Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 45, 24 December 1910 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 34, 1910.

HOOT. BE GLUTTOll IIURTY IS WORRIED

Doc" Warns His Patients, the Indiana People, on Christmas Feasts. BE SPARING ON MEAT Don't Make a Hog of Yourself on Salads and Sidestep All Foul Air. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the rate board of health, who has taken the Indiana people under his paternal care and who worries aa much over fhelr Ills and aches as a hen over her brood of chicks. Is rorely afraid we will eat a lot of stuff Christmas day or will go to some illy-ventilated public place and Inhale a lot of foul air. So "Doc" has Issued a warning to his wards. Here It is. The Warning. How one mar Induce disease and shorten life: First Method Eat Immoderately of meats. Meats in large amount, clog the intestines; and Instead of being digested and assimilated, they putrefy, poisons are formed and absorbed, and then appear coated tongue, dizziness, headache, dullness, bad breath, fugitive pains and aches In the shoulders, blps and elsewhere, and we feel "bad all over." This Is usually called billuosness, sometimes malaria. A better name is, autointoxication. Solomon classes immoderate meat eating with drunkenness. He says, "Be ye not among wine bibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh." Solomon seemed to know intuitively what modern science was a long Ume finding out. Eighty thousand people die annually In the United States from Bright's disease. When we let up eating so much meat, deaths from Bright's disease will greatly decrease. So will many other diseases, which we induce by self poisoning. If you wish to suffer with repeated attacks of biliousness (autointoxication). If you think you would like to suffer from cancer, kidney disease and precocious old age with Its multiple Infirmities and die early,' then "be among wine bibbers and riotous eaters of flesh' Second Method. Eat .plenty of spices, pickles and salads. These are not foods. They all stimulate the appetite and cause over-eating. Food in excess of the needs of the body, will surely cause Indigestion, mal-assimi-latlon and autointoxication (self poisoning). Where is the sense In poisoning one's self? There la neither money, nor pleasure, nor strength in it. He is a true. crank who perverts his nutrition. As for spices the constipate, stimulate and irritate. It is said that "Spices and pickles have killed more than war, famine and earthquake. We are commanded to love our enemies. We literally practice this when we eat apices. The more spices are adulterated with ground cocoanut shells, etc., the bet ter they are from the physiological point of Tiew. To buy spices and eat them producing constlpaUon, and then buy cathartics to relieve the con stipation. Is enough to make a horse laugh. Rice, dried fish and weak tea, whipped Russia. The free eaUng of embalmed meats ham, smoked flish, etc. will cause consUpatton. Cut them out, and force the cathartic tablet man to make his big fortune in some productive line of business. Third Method Breathe plenty of foul air. By breathing plenty of foul air one can reduce appeUte and assimilation: be can benumb his nerves; make his circulation sluggish: retard elimination. Foul air breathing is a Jolly good wal to lower resistance and prepare the body for the invasion of the microbes of cold, catarrh, pneumonia, lagrlppe, consumpUon and all respiratory diseases. In order to secure plenty of foul air to breathe shut your bed room windows; right In tight, unventllated trolley cars; go to theaters, churches and public halls which are not ventilated. There is generally a good deal of foul air in lawyers' offices, printing offices, court rooms, justice of peaco offices, legislative chambers, corner drug and comer grocery stores. It Isn't hard to And. Just breathe lota of It, and you will be sure to be found buying a tonlo at the drug store; but you will stay til Just the same. When we quit living against the laws of our well being, then exit Invalidism, sickness, and disease, and enter Jocund health. SCHOOL OP DANCING. Mrs. Charlie Kolp's Christmas dance Monday evening at K. of P. hall. 7:30 o'clock. Admission to the public 15c; Program to dancers, 73c Generally Magnified. "Mamma, what's a peck o trouMer - "About a thimbleful, my dear thlld."-Judse. Getting Out of Debt, MWhnt was it your husband wsnted to see ino about?" lnpi!tvd Mrs. Newllwed's papa. "I think be wanted to borrow a couple of bandied dollars from you." sbe said. "He's so anxious to get out of debt." Philadelphia Ledger. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured MS LOCAL APPLICATION A. M tlwr ciuMH war IW Baal af ta aaaaaa. CMint m a Mood or conn. tuUanal Mmk iU to orlmt to cur It yew bum lka mnU wdif. UaM-a Catarrh Cur takaa mIrmaUy. aa4 x-M ainwily apoa Uw Mood and Bucoua art mm. 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Sunday Services A t the Churches

St. 'Andrew's Catholic Fifth and South C streets. Mass at 7:30; High Masa at 9:45; Vespers, sennonette and benediction at 3 o'clock. Rev. Frank A. Roell, rector; Rev. M. H. Wetland, assistant. St. Mary's Catholic Masses every Sunday at 6:00, 8:00 and 9:00 o'clock a. m. and High Mass ana sermons at 10: SO a. m.; Vespers and. Benediction every Sunday at 3 p. m. Rev. J. F. Mattingly, rector. Rev. M. T. Shea, assistant. First Baptist Church H. Robert Smith, pastor.' Preaching by the pastor at 10:40 a. m. and 7:20 p. m. Morning subject, "Glory to God." Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Juniors at 2:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. First M. E. Church Corner of K. Main and South 14th. J. F. Radcliffc, pastor. Sunday school 9:13 a. m. Preaching 10:30 a. m. Junior League 2:00 p. ra. Kpworth League 6:30 p. ra. Men's Brotherhood. Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Election of S. S. officers Friday. 7:30 p. m. Special Christmas music at both services on Sunday with a Christmas program at night, by the Sunday school. All are invited. Christian Science Services Masonic Temple. Sunday services 10:43 a. m. Subject, "Christian Science." Wednesday evening experience meeting 7:43 p. m. Public invited. Reading room No. 10 North 10th street, open to the public daily except Sunday. 9:00 a. m. to 12 noon; 1:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. v South Eighth Street Friends Levi T. Pennington, pastor. Bible school at 9:10 o'clock. John II. Johnson, superintendent. Meeting for worship at 10:30. Special music by Mr. Leroy Laceyand the quartet composed of Miss Harold, Mrs. Marvel, Dr. Cox and Mr. Lacey. Christian Endeavor meeting at 6:30; topic, ."Be Born in Us Today." W. Hurtley Dickinson, leader. Prayer meeting, Thursday evening at 7:30, Finley Newlln, leader. Ail are cordially invited to all these services. First Christian Church Corner of Tenth and South A streets, Samuel W. Traum, pastor, Bible school, 9:05 a. m., George W. Mansfield, superintendent. Chrostlan . Endeavor, 6:30 p. m., Elizabeth Hlnshaw, president. Preaching by the pastor at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morninng subject; "The Difference Christ's Coming Made." Evening subject: "A Message for the Old Year." Second English Lutheran Corner of Pearl and West 3rd streets, Rev. E. Winter, pastor. Worship and preaching at 10:30 a. m. Subject being "The New Born Savior." Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. At 7 p. m. a Christmas service will be given by the Sunday school, composed of song and recitation. First Presbyterian Christmas exercises in the Sabbath school with special program, 9:15 a. m. Public Worship, 10:30 a. m., only. Vespers will be omitted on Christmas Day. Christmas music by quartet and chorus at morning service and sermon by the pastor. Prayer Hour, Thursday evening 7:30. Grace M. E. Corner Tenth and North A streets, Arthur Cates, pastor. Sunday school 9:15. Rev. T. M. Guild, D. D.. will preach at 10:30 and 7:30. Special Christmas music at both services. A cordial welcome to all. United Brethren Corner Eleventh and North B. streets, H. S. James, pas tor. Bible school, 9:30 a. m. Preach ing 10:30 a. m. - Short Xmas program by children of Bible school at 7:30 p. m. Quarterly communion, New Year's Day. Business session of quarterly conference Monday evening, Decem ber 26. All are welcome. East Main Street Friends Truman C. Kenworthy, pastor. Bible school at 9:10. Arthur M. Charles, superin tendent, Meeting for worship 10:30. Christian Endeavor at 6:30. At-7:30 the Bible school will render a Christmas program. All the services of the day will be specially attractive and all members and friends of the congregation are urged to be present. Con ference and prayer meeting fifth day evening at 7:30. The annual meeting of the congregation will be held some evening the coming week, announcement of which will be made at the morning service. Second Presbyterian Church Nineteenth and C. Rev. Thomas C. McNary pastor. Preaching 10:30. Sacred cantata, "The Angelic Choir," 7:30. Special attention of the public Is called to the evening service. The Sunday school will render a secular and humorous cantata, .entitled "Johnnie Doubter," by Fred Emerson Brooks on Monday evening. The entertainment will be free and open to the public. Everybody Invited and welcome. Earlham Heights Presbyterian. .Sacred cantata Sunday evening at 7:30, followed by a series of lantern views on the "Infancy and Boyhood of Jesus." Illustrated hymns will be used. Public cordially invited. The Sunday school cantata will be given on Monday evening. This cantata has been well prepared by faithful practice and promises to be of exceptional merit It will be given free and open to the public. West Richmond Friends At Earlbam college, Bible school at 9 o'clock. Christmas exercises. Meeting for worship at 10:30. Sermon by the pastor. Elbert Russell. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. All Invited to attend every service. Reid Memorial Corner Eleventh and North A street. Rev. S. R. Lyons, pastor. Preaching by the pastor 10:30 a. m. Morning subject, A Christmas service. No evening service. Sabbath school 9:15 a. m. First English Lutheran Church E. G. Howard, pastor. Morning service 10:30 a, m. Service of Christmas Praise. Music by mixed quartet Evening serv ice 7 p. m. Christmas concert of Sunday school. No vesper service. Sunday school 9:15 a. m. with special Christmas features. Dr. A. L. Bramkamp. superintendent. All are cordially invited and welcome.

PREBLE WATCHING 0HI0J0GA FIGHT Legislators of Neighboring Ohio County Pledged to E. W. Hanley.

Eaton, O., Dec. 24. Interest in the fight being waged between Lieuten-ant-Goverrior-elect Atlee Pomerene, of Canton, and Edward W. Hanley, of Dayton, for the senatorial toga worn by Charles F. Dick is as great in Preble county as elsewhere, notwithstanding the knowledge that Representative-elect Earl H. Irvin and Senatorelect Michael Cahiil are pledged to the support oi the Third District man. However, there are those who stand firmly for Pomerene. Still others be lieve the series of debates indulged in by the foremost candidates has greatly lessened the chances of either winning, the suspicion being that in the final count James Kilbourne will be named for the position. The fight recalls the memorable and similar battle waged by the late Marcus A. Hanna and Robert E. McKisson in the Republican ranks years ago, and also brings to mind the fact that a Preblo countian was at that time offered the place hands-down by party leaders and legislators. Although only a few know of the matter, yet the honor was tendered Hon. Oscar Sheppard of West Alexandria, at that time elected to the state senate. Mr. Sheppard declined, saying he could not consistently accept when his vote had in advance been pledged to the support of the Clevelander. And thereby hangs the tale of the beginning of the political death of Mr. Sheppard. It was claimed he won the support of Dr. J. E. Lowes, the Montgomery county and Third District leader, upon the belief that he would not support Hanna. The second and final chapter of his political suppression was written when he voted against the Clarke Local Option bill. His vote prevented the bill becoming a law. Members of the Anti-Saloon League lobby always declared Senator Sheppard had pledged himself to support the measure, but in the crucial hour he experienced a change of mind and heart and cast his ballot against the bill. Senator Sheppard issued a statement In which he declared his belief in the unconstitutionality of the measuse, but the explanation went for naught. TOUCHY SERVANTS. Japanese Nesans Have to Be Handled With Gloves of Velvet Japanese servants must be treated with tact however trying they may be. and often they are very trying Indeed, especially the nesans, who are usually untidy, cross and lazy. Yet the dear little things have admirers who praise their kittenish ways, their tiny hands and even, of all things, their artistic temperaments. A certain writer solemnly says: 44 A Japanese nesan any nesan, even one In a hotel will set out your hairbrushes, clothesbrushes, nail scissors, collar box and tooth powder on the average hotel dressing table and make a design of them a picture, an artistic whole." All I can say Is that no nesan has ever arranged studies of still life with the nail scissors and the tooth powder for me, though, possibly by way of compensation, one has started little lakes of boiling water on my carpet when I rang for you, or toppled over the morning tea tray and arranged the fragments In ' an unconventional design on my bed quilt, or dragged a table with scrapings in a minor key the whole length of the veranda. If corrected roughly the maiden will first cry and then leave. The hotel manager Is well aware of this aware with all the nervous perception of a person whom one hasty or ill considered sentence can throw Into a situation seriously threatening his comfort and prosperity; hence his attitude of habitual meekness, ne dares not let his Uttle lecture slide over the line which divides it from a scolding and is careful to deliver a necessary exhortation with a smiling face and frequent laughs just to show that It Is really not a scolding at all. St Louis Post-Dispatch. Couldn't Kill Him. "Spotted fever" received some queer treatment in John Wesley's day, according to Wesley's Journal of September, 1746. A man named John Trembath had the fever, and Wesley wrote: "It was the second relapse into the spotted fever, in the height of which they gave him sack, cold milk and apples, plums, as much as he could swallow. I csn see no way to account for his recovery but that he had not yet finished his work." ' Abraham Could Read and Write. Some people persist in thinking that the art of writing is recent and that In primitive times poems and literary productions had to be memorized. But more than 3.000 years before the Christian era people In Abraham's native town wrote receipts for garden and market products Just as we have them now, showing that the patriarchs certainly must have known how to read and write. Dr. William Hanna Thom son in Designer. Net Interested. Ton really ought to . take up the study of reincarnation.' said the young woman of great mentality. "Not I." answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "These Investigations are giving me all the trouble concerning my past that 1 can handle at present" Washington Star. Getting an Education. "Has your son learned much since he went to college? asked the now mii ister. "Naw." replied Farmer Oatcake: "but I lzev. by hen r Chicago News.

The Scrap Book

CRUELLY DECEIVED. A Weary Willie Who Was a Victim ef Misplaced Confidence. The tramp bad walked a govd three miles and was particularly thirsty. A suuueu turn in the road brought bitr. to the foot of a steep hill, at the top of which stood a larse houae. The tramp paused a moment before attempting the berculeau feat of storming the hill. He felt hungry ami thirsty. He glanced to the left. These words caught his eye: Tarry, traveler, and refresh thyself." The tramp was sorry the sign was attached to a pump handle. However, water was better than nothing. So he commenced to HE COMMENCED TO PD1IP. pump. The spout remained dry. He pumped with more vigor. Still no water. After ten minutes of hard work he said harsh things nbout the pump and continued his jouruey. At the top of the hill he mentioned his grievance to a native. The latter pointed to the fine house across the road. "The owner of that house," he said, "has some big water cisterns which have to be filled from a stream in the valley. He is too lazy to fill 'em himself, though, so he rigged up that pump and connected it with his cisterns, and now" But the tramp was already sprinting across the road. Landseer's Pun. When Solomon's celebrated picture "Waiting For the Verdict" was sent in, as the artist was not one of the Royal academicians, whose exhibits are nil "hung on the line," his painting was "skied." Sir Edwin Landseer was In ecstasies over It and exclaimed, "There is Solomon In all his glory and not R. A.'d like one of these . A Queer Language. A German on his first visit to this country tells 'this pathetic story: "I was here a week or more when I pre sented a letter of Introduction at one of your beautiful homes, where I was at once made welcome. One evening I was Invited there to a bridge party and won a nlefr bit of money at a fire cent game. The young son of the house, when he saw the score cards, said to me, 'You lucky dog'. a familiarity which I would have resented had I not been told that It was an American form of speech. A few even ings later I was looking on when the same boy won at bridge and, wishing to be as polite as be, I said, 'What a lucky puppy!' Then they said all sorts of uncomplimentary things, and I have been doubtful ever since whether I am still welcome In that set Yours is a queer language." Breaking It Gently. Callahan was stopped on the street by Father Clancy. The good priest's countenance took on a sad expression. "What's this I hear, Callahan," asked he, "about your breaking Hogan's head last night? And the two of you friends for years I" Callahan seemed somewhat taken back. "Sure, I was compelled to do it, your reverence," he explained apologetically; "but out of consideration for that same friendship, I broke it glntly, your reverence." Lippincott's. - - The Last Resource. The fat geut!eoan, like many other misguided members of the iort)y brigade, decided to try golf as a weight reducer. Armed with four sticks, a ball and a caddie, he marched off to the links. The caddie placed the ball upon the tee. Then with a terriflc swing the fat man whirled his club through the ir. But the little white ball still Stayed smiling on its tee. while the club, meeting Motiier Earth, broke into splinters. "Give me another club,, boyf said the fat man. Alas, club No. 2 shared the fate of club No. 1, club No. 3 emulated the evolutions of clnb No. 2, and club No. 4 flew Into a hedge. And still the little white ball smiled on. "What would you do noveV asked the sadder and wiser golfer, wiping his forehead as he turned in desperation to the caddie. Holding out the empty bag, the txrchln replied: "Don't give in. guv'nor! Give it a swipe with thisr A Good Excuse. As an Instance of acute hydrophobia It la difficult to surpass the story of the Scotch boatman who while crossing a loch was asked if be would take some water with his whisky and replied. "Na; there was a horse droond at the heed o the loch twa yean ago." The bead of the loch wu twentyfour miles distant. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT f ails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pfles in 6 to 11 days. 50c

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The pusulou of the debutante In America is unique, lu no other eouaiij !ue given so uiucu pleasure ana prominence, m fcugiauu and I ranee j tne young girl is a negligible quantity, j .ot so witb us. Sbe is a persouage from the moment she makes her bow to society until the season cutis aud she either successfully reaches the goal of matrimony or retires to take her place in the unu umbered ranks of the older girl. Dimierdaiices, theater parties, luncheons" 'and afternoon teas lend their brilliance to enhance her glory. She is heralded and discussed by vines 1 newspaper la the country; She springs from the comparative seclusion of school life into the full glare of the social limelight. It takes a steady head to keep oae's poise under such a fire of flattery, adulation and excitement. Aud unfortunately steady beads . are rare. So another type of debutante has established herself and become the fashion a restless, noisy, self absorbed young creature with Indifferent manners. She flings herself recklessly Into the mnd rush for pleasure, devouring it at whatever cost. She talks in a vernacular that is often unintelligible to cultured ieople. She is lacking in dignity and good taste. This is u sweeping arraignment, but all of us have met this type often enough to know that it bears the outline of truth and should point a moral to the girl who does not wish to begin her social career under the banner of false standards. After all, though brilliant, one's debutante days are brief. It may be that their very brilliance and brevity are the spur that explains the artificial excitement of the modern girl. Yet this manner of enjoying one's first winter is unwise. It brushes away with relentless hands the charm and simplicity of youth; It stifles dreams and Ideals and makes companions of cynicism and hardness; it dulls the clearer, higher vision of life and drags careless young feet through "the ugly marshes of materialism. It throws upon life at the very outset a highly colored artificial light that robs a young girl of a proper sense of values and blinds her to the soft shadows of fine feeling. Such an attitude is as disastrous as it is unattractive. And the girl who has an eye for the future, who wishes to garner for herself during three short days of debutante sunshine the charms that will carry her safely through the years when she no louge. holds first place, will have none of it To this girl Is offered one fact whose truth is proved. They can't possibly be worth the price you are asked to pay for them. Let them go without regret. Saner, better, sweeter things will .come to take their place. The pleasure that sacrifices one's dignity, the success that kills a secret ideal, the good time that leaves the tiniest spot on a girl's standard of conduct work harm and are never worth while. Card Etiquetti For Married Women. A married woman calling leaves one of her dwn cards for each woman member of the household and one each of her husband's, adding to that number one more of the husband's, which Is for the host A woman does not call upon a man, so she does not leave one of her own for her hostess husband, but the husband's must be sent even though the two men may not be acquainted. When a married woman makes formal calls and does not leave her husband's cards with her own It may mean that she no longer lives with him. A woman paying social visits in this country during weeks that her husband may be in Europe still leaves his cards. The man's cards need not be left for any son of the household unless an acquaintance actually exists between the two. Fashion still decrees that a married woman may use cards containing both h?r own and her husband's name in ether words, the "Mr. and Mrs." While these cost a trifle more to order, the fr.shion is really economical, for it means that one card does duty for two. When these are used a single cue of the man's will be needed for the host. Hints on Shaking Hands. How much character is expressed in the manner of shaking bands! One will express genuine good feeling by a bcarty grasp; the next will chill you to the bone by the languid "slip." Then there is the person who always has "the latest" in handshakes. You feel that she Is posing for a photograph to show Just how to perform the "function" correctly. She is not thinking of ycu at all. but of the "correct thing, don'tcherkmow." The plain, friendly clasp that means good faith and a genuine Interest in you Is best Every one should create a hr.ndsbake of her own and not follow the extreme fads in this manner of greeting. .;. The English, aa a rule, shake hands both at meeting' and at parting, while we greet thus and part with a jerky nod. It gives the effect of saying. To kind to see you. but now it's over, and I'm in a hurry to get away." - Wat J-r.-:' - " - .--. ' A few.. .year asu M"- iichutuaTUiIleiak wis to appear for the first 3me in the city of Newark, O. During that week Mrs. A. called on Mrs. B. In the course of the conversation Mrs. B. asked Mrs. A, "Are you. going to bear Schumann-Heiuk on Wednesday evening?" Now, Mrs. A. hr.d evidently . never heard cf the seat prima donna, for she replied: "No. Indeed. When I pay such a price I want to read the book first" National Monthly.

A BUSINESS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK B Y HENRY CLEWS

New York, Dec. 24. A somewhat better tone has been maintained in the security markets during the past week, and this in spite of the inactivity which usually develops during the holiday season. The main cause for betterment has been the investment

situation. This is probably more sat-Sail

Isfactory than at any time for sev- weeks will witness considerable of-" eral norths. The decline in prices fertngs of new securities. Our railhas brought many securities to a lev-1 roads are especially in need of funds

i el that now offers more reasonable re-) turns. .Money is easy, and low rates 1 obtained for loanable funds naturally t divert attention to interest bearing se-1

curities. For this reason the bond out-j ings is largely dependent upon the look is much brighter and there is al-, treatment they receive at te hands of ready a larger inquiry for desirable Is- j the Interstate Commerce commission. 8ues. Fortunately there is every reason to The January disbursements will be expect that they will receive fair con- . larger than usual, being estimated as j sideration and be rfllowed to make high as f 226,000,000; and fair propor-1 some advance in rates. The situation tion of this sum always seeks reinvest- of the railroads Is anything but satment in Wall street Another encour-isractory. C Traffic is already begin, aging feature is the better demand forcing to decline and some of the west-

Du'ers- There have been fairly liber-1 al sales of bonds to Europe during the last rew days, ana international bank-, trior r.vi.m-i . . . - - 1 able to the further placing of good issues. Many of our best railroad stocks are now selling at prices which yield 5 to 6 per cent, compared with 4 to 5 per cent when they were at the top level. On bonds the return are also Vs to 1 per cent better than formerly. AH conditions point to a continued ease in money for some time to come. It is possible that the year-end payments may cause a temporary flurry, but no change of consequence in monetary conditions seems probable between the middle of January, when ' funds return and the first of April. This means a period pt at least two and a half months of monetary quiet; indeed we may be facing a glut of idle money. Whether rates will decline sufficiently to permit gold exports remains to be seen. ; Our foreign trade is gradually assuming more normal proportions, because imports have been falling and exports rising. In November our exports were $206,000,000 or over $12,000,000 in excess of last year. Our imports for the month were $130,000,000, or about $10,000,000 less than a year ago. This left an excess of exports for the month of nearly $76,000,000, compared with $53,500,000 a year ago. It should not be forgotten, how. ever, that the large excess in exports was due to the rushing forward of cotton In anticipation of trouble over the cotton bill of lading controversy, In all probability, therefore, cotton shipments will figure lightly in forthcoming returns, especially as Lancashire is already well provided with cotton. The downward tendency of commodities and slack trade will, however, tend to stimulate expo eta and discourage imports. As already stated, we are at present selling securities to Europe with more freedom than usual and these facts should tend to prevent any premature or excessive gold eflux during the early months of 1911, The monetary situation abroad is also favorable. The Bank of England Is ex - pected to reduce Its discount rate. So, CINNAMON TREE BARK. It Curls Up Into Quills When Dried In the Sun. .The tinnamou tree grows to a height of from twenty -'to thirty feet and is sometimes eighteeu inches in thickness. The leaves are from four to six inches in length, oval shaped and marked with three principal nerves. They taste very much like .cloves. Cinnamon flowers are of a beautiful silky gray on the outside and a light yellow on the Inside. The fruit is a small acorn shaped drupe, and when ripe it is quite brown. It is, however, the bark of the cinnamon tree that makes it valuable. The finest comes from the island of .Ceylon, where they have two seasons of cinnamon harvest The first Beason begins in April aud the last In November. The branches -of three to five years' growth are mt down, and the epidermis is carefully scraped away. Then the bark Is ripped up lengthwise with a knife and gradually loosened until It may be easily removed. The slices of bark are then placed in the sun to dry, and as they dry they curl up into quills. The next thing is to examine and arrange the cinnamon according to its quality. The persons whose work it is to examine the cinnamon are obliged for tWs purpose to taste and chew It although in a short time it produces a very painful effect on their mouths and tongues. As the cinnamon quills are examined the smaller ones ere Inserted into the larger, and the whole is then tied up in bundles weighing about elghty-e'.ght pounds each. In Ceylon the oil of cinnamon Is usually prepared by grinding the coarsest pieces of bark, soaking this powder in sea water for two or three days and then distilling. Two oils pass over, one tignter, the other heavier, than water. REAL ESTA TE TRANSFERS Margt Foland to Wm. Keever, Dec. 17. 1910, $350. Lot 2. BJk. 34, Hagerstown. John O Laughlin to Wm. M. Sharp, Dec. 14. 1910, $1. Lot 4-5, Railsback add., Richmond. A Happy Retort The motto ef the amateur actor, according to Seymour Hicks in his autobiography, is that "it is better to have bad a frost than never to have played at all." On this subject he quotes a happy retort of Sir W. S. Gilbert's. "What do you tiiiufc of our amateur club';" said an enthusiast "I think they are not so much a club as a bundle of sticks," said the master of repartee.

too, is the Imperial bank of Germany In Paris money is abundant, and the, year closes with the world's money . markets in very good form. American requirements for new cap

ital are still very pressing, and unleea siens are mistaken, th next few to carry out projected improvements and will if possible make large de- x mands upon new capital supples. Their ability to finance new undertnkand enforcing various economies. In view of the heavy increase of expense , the future is one, that will require considerable skill and patience on the part of railroad managers. The increase In Lehigh Valley dividend froia 6 to 10 per cent did not excite any enthusiasm. That road la exception-! in its conditions and management, therefore Is no criterion for other properties which may have difficulty in maintaining present rate of dividends. The stock touched 180, but that is no higher than it sold on a per cent basis. The policy of raising the dividend at this time was at least questionable, considering the general railroad ; situation. There are some who think it would have been better judgment for the company : to have shown some favor to shippers as well as stockholders. The close of the year finds general business in a very quiet condition. Conservatism prevails everywhere. The Bteel trade is still running at about one-half Its capacity in the cruder forms and there are no signs of early revival in sight. . Everything depends on the railroads) Possibly it the latter place their bonds satisfactorily, orders for cars, equipment, etc., will be forthcoming. -The textile trades are also quiet and efforts are being made for general and concerted curtailment. There ia nothing . unsound in the situation, but a gradual settling down process has begun, that must run its course before real recovery can be expected. Economy Is now being practiced not only in business, but at home, and in nearly every direction, curative tendencies are at work which will in due season pave the way for a fresh forward movement , . The stock market does not always move in sympathy with business affairs. It often discounts events in advance. The present depression : in , trade has doubtless been fully anticipated on the stock exchange; hence - the latter is more or less cheerful while pessimism prevails elswhere. ; Should no unfavorable developments . take place still further improvement 'is possible. IN A ROMAN CAB. A Party of Disgusted Americans eneT an CverjjraUful Driver. In Mr. HoweUs' "Romin Holiday and Others" is this delightful stcry of an adventure in n Roman cab: In returning from the Pincio the only cab we bud beej nbie to get was tbs last left of the very worst cabs la Rome nnd we hml bidden the' driver wait for m at the church steps, not without some hope that he would play us false. Rut there be was, true t3 - his word. v. itu such discipline naeiuy as that of the Roman sentinels who ' used td d'? at' their posts, and wt mounted to ours with the muted prayer that we at least might reach, home alive. This did not seem probable when tbo driver whipped up bis horse. It appeared to have aged and sickened while we were in the church, although , we had thought it looked as bad ns could be before, and It lurched alarm-, iugly, from side to side, recovering Itself with a plunge of Its heavy bend away from the side in which its body was sinking. The driver swayed on his box, bar-' Ing fallen equally decrepit in spite of the restoratives he seemed to have applied for his years and Infirmities. Ill clothes bad put on some such effect of extreme decay as those of Blp Van Winkle lu the third act; there was danger that he would fall on top of his falling horse and that their raiment would mingle in one scandalous ruin. Via Sistina had never been so full of people before: never before had it been . so long to that point where we were to turn out of it Into the friendly obscurity of the little cross street which -would bring us to our hotel. We could not consent to arrive In that form; we made the driver stop, and we got out ana oegan overpaying uuu w us. . y ' ' ' , But the more generously we overpaid him the more nobly he Insisted upon serving us to our door. At last by sucb a lavish expenditure J as ought richly to provide for the few; remaining years of . himself and his borse. we prevailed with him to let us go and reached our hotel glad, al- ' most proud, to arrive on foot Graphite mining has been carried on In Bavaria, for centuries and- : the methods today are as primative as they ; were two hundred years ago. " Improvements are about to he introduced. ' e ; P08T CARD COUPON e Clip this Coupon and bring It to one of the Quigley Drug Stores with 10 cents and receive one set of 25 colored view Post Cards of e Richmond. By mail 3 cents extra for postage. e