Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 132, 8 April 1912 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY APRIL 8, 1912.
L OPENS BVlany Welcomed to Nashville Today by the Governor of Tennessee. , NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 8. Governor' B. W. Hopper, of Tennessee wel'comed the thousands of delegates to the Southern Commercial congress 'and the Waterways Conference today, 'with an address in which he characterized the labors of-both conventions as flooding toward "a bigger and better ISouth." He was followed by Senator ijoseph W. Bailey, of Texas, who markied his first appearance in Nashville jwith an address in "The Mississippi 'Valley" and was received with great enthusiasm by the delegates. It was stated by the officers of the Southern Commercial congress today 'that the present gathering of delegates exceeds In number that attending any convention of recent years tin the South. For two days the incomjing trains have been crowded to oversowing with delegates to the great meeting, and it is believed that the 'ten thousand mark will be reached before the close of the convention on 'April 10th. j. The regular program was opened hoy Hon. Maurice F. Egan, United States Minister to Denmark, who, through the permission of the Secretary of State, described and explained jthe co-operative dairying systems in (vogue in Denmark. Mr. Egan stated that through the Eystem of co-operative dairying the urmers of Denmark have raised the gricultural operations of that small kingdom to affluence. The Danish (farmers, he said, have not merely untJted in the sale of their products," but ihave a strict organization whereby jthe standard of quality is maintained, i Dr. Edwin B. Craighead, president of the Tulane university, New Orleans, La., followed Mr. Egan with an address on "The Educational Benefactors of the South," reviewing broadly (the South's educational and agricultural recovery from the stress of antejbellum days. ; The real estate conference, another jnumber on the extensive program of !th Commercial congress, began late this afternoon with an opening ad- : dress by S. S. Thorpe, president of the :National Association of Real Estate (Exchanges, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, iwho called attention to the millions of acres of vacant land in the South and idwelt upon the importance of enabling those who would bring business to jgrowing Southern regious, to come in contact with organizations that would iprotect both the buyer and seller of ithe land, v The deliberations of this branch of the congress will be carried over 'till ,tomorrow morning, when the establishment o uniform laws of conveyance of property will be discussed and measures taken toward urging it upon the various states below the Mason and Dixon line, whose representatives are interested in its enactment. Real Ingratitude. "Republics are ungrateful," said the ready made philosopher. "Perhaps." replied Mr. Chuggins. "but If you want a taste of real ingratitude take a party of friends out ! for an automobile ride and listen to -their sarcastic remarks if you happen .to break down." -Washington Star. ' At the Literary Club. "Maria, what was done at the meetLing of your literary club last nlghtV" ' "We fined Mrs. Chlllicon-Kearney $5 tlor accusing Mrs. Higbmus of cbeatIng at bridge." Chicago Tribune.
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Papers and Debris Fly Over Town Like a Snow-storm Goiflg to Show Ordinance Is Not Enforced. Impressive Good Friday Services.
BY- ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The high winds of the past few days demonstrated the necessity of an enforcement of the waste paper ordinance recently referred to here several times. Papers of all colors, sizes and previous conditions of servitude sailed merrily through the air and found refuge in anybody's yard and on every street in town. The yards of two adjoining houses, the occupants of which burn their papers in the furnace and put them in a closed barrel inside the alley gate.were littered with the debris of those not observing the ordinance. The thing isn't fair. The people who do observe it suffer for the negligence of those who don't. This is the reprehensible feature of American municipal government. The easy-going habit of officials in equal enforcement of local ordinances. Abroad it is not so. European tourists all comment upon the cleanliness of the average continental town, at least in the Northern countries. In Paris every property-owner is required to keep the streets and sidewalks before his premises in a certain degree of cleanliness. In many of the German cities there are ordinances, rigorously enforced, through which the city is kept in outward condition. In America they pass laws, write them on the records and proceed not to observe them. - Then they get together and pass other laws to cover the same ground. There are enough laws to run this entire country for a thousand years, "and then some," without the convening of another legislative body of any sort. There are too many, not a lack of laws. What is needed is an enforcement of those we already have. ' Many of them good. There is a commendatory movement on hand to interest the children in municipal neatness and cleanliness. However if the local ordinances were impartially enforced the town would be neat and clean enough. And one of the chiefest aids to this end would be the enforcement of the waste paper ordinance. It can and should be. Its merely up to the local officials. One of the nuisances is the distribution of bills. It is a form of advertising that, to the ordinary observer, would hardly seem to pay, since the bills, in nine cases out of ten, are never seen by the householder into whose yard or on whose steps they are placed. They blow about the streets and make the latter unsightly. And, if they are picked up by the persons who live in the house, they are not even glanced at but thrown into the waste-paper basket or poked into the stove or furnace. And possibly with an execration. Maybe it pays but it is to be doubted. Why, by the way, many persons would like to know, are the streets not oiled all the year round instead of merely in the summer. Sanitary experts and physicians agree that many of the passing and some of the serious human ills are occasioned by the germ-laden dust. Certainly no guilty germ had the opportunity of escaping within the past few days. Great clouds of dust obscured the view and covered everything in and out of sight.
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And this dust was made up of all the off-scourings of the winter. People breathed into their lungs the offal of the town. At no time during the entire year was oil needed on the streets more than within the week just passed. While many persona objected to the oil at the first suggestion they see its advantage now. "But certainly if the streets are oiled they should be done in their entirety. The effect is lost if half a block is oiled, the other half left unoiled. This form of dust laying is becoming wide-spread in use. On the great out-lying boulevard system of Boston, oil is in constant service. And if it is to be used in Richmond, the practicable thing would seem to be to put it on the streets all the year round. For in the winter and early spring, before the streets are cleaned the dust is a greater nuisance than in the summer. It is to be hoped that the oil deposit-1 ing process will begin soon. ! Lent is becoming more universally observed each year. Even the non-ritualistic churches, as said a day or so since, take cognizance of this season of religious contemplation and abstinence from social gayety. And in services celebrating or commemorative of the great events of the supreme climax of Christ's passion. Notwithstanding the frequent protest against the Catholic church, in the secessions from its ministrations and the formation of other less ritualistic bodres, this church remains throughout the ages, the great refuge of the weary-laden. And the reason is. simple. Its foundation is faith. There is no question. Only belief. This is the reason that great intellects, after ranging the philosophies and religions of the world sometimes return to the church. It soothes their spiritual agitations. It asks nothing of them but faith. It is a quiet and secure harbor in which they can anchor, forever protected from the spiritual and intellectual storms which lash the human ocean. In this city Lent is observed in many of the ch.urc.hes with impressiveness and sincerity, both in the Catholic and non-Catholic. Good Friday as well as Easter-day. On the former day sacred concerts were given in two of the leading churches, the First English Lutheran and St. Paul's Episcopal, both of which were largely attended. In the former Stainer's "Crucifixion" was. presented with musical and religious effect, over thirty-five being included in the chorus with four soloists, among them some of the best known musicians in the city. The stately music, with its subdued and climatic harmonies, was descriptive of the greatest event in the history of the Christian religion and symbolic of the spiritual suffering of humanity, of its most intense, concentrated and , exquisite passion and emblematic of the material manifestation of the redemption of the world. St. Paul's gave "The Seven Last Words," a sacred cantata which symbolized the same emotions and events as those of the "Crucifixion," with impressiveness and musical eclat, the presence of a notable tenor from Cincinnati giving the solo numbers distinction. These musical events, both in their i presentation and their raison d' ctre
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were notable in the religious and musical history of the town and, if repeated during another Lenten season would arouse even more interest than in this.
Tee Late. Mr. B. drove up in a hansom and entered the jeweler's shop accompanied by his valet, who carried an oblong box of steel. Mr. B. asked for a private interview, and on being shown Into the office he opened the box, exposing a splendid array of diamond and pearl necklaces, earrings, tiaras and rings. "Mrs. B.," be said, "is now abroad. Before she returns I want you to extract these stones and replace them with good Imitations, selling the real Jewels and giving me the money. This, of course. Is to be a confidential transaction. ' Mrs. B. is to know nothing of it." "My dear sir," said the Jeweler, "I should be glad to do as you ask, but It is Impossible. Two years ago Mrs. B. called here on the same errand that now brings you, and this errand in her case was successful. The paste jewels that you offer me are worth little more than the hire of the hansom awaiting you outside." London Tit-Bits. EASTER DANCE Mrs. Kolp's dance Tuesday night in I. O. O. F. Hall, with Lucas Saxophone Trio, of Columbus. Admission to gallery, 15 cents. ALASKAN lyiOSQUITOES. They Are Small and Silent, but Work With Fire Tipped Stings. Mosquitoes in this icebound northern country, Alaska, are a plague beyond relief. They come to life about the middle of May? before the ground is thawed out and while many feet of ice still cover the lakes and all but the swiftest rivers. Stagnant, sun heated water is not in the least necessary. They breed in the glaciers wherever a bit of earth or manure has melted a little pool. TBeir wrigglers are seen in running ice water. By the 1st of June it is uncomfortable to sleep without protection, and from that time on until September, when the first frosts have benumbed them, especially during the warn, rainy season of July and August, they become a never ceasing scourge, swarming in thousands. The Alaskan mosquito is small, brown, silent and very much In earnest. He never sings a warning nor fools about selecting a spot to his taste, but comes in a bee line with his probe and gets into action. Every inch of your clothing is industriously bored, so that you look like an animated brown cocoon, and the slightest exposed spot on wrist or neck is promptly set on fire. I experimented with a small hole In my glove. After the first mosquito had found, the opening others came in quick succession to the spot- He left some microscopic "kind lady and no dog" sign there. If I killed the first and left his carcass it served as a warning not at all. The others came the faster, and the more I killed the more eager the survivors became, perching quite unmoved on the remains of their confreres. World Today. Shopping. First Lady Mrs. Smith is too young to go shopping alone. Second Lady What is that? First Lady She's liable to get excited and buy something. Special This Week WATCHES at Kennedy's, 526 Main St. A Perfect Fit or No
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Hi. Thoughtful Wife. "I hate to boast," said a Cleveland lawyer, "but my wife is one of the most economical women In the world. The other day she told me she needed a new suit I said she ought to have it. by all means, but asked her not to spend a big bunch of money with out lettinir me know about It. Well.
the next day she said: 'The tailor said he couldn't make that suit for less than $150. I thought it was too much. but told him to go ahead." "Well. I suppose U is all right.' 1 said, 'but why didn't you consult m first? " 'Why, dearie, I didn't want to spend car fare for two visits. "I tell you, it's these little economies that count, eh?" Cleveland Tress. Pay of French Minietere. Ministers in France are not so well paid as in EnglarfflL All members of' the French cabinet receive the same ' salary. 2.400 a year, and as they have to forfeit the allowance of 000 which ; they receive as senators or deputies , their net annual gain through taking j office is only 1.S00. It is true theyj are provided with official residences. furnished, heated and lighted at the : public expense. Their tenure of office ; Is, however, so precarious that they! can never venture to let their private' residences, so they save nothing under the head of rent. London Chronicle. The Oxidization of Brass. Brass when immersed in a hot solution consisting of one-half ounce of golden sulphuret of antimony and four ounces ef caustic soda in each gallon of water becomes oxidized with a pleasing brown shade. The shade becomes darker if the metal is immersed in a dilute solution of sulphate of copper, used cold, about four to eight ounces to the gallon. Several immersions in the same manner give deeper brown tones. v r ., - Felt So Small. Boggs Did you get in all right last night? Woggs Oh. yes. Boggs Then the doors wern't locked, as you feared? Woggs Indeed they were, but my wife yelled at me as I was coming up the steps, so I crawled in through the letter slot. Puck. He who has truth in his heart need sever fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. Rus&in. Fine Cut Glass Tumblers High Grade Patterns Only 48 Cents At HANER'S MAKE NO MISTAKE. BUT USE For the blood, and kindred ails. Nothing; better; try it, At all drug 6tores. SPITFIRE RAG TWO-STEP ' The raggedest rag of them all. It's got the ring. It's got the swing. Try it. Sent postpaid for 10c. Roy Allen, Kitchel, Ind. SOMETHING NEW Canned, Mixed JOC vegetables lor soap, per can COOPER'S GROCERY 22
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Both Wrong. Sandy and his master drove up to the small station as the train approached. Here's yer train, sir. said Saady. "That is not my train." replied the master, who had his own ideas about correct speech. "But it's the train 1 am goins by." But it happened to be a special train and didu't stop at the station, whereupon Sandy exclaimed. "We're baith wrang. for it's neither your train nor the ane ye're gauo by, but it's the ane that's gane by you."
Betrayed. "Say. mamma, can Anna see In the dark, like a cat?" "Why. child, what makes you ask such a question?" "Oh. last night when Cousin Carl was here I heard Anna say in the dark rood. 'You must really shave oftener. Carl.' " Exchange. V
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