Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 364, 7 November 1911 — Page 7
I'fTP! RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1911.
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VISION GUIDED TO MAIi SHEJCCUSES Widow Finds Mining Engi
neer in Hotel and Seeing Him in Her Dreams.
CHICAGO. Nov. 7. A dream, in which Mrs. W. A. Loftus, a widow, 419 K. 45th etreet, saw H. L. Berkley, u mining promoter, whom she claimti swindled her out of $1,000, walking in the lobby of the Auditorium hotel caused her to go to the hotel. The flrtt person met in the lobby was Berkey, who hau been mining for two yearn, since he disappeared from the Rawhide, Nev., mining cam ph. "Von are arretted," was Mrs. 1ottus' greeting. "Let us Mettle our differences," Berkey protected. 'No. we'll settle them at the Harrison ittreet police station," the wo
man declared, grabbing him by the coat sleeves. Berkey accompanied her to the police Btatlon without offering resistance. Mrs. Loftus turned her prisoner over to the police and alter her Btory he waB booked on a charge of obtaining money by means of a confidence game. Mru. Loftus told the police that she had a dream in which she saw Berkey register at the hotel and later walk about the lobby. The mining promoter, who claims to be secretary and treasurer of the Nexada Bond & Weaning company, of Rawhide, Nev., Bays he lias known MrH. LoftuB for twenty years. He admitted having taken $1,000 from her declaring he sold her the stock to that amount. Mrs. Loftus says she invested $1,000 two years ago in the leasing company on the promise that her son William would be given a position as cashier. The following week, she declares, Berkey disappeared, and, although detectives searched for him, he could not be found. Trace was lost at Fresno, Cal. Mrs. Loft us obtained a warrant in the Hyde Park police court for his arrest. In telling of her dream, Mrs. Loftus aid : "The dream seemed so real that when 1 awakened I could hardly believe for a time that I had been asleep. The whole thing seemed to have taken place. "When I went to the hotel the same scene met my eyes Berkey pacing the lobby and numerous men and women iteated about. "When I touched him on the arm he acted Just as cooly as he had acted In the dream. It 1b hard to believe that I really dreamed the entire incident, but that is solely the manner in which 1 apprehended him." Berkey said he has money and would pay Mrs. Loft us. He declared his transaction with her. was square and the mines a good investment. He admitted having promised her son a
position with the company, but Baid ho did not fulfill it because he learned her son drank heavily.
WHY DO PEOPLE WRITE AnOHYMOUS LETTERS
Fighting in the Open Versis Assassination Telephone a Wonderful Scientific Invention, but Frequently a Source of Annoyance.
VARIED HIS VIEWS.
A Broad Mindtd Candidate and a Patisnt Constituent. Farmer Gordon was engaged for a fortnight to drive a political candidate about the county In his buggy. Thy traveled by dny, each town being a stage, and the politician spoke every evening. The man was honest and well meaning, but careful local partisans had tried tho temper of each community in advance and reported to him with Miiggentions. So it happened that from his extreme anxiety to please his expressed conviction on the issue varied considerably from time to time. "Well. Mr. Gordon," snid the candidate one day at the beginning of the second week, "how do you stand on the election? How are vou going to Tote?" Tbe farmer was silent, thinking. "I really dou't know." he said. "I ran tell bettor, maybe, at the close of our engagement." "Can't make up your mind yet? You've heard all of my speeches."' "Yes. n:id I like you personally, and I'm hoping to get to vote for you. Don't worry at least, not yet." "Not yet! Why do you say that?" asked the puzzled candidate. "Well, you've had several points of view, and I'm just waiting and thinking maybe before tbe end of the week you'll sret round to mine too." Youth's Companion.
MISSED THE KANGAROO. The Hunter Ws Afttr Moat, but Got Instead a St inc. lu 1SS9 n hunter i,i New South Wales took a fancy for some kangaroo Meat, so he made a trip through the mulga with no oouipauion but his gun. lie had no need of either guides or dogs, n he was an experienced bushman. The first kangaroo sighted was wounded by him. but not badly enough to disable it. Before he could iret In another shot it made off through tbe salt bush at n terrific pace, but leaving a plain trail in. drops of blood, so the hunter followed as fast as he could. The trail gradually grew fainter as tbe wounded animal bled less freely, and Its pursuer was often obliged to stoop and examine the ground closely for tbe telltale signs. Aft?r several hundred yards had Ihnmi covered without seeing any more crimson spots the buater began to think his quarry had escaped, when he s;nv a single fleck of red before him. As he bent to look for more flecks the red changed to au Iridescent pal" green, and he say it was a gem stone that lay before him. Tbe kangaroo was not bagged, but the White Cliffs opal fields were discovered. New York rress. There will be an oyster supper this venln t 2? n. 9th St. 7-1 1
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "Is the gentleman anonymous? Is he a great unknown?" This was Baid once by somebody and serves an a quotation in the preface of a famous novel. It was, however, in gentle irony. And had reference to a custom in the literary world of appearing and sailing under a nom de guerre, or what is oftener called noin de plume, although the latter is illegitimate. Some literary incognitos are mystifying and some are not. And some have been ho associated with a personality as to obscure the actual individual nomenclature as in the case of Mark Twain. And there are instances of anonymity like that maintained by the author of the famous "Junius Letters" and of the novel "The Bread Winners,"
whose real sources never have been determined. This sort of masquerading, however, is harmless enough and, frequently, deceives no one. Hut there is another form of anonymity that is practiced by the uncou", and other human incunabula, which is not particularly harmful save to the person indulging in this special form of degeneracy but is so despicable as to place its devotees outside the pale. That is the anonymous letter. The anonymous letter is the last resort of the sneak, the coward, the cad and the poltroon. A man may be a thief and yet be a gentleman. He may run off with another man's wife and still be a gentleman. He may even kill another man and remain a gentleman. He may lie, cheat, browbeat, bullyrag, rob, and do general devastation and still be given the benefit, of the doubt. But the man who writes an anonymous letter is fit for nothing but outer darkness and the eternal contempt of decent and even indecent people.
If you want to square things, if you've got a grievance that, you think needs redressing or at least exploiting, if you want to lambast somebody and call them names, if you feel very sure you are right about something about, which you think somebody else is wholly wrong, and you feel disagreeable and want to tell them so, if you want to denounce someone for holding different religious, social or political views, if you want, in short, to be nasty and hateful and mean, why don't you jump into the arena, slap your man in the face and fight it out in the open. A man who walks up and hits another man in daylight and does or. does not preface his pugilistic outbreak with any reasons for so doing may command the respect of the disinterested onlooker. But the person who sneaks up under cover of darkness, stabs another person in the back and runs away unrecognized in the concealing blackness la about the lowest thing that
God or any other superman ever made. The assassin is the abhorred of the individual and of institutions. The assassination of character, reputation, is as fiendish as is bomb throwing, dynamiting and other satanic pastimes of diseased imaginations. Yet with what deft lightness is the knife thrust given. With what delicacy and precision is the damning word nailed down. And how virtuously and calmly do you afterward dress for church and there lift up your voice in prayer and song the
while you take note of Mrs. Blank's new hat the third in as many weeks I and wonder where on earth she gets the money and resolve to ask Minnie
about it when the service is over. After the service is over you and Minnie walk home together discussing Mrs. Blank's new hats and are so engrossed in your cheerful surmises as to the sources of Mrs. Blank's various chapeaus that you ask each other to
j dinner and continue the conversation ( during the afternoon, and after you get j through with Mrs. Blank and have nung what remains of her on the line, i you take up Sal and Marguerite and Jen and all the rest and tear them to rags and tatters. I But it never occurs to you that perhaps Sal and Marguerite are spending I the same time sociably jabbing you full of holes.
To return, however. There is another form of the anonymous communication on nearly the same plane with that of the letter. And that is the anonymous telephone call.
Why is that even your best friends
j and casual acquaintances will indulge I in impertinences over the telephone
that they never dare or dream of when meeting you "face to face" as the patent medicine advertisements and the editors of King's Daughters departments in women's papers say? The etiquette of telephoning should be formulated and put down in black and white and pasted in every directory. Why should people not remember that your telephone may be downstairs in the cellarway and that you may be up stairs in the third story hauling over things you are putting away for the winter, and give you time to get downstairs before they give it up and hang up the receiver? Then after you have climbed up a couple of flights ring the bell a second time only to leave before you can again get down. Everyone doesn't sit at a desk with a telephone at his elbow. After reaching the cellarway or the summer kitchen, or wherever it is the telephone is kept, it is exasperating to hear in a loud, aggressive, insulting tone of voice "Who is this?" Does it occur to the caller to remember that he is doing the calling and should announce himself? Even if you recognize the voice of the person, and it may be he or she whom you want, couldn't you be a little decent and say you would like to speak to Mrs. So and So, on Patty or William or whoever it is you want? Did it ever occur to you that you might time your calls to the convenience of the catlee? If you eat your dinner or luncheon, or under whatever name it goes in your particular household, at twelve, say, or half past eleven, and are ready to begin calling up people about one, you might remember that maybe they are eating their luncheon at one and haven't time or inclination for a half hour's conversation while the "vittles" cool on the table.
Ia there any reason, in short, why people shouldn't be as polite over the telephone as they are when talking at first hand? That is, if they are polite at all. SBme persons aren't. But the use of the telephone for the same reasons that animate the writing of the anonymous letter is as disgusting as it is contemptible. A liberty is taken that the person would
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WONT THE CHILDREN SMILE when you treat them to a glass of our lemon soda, root beer or other soft drinks. It will be as good as a party to them. Have a few bottles in the house to reward them when they are good; and they'll always be good if they know such a treat is in store for1 them. Shall we rend you a case? Foster Bottling Works Mfgrs. of Ginger Ale, Orange Cider. Soda Water and Bromo-Hygeia Phone 2191 118 N. 7th street
Grows Hair at 65 Years of Age Dear Sirs: ' I heard of PARISIAN SAGE and as my head would itch a good deal, I thought I would try it. I never used any remedies before and was bald on top of my head. I am using the third bottle and have a lot of hair where I was bald. I would like you to see the new hair sprouting from my head. The itching in my scalp quickly disappeared. I am 65 years old and have been at the Bazaar 51 years. Wm. A. Hopper, Auctioneer Harkness Bazaar, Ninth & Samson Sts , Philadelphia, Pa. Large bottle of PARISIAN SAGE 50 cents. Guaranteed by L. H. Fihe for dandruff, falling hair and scalp itch. Puts life and beauty into faded hair and is a delightful hair dressing. be afraid to take except at the other end of a wire. There is a phase of the telephone anonymity that is more annoying than incriminating and done by those extremely bright, cute persons, of embryonic mental and physical development who think it is funny to call up people they don't know and say allegedly witty things to them. And then a room full of people adjacent to the telephoner laughs uproariously. This is a subject for police investigation. The truth is that as wonderful scientifically as is the telephone, and as convenient and indispensible as it is to social and business intercourse, it is the source of much annoyance and exasperation through its operation by thoughtless, careless and malicious people. And certainly there should be some sort of regulation governing the anonymously malicious call.
sixth art center of the United States. Ranked by whom? And how? And on what authority? As stated here once before these statements are laughable but their repetition in a state paper the other day .bring them again to the attention. What, by the way, is an "art center?" Isn't it about as extinct as the fabled dodo? And if it isn't, what is it like? Does it sit up and take notice and have its nails manicured? Or does it give exhibitions and wigwag to the higher life? If you will analyze it and separate it into its component parts you will possibly find it is made up chiefly of committee reports and nothing at all. An artist who was, he stated, "invited'' to visit Richmond and which he did with the neat bagging of the prize for the best picture by a resident Indiana artist which, by the way, has never gone to a Richmond artist and who. he stated, expected to find the town a hotbed of seething "art culture" whatever that may mean and
to see its leading citizens teetering on !
the curb out-bidding each other for masterpieces, stated that this was the worst falie of a town he had ever struck for its reputation as an "art center." "It isn't an art center, it's a lie," he stated with an epigrammatic force worthy of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt.
Helpless. It was a dark morning, and Mr. Dor kins was groping around In tbe basement when somebody suddenly flashed a dark lantern on him. Mechanically he threw up his hands "I'm the gas meter inspector," explained the intruder. Whereupon Mr. Dor kins held his hands up still higher. Chicago T rib-
As a CntM 9mm sVswatKg. There wm tarsisd wtgarttjr absnt Browning, putfcsdaHy in his accent and tn the tone of his voice and a certain indescribable savor of sycophancy of a man eager to be of a trrads to which he did not belong, but the poet was there the poet's keea eye, the poet's heart, obvious in his remarks and -.descriptions. Memoirs of John Chnrton Collins.
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The big coffee trust, made up of Brazilian growers and American importers, has been trying various tactics to boost the price of coffee and get more money from the people. Always the man who is trying to dig extra money out of the public pocket, on a combination, hates the man who blocks the game. Now comes a plaintive bleat from the "exasperated" ones The Journal of Commerce lately said: "A stirring circular has just been issuedto the coffee trade." The article further says: "The coffee world is discussing what is to be the future of coffee as a result of the campaign of miseducation carried on by the cereal coffee people. We have before us a letter from one of the largest roasters in the South asking what can be done to counteract the work of the enemies of coffee. "The matter should have been taken up by the Brazilian Gov't when they were completing their beautiful valorization scheme."
a flap Brazilian
Then the article proceeds to denounce Postum and works into a fine frenzy, because we have published facts regarding the effect of coffee on some people. The harrowing tale goes on. "Where a few years ago everybody drank coffee, several cups a day, now we find in every walk in life people who imagine they cannot drink it. (The underscoring is ours.) Burly blacksmiths, carpenters, laborers and athletes have discontinued or cut down the use of coffee ; as there is not a person who reads this and will not be able to find the same conditions existing among hi3 own circle of acquaintances, it is hot well for the Brazilians to sit up and take notice?" Isn't it CBriOnS these "burly" strong men should pick out coffee to "imagine' about? Why not "imagine" that regular doses of whiskey are harmful, or daily slugs of morphine? If "imagination" makes the caffeine in coffee clog the liver, de
press the heart and steadily tear t money in America, rather than send
down the nervous system, bringing
on one or more of the dozens of types cf diseases which follow brok-
en-aown nervous systems, many ' people don't know it. But it remained for the man who !
sell, to have the supreme nerve to j say: "You only imagine your dis-! . j orders. Keep on buying from me." I
the millions to Brazil and pay for : an article that chemists class ; among the drugs and not among the foods.
Will the reader please remember, we never announce that coffee
Let us continue to quote from his article. "Notwithstanding the enonnou3 increase in population during the past three years, coffee shows an appalling decrease in consump
tion.
Then follows a tiresome lot of statistics which wind op by showing a decrease of consumption in two years of, in round figures, two hundred million pounds.
Here we see the cause for the attacks on us and the Brazilian sneers at Americans who prefer to use a healthful, home-made breakfast drink and incidentally keep the
"hurts all people." Some persons seem to have excess vitality enough to use coffee.
tobacco and whiskey for years and , apparently be none the worse, but j the number is small, and when a sensible man or woman finds an ar-j ticle acts harmfully they exercise ; some degree of intelligence by drop- i Ping it. We quote again from the article: "Thtese figures are paralyzing but i correct, being taken from Leech's j statistics, recognized as the most j reliable." !
9 This is one of the highest com-
ed, common sense of Americans who cut off thout two hundred million pounds of coffee when they found by actual experiment (in the majority of cases) that the subtle drug caffeine, in coffee, worked dis
comfort and varying forms of disease.
Some people haven't the character to stop a habit when they know it is killing them, but it is easy to shift from coffee to Postum for, when made according to directions, it comes to table a cup of beverage, seal brown color, which turns to rich golden brown when cream is added, and the taste is very like the milder grades of Old Gov't Java. Postum is a veritable food drink and highly nourishing, containing: all the parts of wheat carefully prepared to which is added about 10 per cent of New Orleans molasses, and that is absolutely all that Postum is made of. Thousands of visitors to the pure food factories see the ingredients and how prepared. Every nook and corner Is open for every visitor to carefully inspect. Crowds come daily and seem to enjoy it.
There's a Reason"
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