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THE RICHMOND PAIXADITTM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FBIDA ft JANTART 12, 1912.

PITIFUL CASE AIDED TODAY

A most pitiable case of priratlon and suffering has been reported to Captain Deuter of the Salvation Army. The family of Stephen Schmidt, 424 South Fourth street, consisting of the man, hla wife and four young children hare been in a helpless condition for several weeks, and had the matter not locally reached the Salvation Army of.fleer this morning, all the members of the family, who are Slavs, might have died from starvation and exposure. About three weeks ago Stephen Schmidt strained his back while at work in the piano factory. He was taken to his home, where he has been ever since, and will be forced to stay for at least a fortnight yet. When found 'by Captain Deuter this morning, the members of the family were In their 'small home with no heat, and Insufficiently clothed. Their regular diet since ; Stephen was taken sick, has only been 'dry bread and coffee, with the exception of a single meal when they had a Jfew beans. The four children, the three oldest being girls, are In age (twelve, eight and three yearn, and fifteen months. The two oldest attend school. : Finding the fitmlly barely alive af'ter the three weeks fight against cold and starvation, the captain furnished 'them with all available clothing and 'provisions, and prevailed upon the jtownshlp trustee to donate 500 pounds tof coal. However, asserts the Salvation Arfmy leader, the family, which is in the Imost desperate condition of any in iRIchmond. Is not through with Ha I fight, and will need the assistance of 'many charitable people before the husband can resume work. A DENTAL CURIOSITY. 'The Set of Artificial Teeth That Washington Endured. It may not l generally known that the Father of Ills Country was one of (h Ant American to wear artificial teeth. By the time the war of the Revolution had ended he had parted company with most of the outfit which nature had given him. An ingenious physician nnd dentist of Now York city 'undertook the then unusual task of reequipment aud produced at length a full set of artificial teeth. These arc !now, of course, a dental curiosity and offer an additional proof of the heroism 'of our first president, for it Is a matter of fact that General Washington wore those teeth for many years and, so far a we know, never complained of them. , Tho teeth were carved from Ivory 'and riveted, wired and clamped to a somewhat ponderous gold plate. Three large clamp In particular figure conspicuously In the roof of the mouth nd must have caused difficulty, if not 'anguish. There were an upper nnd an under set. nnd the two were connected and heal in tostlon restively by n long spiral spring on each side, says ' Harper'" Weekly. Nevertheless Washington wore them long and well, a fact sufficiently attested by tho worn nnd dinted condition of ; Tooth teeth nnd plate. At the last account these teeth were the proerty of a dental institution In i Baltimore. A Useful Coffin. A writer In an English church tnagatine once found in a collier's cottage I In Htaffordshlre a' coffin used ns a (bread and cheese cupboard. Notwith standing his wife's reinonstronce, he told the story of the coffin as follows: "Eighteen years ago I ordered that coffin. The wife nnd me used to have 'a good many words. One dny she said. 'I'll never le content till I see Ithee In thy coffin.' 'Well, lass.' I said. I If that'll content thee it'll soou be I done.' I "Next day I gave directions to have I the thing made. lu a few days It came home, to the wife's horror. I got Into It and said, 'Now, lass, are thee ' content?' She licgnn to cry and wantjed the 'horrid thing taken away. But that I wouldn't allow. In the end she got accustomed to seeing it. aud as we ; wanted to turn It to some use we had isome shelves put In and made It into n jbread nnd cheese cupboard. We have ' never quarreled since It came." Ciroulating Librariss. j Tinng lefore the Revolution a young " printer In Philadelphia when he had 'taken off his working apron at night ' J used to sit poring over bis dozen of old jrolumee by firelight. He soon knew J them by heart and hungered for more. '!But books were costly, and he had but jrtt tie money. He had eight or ten cronies, young men who. like himself, (were eager for knowledge. Ranging his books ou a shelf, he invited his 'friends to do the same, that each of .them might have the benefit of them 1 all. Ben Franklin thus laid the founrdatl'n of the first circulating library in . this country. On Pa. "My son," said Harker as he pointed to the Ivy in front of the cottage, "alwayn be like the vrne climb." The little boy was thoughtful. "I dou't think I'd want to he like that Tine," he responded seriously. "And why not. Tommy T " 'Cause If I was I'd be a porch .cllni bar." Chicago News.

Skyrockets Before Gunpowder. tt matters very little in the long run to the small boy when, how or where fireworks were first made and of what they are made now. But the fact remains that the despised' heathen Chl!bcs flrst made tbejn and used them , 'and that civilised communities did not 'know of tbem until the fourteenth eentnrjr. Tho skyrocket was first inventd toward the close of the ninth century d at that time was uad. so it Is said, in India and China In war. That waa bag before the invention of puinowtfe& "

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So Thoy Had to Tag Eaoh of tho Many Tom Hazards. Perhaps no community more carefully and frequently set forth its erratic fancy than did the early settlers of Nnrrngansett, R. I., of whom W. B. Weeden tells in "Early Rhode Island." There were so ninny of ohe name that the bearer must have a descriptive prefix lest he lie lost in a concordant multitude. Mr. I'pdike cites thirt.vtwo Tom Hazards living at one Urn.' and thus Illustrates a few: College Tom, because he had been nt college. Bedford Tom wan his son am! lived nt New Bedford. Bailey Tom because he boasted how much barley he raised from an acre; Virginia Tom. because he married a wife there; Little Neck Tom, from the farm of that name; Nailer Tom. the blacksmith: Fiddle Held Tom. an obvious resemblance; Tlstol Tom. wounded by an explosion of that arm; Young Pistol Tom. his son; Short Stephen's Tom. the father low, against Long Stephen's Tom, the father tall; Tailor Tom needs no explanation. The Georges were not so numerous, but they were distinRulshed as Beach Bird George, of little legs; Shoestring George, au opponent of buckles; Wig George, lr. George and Governor George. A LIFE FOR A LIFE. Cheerful Now Guinea Custom Which Causes Frequent Murders. Everywhere In New Guinea the traveler is continually brought face to face with death, and the natives are devoid of the slightest pity or respect for the dead or dying, although after a death they will often wnll and mourn for a considerable time. Murder is nn everyday occurrence, and nothing could be worse than the morals of the natives. In fact, they have none. They thieve aud He with a persistence and cunning which are surprising. The Papuans hnve n cheerful custom which demands a life for a life. Should any one die at the first opportunity they kill some one they are not very particular whom to make up for It. "While we were nt Humbold bay," says Professor Pratt in the Wide World Magazine, "a Malay died of dropsy. He was the flrst Malay who had ever come to that part, and the Papuans great'y respected him. " 'Very well,' they said, 'we must shoot a Malar with our bows and ar rows to pay for his death.' And soon-! er or later some Innocent person would be killed tp square the account, when everybody except, presumably, the victim's friends would be satisfied." Capo Horn's Lighthouse. Probably the most desolate, dreary pot in the world inhabited by white men is the lighthouse maintained by the Argentine government at Cape Horn. This is claimed to be the southernmost lighthouse in the world. A healthy horse eats nine times its weight in food in a year; a sound sheep six times. For Bargains in Millinery you can't find better ones than at C. A. Brehm's, South Eighth Street. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Albert W. Gregg to Geo W. Deuker, Jan. 6. 1912, $3,000, lots 236, 237, Haynes Add. Richmond. Cora Warfel to Jos Miller et al Jan. 3. 1912, $1, Pt. lots 5-6, H. Moffitfs Add. Richmond. Jno. K. Thomas to Geo. W. Slick, Jan. 7. 1912. $9,000, Pt. S. W. Sec. 2, S. E. 1-4 Sec. 3-19-1. Charles C. Jamison to Oscar F. Jamison. Jan. 6, 1912, $200, PL lots 9 and 10, C. M. Add, Germantown. Eliza J. Carter to Jno. McCoy et aL, Dec 30, 1911, $2,500. Pt. Frac. Sec. 27-16-14. Ida Ftledgen to Jno. O. Fteier, Jan. 10. 1912, $2,500. Pt. lot 10. Bickle & Laws Add. Richmond. Saml C. Harlan to C, C. C. & St L It. R. Co., Dec. 19. 1911, $800. PL S. E. K Sec 25-1S-12.

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The Suffolk County Court room where Pastor Richeson was to have been tried charged with murdering Avis Linnell by poison, and leading figures in the case. Above, left to right are Avis Linnell, the dead girl; Clarence V. T. Richeson, the minister-1 defendant; and Violet Edmands, fiaucee of the accused divine. Below is Judge Sanderson, who will hear the case. LATE MARKET NEWS Furnished by A. W. Thomson Co., Hittle Block. Phone 2709. Correspondents, Logan and Bryan. NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 12. Open High Copper 65J,8 65 Am Smelting 71 71 U S Steel 66 i 6"y8 U S Steel pfd 111 111 Low 64 70 66 110 Close 65 'l'2 66 Ill Pennsylvania St. Paul ... B & O N Y Central. Reading 123 123 M 122 123 U 108 108 107 108 103 103 107 107 107 107 149 153 149 1534 Canadian Pac 230 230 230 230 Gt Northern 126 127 126 126 Union Pacific 167 U 168 V4 166 168 Mo Pac 39 40 39 39 Northern Pac 116 116 116 116 Atchison ... 105 105 105 105 L & N 154 155 Vi 154 155 Lehigh Val.. 184 184 182 184 Southern Pac 109 110 109 109 Am Can Com 11 11 Am Can Pfd 91 92' 91 92 Great Northern Pfd, Ex Dividend 1 CHICAGO GRAIN CHICAGO, Jan. 12. YVhat

May 99 100 99 99 July 94 95 94 94 Sept 93 93 Vi 93 93 CornMay 65 65 64 54 July 65 65 64 64 Sept 65 65 65 65 OatsMay 49 49 49 49 July 45 45 44 44 Sept 40 40 40 40 LIVERPOOL, Jan. 12. Wheat futures closed d lower;

corn unchanged. EAST BUFFALO LIVE STOCK EAST BUFFALO, Jan. 12. Cattle Receipts 200; prime $7.25; butchers $3.00 7.00. Sheep Receipts 10,000; prime $5.00. Calves Receipts 500; choice $6.00 1 10.00. j Hogs Receipts 12,000; heavies $6.40; I pigs, $6.10: yorkers $6.25 6.40. Lambs $7.65. RICHMOND BIRD VALUED $1,000 A white orphington cockerel, owned by E. M. and F. E. Mather, of this city, which was the most notable feature of the poultry show just closed at Piqua, is considered an almost perfect specimen of its kind. The judge, Mr. W. M. Wise, in awarding the bird premier honors, with a score of 94 per cent, stated that it was the finest of its breed he had ever seen. The judge placed a value of $1,000 on Hie bird, a sum 40 . greater than the value assigned to the winner'fe the Chicago poultry show. .

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CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, Jan. 12. Cattle Receipts 5,600; steers $8.50. Sheep Receipts 18.000; prime $4.50. Hogs Receipts 34000; heavies $5.90 6.45; pigs $4.405.85; light $5.80 6.30. Lambs $7.40. Calves $7.00 9.50. PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK PITTSBURG, Jan. 12. Cattle Receipts light; steers $7.65 8.00; butchers $6.00 6.60. Sheep Receipts fair; prime $4.70 4.90. Hogs Receipts 40 double decks; yorkers $6.356.45; pigs $6.15 6.25; heavies $6.45. Calves Receipts 1000; choice $10.70. LambB $7.25. INDIANAPOLIS LIVE STOCK INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12. Cattle Receipts 1600; steers $7.25. Sheep Receipts 600; prime $3.75. Lambs $7.00. Hogs Receipts 9,000; top $6.40. Calves $9.50. CINCINNATI LIVESTOCK CINCINNATI. Jan 12.1 Cattle Receipts 700; shippers $5.75 Sheep Receipts 200; extras $3.35. 6.75. Hovs Receints 2.600: good to choice 6.356.40. Lambs $5.50. Calves $4.00. INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12. Wheat 95c Corn 63 c Oats 52c Rye 97 Clover seed $10.C0 TOLEDO GRAIN TOLEDO, Jan. 12. Corn 62c Wheat 94c Clover seed $12.45 Oats 49c Alsike $10.80 Couldn't Keep It Quiet. Being called to his feet unexpectedly at the gathering and asked to respond informally to the toast "The Ladies," Mr. Gilfers hemmed and hawed and began: "My friends, all that 1 am, all that I have in the world. I owe to a woman my wife." Here he was interrupted by that lady herself, who arose and said: "I told you when you put the property In my name you'd give It away the flrst time you opened your mouth." J mice's Library. I Which You Are Sure to Be OUR BAKERY GOODS For Morning, Noon and Tea. The Goods We Bake Are Jolly Good Hence Jolly Those Who Eat They'll Put You in A Jolly Mood They Save the Cook - Stove Heat. ZWISSLfifTS QUAKER BREAD

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Tho Way Haydn's "Ox" Minuet Came to Got That Title. There la no sensible reason for the titles attached to many pieces of music, some of them even classical selections. Most generally they are placed there as an attempt of some publisher to "boom" his stock and sell his goods. Then again, some peculiar titles may have their origin in incidents about as important as the following: Haydn one day received a visit from a butcher who said that himself and his daughters were admirers of Haydn's music and as the young woman was soon to be married he made bold to ask that the composer write a minuet for her wedding. Kind "Papa Haydn" consented, and in a few days the man of meat obtained his music. Not long afterward Haydn was surprised to hear this same minuet played under his window. On looking out he saw a band of musicians forming a ring around a large ox, tastefully decorated with flowers. Soon the butcher came up and presented the ox to rinydn. saying that for such excellent music he thought he ought to make the composer a present of the best ox In his possession. Ever after this little composition was culled the "Ox" minuet W. Francis Gates in "Anecdotes of Great Musicians." How Franklin Learnsd Manners. Franklin collected thirteen principles to cover the small amenities of daily life. Each week he picked out one and practiced it diligently, thus creating a habit. It took three months to cover them all. Each year he practiced each one four full weeks. He kept this up for many years. The uncouth Franklin of early manhood who found fault with his wife for giving him a silver spoon and a china bowl for his bread and milk instead of a pewter spoon and earthenware crock, developed into the statesman and man of the world who won the respect of Englishmen, j the admiration of Frenchmen and the. gratitude of Americans. Harrington Emerson in Engineering Magazine. Following In His Footsteps. Visitors to China are particularly struck by the numbers of pairs oi boots bung in separate wooden cages in the archway of the main west gate of Hsuanhua. the valedictory gifts of beneficent prefects. It is an attractive custom in China to Invite a departing magistrate whose rule has been popular to leave a pair of old boots for suspension in a prominent place as a hint to his successor to follow in his footsteps. It is a considerable honor to be asked to leave these boots, and the ruled make the request all the more eagerly because they believe in the efficacy of the bint Tho Play of "Othollo." "Viewed exclusively as a dramatic fabric, 'Othello' is ndt only the best of Shakespeare's plays, but the best play in the English language," says Wil Hani Winter in the Century. "No story could be more simple, direct, fluent and elementally tragic, but with what marvelous skill the poet has told it, with what ingenuity of invention, with what vibrant vitality of continuous action, with what ample and superb drawing of character, what prodigious volume of feeling, what tumult of surging and conflicting passion and what perfection of poetic style! A Littlo Ono. Pigg Talk about your green servant girls. My wife told ours to put a little nutmeg In the custard she was making this afternoon. Fogg And did she do it? Figg Oh, yes; she put a little nutmeg in, all right. I came near choking over the blamed thing. Boston Transcript Aristocrat. The word "aristocracy" comes from the Greek "aristos" (best) and "archo" (rule), meaning the rule of the best. Literally aristocrat means the "best man. V God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery. Bryant. CAFE 12 Chile Con Carne, 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 n A

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Dolicat Baauty of tho Snow Crystals. Nearly everybody is familiar with the exquisite beauty of snow flakes. Formed as they are on the general plan of a besagon. no one ever saw two snow crystals precisely alike. Nature sends out billions and billions of ber snow Lin udi work, but every copy is an Individual and peculiar one. She delights in variety, and truly the snowflakes are not the least of her wonders. Even iu a cake of solid ice one may see the delicate, beautiful suow dowers packed closely together, for the ice is simply one mess of these marvelous products of nature's .art gallery. Floating lazily in the clear blue reaches of the sky are other examples of the wonders of water dust. The Glorious clouds, like fabled castles filled with dream folk, are either tiny drops of water or minute crystals of ice soaring far above the busy world below. Sometimes these ice crystals cover trees, window sills and grass with their beautiful spicules of hoar frost, and every one knows what a famous artist Jack Frost is in the matter of window ornamentation. Popular Mechanics. Whits Horse of Berkshire. Between Abingdon and Upplngton in England there is a famous valley known as the "Vale of the White Horse." It Is so called because of a huge figure of a horse at full gallop which is crudely fashioned on the aide of a precipitous hill of chalk by removing the surrounding turf. The figure is almost 374 feet in length, and when the sun is shining upon it It can be seen plainly for al most twelve miles. By whom or how long ago it was cut is not known, dif ferent persons ascribing It variously to the Saxons, Danes and Druids. Many attribute it to King Alfred nnd say that it is a symbol of victory erected by him after the battle of Ashdown. at which he defeated the Danes. In course of time the trench which outlines the figure of the horse fills naturally and grows over. When this happens the people of the neighborhood have a custom of meeting for the purpose of cleaning it out, and this they make the occasion for a great festival, at which the men compete in manly sports for prizes. Fisherman A Game. If there is a large table at band all sit around it to play the game of fisherman. One of the players is armed with a short stick, to which a piece of twine is attached, the twine being tied in a loop at one end. The fisherman drops his line in such a way that the loop lies on the table about the center. When he says "Whose fish?" all the players place the tip of one finger (forefinger of the right hand) op. the table

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Conundrums. Which is the largest bug in the world? The humbug. Why Is the oyster the wisest animal? He keeps his mouth shut. What class of persons have the most bones In their bodies? Those that feed on fish. Tho Scissors Grinder. Tlng-a-llng. tlng-a-Ung! Th scissors grinder goes along With chiming bU that aoom to Always tho same dear littla song. H la a quaint old man and kind With merry eyes which aeom to And as the shining scissors grind He hums a littlo tune meanwhile. Hla whirring wheels go round and rOURd. The chiming bells Just now are still, But yet his Hps keep up the sound Of sons; that seems our hearts to thrtu. We children follow, ono and all. So much we lovo this littlo tune. We answer gmyly to his call And think our friend la gone too Tlng-a-llng. tlng-a-llns' This Is the burden of his song. It seems of Fairy Land to sing. This magical and chiming gong. Philadelphia Roeord. Of all the nations the United States alone allows the use of white phosphorus in making matches. "The Biggest Little Store in Town." FRED KENNEDY Jeweler DIAU0ND EXPERT Bargains This Month We have told you time f after time that as investmerits diamonds are the best. They increase in value right along. See us before selecting. RAILROAD MEN'S WATCHES A SPECIALTY Fred Kennedy JEWELER 526 Main Street n u 77 n u n ii ii ii ii u n n u Home

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