Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 36, 21 December 1912 — Page 2

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LAST HONORS ARE PAID TO DIPLOMAT

England Gives Last Solemn Tribute to the Late Ambassador Reid.

SUES CJJ, ROAD Mrs. Shilts Asks $3,500 for the Death of Husband.

She Ownes a BdsebaA Club

(National News Association) PORTSMOUTH, Eng.. Dec. 21 Finland's final honors were paid here ! j to Whit daw Reid, late American ambassador to the Court of St. James They were largely military and naval and of such a character as are seldom accorded a foreign official. Amidst the thunder of a requiem salute the British cruiser Xatal sailed from Portsmouth harbor with the body of the dead diplomat on boad. This was the last chapter in a remarkable series of tributes which have been paid to the memory of the late ambassador since his death in London last Sunday. Solemn and imposing scenes attended the removal of the body from Dorchester house, London, to this city. With the coffin covered with a silken American flag, the body of the late diplomat was borne on a gun carriage through the streets of London from Dorchester House to Victoria station with a military escort composed of a detachment of the royal household cavalry and a battalion of the Scots Guards. Thousands of silent and reverent men and women lined the London Btreets through which the cortege gassed. Their quietness and orderliness gave the special details of police little todo. A salute of nineteen guns from a battery in St. James park marked the departure of the cortege from Dorchester House. Minute guns were fired as the Natal left the naval pier and all the other craft in the harbor flew the American ensign As the Natal passed out to sea the Victory, flagship of Admiral Nelson, fired nineteen guna as the final farewell of England to all that was mortal of Whitelaw Reid.

Elisha B. Shilts, administrator of the estate of the late Pearlie D. Shilts.

the bridge carpenter, who was killed j

on the C. & O. railroad tracks, south

i of this city November 25, filed suit for J damages against the Chesapeake and j Ohio railroad company of Indiana in the Wayne circuit court this afternoon. The amount demanded is $3,500. : The complaint alleges that the widow, Flossie A. Shilts and the minor child, ! Pearlie O. Shilts are without support. j Shilts was killed while riding on a handcar nenr the first bridge south of 'this ci'y. others on the handcar es- ! caped.

City Statistics

Marriage Licenses. George R. Johnson, 27, laborer, city, and Julia G. Wilt, 26, city. Roy Turner, 21, farmer, Centerville, and Avis C. Roberts, 18, music teacher, city. Howard Wettig, 21, plumber, city, and Olive M. Harter, 19, city. Deaths and Funerals. PARDIECK The funeral of John Henry Pardieck will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the St. Andrew's church. Burial in the St. Andrew's cemetery. Friends may call any time. The deceased was a member of the St. Joseph's society of the St. Andrew's church. COLLINS The funeral of Michael Collins will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock from the St. Andrew's church. Burial in St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call any time.

BURIED LIVING PERSONS.

Horrible Custom of Japanese Prior to Year 646 A. D. Prior to the year 646 A. D. the Japanese bad one of the most horrible burial customs that can be imagined that of burying all the immediate friends and retainers of a prince or other person of note In a standing position around the potentate's grare and leaving them in the earth up to their necks to perish of thirst and hunger. The custom cannot be said to hare been general as late as the date given, for the Japanese records prove that in the time of the Emperor Suinin (97-30 B. C.) the burial rites of royal personages were so modified as to partially abolish former cruelties. Speaking of a young brother of Suinin, who died and had his retinue burled standing around his grare, the old record says: Tor many days they died not, but wept and cried aloud. At last they died. Dogs and crows assembled and ate off their heads. The emperor's compassion was aroused, and he desired to change the manner of burial. When the empress died, soon after, the mikado inquired of his officers if something in the way of a change could not be suggested, and one proposed to make clay figures of men and" bury them as substitutes." That this did not entirely do away with the former custom is proved by an edict issued in the year 646 A. D., the date given first abore, which forbade the burial of liTing persons and provided a penalty for further adherence to the awful rite. -St. Louis Republic. Old Time Personally Conducted Tour. The campanile looked down upon the first agencies for conducted tours of which we have record. Five hundred years ago Venice controlled the pilgrim traffic to the Holy Land, and quite a number of firms made a good thing of it They had their offices in St. Mark's square, with all the apparatus of ad

vertisement hoardings, flags and commissionaires. The contract stipulated bow much space aboard a ship and what food each pilgrim was to get, and the agents undertook not merely to carry the pilgrim across the sea. but to conduct him personally to Jerusalem and to take over all negotiations with the oflkdals. For the whole Journey j

the charge was 25 to SO ducats, a third to be paid before starting, a third in I'aiestin- and a third after returning hum v-ii li.wtfr OiiHrdinn.

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NEW LODGE ROOMS USED LAST EVENING

In the n w lodge rooms of the Whitewater lodge of 'Odd Fellows, the first degree was conferred last evening upon three candidates, concluded by a reception to the member of the lodge. The new quarters are the finest rooms of any lodge in this city. Newregalia was used . last night. The meeting was one of the most successful ever held by the lodge. Over 200 members attended. A public meeting will be held in the new quarters sometime next month. This will give the public opportunity to see the new quarters and give them an idea of the work being done by the lodge. Several prominent speakers will probably address the meeting.

TO INSTALL OFFICERS

The installation of officers of the South Side Improvement company will take place at the regular meeting of the association next Friday evening. The officers to be Riled are those of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The twelve directors of the association were elected at the annual meeting held recently

Chinese Music. All Chinese music Is weird and screeching. They say their pleasure comes in exciting, not soothing, the nerves. They have flutes, horns, violins, mouth organs, guitars and table harps to be played with a loaded feather, which last make a delightful music akin to our mandolins. Every business house has its musical corps (just as we organize company baseball clubs), who in the evening are supposed to amuse the master, who lives on the story above the comprado's house. Seated on the counters which at night are also their beds, the fokis essay with a vengeance discords which are unquestionably disturbing to the occidental nerves, but for that reason the phlegmatic Chinese find them exhilarating J. S. Thompson's "The Chinese."

RED CROSS STAMPS

Christmas Seals Are Now on Sale in All the Stores in Town.

Red fross stamps can be found for sale all ovtr town, the drug stores.

, the dry goods ami furniture stores and cthrr business houses having them for the accommodation of their customers, j ! The sale of these stamps Is increas-1 ins every year and more enthusiasm is bting shown all over the country in i the.r disposal than ever before. Rich-. niord has had them for the past fivej i years and has always been generous j : :ih its response. They are easily pro- j i cured and make a package decorative In addition to contributing toward the fithf auaiust tuberculosis. i

AGENTS ANNOYING CITY'S HOUSEWIVES

A complaint was made to police headquarters this afternoon that agents were troubling residents of the city by boldly forcing their way into homes and trying to get pictures to enlarge. The agents secure pictures to enlarge at a small cost, and then deliver them in frames which they try to sell to the consumer.

Twenty-Fifth Annual Statement of tho Richmond Loan and Savings Association

"Mad," but He Knew It. FitzGerald, the author, was once walking down Church street. Woodbridge, in company with a friend on the way to the Deben to go aboard his yacht. The day was hot, and he walked bareheaded and barefooted, his shoes slung by their laces across his shoulders, his clothes untidy and ill fitting. At the four cross ways, where the postoffice now stands, was gathered a party of yokels, who made the strange figure the butt for coarse wit. "Ah. bor," exclaimed one In the sing

song Suffolk vernacular. " 'e's as mad i

as a hare in March." FitzGerald turned to his friend, having overheard the remark. "Yes," he said, "the fellow is right, but I'm sane enough to know that I'm mad." T. T.'s London Magazine.

MRS HELEN' HMITTON. "If ever a woman was left with a whit? rlrphant on her hand that woman was I, when I fell heir to the St. Louis Cardinals of ihe National league," uiil Mr. Helen Jlrltton, who has been attending- the niertlnjt of the National Flaitelm'.l 'canif. "Let ny woman dissatisfied with the drab reality of the home life and dn:netic surrounding, " she said, "just fall heir to a baseball tetun if she is looking; for 'an outside interest' 'a career.' "Well, all I have to say is that that is the last thing I would wish to happen to another of my sex. "It has been a t-errlble revelation into the difhonesty and meanness of some men. "In fart, before I became possessed of this 'white elephant. I thought everybody was kind and that good nature and honeMy was to lie found everywhere among men, but this has been an eye-opener. I have found to what degree of meanness men will go to take advantage of women. I hair found how little chivalry and loyalty there can be In some men. "I know there has been a good many stories going out on how I have handicapped the Cardinals by my personal interference that I have blocked deals. I lid not block them. Men who have been too cowardly to come out In the open and tell the truth when I have been accused are responsible. "I will say there was one deal and only one which I did block, and that was vhen Bresnahan tried to trade Hnggins to the Cincinnati team. I certainly did block mat, and I know everybody knows that I did right in the interest of the Cardinals In doing so," said the little Cleveland woman with flashing eye.

SEPTEMBER 18. 1912

RECEIPTS Cash on hand. Sept. 25. 1S11 $ 5.317.33 Hues 133,974.00 Interest 19.212.01 Fines 127. S') Pass Books 71.50 . Transfer Fees ............ 4.2. Kent ............. ... 2S5.00 Sheriffs Certificate repaid 71.27 Loans Repaid 67,461.65 Porrowed Money 13,000.00 Over in Cash ..................... ............. 7.51

DISBURSEMENTS

I 74.Ti2.00

Loans

Withdrawal Dividends paid In Cs2i Recorder's Fees Taxes ... Office Expense .......... Salaries . . .... .... Interest Paid ........

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9sa 13.000.00 L3i.6

$239,532 32 EXPENDITURES Recorder's Fees .$ 109 70 Taxes 118.23 Office Expense 770.77 Salaries 1.S93.00 Interest paid ....... .......... ................... 96.0S

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Fines . ... ..- . Pass Books Transfer Fee Rent ........ .....?..:

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$ 2.9S9.78 Net Clin 10.789.56

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$19,779.34

ASSETS Iiii .n .Voitgage ........ . .$327,623.55 Loans on Pass Books . ....... .............. ... 4.406.00 Lo -is Notes 2.047.UO Real EFtate , 6.000.00 Office Fixtures 375.00 Cash on hand 7.91666

LIABILITIES Amount Due Shareholders Amount Due 1b Dividends ...v.MMa Reserve Fund .........,.,,....... Reserve Fund (office building) Undivided Profits

tiaTSsai . CtttLCT , . 8.000.00

I34S.367.21

Shares In Force, 5,768. Membership 1,185. Dividend tor the Year, Syt Per Cent. Respectfully submitted. WILLIAM F. P1EHU SeVji, Total Business Done by the Association in Twenty-Five Years:

Receipts $5,086,488.70 Withdrawals Paid 2,503,141.93 Loans Made 1,954,795.70 Dividends paid to Shareholders

.$339,390.76

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Love and a Breakfast. "John." she said to her husband, who was grumbling over his breakfast, "your love has grown cold." "No. it hasn't," he snapped, "but my breakfast has." "That's just it If your lore hadn't grown cold you wouldn't have noticed that your breakfast had."

Legal Lore. "As a lawyer how would you advise me to sue for a girl's hand?" "Take the case to court and ask for Immediate trial." Baltimore American.

Incongruous. Little Allck What is an ineon.eruity uncle? Uncle William An incongruity, child. Is a divorce lawyer humming a wedding march. Satire.

Hatred is like fire. It makes even light rubbish deadly. George Eliot.

"hare Is no medic! ae so satfc am at the sir so pleasant to take as Dr. Caldwell's Syr -in. tbe positive cure for all diseases arisi -riaeh trouble Tbe Drice is very

NOTICE! Open All Day Sunday 20th Century Studio; 919 Main St. Best Work in the City.

XMAS GREETINGS To our patrons and others alike may we extend our heartiest Christmas Greetings and wish to all happiness of the Holiday season.

Dougan, Jenkins & Co. Eighth and Main Sts. Phone 1330

Friends' Church of Williamsburg will give a Cantata Christmas evening, at 7:30, entitled "Santa Claus Junior. Everyone invited. Admission, 10c.

atllff Offers Bargains lb ILast Twn HD-ays

This store is generally known as the store of low prices, but with these unusual bargains for last two days before Xmas you can't afford to buy gifts elsewhere

DIAMOND LAVALLIERES These are white diamonds with 14k gold chain and pendants. Not chips but real cut stones. Everything in this line at a 15 Discount

BRACELETS A big assortment of the very best quality at a Big Reduction

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on the Following Articles

BAKING DISHES CREAM TRAYS BREAD TRAYS SMOKING SETS CLOCKS JEWEL CASES FOUNTAIN PENS

SIGNET RINGS SET RINGS WATCH FOBS WATCH CHAINS CUFF LINKS JEWEL CASES SILVER WARE

CUT GLASS Your choice of one hundred pieces, $400 and $5 values. Every piece guaranteed. These go at the ridiculous price of your choice for $5.60 each

HAT PINS One of the finest lines in the city. Nothing better as a gift 20 Reduction

Buy your gifts of Ratliff's, the store that is out of the high rent district It assures you lower prices and better values

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