Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 19, 2 December 1912 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND FJXLADIU3I AXD SUN-TELEGRA11.3IONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1912.

AORJANOPLE AGAIN . REPORTED FALLEN Unconfirmed Report Says Flames Forced Out the Turkish Defenders.

ALLIES MAY DISAGREE

Over the Peace Terms, It Is Reported. No Hope for an Early Peace.

National News Association) PARIS, Dec. 2. Adrianople is again reported to have been surrendered by the Turks in a dispatch from Constanza, printed in the Echo today. This message stated that the flames in the beleaguered city had made such headway that the defenders were driven out. The report has not been officially confirmed. ARE MARKING TIME. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 2. With the representatives of the governments of the Balkan league marking time today while awaiting Greece's signature to the armistice which is expected to lead eventually to peace, thero were strong indications of a split among the allies. It is learned from a private source that Greece has protested against concessions to Turkey because of the overwhelming defeat of the Turks throughout Europs save at Scutari, Adrianople and Chatalja. Nearly all of Turkey In Europe west of Adria nople has been swept clear of Turkish opposition. The Turks seem highly pleased with the diplomatic victory they have apparently secured. Foreign minister Gabriel Effendi Noradoughian has informed foreign diplomatic circles that Turkey sees no hope for an early peace. The war office denied the report that Adrianople had fallen because the flames had driven the defenders from the garrison. It was said that last reports from Adrianople made the situation out there as "satisfactory." The loss of Adrianople at this stage would prove a disaster to Turkey for the demands of the Ottoman peace plenipotentiaries from the allies during the negotiations were based largely upon the inability of the Bulgarian army to capture Adrianople and Chatalja. "By the retention of Adrianople even unfortified, Turkey would yet possess the basis for territorial claims, the Ottoman government would otherwise be forced to relinquish. Turkey's insistent demand that onearmistice condition should allow the victualling of besieged cities was inspired by the fervid ambition to hold Adrianople. " This was another sore spot with Greece. The Greek government made protests against allowing the passage of provisions in the beleaguered cities and declared that if the allies were cooped up In any city the terms would be equal while under present conditions only the Turks are benefited.

A . T. Patrick and His Loyal Wife

TOO MANY TREES Hollarn Thinks Many Should Be Transplanted.

There are over 1,000 trees in Glen Miller park which should be transplanted and used to a good advantage, according to Ed Hollarn, superintend ent of the parks. All kinds of trees are now growing in the park forest. The trees are valued at fifty cents a piece. Some of the hard maple trees are being transplanted and placed along the Main street side. ' Many of the ash trees are being planted in Starr park. A number of trees which were planted there last year have died because of the gas that issued from the regulator located near there. The regulator has been removed and it is expected that the trees will thrive there now.

' Walking Cartas. From the time when man wandered through the pathless forests bearing on his shoulder a murderous bludgeon with which to strike down bis enemies the cane has never entirely gone out of fashion. The modern exquisite would feel as much at sea without It as did the beau of whom Steele's Tatier spoke in 1709, when it said that the cane had "become as indispensable as any other of his limbs and that with the knocking of It upon his shoe. Jeaning one leg upon It or whistling upon with his mouth he does not know how he should be good company without it" It may bo flattering to the vanity of such a one to know that the grotesque and arabesque beads that he delights in displaying on his walking stick are lineal descendants of the carred baton that the fools and jesters of the middle ages wielded.

A Chaarful Raaaon. A French governor of the south Pacific colony of New Caledonia assumed . his authority while the natiTes of New Caledonia were still cannibals. There had been rumors of an Insurrection, and the admiral called before hi in a native chief, who was faithful to the French cause, and questioned him as to their truth. "You may b sure," said the native, "that there will be no war at present, because the yams are yet far from being ripe." "The yams, yon say?" "Yea. Our people never make war accept when the yams are ripe." Wny tbtr "Becaae baked yams go co very weJJ with the captives.'

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Albert T. Patrick, who, after serving ten years of a sentence which was commuted from death to life imprisonment, was pardoned on Thanksgiving Day by Governor Dix of New York. Patrick was convicted of the murder of his eccentric old client, William Marsh Rice. Rice's valet turned state's evidence and testified that under Patrick's direction he gave the old millionaire the dose of morphine which caused his death. After he was convicted, and while he was waiting In the New York Tombs to be sent to the death house in Sing Sing, Patrick was married in the Tombs to Mrs. Addie M. Francis, to whom he was engaged and who insisted that the ceremony be performed. Since then she has been spending her whole time in working for the release which came Thanksgiving Day. The couple will reside in St. Louis with John T. Miliken, Patrick's brother-in-law.

CAPACITY OF PLANT TO BE INCREASED An Outlay of $70,000 Will Be Needed to Make the Necessary Changes.

Plans and specifications for an addition to the municipal light plant will be drawn immediately by City Engineer Charles and Superintendent Johnson. The addition will be a large building and will include a new coal shed. When the new building is completed the plant will be large enough to Install such machinery as will be necessary eventually to take care of the entire lighting of the city. A new power addition and new boilers will be installed. The total expense of the extension will be 'approximately $70,000. The cash on hand for this purpose is $42,000, but by June, according to Mr. Johnson, the required amount will be raised. The work is to begin next spring. The members of the board of works were very much pleased at the prospect of increasing the capacity of the plant, which they consider one of the most valuable assets of the city. President Kennepohl said he was a member of the administration when the light plant was built and was glad he had the honor of assenting to the construction of the addition. Other Recommendations. Superintendent Johnson also recommended that the house wire inspector be considered a city office holder rather than an employe of the plant. The management experiences trouble because he is considered an employe of

the light plant. Whenever he condemns a house where the wiring is not up to standard the owners change to the other light company and the city loses business. A clause will be placed in the building code to relieve the light plant from all responsibility. An employe of the plant will be instructed how to test all kinds of meters by S. A. Sullivan of the Schnectady Electric company. All meters will be tested by the employe. According to the superintendent the city is losing money because the meters are not regulated properly.

PRICE OF VEAL STILL INCREASES The price of veal will soar still higher, according to Dairy Inspector Flook. Calves are scarce throughout the country this year and butchers are now paying $9 per hundred live weight for them. Many packing houses are shipping them east which shows that the price east Is higher there than that in this section, according to FloOk, who said the animals refuse to eat during the transportation and lose considerably in weight.

IS GIVEN A DIVORCE Osa Hartzler Secured a Decree in Circuit Court.

PRISONERS PLEASED

PROMISED SUPPORT

The Ministerial association this morning in the solicitation of Timothy Nicholson . promised to lend its support "to the Civic union project which is being agitated here. Mr. Nicholson said he did not want the cooperation of the association as much as he wanted an expression that the members will support the movement.

Osa Hartzler was granted a divorce from Benjamin Hartzler in the Wayne circuit court this morning on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant choked her on the night of November 12 because she had refused to draw money out of the bank, which she had earned by singing in a local moving picture theater, and to give to him. The defendant, she said, desired the money for the purpose of leaving the city. Judge Fox called the defendant to the stand and asked him if the allegations made by the plaintiff were true. The defendant gave an affirmative answer.

Interesting and instructive was ihe address delivered by the Rev. Truman C. Kenworthy of the East Main Street Friends church before the prisoners confined at the county jail yesterday afternoon. There are now twenty-five men in the jail.

A MORNING PRAYER. The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and dunes. Help us to pla the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry, give us to go blithely on our way all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. Amen. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Animal Ink. Along the rocky shores of New Eng land is much indelible ink. It Is better than any that can be bought a beautlfnl crimson in color and when applied to fabrics absolutely unchangeable. This ink is contained in HttU bottles put op by Nature herself, the receptacles in question being certain whelks, or sea snails, of the species known to science as Purpura laplllus If the shell of one of these whelks be brokeu there will be found just under the skin of the back a slender whitish vein containing a yellow Uquor. The latter when applied to linen with a small brush and exposed to the sun turns first green, then blue, then purple and finally a brilliant crimson. Nothing will wash It out.

The Crested Rat. The crested rat of East Africa is remarkable, first. because of the great length of the black and white hair down the ridge of the hack, which are rendered the more conspicuous In-caus. the hairs along the sides of the bdv are so short and so differently colored, being brownish gray aud looking for all the world as if some one bad taken a pair of scissors and maliciously shoni off the decorative hair, leaving only a dull underfur; secondly, it Is rerun rkable because the skull has a roofing or bones exactly resembling that of souuturtles, while, furthermore, this rr has a granulated appearance recalling that prewnted by the skulls of certain fishes. In its habits It appears to be arboreal, while from the structure of Its teeth It would appear to be at least partly insectivorous.

! Valid Excuaa. Our schoolteachers need no comic papers. Funny enough things come their way In the shape of letters from the

(arruis ui uirir ('upus, as witness me following received by a teacher! ltespected Miss Please excuse YTlllle for absence. lie has fell downstairs, and we fee red his Internal tns'.des was hurt at first, but they ain't The doctor says that no part of anattomy was hurt but the brewelng of the epydermic of the outside hide sad also his hipp hurt some. But be narrowly escarped fatal death. So kindly excuse." Beaton Transcript.

WEATHER RECORD

The weather record .of last week, furnished by the co-operative observer in the climatologieal service of the weather bureau follows: Sunday, highest 36, lowest 27; Monday, 36 and 25; Tuesday, 39 and 29; Wednesday, 37 and 22; Thursday, 35 and 15; Friday, 44 and 28; Saturday, 30 and 18.

THE PHONOGRAPH.

Its Invention Was the Result of a Cert on the Finger. An accident a cut on the fingercaused Edison to invent the phonograph or talking machine. Mr. Edison told the story of this invention to a reporter. At the time, he said, he was singing into a telephone, and in the telephone's mouthpiece he had placed, for safe keeping, a fine steel point. Suddenly this point cut his fiuger. Fie found, to his surprise, that it had been moving here and there and roundabout, guided by the vibrations of his voice. He placed a strip of yellow paper under the steel point, replaced It in the mouthpiece and said the alphabet. The steel while he spoke ran over the paper, and for each letter of the alphabet it made a different mark or scratch. This was what Mr. Edison had hopod for. He now held the. steel point still and drew the paper scratches slowly over it. There was given forth, very faintly, the alphabet as he had repeated it. Thus the principle of the phonograph the registering and the reproduction of the voice's vibrations was discovered through the cutting of a finger. It was Edison's finger, though, that was cut. Smith's or Brown's might have been quite hacked off and no phonograph would have resulted.

DINNER WAS SUCCESS

(Palladium Special) HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Dec. 2. The receipts of the Thanksgiving dinner and supper given by the West Lawn Cemetery association totaled $155.75, including donations of money. Four hundred and sixty dinners were served and three hundred and twenty suppers.

STARTLED THE VISITOR.

ARTIFICE OF AN ARTIST.

The Secret of the Color In One of Turner's Pictures. The late Mr. Uorsley, R. A., has recorded that at oue time he studied almost daily one of Turner's finest water colors, called "The Snowdon Range." admiring especially the tender warmth of the light clouds encircling the moon. He tried all sorts of glasses to see if he could discover how the particular glow was gained, but without success. Chance revealed the secret. The picture began to buckle from its mount, and its owner. Sir Seymour Haden, put it into the hands of a noted expert to be remounted. When be had successfully removed it from its old mount the expert sent for the owner to show him what he had discovered. A circle of orange vermilion had been plastered on the back with an ivory palette knife where the artist wanted the effect and then worked off sufficiently far through the pores of the previously wetted paper to give the show of color, while re taining the smooth surface, without a trnce of workmanship on the right side. This may have led Mr. Horsley himself to use, as he did, brilliant orange as the foundation for a white muslin dress.

A Joke an English Lord Played on an American Woman, Lord Rossmore once startled an American lady, a Mrs. Ronalds, whom he encountered at the residence of bis sister, Mrs. Candy, in the aristocratic Park lane of London. He relates the Incident in "Things I Can Tell:" She knew my sister, who called hei Fanny, and as I thought Fanny was very pretty name I said to her: "I think 111 call you Fanny too." Mrs. Ronalds hadn't the least idea who I was, and she said, half laughingly: "Well, I declare; I never saw such a person !" Just then I caught sight of the reflection In a mirror of my other 6ister, Mrs. Stirling, who was about to enter the room. "I'll do more than call you Fanny," I continued; "I'll kiss the next woman who comes in." Mrs. Ronalds looked perfectly horrified. "Ton won't!" she gasped. "Won't I? Just see!" With this I wheeled round, and, catching Nora in my arms, I gave her a kiss. I believe Mrs. Ronalds must have thought that her hostess was entertaining a madman unawares, but when the relationship of Mrs. Stirling and myself was explained she enjoyed the joke as much as any one.

Couldn't See Them. Joke Seller Did you receive my letter and that batch of jokes? Editor 1 received the letter, but I didn't see tie jokes. Satire.

Pipe Sets Meerschaum Pipes Briar Pipes Calabash Pipes Bakelite Pipes Perry Pipes Turkish Pipes and almost any other kind of pipe you might desire. ED. A. FELTMAN Cigar Store 609 Main Street

HOW ABOUT 3LANKETS. PLUSH AND FUR ROBES, STORM FRONTS, RAIN COATS, SUIT CASES. We are showing a Blanket, 84x90, eight lbs. for $2.50. Don't go cold or let your horse freeze. Come right Into

Birck's Harness Store 509 Main Street

Never Can Happen Again. The Montenegrin, law which ordains that any found valuable shall be placed where the loser can find it reminds one of an anecdote told of Grimaldi's grandfather in Dickens life of the famous clown. On one of his visits to Leadenhall market with nearly 400 in gold and silver upon him "he found that his shoe had become unbuckled and, taking from his pocket the bag, he placed it upon a neighboring post and then proceeded to adjust his buckle." Having afterward to pay for a purchase, he missed his bag of gold and hurried back to the post where he had buckled his shoe. "Although more than three quarters of an hour had elapsed, there It remained, safe and untouched, on the top of a post In the open street!" That was in eighteenth century London. Could It happen now? London Chronicle.

Vntil ChristmaG

The Diamond and Watch Eouse

CHRISTMAS FUR OPENING Wednesday and Thursday, the opportune time for Christmas selections

A Good Opportunity To Select Your CHRISTMAS FURS FUR OPENING Wednesday A. Thursday

UNPRECEDENTED HOLIDAY FUR NEWS From Out Busiest Department We Are Glad to Announce that We Can Favor Our Customers with a Gramd Christmas Fm OpeiiiglSale Wednesday and Thursday Two IQayo Only

By one of the country's Greatest Furriers, giving all buyers and prospective fur buyers the opportunity of SELECTING and CHOOSING CHRISTMAS FURS FROM AN TJNSTJRPASSING FUR SHOWING coupled with our splendid stock, offers a remarkable chance for those wishing Fine Furs at a Christmas Saving. TWILL BE A PURCHASING OPPORTUNITY OF FINE FURS AND MODERATE PRICE FURS, QUITE OUT OF THE ORDINARY for Women, Misses and Little Tots, either Coats, Neck Pieces, or Muffs. COME! 'TWILL BE WORTH WHILE. This unusual Fur announcement, coming as it does at just the time when we are all thinking about Furs should crowd our Fur section with buyers both days. Twill Be a Memorable Event for Xmas Fur Buyers. Think of choosing from an assortment where most anything in Fur3 are shown. It will be a pleasure buying and selecting Furs, and SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS Are Promised on all Furs All Furs that can t be conveniently purchased now will be held to suit the purchaser's convenience by paying a small sum and thereby giving all the advantage of this great showing.

$10-oo COAT SELLING Begins Today Hundreds took advantage of this remarkable opportunity and crowded our garment section from opening until closing time. Mind you, buying Coats worth up to 125.00 -for $10.00. TOMORROW WE WILL CONTINUE this extraordinary selling and give choice cf any Novelty Coat in the store for $10.00. INVESTIGATE! Youl be disappointed If you don't take advantage of this remarkable coat selling.

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