Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 58, 12 January 1912 — Page 2

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3 PAGE TWO. THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AXD SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1913.

GERMAN ELECTION ' VERYPORTEriTOUS Country in a State of Ferment, Quite Unusual with Germans.

CXatlonal Nwa Association) BERLIN, Jan. 12. Germany Is on the eve of the most portentous parliamentary election ever held since the establishment of the empire in 1870. It It not surprising therefore, that the whole country, fully realizing the importance of tomorrow's election is in a state of ferment quite unusual with Germans, who take pliitics and election cooly and deliberately, as a matter of fact and are not given much to election demonstrations. There are many causes which combine to make tomorrow's election of great Importance. The most portentious feature Is the probability that the result of the election will completely change the political situation

in the Reichstag, by giving to the Socialists, heretofore in the minority, the control of power during the Thir teenth session of the Imperial Parliament. This would be a severe blow to the government which has hitherto been able to carry through its policies national and economic, foreign and domestic with the powerful help of the two leading parties, the Roman Catholic or Centre .party and the Conservatives. Supported by the "BlueBlack" coalition the government continued the development of its army and navy at a tremendous cost, which mad it necessary constantly to add to the heavy burden of taxes resting upon the shoulders of the people. The high proteotlve tariff, particularly upon agricultural products, which was maintained by the government to satisfy the demands of the conservative Agrarians, the high railway rates and other factors forced the cost of living to a level of unprecedented height and made it almost impossible for the proper classes to make both ends meet, even with the most rigid economy. If the government is defeated tomorrow and the Socialists win the great victory which they confidentially expect. It will principally be due to the stress of economic conditions existing throughout the empire. Germany has about seventeen or eighteen political parties, but only eleven of them have been represented in Parliament. The five great and most Important parties in the Reichstag are the Conservative, the Centre or clerical party, the National-Liberal, the Frelsjnnlge or radical party and the Social Democrats. In the twelfth session, of the Reichstag recently dissolved, the Centre had 105 seats; the Conservatives had 60; the NationalLiberals 48; the Radicals 25 and the Social Democrats, 52. The minor par ties had together 87 seats. Strength of Parties. The number of seats held by the various parties doea not give a correct idea of the real strength of the parties. At the last national election In 1907 the Conservatives polled 2,050,000 votes; the Centre, 2,145,000; the National Liberals 1.716,000; the Radicals 1.311,000 and the Socialists 3,259,000 votes. This apparent Incongruity Is due to the unequal distribution of election districts which makes it possible for the province of East Prussia, for instance, with 402,945 voters, to have seventeen representatives In the Reichstag, while Berlin, With 493,457 voters has only six seats. Generally speaking tomorrow's election will be ought out between the combination of the Conservative and the Centre parties on the one side and the liberals, Radicals and Socialist! on the other. There is no firm and positive alliance between the parties standing together in the fight, no coalition for rautuaf support, but there is good reason to believe that the Socialists will gain considerably by the support and co-operation of the liberal and radical elements among the voters. 'The Issues of the campaign which will reach its culmination in tomorrow's election are essentially of an economical nature. The enormously high cost of living and the refusal of the government to reduce the tariff on meat and other food products, which would mitigate the condition of the poorer classes now on the verge of starvation, is undoubtedly the most potent factor to Influence the coming election. Other reasons, however, are the general feeling that Germany, owing to the incapability of the Imperial cabinet, has lost prestige during the controversy with Prance concerning Morocco; the bitterness caused by the prolonged controversy over the financial legislation of 1909; the universal complaint that Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg had re-established the yoke 'of the Catholic Centre upon the Lutheran majority, and many other minor grievances perhaps Insignificant in themselves, but of sufficient weight with the voters to influence them at tomorrow's election. The fact that at the' recent by-elections at Duesseldorf and Constant the Socialists were successful seems to indicate the tendency of popular feeling In Germany and to foreshadow the defeat of the government parties at the polls tomorrow.

Noted Men Who A ttended Funeral of Dickens, S, CONSULATE AT

HALIFAX IS BURNED

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Building Destroyed Along with Business District in $400,000 Fire.

Noted men at the funeral of the late Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of the author, Charles Dickens, who died suddenly in the city of New York. Reading from left to right are: Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador to Great Britain; Andrew Carnegie. Courtney V. Bennett. British Consul-General; Henry Clews, banker; Robert C. Morris, J. F. Alexander (in rear), Former United States Senator William A. Clark, Melville E. Stone and A. Barton Hepburn.

CARNEGIE'S SMILE WAS ABSENT TODAY Became Irritable Under Fire of Questions He Had to Answer.

(National News Association) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Sharp attacks by the Stanley Steel Investigating committee took some of the complacency from Andrew Carnegie today and his previous joyous smile and spirit of contentment gave way to irritability. Carnegie said the tariff had not been responsible for the marvelous Increase in the steel industry. He didn't believe the tariff could greatly affect the steel industry in any

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GOV. VESEY LOST HIS TEETH; CROWD WAITS (National News Association) SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Jan. 12 Because Governor Vesey of South Dakota lost his false teeth delegates to the Progressive Republican convention were forced to wait over an hour to hear him speak. The teeth finally were found in the laundry of the hotel where the governor was stopping, they having been wrapped up in some bed linen.

PLAN AjEW SCHOOL Plans for St. Andrew's Structure Being Made.

(National News Association) HALIFAX. N". S., Jan. 12. Fire raging unchecked for more han two hours early today destroyed the building on Barrington street, occupied by W. S. Munnis, dry goods, left the Herald building, a live-story granite structure in ruins and backed by a high wind swept through a whole block bounded by Barrington. George and Granville streets. The flames then were continuing their sweep. Loss estimated at fully $450,000. The United States consulate building was burned and scores of other buildings along Barrington street, the

principal business thoroughfare of modern Halifax, were threatened. Every piece of apparatus in the city was called out, and the firemen fought desperately to save several hotels and buildings of the Nova Scotia leglsla-

j ture within the fire zone. I The cold was intense. The water from the hose line froze almost as 1 soon as it struck the buildings and ; the firemen were covered with ice.

Many suffered serious frost bites and were obliged to abandon the battle with the flames to receive medical treatment. A howling gale scattered the sparks. This was the second large fire in Halifax within a month and one

of the worst that has ever visited the

city.

After a desperate battle the firemen finally got the blaze under control

shortly after 4 o'clock.

The Intelligent Oyster. It was Mr. Justice Darting who once defined a sheriff as something halfway between an oyster and a lord mayor. But Thackeray anticipated him iu attributing human intelligence to oysters. "I was walking with him one evening from the club." wrote Edmund Yates, "and, passing a fish shop in New street, he noticed two different tubs of oysters, one marked 1 shilling a dozen and the other 1. .d. a doaen. "How they must hate each other?" said Thackeray, pointing them out." London Tele graph.

The use of tobacco is universal in the orient. The word cheroot comes from Madras. The first cigars seen by Columbus in the new world were wrapped with corn shucks.

His Expectations. , "Have you "Great Espectatonr asked the fluffy haired dams! a she entered the circulating library and vast her large, instrou blue eyes upon tb new assistant. And be his mental equilibrium upstet for the moment by her loveliness, stammered out: "Well er no. nilas. 1 eau't way actly that, but I believe I'm heir to -my old aunt, who got something Jut under a hundred pounds In the rvtomce savings bank. Ioudoo Telegraph Intuit and Injury. We are told that the invention o scissors dates back to the fourteenth WJtury. Just think of it! Delilah must bar, cut Samson's hatr with a knife. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

ONE MAY DIE FROM A TENEMENT FIRE

(National News Association) NEW YORK, Jan. 12. One man was fatally injured, four other persons had narrow escapes from death and a number of others were driven

into a blizzard in their night clothing

Regarding moral offense of the Dy nre in the four-story tenement at

mills, charging exorbitant prices for finished product, Carnegie declared that a man appointed to run a business should get the best returns possible, providing he breaks no statute law.

FIRST R. F. D. CARRIER DIED AT HOME

(National News Association) SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Jan. 12. Samuel Lewis, first rural mail carrier in the United States, is dead at his home in Auburn, Illinois, at the age of 73 years. When rural free delivery was authorized by congress, the Initial experiment was made in this county and in the first request for bids for servioe, Lewis was the first bidder to get within a specified limit of $300 a year. He remained continuously in service until he became ill last November.

Columbia and Congress streets, Brooklyn early today. Emll Scheible, a clerk who had sleeping quarters In the rear of the grocery which occupied the first floor, waB burned and nearly suffocated and was carried out by firemen in a serious condition. He was taken to a hospital.

FLYING MACHINES USED IN MAN HUNT

ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

Dont mlaa the extraordinary valuta wa are. offering you In Millinery. Everything reduced. C A. Brehm, South 8th Street.

REV. WITMER DEAD ' V (Palladium Special) MILTON, Ind Jan. 12. Rev. Wooster Wltmer. aged 63 years, died last evening at his home in Frankton, Indiana, after a lingering Illness coverlac a period of about four years. The ramalna will be brought to this place Saturday morning-. Funeral will be Saturday morning; at ten o'clock from the - Christian church. Burial In West Side cemetery. Rev. Wltmer la survived by a. wlfa, one daughter, two sons, two

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Their Bffeet In the First Theaters In Which They Were Used. The first theater in the world to use incandescent lamps was the Academy of Music, on Ilalstead street, Chicago, the plant being installed by the Western Edison Light company. The theater was wired for 150 sixteen candle power lamps. The lighting was confined to the auditorium. No electric lights were used on the stage, as dimmers bad not been thought of at that time. On the opening night, after the new lights were Installed, the actors struck, claiming that it was impossible to make up by gaslight and play their' parts under the glare of the electric lights. It was with difficulty that they were persuaded to proceed with the second act. The first theater to be completely lighted with incandescent lamps was the old Havorly theater, then located on Monroe street, where the Inter Ocean building now stands. This plant consisted of two dynamos with a capacity of 637 lamps. On the opening night only sufficient lights were started at first to enable the ushers to seat the audience. When the curtain rose every light was turned on. causing a tremendous sensation among the audience and eliciting applause that continued for fifteen minutes. The innovation was so successful that McVicker's theater and the Chicago Opera House immediately installed similar plants. -W. C. Jenkins in National Magazine.

As to wages in Italy, the highest paid workmen are smiths, who get from 77 cents to $1.35 a day.

(National News Association) IXS ANGELES, Jan. 12. For the first time in history the flying machine was to be used in a man hunt here today. Phil O. Parmelee and Clifford Turpin tuned up to fly over the foothills of the San Farnando Valley, where two bandits were hiding, and with the aid of field glasses to seek out their places of concealment. Parmelee and Turpin were sworn as deputy sheriffs.

Swell Set Credentials. Mrs. De Butt (making out a list of Invited guests for dinner) Can you think of any others? Mrs. Von Setter There is Mrs. Kumbac. "I had thought of her, but she did not try to smuggle." Philadelphia Ledger. One Exception. Nearsighted Old Man I say, did you break the record ? Aeronaut No, but I broke everything else. Judge.

Construction of the new St. Andrew's school to be erected on South Fifth street, north of the church, will be begun as soon as the weather permits in the spring, according to statements of those in charge of the work. Plans are now being drawn by W. S Kaufman and Son, architects, and when these are approved bids for the contract will be asked. The building will cost in the neighborhood of $40,000 or $50,000, it is estimated, and will be a large structure of brick construction with stone facings and trimmings. An auditorium to be constructed on the second floor will have a seating capacity of 850, while the eight class rooms will have a capacity for four hundred pupils, considered sufficient for all the demands of the school. The building is to be a two story structure with basement, and will be modern in every respect. The congregation of St. Andrew's anticipates the abandonment of the present school building for the new one within the next year.

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FOR MISSION WORK

Not a Sure Test. Mamma I am sure. Miranda, that Harold thinks as much of you as ever. He still eats your cooking, doesn't bet Young Wife Yes, but I'm afraid, mamma, be does It now from a sense of duty. Chicago Tribune.

The ' Four Leaf Clover-' Bible class

of the First M. E. church pleased a

large audience and cleared enough

money to assure success in their campaign to raise a missionary fund, when

t they presented the Euclid Male Quar i tet in an entertainment last evening,

O. W. Beaver, who at one time made quite a reputation for his remarkable playing" in a football game between Earlham and Antioch colleges was the

star member of the quartet, his. read9

!ng being especially commended.

i Members of the class which brought ' the entertainers to Richmond are enthusiastic Aver their venture. They state that, although they have not yet ' computed exacUy the receipts of last

' night, they are sure of more than paying expenses, and with the amount

made by the Victorian Serenaders,

who appear at the Methodist church on the twenty-sixth of this month, they will secure a big surplus over the $50 which they have promised to give to

mission work.

Even if a house does not happen to be wired for electricity, a woman may

use a motor to drive her sewing machine, for a storage battery driven motor for the purpose has been in

vented.

City Statistics

Births. To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Minck, 101 South West Second street, first child, a son, Rowland Mlnck. To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Crossley, 304 National Ave., fifth child, a daughter, Gwendolyn B. Crossley. Deaths and Funerals. LOGAN The funeral of John Logan will be held tomorrow afternoon in Springfield, O. The remains will be shipped to that city late this afternoon for the funeral services.

Folger P. Wilson Henry J. Pohlmeyer Harry C. Downing Harvey T. Wilson FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone 1335. 15 N. 10th St. Automobiles, Coaches, and Ambulance Service.

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