Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 253, 1 September 1913 — Page 3

TttK RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 1, 1913.

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YATES SPEAKS ON LINCOLNJ.ESSONS Delightful and Instructive Lecture By Former Illinois Governor.

KNEW HIM AS A BOY When Yates' Father Was War Governor of Illinois Jfcarge Audience 'Lessons of the Life of Lincoln" was the subject of an unusually well received lecture by ex-Governor Richard Yates, of Illinois, yesterday afternoon at the Chautauqua grounds. The father of Mr. Yates, being war governor of the same state, was thrown in close personal contact with the martyred president, which gave the speaker an opportunity to draw upon a store of reminiscences that were almost personal in character. A very large crowd heard the lecture. "I do not think for one moment that I am big enough a man to talk to you this afternoon on Abraham Lincoln," began Mr. Yates, "so I will simply content myself with a discussion of some of the lessons that we derive from a study of his life. Recalls Stirring Days. "I come to talk to you of the deeds of this great man with memories of my. childhood days in the executive mansion of Illinois, when regiment after regiment and brigade after brigade marched into the yard of the state house, with colors flying, to be sent immediately to the front. Then in a few days would come back to my father a terse telegram telling of some great battle, with so many Illinois regiments participating, and so many killed and missing. "During these times my father walked the floor night after night. Every few days there came an order from the national government that the state of Illinois should sent an additional quota of men to fight for the union. And so great was the patriotism of the men of Illinois that 05,000 troops were raised in thirty-eight days at a time when the state was well nigh drained of men. "The flag, the flag' was all that you could hear talked about. No one had time for discussion of such trivial topics as the initiative, the referendum and the recall. It is with thoughts such as these in mind that I come to talk to you of Lincoln. Our Heroes All Human. , "The most interesting attribute of the great men of our country is the fact that they were intensely human. While sometimes we are tempted to look upon Washington as a sort of a demigod, he was a real flesh and blood man, who was engaged to five women In ten years and gave a coward a man's sized cursing at Monmouth. I am glad that it was so. It makes him less remote. "The great Lincoln was severely handicapped with bashfulness. In his young manhood he proposed to four girls, two of whom rejected him. And Ann Rutledge, to whom he gave his full measure of devotion, died, leaving him desolate and almost insane. And while he eventually married Nancy Todd and made her a model husband, his after life was greatly shaped by j the memories of Ann Rutledge. It ! was the mental picture of her grave that steeled his tender heart so that he could send thousands of men down into the valley of death. He Knew His People. "Had Lincoln lived, there would have been none of the wearisome problems t of reconstruction, and there would never have ben a carpet-bagger in j the south. By -reason of his birth he j was in position!) understand and sympathize with the downtrodden people, j "Lincoln was a prince of oratdrs. Since the Sermon on the Mount, there has been no public address to compare with the Gettysburg speech. It was so great that it needed no embellishment, all short words, almost pure Anglo-Saxon, and so simple that a child could understand it. "He was a knight of disappointment, orphaned at an early age, with a craving for books and no means to satisfy it. One business enterprise after another in which he embarked resulted in dismal failures. Until he was elected to congress he was pressed by debts, and once saw some of his property sold under the sheriff's hammer. Yet this debt that dragged him down amounted to only $1,100. He Was Misunderstood. "He had the misfortune to be misUnderstood, as few men are ever misUnderstood. He was defeated for office because his constituency was lead to believe that he was the candidate of wealth, of family pride and of the Jmoney powers. I know that some of the deepest disappointments of his life resulted from his defeat for office for these reasons. I know that Lincoln once wanted to go to congress worse than he ever desired to become president. From a study of the life of this (man, I have come to believe that God Inflicted these disappointments upon him that He might prepare him for preater things. "He was a champion of the Almighty. Bob Ingersoll said otherwise, but letters that Lincoln wrote prove that he was a deeply religious man. To tadd to these qualities. He was never p. pessimist, but always looked forward trustingly to the time when right fchould triumph." Owing to the fact that the speaker fcf the day was late in arriving, the program for the afternoon was Switched about and the Kellogg-Haines pinging party gave a full concert at I o'clock instead of appearing on the (stage twice during the afternoon. The first part of the musical protram consisted of a short sacred concert, followed by songs that were popular in the sixties, which were rendered la tke costumes of that period.

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MRS. FREDERICK COURTLAND PEN FFI ELD. LONDON, Sept. 1. Before leaving London for Vienna, where he will immediately assume his duties as the new United States Ambassador to Austria, Frederick Courtland Penfield, announced that he expected to arrive at the Austrian capital on September 9, ahead of new envoys from Russia, England, Japan and one other country. By getting to his post first Mr. Penfield will take precedence over the foreign diplomats, which "is rather unusual. Under the American system of constantly changing representatives United States diplomats are invariably at the bottom of the list, but Mr. Penfield's strategetic move will boost him up near the top. This fact will give Mrs. Penfield increased social prestige in Vienna and at court.

LARGE CROWD SAW STEERS BUTCHERED IN PUBLIC PLACE (National News Association) CHICAGO, Sept. 1. Laws were being sought by Hugo Krause, 'feecretary of the Anti-cruelty Society today in an effort to prosecute the promoters of a public butchering in Forest Park, a suburb, last night. Six thousand persons, more than half of them women and nearly one-third of them children under 12, last night sat around a big arena and watched the killing of six steers. Several women fainted and all the children screamed each time the heavy sledge was brought against the forehead of a bewildered steer. Many left the place, unable to watch the butchering. Most of the crowd stayed until every steer was cut into small pieces and hung on butchers hooks. The fete was the annual cattle slaughtering competition, advertised as an "Educational exhibition of modern methods of dressing beef." Phil Murphy, for 12 years champion steer dresser of the world won the first prize by killing, skinning and dressing a steer in four minutes. ROUGH MARRIAGE KNOTS. Pledges Uoder Which They Were Tied In Medieval Times. The matrimonial contract today is a thousand times more polite than it was in the middle ages. It has lost the engaging frankness of its medieval originals. In the good old days when the bride was taken "for fairer, for fouler, for better, for worse," and promised "to be buxom and bonny" to her husband, her father gave the bridegroom one of the bride's shoes as a token of the transfer of authority. The bride was made to feel the change by a blow on the head duly administered with the shoe. How much more significant and eloquent a use ef the article than our "refined" custom of throwing it after the carriage! The hnsband took oath to treat his wife well, in failure of which she might leave him. As a point of honor, however, he was allowed to "bestow on his wife and apprentices moderate casOgatlon." An old Welsh law lays it down that three blows with a broomstick "on any part of the person except the bead is a fair allowance," while anothr provides that the stick "be not longer than the husband's arm nor thicker than his middle finger. The bride, however, had her privileges. Ia certain countries it was her accepted right the morning after the wedding day to ask for any sum of money or any estate that she pleased, and her husband could not in honor refuse. A man had to be pretty sure of his bride's "intentions" to run such a risk. These old time marriages were often hard driven bargains, which unblushingly displayed a good deal of nnlovely human selfishness. Yet the rough knots that were tied a thousand years ago held faster than many of the beribboned and bejeweled bonds we so genteely adjust today. - New York World. Philadelphia police have been instructed to enforce rigidly the law eoYeniinft- the aoced of troler cars.

Duties in Vienna

I nrmv num -vmn rvikT THEIR JOBS TODAY The board of works did not hold a meeting this morning although all the members were in the city building at the usual time. No meeting will be held until Thursday, the next regular" meeting day. B. A. Kennepohl, Baltz Bescher, Mayor Zimmerman, City At torney Bond and Fred Charles were i on the job this morning in spite of the fact that the offices were scheduled to be closed today. The o dices of the street commissioner and the city controller were closed. The regular police court was held this morning and two cases were heard by the mayor. Labor day made no difference with the police and fire departments, as the members are always on duty. The employes of the street department were not working today, although all other city employes reported for duty this morning as usual. All the men at city light plant were working today. KEYS AS THEY TURN. Most of Them Unlock by Twisting Them to the Right. "You would be amazed," said Professor Lookabout informlngly. as he started to unlock his desk in preparation for the morning's classwork. "to know how many persons are unable to tell offhand wh b way a key turns. Only the other day. in a chat with one of the best informed men of my acquaintance, I was astonished to learn that he believed most keys turned to the left to unlock their locks. He was trying to open a typewriter desk, and he struggled with the key several moments before he made the astounding discovery that it unlocked by turning to the right " 'Why.' he said to me, with a surprised air, 'this key works the wrong way.' " Must what do you mean by "the wrong way?" was my natural query. " lt unlocks to the right.' he replied. " 'So do most keys.' I told him. whereupon he glaaced at me skepticaUt It took me several minutes to convince him that, as usual. I was right The fact is that, whereas dooi keys unlock to the left perhaps as often as to the right depending on which side of the door you face, the key to almost anything except a door is pretty sure to turn to the right to unfasten the lid or drawer or roller apron which it secures. A little observation is all one requires to prove the truth of this. It's one of the little things which once In a while may be wetl worth knowing." And the professor absentmindedly tried to unlock his desk by turning the key to the left. New York Times. Simplified Spelling. Lovers of simplified spelling should make a pilgrimage to Nevendon. in Essex, where the church wardens accounts in the eighteenth century were quite delightfully phonetic. Under the date 1742 occurs the entry: "Gave j Geekup Kollins for his gall too shelins and six pens. Also his close for the insowing yere." The mysterious word "gall seems to signify the girl or daughter of "Geekup Kollins." And some of us who have drunk the cup of feminine militancy to the dregs may accept gall aa the right speUia. Lendon Mail. - -

TALK OK HAPPINESS ENDS TjOROGRAM "Sunshine" Hawks Brings Chautauqua to Close in Successful Manner.

The program for the final evening of the 1913 Chautauqua was concluded with a talk by "Sunshine" Hawks on "Happiness." The large audience present voiced its appreciation of the eforts of Mr. Hawks to make this year's program a success by rising to its feet and giving him an ovation in which handclapping, cheers and the Chautauqua salute featured. Mr. Hawks took for his text the word "Blessed," but called his talk "A Sunday Sunshine Sermonette on Happiness." He said that the happy life is the one that is patterned on the simple life of Christ. The life of the Christian must be fashioned to the will of God, he must be unselfish in his ends and not afraid to work. Selfish Men Not Happy. "Selfish men cannot be happy. 'The selfish man cannot sleep well of nights for he may get away from his own personal interests. Hell is selfishness set on fire. "No man can be perfectly healthy who is all the time thinking of his i personal condition, because the medicine he is constantly taking will so upset his body that no doctor can accurately diagnose his case. "The great men of history were all unselfish. It is selfishness on the part of a y)ung man to ask a girl to share his lot when he does not own a lot. I advise all the young men who are here this evening to save a portion of the money that they receive each month for a time when they shall need it. "There is no particular manner of offering prayer, no particular time or place. I have seen Stonewall Jackson raising aloft his hand to God in prayer when he was leading an army into action. "I once knew a little boy who when asked how he was feeling always responded 'Better.' I will dismiss you and bid you goodbye with the injunction that you always try to think that you are steadily growing better. "SUNSHINE" HAWKS IS AN EVANGELIST A. TV. Hawks, better known as "Sunshine," left at noon today for Indianapolis, where he will spend a few weeks in preparation for an evangelistic meeting, which he is planning to conduct in the Grace M. E. church of that city. During the winter he will conduct similar meetings in Lakeland and Tampa, Fla., and in a number of towns in Mississippi. EMOTIONS OF ANGER. Give Them a Little Play Rather Than Bottle Them Up Tightly. There are a few universal habits in the human race which have strange primitive origins, and there are some which are universal because they have a physiological stimulus, and one of these latter is in the habit that a little child often has of stamping its feet when angry. Exactly the same thing occurs when a man, while he is angry, brings down his fist on the table. Is both cases it is due to lack of nervout control. The nervous system is a unit, and most of the emotions of anger come from a sudden thwarting of a calculated nervous plan. Thus if we are about to sit down on a chair and a mischievous urchin yanks the chair away just as we have let the muscles of the thighs relax the anger excited is out of all proportion to the actual bruises that have resulted. If a child wants a pot of jam and is denied he is Immediately angry unless he has been taught to control himself. The desire for the jam. for example, has set in motion a nerve plan, and when this Is suddenly stopped there is a flow of nervous energy which has to spend itself in some way. In the case of the. child, he usually works this off by stamping his feet and crying. In the case of the man. he usually goes through exactly the same processes by thumping the table and swearing. In the case of a hysterical woman, she beats upon the floor with ber heels and screams. It is all the same thing. Strange as it may seem, moreover, the outflow of emotion Is far better for an angry person than it is to bottle It up. Emotion is going to express itself in action somewhere, and if the muscles are kept still the brain cells will be exhausted Instead. Emotional force has got to go somewhere. It can't just stop and disappear. Too great a suppression of the emotions leads to a gradual atrophy of them, and when the emotions begin to die out the person himself or herself is of comparatively little nse to the world. It is for this reason that nothing should ever be done to "break" a child's temper, but only to guide it into right chan nels. Yon can teach a child not to lose control of his temper, but never, as you value the child's development, try to train him not to be angry. New York American. What the Patent Heme Will Be. The number of patents issued last year was greatly In excess of all other years. And yet nobody in all inventive America has patented a home. We must all live. Tbe old home is now a back number. -It is bound in time to be succeeded by the patent home. Hasten the day. The patent home will have all its beds made up automatically. It will cook its own meals, keep Itself dusted, decorated and disinfected. It will heat the baby's milk at all hour of the night and will be servantless. AM the pictures will be changed at regular intervals, and new furniture will automatically replace the old. Family prayers will be provided by phonograph, and births, weddings and faaeralc will be covered by setasiog a but-te-Wfv '

"Love" A Subject for Hawks at Chautauqua Very Impressive Lecture Delivered by the Popular Director Tells of the Useless Lives of the Great Conquerors of the World's History in an Address.

Following Sunday school exercises yesterday morning at the Chautauqua grounds. Sunshine Hawks gave a I beautiful talk to a large congregation on "Love.' He nrst described a large painting c, xv.-,.v .La "The Conquerors." "This said Mr. Hawks, "showed picture. Knm n 1 " ; naparte and others mounted on magnineeni norses naing aown a aeso-1 late road. The skill of the artist had

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ana renectea it tor tne aamiration or the beholder of the painting. A Pathway of Misery. "My eyes, tired of gazing at Uie' imperial countenances dropped to the road itself. It was no ordinary road. ; into its production the artist had cast ' the figures of mangled men and the forms of defenseless women and children prostrate in death. And I closed my eyes in thought and ceased to envy the careers of these great world figures. "There is a wonderful picture of the 'Man of Destiny' nangmg on the walls of my library at home, which shows the conqueror of Europe enduring the flames of torment, surrounded by French peasants who cry aloud. 'You brought us here.' "Another picture that I have seen shows the man who once made and unmade kings at will, silently brooding at St. Helena, shorn alike of pomp and power, impatiently await ing the time when he should be in that country where conquerors cease to be honored and usurpers expiate their crimes. Love True Conqueror. "As I reflect upon these pictures there comes to my mind the thought that these men w-ere not conquerors. And as I think of tne utter uselessness of their careers, there comes to me a vision of a cross outside the city of Jerusalem, and upon it the crucified Christ. He bows his head, and murmurs, 'It is finished,' and then I know that love is the great conqueror. "Love makes the home. Money can buy men and women but not husbands and wives; it can build palaces but it cannot make homes. Love must build the home. Marriage with love is heaven, without it, just the other place. "There is only one thing that is prettier than a young couple starting out in life together. That is the old man and his wife whose days are numbered, sitting peacefully together, in their home awaiting the Snal summons. Love Your Home Town. "Love your home town and make it the best oh earth. If you think it is a bad town and are unwilling to help make it better, then get out and make foom for some one else who will, iove your neighbor as well as you do your self. 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul and mind.' "The Lord is represented on earth Diogenes To Date

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by the church. Do you love the church? How much to you give for its support? Upon which do ou lavish your money, the church or your cigars?

"A vrmnar man nnr skil mv vice concerni his iove affai; llo 8a,d that he as deP in ,ne ith six girls, and was unabie to decide affections. I helned him to decide bv ; ay tor. rrove vour iove ior inecnurcn by contributing to its support. The love of God is given to all men. 1 know that He loves me for . has taken away some or my loveO jones to a better and higher world." , I The Sunday school exercises were - nnHiiMoil nt Q Sll nVW- with V M

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turnishcd by the Kellogg-Haines Singjng party. . HOARDED MONEY IS DISCOVERED BY CARPENTERS (Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY. Ind . Sept. 1 Emil Ebert has $167.47 which he would not have if he had not taxen a notion to make some repairs at his home on East Main street. While tearing out a window, two of the carpenters found a cold chisel driven into the studding. They removed this and found a hole which contained a paper carefully folded and well preserved. Unfolding the paper the men found a quantity of money, some twenty, ten and five-dollar gold pieces and other small money. The money is old. showing it had been placed in the hiding place many years ago. Some of it beaWB dates of 1835 and 1S38. There were a number of "shinplasters," which were issued during the civil war. They are in five and fifty-cent denominations. Mr. Ebert and the neighbors have no idea of how or when the money was hidden. The house had been used in the past as a wagon shop and soap factory, and was later built into a residence by a Mr. Peters. Oriental Gems. All gems of the finest quality, irrespective of the part of the world from which they come, are generally apoken of as "Oriental." because the supply of precious stones came only from the east for many centuries; and when mines were discovered In the west, it! was at first assumed that the stones; were inferior. "Occidental" is the j. term applied to inferior stones to tbisi day. On the other hand, 'Oriental topaz." "Oriental emerald" and "Oriental amethyst" are really all sapphires, and are given these names only on account of their color.

INJURY TO JUROR HALTSJHE TRIAL Caminetti White Slave Case Will Be Delayed for Several Days. (National Nws Asi-tl-n SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1. Wit-

j liam H. Adams, juror in the trial or ' F. Drew Caminetti. on trial here ' charged with beins a white slaver wai much improved today following an automobile accident in phich the bone in his foot were fractured and hi shoulder was badly wrenched. Hi physician said that complete rest to day would put him in condition to proceed with the hearing of the case un1(lss ,otlw. unlocked for complication li.t nri.tinc ed today that a new trial would not be ordered but that the present one would wait on the recovery of Juror Adams. The court sent word to Adams not to try to appear in the courtroom until he was fully recovered. The case will be resumed with testimony for tha defense. It was hop- ! d bv attornevs ou both sides to bring MUNICIPAL PAWNSHOPS. In the Mont de Picte the Parisian Maa a Model Institution. The story of the Mont de Plete. the great pawnshop of Tarls. reads like a romance. It is the survival of an old lank conducted by a religious order established to fight usury. This benevolent enterprise was given up to be started afresh under the direction of the government In 1S01. when Napoleon was near the heicht of his glory. The profits go to the state and to canfIty to the public aid department and to the hospital of Taris. These charV ties benefit about $70X00 n year. The storage facilities of the Mont d riete are admirable. The Frenchman l may pawn his feather led. When It comes back to him It. as well as mattresses, blankets and all bed furnishIiiks. has been thoroughly disinfected. The rate of interest on loans is small and It encourages by nil means the redemption of the goods on which money has been advanced. As the Moat de riete advances money only on a conservative valuation as a rule to the value of two-thirds of the article pawnedthere is generally a surplus to go to the pawner if the pledge Is sold. Municipal pawnshops in Berlin c ha ret 12 per cent. In Brussels 7 per cent and in Madrid O per cent. In Iiondon for small loans the pawnshop rate is from 400 to 1.000 per cent per annum. Indianapolis News. Tee Numerous. A darky employed as an office boy In Kentucky came to work one morning with a face that looked as though It had been run through u meat grinder. "Henry. demanded his surprised employer, "what In the world baa happened to you?" "Well. suh. boss. explained Henry. I got Into a little argument las' night wit" another nigger, and one thing led to another twell I up and bit at him. Well. suh. it seemed lak dat irritated bim. He took ami blacked both of mat I eyes and bit one of inah years mighty i nigh off and split mnh Hp and knocked two of mab teeth loose, and den he th'owed me down and stamped me in de stomach. Honest, boss. I never did git so sick of a nigger in mab life! Saturday Evening Post. By Opper