Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 160, 10 May 1912 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PAXIiADIUM AXT SITX-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1912.
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iA VETERAN SAILOR Of FORTUNE DEAD Career of Late Captain Osborn, an American Adventurer, Remarkable.
(Palladium Special.) NEW YORK, May 10. Captain Bradley S. Osbon has died in tbe post 'graduate hospital. Second avenue and Twentieth street, where he had been ;Xor sixteen days following a general 'breakdown in health. With him at the 'time of death was his wife, Eliza Balfour, whom he married forty-seven 'ears ago. Bradley Sillick Osbon was usually i spoken of ac Captain Osbon, although he laid claim to most naval titles, including that of admiral. According to the accounts of his life (presented by "Who's Who," and less sober publications, he was born at Rye, N. Y., on August 16, 1828. and went to sea when he was ten years old. "Who's Who" says that it was to sea that the captain went, other publications intimate that the first adventure was on' the Erie Canal. But no matter, the captain's recollections touched nothing that they did not gild. Whaler and Pirate Sunk. He had a brief experience in the United States navy while still a boy, and then shipped in a whaler which visited the Antarctic and later touched Honolulu. Young Osbon jumped tbe whaler at this port and in various ships adventured until he joined the brigantine Swallow in Hong-Kong and signed for a voyage to the Arctic after whales again. On their way, according to one of the captain's stories, the Swallow fell in with a Chinese pirate Junk which gave battle and was worst ed in one of Captain Osbon's most thrilling naratlves. There were more adventures in the Arctic and then, when back in Hong-Kong again, the captain joined the Anglo-Chinese navy. Then followed more thrilling encounters with Chinese pirates, and Osbon, who had enlisted as a seaman, may be seen in the uniform of a commander of a squadron. Then Osbon tired of foreign service and was making his way back to the United States when he fell in with a "strong man" who was doing music hall turns as the "American Sampson." Osbon turned clown and assisted the strong man in his "turn." In Argentine Revolution. He got back to the United States finally in 1852 and pretty soon he was : seafaring again. One of his voyages landed him in Buenos Aires just as a revolution broke out. Of course Capt. Osbon took a hand. He joined the Argentine navy and was assigned to the sloop VIngto-Cinquo de Mayo with the rank of commander. His narratives of this episode in his busy life include stories of a narrow escape from being shot as a spy and of bringing to New York $250,000 in gold for an admiral who sold his fleet to the ruling authorities. Osbon said that he got not a cent for himself since he wasn't then an admiral. He tried his hand at newspaper work for a time and then when the civil war came joined the United States navy. As signal officer to Capt. John Faunce, of the Harriet Lane, he took part in the expedition sent to the relief of Fort Sumpter. Later, according to "Who's Who," he served under DuPont, Farragut and Worden. In Mexican Navy. When Mexico revolted against Maximilian, Captain Osbon on the part of the revolutionary party undertook to build up a navy. He managed to get away from Philadelphia in a ship purchased by the Mexicans, hoisted the Mexican flag when he reached deep water and became Admiral Osbon. That was an off year for Osbon and he saw for him very little fighting. His adventures after that were mostly commercial. Among others related by him was an interview with Napoleon III., which resulted in the captain's selling a "pneumatic telegraph" CROSS OR FEVERISH HALF-SICK CHILDREN Means their bowels are wasteclogged; liver sluggish v and stomach sour. Your child isn't naturally cross, irritable and peevish, Mother! Examine the tongue; if coated, it means the little ones' stomach is disordered, liver inactive and its thirty feet of bowels clogged with foul, decaying waste. Every mother realizes after giving delicious "Syrup of Figs" that this is the ideal laxative and physic for chil.dren. Nothing else regulates the little one's tender stomach, liver and bowels so effectually, besides they dearly love its delightful fig taste. For constipated bowels, sluggish liver, biliousness, or sour, disordered stomach, feverishness, diarrhoea, Sore Throat, bad breath or to break a cold, give one-half to a teaspoonful of "Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours all tbe clogged up waste, sour bile, undigested food and constipated matter will gently move on and out of the system without griping or nausea, and you will surely have a well, happy and smiling child again shortly.: With Syrup of Figs you are not drugging your children, being composed entirely of luscious figs, senna and aromatlcs it cannot be harmful. Full directions for children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the package. Ask your druggist for the full name, "Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. This ia the delicious tasting, genuine old reliable. Refmse anything else jpffered. ,
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Richmond Citizens Should Read and Heed This Advice. - Kidney trouble is dangerous and oft en fatal. - Don't experiment with something new and untried. Use a tested and proven kidney remedy. Begin with Doan's Kidney Pills. Used In kidney troubles 75 years. Doan's have cured thousands. Are recommended here and every where. Richmond citizen's statement forms convincing proof. It's local testimony it can be in vestigated. Mrs. F. P. Brooks, 215 S. Fifth St., Richmond, Ind., says: "We have used Doan's Kidney Pills in our family for years, getting them at Luken and Co.'s Drug Store, and we would not be without a suddIv in the house. I took this remedy for weakness of the kidneys and pains in my back and sides and I found great relief. Doan's Kidney Pills are deserving of my highest endorsement." For sale by all dealers. Price DO cents. Fo6ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. invention to the French government for $30,000. In his account for "Who's Who" Captain Osbon relates that he was "a volunteer naval scout" during the war with Spain, and that he was the first to "discover" Cervera's fleet off ths Island of Cura'cao, for which feat he received a letter of thanks. Captain Osbon's adventures ashore i were nearly as varied as those afloat, although not so picturesque, possibly because the captain did not dwell up on them. He is remembered recently for his championship of the cause of Dr. Cook. He had many decorations which he delighted to display, although he once wrote jestingly that "I seldom wear my medals now, because the breadth of beam of my manly bosom will not permit me to display them to the best of advantage." He was the author of "A Sailor of Fortune" and other books. THE ROAD TO BALTIMORE. It Wm Over Floating Bridges In th Old, Old Days. The road to ' Baltimore is over the lowest of three floating bridges which have been thrown across the Schuylkill river in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. The view on passing this river, which is about 250 yards wide, is beautiful. The banks on each side are high and for many miles above afford the most delightful situations of villas. A very elegant one, laid out in English taste, is seen on passing the river just above the bridge. Adjoining to it are public gardens anf"a house of entertainment with several good rooms, to which the citizens of Philadelphia resort in great numbers during the summer seasons. The floating bridges are formed of large trees, which are placed in the water transversely and are chained together. Beams are then laid lengthways upon these and the whole board ed over to render the way convenient for passengers. On each side there is a railing. When very heavy carriages go across these bridges they sink a few inches below the surface of the water, but the passage Is by no means dangerous. They are kept in an even direction across the river by means of chains and anchors in different parts and are also strongly secured on both shores. Over that part of the river where the channel lies they are so contrived that a piece can be removed to allow vessels to pass through. From "Travels Through the States of North America," by Isaac Weld, Jr., 1795. A TARIFF COMEDY. Spain Finally Won In the "Case of the Screw Propel lor.'" Every British captain calling at Spanish ports is familiar with the case of the screw propeller." The story is told for the benefit of landsmen In Mr. G. H. B. Ward's "The Truth About Spain:" "The steel screw of a cargo steamer which traded with Bilbao and other northern ports was damaged beyond repair during a rough voyage? The vessel was beached pending the arrival of a new propeller from England. "At last, when the steamer was about to sail, the captain was informed that he had to pay a duty for putting ashore a manufactured article namely, the 'scrapped' or broken propeller. The captain protested and offered to drop it into the sea. but the officials were obdurate. They seized the ship and demanded payment Tbe captain declined to ease the tension by the customary bribe and complained to the British foreign office. "The duty was returned, but the captain was warned to be very careful about contraband, and for several voyages nothing occurred. Several months later some slight Inaccuracy in the 6hip's papers and the declaration of cargo gave the excisemen their chance, and the vessel was not allowed to leave until a heavy fine, corresponding to the original propeller duty, was paid." CARNATION SPECIAL FOR MOTHER'S DAY All day Saturday we will" sell our beautiful 75c grade Carnations at 5c each or 60c per dozen. We will also have a number of pink at 50c per dozen. Every man and boy In the city of Richmond should wear a flower for his Mother. "A white flower for Mother's memory." , "Bright flower for Mothers living." THE FLOWER SHOP. 1015 Main Street.
GAMBLED FOR A GIRL Prince Lucien Bonaparte Won Bride From Hi Brothor Piorre. It is said that the two brothers. Prince . Louis Lucien Bonaparte and Prince Pierre, In their early youth when shooting monflons in the mountains In Corsica, came across a beautiful peasant girl with whom they both fell violently In love. Who she was and whether she favored both brothers or neither I cannot tell. Be that as it may, they quarreled. Les preux chevaliers of old would no doubt in similar occurrence have had recourse to lance and sword. The Corsican princes decided to play for their belle a game of cards. They went to the nearest inn and wrote and signed a paper agreeing that whichever won the game should marry the lady fair. Prince Lucien won and, faithful to his word, a short time after married her. She never left the island as far as I know. Prince Lucien lived in England, securing to her a comfortable income, which she received till her death, somewhere about the spring of 1801. From the Princess Murat's Memoirs.
Flower Perfumes. A garden full of flowers is mote fragrant when shadowed by a cloud than when bathed in spnsblne; at least that is the conclusion to which experiments of a French scientist lead. He asserts that it is light and not. as commonly believed, oxygen that exerts the greatest influence in desortying odors. According to the same authority, the intensity of the perfume given off by a flower depends upon the relation between the pressure of water in the cells of the plant, which tends to drive out the essential oils that cause the odor, and the action of the sunlight, which tends to diminish water pressure in the cells. Sprinkling the plant Increases the turgescence and as a consequence a more copious production of perfume. At night the air round a flower bed is heavy with odors, because then their emanation is not opposed by the sunlight. New York Tribune. The Shapes of Eggs. There was recently had before the Zoological society of London a mathematical discussion of the differences in the shape of eggs. A few eggs, like those of the owl and the tortoise, are spherical, or nearly so; a few, like the grebe's or the cormorant's, are elliptical, with symmetrical ends; the great majority, like the hen's, are ovoid, or blunter at one end than the other. The hen's egg is always laid blunt end foremost. Eggs that are the most unsymmetrical are also eggs of large size relatively to the parent bird. The yolks of eggs are spherical, whatever the form of the entire egff may be. This has been shown to be due to their being inclosed in a fluid, the "white," which makes the pressure everywhere on the surface of the yolk practically constant. Scientific American. Had His Doubts. Mrs. Benham You're as dumb as an oyster. Benham Wonder if there are any female oysters.New York Press.
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MURRAY wIek Engagement Extraordinary ! By Special Arrangement with the KEITH Circuit, Capt. C. F. Adams will present for ENTIRE WEEK OF MAY 13 THE AQUATIC SENSATION of Two Continents, the World Famous "VENUS OF THE DEEP"
The SENSATIONAL SAMOAN DIVING QUEEN Performing Unequalled Feats of Skill and Endurance In a MAMMOTH SO TON GLASS TANK in Full View of Audience. Amateur Diving and Swimming Contests Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Nights. ODIVA and Four Big Vaudeville Acts. The Biggest Event of the Tear. SEATS NOW ON SALE. No Advance in Prices. Special Notice During "ODIVA WEEK" Tickets Sold for the First Niffht Show Will Be Good for That Performance ONLY. The theater will be emptied after the first show nightly in order to accommodate the unusually large number of patrons who will be unable to secure seats for any other than the second show at night
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Causes Dizziness, Nervousness, Biliousness, Sick Headaches and Sleeplessness. You know that most of the ailments named above come from an out or order stomach. When your food reaches the stomach it should digest and furnish nutritious matter to the blood. If it doesn't digest, but lays heavily on your stomach, it has started to ferment. When it ferments it sets loose in the stomach poisonous gases which Irritate the great pneumogastric nerve that leads directly from the brain to the stomach. That irritation causes heartburn, dizziness, nightsweats, nervousness, and other ailments. MI-O-NA is guaranteed to end all stomach misery, or money back. 50 cents at Leo H. Fihe and druggists everywhere. Amusements THEATRICAL CALENDAR. At The Murray Vaudeville afternoon and night. The Coliseum. May 23rd and 24th Richmond May Music Festival. Murray, The Daffydill Girls, at the Murray this week are one of the best miniature musical comedies that could be found. Harry Steppe, the Jew comedian is a comedian of great ability and has a bunch of new stuff which he can put over in great shape. There are nine people in the cast, three men and six very handsome young ladies. Spe cial scenery is carried for the produc tlon and a number of magnificent gowns are displayed. The song numbers are catchy and well rendered while the dancing of these people is far above the average seen in a larger J production. This is one of the best shows that could be had and one can not afford to miss it. Beginning Monday and continuing throughout the week of the 13th by special arrangement with the Keith Circuit Manager Murray has secured the famous water nymph "Odiva." t ycur stomach's wrong, have indigestion; don't relish food; appetite gone; bowels not regular; liver torpid; kidneys bad; brain dull, can't sleep; all out-of-sorts, you need Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea once a week; that's all. 35c, Tea or Tabs. A. (J. Luken and Co. First Daily Paper. Germany holds tbe record for the first daily newspaper. It was printed In 1524. A Grand Birthday Cake fine to look at Light, wholesome and delicious good for children if made with Rumford. All cakes are more wholesome more delicious more economical by using 1-
What Some Women Pay For Aigrets. Many t women object to the wearing of aigrets on account of the cruelty entailed in their production, but there are other mondaines who not only give fabulous prices for these adorn-
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ANIMALS' TOILETS, i Fur Seals Are as Particular as Women In Fixing Up. The cat carries ber clothesbnxsh in her mouth, for with her rough tongue she cleanses her glossy coat as a boy brushes off his clothes. She licks one of her front paws and rubs It over her face and she is ready for her breakfast. Foxes, dogs and wolves do not use their months when they need to wash and brush, but scratch themselves vigorously with their hind paws and are as fresh as ever. Th cow with her long, rough tongue combs ber coat of hair until It is clean and curly. The horse more than any other animal depends on his owner to keep his coat in proper condition, but often he will roll on the green grass or rub himself down against a tree or fence. Field mice comb their hair with their hind legs, and the fur seal In a similar manner spends as much time as a woman in making herself look smart. Although the elephant appears to be thick skinned and callous, he takes great care of his skin. He often gives himself a shower bath by "drawing water' into his long truuk and blowing it on the different parts of his body. After the bath he sometimes rolls himself in a toilet preparation of dust to keep off the flies. Our Dumb Anlmale.
Practiced, but Not Perfect. Jack I'll be frank with you. You are not the first girl I've kissed by any means. Mand And 111 be equally frank with you. You have a great deal to learn, even at that. Boston Transcript. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Dr. Johnson. 1st thi Original tad Gtnubt HO RUCK'S MALTED f.llLIt Tha Food-drink far AH Aras. r or inrants, invalids, ana vrowmg children. PureNutribon, upbuilding the whole body. Invigorates the nursin g mother and the aged. Rich millc, malted grain, in powder form. A quick lunch prepared in a misnte. Take no lubstirnte. Atkfer HORLICXS. Not in Any r.Wlz trust I ALFRED PEATS l l PRIZE WALL PAPER A complete line. 4 cents up. A card brings me. Utility Wall a Board. Write for prices. x. C. E. STEMPEL : PAPER HANGER Phone 5129-1. R. 1- X BEST at Lower Prices Than Ever. 71
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