Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 42, 30 December 1912 — Page 8

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AGE EIGHT. THE JXlCLLUOMJ I'ALADIUAi AJiD SU-TLfcUKA.U. 3lODAY, DECEJUiKIt .50. 11)1?.

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LENIENT IN RENDERING THE SENTENCES Six of the Convicted Men, Including Clark, Who Plead Guilty, Had Their Sentences Suspended. (Continued from Page One) himself. He leaves a wife and five Children in Chicago. Murphy, of Detroit, whose sentence was suspended, walked straight up to Judge Anderson and expressed hia great appreciation. Extending his hand he remarked, "if all the judges "were like you we would have a better country." Hiram Cline of Muncie, who also received a suspended sentence was overcome with joy and cried like a baby. His attorneys Judge Leffler and Mr. Ball, also were overcome and Were forced to leave the court room to hide their emotion. Moving Pictures Taken. 5 Moving picture and camera men guarded every exit to the building until afier the prisoners were led away. Passage was blocked in the streets immediately surrounding the federal building and the lobbies were black with people. Edward Clark, the confessed dynamiter, who pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence for turning state's evidence apparently was the happiest man in the city. He said, amid tears, "I have no plans for the future, but I know this experience will make me a good citizen." He Slanced around in childish glee, grasping the hands of those about Ihlrn. Following the sentences great surprise was expressed on all sides regarding the comparatively light punishment inflicted on the men. From the attorneys and from several of the convicted men themselves came words of gratification that the judge had so ! ? It has not been definitely determined when the "dynamite special" will leave Indianapolis for Ft. Leavenworth tout it has been the custom heretofore to transport federal prisoners on the first train leaving the city. It Was thought likely that those who received prison sentences would start CO their journey tonight. MUSICAL MOUNTAINS. Singing Cliffs In the Pyrenees and Roaring Sands In Hawaii. In certain parts of the world are mountains and hills which are said by the natives to sing. In the Tyrenees certain cliffs emit plaintive sounds resembling the strains of a harp. Two other cliffs in the same chain are called the "snorers." When the wind Is in Ihe southwest they send forth a peculiar sound not altogether musical. tThe faces of these cliffs are marked by deep gullies, open in front, which may be compared to the pipes of an organ. At certain times a stratum of air, held between the cliffs and borderlug trees, closes the openings while the wind blows freely between through the gullies, or organ pipes, behind; hence the music that is heard. At the confluence of the Orinoco and the Rio Meta are granite cliffs which ping at sunrise. Humboldt refers to the phenomenon as the musical stones of the Orinoco. The music is caused by the rush of the expanding air through fissures partly closed by mica. Many more examples might be cited to show that nature makes use of principles which have been adopted by pian in the creation of musical sounds. fcCor are the musical sounds of nature ronflned to rocks, mountains and hills, jfln Hawaii is a sand bank fifty feet S which, when the hand is moved tjin the loose sand, produces a 1 like that of a melodeon. It is ,lhat If the observer slides down ank on his back, dragging both 1 in the sand, the sound becomes Mid as faint thunder. Harper's Why a Hers Rolls. Horses are fond of rolling on the ground, and no animal more thoroughly shakes itself than they do. After a roll they give themselves a shake or two to remove anything adhering to the coat The habit is of much eerrice to horses living in open plains. On being turned loose at the end of a journey an Arab horse rolls in the sand, which acts as blotting paper, absorbing exudations from the body. A shake removes the sand, and the coat soon dries. Cavalrymen in hot climates sometimes put sand oh their horses as the simplest and quickest !way of drying them. Selborae Magaine. Untainted. Tempted by. an offer of considerably Xnore than the property had cost him, Mr. Kreezus. who counted his wealth In millions, had parted with his suburban villa. "You didn't need the money," said his disgusted business partner, who bad just heard of the transaction, "yet for a little eithy lucre you sold that beautiful home." "I didn't!" exclaimed the equally Indignant Mr. Kreezus. "I sold it for dean cash!" Youth's Companion. Bell Tones. The peculiar magic in the tones of a bell Is due to its striking not a slagrle note, but a chord, and to obtain the perfect octave entails an immense amount of calculation as well as skill. The bell caster, therefore, has to be not a mere mechanic, but a highly trained specialist. Regular Turn. "What? . You're . engaged to Mr. Brown? Then you won't marry Mr. Janes, after alir "No. not after all. but perhaps after jafr. Brown." Milwaukee News.

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The upper snapshot shows two boats loaded with passengers being rowed from the S. S. Turrialba to the rescuing V. S. Revenue cutter Geneva. Below members of the crew may be seen climbing down the ladders to the life boats. The Turrialba was driven ashore in a blizzard on Christmas Eve and went aground four miles from Atlantic City, N. J. The passengers were compelled to remain on the buffeted steamer all night, as heavy seas prevented rescue boats from approaching.

David Starr Jordan Aims a Heavy Blow at World's Vanity

(National News Association) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 Down at Carmel-By-the-Sea, Dr. David Stai r Jordan is preparing a bombshell in the shape of a little book that is expected to blast in the world's opinion of itself. Dr. Jordan is, among other things, president of the Eugenics Commission of the American Breeders' association and his essay will be ostensibly written for them. Equipped with tomes and charts and aided by the most expert genealogist on the Pacific coast, Dr. Jordan has traced about 1,000 American families, representing several millions of us, back through our ancestry. Dr. Jordan has reached these findings: 1. At least, half the citizens in this country of English ancestry are descendants of one "Superwoman" and members of one colossal family. 2. Isabella De Vermandois, daughter of a crusader and wife of the Duke of Warren, living in the twelfth century, is the common progenitor of the teaming millions whom Dr. Jordan stamps as the "fittest of the English speaking race." 3. John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Mor

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So Says a Visitor to This Complacent Community Because You Have More Time to Read, Sleep in the Morning and Stalk Your Own Amusement.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "You get more of a chance to live in a town of this size." To this effect animadverted a visitor to this more or less clean and delightful municipal abode. "And not so clean," said a returned resident disgustedly. The truth is, the town was never as dirty. The sidewalks are slimy. And the streets ooze with surface filth. Alley entrances are practically impassable, in many instances,and street crossings a grinning farce. Why not flush the streets now and then and let the drippings hit the sidewalk. Of course this may cost a lot of i money for all this column knows. And we are, if not bankrupt, economical. Cities should not have annual housecleanings. They should house-clean every day. Then things would always look nice or within shouting distance of nice. The house-wife nowadays rarely has one complete yearly overhauling. Houses have been made more sanitary and easier to keep clean with carpetless floors and rugs, so that "every day is house-cleaning day" instead of "bye and bye." What's the use of having cement alleys if they aren't made usable for the pedestrian? However, that isn't what the visitor meant. In fact he didn't mention it. It was the returned resident who had carried over rosy visions of Richmond's former immaculate state. The visitor thought it might be nice to live in Richmond. Where life is less strenuous and more leisurely. Where you could sit round the friendly evening lamp and cut the pages of the last fictional inanity or flip over the reviews and the weeklies. He rather hankered after that state of neighborly beatitude in which you run round the corner to exchange a,

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gan, and their millions of "poor relations" will now be able to prove it. 4. Rockefeller and Morgan have ancestral lines which also run back to that Prince of Buccaneers, Sir Francis Drake. 5. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, tne two Harrisons, t-ieveiana ana

Roosevelt are shown to be "quite defi- themselves to death without saying nitely related." wnat they're doing to the other fel6. President Emeritus Charles W. low making believe and grinning and Eliot, of Harvard, and President Nich-1 vaguely ambling round the conversaolas Murray Butler, of Columbia, the J tional field, grimacing and piroutting

two Timnthv TViviehts and Wnolsev. of : Yale, and Dr. Jordan himself happen to fall into a college president trust, due to their common ancester. 7. Practically any family which can trace its line back to Isabelle V'ermando is mentally and physically sound, and its progeny stand more than usual chance to inherit the earth. 8. The mating of mother Isabella's progeny is a step toward the ideal of eugenics. 9. True love, with the initiative of the individuals tempered by an understanding of eugenics, is far and away a better method of bringing about this selective ideal than a resort to state regulation or parental interference. harmless pipe and pint with your next near-friend. And can put on your hat and walk i any place you want to go. ! Excessive metropolitanitis he ab-! jured as inimical to development. Frantic business acrobatics during ' the day followed up with a dinner at

a glittering caravansary and an endup in degree from that in a big city, at the play, with a post-theater supper J "We have a few less bricks piled on and to bed at one or after each day, ; top of each other and a less extended with the Tired Business Man arising area of asphalt but it's all the same, at a fiendish hour to play the same j "I know people in this town who route next day and the next and next : spend their time running round and and next yet again this said the vis-; never read a thing, itor, was what literally put you to the i "And they say it's because they bad. ! haven't time. "You have no time to read or rest! "City life is made up of the doings or do anything you really want to," of a number of aggregations of persaid the visitor. "Here it's different. sons wno & their little, limited round You get a chance at life. Or, rather, without regard to the other aggregayour own life." tions who are platted out on the same This is not the first time this has scle' ....

been so expressed nor has the visitor made an original discovery. Nonetheless piled up comment is always the more convincing. And it's all more or less true. Although, to tell the fact, people can live their lives anywhere if they have the courage to do so. In most the densely populated quarter or at the cross roads. It's all within yourself. Or would be if you were not tied up and fettered with bonds of your own forging. That's the pity of the thing. We handcuff and shackle ourselves before we know what we are doing. And then spend the rest of our lives straining at the leash, to mix the figure. We're gagged by tradition. And obsessed with convention. Afraid to do the things that are simple and natural and what we really like. Ashamed to be ourselves . Shivering with timoroufears Craven cowards, sand cads and mostly fools. Shoved to the. iast ditch, there is something exqusUeiy and sardonical-

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ly humourous about the human spectacle. Where are we going and to what end are we straining? What difference does it make what you wear or who you go with or at what particular angle you cock your hat. What's the difference who you talk to when you're out at a party, say. Why should you care to be seen chattering with so and so or in playful converse with the others? And vet vnn'll find iwonl hnrinc dna mincing. Why do people do it? Why? Even the fabled echo does not reply. If everybody would have the courage to be himself, absolutely and entirely, and the nerve to toe the mark, this world might be a more piquant and alluring place. Although, of course, it is not possible to tell. Social anarchy might "obtain" still that would be better than a dead level of always speaking to the right person and never to be seen speaking to the wrong one. Although, of course, on the side, you can talk to the wrong ones whom you really like better than the others and with whom you feel far more comfortable. I "What's that got to do with it?" growled the misanthrope. ! "Got to do with what?" asked the other person. "There you are!" mumbled the misanthrope. "Always getting off the subject always going off at a tangent always " j "Oh, I see," grinned the other per- ; eon- "rm sorry, though, you feel so i deeply about it" "I don't feel deeply I don't feel at all!" interpolated the misanthrope. "Oh, well," said the other person, "you know it really is more what you are than where. "Life in a town this size is merely the same in kind, onlv different Aitnougn. in me ena, you win and the chassest provincials in the latter. "The farther West you go, the more genuinely cosmopolitan you will find the average community. "The average denizen of Emporia, Kansas, can give his confrere in New : York, say, cards and spades on the i world's happenings and who's who and why. "But, after all, it's what you make of life yourself. "Not where you are or who you're with. "It is Yourself." "Why don't you go on the lecture platform?" sneered the misanthrope. "I'd rather hike to Indianapolis with a petition to the legislature," deployed the other person. Independence. "Kracker Is Mn bad' again." "What cow?" He heard the joke. It the moon had SLjabivWonld the sky rock JtA"pd he i sprung Ifarcioretaeii this, 'If the man in the moon bad a son would he snoot pinwhee'.s?" "What did the fellows do 5" "What could they do but fixe Krackerr' New York Times. "

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HE SHOOKJS WIFE Foreigner Cries Like a Babe When Taken to Jail. "No understand, no understand." excitedly cried Angelo Venardo in police court this morning when arraigned for abusing his wife after the affidavit had been read to him. An interpreter was called in and the charges explained to Venardo. He told the court he had not struck his wife but had merely taken hold of her waist and shaken her. Mrs. Venardo testified that while she was taking the ashes out of the stove she was struck by her husband several times and then knocked down. Mayor Zimmerman fined the defend ant $1 and costs and sentenced him to thirty days in the county jail. The Italian did not understand why he was going to jail and told the court he wanted to pay his fine. He cried like a child and tried to have his wife intercede for him. She refused. Last month Mrs. Venardo filed a complaint against her husband because he had attempted to take her child away from her. He was not prosecuted because she denied her statements to the patrolman who made the arrest and said she did not want her husband sent to jail. At this time she alleged that he had made repeated threats to take her life and had often abused her. MUST HAVE SPECIAL STAMPS ON PARCELS Postmaster Haas stated today that many people had received wrong im- j pressions about the sending of parcels over the new parcels post which , comes into effect January 1st. He j says that special stamps must be used and that parcels bearing regular mailing stamps will be held for postage. No parcels will be sent without a return address. The stamps and supplies have been received by the ! local branch of the postal service and i every thing is ready at the post office for a rushing business. All fourth j class and parcels post matter must j be brought to the office for sending. MRS. ELISHA SWAIN DIES AT DAYTON Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Alexander, of North Eighth street, have gone to Dayton, Ohio, having been called by the death of Mrs. Alexander's mother, Mrs. Elisha Kumler Swain. Mrs. Swain died this morning. The funeral will be held Thursday. The burial will be at Eaton, Ohio. She had many friends in Richmond. SEIDEL UNABLE TO TALK HERE TONIGHT Owing to unavoidable circumstances it will be impossible for Emll Seidel, ex-mayor of Milwaukee, to come to this city tonight. Seidel was to have . delivered an address here this eveni ing. Watch Keady

William Manville. an habitual drunk

ard and police character was ordered out of the city today and threatened I with a diet of bread and water for 61) days if he returns to this city. Man ville was release from the county jail Saturday morning and was ar rested Saturday night on a charge of I public intoxication. He was unable i to walk when arrested. James Walker threatened with ! a similar wholesome but unpalatable I menu if he was brought into court on i the charge of Intoxication in this city. Walker claims to hail from Philadelphia and came here to obtain work. The mayor informed him he would be introduced formally to a good city if he returned to Richmond again. He was allowed to leave the city. AN ILL MATED PAIR. Wide Apart In Temperament Were Thomas and Jane Carlyle. I( That the Carl vie were an ill aort- i

ed couple no one could deny. She was :tions lo th appointment of Mr. IWhW. a highly s'rurg. nervous woman, very ho was district chairman of tn licinquick, uMe and impatient, disappoint- j ocratlc party, decided to "stick- to

ed with her married life and her osition. jealous of the admiration which Carlyle received at the hands of all his admirers. esecially of one or two women, whom she found very unsympathetic. That Carlyle adored her there is little doubt. He loved her with all the rough, passionate power of his nature, but he was a peasant iu manner and character and lacking iu all the little outward sigus of devotion and affection which so many women exact and the absence of which they resent most bitterly. Mrs. Carlyle found herself tied to an irritable genius who. sensitive at every Iolnt. deeply devoted to her, but absolutely incapable of translating that love into tb language which she craved and longed for. I rememler her once saying to me in a bitter way. "My dear, whatever you do. never marry a philosopher." and that was the key to the enigma the woman always hungering for proofs of the de votion in which the whole of her daily life was wanting. From Iidy St. Helier's "Memories." Physiognomy Not Reliable. I am a profound dislndlever in physiognomy. Features are false witnesses. Stupidity frequently wears a mask of intelligence. I know business men who look like poets and poets who look like business men. Men of genius invariably look like idiots, and if yoi? pick out the man who looks most eminent in a party yon are sure to find be is a nobody. I always distrust men who look magnificent. Nature i" a stingy creature. She seldom gives a man the double gift of )eing great and looking great. She took care to lame Byron and deform Pope and disfigure Johnson. But the crowning example of her jealous parsimony (s Shakespeare. I have always been disappointed with Shakespeare's face. It does not live up to his poetry. It is dull, heavy and commonplace. From "Adventures in London." ' The Mistake. In his biography of Alexandre Dumas riarry A. Spurr says that the improvident French author, who hated avarice, was once waiting in line for his cloak at a soiree when he saw a millionaire give a tip of !0 centimes (10 ! cents to the servant who banded out his paletot. Dumas, getting his cloak, threw down a 100 franc note. "Pardon, sir; you hare made a mistake, I think." said the man, offering to return the note. "No. no, friend." answered Dumas, easting a disdainful glance at the millionaire; "it is the other gentleman who has made the mistake." Shakespeare In France. I once stumbled upon a choice bit of French quotation from Shakespeare.! It was a tale by Uchard. The distinguished author of this tale rendered "Frailty, thy name is wo- i man." by "Fragilite, e'est le nom d'une femme" ("Fragility, that is the name of a woman"). Strauss. A Woman's Compliment. "I admire your hair, dear." "Thanks." "But isn't It a good deal of trouble to find that peculiar shade in the shops?" Washington Herald.

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GRAY DECIDES ON CHARLES B, BECK Congressman Here Saturday to Hear Objections to Appointee.

FOUND TO BE CHOICE The Question as to the Next Postmaster Is Settled for Good. Charles It. Heck, shoe !.-mn. will be the next postmaster of Richmond. Finly H. Gray. Sixth dmirict eonressnian was in this city Saturciav ftcrncon and after hearing th- -jbiec I his first announcement, which was to 'the effect that Mr. Peck would urceed E. M. Haas. i "I found that Mr. Beck was the 'choice of the majority of persons, of all parties, to whom I talked." said Mr. Gray. "I came here at the request of several lemocrats who were dissatisfied. 1 immediately held up the appointment and said that I would come to Richmond and discuss the matter. Made Canvass. "I have canvassed every man on Main street and in addition have sent out a large number of letters, promi. jeuously. Mr. Beck is the choice of the J majority. "As a rule congressmen merely make up their minds, without consulting j anyone in connection with posiofTW-e j appointments or recommendations. I am following a different method. I am pursuing a uniform policy all over the district." Mr. Gray said that he did not see or talk to Mr. Beck while in the 'city Saturday. He admitted that he talked to Henry U. Johnson and Thomas J. Strdy. two of the leaders of the position to the appointment of Beck. Mr. Gray said that Ihe second choice for he poBttrastcrship was Charles E. Marlatt. He said that the method he used was the best he knew of in getting to the sentiment of the people. Beck At Connersville. Mr. Beck went to Connersville today to discuss matters with Congressman Gray. Neither Mr. Johnson nor Mr. Study could be. seen today and Interrogated in regard to their opinion of the final selection of the future postmaster. When Gray was asked whether Johnson or Study mere displeased over the result of the conference, he smiled nonchalantly and said "You had better ask them." County Chairman Doney of Ca mbridge City was officially notiied of the appointment by letter today. Congressman Gray expects to start for Washington this evening or tomorrow morning. IMPORTANT NOTICE The grandest opportunity ever offered to buy goods at your own price during the AUCTION SALE Every Day at 2:30 and 7:30 AT Spencer's JEWELRY STORE 618 Main St. 't