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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AD SUX-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY JULY 13, 1911.

MAY FESTIVAL HAD A UTILE DEFICIT Final Report on Finances Was Submitted by the Special Committee.

The executive committee of the May Music Festival made Its final report to the Board of Directors of the Com mercial Club at Its meeting Monday evening. The outcome was not financially what it wan hoped for aa the committee was obliged to report a deficit. The total receipts were $1468.50 and the total expenses $147'J.70 making the deficit $11.20. The receipts for this year were $535.50 lens than last year. The loss of patronage was attributed to several causes. Three important events took place In May previous to the Festival, the Grand Army encampment, Earlham May Day and performances of "Ben Ilur." The week of the festival proved also to be a bad one from a weather standpoint. Notwithstanding these hindrances the committee was disappointed in the lack of response on the part of citizens to such a high class and meritorious entertainment, as it believed It deserved from the standpoint of local rrid in the institution that has received such high praise in the musical world. For the artistic side of the festival the highest praise is due, as a new high standing was set. The board discharged the committee with thanks. The board of directors also took action on the attitude of the school board toward general musical development. The facilities freely furnished for rehearsal: at the high school building, and other courtesies offered were commended In the following resolution: "We desire to recognize and commend the liberal policy on the part of the school board in promoting musical education In this city. The employment of such able talent aa we have in Professor Karhart ua Supervisor of Music Is not only an advantage to the schools, but his services in connection with nil musical movements of the city makes him a valuable asset to the whole community. The school also affords opportunity for the development of talent wherever it may appear, irrespective of financial circumstances. The expenditure for instruments and music for this purpose have been wise, and most excellent results have been attained. The use of the high school assembly hall for rehearsal of the various musical organizations has opened up now possibilities. "The great reputation our city has made for itself In the culture of music found Its impetus In the public schools. "Therefore, Be It Resolved, That tho Board of Directors of the Commercial club mo6t heartily indorses the policy of the School board In providing the excellent facilities for musical education, and urge that the same policy be continued In the future." Tlie resolution was unanimously adopted. The board also niaae a present of cash .to Mlsa Elizabeth llasemeler, for faithful and efficient services as pianist for the festival rehearsals. DISTRIBUTION OF TAXES JMADE TODAY Nearly $300,000 Given to Various County Government Branches Today. Counting in advancements already made, county auditor Demas Coe and county treasurer Albert Albertson, paid out exactly S2S2.360.69 on Wednesday to township trustees, and treasurers of the town corporations, school corporations and the city or Richmond. The money was distributed to these different officials and consisted of the entire amount due tho townships and corporations from the first installment of the paid In taxes this spring. Richmond's share was $SS,S51.04 but It was only paid $.12.1 79. SO, as the difference between the two sums had already been ndvnnced. Whitewater corporation received hut $46.43. The amounts paid to each township trustee and treasurers of corporations were as follows: Ablngton Township .. .. ..$ 22S1.10 Boston Township 433 37 Centre Township 634S.92 Clay Township 5134 94 Palton Township 2169.95 Franklin Township 492. OS Greene Township 5646.51 Harrison Township 3040.32 Jackson Township 3672.63 Jefferson Township 5S32.52 New Garen Township 6S27.S3 Perry Township 4092. OS Washington Township 5597.58 Wayne Township 19994.73 Webster Township 40S4.S7 Boston Corporation 135.44 Cambridge City Corporation. 6031.74 Centerville Corporation 799 96 East Germantown Corporation 1S2.51 Fountain City Corporation.. 65S.79 Hagerstown Corporation . . . 1517.55 Milton Corporation R45.26 Mount Auburn Corporation.. 203.2S Richmond City 53179.80 Spring Grove Corporation... 512.54 Whitewater Corporation 46.43 Richmond Schools S19S6.21 Cambridge City Schools .... 4956.12 Centerville Schools 1833.65 Milton Schools 1507.91 Spring Grove Schools S0.79 Dublin Schools 2652.33 Hagerstown Schools 1677.95 VALUABLE HEIRLOOMS (National News Association) Eransvllle, July 12. Burglars stole ten thousand dollars worth of jewelry and heirlooms from the home of former . Police Judge, Winfrey, during ftk alaht. The, fatntlv vu ahsant.

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Lee Hammond, the daring boy aviator of the Mineola, Long Island, flying colony and chum of Harry N. Atwood, the youthful Boston airman, who has recently distinguished himself by remarkable flying. One photograph shows young Hammond in flight. It is constantly expected that Hammond will surprise aviation circles as completely as did his chum, as the speotaculal success of At wood has aroused his spirit. Both boys were reared within a few doors of each other, and both are of about the same age. They fought each other for honors both through the primary schools and the Boston Polytechnic Institute, and, although they are now fast friends on mother earth, they ate feverish rivals when up in the air. SEARCHING IN SUN FOR MORE BODIES Other Victims May Be Buried in the Wreckage of the Federal Express. (National News Association) Rridgeport, Conn.. July 12 Railroad employes and citizen volunteers toiled under the hot sun today in the wreckage of the federal express searching for more bodies. Work was discontinued during the night, but was resumed at 7 o'clock this morning. One victim of the thirteen who perished in yesterday's New York, New Haven and Hartford disaster, is buried far beneath the top of the debris, but there is little hope of getting the body out for 21 hours. It is possible that even more bodies may be found in the two shattered Pulimans and day coach. Several of the 13 injured in the wreck are in a critical condition in the hospitals, though many have been allowed to go to their homes. At the Bridgeport hospital Miss Loretta McCreekan, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Ix)is Hartnian, of Newfield, X. Y., were in a critical condition. At St. Vincents hospital, Miss Bertha Monroe, of Washington, was said to be likely to die. Others whose condition was serious were Daniel Xissner, New York, brakeman on the train; Mrs. Sarah Calabria, of Philadelphia, and her two children, Christie and Tony; John F. Pfeiffer, of Headville, Mass.; Mrs, McSweeney, of Phillipsburg, N. J.; Lucy Mote, of Washington; Chas. Frazier, of Harve de Grace, Md.; Mrs. Eleanor Wilson, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary .McCann. of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Mary Walker, of Washington. Froteetio-! From Lightning. Sir Olivtv LudiM stilted that the problem of seen ring protection from lightning consisted in finding the best method f dissipating the enormous energy of the fi;is!i. but that It was not wise to got rid t the energy too quickly. A thl-i iron wire is considered the best lightning conductor fiom the electrical point of view, but it is almost Impossible to protect n building from lightning unless It is completely enveloped In a metal cage. It is by no means true that a building is sife when provided with a conductor reach ing up to the highest part of the building The Origin cf Grocer. Grocer appears in Hoiinshed's Chronicle. 15SO, as "grosser." and in otbr mediaeval records it is sometimes written "engrosser" and was applied to the spicers and pepperers who were wholesale dealers in various spices that is. ivhn dealt en grits in large quantities, as distinguished from "regrators," who were retail dealers. The Grocers' company first adopted the word grocer in l.TTS. wheu the spicers and pepperers allied themselves Into a single corporation. London Express. Agreed With Her. Tramp (at the doon If you please, lady- Mrs. Muggs (sternly) There, that will do. 1 am tired of this everlasting whine o: "Li:dy. lady." I am Just a plain woman, aud Tramp You are. madam, one of the plainest women I've ever seen au' one of the houestest to own up to it. Cruel. Mrs. Benham Every time I sing to the baby he cries. Benham He gets his ability as a musical critic from my side of the house. New York Press. Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity

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E, C, CREAR NOMINEE OF KY. REPUBLICANS Credit to Willson for Stopping Lawlessness Given After Dispute. (National News Association) Louisville. July 12. Judge E. C. Crear was nominated for governor by the Republican convention. The resentment by friends of Governor Willson of the scant praise given him for his work in putting down the lawlessness during the tobacco troubles caused a revision of the platform. A substituted plank which was adopted gives Governor Willson full credit. Crear's nomination was made unanimous after Cox and Franks withdrew. The convention indorsed Bradley for vice-president in 1912 and Taft for renomination. PLATINIZED GLASS. It Produces an Odd and a Tricky Kind of Mirror. Platinized glass consists of a piece of glass coated with an exceedingly thin layer of a liquid charged with platinum and then raised to a red heat. The platinum becomes united to the glass in such a way as to form an odd kind of mirror. The glass has not really lost its transparency, and yet if one places it against a wall and looks at it he sees his image as in an ordinary looking glass. But when light is allowed to come through the glass from the other side, as when it is placed in a window, it appears perfectly transparent like ordinary glass. By constructing a window of platinized glass one could stand close behind the panes in an unilluminated room and behold clearly everything going on outside, while passersby looking at the window would behold only a fine mirror or set of mirrors in which their own figures would be reflected while the person Inside remained invisible. In France various tricks have been contrived with the nid of this glass. In one a person seeing what appears to be an ordinary mirror approaches it to gaze upon himself. A sudden change in the mechanism sends light through the glass from the back, whereupon it instantly becomes transparent, and the startled spectator finds himself confronted by some grotesque figure that had been hidden behind the glass Harper's Weekly. ORIGIN OF LLOYD'S. Humble Beginning of Europe's Great Maritime Agency. Two centuries ago a man who bad a enrgo to si-od to the Mediterranean contrived to get rid of some of the risk by Inducing a friend to take an interest with him. It was ncessary to write out a statement of contract to which the guarantors subscribed. This was the first underwriting These two men happened to be frequenters of Lloyd's coffee house in London, which was a favorite place for the merchants of the town to gather to discuss business or to gossip. Others immediately saw the advantage of the scheme which their colleagues had devised, and on the next voyage the risk was parceled out among a larger number of the patrons of the coffee house. Out of this small beginning has grown the great European maritime agency, still bearing the name of tbe humble coffee bouse proprietor, and which not only writes rlsk.t on Tessels, but rates them and publishes their arrivals at every port the world over, no matter how small or how remotely situated. "Atxnals of the American Academy."

LIBRARY BENEFIT FOR THEJARMERS

Was the Subject Discussed at j the Librarians School at Earlham. Prominent librarians of the country assembled at Earlham college to attend a three day's session ot the Pub lic Library Commission, devoted the Tuesday's session of the meeting to a discussion jA rural library extension, a movement which is now being seriously consider- . 1 by prominent educators and libiarians ot t'.ie United States. Important on the program were the addressee of William M. Hepburn, of Purdue university; Miss Julia Wrig it Merril, of Cincinnati; Carl H. Milam, of the Public Library Commission; Miss Nannie- W. .fay no, of Alex andria; Mib Mary N. Laxter, of El-; wood; and Mrs. Elva P. Carter, of Pbiinfieid. The . purpose of the discus.siun is to arouse an interest among librarians in order to get an exten sion of the library advantages among the farmers so that persons in the rural districts will be favored with the same educational benefits as are persr-ns in the cities. P was pointed out that throughout the land most ot the cities and towns are furnished with fine libraries. ' "Tro plan for the Public Lihraiy in j the Country Life Movement," was the j subject of Mr. Hepburn's talk. He out-j lined briefly the characteristics of the movement, calling to t io two great tendencies, one toward bettor economic conditions and one toward better living conditions how the farmer's family may have social and educational advantages penal to those enjoyed by people in tows and cities. "The library can heln in both these tendencies." declared Mr. Hepburn, "but it may have to be developed along new lines. What these new lines are, noj one can exactly tell." He quoted from j great rural life authorities, S. H. i Bailey, of Cornell, and K. Y. Butterfield, of Massachusetts Agricultural j college, showing these men are sym-j pathetic toward the rural library movement. Better living conditions in the country will be the ultimate result of the library movement. Miss Merril Spoke. Following an address by Mr. Milam, in which he told how the rural library movement was being handled all over the country. Miss Merril, of Cincinnati, gave a short talk on the countylibrary of Hamilton, Ohio. Three Indiana libraries represented were those at Alexandria, Elwood and Plainfield. These are all libraries that are supported jointly by the town3 and townships under the laws of 1909 and 1911. The libraries at Alexandria and Elwood have placed small collections of books in the district schools of their townships. The Plainfield library, by deposit stations, gives farmers the opportunity to have advantages of city libraries. At Franklin, a place of 800 inhabitants, there is a branch of the Elwood library. It has 300 subscribers and an annual circulation of 6,000 volumes. At, today's session of the library commission, Mrs. Theresa West Elmendorf, vice-librarian of the Buffalo, N. Y., public library, and the president of the American association, one of the best librarians of the United States lectured on "The Children's Right to Poetry." She lectures on other sub jects also. Mr. Hepburn gave a talk on Agricultural Literature today. Tomorrow morning, Mrs. Elmendorf will talk on "The Librarian's Place and Power." A GEM OF POESY. Maybe It Was the Heat That Made It Burst Into Being. Stewart Edward White. William Kent and myself were hunting mountain sheep in the ranges of Mexican California. Perhaps because the savage heat of the desert which we were crossing had somewhat gone to our brains we fell to making poetry upou various aspects of desert life. White rhapsodied upon the tarantula; Kent dithyramled over the pack mule; I sang tbe dispraises of the jack rabbit. Finally White, who was cook for the day. offered a special prize of duff with- raisins (tbe last remnant cf our 6tore for the premier verse to , be turned out before sunset. At noon we met up with a wandering prospector, who introduced himself as J. Noel Benson, native son of California, and observed upon learning of our literary efforts that he was some poet himself. On being invited to enter the list he retired to the top of a mesa, where tbe thermometer was something like 110 in the absence of shade, and after half an hour of self communion returned with the following getn of poesy : THE GXAT. The griat he is a noisome mite. He loves to buzz. He loves to bit. He crawls upon you when you're hot. I love the naughty gnat nit not! The duff was awarded to him without protest from tbe other contestants. Success Magazine. How Leap Year Started. Hampson. in his "Medii OEVL Kalandaiium." quotes the following quaint tradition from au old Saxon treatise: "Some assert that the bissextus or leap day comes through this, that Joshua prayed to God that the sun might stand still for one day's length that he might sweep the heathen from tbe land that God bad granted him and his followers. It Is true that tbe sun did stand still for one day's length over the city of Gebaon. but the day wont forward in the same manner as other days. And tbe bissextus is not through that, as some do tbinkr In Fraace and some parts of Spain and Portugal there exists a tradition known as "the ghost of leap year." Believers in this say that a marvelous monster annually appears on leap day and disarranges human affairs lor the remainder of the year.

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WOMEN FOR JURORS A Question Which Now Confronts Spokane. (National News Association! Spokane, Wash.. July 12. What to do with women who will be called to serve as jurors with men when the Spokane county superior court convenes next September, is one of the vexing problems confronting the five members of the bench, headed by Judge Henry L. Kennan. The various clubs in Spokane have given out state ments that their members are ready and willing to do jury duty. The judges hope a modern Solomon or Portia will come forward to unravel the tan gles presented by these possible situations: If 12 women are selected to try a case and six disagree from the other six. If four women decided they are right in a civil action and six men jurors hold opposite views. If a mixed jury of men and women is kept together in a felony case until all are agreed upon a verdict. If six women and six men are locked in a room to determine the guilt or innocence of a person charged with a capital crime? Relating to service of jurors in the superior court the -law adopted by the legislature of 1911, says: "Any woman desiring to be excused from jury service may claim exemption by signing a written or printed notice thereof and returning same to the sheriff before the date of appearance, and if exemption is claimed by reason of sex, no fee shall be allowed for her appearance." The law provides that the pury sworn to try the issues in felony cases shall be kept together and in custody of the officers of the court except during the actual progress of the trial, thus putting it squarely up to the judges to solve the problem allowing the question to solve itself, if the women who desire to serve as jurors can not settle it themselves. ANTI-PASS LAW IS CALLED A GOOD ONE (National News Association) San Antonio. Texas, July 12. According to an interpretation of the attorney general's department, the last legislature of Texas builded better than it knew when it amended the anti-pass law. Previous to, this amendment, every one who rode on the cars in the state had to pay cash. The law as amended gives newspapers the right to enter into contract with the road to take mileage in exchange for advertising. For a time it was maintained that the law gives only owners and prorrieors of newspapers the privilege of riding on newspaper mileage. The attorney-egenral however, holds that under the law any one employed by a newspaper may ride on such transportation. The contract provides for an exchange of transportation on a basis of dollars and cents and the legal department of the state ridicules the idea that the owners or publishers of newspapers may not do what they please with such transportation. So far as the newspapers are concerned, the law as amended is quite as broad in the privileges granted as that in force before the present law was made some years ago. with the exception that the contracts must be approved by the railroad commission, thus eliminating many who secured railroad mileage under the old regime in this state. INDICT PUBLISHER LEWIS FOR FRAUD iNaticnal Xews Association) St. Louis, July 12. E. G. Lewis, recenUy a newspaper and magazine publisher and real estate promoter, was indicted by the special grand jury on twelve charges of fraudulent use of the mails. It is alleged that a million is involved.'

PRAYERS FOR RAIN

Answered by a Deluge in Northern Indiana. (National News Association) Lafayette, July 12. Prayers of farmers for rain brought destructive storms in Benton and Putnam counties last night. Thousands of dollars in damage resulted to crops and buildings. Many horses were killed by lightning. THE WHITE NILE. Mr. Roosevelt's Description of Night on tbe Great African Riv'tr. We had come down tbrougn the second of the great N'yanza lakes. As we sailed northward its waters stretched behind us beyond the ken of vision, to where they were fed by streams from the Mountains of the Moon. Ou our left hand rose the frowning ranges on the other side cf whjcb the Kongo forest lies like a shroud over the land. On our right we pas.,ed the mouth of tbe Victorian Nile, alive with inon strous crocodiles and Its banks barren of human life because of the swarms of the fly wbo&e bite brings the torment which ends in death. As night fell we entered the White Nile and steamed and drifted down tbe mighty stream. Its current swirled iu long curves between endless ranks of plum ed papyrus. White and blue and red the floating wutor lilies covered tbe lagoons and the still inlets among the reeds, and here and there the lotus lifted its leaves and flowers stiffly above the surface. The brilliant trop ic stars made lanes of light on the lapping water as we ran ou through the night. The river horses roared from the reed beds and snorted and plunged beside the boat, and crocodiles slipped sullenly into the river as we glided by. Toward morning a mist arose and through it the crescent of tbe dying moon shone red and lurid. Then the sun flamed aloft, and soon tbe African landscape vast, lonely, mysterious, stretched on every side in a shimmering glare of heat and light, and ahead of us the great, strange river went twisting away iDto the distance. Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner's. A DUKE'S LOVES. The Force of the Attacks Were Measured by His Appetite. In the late eighteenth century a Dr. Moore was tutor to the young Duke of Hamilton of those days, whom he accompanied on the usual continental tour. The duke was then eighteen and was susceptible to feminine charms, lie bad just fallen a victim to the black eyes of a married lady when Dr. Moore made this report to the youthful peer's mother: "This is the third passion the duke has had since we crossed the sea. They generally affect bis appetite, and I can make a pretty good guess at the height of his love by the victuals be refuses to eat. A slight touch of love puts him immediately from legumes and all kinds of jardinage. If it arises a degree higher be turns up his nose at fricassees and ragouts. Another degree and he will rather go to bed supperless than taste plain roasted veal or pouiets of any sort. This is the utmost length his passion has ever come hitherto, for when he was at the court witb Mile. Marchenville. though she put him entirely from greens, ragouts and veal, yet she made no impression on bis roast beef or mutton appetite. He fed plentifully upon those in spite of her charms. I intend to make a thermometer for the duke's passion with four degrees (1) greens, 2) fricassees and ragouts. (3t roast veal and fowls. (4 plain roast mutton or beef and If ever tbe mercury mounts as high as the last I shall think the case alarming-" Argonaut. Gallant. j An lnsnman says ne always snats ; bis eyes when be looks at a lady's I faults.

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SPORTSMEHSHIP OF AMERICANS LAUDED Harvard-Yale Team Defeated in England and Not an Excuse Offered.

(National New Assoeii;.-n) London. July 12. The splendid sportsmanship shown by the Yale and Harard athletes following their defeat by Oxford and Cambridge in the International meet at Queens club yesterday won hem acclaim all over England today. The over-sea vUitoia have not attempted a single excuse for losing and their manlv attitude in attributing the Englis'i varsity men's victody solery to their superior prowess has won the heart of John Hull. Captain Kllpatrick, of Yale, voiced" the sentimeuts of his men by saying: "The best team won and won fairly and squarely. That's all there is to it. We put forth t it best there was in us and the other feilows saw us and went us enough better to nose out ahead." Captain Foster, of Harvard, in behalf of the Crimson contingent, said: "Our opponents were among the best sportsmen and athletes I have ever seen. They deserved their victory by tiicir splendid work and their success was won solely by ciean-cut work iu training and in the finals." These frank and fair statements are being repeated all over London today and have resulted in a perfect deluge of invitations to the Americans to all soits of entertainments. OWN NEGLIGENCE CAUSE OF DEATH Rudolph Wissler, the Mount Auburn young man who was instantly killed by a Pennsylvania train at Cambridge City on July 1, met his death on account of his own negligence according to the verdict of coroner R. J. Pierce which was filed in the circuit court on Wednesday. COASTED DOWN HILL ALIGHTING ON FACE Harry Zartman. one of the boys living at Wernle Orphans Home on Tuesday in coasting down the steep hill near here on his wheel, lost control near the bottom and was thrown into a pile of rocks. He was badly bruised and several teeth knocked out. ST. LOUIS BALLOONS (National News Association) Kansas City, July 12. The balloons, Million Population." of St. Louis, and 'St. Louis IV.." will be contestants in the international race for the Bennett cup. The former landed In Laporte county, 535 miles distance and the latter travelled 475 miles. FAMOUS OPERA SINGERS ARE MARRIED (National News Association) Paris, July 12. Emma Eames, aged forty-six, and Emilio Gorgoza, aged 39, were married here today. Both are opera singers. Deserted Thsir Towns. So late as tbe end of the seventeenth century the inhabitants of Ceylon were in the habit of deserting their towns. Their customs are described in tbe narrative of Captain Robert Knox, who for nineteen years, from 1GG0 to ie"9, was a captive among them. He speaks of several towns 89 lying desolate owing to tbe fact that their inhabitants bad forsaken them. This they did if many of them" fell sick, and two or three died soon after one another, thinking that it was a visitation of the evil one. Some of them came back when they thought the evil spirits had departed. . , A Queer Creature. Queer that while tbe male seal Is ft bull and tbe female a cow their youngster is not called a calf, but a pup. Why "seal fisheries?' too, when the seal is not a fish? And why should the seal's breeding place be styled a rookery? It looks as if this strong creator Is only a fish in common parlance while at sea. On land (or ice) be is classed popularly with animals or birds. Exchange. Gratitude. Kind Lady My poor man. what wouid you do witb the money If I gave you a penny? Tired Hobo Madam. I'd buy a picture postcard an write yer a note o' thanks. Cleveland Leader. To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die - f'amolll. Tired Feet. Bathe tired feet at night in rery warm water to which a generous handful of salt hsr l mm i added. Use Queen Ready Mixed PAINT, $1.75 per Gal. Old Reliable Paint Co. H. C. SHAW, Mgr. 10 & 12 8. 7th. Phone 2230 Special This Week Fancy Huckleberries For. Canning EGGEMEYER'S Bee Hive Store 4th St. Store