to be tbe largest factory la the world for making envelopes will be

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