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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TEXEGKAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1913.

CHAPIN FINE

LAST NIGHT Originator of Stage Impersonations of Great President, Gives a Realistic Presentation. (Continued from Page One.) a tragic spectre on the outer confines iof his personality. And, above all, of his absolute 'simplicity. Mr. Chapin's Impersonation, was in fact, an extraordinary one. A sort of merging of personality which is the ideal of dramatic art and which is seldom seen. I Mr. Chapin is, in short, a fine actor. ' Gabriel Pguire. , ' Gabriel Maeulre in an entertaining lecture on "An Irishman in Africa," yesterday afternoon gave an interesting exposition of the character, habits and customs of certain African tribes of the interior with whom he came in contact In his role jot explorer and missionary. Not the least absorbing part of his ' VAilia 1 wo a it-a 411 narro rry nri tl a IJWSM T VLB IIO 111UOU IE. l n ItU XV Section made up of a variety of ob jects mciuaing some nanasome snaae sklnsvwhich he stated were the trophfles of his own chase. Magulre not only gave out some valuable informa tion, but showed himself possessed of that humour for which his nation is noted. The lecture, was altogether, one of the best of the Chautauqua series. Notes. The appearance of the Dunbars last evening elicited an ovation from the audience the larger part of which re membered these entertainers who were here several years ago with great pleasure. The Dunbars have one of the best jknown male quartettes in the country and are known on the lyceum and I Chautauqua platform from one ocean to another. Their long association (has enabled them to perfect their enjeemble effects and in "the legit," as iwell as in their comedy presentations, fthey are much better than good. In connection with the appearance Iof John Mitchell, on Wednesday evening, it might be interesting to state ithat, In 1903, an Earlham student, Inow resident here, represented that college in the state oratorical contest ;and won second place with his oration on "John Mitchell." The injustice of barring the Earlfham man from first place was manifest iand admitted since he lost it by just two points, these being made by a prejudiced judge on the examination of manuscript, the judge who made the objection being a professor from the .Northwestern University who was opjposed to union (labor and who had stated publicly, a short time previous to the holding of the contest, that a laboring man could live on $1.25 a day land save money. ,' The Earlham man, later, received a Setter of thanks and commendation (from John Mitchell. 'That the latter remembered' the Iniddent for the nine intervening years was shown when he eached this city tfor he inquired about the young man land, finding he was still a resident there, drove down to call on him. Upon being interrogated by a repreSentative of this paper as to whether e would, in the coming election, supjport Roosevelt and the Progressives, tas rumoured he will do, Mitchell diplomatically stated that he neved mixed politics with his Chautauqua, leehires. "Then you don't deny it?" inquired the reporter. i "I don't deny anything," said Mitchell."" 'A statement was made by the platIform manager on Thursday evening to the effect that the papers had said that evening that there was a panic In the audience the evening previous B.t the time of the storm. ' So far as this paper is concerned jthat statement was erroneous. i In large headlines' on the front page the Palladium said "Large Chautauqua Crowd Keeps Calm." ' This is only referred to because the public is constantly accusing the press of inaccuracy. When the truth is that not one person out of two reads the papers as they're printed. The excellent platform manager, for iwhom the writer has the highest esteem, evidently saw double on Thursday evening. ) The Medioine of Generosity. Generosity has wonderful power In rearing trouble which by any other ' m , . rr. - sneaus wouiu eeeui mcuraoie. inc ctory I told of a poor blind woman In Paris who put 27 francs on the plate at a missionary meeting. A friend remonstrated. "You cannot afford so roach out of your small earnings." I "Ob, yes, I can," she answered; -Tyo figured it ont and know just what I can afford to give." When sked ' to explain she said: "I am ,1Und, and I said to my fellow straw workers, 'How much money do you peud in a year-for oil in your lamps when It la too dark to work at nights? They replied. Twenty-seven francs.' fto," said the poor woman. I found Chat I saved much In the year because I am blind and do not need a lamp, and I give It to send light to the dark heathen lands." Christian Herkld. V

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NOT -QUIT BUSINESS POTTSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 29. Because he Btill feels young, although he will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of his birth next month, it is announced that President George Baer, of the Reading Railroad and erstwhile fighter of any and all railroad or coal mine strikes within his jurisdiction, will not resign on his birthday. It is also stated that he will not think of retiring as long as he feels as good as he does at the present time. Sporting Gossip Next week will see the closing games' of a large number of minor leagues, and more than one club owner will feel "tickled to death" to see the curtain drop on the season of 1912. While the major league clubs will close the season with a profit, the little fellows in a majority of cases, have lost money. More "blow-ups" and changes in circuits have taken place this season than In any previous year of organized baseball. The following shows many changes in the minor leagues since the opening of the season last spring: Tri-State league Altoona team transferred to Reading; Lancaster team transferred to Atlantic City; Johnston team transferred to Chester. Ohio Interstate League Disbanded. Ohio and Pennsylvania League Disbanded. Connecticut League New Britain team transferred to Waterbury. Virginia League Lynchburg and Danville dropped from circuit. New York-Connecticut League Disbanded. Oklahoma State League Disbanded. Washington State League Disbanded. Texas-Oklahoma League Greenville and McKinney dropped from circuit. Southeastern League Disbanded. United States League Disbanded. Blue Grass League Winchester tetm transferred to Mt. Sterling. Minnesota-Wisconsin League Disbanded. Mountain States League Disbanded. Ohio State League Marion team transferred to Ironton. Southern Michigan League Saginaw and Bay City dropped from circuit. South Central League Cleburne and Tyler dropped from circuit. Cotton States League New Orleans team transferred to Yazoo City; Hattiesburg team transferred to Columbus; Meridian, Vicksburg and Yazoo city dropped from circuit. When Beals Becker, of the Giants, takes his place in the field New York fans cry, "Hello, Lieutenant, how's the Tombs?" "Lurid" Lew Richie, the Giant Miller, says he finds it harder to beat the Boston Braves than he does McGraw's New Yorkers. It is said that Hoblitzel and Mitchell of the Cincinnati Reds, hope to be traded to the Boston Braves. That's a horrible wish. The pennant winning teams of the Kitty Blue Grass League will meet In a series of championship games at Louisville, Ky.. beginning Sept. 5. Pitcher Meldon Wolfgang, who had a trial with the St. Louis Browns last Fall, Is doing great work for the Lowell team of the New England League. Ad Brennan. of the. Quakers, who has been ill with diphtheria, is out of the hospital, but will not be able to get back into the game this season. Evidently a change of Sox was all that Pitcher Eddie Cicotte needed. "Knuckles" has been burning up the American League since he was shifted from the Boston Red Sox to the Chicago White Sox. The prison team at the Ohio penitentiary has asked for a game with the Indianapolis team. Indianapolis fans say the Indians might as well be playing in the penitentiary ass in the American Association. Manager Griffith, of the Senators, used pitcher Walter Johnson and catcher Alva Williams as pinch hitters Very few battery men can produce the winning wallop af often as these two Washington boys. A Little One. Figg Talk about your green servant girls. My wife told ours to put a little nutmeg in the custard she was making this afternoon. Fog?- And fiid 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 "aristosw (best) and "archo" (rule), meaning the rule of the best literally aristocrat means the ."best man." God hath yoked to Guilt her pals tormentor. Misery. Bryant

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And, Huddled Like Sheep in the Shambles, Are Ordered to "Move On" by Street Car Officials When There Is No More Room.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Our temperamental street-cars! Again are we the victims of their inexplicable caprices. No lady coquetting with her lover ever gave him half the bad hours our truly celebrated system has given those Chautauqua bent within the past ten days. In instance, when the majority of the people who use the cars come out the Main street entrance, why confine the appearances of the municipal chariots at that egress to the half hours? Why not run 'em at least fifteen minutes and, for a brief space, every seven minutes. People want to make trains and inexorable meals and other things. But no matter what or when or how, no car hoves to save every half hour. Don't kick, you say, there is the belt. Who can fathom, however, the weird schedules of that car's erratic procedure. For sometimes it goes east. And sometimes west and then again not at all. Frequently or at least now and then it lays off a day for repairs or the rest cure. No questions are asked and if they are, no explanations given. An irate tenter informed the writer yesterday morning, after boarding the car at Tenth and Main streets, that she had stood on that corner for half and hour and no car, of any complexion, had passed. Not a Glen Park, nor yet a Fairview, nor still the famous Belt nor an Earlham nor even an Easthaven. "Easthaven cars never pass the Tenth street corner," some-one says. Well, maybe not. But nonetheless none of the others did for an interval of half an hour yesterday morning, according to the lady in question. And there can be no doubt of the integrity of her word. "Explain it!" she commanded. "Far be it from me," said the writer apologetically, "to explain anything. Especially our street-car system." It is a fact, however, that many and strange are its recent manifestations. In instance, a closed car diddered down the incline toward the Main street entrance the other evening, halted and halted for an appreciable interval. It was soon filled with people who supposed it was going back down town. Instead it sped gracefully to the switch east of town and there tarried for a space. Returning, the conductor came round to collect a second fare. "We have already paid," murmured sundry of the passengers. "You'll have to pay again as I explained when you got on," said the conduct severely. Several persons expressed their willingness to comply with the terms of this hold-up, but distinctly stated that they had heard no such ultimatum from this inexorable afficial. If he said it, in short, nobody heard him at that end of the car. The administration of law on a basis of common sense is what the public is asking. Also the administration of public utilities. Now the sensible thing to have done, according to the notion of the public would have been to have had one or two extra cars at the Chautauqua entrance most frequented at a time when the street-car company could have easily ascertained the Chautauqua closed, and then the regular car that happens along each half hour and goes on fo Moorman's switch' could have picked up whoever might come within the sphere of its operations. Neither does the public think it chould adopt that metropolitan system which gives the passenger no time to alight but starts up before he, or she, can get off. Their progress toward this end being impeded by the crowded aisles and platform. This has happened a time or two of late. An evening this week, in instance, when two women started to get off at Fifteenth street, one of them falling and sustaining painful injuries although not serious In he effort to leave the car after it was moving. The bell had been rung for the stop. The conductor of the car stated that the reason for the start, before the women had an opportunity to get off. was the ringing of the bell by passengers. "Do you mean to say," said the inquiring one, "that passengers are in the habit of ringing bells for the pur pose of starting the car?" "I do," said the conductor. "And was that the cause of this ac cident?" "It was." The audience was completely flabbergasted. But, after all, you can't blame the conductor and the motorman. It's the man "higher up." But the man higher up rarely gets the blame. He is Immured in the fastnesses of his mahog any furnished apartments in some sky scraper far away. Time should be given every passenger to alight after the car has stopped. And there should be a system like Kotch COLLAR CI . Pwbody St Cm Troy. N. Y.

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that current in certain continental cities. That of providing a seat for every person who gets on the car. And when the seating capacity is exhausted ruling out further entrances. The way the American people have of tamely submitting to the "move on up there," of the conductor of the street car makes us a laughing stock. For in this "land of the free and home of the brave" there exists a system of public bull-dozing which would not be tolerated in like circumstances in a monarch-ridden land. The officials of public utilities are, as a class, the most insulting, domineering and autocratic found in any country. JuBt because you pay five cents, for example, to ride on their miserable cars and thus enrich the coffers of those private interests which own the public utilities of this country is no reason why you should be treated like a lot of convicts lock-stepping to the dining-room. When the public demands a seat in return for the price paid for one, then will Ute street-cars of this country be what they are intended. Comfortable transportation for civic purposes. And just as long as the public doesn't demand this will it be ordered to "move on up there," while we are crowded like 6heep in the shambles.

LEAGUE HITS THE REEF K. I. O. League Probably Will Disband Next Week. The New Castle ball team, playing under the name of the Cambridge City Grays, will meet the K. I. O. leaguers of this city at the Atheltic park to morrow afternoon. The Middletown game was canceled by the management of the southerners, who broke up and withdrew from the league. Games have not been paying ventures for the Ohio team recently. Monday afternoon at the regular time, a second game will be played between the Grays and the local team. The K. I. O. league is on its last legs. A meeting will be called for the middle of the week, at which the heads of the four teams now playing, Richmond, the All-Kentuckians, Miamisburg and Hamilton will discuss ways and means. It is p robable that this will be the signal for disbanding the league. But a few games are scheduled to be played this season, and it is agreeable to the locals to play out the remainder of the season. It is understood that the remainder of the teams are not in such condition. The lineup of the two teams playing tomorrow follows: Cambridge City Grays Steele 2b, Carlin 3b, Anderson ss, Gravis rf, Clark c, Dorn If, Uhl lb, Clancy cf, Battson or Hays p. Richmond Feldhaus rf, Smith cf, Stupp ss, Betts or Vordenberg p, Steins 3b, Turner rf, Powell lb, Martin 2b, Boll c. Game at 3 o'clock. What Gold Beatefs Can Do. Gold beaters by hammering can reduce gold leaves so thin that 282,000 must be laid upon each other to produce the thickness of an inch, yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of them laid upon any surface, as In gilding, gives the appearance of solid gold. They are so thin that if formed into a book 1,500 would only occupy the space of a single leaf of common paper, and an-octavo volume of an inch thick would have as many pages as the books of a well stocked library of 1,500 volumes with 200 pages la each. The Wrong Market Mrs. Newlywed Have you any nice Slumps this morning? ButcherSlumps? What are they? Mrs. Newlywed Indeed, I don't know, but my husband Is always talking about a slump in the market and I thought I should like to try some. Philadelphia Record. Plenty. Wife But we we shall not begin oar married life with a secret, shall' we. dearest? "No, darling," he murmured; "there's plenty of time."

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GIVES HIS SIDE . OF CONTROVERSY A. H. Rodefeld, owner of a factory at 96 West Main street has submitted the following statement regarding the controversy with the board of works: Editor of Palladium: Dear Sir: In . Ia6t evening's paper an article appeared concerning building operations which I have started on my property on West Main street, giving the impression that I was attempting to encroach on public property. The following are the true facts concerning this case and which I ask you to publish, as I do not want the impression to exist that there was anything dishonest as inferred in the article, which I consider very unfair. On September 1, 1908, Mr. Charles, city engineer, at my request, laid out my lot lines. He placed iron stakes showing the corners of the lot and also gave me a drawing with a statement signed by himself stating that the lot measurements were correct Wednesday, August 28. the contractor and myself laid out a line for a foundation. This line - was placed three and one-half inches inside the line laid out by the city engineer. Digging was started Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon City Attorney Gardner ordered the digging stopped, and said we were on public' property. We informed him that we were according to the city engineer's figures, and he replied, saying that the engineer had

made a mistake. We then telephoned the city engineer telling him what Mr. Gardner had said and asked him to come and measure the lot again. He did so and stated that the ditch being dug was inside my property, according to the city map. Friday morning the board of public works, city engineer and city attorney investigated the matter and the city attorney then ordered me to stay five feet inside the line laid out by the city engineer. I have a deed showing that I purchased this property and cannot understand how it can be public property when the deed, city may and city engineer's figures show it belongs to me. Respectfully, A. H. RODEFELD. COURT NEWS Complaint on note was filed In the Wayne circuit court by the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company versus George M. Guyer, the demand being $700. Coroner Pierce has filed his verdict in the death of Frieda Gingrich, with the county clerk. Death took place at Milton, August 27. According to the coroner's verdict death was due to natural causes. Thirty applicants for teachers' licenses, both in the common and high schools of the county, took the examination at the county superintendent's office this morning. This was the regular monthly examination. Apparent Contradiction. Editor In your report of the fire you refer to the chief as "our Invincible old fire fighter." Reporter Yea, sir. Editor And yet In your next paragraph you say that he was "licked by the flames." Folger P. Wilson Henry J. Pohlmeyer Harry C. Downing Harvey T. Wilson FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone 1335. 15 N. 10th St Automobiles, Coaches, and Ambu-lanccCService.

DAY MGHT RICHMOND COLISEUM, 8:15 Knockout Eddie Webber vs. Young Donnelly 10 ROUNDS Harry Bnrgman vs. Buck Daly 10 Rounds Good Preliminaries Popular Prices Ladies FreeBaseball, Sunday and Labor Day, Athletic Park. Cambridge City Grays vs. Richmond. Game called at 3 o'clock. Admission 25 Cents.

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WASHINGTON. D. O. Aug. 3L Like the three-ring circus, there promises to be something doing every minute in the field of politics the coming week. Colonel Roosevelt will leave New York bright and early Monday morning for a speechmaking tour that will extend as far as the Pacific coast and carry him into more than half the States of the Union. After a short detour Into New England, where he is scheduled for two Labor Day addresses, he will strike out for the West. Tuesday he Is to speak at the Missouri third party convention In St. Louis. Wednesday will be devoted to a swing through Iowa, with speeches In Keokuk. Oskaloosa. Ottumwa. De Moines and other cities. St. Paul and Minnea polis will have the third-party standard-bearer on Tuesday, and the remainder of the week will be divided between the Dakotas and Montana. Governor Woodrow Wilson will make his first speech In New York city on Wednesday, when he attends a dollar dinner of the Workinmen's Woodrow Wilson Club. Vermont's State election, the first of the year, will be held Tuesday. Republican, Democratic and Progressive tickets are in the field. Congressmen as well as state officers are to be elected so the national significance will be apparent in the returns, at least to those who still hold to the old tradition that the result of the September state elections Indicates the way the general elections will go In the following November. Governor Johnson of California. vice presidential nominee of the Pro gressive party,' will open his speechmaking campaign at Syracuse, N. Y., on Thursday, when he will address the delegates to the State convention of the Progressive party. Direct p rimary elections are to be held in California Tuesday for the selection of candidates for superior court judges, members of the legislature and representatives in Congress. Other events on the political calendar of the week will Include the Michigan State Democratic convention at Grand Rapids, for the completion of a state ticket ; the Montana State Republican convention at Great Falls, to select a complete state ticket, presidential electors and candidates for United States senators and representatives In Congress; Democratic primaries in Louisiana to select candidates for supreme court judges and representatives in Congress; primaries of all parties in New Hampshire for the selec

Cambridge City Grays play Madison team at Columbus, Ind next Sunday, Sept. 1st, and Labor Day, Sept. 2nd. This is the Real Cambridge City Gray Team and Not the Counterfeit Team Out of New Castle.

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tion of candidates for state officers and representatives in Congress; prima-'-ries in Nevada to nominate candidates for State officers and representative in Congress, and State conventions of the. new Progressive party In Missouri. North Carolina. Iowa, North" Dakota' end several other states. At a special election Tuesday, the voters of Ohio will pass judgment on' the forty-two proposed amendments to the State constitution formulated by; the constitutional convention held last spring. The list embodies nearly all of the measures of reform now In the public eye. Including woman suffrage, the Initiative, referendum and recall, direct primaries, the extension of the civil service to all appointive State positions, regulation of the Issue and' sale of corporation stock, ths taxation of incomes, inheritances and franchises, the adoption of the Torrensi s6tem of land transfer, the abolition of capital punishment the reform of court procedure and the strict regulation of the liquor traffic. With Justice John W. Goff presiding, an extraordinary term of the supreme court is to convene In New York city Tuesday "for a speedy and vigorous prosecution of indictments which may be found" as a result of the Rosenthal murder investigation. The Duke of Connaught the Governor-General, will cover the first section of the extensive Itinerary mapped out for his travels over the Canadian west He will be entertained In Edmonton the first of the week and from there will proceed to Calgary to attend the great "Stampede" celebration and carnival in that city. Conventions of the week will be numerous and of an Important character. Among them will be the eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, in Washington. D. C: the annual conference of the International AntlSaloon League Superintendents, In Toronto; the twenty-sixth snnual meeting of the United Typothetae of America, in Chicago; the Dominion Forestry convention, in Victoria. B. C; the fifth annual convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association In New London, Conn and the annual session of the British Assoclstlon for the Advancement of Science, In Dundee, Scotland. T was cured of diarrhoea by one dose of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy." writes M. E. Gebhardt Oriole. Pa. There is nothing better. For sale by all dealers. gpt I. O. LEAGUE of Four Games

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