Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 203, 7 August 1915 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915

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Glen Zoo Animals .'Attract Mantr iOMleti-isitoics : : : . . . . . . . - . ' 1 i 1 1

"Ehe mecba tee ha die." . Maybe you don't know what that means, but it good monkey English for "come over here and die," and is the most common sentence used by "Mike" and his mate out at the Glen Miller Zoo to the Rhesus in the ad- - joining cage, Darwin held the theory that the human race was descended from the ape, which is another branch of the monkey family and scientists at a later time were of theopinion that these man-like animals could talk. Expeditions were sent out equipped with all the most approved apparatus for the purpose of registering the chatter of the mischievious little creatures in their native lands, and an effort made to interpret ' into intelligable language their chatterings. Little success has been made in this undertaking as yet, but the theory is 6till in existence and some day the language of the monkey tribes may be known. Believe Monks Talk. There are thousands, however, who do believe that the "monks" have a language all their own and they cannot dispute that the opening words of this story are the proper interpretation of the noise made by the funny little fellows out at Glen Miller. The Rhesus was only placed there recently, and for some reason "Mike" objected to his presence, thinking perhaps that he might "flirt" with his mate, and from the very start seemed to have a dislike for him. When the little fellow was placed in the cage for the first time and approached the wire which separates them, "Mike" advanced as though it was his intention to make friends and the Rheusua was willing. When they got close enough "Mike" suddenly reached through the netting and grabbed the little fellow' by the tail and pulled it through, the wire and began to make a luncheon off of it. The screams oi

Early Churches in Richmond Reflect Love of Pioneers for Matters About Religion

Used now by Mather Brothers in the coal and lumber business, the first church built in Richmond stands at North Tenth and G streets, serving as a reminder of early Quakerism in Indiana. The meeting house was constructed in 1822-23 and in later years was the Sunday worshipping place of Friends who journeyed here on excursion trains from Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and other cities. It was in 1806 that the first meeting was held in a log cabin constructed at an uncertain point in what is now Elm place near the place occupied by the Arlington Hotel. The first official meeting began in 1803. In 1822-23 the big meeting house, known as Whitewater Meeting House was built and was used by the Friends until 1878 when. the. East Main Street Friends' church was erected. It was BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER. The night air felt cool and refreshing upon Isabel Hamilton's flushed face, as she and Duval drove home side by side. At her suggestion, her companion opened both windows of the cab. "Oh," she sighed, "I am so glad to get out of those hot rooms!" She pressed her hands over her eyes. "The night is so lovely," the man said, seeming to Ignore her emotion. "Do you mind if we go home by a roundabout way that is, take a little turn up along the river? The moon is wonderful just now." She shook her head, her hands still pressed to her eyes, "I don't care," she muttered, "where I go or what becomes of me." . Duval leaned forward and gave his orders to the driver before he made

"A Man and His Wife" Duval Tries to Act as Sympathizer to the Sorrowful Isabel.

the assaulted animal quickly brought the keeper and the newcomer was released. Since then no -dainty can coax that Rhesus within reaching distance of his cage companions. Children "and grown folks, too. spend hours watching the pranks of the monkeys and. shouts of laugGter are often heard at some funny stunt performed for the benefit of the spectators, for if the people appear to be amused the animals keep up their play for hours at a time. Recognize Friends. There is no doubt that they know who their friends are, for if one of the keepers approaches them, the monkeys grab the netting, shake it as hard as .they can and make as much noise as possible, evidently as a ioeans of showing their pleasure at seeing a friend. Many of the regular visitors have made the acquaintance of "Mike," who appears to be the most popular for he receives the largest share of the peanuts that are so generously thrown into the cages. There are some people that monkeys like and then there are others to whom they take an -intense hatred. If they don't like anyone, they are not backward in showing the state of their feelings. There is an old G. A. R. veteran who spends a good deal - of time in the park and for some reason he is "in bad" with "Mike" and his companions. Every time the "old Vet" is anywhere near, the monkeys snarl and jump against the netting and no amount of coaxing on his part has any effect on them. So long as he is in their vicinity they are in a bad humor and watch him like a hawk watches a chicken. If he moves around the cage they follow him and end one that the keepers try to guard appears from their view they will not resume their play.

also supplanted by Whitewater Friends church erected nearby some years ago. Smith Owned Ground. In the early days of Quakerism here, John Smith owned the ground on one side of Main street and Jeremiah Cox was owner of the other side. They had the ground as farms which they later mapped off into what is now the city of Richmond. Methodism followed the Quaker religion to this community and the church first erected by followers of this denomination, stands on South Tenth street in the rear of the Starr Piano company's building. It is now used as a dwelling house. When they deserted it, the Methodists moved into a church known as Pearl street Church. The Presbyterians who next took up any reply to her exclamation of desperation. Then he said, gently: "Dear lady words are poor things with which to express what one feels but I'm fearfully sorry that you're unhappy. . " . ' ' ' ' - She withdrew her hands from her eyes- and tried to smile. "I'm a fool, that's all!" she declared defiantly. But her voice broke and she bit her lips to keep back the tears. Duval laid his hand on her quivering fingers. "Poor child!" he said sympathetically. "You are worn out, that's all. You're up aganst a tough proposition, and, after all, you're only a girl and you've put up a fine fight." Duval Tries to Comfort the Distressed Wife. His tone of understanding compassion was too much for her, and, dropping her -face into hei hands, she burst into tears. He let her sob in silence

Do You Know Them?

i Ti ; Popular Next to the monkeys, the bears come in for the largest share of attention and they have become so tame that they will eat out of the hand. Many people stick their hands through the bars and pat them. This however is a very dangerous practice and noe that the keepers try to guard against, for Bruin is apt to be in a bad humor at any time and if he should happen to be at.the particular moment that the unwary attempts worship, established their meeting place in the K. of P. hall and remained there until the First Presbyterian church was constructed. The first monthly meeting of the Friends' held in Indiana was held in 1809 in Whitewater Meeting House. It was to the east end of this log meeting house, that a plank shed, sixty feet long and forty feet wide, was built for the accommodation of Indiana Yearly Meeting at its opening in October 1821. John Henley, who attended Indiana Yearly Meeting every, year from 1821 till near his death and was well acquainted with the growth and changes in Richmond, said that the log house stood in the northeast' corner of the old Whitewater burying ground as it now exisits. That would make it about 200 feet almost due west from the for a minute, then drew her head down upon his broad shoulder. "There, there!" he said soothingly as a man might try to quiet his little sister. "Cry it out, dear. It will do you good." She did cry it out, her frame shaken by sobs that she did not strive to control. When the storm had spent itself, she sat up and made a futile effort to laugh. "I'm ashamed of myself," she apolo gized. "I have not cried like that before in months and never where anybody saw me. Please forgive me. I don't know what you must think of me" . , "May I tell you, Isabel?" he whispered . , "Oh, no!" she said. "Don't tell me anything that you .may regret later. You-don't know- mer norhow-stHy- I am. But you are my friend. I am sure

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Pets of. Richmond's Boys and Girls at Park Zoo.

this, thereis liable to be a sudden snap of the powerful jaws and some part of the hand or arm may be missing. The bears at Glen Miller are of the Black species found in different parts of the United States and some of them are not yet full grown. In their great big clumsy fashion they are almost as funny as the smaller animals. They will sit up in their dens and hold their mouths' agape, waiting for someone to throw food into them. old brick meeting house still standing on North G street. It seems quite cer tain that it was in that house that Whitewater Monthly Meeting was open in 1809. Atfer tne Monthly meeting was establishedtbere was added inducement for many other Friends to come to Richmond. By 1812. 625 Quakers including' the original 175 members, had become established with Whitewater Meeting. These came from everywhere, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and the Miami River valley. In 1810 Jesse Bond was approved by the church as a minister of the Gospel and a few years later John Morrow's services as a minister were recorded by the meeting. Other ministers were William Williams, George Hatton and Obadiah Harris and his son. Of that. And, as my friend, perhaps you will let me tell you just what happened tonight." "Yes, child, tell me," he said. She told him a great deal not only Adelaide's remarks to her over the telephone, but what she had heard Adelaide say to John. She also went back to the episode of the roses, to the incident of the telephone message, that John had pretended was on business but which had really been from Adelaide Simmons. And through all the" story ran the thread of her own "love for her husband her desire to trust him, her suffering. She said nothing of her own faults or failings simply because she did not think of them at this juncture. Nor did she tell of any financial difficulties.-Something held -her- back -from talk of this sort. Somehow it seemed sordid to bring money matters into conversation with a man who was not related to her. He Is Not Carried Away, But Very Deferential. ' Whatever may have been the emotion that stirred the depths of David Duval's being, it showed itself in a deferential, manner - and a - gentleness that would have won a happier and

They like all kinds of food from peanuts to sour apples and a handful of blackberries is a most delicious morsel for them, but one they seldom receive, for the city does not feed them fruit and the visitor does not oftea have a box of berries in his pocket. It is great sport to the younger ele ment when the bears get into the wa ter pools that are provided in each den and splash around. During the warm days the animals spend most of

less soft-hearted woman than his companion. "You have honored me, dear." he said softly, when her recital was ended. "Perhaps it may have been your loneliness that made you trust me with this intimate story. It may have been because you felt the need of counsel from a man of the world or it may have been I wish it were because you care enough for. my friendship to find comfort in telling me of your troubles." "Oh, it is a comfort!" she exclaimed. "I'm afraid I'm very weak and that I may have done wrong in talking to you of all this but it has helped me to tell it to someone who understands." "Change that last word, child," he begged. "That last word?" she repeated. "WThat last word?" "That word 'understands.' Change it to 'cares.' For. I , do.-care very., deeply, dear Isabel. Remember that unless it troubles you to remember it. I will not try to tell you of, what I feel now but your woman's instinct can make you guess. Sometime, when you have decided what you a:e going to do, you will remember that I am thinking of you, dear that I am waiting for you to let me come and tell you how much" "Oh, no!" she exclaimed throwing out her hands as if to ward off something she feared. Then she added, falteringly, "Forgive me, please. I am afraid to think just now." The cab had turned into the street on which she lived. There was but a moment more. She was not sorry that j this was so. Yet she did not shrink; when David Duval lifted her hand to; his lips. ; "Don't think until you are ready to . do so, dear," he said. I Almost before she could appreciate ; his meaning he had let her into the house and had gone his way. This! time he did not escort her upstairs to the door of her apartment. To Be Continued. CLAIMS NO HONOR FOR HER POETRY "Arriving aboard 'the American liner, St. Louis, Miss Elsie Janis, popular musical comedy and vaudeville star, denied that she was posing as a poetess because-of her poem "Where Are You God ?" which created a Sensation both in this country and. in England, where Miss Janis has been playing for several months. The subject of Miss Janis' poem was the Lusitania . disaster. It was ' sold for the benefit of blind English soldiers and netted , $2,500 for the fund. The actress laughingly remarked that she did not intend to go in seriously for. poetry, but would;, confine- her ; ambitions to -the stage. :' '

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the time in the tanks - and ' take huge delight, in rolling around in the cooling water. . . These tanks are Bruin's greatest comfort in the summer months .for you must remember that he cannot take off his winter overcoat like you can. The bears certainly must feel the heat with a fur. coat on with the. thermometer. at ninety five in the shade, y ; About the laziest creature to - be found at the zoo are the Alligators. They lay out in the 6un and are not often seen to move. There is a family of a mother and five little - ones that spend most oi their time ashore going into the water at night to sleep. They .sleep witb their bodies ' submerged and their heads resting on shore. Judging from the remarks heard about them the alligators are not very popular. The most frequent exclamation is: "My, wouldn't she make a dandy hand bag." Among . the women the deer ranks first in popularity. They are impressed with the expression in their eye6 (not the ladies eyes, but the deers) and make great pets of them. The deer, however, are rather timid and do not get close enough to the fence lo be petted. Most of their time they spend way back out of sight under the trees. The deer at the Glen are of immense size and can be favorably compared with any herd in captivity. While they do not take kindly to confinement they are not exactly wild but they have never gotten over their fear of man and perhaps never will. There are many more interesting features at the zoo and their numbers are being increased from time to time. Park Encloses Log Cabin. Standing back off the road, in the center of the park, is the first school house ever built in Richmond and it

An Ancient Relic

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Old Log Cabin Used as School. One of

How They Dodge Shells 4 4 4 People in Arras Live in Cellars and Underground Shelters But Children Go to School Regularly

BY GEORGE DUFRESNE. PARIS, Aug. 7. There are several towns in France- where the inhabitants have grown so accustomed to being bombarded that they eat, drink, sleep and go about their daily tasks under a continual roar of cannon and bursting shells. There are Rheims, Pont-a-Moussen and Arras, for example, whose populations have had but few days' respite for months past. A correspondent of the Journal writes: "The last time I passed Arras in the train on the journey to Boulogne, shells could be seen and heard bursting close by. To understand the whole atmosphere of danger and sudden death that hangs over Arras, it has to be realized that the German lines are just half a mile away. "The massively built cathedral is hardly recognizable, and the railway station is a pile of nondescript materials. There is scarcely a house Intact in the place. It was October 5 of last year that the Germans began a bombardment that continued for three days, and was taken up again toward the end of the month. After that it became intermittent and fanciful, without any apparent cause or motive, as Arras has not strategic importance. "Toward the end of April, however, the tactics changed, and every day since then at least a hundred shells have been sent into Arras. Latterly the heaviest 'marmites, or 'Jack Johnsons' have begun to fall together with incendiatry bombs. . "One would have thought that .the inhabitants' would have long since quitted the inferno and preferred, to put more than half a mile between themselves and their relentless foe When "the bombardment began then were perhaps 25,000 inhabitants, and in the first fright at least half of these fled. As time went on others thought life was scarcely worth living under tne existing conditions, but 2,000 hava stoutly stuck to their native place, and refused to quit what is left of, or represents, their homes. These are mostly -small tradesmen and the working classes, the majority of whom lead a troglodytic life in cellars and underground shelters, but still 'at home.' They know well the habits and customs of the enemy, and when they are sure-that -"the firing is going to' cease for a while they venture out and do

is still in a good state of preservation. t Some very funny stories could no doubt be told of the many incidents that have happened within its walls if there was anyone living to tell the tale.. , ; v -"The school was . in . its prime when the schoolmaster ruled with a "birch rod" instead of. with "an iron hand." and perhaps your grandfather - got many a tanning for some misdemeanor he had committed, or maybe had not. The big feature of the park so far as Richmond people are concerned is its easy accessibility and the fact that there is no finer picnic grounds any-, where in the country. Its massive shade trees, that have been standing for centuries, and the little rippling brook which is filled with the coolest and clearest of spring water, together with the lake and driveways, make it one of the most beautiful of the few natural parks to be found in any city. Many Visit Grounds. - Richmond people take ample advantages of the opportunity afforded them and there is scarcely a clear day when the grass is not dotted with happy family parties out for a day's airing Aside from the Zoo. swings and boating on the lake, there are no amusements except those furnished by nature. There are no gaudy attractions to mar the beautiy of the park and it is hoped that there never will be. There is plenty of green grass for the children to romp on and no "Keep off the grass" signs to stop them from going Just where they please and they do it and a day's outing at tht Glen means a good time for the whole family. The. roads in the park are always kept in the best of condition and judging from the number of automobiles that traverse them, everybody in the city who owns a car must go over them at least once a week.

First School Houaes in Wayne County. their shopping and meeting with each other. "With that love of order that distinguishes Fernch official life, the prefectural service has never stopped working, and though the walls of the prefecture have long since been blown down, and little but the skeleton is left of the town hall, the staff continues to carry on its duties as calmly as if in time of peace. One of the most curious and touching features of the life of Arras is the school, where eighty little boys and girls regularly attend, and where one male and three women teachers daily.give their lessons in a spacious cave. The hours are not very regular, and the bombardment often makes some of the children late, both in coming and going home in the evening. The mid-day meal is prepared and taken in the underground school' room, and though several of the children have fallen victims to the shell fire this has not deterred a single one from continuing the lessons." "GREAT MAJORITY" IS NOT THE DEAD BUT FORD OWNERS We don't ordinarily place our peace of mind in jeopardy by springing a Ford story as "news." However, it is believed that the following, sent in by the Bloomington Motor company, agents for Ford cars at Bloomington, III., is new; anyway, we paid our life insurance premium last week. "A lady received a letter from an old. friends a few days ago. which stated . that an old gentleman acquaintance bad just joined the 'Great Majority." As they had received no previous word that . the old gentleman was ill or even in-, disposed, the news proved, a severe shock to the lady," This lady and her daughter were mueh relieved to learn, shortly after, that-their old friend had joined the 'Great Majority' by buying a Ford car. The lady expects to join the 'Great Majority, herself within a few days." v Believe us, boys, it's some majority, and each succeeding batch of returns swells the vote in favor of the Universal Car. . Is your precinct lining up the way it should?