Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 138, 27 March 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALiLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, 31 ARCH 27, 1911.

PROPOSAL OF

WATERWORKS

CALLED BACK

City Attorney Finds the City Must Advertise for Bids for Franchises, Necessitating a Change.

(Continued From 1'agn One)

er matter was belnR discussed, the mayor Interrupted. "I forgot to nay MoniethlnK,' he declared. Then continued : "Now, Mr. Palladium reporter, let me tell you just one thing. This in no political scheme between Hammond and myself. That article in the Palladium Baturday nlKht was absolutely false." "False," Ha Muttered. Mr. Hammond, who had been sitting la peevish silence during the entire meeting, nodded bis assent to this. "False, false," he murmured. "You've been sneaking around asking for me, then Hammond, Gardner. Bescher, Charles and McMahan to f'n I out about this franchise. We'll bold pome more secret sessions, too, Just as many as we please, no matter what the

newspapers say. We're going to do

what we think and know is right," the mayor almost shouted, "When we buy a fire horse we don't

parade him up and down the streit to

how the public. When Gaar. Scott nnd company buys something they don't print It In all the newspapers. The board of works is the same. The "Water WorkB proposition will be treated the same as a fire horse." Zimmerman refused to answer 'he question whether he was going to run (ammond for mayor, at the next pri

maries. "I can't tell yet." he said. "Things like that depend on conditions:. I'll b mayor for two years longer. I tell you, though, we're not catering to the newspapers, but to the public. The newspapers don't hurt a man if he's got friends." Calls Its Spite-Work. Hammond claims that the at tide published In the Palladium in which It was stated that he would come out for mayor under the grooming of Mayor Zimmerman, and that the Water Works scheme was a political trick Is spttework and revenge. ' At the secret meeting last Thursday nlghf. It is Bald Hammond was told pretty plainly by certain councilmen that he's better not try to use the water works proposition as campaign material. Tho board was charged with lying to the newspapers last week when it was given out that It had not received the proposition. Tho 'members made no excuses, it is said. The City Attorney said there were several "Jokers" in the proposal that the water works company presented. One of the most Important of these is the failure to fix a salary limit for employes of the company. By this means the company could run up Its expenses so that the city would get little out of the investment.'

Croker Silent on That Deadlock

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Redemption A Short Story

By J. H. ROSNEY, JR.

Richard Croker, the former ch who has refused to commit himsel at Albany, N. Y. On the right is J When Mr. Croker arrived in N Palm Beach, he was met by a hos Tammany men, who endeavored to States senator from New York, wh Mr. Croker listened attentively to a platitudes regarding the beneflcenc drawn into the political imbroglio.

ieftain of Tammany Hall, New York, f regarding the senatorial deadlock

ohn J.'McKenna of Philadelphia.

ew York from his winter home in

t of friends, politicians and former interest him in the fight for United ich is now going on at Albany, N. Y. II that was said, but beyond a few e of majority ruler refused to be

SPRING FOOTBALL HELD AT HARVARD

American News Service) Cambridge, Mass., March 27. Regular practice for the Harvard football quad began today and will continue intll the Kaster recess. The practice will be mainly to teach the rudiments of the game to those who intend to try

for the team next fall. A full staff of

roaches will assist Coach Haughton

dally, and special attention will be

jld to new material.

. Ksngo Tattoo! ng.-

In the Kongo colonies of Belgium Atftth men and women are tattooed ac-

reordlns to their status In society. A

woman ( high caste will have a de-

lgn not unlike souavo Jacket work'

d upon her back, and it would seem

that the native la as content with this node of covering as if it were n substitute for clothing. By injecting the

Juk of certain herbs the sears left by

the tattooing process retain a swollen Appearance, giving the effect of basVellef work. The thorns of the acacia

re generally used as a needle, while a certain black clay Is used as a color

lag medium.

Classified.

Was there ever a better example of

the witty and concise form of expres

ton than the answer of the grim man who, when asked about the character

of a neighbor, sententlously replied :

"Mister. I don't know very much bout him, bnt my Impression is be'd

make a first, class stranger." Ex change. Frigid.

Nell-lhat Miss Copielgh is an awfully cold sort of girl. Belle Mercy, yes. Why. she's so frigid that wher

ever she goes on rainy days It snows.

Boston Transcript

" Irish Wit. I never give alms to a stranger." ,s!d old Shyster to a poor Irishwoman

"Share, then, your honor will never relieve an angeLH was the reply .- Jul go. Condemned Unheard. From s notice In n Cornish church: "The pnacher for nest Sunday will h found hanging In the church porch on aturday."-Loadon Punch.

11 PECULIAR QUACK

Testifies in Court He Is a Hu

man X-ray. (American News Service) London, March 27. An extraordin

ary quack came before the Maidstone coroner recently In connection with

an Inquiry into the death of an aged woman named Winn of Barming.' Mrs.

Winn, who died from heart failure following kidney trouble, has consulted

a so-called mental scientist named Grant, of Maidstone.

Grant, called as a witness, describ

ed himself as a human X-ray. He had been practicing about nine months.

and could not exactly explain his treatment. He simply held his. hand over the patient and gave no medicine.

The Coroner: "Do you hold yourself

out as being able to cure people by

occult or some hidden mysterious po

wer?

Witness: "I can cure any disease

that anyone likes to put before me. The scientific cure is hidden to the

public, but not to me."

"Do you get many patients?" "About 100 a day; never less than

50, and I have had as many as 300 in one day."

Further questioned Grant said he never charged poor people. His practice was for every disease they could mention, but blindness, consumption and cancer were the diseases he particularly looked after. In consumption, of he took it at a certain stage he could cure a bad case. He had grown completely new eye and lung, and had cured seven distinct cases of total blindness. "You rely upon X-rays more than any thing else, don't you?" "No, I have a particular power of smelling a disease directly the patient come into my consulting room." A verdict of death from natural causes was returned.

A BIG Bii CLASS Christian Church Has One of Largest in City.

Wabash Glee club at high school, tonight, 8 p. m. Tickets at the Y. M. C.

Jupiter. Although Jupiter Is 1.3S7 times bigger than the earth, it is only 300 times heavier

The C. B. A. Bible class of young men in the Bible school of the First Christian church, with P. T. McLellan as teacher, was the first regularly organized class in this wideawake and growing Bible school. In fact, it was this class that revealed to the rest of the school the power of organization and gave to all the impetus for that method of work. Roy E. Fryar is at present the class president. He has behind him a complete organization of officers and committees whose working efficiency is steadily growing. During the last six months of 1910 the average attendance was twentyseven. During the first quarter of

1911 it was sixty-one. The present membership is one hundred and four. On March 26 a class rally was held wtih an attendance of ninety-five and twenty-eight visitors, making a total of one hundred and twenty-three. The attendance for tho whole school on that date was three hundred and ninety-seven. The rally was a notable triumph for the C. B. A. Although the day was rainy the attendance of members was ninety-one per cent of

the enrollment, and alone exceeded by three the highest number of both members and visitors the class ever had present before. Moreover, this is the greatest number of members any class in the school has ever had present at one time. While the members of this class freely invite their friends in other schools to visit the sessions of the class at any time they may find it convenient to do so, it is their distinct air to specially invite to membership only those who are not now members of any school. Their efforts are now largely directed toward maintaining a high per cent of attendance of their own members with such visitors as" they may reasonably hope to induce to become members. The prospect before them is full of promise and their work may fairly be said to have only just begun.

"Don't you believe it," said Gayoc, "a man is never the same all through. The life of the best of us is made up of little fragments, which when they are put together, form the existence of an honest man, while If we look

at them separately, they would leave

us greatly perplexed. All depends on circumstances." I

There are people for whom every

thing in life is made easy, they are rich, brilliant, witty and irresistible, i

succeed in everything and thus are ': never tempted to do anything wrong, but I do not belong to that class and I never felt it more than when 1 fell in love with my cousin Fernande. I was awkward, had a sad face, was rather poor and not very strong, so you will admit everything was against me. Still if I had kept Fernande for two weeks longer in the little chateau in Poitou where she often came to visit us, many things would have turned out differently. It was there I first learned to love her, when we were both very young and strangely enough, she also seemed to care for me, though no word

was ever said between us. ( Some years passed. I bad finished my education at a provincial college and was about to make my start in life. The first use I made of my independence was to make up my mind to ask Fernande to marry me. She was at that time living with her family at Rambouillet, bo I went there. The magnificence of the mansion overwhelmed me and I felt the inferiority of my provincial education deeply when I met some of the guests from Paris, brilliant, vivacious young mere who could converse charmingly '

and wittily about the theater, art, literature, while I had to remain abso

lutely mute in my ignorance. What I did understand, however, was that Fernande was very much interested in Goutran de la Notte, and no wonder, for even I had to admit to myself that he had the face of an Adonis, the figure of a Greek athlete and the free and easy manners which girls cannot resist, although his knowledge of anything was very superficial. He was exceedingly wealthy. Fernande, ! have found out later, really did not care for him, but she was dazzled by his wit and graceful

manners, and the knowledge that everyone of the other girls envied her, when Goutran evidently preferred her company made her rather proud of herself and prompted her to prolong what was really only a mild flirtation. But I did not realize that then.

Young and hotheaded, I lost my sense ! completely and the idea gradually took possession of me, that I must kill my rival. I planned the crime, ' carefully to the smallest detail and was particularly anxious to create an

alibi for myself. I cannot lay claim to any extenuating circumstances ex- j cept that I was young and unable to understand the terrible consequences of such a deed. I knew that Goutran went out in ' the evening and that after dinner he always went for a walk in the park. I took a hot bath at that hour. It was easy for me to get out of the bathroom window and into the shrubbery without being seen by anybody and return the same way. A valet prepared my bath and waited for me in the room outside. No better alibi was possible. The gun I intended to use I had hidden among the bushes

in the morning. It was Goutran's own. Everything went smoothly. I sneak

ed out through the window into the!

bushes and picked up the gun. I saw

Goutran come down the piazza and j followed him with my eyes, without . noticing however, that Fernande came out through another door. A moment later I heard the sound of steps on the gravel path, I raised the gun and fired. There was a woman's cry, the sound of a body falling, then ; the cry of a man rushing through the

bushes to her assistance.

Though I was appalled by what I had done, I had arranged everything so perfectly that I went through my part mechanically. I got back to the bathroom, undressed quickly and was in the bathtub when there was a knock at the door. "What is it I asked. "Mile. Fernande has been shot and badly wounded."

I nearly fainted. Fortunately Fernande's wound was very slight, but the shock kept her in her room for several days. The murderer was looked for In vain, nobody thought of suspecting me, and Fernande left her bed when I decided to leave the chateau. I wrote a letter to her and told her that I loved her, but gave up all hope as I saw she loved another man, and did not allow anybody to mention her name

to me after that day. For six years I lived alone and bur led myself in work to kill the memory of my crime. Then I cam bade to France bought a country place and one evening as I returned from my work in the field I say a woman iu mourning waiting for me outside th house. It was Fernande, She had

not changed at all except that sho seemed even more beautiful in my eyes. I felt my whole body tremble as I looked into her face. "Goutran is dead"' she said. "Oh, Fernande," I cried, "why did you come?" Her eyes beamed as she replied: "Because I have loved you ever since the day when I, was shot." Then I gave up all remorseful thoughts and accepted my happiness.

Window Mirrors. In continental towns one frequently 6ees a mirror at the side of a indow so placed that people In the room may see reflected therein the view up or down the street. In iom bygone periods of English street architecture it was customary to bay almost all the windows at least enough to enable the

occupants oi me nouses to iook aiong

the streets. Craftsman.

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A Matter of Verdict. Caller Will the cashier be away long.? OBice Boy It depends entirely on the Jury. Boston Courier.

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