Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 58, 12 January 1912 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1912.

MEREDITH - MAKING

- IT RUHAWAY RACE WiH Probably Have No Op- . position for District Chairmanship. indication! now are that Linus P. Meredith, of this city, will be unopposed In hia ambition to become the Sixth district member of the Republican state committee. The former sheriff who Is noted for his hustling qualities and who never loses heart even when thing are not looking as rosy as he might desire, has been going at break-neck speed In this, bis latest political venture, and according to some of the Republican leaders in other counties of the district he has "everybody tied to a post." Meredith bases his candidacy on his desire to heal up the political wounds In his homo county and throughout the district. He asserts that, the "get together" movement has Inspired him to enter the arena once more and according to the present appearance of things be will be guiding the destinies of the district Republicans on and after January 31, the date of the district convention at Cambridge City. Will Risk, of New Castle, who had been regarded as a candidate for the same place Meredith is seeking, will ,lt is now said, not be an aspirant. He likely however, will be chairman of the Henry county Republican committee.

Making the Farm Surroundings More Sanitary Not a Hard Task

The present Wayne county committee will In a day or two make the official call for the township and ward 'meetings of the Republicans on Kri'day and Saturday, January 26 and 27. The places of the meetings also will

fee designated. The county committee ,

as selected at these meetings will hold Its initial session on Monday, January 129, and the organization will be perfected. As anuounced a few days ago 'there Is little likelihood of a contest ifor chairman. Will Robbins, recorder of Wayne county, Is the only candidate announced for the chairmanship land his friends are Insisting that he will give the highest degree of satisfaction to the party In general. No announcements have been made as to .prospective candidates for secretary and treasurer.

Local Democratic leaders assert that no matter what the situation was before the recent district convention, that "all has been forgotten" and that there will be no factions when the campaign once opens. It is said, however, that there has been for several .years and still Is a very wide breach locally between the Marshall Democrats and those who are disposed to line up with the Tom Taggart leadership. "Within the last few days Congressman Boehne, who hopes to be the ' Democratic candidate for Governor, has made open war on the Taggart forces and will endeavor to perfect an organisation in every county to bring to htm a delegation that will be against the so-called Taggart-Fair banks "ring." How the Wayne county Democrats will line up on this issue Is yet to be determined, but there seems no question according to some of the , Democrats, that Taggart will have isome ardent followers here who will '.resist the attempt of Marshall and Boehne to "stack" the state convention.

We are offering our entire stock of millinery at almost your own price. C. A. Brshm's, South Eighth St.

Friendships. There are three friendships which ar advantageous and three which are Injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere and friend hip with the man of much informs-tlon-tbese are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the Insinuatingly soft, , friendship with the glib tongned-thes ' are Injurious. Confucius. I Cutting Dewn the Butcher's Bill. . "Isn't there any way to cut down a j butcher's bill?" asked Tlghtwsd, sari castlcally addressing his meat man. ; "Why. yes. Mr. Tightwad," ssld th latter. "Yon might pay a little on ' account now and then." Harper's i (.Weekly. 'j 1 It Is easier to enrich ourselves with u thousand virtues than to correct our 'elves of a single fault-Bruyere.

BV ISAAC L. TOTTEN. All of us know that It is not the eas-' lest thing in the world to break away j from habits of long duration; there-; fore, we must be less severe in our , criticisms of the farmer if he does not '

make haste to put into operation all of these new fangled ideas. We muet remember, that for many years he has been doing bis work in a certain way, and that it has practical

ly become a habit with him. To break 1 away from those long continued meth-' ods to acknowledge that he has been ;

pretty much off the track in his proceedure goes agains the grain. It sometimes seems to us that if the

farmer tried to do all that we advo- j cate he should do, he would have to ; move with the rapidity of a gyroscope, i and then it is doubtful if he would1 have time to produce any crops. j Sometimes, habits that have remain- j cd fixed for a considerable length of ! time are broken off short: because, if. they are not. it may mean a calamity. ; And often we think that we do not have the time to do a certain thing, J but something arises that makes the doing of that particular thing Impera-j

tive. It is then that we find the time to do it. A man may be an inveterate smoker, or a habitual user of alcohol; but if his health suddenly breaks down, and the doctor tells him that he must give up the use of the poisonous weed, or the use of the deadly alcohol, whichever the case may be, he will, as a general rue, take the doctor's advice, because the dying stunt don't seem to appeal to any of us very strongly. Mr.ry farmers run square up agains r. vfiu. and thVp I. Ay not seem Mt Jem long to their meth to H those metho - brought on re crs. Whev sick'is ceism .o the farmt family, arri the physician says that it is due fan the unsanitary condi

tions about the f.ra home, there is i

usually an earnes- attempt to remedy the condition, alt to suggestions along the lines of sanit iry methods previous to the sickness In the family would have been to no avail. Of all the things in the papers that are suggested for the farmer to do, we believe that those along the lines of sanitation should be given due consideration, even though some of the farm operations must be slighted. No matter what the habit has been along

this line, or whether the time is all taken up looking after other things about the place, it is important that enough time be spared to make the premises as sanitary as it is possible to make them. Henry Wallace, a member of the Country Life commission says: "The farm should be the healthiest place in the land; but unfortunately it is not. There is no lack of sunshine, and outside the home there is no lack of pure air. There need be no lack of pure wholesome food, and certainly there is no lack of exercise. The main cause of sickness and death and of inefficiency of the survivors is the lack of sanitation in the country homes." Too many of us take it for granted

that the farm surroundings need no attention in a sanitary way. This feeling has come about because we look upon the farm as the most healthful place in the world. In the cities there are health officers who go about inspecting sanitary conditions, and there may come a time in the not very distant future when there will be health officers who travel from farm to farm inspecting and directing the work of making the farm

homo surroundings sanitary. But until that time comes it will be necessary for each farmer to be his own health officer and prosecute the campaign on

sanitation as vigorously as the health officers in the cities do. On the farm the fly must be swatted with the same determination as it is swatted in the city, and the war waged against this carrier of tlthy and loathsome disease germs should not be eonflned Bolely to the summer season. It is at this time of year that we are more apt to throw out refuse from the kitchen than we are during the summer months. And refuse, which we throw out now because we don't like to get any farther away from the house than really necessary, will, when the warm weather comes pro

vide a batching place for the larva of .

the dreaded fly. When we swat a fly we put an end to that particular fly and, no doubt, prevent the production of many more;

but when we destroy the hatching j

places we accomplish more. It is well to keep in mind that all decaying animal and vegetable matter furnishes the best kind of breeding places for the fly that takes pleasure in washing its feet and wiping

them around food that goes into our stomachs.

There is the little mosquito too, who needs attention. Of course, he is not very annoying at this time of year, but his day will be here soon enough. We can take a little precaution now, however, toward making the mosquito family less numerous next summer. This can be done by taking advantake of the nice days during the winter to destroy the breeding places. Go over every square foot of the ground within a radius of a hundred ards of the dwelling house and pick t all of the tin cans, old shoes, et et'era. Any of these that will hold wter for ten consecutive days affords atching place for the pesky buzzers. J'be mosquito, so it is claimed is fc;dom found except near human habitations. From this fact we can draw (he conclusion that there must be something around the surroundings of human beings which is conducive to the existence of this nuisance. Mosquitos spread disease only by carrying the disease germs from Bomeone who has the dreaded disease to the person where the mosquito takes his claim and begins drilling. The mosquito does not have the disease germs in its systems as is often imagined; it must get the germs from the disease infected victim. This fact, however, should not check our war on this annoyer. The water supply for drinking pur

poses should be given attention, because typhoid fever is generally due to impure water. The water is usually rendered impure by reason of an open privy. It is by surface wash and by seepage underground that the impuri

ties from the privies enter the wells. Flies also often carry the germs of the disease. What we have mentioned here is well worth considering, and there is much more that could be said on this subject of bettering the sanitary conditions of the farm home; however, we believe that we have said enough for this time. It is our purpose to say something a little later about other things that can be done to make the farm home the most healthful place there is in which to live. Some of us has said that we cannot afford the loss suffered by the farm folks by reason of the lack of sanitation in the farm home. The farm must grow its own labor, and that of the highest efficiency, physical, mental, and moral.

REPORT jnCHOOLS Made to County Board of -Education.

Statistical report relative to work done during 1911 in the schools under

the jurisdiction of County Superin-j

tenaent c u. wimams was maae Thursday at the meeting of the county board of education. The report is regarded as one of the best ever made. It is as follows: Number of Examinations held ... 9 Common School Applicants 323 High School Applicants 108 Total Applicants 431 12 Months License 148 23 Months License 48 3t Months License 32 Exemption License 16 Number of Failures 202 Percent Receiving Licenses 53 Number of Hold over Wayne County Teachers 132 Number of Wayne County Teachers Licenses 124 Number Required for Our Schools 252 Surplus 4 Beginning Teachers in Townships 20 Beginning Teachers in City 3

Foreign Teachers in County in Townships 17 Foreign Teachers in Cities 16 Number of Common School Gradu- . ates 148 Number of High School Graduates 31 Number of Days Spent Visiting Schools 62 Number of Rooms Visited 108 Number of Visits Made 181 Number of Commencements At

tended 16 ; Number of Board Meetings 14 1

Number of Township Institutes.. 7 Number of Days County Institute 5 Number of High Schools Commissioned 1 Number High Schools Certified

DO YOU NEED 0VERALLS7 " If You Do. Why Dont You Make Them Yourself? Ifs Dead Easy. Many a man says that be would be glad to do chores about the bouse, to trim the grass or weed the garden If be had overalls. . The trouble Is that wben he wishes to wear overalls the stores are closed and be canBot buy them. 1 wonder that men do not make them for themselves. To provide a pattern you must have an outline or perspective plan of your contour from the belt line down to the ankles. This may be obtained by sitting In wet clay and. on arising, pouring plaster of Paris In the Impression. Wben this hardens lift tbe mold, lean It against tbe wall and obtain measurements wltb a tapellne. Another way is to dust talcum powder on tbe carpet until it is thickly coated. Then

sit down on the talcum powder and t

carpet, thus removing the talcum from the floor where you have been. Then

cut around the outlines of that Impression with a sharp knife, remove tbe carpet so detached, and you have a pattern for one side of the overalls. Purchase several yards of denim and cut It Into the shape indicated by either pattern you have now obtained.

Make two sets of these pieces and sew J

tnem eage to eage. roe nets may be made by cutting slits in the material and sewing empty salt sacks. Wilbur D. Nesbit In Delineator.

Worth Hor Weight In Butter. Curious customs still prevail with regard to marirage. In some parts of fganda the custom is to offer six needles and a pack of India rubber for a wife. Some of the Kaffirs sacrifice oxen. Tbe Tartars of Turkestan give the weight of the prospective wife In butter. In Kamchatka the price varies from one to ten reindeer. Some savages require a certain amount of labor. Among the aborigines it is said the current rate for a wife is a box of matches, which prompted a Paris contemporary to speculate whether one of the French government boxes would be accepted. " "

Light on a Dark Subject. Caller There's one quostiou I should like to haTe answered. When a thought flashes ccross the intellect does it effect any molecular changes in the cellular or muscular tissues composing the material substance of the cerebral mass, or does it operate merely in the realm of the spiritual ego, thereby leaving no trace subject to detection or classification In the domain of substantiality? Information Editor (turning again to his desk There is no premium on tho coin. Chicago Tribune.

A Disguised Toast. -i At one time the officers tinder Lord Howe refused to drink hte health at their mess. for. though a splendid admiral, he was not popular In the navy a on account of a certain shyness and want of tact with those about bias. The chaplain, who was a protege of his lordship, was mortified at this and ' determined that the officers should drink to Lord Howe. When called upon for a toast one day he said, "Well, gentlemen, I can think of nothing better at this moment than to ask you te drink the first two words of the Third Psalm, for a Scriptural toast for once may be taken from one of my cloth. Tbe toast was drunk. Not one of the officers indicated by word or look that he was ignorant of the words alluded to. On referring to the Bible It was found that the Third Psalm begins, "Lord, how are they increased?"

INDOLENCE. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide, for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive. C hesterfield.

Halcyon Days. "Alcyone, or Halcyone. the daughter of Aeolus, married Ceyx." said tbe Latin professor. "Ceyx was drowned, and Alcyone on learning of his fat? threw herself Into the sea. The gods were moved by the tragedy of the young lovers. They brought them back to life in tbe form of halcyons, or kingfishers, and they decreed that for the seven days from Dec. 22 to Dec. 29 the seu should remain calm while the sea birds built their nests upon it Those seven dayr. tbe last of the year, are therefore called halcyon days days of tranquillity, a kind of very late Indian summer. Here in America we have no real halcyon days, but tbe myth of Alcyone aud Ceyx comes from the Mediterranean, and in that blue and gold region it Is a fact that tbe year is ushered out by a procession of still, mild, splendid days silent and glittering days of halcyon weather." Washington lwt

Seattle is grading its steep hills. The work is done by hydraulic sluiciug. The present plan calls for the removal of 34,000,000 cubic yards of material.

Lifting a Child. "I wish." said the woman who has children of her own. "that women would understand tbe delicate mechanism of a child. How would they like a giant to come along and suddenly drag them from tbe ground by one arm, as 1 have seen so many people do to children? When you're lifting a child lift it evenly by both arms or from the waist. Don't yank It up by a grab at one wrist and then wonder why it cries. It makes me ko angry I always want to pull the ami of that inconsiderate woman bard and see if she wouldn't cry too. It's a thing that mothers and aunts and sisters ought to learn." Philadelphia Times.

ELECTRIC LIGHTS. Their Use on an Important 8ealo Dates From 1876. Tbe first experimental philosopher to discover that electric light could be produced by a dry battery was Sir Humphry Davy, who In 1810 exhibited a light three Inches loug. between carbor points, before the Royal society of Loudon. But no commercial value was attached to the use of electricity as an illumlnant until more than half a century later. The Centennial exhibition, held in Philadelphia In 1876. really marks the era of our present form of electric light though electric lights had been In use abroad prior to that time. Tbe exhibition of models and practical demonstrations of electric lights at Philadelphia In 1876 attracted tbe attention of scientists' and capitalists in this country, and tbe first incandescent lamps and the first arc system were put to practical use in a small way In 1878. Tbe Brush arc light gained favor in tbe beginning as tbe most adaptable for street lighting, and Cleveland. O- tbe home of Charles Francis Brush, the inventor, was the initial American city to adopt the arc system for street lighting. - Since 1878 both tbe Brush arc system and the Edison Incandescent system have developed. Marc M. Reynolds In Moody's Magazine.

A siren for motorcycles that a New

York man has patented is so arranged that it can be pressed against the side of the front tire of a machine to obtain power to operate it.

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Fancy Pulled Smyrna Figs In woven wicker BasLets, Tomorrow Only fcjc per Basket.

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Dressed Turkeys Dressed Ducks

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WE DO NO COUNTER PRESCRIBING; NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS We believe the phyaician the proper dignitary to prescribe, and that the pharmacist can ultimately better conserve the In terests of hia patrona by using his best skill and scientific training in the handling of drugs via mortar. and pestle, than by Interfering with the juat perogatives of the physician, who is essentially trained to combat with pathological conditions. Often the simplest allmenta are at tendant to or followed by the greatest danger of life. What your phy- ' aician prescribes you get here. 8ICK ROOM SUPPLIES We have about everything that has been -invented to lessen the suffering of the sick. Hot Water Bottles, Family and Fountain Syringea, Bandages, Medicated Cottons, Gauses, Lint, . Soaps, etc., etc. Briefly If it's new it's at Conkey's, and If It's at Conkey's, it's new. Painstaking service,, everything quality, everything guaranteed, everywhere courtesy. Vetenariana supplies. Dental Depot, Nursea : Headquarters, selling, agents Sterns' Theatrical Make-up. Money Orders, Cameras, Films ind Developing. "If it Comes From Conkey's It's Right." v

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