Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 108, 17 March 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM aD SUN-TELEGRAM, MOXDAY.MAKCII 17, 1913.

PREPARATIONS FOR APRIL SETTLEMENT Controlling Feature of Situation For Present Is Money Market.

BALKAN WAR STRAIN Stocks Quietly Absorbed By Strong Buyers Bank Reserves Low. BY HENRY CLEWS. NEW YORK, March 17. The controlling feature of the financial situation for the time being Is the money market. We are now actually in the period of preparation for the April settlements which is usually an occaeion of stringency at home and abroad. In Europe the situation has been particularly aggravated by the strain of the Balkan war, coming at a time when the demands of trade Imposed a heavy burden upon the financial resources of all the great European banks. The situation in Germany appears to be less critical than a fortnight ago. Liquidation has afforded gome relief there, and the large exports of gold from the United States have also been of material assistance. There is no doubt also that the situation in Germany has been somewhat . exaggerated, probably for speculative effect. Germany and England are apparently reaching an "entente cordial"; but the possibility of Austria being a disturber of the peaoe, backed by Russia, and the proposed large Increase in the armies of both France and Germany has introduced a new phase In the European situation. Austria A Disturber. Either some movement toward disarmament must be attempted, or a state of tension will be created which may only require some small incident to start a serious conflagration. At the moment, however, there is a sense of relief, as well as a belief that the relations between the various powers are not as bad as supposed. German foreign trade is still running on record breaking lines, German prosperity in this respect being illustrated by the magnificent earnings of her great steamship lines, which show an increase of 25 per cent net over last year. There is also no abatement in the activity of British trade. Conditions such as these make strongly for peace, and it should be remembered that the grert bankers of Europe are neither willing nor able to finance a great war. This face itself is one of . the strongest reasons for the maintenance of peace. Situation At Home. The business situation at home continues satisfactory. There has been no abatement in the activity of the last few months. The open winter has encouraged outdoor work to an unusual degree. The crop outlook thus far is entirely satisfactory. Many industrial establishments are running full time. Our railroads are over-pressed with traffic, and reporting encouraging gains in earnings. Clearing House returns have for weeks past shown liberal increases over last year. Less Is now heard about tariff discussion for the reason that many lines of business have already amply discounted probable changes. The extra session of Congress will soon be called and the subject will come up for active discuaslon'. which may induce more or less hesitancy until this Important problem is adjusted. Caused No Jolts. The new administration has thus far caused no jolts. On the contrary Its policy appears to have been to avoid disturbance. If all accounts are true the new Attorney General is likely to follow somewhat on the policy of his predecessor, but the reports of a more radical policy toward Standard Oil, American Tobacco and the Union Pacific merger have thus far proved unfounded. No signs of over-trading exist anywhere, and our markets are generally carrying light or moderate supplies of merchandise. Consumption Is so well sustained that there is an abundant opportunity for enlarged activity as soon as existing restraints from uncertainty disappear. Good stocks are being quietly absorbed by strong buyers, and will be found exceedingly scarce as Boon as the change in conditions is recognized. The chief, if not the only obstacle to any improvement in the stock market is the money situation. Bank reserves are low, the April setUements are close at hand, Europe has been drawing heavily on this center in the form of gold exports and easier rates are not to be anticipated until the adjustment to present conditions has been . completed. That, however, is not far distant. Better Than Others. We are In better position to meet the seasonal demands than any other nation. We have amply discounted all unfavorable conditions, and our best stocks are unquestionably cheap. On all pronounced recessions we confidently advise the purchase of the best grade of securities. As soon as the money market commences to readjust Itself, which will be after the middle of April, we will probably experience, a good recovery, provided no further untoward, mentis occur. NOTICE TO PALLADIUM SUBSCRIBERS. Due to the many calls for the Imperial Embroidery Pattern Outfit, we are pleased to announce that we now have a supply of these, outfits. These Patterns can be had for the regular price of 39c each without the coupon

The Farm Woman of Present is Better Manager Than was Her Grandmother

BY I. L. TOTTEN. Women never were better home managers nor did they ever do more toward supplying the needs of the home than the farm women of today. Things that are beyond our reach always seem best. That is one reason why things of the past seem better than those of the present. If it were possible to bring from out the past one of the old farmsteads intact and set it down side by side with a farmstead of today, what would we find in the one of today that did not show an improvement over the one of former days? From the standpoint of sanitation, of light, of cheerfulness, or real rest giving, or from any of the many other standpoints, the farm home of today is far ahead of the old homestead. And our modern farm women have no reason whatever to bend the knee to their grandmother's superior intelligence, because it is to the modern women who have brought about these changes in the homes of today that are conducive to better health and happiness. "But," some one says, "our grandmothers did so much more and knew so much more than the housewives of the present." It sounds as though there might be truth in the statement just because it is about the past; but let us do away with assertions and get down to facts. Doesn't Spin Now. On a three hundred acre farm in a farm neighborhood where I am well acquainted, there lives a family, consisting of husband and wife and five children. The good wife does not spin nor weave, but if her ability to do other things Indicates anything, I believe she could in three days time learn to spin and weave as well, if not better than her grandmother who sucked an old clay pipe or "annotated" herself with snuff as she sat humped up throwing a shuttle back and forth In a dimly lighted, poorly ventilated loom room. When garments of any kind are required by members of this family of which I speak, the good wife takeB a basket full of eggs the product of a profiitable flock of pure bred fowls, that she gives her personal attention together with a few pounds of butter and some garden truck in season, and exchanges them for the required garments. And from the proceeds of her poultry, cows and truck patch, so she informed me, she buys all of the groceries for the family, clothes herself and the children, buys her husband's work clothes, and saves about twentyfive dollars a year besides. Did the women of the past accomplish more than this? Where She Saves. They did much in their way, but the farm women of today accomplish just as much, yes, more in their way and with less drudgery. The modern farmer's wife goes about her work more intelligently than her grandmother did. She has learned many things that were not known in her grandmother's days. The farmer's wife does not use crocks and pans for the purpose of getting the cream from the milk; instead, she has a cream separator which saves her hundreds of steps and many dollars. She gets out into the garden in the fresh air, and with the returns from her work there, together with the butter and eggs she has to Bell, she is particularly able to keep the family. Through the summer this woman takes care of a small garden which she makes a thing of beauty. She does not have her garden platted into small beds as was done in olden times, but she plants everything in straight rows the full length of her garden. This method not only utilizes every foot of

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space, but it makes the garden easier to tend. Most of the work of cultivating and weeding is done with the wheel hoe. The garden is enclosed with a woven wire fence which keeps the chickens out and furnishes a support for lima beans and peas of the climbing variety. The fence next to the house is covered all summer long with blossom laden sweet peas and nasturtiums. Do you suppose that it is a very loathsome task to work in such a garden. She raised more than four hundred chickens last year, all of which with the exception of twenty-five early pullets which she kept for winter layers, were sold at a good profit. She gets eggs, too, all through the zero weather. The Garden's Supply. Her grandmother would, no doubt, have packed down in salt a large

share of the eggs she received during the summer for winter use; because she did not know how to care for the hens so they would lay all winter. From the garden, this woman harvested the winter's supply of vegetables plenty of cabbage, turnips, parsnips, salsify and celery and she has filled the larder with cans of cherries, pears, peaches, blackberries. As long as a woman of that kind is custodian of the larder there isn't much danger of the wolf doing damage, and it doesn't look as though there had been much retrogression. Someone will say that this woman probably just lets her housework go; but such is not the case, because she is more particular about sanitary conditions than the most painstaking grandmother that ever kept a spare bedroom shut up so tight that even the spiders died from the want of oxygen. A College Girl. At the next farm we find a widow and her daughter in charge. They have a young hired man who attends to the field and barn work, but the two women are the managers. Every morning the daughter can be seen on her way to town with a load of garden truck which she delivers to regular customers that want the freshest and best produce they can get. This daughter, by the way, is a graduate of one of the best colleges in this country. Seems strange, doesn't it, to think of a college woman on a farm; yet there is where college women are needed as much as in any other line of endeavor. However,' we did not used to think this. Some one says that the women of today have greater advantages than the women of former years. I am glad that was mentioned; because that is one of the reasons modern women can accomplish so much more than their grandmothers did. Of course, the women of the present day know very little or nothing about gathering and brewing herbs, "and why should they? However, in a very short time they could learn to do that as well as it was ever done by any one; but they have learned how silly and harmful a lot of that old quackery was. POULTRY WANTED Highest Market Price paid for poultry. Geo. C. Schwegman, 309 So. 4th St., Phones 1084-2204. 15-2t The Amu an Dam. The Assuan dam, in Egypt, with its associated irrigation works, has cost the large sum of $53,000,000. but it Is estimated that as a result of the expenditure the value of adjacent land has increased more than $1,000,000,000.

TOLLS ARE CALLED

ACT OF Carnegie Board Issues Statement Urging That the Treaty Be Observed. Na.tlor.aI News Association WASHINGTON, March 17. That the exemption of American coastwise canal would be an act of national dishonor is the position taken by the trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, according to a statement given out by them here today. Thi? written statement covering several printed pages, is an appeal td the citizens of the United States to do all they can to secure the repeal of the law passed by Congress in 1913 exempting American coastwise vessels from paying tolls on the canal. The statement also carries a special plea to submit the matter to arbitration before the Hague Tribunal. In this connection the statement points out that: "On the 4th of April. 1908, the United States and Great Britain made another treaty in wnich they agreed that 'differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two contracting parties and which may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at the Hague by the Convention of the 29th of July, 1899, provided, nevertheless, that they do not effect the vital interests, the independence, or the honor of the two contracting States, and do not concern the interests of the third parties.' "The question whether American coastwise vessels shall pay tolls for passing through the canal, continues the statement, cannot possibly be said to affect either nation's vital interests or independence, or the 'honor' of either of the two governments. Clearly, a difference relating to the interpretation of the treaty has arisen between the two sovernment which have agreed to submit such differences to the Hague Court of Arbitration." After commenting on the calm spirit in which England has presented the rr-tter and pointing out that the United States Is obligated in a special sense to submit the queetion to arbitration because of the initiative this country has taken in promoting international arbitration the statement concludes with the argument: "The greatest Interest of the United State3 as a free nation is to represent worthily before the world the principles of civil and religious liberty and the public efficiency and well-being, which those principles develop, and thereby to promote the adoption of these principles the world over. This is a great material as well as a great moral interest. In comparison with this great interest, the interest of the United States in its coastwise vessels sinks into Insignificance. By securing the repeal of that part of the act of Congress on the Panama canal which provided for the exemption of American coastwise vessels from the payment of tolls, the American people would embrace a precious opportunity to prove that they understand their highest interest, and recognize their duty to promote It 'for the benefit of mankind.' " The statement is signed by Joseph H. Choate, Andrew White, Charles W. Eliot, John L. Cadwalader, Elihu Root. Luke E. Wright, Charlmagne Tower, R. S. Woodward, Austen G. Fox, J. G. Schmldlapp, Robert S. Brooklings, Oscar S. Straus, Samuel Mather, James L. Slayden. Charles L. Taylor, Henry S. Prichett, William M.

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What are the symptoms of poisoned ! impure blood? They range all the j way from the dreadful syphillia to a muddy complexion. They include inflammatory rheumatism, catarrh, scrofula, eczema, erysipelas, pimples, boils, ' running sores and a number of similar afflictions. All these yielded readily to Dr. Simpson's treatment. And dur ing the forty years this preparation has been on the market as Dr. A. B. I Simpson's Vegetable Compound, it has never failed in a single case. The very worst cases of syphillis have been cured as well as all the other blood diseases named above and the same compound has always given clear, j clean co"mplexions to those, otherwise in good health. It is sold at $1.00 a bottle at all ( drug stores. l Advertisement) Howard. Cleveland H. Dodge, Robert A. Franks, Nicholas Murray Butler, Arthur William Kister an J James Brown Scott. PRESIDENT KELLY TO GIVE TALK TONIGHT President Kelly will talk on "The Present Tendency of Vocational Training in the High School and What Shall We Do With It in Richmond." at a meetlnh, of the Men's club of the First Presbyterian church to be held this evening at the church. The public is invited to attend.

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Commissioners Refuse Comment on B rumfield Matter. to Inventory taken by the board of county commissioners Wednesday, of the property of the Wayne county infirmary was filed Saturday afternoon the county auditor's office. The inventory shows that the total value of the farm to be $9,047.75. The commissioners held a short secret session in the private room but refused to state whether the matters of demandiug the resignation of N'euton Brumfield. the poor farm euperiu-: tendent, was discussed. , Experienced salesladies wanted in j Ladies' Coat and Suit Store. Inquire at 61 S Main street. 17-2t SUIT IS COMPROMISED Pennsylvania Company Given $39.60. Is The suit of the P., C. C. & St. U railroad company against J. K. Boss of Sedalia. Mo., was compromised Saturday, the company receiving the $39.60 for the shipment of hotses to the Lackey sale at Cambrldge'VIty. Ross shipped three horses from Sedalia to Cambridge City and failed to pay the charges. He took the animals from the company's possession without consulting any of the officials and after they were in his possession reNo change of cars after Harvey meals all the way. Indianapolis io proportion. Write tor from your home town. PaaenSrAgent. ESEE COUPON EH 50 STAMPS with one pound Tea 70 45 STAMPS with one pound Tea . GO 40 STAMPS with one pound Tea 50"

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