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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
BRETON LASsES.
They Show No Regret In Parting With
Their Luxuriant Tresses.

They Show No Regret In Parting With
Their luxuriant Tresses.
A correspondent writes from Pom
tivy, Brittany. giving some interesting
facts of q hair market" there. 1t Is
stated that in different parts Of the
motley crowd there were three or four
different purchasers IT this commod-
ity. who travel the country for the
purpose Of attending the fairs and buy
ing the tresses Of the peasant girls.
They have particularly fine hair and
frequently in the greatest abundance.
There seemed to be no difficulty In
finding possessors Of beautiful heads
Of hair perfectly willing to sell.
1--WE saw several girls sheared. one
after the other. like sheep. and as
many more standing ready for the
shears with their caps in their hands
and their long hair combed out and
hanging down to their waists
mo doubt the reason of the indif-
ference to their tresses on the part of
the fair Bretonnes Is to be found In
the invariable mode which covers ev-
cry head from childhood upward with
close caps, which entirely prevent any
part of the hair from being seen and
of course as totally cOnceals the want
Of 1t. The money given for the hair Is
about 20 sous or else a gaudy cotton
handkerchief. The purchasers net i'm
mense profits by their trips through
the country."-Boston Herald.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
PENNSYLVANIA RY.
DEMANDS ECONOMY
Engineers Told to Save on the
Oil, the Clerks on the
Stationery.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 7.-Indicative of
the efforts of the PENNSYLVANIA rail-
road to economic in every possible
way, is general notice which has
just been issued to the employees of
the Schuylkill division. Employees are
told what it would mean to the COM
pany on the Schuylkill division alone
if each one would save 10c a day. En-
ginemen are requested to be careful
in the use of oil, fremen in the use of
coal and clerks are asked to econom-
iZe in the use Of stationery and by
avoiding errors. Various other details
are gone into in this rather unique no
tice, which is as follows:
ITO Employees of Schuylkill Division:
The necessity for a reduction of ex-
penses at this time is very urgent. In
addition to the exercise of the strict
est economy in the use of material by
all employees, the working time should
be watched very carefully by trainmen
and enginemen in order to avoid over
time wherever possible. In fact evSSs
vision would save ten cents a day for
the company it would mean total saw
ing of $40 a day, or in the month of
April. of $4,000 which would go toward
paying the increased rates of wages
which We are now enjoying. How
easy it would be for each emp;oye to
do this in his own line of work-en-
ginemen in the use of oil; firemen in
the use of coal; clerks by economy in
the use of stationery, and by avoiding
errors; trackmen in gathering up old
bolts and spikes; shopmen by doing
their work properly and thus avoiding
breakdowns on the road; warehouse
men by loading freight so as to avoid
damage; and all employees in many
ways which will occur to them in the
intelligent performance of their re-
spective duties Remember the old
adage: What is everybody's business
is nobody's business and let each en-
ploye make it his personal business to
join in this iaudable effort.
A. w. Moss, Superintendent"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
THE TABLED PHOENIX.

Legend Of How the Bird Lived and
Died and Lived Again.
The ancient tradition concerning the
phoenix has introduced into nearly ev.
cry language the habit OF applying that
name to whatever is singular or un-
common among its kind. According to
ancient writer's. the phoenix was bird
Of great beauty about the size of an
eagle. A shining and most beautiful
crest adored its head. its plumage con-
tanned nearly every tint Of the rain
bow. and its eyes sparkied like dia-
monds.
Only one Of these birds could live
at q time. but its existence covered a
period OF 500 or Coo years. When its
life drew to a close the bird built for
itself funeral. pile OF wood and arc
matte spices. with its wings famed the
pile into flame and therein consumed
itself. From its ashes worm was
produced. out Of which another phoe-
nix was formed. having all the vigor Of
youth.
The first care Of the new phoenix
was to solemnize it's parents obsequies.
For that purpose it made a ball Of
myrrh. frankipcense and other fra.
grant things. At Heliopolis. a city in
lower Egypt. there was a magnificent
temple dedicated TO the sun. To this
temple the phoenix would carry the fra
grant ball and burn 1t on the altar OF
the sun as q sacrifice. The priests then
Hk,ot
exactly 500 years or exactly COO years
had elapsed since that same ceremony
had taken place.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
AEROPLANE'S USE
IN NAVAL WARFARE
Is to Be Tested at Hampton
Roads Next Month by u.
S. Government,

Washington. July For the Arst
time in history, exhaustive tests as to
the efficiency and adaptability of diri-
gibles and aeroplanes in war will be
held at Hampton Roads about the first
of August in conjunction with the ma
val maneuvers which will take place
then.
Not satisfied with the usual method
of mimic war, actual ammunition will
be used on the aircraft and the naval
authorities will have some method of
Judging as to the accuracy with which
the guns now in use in the navy can
be relied upon to annihilate an enemy
approaching in airships: For this pur-
pose immense kites, made in shapes
similar to aeroplanes.
The dirigibles will be manned by
dummies representing the crew. The
guns of the land and naval fortifca-
lions will then be trained on these
l"attacking parties and the officials
will have some ground for Judging
how much they would have to depend
| upon, were an enemy actually to at
! tack US through the air
England, Germany and France have
made a number of experiments regard
ing the efficiency of the smaller guns
in repelling attacks on an air enemy
but this will be the first time in the
worlds history that the three and six
inch artillery has been utilized for this
purpose. Another unique features OF
l ha &c will Co.
sci taking part in the experiments will
be allowed to use it's guns according tt
the ideas of it's own captains, for the
Ordinance department has announced
it's intention of keeping it's hands of
during these tests and allowing tn.
individual theories of each ships com
mander to prevail. 1t is thought that il
this manner, large amount of new
material and new methods will be dis
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07

Dare to be true. Nothing can need
a lie.-George Herbert.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
MAILED LETTERS.
Belong to the Ssnders Until Delivered
TO the Addresses.

esions to the Senders Until Delivered
TO the Addresses.
Under the postal regulations and the
rulings Of the highest courts Of the
United States a letter does not belon.
to the person to whom it is sent until
it Is delivered TO him. The writer has
a right to reclaim and regain posses
sion of it. provided he can prove to
the satisfaction Of the postmaster al
the Office from which it was sent that
he was the writer Of it. Even after
the letter has arrived at the Office
which is its destination and before il
has been delivered to the person to
whom it is addressed it may be re-
called by the writer by telegraph
through the mailing Office.
The regulations Of the postoffice de-
partmcnt Of course require that the
utmost care shall be taken by the
postmaster at the office of mailing to
ascertain that the person who desires
to withdraw the letter is really the
one who is entitled to do SO. and a
postmaster is responsible for his error
if he delivers the letter to an impostor
or an unauthorized person.
The vital principle in our political
system lies at the bottom OF this mat
ter. In this country the state is the
servant or agent Of the citizen. not his
master. II remains merely his agent
throughout the transmission Of a let
ter The state may prescribe regula-
tons under which its own servants
may carry a message for the citizen
but 1t cannot shirk its responsibility
to him.-New York Press.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07

Didn't Like 6ashsiors.
In antiquity citizens who remained
bachelors all their lives were consider.
ed unpatriotie.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
ICEMAN OVERCOME
AT CAPITAL CITY
(National News Association

Washington, July 7.-Washington-
wave that has enveloped the capital
for six days. despite the lower tenn
perature today. At 9 O'Clock the Their
mometer registered 81 in the shade
and the mercury was mounting steadi-
ly upward. There have been six
deaths here and As prostrations. John
Coyle was overcome while seated on
wagon containing two tons of ice.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
The Tiny Eleetron,

A striking description Of that incop-
ceIvably minute particle the electron.
which within recent years has de-
throned the atom as the ultimate COM
pOnent OF matter. was given by rresi-
dent e. +. Nichols. Its beha vior,"
he said. ''is that Ut an atom Ut mega.
tive electricity pure and simple. Its
form II spherical and not spheroidal.
lts size Il probably less than one ten
Mathematician IT an inch. When
revolving briskiy enough in an orbit
within the atom Il gives US colOred
light Vt highest purity. When violent.
y jostliny irregulariy about It gives
NJ white light Without the electrou
al light would b impossibie.-Ex
change.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
JAIL SENTENCE IS
HELD POSSIBILITY
tSational News Association

National News Association
Chicago. July Limited States At,
torney Sims today upset statements
which emanated from his ONCE yester--
day to the effect that theten millions
aire. packers indicted on charges OF
criminal conspiracy in connection with
the formation of the beef trust, might
not be sentenced to Jail because the
offense charged against them was
merely "misdemeanor.
The penalty provided for misde-
meancrs." he said, lis $4,000 fine or q
year in the workhouse mot peniten-
tiary) or both. Here. as elsewhere, the
government has an agreement for
sending convicted men to the Bride
well for a term"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
Dynamite.

The latent power Of dynamite is ter
rife. but its direction is simply ques-
ton of ordinary intelligence. AS a
matter of fact. dynamite is safer to
handle and use than ordinary gunpow-
der. with which all are familiar. No
general rule can be laid down for the
use of dynamite. as there are many
kinds and each kind made for par
ticular purpose. However. an enor-
nous amount Of data has been COM
piled. and specific directions for the
use of each grade of the explosive are
furnished by dynamite makers and
dealers.-National Magazine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07
Crushing Romance.

at seems to me-" said Battersby.
''that We are knocking nearly all the
romance and Imagination out Of life
when We commercialize marriage. for
that's about what We are doing.
like the good Old way Of counting. the
way that was the classy thing when
knights were bold. l like the idea Of
galloping across the drawbridge and
snatching up the girl Of my heart and
putting her on the saddle before me
and galloping away like mad. Wouldn't
that suit you:'
NO. it wouldn't" replied the other
man. ''The girl of my heart weighs
200 pounds. Plain Dealer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07

The International Garment Workers
OF America, will make an effort
throughout the country to the end that
in the next Labor Day parades all who
turn out, whether in uniform or other
wise, wear garments bearing the label
of the garment workers union.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-07

Orange Ice. Pineapple Ice. and Rasp-
berry Ice. made from the fruit. You
get them at at Prices.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
POLYpoRE QUESTION BOX.

Please tell me what kind of hand I
have. I was told / would have trouble
until I am IS. This is my right hand.
My palm has crosses which don't show.
Please sign. KATHERINE C.
Answer-I am sorry to say thai not
only do the crosses not show, but
neither do any of the other mark
ings. I can barely make out the life
line. But as far as l can judge. there
Is no defect on 1t until the ffty-flfth
year. Then there appears on the line
what seems to be an island.
This would Indicate a delicacy OK
health at that But as l nave said,
1t is hard to determine whether or not
there is any island or other defect at
that point. There also seems to be a
line running beside the life line. This
would signify a great strengthening Of
the vitality and ROBUSTNESS during the
years of it's continuance.
If you will blacken the hand more
thoroughly before making the i'm
preston and then press the palm and
the fingers more heavily upon the
paper, l shall be delighted to give you
as complete a reading as my space
limitations here allow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
ATLANTIC WATERWAY AND MUNICIPAL DOCKS.

IT n furtherance of the great national enterprise of a coastal water
way the State of New Jersey has now appropriated $500 600
and appointed a commission to secure the fee of the land for
a right of way for a New Jersey link of the waterway across the
State from the Raritan to the Delaware river. Presumabl the
commission will proceed to work without delay and, if possible,
secure the options SO that the State may be enabled to make the
offer to Congress at the next regular session. But the New Jersey
cities that are on navigable streams also should not be idle. A
ship canal must have terminals and the terminals are not confined
TO the canal ends. The Newark waterfront will be a canal ter
minal. 1t is likely to be a most important one. The enterprise of
the cities of New Jersey, experimenting that of the State, in i'm
proving their water-fronts for commerce, will help to impress Con
gress. The great Importance of terminals not under the control
of the railroad corporations has been pointed out at Washington,
and President Taft has said that in the federal appropriations for
harbor improvements those cities that display enterprise in pro
siding dock facilities should have the preference. By pushing
meadow and dock improvements Newark will not only promote the
shpcanal enterprise, but also justify it's claims upon Congress
for a deep channel on the bay.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03

of Trade give him notice, while his
own boys, the present First, don't
seem to think enough of him to turn
out.
There is still another side, and It Is
we'll for us to think of these things:
Present reports indicate that the First
is to celebrate their anniversary OF
an incident connected with the war
with Spain. AS many remark, that
war was a dress rehearsal.
Sunday last Peddie Church was
packed to the doors at a service cor,.
m~emorating the firing on Fort sum-
ter. People listened to the vets
lister of the gospel could command,
Why? Because the masses realize that
these are the men who helped ave the
Union AS Lincoln remarked, Men
gave their lives that the nation might
live"
Memorial Day is fast approaching
and We know the men of the rank and
file of the First ought to and want to
make a good military showing. VIII
+, they? They don't seem to, usually, as
their lines are snake fences and
heads not front" Whose fault is it
1t is not the enlisted men who arc
to blame, but the officers.
Now that those in command have 81
signally failed to respond in a true
military spirit on this pact fftieth an
niversary. can't they take, as a true
soldier, reproach and criticism to
heart, and, while the old vets are
yet alive, do them (and to some 1t will
be their last chance) a respectable
measure of devotion? The public have
a right to demand a marked change In
military policy from the First, and a
respectable, creditable and honored
military showing by them on Decora-
ton Day.
ONE WHO is INTERESTED.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03

then it wouldn't be very hard to mag
inc a few other incidentals.
Although I don't know what amount
of work is involved in the making Of
such a dress suit, I should be greatly
surprised if the scale of cost didn't run
something like his: Profit Gncluding
interest, etc.,, $50; materials, s23; labor,
SIT; rent, $40.
A short time ago in Chicago the ave
oge weekly wage of pants 1nishers Was
s1.31; the average number of weeks en-
ployed was 27.s5, and the average yearly
earnings was s42.21. The average
yearly earnings of the dressmakers
there was $37.
1t certainly is a positive outrage that
these big manufacturers should have to
suffer so much through the inordinate
selfshness and high wages; of the
American worknlan-who gets ST. for
making d 500 suit!
FREDERICK HENDERSON.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
where Wa. First Regiment .

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Editorially the Call of Sunday
comments upon the non-turn-out of tho
First Regiment as an escort to honor
the fiftieth anniversary of the depart
ure of that regiment to the seat Of
war.
Pardon my saying that I believe that
such oversight is to their everlasting
disgrace, and reflects ~unfavorably upon
their present officers. 1t is not the
fault Of the enlisted man, the private
soldier, but of his superior officers.
How chagrined the old vets" must
feel that the boys who succeed them
in having the name First Regiment,
N. G.. N. j." couldn't escort them
through Broad street Saturday, but
left that sacred privilege to a band of
Boy Scouts.
What would New York veterans have
thought had either the Seventh New
York or Sixty-ninth New York not
turned out recently on a similar occn-
sion!
A soldiers life is no picnic, but to
those who have seen service for the
preservation of our Union 1t has a
hallowed side. Pay is not the COM
pensation with which the soldier meas
ures duty" How much this means
to the veteran. that heart-throb of pa
triotism at every sight OF the flag, and
how his heart must be stirred with
| pity and scorn when on the fiftieth an
niversary Of his departure from New
ark only the Boy Scouts and the Board
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
LW. BAD LUNARIANs.

The Mount of the Moon, like Caesars
GauI, is divided into three parts"
whereof the topmost, IL it buiges out
farther than the other two parts. or Is
more highly developed than the others
or has a vertical line on 1t, will indicate
that the Lunarian likes to apply his
Keen imagination In pursuits In which
the mind is predominant. He Is apt to
be a splendid writer or professor or
composer or, at least. conversationalist.
If the second third is the more greatly
developed section, II will Indicate that
the business side of the Lunarian is his
forte.
If the lowest third Is most developed.
1t will indicate a propensity to dwell
upon sensual, obscene ideas and volup-
tuous imagery.
And it is mainly from the last-named
class that the bad Lunarians spring,
the indications of badness being deter
mined as in the other Mount types. The
Lunarian badness is usually compound
ed Of a mixture OF excessively vile inn
a~gination and ~unbounded selhshness.
The Lunarian is naturally a cold type
and consequently not at all amorous.
But the bad Lunarian, although not
one whit more ardent than his good
brother, is, nevertheless, most inordi-
nately fond of adventures Of the heart.
In his case, however, these adventures
are not so much a matter in which the
l-.-A l.. ~.,,I.,- - ~ ID nr~ a. a..
his Imagination that centuries up a
vista of pleasures. But the Lunarian
invariably finds these to be infinitely
more promising In the anticipation
than In the actual fruition.
For it Is no otherwise In regard to
rowing disposition. In each case the
Lunarian allows his fancy to picture
an Eden, which. In the end, proves to
have been nothing but a sort of fata
inorganic or mirage. In the one case he
is driven irresistibly across the sea, in
the other case he Is drawn into a vor-
tex of dissipation. And in both cases
Inconsistency and fickleness are the
Wind which is forever filling his Sails
no matter whether he is good or bad.
The bad Lunarian is almost as
loathesome a creature as the bad Sat-
urnian. But he is not as dangerous
as the latter. He Is more Of a menace
to the good morals of the opposite sex
than vicious in other respects. But
although there is not much likelihood
that he will commit any great crimes
in cold blood. such as the saturnian is
capable of. he Is in constant danger OF
becoming insane.
Sing Sing is filed with S~aturnians,
Wards Island with Lunarians. And it
will probably be found true that Mat
teawan. the abode of the criminal in
sane, Is filed with inmates who are a
composite of the Saturnian and the
Lunarian types.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
HARMON AND ONO LEGISLATIVE BRIBERY.

1Ta HE bribery developments in the Ohio Legislature afford a
Ii splendid opportunity for Governor Harmon, of that State.
By no act Of his were the exposures brought about, but he
was prompt to act when the facts came out, and he blocked the
move taken by the corruptionists to secure immunity for themselves
by a legislative investigation. Certain reform measures favored
by Governor Harmon which we're not labeled administration meas
ures have been held up in the Senate with no prospect of passage.
Yesterday two of these bills, one for direct nomination of senator's
and the other for a central board of control for State institutions,
were suddenly brought out of committee and passed. AS not a few
of the members of the Senate are under charges; the Senates action
is significant of the Generalization of that body by the bribery ex-
posures. It's an i'll wind that blows nobody good. Governor Har-
mon is bound to get presidential capital out of the bribery investi-
oafion
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03

IT'D UBLIC interest in the war on the great white plague has
l9 visibly declined since the campaign against this greatest
enemy of mankind was begun, and yet the ravages OF the
plague have not abated. There is little change in the death rate.
BY the dissemination of literature many people have been taught
the necessary precautions against Infection, there is improved SAM
tation and better provision is made for the care of tuberculosis
patients, but public interest is halted. The subject was hardly
mentioned during the recent legislative session. But how little it
has impressed the popular. mind, anyhow, as compared with the
feeling that would be stirred up by a single case of cholera! How
little the public realizes the fact that the great white plague in
this country is more destructive of human life than the bubonic
plague in India or the deadly plague in Manchuria!