Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 244, 24 August 1917 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917

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EMPEY GRIPS HIS AUDIENCE WITH REAL WAR YARN American Veteran of Trenches Pleases 3,500 Who Braved Rain.

Italn couldn't keep 3,600 people from hearing Sergeant Guy Empey Thursday night. It soaked up the ground before the talk, and made everyone who came sure of wet feet, and It dripped on them, those Inside and outside; but the young American veteran of the great war held everyone silent and motionless with his simple- stirring story of war experiences, told in pic

turesque American slang. Mimics Gas Attack. Empey attacked and defended, he

mlmiced the gas attack, a trench at

tack, wound9 and hospitals, so that everyone in the audience saw clearly what he had seen. And he told it all in picturesque American that had a punch in it, as for instance, when he called a British general a son-of-a-gun. Clad in his British uniform, with his sleeve and bosom fairly ragged with emblems, decorations and medals, he had the audience with him from the very first minute, when he denounced slackers and pro-Germans. From this appeal to the audience to wake up and realize that we are at war, he went on to his own story. It was a breathless hour that followed, and Empey was cheered as perhaps no other speaker on the platform has been this year, when he was through.

Browning Was Best Scenario Writer of 'Em All, Says Phelps

Browning has been called the greatest movie writer that ever lived, and not by word-makers, but by hardheaded business men, said Dr. Phelps, In his address on Pippa Passes Thursday afternoon. The Pippa Passes talk was announced by Dr. Phelps Thursday morning, when news came that the Boston Sextette would not be here until late In the afternoon. Dr. Phelps took up the scenes in the poem in succession. He said that Browning got the Idea on a rainy day in London, when the thought flashed across his mind of having a little girl, unknown and ignorant, profoundly impress the lives of people around

THE CAT

Hawekottes Live in Regular Mansion; No Tents For Them

With ear attuned, we heard a tomcat phrase, Which sang as sweetly hot as brick3 hard-thrown. Or cussing, vivid, violent and windblown, In an old-fashioned scrap of other days When hoboes sore as boila woke In amaze. In hospitals. Was he an exile lone? Wandering in alien lands and far from home? He proudly pressed his voice out, in ways. That made us tired. We sadly rose to smite; We killed him! Will his drear ghost haunt The melancholy days of catless age. When fires of fancy dimmed in the twilight Of weary walling years still faintly flaunt His caterwaullngs in his last deep rage? Roscoe Bain Fleming.

her by some simple act On this idea the poem is baeed. ' Animal love, love of husband and wife, mother love, and love of God are the four kinds of love treated in the poem. Phelps believes, he said, that the poem would be better without the last scene, however.

WEST GATE MOST POPULAR AT PARK

The west gate of the grounds is the most profitable of the three. The east gate used to be most popular, until car owners were forced to park their cars in the sun. Now they drive around to the trees on the west and the west gate collects the money. The east gate uses more pass-out checks than any other, many people going out and back at noon to eat their lunch in the park.

BOSTON SE

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MUSIC POPU

John Hawekotte has a regular man

sion on his lot at Chautauqua, No flimsy and leaky tents for him, says Hawekotte, therefore he has built himself a sectional house. The house is ten feet square. The roof is in four ijjpces. the floor in three, and each of the sides forms one. All of 'em are flat, aud can be loaded and unloaded on a wagon, taken down iind put up, in an hour. Sides of the. house are of sheet iron, the roof of tar paper, and every piece is grooved to fit. They are clamped together with screws. The upper part of the walls is of wire screening, with canvas shades which can be raised for air and lowered for privacy. Materials cost about $50, says Hawe kotte. He wants to sell this venture, as he is anxious to build a motor trailer tent

Larger Tent Needed to Care For Crowds

The most sorely needed thing for the Richmond Chautauqua is either that Ions-debated permanent auditorium, or a larger tent. Every large attraction so far has had hundreds of people standing. Big erawing-rards bring them out in spite of the rain and the fact that they are morally certain of having to stand if they arrive later than 7 o'clock. Y. F. Deetor, veteran tent man, says the pioacnt tent can easily be enlarged, but not on the present site. Any attempt to put a larger tent on the same s-ite, by slitting it to allow for the trees would be a failure, he says. A larger tent, with the strength speakers have to use. now would, however, almost be an impossibility because of the distances their voices vould have to carry. As for the lons-discussed permanent auditorium, people are talking about it a little, but no one seems to believe that it is a possibility right now. So there you are!

Phelps on Browning

"There isn't a single person in this room who hasn't made the world better or worse. Influence Is unconscious."

"The people of the world are as closely knit together as a bunch of worms for bait." "Here's what Browning says: 'If this is an orderly universe, every person 1n this woj-ld is as important as a king or emperor..'".: . .'-"., t.'"We love people to whom we give things, and for whom we make sacrifices." "Anybody who has lived in this world twenty years knows that sin is an illusion. If we had no morals at all, but only the clearest of reasoning powers, we would never stray from the path of virtue."

The Boston Symphony sextette plays classical music, but it is popular. ' A big audience waited, patiently for the pjayers for almost an hour Thursday afternoon after Dr. Phelps was done speaking, and another big audience waited almost another hour on Thursday night, for the rain to stop

ana let them play. The sextette is the pick of the musicians of the great Boston Symphony Orchestra, and they proved it at both performances. The Paderewski "Minuet," the "Blue Danube," Dvorak's "Humoresque," and two pieces from Schumann were perhaps most popular. The musicians received generous applause for every number, however. Mr. Nast 'cello soloist, was encored.

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MIMICS

LITERARY ME

THE PROGRAM Friday 8:00 p.m. Grand Concert, Boston Symphony Sextette. Saturday 10:00 a.m. Rev. J. G. Benson, "Policing Jericho's Road." 3:00 p.m. Concert, L. A. C. Ladies' Orchestra. 7:00 p.m. Prelude, L. A. C. Ladies' Orchestra. 8:00 p.m. Entertainment, Sidney Landon, Impersonator, "Character Studies of Great Men."

Sid Landon, impersonator, who appears on the program for Saturday night, is a consummate platform artist. Landon does one of the most difficult things in the world. He puts on his make-up in full view of the audience, talking as he does it, and takes it off the same way at the end, yet preserves the illusion. His most effective piece of mimicry, perhaps, is that of the trembling and aged Mark Twain, making the principal speech at his seventieth birthday dinner. Poe, Bill Nye and others are also well done. The L. A. C. ladies' orchestra, which gives a full program Saturday afternoon, is made up of Chicago girls who at first played purely for their own entertainment, with no thought of going on the platform. Their ability was recognized, however, by Chautauqua managers, and they succumbed to the tempting offers made them. Besides instrumental music, they also offer a quartette and a reader.

Mystery is Solved! They Give Dogs Away The latest Chautauqua stunt Is a dog market. Four handsome Scotch collie pups, unclaimed, have been caught inside the grounds, and three of them have been disposed of to dog lovers. One goes to Lynn, one to Eaton, and one just east of the city. The fourth will be held at the east gate until some time this evening, to save him from execution. If you want a goodloking collie, he's yours.

NATURAL RELIGION PLEA OF PHELPS

ONE OF FIRST TO PLOW

FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind.. Aug. 24. Ollie Love, who has 22 acres In corn, is among the first to plow, and will lay out 17 acres in wheat between corn. His 20 acres of wheat went 33 bushels to the acre and fetched $2.20 per bushel.

FIRST FOUR DAYS SHOW BIG GAIN OVER LAST YEAR

Gate receipts for the first four days ran $200 ahead of those for last year. This year's total was $S7S, and that of last year $692. Last year's first day, however, out-ran Sunday by about $70.

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The air' is so clear at Arequipa, Peru, that from the observatory at that place, 8,050 feet above sea level, a black spot in diameter placed on a white disk has been seen on Mount Charchni, a distance of eleven miles, through a thirteen inch telescope.

Even Toy Dog is in

Lost and Found Nook of Secretary's Tent

The headquarters tent is beginning to look like a pawnshop with lost articles, although the Chautauqua is only six days old. Pillows, gloves, handkerchiefs, a child's toy dog hanging pathetically from a post by a string around its neck, season tickets, purses, fans, umbrellas, a sweater and countless other articles are waiting their owners' call. Twenty-five season tickets have been returned to the losers already, says Secretary Wis3ler.

Dr. William Lyon Phelps, In his talk before the Chautauqua Friday morning, pleaded for more natural religion. ''Why on earth is it that when religion comes in, everybody grows unnatural? Why, when three or four people are talking together, and religion is introduced, do they grow embarrassed? "Let religion have its place as the core and center of life, but don't rub it into people!" Dr. Phelps' subject was "Browning and Christianity." He read extracts from two of Browning's poems, "Christmas Eve" and the Pope's speech in "The Ring and the Book."

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Ghautauquettes

One Family Lives in Auto at Chautauqua

The only motor trailer home on the t.hautauqua grounds is that owned by W. D. Williams. It's complete even to f. refrigerator. The motor trailer, when folded up. looks like an ordinary cart about the size or a R. R. D. mail wagon. When ur folded, which is done by letting the sides down on posts stuck in the ground, tho tent provides cozy six-foot btds for four persons, and a little space in the middle, for living pUrpOSfS. Williams bought the trailer in Detroit this summer. He has never taken it on a trip yet. but plans to do so h foon as he can get away. For Chautauqua he had a floor built on in front, with a fly over it.

"Browning combats one of the commonest and one of the falsest statements in the world; that as we 'grow older we lose our enthusiasm. The things that amuse children don't amuse grown-ups. but that doesn't mean the grown-ups have lost their enthusiasm."

Big Top is Full of Temperament, Avers Man Who Keeps It

Tents are curious animals, and they keep their keeper humping, says W. F. Deetor, who has taken care of tho local herd for fifteen years. Every time it rains, or dries up, or dews, or sunshines, the reporter gathered, Deetor has to spend two or three hours tightening or loosening guy ropes on the "big top." This in addition to calls, almost hourly in wet weather, to come and rescue 6ome of the local colony from the drips down the back of their neck. Rainy weather is the worst, says Deetor. as he sometimes is off the job for an hour at a time when it is dry.

The audience had just gotten nicely settled Thursday afternoon when the Boston Symphony Sextette played the "Star Spangled Banner," and everybody had to stand up. And did you notice how the audience applauded when "The Blue Danube," a piece by a German composer on a German theme, was announced? Art's too big for war!

Scrap of conversation: "Hey, Jimmy, come on over here! We've got a :cal live snake over here!"

Another scrap: "I don't know you, but will you let me stay here until the rain stops?"

Who's responsible for the sign asking for small donations of chicken, pie and cake, preferably home-cooked, on the east gate? None of the boys there will admit being the author.

That's a good-looking bunch of posters the W. C. T. U. have on their tentwalls, but very few folks go in to see 'em.

A. T. Elliot, chauffeur of the eastern gate, is an industrious person. He spends his spare time looking over a text-book of general science, one of the subjects he teaches. Miss Colbert didn't do any singing Friday morning, but she had an accompanist just the same, in the person of a musician on the afternoon's program, who practiced industriously in the dressing-tent during her talk.

A few of the girls on the grounds have nice ideas of a vacation. They spend their mornings with a broom tidying up the tents of their male acquaintances.

NO PASSPORTS

Another W Attack

Ukuleles to the right of us and all around us. You can't enjoy this "jazzrazzitis" properly unless you own one of those $4.50 ukuleles from Weisbrod's. Don't forget

they're easy to playi and you get an in- j struction book FREE! with every instru- j ment.

"Get in" on these Saturday at the store of pleasant dealing. In tone and finish, these ukuleles are superior to instruments offered at much higher prices.

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Come see our splendid display of EAELY FALL FASHIONS. We are showing every up-to-the-minute -style, fabric and color.

New York's Most

Stunning New Models You'll find it a pleasure and a delight to

look over these charming new ' Dresses,

Suits - Coats and we will be pleased to show you. We gladly welcome and invite your inspection. Bring your friends. Generous Credit

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TODAY AND SATURDAY Can a woman lead a double life and not suffer for it? See RAGINA BADET The Vampire of Frarwe, in

"The Golden Lotas

Beauty, youth, the glamour of rom ance, the red flames of passion, the still, bewitching beauty of nature at its best- All these combine to entrance and delight the beholders. Also a Keystone Comedy "A CLEVER DUMMY" A laugh a Minute. Path News Shows Continuous 1:45 to 11:00 P. M. MATINEE 10c. ' NIGHT 15c

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24. Orders I

to discontinue issuance of passports to persons desiring to go to Chihuahua. Mexico, have been received from the department of the state by the clerk of the United States district court, in charge of passports here. No reason was given.

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Folks Just Laugh When Rain Mixes 'Em

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Rain mixed tip the

crowd Thursday evening. When those sudden showers hit the ,...,, uc nifht fnlifs ducked into

nearest bholter." Dozens of Vm got ac-j bridge City: Albert T. Flatley, Web

and carry everything: before them are the kind you will set here tomorrow. It's to be the greatest value-giving day in the history of this store.

m Our recent Cash Raising Sale brought great crowds and made business good, but this

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CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. 24Lee Ault has been appointed by Gov

cnor Goodrich to act as the govern-j rnent's attorney in conscription cases;

before the second district county se- j i3

lective army noara. Ault has asked the citizens of this district to forward to him any information they have obtained of men who are illegally attempting to evade military service by the presentation

before the board of false claims forljjga clean-up sale

1 uc selective aiuij uucuu uao iu-it'i gc Q0ker

tied nineiy-iive men uui ui tuca taken up to the district board. Eighty- j one men have been granted either ! discharge or exemption and there are J twenty-one cases yet to be taken up. j The district s quota is ninety-one. '

Thirty-two men were rejected Thursday. They are: Charles Timmons, lTagerstown: Albert Joseph Wedding,

Milton; Paul William stairora, tarn

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should pack this store to overflowing all day tomorrow. . Read what we have to offer. Come early for these unheard of values

$1.50 Ladies' Waists, 79c One lot of high grade Ladies' Waists in hundreds of styles aud 'TQxmakes; Cleanup sale J C $3.00 Ladies' Skirts, $1.98 One lot of Ladies' Skirts in blue serge, whipcord and Panama,

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qu.itnted with new people. The rain turned the grounds Into one big puddle for a while. It kept down Guy Enipey's crowd, and prevented the Boston Sextette from appearing on time. But the crowd just laughed. They've t the chautauqua spirit.

Teachers Can Help to Win, Says Ellis

It's up to the teachers of America, says Dr. Horace Ellis, state super! Undent of public instruction. The teachers can help win this and future wars, said Dr. Ellis, Thursday afternoon in his address on "The Day and the Hour, as well as remedy the evil brought on by wars."

fcter; T. Herscneii uuse. niuiamsburg; lam Ewers, Milton: Harold Hollingsworth, Cambridge City; Earl Parker Stevens, It. F. D., Richmond; Harrison Miller, R. F, D.. Richmond; Roy Stidham, Fountain City; Walter Ammerman. Cambridge Cfty; Walter Cald

well, Centerville: Emmett Smith, Hag-j - 1 . : rr-l, i- r-.A-i TMJ1 '

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Roy Franklin Turner, Centervine; Harry H. Bales, Dublin; Elmer S. Howard, Cambridge City; Rosswell Huff, Fountain City; Fred Wilkinson, Hagerstown; Everett Frank Tipton Greensfork; Clarence Oler, Economy; Louis N. Cordell, Hagerstown; Clyde Flook, Greensfork; Charles Frederick Reed, Milton; Roy Hamilton Jones, R. F. D. Richmond; Howard H. Reed, Fountain City; Calway Isaacs, Greensfork; Clifford Marson. Cambridge City; Clinton oJnes, Williamsburg and Walter Amos Strickler, Economy.

Soap, 3J.-2C The best

Toilet and Bath Soap on the market ; while they last they Q 1 go for OliC Wash Skirts, 98c $1.50 and $3.00 Plain White and Fancy Color Wash Skirts; to clean them out 75c Corsets, 49c 75c La Vesta and Nu Model Corsets; all A Q. sizes Lt)Q Children's Hats. 4Sc Choice of

any Child s Hat in our store

values up to $1.50 at Bungalow Aprons, 49c - light and dark Bungalow kind other stores charge you 75c, S5c, for

48c Ladies' Aprons, 49c

S7.95

Silk Sweaters. $7.95 One lot of

Ladies' Pure Silk Sweaters, all col

ors and shades; values up to SIS:

to clean them up they go for

Ladies' Waists, 33c One lot of Odds and Ends Ladies' Waists, slightly mussed;' values up to $2.50; we are going to clean QQ" them outvfor OtL 5c Thread for ZVzc 5c King's

Thread, 200 yards spool, black and

white; all sizes, go for

Men's Straw Hats 25c We must clean up our stock of Men's Straw Hats; in order to do so we marked them down, each.. dtJks Men's Union Suits, 39c One lot of Men's Union Suits, sizes 34 to 44 ;

otner stores psk for tne ssme

suit 75e; we will clean them

up for

Breakfast Set, 93c Three-piece Breakfast St, Pkirt, jacket pnd

cap; worth $1.50 now for

24c

!n!39c

ee-piece 98c

Toilet Paper, 7 for 25c Bob White Toilet Paper, extra large roll, on sale, 7 for Men's Khaki Pants, 98c Men's khaki Pants, well made, belt loops

and cuff bottom; worth $1.50; cleanup price

98c

Men's Summer Underwear, 21c One lot of Men's Summer Underwear, Odds and Ends, but all sizes, to clean them out for Boys' Waists, 35c Boys' dress and sport Waists, in plain and fancy colors: light and dark, 50c value for tOi $1.00 Dress Shirts, 69tf One lot of Men's $1 Dress Shirts, slightly soiled; they go in clean up sale for OisL Athletic Union Suits, 43c Men's Athletic Union Suits in high and V. neck; clean up sale iO. for 40C

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We want to clean up every Summer Dress in our store.

and if the Drlce will do It. we are with vou: vour TJV"

choice of any Dress in our store

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Boys' Suits Your boy will need a new Suit sooner or later and it will pay you to buy now while you can ave. See ours at $2.93 and up. Dress Ginghams, 15c Hundreds of yards of Dress Ginghams and Chambrays in assorted patterns

and stripes, today's value 20c and 25c; at this sale..,

15c Children's Hose, 11c In black and white, all sizes, the kind of

hose other stores charge you ISc to 20c, at this sale.

C5s Summer Voiles, 15c We must clean up all our Summer Goods. We have hundreds of yards of Summer

one?, urganaies ana Lawns in

Plain and Fancy ends; val

ues up to 25e; Sale price.

Children's Dresses, 43c 75c and 89c children's Gingham Dresses, as

sorted styles and patterns your choice t

75c Men's Silk Hats, 39c This is the final wind up of this lot of Hats and they are on sale

15c 1 black iind of 11c e must ids. We Summer rns in

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Ladies' Summer Coats, $1.00 To R'j

clean up our stock of Summer fe.4

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you will be able to carry away an arm full for a little money. Coats

worth up to $10 and some

$15, your choice

Children's Coats $1.93 Your choice of any child's coat, in our store, all well made, in black and white checked plaid, values up QQ to $5.00, now tp0

$1.00

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Lad'es Dress" Shoes, $1.98 Several hundred pairs of Ladies Dress

Shoes, ail styles and makes, to

clean them out, they go

for

Child's Low Shoes, 59c Child's Black and White Scuffer Low Cuts, just a few pairs, to close out fTQ, values up to $1.00 for OtC Misses' Low Cuts, 98c Your choice of any misses low cut in our store in black and white pat-

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FALL

BUY YOU

GOODS NOW

In thi3 sal,e we will sell you fall and winter goods at F?; reduced prices. No matter if it is Underwear, Hosiery, ji Sweaters, Blankets, Comforts or Ourlng Flannel, every- 0

thing is on sale and if you buy now you will save money.