Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 256, 23 July 1911 — Page 4
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TWINKLES
THE PERSONAL IMPRESSION. "J that fellow a millionaire?"
"No. Ho has the air without the
million."
INEVITABLE CONTROVERSY. Alaa! 1lftRn.lrn will not ceaBe
And leave th world of ours content
To mentJon universal peace May servo to start an argument.
FOR A RAINY DAY.
"We should all lay by something for a rainy day," said the prudent
woman.
"I try to," replied Miss Cayenne.
"But I must confess I find silk hosiery
expensive."
A VARIABLE CONDITION.
"Any malaria around here?" asked
the tourist.
"Some say they is an some say they
ain't," replied the native. "It 'pears to depend mos'ly on whether the person
enjoys the kind ot medicine that's
mostly took for it."
"When a man thinks it's up to him
to show his wife who is boss," said Uncle Eben, "dat's a sure sign dat he
ain't."
THE JULY JOURNEY. De lasy day com"! driftin' along De breeze is si m' a lazy song,
De sun rise slow oh to staht de day,
And he take his time as he slides
away. So, whoa dar, mule! It's a long, hahd climb, Mind yoh betters An take yoh time. De bird Is a-swlngin on de limb
'Cause he ain't got nothln' a-botherin'
him. De fish is dozln in de stream
Till & fly come droppln to 'sturb his
dream. So, woah dar, mule! 'Cause don't you see When you pushes youhse'f You's pushin' me!
This Is My 77 th Birthday
CARDINAL GIBBONS
Cardinal (James) Gibbons, head of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore,
July 23, 1834, and received his educa
tion at St Charles College, Maryland,
and St Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.
He was ordained a priest in 1S61 and for seven years served as pastor of various churches in Baltimore and the Ticlnity. In 1868 he was made vicar
apostolic of North Carolina, where he
erected many churches, opened
schools and built asylums. He was
transferred to Richmond in 1872, and
made Its bishop and coadjutor ot
Archbishop Boyle of Baltimore in 1877
and succeeded him the same year. At the age ot 43 he was archbishop of the
greatest see in North America. Work
ing with the Barae zeal and activity that had characterized his previous work, he was appointed by Tope Leo XIII. to preside of the Third Plenary
Council of Baltimore, and was regard
ed for his services by a Cardinal's hat
June 30, 1886.
Took an Unfair Advantaoa.
Mm. Dorklns Yesterday I called
fra- CrundAft-e's attention to the fact
that she had left the gate between our back yards open aod that her chickens had come throusa and scratched up
our flower bels,4and she looked as If
h would hat et liked to bite my head
off. How foolish It Is for people to
pet angry when you remind them that they have been careless about something they had no business to overlook! Mr. Dorklns I am glad to hear you say that. Maria. You won't mind if 1 mention that when 1 came home last
night I fonnd that you'd left both tb.e
hack doors unlocked.
: Mrs. Dork las Yes; you're always
watching to see if you can't eaten roe In some little fault and It makes yon perfectly happy when yon do! New
York Tribune.
Two water works proposals are before the city. Before these are act
ed on the citizens of Richmond ought to know what they contain. In an
other part of this issue there appear summaries of the present contract with the Richmond City Water Works, the proposal of the new contract with the same company and another proposal by Mr. Campfleld.
It may not be necessary to bring up the fact that this Involves at
least a million dollars, the health of the city and also is a situation in which a private company has and will have the right to tax each citizen.
It is the largest question which is likely to arise for many months
and perhaps for years.
There is a movement growing in this county toward popular govern
ment. It is assorted by more and more Americans that special privilege is wrong in itself. That a few men should not have the power to tax the people for their gain. This same situation is found in every phase of American life not alone in the Payne Aldrich tariff but in the railroad rates, the street car and interurban franchises in all public utility operations.
If there is one reason more than another why this fight of special
privilege has come about it is because the people are beginning to take an interest in the actually facts of their own public business in the
rates and provisions of their public utililties.
But tbero are a great many people who are quite sure that there is
something the matter with the great business operations of this coun
try who forget that the same situations may exist at their very door.
The waterworks situation is an example of this. There are very few
citizens who know what the water works proposal is.
Renewal clauses, schedules of rates. Standards of purity, hydrant
rentals, questions of pressure, normal pressure extensions, duplicate
mains free water, right to purchase divisions of profits depreciation
They are not interesting looking names are they? It is summer, men do not care to be bothered with their own private
affairs they are longing to get away from them.
But perhaps it would take on a different aspect if the subject of ex
tension meant that there was no water to be had on the lot on which
you had just bought or that it would cost you an exorbitant and prohibi
tive sum. And it would be a different thing from a lot of names if you should wake up to the fact that a reduction of the pressure would throw out of commission a water motor which you had installed designed for a higher pressure. It would mean something if you had to pay more for your water if through a depreciation charge and a question involving the bonding of the plant the water company had the privilege of raising the rate if these things were not lived up to. And it would mean something if the ire pressure should be so reduced that your buildings were not properly protected and the fire insurance rates should be raised and worse still that fires could not be properly put out. It would mean something if a flaw in the contract would enable the water works stockholders to rut the city under all the obligations of carrying the plant and then not allow the city any representation in the management of the business. It would mean something if the management being unguarded the plant should be wrecked and the profits of the company absorbed by salaries and improper charges of various sorts. All the words and phrases have been looked over by the hawkeyed attorneys of both proposals. The men behind each proposal have weighed each phrase, they have analyzed every possibility, they know the condition of the business how much it is likely to make, they know just what they are being granted and what each concession will mean in dollars and cents. They have paid large attorney bills to find them out and they have called in experts who are on very friendly terms with them, to figure down to the last cent just where they are coming out With this compact working force of skilled minds used to euch operations on the one hand and the city stands diffused, scattered, with its city officials as the agents who are not experts, but simply well intentioned men without the means of getting at exactly what is meant with the only source of information the very men who are seeking favors. But something at least can be done even in so obivously discouraging a case a case which is like the hundreds of other cases in which special privilege has had all the information and all the resources with a compace and trained working force urged on by gain. The contracts, though couched in technical language can be analyzed ' if the every day citizen wishes to take the trouble.
For that reason we today publish a very simple comparison of the main points in the three contracts as a starter. Thereafter we shall take the contracts up clause by clause so that the points may be as precisely explained as possible in untechnical language with their real meaning. As already Btated The Palladium wishes its readers to ask questions about the contract. We hope in this way to be doing our duty as a newspaper to the community in which it is published. For the water contract affects your pocketbook in many different ways.
BROKE UP THE HABIT.
A Woman Who Found a Simple Rem
edy For a Big Annoyance. "What has become of those two chil
dren who visited you so often?" asked one west side woman of another. The other smiled discreetly.
"They are the children of my niece,
and she was making" a. convenience of
me. Of course I love the children.
but I never allow myself to become
much of a victim of Imposition. My niece Is an extremely gay young wid
ow, and she does not like to take care
of her children. She is fond of shopping, matinees, afternoon teas and everything, in short, which takes her away from home, and she got Into a
habit of sending her children over to
my house for me to take care of when
ever she wished to gad about I de
cided it was time to break up the
habit for her own good and that of the children, as well ns mine, so I
did."
"I suppose that made your niece
angry?"
"Oh. no; It couldn't I never said
anything about it. The last time the children came over I spent the after
non teaching them verses from the Bible, and they didn'tfind it sufficient
ly entertaining. They never came
back. Just how they managed to work it out with their mother I do not know.
but I suppose they struck or begged
off. Of course she could not object
to what I had done, and it proved a very simple solution." New York
Press.
WHA T OTHERS SA Y
THE MYSTERIES From the New York World. Once again scientific men are seeking ocular evidence of the existence of the human soul, as if it were a thing
of definite substance, capable of be
ing isolated and catalogued like a
bone or sinew, and still others, work
ers in the advanced school of biologi
cal research are tapping the vials on
the shelves of laboratories for a chemical thouchstone to the secret of
the creation of animal existence.
We know something of the begin
ning of life and of the phenomena at
tending dissolution, but it is not given to man to pennetrate to finality the mysteries of nature. The geologist
knows only part of the story of the earth, and the astronomer offers only an imperfect chart of the world's in
unmeasured space. Science may in time find a light to dispel Bome of the darkness it may even determine
the existence of a "human aura," but it will not find the soul.
States, der.
Jingoes, please note and pon- I
A FAIR JUDGE From the Philadelphia Press.
Dr. Wiley's case will have no snap ' judgment from a President who has i
sat on the bench and is in all his acts a judge full of judicial spirit.
REVISION IS HARD WORK From the St. Louis Republic. The lord's veto bill is up again in London. It seems to be a harder job to revise the house of lords than to revise an American tariff.
SWAT THE FLY
From the Chicago Tribune.
A report almost too good to be true
comes from Kansas City, Kan. It is
to the effect that the fly pest has
greatly lessened in the state, and that,
conincidently, infantile paralysis has disappeared. It is, of course too early to draw conclusions, but it is to be
noted that the "fly-swatting" cam
paign begun so vigorously last year has been taken up again energetically
this season and has spread throughout
the state. It is not too much to expect prompt results from such a cru
sade, for we have seen what could be
done by drastic measures and strict
sanitation in such a plague spot as the Panama isthmuB. Kansas will do well to keep up the warfare.
AMERICANS PAY MORE From the Detroit Free Press.
An Italian recenly bought the title i
of count for $4,000. This seems ridic-1
ulously cheap compared to the prices
our rich Americans have been paying.
SENATOR GALLINGER
From the Boston Herald.
Senator Gallinger has bee peculiarly honored by the Granite state. It never bofe gave a man more than two terms in the upper house, and it has had a not undistinguished line of sen
ators. It has accorded him a fourth
term, on which he is now serving. He has always belonged to the old guard, conservative and cautious, but pre-eminently fair in his decisions and of unflagging industry in attending to the multitudinous details of an active pub lie career. He has the hearties sympathy of a very wide circle of friends in the personal bereavements which he has been called on to bear.
Tennyson's Tactleasnees. Several stories are told of Tennyson's thoughtless speeches. "What fish Is this? he once askad his hostess where ha was dSmipg. "Whiting." she replied. "The moaWt fish there is." he remarked, quite naconscious that he could have wond-i any one's feelings. Yet his kindness of heart was such that when his partridge was afterward given him altaost'raw he ate steadily through it for fear his hostess might be vexed. On on occasion Tennyson was very rudo to Mrs. Biptherten. a neighbor at Freshwater. The next day he came to her house with a treat cabbage under each arm. "I hearHyu like these, so I brought them." he said genialy. It was his idea of a peace offering.
Women's Time Schedule. Few women speak of a train starting slightly off the even hour, asrtno 3:02 train, for example, or the 3:12. "Three"
will do. It bother a man a heap to
go hustonc for a 8 o'clock train by
feminine directions when it, la a 3:12 train. For seme wopn'"3" will do
for the 2:84 train; Wi near .enough Then the man following feminine di
rectJons, nnless ba is aa his guard
against those pitfalls, is loot Prob ably if it weren't for his business train
lng, which teaches a man tat 8:4X2 is
not 3. not 3:01, not 8:01, not 31.,
but 3:02, he'd be better natured about women's time schedules. Boston Post
LAND NEEDS WORKERS From the San Francisco Chronicle. One of the causes contributing to the opposition to unrestricted immigration which finds frequent expression is the tendency manifested by a large proportion of the immigrants to remain in the seaboard cities instead of dispersing themselves over the land and assisting in the work of production. If this evil could be eradicated and the stream of immigration be directed into theproper channels hostility would cease or be greatly minimized.
AN ASTOR DEAL The Only Time That Old John Jacob Sold Real Estate. "One of the most stringent real estate rules of the Astor family is "never sell,' and only one sale Is recorded in the entire life of old John Jacob Astor," said Niles F. Watkins, a real estate broker of New York. "In 1S30 Astor tore down bis house in Broadway, cleared the whole block from Vesey to Barclay street and built the huge Quincy granite hotel known as the Astor House, which was one ot the first notable landmarks in New York and also one of the best paying pieces of property. "A few days after it was finished the old gentleman and bis eldest son, William, wore walking- through City Hall park, where the postoffice now stands, and stopped n moment to admire the building, the finest hotel in America at that time. " 'Pop. that's a mighty fine building,' paid William. 'I wish to gracious it was mine.' " 'So?' answered the father. 'Well. Billy, give me $1 and you can have It "Out came the dollar a big silver dollar that is cherished by the family to this day and within an hour the deed of the property was made out and recorded. This was old Mr. Astor's only sale of real estate in his life." Washington Herald.
JAPAN, ENGLAND AND AMERICA From the Chicago Record-Herald. The first step of the Carnegie Peace Foundation, by a fortunatae coincidence, is announced simultaneously with the important fact of the extension and modification of the AngloJapanese treaty covering far-eastern affairs. The revision of the treaty was necessitated by the arbitration proposals pending between Washington and London, and Japan's ready acceptance of the amended clauses fur
ther shows that she has no fear of
serious trouble with the United
Cigar Boxes.
Spanish cedar Is -the wood whereof the best cigar boxes are made, and
most of it come from Cuba.
Why Actresses Never Grow Old
(Theatrical World)
Nothing concerning the profession
seems more puzzling to the dear old
public than the perpetual youth of our
feminine members. How often we hear remarks like, "Why, I saw her as Juliet forty years ago and she
doesn t look a year older now ! " Of
course allowance is made for makeup, but when they see us off the stage
at close range, they need another ex
planation.
How strange women generally
haven t learned the secret of keeping
the face young! How simple a matter to get an ounce of mercollzed wax at the drug store, apply it like cold cream, and in the morning wash it
off! We know how gradually, imper
ceptibly absorbs old cuticle, keeping the complexion new and fresh, free,
free from fine lines, sallowness or over-redness. We know, too, that this mercollzed wax is
me reason actresses aon t wear moth patches, liver spots, pimples and
the like. Why don't our sisters on the other side of the footlights learn
the reason, and profit by it?
DR. J. A. WALLS SPECIALIST SI SOFTH TENTH ST, RICHMOND, IOTD.
OFFICH DATS MOXDAT, TTTE9DAT,
A WD SATURDAY OS BACH WRKKV Consultation and ona month's Treatment
TREATS DISEASES OF THE THROAT, X.UNQ9 KIDNEYS, LIVER and BLADDER. RHEUMATISM DYSPEPSIA and DISEASES OF THTC BLfton Rnl3
lepay (or falling- fits). Cancer. Private and Nervous
Dloeasea, Female Diseases, Lo9 of Vitality from Indiscretions.
la, Fieeure ana Ulcerations or tne Keotum. without di RUPTURS POSITIVELY CCRKD AMD GUARANTEED.
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JULY 23 175" French and Indians defeated the English at Fort Edward. 1785 Saxony, Brandenburg and Hanover formed the Germanic Alliance. 1816 Charlotte Cushraan, celebrated actress, born in Boston. Died there Feb. S. 1S76. 1840 Upper and Lower Canada reunited. 1842 The cap-stone of the Bunker Hill monument was laid. 1873 Railway opened between Mexico City and Vera Cruz. 1885 Gen. U. S. Grant, eighteenth President of the United States died at Mt McGregor, N. Y. Born at Point Pleasant Ohio, April 27, 1822. 1910 Oscar B. Colquitt received the Democratic nomination Tor governor of Texas.
Don't let anyone make you believe that a "six" cylinder engine causes extra car trouble. It reduces the amount of car trouble because of less vibration, fewer gear shifts, slower running over rough roads, slower starting of car and slower hill climbing; all of which reduces the "wear and tear" on the engine, car and tires. Car trouble is not caused by the cylinders. In this day of accurate workmanship and perfect lubrication, cylinder trouble is uncommon. But suppose a cylinder does wear! It is well known that the average gas engine cylinder should give about 30,000 miles before it need be re-bored, which would be as far as the average driver would drive in five or six years. Now, a cylinder can be re-bored for $2.00 to $3.00. A new oversize piston and rings to fit the re-bored cylinder can be bought of the car manufacturer for $5-00 to $6.00. Standard car builders are beginning to supply their agents with standard over-size pistons and rings at the above prices. Ninety-nine per cent of car trouble is caused by the tires, bearings, differential, transmission, clutch, carburetor and magneto. Nearly all of these parts are identical whether the car has a "four" or a "six" cylinder engine. Let us demonstrate a McFarlan Six to you.
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STARR PIANO CO.
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Beginning MONDAY
and continuing until AUGUST 1st We shall offer unusually attractive prices and terms on a special lot of instruments, every one of which is as good as new.
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Last month we disposed of a quantity of used Pianos from Earlham College and many purchasers of those pianos have voluntarily told us that they are more than satisfied with their instruments. NOW YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY Here on our floor are six used Pianos, taken in exchange for our Player Pianos, or returned from rental. All have been thoroughly overhauled at our factory and are as good as new. THE PRICES ARE RIDICULOUSLY LOW and we know that the first few days will clean them out. The Pianos on sale include Starr. Richmond, Remington and Trayser Pianos and Players
psalm Strictly new, but because of a very recent, slight change in the case construction of our Players, those now on our floor are classified as Discontinued styles and are therefore ordered to be DISPOSED OF AT ONCE. We've reduced the prices so that orders may be obeyed and the reduction is so decided that the mere technical term of "Discontinued" means nothing to the purchaser. IT'S THE PRICE THAT TALKSINVESTIGATE SOON
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