Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 46, 29 December 1911 — Page 6

AGE SIX.

XHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND ST7N-TEIEGRAM, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1911.

WALTER BROWN AND LA FOLLETTE HELD ft SECRETMEETIIIG Reported the Ohio Republican Chairman Sought the Meeting to Make Peace with Progressives.

(Continued from Paze One.) withstanding the growth of monopoly while the later recognize the need of radical changes in tariff revision due to a vast revolution in economic conditions.'" In his research of the trusts Mr. La Follette declared he found 96 men on alt the directorates of all the trusts. "Dcpew Only a Dummy." "Chauncey M. Depew,' he said, "was ton 72, and I found that he had no mo !ley invested he was only a dummy, and then I wondered how many other dummies there were, and then I found (that only 14 men controlled and were iback of all these 96 names. "And back of all this I found Stand5ird Oil and Morgan, and I put all this nformatlon in the Congressional Kefcord. Do you think I could stand here and say this if there wasn't bed-rock tfact for it? "And these people have not overlooked the newspaper. Their organs are poisoning the public mind the fare not serving your interests when they declare me to be a menace to (business." Turkey and Oyster Dressing: Saturday evening at Ed Roger's. MEASURING THE EARTH. ttaVastesthenes Mad the First Attempt and Did Fairly Well. The earliest attempt to measure tbe Circumference of tbe earth was made by a Greek, Erastosthenes. who was born 276 B. C. lie found tbat at fiyene tbe gnomon, or upright pillar, used by tbe Greeks to measure the height of tbe sun In tbe sky. showed tbe sun to be exactly overhead at midday at tbe time of tbe summer olstlce, while at Alexandria tbe gnomon cast a shadow upon the same date, showing tbat tbe latter point was one-flftleth of the earth's circumference north of Syene. Erastosthenes reasoned correctly that the length of the shadow at Alexandria bore tbe same relation to tbe circumference of tbe small circle decriled from the top of the gnomon as center that the distance between the two cities bore to the circumference of the globe. This latter was 5.000 stadia, or about 025 miles, which when multiplied by fifty gives 31.250 miles as tbe circumference of the earth. This result is not quite correct, but as nearly so as could be expected from the first rough attempt to estimate it. -Ker York Mail. Mexloo's Way With Women. Woman's place in Mexican life is tbe Inevitable mingling of the Moorish Ideas of the Spanish conquerors and the savage Ideas of the natives, tbe Milwaukee Sentinel say a The Castlllan bides bis wife and daughters behind stone walls and the picturesque lattices of romance, and he is their i lord and master. On the other band, tbe Indian tribes are. of course, still bound by the spirit of the ancient savkaga customs. Historians tell of one of the baptismal ceremonies of tbe Meshtie tribes, who fought their way to supremacy long before tbe Spanish artrlved on the scene. To each boy baby the priest chanted this command: Thy profession and faculty is war, ithy obligation to give tbe sun to drink blood of tbe enemies and tbe earth Worpaes of tbe foes." To tbe girl baby they said with far leas ceremonial: "Ton are to stay within tbe bouse, as jtfca heart does within tbe body. Our 'Lord aftthrlaes yon In tbat place, and (your office Is to fetch and to grind In tbe nictate." Jekal's Joke. 'At a banquet beld In his honor In Torl8a. Mauras Jokal was called upon to propose the toast of 'The Ladles." He made an excellent speech, during which be continually toyed with the (brown carls noon his forehead. Finalty he said: 1 raise my glass In honor f the graclons lad'.es of Torda. May they all lira until my hair grows gray." His audience drank to tbe toast, but It was easy to see by the taces of tbe ladies present tbat they did not think much of the compliment Jokal rose again from his seat and took from his bend a magnificent brown wig, showing an entirely bald head beneath It "My hair." be added, "will never grow gray." And tbe ladles, who bad not known of his baldness, were more than pacified. Plants WJtheut Roots. Tbe "flower of tbe air" is a carious plant found In China and Japan. It is so caned because it appears to have no root aod Is never fixed to the earth. It twines around a dry tree or sterile rock. Eacb shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily white, transparent and odoriferous. It is capable of being transported 600 or 700 miles, and It grows as It travels, suspended en a twig. A Fidgety Age. Repose of manner wa considered at one time essential to tbe well bred woman, but this Is an Ideal long consigned to the past Every one fidgets In these restless days, no one has time to alt still nor to listen for more than minute at a time without being bored and showing It London Queen. Generally. r"lgg (sententlouslyv To him tbat hath shall bo given, you know. Fogg Ten. tbe man who has a head gets ahead. I've noticed. Boston Transcript.

Two Wrestling

Stanislaus Zbyszko, the champion wrestler of Poland, who occupied the mat with Giovanni Itaicevich, the champion wrestler of Italy, at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Christmas night. The picture shows Zbyszko developing power in his arms by trying to force his wrestling partner to the mat solely with his hands.

Poultry Shows Are Interesting And Valuable To The Farmers

BY ISAAC L. TOTTEN. The poultry show, the same as exhibitions of other products, has a manifold value, and the principal benefit derived from the poultry show by the visitor as well as the exhibitor is the same as that which underlies all other shows wherein the exhibits are to be compared or scored according to the standard of perfection. It is nothing more nor less than a school of the most practical and impressive kind. It's purpose is not alone that of winning prizes, or of advertising, (either of these, however, are honorable purposes) but also to disemigate knowledge along the lines of poultry breeding and management. It affords an opportunity to get in touch with other poultry enthusiasts who love these birds as well as we do, and nowhere can we derive more benefit than in comparing, contrasting and discussing the points of merit of exhibits with those who are as much interested in these feathered friends as we are. A few days ago the writer overheard a conversation between a poultry show booster and a farmer who, although an admirer and owner of good quality poultry, had never placed any of his birds on exhibition at a poultry show. "Say, Frank, why don't you enter a pen of those Buff Leghorns that you're always talking about?" urged the Booster. "You mean bring them in to the Richmond poultry show?" "Of course!" "Humph! I don't know the first thing about selecting poultry for show purposes. I know the kind of plumage, carriage, shape, etc., in a cockerel or pullet that my wife and I like best and that's all." "Come with me for just a few minutes, Frank, I want to show you something," said the Booster. He led the way to a desk in a little box-like office at the rear of his store and produced a long, narrow book which opened the long way. In this book was an alphabetical list of all those who have been exhibitors at previous Richmond Poultry Shows, what they exhibited and the scores of their birds. "Now here is a fellow that talked just about the way you do now," the Booster began, pointing to a name in the long, narrow book. "I told him to bring in some of his poultry, and he gave me about the same answer that you have given me; but he got to thinking it over, and brought a pen in. That was five years ago. Now, just glance at the scores: 86, that was the first year; 87, that was the next year. See how he's coming up? 90, he took a big jump that year, and so on. "See the benefit that fellow received? He didn't know the standard didn't know what points to look for; but it didn't take him long to learn when he went to the right place. Of course he could learn a whole lot just by attending the show without exhibiting any of his stock, but with some of his birds there, he took more interest. Then, too, he got his score cards on each his birds and bred up from the best scoring birds each year. Get the point, Frank? Think it over." We believe that Frank will be at the Richmond Poultry show the last of this month with a pen of Buff Leghorns, even though he does not expect to win any of the prizes. When he went home that evening he probably casually remarked to his wife: "Jennie, suppose we take that best cockerel and four of our best pullets to the poultry show in Richmond the latter part of January?" "What would we win. a leather medal?"

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"I'm not joking. What do you mink about it?" "I would like to take them In if I thought they were any where near the standard; but I'm sure we couldn't win anything." "What if we don't win anything? We can find out a whole lot about our poultry and learn what the standard is." Frank then, no doubt, repeated his talk with the Booster, and he and his wife spent about an hour at feeding time looking over their flock and ad- . miring first one bird and then another. Even the short talk about poultry with the Booster, we imagine, did Frank j lot of good, and just think what an immense amount of good accordingly can be obtained at a gathering of lanciers who think and talk only the chicken language. A classy cockerel or pullet is certainly a thing of beauty, and when one goes to a place where he can see a large collection of the finest specimens of the various breeds see the kind of poultry others are producing it cannot help but excite interest and enthusiasm. The poultry show is undoubtedly the best place to go to get in touch with those who are breeding and raising : the same class and color of poultry that we are. It is at a place of this kind that we can meet breeders with whom we may be able to arrange to exchange male birds. Many find the poultry show a very good place to dispose of their quality birds at a fancy price. They also find it an exceptionally good place to select birds for mating with their stock; because at the show one can see exactly what the various breeders have to offer. One poultry raiser said that when he has a cockerel which he wishes to dispose of or exchange because of its relation to his stock, he enters it at the exhibition. After obtaining the bird's score, if he does not sell the bird at the show, he looks through the advertisements in his poultry journal to get the address of other poultry breeders who have the same kind of poultry that he has, and then writes to them, telling them of his bird's score, and asks them if they have a bird of similar score which they would exchange for his. After seeing the feathered beauties on display, the keeper of mongrel stock goes home and makes both conscious and unconscious comparisons which result in converting him to the idea of raising the pure blooded variety. We remember that last winter after following the instructions through the stock judging work at the Corn School we would come home and look to see how near the farm animals here came to the standard of perfection or how far they fell short. One takes considerable pride, too, in high grade stock, grain or anything for that matter, and it is just as essential to have classy poultry as it is to possess well bred hogs, cattle, horses or sheep. The poultry show is not only the center of interest and education for the experienced poultry raiser, but it is the place for the beginner to go to get pointers. Undoubtedly the value of the poultry show, as well as the value of all other exhibits of the highest attainments in any line of endeavor, is incalculable. Let's have a Record Attendance!! Prof. Russell's Class tonight. . An inventor has placed a small horseshoe magnet on the side of a thimble to help tailors pick up needles.

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Cattle Receipts 150; steers $7.25 they point out, recommends the con8.00; butchers $3.00 6.75. , struction of battleships, but makes anSheep Receipts 9,400; prime $4.25. ; argument for auxiliaries and accessor Calves Receipts 500; choice $6.00 j ies. They intend to take his argu1100. , ment rather than his recommendaHogs Receipts 6,800; heavies $6.60 j tion, particularly as in doing so they 6.40; pigs, $6.60; yorkers $6 50 not only effect an economy, but they

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NEW PENSION BILL MAY CRIPPLE NAVY Measure's Demand on Revenue Creates Sentiment Against Warships.

(National News Association) WASHINGTON. Dec. 29 Demo cratic plans for governmental economy and a desire to improve the navy along the line of auxiliary and secondary vessels, will result in the retusal of congress at this session to make apnmnrintiAn fr- r' nctrnxlinn ,f . . ... "... ! more tnan one naitlesnip. li is even nossible that battiuins mav be elimluated entirely tl:s year from the aathorized naval buil-lmg prorram. particularlv in view of ihe fact, "tat the House has passed the Sherwood "doljiar a day" pension bill, which. P is estimated, will increase the annual ; expenses of the government from 2S.000,000 to $35,000,000. The secretary of the navy in his annual report has recommended the construction of two huge and costly battleships. At the same time be liar shown the necessity of having many additional auxiliaries and accessories which constitute what is known as the secondary and defensive nay. These auxiliaries consist of collier?., repair ships, ammunition ships, hospital shops and so forth, while tlir defensive types are the scout cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Need Small Vessels. The report of the secretary of the navy shows that there is a great deficiency in these secondary vessels as well as a shortage of men with which to man the great battleships, but in ef-

48 l'ect, he purposes to make this de47,ficiency greater by urging the ?nn43 struction of two more costly battlei ships. i It is the purpose of congress, at than least so far as the House is concerned

and it is the House which initiates all of the big appropriation bills to accept what the secretary of the navy says about the necessity for smaller craft, and to equip the navy with these rather than to follow his recommenda- ! tion for battleshins. Secratarv Mever. believe that they will improve the efficiency of the naval establishment for the reason that the battleships now in the navy are ineffective and incapable of doing all that is expected of them and all that they are capable of, unless they are supplemented with the secondary ships of smaller construction. A Dreadnaught, such as the secretary of the navy recommends, is the name given to a giant battleship which carries all-big-guns; that is, she relies almost exclusively on her main batteries to the exclusion of guns of smaller calibre, although a few rapid fire guns are carried. Formerly, naval vessels carried what is known as intermediate batteries, but these have gone out of style with that suddenness which characterizes navy whims. Cost of Dreadnaught. The cost of a Dreadnaught has been a frequent source of speculation on the part of members of congress, as the Navy Department, whether intentionally or otherwise, has made it almost impossible to delve into the complicated estimates carried mostly in large totals, to arrive at the figures for a particular item. Secretary Meyer, however, has estimated that the two Dreadnaughts which he recommends will cost in the neighborhood of $25,000,000, or approximately $12,500.000 each. This is the largest single item for which the government appropriates, and it has staggered the Democratic economists. In consequence, the plan is for the construction of smaller craft, particularly as their need is pointed out by the secretary of the navy, and also in view of the shortage of men necessary to man new ships. In his report the secretary of the navy publishes an interesting table showing the manner in which the navy has grown top-heavy DON'T FORGET THE JEWELRY SALE AT RATLIFFS 12 North Ninth Street Tomorrow Earlham Seal CLASS PINS We've a full new line cf gold and silver Earlham seal jewelry in class pins, scarf pins, hat pins, fobs and cuf buttons. Prices range from 50c upward. E. L Spencer Jeweler and Engraver, 704 Main FOR ONE DAY ONLY

by the building of big battleships to the neglect of the auxiliaries such as scouts, colliers, destroyers, subma

rines, repair, ammunition and hospital ; ships. There are now in commission 33 battleships, which, in order to be effective, require a certain number of I secondary vessels. On the basis of 33 battleships Secretary Meyer shows that the deficiency in other ships is 12 i colliers, 82 destroyers, 22 submarines, j 3 hospital ships and in like proportion various other supply repair, am-1 munition and miscellaneous vessels. "Like a painted ship upon a painted j ocean" is what Senator Hale, for many i years chairman of the Senate Committee on naval affairs, characterized a battleship without colliers, and in like manner, it is maintained, these great battleships are ineffective unless they have the picket ships such as destroyers and submarines which are calculated to guard and protect j them from the enemy's torpedo's. Cost of Upkeep. The House members have also gone into the matter of cost of maintenance and made comparisons between battleships in this respect and the smaller craft which come under the classifications of auxiliaries and accessories. They have found that the upkeep of a battleship annually with its scores of officers and then to twelve hundred enlisted men is one million dollars a year. The destroyer which costs originally only $750,000 is manned by four officers and eighty men, costs for maintenance only about $85,000 a year, and the submarine which costs originally only $500,000 is manned by one officer and about twelve men, costs about $25,000 for maintenance. Notwithstanding the recommendation of the secretary of the navy for two Dreadnaughts, there never was a time since the Democrats came into power that they were willing to authorize more than one of these big ships a year, and many Republicans have joined with them and taken the same position. In view of the fact that the navy is always popular with the people, it has been thought that one battleship might be provided for, but now in view of the heavy drain upon the Treasury incident to the pension bill, it is said that there may be no provision for battleships at all. Instead those in charge of the matter are talking of making the navy more effective and providing what they be lieve to be better defense by building ' smaller boats which effect economy in j construction and also in maintenance. Open House at Y. M. C. A. Monday, January first MECCA THE SACRED. A Shrine That Draws One-seventh of the Human Race. Although one of the most inaccessible cities ou earth. Mecca euch year has visitors in such numbers that It must be ranked in this particular with London and New York. Even the world's metropolis on the Thames can boast no such cosmopolitan character as is imparted to this mysterious city iu the wilderness of Arabia by the myriads of pilgrims who, at the cost of incredible pains, annually crowd into its couflnes. This city is the oldest place of resort in existence, yet of all the millions who have visited it not a score of Christians are known to have come out alive. No flag of citizenship would save a man's life were he known to be a Christian within the sacred precincts of the city where the prophet himself decreed that no unbeliever should set foot. Of the 223.000.000 Moslems In the world only 15,500.000 live under tbe Turkish flag, yet most of them acknowledge the sultan of Turkey as their caliph, the successor of the prophet. As Mohammed shrewdly foresaw, the Mecca pilgrimage binds together bis disciples into a unity which could be effected in no other way. "Mecca," says Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer of Arabia, "has become the religious capital and the center of universal pilgrimage for one-seventh of the human race." Harper's Magazine. CAFE 12 Chile Con Came, bowl 10 cents. Oysters, any style, fried oyster sandwiches, blue points on half shell, fried oyster lunch Saturday afternoon and evening free. CAFE 12, 512 Main street. thur&fri-tf

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An Exprvaaiv Sentence In WnMQ Was Badlv Twisted. J The professor of English, who 19a ' taking a vacation trip on horse Kek -, through tbe bills, bad occasion to n notes of a good many quaint and IB teresting expressions employed by O -sturdy mountaineers. The one tb pleased him most was a striking noe " the little word "but. L The party bad ridden for hoars al had not found a single inn. They weta hungry, and one of the guides suggested that it might be possible to get bite to eat at one of tbe mountaineers -huts. "I know you can get 'corn bread there," he said. The professor volunteered to go wltla the guide to a hut high upon tbe mountain side in quest of the corn bread. A dilapidated garden fence surrounded the hut. and when the gate squeaked on its hinges a dog began barking. Simultaneously a fat woman edged her way through the door and approached the men at the gate. "W hat d' yo -all want?- she called. "Madam." said the professor, "would you Ive so kind as to tell us whether we can get any corn bread here?" "Corn bread:" "Yes. corn bread." he repeated. "We'a like to buy some of you if you have any." "Corn bread? Corn bread, did yo' say?" Then she chuckled to herself, and her manner grew more amiable. "Why, if corn bread's all yo want, como right in. for that's just what I hain't got nothing else on band but." Boston Herald. SINGSONG GIRLS. They Are to China What the Geishas Are to Japan. "Sinpsong" Kirls of China are first cousins to the geishas of Japan. These young ladies vary in age from sixteen to thirty and are chosen for their physical and their artistic attractiveness. The singsong girls are habited in coat and trousers of the finest silk, satin or brocade. The former Is cut very much in the style of a French ouvrier's blouse, and the latter are cylindrical, falling to the ankles and disclosing the finest silk hosiery and the daintiest embroidered shoes. At an understood interval one of the singsong girls comes forward to play an instrumental solo. It Is more or less a fantasia on two notes, the pitch lying at about E in the treble clef, with squeaky high excursions. No sheet of music is unfolded, tbe Chinese professional singer being expected to know the words as well as the music of at least 500 ballads. There are sure to be solos, duets and trios, and here the male orchestra comes in with fine enthusiasm In accompanying tbe singers. Sometimes there is a tremendous racket in tbe midst of a most pathetic episode, which prevent you entirely rrom gatnering tne meaning or the song. But custom has sanctioned these outbreaks, which are understood of tbe Celestials, though it is certain no western star singer would put up with them at any price. Chicago News. CLAIM ON ESTATE Vernon Reid has filed claim for $1,670.62 in the circuit court against the estate of Jane M. Reld. The amount Is alleged to be due for work and materials furnished in connection with the improvement of property before the decedent's death. DON'T FORGET THE JEWELRY SALE AT RATLIFFS 12 North Ninth Street Tomorrow CREAM TO WHIP H. G. HADLEY 1035 Main St. Phone 2292. IMS